<Li> The 2010s anime series Seven Deadly Sins features Vivian as a supporting antagonist, taking her name without her position as Lady of the Lake . Vivian is a minion of Holy Knight Grand Master Hendrickson, and works toward his goals of unleashing the Demon Clan, mostly due to her obsession with Gilthunder, a handsome young Holy Knight . In the first season, Vivian is eventually defeated by her former master, a female Merlin who is one of the titular Seven Deadly Sins, after a surprise appearance by King Arthur . In the second season, Merlin berates Vivian for her stupidity, explaining that she and Hendrickson really didn't know anything about how horrible demons are, and puts a geas on her so she will leave Gilthunder alone . </Li> <Ul> <Li> The 2017 film King Arthur: Legend of the Sword features the Lady of the Lake played by Jacqui Ainsley in a few scenes . She first appears in the flashbacks of the film as Bedivere tells Arthur how she bounded Excalibur to the Pendragon bloodline after Merlin used it to destroy the Mage Tower . She then appears in a later scene when she catches the sword underwater after Arthur throws it into the lake in shame of his failures, she then pulls him underwater and shows him a vision of what his uncle Vortigan would do to England if he did not accept the sword and tells him that only he can prevent it . She then tells him that Vortigan must be met where sword meets tower and advices him to trust the Mage, she then returns the sword to Arthur . </Li> </Ul> <Li> The 2017 film King Arthur: Legend of the Sword features the Lady of the Lake played by Jacqui Ainsley in a few scenes . She first appears in the flashbacks of the film as Bedivere tells Arthur how she bounded Excalibur to the Pendragon bloodline after Merlin used it to destroy the Mage Tower . She then appears in a later scene when she catches the sword underwater after Arthur throws it into the lake in shame of his failures, she then pulls him underwater and shows him a vision of what his uncle Vortigan would do to England if he did not accept the sword and tells him that only he can prevent it . She then tells him that Vortigan must be met where sword meets tower and advices him to trust the Mage, she then returns the sword to Arthur . </Li> <Ul> <Li> Nimue is featured in the ABC fantasy series Once Upon a Time . She appears as the main antagonist in the first half of Season 5, portrayed by Caroline Ford . While fleeing from Vortigan, who sacked and burned her village, she meets Merlin and they fall in love . With Merlin being immortal, Nimue drinks from the Holy Grail so they can be together forever . Afterward, she kills Vortigan, which darkens her magic and turns her into the very first Dark One . Nimue breaks Excalibur and Merlin uses one of the pieces to make the Dark One dagger in order to control her . At some point, Nimue is killed and her power is taken . However, she manages to live on in all of the following Dark Ones, appearing to them as a vision . She forms an alliance with Captain Hook, manipulating him into casting the Dark Curse and reviving her and the Dark Ones . She then leads a Dark One invasion in Storybrooke, which ultimately leads to her demise at the hands of Hook, who betrays her to redeem himself . The Lady of the Lake is referenced several times as Lancelot's mother, but she never appears; the episode titled "The Lady of the Lake" does not feature her and instead refers to Prince Charming's mother . </Li> </Ul>

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