List of characters in the Street Fighter series
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This is a list of characters from the Street Fighter
fighting game
series. This list covers the original Street Fighter
, the Street Fighter II
series, the Street Fighter Alpha
series, the Street Fighter III
series, and the Street Fighter IV
series, as well as other related games.
warrior the player faces before the final match against Sagat, using his trademark "Jaguar Kick" to wreak havoc on his opponents. He would re-emerge in Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams and its subsequent sequels: Alpha 2
and Alpha 3
. In the first two Alpha games, Adon is characterized as a former pupil of Sagat seeking to surpass his disgraced master by defeating him, and in Alpha 3 he tries to track down and challenge Akuma. He briefly appears in Sagat's Street Fighter IV
prologue where he is defeated by Sagat once again. Adon is a playable character in Super Street Fighter IV
. In the same way as Birdie and Eagle, Adon and Sagat share a motif: both characters' special moves are inspired by felines
, the jaguar and the tiger.
Adon appears in the Street Fighter
cartoon series as a non-speaking fighter in the episode "The Medium is the Message". He also makes a brief cameo in Street Fighter Alpha: The Animation as one of the fighters accompanying Ryu to save Shun from Professor Sadler. He notably gets into an argument with Birdie, and is later shown fighting Rolento in the base's arena.
as the first of two opponents the player faces in England
. In this game, Birdie is depicted as a tall white punk rocker with a beak shaped mohawk. He and Eagle are named after the golf
ing terms Birdie and Eagle.
The character would reappear in Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams in 1995 and its subsequent sequels, Street Fighter Alpha 2
in 1996 and Alpha 3
in 1998. In this game, Birdie was depicted as a hulking black punk rocker with a blonde blade-shaped mohawk
. The character jokes about this inconsistency in Alpha 3 by stating he "looked pale because (he) was sick". Birdie fights in the Alpha series with a grappling style similar to Zangief
's, using his chains to slam opponents and a dashing headbutt similar to Balrog's punch rush.
In the first two Alpha games, Birdie is characterized as a former pub bouncer who seeks to gain fame for himself by joining M. Bison's organization, Shadaloo. In the endings of both games, he defeats Bison in combat and is allowed to join his organization. The first game depicts Birdie with the Shadaloo skull logo on his jacket, outside Jack's Bar, possibly a reference to the character C. Jack from Street Fighter EX. In Alpha 3, Birdie is already a member of Shadaloo, but seeks to take over the organization by rebelling against Bison.
Birdie also appears in the Street Fighter
cartoon series in two episodes. He is first shown as an unknown fighter in the episode "The Medium is the Message" and later appears in "Cammy and the Bachelor", teaming up with Final Fight
s Sodom as the two fighters cause a crime wave in England under orders from Bison and Shadaloo. He also makes a small appearance in Street Fighter Alpha: The Animation as one of several fighters accompanying Ryu to rescue Shun from Dr. Sadler. He is the first to win a preliminary match, against Dan, and is taken inside the base, but ends up trapped in a machine which saps him of his fighting potential. He is rescued by Ken and Chun-Li and later apparently dies in the fight against Rosanov. In the anime, he is portrayed as a much more benevolent character, constantly imploring Ken and Chun-Li to flee the base without him and attempting to fight Rosanov even when badly injured.
Birdie was voted joint last in Capcom's own popularity poll of 85 characters for the 15th anniversary of Street Fighter. In 2009, Birdie topped a list of "The 10 Lamest Street Fighter Characters Ever Conceived".
and master of singlestick
. He craves to experience all fighting arts, searching for the perfect duel. He is introduced in the first Street Fighter as the second computer-controlled opponent the players face in England. He would re-emerge as a selectable character in the crossover game Capcom vs. SNK 2
, having become a secret agent for MI6, and from there was included in the GBA
and PSP
versions of Street Fighter Alpha 3
. He has special moves named after Canterbury
, Liverpool
, Manchester
, Oxford
and St. Andrews.
In 2010, Tekken 5
champion Ryan Hart listed Eagle at the top of his list of best Street Fighter characters.
and has the ability to teleport
. He is the second Japanese opponent in the original Street Fighter, a battle which takes place near Mount Fuji
. In an issue of UDON's Street Fighter comic book, Geki appears as an assassin sent to kill Gen.
In the Street Fighter Legends: Ibuki comic miniseries, Geki is depicted as a rival clan to Ibuki's clan.
Gen would resurface as a playable character in Street Fighter Alpha 2 (1996) and its sequel, Street Fighter Alpha 3 (1998). Gen is the only character in the game who can switch between two fighting styles during gameplay: the Mourning Style and the Hateful Style, also known as the Mantis and Crane styles respectively. He changes not only his fighting stance and basic moves, but his special moves and Super Combos as well. In Alpha 3, this feature is removed when Gen is selected in X-ism mode. In the storyline of the Alpha series, Gen is a terminally ill assassin who seeks to fight Akuma as his last opponent before dying. Gen also confronts Chun-Li (whose father was Gen's student according to the backstory) as a secret rival character in Alpha 2 and Ryu as mid-boss in Alpha 3, believing that he uses the same murderous style as Akuma. Gen appears in the home version of Street Fighter IV as an additional character. Gen's connection with Chun-Li's father and his conflicting emotions with her plays a role in his backstory in the game. He was played by Robin Shou
in Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li
.
champion who practiced by participating in street fights. Correlations between Joe and the blonde-haired, red jeans wearing underground fighter "Ghost" from the Capcom game Final Fight: Streetwise
have led many to believe they are the same guy.
. He later appears in the manga Sakura Ganbaru!! as an opponent who challenges Sakura in a street fighting event sponsored by Karin Kanzuki at the Setagaya Ward. He also appears in UDON's Street Fighter Legends: Chun-Li to challenge Fei Long for the honor of revealing a Chinese artifact. Lee is also revealed to be an uncle of the Street Fighter III characters Yun and Yang, and possibly Gen's son.
who formerly competed professionally until he accidentally killed an opponent during a match. He is the second opponent the player faces in the USA in the original Street Fighter. He is thought to be a precursor to M. Bison/Balrog from Street Fighter II due to his similar profile and outer appearance. Capcom has stated that both characters are "probably one and the same".
instructor who was expelled from his temple after getting involved in too many fights. He is the first opponent the player faces in Japan in the original Street Fighter. Although Retsu has never appeared in another Street Fighter game, his character has been depicted in later Street Fighter related media, including two Japanese Street Fighter II audio drama albums, an appearance in the US Street Fighter
comic book and as a card in Card Fighters 2.
1993 as one of the four new characters introduced in the game. Fei Long is depicted as an action film star from Hong Kong
who enters the World Warrior tournament to test his skill as a martial artist. In his ending in the game, he gives up his film career and forms his own kung-fu
style known as the .
Fei Long was designed as a pastiche
of a real-life martial artist and movie star Bruce Lee
. The English localization of the original arcade game pays tribute to Bruce Lee by having Fei Long state "there could never be another legend like the great one and his son", a reference to Bruce Lee and his son Brandon
, who died shortly before the release of the game, although these references were removed in the revised localization of the GBA version of the game. Fei Long reappears in the console versions of Street Fighter Alpha 3
. The game takes place before Fei Long achieved fame as a movie star, as he makes his first hit movie in his ending in the game. He returns as a playable character in the console versions of Street Fighter IV
. His alternate costume in Street Fighter IV resembles Bruce Lee's outfit in Enter the Dragon
. His ultra in Street Fighter IV is a series of flurry punches into an uppercut followed by a flying kick which resembles a signature technique of Bruce Lee. Also, Fei Long has been given a new ultra in Super Street Fighter IV and it furthers the homage to Bruce Lee by performing a flurry of punches ending with the "one inch punch
."
As a non-playable character, Fei Long appears as a spectator in Dans stage in Street Fighter Alpha 2
and in Felicia
s ending in Super Gem Fighter: Mini-Mix (Ken hooks her up with Fei Long to jumpstart her movie career), in which he also has a cameo in one of the stages, in a ramen restaurant.
The Seattle Times described Fei Long as "the deadliest" of the new characters introduced in Super Street Fighter II. IGN
ranked Fei Long at number nineteen in their "Top 25 Street Fighter Characters" article, stating "If there's any martial arts star who deserves a videogame homage, though, Bruce Lee is probably the one. Fei Long helped begin a long string of characters inspired by the kung fu icon Bruce Lee".
In Street Fighter IV and Super Street Fighter IV, Fei Long is voiced by Matthew Mercer
in English.
clan, T. Hawks homeland was taken over 30 years prior to the events of the game by M. Bison, who also murdered his father, Arroyo Hawk. T. Hawk enters the tournament to reclaim his homeland from Bison. During the development of Super Street Fighter II, T. Hawk was originally named "Geronimo
", a name which was changed after it was suggested by an American staff member that the name Geronimo might be seen as racially offensive.
T. Hawk, since his introduction, has been billed from Mexico
and his backstory explains he was born in the Sonora desert and resides in the Monte Albán
plains. T. Hawk's second appearance as a playable character was in the home versions of Street Fighter Alpha 3
. In Alpha 3, T. Hawk leaves his home village following the disappearances of some of the locals. He encounters Juli, one of Bisons bodyguards, as his last opponent before fighting Bison. The girl T.Hawk is searching for is revealed to be Julia, who was captured and brainwashed into becoming one of Bisons assassins named Juli. T. Hawk returns in Super Street Fighter IV
. T. Hawk has regained his homeland following the events of the Street Fighter II series, but must fight Shadaloo once more, this time to rescue his girlfriend Julia, who has disappeared again. His fighting rival is El Fuerte, who challenges him after a previous and yet undisclosed defeat at T. Hawk's hands.
In the 1994 film version of Street Fighter
, T. Hawk (played by Gregg Rainwater
) is portrayed as a military sergeant serving the Allied Nations Peacekeeping Force under Colonel Guile
. He is portrayed in this version as American. The Lightning Hawk Magnum weapon in Resident Evil 5
is an in-company reference to T. Hawk's full name of "Thunder Hawk".
, as well as a few original characters.
and its subsequent revisions, where he is the deceased war buddy of Guile
, one of the selectable characters. Guile's motive for entering the Street Fighter II tournament was to avenge Charlie's death, who was killed by the tournament's host M. Bison sometime before the events of the game.
Charlie would later be made into a playable character in Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams, a prequel
set before the Street Fighter II games, using both of Guile's trademark special moves, albeit with altered animations (he does the Sonic Boom one-handed, and the Flash Kick in reverse). Street Fighter Alpha itself was followed by two sequels, Street Fighter Alpha 2
and Street Fighter Alpha 3
. In Charlie's storyline of the Alpha series, he is a first lieutenant
in the United States Air Force
and is given the duty to track down Bison and uncover corruption within the American military. In his endings in the first two Alpha games, Charlie is killed by Bison and his men (he is first struck by Bison from behind in the first game, and in the second game he is shot in the back by his own men and thrown down a waterfall in Venezuela
, however, Guile's ending in the American version of Street Fighter II adds the location of Charlie's death as Cambodia
). The console version of Alpha 3 introduced Guile as a playable character in the Alpha series, and his mission is to "find Commander
Charlie". In Guile's ending, he and Charlie infiltrate Bison's base to blow up the Psycho Drive, and Guile escapes while Charlie stays behind to hold off Bison; he is presumed dead after the explosion.
Guile also wears Charlie's old clothes as an alternate costume in Street Fighter IV
. Charlie also appears along with other Street Fighter Alpha characters in X-Men vs. Street Fighter
. In Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter
an alternate version of Charlie named "Shadow" appears as a hidden character. Shadow's sprite is the same as Charlie's, but with nearly his entire body blacked out, and a white eye shining behind his glasses. He has all of Charlie's moves, but his attacks set his opponent alight with blue Psycho Power flames. Shadow also appears in Marvel vs. Capcom
as a "helper" (characters who can assist the player in combat) and in Chun-Li's ending, rescuing her from Bison. In Marvel vs. Capcom 2, Charlie appears as his regular self once again.
Outside of fighting games, Charlie also appears a playable character in the shoot 'em up
Cannon Spike
with fellow Street Fighter character Cammy. Charlie was also one of the characters who was scheduled to be featured in Capcom's unreleased 3D fighting game Capcom Fighting All-Stars
.
In Street Fighter IV, the UDON
comic book version, and the English adaptation of the Street Fighter Alpha manga by Masahiko Nakahira, as well as other media, the names "Charlie" (his English name) and "Nash" (his Japanese name) are combined to form the full name of Charlie Nash.
In the 1994 film adaptation Street Fighter
, Charlie Nash was combined with the character of Blanka to form the character Carlos "Charlie" Blanka
, and friend of Colonel Guile and a soldier in his unit who is taken as a POW in Bison's Shadowloo compound. His hair is changed to black for this film. When Bison discovers the friendship between Charlie and Guile through one of Guile's threats, he sends him to be brainwashed and mutated by Dr. Dhalsim
(who is Bison's unwilling scientist in this film) to become the green skinned, red haired killing machine known simply as "Blanka". Dhalsim, however, secretly changes Blanka's cerebral programming to prevent him from becoming a killer, and so he aids Dhalsim in fighting Bison's soldiers at the film's climax. He chooses to remain behind and perish with Dhalsim in the explosion of Bison's base, but it is revealed that they both survived in the animated series
follow-up where, eventually, Dhalsim reverts Blanka to his human form.
Charlie also appears in the Street Fighter II V
anime series, serving alongside Guile in a mission to locate Ryu, Ken and Chun-Li, who have been abducted by Bison. He is the first to find Bison, but is strangled to death. Charlie Nash was also played by Chris Klein
in Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li
, where he is portrayed as a member of Interpol.
, originally appeared as the main character in the beat-em-up Final Fight
. An American-style martial artist, Cody is a proclaimed "fighting prodigy" who specializes in wielding a knife (being the only character in Final Fight capable of stabbing enemies with a knife without throwing it). When his childhood sweetheart Jessica is kidnapped by the Mad Gear gang, Cody teams up with Jessica's father, Haggar
, and his friend/rival Guy
, in order to battle against the gang and rescue his girlfriend. In Final Fight 2
, Cody is shown to be the one delivering the finishing blow to the gang's leader, Belger in a flashback of the previous game during the opening intro, which goes on to explain that Cody is taking a vacation with Jessica during the present events of the game.
Cody initially makes a cameo appearance in Guy's Final Fight-themed home stage in Street Fighter Alpha 2
, where he is being cuddled by his girlfriend Jessica at the left corner of the stage. If a female character is in front of Cody, he will draw his attention away from Jessica and towards the female fighter for a moment until an envious Jessica slaps Cody in the face and regains his attention. The couple makes a similar cameo appearance in Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter
, in which they're among the spectators watching the fight at the background of the "Mall Madness" stage. In his actual debut as a playable character in Street Fighter Alpha 3
, Cody is now a convicted felon, having been thrown into jail after becoming a vigilante and ending his relationship with Jessica (who has since left Metro City to study abroad in Europe). Bored with his peaceful life, Cody had wandered the streets looking for any riffraff he could find, and subsequently beat them into submission until he was finally caught and jailed. Instead of his jeans and white t-shirt from Final Fight, Cody's wardrobe now consists of a blue-and-white striped prison uniform with handcuffs on his wrists (which he is actually able to remove when he taunts his opponent, but fights wearing them anyway) and stubble on his face. His fighting style in the game is modeled after his abilities from Final Fight. When he fights, he can pick up a knife lying on the ground and stab his opponent with it until the opponent strikes him. During his single-player storyline, Cody is challenged by Birdie and ends up joining forces with his friend and former ally Guy in his fight against M. Bison. Cody would appear in two subsequent Final Fight games following his appearance in Alpha 3. In Final Fight Revenge
, Cody is shown to be arrested in his ending by Edi E., while Poisons ending in the same game implies that Cody was framed from a crime she committed (the Japanese localization of Revenge has Edi E. arresting Cody for assault). He plays a supporting role in Final Fight: Streetwise, in which his younger brother Kyle Travers (the game's protagonist) goes out to search for him. In this game, he was jailed by taking the fall when his friend Guy had committed a serious crime from within the past and that the incident would cause the end of the friendship between Cody and Guy. Cody appears as one of the new characters in Super Street Fighter IV
, breaking out of prison to try to cure his boredom. His rival is Guy who tries to convince him to team with him to fight Seth. In his ending after he defeats Seth, Cody runs into Guy once again and after deflecting Guy's praise, leaves to return to his cell where he claims he belongs.
Cody appears in the penultimate episode of the American Street Fighter
animated series, which was based on Final Fight. In this episode, Cody and Guy teams up with Ryu and Ken to rescue a kidnapped Jessica from the Mad Gear gang.
arcade game, however, her animations were completely recreated in 2D and she was introduced as a playable character in Capcom Fighting Jam
for the arcades and PlayStation 2
, and she entered the Street Fighter universe in Street Fighter Alpha 3 MAX for the PSP. Little is known about her, however, Alpha 3 MAX gives away some possibilities about her true origins. She tells Rose to think of her as "an envoy from the heavens", and alludes to the existence of others like her. Judging from her speech patterns in the Japanese version of the game, it can be inferred that Ingrid is actually a lot older than she looks.
Ingrid has the ability to break brainwashing/mind control over her opponents (such as shown with Ryu in game). Rose cannot look into Ingrid's future as she did with other Street Fighters. She states that the core of the Psycho Drive (M. Bison's power enhancer) actually belonged to her in the first place, and she intends to take it back. How Bison came into possession of the item is never exactly explained, though it is similar in appearance to the crests on her head. When Bison is eventually defeated, she comments that a regular human being like him couldn't possibly control that energy, and takes the whole Psycho Drive with her as she leaves. Finally, Ingrid has the power to travel through time, as she mentions heading to the year 201X in order to contact Ryu in her ending (in the English version, that ending was mistranslated and alluded to Ryu becoming a monk in the future, when Ingrid actually simply called him a , yet another indication that she's not as young as she appears to be).
Juni and Juli are members of a special unit within Shadaloo called the "Dolls", also known as , which is composed of twelve young women brainwashed to serve as Bison's personal assassins. The twelve members of the Dolls are named after the months of the Gregorian calendar
in various languages, with Juni and Juli being German for June and July. Juni and Juli were given their own individual storyline and ending as they became part of the regular roster in the console versions of Alpha 3, with Juni assigned to track down Ryu, while Juli is assigned to track down Cammy. Juli's backstory is also fleshed out in the home versions, with the addition of T. Hawk to the cast. In T. Hawk's single-player storyline, Juli is revealed to be Julia, his girlfriend who used to live in T. Hawk's home village before she was kidnapped and brainwashed by Shadaloo.
In addition to Alpha 3, Juni and Juli also appears in Namco x Capcom
as two enemy characters the game's protagonists faces through the course of the game. The duo also make a cameo appearance in M. Bison's ending in SNK vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos. Both characters make cameos in Super Street Fighter IV
, in which Juni appearing in Cammy's ending while Juli appears in T. Hawk's ending.
s Sakura Ganbaru! manga, where she was Sakuras initial rival in the story. Her character would be integrated into the video game series in Street Fighter Alpha 3
, where she appears as a playable character. Karin is the only daughter of a corporate family and as a result makes a habit of acting snobby and dismissive, calling everyone around her "commoners". Karin's parents are Daigenjūrō Kanzuki and Nadeshiko Kanzuki. She has a muscular butler named Ishizaki and another employee named Shibazaki. To honor her family motto of "Be the winner of everything", she travels the world to track down and defeat Sakura. She would re-emerge in Namco X Capcom
fighting alongside Sakura, and by herself in Capcom Fighting Evolution (although Sakura also appears as a playable character).
beat 'em up Final Fight 2
as one of the game's main characters. Maki is a blond-haired red-clad female ninja who happens to be the younger sister of Guy's fiancee . Like Guy, Maki is also trained in the Bushin style of ninjutsu and uses many of the same abilities and techniques. When her father, Genryusai and Rena are kidnapped by a newly revived Mad Gear gang led by a kabuki
-like warrior named Retu, Maki enlist the help of Mike Haggar and his friend Carlos Miyamoto to rescue them.
