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{{Short description|Fictional character}} |
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This is a list of characters from the ''[[Fatal Fury]]'' [[fighting game]] series developed by [[SNK]]. |
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{{DISPLAYTITLE:Characters of the ''Fatal Fury'' series}} |
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[[File:Fatalfurycaharacters.jpg|thumb|300px|The cast of ''Fatal Fury Special'', which includes characters from the first two games.]] |
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The following is a list of [[player character|video game character]]s featured in the ''[[Fatal Fury]]'' [[fighting game]] series developed by [[SNK]]. |
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==Creation and design== |
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== Characters == |
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Series' creator Takashi Nishiyama stated that giving the characters depth was of great importance when making the series. He noted that the first ''Fatal Fury'' featured a more polished plot and more fleshed out characters than that of his previous work, the original ''[[Street Fighter (video game)|Street Fighter]]'', which led to the game gaining a strong fanbase. To help market the games, certain character details were revealed in magazine promotions rather than the games themselves.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.1up.com/features/the-man-who-created-street-fighter?pager.offset=1 |title=The Man Who Created Street Fighter|website=1UP.com|access-date=March 27, 2016 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120122144917/http://www.1up.com/features/the-man-who-created-street-fighter?pager.offset=1|archive-date=January 22, 2012}}</ref> |
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=== Terry Bogard === |
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{{main|Terry Bogard}} |
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==Character appearances== |
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=== Alfred Airhawk === |
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The table below summarizes every single fighter in the series. A green cell indicates that the character is playable, while a red cell indicates that the character is not playable or does not appear. |
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{{General CVG character |
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|name=Alfred Airhawk |
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|firstgame=''[[Real Bout Fatal Fury 2: The Newcomers]]'' |
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|series=''[[Fatal Fury]]'' series |
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|voiceactor=[[Hiro Yūki]] ({{lang|ja|結城 比呂}}) |
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|inuniverse={{SNK character |
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|birthplace={{flag|United States}} |
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|bloodtype=A |
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|fightingstyle=Self-taught |
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{{nihongo|'''Alfred'''|アルフレッド|Arufureddo}} is the main character of ''Real Bout Fatal Fury Special: Dominated Mind'', first introduced a few months earlier as a hidden boss in ''Real Bout Fatal Fury 2: The Newcomers''. |
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! ''[[Fatal Fury: King of Fighters|Fatal Fury]]'' |
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! ''[[Fatal Fury 2]]'' |
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! ''[[Fatal Fury Special]]'' |
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! ''[[Fatal Fury 3: Road to the Final Victory|Fatal Fury 3]]'' |
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! ''[[Real Bout Fatal Fury|Real Bout]]'' |
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! ''[[Real Bout Fatal Fury Special|Real Bout Special]]'' |
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! ''[[Real Bout Fatal Fury Special: Dominated Mind|Real Bout Dominated Mind]]'' |
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! ''[[Real Bout Fatal Fury 2: The Newcomers|Real Bout 2]]'' |
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! ''[[Fatal Fury: Wild Ambition|Wild Ambition]]'' |
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! ''[[Fatal Fury: First Contact|First Contact]]'' |
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! ''[[Garou: Mark of the Wolves|Mark of the Wolves]]'' |
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! ''[[Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves|City of the Wolves]]'' |
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| [[#Alfred|Alfred]] |
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== Introduced in ''Fatal Fury'' == |
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=== Andy Bogard === |
=== Andy Bogard === |
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:{{voiced by|Jun Hashimoto (''FFS''–''KOF <nowiki>'</nowiki>94''), [[Keiichi Nanba]] (''FF3''–''KOF XIII''), [[Hiroshi Okamoto]] (''KOF XIV'' onwards), Hiroyuki Kagura (young; ''KOF: D''), [[Toshinari Fukamachi]] (''KOF for Girls'')|Peter Wilds (''FF'' anime films)}} |
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{{main|Andy Bogard}} |
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Andy Bogard (アンディー・ボガード, ''Andī Bogādo'') is [[Terry Bogard]]'s younger brother. Andy practices the Shiranui-ryū ("Shiranui style" in Japanese) [[Ninjutsu]] and a form of empty-handed ninja combat called Koppō-ken, which he trained in after witnessing his foster father's murder, in order to gain revenge on [[Geese Howard]]. [[Mai Shiranui|Mai]] is the girl he grew up with who is madly in love with him and proclaimed him her fiancé. She is also the granddaughter of Hanzo Shiranui, the man Andy learned Ninjitsu from. It was after his foster father Jeff's death that [[Tung Fu Rue]] took responsibility for raising him and Terry. Andy went to Japan to train under Hanzo and grew up alongside Mai, while Terry stayed in Southtown. During Andy's time in Japan, he met the [[Muay Thai]] fighter Joe Higashi and challenged him to a match. When Andy won, he invited Joe to return to the United States with him to enter the King of Fighters tournament, held by Geese. |
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Late in the tournament, Andy tried to kill off Geese by himself. Geese's power proved to be too much for Andy as he almost fell to his death. Terry saved Andy, who then acknowledged Terry as the superior fighter. After Terry beat Geese at the end of their first King of Fighters Tournament, a new tournament was held, this time hosted by [[Wolfgang Krauser|Krauser]]. Andy, while present in the tournament, did not accomplish much story-wise. |
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=== Billy Kane === |
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Ever since Geese's death, Andy has been busy training his young apprentice [[Hokutomaru]] in the ways of the Shiranui-style ninjitsu and Koppo-ken. Instead of fighting in the KOF: Maximum Mayhem tournament himself, Andy sends Hokutomaru in his place to see what his apprentice has learned. In Hokutomaru's ending, Andy writes him a note saying that he was proud of how strong Hokutomaru has gotten. Then he ended the note by saying he is no longer his teacher but his rival and that they will cross paths again. |
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=== B. Jenet === |
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|voiceactor=Gina Rose (KOF: MI2) |
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|japanactor=[[Rei Saitō]] ({{lang|ja|斉藤 レイ}})<br> |
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|birthdate=January 23, 1987 (MOTW), January 23 (KOF XI) |
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|birthplace={{flag|United Kingdom}} |
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|age=19 years old (MOTW) |
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|height=167 cm |
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|measurements=B 86 cm (34 in) W 57 cm (22 in) H 89 cm (35 in) |
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|hobbies=Nail art, violation of territorial waters |
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|Specialty=Reciting Pi to the 27th decimal place |
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|important=Her Lillien Knight companions, Lillien Knight weapon specifications |
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[[Image:B Jenet.jpg|thumb|left|150px|B. Jenet in ''KOF: Maximum Impact 2'']] |
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{{nihongo|'''B. Jenet'''|B・ジェニー}} ('''Bonne Jenet''' in full, or real name '''Jennie Behrn''') is a character from both ''[[Garou: Mark of the Wolves]]'' and the ''[[King of Fighters]]'' series. Jenet is the leader of a group of pirates known as the ''Lillien Knights''. Jenet entered the tournament hosted by [[Kain R. Heinlein]] to rob him of anything valuable he might be keeping in his mansion. In her ending, she passes out amidst the destruction of Kain's mansion after defeating him. Her crew saves her from being trapped under the rubble, but fails to secure any of the treasure they had been looking for. |
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When the new ''[[King of Fighters]]'' '94 tournament was announced, Andy joined Terry and Joe in the new 3-on-3 matches. Since then, Andy has always agreed to follow his brother Terry whenever he decided to enter the new version of the King of Fighters tournament. The Fatal Fury Team maintained his original formation (Terry, Andy and Joe) from King of Fighters '94 to '98. With new rules in KOF '99 allowing teams of four members, Mai Shiranui (in KOF '99) and, later, Blue Mary (KOF 2000) joined the team. After the beginning of the [[Ash Crimson]] Saga (KOF 2003, XI) Andy left the Fatal Fury team to take care of Shiranui disciple Hokutomaru, who fell sick and Mai went after him. Andy made his return to ''[[The King of Fighters XII]]'' but does not participate in a defined team. ''[[The King of Fighters XIII]]'' sees Andy rejoining the Fatal Fury team as his brother's interest in the tournament has compelled him to reunite the original Fatal Fury team from the 1994 event. In his anime incarnations, though sometimes perplexed by her actions, Andy is more open to showing his affection towards Mai. |
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In ''[[The King of Fighters Maximum Impact 2]]'', her parents are revealed to be incredibly wealthy; she formed the Lillien Knights when she became bored of her tedious lifestyle. Before the start of the tournament, she attends a party in her otherwise occupied parents' place. While there, the son of the host attempts (and fails quite miserably) to impress her with his paltry skills in [[Savate]]. Although Jenet is rather repulsed by his arrogance and embarrassing lack of skill, she learns from him that the King of Fighters tournament is being held once again. After her Lillien Knights knock the man unconscious and rob his father, Jenet decides to join the tournament in hopes of winning the prize money. |
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=== Blue Mary === |
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=== Billy Kane === |
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{{nihongo|Billy Kane|ビリー・カーン|Birī Kān}} is introduced in ''Fatal Fury'' as the righthand man of [[Geese Howard]], a crime lord in the fictitious American city of Southtown. Geese holds ''The King of Fighters'' tournament every year with Billy as his champion. Billy was the undefeated champion of the tournament, until he is defeated by [[Terry Bogard]], who moved on to later defeat Geese.<ref name=intro>{{cite video game|level=Stage 8|title=Fatal Fury: King of Fighters|developer=SNK |publisher=SNK |date=1991-12-20|platform=Neo Geo}}</ref> He also appears in ''[[Fatal Fury Special]]'' as a playable character for the first time.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.garou15th.com/history/series3/index.php|title=Fatal Fury Special|website=Fatal Fury 15th Anniversary Official Website |language=Japanese|access-date=2009-03-18}}</ref> After Geese recovers, Billy appears in ''[[Real Bout Fatal Fury]]'' to assist him in the conquer of Southtown. However, Geese is ultimately killed by Terry, causing Billy to leave Southtown.<ref name="death"/> He later appears in the two following games from the series ''[[Real Bout Fatal Fury Special]]'' and ''[[Real Bout Fatal Fury 2: The Newcomers]]'' which do not contain a storyline.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.garou15th.com/history/series6/index.php |title=Real Bout Fatal Fury Special |website=Fatal Fury 15th Anniversary Official Website |access-date=2009-03-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090327231208/http://www.garou15th.com/history/series6/index.php |archive-date=2009-03-27 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.garou15th.com/history/series8/index.php |title=Real Bout Fatal Fury 2: The Newcomers |website=Fatal Fury 15th Anniversary Official Website |access-date=2009-03-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090410054120/http://www.garou15th.com/history/series8/index.php |archive-date=2009-04-10 |url-status=dead}}</ref> In the PlayStation version from ''Real Bout Fatal Fury Special'', Billy is brainwashed by his half-brother White in order to aid him in the conquer from Southtown. He then appears as a sub-boss character in the arcade mode, but once he is defeated, he returns to normal.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.garou15th.com/history/series7/index.php|title=Real Bout Special Dominated Mind|website=Fatal Fury 15th Anniversary Official Website|language=Japanese |access-date=2009-03-18|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090327231216/http://www.garou15th.com/history/series7/index.php|archive-date=2009-03-27}}</ref> A 3D fighting game version of the series, ''[[Fatal Fury: Wild Ambition]]'' was produced as well, which retells the plot of the first game.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.garou15th.com/history/series9/index.php|title=Fatal Fury: Wild Ambition|website=Fatal Fury 15th Anniversary Official Website|language=Japanese|access-date=2009-01-21}}</ref> By the time of ''City of the Wolves'', Billy has assumed control of the Howard Connection after Geese's death, though he still seeks revenge on Terry for killing Geese. |
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|firstgame=''[[Fatal Fury 3]]'' |
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|voiceactor=[[Toshiyuki Morikawa]] ({{lang|ja|森川 智之}}) |
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|birthplace={{flag|Brazil}} |
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|bloodtype=O |
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{{nihongo|'''Bob Wilson'''|ボブ・ウィルソン|Bobu Wiruson}} is a character introduced in ''Fatal Fury 3''. |
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=== Cheng Sinzan === |
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|name=Cheng Sinzan |
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|firstgame=''Fatal Fury 2'' |
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|series=''[[Fatal Fury]]'' series |
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|voiceactor=[[Jun Hashimoto]] ({{lang|ja|橋本 潤}})<br>[[Shigefumi Nakai]] ({{lang|ja|中井 重文}}) (since ''Real Bout Fatal Fury Special'') |
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|inuniverse={{SNK character |
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|birthplace={{flagicon|Taiwan}} [[Taiwan]] |
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|birthdate=August 10, 1952 |
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|height=160 cm (5'2") |
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|weight=130 kg (286 lbs.) |
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|bloodtype=O |
