Antony (Dragonball Xenoverse 2)

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> ### Status
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> Deceased
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> Dragonball Xenoverse 2 #1 (voice only)Dragonball Xenoverse 2 #3
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> ### Alternate Names
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> The Anti-TonyTony
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> The God Killer
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> Tony Black (early fan name)
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> Anthony (most of the time when mentioned in the comment section by people who can't spell)
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> Prophet of the Un-God
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> The Grand Priest of Goma
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> Galactic Emperor (formerly)Assassin
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> Grand Priest
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> ### Relations
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> Frieza (cousin)Cooler (cousin)
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> King Cold (uncle)
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> Iced (former friend)
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> Tony (alternate version)
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> Goma (deity)
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> Cold Empire (formerly)Galactic Trade Organisation (formerly)
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> Time Patrol (infiltrated)
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> Cult of the Un-God
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> Frieza's PurgesMajin Buu Crisis
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> The Goma Crisis (G)
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> (G) Destruction of Timeline GT
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> (G) Destruction of Timeline 13
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> Frost Demon
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> Energy SwordElegant Blaster
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> Heavenly Arrow
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> Divine Wrath: Purification
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> ***"I am you. At least, as you should be. You may think of me as merely... Tony Perfected"***
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## Summary

"Antony" (or **Anti-Tony**) was the name given to the antagonistic alternate version of Tony from a timeline, created by Trunks' use of the Dragon Balls, in which Tony never joined The Time Patrol.

Unnaturally powerful, even beyond the Tony of the Time Patrol, and revealed to be working with the Fallen Omni King, Goma, he acted as the final and primary antagonist of the *RedScotGaming* *Xenoverse 2* series.

## Personality

Antony was a cold, cunning, pragmatic person who seems solely concerned with the furthering of his, and Goma's, objectives, over satisfying personal or egotistic goals.

Lacking any real inter-personal relations - at least since the death of the Iced of his timeline - he is cold, detached and, while intellectually concerned with the survival of the Universe and *life* as a collective, seems unsympathetic to beings as individuals: having been complicit in the destruction of Universes 9, 3, Timeline GT and untold other realities in the name of bringing order to the Omniverse, as well as causing collateral death during his battle with Tony at The All Time Tournament. While Antony never appears to relish taking the lives of others - he is more than confident in his ability to do so:

***"If I had any interest in you, you'd already be dead."*** - Antony to Lord Fridge, *Xenoverse 2 #33*

The exception of this dispassionate approach is in his dealings with Tony. While capable of remaining amicable, conversing with Tony for some time before turning on him during their first meeting in order to learn more about his "*God*" transformation (a title which Antony seemed found naive and conceited) he holds a deep contempt for him, viewing this Time Patroller Tony as a narcissistic, egotistical, half-wit, and a complete aberration of how they were *supposed* to be.

Antony sees Tony as having been corrupted, softened, and weakened by his servitude to the Kais: and that by enrolling him in their Time Patrol they stole from him both his destined place as the Grand Priest of the Cult of Goma, and saviour of the Omniverse: as well as the decades of suffering he endured during Majin Buu's assault on their Universe, which in Antony's timeline had resulted in Iced's death - hardening him and molding his firmly utilitarian view of reality.

By extension, Antony views Tony's friends - Max Stone and Iced - with similar contempt, describing them as nothing more than "sycophantic followers".

In private however, he expresses a degree of care for Iced, as his former friend in another timeline. Despite their opposing agendas, Antony has repeatedly attempted to push Iced towards abandoning the "false" Tony, and joining him in his crusade to "save" the Multiverse.

Antony is described as "*a pretentious pain-in-the-ass*" by Tony, which isn't wrong, with him fully embracing the villainous trope of long monologues, and a self-righteous attitude.

## Strength and Abilities

> "*Oh it's more than just a transformation Antony! I'm not the sama asshole you fought before - I've come further than you can possibly imagine!"*
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Antony is shown to be incredibly powerful, taking on "*God*" Tony and Golden Form Iced without taking a hit during earlier episodes (even managing to "knock" Tony out of God form, from which he was unable to ever recover). By the events of the finale it was revealed that his strength came from successful mastery of Universal Power - the elemental time-space energy of an entire Universe - which can be harnessed in small scale through time distruptions, or in-full through absorbing the residual energy following the destruction of a Universe.

Despite this potential, he initially possed limits to his power; jealously lacking, at his first meeting with Tony, the "*God*" transformation that Tony had managed to achieve. Furthermore, he demonstrably feared his own elimination through tampering with his history by the Patrol once they realised his existence - prompting him to acquire a Time Ring as insurance against this - and during their first battle he admitted to Iced that he lacked the power to destroy a Universe in its entirety, with it turning out to have been Goma who was responsible for the previous erasure of Tony's home "Timeline 13".By the events of *The All-Time Tournament*, Tony had closed the gap in power significantly through his evolution through 2nd, 3rd, 4th and Ascended, as well as Gold, forms. Hoping to assassinate Zen-Oh during the Finale of the Tournament, he was stopped by the unplanned presence of Beerus, and was dealt a near-defeat by Tony before withdrawing.

However, while many months and even years of battles and progression have passed from Tony's perspective -

   giving him this much needed advantage - comparable little time, perhaps mere hours, had passed for Antony, since their previous encounter. Granted limitless time to train by Goma, by their next encounter the scales had once again tipped vastly in his favour through repeated timeline and universal erasure to fuel his Universal Power.

