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| 18 | !!Original Cast |
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| 20 | [[folder:Filia (and Samson)]] |
| 21 | !!Filia [[spoiler:Medici]] |
| 22 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ChristineMarieCabanos (English) / Creator/AyanaTaketatsu (Japanese) |
| 23 | [[quoteright:302:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/filia_tvtropes_3818.png]] |
| 24 | [[caption-width-right:302:'''''Femme Fatale''''']] |
| 25 | ->'''Filia:''' ''"Let's go, Samson!"''\ |
| 26 | '''Samson:''' ''"Hell yeah!"''\ |
| 27 | |
| 28 | -> A schoolgirl who woke up one day with a couple problems: first, she can't remember who she is, and second, she has a new "friend"-- a powerful, hair-like Parasite named Samson. She seeks the Skull Heart to hopefully remedy these issues, although doing so requires this odd couple to figure out how to cooperate.\ |
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| 30 | -> Filia is an incredibly versatile rushdown character with an emphasis on mixing up her opponent. While she has relatively short-ranged attacks, she more than makes up for it with her incredibly high mobility, which is further supported by her small size. A core component of Filia's mobility is her airdash, which is one of, if not ''the'' fastest in the game, and is built around her stubby air normals. |
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| 32 | !!Tropes associated with Filia: |
| 33 | * AmnesiacHero: Her memories were erased when Samson was bonded to her. [[spoiler: Or rather [[EasyAmnesia it was caused]] when Ottomo [[TapOnTheHead bashed her head against a wall.]]]] |
| 34 | * AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: In Eliza's story mode, Sekhmet still has a sadistic crush on Samson despite everything that happened, but doesn't particularly care for Filia. She's promptly beaten up, bound and mummified in a blood construct until she can find Samson a new host. Considering Eliza left room for her nose to breathe, she's probably still conscious in there.]] |
| 35 | * ApologeticAttacker: She doesn't ''want'' to fight, but she has to. |
| 36 | * TheAtoner: Becomes this when she remembers [[spoiler:what happened to Carol, to the point where she [[HeroicSacrifice wishes on the Skull Heart]] for her to be able to go back to a normal life]]. |
| 37 | * BackToBackBadasses: Helps Squigly defeat Double in the TrueFinalBoss of Squigly's story mode. The two also attempt to do this at the end of [[VillainProtagonist Eliza's]] story mode... [[spoiler:[[TheBadGuyWins That one didn't work out so well]]]]. |
| 38 | * BadassAdorable: Filia is as adorable as she is a fierce fighter. |
| 39 | * BadassBookworm: Considering the fact that "reading and learning" is listed in her likes. |
| 40 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: She's arguably the nicest character in the entire game. She's also a [[GlassCannon Glass Cannon]] and one of the more powerful playable characters. It's a fighting game, however, so it's unavoidable. |
| 41 | * BigEater: "Eating" is listed among her likes. She's a bit HollywoodPudgy, though it should be noted [[spoiler:as seen in flashbacks in Painwheel's storyline]] she was still quite skinny even before Samson. As mentioned below, due to her and Samson being symbionts, any nutrients he eats and doesn't digest go to her (and vice-versa). |
| 42 | * BittersweetEnding: |
| 43 | ** She wishes to return [[spoiler:Painwheel]] into [[spoiler:her former friend Carol]] again and give her a normal life. The Skull Heart grants her wish, but detects that some small part of her intention is to absolve herself, as she feels somewhat guilty about [[spoiler:Painwheel's current state]]. Thus, [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie Filia is doomed to become the next Skullgirl]]. At the very least, as her wish was mostly pure even by the [[JackassGenie Skull Heart]]'s standards, [[spoiler:the Heart slows down her painful transformation]]. |
| 44 | ** Her origin in the mobile game, though it leans a lot more on the bitter. [[spoiler:Her family is attacked by Marie and she nearly kills them all, despite Filia trying to plead that they've long since distanced themselves from the rest of the Medicis and never actually took part in their criminal activities. Samson and his host-dog manage to fight Marie off for a short time, triggering some sort of memory within her that leads her to show Filia's family mercy on the condition that they leave New Meridian. They prepare to do so - only for Vitale to come knocking at the last moment, see them all ready for departure after every other Medici-branch in New Meridian has been killed and [[MistakenForBetrayal assume betrayal]], ordering Ottomo to gun them all down. Samson's host is killed, forcing him to transfer to a barely alive Filia. The two of them survive and manage to escape, but Filia's entire family is dead and due to Samson attaching himself to her head she no longer has any memory of who she is. Though that might have been a mercy, considering everything.]] |
| 45 | * BodyHorror: If [[http://steamtradingcards.wikia.com/wiki/Skullgirls_-_Valentine Valentine's trading card]] is accurate, Samson ''replaced most of her skull''. |
| 46 | * BoundAndGagged: [[spoiler:In Eliza's story mode, she's held captive by Eliza via mummification in order to keep Samson in her sight, as the parasite needs her as a host until Eliza can find him another one more suited to her tastes.]] |
| 47 | * CallingYourAttacks: Only one example on her end, and she shares it with Samson: |
| 48 | -->''FENRIR...''\ |
| 49 | '''With Samson:''' '''''DRIIIIVE!''''' |
| 50 | * CantKillYouStillNeedYou: [[spoiler:Eliza keeps her captive in her story mode just to keep Samson alive until she can find him a "more suitable" host.]] |
| 51 | * TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget: |
| 52 | ** [[spoiler:Her wish to restore Carol's normal life will eventually make her the new Skullgirl.]] |
| 53 | ** An unused alternate ending implies this [[spoiler:is one of the reasons Samson is attached to her, and ''by her own request'']]. |
| 54 | * DownerEnding: In her own story mode, [[spoiler: Filia wishes for Painwheel AKA her old friend Carol to return to normal from her cruel experiments, but the Skullheart still warps this wish as a selfish need to absolve her amnesiac guilt. Due to how kind and selfless of a wish it was, Filia has plenty of time before she turns into a Skullgirl. She gets to be with Carol again, but as the sudden bouts of chest pain shows, she's not long for the world.]] |
| 55 | ** In Eliza's story, [[spoiler: Filia, Samson, Squigly and Leviathan utterly fail to take down Eliza and Sekhmet, and all of them are imprisoned for Eliza's own purposes. Sekhmet very much disapproves of Samson's current host (presumably wanting someone more submissive), and mummifies Filia in a blood construct for safe storage, with no hope of her getting out alive once Eliza finds what she needs for Samson.]] |
| 56 | * DueToTheDead: Despite their rivalry, Filia and Samson buried [[spoiler:Squigly and Leviathan again]], under a tree away from the city. |
| 57 | * EnemyMine: In Squigly's Story Mode, there's a battle where Filia and Samson fight alongside Squigly and Leviathan. [[spoiler: They also try this against [[VillainProtagonist Eliza]] in her story mode, which ends [[TheBadGuyWins about as well as you'd expect]].]] |
| 58 | * ExoticEyeDesigns: In her ending, [[spoiler: the 1/2 skull motif of the Skullgirl manifests on her eyes when she sees Painwheel.]] |
| 59 | * {{Expy}}: Her design is basically a younger [[VideoGame/GuiltyGear Millia Rage]], albeit with black hair instead (though her natural hair is blonde as well). |
| 60 | * EyeGlasses: One concept artpiece shows that (before she had her memories erased by Samson) she wears them. It should be noted that this was early concept. From the same time when she had hairpin swords and Peacock was older. |
| 61 | * FanDisservice: She's a cute, sweet young woman in a midriff baring [[CatholicSchoolGirlsRule school uniform]] with a [[BodyHorror face growing out the back of her head]] that is more than happy to beat and/or stab the crap out of anyone who lays a hand on his host without permission (as Riccardo and Lawrence find out the hard way). |
| 62 | * FemmeFatale: While she is [[InvokedTrope called one]], she really isn't one. Sure, she is an attractive young lady who is more then capable of handling herself in a fight. However, the main trait she lacks is that she isn't seductive, ''at all''. She has never once tried to seduce anyone, let alone say anything suggestive. |
| 63 | * FinalBoss: [[spoiler:Fukua fights the cast in reverse order so the usual Final Boss, Marie, is her sixth opponent. Appropriately enough, Filia -- with extra HP and five meters to start with -- is her last fight. She is also the final opponent in Eliza's story mode [[DualBoss alongside Squigly]], though without the aforementioned bonuses.]] |
| 64 | * {{Foil}}: Her and Samson are this to Squigly and Leviathan. Both Squigly and Filia are close with their respective Parasites, but have very different dynamics with them: Leviathan is a longtime family friend who (despite his occasional grumblings) is more than happy to defer to Squigly's judgement and vice-versa, while Samson is more of a rough-and-tumble bodyguard figure who does his own thing and (often literally) drags Filia along for the ride, reflected in their fighting styles. They also both inadvertently lose their normal lives in return: Filia loses her memories and becomes a vagrant unable to go back to how things were before, while Squigly becomes a slowly rotting zombie unable to carve a path for herself outside the shadow of the Skull Heart's cycle. Both of them were also [[spoiler: daughters of old money]] in their previous lives (and suffered greatly due to things [[SinsOfOurFathers they weren't responsible for]]) but approached their heritage in vastly different ways, with Filia's family completely cutting ties and living a normal life out of shame and Squigly's openly embracing it. |
| 65 | * GameplayAndStoryIntegration: Filia and Samson are [[UnskilledButStrong strong but incompetent at fighting together]], and Filia's playstyle is that of a rushdown character, an offensive character that has little regard for defense, but rather for overwhelming the opponent with special moves and easily reproduced combos. This type of character is also ideal for beginners learning how to play the game. |
| 66 | * GreaterNeedThanMine: [[spoiler:Instead of asking her memories back, she asked for a normal life for Painwheel. She can live on without her past, but Carol's life was destroyed entirely.]] |
| 67 | * HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: A natural blond, she was very much this before becoming the host of Samson. |
| 68 | * TheHeroine: She's ''claimed'' to be the main protagonist of the game and is a NiceGirl who uses her wish [[spoiler: to give Painwheel a normal life.]] However, this is downplayed by how little of an impact she actually provides. |
| 69 | * HeroicHost: Is the host to Samson, and the two get along surprisingly well. |
| 70 | * HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Wishing for Painwheel to live a normal life, as [[JackassGenie the Skull Heart]] still curses her to become the Skullgirl, albeit with a delayed transformation.]] |
| 71 | * {{Hobo}}: According to WordOfGod, Samson has a lot of "friends" he bugs to get the currently-homeless Filia and him a place to sleep. If neither player is using her, she'll be riding the rails on the Meridian Rapid Transit stage. An observant eye can find her sleeping on the scaffolding of Medici Tower. |
| 72 | * HomeStage: Maplecrest. |
| 73 | * IdentityAmnesia: Thanks to having her head attached to Samson. |
| 74 | * ImTakingHerHomeWithMe: Says this when fighting [[CuteMachines Robo-Fortune.]] Samson doesn't want it though. |
| 75 | * {{Irony}}: A [[spoiler:Medici mafia daughter]] ends up being good friends with Squigly, a victim of [[spoiler:said mafia]] who was gunned down mercilessly. While the two girls get along pretty well, Samson and Leviathan aren't so quick to let their hosts get friendly with the other. |
| 76 | * {{Leitmotif}}: "The Lives We Left Behind", although that's shared with Painwheel's. |
| 77 | * LockedIntoStrangeness: Bonding with Samson turned her hair black. |
| 78 | * LovableAlphaBitch: It's implied her old, pre-amnesia personality was like this, considering both her background and her kind attitude toward [[spoiler:Carol]] in those days. [[spoiler:The mobile game, which goes into her backstory, very much confirms this to be the case.]] |
| 79 | * MafiaPrincess: [[spoiler:Her true origin. Downplayed in that her family cut ties with the mafia eventually but she still considered Vitale her uncle pre-amnesia.]] |
| 80 | * MeaningfulName: Filia is Latin for daughter, and [[spoiler: she's a daughter of the Medici mafia]]. |
| 81 | * MustHaveCaffeine: Implied, considering coffee is one of the things she likes. |
| 82 | * MummyWrap: [[spoiler:In Eliza's story, she is bound and gagged this way to keep Samson still while Eliza searches for a new host for him.]] |
| 83 | * NerdActionHero: She likes reading and learning, and she has monster hair that eats people she doesn't like. |
| 84 | * NiceGirl: In contrast with Samson, she's a kindly and good person [[spoiler:and even as a MafiaPrincess, she was this pre-amnesia]]. |
| 85 | * NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Happens in her ending. |
| 86 | * NotQuiteBackToNormal: At the end of her storyline, she's back at school, still with amnesia, a parasite for hair and [[spoiler:initiating the slow and painful transformation into the next Skullgirl]]. |
| 87 | * PowersDoTheFighting: While Filia is capable of handling herself, she doesn't so much as fight as she has her body used as a mace, or is maneuvering Samson around, as neither Filia nor Samson are particularly [[UnskilledButStrong skilled at fighting]]. |
| 88 | * QuestForIdentity: Initially she wanted to wish her memories back upon obtaining the Skull Heart, that is until she encountered [[spoiler:Carol (or at least what's left of her after becoming Painwheel)]]. |
| 89 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: A side-effect of hosting Samson (implied to be due to the [[AppliedPhlebotinum Theonite energy]] from the Parasites). However, she is very nice and naive. |
| 90 | * TheRival: WordOfGod says that she's this to Squigly, especially the relationship between Leviathan and Samson. |
| 91 | ** FriendlyEnemy: Despite that, Filia and Squigly are rather decent towards each other when they met. |
| 92 | * SchoolUniformsAreTheNewBlack: Potentially justified, in that she's homeless and they're probably the only clothes she owns at this point, as evidenced by the fact that she wears them even while riding the rails in the background of the Meridian Area Rapid Transport stage. |
| 93 | * {{Shotoclone}}: [[WordOfGod Mike Z said]] she's the game's [[Franchise/StreetFighter Ryu]]-clone -- although she's not a perfect example, because she doesn't have a projectile attack. Ringlet Spear is the closest she has to one, except that it pops out of the ground at specific locations instead of traveling horizontally. |
| 94 | * SinsOfOurFathers: The BigBad wants to kill Filia [[spoiler:because she has Medici blood in her]]. |
| 95 | * SlowTransformation: Goes through this at the end of her story, painfully. |
| 96 | * SNKBoss: [[spoiler: When fought at the end of Fukua's Story Mode. This boss version of Filia has increased health, better AI, and starts with a full super meter.]] |
| 97 | * SupportingProtagonist: Despite being [[InvokedTrope stated]] to be the main protagonist of the game she has an ''extremely'' small role in the story compared to the likes of Peacock, Parasoul, and Painwheel. She didn't even have a speaking role in anyone else's storyline until Squigly's story was added. |
| 98 | * SymbioticPossession: Well, sorta. Samson takes control most of the time, but the two can work together when they need to. |
| 99 | * ThemeNaming: If you look at the names of her normal attacks when assigning a custom assist attacks, you can see that some of her kicks are named after the different levels of ZettaiRyouiki. Her punches are similarly named with hairstyles. |
| 100 | * TokenGoodTeammate: [[spoiler:For her family, the Medici, though the mobile game also implies that her parents were also fairly decent people.]] |
| 101 | * TraumaInducedAmnesia: Bonding with Samson caused her to lose all her memories...and considering how Samson seems to currently comprise much of her skull...[[spoiler:however, it's very possible that Ottomo nearly killing her could have caused the amnesia rather than Samson's bonding.]] |
| 102 | * UnskilledButStrong: Filia herself has very little experience with fighting even discounting her amnesia, but she gets by thanks to Samson's sheer power and ruthlessness in a fight, which is shown in the attack animations where the most Filia tends to do is get in close for Samson to morph himself into various attacking appendages, and what punches and kicks she uses herself are usually aided in power in some way by Samson. Most of her blockbuster moves are just her getting dragged along for Samson's big attacks. |
| 103 | * UseYourHead: Her Gregor Samson blockbuster move involves Samson turning into an insect and rushing Filia forward, using her head like a battering ram and hitting their opponent with it. |
| 104 | * VocalDissonance: An InUniverse example: Riccardo and Lawrence initially thought that she had this in her introduction, but it was actually Samson talking. |
| 105 | * WalkingTheEarth: According to a Q&A, Samson has made many contacts and "friends", including Yu-Wan, so he and Filia can get a place to sleep for the time when needed. |
| 106 | * WeightWoe: One of the aforementioned "side effects" of Samson's parasitism is that she gains weight from the food he eats. [[spoiler:As seen in ''Hostile Makeover'' and the flashbacks in Painwheel's storyline]], she was significantly skinnier before Samson. |
| 107 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: She alongside Squigly plays an integral role in separating Marie from the Skull Heart at the start of Marie's Story Mode, but both aren't even brought up for the rest of it. |
| 108 | * WhiteSheep: To the entire [[spoiler:Mafia Medici]] after her amnesia. [[spoiler:All Medicis and their workers]] are violent, ruthless, cold-blooded murderers. Filia is kind, good-natured, and only takes a life when she has no other choice. [[spoiler: As it turns out, this extended to her parents as well, their family having distanced themselves, then later outright cutting ties with the Medici wholesale.]] |
| 109 | * WorthIt: Her ending [[spoiler: where she's doomed to become the next Skullgirl]] shows that she (mostly) thinks that giving Carol her old life back is worth the price she'll have to pay. |
| 110 | * {{Yokai}}: She's based off of a fairly well-known minor yokai called the Futakuchi-onna, or "Two-Mouthed Woman"; a cursed woman who develops long PrehensileHair surrounding a large second mouth in the back of her skull, which has a ravenous appetite and a mind of its own, causing her to [[HorrorHunger devour any food she finds]]. |
| 111 | |
| 112 | !!Tropes associated with Samson: |
| 113 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/PatrickSeitz[[labelnote:*]][[https://twitter.com/Seitz_Unseen/status/593583795078475778 Credited as]] "Del Stetson" before ''2nd Encore''[[/labelnote]] (English) / Creator/TakashiKondo (Japanese) |
| 114 | * AmbiguouslyEvil: Little is known about Samson, but he's gruff, violent, he lies, and he apparently likes to gamble. Here's what we know. |
| 115 | ** An [[http://users.design.ucla.edu/~ahad/199/sg_chara_desc.txt old, outdated bio]] for Squigly states he's working for the mafia, but a quote against Big Band indicates that he wants to avoid them. |
| 116 | ** He also doesn't seem to want the skullheart as was claimed in Squigly's old bio, as when fighting the skullgirl he will say "this is for Delilah," an old host and possibly his best host. |
| 117 | ** He discourages Filia from investigating [[spoiler: Painwheel, who is part of her past]], but there's also that WhamLine in the unused alternate ending (see the Wham Line entry below). |
| 118 | ** He and Leviathan have each other's enmity, but [[spoiler: Samson ends up deciding to help him in the end of Squigly's story]] as well as [[spoiler: immediately deciding to [[EnemyMine team up with Leviathan]] to [[EveryoneHasStandards stop Eliza/Neferu]] in Eliza's story mode]]. |
| 119 | ** [[spoiler: Ultimately pushed squarely into the 'Good' category by the mobile game. He puts his life on the line multiple times to protect Filia and her family and is utterly heartbroken when Vitale has them and his host (a stray dog) gunned down in a fit of misplaced rage over the Skullgirl's rampage. Then he attached himself to Filia to save her from dying and it's heavily implied that the reason he tries to keep her from finding out about Carol/Painwheel is that he, unlike her, remembers how hard the loss of her best friend hit her back when she still had her memories.]] |
| 120 | * AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:He gets trapped in a blood sarcophagus by Eliza in her story mode.]] |
| 121 | * AnimeHair: Considering all the shapes he can take. |
| 122 | * BigEater: He's said to be a bit of a glutton, which explains why Filia is slightly pudgy. Since they're symbiotically attached, any nutrients he absorbs but doesn't digest go to her, and vice versa; likewise, when Samson drinks too much, they ''both'' get hammered. He even swallows her hat during her pre-fight animation. |
| 123 | * BigFriendlyDog: Before latching onto Filia, he had one of these as a host. [[spoiler: Sadly, it got gunned down by Ottomo in the raid on Filia's home.]] |
| 124 | * BondCreatures: He very much acts as one to Filia, and did the same to his previous host. [[spoiler:His possession of Filia very likely saved her life after nearly being killed by Ottomo, something which the mobile game implies is the real reason for her amnesia, rather than the symbiosis.]] |
| 125 | * CallingYourAttacks: Far more prone to this than his host is. |
| 126 | -->SPLIT ENDS!\ |
| 127 | BIG BOOT!\ |
| 128 | RINGLET SPIKE!\ |
| 129 | RINGLET SPIRE!\ |
| 130 | HAIRBALL!!\ |
| 131 | GREGOR SAMSON!! |
| 132 | * CombatTentacles: Samson has a number of tentacles protruding from him that he can use to attack opponents or shape-shift into other objects. |
| 133 | * CanisMajor: The Fenrir Drive Blockbuster ends with Samson transforming into a giant Wolf's head. |
| 134 | * DramaticWind: Two of Filia's victory poses have this. One has Samson shifting into a human-like shape and puffing out his chest while ''Filia'' sways dramatically in the breeze behind him. |
| 135 | * EvilFormerFriend: According to Leviathan, Samson was once noble, but he has long since strayed from that path. [[spoiler:Though considering he still absolutely ''loathes'' Eliza/Neferu, [[EvenEvilHasStandards it seems like he hasn't strayed too far.]]]] |
| 136 | * {{Flight}}: Can transform into wings for the Gregor Samson Blockbuster. |
| 137 | * FunnyAfro: When Filia performs her Infinite Detection animation, Samson poofs into a really large afro, complete with an afro comb. |
| 138 | * HeartbrokenBadass: |
| 139 | ** Eliza's story mode reveals that Samson may have had an exceptionally close relationship with a host long ago, a woman called [[ShoutOut Delilah]]. |
| 140 | ** Filia's origin in the mobile game shows him [[spoiler: devastated over having failed to protect Filia's family and his host at the time from Vitale and Ottomo.]] |
| 141 | ** A quote of his when fighting Marie indicates that Delilah died fighting a skullgirl. |
| 142 | * GoodAllAlong: [[spoiler:After spending much time in the AmbiguouslyEvil camp, with his motives behind bonding with Filia left a mystery, his story in the mobile game definitively shows that he's always had Filia's best interests at heart and bonded with her in order to save her life.]] |
| 143 | * HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Of the cut content variety. Originally, Samson is essentially just another asset to the Medicis. However, by the end of the game--at least in Filia's story mode--she's clearly become the center of his concerns, and not whatever his prior objective was.]] |
| 144 | * JerkassHasAPoint: In Squigly's story, Samson insulted Squigly's appearance and says the undead cannot be trusted when the Skullgirl is around. Although Leviathan's power has prevented Squigly from being controlled, [[spoiler:Marie said that the Skullheart's power could overwhelm her as her will falters.]] The Skullgirl has the ability to control the undead in the vicinity. |
| 145 | * ALighterShadeOfBlack: As morally ambiguous as he is, he's a saint compared to [[AxCrazy Sekhmet]]. [[spoiler:The mobile game's added backstory, however, pushes Samson firmly into GoodAllAlong territory.]] |
| 146 | * LovecraftianSuperpower: Samson can project tentacles, spines, and shapeshift to attack. |
| 147 | * ManBitesMan: Some powerful moves use Samson's teeth to bite opponents. |
| 148 | * MeaningfulName: |