Makis first return appearance was in the Street Fighter Alpha 2
tie-in manga Sakura Ganbaru!, where she appears as one of Sakuras competitors in a tournament sponsored by the Kanzuki family. Afterward, Maki would make her fighting game debut in Capcom vs. SNK 2
, and this incarnation of the character would be adapted for the portable versions of Street Fighter Alpha 3
. Maki's ending in Capcom vs. SNK 2 implies that she is searching for Guy to challenge him for the Bushin style's succession. Maki's storyline in the PSP version of Alpha 3 plays upon this premise and has Maki confronting Guy as her final opponent before M. Bison
. Maki also confronts Sakura as her fifth opponent in the single-player mode as a nod to her appearance in Sakura Ganbaru!.
Like previous Final Fight characters who were adapted for the Street Fighter series, Makis fighting style in Capcom vs. SNK 2 and Alpha 3 is modeled after her techniques and abilities in Final Fight 2. Maki wields a tonfa
in combat (a weapon that could be used by the player in Final Fight 2) and her special technique from Final Fight 2, the , appears in both games as a special move (which retains the detrimental side-effect of causing her to lose a bit of her vitality).
Maki was rated as #1 on the list of "Top Ten Fighting Women" by Electronic Gaming Monthly
in 1993.
and become "Star of the Ring", working very hard to achieve her dream. To this end, she travels the world, fighting various street fighters to promote herself, meeting her idol Zangief along the way. She receives rigorous training from her manager, Yoko Harmagedon, a large muscular woman who is seen in a few of her victory poses riding a golf cart and wielding a shinai
.
She later appears as a cameo in the Capcom game Startling Adventures.
Mika was created to introduce a "tricky and technical character" in the series, though she was not a female wrestler in the beginning. After her development, the team introduced Karin to act as a contrast to her.
, was originally an enemy character in the beat-em-up Final Fight, where he appears as the boss of the Industrial Area stage. He is a former member of the fictional Red Beret special forces unit, who serves as the supervisor of the Mad Gear gang's weapons plant. In the game, he fights using a rod and resorts to throwing grenades when he's low on energy. Although Rolento was omitted in the SNES ports of Final Fight, he appears in the SNES sequel, Final Fight 2
, as the boss of the Italy stage. In the sequel, his name is transliterated as Rolent both in the game and in the instruction booklet.
Rolento makes his first appearance in the Street Fighter series in the original Street Fighter Alpha
, where he makes a cameo in Sodom's ending among other former Mad Gear members gathered by Sodom to help rebuild the gang. His actual debut as a playable fighter was in Street Fighter Alpha 2, in which Rolento seeks to build a military utopia following the downfall of the Mad Gear gang and is looking to recruit his former ally and nemesis, Sodom and Guy respectively, to his cause. Rolento's ending in Alpha 2 depicts him invading the streets of Metro City after forming his own army. In Street Fighter Alpha 3
, Rolento seeks to persuade Cody, another former nemesis, to join his army. In his ending, Rolento attempts to infiltrate Shadaloo's underground base to gain M. Bison's secret weapon, the Psycho Drive, only to destroy it with Sodom's help.
Rolento's fighting style in the Street Fighter is roughly based on his Final Fight counterpart. He uses his rod and grenades from Final Fight, as well as throwing knives and wires. One of Rolento's Super Combos in the Alpha series, "Take No Prisoners", involves Rolento's opponent being hooked to ceiling by either, El Gado or Holly Wood, both enemy characters from Final Fight who appear to be working for Rolento during the Alpha series.
Outside the Street Fighter series, Rolento appears as a playable character in Final Fight Revenge
, a 3D fighting game spinoff to the Final Fight series, as well in Capcom vs. SNK 2
. Although he does not actually appear in the game, Rolento also plays a role in Doctrine Dark's back-story in the original Street Fighter EX
, in which Rolento was the one responsible for physically crippling him and his psychotic breakdown (Dark's fighting style is also partly modeled after Rolento's, who was inspired by Rolento's motto of "nothing is unfair as long as you win"). He also makes several cameo appearances through Super Gem Fighter Mini Mix
. As of September 13th 2011, Rolento will return in the upcoming game, Street Fighter X Tekken
.
cards and learns that Bison survived the attack.
At the climactic moment of Street Fighter Alpha 3
, she faces Bison once more and rams her fist through his chest, channeling her energy into his body. As Bison grapples with Rose, he reveals that they both share half of "the same soul". In the end, Bison's physical form discorporates and Rose collapses from exhaustion. Soon afterward, she is recovered by Guy
and taken to safety. Although it appears that Bison has been killed, he has actually transferred his consciousness into Rose, effectively claiming her body. In the interim between the Alpha series and Street Fighter II: The World Warrior, Bison remains inside Rose's body until his scientists can form a new (albeit weaker) one for him. Bison appears as the final boss
of Street Fighter II. The Street Fighter IV Training Guide reveals that she survived the possession, but has no memory of the ordeal.
Rose appears in the console and PC versions of Street Fighter IV
voiced by Gina Grad as an additional character. Her story for the game has her track down Bison after learning he had survived Akuma's attack at the end of the second World Warrior tournament, intending to stop him for good. During her participation in the tournament, she runs into Ryu, dead-set in stopping his advancement for his own protection, stating that he is "the last hope". This results in a fight with much reluctance from both parties. In her ending, she is confronted by Bison, who takes back his remaining power from Rose, causing her to fall unconscious to the ground. As Bison stands over her, he declares he'll keep her alive to satisfy his soul. The cliffhanger is resolved in Guy's ending of Super Street Fighter IV
, where he rescues Rose from Bison as he attempts to flee with her.
Elizaveta Kiryukhina portrayed Rose in the 2009 film Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li
. Many references are made to the "White Rose". This turns out to be a ship carrying M. Bison's Russian speaking daughter, Rose. Earlier in this film, it is noted that the section of Bison's good soul/morals has been transferred to Rose during her conception. As the film comes to a climax, Rose watches her father die at the hands of Chun-Li.
Final Fight
, where he is the boss of the Subway stage. An underground wrestling promoter dressed in a samurai
-like helmet and gear, Sodom fights the player in an underground ring within the Metro City's subway, wielding two Masamune
blades. In the international versions of Final Fight for the SNES
and Sega CD, Sodom was renamed Katana, due to the obvious reference to sodomy
.
Sodom would make his first appearance in the Street Fighter series in the original Street Fighter Alpha
. In the Alpha series, Sodom is characterized as an American Japanophile
who is greatly fascinated by Japanese culture, but actually misunderstands it. After he was defeated by Guy during the events of Final Fight, Sodom realized that he had a wrong perception of Japan and traveled there to re-educate himself. He develops a new fighting style based on Japanese and Western martial arts and trades his Masamune blades with a pair of jitte. On the front of his outfit, Sodom has scrawled the Japanese kanji shi (死), meaning death. In the first Alpha, he seeks to rebuild the Mad Gear gang by defeating his old rival Guy in combat. In his ending, he reforms the gang and holds up a poster reading 魔奴義亜. In his ending in Street Fighter Alpha 2
, Sodom goes to a sumo ring in Japan to seek new members for the reformed Mad Gear and ends up being challenged by E. Honda. In Street Fighter Alpha 3
, he seeks a new hideout for his gang and goes to claim Shadaloo's new underground base as his own when he learns about it from his former ally Rolento and ends up crashing his own truck into M. Bison's in order to foil his plot. In Alpha 3 he also regains his katana blades from Final Fight
when the player selects him in the X-ism style.
In the Japanese versions of the Street Fighter Alpha games, where the series is known as Street Fighter Zero, Sodom's victory quotes are composed of seemingly nonsensical English phrases that are actually meant to be mispronounced Japanese phrases. For example, Sodom would say "Die Job Death Car?" instead of and ""Nip On Die Ski!" instead of . In the English version of Alpha 3, Sodom says "Don't thank me! In fact, 'don't touch my moustache!'" in one of his victory quotes. "Don't touch my moustache" is a commonly taught approximation of the phrase .
In addition to the Alpha series, Sodom also appears as a playable character in Final Fight Revenge
and makes a couple of cameos in Super Gem Fighter Mini Mix
. In Mighty Final Fight
, there are actually three Sodoms (or Katanas, as the character is referred to as in the English version) known as the Three Katana Brothers.
According to his back-story in the original Street Fighter III and Street Fighter III 2nd Impact, Alex is an American from New York (given his accent, many assume Alex is from Brooklyn, although his stage in 2nd Impact is Greenwich Village
). Alex entered the third World Warrior tournament because its sponsor, Gill, had seriously injured his best friend and mentor/father figure Tom, even though Tom had told him Gill had won fairly. Tom allowed him to go, letting him make his own decision. Alex won every match and then faced Gill. Although he defeated Gill, Alex did not have a chance to kill him, and he went home, to find Tom fully recovered. In Street Fighter III 3rd Strike, Alex senses an unknown urge to continue fighting after experiencing numerous battles against other martial arts masters around the world. Seeking to find a stronger opponent, he goes against his friend Tom's wishes and sets off on a journey.
Alex's other fighting appearances were in Capcom Fighting All-Stars
, Capcom Fighting Evolution and Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars.
In December 1997 Alex ranked 44th on Gamest "top 50" list of the best video game characters, tying with Goro Daimon, and in January 1998 was named the 22nd best character of the preceding year, tying with Ryuji Yamazaki
.
boxer from Britain
with powerful technique and speed. He seeks perfection both in and out of the ring, always behaving as an impeccable gentleman. He is also the son of an athlete who later became a successful businessman. When his father's business began to fail when he was in college, Dudley was able to recover his losses thanks to his boxing career.
In 2nd Impact, he fights outside a London pub called the Sherlock Holmes
, while Knightsbridge tube station
can be seen in his 3rd Strike background. When his father's prized rolls royce is purchased from a debtor's auction, Dudley goes after the buyer, a man named Gill. In 3rd Strike, Dudley has received the honorary title of "Sir
" after making a comeback and winning the championship title, and is invited into a contest that will be held in the presence of the royal family. Now known as Sir Dudlington, he decides to travel the world and improve himself before the day of the match. Dudley is also shown to have a great interest in the gardens of his illustrious country estate, occasionally losing track of time, or getting lost, as shown in his Third Strike ending. Dudley is a playable character in Super Street Fighter IV. He joins the tournament in pursuit of new roses for his garden. He also claims he needs something to get his mind off of his missing car. He encounters Balrog as he challenges Dudley to a fight. In his ending, he's shown lamenting the fact that he couldn't buy new flowers for his garden. As he does so, Dudley notices a flower blooms and comments on its beauty.
Dudley has had a mostly positive reception.The Guardian
ranked him the high #4 on the list of Top 20 Street Fighter Characters the same year according to Ryan Hart, the UK's top SF player. Dudley was also listed by IGN
as one their top 25 favourite characters. UGO.com voted him amongst the top 50 most popular characters.
and antagonist of the Street Fighter III
series. Gill is the President of a secret society that has controlled the underworld for thousands of years and seeks to turn the whole world into a utopia by the 23rd century. Every 24 years, the Illuminati chooses a new President, with the current one being Gill at the start of the series. His ultimate goal is to test the skills of several warriors and coerce them into his cause. Gill appears in his default costume as a tall, muscular man with flowing blond hair, the right side of his body colored red, and the left side colored blue, wearing nothing but a loincloth.
2nd Impact introduces his younger brother Urien as a player character, who has a similar build and attire. In Urien's ending, its is revealed that Gill was promoted to after Urien received Gill's former position of President, a position he still holds by the time of 3rd Strike The blond woman who assists Gill prior to battle in 3rd Strike is his secretary , who also appears in Dudley's ending in the first two games, handing him the keys to Dudley's car. Gill is not playable in any of the arcade versions of the Street Fighter III games. However, he is selectable once he is unlocked from within the console versions of 2nd Impact and Third Strike.
from Germany
who makes his first appearance in the series in Street Fighter III: 2nd Impact. He is based on the enemy character from Final Fight
and wears a similar pink leopard-print shirt and pants with chains around his waist. Because of his physical appearance and strength, Hugo is often compared to André the Giant
, who was a real-life wrestler that worked for the WWF in the mid-80's and inspired the Andore character. Hugo is the son of a farmer from the German countryside and was raised alongside his two younger sisters. After leaving his hometown at the age of 20, he became a popular wrestler in the USA, with former street warrior Poison, another enemy character from Final Fight, acting as his manager. In 2nd Impact, Hugo seeks to find a partner for an upcoming tag team wrestling tournament that is set to take place in a matter of months. Hugo's final opponent in the single-player mode varies, with the four possibilities being Gill, Ryu, Elena, or Necro. Afterwards, Hugo and his rival go on to form a tag team to compete in the CWA
tag tournament. In 3rd Strike, Hugo achieved such an overwhelming victory in the tag tournament, that no other wrestler dares to challenge him anymore. Worried about the lack of matches for Hugo, Poison gets an idea to form a new wrestling organization with Hugo, recruiting only the mightiest of fighters for their cause. In Hugo's ending, he and Poison form the Huge Wrestling Army (H.W.A.), which includes other members of the 3rd Strike cast.
Outside the Street Fighter III series, Hugo appears as a playable character in SNK vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos and Street Fighter X Tekken
. He is an optional pit-fight opponent in Final Fight Streetwise. He also makes a cameo appearance in the Metro City stage in Super Street Fighter IV
. Hugo has returned in the upcoming fighting game, Street Fighter X Tekken
.
, where he came into contact with Gill's organization, who remodeled his DNA
to turn him into a living weapon, granting him superhuman flexibility. His fighting style was simulated by computer, then programmed into his brain with cyber implants. Necro has a long reach, and can also use throws and electrocution. In his ending, Necro is tricked by Gill and left for dead in a facility, until he is rescued by a young girl named , and the pair go on a journey together. Necro's story is the same in 2nd Impact, although he also has a role as one of Hugo's potential final bosses and tag partners, in which Necro gains the nickname of the "super electromagnetic alien", forming the tag team of "Thunderbolt". In 3rd Strike, Necro and Effie are being pursued by agents of the organization, but still live with the hope of "truth and liberty". In his ending, Necro manages to save Effie from falling, and thwart agents of the organization while at the Siberian railroad.
from Paris, France who seeks revenge against his father, a martial artist who abandoned him and his sister. After Remy's sister died, he encased her body in an iced casket, which he keeps in an underwater cove within the Bay of Biscay
. Remy takes his aggression out on other martial artists by challenging them to battle. Remy's rival match illustrates this, as his sudden appearance and challenge take Alex by surprise, who takes him for being nothing but a troubled man. In his ending, Remy realizes that he has been inadvertently following his father's footsteps. He makes peace with his sister and begins following a new path. His attacks are similar to that of Guile and Charlie, but no notable connection has been established between the characters. Remy was voted 8th in Capcom's own popularity poll of 85 characters for the 15th anniversary of Street Fighter.
. Impressed by Ken's performance at a martial arts rally, Sean went after him to become his disciple, calling him "Master Ken" or Sifu
. A hot-blooded, but courteous young man, Sean is determined to win no matter what. He was once trained by his grandfather, who is of Japanese descent. His greatest weakness is receiving attacks while attacking. He dreams of creating his original special moves.
Sean is the character who leads the basketball parry bonus round in 3rd Strike. In his ending, Sean becomes Ken's disciple, only to be told that he needs to defeat Ryu to become worthy. In 3rd Strike, Sean is allowed to participate in an actual martial art tournament, only to be told by Ken that with his current skills, he won't even be able to make it pass the preliminaries and that he needs to develop his own "style". In his 3rd Strike ending, Sean appears to had won the championship title at first, but his victory is then revealed to be a dream and that Sean actually lost the qualifying rounds due to his lack of training.
Sean makes a cameo appearance in Ryu's ending Marvel vs. Capcom, in which he is being trained by Ryu.
.
Twelve is the ultimate humanoid-type weapon developed by Gill's organization. He has a shapeshifting body which is actually a completed version of the prototype body given to Necro, improved and strengthened. Via a super art, Twelve has the ability to copy his opponents form and moves. Twelve's targets are filled with absolute despair when cornered by him. Twelve has the ability to copy the appearance of his opponent and mimic their abilities. Twelve's objective is to track down Necro and Effie, who are fleeing from the organization.
In 2nd Impact, Urien challenges his brother Gill to usurp his position as President. He gains the title at the end, only to learn that his brother Gill has been promoted as the Emperor, the true leader of the organization whose existence is known only to the Presidents and chairmen of the organization. In 3rd Strike, Urien is resentful over the fact that he is still outclassed by his brother, in spite of his new position. He decides to eliminate Gill once and for all and destroys the preservation facility where Gill is still recovering inside.
Urien also appears in Capcom Fighting Jam
as one of the characters representing the Street Fighter III series.
who were separated from their birth parents when they were infants and raised by their adoptive grandfather, who manages a restaurant at Shanghai and trained the brothers in a variety of Chinese martial arts. The twins are the godsons of eight bosses in the underground community and the two became leaders of their local town at a young age. The elder brother Yun (the one in the white outfit and blue cap) is outgoing and impulsive, whereas the younger brother Yang (the one in red) is calmer and more analytical. The twins are related to Lee from the first Street Fighter and a character in the game addresses the twins as the in their ending in the original Street Fighter III and 2nd Impact. In Street Fighter III 3rd Strike, the twins decide to fight Gill's organization, the Illuminati, who are threatening to invade their home town. After defeating Gill, the twins return home, where they are greeted by their friend Houmei and her younger sister Shaomei. Originally Yun and Yang had identical abilities and techniques in the original Street Fighter III, with Yang being selectable as an alternate version of Yun. In 2nd Impact and 3rd Strike, Yang was made into a distinct selectable character with his own techniques and abilities (including different Super Arts), as well as his own endings.
After the Street Fighter III series, Yun appeared as a playable character in Capcom vs. SNK 2
, with his brother Yang assisting in some of his special moves and Super Combos. This version of Yun would appear again in the portable versions of Street Fighter Alpha 3
for the GBA and PSP, as well as Capcom Fighting Jam
. The twins made a cameo in Chun-Li's introductory cut-scene in the console versions of Street Fighter IV
and also her ending in Super Street Fighter IV
, and are playable characters in the arcade version of Super Street Fighter IV.
, is a government agent who is ordered by the prime minister
of his nation to find information about a secret weapon being developed in an underground base. Ace uses a custom fighting style which can be edited by the player by passing a series of trials in the game's Character Edit Mode, and thus has access to a wide variety of techniques including Cammy's Killer Bee Assault and Elena's Healing, and some of his own.
