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== Asura the Destructor ==

 

 

The main character of Asura's Wrath. Once one of the Eight Guardian Generals of Shinkoku Trastrium, Asura was betrayed and killed by his seven comrades. They framed him for the murder of Emperor Strada, killed his wife, and took his daughter away from him. Full of rage and a desire for revenge, he comes back to life with his wrath as his only weapon.

* [[Anime Hair]]

* [[Anti-Hero]]: Type III

* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: The [[Penny Arcade]] pre-order comic has this. Asura throws his house into space while looking for his keys; throws an oil tanker at a gas station, causing the town to explode when a moped cuts him off; punches the ground hard enough that the Earth swallows North America just because an old lady asks him for the date while paying for groceries with a check; and when he receives no-bubble tea with bubbles, he doesn't even tip.

* [[Back From the Dead]]: Happens to him when he's betrayed and killed by the other demigods. Also happens 2 more times after. He comes back '''by sheer anger alone'''!

** Crying in general will set him off, though it's not the crying itself that angers him. It's the implication that someone is ''making'' someone else cry.

** Calling him a god is also not advised.

* [[Blood Knight]]: Was this in his younger days, however after he got Mithra he mellowed out.

* [[Bring It]]: His response to having a demigod the size of a PLANET send down his mountainous FINGER down to crush him. [[Badass|He wins.]]

* [[Catch and Return]]: Does this with a god damned missile, a la [[The Incredible Hulk]].

* [[Clipped-Wing Angel]]: A rare heroic example, Wrath form. He takes this form after his Berserker form took a blast from the Brahmastra, he is covered in black colored armour and looks cracked. Its concept art says that when Asura attacks in this form he does more damage to ''himself'' then he does the enemy. Although that doesn't stop him from gutting and head-stomping Sergei and putting up a decent fight with Yasha.

* [[Colossus Climb]]: Does one on Wyzen, [[Moment of Awesome|just to give him a good old fashioned punch to the face.]]

* [[Cutlass Between the Teeth]]: The remains of Wailing Dark. He holds it in his teeth due to losing his arms again at that point in the story.

* [[Idiot Hero]]: Played with, whenever Yasha's around, since Asura insists on killing things whenever Yasha tries to think. Suicidal recklessness aside, Asura's already done plenty of pontificating on his journey. At the end of the game it's brought around full circle. Yasha tries to reason that there must be a better alternative to Deus' plans, while Asura cuts through his hesitation (12,000 years of hesitation, as a matter of fact) by saying that [[Dangerously Genre Savvy|ifs and hows were irrelevant, Deus needed to go down because the people of earth ''needed'' to be free of their torment]]--a fact he had learned only too well over the course of the game.

* [[In a Single Bound]]: Uses his fist to propel himself to extraordinary heights.

* [[The Juggernaut]]: Oh good lord... NOTHING will stop him from rescuing his daughter. In gameplay, he's a bit harder to knock down than the typical beat-'em-up protagonist, and he truly lives up to the trope in Unlimited Mode, where he'll more or less [[No Sell]] anything up to and including boss attacks.

* [[Ki Attacks]]: Shaped like his fists, and are his primary projectile.

** Normal

** Vajra, his most common form.

** Mantra, the strongest form he can achieve without tearing himself apart. It is used with six arms in his final fight against Chakravartin.

** Wrath, a [[Clipped-Wing Angel]] form that is quite powerful but also scorches his own body. How much sense and reason he have in this form seems to vary depending on how he entered it.

* [[Walking Shirtless Scene]]: He doesn't seem to wear shirts that often, if at all.

* [[Weak but Skilled]]: Surprisingly, this is one of his greatest strengths, if not the greatest. When fighting Chakravartin, the most powerful being in the universe, he gets kicked all the way down to his base form. When fighting Chakravartin's final form, instead of overwhelming him with strength, he uses his agility to outmaneuver and redirect Chakravartin's attacks.

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** Somewhat subverted in the fact that she only looks to be around 13, even after 12,000 years. Asura is actually much older, looking to be around 27.

* [[Power Floats]]

* [[She Is All Grown Up]]: After being sent home by Asura's remaining mantra, due to becoming mortal after [[The Magic Goes Away|Chakravartin is destroyed meaning mantra no longer exists.]]

* [[Tearful Smile]]: As Asura dies his final death.

* [[Calling Your Attacks]]: '''KURIKARA FUDO UCHI'''!

* [[Climax Boss]]: Not quite as much as later bosses, but he does have chapter all to himself when he becomes the size of Earth itself.

* [[Dumb Muscle]]: Pretty much his role with the Deities. Especially when he uses more Mantra than necessary just to end up weaker.

* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Of humans.

His mantra affinity is Greed.

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* [[Affably Evil]]: Not exactly evil, as he's shown to prefer hanging out with his servant girls at his mansion, but he's still an opponent of Asura's who is nonetheless quite affable indeed.

