John Holt

# DOWNLOADABLE CONTENT INFO:

DLC character comes with theatre themed costumes for Iván Díaz (Hamlet), Joaquín Ortíz (Danny Suko), Tomas Cristiano (Phantom of the Opera) and Natalie Volkova (Glinda the Good Witch). Also comes with a patch which allows you to fight against Valerie Hickenbottom in Story and Online modes for free if she's not yet downloaded.

# GAMEPLAY INFO:

## Special Moves:

* *Opera Scream:* HCF + P (He screams in tenor, creating a wave that stuns his opponent. His Super Rhythmic version, *Opera Shout*, increases the range of the scream, causing to stun him/her farther.)
* *Palm Strikes:* Hold B for 3 seconds, F + P (He does three hand slaps towards his opponent. Serves as a Combo Opener. His Super Rhythmic version, *Palm Barrage*, does many palms similar to E. Honda's Hundred Hand Slap.)
* *Belly Splash:* Hold B for 3 seconds, F + K (He pushes his opponent with his stomach. Serves as a Combo Opener. His Super Rhythmic version, *Belly Banzai*, spins himself while doing the attack and adds four hits in succession.)
* *Belly Block:* HCB + P (He assumes a defensive stance with his stomach. When his opponent attacks, he uses his stomach to send his opponent farther. When done in a KI-Styled Rhythm Combo, the attack is performed immediately. His Super Rhythmic version, *Belly Barrier*, allows him to reflect his opponent's projectiles with his stomach at contact.)

## Ultra Rhythmic Move:

*Prime Opera Rikishi:* Spin the directionals at 360 + 3P (John prepares by slapping his chest with his right palm while he says "Banzai!" and attempts to grab. If the move connects, he grabs his opponent from the torso with his right hand and slams him/her to the ground and then he jumps far followed by him doing a belly splash followed by him shouting in tenor, hitting him/her and then steps away.)

# MISC.:

* Voice Actor: Dan Castellaneta (English), Wataru Hatano (Japanese), Humberto Vélez (Latin American Spanish)
* Intro Sequence: John is seen walking and then throws green confetti as he says "Let the show begin!" before he goes to his Sumopera stance.
* Match Point Sequence: John drinks his bottle of water as he says "Tiresome, is it?" after the drink.
* Victory Sequence: John does a power clap, then rises his hands upwards and later does his hand slap. Lime green colored light streaks follow him post-sequence.
* Stage: National Opera House *(BGM: Paul Potts' rendition of "Nessun Dorma" by Giacomo Puccini)*

## After-Match Quotes:

* (Mirror Match) "Sorry, man. There can be only one Opera Pedigree."
* (vs. Carlos) "Kastor told me about you. I see your true potential to the greatness."
* (vs. Joaquín) "How strange! Your way of flirting ladies does not suit you well."
* (vs. Rina) "Talented as always! My daughter is a longtime fan of your music!"
* (vs. Adriana) "We got the same motivations, young lady. Keep going forward!"
* (vs. Iván) "Glad that you stand up against criminals and other bad people."
* (vs. Takeru) "I cannot forgive your father for sending his own men against you."
* (vs. Murdock) "There are more ways to control your anger than revenge. Think about it."
* (vs. Shantel) "Those abs! I never saw things earlier on a woman!"
* (vs. Jacob) "What a shame! You should realize that somebody is using you!"
* (vs. Natalie) "Is this the correct way of fighting? You almost caused me an injury."
* (vs. Damian) "You should respect more to your elders more often, boy."
* (vs. Garrett) "Your shouts lack finesse... try to improve it more!"
* (vs. Reggie) "Those men who attempt to hurt Mother Nature will pay, sir."
* (vs. Tomas) "I heard you need money for your carnival. As a compensation, I am donating my money."
* (vs. Fong) "Wacky acting as ever! My eldest son has watched all of your movies."
* (vs. Kastor) "The teachings of your friend serve me well, Kastor."
* (vs. Don Z) "Bad music is not welcome, sir. Find a better genre."
* (vs. Doctor Giga) "Evildoers like you are repulsive, and that is why I stopped you!"
* (vs. Valerie) "Thanks for the offer, but I prefer to retain my perfect body."
* (vs. Hiroto) "I cannot believe I met with an arrogant guy like you!"
* (vs. Marion) "Now that I think about it, you could help me to capture the culpruit."
* (vs. Patrick) "I do not approve of your extremist vigilante ways, sir."
* (vs. Amadeus) "As a regular visitor of the cathedral, perhaps we need to team up!"
* (vs. Raystrom) "For what I see, you are one of those otherworldly beings, right?"
* (vs. Captain Lyrus) "I knew it! Your superpowers are real, no kidding."

