“ | Blood! Darkness! I shall drown the world in both! | „ |
~ Nightmare |
Nightmare is the main antagonist of the Soul Calibur fighting game series. He is the incarnation of the evil cursed sword well known as Soul Edge, he was originally considered the evil version of Siegfried Schtauffen when he picked up the sword and was completely overtaken by Soul Edge itself until being considered as the two new Nightmares known as Inferno (from Soul Calibur III - IV) and Graf Dumas in Soul Calibur V.
He was voiced by Nobuyuki Hiyama in Soulcalibur, Soulcalibur II and Soulcalibur VI, Fumihiko Tachiki in Soulcalibur III, Kosei Hirota in Soulcalibur Legends, Soulcalibur IV and Soulcalibur: Broken Destiny and Yasunori Masutani in Soulcalibur V in Japanese and by Ted D Agostino in Soulcalibur II, Patrick Ryan in Soulcalibur III, Michael McConnohie in Soulcalibur Legends, Soulcalibur IV and Soulcalibur: Broken Destiny, Charles Klausmeyer in Soulcalibur V and Kirk Thornton in Soulcalibur VI in English.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Close to Being Pure Evil?[]
- Once Nightmare emerged, he went on a warpath by ferociously murdering countless of innocent lives by reaping their souls. What's more; he hunted even more souls to gather enough to where he can restore Soul Edge to its former state.
- He planned to produce a third evil seed and use it to rid the world of pure darkness.
- As Graf Dumas, he manipulated Patroklos as well as ordered him to kill innocent people whom Patroklos himself thought he was being ordered to slay the malfested. As Dumas morphed into Nightmare however, he sarcastically revealed to Patroklos that the presumed malfested that he ordered him to kill were nothing more than "foolish humans" like him.
- In the alternative timeline, he brutally stabbed a defenseless feudal lord to death; including his fellow subordinates who tried to protect their lord from Nightmare.
- Overall, Nightmare is one of the most heinous villains in Soul Calibur and is taken completely seriously throughout the series.
What Prevents Him from Being Pure Evil?[]
- He is Made of Evil, meaning that he has moral agency issues as he is the literal embodiment of the corrupted sword, Soul Edge. He is a result when Siegfried Schtauffen picked up Soul Edge by thinking it would give him much greater power and that it would resurrect his father, Frederick, but instead completely warped his mind which caused him to turn into Nightmare. It is further shown that he is incapable of performing good acts and can only be evil when Soul Edge thirsts for more souls and because of this, he has no free will of his own whatsoever.
Trivia[]
- He is so far the only Soul Calibur character to be Near Pure Evil.
External Links[]
- Nightmare on the Villains Wiki
- Nightmare on the Soul Calibur Wiki
- Nightmare on the Black Knights Wiki