During the final battle with Tony and Iced, he unveiled his own platinum coloured variant of "God" form: claiming this as the mastered version. This form was overwhelmingly powerful,shrugging off blasts such at Golden Iced's ultimate attack, and perfectly dodging barrages of strikes from Tony. This form, as intended is also more than enough to defeat Zen-Oh's guards, Angels, and the Omni himself - making Antony (or Tony) in this form, indisputably most powerful Mortal being to ever exist.

## Conception and Design

   The concept of an "evil Tony" was discussed behind the scenes since *Xenoverse 1*, originally as a would-be comical one-off scenario.
The idea was shelved however until the announcement of *Xenoverse 2*, in which the character was revived to fill the dual purpose of providing a personal opponent to Tony, and to rectify the in-game story contradiction where the "*Hero of TokiToki City*" (the player character from the first game) would return as a non-player character, working for the Time Patrol, while the RSG series ended with it's player character, Tony, leaving

    the patrol to return to his home timeline.

To meet this role, the physical design of Antony had to be identical to Tony (early ideas involved different head/horn types, inverted colour schemes, and even different sunglasses). Subtle changes were included however, a thinner frame, darker skin/armour tone, loss of lipstick; all of which allowed it so that once his true identity had been revealed, viewers could retrospectively look back and recognise that it was Antony, not Tony, in these scenes all along.

## Biography

**Note:** *As discovered in Dragonball Xenoverse 2 #34 "History of Antony", the biographies of Tony and Antony are identical up until the timeline split caused by Shenron plucking Tony from his own timeline to join the Time Patrol. For everything before this point, see Tony's Pre-Time Patrol Biography.*

### Ruling of the Cold Empire (Age 746-774)

Having taken control of the Cold Empire from his murderous cousin Frieza in Age 746, and exiling his cousin Cooler and Uncle King Cold to the edge of the Universe, Tony's Forces spent the next few years mopping up hold-outs of Frieza and Cooler loyalists. By Age 751 this clean-up operation was declared officially over, and the Empire unified fully under the Iron Grip of Tony.

Tony's administration proved to be far more level-headed than the ousted maniacal Royals. While continuing its militarist expansionism, Tony became, somewhat begrudgingly, committed to actual *governance* rather than self-indulgent *ruling*. These years saw reduced tensions with the oppositional Galactic Kingdom, with trade talks set up by Age 761, and while worlds were still being forcibly subjugated - the policy of planetary genocide had been ceased.

Lacking Frieza's paranoia about the Super Saiyan legend, Saiyans, namely Vegeta and Nappa (presumably Raditz but unconfirmed) continued to serve faithfully enough, though would often butt heads with Tony. The outright racism against the Saiyans under Frieza was fully wiped away, with Colonel Bushmir reaching the rank of General by Age 774: he and Iced ultimately replacing Zarbon and Dodoria as the Emperor's hands, though Zarbon is seen to continue to serve the Emperor as of Age 761. (Institutional racism against the Appule Race continued, of course, with every single member being called Appule, and the race itself being called *The Appule Race.*)

By Age 774 Tony had undergone some changes personally. Over his decades of ruling he had become thinner, and his blue eyes a shade paler. He no longer donned any lipstick, removing yet another cultural influence of Frieza's over himself and his reformed civilization.

### The Majin Buu Invasion (Age 774-782)

As in the original timeline, the Wizard Babidi sought out the resting place of Majin Buu - an ancient and powerful chaotic entity who once threatened Universal extinction, before the intervention of the Kais. Buu had been sealed and hidden on Planet Earth for millions of years, following the death of Babidi's predecessor, Bibidi. While it is not known exactly how events around Buu's resurrection transpired, it is clear that Babadi successfully awoke and unleashed the Majin upon the defenseless Earth, which became a lifeless and ruined wasteland, before inevitably turning on and destoying his own master Babadi, and moving on to consume and destroy the rest of the Universe.

With no Super Saiyan or other sufficiently powerful being on Earth to stop him, Buu spread across space, becoming stronger with every planetary population consumed and obliterated. Eventually, in Age 774, he came into contact with a scout fleet on the edge of Cold Empire space, annihilating it. Rumours of disappearing planets outside the Empire were not new, but the disappearance of such a powerful military force prompted Emperor Tony to assemble an emergency conference with Iced and Bushmir to deal with the situation.

#### The Battle of Frieza Planet 319

Not yet aware of what had attacked them, Tony ordered Bushmir to reinforce trade routes and major trade hubs within the Empire in an effort to keep order and prevent panic or riots - a measured and sensible, if ultimately hopeless response. Tony ruled out Beerus as the cause of these attacks, deeming them too "*chaotic*" to be the God of Destruction. During the conference, reports came in of an attack on Tony planet 319 - a lightly populated tropical world deep within Empire territory. With no other forces close enough to respond, Tony ordered his command ship to the system and led a ground force including Iced to investigate.

No sooner had they encountered the Majin did it tear through most of the advance force. Tony, wearing his full Imperial battle armour, fought back against the creature as best he could while Iced ordered their reserve forces to launch an air-strike on their position. With dozens of troopers firing onto the small island they were currently engaged on, the land burst open with fire, nearly wiping out Iced and Tony, while merely stalling Buu - who despite being atomized was able to completely regenerate in a matter of moments.

Unwilling to give up, Tony readied himself for a second round of battle, saying to Iced that so long as they were together they stood a chance. Iced, recognizing the hopelessness of their situation, apologized to his friend before hitting him with a paralyzing energy shot and ordering an "*Appule*" to retrieve the Emperor and evacuate the system. Iced gave a final farewell to his friend, saying that he would do what he could to slow the Majin down, and that Tony was the Universe's only hope for survival: "*find a way, whatever it takes*".

