History Characters / TheBlackHeart

* ExpendableClone: Unlike the other characters, you're not necessarily playing any one Shar-Makai, just whichever one is currently "on duty" for that fight. As a ''win pose'', one of the other members of the horde can drop in and challenge your Shar-Makai -- and ''cut them in half''. You'll presumably be playing that Shar-Makai now.

* AssholeVictim: He is killed by the brother of one of the victims of his rampage. While that doesn't initially work as planned due to the pacts he made with the dead, Karma catches up to him when [[spoiler: he's forced to spend his immortal live fighting his dad.]]

* DeathSeeker: Wishes to use the power of the Black Heart to die. [[spoiler: With the help of the black heart, he finally manages to kill himself in his ending.]]

* SheKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler: She is killed by Janos upon learning that he was the one who killed the old king, not final.]]

* DecapitationPresentation: Shows off his own head for one of his win poses.

* UndeadChild: Looks like a cutesy skeleton, is actually a ghost.

* DeathSeeker: Wishes to use the power of the Black Heart to die. [[spoiler: He gets it in his ending.]]

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Some of his special moves involves sharp metals impaling his body, with him not being affected by them.

* GentleGiant: He is the biggest character of all the game, and we only see his head in Hashi's opening cutscene and stage arena. He is also focused on keeping harmony between humans and nature spirits.

* {{Pacifist}}: He along with his people initially banish Hashi due to his violence against humans.

A deformed nature spirit, who is forced to team-up with Hashi to travel to the other world and stop the corruption of the plants on earth.

* ExactWords: [[spoiler: While at first he refuses to bring back Hashi with the corrupted seed, he admits he has to obey Malen's orders... that is to get rid of Hashi if he betrays them]].

* WeaponizedTeleportation: [[spoiler: In Hashi's ending, Bako uses uses his power to "take care" of Hashi when he betrays Malen's cause by teleporting him to a pit and leaving him behind.]]

A "Psychiatrist" that visits Peketo and interviews it when he is locked in the mental institution, with the intention of avenging the murder of his brother and succeeding on it, but ultimately being killed by the ghost of Peketo.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: He succeeds in avenging his brother's death... however, this only alows Peketo to come back as a more powerful ghost and starts his new killing spree with him.

* PsychoPsychologist: Downplayed; he's willing to murder his own patient in the heat of the moment, but feels remorse once it dawns on him just what he did. Averted on the remastered version, as he admits to Peketo that he wasn't a psychiatrist before murdering him.

* VengeanceDenied: He sneaks into the asylum to kill Peketo to avenge his brother, who was murdered by the kid. His revenge fails as despite killing the child, Peketo turns into a physical ghost due to the pacts he made, and kills him in return before escaping the hospital to search for the black heart in the other world.

* MsFanservice: Even her normal attire shows off her legs.

* ArchnemesisDad: [[spoiler:She doesn't realize until it's too late that his father is willing to sacrifice her, her grandfather, and anyone else if it means solidifying his rule over the other world. This realization happens in the very last moments Anansi's [[DownerEnding ending]] -- which ends with the old man [[AndShowItToYou ripping out]] ''[[AndShowItToYou her]]'' [[AndShowItToYou heart]], too. However, in the Final version, she avoids Janos's sneak attack and survives enough to quickly change sides and fight him twice before falling in combat.]]

* EcoTerrorist: He really hates humans and before the events of the game he already stole and terrorized them. He hates them so much that [[spoiler: he lets one of his seeds be corrupted with enough power to cover the planet in vegetation while wiping out humanity in one fell swoop. Of course, this causes his downfall.]]

The daughter of prince Janos. She hates chaos and can't stand 'abominations' born from it, the Shar-Makai included. After hearing her father sent his army to recover the Black Heart, Ananzi objects, having trained all her life to serve her father only to be substituted by monsters. Her father then apologizes and asks her to retrieve the heart by herself, to demonstrate her true value.

* PromotedToPlayable: [[spoiler:He can become this if you complete every story mode of the original game and unlock the codes given by each character, or finish Janos final chapter in the Final version. [[CuttingTheKnot Or, you know, just download him off of some MUGEN character site]]...]]

