Asura (Asura's Wrath)

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“	I understand it all now! The true reason for my wrath! I could not stand it! There is always some fool who wants to rule the world! Always forcing others to do what they cannot do for themselves! That's why I pray to no one! Nor will I be prayed to! But above all else, I will never forgive you for making my daughter cry! This is your end!!	„
	~ Asura to Chakravartin

“	I...I couldn't bear to see you suffer. No more crying... Smile. My wrath... is finally... gone. Durga... I'll be home... soon.	„
	~ Asura's final words to Mithra

“	Is this how you save the world? This place looks like hell.	„
	~ Asura upon returning to life for the first time

“	12,000 years and nothing has changed.	„
	~ Asura after seeing the world again after 12,000 years

“	I'm borrowing this.	„
	~ Asura grabbing Augus sword after his death

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Background

Asura is the main protagonist and titular character of the action beat 'em up game Asura's Wrath. He is a Demigod and the husband of Durga, father of Mithra, and brother-in-law of Yasha. His Mantra Affinity is Wrath. He was formerly one of the Eight Guardian Generals and former Guardian General of Wrath, who served the Army of Shinkoku and the Emperor to fight against the Gohma.

He was framed and betrayed by his seven comrades, who kidnapped his daughter, murdered his wife, and killed and banished him to Earth. But even in death, he was filled with an indelible rage that led him back to the world of the living, to get his revenge and save his daughter.

This dropdown contains the synopsis of Asura’s story. Read at your own risk as you may be spoiled otherwise!

