Here's the character sheet for Primal Rage:
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Introduced in first game:
Blizzard
The God of Wisdom, Blizzard is a six-meter-tall yeti who had been frozen in the Himalayas. The ape now rules over a feudal Japanese-like society in frozen highlands called the Cliff.- An Ice Person: As his name implies, he has a lot of special attacks that involve ice.
- Ascended to a Higher Plane of Existence: One of his Extinctions, Redemption, is basically sending his opponent's soul to the heavens; in other words, a requiem.
- Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti: He's a gigantic yeti.
- Big Good: He's the leader of the Virtuous Beasts.
- Big-Hearted Bigfoot: The most benevolent of the Draconian gods, and is outright stated to be a gigantic yeti.
- Breath Weapon: His freezing breath.
- God of Good: His given title. He is also the leader of the Virtuous Beasts
- Good Is Not Soft: He may be by far the nicest of the Draconians, by he is still more than capable of pounding the shit out of the other gods and then chowing down on their followers.
- King Kong Copy: He looks like a giant white-and-blue gorilla.
- Megaton Punch: His Extinction 'To Da Moon'. He punches the opponent so hard, they fly off-screen and land in the background.
- Primate Versus Reptile: He's a gigantic yeti and his archenemy and elemental opposite, Diablo, is a fiery dinosaur
- Stock Sound Effects: Utters puma screeches in his victory animations.
- Token Good Teammate: He's pretty much the only straight-up good guy in the entire game
- Your Soul Is Mine!: His "Ascension" finisher, in which he snatches the soul of his fallen enemy and sends it to a different astral plane.
Sauron
The God of Hunger, Sauron is a six meter tall Tyrannosarus which had been entombed at the bottom of the sea. The saurian now rules over a Greek Dark Age-like society at a shoreline called The Cove.- Big Eater: Is the God of Hunger after all. One of his extinctions has him eating his opponent.
- Blessed with Suck: His immortality comes with an insatiable appetite, and he has to eat an endless supply of meat to maintain it. This makes it very hard to hold onto any worshipers since they are in constant fear of getting eaten.
- Blood Knight: He really likes to devour anyone.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: A simple version more akin to the Bacon alignment on the trope page's image. Due to the curse, his only desire is eating. Nothing else matters, even holding onto worshipers, as failing to eat means he loses his immortality, and by extension, his life. He is a fairly good ruler besides this, enough Blizzard and humans consider him a worthy ally.
- Death from Above: His Grape Crusher finisher, in which he jumps from a great height onto the body of his fallen enemy and slams it, reducing it to a bloody, barely recognizable mess.
- Horror Hunger: He has to constantly eat human flesh; otherwise, he will lose his immortality and die.
- Jerkass Gods: Will gladly eat anyone in sight.
- Ludicrous Gibs: As mentioned above, his Grape Crusher finisher makes him jump onto his enemy and fall down with enough force to turn them into a gory heap of scattered flesh and bones.
- Mighty Glacier: He may be the biggest and slowest character in the game, but also does the most damage.
- Nominal Hero: Fights for humanity for the purpose of eating them himself. He's a "good guy" because Diablo or Vertigo's victory would be worse than that. The novel lightened his portrayal a tad - for one thing his followers considered being eaten by Sauron a great honor, and he treated his followers who he deemed too important to eat well. A reason he raids other territories is so he doesn't have to eat his followers and can just eat other god's.
- Purple Is Powerful: He has dark purple stripes and is a fairly sturdy fighter. One of his alternate skins is dark purple as well.
- Super-Scream: Has a Sonic Roar.
Armadon
The God of Life, Armadon is a five meter tall "Tristegasauratops" who'd been hibernating underground. Awakened due to the fights between the other gods causing harm to the ecosystem, Armadon rules an underground, medieval European kingdom called The Hollows.- Blue-and-Orange Morality: Armadon is fighting to protect the Earth and its ecosystem as a whole. Humans don't really matter to him, though his victory would definitely be a good thing for humanity (because it means freedom from the more dangerous gods).
- Gaia's Vengeance: Fights to protect the Urth's ecological balance from the destruction caused by the gods' battles.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Falling Spikes. He fires out giant spikes from his body into the air that land on his opponent.
- Mighty Glacier: He's slow but very strong.
- Mix-and-Match Critter: He's got the head of a Centrosaurus, the body and forelegs of an Iguanodon, the tail and back armor of an Ankylosaurus, with Kentrosaurus spikes added to his back.
- Shock and Awe: One of his Extinctions, Meditation, has Armadon curl up and release an electric charge so powerful it charcoalizes his opponent.
Talon
The God of Survival, Talon is a four and a half meter tall Deinonychus who is the king of a Lost World which had once been in the south Pacific. Going into battle to protect his domain and pack, Talon now rules a range of tropical rain forest with a Polynesian civilization at The Strip.- Blue-and-Orange Morality: He's a Virtuous Beast, but his victory is not a good thing for humanity (given that he's fighting for raptorkind instead). According to some sources, his human followers are actually allowed to live if they hunt enough game or conquer other tribes to feed him and his clan.
