Line #3 Characters/PrinceOfPersia2008


1	This page lists and indexes characters that appear in the 2008 reboot ''Prince of Persia''. [[MinimalistCast Luckily, there aren't that many]].
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3	For the main ''Prince of Persia'' character page, click [[Characters/PrinceOfPersia here]].
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7	[[foldercontrol]]
8
9	!!!'''The Heroes'''
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11	[[folder:The Prince]]
12	!!!'''The Prince'''
13	[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/01prince_8915.png]]
14
15	-->''"Hey, the next time you want to win your daughter back, you could try giving her a pony. The apocalypse doesn't really cut it."''
16
17	--> Voiced by Creator/NolanNorth
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19	A young vagabond, self-described as an "adventurer" -- in truth, he's a rogue, thief, and grave robber. During one his escapades, he got lost in a sandstorm looking for his donkey [[MythologyGag Farah]], and happened to find himself in the ancient land of the Ahura, meeting the young princess Elika in the process. Before he knew it, much to his dismay he found himself by her side facing the corrupted horde of the god of darkness, Ahriman.
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21	''May or may not'' be an ''actual'' prince -- he's very good at keeping his past under wraps, but certain hints throughout the game indicate that he may in fact be royalty. Other hints exist that he just likes the nickname or could be considered a 'prince of thieves'. He'll give a different answer every time you ask.
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23	* AntiHero: A self-admitted thief who really has no interest in any of the supernatural/religious weirdness going on. He's in it because a pretty girl fell out of the sky onto his head and ''dragged'' him into it.
24	* BadassNormal: As opposed to Elika, the Prince has no magical powers -- just a sword, a pointy glove and general physical aptitude.
25	* BeingGoodSucks: His general view on things.
26	* CombatPragmatist: His pragmatism extends outside of combat to life in general.
27	* CharacterDevelopment: Starts out as something of a smirky, griping JerkAss, but he gradually softens up throughout the adventure and shows his more caring side.
28	* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: The guy is practically super-human given how strong and agile he is.
29	* DeadpanSnarker: So, ''so'' very much.
30	* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of the LoveableRogue AntiHero. These types of characters can be charming and at times heroic, while being perfectly capable of developing genuine feelings towards allies. But despite all of that, these characters are at their core thieves who only tend to do the right thing because they are forced into a situation where that's the only option, and regardless of any heroics they are often motivated by selfish desires. [[spoiler:Despite risking his life to trap Ahriman with Erika, he can't accept her HeroicSacrifice because of his feelings for her and chooses to free Ahriman in return for Erika's life, dooming the world in the process. While he insists that having Erika alive is better in the long run as it gives them a chance to defeat Ahriman for good and brings up some valid criticisms like how Ahriman was likely to escape anyway despite her sacrifice, it's very clear that he's more trying to justify his selfish decision to save her instead of the world.]]
31	* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Moments after we first see him, he stumbles across a ledge he couldn't see due to low visibility in a sandstorm. He quickly recovers himself, slides down the cliff face with ease, and performs a perfect ThreePointLanding. When Elika accidentally lands on him, [[TheCharmer he grins and casually says, "Hi."]]
32	* ExperiencedProtagonist: He's already an experienced adventurer and thief at the start of the game.
33	* FallenHero: [[spoiler:What he becomes at the end of the game -- releasing Ahriman once more to save Elika. At least, this is what she thinks of him.]]
34	* GraveRobbing: His primary trade. He likes to think of it more as "[[BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord reclaiming abandoned property]]".
35	* HandsomeLech: He's been with plenty of women all across Persia. Additionally, if Elika attempts to jump to a ledge he's already on, he'll turn around and grab her hand when she slips. One of his quotes in this situation, when he's looking straight down her blouse, is, "This isn't such a bad view."
36	%%* ImplausibleFencingPowers
37	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's little more than a thief who's first instict is to run, but ultimately sticks with Elika to help save the world.
38	* LeParkour: To a practically inhuman degree. Totally lampshaded.
39	-->'''Elika:''' We have to cross over there!
