Soul Series/Characters/Soul Calibur II: Difference between revisions

* [[Animal Motifs]]: Bats, as befitting of a vampire. This is most obvious is V, where both his costumes are covered in bat symbols.

* [[Ambiguously Gay]]/[[Mistaken for Gay]]: When he first appeared. Nowadays, not so much.

* [[Aristocrats Are Evil]]

* [[Blond Guys Are Evil]]

* [[Lolicon]]: A few of the tropes below give off some rather... unfortunate subtext.

* [[Love Makes You Crazy]]:

** Definitely noticeable by ''V'', where his voice sounds less calm and more unhinged, as though he just got out of an insane asylum.

* [[Love Makes You Evil]]: Raphael's ultimate goal is to create a new world for his adoptive daughter Amy. His primary methods of doing this are as follows: manipulating events from behind the scenes, killing innocent people to quench his vampirism, in the process turning them into undead, malfested slaves under his command, and being a complete asshole to anyone who gets in his way.

** Or a medieval version of [[Blaz Blue|Hazama]].

** Thanks to his fencing prowess, the headgear also gives him the air of a [[The Three Musketeers (Literature)|Musketeer of the Guard]].

** It's likely based on the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankou "Ankou,"] a [[The Grim Reaper|personification of death]] from early French folklore who is often depicted wearing a wide-brimmed hat, as shown [http://perlbal.hi-pi.com/blog-images/103841/gd/1187000939/L-Ankou.jpg here.]

* [[Papa Wolf]]

* [[Tragic Keepsake]]: In ''V'' he is seen holding one of Amy's hairbands and is looking for her, meaning something bad may have happened to her during the timeskip. This only serves to fuel the theory of "Viola = Amy" even more.

* [[Walking Shirtless Scene]]: His alternate costume in ''V''.

 

=== Talim ===

* [[Catgirl]]: In her ''Soulcalibur IV'' alternate costume -- comes complete with paw-shaped mittens and boots.

* [[The Cutie]]: To a point.

** [[Dual Tonfas]]

* [[Fragile Speedster]]

* [[Purity Personified]]: Easily the sweetest character in the series.

* [[Waif Fu]]: She's only 4'8" (144 cm) tall.

 

=== Hong Yun-seong ===

{{quote| "Enemy of my country... prepare yourself!"}}

* [[Shonen Hair]]: He sports an impressively spiky quiff.

* [[Surfer Dude]]: His look in ''SCIII''.

 

{{quote| "Were you looking forward to winning? ''Oh, I'm sorry....''" <br />

"Oh my, how stupid are you?" }}

* [[Mama Bear]]: Sort of. Wanted to spare her sister from fighting to save her children, so she stole Sophie's weapons and set off to fight the evil.

* [[Mini Dress of Power]]: By ''IV'' it's become mini to the point of non-existence.

* [[Continuity Nod]]: His 10-hit combo is his most powerful move.

** He also refers to Kazuya in one of his quotes ("I'd love to show this to that idiot son of mine!") and name drops his pet bear Kuma when defeating Inferno ([[Insult to Rocks|"Even Kuma is stronger than you!"]]).

* [[Recovery Attack]]: Only character in the series with one, as it comes from ''Tekken''.

* [[Title Drop]]: And not of ''Soulcalibur''. His ultimate "weapon" (bare fists) is named "Tekken."