#### The Inevitable Defeat

The conflict deteriorated from there. Buu, being more a force of nature than a strategic planner, continued random attacks in and out of Empire territory. These "raids" could be a single planet at a time, or a prolonged months long attack seeing hundreds of systems lost before he eventually disappeared - either to rest for a time or find new targets elsewhere in space.

At some point it became evident to Tony that the Kais, including the Kaioshin, had been killed by Buu, and that Beerus was too detached from the mortal world to care or intervene. He could put no faith in the Gods for their salvation, instead doing anything and everything in his own power to keep as many alive for as long as possible.

Continuing to use his command ship as a mobile base, Tony would order evacuations and "managed retreats" wherever possible, unwilling to throw more lives away needlessly. Even so the death toll continued, with the systematic destruction of every world - inhabited and uninhabited - continuing at a pace which would see the complete extinction of life in the Universe, and the destruction of the last planetoids within a "*few decades*".

The command ship grew to be all but abandoned by Age 782, manned by little more than a skeleton crew. Tony himself became isolated from his men, falling into a deep despair. For years after Iced's death he sought a way to defeat Buu, personally training when possible - though time for such things was rare between responding to it's continued raids, and the crucial work of managing billions of refugees throughout the Empire. In time he lost all hope in a final victory, seeing the failure of even the gods to prevent these end days as a sign of their failure as deities, unworthy to have even called themselves "*gods*" to begin with.

In this moment of realization, a voice came to him. Tony demanded to know who the voice was, but it neither answered nor showed itself, simply stating that he had "nothing to fear" and that he was only here to offer a solution - the voice admitting that it was truly *he* who needed Tony. The voice told him that everything was indeed "wrong", and that Tony was right to feel this way. He was alone, the Universe was falling apart, and while it may be too late to save this reality, he - Tony - was destined to save all others from a similar fate.

The voice was cut off when some troops entered Tony's chamber, telling him that Buu had finally ceased the current raid on the Empire, and had moved on beyond their borders. When they told him that he had been sighted on "*some backwater planet*" Tony demanded that they set a course immediately. He had decided: he would destroy Buu today, or die in the attempt. The outcome made no difference anymore.

### Joining Goma (Age 782)

Tony arrived at Earth, the ground-zero of Buu's invasion. Not truly intending or expecting to end the Majin, but after 8 long years of fighting a losing war he needed *an* end, one way or the other, and on his own terms.

The moment Buu appeared, seemingly joyfully recognizing Tony from the battle which saw Iced's death, Tony burst into a rage-fueled attack, screaming at the Majin to "*DIE*". However, finding himself unable to even harm the invincible Buu, he resigned himself to his death, telling Iced that he was sorry: he had failed to save their Universe, he had failed "to save anybody".

Before Buu could finish him off with a final attack, a small creature appeared between them. With a swipe of it's hand, Buu stumbled and vanished into thin air, erased utterly from existence. Tony was stunned, fully expecting to die here, he had been miraculously saved by this being, who swept away the scourge of the Universe with absolute ease.

The short, rotund green creature introduced itself, with the familiar voice from the ship, as Goma. Tony asked if he was was some sort of Destroyer God like Beerus, but Goma denied this, saying instead that he was "*something more*", and that Tony was too. Goma reminded Tony that he had nothing to fear from him, and that he only sought "*omniversal justice*": with the rectification of the mistakes of the "*False Gods*", and steering this and every other Universe away from path of chaos they had found themselves slipping down, was his one and only goal.

He explained that Tony was destined to be his instrument in this crusade, and that it both *shall be* and *already is* Tony who would be the prophet of Goma's ascension atop the Divine Hierarchy, overthrowing Zen-Oh, who's rule allowed such "*suffering, death and entropy*" to plague the Multiverse. When Tony asked "why him" , Goma responded cryptically that he and he alone was (in another life) able to "*survive the death of a Universe, only to transcend*" (referring to Demigra's destruction of Universe 7, and the *Time Patrol* Tony's miraculous survival and ascension to God Form).

Deeming this being as perhaps the only God worthy to be called such and, if he spoke the truth, the only hope for the ultimate long-term survival of the Omniverse, Tony agreed to join him. In return he requested just "*one thing*" to be included in Goma's new world. Goma agreed, but in turn had something to ask of him, telling him first that "there is *another Tony*".

### The Rise of Antony

#### Goma's Teachings

Hearing news of an alternate timeline of himself was disturbing to Tony, but the gravity of such an anomoly's existence had to be made clear to him by Goma. This "Tony" was inherently heretical; had become corrupted and twisted by the the very enemies of Order which needed to be deposed, and now existed to serve them and unwittingly defend the chaos they allowed. The Kais of Time, the Time Patrol organisations they ineffectually sent to fix the timelines of a fundamentally broken Multiverse, and the Divine Hierarchy which Goma's treasonous counterpart sat atop all had to be brought down and replaced if reality hoped to survive.

Tony's training under Goma began by showing him the scale and scope of the Omniverse. Tony knew of beings such as the Supreme Kai, Beerus, and even his Angelic attendant Whis, but he only now learnt from Goma of the Twelve Universes, as well as the countless others that once were in a previous age. He explained that each Universe was ruled by a Kaioshin, and Destroyer - existing in opposition and contradiction to each other.

