Alkanphel
Alkanphel is a male anime and manga character who features in Guyver: The Bio-boosted Armor.
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Biography
Archanfel (Japanese: アルカンフェル, Hepburn: Arukanferu) was a male Zoalord whose existence was created by the Creators upon their arrival to Earth where they began to manipulate life into a specific bio-weapon. This would have resulted in the creation of the Zoanoids and Alkanphel would have been their leader though he himself was subject to the will of his masters. Archanfel was awoken by the Creators in an artificial womb where he emerged as a young adult and seemed to already be fairly intelligent; able to communicate, and understand those who spoke to him, and was even able to speak back telepathically to the Creators; despite never being taught or shown how to. He already possessed his incredible power, and was able to both control it and transform freely without any side effects or problems. He was seen speaking to the Creators and was shown a great amount of favor by them, giving Archanfel a sense of purpose and pride. Archanfel saw the Creators as both his parental figures and somewhat as his gods. After some lengthy conversations Archanfel demonstrated his unwavering devotion and love for them, and came to realize that he was the greatest being the Creators had ever created and was created specifically to be their general in war. A few days after completing their experiments, one of the Creators was curious as to what would happen if they equipped one of the humans with one of the Creators' own organic environment suits and began to run a new series of tests and experiments. The result was the creation of a being that would later come to be known as "Guyver"; a word that roughly translates to "out of control" in the Creators' language. The results shocked the Creators; the suit increased the human's strength, characteristics and capabilities well over 100 times and made him stronger than when the Creators themselves wore the armor. The suit also gave the human a number of unforseen capabilties and weapons at his disposal, but most terrifying of all was that the suit completely freed its host from the telepathic commands of the Creators themselves. This would not have been so disastrous if it weren't for the fact that the human itself also could not control the armor's actions - as the suit possessed the ability to detect numerous threats to the host and proceeded to act on its own. The Creators had not realized that the armor would act to defend whoever was wearing it, whether this went against its creators' interests or not.
The major event within Alkanphel's life would have been when the first Guyver Unit was bonded to a Human host which formed Guyver 0. Alkanphel was commanded by his masters to make use of a Unit Remover and end the life of the Human host. This marked to the Creators of the dangers of the Guyver if it bonded to anymore of their bio-weapons at which point they decided to end their experiment by sending a moon sized asteroid to destroy the planet. However, Alkanphel rebelled against his masters and destroyed the asteroid but not before suffering from a terrible psychic assault that wounded him. Though the Earth survived and his masters departed, Alkanphel was forced to undergo long periods of hibernation in order to function.
As the years went by, Alkanphel was awoken by Dr Hamilcar Balcus. It was at this point that it was decided that a planet spanning corporation known as Chronos was formed with the intent of dominating the planet through the spread of the Zoanoid race. Alkanphel's Zoacrystal would be used as the basis for creating more Zoalords of which twelve were formed. As the years went on, Alkanphel would be more withdrawn from his followers and rarely seen. He would never attend the Zoalord meetings even though he was considered the leader of the Corporation. The last major event he attended would be watching the Optimization of Richard Guyot though the developing Zoalord would not be aware of this.
He was rarely seen since that time and apparently never attended the meetings of the council of Zoalords. He made his first appearance after many years in Japan where he teleported near Relic's Point and headed to the Chronos installation. After arriving, he was met by a group of three Chronos soldiers who were unaware of his identity and demanded that he surrender. Alkanphel simply used his power to kill them with his effortlessly. He was also aware of the presence of Aptom in the bushes nearby and revealed the Lost Numbers presence. Aptom attempted to attack Alkanphel but was stopped in mid-air. The Zoalord was somewhat impressed that he was immune to his thought waves and believed him to be a rogue creation of Balcus's after which he fired an energy beam seemingly vaporizing Aptom, but he is shown to have survived afterward.
Alkanphel then made his way to Relic's Point. Breaking through, he demanded Guyot hand over the "Guyver Remover" as he became aware of the Zoalords ambition of attempting to gain control of Chronos and later, the world by obtaining a Guyver Unit. Guyot resisted him and attempted to escape by going deeper into Relic's Point whilst attempting to kill the supreme Zoalord. He eventually went into one of the deepest locations of the base where he hatched a desperate plan as his each and every attack failed miserably against Alkanphel whilst he was still in his Human form. Guyot created a black hole with his power and used it to suck Alkanphel into oblivion seemingly killing him.
