Tantalus

Tantalus was a mythological king and the main antagonist of the D.G.S.

History
The story of Tantalus is similar with his counterpart of the myths, he was a mythological king who killed his own son, during a banquet of the Gods and served for the gods to eat. He also ordered his servants to sacrifice humans to the gods. However, the Olympian gods did not see it with good eyes and punished Tantalus with immortality, and they stay in a hypnotic possession under a tree and raise the branch to get their meal, and always when he went to get to drink the water he retreated. He would be thirsty and hungry forever because of his immortality. However he would be released by Makuth who would only release him if he swore allegiance, which Tantalus accepted.

With that, Tantalus soon went to São Paulo, he would also kill many people and copy the similar killings of the events of the Greek sacrifices. With that the Gus Team soon begins to investigate and discovers that Tantalus, at the time called The Assassin Gods had killed 20 people, all burned and devoured. Tantalus soon follows Gus to school and attacks him, but Gus dodges him and kicks him, Tantalus gets up and introduces himself, he then equipped with a quinque created by Makuth, makes Gus fight him. The fight ends up being very fierce, Gus then appears behind Tantalus and stabs him with his kagune, but Tantalus runs away.

After that, Tantalus fights Claire and wins by using his quinque and immobilizing Claire, he then kidnaps her. And then he sets a trap against Gus under threat. However, Tantalus is deceived as Eto and Krsnik go to Tantalus and defeat him, with which they then seal Tantalus in eternal sleep.

Trivia

 * In this version of the story, Tantalus is serial killer although his murders were to attract Gus, he is also one of the many prolific serial killers in the series, although he had other killers that he killed but him, like Gul Colucci and Eto Yoshimura, he too is one of the oldest serial killers in the series.