Mantigore

= HOW TO UNLOCK: =
Complete Story Mode with the 16 initial characters
= GAMEPLAY INFO: =
== Special Moves: ==
* Spirit Beam: QCF + S (He launches an aether sphere from his mouth.)
* Raging Claw: HCF + S (He does an X-shaped slash attack to his opponent, similar to Necalli's The Disc's Guidance.)
* Feet Shock: Tap D three times + K (He stomps the ground with his right feet, creating white wave that trips his opponent.)
* Wing Crush: HCB + S (He grabs his opponent with his wings and slams him/her upwards to the ground.)
* Tail Cut: QCB + K (He extends his tail and strikes his opponent with it, knocking him/her to the ground.)
== Spirit Summons: ==
* Illusion Strike: HCF + S and K (He creates a spiritual duplicate of himself and twirls himself like a diving torpedo, hitting his opponent five times.)
* Illusion Dive: HCB + S and K (He creates a spiritual duplicate of himself, and grabs his opponent, throwing him/her to the other side.)
== Limit Breaks: ==
* Spirit Cannon: QCFx2 + S (He launches a huge aether beam to his opponent, hitting him/her ten times in succession.)
* Beastly Slam: HCBx2 + S (He grabs his opponent and does a spinning Izuna Drop, slamming him/her to the ground.)
* Force of Aether*: F, HCF + 3S (Mantigore prepares with a roar, jumps closer and then grabs his opponent with his left hand. By grabbing, he starts to emmanate his aether essence around his body as he starts to raise himself with his opponent by jumping higher, crushing his opponent to the "roof", invoking a camera lens-shattering effect at contact. He then switches the maneuver and finishes with a powerful stomp drop with his feet on his opponent's torso, slamming him/her to the ground as it unleashes a powerful aether explosion from the impact and then gets off of the hold.)
* = Requires the Maximum Brave Meter to perform
== Murder Acts: ==
* Hybrid Reckoning: B, F, U, D + HK (Mantigore uses his tail to implale his opponent's chest and drags closely to him. Then, he grabs his opponent and rips the parts inside of his/her torso and then he takes his horns off to impale his/her eyes, making his opponent bleeding. Lastly he uses his claw hand to put the head inside of the chest as his opponent falls out dead. Mantigore roars in triumph. Physical Murder. Sweep distance.)
* Aetherial Vanquishment: F, F, B, D + LS (Mantigore transforms into his aetherial self and introduces himself towards his opponent. We see how he/she is starting to react strangely and then gets exploded in gory pieces as Mantigore returns to his physical self, roaring as a signal of victory. Spiritual Murder. Sweep distance.)
= MISC.: =
* Voice Actor: J.G. Hertzler (English), Hiroaki Hirata (Japanese), Raúl Solo (Latin American Spanish)
* Intro Sequence: Mantigore is seen flying for a while and then lands to the scene. He starts to roar and later says "You shall not pass!" before he goes to his primal stance.
* Match Point Sequence: Mantigore assumes a furious stance with his extended arms as he roars loudly.
* Victory Sequence: Mantigore just looks at his off-screen opponent as he says "What a dissapointment!". Then he starts to soar himself upwards and then expels all of his aether energy by extending his entire body before he crosses his arms, similar to Ermac's MKX victory sequence.
* Stage: Core of Earth
= STORY MODE: =
== Prologue: ==
(Shows the book in one page a drawing of Mantigore roaring with his arms extended, followed by his name below, and then in the other page, a series of texts will show up with the following prologue here.)
Before the origin of Earth, there are alternate dimensions, each one with their own species, civilizations and lifestyles. One of the aforementioned ones is the Ghost Dimension, a world of spiritual beings. They feuded up with their sworn enemies, the Deathopians, for a long time.
The Ancients summoned a portal, which led the spirits to travel to Earth when it first formed. One of the Ancients is Mantigore, an hybrid creature who gained sentinence on his own. He watched over mankind when they fought against the skeletal lord 1,000 years ago.
Unfortunately, Mantigore fed up with mankind due to their involvement in the hate wars that caused Deathstructor's unsealing. His fury led to him reclutantely joining forces with the enemy of his people as a revenge plan against the humans... but that's not what it seems.
