Schwarlitz Longhener



"Made it this far, have you? Your fortitude is an obscenity. It delights me that you are progressing towards your true potential. Thanks to your endeavors, our well-laid plan to alter the future will finally bear fruit. At last, it's time for you to die. Farewell."

- Colonel Longhener

Colonel Schwarlitz Longhener/Godwin Longhener is the main villain from the DonPachi series, acting as final boss in DoDonPachi and DoDonPachi Resurrection, where he pilots Hibachi. The commander of the DonPachi Corps, Longhener holds total power over the squadron, despite his colonel rank. Longhener has a belief that humanity are a flawed creation, and thus he seeks to eradicate it.

DonPachi
Schwarlitz Longhener created the DonPachi Corps, a squadron of elite soldiers who gone through an arduous training which involved killing their own comrades, who sacrificed themselves in order to allow only the most skilled to pass the test.

DoDonPachi
The player pilot, a member of the DonPachi Corps, is sent by Longhener to fight an invasion by a mysterious mechanized alien force. Upon defeating this threat, however, the pilot receives a communication from Longhener, who reveals he have been actually fighting against his own comrades, a lost fleet who defected from the DonPachi Corps and was trying to stop the colonel's mad schemes. With them out of the way, Longhener sends his own fleet against the pilot, him having served his purpose. The pilot defeats Longhener's fleet, so Longhener uses his most powerful weapon, Hibachi, against him, but he is ultimately killed. The pilot finally realizes Longhener's true plan, musing on the irony that this entire war actually solved all of mankind's problems of overpopulation, pollution and arms race. The DonPachi Corps was then dissolved, all of their weapons gathered and sealed away in a cave inside the moon (which leads to the events of DoDonPachi Blissful Death/DaiOuJou).