Lesbian Space Princess Plot Summary

Lesbian Space Princess follows Princess Saira, an anxious and introverted young woman from the planet Clitopolis, who must leave her sheltered life for the first time to rescue her kidnapped ex-girlfriend from a trio of alien villains. Here's the complete plot, broken into acts.

Quick Summary

Saira, princess of Clitopolis, lives a sheltered life under her two neglectful lesbian mothers, Queen Leanne and Queen Anne. After being dumped by her girlfriend of two weeks, the bounty hunter Kiki, Saira learns Kiki has been kidnapped by the Straight White Maliens — alien men whose ransom demand is Saira's labrys, the double-headed axe every Clitopolis lesbian wields as a symbol of lesbian power, which they intend to power their "chick magnet" with. Unlike every other lesbian on the planet, Saira has never managed to summon one.

Saira steals a starship called the Problematic Ship and races across the galaxy. She rescues Willow, a goth singer and former chart-topping gay-pop idol, from an old crystal mine on a moon; a drag queen named Blade then helps her learn to summon her labrys — before betraying her. When Saira finally reaches the Maliens' planet, she hands over the labrys to free Kiki, but Kiki refuses to get back together. The rejection destroys Saira's confidence along with the labrys; the Maliens attack; and Saira must overcome her doubts one final time to save herself — and accidentally teach the Maliens that what they really needed was each other.

Act 1: Life on Clitopolis

The film opens on Clitopolis, a planet populated entirely by lesbians, ruled by the two queens. Saira is the princess, but she is nothing like the confident women around her: she's anxious, introverted and, to her mothers' disappointment, unable to summon a labrys — the double-headed axe that every Clitopolis lesbian wields as a symbol of lesbian power.

Saira's personal life collapses in the opening stretch: Kiki, her partner of two weeks, breaks up with her, calling her "too needy". Before Saira can process the breakup, Kiki is kidnapped by the Straight White Maliens, a trio of alien men. They announce their plan openly: they'll use Kiki as bait to force Saira to give them her labrys, which they need to power their "chick magnet" — a machine meant to attract women.

Desperate and terrified, Saira makes the boldest decision of her life: she steals the Problematic Ship, a starship docked on Clitopolis, and blasts off into the galaxy to save Kiki.

Act 2: The Journey Across the Galaxy

Saira's first stop is an old crystal mine on a moon, where she finds Willow — a goth singer-songwriter and former gay-pop idol who's been stranded there. Willow is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns. The two team up, and Willow becomes Saira's first real friend — and, briefly, more than a friend.

Together they travel to meet Blade, a drag queen who owns a club and claims she can help Saira summon her labrys. Blade's training is really a lesson in self-compassion: she teaches Saira to be kind to herself, and for the first time Saira's labrys appears. But Blade's motives are not pure — she tries to steal the labrys for herself. Willow and Saira fight back and, in the film's most shocking moment, decapitate her.

Shaken and closer than ever, Saira and Willow briefly hook up. But Willow ends the romance quickly, telling Saira she needs to prioritise saving Kiki. It's a gentle rejection, but it hits Saira hard — she's been left again, right when she was starting to open up.

Act 3: The Planet of the Straight White Maliens

Saira arrives at the Maliens' planet and offers them exactly what they want: her labrys, in exchange for Kiki. The Maliens accept, and Kiki is freed. Saira asks if they can try again — but Kiki says no. She doesn't owe Saira a relationship, and the rescue doesn't automatically repair the breakup.

The rejection breaks Saira. All her old self-doubt floods back, and the labrys — which only works when she believes in herself — dematerialises in her hands. The Maliens, now holding a useless weapon and sensing weakness, turn on her. Cornered, Saira faces the choice the whole film has been building toward: give up, or finally believe in herself. She re-summons the labrys and turns it on the Maliens' own "chick magnet".

The machine works exactly as designed — and that's the joke. It gives the Maliens the female attention they craved, and they immediately realise it doesn't fix anything. Their entire plan was built on a need they didn't actually have. In the film's gleefully absurd climax, the Straight White Maliens decide to date one another — all three of them, together.

Saira flies home to Clitopolis — single, and for the first time genuinely okay with that. The credits show her transformation: she's more social, she attends family therapy with her mothers and a very-much-alive Blade, she receives Willow's hit album about her, and she sets off on new adventures with the Problematic Ship, now an ally.

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Themes

Emma Hough Hobbs and Leela Varghese have described the film as drawn from their own lives, and the plot maps directly onto its central themes:

• Self-worth and self-love. Saira cannot summon her labrys until she learns to be kind to herself — the film's power system literally runs on self-esteem.
• Being comfortable with your own company. The ending refuses the easy romance: Saira ends up single, and the film insists that's a happy ending.
• Feeling free to take up space. Saira's arc is about an anxious person learning to exist loudly, on her own terms.
• Satire of toxic masculinity. The Maliens' chick magnet — and their realisation that they overvalued female attention — is the film's comic thesis statement.

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