Early Life 12,000 years prior to the beginning of the game, Asura had a somewhat happy life with his wife Durga and his child, Mithra. He and Yasha were students of Augus and they participated in numerous battles against the impure Gohma. At some point in his residence, Sergei, Wyzen and Kalrow confronted Asura and Wyzen tried to persuade him to join Deus' cause, the Great Rebirth, but he declined. Later when his daughter was appointed new priestess, he was outraged and didn't want his daughter to be involved in war. During a large-scale battle in space between the Shinkoku Army and the Gohma, Asura is angrily dedicated to wiping out the Gohma all by himself. But when Gohma Vlitra emerges from Gaea and decimates most of the fleet just by opening its mouth, Asura engages it along with Yasha who briefly assists him, but are overwhelmed by the beast, and would've died if Mithra hadn't prayed them enough Mantra to survive. Supposedly thanks to the Mantra given by his daughter, Asura is revitalized and empowered, and transforms into the powerful form of Six-Armed Vajra Asura. He becomes strong enough to subdue Vlitra alone and prevent any more casualties. While only subdued, the generals claim victory over Vlitra. After the battle, Asura arrives at his home and reunites with his family, but is summoned to a meeting with the Emperor moments after. Upon arriving at the Emperor's throne room, Asura walks up to Emperor Strada only to see him shaking and flopping into Asura's arms, deceased and with his body cut open. With blood on his hands, Asura is accused of regicide, and mistakenly branded a murderer and traitor by numerous Shinkoku warriors who arrive and witness the scene. Distraught, Asura manages to escape the chamber, however, he is then intercepted and surrounded by Wyzen, who takes this as treason and attacks Asura. Despite Asura's pleading for Wyzen to calm down and let him explain, Wyzen doesn't listen. After being forced to defend himself and take down the Guardian General, Asura rushes across Gaea and returns to his home, only to find Durga fatally wounded. Durga pleads for Asura to save their daughter before dying in his arms, which prompts him to let out a scream of rage and grief. Greatly distressed, Asura eventually finds Mithra imprisoned by the rest of the Guardian Generals. When Asura rushes in, he is attacked by Deus, who reveals himself as the true murderer of the Emperor and the perpetrator of his framing for murder and treason, and that he intends on using Mithra to "save the world". Deus subdues Asura and plunges him into Naraka, as Asura vows vengeance on his former demigod comrades. His daughter kidnapped, his wife killed, and his reputation destroyed, Asura is cast down from Heaven by the Guardian Generals, and is now on a quest of vengeance fueled by pure, uncontrollable rage. 12,000 Years later Asura’s spirit awakens dangling from a pillar in Naraka, a realm of the afterlife ruled by a mysterious figure known only as the Golden Spider. Suffering from amnesia, he begins to ascend the pillar as the Golden Spider goads Asura into regaining his memories about his past and hints about what the mortal world has become in his absence. Fueled by his unexplainable anger, Asura breaks out of Naraka and inhabits his body, freeing it after 12,000 years in a colossal explosion from beneath the surface. While he previously acted more human and benevolent and actually had pupils in his eyes-- all of that was gone. Now that he was back in the realm of the living, he was filled with rage for his betrayal, and sought to kill all of his former comrades for taking everything from him. Asura wanders Gaea, which has become a vast wasteland afflicted with blood red skies and frequent lightning storms. He eventually comes across a human village amidst some ruins, which is suddenly rampaged by the Gohma shortly after. Asura is angered and almost disappointed that the situation on Gaea hadn't improved even after 12,000 years. While Asura rescues the villagers, a capital ship descends to the village and deploys Shinkoku warriors led by his former ally and Guardian General, Wyzen. Wyzen soon too meets Asura personally. He explains that the Eight Guardian Generals disbanded after the coup d'état, becoming the self-proclaimed Seven Deities. Wyzen continues to monologue, but is soon interrupted by Asura's fist, prompting a duel between the two. As they duel Wyzen transforms into his Vajra form, stating that this power was brought by Mithra, Asura's daughter. Asura remembers Mithra and furiously demands to know what the Deities had done with her. Wyzen refuses to answer him and continues their fight. With Wyzen continuously ranting about Mithra suffering because of Asura's actions, Asura gets empowered by his rage and activates his Six-Armed Vajra form. Wyzen eventually taps into the Karma Fortress’s Mantra Reactor to become Gongen Wyzen, a form which increases his size to the point that he becomes as large as the planet. As Asura is about to be crushed under one of Wyzen’s fingers, Asura recalls his entire past, and is filled with indelible wrath. Asura's subsequent concentrated onslaught towards Wyzen's finger is so great that it completely obliterates Wyzen. However, Asura's arms are completely destroyed in the process and, exhausted, Asura falls to the ground unconscious. Upon awakening, Asura is confronted by Yasha, his brother-in-law and rival, who tells him to move on and to forget about Mithra, mocking him for returning to life and attempting to oppose the Seven Deities. Yasha falsely claims that Mithra is devoted to helping the Seven Deities, which ignites Asura's flames of rage. Powered once again through his own rage, savagely attacks Yasha despite the loss of his arms. Though he manages to crack Yasha's mask with a powerful headbutt, he is ultimately overwhelmed and literally cleaved in half by Yasha's final attack, being killed and sent back to Naraka a second time. 500 Years later Asura is awakened in Naraka by his uncontrollable rage and thirst for vengeance a second time, haunted by the sound of his daughter crying and fueled even further by anger, Asura climbed the pillar again into the mortal world. 500 years after his second death, Asura returned to his body. Petrified in stone at the base of a mountain, a shrine had been built around it by the descendants of the villagers he saved. The remaining humans believed him to be a guardian against the absent Gohma. The Gohma finally attack just as Asura breaks free. A Gohma chieftain kidnaps a girl that was visiting Asura's shrine - a girl who bears a striking resemblance to his daughter, Mithra - prompting Asura to pursue it to the now besieged village. After defeating the Gohma, a fleet commanded by the Deity Kalrow comes to investigate. As Kalrow taunts Asura’s status as "The Fallen One" from the safety of his ship, the Trastrium warriors begin harvesting the souls of the grateful villagers, who believe being absorbed into Mantra is ascending to heaven. After dispatching the Trastrium soldiers directly responsible for harvesting the souls of the villagers, Asura destroys the fleet, crushing a fleeing Kalrow inside his own escape pod. Crashing into a mountain, Asura is found by his old mentor Augus, now one of the Deities. Augus carries the unconscious Asura to Kanazuki Spring, near his residence. There, the two relax with the hot spring's female attendants, but when Asura tries to touch one of the girls' breasts, Augus punches him and temporarily knocks him unconscious. Augus then informs Asura of Deus' ambitions: Deus wants to achieve the Great Rebirth, an end to the War of Creation that will usher in a new era of peace and prosperity at the expense of trillions of humans harvested for the cause of destroying Gohma Vlitra, the heart of the Gohma, once and for all. After recuperating in Kanazuki Spring at the attendance of the hot spring's servants, Asura and Augus launch themselves onto the surface of the Moon for their final showdown. Asura and his mentor engage in a clash of strength, but neither yield. Evenly matched in hand-to-hand combat, Augus draws his sword, Wailing Dark, and in doing so proceeds to level the moon with the sheer force of his attacks and the length-altering blade. In an effort to finish Asura off, Augus impales Asura upon the fully-extended blade (now longer than Gaea's width), pinning Asura to and piercing through Gaea. As Augus prepares the killing blow, Asura gathers his raging strength and shatters Wailing Dark, and, grasping the broken blade by the hilt with only his teeth, uses it to cut open and kill an impressed Augus. Augus is not frustrated that he lost, instead he is content that he died in an honorable match at the hands of his student. He then tells Asura that he no longer requires his training and he must walk his own path from now on. Not long after paying his respects to his fallen mentor, a Gohma Striker appears, followed by a vast horde of Gohma on the horizon; upon noticing this, Asura prepares for battle again. An intense battle follows. The girl finds Asura a few days later, once again turned to stone but reviving soon after she finds him. She returns him to the village, presumably to introduce him to her village and family. However, just as they arrive another fleet commanded by the Deity Olga launches a barrage of missiles to purify the land. Asura survives the attack, but finds the girl’s charred body in the rubble. Asura is furious at the pure villainy and greed of Olga and the deities, and witnesses their vileness at first hand. Completely consumed by fury, Asura goes berserk, transforming into a form known as Berserker Asura, and wipes out most of the fleet within minutes. Dumbfounded that Asura's power has somehow surpassed what took the Deities 12 millennia to gather, Olga commands the Brahmastra to fire directly at Asura. Yasha tries to stop the firing