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* [[Badass Preacher]]: Some of her victory quotes imply that Helena holds religious beliefs.
 
* [[Badass Preacher]]: Some of her victory quotes imply that Helena holds religious beliefs.
 
* [[But Not Too Foreign]]: {{spoiler|Dimensions indicate that she's part French and part American, and it's implied that the American part was from her father (Her mom was evidentially French).}}
 
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* [[Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys]]: Averted. Despite her French nationality, she was shown to not be one to cave in adversity against her, and in fact, she technically won the fourth tournament until she gave the title to Zack after the latter stopped her from committing suicide).
 
* {{spoiler|[[Death Seeker]]: Judging by her ending in the 4th game...if it wasn't for Zack, she was willing do go down with the building that she herself set to self-destruct.}}
 
* {{spoiler|[[Death Seeker]]: Judging by her ending in the 4th game...if it wasn't for Zack, she was willing do go down with the building that she herself set to self-destruct.}}
 
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Here are the characters from the fighting game Dead or Alive. Enjoy, and help out with the blurbs!

Also, beware of possible spoilers.

Kasumi

Voiced by: Sakura Tange (JP, 1 and 2), Houko Kuwashima (JP, since 3), Kari Wahlgren (EN, Xtreme 2 and Dimensions)

The main heroine. Kasumi is the sister of Hayate and half-sister to Ayane, and a practitioner of the Tenshinmon Style of Mugen-Tenshin Ninjutsu. They lived happily together until one day Raidou came for revenge and snapped Hayate's spine, sending him into a coma that everyone thought to be permanent. Kasumi ran away from her village to avenge her brother, knowing full well the consequences of becoming a runaway shinobi - death. After defeating Raidou, she enters the second tournament after hearing that her brother is alive and has been taken by DOATEC for use in Project Epsilon. She finds him suffering from amnesia and going by the name of Ein, and helps him recover his memory. In the 3rd tournament she remains on the run but encounters and fights her brother. By the time of the 4th tournaments she realizes that no assassins have been sent her way as of late, and discovers that they have gone to assault DOATEC and put an end to their evil schemes. She enters the 4th tournament to investigate.

