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Asura's Wrath vs. Marvel Comics! The classic Marvel vs. Capcom rivalry is about to get a godly upgrade, as two rage-filled men, abandoned and betrayed by the divine who rule the heavens, are getting ready to clash! Who will come out victorious, however? The god.. or the god slayer?
Prelude[]
Wiz: Asura. Capcom's cybernetic god and the most wrathful man alive!
Boomstick: And Gorr. Marvel's number one god butcher and wielder of All-Black the Necrosword!
Wiz: Gods are seen as divine beings. The ones who are benevolent in nature and guide us to better futures, both in the mortal and heavenly realms. But, whether it be one of their own kin or the mortal people below them, what happens when the gods leave others to rot away in pain and misery?
Boomstick: Short Answer? Welp, the gods are dead! He's Wiz and I'm Boomstick!
Wiz: And it's our job to analyze their weapons, armor and skill to find out who would win.. a DEATH BATTLE!
Asura will make DEATH BATTLE feel his wrath![]
Wiz: Welcome to Gaea! An alternative version of Earth, thousands of years into our past. Here, magic runs the world, the divine rule the land, and the planet itself is.. Err, kind of suffering from a monster infestation right now.
Boomstick: Yeah, let's just say if you're living on Gaea, you ain't gonna be finding many normal wildlife walking around. All you're gonna get is these black and red bastards called "The Ghoma"! And for the record, these things survive by feasting on souls of human beings.. Is it any wonder why humanity is going under a crisis here?
Wiz: Well, fear not! For the Eight Guardian Generals that rule this land with an iron fist (and not in a good way) are here to save this world from the Ghoma! One of them, soon became something so much more. The Deity of Wrath himself: Asura.
Boomstick: Now, Asura's always had some anger issues, but he was honestly a pretty nice guy! He had a wife, a daughter, nobody really hated him. Life seems good right? Well, yeah, it didn't stick. Deus, the guy who leads the Seven Deities, decided the only way to get rid of Ghoma for good, was to pretty much commit mass genocide and use their souls as food, in order to power up some massive, Gurren Lagann looking thing to kill them all. Oh yeah, and this machine? It looks literally just like him. Man, what a narcissist..
Wiz: Well, to be fair, Deus IS the god of Pride. In fact, all of the Eight Generals represent a different type of emotion. Asura's brother-in-law Yasha, for example, represents Melancholy. Think of them sort of like a one man, less versatile version of the different Lantern Corps. And one that also has a leader that straight up murdered the Emperor of Gaia in order to become ruler. Yeah..
Boomstick: Oh, and you think that was bad? Right after that, Deus murdered Asura's wife too! And then he kidnapped his daughter because he needed to use her power to enact his plan. Man, this guy might be the biggest douchebag Capcom's ever made! Not to worry though. Even though he got sent to Naraka, Gaia's equivalent of Hell, Asura eventually woke up. And with the help of the itsy bitsy spider (more on this guy later), literally crawled out of Hell to enact some revenge! Just one problem though: It was thousands of years later by the time that he did, and Gaia itself was pretty much destroyed. Whoops.
Wiz: But don't think this stopped Asura in his tracks! Not long after this, he went after the rest of the Seven Deities, and dispatched them like they were NOTHING. The first of which was Wyzen, who grew to size even larger than Gaia itself, and yet gathered enough strength to hold up his finger and repeatedly punch it so hard he EXPLODED. Again, this was the first guy he killed.
Boomstick: And after that, he was off to murder his own, former mentor! August didn't seem to mind all that much though. He's like a Saiyan from Dragon Ball; dude was just happy to get a good fight in. But, both he and Wyzen had one thing in common when it came down to taking on Asura: and that was the fact that he couldn't rely on just his base form alone. And so, like good ol' Son Goku would say: he had to go FURTHER BEYOND!
Wiz: And indeed he did! Over the course of the story, Asura is able to tap into plenty of transformations, but only two of them he could ever use right from the start. First is his Vajra form, which he uses so commonly it wouldn't be too surprising if someone actually mistook it for his base form. Here, Asura coats his hands in golden metal, likely a way he tries to get some extra "oomph" into his punches. After that though, he can enter his Six Armed Vajra form, which is.. well, exactly what you think it is really.
Boomstick: But it doesn't stop there! Asura once saved a girl that had an uncanny resemblance to his daughter. Buuuut, once the only female member of the Seven Deities, Olga, straight up killed her with an ariel assault, Asura went NUTS! And with it, he gained a new form! This weird looking, golem thing he has now is rightfully called "Berserker Asura".... except, it's not really something you'd ever want to use in battle. I mean sure it's super strong, but it constantly gives Asura pain. Yasha even said that he was killing himself just by using it more than he killed anyone else! And once the fuel for this form runs out and he's running on fumes, it becomes the weaker but much more feral "Wrath Asura", which does the same thing, except.. well, even worse.
Wiz: But thankfully, through time and some much needed rest, Asura got a bit better. Together with the now reformed Yasha, the two of them went on to kill the rest of the Seven Deities and save Mithra. This included Deus, who was EASILY the most powerful of them all. But of course, it wasn't over yet. The Ghoma still roamed the Earth, and their creator was about to reawaken: Viltra. Thankfully though, with Mithra still having some of her power reserved, she was able to give him another powerup to use!
Boomstick: This time, Asura gains ONE HUNDRED ARMS, all of them merged into two giant ones! This one is called "Mantra Asura"!, and it was exactly what he needed to win the day, beat the life out of Viltra, destroy it's core, and live peacefully on Gaea with his family.... or at least, that's probably what you thought was the ending, if you didn't know that Capcom did the game dirty and made it's ending DLC content.
Wiz: Yep, things weren't done for quite yet. Remember how Boomstick mentioned the Golden Spider, and that there was a bit more to him that meets the eye? Welp, turns out said Golden Spider is this universe's equivalent of god! Enter Chakravartin, the one who spins Samsara. He took a rather big interest in Asura, yet despite apparently having huge plans for him, he soon went back on them once he realized that.. well, he wasn't much of a match for him in hindsight. Even with Asura pushing himself to his limit, so much so that he entered his Wrath form again, it just wasn't enough.
Boomstick: Alas, a sacrifice had to be made to save Gaea from what most definitely would've been it's demise. And by that, I actually mean two sacrifices. Yasha placed his own Mantra Rector inside of Asura, ensuring that his rage will be kept in check (mostly) and that, y'know, Asura's not gonna die while he punches the crap out of people. A decision that lead to a tear-jerking sacrifice and what actually might be the best bro fist in history.
Asura: You were always a brother. Never an enemy...
Boomstick: *Sniff* Beautiful!
Wiz: With a new leash of energy, Asura's final battle had begun. And in order to accomplish his mission of beating Chakravartin, he would enter his most powerful form yet! Appropriately titles "Asura The Destructor", this makes Asura grow to the size where he easily dwarfs Gaia, and rivals the size of stars. Said stars he blow up even with the simplest of Mantra blast, and punched Golden Chakravartin hard enough to the point its head shattered like glass!
