Igniz (イグニス) is the main antagonist and final boss of The King of Fighters 2001. He becomes the new leader of the NESTS cartel after he kills his own father and former leader Nests.
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Appearance[]
Igniz has long blonde hair, pale white skin, has red eyes, Igniz wears his pride uniform, the symbol of the purple Nests organization that matches his own shoes and robe, he wears luxurious purple white gloves complete with dark purple as hand accessories to match his uniform.
Personality[]
Igniz is very serious and was for years very faithful to NESTS. When he started gaining more and more power, he started to think himself as a god and found NESTS was too small for him. He becomes a megalomaniac with hopes to rule the entire planet. In keeping with his belief that he is a god, his manner of speech is very preachy. His intro speech, and many of the things he says at the end of the match are brief (but lengthy compared to everyone else's quotes) speeches. In keeping with this, when assaulting opponents with his devastating Brutal God Project attack, he declares that he is casting them down from heaven. And when defeated, he deems himself to have fallen to the level of a demon.
Abilities[]
Igniz is one of the most empowered human bosses in the KOF series. Half of his powers is due to his special suit, while the other half comes from his psychic and heavily-implied mystical abilities, of unexplained origin. With these powers working in unison, Igniz proves that he can be indeed, the strongest of all.
- Superhuman Strength and Resistance - Igniz is shown being very strong and sturdy this skill is supposed to come from his special suit. The strength of his special suit is proven to be stronger than a full-powered Daimon and Maxima combined, its tentacles able to knockdown huge and strong fighters like Daimon and Maxima in a single "tap". The robe is also strong enough to send those fighters flying several meters away in a single sweep, strong enough to ignore strong attacks and protect Igniz.
- Superhuman Speed - Igniz can punch, kick and use his tendrils with high inhuman speed
- Psychokinesis - Igniz has a vast array of psychic abilities.
- Telepathy - Igniz is telepathically linked to his special suit.
- Tentacle Attacks - Igniz can use the tentacles of his suit to attack the opponent by commanding them telepathically to do so.
- Sentience Inducement - Igniz can grant his special suit with sentience of their own.
- Reflect Projectiles - His suit can reflect projectiles or physical attacks.
- Force Fields - Igniz can create force fields, which act as shields or projectiles reflector.
- Flight - Igniz is capable of flight.
- Telepathy - Igniz is telepathically linked to his special suit.
- Ergokinesis - Igniz can channel energy, either naturally (his own) or artificially (through his armor). His energy appears to be whitish in colour but sometime it can change to purple or orange colour.
- Energy Projectile - Igniz can fire a projectile of white energy.
- Energy Pillar - Igniz can create several pillars of white energy.
- Energy Ball - Igniz can create a powerful ball of white energy.
- Energy Blast - Through his suit, he can fire a blast of white energy from each of its tentacles.
- Cosmokinesis - Igniz has some control over cosmic energy, he can gather energy from the universe as a source of his power. Igniz's all abilities are mostly powered by cosmic energy. Such as his strength, speed, stamina and energy projection.
- Energy Absorption - Igniz especial suit can absorb the energy of the universe, it is seen many times throughout games but his most notable is when he draws energy from the Milky Way and creates a massive ball of energy or a crystal ball which can destroy his opponent.
- Divine Power - Igniz's powers could also be taken as divine, heavenly-like.
- Divine Empowerment - Igniz can use his divine powers to empower himself or his special suit.
- Divine Energy Manipulation - Igniz manipulates holy energy, using it either through himself or his special suit. It takes the form of white energy.
- Magic - Igniz can use mystical abilities seen in a few games. But there are theories that he uses this ability in their particular universe invoking the crystal ball that holds the opponent, a mystical symbol can be seen on the ground when Igniz uses this ability.
Fighting style[]
Like many SNK bosses, Igniz is extremely powerful and difficult to defeat. Igniz relies on his powers and on his special suit. His suit is linked mentally to his mind and it contains two tentacles hidden in his wrists and four tentacles that end in pointed edges.
Against Sora's Team[]
Igniz is resurrected but he collaborates with Artorius, Abbey, Hedalf, Junko, Malty, Tsumugi, and other villains, He is a strong rival of Laphicet, Sorey, Velvet, and other all heroes from Sora's team, He is give finance to Army of the Wave for conquest world to control innocent until kill innocent including He is the strongest archenemy rival of all Heroes from Naofumi, Kawasumi, Ren, Shinoa squad, Tokisaka, Otosaka, Anos, Kohinata, Lelouch, Naegi, Hajime, Rokuro, Kisaragi, Shuichi, Ainz, Amano, Class 3-E, Pine, Natsuki, Jun Kazama, Jin Kazama, and Korosensei including Oscar because when he met his half sister that sister completely changed and made Oscar fight Igniz and Abbey himself with Eleanor's help and other, he's like Innominat from his adult version that make Velvet jerk to him, His fortress is made and solid again as before but thanks to the help of Xehanort, Artorius, Hedalf, and other villains, he has replaced Zero because he has chosen to team up with his enemy who chose as Xehanort's enemy as well as his enemy as a traitor to the organization, Even He is Yuma Isogai personal archenemy because Isogai memorizes his movements, especially Igniz is a person hated by Isogai, Class 3-E, and other heroes because Isogai feels that Igniz is a selfish person similar to Yanagisawa, making Nagisa, and his classmates surprised by Isogai's words so that Nagisa, and his classmates understand Isogai then Nagisa, and his classmate feeling that Isogai say right about Igniz especially Class 3-E hate to him especially He became Itsuki Kawasumi's personal mortal enemy because Itsuki felt Mald, and his allies who betrayed him joined Igniz especially Itsuki felt that Igniz as his leader murderer so Naofumi, Ren, and Motoyasu surprise about Itsuki investigation to Igniz then Itsuki feeling that Igniz collaborated with Malty, Mald, and his party that betrayed him but Itsuki lucky as leader that Itsuki was still able to survive thanks to Eua's strength, and the Hero to always saved Itsuki's life especially that Itsuki had died due to a truck accident in his life who suffered like Satoko, and other Heroes so that Igniz was angry with Itsuki who had absolute immortality, pain tolerance, and immunity to viruses like Ren as a spy from Eua, and other heroes especially Itsuki will make him pay because he was the killer of his leader and his lover Igniz was responsible for the death of the previous Nests leader so Itsuki made Igniz, and his girlfriend Igniz fall into the depths of Hell.