40	-->'''Prince:''' Sure, climb on the roof. [[DeadpanSnarker It's not like gravity ever killed anyone.]]
41	* LoveableRogue: He's an unapologetic thief and grave robber, but he's also an incredibly charming AntiHero helping to save the world.
42	* MysteriousPast: We're never offered any concrete details regarding his background. Additionally, he has a tendency to exaggerate so any vague suggestions he makes should be taken with a grain of salt. The closest he's given is that his parents died at one point with his uncle taking him in for a time, before the Prince decided to leave to become an adventurer. The Concubine's comments imply that he might be a prince who left his title when he became a thief and at one point might have been an assassin, though the Prince doesn't respond to any of these.
43	* NayTheist: Although it sounds like he's skeptical of Ahriman's existence when entering the temple at the beginning of the game, he accepts it quickly enough, making it sound like he was skeptical that Ahriman was imprisoned there. As for Ormazd, the Prince doesn't exactly have a high opinion of him. Later on, he states that he doesn't believe in either Ahriman or Ormazd and wonders why it's ''him'' in this mess.
44	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:He didn't like the idea that Elika had to die again to seal Ahriman. At all. What does he do? Why, frees him -- again -- to revive her -- again. He justifies this in the hopes of looking for a more ''permanent solution''.]]
45	* NonIndicativeName: This Prince isn't really a prince like the Prince from the ''Sands of Time'' continuity and he doesn't become one like the Prince from the original continuity. Though because of his MysteriousPast and tendency to keep his personal life to himself, there's no way to know for certain whether he's royalty or not. Notably the Concubine's comments that he's "lost" and doesn't know whether he's a prince, pauper, thief, nobleman, merchant or assassin.
46	* NoNameGiven: True of all the Princes, but this game is the first to lampshade it.
47	-->'''Elika:''' I didn't catch your name.
48	-->'''Prince:''' That's because I didn't give it to you.
49	* ProtagonistWithoutAPast: All we really know about the Prince's life before the plot is that he owned a donkey named Farah, and it was laden with gold he had somehow acquired earlier.
50	* ReverseGrip: His standard stance with his scimitar.
51	* RightManInTheWrongPlace: He just happens to fall into the canyon and run into Elika mere minutes before Ahriman is released. The extreme coincidence of it all makes Elika think Ormazd sent him.
52	* SadisticChoice: [[spoiler:Makes one at the end of the game.]]
53	* WarriorPrince: Subverted: while he's a formidable warrior, he's not royalty. [[MysteriousPast Or at least that's what we think]].
54	* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler:A very mellow way of describing Elika's reaction to the choice he made at the end. It takes an entire epilogue for her to barely forgive him]].
55	[[/folder]]
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57	[[folder:Elika]]
58	!!!'''Princess Elika'''
59	[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/01elika_9130.png]]
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61	-->''"Gold glitters, but it's what you buy with it that counts."''
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63	--> Voiced by Creator/KariWahlgren
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65	The young barefoot princess of the Ahura and a servant of Ormazd, the god of light. The Ahura have been protectors of the Tree of Life for thousands of years, but slowly the people left the grounds to seek out a life outside. She and her father were essentially the last, and due to this she feels an overwhelming sense of duty to protect what her people have abandoned.
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67	She ran into the Prince one day by literally dropping onto his head as she was attempting to run away from her father. As it turns out, her father made a pact with Ahriman, the god of darkness, to free him in exchange for [[spoiler:bringing her back to life]]. Having no other choice, she teams up with the Prince to stop the Corruption and seal Ahriman once again.
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69	* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Twice. The first time, she fell to her death sometime before the game, and the Mourning King made a deal with Ahriman to revive her. The second time, the Prince makes the same choice]].
70	* BerserkButton: The Alchemist and the Concubine both ''happen'' to be this for her. She considers the Alchemist to be the ultimate traitor, and the Concubine just plain ''pisses her off''.
71	* BilingualBonus: When she casts a spell, she recites the incantation in an old Persian dialect.
