A list of characters that who appear in the film White Snake and its sequel, Green Snake.
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Main Characters
Tropes Applying To Both
- Action Girl: They're both very skilled with both magic and physical combat.
- Cute Monster Girl: Blanca and Verta's half-snake forms are just as beautiful as their fully human forms, being gorgeous women with serpentine lower bodies, slit-pupiled eyes, Femme Fatalons on their hands, and scales decorating parts of their faces.
- Flight: By the time of Green Snake, they're already so powerful that they can fly in the air with their chi.
- Incest Subtext: While it's clear they both love each other dearly, it's ambiguous whether that love has romantic undertones. Verta in particular tends to be very clingy and intimate with Blanca (as seen in their bath bonding scene at the start of White Snake) and is incredibly jealous of Blanca's love for Xuan. Blanca on the other hand seems only romantically interested in Xuan but her reincarnation as the Masked Man does have some Unresolved Sexual Tension with Verta. It should be noted that they're also Not Blood Siblings.
- Immortality Seeker: Blanca and Verta also seek to live forever, although this isn't elaborated in the film itself, being a part of folklore behind "The Legend of the White Snake".
- Human Disguise: They're both snake demons who use their shapeshifting powers disguise themselves as young women.
- Meaningful Name: Blanca (the titular White Snake) means "white" and she's dressed in an all-white robe. The same for Verta, except with black. Their Chinese names (Xiǎo Bái and Xiǎo Qīng, respectively) also count, meaning "Little White" and "Little Green".
- Not Blood Siblings: They were martial sisters on the Snake Clan, as the favored and most talented apprentices of the Snake Master. Even after the Snake Clan was destroyed, they continued to live together and refer to each other as sisters.
- Older Than They Look: They're both well over five centuries old, but use their cultivation powers to make themselves look like young adult women.
- Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: Both their human forms possess long dark hair that contrasts with their light skin tones.
- Really 700 Years Old: They both look like young women in their early twenties, but they're actually several hundreds of years old.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Verta is the red oni to Blanca's blue oni. Verta being aggressive, temperamental and passionate while Blanca is kind-hearted, calm, and introverted.
- Scaled Up: They can transform from a human form into a Snake People form with a humanoid head and torso and serpentine lower body. After absorbing the Little General's chi, Blanca becomes able to transform into a massive draconic serpent with horns and a ridge of spikes running down her spine.
- She-Fu: Both Blanca and Verta are extremely agile and acrobatic when fighting, especially Verta in Green Snake as she's been Brought Down to Badass and can no longer use her powers.
- Sibling Team: As they were raised together as martial sisters, they got accustomed to working with each other, as shown when they managed to defeat the Little General by working together, something they couldn't do on their own. And they remained together as a team for centuries after the Snake Clan was destroyed.
- Sibling Yin-Yang: Where Blanca is gentle, learns to love humans, values kindness, and is dressed in fine white robes, Verta is more aggressive, believes all humans are cruel and untrustworthy, values strength, and is dressed in dark armored clothing. Even their names mean Green (Verta) and White (Blanca).
- Snake People: They're both snake demons, beings with both snake and human characteristics. They in particular have cultivated their shapeshifting powers to such a degree that they can completely pass as humans and mostly use their snake forms for combat. They originally did this for assassination missions for the Snake Clan, but after the clan was wiped out and they lost their distaste for humanity, they found no problem living among humans.
- Snakes Are Sexy: Both Blanca and Verta are attractive Snake People but it's more prominent with Verta who acts like The Vamp in her snake form, coiling around Xuan and caressing him teasingly.
- Sole Survivor: They were the only surviving members of the Snake Clan, who got wiped out after they were betrayed by the Snake Master.
- Sworn Brothers: Just like the myth they're based on, they're not actually related. They were martial sisters who were raised and trained by the Snake Master in the Snake Clan, and were so close they considered themselves sisters. Their bond only grew stronger after they both became the Sole Survivors of the Snake Clan, they lived together for hundreds of years as inseparable sisters.
- Tail Slap: In their partially transformed and snake-demon forms, they can lash out and even slice things to pieces with their tails.
- Uplifted Animal: Like the other snake demons, Blanca and Verta were once just a white and green snake who cultivated enough spiritual energy to become a demon and then take on human form, with the goal of eventually attaining immortality.
- Waif-Fu: Blanca and Verta are shown to be extremely strong despite the lean body type they possess. Justified since their strength comes from their Ki Manipulation. Notably when Verta is Brought Down to Badass, she's never shown to be physically strong.
Blanca
Voiced by (Mandarin): Zhang Zhe
Voiced by (English): Stephanie Sheh
Voiced by (Japanese): Suzuko Mimori
A white snake demon who falls in love with a human snake-catcher.Voiced by (English): Stephanie Sheh
Voiced by (Japanese): Suzuko Mimori
- Amnesiac Hero: Blanca lost her memories due to the jade hairpin, and doesn't regain them until much later in the film.
- Back from the Dead: Blanca is killed at the beginning of Green Snake, when Fahai seals her soul in the Leifeng Pagoda. After Verta destroys the pagoda, her soul is freed and reincarnates as the Masked Man, but is left amnesic save for Blanca's obsession with reuniting with Verta. In the movie's climax, the Masked Man sacrifices himself to throw Verta through the Wish Bridge so she can return to the real world as he succumbs to the demon infection, disappearing afterwards. Blanca would return in the ending after Verta reconstructs her hairpin, releasing her soul to be reborn again, this time in her original form.
- Beware My Stinger Tail: The tip of her tail is segmented and ends with a razor-sharp blade capable of cleaving through even other snake-demons with ease.
- Beware the Nice Ones: While she's a kind woman, she's also an extremely powerful snake demon and anyone who messes with her loved ones has to face her full wrath.
- Big Sister Instinct: While not quite in the same way, she loves Verta deeply and will do anything to protect her as the Master learns the hard way. In the sequel, we see this devotion even transcends death.
- Color Motif: White and light blue, given she's the eponymous White Snake. She always dresses in white clothing, her Battle Aura manifests in white or light blue and she gets white/blue hair when she shifts in her snake form.
- Feathered Serpent: Her giant snake form has a few light blue feather covering her body.
- The Great Serpent: Blanca's true/original form is that of a very large snake. But when supercharged by magical energies she has absorbed from the Little General she becomes far larger still, a python big enough to wrap around and crush buildings. Unfortunately, this state also causes her to go out of control.
- Head-Turning Beauty: Her human form is incredibly beautiful, with several of the villagers taking notice of it as she walks about snake catcher village.
- Identity Amnesia: Blanca loses her memories after failing to assassinate The General, as the Jade Hairpin absorbed her memories. She ends up in a human village and even assumes she's human herself until she has a Traumatic Superpower Awakening when attacked by Chang Pang.
- Interspecies Romance: She falls in love with Ah Xuan, a human, due to his kindness and acceptance towards her. However, after a one-night-stand she breaks up with him citing the insurmountable differences between them. Xuan becomes a demon himself to be with her, but dies helping fight the Snake Master, Blanca only able to ensure he will safely reincarnate. Centuries later Blanca imprints Xuan's memories onto his reincarnation and marries him.
