Jedah Dohma

Jedah Dohma, also known as The Distressed Lord of Death and The Vampire Savior, is a character from the Darkstalkers series.
== Charactah Account ==
The youngest of the three high nobles, Jedah was the one most concerned about the future of Makai. Believing that under the rule of Belial it would be stagnant, Jedah sought every chance he could that would help in overthrowing Belial. Ozom, his adviser, suggested to absorb the leaking energy of the Gate, a distortion that connects Makai with the human world.
While Jedah was absorbing the leaked energy, Ozom discovered that if he opened the gate further, it would leak so much energy that it would overload Jedah and kill him. So he decided to overthrow him right then and there, and just like he predicted, Jedah couldn't handle it. Ozom then collected what was left of Jedah's power and proclaimed himself Emperor of Makai.
100 years later, Jedah managed to revive himself. Seeing the state of Makai at the peak of a power struggle, he decided that in order to save it he must cleanse all the souls in Makai, and for this he created the Majigen (using Ozom and his Castle—formerly Jedah's—as a foundation), the pocket dimension where the strongest of souls will gather.
== Appearance ==
=== Comics ===
* Darkstalkers:The Night Warriors
* Street Fighter VS. Darkstalkers
=== Manga ===
* Darkstalkers Red Earth: Maleficarum
* Vampire Savior
=== Video Games ===
* Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium
* Capcom Fighting Evolution
* Capcom Fighting Jam
* Cross Edge
* Darkstalkers Chronicle: The Chaos Tower
* Darkstalkers Resurrection
* Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite
* Pocket Fighter
* Project X Zone
* SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters 2
* SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters DS
* SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters' Clash
* Street Fighter X All Capcom
* Teppen
* Vampire Chronicle for Matching Service
* Vampire Savior 2
* Vampire Savior: The Lord of Vampire
* Vampire: Darkstalkers Collection
* Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3
== Trivia ==
* During development, early sketches of Jedah called him Belial Jr. This was changed and Jedah was, in a sense, an enemy of Belial who adopted Morrigan.
* During Demitri's "Midnight Bliss", Jedah is transformed into a woman with long blonde hair.
* During Anakaris' "Pharaoh's Curse", Jedah transforms into a raven carrying a scythe.
* If Sangue Passare is used on Jedah himself (via a mirror match), his belly expands outward and grows until his outie bellybutton shows through his coat before exploding.
* Close inspection of Jedah's sprites reveal that his wings are not actually attached to his body, but instead hover behind. This is apparent especially when he is flying or hovering.
* When electrocuted Jedah's sprites show that his skeleton takes the form of what looks like a jumble of letters, runes or strings.
* Jedah's ability to make his eyes glow red is very similar to beings who are under the corruptive influence of Pandora.
* Jedah's Japanese voice actor in the Darkstalkers series is Isshin Chiba, who also voices the Mishima Clan member Jin Kazama in Namco's Soul Calibur and Tekken franchise. Chiba had previously voiced Victor von Gerdenheim and Le Malta in the Vampire Hunter drama CDs, and Kyosuke Kagami from Rival Schools. Chiba is also known for being the voice of Dio Brando in Capcom's arcade fighter JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Heritage for the Future.
* In the English version of Cross Edge, Jedah is voiced by Travis Willingham, who is also the current English voice actor of Guile in the Street Fighter series and UDON Comics. Willingham was later succeeded by David Kaye (who voiced Pyron in the anime continuity) for Jedah's appearance in Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite.
* In spite of his collected demeanor and vast power coupled with age, Jedah appears to be fearful of the presence of Anita, the young orphan girl who travels with Donovan. This is most likely because Jedah believes that she's the prophesized savior and eventual queen of the human realm who is yet to awaken.
** In his first game appearance of Vampire Savior: The Lord of Vampire, Jedah went so far as to thank the Darkstalker hunter Donovan for bringing her to to him. Like Donovan himself, Jedah can possibly sense a hidden power buried deep within her; one posing a threat to his future plans for both the Makai and human realm.
** Anita demonstrates her own power in Dee's appearance and ending, where it is implied she killed Dee due to Jedah's power becoming a threat in his canon ending, which has destabilized since Night Warriors.
* Jedah's outfit is based off of a Japanese highschool uniform (gakuran), likely to emphasize that his race's physiology and multiple resurrections have kept him looking far younger than he really is. When holding his iconic scythe, he draws inspiration from the western concepts of the grim reaper.
* All of Jedah's attacks are named in Italian. In Marvel Vs. Capcom: Infinite, he speaks of some terminologies in Italian.
* Jedah's Japanese skill set is notable in the sense that instead of dots as space separators, double hypens are used, to give the move names more archaic flair. Curiously, this double hypen has been mistakenly used in the English translation of his move names. This has since been corrected in his subsequent appearances.
* Unlike most characters, Jedah's special confrontation in Darkstalkers 3 is against himself. The only other instance he appears as a challenger is against Lilith, in an attempt to silence the young succubae's curiosity.
* Jedah's boss battle is against Demitri Maximoff in Darkstalkers 3. During Demitri's dialogue, he mentions how ugly the fetus is, and that he will become the ruler of darkness, showing no concern for other souls, let alone their 'relief'.
* The "Fetus Of God" is also featured in the Namco X series (a world where Namco × Capcom, Project × Zone and Street Fighter × Tekken is implied to take place).
* Jedah's appearance is influenced by Akira Fudo's supernatural form from Go Nagai's Devilman.
* In the Marvel vs. Capcom universe and comic book story known as ''Marvel vs.Capcom: Infinite Horizons (Earth-30847), Jedah appears to know about the vigilante Spider-Man and his friendship with Daredevil and also about their arch-foe the Kingpin and the cosmic villain Thanos, and his alliance with Death, it should be noted however, that Marvel/Disney is U.S. media, as opposed to Capcom being involved with Asian media.
* In Darkstalkers Chronicle: The Chaos Tower, Jedah's stage is renamed as "Creator's Fetus" instead of "Fetus of God." His skill names have also undergone similar renaming as a form of censorship for western releases, to remove potentially blaspheme elements and explicit references to biblical demons and devils. Not surprisingly, these were not applied to the original Japanese and some Asian releases.
* The blood in Jedah's gore-related animations is toned down to flash light purple in some versions of Darkstalkers 3, while other games turn it solid purple.
** Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite also replaces his self-decapitation move into an upward-forward version of his scythe slash, while "Sangue=Passare" is simply removed entirely.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Jedah Dohma at Darkstalkopedia
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