Pyron

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Pyron (パイロン, Pairon^?) is a video game character from the Darkstalkers fighting game series and an alien from the planet Hellstorm. After evolving over many years, he became a cosmic being. Over the time of 200 million years, he sought to collect beautiful planets by consuming them. He lands deep within the Atlantic ocean to wait for the right time to consume Earth. In the end, he was defeated by Demitri and was consumed by him. Originally, he came to Earth 65 million years ago and created the army of Huitzil robots to destroy life on Earth. It is unknown why Pyron didn't consume Earth back then, though it is assumed to be his lust for more worthy opponents. In the UDON comic, it is explained that Pyron wanted the Earth to "ripen" before harvesting it.

[edit] Origins

Pyron is most likely meant to be representative of one of the fabled cosmic beings from Mars. The planet Mars is often associated with fire because of its bright red color as seen from Earth. This connection to Mars also explains the reasoning behind naming his army of robots "Phobos" (though they are renamed Huitzil in the releases outside Japan).

[edit] Other appearances

In the Night Warriors OVA, Pyron comes to Earth just as the battle between Demitri and Morrigan begins. The Huitzil robots awaken to gather data on the Darkstalkers, Pyron's only real threat. There is no mention of him creating the robots. Evidence of this is that their programming is counter to his overall goals and they eventually have a falling out between them. Pyron is a powerful entity, capable of creating miniature suns (which also destroy large cities), which he uses especially to keep Demitri at bay. He also easily defeated Anakaris, Rikuo, Sasquatch, Victor, and Demitri in battle but it is not known if he fought Felicia, Lord Raptor, Bishamon, and Jon Talbain as well. He doesn't fight Morrigan as she was in the demon world during his descent to Earth. He mortally wounds Donovan and destroys the Giant Huitzul with ease. He then plans on destroying the Earth, declaring it "boring" but Donovan is revived by Anita's new found power which enhances Donovan's power greatly and thus, he is able to defeat Pyron. Pyron is voiced by David Kaye.

In the DiC Darkstalkers cartoon, Pyron has ambitions of taking over Earth, but is much weaker than his original incarnation and is even shown as a bumbling coward. Depicted as an entity made of flame in most appearances, the cartoon turned him into a living being who roamed space in a gigantic spacecraft and who prefered to let his let his minions do his work for him. The reason for this was revealed late in the series, stating that the spaceship was the source of his powers and that if he left it, he would become progressively weaker. In addition to this, Pyron's ship was set to explode with enough force to "destroy the entire Earth, its moon and possibly half the solar system" if he was away from it for more than 24 hours. In this series, he also had an older and much stronger brother by the name of Terramon whom he feared terribly. At the end of the series, Terramon, sick of his little brother's constant failures in attempting to take over the world, tries to take over the world for himself. Though still frightened of his brother, Pyron stands up to him and allies with all the other Darkstalkers and even befriends them in order to save the world. After Terramon is routed, Felicia asks him if their war is over; he laughs and replies that their war is not over and that by tommorrow they will be fighting again but that for that night, Felicia and the people of Earth can sleep in peace. Felicia and her friends smile and then bid Pyron a good night.

[edit] Trivia

• Pyron's height and weight remain unknown; he is the only character in the series to have this enigmatic nature to both his size measurements, presumably because his shapeshifting abilities allow him to change either at will.
• Pyron appears as a boss character that you can unlock in Capcom Fighting Evolution. He also will appear as an alternative final boss instead of Jedah if the EX Option in Darkstalkers 3 is set to Night Warriors Style.
• Pyron has been voiced by Nobuyuki Hiyama since his debut.
• If Pyron is electrocuted by a character with that ability (such as Victor), his "skeleton" appears as a constellation, indicating his cosmic nature. Although flame-based attacks will damage Pyron, he does not possess a "burned" sprite animation like other characters do; if hurt by fire, he will react as if injured by a normal attack.
• His name comes from pyro, the Greek word for "fire", which points out his physical nature in quite an obvious way.
• Pyron's appearance as the final boss in Capcom Fighting Evolution is often considered a case of SNK Boss Syndrome. A few arguments in favor of this include his ability to attack players while they are prone (after being knocked down) similarly, Pyron can use an attack that will turn him into a laughing pillar of flame, damaging anything that comes into contact with him. He will commonly use this attack while standing over a prone opponent, who will then receive damage (and once again be knocked down) immediately upon regaining their footing. Many of Pyron's combos, if not properly parried, can take away nearly 75% of a players health bar.
• Pyron can also change into a laughing pillar of flame in the original Darkstalkers, but only as a win pose.
• He is playable in the first Darkstalkers game though a cheat with an emulator, and also includes an ending as well. It is identical to his Night Warrior's ending, except there is no real text to go along with it.
• Hao Asakura, from the manga/anime, "Shaman King" is allied with a spirit that has close resemblence to Pyron. Mainly the head and large body, also the same element with they can emit.

[edit] External links

• Pyron's Darkstalkers entry at StrategyWiki.org