72	* BottomlessPitRescueService: The Prince's specialty is grave robbing and parkour. This is hers.
73	* CharacterDevelopment: She starts out as something of detached [[TheStoic stoic]], but later on take over the Prince's role as the resident DeadpanSnarker.
74	* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Even without her powers, the Prince remarks that she is ''amazingly'' athletic and nimble.
75	* ClothingDamage: The further you get into the game, the more torn up her outfit gets, eventually baring her midriff.
76	-->'''Prince:''' That's a nice blouse.
77	-->'''Elika:''' [[DeadpanSnarker I think I have a spare if you'd like it.]]
78	* DeadpanSnarker: This role initially belongs to the Prince, but as the game continues she more or less ends up trumping him in this regard.
79	* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler:Careful listening to her dialog will make her sacrifice no surprise.]]
80	* EarthyBarefootCharacter: She ''kinda'' falls into this trope as well since she can directly interact with the fertile grounds through her feet and heal the land from the corruption.
81	* EscortMission: Averted, as the developers went to lengths to make sure she didn't feel like a burden.
82	* FeetFirstIntroduction: Both the game's first teaser trailer and her first in-game scene introduce her by zooming into her bare feet. Making her feet-first.
83	* GoodWearsWhite: Elika is a princess trying to save the world and wears a white shirt.
84	* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:To seal Ahriman again, she has to die. Thanks to the Prince, this doesn't exactly stick]].
85	* KnightInSourArmor: A rare female version.
86	* LeParkour: She is just as nimble and athletic as the Prince -- she's just not as physically strong. She has magic that compensates for that to some extent.
87	* MadeOfIron: Elika is made of pretty stern stuff, being capable of taking some pretty brutal falls and hits without sustaining too much damage.
88	* MagicalBarefooter: Her lack of shoes is strongly implied to be a consequence of her magic coming from the land itself, as her most powerful ability. She is in contact with the land through her bare feet (to cleanse entire areas of the game of TheCorruption) manifests itself as FertileFeet.
89	* NonPlayerCompanion: To the Prince.
90	* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Besides helping the Prince save the world, it's implied that this is her general view of royalty; when the Prince asks her what being a princess is like, her answer is, "Tiring."
91	* StandardPowerupPose: Whenever Elika heals a Fertile Ground, she floats in the glowing beam and adopts this pose.
92	[[/folder]]
93
94	!!!'''Ahriman's Forces'''
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96	[[folder:Ahriman]]
97	!!!'''Ahriman - The God of Darkness'''
98	[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/01ahriman_5556.png]]
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100	-->''"[[ArcWords IF YOU WOULD HAVE YOUR WISH... THEN GIVE ME... '''MINE''']]."''
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102	--> Voiced by Catherine Kidd, Kwasi Songui
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104	The ancient god of darkness, and brother of Ormazd, the ancient god of light. He was sealed thousands of years ago by his brother within the Tree of Life, and the Ahura were charged to keep him from escaping. To escape his prison, he made a deal with the Mourning King to resurrect Elika in exchange for releasing him. The moment the Tree was cut down, he immediately began to infest the land with the Corruption, and scattered his minions to guard the fertile grounds - the same that could destroy the Corruption.
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106	* TheBadGuyWins: In the end, [[spoiler:Ahriman is freed and his prison is destroyed.]]
107	* BigBad: He's the main bad guy in charge of the Corrupted.
108	* BadassBoast: Shouts a few of these during his boss fight.
109	-->'''Ahriman:''' You seek to stop me? You seek to stop the sun from setting!
110	* TheCorrupter: Tempts mortals with promises of power or their deepest desires in exchange for becoming his slaves. Not all his victims are unsympathetic, either.
111	* TheCorruption: His physical form appears as a mass of corruption.
112	* ClimaxBoss: He's fought at the end of the game.
113	* DarkIsEvil: Though he claims [[DarkIsNotEvil otherwise]].
114	* DealWithTheDevil: The whole point of his character.
