Travis, initially upset at Sylvia for "setting him up", only decides to keep climbing the ranks after Sylvia teases him with the possibility of sex if he can make it to the top. Travis then climbs through the ranks, and is about to battle the 1 ranked assassin Dark Star when all of a sudden, a woman kills him in cold blood.
Travis recognizes the woman as Jeane, his childhood love interest, and is shocked when she reveals that she is his parents' murderer. She explains in a humorously sped-up monologue that Travis is her half brother and that Touchdown's father was originally married to her mother, who killed herself after Travis' father ran off with his mother.
His father later took Jeane in as his slave, which later led to her murdering Travis' parents right in front of him. After a long and grueling fight, she seemingly punches Travis in the heart, but Shinobu Jacobs the 8th ranked assassin who Travis spared due to her young age saves him by slicing off Jeane's arm. Jeane initially begs for mercy, but later accepts her fate as Travis bids her one final farewell. After the match, Travis later meets up with his twin brother Henry Cooldown, who was separated from Travis and raised in Ireland.
They fight soon after, where it is revealed that Henry is actually Sylvia's husband. And his brother had also been married to his object of desire, Sylvia, for ten years. This edit will also create new pages on Giant Bomb for:. Until you earn points all your submissions need to be vetted by other Giant Bomb users.
This process takes no more than a few hours and we'll send you an email once approved. Complex Family At the end of No More Heroes, it is revealed that Travis is not an only child- apparently fellow assassins Jeane and Henry are his half sister and twin brother respectively. Travis bought his first Beam Katana from "an online auction site.
Suda 51 was not happy with the animation of the wrestling techniques, so he tried the actual moves on the animators. Touchdown's beam sword was based on the "Schwartz" light sabers from the Mel Brooks film, Spaceballs. He is capable of being touched by people's emotional and personal experiences, seeing that he didn't seem entirely settled after killing Dr. Peace , whose daughter was estranged from him, and with Margaret Moonlight , where he fulfilled her dying wish by remembering her song.
Travis also has a certain amount of honor and respect for people he believes to be "true warriors" as he tries to spare the assassin Ryuji in Desperate Struggle , and soon shows a great deal of his humanity after the death of Alice Twilight , weary of the arranged manslaughter he accidentally promoted and by the various corporations that took advantage of it. Touchdown is very driven to prove himself, is shown to be highly intelligent and a quick learner, and can be surprisingly witty and even poetic.
Travis takes his friendships very seriously as well, as evidenced by his quest to avenge the murder of Bishop Shidux , after which he seems to learn something about the repercussions that death has on others aside from the one being killed. Travis only ever removes his aviator glasses on-screen once, when he has sex with Sylvia Christel.
Travis has also shown to have an appreciation for candy and likely has a very strong sweet tooth. This is best shown in No More Heroes , where whenever he's about to finish an enemy he usually shouts out the name of various different desserts i.
This is also likely a reference to the characters from his favorite anime, Pure White Lover Bizarre Jelly. Travis Uses a Beam Katana. Not to be confused with a lightsaber, Travis won his first Beam Katana from an online auction. Travis gained formal training on how to wield katanas from his master Thunder Ryu and can be seen switching between high and low stances during combat. After being used too much his Beam Katana's batteries will need recharging.
His signature technique is known as the Dark Step, He slows down time and slides behind his opponent after blocking or narrowly avoiding an attack.
The Dark Step gives Travis freedom to punish his opponents. The controller of the Death Drive MK-2, a magical videogame console able to absorb people into its code Originally created as a military super soldier program. Within the Death Drive it allows Travis to make use of numerous special abilities including telekinesis, invisibility, healing, creating decoys, and a collection of other practical techniques and powerful attacks. Travis is a master at Pro Wrestling and Lucha Libre able to daze his opponents with powerful strikes and follow up with a number of throws to finish off his opponents.
In the second game Travis can hit so hard he reduces the health of his opponents and many of his throws apply enough Force to produce shockwaves that push other enemies back. He also has excellent accuracy when making his Beam Katana land on opponents after a throw. He received formal training from Thunder Ryu as well as a Mysterious master who leaves him notes before ranking fights in No More Heroes 1.
Travis Touchdown's past is somewhat explored in the first game , where it is at times deliberately and humorously muddled and filled with stereotypes. His parents were killed when he was young, apparently by his love and in actuality, the daughter of Touchdown's father and another woman , Jeane , who had a traumatic and complex past, leaving Touchdown on his own.