sequence, but fails to shut it down before Asura is caught in the blast, merely diverting the blast but giving Asura a chance to escape. Some time later, while Yasha and Sergei are purifying the Gohma and gathering souls from mortals for the Brahmastra, Asura, his body burnt and unstable by the effect of the Brahmastra and his own rage (a form known as Wrath Asura), carves through Sergei’s ship and disembowels Sergei. With his last breaths, Sergei reveals to Yasha that it was he who kidnapped Mithra, and killed his sister - Asura's wife - Durga, to which Yasha states that he was aware of Sergei’s actions at the time but chose to restrain himself for the cause. Asura then brutally thrusts Sergei to the ground before crushing his head with his foot and begins to attack Yasha. In the beginning of their confrontation, Yasha attempts, in vain, to reason with Asura in an effort to return him to his senses, all the while suppressing his emotions underneath his mask. As the battle wears on, Asura momentarily gains the upperhand, interrupting Yasha's pleas with an attack that destroys his mask. Yasha, now free to express himself, furiously retaliates against Asura; all the while knowing that Asura's wrath will destroy his own body if he is not subdued. Driven by raw emotion, Yasha taps into his own mantra of Melancholy and cracks open Asura’s form, returning his sanity but placing him in a temporary coma. While in his coma, Asura is visited by the Golden Spider. Despite being regretting by his loss of control, Asura is informed by the Golden Spider that carrying out his revenge and defeating the Gohma is his "destiny". Asura, enraged but awoken, rises and heads for Shinto. He arrives at Deus’ office to find him already in the midst of battle with Yasha. After a lengthy brawl, Deus escapes to the Karma Fortress and commandeers the Brahmastra, to become Sakra Devanam Indra Deus, "the most powerful being in existence". Yasha and Asura battle their way into the heart of the Karma Fortress, all the while avoiding being crushed or vaporized by Deus and the security forces. After a second furious battle, Asura clashes with Deus and defeats him, as Yasha frees Mithra from her incarceration. Before father and daughter can reunite however, Asura and Yasha are interrupted by the sudden reemergence of Gohma Vlitra on Gaea. Despite the Brahmastra being depleted, Asura and Yasha leave with Mithra’s blessing to face Vlitra. Asura and Yasha battle their way to the "face" of Vlitra, but are overwhelmed by the beast. Mithra, having sensed this, grants Asura the Mantra within the Karma Fortress and heals Yasha, transforming the former into Mantra Asura. Now stronger than ever, they manage to force their way into Vlitra's core, the very heart of Gaea, encountering a colossal monster that startlingly resembles Asura’s Berserk form. Realizing that this is the source of Gaea’s wrath, Asura, with the aid of Yasha, slays Vlitra and escapes out of Gaea. As the remaining Gohma are pushed back on the planet below, Asura returns to the Brahmastra to reunite with Mithra, but is interrupted by Olga. Despondent over Deus' death and the loss of her fleet, Olga takes Mithra hostage and threatens to kill Mithra as revenge. She attempts to kill Mithra, but the Golden Spider suddenly appears and kills her, stating that he cannot allow anything to happen to his “vessel”. The Golden Spider weaves a web around himself and Mithra. Now transformed, he reveals himself to be Chakravartin, the one true god and the "Spinner of Mantra". Chakravartin states that he himself unleashed the Gohma to test the inhabitants of Gaea, in the hope of finding a successor and ending his need to watch over Gaea. Asura sarcastically laughs, and realizes Chakravartin was the one responsible for everything. Furious, Asura ferociously attacks Chakravartin only to find himself severely outmatched, even while in Mantra form. Asura, growing more furious by the second, unleashes his Wrath form in the hopes of saving an imprisoned Mithra. Mithra, sensing that her father will destroy himself if he continued to struggle, launches him off the rapidly deteriorating Karma Fortress and back down to Gaea, requesting that her uncle Yasha, whom of which had already launched after and successfully caught the falling Asura, protect her father. Asura, after unknowingly having the Mantra Reactor of the Karma Fortress and Yasha's own reactor implanted to him, awakes on Gaea to find a masked Yasha eager to battle him. Though confused, Asura accepts the challenge. The two clash in a flurry of blows, where Asura, thanks to the activation of the Mantra Reactor, gains the upper hand. However, before Asura can deliver the final blow to Yasha, he observes Yasha smiling underneath his mask. Asura halts his attack, but the bandages that covered Yasha's chest were blown away from the force of the onslaught - revealing Yasha's now heartless chest. Asura then realizes that Yasha revived him, and Yasha, now knowing that Asura is at his strongest, dies contented with a smile upon his face. Asura delivers a fist bump to Yasha's outstretched fist, causing Yasha's body to fade away, and paying deep respect to his rival and acknowledging their brotherhood. Preparing for his final confrontation, Asura meditates underneath a waterfall, seeing visions of the other Deities and reminiscing about Durga, strengthening his resolve and purpose. Riding atop what is presumed to be his own flagship, he heads into space to confront Chakravartin. Chakravartin attempts to destroy Gaea in a single blast, but Asura, with the power of the Mantra Reactor, transforms into a god-like form called Asura the Destructor and deflects it. Asura engages Chakravartin, who again requests that Asura become the new god of the planet only to be rejected once again. The very fabric of time and space begins to come apart as they duel at the edge of Creation for the fate of Gaea. Chakravartin is eventually pressed into his final form, but is brought to his knees by Asura's sheer force of will. As Asura prepares to kill Chakravartin, Mithra breaks free and urges him to stop. Mithra states that if Chakravartin is killed, all the Mantra in the world will be forever lost. This will render all of Shinkoku's technology and the power of the demigods useless, including the Mantra Reactor keeping Asura alive. Asura chooses to destroy Chakravartin nonetheless, resigned to his fate and happy to die so long as Mithra can live free from danger. As the landscape around him collapses from Chakravartin's absence, Asura shares his final words with Mithra and vanishes, finally free of his wrath. 870 Million Years later In a post credits bonus scene, 870 million years later the world resembles modern Earth, with Asura, Durga, Mithra and the Seven Deities having been reincarnated into the present day. A statue of Asura can be seen on an island far from the city. Suddenly, a giant meteor appears in the sky. Feeling a strangely familiar urge to defend the helpless, Asura stands defiant against the approaching disaster, prepared for battle. Lost Episodes (Alternate Timeline) Lost Episode 1 In Lost Episode 1: At Last, Someone Angrier Than Me, Asura fights Ryu of Street Fighter. The story starts with Ryu being transported to "some strange land", where he is met by Asura, who he deems to seem like a worthy opponent. Asura then inquires if he is worthy to face him, claiming he has no idea. Ryu states that there is only one way to find out, and the fight commences. After sustaining a lot of damage from Asura, Asura uppercuts Ryu, revealing his Six-Armed Vajra form afterwards. In his form of heightened physical strength, he uppercuts Ryu again, this time hitting him in the stomach. With a burst of Mantra, Asura launches Ryu all the way up to the Moon, and following along with him, crushes him into the ground with a massive pillar of red Mantra illuminating the vacuum-like atmosphere of the Moon. As Asura continues to crush Ryu to the ground, Ryu gets overcome by the Satsui no Hadou, and becomes Hatred Incarnate Evil Ryu. Asura and Evil Ryu clash violently. Ryu juggles and finally uppercuts Asura, sending him high into the air. He follows along with Asura so he could crush his skull against the ground with all his might. The punch had so much force that the severe reverse fault in the land reverted itself, the elevated land being pushed back down to equal level with the lower land. After an intense climax of supernatural fistbrawling, the deity Asura defeats the Hatred Incarnate Evil Ryu, reverting him back to his normal self. Asura then compliments Ryu, saying that he wasn't so bad after all, to which Ryu responds that he wasn't himself back there. The dialogue ends with Ryu suggesting another fight, a proposition Asura mocks. Lost Episode 2 In Lost Episode 2: The Strongest vs. The Angriest. A new combatant is revealed to be Akuma. After his villainout introduction, Akuma sends Ryu back where he came from, after throwing his body with enough force to knock Asura a great distance away. Asura gets back up, and the two remaining combatants engage in a fight. Inevitably, Akuma is temporarily defeated by Asura, now awakening the Murderous Intent Oni. With this incredible display of power, Asura fails to successfully parry his chop, with the influx of energy reverting the fault of the land to a severely uneven state yet again. The God of Wrath now enters his next form- Mantra Asura. Mantra Asura and Oni's clash on the Noon, with the fight escalating to the point where the Moon is blown apart in the process. After an intense battle, Asura and Oni crash and land back on Earth. The fight rages on for 500 years, until they both turn to statues. As a bird comes to rest on Asura's shoulder, the statues start moving again to finally finish the battle as Asura and Akuma unleash their final attacks at each other and the episode ends in a cliffhanger.

