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Anita (アニタ Anita) first appeared along side Donovan Baine in Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge. She made her first playable appearance in the original Japanese console port of Marvel Super Heroes as a secret character. She would later appear in the Marvel vs. Capcom Origins version of the game and Teppen the App Capcom Games. She has also made several cameo appearances in various other Capcom games such as Pocket Fighter.

Background

Anita is the small girl that always follows Donovan Baine around. She is 2'9' and 29 lbs. Anita carries an old doll that seems to be a memento of her mother. She had always been with Donovan ever since she was adopted by him from her orphanage. Because of her inhuman powers, she was shunned from society. This, coupled with witnessing her parents deaths, caused her to lose her emotions. She regained her emotions back as Donovan lost his humanity in the events of Night Warriors. She is also the probable ruler of humanity, which both Donovan and Jedah knows.

Appearances

Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo Anita and Donovan Screen Shot

Anita Along side Donovan in Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo

Playable non-canon appearances

  • Marvel Super Heroes
  • Marvel vs Capcom Origins

In other games

  • SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters' Clash
  • SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters 2
  • SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters DS
  • Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo along Donovan's side. Some versions also allow her to be played using a secret code.
  • TEPPEN


Cameos in other games

  • Pocket Fighter, Anita appears on the Dhalsim's Toyshop stage searching for Donovan.
  • Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes

In other media

Amanda (U.S

Anita in the US cartoon series


Marvel Super Heroes

Move list

Special moves Input Notes
Killshread Plant P+K of the same strength
Killshread Summon After Killshread Plant, P+K of the same strength Usable in air
Gouki Summon RightDownRight Down+P Usable in air, sword required, also her counter
Lin-Lin Summon LeftDownLeft Down+P Tap P for more hits, usable in air, sword required
Infinity combo Input Notes
Love For You DownRight DownRight+2P

Trivia

  • Anita's name was changed in non-Japanese versions of Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge to Amanda. Her name was later changed back to Anita for other releases and media.
  • The version of older Anita meant for Vampire Savior is often incorrectly called “Teen Anita” but she is actually meant to be an adult Anita in her mid 20s. The actual version of teen Anita was seen in Donovan’s ending for Vampire Hunter.
  • The adult version of Anita was originally planned to be playable in Darkstalkers 3 alongside Dee, the dark side of Donovan, but were both later scrapped. Evidence of this can be found when hacking the game as her name, and life bar portrait appears in game.[1]
    • In Vampire: Darkstalkers Collection she appears as an opponent to Dee in his ending. These scenes incorporate art and concepts from unused endings for Donovan and Jedah that were scrapped during development of Savior, which would have depicted Dee regaining his humanity after trying to kill her, and Jedah attempting to absorb her into his being.
  • In Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge and Vampire Hunter 2, Anita follows Donovan across the stage. Capcom changed this in Darkstalkers 3 and Vampire Savior 2 as Anita follows the opponent instead.
  • After winning or losing a battle in Darkstalkers 3 (Vampire Hunter 2 and Vampire Savior 2) with Donovan, Anita runs off screen.
  • As mentioned above, Anita appeared as a secret playable character in the Japanese version of Marvel Super Heroes, however, since she was just a test character, she was very incomplete and can be considered a cheap character due to her moves.
  • Anita is the "she" the ruler that Jedah mentions in his ending that may "fully awaken." More proof to this can be seen in the pre-fight dialogue when playing as Donovan versus Jedah in Darkstalkers 3 (PSone) and in the Sega Saturn port of Vampire Savior.
    • Jedah Dohma is probably disturbed and apprehensive of her presence, as she is shown to have powers that could possibly pose a threat.
    • Lending more credence to the fact Anita is more powerful than she appears-- whether in her child or grown form is in the UDON comics Street Fighter Vs. Darkstalkers, where she effortlessly stopped a powered-up Oni from further assaulting Donovan.
  • In Marvel Super Heroes, Anita appears with a mini version of Donovan's sword, Dhylec, with a red ribbon tied to its handle. Some of her other attacks involve cameos from other Capcom characters such as Akuma from Super Street Fighter II Turbo and Hsien-Ko's sister Mei-Ling and the corpse or passed out body of Donovan.
  • In Marvel vs Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes, Anita appears as an assist character selected from a group of 20 prior to the start of any match (though there is a way to guarantee her selection [as with the rest of the assists]). When called she runs up next to your character along with various objects from the Darkstalkers series held above her via telekinesis and shoots them all at once towards the opponent. This can be used up to 5 times.
  • In the rare instances she does speak, Anita is voiced by Kyoko Hikami in Vampire Savior and Akiko Yajima and Andrea Libman in the respective Japanese and English versions of the OVA.
  • When Anita was still being created, one of her old concepts was to have her fight with multiple weapons such as a whip and guns. Capcom felt like her fighting with multiple weapons would have made her too similar to Hsien-Ko and decided to reuse this fighting style for Baby Bonnie Hood instead.
    • Other old concepts would show her initial fighting style utilizing a doll to attack. The concept art shows the dolls ranging from various appearances such as puppets, mannequins and ragdolls. The doll aspect is most likely the inspiration for her signature headless doll.
  • Anita shares few similarities with Shadow and Marionette, as both characters have similar traits to Anita such as being silent, mysterious and powerful characters.
    • In some sprites when a powerful aura surrounds her, she is shown to have a dot or chakra on her forehead, similar to Donovan or Shadow.
    • The puppets from Anita's concept art could have served as inspiration for Marionette. One of them even had a ballerina motif and Marionette's outfit looks similar to a ballerina.
  • Anita and Donovan's fates are meant to only be up to the fan's interpretations and that the two characters don't have a confirmed definite fate but that there are multiple possibilities.
  • Anita's costumes and headless doll are likely homages to various renditions of Wednesday Addams from The Addams family, some of which wore dark sleeves with light cuffs and laced boots like her older incarnation in Darkstalkers Collection.

Sprites

Darkstalkers Anita regular sprite

Marvel Super Heroes Anita

Vampire Darkstalkers Collection Anita

Darkstalkers
Marvel Super Heroes
Darkstalkers Collection

SVC CCF action card Anita SVC CCF DS Anita
Card Fighters' Clash*
Card Fighters DS
  • Anita appears next to SNK's Whip in this Card Fighters' Clash Action Card.

Official Images


Anita Concept Art

Anita's Concept Art for Night Warriors: Darkstalkers Revenge

Videos

Navigation

Darkstalkers cast
Main cast
AnitaAnakarisBaby Bonnie HoodBishamonDeeDemitri MaximoffDonovan BaineFeliciaHsien-KoHuitzil
Jedah Dohma Jon TalbainLilithLord RaptorMorrigan AenslandPyronQ-BeeRikuoSasquatch
Victor von Gerdenheim
Secondary cast
Belial AenslandDark TalbainLe MaltaMei-LingOboro BishamonOzom
Other cast
Harry GrimoireJohn StatelyMajorette/ThomasMarionetteShadowJack


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