Axel Rose

"Today's Wednesday. I always kill orphans on Wednesday."

- Axel

Axel is a character in the Ansem Retort series of webcomics.

Season 1
Axel first appears reading an invitation for March 21, calling him to be on a reality show. He thinks back, remembering... He's also due in court that day for burning an orphanage. Being the pyro he is, Axel opts for burning the courthouse and going to the reality show instead. Ansem declares that "You all have a personality disorder and each of you is addicted to at least 3 illegal drugs", though which ones Axel is on are not stated. Axel clearly has pyromania. He shares a room with Marluxia, dubbing the other man "The Grim Reaper's homosexual cousin."

He shows skill at manipulating Larxene do to things with her knives, like stab things or run places, but one thing he seems unable to do is make her concentrate. With the appearance of Darth Maul, it is revealed Axel went to college with the Sith, majoring in random violence and minoring in mysterious organizations. Clearly, his major has been put to good use, but as Axel says, "It was kind of a conflict of interests." Apparently he killed everyone in the organization, though what organization is murky. Members of Organization XIII seem to be alive and walking.

In Season 1, Axel shows tactical brilliance used in a not-so-brilliant way, uses cliches, and is elected leader of the kill-the-leader-of-FOX mission from rock-paper-scissors. And overall burns stuff. He often makes satirical comments about FOX, Microsoft, celebrities, etc.

In the Ansem Retort #93, Axel is the one to deliver the final blow to FOX's executive demonlord. "That's it? Axel stabs the guy and we all go home?" (Marluxia)

Season 2
Axel's first appearence in Season 2 has him giving a somewhat promo of the new season, claiming it will have "75% more face-stabbing, 140% more illeagal substances, 25% more ADD jokes, and 500% more Tequila". In the next few comics, he shows interest in Kairi's replacement, Aerith. After asking Marluxia for some advice on how to ask her out (really just to make fun of him), he asks Aerith out on their first date. (Between the asking and the date, he starts a webseries called "Throwing Darts at Fat People", where he, Zexion and Larxene throw darts at fat people). After the date (which was offscreen), Aerith's ex-boyfriend Cloud comes into play as an assassin trying to kill Sora. Axel and Cloud don't like each other as rivals (for Aerith and for the title of Best Murderer), and Cloud challenges Axel to a Murder-Off. Axel wins the Murder-off due to some interference by Aerith, Zexion and Namine. He takes a somewhat backseat to the plot for a while, but during the incident involving Sora's Shadow Clones, Axel hits Reverse Nirvana and goes on a massive killing spree. He obliterates the Shadow Clones, then goes on an orphan-killing rampage. In order to stop him, Namine and Aerith promise Larxene a bag of gummy bears and Cocaine if she can stop him. The fight ends with no known outcome. When the cast splits up due to DiZ's warning, Axel is last seen in Mexico City with Aerith, commenting "I'm going to find a way to get deported back to the US, just for the irony."