Characters / Soul Series

All spoilers for the Original Timeline are left unmarked.

The characters who appear in the Soul Series, divided by their appearances in two different timelines. Note: When adding tropes, be sure to add them to the profile of the corresponding timeline.

Original Timeline covers Soul Edge to Soulcalibur V.

New Timeline covers Soulcalibur VI.

Tropes that apply to most or all of the cast

• Armor Is Useless: Armor is purely aesthetic in terms of gameplay. For example: Siegfried, clad head-to-toe in armor, has the same durability as Taki, who wears tight spandex.
• Costume Evolution: Each game gives the playable cast a new costume, often skimpier than the last.
• Fantasy Kitchen Sink: The cast includes a warrior blessed by the Greek gods, a samurai, a knight, a mystical ninja, a ghost pirate, two vampires, an immortal scary black man, a tin tyrant wielding an Artifact of Doom, an interdimensional being, another ninja with mystical powers (also a cyborg fighting clown), a teenage priestess who can control the wind, a golem, and a lizardman, and that's not all of them.
• Morality Kitchen Sink: Clear-cut heroes, anti-heroes, villains, anti-villains, neutrals and Blue-and-Orange Morality are all present.
• Mr. Fanservice: Though not as prominent as the ladies, the guys give plenty of eye candy with muscles, good looks, and shirtless scenes.
• Ms. Fanservice: Almost all of the female fighters embody this to varying degrees, though some like Ivy and Taki take the cake. Hilde is the main exception — while pretty, she's not played for fanservice at all but instead wears a suit of armor that completely covers her.
• Named Weapons: Almost every weapon used by the cast has a name, with some characters going through several weapons through the course of the series (Mitsurugi: Korefuji -> Shishi-Oh -> Muchimonji, Maxi: Fatibal -> Soryuju, Xianghua: Krita-Yuga/Soul Calibur -> [no name], etc.). Yoshimitsu's is actually an inversion, as in his case "the sword names the user" ("Yoshimitsu" is only a title taken by the leader of the Manji, that being the one accepted by the sword "Yoshimitsu"). The only real exception to this is Edge Master (he doesn't subscribe to giving a weapon an identity, they are just the tools of a strong soul), which grandfathers in Xianghua's second jian (he gave it to her and she declined to name it in honor of that philosophy).
• World of Muscle Men: The guys are often pretty muscular, even the Bishōnen ones.
• Wrestler in All of Us: Not just grapplers, but many characters have moves that remind one of the wrestling.

Original Timeline

• Soul Edge ^note Heishiro Mitsurugi, Taki, Siegfried Schtauffen, Sophitia Alexandra, Nathaniel "Rock" Adams, Voldo, Hwang Song-Gyeong, Seong Mi-Na, Li Long, Cervantes de Leon, Inferno, Soul Edge, Seong Han-Myong
• Soulcalibur ^note Kilik, Chai Xianghua, Maxi, Astaroth, Isabella "Ivy" Valentine, Nightmare (Siegfried), Aeon Calcos/Lizardman, Yoshimitsu, Edge Master, Arthur, Soul Calibur
• Soulcalibur II ^note Raphael Sorel, Talim, Hong Yun-Seong, Cassandra Alexandra, Necrid, Charade, Spawn, Link, Heihachi Mishima, Berserker, Assassin, Lizardman
• Soulcalibur III ^note Zasalamel, Tira, Setsuka, Amy Sorel, Nightmare (Inferno), Olcadan, Abyss, Night Terror, Revenant, Greed and Miser, Valeria, Hualin, Lynette, Abelia, Luna, Demuth, Aurelia, Chester, Strife, Girardot
• Soulcalibur IV (includes characters from the PSP game Broken Destiny)^note Hildegard "Hilde" von Krone, Algol, Lord Geo Dampierre, Ashlotte Maedel, Kamikirimushi, Shura, Scheherazade, Angol Fear, The Apprentice, Yoda, Darth Vader, Kratos
• Soulcalibur V ^note Patroklos Alexander, Pyrrha Alexandra, Natsu, Z.W.E.I., Yan Leixia, Viola, Xiba, Nightmare (Graf Dumas), Elysium, Yoshimitsu II, Mass-produced line Astaroth, Ezio Auditore, Devil Jin
• Soulcalibur Legends
• Soul Calibur Non Playable Characters

New Timeline

• Soulcalibur VI
  • Page 1^note Heishiro Mitsurugi, Seong Mi-na, Taki, Maxi, Voldo, Sophitia Alexandra, Siegfried Schtauffen, Hwang Seong-gyeong
  • Page 2^note Isabella "Ivy" Valentine, Kilik, Chai Xianghua, Yoshimitsu, Nightmare, Astaroth, Inferno, Cervantes de Leon
  • Page 3^note Raphael Sorel, Talim, Cassandra Alexandria, Tira, Zasalamel, Setsuka, Amy Sorel, Hildegard "Hilde" von Krone, Grøh, Azwel, Geralt of Rivia, 2B / YoRHa No. 2 Type B, Haohmaru
• Other Characters

Crossovers

• Namco × Capcom^note Heishiro Mitsurugi, Taki
• Project × Zone 2: Brave New World ^note Natsu
• Warriors Orochi^note Sophitia Alexandra

Related Pages

• Assassin's Creed: Ezio Auditore
• God of War Series – Kratos
• Star Wars – Anakin Skywalker
• Star Wars – Yoda
• Tekken: Heihachi Mishima
• The Witcher - Geralt of Rivia

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