Demitri Maximoff

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**Demitri Maximoff** is the main protagonist from the *Darkstalkers* franchise.

Demitri is the master of one of the seven noble families of Makai. One day he challenged Belial Aensland, Morrigan's father, one of the three high nobles, and the ruler of Makai, for the throne. The end result: he was defeated so badly that both he and his castle Zeltzereich were ripped through reality into the human world. For the next 100 years he was quietly restoring his lost powers all while drinking the blood of unlucky treasure hunters who dared to enter his castle. All of them became his servants.

When he restored most of his powers, Pyron dropped in to conquer Earth, and Demitri used this opportunity to defeat him and absorb Pyron's power, returning to full strength. When he felt that he was ready, he returned to Makai, only to find that Belial had died, and the result was a very serious power struggle. Before he could take advantage of it, he and his castle were sucked into the Majigen, the pocket dimension created by Jedah Dohma.

In the AWA fics, Demitri debuted in the All Worlds Alliance Missions - CROSSOVERDOSE.

In the XP4 fics, Demitri debuted in the XP4 Heroes of the Multiverse - All-Star Adventures.

## **Appearance**

Demitri is a tall and muscular man. He has a brown pointy hair and has red eyes. He wears a blue tailcoated jacket over a red muscle shirt with a white scarf, blue tight pants, brown boots and a red & blue cape.

## **Personality**

Demitri Maximoff is a villainous and power-hungry vampire who, like Dracula, sees humanity as an inferior race and only cares for their blood. His favorite type of blood is from innocent and beautiful girls, who seem to be loyal to Demitri and admire him (although this could be the work of hypnosis, as most vampires are capable of such ability).

In the the UDON comics of Darkstalkers, Demitri desires to control all of Makai as its ruler, and seems to hold a grudge against the Aensland family due to his defeat from Belial's hands. He also seems to respect his fellow vampires such as Dracula, the king of vampires.

## **XP4 Fanfics**

### **XP4 Heroes of the Multiverse - All-Star Adventures**

In Chapter 17, Demitri is seen inside his castle somewhere in the Makai Realms when Morrigan Aensland met up with him and told him about some certain visitors in their realms. Demitri and Morrigan later met up with a group of Black Order soldiers at a graveyard when Thomas Camp came up to them and after discovering that Thomas is after the Soul Gem, Demitri and Morrigan fought him. After the battle, it is revealed that Thomas defeated them and Demitri met up with Doctor Strange while carrying an unconscious Morrigan and revealed that Thomas got the Soul Gem.

## **Abilities**

Demitri is one of most dangerous vampires in the Darkstalkers series, second to only Dracula himself. This power stems from the fact that he gave Belial an intense battle despite losing against him due to his arrogance. After many years of gaining power by drinking the blood of humans and gaining knowledge throughout history, he has become wiser than ever since his war against Belial. He is able to turn people into vampires like himself for control, summon supernatural bats to attack his foes, transform into a vampire version of himself or a small bat, fly throughout the night, as well as turn his opponents into women, both human or supernatural alike.

## **Trivia**

* Demitri's preferred blood type to consume is AB. He also prefers blood from virgins.
* The girls on Demitri's stage named are Patricia, Elizabeth, Francoise and Angelica.
* In the *Darkstalkers* series, Demitri is voiced by Nobuyuki Hiyama, who is mostly known as the voice of adult Link in *The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time*, the Japanese voice of Bass in the Japanese version of Mega Man 8, Joe Higashi from the *Fatal Fury* and *The King of Fighters* series, Hiei from *Yu Yu Hakusho*, by starring twice within the Brave Series franchise as Maito Senpuuji of *The Brave Express Might Gaine* and Gai Shishioh of the *King of Braves GaoGaiGar.*He also voiced Viral and Old Coco in Tenga Toppa Gurren Lagann.
* In the American cartoon series, Demitri is voiced by Michael Donovan, who also voiced Guile in the *Street Fighter* cartoon series. He is also given a Romanian accent to match his nationality.
* Richard Epcar, Demitri's English voice actor in *Cross Edge*, had previously voiced characters of supernatural origin ranging from Franken in *The Monster of Frankenstein* (originally known as *Kyofu Densetsu: Kaiki! Frankenstein*) to Myotismon from *Digimon*. Epcar later voiced an ironical character who hunted a particular vampire and was killed by such (and later revived through timely intervention): Joseph Joestar from *JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders*.
* In *Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3*, Vergil was given alternate colors based on Demitri.
* For *Monster Hunter Frontier*, Capcom released costumes of Demitri and Morrigan for the game. Their costumes came in 4 different colors; Demonic Series featuring their regular colors, Shadow Series featuring reds, Chaos Series featuring light blue and Soul Series featuring white.
* Demitri was planned to be a playable character in the cancelled game *Capcom Fighting All-Stars: Code Holder*.
* Demitri's vampire clan are an enemy of Van Helsing.
* Demitri is hinted to know about the existence of Dracula, the king of vampires.
* Maximoff is the latinized surname of Maksimov which is of Russian origin, meaning "son of Maksim". Curiously, in *SVC Chaos*, his surname was spelled as Maximov instead of the usual Maximoff.