This article lists all of the quotes spoken by the playable characters when fighting in Dead or Alive 4.
Ayane
Pre-fight quotes
- "I'll teach you!"
- "I'm ready to try you on for size." (in Story Mode)
- "Time for your punishment." (in Story Mode)
- "Burn the visage of my strength into those eyes!" (in Story Mode)
- "Go ahead and cry; I won't let you go." (in Story Mode)
- "I'll gladly send you to the next world."
- "You are not longer for this world." (when tagged with Hayate in Tag Battle Mode)
Victory quotes
- "It that it?"
- "You're the loser this time."
- "The Hajinmon is not so easily deceived."
- "Who do you think I am?" (after getting a "Great")
- "I had fun. See you later!" (after getting a "Greatest")
- "Hmmm, not that bad, maybe?" (when tagged with Ein in Tag Battle Mode)
Losing quotes
- "All that is left for me is the depths of darkness..."
- "What a disgrace..." (after a "Time Up")
After "Continue" quotes
- "I'll gladly send you to the next world."
Bass Armstrong
Pre-fight quotes
- "Give me your best shot!"
- "I'll fold you like a pancake!" (in Story Mode)
- "I'll never leave the ring!" (in Story Mode)
- "I'm burning up!" (in Story Mode)
- "I'm gonna kick your ass!" (in Story Mode)
- "Put the pedal to the metal!"
Victory quotes
- "Get up and try again, fool!"
- "You'd better eat! Eat some meat!"
- "More, more, more!" (after getting a "Great")
- "Crush all comers with our fists! That's how a real man fights!"
- "Show respect to your king! Me!" (after getting a "Greatest")
- "That was a good fight, yeah." (when tagged with Tina in Tag Battle Mode)
Losing quotes
- "Wait... stop the count... I can still fight..."
- "I can still go on..." (after a "Time Up")
- "You've gotten too big and strong... Daddy's proud of you..." (to Tina)
After "Continue" quotes
- "Put the pedal to the metal!"
Bayman
Pre-fight quotes
- "Bring it on!"
- "Mercy is not an option." (in Story Mode)
- "You have no chance." (in Story Mode)
- "You'll regret this." (in Story Mode)
- "You won't be walking away from this one." (in Story Mode)
- "So, are you here for my head?"
- "This is just a warm-up." (when tagged with Zack in Tag Battle Mode)
Victory quotes
- "What a pathetic sight."
- "All threats have been eliminated."
- "Checkmate." (after getting a "Great")
- "I read your every move."
- "Have you learned your lesson? Then get out of my sight!" (after getting a "Greatest")
Losing quotes
- "Just one... more... attack..."
- "Who... what the hell are you?" (after a "Time Up")
After "Continue" quotes
- "Next time, I won't miss."
Brad Wong
Pre-fight quotes
- "Whoa, okay, I'm okay." (in Story Mode)
- "Let's liven things up with a drink." (in Story Mode)
- "Even I don't know what'll happen, got it?" (in Story Mode)
- "I'll enjoy having a drink after this." (in Story Mode)
- "Looks like you've got time on your hands, too!"
Victory quotes
- "Lets have a drink!"
- "Uhh, someone get me some water."
- "The more you drink, the crazier you get!"
- "Hey, the night is still young!" (after getting a "Great")
- "Well, you didn't even make for a good bar story!" (after getting a "Greatest")
Losing quotes
- "Oh I'm dizzy... stay clear of cheap booze..."
- "I need another drink." (after a "Time Up")
- "I was looking forward to... sampling your wine..." (to Kokoro)
After "Continue" quotes
- "Alright, let's get this started!"
Christie
Pre-fight quotes
- "Die!"
- "There is no hope!" (in Story Mode)
- "Ready for my poisoned fangs?" (in Story Mode)
- "You can regret your decision in Hell!" (in Story Mode)
- "I'm going to tear you apart."
- "Prepare for pain!"
Victory quotes
- "The kiss of a snake is sweet, and dangerous..."
- "I am Death. I shred your soul to ribbons."
- "My poison is a neurotoxin. Works doesn't it?"
- "I have no interest in you." (after getting a "Great")
Losing quotes
- "I'll never forgive this... making me lie in the dirt..."
- "It can't be... not me..." (after a "Time Up")
After "Continue" quotes
- "I'm going to tear you apart."
- "Your screams will echo throughout these walls!" (to Helena in Story Mode)
Ein
Pre-fight quotes
- "Here I come!"
- "I will face you unflinchingly."
- "I will show you the true form of martial arts."
- "Show me what you can do!"
- "No one can stop me!"
Victory quotes
- "I must not forget this sensation."
