Morrigan Aensland
| Morrigan Aensland | |
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| Darkstalkers character | |
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Morrigan in Darkstalkers Resurrection (2013)
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| First game | Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors (1994) |
| Created by | Alex Jimenez Akira Yasuda (Akiman) |
| Designed by | CRMK (Darkstalkers, Darkstalkers 3, Marvel vs. Capcom, Marvel vs. Capcom 2) Ikeno (Night Warriors) Shinkiro (Capcom vs. SNK) Kinu Nishimura (Capcom vs. SNK 2) Shukō Murase (anime) |
| Voiced by (English) |
Saffron Henderson (cartoon) Kathleen Barr (anime) Siobhan Flynn (Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Ultimate MvC3) Erin Fitzgerald (Cross Edge) |
| Voiced by (Japanese) |
Yayoi Jinguji (most games) Rie Tanaka (Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Ultimate MvC3, Project X Zone, Onimusha Soul, Project X Zone 2) Rei Sakuma (anime, drama CD, Gunbird 2) Kikuko Inoue and Yumi Tōma (drama CDs) |
| Fictional profile | |
| Birthplace |
 Scotland
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| Weapon | Transmorphic wings |
| Occupation | Princess of the Aensland House Queen of Makai (later games) |
Morrigan Aensland(Japanese: モリガン・アーンスランド Hepburn: Morigan Ānsurando?) is a fictional character in Capcom's Darkstalkers series. Making her first appearance in Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors in 1994, she has since appeared in every game in the series and in various related media and merchandise, as well as in multiple video games outside the Darkstalkers line, including in most entries in both Marvel vs. Capcom and SNK vs. Capcom. In the series, she is a succubus and a powerful princess (later queen) of the demon realm Makai, who is very vain and lives for little more than the excitement of battle, but slowly takes up more of her royal responsibilities seriously despite her obsessive fascination with the human world. She has a sister-like split part named Lilith and a rival in Demitri Maximoff, and her moveset is reminiscent of Ryu and Ken from Street Fighter. She is central to the extended Darkstalkers franchise and is widely perceived as one of the most iconic Capcom characters as well as one of the most popular female characters in video gaming.
In the Darkstalkers series, Morrigan is a succubus and the adopted daughter of the demon king Belial of the Aensland House, one of the three major houses of Makai (魔界, lit. "Demon World"), who prophesied her birth in Scotland in the year 1678. Belial also foresaw the dangers of the incredible power residing in Morrigan. If she could not properly control her power, it would consume her body and the world would also suffer catastrophic damage. To counter this event from unfolding, Belial sealed parts of it away, one third in himself to be returned upon his death, and one third in a pocket dimension, which eventually became a being of its own: a child succubus named Lilith. When the time was right, Belial would return these energies to Morrigan. Without knowing this, Morrigan grew up, tended after by two lesser demons named Lucien and Mudo. She found her life as a sheltered princess in the Aensland castle dull, so she would frequently visit the human world to look for entertainment, tempting humans regardless of their sex and fighting for her own pleasure. She is capable of crossing into the human dimension without the use of the gates but simply relying on her own translocation ability.
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