List of Dead or Alive characters
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[edit] Main characters
[edit] Ayane
(DOA1, DOA2, DOA3, DOAX, DOAU, DOA4, DOAX2) A kunoichi (female ninja) with murderous motives and purple hair. She takes part in DOA to fight her half-sister, Kasumi, for whom she has developed a deep hate. She looks up to her half-brother Hayate, who has watched over her since childhood despite her "tarnished" childhood. Ayane in Japanese means "purple/ violet". According to canon she won the third DOA tournament.
[edit] Bass Armstrong
(DOA1, DOA2, DOA3, DOAU, DOA4) A professional wrestler who wants to stop his daughter Tina from winning the DOA Tournaments. Appears to be inspired by Hulk Hogan.
[edit] Bayman
(DOA1, DOA2, DOA3, DOAU, DOA4) A former Russian commando who joins the DOA1 tournament to assassinate Fame Douglas, and later joins the DOA3 tournament to retaliate against Donovan for the attempt on his life by a sniper.
[edit] Brad Wong
(DOA3, DOA4) A man who joins DOA in search of a riddle from his old master Chen, who told him to "bring the legendary drink called Genra." After three years of wandering on his journey he finds himself in a fighting tournament.
[edit] Christie
(DOA3, DOAX, DOA4, DOAX2) A British assassin hired by Donovan to keep an eye on, and eventually kill, Helena. Christie's mission is to stop Helena from competing in DOA3 and later to prevent Helena from discovering more about the secret plans of Donovan and his anti-Douglas faction. In the fourth tournament it is revealed that she was the one who assassinated Helena's mother.
[edit] Ein
(DOA2, DOA3, DOAU, DOA4) See Hayate below.
[edit] Elliot
(DOA4) A British-born apprentice of Gen Fu, he enters the fourth DOA tournament to find out why Gen fu chose him as his first, and only, apprentice.
[edit] Gen Fu
(DOA1, DOA2, DOA3, DOAU, DOA4) An old martial arts master, he fights in DOA to obtain money to cure his sick granddaughter, Mei Lin. In DOA2 he wanted to defeat Tengu, because the nose of Tengu can cure any disease. After DOA2 however another sum of money was needed and so he joins again in DOA3.
[edit] Hayate
(DOA3, DOAU, DOA4) Kasumi's brother and Ayane's half-brother. He was captured in DOA, after which his memory was temporarily lost. This was done by DOATEC during the Epsilon project. After being released by Lisa (aka la Mariposa), Hayate wandered in the historical black forest of Germany until he was found by Hitomi. He joined DOA2 as Ein in order to find out more about his lost memory. After DOA2 his memory had been restored and he returned in DOA3 as Hayate, the leader of the Mugen Tenshin Style.
[edit] Helena
(DOA2, DOA3, DOAX, DOAU, DOA4, DOAX2) A young French woman and the illegitimate daughter of Fame Douglas, former leader of DOATEC. She joins DOA2 in search of the murderer of her mother and joins DOA3 in order to find the truth about the conspiracies within DOATEC. In DOA4 Helena takes control of DOATEC, and finds out her mother's killer wasn't Ayane, but the British assassin Christie. And in her ending movie there is a woman with brown hair who gets shot in the head by a shady character (looks like a male), if anyone could find out who these two people are and there relevance to the story please add them to the miscellaneous characters list.
[edit] Hitomi
(DOA3, DOAX, DOAU, DOA4, DOAX2) A young Karate student who wants to show her fighting skills at the tournament. She joins the DOA tournament to also find Ein, who wandered his way into her father's karate dojo and then disappeared after the second DOA tournament. She placed third in the third DOA tournament.
[edit] Jann Lee
(DOA1, DOA2, DOA3, DOAU, DOA4) A young martial arts expert who joins the Tournaments to show his superior Jeet Kune Do fighting abilities.