115	* ForegoneConclusion: [[spoiler: He ''will'' escape. It's just a matter of when. The Tree of Life holding him at bay is fading. The civilization that guarded him is long gone. Even if the Prince had allowed Elika to sacrifice herself, her death would have only served to delay the inevitable.]]
116	* GodOfEvil: It's what he is.
117	* HannibalLecture: Starts giving them before the credits and never stops. [[spoiler:It eventually gets him freed.]]
118	-->What injury have I done to you, that you have not done to me?
119	-->The choice is not yours. The choice is not yours! The power of this place wanes... And when I am free? She will already have been forgotten. She burns so brightly, A shining star for Ormazd. Is he here to make such sacrifice? Or does he let his followers fall for him? Fall, in his place. I will be free. I will be free!
120	-->Choose life, choose death. Fear not the night. I shall be free, and where then, will the light be? What candle will shine in the darkness now that she is gone? The power of this place wanes. She has blinded you with her light, burned her will until it became yours! Reclaim that will, reclaim your destiny! I can be your beginning, or your end.
121	-->You seek justice? Then banish Ormazd. Free me! It is the dawn that brings the pain. The night that brings the dreams. The light burns! The darkness soothes. She is dead, dead for eternity... but I will be free. Offer me your soul. Offer me no resistance! The choice is not yours. The choice is not yours! Mine has been inprisonment. Mine has been pain.
122	-->What injury have I done to you, that you have not done to me?
123	* IGaveMyWord: He will keep his deals. Sometimes to oddly benevolent levels for the God of Darkness, like leaving The Warrior's people alone.
124	* PublicDomainCharacter: He is one of the most important figures in the ancient religion of UsefulNotes/{{Zoroastrianism}}.
125	* SealedEvilInACan: But the TailorMadePrison isn't holding together too well these days. [[spoiler:The Prince realizes this after Elika sacrifices herself to reseal Ahriman and so releases the god in exchange for resurrecting Elika, intending to find with Elika a way to get rid of Ahriman permanently.]]
126	* VoiceOfTheLegion: Speaks with two voices, one male and one female. His voice also has a rumbling echo.
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128	[[/folder]]
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130	[[folder:The Hunter]]
131	!!!'''The Hunter'''
132	[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/01hunter_9218.png]]
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134	--> Voiced by Sebastien Croteau
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136	One of Ahriman's minion Generals. He was once a very wealthy prince and a skilled hunter. In fact, he became so skilled in the hunt that he found nothing that could evade him, no hunt that would last long enough to sate his boredom. He made a pact with Ahriman for "a hunt without end". And so together with Ahriman's forces, he began to delight in the hunt again as he ruthlessly stalked and killed the enemies of the dark god.
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138	* BladeBelowTheShoulder: His right hand has been attached to a huge mechanical three-bladed [[WolverineClaws claw]] that resembles a katar.
139	%%* BloodKnight
140	* TheCaligula: Becoming one of Ahriman's minions didn't change his personality any.
141	%%* TheDragon
142	* EgomaniacHunter: He dedicated his whole mortal life to hunting so much that he ended up alienating himself from the rest of the world. After he had bested every creature he could get his hands on, he found nothing thrilling enough for several years. Ahriman claimed his soul by offering him a chance to endlessly hunt the most dangerous creature on earth -- human.
143	%%* FragileSpeedster
144	* GroundPunch: Three times at different points, he punches the ground with his unarmed hand in order to shatter the ground beneath. He first does this to drop the Prince and Elika inside the Martyr's Tower when they first reach its top. When he loses a third of his health during their last confrontation, he does this to drop them to a new fighting ring. He does this again after he has lost another third of his health.
145	* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: He used to be a man, and he sold his soul when he was offered a chance to hunt the most dangerous of all creatures on earth without end. After his transformation into a beast resulted him being retraced by the best hunters, he understood what he would prey on for all eternity in the name of Ahriman -- human. And he had ''no'' trouble with this at all.
146	* InASingleBound: He has great leaping abilities, using them to enter and exit battlegrounds.
147	* InterfaceScrew: The Hunter likes to splatter Corruption all over the screen when you fight him.
