Orchid (Killer Instincts)

Orchid, also known as Black Orchid and B. Orchid, is one of the main protagonists from the Killer Instinct series.
== Charactah Account ==
An agent of a mysterious origin who's tasked with infiltrating Ultratech's tournament and shutting down their operations. Her actions at the end of KI1 caused a rip in the timestream and thrust Ultratech back in time by 2000 years.
A steadfast and intrepid servicewoman, Orchid's life changed dramatically when she was sent to investigate a RUMINTabout the sinister ambitions and sprawling web of influence of the supposedly defunct Ultratech. Quickly uncovering that the corporation not only remains active but in fact has never been as powerful, Orchid becomes targeted by Ultratech's enigmatic CEO, ARIA, after she gathers information that threatens to expose the full extent of the company's influence over governments, mass media, financial institutions and the military-industrial complex.
Soon disavowed by her own organization and labelled a dangerous rogue, the Black Orchid responds by making Ultratech's smears her own, and establishes an underground spy network of agents who were similarly brought to ruin by the megacorporation. Bereft of official support, under severe psychological strain and in constant danger, ARIA expected Orchid to falter. But the secret agent instead embarks on a crusade against Ultratech, and starts building out the Disavowed into a fully-fledged paramilitary resistance movement, bent on strategically sabotaging ARIA's operations across the world.
== Appearance ==
=== Comics ===
* Killer Instinct
* Killer Instinct Nintendo Power Exclusive Edition
* Killer Instinct Special
* Men of Mystery Comics
* Nintendo Power
=== Video Games ===
* Killer Instinct
* Killer Instinct (2013)
* Killer Instinct 2
* Killer Instinct Gold
* Rare Replay
== Trivia ==
* B. Orchid's "retro" costume in Killer Instinct (2013) initially was to be modeled after her noted looks from Killer Instinct 2, but this idea became shelved, and the costume was instead based on her original 1994 arcade appearance.
* Orchid's famed "boobs flash" Ultimate in Killer Instinct (1994) appears to be inducing a fatal case of Stendhal's syndrome in all of her male opponents.
** Conversely, if the opposing character is another B. Orchid, she'll stomp her heels on the ground in a fit of frustrated jealousy.
* Throughout the KI games, Orchid is consistently portrayed as being the nemesis of the global megacorporation Ultratech. In KI 2013, this story angle is taken to the next level with the introduction of ARIA—the "woman" CEO of Ultratech and B. Orchid's ultimate adversary, with the colliding two alpha females unsurprisingly having a tiny little bit of enmity between them.
* The lyrics to Orchid's newest pop music song for KI 2013, titled "Touch Me And I'll Break Your Face", seem directed specially at ARIA (and the colorful line ♫ You'll never see me coming, b*tch! ♫ in particular), as they're singing into words Orchid's fearless defiance of Ultratech.
** Similarly, the line ♫ Please man, I'm outta your league! ♫ appears a jab aimed at Cinder, ARIA's lieutenant and enforcer, who like Orchid has a distinguished service record in the US special forces in his backstory for KI (2013).
* During B. Orchid's intro for KI 2013, a voice from an unseen communication device is heard, saying "Orchid, confirm visual." and "What's your time estimate?". This is one of the secret agents of the Disavowed, her underground network engaging in global asymmetric warfare against ARIA.
* Orchid's mysterious ethnicity is a source of conjecture among KI's fans, who in the aggregate assert she's anything from Caucasian (KI 2013) to (Eur)asian (1996 KI comics) to a Latina and Black woman (KI2). However, the only official details about B. Orchid's private background is that she's American-born, that Jago is her younger half-brother; and that their father was a soldier named Jacob.
** With much of Orchid's personal life being classified as a state secret of the US government, her real name or true identity has yet to be revealed.
* During the pre-alpha development of Killer Instinct (1994), then under the placeholder "Brute Force", the Black Orchid's design wasn't yet finalized, and there was a cancelled and more generic prototype of Orchid called Roxxy or Wanda.
* B. Orchid's animation while shape shifting into the "firecat" in Killer Instinct 2 is recycled from the first game. If watched closely, her sprite can briefly be seen to revert to its original 1994 arcade model.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Orchid at Killer Instinct Wiki
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