[edit] Kasumi
(DOA1, DOA2, DOA3, DOAX, DOAU, DOA4, DOAX2) Also known as "the Kunoichi of Destiny", is a female ninja skilled in the Mugen Tenshin Style of Ninjutsu. She was to become the 18th Master of the Mugen Tenshin Ninja Clan, but ran away in order to enter the Dead or Alive tournament. There, she hoped to defeat the one responsible for crippling her brother Hayate. By leaving the secretive ninja clan, she became a nukenin (runaway shinobi). This means that she must live on the run from her former comrades every day as they seek to silence the "traitorous" Kasumi.
[edit] Kokoro
(DOA4, DOAX2) A Japanese girl that uses the Hakkyokuken fighting style. Itagaki comments that Hakkyokuken was first used in Virtua Fighter, which he calls the "origin of 3D fighting games." Virtua Fighter's main character, Akira, uses this fighting style, but Itagaki hopes to reproduce the martial art even more realistically in DOA4. Kokoro is a geisha in training, but her heart is not in it, so she decides to join DOA.
[edit] Lei Fang
(DOA1, DOA2, DOA3, DOAX, DOAU, DOA4, DOAX2) A young Chinese woman who joined the Tournament in order to fight Jann Lee, a martial arts expert who saved her life from a bunch of thugs. For that she was very grateful, yet felt that she could have handled the situation herself. After that incident, she mastered the art of Tai Chi Quan to prove her independence.
[edit] Leon
(DOA2, DOA3, DOAU, DOA4) Made a promise in the desert to his dead lover "Rolande". She said the strongest warrior in the world is who she loves, so he joins the DOA tournaments to fulfill her expectation.
[edit] Lisa
(DOAX, DOA4, DOAX2) Lisa first appears in DOAX. In DOA4, Lisa is first known as La Mariposa, the Luchadora.
[edit] Ryu Hayabusa
(DOA1, DOA2, DOA3, DOAU, DOA4) A ninjutsu expert and good friend of Hayate. Originally from the Ninja Gaiden series, in DOA2, he comes across his lost friend and kills the Evil Tengu. He also joins DOA3 to again fight evil, this time in the form of Genra, another evil being created by DOATEC. Called the 'Superninja' by many, Ryu also went on to win the DOA2 tournament, and joins with Hayate, Kasumi and Ayane in the destruction of DOATEC in DOA4.
[edit] Tina Armstrong
(DOA1, DOA2, DOA3, DOAX, DOAU, DOA4, DOAX2) The daughter of Bass Armstrong. She wants to win the tournament to become a famous model, but decides to become an actress in DOA3 and a rock musician in "DOA4"
[edit] Zack
(DOA1, DOA2, DOA3, DOAX, DOAU, DOA4, DOAX2) An American fighter, who joins the DOA tournament for no other reason than to win a lot of money. He is very similar in appearance to Dennis Rodman, who even voiced Zack in DOAX.
[edit] Boss Characters
[edit] Raidou
(DOA1) Kasumi and Hayate's uncle. He raped their mother, who became impregnated with Ayane. He was defeated by Kasumi, who won the first tournament.
[edit] Tengu
(DOA2, DOA2H, DOAU, DOA4) is a mythological creature from Japanese folklore. In DOA2 he wants chaos to reign over the world, but is stopped. His name was stated as "Gohyappou Bankotsubo", but he is more commonly known as simply "Tengu." Hayabusa eventually dispatched him. He is also an unlockable character in DOA2, DOAU and DOA4, though he is toned down to even the playing field between other characters when it's player-controlled.
[edit] Omega
(DOA3) Following Project Alpha and Project Epsilon, the ever ambitious Dr. Victor Donovan completes the Omega Project, producing a new Superhuman: Genra. This man, who was once leader of the Hajin Mon Ninja, is no longer human. He (or it) is a force of singular and unprecedented capabilities. A slaughterhouse has now been provided as the exclusive domain of the Omega superhuman. Genra was Ayane's adoptive father. He was defeated by Ayane, who won the third tournament. His double-bladed sword resembles that of Darth Maul.
[edit] ALPHA-152
(DOA4) ALPHA-152 was a clone of Kasumi created by DOATEC. She uses a fighting style similar to Kasumi's. Beta shots of the game show her appearance as Kasumi's figure made of light. However the final game changed this to a translucent/liquid figure of Kasumi. She is fueled with rage and most of the main characters are forced to fight her (primarily Kasumi herself).
