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The various [[Public Domain Character|public domain monsters]] of the ''[[Darkstalkers]]''/''Vampire'' series are compiled here for your convinence. Names are listed as English/Japanese.
▲== Before we get started, here are a few tropes that apply to (at least) most of the cast. ==
* [[Action Girl]]: Just about every female playable character.
* [[Cool Versus Awesome]]: The series' reputation for actually adhering to continuity aside, this trope is the backbone of the plot.
* [[Cute Monster Girl]]: Again, all of the playable females, barring B.B. Hood, who's a human ([[Cute and Psycho|but]] [[Enfant Terrible|a monster]] [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing|on the inside]]).
* [[Fan Service]]:
* [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink]]
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Some of these are blatantly obvious, but the more notable examples will be explained.
* [[Our Monsters Are Different]]/[[Our Demons Are Different]]: The demons of Makai are a mixed bag; [[All Myths Are True|some of them are classic takes on common monsters]], while others stray from the norm. Overlaps with [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]] in some cases.
* [[Power Levels]]: The characters of the series are gauged by their strength:
** Class S Darkstalkers are
** Class A Darkstalkers are the exceptionally strong demons, most of them filling the ranks of the Eight Noble Families of Makai.
** Class B Darkstalkers are the more powerful demons with sufficient training.
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** Sasquatch: Whereas the typical yeti/Abominable Snowman/Sasquatch/Bigfoot was originally sighted in 1811, Sasquatch was born in 1903. This was the same date that Western scientists discovered Central Africa's breed of mountain gorillas. That same year, a newspaper printed the testimony of a man who said he watched as a man was killed by aborigines, which he said looked like a black man, but covered all over with gray hair.
* [[Stripperific]]: Most prominently seen with Morrigan, Felicia and Lilith.
* [[You Sexy Beast]]: Morrigan, though most of the cast counts.
== Introduced in ''Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors''/''Vampire'' ==
=== Demitri Maximoff ===▼
▲== Demitri Maximoff ==
[[File:demitri 647.jpg|frame]]
{{quote|'''Class:''' Vampire
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Tropes associated with Demitri Maximoff:
* [[Villain
* [[Aristocrats Are Evil]]: He's high nobility and definitely dangerous to know.
* [[Arrogant Kung Fu Guy]]: Before being exiled and more in the present day. He looks on everyone, human and darkstalker, as inferior and below him in any sense. Only a few people have his respect, Morrigan and Jedah being some of them.
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* [[Worthy Opponent]]: Baraba Kreutz, the leader of the royal guardsmen of the Makai's Kreutz clan (as well as {{spoiler|Jon Talbain's [[Disappeared Dad|father]]}}). Demitri was said to have seen a certain beauty in his fighting style and even said, "He is my best rival in my life."
=== Morrigan Aensland ===▼
▲== Morrigan Aensland ==
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{{quote|'''Class:''' Succubus
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The daughter of Belial Aensland, she was born with power that rivaled [[Rank Inflation|S class]] high nobles. Fearing that that Morrigan would lose control of that power, Belial split her soul in half, taking part of her power. But since the two halves of her soul were trying to return to each other, Belial further split one half of her soul into two in order to weaken the drawing effect. And so Morrigan's soul was split into three: half of the soul was in herself, another 1/4 was sealed in Belial's body and the last 1/4 was sealed in a separate dimension, and it eventually materialized as her "sister" Lilith.
But Morrigan grew up not knowing anything about the above events. She spent her days as a [[Rebellious Princess]],
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* [[Absolute Cleavage]]: Her iconic outfit technically "only" possesses an [[Impossibly Low Neckline]] and a cut-out right below said neckline that, combined, reveal her entire cleavage ''and'' the top part of her stomach.
* [[Adaptational Villainy]]: Morrigan gets the worst of this in every adaptation.
** In the
** In the manga ''Maleficarum'', she is less terrible, but still does eat human souls after seducing men. She has never killed a human in canon. She also seduces and almost kills Jon
** In the manga
** In the Udon comics. Morrigan's hobby is going around the human world, seducing and killing countless men eating their souls. She's also completely apathetic to the life of humans, to the point she attacks and tries to kill Chun Li after she saves one of her partners from her seduction in a crossover with the Street Fighter comics.