- Ki Manipulation: Blanca can use Taoist magic to jump great distances, move faster than humans can react, perform telekinesis, enchant objects, and launch chi attacks — usually in the form a Razor-Sharp Hand or energy beams.
- Lady of War: A fine, elegant Action Girl who's just as composed as she is tough.
- Long Hair Is Feminine: She has long, straight dark hair which befits her being a traditional feminine character.
- Mind over Matter: Blanca can use her Taoist magic to perform telekinesis, as seen when she tries to use the Jade Hairpin to assassinate the Dark General at the beginning of the movie. By the beginning of the second movie she's grown so powerful that she can conjure massive tsunamis.
- Ms. Fanservice: She's quite a beautiful woman, and the film does not shy away from showing her bathing and getting undressed when she sleeps with Ah Xuan.
- Mystical White Hair: Her hair turns white (white a shade of light blue) when she transforms into her hybrid snake form.
- Nice Girl: She has a kind and gentle nature, being the only member of the Snake Clan not to adhere to their prejudice against humans despite being raised to hate them since she was little.
- Reincarnation Romance: Blanca isn't one to let a silly thing like death keep her from being with the ones she loves.
- As Ah Xuan dies, Blanca uses the Jade Hairpin to save his soul and engraves her memories of him into it. Once she regains her memories of him along with her powers, she seeks out his reincarnation hoping that he will somehow remember her and they can resume their romance. The sequel reveals it ultimately didn't work out between them, as Xuan's reincarnation — Xu Xian — left her and their baby to join Fahai's Buddhist temple. Albeit, it's ambiguous if the separation was a willing one, since the film opens with Blanca and Verta attacking the temple to get Xu Xian back.
- While it's ambiguous as to the exact nature of her feelings, in the sequel movie Green Snake after her death and imprisonment at the hands of Fahai, Blanca gained an obsession with being reunited with Verta. Despite reincarnating twice after being freed from the pagoda, the obsession was still so strong she ended up being sent to Asuraville upon her third death, where as the Masked Man her obsession to find Verta lingered as a strong urge to find someone whose face she couldn't really remember despite suffering from amnesia. She does eventually meet Verta again as the Masked Man, falls in love with her, and ultimately sacrifices herself to free Verta from Asuraville. Verta, once freed, finds Blanca's hairpin and frees her soul; and the movie ends with Blanca's 4th reincarnation, with her memories and soul fully restored, meeting Verta in modern times.
- Re-Power: At the beginning of the movie, she has been meditating for five hundred years to regain her powers.
- Silk Hiding Steel: Despite looking like a proper and kindhearted young woman, Blanca is a snake demon and very proficient in both combat and magic. She even actually wears a white silk robe for most of the film, in contrast to her sister Verta who wears armor and looks much more dangerous as a result.
- Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Blanca falls deeply in love with the kind, brave, selfless Xuan. In fact, her love for him is a key factor in changing her earlier views on humans.
- Strong Girl, Smart Guy: Had this dynamic with Xuan in the first film, being the amnesiac and naive powerhouse in contrast with his Guile Hero persona.
- Violently Protective Girlfriend: She is willing to fight even her beloved sister and a monk much more powerful than her in order to keep Xuan safe.
- Yamato Nadeshiko: She's a traditional Asian beauty with a submissive yet firm and supportive personality.
Verta
Click here to see her in the first film
A green snake-demon who is Blanca's younger sister.
- Ambiguously Bi: In the first movie, Verta is very affectionate towards Blanca and extremely jealous of her romance with Xuan, but mockingly flirts with Xian after he becomes a demon and in the sequel falls for both the ruggedly handsome gang-leader Simon and a mysterious mask-wearing grey-haired young man who turns out to be Blanca's reincarnation.
- Animal Battle Aura: In the climax of Green Snake, Verta spends 20 years fighting Fahai, conjuring a spectral green snake from her chi that eventually matures into a draconic form similar to Blanca's from the first White Snake.
- Anti-Hero Substitute: To Blanca in the sequel where she's the primary protagonist.
- Badass Biker: In Green Snake, Verta takes to riding a motorcycle after acclimating to the seemingly modern world of Asuraville, and becomes adept performing high-speed stunts as well as combat atop it.
- Bare Midriffs Are Feminine: Alongside Sun, she's one of the few females in Asuraville, and wears a Sarashi that leaves her midriff bare during her time there.
- Brought Down to Badass: When trapped in Asuraville in Green Snake, Verta is stuck in her human form and unable to use any of her cultivated supernatural powers. However, she still possesses a keen mind that lets her rapidly adjust to modern technology, and centuries' worth of martial arts and combat skills that let her keep up in battle against far larger and stronger opponents.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: She's jealous of how much Blanca loves Xuan. It's ambiguous if the jealousy is purely familial or if she's actually romantically attracted to Blanca.
- Color Motif: Green, given she's the eponymous Green Snake. She always dresses in green clothing and her Battle Aura manifests in green.
- Dark Action Girl: In the first film, Verta is a proficient warrior for the snake clan, but has a lot of Fantastic Racism against humans, and doesn't have any of Blanca's kind nature. She's treated more as an antagonist throughout the film due to her goals opposing Xuan's, though her loyalty to Blanca ultimately makes her an Anti-Hero in the finale. By the time of Green Snake, she's Older and Wiser and has lost most of her antagonistic attitude, is far more willing to work with humans and be selfless.
- Determinator: Verta's determination to find and rescue Blanca is what lands her in Asuraville after Fahai mortally wounds her at the beginning of Green Snake, and she absolutely refuses to give up on her obsession using the Pool of Return.
- Evil Wears Black: Verta dresses mainly in black and dark green and despises humans — trying to kill Xuan several times and sneering at his declaration of love towards Blanca — but cares deeply about her sister, to the point that she helps her track down Xuan's reincarnation after Blanca regains her powers.
- Head-Turning Beauty: Her human form is very attractive, with several of the inhabitants of the octopus gang checking her out when she first arrives.
- Heel–Face Turn: After Blanca goes missing, Verta is tasked by the Snake Master with bringing her back. Upon seeing her with Ah Xuan, she identifies him as a snake-catcher and tries to kill him. However, she and Blanca later reconcile and return to the Snake Clan.
- Hot-Blooded: She's an impatient woman who's driven to act by impulse, often throwing herself at dangerous situations without considering the consequences, such as picking a fight with Fahai despite knowing she had no chance to defeat him.
- Incompatible Orientation: It's all-but outright stated in the first movie that Verta is in love with Blanca, clinging to her, toying affectionately with her hair, almost kissing her when trying to comfort her after she breaks up with Xuan, and expressing jealousy over how Blanca only has eyes for Xuan.
- Kick the Dog: Literally. While Blanca and Xuan are having sex in a demon-execution chamber, Verta sits outside in the rain with one foot on Dudou's head, fuming. When they emerge, she promptly boots the dog-demon towards them.
- Ki Manipulation: Like her sister, Verta can use chi manipulation to fly, conjure storms, manifest a serpentine Animal Battle Aura, and shoot bolts of green lightning from her hands.
- Ms. Fanservice: In Green Snake, Verta wears tight-fitting pants and black and green chest-wraps.
