His one-track (or should we say, "two-track") mind becomes his only guide as he demolishes, brutalizes and magically destroys everything and everyone on his dark path to exact merciless vengeance on Gargos.Įver since his head was split in half by Gargos, Eyedol's tremendous might has been diminished in two different ways. To this end, he violently turns against Kan-Ra upon his resurrection and immediately goes on the war path. There, Eyedol finally met his demise at the claws of a cunning Gargos, who had been waiting for him in the darkness of the Void.Īfter being slain by the Shadow Lord and getting his head spliced in two, and after having been reanimated by the arch-sorcerer Kan-Ra, the fallen god-beast Eyedol is now extremely obsessed with one thing: Total annihilation for the sake of its unbridled retribution. His corrupted being lost control over all its base impulses and Eyedol went berserk with greed, pride and wrath, almost completely wiping out the ancient heroes of the world who tried to contain his rampage and tyranny which led to him being banished to the Astral Realm through the bravery of the immortal warrior Tunth-ska. Together, they caused Eyedol's essence to slowly but surely turn a sinful black, and over time, they hideously transformed him into the very thing he once was empowered to destroy-a fiend and an ungodly monster.Ĭrowning himself the god-king of a vast empire in a time now long forgotten, when countless humans sang his praises and worshiped him as a divinity who walked the Earth, Eyedol's boundless lust for god-like status and power absolute seemed his greatest strength, yet it became his downfall. Once a champion who was chosen by an angelic race of demi-gods to save the world from Gargos, Eyedol's body and soul were consumed utterly by manifold factors: The magically enhanced abilities granted to him by those benevolent beings, his own pride and arrogance over the supreme victory that he managed to achieve over Gargos, and him seizing a large portion of the Astral Tyrant's dark power. " Power corrupts, and ♫ absolute power corrupts absolutely! ♫"Įyedol is a dread example of John Dalberg-Acton's famous observation: "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Though he still has a purple-colored eye for one head and a red-colored eye for the other and keeps his new skull-laced club from his default KI 2013 costume. Each head only shows one horn instead of two and lacks his original chain ear piercings. When focusing on physical combat his red-eyed side takes control, and when he focuses on magical combat his purple-eyed side takes over.Įyedol's retro costume largely mirrors his original 1994 appearance, though he is much bulkier than he was in the original game. He wields a massive club or mace laced with human skulls. His legs are digitigrade like those of Gargos', but his three-toed feet appear to have large, blunt toenails rather than sharp claws like his foe. He wears a single pauldron on his right shoulder and a loincloth with human skulls attached to it around his waist. He is less muscular and more pot-bellied, like a stereotypical ogre, though still very large in stature.
He retains his gray skin, but now has swirling tattoos running along half of his body that glow purple, and also has ropes slung around his torso. His left eye glows purple and his right eye glows red, and the horn on the right side of his head is broken off at the end. His brain is visible within the massive gap, and purple and red lightning darts across the divide, connecting the two pieces of his head. Unlike before he now appears to have only one head, however it has been split completely in half down the middle so one eye is on each side of the cleft. In Killer Instinct (2013), Eyedol received a substantial overhaul. He wields a massive, spiked mace and is the tallest character in the game. In Eyedol's classic design, he appears as a massive, gray- (or green- or brown-) skinned, two-headed cyclops with glowing red eyes, and goat-like legs with cloven hooves.