List of Darkstalkers Characters - Introduced in Darkstalkers - Lord Raptor

Lord Raptor

• Country of origin: Australia
• Type: Zombie
• Birth year: 1889
• Height: 180 cm
• Weight: 39 kg

Lord Raptor (Zabel Zarock (ザベル・ザロック, Zaberu Zarokku?) is a charismatic young rock star, an expert guitarist and known as the "God of Metal". He was unknown before the release of his first album, "Oral Dead". Though not a success initially, enough interest was cultivated until his second album was released. It sold 200,000 copies in a month, and reached one million in three months, becoming the next sensation in the metal scene. He instantly becomes famous throughout Australia. Raptor kills himself, and over a hundred fans, in what would be his final live performance. A few days after Raptor's death, a strange leather-covered book is found in his house. The book is called "A Chapter of Tolagido" and written in what seems to be ancient Hebrew. The book explained the existence of another world called "Makai". The words in the book resemble the lyrics to his hit songs and, in a topic titled "A curse to give sacrifices to the king of Makai", the lyrics to Raptor's song "Sacrifice" were found. This song was the last one played during the concert where Raptor and his audience died. With further research it is discovered that the preparation for the curse took a long time. Since the first album had been released Raptor had already started to brainwash his potential victims; his apparent aim was to start the curse with his music and obtain sacrifices. Because of his notoriety as a power-hungry criminal he is noticed by the Emperor Ozomu, who baptizes Raptor's soul in darkness; thus resurrecting him as a zombie. Ozomu then uses Raptor's bloodlust to his advantage, enlisting him into his service with the promise of more power. Although Raptor agrees, his true plans are to kill Ozomu himself and rule as Emperor. Ozomu knows this and sends a small one eyed frog-like creature named Le Malta to survey Raptor, though he also doubles as Raptor's ally. When the Emperor and his castle disappear, Raptor is puzzled as, when he arrives at the location where Ozomu's castle used to stand, he finds the entrance to the Majigen. This time he intends to kill the creator of the Majigen and take his place.

Lord Raptor is a non-playable enemy character in Namco × Capcom. It is shown that he has an unrequited crush on Hsien-Ko, as he does in the Darkstalkers series, due to their status as zombies. Lord Raptor also teams up with Namco's Klonoa villains Joker & Janga in, assisting them in spreading a disease called "Sleeping Sickness". He also appears in Project X Zone as a Rivial unit. He made a cameo appearance in Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes in the Battle Stage, where he performs a rock concert on a stage at his pub, and also appears in Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds in the ending for Dormammu.

His voice in the games is provided by Yūji Ueda, who also voices Jon and Rikuo. In the Japanese version of the anime he is voiced by Koichi Yamadera and in the American cartoon series, and the English dub of the anime, he is voiced by Scott McNeil, making Raptor the only character to have the same voice actor in both the American cartoon and the anime.