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|fightingstyle=[[Tai chi chuan]] |
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|likes=Savings, money, ramen, ping pong, playing mah-jongg all night (his record is four days straight), pop music |
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|dislikes=Bimbos |
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{{nihongo|'''Cheng Sinzan'''|チン・シンザン|Chin Shinzan|[[Chinese language|Chinese]]: 陳 秦山; [[Pinyin]]: Chén Qín-Shān; [[Yale Romanization#Cantonese|Cantonese Yale]]: Chàhn Chèuhn-Sāan}} is a character from the ''[[Fatal Fury]]'' series. Although his intentions are not really evil, Cheng's incredible amount of greed and hunger for money blinds him from more important matters. Only interested in becoming a rich man at any cost, Cheng usually overlooks many situations, in such a manner that when he tries to find out what's going on, he usually finds himself in big trouble. Nevertheless, the ambition of Cheng could be as big as his own stomach. Cheng has made appearances as a playable character in ''Fatal Fury 2'', ''Fatal Fury Special'', ''Real Bout Fatal Fury Special'', ''Real Bout Fatal Fury 2: The Newcomers'', and ''Real Bout Fatal Fury Special: Dominated Mind''. |
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In ''The King of Fighters'' series, Billy was meant to appear in [[The King of Fighters '94|the first game from the series]] as a member of an England Team, composed of him, [[Mai Shiranui]], and [[Raiden (Fatal Fury)|Big Bear]], but due to several problems with the capacity of the game, and the desire from the ''[[Art of Fighting]]'' staff to add [[Yuri Sakazaki]], Billy was removed from the game.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://kofaniv.snkplaymore.co.jp/english/character/index.php?num=yuri| title=Yuri Sakazaki Official Profile |website= King of Fighters 10th Anniversary Official Website | access-date= 2009-03-07}}</ref> When the new ''King of Fighters'' tournament began in ''[[The King of Fighters '95]]'' under the control of a man named [[Rugal Bernstein]], Billy is ordered by Geese to go in his boss' place because Geese was still healing. He joins with a [[ninja]] named [[Eiji Kisaragi]] and a mysterious man named [[Iori Yagami]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Rival Team Official Story ~ KOF 95 |url=http://kofaniv.snkplaymore.co.jp/english/history/kof95_story/index.php?num=rival |website= King of Fighters 10th Anniversary Official Website |access-date=2009-03-18}}</ref> Billy's team does not win, and at the end of the tournament Iori beats up Billy and Eiji.<ref name=betray>{{cite video game|quote='''Iori:''' What a fool! Such power can only by mine! Well, shall we wrap this up?/'''Eiji:''' What?/'''Billy:''' Hey! You're... you're Geese!/'''Iori:''' Just wait, Kyo. You're next for extermination. You and all Kusanagis! Yah, hah, hah|title=The King of Fighters '95 |developer=SNK |publisher=SNK |date=1995-07-25 |platform=Neo Geo}}</ref> In ''[[The King of Fighters '97]]'' Geese sends Billy to investigate the mysterious [[Orochi (King of Fighters)|Orochi]] power in Iori. Geese hires a sadistic outlaw named [[Ryuji Yamazaki]] and tricks a good freelance agent named Blue Mary to help as well.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://kofaniv.snkplaymore.co.jp/english/history/kof97_story/index.php?num=97sp |title='97 Special Team Back Story |website=King of Fighters 10th Anniversary Official Website |access-date=2009-04-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080528112903/http://kofaniv.snkplaymore.co.jp/english/history/kof97_story/index.php?num=97sp |archive-date=2008-05-28 |url-status=dead}}</ref> After the tournament ends, Yamazaki demands his pay from Geese by attacking him and Billy. The same team is shown in ''[[The King of Fighters '98]]'', ''[[The King of Fighters 2002]]'' and ''[[The King of Fighters Neowave|Neowave]]'' but none of those contain a storyline.<ref>{{cite web |title=The King of Fighters '98 |url=http://kofaniv.snkplaymore.co.jp/english/history/history.php?num=kof98 |website=King of Fighters 10th Anniversary Official Website |access-date=2009-03-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090220174124/http://kofaniv.snkplaymore.co.jp/english/history/history.php?num=kof98 |archive-date=2009-02-20 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=KOF 2002 |url=http://kofaniv.snkplaymore.co.jp/english/history/history.php?num=kof2002 |publisher=King of Fighters 10th Anniversary Official Website |access-date=2009-03-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090207195941/http://kofaniv.snkplaymore.co.jp/english/history/history.php?num=kof2002 |archive-date=2009-02-07 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://game.snkplaymore.co.jp/official/neowave/ |title=The King of Fighters Neowave official website |publisher=[[SNK Playmore]] |access-date=2009-03-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090207193556/http://game.snkplaymore.co.jp/official/neowave/character/index.html |archive-date=2009-02-07 |url-status=dead}}</ref> He also appears as an assistant character (known as "Striker") in ''[[The King of Fighters '99|The King of Fighters '99: Evolution]]'' and ''[[The King of Fighters 2000]]''. In the former he is available for any character, while in the latter he is a striker for Andy Bogard.<ref>{{Cite book | date=December 2004 |page=94|title=The King of Fighters Fighting Evolution 10th| language=Japanese | publisher=SNK Playmore | isbn=978-4-575-16431-2}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://game.snkplaymore.co.jp/official/kof2000/kof2000_top.html|title=Another Striker|publisher=[[SNK Playmore]]|language=Japanese|access-date=2009-03-17}}</ref> |
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Ever since he can remember, Cheng has always fought his way to become a man with a higher social status. The man who had [[money]] was the man who would be respected, and with that basis in mind, Cheng began to slither his way up the social ladder, via many dirty management tricks and betrayal. However, he also knew that this sort of actions would gain him many enemies who would try to finish him off at the slightest chance. Being a man of wide dimensions, the idea of becoming a prominent martial artist escaped anyone's mind. But Cheng made it in the end, by training himself in the unpredictable art of [[Tai chi chuan|Tai Chi Ken]], which allowed him to channel his inner energy and launch as actual [[chi]] blasts. Cheng also used his own weight to his advantage, as he was capable of lunging himself like a ball all around the place, and once he got going, he would be hard to contain. After establishing many business spots and shopping locals using his "influences", Cheng's ambition grew stronger. He felt that with his money and with his overwhelming strength, he could topple anyone. |
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In ''[[The King of Fighters 2003]]'', Geese orders the team of Billy Kane, Ryuji Yamazaki, and [[Gato (Fatal Fury)|Gato]] to infiltrate the tournament in another attempt to take over Southtown.<ref>{{cite web|title=Outlaw Team Official Story ~ KOF 2003 |url=http://kofaniv.snkplaymore.co.jp/english/history/kof2003_story/index.php?num=outlow |website= King of Fighters 10th Anniversary Official Website |access-date=2009-03-18}}</ref> During the spin-off game ''The King of Fighters Kyo'' Billy appears as boss character along Geese to fight against the Bogard brothers and the protagonist [[Kyo Kusanagi]].<ref>{{cite video game|title=The King of Fighters Kyo |developer=SNK|publisher=SNK|date=1999 |platform=PlayStation|level=Southtown: Medicine Plant}}</ref> In ''[[KOF: Maximum Impact 2]]'', it is revealed Billy has moved to the countryside of the [[England|UK]] with his young sister, [[Lilly Kane (Fatal Fury)|Lilly Kane]], and has decided to return to Southtown once again, willing to show the Meira twins: [[Alba Meira|Alba]] and [[Soiree Meira|Soiree]] the town should be embarked by no one.<ref>{{cite video game|title=KOF Maximum Impact 2 |developer=SNK Playmore|publisher=SNK Playmore|date=2006-04-27 |platform=PlayStation 2|level=Billy Kane Back Story}}</ref> |
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Suddenly, the news that the renowned [[Germany|German]] nobleman, [[Wolfgang Krauser]], has organized a new worldwide tournament using the name of a small local competition called "King of Fighters", and that he was seeking only the best. Aside from proving himself to be a distinguished fighter, Cheng realized he could win a lot of money from the prize cash, or he could raid Krauser's massive heritage fortune as well. Unfortunately for his reputation, Cheng didn't make it so far into the tournament, but he managed to sponsor many of his fights via his dirty money, so the broadcast of his fights earned the fat businessman a decent amount of earnings. Although he didn't gain enough money as he would have wished, something is better than nothing, so Cheng sits back and relaxes, knowing he has gained enough with not so much effort. |
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=== Duck King === |
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[[Image:Duck King MOTW.gif|thumb|left|Duck King at the time of ''Garou: Mark of the Wolves'']] |
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|name=Duck King |
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|firstgame=''[[Fatal Fury]]'' |
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|series=''[[Fatal Fury]]'' series<br>''[[King of Fighters]]'' series |
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|voiceactor=Unknown (''Fatal Fury'')<br>[[Michael Beard]] (''Fatal Fury Special'')<br>[[Kong Kuwata]] ({{lang|ja|コング 桑田}}) (since ''Real Bout Fatal Fury'') |
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|inuniverse={{SNK character |
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|birthplace={{flag|United States}} |
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|birthdate=February 2, 1967 (''Fatal Fury'')<br>February 2 (''King of Fighters'') |
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|age=31 years old (RB2) |
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|height=179 cm |
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|weight=62 kg (136 lb.) |
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|bloodtype=B |
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|fightingstyle=Personal martial art (based on various forms of dance, mainly [[breakdancing]]) |
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|likes=Dancing, Butter corn, Street basketball, His pet duck P-chan |
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|dislikes=[[Terry Bogard]]'s Rising Tackle |
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{{nihongo|'''Duck King'''|ダック・キング|Dakku Kingu}} is a character from both the ''[[Fatal Fury]]'' and ''[[King of Fighters]]'' series. He appears as a playable character in ''[[Fatal Fury|Fatal Fury Special]]'' and ''[[King of Fighters XI]]'', and makes a cameo appearance as a striker (a character that hops on-screen to perform a one-time attack) in ''[[King of Fighters|King of Fighters 2000]]''. A Southtown native, Duck King grew up in an impoverished family in the city’s ghetto. It was in this poor district where he would take interest in fighting and even a greater interest in music and, even more so, dance. He spent a great deal of time with [[breakdance|breakdancing]] and the [[B-boy]] culture so much so that it became a part of his life. Duck King began to go to frequent [[nightclub]]s as his dancing skills vastly improved. His overwhelming and thrilling antics on the dance floor worked its way into a fighting style of Duck King’s own design. Using his fighting style to confuse other fighters in the ghetto’s West Subway, Duck King started to create a reputation with the fighters in Southtown. When news of [[Geese Howard|Geese Howard’s]] ''King of Fighters'' tournament broke, an excited Duck King jumped at the chance to enter. While being an odds on favorite, Duck King was manhandled by the ''Lonely Wolves'' (consisting of [[Terry Bogard]], [[Andy Bogard]] and [[Joe Higashi]]), more specifically, Terry (as Duck King hates his Rising Tackle). |
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Billy also appeared in the console version of ''[[The King of Fighters XIII]]'', released in November 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.siliconera.com/2011/06/28/the-king-of-fighters-xiii-on-ps3-and-xbox-360-adds-billy-kane/|title=The King Of Fighters XIII On PS3 And Xbox 360 Adds Billy Kane |publisher=Siliconera|access-date=2011-06-28}}</ref> He is also present in the [[otome game]] ''King of Fighters for Girls''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2019-06-13/snk-victor-entertainment-reveal-king-of-fighters-for-girls-smartphone-game/.147812|title=SNK, Victor Entertainment Reveal 'King of Fighters for Girls' Smartphone Game|publisher=Anime News Network|access-date=June 13, 2019}}</ref> |
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After his loss, Duck King went back to the ghetto to develop his fighting style to flow with the rhythm of battle. Around this time he met up with the bouncer, [[King (SNK character)|King]] and the two pulled together enough money to start a massive bar in Southtown called "Illusions." Here King’s [[King of Fighters]] tournament matches were hosted with Duck King acting as the DJ for the bar. During the events of ''Fatal Fury 3'' and ''Real Bout Fatal Fury'', Duck was invited to [[Richard Meyer|Richard Meyer’s]] new night club, the Pao Pao Café 2. The grand opening was spoiled by the Jin twins [[Jin Chonrei|Chonrei]] and [[Jin Chonshu|Chonshu]] who wrecked the café. They sought the ''Jin Scrolls'' which were stolen from them. These scrolls eventually end up in the hands of Geese Howard, who was once thought dead. As the Bogard brothers, Joe Higashi, and other allies banded together to stop Geese, Duck King unexpectedly joins the fight. When Geese dies in battle with Terry, Duck King parties at the rebuilt Pao Pao Café 2 taking a much needed rest from fighting. |
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Billy Kane appears in the TV anime film ''[[Fatal Fury: Legend of the Hungry Wolf]]'', where he is voiced by [[Daiki Nakamura (actor)|Daiki Nakamura]] in the original Japanese version and [[Paul Dobson (actor)|Paul Dobson]] in the English dubbed version. Like in the original ''Fatal Fury'' video game, Billy Kane is one of Geese Howard's underlings alongside [[Raiden (Fatal Fury)|Raiden]], Ripper and Hopper. He enters the King of Fighters tournament alongside Raiden on Geese's behalf and later mortally wounds Tung Fu Rue while the Bogards and Joe are escaping from Geese's men. In the final battle of the film, he ends up fighting against [[Andy Bogard]] and ends up being defeated by him.<ref>{{cite video |date = 1992 |title = [[Fatal Fury: Legend of the Hungry Wolf]] |type=[[VHS]] |publisher = [[Viz Video]]}}</ref> He appears again in the sequel ''[[Fatal Fury 2: The New Battle]]'', where he makes an unvoiced appearance in the beginning of the film, in which he is confronted by [[Laurence Blood]] at the Pao-Pao Cafe and is defeated off-screen.<ref>{{cite video |date = 1993 |title = [[Fatal Fury 2: The New Battle]] |type=[[VHS]] |publisher = [[Viz Video]]}}</ref> Billy makes an extended cameo appearance in the third film, ''[[Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture]]'', this time voiced by [[Tomohiro Nishimura]] in the original Japanese version and once again by Paul Dobson in English. He encounters his old adversary Andy in a night club, but the two are confronted by Laocorn's henchman Hauer before they get a chance to fight again.<ref>{{cite video |date = 1994 |title = [[Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture]] |type=[[VHS]] |publisher = [[Viz Video]]}}</ref> |
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During ''[[King of Fighters XI]]'', he is part of the "Fatal Fury" team composed of [[Terry Bogard]] and [[Kim Kaphwan]]. He is invited by Terry; but it took him, Choi, and Chang to convince Kim to join the team. |
