Characters from Dusty Revenge and its prequel, Dusty Raging Fist
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Dusty and Allies
Dusty
- Anti-Hero: An ex-outlaw and killer can only be such.
- Badass Normal: An expert fighter who can kick plenty of ass with his fists. And then...
- Empowered Badass Normal: The prequel grants him assorted Elemental Powers from defeating the guardians. Though unfortunately it doesn't last, see the next line.
- Bag of Spilling: He gains assorted Elemental Powers in the prequel, but lose them after defeating Elijah.
- Call to Agriculture: In the tie-in prequel comic, it turns out Dusty was planning to settle down and be a woodcutter with Daisy. Which doesn't happen.
- The Chosen One: He finds out from the diary of his deceased father, that he's one of the three heroes - alongside McCoy and Rondel - fated to prevent Craven and his goons from retrieving the Illumna Dust. It was all foretold by Gladius, another member of the expedition team, who will escape and await Dusty's arrival one day to pass the task to him.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Despite his penchant for wearing all black in both games, Dusty's the heroic playable protagonist.
- Ear Wings: Downplayed, but Dusty can use his wings to float and hover in mid-air for several seconds. It's a useful trick in platform-based stages of the game and a necessity in the final level thanks to Vent Physics.
- Good Is Not Soft: A good guy, but definitely not a gentleman. Notably when Gladius hesitates in giving him an answer leading to Dusty pulling his gun on her.
- Good Old Fisticuffs: Discounting the fact that he does have a pair of revolvers with him, Dusty will use his fists to take down mooks for at least 70% of gameplay. Despite his allies Rondel and McCoy lugging firearms.
- Guns Akimbo: One of Dusty's special moves in both games allows him to draw a second revolver and shoot enemies from point-blank.
- Hair-Raising Hare: From the perspective of the villains, this is one rabbit that's not to be messed with.
- The Hero: The main character of both games. Who else do you think "Dusty" in both title refers to?
- Improbable Weapon User: Dusty can use his ears as weapons, as they are longer than he is tall, insanely strong, and can function as dual whips.
- Killer Rabbit: An andromorphic rabbit who can kick a ton of ass, and even beat down carnivores and other animals far larger than himself.
- Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs: One of Dusty's special attacks have him sending multiple quick punches to everything in his way. Which can damage even large group of enemies all at once.
- Righteous Rabbit: He's the only rabbit character in the game (save for his fiancée Daisy and later his father Dante) and he's the main hero.
- Shotguns Are Just Better: One of his special moves have him whipping out a shotgun from nowhere, firing a blast that knocks every mook before him to the ground, and keeping it.
- Spin Attack: Used in tandem with hiss trusty scythe, Dusty can spin in circles and slice up everyone near him.
- Sinister Scythe: While Dusty often uses his fists, a frequently-used special move allows him to pull out a scythe from out of nowhere and use it to slice up enemies. The prequel Dusty Raging Fist reveals how he got that scythe.
- "X" Marks the Hero: He sports an "X"-shaped scar across his right cheek.
Introduced in Dusty's Revenge
Daisy
Dusty's Love Interest, who was unfortunately killed when Dusty's enemies targets her as well. Her death in the original sparks Dusty's quest for revenge.
- All There in the Manual: Her backstory and relation with Dusty is detailed in the prequel comic
. - Died in Your Arms Tonight: She succumbs in Dusty's arms as he's holding onto her.
- Furry Female Mane: She's a rabbit with long, black humanlike hair.
- The Lost Lenore: Dusty's fiancée who dies before the events of the first game. He would mention her name a few times throughout gameplay.
- Nice Girl: From what we see in the tie-in webcomic, anyway.
- Remember the New Guy?: Given how Revenge is a prequel set before Raging Fist, at no point in the latter game was Daisy mentioned in any way. Presumably Dusty had a relationship with her at some point between the two games.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Appears in the opening cutscene. Dead before the first level.
Gladius
Gladius
A gypsy prophet Dusty consults in the Old Tales Tavern.
- Boom, Headshot!: How Reddo killed her.
- Crystal Ball: Like every good fortune teller, this is how she looks into her customer's future. Her death when Reddo shot her notably have some of her blood hitting the crystal's surface.
- Fortune Teller: She serves as one which delivers oracles and premonitions to her visitors.
- Killed Mid-Sentence: Shot by Reddo, right before she can reveal the reason behind Daisy's murder by Dusty's enemies.Dusty: She was about to elaborate, but she never had a chance... [cue Reddo's entrance]
- Ms. Exposition: Her entire role in the single scene she was in is to relay Dusty's fate to him, how he's destined to stop Craven, and quickly killed off.
