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* SuccubiAndIncubi: She is just a part of Morrigan, and a succubus, so it was inevitable. See the main article's entry for more details.
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Donovan and his mother were outcasts in the village they lived due to his cursed blood. One day, something triggered his vampire form and he lost control of himself, killing many people including his mother. Stricken with grief and cursing his heritage, he goes into exile and devotes himself to Buddhism, but fails to achieve peace. During his travels, he makes a name for himself as a Vampire Hunter. He later meets Anita, an emotionless girl, and trying to restore her humanity, he slices the head off of Anita's doll. This awakened Anita's anger, and his plan succeeded. Taking her with him, he sets out to emotionally awaken her. Ironically, this is eventually achieved by him losing to his dark side, which prompted her to shed genuine tears. It's still unclear if he truly lost to his dark side or if he is fighting back.\\
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The twins Hsien-Ko and Mei-Ling (Lin-Lin in Japan) were born to a family of Senjutsushi spiritualists. One day their family was attacked and the twins' mother, in order to save them, banished the monsters by sacrificing herself, sealing her soul in the darkness. The twins wanted to save their mother's soul, and in order to do that they performed a magic spell that turned Hsien-Ko into a Jiāngshī (the "[[ChineseVampire hopping vampire]]" of Chinese folklore), and turned Mei-Ling into the sealing ward that prevents Hsien-Ko from going berserk, taking the form of a paper seal placed over Hsien-Ko's face. They set out to hunt monsters and do good deeds (to earn enough brownie points for their mother).\\
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Q-Bee is a leader of the Soul Bee race that feasts on souls in order to live. They live within House Dohma's territories of the Demon World, but after Jedah's death, the lands began to die off. Souls became sparse, and the Soul Bees faced the danger of extinction. But then Jedah came back and used his Castle and nearby lands to create the Majigen, where many souls were gathered. Q-Bee, seeing one giant Soul Feast in Majigen, goes with her people to feed.\\
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There are many monsters who came from Makai to the Human world, and in the Human world there are those who want these creatures dead or captured for their own purposes. The Hunters Guild was established to meet the demand of these clients. Among those Dark Hunters is B.B. Hood, a [[RankInflation Special]] S Class hunter and a human with such darkness in her heart that even lower level Makai monsters shake in fear when meeting her gaze. This gained Jedah's attention, and she was sucked into Majigen, where a normal human would die instantly, though she simply states: "It's been a long time since I had a job this big."\\
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Roughly 10 years after 1/3 of Morrigan's soul was sealed in an isolated dimension, it became self-aware. For the next 300 years its awareness and feelings grew, and eventually, so did its instinct to return home. When Jedah created the Majigen, it also drew in this soul. When Jedah noticed it, he struck a deal with it: the soul would gain a physical form and in return it must lure Morrigan and the other Darkstalkers to him. And thus Lilith was born, the childish, cheerful version of Morrigan, who goes to find her "sister."\\
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The Vampire Savior, The Distressed Lord of Death. The youngest of the three high nobles, Jedah was the one most concerned about the future of Makai. Believing that under the rule of Belial it would be stagnant, Jedah sought every chance he could that would help in overthrowing Belial. Ozom, his adviser, suggested to absorb the leaking energy of the Gate, a distortion that connects Makai with the human world. While Jedah was absorbing the leaked energy, Ozom discovered that if he opened the gate further, it would leak so much energy that it would overload Jedah and kill him. So he decided to overthrow him right then and there, and just like he predicted, Jedah couldn't handle it. Ozom then collected what was left of Jedah's power and proclaimed himself Emperor of Makai.\\
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Characters debuting in ''Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge'' / ''Vampire Hunter'' and ''Darkstalkers 3'' / ''Vampire Savior''
* For Morrigan, Demitri, Felicia, Jon Talbain, Bishamon, Anakaris, Lord Raptor, Victor, Rikuo, Sasquatch, Huitzil, and Pyron, check the ''Characters/DarkstalkersTheNightWarriors'' sheet.
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!!Introduced in ''Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge'' / ''Vampire Hunter''
[[folder:Donovan Baine]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[HunterOfMonsters Fated Hunter]]]]
->''Darkstalkers, now you will feel the wrath of my avenging blade!''
-> '''Class:''' {{Dhampyr}}\\
'''Origin:''' [[PartsUnknown Unknown]]\\
'''Donovan voiced by:''' [[note]]Creator/NobuyukiHiyama (''Vampire Hunter''), Creator/JurotaKosugi (''Vampire Hunter 2''), Creator/GaryChalk (Western cartoon), Creator/UnshoIshizuka (''Vampire Hunter'' OVA, Japanese), Ari Solomon (''Vampire Hunter'' OVA, English)[[/note]]
'''Anita voiced by:''' [[note]]Creator/AkikoYajima (''Vampire Hunter'' OVA, Japanese), Creator/AndreaLibman (''Vampire Hunter'' OVA, English)[[/note]]\\\
Donovan and his mother were outcasts in the village they lived due to his cursed blood. One day, something triggered his vampire form and he lost control of himself, killing many people including his mother. Stricken with grief and cursing his heritage, he goes into exile and devotes himself to Buddhism, but fails to achieve peace. During his travels, he makes a name for himself as a Vampire Hunter. He later meets Anita, an emotionless girl, and trying to restore her humanity, he slices the head off of Anita's doll. This awakened Anita's anger, and his plan succeeded. Taking her with him, he sets out to emotionally awaken her. Ironically, this is eventually achieved by him losing to his dark side, which prompted her to shed genuine tears. It's still unclear if he truly lost to his dark side or if he is fighting back.\\
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That dark side is later represented as another, possibly non-canon character called Dee, who [[PaletteSwap is basically just Donovan's head on Demitri's body]] with a combination of his and Demitri's moves. In his ending, he encounters a teenaged Anita, but the outcome of the encounter is not shown.
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: One could easily assume he is Indian due to his skin tone and his Buddhist theme attire and abilities. However, it's vaguely implied that he is European due to his name having Irish origins. One [[http://shmuplations.com/darkstalkers/ interview]] even has one developer making a joking comment about him being Indian only for another developer to quickly follow up with the statement that he is, in fact, from PartsUnknown.
* TheAtoner: During Donovan's childhood, he and his mother were [[BullyingADragon harassed]] by the other villagers [[FantasticRacism who blamed their misfortunes on Don's heritage]]. At one point Donovan snapped, lost consciousness and woke up to find he had slaughtered everyone present -- including his own mother.
* BadassAndChildDuo: He and Anita, who follows him everywhere -- even during combat -- but doesn't take any hits, as she hangs out to Don's side in the midground.
* BareFistedMonk: If push comes to shove, Donovan can simply [[SwordPlant plant his sword into the ground]] and let his fists do the talking.
* {{BFS}}: His sword is almost as long as he is tall.
* BladeAcrossTheShoulder: One of his summoning poses.
* CoolBoard: Played with. He uses his own sword as a board for mid-air dashing attacks.
* CoolSword: Dhylec, his primary weapon and means of combat.
* {{Dhampyr}}: In Slavic mythology, a hybrid being born to a human parent, and a vampiric one. Donovan is therefore a half-vampire and ''very'' unhappy to be one.
* DifficultButAwesome: An expert Donovan player is a master of mind games revolving around his "sword plant" trick. You had better hope that you don't face one in TournamentPlay, because they are ''brutally'' efficient.
* DisappearedDad: Although he's the son of a vampire and a human, nothing is known about the Darkstalker father who abandoned him and his mother, someone whom Donovan [[IHateYouVampireDad would have very little nice things to say about]]. It's also unknown [[AmbiguousSituation what kind of relationship his parents had, assuming the union was even consensual]]. The only prominent vampire in the series is Demitri, but given he sees humans as more of a food source at best, it's unlikely he fathered Donovan.
* EvilWeapon: As Dee, his sword is red and more sinister looking, likely symbolic of his own corruption.
* FashionableAsymmetry: His costume features one pants leg and one shirt sleeve.
* FightingFromTheInside: His DownerEnding implies that after some period of giving in to his vampiric nature, Donovan's good side is finally starting to regain control.
* FireIceLightning: By way of three summoned spirits, who form the basis of most of his special moves.
* {{Foil}}:
** To B.B. Hood. While she kills Darkstalkers only for money, Donovan does so to give himself a purpose for his cursed existence.
** To Jon Talbain. Both of them had human mothers and Darkstalker fathers. Both of them suffered misfortune and racism due to their heritage which also resulted in losing their mothers. Jon develops a dislike of humans due to their bigotry but is still shown to care for children to the point where he actively avoided conflict with them. Donovan gains an intense hate for all Darkstalkers, and thinks they must all die.
* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: In the game storyline and the OVA, Donovan chops the off head of Anita's doll to force her out of her emotionless shell. This causes Anita to show her anger in a brief but great display of power, the first sign of emotion from the girl in some time.
* GiantFootOfStomping: One of his supers summons a Greek Titan-esque giant, who stomps the opponent from above.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Has vampire blood but is not a full vampire.
* TheHero: Of ''Night Warriors: Darkstalkers II''. After all, he ''is'' the ''[[TitleDrop Vampire Hunter]]''.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Can fall to his instincts as a vampire during the hunts.
* {{Hunk}}: He has a chiselled, yet slightly haughty face, full lips and a ripped physique.
* HunterOfMonsters: Is a Dark Hunter partially to save humans from the forces of the dark, partially to give a purpose to his {{cursed|WithAwesome}} existence and/or cleanse his blood.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Too bad, ''Vampire Savior'' makes him more vampire and less human. What's worse, it's implied that Anita may have had to kill Donovan to save him from himself.
* KnightTemplar: Many of his win quotes depict him as such. Calling the monsters he hunts "Wretches that will never see the sun" or saying neither he or Anita will know peace until [[FinalSolution all Darkstalkers are wiped out]] are already pretty zealous quotes. Pit him against [[AllLovingHero Felicia]], [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Morrigan]], [[NobleWolf Jon]], or [[TheWoobie Hsien-Ko]] and ''he'' looks like the monster.
* LargeHam: In the OVA, he's full of {{Wangst}} about his DarkAndTroubledPast.
* LivingWeapon: His giant sword, Dhylec, can be seen complaining and falling asleep if left "planted" for too long.
* MisplacedRetribution: While it makes sense he regrets the actions that led to him inadvertently killing his mother, his decision to kill ''all'' Darkstalkers is complete overkill. Considering most Darkstalkers, at least among those shown in the cast, don't go around killing and actively avoid harming humans, this doesn't necessarily paint him in the most heroic light. Considering he's half-vampire, it would make more sense for him to resent other vampires, or at the least hunt down his father and take his retribution out on him.
* MistakenIdentity: A meta example. More than a few people in the past have mistaken him for [[VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha Dan]].
* PaletteSwap: As many have noted, Dee is simply Donovan's (redesigned) head plastered on Demitri's body. It's pretty much Capcom's answer to ''VideoGame/{{MUGEN}}''
* PapaWolf: One prominent example is in the OVA, when a boy made off with Anita's doll. Anita used her PsychicPowers to retrieve her doll, inciting a large group of people to try to kill her. Fortunately, Donovan made his presence known by standing in front of Anita and simply planting his {{BFS}} into the ground, as if daring the mob to attack him. As Donovan is a powerful fighter, this forces everyone to back off.
* ParentalSubstitute: For the orphaned Anita.
* PartsUnknown: His name offers little clues to his origins; "Donovan" is the anglicised spelling of "Donndubháin" (dark-haired), an [[UsefulNotes/IrishNames Irish name]] which therefore seems to contradict his Buddhist/Asian look. While the producers have teased an Indian heritage for him in the past, they are keeping firmly schtum in any official capacity.
* PerpetualFrowner: The only image where he is at least smiling is during a very brief scene in the last episode of the OVA. And that's not saying much.
* PsychicPowers: Donovan wields powerful telekinetic abilities that allow him to manipulate [[{{BFS}} Dhylec]] in battle. He also intercepts attacks by moving his prayer beads when he blocks.
* ReligiousBruiser: Buddhist flavor, complete with giant prayer beads used when blocking.
* ReligiousVampire: ''Half-vampire'' to be precise, but it's his spiritual training that keeps him from fully transforming.
* SelfMadeOrphan: Not on purpose -- his vampiric side led to him killing his own mother, which leaves him feeling wracked with guilt.
* ShoutOut:
** Mainly to ''Literature/VampireHunterD'', due to his dhampyr status, profession, appearance and name.
** His [[AsskickingPose distinct poses and gestures]], face paint, leggy costume, as well as his elemental spirit summons (to which the developers supposedly even referred as "Stands" among themselves) also bring ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' to mind.
* TheStoic: Donovan himself, but Anita was even more so, which is why he takes her with him, to get her to open up.
* SummonMagic: When used in tandem with his prayer beads, Dhylec can summon several Buddhist deities to attack the opponent on Donovan's behalf.
* SuperpoweredEvilSide: Dee. There's also his Change Immortal super, in which he temporarily unleashes his blazing inner demon and slams into the opponent.
* SwordPlant: Both to access [[StanceSystem his alternate stance]] and as a win pose.
* TallDarkAndHandsome: And he's not afraid to bare some skin either.
* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: It always comes back, anyway.
* TokenHuman: Downplayed, in that while he was originally intended to be a BadassNormal vampire hunter, the developers decided that a normal human could never fight on even ground with the rest of the monstrous cast (Note that they appear to have later recanted this viewpoint somewhat with B.B. Hood, [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters but for different reasons]].) Thus he was redesigned as a ''half''-human {{Dhampyr}} and given a mystic sword and prayer beads to explain his spirit-summoning abilities.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: Donovan's a half-vampire, which makes him a Darkstalker in his own right, but his heritage has caused him so much pain that he seeks to rid himself of it by eliminating the Darkstalkers.
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[CuteGhostGirl Ghostly Girl]]]]
->''Have a pleasant journey through the Nine Courts of Judgement!''
-> '''Class:''' [[ChineseVampire Jiāngshī]]\\
'''Origin:''' [[ImperialChina Qing Empire, 1730]] (present-day UsefulNotes/{{China}})
'''Hsien-Ko voiced by:''' [[note]]Creator/MichikoNeya (games), Lisa Ann Beley (Western cartoon), Creator/YukoMiyamura (''Vampire Hunter'' OVA, Japanese), Creator/NicoleOliver (''Night Warriors'' OVA, English), Creator/SaoriHayami (''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'' and ''VideoGame/ProjectXZone'', Japanese), [=Hunter MacKenzie Austin=] (''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'', English)[[/note]]\\
'''Mei-Ling voiced by:''' [[note]]Creator/MayaOkamoto (''Vampire Hunter'' OVA, Japanese)[[/note]]\\\
The twins Hsien-Ko and Mei-Ling (Lin-Lin in Japan) were born to a family of Senjutsushi spiritualists. One day their family was attacked and the twins' mother, in order to save them, banished the monsters by sacrificing herself, sealing her soul in the darkness. The twins wanted to save their mother's soul, and in order to do that they performed a magic spell that turned Hsien-Ko into a Jiāngshī (the "[[ChineseVampire hopping vampire]]" of Chinese folklore), and turned Mei-Ling into the sealing ward that prevents Hsien-Ko from going berserk, taking the form of a paper seal placed over Hsien-Ko's face. They set out to hunt monsters and do good deeds (to earn enough brownie points for their mother).\\
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After releasing their mother's soul from darkness, they were reincarnated as normal girls. Upon their 16th birthday, their powers from their past life activated, gaining Jedah's attention and sucking them into Majigen. Their souls took the forms of their former bodies, and they fight for their survival with their newfound powers (they don't have memories from their past-life). In the end they returned to their normal lives.
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* AdaptationalJerkass: The OVA portrays Hsien-Ko as much more [[DeadpanSnarker snarkier]], rude, and irritable.
