This article is about the original Doom games monster Revenant. For the monster in Doom 3, see Revenant (Doom 3).

Revenants are monsters introduced in Doom II that are easily recognized by their high-pitched shriek. They take the form of very tall animated skeletons in metal body armor equipped with shoulder-mounted missile launchers, and blood and gore running down their ribcage and legs. Their running movements are a herky-jerky approach akin to a stringed puppet.

According to the manual: Apparently when a demon dies, they pick him up, dust him off, wire him some combat gear, and send him back into battle. No rest for the wicked, eh? You wish your missiles did what his can do.

Contents 1 Combat characteristics 2 Tactical analysis 3 Notes 4 Data 5 Appearance statistics 6 Doom RPG 7 See also

Combat characteristicsEdit

A revenant emits a raging/pain-like high-pitched scream, similarly to an "Aaaaargh!" interjection of pain, when spotting the player.

Revenants fire two sorts of missiles; unguided and homing. The homing missiles can be identified by their gray smoke trail. During melee combat they can also strike a blow with one of their large fists, complete with an exaggerated punching sound effect. When a revenant is within 196 units of its target, it will resort to its punching attack, unless attacked and hurt, where it counter-attacks with a missile.

When killed, a few of the revenant's bones will shatter (producing a "metallic" sound very alike to a "Clink!") and the monster will simply fall on its back, one of the cleanest monster deaths the player will come across.

Tactical analysisEdit

The revenant's missiles are very powerful and when homing, particularly hard to dodge when out in the open. Fortunately, the pain chance of a revenant is rather high, so a chaingun will generally suffice against a single monster, preventing it from attacking. The revenant is rather fast on its feet, so players must be sure to keep their distance. If they do not, the melee attack of the revenant delivers a fiendishly powerful blow that can easily crush the player with a few hits, so therefore melee attacks are strongly discouraged. On harder difficulties, they are often found in large groups, especially out in the open.

When fighting larger groups of these towering skeletons, it is useful to use a plasma gun, the BFG9000 or a rocket launcher. Two solid blasts from the super shotgun will reliably kill a revenant. It is advisable for the player to keep moving in order to avoid distant missiles, and if pillars, walls, or other obstacles are available, then they will be useful as barriers for stopping homing missiles. The homing missiles are very difficult to outrun, but if the player is able to strafe to the side and then forward just before being hit, the projectile may not be able to come around again. This tactic is especially useful if the player has backed up against a wall; the missile will impact the wall before it has a chance to orbit for another pass. Another way to dodge them is for the player to slide behind an obstacle or around a corner.

The revenant is a dangerous monster to the player because of its tracking missiles, but it is not particularly powerful in monster infighting. A Mancubus or Hell knight, for instance, can waste a revenant fairly easily.

NotesEdit

• The name revenant is of French origin, and generally means "one who returns (from death)".
• When compared to the monster as it appears in the game, the revenant model built during the game's development shows a good deal more muscle tissue, and no chest armor.
• The sprite name for the Revenant's missiles is FATB, and is grouped directly under the Mancubus sprites (FATT). The graphics for these missiles may have been initially intended for the Mancubus projectiles earlier in Doom II's development.
• Despite the fact that the engine considers the revenant only 56 units in height, the actual sprite of monster is taller closer to 72 units or more in height, making the revenant look as if it is standing "inside" the ceiling if it enters a corridor or room that is less than 72 units in height.
• Final Doom's The Plutonia Experiment has the greatest number of revenants used in a single mainstream Doom title; almost every single level has them, with the sole exclusions being MAP11: Hunted (since it only contains arch-viles as enemies) and MAP17: Compound.
• Because revenant rockets adjust their direction to aim towards the targeted player, it is possible to place them into stable orbits [1][2].
• When attacking at range, both of the revenant's shoulder mounted missile launchers visually light up despite that only one missile is fired.
• Revenants, unlike all other monsters - most particularly Imp, Baron of Hell, Hell Knight and Cacodemon - have separate animations for melee and ranged attacks, and both are shown distinctly during the Doom II cast sequence.
• PlayStation/Saturn Doom's version of the revenant is considerably easier to tangle with than its PC counterpart; its running speed is much slower (akin to a zombie's or imp's pace), and while it only fires homing missiles, the missiles are also slower and easier to avoid. Its alert and dying sounds also sound done on the cheap in comparison with the other monsters (save for the spiderdemon).
• Game Boy Advance Doom's version of the Revenant only fires homing missiles.
• The Revenant appears in PlayStation/Saturn Doom in several maps taken from the original/Ultimate Doom, despite the fact that in the PC version of the game, he did not appear until Doom II. In this version of the game, several other Doom II monsters also appear in original Doom maps (including the Former Commando, Mancubus, Pain Elemental, and Arachnotron).
• In a ZDoom-based source port, if the player is killed by a revenant (monster is credited with delivering the blow that reduces player's health to 0%), one of two obituary messages will be displayed at the top of the screen depending on which attack the revenant used to kill the player: "[player name] was punched by a Revenant" or "[player name] couldn't evade a Revenant's fireball" for the punch and missile attacks respectively.
• In Brutal Doom, Revenants fire guided and non-guided missiles in volleys of 2 and 4 respectively, and they can all be easily identified beforehand by their outside glowing colors (red for guided missiles and yellow for non-guided missiles). Guided missiles now fly diagonally towards the ground, unless they hit their target or an obstacle. Their hellish missile launchers can be acquired by destroying or mutilating the Revenant via rocket launcher or chainsaw (Revenant's shoulder cannons are mapped to key 8).