- Omniglot: Among the eight members of the Illumna expedition, she's the only one who can speak the lost, ancient language of the Illumna, owing to her knowledge of every single language that exists.
- Sole Survivor: As Dusty finds out late in the game after retrieving his father's journal, Gladius is one of the last survivors of their expedition (besides McCoy), who flees with one of the eight components - a medal in a locket - needed for harvesting the Illunma Dust. She passed this locket to Dusty after recognizing him as the son of her long-lost friend, Dusty's father who perished in Illumna.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: She appears in a single cutscene, gives some exposition, and then gets interrupted and killed by Reddo. She then reappears in a flashback, revealed to be one of the surviving expedition members.
Rondel
A literal Papa Bear
A bear mercenary who slugs a "cannon as tall as himself", Rondel shows up after Dusty defeats the first boss, Reddo, saving Dusty's life by firing his cannon into Reddo who's about to ambush Dusty from behind. Much like Dusty, Rondel have his reasons to stop Craven, in this case being that Craven had abducted his son.- All There in the Manual: According to outside sources, his full name is Rondel Moneghan.
- Assist Character: He'll constantly fire exploding projectiles into the screen, to blow up enemies near Dusty (the player controls where the projectile lands, of course). Rondel's assistance is in fact compulsory in a few areas, for instance to clear rock walls allowing Dusty to pass or to damage the heavily-armored cow enemies so they're vulnerable to Dusty's attacks.
- Bears Are Bad News: Zig-zagged; Rondel is a dangerous enemy from the perspective of the villains, but he's an ally to Dusty through and through.
- Beary Friendly: For Dusty and McCoy, anyways.
- Cutscene Power to the Max: In the cutscene that introduces Craven, the villain sic his army on the heroes as Craven himself grabs Dusty. Rondel managed to take out most of the mooks with a few quick blasts of his cannon, something he couldn't pull off during proper gameplay.
- Fat and Skinny: For the two sidekicks who's always in the sidelines together, the huge Rondel and the smaller McCoy.
- Grenade Launcher: He lugs around a massive cannon and isn't afraid to use it.
- Papa Wolf: Papa Bear, with Rondel's mission throughout the game being retrieving his cub who was abducted by Craven.
- Rugged Scar: Rondel has a square scar on his right cheek that highlights how he's a dangerous mercenary who had seen plenty of battle.
- Strong Family Resemblance: We finally see Rondel's son in the cutscene before battling Craven, where the cub looks exactly like his father, albeit a sized-down version.
- Struggling Single Father: Implied, despite having a cub who's his biological son Rondel's wife isn't shown or even mentioned. She might have died prior to the story, much like Dusty's mate Daisy.
Casey McCoy
- Assist Character: There are several stages where enemies wielding firearms tries shooting at Dusty in the background. None of Dusty's attacks can reach them, so this is where McCoy's assistance comes in.
- The Drifter: He's modeled after the stereotypical Wild West-drifter often played by Clint Eastwood, right down to his poncho and fedora.
- Fat and Skinny: For the two sidekicks who's always in the sidelines together, with McCoy being the skinny to the larger Rondel.
- Friendly Sniper: He's an expert marksman and on the same side as Dusty and Rondel.
- Heroic Dog: A basset hound and an ally to Dusty.
- Moe Greene Special: He's very good at it to boot - McCoy is introduced in a cutscene where he snipes a coyote rifleman aiming at Dusty through the left eye, and later does the same thing to Craven.
- Mysterious Protector: In the webcomic prequel, he's the one who gunned a sniper trying to ambush Dusty, and subdued Boris before the latter can ambush Dusty from behind. And remains unknown before eventually revealing himself much later.
- Old Soldier: He used to be part of the army, specifically the gunman escorting the expedition team into Illumna. Now he's back in action ready to help Dusty fulfill his destiny.
- Sole Survivor: One of the only two survivors of the Illumna expedition after Craven betrays everyone, while trying to retrieve the all-powerful Illumna Dust for himself.
Dante
Dante Mileear
From the flashback scene.
Dusty's long-lost father and one of the leaders of the doomed Illumna expedition, Dante gave up his life to prevent Craven from using the Illumna Dust for his own selfish desires, and after thwarting Craven's plans he chose not to return home in order to ensure Dusty's safety.
Years later, Dusty discovers the truth after entering Illumna and finding Dante's lost diary.
- Disappeared Dad: He left his son Dusty when Dusty's a child. For good reason...
- Good Parents: He allows himself to be killed while leaving Craven and his goons in the blank about his family's whereabouts, so as to secure the safety of his son Dusty.
