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Player character

A player character or playable character is a character in a video game or role playing game who is controlled or controllable by a player, and is typically a protagonist of the story told in the course of the game. A player character is a persona of the player who controls it. Player characters...

in video games produced by SNK

SNK Playmore

SNK Playmore Corporation is a Japanese video game hardware and software company. SNK is an acronym of , which was SNK's original name. The company's legal and trading name became SNK in 1986....

, primarily in the The King of Fighters series of fighting games, although he was originally from the military-themed action game Ikari Warriors

Ikari Warriors

Ikari Warriors is a 1986 arcade game by SNK, published in the United States and Europe by Tradewest. Known simply as in Japan, this was SNK's first major breakthrough US release and became something of a classic. The game was released at the time when there were many Commando clones on the market...

, and has also appeared as a character in certain installments of the Metal Slug series.
Clark was originally the Player 2 character in SNKs 1986 shooting action game Ikari Warriors

Ikari Warriors

(known simply as Ikari in Japan). In this game, Clark and his partner Ralf

Ralf Jones

is a video game character created by SNK Playmore . Ralf has made appearance in several games from the company, premiering in TNK III as a military tank driver. The Ikari Warriors series also emphasized Ralf's role as a soldier with him becoming the partner of Clark Still...

, are mercenaries sent to an unnamed hostile nation and destroyed the enemy's base.