DataEdit

Attributes ID # 66 (decimal), 42 (hex) Hit points 300 Speed 10 map units per frame (175.0 map units per second) Width 40 Height 56 Reaction time 8 Pain chance 100 (39.06%) Pain time 10 tics Mass 500 Bits 4194310 Bits list 1: Obstacle 2: Shootable 22: Affects Kill %

Sprites & sounds Sprite name SKEL Alert sound DSSKESIT Action sound DSSKEACT Pain sound DSPOPAIN Death sound DSSKEDTH

Melee attack Damage 8-64 Sound DSSKESWG (backswing) DSSKEPCH (impact) Ranged attack Type Projectile (sometimes guided) Speed 10 map units per tic (350 map units per second) Damage 10-80 Width 11 Height 8 Sprite name FATB (in flight) PUFF (trail) FBXP (impact) Sound DSSKEATK (firing) DSBAREXP (impact)

Punches needed to kill1	Mean	Standard deviation	Min	Max
Player (100% health, no armor)	3.68	1.01	2	8
Player (100% health, security armor)	5.16	1.20	3	9
Player (200% health, combat armor)	12.86	1.58	9	17
Barrel	1.37	0.59	1	4
Trooper	1.37	0.59	1	4
Sergeant	1.50	0.66	1	5
Wolfenstein SS	2.18	0.80	1	5
Imp	2.40	0.82	1	6
Chaingunner	2.81	0.84	2	6
Lost Soul	3.68	1.01	2	8
Commander Keen	3.68	1.01	2	8
Demon	5.16	1.20	3	9
Spectre	5.16	1.20	3	9
Boss Brain2	8.30	1.39	5	12
Revenant	9.73	1.50	6	14
Cacodemon	12.86	1.58	9	17
Pain Elemental	12.86	1.58	9	17
Hell Knight	16.00	1.60	12	20
Arachnotron	16.00	1.60	12	20
Mancubus	18.86	1.60	15	22
Arch-Vile	22.03	1.54	18	26
Baron of Hell	31.28	1.35	27	35
Spider Mastermind	92.97	1.85	88	97
Cyberdemon	123.86	2.07	118	127

Shots needed to kill (normal missile)	Mean	Standard deviation	Min	Max
Player (100% health, no armor)	2.75	0.78	2	5
Player (100% health, security armor)	3.85	0.91	2	6
Player (200% health, combat armor)	9.50	1.50	6	14
Barrel	1.12	0.33	1	2
Trooper	1.12	0.33	1	2
Sergeant	1.27	0.51	1	3
Wolfenstein SS	1.59	0.68	1	4
Imp	1.80	0.75	1	4
Chaingunner	2.04	0.77	1	5
Lost Soul	2.75	0.78	2	5
Commander Keen	2.75	0.78	2	5
Demon	3.85	0.91	2	6
Spectre	3.85	0.91	2	6
Boss Brain	6.09	1.18	4	9
Revenant3
Cacodemon	9.50	1.50	6	14
Pain Elemental	9.50	1.50	6	14
Hell Knight	11.68	1.70	8	16
Arachnotron	11.68	1.70	8	16
Mancubus	13.90	1.83	9	18
Arch-Vile	16.16	1.97	11	20
Baron of Hell	22.80	2.24	17	28
Spider Mastermind	67.32	2.88	61	74
Cyberdemon	89.75	2.52	84	97

