Beowulf
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贝奥武夫是在职业摔角巅峰期退役的传奇选手,曾击败了看起来不可一世的gigan[?]战士格伦德尔。在儿子战败后,他的母亲也狂暴起来,差点生吞了观众,但也被贝奥武夫制服了。数年后,贝奥武夫就难以安于现状,他一直琢磨着这是否就是他能力的极限了?于是他宣布他要复出,重返赛场。而他未言明的是,此次征途不在以往熟悉的擂台,因为那里已经没有可以与之匹敌的对手存在了。
基本资料
贝奥武夫是Indiegogo众筹项目披露的第22位可能登场的DLC角色,筹得了44万美元的资金。最后他从投票中脱颖而出,作为第5位实装游戏的DLC角色,并成为首个拥有场景专属登场台词的角色。
贝奥武夫是次重量级摔角选手,体重级别处于中下等。他退役前在非自由式摔角领域拿下了32连胜的记录,目前仍处于不败巅峰。
设定中赛瑞贝拉是他的狂热粉丝,在贝奥武夫的Steam官方集换式卡牌卡图里,赛瑞贝拉正在热切地索要签名。玛丽也对他抱有好感,并且她本人就热衷摔角运动。
人物性格
贝奥武夫是位热血沸腾的摔角手,享受聚光灯下的荣耀。即便在击败格伦德尔母子后遭遇事业低谷,但他也不愿意就这样放弃自己的事业,他想继续回报粉丝的厚爱。然而,贝奥武夫的确是一个头脑简单、思虑不周的人。他过度专注事业,大事小事都听从赞恩的建议。赞恩是他的摔角“经纪人”,总是鬼鬼祟祟的,看起来十分阴险可疑。贝奥武夫虽然行事莽撞,但却为人正直、心地善良,是个心系粉丝的骁勇战士。不论是否是他的粉丝,他都会对其加以关照。在贝奥武夫的故事线中,当他发现自己与格伦德尔的决斗中存在黑幕后,他就向周围的观众宣布了这一点,并立誓他一定会打败Skullgirl玛丽。
基础设定
原型
贝奥武夫的名字取自同名的古老英格兰史诗
的主角,即那位斩杀巨怪格伦德尔及其母亲的传奇人物。
这位史诗英雄的佩剑名为
设计
贝奥武夫在游戏中被塑造为一位强健的摔角运动员,一头黑发,蓄黑色胡茬,穿了条褐色的吊带裤,腿部束毛皮护具。他肩披狼首毛皮斗篷,施展特定招式、受击或获胜的动画里,狼首会覆盖他的面部,使他看起来就像个真正的狼人。除了折叠椅,贝奥武夫还会把格伦德尔的断臂当作武器来战斗。
他的招式体系主要围绕以下三个主题来构建:狼、格伦德尔之臂和摔角技术。
剧情梗概
击溃gigan[?]战士格伦德尔、在竞技场中胜出了一场又一场精彩绝伦的比赛,贝奥武夫因这些战绩而声名显赫,名垂千史。但退役后的平庸演艺事业逐渐磨灭了他过去的光辉。如今,天穹王国正面临着全新的威胁,他重踏征途,志在重铸当年的辉煌,却意外解开了往昔的真相……贝奥武夫能否保全城市安危并重唤当年荣耀?这场又会不会成为他的谢幕之战呢?