* BilingualBonus: All his spoken likes and victory quotes are in spanish.

* SeductiveSpider: Ananzi is a fanservicy spider-woman who's made out of [[TheWormThatWalks a collective of spider]].

* SinisterSilhouettes: The original version depicts him as a shadowy figure. The expanded version explains that he really ''is'' a shadow person...usually. [[spoiler: He got his current look after he killed the creator of the human world and statted wearing his skin. The few glimpses we see of Janos without the shadow skin show that he's as pale as Ananzi.]]

* {{Foil}}: She serves as a benevolent one for Peketo. While both are violent ghosts with pale skin, are dressed in red outfits, and want the power of the heart, [[spoiler: Noroko was used as a sacrifice against her will and wants to use her heart to tame her perpetual anger and go to the afterlife, earns Final’s sympathy and uses it to go to the afterlife]], Peketo, on the other hand, became a ghost after being killed in an act of revenge after doing mass-murder and willfully read dark magic to extend his timespan, [[spoiler: desires to have the black heart for his own entitlement, disgusting Final who no only denies it from him, but forces Peketo into a neverending battle against his abusive father]].

* {{Foil}}: He serves as a malevolent one for Noroko. While both are violent ghosts with pale skin, are dressed in red outfits, and want the power of the heart, Peketo willfully became a ghost by making pacts to the death, murdered numerous people when he was still alive, [[spoiler: wants to get the black heart for his own entitled purposes and is forced by Final into an eternal fight against his dad as punishment]], Noroko [[spoiler:was killed and forced to spent centuries as a trapped ghost, wants to use the hearth to tame her soul and go to the afterlife and earns final sympathy.]]

* {{Foil}}: She serves as a benevolent one for Peketo. While both are violent ghosts with pale skin, are dressed in red outfits, and want the power of the heart, Noroko was used as a sacrifice against her will and wants to use her heart to tame her perpetual anger and go to the afterlife, earns Final’s sympathy and uses it to go to the afterlife, Peketo, on the other hand, became a ghost after being killed and willfully reading dark magic to extend his timespan, desires to have the black heart for his own entitlement, disgusting Final who no only denies it from him, but forces Peketo into a neverending battle against his abusive father.

* {{Foil}}: He serves as a malevolent one for Noroko. While both are violent ghosts with pale skin, are dressed in red outfits, and want the power of the heart, Peketo willfully became a ghost by making pacts to the death, wants to get the black heart for his own entitled purposes and is forced by Final into an eternal fight against his dad as punishment, Noroko was killed and forced to spent centuries as a trapped ghost, wants to use the hearth to tame her soul and go to the afterlife and earns final sympathy.

* RedIsViolent: He's a violent and psychopathic young serial killer whose clothes are covered in red and has a weird fascination of that very same color.

Hashi belongs to an ancient race of nature spirits who shaped and constructed our world. He was banished from the forest where the rest of his (now nearly extinct) race lives for his excessive violence against humans. When the heart of the king was stolen, the forest began to become corrupted and twisted. Malen, the leader of his race, now offers to end his exile. In exchange, he is sent to find the source of the corruption in the chaos between worlds, since he is the only one of his race with any aptitude for fighting. He is accompanied by Bako, a small plant creature able to travel between worlds.

* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:He suffers one of these thanks to Bako, who sends him to a pit (which may or not be [[BottomlessPit bottomless]]) after he decides to betray humanity.]]

* EcoTerrorist: He really hates humans and before the events of the game he already stole and terrorized them. He hates them so much that [[spoiler: he lets one of his seeds to be corrupted with enough power to cover the planet in vegetation while wiping out humanity in one fell swoop. Of course, this causes his downfall.]]

* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Or rather, who wants to spend the rest of the eternity trapped inside a doll?

* {{Geisha}}: She transforms briefly into one of these if she is affected by Animus's Iron Virgin super or any other Midnight Bliss-esque attack in M.U.G.E.N. For what happens in the final version, see below.

* {{Samurai}}: In the Final version she transforms briefly into one of these if she attacks Animus's Iron Virgin super with low life.

