Phoenix Amazona is a villainess from the cartoon Police Academy: The Animated Series. She appears in the 1988 episode Worth Her Weight In Gold.
Amazona is a professional wrestler and a muscular redhead, who is billed as “The Strongest Woman in the World”. But when she isn’t wrestling she likes to steal gold and sell it off to make herself rich. The evil Amazona dresses in her wrestling outfit most of the time; a red leotard with red boots. She also wears a tiara on her head as well as a cape.
She is first seen stealing gold from a safe, a safe she gains access to by ripping the door off with her bare hands. The police show up straight afterwards and Amazona spies them at the scene. The police find a poster advertising a wrestling show that night, and treat it as a clue. They head off to the show and the midget officer Sweetchuck falls in love with Amazona at the mere sight of her.
The next day the police are told that Amazona is a suspect in the gold robbery, and Sweetchuck refuses to believe it. They are sent undercover to Amazona’s Gym to investigate, where Amazona and her henchmen are in the middle of hiding the gold and planning the next robbery. She sees the cops enter on her CCTV and hears them discussing their intentions, so she becomes fully aware of who they are and what they want. She goes up to the police and starts flirting with Sweetchuck, she forces him to lift some weights but he simply can’t handle it and he falls through the floor under the weight. Her henchmen lock the two other cops in the steam room and set the heat to maximum. Sweetchuck is then seen riding an exercise bike and Amazona rips the back of the bike off, which sends Sweetchuck riding into a shelf that collapses on him and knocks him out. Amazona looks back, pleased with her work.
With the police dealt with, she heads to a cake shop to collect a decoder hidden in one of the cakes. The decoder will open a door at an auction later that night. Inside the door is a gold statue that she is told will make her millions if she can steal it. However, her car gets a flat tyre before she can reach the cake shop. Sweetchuck shows up and is still madly in love with her, and oblivious to her attempts to cause him harm earlier. Amazona flirts with Sweetchuck and asks him to get the cake for her, since her car is broken down and the shop will close soon. Sweetchuck agrees without hesitation and Amazona heads off to wrestle later that night.
The police are still investigating and discover a gem that they think fell off from Amazona’s tiara at the crime scene. They send 2 female officers undercover as wrestlers to see if they can check the tiara in the middle of the match. They also send a wimpy male officer undercover with them, he disguises himself as a female wrestler as well. During the match the male officer runs over and tries to grab the evil Amazona by her powerful legs, but he isn’t strong enough to lift her up and she laughs at his pathetic attempt, before kicking him away. He comes back again though, and manages to land on her head and discover that her tiara is indeed missing a gem. Amazona realises that the wrestlers are actually the police and ties them up with a rubber ringpost before making an escape through the ring itself.
She makes her way to the auction, and is now dressed in a purple corset and a pink skirt with golden high heel pumps. On the way, she travels back to her gym to collect the cake with the decoder inside from the love struck Sweetchuck. As Sweetchuck carries the cake to her car, he slips and ends up accidentally eating the cake, and the decoder with it. Amazona is annoyed and drops her charming act with Sweetchuck. She grabs him and takes him to the auction with her, where he is dismayed to finally learn that she in fact an evil woman trying to break the law.
Inside the auction, Amazona uses Sweetchuck to open the door by holding him up to It, with the decoder still inside of him. She drops him in a trunk and then steals the gold statue and plans her escape, but unknown to her, the police arrive at the scene of the crime. Amazona faces off with a large male cop who matches her for strength, she throws doors and metal bars at him but he brushes them off with ease. He then pulls the red carpet that Amazona was standing on, from under her. This sends the evil villainess rolling back into the safe room and Sweetchuck slams the door shut on her. She is later seen tied up with metal chains at the back of a police van and is arrested for her crimes.
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