背景故事
剧情伊始,帕娜索率Black Egrets就前制作人西奥多美第奇涉及的案件质询贝奥武夫。他起初只顾着吹嘘当年如何风光,直到帕娜索威胁后,才不得不透露西奥多可能的藏身之所。
自大战争过后,贝奥武夫的摔角生涯陷入了低谷,随之他便自暴自弃并沉溺于毫无节制的放纵生活。但他也渴望重振自己的英雄形象。动荡的战争期间,贝奥武夫在擂台上一举击杀了两名当时令人闻风丧胆的gigan[?]战士:格伦德尔母子,他因而赢得了整个天穹王国无数粉丝的爱戴,一度被奉为传奇。然而,随着战争阴影的散去,那股曾让他红极一时的爱国热潮也迅速退潮。贝奥武夫后来在各种电视节目里客串,被大众视为“晚节不保”的笑料。
某日,突发新闻爆出疑似骷髅女孩现身的消息,与此同时,格伦德尔的断臂就自发地开始袭击贝奥武夫——这断臂一直被贝奥武夫当作最有力的武器以及战争胜利的纪念品。他认为断臂是闹鬼了,于是前往Grand Cathedral求助于双形,他没有意识到双形并不是一个普通的修女。以化名阿加莎修女的名义,双形告诉贝奥武夫所有死去的生物都受骷髅女孩的统辖,只有阻止Skull Heart的影响才能将这只断臂恢复成原来的样子。贝奥武夫并不希望自己全盛时期的最后荣耀被夺走,于是决定亲自出战,打败骷髅女孩以夺回昔日声名。
重归擂台的贝奥武夫急切地想向粉丝们证明自己,首先就挑战了赛瑞贝拉。作为狂热粉丝,她愿意为他的复出卖力帮忙。初战告捷,贝奥武夫又向他过去的经纪人赞恩MacDougal[?]咨询。赞恩为贝奥武夫精心制定了一个计划,拍胸脯保证一定让他的事业重回正轨,再度翻红。这个计划就是让贝奥武夫与骷髅女孩进行决斗。眼下民众因骷髅女孩而人心惶惶,甚至有一些可疑分子利用着骷髅女孩的苏醒而浑水摸鱼。赞恩察觉到了这一点,他保证会全程隐蔽拍下贝奥武夫为民除害的每一战,包装成最火爆的真人秀,以此表示他将站在正义的阵线。
贝奥武夫来到Little Innsmouth,将被当成“畸形秀”的痛苦转轮锁定为下一个目标。还没见到对手时,他就催促摄像师开始录制,显然摄像师和观众们都还一头雾水。击败她之后,贝奥武夫在Streets of New Meridian撞见了瓦伦汀。瓦伦汀原本在寻找痛苦转轮以继续进行试验,这下她决定亲自测试贝奥武夫,但最终输掉了对决。她承认贝奥武夫挥动格伦德尔手臂的战斗技巧的确有一手,但对他打败了gigan[?]的经历嗤之以鼻。曾在大战争期间直面gigan[?]的瓦伦汀断言:贝奥武夫其实只是在人群的围观中摆了摆姿势,根本没有意识到战场真正的残酷和敌人拥有的真实力量。
回到NMO Arena后,贝奥武夫遇到了安妮,他并没有认出这位正是他在日渐衰落的演艺生涯中客串过的电视节目《Glorious Annie: Symphony of Star Stuff[?]》里的合作演员。她指出贝奥武夫其实是被设计陷害了,并警告他不要继续被当枪使。尽管安妮不停劝说,贝奥武夫仍然顾若罔闻。他以为安妮是节目安排好与他串戏的另一位女演员。
隔日,贝奥武夫前往赞恩的办公室,向他吐露对瓦伦汀与安妮质疑的担忧。赞恩告诉他“粉丝就爱看这个”,让他放轻松,便把他打发到River King Casino与大乐队进行决斗。这次赞恩亲自敦促摄像小妹赶快开始拍摄,搞得米涅特有点晕头转向。大乐队战败后就径直离开了,他认为这场比赛只不过是调虎离山,这样他们就可以去偷袭Lab 8和Dr. Avian。贝奥武夫这才意识到事情并不像想象中那么简单,于是回头找赞恩要说法。
赞恩让贝奥武夫不要纠结于细节,只向他透露正在策划的下一次对手会比格伦德尔更加强大。当贝奥武夫再次登上擂台,他遇到了一个和自己一模一样的人。这个二重身当场爆料:格伦德尔在他们那场传奇决斗中其实被下了药,整场比赛是王室权贵与黑道首次联手操控的大戏,只为证明gigan[?]并非无敌。
听到当年真相,贝奥武夫顿时震惊到无言,继而感到心烦意乱。这个冒牌货继续嘲讽那件堪称王国丑闻的事件,要求贝奥武夫马上澄清这件事,为那次不光彩的胜利向他的粉丝们谢罪并灰溜溜地再次退役。但贝奥武夫坚持要在擂台上解决掉所有的争端,于是立刻向他的二重身发起挑战。贝奥武夫取得了战斗的胜利,但他的扭曲镜像扬言他一定会为事态的变化而感到后悔。贝奥武夫承认他一生中确实有许多遗憾,最对不起的就是格伦德尔。但他认为冒牌货在这件事情上没有任何发言权,让他滚出竞技场。
