Dural (Virtua Fighter)

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Dural

Game series	Virtua Fighter series
Creator(s)	Yu Suzuki
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Occupation	Bio-Weapon
Fighting style	Mixture of Fighting styles

Dural is a fictional character in the Sega video game series Virtua Fighter. She is the main antagonist of the franchise.

[edit] History

Dural was previously a human woman. Her name was Tsukikage and she was both Kage-Maru's mother and a Kunoichi. When the mysterious corporation J6 (Judgement6) noticed her exemplary fighting ability and resilient body, they captured her and used her as their prototype for their terrifying Dural project. Arming her body with various cybernetic enhancements and brainwashing, she became a cyborg, immune to feeling. Technically, she underwent roboticization, though this isn't directly stated in the games. She appears in both silver and gold skin, and also stone, black, and invisible in Virtua Fighter 5, she is an excellent fighter in the right hands.

Since then, Kage has attempted to retrieve Tsukikage and restore her to her former self, finally succeeding in Virtua Fighter 3. However, he needed parts to keep her inhuman body operational, and when he retrieved them, she became even less human then before. Now Kage enters the 4th tournament to end his mother's suffering and return her to normal.

Meanwhile, the J6 corporation has their eyes on Sarah Bryant as the subject for their next Dural project.

During the Fourth World Fighting Tournament, J6 released their true model; however it was defeated. This drove J6 to kidnap Vanessa Lewis. Although Vanessa escaped, her combat data was captured and transferred into a new model: V-Dural. J6 is now ready to test if their new advanced V-Dural is truly ready to defeat the world's best fighters - let the Fifth World Fighting Tournament begin...

[edit] Trivia

Tsukikage is not the only Dural. In Virtua Fighter 4, her stage depicts thousands of Dural models encased in capsules. It is implied that the J6 corporation utilizes many subjects for transmogrifications, with Tsukikage merely being the first (albeit the most powerful). In several concept art CGI renditions for Virtua Fighter Kids, Dural-like robots of the "children" are seen.

Dural appeared in Beach Spikers, a beach volleyball game developed by Sega-AM2, in three teams; Black, Silver, and Gold. However, none of the teams are playable and can only appear as opponents after completing the World Tour mode by certain conditions.

Dural was playable in the Sega Saturn version of Virtua Fighter 2 through the use of a cheat code at the character select screen. The mnemonic cheat code was Down, Up, Right, A + Left, the first letters of which spelled the name DURAL.