Dead or Alive made its debut back in 1996 in Japan, quickly gaining steam due to its revealing female characters - a trait that Team Ninja & Koei Tecmo kept building upon, to the point of launching a separate spinoff series, the DOA Xtreme games, featuring only female characters in a beach volleyball & summer games setting.
Character (33) | Main Games | Spinoff Games | |||||||||
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DOA 1 1996 | DOA 2 1999 | DOA 3 2001 | DOA 4 2005 | DOA 5 2012 | DOA 6 2019 | DOAX 2003 | DOAX2 2006 | DOAD 2011 | DOAX3 2016 | ||
![]() | Alpha-152 | ||||||||||
![]() | Ayane | ||||||||||
![]() | Bass Armstrong | ||||||||||
![]() | Bayman | ||||||||||
![]() | Brad Wong | ||||||||||
![]() | Christie | ||||||||||
![]() | Diego | ||||||||||
![]() | Ein | ||||||||||
![]() | Eliot | ||||||||||
![]() | Gen Fu | ||||||||||
![]() | Hayate | ||||||||||
![]() | Helena Douglas | ||||||||||
![]() | Hitomi | ||||||||||
![]() | Honoka | ||||||||||
![]() | Jann Lee | ||||||||||
![]() | Kasumi | ||||||||||
![]() | Kokoro | ||||||||||
![]() | Leifang | ||||||||||
![]() | Leon | ||||||||||
![]() | Lisa Hamilton "La Mariposa" | ||||||||||
![]() | Marie Rose | ||||||||||
![]() | Mila | ||||||||||
![]() | Momiji | ||||||||||
![]() | NiCO | ||||||||||
![]() | Nyotengu | ||||||||||
![]() | Phase 4 | ||||||||||
![]() | Rachel | ||||||||||
![]() | Raidou | ||||||||||
![]() | Rig | ||||||||||
![]() | Ryu Hayabusa | ||||||||||
![]() | Tamaki | ||||||||||
![]() | Tina Armstrong | ||||||||||
![]() | Zack |