* AdaptationDistillation: All depictions of Hsien-Ko in non-gaming media ignore that she and her sister died and were reincarnated before regaining their powers at 16 at the end of ''Night Warriors''. The previous Hsien-Ko of ''Night Warriors'' and the modern Hsien-ko of ''Darkstalkers 3'' are technically two different characters, but the former is the one used even when elements and characters from ''Darkstalkers 3'' are present.
* AirDashing: Functionally very similar to Lord Raptor, allowing her to advance on her opponent from mid-air.
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: She's ''blue'', befitting her ghostly nature.
* AmbiguousSituation: While they regain their abilities, given the ending of ''Darkstalkers 3'' and her appearances in other games, it's unclear if Hsien-Ko can turn her jiāngshī form on and off.
* AndYourRewardIsInfancy: She and Mei-Ling are given a chance to start their lives over at the end of ''Night Warriors'' thanks to their priestess mother's heroic sacrifice.
* AnimalMotifs: Pandas, derived from her miniature form when hit with Anakaris' Pharaoh's Curse attack.
* AnimeChineseGirl: A Qing Dynasty example; she's dressed in a stylised take on the encumbering robes and ''Nuanmao'' hat of 18th Century China.
* AnvilOnHead: Her Tenraiha super involves dropping a giant metal weight from her sleeve. It will flatten an opponent against the ground if it lands on them, but even if the weight itself misses, the [[ShockwaveStomp earthquake it generates]], as well as the following rain of [[SpikeBallsOfDoom spiked balls]], can still pose a threat.
* AttackReflector: Her Henkyouki special, in which she uses a large gong to reflect projectile attacks and even hit the opponent with a sonic wave.
* AttractiveZombie: Being undead doesn't stop her from being cute, even with blue skin.
* BlushSticker: Since the third game, she's been given bright pink [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Pikachu]]-like spots on her cheeks.
* BuildingSwing: One of her specials has her swing back and forth from a chain she plants ''into the HUD'', while she wildly swings her massive clawed arm.
* CartoonBomb: Uses one of these as a special move since ''Vampire Savior'', which can be knocked back and forth between her and her opponent in a game of deadly tennis.
* ChineseVampire: The most prominent example in video games, it's safe to say that the monster she represents was almost unheard of in the West prior to her debut. Hsien-Ko's shaky movement patterns and stiff hopping motion are directly inspired by typical Chinese vampire traits, and her huge clawed hands reference the fact that hopping vampires are often presented with large FemmeFatalons, and kill by strangulation.
* CleavageWindow: Her Qing robe features a circular cut out across her breasts, which are also blue.
* DeathByAdaptation: Mei-Ling in the American cartoon was killed by Demitri as a child, which was downplayed due to the series being primarily aimed at kids.
* DubNameChange: Lei-Lei in Japan, Hsien-Ko everywhere else. Her sister: Lin-Lin in Japan, Mei-Ling everywhere else.
* EraSpecificPersonality: The Hsien-Ko from ''Night Warriors'' is formal and quite serious in her determination to avenge her and Mei-Ling's mother, while the Hsien-Ko from all following games, who is the previous one's reincarnation, acts more like an average teenage girl who, even after realizing her destiny, sometimes gets freaked out with the bizarre occurrences around her. The same goes for Mei-Ling.
* FlashStep: Her dash makes her disappear and then re-appear right behind the opponent, if the dash is done near them.
* FriendlyZombie: She is a well-intentioned ChineseVampire looking to save her mother's soul.
* FusionDance: Power Booster type when she and Mei-Ling fight as one zombie + talisman.
* {{Hammerspace}}: Her sleeves store a seemingly endless arsenal, including a giant ton weight. The ''Darkstalkers Graphic File'' shows the insides of her sleeves are completely packed with some of the weapons she throws.
* HasAType: It's said she prefers men who better themselves and [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan help others]], which means she's not into Lord Raptor.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Unlike Donovan and B.B. Hood, she doesn't become ruthless and evil after hunting monsters but then again, her sister is there as a talisman so she won't fully lose control of herself.
* HunterOfMonsters: Of the Darkstalkers, alongside Donovan.
* HyperspaceArsenal: Has an infinite amount of weapons hidden up her sagging sleeves.
* IconicSequelCharacter: She was introduced in the second game, and is second only to Morrigan in terms of notoriety. She even has her own mobile game.
* JugglingDangerously: Juggles knives in one of her win poses. Juggles even sharper weapons in [=UMvC3=].
* MarionetteMotion: Her head judders and rolls around when she's idle, which can be a little unsettling.
* MeaningfulName: The name 'Hsien-Ko' is a romanisation of the name of the mythical figure Hé Xiān-Gū (何仙姑), one of the Eight Immortals of Taoist mythos. The name literally means "Immortal woman".
* MoralityChain: Mei-Ling. [[SoulJar Her soul exists inside the talisman on Hsien-Ko's head]]. If she were to be separated from her sister, Hsien-Ko [[FaceHeelTurn would turn evil]].
* MusicalAssassin: She uses a giant gong both to repel fireball attacks and send out a damaging, close-range sonic wave.
* NothingUpMySleeve: Let's see... she's got bombs, knives, weights, flails, Akuma statues...
* NotQuiteFlight: Her air dash. It consists of Hsien-Ko literally ''walking on air'', possibly a reference to flying jiāngshī.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Hsien-Ko is a jiāngshī -- a Chinese vampire/zombie -- but unlike traditional ones, she's well-armed and controlled by her sister-turned-paper-talisman.
* SilkHidingSteel: Literally. She hides a full arsenal of steel weaponry up her silk sleeves, and in character she's sweet, but rigidly determined in her mission to save her mother's soul.
* SpikeBallsOfDoom: One of her trademark weapons, which she rolls across the arena floor for a low hit.
* SupernaturalMartialArts: ''Igyo Tenshin no Jutsu'' -- an ancient form of magic Hsien-Ko and Mei-Ling uses to transform themselves into jiāngshī when their mother is slain by a Darkstalker.
* ThemeTwinNaming: Lei-Lei and her sister Lin-Lin in the Japanese version.
* WolverineClaws: Her main weapons (out of the millions in her sleeves) are her gigantic bladed claws, inspired by the FemmeFatalons of jiāngshī in Chinese folklore.
* YankTheDogsChain: The sisters ''die'' in the second game, only to be reincarnated in another world so that they can live out their lives as ordinary children. [[DangerousSixteenthBirthday Sixteen years later]], the girls re-enter the world of Makai through their dreams, and find themselves ''back'' as jiāngshī. At the end of ''3'' the girls awaken from their dream back in the real world.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Hsien-ko's backstory states she was 16 when she turned into a jiāngshī after the night their mother died. The reincarnated Hsien-ko regained her powers at the exact same age. The figure shown in the artwork above looks at best early 20's. This also holds true of Mei-Ling, who also looks older than 16.
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!!Introduced in ''Darkstalkers 3/Vampire Savior: The Lord of Vampire'' and its revisions
[[folder:Q-Bee]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[TheSwarm Soul Bee]]]]
->''(I can eat anything to survive, but you shall be a treat!)''
-> '''Class:''' [[InsectQueen Demonic Insect]]\\
'''Origin:''' [[{{Hell}} Makai]] (House Dohma territory)\\
'''Voiced by:''' [[note]]Miyuki Matsushita (games)[[/note]]\\\
Q-Bee is a leader of the Soul Bee race that feasts on souls in order to live. They live within House Dohma's territories of the Demon World, but after Jedah's death, the lands began to die off. Souls became sparse, and the Soul Bees faced the danger of extinction. But then Jedah came back and used his Castle and nearby lands to create the Majigen, where many souls were gathered. Q-Bee, seeing one giant Soul Feast in Majigen, goes with her people to feed.\\
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In her ending, the soul bee's numbers skyrocket, leading to them taking over Makai, but it's suggested that their overpopulation may ironically result in their own extinction.
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* AdaptedOut: Other than appearing in the artwork, Q-Bee surprisingly doesn't appear in ''ComicBook/StreetFighterVsDarkstalkers'' despite it being a loose adaptation of ''Vampire Savior'', where her kin serve as Jedah' minions.
* AffablyEvil: She cares deeply about her species, and her need to devour souls is simply BlueAndOrangeMorality. She's not outright malicious -- in fact, she's very cheerful and quite pragmatic. She constantly tries to sway others to join Jedah, as she genuinely believes that he would make things a lot better for everyone.
* AirDashing: Her air-dash can home in on the opponent.
* BeeAfraid: Far more so since she sees any sentient being (including ''you'') as food.
* BeeBeeGun: For her hard punch attack, her hands morph into a grotesque hive chamber, from which she fires her bee servants to sting the opponent. For one of her supers, she summons a giant bees nest, sending dozens of bees swarming all over the opponent, leaving them a bee-stung mess.
* BeePeople: Amongst the best known examples in gaming, she takes the form of a cute Queen bee.
* BewareMyStingerTail: And since she is a queen bee, she can sting many times without risk of death, using her stinger in place of the more traditional punches or kicks for a ButtonMashing attack.
* BigEater: She's always looking for souls to nourish her and the Soul Bee species, who are endangered. It's also been stated that she can literally eat ''anything'', and that if she goes 48 hours without food, she'll die.
* ButtonMashing: For one of her special moves, she rapidly skewers her opponent multiple times with her sting in a modified, Darkstalkers version of [[VideoGame/StreetFighterII Chun-Li's]] classic Lightning Kick.
* ChestBurster: The EX version of her grab move involves her [[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong injecting eggs into the opponent]], cocooning them, ''dying'', and then appearing as a new Q-Bee, hatching out of the opponent's body to continue the fight.
* ADogNamedDog: She's the queen bee of the Soul Bee race and is simply named 'Q-Bee'.
* TheDragon: To Jedah. More noticeable in the manga adaptation. The moment Jedah tries to assimilate her, however, she fights back.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Most of her victory quotes, though that is not her intention.
* EdibleAmmunition: For one of her attacks, she conjures a giant ball of honey and drops it on the foe, leaving them stuck in place.
* ExtraEyes: The reason she's hunched over? The "eyes" on her face are for show, with her ''real'' eyes being nested on the top of her head.
* ExtremeOmnivore: According to an official character relationship chart from Capcom, she even views ''Huitzil'' as a potential meal.
* HiveCasteSystem: Obviously. Q-Bee is the queen, while the rest of the hive (the servants/workers) are simply P-Bees or Bees.
* InsectQueen: She is a queen in more ways than one, actually leading the Soul Bees as well as giving birth to them.
* NaughtyNurseOutfit: The Midnight Bliss version of her, complete with a dangerous looking syringe as an analogue of her own sting.
* NonMaliciousMonster: Ambiguous for her in particular, and possibly for other Q-Bees (though they're not much discussed in the lore and her apparent role in the game is contradictory to what lore exists about them) but definitely the case for the P-Bees; although sapient, their mind is roughly equivalent to a four-to-five-year-old human and they lack the capacity to really understand that devouring everything in sight and consuming souls is wrong.
* NonMammalMammaries: {{Justified|Trope}} in her case. All her human traits are a form of mimicry used to trick potential meals. Soul Bees can also mate with other races to reproduce, so having breasts naturally helps to attract prospective mates. This also explains her false eyes, mentioned above.
* NonMammalianHair: Bees really do have hair -- it's how they collect pollen -- but she also has human-like hair on her head which normal bees don't have. It doesn't serve too much purpose here though as she primarily feeds on living beings, not nectar, so there's not much pollen-gathering to be had.
* NotQuiteFlight: A similar ability to Hsien-Ko. She is always hovering just above the ground and can activate a flight mode.
* OutOfFocus: She makes her sole appearance in ''Vampire Savior'', rarely appears in artworks, and was not featured in any crossover games aside of ''VideoGame/NamcoXCapcom'' and ''VideoGame/ProjectXZone'' (and only then as a enemy/Rival unit, and not even one that joins the heroes' side). This minimal exposure is dramatically unlike any other of the series' females and is perhaps due to the fact that as a humanoid insect, her appearance is rather more bestial (her compound eyes, for instance), with less potential for {{Fanservice}} than the other females.
* OurFairiesAreDifferent: WordOfGod once stated that her original concept was a "Fairy Queen" though the lens of horror. As the team started to run out of Film/HammerHorror monsters to adapt they decided to expand the scope of the setting with edgy western fairy tale creatures since in Japan ghosts and fairies are both grouped under Yokai. This is what led to the existence of Q-Bee and Bulleta and if the series continued probably would have included more western fairy tale beings reimagined as Darkstalkers.
* RankScalesWithAsskicking: Regular soul bees are much smaller and less powerful than she is. Also, she's technically a noble of Makai, if not actually of the lineage, which means she ''might'' be on par with full power Demitri and Pyron!
* ShapeshifterWeapon: Her actual "human" body can sprout insectoid spikes, limbs and even a beehive.
* ShoutOut:
** The basis for the character, [[SuperPersistentPredator an unthinking]] carnivorous [[BigCreepyCrawlies insect]] camouflaged as a human girl, was taken from Chika of ''Space Family Carlvinson''. Chika being a [[RuleOfFunny gag character]] who kept her face mandibles [[ScreamDiscretionShot off-screen]], the creators at Capcom wanted to push Q-Bee's [[BodyHorror unsettling aspects]] and prevent the new cast members from appearing monotonously pretty.
** Both Chika and Q-Bee's insect eyes as odango hair likely came from ''[[VideoGame/AdventureIsland Honey the Bug]]'' while the Bee Woman from ''[[Series/KamenRider Kamen Rider]]'' likely inspired her... [[MostCommonSuperPower attention-grabbing stripes]] and other design elements.
* TheSpeechless: While she ''does'' have a voice actress, the only sounds Q-Bee produces are buzzes.
* StealthPun: She's a bee-like demon who disguises herself as a pretty girl to lure in prey - in other words, she's a literal HoneyTrap.
* TooDumbToLive: Her ''Vampire Savior'' ending has her and her race turning on Jedah so they would reign supreme. However, without Jedah to keep the souls coming in, the soul bees eventually ran out of food and their race is doomed to extinction. Apparently, they only think with their stomachs...
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: Her ending in ''Vampire Savior''. See directly above.
* WallJump: Fires off the arena wall sting first for one of her more devastatingly damaging and hard-to-block attacks.
* WingedHumanoid: Bee-winged humanoid, only the "humanoid" part is a ruse.
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[[folder:Baby Bonnie Hood/Bulleta]]
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[[caption-width-right:340:[[CuteAndPsycho Lovely Hunter]]]]
->''I'll feel great after I kill everything in this world!''
-> '''Class:''' [[HunterOfMonsters Human Darkhunter]]\\
'''Origin:''' A certain [[NorseByNorsewest Nordic]] country (year unknown ~ 10-14 years old?)\\
'''Voiced by:''' [[note]]Miyuki Matsushita (games)[[/note]]\\\
There are many monsters who came from Makai to the Human world, and in the Human world there are those who want these creatures dead or captured for their own purposes. The Hunters Guild was established to meet the demand of these clients. Among those Dark Hunters is B.B. Hood, a [[RankInflation Special]] S Class hunter and a human with such darkness in her heart that even lower level Makai monsters shake in fear when meeting her gaze. This gained Jedah's attention, and she was sucked into Majigen, where a normal human would die instantly, though she simply states: "It's been a long time since I had a job this big."\\
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Her dog's name is Harry, and the mysterious gentleman who appears in her win-pose to present her with her cash reward post-match is named simply 'Mr. K'.
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* AmbiguouslyHuman: Although she's usually depicted as the living incarnation of HumansAreTheRealMonsters, there have been a couple of odd implications that she might not be entirely human. She's occasionally depicted with her eyes glowing white, and her biography in the ''Darkstalkers III'' manual claimed she had the "same dark soul" as all the other Darkstalkers. Plus, even if you discount her hyperspace arsenal, she's still able to do things that humans can't.[[note]]A third interpretation is that she's a human who's so very evil that she's ''literally'' turning into a monster.[[/note]]
* ArchEnemy: Spinoff material and merchandise designate Jon Talbain as hers, in a reference to the ''Literature/LittleRedRidingHood'' fairytale from which she originates.