  • Absolute Cleavage
  • Action Girl
  • Apologetic Attacker
  • Authority Equals Asskicking: Subverted? Her abilities didn't seem to really show up until she was threatened with clan leadership, which she ran away from.
  • Badass Adorable: Because nothing describes this trope better than a Cherry Blossom Girl kicking some major ass.
  • Badass Princess: Or rather Badass Clan Leader Successor.
  • Berserk Button: Don't try to harm her brother or you'll be dead before long.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: Kasumi really is a sweet, nice girl. She is also a trained ninja assassin who was in line to be head of a clan, before she ran off to kill the man who harmed her brother, and faced attempts on her life on a daily basis.
  • Big Brother Instinct: Inverted. She's the one that gets to Raidou when Hayate falls into a coma.
  • Braids of Action: One of her hair styles. It even was her default in Dead or Alive 2.
  • Canon Immigrant: She has had a cameo in the Ninja Gaiden series. Although not as big as Ayane's, since Kasumi only appears as The Faceless.
  • Cherry Blossoms: Her motif.
  • Detached Sleeves: She has them in some of her costumes.
  • The Heroine: Much to Ayane's frustration.
  • Hime Cut: One of her three primary styles, and her default one since Dead or Alive 3. Also kind of the hint that she believed her exile was going to be temporary.
  • Highly-Visible Ninja
  • Honor Before Reason is trying to kill her. When trying to rescue her brother, she doesn't ask for help from either his elite super-ninja best friend Ryu, her (at the time) obedient, extremely powerful younger half-sister Ayane, Ayane's mentor Genra, or you know, the entire army of ninja she doubtless had command of.
    • On the clan's part, they're wasting countless lives by throwing mooks at someone they don't even want to kill and are only trying to because their law demands it.
  • Hot Chick with a Sword: Although we only see her using it in one kata in the DOA 2/U intro.
  • Jack of All Stats
  • Joshikousei: Has a Sailor Fuku as an alternate costume.
  • Lady of War
  • Ninja
  • Panty Fighter: Except for a couple of costumes throughout the whole series, you would think this girl doesn't know pants even exist.
  • Panty Shot: Goes hand in hand with the previous trope.
  • Plucky Girl: Her life is threaten on a daily basis, but it doesn't seem to get to her.
  • Plot Armor: Teaming up with Conservation of Ninjutsu to keep her clan from killing her over the course of 3 tournaments.
  • Redheaded Hero
  • Ojou: She was the princess of her tribe. This is an oxymoron, being as it's a tribe of ninja. (You know, social outcasts turned assassins/spies/thieves?)
  • Scarf of Asskicking: In at least two of her ninja outfits.
  • Screw the Rules, I Have Connections: If she hasn't already, Kasumi is likely to be reinstated into the clan despite their strict code of responsibility, secrecy, or whatever it is that resulted in her leaving earning her the death sentence in the first place. Incidentally, her brother is chief of said clan, now that he's ok again.
  • Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right: The reason for running from the clan in the first place is to kill who harmed her brother...and raped her mother, incidently.
  • She Fu: Specially since Dead or Alive 4.
  • She's Got Legs
  • Shoryuken: She got a variation using the elbow instead of the fist in Dead or Alive 4.
  • Slipknot Ponytail: In Dead or Alive 3.
  • Smoke Out: With cherry blossom petals.
  • Spinning Out of Here: One her winning animations, accompanied with her trademark Cherry Blossoms.
  • The Stoic: She accepts the consequences of her actions and doesn't angst about her fugitive shinobi condition. She's also always pretty calm and doesn't let her emotions to make her rush into battle.
  • Stripperiffic: Not the worst offender in the game, but still.
  • Teleport Spam: She has a complete set of counter moves based on teleporting (with some Cherry Blossoms to make them look prettier), so a skilled fighter can pull this off.
  • Took a Level In Badass: Her fighting style got a pretty deep upgrade in Dead or Alive 4, making her faster and way more agile than in previous games. Most people agree that she's more powerful like that.
    • However, in Dimensions Tecmo put Kasumi-Alpha as a way for players to use her move set from the first three games.
  • Tsundere: Type B.
  • Vague Age: For some reason Tecmo Koei/Team Ninja refuses to give Kasumi an exact age; although all hints and her school uniforms imply that she can't be much older than Ayane, if not being 16 just like her.
    • Executive Meddling: The reason why Tecmo Koei/Team Ninja refused to give Kasumi an exact age outside Japan was because they would receive a lot of controversy with their oversexualizing girls who were technically underage (not to mention the implication of their fighting to the death). Ayane suffers this as well.
    • Meanwhile IN the Japanese versions, she is 17.
  • Woman in White: Her second costume (except for some red details), which has a very tight competition for the "fan favorite" title with her default blue costume.
  • You Can't Go Home Again
  • You Killed My Brother: To Raidou. Or so she thinks at first...
  • Zettai Ryouiki: Normally between ranks A and B.

Ayane

Voiced by: Wakana Yamazaki (JP), Janna Levenstein (EN, Xtreme 2), Wendee Lee (EN, Dimensions)

Ayane is the bastard daughter of Kasumi's mother and Raidou, the product of Raidou raping Kasumi's mother. The leader of the Hajinmon sect of the Mugen-Tenshin clan, Genra, sympathized with her, and decided to take her in as her foster father and teacher. Years later, she learned the truth, and dedicated herself to becoming the strongest practitioner of the Hajinmon style. She failed to protect Hayate from Raidou, and after Kasumi left, was ordered to kill her. In the 2nd tournament, she searches for Hayate as well, and encounters Helena, who believes Ayane to be her mother's killer at first, but it turns out to be a misunderstanding. Upon hearing her foster father Genra has been abducted and used as a subject for Project Omega, she enters the 3rd tournament to end his suffering. She then joins her half-brother Hayate to take down DOATEC once and for all.

