After torturing Paladin, the Empress discovered a way to control the entity responsible to give the powers to the superheroine.
As the tiara was removed, Paladin´s armor vanished, leaving her helplessly naked.
The final humiliation came as the Empress impaled the heroine´s corpse with her own spear, and adressed all the nations, showing the fallen idol, as an example of what happens to those who oppose her rule.