# STORY MODE:

## Prologue:

(John is seen singing in the National Opera House, alongside with many other performers in a staging show.)

*John Holt, The Opera Pedigree. He's one of the best performers of the National Opera House thanks to his incredible performances in shows.*

(Later, we see John in his house, reading the newspaper and notices that the corrupt mayor plotting the closing of the place.)

*Unfortunately, the mayor of Wexford is announcing the sudden closing of the establishment for unknown reasons. He feels that said mayor is plotting something sinister.*

(John receives an invitation from the 13th International Rhythmic Martial Arts Tournament in the door of his house.)

*Determined to save the Opera House, John enters the 13th International Rhythmic Martial Arts Tournament to put in practice his Sumo techniques he learned during his tour in Japan.*

## Stage 4 Interlude - VS. Damian Williams

### Pre-Fight Cutscene:

(Scene takes place in Picadilly Garden. Damian just finished taking his selfie.)

Damian: "Excellent!"

(John Holt comes to scene.)

John: "Excuse me, sir?"

Damian: "Aww, come on! Do not interrumpt my selfie moment!"

John: "What kind of man disrespects me like that?"

Damian: "Hey! You are not my boss here!"

John: "I will teach you some manners here!"

(John challenges Damian and goes to his Sumopera stance.)

Damian: "You asked for a fight? Have at it!"

John: "It is time for you to learn a big lesson!"

(Damian accepts his challenge and goes to his Rock Wrestling stance.)

### After Match Cutscene:

(Damian is still unconscious but capable of talking.)

John: "Apologize yourself, boy."

(Damian then apologizes John.)

Damian: "I am sorry for insulting you!"

John: "Promise me you are going to change for the better, lad."

Damian: "I understand, sir."

John: "Good boy."

(Damian gets up and shakes hands with John.)

Damian: "By the way, what's your main purpose to compete in the tournament, mate?"

John: "The mayor of Wexford is going to close the National Opera House, so I am competing in the tournament."

Damian: "Honestly, I'd rather denounce him in first place."

John: "Glad to hear. If you excuse me, I must go to the next match."

Damian: "Good luck with your mission, mister!"

John: "Back at you."

(John leaves Picadilly Garden by walking out of the screen. Later, we focus on Damian uploading his selfie to Instagram.)

Damian: "Yeah! I did it again!"

## Tournament Finals - VS. Valerie Hickenbottom

### Pre-Fight Cutscene:

(Scene takes place in the 13th Rhythmic Martial Arts Tournament Arena, which resembles an eSports stadium. The stage has a total attendance of 100,000,000 people and comes with a big screen on the entrance area. The ring is huge and circular, its floor is made of wood and has hard plastic borders.)

Referee: "Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the 13th Rhythmic Martial Arts Tournament Finals! We got an epic clash of weights! Introducing first... The Opera Pedigree, John Holt! And his oponent, be amazed at the energy of... The Stylish Gymnast, Valerie Hickenbottom!"

(The crowd gets excited when both fighters enter the battlefield.)

Valerie: "Yahoo, I heard you're my opponent!"

John: "What do you offer, Miss Hickenbottom?"

Valerie: "How about a workout to reduce your fat?"

John: "Thanks for the offer, but I leave my perfect body as it is, lady."

(Valerie accepts his challenge and goes to her Gym-NRG stance.)

Valerie: "I expected to join my two month program, mister."

John: "Save the words for another time... I am ready to fight!"

(John challenges Valerie and goes to his Sumopera stance.)

## After Match Cutscene:

(After defeating Valerie, John is declared the winner.)

Referee: "The winner is... John Holt!"

John: "Sorry for hitting a fine lady like you."

Valerie: "It's okay... I recognize your talent."

(Holt helps Valerie to get up and shakes hands. However, the lights suddenly turn off except for the one where both fighters stand.)

John: "Strange is it? I do not recall a sudden black out."

Valerie: "Pay attention, Mr. Holt. Someone's coming!"

(A mysterious messenger of white hair from the Argonian dimension in black suit appears in front of them.)

Messenger: "Congratulations for your victory, John Holt."

John: "My time cannot be lost in a moment like this. What news do you have?"

Messenger: "Someone has watched your fights in the tournament. He's waiting for you in his basement. Come with me."