148	* NeckLift: One of his special moves. If the Prince doesn't free himself, the Hunter slams him to the ground.
149	* TheQuietOne: He never speaks, only screeches at times.
150	* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: While he was still a prince, he was not very interested in the luxury his position granted. Instead, he dedicated his life to testing his limits as a hunter, even against legendary monsters.
151	* SayMyName: Upon his final defeat, he's heard calling out for Ahriman two times before [[spoiler:Elika purifies him]].
152	* WarriorPrince: He was a prince in life who lived for the hunt, but sold his soul to Ahriman to hunt men.
153	[[/folder]]
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155	[[folder:The Alchemist]]
156	!!!'''The Alchemist'''
157	[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/01alchemist_2607.png]]
158
159	-->''"Let me relieve you of all hope."''
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161	--> Voiced by Paul Mercier
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163	An Ahura who had an unquenchable thirst for knowledge, he sought to learn all that life had to offer -- save for death, which he desperately sought the means to avoid. As he continued to gain more knowledge, he in turn began to lose his morality and sense of ethics, doing all sorts of ghastly things to his fellow Ahura, [[ForScience all in the name of science]]. He grew old, weak and ill, and went to Ahriman for the time to find a formula that would grant him eternal youth, in exchange for his servitude. Immortality now secured, he continued his experiments completely free of morality.
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165	* CombatTentacles: He can create these from the Corruption he controls.
166	* EvilGenius: As his name suggests, he's the intellectual among the Corrupted. In addition to performing his twisted experiments, he also created war machines for Ahriman.
167	* FingerTenting: He habitually keeps his fingers tip-to-tip at his mouth level.
168	* ForScience: Hunger for scientific knowledge drove him before his corruption and that hasn't changed one bit.
169	--> "Ignorance shall not stand."
170	* ImmortalitySeeker: He became one when his health began to fail earlier than he would have wanted to.
171	* LeanAndMean: He's quite scrawny.
172	* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: He wears red scholar's garments, and the Corruption gives him black coloring.
173	* SoftSpokenSadist: He's a MadScientist who speaks in a refined and composed manner.
174	* SpikesOfVillainy: Spikes grow out of his entire back.
175	* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: What he eventually did to his fellow Ahura for knowledge.
176	* TemptingFate: Declares "I will not die} [[spoiler:right before dying]]
177	* WickedCultured: He's an evil scholar after all. At one point he claims that one of the differences between him and the protagonists is their unquestioned following of Ormazd's will (though Elika is like that more than the Prince).
178	--> "It is not that you cannot understand. It is that you do not even question. Knowledge enlightens. You close your eyes in blind faith!"
179	[[/folder]]
180
181	[[folder:The Concubine]]
182	!!!'''The Concubine'''
183	[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/01concubine_1806.png]]
184
185	-->''"Welcome to the ball, honored guests... Shall we begin the dance?"''
186
187	--> Voiced by Lucinda Davis
188
189	A beautiful and successful politician who tilted the status quo in her favor by manipulating the men around her. At one point however, she truly fell in love with a man who was immune to her charms. Time and time again she tried to woo him, but the man finally, bluntly rejected her. She became devastated, and eagerly accepted Ahriman's offer to be able to cast illusions, allowing her to be anyone she -- or anyone else -- desired. She used this ability to such a point that she eventually forgot who she was entirely, and now serves Ahriman wholly.
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191	[[{{Squick}} She seems fixated on the Prince]]. And [[ClingyJealousGirl Elika does not like her]]. ''At all.''
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193	%%* CulturedBadass
194	* DanceBattler: She adds elegant moves to her fighting style, especially when she's having the upper hand.
195	* DarkActionGirl: While she prefers to tease her opponents and take them down with her guile, she's capable of holding her own against the Prince and Elika with her staff and agility.
196	* DeadpanSnarker: "The Last of the Ahura. Their queen comes to ''die'' in the Hall of Coronation! It's almost a waste of the irony for it to fall on such a humourless people."