* AssistCharacter: B.B has two: John (based on a UsefulNotes/WorldWarII soldier) and Arthur (based on Myth/RobinHood) are a pair of bulky hunters whom she summons in her Dark Hunt Super, and who join in with her to blast her opponent to pieces with their rifle and shotgun respectively.
* AxCrazy: It's implied that it's actually her extreme malevolence that allows her to damage Darkstalkers, rather than her weaponry alone.
* BadassAdorable: She's adorable looking, and is considered a S-class hunter, meaning she can fight against monsters way beyond a normal human could. Her aura is so dark that even the DarkMessiah Jedah found her creepy.
* BadassNormal: The only things about her that ''aren't'' of perfectly normal human caliber are what a [[PsychoForHire ruthless sociopath]] she is, her impossible ammo storage, and her inexplicable ability to DoubleJump.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: She plays up the Red Riding Hood innocence for all its worth, but she's a mass-murdering lunatic.
* BountyHunter: She's a Special S-Class darkhunter, a bounty hunter who specializes in chasing ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight. She's also very, ''very'' evil herself.
* BreakoutVillain: She's not as plot-relevant to the story of the third game as Jedah Dohma, but her design and personality made her stand out enough that's she appeared almost as many times outside of the series as the Lord of Death himself. She even appeared in the ''Marvel vs Capcom'' series years before Jedah did.
* CanineCompanion: Harry, her adorable pet terrier, who is a literal example of PetTheDog.
* CreepyChild: She's definitely younger than most of the Darkstalkers, being around 12 years old, though she's more evil and unsettling than most of them put together.
* CrocodileTears: For her Beautiful Memory super, a vision of her granny causes her to start sobbing, only for her to switch to a sneaky smirk before stabbing the opponent multiple times, smashing them with a rock, and finally tossing them into a pool she created with [[OcularGushers her tears]].
* CuteAndPsycho: In her ending, she is declared a psycho by werewolves just trying to live in peace. It's not unjustified.
* CuteButCacophonic: In one of her end poses, a microphone drops down and she raps a strange little tune using samples from her in-game speech.
-->''Dok dok, do-do-dok, do-'''kaaan!!'''''--("dokkaan" [[SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud is a Japanese onomatopoeic word]] for an explosion -- literally ''Ka-Boom!!'')
* DubNameChange: Bulleta in Japan, Baby Bonnie Hood everywhere else.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Often visits her grandma and runs errands for her.
* EvilSoundsDeep: Her voice changes instantaneously between super cute and innocent to ''incredibly'' gruff and guttural, depending on the action performed.
* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Could be the poster-gal for this, as she's more evil than most of the monsters, yet is ''adorable'' looking when she wants to be.
* FairytaleMotifs:
** Bonnie herself counts of course, being a pitch-dark take on Literature/LittleRedRidingHood. Her grandmother, traditionally featured in the original tale and here presumably killed by a (were)wolf, appears in a ThoughtBubble above her head when she unleashes her Beautiful Memory super.
** She has a special pre-fight intro with Jon Talbain, her in-series [[TheBigBadWolf Big Bad Wolf]], where she playfully reads from a storybook before quipping "What a big mouth you have!" in a tone that begins cutesy, but then veers into deep and threatening.
** Her AssistCharacter, Arthur, is based on Myth/RobinHood, complete with a feathered bycocket hat, hunting horn, and Lincoln green tunic.
** Her third super, Apple For You, has her cheerfully present her opponent with a large red apple which promptly explodes, in reference to the poisoned apple from the fairytale classic, Literature/SnowWhite.
* TheFakeCutie: Many of her attacks have her pretend to trip, cry, or act like she's scared, but her knowing grin after these actions reveals that it's all an act designed to make her victims lower their guard.
* FantasticRacism: She hates all monsters in general. Her ending reveals werewolves view her as a terrible SerialKiller.
* FauxAffablyEvil: According to her ''Darkstalkers Resurrection'' trailer, she purposefully puts on a nice girl facade to lure in victims.
* FireBreathingWeapon: Produces a stream of fire from a wine bottle for her anti-air, Molotov cocktail-style.
* FlungClothing: Combined with {{Hammerspace}}. In her Good Hunting super, she's hiding two burly woodsmen [[MoreDakka armed to the teeth]] ''under her clothes''.
* {{Foil}}: To Donovan. He hunts Darkstalkers to affirm some kind of meaning to his cursed existence. She does so simply to make a quick buck.
* FragileSpeedster: Which is good because B.B. Hood is fairly hard to hit already, being of short stature. However, she takes a lot of damage when hit.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Bizarrely, given her personality. Includes her dog Harry, three butterflies, a mole, and a ring of daisy-like pink flowers that sprout when she wins. ''Completely'' subverts this trope when [[VanHelsingHateCrime monsters]] are involved.
* GirlWithPsychoWeapon: Most commonly seen with an Uzi, which she uses for her hard punch, pursuit, and super attacks.
* {{Grimmification}}: Of Literature/LittleRedRidingHood, who seems to be a popular target for altered portrayals in general.
* TheGunslinger: Part of a team of them, the Hunter's Guild, who specialize in taking down the Darkstalkers.
* HumansAreCthulhu: Her ending in the third game -- she kills a family of non-threatening anthropomorphic wolves in cold blood, and is presented as being the stuff of nightmares from their point of view.
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Just a simple human girl that's understandably heavily armed, yet is an absolute monster compared to the likes of Demitri, Morrigan, and even Jedah. This was deliberately invoked by the creators, however, as they wanted to show that human beings can be just as terrifying, destructive, and bloodthirsty as, if not ''more'' than, literal monsters.
* HunterOfMonsters: As a Darkhunter, she particularly hates werewolves. She's actually as bad as the monsters are.
* HyperspaceArsenal: The only way that she can fit an entire ''armory'' into her picnic basket.
* InTheHood: Given [[Literature/LittleRedRidingHood her inspiration]], this was to be expected, but B.B. Hood manages to downplay the mysterious, enigmatic angle of the trope and instead cranks up its more sinister connotations.
* KillingIntent: Hers is so intense and malevolent, it caught Jedah's eye.
* LittleDeadRidingHood: Inverted: ''she'' kills ''you''... unless you manage to beat her in battle, one presumes.
* LittleMissBadass: A lot younger than you would expect any "special class" hunter to be.
* LittleRedFightingHood: She's very likely inspired by Creator/RoaldDahl's take on this classic fairy tale character (see extract below), who repeatedly shot the wolf and made a coat out of his hide.
-->'''The small girl smiles.'''\\
'''One eyelid flickers.'''\\
'''She whips a pistol from her knickers.'''\\
'''She aims it at the creature's head,'''\\
'''And bang bang bang, she shoots him dead.'''
* MakingASplash: One of her attacks involves her crying, and then trying to drown the opponent in the resulting pool her tears left behind.
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Some of her standard hits look completely unintentional. For example trying to grab one of her butterflies which acts as a punch, reclining happily which trips the opponent, turning to call Harry whilst kicking her leg up behind her, sneezing so her foot kicks up from the reflex, kneeing the opponent as she leaps away in surprise from a cute mole that burrows up underneath her feet, and doing a mock-curtsy to drop a landmine from inside her dress.
* MacrossMissileMassacre: A larger amount but slower rate of fire than Morrigan's Finishing Shower, straight out of Baby Bonnie Hood's picnic basket.
* MeaningfulName: Baby Bonnie ''[[Literature/LittleRedRidingHood Hood]]''. Additionally, "Baby Bonnie" isn't the only thing that B.B. can stand for. In other words, she's [[TheBigBadWolf The Big Bad Hood]].
* MoralityPet: A very literal example: her dog Harry is probably the only thing she cares about, other than killing and making money.
* MoreDakka: Her Cool Hunting super involves her and two huge woodsmen, John and Arthur, blasting the shit out of her opponent with their guns.
* MysteriousPast: Her exact backstory is never revealed, though a common fan theory is something bad happened to her grandma, based on the ''Literature/LittleRedRidingHood'' fable itself, and her Beautiful Memory super having her get teary-eyed whilst thinking of her. However her bio also states that she runs errands for her grandma, so perhaps the wolf got her fairly recently...
* OcularGushers: Her Beautiful Memory super has her rush her opponent with her twin knives whilst an image of her grandma appears above her. Then, whilst her opponent is in her grasp, she starts crying so hard that it creates a pool of tears, into which she tosses her opponent. Her knowing smile reveals her tears are all part of her cutesy act.
* PartsUnknown: Downplayed; her official bio narrows her origin down to "a certain Nordic country" (北欧某国 / hokuō bōkoku, with 'hokuō' referring to Scandinavia in Japanese) but doesn't get more specific than that.
* PintSizedPowerhouse: She's only 4'8", in a game where some fighters are over seven feet tall and she is capable of lifting them all over her head during her Beautiful Memory super.
* PreciousPuppy: Has a dog named Harry, a little brown Boston Terrier with a red bow who seems to be one of the few things she genuinely cares about in life.
* PsychoForHire: She's not just killing monsters for the sake of it -- she's getting paid too.
* PunnyName: It'd be complete if B.B. Hood used a B.B. gun.
* ShoutOut:
** Her special intro with Jon Talbain:
---> ''[[Literature/LittleRedRidingHood What a big mouth you have!]]''
** Her arsenal and fighting style are fashioned after ''Film/{{Desperado}}'', down to sticking one foot to the side while launching a rocket from her picnic basket. The creators were not sure how to make guns work in a fighting game but realized the movie's flashy poses would make them behave appropriate to the series' mechanics.
* SkipOfInnocence: Her forward movement is a joyful skip, singing as she goes, even though she's anything ''but'' innocent.
* SlashedThroat: One of her grapples involves slitting her opponent's throat.
* SlasherSmile: When she [[LetsGetDangerous decides to go gung ho]] on her opponent.
* SpinAttack: For her command grab, she playfully takes her opponent's hands as if to dance with them, but begins spinning crazily out of control with a psychotic smirk on her face, creating a cyclone that launches her opponent flying.
%%(zce)* SpySatellite: Has access to one.
* StepfordSmiler: Type C. As in, she's smiling because she's crazy.
* TokenHuman: The only human character in the main cast (Donovan was going to be one, but the devs realised that a regular human wouldn't stand much of a chance against characters like [[SuccubiAndIncubi Morrigan]] and [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Jon Talbain]] without something to set them apart).
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Oh, ''where to begin''...she smokes, wields a veritable armoury of weapons, absolutely relishes fighting...and, of course, she's a monster hunter so ruthless and bloodthirsty that lower-tier Darkstalkers treat her with the same level of fear that humans would a ''{{serial killer}}''.
* VagueAge: Her official bio lists her birth year as "unknown" but also suggests her age to be "10-14 years old". 12 seems about right.
* VanHelsingHateCrimes: To the extreme. Especially in her ending, where she prepares to brutally murder a family of innocent werewolves.
* VillainSong: She has a series of winposes where she does an odd little rap made up of her attack calls.
* VillainsOutShopping: Whenever she goes to town for food and clothing, and visiting her grandmother.
* WoundedGazelleGambit:
** Her back dash, where she runs away screaming in B-movie heroine mock-horror.
** Her Beautiful Memory super, where she suddenly remembers her dead granny, cries her eyes out in order to lure her opponent close, stabs them multiple times, smashes them with a rock, before finally hurling them into a pool of her own tears.
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[[folder:Lilith Aensland]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[FilleFatale Lost Child of Desire]]]]
->''I don't like to be alone. Will you play with me forever?''
-> '''Class:''' [[SuccubiAndIncubi Succubus]]\\
'''Origin:''' [[SupernaturalSealing Sealed Dimension]][[labelnote:*]] the occultist Seal of Myth/{{Lilith}} is presented here.[[/labelnote]]\\
'''Voiced by:''' [[note]]Creator/HirokoKonishi (games), Creator/YukaImai (''VideoGame/NamcoXCapcom'' and ''VideoGame/CrossEdge''), Creator/MiyukiSawashiro (''Onimusha Soul''), Creator/StephanieSheh (''VideoGame/CrossEdge'', English)[[/note]]\\\
Roughly 10 years after 1/3 of Morrigan's soul was sealed in an isolated dimension, it became self-aware. For the next 300 years its awareness and feelings grew, and eventually, so did its instinct to return home. When Jedah created the Majigen, it also drew in this soul. When Jedah noticed it, he struck a deal with it: the soul would gain a physical form and in return it must lure Morrigan and the other Darkstalkers to him. And thus Lilith was born, the childish, cheerful version of Morrigan, who goes to find her "sister."\\
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After meeting Morrigan, she fuses with her and becomes a part of her sister, increasing Morrigan's powers. \\
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As she (for the most part) physically resembles Morrigan (being her "sister" and all), several of the tropes found in Morrigan's entry apply to Lilith as well.
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* ACupAngst:
** More so due to her feelings as an incomplete version of Morrigan than any actual "deficiencies"; she could make herself just as pneumatic as her sister, but doesn't choose to do so.
** In ''Pocket Fighter''/''VideoGame/SuperGemFighter: Mini Mix'' (the SuperDeformed [[SpinOff cousin]] of ''Franchise/StreetFighter''), Lilith seems to attract all the men, making ''Morrigan'' (to whom this ending belongs) jealous.
** In the ''Tamashii no Mayoigo'' manga, when she sees a painting of her done by John Stately, she complains that her chest is bigger than he painted them.
* AdaptationalHeroism: While she isn't necessarily evil in the game, ''Tamashii no Mayoigo'' has her realize Jedah was evil and leave on her own volition, as well as falling in love with a human boy, John, and becoming his protector.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Like Morrigan in the UDON comics, she's a lot more willing to murder and is unfeeling towards humans. As an example, she attacks a group of monks; one of them she kisses and reduces to a skeleton after consuming his soul, the others she gleefully kills.
* ArtificialHuman: She has a soul, or part of one, but her body is artificial.
* BadassAdorable: Still strong enough to count as a Makai noble, despite being less powerful and younger-looking than Morrigan.
* BreastExpansion: Her normally-minimal boobs pump up full of blood when she's on the receiving end of Jedah's Sangue Passare
* CantLiveWithoutYou: In the single player mode, Lilith passes out when she knocks out Morrigan, who acts as her final boss.
* CartoonThrobbing: When Lilith is hit by Q-Bee's [[ScaryStingingSwarm swarm attack,]] her butt swells up, with each cheek being several times bigger than her head. Her tushie even throbs for a while.
* CloneAngst: When Lilith finds out she is [[ExpendableClone derivative of another being]] and that her body--[[ArtificialHuman created by Jedah]]--will not last, she desperately tries to find Morrigan to inhabit, to survive.
* ClothingDamage: Self-inflicted, no less! One attack of hers sends all of the bats that make up her clothing into a whirlwind to attack her opponent. [[SceneryCensor The end result is what you'd expect.]]
* CombatStilettos: Sports the same calf-length, six inch heels as Morrigan.
* CreatingLife: Albeit serendipitously. Originating as 1/3 of Morrigan's power personified, she developed self-awareness after being trapped in the Sealed Dimension by Belial for so long. Jedah, discovering this, created a body for her and convinced her to work for him.
* DependingOnTheWriter: While not as bad as Lord Raptor, Lilith has different interpretations to her character regarding the medium she features in.
** In ''Vampire Savior'', she is a cute, cheerful succubus. She is an AntiVillain, and she hardly has no animations that portray her in any way malicious. She is also portrayed as TheCutie in ''Tamashii no Mayoigo'', and is a heroic character who is looking for the meaning of her existence, defending her human LoveInterest, John.
** In the Udon adaptation of ''ComicBook/StreetFighterVsDarkstalkers'', however, while she is still an AntiVillain, she is more openly malicious, with evil grins and commits evil acts, including murdering humans.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Most of her victory quotes sound disturbingly sexualised, given her youthful form.
* DoppelgangerAttack: Her Luminous Illusion super and Mirror Doll Dark Force.
* TheDragon: To Jedah, as strange as it may seem. She's the one who lures most of the others to Majigen.
