| Death Battle Combatant | |
|---|---|
 The Fire Dragon Slayer | |
| Natsu Dragneel | |
| Origin | Fairy Tail Ch.1 "The Fairy's Tail" (2006) |
| Company | Kodansha |
| Appearance(s) | Natsu VS Ace |
| “ | You don't die for your friends... You live for them! | „ |
| ~ Natsu Dragneel |
Natsu Dragneel is the main protagonist of the Fairy Tail series. He appeared in the 76th episode of DEATH BATTLE!, Natsu VS Ace, where he fought against Portgas D. Ace from the One Piece series. He was voiced by Howard Wang.
History
400 years ago, Natsu was born as the younger brother of Zeref, however, he died at a young age alongside their parents, courtesy of a Dragon attack. This caused Zeref to research Magic and its relation to life and death and, much later, with Zeref using his dead body, he was revived as the strongest Demon: E.N.D; whose purpose was to kill Zeref. As E.N.D., Natsu was a Demon specializing in fire, and purportedly discovered a different route that Magic could take when it was still developing and thus created Curses. During this time he also met Igneel. However, the Dragon chose not to kill him because he loved him extremely so. Igneel, the King of the Fire Dragons, raised the young child as his own son.
Igneel taught Natsu to speak, write and use his very own form of Lost Magic, Fire Dragon Slayer magic. Eventually, Igneel sealed his damaged soul inside Natsu's body and, along with four other Dragons and their Dragon Slayers, jumped 400 years into the future via Eclipse Gate While initially thought to have been abandoned by Igneel on July 7, X777, Igneel, July 7, X777 was the day and year he awoke in the future, like the other four Dragon Slayers; however, when Natsu woke, he believed that Igneel had abandoned him, not knowing that he had instead opted to reside inside his body for many years to come. After waking up, Natsu left on a quest to find Igneel and was eventually found by the Guild Master of Fairy Tail: Makarov Dreyar. And so, Natsu joined Fairy Tail.
7 years later he met a girl named Lucy Heartfilia in Hargeon Town who aspired to join Fairy Tail. After rescuing her from some bandits, later on, he took her to his guild where they formed a team, and have gone on numerous adventures ever since.
DEATH BATTLE! Info
Background
- Full Name: Natsu Dragneel
- Alias: E.N.D.
- "Etherious Natsu Dragneel"
- Height: 5'7"/170.18 cm
- Member of the Fairy Tail Guild
- Foster son to a dragon
- Trained Dragon Slayer
- Twice orphaned
- Gets motion sick easily
Magic
- Fire Dragon Slayer Magic
- Lightning Fire Dragon Magic
- Augments Fire Dragon Slayer Moves
- Firing Hammer
- Crimson Lotus: Exploding Lightning Blade
- Dragon Force
- Black Fire Dragon Mode
- Transformation Magic
Feats
- Wiped out 973 soldiers at once
- Destroyed the Tower of Heaven
- Survived Jellal's meteor-level magic
- Lifted a large stone slab
- One-shot a War God
- Moved faster than eyesight
- Melted a coliseum with his heat
One Minute Melee
Natsu appeared in Season 3 of One Minute Melee, where he fought against his DEATH BATTLE! opponent Portgas D. Ace and lost.
DBX
Natsu appeared in Season 3 of DBX, where he fought against Iceman from Marvel Comics and lost.
DEATH BATTLE! Quotes
- Give that back! Or you'll have to deal with me!
- That's it! I'm gonna mess you up!
- Fire Dragon Sword Horn!
- Wait, are you seriously MADE of fire?
- Time to turn up the heat!
- Fire Dragon King's Roar!
- Fire Dragon King's Demolition Fist!
- Oh no...
- I'm not trying to! Lightning Fire Dragon Mode!
- LIGHTNING FIRE DRAGON ROAR!
- Phew, all's well that ends well! (laughs)
Gallery
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.gif "Phoenix Blade (FT).gif (4.26 MB)")
Trivia
- Natsu is the third Kodansha character to appear, after Astro Boy and Erza Scarlet, and with the next one being Gray Fullbuster.
- He is the second Fairy Tail character to appear, after Erza Scarlet, and with the next one being Gray Fullbuster.
- Like Vegeta, Natsu's official voice actor, Todd Haberkorn, has voiced other combatants in DEATH BATTLE!, in his case, Tai, Daxter, Spider-Man 2099, and Namor.
- When asked why Todd was not voicing Natsu, Ben stated: "Todd's great! However, it's typical for an actor under contract to not be able to perform their character in outside/unofficial work."
- Natsu's sprites came from Fairy Tail: Gekitotsu! Kardia Daiseidou for Nintendo DS.
- Natsu and his opponent are the fifth pair of combatants to fight against each other in both DEATH BATTLE! and One Minute Melee, after Deadpool & Deathstroke, Hercule Satan & Dan Hibiki, Green Arrow & Hawkeye and Vegeta & Shadow, and with the next nine pairs being Lucario & Renamon, Luigi & Tails, Mario & Sonic, Sephiroth & Vergil, Jotaro Kujo & Kenshiro, Ryu & Jin Kazama, Link & Cloud Strife, Ken Masters & Terry Bogard and Mob & Tatsumaki.
- Natsu is the first combatant voiced by Howard Wang, with the next two being Hiei and Genos.