He showed how the Kais were weak and easily corrupted, with beings like Zamasu turning on mortal kind: while the Destroyers were prideful and unstable, more than happy to erase worlds for petty reasons or no reason at all. He told Tony of Zen-Oh, the childlike being who had fallen far since he ousted Goma from his rightful place alongside him, and who was now managed by bureaucratic and scheming Angels, the Grand Minster - leader of the Angels - pulling Zen-Oh's strings as little more than a puppet. Then he showed him the depths of Zen-Ohs instability, as he threatened Universes with erasure out of boredom, and pitted mortals against each other in a "*Tournament of Power".*

He showed Tony many realities, some little different to his own, others vastly divergent: a world where Frieza retained power and went on to terrorize the Universe for decades before being defeated by an even more powerful, and dangerously unstable Saiyan named Goku. Timeline "*GT*", where a Tuffle had taken control of planet Earth and planned to conquer the Universe. Universe 11, with it's timelines ravaged by inhumanly powerful Azrai, a being created by a mere mortal for yet more petty mortal aims, who would irreparably shred that Universe's timeline in the pursuit of power, nearly destroying the Universe completely it in the end.

Over their time together, Goma outlined his vision for the new world: the Multiverse replaced by a Monoverse - timelines and universes merged in harmony without paradox, and the destructive powers of change, the realm Zen-Oh, removed. Death would be no more, the chosen people's of this new world never having to suffer or fear their end again. An eternal peace, with no hope of change, as time itself becomes set in stone and no longer capable of being twisted or splintered through the powers of Time Travel or manipulation.

In this new world, with Goma its one and only Omni King, Tony would act as Grand Priest. No longer would an inefficient and corruptible hierarchy of Gods claim governance over their own fiefdoms, to terrorize or neglect as they wish, but all of reality would be the realm of a single all-powerful Diety, with Tony his mortal representative.

#### Working from the Fringes

For now, at least, the pair stuck only to the most divergent of timelines whose disappearances would most likely go unnoticed by the neglectful Kais or their various *Time Organisations*. With each new reality visited, the depths of the problem were reinforced in Tony's mind: and with each new reality visited, Goma would "rectify the error" by erasing it.

At first Tony was shook by this act, the elimination of untold trillions when preservation of these same trillions had seemed to be their goal, but Goma explained that stemming the spread of chaos across the Multiverse was their goal, first and foremost, and the erasure of such doomed and broken realities was both merciful, and necessary to advance their ultimate goal.

Even Goma's power proved to have limits, as he could naturally never fully contain the chaos permitted by Zen-Oh, while being removed from the seat of power himself. Goma could trim down the branches in time, and offshoot realities, but never at a rate faster then they were created.

He told Tony of the many groups like *The Time Patrol,* who sought in some ways the same goal as they did, but that their methods were ineffective and utterly naive, comparing their attempts to control history as "*using a glass of water to smother a forest fire.*" The *Kais of Time* were too limited to see the scope of even their own Universe's branching histories, and could at best contain the worst incidents of direct Time Breaker hostility: yet more harbingers of chaos across the Omniverse, who deliberately split and corrupted timelines to their own ends.

When Tony questioned the purpose, then, of erasing these timelines, Goma explained that he believed it to be the key to the "*ultimate power*" which Tony had achieved before, in his other life, but with the specific circumstances around it's acquisition remaining a mystery even to him. With Goma and Zen-Oh incapable of physically destroying the other - their very beings and natures being perfectly and diametrically opposed - Goma assured Tony that this power would be needed if he were to strike down Zen-Oh himself, as is his destiny as *Godkiller.*

#### The First Strike: Antony VS Tony

Tony had indeed grown powerful under Goma's tutelage: his aura had become pure white, and his eyes lost the last of their blue tiny to become steely grey. However no "*God*" transformation - as Goma explained it had been dubbed by the *other* Tony - had been achieved. It was decided then that Tony needed to confront his other self, and take the information by force if necessary, while also removing this potential threat.

Goma warned him that this other Tony had become one of the most powerful beings in existence: one who had defeated not only Majin Buu, but many beings even greater. Furthermore, he possessed - in an albeit crude rudimentary form - the power they sought. Truthfully, Goma already knew the outcome of their battle, waiting until his weapon had grown powerful enough in it's own right to humiliate, if not destroy, Tony Cold of the Time Patrol.

Deployed on this task alone, he began his assault on the timeline ("Universe"/Timeline 13) in which *the other* Tony had attempted to remake his home, since leaving the Time Patrol. He learnt that this Tony had retaken his seat as Emperor here, and having preemptively removed threats like Majin Buu (thanks to the foresight his time travelling experiences had gifted him) he was now treating this world - a world so similar to that which he had fought for, and had ultimately failed to defend - as little more than a carefree retirement for which to indulge his power fantasies, while enjoying an unearned peace.

Deciding that this pitiful reflection of himself needed to experience the same terror he had endured, Tony began to systematically destroy worlds throughout the Empire. Having sufficiently gained the Time Patroller's attention, the other Tony took the bait. Confident in his power and donning his Imperial Armour, he set himself up at some sea cliffs on his adopted Capital World of *Tony Planet 1* (formerly Earth), making his presence there known to *whatever it was* which was looking for him.

Tony arrived after some time, finally laying eyes on his other self, in all his pomposity. He approached from behind and waited, well aware that the Time Patroller ought to sense his presence. Soon enough, *Emperor* Tony turned around to see a near mirror image of himself staring back, his first reaction being to ask if this was a cosplayer of the "*Tony appreciation society*", but commenting that he "lacked the lipstick" to be fully on-point.