Statistics

Key: Episodes 1-3 | Episodes 3-5 | Episodes 5-11 | Episodes 11-18 | Asura, The Destructor | End of Game | 870 Million Years Later

Tier: 6-B, 6-A in Six-Armed Vajra Asura | At least 6-B, 5-B in Six-Armed Vajra Asura | At least 5-B, Higher in Six-Armed Vajra Asura, Far Higher in Berserker Form | At least 5-B, Higher in Six-Armed Vajra Asura, Far Higher as Mantra Asura | High 3-A | 2-C with Rage Power | 10-A, likely 7-C with Rage Power

Name: Asura

Origin: Asura's Wrath

Sex: Male

Age: Over 12,000 years old (Noted to have slumbered for 12,000 years and he was still an adult male with a wife and child before his slumber)

Status: Deceased (Upon killing Chakravartin, mantra no longer exists causing Asura to die)

Alignment: Chaotic Good (Despite having extreme anger and resentment, Asura fights and protects villagers and the world from the likes of the gohma, views the murder of innocents as wrong. Even in his berserk state he would not seek out innocent demigods or humans and only kill Shinkoku soldiers and Gohma)

Classification: Demigod, Former Guardian General

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Country level (Fought alongside Wyvern during Episode 1, and later fought and defeated him in Episode 2. Wyvern completely destroyed a Gohma Carrier, which reaches this levels of energy), Continent level in Six-Armed Vajra Asura (Harmed and defeated Gohma Vitra, who upon awakening destroyed a portion of Earth, which gives this level of energy) | At least Country level (Fought Wyvern in his base form and defeated him, which the seven dieties power is nothing compared to what they were 12000 years ago and consider it pitiful that they even had to exert effort into purifying one large Gohma), Planet level in Six-Armed Vajra Asura (Stopped the attack and fully destroyed Mantra Reactor released Wyzen who grew larger then the Earth itself) | At least Planet level, Higher in Six-Armed Vajra Asura (Can harm Augus, who he couldn't harm prior), Far Higher in Berserker Form (His wrath made him so powerful he bbecomes strong enough to rival the Brahmastra, in an instant gaining the power that took the Seven Deities 12,000 years to accumulate. Noted by Yasha that Asura's power surpass the power that took them 12,000 years to obtain) | At least Planet level, Higher in Six-Armed Vajra Asura (Could fight and harm Deus, and later fought and harmed Sakra Devanam Indra Deus, who was noted by Olga to be the most powerful being in existence), Far Higher as Mantra Asura (Fought through Episode 18 Gohma Vlitra's blast which he was nearly killed by in his Six-Armed Vajra state. Later on killed Viltra's Core) | Multi-Supercluster level (Fought and defeated Chakravartin's base form, shattered the very walls of Naraka, the afterlife of Asura's Wrath that has a bottomless layer. Fought and harmed Chakravartin's Idol Form, whose mere size is far beyond the galaxies around him. Was given the heart of the Karma Fortress that had accumulated seven trillion souls worth of Mantra, along with his own mantra reactor) | Universe level (Went from easily being stopped with one finger by Creator Chakravartin to fighting and harming him in his base form, Creator Chakravartin noted he created the world) | Athlete Human level (Reincarnated into an adult male human, easily defeated a heavy man), likely Town level with Rage Power (Heavily implied he was going to stop the meteor with his rage aura forming around him which reaches this level of energy)

Durability: Country level, Continent level in Six-Armed Vajra Asura | At least Country level, Planet level in Six-Armed Vajra Asura | At least Planet level (Tanked a hit from Augus, who is viewed as far more powerful then Wyzen and Kalrow), Higher in Six-Armed Vajra Asura, Far Higher in Berserker Form | At least Planet level, Higher in Six-Armed Vajra Asura, Far Higher as Mantra Asura | Multi-Supercluster level | Universe level | Athlete Human level, likely Town level with Rage Power

Striking Strength: Country Class, Continent Class in Six-Armed Vajra Asura | At least Country Class, Planet Class in Six-Armed Vajra Asura | At least Planet Class, Higher in Six-Armed Vajra Asura, Far Higher in Berserker Form | At least Planet Class, Higher, Far Higher as Mantra Asura | Multi-Supercluster Class | Universe Class | Athelte Human Class, likely Town Class with Rage Power