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In the second episode of the anime spin-off mini-series ''The King of Fighters: Another Day'', Rock Howard, Geese's son, stops Billy from killing [[Lien Neville]] who was carrying out a hit on him. Billy tries to convince Rock to help him, because as he carries Geese's heritage, Lien would try to take him out too. Instead, Rock decides to save Lien's life and fights Billy, who almost manages to kill him as well for shaming Geese's legacy, but is blown away by a beam fired over Geese Tower.<ref>{{cite video game|title=KOF Maximum Impact 2 |developer=SNK Playmore|publisher=SNK Playmore|date=2006-04-27 |platform=PlayStation 2|level=The King of Fighters: Another Day}}</ref> He also stars in manhua from the video games which retells his actions from the games.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://kofaniv.snkplaymore.co.jp/english/comment/remember_kof.php?num=6| title=Remembrances of KOF: An Interview with Eiji |website= King of Fighters 10th Anniversary Official Website | access-date=2009-03-18 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070628022729/http://kofaniv.snkplaymore.co.jp/english/comment/remember_kof.php?num=6 |archive-date=2007-06-28}}</ref> Additionally, in the [[manga]] ''The King of Fighters: Kyo'' authored by Masato Natsumoto, Billy starts investigating [[Kyo Kusanagi]] in order to make him talk about the ancient demon Orochi.<ref>{{cite book |last=Natsumoto|first=Masato |title=The King of Fighters Kyo, volume 1|year=1996 |publisher=Kodansha|isbn=978-4-06-319759-4 }}</ref> |
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=== Franco Bash === |
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|name= Franco Bash |
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|caption=Franco Bash |
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|firstgame=''Fatal Fury 3'' |
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|series=''[[Fatal Fury]]'' series |
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|voiceactor=[[B.J. Love]] |
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|inuniverse={{SNK character |
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|birthplace={{flag|United States}} |
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|birthdate= September 16, 1958 |
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|age=48 |
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|height=195 cm (6 ft 4 in) |
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|weight=115 kg (253 lb) |
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|bloodtype=A |
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|fightingstyle=[[American kickboxing]] |
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|likes=His son Junior, bodybuilding, hockey, curry rice |
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|dislikes=People who bully his son |
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{{nihongo|'''Franco Bash'''|フランコ・バッシュ|Furanko Basshu}} is a character from the ''[[Fatal Fury]]'' series. Franco is a [[kickboxing|kickboxer]], who began fighting to distract himself from his wife's death. He traveled to Southtown in order to hone his skills as a fighter. He rose in popularity while avoiding the city's corruption, although his presence was beginning to be noticed by Southtown's crime syndicates. Franco was approached by [[Ryuji Yamazaki]] after a fight and asked to defeat [[Jin Chonrei]] and [[Jin Chonshu]], who both sought to achieve immortality. He quickly refused, and Yamazaki disappeared as quickly as he appeared, but not before telling Franco that he would gain many strong enemies if he didn't concede. |
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In Gamest's 1997 Heroes Collection, Billy was voted as the staff's fourth favorite character.<ref>{{Cite book | year=1997 | editor=Gamest | title=Gamest Game Hero Collection 1997; issue 208 |language=Japanese |publisher=Shinseisha |page=240}}</ref> In the character popularity poll on Neo Geo Freak's website, he was voted as the seventeenth favorite character with a total of 757 votes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.neogeofreak.co.jp/ninki01htm.htm|title=Character polls|publisher=Official Neo Geo Freak website (archived version)|access-date=2009-01-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000619213519/http://www.neogeofreak.co.jp/ninki01htm.htm |archive-date=2000-06-19}}</ref> For the special endings in ''[[The King of Fighters '97]]'', three video games journals, Gamest, Famitsu and Neo Geo Freak, had to create a team composed of three characters from the game so that they would be featured in an image after passing the arcade mode. The special team created by the Neo Geo Freak's staff was a team of fire wielders: Billy, [[Kyo Kusanagi]], and [[Mai Shiranui]]. The special ending only appears in Japanese versions of the game.<ref>{{Cite book | year=2000 | title=All About SNK | language=Japanese | publisher=Dempa Shimbunsha |isbn= 978-4-88554-677-8}}</ref> |
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Afterwards Franco became worried and his fighting ability became impaired. He returned home one day to find his son [[kidnapping|kidnapped]] and a note signed by Yamazaki. An inflamed Bash promised to bring his son's captors to justice, and with the help of the Lonely Wolves [[Andy Bogard|Andy]] and [[Terry Bogard]], rescued his son, even though Yamazaki had escaped. With the Jin twins plans trounced, he joined the Lonely Wolves and friends and assisted them in defeating [[Geese Howard]]. He was astounded by all of the fighting styles he witnessed and now travels the world with his son in search of strong opponents. |
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:{{voiced by|[[Kong Kuwata]] (games), [[Yūji Mitsuya]] (''FF: TMP'')|Michael Beard (''FFS''), [[Matt Hill]] (''FF: TMP'')}} |
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Duck King (ダック・キング, ''Dakku Kingu'') appears in the original ''Fatal Fury'' as one of the first four opponents in the single-player mode. Possessing incredible talent when it comes to brawling and street dancing, Duck King once challenged Terry Bogard to a street fight and lost. He trained himself in order to surpass Terry. Duck uses a unique fighting style which includes rhythmical dance-like movements and attacks. His primary special move is a flying cannonball technique. |
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In ''Fatal Fury 2'', Duck was one of the characters from the original game who is defeated by Krauser in one of the game{{'}}s cut scenes, although he would appear as a playable character in ''Fatal Fury Special''. He would retain his cannonball technique, now dubbed the ''Head Spin Attack'', along with new special moves such as the ''Dancing Dive'', ''Break Storm'', and the ''Beat Rush''. He also has a new hidden special move called the ''Break Spiral''. From ''Special'' and onward, Duck would be accompanied by his pet chick "P-chan". He makes another quick cameo in Bob Wilson's ending ''Fatal Fury 3'' before returning as a playable character in ''Real Bout Fatal Fury'' and its sequels, ''Real Bout Special'' and ''Real Bout 2''. He also appears as an exclusive character in the PlayStation version of ''Fatal Fury: Wild Ambition''. |
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=== Gato === |
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|name=Gato |
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|firstgame=''Fatal Fury: Mark of the Wolves'' |
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|series=''[[Fatal Fury]]'' series<br> |
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|voiceactor= [[Kōji Ishii]] ({{lang|ja|石井 康嗣}}) |
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|inuniverse={{MotW character |
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|age=26 years old |
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|height=180 cm |
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|weight=82 kg |
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|birthday=[[May 27]] |
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|birthplace=Unknown |
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|bloodtype=A |
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|fightingstyle=External [[quan fa]] ([[bājíquán]], [[Muslim Chinese martial arts#Xinyiliuhequan|xinyiliuhequan]], etc) |
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|hobbies=Calligraphy |
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|specialty=He can hold his breath underwater for 10 minutes |
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|important=Mother's necklace memento |
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|unpleasant=Paying attention |
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|likes=Anything grand, dynamite, beautiful |
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|dislikes=Anyone who humbles himself |
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|favoritefood=Tomyankun |
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|favoritemusic=Homey |
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|bestsport=Swimming |
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|soulmate= [[List of Fatal Fury characters#Hotaru Futaba|Hotaru Futaba]] (younger sister) |
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{{nihongo|'''Gato'''|牙刃|Gatō}} is a character from ''[[Garou: Mark of the Wolves]]'' and the ''[[King of Fighters]]'' series. He is an amnesiac who cannot entirely recall his past. Despite his condition, he has no concerns outside of besting anyone unfortunate enough to cross his path. In his ''Mark of the Wolves'' ending,<ref name="mowgedgato">{{cite web | author=Rey, Kitsune Sniper | title=Ending for 'Garou:Mark of The Wolves''-Gato Good Ending(Neo Geo) | url=http://www.vgmuseum.com/end/neogeo/a/garougato.htm | work=[http://www.vgmuseum.com/ The Video Game Museum] | accessmonthday=February 27 | accessyear=2008}}</ref> a stranger saves [[Kain R. Heinlein]] from the crumbling mansion. Gato appears to know the stranger, but he is blinded before he can act. As the mansion falls, the stranger taunts Gato, telling him to start training in order to defeat him. Gato appears to have a vision of his past and his father, and angrily swears vengeance - this insinuates that the stranger is connected to Gato's past (the stranger's outfit appears to resemble Gato's), but nothing has been officially confirmed. Gato also appears in the ending of [[Hotaru Futaba]], who claims that he's her older brother and slaps him when he denies even knowing her. He then leaves her there, and Hotaru silently prays for Gato to come back to her and their father. |
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Although Duck King has made numerous cameo appearances thorough ''[[The King of Fighters]]'' series, including as an alternate Striker (a character who helps the player in battle) in ''[[The King of Fighters 2000]]'', he did not appear as a playable character until ''[[The King of Fighters XI]]'', where he appears as a member of the new Fatal Fury Team along with Terry and Kim Kaphwan. |
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Gato first appears in the ''King of Fighters'' series in ''King of Fighters 2003'' as part of the Outlaw Team, along with [[Ryuji Yamazaki]] and [[Billy Kane]]. Gato is summoned to [[Geese Howard]]'s office and forced to cooperate in order to prevent his sister from being harmed. Gato does not like his team mates at all as revealed by the ending, in which Gato ditches the other two immediately and tells them off, leaving Yamazaki and Billy to fight. In [[The King of Fighters XI|KOF XI]] he is partenered with [[Bonne Jenet]] and [[Tizoc]] to form a ''Garou'' Team. He also immediately leaves them, though presumably on somewhat friendlier terms (He declines their invitation to celebrate). |
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{{nihongo|Hwa Jai|ホア・ジャイ|Hoa Jai}} is the first of three opponents the player faces in the original ''Fatal Fury'' before the final match against Geese Howard. A former [[Muay Thai]] champion once nicknamed {{nihongo|"The Hero of Muay Thai"|ムエタイの英雄|Muetai no Eiyū}}, he once fought against Joe Higashi in the past and lost, causing him to lose his title. Seeking to defeat Joe, he became a more reckless and dangerous fighter. After being banned from competing in the Muay Thai circuit, his brutal talent was noted by Geese Howard, who hired him to serve as one of his bodyguards and a participant in the King of Fighters tournament. His special technique, the ''Dragon Kick'', was developed to compete with Joe's ''Tiger Kick''. He also gains additional strength by drinking a sort of ''Super Drink'', which thrown at him by one of [[Geese Howard|Geese's]] men when he is in danger. |
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In ''Fatal Fury 2'', Hwa Jai is one of the characters from the original game who gets defeated by an unknown challenger (Wolfgang Krauser). He is apparently hospitalized and visited by Joe Higashi, as seen in Joe's ending in the game and in ''Fatal Fury Special''. He makes further cameos in the subsequent ''Fatal Fury'' games (''Fatal Fury 3'', ''Real Bout'', ''Real Bout Special'' and ''Real Bout 2'') as Joe's training partner and trainer. Despite having been absent since his original appearance as an opponent character in ''Fatal Fury'', Hwa Jai has been confirmed to return in ''[[The King of Fighters XIII]]'' and marks the first time the character has been playable. Kim, following his "reform" of his previous teammates (Chang Koehan and Choi Bounge), seeks out Hwa Jai and Raiden as he believes they still work under Geese Howard. It is not the case as Geese had returned to America long ago but Raiden manages to talk Hwa Jai into joining the team to bolster their reputations as fighters. Hwa Jai accepts, partially due to wanting to fight Joe once again. |
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=== Hon-Fu === |
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|firstgame=''[[Fatal Fury 3]]'' |
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|series=''[[Fatal Fury]]'' series |
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|voiceactor=[[Toshiyuki Morikawa]] ({{lang|ja|森川 智之}}) |
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|inuniverse={{SNK character |
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|birthplace={{flag|Hong Kong}} |
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|bloodtype=O |
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{{nihongo|'''Hon-Fu'''|ホンフゥ|Hon Fū}} is a character introduced in ''Fatal Fury 3''. |
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=== Hotaru Futaba === |
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|firstgame=''[[Garou: Mark of the Wolves]]'' |
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|firstgameinkof=''[[King of Fighters XI]]'' |
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|series=''[[Fatal Fury]]'' series<br>''[[The King of Fighters]]'' series |
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|voiceactor=[[Yuki Horie]] ({{lang|ja|堀江 ゆき}}) |
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|inuniverse={{SNK character |
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|birthplace={{flag|Japan}} |
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|birthdate={{birth date|1990|5|11|mf=y}} |
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|age=16 years old |
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|height=156 cm (5'1") |
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|weight=42 kg |
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|bloodtype=A |
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|fightingstyle=Internal [[quan fa]] ([[tai chi chuan]], [[baguazhang]], etc) |
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|likes=Chocolate ice cream banana parfaits, the high jump, her pet sable Itokatsu, pop music, collecting ribbons |