正确面对了神秘人道出的真相后,贝奥武夫承认他所言非虚,他之前完全忽视了这一恶劣事件的细节,内心愧疚难当。这位前冠军向他的粉丝和逝去的敌手郑重起誓,他将亲手打倒骷髅女孩,以赎当年之罪。台下的群众闻言为他沸腾起来。可当他回到办公室,赞恩对他在擂台上喊出的那些口号不太满意。
贝奥武夫的心情尚未平复,他现在抱有满腔热血想击败骷髅女孩,拯救新子午线。赞恩却对此不以为然,甚至有些恼火,因为他的“宠物狗”在与自己安排的奇怪对手战斗后挣脱了自己的控制,竟然还打算挑战骷髅女孩。赞恩的脸色迅速沉了下来,声称贝奥武夫即将迎来自己的毁灭。贝奥武夫感到困惑,他并不知道他的赞助人到底在说什么,询问他是不是身体哪里不舒服。赞恩早已感到厌倦,她懒得继续装慈祥,直接撕下伪装,原来他一直都是双形假扮的。
双形趁贝奥武夫惊讶之际困住了他并把他一口吞入腹中,连同之前复出赛中被击败的那些对手一起囚禁在Gehenna。贝奥武夫质问她到底是何方神圣。这只不定形的怪物只是默默变回了在圣母大教堂中虔诚祈祷的修女的模样。她不知道贝奥武夫是否还记得她和她之前说过的话,她说被困在这里的其他愚蠢的人阻碍了她和骷髅女孩的最终计划。既然执意与她作对,贝奥武夫也将和众人一起陪葬。
最终,贝奥武夫打败了这个恶魔般可自由变换形态的怪物,他好奇这个令人厌恶的地狱深穴是否也是她身体的一部分。贝奥武夫自认可以轻易地把这里的一切打成肉酱,但想象了那个画面后他明显恶心了起来。双形嘲讽他应该习惯这些血肉模糊的场景,因为他将永远沉沦于此。贝奥武夫抄起他值得信赖的
就在这时,安妮踩着星光冲了进来,解救了双形囚禁的所有人员。焦热地狱有着一条通往圣母大教堂地下的血管密道,贝奥武夫边被救世主训斥,边从这里离开。他也好奇骷髅女孩是不是像传说中一样待在教堂地下。安妮一猜就知道贝奥武夫在打什么算盘,劝他不要鲁莽,认为他一定不是骷髅女孩的对手。但贝奥武夫已经下定决心要弥补他过去对格伦德尔和{Meridian}市民犯下的错误。他过去的粉丝中有一些人认为他搞砸了,很多人开始不承认他是个英雄。
而贝奥武夫很怀念聚光灯下的感觉,他也认为就算自己没有责任,也有义务去做一些正确的事。他向所有认识和鼓励他的人承诺,自己会成功战胜骷髅女孩,并认定现在正是他唯一的机会。安妮觉得他现在肯定听不进道理,于是不再关心他是否会招致杀身之祸,毕竟她也试图阻止过贝奥武夫。格伦德尔的断臂马上就对骷髅女孩的存在产生了感应。贝奥武夫跟上了它,最后真的与骷髅女孩正面相遇。他将迎来他的终极挑战。
Bloody Marie[?]有点困惑,因为她发现贝奥武夫打算用gigan[?]尸体的一部分来战斗。贝奥武夫反唇相讥,说让两个早已死透的东西在这死气沉沉的空间互相认识一下是最合适不过的。玛丽讥讽他从过去到现在一直在为了自己的利益榨取格伦德尔的价值。贝奥武夫坦然承认他们之前的对决中确实存在黑幕,当年无知的他得知这一可怕的真相后也正在努力为格伦德尔讨回公道,使他的灵魂得以安息。一想到面前这个喜欢追名逐利的人只是为了满足自己空洞的虚荣心而来挑战自己,玛丽就异常恼火。她誓要让贝奥武夫只剩下两个选择——受尽痛苦的折磨或者葬身于此茔窟。
结局
After having been crippled by the warrior before her, Marie soon used her power over the dead to reanimate Grendel’s remains again; only this time putting both herself as the Skull Heart and the soul of the deceased remains against him. Stuck in the bind he was in Beowulf assumed the worst had come to pass after he was pinned under the arm he used to weaponize, that was until Double resurfaced as another ravenous maw of eyes and teeth setting its jaws on him. Consigned to meet his end Beowulf sullenly admits he brought this nightmarish tag-team on himself as he faces the dragons jaws.