- High-Class Glass: He wears a monocle, befitting his status as the professor and lead technician of their expedition.
- It's Not You, It's My Enemies: He never returned to his son, Dusty, for fear that Craven's minions would target his child while searching for him.
- Killed Offscreen: We never see how he died; his diary's last notes have him stating he'd be dead by the time anyone reads it.
- A Lizard Named "Liz": Dante Mileear. Because rabbit have long ears, get it?
- Posthumous Character: We only see Dante in a flashback in the last stage. He's long dead when the game's events actually happened.
Introduced in Dusty's Raging Fist
Kitsune
The Fox
An albino fox kunoichi and Dusty's former partner, Kitsune is one of the prequel's playable heroes.- Dark Action Girl: A ruthless kunoichi assassin who isn't afraid of drawing blood.
- A Dog Named "Dog": Well, a fox named "kitsune".
- Dual Wield: Two short knives, like every kunoichi.
- Good Counterpart: To Amelia Swift, the cheetah kunoichi who serves the villains.
- Kunoichi: A heroic fox ninja and one of the allies.
- The Lancer: The second-in-command to Dusty.
- The Not-Love Interest: Despite kicking ass side-by-side with Dusty and beating up bosses alongside the protagonist, Kitsune is just Like Brother and Sister with Dusty, who eventually settles down with Daisy, another rabbit.
- Token White: Inverted, given her name and attire she appears to be the only character of Asian (likely Japanese) origin in a Western setting.
Darg
A horse and a brawler who tags along behind Dusty.
- Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: A purple horse? Yep. What's even weirder is that this trope is averted for most other characters.
- Bare-Fisted Monk: He prefers fighting entirely with his fists. Especially evident in the final cutscene; Dusty and Kitsune each obtained a weapon after defeating Elijah, but Darg says he's fine with his knuckles.
- The Big Guy: Among the three playable characters.
- Lightning Bruiser: He can move surprisingly fast for his size. Then again, he's a horse.
- Magical Native American: He's the only character of Native American origin, based on a stereotypical Red Indian.
Snow
A snow leopard sniper who helps Dusty by sniping enemies before they can get him.
- A Dog Named "Dog": A snow leopard named... you know.
- Friendly Sniper: One of the good guys on Dusty's side, like McCoy from the original. He's pretty chill when not shooting enemy mooks.
- The Knights Who Say "Squee!": He excitedly asks if Leo would sign his sniper rifle upon their first meeting.
- Panthera Awesome: A heroic snow leopard sidekick.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To McCoy from the original game, being a sniper and marksman that can only be playable by providing backup.
Leo
A lion demolitions expert.
- Character Shilling: Was praised by everyone in his debut - Dusty, Kitsune, Snow (who asks Leo for an autograph immediately) - but it turns out he's just another backup character with little-to-no-development.
- Informed Ability: Leo was supposedly the "legendary" demolitions expert, but gameplay-wise... he's just a clone of Rondel from the previous game, with barely any differences in their abilities.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To Rondel from the original game, being the demolitions expert who wields a projectile-shooting cannon for clearing obstacles.
- You Are a Credit to Your Race: Inverted; the moment he finds out Sir William Ross is a traitor, Leo instantly declares William to be "an insult to all lions!"
Villains and Bosses
Introduced in Dusty's Revenge
Craven
A rabbit kicking a giant robot. This is how you sell a game, guys!
- Dusty: "In a plea for me to spare his life, he (Reddo) begin offering me a name. Craven. I've heard that name before..."
However, unable to prevent the fail-safe of the machine from activating, Craven is unable to extract the rest of the Illumna Dust. Gaining enough dust to empower himself but realizing he needs other artifacts for harvesting the Dust, Craven establishes his own legion of mercenaries and had them turn the land upside-down for their whereabouts, his hunger for power unquenchable as Craven and his minions tears a bloody path across the lands...
- Advancing Boss of Doom: The second phase of his boss battle.
- Bad Boss: He first appeared in-person during a cutscene... where he ruthlessly rips off Tongada's head as punishment over his failure to detain the heroes. In the same scene after McCoy shot his eye out, Craven beats a hasty retreat while ditching all his mooks to be taken out by the heroes.
- Big Bad: He's the main villain of the game, and turns out to have betrayed his entire expedition into Illumna, killing everyone in his team in search for ultimate power - among them, Dusty's father.
- BFG: Uses a massive blaster against Dusty in the final stage of his Sequential Boss fight.
- Eye Scream: He lose his right eye while trying to ambush the heroes courtesy of McCoy and his rifle. Which forces Craven to retreat - his next appearance have him replacing his eye with a green orb.