, where he seeks to defeat the strongest opponent in South Island.
series). He agrees to become Pullum Purna's bodyguard, hoping to use the opportunity to travel the world and fight many wrestlers. He is absent in the original Street Fighter EX2, but returns in Street Fighter EX2 Plus where he obtains another opportunity to fight against more wrestlers around the world after Pullum becomes a Princess. In Street Fighter EX3, he has a special ending if the player finishes the single-player mode with Zangief as his tag-partner.
. She was known as when she was a child. When Hokuto turned 17, she was sent on a journey to find her older brother Kairi, who went missing for years. Unknown to Hokuto, the true purpose of her journey was not only to find her brother, but to defeat him. She was implanted by the in order to exterminate her brother. In the original Street Fighter EX, Hokuto wore a blue white outfit resembling a Japanese archer gi and white hachimaki around her long hair. In EX 2, she wears a hakama and ties her hair with a pony-tail. She reverts to her original design in EX 3. In addition to her regular version, an alternate version named is featured as secret character in Street Fighter EX Plus
ian multimillionaire. She decides to travel the world with her bodyguard Darun when she overhears her grandfather whisper the name "Shadaloo", believing that it is the name of a person. Unknown to Pullum, the reason why her grandfather was worried about Shadaloo was because she has a blood relative working for the organization who was a candidate in becoming a Shadaloo executive. Absent in the original Street Fighter EX2, she returns in Street Fighter EX2 Plus where she inherits a kingdom after the death of a relative and decides to travel the world once again with her bodyguard Darun to search for her missing father.
. He is an unknown man from an unnamed country dressed in a superhero costume similar to Skullomania's, who has artificially enhanced his body in order to overthrow the men in charge of the totalitarian government responsible for the deaths of his wife and daughter.
who takes care of orphans at a monastery, as well as an A-class agent for a secret intelligence group. Having separated from her parents when she was young, her only desire in mind is to be reunited with her family and learn about her past. When she learns that a key member of a criminal organization she was assigned to investigate has the same tattoo she has, she decides to chase after him to find out the truth. Sharon is believed to be some sort of blood-relative to Blair, but not specified precisely. Although no location is given, she has a move called Bermuda
symphony.
genre of Japanese action shows in general and Kamen Rider
in particular, specifically the red scarf, belt, and prominence of flying kicks in his fighting style. He later made an appearance in the PlayStation 2 music game Technictix, and also in Fighter Maker
.
, Vesuvio, Canossa
, Ponte dei Sospiri, and Torre Pendente. At the end EX2 Plus, he fulfills his revenge but still mourns the death of his lover.
arcade game. He is not based on any previous Street Fighter II character, but is dressed as a red-clad member of Bison's shock troops from the film which the game is based on. Blade has undergone rigorous physical training and conceals an array of weapons such as knives and grenades. In Blade's ending, he is revealed to be Guile's brother Gunloc (a character from Saturday Night Slam Masters
), who has infiltrated the Shadaloo Gang as a deep cover agent.
In addition to Blade, there are also three hidden characters in the arcade game whom are all palette swap
s of Blade. Khyber (the yellow shock trooper) uses special techniques that resemble the ones used by Dhalsim (a character who was not featured in the arcade game) such as the Yoga Flame and Yoga Blast, while Arkane (the blue shock trooper) has a teleporting technique. F7 (the black shock trooper) has all the techniques of the other three shock troopers. They also share Blade's ending. The four shock troopers are the only characters from the arcade game excluded in the Street Fighter: The Movie
console game (which is a different game based on the same film).
who appears as a playable character in both, the arcade
and console version
of the Street Fighter: The Movie video game. Sawada's voice is the only one dubbed in the film, as Sawada himself only speaks a little English.
Capcom at the time pushed heavily to promote actor Kenya Sawada in any means possible, giving the staff behind the film and game the impression that he was to be the "face" of Capcom, their own action hero to star in later material.
He is characterized as Colonel Guile's right-hand-man and the leader of the AN commando force. He is a hand-to-hand combat specialist who is proficient in all kinds of martial arts. Sawada's actual role in the film is very minor. He's shown only a few times actually speaking and fighting in the film, and has command of a small amount of ground troops in the assault on Bison's base. Yet at the end, he's shown amongst the main characters as they take a pose at the very end of the film.
His design varies somewhat from that in the film in the video game. The developers who worked on the arcade version had him go shirtless, based on the fact he was "buff
" and inspired a bit from Mortal Kombat II
characters of the time. Had this presented a problem, the staff would have opted to have a shirt painted over his sprites. The design resembled in many ways that of Fei Long, and led to the actor being involved in digitizing
sessions for both Sawada and Fei Long. For Fei Long, the design itself took little need to alter outside of a change of pants, shoes, and hair. However Fei Long's frames were never cleaned due to time constraints, leaving only Sawada.
Despite speculation to the contrary, Sawada is unarmed in the arcade game. The "katana
" shown was intended at the time to be "motion blur": given a conflict between the two capcom branches however, flicker transparency was not applied and it was instead left solid. His slashing attacks were intended to have an ethereal appearance to them, akin to the Hadouken. The designers argued for the flicker effect but were instead denied, and as a result opted for a look based on Mortal Kombat
Michael Dobson voiced Sawada in two episodes of Street Fighter
as head of the A.N. Special Forces when Gulie was discharged and formed his team.
c, a "man with no past", who is covered in scars from head to toe. His fighting style is based on Combat Sambo, and he has a move called Marseille
rolling. Obsessively following every lead on the whereabouts of Shadaloo's remnants, he was found in the burning remains of a Shadaloo base and nursed back to health by a group of mercenaries, working alongside them to find out his past and defeat Shadaloo once and for all. He recognizes Guile's technique Sonic Boom, but refuses to comment when Guile presses him for information regarding Charlie, the originator of the style. As a Combat Sambo practitioner, Abel is adept at using both striking and throwing moves.
It is hinted in Abel's ending that he was actually created by Shadaloo as a prototype of Seth or abducted in his youth to serve as a "replacement body" for M.Bison. This is reinforced by dialogue from both Bison and Seth, who mention him as "the one that got away". The appearance of his eyes also change to resemble Seth's during the initiation of his Ultra Combo. It is also hinted that Charlie is the person that helped him as he recognized Guile's fighting style and comments to Chun-Li about the soldier that rescued him from Shadaloo. In Abel's rival encounter, Abel mentions that he recognizes Guile's Sonic Boom leading to speculation that he may have spent time with Charlie.
His game mostly revolves around mixing up different punches and kicks and baiting, and also emphasizes cancelling his standing medium kick cancelled into a dash or standing hard punch, and further mixing up additional punches or kicks from there. His signature move — his ultra "Soulless" - involves him changing his eye color, delivering a series of punches and kicks to his opponent, throwing them into the air and body slamming them back down on to the ground. His second ultra "Breathless" makes Abel run to his opponent, grab him, spin, creating a tornado, and drop opponent on the ground.
Abel is voiced by Kenji Takahashi in Japanese, and E. Jason Liebrecht
in English. In his original design, he was a young judo fighter who wore pigtails and "could be mistaken for a girl."
Abel will appear as a playable character in the upcoming crossover fighting game Street Fighter X Tekken
.
in Japanese, and J.B. Blanc in English.
and is the second new addition to Super Street Fighter IV
. His fighting style is based on Yağlı güreş
and revolves around him coating himself in oil, making his body slippery. This gives him an edge as he can slide across the ground and launch his opponents by squeezing them through his bulging muscles. The father of seven young children, Hakan is also the president of an olive oil company, who seeks to create the perfect olive oil. He is apparently old friends with E. Honda, who is his fighting rival in Super Street Fighter IV. Hakan was frequently rumored before he was revealed, due to a forum post with a photo that was believed to be concept art for new characters. Director Ono stated that Hakan was deliberately written as a "loving husband and father" in order to alleviate any perceivable homoerotic implications that oil wrestling has to American audiences.
His normal moves are similar to those of Urien from Street Fighter III, while his Special Moves are mainly techniques used by other characters. For example, Seth can perform a variation of Guiles Sonic Boom and Chun-Lis Hyakuretsukyaku. He also uses the Tanden Engine for a Special Move, his Super Combo, and both of his Ultra Combos.
Seth is a computer-only final boss in the arcade version of Street Fighter IV, but is selectable in the home version. Seth is voiced by Akio Ōtsuka in Japanese, and Michael McConnohie
in English. In Seth's ending in Street Fighter IV, he is revealed to be known as number "15", one of many similar androids created by Bison. Originally created to become one of Bison's "replacement bodies", 15 rebelled against his programming, resulting in him attempting to overthrow Bison and pursuing his own agendas.
VideoGamer.com heavily criticized Seth, describing him as "cheap to fight against" and a lazy effort on the part of the game's development team. They went on to describe him as resembling a rip-off of Watchmen
s Doctor Manhattan, adding that the culmination of his "silly name" and moves taken from existing characters made him a disappointment. Eurogamer
felt similar sentiments, citing the character's gameplay would "cause many tantrums above the easiest difficulty". IGN AU, while stating he one of several "great" additions to the game's roster, emphasized that the character felt "gimmicky". The magazine Xbox 360 described him as the game's only major disappointment, noting that despite how imaginative other characters in the title felt his role as the game's final boss felt anti-climactic.
Street Fighter
, commonly abbreviated as SF, is a series of Fighting Games developed in Japan in which the players pit the video games' competitive fighters from around the world, each with his or her own unique fighting style, against one another...
fighting game
Fighting game
Fighting game is a video game genre where the player controls an on-screen character and engages in close combat with an opponent. These characters tend to be of equal power and fight matches consisting of several rounds, which take place in an arena. Players must master techniques such as...
series. This list covers the original Street Fighter
Street Fighter (video game)
is a 1987 arcade game developed by Capcom. It is the first competitive fighting game produced by the company and the inaugural game in the Street Fighter series...
, the Street Fighter II
Street Fighter II
is a competitive fighting game originally released for the arcades in . It is the arcade sequel to the original Street Fighter released in and was Capcom's fourteenth title that ran on the CP System arcade hardware...
series, the Street Fighter Alpha
Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams
Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams, known as in Japan, Asia, South America, and Australia, is a fighting game by Capcom originally released for the arcade for the CPS II hardware. It was the first all new Street Fighter game produced by Capcom since the release of Street Fighter II in...
series, the Street Fighter III
Street Fighter III
is a fighting game in Capcom's Street Fighter series, originally released as coin-operated arcade game in . Street Fighter III was produced for the CD-ROM-based CP System III hardware, which allowed for more elaborate 2D graphics than the CPS II-based Street Fighter Alpha games , while revamping...
series, and the Street Fighter IV
Street Fighter IV
is a fighting game produced by Capcom. It is the first numbered Street Fighter game released by Capcom since . The coin-operated arcade game was released in Japan on July 18, 2008, with North American arcades importing the machines by August...
series, as well as other related games.
Adon
appears in the original Street Fighter as a Muay ThaiMuay Thai
Muay Thai is a combat sport from Thailand that uses stand-up striking along with various clinching techniques. It is similar to other Indochinese kickboxing systems, namely pradal serey from Cambodia, tomoi from Malaysia, lethwei from Myanmar and muay Lao from Laos...
warrior the player faces before the final match against Sagat, using his trademark "Jaguar Kick" to wreak havoc on his opponents. He would re-emerge in Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams and its subsequent sequels: Alpha 2
Street Fighter Alpha 2
Street Fighter Alpha 2, known as in Japan, Asia and South America, is a fighting game originally released for the CPS II arcade hardware by Capcom. The game is both a sequel and a remake to the previous years Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams, which is itself a prequel to the Street Fighter...
and Alpha 3
Street Fighter Alpha 3
Street Fighter Alpha 3, known as in Japan and Asia, is a fighting game by Capcom originally released for the CPS II arcade hardware. It is the third game in the Street Fighter Alpha series, following Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams and Street Fighter Alpha 2...
. In the first two Alpha games, Adon is characterized as a former pupil of Sagat seeking to surpass his disgraced master by defeating him, and in Alpha 3 he tries to track down and challenge Akuma. He briefly appears in Sagat's Street Fighter IV
Street Fighter IV
is a fighting game produced by Capcom. It is the first numbered Street Fighter game released by Capcom since . The coin-operated arcade game was released in Japan on July 18, 2008, with North American arcades importing the machines by August...
prologue where he is defeated by Sagat once again. Adon is a playable character in Super Street Fighter IV
Super Street Fighter IV
is a 2010 fighting game produced by Capcom. It is an updated version of Street Fighter IV and has been said to mark the definitive end of the Street Fighter IV series. Having been deemed as too large an update to be deployed as DLC, the game was made into a standalone title, but given a lower price...
. In the same way as Birdie and Eagle, Adon and Sagat share a motif: both characters' special moves are inspired by felines
Felinae
Felinae is a subfamily of the family Felidae which includes the genera and species listed below. Most are small to medium-sized cats, although the group does include some larger animals, such as the Cougar and Cheetah....
, the jaguar and the tiger.
Adon appears in the Street Fighter
Street Fighter (TV series)
Street Fighter is an American animated series produced by InVision Entertainment based on the Street Fighter live action movie, which was in turn based on the Street Fighter video game franchise. The series aired as part of the USA Network's Cartoon Express and Action Extreme Team lineups...
cartoon series as a non-speaking fighter in the episode "The Medium is the Message". He also makes a brief cameo in Street Fighter Alpha: The Animation as one of the fighters accompanying Ryu to save Shun from Professor Sadler. He notably gets into an argument with Birdie, and is later shown fighting Rolento in the base's arena.
Birdie
first appears in the original Street FighterStreet Fighter (video game)
is a 1987 arcade game developed by Capcom. It is the first competitive fighting game produced by the company and the inaugural game in the Street Fighter series...
as the first of two opponents the player faces in England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. In this game, Birdie is depicted as a tall white punk rocker with a beak shaped mohawk. He and Eagle are named after the golf
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
ing terms Birdie and Eagle.
The character would reappear in Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams in 1995 and its subsequent sequels, Street Fighter Alpha 2
Street Fighter Alpha 2
Street Fighter Alpha 2, known as in Japan, Asia and South America, is a fighting game originally released for the CPS II arcade hardware by Capcom. The game is both a sequel and a remake to the previous years Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams, which is itself a prequel to the Street Fighter...
in 1996 and Alpha 3
Street Fighter Alpha 3
Street Fighter Alpha 3, known as in Japan and Asia, is a fighting game by Capcom originally released for the CPS II arcade hardware. It is the third game in the Street Fighter Alpha series, following Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams and Street Fighter Alpha 2...
in 1998. In this game, Birdie was depicted as a hulking black punk rocker with a blonde blade-shaped mohawk
Mohawk hairstyle
The mohawk is a hairstyle in which, in the most common variety, both sides of the head are shaven, leaving a strip of noticeably longer hair...
. The character jokes about this inconsistency in Alpha 3 by stating he "looked pale because (he) was sick". Birdie fights in the Alpha series with a grappling style similar to Zangief
Zangief
is a fictional character in the Street Fighter series of video games. Created by Akira Yasuda for Capcom, Zangief first appeared in Street Fighter II, later appearing in other games, media, and promotions related to the Street Fighter franchise...
's, using his chains to slam opponents and a dashing headbutt similar to Balrog's punch rush.
In the first two Alpha games, Birdie is characterized as a former pub bouncer who seeks to gain fame for himself by joining M. Bison's organization, Shadaloo. In the endings of both games, he defeats Bison in combat and is allowed to join his organization. The first game depicts Birdie with the Shadaloo skull logo on his jacket, outside Jack's Bar, possibly a reference to the character C. Jack from Street Fighter EX. In Alpha 3, Birdie is already a member of Shadaloo, but seeks to take over the organization by rebelling against Bison.
Birdie also appears in the Street Fighter
Street Fighter (TV series)
Street Fighter is an American animated series produced by InVision Entertainment based on the Street Fighter live action movie, which was in turn based on the Street Fighter video game franchise. The series aired as part of the USA Network's Cartoon Express and Action Extreme Team lineups...
cartoon series in two episodes. He is first shown as an unknown fighter in the episode "The Medium is the Message" and later appears in "Cammy and the Bachelor", teaming up with Final Fight
Final Fight
is a side-scrolling beat-'em-up game originally released by Capcom as a coin-operated video game in . It was the seventh game released by Capcom for their CP System arcade game hardware...
s Sodom as the two fighters cause a crime wave in England under orders from Bison and Shadaloo. He also makes a small appearance in Street Fighter Alpha: The Animation as one of several fighters accompanying Ryu to rescue Shun from Dr. Sadler. He is the first to win a preliminary match, against Dan, and is taken inside the base, but ends up trapped in a machine which saps him of his fighting potential. He is rescued by Ken and Chun-Li and later apparently dies in the fight against Rosanov. In the anime, he is portrayed as a much more benevolent character, constantly imploring Ken and Chun-Li to flee the base without him and attempting to fight Rosanov even when badly injured.
Birdie was voted joint last in Capcom's own popularity poll of 85 characters for the 15th anniversary of Street Fighter. In 2009, Birdie topped a list of "The 10 Lamest Street Fighter Characters Ever Conceived".
Eagle
is characterized as a bouncer from EnglandEngland
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
and master of singlestick
Singlestick
Singlestick, also known as cudgels, refers to both a martial art that uses a wooden stick as well as the weapon used in the art. It began as a way of training soldiers in the use of swords such as the sabre...
. He craves to experience all fighting arts, searching for the perfect duel. He is introduced in the first Street Fighter as the second computer-controlled opponent the players face in England. He would re-emerge as a selectable character in the crossover game Capcom vs. SNK 2
Capcom vs. SNK 2
Capcom vs. SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium 2001, known as Millionaire Fighting 2001 in Japan, is a sequel to the fighting game Capcom vs. SNK. This game was released on NAOMI hardware in the arcade...
, having become a secret agent for MI6, and from there was included in the GBA
Game Boy Advance
The is a 32-bit handheld video game console developed, manufactured, and marketed by Nintendo. It is the successor to the Game Boy Color. It was released in Japan on March 21, 2001; in North America on June 11, 2001; in Australia and Europe on June 22, 2001; and in the People's Republic of China...
and PSP
PlayStation Portable
The is a handheld game console manufactured and marketed by Sony Corporation Development of the console was announced during E3 2003, and it was unveiled on , 2004, at a Sony press conference before E3 2004...
versions of Street Fighter Alpha 3
Street Fighter Alpha 3
Street Fighter Alpha 3, known as in Japan and Asia, is a fighting game by Capcom originally released for the CPS II arcade hardware. It is the third game in the Street Fighter Alpha series, following Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams and Street Fighter Alpha 2...
. He has special moves named after Canterbury
Canterbury
Canterbury is a historic English cathedral city, which lies at the heart of the City of Canterbury, a district of Kent in South East England. It lies on the River Stour....
, Liverpool
Liverpool
Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...
, Manchester
Manchester
Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...
, Oxford
Oxford
The city of Oxford is the county town of Oxfordshire, England. The city, made prominent by its medieval university, has a population of just under 165,000, with 153,900 living within the district boundary. It lies about 50 miles north-west of London. The rivers Cherwell and Thames run through...
and St. Andrews.
In 2010, Tekken 5
Tekken 5
is the sixth installment in the popular Tekken series. It also marks the tenth anniversary of the series. It was updated for the PlayStation Portable and PlayStation 3 as Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection and succeeded by Tekken 6.- Story :...
champion Ryan Hart listed Eagle at the top of his list of best Street Fighter characters.
