Pyron

Pyron is an extraterrestrial video game character who features in Darkstalkers.

Biography

Pyron (Japanse: パイロン, Hepburn: Pairon) was a an entity who over 200 million years came to seek out to collect beautiful planets by consuming them.

Originally, he came to Earth 65 million years ago and created the army of Huitzil robots to destroy life on Earth.

He landed deep within the Atlantic ocean to wait for the right time to consume Earth. Demitri Maximoff came to host a tournament on planet Earth to see who of all the Darkstalkers was worthy to rule the Demon World. Pyron decided to enter the tournament and use it as an opportunity to remove all obstacles of his takeover. His plan, however, failed and he was defeated by Demitri. Before Demitri can finish him though Pyron managed to flee and returns to Hellstorm. Pyron invades Earth to add it to his collection. This causes the Darkstalkers to come to the defense of Earth. Pyron comes face to face with Demitri, who consumes the alien life form.

Overview

Personality and attributes

A dark, prideful, and arrogant alien who often called himself the lord of the living flames as he believed himself to be a true master over fire as he sought out many worlds to fuel his hunger.

Pyron was thrill-seeker who enjoyed testing his own limits. He was also very fond of a challenge as he liked to test himself against other fighters in hand-to-hand combat.

Powers and abilities

Pyron was a being composed of solar energy who could not be harmed by normal means of attacks. It was shown that he had the ability to sense the life force of another being. He could also fly at speeds beyond light, and could consume worlds to fill his body.

He could enhance the heat of his flames to higher levels to match that of a supernova.

Notes

• Pyron was created by Capcom where he featured in the setting of the Darkstalkers universe.

In other media

Television

• In Darkstalkers, Pyron appeared in the setting of the DiC animated television series where he was voiced by actor Gary Chalk, Pyron has ambitions of taking over Earth, but is much weaker than his original incarnation and is even shown as a bumbling coward. Depicted as an entity made of flame in most appearances, the cartoon turned him into a living being who roamed space in a gigantic spacecraft and who preferred to let his minions do his work for him. The reason for this was revealed late in the series, stating that the spaceship was the source of his powers and that if he left it, he would become progressively weaker. In addition to this, Pyron's ship was set to explode with enough force to "destroy the entire Earth, its moon and possibly half the solar system" if he was away from it for more than 24 hours. In this series, he also had an older and much stronger brother by the name of Terramon whom he feared terribly. At the end of the series, Terramon, sick of his little brother's constant failures in attempting to take over the world, tries to take over the world for himself. Though still frightened of his brother, Pyron stands up to him and allies with all the other Darkstalkers and even befriends them in order to save the world. After Terramon is routed, Felicia asks him if their war is over; he laughs and replies that their war is not over and that by tomorrow they will be fighting again but for that night, Felicia and the people of Earth can sleep in peace. Felicia and her friends smile and then bid Pyron a good night.

Films

• In Night Warriors, Pyron appeared as the main antagonist in the setting of the original video animation where he was voiced by actor David Kaye. He came to Earth hoping to be its ruler. The Huitzil robots awaken to gather data on the Darkstalkers, Pyron's only real threat. He allies himself with the robots but while he is the creator of them in the video games, there is no mention of him creating the robots in the OVA. Evidence of this is that their programming is counter to his overall goals, their eventual fallout between each other, Pyron criticizing the Huitzul's extermination patterns as "theories of the weak", and the giant Huitzul's memory of "the Creator". It is shown in the story that Pyron once came to Earth before in the form of a comet passing by which caused the Darkstalkers to scramble for the Earth since Pyron's light was piercing the aura of the dark. Mei-ling and Hsien-Ko's mother sacrificed herself to destroy the Darkstalkers invading the palace they were defending. Mei-ling and Hsien-ko blamed Pyron's descent for her death and wish to destroy him. Pyron is then seen forming his fighting form inside the comet. It isn't made clear whether he is descending into hiding on Earth or that he is continuing on into space to later return to the planet. The latter scenario is more likely as the event he descends takes place around 200 years before the current setting and Pyron's presence isn't known to any of the Earth's denizens but Hsien-ko, Mei-Ling, and the Huitzul. Pyron is a powerful entity, capable of creating miniature suns (which also destroy large cities) that remove the darkness surrounding the world and to draw out the darkstalkers for battle. His reason for fighting them is to satisfy his lust for battle and to have challenges on his ascent to being Earth's ruler. He easily defeated Anakaris, Rikuo, Sasquatch, Victor, and Demitri in battle but it is not known if he fought Felicia, Lord Raptor, Bishamon, and Jon Talbain as well. He doesn't fight Morrigan as she was in the demon world during his activity on Earth. After his battle with Demitri, he is attacked by the Huitzil which he defeats easier than any of the Darkstalkers he fought. Mei-ling and Hsien-ko attack him in a arena but none of their attacks have any effect on him and they are beaten with little effort. Donovan confronts him but his attacks are just as ineffective. Angry with another disappointing battle, Pyron mortally wounds Donovan and then declares the Earth to be boring because of its species "lack of evolutionary advances" and no satisfying battles. He angrily demands, "Begone, boring planet, begone and plague Pyron no more!", which implies he will destroy the Earth. He is then interrupted by the Giant Huitzil which was sent by the surviving Huitzil's to destroy him. The Giant Huitzul stuns Pyron long enough to grasp him and send him out into orbit but it is heavily damaged by Pyron and can not continue combat. Back on Earth, Donovan is revived by Anita's new found power which enhances his abilities greatly. He defeats Pyron by summoning the Wind Spirit to perform the Press of Death which slays Pyron in one blow.

Appearances

• Darkstalker:

External Link

• Darkstalker Wiki Entry

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