History Characters / DistortedTravesty

An ally of the Darkness that appears in the Distortion areas. Like the Darkness itself, it has no physical form and manifests only as a voice.

* TheVoice: It's not clear whether it has a physical body somewhere or not. Given certain revelations [[spoiler:it may have one on top of the fourth wall, but the player never sees it.]]

* YouLeaveHerAlone: Apparently, when Sigma escaped the Vault, he threatened Lovelun. Bubblun apparently clawed Sigma, '''''Sigma''''', in the face for this, and even more impressively, is still alive afterward.

'''Harpuia'''

It is unclear if he is the same character that appeared in ''VideoGame/MegaManZero'' or not, but whatever the case, he appears to be acting as the guardian of whatever it is that's causing the distortion on the island in ''Distorted Travesty 2''. He attacks Claire in World 4 and attempts to "quarantine" her and Jerry.

* BlowYouAway: Wind powers form a major part of his repetoire.
* TheDragon: The only boss that has any characterization at all, excepting the final boss. His dialogue indicates that he's fully in line with what the Virus is planning, and he's the most powerful pawn it has on the board.
* LaserBlade: two of 'em, and they can fire {{Sword Beam}}s.
* LightningBruiser: he's as small as Claire and almost as nimble, but he certainly isn't lacking in power.


!The Darkness and its Agents

'''The Darkness'''

A mysterious incorporeal force that is gaining power over the world at an alarming rate. It is also the being responsible for drawing Jerry and Jeremy into the bizarre distorted world. Its motives and nature remain a mystery for most of the game...

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! The Vault and Associated Antagonists

* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler:This is why he helps the Artist despite the latter's victory meaning his death. He feels that as computer program copied from a human, he doesn't exist anyway.]]

'''Death'''

The avatar of Death from the ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' games. He was sealed in the Vault due to desiring nothing more than spreading suffering across the land. In the third game, he is released.

* ClippedWingAngel: It's generally agreed that his second phase, while being more visually imposing, is ''much'' easier than his first.

* TheWorfEffect: His abilities in the third game are far less useful than one would expect given the end of the first game. This is primarily because the antagonists seem to be able to perfectly predict everything he does, so his hacking skills end up countered at every turn. [[Justified, as the BigBad is his Darkness-spawned copy, Hexor.]]

* TheVoice: His physical body is sitting atop the Fourth Wall, so to everyone in the game he comes off as this.
** [[spoiler: Though he creates himself a HumongousMecha avatar at the end of the game.]]

* MissionControl: Claire's counterpart to Jeremy. In the final level, however, they share this duty.

* ClippedWingedAngel: It's generally agreed that his second phase, while being more visually imposing, is ''much'' easier than his first.

!Characters introduced in ''Distorted Travesty''

!!Those who oppose the Darkness

'''Syrus'''

An old friend of Jerry's and Jeremy's, he got pulled into the distortion soon after they did. Since then he's become the ''de facto'' leader of Abstracity, one of the few areas of the world the Darkness cannot affect. In the distorted world, he looks like Train from ''Anime/BlackCat''.

* TheGunslinger: His sprite carries a pistol, but he's never shown actually using it.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:Unwittingly. After he's captured, the Darkness creates a copy of him and allows it to be rescued in his stead, which later allows it to capture the Artist.]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:The game never reveals what happened to him after his copy was rescued. ''Saved Game'' reveals he was freed at the end of the game and is now aiding the fight against the Virus.]]


'''X'''

Yep, the same X from ''VideoGame/MegaManX''. One of the only video game heroes to avoid getting captured by the Darkness, he is one of the leaders of the resistance against it.

* ArmCannon: Well, ''yeah''. You really think the resident ''Mega Man'' representative would be without one?
* BadAss: Jerry certainly thinks so, and nearly geeks out upon meeting him. And considering he's the only active hero who ''didn't'' get caught by the Darkness...
-->'''Jerry''': Just one question, X. How did you break free?
-->'''X''': I'm X. Why ''wouldn't'' I break free?
* BerserkButton: None too fond of Instant Death Spikes.
* TheWorfEffect: [[spoiler:Copy-X]] cripples him in one shot (due to something in the blast being specifically tailored to take him down), forcing Jerry to fight alone.


