Julius

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Template:Enemy Julius is a vicious artificial monster that appears in Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance. He first appeared in the Disney animated short film Runaway Brain.

Story

Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance

Sora and Riku discover Julius while in Traverse Town's Fountain Plaza, where he jumps out of the sewer in the middle of the area and proceeds to attack them. Upon his defeat, Julius scrambles back into the sewer, and Sora and Riku obtain the Ultima Weapon Keyblade. The player can examine the sewer grating any time after the fight and Julius will climb out for another battle.

Design

The hulking Julius resembles a fusion of the Frankenstein's monster and Pete, in both appearance and voice. Julius has dark blue fur, plaque-stained fangs, and bright red hair. He wears a light blue shirt, which is ripped at the sleeves, dark blue pants worn up to his chest, and dirty white gloves. Several parts of his body and clothing are literally stitched together, and one of his legs has been replaced with a pegleg. Template:Section-stub

Abilities

Julius is a powerful opponent, possessing immense physical strength and a devastating combat style similar to commercial wrestling. Julius is very agile despite his large size, and is capable of running swiftly and leaping great distances and heights. His basic attacks include a quick uppercut-like punch and a downward arcing punch. Julius may also take off at a run and leap into the air to come crashing down in an elbow drop, and begin to run across the arena at high speed to ram into the current character. His most dangerous attack at first is a barrage of swinging punches as he moves forward, preceded by him punching his fists together in warning. The attack is very difficult to dodge unless the player is a significant distance from Julius when he begins the attack, as he will quickly turn to keep coming at the player. All of these attacks except for the elbow drop can be blocked, but only Riku can block the barrage of punches using Dark Barrier, as the quick turns Julius performs causes him to attack from directions other than head-on, which the normal Block command cannot stop. Julius may also perform a slower punch attack where he will grab the character and breath on them, inflicting Blind, Poison, and Confusion, in succession.

When Julius falls to half his HP, the screen will darken and Julius will summon lightning bolts to bombard the arena, supercharging his fists with elecricity. All of Julius's punch attacks now create shockwaves to increase their range, and his elbow drop creates shockwaves in his wake. As a new attack only used when he is charged with the lightning, Julius will climb the skyscraper and leap through the air to crash down. This attack is very difficult to dodge and cannot be blocked, and will drastically slow down the recharge speed of a command for the rest of the battle, signified by the command turning black and red. After a period of time Julius will lose his lightning and his attacks return to normal. However, he will continue to periodically charge himself back up throughout the rest of the fight.

Strategy

Side: Riku

In order to provide for adequate defense, Riku should equip Dark Barrier, Dark Roll, Leaf Bracer, Once More, Second Chance, Poison Block, and Confuse Block. To boost his strength, he should also equip the Unbound Keyblade and purchase Attack Gain LV3, Magic Gain LV3, and Drop Deccelerator LV3 when Sora drops. His Command Deck should be filled with several Balloon-type commands, as well as Dark Firaga or Meteor Crash, and multiple Curagas or Elixirs.

Immediately chain multiple Dark Rolls together to avoid the physical attacks Julius uses to open the battle. Cast Balloon-type spells or Dark Firaga if it is safe to do so between the towering monster's combos, and with any luck, he will head straight into the path of Riku's attacks as he attempts to hit him. Julius's standard left-to-right slap attacks and single punches are relatively weak, but the series of punches he unleashes after clapping his fists together must be watched for. Each of these can be countered with Dark Barrier and Counter Aura, but it's usually safer to just use Dark Roll to dodge.

Julius's leaping body-slam cannot be countered, so Riku must dodge to avoid it. However, it provides a good window for Riku to launch a barrage of Balloons and Dark Firagas. If Julius begins to run around the battlefield, skidding to a stop every few seconds as he changes direction, chain multiple Dark Rolls together and get as far away from him as possible, as even his skidding deals damage. If Julius leaps onto the tall building at the end of the Fountain Plaza, disengage the Lock-On feature so that the camera focuses on Riku and the area in front of him rather than Julius and the area behind Riku, and chain multiple Dark Rolls together away from the building to avoid the deadly shockwaves triggered by Julius's landing. Lastly, should Julius grab Riku and breathe on him, he will dish out several status ailments such as Poison and Confuse that cannot be extinguished without a Panacea. Because these only last for a few seconds, however, it is recommended the player simply restore Riku back to full health and let Poison do its dirty work, healing again once the status ailment has dissipated.

After about six of Julius's HP bars have been depleted, the battlefield grows dark and Julius surrounds his fists with electricity. Carefully time Dark Rolls to avoid the lightning bolts that come crashing down on Riku, or chain several Dark Barriers together to defend against them. Because Julius's attacks are much more powerful in his charged-up state and come more frequently with greater range (and also have a chance of slowing down command reload times), the player should disregard offense for the time being and merely chain Dark Rolls together to avoid the boss (be extremely careful not to accidentally trigger Flowmotion, as this leaves Riku vulnerable). Julius leaps off of the building more often in this state, so always remember to disengage Lock-On and get as far away from him as possible when this happens. When Julius's fists cease to glow, resume the previous strategy of dodging his attacks and following up with Balloon-type spells or Dark Firaga. Julius will enter this more powerful state at random intervals from this point onward as his HP continues to dwindle.

Origin

Left: Julius in Runaway Brain
Right: Julius in Mickey's body

Julius first appeared in the Disney animated short film Runaway Brain. He is the monster of mad scientist Dr. Frankenollie, who Mickey Mouse applied to work for "a mindless day's work" in order to pay for a trip to Hawaii that he and Minnie were taking. Frankenollie decides to perform an experiment which successfully switches Mickey's brain with the brain of his monster, leaving the two swapped in each other's bodies, though at the cost of Frankenollie's life. In Mickey's body, Julius finds himself infatuated with Minnie and tries to kidnap her. However, Mickey, in the body of Julius, manages to stop him and reverse the brain swap once more. Now back in his own body, Mickey manages to incarcerate Julius by trapping him in rope leaving him being pulled up and down like a yo-yo off of a skyscraper's billboard. In the end, Mickey and Minnie use Julius as transportation to get them to Hawaii by boat, comically by hanging a photo of Minnie in front of him to make him try to swim and reach the photo, unwittingly rowing the boat.

Video

Julius—Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance

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