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Selina Pereira-Matias, also known as "The Terminator", is the main antagonist of the Filipino television series Mula Sa Puso/From the Heart. She was known as the most violent and almost-demonic antagonist ever in the Philippine television during her time.

She was portrayed by Princess Punzalan in both the original 1997-1999 incarnation (including its 1999 film adoption) and by Eula Valdez in the 2011 remake.

Biography[]

She is the cruel, sadistic, and sociopathic half-sister of Don Fernando Pereira. Her main goal in the series is to get the wealth of the Pereira Family, to the extent of trying to kill her own niece Via, the only daughter and heiress of Pereira Clan. She also seeks for vengeance after Don Fernando's mother mistreated her mother as well as herself. Throughout the story, she spreads her terror on Via and her family, and her evil deeds affected several people. Her character was given the moniker "Terminator" because she repeatedly cheated death throughout the series.

While Selina has committed numerous crimes throughout the story, these are the most notorious ones:

- Perpetrating an acid attack on Magda (Via's mother), which left a scar on her face.

- Killing her own henchman Abdon with a timed bomb put inside a briefcase of cash. In the original version she killed him for blackmailing her, while in the movie version she did it because he accidentally killed her daughter, Nicole.

- Asking her henchmen to kidnap, torture, rape, and finally murder Elena; a woman she paid to pose as Via's biological mother who later betrayed and blackmailed her.

- Sending her henchmen to rape Mariel, a former housemaid of the Pereiras whom she had a fight with over a custard.

- Sending her henchmen again to rape Atty. Elaine Regalado, a disturbed prosecuting lawyer who was helping Mariel after filing a case against her, was once a rape victim as well. And because of what she did, the poor lawyer was put under a mental case for real.

- Her most evil crime of all, the bus explosion scene. She instructed her henchmen to plant a bomb inside a bus, mistakenly thinking that Via was inside it, and any alarm upon discovering that she was wrong is all but nullified by the fact that she still managed to kill an entire bus full of innocent passengers. The scene was made all the more infamous because of her demonic sounding evil laugh in front of the burning bus.

In the original TV Series, after the events of the bus explosion, she got diagnosed with Lymphoma, which people think of as karma (at least before her gruesome death). She went through a chemotherapy, lost her hair, and changed her look after being severly burned from the car explosion.

Finally, after cheating death several times and getting away with her monstrous acts, she had a bloodily karmic end when she's defeated by Via, shot in the arm, falling of a building, and finally, brutally ran over by a truck; glimpses of her horrific actions shown as she finally loses her life, her reign of terror finally ended in a fittingly gruesome death (In the movie version, she was simply killed in a car explosion after Via crashed her car into a store beside the road).

2011 remake[]

Selina appears in the 2011 remake as the main antagonist once again. While she remains evil and has the same characteristics and actions to that of her original and film counterparts, this incarnation is rewritten as a tragic antagonist.

During the events of the 2011 remake, Selina was the adoptive sister of Fernando and had a biological mother. She first kills Criselda as the latter did not include her in her will. The character also had a daughter named Nicole.

Unlike the original and film incarnations, the bus explosion never had Selina's evil laugh as her daughter Nicole was a casualty of the disaster. However, it is heard in remake's trailer and only happens in the series when Selina plans and executes her evil schemes and other crimes. Her burned face was caused by entering the burning bus in an attempt to save Nicole. She did not get a facial reconstruction.

Although she dies at the end of the series, this differed from the original and film. In this incarnation, Selina was distracted during a quarrel with her neighbors, while also threatening them simultaneously. She was not dragged by the vehicle but the force impact from the truck and to the ground causes her death.

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Trivia[]

  • ABS-CBN Network created a text promo with her evil laugh as a downloadable mobile ringtone when the 2011 series was still on air.
  • Selina was the one who started the traditional evil laugh of female antagonists in most of the Filipino TV series as well as during the bus explosion scene from the Mula Sa Puso The Movie.
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