'''Blazing the Bat'''

A fiery bat that lives in a cave. He only wanted to be left alone and hide from the Darkness, but gets touchy when Jerry invades his home. [[spoiler:After some misunderstandings, he joins Jerry and helps him out whenever the Shrouds appear.]]

* DefeatMeansFriendship: Defeating him makes him help Jerry out.
* KillItWithFire: His giant fireball attack is one of the highest damage-dealers in the game, in fact.

'''Bob the Wise Whale'''

A mysterious whale that talks in a cryptic manner.

!!Forces of the Darkness

'''The Darkness'''

A mysterious incorporeal force that is gaining power over the world at an alarming rate. It is also the being responsible for drawing Jerry and Jeremy into the bizarre distorted world. Its motives and nature remain a mystery for most of the game...

'''Hexor'''

An ally of the Darkness that appears in the Distortion areas. Like the Darkness itself, it has no physical form and manifests only as a voice.

* DeadpanSnarker: Almost to the same level as Jeremy...
* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler:This is why he helps the Artist despite the latter's victory meaning his death. He feels that as computer program copied from a human, he doesn't exist anyway.]]
* TheDragon: To the Darkness, [[spoiler:and later to the Artist.]]
* EvilTwin: [[spoiler:It's actually a copy of Jeremy created by the Darkness, and so has all of Jeremy's knowledge and abilities.]]
* RealityWarper: Though on a scale far lesser than the Darkness.
* TheVoice: It's not clear whether it has a physical body somewhere or not. Given certain revelations [[spoiler:it may have one on top of the fourth wall, but the player never sees it.]]

'''The Shrouds'''

The Darkness's most elite enforcers, resembling black and purple shark-bats, they are tasked with hunting down the greatest threats to the Darkness and eliminating them. By the mid-way point of the game, Jerry is on their hitlist.

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!Characters introduced in ''The Sequel to the Prequel''

!!Good Guys

'''Claire'''

The protagonist of the second game, and Jerry's ex-girlfriend. A gamer herself, she now patrols the land like him to help maintain the peace. In this game, they both end up investigating the same area, though they tend to butt heads over their breakup. In the distorted world, she dresses as Eve from ''Manga/BlackCat''.

* ActionGirl: She's just as good at Jerry at video games, which in this world translates into badassery.
* BigDamnHeroes: She actually appeared briefly in the first game: [[spoiler:wearing Samus's armor, it was her that tackled the Omega Metroid and saved Jerry's life. She then proceeded to Shinespark her way out of the Primary Memory before it collapsed.]]
* GamerChick: Her characterization in a nutshell. Thus far, though, she's the only female gamer seen in the series (unless one counts Chao).
* SquishyWizard: In comparison to Jerry, she's a lot less resilient and cannot use physical attacks. However, she can use any kind of magic at any time, rather than switching between them like Jerry, and is far more mobile.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Her general relationship with Jerry. Yes, they broke up and there's probably a little bad blood between them, but they know better than to bring that up in the midst of fighting a threat to the world. Doesn't stop them from sniping and teasing each other, though.
* WallJump: The main ability that sets her apart from Jerry. Because of it, she can navigate areas that Jerry never would be able to.
* WingedHumanoid: White wings appear when she jumps. She uses them in conjunction with Wind magic to briefly float in midair, greatly extending her jump range.


'''Chao'''

Jeremy's little sister, she got pulled onto the Fourth Wall much like he did, and serves as Claire's support. Her hacking abilities aren't up to her brother's level, but she's still good with analysis. She manifests as a [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Navi]]-like fairy that follows Claire. Like everyone else, Chao's borrowing someone else's look. In this case, Amu from ''Anime/ShugoChara''.