Geki
is a Japanese ninja who fights with hand claws and shurikenShuriken
A shuriken is a traditional Japanese concealed weapon that was generally used for throwing, and sometimes stabbing or slashing...
and has the ability to teleport
Teleportation
Teleportation is the fictional or imagined process by which matter is instantaneously transferred from one place to another.Teleportation may also refer to:*Quantum teleportation, a method of transmitting quantum data...
. He is the second Japanese opponent in the original Street Fighter, a battle which takes place near Mount Fuji
Mount Fuji
is the highest mountain in Japan at . An active stratovolcano that last erupted in 1707–08, Mount Fuji lies about south-west of Tokyo, and can be seen from there on a clear day. Mount Fuji's exceptionally symmetrical cone is a well-known symbol of Japan and it is frequently depicted in art and...
. In an issue of UDON's Street Fighter comic book, Geki appears as an assassin sent to kill Gen.
In the Street Fighter Legends: Ibuki comic miniseries, Geki is depicted as a rival clan to Ibuki's clan.
Gen
first appears in the original Street Fighter (1987) as the second opponent the player faces from China in the single-player tournament (the first one being Lee). Gen is portrayed as an elderly martial artist who according to the game's backstory, works as an assassin as well.Gen would resurface as a playable character in Street Fighter Alpha 2 (1996) and its sequel, Street Fighter Alpha 3 (1998). Gen is the only character in the game who can switch between two fighting styles during gameplay: the Mourning Style and the Hateful Style, also known as the Mantis and Crane styles respectively. He changes not only his fighting stance and basic moves, but his special moves and Super Combos as well. In Alpha 3, this feature is removed when Gen is selected in X-ism mode. In the storyline of the Alpha series, Gen is a terminally ill assassin who seeks to fight Akuma as his last opponent before dying. Gen also confronts Chun-Li (whose father was Gen's student according to the backstory) as a secret rival character in Alpha 2 and Ryu as mid-boss in Alpha 3, believing that he uses the same murderous style as Akuma. Gen appears in the home version of Street Fighter IV as an additional character. Gen's connection with Chun-Li's father and his conflicting emotions with her plays a role in his backstory in the game. He was played by Robin Shou
Robin Shou
Shou Wan Por , known professionally as Robin Shou, is a Hong Kong martial artist and actor. Frequently appearing in numerous martial arts films, Shou was most successful for playing the role of Liu Kang in Mortal Kombat & Gobei with the late Chris Farley in Beverly Hills Ninja.-Career:Shou's first...
in Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li
Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li
Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li is the second live-action film based on the Street Fighter series of video games. It follows the quest of Street Fighter character Chun-Li, who is portrayed by Kristin Kreuk. The story follows Chun-Li's personal history and her journey for justice. The film...
.
Joe
, who appears as the first American opponent in the original Street Fighter, is an underground kickboxingKickboxing
Kickboxing refers to a group of martial arts and stand-up combat sports based on kicking and punching, historically developed from karate, Muay Thai and western boxing....
champion who practiced by participating in street fights. Correlations between Joe and the blonde-haired, red jeans wearing underground fighter "Ghost" from the Capcom game Final Fight: Streetwise
Final Fight: Streetwise
Final Fight: Streetwise is a 3D beat-'em-up produced by Capcom, released in North America and the PAL region for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox in . It is a spin-off of the original Final Fight developed by the American team of Capcom Production Studio 8...
have led many to believe they are the same guy.
Lee
is a Chinese martial arts expert seeking to test his skills against worthy opponents. He is the first Chinese opponent in the original Street Fighter, at the Great Wall of ChinaGreat Wall of China
The Great Wall of China is a series of stone and earthen fortifications in northern China, built originally to protect the northern borders of the Chinese Empire against intrusions by various nomadic groups...
. He later appears in the manga Sakura Ganbaru!! as an opponent who challenges Sakura in a street fighting event sponsored by Karin Kanzuki at the Setagaya Ward. He also appears in UDON's Street Fighter Legends: Chun-Li to challenge Fei Long for the honor of revealing a Chinese artifact. Lee is also revealed to be an uncle of the Street Fighter III characters Yun and Yang, and possibly Gen's son.
Mike
is an African-American boxerBoxing
Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...
who formerly competed professionally until he accidentally killed an opponent during a match. He is the second opponent the player faces in the USA in the original Street Fighter. He is thought to be a precursor to M. Bison/Balrog from Street Fighter II due to his similar profile and outer appearance. Capcom has stated that both characters are "probably one and the same".
Retsu
is a former Shorinji KempoShorinji Kempo
was established by as a system for self-improvement and training in Japan in 1947 based on Shaolin kungfu ....
instructor who was expelled from his temple after getting involved in too many fights. He is the first opponent the player faces in Japan in the original Street Fighter. Although Retsu has never appeared in another Street Fighter game, his character has been depicted in later Street Fighter related media, including two Japanese Street Fighter II audio drama albums, an appearance in the US Street Fighter
Street Fighter (UDON)
Street Fighter is an American comic book based on the Street Fighter franchise and published by UDON under license from Capcom. This series draws not only on the established Street Fighter canon, but also occasionally addresses various continuity retcons, and even draws from fanon and non-official...
comic book and as a card in Card Fighters 2.
Fei Long
made his first appearance in Super Street Fighter IISuper Street Fighter II
is a head-to-head fighting game produced by Capcom originally released as a coin-operated arcade game in 1993. It is the fourth game in the Street Fighter II sub-series of Street Fighter games, following Street Fighter II: Hyper Fighting...
1993 as one of the four new characters introduced in the game. Fei Long is depicted as an action film star from Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...
who enters the World Warrior tournament to test his skill as a martial artist. In his ending in the game, he gives up his film career and forms his own kung-fu
Chinese martial arts
Chinese martial arts, also referred to by the Mandarin Chinese term wushu and popularly as kung fu , are a number of fighting styles that have developed over the centuries in China. These fighting styles are often classified according to common traits, identified as "families" , "sects" or...
style known as the .
Fei Long was designed as a pastiche
Pastiche
A pastiche is a literary or other artistic genre or technique that is a "hodge-podge" or imitation. The word is also a linguistic term used to describe an early stage in the development of a pidgin language.-Hodge-podge:...
of a real-life martial artist and movie star Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee was a Chinese American, Hong Kong actor, martial arts instructor, philosopher, film director, film producer, screenwriter, and founder of the Jeet Kune Do martial arts movement...
. The English localization of the original arcade game pays tribute to Bruce Lee by having Fei Long state "there could never be another legend like the great one and his son", a reference to Bruce Lee and his son Brandon
Brandon Lee
Brandon Bruce Lee was an American actor and martial artist. He was the son of martial arts film star Bruce Lee...
, who died shortly before the release of the game, although these references were removed in the revised localization of the GBA version of the game. Fei Long reappears in the console versions of Street Fighter Alpha 3
Street Fighter Alpha 3
Street Fighter Alpha 3, known as in Japan and Asia, is a fighting game by Capcom originally released for the CPS II arcade hardware. It is the third game in the Street Fighter Alpha series, following Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams and Street Fighter Alpha 2...
. The game takes place before Fei Long achieved fame as a movie star, as he makes his first hit movie in his ending in the game. He returns as a playable character in the console versions of Street Fighter IV
Street Fighter IV
is a fighting game produced by Capcom. It is the first numbered Street Fighter game released by Capcom since . The coin-operated arcade game was released in Japan on July 18, 2008, with North American arcades importing the machines by August...
. His alternate costume in Street Fighter IV resembles Bruce Lee's outfit in Enter the Dragon
Enter the Dragon
Enter the Dragon is a 1973 Hong Kong martial arts co-production with Golden Harvest and Warner Bros. studios, directed by Robert Clouse; starring Bruce Lee, Jim Kelly and John Saxon. This is Bruce Lee's final film appearance before his death on July 20, 1973...
. His ultra in Street Fighter IV is a series of flurry punches into an uppercut followed by a flying kick which resembles a signature technique of Bruce Lee. Also, Fei Long has been given a new ultra in Super Street Fighter IV and it furthers the homage to Bruce Lee by performing a flurry of punches ending with the "one inch punch
One inch punch
The one inch punch is a punching exercise from Chinese martial arts performed at very close range. The one inch punch was popularised by actor and martial artist Bruce Lee. It is designed to improve punching power and technique....
."
As a non-playable character, Fei Long appears as a spectator in Dans stage in Street Fighter Alpha 2
Street Fighter Alpha 2
Street Fighter Alpha 2, known as in Japan, Asia and South America, is a fighting game originally released for the CPS II arcade hardware by Capcom. The game is both a sequel and a remake to the previous years Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams, which is itself a prequel to the Street Fighter...
and in Felicia
Felicia (Darkstalkers)
is a fictional character in the Darkstalkers series of fighting game by Capcom She first appeared in the 1994 game Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors and its subsequent sequels, later appearing in other Capcom games outside of the Darkstalkers series and related media and merchandise.-Conception and...
s ending in Super Gem Fighter: Mini-Mix (Ken hooks her up with Fei Long to jumpstart her movie career), in which he also has a cameo in one of the stages, in a ramen restaurant.
The Seattle Times described Fei Long as "the deadliest" of the new characters introduced in Super Street Fighter II. IGN
IGN
IGN is an entertainment website that focuses on video games, films, music and other media. IGN's main website comprises several specialty sites or "channels", each occupying a subdomain and covering a specific area of entertainment...
ranked Fei Long at number nineteen in their "Top 25 Street Fighter Characters" article, stating "If there's any martial arts star who deserves a videogame homage, though, Bruce Lee is probably the one. Fei Long helped begin a long string of characters inspired by the kung fu icon Bruce Lee".
In Street Fighter IV and Super Street Fighter IV, Fei Long is voiced by Matthew Mercer
Matthew Mercer
Matthew Mercer is an American voice actor, script writer, and independent film maker.-Biography:...
in English.
T. Hawk
, is one of the four new characters introduced in Super Street Fighter II. A member of the fictional Thunderfoot Native AmericanIndigenous peoples of the Americas
The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of North and South America, their descendants and other ethnic groups who are identified with those peoples. Indigenous peoples are known in Canada as Aboriginal peoples, and in the United States as Native Americans...
clan, T. Hawks homeland was taken over 30 years prior to the events of the game by M. Bison, who also murdered his father, Arroyo Hawk. T. Hawk enters the tournament to reclaim his homeland from Bison. During the development of Super Street Fighter II, T. Hawk was originally named "Geronimo
Geronimo
Geronimo was a prominent Native American leader of the Chiricahua Apache who fought against Mexico and the United States for their expansion into Apache tribal lands for several decades during the Apache Wars. Allegedly, "Geronimo" was the name given to him during a Mexican incident...
", a name which was changed after it was suggested by an American staff member that the name Geronimo might be seen as racially offensive.
T. Hawk, since his introduction, has been billed from Mexico
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
and his backstory explains he was born in the Sonora desert and resides in the Monte Albán
Monte Albán
Monte Albán is a large pre-Columbian archaeological site in the Santa Cruz Xoxocotlán Municipality in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca...
plains. T. Hawk's second appearance as a playable character was in the home versions of Street Fighter Alpha 3
Street Fighter Alpha 3
Street Fighter Alpha 3, known as in Japan and Asia, is a fighting game by Capcom originally released for the CPS II arcade hardware. It is the third game in the Street Fighter Alpha series, following Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams and Street Fighter Alpha 2...
. In Alpha 3, T. Hawk leaves his home village following the disappearances of some of the locals. He encounters Juli, one of Bisons bodyguards, as his last opponent before fighting Bison. The girl T.Hawk is searching for is revealed to be Julia, who was captured and brainwashed into becoming one of Bisons assassins named Juli. T. Hawk returns in Super Street Fighter IV
Super Street Fighter IV
is a 2010 fighting game produced by Capcom. It is an updated version of Street Fighter IV and has been said to mark the definitive end of the Street Fighter IV series. Having been deemed as too large an update to be deployed as DLC, the game was made into a standalone title, but given a lower price...
. T. Hawk has regained his homeland following the events of the Street Fighter II series, but must fight Shadaloo once more, this time to rescue his girlfriend Julia, who has disappeared again. His fighting rival is El Fuerte, who challenges him after a previous and yet undisclosed defeat at T. Hawk's hands.
In the 1994 film version of Street Fighter
Street Fighter (film)
Street Fighter is a 1994 American action film written and directed by Steven E. de Souza. It is based loosely on the same-titled video games produced by Capcom, and stars Jean-Claude Van Damme, and Raul Julia, along with supporting performances by Byron Mann, Damian Chapa, Kylie Minogue, Ming-Na...
, T. Hawk (played by Gregg Rainwater
Gregg Rainwater
Gregg Andrew Rainwater is an American actor of Osage, Cherokee, Irish, and Filipino descent, who is most well known for his role as half Kiowa Buck Cross on The Young Riders ....
) is portrayed as a military sergeant serving the Allied Nations Peacekeeping Force under Colonel Guile
Guile (Street Fighter)
is a fictional character in Capcom's Street Fighter series of fighting games.-Street Fighter series:Guile made his first appearance in Street Fighter II as one of the eight selectable characters featured in the first release of the game...
. He is portrayed in this version as American. The Lightning Hawk Magnum weapon in Resident Evil 5
Resident Evil 5
Resident Evil 5, known in Japan as , is a survival horror third-person shooter video game developed and published by Capcom. The game is the seventh installment in the Resident Evil survival horror series, and was released on March 5, 2009 in Japan and on March 13, 2009 in North America and Europe...
is an in-company reference to T. Hawk's full name of "Thunder Hawk".
Introduced in the Street Fighter Alpha series
The storyline of the Street Fighter Alpha series serves as a prequel to the Street Fighter II series. In addition to characters from Street Fighter II, the Alpha series also feature appearances from characters in the original Street Fighter and Final FightFinal Fight
is a side-scrolling beat-'em-up game originally released by Capcom as a coin-operated video game in . It was the seventh game released by Capcom for their CP System arcade game hardware...
, as well as a few original characters.
Charlie
Known in Japan as , Charlie is first mentioned by name in Street Fighter IIStreet Fighter II
is a competitive fighting game originally released for the arcades in . It is the arcade sequel to the original Street Fighter released in and was Capcom's fourteenth title that ran on the CP System arcade hardware...
and its subsequent revisions, where he is the deceased war buddy of Guile
Guile (Street Fighter)
is a fictional character in Capcom's Street Fighter series of fighting games.-Street Fighter series:Guile made his first appearance in Street Fighter II as one of the eight selectable characters featured in the first release of the game...
, one of the selectable characters. Guile's motive for entering the Street Fighter II tournament was to avenge Charlie's death, who was killed by the tournament's host M. Bison sometime before the events of the game.
Charlie would later be made into a playable character in Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams, a prequel
Prequel
A prequel is a work that supplements a previously completed one, and has an earlier time setting.The widely recognized term was a 20th-century neologism, and a portmanteau from pre- and sequel...
set before the Street Fighter II games, using both of Guile's trademark special moves, albeit with altered animations (he does the Sonic Boom one-handed, and the Flash Kick in reverse). Street Fighter Alpha itself was followed by two sequels, Street Fighter Alpha 2
Street Fighter Alpha 2
Street Fighter Alpha 2, known as in Japan, Asia and South America, is a fighting game originally released for the CPS II arcade hardware by Capcom. The game is both a sequel and a remake to the previous years Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams, which is itself a prequel to the Street Fighter...
and Street Fighter Alpha 3
Street Fighter Alpha 3
Street Fighter Alpha 3, known as in Japan and Asia, is a fighting game by Capcom originally released for the CPS II arcade hardware. It is the third game in the Street Fighter Alpha series, following Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams and Street Fighter Alpha 2...
. In Charlie's storyline of the Alpha series, he is a first lieutenant
First Lieutenant
First lieutenant is a military rank and, in some forces, an appointment.The rank of lieutenant has different meanings in different military formations , but the majority of cases it is common for it to be sub-divided into a senior and junior rank...
in the United States Air Force
United States Air Force
The United States Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the American uniformed services. Initially part of the United States Army, the USAF was formed as a separate branch of the military on September 18, 1947 under the National Security Act of...
and is given the duty to track down Bison and uncover corruption within the American military. In his endings in the first two Alpha games, Charlie is killed by Bison and his men (he is first struck by Bison from behind in the first game, and in the second game he is shot in the back by his own men and thrown down a waterfall in Venezuela
Venezuela
Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...
, however, Guile's ending in the American version of Street Fighter II adds the location of Charlie's death as Cambodia
Cambodia
Cambodia , officially known as the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia...
). The console version of Alpha 3 introduced Guile as a playable character in the Alpha series, and his mission is to "find Commander
Commander
Commander is a naval rank which is also sometimes used as a military title depending on the individual customs of a given military service. Commander is also used as a rank or title in some organizations outside of the armed forces, particularly in police and law enforcement.-Commander as a naval...
Charlie". In Guile's ending, he and Charlie infiltrate Bison's base to blow up the Psycho Drive, and Guile escapes while Charlie stays behind to hold off Bison; he is presumed dead after the explosion.
Guile also wears Charlie's old clothes as an alternate costume in Street Fighter IV
Street Fighter IV
is a fighting game produced by Capcom. It is the first numbered Street Fighter game released by Capcom since . The coin-operated arcade game was released in Japan on July 18, 2008, with North American arcades importing the machines by August...
. Charlie also appears along with other Street Fighter Alpha characters in X-Men vs. Street Fighter
X-Men vs. Street Fighter
X-Men vs. Street Fighter is a fighting game originally released as a coin-operated arcade game in . It is Capcom's third fighting game to feature Marvel Comics characters and the first game to match them against their own, with characters from Marvel's X-Men franchise being matched against the cast...
. In Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter
Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter
is the fourth Marvel Comics-licensed fighting game produced by Capcom . It is a sequel to X-Men vs. Street Fighter which replaces most of the X-Men characters with characters from Marvel Super Heroes. In an attempt to balance the previous games' problems, the game engine was altered, although it...
an alternate version of Charlie named "Shadow" appears as a hidden character. Shadow's sprite is the same as Charlie's, but with nearly his entire body blacked out, and a white eye shining behind his glasses. He has all of Charlie's moves, but his attacks set his opponent alight with blue Psycho Power flames. Shadow also appears in Marvel vs. Capcom
Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes
is the fifth Marvel Comics-licensed fighting game by Capcom and the third game in the Marvel vs. Capcom series. In contrast to X-Men vs. Street Fighter and Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter, the game features characters from numerous Capcom franchises such as Mega Man and Strider, rather than...
as a "helper" (characters who can assist the player in combat) and in Chun-Li's ending, rescuing her from Bison. In Marvel vs. Capcom 2, Charlie appears as his regular self once again.
Outside of fighting games, Charlie also appears a playable character in the shoot 'em up
Shoot 'em up
Shoot 'em up is a subgenre of shooter video games. In a shoot 'em up, the player controls a lone character, often in a spacecraft or aircraft, shooting large numbers of enemies while dodging their attacks. The genre in turn encompasses various types or subgenres and critics differ on exactly what...