- I Have Your Wife: He kidnaps Rondel's cub as leverage, and is threatening to crush the child unless the heroes gave him the last piece of the artifact - Dusty's locket - to re-activate the Illumna extraction machine. Dusty have to comply:
- It's Personal: To all three of the heroes; Dusty wants Craven's life to avenge his father, McCoy despises Craven for his betrayal, Rondel wants Craven to pay for kidnapping his son.
- Karmic Death: It doesn't get even more karmic than being killed by the son of the man he betrayed and murdered for power...
- Make Me Wanna Shout: In his last phase, Craven can emit a mighty roar that results in a shockwave knocking everything in front of him to the ground.
- Metronomic Man Mashing: Don't let him grab Dusty in the last phase of his boss battle, else he grabs and slams the hero side-to-side a few times.
- Neck Lift: Owing to his huge size, Craven love intimidating both his foes and failed minions alike. He does this when executing Tongada, and managed to grab Dusty by the throat until McCoy puts a bullet through his eye.
- Panthera Awesome: A fearsome, brutal, ruthless tiger-man warlord and the game's powerful main villain and Final Boss.
- Sequential Boss: Whoo boy.
- Craven starts the battle leaping into a gigantic robot tank, which he uses to assault Dusty. Said tank can absorb a ton of damage with it's multiple health bars, and needs to be defeated in three phases (each with some mooks thrown in-between)...
- Appearing to be defeated, the mecha de-powers... and suddenly activates again, this time charging towards Dusty as a new entrance is revealed for Dusty to flee through. Cue an Advancing Boss of Doom as Dusty avoid obstacles, jump over barriers and pits while Craven and his mech follows closely;
- At the end of the chase, the mecha finally breaks down. Cue Craven exiting with a BFG for the third and last phase. Have fun!
- Tiny-Headed Behemoth: Because of the enhanced armor he wears on his upper torso, which makes his cranium absolutely tiny in comparison (as seen in his intro pictured above).
- Would Hurt a Child: He's thirsting to have Rondel's cub executed near the end when the heroes confronts him, and is in fact unveiled within his throne room... with the young cub under his boot!
- You Killed My Father: He killed Dusty's father during their excursion into Illumna years ago, which Dusty doesn't find out until near the ending.
Reddo
- Aim for the Horn: Not visible within gameplay, but in the cutscene after Dusty had defeated him, Reddo is seen a crumpled heap with his right horn snapped off.
- Arm Cannon: Like the rest of the bull mooks, his right arm is a four-barreled shotgun. Which can fire missiles for good measure.
- Brutish Bulls: Like the rest of the bull enemies.
- Dirty Coward: Killing Dusty's unarmed girlfriend and the elderly Gladius is one thing, but trying to shoot Dusty In the Back after pretending to be dead?
- Shockwave Stomp: His secondary attack has him punching the floor, sending a straight shockwave at Dusty which can deal some slightly higher damage.
- Horn Attack: His melee tackle from close range have him trying to skewer Dusty with his horns. Either that, or fling Dusty into the air.
- King Mook: His sprite and attack patterns resemble an upgraded version of the game's recurring bull enemies.
- Muscles Are Meaningless: The sheer amount of muscles on Reddo doesn't change his health much, and he's no stronger than other bosses.
- Shockwave Stomp: One of Reddo's attacks have him pounding the ground with both fists, sending a shockwave wall across the screen which Dusty needs to jump to avoid.
- Warm-Up Boss: As the first boss, Reddo's attacks are quite predictable and fairly easy to avoid, he tires out easily after charging around (allowing Dusty to pummel him before he recovers), the fight is just a straightforward brawl in a single area (unlike later bosses' gimmick-themed locations) and he goes down without too much trouble.
- Would Harm a Senior: One of the first things he did is shooting Gladius, an elderly gypsy lady, in the back of her head. Without a single indication of remorse whatsoever.
Boris
His title card in the re-release. He's not in the 2014 original version.
A gigantic, overweight warthog-man armed with a blade on a chain. He's only fought in the re-release though, in a ship's kitchen.
- Acrofatic: He can move much faster than his overweight appearance looks.
- Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: He's a green pig.
- Belly Flop Crushing: One of Boris' attacks have him jumping into the air and trying to flatten Dusty with his tummy.
- Blade on a Rope: His preferred weapon is his trusty meat-cleaver on a chain.
- The Butcher: He's fought in a kitchen's freezer filled with sliced-up meat, where he serves as the cook. While wearing an apron and swinging a butcher's knife, no less.
- Chain Pain: One of his attacks have him using his weapon's chain for slapping.
- Degraded Boss: He returns in the prequel as a one-shot Mini-Boss who doesn't even have his own boss intro.