197	* {{Expy}}: Of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jahi the mythological primordial whore]] in UsefulNotes/{{Zoroastrianism}}.
198	* FauxAffablyEvil: She speaks all the time in a flowery way that strongly reeks of horse hockey.
199	* IShallTauntYou: She uses mockery against her foes more than the other Corrupted.
200	* LeanAndMean: She's slim and lethal.
201	* LittleBitBeastly: Very subtly. It's never brought up, but she has a tail and three-toed, digitigrade feet.
202	* LostInCharacter: She lost her original sense of self by using her illusionist powers to seduce men in an endless cycle.
203	%%* MasterOfIllusion
204	* MurderousThighs: One of her special moves is using her staff as a support beam and grabbing the Prince's throat with her legs. If the Prince doesn't free himself by kicking her back, she pulls him over herself and slams him to the floor.
205	* PinkMeansFeminine: An evil version of this trope; she wears pink silk and is an experienced seductress.
206	* PsychoPink: She is an evil, manipulative seductress who wears pink.
207	* SmugSnake: She's a cunning illusionist, but her attempts to be theatrical are left void due to her arrogance and transparent contempt towards the heroes.
208	* TheSmurfettePrinciple: The only female member of the bad guy team and the one who uses subtlety and words against her foes more than the others.
209	* TheTease: She makes continuously all too blatant suggestions towards the Prince, partly to drive a wedge between him and Elika.
210	--> "What are your dreams, little man? What fantasies can I make true? What desires will you paint upon my canvas? Gold and riches? Sweet, tender kisses? Power, strength? Close your eyes, my prince, my king, and we shall taste your dreams together."
211	[[/folder]]
212
213	[[folder:The Warrior]]
214	!!!'''The Warrior'''
215	[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/01warrior_8546.png]]
216
217	-->''"Your fight is meaningless. Man cannot fight a god."''
218
219	--> Voiced by J. Grant Albrecht
220
221	A wise and gentle king who once reigned over a peaceful land, until his kingdom was mercilessly attacked by a powerful and cruel enemy. Having no other choice, the Warrior made a deal with Ahriman to obtain great power so he could protect his people. After he drove away the attackers, he realized that he was tainted by war and could no longer return to his peaceful people, so he devoted himself to Ahriman. He has been a servant for so long that he retains none of his originally kind nature, but Elika still believes that there is goodness left inside him somewhere.
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223	* AntiVillain: The only reason he accepted Ahriman's offer was to save his people. And even after that, he's still not exactly evil.
224	* BearHug: One of his special moves is trapping the Prince this way. You have to punch his face thrice with your gauntled hand in order to free yourself.
225	* BellyFlopCrushing: Subverted. One of his special moves looks initially like this, but it actually causes the Prince to fall on his back ''in front of'' the Warrior.
226	* TheBrute: Physically the largest and most formidable Corrupted. Subverted since he's [[TokenGoodTeammate the least evil villain]] of the game.
227	* DiedStandingUp: [[spoiler:Just before he explodes, he raises from his {{pose of supplication}} in an apparent attempt to fight against Ahriman's control over him.]]
228	* DontMakeMeDestroyYou: More than once he tells Elika and the Prince to turn away from their seemingly hopeless quest while they still can.
229	--> "You should leave this place. I have no wish to kill you."
230	* FallenHero: The peace-loving king offered his soul to an evil god in order to protect his kingdom against invaders. [[BecameTheirOwnAntithesis The price of success was becoming an instrument of war more terrifying than said invaders]].
231	* FinishingStomp: His standard method of trying to finish off the Prince after he receives enough injuries. Either the Prince evades it or Elika will throw the Warrior back with her magic.
232	* GaleForceSound: He stops occasionally to scream. When that happens, you can't get near him.
233	* GroundPunch: One of his special moves has him striking the ground with both hands. The resulting shock wave causes the Corruption beneath the ground move towards the Prince. Unless Elika stops it with her magic, the Prince will be sent flying upwards by a jet of Corruption and he lands painfully.
