Belze

Belze

Gender	Male
Race	Demon
Faction	Four Devas
Height	{{{height}}}
Main Weapon	Himself
Status	Back in Hell
Location(s)	Stage 7-5
Voiced by	Daran Norris

Belze (ベルーゼ Berūze) (pronounced BELL-zay) is one of the main antagonists of God Hand, and the leader of the Four Devas.

Appearance

As a Human

Belze is a tall, sinister looking, pale skinned older man that has white hair that is neatly and combed back into an orderly style, bloodshot, piercing, eyes that are an icy blue, pointed ears and a crooked nose. Overall, his appearance can be described as being like a modernized vampire.

Belze wears a dark purple striped suit, described as cheap by Gene, with a long-sleeved white shirt with a blood red tie underneath said suit, he wears dark blue gloves that are nearly black that match his similarly colored shoes, and a white handkerchief in his right breast pocket.

As a Demon

Belze's demon form resembles a giant fly with white colored eyes and his face growing where the proboscis would be, it unusually has four legs instead of six, the front set being larger and covered in purple barbs, and the back set being smaller, it has a over-sized abdomen with 6 green growths on it, and it seems to be too heavy for it, as it drags it wherever it goes in battle, this part of the body falls off as it grows wings for it's 2nd phase.

Personality

Belze leads the table at the meetings of the Four Devas with a strict will, focusing constantly on subduing Gene and resurrecting Angra in order to subdue humanity, who he thinks very little of as he often refers to them as insects, which is ironic, giving the fly-like appearance of his demonic form, his distaste for humanity is in fact so strong that he even insults Azel, a human on the same side as he is. This antipathy towards humanity in general likely stems from the God Hand Warrior subduing Angra long ago, which he is still bitter about.

He also something of a temper, and gets easily annoyed at things, like when other people get onto the table that the meetings of the Four Devas are held around.

He is a schemer, and although he is willing to sacrifice them in order to see his goal's end, he is not uncaring for the other members of the group, showing remorse and anger for the deaths of Elvis and Shannon.

Story

Throughout most of the game, Belze is spearheading the campaign to resurrect Angra, and has gathered two powerful demons, Elvis and Shannon, as well as one of the Godhands, Azel, to help him achieve this. He is only seen at the meetings, and shows impatience with the other three's incompetence in capturing or killing Gene. After Elvis and Shannon have both died at Gene's hands, however, he decides that, despite Azel's leaving, he must take matters into his own hands, and it is him who kidnaps Olivia. When Gene meets him for the first and last time, he discusses with Gene that his death will be mere compensation for the hundreds of demons he has forced back to Hell, namely Elvis and Shannon. He then transforms into his monstrous demonic form and attacks.

Despite his best efforts, Gene defeats him, and as the losing fighter, tells Gene Olivia's whereabouts, setting him up to face Angra in the process, and returns to Hell.

Powers & Abilities

Belze is an anomaly among the three demon members of the Four Devas, as he is never seen fighting in his human form, unlike Elvis and Shannon, leaving his skills in hand to hand combat, if he has any, unknown.

Like every other demon, he can assume a human's appearance, but cannot access his full strength in human form.

He is remarkably intelligent, possibly even to the point of surpassing Shannon, and he devised a plan to steal away the Right God Hand so that nobody may stop his main plan of resurrecting Angra and taking over humanity.

In his Demon Form, Belze is capable of using his front most legs to deliver rapid jabbing attacks, as well as creating needle like projectiles from them. He is also capable of generating hot pink flames to enhance his attacks, or use them as projectiles, and he is also capable of spitting a foul, vision-obscuring mucus. He is also capable of growing wings in his demon form, which enhances his agility considerably, and makes him the sole member of the Four Devas capable of flight in this state.

Moves

Both Grounded & Flying

Abilities

• Venom (毒液 Dokueki): Belze's head splits open and he fires a green sludge that obscures the screen if it hits Gene. He can use this in both when he is flying & grounded.

Grounded

Abilities

• Back-Hop: Belze hops away from Gene, to establish distance between the two.