- My Sister Is Off-Limits: Strongly disapproves of Blanca's romance with the human snake-catcher Ah Xuan, as well as her rekindling her romance with his reincarnation — berating him for how useless he was in both lives at the beginning of Green Snake.
- Shameless Fanservice Girl: When Simon walks in on her while she's having a Shower of Angst, she just nonchalantly turns to face him, without a care he can see her naked.
- The Social Darwinist: She believes strength to be the most important quality a person can have, as a person who's kind but weak is useless and unable to protect the ones they love. This is a big reason why she dislikes Xuan and considers him unworthy of Blanca. Her time in Asuraville made her soften
- Tomboyish Ponytail: She wears her hairstyle in a ponytail that resembles a snake's tail. She is a skilled warrior who had a much more aggressive personality than her sister and use to wear armour in the first film.
- Tragic Keepsake:
- She wraps Blanca's ribbon around her arm after she's sealed away by Fahai.
- After Sun is killed, Verta takes up her shotgun as a ranged weapon.
- Weapon Specialization: She favors using long-range string weapons.
- In the first movie, her weapon of choice is a length of chain she wreathes in ethereal green chi to form a snake.
- In the second movie, she makes a Blade on a Rope and uses it as her primary weapon for the rest of the film.
- Women Prefer Strong Men: In Green Snake, she initially falls for the roguish playboy Simon. After he breaks her heart, Verta laments that after watching Blanca's long-suffering star-crossed romance with the kindhearted but weak Ah Xuan/Xu Xian, she vowed that if she fell for a man it would be someone strong enough to protect her if need-be... but that she failed to realize that strong men could be just as useless as weak men, for different reasons; bitterly expressing the opinion that Love Is a Weakness.
- Your Days Are Numbered: As proof that her loyalty to the Snake Clan is more important than her love for Blanca, Verta requests to be afflicted with the Scorching Death Scales, a curse that will kill her in a few days' time. She tricks the General into absorbing the death curse into himself when draining her life energy, incapacitating him until he's able to expel it from his body.
Supporting Cast
Snake Catcher Villagers
Ah Xuan / Xu Xian
Voiced by (Mandarin): Yang Tianxiang
Voiced by (English): Paul Yen
Voiced by (Japanese): Daisuke Sakuma
A snake-catcher who befriends and eventually falls in love with Blanca.Voiced by (English): Paul Yen
Voiced by (Japanese): Daisuke Sakuma
- Action Survivor: He's just an everyday human villager, but manages to survive being attacked by the military, Taoist sages, and snake demons.
- All-Loving Hero: Xuan is a caring, selfless young man who does everything in his power to save everyone. He also wants to quit his snake hunter profession to become a doctor.
- All of the Other Reindeer: When the General reveals he's become a demon, Xian — who had been friendly with and admired by the people of Snakecatcher village — finds himself shunned, with the children who begged him for toys at the beginning of the movie throwing them at him in fear and disgust.
- Damned by Faint Praise: The General is amused by his claim he can stop Blanca's rampage, and decides to give him a shot at it despite scoffing that he's only a demon — and a weak one at that.
- Demon of Human Origin: Makes a bargain with the Foxy Boss to be turned into a dog-demon so that he and Blanca can be together.
- Demoted to Extra: Xu Xian, Ah Xuan's reincarnation and Blanca's husband, only appears at the beginning of Green Snake ineffectually pleading with Fahai to spare his wife and taking his son from Verta after Blanca's death. Verta even sneers at how pathetic and useless he is when giving her nephew to him.
- Guile Hero: Since he's a Non-Action Guy, he mostly uses his intelligence and guile to get out of violent situations.
- Jack of All Trades: He's a snake-catcher who makes a living selling medicinal herbs, and is studying astrology, Taoism, biology, and a range of other subjects. He's also an amazing singer. His study of the occult actually saves him and Blanca when they're trapped in a secret demon-suppression chamber below a temple.
- Little Bit Beastly: When he agrees to be turned into a demon, the Foxy Boss removes Dudou's tail and sticks it on Xuan. Dudou is naturally horrified, but Xuan is ecstatic.
- Non-Action Guy: He's just a normal human with above-average athletic skills and little fighting skills. The snake sisters are the ones who handle the combat in the films.
- Reincarnation Romance: Implied by the ending of the first movie. As he's dying, Blanca records his memories in the jade hairpin intending to implant them into his reincarnation, who she finds at the end of the movie. The sequel reveals it ultimately didn't work out between them, as Xuan's reincarnation — Xu Xian — left Blanca and their baby to join Fahai's Buddhist temple. Albeit it's ambiguous if the separation was a willing one, since the film opens with Blanca and Verta attacking the temple to get Xu Xian back.
- Strong Girl, Smart Guy: Had this dynamic with Blanca in the first film, him being the Guile Hero while she was the amnesiac and naive powerhouse.
- Took a Level in Badass: While he was physically fit, Xuan was still an ordinary human at the start but becoming a demon by the Fox Spirit (even if the lowest kind) drastically increased his strength, speed, and acrobatics.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: It's noted that he's ironically a snake-catcher who's terrified of snakes, and he wants to make a living by becoming a doctor instead.
Dudou
- Canine Companion: He's Ah Xuan's loyal pet and accompanies him everywhere, even after being granted sentience.
- Deadpan Snarker: The first words out of his mouth are that he doesn't really like Ah Xuan, he's just in it for the food.
- Do I Really Sound Like That?: In the middle of his Freak Out upon Blanca turning him into a demon, he incredulously wonders why his voice sounds the way it does.
- Oh, Crap!: The moment he realizes he can talk, he has a panic attack thinking he'll be killed for being a demon.
- Talking Animal: Dudou becomes able to speak after Blanca magically gives him the ability.
- Undying Loyalty: Dudou may be cowardly, but he still puts himself in danger for Xuan's sake due to his loyalty outweighing his fear.
- Uplifted Animal: Downplayed. Blanca turns him into a demon as a prank, giving him sapience and the ability to speak, though he still otherwise acts like a dog.
Jade Workshop / All-Good Market
Foxy Boss / Baoqing
A huli jing named Baoqing who runs the Precious Jade Workshop, a supplier of supernatural and demonic weapons and tools. In Green Snake she ends up in Asuraville and sets up the All-Good Market, a neutral zone where all factions can come to barter for supplies.
- All-Powerful Bystander: Much like the creatures of Chinese mythology she's based on, she borders on the heavenly divine/celestial and therefore outstrips all the characters in power and status but prefers to take a backseat to Blanca and Xuan's love story. She doesn't take a side in the gang wars in Asuraville, and only gets into conflict against Mr. Ox when he actively attacks her place, and even them she never acts like she's truly threatened. Uniquely, she is able to swim in the Pool of Return without losing her memories or obsession, as well as manipulate its waters at-will, killing off the entire Ox-Head and Horse-Face Clans save for Mr. Ox.
- Ambiguously Evil: The The Stinger of the first two films hints that she's only assisting the sisters to advance her hidden agenda and that she has sinister plans for them.
