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* [[Big Bad]]: Of ''III''', but then...
** [[Heel Face Turn]]: ...This happens in ''IV''.
* [[Born -Again Immortality]]
* [[The Chessmaster]]
* [[Costume Porn]]: His primary outfit in ''IV''. He ditches the hood, but gets a pimped-out magician's robe instead.
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* [[Master of Illusion]]: In ''IV'', his encounters with Siegfried, Kilik, and Algol has Zasalamel create illusory copies of people dear to those characters (Siegfried's father Frederick, Kilik's adoptive sister Xianglian, and Algol's son Arcturus) just to spite them for no reason.
* [[Useful Notes/The Middle East|The Middle East]]: It's likely he may originally be [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonia Babylonian,] judging by the names of his attacks being named after figures of Babylonian myth and legend: Ereshkigal, Nergal, Shamash, Tiamat, etc. This also fits with him originally being a member of Algol's cult, who is himself inspired by the hero king Gilgamesh, and therefore likely originates from the pre-Babylonian (occupying the same region) ''Sumerian'' civilization.
* [[One -Winged Angel]]: Undergoes one in ''III'', becoming Abyss, although ''IV'' [[Retcon|retconned]] it out of existence.
* [[Resurrective Immortality]]: Zasalamel masterminded the events of III for the express purpose of [[Who Wants to Live Forever?|curing]] himself of this.
* [[Scary Black Man]]
* [[Sharp Dressed Man]]: As seen in his ''IV'' ending. That is one classy cat.
* [[Sinister Scythe]]
* [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]]: His ending in ''Soulcalibur IV'', in which he achieves true [[Immortality]]. 400 years from the events of the game, he is seen in New York City, now [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money|a man of great importance]] ([[Authority Equals Asskicking|possibly the President]]), looking at how much the world has changed and giving a nice little monologue before he boards a helicopter for an important meeting.
* [[Xanatos Gambit]] and [[Xanatos Roulette]]: His plan to finally die. However, he discards of it before ''IV'' due to his visions and Zasalamel feeling the energies of the swords warping him into Abyss.
* [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]]: Zasalamel's goal in ''Soulcalibur III'' is to find the cursed sword so that he can finally achieve a peaceful (and permanent) death.
** Averted in ''Soulcalibur IV'', in which he suddenly ''wants'' [[Living Forever Is Awesome|to live forever because he saw a vision of the modern world and felt the urge to live again.]]
 
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** {{spoiler|At least until ''SCV''.}}
* [[Early Bird Cameo]]: Not Tira herself, but her raven (no pun intended) was the same one seen in the intro to ''II'' handing out pieces of Soul Edge to various warriors.
* [[Eerie Pale -Skinned Brunette]]: In ''IV''. Before that, she had [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|green hair]] by default.
* [[Expy]]: Possibly of [[Death Note (Manga)|Misa Amane]] [[Composite Character|and]]/or [[Batman: theThe Animated Series (Animation)|Harley Quinn]].
** In ''SCIV'', it's possible to give her a crude Harley Quinn outfit.
* [[Evil Sounds Deep]]: Her voice alternates according to her mood, ranging from squeeky and perky in her "jolly" state, to incredibly gruff and gutteral in her more powerful, angrier "gloomy" state.
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** Exemplified in her ending in ''SCIII'', in which she's the only character to completely ignore Soul Edge after beating Abyss.
* [[Sword Cane]]
* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo|Tall, Blond and Bishoujo]]
* [[The Unfettered]]: Her single-minded goal is to avenge her slain master, nothing more.
** {{spoiler|Setsuka actually moves past her revenge in both games' endings. In ''III'', she even [[Warrior Therapist|counsels]] a woman in a predicament similar to hers and helps her move beyond such petty things as well.}}
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{{quote| Voiced By: [[Hiroshi Tsuchida]] (Japanese), [[Keith Silverstein]] (English)}}
 
Zasalamel's [[One -Winged Angel|ultimate form]] after being affected by the energies of the [[Cosmic Horror|abyss]] he used for his plans. In ''Soulcalibur III'', supposedly he'd morph into this as an after-effect of the ritual he performed to merge with the energies of both swords. ''Soulcalibur IV'' [[Retcon|retconned]] this, and instead Zasalamel cut short the ritual after feeling his body starting to be transformed.
 
* [[Body Horror]]: He looks like a decaying body with a hole in its chest...
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Weapon(s) - Soul Edge - Great Sword
 
A [[What If]] character intended to show Nightmare's [[One -Winged Angel|ultimate form]] after he merged both Soul Edge and Soul Calibur with itself. While the character itself never came to be (well, canonically, anyways), his design was the base for Nightmare's ''SCIV'' form, possibly to show he's approaching [[Power Levels|that magnitude of power]] all by himself. {{spoiler|''The New Legends Of Project Soul'' confirms it is canon and THE most powerful entity in the Soul Calibur universe - not even [[That One Boss|Algol]] tangles with it.}}
 
* [[BFS]]: Shames ''anything else'' in this series '''''several times over'''''.
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An old man that looks like a bum and a Japanese-looking girl. Two random assassins and rivals of Yoshimitsu. They get trashed by Mitsurugi in ''IV''.
 
* [[Dual -Wielding]]: Greed uses two kunai in battle.
* [[Eyepatch of Power]]: Greed.
* [[Katanas Are Just Better]]: Miser. She also wields shuriken.
* [[Martial Arts Headband]]: Miser.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Both of them.
* [[Raven Hair, Ivory Skin]]/[[Shiny Midnight Black]]: Miser.
* [[The Rival]]: To each other as well as Yoshimitsu. They are respectively "Number Four" and "Number Five" in their organization of thieves.
 
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* [[Anime Chinese Girl]]: Hualin.
* [[Armed Legs]]: Valeria.
* [[Blond Brunette Redhead]]: Lynette, Hualin, and Valeria respectively, although Valeria [[Hair Color Dissonance|veers a bit towards]] [[Rose -Haired Girl|fuschia]].
* [[Fiery Redhead]]: Valeria approaches this when you repeatedly try to buy an already-purchased item or select an item only not to actually buy it.
* [[Genki Girl]]: They're ''all'' pretty upbeat, but Lynette takes the cake.
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