However, outside the base, Alkanphel teleported in his Zoalord form atop the Relic during a battle between the Guyvers, Guyot and the council of Zoalords. Appearing before Richard Guyot, he told him calmly that he was going to take his Zoacrystal. Moving his hand into Guyot's forehead, he took the crystal from the powerless Zoalord who fell to his death into the roaring volcanic explosion that occurred below. He then noticed the Guyvers who attacked Alkanphel with a twin megasmasher attack but the Zoalord simply redirected it at them and it seemed that he had destroyed the only real threat to Chronos.
With that complete, he joined the other members of the Council of Zoalords who began to make their plans for their global domination of the planet.
Overview
Personality and attributes
In his Human form, he appeared as a young Caucasian human male of average height with elegant, pointed elf-like ears and pale neck long white hair whilst having yellow cat slit eyes. His Zoacrystal was hidden well under his skin and was only visible when active where it emitted a radiant glow under his layer of skin or in his battleform. Archanfel had various forms of attire, ranging from a white business suit, a long cape and battle armor, as well as a royal gown and cloak. When transforming, he was changed into his Zoalord form which was humanoid in shape but glowing with golden energy. In either, he demonstrated the same personality which was a calm and collected personality that was often amused when enemies challenged him for he easily overpowered such foes.
Due to his abilities, he considered himself a demi-god. In fact, he stated that the Zoalords were all beneath him in terms of power that he could effortlessly defeat them without transforming into his Zoalord form. It was stated by Alkanphel that he did not need to worry that such Zoalords could scratch him even let alone worry for his own life. He also showed little fear or worry in regards to the Guyver hosts calling them the "little bio-boosted insects" that were causing Chronos so much trouble.
He demonstrated little compassion and was perfectly willing to kill Chronos agents in order to suit his goals such as remaining undetected. Alkanphel did not brook rebellion from his followers and moved to instantly deal with it. Such was the case with Guyot where he made his way to claim the Unit Remover from him.
Due to his nature, the Council of Zoalords came to fear Archanfel but also see him as their wise, ruthless and powerful leader; someone they could admire and look up to, while also seeing him as somewhat of a mysterious figure who often disappears. Despite this, Archanfel has been seen to care for his Zoalords, and entrusts them to do his bidding on Earth. He has been seen to have a different side when in the presence of both Dr. Barcas and Imakarum Mirabilis, his second in command and his personal body guard; in fact Mirabilis may have been partially created so that Archanfel would, at last, have someone to commune with at anything like a personal level. Imakarum is the only one on Earth who knows of his master's true origin and sacrifice, and the torment he suffered and suffers as a result. Archanfel was enraged to discover many of his Zoalords have perished in battle, and entrusted Mirabilis with the mission of destroying the Guyvers on his behalf.
Powers and abilities
An extremely powerful being, Alkanphel's powers dwarfed that of all the other Zoalords. He was somewhat smaller then Guyot but was much more powerful then the combined Zoalords all together. In the manga comics, it is said that the other Zoalord crystals were actually imperfect copies of Alkanphel's.
His abilities include a thought wave that allows him to kill normal Zoanoids through his mind alone. This is seen upon his arrival at Relic's Point where he dispatches a small group of Chronos soldiers. This ability is however limited against those Zoanoids, such as Lost Unit members, that have had their telepathic link to the Zoalords degraded. Despite that, he does possess numerous other abilities at his disposal which include the power to generate spherical energy blasts that appear at a location suddenly which were known to vaporize enemies if they were not quick enough to avoid the energy distortion. He is also shown to halt a jumping opponent in mid air and fire an energy blast that can rip them apart.
He was capable of creating spherical energy shields that surround his body which he did so by simply moving his hand in front of him. Power increased to the shield if he used more concentration and both hands to maintain the shield. The great power of Alkanphel meant he was capable of fighting against a Zoalord whilst within his Human form with ease. He was able to levitate with ease and fly across the environment as well. Other noted abilities was the capacity to teleport from one location to another across great distances. An energy disturbance formed in the area where he was teleporting to after which he would then appear.
Alkanphel's power was great enough that he was capable of returning from the event horizon of a black hole. His greatest feat of power to date, however, was his ability to destroy the moon-sized asteroid that was meant to annihilate Earth and its inhabitants.
He was the hidden ruler of the Chronos Corporation where he headed the Council of Zoalords. On Earth, he came to reside on the hidden sland of Silha (シラー島 Shiraa Tō) that contained some of the many surviving creations of the Creators.
Notes
- Alkanphel was created by Yoshiki Takaya where he featured in the setting of the Bio Booster Armor Guyver universe.
In other media
Television
- In Guyver: The Bioboosted Armor, Archanfel appeared in the setting of the 2005 anime television series where he was voiced by Japanese voice actor Yasunori Matsumoto and by Gray Haddock in the English dub.
Appearances
- Guyver: The Bio-boosted Armor:
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