Jedah Dohma

nihongo|Jedah Dohma|ジェダ・ドーマ|Jeda Dōma is a video game character from Capcom's "Darkstalkers" series of fighting games, and the primary antagonist of "Darkstalkers 3". He is a dark messiah with some grim reaper similarities. He has a unique appearance of a thick body suit that shows his muscular body. His hair is not shown completely, hidden by a headdress that has a bat-like appearance and he has long and retractable finger nails as well as wings that have a metallic appearance. All of Jedah's moves are unusually gory, using his blood to attack enemies. He can even decapitate himself or mutilate any of his body parts without hurting himself at all. He is also able to absorb the souls of others from which he can instantly increase his own powers.

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Though he is nearly 6000 years old, Jedah is the youngest out of the three High Nobles of Makai.

Jedah was always distressed about the future of Makai (Japanese for "demon world"). He believed that if Makai was left under Belial's rule, the master of the Aensland family and the true ruler of Makai, then it would grow old and begin to decay. Belial would most likely say that such is destiny and life. Jedah considered Belial to be an abomination, and actively sought out the opportunity to kill him, waiting for the right time to strike.

After the death of Garunan, the master of the Bosital family and the oldest of the three high nobles, Jedah had a young confidant named Ozomu. Simply put, he was a gourmet. The reason he came under Jedah was to be able to eat delicious souls. As a noble, his skills were second class, but his ability to deceive others were first class. He was a genius in using others. He advised Jedah about using the gate of Makai. Jedah, being confident in his ability to absorb souls, agreed to this. He ordered Ozomu to break a part of the seal to open the gate more.

When Ozomu arrived at the gates, he realized that enormous powers lay within the gates and that even Jedah would destroy himself if he absorbed all this power at once and saw this as his chance to take over the throne. He lies to Jedah and tells him that he must destroy all the seals because little power was coming out. After destroying the seals, he ran off to the far reaches of Makai. The destruction of Jedah meant his rise in power and his plot succeeded.

Ozomu gathered the left over power and stored it in Dohma Castle. This is how Ozomu became the new master of the Dohma family; the birth of Emperor Ozomu.

100 years later, after a century-long sleep, Jedah was revived in Makai. He felt distressed towards the crazed Makai, nobles fighting each other and spilling blood. Instead of anger, he felt pity towards Ozomu, who had betrayed him. Jedah had already made up his mind: His complete revival and the cleansing of all souls. For this, a new stage was necessary; a new dimension, the Majigen.

Jedah arrived at Dohma Castle and saw Ozomu and laid out his hand. Although his powers were not yet completely restored yet, he had enough powers to remove Ozomu. Ozomu had become a spineless gourmet, Jedah quietly whispers, "Ozomu... I am sorry, but please lend me your powers. Your soul would become the foundation of Majigen and will help the future of Makai."

The Dohma Castle was taken into the dark space along with Ozomu. This was the beginning of Ozomu's salvation. Jedah believed that he was the one that needed to recreate life by fusing all souls into one life form, the Shintai. To do this, he summoned all those with worthy souls to enter into his newly created realm.

These souls were those of none other than the feared Darkstalkers, and the saga's story ends with the strongest one, Demitri Maximoff, preparing to engage Jedah in a fight to the death.

Personality

Jedah is very cool, collected and confident. He has a degree of arrogance, but as a whole, he is focused and patient, all for achieving his goal of saving Makai from a destiny seen by Belial.

It is rare to see Jedah express emotion, except in fits of insanity. But even these are subdued by his own calm attitude eventually.

Gameplay

Jedah has a unique gameplay; for example, none of his basic crouching attacks knock the opponent down. His medium punch attacks consists of extending his fingernails, which have considerable reach. His aerial dash is also an attack and can hurt airborne opponents.

His projectiles are spinning scythes, which stay in one place. He spawns these by ripping it from his own wings and can use them to confuse enemies and initiate special moves more safely. His main attacks are either attacking enemies by spinning like a scythe, or grabbing enemies and impaling them on the ground with his wings. He can change some of his attacks in the middle of execution or animation sequence.

Jedah also has a move called the Sange Passare (commonly known by fans as the "blood pump"), a throw command that deals heavy damage. All characters have a special victim animation of this move, most notably Lilith, where the move causes her breasts to inflate so large they explode.

Trivia

*Dante makes a cameo appearance in Jedah's ending sequence in "Capcom Fighting Evolution".
*According to the PlayStation version of "Darkstalkers 3", Jedah has a rivalry with Donovan.
*At one point Jedah implies that Anita is the leader of the humans. [Jedah Dohma: "I'll have to destroy the other world, the human world, before their leader, before she fully awakens."]
*Originally, Jedah was supposed to be the son of Belial (which would also make him Morrigan's brother), wear all white, and be called Belial Jr. He was also supposed to have a cape made of light, and be much more of a 'prettyboy'.
*All of Jedah's normal and special moves have Italian names, such as the "Ira Spinta" ("Fury Push"), "Nero Fatica" ("Black Effort"), "Prova di Servo" ("Servant's Proof") and "Santuario" ("Sanctuary").
*Although he has appeared in promotional art and on the covers of Darkstalkers the comic series by Udon, he has yet to be seen inside of them. Other characters, like Queen Bee, have the same condition. With the exception of the comical "mini" pages.
*In Gamest's 1997 Heroes Collection, Jedah was voted as the staff's fifth favorite character. He shares this spot with Street Fighter character, Dan Hibiki.Cite book | year=1997 | editor=Gamest | title=Gamest Game Hero Collection 1997; issue 208 | pages=240 | language=Japanese | publisher=Shinseisha ]
*When hit by an electrical attack, it shows that he has runes for a skeleton.

References

External links

* Jedah's [http://strategywiki.org/wiki/Darkstalkers/Characters/Jedah Darkstalkers] entry at [http://strategywiki.org/ StrategyWiki.org]