[edit] Other
[edit] Victor Donovan
He is the Leader of the DOATEC anti-Douglas faction and is head of the Development Department, a state of the art military fortress where ALPHA and OMEGA were developed.
In the first Dead or Alive, Donovan employed the Russian assassin Bayman to kill DOATEC's chairman Fame Douglas. This attempt is thought to have been successful, as Douglas died shortly after the event.
The nature of Donovan's rebellion is thought to be controversy over experiments to be carried out to create an ultimate DOA fighter. Fame Douglas may have been opposed to this and so a split was caused in DOATEC, creating an anti-Douglas faction headed by Donovan himself.
In Dead or Alive 3 Donovan captures Helena, Fame Douglas' daughter, since she stands to inherit her father's position as chairman of DOATEC. He challenges Helena to win the DOA3 tournament in order to gain her freedom and learn the truth behind the company. He also employs the British assassin Christie to keep an eye on her.
Meanwhile, Bayman seeks revenge after Donovan plotted his assassination to tie up any loose ends.
Donovan is thought to be behind experiments such as Project Epsilon to which Hayate was subjected, the cloning of Kasumi, and the augmentation of Ayane's foster father Genra into the ultimate DOA fighter Omega.
He remains a mysterious figure, but more details about him may be revealed in future installments of the franchise. In Helena's ending of Dead or Alive 4, Ryu Hayabusa is shown destroying a ship with a man who may or may not be Donovan.
[edit] Fame Douglas
He served as the head of DOATEC until he was assassinated by Bayman under Donovan's orders after DOA1. It is thought that he was opposed to the human experimentation proposed by Donovan, which lead to his assassination. His illegitimate daughter Helena stands to inherit his position as chairman of DOATEC, but in DOA3 Donovan makes attempts to stop this from happening by kidnapping her and forcing her to compete in the tournament for her freedom. She escapes her imprisonment, though it isn't known how, and goes onto inherit Douglas' position as chairman of DOATEC.
In DOA4 it is greatly implied Douglas might be Kokoro's father, as her mother is one of his many mistresses.
[edit] Spartan-458 (Nicole)
(DOA4) A character from the Halo universe. As a guest-star of the game, Nicole's story does not affect that of any other character or the game itself. She is not playable in the Story Mode . She was put into the game as a joint effort by Bungie and Tecmo, and it was Tecmo's idea to include a Spartan in the game, presumably Master Chief, but Bungie explained that he was "fictionally busy" but they still wanted a Spartan in the game. So, they decided to make a female Spartan, which is Nicole, and her number is 458.
More details can be seen here at Bungie.org
[edit] Niki
(DOA3, DOAX, DOA4) Nikita, better known as "Niki", is the newest girlfriend of Zack. They met in a casino after the Dead or Alive 3 tournament, when Zack won a large sum of money that allowed him to buy an island which he named after himself. He invited most of the females he remembered from the last tournament (there was no Lisa) to his island under the false pretense of holding another tournament. The women arrived and after finding out the truth, namely that it was all a big hoax, they decided to make the best of the situation by spending their vacation there. After two weeks when the women had left, Zack and Niki remained alone on the island. However, a previously inactive volcano erupted, and Niki decided to abandon Zack and escape using his jet pack. Zack survived the volcanic eruption, but his island was completely destroyed. However, the two seem to have made up and become a couple again during Dead or Alive 4, as they're seen robbing an ancient tomb and escaping in a truck filled with gold, along with a horde of angry skeletons in tow.
Niki is Zack's lucky charm (Lady Luck) and he takes her everywhere with him, going as far as naming a beach on his island's eastern shore after her. In a recent video interview for the IGN website on E3, creator of the game Tomonobu Itagaki said that players can expect at least two new girls to join the Dead or Alive Xtreme 2 cast. Fans were disappointed to learn that Niki did indeed join the cast, but not in a player controlled role and appearing only in cut scenes with Zack as before.
Her voice actress, Yuka Koyama, is also responsible for the roles of Helena and Lauren/Rolande in the Dead or Alive series. In DOAX2, she is voiced in English by Kari Wahlgren.