- "You were a worthy opponent."
- "What am I... really... ?" (after getting a "Great")
- "It is hopeless. I can read your every move.
- "This stirring in my blood... something is happening..." (after getting a "Greatest")
- "Everything is coming together nicely!" (when tagged with Jann Lee in Tag Battle Mode)
Losing quotes
- "I feel like... I have remembered something..."
- "No, not here!" (after a "Time Up")
Eliot
Pre-fight quotes
- "Prepare for battle!"
- "Lets us fight as if there is no tomorrow." (in Story Mode)
- "I will show you the true power of my martial art!" (in Story Mode)
- "Don't try to go easy on me." (in Story Mode)
- "I challenge you to a battle."
- "Don't get too worked up over this."
Victory quotes
- "Stronger, sharper, faster."
- "About what I expected." (after getting a "Great")
- "My fists strike straight and true."
- "My art is the strongest of them all!" (after getting a "Greatest")
Losing quotes
- "I will never give up..."
- "This is it... my limit..." (after a "Time Up")
- "Thank you... Master..." (to Gen Fu)
After "Continue" quotes
- "Hurry up and get beaten!"
- "I challenge you to a battle." (to Brad Wong in Story Mode)
- "I have long awaited this battle." (to Gen Fu in Story Mode)
Gen Fu
Pre-fight quotes
- "Now, we fight!"
- "Have you prepared your mind for this engagement?"
- "Look at you, so authoritative."
- "I cannot keep you from getting injured."
- "Know your weakness by this pain!"
- "Can you overcome me?"
- "Ready yourself!" (when tagged with Helena in Tag Battle Mode)
Victory quotes
- "The backbone is the key."
- "Reveal the lies, and strike at the truth... that is all there is."
- "You lack the force of will."
- "The true meaning of combat has been defined here." (after getting a "Great")
- "That is part of being young, as well." (when the player throws Gen Fu's sun hat off)
- "This power to crush mountains can be found in a single blow." (after getting a "Greatest")
Losing quotes
- "The sun sets, yet I have not reached my goal..."
- "There is nothing I can do now..." (after a "Time Up")
Hayate
Pre-fight quotes
- "I am here!"
- "The battle begins!" (in Story Mode)
- "It is time for battle!" (in Story Mode)
- "I press forward." (in Story Mode)
- "This will be done in an instant!" (in Story Mode)
- "No one will stand in my way."
Victory quotes
- "The path of evil leads to the underworld..."
- "Everything is within me!"
- "A single flash of lightning!"
- "No one can stand up to me." (after getting a "Great")
- "This path is stained in blood." (after getting a "Greatest")
- "My quickness is like that of the winds." (when tagged with Ayane in Tag Battle Mode)
- ""Nin"!" (when tagged with Hayabusa in Tag Battle Mode)
Losing quotes
- "No... not that... not again..."
- "I have fallen..." (after a "Time Up")
After "Continue" quotes
- "I still have fight in me!"
- "Do not loathe me for what I must do." (to Alpha-152 in Story Mode)
Helena Douglas
Pre-fight quotes
- "I will follow my heart."
- "Prepare yourself." (in Story Mode)
- "The goddesses won't be smiling on you today." (in Story Mode)
- "You'd best pray to your god." (in Story Mode)
- "Do you really think you can win?" (in Story Mode)
- "I don't plan to lose."
- "Ready yourself!" (when tagged with Gen Fu in Tag Battle Mode)
Victory quotes
- "Can't we be more elegant about this?"
- "Could you feel my melody?"
- "The bells of good fortune ring for you."
- "Now do you understand?" (after getting a "Great")
- "Fool!" (after defeating La Mariposa in Story Mode)
- "You must cleanse yourself in Valhalla." (after getting a "Greatest")
- "Yes, this is the melody..." (when tagged with Leifang in Tag Battle Mode)
- "You cannot defeat me." (when tagged with Christie in Tag Battle Mode)
Losing quotes
- "I fall into the deep darkness..."
- "Mother..." (after a "Time Up")
After "Continue" quotes
- "I don't plan to lose."
- "That's enough!" (to Christie in Story Mode)
Hitomi
Pre-fight quotes
- "I'm here to win!"
- "One good hit is all it takes." (in Story Mode)
- "I can become even stronger." (in Story Mode)
- "No bad feelings!" (in Story Mode)
- "Watch the opponent's movement carefully..." (in Story Mode)
- "I won't go easy on you."
- "Good luck!" (when tagged with Zack in Tag Battle Mode)
Victory quotes
- "My Fists are on fire!"
- "Hitomi power up!"
- "Thanks for the fight!"