Shots needed to kill (guided missile)4	Mean	Standard deviation	Min	Max
Player (100% health, no armor)	2.79	0.84	2	6
Player (100% health, security armor)	3.91	1.07	2	8
Player (200% health, combat armor)	9.42	1.56	6	15
Barrel	1.12	0.33	1	2
Trooper	1.12	0.33	1	2
Sergeant	1.25	0.46	1	3
Wolfenstein SS	1.61	0.69	1	4
Imp	1.81	0.76	1	5
Chaingunner	2.05	0.82	1	5
Lost Soul	2.79	0.84	2	6
Commander Keen	2.79	0.84	2	6
Demon	3.91	1.07	2	8
Spectre	3.91	1.07	2	8
Boss Brain	6.09	1.33	4	11
Revenant3
Cacodemon	9.42	1.56	6	15
Pain Elemental	9.42	1.56	6	15
Hell Knight	11.62	1.65	8	17
Arachnotron	11.62	1.65	8	17
Mancubus	13.82	1.72	10	20
Arch-Vile	16.03	1.76	11	21
Baron of Hell	22.80	1.91	19	28
Spider Mastermind	67.36	1.94	62	72
Cyberdemon	89.75	2.03	85	95

1. These tables assume that all calls to P_Random for damage, pain chance, impact animations, backfire checks, and smoke trails are consecutive. In real play, this is never the case: counterattacks and AI pathfinding must be handled, and of course the map may contain additional moving monsters and other randomized phenomena (such as flickering lights). Any resulting errors are probably toward the single-shot average, as they introduce noise into the correlation between the indices of "consecutive" calls.
2. Assumes that direct hits are possible, which does not occur in any stock map.
3. Hardcoded exception to infighting negates damage (excepting indirect damage caused by exploding barrels).
4. Assumes that the target is 196 units away. The approximation of consecutive P_Random calls is particularly shaky in the case of a revenant's missile: not only does the total number of calls depend on the flight time of the missile (via the smoke puffs), but the absolute gametic value at launch determines whether the missile is guided or not, and that in turn is highly dependent on how far the revenant walks between attacks.

Appearance statisticsEdit

In classic Doom, the revenant is first encountered on these maps:

Game	ITYTD and HNTR	HMP	UV and NM
Doom II	MAP06: The Crusher	MAP06: The Crusher	MAP06: The Crusher
TNT: Evilution	MAP05: Hanger	MAP03: Power Control	MAP02: Human BBQ
Plutonia	MAP01: Congo	MAP01: Congo	MAP01: Congo

The IWADs contain the following numbers of revenants:

Game	ITYTD and HNTR	HMP	UV and NM
Doom II	20	59	90
TNT: Evilution	61	152	233
Plutonia	266	349	422

Doom RPGEdit

In Doom RPG, the revenant appears as a class of monster. There are three variations, identified by color:

• Ghoul (normal colors with green "pants" of blood)
• Fiend (reddish combat gear with blue "pants" of blood)
• Revenant (normal colors)

This monster explodes when it is killed and causes damage to any player, monster, or barrel adjacent to it. It is weak against rockets.

See alsoEdit

• Revenant tracers not preserved in saved games
• Monsters open locked doors
• Models

Monsters from Doom and Doom II
Arachnotron | Arch-Vile | Baron of Hell | Cacodemon | Commander Keen | Cyberdemon | Demon | Heavy Weapon Dude | Hell Knight | Imp | Lost Soul | Mancubus | Pain Elemental | Revenant | Shotgun Guy | Spectre | Spider Mastermind | Zombieman | Wolfenstein SS | Final Boss

Monsters from the Sony PlayStation version of Doom
Arachnotron | Baron of Hell | Cacodemon | Cyberdemon | Demon | Heavy Weapon Dude | Hell Knight | Imp | Lost Soul | Mancubus | Nightmare Spectre | Pain Elemental | Revenant | Shotgun Guy | Spectre | Spider Mastermind | Zombieman