| 149 | ** Samson is the name of a biblical figure whose covenant with God gave him superhuman strength so long as his hair was uncut. |
| 150 | ** "Del Stetson", the {{Stage Name|s}} Patrick Seitz used while voicing Samson until ''2nd Encore'', refers not only to Samson and '''Del'''ilah, but also [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stetson Stetson]], a very old manufacturer of hats. |
| 151 | * MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: He has a wide mouth studded with fangs, which he can tuck in to resemble a headband in case he needs to lie low. |
| 152 | * OverlyLongTongue: Any art with him sticking his tongue out tends to stray into this. |
| 153 | * PrehensileHair: He takes the place of Filia's hair, can morph into various objects, and is generally her main method of attack. |
| 154 | * ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: [[spoiler: Squigly's Story Mode reveals he's older than the Skull Heart. If Eliza's Story Mode is to be believed, he was even around when Lamia's daughters were alive and kicking.]] |
| 155 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: Unlike Filia, played straight, but only when he's extremely pissed. See the quote below. |
| 156 | * TheRival: To Leviathan, a shared sentiment that goes ''very'' far back. |
| 157 | * RollingAttack: The Hairball Special. |
| 158 | * ShapeshifterLongevity: On top of being a wearable ShapeshifterWeapon, it's indicated that he's been around for a long time. [[spoiler: He actually ''predates'' the Skull Heart.]] |
| 159 | * ShearMenace: Jumping High Kick turns parts of Samson into giant shears. |
| 160 | * ThisIsADrill: Filia's Standing Medium Punch turns Samson into a small drill. |
| 161 | * ShapeshifterWeapon: Can transform hair into weapons to be used in attacks. |
| 162 | * SupernaturalGoldEyes: [[MonochromaticEyes Completely solid ones]]. |
| 163 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:The mobile game reveals that he repelled Marie when she went after Filia's parents. Unfortunately, Marie sparing Filia's parents [[MistakenForBetrayal led Vitale to believe that Filia's parents were colluding with Marie]], and he had them killed. Filia also would've died had Samson not bonded with her.]] |
| 164 | * WhamLine: One of the DummiedOut lines in the original script has one for the ending where [[spoiler:Filia wishes for her memory back]]. ''Mobile'' giving more context to [[spoiler:Filia's past would suggest just ''why'' she would want to forget]]: |
| 165 | -->'''Samson''': No, Filia! [[spoiler:You asked me to...!]] |
| 166 | [[/folder]] |
| 167 | |
| 168 | [[folder:Cerebella (and Vice-Versa)]] |
| 169 | !!Cassandra Veranos / Cerebella |
| 170 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/CristinaValenzuela (English) / Creator/ToaYukinari (Japanese) |
| 171 | [[quoteright:302:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cerebella_offical_render.jpg]] |
| 172 | [[caption-width-right:302:'''''Diamond in the Rough''''']] |
| 173 | ->''"Get ready for a show-stopper!"''\ |
| 174 | |
| 175 | -> The star performer and the Diamond of the Cirques de Cartes, Cerebella is known across the Canopy Kingdom for both her amazing feats of strength and her alluring curves. Her strength is largely thanks to her hat, a living weapon named Vice Versa that only she can use. She's good at heart, but unfortunately is in with the wrong crowd-- the mobster Vitale Medici took her in a while back, and he's been like a father to her ever since.\ |
| 176 | |
| 177 | -> Cerebella is a tricky and versatile grappler with hefty, long-reaching strikes, but with some somewhat disjointed movement options to act as a counterbalance. Her airdash is incredibly lacking, and her ground dash has a fairly long startup period. However, she has access to a unique, armored command dash in the form of '''Tumbling Run''', which has a myriad of follow up attacks that can be used to break the opponent's defenses and lay the hurt on them with her command grabs |
| 178 | ---- |
| 179 | !!Tropes associated with Cerebella: |
| 180 | * AbandonedWarChild: She was born and raised in one of the countries/territories unlucky enough to be between the Canopy Kingdom and its enemies during King Franz's warmongering reign, now collectively called 'No Man's Land'. Her willingness to believe that the Medici are the [[NeighbourhoodFriendlyGangsters good guys]] is reinforced by her belief that the Renoirs ''had'' to be the bad guys for being responsible for the No Man's Land and all the suffering in it in the first place. |
| 181 | * AffablyEvil: She's a brutal hired muscle for the top dogs of the Medici Mafia, but she's also a kind and chipper young woman who loves making people ([[FriendToAllChildren especially children]]) smile as part of her job as a circus entertainer. |
| 182 | * AgitatedItemStomping: Her time-out animation has her throwing Vice-Versa down to the ground and stomping on him. |
| 183 | * AllThereInTheManual: Her real name of Cassandra Veranos was first revealed in the instruction manual that comes with the Limited Run Games physical edition of the game. |
| 184 | * AmbiguouslyBrown: According to WordOfGod, her ethnicity is the Skullverse equivalent of Brazilian. The manual for the physical edition of the game points more fingers towards this by revealing that her real name is the Brazilian-sounding Cassandra Veranos, with her fighting style being called "Circular Kick of the Summers Family" in Spanish[[note]]Patada Circular de la Familia de Veranos[[/note]]. The dev team probably intended that to be Portuguese, but well... |
| 185 | * AntiVillain: While she is a loyal and deadly enforcer of [[TheMafia the Medicis]], she truly is a good person at her core who just wants to help Vitale. |
| 186 | * ArmedLegs: She has blades hidden in the soles of her boots which uses to put an extra edge to her kicks. She actually learned this trick from [[EvilMentor BlackDahlia]]. |
| 187 | * AscendedFangirl: In-universe in Beowulf's story. She's a big fan of his and is quite happy to be the first person he fights as part of his comeback tour. |
| 188 | * AsideGlance: Looks towards the camera while Vice-Versa flashes twin peace signs when tagging out. Several of her other moves have a FreezeFrameBonus showing Cerebella looking at the screen. |
| 189 | * AssKicksYou: Her Butt Slam move from ''Mobile''. |
| 190 | * AssShove: Of the Kancho variety. You do NOT want those giant muscular fingers anywhere near your rear! |
| 191 | * BreakTheCutie: Her ending, where she realizes the only way to get the [[MacGuffin Life Gem]] back is [[spoiler:to kill Ms. Fortune (who ate it), which she does by crushing her]]. This is what finally makes Vitale return her affections, but now [[spoiler:her devotion to him has crossed the line into ''killing'' for him, and [[HeelRealization she's starting to regret what happened]]...]] |
| 192 | ** Happens again in Black Dahlia's campaign, [[spoiler:where Black Dahlia trounces both Cerebella ''and'' Eliza and forces Cerebella to watch her father figure ''[[BoomHeadshot right in the face.]]'' The last we see of her is Dahlia's henchbunnies throwing her in a cell to stew.]] |
| 193 | * BreastAttack: Her Excellebella throw normally involves lifting her opponent up by the ankle and slapping them in the face repeatedly. Using this on taller characters like Parasoul and Valentine results in this. |
| 194 | * BuxomBeautyStandard: One of the bustiest members of the cast, and she has a low-cut cleavage to emphasize them. In the story mode, Feng gets hit with ACupAngst when looking at Cerebella's chest. |
| 195 | * CallingYourAttacks: Probably the biggest offender. Justified since she's a showgirl, and is very much ''supposed'' to be as over the top with her attacks as possible. |
| 196 | -->Lock 'n' load!\ |
| 197 | Drop Kick!\ |
| 198 | Smack attack!\ |
| 199 | Diamond... ''(DrumRoll)'' Drop!\ |
| 200 | CERE-RANA!\ |
| 201 | Merry-Go-Rilla!\ |
| 202 | Cerecopter!\ |
| 203 | Titan Knuckle!\ |
| 204 | Diamond...DYNAMO!\ |
| 205 | A Diamond is... '''FOREVER!!''' |
| 206 | * CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:Implied to have been KilledOffscreen in Peacock's story, and shown being murdered on-screen in Eliza's.]] |
| 207 | * ChekhovsSkill: One of Cerebella's supers involves having Vice-Versa crush a boulder into a diamond. [[spoiler:It turns out this is enough to reforge the Life Gem... from Ms. Fortune's body.]] |
| 208 | * CircusBrat: She's got a pretty arrogant disposition and is fairly hostile (or at least confrontational) to just about anything that's not a Medici or a member of the circus. It's {{downplayed|trope}} somewhat, as she's noted to be pure at heart and a good woman despite being in the pocket of the Medici. |
| 209 | * CombatStilettos: A quite literal example: her heels have ''[[TrickedOutShoes knives]]'' hidden in them. |
| 210 | * DaddysLittleVillain: While Vitale may be Cerebella's adoptive father, she treats him like a genuine one as he took her in under his wing when she was orphaned at an early age, and giving her all the glamour and fame that she enjoys presently. Now, she serves him as his top enforcer as a token of gratitude, and will dutifully carry out his every whim in order to earn his respect. |
| 211 | * TheDragon: One of the Medici's main enforcers, alongside Black Dahlia and Ottomo. |
| 212 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: Well, [[DownplayedTrope it's less that she's evil]] and [[TokenGoodTeammate more that she's loyal to evil people]]. In Umbrella's story mode, even after finding out that Umbrella is a Renoir, she's reluctant to kidnap her as Eliza suggests and only fights her after Eliza goads her hatred towards the Renoir family- and when Eliza clearly indicates intent to seriously hurt Umbrella, Cerebella sucker punches her and lets Umbrella go after a short conversation about the elder Renoirs. She's willing to hurt a lot of people for the Medicis, but hurting a young child is a non-starter for Cerebella. |
| 213 | ** She also doesn't enjoy senseless violence, as seen in Black Dahlia's story mode where she's disgusted when she realizes that Dahlia's enjoying the bloody chaos she's creating by holding the Skull Heart in her den. [[spoiler:Which helps explain her HeelRealization at the end of Cerebella's own story mode - she had to go against her own morals to get Vitale the Life Gem he so desired.]] |
| 214 | * EveryProperLadyShouldCurtsy: Her win pose. |
| 215 | * EyelidPullTaunt: Hard to tell, but she pulls one during her Kancho move. |
| 216 | * TheGrappler: She stands out amongst fighting game grapplers as one with a much less steep learning curve than most thanks to simpler commands for her grab moves. |
| 217 | * HeelRealization: Her ending pretty much shows this, apparently having second thoughts over [[spoiler: crushing Ms. Fortune to death on Vitale's behalf. While she doesn't say anything, her shamed look implies she's rethinking everything she's put her love and faith into.]] |
| 218 | * HomeStage: Medici Tower. |
| 219 | * ImpossiblyLowNeckline: Her main attire invokes this.[[http://i.imgur.com/T5RQiFa.png Official design notes say]] she has her dress taped on so it doesn't accidentally slip off while she's performing or fighting. |
| 220 | * IncorruptiblePurePureness: She's (allegedly) the only character who could wish on the Skull Heart without becoming a Skullgirl (though that doesn't seem to stop the Heart from [[JackassGenie cruelly twisting her wish anyway]], if her scrapped ending is anything to go by). It doesn't exactly paint a flattering picture of the setting, considering her side job of breaking bones for the Mafia. |
| 221 | * InkSuitActor: She does resemble Creator/CristinaValenzuela, depending on what photo of her you compare Cerebella to. |
| 222 | * KilledOffscreen: In [[spoiler:Peacock's ending, Peacock]] is seen holding a tattered scrap of Vice-Versa, with the implication that she killed Cerebella off-screen. |
| 223 | * LoveMakesYouEvil: Seems to be on the road to this in her ending, where she [[spoiler: crushes Ms. Fortune into a new Life Gem in order to win over Vitale.]] |
| 224 | * MagicSkirt: {{Averted}} with extreme prejudice. About the only time she's ''not'' going out of her way to show off her undies is her ''idle animation''. |
| 225 | * MetronomicManMashing: One of her specials involves her doing this to her opponents, using Vice-Versa to grab and slam them repeatedly before tossing them into the air and impaling them with the sword on one of her heels. |
| 226 | * MiniDressOfPower: A short skirt and plenty to show under it, and she's one of the mafia's top enforcers thanks to her putting her circus skills with Vice Versa's attacks. |
| 227 | * MinionWithAnFInEvil: The Medici Mafia are much worse than Cerebella is. Her favorite part of her job is being a performer because she gets to make people happy, and she generally only gets violent when directly ordered by Vitale or she believes the Medicis are directly threatened. Even Marie herself calls her out about this. |
| 228 | * MistakenForClown: Due to her brightly colored circus outfit, it isn't uncommon for her to be misinterpreted as a clown. [[note]] While never stated, she is likely a harlequin. [[/note]] |
| 229 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The final shot of her during her ending implies this; she got Vitale what he wanted, [[spoiler: but she had to kill Ms. Fortune to do it]]. |
| 230 | ** It gets worse, [[spoiler: the Skull Heart was ready to grant her the wish without turning her to a Skullgirl since she does not have any form of malice had she wished for Vitale to love her]]. |
| 231 | *** Her unused alternate ending is... strange (even stranger than her normal one). [[spoiler: The heart never says she will turn into the Skullgirl, but since she didn't word her wish to exacting specification, it still translated it in a way she didn't want. Since this didn't make the final cut, we don't know whether it would have been changed at all, or whether she was legitimately pure enough, not just pure for a mafia thug.]] |
| 232 | * NiceGirl: For all her showboating, she's never shown any negative emotions (except to those Vitale tells her to get rid of and the villains) and even the BigBad notes her heart of gold and purity. |
| 233 | * OnlyKnownByHerNickname: Cerebella is a stage alias, although Vitale refers to her that way in private too. The physical release's instruction manual finally reveals her real name to be Cassandra Veranos. |
| 234 | * TheOnlyOne: Cerebella is the only character [[PureIsNotGood to not have an impure heart]], yet [[spoiler:she ignored the Skull Heart.]] |
| 235 | * OrphansPlotTrinket: Was abandoned at The Cirque de Cartes as a baby. She had Vice Versa even then... |
| 236 | * PerkyFemaleMinion: To Vitale and the Medici, being one of their top enforcers and seemingly only outranked by the likes of Black Dahlia and perhaps Ottomo. |
| 237 | * PlayingCardMotifs: The diamond, in particular. Happens to be a motif in many of her attacks as well. ''Diamond'' Drop, ''Diamond'' Dynamo, ''Diamonds'' Are Forever, etc. |
| 238 | * PureIsNotGood: Played with in that, while she's said to be pure of heart (and is generally a good person), she's still a mafia leg-breaker. It's also been said that her "purity" has to do with her innocence regarding how awful the Medici Mafia really is more than anything else. |
| 239 | * RedBaron: Her film poster refers to her as "The Diamond in the Rough". |
| 240 | * SacrificialLion: For Eliza's story mode. Cerebella's death marks the point [[spoiler:where we know Eliza will stop at ''nothing'' to achieve her goals.]] |
| 241 | * SadisticChoice: [[spoiler:The Skull Heart would have granted her the wish without a hitch or she could simply take the Life Gem from Miss Fortune. She took the gem from Ms. Fortune because she was shouting death threats against the Medici family, who are like real family to Cerebella. Even so, she regrets what she did.]] [[spoiler:In the removed alternate route, the Skull Heart would've corrupted her wish anyway, meaning the only option available to her would be running away, which she would never do.]] |
| 242 | * SecondaryColorNemesis: She wears a orange and black performance uniform, has mint green hair, lipstick, and nail polish, and even has purple eyeshadow as well as a purple diamond tattoo on her check. |
| 243 | * SexyJester: Not ''exactly'' as she's a circus performer, but her outfit was clearly designed after the trope. |
| 244 | %%* SheFu |
| 245 | * SkillGateCharacters: Due to her high damage output and surprisingly decent mobility, Cerebella's often considered to be the "newb" character in ''Skullgirls''. Once she reaches higher level play her usefulness starts to peter out, though it doesn't go away completely. Dekillsage, second-best Skullgirls player after arguably the best fighting game player in the world (Sonicfox), has played Cerebella at the highest level for years. |
| 246 | %%* {{Stripperiffic}} |
| 247 | * SymbolMotifClothing: The Diamond suite as stated above. She has orange diamonds on her boots and has a cloth that is patterned with orange and black half diamonds. |
| 248 | * TattooedCrook: Greatly downplayed to the point it is hard to notice. She does have a tattoo on her, and it's the purple diamond on her cheek that resembles a beauty mark. |
| 249 | * TheTease: "Flirting" is explicitly stated to be one of her likes. |
| 250 | * TokenGoodTeammate: For the Medici mob along with Feng, Hubrecht [[spoiler:and Filia plus her parents]]. |
| 251 | * UseYourHead: Her Battle Butt move, in which Vice Versa grows some ram horns for good measure. |
| 252 | * WasItReallyWorthIt: She defeats Marie and the Skullheart in battle and got the life-gem back from Ms. Fortune, something that Vitale's been looking for ever since it got stolen, but she had to crush Ms. Fortune to death ([[AndIMustScream or worse]] by condensing her into the shape of the artifact) after hearing her passionately recall the deaths of all her friends by the hands of the Medici. Her shamefully contemplative look before the credits role, [[WellDoneDaughterGirl even while she's being praised by Vitale]], imply heavy guilt and second thoughts over what she's done. |
| 253 | * WellDoneDaughterGirl: In relation to her mob-boss adoptive father. The very reason she became his enforcer in the first place was to earn his pride. |
| 254 | |
| 255 | !!Tropes related to Vice-Versa: |
| 256 | * AgitatedItemStomping: Cerebella's time-out animation has her throw Vice-Versa to the ground and stomp it in frustration, much to its displeasure. |
| 257 | * AsideGlance: When Cerebella tags out, they look towards the camera and Vice-Versa flashes a peace sign. |
| 258 | * BringIt: Of the move-finger-towards-self variety, when Cerebella walks backwards. |
| 259 | * TheComicallySerious: Vice-Versa does have a goofy side, but only when interacting with Cerebella. The rest of the time it's got the FaceOfAThug and rarely anything else. One good example is in one of the promotional images for Beowulf, which has him autographing his name on Vice-Versa's back for Cerebella with a marker. [[FanGirl Cerebella can barely contain her excitement]], Vice-Versa is visibly disappointed. |
| 260 | * ExpressiveAccessory: Usually stuck in an angry expression, but shows off a wider range of emotions depending on the context. |
| 261 | * ExpressiveSkull: While his head resembles a skull, he is able to emote with eyes to show when is mad, happy, or embarrassed. It's a bit justified considering the fact that his head isn't simply just bare bones. |
| 262 | * GemstoneAssault: Cerebella's level 3 Block Buster, "Diamonds are Forever", has Vice-Versa lift up a chunk of the ground and then jettison it at the opponent with a enforce force that gets compressed into a diamond. |
| 263 | * GrievousHarmWithABody: Cerebella's fighting style sometimes involves tossing Vice-Versa around to deliver a pummeling. Usually, it's a cooperative effort, but some frames show that it's visibly wincing in pain from being slammed against the ground so hard and dizzy when being spun when Cerebella does Ultimate Showstopper. |
| 264 | * LivingWeapon: Eliza even refers to it as such when working alongside Cerebella. |
| 265 | * HatOfPower: Emphasis on ''power'', Vice Versa can lift and carry grown elephants with ease, to say nothing of adults caught by it and give them a severe beatdown. In-game, Cerebella uses Vice Versa to deal monstrous amounts of damage with his grabs, blockbusters and body-flinging punches. |
| 266 | * HornAttack: Battle Butt has Vice Versa elongate his horns so they are are more ram like and then uses them to head butt the oponent. |
| 267 | * ShapeshifterWeapon: They can go from a soft cap with tiny stubs for arms to a hulking muscular pair of arms with fists wider than a persons body. Along with that, their horns/antennas can turn into other forms, such as the [[HornAttack horns of a ram]] or [[PlayboyBunny bunny ears.]] |
| 268 | * SkullForAHead: His head greatly resembles a skull and has a pair of horns sticking out that makes him look almost demonic. |
| 269 | * TopHeavyGuy: Exaggerated, as he is nothing but top. Although, it makes sense considering he is a hat. |
| 270 | * WeaponizedHeadgear: Hulking muscles, flexible arms, a mind of its own and a little bit of VoluntaryShapeshifting makes it probably one of the more versatile [[LivingWeapon Living Weapons]] seen in the game. |
| 271 | [[/folder]] |
| 272 | |
| 273 | [[folder:Peacock (and her cronies)]] |
| 274 | !!Patricia Watson / Peacock |
| 275 | !!!'''Peacock voiced by:''' Creator/SarahAnneWilliams / Creator/TomokoKaneda (Japanese)\ |
| 276 | '''Tommy voiced by:''' Mike Zaimont (English) / ? (Japanese) |
| 277 | [[quoteright:302:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/peacock_tvtropes_227.png]] |
| 278 | [[caption-width-right:302:'''''Murder-Go-Round''''']] |
| 279 | ->''"Time to paint the town red!"''\ |
| 280 | |
| 281 | -> One of many youths orphaned thanks to the war against the Skullgirl, Patricia Watson was forced into slavery, and a deadly encounter with her slavers led to her being utterly mutilated. Dr. Avian and the members of Anti-Skullgirl Lab 8 would recover the broken young girl and rebuild her, equipping her with a reality-defying set of weaponry designed to eliminate the Skullgirl. While this fixed her body, her mind was a different story-- twisted by her experiences in the slave camps, Patricia, now known as "Peacock", would become violent and deranged, and her love of cartoons would turn her weapons into a gang of animated cronies ready to help her paint the town red with the Skullgirl's blood... along with those who happen to get in her way.\ |
| 282 | |
| 283 | -> Peacock uses the Argus System to its full advantage with her cartoon sensibilities, making her mark as a zoner with confusing movement options such as a shockingly fast backdash and a teleport move that can allow her to close and open the gap between her and the opponent at will. Despite preferring to apply pressure from a distance, Peacock is more than capable of laying the hurt from up close, with any stray hit from a projectile potentially spelling doom for her opponent. |
| 284 | ---- |
| 285 | !!Tropes associated with Peacock: |
| 286 | * AbnormalAmmo: Her revolver fires, amongst other things, bowling balls, baseballs, and [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Bullet Bills]]. |
| 287 | * TheAce: Took to the Avery System a lot faster than expected and became one of the strongest subjects of Lab 8, and was rushed to the front lines as a result. |
| 288 | * AlliterativeName: Not her specifically, but her assist characters, Andy Anvil and Tommy Ten Tons. This is a reference to the vast majority of characters found during UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation having {{Alliterative Name}}s, which Andy Anvil and Tommy Ten Tons fit right into. In older concept art, Peacock's birdlike crony Avery was named "Patty Peacock". Despite the feminine name, he is actually male. |
| 289 | * AnimalMotifs: Peacocks. Her codename is literally "Peacock", she's surrounded by large, colorful prosthetic eyes (an allusion to the brilliant eye-like designs on the male peacock's tail feathers) and her hat transforms into a peacock-styled mage hat during Argus Agony. Said prosthetic eyes are a part of an artificial parasite known as the Argus System, a reference to the tale of Argus (a hundred-eyed giant who was slain by Hermes and memorialized by Hera through the feathers of the peacock). |
| 290 | * ArmedLegs: Her crouching low kick has Avery kick while wearing [[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3 Kuribo's Shoe]]. |
| 291 | * ArtificialLimbs: Her arms are rather obvious, but Peacock's legs are actually mechanical, too. |
| 292 | * AssistCharacter: She has a bunch of strange characters that help her during some of her attacks, if they aren't the attack itself. The most seen of these, especially in art, are Avery (a little blue bird dressed in attire matching Peacock) and walking bombs of small and large sizes (George and Lenny, respectively). Others seen often are Andy Anvil, a boxing anvil with Popeye-like limbs and Tommy Ten Tons, a stout anthropomorphic 10T weight. These characters seem to be manifestations of Peacock's power. The Avery Unit she was equipped with (same name as the bird) was supposed to be a [[TeleportersAndTransporters "spacial link"]] between her and an arsenal of weapons, but Peacock seems to be altering the weapons themselves in addition to calling them to her. |