- Fat Bastard: Overweight, and delightfully tries slicing Dusty apart.
- Let's Meet the Meat: He's an andromorphic pig, who also works as a butcher. Huh.
- Optional Boss: It's not compulsory to fight him, and he's in fact absent in the original game only to appear in the updated version.
- Pig Man: Well, he's an andromorphic warthog-man in a world of sentient animals.
- Shockwave Stomp: He can send out a ground-travelling shockwave by stomping his foot.
- Spin to Deflect Stuff: Boris can use his chain-cleaver to deflect bullets, displaying this ability in the comic prequel and in gameplay.
Aliciaconda
The Ancient Being
The Giant Metallic Viper
The boss of the mines, a snake lady sorceress and illusionist who comandeers a giant serpent mech to assault Dusty.
- Animal Mecha: Alicia sics a giant serpent mech during her boss battle, though she controls it with her flute rather than piloting it.
- Doppelgänger Spin: One of Alicia's tricks have her creating translucent copies of herself and attacking Dusty with her flute's projectiles, until Dusty lands a hit on the real Alicia and cancels her attacks.
- Instrument of Murder: She can use her flute as a flamethrower and a Blow Gun when fighting Dusty.
- Magic Knight: While she relies on spells and illusions when forced to fight Dusty up close, she's definitely no slouch in direct combat either, moving all over the screen and dishing hits as quickly as she can avoid them.
- Palate Propping: In a few instances when Aliciaconda's mech managed to chomp on Dusty, cue Dusty using himself to prop the machine's mouth open. Controls switched to Rondel whom the player needs to aim and fire a shot at the machine - miss the shot or fire too slowly and Dust takes damage.
- Playing with Fire: She can cast fiery spells, from summoning walls of fire from the ground to blowing a stream of flames at Dusty using her flute as medium. And upon defeat, she spitefully gives up her life to create a raging fire covering the whole area.
- Sequential Boss: Defeat her giant snake robot first. And then fight her, hand-to-hand. Though Alicia herself isn't as durable as her robot.
- Snake Charmer: She controls her serpent mech by playing her flute.
- Snake People: Alicia herself, though she's more of a cobra than an anaconda. And despite having green, scaly reptilian skin, she does have a humanoid lower body, including legs.
- Taking You with Me: After her defeat, Alicia casts a fire spell to incinerate the whole cavern, one that drains what's left of her life, in a last-ditch attempt to kill Dusty, Rondel and McCoy. But Rondel blasts a hole through the cavern's walls creating an escape.
- Teleport Spam: She has the ability to teleport when fighting Dusty (second phase, hand-to-hand), mostly to escape to another side of the screen. Unfortunately for her teleporting will exhaust Alicia, and leave her vulnerable to Dusty's hits.
- When All You Have Is a Hammer…: Barring moments where the serpent mech gets close enough to Dusty to attempt biting him, the sole attack method of the machine is by using it's own body to slam on Dusty like a club. And that's all it does for the entirety of the battle.
Tongada
A massive gorilla brute with assorted cybernetics implated on him, who greets Dusty and gang at the end of the train level.
- Dumb Muscle: Among the bosses, Tongada merely serves as The Brute without much characterization, and his screentime merely have him smashing stuff.
- Dynamic Entry: He's introduced in a cutscene where he simply smashes the entire train Dusty and co. are on, sending everyone off their feet. Cue proper boss fight.
- Eyes Are Unbreakable: Tongada have a nasty-looking scar over his left eye that scrapes the eyelids, but both his eyes are still intact.
- Killer Gorilla: A fierce gorilla who's one of the game's bosses.
- King Kong Copy: He's already fearsome enough being a gigantic gorilla brute, but the game even made him one of the largest bosses to enforce a King Kong reference!
- Muscles Are Meaningless: He's a massive brickhouse of a boss, and his health is no different from previous or later enemies.
- Off with His Head!: How he's executed by his boss, Craven. By being yanked.
- Power Fist: Wears a pair of armoured gauntlets which he uses to attack Dusty.
- Primal Chest-Pound: Of course, since he's a gorilla. Try to stay low when he does that, because Tongada is priming himself to unleash his Chest Blaster.
- The Speechless: The only boss who doesn't have any dialogue, save for roaring and grunting.
- Wave-Motion Gun: Tongada's Chest Blaster can cover more than half the screen.
- You Have Failed Me: In the cutscene after his defeat, Tongada is brutally murdered by Craven. By ripping off Tongada's cranium.