  • Age-Inappropriate Dress: At age sixteen, she is the youngest female character in the entire series. Downplayed in Dead or Alive 5, as she's still the youngest female, but she is now sharing the slot with Marie Rose and Honoka (both of whom are technically the same age in terms of years, being 18 thanks to the two year time skip), and in Dead or Alive 6 and Xtreme Venus Vacation, she is officially dethroned as the youngest female character by the likes of NiCO and Luna, respectively.
  • Anti-Hero: Type 3.
  • Breakout Character
  • Badass Adorable: Although this can really apply to any of the female characters, she sticks out for her age.
  • Badass Back: Her whole moveset is based on this.
  • Butterfly of Death and Rebirth: Her motif.
  • Cain and Abel: Cain to Kasumi's Abel, although she grows out of it by the time of Dead or Alive 4 onward. Averted for the most part with her other half-sister, Honoka, where she if anything was extremely protective of her, and that's BEFORE she learns of their familial relationship via NiCO.
  • Canon Immigrant: She's the DOA character that has had more screen time in the Ninja Gaiden series, by far.
  • Child by Rape: Raidou raped Ayame, Ayane happened.
  • Child Prodigy: At her age, she's already participating in a world-class fighting tournament. At 14, she was giving 'Elite Super Ninja' Ryu tips on how to be a ninja. Remember those kunai with the spinny purple flowers? Those were hers. Also overlaps with:
  • Child Soldier: Ayane's probably been a professional killer since before puberty.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Some of her taunts in the games have her being pretty sarcastic towards her opponents.
  • Early-Bird Cameo: She was included as an extra character for the Playstation version of DOA 1 after being designed for the sequel.
  • Everything's Better with Spinning: More than half of her move set is based on this. You can't help wondering how she doesn't get dizzy after 10 seconds.
  • Giant Waist Ribbon: Some of her costume, being her default costume in Dead or Alive 2 the most popular.
  • Happily Adopted: Genra really was a great man to welcome Ayane as his own daughter, Shinden didn't deny her a place to live and the right to live, and Ayame didn't blame her for what Raidou did, with this Ayane loves both Genra and Ayame with passion.
  • Heroic Bastard: Needless to say Raidou and Ayame didn't upgrade their relationship any further.
  • Highly-Visible Ninja
  • Honor Before Reason: She's willing to kill members of her own family, regardless of her feelings for them, in order to uphold the *ninja code*. Then again, her family is pretty dysfunctional.
    • It's Justified anyway. To not do so would make you just as marked as your target by another shinobi who might not be as forgiving.
      • That being said, her eagerness to kill Kasumi until the events of the third tournament were pretty personal.
  • Important Haircut: After her identity and the reason her clan hates her is revealed by her mother.
  • Lightning Bruiser: Her attacks are among the fastest and most lethal of the roster.
  • Luke, I Am Your Father: Learns from NiCO in Dead or Alive 6 that Honoka is in fact her half-sister, with their father being Raidou.
  • Ninja
  • Jail Bait: Depending on where you're from but true for most people. She's 16 (18 by the time of the two year time skip for DOA5).
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold
  • Joshikousei: With Kasumi, she can also wear a sailor fuku.
  • Little Miss Badass: Seriously. A bullet breaking her favorite hair ribbon doesn't even faze her or interrupt her spell casting.
  • Mini-Dress of Power: Almost half of her wardrobe features this.
  • Red Eyes, Take Warning: Part of her Rei Ayanami expy, also an indication you might not want to piss her off. (Although she's never shown more than mild irritation.)
  • The Rival: Is seemingly being set up as one to Hitomi in Dimensions and 5. She also considered Kasumi this, but it was totally one-sided.
  • Sacrificed Basic Skill for Awesome Training: Not by choice, but given that she was frequently left out in the wilderness (or once for a long time) before being adopted into the Hajin-mon sect to be raised as a killing machine, she probably had little time for formal schooling.
  • Smoke Out: With iris petals
  • Sexy Backless Outfit: Some of her costumes.
  • The Stoic
  • Tsundere: Type A. Specially obvious when she behaves this way towards Eliot in Dimensions. She later behaves more like this towards Kasumi compared to their earlier interactions since DOA2 late in Dimensions, Dead or Alive Xtreme 2, and especially Dead or Alive 5 onward.
  • Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Implied in the DOA: Ultimate intro.
  • Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Big purple explosions are as much her trademark as the butterfly motif. In her ending movie for Dead or Alive 2, she makes a major (and distinguishable) contribution to the destruction of DOATEC's Tritower. A Shout Out to this explosive power shows up in Dead Fantasy, where she drops half a building on the other fighters. In Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2, her default ranged weapon is exploding kunai. Which she uses for convenience, not necessity, and she apparently has the ability to simply create weapons out of pure ki (i.e. her double-bladed dagger that shows up in DoA 3 and Dead Fantasy). Considering how her life's been so far, and that she's currently a teenager, one has to wonder why she hasn't actually tried destroying the world yet. Seriously, she has more Freudian Excuses than most actual villains.
  • You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Purple Hair?!
    • The fact that her eyebrows match her sister's red hair implies that the purple is a dye job.
      • Not likely, as she has been shown with that same purple hair as a little girl.
      • It's also possible that she has some demonic blood due to her father.
        • Considering Honoka, Ayane's older half-sister has similar features, including salmon-pink hair in her case, that's most likely the case.
  • Zettai Ryouiki: Grade A in her default costume in most of the games. Take note that, with her sometimes Tsundere personality, she's a pair of twin-tails away from being Grade S.

