List of Slayers Characters - Villains - Copy Rezo

Copy Rezo

Copy Rezo (コピー・レゾ, Kopī Rezo?), sometimes referred to as "The Rezo Clone" is a copy of Rezo the Red Priest.

Copy Rezo was created by the original Rezo as a lab rat for experiments. The original Red Priest was seeking to cure his blindness, and used Copy Rezo to test his experiments on. However, while Copy Rezo's eyes opened, the original's did not (though neither knew this at the time, the reason behind Rezo's blindness was that the dark lord Shabranigdo was sealed within Rezo. Since this wasn't the case with Copy Rezo, his blindness was cured). Copy Rezo's greatest and only wish was to surpass his original. At first, he intended to achieve this goal by killing Rezo in a fair fight. However, when Rezo was killed by Lina Inverse, Gourry Gabriev, and Zelgadis Greywords, he decided that the only other way to surpass Rezo was either to kill the ones who defeated the original Rezo (namely Lina, Gourry and Zelgadis) or withstand the Giga Slave. He used Erisiel Vrumugun, the assistant of the late Red Priest, to lure the three of them to Sairaag with wanted posters. There, he attempted to defeat them by resurrecting and absorbing the power of the demon beast Zanaffar (which gave him an enormous amount of power). However, Lina, Gourry, and Zelgadis (along with Amelia Wil Tesla Seyruun and Sylphiel Nels Lahda) killed him using the Blessed Blade and Flagoon. Shortly before his death, the Rezo clone wondered how he had lost. The Slayers answered that his desire to kill the Slayers, surpass his original, and his inability to decide what he could do after that was the reason for his failure. Before dying, with a smile on his face, he asked the Slayers to bury him beneath Flagoon, where he could rest in peace, and even though he never surpassed the original red priest, he had won his enemies' respect.

In the novel series, things happened a little differently. The original Rezo became enraged when Copy Rezo's eyes opened but his own would not. Out of spite, he conducted a number of other experiments on Copy, one of which included fusing him with a mazoku (as opposed to Copy absorbing the power of Zanaffar, as it happened in the anime). This gave Copy Rezo both pride and a will of his own, causing his desire to get revenge on and surpass Rezo.

Voices: Takehito Koyasu (Japanese) and Peter Davis (English)