Dai

**Dai** is a bandit in Super Bandit RIP. He is classified as a melee character and his difficulty rank is easy.

## Description:

Dai is a police officer/detective in New York City. He used to be a police officer with two arms, but time changes, and so do people. Said arm was lost in Dai's attempts to save a child from a burning building. The cause of said inferno was one of Freak's rampages. This rampage was likely due to a battle with Zetoman which may have fanned the fires on Dai's grudge against said superhero. Dai got his arm replaced with what would appear to be a military grade prosthetic metal arm. While it is unclear where he got this arm from (perhaps New York City is simply an advanced society beyond current standards) we do know that Dai has an old friend in the military, **Lt.** Janko, who could have potentially used his connections to get Dai this *though there is no direct evidence supporting this idea.*

After this incident Dai took a great interest in discovering the secrets behind Freak and eventually became convinced that Freak's secret identity must be Will B. Nero. The most influential man in the world being behind such a monster did not stop Dai's investigation and he seeks to bring Nero and by extension Freak to the Supreme Court and have him tried for his crimes.

As said investigation went on he somehow came across a little wizard boy by the name of Olif who had ran away from home. The official background in game is a bit iffy on details but by some series of event Olif came to be an unofficial partner (with Olif often referring to them as a *"detective duo"*) in Dai's investigation. It is unclear whether Olif is staying with Dai or not but there is a high likelihood of that as Olif would need somewhere to stay.

## Moveset

### Iron Strike

Performed by using W1. Basic melee attack. Third punch is heavier than the others.

### Iron Gale

Performed by using W1 while holding down. Dai makes a short dash forward and a roundhouse kick.

### Iron Uppercut

When holding down and forward while using W1, Dai does an uppercut, launching himself and the target up. This can be used to return back to arena after falling from it.

### Cold Iron

Using W2 launches a knife to cursor's position. Can be used twice before recharging.

**This move is unblockable.**

### Iron Anvil

When holding down while using W2, Dai will make a leap forward and smashes the ground. This can be used to return back to arena after falling from it.

## Trivia

* Plot armor - Dai is the main character of Bandit RIP according to the developer's Newgrounds account which matches up to the fact that Dai and Olif were the first two characters.
* Uppercut - Dai's uppercut was nerfed at some point for being overpowered.
* Variable amputee - Dai's in game sprites, like all other sprites, simply reverse the actual sprites when turning a different direction. However this also reverses Dai's metal arm.
* Dai's name is a gender neutral name of Welsh/Japanese origin. It means something along the lines of beloved/great/to shine.
* Gold Dai was the second golden skin to be made and was made by talented skin artist Migeulillo. It is also the only gold skin to have red energy and lightning motif on one of its attacks.