* [[Anime Chinese Girl]]: She dresses as one in one of her winning poses.
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* [[Gratuitous English]]: Listen to her audio for Soul Fist and Shadow Blade.
* [[The Hedonist]]: It kinda comes with the territory. She ''is'' a succubus, after all.
* [[Hello, Nurse!]]:
* [[Horny Devils]]: She is a succubus, so it's justified. However,
* [[Friendly Neighborhood Vampire|Friendly Neighborhood Succubi]]: In canon and crossover appearances, that's it. Morrigan is mostly friendly and seductive around other people (specially humans) and does truly care about her kingdom as well her underlings. Not so much in other adaptations. See [[Adaptational Villainy]] above.
* [[Impossibly Low Neckline]]: Justified, as she actually wears part of her own substance as clothes, thus explaining how it manages to not slip off with every breath she takes.
* [[Famous Ancestor|Infamous Ancestor]]: Cartoon-only; she's descended from none other than ''[[King Arthur|Morgan]] [[Breakout Villain|le]] [[Public Domain Character|Fay]]''.
* [[Kiss of Death]]: In her non-canon ending to ''Vampire'', she sucks out Pyron's soul (leaving a withered husk) with a kiss.
** The Udon comics feature her doing this more frequently,
* [[Living Aphrodisiac]]: Being a member of the Succubi race, she's able to magically generate intense and spontaneous lust in mortal humans. Only those with strong enough wills can resist her charms.
* [[Macross Missile Massacre]]: Finishing Shower.
* [[Meaningful Name]]/[[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Named after [[wikipedia:The Morrigan|a figure from Irish/Celtic mythology]] whose name can mean "great queen", "phantom queen" or "terror". While Morrigan wasn't born in Ireland (she was actually discovered in Scotland), she shares more than a few traits. For one, due to the death of adopted father Belial (as well as the lack of Jedah at the time), Morrigan is technically the ruler of Makai (
* [[The Messiah]]: This is what her adoptive father Belial believes her to be.
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Morrigan is one of the best videogames examples. Morrigan isn't really wearing anything to begin with, her "clothes" being just the bats she summons and turns into clothes. Giving her race and personality, this is logical.
* [[My Significance Sense Is Tingling]]: She's originally drawn by Pyron's presence, and later senses Lilith's sadness, prompting her to fuse with Lilith.
* [[Naughty Nurse Outfit]]: One of her cosplays in ''Pocket Fighter''.
* [[Naughty Tentacles]]:
* [[Not Even Bothering with the Accent]]: Whenever Morrigan is given an English voiceover, she usually has an [[American Accents]] instead of a [[Brave Scot|Scottish one]]. To date, the only exceptions inside of the franchise have been the cartoon and the ''Night Warriors'' OVA.
* [[Out with a Bang]]: Her bodily fluids (produced by any form of pleasure) can cause instant death.
* [[Parental Substitute]]: Belial [[Happily Adopted|adopted]] a young Morrigan ([[Parental Abandonment|her parentage is unknown]]) when he discovered her in Scotland. Sadly, he too would soon pass away.
* [[Person of Mass Destruction]]: The reason why Belial sealed away part of her power when she was born was because of the fear that she might lose control of it and end up destroying the netherworld.
* [[Power Floats]]: Unless she's dashing, Morrigan levitates to approach her opponents.
* [[Prehensile Hair]]
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* [[She Fu]]: It's [[Distracted by the Sexy]] refined into an artform. A particularly ''lethal'' artform.
* [[She's Got Legs]]: Played up ''especially'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJtQ7VLSuoM in the OVA].
* [[Soul Jar]]: A humanoid version of one
** In her ending in the first game, before absorbing Pyron's soul:
▲¡'''Sleep Pyron. Dream of me, and my victory over you. Dream forever, and ever, and ever'''!
** The UDON comic claims that Morrigan's body is a host of sorts for the [[Our Souls Are Different|souls]] of many humans (her reasoning is that she's giving them pleasure and a reprieve from the hardships of the world; [[Your Soul Is Mine|the souls]] [[Deader Than Dead|aren't destroyed]], [[Immortality|but live on within Morrigan]] [[Happiness in Slavery|in eternal bliss]], taking the form of the bats she wears as clothing and her wings). The Udon comics, however, are not canon.
* [[Split At Birth]]: Well, Lilith's birth was a result of Morrigan being split.