Cannon Spike
Cannon Spike
Cannon Spike, known as ガンスパイク in Japanese arcades, is a multi-directional shooter arcade game released in 2000 by Psikyo and later in the same year for the Dreamcast by Capcom. It uses Capcom-designed characters and runs on Sega's Naomi Hardware...
with fellow Street Fighter character Cammy. Charlie was also one of the characters who was scheduled to be featured in Capcom's unreleased 3D fighting game Capcom Fighting All-Stars
Capcom Fighting All-Stars
Capcom Fighting All-Stars: Code Holder was a 3D fighting game planned for the arcade and PlayStation 2 that was to be developed by Capcom. Like KOF: Maximum Impact, it was designed to translate a 2D fighting game series into 3D. This was done previously in the Street Fighter EX series, which...
.
In Street Fighter IV, the UDON
UDON
UDON Entertainment Corporation is a studio of Asian-influenced comic book creators that provides creative services to the entertainment industry. The company is a publisher of comic books, graphic novels, and art books, as well as English editions of Japanese manga and Korean manhwa titles. Erik...
comic book version, and the English adaptation of the Street Fighter Alpha manga by Masahiko Nakahira, as well as other media, the names "Charlie" (his English name) and "Nash" (his Japanese name) are combined to form the full name of Charlie Nash.
In the 1994 film adaptation Street Fighter
Street Fighter (film)
Street Fighter is a 1994 American action film written and directed by Steven E. de Souza. It is based loosely on the same-titled video games produced by Capcom, and stars Jean-Claude Van Damme, and Raul Julia, along with supporting performances by Byron Mann, Damian Chapa, Kylie Minogue, Ming-Na...
, Charlie Nash was combined with the character of Blanka to form the character Carlos "Charlie" Blanka
Blanka
is a video game character from the Street Fighter series of fighting games. Blanka is depicted as a feral savage, with green skin and long orange hair, resembling a monster more than a human...
, and friend of Colonel Guile and a soldier in his unit who is taken as a POW in Bison's Shadowloo compound. His hair is changed to black for this film. When Bison discovers the friendship between Charlie and Guile through one of Guile's threats, he sends him to be brainwashed and mutated by Dr. Dhalsim
Dhalsim
, is a video game character from the Street Fighter series of fighting games.Dhalsim made his debut in the original Street Fighter II as one of the games original eight main characters. In his backstory, Dhalsim is characterized as a pacifist who goes against his beliefs by entering the World...
(who is Bison's unwilling scientist in this film) to become the green skinned, red haired killing machine known simply as "Blanka". Dhalsim, however, secretly changes Blanka's cerebral programming to prevent him from becoming a killer, and so he aids Dhalsim in fighting Bison's soldiers at the film's climax. He chooses to remain behind and perish with Dhalsim in the explosion of Bison's base, but it is revealed that they both survived in the animated series
Street Fighter (TV series)
Street Fighter is an American animated series produced by InVision Entertainment based on the Street Fighter live action movie, which was in turn based on the Street Fighter video game franchise. The series aired as part of the USA Network's Cartoon Express and Action Extreme Team lineups...
follow-up where, eventually, Dhalsim reverts Blanka to his human form.
Charlie also appears in the Street Fighter II V
Street Fighter II V
, is an anime series based on the fighting game Street Fighter II. Directed by Gisaburo Sugii , the series first aired in Japan in 1995, from April 10 to November 27, on YTV...
anime series, serving alongside Guile in a mission to locate Ryu, Ken and Chun-Li, who have been abducted by Bison. He is the first to find Bison, but is strangled to death. Charlie Nash was also played by Chris Klein
Chris Klein (actor)
Frederick Christopher "Chris" Klein is an American movie actor. He is perhaps best known for playing Chris "Oz" Ostreicher in the 1999 film American Pie and its sequel American Pie 2.-Early life:...
in Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li
Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li
Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li is the second live-action film based on the Street Fighter series of video games. It follows the quest of Street Fighter character Chun-Li, who is portrayed by Kristin Kreuk. The story follows Chun-Li's personal history and her journey for justice. The film...
, where he is portrayed as a member of Interpol.
Cody
, who is given the full name Cody Travers in Final Fight: StreetwiseFinal Fight: Streetwise
Final Fight: Streetwise is a 3D beat-'em-up produced by Capcom, released in North America and the PAL region for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox in . It is a spin-off of the original Final Fight developed by the American team of Capcom Production Studio 8...
, originally appeared as the main character in the beat-em-up Final Fight
Final Fight
is a side-scrolling beat-'em-up game originally released by Capcom as a coin-operated video game in . It was the seventh game released by Capcom for their CP System arcade game hardware...
. An American-style martial artist, Cody is a proclaimed "fighting prodigy" who specializes in wielding a knife (being the only character in Final Fight capable of stabbing enemies with a knife without throwing it). When his childhood sweetheart Jessica is kidnapped by the Mad Gear gang, Cody teams up with Jessica's father, Haggar
Mike Haggar
, also known simply as Haggar, Mayor of Earth, is a fictional character in the Final Fight series of video games. Haggar first appeared in the 1989 Capcom arcade game Final Fight and its subsequent sequels, later appearing in the Saturday Night Slam Masters series of video games and various other...
, and his friend/rival Guy
Guy (Final Fight)
is a video game character who first appears in the 1989 arcade beat-em-up Final Fight by Capcom. Guy would later reemerge, along with other Final Fight characters, as a fighting game character in Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams and its sequels...
, in order to battle against the gang and rescue his girlfriend. In Final Fight 2
Final Fight 2
Final Fight 2 is a side-scrolling beat 'em up released by Capcom for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in . It is a sequel to the coin-operated video game Final Fight...
, Cody is shown to be the one delivering the finishing blow to the gang's leader, Belger in a flashback of the previous game during the opening intro, which goes on to explain that Cody is taking a vacation with Jessica during the present events of the game.
Cody initially makes a cameo appearance in Guy's Final Fight-themed home stage in Street Fighter Alpha 2
Street Fighter Alpha 2
Street Fighter Alpha 2, known as in Japan, Asia and South America, is a fighting game originally released for the CPS II arcade hardware by Capcom. The game is both a sequel and a remake to the previous years Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams, which is itself a prequel to the Street Fighter...
, where he is being cuddled by his girlfriend Jessica at the left corner of the stage. If a female character is in front of Cody, he will draw his attention away from Jessica and towards the female fighter for a moment until an envious Jessica slaps Cody in the face and regains his attention. The couple makes a similar cameo appearance in Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter
Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter
is the fourth Marvel Comics-licensed fighting game produced by Capcom . It is a sequel to X-Men vs. Street Fighter which replaces most of the X-Men characters with characters from Marvel Super Heroes. In an attempt to balance the previous games' problems, the game engine was altered, although it...
, in which they're among the spectators watching the fight at the background of the "Mall Madness" stage. In his actual debut as a playable character in Street Fighter Alpha 3
Street Fighter Alpha 3
Street Fighter Alpha 3, known as in Japan and Asia, is a fighting game by Capcom originally released for the CPS II arcade hardware. It is the third game in the Street Fighter Alpha series, following Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams and Street Fighter Alpha 2...
, Cody is now a convicted felon, having been thrown into jail after becoming a vigilante and ending his relationship with Jessica (who has since left Metro City to study abroad in Europe). Bored with his peaceful life, Cody had wandered the streets looking for any riffraff he could find, and subsequently beat them into submission until he was finally caught and jailed. Instead of his jeans and white t-shirt from Final Fight, Cody's wardrobe now consists of a blue-and-white striped prison uniform with handcuffs on his wrists (which he is actually able to remove when he taunts his opponent, but fights wearing them anyway) and stubble on his face. His fighting style in the game is modeled after his abilities from Final Fight. When he fights, he can pick up a knife lying on the ground and stab his opponent with it until the opponent strikes him. During his single-player storyline, Cody is challenged by Birdie and ends up joining forces with his friend and former ally Guy in his fight against M. Bison. Cody would appear in two subsequent Final Fight games following his appearance in Alpha 3. In Final Fight Revenge
Final Fight Revenge
is a 1999 American-developed 3D one-on-one fighting game. The game was produced by the American division of Capcom , the same team that later produced Maximo: Ghosts to Glory and Final Fight: Streetwise. Final Fight Revenge was released for the arcades on July 1999 and ran on the Sega ST-V arcade...
, Cody is shown to be arrested in his ending by Edi E., while Poisons ending in the same game implies that Cody was framed from a crime she committed (the Japanese localization of Revenge has Edi E. arresting Cody for assault). He plays a supporting role in Final Fight: Streetwise, in which his younger brother Kyle Travers (the game's protagonist) goes out to search for him. In this game, he was jailed by taking the fall when his friend Guy had committed a serious crime from within the past and that the incident would cause the end of the friendship between Cody and Guy. Cody appears as one of the new characters in Super Street Fighter IV
Super Street Fighter IV
is a 2010 fighting game produced by Capcom. It is an updated version of Street Fighter IV and has been said to mark the definitive end of the Street Fighter IV series. Having been deemed as too large an update to be deployed as DLC, the game was made into a standalone title, but given a lower price...
, breaking out of prison to try to cure his boredom. His rival is Guy who tries to convince him to team with him to fight Seth. In his ending after he defeats Seth, Cody runs into Guy once again and after deflecting Guy's praise, leaves to return to his cell where he claims he belongs.
Cody appears in the penultimate episode of the American Street Fighter
Street Fighter (TV series)
Street Fighter is an American animated series produced by InVision Entertainment based on the Street Fighter live action movie, which was in turn based on the Street Fighter video game franchise. The series aired as part of the USA Network's Cartoon Express and Action Extreme Team lineups...
animated series, which was based on Final Fight. In this episode, Cody and Guy teams up with Ryu and Ken to rescue a kidnapped Jessica from the Mad Gear gang.
Ingrid
is a character who was slated to appear in the canceled Capcom Fighting All-StarsCapcom Fighting All-Stars
Capcom Fighting All-Stars: Code Holder was a 3D fighting game planned for the arcade and PlayStation 2 that was to be developed by Capcom. Like KOF: Maximum Impact, it was designed to translate a 2D fighting game series into 3D. This was done previously in the Street Fighter EX series, which...
arcade game, however, her animations were completely recreated in 2D and she was introduced as a playable character in Capcom Fighting Jam
Capcom Fighting Jam
, released in North America as Capcom Fighting Evolution, is a head-to-head fighting game from Capcom. It was originally released as a coin-operated arcade game for the Namco System 246 hardware and ported to the PlayStation 2 and Xbox...
for the arcades and PlayStation 2
PlayStation 2
The PlayStation 2 is a sixth-generation video game console manufactured by Sony as part of the PlayStation series. Its development was announced in March 1999 and it was first released on March 4, 2000, in Japan...
, and she entered the Street Fighter universe in Street Fighter Alpha 3 MAX for the PSP. Little is known about her, however, Alpha 3 MAX gives away some possibilities about her true origins. She tells Rose to think of her as "an envoy from the heavens", and alludes to the existence of others like her. Judging from her speech patterns in the Japanese version of the game, it can be inferred that Ingrid is actually a lot older than she looks.
Ingrid has the ability to break brainwashing/mind control over her opponents (such as shown with Ryu in game). Rose cannot look into Ingrid's future as she did with other Street Fighters. She states that the core of the Psycho Drive (M. Bison's power enhancer) actually belonged to her in the first place, and she intends to take it back. How Bison came into possession of the item is never exactly explained, though it is similar in appearance to the crests on her head. When Bison is eventually defeated, she comments that a regular human being like him couldn't possibly control that energy, and takes the whole Psycho Drive with her as she leaves. Finally, Ingrid has the power to travel through time, as she mentions heading to the year 201X in order to contact Ryu in her ending (in the English version, that ending was mistranslated and alluded to Ryu becoming a monk in the future, when Ingrid actually simply called him a , yet another indication that she's not as young as she appears to be).
Juni and Juli
and make their first appearance in the arcade version of Street Fighter Alpha 3 as a pair of sub-bosses whom the player face prior to the final battle against M. Bison in the single-player mode. The player faces Juni and Juli at the same time in a two-on-one fight similar to the Dramatic Battle match. The two characters are unlockable in the arcade version, but they have no storyline in the actual game (sharing their ending with M. Bison). The characters are actually head-swaps of Cammy, but have their own special moves and Super Combos. Juni and Juli are the only characters in Alpha 3 that have special moves and Super Combos that are used exclusively when both characters fight as a pair during the Dramatic Battle mode.Juni and Juli are members of a special unit within Shadaloo called the "Dolls", also known as , which is composed of twelve young women brainwashed to serve as Bison's personal assassins. The twelve members of the Dolls are named after the months of the Gregorian calendar
Gregorian calendar
The Gregorian calendar, also known as the Western calendar, or Christian calendar, is the internationally accepted civil calendar. It was introduced by Pope Gregory XIII, after whom the calendar was named, by a decree signed on 24 February 1582, a papal bull known by its opening words Inter...
in various languages, with Juni and Juli being German for June and July. Juni and Juli were given their own individual storyline and ending as they became part of the regular roster in the console versions of Alpha 3, with Juni assigned to track down Ryu, while Juli is assigned to track down Cammy. Juli's backstory is also fleshed out in the home versions, with the addition of T. Hawk to the cast. In T. Hawk's single-player storyline, Juli is revealed to be Julia, his girlfriend who used to live in T. Hawk's home village before she was kidnapped and brainwashed by Shadaloo.
In addition to Alpha 3, Juni and Juli also appears in Namco x Capcom
Namco x Capcom
is an action RPG/tactical RPG hybrid game for the PlayStation 2 console, developed by Monolith Soft and featuring characters from games produced by companies Namco and Capcom.- Storyline :...
as two enemy characters the game's protagonists faces through the course of the game. The duo also make a cameo appearance in M. Bison's ending in SNK vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos. Both characters make cameos in Super Street Fighter IV
Super Street Fighter IV
is a 2010 fighting game produced by Capcom. It is an updated version of Street Fighter IV and has been said to mark the definitive end of the Street Fighter IV series. Having been deemed as too large an update to be deployed as DLC, the game was made into a standalone title, but given a lower price...
, in which Juni appearing in Cammy's ending while Juli appears in T. Hawk's ending.
Karin
was originally a character in Masahiko NakahiraMasahiko Nakahira
is a manga artist from Kōchi City, Japan. He is best known for his numerous manga adaptations of the popular fighting game series Street Fighter...
s Sakura Ganbaru! manga, where she was Sakuras initial rival in the story. Her character would be integrated into the video game series in Street Fighter Alpha 3
Street Fighter Alpha 3
Street Fighter Alpha 3, known as in Japan and Asia, is a fighting game by Capcom originally released for the CPS II arcade hardware. It is the third game in the Street Fighter Alpha series, following Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams and Street Fighter Alpha 2...
, where she appears as a playable character. Karin is the only daughter of a corporate family and as a result makes a habit of acting snobby and dismissive, calling everyone around her "commoners". Karin's parents are Daigenjūrō Kanzuki and Nadeshiko Kanzuki. She has a muscular butler named Ishizaki and another employee named Shibazaki. To honor her family motto of "Be the winner of everything", she travels the world to track down and defeat Sakura. She would re-emerge in Namco X Capcom
Namco x Capcom
is an action RPG/tactical RPG hybrid game for the PlayStation 2 console, developed by Monolith Soft and featuring characters from games produced by companies Namco and Capcom.- Storyline :...
fighting alongside Sakura, and by herself in Capcom Fighting Evolution (although Sakura also appears as a playable character).
Maki
, more commonly known simply as , originally appeared in the SNESSuper Nintendo Entertainment System
The Super Nintendo Entertainment System is a 16-bit video game console that was released by Nintendo in North America, Europe, Australasia , and South America between 1990 and 1993. In Japan and Southeast Asia, the system is called the , or SFC for short...
beat 'em up Final Fight 2
Final Fight 2
Final Fight 2 is a side-scrolling beat 'em up released by Capcom for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in . It is a sequel to the coin-operated video game Final Fight...
as one of the game's main characters. Maki is a blond-haired red-clad female ninja who happens to be the younger sister of Guy's fiancee . Like Guy, Maki is also trained in the Bushin style of ninjutsu and uses many of the same abilities and techniques. When her father, Genryusai and Rena are kidnapped by a newly revived Mad Gear gang led by a kabuki
Kabuki
is classical Japanese dance-drama. Kabuki theatre is known for the stylization of its drama and for the elaborate make-up worn by some of its performers.The individual kanji characters, from left to right, mean sing , dance , and skill...
-like warrior named Retu, Maki enlist the help of Mike Haggar and his friend Carlos Miyamoto to rescue them.
Makis first return appearance was in the Street Fighter Alpha 2
Street Fighter Alpha 2
Street Fighter Alpha 2, known as in Japan, Asia and South America, is a fighting game originally released for the CPS II arcade hardware by Capcom. The game is both a sequel and a remake to the previous years Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams, which is itself a prequel to the Street Fighter...
tie-in manga Sakura Ganbaru!, where she appears as one of Sakuras competitors in a tournament sponsored by the Kanzuki family. Afterward, Maki would make her fighting game debut in Capcom vs. SNK 2
Capcom vs. SNK 2
Capcom vs. SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium 2001, known as Millionaire Fighting 2001 in Japan, is a sequel to the fighting game Capcom vs. SNK. This game was released on NAOMI hardware in the arcade...
, and this incarnation of the character would be adapted for the portable versions of Street Fighter Alpha 3
Street Fighter Alpha 3
Street Fighter Alpha 3, known as in Japan and Asia, is a fighting game by Capcom originally released for the CPS II arcade hardware. It is the third game in the Street Fighter Alpha series, following Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams and Street Fighter Alpha 2...
. Maki's ending in Capcom vs. SNK 2 implies that she is searching for Guy to challenge him for the Bushin style's succession. Maki's storyline in the PSP version of Alpha 3 plays upon this premise and has Maki confronting Guy as her final opponent before M. Bison
M. Bison
M. Bison, known in Japan as Vega, is a video game character created by Capcom. First introduced in Street Fighter II: The World Warrior, he is a recurring character in the Street Fighter series of fighting games, acting as the final boss and primary antagonist of the Street Fighter II and Street...
. Maki also confronts Sakura as her fifth opponent in the single-player mode as a nod to her appearance in Sakura Ganbaru!.
Like previous Final Fight characters who were adapted for the Street Fighter series, Makis fighting style in Capcom vs. SNK 2 and Alpha 3 is modeled after her techniques and abilities in Final Fight 2. Maki wields a tonfa
Tonfa
The tonfa , also known as tong fa or tuifa, is an Okinawan weapon. It is a stick with a handle, and is about 15-20 inches long. It was traditionally made from red oak and wielded in pairs...
in combat (a weapon that could be used by the player in Final Fight 2) and her special technique from Final Fight 2, the , appears in both games as a special move (which retains the detrimental side-effect of causing her to lose a bit of her vitality).
Maki was rated as #1 on the list of "Top Ten Fighting Women" by Electronic Gaming Monthly
Electronic Gaming Monthly
Electronic Gaming Monthly is a bimonthly American video game magazine. It has been published by EGM Media, LLC. since relaunching in April of 2010. Its previous run, which ended in January 2009, was published by Ziff Davis...
in 1993.
