Iron Crusher

= GAMEPLAY INFO: =
== Special Moves: ==
* Metallic Blast: QCB + S (He launches his metallic arm, similar to Sentinel's Rocket Punch. Angle varies depending on the strength: Downward [LS], Straight [MS] or Upward [HS].)
* Shoulder Rush: QCF + K (He rushes himself in a shoulder strike towards his opponent.)
* Spinning Weapons: HCF + S (He spins his mechanical arms like a windmill without moving the rest of his body. Can reflect his opponent's incoming projectiles.)
* Weapon Top: HCF + K (He spins his mechanical arms in 360 degrees like a top.)
== Spirit Summons: ==
* Winged Torpedo: QCF + S and K (Grifforazor dives himself like a torpedo towards his opponent, hitting him/her five times in succession.)
* Metallic Feathers: QCB + S and K (Grifforazor launches five bladed feathers from both of his wings to his opponent.)
== Limit Breaks: ==
* Metallic Crush: QCFx2 + S (He does his Metallic Blast and hits his opponent. Once it connects, he then swings his other arm to knock him/her out to the ground.)
* Weapon Hurricane: HCFx2 + S (He spins his mechanical arms while his arms are moving, hitting his opponent ten times in succession.)
* Final Judgement*: QCB, HCF + 3S (Iron Crusher prepares by assuming a powerful pose and hits his opponent with both weapons. Once it makes contact, he summons Grifforazor, which unattaches his parts, incorporating them to him to form a powered armor as he starts to release a powerful beam from his upgraded chest, blasting his opponent in succession until he/she blows away to the ground after the beam finishes its effect, prompting armor!Grifforazor to be removed from his owner's body and returning to his griffin form.)
* = Requires the Maximum Brave Meter to perform
== Murder Acts: ==
* Death Penalty: F, F, B, D + HK (Iron Crusher impales his opponent with his spike ball. While he has his opponent still impaled, he then crushes his/her head into pieces with his hammer hand. He pulls off his spike ball, leaving his/her headless opponent falling to death. Physical Murder. Close distance.)
* Iron Maiden: B, B, F, F + LS (Iron Crusher summons Grifforazor behind his opponent. The griffon spirit transforms himself into a steeled coffin and then opens his door and impales his opponent with the hooking spikes inside as he drags his screaming opponent to the coffin and closes the door. We then see slashing cuts of his opponent inside of coffin!Grifforazor via X-Ray while he spins himself for ten seconds and then opens his door, releasing chunks of gore entirely to the ground, including his/her decapitated head a result. Grifforazor then returns to his animal form after that. Spiritual Murder. Sweep distance.)
= MISC.: =
* Voice Actor: Steve Blum (English), Katsuyuki Konishi (Japanese), Gerardo Reyero (Latin American Spanish)
* Intro Sequence: Iron Crusher prepares his weapon hands as he says "IN THE NAME OF THE PAPAL STATES, I WILL PUNISH YOU!" before he goes to his fighting stance.
* Match Point Sequence: Iron Crusher turns to the camera and expels steam from his weapon arm (depending on how he's looking at his opponent in his winning round, it's either his spiked ball [right] or his hammer [left]), similar to Maxima.
* Victory Sequence: Iron Crusher spins his weaponized arms and then assumes a pose similar to Sentinel as he says "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!". Grifforazor then shows up flying before he lands to the ground with his owner.
* Stage: Papal States' Headquarters
* Rival: Rottex
= STORY MODE: =
== Prologue: ==
(Shows the book in one page a drawing of Iron Crusher doing his Metallic Blast move, followed by his name below, and then in the other page, a series of texts will show up with the following prologue here.)
The Papal States, a theocratic conjunction of territories, were formed in the year 754. The roots of it took place when the popular support of Italy's papacy and the independency of the Catholic Church were important factors for the Pope Gregory II to excommunicate the Byzantine Emperor Leo III.
Currently, the Pope Leo X is worried for the situation regarding the judgement day, he called the greatest minds in the region to create an automaton, codenamed Iron Crusher, under his supervision. Iron Crusher is built with a special metal called Vaticanium, a mineral blessed with God's will.
His duty is to protect mankind from anyone who's considered God's enemy, and his first target is Deathopia, whose ruler, Deathstructor, is orchestrating the end of the world as we know it. He will make sure his sacred mission will be a success.
== Stage 4 Interlude - VS. Tifa Eillan ==
=== Pre-Fight Cutscene: ===
(Scene takes place in Scottish Village. Tifa is seen running with some stolen properties, that is until she gets knocked out by Iron Crusher's still standing body.)
Iron Crusher: "STOP RIGHT THERE, THIEF!"
(Tifa gets up as she sees Iron Crusher.)
Tifa: "Who are you, piece of trash?"