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|dislikes=earthquakes |
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|soulmate= [[Gato (Fatal Fury)|Gato]] (older brother) |
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[[Image:Hotaru Futaba.jpg|thumb|left|150px|Hotaru in ''Neo Geo Battle Coliseum'']] |
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{{nihongo|'''Hotaru Futaba'''|双葉 ほたる|Futaba Hotaru}} is a character who was introduced in ''[[Garou: Mark of the Wolves]]'' and also makes an appearance in ''[[Neo Geo Battle Coliseum]]'' and in the PS2 version of ''[[The King of Fighters XI]]''. Hotaru is the daughter of a family of [[martial arts|martial artist]]s, but is not very fond of [[violence]]. She never wants to hurt others, which is the probable reason why her father taught her the lighter side of [[China|Chinese]] [[kenpo]]; the Juu-kei style, which suits her easygoing personality. There are two things that Hotaru appreciates the most after her [[mother]]'s suicide:<ref name="mowdcmanual">{{cite book | year=2001 | editor=SNK | title=Garou: Mark of the Wolves instruction manual | pages= | publisher=SNK |language=English|id=T-44306N}}</ref> her sable, Itokatsu, and her older brother, [[Gato (Fatal Fury)|Gato]]. But Gato was a man who was tormented to become an accomplished martial artist, and was pushed too far by their father. Still, Hotaru knows who the real Gato is, and she is sure that he is not such a bad person at heart. |
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=== Joe Higashi === |
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Gato's disappearance led Hotaru to a hostile city located in the [[United States]]: Second Southtown, where fighting rules all, crime rules the [[society]], and strength dictates who lives and dies. In this harsh place, Hotaru set out to find [[clue]]s about her brother. She then heard news of a fighting [[tournament]] of epic proportions that would soon occur in Second Southtown - "King of Fighters: Maximum Mayhem." Hotaru had a feeling that her brother would enter the tournament, as he was always looking for strong opponents to fight. Following her premonitions, Hotaru entered the tournament as well. |
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:{{voiced by|[[Katsuhisa Namase]] (''FF2'', ''FFS'', ''KOF '94''), [[Nobuyuki Hiyama]] (''FF3'' – ''KOF XIII''), [[Kōzō Mito]] (''KOF XIV'' onwards), [[Chiharu Sawashiro]] (''KOF for Girls''), [[Masaaki Satake]] (''FF: LOTHW''), [[Kazuki Yao]] (Dengeki Bunko drama CD)|[[Jason Gray-Stanford]] (''FF'' anime films), Kevin Andrew Rivera (''SF6'')}} |
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{{nihongo|Joe Higashi|ジョー・ヒガシ|Jō Higashi|also written as 東 丈, ''Higashi Jō''}} first appears in ''[[Fatal Fury: King of Fighters]]'' as one of the three playable characters along with Andy and Terry Bogard. The plot features Joe allying with the Bogard brothers to enter the King of Fighters tournament and then defeat the host [[Geese Howard]], who killed the Bogard brothers' father. In the tournament, Joe also beats his Muay Thai rival Hwa Jai, and they both become friends. In ''[[Fatal Fury 2]]'', Joe learns that Hwa Jai was beaten by the new King of Fighters host [[list of Fatal Fury characters#Wolfgang Krauser|Wolfgang Krauser]] and enters the tournament to avenge him.<ref>{{cite video game|level=Joe Higashi ending|title=Fatal Fury: King of Fighters|developer=SNK |publisher=SNK |date=1991-12-20 |quote='''Joe:''' It's the beginning of Joe's legend.|platform=Neo Geo }}</ref> ''[[Fatal Fury 3: Road to the Final Victory]]'' and ''[[Real Bout Fatal Fury]]'' end the fight between Joe and the Bogard and Geese, who dies falling from the Geese Tower.<ref name="death">{{cite video game|level=Terry Bogard ending|title=Real Bout Fatal Fury|developer=SNK |publisher=SNK |date=1995-12-21 |quote='''Geese:''' RAISING.... ahhhh... uhu./'''Terry:''' TRIPLE GEYSERRRRR.../'''Geese:''' AHHHHHHHHHHAAAGH!!!!/'''Terry:''' GEEEEEEEEESEEEEE!!!!/'''Geese:''' Hmph... WAH, HAH, HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!/'''Terry:''' ....|platform=Neo Geo }}</ref> The two following games, ''[[Real Bout Fatal Fury Special]]'' and ''[[Real Bout Fatal Fury 2: The Newcomers]]'' also feature Joe as a playable character but none of them contain a storyline.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.garou15th.com/history/series6/index.php |title=Real Bout Fatal Fury Special |publisher=Fatal Fury 15th Anniversary Official Website |access-date=2009-03-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090327231208/http://www.garou15th.com/history/series6/index.php |archive-date=2009-03-27 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.garou15th.com/history/series8/index.php |title=Real Bout Fatal Fury 2: The Newcomers |publisher=Fatal Fury 15th Anniversary Official Website |access-date=2009-03-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090410054120/http://www.garou15th.com/history/series8/index.php |archive-date=2009-04-10 |url-status=dead }}</ref> ''[[Fatal Fury: Wild Ambition]]'' retells the events from the first game, but with characters who would appear later.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.garou15th.com/history/series9/index.php |title=Fatal Fury: Wild Ambition |publisher=Fatal Fury 15th Anniversary Official Website |access-date=2009-03-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090328005532/http://www.garou15th.com/history/series9/index.php |archive-date=2009-03-28 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Joe returns in ''City of the Wolves'', now training Preecha as his student. |
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In ''[[The King of Fighters]]'' series, Joe is a regular member from the Fatal Fury Team (also composed of Terry and Andy), and each game features them entering into an annual tournament to search for competition. Andy's girlfriend [[Mai Shiranui]], joins them in ''[[The King of Fighters '99]]'' since the tournament now requires four members per team.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kofaniv.snkplaymore.co.jp/english/history/kof99_story/index.php?num=garou |title=Fatal Fury Team Story 99 |publisher=The King of Fighter 10th anniversary website |access-date=2009-03-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080528113001/http://kofaniv.snkplaymore.co.jp/english/history/kof99_story/index.php?num=garou |archive-date=2008-05-28 |url-status=dead }}</ref> By ''[[The King of Fighters 2000]]'' and ''[[The King of Fighters 2001]]'', Mai leaves and the new fourth member is Blue Mary.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kofaniv.snkplaymore.co.jp/english/history/kof2000_story/index.php?num=garou |title=Fatal Fury Team Story 2000 |publisher=The King of Fighter 10th anniversary website |access-date=2009-03-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080501072337/http://kofaniv.snkplaymore.co.jp/english/history/kof2000_story/index.php?num=garou |archive-date=2008-05-01 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://kofaniv.snkplaymore.co.jp/english/history/kof2001_story/index.php?num=garou |title=Fatal Fury Team Story 2001 |publisher=The King of Fighter 10th anniversary website |access-date=2009-03-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091023230152/http://kofaniv.snkplaymore.co.jp/english/history/kof2001_story/index.php?num=garou |archive-date=2009-10-23 |url-status=dead }}</ref> ''[[The King of Fighters 2002]]'' and ''[[The King of Fighters 2003]]'' return the tournament to use teams of three members, but in the latter pro-wrestler [[list of Fatal Fury characters#Tizoc / King of Dinosaurs|Tizoc]] replaces Andy, who is busy taking care of his sick student.<ref>{{cite web|title=The King of Fighters 2002 |url=http://kofaniv.snkplaymore.co.jp/english/history/history.php?num=kof2002 |publisher=King of Fighters 10th Anniversary Official Website |access-date=2009-03-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090207195941/http://kofaniv.snkplaymore.co.jp/english/history/history.php?num=kof2002 |archive-date=2009-02-07 }}</ref><ref name="twoseventhree">{{cite web|url=http://kofaniv.snkplaymore.co.jp/english/history/history.php?num=kof2003 |title=King of Fighters 2003 - Fatal Fury Team |publisher=The King of Fighter 10th anniversary website |access-date=2009-03-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090303231947/http://kofaniv.snkplaymore.co.jp/english/history/history.php?num=kof2003 |archive-date=2009-03-03 |url-status=dead }}</ref> By ''[[The King of Fighters XI]]'', Joe leaves the competition as he enters into a new Muay Thai tournament.<ref name="eleven">{{cite web|url=http://kofaniv.snkplaymore.co.jp/history/history.php?num=kofxi |title=King of Fighters XI Garou Team |publisher=The King of Fighter 10th anniversary website |access-date=2009-03-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081218130004/http://kofaniv.snkplaymore.co.jp/history/kofxi_story/index.php?num=garou |archive-date=2008-12-18 |url-status=dead }}</ref> However, he returns in ''[[The King of Fighters XII]]'', which neither features official teams or plot.<ref name="jpn">{{cite web|url=http://game.snkplaymore.co.jp/official/kof-xii/character/index.html |title=『ザ・キング・オブ・ファイターズXII』稼動時期が決定！ |publisher=Official The King of Fighters XII Homepage |access-date=2009-03-29 |language=ja |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090228190749/http://game.snkplaymore.co.jp/official/kof-xii/character/index.html |archive-date=2009-02-28 |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[The King of Fighters XIII|The sequel]] casts Joe back into the classic Fatal Fury team that includes Terry and Andy, the reason being Terry's desire to reunite the original team to participate in the upcoming tournament. In the spin-off ''The King of Fighters Kyo'', the player (who uses [[Kyo Kusanagi]]) can challenge Joe to a fight in a game, and also make him join to his team for the upcoming King of Fighters tournament.<ref>{{cite video game|title=The King of Fighters Kyo |developer=SNK|publisher=SNK|date=1999 |platform=PlayStation|level=Korea: Camp}}</ref> Joe also takes a minor role in ''The King of Fighters EX'' as an assistant character (dubbed "Striker") for the Fatal Fury Team, now composed with the Bogard brothers and Mai.<ref name="ex">{{cite web | url=http://www.gamespot.com/gba/action/kingoffightersexneoblood/similar.html?mode=versions| title=Game Spot: The King of Fighters EX| publisher= [[Game Spot]]| access-date= 2009-03-27}}</ref> Additionally, he stars in ''[[The King of Fighters Neowave]]'' with the original Fatal Fury Team.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://game.snkplaymore.co.jp/official/neowave/ |title=The King of Fighters Neowave official website |publisher=[[SNK Playmore]] |access-date=2009-03-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090207193556/http://game.snkplaymore.co.jp/official/neowave/character/index.html |archive-date=2009-02-07 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He was also added to the crossover game ''Capcom vs. SNK Pro'', an updated version of ''[[Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Fight 2000]]'' for the PlayStation and Sega Dreamcast, and in the sequel ''[[Capcom vs. SNK 2]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.capcom.co.jp/newproducts/consumer/cvsspro/ |title=CAPCOM VS. SNK PRO |publisher=[[Capcom]] |access-date=2009-03-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090227130002/http://www.capcom.co.jp/newproducts/consumer/cvsspro/ |archive-date=2009-02-27 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.capcom.co.jp/capvssnk2eo/characters/chara_snk.html |title=SNK Fighters |publisher=[[Capcom]] |access-date=2009-03-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090408153436/http://www.capcom.co.jp/capvssnk2eo/characters/chara_snk.html |archive-date=2009-04-08 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He is also present the [[otome game]] ''King of Fighters for Girls''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2019-06-13/snk-victor-entertainment-reveal-king-of-fighters-for-girls-smartphone-game/.147812|title=SNK, Victor Entertainment Reveal 'King of Fighters for Girls' Smartphone Game|publisher=Anime News Network|access-date=June 13, 2019}}</ref> Joe appears in ''[[Super Smash Bros. 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=== Hwa Jai === |
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|caption=Hwa Jai in "Fatal Fury" OVA |
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|firstgame=''[[Fatal Fury]]'' |
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|birthplace={{flag|Thailand}} |
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|birthdate=June 24, 1964 |
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|age={{{age|}}} |
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|height=181 cm (5'11") |
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|weight=70 kg (154 lbs.) |
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|bloodtype=AB |
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|fightingstyle=[[Muay Thai]] |
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|likes=Fighting |
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|dislikes=Losing to his rival, [[Joe Higashi]] |
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{{nihongo|'''[[Hwa Jai]]'''|ホア・ジャイ|Hoa Jai}} is a character from the ''[[Fatal Fury]]'' series. Hwa Jai is a mighty [[Muay Thai]] fighter who resided in the callous [[Thailand]] jungle since birth. There he trained for most of his life to survive the jungle’s various dangers and to become a hero to his countrymen. While he was one of Thailand’s best fighters, Hwa Jai would never become world champion. In various Muay Thai tournaments, he was bested by the overconfident yet superiorly trained, [[Joe Higashi]]. The two became fierce rivals with Joe always being the victor. This prompted Hwa Jai to start cheating by drinking a strange fluid that boosted his physical attributes exponentially. Worrying he would have been found out, Hwa Jai moved to Southtown, where many fighters reside and none would care about him using the drink. Entering [[Geese Howard|Geese Howard’s]] ''King of Fighters'' tournament, Hwa Jai sought his vengeance against Joe. He faced off against his arrogant nemesis once more resulting in, despite his training and his drink’s power boost, Joe coming out the winner. |
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Joe Higashi appears in each of the three animated films from Fatal Fury. Jason Gray-Stanford provides the voice of Joe in the English versions. Masaaki Satake provides the voice of Joe in the Japanese version of the first film and [[Nobuyuki Hiyama]] in the two following. In the ''[[Fatal Fury: Legend of the Hungry Wolf]]'' from 1993, Joe enters the King of Fighters tournament along with the Bogard brothers which cause Geese Howard to attack them. Upon learning that Andy and Terry's teacher, Tung Fu Rue, was seriously injured by Geese's right-hand man, [[Billy Kane]], Andy and Joe set to fight Geese. None of them are able to defeat Geese, but are saved by Terry who later defeats Geese.<ref>{{cite video |date = 1992 |title = [[Fatal Fury: Legend of the Hungry Wolf]] |type= [[VHS]] |publisher = [[Viz Media|Viz Video]]}}</ref> In the 1993 film ''[[Fatal Fury 2: The New Battle]]'', Joe becomes ashamed after learning that Terry became depressed after being defeated by [[list of Fatal Fury characters#Wolfgang Krauser|Wolfgang Krauser]] and tries to avenge him. However, he ends up being heavily wounded by Krauser.<ref>{{cite video |date = 1993 |title = [[Fatal Fury 2: The New Battle]] |type= [[VHS]] |publisher = [[Viz Media|Viz Video]]}}</ref> In ''[[Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture]]'' from 1994 Joe joins Terry, Andy and Mai into helping a girl named Sulia into stopping her brother Laocorn Gaudeamus, who is the main antagonist from the film.<ref>{{cite video |date = 1994 |title = [[Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture]] |type= [[VHS]] |publisher = [[Viz Media|Viz Video]] }}</ref> |