[[folder: The Psychiatrist (David)]]
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A "Psychiatrist" that visits Peketo and interviews it when he is locked in the mental institution, with the intention of avenging the murder of his brother and succeeding on it, but ultimately being killed by the ghost of Peketo.

* MsFanservice: Even her normal attire shows off [[ShesGotLegs her shapely legs]].

* HeroicSecondWind: Inverted - it's a Villainous Second Wind. [[spoiler: At the end of his story Anazi and Final nearly kill him, but right when it looks like he's dead, Janos quickly draws on a secret power of the Black Heart.]] He then gets up and beats both his opponents in a surprisingly badass moment.

* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: Goes through a brief one near the end of his story in the Steam release. A surprise attack from Anazi puts him at the edge of death, and he starts freaking out, unable to believe that all his plans failed.]] Then he gets his [[HeroicSecondWind Villanous Second Wind]]...

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Peketo killed his father by cutting off his head. Later on, he is killed by getting his head cut off by his psychiatrist, whose brother was one of Peketo's victims.

* SinisterSilhouettes: His face isn't seen. In the cutscenes such as the intro in the Final version, only parts of his true self were shown before attaining his shadowy look.

* MisanthropeSupreme: To Hashi, humans are a disease towards nature.

* BilingualBonus: In one of his victory poses he declares that the yerba mate that Bako brought him is bitter. It's more notable as a standalone M.U.G.E.N. character, where he has some victory quotes in english and some in spanish.

* BullyingADragon: He is often seen bullying and making insulting remarks to Bako, who has the ability to transport him to other worlds. [[spoiler: This leads Hashi to his demise, as Bako transports him to his doom upon betraying humanity and bullying Bako one final time.]]
* EdibleAmmunition: Hashi can grow apples ,oranges and even giant watermelons from his feet and throw them at his foes.

* RealMenWearPink: One of his intros has him watering some flowers. In one of his winning poses he jumps on top of a giant flower before chuckling evily.

* TokenEvilTeammate: Of his fellow nature spirits. This actually serves purpose, as he is the only one of them with any fighting competence.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: She is alongside Animus one of the only fighters who get a happy ending, as Final takes pity of her and shares a small portion of the power of the heart so she could purge her soul]]
* TheFaceless: As a ghost, her face is usually blank, except when she attacks her opponents. [[spoiler:Her full face is trapped on the doll's face, indicating her soul is trapped. At the end, the doll's face fades out while she regains her face back after she purges her soul.]]
* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler: The one who killed her trapped her soul inside a doll, making her suffering inside it for centuries.]]

* CombatSadomasochist: He has attacks which involve self-injury, claims that his own blood brings him pleasure, and keeps his SlasherSmile even as the opponent beats him up.

* GenderBender: Although he is addresed as a male, in the battlefield he randomly switches between male and female forms during combat, and can change the genders of his opponents before impaling them if they have low health when activating the Iron Virgin hyper.

A race of worm monsters born in chaos, captured by the Prince of the Other World and trained to become his loyal servants. They can change their size at will, and can plant their embryos in their victim's bodies, so they can multiply even after being killed. Their current mission is to find Final and obtain the heart from him.

* PromotedToPlayable: [[spoiler:He can become this if you complete every story mode of the original game and unlock the codes given by each character, or finishing Janos final chapter in the Final version. [[CuttingTheKnot Or, you know, just download him off of some MUGEN character site]]...]]

* SinisterSilhouettes: His face isn't seen. In the cutscenes such as the intro in the Final version, only parts of his true self were be shown before attaining his shadowy look.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler: He kills his father, the Shar-Makai and his own daughter when they are no longer of use for his evil plans.]]

* GentleGiant: He is the biggest character of all the game, and we only see his head in Hashi's opening cutscene and stage arena. He is also focused on keeping peace between humans and nature spiritsl

[[folder: David]]

* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: He introduces himself to Peketo as David, but the subtitles simply refer to him as "Psychiatrist".

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Quotes this almost verbatim upon realising that he has just murdered a child. Averted on the remastered version.

* ArchnemesisDad: Due to being abused by him, Peketo growth to hate his father to the point he decided that he will be his first victim, [[spoiler: and being willing to fight against him until the end of time]].