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Travis Touchdown is a main protagonist of the No More Heroes video game.
The heroic and comedic sociopath anti-hero of the story, who is out to go from loser otaku to would-be badass assassin. Begins the game as the 11th ranked assassin in the United Assassins Association. His life becomes significantly more complicated by becoming an assassin, including running into several levels of squick and family he didn't even know he had.
In the XP4 fics, Travis debuted in XP4 Heroes Coalition - Kick-Off!.
In the AWA fics, Travis is listed as a purchased slave from the Slave Fortress and is later rescued. He later attends the AWA Academy as a student.
Appearance[]
Travis usually wears a lightweight leather jacket, t-shirt, jeans and sunglasses, though his outfit varies slightly in No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle. Travis has dark spiky hair, and blue eyes.
Personality[]
Travis displays crude, punkish and immature behavior, and is especially cruel toward the male assassins he fights, he displays normal and decent behavior whenever he isn't on the job. Travis is relatively calm about killing people, and has been shown to be sexually stimulated by it in Desperate Struggle. In his starting days of the first No More Heroes, killing women made him feel uncomfortable, until Holly Summers told him that all assassins, no matter what gender, must die when they lose. He is capable of being touched by people's emotional and personal experiences, seeing that he didn't seem entirely settled after killing Dr. Peace , whose daughter was estranged from him, and with Margaret Moonlight , where he fulfilled her dying wish by remembering her song. Travis also has a certain amount of honor and respect for people he believes to be "true warriors" as he tries to spare the assassin Ryuji in Desperate Struggle, and soon shows a great deal of his humanity after the death of Alice Twilight, weary of the arranged manslaughter he accidentally promoted and by the various corporations that took advantage of it. Touchdown is very driven to prove himself, is shown to be highly intelligent and a quick learner, and can be surprisingly witty and even poetic. Travis takes his friendships very seriously as well, as evidenced by his quest to avenge the murder of Bishop Shidux , after which he seems to learn something about the repercussions that death has on others aside from the one being killed. Travis only ever removes his aviator glasses on-screen once, when he has sex with Sylvia Christel.
XP4 Fanfics[]
Travis is a member of the Heroes Coalitions and is the leader of the Team Extreme. He also attends the Vanguard Academy.
XP4 Heroes Coalition - Kick-Off![]
In Chapter 7, Travis, alongside his team, the Team Extreme, are seen infiltrating a warehouse where the crime syndicate called the CFFB Flying Bears are hiding. After taking down the crime syndicate, Travis and the others watches Katsuki Bakugo and Yuri Nakamura had an arguement when the former demanded leadership for the team.
XP4 Heroes Coalition - Neo-City Diaries[]
In Chapter 3, Travis is seen arriving on the parking lot of the Training Ground on his red Jaguar F-Type Sports Car before making his way inside the facility.
In Chapter 12, Travis is seen running around the Training Facility when Raya Amanda chases Alden Cole around with a machine gun.
In Chapter 23, Travis is seen exiting the Training Camp, getting into his car before driving off while passing-by Bols, Van Grants and Max Tennyson in an intersection.
In Chapter 38, Travis is amongst the many patrons in the AniManga Cafe.
In Chapter 39, Travis, alongside Ike and Roy, met up with Gob, Kazuto "Kirito" Kirigaya and Meliodas in the items area of the Training Camp, and even witnessed the return of Ryoutarou "Klein" Tsuboi and the appearance of Techna Loggy.
In Chapter 44, Travis, alongside the rest of the Team Extreme, welcomes Noda and Zakuro Fujiwara for becoming an official member of the team.
In Chapter 49, Travis, alongside Katsuki Bakugo, Kouseke Ueki and Noda, are seen having a conversation in the hallways of the Vanguard Academy.
In Chapter 58, Travis is present inside the AniManga Cafe where she witnessed the performance of Flash Sentry, Marshmello and Pinkie Pie.
XP4 Heroes Coalition - Welcome to Herowood[]
In Chapter 1, Travis, alongside everyone, arrives at the RoosterTeeth Hotel in Herowood.
DreamTheater Intermix: The World Within[]
Travis is a student in the City Saints Academy.
