Druuna is an erotic science fiction and fantasy comic book character created by Italian cartoonist Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri.

Most of Druuna's adventures revolve around a post-apocalyptic future, and the plot is often a vehicle for varied scenes of hardcore pornography and softcore sexual imagery.

Druuna is frequently depicted as sparsely clothed or nude, and Serpieri's high quality renditions of her are often reproduced as poster prints.

Druuna is the main character of a new prequel trilogy (neither written nor drawn by Serpieri), which will depict the events leading up to Morbus Gravis.

[3] During the more than thirty years of publication of Druuna's adventures in Morbus Gravis, the plot has evolved through several stages, differentiated with numerous jumps in the storyline, with some attendant inconsistencies.

As told by the priests, an incurable, infectious disease called Evil has spread among the population that transforms people in a progressive and rapid fashion into amorphous, tentacled mutants.

After a series of adventures, Druuna discovers that the City is actually a giant spaceship which left Earth after an unspecified cataclysm and has drifted through space for centuries.

The disease called Evil appears among the new ship's crew, so Will and Doc (author Serpieri's alter-ego) telepathically introduce Druuna into the mind of Lewis-Shastar, discovering the elements that make up the antidote serum.

Discovering that they actually have no means to develop a cure for the disease, they decide to destroy the ship and crew (as well as the computer that houses the merged minds of Shastar and Lewis).

Druuna is then summoned to perform a special mission connected to the tale she heard... that apparently will be the theme of the last volume of this prequel trilogy.

[7] Druuna is usually depicted as a character that does not have much agency, basically being dragged around by other characters or going where someone says she should go, but even in the first Album (Morbus Gravis) - she clearly does anything she has to do in order to stay alive or help her loved one (even performing or being subjected to unwanted sexual acts), and she is also cunning (she lures her attackers to their ultimate demise) and a good soul that does not want to see anyone die (even if that person tried to harm her) and goes to great lengths to carry out her loved one's last request.

In Carnivora, Druuna shows how well she can keep her cool under extreme pressure, and how resourceful she is, by learning, instantly, how to operate and aim a flame thrower (something that she apparently has never seen before), saving a stranger.

It seems implied that Druuna's personality was molded because of everything that happened to her, almost like she realized that (probably because of her looks) she would always be the target of the same kind of sexual violence and learned to make the best of it, using that as a tool for her survival, even openly exchanging sex for the drugs she needed.