"Rare Gamer included the Dark Queen in their lists of Top 5 Reasons We Still Love Battletoads, Top 5 Classic Rare Villains Who Just Didn't Know When To Quit, and Top 5 Rare Femme Fatales (That Would Have Us Switching Sides).Luke McKinney and Matthew Moffitt of Cracked.com wrote she has "helped [the young gamers] manipulate themselves, and was just as physically mutated as the giant talking animals."