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Shamed, Hwa Jai returned to the Thai jungle once more. Hwa Jai now lives a normal life training Muay Thai to those who, like he previously, strive to be the best. Eventually Hwa Jai’s rivalry with Joe ended with the two being sparring partners, and even friends, after Joe avenges him from [[Wolfgang Krauser]], who left Hwa Jai in the hospital before the second tournament.<ref name="ff2edjoe">{{cite web | author=RyuWatase | title=Ending for ''Fatal Fury 2''-Joe(Neo Geo) | url=http://www.vgmuseum.com/end/neogeo/c/fat2joe.htm | work=[http://www.vgmuseum.com/ The Video Game Museum] | accessmonthday=February 27 | accessyear=2008}}</ref> |
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=== Jin Chonrei === |
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|firstgame=''Fatal Fury 3'' |
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|voiceactor=[[Kappei Yamaguchi]] ({{lang|ja|山口 勝平}}) |
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|inuniverse={{SNK character |
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|birthdate=June 6th, 1980 |
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|birthplace={{flag|China}} |
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|age=18 years old (RB2) |
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|height=169 cm (FF3 through RB1) <br> 170 cm (later games) |
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|weight=59 kg (FF3 through RB1) <br> Unknown (later games) |
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|bloodtype=Unknown |
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|fightingstyle=Dìwángquán |
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|likes=His younger brother, Snowboarding, Apricot tofu |
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'''Jin Chonrei''' (秦 崇雷, [[Japanese language|Japanese]]: ''Jin Chonrei'', [[Pinyin]]: ''Qín Chónglei'') is a character from the ''[[Fatal Fury]]'' series and who also makes an appearance in ''[[Neo Geo Battle Coliseum]]''. Chonrei first appeared as the final secret [[boss (video games)|boss]] in ''[[Fatal Fury 3]]'', following [[Ryuji Yamazaki]] and his brother [[Jin Chonshu]]. In Gamest's 1997 Heroes Collection, Jin was voted as the staff's thirty-ninth favorite character. He shared the spot with four other characters, including ''Fatal Fury'' character, [[Joe Higashi]], and ''[[Street Fighter]]'' character, [[Zangief]].<ref name="gamest97">{{Cite book | year=1997 | editor=Gamest | title=Gamest Game Hero Collection 1997; issue 208 | pages=1 | language=Japanese | publisher=Shinseisha }}</ref> |
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=== Michael Max === |
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Chonrei is one of the two ''Jin Brothers'' who search for an item stolen from them, the ''Jin Scrolls'' or ''Scrolls of Immortality''. They know the scrolls are in Southtown, and send ''Ryuji Yamazaki'' to search the city, however several other characters are also searching the scrolls for different reasons. If the player did well throughout the course of the game, then after defeating his younger brother Chonshu, ''Chonrei'' appears and becomes extremely angry, promising that the player would not leave the place alive. Regardless of whether or not Chonrei was reached, the player's character's ending would play afterwards. After the events of ''Fatal Fury 3'', [[Geese Howard]] escapes with the Jin Scrolls and tries to attain immortality with them. The fighters of Southtown seek to stop him, and [[Terry Bogard]] manages to reach him at his infamous tower. The eternal enemies fight. As they do so, Chonshu and Chonrei sneak towards the ''Jin Scrolls''. After Terry defeats Geese, he is too late to stop the ''Jin Brothers'' from reaching the Scrolls. However, in a surprising turn of events, ''Chonrei'' tears up the scrolls despite Chonshu's protestation. Chonrei explains to Chonshu that it is better for them to live normal lives as kids rather than continue their cursed existence as immortals. Chonshu eventually agrees, and both of them leave. |
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{{nihongo|Michael Max|マイケル・マックス|Maikeru Makkusu}} is a black boxer who appears in the original ''Fatal Fury'' as one of the first four CPU-controlled opponents whom the player faces. Prior to the events of the game, Michael was a young boxing prodigy who was once considered a strong contender for the title of Worldwide Heavyweight Champion. However, he left the boxing circuit to seek real combat and participate in the King of Fighters tournament, feeling that professional boxing was a mere sport protected by rules. He is also the friend and student of boxing of Axel Hawk. His only other appearances in the series includes in the cut-scenes of ''Fatal Fury 2'', where he is one of the fighters defeated by Wolfgang Krauser, and in [[#Axel Hawk|Axel Hawk]]{{'}}s ending in ''Fatal Fury Special'', where he is depicted as Axel's trainer. In one of his victory poses, it is revealed that he is Catholic. Michael Max is the only character from the original ''Fatal Fury'' that has never appeared in ''The King of Fighters'' series until he makes a cameo at one of ''[[The King of Fighters XV]]'' trailer. |
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=== Jin Chonshu === |
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|voiceactor=[[Kappei Yamaguchi]] ({{lang|ja|山口 勝平}}) |
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|birthplace={{flag|China}} |
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|birthdate=June 6th, 1980 |
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|age=18 years old (RB2) |
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|height=169 cm (FF3 through RB1) <br> 170 cm (later games) |
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|weight=59 kg (FF3 through RB1) <br> Unknown (later games) |
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|bloodtype=Unknown |
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|fightingstyle=Dìwángquán |
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|likes=travelling, anything spicy |
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|dislikes=Deep-sea fish (thinks their faces are scary) |
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'''Jin Chonshu''' (秦 崇秀, [[Japanese language|Japanese]]: ''Jin Chonshū'', [[Pinyin]]: ''Qín Chóngxiù'') is a character from the ''[[Fatal Fury]]'' series and who also makes an appearance in ''[[Neo Geo Battle Coliseum]]''. Chonshu first appeared as one of three [[boss (video games)|bosses]] in ''Fatal Fury 3'', supposedly appearing to be the last boss following [[Ryuji Yamazaki]]. In actuality, he was not the real last boss. If the player performed well, Chonshu's brother [[Jin Chonrei|Chonrei]] would be fought as the true last boss afterwards. If the player did not do well throughout the course of the game, then the player's character would fight Chonshu in one of the first two stages. Otherwise, Chonshu would fight in the third stage. After defeating Chonshu, his older brother ''[[Jin Chonrei]]'' appears, and becomes extremely angry. Regardless of whether or not Chonrei was reached, the player's character's ending would play afterwards. |
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=== Joe Higashi === |
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{{nihongo|Raiden|ライデン|Raiden}} first appears in the original ''Fatal Fury'' as the second of the final four computer-controlled opponents in the single-player mode. He was once a popular [[face (professional wrestling)|face wrestler]] until he was betrayed by his tag partner during a match (a character later revealed to be Big Bombarder from the SNK wrestling game ''[[3 Count Bout]]''). This incident transformed him completely and he became a notorious [[Heel (professional wrestling)|heel wrestler]]. Not satisfied with venting his frustration in the ring, he enters the King of Fighters tournament as a masked fighter, acting as one of Geese's guardians. His primary special move in the game is the ''Vapor Breath''. This character was modeled after real life pro wrestler [[Big Van Vader]]. |
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|name=Jubei Yamada |
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|firstgame=''Fatal Fury 2'' |
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|series=''[[Fatal Fury]]'' series |
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|voiceactor=[[Dango Takeda]] ({{lang|ja|竹田 団吾}}) |
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|birthplace={{flag|Japan}} |
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|birthdate=[[July 7]], [[1922]] |
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|height=156 cm (5'1") |
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|weight=50 kg (110 lbs.) |
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|bloodtype=A |
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|fightingstyle=[[Judo]] |
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|likes=Shiatsu, onsen eggs (eggs boiled in hot springs), gateball, his chanchanko (his vest), eurobeat music |
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|dislikes=People who smell of sweat |
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{{nihongo|'''Jubei Yamada'''|山田 十平衛|''Yamada Jūbee''}} is a character from ''[[Fatal Fury 2]]'' and ''[[Fatal Fury Special]]''. In the past, Jubei Yamada was such a fierce [[Judo]] warrior, that his prowess and skill that he released in his matches earned him the nickname of "The Demon". Now he is a giddy old man who passes his time eating [[cookie]]s and taking care of his [[dojo]], where he looks over the progress of his many students, Jubei has resorted to a more peaceful life. Having chosen to live away from the ways of fighting, Jubei rested in his dojo, with not too much effort spent. He spends his time with his old friend and rival Hanzo Shiranui, a Ninjitsu master and well trained in the ways of Koppo-ken. Hanzo had been training his granddaughter [[Mai Shiranui|Mai]] in the Shiranui Ninjitsu style, but when he was approached by a young American boy called [[Andy Bogard]] who wanted to learn the Koppo-ken art, Hanzo left Mai to complete her training with Jubei. Jubei realized that Andy had a lot of potential to become a superb fighter. |
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He returns as a regular playable character in ''[[Fatal Fury 2]]'' and ''[[Fatal Fury Special]]'', where he renounces his Raiden persona and now fights as an unmasked face wrestler under the identity of {{nihongo|Big Bear|ビッグ・ベア|Biggu Bea}}. He trains at his native land of [[Australia]], where his deadly strength increased on several levels. He also develops a friendly rivalry with Terry, as seen in his endings in both games. His special moves in ''Fatal Fury 2'' includes the ''Giant Bomb'', a rushing tackle, and the ''Super Drop Kick''. He also has a hidden special move called the ''Fire Breath'', an improved version of his ''Vapor Breath''. In ''Special'', he gains a new special move called the ''Bear Bomber''. He later cameos as a wrestling commentator in ''City of the Wolves''. |
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Even though his golden age has long been gone, Jubei refuses to sit back in a bed and wait for his death. Jubei likes to be where the action is, and always tries to live his remaining days as a youngster. Revived by the passion of other young fighters as Andy and Mai, Jubei takes a cue, and always takes to the fighting arena every now and then. |
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=== Kain R. Heinlein === |
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''Fatal Fury: Wild Ambition'', being a retelling of the original ''Fatal Fury'' tournament, depicts ''Raiden'' under his masked heel persona once again. Outside the ''Fatal Fury'' series, Raiden also appeared in the [[Capcom]]-produced crossover game ''[[Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Fight 2000]]'', and its sequels, ''Capcom vs. SNK Pro'' and ''[[Capcom vs. SNK 2]]'', being one of the few ''Fatal Fury'' characters who did not appear in ''The King of Fighters'' as a playable character (at the time) in those games. Raiden also appears in ''[[The King of Fighters XII]]'' and [[The King of Fighters XIII|the sequel]]. In ''KOF XII'' none of the characters are assigned into teams but for ''KOF XIII'' they are. Raiden's teammates in ''KOF XIII'' are Kim Kaphwan and Hwa Jai. Kim is mistaken in thinking Raiden and Hwa Jai are still in the employ of Geese Howard, wanting to "reform" both men. Raiden convinces Hwa Jai to act as if they are so they are able to enter the tournament to build reputation for themselves. The ''Fatal Fury'' characters refer him as "Bear", his face persona, which he denies. |
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=== Grant === |
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{{nihongo|Ricardo "Richard" Meyer|リチャード・マイヤー|Richādo Maiyā}} appears in the original ''Fatal Fury'' as one of the first four computer-controlled opponents in the single-player mode. A [[capoeira]] mestre originally from [[Brazil]], Richard makes his daily living in South Town as the manager of the restaurant Pao Pao Cafe. He competes in the King of Fighters tournament in order to make his capoiera style known to the world. In this game, his character specializes in numerous kick techniques. Richard Meyer was the first fighting game character to use Capoeira. |
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Richard makes cameo appearances in subsequent ''Fatal Fury'' games as a friendly acquaintance of the Bogard brothers and Joe. He appears in ''Fatal Fury 2'' in the cut scene shown immediately after the first battle against the CPU, tending to a crowd of spectators at Pao Pao Cafe witnessing the player's fight on television. He appears again near the end of the game, where he is defeated in battle by Wolfgang Krauser, as well in Terry Bogard's ending, serving him and his date their meal. |
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=== Khushnood Butt === |
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In ''Fatal Fury 3'', Richard opens a new Pao Pao Cafe restaurant, which is maintained by his capoeira apprentice [[#Bob Wilson|Bob Wilson]]. In ''Fatal Fury 3'', as well as in ''Real Bout'' series, Richard appears to cheer and encourage Bob before each of his matches. He makes cameos in ''[[The King of Fighters XI]]'', trying to tell Kim to leave the cafe and in ''[[King of Fighters XIII]]'' witnessing several female fighters destroy his bar. |
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=== Kim Dong Hwan === |
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Richard appears as a hidden character in the PlayStation 2 game ''[[KOF: Maximum Impact 2]]'' (released in North America as ''The King of Fighters 2006''), participating as a fighter for the first time since the original ''Fatal Fury''. Richard's real given name is Ricardo. |
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=== Kim Jae Hoon === |
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=== Terry Bogard === |
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=== Tung Fu Rue === |
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{{nihongo|Tung Fu Rue|タン フー ルー|Tan Fū Rū|[[Chinese language|Chinese]]: 糖胡芦; [[Pinyin]]: Táng Hú-Lú}} is one of the first four opponents the players face in the original ''Fatal Fury'' (when either Andy or Terry defeats him in ''Fatal Fury Special'', each Bogard brother addresses him as "Master Tan"). He is an elderly martial arts master from China who developed his own fighting style based on ''[[Bajiquan]]'' known as the {{nihongo|Holy Fist of Eight Ways|八極聖拳|Hakkyokuseiken}}. In the past, he trained Terry and Andy's adoptive father, Jeff Bogard, and his nemesis Geese Howard (as well as [[#Cheng Sinzan|Cheng Sinzan]]). He raised the Bogard brothers after Jeff was killed by Geese and participates in the King of Fighters tournament in the first game with the objective to defeat Geese. He can transform his body into steel and draw out great power using a deadly secret technique known only to himself. In the game, he appears as meek elderly man, but after taking a bit of damage, he transforms into a musclebound warrior, whose special moves including a flying whirlwind punch and a spinning whirlwind kick in which he shoots fireballs at both directions. |