R. Mika
was introduced in Street Fighter Alpha 3, which currently remains her sole playable appearance. Her real name is , a Japanese girl planning to make her debut as a professional wrestlerProfessional wrestling
Professional wrestling is a mode of spectacle, combining athletics and theatrical performance.Roland Barthes, "The World of Wrestling", Mythologies, 1957 It takes the form of events, held by touring companies, which mimic a title match combat sport...
and become "Star of the Ring", working very hard to achieve her dream. To this end, she travels the world, fighting various street fighters to promote herself, meeting her idol Zangief along the way. She receives rigorous training from her manager, Yoko Harmagedon, a large muscular woman who is seen in a few of her victory poses riding a golf cart and wielding a shinai
Shinai
is a weapon used for practice and competition in kendo representing a Japanese sword. Shinai are also used in other martial arts, but may be styled differently from kendo shinai, and represented with different characters....
.
She later appears as a cameo in the Capcom game Startling Adventures.
Mika was created to introduce a "tricky and technical character" in the series, though she was not a female wrestler in the beginning. After her development, the team introduced Karin to act as a contrast to her.
Rolento
Rolento, who is given the full name in Street Fighter Alpha 2Street Fighter Alpha 2
Street Fighter Alpha 2, known as in Japan, Asia and South America, is a fighting game originally released for the CPS II arcade hardware by Capcom. The game is both a sequel and a remake to the previous years Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams, which is itself a prequel to the Street Fighter...
, was originally an enemy character in the beat-em-up Final Fight, where he appears as the boss of the Industrial Area stage. He is a former member of the fictional Red Beret special forces unit, who serves as the supervisor of the Mad Gear gang's weapons plant. In the game, he fights using a rod and resorts to throwing grenades when he's low on energy. Although Rolento was omitted in the SNES ports of Final Fight, he appears in the SNES sequel, Final Fight 2
Final Fight 2
Final Fight 2 is a side-scrolling beat 'em up released by Capcom for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in . It is a sequel to the coin-operated video game Final Fight...
, as the boss of the Italy stage. In the sequel, his name is transliterated as Rolent both in the game and in the instruction booklet.
Rolento makes his first appearance in the Street Fighter series in the original Street Fighter Alpha
Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams
Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams, known as in Japan, Asia, South America, and Australia, is a fighting game by Capcom originally released for the arcade for the CPS II hardware. It was the first all new Street Fighter game produced by Capcom since the release of Street Fighter II in...
, where he makes a cameo in Sodom's ending among other former Mad Gear members gathered by Sodom to help rebuild the gang. His actual debut as a playable fighter was in Street Fighter Alpha 2, in which Rolento seeks to build a military utopia following the downfall of the Mad Gear gang and is looking to recruit his former ally and nemesis, Sodom and Guy respectively, to his cause. Rolento's ending in Alpha 2 depicts him invading the streets of Metro City after forming his own army. In Street Fighter Alpha 3
Street Fighter Alpha 3
Street Fighter Alpha 3, known as in Japan and Asia, is a fighting game by Capcom originally released for the CPS II arcade hardware. It is the third game in the Street Fighter Alpha series, following Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams and Street Fighter Alpha 2...
, Rolento seeks to persuade Cody, another former nemesis, to join his army. In his ending, Rolento attempts to infiltrate Shadaloo's underground base to gain M. Bison's secret weapon, the Psycho Drive, only to destroy it with Sodom's help.
Rolento's fighting style in the Street Fighter is roughly based on his Final Fight counterpart. He uses his rod and grenades from Final Fight, as well as throwing knives and wires. One of Rolento's Super Combos in the Alpha series, "Take No Prisoners", involves Rolento's opponent being hooked to ceiling by either, El Gado or Holly Wood, both enemy characters from Final Fight who appear to be working for Rolento during the Alpha series.
Outside the Street Fighter series, Rolento appears as a playable character in Final Fight Revenge
Final Fight Revenge
is a 1999 American-developed 3D one-on-one fighting game. The game was produced by the American division of Capcom , the same team that later produced Maximo: Ghosts to Glory and Final Fight: Streetwise. Final Fight Revenge was released for the arcades on July 1999 and ran on the Sega ST-V arcade...
, a 3D fighting game spinoff to the Final Fight series, as well in Capcom vs. SNK 2
Capcom vs. SNK 2
Capcom vs. SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium 2001, known as Millionaire Fighting 2001 in Japan, is a sequel to the fighting game Capcom vs. SNK. This game was released on NAOMI hardware in the arcade...
. Although he does not actually appear in the game, Rolento also plays a role in Doctrine Dark's back-story in the original Street Fighter EX
Street Fighter EX
Street Fighter EX is a head-to-head fighting game with 3D graphics, originally released as a coin-operated arcade game for the Sony ZN hardware in . It is a spin-off of the Street Fighter series co-produced by Capcom with Arika and was the first game in the series to feature polygon graphics...
, in which Rolento was the one responsible for physically crippling him and his psychotic breakdown (Dark's fighting style is also partly modeled after Rolento's, who was inspired by Rolento's motto of "nothing is unfair as long as you win"). He also makes several cameo appearances through Super Gem Fighter Mini Mix
Super Gem Fighter Mini Mix
Super Gem Fighter Mini Mix, released in Japan as , is a fighting game released by Capcom in September 1997 for the CPS II arcade system. It was ported to the PlayStation , Sega Saturn, and WonderSwan, as well as PlayStation 2 as part of the Street Fighter Alpha Anthology.The game uses the same...
. As of September 13th 2011, Rolento will return in the upcoming game, Street Fighter X Tekken
Street Fighter X Tekken
is an upcoming crossover fighting game being developed by Capcom. The game was announced at the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con International by Capcom producer Yoshinori Ono. The game is set to release on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows and PlayStation Vita sometime in March 2012. The game...
.
Rose
first appears in Street Fighter Alpha, as she is characterized as a mystic fortune teller who searches the world for Bison in order to eradicate his evil power with her own unique ability known as Soul Power. At the end of the game, Rose engages Bison in combat and seemingly kills him. However, in the ending of Street Fighter Alpha 2, Rose consults her tarotTarot
The tarot |trionfi]] and later as tarocchi, tarock, and others) is a pack of cards , used from the mid-15th century in various parts of Europe to play a group of card games such as Italian tarocchini and French tarot...
cards and learns that Bison survived the attack.
At the climactic moment of Street Fighter Alpha 3
Street Fighter Alpha 3
Street Fighter Alpha 3, known as in Japan and Asia, is a fighting game by Capcom originally released for the CPS II arcade hardware. It is the third game in the Street Fighter Alpha series, following Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams and Street Fighter Alpha 2...
, she faces Bison once more and rams her fist through his chest, channeling her energy into his body. As Bison grapples with Rose, he reveals that they both share half of "the same soul". In the end, Bison's physical form discorporates and Rose collapses from exhaustion. Soon afterward, she is recovered by Guy
Guy (Final Fight)
is a video game character who first appears in the 1989 arcade beat-em-up Final Fight by Capcom. Guy would later reemerge, along with other Final Fight characters, as a fighting game character in Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams and its sequels...
and taken to safety. Although it appears that Bison has been killed, he has actually transferred his consciousness into Rose, effectively claiming her body. In the interim between the Alpha series and Street Fighter II: The World Warrior, Bison remains inside Rose's body until his scientists can form a new (albeit weaker) one for him. Bison appears as the final boss
Boss (video games)
A boss is an enemy-based challenge which is found in video games. A fight with a boss character is commonly referred to as a boss battle or boss fight...
of Street Fighter II. The Street Fighter IV Training Guide reveals that she survived the possession, but has no memory of the ordeal.
Rose appears in the console and PC versions of Street Fighter IV
Street Fighter IV
is a fighting game produced by Capcom. It is the first numbered Street Fighter game released by Capcom since . The coin-operated arcade game was released in Japan on July 18, 2008, with North American arcades importing the machines by August...
voiced by Gina Grad as an additional character. Her story for the game has her track down Bison after learning he had survived Akuma's attack at the end of the second World Warrior tournament, intending to stop him for good. During her participation in the tournament, she runs into Ryu, dead-set in stopping his advancement for his own protection, stating that he is "the last hope". This results in a fight with much reluctance from both parties. In her ending, she is confronted by Bison, who takes back his remaining power from Rose, causing her to fall unconscious to the ground. As Bison stands over her, he declares he'll keep her alive to satisfy his soul. The cliffhanger is resolved in Guy's ending of Super Street Fighter IV
Super Street Fighter IV
is a 2010 fighting game produced by Capcom. It is an updated version of Street Fighter IV and has been said to mark the definitive end of the Street Fighter IV series. Having been deemed as too large an update to be deployed as DLC, the game was made into a standalone title, but given a lower price...
, where he rescues Rose from Bison as he attempts to flee with her.
Elizaveta Kiryukhina portrayed Rose in the 2009 film Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li
Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li
Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li is the second live-action film based on the Street Fighter series of video games. It follows the quest of Street Fighter character Chun-Li, who is portrayed by Kristin Kreuk. The story follows Chun-Li's personal history and her journey for justice. The film...
. Many references are made to the "White Rose". This turns out to be a ship carrying M. Bison's Russian speaking daughter, Rose. Earlier in this film, it is noted that the section of Bison's good soul/morals has been transferred to Rose during her conception. As the film comes to a climax, Rose watches her father die at the hands of Chun-Li.
Sodom
originally appeared in the beat-em-upBeat 'em up
Beat 'em up is a video game genre featuring melee combat between the protagonist and a large number of underpowered antagonists. These games typically take place in urban settings and feature crime-fighting and revenge-based plots, though some games may employ historical or fantasy themes...
Final Fight
Final Fight
is a side-scrolling beat-'em-up game originally released by Capcom as a coin-operated video game in . It was the seventh game released by Capcom for their CP System arcade game hardware...
, where he is the boss of the Subway stage. An underground wrestling promoter dressed in a samurai
Samurai
is the term for the military nobility of pre-industrial Japan. According to translator William Scott Wilson: "In Chinese, the character 侍 was originally a verb meaning to wait upon or accompany a person in the upper ranks of society, and this is also true of the original term in Japanese, saburau...
-like helmet and gear, Sodom fights the player in an underground ring within the Metro City's subway, wielding two Masamune
Masamune
, also known as , is widely recognized as Japan's greatest swordsmith. As no exact dates are known for Masamune's life, he has reached an almost legendary status. It is generally agreed that he made most of his swords in the late 13th and early 14th centuries, 1288–1328. He created swords, known as...
blades. In the international versions of Final Fight for the SNES
Super Nintendo Entertainment System
The Super Nintendo Entertainment System is a 16-bit video game console that was released by Nintendo in North America, Europe, Australasia , and South America between 1990 and 1993. In Japan and Southeast Asia, the system is called the , or SFC for short...
and Sega CD, Sodom was renamed Katana, due to the obvious reference to sodomy
Sodomy
Sodomy is an anal or other copulation-like act, especially between male persons or between a man and animal, and one who practices sodomy is a "sodomite"...
.
Sodom would make his first appearance in the Street Fighter series in the original Street Fighter Alpha
Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams
Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams, known as in Japan, Asia, South America, and Australia, is a fighting game by Capcom originally released for the arcade for the CPS II hardware. It was the first all new Street Fighter game produced by Capcom since the release of Street Fighter II in...
. In the Alpha series, Sodom is characterized as an American Japanophile
Japanophile
Japanophilia is an interest in, or love of, Japan and anything Japanese; its opposite is Japanophobia. One who has such an interest or love is a Japanophile...
who is greatly fascinated by Japanese culture, but actually misunderstands it. After he was defeated by Guy during the events of Final Fight, Sodom realized that he had a wrong perception of Japan and traveled there to re-educate himself. He develops a new fighting style based on Japanese and Western martial arts and trades his Masamune blades with a pair of jitte. On the front of his outfit, Sodom has scrawled the Japanese kanji shi (死), meaning death. In the first Alpha, he seeks to rebuild the Mad Gear gang by defeating his old rival Guy in combat. In his ending, he reforms the gang and holds up a poster reading 魔奴義亜. In his ending in Street Fighter Alpha 2
Street Fighter Alpha 2
Street Fighter Alpha 2, known as in Japan, Asia and South America, is a fighting game originally released for the CPS II arcade hardware by Capcom. The game is both a sequel and a remake to the previous years Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams, which is itself a prequel to the Street Fighter...
, Sodom goes to a sumo ring in Japan to seek new members for the reformed Mad Gear and ends up being challenged by E. Honda. In Street Fighter Alpha 3
Street Fighter Alpha 3
Street Fighter Alpha 3, known as in Japan and Asia, is a fighting game by Capcom originally released for the CPS II arcade hardware. It is the third game in the Street Fighter Alpha series, following Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams and Street Fighter Alpha 2...
, he seeks a new hideout for his gang and goes to claim Shadaloo's new underground base as his own when he learns about it from his former ally Rolento and ends up crashing his own truck into M. Bison's in order to foil his plot. In Alpha 3 he also regains his katana blades from Final Fight
Final Fight
is a side-scrolling beat-'em-up game originally released by Capcom as a coin-operated video game in . It was the seventh game released by Capcom for their CP System arcade game hardware...
when the player selects him in the X-ism style.
In the Japanese versions of the Street Fighter Alpha games, where the series is known as Street Fighter Zero, Sodom's victory quotes are composed of seemingly nonsensical English phrases that are actually meant to be mispronounced Japanese phrases. For example, Sodom would say "Die Job Death Car?" instead of and ""Nip On Die Ski!" instead of . In the English version of Alpha 3, Sodom says "Don't thank me! In fact, 'don't touch my moustache!'" in one of his victory quotes. "Don't touch my moustache" is a commonly taught approximation of the phrase .
In addition to the Alpha series, Sodom also appears as a playable character in Final Fight Revenge
Final Fight Revenge
is a 1999 American-developed 3D one-on-one fighting game. The game was produced by the American division of Capcom , the same team that later produced Maximo: Ghosts to Glory and Final Fight: Streetwise. Final Fight Revenge was released for the arcades on July 1999 and ran on the Sega ST-V arcade...
and makes a couple of cameos in Super Gem Fighter Mini Mix
Super Gem Fighter Mini Mix
Super Gem Fighter Mini Mix, released in Japan as , is a fighting game released by Capcom in September 1997 for the CPS II arcade system. It was ported to the PlayStation , Sega Saturn, and WonderSwan, as well as PlayStation 2 as part of the Street Fighter Alpha Anthology.The game uses the same...
. In Mighty Final Fight
Mighty Final Fight
Mighty Final Fight is a side-scrolling beat-'em-up released by Capcom for the Nintendo Entertainment System in . It is a spinoff of Capcom's arcade game Final Fight, which was previously ported to the Super NES in two different editions...
, there are actually three Sodoms (or Katanas, as the character is referred to as in the English version) known as the Three Katana Brothers.
Alex
is the lead character of Street Fighter III, who was initially designed to substitute series' mainstays Ryu and Ken (who were still included in the released game due to fan demand).According to his back-story in the original Street Fighter III and Street Fighter III 2nd Impact, Alex is an American from New York (given his accent, many assume Alex is from Brooklyn, although his stage in 2nd Impact is Greenwich Village
Greenwich Village
Greenwich Village, , , , .in New York often simply called "the Village", is a largely residential neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan in New York City. A large majority of the district is home to upper middle class families...
). Alex entered the third World Warrior tournament because its sponsor, Gill, had seriously injured his best friend and mentor/father figure Tom, even though Tom had told him Gill had won fairly. Tom allowed him to go, letting him make his own decision. Alex won every match and then faced Gill. Although he defeated Gill, Alex did not have a chance to kill him, and he went home, to find Tom fully recovered. In Street Fighter III 3rd Strike, Alex senses an unknown urge to continue fighting after experiencing numerous battles against other martial arts masters around the world. Seeking to find a stronger opponent, he goes against his friend Tom's wishes and sets off on a journey.
Alex's other fighting appearances were in Capcom Fighting All-Stars
Capcom Fighting All-Stars
Capcom Fighting All-Stars: Code Holder was a 3D fighting game planned for the arcade and PlayStation 2 that was to be developed by Capcom. Like KOF: Maximum Impact, it was designed to translate a 2D fighting game series into 3D. This was done previously in the Street Fighter EX series, which...
, Capcom Fighting Evolution and Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars.
In December 1997 Alex ranked 44th on Gamest "top 50" list of the best video game characters, tying with Goro Daimon, and in January 1998 was named the 22nd best character of the preceding year, tying with Ryuji Yamazaki
Ryuji Yamazaki
is a video game character appearing in Fatal Fury series and The King of Fighters developed by SNK Playmore . Yamazaki is first introduced as the sub-boss character of Fatal Fury 3: Road to the Final Victory, where he is a criminal known as "Dark Broker"...
.
Dudley
is an upper class heavyweightHeavyweight
Heavyweight is a division, or weight class, in boxing. Fighters who weigh over 200 pounds are considered heavyweights by the major professional boxing organizations: the International Boxing Federation, the World Boxing Association, the World Boxing Council, and the World Boxing...
boxer from Britain
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
with powerful technique and speed. He seeks perfection both in and out of the ring, always behaving as an impeccable gentleman. He is also the son of an athlete who later became a successful businessman. When his father's business began to fail when he was in college, Dudley was able to recover his losses thanks to his boxing career.
In 2nd Impact, he fights outside a London pub called the Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective created by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The fantastic London-based "consulting detective", Holmes is famous for his astute logical reasoning, his ability to take almost any disguise, and his use of forensic science skills to solve...
, while Knightsbridge tube station
Knightsbridge tube station
Knightsbridge tube station is a London Underground station in Knightsbridge , The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It is on the Piccadilly Line between South Kensington and Hyde Park Corner, and is in Travelcard Zone 1.-History:...
can be seen in his 3rd Strike background. When his father's prized rolls royce is purchased from a debtor's auction, Dudley goes after the buyer, a man named Gill. In 3rd Strike, Dudley has received the honorary title of "Sir
Sir
Sir is an honorific used as a title , or as a courtesy title to address a man without using his given or family name in many English speaking cultures...
" after making a comeback and winning the championship title, and is invited into a contest that will be held in the presence of the royal family. Now known as Sir Dudlington, he decides to travel the world and improve himself before the day of the match. Dudley is also shown to have a great interest in the gardens of his illustrious country estate, occasionally losing track of time, or getting lost, as shown in his Third Strike ending. Dudley is a playable character in Super Street Fighter IV. He joins the tournament in pursuit of new roses for his garden. He also claims he needs something to get his mind off of his missing car. He encounters Balrog as he challenges Dudley to a fight. In his ending, he's shown lamenting the fact that he couldn't buy new flowers for his garden. As he does so, Dudley notices a flower blooms and comments on its beauty.
Dudley has had a mostly positive reception.The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
ranked him the high #4 on the list of Top 20 Street Fighter Characters the same year according to Ryan Hart, the UK's top SF player. Dudley was also listed by IGN
IGN
IGN is an entertainment website that focuses on video games, films, music and other media. IGN's main website comprises several specialty sites or "channels", each occupying a subdomain and covering a specific area of entertainment...
as one their top 25 favourite characters. UGO.com voted him amongst the top 50 most popular characters.
Gill
serves as the bossBoss (video games)
A boss is an enemy-based challenge which is found in video games. A fight with a boss character is commonly referred to as a boss battle or boss fight...
and antagonist of the Street Fighter III
Street Fighter III
is a fighting game in Capcom's Street Fighter series, originally released as coin-operated arcade game in . Street Fighter III was produced for the CD-ROM-based CP System III hardware, which allowed for more elaborate 2D graphics than the CPS II-based Street Fighter Alpha games , while revamping...
series. Gill is the President of a secret society that has controlled the underworld for thousands of years and seeks to turn the whole world into a utopia by the 23rd century. Every 24 years, the Illuminati chooses a new President, with the current one being Gill at the start of the series. His ultimate goal is to test the skills of several warriors and coerce them into his cause. Gill appears in his default costume as a tall, muscular man with flowing blond hair, the right side of his body colored red, and the left side colored blue, wearing nothing but a loincloth.