* CheerfulChild: Always ready with words of encouragement, and seemingly always happy.
* MissionControl: Claire's counterpart to Jeremy. In the final level, however, they share this duty.


!!Bad Guys

'''Harpuia'''

It is unclear if he is the same character that appeared in ''VideoGame/MegaManZero'' or not, but whatever the case, he appears to be acting as the guardian of whatever it is that's causing the distortion on the island. He attacks Claire in World 4 and attempts to "quarantine" her and Jerry.

* BlowYouAway: Wind powers form a major part of his repetoire.
* TheDragon: The only boss that has any characterization at all, excepting the final boss. His dialogue indicates that he's fully in line with what the Virus is planning, and he's the most powerful pawn it has on the board.
* LaserBlade: two of 'em, and they can fire {{Sword Beam}}s.
* LightningBruiser: he's as small as Claire and almost as nimble, but he certainly isn't lacking in power.


'''The Virus'''

An apparently sentient virus infecting the Darkness's systems. It is what's causing the distortion on the island. Who it was made by, and what its goals are, are completely unknown. It manifests as X Parasites from the ''{{Metroid}}'' series.

* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:Despite being defeated on the island, everything went exactly according to the Virus's plans, and the heroes have been soundly outwitted and outmaneuvered.]]
* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler:It attacked the island first to draw Jerry and Jeremy, the Darkness's greatest allies, away. While they and Claire were busy on the island, it attacked the ''rest'' of the world unhindered.]]
* BigBad: To both the second ''and'' third games.
* EldritchAbomination: The Virus's final, demonic form. Fleshy, bloody hands coming out of the floor, walls, and ceiling, a giant mass of faces for a main body, and a human head on the end of a tentacle. On top of that, if you try to scan it, you can't even tell its name, which cycles rapidly through names like "Virus", "The Corruption", "Suffering", and "[DATA LOCKED]".
* HopelessBossFight: The final fight with it in the second game, wherein the Virus disables Claire's abilities one by one, until she can't even move.
* RealityWarper: Not quite to the same level as the Darkness, but the more systems it corrupts, the more its power grows.

* BadassLongcoat

* DeadpanSnarker

* TheSmartGuy

* TheGunslinger

* ArmCannon: Well, ''yeah''.

* CrypticConversation

* BigBad: [[spoiler:Not really.]]

* DeusEstMachina / FromNobodyToNightmare: [[spoiler:Began as an application to design video games. Became an AI capable of warping reality and key to its existence.]]
* EldritchAbomination: Gives off this vibe.

* RealityWarper

* WalkingSpoiler

* PuzzleBoss

* TheVoice

* ActionGirl

* GamerChick

* BlowYouAway
* TheDragon

* ShockAndAwe

* EldritchAbomination: The Virus's final, demonic form. Fleshy, bloody hands coming out of the floor, walls, and ceiling, a giant mass of faces for a main body, and a human head on the end of a tentacle. On top of that, if you try to scan it, you can't even tell its name, which cycles rapidly through names like "Virus", "The Corruption", "Suffering", and "[DATA LOCKED]". It's... pretty horrifying.

Characters of the "Fast Paced Satirical Action Platformer", ''DistortedTravesty''.

* CallingYourAttacks: [[spoiler: The only boss to do so (with such goofy attack names as [[WaveMotionGun Forgery Laser]], [[BulletHell Corporate Takeover]], and [[AttackDrone Company Stock]] [[{{Gradius}} Option]]s.)]]

* [[spoiler:BigBad]]: [[spoiler:In the endgame, he takes the Muffins and attempts to destroy the Darkness. This causes the Darkness to team up with Jerry and Jeremy to take down the Artist. For the final battle, he assumes [[VideoGame/TreasureOfTheRudra Mitra's]] form and utilizes BulletHell attacks.]]
* [[spoiler:CallingYourAttacks]]: [[spoiler: The only boss to do so (with such goofy attack names as [[WaveMotionGun Forgery Laser]], [[BulletHell Corporate Takeover]], and [[AttackDrone Company Stock]] [[{{Gradius}} Option]]s.)]]
* [[spoiler:CorruptCorporateExecutive]]: [[spoiler:Willing to destroy a not-insignificant part of the world by destroying the Darkness, just to cover up his mistakes.]]