Ryu Hayabusa

Voiced by: Hideyuki Hori (JP), Troy Baker (EN, Dimensions)

  • Badass: You know it's true!
  • Big Damn Heroes: In Dimensions during the fight against Omega.
  • Canon Immigrant: The Ninja Gaiden series predates DOA by at least a decade.
    • Ret Canon: Whereas the earlier games made it clear that the NES trilogy was set before DOA, the Xbox titles (with their inclusion of Ayane) kinda negated that fact.
  • Highly-Visible Ninja
  • Ninja
  • Ninja Log: In Dimensions. Used on fellow ninja and good friend Hayate, who had to have seen this at least once. Cue Face Palm by anyone who's seen an episode of Naruto.
  • Power Creep, Power Seep: Tecmo canon places Ryu as the strongest Ninja in the whole world, not only for his Master Ninja abilities but also for his fiend heritage, capable of fighting hell and back by himself. Needless to say there shouldn't be anyone in here capable of beating him, let alone kill him; still Ryu is balanced to be an equal rival to Hayate.
    • Recent games at least try to portray Ryu as someone who clearly isn't shaked by any of the DOATEC and other badies threats, acting as he could easily overthrow them, and insisting to let Hayate, Ayane and Kasumi to take care of things by themselves.
  • Slipknot Ponytail
  • Smoke Out: With leaves.
  • Teleport Spam: He can do this from a certain stance. And the same way Kasumi uses Cherry Blossoms for some cool effects, he uses leaves.

Zack

Voiced by: Bin Shimada (JP), Khary Payton (EN, Xtreme 2 and Dimensions)

Leifang

Voiced by: Yumi Touma (JP), Zinnia Su (EN, Xtreme 2 and Dimensions)


Jann Lee

Voiced by: Toshio Furukawa (JP), Darren Criss (EN, Dimensions)

Tina Armstrong

Voiced by: Mami Koyama (JP, first game), Yuuko Nagashima (JP, all others), Kate Higgins (EN, Xtreme 2 and Dimensions)

A professional wrestler with dreams of fame, Tina joins the Dead or Alive Tournament in the hopes of getting noticed by the right people. She's best friends with Lisa Hamilton, and has a rocky relationship with her Overprotective Dad Bass, who Tina tries to avoid as much as possible.