Lifting Strength: Class 10 (Lifted and threw a Gohma Crusher, who takes the form of an african elephant, which the largest ones can weigh up to 15,000 pounds), Higher in Six-Armed Vajra Asura | At least Class 10, Class Y in Six-Armed Vajra Asura (Lifted the finger of Mantra Reactor released Wyzen who grew larger then the Earth itself) | At least Class 10, Class Y in Six-Armed Vajra Asura, Far Higher in Berserker Form | At least Class 10, Class Y in Six-Armed Vajra Asura | Class Y (Far larger then the Earth in size) | At least Class Y (His base form far surpasses all of his previous forms) | Unknown

Travel Speed: Superhuman (Flew great distances in space to Earth's exosphere in an unknown time frame) | Superhuman | Superhuman | Superhuman | FTL+ (Flew from Earth to an area with dozens of galaxies in a short timeframe) | FTL+ | Athletic Human

Combat Speed: FTL | FTL | FTL | FTL | FTL+ | FTL+ | Athletic Human

Reaction Speed: FTL (Can avoid projectiles from enemies that are officially called lasers) | FTL | FTL | FTL | FTL+ | FTL+ | Athletic Human

Stamina: Superhuman+ (In an alternate timeline story, fought with Akuma for nearly 500 years until being a statue, and then kept fighting after that), Unknown in his reincarnated form

Range: Standard Melee Range, Several Meters with Shockwaves (Can reach thus far), Kilometers with Energy Blast & Fire Manipulation (Can shoot this far from space to the Earth with his energy blast. Produced a giant flaming hand that reached this far), Hundreds of Kilometers with Curtain Fire (Dispersed the giant flaming hand into a rain of projectiles from the sky hitting the entire land, with an explosion that can be seen from outerspace), Planetary with Berserk Mode Attacks (Reached a point of pure anger where he could emit electricity that reached all the way into space, created an explosion that reached out of the Earth), Intergalactic with Asura, the Destructor's attacks (Could shoot energy blast that reached all the way to the distant galaxy clusters), Universal+ (shattered the very walls of Naraka, the afterlife of Asura's Wrath that has a bottomless layer) | Standard Melee Range in his reincarnated form

Intelligence: Extraordinary Genius (Is a trained Guardian General Demigod that has been around for over 12,000 years, knows how to read opponents movements to easily counterattack them, has defeated each of the other Guardian Generals overtime and eventually defeated the Creator himself. Noted to learn fast. Able to wield and use weapons with his mouth. Fought an entire army of Gohma without any arms and with a sword in his mouth)

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Powers and Abilities

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Cyborgization (Normal. Asura has a cybernetic body where his chest can open up to insert reactors into him, which seems to be a replacement for demigods hearts, along with this when his arms are removed there are always sparks of electricity around his removed arms, showing they're not organic), Martial Arts (Is a trained Guardian General Demigod, able to fight with just his feet if need be) Weapon Mastery (Able to wield and use weapons with his mouth), Large Size (At least Type 5. As Asura, the Destructor, far larger then the Earth), Self-Sustenance (Type 1. Can move around and breathe in space with no issues), Regeneration (Low-Mid. Whenever Asura resurrects, he regrows missing parts of his body, and regenerates ruptured organs), Instinctive Reaction (Asura's unconcious body instintictvely grabs the pillar between life and death. Can react immedieatly after being taken out of time stop), Immortality (Types 1, 3, & 8. Whenever Asura is killed he is taken to the Naraka where he can climb up, bringing himself back to life. Asura's lifeforce is completely dependent on the power of his Mantra of Wrath. Apart of a reincarnation cycle where even if he ceases to exist he will be reincarnated into a new body), Resurrection (Whenever Asura is killed he is taken to the Naraka where he can climb up, bringing himself back to life), Flight (Able to fly freely in space), Blessed & Empowerment (People's prayers become Mantra which aid him in battle), Berserk Mode (Entered a form of pure wrath and anger known as Berserker Form), Sheer Will, Rage Power & Reactive Adaptation (The more angry Asura gets, the stronger he gets, his wrath can have him from getting overpowered to being able to fully stop their attacks and transforming from rage. Went from being unable to harm Yasha while weakened to being able to harm him. His wrath made him so powerful he bbecomes strong enough to rival the Brahmastra, in an instant gaining the power that took the Seven Deities 12,000 years to accumulate. Noted by Yasha that Asura's power surpass the power that took them 12,000 years to obtain. Went from easily being stopped with one finger by Creator Chakravartin to fighting and harming him in his base form, reaching a point where Chakravartin's hits no longer did anything to him and Chakravartin hitting him hurt himself instead), Statistics Amplification (With Unlimited Mode, Asura's strength increases), Body Control & Transformation (Type 2. Can grow extra arms out of his body, transforming into Six-Armed Vajra Asura), Aura & Fire Manipulation (Can induce a red aura where his hits leave behind fire. Created a giant flaming hand), Precognition (Type 2. Asura can read his opponents moves and counterattack), Energy Projection (Can shoot out energy blast), Curtain Fire (Dispersed the giant flaming hand into a rain of projectiles from the sky hitting the entire land), Homing Attack (Can do lock-on energy blast that home in on targets), Explosion Manipulation & Shockwave Generation (Can shoot out an explosive shockwave, created an explosion that reached out of the Earth), Light Manipulation (When Asura came back to life he created a massive light beam), Electricity Manipulation (Reached a point of pure anger where he could emit electricity that reached all the way into space), Dimensional Travel (Shattered the very walls of Naraka, the afterlife of Asura's Wrath that has a bottomless layer to return back to the event horizon), Power Nullification (Nullified Chakravartin's energy sphere), Existence Erasure (Type 2. When Asura kills beings he removes them of their mantra making them cease to exist), Conceptual Manipulation (Killed Chakravartin the Creator, removing the concept of mantra, along with Chakravartin being the embodiment of the wheels of life), Resistance to Gravity Manipulation, Biological Manipulation, & Cosmic Radiations (Can survive in the vacuums of space just fine), Extreme Heats (Fought in Viltra's Core without any issues), Soul Manipulation (Even though Asura's soul was sent to Naraka multiple times he still came back due to sheer will and wrath), Existence Erasure (Chakravartin noted he would erase Asura's very existence and then proceeded to erase the entire battlefield but Asura was overall unaffected), Pain Manipulation & Death Manipulation (In an alternate timeline story where he fought Ryu and Akuma, he fought off the Shun Goku Statsu), BFR (In an alternate timeline story where he fought Ryu and Akuma was unaffected from the Tatsumaki Zankukyaku, which sent Ryu back to his own time)

