Damnd (ダムド Damudo), also known as "Thrasher" is a character in the Final Fight series, and the first boss the player faces in the original Final Fight.
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Appearance[]
Damnd is a large Afro-Caribbean man with white dreadlocks, each ending in a number of blue beads. He wears a waistcoat, blue sunglasses, turned-down boots and various jewelry. He is always seen with a large grin on his face.
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Final Fight[]
Damnd was a top lieutenant in Belger's Mad Gear Gang, and was in control of the gang's information network, including having intel from the local police and the FBI.[1] When Mayor Haggar refused to accept kickbacks and let the gang do as it pleased like the last mayor did before him, Damnd had kidnapped the current mayor's daughter Jessica and phoned him, telling him to turn on the TV. When Haggar did so, he saw that Damnd was on air, laughing maniacally as he broadcasted images of the kidnapped Jessica and telling Haggar to be reasonable. Haggar refused their ultimatum and he went with Cody and Guy to the slums of Metro City to rescue her. Soon Cody found Damnd with Jessica in the Slum Area. Damnd retreated while his cronies held Cody and Guy at bay, and though Cody soon caught up to him, Damnd had by then successfully passed Jessica on to accomplices, and she was nowhere to be found. Despite initially getting the jump on Cody, the street fighter beat him senseless to get information on Jessica's whereabouts.
Street Fighter 6[]
Damnd appears in World Tour mode as a recurring antagonist and ally of circumstance. His faction of the Mad Gear gang are in conflict with Bosch regarding the unknown contents of a bag. Damnd uses his leverage over the Avatar and later kidnaps Li-Fen to force them to performing minor tasks. Circumstances later forces he and the Avatar to work together to infiltrate a tournament in Old Nayshall.
Damnd seems to hold begrudging, but genuine respect for the Avatar, considering them his ideal subordinate for restoring the Mad Gear gang to its former glory. He will do anything to get them to join his side, willingly or not.
Other appearances[]
Mighty Final Fight[]
Damnd is the first boss. He asks some questions to the player's character before the fight, and loses a bit of health depending of the answers.
Final Fight Revenge[]
Damnd appeared as a playable character in Final Fight Revenge.
Cameo appearances[]
Damnd can be seen in the background of the Metro City stage in Street Fighter Alpha 2.
Damnd appears alongside Sodom in Chun-Li's ending from SNK vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos.
Damnd appears as a card in the SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters games.
Damnd is a boss in Capcom Quiz: Hatena? no Daibouken.
Damnd makes an appearance in the Mad Gear Hideout stage from Street Fighter × Tekken and Ultra Street Fighter IV, where he is seen punching the taiko drum with his fists alongside Axl. Once Haggar appears, he is seen knocked out on the floor. In the PlayStation Vita version Damnd and Axl are tied up by Haggar.
A statue of Damnd can be seen in the background of the New Metro City stage from Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite.
Damnd makes a cameo in Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition in the background of the Ring of Justice stage, as well as in part of Lucia's character story.
Damnd makes cameos in Street Fighter 6 in the backgrounds of The Macho Ring and Metro City Downtown stages.
Animation[]
Damnd appears in the Street Fighter cartoon episode Final Fight, where he assists Rolento to kidnap Jessica. He later attacks a train, where a disguised Ryu and Ken defeat him to join the Mad Gear gang.
Comics[]
In Super Street Fighter #1, Damnd, J, and Mic eat in the Chinese restaurant owned by Yun and Yang. Damnd refuses to pay the bill, saying that asking him to pay is an offense and menacingly ordering another free meal to calm him down, resulting in him being beaten by the twins.
Trivia[]
- Damnd was renamed Thrasher in the western console ports of the original Final Fight arcade game due to the censorship of his original name.
- In a Korean video game magazine, Damnd kidnapping Jessica was parodied in a picture where Damnd kidnaps the singer Jessica of the group Girl's Generation, to which Belger angrily yells, "You idiot! That's the wrong Jessica!".[citation needed]
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