He had an older twin brother, Henry , he never knew, who apparently grew up in Ireland. Travis has apparently had interest in being a pro wrestler at one point, and practiced the use of the sword via a mixture of his trainer Thunder Ryu 's teachings, correspondence courses and videotapes. One night after winning a beam katana in an online auction, Touchdown meets Sylvia Christel in the local Death Match bar, where Christel ushers him into joining the United Assassins Association , so long as he can qualify by killing the eleventh ranked assassin, Helter-Skelter.
Having run out of money to buy video games, he accepts the job and easily snags UAA rank eleven. Nonplussed that he has now made himself a target for aspiring assassins, Touchdown only agrees to set out and secure himself as number one in the UAA when Christel teases him with the possibility of sex, so long as he can reach the top.
After defeating the nine assassins above him, killing all of them except for one , the final assassin, Dark Star , claims to be his father in a manner reminiscent of Darth Vader from Star Wars. However, he is subsequently killed by Travis' half-sister, Jeane , who details how she had previously murdered his parents because of his father's sexual abuse. Travis and Jeane engage in a climatic battle, with Jeane's mixed martial arts skills proving very formidable.
Travis is nearly killed by Jeane when she lands a punch through his chest, but is saved by Shinobu , whom he had spared. After Travis and Jeane share some final words with one another, Travis kills her, and becomes the highest ranked assassin of the UAA. After the fight with Jeane, while in the bathroom, Ermen Palmer attempts to kill him while defenseless, presumably to take his rank as an assassin; in the game's "real" ending, Henry slices Ermen in half before he could harm Travis and challenges him to a fight outside the motel.
The game ends as they dramatically jump towards each other, presumably to finish each other off. However, it is revealed that both Henry and Travis seem to be dissatisfied with the fight since Sylvia had interrupted it before one could kill the other. Three years pass and despite Travis having withdrawn from the ranks of the UAA, Santa Destroy continues recognizing him as a hero, thanks to whom the city "has never been safer," even erecting a statue in his honor.
It is during this time that Touchdown and his friends become targeted by members of the Mafia. An enraged Travis fixates himself on reassuming first rank in the UAA to both avenge his friend and claim Christel once and for all. After making his way through the ranked fights and killing the hitmen responsible for murdering Bishop, Touchdown slays Jasper Batt Jr. The two rekindle their relationship, becoming lovers and the pair return to Santa Destroy, and later marrying at some point, where they had two children: Hunter and Jeane.
In Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes , taking place seven years after the events of the second game, Travis - now 37 years old - has isolated himself and lives in a camper in a forest in Texas, where he spends his time playing video games. Travis is attacked by Badman , an assassin who seeks retribution for the death of his daughter Bad Girl , whom Travis killed in the first game.
The console reacts to Badman's Death Ball, and the two get transported into the video game that's contained in it. Juvenile, and completing the six Death Balls that contain the only games developed for the console will grant its player one wish. The two form a truce, opting to team up to locate every Death Ball, and defeat all of the games, in order to resurrect Bad Girl.
In the last seven years, Travis had married former UAA confidant Sylvia Christel , and had two children, though he abandoned his family for their safety, as assassins kept showing up to battle Travis.
Travis also receives information about Dr. Juvenile and her past through fax messages from her purported husband, learning that Juvenile is a war orphan with genius intellect and an affinity for video games, who was hired by the US government to develop advanced technology. She also implemented elements of her history and upbringing into the Death Drive's games, such as basing the murderous Doppelganger on her adoptive father. You need to login to do this. Get Known if you don't have an account.
Click to see him in No More Heroes 2. Click to see him in Travis Strikes Again. Accidental Adultery : Travis' secondary motive in becoming the number one-ranked assassin was to sleep with Sylvia but it turns out that Sylvia was not only married, but to his twin brother Henry.
In addition, their marriage was going ten years strong until Sylvia and Travis had the affair. Becoming a dad hasn't stopped him being a badass. Henry's awakening causes Travis to quickly put his pants and zipper up. Alliterative Name : It's an impossibly cool one too. Even Charlie MacDonald agrees. Animal Motifs : Tigers. Several of his shirts have tigers on them, and his Cool Bike is named after them.
The name is transliterated in Japanese as "Torabisu", and " tora " means tiger. Also, he can transform into a tiger for a short period of time in the second game. And his wrestling moves include the Tiger Suplex and Tiger Driver. Animorphism : Somehow he can shapeshift into a tiger in Desperate Struggle. Anti-Hero : Starts out bordering on Villain Protagonist , as an assassin with purely selfish goals. This changes a bit in the sequel, where thanks to deaths of the later assassins in Desperate Struggle , he swears to destroy the UAA because of how it destroyed the lives of his fellow assassins.
He falls under Classical Anti-Hero now. Travis Strikes Again shows that this development stuck.
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