* [[Badass]]: Yep.

* [[Graceful Loser]]

{{quote| Walk the path you must, Asura...}}

* [[Half the Man He Used To Be]]: How he met his end by Asura using Wailing Dark against him.

* [[The Hedonist]]: "I have had carnal knowledge of the fairest maidens in Heaven. I have partaken of the finest wines of Gaea. But ''nothing'' excites my blood more than drawing my sword!"

* [[Holy Halo]]: Like the other deities, more prominently seen when powering up.

* [[I Am Not Left-Handed]]: Only draws his sword when the fight is ''worth'' it. Prior to that, he'll fight only using his firsts or with the sheathed blade.

* [[Implacable Man]]: Asura at base strength without any extra arms can't even move him a budge from where he stands.

* [[Klingon Promotion]]: Inherited the position of Guardian General from the one he killed.

* [[Giggling Villain]]

* [[Holy Halo]]

* [[Laughing Mad]]: After being sliced up by Wrath Asura.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: His name is derived from the Italian name Sergio wich means servant or the high one further emphasizing his position as Deus' right hand man.

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== Kalrow ==

 

{{quote| -- Voice Actors: [[Chikao Ohtsuka]] (JP) [[Keith Szarabajka]] (EN)}}

* [[Really Dead Montage]]

* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Blue Oni to Asura's Red. Visually expressed through their auras.

* [[The Rival]]

* [[The Stoic]]: Took on this personality when acting under Deus' orders.

* [[A God Am I]]: Played quite interestingly. He sees his god status as more of a title that he needs to wear during this time until the great rebirth where he plans to resign.

** However at the end of the game it seems as the [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|power have gone him a little up to the head.]]

* [[Anti-Villain]]: A definite [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Villains|type III]].

* [[Badass]]: [[World of Badass|Did you expect anything else]]?

** [[Badass Baritone]]

** [[Badass Cape]]

* [[Big Bad]]

* [[Bling of War]]

* [[Determinator]]: It took several battles to slow him down at all, with him stepping up his game each time. At many points, you get to see him [[No Sell]] Asura's and Yasha's combined might through sheer force of will. He even refuses to die once he'd gotten 12,000+ years of power beaten out of him!

* [[Expy]]: Looks a lot like Ganondorf from [[The Legend of Zelda]] series.

** Chucks that shoot ''lighting bolts'' no less.

* [[Final Boss]]: [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]]

** Also Asura supposedly looks a lot like her father.

* [[Too Long; Didn't Dub]]: Just like the random villagers through the game, her dialogue is not translated, having no English VA and no subtitles in her appearances; this appears to have been a stylistic choice. However, you are privy to her lines in episodes 8 and 11's interludes.

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* [[The Corruption]]/[[The Heartless]]

* [[Flying Aircraft Carrier]]: While not sharing the look, Gohma Carriers have this as a primary funtion of deploying other, smaller gohma into space.

* [[Gaia's Vengeance]]

* [[One-Winged Angel]]: After Deus is defeated, it steals all the accumulated souls the Deities gathered and grows even bigger and into an...

* [[Orochi]]: It takes this form, with eight giant heads that has a wide enough circumference to tower over the planet, and is probably one of the biggest representations of this ever.

* [[Sequential Boss]]: You fight his forces that come up from the earth first, then one of its heads, then all its heads and then its face, then its core in the earth's center.

* [[True Final Boss]]

The ruler of Naraka. After Asura is killed, it guides his soul back to the real world. He is in reality Chakravartin, the omnipotent god that controls the world of Gaea. He is attempting to give birth to the redeemer to take his place (as the next god) through the trials that he puts the world through. No one on Gaea is aware of his existence.

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** While cathartic as all hell, the mechanic is suddenly introduced at the end of an extremely tough battle at which point most players nerves are frayed into shreds. Cue a frantic minority of [[Interface Screw|players searching desperately for the blue swirly button on their controllers, only to miss Asura's actual commands]].

* [[A God Am I]]: Just like the rest of the enemies in the game, except this time it's truly a [[Justified Trope]].

* [[Anthropomorphic Personification]]: Claims to represent Samsara.

* [[Bigger Bad]]: The real final bad guy of the game, as hinted in the ep 18 recap.

* [[Big Damn Villains]]: Saves Mithra from Olga.

* [[Leitmotif]]: "One who spins ideas", "Aurora borealis", and "One who spins samsara".

* [[Light Is Not Good]]

* [[Man Behind the Man]]: He tells Asura that he is the one responsible for the Gohma apparition, using them as a way to test the gods' resolve.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Chakravartin means "ideal universal ruler" in Indian religions...[[Subverted Trope|But he does not fit the ethical and benevolent part, or the "ideal" part.]] [[Double Subversion|This is apparently what he wanted to turn Asura into]].