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Selene is the main protagonist of the Underworld film series. She is an elite vampire assassin known as a "Death Dealer" who hunts down the Lycans for allegedly murdering her family. She becomes attracted to a human named Michael Corvin, and upon discovering that her sire and adoptive father Viktor was actually responsible for the death of her family, defects from the vampire clan.
She is portrayed by Kate Beckinsale.
History[]
Powers and abilities[]
- Enhanced Vampire/Human Physiology
- Eternal Beauty: As a vampire, Selene will be young and beautiful for all eternity. The novelizations likened it to that of a Greek goddess's and several other people have noted how beautiful she is.
Former Powers[]
- Human physiology
Personality[]
Trivia[]
- Selene's name comes from the Ancient Greek Σελήνη (Selḗnē), meaning "shining", or "luminous". According the novelizations, Selene is named for Selene, the ancient Greek goddess of the Moon. Selene's role as a Death Dealer, an immortal huntress who hunts and kills Werewolves/Lycanthropes at night, also mirrors another Ancient Greek Moon Goddess, Artemis, who was also a goddess of the hunt, who stalks her prey by the moonlight.
- Like Amelia and Sonja, Selene's great physical beauty has been noted upon repeatedly in the novelizations, as all have been compared to "Grecian Goddesses".
- A number of designs for Selene's outfit were rejected because they would have made her look too much like a dominatrix.
- Selene confesses her love for Michael aloud for the first time on screen in Underworld: Awakening.
- Promotional materials for the first movie put Selene's age at 121 years in Underworld, though that was later changed to 620 in Evolution, with her final age being around 632 in Awakening.
Quotes[]
- I am a Death Dealer, sworn to destroy those known as the Lycans. Our war has waged for centuries, unseen by human eyes. But all that is about to change." - Note: This was never spoken in the film, but in a commercial trailer for the film.
- (Narration from the beginning of the movie) "For those like me, a Death Dealer, this signaled the end of an era. Like the weapons of the previous century, we too would become obsolete. Pity, because I lived for it."
- (To Kahn) "We have a serious problem."
- (To Kahn) "Ultraviolet ammunition."
- (To Kraven) "Look, I know what I heard, and I know what my gut tells me, and I am telling you that there could be dozens of Lycans down there, who knows, maybe more, hundreds."
- (To Kraven) "Viktor would believe me."
- "Take Erika. She's dying to be at your side."
- (To Michael) "Whether you like it or not, you are in middle of a war that has been raging for the better part of a thousand years. A blood feud between Vampires and Lycans. Werewolves."
- (To Michael) "Something was in the stable, tearing our horses to pieces. I couldn't have saved my mother, or my sister; their screams woke me. My father died outside, trying to fend them off. I stood at my door, about to run to my nieces' room when... Twin girls, barely six years old, butchered like animals."
- (To Viktor) "I've been lost without you, my Lord; constantly hounded by Kraven and his never-ending infatuation."
- (To Kraven) "Tell me, did you have the nerve to cut the skin from his arm, or did Lucian do it for you?"
- (To Michael) "I have to get you out of here. Viktor's on his way. And he won't be satisfied until every Lycan's dead."
- (To Michael) "I know."
- (To Kraven) "I only hope I live long enough to see Viktor choke the life from you!"
- (To Viktor) "It wasn't the Lycans... it was you."
- "Though I cannot predict the future, the consequences of this night will reverberate through the halls of both Great Covens for many years to come. Two Vampire Elders have been slain, one by my own hand. Soon, Marcus will take the throne, and a tide of anger and retribution will spill out into the night. Differences will be set aside. Allegiances will be made. And soon, I will become the hunted."
Evolution[]
- (Narration from the beginning of the movie) "For six centuries, I was a loyal soldier of the Vampire clan; but I was betrayed: The war was not as it had seemed. In one night, the lies that had united our kind had been exposed. Kraven, our second-in-command, had formed a secret alliance with Lucian, ruler of the Werewolf clan, to overthrow Viktor, our leader. But Kraven's lust for power and domination had failed. Viktor was not the saviour I had been led to believe; he had betrayed us all. Soon, the hunt will be on for his killer. I have but one ally left; Michael, the human descendant of Corvinus; neither Vampire nor Lycan, but a Hybrid. It's only a matter of time before we're found."
- (To Michael) "If I can plead my case, there's a chance you'll be granted sanctuary."
- (To Michael) "Michael, you're unique, there's never been a Hybrid before. However ambivalent you may feel about it, the truth is your powers could be limitless. But you depend on blood, you need to feed. Without it, you'll be growing weaker by the minute. Use the time for that."
- (To Michael) "Normal food can be lethal. If you don't anticipate your cravings, you will attack humans, and believe me, you don't want that on your conscience."
- (To Marcus) "Viktor deserved his fate, and Kraven was no better!"
- (In Russian) "Mind if I drive?"
- (To Michael) "I've seen this before, when I was a child. I've held it. When it was open like this."
- (To Michael) "I don't know. But I know someone that might."
- (To Michael) "He was exiled over 300 years ago. [...] I was the one who exiled him."
- (To Andreas Tanis) "Well, we're going to have to work on that."
- (To Andreas Tanis) "Your exile seems a bit more comfortable than I remember."
- (To Andreas Tanis) "Betrayal was something he did very well. Viktor's dead. I killed him."
- (To Alexander) "Anything I've done can be laid at your feet! Hundreds of thousands have died because of your inability to accept that your sons are monsters, that they create monsters!"
- (To Alexander) "Anything I've done can be laid at your feet. Hundreds of thousands have died because of your inability to accept that you sons are monsters! That they create monsters! You could have stopped all of this."
- (To Michael) "Oh, no! Michael! Look at me! Michael! Please! Please!"
- (To Samuel) "Don't leave him here."
- (To Alexander) "You are the only one older than he is. The only one stronger. You could have killed him yourself."
- (To Alexander) "What will I become?"
- (Narration from the end of the movie) "An unknown chapter lies ahead. The lines that had divided the Clans have now been blurred. Chaos and infighting are inevitable. All that is certain is that Darkness is still ahead. But for now, for the first time, I look into the light with new hope."