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In ''Fatal Fury 2'', Tung was one of the characters defeated by Wolfgang Krauser in one of the game's cut-scene. He would appear as a playable character in ''Fatal Fury Special'', the upgraded version of ''Fatal Fury 2''. Unlike the original game, Tung only transforms into a musclebound version of himself while performing certain special moves. Tung reappears in ''Real Bout Special'' and ''Real Bout 2''. In ''Real Bout Special'', there are two versions of him in the game. In regular version of him has improved versions of his previous special moves, as well as new moves, while the alternate version of him (EX Tung Fu Rue) has all of his moves from ''Fatal Fury Special'' and one Hidden Ability. In ''Real Bout 2'', Tung has special moves from both versions of his character in the previous game. |
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Tung also appears in the SNK crossover game ''[[NeoGeo Battle Coliseum]]''. This version of the character was used as an additional character in the PlayStation 2 port of ''[[The King of Fighters XI]]'', until he canonically participates in ''[[The King of Fighters XIV]]''. He is also one of the 20 background characters that appears in the King of Fighters Stadium Stage in ''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]''. |
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In ''The King of Fighters'' timeline, Tung played a vital role in ''XIV''. According to a profile of one of his disciples, and the protagonist central character of that arc, Shun'ei, Tung found Shun'ei after his biological parents abandoned him for having an eerie powers, related to the main antagonist of that arc. Sensing good in the young eerie powered boy, Tung decided to raise Shun'ei as his disciple to be trained by himself against the villains who had a connection to Shun'ei's eerie power, such as the villain who is connected to Shun'ei's left-half power, an avatar of fiery rage and soul containing entity known as Verse. Additionally, he has met [[Kyo Kusanagi]]'s father, Saisyu Kusanagi, and a fellow elderly Chinese martial arts master, Chin Gentsai, sometime before. |
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=== Axel Hawk === |
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{{nihongo|Axel Hawk|アクセル・ホーク|Akuseru Hōku}} first appears in ''Fatal Fury 2'' as the second of the final four opponents in the single-player mode. A former heavyweight boxing champion, he was said to be the strongest of all time until his retirement. According to his backstory, he began spending most of his days at home after his retirement, playing with his [[Radio-controlled car|R/C car]] and being supported by his elderly mother, his father having died at some point. One day, he received an anonymous letter inviting him to the King of Fighters tournament and began training for his comeback. He was originally a non-playable character in the Neo Geo version of ''Fatal Fury 2'', although he is playable in the SNES and Genesis versions of the game. He became a regular playable character in ''Fatal Fury Special''. He is also the teacher of boxing and the best friend of Michael Max. He makes a cameo at the end of ''[[The King of Fighters 2003]]'' cheering on the Fatal Fury Team. |
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=== Cheng Sinzan === |
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:{{voiced by|Jun Hashimoto (''FFS''), Shigefumi Nakai (''RBFFS''–''RBFFS2''), [[Chafurin]] (''FF: TMP'')|[[Robert O. Smith]] (''FF: TMP'')}} |
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{{nihongo|Cheng Sinzan|チン・シンザン|Chin Shinzan|[[Chinese language|Chinese]]: 陳 秦山; [[Pinyin]]: ''Chén Qínshān''; [[Cantonese Yale]]: ''Chàhn Chèuhn-sāan''}} is introduced as one of the new playable characters in ''Fatal Fury 2''. A rotund fighter, he practices [[tai chi]]. Despite his immense strength, he hates training and becomes tired very easily. He enters the King of Fighters tournament seeking to gain international recognition and open his own training hall. He is characterized as one of the richest men in Hong Kong, who resides in a high class neighborhood and is married to a former Miss Hong Kong. Despite his social status, he seeks to find ways to make himself even richer. His Special Moves in ''Fatal Fury 2'', as well as in ''Fatal Fury Special'', includes the {{nihongo|''Thunderblast Powerball''|氣雷砲|Kiraihō}}, the {{nihongo|''Belly Drum Blast''|大太鼓腹打|Daitaikobarauchi}}, and the {{nihongo|''Avalanche Crunch''|破岩激|Hagangeki}}, while his Super Special Move is the {{nihongo|''Exploding Thunder Powerball''|爆雷砲|Bakuraihō}}. |
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He makes a non-playable appearance in ''Fatal Fury 3'', helping Hon-Fu chase after Ryuji Yamazaki and doesn't return as a playable character until ''Real Bout Special'' and ''Real Bout 2''. In the backstory of ''Real Bout Special'', it is revealed that Cheng was once a disciple of Tung Fu Rue trained in ''Hakkyoku Seiken'' along with Jeff Bogard and Geese Howard, but was expelled due to his greediness. He would also make money by having people bet against him in street fights and then lose on purpose. |
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=== Jubei Yamada === |
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:{{voiced by|Dango Takeda (''FFS''), [[Jōji Yanami]] (''FF'' anime films)|[[French Tickner]] (''FF'' anime films)}} |
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{{nihongo|Jubei Yamada|山田 十平衛|''Yamada Jūbei''}} is one of the five playable characters introduced in ''Fatal Fury 2''. An elderly [[judo]] master who was once known as "Yamada, the Demon" during his youth. Jubei Yamada is the best friend and rival of Hanzo Shiranui (the grandfather of Mai Shiranui). Having lost his charm from his younger days, Jubei fights in the new King of Fighters tournament in order to re-establish his popularity with girls around the world. Despite this, he refuses to change his womanizing lecherous ways. Although Jubei does not return as a playable character in later games, he makes several cameo appearances, including in Mai Shiranui's ending in ''Real Bout Fatal Fury'', where he is shown to have an infatuation with her. |
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=== Kim Kaphwan === |
=== Kim Kaphwan === |
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:{{voiced by|[[Satoshi Hashimoto]] (''FF2''–''KOF XI''), Kazuhiko Nagata (''KOF XII''–''KOF XIV''), [[Daiki Nakamura (actor)|Daiki Nakamura]] (''FF2: TNB'', ''FF: TMP''), Hiroshi Isobe ([[Dengeki Bunko]] drama CD: ''Garō Densetsu 2'' and ''Garō Densetsu Special''), [[Kunihiro Kawamoto]] (''KOF: D'' onwards), [[Ayaka Ōhashi]] (''KOFAS''; New Kim),<ref>{{cite tweet|user=KOF_ALLSTAR|title=【KOF ALLSTARに新ファイター参戦！】 「悪は許さん！」 姿が変わってしまったキム・カッファン、KOFASに参戦！ CV. 大橋 彩香 プリティー・キムを動画でチェック！ 次回もお楽しみにSmiling face with smiling eyes ダウンロードはこちら▼ http://kofallstar.netmarble.jp #KOFAS #KOF #プリティー・キム|number=1270526091984134147|date=2020-06-09|access-date=2023-05-23|language=ja}}</ref> [[Takuya Eguchi]] (''KOF for Girls'')|[[David Kaye (voice actor)|David Kaye]] (''FF2: TNB'', ''FF: TMP'')}} |
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'''Kim Kap-Hwan''' ({{lang|ja|金甲煥 (キム・カッファン)}}, ''Kimu Kaffan'', sometimes written as {{lang|ko|김갑환}} (''Kim Kap-hwan''), usually written as '''Kim Kaphwan''') first appears in ''[[Fatal Fury 2]]'' as a playable character. He travels to Southtown to fight [[Wolfgang Krauser]], who was looking for some decent challenges in the King of Fighters fighting tournament. On the way, he encounters the former King of Fighters champion [[Terry Bogard]]. They soon become good friends, and ever since, Kim always agrees to help Terry in all that he can, though a definite rivalry is maintained.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.garou15th.com/history/series2/index.php|title=Fatal Fury 2|publisher= Fatal Fury 15th Anniversary Official Website|access-date= 2009-03-07}}</ref> He also appears in all the ''Real Bout'' games from the series.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.garou15th.com/history/series5/index.php|title=Real Bout Fatal Fury|publisher=Fatal Fury 15th Anniversary Official Website|language=ja|access-date=2009-03-18|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090410024606/http://www.garou15th.com/history/series5/index.php|archive-date=2009-04-10}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.garou15th.com/history/series6/index.php|title=Real Bout Fatal Fury Special|publisher=Fatal Fury 15th Anniversary Official Website|language=ja|access-date=2009-03-18|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090327231208/http://www.garou15th.com/history/series6/index.php|archive-date=2009-03-27}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.garou15th.com/history/series8/index.php|title=Real Bout Fatal Fury 2: The Newcomers|publisher=Fatal Fury 15th Anniversary Official Website|language=ja|access-date=2009-03-18|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090410054120/http://www.garou15th.com/history/series8/index.php|archive-date=2009-04-10}}</ref> He is also present in ''[[Fatal Fury: Wild Ambition]]'', a 3D game which retells the story from the [[Fatal Fury: King of Fighters|first ''Fatal Fury'' game]] but with characters from the sequels including Kim.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.garou15th.com/history/series9/index.php|title=Fatal Fury: Wild Ambition|publisher=Fatal Fury 15th Anniversary Official Website|language=ja|access-date=2009-03-19}}</ref> He makes a cameo appearance in ''[[Garou: Mark of the Wolves]]'' in one of his son's (Dong Hwan) win poses. |
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In ''The King of Fighters'', Kim is considered as both a sport and national hero in his native Korea. This status is what enabled him to convince the authorities to give him custody over [[Chang Koehan]] and [[Choi Bounge]] to rehabilitate them out of their criminal ways.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kofaniv.snkplaymore.co.jp/english/history/kof94_story/index.php?num=kim| title=Kim Team KOF 94 Backstory|publisher= King of Fighters 10th Anniversary Official Website|access-date= 2009-03-07}}</ref> Although both men resent Kim for his actions, they later grow up to grudgingly respect him.<ref>{{cite video game|title=The King of Fighters '99|developer=SNK|publisher=SNK|date=1999-07-22|platform=Neo Geo|quote='''Chang''': Hey, Choi. There's only one thing left to do.../'''Choi''': You mean? We do that and we're free! Gah, hah, hah!/'''Chang, Choi''': We can't do it! Can we!?/'''Chang''': Nope, we've gotten soft. A few years ago, we could've./'''Choi''' Yeah, a few years ago. We're actually becoming... nice. And Kim knows it, too. We've gone legitimate!/'''Chang''': This year, I haven't felt guilty about anything!/'''Choi''': We'll have to change that. Next year, we get evil!}}</ref> Due to the increase of required members in ''[[The King of Fighters '99]]'', Kim's rival, Jhun Hoon, joins the Korea Team.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kofaniv.snkplaymore.co.jp/english/history/kof99_story/index.php?num=korea|title=Korea Team KOF 99 Backstory|publisher= King of Fighters 10th Anniversary Official Website|access-date= 2009-03-07}}</ref> However, in ''[[The King of Fighters 2001]]'', Jhun has an accident and he is replaced by Kim's student, May Lee.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kofaniv.snkplaymore.co.jp/english/history/kof2001_story/index.php?num=korea|title=Korea Team KOF 2001 Backstory|publisher= King of Fighters 10th Anniversary Official Website|access-date= 2009-03-07}}</ref> By ''[[The King of Fighters 2003]]'', the requirements of members return to three and this time the members of the Korea Team are Kim, Jhun and Chang.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kofaniv.snkplaymore.co.jp/english/history/kof2003_story/index.php?num=korea|title=Korea Team KOF 2003 Backstory|publisher= King of Fighters 10th Anniversary Official Website|access-date= 2009-03-07}}</ref> In ''[[The King of Fighters XI]]'', Kim appears as a member of the Fatal Fury Team along with Terry Bogard and [[Duck King]] as the team needed one more member.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kofaniv.snkplaymore.co.jp/history/kofxi_story/index.php?num=garou|title=Garou Team KOF XI Backstory|publisher= King of Fighters 10th Anniversary Official Website|access-date= 2009-03-07}}</ref> In ''[[The King of Fighters XII]]'', Kim is a playable character, but like each of them, he does not have a team.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://game.snkplaymore.co.jp/official/kof-xii/character/index.html|title=『ザ・キング・オブ・ファイターズXII』稼動時期が決定！|publisher= Official The King of Fighters XII Homepage|access-date=2009-03-18|language=ja}}</ref> As ''[[The King of Fighters XIII]]'' has returned to assigning the characters into official teams, Kim is cast as the leader of his team, composing of himself, [[Raiden (Fatal Fury)|Raiden]] and [[Hwa Jai]] (both from ''[[Fatal Fury: King of Fighters]]''). He is teamed with the men because, after "rehabilitating" Chang and Choi, he seeks out Raiden and Hwa Jai believing they are still working for Geese (they are not but they pretend that they still do so they can compete in The King of Fighters tournament). The games from the series which do not contain plot, ''[[The King of Fighters '98]]'' and ''[[The King of Fighters 2002]]'', also feature Kim along with Choi and Chang in the Korea Team.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kofaniv.snkplaymore.co.jp/english/history/history.php?num=kof98|title=The King of Fighters '98|publisher=King of Fighters 10th Anniversary Official Website|access-date=2009-03-27|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090220174124/http://kofaniv.snkplaymore.co.jp/english/history/history.php?num=kof98|archive-date=2009-02-20}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://kofaniv.snkplaymore.co.jp/english/history/history.php?num=kof2002|title=The King of Fighters 2002|publisher=King of Fighters 10th Anniversary Official Website|access-date=2009-03-27|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090207195941/http://kofaniv.snkplaymore.co.jp/english/history/history.php?num=kof2002|archive-date=2009-02-07}}</ref> In the console version of ''[[The King of Fighters Neowave]]'', Kim appears as a hidden character without an official team.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gamespot.com/xbox/action/thekingoffightersneowave/hints.html?tag=tabs;cheats|title=The King of Fighters NeoWave Hints & Cheats|publisher= [[GameSpot]]|access-date= 2009-03-27}}</ref> |
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=== Lao === |
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{{nihongo|'''Lao'''|ラオ|Rao}} is a character introduced in ''Fatal Fury: 1st Contact''. |
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=== Laurence Blood === |
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|name=Laurence Blood |
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|firstgame=''[[Fatal Fury 2]]'' |
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|series=''[[Fatal Fury]]'' |
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|voiceactor=Ward Perry (anime) |
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|japanactor=[[Katsuhisa Namase]] ({{lang|ja|生瀬 勝久}}) <br>[[Hiroyuki Arita]] ({{lang|ja|有田 洋之}}) (since ''Real Bout Fatal Fury Special'') <br> [[Kōji Totani]] ({{lang|ja|戸谷 公次}}) (anime) |
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|birthplace={{flag|Spain}} |