Tony expressed disappointment in this sad image of himself, a him who had been reduced to a joke, play-acting as Emperor only once he'd had it all handed to him by his gods. Nevertheless he introduced himself as *Tony*, or at the very least *"as he should be"*, mocking the shocked look on the Time Patroller's face as he clearly struggled to reconcile what was evident before him with his own feelings of uniqueness in the Omniverse.

At last Tony asked his counterpart to show him the "*God form*" he had heard so much about, and upon his transformation to the gold-coloured form, he thanked him for giving him the opportunity "*to witness first-hand my own potential, before erasing you.*"

Tony shot into the offensive against the so-called "*God Tony*", finding to his satisfaction that he was able to overpower the Time Patrol's greatest warrior, even in his ultimate form. Tony was quicker, more aggressive, and with each strike on his body he felt the power of time and space shifting between the two. He began to realise what this power truly was: some manifestation of massive universal energy condensed into a single being, into himself. He was a conduit for this power, and thus the power harnessed within this *feeble copy* was as much his own.

Within moments of their battle beginning, the Time Patroller Tony fell limply, and no longer transformed, to the bottom of the sea. The universe itself had attempted to correct an imbalance while the two fought: the result, it seemed had been the loss of his "God" Form, this immense *Universal Power,* forever.

He had defeated his enemy, and had now seen a fraction of his own potential. With that, he blasted the bottom of the sea where the other Tony had fallen, eliminating the planet. Soon after Goma erased the timeline in it's entirety. The first strike had been dealt, and it would not be long before the enemies of Goma reacted. It was time for the next phase.

Unknown to him however, Tony escaped the blast by using a Time Patroller transporter to return him to their headquarters in TokiToki City. Unknown to him, the Universe 7 Kai of Time had relocated Time Patrol operations to a new dimension called Conton City, leaving Tony lost for several months while he jumped from reality to reality, trying to get back to his allies.

When he eventually did return to Conton, he would tell his friends of "an evil version of himself" who had tried to kill him, dubbing this new and deadly enemy *Antony*.

### Infiltrating the Time Patrol

Knowing Tony to still be out there, Antony prepared for an infiltration mission of The Time Patrol itself, located in a pocket dimension of the Kai of Time's own creation, called "Conton City". This mission had two objectives, the acquisition of the Time Patrol's Dragon Ball gathering facilities, and a misdirection/information gathering campaign to see if the Patrol had any clues as to Tony's whereabouts, while simultaneously assuring them that "Tony" had returned, and any search was unwarranted.

He first presented himself to Trunks Briefs, the former Head Patroller of the organisation (before his accidental death at the hands of Tony and re-cloning). Trunks had been identified as the "weak link" in the organisation, with whom he could most easily ingratiate himself in order to gain the trust and acceptance of the organisation leaders.

Wearing Tony's trademark sunshades, and a copy of his favourite suit-pants, he entered the Time Nest side-by-side with Trunks, while a meeting was underway between Chronoa (the Kai of Time) and her aide Creepy Kai, and Patroller probationer Max Stone.

Antony had vague recollection of this Max Stone character, but was not aware of any close friendship between him and Tony. Leaving the meeting without properly greeting Max was met with confusion, but he attempted to rectify upon the arrival of Iced - who was not only alive, but had in Tony's "timeline 13" sought the Dragon Balls to follow Tony through to the Time Patrol.

Antony, who had been informed of Iced's existence within the patrol by Goma, was nevertheless secretly relieved to see his old friend. Remained in character however, reminding himself that these were enemies, he casually engaged with them both - in the process discovering that they had recently gathered seven *Dragon Balls* while attempting to summon Tony back from timeline 13 with them (having failed in the attempt due to Shenron being unable to find Tony, or his timeline, since it's destruction by Goma).

Managing to separate himself from the pair, Antony took off for the *Dragon Ball* pedestal, where they still sat on stand-by mode awaiting a wish. Antony used the remaining wish to ask for a "*Kaioshin Ring of Time*". With such a item in his possession (even if unable to use it's time-travelling abilities without the correct Kaioshin rank privileges) he was assured that from now on nobody, not even the Time Patrol or Kai of Time, could do anything to rewrite his history. While he knew that he would soon grow more powerful than any being in existence, save Goma, he had to be sure that nobody could undo him by destroying his past self.

Moments after having this wish granted, he was confronted before the pedestal by Max, Iced and a disheveled, but alive, Tony. His cover blown, but his future safeguarded by the Time Ring, he happily revealed himself to the Patrollers as *the true* Tony*.*

His mission complete, and any need to destroy them then and now nullified for now, Antony granted them this time to "*live a little longer*" telling them that they can finish their petty "war" with the Time Breakers first, as he will be waiting in the end, more powerful than ever.

### Reappearance: Antony VS Iced

While several weeks had pasted for the Time Patrol, Antony jumped forward almost immediately after his escape from Conton City to intercept Iced, who was at this time on his own as he rushed to save Max from

absorption by Imperfect Cell.

Antony had not forgotten his friendship with Iced, truthfully avoiding direct conflict with him and his "friends" previously as an attempt to reconcile at another opportunity, such as now.

He attempted to persuade Iced that despite appearances Antony was a direct continuation of the same person he had once called friend. From Antony's perspective, this was obvious and true, and he failed to understand why Iced wouldn't immediately and happily return to his side, now that he had returned in his truest form: unlike the mockery that of himself that Tony clearly was.

Aware of Iced's recently revealed *Golden Form*, he was both impressed and hopeful that he would join him in his quest to save reality: the objective being, after all, no different to that which Iced had committed himself to under the Time Patrol.