Basic Moves

• Ground-Stab: Belze stabs the ground with his left front leg.
• Swipe: Belze swipes at Gene with his right front leg.
• Infernal Chop: Belze engulfs his limbs in pink flames and then does a Mongolian Chop like attack.

Special Moves

• 3-Conescutive Hits (３連撃 San-Rengeki): Belze stabs the ground with his left front leg, then his right front leg, and then does his Infernal Chop attack.
• Rush (突進 Tosshin): Belze engulfs his front limbs in pink flames, then proceeds to rush forwards while slamming them into the ground.

Flying

Abilities

• Flip: Belze flips away while flying, this move functions the same as his back-hop.
• Ground: Belze stops flying and begins to walk along the ground, temporarily starting to fight like his 1st phase.

Basic Moves

• Belze Spark: Belze creates a small explosion with both of his front legs.

Special Moves

• Spiralling Airplane Dive (キリモミダイブ Kirimomidaibu): Belze grabs Gene and holds him as he flies high up into the air, he then crashes down while rapidly spinning, with Gene taking the brunt of the impact. Gene can escape this by rapidly wiggling the L-Stick to the sides, which causes him to punch Belze to the floor and then stomp on his head.
• Continuous Hitting (突き連打 Tsuki Renda): Belze leans upwards and proceeds to rapidly stab with his front limbs.
• Sword Launch (剣飛ばし Ken Tobashi): Belze leans upwards and rapidly fires spikes at Gene.
• Inferno Crusher: Belze spirals forwards while engulfed in a firey aura.
• Blackhearted Impact Bombing: Belze flips forwards and smashes a leg down, creating an explosion on impact.

Tips

• He is slower than Gene in his first form and only has a long ranged attack in his 2nd form, which also has the same mobility issues as the first form due to his overly-cautious way of approaching Gene. This slowness allows you to taunt him from a far distance to fill up your Tension Gauge easily and safely, and then unleashing the God Hand to deal high damage combos.
• His grab attack in his second form deals no initial damage and can be escaped for a counter attack.

Gallery

Official render

The First form of Belze's demon form...

...and the Second!

"Around and Around Gene's hand goes, when it stops nobody knows!"

Trivia

• Belze may in fact be the biblical demon Beelzebub, due to his demon form resembling a gigantic fly, a reference to Beelzebub's title of "Lord of The Flies", and his close association with Angra, who is named Satan in Japanese version.
  • Ironically his subordinate Elvis is more similar nature-wise to Beelzebub, despite his lack of a fly motif, as Elvis is a gluttonous individual who likes to eat, while the demon Beelzebub is associated with the sin of Gluttony, while Belze himself can be more connected with the sin of Pride, due to his overconfidence and racism towards humans.
• He has earned the nickname "Beelzebuzz" because of his demon form, which looks like a fly, an insect associated with Beelzebub.
• Unlike the other Four Devas, Belze's voice does not gain a filter in his demon form, and there are unused soundbytes of his voice clips with a demon filter, which could mean that at one point, Belze WAS going to be fought in his human form.
• He is the only member of the Four Devas who doesn't have moves from a common enemy, as Shannon has moves from Henchwomen, Elvis has moves from the Fatties, and Azel has moves from the Henchmen (namely the Double Snap Kick that all of them use).
• Belze is the only member of the Four Devas to never be fought in his human form, Azel does not count, due to being a human himself, and because of this, it is unknown if Belze has any experience in any form of martial arts or any experience with hand-to-hand-combat.
• His voice actor, Daran Norris is best known for roles such as Cosmo Cosma, Mr. Turner, and Jorgen Von Strangle in the Nickoldeon cartoon Fairly Oddparents, as well as J. Jonah Jameson in the Spectacular Spiderman and Knock Out in Transformers Prime. He has also other, more minor roles like X-49 from Samurai Jack.
• He is the only member of the Devas to be fought only once in the game's storyline.
• He is also the only member of the Four Devas to have a demon form based off of a real-world animal.
• His battle theme is Fly Flap.