- "Hey, I won!" (after getting a "Great")
- "I'm so excited right now!" (after getting a "Greatest")
- "Nice fight!" (when tagged with Zack in Tag Battle Mode)
Losing quotes
- "But I practiced!"
- "This sucks!" (after a "Time Up")
- "Wow, you're good... ouch..." (to Ein)
After "Continue" quotes
- "This time I'll win!"
Jann Lee
Pre-fight quotes
- "Shall we begin?"
- "Are you ready?" (in Story Mode)
- "I'll take you on face-to-face." (in Story Mode)
- "Don't disappoint me." (in Story Mode)
- "All right, let's get started."
- "The look on your face says you are ready."
Victory quotes
- "Not bad."
- "Come on, make my blood boil!"
- "What's wrong with being too powerful?" (after getting a "Great" and when tagged with Leifang in Tag Battle Mode)
- "You will be stronger next time we meet." (after getting a "Greatest")
Losing quotes
- "I'm... I'm not finished yet..."
- "Why did... I lose... ?" (after a "Time Up")
After "Continue" quotes
- "The look on your face says you are ready."
- "I will defeat you!" (to Alpha-152 in Story Mode)
Kasumi
Pre-fight quotes
- "I don't want to fight... but I have no choice!"
- "I will triumph!" (in Story Mode)
- "I must fight to survive..." (in Story Mode)
- "I have made peace with myself." (in Story Mode)
- "If I can't avoid this battle, so be it." (in Story Mode)
- "There is no other way..."
Victory quotes
- "Please, rest quietly..."
- "I can't give up yet!"
- "Please... don't get back up..."
- "This is Mugen-Tenshin." (after getting a "Great")
- "There is no turning back." (after defeating Ayane or Helena in Story Mode)
- "I'm sorry... but I must go on..." (after getting a "Greatest")
Losing quotes
- "I mustn't... be allowed to... stop here..."
- "It all ends here..." (after a "Time Up")
After "Continue" quotes
- "There is no other way..."
- "I must finish this... by my own hand..." (to Alpha-152 in Story Mode)
Kokoro
Pre-fight quotes
- "Okay, here I go!"
- "Nice to meet you!" (in Story Mode)
- "I won't let you go easy on me!" (in Story Mode)
- "Don't hurt me too badly, okay?" (in Story Mode)
- "I'll show you what I've got."
- "You don't give up, do you?"
Victory quotes
- "All right!"
- "Like the water, like the sky."
- "I'd say that about does it."
- "Did I go too far? Sorry!" (after getting a "Great")
- "Have a nice day!" (after getting a "Greatest")
Losing quotes
- "Mommy..."
- "Not good enough..." (after a "Time Up")
After "Continue" quotes
- "I'll show you what I've got."
La Mariposa/Lisa
Pre-fight quotes
- "Let's move to the rhythm."
- "You want to try me?" (in Story Mode)
- "Prepare to be dazzled!" (in Story Mode)
- "Let's have fun with this!" (in Story Mode)
- "Go easy on me, okay?" (in Story Mode)
- "I'm in the groove!"
Victory quotes
- "What a great rhythm."
- "I am the exotic butterfly." (after getting a "Great")
- "I am the winner!"
- "Everything is within estimated tolerances." (after getting a "Greatest")
Losing quotes
- "This wasn't supposed to happen..."
- "I'm so depressed..." (after a "Time Up")
After "Continue" quotes
- "I'm in the groove!"
- "Looks like I'm going to have to stop you." (to Alpha-152 in Story Mode)
Leifang
Pre-fight quotes
- "Ready to lose?"
- "I have high hopes for you!" (in Story Mode)
- "So, you're my next opponent, eh?" (in Story Mode)
- "Looks like I'll be having fun again!" (in Story Mode)
- "I'll face you head-on."
- "Give me some excitement, OK?"
Victory quotes
- "Did you enjoy that full course of techniques?"
- "How was that?"
- "Come on, take this more seriously!" (after getting a "Great")
- "Everything in the world exists within the Tai Chi."
- "I want to enjoy this even more next time." (after getting a "Greatest")
Losing quotes
- "I must... be stronger..."
- "I can't believe I lost..." (after a "Time Up")
- "You just wait... one day..." (to Jann Lee)
After "Continue" quotes
- "Give me some excitement, OK?"
Leon
Pre-fight quotes
- "Insolent whelp!"
- "Prepare to die!"
- "No more tricks, fool!"
- "I pull no punches."
- "Your little tricks won't work on me."
- "I am the strongest in the world."
Victory quotes
- "Only the strong survive."
- "My calling in life is to continue winning."
