Morrigan Aensland

Morrigan Aensland is one of the main characters from the Darkstalker series.
== Charactah Account ==
Morrigan is the daughter of Belial Aensland, born with power that rivaled S class high nobles. Fearing that Morrigan would lose control of that power, Belial split her soul in half, taking part of her power. But since the two halves of her soul were trying to return to each other, Belial further split one half of her soul into two in order to weaken the drawing effect. And so Morrigan's soul was split into three: half of the soul was in herself, another 1/4 was sealed in Belial's body and the last 1/4 was sealed in a separate dimension, and it eventually materialized as her "sister," Lilith.
But Morrigan grew up not knowing anything about the above events. She spent her days as a rebellious Pprincess. It's only after her father's death that she starts taking things seriously. While trying to end the power struggle in Makai, she was sucked into Jedah's Majigen dimension, where she met Lilith, and after some fighting, reunited with her and gained immense power.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge
=== Cartoons ===
* Darkstalkers the Animated Series
=== Manga ===
* Darkstalkers/Red Earth: Maleficarum
* Vampire Savior
=== Video Games ===
* Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium
* Capcom Digital Collection
* Capcom Fighting Collection
* Capcom Fighting Evolution
* Capcom vs. SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium
* Capcom vs. SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium 2001
* Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Fight 2000
* Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Fight 2000 Pro
* Cross Edge
* Darkstalkers 3
* Darkstalkers Chronicle: The Chaos Tower
* Darkstalkers Resurrection
* Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors
* Gunbird 2
* Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes
* Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds
* Marvel vs. Capcom Origins
* Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes
* Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite
* Minna to Akashic Heroes
* Minna to Capcom All Stars
* Namco x Capcom
* NeoGeo Pocket Color Selection Vol.1
* Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge
* Onimusha Soul
* Pocket Fighter
* Project X Zone
* Project X Zone 2
* Puzzle Fighter
* SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters 2
* SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters Clash
* SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters DS
* SNK vs. Capcom: Match of the Millennium
* Street Fighter Alpha 2
* Street Fighter Alpha Anthology
* Street Fighter Battle Combination
* Street Fighter x All Capcom
* Super Gem Fighter Mini Mix
* Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo
* Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix
* Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Cross Generation of Heroes
* Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars
* Teppen
* Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3
* Vampire Chronicle for Matching Service
* Vampire Hunter 2
* Vampire Savior 2
* Vampire: Darkstalkers Collection
* We Love Golf!
== Trivia ==
* She was named after the homonymous Celtic crow goddess.
** "The Morrigan" are interpreted sometimes as three sisters/godesses. Coincidentally Morrigan was going to have two characters in concept art for Vampire Savior as her siblings (one as her older half-angel sister, the other as "Belial Jr"). They would later become Lilith and Jedah Dohma. This would have made them three siblings in total.
* Morrigan's "Darkness Illusion" command would later be used and standardized by Akuma as the standard "Shun Goku Satsu" command.
* ﻿It has been a running joke (and a point of criticism) among fans that Morrigan has used the same idle, movement and signature attack sprites since her first appearance. The introduction of her 3D character model in Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Cross Generation of Heroes finally changed this feature.
* Like Felicia, Morrigan was voiced consistently in the games up to Cross Edge by her original voice actress, Yayoi Jinguji. As of Marvel vs. Capcom 3 she is now voiced by Rie Tanaka, who was also the voice of Ciel in the Mega Man Zero series.
* In the animated series (where she is voiced by Saffron Henderson), Morrigan is given a Scottish accent. This idea is revisited in Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds (although her English voice actress, Siobhan Flynn, is Welsh), but the accent frequently turns English or disappears altogether.
* Kathleen Barr, who voices Morrigan in the English dub of the OVA, had previously voiced Harry's mother in the animated series.
* Lili Rochefort in Tekken 6 can be customized to resemble Morrigan.
* Morrigan was the first female Capcom character announced for Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds.
* In Marvel vs. Capcom 3 her rival is the superhero Iron Man.