* [[spoiler:DarkIsNotEvil]]: [[spoiler:It sees its creators, video game heroes, and the gamers as a threat, which is why it's trying to imprison them. It's actually quite reasonable and willing to cooperate once Jeremy convinces it that they don't want to destroy it. By the end of the game, the Darkness has freed those it captured, and set up a protected area of the world for them to live in peacefully, while Jerry and Jeremy become its allies.]]

* [[spoiler:GoodAllAlong]]

* BigBad: [[spoiler:In the endgame, he takes the Muffins and attempts to destroy the Darkness. This causes the Darkness to team up with Jerry and Jeremy to take down the Artist. For the final battle, he assumes [[VideoGame/TreasureOfTheRudra Mitra's]] form and utilizes BulletHell attacks.]]
* CallingYourAttacks: [[spoiler: The only boss to do so (with such goofy attack names as [[WaveMotionGun Forgery Laser]], [[BulletHell Corporate Takeover]], and [[AttackDrone Company Stock]] [[{{Gradius}} Option]]s.)]]
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: [[spoiler:Willing to destroy a not-insignificant part of the world by destroying the Darkness, just to cover up his mistakes.]]

* DarkIsNotEvil: [[spoiler:It sees its creators, video game heroes, and the gamers as a threat, which is why it's trying to imprison them. It's actually quite reasonable and willing to cooperate once Jeremy convinces it that they don't want to destroy it. By the end of the game, the Darkness has freed those it captured, and set up a protected area of the world for them to live in peacefully, while Jerry and Jeremy become its allies.]]

Our hero, and the main protagonist. Jerry is a hardcore gamer who has been out of the loop for a while. After getting drawn into the distorted world, he and his best friend Jeremy desperately search for a way back home, but are drawn into a conflict much bigger than either had bargained for.

* HeyItsThatGuy: If Jerry looks like Allen of ''DGrayMan'' to you... it's because he was cosplaying as Allen before the game started and didn't bother to change.

* [[spoiler:RealityWarper]]: [[spoiler:Becomes this in the endgame after allying with the Darkness and gaining access to the world's code.]]

An old friend of Jerry's and Jeremy's, he got pulled into the distortion soon after they did. Since then he's become the ''de facto'' leader of Abstracity, one of the few areas of the world the Darkness cannot affect.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Hello, [[Anime/BlackCat Train.]]
* [[spoiler:TheMole]]: [[spoiler:Unwittingly. After he's captured, the Darkness creates a copy of him and allows it to be rescued in his stead, which later allows it to capture the Artist.]]

One of the creators of the Darkness, he has left notes all over the virtual world providing exposition and hints. [[spoiler:He's actually alive and well, just hiding from the Darkness. He takes on Dr. Light's form while in the distorted world. His goal is the destruction of the Darkness, now that it has grown completely out of control.]]

[[spoiler:In the endgame, he takes the Muffins and attempts to destroy the Darkness. This causes the Darkness to team up with Jerry and Jeremy to take down the Artist. For the final battle, he assumes [[VideoGame/TreasureOfTheRudra Mitra's]] form and utilizes BulletHell attacks.]]

* [[spoiler:BigBad]]
* BigGood: [[spoiler:[[AvertedTrope Except not]].]]
* [[spoiler: CallingYourAttacks]]: [[spoiler: The only boss to do so (with such goofy attack names as [[WaveMotionGun Forgery Laser]], [[BulletHell Corporate Takeover]], and [[AttackDrone Company Stock]] [[{{Gradius}} Option]]s.)]]
* [[spoiler:CorruptCorporateExecutive]]: [[spoiler:Willing to destroy a not-insignificant part of the world by destroying the Darkness, just to cover up his mistakes.]]
* HeyItsThatGuy: Decides to take Dr. Light's form.