  • All-American Face: More or less.
  • American Dream: Many consider her an over-the-top depiction of this trope, with the way she is always finding new ways to be a star.
    • Let's see, Pro Wrestler, model, actress, rock star, and governor in that order. Averted in DOA6, where she doesn't seem to have any goal in mind other than forming a wrestling team with her dad Bass (and gave up her governor goal thanks to learning from Zack that she's way too young to run).
  • Ambiguously Gay: In the movie. Averted in the actual games, where she's implied to be heterosexual.
  • Boobs of Steel: Physically, she might be the strongest of all the girls due to being a wrestler.
    • Clearly demonstrated in the Xtreme spin-offs: her power serves and spikes can easily knock an opponent flat.
    • And the rock the size of her body that she throws at Lei Fang in DOA2 to try to intimidate her. Lei doesn't even flinch.
    • As of DOA5U/LR and DOA6, she no longer has the largest breast size (being beaten out by Rachel and Honoka), although that being said, she is still the only one of the four girls with the largest breast sizes (heck, the largest of the normal girls for that matter) to be a regular human (as Rachel is a human-fiend hybrid, and even Ayane and Honoka are heavily implied to have mutations resulting from being sired by Raidou after the latter lost his humanity).
  • Dumb Blonde: Zig-zagged. She at least plays the part of a dumb blonde in the ring, though it's implied that she's smarter than she looks, being able to form tactics to reach her goals, and in Dead or Alive 5 managed to not only deduce Bass Armstrong's true identity, but also pull off a trick to force him to concede to her goals. That being said... the closest she came to truly entering the trope is in Dead or Alive 6 where she apparently was unaware that she was legally too young to run for Governor of New York based on her reaction to Zack informing her of such after a brief spar.
  • Flag Bikini: Her default bikini in the Xtreme games.
  • Foreign Fanservice
  • Pretty in Mink: Her ending in 2 is her modeling an outfit with a fur-trimmed coat.

Bayman

Voiced by: Banjo Ginga (JP), Zack Hanks (EN, Dimensions)

  • Husky Russkie: To an extent. He certainly has a lot more intelligence than other characters this trope applies for.
    • Not so intelligent in the movie.

Gen Fu

Voiced by: Chikao Ohtsuka (JP), Paul Nakauchi (EN, Dimensions)

Bass Armstrong

Voiced by: Daisuke Gouri (JP, 1-4), Kenta Miyake (JP, since Dimensions), Joe J. Thomas (EN, Dimensions)

  • No Celebrities Were Harmed: Obviously he's based on Hulk Hogan.
    • More specifically, his P1 outfit in DOA2, and it's "Hollywood" Hogan (given the large amount of biker leather, leather bandanna, shades, and grizzled biker's beard). His 2P outfit is a pretty far cry from any gimmick Hogan has ever used (it's a cowbow-themed outfit).
  • Overprotective Dad: He's not very fond of letting Tina hang out with other men, or even follow his career path into the squared circle.
  • Stout Strength

Raidou

Voiced by: Tetsu Inada (JP), Michael McConnohie (EN, Dimensions)

  • Child by Rape: The father of Ayane. Downplayed regarding his other daughter outside wedlock, Honoka, as it's never indicated how exactly she was conceived.
  • Pet the Dog: Kind of. The only time he has shown any redeemable aspects was in Dead or Alive Dimensions where he attempted to protect Fame Douglas from Bayman's attempted assassination. Note that Fame had no idea of Raidou's crimes against his former clan, so it's implied that Raidou willingly attempted to defend him.
  • Final Boss: In the first game.

Ein (Hayate)

Voiced by: Hikaru Midorikawa (JP), Yuri Lowenthal (EN, Dimensions)

Helena Douglas

Voiced by: Yuka Koyama (JP), Karen Strassman (EN Xtreme 2), Julianne Bluscher (EN, Dimensions)

Tengu (Gohyakumine Bankotsubo)

Voiced by: Osamu Saka (JP), Joel Swetow (EN, Dimensions)

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 "THIS WORLD - IS MY - DELUSION."

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Leon

Voiced by: Joji Nakata (JP), Richard Epcar (EN, Dimensions)

  • Palette Swap and The Rival: Of Bayman, being Italian but using the same fighting style (Russian sambo).
  • Shout-Out: He is similar to Leon from Leon the Professional, an Italian hitman with a pot flower and a dead girl friend.