| 293 | * AwesomeButImpractical: Her level 3 super, Goodfellows. Sure, the move looks hilarious and takes off about a third of a lifebar... but it costs three meters and requires you to get close enough to grab (which is risky, given [[LongRangeFighter Peacock's fighting style]]). If you botch the input for Goodfellows, you perform a standard grab instead and now are right up in the opponent's face. You're generally better off using Argus Agony multiple times, which is less costly and more versatile, though [[BoringButPractical arguably less badass.]] |
| 294 | * BadassAdorable: As [[AxCrazy bloodthirsty, insane]] and [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior disturbingly adult]] as she is, she's still quite cute (so long as she isn't covering her face with her hat and/or flashing her steely sharp teeth, at which point things are starting to get nasty). |
| 295 | * BangFlagGun: Her Bang! attack. The medium variant substitutes the flag with a sword, and the strongest variant (BANG! BANG! BANG!) actually fires projectiles. |
| 296 | * BatterUp: Peacock's Outtake "Who's On Next?", where she hits her opponent out of the screen with a nailed baseball bat. A George Bomb also uses a bat in the Goodfellas Blockbuster. |
| 297 | * BeamSpam: Argus Agony launches a number of small lasers towards the opponent. |
| 298 | * BearTrap: Her teeth is actually a pair of bear trap dentures, which she uses to bite the opponent on some attacks. |
| 299 | * BigBallOfViolence: Her air throw. It even happens to be named "Big Ball Of Violence". |
| 300 | * BlackBeadEyes: Justified in that it's really her empty eye sockets. |
| 301 | * BloodKnight: She likes fighting quiiiiite a bit. Her Origin Story in ''Mobile'' implies that this mindset developed partly out of a response to her trauma and partly as a result of her [[HeroWorship admiration of the ASGs]], particularly Big Band. Even right after her surgery, she's raring and ready to be put onto the front lines and show off her new kit. |
| 302 | * BodyHorror: Aside from her head and her torso, there's practically nothing left of her. Her eyes were forcefully gouged out (which we got to see from ''[[EyeScream her perspective]]''), so technically what remains are her eyesockets (but she can see with the eyes on her arms). Her teeth were pulled out, and her arms were ripped off (her legs were intact when she was found by Lab 8, but were presumably amputated in the surgery that gave her her Parasites) This all happened within the span of a ''single day.'' |
| 303 | ** If you pay attention during her VictoryPose, the smoke she exhales after she [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior puffs on her cigar]] comes out through her ''eye socket'', which transforms into a ''second mouth'' just for the VictoryPose. |
| 304 | ** She has another attack that betrays the nature of her eyes. Peacock can pull a large HyperspaceMallet out from behind her back. After she swings it, she puts it away by stuffing the hammer headfirst into one of her eye sockets. |
| 305 | ** Look carefully at the holes leading to {{Hammerspace}} that she manifests in the environment (some of her item drops fall into them after they hit the ground, she leaps up through one when she's tagged in, she gets [[VaudevilleHook yanked]] into one during her tag out, etc.). The holes all have ''eyelashes'' [[http://i.imgur.com/1KPPz.png identical to hers]], and the color of the space behind them is identical to her eye color if you're using a palette that doesn't have her eyes blacked out. In one of her new intro animations, she walks out of one of these holes while missing an "eye", before grabbing it and putting it on her face. Make of that what you will. |
| 306 | ** Peacock's model sheet makes note of even more hidden body horror: it indicates that there is a very large hole in her back (large enough to fit her hand through), hidden beneath her dress. It appears to be the logical explanation for Peacock's use of the "pulling items out from behind your back" cartoon mechanic. |
| 307 | * BoyishShortHair: As part of her TomboyAndGirlyGirl dynamic with Marie. |
| 308 | * BreakingTheFourthWall: One of her taunt quotes seems to directly address the opponent. |
| 309 | -->'''Peacock:''' Why ya so bad at video games? |
| 310 | * BreakTheCutie: Being tortured in the hands of Slave Traders drove her into madness. |
| 311 | * BrooklynRage: While the ''Skullgirls'' universe doesn't actually have a New York, Peacock has the accent. She's got the mean streak and love of violence to match, too. |
| 312 | * CallingYourAttacks: Only has two moves where she does this. |
| 313 | -->Poke!\ |
| 314 | Argus Agony! |
| 315 | * TheCameo: Peacock gets only one gag appearance in Umbrella's story mode, having conveniently bought ''all'' the ice cream for her and her cartoon pals before Umbrella and Hungern can get some, evidentially feeling peckish before they felt like hunting the Skullgirl. Umbrella initially objects to this, but when Peacock notes her looking familiar, Umbrella denies it and decides to leave before the Skullgirl-hunter can figure out she's one of the princesses. |
| 316 | * CardCarryingJerkass: One of her win quotes shows she's self-aware about how irritating projectile spam can be. |
| 317 | -->'''Peacock:''' [[WesternAnimation/BugsBunny "Ain't I a stinker?"]] |
| 318 | * CarFu: The Boxcar George special has George driving a go-kart towards opponents. |
| 319 | * CartoonBomb: The AssistCharacter bombs, George (the small one) and Lenny (the big fat one). |
| 320 | * CheshireCatGrin: Sports this constantly and doubles as a SlasherSmile due to her nature. |
| 321 | * CigarChomper: She's fond of smoking fat cigars and occasionally uses them in [[CigarFuseLighting attacks]]. |
| 322 | * CigaretteBurns: One of her attacks is to poke her opponent with the lit end of her cigar. |
| 323 | * ComputerVoice: Unlike most examples, her voice sounds screechy and slightly high in pitch with a filter that makes it sound like she came from an old cartoon of low quality in terms of audio. |
| 324 | * ConfusionFu: Just try to keep up with all the zany attacks Peacock can throw during a match. A couple of them look virtually the same till they hit (such as her revolver attacks). Most notably, she can make a black hole on the ground appear, and can make one of three things happen. 1. Ducks under as a way to dodge attacks. 2. To teleport her behind her opponent. 3. Throw a bomb in the hole and make it teleport under her enemies. |
| 325 | * CuteAndPsycho: Peacock is adorable, sure, but she was reconstructed as a living weapon and her cartoony antics take place in a world where ToonPhysics only apply to her. |
| 326 | * {{Cyborg}}: Her body was augmented by several different mechanisms, with one of the main ones being the Argus Unit. |
| 327 | * {{Deconstruction}}: Of slapstick cartoon characters ala Bugs Bunny. She's utterly insane, slapstick antics are her attacks (funny between cartoon characters, horrifying when done on real people), her cronies are all ordinary weapons brought to life by advanced technology and her {{Hammerspace}} is ''holes in her body.'' Her appearance is supposed to invoke a NonStandardCharacterDesign compared to the {{Animesque}} designs of everyone else, but how she got that way is pretty horrific and she would be described as a "walking corpse" if she was a real person. |
| 328 | * DeathOfAThousandCuts: Peacock has relatively weak damage output made up for by her strong keep-away playstyle, created for spamming weak ranged attacks and frustrating the opponent into making mistakes... which cause them to get hit with more projectiles. |
| 329 | * TheDreaded: Her ending has her become this for the Medici mafia, with her apparently having cruised around town hunting and slaughtering every Medici member she can find and even managed to fight her way through their HQ to confront Black Dahlia and Lorenzo himself. Judging from Lorenzo's reaction, he heard about her rampage well in advance. |
| 330 | -->'''Peacock:''' '''(Entering his office)''' ''And then there were two...'' |
| 331 | -->'''Lorenzo:''' D-D-DAHLIA! ''HELP!'' She's here! |
| 332 | * DerangedAnimation: As part of her love for the UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation, she partakes in this sometimes. She can smoke a cigar with her hollowed-out eye socket that forms the shape of lips, remove said eye socket to use it as a PortableHole, shoot her sharpened dentures out of her toothless gums to bite her enemies, and her Infinity Breaker has her perform an especially angry WildTake. |
| 333 | * {{Determinator}}: A example of why this is ''not'' a good thing in the wrong situation; EyeScream happened because she was too strong-willed and defiant. |
| 334 | * EarnYourHappyEnding: After everything she and Marie went through, helping Marie break from the Skulheart's influence permanently and being able to resume their friendship despite everything that happened is more than warranted of being called a happy ending. |
| 335 | * ElectronicEyes: She sees using the Argus Unit's cybernetic eyes, which are on her arms. |
| 336 | * EvenBadWomenLoveTheirMamas: [[spoiler:The death of Dr. Avian]] in her story route spurs her to seek revenge against the CoDragons. |
| 337 | * EyeBeams: Her Argus Agony attack. |
| 338 | * EyeScream: We get a first-person view of a slaver [[NightmareFuel jamming his thumbs into her eyes]]. And keep in mind, ''she was a little girl when this happened''. |
| 339 | * EyesDoNotBelongThere: Those [[BlackBeadEyes black dots on her face]] aren't her real eyes -- along with everything else they did, the slavers put her eyes out. She sees with the eyes of the Argus System, which are attached to her arms (as well as the floating ones she summons)... all of which can fire EyeBeams. When she sleeps, she puts sleeping masks on her arms, where her real eyes are. |
| 340 | * EyePop: Used offensively as her standing low kick. |
| 341 | * ExtendoBoxingGlove: Her tag-in attack has a PortableHole appear below the opponent and uppercuts them with a spring-loaded boxing glove coming out of her hat. It throws the opponent into the air if it hits, but whiffing it means Peacock's right in the opponent's face ready to be punished. |
| 342 | * TheFatalist: As a result of her hometown being destroyed by the war against the Skullgirl, Patrica was just content to watch cartoons and wait for the Skullgirl to come finish them off. Marie's intervention and friendship is what was able to bring the spark back into her life, [[HeroicSacrifice even sacrificing her own life to save Marie when the Medici Mafia came to steal the kids.]] |
| 343 | * FieryRedhead: Has reddish-brown hair and is a short, impatient, bratty little cyborg girl who loves fighting. |
| 344 | %%* FightingClown |
| 345 | * FightingYourFriend: [[spoiler:Marie, the current Skullgirl.]] Tellingly, while she has nothing but taunts and mockery for other characters, even Big Band, she has uncharacteristically somber parting words for Marie if she lands the killing blow. |
| 346 | -->'''Peacock:''' ''Show's over, friend.'' |
| 347 | * FlowerPotDrop: One possible item to fall for the Level 1 Shadow of Impending Doom Special. |
| 348 | * {{Foil}}: One to Big Band, another ASG agent who's life was saved by Avian. Whereas Big Band is an utterly massive older man, cool-headed and grounded in reality with somewhat antiquated tech made to fight in close quarters, Peacock is a short teenage girl with a tendency to be combative and violent while using her bleeding-edge gear to bend the laws of physics to her cartoon-obsessed whims and pressure her enemies from afar. |
| 349 | * FourFingeredHands: She has only four fingers. |
| 350 | * GameplayAndStoryIntegration: Dr. Avian describes the laser projectiles Peacock's able to fire as being able to 'disrupt a Skullgirl's very essence', building up Peacock to be Lab 8's trump card against Skullgirls even though she's practically a rookie in terms of fighting experience. In actual gameplay, Marie AKA the Skullgirl is a StoneWall of a FinalBoss who can take an intense amount of damage before flinching for even a second, and even then it'd likely require being right in her face for a pummeling when she recovers. Peacock's Blockbuster, Argus Agony, happens to be the best Blockbuster when it comes to stunlocking Marie due to it almost immediately flinching her and being able to be used across the whole screen. Peacock's [[LongRangeFighter standard playstyle]] of standing back and zoning with projectiles is also a pretty safe way to fight off Marie, if time consuming compared to going all in for a brawl. |
| 351 | * GagDub: {{Anime}} Peacock, which is essentially what Peacock would be like if she was a fan of real-world anime instead of in-universe cartoons. |
| 352 | * GracefulLoser: When it comes to essay contests, at least. In Annie's story mode, when she meets Annie and Aileen (who won an essay contest to spend time with Annie) she notes that she sent in a ''lot'' of submissions, but she's still happy to concede the win to Aileen despite ''also'' being a fan of Annie. |
| 353 | * GratuitousJapanese: [[GagDub Anime Peacock]] |
| 354 | * GravityIsAHarshMistress: It's hard to see thanks to how fast it happens, but her air dash plays with this trope. Peacock pauses in mid air to wind-up like she's ready to run, though in practice she'll fall at normal speed and is mostly used for canceling jumping attacks. |
| 355 | * GrenadeSpam: Her George bomb attacks are specifically set up so that she can chain one into another, which let her fill the screen with a relentless number of bombs. |
| 356 | * GrievousBottleyHarm: A bottle may fall as the Level 1 Shadow of Impending Doom Special. |
| 357 | * {{Hammerspace}}: Not surprising given her cartoon influence. Avery allows her to pull items out of Lab 8's arsenal and turn them into cartoony weapons. |
| 358 | * HandicappedBadass: Without the Argus System, she's blind as well as a quadruple amputee. |
| 359 | * HeroicComedicSociopath: She's clearly out for the kill, but most of the time it's still PlayedForLaughs quite a lot especially when coupled with her brand of cartoon violence. |
| 360 | %%* HeroWithAnFInGood |
| 361 | * HomeStage: Lab 8, where she was modified. |
| 362 | * HypocriticalHumor: Most of her voice lines regarding Umbrella are making fun of how short she is, despite Peacock herself being nearly as short (and remarkably short for a 13 year-old). |
| 363 | * InkblotCartoonStyle: Her passion for UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation carried over to her appearance, but in practice its execution is justified - her limbs were removed and replaced with flexible prosthetic metal limbs with a very wide range of motion, giving her a sort of rubberhose movement style. Meanwhile, her BlackBeadEyes are the result of her [[EyeScream actual eyes being gouged and hollowed out.]] |
| 364 | * InstrumentOfMurder: She occasionally pulls out a banjo as part of a combo. |
| 365 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She has an unhinged and pretty murderous attitude, but when it comes to Dr. Avian and the rest of Lab 8's crew, Peacock has a warped sense of affection for them. When Lab 8 is destroyed along with many of its scientists and Dr. Avian by the Skullgirl and Valentine, Peacock is riled up and ready for a RoaringRampageOfRevenge in both her story mode and Big Band's.[[spoiler: Her motive for killing Marie despite still considering her a friend is also purely altruistic (she has no desire whatsoever for the Skull Heart); she doesn't want Marie to go out of control and hurt innocent people.]] |
| 366 | * KidsDrivingCars: The webcomic gives her a SentientVehicle that she and her cronies drive around in. |
| 367 | * KitchenSinkIncluded: One of the twenty-three items she drops in her Shadow of Impending Doom move is a kitchen sink. It's even her unique achievement. |
| 368 | * LittleMissBadass: She's one of the youngest girls on the roster, and is a very deadly combatant to boot. |
| 369 | * LivingWeapon: She was a mutilated young girl who was converted into a reality-warping combat cyborg. |
| 370 | * LongRangeFighter: Her specialty is playing keepaway with her opponent. She does so with a variety of far-reaching normals, ''very'' spammable projectiles, and a teleport that lets her quickly reposition to her desired range. |
| 371 | * MagnumOpus: InUniverse, Peacock is regarded this by her creator, Dr. Avian, in the opening cutscene of her storyline. She's the most advanced and powerful cyborg by Lab 8 yet, and the scientists are eager to send her to the frontlines to fight the Skullgirl despite how soon it's been since her augmentations. |
| 372 | * MadeASlave: As noted in her backstory, she was captured as a slave by Medici-backed slavers [[spoiler:along with Marie]]. |
| 373 | * MeaningfulName: |
| 374 | ** Her codename, Peacock, refers to the design of her Argus system and its resemblance to Peacocks. It sports plenty of electronic eyes around its components, similar to male Peacock feathers looking like they've got tons of eyes in their patterns. Her Blockbuster, Argus Agony, even have her sprout 'tail feathers' on her rear while Avery mans a laser canon shaped like a peacock's head in her hat to drive the resemblance home. |
| 375 | ** The name of the Argus system brings Argus Panoptes to mind, a Greek giant of myth who sported hundreds of eyes placed all around his body, much like how Peacock is now. Going by the myth, those same eyes were preserved by Hera after his death through placing them in the feathers of the male peacock. |
| 376 | * {{Meido}}: Some spoilerific [[http://skullgirls.wikia.com/wiki/File:Peacock_Marie_Maid_Sketch.jpg art done by Alex Ahad]] shows she was one before getting mutilated, like Marie. |
| 377 | * MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: Those aren't her real teeth, they are removable dentures (so she doesn't wear them while asleep). Essentially, she has a miniature stainless-steel BearTrap in her mouth, and some of her regular attacks involve ''biting'' the opponent. |
| 378 | * NominalHero: She works for the good guys, but is crass and brutal after the fashion of Golden Age cartoons. |
| 379 | * NonStandardCharacterDesign: Played with in that her [[BlackBeadEyes eyes]], [[ScaryTeeth teeth]], and [[NoodlePeople legs]] look entirely different from everyone else's, but they actually [[EyeScream have]] a [[TheToothHurts specific reason]] to be like that instead of just being drawn that way. |
| 380 | * NuclearWeaponsTaboo: The names of Peacock's bombs were originally Little Boy and Fat Man. Come the announcement of a Japanese release, their names around the globe were changed to George and Lenny to avoid insensitivity. |
| 381 | * OccidentalOtaku: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Anime Peacock]] |
| 382 | * OnlyKnownByHerNickname: [[spoiler:Marie]] is the only one who still calls her Patricia. |
| 383 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The number of times Peacock drops the humor and gets serious can be counted on one hand. Such moments include [[spoiler:finding Dr. Avin dying after the attack on Lab 8]] and, of course, [[spoiler:the entire encounter with Marie, her best-friend-now-enemy]]. |
| 384 | * OrphansOrdeal: As noted above, she's a war orphan. |
| 385 | * PaintedTunnelRealTrain: In an [[http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140307200603/skullgirls/images/5/57/Peacock_unused_special.gif unused special]], Peacock exploits this trope by drawing a train tunnel to summon a train to damage the opponent. |
| 386 | * PeacockGirl: Duh. Her BeamSpam super shows off a large amount of robotic eyes (identical to the ones on her arms) coming out of her back to use EyeBeams to attack the target, the eyes resembling a peacock's tail. |
| 387 | * PianoDrop: Capable of this, and with a variety of objects, as the Level 3 Shadow of Impending Doom Special. |
| 388 | * PieInTheFace: Her standing medium punch. |
| 389 | * PluckyGirl: She'd ''have to be'' to still be smiling after all she's gone through, though some of her pluck may be attributable to the fact that she's lost her mind. It especially shines through in the otherwise rather somber conclusion to her story mode. |
| 390 | * PopCulturedBadass: The great portion of her attacks make up many of the game's [[ShoutOut/{{Skullgirls}} already plentiful]] {{Shout Out}}s, making her ReferenceOverdosed by default. Peacock herself is a walking {{Homage}} to UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation. |
| 391 | * PracticalTaunt: Her taunt ensures that her next ShadowOfImpendingDoom will be a multi-hit [[{{VideoGame/Darkstalkers}} Tenrai-Ha]] if it's fully charged. |
| 392 | * ProudPeacock: While she exhibits TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior as a result of her experiences, she also tends to brag about her abilities. In her story mode, she refuses to use the [[JackassGenie Skull Heart]] because she's strong enough without it (and GenreSavvy to realize it's "nothing but trouble"). She additionally has peacock AnimalMotifs. |
| 393 | -->'''Peacock''': Pff, who needs wishes? I'm already the strongest there is. |
| 394 | * PungeonMaster: When she isn't spewing familiar quotes, she's usually making puns based on whatever attack she's using. |
| 395 | * PurpleIsPowerful: Her default color palette has her wearing a mauve dress. |
| 396 | * RecoilBoost: Her jumping heavy punch has her pull out a double-barreled shotgun and blast the opponent with it while also letting the heavy recoil push herself backwards in mid-air. |
| 397 | * RealityWarper: The Avery Unit's powers combined with her damaged psyche and love of vintage toons to give her what is essentially a cartoonish form of this. She can't create out of nothing things like a true RW, but can manipulate what already exists, though this may change as she adapts to her powers. |
| 398 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: Her real eyes were green, and all of her artificial eyes are red. |
| 399 | * SaveTheVillain: In Marie's story mode, as oppose of killing Marie to obtain the Skull Heart so anyone could either wish or destroy it, Peacock decide to [[IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight reasons with her]] and rips the heart straight out from her with the help of Fillia and Squigly in order to make her return to her sense. |
| 400 | * ShadowOfImpendingDoom: ''This is literally the name of one of her attacks''. The size of the shadow and object fallen depend on how long you hold the button, and it can follow the opponent around on one variation. |
| 401 | * ShortRangeShotgun: This being a fighting game and all, it only hits directly it front of her as her crouching and jumping heavy punches. |
| 402 | * SlasherSmile: Mostly because she has a bear trap for teeth. |
| 403 | * SmokingIsCool: Her win pose, as well as her Level 3 super. The smokes aren't real, just an effect of her powers. |
| 404 | * SolarPoweredMagnifyingGlass: Subverted, she actually just shoots an EyeBeam through it. According to WordOfGod (the ''Skullgirls'' website's own canon lore threads to be specific), it's just a teleporter beam that can access alternate dimensions, hence how she's able to spawn multiple ants with a bit of creative canceling. |
| 405 | * SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler:Is this to the Trinity. Thanks to her friendship with Marie, she was able to not only stop Marie from being the last piece of will the Trinity needs to cross over into the human world, but she was able to encourage Marie enough to make her get a second wind to live and break the cycle of the Skullheart, taking the will that was captured by the Trinity through the Skullgirl back, effectively sending them back to step one.]] |
| 406 | * SpringCoil: She has springs built into her ankles that allow her to jump really high into the air. |
| 407 | * SuperPrototype: Played with. While Peacock ''is'' a superpowered and unique project, her enhancements were a product of years of the ASG Labs' research, so she isn't a prototype in the technical sense. |
| 408 | * SweetTooth: Junk food is listed as one of her "Likes". |
| 409 | * TakeUpMySword: Ironically for the trope, [[spoiler: she does this for the BigBad AKA Marie. Both being orphaned friends who fell victim to the Medici mafia, Peacock has nothing but understanding for Marie's personal quest to slaughter the entire family and their associates, but still reasons she must be killed. As Marie gives Peacock her dying words, Peacock gladly promises to continue Marie's mission of hunting every Medici down. With the Skullheart dealt with and no one in Lab 8 being around to pull her leash, Peacock promptly starts a Medici massacre around the city, and even raids Lorenzo Medici's personal tower to kill the big boss himself.]] |
| 410 | * TalkLikeAPirate: During her cannon move. |
| 411 | -->Yo ho ho! Avast! |
| 412 | * TeleportSpam: Encouraged, as part of her keep-away fighting style. |
| 413 | * ThirteenIsUnlucky: Her birthday is November 13th, and she's thirteen-years-old. [[TraumaCongaLine Considering what her life has mostly consisted of]]... yeah. |
| 414 | * TomboyAndGirlyGirl: She's tomboy girl to Marie's girly girl, due to her being the most violent and rebellious of the two. |