Valerie: "Are you sure? What if they put you in a trap?"

John: "I need to talk seriously with him, lady."

Valerie: "That's the spirit! Go with the messenger."

(John decides to leave the arena and follows the messenger.)

## Sub-Boss Cutscene:

(Scene takes place outside of an abandoned building in Bayamon, Puerto Rico. The helicopter lands the destination as John gets out of it.)

John: "Sir, is there a way to meet him?"

Messenger: "First of all, you must defeat his most trusted henchman, Don Z."

John: "He looks really strange, is it?"

Messenger: "If you win, there's a secret passage inside the building that will direct to his location."

John: "Well... I will try to reason with that man."

Messenger: "Good luck, John Holt. You will need it."

(The helicopter leaves the scene. Don Z shows up in front of John.)

Don Z: "Good grief... an obese."

John: "More respect to my perfect body, man."

Don Z: "I don't understand why opera singers are so loud?"

John: "And this is coming from someone who sings bad songs."

Don Z: "Don't dare to talk bad about Reggaeton!"

John: "This is not the moment to talk bad of my profession."

(Both fighters are now in their fighting stances.)

Don Z: "If you want to show true strength, try at me!"

John: "Be warned... I shout out very loud!"

## Final Boss Cutscene:

(Don Z starts to recover his consciousness.)

John: "State your business, sir."

Don Z: "I'm explaining what really happened."

(Don Z gets up easily.)

John: "Go ahead... I am all ears!"

Don Z: "The sponsor of the tournament hired me as a bouncer ever since I got fired from my former job. However, I noticed that his intentions are all but not good."

John: "I judged you badly after all, Don Z."

Don Z: "No problem. After all, guys like you have the best of the talents. Oh, in case you're noticing, name's Donovan Zambrano."

John: "Where is that guy both you and the messenger mentioned earlier?"

Don Z: "There's a secret passage inside the abandoned building. Here, you will encounter him."

John: "Glad to meet you, Donovan."

(John shakes hands with Don Z and then goes to the abandoned. Now inside, he pushes a bookshelf which hides a door to the other side and opens it leading to an underground secret passage, sees a spiral ladder and goes downwards. As John goes forward to the tunnel, he stops after entering a villainous lair, which is a laboratory filled with gloomy things and decoratives, where a shadow figure is sitting behind.)

????: "Ireland's finest. You just came here for a complaint, right?"

John: "Exactly, whoever you are."

(The shadow figure is eventually revealed as Doctor Giga as he starts to turn around.)

Doctor Giga: "Now that you mention it, let me present the future master of this pathetic world, Doctor Giga."

John: "I need to stop the closing of the National Opera House from his hands."

Doctor Giga: "You mean that corrupt mayor?"

John: "That is what I am talking."

Doctor Giga: "The mayor you're going to denounce... is fake, and so is the tournament you just won."

John: "What?"

Doctor Giga: "I sent Doctrine Doppler, one of my finest men to do the dirty job of impersonating the mayor."

John: "And what is the purpose to do that?"

Doctor Giga: "The closing of the opera house is just a part of my plan of Interdimensional Conquest. I hate opera, and so is every musical genre, that's why I hired Doppler in first place!"

(John clenches his right fist in disgust to Doctor Giga's actions.)

John: "How dare you to taint my country with farces and deceptions?"

Doctor Giga: "This is not the way to respond me that way!"

John: "I cannot allow you and your dictatorship get away with this insulting act!"

(Doctor Giga starts to get up, walks towards John and prepares his fighting stance.)

Doctor Giga: "So you dare to defy me? I'm going to close the curtain by finishing your show forever!"

### After beating Doctor Giga in his normal mode:

(Doctor Giga gets up from the ground.)

Doctor Giga: "Don't claim victory yet!"

(Doctor Giga grabs an injectable with a purple-colored plasma serum, he uses it in his right arm.)

Doctor Giga: "Behold... my next step of the Argonian evolution!"

(Doctor Giga transforms himself into an horrific energy being as he laughs, and you should fight against him in only one round.)

## Ending cutscene:

(Doctor Giga is defeated and returns to his normal state. He's trying to get up, but fails.)

John: "Now that I finished you, I am going to reveal the truth about this fraud!"

Doctor Giga: "No! You don't, fat man!"

(Giga grabs an explosive switch and presses it. An alarm sound is heard many times.)

Female Electronic Voice: \*AUTODESTRUCTION SEQUENCE ACTIVATED\*

John: "How insulting from your part."