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* [[Taken for Granite]]: She turns herself into stone to avoid becoming Demitri's slave in his ending.
* [[This Is a Drill]]: Some of her attacks uses her wings to form drills, most notably in her Shell Kick special and Valkyrie Turn super move.
* [[Unskilled but Strong]]: Morrigan never had a way
* [[Upper Class Twit]]: An insanely powerful demon who just wants to party. She also mixes this with shades of [[Rebellious Princess]] (she ''is'' the adopted daughter of the former ruler of Makai). For the most part, expect Morrigan to shirk her responsibilities and cause headaches for her caretakers. It isn't until her father dies and ''especially'' when she fuses with Lilith that [[Character Development]] rolls in, and [[Royals Who Actually Do Something|she begins to feel the need to be responsible]].
* [[Wave Motion Gun]]: Her ''Vs.'' series-exclusive Soul Eraser.
* [[Winged Humanoid]]: With an extra pair of miniaturized, presumably decorative ones on her head.
* [[Wrestler in All of Us]]: Anyone else want to explain her [[Spinning Piledriver|Vector Drain special]]?
* [[Voluntary Shapeshifter]]: In the Udon comics, she has the ability to turn herself into human and other forms. She uses this to infiltrate in the human
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|You Gotta Have Green Hair]]: Seems to be her natural color.
=== Felicia ===
[[File:felicia-ds 68.jpg|frame]]
{{quote|'''Class:''' Catwoman
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* [[Boobs of Steel]]: At 88cm, Felicia has the largest bust of all the ''Darkstalkers'' females, edging out Morrigan by 2cm (it should also be noted that she's bustier than the 87cm [[Fatal Fury|Mai]] [[The King of Fighters|Shiranui]]). She also happens to be the most physically-oriented fighter on the female side and ([[Depending on the Artist]]) possesses a more muscular build than the other ladies.
* [[Breakout Character]]: Alongside Morrigan, Felicia's popularity with fans led to her being included in tons of spinoff and crossover games.
* [[Cast of Snowflakes]]: Her seven younger cat girl friends - Alto, Grace, Lucy, Nana, Mimi, Nonno, and Piko - are all given brief backstories in the instruction booklet.
* [[Catfolk]]
* [[Catgirl]]: She is the living embodiment.
* [[Cat Smile]]: Naturally. Depending on the artist, Felicia will flash one from time to time.
* [[Celibate Hero]]: Not explicitly stated, but seeing as she's a nun, she fits the Trope.
* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: This lady fights ''dirty''. One grapple attack involves grabbing with her legs while dicing her foe's face, another involves kicking sand in their eyes. While many fighters in the game have one or two [[Assist Character]]s, Felicia has ''seven''. Not exactly fighting fair.
* [[Cool Big Sis]]: Felicia '''technically''' becomes this, albeit in an obverted sense of the trope: In her ''Darkstalkers 3'' ending, Felicia becomes a nun and founds the orphanage "Felicity House", and all of the children look up to her.
* [[Cool Pet]]: Plays the role of one to Harry Grimoire in the cartoon, [[Voluntary Shapeshifting|assuming the form]] [[Sleep Mode Size|of an actual cat]] to ward off suspicion. In one of the official mangas, Felicia was the "pet" and secret best friend of a rich (and lonely) kid, acting as his bodyguard when two bumbling kidnappers took the kid away. Some chapters later, Felicia meets Jon Talbain and retakes the pet charade after they start living together.
* [[Cosplay]]: Played for laughs but with a more adult tone in the 1996 manga version, where Jon Talbain and Felicia share a tiny apartament, with Jon posing as a plain (and antisocial) human, while Felicia stays in her cute kitty form to avoid attracting unwanted attention. One of their neighbors casually sees Felicia in her normal form, but she assumes Felicia is just a plain woman wearing a sexy cat costume, visiting Jon for some, ah... ''fetish sex''.
▲** [[media:nw-felicia 8285.gif|Some older artworks]] are decidedly [[More Teeth Than the Osmond Family|less cute]] about this.
* [[Dance Battler]]: Felicia's both a fighter and an exotic dancer.