However, Iced refused, forcing Antony to settle this confrontation through violence. Simply by boosting his power, Iced was thrown back through the sky, and despite using his *Golden Form*, was unable to break Antony's defenses.

Ultimately, Antony spared him, seeing this battle as going nowhere and letting Iced continue to his, by now, unconscious human friend. He suggested that Iced rethink his request, before vanishing once again.

Antony remained off the Time Patrol's radar for a while, traversing (and eliminating) more timelines with Goma while seeking *Universal Power.*

Prying himself away from Time Patrol business, Iced alone attempted to follow up on what clues and trails he regarding on Antony - Tony having once again disappeared on-duty while fighting the Time Breakers. Having hit a dead end from his office in Conton City, Iced "borrowed" a Time Machine from the Patrol in order to follow up on a lead, outside Universe 7 and the Time Patrol's jurisdiction, leaving him AWOL for weeks with only a recording left for Max explaining his disappearance.

In this time, Goma had decided that the time had come to make their presence known to the Multiverse, and in doing so unlock Antony's true power. The pair traveled to Universe 9, the "*weakest and most degenerate of the twelve*", and in place of trimming a single branch of this Universe, he erased the Universe entire.

With Antony at the center of this cataclysm, he basked in the residual energy of the dead Universe, before vanishing once again before Iced arrived in the blank void which remained of the former Universe, followed by a member of the militant Time Rangers of Universe 11, who by now had begun their own investigation into these attacks.

### The All-Time Tournament Plot

Goma knew that Antony was destined to destroy Zen-Oh, but his innate ability to see all of time as a singularity was challenged whenever his opposite was involved: Zen-Oh being the Omni of *Change*, introducing chaos and uncertainty into the "equation". Nevertheless, Goma conceived of a plan to lure Zen-Oh to the mortal world and a place of their choosing, to be slain by the only one who can: a mortal, with capacities for power beyond any other, capable of harnessing the greatest and purest form of energy in existence without being destroyed by it, and with a hatred for the Gods matched now only by Goma himself.

Goma became aware of a Tournament being hosted by the Kais of Time of Universe 7 and 6. While this contest represented the very essence of chaos, and the hubris of the Kais of Time who sought to pit beings across time and space against each other in a contest, the event would prove the perfect venue to attract Zen-Oh's interest.

Through machinations of Goma sympathisers within the Divine Hierarchy, it was manipulated that the tournament take place on a site within the physical and mortal plane, ensuring Goma retained his powers. With each participating Universe looking for six team members, Goma assumed the form and identity of Mr.Goa, ingratiating himself within the Time Space Authority of Universe 10, becoming an irreplaceable asset for them and their Kai of Time. Naturally he was selected for the team, and entered the Tournament.

While Goma laid this groundwork, and "competed" in the contest against hopelessly outmatched mortals, Antony awaited in the Goma's Realm, meditating and preparing for the coming task (being seen briefly at the end of *Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 #25*). Goma ensured that word of the tournament reached Zen-Oh's ears - once again through his contacts within the Kais - and it was announced on the second day of the Tournament that Zen-Oh would observe the Finale.

After the first day of contest had concluded, and while the Kais panicked over the news of Zen-Ohs planned attendance, Goma and Antony traveled to Universe 3 to remove another Universe from the picture.

When the Finale came, with "Mr.Goa" facing none other than the Time Patrol's Tony, the plan was put into action, with Goma summoning Antony to the arena just as Grand Zen-Oh appeared.

Kicking Tony out the way, Goma gave the order for Antony to "*eliminate him*". With a smirk of satisfaction, Antony charged Zen-Oh and prepared a killing knife-handed blow against the defenseless Omni. However, Beerus - who's unplanned presence had also occurred from the same leak which had ensured Zen-Oh's arrival - stepped between them to catch Antony's palm just in time.

Informing Zen-Oh that an attempt had just been made against his life, and telling him to evacuate to safety, Beerus threatened Antony with erasion through a destrucitve *Hakai,* only to be stabbed in the back by an infuriated Goma, who gave the order for Antony to "*kill them all*".

Battling Tony this time proved to be far less easy. While no more than few weeks had passed for Antony since their last encounter, Tony had been fighting and training under the Time Patrol for over a year. While Tony had never regained his "*God*" form, he had found another path to power as shown by Iced, in achieving an "ascended" form beyond his natural 2nd, 3rd, or 4th/"Final" forms, and at last, and more recently, achieving *Golden* Form.

Even so, the two fought to a near-draw, with Antony unleashing brutal energy attacks on his enemy - accidentally slaying a bystander, "Daddy Cool", and subsequently fighting off an enraged Lord Fridge of Universe 6.

In the end Goma called for an end to the battle, with Antony confusedly asking why, saying that he "*can and will defeat him*". Goma agreed, but said that now was not the time, it being evident to him now that he was not ready after all to kill Zen-Oh, but waving the failure off as "*an interesting experiment*", before vanishing once again.

### Encounter at the Tournament of Power

Aware of changes happening elsewhere down the timeline, Goma detected Iced and Tony who, following the All-Time Tournament, had taken to retracing Tony's own history to find and defeat Antony. Goma allowed them to see the entire story play out, right up until the day before their attack on the All-Time Tournament, which Goma was now aware had failed, and was already planning for the next attempt.

With the Patrollers spying on them during their destruction of Universe 3, Goma - rather than continue with the attack on the Tournament as Iced and Tony expected - told Antony that they had "*time left"* and that he had "*something to show*" him. Picking up on the hint, Antony went with him - not to their original destination - but to somewhere new from which to ambush their stalkers.