- Arms Dealer: The Foxy Boss runs the Precious Jade Workshop, which sells magical and demonic weapons and tools to those able to pay the price. She later sets up a similar establishment in Asuraville called the All-Good Market.
- Ascended Extra: She is the only character from the first movie aside from Blanca and Verta to return in the sequel, and plays a much greater role in its plot — having somehow wound up in Asuraville prior to the events of the movie and set up the All-Good Market.
- Asian Fox Spirit: Baoqing is a huli jing, a Chinese fox spirit; while she mostly appears human, she has a fox's face on the back of her head. Green Snake reveals that her true form is a colossal pink eight-tailed fox-demon. Her ninth tail was amputated, and she reclaims it in The Stinger of the second movie before declaring vengeance on the one who severed it.
- Bad Boss: She constantly mistreats the two Waddling Head demons that work for her, but they nevertheless slavishly fawn over her.
- Body Horror: When the fox face at the back of her head speaks, she twists her neck a full 180 degrees, complete with a crack sound.
- Canis Major: Her true form is an enormous pink fox demon that rivals Blanca's true snake form in form.
- Distinguished Gentleman's Pipe: She is a wealthy and glamorous arms dealer, and smokes an ornate pipe — using the smoke to cast magic.
- Evil Sounds Deep: She talks with a much deeper voice when speaking with her fox-head, which she usually only uses when she's being threatening and aggressive.
- Fille Fatale: The Foxy Boss's human form invokes this, being prepubescent-looking, and she has a very sultry manner and favors clothes that show off her legs.
- The Gadfly: She gleefully admits that she finds Blanca having lost her memories as a result of the Jade Hairpin to be amusing, and enjoys toying with the fates of others. She also gleefully implies that in order for Xuan to become a demon he'll have to be castrated, just to frighten him.
- Has a Type: A non-romantic version, she prides herself on being a neutral player in the world who will help people but only so long as they are willing to pay the price, nothing more nothing less. That said she does seem to have a soft spot for The Determinator, especially those motivated by love, and as such will be a bit more lax on her rules with such people offering a tidbit more info on what they are getting themselves into. In Green Snake she even goes out of her way to help Verta and The Masked Man survive an attack by Mr. Ox and his army.
- Hero of Another Story: It's never revealed exactly how she wound up in Asuraville or set up the All-Good Market, but by the time Verta arrives she's The Leader of one of the main factions there.
- Leg Focus: She has a lot of Male Gaze directed towards her legs, as she's always wearing clothes that leave the bare and positions herself in ways that show them off.
- Magical Barefooter: She's an Asian Fox Spirit who deals with magical artifacts and is constantly barefoot, even when going outside her shop.
- Modesty Shorts: A test video of her dancing reveals she wears red shorts under her thigh-length robe.
- Ms. Fanservice: She is a scantily clad beautiful woman with the camera paying special attention to her bare legs. She also has a flirtatious and domineering attitude.
- Multiple Head Case: She has a white fox face on the back of her head and can swivel her head 180 degrees to let it speak. This results in her appearing to have fox ears turned the wrong way when the human head is speaking. They don't seem to have different personalities, but she only uses it when she wants to look scary or aggressive.
- Multiple-Tailed Beast: Green Snake reveals that her true form is an enormous pink fox with eight tails. She originally had nine tails, but her ninth tail was severed at one point and she plans on reclaiming it after she gets her revenge on whoever cut it off.
- Mysterious Past: Very little is known about her past, other than it being heavily implied she was once very carefree and was romantically involved with a human before that relationship soured, leaving her with nothing but regret. She also plots revenge against someone who severed her ninth tail after reclaiming it.
- No Name Given: She is only ever referred to as the "Foxy Boss" in the first movie. The sequel, Green Snake, reveals her name is Baoqing.
- Noodle Incident: It's never revealed how she lost her ninth tail or ended up in Asuraville, which requires someone die but not accept their fate due to a particularly strong obsession — Baoqing's being to reclaim her missing tail and get revenge on the one who severed it.
- Older Than They Look: She is a centuries-old fox-demon, but her human form looks prepubescent.
- Two-Faced: She has a human face on one side of her head and a fox face on the other, and can rotate her head 180 degrees.
Baoqing's Minions
Two demons who serve as Baoqing's assistants
- Bumbling Henchmen Duo: They serve as henchmen for Baoqing, but they're clumsy and often barely accomplish their tasks.
- The Dividual: They're always seen together and have no distinguishing personalities.
- Giggling Villain: They're often giggling in a high-pitched tone, increasing their disturbing and creepy factor.
- Gonk: They both have ugly and twisted facial expressions.
- Inflating Body Gag: The "heads" of their human forms are just inflated skin, as they actually have a Waddling Head body. They can also comically inflate their bodies, which allows them to float in the air.
- Plucky Comic Relief: Their weird antics and appearance is played off as humorous.
- Sycophantic Servant: They worship Baoqing as if she were a goddess and they're utterly loyal to her, despite the fact she constantly mistreats them. They often rub their faces against her legs, playing up the creepy factor.
- Waddling Head: Their real forms. They both have incredibly oversized heads that make up most of their bodies, and have very small limbs and no torso.
Asuraville Residents
Sun
A human inhabitant of Asuraville and member of the Octopus Gang who Verta befriends.
- Action Survivor: She's just a normal athletic woman trying to survive in the hellish world of Asuraville, and only barely manages to survive as a scavenger.
- Bare Midriffs Are Feminine: Alongside Verta, she's one of the few females in Asuraville, and wears a Sarashi that leaves her midriff bare during her time there.
- Character Death: Early into the movie she's unceremoniously killed by an Ox-Head while helping Verta escape the gang's takeover of the Octopus Gang hideout. Her death enrages Verta, who kills the Ox-Head with Sun's shotgun and keeps pumping bullets into him even as his body disintegrates.
- Fire-Forged Friends: After she and Verta narrowly escape an Ox-Head demon, Sun takes her to the Octopus Gang's hideout. When Verta saves Sun from a demon who tries to rape her, Sun commits to being Verta's mentor — educating her on the last 1000-or-so years of Chinese history, and showing her how to shoot a gun and ride a motorcycle.
- Fish out of Temporal Water: She comes from approximately 1000 years after the Song Dynasty, having fallen off a cliff while rock-climbing, and informs Verta that time has no place in Asuraville and people from all eras of Chinese history end up rubbing elbows there.
- The Mentor: Played With. She mentors Verta in how to survive in Asuraville, but Verta is shown to be more capable than her, with Sun's advantage being she has spent more time in Asuraville than Verta has,
- Mentor Occupational Hazard: After Sun saves Verta from an Ox-Head Clan member and Verta saves her from being raped by a demon, the two become good friends and Sun starts showing Verta the ropes — teaching her how to shoot a gun and ride a motorcycle. Unfortunately, Sun is killed helping Verta escape when the Ox-Head & Horse-Face Clan attacks the Octopus Gang's headquarters.
- Nice Girl: She's a friendly person and quickly befriends the wary Verta, taking her under her wing to show her the ropes of how to get by in Asuraville, all out of kindness.
- Sacrificial Lamb: She's killed 1/5 through the movie to show that Anyone Can Die, as she's the first of Verta's allies to die, and isn't the last.