- Fragile Speedster: He's the smallest and fastest character in the game
- Jerkass Gods: Although less malicious than just apathetic toward mankind.
- Nominal Hero: He considers humans no more than cattle.
- Papa Wolf: He fights for a tribe of smaller raptors that he considers his children.
- Raptor Attack: One of the most recognized examples of the trope. Shockingly for 1994, he is both stated to be a gigantic Deinonychus instead of a Velociraptor and actually has some feathers!
- Spectacular Spinning: Talon's shredder Extinction involves him moving around his target at high speed, tearing them apart.
- What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Inverted. He cares about other dinosaurs but regards humans as little more than dinner.
- Zerg Rush: One of his Extinctions, Stampede, involves summoning a pack of young raptors to shred the fallen opponent.
Diablo
The God of Destruction, Diablo is a five meter tall Tyrannosaurus who was sealed away in the earth's fiery core before the cataclysm released him. Taking to conquest to bring about devastation and sparing only the most cruel to be his followers, Diablo holds dominion of a volcanic landscape home to Mesoamerican ruins called The Inferno.- Big Bad: He's the leader of the Destructive Beasts.
- Breath Weapon: Most of his attacks involve breathing fire.
- Dinosaurs Are Dragons: Diablo is capable of breathing fire.
- Dragged Off to Hell: One of his Extinctions causes the Earth to swallow his defeated opponent amidst an eruption of flames, implying this to be their ultimate fate.
- Even Evil Has Standards: In the novel, even he, the evil incarnate, is disgusted by Necrosan's sinister plans.
- Kill It with Fire: He has two Extinctions under this category.
- Informed Species: Some source media identify him as an Allosaurus, despite him simply being a slightly smaller Sauron with different colors and fire-breathing abilities.
- Made of Evil: He has been described as "Evil in its purest form".
- Meaningful Name: "Diablo" means "devil" in Spanish.
- Omnicidal Maniac: His main motivation is to destroy everything and leave behind only the most evil.
- Playing with Fire: Has a number of fire-based attacks.
- Red and Black and Evil All Over: His color scheme is set up this way, with a red hide and black stripes, to highlight his status as the game's villain.
- Satanic Archetype: He's basically The Devil himself in the form of a theropod.
Vertigo
The Goddess of Mysticism (and Insanity), Vertigo is a five and a half meter tall Cobrasaur who had been sealed away inside the moon by an ancient sect of archmages. Released and seeking to claim dominion through her powers, which grow in strength with her following, Vertigo rules over a dark forest and grasslands domain with Celtic-like structures called The Tomb.- Animalistic Abomination: She's not of this world. She's not even of this universe. Vertigo originates from another dimension entirely, exposure of which causes most human minds to go insane, and her powers in particular have a tendency to induce madness as well.
- Beware My Stinger Tail: She has a retractable stinger on the end of her tail.
- Forced Transformation: Can turn her enemy into a cow if she wants.
- Mad God: Her mere presence is said to cause insanity in her followers.
- Mix-and-Match Creatures: She has the body of a theropod dinosaur and the head of a cobra.
- Monstrous Cannibalism: One of her Extinctions is to shrink her defeated enemy and then eat them.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: She was sealed in the Moon by the arch-mage Balsafas.
- Sequel Hook: In the novel, one of the final scenes has her digging through the rubble of Necrosan's castle, finding something egg-shaped, and teleporting away with it.
- Shout-Out: La Vache Qui Rit = The Laughing Cow.
- Snakes Are Sinister: She has the head of a cobra and is one of the more evil characters in the game.
- The Smurfette Principle: The only playable female beast of the cast.
- Taken for Granite: Able to petrify her enemies and shatter them with her tail.
Chaos
The God of Decay, Chaos is a five meter tall ape who Was Once a Man. Having seen Blizzard's powers shortly after the cataclysm began, he tried to steal or replicate it through a mix of science and sorcery. Granted great power but at a disgusting cost, he seeks to defeat the other gods so he can become human again. Ruling over a derelict city called The Ruins, his followers are some of most advanced technologically but are as savage as their patron deity.- Anti-Villain: Is one of the Destructive Beasts, yet has a noble goal in mind. It even extends to his Extinction moves, wherein only one of which obviously kills the opponent. The other two just have him leave the area or showboat for his followers.
- Fartillery: One of his moves has him literally fart a cloud of green gas that slowly floats to the other side of the screen (and dissipates after traveling one screen-length); if the opponent fails to evade it, they will be stunned. He's also the current trope image.
- King Kong Copy: He looks like a giant gray-and-orange gorilla.
- Lightning Bruiser: His small size make shim one of the fastest characters.
- The Man Behind the Man: Desperate to become human again, Chaos prayed to Throshti, the God of Carrion, for help. Throshti agreed, but only if Chaos could beat the other gods first. Makes you wonder why Throshti couldn't do it himself.
- Nausea Fuel: In-universe. His sphere of divine influence is bodily functions. His main projectile is a blob of vomit. He also has a fart attack. One of his Extinctions is pissing acid on you. Another one involves using his vomit attack, walking off the side of the screen, reappearing on the other side, and re-swallowing his own vomit. Fittingly for that one, the opponent dies of sheer disgust.