== Fated Battle ==
=== 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. Deathstructor is seen standing as Mantigore comes to scene.)
Mantigore: "I finally defeated the rest of the BeastKnights as you indicated, master."
Deathstructor: "Very well! However, this means I'm no longer needing you."
Mantigore: "What? Are you trying to discard me?"
Deathstructor: "Absolutely... now that you take off the competition for me, you are now expendable. In fact... someone's coming!"
(A random warrior comes to scene in front of Mantigore.)
Mantigore: "What's the meaning of this!"
Deathstructor: "I'm preparing the apocalypse soon... enjoy your torture against the last remaining Tamer."
(Deathstructor laughs and then disappears, much to the shock of Mantigore. Then, Mantigore looks to the random warrior and goes to his fighting stance.)
Mantigore: "I don't know why, but you need a lesson to teach!"
== After Match Cutscene: ==
(Mantigore stands to the defeated warrior.)
Mantigore: "What's the meaning of this?"
(An illusion of Deathstructor's head shows up in front of Mantigore.)
Deathstructor: "Just as I imagined... no more Tamers!"
Mantigore: "Listen, I lost valuable time because of you!"
Deathstructor: "You don't understand what it means, right?"
Mantigore: "I now changed my perception towards mankind!"
Deathstructor: "If you want to complain me, go to my castle. Regardless, I will kill you!"
(Deathstructor laughs as his illusion dissipates.)
Mantigore: "Sooner or later, he will pay for backstabbing me!"
(Mantigore flies towards Deathstructor's castle.)
== Penultimate Battle Cutscene - VS. Shadoz: ==
(We cut to Deathstructor's lair as he sees Mantigore through a crystal ball.)
Mantigore: "I have fed up with your treachery, Deathstructor!"
Deathstructor: *laughs* "You are so impertinent... and pitiful."
Mantigore: "Sooner or later, I will rip each bone of your skeletal body!"
Deathstructor: "However, my loyal Shadoz will await you in the cave to kill you."
(Deathstructor's skeletal right hand glows to the crystal ball. We cut to the castle with Mantigore as a black energy teleports him to a platform in a cave with lava surrounding it.)
Mantigore: "I'm back... to home?"
(A wisp shows up and it summons a portal, showing Shadoz in front of Mantigore.)
Shadoz: "No... you're in the core of Earth."
Mantigore: "So you must be Shadoz, the loyal soldier of Deathstructor."
Shadoz: "My master ordered your physical vanquishment by my blade."
Mantigore: "I know your ulterior motives."
(Shadoz commands his wisp to summon his dark sword as he grabs it and challenges Mantigore.)
Shadoz: "Is that so? How smart from your part!"
Mantigore: "Not sure if you said that as sarcasm or are you wasting my time?"
Shadoz: "Then you will be history, old timer!"
(Mantigore accepts his challenge and goes to his primal stance.)
== Final Boss Cutscene: ==
(Shadoz is seen unconscious, but still capable of talking.)
Mantigore: "Tell me, why did Deathstructor sent you?
Shadoz: "I'm his loyal henchman, and he ordered me your extinction."
Mantigore: "Liar! I sense that you're trying to take his place!"
Shadoz: "Enough of your insolence, Mantigore! His rule will be eternal!"
Mantigore: "Mankind is in danger! And you only think in a takeover?"
Shadoz: "You will never eradicate him!"
(Mantigore then stomps on Shadoz, passing him out.)
Mantigore: "That's enough!"
(We cut to Deathstructor's lair, as he gets angry for Shadoz' defeat, seeing through a crystal ball.)
Deathstructor: "Traitor! How you dare to defeat Shadoz that way?"
Mantigore: "I want to talk with you personally!"
Deathstructor: "All right! But remember, you are making a big mistake!"
(Deathstructor's skeletal right hand glows to the crystal ball. We cut back to the cave as Mantigore is feeling a strange sensation.)
Mantigore: "I'm almost there! Just wait!"
(Dark energies causes Mantigore 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 to your doom, Mantigore!"
Mantigore: "Your time is over, Deathstructor!"
Deathstructor: "How dare you to talk to the future harbinger of apocalypse this way?"
Mantigore: "Because I finally opened my eyes! Mankind deserves another chance!"