- Signature Headgear: She's always wearing the same baseball cap, which immediately shows she's from modern times, unlike most people in Asuraville. The only time she takes it off is when she's safe in her room.
- The Social Darwinist: She warns Verta that in Asuraville only the strong survive. Unfortunately, she's proven correct within the first half of the movie.
Masked Man
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A seemingly human inhabitant of Asuraville and employee of the All-Good Market.
- Action Survivor: He's not that skilled in combat and can't stand up to the average gang demon in Asuraville, but still constantly goes against them not only to survive but to help other people in need.
- Bait-and-Switch: A lot of his character revolves around this trope. The Masked Man states that he has amnesia and is desperately searching for someone whose face he cannot recall. When he reveals his face to Verta, he looks identical to Blanca, implying that the person he is searching for is Xuan's latest reincarnation. It's revealed midway through the film that the Masked Man was a mole for Mr. Ox and his resemblance to Blanca is a the result of a glamour-inducing skin mask, but at the climax it is revealed that he actually is Blanca's reincarnation, and it turns out that the person he/she was so desperate to find even after multiple lifetimes that he/she wound up in Asuraville was not Xuan but Verta.
- Chekhov's Gun: The bone flute around his neck is his only way of remembering the person he sees in the River of Return. It becomes the only thing remaining of him after he dies in the climax, which Verta would find out that the bone fragment from the flute is the last piece of Blanca's damaged hairpin that the Leifeng Pagoda museum would keep hold of. Once it's repaired, Blanca was able to be resurrected.
- Gonk: After the skin mask glamouring him to look like Blanca comes off, his face revealed to be horribly disfigured. It's later revealed that he was handsome in-life, but that his face was badly burned by a fire Kalpa when he arrived in Asuraville.
- Goggles Do Nothing: He wears goggles under his hood just to keep his face hidden while keeping a cool asthetic, and not for the actual purpose goggles are meant for.
- Heroic Neutral: According to Sun he doesn't take sides in the gang wars across Asuraville, but he still intervenes to protect innocent people, saving Verta several times.
- Heroic Sacrifice: He ended up in Asuraville after being run over saving a child from being run over. At the film's end he allows himself to be bitten by Mr. Ox after he's turned into an evil spirit, and uses his new wings to fly Verta up to the portal to escape Asuraville. She pulls him through after her as the curse claims him, resulting in his body disintegrating, but his soul — Blanca's soul — was contained inside the shard of the Jade Hairpin he carried and set free at the end.
- Identity Amnesia: He doesn't remember his name or what the object of obsession that condemned him to Asuraville is, and as such when he looks into the Pool of Return he sees nothing.
- Identity Concealment Disposal: He wears opaque goggles and a leather mask over his face, and even when Simon forcibly removes it the audience doesn't see what he looks like until the midpoint of the movie, where he unmasks himself to snap Verta out of a Despair Event Horizon. And even this is a disguise, hiding that he's actually disfigured. However, he chooses to make the disguise permanent, and it is revealed to have been his original appearance before he was badly burned in a fire Kalpa.
- In the Hood: In the first half of the movie he keeps his hoodie's hood up over his head to further conceal his identity, though it gets knocked off to reveal he has silvery hair.
- Jumping the Gender Barrier: Verta comes to the conclusion that he is Blanca's reincarnation and ends up falling in love with him... until it's revealed that his resemblance to Blanca was due to one of Mr. Ox's glamour-inducing skin masks. However, the ending confirms that he is indeed Blanca's reincarnation.
- Luke, I Am Your Father: He's Blanca reincarnated.
- The Mole: He's revealed to be a spy for Mr. Ox's gang towards the 2/3 mark of the movie, disguising himself to look like Blanca after seeing her face when Verta looked into the Pool of Return. He claims Mr. Ox saved his life shortly after he arrived in Asuraville, so he felt indebted to obey him.
- Mystical White Hair: He has silvery-white hair, cluing in that he isn't exactly 100% a normal human.
- Nice Guy: He's a kind person who's always trying to help people in need, even though he's not very strong and often puts his own life at risk.
- No Name Given: Is never referred to by name, however Verta does call him "Blanca" upon realizing he's her reincarnation.
- The Not-Love Interest: He basically acts like he's the Betty in the Simon/Verta/Masken Man Love Triangle, but while it's clear he loves and is devoted to Verta, such love is portrayed as platonically and they never show any explicitly romantic or sexual attraction between him and Verta.
- Pretty Boy: His face is nigh-identical to Blanca's, with Simon seemingly remarking on how beautiful he is... at least until the skin mask he used to glamour his appearance is removed, revealing his face is actually disfigured. He chooses to keep Blanca's appearance when Mr. Ox offers to make him a full member of his clan, and this is revealed to be his true appearance at the end of the movie.
Simon
A human inhabitant of Asuraville and the leader of the Raksha Clan.
- Amazon Chaser: He's first shown to be attracted to Verta when she witnesses her killing a giant Ox-Head gang member who seemed much stronger than her.
- Anti-Hero: He is a snarky, laid-back, and amoral gang leader, but is still trying to look out for the people he leads as best as he can.
- Asskicking Leads to Leadership: The Raksha Clan made him their leader, despite him being human, because of his skill in battle.
- Badass Driver: He's very skilled at driving while fighting off pursuers, as shown during the Chase Fight sequence in the journey to All-Good Market.
- Badass Normal: When facing off against the Ox-Head Gang's leader, Simon boasts that he's not to be underestimated just because he's a human; and the Second Lieutenant of the Raksha Clan attributes the gang's survival to his leadership. He's also a skilled-enough swordsman to hold his own against Mr. Ox in combat and would've won their duel had Mr. Ox not cheated.
- Badass Longcoat: Simon rocks a red knee-length leather coat, and is a tough and charismatic survivor who rose to the top of the Raksha Clan, making up for what he lacks in raw strength with skill and cunning.
- The Casanova: Simon is a ruggedly handsome playboy who has a number of female raksha — including the Raksha Clan's Second Lieutenant — fawning over him, and has no qualms about walking in on Verta while she's showering. Even the usually anti-human Verta is attracted to him out of admiration for his strength.
- Chick Magnet: Verta, The Second Lieutenant, and other gangsters are all into his bad boy charms.
- Fearless Fool: After losing the Raksha Clan, including the Second Lieutenant — whom it's revealed he was genuinely in love with, Simon allows Baoqing to use the Pool of Removal to extract his obsession without being taken by it, leaving him a vegetative shell of his former self for a while. When he reawakens, he's rid himself of all sense of self-preservation and engages Mr. Ox in combat to protect Baoqing and Verta.
- Foil: To Verta, as he's an Anti-Hero who has a similar The Social Darwinist philosophy as she does, but while he's willing to abandon his friends and allies for his own survival, she's willing to abandon her beliefs to protect the ones she cares about.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: The Third Lieutenant and Fourth Lieutenant of the Raksha Clan openly complain about Simon rescuing Verta, voicing the opinion that he and all the other non-raksha should be kicked out; though the Second Lieutenant — who is one of Simon's lovers — vetoes this.