Amelia Swift
Guardian of the Gate
A kunoichi-like jaguar assassin and the boss of Odgro Jungle. She ambushed Dusty when he's at the base of a huge tree near the jungle's exit, and spends the fight leaping between platforms while throwing projectiles.- Climbing Climax: Dusty fights her at the base of a tree fitted with multiple platforms, and Amelia will keep climbing upwards for the duration of her battle. By the time Dusty defeats her, they're both on top of said tree.
- Deadly Disc: She packs a circular disc with protruding spikes as her secondary weapon, sending it towards Dusty throughout the fight. Said disc can return to her hand after being flung.
- Death from Above: Be wary when Amelia starts glowing - she's summoning a number of spiked, exploding projectiles to rain into the area.
- Evil Counterpart: To Kitsune, the heroine and ally from the prequel. They could fight each other in the re-release.
- "Get Back Here!" Boss: As Dusty depletes her health, she will take leap to several platforms in the stage leading upwards, and Dusty will need to pursue her.
- Fragile Speedster: Being a jaguar and all that.
- Gratuitous Ninja: She's the sole ninja character in a game with a Western-esque setting, for no reason other than Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja.
- King Mook: Well, Queen Mook, but a lot of Amelia's attack patterns appears to be recycled from the game's recurring feline enemies. Fittingly enough she's a jaguar.
- In a Single Bound: Befitting a kunoichi, Amelia can leap and pounce all over the arena almost effortlessly.
- Master Swordsman: She wields a fine sword and knows how to use it. Her circular swing can notaably knock Dusty off his feet.
- Meaningful Name: Amelia Swift - she's as fast and agile as her name implies.
- Panthera Awesome: Not to the extent of her boss, the tiger Craven, but Amelia is an andromorphic jaguar kunoichi and one of the fastest bosses.
- Sword Beam: Amelia can sometimes release crescent-shaped energy waves by swinging her blade.
- Teleport Spam: Much like Aliciaconda before her, though since she's a kunoichi she uses a rapid Smoke Out instead.
- Tornado Move: Alicia's last attack, which she executes when her health is at it's last bar. She can spin herself like a tornado while moving left and right, and getting caught by her funnel result in massive life depletion.
Lykane
An albino wolf and Craven's second-in-command, as well as the game's second-to-last boss.
- Blade on a Rope: Lykane Dual Wields a pair of blades on chains during his boss fight.
- Disney Villain Death: In the cutscene after his defeat, Lykane falls into a pit plummeting to his death (offscreen).
- A Dog Named "Dog": A sentient wolf named Lykane. Or Lycan, get it?
- Lightning Bruiser: Despite his size, Lykane is one of the fastest boss enemies in the game.
- Tiny-Headed Behemoth: His body is huge, and absolutely rippling with muscles. His head, which is smaller than his fists? Not so much.
- Top-Heavy Guy: His legs are disproportionaly skinny and short, especially compared to his massive upper body. Though the size of his feet matches the size of his head.
- Tornado Move: Another one of his attacks, spinning around in circles while holding his blades in both hands.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: After his health is reduced to the last few bars, Lykane rips off his armor and fights bare-chested.
- Wolves Always Howl at the Moon: Lykane's introduction have him howling into the night before beginning the boss battle in proper. He also howls at the moon in the background seen through a smashed window during a cutscne mid-battle before shedding his armor.
- Wolf Man: An andromorphic, fast-moving humanoid wolf. Though there's a Furry Reminder when he moves on all fours to attack Dusty.
Ganuk
The Last Guardian
The second optional boss after Boris, Ganuk is an elephant fought in an underground cavern shortly before Craven.
- Backpack Cannon: His main weapon, a massive back-mounted mortar launcher.
- Blow You Away: Ganuk can create a mini-tornado by sucking in air with his trunk.
- Cruel Elephant: One that rampages and attempts to trample Dusty on sight.
- Gatling Good: His trunk is a gatling gun.
Introduced in Dusty Raging Fist
The Ancient Darkness (SPOILERS)
The Ancient Darkness / Elijah
An evil demon from aeons ago, sealed in a casket that the knights of Iron City swore to protect, the Ancient Darkness was released by Sir William Ross, a disillusioned member of the knights seeking more power for himself, intending to rule over Iron City his own way by forming a pact with the awakened demon.
Requiring the souls of children for achieving ultimate power, the Ancient Darkness have William's minions abduct the entire population of children from Iron City and every neighboring village, to be taken into Sir William's Castle. And realizing he still needs the power of elemental souls, the Ancient Darkness then takes on the guise of Elijah, a rabbit-boy, tricking Dusty, Darg and Kitsune into embarking on a supposed rescue mission by defeating the various elemental guardians...
- Alien Sky: His revelation from Elijah to the Ancient Darkness causes the sky to turn crimson. As well as creating a second moon.
