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Black Souls: Heroines | Inhabitants of Elysium | Enemies (I)
Black Souls II: Inhabitants of Wonderland | Enemies (II)
A list of enemies introduced in the first BLACKSOULS.
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Bosses
Drake Helkaiser
Drake Helkaiser
See You in Hell, my old foe.
A recurring enemy throughout both Black Souls games.— Wyvern Chaos Dungeon description
- Arch-Enemy: To the protagonist.
- Determinator: Regardless of the many times you fell him, it'll keep coming back throughout your adventure even as it starts rotting until you face him as an undead. It's only once you finish him off in that form will you have truly seen the last of it.
- Dracolich: Starts out as a regular dragon, ends up as this. Its Spirit Dragon form even moreso.
- Expy: Helkaiser is a Composite Character of various bosses from Demon's Souls and Dark Souls:
- Like the Vanguard, it serves as an early boss that exists to take you to the Hub Level regardless of whether you win or lose to it.
- Much like the Hellkite Drake, it serves as a Beef Gate that heavily defends an certain area, and even drops the Drake Sword. Fortunately, Helkaiser is much easier compared to the Hellkite Drake.
- Its Spirit Dragon form in the Chaos Dungeon serves as a reference to Darkeater Midir, being purple-colored Dracoliches serving as optional bosses. Both of them even have a purple laser breath attack.
- Hero Killer: Turns Jeanne into ashes right at the beginning of the game.
- Open-Ended Boss Battle: Its first boss fight in I ends up like this: if you lose against him, you'll be teleported to the Holy Forest, forcing you to come back to Fort Ivern to have a rematch with him. If you win, however, you will still be teleported to the Holy Forest but gain the Drake Sword for your troubles, and you won't have to fight him in Fort Ivern.
- Recurring Boss: It is very much this. It initially confronts the player at the start of the game, torching Jeanne and engaging him in a not-impossible hopeless boss fight. Whether defeated or not, Helkaiser can be revisited when the player returns to the starting area, and can be defeated, and then returns multiple times throughout the player's journey, intercepting him on a bridge, now revealed to be partially rotting. Then after being defeated, and having defeated Miranda, it can be found one last time in the Tainted Bog, now fully undead; defeating it this one last time even has the game reassure you it's done for good.The corpse of your longtime foe Helkaiser turned into trash... He won't revive anymore.
- See You in Hell : A message you find in the Chaos Dungeon after fighting him quotes this, though it comes off as acknowledging a Worthy Opponent.See you in hell, my old foe.
- Victory Fakeout: What, you thought that defeating its Undead Drake form in II meant the end of it? Nope! Just when the game fools you into thinking you defeated it for good, even featuring the victory fanfare, it reveals itself to actually have a fourth phase called Spirit Dragon Helkaiser.
- Worthy Opponent: The grave you can find near its corpse in II refers to it as this.
Iron King
Iron King / Naked King
The boss of the Rotten Burg area.- Clap Your Hands If You Believe: Protected by his magical armor. He doesn't actually wear armor, as it gets in the way of sex, but the power of his belief protects him. Summoning Leaf breaks it.
- Expy: An extremely disturbing take on the story of the Emperor's New Clothes.
- Gag Penis: Given that this is the Naked King we're talking about, it's only natural Full-Frontal Assault is in play. On a darker note though, he's introduced raping a woman, which kills her because of his size.
Singing Bone
Singing Bone
The boss of the Skeleton Maze area.- Cain and Abel: Was killed by his brother when alive.
- Expy: Fittingly for its nature as a Musical Assassin, based off a Murder Ballad rather than a Fairy Tale, "The Cruel Sister", a song about a woman who is killed by her sister so the sister can marry a prince, and whose body is made into a musical instrument that accuses the killer.
- Musical Assassin
Demonic Princesses
The Demonic Princesses in general
- Adaptational Villainy: Due to the setting being that of Darker and Edgier fairy tales, it goes without saying that all the Demonic Princesses are this, going from the heroines of their original books to villains with screwed-up morals and insanity.
