Skelter Helter

Skelter Helter
Also known as	Vincent
Family	Unnamed mother Helter-Skelter (brother)
Occupation	Assassin
Affiliation	United Assassins Association
Status	Deceased
Weapon	Beam katana and revolver
First appearance	No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle
Played by	Matthew Mercer

Skelter Helter is a character in No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle. He is the fifty-first-ranked assassin in the United Assassins Association. He is the first boss battle in the game.

History

Backstory

Skelter Helter, real name Vincent, was the younger brother of the former eleventh-ranked assassin in the United Assassins Association, Helter-Skelter. He attended college with the money given to him by his brother from his job as an assassin.

No More Loser

Skelter Helter met up with Helter-Skelter at a bar, the two drinking shots as Helter-Skelter smoked a cigar. Skelter Helter revealed that he knew that his brother was an assassin and that the large sums of money Helter-Skelter gave him were from his assassination job. Helter-Skelter replied that he didn't want his brother to end up like him or their mother. Helter-Skelter gave his brother a bag full of money which he took but refused to use to protect his brother's honor. Helter-Skelter went to leave, telling his brother that they'd meet next year after he graduated. Before he left, Helter-Skelter warned his brother that if he were to ever meet a blonde woman from Scandinavia, he should never associate with her and if he does, to answer no to any of her questions.

The next year, Skelter Helter sat in the same bar, waiting for his brother to show up. He was looking at his phone, at the latest text message from his brother that told Skelter Helter that he'd show up once he was finished with his job. As he was reading this, Helter-Skelter was engaged in a battle with Travis Touchdown, resulting in Helter-Skelter being killed. Soon afterwards, Skelter Helter would meet the woman that his brother had warned him about, Sylvia Christel who posed as a prostitute in order to meet him. Sylvia would tell Skelter Helter the identity of his brother's killer and ask if he wanted to join the United Assassins Association. Against his late brother's wishes, Skelter Helter answered yes, becoming the fifty-first-ranked assassin.

No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle

Skelter Helter stood on the rooftop where his brother had been killed, waiting for Travis to show up. When the elevator in front of him reached the top floor, Skelter Helter pulled out his gun and repeatedly shot through the elevator door and at the caped figure inside, however, the cape was empty and Travis appeared behind him. Skelter Helter leapt away from Travis, ready to fight, but not before asking Travis if he remembered the place they were at, Travis responded that it was the place where his first ranking fight was. When Skelter Helter said that he'd avenge his brother, Travis was confused and forgot who he fought in this location, infuriating Skelter Helter for dishonoring his brother and he charged Travis to fight him.

Their battle ended when Travis decapitated Skelter Helter with his beam katana, his head flying through the air before landing back on his neck. After Sylvia Christel, Talbot and Weller came to confirm the kill and dispose of the body, Skelter Helter woke up and revealed he was still alive. He gave a message to Travis in order to get revenge for Travis killing his brother, the person that Travis considered to be a brother, Georgy Bishop, would be killed that night, Skelter Helter uses this as a way to burden Travis with the death of someone he cared for the same way he did. After exclaiming that this is the ultimate vengeance, Skelter Helter reached up to his hair and pulled his decapitated head from his neck, finally killing him.

Trivia

• Skelter Helter's general design and sword are based on Cloud Strife and his Buster Sword from Final Fantasy VII.
• Skelter Helter, alongside four other bosses from No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle, appears as an optional boss fight in the game No More Heroes: Heroes Paradise.