- Heroic Sacrifice: After letting go of his obsession, he engages Mr. Ox in combat to defend Baoqing and Verta, and would've won had Mr. Ox not been warded. Having cheated to survive death, Mr. Ox gloats and then crushes Simon's skull.
- The Leader: He's the leader of the Raksha Clan, having apparently been so skilled that even the Raksha demons allowed a human to become the leader of the demon clan.
- Rescue Romance: Verta develops feelings for him after he saves her from an earthquake and horde of evil spirits unleashed by Asuraville's kalpa cycles, and he certainly wastes no time hitting on her every chance he gets. However, when Verta refuses to leave the Masked Man behind during a flood kalpa, Simon coldly discards her as a dead weight he refuses to shoulder, leaving her behind and locking the door so she can't escape. After being cleansed of his obsession, he apologizes for his callousness and dies trying to protect them from Mr. Ox.
- Romantic False Lead: Is set-up to be a Love Interest for Verta, but dies halfway through the movie, and the narrative instead shifts that role to the Masked Man.
- The Social Darwinist: Played With. He doesn't mind allowing weaker humans looking for protection to join his gang when the situation doesn't look desperate, but when survival is on the line, he's perfectly willing to abandon "dead weights" to their fate and only wants those he can rely on to be around him.
Second Lieutenant
One of the lieutenants of the Raksha Clan.
- Aggressive Submissive: She seems to be a decisive and domineering woman when she acts as a leader but acts like a submissive schoolgirl in love when in Simon's arms.
- Bare Midriffs Are Feminine: The kimono she wears keeps her midriff bare, and she's fittingly the girliest and most humanoid of the Raksha Clan.
- Bird People: As a Raksha demon, she's a humanoid birdwoman, though she's noticeably more human-like than her fellow Raksha, having only a few feathers on her body to show she's related to birds.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: Downplayed. She seems to be Simon's lover and throws a couple of glares at Verta when she notices his interest in her. But she's also pragmatic enough not to hold a grudge.
- Defiant to the End: She spends her last moments taunting and laughing at Mr. Ox, even though she's at his mercy.
- Goggles Do Nothing: She wears a pair of goggles on her head, purely for the aesthetic appeal as she never uses it. Given all Raksha Lieutenants also have one, it may be a symbol of office.
- Master Swordsman: She uses a sword to fight and is skilled enough with it to deflect several projectiles that are shot at her.
- No Name Given: She's never given a name and is only referred to by her rank.
- Number Two: She's implied to be second-in-command of the Raksha Clan after Simon, given how she talks down to the other two lieutenants.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: She doesn't share the Fantastic Racism the other lieutenant have against humans, not because she's nice, but because she's pragmatic and thinks having bigger numbers will help the Raksha clan survive. She's also clearly not fond of Simon's interest in Verta, but agrees with him that she looks capable and allows her to accompany him to All-Good Market in order to prove herself worthy to join the Raksha Clan.
- The Snack Is More Interesting: During the meeting with the Ox-Head and Horse-Face Clans, she casually chews and blows her gun to mock her opponents.
- Statuesque Stunner: She's quite tall and beautiful, towering over Verta and being just as tall as Simon.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: She seems like she's going to be a major player in the gang wars, but ends up getting wiped out alongside her gang not halfway through the film.
- Worf Effect: She's shown to be a capable warrior who fights off several Ox-Heads and Horse-Faces, but gets quickly defeated by Mr. Ox's lieutenants to show how powerful the gang is.
Third Lieutenant
One of the lieutenants of the Raksha Clan.
- Bird People: As a Raksha demon, he's a humanoid birdwoman who looks similar to a harpy.
- Cute Monster Girl: While the rest of her body is quite bird-like, her face is notably more humanoid and cute-looking.
- Fantastic Racism: She dislikes humans and sees them as useless additions to the Raksha.
- Fragile Speedster: She's fast but can't take a hit, with Verta managing to easily subdue her once she catches her. She's also killed by a single blow from an Ox-Man.
- Goggles Do Nothing: She wears a pair of goggles on her head, purely for the aesthetic appeal as she never uses it. Given all Raksha Lieutenants also have one, it may be a symbol of office.
- Neat Freak: She loses against Verta when she becomes more worried about getting muddy than fighting, and Verta takes advantage by chucking mud at her.
- No Name Given: She's never given a name and is only referred to by her rank.
- Smug Snake: She thinks she's superior to humans and attacks Verta for thinking she's an arrogant weakling human, but ends up being easily beaten by her.
- "Take That!" Kiss: She's introduced blowing a kiss to the Ox-Heads and Horse-Faces to taunt them.
- Worf Effect: She's shown to be a capable warrior who fights off several Ox-Heads and Horse-Faces, but gets quickly defeated by Mr. Ox's lieutenants to show how powerful the gang is.
Fourth Lieutenant
- Bird People: As a Raksha demon, he's a humanoid birdman and looks the most animalistic out of all the Raksha seen.
- Fantastic Racism: He's prejudiced against humans and other demons, and wished the Raksha Clan were composed of only Raksha demons.
- Goggles Do Nothing: He wears a pair of goggles on her head, purely for the aesthetic appeal as he never uses it. Given all Raksha Lieutenants also have one, it may be a symbol of office.
- Jerkass: He's the most unpleasant out of the Raksha leaders, and the one who calls for all humans to be expelled from the clan, all because of his Fantastic Racism.
- No Name Given: He's never given a name and is only referred to by his rank.
- Throwing Your Sword Always Works: He throws his halberd to kill an Ox-Head who's about to finish off the Second Lieutenant, which works, but it leaves him defenseless and he's killed not long after.
- Villainous Valor: He's introduced as a Jerkass and antagonistic figure, but spends his last moments saving the Second Lieutenants life.
- Weapon Specialization: He's always seen wielding a halberd as a weapon.
- Worf Effect: He's shown to be a capable warrior who fights off several Ox-Heads and Horse-Faces, but gets quickly defeated by Mr. Ox's lieutenants to show how powerful the gang is.
The Spider Goblin
A spider demon who drives the Spider Bus that guards the blackwind tunnel.
- Cool Shades: Wears a pair of aviator sunglasses while driving, purely for the "cool" aesthetics.
- Cute Monster Girl: She's a humanoid spider girl, but is humanoid enough to be considered attractive.
- Delinquent Hair: She has bright pink hair with blue tips, to fit with her punk aesthetic.
- Drives Like Crazy: She drives her Spider Bus in a fast and frenetic manner, and never stops to pick up passengers. Only Verta's She-Fu acrobatics allow her to actually enter it.
- Extra Eyes: Her forehead has multiple extra eyes, due to her being a spider demon.
- Multi-Armed and Dangerous: She's a spider demon with several extra limbs, which she uses to drive her spider bus.
- No Name Given: She's never given a name, but the credits refer to her as the Spider Goblin.
- Spider People: She's a spider demon and has the form of a woman with several spider traits, notably having Extra Eyes on her forehead and multiple, long limbs.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: It's unknown what happens to her after Verta crashes her bus. She doesn't seem upset at least, and simply wishes Verta good luck on her attempt to live Asuraville. It's unclear whether the Spider Goblin can fix the Spider Bus, or if she even wants to.
