Hero's Blood

*This article features media from **MGW Productions** that has yet to be released.*

**Hero's Blood** is an ultraviolent superhero fighting game, produced by MGW Productions, scheduled for release in 2022.

## Plot

It is April 2021, and superheroes, antiheroes, and villains, most of whom gain their powers once they turn five years old, from all over the world have been invited to fight in the Hero's Blood Tournament, hosted by Supreme Dictator, who plans to overthrow Mayor Powers, the current Mayor of Super City, and rule the city with an iron fist. Although killing is allowed in the tournament, heroes have sworn a vow never to take a life unless push comes to shove. Will Supreme Dictator and his tyrannical plans be stopped before it's too late?

## Gameplay

Heroic characters in this game will have two different types of finishers: the Heroic Brutality, similar to the finishing move of the same name from *Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe*, where they incapacitate and severely injure the opponent, while leaving them alive to fight another day, and a Fatality-like move called the Broken Vow, whereas antiheroes and villains have Fatality-like finishers called Antiheroic or Villainous Casualties.

## Characters

### Base Roster

* Max "Blackout" Sparks (voiced by Patrick Seitz): An electric-powered supervillain from Mississauga who gained his powers after a freak accident.
* Tatiana "Bozhiysvet" Yemelyanova (voiced by Caitlin Glass): A Russian superheroine whose powers were born of her devotion to the Christian God.
* Jorge "El Rápido" Hernández (voiced by Jorge Diaz): A speedster superhero from Mexico City.
* Hwang "Geulimja" Dae-jung (voiced by SungWon Cho): A Korean antihero with the superpower of shadow manipulation.
* Wu "Huo Bingdu" Hantsing (voiced by Kelly Hu): A coronavirus-powered supervillainess from Wuhan who is responsible for causing the global COVID-19 pandemic.
* Thandiwe "Ingwemnyama" Madikizela (voiced by Megalyn Echikunwoke): A Black Panther-like superheroine from South Africa, and an ethnic Xhosa.
* Aminah "Isis" Hakim (voiced by Sandra Saad): A superheroine from Cairo who fights using Isis-like wings attached to her arms.
* Fei "Long Quan" Han (voiced by Robin Shou): superhero from a remote Chinese village with the superpower of qi-infused kung fu.
* Thomas "Mystic" Thompson (voiced by Keith Silverstein): A Doctor Strange-like British librarian with the special ability of sorcery.
* Chris "New England Patriot" Brady (voiced by Roger Craig Smith): A retired NFL player turned superhero from Boston, and the poster boy of Hero's Blood.
* Kostas "Olympus" Angelopoulos (voiced by Yuri Lowenthal): The son of the retired superheroine, Lady Olympus, who fights in the Hero's Blood Tournament to carry on her legacy.
* Akira "Ronin" Sanada (voiced by Max Huang): A no-powers antihero biker from Tokyo who fights using a katana.
* Gulrukh "Saraab" Kashani (voiced by Mara Junot): A Pakistani villainess who fights using the superpower of illusion manipulation.
* Tyrone "T-Rextinctor" King (voiced by Ike Amadi): A Tyrannosaurus Rex-themed Bed-Stuy heel wrestler who formerly used the Triceratops-themed babyface persona, Tricera-Horn.
* Noah "Wildfire" Johnson (voiced by Josh Lawson): An Australian no-powers villain who fights using flamethrowers strapped to his arms, and has used his weapons to commit multiple arsons throughout his native country, including his own hometown.
* Clint "Wild Weston" Weston (voiced by Troy Baker): An Old West antihero from San Antonio who uses American Frontier-era firearms rather than superpowers.

### Hidden Characters

* Nadia "ArachNadia" Noceda (voiced by Cree Summer): A Barcelona supervillainess who has gained spider-like abilities and appearance as a result of a scientific experiment.
* Khalil "As de Pique" Stambouli (voiced by Marwan Kenzari): An antihero and Algerian immigrant to Paris, skilled in gambling and card-throwing.
* Huatare "Game Master" Waerea (voiced by Taika Waititi): A Maori villain with the power of trapping his opponents inside a video game reality.
* Charles "Moto Maji" Zuberi (voiced by Khary Payton): A Nairobi superhero who combines his powers of pyrokinesis and hydrokinesis with his athletic skills in basketball.
* Giulia "Roman Candle" Esposito (voiced by Jayma Mays): A 17-year-old Roman heroine with the superpower of generating fireworks from her hands.
* Will "Space Ace" Pratt (voiced by Brian T. Delaney): A hero who was abducted by aliens from his small Missouri town as a young boy, and who has since then learned the ways and weaponry of outer space.

