Cassandra

Cassandra was the deuteragonist in the 2002 film, The Scorpion King, and was also the wife of Mathayus. She is played by Kelly Hu.

Background[]

Early life[]

Cassandra was an orphaned as a young girl after the deaths of her loving parents from China by an unknown cause. She ended up as a prisoner as a child and become Memnon's sorceress in her whole life.

The Scorpion King[]

Mathayus manages to sneak into the sorcerer's tent, where he sees that the sorcerer is actually a sorceress, Cassandra.

When Mathayus is ambushed and meets Memnon himself, who brutally executes his brother Jesup in front of him and is about to kill Mathayus too. But Cassandra tells Memnon that the gods wish Mathayus to survive the night and to defy them will incur their wrath and cost him his victories.

Mathayus only barely manages to escape Gomorrah, abducting Cassandra along the way, knowing that Memnon will come for her.

Cassandra tries to escape from Mathayus and even tells him that she's been Memnon's prisoner since she was a young child from China. Sympathetic, Mathayus allows her the choice of leaving, but warns her of worse dangers and that she is likely safer with him.

But Cassandra uses her beautiful magic to save Mathayus' life by using her healing powers.

Cassandra has a vision of Memnon and his army slaughtering the entire rebel camp. She informs Mathayus and the prophesies that when the moonlight reaches Memnon's palace, the king on high will become the invincible Scorpion King and Memnon believes himself to be the one destined to become the Scorpion King. Furthermore, she informs Mathayus that if he faces Memnon, he will most likely die from being shot, but Mathayus assures her that; he will make his own destiny and they make love that night.

Soon after, Cassandra returns to Memnon in order to stall him and Mathayus possibly kill him during his last battle leading to his death at arrow and fire explosion in the palace as he's now the legendary Scorpion King and married him as he's take her as his queen.

Cassandra tells Mathayus that she sees a period of peace and prosperity coming, but warns him that it won't last forever. Undeterred, Mathayus decides that they will make their own destiny.

Meeting with the ancestor to Zi Yuan and her daughter, Lin, in the Himalayas, she's given a liquidity immortality potion bottle from the Pool of Eternal Life for her pregnancy of the future and newborn daughter to survive.

The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption[]

A plague hits Mathayus' kingdom, and Cassandra dies by an inflection as do most of the population during in the flashbacks. The kingdom falls, and Mathayus becomes a wandering mercenary, feeling devastated after he had lost his beloved wife.

Personality[]

Cassandra was kind, headstrong, strong-willed, caring, brave and intelligent.

Cassandra did not want to be Memmon's queen, because he wants the world filled with chaos before he will become the legend himself and take her virginity and control her life as she saw his true colors, watching Mathayus' brother getting killed by Memmon's hands in front of him, but she did have the strong-willed, brave and kind soul that she can't stand to watch innocent people die and have their homes destroyed by Memmon's rage, and she instead falls in love with Mathayus, since he helped her escape from Memmon's tyranny wrath and imprisonment of her life.

Cassandra accepted to marry Mathayus and taking his place as the king and become the legendary Scorpion King.

Physical appearance[]

Cassandra was an attractive young woman; with a slender build, sleek and voluptuous figure and average height. She had brown eyes, light skin and long straight black hair.

Powers[]

Clairvoyance: Cassandra could see into the future, foretelling the result of every battle.
Ophidiokinesis: Cassandra could exercise control over snakes, making them bound to her will.
Curing: Cassandra could remove the poisoned condition from Mathayus.

Trivia[]

Cassandra was magically gifted with clairvoyance and the power to manipulate snakes.
Cassandra knows how to use a dagger and a sword, defeating two Memnon's soldiers.
It is worth noting that, though Cassandra was expected to remain a virgin in order to retain her powers, her attire was often revealing.