Goenitz
Goenitz is a male video game character who features in The King of Fighters.
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Biography
Goenitz (Japanese: ルガール・バーンシュタイン, Hepburn: Rugāru Bānshutain)
Ever since Goenitz was young, he knew his duty as a Heavenly King and made haste to revive his lord Orochi. In an attempt to reach this means, he became a religious missionary who would travel to those in need. When he was eighteen, he challenged Rugal Bernstein and easily defeated the older man by taking out one of his eyes. As an experiment, he granted his opponent some of Orochi's power to see if he could become a valid host for the entity. Goenitz eventually assigns the task of observing the crimelord to two other Hakkeshu, Mature and Vice. Some time later, he paid a visit to a remote village where a Hakesshu member, Gaidel, was staying. To his surprise, Gaidel was living a peaceful life and had no interest in their lord's mission. In response, Goenitz activated the Riot of the Blood in his daughter, Leona, which lead to the death of her parents and everyone else in the village. Pleased with the results, he sealed away her memories and continued to look for ways of speeding up his lord's revival. He noticed that the seal containing Orochi is too strong for his lord, so he paid a visit to the Yata household. He murdered the current head of the clan, Maki Kagura, to break the seal's power.
Sometime after the 1995 tournament, he also decided to track the Three Sacred Treasures that previously defeated his lord. Since he had previously judged Chizuru Kagura, and Mature and Vice were keeping an eye on Iori Yagami, Goenitz decided to personally test Kyo Kusanagi's strength. Although he expected a glorious fight from the 1995 champion, he defeated the Kusanagi heir with ease, and nearly killed him. Later, he interrupts the 1996 tournament to finally end all three heirs at once. In the final events of the tournament, he is defeated by Kyo with the help of Iori and Chizuru. Humiliated, Goenitz saves face and apparently took his own life in the aftermath of the tournament by cutting his body on his own wind, making Kyo the champion of the tournament.
Overview
Personality and attributes
Due to his powers, he came to be known as Goenitz of the Wildly-Blowing Wind (吹ふき荒すさぶ風かぜのゲーニッツ) and was also known by the nickname of Terrifying Tempest (吹ふき荒すさぶ風かぜ).
Though influenced by Orochi, he retains much of the mannerisms and civility of a priest, which is reflected in his winning poses and his elegant, somewhat flowery speech, ending most of his sentences with desu, which conveys politeness in Japanese.
However, Vice, Mature, and Yamazaki are all indifferent toward him. Leona disdains him for what he did, of course.
Powers and abilities
He sports the same "messiah" attitude that aspires to "save" people and dispatch disbelievers, and likewise, is harsh towards unholy and demonic beings, and anything that defies nature.
Goenitz fights mainly with his control over wind with little concern for utilizing any established combative techniques. Like the other Four Kings, his moves are all written using the Cyrillic alphabet into romaji. His trademark move, Yo no Kaze, is a tornado that comes up at random, slicing any foe it touches, done while uttering his infamous catchphrase "Right here?" (ここですか？, Koko desu ka?). Goenitz is sarcastically toying with his opponent when saying that, asking if they want him to drop his tornado right where the opponent is.
Goenitz seemed to posses an 'enhanced' version of a fighting style used by a main character like with the other three kings; in this case, he has shown to possess a "true" version of the Yasakani-Style martial art; namely, some of Iori Yagami's moves done in a different fashion, such as the "true versions" of Iori's Aoihana, Kototsuki and Ya Otome/Maiden Masher. While the other kings of Orochi sport one signature super from each member of the Japan Team, Goenitz has had much on the speculation of the actual origins of his copied techniques. Though it hints that most of the Yasakani-now-Yagami's techniques ever since the curse, have added most of the Orochi's techniques to their regime, with Goenitz being an original practitioner.
Among the techniques known to him included:
- Meifu no Mon (МЭЙФУ НО МОН; めいふのもん; Dark Realm's Gate) :
- Soukatsusatsu (СОКАЦУСАЦУ; そうかつさつ; Refreshing Life Kill) :
- Yomi e no Michi (ЁМИ Е НО МИЧИ よみへのみち; Path to the Underworld) :
- Uranagi (УРАНАГИ; うらなぎ; Reverse Calm) :
- Oroshi (ОРОШИ; おろし; Mountain Wind) :
However, the Ya Otome out of Iori's techniques was the only one that has been originally granted by Orochi himself to his clan, meaning Goenitz uses a true version of one of Orochi's gifts. As a Heavenly King, he can activate the Riot of the Blood in those who have part Orochi blood.
He was shown as being the head of the Hakkesshu (八傑集はっけっしゅう, Hat-Ket-Shū, lit. Eight Excellent Masses) that were a cult who served Orochi.
Notes
- Goenitz was created by SNK where he featured in the setting of The King of Fighters universe.
Appearances
- The King of Fighters:
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