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Black Orchid (written as "B. Orchid" or just "Orchid" in the games) is a player character in the ''Killer Instinct'' fighting game series created by Rare. Introduced as the only female character in the original ''Killer Instinct'' in 1994, Orchid has appeared in every entry in the series to date. A mysterious spy and fighter, she is the female protagonist of the series, along with her younger brother Jago, and is arguably the most famous and best received ''Killer Instinct'' character. ==Appearances== In ''Killer Instinct'' (1994), Black Orchid is a 23-year-old enigmatic and lethal secret agent for a vigilante-oriented international spy organization and apparently the heroine of the series (along with her brother Jago). Posing as a secretary, she infiltrates Ultratech, the company which organizes the Killer Instinct tournament, to uncover the truth behind the mysterious disappearances related to it. In her ending, she successfully gathers enough information to defeat Ultratech. In the sequel, ''Killer Instinct 2'' (1996), it is revealed that the now 24-year-old Black Orchid has destroyed Eyedol (the first game's boss), which sent the Ultratech building two millennia into the past. Now she seeks to destroy Gargos, and find a way home to start a new life. In her endings, the warrior Jago is revealed as her younger brother. Orchid appears in the series reboot, ''Killer Instinct'' (2013). Raised by her single father Jacob, a member of Seal Team 6, Orchid exhibits emotional instability from a young age, once nearly burning down her school while placing blame on what she refers to as "the Firecat". Following this, Jacob takes her to an isolated mountain cabin for training, as Orchid had inherited the ability to summon the Firecat from her grandmother, who gained it following her participation in the Project Aries 9 experiment during World War II. Fearing the government or UltraTech would use her as a tool, he teaches her combat, weapons usage, and summoning the Firecat. Two years later, they are found by the Special Warfare Department, a covert sect of the U.S.'s Homeland Security, and Jacob is forced to return to service in exchange for her freedom, being killed in a suicide bombing a year later. Running from her new foster family and living on the streets, the teenage Orchid is eventually found by SWD commander Major Weaver, who reveals Jacob was in fact assassinated by UltraTech, giving her his journal, and asked her to join the organization. Orchid agrees and begins taking on missions for them, piecing together clues linking UltraTech to a terrorist cabal, while discovering from Jacob's journal that he had an affair and fathered a son. A decade later, Weaver assigns Orchid to a deep cover operation at UltraTech posing as a scientist, where she first learns of the Pinnacle Protocol and that several SWD members are under ARIA's control. However, her cover is blown and she destroys the lab with her Firecat and escapes. Disbelieving her findings, Weaver claims that Orchid has become paranoid and unstable and dismisses her, but is killed in a bombing later that night. Accusing of Weaver's murder, Orchid is branded a terrorist and forced to flee the country. Believing that Ultratech framed her, Orchid emigrates to the Carpathian Mountains in Eastern Europe, where she forms an underground spy ring known as the Disavowed, made up of others wronged by Ultratech who seek to take them down. During her missions, she meets and befriends Maya and recruits Eagle to the Disavowed, sending him to infiltrate the Killer Instinct tournament. When Eagle is reported dead, Orchid takes on the Black Orchid persona and joins the tournament to find out what happened, where she is almost killed by Jago before realizing he is her brother, the two vowing to find out what had happened to Orchid's father and Jago's mother. Orchid later teams up with T.J. Combo to destroy an UltraTech laboratory and broadcast evidence of their crimes to the world. She joins Maya's rebel force alongside T.J. and Jago, but they are trapped by UltraTech forces while ARIA's plan to summon Gargos is brought to fruition. However, the attack is halted for reasons unknown, with UltraTech's forces ordered to retreat.〔http://www.ultra-combo.com/the-firecats-summoning/〕 Outside of the game series, B. Orchid is featured in the 1996 ''Killer Instinct'' comics, where she is one of the main protagonists. In 2008, Rare created Vision Cards based on her and other ''Killer Instinct'' fighters for use in their video game ''Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Black Orchid (Killer Instinct)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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