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|birthdate=September 4, 1960(FF series) |
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|height=1.95 m (6'4 3/4") |
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|weight=95 kg (209 lbs.)< |
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|bloodtype=B |
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|fightingstyle= [[Zipota]] and matador arts |
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|likes=Flamenco dancing, his honor |
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|dislikes=Women, young children |
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{{nihongo|'''Laurence Blood'''|ローレンス・ブラッド|Rōrensu Buraddo}} is a character from the ''[[Fatal Fury]]'' fighting series. A renowned bull fighter not only in [[Spain]], but in lots of parts in the world, Laurence Blood might be an arrogant and overconfident person who likes to minimize other people's successes, but he can sure back it up, by showing off his amazing skills as a [[matador]], and how he gracefully dodges the charges of bulls, and kills them swiftly in one stroke of his sword. But few people suspect what is behind Laurence's incredible career. Ever since he was little, Laurence's family had had close ties with the Earl of Strolheim, represented by the Krauser family, a very influential lineage in Europe. Having served the Krauser family for generations, the Blood clan has always played the role of faithful followers to the Strolheim lineage. Laurence has not forgotten that vow, and has served the latest successor of the Strolheim heir, [[Wolfgang Krauser]], in exchange that Krauser himself would support Laurence's training as a bull fighter. |
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In the spin-off game, ''The King of Fighters Kyo'', Kim is not playable but he can be aided by the lead character [[Kyo Kusanagi]] in order to train Chang and Choi.<ref>{{cite video game|title=The King of Fighters Kyo|developer=SNK|publisher=SNK|date=1999 |platform=PlayStation|level=Korea: Gym}}</ref> In the two games for the [[Game Boy Advance]] titled ''EX: Neo Blood'' and ''EX2'', the Korea Team is featured in its original form.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gamespot.com/gba/action/kingoffightersexneoblood/similar.html?mode=versions|title=Game Spot: The King of Fighters EX|publisher= [[Game Spot]]|access-date= 2009-03-27}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gamespot.com/gba/action/kingoffightersex2/tech_info.html|title=Game Spot: The King of Fighters EX2: Howling Blood|publisher= [[Game Spot]]|access-date= 2009-03-27}}</ref> Kim does not appear in ''[[KOF: Maximum Impact]]'' as he was replaced with his pupil Chae Lim.{{citation needed|date=May 2023}}<!-- Empty reference <ref name="falcoondevolblog"/--> However, he is a hidden character in ''[[KOF: Maximum Impact 2]]'' and also makes a cameo in Chae Lim's ending.<ref>{{cite web|title=The King of Fighters 2006 Hints & Cheats|publisher=[[GameSpot]]|url=http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/action/kingoffightersmaximumimpact2/hints.html?tag=tabs;cheats|access-date=2009-03-14}}</ref><ref>{{cite video game|title=KOF Maximum Impact 2|developer=SNK Playmore|publisher=SNK Playmore|date=2006-04-27|platform=PlayStation 2|level=Chae Lim Ending}}</ref> He also appears in the crossovers ''[[Neo Geo Battle Coliseum]]'' and the ''[[SNK vs. Capcom (series)|''SNK vs. Capcom'' series]]'' as a playable character.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ignitionent.com/ngbc/main.htm|title=Neo Geo Battle Coliseum official website|publisher=[[SNK Playmore]]|access-date=2009-03-18|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061104041918/http://www.ignitionent.com/ngbc/main.htm|archive-date=2006-11-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.capcom.co.jp/newproducts/consumer/cvss2/|title=Capcom VS. SNK official website|publisher=[[Capcom]]|access-date=2009-03-18|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080808101118/http://www.capcom.co.jp/newproducts/consumer/cvss2/|archive-date=2008-08-08}}</ref> In ''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]'', he appears both as a background character in the King of Fighters Stadium stage and as a Spirit.<ref name="smash">{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK3VltKv3JI |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/yK3VltKv3JI |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title=Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – Mr. Sakurai Presents "Terry Bogard"|publisher=Youtube|work=Nintendo|access-date=June 25, 2020}}{{cbignore}}</ref> |
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The trade faired off quite well, as Krauser had a respected and feared bodyguard in the form of Laurence, and Laurence himself had earned a name for himself in the bull fighting arenas, where he is famous for his gracious moves with his cape, and the fatal swipes of his sword. Always the man who knows how to pay his debts, since he too is of noble heritage, Laurence attends to Krauser's call, when the Emperor of Darkness decides to host the second ''King of Fighters'' tournament, in hopes of finding the man who had defeated [[Geese Howard]] in the first tourney. Laurence was in charge of protecting Strolheim Castle while Krauser was out trashing worthy opponents to prove his might. But Laurence did not count on the power and courage of the "Lonely Wolves", who had already demonstrated their amazing prowess by defeating Geese the last year. Although Laurence was a formidable opponent, being both quick and deadly, he ultimately fell to the strength of the lonesome trio, and had to act as a faraway witness to his lord's fall. After Krauser's defeat, Laurence vanishes from the bull fighting scene, possibly to serve his master Krauser for all eternity to make up for his incompetence. |
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=== Li Xiangfei === |
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|firstgame=''Fatal Fury Real Bout 2'' |
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|series=''[[Fatal Fury]]'' series<br>''[[King of Fighters]]'' series |
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|voiceactor=[[Mami Kingetsu]] ({{lang|ja|金月 真美}}) |
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|birthplace={{flag|United States}} |
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|birthdate=May 25, 1981 (FF series)<br> May 25 (KOF series) |
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|age=17 years old ('99,2001) |
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|height=160 cm (5'3") |
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|weight=45 kg (99lbs) |
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|bloodtype=B |
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|measurements=B 77 cm (30 in), W 54 cm (21 in), H 79 cm (31 in) |
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'''Li Xiangfei''' ([[Chinese language|Chinese]]: 李 香緋; [[Pinyin]]: ''Lǐ Xiāngfēi''; [[Japanese language|Japanese]]: 李 香緋 ''Rii Shanfei'') is a character from both the ''[[Fatal Fury]]'' and ''[[King of Fighters]]'' series. Being of Chinese [[Cultural heritage|heritage]], but born and raised in Southtown, Xiangfei grew up with vast knowledge of the several Chinese martial arts, and as she became a quick and lethal fighter, her extensive training soon paid off. Xiangfei entered the battle arenas of Southtown, where she met true Southtown legends: Koppoken master [[Andy Bogard]], [[Muay Thai]] champion [[Joe Higashi]] and, finally, the "Hungry Wolf" himself, [[Terry Bogard]]. |
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Kim also appears in two of the three animated films from ''Fatal Fury'' in which he takes supporting roles. He is voiced by [[Daiki Nakamura (actor)|Daiki Nakamura]] in the Japanese versions and by [[David Kaye (voice actor)|David Kaye]] in the English dub. In ''[[Fatal Fury 2: The New Battle]]'', Kim challenges Terry to fight after learning that he defeated the former crime lord from Southtown [[Geese Howard]] to test his own strength. Although he is defeated, he and Terry become good friends.<ref>{{cite video |date = 1993 |title = [[Fatal Fury 2: The New Battle]]|publisher = [[Viz Media|Viz Video]]}}</ref> In the sequel, ''[[Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture]]'', he also appears reuniting with Terry and his friends along with his family searching to have a rematch with Terry. However, during the meeting Cheng Sinzan (from ''Fatal Fury 2''), enhanced by cyber-armor attacks all the people and Kim is seriously injured. Despite his wounds, Kim manages to defeat Cheng, but spends most of the time of the film recovering.<ref name="motion">{{cite video|date = 1994|title = [[Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture]]|publisher = [[Viz Media|Viz Video]]}}</ref> He also stars in manhua from the video games which retell his actions from the games.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kofaniv.snkplaymore.co.jp/english/comment/remember_kof.php?num=6|title=Remembrances of KOF: An Interview with Eiji|publisher=King of Fighters 10th Anniversary Official Website|access-date=2009-03-18|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081219223203/http://kofaniv.snkplaymore.co.jp/english/comment/remember_kof.php?num=6|archive-date=December 19, 2008}}</ref> |
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In the ''King of Fighters'' series, having grown up with an intense admiration for such heroes, Xiangfei felt honored to compete with them. She soon knew about the entry of the "Lone Wolves" in the ''King of Fighters'' tournament, and decided to follow them and fight with them again. She tried to enter, but her Grandfather, Pai opposed it. During a normal evening of work at the Chinese [[restaurant]] where she lent her services as a part-time [[waiter|waitress]] and bodyguard, Xiangfei attended the table of [[Kasumi Todoh|a young woman]] who seemed like she was a martial artist. The woman seemed dead [[hunger|hungry]], and with no reservations, she ordered a lot of [[food]]. But soon it was obvious that the girl did not have enough [[money]] to pay for such a large meal. A furious Xiangfei demanded her payment, and both soon engaged in a ferocious battle. Her theories were right: the young woman was a fighter herself. The fight was at all its rage, when suddenly, she was approached by [[Blue Mary]], who proposed that Xiangfei enter, having seen her fights in Southtown.<ref name="kof99womants">{{cite web | author=SNK Playmore | url=http://kofaniv.snkplaymore.co.jp/english/history/kof99_story/index.php?num=women | title=Woman Fighters Team Story in KOF '99| work=[http://kofaniv.snkplaymore.co.jp/english/index.html King of Fighters 10th Anniversary Official Website] | accessmonthday= February 27 | accessyear=2008}}</ref> |
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=== Laurence Blood === |
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Upon her promise to get enough food to feed her face, Xiangfei joined along with King, [[Blue Mary|Blue Mary Ryan]] and [[Kasumi Todoh]] (the woman who had been unable to pay) to form the new all-female team. Having missed out on the [[2000]] ''King of Fighters'' tournament after being too late for the registrations, Xiangfei promised she would not be left out this time. In [[2001]], she teamed up with King, [[Mai Shiranui]], and the [[sumo]] fighter [[Hinako Shijou]]. She replaced [[Yuri Sakazaki]] who left for the Art of Fighting team to comfort [[Robert Garcia]].<ref name="kof01womants">{{cite web | author=SNK Playmore | url=http://kofaniv.snkplaymore.co.jp/english/history/kof2001_story/index.php?num=women | title=Woman Fighters Team Story in KOF 2001| work=[http://kofaniv.snkplaymore.co.jp/english/index.html King of Fighters 10th Anniversary Official Website] | accessmonthday= February 27 | accessyear=2008}}</ref> |
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:{{voiced by|[[Katsuhisa Namase]] (''FFS''), Hiroyuki Arita (''RBFFS''–''RBFF2''), [[Kōji Totani]] (''FF'' anime films)|[[Ward Perry]] (''FF'' anime films)}} |
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{{nihongo|Laurence Blood|ローレンス・ブラッド|Rōrensu Buraddo}} first appears in ''Fatal Fury 2'' as the third of the four boss characters the player faces at the end of the single-player mode. He is a former Spanish matador who uses a self-styled martial art based on his deadly bullfighting methods (his fighting style is very similar to the fencing and the French martial art of the [[Savate]]). He serves as the right-hand man and servant of Wolfgang Krauser and participates in the tournament under his request. He is a computer-only character in the Neo Geo version of ''Fatal Fury 2'' and became playable in ''Fatal Fury Special''. Blood would return as a playable character in ''Real Bout Special'' and ''Real Bout 2''. He is notable for being one of five bullfighter characters in fighting games (the other three being [[Vega (Street Fighter)|Vega]] of ''[[Street Fighter]]'', Miguel of ''[[Human Killing Machine]]'', [[Miguel Caballero Rojo]] of ''[[Tekken]]'', and Kilian of ''[[Samurai Shodown]]''). He is also the only boss character from ''Real Bout Fatal Fury Special'' and ''Real Bout Fatal Fury 2'' that hasn't appeared in the King of Fighters tournaments. |
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=== Mai Shiranui === |
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=== Ryo Sakazaki === |
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{{nihongo|'''Michael Max'''|マイケル・マックス|Maikeru Makkusu}} is a character from the ''[[Fatal Fury]]'' series. Born in the slums, Michael Max became a talented [[heavyweight]] boxer. He attempted to be the greatest in the sport, but corrupted his own career when he was enticed with money and women. Falling from grace and into misery, Michael headed to Southtown and using his hatred and frustration for the situation to fuel him and his constant battling of Southown thugs, Michael constantly trained to recapture what he had. He entered the ''King of Fighters'' tournament held by [[Geese Howard]] believing his powerful fists and grueling training will help him win. Sadly, all his training was rendered sub par by the ''Lonely Wolves'' ([[Terry Bogard]], his brother [[Andy Bogard|Andy]] and [[Muay Thai]] champ [[Joe Higashi]]) and he was easily beaten. Afterwards, Michael was never seen again. He allegedly retired from fighting for good never to do battle again. |
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=== Raiden === |
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|name=Raiden |
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|caption=Raiden in ''Capcom vs SNK 2''. |
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|voiceactor=Unknown (''Fatal Fury'')<br>[[Dango Takeda]] ({{lang|ja|竹田 団吾}}) (''Fatal Fury 2'', ''Fatal Fury Special'')<br>[[John Hulaton]] (''Fatal Fury: Wild Ambition'') |
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|birthplace={{flag|Australia}} |
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|birthdate=March 3rd |
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|height=202 cm |
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|weight=210 kg |
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|bloodtype=O |
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|fightingstyle=[[Wrestling]] |
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{{nihongo|'''Raiden'''|ライデン|Raiden}} is a character from the ''[[Fatal Fury]]'' series. He originally appeared in the first ''Fatal Fury'' (and its 3D remake, ''Wild Ambitions'') as a large character wearing a blue wrestling suit and mask with a yellow lightning bolt down its center. In ''Fatal Fury 2'', he appears in a black wrestling suit and is unmasked. In that form he assumes the [[gimmick (professional wrestling)|persona]] of Big Bear, and bears a strong physical resemblance to real-life wrestler [[Leon White|Big Van Vader]]. The {{nihongo|'''Big Bear'''|ビッグ・ベア|Biggu Bea}} persona is mainly used when he plays himself off as a [[face (professional wrestling)|fan favorite]] whereas the Raiden persona is mostly used if he plays himself off as a [[heel (professional wrestling)|hated villain]]. Raiden hails from [[Alice Springs]], [[Australia]], and is one of [[Geese Howard]]'s henchmen, despite his friendship with Geese's enemy [[Terry Bogard]]. |
