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A Sad Past!! Cure Fortune's Tears (悲しい過去！！キュアフォーチュンの涙) is the 20th episode of the season Happiness Charge Pretty Cure! and is also the 506th episode of the Pretty Cure franchise overall.

Major Events

 * It is revealed that Hime opened Axia when she was younger, thus causing the Phantom Empire to be freed.
 * A clearer view of Cure Tender is shown for the first time.
 * Phantom's main lair is shown for the first time, where he keeps the Cures he captured
 * This is the first time two separate Saiarks were summoned. There were two from episode 8, but they were created from one group of people.

Pretty Cures

 * Aino Megumi/Cure Lovely
 * Shirayuki Hime
 * Omori Yuko
 * Hikawa Iona/Cure Fortune
 * Cure Sunshine (in the opening only)
 * Cure Tender (in a flashback only)

Mascots

 * Ribbon
 * Glasan

Villains

 * Queen Mirage (in a flashback only)
 * Oresky (in a flashback only)
 * Deep Mirror (in a flashback only)
 * Namakeruda
 * Hosshiwa
 * Phantom
 * Saiarks
 * Choiarks

Secondary Characters

 * Sagara Seiji

Trivia

 * Cure Sunshine gives the 10th anniversary congratulatory message.
 * One of the Cures Phantom captures looks similar to Cure Echo.