When Iced and Tony followed suit using Iced's own, newly acquired Time Ring, they found themselves in an unknown to them timeline, and a massive *Battle Royale* between the Twelve Universes: *The Tournament of Power*.

Revealing to the Patrollers that he could indeed see them the whole time, Goma asked if they "*enjoyed the show*", having had front-row seats to the entire life story of Antony. The illusion of Iced's "incognito mode" broken completely, Antony spoke up in turn, chastising Iced for taking so long to finally catch up to him, having felt he'd told Iced "*everything [he] needed to know, so long ago*".

Tony attacked Antony on the spot, but was repeatedly waved aside. Despite seeming on almost equal, if not a disadvantaged footing during their previous encounter, Antony now appeared far more confident against even Golden Form Tony, though expressed no interest in killing him at this time.

Using the Tournament of Power as an example of the disorder of Zen-Ohs Multiverse - with each Universe fighting against each other to avoid annihilation from the Omni of Change - Antony attempted to move Iced to his cause. Refusing to abandon the Tony he knew, Goma sent the Patrollers back to their Conton City with the promise of time to "say farewell" and the threat of the end being very soon upon them.

### The Final Test

Having failed once to kill Zen-Oh, Goma and Antony spent an unknown amount of time (three days from the perspective of Max, back in Conton City, and mere hours at most from the perspective of Tony and Iced, though very likely far, far longer) traversing the Omniverse, erasing realities and absorbing the Universal energies of each.

    Having been officially dubbed The Grand Priest of the Cult of the Un-God, and prophet of Goma's Order, Antony was given a penultimate order to prove his "resolve", and ability to get the job done, by finally confronting and destroying his Patroller self.

Now adorned with a halo, signifying his position and power, Antony was transported to the center of Conton City: triggering the Gomatic-energy sensors which sounded a Code Green alarm throughout the City. Awaiting above the deserted City Streets, the trio of Tony, Iced and Max Stone soon arrived as expected to confront the intruder. Agreeing to the challenge, Tony and Iced were promptly teleported with Antony to the battle site decided by Goma (though Max, much to his annoyance, was once again left behind).

Arriving in an unknown timeline many eons in the future, in an-specified lifeless Universe, on a planet clearly ravaged by destruction, decay, and extinction: Antony explained that this was the fate of every world - all worlds - in every conceivable timeline, under the stewardship of Zen-Oh. He claimed again that his duty, to kill the Omni, would save all of reality from this inevitable fate, and made one final effort to convince Iced to join him.

Seeing that even with evidence before him, his old friend refused to see his truth, he attacked Tony in a rage while blaming his continued existence as being what was preventing Iced from moving on and abansoning the broken old world.

After a brutal battle, one in which Tony appeared to be holding his own, Iced realised that Antony was not using the immense power he once displayed when they had fought previously. Also, having recently discovered the potential, and danger, of Universal energy from his battle with Azrai, Iced finally realised why it was that Antony - and indeed Tony, at a previous time - had such otherworldly power.

Confirming his suspicions, Antony revealed the results of his training with Goma, and transformed into a bright Platinum version of Tony's so-called former "God Form": declaring it to be a form resulting from a mortal's successful

    utilisation and mastery of Universal Time-Space energy - Universal Power.

Proving to be insurmountably powerful in this form, Antony began a final beat down of Tony. Iced's attempts to intervene were initially brushed off, and Antony's threat to prolong Tony's suffering if he continued to get in the way, caused Iced to stand back and wait for a chance to strike.

At the last moment, while Tony was left unconscious and Yamcha'd in a crater, Iced struck while Antony prepared to launch a gigantic blast at Tony. While Iced too proved no match, Tony was able to regain consciousness and call on Iced for them to "*do the thing*", with Iced understanding and managing to break away long enough to instant transmission to Tony in order to perform the Fusion Dance.

Knowing exactly what they were intending to do, Antony unleashed a wave of power against them, forcing them apart, and continued his attacks on the weakened Tony until he was once again knocked to the ground.

Iced, once again, stood between Tony and his would-be killer. but rather than attack right away, Antony demanded to know "*why*" Iced continued to stand by a lesser and false version of himself. A version which, by the very rules of the Time Patrol, would and should be considered an anomaly, and a breach of the original history. When Iced refused to backdown, calling Antony out on his views on the Universe, Antony relented in his desire to bring Iced to his side: preparing a blast to kill both Patrollers instead.

Moments before the blast hit however, Iced remembered the Potara earings he was given by Creepy Kai after his appointment to temp Supreme Kai. Throwing one to (at) Tony, the two fused into a new being. This being introduced himself as "Icedny" before rattling out a few other potential fusion names before an irritated Antony cut him off to tell him his name was "Kold", combining the surnames of the two (Kovacs and Cold). Antony attacked this new and powerful enemy and, while still clearly the more powerful, Kold was able to inflict some damage and all but even the playing field once they became Golden Kold.

While all this transpired, Max Stone (having fused with himself several thousand times to become Maximum Stone) was battling Goma. With Goma's revelation that Maximum possessed a button to Zen-Oh, he stole it and teleported it directly to Antony in the destroyed future world, telling Antony to forget about Tony, and use the button to transport himself directly to Zen-Oh. Antony appeared to consider this for a moment: stopping when Iced called him by his true name, "Tony", but ultimately followed through on the orders of his God, and disappeared from the battle.

Outside the Universe, within the realm of The King of Everything, Zen-Oh resided in his other-worldy palace unaware of the danger. Suddenly, Antony appeared within the Omni's chamber and without saying anything more than ""hello there", launched himself at the tiny God, grabbed him by the neck, lifted him up, and with one hand placed at his chest, fired a single blast right through him, before dropping his lifeless corpse t the floor.