Deathstructor: "Mankind is not worth for what I care!"
Mantigore: "And that's why you plan to turn them into undead?"
Deathstructor: "Not only that! I will extract your very spirit essence and use it to make me indestructible!"
Mantigore: "To me and a few more?"
Deathstructor: "That's the idea, Ancient Spirit."
Mantigore: "You are mad!"
(Mantigore flies towards Deathstructor and attempts to attack, but the latter pushes him down back to the square one. Mantigore gets up as 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 Mantigore.)
Deathstructor: "To be honest, I convinced you to join my army so we can become supreme rulers of the dimensions!"
Mantigore: "I don't need to enslave every living thing... and that includes humans."
Deathstructor: "But since you tried to oust me, I will purge you forever!"
(Mantigore is now assuming in his combat stance.)
== Ending cutscene: ==
(Deathstructor is defeated, however he gets up easily.)
Deathstructor: "Mantigore... I will never forgive you for this insult!"
Mantigore: "You are causing harm to this world and I can't allow you to continue!"
Deathstructor: "You cur!"
(Deathstructor runs towards Mantigore and attempts to attack him, but is countered by his scorpion tail, 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: "Why this is happening to me? Why?"
Mantigore: "My time here is over... you are now history as I'm going to rest myself peacefully at my homeland."
(Mantigore disappears as the components of it are starting to fall while energy waves are starting to surround Deathstructor.)
Deathstructor: "I wish I never hired you, Mantigore!"
(The waves cause Deathstructor to explode into bones. We cut to the Deathopian castle is falling into pieces. We cut later to the Ghost Dimension as Mantigore reappears.)
Mantigore: "I'm back... to home."
(Mantigore sees that he actually returned to his home dimension as various random ownerless Animal Spirits recognize him.)
Mantigore: "I can't believe it! They really missed me!"
(Then we see a caucasian redhead woman wearing a white maiden dress wielding an Oracle Wand landing to scene. Her name is Maria Iolkos, the spirit of a dead Greek maiden. She starts to talk with Mantigore.)
Maria (voiced by Maria Kanellis): "Everything is right, Mantigore."
Mantigore: "Did you bring me back?"
Maria: "Actually, you returned on your own."
Mantigore: "Guess my time in the Human Dimension has really ended after I eradicated Deathstructor."
Maria: "Well... what do you think of Earth?"
Mantigore: "To be honest, the humans of Earth have their flaws, but then I realized that not all of them are bad."
Maria: "I used to be a living human, but I understand your point."
(Maria conjures a projection from her Oracle Wand, showing how they are living in Earth.)
Mantigore: "They have potential to protect their homeland, but I have a feeling that they even have the chance to save more dimensions than their own."
(In the projection, we see Rudolph training a new generation of Shining Knights in a grassland.)
Mantigore: "Like this knight I see right here."
Maria: "Wait a minute... do you know him?"
Mantigore: "Rudolph is a brave warrior that inherited his late father's sense of justice. After quitting from Henry VIII's services, he decides to turn the Shining Knights as an independent unit."
(The projection changes to Gretchen teaching magic to the kids in her lab.)
Maria: "And I assume she's also a potential savior."
Mantigore: "That's right! Gretchen is a witch that was wrongfully accused for something that never did, but she has proven to her citizens her wit to stand up against the forces of evil. She's now teaching magic to the youth."
(The projection disappears as Mantigore sees his fellow Ancients inside the Ancient Chamber. The Ancients are currently composed of anthromorphic spirits known as Sphinxer [the Egyptian Feline], Cipactlan [the Aztec Lizard], Minotaros [the Greek Bull], Fenrigg [the Scandinavian Wolf] and Kappazaki [the Japanese Tortoise].)
Maria: "Guess the Ancients are awaiting your return."
Mantigore: "That's right! I'm returning to my duties as a guardian of the dimensions."
(Mantigore and Maria continue conversing as they are now walking to the Ancients' Chamber. The camera starts to focus in the sky of the Ghost Dimension as an aetherial duplicate of Mantigore appears floating in the air.)
Mantigore (v/o): "The fate of the dimensions are now in your hands, brave humans!"
(The duplicate fades away and then 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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