| 415 | * TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Out of all of the main cast, Peacock is by far the least feminine as she has BoyishShortHair, has a [[TomboyishVoice slight rasp in her voice]], and is quite [[HairTriggerTemper prone to violence]]. And yet, she has no issues wearing a pimped out dress and a big fan of Annie of the Stars' TV show. |
| 416 | * ToonPhysics: Her power is basically operating under these. |
| 417 | * TheToothHurts: The slavers who mutilated her presumably ripped her teeth out, hence why she has a set of bear trap-like dentures in her mouth. You can see her empty gums in some of her animations. |
| 418 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: Jack Daniels. |
| 419 | * TraumaCongaLine: Her home was [[DoomedHometown destroyed by war]] and her [[OrphansOrdeal parents killed]]. She [[spoiler:and her best friend]] was MadeASlave. Her limbs [[BodyHorror were ripped off]] and her [[EyeScream eyes gouged out]]. Even when she was [[WeCanRebuildHim rebuilt]] as a {{cyborg}}, her mind was unable to cope and she was driven insane. In her story mode, [[spoiler:her father figure and friends are all killed, and she then has to kill her best friend]]. ''Girl's got it rough.'' |
| 420 | * TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Where do we even begin? Smoking, cussing, killing... |
| 421 | * UnflinchingWalk: One of her more powerful attacks involves tossing a cigar behind her back... at a bomb standing next to her victim. Cue explosion and malicious grin. And this is ''after'' stuffing her opponent in a burlap sack, calling down two of her cartoon {{mooks}} (Ten Ton Tommy and Andy Anvil) to help curbstomp her helpless victim into submission, and having the aforementioned bomb (George) continue to beat the ensnared foe with a baseball bat, all before pulling the cigar toss. This is even mocked in her Steam trading card, which has the caption "Cool people don't look at explosions!" |
| 422 | * UnskilledButStrong: She has very little (if any) actual fighting technique, mostly relying on guns, ToonPhysics and her cronies to do the fighting, and she only recently acquired these abilities at all given her [[WeCanRebuildHim previous condition]] with her full testing phase not completed. But she can afford it due to the sheer number of weapons the Argus System gives her. |
| 423 | * UsedToBeASweetKid: What little we get to see of her before she went crazy paints her as a rebellious, but well-meaning person. |
| 424 | * UselessSpleen: "[[OwMyBodyPart My spleen...]]" happens to be one of her losing quotes. However much of her body was replaced by mechanical parts, it appears the spleen is one of the few organs she definitely has left. |
| 425 | * VaudevilleHook: In her assist tag-out taunt. Peacock does softshoe for a few seconds before she is pulled off the stage by a cane into a PortableHole. |
| 426 | * VitriolicBestBuds: As revealed in Marie's story mode, [[spoiler:she and Marie occasionally tends to bicker over their differences, in addition of some of the latter's battle quotes against her suggests that they're fighting ''over a TV''. Nonetheless, they still value each other as friends.]] |
| 427 | * VisualPun: |
| 428 | ** Her blocking animation often has her hold up a literal block, from a cinderblock to an [[VideoGame/{{Tetris}} L-block]]. |
| 429 | ** Her standing light punch, a typical fighting game "poke", or safe move used to attempt to start a combo, is an ''actual'' poke. As in, Peacock pokes her opponent with her finger. |
| 430 | * WasItReallyWorthIt: If Peacock's ending is to imply. Sure, she killed the Skullgirl, destroyed the Skullheart, fulfilled what she was made to be, got her {{revenge}}, and went on a rampage against the Medicis like she wanted... but the people she wanted revenge for are still dead, [[spoiler:she had to kill her best friend with the knowledge she ''became'' the Skullgirl to get revenge for what happened to her in the first place]], and the rampage she goes on [[spoiler:is just as much to find closure with herself as it is to fulfill her dying friend's last wish]]. |
| 431 | * WeCanRebuildHim: Judging from how much of her ended up replaced, she was practically just a head on a torso when ASG Labs found and rebuilt her as a {{cyborg}}. |
| 432 | * WeUsedToBeFriends: [[spoiler:With Marie, who is the recent Skullgirl. They technically still shares a respectable term, but the circumstances prevent them from properly reconcile, which they finally do in Marie's story mode.]] |
| 433 | * WheelOFeet: Her forward dash. |
| 434 | * WhiteGloves: Considering her cyborg arms have no wrists, it's unknown how they stay on. But if the [[FunnyXRay X-ray]] on Valentine's Steam trading card [[http://steamtradingcards.wikia.com/wiki/Skullgirls_-_Valentine here]] is any indicator, the metal that forms her arm is connected to the metal bones that form her hand with a sort of ball joint. That's probably what keeps the gloves up. |
| 435 | * WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: See TraumaCongaLine above. |
| 436 | * WriteWhoYouKnow: InUniverse. Peacock's cartoon pals are based on her own caricatures of Lab 8's scientists: Andy Anvil is based on Stanley, Tommy Ten-Tons from a big, blocky scientist, and George and Lennie from a smaller one with a topknot. |
| 437 | * YouAreBetterThanYouThink: Is on both ends of this, being on the receiving end as Dr. Avain's last words in the Skullgirls webcomic, and giving this to Marie constantly through her story mode, encouraging her to keep going and that even if she is at risk of being the Skullgirl again, she deserves to live a happy life. |
| 438 | |
| 439 | !!Avery |
| 440 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ChristineMarieCabanos (English) / ? (Japanese) |
| 441 | [[quoteright:131:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/avery_8.png]] |
| 442 | %%[[caption-width-right:131:some caption text]] |
| 443 | A synthetic parasite provided by Lab 8, Avery is a little bird born from Peacock's imagination shortly after getting augmented with the Argus System. As Peacock's right-hand man (or rather bird), he rests in her hat wherever she goes. |
| 444 | ----- |
| 445 | !!Tropes associated with Avery: |
| 446 | * AssistCharacter: Peacock's got tons of these, but Avery by far gets the most mileage, being present in most of her attacks from normals to specials. In a BlinkAndYouMissIt Fashion, you can spot him being the source of a bunch of her moves, with some examples including: |
| 447 | ** Brandishing a chainsaw from the bottom of her hat. |
| 448 | ** Firing a loaded shotgun through her hat and visibly struggling with the intense recoil. |
| 449 | ** Menacingly starring at the viewer from behind a TV summoned from Shadow of Impending Doom. Very rarely, he's manning the bulldozer that can be dropped by the same attack. |
| 450 | ** Providing the football and taking it away so Peacock can do the {{Franchise/Peanuts}} Charlie Brown football gag as a kick. |
| 451 | ** Wielding a spring-loaded boxing glove as Peacock's tag-in attack, the rest of Peacock follows suit right after, |
| 452 | ** Being thrown by Peacock into the air as he slashes furiously with a knife. |
| 453 | ** Manning the bird-head laser in Argus Agony. |
| 454 | ** Looking beaten up and confused during the end of Peaock's BigBallOfViolence, apparently just getting punched by Peacock after the opponent left the cloud. |
| 455 | ** Actually being the source of Peacock's get-up animation, crawling out of her hat and stomping her feet to erect her back up from the ground and hiding again in less than a second. |
| 456 | * ChainsawGood: When Peacock uses her jumping low kick, Avery will pop out of her hat and shred the opponent with a chainsaw. |
| 457 | * CirclingBirdies: In the mobile game, Peacock getting hit with an attack that stuns her with the dizzy effect has her seeing stars as Avery flies around her head, also looking dazed. While not literal to the trope itself, her collapse animation has an exhausted and pained looking Peacock fall to her knees while Avery shoots out of her hat with a cuckoo clock sound effect before she's KO'd. |
| 458 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Dealt this fate to Ottomo, a Medici robot goon whose head is found split right down the center to Avery's knife as he carries it around. |
| 459 | * MeaningfulName: |
| 460 | ** Named after Creator/TexAvery, a titan during the UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation reknown for his work behind plenty of cartoons during the time and many of the cartoony gags Peacock employs as attacks. |
| 461 | ** Being a bird, it's also not far off from Avian. Avian also happens to be Dr. Avian's name, the lead scientist behind Peacock's revival and most of Lab 8. |
| 462 | * TheNapoleon: By far the smallest of Peacock's cronies, being even smaller than the George bomb, to the point where he has to stand on [[BigBulkyBomb Lenny]] in cutscenes to be at eye level. In spite of this he's got a wicked SlasherSmile that rivals his boss. |
| 463 | * NonHumanSidekick: Basically the relationship between him and Peacock, being a direct extension of her reality warping powers. Not only does he have the same dress and black eyes/sharp teeth like her, he's practically got the same personality as her just in the size of a bird. There's a reason Big Band [[TheDividual refers to Peacock soley]] when the whole gang, namely Avery, are taking the piss out of him. |
| 464 | * ToothyBird: He has a beak filled with sharp fangs. |
| 465 | * WorfHadTheFlu: [[spoiler:Due to the Ginormous Cosmic Timeosphere, aka the fabric of time and space, being connected to the Trinity who wants to keep Peacock out of the picture to get Marie onto their side, Avery is absent after freeing Marie in her story mode, meaning Peacock can't teleport or use her parasite that much. He comes back after the Trinity retreats after Marie breaks the bond between them and the Skullheart.]] |
| 466 | !!Andy Anvil |
| 467 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KaijiTang (English) / Creator/DaisukeOno (Japanese) |
| 468 | [[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/andy_anvil.png]] |
| 469 | |
| 470 | A product of Peacock's cartoon-loving imagination, Andy Anvil, along with others in her gang of cronies, was brought to life thanks to the power of her synthetic parasite, the Avery Unit. |
| 471 | ---- |
| 472 | !!Tropes associated with Andy: |
| 473 | * AnimateInanimateObject: A walking, talking anvil. |
| 474 | * AnvilOnHead: He owes his existence to this trope. He also has a chance to fall as the Level 2 Shadow of Impending Doom Special for Peacock. |
| 475 | * AssistCharacter: He is one to Peacock. This may have changed if he became an AscendedExtra -- but, well, [[WhatCouldHaveBeen he didn't]]. |
| 476 | * BashBrothers: In his proposed play-style he and Tommy Ten-Tons would have been this. Possible attacks included [[AmusingInjuries punching Tommy across the stage toward your opponent and tripping him to cause an Earthquake effect.]] |
| 477 | * {{Fan}}: Despite being a boxing anvil he's seems to like watching wrestling more and is a fan of Beowulf in particular. |
| 478 | * MetaGuy: He apparently saw the same montage that the audience saw of Peacock putting her hat, gloves and teeth on/in. He's disturbed by her apparent lack of hygiene and asks Avery if she took a bath or brushed her teeth (with metal polish?). [[FourthWallObserver Avery responds that all of that was implied]]. [[TheLawOfConservationOfDetail but it's not something the audience needs to see.]] |
| 479 | * NinjaPirateZombieRobot: He's a shark-toothed boxing anvil with Popeye limbs! |
| 480 | * RedBoxingGloves: A talking, ''boxing'' anvil. |
| 481 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: With yellow scleras. Though he's actually a good guy, being one of Peacock's creations. |
| 482 | * ScaryTeeth: Has sharp, pointy teeth, brought about by how Peacock imagines Stanley. |
| 483 | [[/folder]] |
| 484 | |
| 485 | [[folder:Parasoul (with Krieg and the Black Egrets)]] |
| 486 | !!Parasoul Renoir |
| 487 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ErinFitzgerald (English) / Creator/RieTanaka (Japanese) |
| 488 | [[quoteright:302:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/parasoul_tvtropes_7721.png]] |
| 489 | [[caption-width-right:302:'''''Crown Princess''''']] |
| 490 | ->''"Egrets, get ready!"''\ |
| 491 | |
| 492 | -> Parasoul is the crown princess of the Canopy Kingdom, the leader of its elite military squadron, the Black Egrets, and one of few who can say they intimately know how terrifying the Skullgirl can be. Seven years ago, her mother, Queen Nancy, became one of the most dangerous Skullgirls ever known, and ever since she's been incredibly protective of both her kingdom and her surviving family. Armed with Krieg, a living umbrella, she aims to destroy the Skull Heart to avoid a repeat of what happened with her mother.\ |
| 493 | |
| 494 | -> Parasoul is a combination of a charge character and a setplay character who uses Krieg and her army of Egrets to not only keep opponents at bay with firearms, but keep them on their toes with traps in the form of '''tears''', which she can place via her '''Napalm Toss''' and '''Napalm Shot''' specials. To master her space control, Parasoul's moves must be planned out in advance, thanks to her nature as a charge character, but when mastered, she can decimate the opponent from just about anywhere. |
| 495 | ---- |
| 496 | !!Tropes associated with Parasoul: |
| 497 | * AdaptationalModesty: While still very short, her skirt is noticeably longer in the first nine chapters of the Webtoon. After the new art team was hired, her skirt's about as short as it is in the game. |
| 498 | * AerithAndBob: The daughters of King Franz and Queen Nancy? Parasoul and Umbrella. |
| 499 | * AmbidextrousSprite: Her eye-hiding bangs. She also has a single armband on whichever arm's holding Krieg, in certain palettes. |
| 500 | * AssistCharacter: Provides the page image. She has a few attacks that utilize her off-screen soldiers. |
| 501 | * BigGood: As the ruler of the Canopy Kingdom, she qualifies. |
| 502 | * BigSisterInstinct: She is fiercely protective of Umbrella. Her being in danger kickstarts Parasoul's story mode. |
| 503 | * CallingYourAttacks: For at least four of her moves. |
| 504 | -->'''Parasoul:''' [[GratuitousFrench Arc de feu]]!\ |
| 505 | [[GratuitousFrench Touché]]!\ |
| 506 | Napalm Pillar!\ |
| 507 | Napalm Shot! |
| 508 | * TheCaptain: She commands the Black Egrets. |
| 509 | * ChargeInputSpecial: Parasoul is one of two fighters in the game that uses charge inputs. Her projectile, "Napalm Shot", travels a long distance and will create an explosive trap wherever it lands. And her anti-air, "Napalm Pillar", is invincible and launches opponents, with the added function of detonating Napalm Shots. She also has a set of three other charge specials that utilize her soldiers, the Black Egrets. "Egret Call" which resets Parasoul to a neutral position, "Egret Dive" where a soldier jumps in front of her and blocks incoming attacks, and "Egret Charge" where a soldier on a motorcycle comes and slams the opponent into the wall to start a combo. |
| 510 | * ChessMotifs: Many of her attack names are named after Chess, such as ''Queen's Gambit''. |
| 511 | * ClosetGeek: If you believe her profile, she secretly watches ''Annie: Girl of the Stars'', which she has likely watched since she was a little kid. |
| 512 | * TheComicallySerious: See her attempts to have fun with Umbrella in Umbrella's story mode. |
| 513 | * CoolBigSis: To her little sister Umbrella. |
| 514 | * CrosshairAware: One of her supers, calling a sniper to shoot. |
| 515 | * DifficultButAwesome: Poor mobility, charge specials as opposed to quick quarter-circle/Z-motion specials, and intricate combos make Parasoul have one of the highest difficulty curves of the cast. That said, once you manage to master her combos and learn to manipulate space with her projectiles and long-ranged normals, she's a monster to fight against with horrifying range and power, coupled with traps everywhere. |
| 516 | * DualWielding: She holds Krieg in one hand and a pistol in the other. |
| 517 | * EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench: She speaks with a light French accent ([[OohMeAccentsSlipping usually]]), has [[GratuitousFrench several attacks that have French names]], and her surname (Renoir) is French. |
| 518 | * {{Expy}}: One to [[VideoGame/{{Persona 3}} Mitsuru Kirijou]]. The designer is a fan after all. Parasoul even has a Palette Swap based off of her and shares her Japanese voice actress! |
| 519 | * {{Fainting}}: Her time-out animation has her doing the emotional variant. A Black Egret [[FallingIntoHisArms catches]] her and glares at the opponent. |
| 520 | * FieryRedhead: Subverted, as her background lists "Logic" as one of her likes and "Overly emotional people" as one of her dislikes. She does fit in a literal sense, given Krieg's PlayingWithFire powers. |
| 521 | %%* FormFittingWardrobe: She's wearing one, all right. |
| 522 | * GagDub: |
| 523 | ** [[LadySwearsALot Salty]] Parasoul. |
| 524 | -->Take the damn shot! |
| 525 | ** For more Salty Sailor Parasoul, Erin Fitzgerald posted [[http://erinfitzvoiceartist.tumblr.com/post/45548598347/awwww-look-what-zone-made-me-an-incredibly this picture]] on her Tumblr. |
| 526 | * GratuitousFrench: Several of her attacks, such as ''Coup d'arrêt'' or ''Arc de feu''. She also [[CallingYourAttacks calls out]] the name of several of these. |
| 527 | * HidingBehindYourBangs: One of her eyes is hidden by her bangs, accentuating her general aloofness in attitude. |
| 528 | * TheHighQueen: At this point, she's the ruler of her country. |
| 529 | * HollywoodGenetics: Parasoul has red hair, and Umbrella has [[RoseHairedSweetie pink]]. Queen Nancy had black hair, and Fraz was a redhead. |
| 530 | * HomeStage: Glass Canopy. |
| 531 | * ImpossibleHourglassFigure: Deserves a special mention, her [[http://skullgirls.com/characters/parasoul official measurements]] being 34DD-24-38. |
| 532 | * KickChick: Her high kicks were almost certainly done just to show off her legs. And [[PantyShot underwear]]. |
| 533 | * KindaBusyHere: ''Egret Call'' has one of her soldiers call her when she's in the middle of a fight. It does serve the practical purpose of allowing her to LagCancel. |
| 534 | * LadyOfWar: A very smooth, elegant fighting style based on fencing. This ties into her slow movement. |
| 535 | * LagCancel: Parasoul's "Egret Call" special serves this purpose. Parasoul's attack is interrupted by an Egret, and reduces the recovery of whatever attack she cancelled out of, allowing her to continue her combo where she normally couldn't. |
| 536 | * LanternJawOfJustice: Downplayed, but she's got a rather pointy chin. [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething She]] fits [[BadassNormal the personality, though]]. |
| 537 | * LegFocus: Her character art, [[KickChick kick attacks]], and [[MiniDressOfPower short skirt]] are all designer to place emphasis on her legs. |
| 538 | * LittleBlackDress: The top part of her dress is long sleeved, but the skirt part is rididulously short. |
| 539 | * LongRangeFighter: Less specialized than Peacock in long-range fighting, but she can actually hold her own in a melee fight. |
| 540 | * MightyGlacier: Parasoul stands out from the rest of the cast because she doesn't have an air dash, a double jump, a run or even some command dash to let maneuver around the screen with ease. How does she compensate? With a wall of projectiles, more command normals than anyone in the cast and the ability to cancel these normals. |
| 541 | * MiniDressOfPower: Her skirt is pretty short... |
| 542 | * AMotherToHerMen: "Black Egret troops" are listed on her likes list, and despite Parasoul's [[UnwantedAssistance occasional annoyance]] at them, they clearly have nothing but mutual respect for one another. |
| 543 | * NotSoAboveItAll: The first portion of her origin story mode in ''Skullgirls Mobile'' has the framing device of her telling the story of how her mother became the Skullgirl to Umbrella. She really talks herself up in these sections. |
| 544 | * NotSoStoic: She rarely expresses any sort of emotion in gameplay or otherwise. A notable exception is when she uses her [[LauncherMove Canopy Bounce]] move, where she states "Up you go!" in a very mocking tone. However, during her story mode, she (understandably) freaks out when [[spoiler:Umbrella chases after the Skull Heart]]. |
| 545 | * ParentalSubstitute: Umbrella would have been very young when their parents died, so Parasoul is this for her younger sister. |
| 546 | * ParasolOfPain: She uses her living umbrella as a beating tool and a gun, among other things. |
| 547 | * ParasolParachute: Her jumping mid-kick. |
| 548 | * PimpedOutDress: If you're fighting on the Glass Canopy stage and neither player is using Parasoul, she'll appear in the background wearing one of these. |
| 549 | * PrincessesRule: Despite being the de facto ruler of the Canopy Kingdom after her father's disappearance, her official title seems to be "princess" instead of "queen". |
| 550 | * PunnyName: She uses an umbrella as a weapon, and as the de facto ruler of the kingdom, she's the heart and "soul" of it. |
| 551 | -->'''Ms. Fortune:''' I... uh... dammit, [[LampshadeHanging your name's already a pun]]! |
| 552 | * PuttingOnTheReich: A rare heroic example: The Black Egrets wear grey-coloured uniforms, armbands on the upper-right arm, and gas-masks, seem to be using [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP40 MP 40s]] and a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MG_42 MG 42]] in a super, and have helmets resembling the fairly-stereotypical [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickelhaube Pickelhaube]] (though those helmets, while culturally German, were used in World War I). Parasoul herself utilizes a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luger_pistol Luger Parabellum]]. Unusually, the resemblance to Nazis doesn't go beyond appearances; they're actually the good guys (and their country is [[CultureChopSuey based on France as much as Germany]]). |
| 553 | * ReligiousBruiser: Her necklace and emblem are the Trinity's symbol, implying this. |
| 554 | * RocketJump: If one of her tears explodes near her when she's floating with Krieg, she gains more height. |
| 555 | * RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: She's got royal heritage, and she's actually fighting! She's this in-story too, as it's made abundantly clear that she is trying her hardest to rule the kingdom fairly and atone for the mistakes of her warmongering father. |
| 556 | * ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Downplayed in the Webtoon. Parasoul is personally trying to uphold the rules, but that would require publically going after the Medici Mafia, who are VillainsWithGoodPublicity. Her father warns that the lack of public support would simply make the mafia more powerful and demands she back off, something she refuses to do. |
| 557 | * SinsOfOurFathers: Both her father (who is implied, and later confirmed, [[BloodKnight to have]] started [[GreatOffscreenWar The Grand War]]), and her mother (who became a [[HumanoidAbomination Skullgirl]] in [[WellIntentionedExtremist her attempt to stop it]]). |
| 558 | * SmartPeoplePlayChess: Chess is listed as one of her "likes", and one of her moves is entitled "Queen's Gambit". |
| 559 | * SpecsOfAwesome: Quite a few of her alternate color palettes give her these. |
| 560 | * StatuesqueStunner: The third tallest female of the cast, at 5'10". |
| 561 | * UnwantedAssistance: {{Invoked}}. Parasoul's Egret Call attack summons a Black Egret to attempt to give a report to Parasoul, whom she quickly dismisses. While annoying for her, it's helpful for players: the Egret interrupts her current attack, allowing her to LagCancel. |
| 562 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: Parasoul really took after [[http://i.imgur.com/mKEtWFd.jpg Queen Nancy]]. |
| 563 | * SugarAndIcePersonality: By default she's aloof, professional, and not inclined to show mercy to most of her opponents. When it comes to her little sister though, [[BigSisterInstinct she's a fiercely protective and caring individual]]. |
| 564 | * SultryBangs: By default, one of her eyes is always covered by her hair, adding to her classy style of sexiness. |
| 565 | * TakeMeInstead: In her ending, her dying sister gets too close to the MacGuffin and Parasoul can't destroy it without her sister getting caught in the blast. [[spoiler:So she wishes her sister will never become the Skullgirl]]. In the aftermath, she promises to start her sister's training after she wakes up to prepare her for [[spoiler:Parasoul's eventual transformation]]. |
| 566 | * UnsportsmanlikeGloating: Many of Salty Parasoul's win quotes are her gloating. |
| 567 | -->'''Parasoul:''' "Beating ''you'' down is the only ''therapy'' I need." |
| 568 | |
| 569 | !!Tropes related to Krieg: |
| 570 | * ExtraEyes: He has at least eight GlowingEyes. |
| 571 | * FieryStoic: Krieg has the power to cry highly flammable tears of napalm, and is by far one of the most composed Living Weapons out there. |
| 572 | * FireballEyeballs: A weaponized example, as Krieg's eyes have the ability to produce flammable napalm. His eyes sometimes include flames coming out of them. |