* ExtremeOmnisexual: She has the same suggestive win quotes against male, female and "other" characters.
* FallenAngel: Think Morrigan, but more benevolent. The only reason she was following Jedah in ''3'' was due to Jedah's manipulation. One of her early designs was that of a half-angel, which carried over to the fact many of her move names are ''light''-themed, while Morrigan's are ''darkness''-themed.
* FilleFatale: She's essentially a younger version of Morrigan, so this was to be expected.
* FinalBoss: She's the final boss to Morrigan and Felicia respectively in ''Vampire Savior''; she wishes to merge with the former while challenging the latter after Jedah was defeated.
%%* (zce) FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: Same deal as Morrigan, if not more so.
* FullFrontalAssault: Her Splendor Love special attack turns her clothes into a swarm of green bats to attack the opponent, while she floats in the center completely naked.
* FusionDance: With Morrigan, in both of their endings in ''Vampire Savior'', with slightly different results in each. The original ending(s) implied Type 1 (Composite), but this was apparently {{retcon}}ned [[ExecutiveMeddling by Capcom]] in the pair's following appearances into a mix of Type 2 ([[SuperEmpowering Power Booster]]) and sort-of Type 3 (Switcher), in that while it's Morrigan who is dominant, Lilith has been shown to exist as some sort of SplitPersonality-like entity, and is able "[[LiteralSplitPersonality come out and play]]" at her own discretion. It should be noted that the ''Vs.'' titles are non-canon, and Morrigan's appearances there [[WhatIf are supposed to represent]] the full scale of her powers.
* GenkiGirl: In fact, her behavior sometimes borders on infantile.
* GirlyRun: Her walking animation in ''Darkstalkers'' is more or less a hopping-on-tiptoes skip, reflecting her more playful and childish nature compared to Morrigan. She does it both [[https://www.fightersgeneration.com/characters2/lilith-skipfor.gif forward]] and [[https://www.fightersgeneration.com/characters2/lilith-skip.gif backwards]]. For her back-dash, she adopts a classically angelic pose, like some allegorical painting.
* ImpossiblyLowNeckline: Since it is a slightly altered copy of her "sister's" outfit.
* InvoluntaryDance: Gloomy Puppet Show forces the enemy onto a makeshift stage, where they're forced to dance -- with the Lilith player having to keep time while pressing a series of punches and kicks according to what is displayed beneath -- until her foe is electrocuted.
* LittleMissBadass: [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld Technically speaking,]] as she takes the form of a young, teenage girl.
* MeaningfulName: Myth/{{Lilith}}, originally appearing in myths as a Mesopotamian storm demon who was associated with the element of wind and a bearer of disease, illness, and death, is known in Jewish folklore as [[Literature/TheBible Adam]]'s first wife (apparently, Eve was his SecondLove) who refused to become subservient to him. She is usually referred to as a succubus herself. The fact that Lilith was held in a 'Sealed Dimension' also references the Seal of Lilith (as seen above), which is used in occultist practises.
* MsFanservice: Though underdeveloped and projecting an underage appearance, it doesn't stop her from being sexualised.
* PlayboyBunny: She dresses like one during her Gloomy Puppet Show EX move.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Just a little younger than Morrigan, who was born in the 1600s.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: As a succubus, she's a dangerous foe, despite being a cheery, happy-go-lucky girl who's being misguided by Jedah.
* ScrewYourself: Depicted/implied with Morrigan via the famous (official art) image of them naked (but still covered via HandOrObjectUnderwear and SceneryCensor) and suggestively embracing.
* SenseFreak: Lilith is overwhelmed by suddenly having a body.
* ShadowArchetype: As she's a part of Morrigan's soul that was separated from her by Belial, this is the logical conclusion of her self-awareness, though she only got to go all the way thanks to Jedah.
* ShapeshifterWeapon: Her wings, like Morrigan's, can form knives and stabbing blades.
* {{Shoryuken}}: Shining Blade. Much like Morrigan's Shadow Blade, Lilith leaps upward and swings one of her wings as it transforms into an axe-like blade. The wider arc of Lilith's attack, and her broader wing shape, means that it's easier to hit, as per Ken's versus Ryu's versions.
* {{Shotoclone}}: Sakura variant. Actually has a HurricaneKick equivalent Morrigan and Demitri do not, but has a slow moving, ''very'' short-ranged projectile.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Despite being a succubus who can drain him dry, she falls in love with the human John Stately in ''Tamashii no Mayoigo'', since he doesn't fear her and tells her to be her own person.
* SituationalSexuality: Lilith's body is not permanently ''set'' as a female, and can possibly switch between both. Her appearance is primarily just because of her being Morrigan's clone.
* SpinAttack: Merry Turn, an attack in which Lilith spins through the air as her wings transform into a scythe-like blade. Functions much like a HurricaneKick.
* SplitAtBirth: Her birth was the split, actually.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Basically a lolita-style version of Morrigan's outfit with a different colour scheme. She ''is'' technically a young teenage version of Morrigan, after all.
* SuccubiAndIncubi: She is just a part of Morrigan, and a succubus, so it was inevitable. See the main article's entry for more details.
* SuccubusInLove: She's enamored with John Stately in ''Tamashii no Mayoigo''. However, likely due to her age and naievete, she never tries to outright seduce him.
* WingedHumanoid: Similar to Morrigan, as they are both succubi.
* WingsBelowTheWaist: [[PlayingWith Played with]]. While Lilith's wings technically extend somewhere from her lower shoulder blades -- as seen when she's viewed from behind -- almost all art features her wings framed below her waist.
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[[folder:Jedah Dohma]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[DarkMessiah Dark Savior]]]]
->''Your soul can only be saved by death. It doesn't contradict!''
-> '''Class:''' [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils Demon Lord]]\\
'''Origin:''' [[{{Hell}} Makai]], [[TimeAbyss 4045 B.C.]]\\
'''Voiced by:''' [[note]]Creator/IsshinChiba (games, Japanese), Creator/TravisWillingham (''VideoGame/CrossEdge'', English), Creator/DavidKaye (''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcomInfinite'', English)[[/note]]\\\
The Vampire Savior, The Distressed Lord of Death. The youngest of the three high nobles, Jedah was the one most concerned about the future of Makai. Believing that under the rule of Belial it would be stagnant, Jedah sought every chance he could that would help in overthrowing Belial. Ozom, his adviser, suggested to absorb the leaking energy of the Gate, a distortion that connects Makai with the human world. While Jedah was absorbing the leaked energy, Ozom discovered that if he opened the gate further, it would leak so much energy that it would overload Jedah and kill him. So he decided to overthrow him right then and there, and just like he predicted, Jedah couldn't handle it. Ozom then collected what was left of Jedah's power and proclaimed himself Emperor of Makai.\\
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100 years later, Jedah managed to revive himself. Seeing the state of Makai at the peak of a power struggle, he decided that in order to save it he must cleanse all the souls in Makai, and for this he created the Majigen (using Ozom and his Castle--formerly Jedah's--as a foundation), the {{pocket dimension}} where the strongest of souls will gather.
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* AirDashing: His air-dash doubles as a direct attack, allowing him greater offensive opportunities.
* AntiVillain: Of the [[SlidingScaleOfAntiVillains well-intentioned variety.]] He has good intentions but could stand to think up some better methods.
* AristocratsAreEvil: He's only remaining member of Makai's Three High Nobles.
* AscendedExtra: Jedah as a character actually existed prior to ''Vampire Savior'' as [[AllThereInTheManual a minor footnote you'd only know about if you read a lot of official books.]] He even had an official illustration which depicted him as a reptilian-insectoid-looking creature rather than the Grim Reaper/Devil figure he is now.
* AssimilationPlot: His ultimate goal in order to stop the constant wars plaguing Makai is to [[TheAssimilator unite all of the demonic souls within himself]], reset reality, and create one perfect being (the Shintai, which appears to take the form of a deranged, monstrous fetus).
* AxCrazy: He laughs maniacally after killing his opponents razor-sharp claws and his death-scythe.
* BalloonBelly: His Sangue Passare (Bloody Passing) does this to Jon Talbain and, in a mirror match, to himself, filling his outie belly button with blood until it pops out and explodes.
* BigBad: Of ''3''. He created the world in which everyone else is fighting, and is the reason they are all there in the first place.
* BlackBlood: He specializes in this, since he uses his own blood [[BloodyMurder as a weapon]].
* BloodyMurder: A good deal of his attacks involve tearing himself apart and instantly regenerating while bleeding all over the place.
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Pyron was an alien who traveled across the universe to consume worlds and alleviate his boredom, in addition to having no real interest in the life on Earth until the Darkstalkers rose and he felt he found potential fighters to entertain him. Jedah is a Darkstalker who wanted to take over the worlds of Earth and Makai and sees himself more as a visionary for a new utopia, albeit one under his heel, than seeking entertainment in combat.
* DarkMessiah: Among the residents of Makai, a popular belief is that the giant mutant fetus featured on his stage is the body of a new {{God}} -- Jedah's plan basically involves creating a giant [[TheAntiChrist Antichrist]]. Many characters in ''Marvel Vs. Capcom Infinite'' outright call him this trope.
* DeathFromAbove: His unique Ira Spinta (Wrath Thrust) command grab attack, and also his air throw, Mesto Spinta (Sadness Thrust). Both involve him forming a sword-tip out of his wings to dive-plummet at his opponent. The former is known for both his insane laughter and him [[ThisIsADrill drilling through his foe with the sword-formation]].
* DrowningPit: Makes one out of his own blood via his Finale Rosso (Finale Red) move, then begins punching at the enemy when they take too long to drown.
* EvilIsVisceral: Jedah fights by mutilating himself and using his tissues and blood as weapons(for example, he'll make claws by cutting the joints of his fingers and stretching them in lines of blood, as well as attack with a spray of blood by ''decapitating himself''). His stage is the inside of a [[WombLevel giant womb]], complete with [[FetusTerrible giant demonic fetus]] in the background.
* EvilLaugh: Let's out a maniacal laugh when commencing his LaughingMad moments.
* ExtremityExtremist: He never kicks, although he uses scythe-wings as substitutes.
* FemmeFatalons: Sports huge claw-like nails for raking attacks.
* FinalBoss: He's the last opponent that the player must defeat in ''Vampire Savior''/''Darkstalkers 3'' (unless you selected Demitri, Felicia, Jon Talbain, B.B.Hood, Lilith, or Morrigan) as he's the one behind the Majigen and stopping him is the only means of preventing his new so-called utopia from happening. He is also, as of now, the final boss of the entire ''Darkstalkers'' game series. Some characters have their own final bosses, making Jedah the penultimate boss unless you chose Lilith.
* FloatingInABubble: Of his own blood.
* GiantHandsOfDoom: His Prova di Servo (Proof of Servant) super has him grab his foe with a giant hand of blood, smash and sprawl them all around before slapping them literally onto an actual giant paper contract, allowing Jedah to absorb a portion of their soul.
* {{Gorn}}: As cool as they might be, the graphic elements of his attacks are also likely the thing that kept him out of the ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom'' and ''VideoGame/SNKVsCapcom'' (not counting the card games) series for so long. When he did finally make his first 3D playable appearance in ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcomInfinite'', his blood was changed from red to purple.
* GratuitousItalian: The names of his moves, including his normal attacks in many in-depth Japanese sources are rendered in Italian or Latin.
* TheGrimReaper: He makes the iconic Reaper scythe by ripping off his own wings, and he is known as the Lord of Death.
* HighPressureBlood: Weaponized by cutting himself and spraying the enemy.
* HopeCrusher: His win quotes have him belittling his fallen enemies by telling them there is no hope left in the world.
* HorrifyingTheHorror: While he's an all powerful demonic overlord feared by all within the Makai, he's personally ''scared shitless'' by the presence of Anita, the fabled '''She''' who will awaken as the ultimate savior and matriarchal leader of humankind in the future.
* JapaneseDelinquents: Aside from the [[BadassLongCoat coat]] with gakuran elements, his idling and various stances are based on common delinquent poses, with his hands rammed moodily into his pockets.
* KillAllHumans: After his plan to save the demon world is complete, step two is to get rid of Earth before humanity's leader awakens and becomes a potential threat to his new world.
* KnightTemplar: He is going to destroy the demon world and all sense of individuality in it, in order to bring an end to both war and "stagnation."
* LaughingMad: During many of his attacks he is absolutely giddy. Taken to the extreme in his ending in ''VideoGame/CapcomFightingEvolution'', where he's so engrossed in his maniacal laughter he has no idea that [[VideoGame/DevilMayCry Dante]] is about to kill him.
* LosingYourHead: One of his moves, Spregio (Defiance), has him doing this to ''himself!''
* ManOfWealthAndTaste: He is one of the three highest nobles of Makai.
* MoodSwinger: A subtle example. He's generally depicted as TheStoic, but in battle he often goes LaughingMad. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAkZaBgniPk Like this.]] One gets the impression Jedah [[AxCrazy isn't exactly sane]].
* MySignificanceSenseIsTingling: He can sense the powers of other beings on a cosmic scale.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot He's a [[BloodyMurder dismembered]] ''Manga/{{Devilman}}'' mixed with TheGrimReaper wearing a [[JapaneseDelinquents punk Japanese]] school uniform crossed with [[SinisterMinister clergy garb]]. Even out of this colourful cast, he is made of disparate elements that bizarrely come together.
* NotQuiteFlight: An ability similar to one of Hsien-Ko's and a full on flight mode like Q-Bee, via his Dark Force, Santuario (Sanctuary). He is also able to air dash via a unique move named Balzo Perdono (Bounding Pardon) where he is able to chain the next normal jump attack during mid-dash into a special.
* ObviouslyEvil: By far the most sinister looking character in the cast, with two devil wings on his back which he can turn into a buzzsaw or a scythe. And that's before he starts mutilating himself or laughing like a lunatic.
* OffWithHisHead: His Spregio (Contempt), which is his Guard Cancel move where he uses an elongated thumb-claw to sever his own head to invoke a HighPressureBlood blood splash at his foe. Needless to say, his head regenerates soon after.
* OlderThanTheyLook: He could pass for a young man. Yet, he is actually six thousand years old, having been born in 4045 BC, making him the oldest character in the series, beating out even Anakaris, officially.
* OminousLatinChanting: Played during his intro in the last stage of the third game.
* PhlebotinumOverload: His background story, caused by a TreacherousAdvisor named Ozom.
* PhysicalGod: All of the Three High Nobles were at least Class S-level Darkstalkers, qualifying for this status. Jedah is no exception. Aside from Morrigan (when her soul is whole again), and maybe Dee and Anita, Jedah is the strongest living member of the cast. He even has a move called Dio Sega (God Saw) and Dark Force called Santuario (Sanctuary).
* PopGoesTheHuman: The Sangue Passare (Bloody Passing) throw, where he fills his opponent with blood. Exactly what part of them is filled up depends on the character, some of which have become somewhat infamous (with the most infamous and popular being Lilith's impromptu boobjob).
* PowerEchoes: Jedah's voice is iconic for having a voice filter (which makes him sound a lot like Creator/IsshinChiba's take on [[VideoGame/JoJosBizarreAdventureHeritageForTheFuture Dio Brando]]), but he discards it in both ''VideoGame/CrossEdge'' and ''VideoGame/ProjectXZone'', despite having Chiba reprise his role in Japanese.
* RazorWings: Jedah has sickle-like wings.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: He's the youngest of the Three High Nobles of Makai, which means that his age is ''at least'' in quadruple figures.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: An appropriate warning, too, considering his fighting style.
* RollingAttack: The follow-up from his Ira Spinta known as Ira Piano (Wrath Plane), and his pursuit attack, Rasare Sega (Saving Saw).
* {{Shapeshifting}}: Has a liquid body. Doesn't help much when you see his head come off.
* ShapeshifterWeapon: His wings mostly, which form a scythe and other stabbing weapons. His entire body in the storyline.
