I summoned Black Iron Tarkus for the Golem boss, and I thought the fight was going to be pretty challenging, because of how little damage I did. But instead, he just WHACKED the golen right off. In the immortal words of Charlie Slimecicle, "Shoutout to big MEN!"

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"Tarkus is possibly a reference to another character also named Tarkus in the 1987 Japanese manga Jojo's Bizarre Adventure"

Jojo's Tarkus is a reference to the prog rock epic bearing the same name, by the band "Emmerson, lake and palmer" (and his acolyte, Bruford, bear the same name as the guitarist of another pretty similar prog band, King Crimson... i think you are starting to see a pattern here). However seeing how minor Tarus is in Jojo i think it's more probable that a member of fromsoft team was a fan of the song. In the lyrics, Tarkus is a mythical death machine presenting as the blend of an armadillo and a tank, which could pretty accurately symbolise our favourite summon.

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second best waifu

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Tarkus: * solos the iron golem with easy*
Also tarkus: *trips and fell to his death*

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Holy **** I just realized this guy was a Jojo reference.

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Andre - Gigachad grandpa
Siegmeyer - Funny uncle
Solaire - BFF
Tarkus - Husbando (♡v♡)

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with the power of pluck i summon tarkus

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emerson lake and palmer in le dark souls???

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He didn't die.
He just entered ng+ after soloing every boss no hit no roll.
In memory of our lord our savior tarkus

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I've done MANY runs of this game and usually let Tarkus fight Iron Golem cuz its funny.

He has had 7 losses in a row, guys I think Tarkus is having a midlife crisis.

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He's just like solaire

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to the person below me, eygon pretty much soloes dragonslayer armor in ds3

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Is there any other NPC in the entire Soulsbornering series that is as strong against a boss as Black Iron Tarkus is in DS1? Sellsword Luet is a chad in 2 but not quite on the same level, 3 has a few good summons, but there is no one I can think of off the top of my head who dominates a boss the same way our boy Tarkus does.

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What an absolute Chad. Rest in peace.

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My Tarkus got owned by the Golem. Had to save his life with an appropriately timed heavy strike with my Black Knight's Halberd.

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All I learned from this is that the Chosen Undead is a real monster because he has the ability to summon a bosses

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Sometimes, all you want is to have a beer with Tarkus, Onion bro and Sun bro

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this guys popped up inside the boss arena when i tried to take out the giant who throw bombs at me. he ended up soloing the iron golem.

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YOU'RE UP AGAINST THE WALL, AND I AM THE ****ING WALL.

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This ****er is the doomguy of the soulsborne universe

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If they really felt like it leeroy solaire and tarkus could beat dark souls 1 2 and 3 together

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what a chad

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ah chad Tarkus, it seems to be a tradition at this point to allow the protagonist of dark souls to have a bulky summon who fights better than the protagonist sometimes. (DS1: Tarkus and Leeroy) (DS2: Sellsword Luet) DS3: Tsorig) and i have no idea about demons souls, bloodborne, or Elden Ring.

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ah yes Tarkus and his stand Iron Tarkus, tbh i prefer Iron Tarkus cuz jojo Tarkus is a ****head

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Tark Souls

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DONT YOU DARE TELL MY BOY TARKUS IS A JOJO REFERENCE

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Him and Leeroy are the only two summons that are more useful than most player summons against invaders. I'd be curious to know what his stats are for the build he rocks.

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Iron Twerkus

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if there ever was a way to do it, i would like to see tarkus vs all ds3 summons

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Tarkus did not fall in Anor Londo. If he can traverse beams in Sen's Fortress, with swinging pendulums, dart traps, and lighting being thrown at him... then he can traverse a simple beam with some daggers being thrown at him. I'm pretty sure Tarkus had a run in with Priscilla, as there is a Berenike knight found just before her room (likely one of Tarkus' men.)

It's my guess that Tarkus and his knights made their way through the undead burg and Sen's, then into Anor Londo (as evidenced by the hollowed Berenike knights you find along the way.) Tarkus and his last knight trek Anor Londo, over the rafters and down into the painting room, where the guardians overwhelmed the two and chased them to the painting, where they were sucked into it, with the guards waiting outside. Tarkus and his last knight, perplexed, made their way through the painted world. Either the knight went hollow just before Priscilla, or he stayed to hold off the enemies, as Tarkus trudged forward, and went hollow later. Priscilla convinced Tarkus to "hurry home"... and he fell back through the painting, where the guards were still... and met his end, where he was battered into a corner by the mob of guardians.

I'm also fairly certain the peculiar doll being needed for entry is just a game mechanic and not lore relevant, as you enter Ariandel just by touching the painting, with no doll needed. Could be wrong, but... just makes sense to me.

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This man is a beast, I summoned him and he was kicking ass, what a CHAD. I wish I can become such a CHAD as him.