| 573 | * GlowingEyesOfDoom: You'll know if Krieg is about to fire when his eyes start to burn brightly. |
| 574 | * LivingWeapon: While seemingly not mobile or responsive, it's confirmed to be a living creature who can produce smoldering napalm from its eyes. |
| 575 | * MeaningfulName: His name is the German word for "war". This helps tie in with Parasoul's PuttingOnTheReich. It's also because there are four umbrellas in her family, which represent the HorsemenOfTheApocalypse. |
| 576 | * ParasolOfPain: Parasoul's fighting style revolves around fencing with Krieg. The fact that it's spiked and cries napalm only further solidifies it as a deadly weapon. |
| 577 | * PlayingWithFire: He cries napalm tears, which can be placed on the screen and detonated. In addition, bullets shot into Krieg shoot out the other end, engulfed in a ball of flame. Parasoul has a number of attacks that involve her shooting Krieg with her Luger. Her Level 3 Blockbuster has her open Krieg fully, and have the Black Egrets fire on Krieg with automatic weapons. The result is a veritable storm of fireballs. |
| 578 | * TheStoic: Out of all of the living weapons, Krieg is by far the most level-headed. So much so that you would think they were an ordinary umbrella. |
| 579 | ** NotSoStoic: However, despite this, the webcomic has shown that Krieg does have a few moments where he can be expressive. This includes [[OverlyNervousFlopSweat sweating nervously]] when Parasoul was at gunpoint, and is visibly offended when Peacock threatens to rip him to shreds. |
| 580 | * SwissArmyTears: Krieg's tears can be quite useful. However, instead of being used for healing, they ae used for pretty much the exact opposite. |
| 581 | * TheVoiceless: Unlike Hungern, Krieg is completely silent. |
| 582 | |
| 583 | !!Tropes associated with Parasoul's Black Egret soldiers: |
| 584 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KaijiTang, Bobby Thong, Creator/ErikKimerer, and Jason Wishnov (all English) / ? (all Japanese) |
| 585 | * AngryFistShake: During Parasoul's time-out animation. |
| 586 | * AssistCharacter: Their [[TakingTheBullet Egret Dive]] move provides the page image. |
| 587 | %%* BadassArmy |
| 588 | * BadassBiker: Parasoul's Egret Charge move summons a single soldier on a motorcycle to grab the opponent and drag them to the edge of the screen, and her Motor Brigade super summons a fleet of them to run the opponent down. |
| 589 | * BigNo: All of the soldiers have one of these lines when performing the [[TakingTheBullet Egret Dive]] move. |
| 590 | ** SlowNo: One speaks all of their lines for Egret Dive [[RuleOfFunny in slow motion]], so combined with the BigNo above, it becomes this. |
| 591 | * TheFaceless: We really don't what they look like without their masks. |
| 592 | * FacelessGoons: Her Egrets' faces aren't showing under their helmets and masks. |
| 593 | * FallingIntoHisArms: Parasoul's time-out animation has her faint into an Egret's arms. The Egret glares at the opponent and does an AngryFistShake. |
| 594 | * GasMaskMooks: Her Egrets sure look the part. |
| 595 | * MajorInjuryUnderreaction: When Egret Dive is used, an Egret will throw themselves to take any attacks meant for Parasoul. Their responses to get shot, stabbed, bludgeoned and/or maimed is a simple 'Ow' before they retreat. |
| 596 | * MoreDakka: Parasoul's level 3 super, Inferno Brigade, spawns a large number of Egrets to shoot at Krieg, who cries a torrent of napalm tears to hit the opponent with. |
| 597 | * PuttingOnTheReich: Gray and green uniforms, red armbands, Pickelhaube helmets (Though technically those are more connected to UsefulNotes/{{WW1}}), German-inspired weaponry ([=StG=] 44, MP 40, a Luger going by Parasoul's own sidearm, etc.), and the motorcycles used are of German design. Umbrella's addition to the game removes their red Canopy Kingdom armbands in her own story mode, lessening the Nazi Germany half of their design influence. |
| 598 | * SlowNo: Their shielding dive attack, complete with apparent BulletTime for the Egret. Their cries range from dramatic and serious to completely silly. |
| 599 | * TheSquad: The Egrets Parasoul uses for her assist attacks are five identical-looking soldiers ([[JustifiedTrope justified]], since they all have helmets and are in uniform), each with a different voice and role. |
| 600 | * UnwantedAssistance: InUniverse. They ''try'' to help Parasoul by giving her a report when you use her Egret Call attack, but she, being in the middle of a fight, quickly dismisses them. However, it's helpful for players, letting them use Parasoul's extremely important {{Lag Cancel}}ling. |
| 601 | * TakingTheBullet: The Egret Dive attack, which has an Egret throw themselves in front of Parasoul to absorb attacks. Sometimes they do this while shouting [[BigNo "NOOOOOOOOOOO!"]]. |
| 602 | * WellExcuseMePrincess: Said word for word by the Egrets when Parasouls rudely dismisses them when Egret Call is used. |
| 603 | [[/folder]] |
| 604 | |
| 605 | [[folder:Ms. Fortune]] |
| 606 | !!Nadia Fortune |
| 607 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KimlinhTran (English) / Creator/KanaHanazawa (Japanese) |
| 608 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ms__fortune_tvtropes_2301.png]] |
| 609 | [[caption-width-right:300:'''''Purrfect Treasure''''']] |
| 610 | ->''"Curiosity can't kill me."''\ |
| 611 | |
| 612 | -> The last living member of the Fishbone Gang, a band of Dagonian (fish-people) thieves, Ms. Fortune-- the gang's only Feral member-- came out of the gang's last job lucky: they had attempted to steal the mysterious Life Gem from Lorenzo Medici, and her fellow thieves had met grisly ends. It was only thanks to some last-second thinking that Fortune swallowed the gem before the Medicis caught up with her, cutting her into pieces. The gem's energy empowered Fortune, granting her a body that cannot truly die. Although she's been hiding out in Little Innsmouth since then, the reappearance of the Skullgirl has provided an opportunity to get out there, claim vengeance for her gang, and-- perhaps-- wish for their revival.\ |
| 613 | |
| 614 | -> Ms. Fortune is an odd stance character who, thanks to the powers of the Life Gem, has the ability to swap between '''Head-on''' and '''Headless''' Modes. In '''Head-on Mode''', Ms. Fortune is a powerful rushdown character with access to some truly oppressive mixups and resets. However, some specials result in Ms. Fortune entering '''Headless Mode'''. In Headless Mode, Ms. Fortune becomes a PuppetFighter, which sees her losing access to her heavy punch normals, but instead uses the button to control her head separately from her body, allowing her to catch her opponent off-guard from a distance. |
| 615 | ---- |
| 616 | !!Tropes associated with Ms. Fortune: |
| 617 | * AbnormalLimbRotationRange: Since her limbs and head are fully detachable, they have an unlimited amount of rotation at the detachment points. |
| 618 | * AndTheAdventureContinues: Her story mode ending. [[spoiler: She comes to terms with the death of the Fishbone Gang, destroys the Skull Heart and returns to Little Innsmouth. But when she gets there, she learns that Minette and several other Dagonian women have been kidnapped, probably by the Medicis. So she teams up with Irvin to fix things.]] |
| 619 | * AntiRegeneration: She's not ''completely'' unkillable. While cutting pieces off of her does nothing, [[spoiler:in Cerebella's ending, we learn that she can be ''crushed'' to death. You can't [[PullingThemselvesTogether pull yourself together]] if there's nothing solid left of you to pull together]]. |
| 620 | * BadassAdorable: She is a catgirl, after all. |
| 621 | * BerserkButton: Ms. Fortune didn't particularly like those thugs picking on Minette during the opening of her story... |
| 622 | %%* BewareTheSillyOnes |
| 623 | * BigSisterInstinct: Towards Minette, who she is friends with and keeps her from getting hurt by thugs. |
| 624 | * BloodyMurder: She can [[HighPressureBlood jettison her own blood from severed limbs as a means of propulsion]]. |
| 625 | * BodyHorror: She has quite a bit of unnatural control over her body even beyond popping her limbs off. One attack even involves entangling her opponents in a yarn ball made from ''her own muscle fibers''. |
| 626 | * ButtMonkey: Fittingly for her name, she seems to suffer a more than her fair share of bad luck or terrible fates. In all of the story modes she's been featured in so far, she's been... |
| 627 | ** Crushed to death ([[AndIMustScream or worse]] going by her immortality) by Cerebella into the shape of the Life Gem. |
| 628 | ** Captured by Valentine and cut up, tortured and experimented on by the woman until she escaped. |
| 629 | ** Told her surrogate family was kidnapped by Black Dahlia and held hostage by the Medici mafia in her own story mode ending. |
| 630 | ** Given a harsh beating by Big Band after a misunderstanding (that was all her fault). |
| 631 | ** MadeASlave by Eliza as both a pet and an exotic drinking fountain for the cat-loving vampire. |
| 632 | ** Beaten up and plausibly killed by Robo-Fortune, as she's not heard from again after their battle. |
| 633 | ** Smacked around hard by Annie for wanting to wish on the Skullheart as a ''warning.'' |
| 634 | ** Beaten and captured by Cerebella and Eliza, essentially tortured to the brink of death by Black Dahlia, and kidnapped ''again'' by Robo-Fortune, who later proceeds to compress her into a new Life Gem. |
| 635 | * CallingYourAttacks: Not quite as often as Cerebella, but still a rather frequent offender. |
| 636 | -->Claws for Alarm!\ |
| 637 | Headbutt!\ |
| 638 | Limber Up!\ |
| 639 | Zoom!\ |
| 640 | Omnomnom!\ |
| 641 | Fiber Uppercut!\ |
| 642 | Feral... Edge!\ |
| 643 | Cat Scratch Fever!\ |
| 644 | Remember, remember... the Fifth of Dismember! |
| 645 | * {{Catgirl}}: Which is fairly unusual -- the rest of her gang were FishPeople. |
| 646 | * ClassyCatBurglar: [[{{Catgirl}} Literally!]] |
| 647 | * ConspicuousTrenchcoat: Before a fight, presumably to hide her injuries or to be less noticeable. |
| 648 | * CoolBigSis: How Minette sees her. |
| 649 | * CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:In Cerebella's ending, she's crushed with so much force that her body is compressed into a new Life Gem.]] |
| 650 | * CuteLittleFang: No catgirl would be complete without one! |
| 651 | * DetachmentCombat: Her main ability. As a player character, this translates to her key mechanic being the ability to pop her head off, which sits on the battlefield and can be given commands separately from her main body until it's recalled. |
| 652 | * EatTheEvidence: When she realizes the Medicis sent powerful goons after the gang, she swallows the Life Gem in hopes of hiding it (though apparently she had originally simply intended to hide in her mouth and swallowed it by accident). |
| 653 | * EverythingsDeaderWithZombies: Technically, but neither of the brain-eating or the flesh-eating variety. Apparently she still needs to eat, hence her frequenting Yu Wan's restaurant. Her status is discussed among the fandom. Some consider that she came back to life after dying, others think that she never truly died and what the Life Gem did was alter her body and give her an extreme healing factor. |
| 654 | * ExpressiveAccessory: Her bell which stylized to look like a Life Gem. |
| 655 | * FanDisservice: Lithe, tan and in a revealing outfit with a generous helping of Underboob. Oh, and detachable limbs with visible muscle, bone and constant spurting of blood. |
| 656 | * GoGoEnslavement: [[spoiler:Her ultimate fate in Eliza's story mode ending. The outfit somehow manages to be even ''more'' {{Stripperiffic}} than her usual attire.]] |
| 657 | * GrievousHarmWithABody: Though it's not as apparent as her other limbs, her tail is detachable as well and she removes it specifically to use as a weapon (such as a golf club or a ''sword'') for a few of her attacks. |
| 658 | * GrotesqueCute: Awww! It's a kitty! [[CutenessProximity You're a cute kitty, aren't y]] -- ''[[{{Gorn}} ugh...]]'' ''[[FanDisservice ew]]''. |
| 659 | * HomeStage: Little Innsmouth. |
| 660 | * IKnowMaddenKombat: She can use her head like a volleyball or a bowling ball in some moves, and swings her detached tail like a golf club for her Snap Back - which can send her similarly detached head ricocheting about the field. |
| 661 | * ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty: Her bio states she's exactly twenty years old. It's unknown how old she was when she gained her immortality, but it was likely not too long ago. |
| 662 | * ImmortalityHurts: In Cerebella's story it's implied she got to The Grand Cathedral first, lost to Valentine and/or Double in a fight, and that Valentine's been conducting painful experiments on her regenerating body, preventing Ms. Fortune from recovering her stamina and escaping. Valentine's implied to want to do these experiments in Ms. Fortune's own story mode but fortunately she's strong enough to beat her there. Also if Valentine [=KOs=] her in Gameplay she sometimes screams "No...! No...!!!" as if she knows what's coming next. [[spoiler:Her ability to regenerate her blood also makes her the ideal drinking fountain for Eliza.]] |
| 663 | * ImmortalityInducer: The Life Gem. |
| 664 | * InnocentBlueEyes: She has blue irises, which help highlight how light-hearted she truly is. |
| 665 | * InSeriesNickname: Despite most other characters referring to each other by their first names, only a few characters ever call her Nadia, suggesting "Ms. Fortune" is this for her. It's possible they're all just being polite too. |
| 666 | * JustLikeRobinHood: Stealing from the rich and giving to the poor are classified as two of her "Likes". |
| 667 | * LeParkour: One of her many likes. |
| 668 | * LetsGetDangerous: Implied. Two of her lines when using her Feral Edge super are delivered in a much more ferocious tone of voice than her normal jovial tone. |
| 669 | * LittleBitBeastly: She has the ears, tail, fangs, and claws of a cat, but otherwise looks human. |
| 670 | * LosingYourHead: She has the ability to [[http://shoryuken.com/2011/10/05/skullgirls-ms-fortune-scores-a-decap-attack/ take off her head and attack with it]]. |
| 671 | * MadeASlave: [[spoiler:She's turned into a drinking fountain by Eliza, as her body being able to regenerate her blood infinitely thanks to the Life Gem, which also makes her blood extra delicious, is the perfect treat for the blood-sucking woman.]] |
| 672 | * MadeOfPlasticine: Her body comes apart very easily. The difference from most examples is that for her, [[DetachmentCombat this is an advantage]]. |
| 673 | * ManBitesMan: Her severed head can chew on opponents. (Popularly called OMNOMNOM.) |
| 674 | * MissXPun: Her name being a pun on "misfortune". |
| 675 | %%* MysticalWhiteHair |
| 676 | * {{Nerf}}: She's one of the biggest victims of the nerf bat in the "Slightly Different Edition" patch. Pre-patch, Ms. Fortune was a monster that could pull off ten-second long combos with her head off. The key to pulling those combos off, however, was her OMNOMNOM move, which post-patch is now limited to once per combo. |
| 677 | * NothingPersonal: |
| 678 | ** It's not that she particularly ''wants'' to fight Marie, but she has to if she wants to bring the Fishbone Gang back to life. |
| 679 | -->'''Ms. Fortune''': So, no offense, but you're the last thing standing between me and my family, so let's get this show on the road!\ |
| 680 | '''Marie''': I too have lost much to the Medicis. Do you not seek vengeance? Wishes such as yours rarely turn out well.\ |
| 681 | '''Ms. Fortune''': I've got to try -- the Fishbone Gang raised me, protected me and taught me everything I know. The least I can do is return the favor. |
| 682 | ** Both she and Squigly have been killed by the Medicis and come back to life. If she loses to Squigly, she'll occasionally mutter "But... we're... the same..." |
| 683 | * NotSoDifferentRemark: The BigBad remarks that their wishes are similar; to destroy the mafia and all affiliated crime organizations as revenge for their friends. |
| 684 | -->'''Ms. Fortune''': Look, I'm gonna have to stop you before you get to the 'We're a lot alike, you and I' bit. |
| 685 | * OddFriendship: She's a CatGirl and all of her allies are FishPeople. |
| 686 | * OurZombiesAreDifferent: Compared to the more traditional rotting zombie that is Squigly, Nadia has no outward signs of her state besides her scars. Until she starts fighting that is. |
| 687 | * PullingThemselvesTogether: She did this after being chopped into pieces, and her Fifth of Dismember special involves her exploding and then doing this. |
| 688 | * PungeonMaster: Even worse than Peacock. There's a pun in the name or [[CallingYourAttacks callout]] of nearly every one of her moves, [[http://wiki.shoryuken.com/Skullgirls/MsFortune#Move_List and a lot of them have both]]. One of her "likes" is "Subjecting others to [[IncrediblyLamePun terrible puns]]." |
| 689 | -->'''Ms. Fortune:''' A purr-fect plaything.\ |
| 690 | Paws-itively delightful.\ |
| 691 | [[ComicBook/VForVendetta Remember, remember, the Fifth of Dismember!]]\ |
| 692 | [[VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom Purrserker Furrage!]]\ |
| 693 | Wow, I'm claw-some.\ |
| 694 | You're not claws-strophobic, are you?\ |
| 695 | Not a-mew-sing.\ |
| 696 | Time to pull myself together!\ |
| 697 | [[ItsPersonal Meow it's purr-sonal.]]\ |
| 698 | [[Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind That's a CLAWS encounter of the FURRED kind!]]\ |
| 699 | '''[On defeating Parasoul]''' I... uh... dammit, your name's already a pun.'' |
| 700 | * PunnyName: Her name is a play on the word "misfortune" (fittingly enough). |
| 701 | * PuppetFighter: If you take off her head, you can control it as a separate entity by using the HP button plus a directional input. It can simply headbutt, [[HighPressureBlood push itself away using blood]], [[SneezeOfDoom sneeze and send itself into the air]], or [[ManBitesMan bite the opponent and keep them in place]]. By doing so, however, you lose a bit of mobility options, a good lockdown normal, and anything else the HP button would've done. |
| 702 | * RubberWoman: In a rather grotesque variation. While she's not exactly made of rubber, she's still able to stretch her body to extreme lengths, as seen in certain moves like Fiber Uppercut. This is thanks to her scars and the Life Gem's regenerative capabilities allowing her to lengthen her body by disconnecting her muscle fibers. |
| 703 | * RunningOnAllFours: Her forward dash. |
| 704 | * SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud: One of her quotes when blocking. |
| 705 | --> Hiss... |
| 706 | * ScarsAreForever: She retains these after being dismembered. |
| 707 | * SlidingScaleOfUndeadRegeneration: Type IV. She swallowed the Life Gem, granting her immortality with an impressive HealingFactor. |
| 708 | * SpectacularSpinning: Her intro animation has her shred her trenchcoat by spinning her body independent of her head. Her stun animation in ''Skullgirls Mobile'' has the opposite, when attached her head spins 360 degrees continually until the stun effect ends. |
| 709 | * SpicyLatina: As noted above, she's the Skullgirls universe's equivalent of Latina. |
| 710 | * StatuesqueStunner: At 5'8", she just barely qualifies. |
| 711 | * StealthPun: She's a cat burglar. |
| 712 | * {{Stripperiffic}}: Her costume. It was designed to highlight her scars such that they can be easily seen [[LudicrousGibs when they separate]]. Justified in that her fighting style involves dismembering herself. Thus it makes sense for her to wear clothing that won't get in the way of removing and reattaching her limbs. If her intro animation before each fight is any indication she wears a trench coat to cover herself when out in public and only rips it off when she knows she's about to get into a fight. |
| 713 | * TheUndead: Well technically she ''is'' a zombie. The gem's the only thing keeping her body alive. |
| 714 | * {{Underboobs}}: Her top is cut high enough to expose the underside of her breasts. |
| 715 | * UnusualEars: Cat ones. Conveniently, her hairstyle covers the sides of her head, hiding whether or not she has additional human ears. [[http://skullgirls.wikia.com/wiki/Ms._Fortune/Gallery?file=MsFortune_ModelSheetMasses_LRG.png Ms. Fortune's model sheet]] reveals that she lacks an extra pair of ears. |
| 716 | * UseYourHead: Several of her attacks involve her ripping her head off and hitting her opponent with it. If her head is attached while executing Cat Scratch Fever, she will directly headbutt her opponent. |
| 717 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: The webcomic clarifies that the Fishbone Gang were ''not'' originally after the Life Gem; they were just stealing valuables from Lorenzo Medici. Nadia simply stole the Life Gem from Lorenzo as an impulse while he was vulnerable. She realizes far too late to stop it that her impulsive theft just sealed their fate in time for her worst fears to come true. |
| 718 | * YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: In her ending, she decides to return home [[spoiler:without making her wish, destroying the Skull Heart]]...except [[spoiler:Minette]] has been kidnapped, so she and her friends at Innsmouth [[HereWeGoAgain set out to find her]]. |
| 719 | [[/folder]] |
| 720 | |
| 721 | [[folder:Painwheel]] |
| 722 | !!Carol / Painwheel |
| 723 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/DanielleMcRae (English) / Creator/IzumiKitta (Japanese) |
| 724 | [[quoteright:302:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/painwheel_tvtropes_5469.png]] |
| 725 | [[caption-width-right:302:'''''Not Quite Condemned''''']] |
| 726 | ->'''''"Get out of my head!!"'''''\ |
| 727 | |
| 728 | -> Painwheel's story is a sad one-- once a normal girl named Carol, she was kidnapped by Valentine to be used as a guinea pig at the most secretive of the Anti-Skullgirl Labs-- Lab Zero, headed by the maniacal psychic known as Brain Drain. Implanted with synthetic Parasites and given a transfusion of experimental Skullgirl blood, these experiments drove the newly-dubbed "Painwheel" mad, with Brain Drain mentally controlling her as a precaution. Fueled by her undying rage and continuously trying to fight off the voices in her head, Painwheel has been dispatched to destroy the new Skullgirl.\ |
| 729 | |
| 730 | -> Painwheel is an incredibly vicious rushdown character with access to two unique mechanics. Not only can she fly, which allows her to disorient the opponent and open up their defences, but she also has a unique armor mechanic in the form of '''Hatred Guard''', where she is able to charge up certain attacks and increase their startup time by holding their buttons. During this increased startup time, any damage that Painwheel receives when armored will be stored up within the attack, reflecting that damage back at her opponent when the attack successfully lands. |
| 731 | ---- |
| 732 | !!Tropes associated with Painwheel: |
| 733 | * AbnormalLimbRotationRange: If one pays attention to her normals, you can see that she forces her limbs into various positions to force out the Gae Bolga parasites. Her standing Hard Kick in particular is gruesome enough with her leg bending ''backwards'' at the knee. |
| 734 | * AlienBlood: Her blood type is SG for Skullgirl, giving her the ability to sense the Skullgirl's location. [[spoiler:It also causes her to turn into the next Skullgirl in her story mode's ending.]] |
| 735 | * AndIMustScream: ZigZaggedTrope. Valentine remarks in Painwheel's Story Mode that "that little shred of a soul we left you shouldn't be enough to resist Brain Drain's control"; combined with FightingFromTheInside below, and it's made clear that, whenever Brain Drain puppeteers her body to serve his ends, she's conscious the entire time. Thanks to her Skullgirl blood, however, she can summon the force of will to resist, and even outright defy, Brain Drain's control while a Skullgirl exists [[spoiler: (or a half-Skullgirl, as Umbrella's story mode demonstrates)]], with her strength of will seemingly being proportionate to her proximity of them. Even outside of this, however, there are moments in various story modes, hers included, that suggest that she can summon up the willpower to resist him on her own even without a Skullgirl, or that she may be able to act autonomously while Brain Drain isn't actively trying to control her. |
| 736 | * AndThenJohnWasAZombie: In her ending, [[spoiler:despite ''not'' wishing on the Skull Heart, she gets the skull-pattern eyes of a Skullgirl in the final shot, indicating she'll become the next one. It's implied to be due to her Skullgirl blood combined with her despair at being rejected by her family and her desire for revenge on Brain Drain.]] |
| 737 | * AnimeChineseGirl: The image given off by her appearance. However, she is a decidedly ''non''-cute example closer to a StringyHairedGhostGirl. |
| 738 | * ArtificialStupidity: When battling against an AI controlled Painwheel, she's occasionally capable of putting up a decent fight - if she isn't so preoccupied trying to hover uselessly in the air in her flight mode. She'll keep doing her best to keep flying even if the player is completely open to attack or if she's already been swatted out the air before. |
| 739 | * BarefootLoon: Painwheel doesn't wear shoes, which is partially justified as she can protrude spikes from her soles. However, she isn't eccentric, but mentally unstable due to the fact that Brain Drain is constantly controlling her like a puppet. |