* Morrigan appears in Wolverine's ending in Marvel vs. Capcom 3. Where, after defeating Galactus Wolverine goes to a gentlemans club and cross paths with Morrigan, who is one of the dancers. When she tries to get his attention, he asks if she is looking for something, she says that isn't the reaction she's used to getting. She then ask if he would like to "step outside" when she's done. While annoyed, he agrees, but request to finish his drink first.
* Morrigan is implicitly bisexual. However, aside from some flirting quotes she never explicitly shows any real attraction to women as much as men, and most medias, crossover and galleries features her seducing just men.
* In Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Morrigan received a DLC costume based on an outfit she wore in Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge OVA, and similarly in one of her winning poses. This outfit was also available for free when pre-ordering the game from GameStop as the costume is grouped with the Femme Fatale pack that includes alternate costumes for X-23, Storm, and Chun-Li.
* In Skullgirls, one of Ms. Fortune's color palettes is a reference to Morrigan, as is one of Litchi's in BlazBlue.
* Morrigan has been revealed alongside Captain America in the extended gameplay trailer for Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite, implying that they may be featured together in the games' cinematic story mode. This however, was revealed to be false as when the game came out, they never actually interact with each other directly.
* In Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite, her rival is Ghost Rider.
* According to Darkstalkers Graphic File it implies that Morrigan is able to sense Lilith's voice and emotions which send waves of heat through her chest. This possibly explains why even though she saw Lilith as a complete stranger, she was still able to sense her as a part of her soul. It is unknown why after they merged Morrigan still sees her as a stranger, calling her "that girl" in her ending, and even questions if her new feelings were because of her. This might be because while souls being split and the split half "instinctively" finding it's other half has been a thing to happen before, Lilith is the first time a soul has been known to gain sentience and a body of it's own so this is a new experience to happen in general.
* Similar to Felicia, there is an error/mistake where in some of her sprites and artwork her eyes are the wrong color. Canonically they are green but sometimes can appear as auburn, yellow, blue or a tan brown. The reason for this in games could be because of sprite limitations.
* There is an error in Morrigan's story claiming that her biological family are "Aensland family succubi" despite being an adopted relative of the Aensland family, none of which have members mentioned or confirmed to be succubi.
** It is possible that Morrigan's biological family were just succubi that live in the Aensland owned parts of Makai (similar to how soul bees come from the lands owned by the Dohma family, although this is complicated by the notion that she was born in Scotland), a simple writing mistake, the two families share a last name for unexplained reasons, or the developers wanted to keep the true last name of Morrigan's biological family a secret so they used her adoptive last name as some type of replacement.
* Despite being an anti-hero in canon, most adaptations outside games tend to portray Morrigan incorrectly as an outright evil character at worst and an morally ambiguous at best, most notable the Udon comics and the USA cartoon, due to her portrayal as a succubus, which has a historically evil lore.
** Morrigan's desire for souls in such portrayals is justified as humans being nothing else than food and that she sees no problem tricking, manipulating, abusing and killing them to get their souls, thinking that giving them "eternal bliss" justifies everything she does to them. However, Morrigan in official materials from Capcom has a specific way of obtaining equivalent nourishment without killing, so feeding on souls may be out of desperation or if confronted/provoked.
** Despite her portrayal in the Udon comics being evil and not well liked by fans, Matt Moylan (Udon's director of publishing) has refused to acknowledge or admit that version as either evil or inaccurate with Morrigan. On the contrary, he claims that her being as a succubus is the reason for such portrayal, with apparently no intent to amend the inaccuracy.
** There is another common mischaracterization of Morrigan that she is one of the mature, "intellectual" and responsible characters instead of the rebellious and carefree princess who prefers to live in the moment rather than think things out. This could be because some adaptations like the UDON comics portray her as a responsible noble from the start rather than a trait developed later on like in Lilith's ending for Vampire Savior. There can also be the confusion of her having more "dark" and adult themes with having a dark and mature personality.
* Her ending in Tatsunoko vs. Capcom reveals that she enjoys video games.
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== External Links ==
* Morrigan Aensland at Darkstalkopedia
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