Demitri

Demitri Maximoff (デミトリ・マキシモフ Demitori makishimofu) is one of the main protagonists of the series, debuting in Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors akin to most of the franchise's characters.

Demitri has been voiced in almost all his notable video game appearances by Nobuyuki Hiyama. In the English releases of Namco's Cross Edge, he is voiced by Richard Epcar. In the Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge OVA, Demitri was voiced by Akio Otsuka while in the English version he was voiced by Paul Dobson who also voiced Demitri's servant.

Demitri has been featured as a playable character in several crossover games such as Namco × Capcom, Project × Zone and its sequel, SNK vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos, and Capcom's very own Capcom Fighting Evolution.

Demitri Maximoff is a vampire and one of the main characters of the Darkstalkers series of fighting games.

Powers and abilities 

Demitri is capable of flight and is physically very strong. He is gifted with pyrokinesis, capable of launching large blasts of flame and flaming bats (both different versions of his Chaos Flare) from his hands. His cape is amorphic, capable of forming demon wings or a pointed tip with his Demon Cradle and Bat Spin attacks respectively. He can slash and pierce enemies with this. While the aura surrounding his body is mainly for protecting him from the sun, he can also utilize it to enhance his Demon Cradle and Bat Spin, covering them in energy and increasing their power. For brief periods, he can revert to his true form which is a large winged and fanged demon. He also has the unique ability to temporarily change the gender of male opponents. He will then revert to his true form and suck out a large portion of blood from whoever he has transformed.

As seen in his intro animation, he can transform into a bat like traditional vampires. Another common vampire motif he has is that he is able to convert whichever human he bites to be his servant but it isn't known if this ability works on darkstalkers. He was even able to consume the mighty Pyron's energy after besting him in combat.

Midnight Bliss

In Vampire Savior, along with the Darkstalker series, Demitri uses an attack known as Midnight Bliss, where he transforms a character into another, more arousing form — if the victim is male, he turns them into a female version of themselves —, then drains their blood/life-force, which causes them to shrivel up into a skeletal husk, before being burned and returned to normal. This move is also used in SNK vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos and Capcom Fighting Evolution. Certain female characters, like Morrigan and Lilith, actually receive comedic forms. Demitri also has the Midnight Bliss as a skill in Namco x Capcom that can be used on the map screen; however, it merely drains a single enemy's health and does not transform it.