- Token Good Teammate: Surprisingly enough, he may be part of the Destructive Beasts, but wants to redeem himself for his mistakes and seeks out to turn Urth into a better home for humans.
- Urine Trouble: His Golden Shower Extinction has him urinate on the opponent, with said urine being acidic enough to burn the body down to bare bones.
- Was Once a Man: He was originally a Witch Doctor who accidentally transformed himself into a filth-ridden giant ape.
- The novelization explains that he was in fact once a brilliant geneticist (who simply passed himself off to the now superstitious and primitive humans as a witch doctor) who tried to make himself into a genetic duplicate of Blizzard, said experiment somehow backfired.
Introduced in the unreleased sequel and in The Avatars novel:
Slash Fang
The God of Hunting and Courage, Slash Fang is a five meter tall bipedal Smilodon. The original seventh god, he was around during the events of the first game but decided to remain neutral as he had no interest in conquest. The emergence of Necrosan however, has spurred him to action.- Blood Knight: The whole reason he finally got involved was to fight Necrosan.
- Ludd Was Right: His ending results in humanity regressing to hunting and gathering. With extremely few tribal conflicts and no major wars, after awhile everyone agreed it was a good idea.
- Off with His Head!: His Extinction results in him chopping off his opponents head.
- Panthera Awesome: He's a bipedal smilodon.
- Worthy Opponent: Sees Necrosan as one, otherwise ignoring the other gods until they get in his way.
Arik Maka'i
Avatar of Sauron- Barbarian Hero: From the loincloth and battle harness attire to the long hair to the gigantic broadsword.
- Contrasting Sequel Main Character: Arik is benevolent in nature and wants to reclaim his place as the king of his territory, while his predecessor Sauron is a Nominal Hero at best and likes to eat every single human, follower or not.
- BFS: His weapon is a very large broadsword.
Kaze Koriyama
Avatar of Blizzard- Samurai: From the disciplined lifestyle to the meditation to the robes to the katana blade.
Tor Malachite
Avatar of ArmadonKeena Amali
Avatar of Talon- And Show It to You: Her Extinction Move has her using her opponent's intestines like a jump rope.
- Kid Hero: She's 15.
- Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: The Light to Malyssa's Dark Feminine.
- Wolverine Claws: Her weapon, making her something of Call-Forward to X-23.
Sinjin Von Acheron
Avatar of Diablo- The Faceless: Has to wear his Evil Mask everytime due to his decaying face.
- Scary Teeth: He files his teeth down into fangs. The novel explains that this is common for the worshipers of Diablo.
Malyssa Wisteria
Avatar of Vertigo- Adaptational Villainy: In the original game version of PR2, she was actually fighting for noble causes, and once Vertigo is defeated she becomes a benevolent queen, letting her followers live in harmony. Its the novel that makes her a backstabbing, heartless monster.
- Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: In the novel she tries to play the Gods and Necrosan against each other with the end goal of removing all of them.
- The Dark Arts: She uses dark magic just like Vertigo.
- Giant Foot of Stomping: Like the beast she serves, she also shrinks her opponents for her Extinction finisher. However, instead of eating them, she simply stomps them into a bloody goo.
- Hot Witch: She wears a bikini and a vaguely South Amerindian headdress. The novel plays up her looks constantly as she vamps her way through the story, even almost seducing Necrosan.
- Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: The Dark to Keena's Light Feminine.
- Really 700 Years Old: She maintains her youth through magic and ritual sacrifice.
- The Starscream: Her ending reveals her to be this, using her magic to break Vertigo's hold over her people so she can rule them herself.
Shank Traff
Avatar of Chaos. In the novel, happens to be Chaos' human form.- Amazing Technicolor Population: His skin color is gray, to differentiate from the rest of the Avatars.
- Witch Doctor: He styles himself as one to get more respect from Chaos' deranged followers.
Xiao Ming Tang Kuan
Avatar of Slash Fang- Bare-Fisted Monk: Fights with his bare hands. In fact, his bio lists his weapon as "Himself!".
Necrosan
- Assimilation Plot: In the unreleased sequel, he wants to hatch his brood via human bodies.
- Draco Lich: He's a skeletal dragon with some muscles still attached. Dinosaurs Are Dragons being in full force in this game, he resembles a theropod with horns and wings.
- Final Boss: He was intended to be this, if the game was ever released.
- Modernized God: In the novel, despite objectively being a space alien monster, Necrosan speaks with a surprisingly casual personality, typical of the average 21st century human, even referring to his debut as his "coming out party".
- Sealed Evil in a Can: He was hatched in a meteorite that turned out to be an egg.
- Zombie Apocalypse: Played with. Necrosan can turn people into zombies by eating them, and in the novel he unleashes a zombie apocolyse on Urth. However, Necrosan Zombies continue to decay, and only have a shelf life of a couple weeks. Even Necrosan didn't know this, and because he turned so many people into zombies during his initial salvo, he spends the tail end of the novel struggling to keep the numbers of his army up.