### Update Characters

* Iolanda "Espinhoverde" Oliveira (voiced by Tasia Valenza): A Poison Ivy-like chlorokinetic femme fatale villainess from Lisbon.
* Skye "Herricane" Storm-Powers (voiced by Jennifer Hale): A heroine who can control the weather based on her emotions, and S. Dictator's ex-wife who is now married to Mayor Powers.
* Justice "Interdimensional Kid" Powers, Jr. (voiced by Zeno Robinson): The biracial teenage son of Mayor Powers and Herricane, with the ability to create portals to and travel to alternate universes.
* Abdurrahim "Kaynayankan" Erdoğan (voiced by Chris Jai Alex): A Turkish villain with the superpower of heating his blood up to 500 degrees Celsius, then hurling it out, melting anything the blood touches, including human flesh.
* Derek "Lawkeeper" Floyd (voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson): A Minneapolis cop and superhero, dedicated to maintaining the law and wiping out crime.
* Prisha "Rani Kobara" Acharya (voiced by Kausar Mohammed): A Mumbai assassin and villainess with poison-tipped, cobra-fang gauntlets attached to her arms.

### DLC Characters

* Felicia "AdoraKitty" Davies (voiced by Tara Strong): A 16-year-old aspiring pop singer from London, who was taken in by a kindly Catholic nun.
* Elaine "Elle-Louve" Gagnon (voiced by Janyse Jaud): A Montreal werewolf antiheroine who is in constant struggle with her curse.
* Luisa "Princesa de Selva" Hernández (voiced by Kimberly Brooks): A heroine who has learned to adapt to life in the Colombian rainforest.
* Luke "Timewarp" Brady (voiced by Clancy Brown): An older version of N.E. Patriot's son who was brought back in time from 2070 to kill S. Dictator before he kills Mayor Powers for mayorship of Super City.
* Abraham Van Helsing III (voiced by Matthew Mercer): A monster hunter from Amsterdam who is descended from the legendary Abraham Van Helsing.
* Ángel "Xerox" de Heredia (voiced by Avi Roque): A Guatemalan non-binary villain who can copy the powers and abilities of others by simply observing them, and who has already "borrowed" the abilities of heroes who previously came to challenge them.

### Sub-Bosses

* Portia "Deadly Beauty" Davidson (voiced by Karen Strassman): A Vancouver fashion model who utterly despises those who are ugly to her, and the "Vega" of S. Dictator's Regime, whom certain characters fight as their sub-boss in Arcade Mode.
* Carlos "Mutante" dos Santos (voiced by T.J. Storm): A dangerous and violent drug runner from the favelas of Rio de Janeiro who was mutated into something even more dangerous after taking an experimental serum, and the "Balrog" of S. Dictator's Regime, whom certain characters fight as their sub-boss in Arcade Mode.
* Joyo "Prajurit Terhormat" Saputra (voiced by Ron Yuan): An honorable Indonesian fighter and the "Sagat" of S. Dictator's Regime, whom certain characters fight as their sub-boss in Arcade Mode.

### Final Boss

* Ken "Supreme Dictator" Clarkson (voiced by George Newbern): The tyrannical high councilor of the Super City Regime, who has been left embittered by his loss of the mayoral election to Mayor Powers by 13 votes, and the final boss of Hero's Blood.

### Pre-Order Bonus

* Mayor Powers (voiced by Giancarlo Esposito): The current mayor of Super City, who represents the non-Regime side of Superman.

## Trivia

* This will be the first MGW Productions game to have a non-binary character be part of the roster.
* Mayor Powers was originally going to be white and voiced by either J.K. Simmons or Bryan Cranston, both of whom eventually turned down the role, which was also turned down by Kiefer Sutherland, who also declined to voice Timewarp, but when Giancarlo Esposito was cast to voice the character, he ended up being black instead.