* ShoutOut: '
** ''Manga/{{Devilman}}'' is Jedah's most prominent design influence, down to the shoulder markings. Specifically Yasushi Nirasawa's take on the character, with the lanky, muscular build and prominent claws.
** His plan to [[AssimilationPlot unite a bunch of souls]] while manipulating a fractured one named Lilith likely came from ''[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Evangelion]]''. Especially considering he shares his physique, protruding elbow stubs, and love of purple with the Eva-01.
* SinisterScythe: He produces them from his body. His standing HK (named as Falce Morte/Scythe Death in ''Cross Edge'') is a clear example of this, and during his Nero Fatica (Black/Dark Fatigue).
* TheStoic: Until he goes LaughingMad, that is.
* TreacherousAdvisor: To Lilith. Ozom was one to him.
* VocalEvolution: Compare Jedah's voice in ''Vampire Savior'' to his voice in either the Japanese version of ''VideoGame/CrossEdge'' or ''VideoGame/ProjectXZone''; it almost sounds like they have different voice actors due to Isshin Chiba using his more normal tone of range. Basically, he went from [[VideoGame/JoJosBizarreAdventureHeritageForTheFuture Dio]] to [[VideoGame/{{Tekken}} Devil Jin]][[note]]Even all the more notable being that both Jin and Jedah can interact with each other, not to mention both ''Cross Edge'' and ''Project X Zone'' both don't use Jedah's iconic voice filter, despite reprising the same Japanese voice[[/note]].
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Jedah really wants to save the planet... by resetting all of creation.
* WingedHumanoid: To an extent; Jedah's wings are actually not attached to his body.
* WombLevel: His stage, the Fetus of God, is literally a fleshy structure, complete with ''an actual fetus'' resting in the background. It provides the trope picture, by the way, [[TemptingFate so click at your own risk]].
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Characters debuting in ''Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge'' / ''Vampire Hunter'' and ''Darkstalkers 3'' / ''Vampire Savior''
* For Morrigan, Demitri, Felicia, Jon Talbain, Bishamon, Anakaris, Lord Raptor, Victor, Rikuo, Sasquatch, Huitzil, and Pyron, check the ''Characters/DarkstalkersTheNightWarriors'' sheet.
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!!Introduced in ''Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge'' / ''Vampire Hunter''
[[folder:Donovan Baine]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[HunterOfMonsters Fated Hunter]]]]
->''Darkstalkers, now you will feel the wrath of my avenging blade!''
-> '''Class:''' {{Dhampyr}}\\
'''Origin:''' [[PartsUnknown Unknown]]\\
'''Donovan voiced by:''' [[note]]Creator/NobuyukiHiyama (''Vampire Hunter''), Creator/JurotaKosugi (''Vampire Hunter 2''), Creator/GaryChalk (Western cartoon), Creator/UnshoIshizuka (''Vampire Hunter'' OVA, Japanese), Ari Solomon (''Vampire Hunter'' OVA, English)[[/note]]
'''Anita voiced by:''' [[note]]Creator/AkikoYajima (''Vampire Hunter'' OVA, Japanese), Creator/AndreaLibman (''Vampire Hunter'' OVA, English)[[/note]]\\\
Donovan and his mother were outcasts in the village they lived due to his cursed blood. One day, something triggered his vampire form and he lost control of himself, killing many people including his mother. Stricken with grief and cursing his heritage, he goes into exile and devotes himself to Buddhism, but fails to achieve peace. During his travels, he makes a name for himself as a Vampire Hunter. He later meets Anita, an emotionless girl, and trying to restore her humanity, he slices the head off of Anita's doll. This awakened Anita's anger, and his plan succeeded. Taking her with him, he sets out to emotionally awaken her. Ironically, this is eventually achieved by him losing to his dark side, which prompted her to shed genuine tears. It's still unclear if he truly lost to his dark side or if he is fighting back.\\
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That dark side is later represented as another, possibly non-canon character called Dee, who [[PaletteSwap is basically just Donovan's head on Demitri's body]] with a combination of his and Demitri's moves. In his ending, he encounters a teenaged Anita, but the outcome of the encounter is not shown.
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: One could easily assume he is Indian due to his skin tone and his Buddhist theme attire and abilities. However, it's vaguely implied that he is European due to his name having Irish origins. One [[http://shmuplations.com/darkstalkers/ interview]] even has one developer making a joking comment about him being Indian only for another developer to quickly follow up with the statement that he is, in fact, from PartsUnknown.
* TheAtoner: During Donovan's childhood, he and his mother were [[BullyingADragon harassed]] by the other villagers [[FantasticRacism who blamed their misfortunes on Don's heritage]]. At one point Donovan snapped, lost consciousness and woke up to find he had slaughtered everyone present -- including his own mother.
* BadassAndChildDuo: He and Anita, who follows him everywhere -- even during combat -- but doesn't take any hits, as she hangs out to Don's side in the midground.
* BareFistedMonk: If push comes to shove, Donovan can simply [[SwordPlant plant his sword into the ground]] and let his fists do the talking.
* {{BFS}}: His sword is almost as long as he is tall.
* BladeAcrossTheShoulder: One of his summoning poses.
* CoolBoard: Played with. He uses his own sword as a board for mid-air dashing attacks.
* CoolSword: Dhylec, his primary weapon and means of combat.
* {{Dhampyr}}: In Slavic mythology, a hybrid being born to a human parent, and a vampiric one. Donovan is therefore a half-vampire and ''very'' unhappy to be one.
* DifficultButAwesome: An expert Donovan player is a master of mind games revolving around his "sword plant" trick. You had better hope that you don't face one in TournamentPlay, because they are ''brutally'' efficient.
* DisappearedDad: Although he's the son of a vampire and a human, nothing is known about the Darkstalker father who abandoned him and his mother, someone whom Donovan [[IHateYouVampireDad would have very little nice things to say about]]. It's also unknown [[AmbiguousSituation what kind of relationship his parents had, assuming the union was even consensual]]. The only prominent vampire in the series is Demitri, but given he sees humans as more of a food source at best, it's unlikely he fathered Donovan.
* EvilWeapon: As Dee, his sword is red and more sinister looking, likely symbolic of his own corruption.
* FashionableAsymmetry: His costume features one pants leg and one shirt sleeve.
* FightingFromTheInside: His DownerEnding implies that after some period of giving in to his vampiric nature, Donovan's good side is finally starting to regain control.
* FireIceLightning: By way of three summoned spirits, who form the basis of most of his special moves.
* {{Foil}}:
** To B.B. Hood. While she kills Darkstalkers only for money, Donovan does so to give himself a purpose for his cursed existence.
** To Jon Talbain. Both of them had human mothers and Darkstalker fathers. Both of them suffered misfortune and racism due to their heritage which also resulted in losing their mothers. Jon develops a dislike of humans due to their bigotry but is still shown to care for children to the point where he actively avoided conflict with them. Donovan gains an intense hate for all Darkstalkers, and thinks they must all die.
* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: In the game storyline and the OVA, Donovan chops the off head of Anita's doll to force her out of her emotionless shell. This causes Anita to show her anger in a brief but great display of power, the first sign of emotion from the girl in some time.
* GiantFootOfStomping: One of his supers summons a Greek Titan-esque giant, who stomps the opponent from above.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Has vampire blood but is not a full vampire.
* TheHero: Of ''Night Warriors: Darkstalkers II''. After all, he ''is'' the ''[[TitleDrop Vampire Hunter]]''.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Can fall to his instincts as a vampire during the hunts.
* {{Hunk}}: He has a chiselled, yet slightly haughty face, full lips and a ripped physique.
* HunterOfMonsters: Is a Dark Hunter partially to save humans from the forces of the dark, partially to give a purpose to his {{cursed|WithAwesome}} existence and/or cleanse his blood.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Too bad, ''Vampire Savior'' makes him more vampire and less human. What's worse, it's implied that Anita may have had to kill Donovan to save him from himself.
* KnightTemplar: Many of his win quotes depict him as such. Calling the monsters he hunts "Wretches that will never see the sun" or saying neither he or Anita will know peace until [[FinalSolution all Darkstalkers are wiped out]] are already pretty zealous quotes. Pit him against [[AllLovingHero Felicia]], [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Morrigan]], [[NobleWolf Jon]], or [[TheWoobie Hsien-Ko]] and ''he'' looks like the monster.
* LargeHam: In the OVA, he's full of {{Wangst}} about his DarkAndTroubledPast.
* LivingWeapon: His giant sword, Dhylec, can be seen complaining and falling asleep if left "planted" for too long.
* MisplacedRetribution: While it makes sense he regrets the actions that led to him inadvertently killing his mother, his decision to kill ''all'' Darkstalkers is complete overkill. Considering most Darkstalkers, at least among those shown in the cast, don't go around killing and actively avoid harming humans, this doesn't necessarily paint him in the most heroic light. Considering he's half-vampire, it would make more sense for him to resent other vampires, or at the least hunt down his father and take his retribution out on him.
* MistakenIdentity: A meta example. More than a few people in the past have mistaken him for [[VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha Dan]].
* PaletteSwap: As many have noted, Dee is simply Donovan's (redesigned) head plastered on Demitri's body. It's pretty much Capcom's answer to ''VideoGame/{{MUGEN}}''
* PapaWolf: One prominent example is in the OVA, when a boy made off with Anita's doll. Anita used her PsychicPowers to retrieve her doll, inciting a large group of people to try to kill her. Fortunately, Donovan made his presence known by standing in front of Anita and simply planting his {{BFS}} into the ground, as if daring the mob to attack him. As Donovan is a powerful fighter, this forces everyone to back off.
* ParentalSubstitute: For the orphaned Anita.
* PartsUnknown: His name offers little clues to his origins; "Donovan" is the anglicised spelling of "Donndubháin" (dark-haired), an [[UsefulNotes/IrishNames Irish name]] which therefore seems to contradict his Buddhist/Asian look. While the producers have teased an Indian heritage for him in the past, they are keeping firmly schtum in any official capacity.
* PerpetualFrowner: The only image where he is at least smiling is during a very brief scene in the last episode of the OVA. And that's not saying much.
* PsychicPowers: Donovan wields powerful telekinetic abilities that allow him to manipulate [[{{BFS}} Dhylec]] in battle. He also intercepts attacks by moving his prayer beads when he blocks.
* ReligiousBruiser: Buddhist flavor, complete with giant prayer beads used when blocking.
* ReligiousVampire: ''Half-vampire'' to be precise, but it's his spiritual training that keeps him from fully transforming.
* SelfMadeOrphan: Not on purpose -- his vampiric side led to him killing his own mother, which leaves him feeling wracked with guilt.
* ShoutOut:
** Mainly to ''Literature/VampireHunterD'', due to his dhampyr status, profession, appearance and name.
** His [[AsskickingPose distinct poses and gestures]], face paint, leggy costume, as well as his elemental spirit summons (to which the developers supposedly even referred as "Stands" among themselves) also bring ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' to mind.
* TheStoic: Donovan himself, but Anita was even more so, which is why he takes her with him, to get her to open up.
* SummonMagic: When used in tandem with his prayer beads, Dhylec can summon several Buddhist deities to attack the opponent on Donovan's behalf.
* SuperpoweredEvilSide: Dee. There's also his Change Immortal super, in which he temporarily unleashes his blazing inner demon and slams into the opponent.
* SwordPlant: Both to access [[StanceSystem his alternate stance]] and as a win pose.
* TallDarkAndHandsome: And he's not afraid to bare some skin either.
* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: It always comes back, anyway.
* TokenHuman: Downplayed, in that while he was originally intended to be a BadassNormal vampire hunter, the developers decided that a normal human could never fight on even ground with the rest of the monstrous cast (Note that they appear to have later recanted this viewpoint somewhat with B.B. Hood, [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters but for different reasons]].) Thus he was redesigned as a ''half''-human {{Dhampyr}} and given a mystic sword and prayer beads to explain his spirit-summoning abilities.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: Donovan's a half-vampire, which makes him a Darkstalker in his own right, but his heritage has caused him so much pain that he seeks to rid himself of it by eliminating the Darkstalkers.
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[[folder:Hsien-Ko/Lei-Lei]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hsienko.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[CuteGhostGirl Ghostly Girl]]]]
->''Have a pleasant journey through the Nine Courts of Judgement!''
-> '''Class:''' [[ChineseVampire Jiāngshī]]\\
'''Origin:''' [[ImperialChina Qing Empire, 1730]] (present-day UsefulNotes/{{China}})
'''Hsien-Ko voiced by:''' [[note]]Creator/MichikoNeya (games), Lisa Ann Beley (Western cartoon), Creator/YukoMiyamura (''Vampire Hunter'' OVA, Japanese), Creator/NicoleOliver (''Night Warriors'' OVA, English), Creator/SaoriHayami (''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'' and ''VideoGame/ProjectXZone'', Japanese), [=Hunter MacKenzie Austin=] (''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'', English)[[/note]]\\
'''Mei-Ling voiced by:''' [[note]]Creator/MayaOkamoto (''Vampire Hunter'' OVA, Japanese)[[/note]]\\\
The twins Hsien-Ko and Mei-Ling (Lin-Lin in Japan) were born to a family of Senjutsushi spiritualists. One day their family was attacked and the twins' mother, in order to save them, banished the monsters by sacrificing herself, sealing her soul in the darkness. The twins wanted to save their mother's soul, and in order to do that they performed a magic spell that turned Hsien-Ko into a Jiāngshī (the "[[ChineseVampire hopping vampire]]" of Chinese folklore), and turned Mei-Ling into the sealing ward that prevents Hsien-Ko from going berserk, taking the form of a paper seal placed over Hsien-Ko's face. They set out to hunt monsters and do good deeds (to earn enough brownie points for their mother).\\
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After releasing their mother's soul from darkness, they were reincarnated as normal girls. Upon their 16th birthday, their powers from their past life activated, gaining Jedah's attention and sucking them into Majigen. Their souls took the forms of their former bodies, and they fight for their survival with their newfound powers (they don't have memories from their past-life). In the end they returned to their normal lives.
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* AdaptationalJerkass: The OVA portrays Hsien-Ko as much more [[DeadpanSnarker snarkier]], rude, and irritable.
* AdaptationDistillation: All depictions of Hsien-Ko in non-gaming media ignore that she and her sister died and were reincarnated before regaining their powers at 16 at the end of ''Night Warriors''. The previous Hsien-Ko of ''Night Warriors'' and the modern Hsien-ko of ''Darkstalkers 3'' are technically two different characters, but the former is the one used even when elements and characters from ''Darkstalkers 3'' are present.
* AirDashing: Functionally very similar to Lord Raptor, allowing her to advance on her opponent from mid-air.
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: She's ''blue'', befitting her ghostly nature.
* AmbiguousSituation: While they regain their abilities, given the ending of ''Darkstalkers 3'' and her appearances in other games, it's unclear if Hsien-Ko can turn her jiāngshī form on and off.
* AndYourRewardIsInfancy: She and Mei-Ling are given a chance to start their lives over at the end of ''Night Warriors'' thanks to their priestess mother's heroic sacrifice.
* AnimalMotifs: Pandas, derived from her miniature form when hit with Anakaris' Pharaoh's Curse attack.
* AnimeChineseGirl: A Qing Dynasty example; she's dressed in a stylised take on the encumbering robes and ''Nuanmao'' hat of 18th Century China.
* AnvilOnHead: Her Tenraiha super involves dropping a giant metal weight from her sleeve. It will flatten an opponent against the ground if it lands on them, but even if the weight itself misses, the [[ShockwaveStomp earthquake it generates]], as well as the following rain of [[SpikeBallsOfDoom spiked balls]], can still pose a threat.
* AttackReflector: Her Henkyouki special, in which she uses a large gong to reflect projectile attacks and even hit the opponent with a sonic wave.
* AttractiveZombie: Being undead doesn't stop her from being cute, even with blue skin.
* BlushSticker: Since the third game, she's been given bright pink [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Pikachu]]-like spots on her cheeks.
* BuildingSwing: One of her specials has her swing back and forth from a chain she plants ''into the HUD'', while she wildly swings her massive clawed arm.
