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Jedah Dohma (ジェダ・ドーマ Jeda Dōma) first appeared in Vampire Savior/Darkstalkers 3 along with other newcomers, Lilith, Q-Bee and B.B.Hood who has similarities with the Grim Reaper and the Shinigami. Initially, he was designed to be Belial Jr., but this concept was changed during the development of the game[2]. Jedah also appeared in crossover games such as Capcom Fighting Evolution, Cross Edge, Project × Zone and the universe and comic book of the Marvel vs. Capcom with the crossover series known as Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite.

Background

Although he is over 6000 years old, he is the youngest out of the three High nobles of Makai

He was always concerned about the future of Makai. He believed that if Makai was left to rule by Belial Aensland, the king of the Aensland family and the true ruler of Makai, then it would fall into chaos. Belial would most likely say that is destiny and life. To Jedah, Belial was a being who is not fit to rule. He looked for an opportunity to overthrow Belial and waited for the right time to strike as a means to control the realm for himself.

After the fall of Galnon, the master of the Voshtal family and the oldest of the three high nobles, Jedah had a confidant named Ozomu. The reason he came to Jedah was to be able to collect souls. As a noble, his skills were second class, but his ability to trick others and plan tactics was first class, as he was a genius in tactics. Ozomu advised Jedah about using the gate of Makai. Jedah, being confident in his ability to absorb souls, agreed to this, telling Ozomu to break part of the seal to open the gate wider.

When Ozomu arrived at the gate, he felt the enormous power that lay within it. He realized 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 and the himself. He tricked Jedah and told him that he must destroy all the seals because of the little energy that was coming out. After destroying the seals, he ran off to the far reaches of Makai. The fall of Jedah meant his rise in power and the success of his plan. Though Jedah's power was greater than Ozomu predicted, he was still destroyed due to the sheer amount of power that was coming out.

Ozomu gathered the remaining power and stored it in the Dohma Castle, becoming the new master of the Dohma family: Emperor Ozomu and calling his kingdom Castle Ozomu.

After a century long sleep, Jedah was revived in Makai. He felt concern towards the realm Makai, with nobles fighting each other. he was displeased towards Ozomu. 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 realm, the Majigen.

Jedah arrived at Dohma Castle and extended his hand to Ozomu. Although his powers were not yet completely restored, he had enough to remove Ozomu. Ozomu had become a spineless gourmet, and he was full of fear by Jedah's return. Jedah quietly whispered, "Ozomu... I am sorry, but please lend me your powers. Your soul will become the foundation of Majigen and will help the future of Makai."

Dohma Castle was taken into a 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, the divine fetus. To do this, he summoned all those with worthy souls to enter his new realm as a way to control the Human Realm and Makai.

Personality

Jedah is a power-hungry supernatural being with the desire for a utopia to assimilate everyone into one being. He is calm, collected, and an intelligent supernatural being when it comes to organize warfare, with a degree of confidence that may occasionally border on arrogance. He is purely focused in achieving his goal of making his ideal realm, one with only one being to live in it order to make Makai's influence to rule over realms absolute. He can display negative emotion by showing short fits of rage when his plans are being interfered or disagreed with and will show glowing red eyes, such as Q-bee's betrayal, and his opinions on Belial's rule. He also is amused whenever he hurts an opponent, showing that though he desires absolute order, he still enjoys violence.

Powers and Abilities

Being an S-Class Darkstalker (which is the equivalent of a supernatural elite), Jedah is one of the most dangerous supernatural beings in Darkstalkers media.

His liquid body allows him to change shape. Due to him being a Shingami, he also has the ability to absorb souls from humans and other beings through contact which in turn increases his own strength and is presumed to communicate with supernatural beings from other realms and influencing the darkest parts of a person's soul. At the limit of his power, he can create a space-time continuum in the UDON Comics, this however, leaves him weakened and must regrow his strength.

The blood inside his body can change colors, and can harm humans and even some supernatural beings (his own blood can also influence the nature of vampires). Jedah's usage of his blood is very versatile, as he can turn torrents of blood into jagged blades and dark energy and, more notably, into his trademark attacks by turning his wings and blood into a rotating buzzsaw. In addition, he can pump his enemies full of blood until their cells are destroyed from the inside and summon large supernatural hands to ensnare and attack his enemies. He can even fight with his blade against his foes and can mutilate any of his body parts without suffering any ill effects, as he has a healing factor that allows him regenerate missing limbs instantaneously. He is fond of contorting his wings for flying and can turn them into weapons, such as forming them into spinning blades, scythes or use them as shields. He doesn't really use punches or kicks, instead relying on his wings and claws. He can use his blood to split his limbs extend his attack range, extending his claws towards his foes to pierce them.

He has the power of telepathy and the ability to phase through other realms and he can sense the energies of humans and supernatural beings on a great scale.

Weakness

If Jedah uses too much energy, he will become much weaker overtime, and must regain his power back slowly.

About the Shinigami

In Asian myths, a Shinigami, the Japanese God of Death, is a supernatural being that guides souls to many different realms. They are commonly synonymous with the Grim Reaper, and is considered a similar being.

Jedah's abilities and his interests in souls and the ability to travel to other realms is similar to that of a Shinigami, and is the Darkstalkers series' and UDON Comics's interpretation of such mythical creatures of lore.

Appearances

Cross Edge Jedah Screen Shot

Cross Edge Jedah performing Finale Rosso.

Game Original plateform Release
SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters' Clash Neo Geo Pocket 1999
SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters 2 Neo Geo Pocket Color 2001
Capcom Fighting Jam Arcade 2004
SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters DS Nintendo DS 2006
Cross Edge Playstation 3 2008
Project × Zone Nintendo 3DS 2012
Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite Playstation 4, Xbox One, PC 2017

Game Placement
Pocket Fighter Jedah appears on Demitri's Moving Castle stage in his Midnight Bliss form.
Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 Jedah makes a cameo in Hsien-Ko's ending.

