Christie (Dead or Alive)

Christie is a female video game character who features in Dead or Alive.

Biography

Christie (Japanese: クリスティ, Hepburn: Kurisuti) was a female human born in the modern age in England where little was known of her past. She came to take up the life of a high-profiling career as a professional assassin.

On one of her missions, she attempted to kill Helena Douglas at the Opera House, but the target's mother took the bullet to save her daughter from such a fate.

She came to be hired by Victor Donovan to serve as a double agent for him where officially she came to work as an employee of the Dead or Alive Tournament Executive Committee. In truth, she served as Donovan's bodyguard and worked with him to get rid of the head of DOATEC namely Fame Douglas and his daughter Helena Douglas. This was all in a bid by Victor to take over the company for himself. Around the time of the first Dead or Alive World Combat Championship, Christie was working with Bayman, another assassin hired by Donovan, and both of them were tasked with transporting Kasumi to the Freedom Survivor so she may enter the tournament. To get the young girl interested in joining, Christie told Kasumi that Raidou, her traitorous uncle who had seriously injured her brother Hayate, was going to be there, so the girl could avenge her brother. It seemed that Christie was fully aware of Donovan's plans for kidnapping Kasumi for Project Alpha from the start, as she knew that Kasumi was one of the top competitors for the tournament and that she was looking for Raidou to begin with. During the final of the tournament, after Kasumi had defeated and killed Raidou in battle, she was kidnapped and taken back to Donovan's headquarters by Christie. Bayman, who had just killed Fame Douglas under Donovan's orders, tried to contact Christie as she was leaving, but she ignored his message and flew home without him.

Shortly before the events of the second tournament, Christie was ordered by Donovan to assassinate Helena; following her father's death, Helena inherited DOATEC, making her the only person standing in the way of Donovan's take-over of the company. For her first attempt, Christie tried to take out Helena with a sniper rifle from a balcony, while her target was starring in an opera performance with her mother, Maria. Although on target, Christie's mission failed, because Maria spotted her just in time and took the bullet, killing her instead. Christie got away and Helena started on the revengeful path of finding her mother's murderer. As the killer's identity was unknown, Christie managed to stay close to Helena posing as the woman's personal assistant. After the second tournament, Christie tried to convince Donovan to get rid of Helena permanently, as she was seeking out information about Project Alpha, but they had to lay low due to the mistakes made last time; the CIA were still looking for Maria's shooter, and Donovan's team still had to find Hayate, who they were using for Project Epsilon. In order to lure Hayate in, Christie suggested they created a third tournament, and use Genra, a former shinobi of the Mugen Tenshin clan, as bait to get all the shinobi in.

For the third tournament, Christie's mission was to stop Helena from winning, and in the process prevent her from discovering more about Donovan's secret plans and his anti-Douglas faction. Christie later confronted Helena during the course of the tournament, where she revealed her real occupation as an assassin sent by Donovan. However, before she could do anything, the assassin was soon caught by Bayman, who had been hired by Helena and was in the process of seeking revenge on Donovan for trying to have him killed. They were discovered by Kasumi α, a clone of Kasumi created by Project Alpha, who then believed that Christie wanted Donovan dead, despite the assassin's assurances that she worked for him. Christie then commanded Alpha to defeat Helena, but the clone was defeated as well, and both the clone and Christie managed to escape. Sometime later, Christie kidnapped CIA agent Irene Lew to lure Ryu Hayabusa away from his friends Hayate and Ayane. Although she was defeated, she bought enough time for Genra to create a portal to the Hellfire, and attack the shinobi. Although Christie fulfilled her part of the plan, Genra failed and was killed in combat. Sometime afterwards, Christie was among the female participants who was lured over to Zack Island to compete in the next tournament. It was later revealed to be a hoax, though she nevertheless decided to make use of the time to have a vacation.

For the fourth tournament, Christie was once again in Donovan’s employment acting as his bodyguard as the Mugen Tenshin clan attacked DOATEC for all the abuse they had faced due to the company. During the attack, she intercepted Ayane and Hayabusa, both of whom were seeking to regroup with Hayate during the assault on the Tri-Tower. She was defeated, and both shinobi managed to get away from her. Christie also encountered Bayman once again, telling him take she would "give him Donovan" but he would never get out alive. She defeated him in combat, allowing DOATEC to take him into their custody. As the Tritower headquarters started to burn down, Christie eventually found Helena within the building. Despite the bad blood between them, Helena was willing to allow Christie to walk away without a fight as DOATEC fell, but Christie stayed, and finally admitted that it was her who killed Maria. She took great pleasure as Helena almost broke down before her, and two women entered battle with unknown results. Christie managed to escape the destruction of the Tritowers, and went on to continue her work as an assassin away from DOATEC. At some point after the fourth tournament, Christie left for New Zack Island for a week, with the exact motivations being unclear other than rumors about being assigned to a super secret mission.

Overview

Personality and attributes

In appearance, Christie was a tall human woman with steely-gray eyes and her hair being a shocking shade of white.

She was noted for being a cold and heartless professional assassin with her motivation being the act of killing rather than financial reward. Christie is depicted as a cold-blooded, despicable, ruthless, cunning, seductive, devious, heartless, manipulative, and calculating woman who knows many ways to kill someone. In one instance, she gained the attention of a Yakuza mobster who was so mesmerized by her that he failed to notice that she stuck him in the back of his neck with a needle cutting into his vertebra killing him instantly, leaving him standing there dead as if he was still gazing at her as she walks off.

It was shown that she had regarded other people to be disposable and meaningless. In fact, she did not appear to have any true friends or even family she has relationships with. She takes her job seriously, with a calm, quiet demeanor, and is completely ruthless when engaged in a mission, employing any means at her disposal to attain her mission objectives; including using her looks, charm, and sex appeal to lure in her victims. Her weapons of choice, along with her she quan moves, have been the type that bring a painful, slow death to her targets, such as a needle to the spinal cord, and a razor-thin wire to slit someone's neck, hinting towards her inhumane, merciless nature. She also implies that she viewed her profession as her livelihood as when learning of NiCO's experiment of raising the dead, she quipped that she'd most likely be out of a job should it succeed.

Christie used any means to attain her mission objectives which included using her looks, charm and sex appeal to lure her intended target to her. On certain occasions, she was known to simply flirt with her male targets instead of simply killing them.

Powers and abilities

She was a skilled martial artist who was a practitioner of snake boxing with her technique being Fanged Snake Style (Chinese: 蛇拳; pinyin: shé quán; literally: "snake fist") that imitated the movements of snakes. Like a snake, she approaches the enemy while dodging attacks, then—faster than the eye can see—brings them down with a single deadly blow.

Notes

• Christie was created by Tomonobu Itagaki where she featured in the setting of the Dead or Alive universe.

In other media

Films

• In DOA: Dead or Alive, Christie Allen was the protagonist character in the setting of the 2006 live-action film where she was portrayed by Australian actress and model Holly Valance. Christie was depicted as being more approachable and social than her in-game counterpart but retained her role of master thief and assassin, working with a non-canonical character named Max (Matthew Marsden) to steal Donovan's $100 million fortune hidden in a vault on the tournament grounds.

Appearances

• Dead or Alive 3: (2001)

External Links

• Dead or Alive Wiki Entry
• Comicvine Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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