* CartoonBomb: Uses one of these as a special move since ''Vampire Savior'', which can be knocked back and forth between her and her opponent in a game of deadly tennis.
* ChineseVampire: The most prominent example in video games, it's safe to say that the monster she represents was almost unheard of in the West prior to her debut. Hsien-Ko's shaky movement patterns and stiff hopping motion are directly inspired by typical Chinese vampire traits, and her huge clawed hands reference the fact that hopping vampires are often presented with large FemmeFatalons, and kill by strangulation.
* CleavageWindow: Her Qing robe features a circular cut out across her breasts, which are also blue.
* DeathByAdaptation: Mei-Ling in the American cartoon was killed by Demitri as a child, which was downplayed due to the series being primarily aimed at kids.
* DubNameChange: Lei-Lei in Japan, Hsien-Ko everywhere else. Her sister: Lin-Lin in Japan, Mei-Ling everywhere else.
* EraSpecificPersonality: The Hsien-Ko from ''Night Warriors'' is formal and quite serious in her determination to avenge her and Mei-Ling's mother, while the Hsien-Ko from all following games, who is the previous one's reincarnation, acts more like an average teenage girl who, even after realizing her destiny, sometimes gets freaked out with the bizarre occurrences around her. The same goes for Mei-Ling.
* FlashStep: Her dash makes her disappear and then re-appear right behind the opponent, if the dash is done near them.
* FriendlyZombie: She is a well-intentioned ChineseVampire looking to save her mother's soul.
* FusionDance: Power Booster type when she and Mei-Ling fight as one zombie + talisman.
* {{Hammerspace}}: Her sleeves store a seemingly endless arsenal, including a giant ton weight. The ''Darkstalkers Graphic File'' shows the insides of her sleeves are completely packed with some of the weapons she throws.
* HasAType: It's said she prefers men who better themselves and [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan help others]], which means she's not into Lord Raptor.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Unlike Donovan and B.B. Hood, she doesn't become ruthless and evil after hunting monsters but then again, her sister is there as a talisman so she won't fully lose control of herself.
* HunterOfMonsters: Of the Darkstalkers, alongside Donovan.
* HyperspaceArsenal: Has an infinite amount of weapons hidden up her sagging sleeves.
* IconicSequelCharacter: She was introduced in the second game, and is second only to Morrigan in terms of notoriety. She even has her own mobile game.
* JugglingDangerously: Juggles knives in one of her win poses. Juggles even sharper weapons in [=UMvC3=].
* MarionetteMotion: Her head judders and rolls around when she's idle, which can be a little unsettling.
* MeaningfulName: The name 'Hsien-Ko' is a romanisation of the name of the mythical figure Hé Xiān-Gū (何仙姑), one of the Eight Immortals of Taoist mythos. The name literally means "Immortal woman".
* MoralityChain: Mei-Ling. [[SoulJar Her soul exists inside the talisman on Hsien-Ko's head]]. If she were to be separated from her sister, Hsien-Ko [[FaceHeelTurn would turn evil]].
* MusicalAssassin: She uses a giant gong both to repel fireball attacks and send out a damaging, close-range sonic wave.
* NothingUpMySleeve: Let's see... she's got bombs, knives, weights, flails, Akuma statues...
* NotQuiteFlight: Her air dash. It consists of Hsien-Ko literally ''walking on air'', possibly a reference to flying jiāngshī.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Hsien-Ko is a jiāngshī -- a Chinese vampire/zombie -- but unlike traditional ones, she's well-armed and controlled by her sister-turned-paper-talisman.
* SilkHidingSteel: Literally. She hides a full arsenal of steel weaponry up her silk sleeves, and in character she's sweet, but rigidly determined in her mission to save her mother's soul.
* SpikeBallsOfDoom: One of her trademark weapons, which she rolls across the arena floor for a low hit.
* SupernaturalMartialArts: ''Igyo Tenshin no Jutsu'' -- an ancient form of magic Hsien-Ko and Mei-Ling uses to transform themselves into jiāngshī when their mother is slain by a Darkstalker.
* ThemeTwinNaming: Lei-Lei and her sister Lin-Lin in the Japanese version.
* WolverineClaws: Her main weapons (out of the millions in her sleeves) are her gigantic bladed claws, inspired by the FemmeFatalons of jiāngshī in Chinese folklore.
* YankTheDogsChain: The sisters ''die'' in the second game, only to be reincarnated in another world so that they can live out their lives as ordinary children. [[DangerousSixteenthBirthday Sixteen years later]], the girls re-enter the world of Makai through their dreams, and find themselves ''back'' as jiāngshī. At the end of ''3'' the girls awaken from their dream back in the real world.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Hsien-ko's backstory states she was 16 when she turned into a jiāngshī after the night their mother died. The reincarnated Hsien-ko regained her powers at the exact same age. The figure shown in the artwork above looks at best early 20's. This also holds true of Mei-Ling, who also looks older than 16.
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!!Introduced in ''Darkstalkers 3/Vampire Savior: The Lord of Vampire'' and its revisions
[[folder:Q-Bee]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[TheSwarm Soul Bee]]]]
->''(I can eat anything to survive, but you shall be a treat!)''
-> '''Class:''' [[InsectQueen Demonic Insect]]\\
'''Origin:''' [[{{Hell}} Makai]] (House Dohma territory)\\
'''Voiced by:''' [[note]]Miyuki Matsushita (games)[[/note]]\\\
Q-Bee is a leader of the Soul Bee race that feasts on souls in order to live. They live within House Dohma's territories of the Demon World, but after Jedah's death, the lands began to die off. Souls became sparse, and the Soul Bees faced the danger of extinction. But then Jedah came back and used his Castle and nearby lands to create the Majigen, where many souls were gathered. Q-Bee, seeing one giant Soul Feast in Majigen, goes with her people to feed.\\
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In her ending, the soul bee's numbers skyrocket, leading to them taking over Makai, but it's suggested that their overpopulation may ironically result in their own extinction.
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* AdaptedOut: Other than appearing in the artwork, Q-Bee surprisingly doesn't appear in ''ComicBook/StreetFighterVsDarkstalkers'' despite it being a loose adaptation of ''Vampire Savior'', where her kin serve as Jedah' minions.
* AffablyEvil: She cares deeply about her species, and her need to devour souls is simply BlueAndOrangeMorality. She's not outright malicious -- in fact, she's very cheerful and quite pragmatic. She constantly tries to sway others to join Jedah, as she genuinely believes that he would make things a lot better for everyone.
* AirDashing: Her air-dash can home in on the opponent.
* BeeAfraid: Far more so since she sees any sentient being (including ''you'') as food.
* BeeBeeGun: For her hard punch attack, her hands morph into a grotesque hive chamber, from which she fires her bee servants to sting the opponent. For one of her supers, she summons a giant bees nest, sending dozens of bees swarming all over the opponent, leaving them a bee-stung mess.
* BeePeople: Amongst the best known examples in gaming, she takes the form of a cute Queen bee.
* BewareMyStingerTail: And since she is a queen bee, she can sting many times without risk of death, using her stinger in place of the more traditional punches or kicks for a ButtonMashing attack.
* BigEater: She's always looking for souls to nourish her and the Soul Bee species, who are endangered. It's also been stated that she can literally eat ''anything'', and that if she goes 48 hours without food, she'll die.
* ButtonMashing: For one of her special moves, she rapidly skewers her opponent multiple times with her sting in a modified, Darkstalkers version of [[VideoGame/StreetFighterII Chun-Li's]] classic Lightning Kick.
* ChestBurster: The EX version of her grab move involves her [[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong injecting eggs into the opponent]], cocooning them, ''dying'', and then appearing as a new Q-Bee, hatching out of the opponent's body to continue the fight.
* ADogNamedDog: She's the queen bee of the Soul Bee race and is simply named 'Q-Bee'.
* TheDragon: To Jedah. More noticeable in the manga adaptation. The moment Jedah tries to assimilate her, however, she fights back.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Most of her victory quotes, though that is not her intention.
* EdibleAmmunition: For one of her attacks, she conjures a giant ball of honey and drops it on the foe, leaving them stuck in place.
* ExtraEyes: The reason she's hunched over? The "eyes" on her face are for show, with her ''real'' eyes being nested on the top of her head.
* ExtremeOmnivore: According to an official character relationship chart from Capcom, she even views ''Huitzil'' as a potential meal.
* HiveCasteSystem: Obviously. Q-Bee is the queen, while the rest of the hive (the servants/workers) are simply P-Bees or Bees.
* InsectQueen: She is a queen in more ways than one, actually leading the Soul Bees as well as giving birth to them.
* NaughtyNurseOutfit: The Midnight Bliss version of her, complete with a dangerous looking syringe as an analogue of her own sting.
* NonMaliciousMonster: Ambiguous for her in particular, and possibly for other Q-Bees (though they're not much discussed in the lore and her apparent role in the game is contradictory to what lore exists about them) but definitely the case for the P-Bees; although sapient, their mind is roughly equivalent to a four-to-five-year-old human and they lack the capacity to really understand that devouring everything in sight and consuming souls is wrong.
* NonMammalMammaries: {{Justified|Trope}} in her case. All her human traits are a form of mimicry used to trick potential meals. Soul Bees can also mate with other races to reproduce, so having breasts naturally helps to attract prospective mates. This also explains her false eyes, mentioned above.
* NonMammalianHair: Bees really do have hair -- it's how they collect pollen -- but she also has human-like hair on her head which normal bees don't have. It doesn't serve too much purpose here though as she primarily feeds on living beings, not nectar, so there's not much pollen-gathering to be had.
* NotQuiteFlight: A similar ability to Hsien-Ko. She is always hovering just above the ground and can activate a flight mode.
* OutOfFocus: She makes her sole appearance in ''Vampire Savior'', rarely appears in artworks, and was not featured in any crossover games aside of ''VideoGame/NamcoXCapcom'' and ''VideoGame/ProjectXZone'' (and only then as a enemy/Rival unit, and not even one that joins the heroes' side). This minimal exposure is dramatically unlike any other of the series' females and is perhaps due to the fact that as a humanoid insect, her appearance is rather more bestial (her compound eyes, for instance), with less potential for {{Fanservice}} than the other females.
* OurFairiesAreDifferent: WordOfGod once stated that her original concept was a "Fairy Queen" though the lens of horror. As the team started to run out of Film/HammerHorror monsters to adapt they decided to expand the scope of the setting with edgy western fairy tale creatures since in Japan ghosts and fairies are both grouped under Yokai. This is what led to the existence of Q-Bee and Bulleta and if the series continued probably would have included more western fairy tale beings reimagined as Darkstalkers.
* RankScalesWithAsskicking: Regular soul bees are much smaller and less powerful than she is. Also, she's technically a noble of Makai, if not actually of the lineage, which means she ''might'' be on par with full power Demitri and Pyron!
* ShapeshifterWeapon: Her actual "human" body can sprout insectoid spikes, limbs and even a beehive.
* ShoutOut:
** The basis for the character, [[SuperPersistentPredator an unthinking]] carnivorous [[BigCreepyCrawlies insect]] camouflaged as a human girl, was taken from Chika of ''Space Family Carlvinson''. Chika being a [[RuleOfFunny gag character]] who kept her face mandibles [[ScreamDiscretionShot off-screen]], the creators at Capcom wanted to push Q-Bee's [[BodyHorror unsettling aspects]] and prevent the new cast members from appearing monotonously pretty.
** Both Chika and Q-Bee's insect eyes as odango hair likely came from ''[[VideoGame/AdventureIsland Honey the Bug]]'' while the Bee Woman from ''[[Series/KamenRider Kamen Rider]]'' likely inspired her... [[MostCommonSuperPower attention-grabbing stripes]] and other design elements.
* TheSpeechless: While she ''does'' have a voice actress, the only sounds Q-Bee produces are buzzes.
* StealthPun: She's a bee-like demon who disguises herself as a pretty girl to lure in prey - in other words, she's a literal HoneyTrap.
* TooDumbToLive: Her ''Vampire Savior'' ending has her and her race turning on Jedah so they would reign supreme. However, without Jedah to keep the souls coming in, the soul bees eventually ran out of food and their race is doomed to extinction. Apparently, they only think with their stomachs...
* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: Her ending in ''Vampire Savior''. See directly above.
* WallJump: Fires off the arena wall sting first for one of her more devastatingly damaging and hard-to-block attacks.
* WingedHumanoid: Bee-winged humanoid, only the "humanoid" part is a ruse.
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[[folder:Baby Bonnie Hood/Bulleta]]
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[[caption-width-right:340:[[CuteAndPsycho Lovely Hunter]]]]
->''I'll feel great after I kill everything in this world!''
-> '''Class:''' [[HunterOfMonsters Human Darkhunter]]\\
'''Origin:''' A certain [[NorseByNorsewest Nordic]] country (year unknown ~ 10-14 years old?)\\
'''Voiced by:''' [[note]]Miyuki Matsushita (games)[[/note]]\\\
There are many monsters who came from Makai to the Human world, and in the Human world there are those who want these creatures dead or captured for their own purposes. The Hunters Guild was established to meet the demand of these clients. Among those Dark Hunters is B.B. Hood, a [[RankInflation Special]] S Class hunter and a human with such darkness in her heart that even lower level Makai monsters shake in fear when meeting her gaze. This gained Jedah's attention, and she was sucked into Majigen, where a normal human would die instantly, though she simply states: "It's been a long time since I had a job this big."\\
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Her dog's name is Harry, and the mysterious gentleman who appears in her win-pose to present her with her cash reward post-match is named simply 'Mr. K'.
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* AmbiguouslyHuman: Although she's usually depicted as the living incarnation of HumansAreTheRealMonsters, there have been a couple of odd implications that she might not be entirely human. She's occasionally depicted with her eyes glowing white, and her biography in the ''Darkstalkers III'' manual claimed she had the "same dark soul" as all the other Darkstalkers. Plus, even if you discount her hyperspace arsenal, she's still able to do things that humans can't.[[note]]A third interpretation is that she's a human who's so very evil that she's ''literally'' turning into a monster.[[/note]]
* ArchEnemy: Spinoff material and merchandise designate Jon Talbain as hers, in a reference to the ''Literature/LittleRedRidingHood'' fairytale from which she originates.
* AssistCharacter: B.B has two: John (based on a UsefulNotes/WorldWarII soldier) and Arthur (based on Myth/RobinHood) are a pair of bulky hunters whom she summons in her Dark Hunt Super, and who join in with her to blast her opponent to pieces with their rifle and shotgun respectively.
* AxCrazy: It's implied that it's actually her extreme malevolence that allows her to damage Darkstalkers, rather than her weaponry alone.
* BadassAdorable: She's adorable looking, and is considered a S-class hunter, meaning she can fight against monsters way beyond a normal human could. Her aura is so dark that even the DarkMessiah Jedah found her creepy.
* BadassNormal: The only things about her that ''aren't'' of perfectly normal human caliber are what a [[PsychoForHire ruthless sociopath]] she is, her impossible ammo storage, and her inexplicable ability to DoubleJump.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: She plays up the Red Riding Hood innocence for all its worth, but she's a mass-murdering lunatic.
* BountyHunter: She's a Special S-Class darkhunter, a bounty hunter who specializes in chasing ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight. She's also very, ''very'' evil herself.
* BreakoutVillain: She's not as plot-relevant to the story of the third game as Jedah Dohma, but her design and personality made her stand out enough that's she appeared almost as many times outside of the series as the Lord of Death himself. She even appeared in the ''Marvel vs Capcom'' series years before Jedah did.
* CanineCompanion: Harry, her adorable pet terrier, who is a literal example of PetTheDog.
* CreepyChild: She's definitely younger than most of the Darkstalkers, being around 12 years old, though she's more evil and unsettling than most of them put together.
* CrocodileTears: For her Beautiful Memory super, a vision of her granny causes her to start sobbing, only for her to switch to a sneaky smirk before stabbing the opponent multiple times, smashing them with a rock, and finally tossing them into a pool she created with [[OcularGushers her tears]].