* [[Does Not Like Shoes]]: As was shown in the UDON comic, the size and volume of Felicia's feet makes wearing shoes a painful and
* [[Dogpile of Doom]]: Her "Everybody Help!" Hyper Combo in ''[[Marvel vs. Capcom 3]]'' has ''all'' her [[Cat Girl]] friends appear and decimate her opponent.
* [[Dying Race]]: She not the only Cat Woman left (she has several friends who appear in her combos), but her species numbers only in the hundreds. Simply put, Cat Women cannot replenish their species at present; mating with humans only results in human children. Thus, her species is quickly dying out.
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* [[Jiggle Physics]]: It's hard to notice at first, but she does indeed have very large breasts (the largest in the series in spite of what the anime and a lot of fanart may suggest), and they are in fact the only ones that bounce. They are bigger than [[Fatal Fury|Mai]] [[The King of Fighters|Shiranui]]'s by 1 cm. Just think about it.
* [[Killer Rabbit]]: In one of her supers, [[Hero Secret Service|Felicia calls for help]]. Four other catwomen (Pico, Alto, Grace and Lucy) come to her aid and utterly ''wreck'' you for messing with Felicia.
** Even deadlier is her "Everybody Help!" Hyper Combo in ''[[Marvel vs. Capcom 3]]'', where ''all seven'' of them attack the opponent.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Felicia (and male name counterpart Felix) means happiness. Fits well for Felicia since she wishes to coexist with humans in peace. There's also the obvious similarity with "feline" too.
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Competes with Morrigan on this.
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* [[Odd Friendship]]: Felicia wants nothing more than to befriend humans; Talbain despised them. Despite this wildly different opinion of humans, both are close friends and allies.
* [[Older Than They Look]]: Felicia was born in 1967, so she'd be over 40 right now, but still looks to be in her late teens to early twenties.
* [[One-Gender Race]]: The Catwoman race is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]. They're able to reproduce with humans (and have been given rights like ordinary human citizens), but the offspring is always
* [[Orphanage of Love]]: Her ending in the third game shows her using her winnings to open one.
* [[Prehensile Tail]]: Felicia can use her tail to whip her opponents, or use it to hold her whole body up from her standing hard kick.
* [[Rapunzel Hair]]: Felicia's hair reaches past her waist, and it encircles her whenever she flip jumps or does her Rolling Buckler. It also ''just'' happens to cover her bare butt from being seen during certain stances or when she's shown from behind.
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* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: She's got so much, you could lose yourself in it.
=== Jon Talbain/Gallon ===
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{{quote|'''Class:''' Werewolf
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* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|You Gotta Have Blue Fur]]: Exactly how blue varies depending on the depiction. In-game, it's closer to gray.
=== Bishamon ===▼
▲== Bishamon ==
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{{quote|'''Class:''' Demon Samurai
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* [[Samurai]]: An evil samurai armor and sword.
=== Anakaris ===▼
▲== Anakaris ==
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{{quote|'''Class:''' Mummy
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=== Lord Raptor/Zabel Zarock ===
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{{quote|'''Class:''' Zombie
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=== Victor von Gerdenheim ===
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{{quote|'''Class:''' Golem (based on Frankenstein's monster)
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=== Rikuo/Aulbath ===
[[File:rikuo 5035.gif|frame]]
{{quote|'''Class:''' Merman
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=== Sasquatch ===
[[File:sasquatch 8134.gif|frame]]
{{quote|'''Class:''' Bigfoot
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=== Huitzil/Phobos ===
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{{quote|'''Class:''' Robot
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* [[This Is a Drill]]: Many of his attacks involve drills, including his crouching light punch in every game, his crouching medium punch, crouching hard punch, and close-range standing medium kick in the first two games, and his pursuit attack in the third game.
=== Pyron ===
[[File:pyron 6912.jpg|frame]]
{{quote|'''Class:''' Alien
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== Introduced in ''Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge''/''Vampire Hunter'' ==
=== Donovan Baine ===
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{{quote|'''Class:''' Dhampyr
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=== Hsien-Ko/Lei-Lei ===
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{{quote|'''Class:''' Jiang-Shi
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== Introduced in ''Darkstalkers 3: Jedah's Damnation''/''Vampire Savior: The Lord of Vampire'' ==
=== Q-Bee ===
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{{quote|'''Class:''' Demonic Insect
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=== Baby Bonnie Hood/Bulleta ===
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Tropes associated with B.B. Hood/Bulleta:
* [[Assist Character]]:
* [[Ax Crazy]]: It is implied that is actually her extreme malevolence that allows her to damage Darkstalkers rather than the weaponry alone.