Antagonists
White Snake Antagonists
The General
A powerful Taoist sage tasked by the Emperor with finding the secret of immortality.
- Big Bad: While merely The Dragon of the Emperor of China, the Dark General is the main human antagonist of the first movie.
- Black Magic: The General uses his Taoist magic to drain the cultivated chi out of snake-demons, causing them to revert back to their animal forms and even killing them.
- Evil Makes You Ugly: The dark Taoist magic he performs has turned his skin dark grey, leaving him with a flattened nose, Villainous Cheekbones, no eyebrows, and no ears.
- Evil Sorcerer: He's an evil practicioner of Taiost magic.
- Hat of Authority: He wears an extremely long hat, a symbol of his military status as a Taoist general.
- Immortality Seeker: The General was tasked by the Emperor with finding a means of attaining immortality, and believes the secret lies in draining the chi of snake demons.
- Godhood Seeker: The General decides against using his soul-destroying apparatus on Blanca, Verta, and Xuan out of a desire to drain their chi and become a god to stick it to the Emperor.
- Large and in Charge: He's a tall and robust military general, possibly having physically grown due to accumulating power.
- Military Mage: He's a Taoist sage who works as a general for the Chinese army.
- No Name Given: He's never given a name and is only referred to by his rank.
- Obviously Evil: With his decaying skill and imposing purple clothing, everything about him screams "evil".
- Paper Master: The General mainly fights using enchanted paper talismans and origami soldiers.
The Little General
A taoist sage apprenticed to the General, who aids him in hunting for snake demons.
- Cool Mask: He wears a translucent white veil over the lower half of his face to hide that his dark magic has been deforming his otherwise handsome features.
- The Dragon: The Little Daoist/General is the Dark General's apprentice, and as such as been delegated the task of hunting down snake-demons.
- Dragon with an Agenda: He wants to capture Blanca for himself so that he can take credit from his master.
- Evil Makes You Ugly: Use of Daoist Black Magic has started to take a toll on his body, leaving his lower jaw disfigured. Unlike his superior, he is bothered by this and uses a veil mask to cover his deformity.
- Glory Hound: He misleads the General on Blanca's whereabouts so he can capture her on his own and won't have to share the credit.
- The Heavy: He's tasked to hunt down the sisters, and is the main antagonist threat they and Xuan face throughout the the story.
- Horse of a Different Color: The Little Daoist/General rides a gigantic beast with four pawed feet and three crane heads.
- Long Haired Prettyboy: He has long hair and pretty, feminine features, save for his lower jaw which has been wrinkled by his use of Black Magic.
- No Name Given: He's never given a name and is only referred to by his rank.
- Proud Beauty: Implied, as he's a Long Haired Prettyboy who's shown to be vain, using a silk mask to hide how his magic is deteriorating his appearance, and is quite furious when Verta mocks his face.
- Sissy Villain: Downplayed as he doesn't necessarily behave super feminine, but he is a vain wizard wearing elegant clothes, lounges in thrones as he is carried around and covers his wrinkled Lower jaw with a silk veil.
- Soft-Spoken Sadist: He casually threatens to kill a baby if the residents of Snakecatcher Village don't tell him which of them has been helping the Dark General's would-be assassin, and changes a half-eaten bun into a bat-monster just to scare the residents of Snakecatcher Village for his own amusement.
- The Starscream: He misdirects the Dark General as to Blanca's location intending to capture and consume her essence himself.
- Would Hurt a Child: He has his soldiers threaten to kill a baby to make snake catcher villagers give him information on Blanca.
Chang Pan
- Alien Blood: His blood is dark blue in coloration, to match his scales, and getting splashed with it almost freezes Blanca to death after she kills him and causes rime frost to form on everything around her.
- Beware My Stinger Tail: One of Chang's first movies in his fight against Blanca is to use his tail to impale the ferryman and toss him aside.
- The Brute: Chang Pan is a large and aggressive rattlesnake-demon who is unquestioningly loyal to the Snake Master and more-than happy to obey her order to kill Blanca.
- Delayed Causality: As he lunges at Ah Xuan, Blanca transforms and slices him to pieces with a slash of her tail, but it takes a few seconds for his body to fall apart.
- Flight: One of his magical abilities, which enables him to change the trajectory of his strikes and hover in midair.
- An Ice Person: His blood is freezing cold and almost kills Blanca when she's splashed with it.
- Loud of War: He can use his rattle to perform a sonic attack to incapacitate his enemies.
- Making a Splash: He uses water magic to create a makeshift arena to fight Blanca in, and block Blanca's boat from escaping.
- Meaningful Name: His name means "always coiling".
- Paper-Thin Disguise: Chang Pan is unable to fully assume human form, and thus hides his true appearance with a conical straw hat.
- Scaled Up: He starts out in a humanoid snake form, then fully transforms to fight Blanca.
- Snake People: The most he can manage is a humanoid torso and head with spikes jutting from his shoulders, and the lower body of a giant rattlesnake.
The Snake Master
The leader of the snake demons, who charges Verta with reclaiming the wayward Blanca.
- Animal Battle Aura: She can summon an ethereal golden serpent, which she uses to re-empower one of the snake demons who'd lost his powers.
- Big Bad Ensemble: With the General. She dispatches Verta to retrieve Blanca, and then the moment she's gone sends Chang Pan to assassinate Blanca. At the end of the first movie, the Snake Master betrays the snake-demon clan and becomes the final villain of the first movie.
- Black Eyes of Crazy: In her monstrous true form, the Snake Master has black sclerae, red irises, and glowing yellow pupils, which she sports in her human form after draining Verta's chi and preparing to unleash the Dark General's magic on the rest of the snake-demon clan.
- Deader than Dead: The General's apparatus freezes her solid before destroying her soul, preventing her from reincarnating.
- Evil Matriarch: She only pretends to be a benevolent leader, she's actually planning to suck the energy of all her subjects once the threat of The General is gone. She motivates her people to become more powerful and share their energy for this purpose as well.
- Godhood Seeker: After seeing how powerful Blanca had become from absorbing a massive amount of chi, the Snake Master consumes the chi and souls of her subordinates in a bid to replicate the feat and become a demon-god — starting with Verta.
- Gorgeous Gorgon: Her humanoid form is of a beautiful older woman with snakes for hair, resembling a gorgon.
- Hypocrite: Claims to hate traitors, while planning to betray her own clan for selfish reasons.
- Kill It with Ice: Just before she can devour Blanca, she is killed by the Dark General's apparatus, which freezes her solid and destroys her soul.
- The Leader: She's the authoritative head of the Snake Clan. She pretends to be a firm, bur caring leader, but in reality, she sees them as just pawns to be used to increase her own power.
- Medusa: Her hair is made of snakes, much like that of a Medusa.
- Multiple Head Case: In her demon form, she has two heads — one on each end of her body.
- No Name Given: She's never given a name and is only referred to by her rank.
- One-Winged Angel: After draining the life energy of the other snake demons, she transforms into her true form — a gigantic two-headed snake-demon — and tries to eat Blanca.
- Snake People: She's part of the Snake Clan, but just like Blanca and Verta, is powerful enough to make herself look human, save for her snake hair.
