Characters / War Gods

This is the character roster from the Midway Fighting Game War Gods:

Warhead

Formerly the US military's best operative, he was sent to a research center where the government was experimenting with the combination of nuclear weapons and the Ore. Just as he arrived, the research center exploded and covered him with fragments of the Ore, creating Warhead.

• All-American Face: And a proud one to boot.

• Goggles Do Nothing: He wears heavy military goggles, but they do not seem to be anything save for aesthetics.
• Ground Pound: One of his attacks involves stomping on the ground and creating a shockwave to hit the opponent.
• Nuke 'em: His Fatality, which sends a series of missiles to explode his opponent like the Atomic Bomb!

• Super-Soldier: For given term, at least. He's fused with radioactive power and alien power-inducing minerals.
• Walking Shirtless Scene: Apart from military pants and boots, he only wears an x-shaped harness to cover his upper torso.

Kabuki Jo

On the eve of a critical battle, a feared samurai discovered the Ore. Overwhelmed with power, he killed all his men in an uncontrolled fury. Ashamed by what he had done and outcast by society, he became Kabuki Jo and became determined to learn to control the Ore's power.

• The Atoner: According to his backstory, he was a famous samurai who discovered the Ore and slaughtered his subordinates. Since then, he's been trying to control the power within.
• Breath Weapon: Which is fire.

• Dual Wielding: His pair of Laser Blades.
• Facial Markings: Befitting his name (kabuki), his face is covered in white make-up with red paint markings.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: His Fatality involves stabbing his opponent with his Naginata.
• Playing with Fire: He has a fire-breathing attack and can summon a fire ring under the opponent's feet to trap them.
• Samurai: His backstory establishes he was a samurai long ago, and his character design harks back to the Japanese art of Kabuki.
• Walking Shirtless Scene: Apart from his pauldrons, he does not wear any chest covering.

Cy-5

In the year 2096, a group of scientists accidentally implant the Ore into an advanced cyborg codenamed Cy-5. The Ore's power gives Cy-5 consciousness, and it kills the scientists. It decides that, if the Ore gives consciousness, then more Ore equals more consciousness. With this goal in mind, it ruthlessly seeks out the other War Gods to claim their ore.

• Become a Real Boy: Cy-5 wants to gain more consciousness with the Ore in order to become a real, yet still immortal man.
• Cyborg: Exactly What It Says on the Tin: his initials "CY" indicate he is a cyborg. Apart from that, his character sprite exposes some metallic body parts.
• Eye Beam: He attacks with eyebeams.
• I'm Melting!: In his Fatality, he sends an UFO which proceeds to melt his opponent inmediately with a Disintegrator Ray. The melting process is a Type A.

• Shock and Awe: Instead of bleeding like the rest of the cast, when Cy-5's hit, he sparks electricity.
• Turned Against Their Masters: In his backstory, he was developed by scientists and, after gaining conscience via the Ore, killed them.
• Walking Shirtless Scene: Not only is he just wearing shorts, but he's even missing parts of his skin.

Pagan

Pagan is a mistress of the dark arts. She gained ancient manuscripts showing the location of a temple where a fragment of the Ore was once worshipped. When she summoned the Ore, it only increased her desire to cause chaos and destruction.

• Dark Is Evil: Wears a dark outfit and is described as "mistress of the dark arts".
• Hot Witch: She is described as a sorceress and wears a very revealing outfit.
• Hurricane Kick: Pagan has a similar attack (called "Leg Copter"): she stands upside down, then gyrates her legs in a circular motion to hit the adversary.
• Lady of Black Magic: Her backstory describes her as a "mistress of the dark arts".
• Shock and Awe: Can cast an electric attack at the enemies.
• Smoke Out: She can teleport across the ring in a puff of smoke.
• Stripperiffic: Yet even she wears more than Vallah.
• Taken for Granite: Her Fatality, where she releases Medusa's head and it turns the opponent to stone before Eye Beams blow them up. Amusingly, the first part of the move doesn't work on Tak, since he's already a statue. He taunts the head until it blasts him to pieces.

Maximus

Once a mighty gladiator from Ancient Rome, Maximus battled in a tournament at a festival celebrating the Ore to determine which of his masters would claim the Ore. He defeated his opponents, but the Ore's power overwhelmed him, and his masters were slain as well. He took the Ore for himself, and now he uses it to free the enslaved all over the world.

• Cool Helmet: He wears an ancient gladiator helmet.
• Cool Sword: Uses a sword to bisect the opponent in his Fatality.
• Gladiator Games: The backstory provided for him establishes that he was one of the finest gladiators in history.
• Gladiator Revolt: He killed his own masters because he's not satisfied with the enslavement of his people.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: His Fatality involves this after chaining his opponent to two spontaneously-appearing pillars, and then he cuts his opponent in half.
• Inescapable Net: He uses a green energy net as a trap move.
• Victory Pose: Complete with Rousing Speech.
  You are nothing to me!
  I'll kill you and I'll take your power!
• Walking Shirtless Scene: Maximus is a Roman gladiator, who were depicted in Roman frescoes in armplates, helmets and some sort of loincloth, leaving their chests bare.

Anubis

In the Valley of Kings, a grave robber on the search for hidden treasure came across a hidden burial chamber. He stole the treasure within, unaware that a piece of the Ore had been placed there in case someone did try to steal the treasure. His body was destroyed, but his soul was reincarnated in the body of Anubis.

• Anvil on Head: In his Fatality, he drops a spiked coffin to his opponent, complete with mummification.