Likely Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Sheer Will, Rage Power, & Reactive Adaptation (Heavily implied he was going to stop the meteor with his rage aura forming around him)

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Standard Equipment

Nothing notable.

Optional Equipment

Augus' Sword: Asura for a small while uses Augus' sword to deal with an army of Gohma. Though broken it seems to still have the ability to enlarge itself in size.

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Notable Techniques

*Mantra: Mantra is the cosmic energy produced by emotions and prayers, made either from the souls of mortals or from prayers. It is the energy and power source of the Demigods. Mantra expedited the technological progress of a species to the point that they could be considered gods by races incapable of accessing it.

• • Mantra of Wrath: Asura's Mantra Affinity is Wrath. This signifies that Asura's strength and power is proportionate to his level of rage and wrath. This plays a major role in the series as it allows Asura to constantly build up and increase his Mantra output to what could be infinite levels the more anger he builds up. Due to having a virtually infinite amount of Mantra, Asura can overcome impossible odds and adapt to any kind of power. Yasha once questioned Deus as to how Asura's Mantra levels could match those of the Seven Deities, even after accumulating over seven trillion human souls worth of Mantra to enhance their powers. Even the Mantra God Chakravartin was appalled by the full ferocity of Asura's Mantra. Asura's rage and wrath are of immeasurable levels, allowing him to reach statuses and kill entities beyond comprehension. But as incredible as his power may be, Asura's only flaw is that his Mantra of Wrath is too fierce and uncontrollable for his body to contain alone, and due to this it can knock him unconscious and even destroy his body, and in extreme cases death. This was later remedied when Yasha installed the Mantra Reactor into his body to regulate the flow. Using his Mantra, Asura is able to manifest his halo to acquire greater power, enhanced physical attributes and strength by concentrating Mantra in his fists, fire fist-channeled blasts from his fists, various Mantra-based attacks such as powerful shockwaves, blasts, beams and bursts, produce devastating shockwaves from his screams, jumping ability of extraordinary heights, flight at incredibly high speeds, even the generation of colossal Mantra-based arms constructs. Asura is also one of the rare entities capable of numerous transformations, which trigger as his Mantra levels escalate.
  • Fist-Channeled Blasts: One of Asura's most prominent uses of Mantra include producing fist-channeled blasts of varying size and power, along with possessing homing properties. Asura is able to fire blasts in rapid succession. On one instance, Asura unleashed a devastating omnidirectional barrage of blasts that wiped out an armada of ships in seconds.
  • Mantra Burst: Asura is able to stockpile exceedingly high amounts of Mantra in his fist and release it afterwards when striking his opponent as a massive wave-like burst of Mantra that is powerful enough to severely damage or even defeat opponents with extreme scales of resistance and durability such as Deus and Chakravartin.
  • Flight: Asura possesses the ability to fly at incredibly high speeds by releasing Mantra from his body.
  • Halo: As all demigods who possess one of the eight Mantra affinities, Asura is able to activate his halo to unleash his full power. This has mostly been shown when Asura achieves a new transformation, such as Six-Armed Vajra Asura and Mantra Asura.

*Vajra Asura: Asura's most commonly seen form, it is a form where Asura's arms are coated in a golden metallic armor. Through the Mantra activation within his body, he is able to metalize his arms through the power of his Mantra of Wrath and increase their strength, durability and making them more suitable for combat. Asura's mastery of this form is most prominent in the fact that Asura is rarely seen outside of this form. The other demigods also have this ability; the process and degree of metalization differs among demigods; Asura's metalization forms mainly around his arms. Asura releases powerful Mantra blasts from his fists and on one occasion created a powerful dome of Mantra that knocked away his enemies. When he lost his arms to Augus, Asura's rage magnified his power and created a massive arm of Mantra that utterly annihilated an army of Gohma he was fighting, and in addition, it could break into a catastrophic, meteoric rain of fist constructs. Before fighting Deus, Asura created a smaller version of his Mantra arm before stopping and thinking of Mithra presumably due to Deus' influence.

• Unlimited Mode: When Asura activates this mode, the markings on his body emanate a bright orange light due to the Mantra flowing through his body. While in this state, Asura becomes invulnerable to any kind of attack or damage, his strength and power are augmented, and his stamina is virtually unlimited, which prevents him from overheating. In game this lasts a short time, but during the final fights with Yasha and Chakravartin he is in this form almost indefinitely.

• Six-Armed Vajra Asura: Asura achieved this form during his first encounter with Gohma Vlitra 12,500 years ago, using Mithra's divine power. This form is identical to Vajra Asura but with the addition of four golden metallic arms sprouting from his back, which granted him much higher degrees of strength and power. This form requires more Mantra and can be activated when Asura is sufficiently angered. Triggered by Asura's rise in anger, there is nothing they cannot break. Understandably capable of decimating opponents with ease, Asura has defeated Wyzen in his Gongen form by stopping and lifting Gongen Wyzen's finger (which had a volume of thousands of kilometers) and ultimately obliterate him by punching his finger repeatedly and with devastating force, defeated his former master Augus, Deus (with assistance from Yasha) and even managed to subdue Gohma Vlitra single-handedly, accomplishing all of these feats in this state and partially in his Vajra state. In this stage the Mantra-based attacks are multiplied and empowered. During his fight with Ryu, when Asura launched him to the Moon, upon impact with the surface of the Moon a massive spiral-shaped pillar of Mantra was generated, sending shockwaves along the surface.

