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Revision as of 23:26, 14 March 2010
Sylvia Christel (シルヴィア・クリステル, Shiruvia Kurisuteru) is a character in both installments of the No More Heroes video game series. She is introduced as the 24-year-old ranking agent for the United Assassins Association, and the wife of Henry. Christel is of Japanese Ukrainian descent and was raised in France. Described in official literature as "mysterious" and "cold," she provides ranks and sets up Ranking Battles for UAA members. Sylvia Christel was based on American actress Scarlett Johansson, while her name is an allusion to European actress Sylvia Kristel.
Sylvia Christel is voiced by Paula Tiso.
Name
Although most official source material spells Christel's name as "Sylvia," the subtitles and credits of No More Heroes spell it "Silvia." Assuming the correct spelling is the former, this discrepancy could have been caused by the phonetic approach taken to the game's localization. It would have been impossible to determine which was the correct spelling from the written kana alone, as both variations are spelled the same in the katakana "Shiruvia."
Biography
Sylvia Christel meets Travis Touchdown in the Death Match bar of Santa Destroy, where she ushers him into joining the United Assassins Association, so long as he can qualify by killing the eleventh ranked assassin, Helter-Skelter. Touchdown succeeds, and after moving on and slaying the tenth ranked assassin, Death Metal, Touchdown proposes that if he reaches first rank, Christel will have sex with him. To this, Christel nonchalantly says "Maybe, maybe not."
No More Heroes concept art of Sylvia Christel.
Though she is evidently married, Christel continually flirts with Touchdown in a somewhat sadistic way, and even threatens to kill him if he ever makes her jealous. She accompanies Touchdown to his Ranking Battle against Harvey Moiseiwitsch Volodarskii, which she passionately dubs a date. After killing Volodarskii, Touchdown and Christel even share a kiss. Alternatively, if the player is killed in this Ranking Battle, Sylvia concernedly cries out Travis' name.
This change of heart towards Touchdown continues through his next Ranking Battle against Speed Buster, where in a cellphone call she shows legitimate concern towards his safety, telling him to come back safely, as opposed to pessimistically giving her usual percentage estimate of how likely Touchdown is to die. After the conclusion of Touchdown's match with Bad Girl however, Christel does not appear to greet him with the disposal crew Talbot and Weller, as she had after the preceding nine matches. Touchdown soon learns by calling the UAA phone number given to him by Christel that the number actually belongs to Sylvia's mother, and that the UAA does not exist, being a ploy Christel, a professional con artist, has used on many others before Touchdown to exploit their finances. Mrs. Christel persuades Touchdown to finish what he started and go through with the final "Ranking Battle" anyways, before which Sylvia calls him one last time, confessing that despite his stupidity, ignorance and uncouth attitude, she has fallen in love with him. Although she doesn't greet him after his final battle, it is revealed that Christel was in fact watching from a distance. Touchdown later learns that she has been married to his estranged twin brother Henry for 10 years (Though this is impossible, as Sylvia is only 24 and would have married Henry when she was 14).
Sylvia Christel will reappear in No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle, set three years after the conclusion of the first game. By this time, Travis Touchdown is seeking revenge for the death of his best friend, Bishop Shidux, and rejoins the UAA with this principal purpose. However Suda has revealed in an interview with Nintendo Power that Touchdown "still can't resist Sylvia's charm and gets tricked again!" In this game, her love-hate relationship grows even stronger with Travis Touchdown and she apparently shows legitimate concern towards him.
During the sequel, Sylvia's personality was always seems to be changing, at first showing care and important advice to Travis one second, then becoming a complete ice queen the next. She also assists Travis in exacting his revenge for the murder of his best friend, Bishop, by notifying him of who killed Bishop and that the number one assasin was behind the hit. Although Sylvia points out on more than one occasion that Assasins are supposed to kill one another, as stated by the rules of the UAA, it is revealed that she stopped Travis and Henry from killing one another, contradicting herself for Travis's sake. She also seems to be crazy about fashion, as she is constantly changing her hairstyle thoughout the game. Travis and Sylvia fight over the rules of the UAA on multiple occasions, as shown in the fights with Ryuji and Captain Vladamir. yet they both can't seem to stay away from each other, no matter how much they disagree. It is revealed at the end of the game that Sylvia is in fact the narriator of the game. This could mean that Travis did actually destroy the UAA or she just quit.
Trading cards
Sylvia Christel appears on seven trading cards in the Design Materials set of No More Heroes. These are No. 101, No. 102, No. 103, No. 131, No. 132, No. 133 and No. 150.