| Bai Tza | |
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| Biographical info | |
| Name | Bai Tza (Bī Zä) |
| Chinese name | 巴莎 (Bā Shā) |
| Alias | The Water Demon |
| Nationality | Chinese |
| Age | Unspecified; 900+ years |
| Race | Water Demon |
| Gender | Female |
| Family | Dai Gui (brother) Hsi Wu (brother) Po Kong (sister) Shendu (brother) Tchang Zu (brother) Tso Lan (brother) Xiao Fung (brother) Drago (nephew) |
| Personal info | |
| Status | Banished |
| Profession | Demon Sorcerer |
| Residence | Atlantis (formerly) Netherworld |
| Sign | ☱ (water) |
| Banisher | Li Tieguai |
| Symbol | Gourd |
| Portal location | Colosseum (Rome, Italy) |
| Affiliation | Valmont (formerly) Enforcers (formerly) |
| Team | Demon Sorcerers |
| Opponents | Chan Clan J-Team |
| Magical ability | Water Demon Chi |
| Details | |
| First appearance | Season 2 Episode 5 |
| Last appearance | Season 2 Episode 28 |
| Voiced by | Mona Marshall |
"Your spells may have quelled my siblings! But I am the slippery one..." |
Bai Tza is a Demon Sorcerer - specifically the Water Demon - and one of Shendu's seven siblings who were trapped in the Netherworld, making her one of the Demon Portals story arc antagonists of Season 2.
She is notable for remaining free on Earth for (only just) more than one episode, unlike the other six imprisoned demons.
Appearance[]
Bai Tza resembles a blue-skinned mermaid with a serpentine tail, fins located around her body, webbed-hands and has tentacles for hair, resembling the Greek Gorgons. She is larger than humans, yet is smaller than most of her siblings (with the exception of Hsi Wu).
Personality[]
Bai Tza, the Demon Sorceress of Water, seems to have a uniquely intense rivalry with Shendu, displaying a personal and venomous loathing for him that is more pronounced than her siblings' feelings. This rivalry is mutual, with Shendu engaging in more personal taunts and arguments with her. Despite their conflict, she can still show a sense of familial honor, threatening Shendu on behalf of their siblings and taunting him about having "almost" liked him in the alternate timeline he created.
She often displays a dominant and authoritative personality, bordering on a superiority complex. Her interactions with Shendu and even her sibling Hsi Wu show a tendency to assert her authority and boss others around. In the Netherworld, she was one of the most outspoken and commanding of the Demon Sorcerers.
Bai Tza is also notably more pragmatic and cunning than her siblings, especially when dealing with the Chan Clan. After her siblings' banishment, she learned from their mistakes by initially choosing to flee rather than fight. She also correctly identified Uncle as the most significant threat due to his chi-spell, and focused on disarming him by destroying his spell gourd. However, her cunning has its limits, as she failed to anticipate that the Chan Clan would follow her and interfere with her plans elsewhere. She later showed more strategic thinking by correctly deducing that Jade, with her unaltered memory, would lead the alternate Chan Clan to the Book of Ages.
She is also determined and committed to her goals. After discovering the ruins of Atlantis, she immediately set out to establish a new kingdom in San Francisco, selecting the city because of its geological fault lines. This determination was so strong that it overrode her usual pragmatic evasion, as she chose to finish her flooding spell and fight the Chans instead of fleeing, which ultimately led to her re-banishment.
History[]
Background[]
"Thousands of years ago" (according to Tohru in "Relics of Demon Past"), Bai Tza terrorised the ancient world alongside her seven siblings.
At some point, Bai Tza sunk Atlantis to serve as her undersea empire.
Eventually, she and her siblings were defeated by the Eight Immortals and banished to the Netherworld. There, all of them remained trapped for centuries except for Shendu, who apparently escaped back to Earth and left the other Demon Sorcerers trapped so he could rule the Earth for himself. Bai Tza's Demon Portal was located in the Colosseum in Rome, Italy.
Season 2[]
Bai Tza was the last of the Demon Sorcerers to be unleashed and as such, Shendu asked her to free him from Valmont's body, as he had fulfilled his side of the bargain. Bai Tza, however, coldly refused to do so, as the previous six demons ended up trapped in the netherworld again shortly after their release. Not wanting to share the fate of her brethren, she immediately avoided confrontation with the Chans and used her powers to slip past their attempts.
Bai Tza returned to her domain, the lost city of Atlantis, but was disappointed to discover it in ruins. She then resolved to rebuild her undersea empire by casting a spell that would flood the subway systems of San Francisco and sink the city. Bai Tza managed to initiate the ritual before fleeing again when Uncle canceled it.