- Co-Dragons: Frog, Rapunzel, Little Mermaid and Snow White serve as this to Cinderella... in theory. In practice, most of them are scheming against each other, with Snow White even plotting to kill her sisters.
- Optional Boss: With the exception of Cinderella (and even then if you're going for End D) and Snow White (where her covenant gives you an ultimatum between killing every Demonic Princess or you kill her, which is also not needed for End D), you don't have to fight them as making covenants with them is enough to light up the crystals that will open the gate to the Lost Empire.
- Unwitting Pawn: All of them are this to Mary Sue, being the proxy for the ones who would bring suffering in her story.
- What Could Have Been: In-Universe. There were supposed to be six demonic princesses in Elysium and that the Witch of Thorns was meant to enter the Lost Empire instead of Cinderella. However, since she proved to be even stronger than Cinderella and able to emulating "The Idiot", she was deemed too powerful to be allowed to enter the story and consequently having her fairy tale book destroyed, and her soul was sent away to the Chaos Dungeon, resulting in Elysium having five demonic princesses we all know about.
Princess Frog
Princess Frog
One of the four Demonic Princesses, ruling the Tainted Bog. Obsessed with her prince.- Flunky Boss: Summons her frog allies in her fight.
- Level Drain: Kissing her causes this.
- Love Freak: Not quite to Mermaid's extent, but obsessed with having a prince.
- Strong Family Resemblance: The Chaos Dungeon description for the Old Frog King notes that she looks a lot like his late wife.
Rapunzel
Rapunzel
One of the four Demonic Princesses, ruling Gothel's Tower. Obsessed with power.- Lonely at the Top: Talking to her after defeating Cinderella reveals that even with all the money and beasts she controls, she still feels lonely from being isolated from the rest of the world in her tower, which includes her sisters.
- Long Hair Is Feminine: As you would probably expect.
- Stripperific: Even by the game's standards, she's this.
- Token Good Teammate: While she's hardly a saint by any measure, her obsession is the least violent of any of the Princesses and she's the only one who doesn't have punishing requirements for a Covenant with her. Talking to her after defeating Cinderella reveals that she misses the other Princesses as her friends.
The Little Mermaid
The Little Mermaid
One of the four Demonic Princesses, ruling Atlantica. Obsessed with love.- Affably Evil: Despite her being insane, she's polite to the protagonist. If the player refuses her requirement to kill a max-level party member for her covenant, she says that she understands why he's unwilling and that it's a great sacrifice.
- Depraved Bisexual: Ready to give her 'love' to women and men equally.
- Love Freak: Dangerously obsessed with everything about 'love'.
- Yandere
Snow White
Snow White
One of the four Demonic Princesses, ruling Snow White's Castle. Obsessed with hatred.- Expy: While her design is based on Snow White (including gnomes that accompany her), her personality here is based on The Queen, represented by her living in a castle instead of a humble house, perpetually staring at her mirror and wanting to kill every other Demonic Princess to be "the most fairest one of them all". In truth, this is because of Mary Sue altering her memory.
- Heel Realization: If a covenant is made with her and she's talked to after Cinderella is killed, she will break down in tears as she regains her memories, realizing that she was manipulated into hating her friends by Mary Sue.
- Inferiority Superiority Complex: Insecure about her appearance, and wants to kill the other Princesses so she can become "the most beautiful in the land".
- Lie Detector: After accepting her quest to kill the other Princesses, lying to her that you've already done so will have her out you because the mirror reveals the lie. This will infuriate her and prompt a boss battle with her.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Once you kill all the Princesses after making a covenant with her, she at first laughs over finally being the only beauty left... before crying without understanding why. After a while, however, she starts remembering and curses Mary Sue for rewriting their lives, and after being given a mortal blow from nowhere, begs Grimm to remember them all.
- Weak to Fire: As expected of an ice user, she happens to be very vulnerable to fire. Lampshaded if the player summons Elma to assist him:Elma: Hate cold...... let me warm you up......Snow White: Stop... don't bring fire near me...!
Cinderella
Cinderella, Queen of Ash
The Queen of the Lost Empire and the final boss of the game.- Morality Pet: Deeply cares for her son Izu.
