her magical stone and will reclaim it as after as she gives birth. In order for Dondoy to turn into Darna, he has to swallow the stone and shout "Darna, Kuno" and for him to return to his human form, he has to shout "Darna, lekba!" (a verlan backslang metathesis of the Tagalog word balik, which means "return"). Darna Kuno also encountered different kinds of Filipino folklore characters like the tikbalang (half-man and half-horse creatures), the aswang and others. Annabel (Lotis Key) also put on the Darna costume without the sash. She discovers Darna Kuno's secret identity and stole the magical stone. At the end of the film, Darna Kuno and Annabel battled a group of aliens and defeated them. The real Darna returns with her baby, also dressed up as Darna, and took back her stone. The baby also seemed to have powers as the little one was seen flying with Darna. A few months after Dolphy's Darna parody, MBM Productions presented its own Darna film, Bira, Darna, Bira! starring 18 year-old Rio Locsin (who also made an appearance in the parody). This is the only Darna film that did not do well in box-office. Narda also became a high-class model in this film. Darna in the 1990s Viva Films produced Darna (1991), and was directed by Joel Lamangan. Half-Russian, half-Filipina actress Nanette Medved played Darna. Then nine-year-old Francine Prieto (under her real name Anna Marie Falcon; she also starred in the 2009 Darna TV series as Babaeng Tuod) played the young Narda. Nanette portrayed Narda as a model working in Manila and Darna with reference to Wonder Woman's ability to block bullets with her bracelets. This started the criticism that Darna was a Wonder Woman rip-off. Darna's costume was also altered in this film. From the helmet Darna used to wear in past films, she now wore a tiara with wings. She had two brothers in this film, Ding and Dong. After appearing in a TV commercial for an automobile company as Darna (with fellow beauty queens Alma Concepcion and Daisy Reyes, both also wearing Darna costumes), Filipina-American and dethroned Bb. Pilipinas-Universe 1991 Anjanette Abayari was chosen by Viva Films to play its second Darna film, Mars Ravelo's Darna! Ang Pagbabalik (1994). Although the grandmother was named Lola Asay in the early versions of the comics serial, she wasn't named in the previous film. Abayari appeared again as