- Ancient Evil: A demon that exists before time. It's right in his name!
- Bad Boss: His execution of Sir William in his I Can Rule Alone moment shows him to be this.
- Big Bad: An ancient demon who serves as the prequel's main antagonist.
- Blow You Away: His special attack, where he generates a powerful purple tornado that squeezes a chunk off Dusty's health if caught.
- Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: Craven is an oversized brute who relies on muscles, heavy weaponry, a giant robot and his own strength, while Elijah is skinny, nowhere as physically strong , and relies on his own cunning and magic. Craven is hot-tempered, while Elijah is soft-spoken (though they're both Bad Bosses to their underlings). Additionally, both villains indulges in kidnapping children, with the game's main plotline being the heroes' subsequent rescue mission, but the way they play out differs - Craven abducted Rondel's cub to co-erce Dusty and Rondel into giving up the ancient Macguffin, Elijah on the other hand had children abducted, then poses as one of the kids to trick Dusty and the mercenaries to embark on the rescue before backstabbing them in the last minute.
- Deal with the Devil: What the pact Sir William made with Elijah amounts into.
- Distinguishing Mark: Elijah has a red, circular scar in his forehead.
- Elemental Hair Composition: His hair is made of smoke.
- Power Floats: Befitting an ancient demon, he never touches the ground and is always floating.
- Purple Is Powerful: All his summoned projectiles and magically-generated weapons shines with a purple aura, and deals heavy damage when hit.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: Used to be an ancient spirit trapped in a casket until Sir William released him.
- Sinister Scythe: Swings a massive scythe larger than himself, made of smoke.
- Teleport Spam: His battle have him porting all over the place to take potshots at Dusty.
- Tom the Dark Lord: Elijah the Ancient Evil who wants to sacrifice hundreds of children for his own power and Take Over the World.
- Lean and Mean: Tall, skinny, and cruel. In equal proportion.
- Manipulative Bastard: After awakening, he then poses as a young rabbit-boy named Elijah and begs for Dusty and gang to seek the missing children of his village, before returning later on volunteering to escort the kids back to the village. It turns out he's using the heroes to collect those kids for his ritual.
- Treacherous Quest Giver: As Elijah, he tricks Dusty and the heroes to embark on a rescue mission, only to use them as his pawns in collecting the elemental powers.
- Would Hurt a Child: His Human Sacrifice ritual to attain ultimate power involves sacrificing a village's worth of children.
Sir William Ross
- "Yet more servants of darkness? You shall die like the others!"
- Ambition Is Evil: His thirst for power drives him to pull a Face–Heel Turn sometime in the backstory.
- Badass Cape: Wears a flowing red one held by golden clasps, as a sign of his authority as a knight.
- Blood Knight: Craves fighting as much as he craves power, and immediately attacks Dusty and the other heroes on sight.
- The Dragon: Serves as the second-in-command to the Ancient Darkness.
- Elemental Barrier: He can create one made of electricity during his boss fight.
- Empowered Badass Normal: He was already a formidable fighter as a knight and swordsman, but later gains electricty-based powers once he's in league with Elijah.
- Fallen Hero: Once a noble, heroic knight of the Iron City, and the greatest of their warriors. Now a minion of Elijah the Ancient Darkness who wants to Take Over the World.
- The Heavy: His releasing of the Ancient Darkness in the past, their subsequent pact, and his minions abducting the children of Iron City is what kickstarts the plot.
- Knight in Shining Armor: He's the evil version, a once-glorious knight driven by his thirst for power. His first appearance seems to play the trope straight, however, what with his declaration to rid the land of evil, but later the revelation turns it around.
- Light Is Not Good: Dressed head-to-toe in silver armor, dons a golden crown and a sword powered by light. Yet a villain rotten to the core.
- Marathon Boss: William's life meter is massive, allowing him to tank explosions, bullets, fists and all sorts of projectiles like no tomorrow. Yet his attacks mostly revolves around swinging his sword around and the occasional projectiles. It's as repetitive as it sounds.
- Master Swordsman: A veteran knight who wields a broadsword, and knows how to use it.
- Orbiting Particle Shield: His boss battle have him creating one made of purple energy balls that damages Dusty on contact. And he'll stride menacingly towards Dusty while using this weapon.
- Panthera Awesome: Inverted. He's a lion and a magnificient warrior, but turns out to be a traitor and villain.
- Red Baron: Sir William, the Iron Knight. Though his title was a thing of the past post Face–Heel Turn.
- Shock and Awe: Not as frequently as Raiden, but William can perform a charging tackle while his sword is electrified.
- Slashed Throat: How Elijah betrays and kills him.