Suddenly, Annie comes rushing in on her Galaxy Cutter rescuing him from the demons clutching jaws, as the galaxy maiden has a one on one confrontation with the creature of hell; whom promises this will be her last, the former hero of the canopy kingdom has a momentary heart to heart with his mix-matched recreational rival. As he laments over how life had treated Grendel with the respect of a filthy dishcloth while he got shoved into the hero role for kicking the dog in the first place.
An eerie presence soon reacted to the wayward wrestler urging him to cast aside all regrets and fight as they should: like true Warriors. As Grendel attacked the former countered his adversary and bested him once again using the very same move he employed to secure his arm during their very first match proving Beowulf would have won even without help in the first place.
Soon moving towards the Skull Heart after Annie instructed him too. Beowulf lands the devastating finisher shattering the evil relic with The Hurting all in his fallen rivals name meanwhile Annie lands the end blow to Double with the evil metamorph promising to meet her again just before its own demise. After putting Grendel's remains to rest bidding his worthy adversary a final farewell, Annie admits while the is over for now the war continually rages onward due to the ever appearing Skullgirl, ending on the note that it never ends no matter how long she's been around.
Beowulf finally comes to terms that she is the same Annie whose show he had cameoed on and she jokes that agelessness is her deal. She goes onto say that all those tales that spun out from her show are actual events and fables she had experienced throughout her incredibly long life of adventure and battle. Myths which are and were all cataloged by someone or another over the generations that had come and gone based on her own life-story. Admitting it was kind of weird to play herself in her own show to which Beowulf admits he can relate too, she professed a new found respect for the guy.
Beowulf, while being a bit of an idiot, still had a good heart beneath it all. Annie noted him as an old friend she knew who helped her once when she needed it most in the past, soon coming to an epiphany of her own. Beowulf exclaims his joy at her compliments but soon loses his train of thought as he wonders what she's talking about. Annie soon offers Beowulf a new spot on her show, seeing as it was more popular than it had ever been since and so was she, plus the fact that whatever she wanted she got. Naturally the superstar was hesitant as he thought it meant resuming his role as the bad wolf man again.
She clarifies he'd be a protagonist on TV this time, stating the guy had earned it despite not being cut from the same cloth as her. She calls him a schmuck but concedes he has proved his worth after helping her take the fight to the root of their problem. Debuting on air as the new and improved heroic partner to the girl of the stars, Beowulf proclaims that with his strength and her green hair the two were an unbeatable combo, and she halfheartedly agrees as denizens of Lab 8 watch their show.
其他故事线
孔雀的故事线
Andy Anvil简单提及了贝奥武夫复出的事。
能力与战斗风格
Beowulf is a character who uses his immense strength and wrestling skills to fight his opponents. His weapons of choice are his endurable chair The Hurting and Grendel's gigantic arm. Some of his attacks depend on whether he has his chair or not; if not, then he will use Grendel's arm instead. He attacks with chops, stomps, charges, and other hard-hitting kicks . Another element of his fighting style is his collection of throws and finishers that can be comparable to a character of the Beat'em Up game genre. Whenever he has an opponent in his grasp, he can attack with a headbutt, his knee, or various damaging slams in the air or on the ground. When Beowulf throws his chair around the stage, he must wait a few seconds before the chair is light and he can be able to pick up again. If he slams his opponent onto his chair, he deals a bit of extra damage and regains the possession of it.