• Berserker Asura: When Asura's anger and wrath reaches its peaks, he undergoes a transformation into a being of pure and absolute rage with no sense of reason nor control. Asura is in an uncontrollable state of mind where he no longer listens to reason, with only the number 1 reason that could possibly get to him: Mithra. First witnessed in Episode 12: Gods of Death after the death of Ahria. This traumatic event triggered a transformation as his anger exceeded any controllable means. Described as a feral, golden-coated devilish beast armed with razor-sharp claws, Asura can generate four enormous additional phantom arms made of concentrated Mantra from the portals on his back. The arms, including Asura himself, are capable of releasing inconceivable volumes of Mantra; even Asura's screams produced gigantic booming shock waves. Berserker Asura was threatening enough to decimate an entire Shinkoku armada and force Olga to use the Brahmastra on him, which even Berserker Asura was powerful enough to challenge directly. Although unbelievably powerful, Asura was eventually subdued, although it should be noted that he retained the ability to generate the Berserker's Mantra arms in his Vajra form. This monstrosity-like form has such absolutely overwhelming levels of Mantra power, that it gives Asura the ability to project colossal beam waves capable of momentarily rivaling the Brahmastra, pulverizing waves that reach Gaea's orbit and massive spheres of Mantra that would burst into an explosion similar to a small supernova, which could eradicate innumerable ships across Gaea's orbit. It is unknown if he can access it any more as the Brahmastra's cannon turned him into Wrath Asura, a burned and subdued state of it.

• Wrath Asura: The Wrath form is the sundered state of Asura's Berserker form after surviving the Brahmastra's Mantra cannon. The damage sustained rendered him incapable of regenerating the extra Mantra Arms and left his body scorched black. As Wrath Asura, his body becomes unstable and cannot contain the sheer volumes of Mantra his wrath generated, causing gradual decay and eventual death. Although not nearly as powerful as its full powered state of Berserker Asura, it's still fearsome and strong enough to annihilate large groups of Gohma in seconds, and induce a wave of fear and dread in a vast radius. While attacking in this state caused more harm to Asura than his enemies, he was still capable of killing Demigods and Sergei in a single claw attack, and fighting and overpowering Yasha before being forced back into his normal form. Interestingly enough, Asura retains some level of consciousness while in this form, as evident when he was capable of attacking only those with a connection to the Seven Deities or the Gohma and avoided attacking innocent lives, and also able to hear and respond to Mithra during his first encounter with Chakravartin, though this was more likely due to his emotional connection to Mithra.

• Mantra Asura: During the final assault on Gohma Vlitra, Asura achieved his highest degree of power. After being bathed in the Mantra released from the Karma Fortress by Mithra, Asura becomes Mantra Asura. In this state, Asura's rage is at its most focused, harnessing the excess Mantra into power and greatly augment the size and armor of his arms to hulking, godlike, armored proportions. Each of these arms possess the strength of a thousand arms, consequently augmenting his destructive strength and power massively, along with giving the ability to vent giant jets and bursts of Mantra with tremendous power. Along with the peerless increase in destructive capabilities, these arms are also capable of projecting Mantra in a propulsive effect, granting Asura drastically enhanced velocity and maneuverability; in his Mantra form, Asura was fast enough to avoid and outrun a multitude of Vlitra's laser attacks launched simultaneously, and a volley of Chakravartin's extended arm attacks. The propulsor effect can also be used to enhance the power of his attacks by increasing their momentum. In this state, Asura (along with Yasha) was able to defeat Gohma Vlitra and the Vlitra Core. Despite the ingame footages calling this "Mantra Asura", the illustrations from the game reveal the name "Prajñā Asura". Asura also transforms into this state to fight against Oni in the second Lost Episode. During his fight with Oni, both blew the Moon apart by merely clashing, further showing their power.

• Aasura, the Destructor: After Yasha fitted Asura with the Mantra Reactor, Asura's body became capable of safely harnessing any amount of Mantra he could generate. When Chakravartin attempted to destroy Gaea with a powerful blast of Mantra, Asura stood in front of it and took the brunt of the attack, assuming the form of The Destructor. In this form, Asura becomes larger than Gaea itself, dwarfing it, his skin becomes grey-colored and he manifests six arms identical in appearance to those of his Mantra form. As The Destructor, all of Asura's abilities and overall power were immeasurable and god-like in status, as during his battle with the Mantra God, his Mantra blasts destroyed multiple planets and stars, and he was able to punch a planet massively larger than himself to the point where he pierced all the way through it. In addition, Asura in his Destructor form was capable of enduring planets and even stars thrown at him without sustaining significant damage. Upon entering Chakravartin's event horizon, Asura took on the six-armed version of this form. It is essentially the bulkier version of Six-Armed Vajra Asura, though incredibly more powerful (fundamentally the Six Armed version of Mantra Asura, due to having the same identical arms, albeit 4 more). This form is capable of manifesting a halo to release rainbow-colored blasts of Mantra that explode after a few seconds, and above all, it is powerful enough to damage and rival Chakravartin.

• Reincarnated Asura: 870 million years pass, Asura, along with his family and former comrades, is reincarnated in a Gaea resembling more modern day Earth. Looking more human, Asura's attire was a simply green muscle shirt and pants. While he was shown to still have his love of fighting (much to the chagrin of the reincarnated Durga), it wasn't truly shown if he still had his more demigod powers of his previous life.

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Other

Standard Tactics: Asura's tactic is always to attack the enemy with energy blast or hand to hand combat.