2nd Impact introduces his younger brother Urien as a player character, who has a similar build and attire. In Urien's ending, its is revealed that Gill was promoted to after Urien received Gill's former position of President, a position he still holds by the time of 3rd Strike The blond woman who assists Gill prior to battle in 3rd Strike is his secretary , who also appears in Dudley's ending in the first two games, handing him the keys to Dudley's car. Gill is not playable in any of the arcade versions of the Street Fighter III games. However, he is selectable once he is unlocked from within the console versions of 2nd Impact and Third Strike.
Hugo
is a massive professional wrestlerProfessional wrestling
Professional wrestling is a mode of spectacle, combining athletics and theatrical performance.Roland Barthes, "The World of Wrestling", Mythologies, 1957 It takes the form of events, held by touring companies, which mimic a title match combat sport...
from Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
who makes his first appearance in the series in Street Fighter III: 2nd Impact. He is based on the enemy character from Final Fight
Final Fight
is a side-scrolling beat-'em-up game originally released by Capcom as a coin-operated video game in . It was the seventh game released by Capcom for their CP System arcade game hardware...
and wears a similar pink leopard-print shirt and pants with chains around his waist. Because of his physical appearance and strength, Hugo is often compared to André the Giant
André the Giant
André René Roussimoff , best known as André the Giant, was a French professional wrestler and actor. His best remembered acting role was that of Fezzik, the giant in the film The Princess Bride...
, who was a real-life wrestler that worked for the WWF in the mid-80's and inspired the Andore character. Hugo is the son of a farmer from the German countryside and was raised alongside his two younger sisters. After leaving his hometown at the age of 20, he became a popular wrestler in the USA, with former street warrior Poison, another enemy character from Final Fight, acting as his manager. In 2nd Impact, Hugo seeks to find a partner for an upcoming tag team wrestling tournament that is set to take place in a matter of months. Hugo's final opponent in the single-player mode varies, with the four possibilities being Gill, Ryu, Elena, or Necro. Afterwards, Hugo and his rival go on to form a tag team to compete in the CWA
Saturday Night Slam Masters
Saturday Night Slam Masters, known in Japan as , is a 1993 pro wrestling arcade game released for the CP System by Capcom. The game features character designs by manga artist Tetsuo Hara, famous for Fist of the North Star....
tag tournament. In 3rd Strike, Hugo achieved such an overwhelming victory in the tag tournament, that no other wrestler dares to challenge him anymore. Worried about the lack of matches for Hugo, Poison gets an idea to form a new wrestling organization with Hugo, recruiting only the mightiest of fighters for their cause. In Hugo's ending, he and Poison form the Huge Wrestling Army (H.W.A.), which includes other members of the 3rd Strike cast.
Outside the Street Fighter III series, Hugo appears as a playable character in SNK vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos and Street Fighter X Tekken
Street Fighter X Tekken
is an upcoming crossover fighting game being developed by Capcom. The game was announced at the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con International by Capcom producer Yoshinori Ono. The game is set to release on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows and PlayStation Vita sometime in March 2012. The game...
. He is an optional pit-fight opponent in Final Fight Streetwise. He also makes a cameo appearance in the Metro City stage in Super Street Fighter IV
Super Street Fighter IV
is a 2010 fighting game produced by Capcom. It is an updated version of Street Fighter IV and has been said to mark the definitive end of the Street Fighter IV series. Having been deemed as too large an update to be deployed as DLC, the game was made into a standalone title, but given a lower price...
. Hugo has returned in the upcoming fighting game, Street Fighter X Tekken
Street Fighter X Tekken
is an upcoming crossover fighting game being developed by Capcom. The game was announced at the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con International by Capcom producer Yoshinori Ono. The game is set to release on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows and PlayStation Vita sometime in March 2012. The game...
.
Necro
, whose real name is , was born in a poor Russian village near a lake. He was the third of four children, which included two elder brothers and a younger sister. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, he wandered off from his home village and into the vicinity of MoscowMoscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
, where he came into contact with Gill's organization, who remodeled his DNA
DNA
Deoxyribonucleic acid is a nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms . The DNA segments that carry this genetic information are called genes, but other DNA sequences have structural purposes, or are involved in...
to turn him into a living weapon, granting him superhuman flexibility. His fighting style was simulated by computer, then programmed into his brain with cyber implants. Necro has a long reach, and can also use throws and electrocution. In his ending, Necro is tricked by Gill and left for dead in a facility, until he is rescued by a young girl named , and the pair go on a journey together. Necro's story is the same in 2nd Impact, although he also has a role as one of Hugo's potential final bosses and tag partners, in which Necro gains the nickname of the "super electromagnetic alien", forming the tag team of "Thunderbolt". In 3rd Strike, Necro and Effie are being pursued by agents of the organization, but still live with the hope of "truth and liberty". In his ending, Necro manages to save Effie from falling, and thwart agents of the organization while at the Siberian railroad.
Remy
, who first appears in Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike, is a young turquoise-haired savatuerSavate
Savate , also known as boxe française, French boxing, French kickboxing or French footfighting, is a French martial art which uses the hands and feet as weapons combining elements of western boxing with graceful kicking techniques. Only foot kicks are allowed unlike some systems such as Muay...
from Paris, France who seeks revenge against his father, a martial artist who abandoned him and his sister. After Remy's sister died, he encased her body in an iced casket, which he keeps in an underwater cove within the Bay of Biscay
Bay of Biscay
The Bay of Biscay is a gulf of the northeast Atlantic Ocean located south of the Celtic Sea. It lies along the western coast of France from Brest south to the Spanish border, and the northern coast of Spain west to Cape Ortegal, and is named in English after the province of Biscay, in the Spanish...
. Remy takes his aggression out on other martial artists by challenging them to battle. Remy's rival match illustrates this, as his sudden appearance and challenge take Alex by surprise, who takes him for being nothing but a troubled man. In his ending, Remy realizes that he has been inadvertently following his father's footsteps. He makes peace with his sister and begins following a new path. His attacks are similar to that of Guile and Charlie, but no notable connection has been established between the characters. Remy was voted 8th in Capcom's own popularity poll of 85 characters for the 15th anniversary of Street Fighter.
Sean
is an athletic young boy who grew up in an average home in BrazilBrazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
. Impressed by Ken's performance at a martial arts rally, Sean went after him to become his disciple, calling him "Master Ken" or Sifu
Sifu
Shifu is the identical pronunciation of two Chinese terms for a master. The character 師 means “teacher”. The meaning of 傅 is “tutor”, and of 父, “father”. Both characters are read fu with the same tones in Cantonese and Mandarin, creating some ambiguity...
. A hot-blooded, but courteous young man, Sean is determined to win no matter what. He was once trained by his grandfather, who is of Japanese descent. His greatest weakness is receiving attacks while attacking. He dreams of creating his original special moves.
Sean is the character who leads the basketball parry bonus round in 3rd Strike. In his ending, Sean becomes Ken's disciple, only to be told that he needs to defeat Ryu to become worthy. In 3rd Strike, Sean is allowed to participate in an actual martial art tournament, only to be told by Ken that with his current skills, he won't even be able to make it pass the preliminaries and that he needs to develop his own "style". In his 3rd Strike ending, Sean appears to had won the championship title at first, but his victory is then revealed to be a dream and that Sean actually lost the qualifying rounds due to his lack of training.
Sean makes a cameo appearance in Ryu's ending Marvel vs. Capcom, in which he is being trained by Ryu.
Twelve
is a humanoid creature introduced as a playable character in Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike. His stage background, shared with Necro, is Saint Basil's CathedralSaint Basil's Cathedral
The Cathedral of the Protection of Most Holy Theotokos on the Moat , popularly known as Saint Basil's Cathedral , is a Russian Orthodox church erected on the Red Square in Moscow in 1555–61. Built on the order of Ivan the Terrible to commemorate the capture of Kazan and Astrakhan, it marks the...
.
Twelve is the ultimate humanoid-type weapon developed by Gill's organization. He has a shapeshifting body which is actually a completed version of the prototype body given to Necro, improved and strengthened. Via a super art, Twelve has the ability to copy his opponents form and moves. Twelve's targets are filled with absolute despair when cornered by him. Twelve has the ability to copy the appearance of his opponent and mimic their abilities. Twelve's objective is to track down Necro and Effie, who are fleeing from the organization.
Urien
is Gill's younger brother introduced in Street Fighter III: 2nd Impact, who shares many of his traits, including physical build. Gill and Urien were the children of gifted parents who excelled in their physical and intellectual capabilities. The brothers were separated from their birth parents by the organization after they each turned six and were given a specialized education by the organization to be candidates for the Presidency of the organization. Eventually Gill was chosen over Urien to be the President of the Organization, leaving Urien bitter with regret.In 2nd Impact, Urien challenges his brother Gill to usurp his position as President. He gains the title at the end, only to learn that his brother Gill has been promoted as the Emperor, the true leader of the organization whose existence is known only to the Presidents and chairmen of the organization. In 3rd Strike, Urien is resentful over the fact that he is still outclassed by his brother, in spite of his new position. He decides to eliminate Gill once and for all and destroys the preservation facility where Gill is still recovering inside.
Urien also appears in Capcom Fighting Jam
Capcom Fighting Jam
, released in North America as Capcom Fighting Evolution, is a head-to-head fighting game from Capcom. It was originally released as a coin-operated arcade game for the Namco System 246 hardware and ported to the PlayStation 2 and Xbox...
as one of the characters representing the Street Fighter III series.
Q
Q, who first appears in Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike, is a mysterious individual wearing a trenchcoat and hat whose face is concealed with a featureless metal mask. Q is being tracked by the CIA due to his presence in numerous strange disasters. To date, nothing of Q's background has ever been revealed. All of Q's techniques are named in "descriptive" form rather than traditionally-styled move names, as if they are given by people who have watched him fight.Yun and Yang
and are twin martial artists from Hong KongHong Kong
Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...
who were separated from their birth parents when they were infants and raised by their adoptive grandfather, who manages a restaurant at Shanghai and trained the brothers in a variety of Chinese martial arts. The twins are the godsons of eight bosses in the underground community and the two became leaders of their local town at a young age. The elder brother Yun (the one in the white outfit and blue cap) is outgoing and impulsive, whereas the younger brother Yang (the one in red) is calmer and more analytical. The twins are related to Lee from the first Street Fighter and a character in the game addresses the twins as the in their ending in the original Street Fighter III and 2nd Impact. In Street Fighter III 3rd Strike, the twins decide to fight Gill's organization, the Illuminati, who are threatening to invade their home town. After defeating Gill, the twins return home, where they are greeted by their friend Houmei and her younger sister Shaomei. Originally Yun and Yang had identical abilities and techniques in the original Street Fighter III, with Yang being selectable as an alternate version of Yun. In 2nd Impact and 3rd Strike, Yang was made into a distinct selectable character with his own techniques and abilities (including different Super Arts), as well as his own endings.
After the Street Fighter III series, Yun appeared as a playable character in Capcom vs. SNK 2
Capcom vs. SNK 2
Capcom vs. SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium 2001, known as Millionaire Fighting 2001 in Japan, is a sequel to the fighting game Capcom vs. SNK. This game was released on NAOMI hardware in the arcade...
, with his brother Yang assisting in some of his special moves and Super Combos. This version of Yun would appear again in the portable versions of Street Fighter Alpha 3
Street Fighter Alpha 3
Street Fighter Alpha 3, known as in Japan and Asia, is a fighting game by Capcom originally released for the CPS II arcade hardware. It is the third game in the Street Fighter Alpha series, following Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams and Street Fighter Alpha 2...
for the GBA and PSP, as well as Capcom Fighting Jam
Capcom Fighting Jam
, released in North America as Capcom Fighting Evolution, is a head-to-head fighting game from Capcom. It was originally released as a coin-operated arcade game for the Namco System 246 hardware and ported to the PlayStation 2 and Xbox...
. The twins made a cameo in Chun-Li's introductory cut-scene in the console versions of Street Fighter IV
Street Fighter IV
is a fighting game produced by Capcom. It is the first numbered Street Fighter game released by Capcom since . The coin-operated arcade game was released in Japan on July 18, 2008, with North American arcades importing the machines by August...
and also her ending in Super Street Fighter IV
Super Street Fighter IV
is a 2010 fighting game produced by Capcom. It is an updated version of Street Fighter IV and has been said to mark the definitive end of the Street Fighter IV series. Having been deemed as too large an update to be deployed as DLC, the game was made into a standalone title, but given a lower price...
, and are playable characters in the arcade version of Super Street Fighter IV.
Ace
, who is introduced in Street Fighter EX3Street Fighter EX3
Street Fighter EX3 is the third console installment in the Street Fighter EX series developed by Arika and published by Capcom. The game was released in 2000 for PlayStation 2 in Japan and North America, and subsequently released in Europe in 2001....
, is a government agent who is ordered by the prime minister
Prime minister
A prime minister is the most senior minister of cabinet in the executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. In many systems, the prime minister selects and may dismiss other members of the cabinet, and allocates posts to members within the government. In most systems, the prime...
of his nation to find information about a secret weapon being developed in an underground base. Ace uses a custom fighting style which can be edited by the player by passing a series of trials in the game's Character Edit Mode, and thus has access to a wide variety of techniques including Cammy's Killer Bee Assault and Elena's Healing, and some of his own.
Allen
, who appears as a secret character in the original Street Fighter EX and as a regular character in Street Fighter EX Plus and EX Plus α, is a fighter who was once said to be the strongest fighter in the American Karate circuit until he experienced his first defeat against a young Ken Masters at the All-American Martial Arts Tournament, who told Allen that he was only a "big fish in a small pond". Motivated by Ken's words, Allen decides to prove that he can be not just the best in America, but also the best in the world. Although absent in Street Fighter EX2 and subsequent games, he makes an appearance in the Arika-developed arcade game Fighting LayerFighting Layer
is a 3D fighting game developed by Arika and published by Namco. It released only in Japan in 1998 and has never been released overseas and was not ported to home consoles.-Gameplay:...
, where he seeks to defeat the strongest opponent in South Island.
Area
, who first appears in Street Fighter EX2 Plus, is a young girl with braided hair who is daughter of a scientific inventor. Her intellect is said to surpass her own father. When her father's inventions fail to sell, she decides to modify them as weapons and test them in combat against the world's greatest martial artists. In battle, she wears a pair of high-speed rollerblades and a mechanical right arm codenamed .Blair
, who appears as a secret character in the original Street Fighter EX and as a regular character in Street Fighter EX Plus and EX Plus α, is the daughter of a wealthy European family. She fights wearing a light blue leotard and long boots. In addition to receiving a formal education, Blair also trained herself in various combative sports, believing that one day she will need to know how to not only defend herself, but her loved ones as well. She travels the world to hone her skills with her bodyguard Cracker Jack, whom her mother had hired to protect her. Blair is also acquainted with Pullum due to their mutual membership in the International Debutante Club. In an end sequence, it is revealed that her butler is called Sebastian. Like Allen, Blair also appears in Arika-developed arcade fighting game Fighting Layer, where she decides to take a sudden trip to South Island. She is also mentioned in Jack's ending in Street Fighter EX3.C. Jack
is a bat-wielding former bouncer from Las Vegas known for his unstoppable punches. When he's being pursued by an unknown organization, he decides to become Blair's bodyguard in order to travel the world and flee his pursuers. In Street Fighter EX2, his younger sister is kidnapped by an underground fighting champion named Bharat. In Street Fighter EX2 Plus, he is continued to be pursued by the mysterious organization and by the end of Street Fighter EX 3, he decides to seek refuge in Blair's mansion.Cycloid-β and Cycloid-γ
and , who both appear as secret characters in Street Fighter EX Plus and EX Plus α, are a pair of cyborgs who use the special techniques of other characters. Beta primarily uses command-based special moves, while Gamma specializes in charge-based moves. Both characters were based on test models used for motion capturing purpose during the development of the game. Beta is an untextured blue polygonal model resembling a male human, while Gamma is a green wireframed model. In the Japanese version of Street Fighter EX Plus α for the PlayStation, Gamma is given an additional back-story a weapon secretly developed by Balba (Pullum's father) in order to annihilate a huge criminal organization. In Street Fighter EX2 Plus, Cycloid Beta appears in the game's bonus rounds, but Gamma does not.D. Dark
, whose real name is , is a German-American mercenary seeking revenge against Guile. In the past, he served the American armed forces and joined a special forces unit led by Guile until Holger's unit got involved in a scuffle against a rival unit led by Rolento. Holger was the sole survivor of the unit, but suffered tremendous physical and mental scars. He seeks revenge against Guile, feeling that he did not train him sufficiently. His back-story for Street Fighter EX2, also establishes that Dark was raised in a mercenary training facility where he was trained in the usage of weapons similar to Rolento's such as knives, grenades, and wires. During the development of Street Fighter EX, Dark was nicknamed by the developers .Darun
makes his appearance in the original Street Fighter EX as a hidden character. He is a popular wrestling champion from India who seeks to challenge other wrestlers such as Zangief and Victor Ortega (from the Slam MastersSaturday Night Slam Masters
Saturday Night Slam Masters, known in Japan as , is a 1993 pro wrestling arcade game released for the CP System by Capcom. The game features character designs by manga artist Tetsuo Hara, famous for Fist of the North Star....
series). He agrees to become Pullum Purna's bodyguard, hoping to use the opportunity to travel the world and fight many wrestlers. He is absent in the original Street Fighter EX2, but returns in Street Fighter EX2 Plus where he obtains another opportunity to fight against more wrestlers around the world after Pullum becomes a Princess. In Street Fighter EX3, he has a special ending if the player finishes the single-player mode with Zangief as his tag-partner.
Garuda
, first appears as a non-playable boss character in the original Street Fighter EX, but becomes a playable character in subsequent installments. He is a demon dressed in samurai-like armor who wields a sword hidden within his own body. According to his back-story in the original Street Fighter EX, he was created by the souls of dead men who were consumed by the Satsui no Hadō, although his revised back-story in Street Fighter EX2 suggest that he is an accumulation of negative feelings such as anger, hatred, envy, treachery, and despair. Garuda's form is said to change depending on his opponent: he takes a strong form against warriors seeking strength and feeds on the hatred of warriors who are seeking vengeance.Hayate
, who makes his first appearance in the original Street Fighter EX 2, is a Japanese swordsman from the hidden within the mountains. He is following the footsteps of his father, a legendary hero who once saved his home village from the demon and is one of the few Street Fighter characters to use a sword in combat. At the end of the original EX 2, he vanquishes the demon his father once sealed and saves the local shrine maiden, becoming the new guardian deity of Kukunoichi. Hayate was the only character from the original EX 2 who was absent in the arcade version of Street Fighter EX 2 Plus. He was re-included in the PlayStation version of the game as a hidden character.Hokuto
is the daughter of a branch family who was trained in the family's style of KobujutsuKoryu
is a Japanese word that is used in association with the ancient Japanese martial arts. This word literally translates as "old school" or "traditional school"...