Kasumi Alpha

(see Original Kasumi for voice actor information)

Brad Wong

Voice by: Unsho Ishizuka (JP), Grant George (EN, Dimensions)

Christie

Voiced by: Kotono Mitsuishi (JP), April Stewart (EN, Xtreme 2 and Dimensions)

  • Absolute Cleavage, Hell-Bent for Leather, and Vapor Wear: Her default costume in DOA4 involves a leather jacket that's open--revealing she's not weating anything underneath yet the jacket somehow covers her. Her trademark costume is a white and green leather catsuit. At least it's not neon pink.
  • Adaptational Heroism: The film makes her more of a Loveable Rogue than a cold-blooded assassin, and is clearly on the good side.
  • Affably Evil: She comes across as this to Eliot and NiCO.
  • Battle Butler
  • Dark Action Girl
  • The Dragon: She carries out tasks and hits for Donovan. In Dimensions it is shown that she is very involved in decision making, and seems to be his closest ally.
    • The Starscream/Not in This For Your Revolution: That being said, though, it's implied a few times that she either also intends to usurp Donovan (as she was technically shown planning alongside Helena and Bayman on how to stop Donovan and thus got Kasumi alpha turned against her as a result), or otherwise didn't really care if Donovan got killed by them or not (as evidenced by her freely telling Bayman that the latter could "have [Donovan]" in reference to his planned revenge against him.), or even care about eliminating any potential threats to their plans (evidenced by her similar statement to Bayman that she'll leave the "babysitting" up to him upon being defeated, in reference to his arriving to rescue Marie Rose).
  • Evil Brit: She sports a sexy upper class English accent in Dimensions.
  • Evil Laugh: While she's usually no-nonsense, she cracks up after gloating to Helena about killing her mother.
  • Expy: In the movie at least, she comes across more as the movie's equivalent of Rouge the Bat from personality right down to her actual job (as she was more of a burglar in that movie).
  • Femme Fatale
  • Foreign Fanservice: She's English. Also, besides Kasumi's clone, she is the first unhacked character who has appeared nude (twice, as a matter of fact: First was in the ending to her scenario in Dead or Alive 3 where she is seen showering, and the second was in the opening of Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball where she dives off a cliff at night to skinnydip.)
  • In Name Only: The Movie portrays her as a Classy Cat Burglar.
  • Lady of War: Dark version.
  • Poisonous Friend: Assigned by Donovan to be Helena's Battle Butler so she can 'keep an eye on her'. Helena seemed to be handling her mother's death better when it happened than she was leading up to the time when Christie revealed She's the one who actually killed her.
  • Pet the Dog: Kind of. Dead or Alive 4 and 5 has her being genuinely friendly with Eliot. And Dead or Alive 6 had her aiding NiCO in her experiment to revive Raidou, despite her explicitly mentioning that such would most likely harm her livelihood, and even tried to get NiCO to be more sociable. In addition, despite clearly intending to kill Marie Rose, when beaten by Bayman, she willingly let him get Marie Rose out of there (outright telling him she's leaving the "babysitting" up to him) with no protest after being beaten by him.
  • Troll: In the movie, she was very impish in demeanor, with a more infamous example of this being when she pretended that Tina when letting her stay at her place to lay low had lesbian sex with her when Bass arrived.
  • The Friend Nobody Likes: In the Xtreme series, for obvious reasons, she has this treatment. Let's just say that none of the girls are receptive to Christie if you play as her, with the closest any of the girls have to actually befriending her is Leifang.
  • The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: To Helena.
  • Shout-Out: Very similar to a certain other fanservicey, platinum haired, Stripperiffic, English lady....
  • White-Haired Pretty Girl: Trailers implied that her white hair was not actually natural, but it was the direct result of an accident relating to a train.
  • Would Hurt a Child / You Killed My Mother: In Dead Or Alive 4, it was revealed that Christie was the one who killed Helena's mother during an Opera showing. The kicker? Helena's mom wasn't even the target, Helena herself was, all her mom did was take the bullet.
  • Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: It's implied in Xtreme 2 that she's deeply afraid of insects, as giving her a golden scarab has her react with fear.