| 740 | * BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler:Eventually averted, once Painwheel breaks free of the mind control.]] |
| 741 | * TheBerserker: So much so that her [[ChargedAttack charge attacks]] can gain more power when she's hit while readying them. |
| 742 | * BittersweetEnding: But not in ''her'' ending, [[DownerEnding oh no,]] rather, in [[spoiler:Filia's]]. [[spoiler:Carol returns to her normal life as a schoolgirl, free of the constant pain, and is reunited with Filia at school. Unfortunately, this happiness is doomed because Filia will eventually [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie turn into the next Skullgirl]] as [[HeroicSacrifice the price for Carol's freedom.]]]] |
| 743 | * BlackEyesOfCrazy: The experiments performed on Carol gave her black sclera, as seen in [[spoiler: Valentine's]] ending, and turned her into an at-times feral berserker. |
| 744 | * BladeBelowTheShoulder: The Gae Bolga Matrix parasite is threaded through her entire skeleton, but the [[RetractableWeapon retractable]] blades emerge from below '''both''' Shoulders and '''both''' Knees. |
| 745 | * BloodIron: Gae Bolga is one of Painwheel's two syntehic parasites and it takes the form of an amorphous ferrofluid and resides within Painwheel's bloodstream. With it, Painwheel is able release sharp metallic needles from various parts of her body. |
| 746 | * BodyHorror: She has a giant pinwheel attached to her back (connected to what looks like her ''spine''), as well as nails driven into her thighs, shoulders and head. She's also able to produce spikes anywhere on her body. What's more is that she is constantly aching, as every attack causes her to scream in pain. |
| 747 | * BrainwashedAndCrazy: And the pivotal point of her story mode is how to break out of her brainwashing. |
| 748 | * CallingYourAttacks: Painwheel calls her Death Crawl whenever she uses it, but unlike most of the cast, [[SubvertedTrope she hardly says anything else when fighting.]] |
| 749 | * ChargedAttack: Almost all of her normal attacks can be charged when you hold the button, and they even gain [[ImmuneToFlinching armor]] when charged. |
| 750 | * ColorCodedEmotions: As her dialogue portraits get progressively angrier, her skin turns an increasingly vicious shade of red. |
| 751 | * CorneredRattlesnake: Brain Drain and Valentine tortured and experimented on a young girl in order to turn her into a monstrous killing machine. Said killing machine then breaks free from their control and swears revenge. |
| 752 | * DarkReprise: Her {{Leitmotif}}, '' The Lives We Left Behind'' is remixed to a depressing effect and called ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GpPwiFGuxw The Lives We Tried to Reclaim]]'' in her ending, with the ending segueing into the opening notes of ''Skull Heart Arrythmia''. |
| 753 | * DeadlyRotaryFan: The Beur Drive can be used as such, though the blades give off a SinisterScythe vibe. |
| 754 | * DefeatMeansFriendship: Implied in Big Band's story. [[spoiler: After defeating Painwheel, he asks Leduc to bring her to the Lab 8 survivors.]] |
| 755 | * DifficultButAwesome: Painwheel's sluggish movement, awkward normals, and [[SomeDexterityRequired reliance on flight canceling]] give her one of the steepest learning curves in the game. A skilled player, though, can turn her into an absolute terror, putting together difficult blockstrings and insanely huge combos. |
| 756 | * DownerEnding: [[spoiler:She regains her free will, but is still a monster. Returning home to her parents, they are terrified and drive her out. Brain Drain orders her to return to Lab Zero, but [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge she simply declares she's coming for him next]] while her eyes gain the familiar skull-pattern of a Skullgirl, implying that though she didn't wish on the Skull Heart, her Skullgirl blood coupled with her despair [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie was enough to induce a transformation on its own]].]] |
| 757 | * DualBoss: With Double in Valentine's story and Robo-Fortune in Black Dahlia's story. |
| 758 | * EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: In Umbrella's story, Umbrella's mere presence was generating so much energy that it disrupted Brain Drain's signal to Painwheel, and after a beating she's able to regain enough control and rage to fully separate herself from the doctor. And unlike Filia's, Big Band's, or her own ending, she gets a great deal out of the end - the Renoir family offers to undo her cybernetic surgery, she becomes fast friends with Umbrella, and she reunites with her best friend Filia (and Samson). The ending shows all of them at Umbrella's slumber party looking as jolly as they can be, surgery scars aside.]] |
| 759 | * ElectronicEyes: The way her eyes light up behind her mask during her story mode's opening cutsceen give the impression that she has these. |
| 760 | * ExhaustedEyeBags: She has these whenever she's seen with her mask off, which is unsurprising considering everything she's been through. |
| 761 | * ExoticEyeDesigns: In her ending, [[spoiler:Painwheel's eyes develop the signature half-skull-shaped pupils when it's shown that she's going to become the new Skullgirl, punctuating her swearing revenge on Braindrain]]. |
| 762 | * ExpressiveMask: The stitched together mouth-piece of her mask stretches as she screams, and the eye sockets change to match her mood. |
| 763 | * FacePalmOfDoom: Her air throw. |
| 764 | * FanDisservice: She has a nice figure underneath her outfit, but it's unfortunate that she is malnourished enough that her ribs are visible, covered in horrible scars, has metal barbs coming out of her body, and is in constant, pitiful agony. |
| 765 | * FightingFromTheInside: Carol, as implied by her backstory. This is taken to a literal level in her story mode, when she must fight her inner self in order to break control. (You just fight a PaletteSwap.) |
| 766 | * {{Flight}}: Can use the Buer Drive's blades [[HelicopterPack like helicopter rotors]] to fly. |
| 767 | * FloralThemeNaming: Her name is a play on "pain" and the Pinwheel flower. She also has quite a few moves named after flowers, such as Snapdragon, Cruel ''Lily'' and ''Violet'' Grudge. |
| 768 | * GagDub: ValleyGirl Painwheel. |
| 769 | -->Like, Deathcrawl! |
| 770 | * GameplayAndStorySegregation: Canonically she weighs 375 lbs. (most of it due to her experimentation), but for combo/juggling purposes she's classified as a "lightweight". |
| 771 | * GoodScarsEvilScars: Her face is scarred from where her mask was sewn on but is otherwise left intact from before her transformation, making her look a lot softer than the rest of her body implies. |
| 772 | * GorgeousGorgon: Downplayed; the modifications done to her body are still incredibly painful and grotesque. Her face on the other hand is mostly unchanged from the transformation, barring her stitches, and is still conventionally cute and youthful not unlike Fillia's. As a result, she still feels like a young girl underneath the mask, even after everything that's happened to her. |
| 773 | * HomeStage: Maplecrest. |
| 774 | * HulkingOut: Her Gae Bolga special causes her to do this. |
| 775 | * IJustWantToBeFree: All she wants is to be able to destroy the people who made her the monster she's today, break free of their oppression, and [[IJustWantToBeNormal return to her normal life]]. The last part is quite a bit more difficult to achieve [[spoiler:as the end of her storyline show us and the only way to ever be normal again is wishing it to the Skull Heart like Filia did]]. Umbrella's story does actually provide an alternative solution with significantly less downsides, as Umbrella's sheer energy output disrupts Brain Drain's control over her long enough for her to sever their mental connection entirely. |
| 776 | * ImplacableWoman: While using [[SuperMode Hatred Install]], Painwheel can use her charged normal attacks to absorb hits that would normally kill her, and survive. |
| 777 | * {{Leitmotif}}, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVC-95fnVYs The Lives We Left Behind]]'', which is odd as it is a song that sounds graceful and determined, and yet serves the theme of one the most disturbing characters in the game. And while it may seem like Soundtrack Dissonance, keep in mind that Carol is normally a kind yet persistent girl, so it could also serve as a reminder of [[FridgeBrilliance who she truly is]]. Also, the song is played in Maplecrest, which is also where she used to live. |
| 778 | * LivingWeapon: She was converted into an anti-Skullgirl killing machine by Brain Drain. |
| 779 | * MalevolentMaskedWoman: She has a mask sewn to her face, and is extremely violent. |
| 780 | * MeaningfulName: Her real name, Carol, means ''Free Man''. A pivotal part of her story is her breaking free of Brain Drain's control. |
| 781 | * {{Miniboss}}: In Valentine's story. |
| 782 | * {{Moe}}: Carol is [[InvokedTrope specifically referred]] to this on her design sheet. |
| 783 | * MoralityPet: As Carol, she was one for [[spoiler:pre-Samson Filia]]. |
| 784 | * NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Her name is a pun on pinwheel, but references the four-bladed fan-like weapon on her back. |
| 785 | * NotQuiteBackToNormal: In Filia's ending, her wish is for Painwheel to live a normal life. While she's no longer got her parasites and the pain from them, Carol still goes by the name Painwheel and has the cross shaped scar on her face. To say nothing of her attempt to smile. As for Filia however, cue [[spoiler: her slow and painful transformation into the Skullgirl.]] |
| 786 | * PerpetualFrowner: After becoming Painwheel. One piece of concept art published by Reverge Labs shows her smiling, with the emphatic note '''this NEVER happens.''' penciled in next to it. |
| 787 | ** [[spoiler:Subverted... [[TheUnSmile kind of]]... in Filia's ending.]] |
| 788 | ** [[spoiler: Subverted completely in Umbrella's story after breaking free from Brain Drain's control. She takes off her mask shortly afterwards and is shown with a friendly smile on her face when she talks with Umbrella. When she arrives with TheCavalry at the end, it's shown that she can [[ExpressiveMask even smile through her mask]].]] |
| 789 | * PhlebotinumRebel: She was created to be Lab 0's ultimate weapon, but turns against them. |
| 790 | * PowerEchoes: All of her spoken dialogue has a reverb effect. |
| 791 | * ThePowerOfHate: Mainly towards Valentine and Brain Drain. |
| 792 | * PrimalStance: Crawls on all fours when walking normally. |
| 793 | * ProperLady: As hard as it is to believe, it's implied she was this before her transformation. The "likes" in her profile include "proper etiquette". |
| 794 | * PsychoSerum: She was infused with experimental synthetic Skullgirl blood. |
| 795 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: Her eyes are glowing red. |
| 796 | * ScarsAreForever: Although it's hard to tell whether the scars on her face after removing her mask are permanent or not. |
| 797 | * SenselessViolins: WordOfGod says that the cello case she brings at the end of Filia's Story Mode contains her Buer Drive blades. |
| 798 | * ShoutOut: Her death-crawl is reminiscent of [[VideoGame/SoulSeries Voldo's]] reverse crab-walk. |
| 799 | * SkywardScream: In her victory pose, she throws back her head and lets out a howl of rage while surrounded by a BattleAura. |
| 800 | * SoundtrackDissonance: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c1CAurqbr8 Check her trailer, which is filled with disturbingly upbeat singing.]] WordOfGod said that the music was selected for Carol and for the disturbing contrast. |
| 801 | * SwirlingDust: Her victory pose. Kind of overlaps with a bit of BattleAura. |
| 802 | * TaintedVeins: She has dark veins all over her body, thanks to experiments that transformed Carol into who she is. |
| 803 | * ThatThingIsNotMyChild: Her ending, unfortunately, where she returns to her parents, but scares them and is called a monster. It is slightly justified because at this point, Carol is barely recognizable. |
| 804 | * UnskilledButStrong: Painwheel has the potential to be one of the most powerful characters in the series, but her lack of finesse with her Parasites keeps her from attaining her maximum potential. |
| 805 | * TheUnsmile: |
| 806 | ** When introducing herself [[spoiler:to her new classroom]], after [[spoiler: Filia wished a normal life for her.]] |
| 807 | ** This giant toothy grin is also her taunt that can be performed in a fight. |
| 808 | * UsedToBeASweetKid: Until Valentine kidnapped her. She gets better in Filia's story and even moreso in Umbrella's, and is implied to be on the road to recovery in Big Band's. |
| 809 | * WheelOfPain: Her weapon, and her ''name''. |
| 810 | * WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: The poor girl has it tough. [[spoiler:In her story, she finally breaks free but she's still a monster and her parents shout at her to leave. Then her eyes get the signature half skull, meaning she will become the next Skullgirl and possibly destroy the world.]] |
| 811 | [[/folder]] |
| 812 | |
| 813 | [[folder:Valentine]] |
| 814 | !!Valerie / Valentine |
| 815 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/LauraPost (English) / Creator/AsamiImai (Japanese) |
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| 821 | [[caption-width-right:302:'''''Bloody Romantic''''']] |
| 822 | [[caption-width-right:302:[[labelnote:Click here to see her original appearance]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/valentine_tvtropes_8095.png[[/labelnote]]]] |
| 823 | %% |
| 824 | ->''"[[SideEffectsInclude Side effects may include]] nausea, headaches, and'' '''death.'''''"''\ |
| 825 | |
| 826 | -> The mysterious and elusive Valentine is the last surviving member of a special unit of Anti-Skullgirl Lab Zero called the Last Hope, which met their end fighting the newest Skullgirl. Valentine now works for her, carrying out her will in the shadows of New Meridian while also pursuing her own agenda.\ |
| 827 | |
| 828 | -> Valentine is a rushdown characer with a high emphasis on aerial combat who combines quick strikes, powerful command grabs, and a unique resource in the form of '''Vial Hazard''', which gives Valentine access to three different kinds of poison, which are all tied to her punch buttons. LP is a purple poison that slowly drains her opponent's health; MP is a green poison that leaves the opponent stunned for longer when hit; and HP is an orange poison that adds input delay to the opponent's actions. Additionally, Valentine has the ability to bring dead teammates back to life via her '''Rebirth Ex Machina''' super, which comes at the hefty cost of all five bars of super meter. |
| 829 | |
| 830 | ---- |
| 831 | !!Tropes associated with Valentine: |
| 832 | * OneUp: Her Level 5 Super can bring a dead teammate back to life with 33% of their health. |
| 833 | * AbusiveParents: [[ImpliedTrope Possibly]]; [[WordOfGod stated]] to have had a rough childhood, hence her early training as an ASG operative. |
| 834 | * AdaptationalNiceGuy: [[spoiler:She is secretly against the Skullgirl and seeks to kill Marie, not caring that she is a child,]] she enjoys fighting others for sadistic pleasure, and she works for Brain Drain in the game. In the comic, her introduction has her show genuine concern for Marie's wellbeing and is quick to rush toward her to provide medical aid when she is hurt. |
| 835 | * TheAlcoholic: One of her likes is alcohol. [[spoiler:She is a DeathSeeker.]] Make of that what you will. |
| 836 | * AllYourPowersCombined: Most of her weapons were once those of her friends in the Last Hope; Christmas used scalpels, Patty used the IV stand, Easter was the one with the bodybags, and Hallow used syringes. Valentine's own weapon during this period was her bonesaw. |
| 837 | * AmbidextrousSprite: Her eyepatch changes which eye it covers depending on which way she's facing. During her turning animation, her hair briefly hides both eyes to disguise the change. |
| 838 | * AntiVillain: Although she's in no way a particularly good person and does the Skullgirl's bidding, her intention is actually [[spoiler:to perform Skullgirl research no-one could do outside her position for the labs to use and destroy Marie.]] |
| 839 | * TheAtoner: Implied in her story, where she thwarts Double, kills Marie, defies Brain Drain and makes a wish to the Skullheart with Painwheel not far from her trail, directly wishing to become the next Skullgirl. The implication being that she's trying to make some right out of her involvement and expects Painwheel to kill her soon after her wish. |
| 840 | * BoobBasedGag: Her large breasts are made into a constant visual gag, as many of Valentine's animations have her adjusting her top or supporting her breasts as she pulls items from her cleavage. |
| 841 | * ButForMeItWasTuesday: In their respective Story Modes, when they each meet Valentine barely seems to remember Painwheel existed at all. |
| 842 | * CallingYourAttacks: There are two attacks she may call the names of upon use. |
| 843 | --> Dead Cross!\ |
| 844 | Skyward Strike! |
| 845 | * BuxomBeautyStandard: She has a well-endowed figure, which is emphasized by her cleavage and JigglePhysics in her animations. Eliza even makes note of her cup size in her pre-round introduction, rather than trash-talking like she would with anyone else (though, knowing Eliza, it could be a [[StealthInsult back-handed compliment]]). |
| 846 | -->'''Eliza:''' Are you blessed by Taweret[[note]]The Egyptian goddess of womanly fertility[[/note]], or a [[PlasticBitch scalpel]]? |
| 847 | * CodeName: According to WordOfGod, Valentine is her code name and her real name is [[spoiler:Valerie]]. |
| 848 | * TheColoredCross: The May 13, 2014 patch changed Valentine's default palette crosses from having red crosses to fuchsia ones since the Red Cross symbol is protected by the Geneva Conventions. The cross would later be designed to look more like a shuriken to highlight her ninja-esque fighting style and fascinations. |
| 849 | * CombatMedic: As a character type, she is much more focused on the combat aspect, but she still has a healing ability for her Level 5 super. |
| 850 | * CounterAttack: She has one as a Level 2 Blockbuster. Notably though, it is incredibly discreet for a super counter, there is no dramatic super flash, Valentine merely stands with her arms open inviting an attack to hit her, and one of two things will happen - she either injects a syringe full of poison into the opponent for big damage and the effect of the desired toxins, or she writes a prescription and slaps the opponent in the face to paralyze them helpless for a few seconds. Because it’s so quick and subtle, it’s also easy to whiff the counter and end up doing nothing but waste your meter. |
| 851 | * CripplingOverspecialization: Downplayed. Mechanically speaking, Valentine works great as a close-ranged rushdown character with lightning-fast attacks and aerial maneuverability. As an ''assist character'' though, many of her attack options are generally poor or unwieldy to use thanks to their quick but low base damage, limited range and lack of synergy, being meant to help ''Valentine'' get the attack going, not her partner. As a result she often fares better as the lead fighter rather than the assist. |
| 852 | * DCupDistress: She measures at 36E and lists "Back pain" as one of her dislikes. |
| 853 | * DeathSeeker: Implied in her story mode. She seems intent on persuading [[spoiler:Painwheel]] to kill her. So much so that in her ending she willingly wishes to [[spoiler: becomes the next Skullgirl just as Painwheel is walking into the catacombs.]]. |
| 854 | * DifficultButAwesome: Not as much as Parasoul in this regard, but comes with a variety of different kinds of moves and many movement capabilities. Mastering her turns a potential nuisance into a nigh-unstoppable ninja that zips around the stage. |
| 855 | * DisappointedInYou: Her reaction whenever she defeats Painwheel in a match, or when she's swapping in for her as she retreats. |
| 856 | * DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: In spades: |
| 857 | ** Her dialogue when she starts talking about experimenting on Ms. Fortune is suggestive enough that the CatGirl thinks she's hitting on her. |
| 858 | ** Her [[http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2cd9fSiXj1qiasjvo4_250.png injured]] sprite shows her blushing and panting, with her top starting to slip off no less! |
| 859 | ** Her VictoryPose in which she bends forward and cups a thermometer in her breasts until it pops. |
| 860 | * DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent: [[spoiler:Worked for the government and Lab Zero]], then worked for the Skullgirl, but was actually working for [[spoiler:herself]] the whole time. |
| 861 | * TheDragon: To the current Skullgirl. |
| 862 | ** DragonWithAnAgenda. Both to the Skullgirl, and apparently to Christmas while in Last Hope. |
| 863 | * DrivenToSuicide: In her ending. See SuicideByCop below. |
| 864 | * DualBoss: In most of the vanilla story modes, she serves as a miniboss alongside Double before the character can challenge Marie. |
| 865 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: Apparently, she wasn't happy about having to work on Painwheel and turn her into what she is now; Brain Drain had to lean rather heavily on her to get her to cooperate. |
| 866 | * EvilMentor: In her story, she prepares [[spoiler:Painwheel]] to [[spoiler:destroy the Skullgirl]]. |
| 867 | -->Don't fail me. |
| 868 | * ExoticEyeDesigns: Her pupils are black crosses, the same shape as the red crosses on her uniform. [[spoiler:Apparently they're one of the side effects of the drugs she took when she was in Lab 7.]] When [[spoiler:she becomes the Skullgirl]] in her ending, the [[spoiler:telltale skull-shaped]] iris marks get added on. |
| 869 | * EyepatchOfPower: An accident in Lab 7 injured the bandaged eye to the point of apparent uselessness. |
| 870 | * EyeScream: She apparently lost an eye in a lab accident. |
| 871 | * FaceHeelTurn: Prior to the events of the game, she used to work for the Anti-Skullgirl Lab, but now works for the Skullgirl after the defeat of the Last Hope. [[spoiler:She was actually GoodAllAlong.]] |
| 872 | %% ** :HeelFaceRevolvingDoor |
| 873 | * FanDisservice: As something of a walking inventory of this, Valentine has a lot of graphic and bloody imagery to contrast her sexiness, only outdone by Double (a barely humanoid blob of flesh and teeth) and Eliza (a construct of blood housing a monster within). Valentine's Infinite breaker animation has her attempt to tear her shirt off before tearing her chest open and exploding into a pile of bones and gore, after which she reappears from a body-bag. |
| 874 | * FanningTheKnives: As an homage to [[Characters/JojosBizarreAdventureDio DIO]], Valentine can perform "Checkmate Incision" where she throws a barrage of scalpels at her opponent, fanning them out like DIO does with his knives. |
| 875 | * FlashStep: Her ground tech and wakeup roll are this instead of traditional rolls. |
| 876 | * {{Flatline}}: Her rushdown super mimics the effect. |
| 877 | * ForeignCultureFetish: Her fascination with Eastern culture apparently inspired her McNinja fighting style. [[WordOfGod Alex Ahad]] has specifically described her as a "weeaboo". |
| 878 | * FormFittingWardrobe: Valentine's outfit in a nutshell. |
| 879 | * ForScience: Is more the willing (in fact, downright eager in some cases) to perform horrifying experiments on her opponents to advance her research. |
| 880 | * GameplayAndStorySegregation: Every playable character has palette swaps. In Valentine's Level 3 Blockbuster, her eye color will change depending on what palette you chose for her. [[spoiler: One of her palettes include what she would be like as a [[BigBad Skullgirl]], which is what she wishes for in her story ending. We are then shown a close-up of Valentine's eye, which now bears the skull motif and Valentine's cross pupils now as the skull's "eye socket"]]. This doesn't appear in the Blockbuster. |
| 881 | * GloveSnap: Performed at the end of Valentine's Level 3 Blockbuster. |
| 882 | * GoodAllAlong: In her story mode, she was actually only biding her time until she could get another chance to [[spoiler:defeat the Skullgirl]]. |
| 883 | * GoodScarsEvilScars: |
| 884 | ** Her mask hides a scar crossing her lip, onto her chin. |
| 885 | ** Her eyepatch, too; the scar over her eye ([[AmbidextrousSprite presumably it's supposed to be her right eye]]) is even more noticable according to her concept art. |
| 886 | * GoryDiscretionShot: Her Level 3 super is a particularly bloody one, having operated on the opponent so graphically she left a bloody mess behind the curtains. |
| 887 | * GrievousHarmWithABody: Her jumping hard kick has her pull a body bag out of nowhere, open it up, and hit the opponent with the cadaver's legs and then his arms with strikes to the body's back. |
| 888 | * {{Hammerspace}}: Where does that body bag come from? Then, of course, there's the astounding inventory she manages to keep [[VictoriasSecretCompartment between her breasts]] and in her medical bag. |
| 889 | * HandicappedBadass: Her right eye, hence the patch. |