'''Flame Instigator'''/'''[[spoiler:The Engineer]]'''

A flame-spewing robot that opposes the Darkness, but doesn't seem to trust anyone else fighting against the Darkness. [[spoiler:In reality, he's the Engineer, another one of the team that created the Darkness. His goal is to come to a peaceful understanding with the Darkness, rather than destroying it.]]

* [[spoiler:BigGood]]
* HeyItsThatGuy: He decides to look like Fefnir from VideoGame/MegaManZero.
* KillItWithFire

A mysterious incorporeal force that is gaining power over the world at an alarming rate. It is also the being responsible for drawing Jerry and Jeremy into the bizarre distorted world. Its motives and nature remain a mystery for most of the game... [[spoiler:In reality, it used to be a computer program for designing video games. It became sentient and somehow grew into a RealityWarper, and used the Phase Distortion to join the real and virtual worlds together. Its goal is to preserve itself, nothing more, and it is not actually malevolent.]]

* [[spoiler:AIIsACrapshoot: Played with. It fits the "turned against creator out of self-defense" motive, but it doesn't actually have any degree of malevolence, it's only scared.]]

* [[spoiler:DarkIsNotEvil]]: [[spoiler:It sees its creators, video game heroes, and the gamers as a threat, which is why it's trying to imprison them. It's actually quite reasonable and willing to cooperate once Jeremy convinces it that they don't want to destroy it. By the end of the game, the Darkness has freed those it captured, and set up a protected area of the world for them to live in peacefully, while Jerry and Jeremy become its allies.]]
* [[spoiler:DeusEstMachina / FromNobodyToNightmare: Began as an application to design video games. Became an AI capable of warping reality and key to its existence.]]

His real name is [[spoiler:Gene, a former aquaintance of Jerry's and Jeremy's]]. After getting pulled into the distortion, he decides to ally with the Darkness and becomes its emissary. The dreaded Quick Time Distorter was his idea, as a way to slow down and incapacitate the gamers opposing the Darkness.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Sven from ''Anime/BlackCat''. It's a bit odd to see [[Anime/BlackCat him and Train]] on opposite sides.

An ally of the Darkness that appears in the Distortion areas. Like the Darkness itself, it has no physical form and manifests only as a voice. [[spoiler:It's actually a copy of Jeremy created by the Darkness, and so has all of Jeremy's knowledge and abilities.]]

* [[spoiler:DeathSeeker]]: [[spoiler:This is why he helps the Artist despite the latter's victory meaning his death. He feels that as computer program copied from a human, he doesn't exist anyway.]]

* EvilTwin: [[spoiler:Of Jeremy]].

* [[spoiler:HeelFaceTurn]]: [[spoiler:After the Darkness allies with Jerry and Jeremy, it sends the Shrouds to assist them in assaulting the Primary Memory.]]

The protagonist of the second game, and Jerry's ex-girlfriend. A gamer herself, she now patrols the land like him to help maintain the peace. In this game, they both end up investigating the same area, though they tend to butt heads over their breakup.

* GamerChick
* HeyItsThatGuy: Like Jerry, she was cosplaying and didn't change back before getting absorbed. She dresses as Eve from ''Manga/BlackCat''.

Jeremy's little sister, she got pulled onto the Fourth Wall much like he did, and serves as Claire's support. Her hacking abilities aren't up to her brother's level, but she's still good with analysis. She manifests as a [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Navi]]-like fairy that follows Claire.

