Dead Fantasy
| Fanwork | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Dead Fantasy |
| Creator: | Monty Oum |
| Date(s): | 2007 October (first installment) 2008 March (second installment) 2009 July (third, fourth, and fifth installments) this series is ongoing |
| Medium: | Machinima |
| Fandom: | Final Fantasy, Dead or Alive, Kingdom Hearts, Ninja Gaiden |
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Dead Fantasy is a series of short Machinima (CGI-rendered) movies by Monty Oum. It features a cast of Final Fantasy characters, along with Kairi from Kingdom Hearts, fighting characters from Dead or Alive and Ninja Gaiden. Five installments have been released, and more are planned.
The awesomeness of this series has drawn in fans of both Final Fantasy and Dead or Alive, and has become extremely popular on the internet. The series has been featured at several gaming and anime conventions.
The cast is predominantly female, and it's not until the fourth installment that Cloud Strife arrives as the first male to join the fight on the side of Final Fantasy. This surprised many fans, who until then had assumed that the series would feature only female characters. In the fifth installment, Hayate and Ryu arrive as well on the side of Dead or Alive. The intervention by men is not always welcome by the women they're "helping," and at the end of Dead Fantasy V Hitomi slaps Hayate who intervened on her fight with Tifa.
The women are extremely battle-capable in this series. Kairi's fighting ability is rather more advanced than it was in canon, and has been compared to the ability of Kingdom Hearts' main protagonist Sora who himself has not appeared. When Hayate intervenes, Tifa takes on his entire ninja clan on her own in the bloodiest installment of the entire series, though she is severely outnumbered and eventually succumbs to injury and blood loss.
External Resources
- Monty Oum on Game Trailers has all of Oum's CG videos, including Dead Fantasy.
- Monty Oum's YouTube Account has Dead Fantasy videos and other related clips.
- Monty Oum’s DeviantART page features some posters and concept art for the series.
- Dead Fantasy article at the Final Fantasy wiki.
- Dead Fantasy article at the Dead or Alive wiki.