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'''Doom Slayer''' ({{ja|ドゥームスレイヤー|Dūmusureiyā}}, ''Doom Slayer''), also referred to as the '''Doom Marine''', '''Doomguy''' ({{ja|ドゥームガイ|Dūmugai}}, ''Doomguy'') or just '''Slayer''' ({{ja|スレイヤー|Sureiyā}}, ''Slayer''), is a character from the {{uvm3|Doom}} video game franchise of first-person shooters created by id Software, now owned by Zenimax Media as of 2009, and [[Microsoft]] by extension as of 2021.

==Origin==

In ''Doom''{{'}}s manual, the character is described as a marine from a futuristic earth. After attacking and critically wounding a commanding officer who ordered his troops to fire on civilians, the marine was transferred to the planet Mars to perform menial guard duty for the Union Aerospace Corporation (UAC) – a megacorporation which uses Mars and its moons, Phobos and Deimos, as sites to perform military-sanctioned testing for interdimensional travel. These tests went lethally awry when the experimental moon gateways opened up from the inside to reveal portals to Hell, from which a glut of demons emerged, mutated the UAC personnel into zombies, and conquered the moons.

In the aftermath of the invasion, the Khan Maykr establishes parley with Hell and secretly shares her people's advanced technology with the demons, refining the demonic torment of damned souls to achieve an extremely powerful soul-based energy source known as Argent energy. Argent would go on to become the main power source for Hell, the Maykrs, and the Night Sentinels, the latter of whom are kept unaware of its origins; when a battalion of Night Sentinels discover the Argent factories in a mission to hell, they abandon their faith to the Maykrs in disgust, creating a schism that leads to civil war among the Sentinels. The demons take advantage of the situation, persuading a powerful warlord among the Sentinels to lead them to the secret dwelling place of the Wraith-gods who granted the Sentinels their life and magic. The demons slay the Wraiths and use their souls to forge a vast reserve of Argent known as The Well, with whose power they crush the remaining Sentinels and entomb the Doom Slayer inside a demonic sarcophagus.

In ''Doom Eternal'', the Doom Slayer returns to earth to find it has fallen to a full-scale demonic attack orchestrated by the Khan Maykr and the Hell-corrupted Sentinel Priests, who sought to renew their supply of Argent by harvesting human souls directly. After the Slayer kills the Priests, the Khan Maykr attempts to resurrect the Icon of Sin, its soul now controlled and strengthened by Maykr machinery, in a last-ditch effort to ensure earth's consumption. To stop this ritual, the Doom Slayer returns to Hell and ascends a soul-harvesting facility in the city of Nekravol, in which resides a gateway to the Maykr realm of Urdak. The Slayer invades Urdak and interrupts the binding of the Icon of Sin to Maykr technology, but is unable to stop its resurrection, leaving it alive and uncontrolled on earth. The Slayer kills the Khan Maykr in mortal combat before returning to earth, destroying the Icon of Sin, and saving his homeworld once more, leaving the liberated planet behind to continue his everlasting war against the demons.

==In ''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]''==

===As a costume===

[[File:MiiCostumeDoomSlayerSSBU.jpg|thumb|left|A {{SSBU|Mii Gunner}} in the Doom Slayer costume in ''Ultimate''.]]

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==Trivia==

*As with other [[Mii]] Costumes based on characters from primarily M-rated franchises, the logo for ''Doom'', the series the Slayer hails from, is absent in the American version of his [[Mii Costume]] reveal trailer, being replaced with a wordmark featuring the character's name, despite the wordmark featuring the franchise's name. However, like [[Dante]] and [[Dragonborn]], this change was also present in the UK presentation.

==External links==

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