- "No, you're no good at all..." (after getting a "Great")
- "Come back once you've wiped your ass." (to Kokoro, Eliot, or Ayane)
- "Arrivederci!" (after getting a "Greatest")
Losing quotes
- "Oh, the vastness of the desert... the camels and the moon..."
- "I was a fool..." (after a "Time Up")
- "My war buddies are... waiting for me..." (to Bayman)
Ryu Hayabusa
Pre-fight quotes
- "Prepare to face me!"
- "Let us fight!" (in Story Mode)
- "It feel as though a storm is brewing." (in Story Mode)
- "Prepare to face my wrath." (in Story Mode)
- "If you will not move, I must take you down." (in Story Mode)
- "Talk is tedious; I must prevail!"
- "Here I come!" (when tagged with Kasumi in Tag Battle Mode)
- "It is time!" (when tagged with Ein in Tag Battle Mode)
Victory quotes
- "Nothing can penetrate the pureness of my spirit!"
- "I have no weakness."
- "The weak soul can be engulfed by even the smallest ripple." (after getting a "Great")
- "I am like the driftwood on the whitewater currents."
- "I must hurry, forgive me." (after getting a "Greatest")
- "It is done." (when tagged with Kasumi in Tag Battle Mode)
- ""Nin"!" (when tagged with Hayate in Tag Battle Mode)
Losing quotes
- "I was too careless..."
- "I slipped up..." (after a "Time Up")
- "Your skills haven't faded, my friend..." (to Hayate)
After "Continue" quotes
- "Prepare to face my wrath."
- "You must be destroyed." (to Alpha-152 in Story Mode)
SPARTAN-458
Pre-fight quotes
- "Your luck just ran out."
- "Hostile located."
- "I'll take you on."
- "Don't make me kick your ass!"
- "I'll put you out of your misery."
- "You ain't gonna make it."
- "The bad day you're having just got worse."
- "Enough is enough!"
Victory quotes
- "Hostile down."
- "You were strong; just not as strong as me."
- "And that is how you hit like a girl."
- "Contact neutralized." (after getting a "Great")
- "Forget what you saw here!" (after getting a "Greatest")
Losing quotes
- "Just... need a little... rest..."
- "This is awful... the worst..." (after a "Time Up")
Tengu
Pre-fight quotes
- "You must die!"
- "How unfortunate!"
- "You impudent fool!"
- "See how you like this!"
- "I refute your existence!"
- "Filthy maggot!"
Victory quotes
- "I know no mercy."
- "I have purified and cleansed the land!"
- "Oh, the unlabored flawlessness of my being!"
- "This is the power of the Tengu!" (after getting a "Great")
- "A blood-red flower blooms over your corpse!" (after getting a "Greatest")
Losing quotes
- "What has... happened..."
Tina Armstrong
Pre-fight quotes
- "I don't intend to give this one up."
- "Sorry to keep you waiting!" (in Story Mode)
- "Think you can keep up?" (in Story Mode)
- "I'll show you what I can do." (in Story Mode)
- "OK, It's time to fight!" (in Story Mode)
- "I'm not pulling any punches."
- "Hey, come on!" (when tagged with Zack in Tag Battle Mode)
Victory quotes
- "This is not the time to be practicing, is it?"
- "I'm the greatest!"
- "Weak! You're going to have to do better than that." (after getting a "Great")
- "Ummm, I'll be eating well tonight!"
- "I guess there's a such thing as being too strong..." (after getting a "Greatest")
- "What a great team!" (when tagged with Leifang in Tag Battle Mode)
Losing quotes
- "You've got to be kidding... this is a just a bad joke, right?"
- "Ahh... what a nightmare..." (after a "Time Up")
- "Hey, go easy on me a little..." (to La Mariposa)
After "Continue" quotes
- "I'm not pulling any punches."
Zack
Pre-fight quotes
- "Kick it up a notch!"
- "I've got this one!" (in Story Mode)
- "I'm getting pumped up!" (in Story Mode)
- "Zack is ready to bring in the noise!" (in Story Mode)
- "Check it out!" (in Story Mode)
- "Here's the man you've all been waiting for... me!" (in Story Mode)
Victory quotes
- "Congratulations... to me!"
- "I'm at the top of my game!"
- "Love Love Beam!" (after getting a "Great")
- "Yes yes yes yes yes yes!! This is it!"
- "I'll win again tomorrow, too!" (after getting a "Greatest")
- "Damn, that's cold!" (when tagged with Tina in Tag Battle Mode)
Losing quotes
- "This was a fluke, right... It has to be..."
- "My... paradise... lost..." (after a "Time Up")
After "Continue" quotes
- "Kick it up a notch!"