Doctor Giga: "Accept the truth, the opera house is soon to be closed."

(Then John looks upwards and notices that the components are starting to break upside where Doctor Giga is located, of which the latter is getting scared.)

John: "Bad choice for a supposed Plan B."

Doctor Giga: "No! I thought I have everything planned!"

John: "If anything, you are a failure... Hope you sleep in the oblivion, mad dictator."

(John shouts in tenor voice in front of Doctor Giga and leaves the place as it's starting to explode.)

Doctor Giga: "I never liked opera guys like you, John Holt!"

(The building is starting to collapse from the explosion. Damaged components of the stage are falling on Doctor Giga, effectively killing him off-screen. Then we cut to the National Opera House as the mayor, apparently described as a brown haired middle aged man, announces its closure, much to the discontent of the townspeople.)

Mayor of Wexford: "From now on, the Opera house will be close it's doors. The new headquarters of... Argus Corp shall rise!"

(The people are booing the Mayor for the announcement).

Mayor of Wexford: "Boo me if you can... nobody can stop the dictatorship of Argus Empire! All hail Doctor Giga!"

(Then John Holt comes to the scene.)

John: "Except that he's dead, Mayor... or better said... Doctrine Doppler."

Mayor of Wexford: "So you discovered me! Fine then..."

(The false mayor is revealed to be another evil Argonian by the name of Doctrine Doppler, whose head resembles F.A.N.G minus the moustache and wears a typical mad scientist outfit colored dark blue.)

Doctrine Doppler (voiced by Jesse Merlin): "How dare you to destroy the future master of Earth!"

John: "He killed himself with the damaged components of his lair."

Doctrine Doppler: "Anyways, I'm going to finish his job... in two minutes!"

John: "Then, show me what you got, Doppler!"

(Both John and Doppler start to fight in a correographed fight that lasts for twenty minutes, and then he finishes by grabbing Doppler's torso with his right hand and slams the scientist to the ground and then he jumps far followed by a belly splash while he shouts in tenor, hitting the Argonian, which causes the latter to get trapped in the floor and then steps away.)

John: "That is enough, madman."

(After finishing the fight, John heards a tied voice, and reveals that the real mayor is captured in a secret room. John opens the ground door and rescues the mayor, removing the ties from him as both return to the main floor.)

Real Mayor of Wexford (voiced by Rowan Atkinson): "Thank you for saving me."

John: "My duty of saving the opera house is done, sir."

Real Mayor of Wexford: "The people will hate me for the things I never made in first place."

John: "Not precisely now that the people witnessed about the impostor."

Real Mayor of Wexford: "Months ago, the dictator sent one of his men and captured me. Later, said man made a bad imitation of mine so the opera house would be demolished in favor of Argus Corp's headquarters."

John: "But that is now thing of the past now that I defeated them."

Real Mayor of Wexford: "So... are you going to direct this place? Think about it, you can hire future talents!"

John: "Done!"

(Both John and the real mayor shakes hands as they get a huge ovation from the townspeople. One day later, we see John walking the streets of Wexford County with his three children Dempsey, Kevin and Shayla. Dempsey is 8 years old and has spiked black hair, Kevin is 6 years old has dirty blond short hair, and Shayla, the one with blond ponytails, is 4 years old. Dempsey is wearing casual suit composed of green shirt and brown pants, Kevin is wearing an elementary school uniform and Shayla is wearing an orange dress.)

Kevin (voiced by Jeremy Shada): "So, how are things in the tournament?"

John: "It happened to be a big lie in the end, but that is not the excuse for me to stop the machinations of the otherworldy sponsor, and I did save the National Opera House after all."

Dempsey (voiced by Jason Ritter): "That is awesome!"

Shayla (voiced by Eden Sher): "One day of these, can you put me as Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz?"

John: "Only if you show them that you have talent, young lady."

(Kevin looks at the amusement park being inaugurated.)

Kevin: "Look, dad! They inaugurated the new amusement park!"

Shayla: "That is incredible! I heard my favorite singer Rina Yamanaka is going to perform here!"

Dempsey: "Can we go?"

John: "Sure! After all, I am the best friend of the real Mayor of Wexford."

Dempsey, Kevin and Shayla: "Yeah!"

(John and his children go to the amusement park as the camera goes to its landscapes. After that, the screen fades black.)

(Queen's "We Are The Champions" starts playing as the credits which background is accompanied of flashy neon lights and the reflections of each character performing their special moves while the credits are rolling.)

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