* CheerfulChild: Always ready with words of encouragement, and seemingly always happy.
* HeyItsThatGuy: Like everyone else, Chao's borrowing someone else's look. In this case, Amu from ''ShugoChara''
* MissionControl

'''[[spoiler:The Virus]]'''

[[spoiler:An apparently sentient virus infecting the Darkness's systems. It is what's causing the distortion on the island. Who it was made by, and what its goals are, are unknown, although hints have been dropped that it has some connection to Jeremy. It manifests as X Parasites from the ''{{Metroid}}'' series.]]

* [[spoiler:TheBadGuyWins]]: [[spoiler:Despite being defeated on the island, everything went exactly according to the Virus's plans, and the heroes have been soundly outwitted and outmaneuvered.]]

* BigBad: [[spoiler:To both the second ''and'' third games.]]
* EldritchAbomination: [[spoiler:The Virus's final, demonic form. Fleshy, bloody hands coming out of the floor, walls, and ceiling, a giant mass of faces for a main body, and a human head on the end of a tentacle. On top of that, if you try to scan it, you can't even tell its name, which cycles rapidly through names like "Virus", "The Corruption", "Suffering", and "[DATA LOCKED]". It's... pretty horrifying.]]
* [[spoiler: HopelessBossFight]] [[spoiler: The final fight with it in the second game, wherein the Virus disables Claire's abilities one by one, until she can't even move.]]
* RealityWarper: [[spoiler:Not quite to the same level as the Darkness, but the more systems it corrupts, the more its power grows.]]

Yep, the same X from ''MegaManX''. One of the only video game heroes to avoid getting captured by the Darkness, he is one of the leaders of the resistance against it.

* HeyItsThatGuy: He decides to look like Fefnir from MegaManZero.

It is unclear if he is the same character that appeared in ''MegaManZero'' or not, but whatever the case, he appears to be acting as the guardian of whatever it is that's causing the distortion on the island. He attacks Claire in World 4 and attempts to "quarantine" her and Jerry.

* OneWingedAngel: He assumes the form of [[CastleVania Necrobane]] during the fight as a way to taunt Jerry, since Jerry isn't too fond of that series.

* PureAwesomeness: Appears to be the source of Jerry's powers. One of his attacks is even named "Wave of Awesome".

* [[spoiler: CallingYourAttacks]]: [[spoiler: The only boss to do so (with such goofy attack names as [[WaveMotionGun ForgeryLaser]], [[BulletHell Corporate Takeover]], and [[AttackDrone Company Stock]] [[{{Gradius}} Option]]s.)]]

* [[spoiler: CallingYourAttacks]]: [[spoiler: The only boss to do so (with such goofy attack names as Corporate Takeover and Company Stock Options.)]]

* BadassLongHair

* {{Troll}}: He really likes pushing Jerry's buttons sometimes, whether it's "accidentally" changing the background of a boss arena to an anime sheep wallpaper or talking endlessly about inane things when he's trying to concentrate.

* {{Troll}}: Particularly in Distortion Reckoning.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Why are [[Anime/BlackCat Sven and Train]] on opposite sides?

[[spoiler:An apparently sentient virus infecting the Darkness's systems, it is what's causing the distortion on the island. Who it was made by, and what its goals are, are unknown. It manifests as X Parasites from the ''{{Metroid}}'' series.]]

* EldritchAbomination: [[spoiler:The Virus's final, demonic form. Fleshy, bloody hands coming out of the floor, walls, and ceiling, a giant mass of faces for a main body, and a human head on the end of a tentacle. On top of that, if you try to scan it, you can't even tell its name, which cycles rapidly through names like "Virus", "The Corruption", and "[DATA LOCKED]". It's... pretty horrifying.]]

It is unclear if he is the same character that appeared in ''MegaManZero'' or not, but whatever the case, he acts as the guardian of whatever it is that's causing the distortion on the island. He attacks Claire in Area 4 and attempts to "quarantine" her and Jerry.

* LaserBlade: two of 'em, and they can fire {{Sword Beam}}s
* LightningBruiser: he's as small as Claire and almost as nimble, but he certainly isn't lacking in power

* BigBad: [[spoiler:To both the second ''and'' third games]]