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• Asura is a race in the computer game Rappelz. Asuras, representing the Darkness, are enemies to the Deva race, representing the Light.
• In Grand Chase, Asura is the next job released after the Shisa. It is only common in Jin's case.
• In the action-adventure game Asura's Wrath, the titular character, who seeks vengeance on his daughter's kidnappers, is based on an Asura.
• Asura are a race of fiends based loosely on their real world lore counterparts in the tabletop game Pathfinder.
• A humanoid race introduced in the MMORPG add-on Guild Wars: Eye of the North and playable in Guild Wars 2.
• Asura is a powerful kishin in the hit manga and anime Soul Eater. He is considered the main antagonist.
• Asura is the main character in the Japanese arcade video game Samurai Shodown: Warrior's Rage. He also appears in Samurai Shodown! 2 and in Neo Geo Battle Colliseum. His story is somewhat similar to Asura's Wrath main character's story.
• The base name of an antagonistic alien race's home world of immoral machines with a desire to consume resources from Stargate: Atlantis. Asuras, the replicator home world in the Pegasus Galaxy, eventually destroyed via implosion (ironically using the very same technology that the machines used to hold themselves together).
• There is an Asura Heavy Armour set in the video game, Xenoblade Chronicles.
• The character Roronoa Zoro from One Piece, has a set of techniques named Asura that gives him the appearance of having 3 heads and 6 arms.
• In the online game Dungeon Fighter Online by Nexon, there is a character class called a Slayer the arm of a demon. Later on the game when the player chooses to advance their character, there is a subclass of the Slayer known as an Asura that trades his eyesight for magical power.