Goenitz/Story

Past


Ever since Goenitz was young, he knew his duty as a Heavenly King and made haste to revive his lord Orochi. In an attempt to reach this means, he became a religious missionary who would travel to those in need. When he was eighteen, he challenged Rugal Bernstein and easily defeated the older man by taking out one of his eyes. As an experiment, he granted his opponent some of Orochi's power to see if he could become a valid host for the entity. Goenitz eventually assigns the task of observing the crimelord to two other Hakkeshu, Mature and Vice.

Some time later, he paid a visit to a remote village where a Hakesshu member, Gaidel, was staying. To his surprise, Gaidel was living a peaceful life and had no interest in their lord's mission. In response, Goenitz activated the Riot of the Blood in his daughter, Leona, which lead to the death of her parents and everyone else in the village. Pleased with the results, he sealed away her memories and continued to look for ways of speeding up his lord's revival. He noticed that the seal containing Orochi is too strong for his lord, so he paid a visit to the Yata household. He murdered the current head of the clan, Maki Kagura, to break the seal's power.

The King of Fighters '96
Sometime after the 1995 tournament, he also decided to track the Three Sacred Treasures that previously defeated his lord. Since he had previously judged Chizuru Kagura, and Mature and Vice were keeping an eye on Iori Yagami, Goenitz decided to personally test Kyo Kusanagi's strength. Although he expected a glorious fight from the 1995 champion, he defeated the Kusanagi heir with ease, and nearly killed him. Later, he interrupts the 1996 tournament to finally end all three heirs at once. In the final events of the tournament, he is defeated by Kyo with the help of Iori and Chizuru. Humiliated, Goenitz saves face and apparently took his own life in the aftermath of the tournament by cutting his body on his own wind, making Kyo the champion of the tournament.

The King of Fighters XIV
Due to Verse's actions during the events of KOF XIV, it is likely Goenitz has been revived as well, as confirmed by Yasuyuki Oda in an interview. A strong argument of this possibility is the revival of the entire New Faces (now Orochi) Team, fellow Hakkesshus. The manga The King of Fighters: A New Beginning also hints of a silhouette of him being among the resurrected souls, further reinforcing this possibility. This would later be confirmed in canon.

The King of Fighters XV
In KOF XV, Team Orochi's story and cutscenes confirm Goenitz's revival. Though he does not take part in the tournament initially, he is in contact with them via phone and says that he had fun with achieving his own goals. It is hinted that the Ikari Warriors are keeping him under surveillance, and like the Orochi Team, he is looking for an opportunity to bring an end to mankind.

Later on, he joins in the fray as a single competitor, like Omega Rugal.

In the Team Awakened Orochi ending, the four of them successfully excised the entirety of mankind and civilization from the face of the Earth, but with only them as the remaining humans, their future and survival is now uncertain, and they may have achieved nothing but a Pyrrhic victory.

It is also heavily implied this ending is not canon either or belongs to a different instance of a multiverse.

Maximum Impact

 * Goenitz's life in this timeline is exactly the same as his mainline counterpart up until his death in The King of Fighters '96.

KOF: Maximum Impact 2
According to the original online stories in the Maximum Impact universe, Goenitz and the other deceased Hakkeshu still haunt the mortal realm at Orochi's behest. Orochi seems to wants him to study the current mentality of humans, and Goenitz obeys by occasionally materializing his spirit into the mortal realm to have philosophical conversations with random people. He shares one such chat with Ninon Beart.