Weaknesses: If mantra ceases to exist Asura will no longer live. His anger makes him incredibly reckless, making him do decisions without thinking them through.

Trivia

• Asura was the third youngest out of the original Eight Guardian Generals.
• Asura was the newest of the recent roster of the Eight Guardian Generals.
• Asura bears a striking resemblance to the Street Fighter character Evil Ryu, due to them both having red irises, tanned skin, spiky hair and their consistent aggressive face, unlike Evil Ryu, Asura is very compassionate towards his family and humanity and is a Demigod, while Evil Ryu is a cold-blooded Half-Demon.
• Asura has used a move very similar to the Shoryuken when fighting a Gohma Squasher.
• In Hinduism, Buddhism and Indian religions, Asura or Asuras (Sanskrit: असुर) is the lowest ranking deity, often associated with various negative emotions such as violence, rage, anger, ego and jealousy. The Asuras are a class of powerful demons, demigods or deities who often seek power and are prominently described as battling the more benevolent, heavenly "devas" or "suras" (gods), being considered the "enemies of the gods/devas" in Vedic and post-Vedic literature. They are also sometimes described as "evil spirits" in some ancient texts. The name "Asura" means "anti-god", "demon", "demigod", "powerful/mighty", "divine" or "titan". The Asuras are portrayed as demonic with various faces and arms, also being constantly angry and wantonly violent, seeking fights wherever they can. They are most notably portrayed as having three faces and six arms. The Asuras are featured in many Buddhist and Hindu cosmological theories; specifically in Buddhism, Asuras constitute the third of the six Saṃsāric realms of rebirth and existence that reincarnation into occurs based on karma gathered in current or past lives. Into the realm of asuras, people are reborn due to actions based on jealousy, struggle, combat, or rationalization in a previous life.
  • In the interlude of Episode 2: Betrayal and Vengeance, Asura is depicted as a mythological Asura as a fabrication/propaganda made by the Seven Deities.
• Before being changed, Asura's original design greatly resembled Augus. This currently relates to their similar appearance in the story.
• Asura's Mantra manifests in the form of his golden arms. After mastering his Mantra, his arms were covered up to his shoulders in gold. Also, whenever he grows angrier or is empowered by Mantra his arms react, such as during the final confrontation against Vlitra when Mithra grants him all of the Mantra in the Karma Fortress, transforming him into 'Mantra Asura'. The only exceptions are when he resurrects after 12,000 years and during the final battle against Chakravartin, as only his hands and partially forearm were covered in gold due to him being in a damaged state.
• While it is stated that the Eight Generals were of the select few demigods able to power up to their level, Asura has the most transformations of all the demigods on Gaea. Not counting his state prior to his revival after 12,000 years, Asura undergoes six different transformations/manifestations of his Mantra of Wrath throughout the course of the story. Also to point out is that he also bears two halos (seen in Episode 1 and 18) one for Vajra Asura and the other for Mantra Asura. To stop confusion between Asura's Mantra and Destructor forms, Destructor is actually an upgraded Mantra form as shown bearing the same arms as Mantra Asura only six this time and the fact that they both share the same halo.
• Vajra is an iconic weapon in Hinduism and Buddhism that possesses the properties of diamond and thunderbolt; indestructibility and irresistible force respectively. Vajra is the heavenly weapon wielded by Indra, the thunder deity and king of the devas, and it is one of the most powerful weapons in Indian religions.
• A running gag in the game is "Press _ to shut ____ up". You have this option when fighting Wyzen, Augus, and Kalrow. Each time you press the button to shut them up, you will unlock an achievement or trophy that says "Shut Up, Wyzen!", "Shut Up, Augus!", or "Shut Up, Kalrow!".
• The fact that Asura's power increases in tandem with his rage makes his power mechanics the same as the Incredible Hulk from Marvel Comics.
• When Asura transforms into his Berserk form, he bears a great similarity to Naruto Uzumaki's Four Tails form in both physical appearence and personality, in which both were transformed due to them being consumed by their own rage. This is due to CyberConnect2's development with the Ultimate Ninja Storm series.
• Asura's Berserker form also bears a strong resemblance to Gohma Vlitra's Core, something that Yasha notes.
• It is also notable that he bears a noticeable resemblance to Haseo's B-st form from the.Hack// G.U Trilogy movie, another project by CyberConnect2. It is believed that the character concept was incorporated into Asura's character design.
• The alternative name for his Mantra form, "Prajñā Asura", means wisdom, understanding, discernment, insight, or cognitive acuity.
• Asura, upon the game's release, has been named the new " God of Multiple Arm Attacks, Fighting The Heavens Above, and Rage That Can't Ever Be Stopped." on tvtropes, usurping Sweeny Todd in the category of rage and vengeance. The page humorously states "To this day, no one dares to speak about it, as it was not pretty. Even most of the other violent deities in the house hid in terror after it happened."
• Asura will appear alongside other Capcom characters in the upcoming social game, Minna to Capcom All Stars.
• Asura appeared, along with Yasha, as a card in Street Fighter × All Capcom.
• Asura's Berserker and Wrath forms are his only transformations where he can't activate his Unlimited Mode.
• Asura appears in Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition as an alternate crossover costume for Kage.
• Necalli from the Street Fighter series is similar to Asura.
  • Both of them have a savage way of fighting.
  • Necalli's V-Trigger in Street Fighter 5 has him glowing similar to how Asura glows when he's in Unlimited Mode.
  • Both of them have also grabbed their opponents' faces and has also dragged them while they're on the ground.
  • Both of them are somewhat gods; in Asura's case, he's the God Of Wrath while Necalli is the Emissary of the Gods.
  • Both of them are also known for getting stronger when angered.
• Both Chakravartin's and Asura's transformation name have a sense of irony to them. As Asura's transformation name is The Destructor but instead protected Gaea and killed Chakravartin The Creator.

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