Iron Crusher: "I AM IRON CRUSHER, AND BY ORDERS OF THE PAPAL STATES, RETURN THOSE THINGS BACK WHERE THEY BELONG!"
Tifa: "You are not my boss!"
Iron Crusher: "THIEVERY IS A CRIME THAT WILL BE PUNISHED BY THE LAW!"
Tifa: "Try it if you can! You're still not better than the authority!"
Iron Crusher: "DO NOT FORCE ME TO ATTACK YOU!"
(Iron Crusher does two Metallic Blasts in each arm respectively to Tifa, which she repels them with her daggers. Later, both are now in the square one.)
Tifa: "Whatever you are, I will not hesitate to melt your metallic body with my acid!"
Iron Crusher: "YOUR INTENTIONS ARE MORE CLEAR! I WILL PUNISH YOU RIGHT NOW!"
(Both are now in their fighting stances.)
=== After Match Cutscene: ===
(Tifa gets knocked out.)
Iron Crusher: "NOW! RETURN WHATEVER YOU STOLE!"
Tifa: "You got it!"
(Tifa gets up and retrieves to him what she stole, mainly gold coins.)
Iron Crusher: "YOU UNDERSTAND THAT STEALING IS BAD."
Tifa: "Okay, I understand... it's just that I want to be popular just like my goody two-shoes of a sister."
Iron Crusher: "WAIT A MINUTE! YOU HAVE A SISTER?"
Tifa: "Yes! Her name is Gretchen, the so-called Good Witch of Glasgow."
Iron Crusher: "FOR WHAT REASON DO YOU HAVE TO STEAL?"
Tifa: "You may not agree with what I do, but I'll show them that I'm the better sister than her."
Iron Crusher: "I GOT A SOLUTION FOR YOUR PROBLEM."
Tifa: "What is it?"
Iron Crusher: "STOP STEALING AND RECONCILE WITH YOUR SISTER."
Tifa: "I'd rather remain on jail than to reconcile with her!"
Iron Crusher: "OH! I UNDERSTAND."
(The guards show up and then they arrest Tifa.)
Tifa: "Guess what... I'm considering that suggestion into consideration. For now, I'm now staying in the prison."
Iron Crusher: "GOOD CHOICE... HOPE YOU REPENT FOR YOUR SINS SOON."
Tifa: "Thank you, whatever you are."
(The guards are now taking Tifa out of scene.)
Iron Crusher: "MY DUTY TO ERADICATE DEATHSTRUCTOR CONTINUES."
(Iron Crusher starts to fly and then he leaves the scene.)
== Fated Battle - VS. Rottex ==
=== Pre-Fight Cutscene: ===
(Scene takes place outside of Deathstructor's Castle, where we see dark brown mountains, a couple of bones and dark gray clouds that cover the entire sky, followed by lightning coming from said clouds.)
Iron Crusher: "DEATHSTRUCTOR WILL PAY FOR CORRUPTING GOD'S SACRED LAND."
(Just when Iron Crusher is almost stepping the bridge, a hooked chain hits him in the back and drags down to the ground. We see that Rottex is holding said hooked chain.)
Rottex: "Well well... look what I have here!"
(Fortunately, Iron Crusher repels the hook with his hammer back to Rottex.)
Iron Crusher: "STATE YOUR INTENTIONS, DEATHOPIAN!"
Rottex: "I'm looking for the metal used in your construction to upgrade my torture tools."
Iron Crusher: "IS THAT ENOUGH THAT YOU KILL YOUR VICTIMS AND USE THEIR FLESH AS YOURS?"
Rottex: "I need more, living machine!"
(Iron Crusher and Rottex are clashing knife-to-spiked ball for ten seconds before they retreat back to the square one.)
Iron Crusher: "THE METAL USED FOR MY CREATION IS NOT YOURS FOR THE TAKING!"
Rottex: "Then I will take it by force now!"
(Both are now in their fighting stances.)
== After Match Cutscene: ==
(Rottex is unconscious but still capable of talking while Iron Crusher is appointing his spike ball arm to him.)
Rottex: "I have failed!"
Iron Crusher: "YOU HAVE SOMETHING MORE TO SAY BEFORE I ERADICATE YOU?"
(Rottex starts to get up slowly as Iron Crusher stops appointing.)
Rottex: "I was created using the body parts of warriors killed by Deathstructor. However, since they tend to rot, I need to change parts to sustain myself."
Iron Crusher: "SO THAT MEANS YOU NEED TO EXTRACT THEIR BODY PARTS TO CHANGE THEM FOR YOUR PERSONAL SURVIVAL."
Rottex: "However, the only part necessary to maintain is the brain used in my creation."
Iron Crusher: *he scans Rottex* "THE BRAIN YOU HAVE... BELONGED TO A FAMOUS KNIGHT."