| 890 | * HiddenHeartOfGold: [[WordOfGod Alex Ahad]] states that Valentine hides her (somewhat) good intentions by being a jerk most of the time. |
| 891 | * HighlyVisibleNinja: Although she's a nurse. She'd blend in if she was working in a hospital. |
| 892 | * HolidayMotif: The not-too-subtly-named Valentine is loosely themed around the eponymous day. She's the resident MsFanservice (which in a game as risqué as this says a lot), making herself present as desirably as possible to manipulate enemies. She also enjoys dark chocolate and alludes to "heart-stopping" with many of her attacks like her defibrillators and super move that flatlines her enemy. |
| 893 | * HoneyTrap: WordOfGod says she uses her looks to seduce others to obtain information when needed. |
| 894 | * HospitalHottie: She's a ninja nurse and one of the most blatantly sexualized characters in the game. Peacock actually says "[[WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}} Helloooo Nurse]]" when she's fighting against Valentine. |
| 895 | * ImprobableWeaponUser: Uses weaponized versions of medical tools -- bonesaws, defibrillators, syringes, scalpels, body bags (some with [[GrievousHarmWithABody cadavers]] still inside), an IV stand with one end sharpened... though her weapon of choice seems to be a bonesaw with a katana hilt. |
| 896 | * ImpossibleHourglassFigure: Even more-so than Parasoul; her [[http://skullgirls.com/characters/valentine/ official profile]] lists her measurements as 36E-25-40. |
| 897 | * InstantSedation: Her grab incapacitates the opponent with knockout gas rather quickly, forcing them into their knockout animation and leaving them open to attack the whole way down. |
| 898 | * {{Irony}}: |
| 899 | ** Named Valentine, but her birthday is on Christmas. Additionally, she never got along with the Last Hope operative ''named'' Christmas. |
| 900 | ** Likes: Dark chocolate. Dislikes: Candy. |
| 901 | * LastOfHerKind: The only remaining survivor of the 'Last Hope', a squad of ASG ninja nurses like herself. |
| 902 | * LightningBruiser: Valentine is characterized with rapid movement, fast and multi-hitting attacks and the ability to alternate between dashing around melee range to chucking ranged attacks, or pulling out implements that keep the opponent at bay. |
| 903 | * MagicalDefibrillator: Valentine can use her defibrillator as a [[LimitBreak Level 5 Super]] to bring one team mate back to life, no matter the circumstance. As an offensive tool, it’s also her Outtake, charging a burst so big that she can smack the opponent off the stage or make them splatter against the edge of the screen. |
| 904 | %%* McNinja |
| 905 | * TheMedic: She can revive a teammate at the cost of ''[[AwesomeButImpractical five meters.]]'' |
| 906 | * {{Miniboss}}: Holds this position as the first unambiguous ''villain'' to be a playable character, whereas most of the other "villainous" characters are more like {{heroic comedic sociopath}}s. Reinforced by her being one of two characters of the initial eight who has a ''Level Five'' super. |
| 907 | * MistakenForRomance: Ms. Fortune thought her admiration of her body was flirting. Unfortunately for her, [[MadDoctor Valentine's]] more interesting in capturing her [[TheyWouldCutYouUp for other reasons.]] |
| 908 | -->'''(Valentine):''' Well well~... What have we here? That's quite the body you've got there, kitty.\ |
| 909 | '''(Fortune):''' Err, sorry creepy lady. I'm not interested. |
| 910 | * TheMole: She's waiting for the right time to [[spoiler:betray Marie]]. |
| 911 | * MsFanservice: She's got by far [[BuxomBeautyStandard the biggest]] and [[JigglePhysics most animated]] bust in the game and is regularly handling and adjusting it while fighting. Special mention has to go to: |
| 912 | ** Her pre-fight intro, where she's seen in a SexySilhouette behind hospital curtains fiddling with her top. |
| 913 | ** See also her VictoryPose; it involves her ''trying'' to pull a mercury thermometer out from [[VictoriasSecretCompartment inside her shirt]], but "accidentally"[[note]](probably ''not'' accidental, judging by the smug grin visible through her face mask)[[/note]] snapping the end off because the rest of it is too firmly lodged between her breasts. |
| 914 | ** When she gets knocked down, her [[WardrobeMalfunction top slowly slips off]], showing ToplessnessFromTheBack. When standing back up she quickly re-buttons her shirt. |
| 915 | * {{Nerf}}: Not a direct sort of nerf, but she was one of the biggest victims of the changes in the IPS system from the "Slightly Different Edition" patch, since it dramatically reduced the length of her combos. |
| 916 | * TheNicknamer: Last Hope's codenames were ''her'' idea. |
| 917 | * NinjaLog: After executing her FlashStep ground tech, she leaves a bag of medical supplies in her place. |
| 918 | * NinjaPirateRobotZombie: A ninja nurse. |
| 919 | * NinjaRun: Her ground dash. |
| 920 | * NotSoStoic: She's normally got a cool attitude when interacting with other characters, rarely breaking out into anything but arrogant sarcasm whenever she gets involved. On the other hand, when her mask comes down it's to show off an absolutely wicked SlasherSmile normally reserved whenever she's excited to [[DeadlyEuphemism 'operate']] on someone. |
| 921 | * NoxiousNurse: She dresses like a nurse and uses many hospital equipment as her weapons, such as a saw, scalpels, syringes, body bags and an entire hospital bedroom. |
| 922 | * OnlyAFleshWound: She has this reaction whenever she recovers from a hit that sent her collapsed against the floor, which can be as 'light' as getting thrown down to a lengthy beatdown combo that sent her flying. More rarely, she'll quote the actual line if an opponent recovers. |
| 923 | --> ''Been through worse.'' |
| 924 | --> I've seen worse. |
| 925 | * OutOfFocus: Despite being a key player in Painwheel's character arc, Valentine is not given any form of mention when Umbrella encounters Carol during her story, which puts more emphasis on Brain Drain instead. |
| 926 | * PetTheDog: Her story mode implies that [[spoiler:she's quite fond of Painwheel]]. |
| 927 | * ProudBeauty: While she never tries to use her looks to her advantage she DOES seem to be pretty vain. |
| 928 | ** The code she uses during Story Mode to get Painwheel to obey her consists of her measurements. |
| 929 | ** Her aforementioned VictoryPose, which involves her trying to pull a thermometer out of her cleavage and breaking it because it's lodged in there too snugly. She's smugly smiling behind her mask the whole time, implying BigBreastPride. |
| 930 | ** One of her intro quotes toward Parasoul concerning The Egrets: |
| 931 | -->No way they'll follow ''you'' once they've seen ''me''. |
| 932 | * RedBaron: As seen on her film poster, "The Bloody Valentine". |
| 933 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: She sports red eyes marked with medical crosses as pupils, on top of already being a highly deadly ninja usually out for blood. |
| 934 | * RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: After retrieving the Skullheart in her removed alternate ending, [[spoiler: Valentine returned to Lab Zero and gave it to Brain Drain. Unfortunately for her, Brain Drain was upset about his forces (especially Christmas) were killed due to the fact that she betrayed him and the others. As such, he made sure Valentine will obey him indefinitely with an implanted mind-controlling device.]] |
| 935 | * SlashedThroat: Her air grab is this done with her bonesaw, albeit nonlethal. |
| 936 | * SlasherSmile: Whenever her surgical mask is down. |
| 937 | * SmartPeoplePlayChess: Like Parasoul, chess is listed as one of her likes. |
| 938 | * SpinningPiledriver: Of the Izuna Drop variety: one of her throws stuffs the opponent in a body bag before performing the piledriver. Her level 3 Super also begins with the same move. |
| 939 | * StatuesqueStunner: In-game, Valentine is about the same height as the other girls, but that's only because she's ''crouching''. As we can see in her match intro (or her page image above), she's 6', two inches taller than Parasoul. Officially, she is the 4th tallest character in the game, behind Double, Beowulf and Big Band, respectively. |
| 940 | * StealthPun: A bunch. |
| 941 | ** In her Story Mode [[spoiler:she steps in between Painwheel and Double's fight]], prompting Double to call her a "double-crosser." She's referring to [[spoiler:Valentine's ambiguous alliance of course]], but given that she's literally crossing Double... And Valentine's red crosses... |
| 942 | ** On a related note, ever notice that [[ExoticEyeDesigns Valentine's pupils are little medical crosses]]? [[spoiler: She's cross-eyed.]] |
| 943 | ** When Valentine tags out with Double, one of her lines is "Prepare for trouble!" [[spoiler:"[[ShoutOut And make]] it [[{{Anime/Pokemon}} Double]]!"]]. |
| 944 | * StrippedToTheBone: |
| 945 | ** Her infinity breaker has it look like Valentine's about to tear her top off, only to end up flaying herself alive in a bloody mess that leaves her skeleton behind for a bit. She shows up just fine in a body bag after, though. |
| 946 | ** Her Level 2 Blockbuster has her leave herself open to attack, and if struck she disintegrates into a skeleton, and reappears in the flesh to counterattack the enemy. |
| 947 | * SuicideByCop: At the end of her story mode, [[spoiler:she wishes to become the Skullgirl, presumably so Painwheel will kill her]]. |
| 948 | * SuperSerum: According to WordOfGod, Lab 7's entire schtick was drug enhancements, explaining most of her prowess as having come from drug use. |
| 949 | * TakeUpMySword: In her story mode towards [[spoiler:Painwheel]], in a guile variation. |
| 950 | * TechnicolorToxin: Valentine has three different poisons she can load into a syringe mid-battle, and each has a different color and effect. Purple causes {{damage over time}}, Green adds extra hitstun to attacks, and Orange [[InterfaceScrew adds delay to button inputs]]. |
| 951 | * TeethClenchedTeamwork: As part of her status as [[spoiler:TheMole, working with Double]] is this. |
| 952 | * ThemeNaming: All of the members of Last Hope are named after different holidays: Valentine is Valentine's Day, Patty is St. Patrick's Day, Hallow is Halloween, and Christmas and Easter are self-explanatory. |
| 953 | * UndeathlyPallor: Despite not being dead, her skin is a creepy pale grey. [[DownplayedTrope However]], it's less noticeable than most other examples of this trope. |
| 954 | * VerbThis: Two of her lines when using the Checkmate Incision super, one of them being a ShoutOut to the [[TropeNamers Trope Namer]]. |
| 955 | -->[[Film/TheMatrix Dodge this]].\ |
| 956 | Bandage this! |
| 957 | * VictoriasSecretCompartment: Occasionally pulls out weapons from her cleavage. Her victory pose is her pulling a thermometer out, which then snaps. |
| 958 | * VillainRespect: If she’s KO'd by Peacock, she mutter out a strained ''"Well done…'' '''''Avian.'''''''"'' for being defeated by a Lab 8 agent. Likewise she also has dying praise for Painwheel, and swaps between mocking and praising Umbrella for being a (powerful) little girl in a fight. |
| 959 | * VillainExitStageLeft: If the timer runs out and Valentine is on the losing end of the stalemate, she angrily leaves the stage in a puff of smoke, leaving behind a comical amount of bones ''Mortal Kombat'' style. |
| 960 | [[/folder]] |
| 961 | |
| 962 | [[folder:Double]] |
| 963 | !!Double / "Sister Agatha" |
| 964 | !!!'''Double voiced by:''' Charlotte Ann (English) / Nakae Mitsuki (Japanese)\ |
| 965 | '''[[GagDub Republican Double]] voiced by:''' Creator/KaijiTang (English) / ? (Japanese) |
| 966 | [[quoteright:1000:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/double_new_artwork.jpg]] |
| 967 | [[caption-width-right:1000:'''''Toil and Trouble''''']] |
| 968 | ->''"Have you come to give confession?"''\ |
| 969 | |
| 970 | -> The shapeshifting monstrosity known as Double is a being of unknown origin. While not much is known about her, she does always seem to be near when a new Skullgirl emerges, aiding her in whatever her goals are. While capable of taking any form she pleases, she can be most commonly found in the guise of a nun working at the Grand Cathedral of the Divine Trinity.\ |
| 971 | |
| 972 | -> Double is ConfusionFu made amorphous flesh, being able to rush down the opponent with a barrage of unpredicatable moves that have her taking the form of several different characters. While she's plenty strong on her own and more than capable of going solo, Double especially shines when part of a team, having some of the best synergy out of the entire roster. |
| 973 | ---- |
| 974 | !!Tropes associated with Double: |
| 975 | * TheAgeless: Double has been aiding the Skull Heart for years, how long exactly is unknown, [[WildMassGuessing and possibly]] ever since there's ''been'' a Skull Heart |
| 976 | * AmbiguousSituation: Eliza's story mode [[spoiler:reveals that Double is--or is at least linked to--Queen Lamia and the mother of the Trinity, but doesn't elucidate beyond Eliza's brief speculations]]. |
| 977 | * AscendedExtra: In most of the vanilla story modes her only real roles are to give the player character a MirrorMatch and to be the penultimate opponent fought before Marie, and even her own story mode offers little insight into her character. The majority of the DLC stories (such as Squigly's, Beowulf's, Annie's, and Marie's) have her show far more personality and plot significance, with her even being the final boss of Squigly and Annie's stories. |
| 978 | * AssKicksYou: She takes Cerebella's form to do this one, and it's [[ShoutOut similar]] to [[Franchise/StreetFighter R. Mika's]] famous Flying Peach attack. The real Cerebella lacks this move, though she does gain access to it in ''Mobile''. |
| 979 | * AwesomeButImpractical: Her Level 5 Super turns her into a ''VideoGame/{{Gradius}}'' boss. While Mike Z mentioned a 60,000 damaging juggle combo with it, it's easy to screw up, especially when you're pressured with not wasting a whole five meters. Only time will tell. |
| 980 | * AxCrazy: Go ahead. Manage to get her to bring down her stoic mask, watch her come undone. |
| 981 | * BadHabits: Her nun disguise is more disturbing when you realize it has ''veins'' in the lower parts of her habit. |
| 982 | * BatmanGambit: [[spoiler:In Squigly's story mode, where she gave the Skull Heart to the Contiellos so the Medicis would murder the family.]] |
| 983 | ** She also led Big Band to the River King Casino, seemingly knowing that Cerebella would kick up a fuss and stall him long enough for Valentine to break into and destroy Lab 8. |
| 984 | * BerserkButton: [[spoiler: Seeing Eliza in her story mode causes her to go ''ballistic''.]] |
| 985 | ** [[spoiler: Any SpannerInTheWorks seems to be this for her... IE, the DLC characters who interfere from outside the main cast, as we only ever see her going all out to deal with Squigly, Beowulf, and ''especially'' Eliza.]] |
| 986 | ** Has a particular hatred of Annie due to Annie taking advantage of her immortality to combat both her and the Skull Heart for years. |
| 987 | * BlackEyesOfEvil: She has these in her nun form for one of her alternate color palettes. Still, her monster form has [[BlackEyesOfCrazy black sclera]]. |
| 988 | * BigBad: While not necessarily the main one. In nearly every story mode, she is almost always the driving force. |
| 989 | * BlobMonster: Albeit one that retains a vague approximation to a humanoid. |
| 990 | * BodyHorror: Let's start with the fact that she has a giant, razor-toothed mouth in her back and go from there. |
| 991 | * ChunkyUpdraft: No, not the floor around her. She does this with... ''herself''. The best way to describe it would be like the "lava" rising in a lava lamp sped up about a hundred times. Some of the pieces brush up against her "boobs" as they rise past her which results in constant bouncing so long as she's standing still. |
| 992 | * ChurchgoingVillain: Despite the fact that she's a horrible person ([[JerkassGods and probably a bit because of it]]), Double is rather pious, giving praises and religiously themed lines before and after her fights. |
| 993 | * CreateYourOwnHero: In Marie's story mode, the whole ordeal of her tempting Marie to wish on the Skull Heart and subsequently turned into a Skullgirl indirectly lead to this, as the latter vows to be the last Skullgirl and use her power to combat the Trinity after she breaks free from their influence. |
| 994 | * DittoFighter: She assumes the forms of other members of the cast and uses specials [[WhatCouldHaveBeen they used to have in planning stages]], such as taking Peacock's form and using a car to run down her enemies. However, all of her moves have different properties, making them unique to her. She does not possess the ability to copy powers, either. For example, she cannot use Krieg's tears, so she uses Parasoul's gun instead. As a whole, she only assumes the forms of her enemies not to outright ''copy'' them, but to ''mock'' them. |
| 995 | * DraconicAbomination: Double's Beast of Gehenna form--appearing in one of her Blockbuster moves and being shown in full during Beowulf's story mode, is a multi-eyed draconic monstrosity that devours her foes and drags them to Gehenna. |
| 996 | * TheDragon: To the current Skullgirl. [[spoiler: On the surface.]] |
| 997 | * DragonAscendant: You still have to fight Marie in Double's story mode, and Double isn't pulling any punches. |
| 998 | * DragonInChief: She is the one who is in charge of the Skull Heart and is the one who makes sure the Skullgirl does as she is told. |
| 999 | * DragonWithAnAgenda: [[spoiler:She ''really'' doesn't give two shits about what Marie wants or doesn't want. In fact, if Marie's orders involve any kind of mercy or goodness, she'll outright defy them. At the end of the day, Marie's just another Skullgirl to tide her over until the next...]] |
| 1000 | * DualBoss: In most of the vanilla story modes, she serves as a miniboss alongside Valentine before the character can challenge Marie. |
| 1001 | * EldritchAbomination: As a shapeshifter she can be anything, but her seemingly-default form is a mass of constantly shifting eyes, tendrils, and mouths. She is even called this in her own concept art! |
| 1002 | * EldritchLocation: Her "stomach" is one [[spoiler: as Beowulf finds out]], which shows that it is the location of the Gehenna stage. However, that's not the strangest part. What really is strange is that you ''don't need to be eaten by her to go there'' Annie and Eliza's story modes reveal that Gehenna is located ''beneath'' the [[CreepyCathedral Grand Cathedral]], with Marie's story mode elaborating that Gehenna spans the entire world and that things even worse than Double live within it. So with that in mind, it is very much unclear if Gehenna truly is or isn't her innards. |
| 1003 | * EvilCannotComprehendGood: She has a moment with Beowulf- albeit that she's not the only person to underestimate him.[[spoiler: Her manipulation of him as "Zane" relies on him being a GloryHound FakeUltimateHero who will be content with the fights she "arranges" by pointing him in the direction of her enemies and won't bother ''actually'' fighting the Skullgirl, and her BreakThemByTalking attempt assumes that either Beowulf would try to keep his fake victory under wraps or retire again out of shame. He does neither; instead, the knowledge that he let his fans and Grendel down just renews his motivation to do something truly heroic by defeating the Skullgirl.]] |
| 1004 | * EvilIsVisceral: She's an undulating blob of shifting body parts, do we really need to go further than that? |
| 1005 | * {{Expy}}: A horrific EldritchAbomination that can take any shape at will and manipulates people to her inscrutable ends. Are we talking about Double... or '''[[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Nyarlathotep]]'''? |
| 1006 | * EyesAlwaysShut: In her nun form, presumably to hide that they're actually BlankWhiteEyes. She opens them before transforming into her battle form. [[spoiler:Her 'Zane' form in Beowulf's story mode also has her/his eyes hidden.]] |
| 1007 | * FanDisservice: Double is unquestionably the ''queen'' of this, with the curvy nun with a generous HartmanHips figure quickly showing her true colors by turning herself inside out to reveal the teeth and goo spewing abomination within. It only gets worse from there, as Double herself has breasts that are constantly bouncing like lava lamps and sometimes a curvy human-like figure emerging from the mass, but again surrounded by and covered in goo, teeth, faces wincing in agony and whatever else Double is brandishing. |
| 1008 | * FinalBoss: [[spoiler: In Squigly and Annie's storylines.]] |
| 1009 | * AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Double, when not in battle, takes the form of a serenely smiling nun with her eyes constantly closed. |
| 1010 | * TheFriendNobodyLikes: This is in effect between characters whenever Double is someone's fighting partner in a match. Half the cast don't have any kind or encouraging things to say when they're swapping out for Double even though they're teammates, ranging from disturbance to outright hatred. And considering what she is, and what she's done, their reactions are very much justified. |
| 1011 | -->'''Peacock:''' ''Eugh...'' |
| 1012 | -->'''Parasoul:''' Come, demon! |
| 1013 | -->'''Leviathan:''' [[SuddenlyShouting GET IN HERE!]] |
| 1014 | -->'''Big Band:''' '''(Bitingly)''' ''Stand-in!'' / ''Monster.'' |
| 1015 | -->'''Beowulf:''' Yeah. whatever... |
| 1016 | -->'''[[VoiceOfTheLegion Eliza and Sekhmet angrily speaking in unison]]:''' '''''Lamia!''''' |
| 1017 | -->'''Robo-Fortune:''' '''Messy!''' |
| 1018 | * FreezeFrameBonus: Double's Level 3 Blockbuster has her transform into all of the 7 main cast members, but also various unimplemented characters (except for Squigly): including Umbrella, Squigly, Andy Anvil, Black Dahlia and Mrs. Victoria. |
| 1019 | ** The opening to ''Skullgirls'' has a FreezeFrameBonus near the 1:16 mark, a poster that practically spoils her existence. |
| 1020 | * GagDub: [[StrawmanPolitical Republican]] Double. |
| 1021 | -->Hey hey hey, I'm here to take your JOB! |
| 1022 | * GainaxEnding: One minute, Double is [[spoiler:getting ready to devour the fighters she defeated]]. The next, two girls are [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall playing Skullgirls]]...and then we learn that ''none'' of the storylines in the game are canon. |
| 1023 | * TheGhost: Strangely enough, she never makes a physical appearance in Umbrella's story. She's mentioned to have attacked the Black Egrets and separated them from Parasoul, but she never actually shows up onscreen and her [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse ultimate fate is never addressed]]. |
| 1024 | * GodWasMyCopilot: The terrifying shapeshifter aiding the Skullgirl is [[spoiler:actually [[TopGod Queen Lamia]], or some aspect of her, in the extremely twisted flesh. Of course, since her job is to direct the Skullgirl to [[AssimilationPlot reclaim "will" from humanity]], clearly GodIsEvil in this instance…]] |
| 1025 | * GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler: The DLC story modes have effectively cemented her place as this outside the Trinity itself. She's clearly in charge of every new Skullgirl, she's been manipulating the course of history for the Canopy Kingdom for ''decades'', and on top of everything else, she is '''[[{{God}} Queen Lamia's]]''' "double".]] |
| 1026 | * HartmanHips: Her nun disguise is very shapely around the hips. Disturbingly enough, these carry over to her monstrous form. |
| 1027 | * HomeStage: Grand Cathedral and Gehenna. |
| 1028 | * HumanoidAbomination: Her nun form, which looks human at first glance, but a close look reveals distinctly inhuman traits, such as blank-white eyes and ''veins'' at the base of her habit. |
| 1029 | * HumansAreTheRealMonsters: One of her win quotes. |
| 1030 | * ImAHumanitarian: In her ending [[spoiler: she eats the other playable characters]]. |
| 1031 | ** Tries this ''repeatedly'' [[spoiler: to Beowulf and Annie.]] |
| 1032 | * JustEatHim: One of Double's more go-to tactics. [[spoiler: Most glaringly her tactic for dealing with Beowulf after he strays from the course she'd tried setting him on. Even when he shows too tough to be ensnared like the rest of the cast, she's more or less fine leaving him trapped in her stomach with the knowledge he can't do anything from in there.]] |
| 1033 | ** Two of her moves (her throw and her Beast of Gehenna super) involve doing this to her opponent. |
| 1034 | * MamaBear: [[spoiler: Towards Venus and Aeon when facing Eliza in the latter's story mode. It's hinted that Double is actually Queen Lamia, Aeon and Venus' mother and that Eliza was responsible for their deaths.]] |
| 1035 | * ManipulativeBitch: [[spoiler: Orchestrated the events that led to the death of the Contiello family (and thus, Squigly's death) and the creation of a Skullgirl 14 years ago. It's implied that she had a hand in the creations of all Skullgirls as well.]] |
| 1036 | * MeaningfulName: In all of her attacks, she ''doubles'' one of the other characters. |
| 1037 | ** Matching the game's movie theme, she can fill in as any character's acting and stunt double for [[FearfulSymmetry Same vs Same]] matches. |
| 1038 | ** In a plot twist, she is revealed to be [[spoiler:Queen Lamia's double]]. |