The Hype mechanic is another important factor for Beowulf where the levels (Max level is 3) are represented by pyrotechnics and a stream of confetti. There are several ways to increase the level: performing a taunt, an opponent is slammed onto his chair, dropping the mic several times with S.MP or holding S.LP. The number of actions he can perform depend on the super being used and the level he is currently on. When he is at max level and his opponent has a certain amount of health, he can pin the opponent down after performing a body splash during Wulfmania or Airwulf and the referee will make his appearance to count to three, dealing additional damage and knocking the opponent out (or the last remaining member in the case of teams).
格斗灵感来源
- Tizoc (Garou:Mark of the Wolves)
- Rainbow Mika (Street Fighter Alpha 3)
- "Macho Man" Randy Savage (WWE文件:Logo Wikipedia.png/WCW文件:Logo Wikipedia.png)
- The Ultimate Warrior (WWE文件:Logo Wikipedia.png/WCW文件:Logo Wikipedia.png)
- Johnny Cage (Mortal Kombat series)
- King (Tekken series)
- El Fuerte (Street Fighter IV)
- Captain America (Marvel comics) (pre-Marvel vs. Capcom 3 version)
- Kanji Tatsumi (Persona 4 Arena)
- Jack (Tekken series)
- Jon Talbain (Darkstalkers/Vampire series)
人物预告
轶闻趣事
- Lab Zero在设计贝奥武夫这个角色时翻看了大量的职业摔角录像。
贝奥武夫煽动现场气氛时,观众们会大喊"Salty!",这些音效使用的是在Ultimate Gaming Center参加活动的粉丝们的声音。[1]
- Gigan Arm Sweep[?]的收招
旋转舞步 出自WWE名人堂成员布克·T
的招牌动作。
- Gigan Arm Sweep[?]的收招
- Get Hype[?]招式的观众欢呼音效取自Ultimate Gaming Center[?]“Salty!”格斗聚会的现场录制[1]。
- 在NMO竞技场场景中确实有一群人在为战斗中的贝奥武夫呐喊,但在其他场景,欢呼声都只是他幻想出来的。
- 贝奥武夫的超必杀技Gigantic Arm[?]参考了史莱亚
的overdrive[?]Dead On Time[?](可能还有拉尔夫
的宇宙幻影)。 - 贝奥武夫的超必杀技Three Wulf Moonsault[?]玩了个三狼啸月T恤的梗。命中对手后会显示三狼啸月的画面,与T恤的图案一致。
- 这个招式腾空前打出的三连拳动作神似《街头霸王
》系列的Shin Shoryuken[?]。
- 这个招式腾空前打出的三连拳动作神似《街头霸王
- 贝奥武夫的20号配色、两句outtake[?]台词和基础outtake[?]动画都是对《星际迷航:下一代
》中的大副莱克指挥官
的致敬,包括他企业号的军衔、不同寻常的跨椅坐姿以及皮卡德舰长标志性的台词。 - 贝奥武夫厌恶的东西中有土豆一项。在此处,
土豆 可能是摔角圈内的黑话,指的是合规地实打实重击头部。 - 贝奥武夫喜好的东西中包括Working Snug[?],这应该指的就是同名的摔角术语,意思是摔角手在用力施压抓住对手。这种技巧通常能使比赛看起来更有张力,以此彰显自己的擂台地位,或用于报复[2]。
- 贝奥武夫不喜欢的东西还包括“别人告诉他应该做什么、应该怎么打扮”,这可能影射了WWE里的堕落时代DX组合。他们的主题曲歌词是:“你认为你能教我们做事?你认为你能管我们穿什么?”
- 贝奥武夫的28号配色下的超必杀技Three Wulf Moonsault[?]动画中出现的月亮图案很特别,被修改为了《塞尔达传说:魔吉拉的面具
》中的月亮形态。