- Sword Beam: A ranged attack Richard pulls off regularly with his weapon.
- Sword Drag: William does this now and then to intimidate Dusty during the boss fight.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Was executed by the Ancient Darkness, after the revelation that they're supposed to be in league with one another.
Raiden
An albino fox and the guardian of the Thunder Element, the second element to be collected after Ice.
- Asian Fox Spirit: He's based on a kitsune, albeit one that's andromorphic.
- Badass Cape: Wears a flowing purple one which is badly ripped in the corners.
- Bolt of Divine Retribution: One of Raiden's attacks have him raining thunderbolts. When Dusty collects his powers, he can use this as a Smart Bomb.
- Chain Lightning: The very last attack Raiden uses once his health is depleted enough, and the only one that's actually any significant threat (being a Warm-Up Boss and all).
- Dash Attack: Raiden can occasionally unleash a dash-kick, while surrounded by an electrical aura. Getting hit will shock away quite a bit of health, though it's relatively easy to dodge.
- The Gunslinger: He's the only boss that uses a firearm.
- Make My Monster Grow: Once his health has been reduced enough, Raiden enlarges himself and tries attacking Dusty with a Giant Foot of Stomping. Only his foot is visible when he does that.
- Shock and Awe: Well, of course, considering the element he's assigned to guard. His attacks are all based on generating electric projectiles and sending them on the heroes.
- Warm-Up Boss: Like Reddo in the original, Raiden's a rather straightforward boss battle in a narrow tunnel and he's not as mobile as later bosses, making him an easy target. His thunderbolts can be bypassed by dashing or interrupted easily, his melee attacks predictable, he frequently pauses mid-battle after moving around too much, and he's even easier once he supersizes himself because when enlarged he's unable to use any ranged attacks at all.
The Krakken
She who guards the seas outside Iron City, and the bearer of the Element of Water. Fought while atop a pirate ship.
- Background Boss: She remains in the seas in the background; it's her tentacles sticking to the front that Dusty have to battle.
- Battle in the Rain: She's fought in a maelstrom in the middle of a massive downpour.
- Blow You Away: Occasionally, she'll summon a tornado into the ship's deck as an attack. Sometimes she creates two.
- Combat Tentacles: Like every classical depiction of Krakkens.
- Flunky Boss: Occasionally, pirate mooks will show up on the deck to back her up.
- Giant Woman: Giant octopus-woman.
- Kraken and Leviathan: She's the former, and looks exactly like how you'd expect a krakken to be, giant octopus with killer tentacles included.
- Making a Splash: As the guardian of the water element, the Krakken can summon tidal waves.
- Tactical Suicide Boss: She's invincible until extending her tentacles aboard the ship's deck, allowing Dusty to slash away on her limbs and damage her health. What's even more baffling is that after missing a swing, her tentacles remains in the foreground for some reason...
The Gatekeeper
A powerful effigy of an avian god worshipped in the temple, which Dusty and gang must infiltrate to obtain the last element, Earth. Upon reaching the temple's exit, the Gatekeeper awakens for a fight.
- Blow You Away: Tornadoes, again.
- Chest Blaster: The core on it's chest can fire a powerful Wave-Motion Gun.
- Dishing Out Dirt: Being the guardian of the Earth element. Most of the time the Gatekeeper prefers sending rock spikes out the ground as an attack.
- Lava Pit: Halfway into the battle, the Gatekeeper will cause the arena's floors to rise and split into platforms, with lava pools below, adding platforming elements into the boss arena where Dusty must jump all over the place while battling it.
- Living Statue: What it amounts to be, since it's the effigy of some ancient god which came to life.
- Mook Maker: One of his attacks summons degraded copies of the first Mini-Boss, the giant robotic ram, as Giant Mook flunkies.
- Playing with Fire: Another boss who can generate and hurl fireballs.
- Stationary Boss: Being an effigy built into the ground, it's not capable of moving anywhere else.
The Twins
An antelope sorceress who serves as Elijah's personal guard, confronted right outside his quarters.
- Bad with the Bone: One of her most frequent attacks launches a flying antelope skull at her enemies.
- Magic Knight: A sorceress who's definitely no slouch in close-range combat. She has an equal amount of magic and melee attacks which she unleashed simultaneously throughout her battle.
- Magic Staff: She carries one which allows her to spam projectile attacks.
- Non-Indicative Name: You're likely going to be misled that the subsequent fight is against a Dual Boss... nope, despite the moniker there's only one opponent here.
- Playing with Fire: She can launch a powerful fireball as another ranged attack.
- Power Floats: Her supernatural magic allows her to float all over the place.