She made another attempt to rebuild her empire when she summoned a giant tsunami to sink a palace on a cliff overlooking the sea in an unknown country. Uncle finally banished her as she stood atop the tsunami, inadvertently taking Jade with her. Following her return to the demon netherworld, Bai Tza started a meeting with her siblings to coerce Shendu into finding a way to release them after all their portals were permanently closed. Shendu deceitfully promised to let them all use his portal. It soon became obvious that only one demon would be able to pass through the last portal and Bai Tza shoved her brother Tchang Zu away to get to it before Po Kong squashed her into a puddle.
She was one of the final four Demon Sorcerers to challenge the J-Team, and overcame Viper, but ended up banished and defeated.
Season 5[]
Her demon Chi was contained in a gourd used as a prize on a game show. Despite the Chans' competition, Drago got to it, and absorbed the Chi. However, he lost it shortly thereafter. It was later reabsorbed by Drago during the final confrontation along with the rest of the Demon Chi, growing a couple facial tentacles on his chin and a fin on the tip of his tail as a result of her chi.
Powers and Abilities[]
Bai Tza, the Demon Sorceress of Water, possesses a wide range of water-based abilities. She can manipulate and control all forms of liquid with her thoughts, enabling her to fire powerful water blasts or orbs from her hands. She can also generate massive tidal waves and whirlpools, and even cast a spell to flood an entire city.
Her body is uniquely tied to her element. She can dissolve into water, a defensive ability that allows her to avoid attacks by turning into a splash of water and then quickly reforming herself. This power also grants her metamorphic abilities, letting her reshape her body at will—whether to create a hammer from her hand, form a hole in her stomach to evade a punch, or even turn into a large waterspout. This ability also lets her cancel out fire attacks, as seen when she dissolved into steam after being thrown into a blast of fire.
In addition to her liquid manipulation, Bai Tza is a formidable physical presence. She can breathe and move effortlessly underwater, swimming and slithering at speeds that can outpace a motorcycle. Her agility isn't limited to water, as she can also fly in low-gravity environments.
Finally, her prehensile head tentacles are a unique offensive weapon, allowing her to grasp and attack enemies without even looking at them. When her Demon Chi was used by Drago, it showed the potential to transform into a massive, personified wave capable of "devouring" a target.
Appearances[]
TV SeriesSeason 2
Season 5
Comic StripsThe J-Team
Video Games
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Quotes[]
- "While we withered in this bone-dry pit." The Stronger Evil
- "At last, liberation! And now for some libation... (takes a look at the surrounding Colosseum and hisses) Which will require *moister* climes than this!" The New Atlantis
- "You dare request your freedom?! (Shendu: Have I not earned it?! As promised, I have released *all* our brothers and sisters!) How curious then, that six Demon Sorcerers remain trapped in the void! I should obliterate you on their behalf!" The New Atlantis
- (to Valmont) "My answer to you and my snivelling brother remains... no." The New Atlantis
- (traps Tohru's hand with her body's metamorphosic abilities) "I want to hold your hand." (forms a hammer from her hand and knocks Tohru with it) The New Atlantis
- "Welcome to my world, Chan!" The New Atlantis
- "You dare to betray me, Shendu?" The New Atlantis
- "What in the Netherworld is wrong with you, Po Kong?" The Eighth Door
- "Hsi Wu! Scratch your sister's back so we may get on with our meeting." The Eight Door
- "You risk altering the very fabric of reality!" (objecting to Shendu's suggestion to use the Book of Ages) Demon World (Part 1)"
- "We were even almost beginning to like you, brother." Demon World (Part 2)
- "Destroy them!" Demon World (Part 2)
Gallery[]
- Main article: Bai Tza/Gallery
Trivia[]
- Even though her name is composed of two distinct words, it is pronounced as if it were one unbroken word (Bīt-zä). This is not the case with any of the other Demon Sorcerers' names.
- Bai Tza is the only Demon Sorcerer (excluding Shendu) to not be banished back to the Netherworld in the same episode in which she was released.
- When the Demon Sorcerers cast their binding spell on Shendu in "The Stronger Evil", the beam of the spell emitted from Bai Tza's head tentacles instead of her hands.
- Unlike all the other Demon Portals, Bai Tza's Portal was positioned horizontally when it opened, seemingly in spite of the Pan'ku Box latching onto a horizontal surface (the ground) instead of a vertical surface such as a wall when opening her portal.
- Though Bai Tza is the Water Demon, her trigram (☱) means in bagua "lake" or "marsh". The trigram meaning "water" (☵) has been set to symbolize her brother, Tso Lan the Moon Demon.