- Spikes of Villainy: Her giant snake form is covered with black spikes, in contrast with Blanca whose scales are shining white.
Green Snake Antagonists
Fahai
A monster-slaying Buddhist monk who seals Blanca away at the beginning of Green Snake.
- Animal Battle Aura: He manifests a giant, golden crane bird during his fights with Verta, who fights him with her own snake aura.
- Antagonist Abilities: With a single mantra, he is able to easily disperse the multi-layered tsunami that Blanca and Verta created to destroy his temple, and then easily seals Blanca away. It takes twenty years of constant fighting for Verta's powers to surpass his, but by then Fahai is an old man.
- Bald of Evil: He has a completely bald head, owing to his status as a Buddhist monk.
- Big Bad: As the one who sealed Blanca away, Fahai is the primary target of Verta's Roaring Rampage of Rescue in Green Snake. He's also Mr. Ox's benefactor, charging him with purging Asuraville of its lost souls in exchange for being resurrected. However, Verta succeeds in killing him after 20 years of fighting.
- Cloak of Defense: Fahai wears a golden cloak emblazoned with the script of a sutra, which he can use to cast defensive and offensive spells powerful enough to effortlessly defeat Blanca and Verta.
- Color Motif: Gold, as he's a monk in golden robes whose Battle Aura manifests in gold.
- Death of a Thousand Cuts: Ultimately he is defeated by Verta's pure determination. Years of fighting her over and over again begin to weigh on him, not helped by the fact that while his powers stay more or less the same, Verta grows with each encounter.
- Defiant to the End: Even as he's dying, his last act is to pray to his god in defiance.
- Enlightened Antagonist: Fahai is a powerful Buddhist sage who leads an island temple of monks, but shows no mercy to Blanca or Verta despite Xu Xian begging him to spare them. When he confronts Verta after sealing Blanca, she accuses him of being a lecherous murderer no better than the demons he persecutes. Fahai calmly acknowledges this, saying that he's only human and that even men of faith can fall prey to their base impulses, but that it is nevertheless his duty to administer the justice of Dharma.
- Enlightenment Superpowers: Fahai's status as a Buddhist monk grants him an array of holy powers that are vastly superior to Blanca and Verta's Taoism-derived powers, letting him Curb-Stomp Battle them both at the beginning of the movie without even leaving his Levitating Lotus Position.
- Fantastic Racism: He sees demons and monsters as sinful things to be exterminated, despite not contesting Verta's accusation that he's no better than he claims the demons he hunts are.
- The Fundamentalist: He is an extremely staunch Buddhist and views pretty much anything outside of the religion as evil. His hatred of Asuraville and wish for its destruction is not because he wishes to free the people who suffer there, it's because the place interrupts the cycle of reincarnation. That assumption isn't exactly right either, as Asuraville gives people a chance to rid themselves of bad Karma before reincarnating, but he still hates it because it doesn't adhere to Buddhist canon.
- Holy Halo: When using his powers, a halo of golden light appears behind his head.
- Hunter of Monsters: According to Verta, Fahai has a reputation as a monster-hunter and demon-slayer who shows no mercy to non-humans.
- Hypocrite: He sneers at demons for being sinful creatures deserving only extermination, but openly admits to being a sinner himself. He's also working alongside Mr. Ox — a demon — with the promise of resurrecting him once Asuraville is cleansed.
- Light Is Not Good: Despite being a Buddhist monk and associated with golden light, Fahai's hands are tainted with sin, something he openly acknowledges.
- Magical Incantation: Fahai's most powerful offensive and defensive powers come from chanting sutras.
- No Body Left Behind: After his temple is destroyed by Verta, he calmly accepts defeat and Disappears into Light.
- Old Master: While a young man in the film's opening, after fighting Verta for 20 years he's shown with white eyebrows, wrinkles on his forehead, and liverspots on his scalp and hands. Despite having visibly aged, he's no weaker than he was in his prime. Unfortunately for him, Verta grows even more powerful and ultimately succeeds in defeating him and destroying his temple.
- Sinister Minister: The Buddhist variety; a true believer whose interpretation is twisted into 'kill the impure races and let Buddha sort them out'.
- Summon Magic: By chanting a sutra, Fahai can conjure a phoenix manifested from golden light and Chinese lettering.
- Warrior Monk: He's an extremely powerful Buddist monk who hunts down demons, even powerful ones like Verta and Blanca.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: He believes powering up Mr. Ox and helping him wipe out all the residents in Asuraville will lead to them reincarnating and leading better lives.
Mr. Ox
A bull-headed demon and leader of the Ox-Head and Horse-Face Clans, one of the main gangs in Asuraville.
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: During the desperate dash towards the Wish bridge, he desperately asks for someone to help him, even as he sabotages Verta and the Masked Man's attempts to reach the bridge.
- Brutish Character, Brutish Weapon: He's a large, brutish Ox who wields a gigantic Ax in battle.
- The Dragon: He and his gang are the main antagonistic force that Verta comes up against in Asuraville, with his gang being responsible for the death of Sun and the massacres of the Octopus Gang and Raksha Clan. He is revealed to be working for Fahai in order to subjugate and cleanse Asuraville. He ultimately outlives his master, which causes the wards rendering him invulnerable to dissipate.
- The Heavy: While he's just a pawn of Fahai, he and his gang are the primary antagonists Verta faces in Asuraville, and he remains a threat even after Verta has already defeated Fahai.
- Karmic Death: Mr. Ox seeks to carry out a genocide on the inhabitants of Asuraville so that he can escape it and be reborn, but is bitten by an evil spirit — making him a prisoner of Asuraville — and then dies after being decapitated by the Masked Man.
- Large and in Charge: Mr. Ox towers over even the other members of the Ox-Head Clan, who stand head-and-shoulders over most other characters.
- Maker of Monsters: Mr. Ox distributes skin masks to his followers that let them glamour themselves. If his followers prove themselves worthy, Mr. Ox imbues the masks with his power, letting them transform his followers into a form of their chosing — with most either transforming into Ox-Head or Horse-Face demons.
- No-Sell: Due to wards placed on him by Fahai, Mr. Ox is completely invulnerable to damage. However, these wards disappear after Fahai dies.
- Omnicidal Maniac: Mr. Ox seeks to slaughter everyone in Asuraville, citing Buddhist scripture regarding the cycle of reincarnation, but it's mainly so that he can escape Asuraville himself without needing to be reincarnated.
- Our Minotaurs Are Different: Unlike the other Ox-Head demons, Mr. Ox has a mostly-human face with Supernatural Gold Eyes, and a broken horn.
- Skeleton Motif: His pauldrons have skulls attached to them, and his belt has a skull emblazoned on it.
- Skyward Scream: When he sees that Baoqing the huli jing has killed all his minions, Mr. Ox lets out a scream of rage and begins relentlessly pursuing Verta and the Masked Man.
- Sole Survivor: Baoqing uses the Pool of Return to kill all of his minions, Mr. Ox only surviving due to the wards Fahai placed on him.
- Super-Empowering: Unlike all the other demons and monsters, Mr. Ox is able to imbue skin masks with his power, and putting them on transforms his minions into Ox-Head and Horse-Face demons.