234	* InfernalRetaliation: [[spoiler:In the final fight, he's pushed into boiling Corruption and he returns for the last rematch in flames. The only way to defeat him is to wait for the fire to lower his lifebar into zero.]]
235	* MightyGlacier: He hits hard, moves in a hulking way and cannot be injured with conventional attacks.
236	* NighInvulnerable: Only Elika's magic can inflict any damage. And the only way to defeat him is to [[RingOutBoss drop him]] or use the environment against him in some other way.
237	* TheQuietOne: He's after the Hunter the most reserved among the Corrupted.
238	* RingOutBoss: He's so strong that neither the Prince's sword nor Elika's magic can hurt him. You need to push him to the edge of the arena each time you fight him -- usually off ledges, but sometimes into weak pillars or a cage.
239	* RockMonster: His body is partly made of rock.
240	* TokenGoodTeammate: Out of his fellow Corrupted, his motivation to sell his soul to Ahriman was the most altruistic. He also taunts Elika and the Prince less than the others [[spoiler:and uses his last living moment to save them]].
241	* TragicMonster: The only reason he continues to be Ahriman's instrument of war is because he has no other option left.
242	* VillainsDyingGrace: [[spoiler:Before he explodes, he throws Elika and the Prince to safety. Elika is certain that this was his last act of honourability, though the Prince regards it to have been [[TakingYouWithMe the last failed attempt to kill them]].]]
243	[[/folder]]
244
245	[[folder:The Mourning King]]
246	!!!'''The Mourning King'''
247	[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/01mourningking_2705.png]]
248
249	-->''"You know what it is that I ask!"''
250
251	--> Voiced by Creator/FredTatasciore
252
253	The last ruler of the Ahura, and Elika's father. After [[spoiler:Elika died]], he made a deal with Ahriman [[spoiler:to resurrect her]] in exchange for freeing him. He also tries to justify this by explaining that the Tree of Life has grown very weak over the millennia, and that Ahriman would've escaped on his own anyway.
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255	Over the course of the adventure, he tries to explain his actions to Elika to no avail, and continues to grow more corrupted with time. In the end, he loses all sense of self.
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257	* AntiVillain: He has sympathetic motives; the death of his wife led him to neglect his people out of sorrow, and his current actions are his way to [[spoiler:prevent his daughter from dying after he sold his soul in exchange for her resurrection]].
258	* BadassLongcoat: He wears a long dark blue coat fit for a royal.
259	* BodyHorror: The way the Corruption gradually takes over his body.
260	* TheDragon: He becomes this for Ahriman following the destruction of the four original Corrupted.
261	* DreadlockWarrior: He's a skilled swordsman, and he sports dreadlocks.
262	* EvilCounterpart: [[spoiler:The Prince ends up doing exactly what the Mourning King originally did and releases Ahriman in exchange for Elika's resurrection. The difference is that while the King is now TheDragon of Ahriman, the Prince remains opposed to Ahriman and insists that bringing Elika back to life was necessary to put a stop to Ahriman once and for all.]]
263	* FallenHero: He rules the warrior tribe that has watched over the imprisoned GodOfEvil for two hundred generations. Unfortunately, he has become disillusioned with the continued absence of Ormazd, Ahriman's weakening prison, his people's decay, the death of his wife, and [[spoiler:his daughter's death]]. Eventually, he sells his soul to Ahriman and frees him in exchange for [[spoiler:resurrecting Elika]].
264	* KnightTemplarParent: [[spoiler:He willingly releases the GodOfEvil to destroy the world in exchange for his daughter's resurrection, and he fights her to prevent her from re-imprisoning Ahriman through self-sacrifice.]]
265	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: He break's Ahriman's seal, unleashing him on the world.
266	* SinisterScimitar: He opposes the protagonists and fights with a curved blade.
267	* SixthRanger: He becomes the newest Corrupted of Ahriman.
268	* SpikesOfVillainy: Once his corruption is complete, he has grown spikes sticking out of his shoulders.
269	%%* UnwittingPawn
270	%%* WarriorPrince

Context Characters / PrinceOfPersia2008