* CuteAndPsycho: In her ending, she is declared a psycho by werewolves just trying to live in peace. It's not unjustified.
* CuteButCacophonic: In one of her end poses, a microphone drops down and she raps a strange little tune using samples from her in-game speech.
-->''Dok dok, do-do-dok, do-'''kaaan!!'''''--("dokkaan" [[SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud is a Japanese onomatopoeic word]] for an explosion -- literally ''Ka-Boom!!'')
* DubNameChange: Bulleta in Japan, Baby Bonnie Hood everywhere else.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Often visits her grandma and runs errands for her.
* EvilSoundsDeep: Her voice changes instantaneously between super cute and innocent to ''incredibly'' gruff and guttural, depending on the action performed.
* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Could be the poster-gal for this, as she's more evil than most of the monsters, yet is ''adorable'' looking when she wants to be.
* FairytaleMotifs:
** Bonnie herself counts of course, being a pitch-dark take on Literature/LittleRedRidingHood. Her grandmother, traditionally featured in the original tale and here presumably killed by a (were)wolf, appears in a ThoughtBubble above her head when she unleashes her Beautiful Memory super.
** She has a special pre-fight intro with Jon Talbain, her in-series [[TheBigBadWolf Big Bad Wolf]], where she playfully reads from a storybook before quipping "What a big mouth you have!" in a tone that begins cutesy, but then veers into deep and threatening.
** Her AssistCharacter, Arthur, is based on Myth/RobinHood, complete with a feathered bycocket hat, hunting horn, and Lincoln green tunic.
** Her third super, Apple For You, has her cheerfully present her opponent with a large red apple which promptly explodes, in reference to the poisoned apple from the fairytale classic, Literature/SnowWhite.
* TheFakeCutie: Many of her attacks have her pretend to trip, cry, or act like she's scared, but her knowing grin after these actions reveals that it's all an act designed to make her victims lower their guard.
* FantasticRacism: She hates all monsters in general. Her ending reveals werewolves view her as a terrible SerialKiller.
* FauxAffablyEvil: According to her ''Darkstalkers Resurrection'' trailer, she purposefully puts on a nice girl facade to lure in victims.
* FireBreathingWeapon: Produces a stream of fire from a wine bottle for her anti-air, Molotov cocktail-style.
* FlungClothing: Combined with {{Hammerspace}}. In her Good Hunting super, she's hiding two burly woodsmen [[MoreDakka armed to the teeth]] ''under her clothes''.
* {{Foil}}: To Donovan. He hunts Darkstalkers to affirm some kind of meaning to his cursed existence. She does so simply to make a quick buck.
* FragileSpeedster: Which is good because B.B. Hood is fairly hard to hit already, being of short stature. However, she takes a lot of damage when hit.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Bizarrely, given her personality. Includes her dog Harry, three butterflies, a mole, and a ring of daisy-like pink flowers that sprout when she wins. ''Completely'' subverts this trope when [[VanHelsingHateCrime monsters]] are involved.
* GirlWithPsychoWeapon: Most commonly seen with an Uzi, which she uses for her hard punch, pursuit, and super attacks.
* {{Grimmification}}: Of Literature/LittleRedRidingHood, who seems to be a popular target for altered portrayals in general.
* TheGunslinger: Part of a team of them, the Hunter's Guild, who specialize in taking down the Darkstalkers.
* HumansAreCthulhu: Her ending in the third game -- she kills a family of non-threatening anthropomorphic wolves in cold blood, and is presented as being the stuff of nightmares from their point of view.
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Just a simple human girl that's understandably heavily armed, yet is an absolute monster compared to the likes of Demitri, Morrigan, and even Jedah. This was deliberately invoked by the creators, however, as they wanted to show that human beings can be just as terrifying, destructive, and bloodthirsty as, if not ''more'' than, literal monsters.
* HunterOfMonsters: As a Darkhunter, she particularly hates werewolves. She's actually as bad as the monsters are.
* HyperspaceArsenal: The only way that she can fit an entire ''armory'' into her picnic basket.
* InTheHood: Given [[Literature/LittleRedRidingHood her inspiration]], this was to be expected, but B.B. Hood manages to downplay the mysterious, enigmatic angle of the trope and instead cranks up its more sinister connotations.
* KillingIntent: Hers is so intense and malevolent, it caught Jedah's eye.
* LittleDeadRidingHood: Inverted: ''she'' kills ''you''... unless you manage to beat her in battle, one presumes.
* LittleMissBadass: A lot younger than you would expect any "special class" hunter to be.
* LittleRedFightingHood: She's very likely inspired by Creator/RoaldDahl's take on this classic fairy tale character (see extract below), who repeatedly shot the wolf and made a coat out of his hide.
-->'''The small girl smiles.'''\\
'''One eyelid flickers.'''\\
'''She whips a pistol from her knickers.'''\\
'''She aims it at the creature's head,'''\\
'''And bang bang bang, she shoots him dead.'''
* MakingASplash: One of her attacks involves her crying, and then trying to drown the opponent in the resulting pool her tears left behind.
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Some of her standard hits look completely unintentional. For example trying to grab one of her butterflies which acts as a punch, reclining happily which trips the opponent, turning to call Harry whilst kicking her leg up behind her, sneezing so her foot kicks up from the reflex, kneeing the opponent as she leaps away in surprise from a cute mole that burrows up underneath her feet, and doing a mock-curtsy to drop a landmine from inside her dress.
* MacrossMissileMassacre: A larger amount but slower rate of fire than Morrigan's Finishing Shower, straight out of Baby Bonnie Hood's picnic basket.
* MeaningfulName: Baby Bonnie ''[[Literature/LittleRedRidingHood Hood]]''. Additionally, "Baby Bonnie" isn't the only thing that B.B. can stand for. In other words, she's [[TheBigBadWolf The Big Bad Hood]].
* MoralityPet: A very literal example: her dog Harry is probably the only thing she cares about, other than killing and making money.
* MoreDakka: Her Cool Hunting super involves her and two huge woodsmen, John and Arthur, blasting the shit out of her opponent with their guns.
* MysteriousPast: Her exact backstory is never revealed, though a common fan theory is something bad happened to her grandma, based on the ''Literature/LittleRedRidingHood'' fable itself, and her Beautiful Memory super having her get teary-eyed whilst thinking of her. However her bio also states that she runs errands for her grandma, so perhaps the wolf got her fairly recently...
* OcularGushers: Her Beautiful Memory super has her rush her opponent with her twin knives whilst an image of her grandma appears above her. Then, whilst her opponent is in her grasp, she starts crying so hard that it creates a pool of tears, into which she tosses her opponent. Her knowing smile reveals her tears are all part of her cutesy act.
* PartsUnknown: Downplayed; her official bio narrows her origin down to "a certain Nordic country" (北欧某国 / hokuō bōkoku, with 'hokuō' referring to Scandinavia in Japanese) but doesn't get more specific than that.
* PintSizedPowerhouse: She's only 4'8", in a game where some fighters are over seven feet tall and she is capable of lifting them all over her head during her Beautiful Memory super.
* PreciousPuppy: Has a dog named Harry, a little brown Boston Terrier with a red bow who seems to be one of the few things she genuinely cares about in life.
* PsychoForHire: She's not just killing monsters for the sake of it -- she's getting paid too.
* PunnyName: It'd be complete if B.B. Hood used a B.B. gun.
* ShoutOut:
** Her special intro with Jon Talbain:
---> ''[[Literature/LittleRedRidingHood What a big mouth you have!]]''
** Her arsenal and fighting style are fashioned after ''Film/{{Desperado}}'', down to sticking one foot to the side while launching a rocket from her picnic basket. The creators were not sure how to make guns work in a fighting game but realized the movie's flashy poses would make them behave appropriate to the series' mechanics.
* SkipOfInnocence: Her forward movement is a joyful skip, singing as she goes, even though she's anything ''but'' innocent.
* SlashedThroat: One of her grapples involves slitting her opponent's throat.
* SlasherSmile: When she [[LetsGetDangerous decides to go gung ho]] on her opponent.
* SpinAttack: For her command grab, she playfully takes her opponent's hands as if to dance with them, but begins spinning crazily out of control with a psychotic smirk on her face, creating a cyclone that launches her opponent flying.
%%(zce)* SpySatellite: Has access to one.
* StepfordSmiler: Type C. As in, she's smiling because she's crazy.
* TokenHuman: The only human character in the main cast (Donovan was going to be one, but the devs realised that a regular human wouldn't stand much of a chance against characters like [[SuccubiAndIncubi Morrigan]] and [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Jon Talbain]] without something to set them apart).
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Oh, ''where to begin''...she smokes, wields a veritable armoury of weapons, absolutely relishes fighting...and, of course, she's a monster hunter so ruthless and bloodthirsty that lower-tier Darkstalkers treat her with the same level of fear that humans would a ''{{serial killer}}''.
* VagueAge: Her official bio lists her birth year as "unknown" but also suggests her age to be "10-14 years old". 12 seems about right.
* VanHelsingHateCrimes: To the extreme. Especially in her ending, where she prepares to brutally murder a family of innocent werewolves.
* VillainSong: She has a series of winposes where she does an odd little rap made up of her attack calls.
* VillainsOutShopping: Whenever she goes to town for food and clothing, and visiting her grandmother.
* WoundedGazelleGambit:
** Her back dash, where she runs away screaming in B-movie heroine mock-horror.
** Her Beautiful Memory super, where she suddenly remembers her dead granny, cries her eyes out in order to lure her opponent close, stabs them multiple times, smashes them with a rock, before finally hurling them into a pool of her own tears.
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[[folder:Lilith Aensland]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[FilleFatale Lost Child of Desire]]]]
->''I don't like to be alone. Will you play with me forever?''
-> '''Class:''' [[SuccubiAndIncubi Succubus]]\\
'''Origin:''' [[SupernaturalSealing Sealed Dimension]][[labelnote:*]] the occultist Seal of Myth/{{Lilith}} is presented here.[[/labelnote]]\\
'''Voiced by:''' [[note]]Creator/HirokoKonishi (games), Creator/YukaImai (''VideoGame/NamcoXCapcom'' and ''VideoGame/CrossEdge''), Creator/MiyukiSawashiro (''Onimusha Soul''), Creator/StephanieSheh (''VideoGame/CrossEdge'', English)[[/note]]\\\
Roughly 10 years after 1/3 of Morrigan's soul was sealed in an isolated dimension, it became self-aware. For the next 300 years its awareness and feelings grew, and eventually, so did its instinct to return home. When Jedah created the Majigen, it also drew in this soul. When Jedah noticed it, he struck a deal with it: the soul would gain a physical form and in return it must lure Morrigan and the other Darkstalkers to him. And thus Lilith was born, the childish, cheerful version of Morrigan, who goes to find her "sister."\\
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After meeting Morrigan, she fuses with her and becomes a part of her sister, increasing Morrigan's powers. \\
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As she (for the most part) physically resembles Morrigan (being her "sister" and all), several of the tropes found in Morrigan's entry apply to Lilith as well.
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* ACupAngst:
** More so due to her feelings as an incomplete version of Morrigan than any actual "deficiencies"; she could make herself just as pneumatic as her sister, but doesn't choose to do so.
** In ''Pocket Fighter''/''VideoGame/SuperGemFighter: Mini Mix'' (the SuperDeformed [[SpinOff cousin]] of ''Franchise/StreetFighter''), Lilith seems to attract all the men, making ''Morrigan'' (to whom this ending belongs) jealous.
** In the ''Tamashii no Mayoigo'' manga, when she sees a painting of her done by John Stately, she complains that her chest is bigger than he painted them.
* AdaptationalHeroism: While she isn't necessarily evil in the game, ''Tamashii no Mayoigo'' has her realize Jedah was evil and leave on her own volition, as well as falling in love with a human boy, John, and becoming his protector.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Like Morrigan in the UDON comics, she's a lot more willing to murder and is unfeeling towards humans. As an example, she attacks a group of monks; one of them she kisses and reduces to a skeleton after consuming his soul, the others she gleefully kills.
* ArtificialHuman: She has a soul, or part of one, but her body is artificial.
* BadassAdorable: Still strong enough to count as a Makai noble, despite being less powerful and younger-looking than Morrigan.
* BreastExpansion: Her normally-minimal boobs pump up full of blood when she's on the receiving end of Jedah's Sangue Passare
* CantLiveWithoutYou: In the single player mode, Lilith passes out when she knocks out Morrigan, who acts as her final boss.
* CartoonThrobbing: When Lilith is hit by Q-Bee's [[ScaryStingingSwarm swarm attack,]] her butt swells up, with each cheek being several times bigger than her head. Her tushie even throbs for a while.
* CloneAngst: When Lilith finds out she is [[ExpendableClone derivative of another being]] and that her body--[[ArtificialHuman created by Jedah]]--will not last, she desperately tries to find Morrigan to inhabit, to survive.
* ClothingDamage: Self-inflicted, no less! One attack of hers sends all of the bats that make up her clothing into a whirlwind to attack her opponent. [[SceneryCensor The end result is what you'd expect.]]
* CombatStilettos: Sports the same calf-length, six inch heels as Morrigan.
* CreatingLife: Albeit serendipitously. Originating as 1/3 of Morrigan's power personified, she developed self-awareness after being trapped in the Sealed Dimension by Belial for so long. Jedah, discovering this, created a body for her and convinced her to work for him.
* DependingOnTheWriter: While not as bad as Lord Raptor, Lilith has different interpretations to her character regarding the medium she features in.
** In ''Vampire Savior'', she is a cute, cheerful succubus. She is an AntiVillain, and she hardly has no animations that portray her in any way malicious. She is also portrayed as TheCutie in ''Tamashii no Mayoigo'', and is a heroic character who is looking for the meaning of her existence, defending her human LoveInterest, John.
** In the Udon adaptation of ''ComicBook/StreetFighterVsDarkstalkers'', however, while she is still an AntiVillain, she is more openly malicious, with evil grins and commits evil acts, including murdering humans.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Most of her victory quotes sound disturbingly sexualised, given her youthful form.
* DoppelgangerAttack: Her Luminous Illusion super and Mirror Doll Dark Force.
* TheDragon: To Jedah, as strange as it may seem. She's the one who lures most of the others to Majigen.
* ExtremeOmnisexual: She has the same suggestive win quotes against male, female and "other" characters.
* FallenAngel: Think Morrigan, but more benevolent. The only reason she was following Jedah in ''3'' was due to Jedah's manipulation. One of her early designs was that of a half-angel, which carried over to the fact many of her move names are ''light''-themed, while Morrigan's are ''darkness''-themed.
* FilleFatale: She's essentially a younger version of Morrigan, so this was to be expected.
* FinalBoss: She's the final boss to Morrigan and Felicia respectively in ''Vampire Savior''; she wishes to merge with the former while challenging the latter after Jedah was defeated.
%%* (zce) FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: Same deal as Morrigan, if not more so.
* FullFrontalAssault: Her Splendor Love special attack turns her clothes into a swarm of green bats to attack the opponent, while she floats in the center completely naked.
* FusionDance: With Morrigan, in both of their endings in ''Vampire Savior'', with slightly different results in each. The original ending(s) implied Type 1 (Composite), but this was apparently {{retcon}}ned [[ExecutiveMeddling by Capcom]] in the pair's following appearances into a mix of Type 2 ([[SuperEmpowering Power Booster]]) and sort-of Type 3 (Switcher), in that while it's Morrigan who is dominant, Lilith has been shown to exist as some sort of SplitPersonality-like entity, and is able "[[LiteralSplitPersonality come out and play]]" at her own discretion. It should be noted that the ''Vs.'' titles are non-canon, and Morrigan's appearances there [[WhatIf are supposed to represent]] the full scale of her powers.
* GenkiGirl: In fact, her behavior sometimes borders on infantile.