* [[Badass Adorable]]: In looks only.
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* [[More Dakka]]: Her Cool Hunting special.
* [[Parts Unknown]]: Unlike most other characters in the series, her country of origin is never specified in [[Word of God|Capcom's official]] ''Darkstalkers Graphic File'', and is simply listed as [[wikipedia:Northern Europe|"Northern Europe"]] in her bio, which could be anywhere from Finland, Denmark, the U.K., Norway, etc. The anglicized nature of her name (Bonnie Hood) implies a [[Evil Brit|U.K.]] origin as being the most likely.
* [[Pint-Sized Powerhouse]]: This is a game where some fighters are over seven feet tall; Bonnie is only 4'8', and she is capable of lifting and body-slamming any of them during one of her specials.
* [[Psycho for Hire]]: She's not just killing monsters for the sake of it, she's getting paid to.
* [[He Who Fights Monsters|She Who Fights Monsters]]: Inverted, being evil is what gives her the nerves for monster fighting in the first place and could be the only reason she can even hurt them.
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* [[Wounded Gazelle Gambit]]: Her back-dash, where she runs away screaming in B-movie heroine mock-horror.
=== Lilith Aensland ===▼
▲== Lilith Aensland ==
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{{quote|'''Class:''' Succubus
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* [[A-Cup Angst]]: Moreso due to her feelings as an incomplete Morrigan. She could make herself just as pneumatic as her sister. Oddly enough, in ''Pocket Fighter''/''Super Gem Fighter: Mini Mix'' (the [[Super-Deformed]] cousin of ''[[Street Fighter]]''), Lilith seems to attract all the men, making ''Morrigan'' (to whom this ending belongs) jealous.
* [[Adaptational Villainy]]: Similar to Morrigan, she is completely uncaring and cruel to humans in the Udon comics. This despite not having killed any human in canon just like Morrigan. She is also far more sadistic and less innocent than she was in the games, were she only followed Jedah on his plan to get back at Morrigan and had no idea about his scheming, in the comics she is totally willingly to help him to achieve his goal if he gets her and Morrigan united again. Unlike games, she doesn't even really changes her ways, as she only agrees to help Morrigan and the rest of the characters to defeat Jedah and Jill to get Morrigan to accept to fuse with her.
* [[Anything That Moves]]: She has the same suggestive win quotes against male, female and "other" characters.
* [[Artificial Human|Artificial Succubus]]: She has a soul, or part of one, but her body is artificial.
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* [[Combat Stilettos]]: Not that she uses them much for this effect or that they would even act as much hindrance to a flier like herself.
* [[Creating Life]]: Albeit serendipitously; originally 1/3 of Morrigan's power, she developed self-awareness after being sealed away by Belial for so long. Jedah, discovering this, created a body for her and convinced her to work for him. See [[Cloning Blues]] above.
* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: Think Morrigan, but even more benevolent. The only reason she was following Jedah in ''3'' was due to Jedah's manipulation. Averted in the comic adaptation, where she pretty much plays this trope straight.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: Most of her victory quotes.
* [[Doppelganger Attack]]: Her Luminous Illusion super and Mirror Doll dark force.
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* [[Fusion Dance]]: See Morrigan's entry.
* [[Genki Girl]]: In fact, her behavior sometimes boarders on infantile
* [[Horny Devils]]:
* [[Impossibly Low Neckline]]: Since it is a copy of her "sister's" outfit.
* [[Little Miss Badass]]: [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|Technically speaking...]]
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* [[Shapeshifter Weapon]]: Her wings.
* [[Shotoclone]]: [[Ryu and Ken|Sakura]] variant.
* [[
* [[Split At Birth]]: 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 loli version of Morrigan, after all.
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* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]: One of her post-match poses has her wearing a grade-B, with striped socks and [[Hell-Bent for Leather|a leather skirt and jacket]].
=== Jedah Dohma ===▼
▲== Jedah Dohma ==
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{{quote|'''Class:''' Demon Lord/Ressurected as Dark Messiah
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* [[Womb Level]]: 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, [[Tempting Fate|so click at your own risk]].
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