• Grave Robbing: This is not the Egyptian god of the dead. Instead, in-game lore establishes that he was a grave robber in life.
• The Punishment: As a result of stealing the treasure that came with the Ore, he somehow was transformed into a facsimile of Anubis.
• Hell Hound: Well, Anubis in Ancient Egyptian mythology is associated and depicted as a jackal, a species taxonomically related to dogs, hounds and other canines.
• Public Domain Character: Based on the Egyptian God of the same name.
• Pyramid Power: His trap move. Each time he summons it, comes with a cool sound inside.

Voodoo

In the Caribbean, a witch doctor enslaved his village with his Black Magic. In desperation, the villagers captured him and burned him alive. They threw his body into a forbidden swamp. Unbeknownst to them, a deposit of the Ore lay at the bottom of the swamp, which revived him as Voodoo.

• Bat Out of Hell: He can cast a flying skull with wings. In his victory pose, he also releases two of them at the camera, one from each hand.

• Hollywood Voodoo: As his name implies, he is based on a very loose interpretation of voodoo, with black magic, dolls with pins, etc.
• Nail 'Em: One of his attacks sends nails from the sky that fall on the opponent.
• Our Zombies Are Different: Per his backstory, he was killed and thrown in a swamp filled with the alien mineral Ore, which granted him powers and a new (un-)life as Voodoo.
• Spin Attack

• Voodoo Doll: His Fatality involves ripping his opponent's stomach and exposing their organs through a doll.
• Walking Shirtless Scene: Assuming his upper body is actually his decayed torso, he only wears a pair of purple pants.
• Witch Doctor: Per his backstory, he was a witch doctor who enslaved a village.

Ahau Kin

Ahau Kin was an evil Aztec priest. He had a vision which revealed a fragment of the Ore lay at the bottom of his tribe's sacrificial well. He sent slave after slave diving to their deaths trying to claim it. Out of slaves but possessed with desire, he dove into the pit and claimed it himself, this time with success.

• And Show It to You: His Fatality involves him summoning a sacrifical altar, pushing his opponent to it and then proceeds to rip the heart of his opponent.

• Bad Boss: Considering that he'll throw all his slaves into a mine and work them to death to dig out the Ore.
• Evil Sorcerer: His backstory explains he was a priest who performed sacrifices.
• Human Sacrifice: Involves his slaves in this. Particularly, his backstory is full of it. Also, Ahau Kin uses it as an altar for his Fatality (see And Show It to You above).
• I'm a Humanitarian: The final part of his Fatality. After ripping his enemy's heart out, he actually takes a bite out of it like an apple.
• Light Is Not Good: His motif is sunlight based - he even casts a sun-like trap move -, but he's evil.
• Mayincatec: His backstory and home stage were inspired by Aztec culture, to be more precise.

Vallah

During a blizzard, a Viking warrior princess became separated from the battle. She took shelter in a nearby cave, where there was a mysterious green glow. She hacked through the ice until her sword struck the Ore. She was transformed into the goddess Vallah.

• Chainmail Bikini: Curious, considering she lived in Norway, which was too cold for that outfit to realistically work.

• Cool Sword: In her victory pose, Vallah brandishes a sword with a green blade.
• Everyone Loves Blondes: C'mon, it's Kerri Hoskins, who portrayed Sonya Blade. She portrays this hottie of a valkyrie.
• Horny Vikings: No pun intended: she evokes the imagery of Nordic vikings, and wears a horned helmet.
• Kill It with Fire: Her Fatality involves pushing her opponent to a bed, she proceeds to burn her opponent instantly.
• Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: She can dash at the enemy with her Viking shield.
• Purple Is Powerful: Her default clothing color. Vallah is also a badass Viking warrior princess and one of the "gods" in the character roster.
• Sexy Scandinavian: That is a given, since she is an attractive female Viking that wears a extremely revealing outfit even more so than the female villain.
• Stripperific: She wears less than anyone else in the game.
• Valkyries: Her name could be a nod to "Valhalla", the post-mortem destination for warriors in ancient Norse myth.

Tak

In ancient times, there was a kingdom which worshipped the Ore. A rival kingdom fought a war to capture the Ore. Facing defeat, the king sealed the Ore in a stone idol, which came to life as Tak, the stone avenger of a lost civilization.

• Dishing Out Dirt: Launches rock spheres.
• Golem: He was brought to life by the Ore.
• Living Statue: Thanks to the Ore.

• Off with His Head!: His Fatality involves kicking his opponent's head after smashing them three times in the ground.

Grox

The Sub-Boss of the game. A green-clad morbidly obese being who awaits to confront the last remaining God before fighting his superior, Exor.

• Acrofatic: Despite his... roundness, Grox can jump over the player belly first in his Belly Bomb attack.
• The Brute: Acts as the game's only sub-boss, second only to Exor, the final boss. He's also the largest character, taller than Exor.

• Flat Character: The only one of the cast without a specific backstory. It's only assumed by his placement that he even serves Exor.

• Large and in Charge: He is both one of the tallest and heaviest characters, and is the sub-boss, just before Exor.

• Thong of Shielding: Grox wears nothing but a thong.

Exor

The Final Boss of the game... an Obviously Evil Overlord with The Plan to Take Over the World. Rumored to be the true owner of the Ore.

• Alien Blood: Unlike most of the characters in the roster who are human and bleed red (save for Tak, a statue given life, and Cy-5, a cyborg), Exor bleeds green each time he's attacked.
• The Announcer: Just like Shao Kahn, he's also the announcer of his own contest.
• Big Bad: He is the last boss in Arcade mode.
• Defeat Means Explosion: Defeating him in the last round results in a satisfying explosion with an epic tune to accompany it.

• Energy Weapon: His most irritating moves are unblockable lasers he can fire from anywhere, and at any time without interruption.
• Large and in Charge: He is an imposing figure, towering over the player character.

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