* GirlyRun: Her walking animation in ''Darkstalkers'' is more or less a hopping-on-tiptoes skip, reflecting her more playful and childish nature compared to Morrigan. She does it both [[https://www.fightersgeneration.com/characters2/lilith-skipfor.gif forward]] and [[https://www.fightersgeneration.com/characters2/lilith-skip.gif backwards]]. For her back-dash, she adopts a classically angelic pose, like some allegorical painting.
* ImpossiblyLowNeckline: Since it is a slightly altered copy of her "sister's" outfit.
* InvoluntaryDance: Gloomy Puppet Show forces the enemy onto a makeshift stage, where they're forced to dance -- with the Lilith player having to keep time while pressing a series of punches and kicks according to what is displayed beneath -- until her foe is electrocuted.
* LittleMissBadass: [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld Technically speaking,]] as she takes the form of a young, teenage girl.
* MeaningfulName: Myth/{{Lilith}}, originally appearing in myths as a Mesopotamian storm demon who was associated with the element of wind and a bearer of disease, illness, and death, is known in Jewish folklore as [[Literature/TheBible Adam]]'s first wife (apparently, Eve was his SecondLove) who refused to become subservient to him. She is usually referred to as a succubus herself. The fact that Lilith was held in a 'Sealed Dimension' also references the Seal of Lilith (as seen above), which is used in occultist practises.
* MsFanservice: Though underdeveloped and projecting an underage appearance, it doesn't stop her from being sexualised.
* PlayboyBunny: She dresses like one during her Gloomy Puppet Show EX move.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Just a little younger than Morrigan, who was born in the 1600s.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: As a succubus, she's a dangerous foe, despite being a cheery, happy-go-lucky girl who's being misguided by Jedah.
* ScrewYourself: Depicted/implied with Morrigan via the famous (official art) image of them naked (but still covered via HandOrObjectUnderwear and SceneryCensor) and suggestively embracing.
* SenseFreak: Lilith is overwhelmed by suddenly having a body.
* ShadowArchetype: As she's a part of Morrigan's soul that was separated from her by Belial, this is the logical conclusion of her self-awareness, though she only got to go all the way thanks to Jedah.
* ShapeshifterWeapon: Her wings, like Morrigan's, can form knives and stabbing blades.
* {{Shoryuken}}: Shining Blade. Much like Morrigan's Shadow Blade, Lilith leaps upward and swings one of her wings as it transforms into an axe-like blade. The wider arc of Lilith's attack, and her broader wing shape, means that it's easier to hit, as per Ken's versus Ryu's versions.
* {{Shotoclone}}: Sakura variant. Actually has a HurricaneKick equivalent Morrigan and Demitri do not, but has a slow moving, ''very'' short-ranged projectile.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Despite being a succubus who can drain him dry, she falls in love with the human John Stately in ''Tamashii no Mayoigo'', since he doesn't fear her and tells her to be her own person.
* SituationalSexuality: Lilith's body is not permanently ''set'' as a female, and can possibly switch between both. Her appearance is primarily just because of her being Morrigan's clone.
* SpinAttack: Merry Turn, an attack in which Lilith spins through the air as her wings transform into a scythe-like blade. Functions much like a HurricaneKick.
* SplitAtBirth: Her birth was the split, actually.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Basically a lolita-style version of Morrigan's outfit with a different colour scheme. She ''is'' technically a young teenage version of Morrigan, after all.
* SuccubiAndIncubi: She is just a part of Morrigan, and a succubus, so it was inevitable. See the main article's entry for more details.
* SuccubusInLove: She's enamored with John Stately in ''Tamashii no Mayoigo''. However, likely due to her age and naievete, she never tries to outright seduce him.
* WingedHumanoid: Similar to Morrigan, as they are both succubi.
* WingsBelowTheWaist: [[PlayingWith Played with]]. While Lilith's wings technically extend somewhere from her lower shoulder blades -- as seen when she's viewed from behind -- almost all art features her wings framed below her waist.
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[[folder:Jedah Dohma]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[DarkMessiah Dark Savior]]]]
->''Your soul can only be saved by death. It doesn't contradict!''
-> '''Class:''' [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils Demon Lord]]\\
'''Origin:''' [[{{Hell}} Makai]], [[TimeAbyss 4045 B.C.]]\\
'''Voiced by:''' [[note]]Creator/IsshinChiba (games, Japanese), Creator/TravisWillingham (''VideoGame/CrossEdge'', English), Creator/DavidKaye (''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcomInfinite'', English)[[/note]]\\\
The Vampire Savior, The Distressed Lord of Death. The youngest of the three high nobles, Jedah was the one most concerned about the future of Makai. Believing that under the rule of Belial it would be stagnant, Jedah sought every chance he could that would help in overthrowing Belial. Ozom, his adviser, suggested to absorb the leaking energy of the Gate, a distortion that connects Makai with the human world. While Jedah was absorbing the leaked energy, Ozom discovered that if he opened the gate further, it would leak so much energy that it would overload Jedah and kill him. So he decided to overthrow him right then and there, and just like he predicted, Jedah couldn't handle it. Ozom then collected what was left of Jedah's power and proclaimed himself Emperor of Makai.\\
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100 years later, Jedah managed to revive himself. Seeing the state of Makai at the peak of a power struggle, he decided that in order to save it he must cleanse all the souls in Makai, and for this he created the Majigen (using Ozom and his Castle--formerly Jedah's--as a foundation), the {{pocket dimension}} where the strongest of souls will gather.
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* AirDashing: His air-dash doubles as a direct attack, allowing him greater offensive opportunities.
* AntiVillain: Of the [[SlidingScaleOfAntiVillains well-intentioned variety.]] He has good intentions but could stand to think up some better methods.
* AristocratsAreEvil: He's only remaining member of Makai's Three High Nobles.
* AscendedExtra: Jedah as a character actually existed prior to ''Vampire Savior'' as [[AllThereInTheManual a minor footnote you'd only know about if you read a lot of official books.]] He even had an official illustration which depicted him as a reptilian-insectoid-looking creature rather than the Grim Reaper/Devil figure he is now.
* AssimilationPlot: His ultimate goal in order to stop the constant wars plaguing Makai is to [[TheAssimilator unite all of the demonic souls within himself]], reset reality, and create one perfect being (the Shintai, which appears to take the form of a deranged, monstrous fetus).
* AxCrazy: He laughs maniacally after killing his opponents razor-sharp claws and his death-scythe.
* BalloonBelly: His Sangue Passare (Bloody Passing) does this to Jon Talbain and, in a mirror match, to himself, filling his outie belly button with blood until it pops out and explodes.
* BigBad: Of ''3''. He created the world in which everyone else is fighting, and is the reason they are all there in the first place.
* BlackBlood: He specializes in this, since he uses his own blood [[BloodyMurder as a weapon]].
* BloodyMurder: A good deal of his attacks involve tearing himself apart and instantly regenerating while bleeding all over the place.
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Pyron was an alien who traveled across the universe to consume worlds and alleviate his boredom, in addition to having no real interest in the life on Earth until the Darkstalkers rose and he felt he found potential fighters to entertain him. Jedah is a Darkstalker who wanted to take over the worlds of Earth and Makai and sees himself more as a visionary for a new utopia, albeit one under his heel, than seeking entertainment in combat.
* DarkMessiah: Among the residents of Makai, a popular belief is that the giant mutant fetus featured on his stage is the body of a new {{God}} -- Jedah's plan basically involves creating a giant [[TheAntiChrist Antichrist]]. Many characters in ''Marvel Vs. Capcom Infinite'' outright call him this trope.
* DeathFromAbove: His unique Ira Spinta (Wrath Thrust) command grab attack, and also his air throw, Mesto Spinta (Sadness Thrust). Both involve him forming a sword-tip out of his wings to dive-plummet at his opponent. The former is known for both his insane laughter and him [[ThisIsADrill drilling through his foe with the sword-formation]].
* DrowningPit: Makes one out of his own blood via his Finale Rosso (Finale Red) move, then begins punching at the enemy when they take too long to drown.
* EvilIsVisceral: Jedah fights by mutilating himself and using his tissues and blood as weapons(for example, he'll make claws by cutting the joints of his fingers and stretching them in lines of blood, as well as attack with a spray of blood by ''decapitating himself''). His stage is the inside of a [[WombLevel giant womb]], complete with [[FetusTerrible giant demonic fetus]] in the background.
* EvilLaugh: Let's out a maniacal laugh when commencing his LaughingMad moments.
* ExtremityExtremist: He never kicks, although he uses scythe-wings as substitutes.
* FemmeFatalons: Sports huge claw-like nails for raking attacks.
* FinalBoss: He's the last opponent that the player must defeat in ''Vampire Savior''/''Darkstalkers 3'' (unless you selected Demitri, Felicia, Jon Talbain, B.B.Hood, Lilith, or Morrigan) as he's the one behind the Majigen and stopping him is the only means of preventing his new so-called utopia from happening. He is also, as of now, the final boss of the entire ''Darkstalkers'' game series. Some characters have their own final bosses, making Jedah the penultimate boss unless you chose Lilith.
* FloatingInABubble: Of his own blood.
* GiantHandsOfDoom: His Prova di Servo (Proof of Servant) super has him grab his foe with a giant hand of blood, smash and sprawl them all around before slapping them literally onto an actual giant paper contract, allowing Jedah to absorb a portion of their soul.
* {{Gorn}}: As cool as they might be, the graphic elements of his attacks are also likely the thing that kept him out of the ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom'' and ''VideoGame/SNKVsCapcom'' (not counting the card games) series for so long. When he did finally make his first 3D playable appearance in ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcomInfinite'', his blood was changed from red to purple.
* GratuitousItalian: The names of his moves, including his normal attacks in many in-depth Japanese sources are rendered in Italian or Latin.
* TheGrimReaper: He makes the iconic Reaper scythe by ripping off his own wings, and he is known as the Lord of Death.
* HighPressureBlood: Weaponized by cutting himself and spraying the enemy.
* HopeCrusher: His win quotes have him belittling his fallen enemies by telling them there is no hope left in the world.
* HorrifyingTheHorror: While he's an all powerful demonic overlord feared by all within the Makai, he's personally ''scared shitless'' by the presence of Anita, the fabled '''She''' who will awaken as the ultimate savior and matriarchal leader of humankind in the future.
* JapaneseDelinquents: Aside from the [[BadassLongCoat coat]] with gakuran elements, his idling and various stances are based on common delinquent poses, with his hands rammed moodily into his pockets.
* KillAllHumans: After his plan to save the demon world is complete, step two is to get rid of Earth before humanity's leader awakens and becomes a potential threat to his new world.
* KnightTemplar: He is going to destroy the demon world and all sense of individuality in it, in order to bring an end to both war and "stagnation."
* LaughingMad: During many of his attacks he is absolutely giddy. Taken to the extreme in his ending in ''VideoGame/CapcomFightingEvolution'', where he's so engrossed in his maniacal laughter he has no idea that [[VideoGame/DevilMayCry Dante]] is about to kill him.
* LosingYourHead: One of his moves, Spregio (Defiance), has him doing this to ''himself!''
* ManOfWealthAndTaste: He is one of the three highest nobles of Makai.
* MoodSwinger: A subtle example. He's generally depicted as TheStoic, but in battle he often goes LaughingMad. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAkZaBgniPk Like this.]] One gets the impression Jedah [[AxCrazy isn't exactly sane]].
* MySignificanceSenseIsTingling: He can sense the powers of other beings on a cosmic scale.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot He's a [[BloodyMurder dismembered]] ''Manga/{{Devilman}}'' mixed with TheGrimReaper wearing a [[JapaneseDelinquents punk Japanese]] school uniform crossed with [[SinisterMinister clergy garb]]. Even out of this colourful cast, he is made of disparate elements that bizarrely come together.
* NotQuiteFlight: An ability similar to one of Hsien-Ko's and a full on flight mode like Q-Bee, via his Dark Force, Santuario (Sanctuary). He is also able to air dash via a unique move named Balzo Perdono (Bounding Pardon) where he is able to chain the next normal jump attack during mid-dash into a special.
* ObviouslyEvil: By far the most sinister looking character in the cast, with two devil wings on his back which he can turn into a buzzsaw or a scythe. And that's before he starts mutilating himself or laughing like a lunatic.
* OffWithHisHead: His Spregio (Contempt), which is his Guard Cancel move where he uses an elongated thumb-claw to sever his own head to invoke a HighPressureBlood blood splash at his foe. Needless to say, his head regenerates soon after.
* OlderThanTheyLook: He could pass for a young man. Yet, he is actually six thousand years old, having been born in 4045 BC, making him the oldest character in the series, beating out even Anakaris, officially.
* OminousLatinChanting: Played during his intro in the last stage of the third game.
* PhlebotinumOverload: His background story, caused by a TreacherousAdvisor named Ozom.
* PhysicalGod: All of the Three High Nobles were at least Class S-level Darkstalkers, qualifying for this status. Jedah is no exception. Aside from Morrigan (when her soul is whole again), and maybe Dee and Anita, Jedah is the strongest living member of the cast. He even has a move called Dio Sega (God Saw) and Dark Force called Santuario (Sanctuary).
* PopGoesTheHuman: The Sangue Passare (Bloody Passing) throw, where he fills his opponent with blood. Exactly what part of them is filled up depends on the character, some of which have become somewhat infamous (with the most infamous and popular being Lilith's impromptu boobjob).
* PowerEchoes: Jedah's voice is iconic for having a voice filter (which makes him sound a lot like Creator/IsshinChiba's take on [[VideoGame/JoJosBizarreAdventureHeritageForTheFuture Dio Brando]]), but he discards it in both ''VideoGame/CrossEdge'' and ''VideoGame/ProjectXZone'', despite having Chiba reprise his role in Japanese.
* RazorWings: Jedah has sickle-like wings.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: He's the youngest of the Three High Nobles of Makai, which means that his age is ''at least'' in quadruple figures.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: An appropriate warning, too, considering his fighting style.
* RollingAttack: The follow-up from his Ira Spinta known as Ira Piano (Wrath Plane), and his pursuit attack, Rasare Sega (Saving Saw).
* {{Shapeshifting}}: Has a liquid body. Doesn't help much when you see his head come off.
* ShapeshifterWeapon: His wings mostly, which form a scythe and other stabbing weapons. His entire body in the storyline.
* ShoutOut: '
** ''Manga/{{Devilman}}'' is Jedah's most prominent design influence, down to the shoulder markings. Specifically Yasushi Nirasawa's take on the character, with the lanky, muscular build and prominent claws.
** His plan to [[AssimilationPlot unite a bunch of souls]] while manipulating a fractured one named Lilith likely came from ''[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Evangelion]]''. Especially considering he shares his physique, protruding elbow stubs, and love of purple with the Eva-01.
* SinisterScythe: He produces them from his body. His standing HK (named as Falce Morte/Scythe Death in ''Cross Edge'') is a clear example of this, and during his Nero Fatica (Black/Dark Fatigue).
* TheStoic: Until he goes LaughingMad, that is.
* TreacherousAdvisor: To Lilith. Ozom was one to him.
* VocalEvolution: Compare Jedah's voice in ''Vampire Savior'' to his voice in either the Japanese version of ''VideoGame/CrossEdge'' or ''VideoGame/ProjectXZone''; it almost sounds like they have different voice actors due to Isshin Chiba using his more normal tone of range. Basically, he went from [[VideoGame/JoJosBizarreAdventureHeritageForTheFuture Dio]] to [[VideoGame/{{Tekken}} Devil Jin]][[note]]Even all the more notable being that both Jin and Jedah can interact with each other, not to mention both ''Cross Edge'' and ''Project X Zone'' both don't use Jedah's iconic voice filter, despite reprising the same Japanese voice[[/note]].
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Jedah really wants to save the planet... by resetting all of creation.
* WingedHumanoid: To an extent; Jedah's wings are actually not attached to his body.
* WombLevel: His stage, the Fetus of God, is literally a fleshy structure, complete with ''an actual fetus'' resting in the background. It provides the trope picture, by the way, [[TemptingFate so click at your own risk]].
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