Hitomi

Voiced by: Yui Horie (JP), Hynden Walch (EN, Xtreme 2), Eden Riegel (EN, Dimensions)

  • Breakout Character: To the point that she was revealed to be playable in DOA5 before Kasumi.
  • But Not Too Foreign: She's part-Japanese and part-German (hailing from the latter country).
  • Cute Bruiser: Has a notably more aggressive fighting style than the other girls. Basically the faster (and slightly weaker) successor to Ein.
  • Hey, It's That Voice!: As pointed out by a comment on a YouTube Dead or Alive Xtreme 2 video: "Starfire? Princess Bubblegum? Ah, no it's just Hitomi."
  • Kiai: For her stronger attacks.
  • No Nudity Taboo: The beginning of her ending movie for the fourth game. She opens the curtains and dances around for a bit... while nude from a shower.
  • Too Dumb to Live: Yes, Hitomi, that baby T-Rex is really cute and Jann Lee was "a bit too cruel" for beating up the mama T-Rex before it could, you know, eat you alive! The fact that she was tricked twice regarding a fake DOA invitation[1] to Zack's Island doesn't help her case, either


Omega (Genra)

Voiced by: Osamu Saka (JP), Andrew Kishino (EN, Dimensions)

  • Camera Screw: You fight Omega from a completely weird camera angle that is low and behind your fighter, as opposed to in profile as the rest of the matches are conducted.
  • Final Boss: DOA3.

Lisa Hamilton (La Mariposa)

Voiced by: Maaya Sakamoto (JP), Massassa Moyo (EN, Xtreme 2 and Dimensions)

Eliot

Voiced by: Junko Minagawa (JP), Rolland Lopez (EN, Dimensions)

Kokoro

Voiced by: Ayako Kawasumi (JP), Kathryn Feller (EN, Xtreme 2 and Dimensions)

Alpha-152

Voiced by: Sakura Tange (JP), Amanda Troop (EN, Dimensions)

Victor Donovan

Voiced by: Moriya Endo (JP), Grant George (EN, Dimensions)

  • Big Bad
  • Blonde Guys Are Evil: as shown in Dimensions
  • Corrupt Corporate Executive
  • Demonic Possession: It's strongly implied that he ends up possessed by the same mask that Omega wore. Unlike most examples, however, Donovan seems to do this willingly.
  • The Ghost: Until Dimensions (or Helena's ending from 4, depending on what you believe), the only time he actually appeared was in The Movie.
  • You Killed My Father: Although Christie is the one who directly murdered Helena's mother, it is heavily implied that Donovan was the one who arranged for her to murder her mother and presumably her father.

Nicole (Spartan-458)

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Irene Lew

Voiced by: Yumi Touma (JP), Amanda Troop (EN)

Ryu Hayabusa's love interest from the Ninja Gaiden games. A CIA agent who uses the codename Sonia, she's been assigned by the agency to investigate the tournament and DOATEC.

Rio

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  Appears in Dead or Alive: Paradise.

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Samus Aran

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  Appears in Dead or Alive: Dimensions for the Nintendo 3DS during a collab with Nintendo. She is not playable.

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Akira Yuki

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  Appears as a guest character in Dead Or Alive 5. A Bajiquan instructor from Japan, his main objective in life is to discover the meaning of "true strength".

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Sarah Bryant

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  The second Virtua Fighter character revealed for Dead or Alive 5. The sister of Indycar driver Jacky Bryant, she is the victim of Judgement 6's advances and is often preyed upon as a potential subject for their twisted "Dural" project.

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  • Guest Fighter
  • Mistaken Identity: Coming from behind, Zack thinks he's talking to Tina when he encounters Sarah working out on a heavy bag during her debut trailer. Cue Tina herself showing up and applying a sleeper hold while Sarah looks on amused.
  1. To put it into perspective, all the female cast who had gone to Zack's Island beforehand in the sequel at least had other reasons to come to Zack's Island besides the fake DOA invitation, or possibly already knew about it being a trick even the first time such as Lisa.