At this moment, within Goma's realm of unexistence, the Un God's robes gave way to the attire of the King of Everything. Power has defaulted to the one remaining Omni. All power. Before a dumbfounded maximum Stone, Goma's physical form instantly gave way to a writhing sphere of light and dark, declaring at last that "all shall be as one, as Goma. Immutable. Unchaging. Eternally."

With his task as Godkiller fulfilled, and Chaos at last removed from the equation, Goma wrote into existence a new reality: one without a multiverse, one without timelines, one without time. Without past, present or future; birth, death or change. A singular monoverse - and thus it was and would be, now, and forever.

### Redemption and Defeat

Following the reformation of the Omniverse, Antony discovered his usefulness to the Un-God to have come to an end. He was certain that Goma would usher in a new world in which all beings could live without fear of their ends: where worlds and universes would not be used as pawns in the power games of Gods and Demons. Unfortunately, Goma's alternative was far from how Antony had imagined.

As a loyal and faithful servant, and Prophet of his new Order, Antony was granted the "gift" of maintaining his sense of self, physical form, and an awareness of the passage of an otherwise irrelevant time - meanwhile all other beings across the Universes and their timelines were either erased or assimilated into Goma himself, a now formless ethereal entity encompassing reality itself.

Antony existed in this limbo, feeling the effects of time stretching from hours to eons across him - while otherwise lost in a static and unchanging world. Unchanging: until Iced reappeared.

Iced spent a "relative hour" wandering the static wastes - his own mind failing to correct for the timeless reality, and almost losing his mind soon after arriving in this reality - until Antony managed to find him.

While Iced remained guarded at first, Antony explained that he wished only to make things "right", by un-doing Goma's act and defeating himself before he could assassinate Zen-Oh. He figured out how Iced survived unchanged, pointing to the Time Ring still on his finger, which had kept him anchored to a point in time which must itself still be clinging on following Goma's otherwise complete wipe. Then, offering his own Universal Power in the fight against himself, he transferred the collective energy of untold universes to Iced with the instruction to get it to Tony on the battlefield, who would be able to control it without risking death.

Giving a final farewell and apology to his old friend, he thanked Iced for, just as Goma predicted, "being with [him] at the end", before setting the Time Ring to take Iced back moments before Antony's escape.

On the battlefield, Antony prepared to use the Zen-Oh button to escape, but just before he did Iced's voice boomed out with new power, causing Antony to turn round and see the previous Iced gone from where he was, and a glowing Platinum coloured Iced instead flying above them.

Goma, realising what had happened began to scream at Antony to kill Iced "*lest he undo our victory again*", but was silenced by Maximum Stone who continued their own battle. Meanwhile, at the risk of his own meltdown as he struggled to contain the Universal Power, Iced attacked Antony to prevent him from escaping. After a brief exchange, Iced was able to break away from the fight to transfer the power to Tony, with the latter transforming into a Platinum coloured version of his old "God" Form, and with new confidence, met Antony head on in a final battle.

At first, even now, Antony appeared to maintain the upper hand: his mastery of the form and it's power giving him the edge against the flailing Tony whom he was able to knock to the ground and begin to barrage with energy strikes from the air. However, brushing himself off, Tony was able to come back stronger and faster, reaching more and more into the depths of this limitless, deadly power source.

As the power imbalance began to show, the same phenomenom which had happened between the two Tony's on their first meeting occurred again: with Antony's Universal Power slipping with every strike made against him by the other, until the power was sapped from him entirely.

Recognising his defeat, and feeling both the Universal Power and Goma's will slip from him, he stood up to face his enemy, floating above in victory. The two conversed for a time, Antony reminding him that neither Goma was defeated from this, nor was the inevitable end of all life - the greater threat which Antony had ultimately sought to rid the Omniverse of - in any way curtailed. During their debate Tony suggested that perhaps the Omniverse ought to do without either of the Omni's handing over their heads. Antony feigned a mocking shock at Tony's blasphemous suggestion, but conceeded that perhaps Tony, with this power, could indeed be the one to free Mortals from both Zen-Oh and Goma, laughing at the idea that even after all this Tony's destiny remained unchanged: to be the God Killer.

Telling Tony to "end it as you please", and making to attempts to flee or resist, Tony stabbed him with a spirit sword, putting a final end to the sad story of Antony, and at least for now, Goma's attempts to use him to destroy Zen-Oh.

Thankfully, taking Antony's warning to heart that Goma remained a threat, and would not stop, the three Time Patrollers were able to figure out a plan to neutralise Goma - at least for the foreseeable future - officially ending The Goma Crisis.

## Trivia

* The idea of "Antony the Anti-Tony" was first discussed during the final episodes of Xenoverse 1, even going so far as creating the character in-game. However the announcement of Xenoverse 2 and wrapping up of the Xenoverse 1 episodes delayed the execution of this concept, and allowed for further story development.
* The reveal of "Black Goku" in Dragonball Super was a major influence for the eventual design and character of Antony, though the concept was discussed before hand
* A surprising number of viewers picked up on the subtle physical differences between [this character] and Tony from his initial appearance at the end of episode 3. Comments such as "WHERE'S TONY'S LIPSTICK?" were common, leading a few to predict the character on screen was not the true Tony.
* Though his inception and design was finalised long before *Dragon Ball Super's* "Universal Survival" story Arc, it is a coincidence that Antony's Platinum eyes bear a resemblance to Goku's when in "Ultra Instinct" form.