| 1039 | * {{Miniboss}}: In everyone else's storylines (Except for hers, Painwheel's, and Squigly's), with her teaming up with Valentine most of the time to put a stop to the protagonist before they reach Marie. |
| 1040 | * MonochromaticEyes: In her nun form. In her default color they are [[BlankWhiteEyes white.]] |
| 1041 | * MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: Double's dragon form, seen in Beowulf's story mode, has a mouth completely filled with fangs. |
| 1042 | * MouthOfSauron: She speaks for [[spoiler: the Trinity, issuing commands to Marie]]. |
| 1043 | %%* NaughtyNuns |
| 1044 | * {{Nerf}}: Her "Hornet Bomber" move no longer has priority over everything as of the "Slightly Different Edition" patch. |
| 1045 | * NothingIsScarier: She demonstrates the trope both figuratively and literally by having "nothing" listed under both her likes and dislikes. Despite the lack of creepy items like under Painwheel's bio, a completely neutral mindset is horribly inhuman. |
| 1046 | * NunsAreSpooky: Sticking to her disguise for a minute, while being a nun in a creepy church is on thing, some of her posters show visible ''arteries'' in her habit. |
| 1047 | * NunTooHoly: Double shapeshifts into a nun disguise with hands clasped and head bowed, but otherwise acts nowhere near the part. |
| 1048 | * OutOfFocus: In the base game and the Indiegogo DLC stories, Double is an integral part of the cast and story who is responsible for basically everything. However, while she still plays a major role in Annie's story, she has fallen into this in the Season 1 Pass stories, being reduced to TheGhost in Umbrella's story [[spoiler:(even though she expressed personal interest in her during Parasoul's story)]] and falling into ChuckCunninghamSyndrome in Black Dahlia's [[spoiler:(despite that campaign involving Dahlia murdering Marie early on and holding the Skull Heart for ransom as a means to fight other worthy challengers)]]. |
| 1049 | * PerpetuallyProtean: In her true form, Double is a horrific, bubbling mass of semi-humanoid flesh, and she regularly changes her appearance either to attack or for misdirection/infiltration purposes in the story modes. It's more unusual for her to stay in anything remotely resembling a single shape, as even simple motions such as dashing or crouching utterly warp her body far beyond the bounds of physical movement. |
| 1050 | * ProphetEyes: When Double is shown opening her eyes in her human form, it is shown that they are ''completely blank''. |
| 1051 | * RedBaron: The film poster calls her "The Devilish Double". |
| 1052 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: In her natural form. Her nun form can also use a MonochromaticEyes version of this. |
| 1053 | * RedRightHand: In her humanoid forms. You can see veins in the lower part of her nun "habit" and in [[spoiler: Squigly's story, the spots in her scarf take the shapes of faces]]. |
| 1054 | * SecretCharacter: ZigZagged. She's playable from the start, like everyone else, but she's the only fighter not to appear in the game's AttractMode and launch trailer, presumably to avoid spoiling her existence. However, she still received a character trailer, like all the other playable fighters. Her story mode also needs to be unlocked, by doing everyone else's story modes first. |
| 1055 | ** While her existence was NEVER a secret (she was confirmed as one of the eight initial characters from the start), her true form was. In promotional materials up until then, we only saw her in her nun form or as some other deformed creature, but never in her default fighting form. Her character trailer (the last one to be released, coming out only on the day the game itself was released for the first time) was the first time we got to see what she truly looked like, and even then, only for a few seconds - a "blink and you'll miss" type of thing. |
| 1056 | * SelfDuplication: At least capable of doing this in Gehenna, as seen in [[spoiler: the penultimate battle in Annie's story mode.]] |
| 1057 | * SequentialBoss: [[spoiler:Fought three times in a row at the end of Annie's story mode.]] |
| 1058 | * ShapeshifterGuiltTrip: DoubleSubverted in Annie's story mode. First she tries to get Annie to break by taking on the forms of Big Band and Squigly, but Annie sees right through it and fights on. [[spoiler: Then she does it again in her BreakingSpeech, first by taking the form of a young Annie, and then her mother, which is enough for Annie to hesitate and let Double get in a cheap shot.]] |
| 1059 | * ShapeshifterLongevity: A shapeshifting BlobMonster that's been serving the Skull Heart for centuries. [[spoiler: Dialogue in Eliza's storyline indicates that she's actually Queen Lamia, making her almost as old as Samson.]] |
| 1060 | * ShapeshifterMashup: Just ''look'' at her! Her entire mass is made up of bits and pieces from various characters that are all in illogical placements and positions. |
| 1061 | * ShapeshiftingTrickster: Quite apart from having a fighting style that exemplifies ConfusionFu, story mode reveals she enjoys using her shapeshifting powers to entice new candidates - or pit them against each other. At least one plotline reveals that [[spoiler: she's used her abilities to make sure the Skullheart claims a host by posing as a well-wisher and delivering it to unsuspecting women as a "gift."]] In the finale of her personal storyline, [[spoiler: it's revealed that even the Skullgirl herself can't trust Double, for if the current host shows signs of too much individuality, the shapeshifter is more than prepared to stab her in the back and replace her with a new candidate.]] |
| 1062 | * SlideAttack: And it emulates [[Franchise/MortalKombat possibly the most famous slide attack]] in gaming history. |
| 1063 | * TheStoic: Barely ever emotes, with her only expressions being calm and disturbing SlasherSmile. |
| 1064 | ** Except in Eliza's Story mode, where she ''[[BerserkButton flips out.]]'' |
| 1065 | * UnexpectedShmupLevel: Played with: her Level 5 super transforms her into an Easter Island statue that spits projectiles and summons Peacock's cartoon cronies. Sounds almost like [[VideoGame/{{Gradius}} a certain shoot-em-up series Konami made]]... |
| 1066 | * VoiceChangeling: It is said in a Q&A that Double is able to mimic any voice she chooses and is capable of talking normally. [[spoiler: Demonstrated in-game by the way she can talk to Selene Contiello and Beowulf in disguise without them noticing anything strange.]] |
| 1067 | * VoiceOfTheLegion: In more ways than one. Along with her shape, her voice morphs to match whichever character she's impersonating; she has very few lines in her "real" voice. In ''2nd Encore'', her normal speaking voice sounds like many people speaking at once. |
| 1068 | * VoluntaryShapeshifting: Double takes the form of the other playable characters to copy their attacks. [[spoiler:In Squigly's storyline, she was the strange woman that gave the Skullheart to Squigly's mother, and in Beowulf's storyline, she mimics his former agent in order to use Beowulf as an attack dog.]] |
| 1069 | * WasOnceAPerson: [[spoiler: If Eliza's Story mode is any indication, Double used to be Queen Lamia.]] |
| 1070 | * WomanBehindTheWoman: ImpliedTrope, given the way she actively seeks out creating new Skullgirls, she may be an influence in what drives them insane afterwards. |
| 1071 | * WombLevel: Gehenna is explicitly Double's stomach, a cavernous and pulsating structure of flesh with old architecture relating to Queen Lamia and whatever else ended up rotting in there, and as a sort of MindScrew, Double herself will fight in her own stomach in her smaller more mobile form. Beowulf and Eliza get swallowed and sent here when they cross paths with Double. |
| 1072 | [[/folder]] |
| 1073 | |
| 1074 | |
| 1075 | |
| 1076 | !!Others |
| 1077 | |
| 1078 | [[folder:The Trinity ('''Unmarked Spoilers''')]] |
| 1079 | !!The Trinity (Lamia, Venus, and Aeon) |
| 1080 | !!!'''Lamia voiced by:''' ? (English) / ? (Japanese)\ |
| 1081 | '''Venus voiced by:''' Creator/LaurenLanda (English) / ? (Japanese)\ |
| 1082 | '''Aeon voiced by:''' Creator/CristinaValenzuela (English) / ? (Japanese) |
| 1083 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/venus_and_aeon.png]] |
| 1084 | |
| 1085 | The figures at the center of one of the Canopy Kingdom's major religions. The beings that Double speaks for to issue orders to Marie. They seem to consist of two sisters: Aeon, who controls time, and Venus, who controls space, as well as their enigmatic "Mother", Queen Lamia. |
| 1086 | ---- |
| 1087 | !!Tropes associated with the Trinity: |
| 1088 | * AllForNothing: [[spoiler:Thanks to Marie's friendship with Peacock and both of their determination to keep going after everything that happened to them, the will that they collected throughout the years was taken back by all their victims, leaving them back at square one.]] |
| 1089 | * AmbiguouslyBi: Seen in her hoard, Aeon has both a [[YaoiFangirl Taliesin/Beowulf yaoi doujin]] and a Ms. Fortune dakimakura. |
| 1090 | * AncientEvil: They ruled over the world in the ancient past before [[spoiler:Venus and Aeon were killed by Neferu and Queen Lamia was defeated by Samson and Leviathan. Despite this, they persist as godlike enties outside of time and space, attempting to return via the Skull Heart and their minion Double]]. |
| 1091 | * TheAssimilator: [[spoiler:The Trinity as a whole are revealed to be this in Marie's story mode, as they absorb the will of anyone fully corrupted by the Skull Heart or killed by the Skullgirl. In fact, this is a ''crucial'' element [[XanatosGambit in their grand plan.]]]] |
| 1092 | * BigBadEnsemble: They're a family of mother and two daughters, they ''created'' the Skullheart, and they want to use it to create Skullgirls until the world is finally destroyed, although why is currently unknown. |
| 1093 | * BodyHorror: If you thought Double had a lot of this, then Venus puts it to shame; her Parasite takes up the space where her ribs and abdomen should be, and [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/skullgirls/images/b/be/Venus-Fight-skullgirls-34436622-1262-1920.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20130907003757 basically every part of her hypothetical moveset]] involves her sprouting and weaponising immense amounts of sinew and flesh from her body. |
| 1094 | * ChekhovsGunman: As of the non-{{canon}} storylines, they appear in [[EarlyBirdCameo statue and stained-glass-window]] form in the background of the Grand Cathedral and Final Atrium stages, only appearing in the flesh in Double's {{Cliffhanger}} ending and TheStinger to Robo-Fortune and Black Dahlia's stories. |
| 1095 | * CrystalDragonJesus: They consist of three deities, worshiped in collective, rather similar to the Christian concept of God having three "Identities" as The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit. Except the Trinity here are genuinely separate, are female (mother, two daughters) and, oh yeah, are ''evil otherworldly abominations out to destroy the world''. |
| 1096 | * DeadAllAlong: In Eliza's story mode, [[spoiler:Double reveals that Eliza ''killed'' Aeon and Venus. It's also heavily suggested that Double and the Skull Heart [[FightingAShadow are all that's left]] of their mother, Queen Lamia. But if that's the case, then who is Double talking to in her story mode, and why does the Trinity appear in Double's, Robo-Fortune's, and Black Dahlia's endings? Are they stuck in the afterlife or Limbo?]] |
| 1097 | * DeityOfHumanOrigin: They once belonged to [[{{Precursors}} an ancient, highly-advanced civilization]]. Eliza betrayed and killed them, and it's unknown how Venus and Aeon came to be the eldritch entities they now are. |
| 1098 | * EyesAlwaysShut: Aeon. |
| 1099 | * GodIsEvil: They're the GreaterScopeVillain of the game, and their religious symbol is an [[ObviouslyEvil upside down cross]]. |
| 1100 | * GreaterScopeVillain: Granted that they are the ones responsible for the Skull Heart. |
| 1101 | * {{Hikikomori}}: Aeon is stated to be a shut-in {{otaku}} according to her bio in the vote-in character details. It explains the collection in the room we meet her... |
| 1102 | * HumanoidAbomination: While it could be argued that they could be this, Venus' concept description seems to imply she is this, since the true form of her and her parasite "[[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm exist beyond the threshold of human comprehension"]]. |
| 1103 | * ImpossibleHourglassFigure: Aeon takes this to the extreme, having a [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/vsbattles/images/e/ef/Aeon.jpg.png/revision/latest?cb=20161106122133 literal hourglass in place of a torso]]. |
| 1104 | * MultipleHeadCase: Abaddon has ''at least'' three heads. |
| 1105 | * NoNameGiven: The Mother's name was initially unknown, though one of Double intro quotes hinted it was Lamia. This was eventually confirmed in Eliza's Story Mode, then apparently later disconfirmed in an info-dump, leaving her true identity unknown. |
| 1106 | * OneBadMother: The Great Mother. Not only did she turn the Theonite meteor that crashed into her kingdom into the Skullheart, but is also implied that her soul/consciousness is bonded to it. It is even implied that Double, the agent of the Trinity, was created using her remains. |
| 1107 | * {{Ouroboros}}: Aeon's parasite Khronos. |
| 1108 | * RedOniBlueOni: Venus, the restless one who manipulates space (red) alongside Aeon, the observant one who controls time (blue). |
| 1109 | * RoseHairedSweetie: Aeon. Though referring to her as a "Sweetie" might be a stretch... |
| 1110 | * ScarfOfAsskicking: Venus wears a salmon scraf and many of her concept arts have shown that she is an excellent fighter. |
| 1111 | * SealedEvilInACan: Marie's story mode reveals that [[spoiler:the realm where the Trinity currently resides isn't some divine realm, but a prison, ''and they want out.'']] |
| 1112 | * SheWhoMustNotBeSeen: The Mother. Her cameos are in the form of a statue and a window in the Cathedral's stage and Double's ending as a shadow. [[spoiler:During Marie's story mode, this applies to all three of them as Marie cannot actually see their true forms, with them instead using a copy of Marie to talk to her.]] |
| 1113 | * SiblingYinYang: See RedOniBlueOni above for the dynamic of Aeon and Venus. |
| 1114 | * SpaceMaster and TimeMaster: Venus and Aeon respectively. |
| 1115 | * {{Stripperific}}: Venus. Even beyond Ms. Fortune or even D. Violet; Venus only ''uses lingerie.'' {{Justified|Trope}}, since it's likely that the sheer voracity of Venus's BodyHorror powers would make wearing standard clothes difficult. |
| 1116 | * TerribleTrio: They are a Trinity of evil goddesses who want to destroy the world out of spite for what happened to them so long ago. |
| 1117 | * TokenGoodTeammate: [[ImpliedTrope Implied.]] While nothing's explicitly confirmed, during the after credits scene of Black Dahlia's story mode, when she's alone, Aeon makes a comment about how "if [Venus]'d seen what was waiting after the credits, [she] wouldn't want the game to end either." Combined with Fukua's cryptic warnings about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt in Black Dahlia's story mode proper, and her grumbling about how she told a certain "hourglass-waisted lady" it wouldn't work, it seems that Aeon at the very least has cooled down on her bloodlust a little bit. |
| 1118 | * VaginaDentata: Venus is apparently host to a trio of parasites in her abdomen that fight on her behalf. While they're not actually housed in her vagina, [[http://wiki.shoryuken.com/Skullgirls/Venus the allusion to it is undeniable]]. |
| 1119 | * VillainsWithGoodPublicity: The rest of the world genuinely worships and reveres them as holy authority figures. In reality? They ''created'' the Skullheart and the cycle of Skullgirls because they want to destroy the world. |
| 1120 | * VisualPun: Aeon has a hourglass for a torso. She has a literal ImpossibleHourglassFigure. |
| 1121 | ** The mouths that grow from Venus' ribs and stomach? They're called ''Ab''-baddon parasites. |
| 1122 | * WalkingSpoiler: There's a reason why they ''only'' appear in the last scene of the story mode that (amongst the original cast) had to be played last. |
| 1123 | * XanatosGambit: The Skull Heart is one MASSIVE one for the Trinity, as revealed in Marie's story mode - either someone becomes a Skullgirl strong enough to end the world and succeeds, [[spoiler:or enough Skullgirls are made and their wills consumed that the Trinity can break out of their prison, and then end the world themselves]] |
| 1124 | * YaoiFangirl: Aeon is hinted to be one by her collection, which includes a Taliesin/Beowulf doujin. |
| 1125 | [[/folder]] |
| 1126 | |
| 1127 | [[folder:Skull Heart]] |
| 1128 | !!The Skull Heart |
| 1129 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/CristinaValenzuela / Creator/CassandraLeeMorris (English) / ? (Japanese) |
| 1130 | [[quoteright:340:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/skullheart_cropped.png]] |
| 1131 | ->''Down here 'neath the sheets\ |
| 1132 | The world is yours to conquer\ |
| 1133 | Won't be long, dear\ |
| 1134 | I'm the king and you're the pawn\ |
| 1135 | We're a perfect pair ''\ |
| 1136 | |
| 1137 | The MacGuffin everyone's after. A mystical item that can grant any wish, but if the wisher's heart has any slight bit of darkness, it will take over their body and claim it as its own for its own destructive ends. |
| 1138 | ---- |
| 1139 | !!Tropes associated with the Skull Heart: |
| 1140 | * AffablyEvil: It's nice enough to tell [[spoiler: Filia that while she will become a Skullgirl, her transformation will still be slow and she should make the most of the time she has.]] |
| 1141 | * ArtifactOfDoom: It was created in an eon long past the events of the game, and has been ravaging the world with a consistent stream of Skullgirls ever since, women who wished upon the Heart and were possessed by it in exchange, creating apocalyptically powerful host bodies. |
| 1142 | * AscendedExtra: Normally, it just appears at the end of the story modes in which Marie is fought and killed, and even then some of the characters' goals don't encourage them to acknowledge the Skull Heart. For Black Dahlia, however, Marie makes her appearance earlier and is killed just as fast, with Dahlia not having a wish to make but keeping the Heart on her for later, allowing it to talk more. |
| 1143 | * AsLongAsThereIsEvil: |
| 1144 | ** [[spoiler: It gets destroyed in a few of the endings, though there is the implication that this is only a temporary solution at best and it will return in some form or another.]] |
| 1145 | ** [[spoiler: The artbook indicates that the Skull Heart reappears every seven years, regardless of what happens to it. This is more-or-less confirmed in Robo-Fortune's story.]] |
| 1146 | * BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: It doesn't ''[[JackassGenie deliberately]]'' subvert the intent of those who wish on it, as [[spoiler:Filia and Parasoul]] both get just what they asked for, but it absolutely can't be relied on to give what you want. In the case of Queen Renoir, it granted her wish for an end to the great war by making her into a Skullgirl so powerful that the warring kingdoms were ''forced'' [[GenghisGambit to stop fighting and band together to kill her]]. |
| 1147 | ** Ironically, the only person that makes a wish on it and genuinely gets what they want is Black Dahlia due to her being "pure" through her love of violence and killing. [[spoiler:By the end of her story mode, she kills Lorenzo Medici and wishes for a world where she never gets bored. The Skullheart grants her wish and gleefully tells her it was created to make her kind of world.]] |
| 1148 | * BlueAndOrangeMorality: Black Dahlia's story mode ends up giving some crucial insight into how the Skull Heart judges those who wish on it. [[spoiler:In the Skull Heart's eyes, trying to make a benevolent wish inherently ruins the outcome, as the unnatural intervention can't provide any good. And since wishing for your own personal gain is clearly impure, this creates a lose-lose scenario that makes it near impossible to wish on the Skull Heart without turning into a Skullgirl. The only two who do meet the Skull Heart's standards are the two who have no reason to wish on it in the first place - Cerebella and Black Dahlia. The Skull Heart also sounds uncharacteristically overjoyed when Black Dahlia finally does make a wish, seemingly because Black Dahlia wanted to be sent to a world of brutal conflict for the fun of it and thus didn't make a wish that could provide benevolent assistance to anyone, including Black Dahlia herself.]] |
| 1149 | -->'''Skull Heart:''' Wishing cheats the outcome. Undoes the good it sets out to do. How can the world be saved by such intervention? It cannot. |
| 1150 | * ButtMonkey: Ends up becoming this in Black Dahlia's story. [[spoiler:With Marie killed early on and no one bothering to make a wish on it despite nearly everyone interacting with it, the Skull Heart is mostly stuck discussing WhatIsEvil with Dahlia, who already operates on BlueAndOrangeMorality thanks to her BloodKnight nature, as well as being used as bait for Dahlia to fight and kill the cast. She does end up getting her PetTheDog moment at the end, when Black Dahlia makes a wish on it so she can be transported to a world where death and carnage is a constant.]] |
| 1151 | * DemonicPossession: It takes control of its bearer when it transforms them into a Skullgirl, though Marie is fighting its influence. |
| 1152 | * {{Deuteragonist}}: It serves as this in Black Dahlia's story, as the Skull Heart is present for the entire length, builds a rapport with Dahlia, and we learn exactly what the Skull Heart wants. |
| 1153 | * ExoticEyeDesigns: Its victims have this in the form of half a skull on each iris. |
| 1154 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: In one of the cut alternate endings it rejects Peacock's wish to transmute the earth's atmosphere into chocolate or turn everyone into dogs. It also seems to abhor [[spoiler:Eliza.]] |
| 1155 | * EvilCounterpart: Like the Parasites it is a sentient entity made of theonite, bonds to a host, and grants its host extraordinary power. Unlike the Parasites, it can only bond to women, is capable of warping reality to a limited degree to grant wishes, and transforms its host into a lich--compelling the ensuing Skullgirl to ravage the world and kill everyone in her path. |
| 1156 | * GenderRestrictedAbility: Only women can wish on the Skull Heart, and thus become Skullgirls. |
| 1157 | * JackassGenie: It has a tendency to twist peoples' wishes to screw them over. Furthermore, WordOfGod is that it's nearly impossible to wish on it without being corrupted into a Skullgirl, since wishes are inherently selfish. |
| 1158 | ** With [[spoiler: Filia]] it may seem like the Skull Heart followed through with the intent of her wish (aside from making her the Skullgirl), but remember that [[spoiler: Filia wished for PAINWHEEL to live a normal life, ''not Carol'', and there are hints that is exactly what the Skull Heart gave. Painwheel should have her memories of Maplecrest and everything, but she isn't exactly Carol.]] |
| 1159 | ** [[spoiler:Black Dahlia gets ''exactly'' what she wanted with no strings attached, because she's a StrawNihilist whose wish isn't benevolent because it's for something she wants and isn't selfish because she gets no special advantage in the DeathWorld she ends up in.]] |
| 1160 | * PureIsNotGood: It is said that only the pure of heart can make a wish on it without being turned into a Skullgirl. "Pure" in this context doesn't mean being good, as even the most benevolent of wishes is inherently selfish and the need to use such a tool to achieve it undermines the actual goodness of the deed. [[spoiler:Black Dahlia's story mode shows that the only 'wish' it considers pure is one that neither helps or harms anyone, and the only ''person'' who fits the bill is Dahlia via her StrawNihilist philosophy and single-minded devotion to combat. The Skull Heart sounds genuinely thrilled to grant her wish of being transported into a world of constant violence.]] |
| 1161 | * SentientPhlebotinum: The Skull Heart is alive and has a mind of its own. [[spoiler:It also holds Lamia's will, showed when it recognizes Eliza as Aeon and Venus' killer; Eliza states that the Heart has a vendetta against her and because of that she can't wish on it despite being a woman.]] |
| 1162 | * SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: As revealed by Double in Marie's story mode, [[spoiler:this is the "lesson" the Skull Heart is meant to teach - that no matter what you do, you can never achieve what you ''truly'' wish for, and that it's best to simply let yourself be consumed by the Trinity.]] |
| 1163 | * VillainousFriendship: As the {{deuteragonist}} of Black Dahlia's storyline, they ends up getting to know each other better than most of the other characters in the story know them. [[spoiler:Ultimately, their purposes and goals align, and an overjoyed Skull Heart grants Black Dahlia the first and only "pure" wish it has ever known.]] |
| 1164 | * WouldHurtAChild: Has absolutely no problem turning children into Skullgirls--just ask Marie, [[spoiler:Filia, Painwheel or Umbrella.]] |
| 1165 | [[/folder]] |
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