Biography[]
In Chapter 30, Travis, alongside Train Heartnet and Trafalgar D. Water Law, are seen having a conversation at one table inside the cafeteria of the Corona House.
Abilities[]
Travis is a very formidable assassin, being skilled in the art of swordplay and physical combat. After becoming acquainted with Randall Lovikov, the town drunk, Travis is able to rely on Lovikov to teach him special techniquesthat compliment his fighting and questing skills. He is able to snap into a "Dark Side" mode by lining up three objects in a slot machine mini-game after executing a Death Blow. Each trance of Dark Side Mode entails Travis with superhuman strength, speed, invincibility and other powers. By Desperate Struggle, Travis appears to have gained limited yet passive powers over his ki, which culminates at its maximum as a power known as Super Mode, and gives him immense vitality and speed.
His preferred weapon is the beam katana, which he relies on scientist Dr. Naomi to design for him, and to optimize the models he already owns. Throughout No More Heroes, Travis acquires the Blood Berry, followed by the durable Tsubaki, the heavily upgraded and empowered Tsubaki Mk-II which is comprised of five rotating beams, and requires more finesse to wield, and finally the Tsubaki Mk-III, a very showy beam katana designed from the beam Samurai sword of his mentor, Thunder Ryu. In Desperate Struggle, Travis also gains the beam katanas Peony, a heavy, but powerful and potentially far reaching blade, and the dual katanas Rose Nasty, which gives Travis a powerful balanced edge to accomplish his ends.
His former experience of pro wrestling training through the use of correspondence tapes and some experience in Calgary allows him to use a great variety of wrestling moves to take down foes, and because of the dangerous nature of his career, Travis has taken a creative incentive to allow his Beam Katana to haphazardly finish off his intended targets.
Travis also shows to have some resistance to firearms, one instance being when Helter-Skelter riddled him with bullets and rockets, which culminated with absolutely no effect. In the lowest difficulty of No More Heroes, Travis is able to automatically block ranged bullets as long as the player does not move the Control Stick. Furthermore, in all subsequent difficulties, all it takes for Travis to block oncoming bullets is to guard using the Z Button. Aside from bullets, Travis also survived an electric shock and several laser attacks from the assassin Destroyman as well as three concussive grenade explosions from the assassin Holly Summers .
Travis Touchdown is shown to have a high degree of durability, probably because it is just a game and the protagonist of a game can't die from outside means. But combat wise, Travis is extremely resistant to firearms as mentioned above. He is also extremely resistant to poison as shown when he does not die upon inhaling Cloe Walsh's mist of poison. In addition to that, he is able to withstand most, if not all attacks that common enemies or bosses deal to him. He is able to withstand the devastating blades of a chainsaw, beam katanas and the massive earthquake that Dr. Letz Shake has created during in-game. In fact, he is able to withstand Jeanne's punch through the gut and still stand on his two feet, he is able to endure Bad Girl's endless hits and even Alice Twilight's attack in which the beam katana pierces through his chest during the clash battle.
Travis also seems to be very lucky. He is always rescued from his untimely death. In No More Heroes, he could have died from Bad Girl's endless hits with her bat if she did not succumb to her wounds. During his battle with Jeanne, he could have been killed if it weren't for Shinobu's timely arrival to save him from being killed. In No More Heroes: Desperate Struggle, he is once again rescued by luck when Henry came crashing in at the right time when Jasper had Travis' life in his hands.
Trivia[]
- Creator Goichi Suda's favorite film is said to be Paris, Texas, wherein the main character is named Travis.
- Travis Touchdown's red jacket, unique swordplay, dark hair, physical abilities and amoral persona as well as his love of women are comparable to Samurai Champloo's Mugen. Curiously, No More Heroes developer Grasshopper Manufacture was involved in the video game adaptation Samurai Champloo: Sidetracked. It should also be noted that in the Japanese version of No More Heroes: Heroes' Paradise, Travis is voiced by Kazuya Nakai, who voiced Mugen.
- While concept art on the trading card "Travis Touchdown" Front depicts Touchdown holding a gun which bares a strong resemblance to the Star Wars DL-44 blaster pistol, in No More Heroes he never makes use of any firearms.
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