(Rottex then realizes the error of his actions.)
Rottex: "What I have done? I'm a monster... literally."
Iron Crusher: "AND A TRAGIC ONE... PROMISE ME TO ATONE YOURSELF FOR YOUR PAST SINS."
Rottex: "I will, God's chosen machine!"
Iron Crusher: "IF YOU EXCUSE ME, I WILL ERADICATE DEATHSTRUCTOR AND SAVE MANKIND!"
(Iron Crusher runs towards Deathstructor's castle.)
== Sub-Boss Cutscene: ==
(We cut to Deathstructor's lair as we hear his laugh as he sees Iron Crusher through a crystal ball.)
Deathstructor: "So you have decided to fight me... However, this isn't going to happen soon."
(Deathstructor's skeletal right hand glows to the crystal ball. We cut to the castle with Iron Crusher walking towards, as a black energy teleports him to a platform in a cave with lava surrounding it.)
Iron Crusher: "MY DATABASE DOESN'T COMPUTE THIS MOMENT."
(We hear an animal growl for a while. Then, an hybrid creature starts to land the ground with a huge shockwave.)
Mantigore: "Not even a machine is going to step Deathopia!"
Iron Crusher: "MANTIGORE, STOP SELLING YOUR SOUL TO THE PROFANE ONE."
Mantigore: "You cannot order me to obey your orders!"
Iron Crusher: "DON'T MAKE ME FIGHT YOU, ANCIENT SPIRIT!"
(Mantigore screams in front of Iron Crusher. The latter is now in his combat stance afterwards.)
Mantigore: "You think an automaton like you can stop me?"
Iron Crusher: "I WILL MAKE YOU REACT RIGHT NOW!"
== Final Boss Cutscene: ==
(Mantigore gets up easily.)
Mantigore: "What strength! You are really a killing machine!"
Iron Crusher: "I AM MORE OF A DEFENDER OF MANKIND, IF YOU THINK IT WELL."
Mantigore: "I am sorry for all the bad things I said."
Iron Crusher: "GLAD TO HEAR IT!"
Mantigore: "My time here is over... go to his throne room as I'm going to rest myself peacefully at my homeland."
(Mantigore's eyes start to close as his ethereal body starts to disappear in front of him.)
Iron Crusher: "REST WELL, MANTIGORE."
(We cut to Deathstructor's lair, as he gets angry for Mantigore's vanishing, seeing through a crystal ball.)
Deathstructor: "That machine just defeated Mantigore? If this is true, I will show him that even he will be destroyed by me!"
(Deathstructor's skeletal right hand glows to the crystal ball. We cut back to the cave as Iron Crusher is feeling a strange sensation.)
Iron Crusher: "DEATHOPIA, HERE I COME!"
(Dark energies causes Iron Crusher to be teleported to Deathstructor's throne room, a place located in the top of the castle, decorated in dark fantasy architecture. Deathstructor is seen sitting in his black throne.)
Deathstructor: "Welcome, God's chosen wonder!"
Iron Crusher: "I FINALLY FOUND YOU, CORRUPTER OF EARTH!"
Deathstructor: "That I am, Deathstructor, future harbinger of the upcoming apocalypse!"
Iron Crusher: "YOU WILL BE CONDEMNED TO HELL FOR YOUR NEFARIOUS CRIMES!"
Deathstructor: "No! I don't want to end up in the Negative Dimension where is ruled by a red-skinned lazy devil, who by the way, was created by your precious God!"
Iron Crusher: "YOU MEAN SATAN? BETTER NOT DARE TO INSULT GOD'S NAME IN VAIN!"
Deathstructor: "God is not that good either! Do you remember who created you?"
Iron Crusher: "YES! I AM CREATED BY THE GREATEST MINDS OF THE PAPAL STATES UNDER SUPERVISION OF POPE LEO X!"
Deathstructor: "They are scientists! What does matter is that science doesn't get well with religion! As a matter of fact, there will be a time that science will discredit religion and cause rifts between both sectors. And don't get me started with religious wars where they killed people in the name of God!"
Iron Crusher: "THOSE PERSONS ABUSED GOD'S WORD, BUT MANY OF THEM LATER REPENTED FOR THEIR SINS."
(Deathstructor unearths his scythe, Black Cleaver, out of the ground and grabs it as he starts to walk outside of his throne to the square one in front of Iron Crusher.)
Deathstructor: "Ignorant piece of scrap! That's why I'm restarting my undead invasion, and you wouldn't stop it from happening."
Iron Crusher: "YOU WILL NEVER GET AWAY WITH THE CONQUEST! YOU WILL BE ERADICATED!"
Deathstructor: "Enough! I will break every metallic part of your body right now!"
