of Pierrot's will. This creates a spatial field called a Dark Zone that amplifies negativity and places those unprotected into a deep despair while their negative energy is extracted and collected into the book. This proceeds advances a clock-like meter called the "Wheel of Doom" which counts down Pierrot's resurrection. The leaders and the Akanbe are based on clowns. The three commanders spearheading the Bad End Kingdom’s attacks are later revealed to be Märchenland fairies that were drafted by Joker exploiting their resentment over being constantly alienated for being fairy tale villains. They are eventually purified back to their original fairy forms by Miyuki and return to Märchenland after Pierrot’s defeat. The main antagonist of the series, his goal is wiping out all hope in existence until only despair remains. Prior to the series, Pierrot attacks Märchenland and steals the Cure Decors from the Royal Queen before she used the last of her strength to seal him away. For the first half of the series, the Shadow Realm minions collect negative energy from humans to revive Pierrot with Joker completing it. Through obliterated when the Pretty Cure gained their Princess forms, Pierrot survived with a surviving fragment reforming into an egg that gradually increases in size from an infusion of negative energy used to restore him. Once restored, absorbing Joker while creating his army of living shadow monsters, Pierrot evolves into a new form and almost destroys the world until being permanently killed by the Pretty Cure. The secondary antagonist of the series, Joker is Pierrot's harlequin-like intermediary to the Three Commanders, a playful yet sadistic being who uses his playing cards for various purposes and creates Akanbe Noses from his headdress. Being overseeing the Three Commanders' progress, Joker also seeks the Miracle Jewel with the intention of destroying it and anything else that gives others hopes. Following the Commanders' final defeat, Joker creates the Bad End Precure to distract the girls during Pierrot's revival while he attempts to kill Candy after she transformed into what he assumed is the Miracle Jewel. Once Pierrot's resurrection is complete, Joker reveals himself as a fragment of his master's being as he dissolves into black paint while allowing himself to be absorbed by Pierrot. Joker returns as the main antagonist of the series epilogue novel, having survived Pierrot's destruction as an immortal embodiment of despair and used Miyuki's book to feed on the