. She was known as when she was a child. When Hokuto turned 17, she was sent on a journey to find her older brother Kairi, who went missing for years. Unknown to Hokuto, the true purpose of her journey was not only to find her brother, but to defeat him. She was implanted by the in order to exterminate her brother. In the original Street Fighter EX, Hokuto wore a blue white outfit resembling a Japanese archer gi and white hachimaki around her long hair. In EX 2, she wears a hakama and ties her hair with a pony-tail. She reverts to her original design in EX 3. In addition to her regular version, an alternate version named is featured as secret character in Street Fighter EX Plus
Kairi
, who first appears as a secret character in the original Street Fighter EX, is depicted as an amnesiac martial artist who was initially conceived to be the main character in the EX series. He appears in the original EX and its rereleases with long black hair and a scar over his right eye. He lost his memories while fighting an unknown challenger, rumored to have been Akuma, and now walks the "path of the Shura", fighting to survive. He learns he is actually Hokuto's elder brother, who was on a mission to find him. In EX 2, his hair has changed from black to white due to his constant battles. He recovers his memories after confronting Hokuto and Nanase and learns that he was responsible for the death of their father.Nanase
, who first appears as a hidden character in the original Street Fighter EX2 and becomes a regular character in Street Fighter EX2 Plus and Street Fighter EX3, is the younger sister of Hokuto, who was raised to be a successor to the Mizugami clan. Although her mood is different from her older sister, she is very close to Hokuto, who is the only person she confides in. Nanase becomes worried about Hokuto after leaves the shrine where they live and does not return. She then learns from her grandfather she has a brother named Kairi, of whom Hokuto was sent to find. She goes on a journey to find her sister and a brother she never knew existed, unaware that her journey is also test to determine whether she's fit to inherit the Mizugami's teachings.Pullum
is the daughter of an ArabArab
Arab people, also known as Arabs , are a panethnicity primarily living in the Arab world, which is located in Western Asia and North Africa. They are identified as such on one or more of genealogical, linguistic, or cultural grounds, with tribal affiliations, and intra-tribal relationships playing...
ian multimillionaire. She decides to travel the world with her bodyguard Darun when she overhears her grandfather whisper the name "Shadaloo", believing that it is the name of a person. Unknown to Pullum, the reason why her grandfather was worried about Shadaloo was because she has a blood relative working for the organization who was a candidate in becoming a Shadaloo executive. Absent in the original Street Fighter EX2, she returns in Street Fighter EX2 Plus where she inherits a kingdom after the death of a relative and decides to travel the world once again with her bodyguard Darun to search for her missing father.
Shadowgeist
first appears in the arcade version of the original Street Fighter EX2 and in Street Fighter EX2 Plus as a secret character, as well as in Street Fighter EX3Street Fighter EX3
Street Fighter EX3 is the third console installment in the Street Fighter EX series developed by Arika and published by Capcom. The game was released in 2000 for PlayStation 2 in Japan and North America, and subsequently released in Europe in 2001....
. He is an unknown man from an unnamed country dressed in a superhero costume similar to Skullomania's, who has artificially enhanced his body in order to overthrow the men in charge of the totalitarian government responsible for the deaths of his wife and daughter.
Sharon
, who debuts in Street Fighter EX 2, is a red-haired beautiful woman with a tattoo of a rose on her chest. Sharon was depicted wielding a gun in the character artwork for the original EX 2, but she does not actually use any firearms until EX 2 Plus. In the story, she lives a double life as a nunNun
A nun is a woman who has taken vows committing her to live a spiritual life. She may be an ascetic who voluntarily chooses to leave mainstream society and live her life in prayer and contemplation in a monastery or convent...
who takes care of orphans at a monastery, as well as an A-class agent for a secret intelligence group. Having separated from her parents when she was young, her only desire in mind is to be reunited with her family and learn about her past. When she learns that a key member of a criminal organization she was assigned to investigate has the same tattoo she has, she decides to chase after him to find out the truth. Sharon is believed to be some sort of blood-relative to Blair, but not specified precisely. Although no location is given, she has a move called Bermuda
Bermuda
Bermuda is a British overseas territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. Located off the east coast of the United States, its nearest landmass is Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, about to the west-northwest. It is about south of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and northeast of Miami, Florida...
symphony.
Skullomania
is the secret identity of , a third-rate businessman from Tokyo who works to support his wife and children. He adopted his superhero identity when a client asked him to dress-up and pose for a superhero attraction at his department store. Donning a full-body suit resembling a skeleton, Skullomania decided to fight evil for real. In Street Fighter EX2, his costume is redesigned, with the adding a red scarf and a red letter "S" in front of his mask. Many elements of Skullomania are homages to the TokusatsuTokusatsu
is a Japanese term that applies to any live-action film or television drama that usually features superheroes and makes considerable use of special effects ....
genre of Japanese action shows in general and Kamen Rider
Kamen Rider
, is a weekly science fiction story created by Japanese manga artist Shotaro Ishinomori. It debuted as a tokusatsu television series on April 3, 1971 and ran until February 10, 1973, airing on the Mainichi Broadcasting System and NET TV . A manga adaptation was also featured in Shōnen Magazine...
in particular, specifically the red scarf, belt, and prominence of flying kicks in his fighting style. He later made an appearance in the PlayStation 2 music game Technictix, and also in Fighter Maker
Fighter Maker
Fighter Maker is a series of games for PlayStation consoles and Microsoft Windows. It features a robust character creation system, letting players even create animations...
.
V. Rosso
, who also makes his debut in Street Fighter EX2 Plus, is a mysterious Italian warrior who leaves his organization in order to avenge the death of his lover, presumably killed by Bison's Shadaloo operatives. His special moves are named after locations in Italy such as AetnaAetna
Aetna, Inc. is an American health insurance company, providing a range of traditional and consumer directed health care insurance products and related services, including medical, pharmaceutical, dental, behavioral health, group life, long-term care, and disability plans, and medical management...
, Vesuvio, Canossa
Canossa
Canossa is a comune and castle town in Emilia-Romagna, famous as the site where Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV did penance in 1077, standing three days bare-headed in the snow, in order to reverse his excommunication by Pope Gregory VII...
, Ponte dei Sospiri, and Torre Pendente. At the end EX2 Plus, he fulfills his revenge but still mourns the death of his lover.
Blade
(played by game designer Alan Noon) is a character who appears exclusively in the Street Fighter: The MovieStreet Fighter: The Movie (arcade game)
Street Fighter: The Movie is a head-to-head fighting game released as a coin-operated arcade game. The game is based on the 1994 live-action Street Fighter movie and uses digitized images of the films cast posing as the characters in the game...
arcade game. He is not based on any previous Street Fighter II character, but is dressed as a red-clad member of Bison's shock troops from the film which the game is based on. Blade has undergone rigorous physical training and conceals an array of weapons such as knives and grenades. In Blade's ending, he is revealed to be Guile's brother Gunloc (a character from Saturday Night Slam Masters
Saturday Night Slam Masters
Saturday Night Slam Masters, known in Japan as , is a 1993 pro wrestling arcade game released for the CP System by Capcom. The game features character designs by manga artist Tetsuo Hara, famous for Fist of the North Star....
), who has infiltrated the Shadaloo Gang as a deep cover agent.
In addition to Blade, there are also three hidden characters in the arcade game whom are all palette swap
Palette swap
A palette swap is a practice used in video games, whereby a graphic that is already used for one element is given a different palette, so it can be reused as other elements. The different palette gives the new graphic a unique set of colors, which make it recognizably distinct from the original...
s of Blade. Khyber (the yellow shock trooper) uses special techniques that resemble the ones used by Dhalsim (a character who was not featured in the arcade game) such as the Yoga Flame and Yoga Blast, while Arkane (the blue shock trooper) has a teleporting technique. F7 (the black shock trooper) has all the techniques of the other three shock troopers. They also share Blade's ending. The four shock troopers are the only characters from the arcade game excluded in the Street Fighter: The Movie
Street Fighter: The Movie (home video game)
Street Fighter: The Movie, released in Japan as , is a head-to-head fighting game released for the PlayStation and Sega Saturn. The game is based on the 1994 live-action Street Fighter movie and uses digitized images of the films cast posing as the characters in the game...
console game (which is a different game based on the same film).
Sawada
is an original character from the 1994 Street FighterStreet Fighter (film)
Street Fighter is a 1994 American action film written and directed by Steven E. de Souza. It is based loosely on the same-titled video games produced by Capcom, and stars Jean-Claude Van Damme, and Raul Julia, along with supporting performances by Byron Mann, Damian Chapa, Kylie Minogue, Ming-Na...
who appears as a playable character in both, the arcade
Street Fighter: The Movie (arcade game)
Street Fighter: The Movie is a head-to-head fighting game released as a coin-operated arcade game. The game is based on the 1994 live-action Street Fighter movie and uses digitized images of the films cast posing as the characters in the game...
and console version
Street Fighter: The Movie (home video game)
Street Fighter: The Movie, released in Japan as , is a head-to-head fighting game released for the PlayStation and Sega Saturn. The game is based on the 1994 live-action Street Fighter movie and uses digitized images of the films cast posing as the characters in the game...
of the Street Fighter: The Movie video game. Sawada's voice is the only one dubbed in the film, as Sawada himself only speaks a little English.
Capcom at the time pushed heavily to promote actor Kenya Sawada in any means possible, giving the staff behind the film and game the impression that he was to be the "face" of Capcom, their own action hero to star in later material.
He is characterized as Colonel Guile's right-hand-man and the leader of the AN commando force. He is a hand-to-hand combat specialist who is proficient in all kinds of martial arts. Sawada's actual role in the film is very minor. He's shown only a few times actually speaking and fighting in the film, and has command of a small amount of ground troops in the assault on Bison's base. Yet at the end, he's shown amongst the main characters as they take a pose at the very end of the film.
His design varies somewhat from that in the film in the video game. The developers who worked on the arcade version had him go shirtless, based on the fact he was "buff
Body shape
Human body shape is a complex phenomenon with sophisticated detail and function. The general shape or figure of a person is defined mainly by skeletal structure, muscles and fat...
" and inspired a bit from Mortal Kombat II
Mortal Kombat II
Mortal Kombat II is a competitive fighting game originally produced by Midway Games for the arcades in . It is the second game in the Mortal Kombat series. Like its predecessor, various home versions were produced...
characters of the time. Had this presented a problem, the staff would have opted to have a shirt painted over his sprites. The design resembled in many ways that of Fei Long, and led to the actor being involved in digitizing
Digitizing
Digitizing or digitization is the representation of an object, image, sound, document or a signal by a discrete set of its points or samples. The result is called digital representation or, more specifically, a digital image, for the object, and digital form, for the signal...
sessions for both Sawada and Fei Long. For Fei Long, the design itself took little need to alter outside of a change of pants, shoes, and hair. However Fei Long's frames were never cleaned due to time constraints, leaving only Sawada.
Despite speculation to the contrary, Sawada is unarmed in the arcade game. The "katana
Katana
A Japanese sword, or , is one of the traditional bladed weapons of Japan. There are several types of Japanese swords, according to size, field of application and method of manufacture.-Description:...
" shown was intended at the time to be "motion blur": given a conflict between the two capcom branches however, flicker transparency was not applied and it was instead left solid. His slashing attacks were intended to have an ethereal appearance to them, akin to the Hadouken. The designers argued for the flicker effect but were instead denied, and as a result opted for a look based on Mortal Kombat
Michael Dobson voiced Sawada in two episodes of Street Fighter
Street Fighter (TV series)
Street Fighter is an American animated series produced by InVision Entertainment based on the Street Fighter live action movie, which was in turn based on the Street Fighter video game franchise. The series aired as part of the USA Network's Cartoon Express and Action Extreme Team lineups...
as head of the A.N. Special Forces when Gulie was discharged and formed his team.
Abel
is a French martial artist described as an amnesiaAmnesia
Amnesia is a condition in which one's memory is lost. The causes of amnesia have traditionally been divided into categories. Memory appears to be stored in several parts of the limbic system of the brain, and any condition that interferes with the function of this system can cause amnesia...
c, a "man with no past", who is covered in scars from head to toe. His fighting style is based on Combat Sambo, and he has a move called Marseille
Marseille
Marseille , known in antiquity as Massalia , is the second largest city in France, after Paris, with a population of 852,395 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Marseille extends beyond the city limits with a population of over 1,420,000 on an area of...
rolling. Obsessively following every lead on the whereabouts of Shadaloo's remnants, he was found in the burning remains of a Shadaloo base and nursed back to health by a group of mercenaries, working alongside them to find out his past and defeat Shadaloo once and for all. He recognizes Guile's technique Sonic Boom, but refuses to comment when Guile presses him for information regarding Charlie, the originator of the style. As a Combat Sambo practitioner, Abel is adept at using both striking and throwing moves.
It is hinted in Abel's ending that he was actually created by Shadaloo as a prototype of Seth or abducted in his youth to serve as a "replacement body" for M.Bison. This is reinforced by dialogue from both Bison and Seth, who mention him as "the one that got away". The appearance of his eyes also change to resemble Seth's during the initiation of his Ultra Combo. It is also hinted that Charlie is the person that helped him as he recognized Guile's fighting style and comments to Chun-Li about the soldier that rescued him from Shadaloo. In Abel's rival encounter, Abel mentions that he recognizes Guile's Sonic Boom leading to speculation that he may have spent time with Charlie.
His game mostly revolves around mixing up different punches and kicks and baiting, and also emphasizes cancelling his standing medium kick cancelled into a dash or standing hard punch, and further mixing up additional punches or kicks from there. His signature move — his ultra "Soulless" - involves him changing his eye color, delivering a series of punches and kicks to his opponent, throwing them into the air and body slamming them back down on to the ground. His second ultra "Breathless" makes Abel run to his opponent, grab him, spin, creating a tornado, and drop opponent on the ground.
Abel is voiced by Kenji Takahashi in Japanese, and E. Jason Liebrecht
Jason Liebrecht
Ernest Jason Liebrecht is an American actor and voice actor who works for anime series at Funimation Entertainment, ADV Films, New Generation Pictures, and OkraTron 5000...
in English. In his original design, he was a young judo fighter who wore pigtails and "could be mistaken for a girl."
Abel will appear as a playable character in the upcoming crossover fighting game Street Fighter X Tekken
Street Fighter X Tekken
is an upcoming crossover fighting game being developed by Capcom. The game was announced at the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con International by Capcom producer Yoshinori Ono. The game is set to release on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows and PlayStation Vita sometime in March 2012. The game...
.
El Fuerte
, meaning "The Strong One" in Spanish, is a masked Mexican luchador. He is an aspiring chef who seeks out the greatest fighters in order to learn what they eat, and incorporate their recipes into his cuisine. Despite his love of cooking, it seems he is actually quite incompetent as a chef. Many of his moves have Mexican food themed names. In the UDON comic series of Street Fighter, it shows that El Fuerte is a big fan of R. Mika. As a wrestler, he automatically recognized fellow wrestler, Zangief, as "Tornado Rojo" (aka Red Cyclone); he then announces his title as "The Hurricane of the Gulf of Mexico." He also has a friendly rivalry with T. Hawk, having been bested by him before the events of Super Street Fighter IV and told to challenge him again when he got stronger. Unlike the other characters of the series, El Fuerte takes his source of inspiration from real wrestlers from Mexico, in particular El Santo, the most prominent masked Mexican wrestler of the past half-century, who also wore a silver mask and was famous for his exciting wrestling style. El Fuerte is voiced by Daisuke OnoDaisuke Ono
is a Japanese voice actor who works for Mausu Promotion. He was born in Kōchi Prefecture. He won the 4th Seiyū Awards for best voice actor for his role as Sebastian Michaelis in Kuroshitsuji.-Anime:2002*Full Metal Panic!...
in Japanese, and J.B. Blanc in English.
Hakan
is an oil wrestler from TurkeyTurkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
and is the second new addition to Super Street Fighter IV
Super Street Fighter IV
is a 2010 fighting game produced by Capcom. It is an updated version of Street Fighter IV and has been said to mark the definitive end of the Street Fighter IV series. Having been deemed as too large an update to be deployed as DLC, the game was made into a standalone title, but given a lower price...
. His fighting style is based on Yağlı güreş
Oil wrestling
Oil wrestling , also called grease wrestling, is the Turkish national sport. It is so called because the wrestlers douse themselves with olive oil. It is related to the Uzbeki kurash, Tuvan khuresh and Tatar köräş...
and revolves around him coating himself in oil, making his body slippery. This gives him an edge as he can slide across the ground and launch his opponents by squeezing them through his bulging muscles. The father of seven young children, Hakan is also the president of an olive oil company, who seeks to create the perfect olive oil. He is apparently old friends with E. Honda, who is his fighting rival in Super Street Fighter IV. Hakan was frequently rumored before he was revealed, due to a forum post with a photo that was believed to be concept art for new characters. Director Ono stated that Hakan was deliberately written as a "loving husband and father" in order to alleviate any perceivable homoerotic implications that oil wrestling has to American audiences.
Seth
The boss character of Street Fighter IV, , nicknamed the "Puppet Master", is the Chief Executive Officer of S.I.N., the weapons division of Shadaloo. His body has been heavily modified using advanced technology, with a device installed in his abdomen called the "Tanden Engine." Seth is intent on completing BLECE, an acronym for Boiling Liquid Expanding Cell Explosion, which spurs the creation of a new fighting tournament. He is named after Seth Killian, Capcom's senior manager.His normal moves are similar to those of Urien from Street Fighter III, while his Special Moves are mainly techniques used by other characters. For example, Seth can perform a variation of Guiles Sonic Boom and Chun-Lis Hyakuretsukyaku. He also uses the Tanden Engine for a Special Move, his Super Combo, and both of his Ultra Combos.
Seth is a computer-only final boss in the arcade version of Street Fighter IV, but is selectable in the home version. Seth is voiced by Akio Ōtsuka in Japanese, and Michael McConnohie
Michael McConnohie
Michael D. McConnohie is a voice actor and is the President of the Nevada-based Voxworks voice-acting corporation. He is known for his recognizable deep booming voice and is generally known for playing more charismatic characters...
in English. In Seth's ending in Street Fighter IV, he is revealed to be known as number "15", one of many similar androids created by Bison. Originally created to become one of Bison's "replacement bodies", 15 rebelled against his programming, resulting in him attempting to overthrow Bison and pursuing his own agendas.
VideoGamer.com heavily criticized Seth, describing him as "cheap to fight against" and a lazy effort on the part of the game's development team. They went on to describe him as resembling a rip-off of Watchmen
Watchmen
Watchmen is a twelve-issue comic book limited series created by writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons, and colourist John Higgins. The series was published by DC Comics during 1986 and 1987, and has been subsequently reprinted in collected form...
s Doctor Manhattan, adding that the culmination of his "silly name" and moves taken from existing characters made him a disappointment. Eurogamer
Eurogamer
Eurogamer is a Brighton-based website focused on video games news, reviews, previews and interviews. It is operated by Eurogamer Network Ltd., which was formed in 1999 by brothers Rupert and Nick Loman. Eurogamer has grown to become one of the most important European-based websites focused on...
felt similar sentiments, citing the character's gameplay would "cause many tantrums above the easiest difficulty". IGN AU, while stating he one of several "great" additions to the game's roster, emphasized that the character felt "gimmicky". The magazine Xbox 360 described him as the game's only major disappointment, noting that despite how imaginative other characters in the title felt his role as the game's final boss felt anti-climactic.