(Iron Crusher is now assuming in his combat stance.)
== Ending cutscene: ==
(Deathstructor is defeated, however he gets up easily.)
Deathstructor: "Impossible, how a machine like you defeated me?"
Iron Crusher: "SURRENDER NOW, DEATHSTRUCTOR... EVIL WILL NEVER WIN!"
Deathstructor: "I'd rather say, good will never win!"
(Deathstructor runs towards Iron Crusher and attempts to attack him, but is countered by his spiked ball, impaling the skeletal ruler in the chest for five seconds and then pulls off. Deathstructor starts to feel that his ironic death is starting now.)
Deathstructor: "You don't understand the consequences of this!"
Iron Crusher: "DEATH IS JUST PART OF THE CYCLE OF LIFE AND YOU USED IT FOR EVIL. FOR THAT REASON, YOU ARE HISTORY!"
(Iron Cruher leaves the castle as the components of it are starting to fall while energy waves are starting to surround Deathstructor.)
Deathstructor: "God will abandon you soon, Iron Crusher!"
(The waves cause Deathstructor to explode into bones. We cut to Iron Crusher leaving the castle and summons Grifforazor and combines with him to escape by flying as the Deathopian castle is falling into pieces. We cut later to the Papal States' Headquarters as Iron Crusher lands back to home safely, much to the joy of the Pope Leo X and the monks.)
Iron Crusher: "MISSION COMPLETE, POPE!"
Pope Leo X: "Glad you saved the world, Iron Crusher. I am more than happy to see this wonder succeed!"
Iron Crusher: "I GOT A QUESTION THAT I WANT YOU TO TELL."
Pope Leo X: "Tell me... I am all ears."
Iron Crusher: "IT'S TRUE THAT SCIENCE WILL BE AGAINST RELIGION?"
Pope Leo X: "Who told you that nonsense?"
Iron Crusher: "DEATHSTRUCTOR."
Pope Leo X: *sighs* "Listen, not because you're built with basis on science does mean it will be clashing against the word of God. Everyone is capable to think as they consider neccessary."
Iron Crusher: "AND WHAT IF PEOPLE WILL STOP BELIEVING IN GOD? WILL THEY BE BRANDED AS HERETICS AS HE SAID?"
Pope Leo X: "What he told you is a lie. If people are no longer believing in God, they will turn as atheists and nothing more. This is just a misconception from his part."
Iron Crusher: "THANKS FOR INFORMING ME, POPE."
Pope Leo X: "I am always here to help anyone in need."
Iron Crusher: "BY THE WAY, I NEED A FIX. ARE MY CREATORS HERE?"
Pope Leo X: "Of course!"
Iron Crusher: "THANK YOU, GOD ALMIGHTY!"
(Later, we see Iron Crusher, recently fixed from his battle damage, standing in Saint Peter's Plaza, looking at the skies.)
Iron Crusher: "THE WORLD IS BEAUTIFUL, AND NO MATTER WHICH PROBLEMS ARE PRESENT, GOD WILL BE ALWAYS THERE TO HELP EACH ONE OF US TO SOLVE THEM."
(Then, he's approached by a group of orphaned kids, two boys and one girl, as he talks with them.)
Iron Crusher: "WHAT DO YOU NEED, KIDS?"
Orphaned Boy #1: "Mister, we need food and a shelter."
Iron Crusher: "I SEE... EACH ONE OF YOU DON'T HAVE PARENTS?"
Orphaned Girl: "They passed away years ago, and the orphanage is too far from our reach."
Iron Crusher: "DON'T WORRY. IRON CRUSHER, SAVIOR OF MANKIND, IS HERE TO HELP YOU."
(Grifforazor shows up flying from the sky.)
Orphaned Boy #1: "What's this metallic creature?"
Iron Crusher: "HIS NAME IS GRIFFORAZOR, MY ANIMAL SPIRIT."
Orphaned Boy #2: "Awesome!"
Orphaned Girl: "Can you accompany us to the orphanage?"
Iron Crusher: "SURE!"
(The kids mount on Grifforazor as Iron Crusher starts to fly, and so does his animal spirit.)
Orphaned Girl: "Great, we can finally enjoy moments with the other kids."
Orphaned Boy #1: "That is until someone adopts us!"
Orphaned Boy #2: "Thank you, Iron Crusher!"
Iron Crusher: "GOD IS ALWAYS HERE TO HELP US!"
(The last scene has Iron Crusher flying towards the camera with Grifforazor doing the same with the kids mounted on the animal as the screen freezes the frame and zooms out, revealing it as a painting with a metallic picture. After that, the screen fades black.)
(Avril Lavigne's "Keep Holding On" starts playing as the credits which background is accompanied of a papyrus with ink-stained reflections of the Animal Spirits while the credits are rolling.)
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