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You can level up as much as you want in this game but you'll never be as much of a Chad as he is

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We had a band, called We Iron Knights, and despite ME being the leader, he and the knights said they're creative influence "changed." What's more? After the split they REFORMED, I reapeat, REFORMED, without ME, and changed the name - that's right - to Tarkus and the Irons! And what did they do? They continued playing the EXACT same music genre we played! And the electropop synth was MY idea in the first place! I had to join the Snakeheads to keep my position in the local Battle of the Bands hall of fame! The SNAKEHEADS! Those guys are really mean! And play metal! The lack of synthesizers and xylophones made me really, really sad. What did I play? Ohhhh buddy, they made me play DRUMS! D R U M S! It was an outrage. Absolute disgrace. Instead of playing new wave hiphop post punk electro synth-pop, we were playing metal. Not even good metal, nothing like hit local band Dragonslayers or Fire Queens, no, we were playing nothing but screamo metal. AND NONE OF US CAN SCREAM!

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I couldn't summon him as I was unable to see his sign in one of my many playthroughs. As for the reason why I have no clue. I could always see it befor just not that one time. His armor still appeared. (Remaster)

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Hot giant piece of raw iron gets bootyspanked by a sexy heavy badass with a huge shlong into oblivion

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“Remember that one time we made a summonable npc incredibly helpful? Yeah ha, let’s never do that again”

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the virgin jojo tarkus........ VS THE CHAD IRON TARKUS

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I'm really scared guys please don't summon him

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there is a berenike knight in the painting of ariamis. So either that is tarkus, or there was another knight that succeded

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tarkus with gwynevere chest sounds like the ultimate lifeform

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tarkus didnt die he just took a nap thats why the secret ending for 0 hit run no damage broken sword with guitar hero control is iron tarkus busting into the kiln and obliterating the player in one hit and reclaiming his armor then he stomps out the first flame and begins the age of black iron tarkus where all beings become tarkus even the rats tarkus, gwynevere boobie tarkus this is canon lore btw not lying cuz im actually vattividya 

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Nah he didn’t die he just gave his armor to some casul who later died and went to the painted world to play with priscilla

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Why is everyone acting like this guy is some huge badass? If he could solo O&S I'd be impressed, but my man couldn't even make it to O&S. Iron Golem? Literally the second easiest boss after Pinwheel? How is that an achievement at all...

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Dude is the Iron Golem's kryptonite, 10/10 would bro it up at the nearby bonfire with a sip from our estus.

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Funny Jojo reference.

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Anyway tarkus is a reference to the ELP album

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lmao i was wondering wtf was the point of that area across the bridge

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Caca poo po

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What a god... Damn... Man! *****ing love this guy. Would love to see a confrontation between him and havel

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I think tarkus died due to wounds he received in the painted world rather than from falling. If you look closely at the tiles on the chapel floor you can see cracks from something extremely heavy landing on it. Tarkus fell but notice how his corpse isn't on the floor where the cracks are it is by the painting. I think the knights of berenike made it to the painting but tarkus was injured within the painting and chose to die in the world he called home. He did all this as a human not an undead. He never went hollow. What a hero.

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Tarkus never dies, he's just missing in action.

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Ha. All these years and no mention, huh? Is it that obscure? Take a good look at Tarkus. Now look at Foxeye ( Tarkus' armor is an Armored Core reference by the same devs, particularly the helmet. Similar design pattern, not to mention the little inserts that make the helmet look like it has four eyes. Foxeye is from Armored Nexus and Last Raven, piloted by Jack-O.

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after he died he was canonically resurrected by Dio in the chosen undead's bizarre adventure

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I took tarkus Armour and continued his story

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He didn’t go hollow and die. Assuming he is undead, he fell to his doom multiple times, which explains the multiple cracks in the tiling. Tired of the Painting Guardians BS, he stuffed one in his armor and threw him off the side. He then proceeded to fast roll though the rest of the game.

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Tarkus never died. He just found Anor Londo too easy, so he took off all his equipment and soloed the place naked.

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If it looks like chicken, smells like chicken, tastes like chicken but iron tarkus says it's beef. It's beef

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Tarkus is actually implied to still be human. (Or as close to human the strongest warrior in the series is, yes he beat Havel as implied by having his ring) Also he most likely went into the painted world and succumbed to his injuries after leaving. (Considering there's a Berenike knight in the painted world it makes more sense than dying on a lesser version of some of Sen's Fortress).

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Dank Iron D a n k u s s

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How the hell did tarkus go through sens fortress ya know... an area that is full of narrow beams and swinging axes but he died doing the same thing with only the painting guardians in his way?

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Tarkus isn't dead, he's just sleeping

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when people wonder if Tarkus arrives home every knight... they know because the all the doors run from him and his couch nails itself to the seeling.

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Chuck Norris of Dark Souls series

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HOLY***** IS THAT A JOJO REFERENCE?


lol joke aside its a *****ing jojo reference, stand jokes anyone?

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RIP tarkus, the best wifeu

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Tarkus doesn't dodge attacks. Attacks dodge Tarkus.

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The Tarkus from JoJo's Bizzare Adventure is also a reference to the ELP song (which, hilariously enough, is about a tank with an armadillo body for some reason). Shouldn't we mention that as well?

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Ok, according to the lore, Undead only die permanently AFTER hollowing completely, right? So if Tarkus was in fact undead, how could he have died falling from the scaffolding only once? Wouldn't there be more evidence that he tried over and over to overcome the challenge there, like broken tiles along the room, before he finally hollowed and took his final swan dive?

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