Trivia

  • During development, early sketches of Jedah called him Belial Jr. This was changed and Jedah was, in a sense, an enemy of Belial who adopted Morrigan.
  • During Demitri's "Midnight Bliss", Jedah is transformed into a woman with long blonde hair.
  • During Anakaris' "Pharaoh's Curse", Jedah transforms into a raven carrying a scythe.
  • If Sangue Passare is used on Jedah himself (via a mirror match), his belly expands outward and grows until his outie bellybutton shows through his coat before exploding.
  • Close inspection of Jedah's sprites reveal that his wings are not actually attached to his body, but instead hover behind. This is apparent especially when he is flying or hovering.
  • When electrocuted his sprites show that his skeleton takes the form of what looks like a jumble of letters, runes or strings.
  • Jedah's ability to make his eyes glow red is very similar to beings who are under the corruptive influence of Pandora.
  • Jedah's Japanese voice actor in the Darkstalkers series is Isshin Chiba, who also voices the Mishima Clan member Jin Kazama in Namco's Soul Calibur and Tekken franchise. Chiba had previously voiced Victor von Gerdenheim and Le Malta in the Vampire Hunter drama CDs, and Kyosuke Kagami from Rival Schools. Chiba is also known for being the voice of Dio Brando in Capcom's arcade fighter JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Heritage for the Future.
  • In the English version of Cross Edge, Jedah is voiced by Travis Willingham, who is also the current English voice actor of Guile in the Street Fighter series and UDON Comics. Willingham was later succeeded by David Kaye (who voiced Pyron in the anime continuity) for Jedah's appearance in Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite.
  • In spite of his collected demeanor and vast power coupled with age, Jedah appears to be fearful of the presence of Anita, the young orphan girl who travels with Donovan. This is most likely because Jedah believes that she's the prophesized savior and eventual queen of the human realm who is yet to awaken.
    • In his first game appearance of Vampire Savior: The Lord of Vampire, he went so far as to thank the Darkstalker hunter Donovan for bringing her to to him. Like Donovan himself, Jedah can possibly sense a hidden power buried deep within her; one posing a threat to his future plans for both the Makai and human realm.
    • Anita demonstrates her own power in Dee's appearance and ending, where it is implied she killed Dee due to his power becoming a threat in his canon ending, which has destabilized since Night Warriors.
  • Jedah's outfit is based off of a Japanese highschool uniform (gakuran), likely to emphasize that his race's physiology and multiple resurrections have kept him looking far younger than he really is. When holding his iconic scythe, he draws inspiration from the western concepts of the grim reaper.
  • All of Jedah's attacks are named in Italian. In Marvel Vs. Capcom: Infinite, he speaks of some terminologies in Italian.
  • Jedah's Japanese skill set is notable in the sense that instead of dots as space separators, double hypens are used, to give the move names more archaic flair. Curiously, this double hypen has been mistakenly used in the English translation of his move names. This has since been corrected in his subsequent appearances.
  • Unlike most characters, Jedah's special confrontation in Darkstalkers 3 is against himself. The only other instance he appears as a challenger is against Lilith, in an attempt to silence the young succubae's curiosity.
  • Jedah's boss battle is against Demitri Maximoff in Darkstalkers 3. During Demitri's dialogue, he mentions how ugly the fetus is, and that he will become the ruler of darkness, showing no concern for other souls, let alone their 'relief'.
  • The "Fetus Of God" is also featured in the Namco X series (a world where Namco × Capcom, Project × Zone and Street Fighter × Tekken is implied to take place).
  • Jedah's appearance is influenced by Akira Fudo's supernatural form from Go Nagai's Devilman.
  • In the Marvel vs. Capcom universe and comic book story known as ''Marvel vs.Capcom: Infinite Horizons(Earth-30847), Jedah appears to know about the vigilante Spider-Man and his friendship with Daredevil and also about their arch-foe the Kingpin and the cosmic villain Thanos, and his alliance with Death, it should be noted however, that Marvel/Disney is U.S. media, as opposed to Capcom being involved with Asian media.
  • In Darkstalkers Chronicle: The Chaos Tower, Jedah's stage is renamed as "Creator's Fetus" instead of "Fetus of God." His skill names have also undergone similar renaming as a form of censorship for western releases, to remove potentially blaspheme elements and explicit references to biblical demons and devils. Not surprisingly, these were not applied to the original Japanese and some Asian releases.
  • The blood in Jedah's gore-related animations is toned down to flash light purple in some versions of Darkstalkers 3, while other games turn it solid purple.
    • Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite also replaces his self-decapitation move into an upward-forward version of his scythe slash, while "Sangue=Passare" is simply removed entirely.

Sprite

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Darkstalkers
  • Same sprite was used in Capcom Fighting Evolution

SVC CCF card Jedah Dohma SVC CCF2 Jedah Dohma SVC CCF DS Jedah Dohma
Card Fighters' Clash
Card Fighters 2
Card Fighters DS

Official artwork

Jedah Darkstalkers 3 Jedah Opening Sketch Capcom Fighting Evolution Jedah Cross Edge Jedah Jedah MvCI
The full image gallery for Jedah Dohma may be viewed here.

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


External links

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Capcom, (2008). Darkstalkers Graphic File. Udon Entertainment Corp, pg. 110. ISBN 1897-37604-9
  2. Capcom, (2008). Darkstalkers Graphic File. Udon Entertainment Corp, pg. 112. ISBN 1897-37604-9
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