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=== Wolfgang Krauser === |
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:{{voiced by|[[Hirotaka Suzuoki]] (''FF2: TNB''), Takuya Iwabata (young; ''KOF:D''), Yutaka Aoyama ''(KOFAS)''|Michael Beard (''FFS''), B.J. Love (''KOF <nowiki>'</nowiki>96''–''RBFF2''), [[Paul Dobson (actor)|Paul Dobson]] (''FF2: TNB'')}} |
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[[Image:Richard Meyer MOTW.gif|thumb|left|Richard Meyer at the time of ''Garou: Mark of the Wolves'']] |
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Wolfgang Krauser von Stroheim made his appearance in ''[[Fatal Fury 2]]'', where he serves as the final opponent in the tournament. Known as the only man in the world feared by [[Geese Howard]] (whom in ''Fatal Fury Special'' is revealed to be his elder half-brother from the same father, Rudolph Krauser von Stroheim or Rudolph Von Zanac), Krauser is a German nobleman who is publicly known as the current Earl of Stroheim, a prestigious family in Europe, but within the underworld he is a ruthless warlord known as the Emperor of Darkness. After Geese's supposed death in the original ''Fatal Fury'', Krauser sponsors a new King of Fighters tournament with his three chosen warriors [[#Laurence Blood|Laurence Blood]], [[#Axel Hawk|Axel Hawk]] and [[Billy Kane]] (a former underling of Geese himself) in order to lure the men who defeated Geese ([[Terry Bogard]], [[#Andy Bogard|Andy Bogard]], and [[#Joe Higashi|Joe Higashi]]). |
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|caption=Richard in ''Fatal Fury OVAs'' |
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|voiceactor=Kofi Candela (Maximum Impact)<br>[[Ward Perry]] (anime) |
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|japanactor=[[Kong Kuwata]] ({{lang|ja|コング 桑田}}) |
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|birthplace={{flag|Brazil}} |
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|bloodtype= O |
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|fightingstyle=[[Capoeira]] |
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|likes= Pizza, Grows cacti, Pao Pao Cafe |
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{{nihongo|'''Richard Meyer'''|リチャード・マイヤー|Richādo Maiyā}} is a character from the ''[[Fatal Fury]]'' series. Originally from [[Brazil]], Richard is a [[Capoeira]] master who used his skills to entertain the nightclub crowds. In fact, he is the first fighting game character to use Capoeira. While he had fun entertaining the masses and loved the recognition for it, he felt he had to move on. Moving to the [[United States]], Richard made his home in Southtown. It was here he opened the ''Pao Pao Café'', a nightclub reminiscent to those of his native Brazil. Unlike the bars in Southtown, Richard would not tolerate any discord caused by criminals and thugs in his club, literally kicking them out if they do. |
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Although Krauser takes his own life following the events of ''Fatal Fury 2'' and ''Special'' according to the background story in the subsequent games,<ref>As seen in the DVD retrospective ''Garou - Memories of Stray Wolves''</ref> Krauser appeared in the special installments of the series, ''[[Real Bout Fatal Fury Special]]'' and ''[[Real Bout Fatal Fury 2]]''. |
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When [[Geese Howard]] held the ''King of Fighters'' tournament, Richard entered to promote the Pao Pao Café. While he accomplished this goal and beat several fighters in the process, he was beaten by the ''Lonely Wolves'' (the Bogard brothers, [[Terry Bogard|Terry]] and [[Andy Bogard|Andy]], and [[Muay Thai]] champ [[Joe Higashi]]). Richard was a good sport about losing and the Pao Pao Café became Southtown’s ideal nightclub spot. The club also became a hot spot among fighters where they can spar against one another or just hang out. This was evident when another King of Fighters tournament was held by [[Wolfgang Krauser]] and all the fights were shown live in the café. The profits from that venture were so high, combine with the club’s ongoing popularity, that Richard had enough money to build a second Pao Pao Café in Southtown. During the grand opening of Pao Pao Café 2, with his Capoeira student, [[Bob Wilson (Fatal Fury)|Bob Wilson]], acting as the manager, the place was wrecked by the Jin twins, [[Jin Chonshu|Chonshu]] and [[Jin Chonrei|Chonrei]]. As Bob went after the Jin twins for what they had done, Richard stayed to rebuild the second Pao Pao. After he rebuilds the club, he gives it to Bob, who Richard felt was worthy of full ownership because of his impressive skills. Richard has now devoted his time to entreating the masses and garnering attention for both Pao Pao Cafés. He has made many friends in the fighting community ever since. While Bob usually does the fighting, Richard will throw down once more if challenged. |
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Outside the ''Fatal Fury'' series, Krauser appears as a member of the Boss Team in ''[[The King of Fighters '96]]'' with his half-brother Geese and Geese's former partner-in-crime [[Mr. Big (Art of Fighting)|Mr. Big]]. The Boss Team made another appearance in the remake of ''[[The King of Fighters '98]]'' titled ''The King of Fighters '98 Ultimate Match''. Additionally, Krauser also appears as a "Striker" character in the console versions of ''[[The King of Fighters 2000]]''. |
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=== Rick Strowd === |
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|firstgame=''[[Fatal Fury|RBFF2: The Newcomers]]'' |
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|series=''[[Fatal Fury]]'' series |
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|voiceactor=[[Taney Yamaguchi]] ({{lang|ja|タニー 山口}}) |
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|inuniverse={{SNK character |
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|birthplace={{flag|United States}} |
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|birthdate=August 16, 1971 |
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|age=27 years |
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|height=187 cm |
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|weight=80 kg |
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|bloodtype=B |
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|fightingstyle=[[Boxing]] |
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|likes=Wood carving (hobby), ostrich eggs, boxing, country music |
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{{nihongo|'''Rick Strowd'''|リック・ストラウド|Rikku Sutoraudo}} is a young [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] light-weight [[boxing|boxer]] from ''[[Fatal Fury|Real Bout Fatal Fury]]'' series and appears in '''RB2: The Newcomers''' (arcade and console versions), as well as in ''Fatal Fury: First Contact'' and ''Card Fighters Clash'', both for [[Neo-Geo Pocket Color]]. Rick is one of the new characters of this game, along with [[Li Xiangfei]] and [[Alfred Airhawk]]. Rick is a member of a Native American tribe that lives in the outskirts of Southtown. Rick's people have seen the city of Southtown grow from afar, and have never meddled in the city's progress, as they knew that Southtown was filled with lots of criminals and evildoers. But this didn't hold back Rick, who far from ignoring the situation, decided to train himself to one day tackle the fighters in Southtown head on. |
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Krauser serves as the main antagonist in the [[anime]] special ''[[Fatal Fury 2: The New Battle]]''. According to character designer [[Masami Ōbari]] (who also worked on ''[[Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer]]''), Krauser was redesigned to be ten years younger than his video game counterpart and given a clean-shaved appearance. In this special, Krauser challenges his half-brother's nemesis Terry Bogard to battle and wins. After Terry regains his courage, he challenges Krauser again and wins the rematch, causing Krauser to commit suicide due to his loss. |
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Rick's strength lies not only in his spiritual belief, but also in his fists, which he has trained and built enough to develop a crushing series of blows that would easily take out any opponent in a swift motion. Despite the warnings of his superiors, Rick was not ready to let go the chance of some day fighting the best in Southtown. Every now and then, Rick takes a trip into Southtown to challenge all those who are willing to face his crazy fists. Inspired by the sense of self-improvement, Rick has slowly earned a name for himself in Southtown. He hopes that someday the right opponent will stand against him and challenge his amazing skills in a true fight. |
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== Introduced in ''Fatal Fury 3'' == |
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Although rowdy and maybe not too proper, Rick has a heart of honor, and respects the code of the warrior. He gets excited when he faces a worthy opponent, and gets incredibly disappointed when they are weak. Rick doesn't follow the strict code of his tribe to stay away from foreigners, which has allowed him to meet new and interesting people. |
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=== Blue Mary === |
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:{{voiced by|[[Harumi Ikoma]] (''FF3''–''KOF: MIR"A"''), [[Sarah Emi Bridcutt]] (''KOF XIV'' onwards)|Allegra Clark (''SF6'')}} |
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=== Rock Howard === |
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{{nihongo|'''Mary Ryan'''|マリー・ライアン|Marī Raian}}, better known as {{nihongo|'''Blue Mary'''|ブルー・マリー|Burū Marī}}, is a special agent investigating activity in the city of Southtown, and a recurring love interest of Terry Bogard. She makes her first appearance in ''Fatal Fury 3: Road to the Final Victory'', investigating the Secret Scrolls of the Jin Brothers, items able to give immortality to their users.<ref>{{cite video game|level=Blue Mary ending|title=Fatal Fury 3: Road to the Final Victory|developer=SNK |publisher=SNK |date=1995-03-27 |quote='''Blue Mary:''' Why didn't you tell me about the Jins?! Oh, take you job! I'm off to the..../|platform=Neo Geo }}</ref> ''Real Bout Fatal Fury'' shows Mary allying with Terry Bogard and his friends to fight the crime lord from Southtown, Geese Howard.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.garou15th.com/history/series5/index.php |title=RB餓狼伝説 |publisher=Fatal Fury 15th Anniversary Official Website |access-date=2009-03-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090410024606/http://www.garou15th.com/history/series5/index.php |archive-date=2009-04-10 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The two following games, ''Real Bout Fatal Fury Special'' and ''[[Real Bout Fatal Fury 2: The Newcomers]]'', also feature Blue Mary as a playable character but neither of them presents a storyline. ''Real Bout Fatal Fury Special'' also features an "EX" version from Mary with her movesets from ''Fatal Fury 3''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.garou15th.com/history/series6/index.php |title=Real Bout Fatal Fury Special |publisher=Fatal Fury 15th Anniversary Official Website |access-date=2009-03-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090327231208/http://www.garou15th.com/history/series6/index.php |archive-date=2009-03-27 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.garou15th.com/history/series8/index.php |title=Real Bout Fatal Fury 2: The Newcomers |publisher=Fatal Fury 15th Anniversary Official Website |access-date=2009-03-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090410054120/http://www.garou15th.com/history/series8/index.php |archive-date=2009-04-10 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The PlayStation version of ''Real Bout Fatal Fury Special'' also contains a music video clip featuring the song "Blue Mary's Blues" by [[Harumi Ikoma]], Mary's voice actress.<ref>{{cite video game|title=Real Bout Garou Densetsu Special: Dominated Mind |developer=SNK|publisher=SNK|date=1998 |platform=PlayStation|level=Blue Mary's Blues}}</ref> |
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|series=''[[Fatal Fury]]'' series<br>''[[King of Fighters]]'' series |
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|voiceactor=Mike Lane (Maximum Impact) |
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|japanactor=[[Eiji Takemoto]] ({{lang|ja|竹本 英史}}) |
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|inuniverse={{MotW character |
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|birthdate=March 13, 1988 |
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|age=17 years old (MOTW) |
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|height=178 cm (5'10") |
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|weight=70 kg (154 lb) |
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|bloodtype=B |
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|nationality={{flag|United States}} |
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|fighting style=[[Martial Arts]] and [[Street fighting|Street Fighting]] (as taught by [[Terry Bogard|Terry]]) and instinctual [[Kobujutsu]] with some Hakkyokuseiken (derived from [[Geese Howard]]) |
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|likes=Touring and playing the [[bass (instrument)|bass]] (he can copy any song he hears once), basketball |
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|dislikes=People who boast all the time, women (is a little uncomfortable around women having grown up around men all his life) |
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|soulmate=[[Geese Howard]] (father, deceased)<br> [[Terry Bogard]] (foster father) |
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[[Image:Rock-MI2.jpg|thumb|left|150px|Rock in ''KOF: Maximum Impact 2'']] |
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{{nihongo|'''Rock Howard'''|ロック・ハワード|Rokku Hawādo}} is a character from ''[[Garou: Mark of the Wolves]]'' and the ''[[King of Fighters]]'' series. Rock is the son of the most noteworthy [[crime]] lord--and most feared fighter--in all of Southtown, [[Geese Howard]]. Since Geese never acknowledged him, Rock was raised solely by his mother, Marie Heinlein. When Rock was barely eight and a half years old, Marie contracted a fatal [[disease]], and died while in Rock's care. When Geese is defeated by [[Terry Bogard]] on top of Geese Tower, he refuses Terry's help and falls to a presumed death. Rock having lost both his parents, is adopted by Terry, who takes him under his wing (it is known that this is Terry's own volition and not Geese's wish). |
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Following her ''Fatal Fury'' inception, Blue Mary becomes a regular character with frequently changing team membership in ''[[The King of Fighters]]'' series, beginning as a member of the '97 Special Team in ''[[The King of Fighters '97]]'' along with [[Billy Kane]] and [[Ryuji Yamazaki]]. A mysterious benefactor (Geese Howard) requests her services to enter the King of Fighters tournament, along with Billy and Yamazaki, who starts to become insane due to the power from the demon [[Orochi (The King of Fighters)|Orochi]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://kofaniv.snkplaymore.co.jp/english/history/kof97_story/index.php?num=97sp |title='97 Special Team Back Story |publisher=King of Fighters 10th Anniversary Official Website |access-date=2009-03-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080528112903/http://kofaniv.snkplaymore.co.jp/english/history/kof97_story/index.php?num=97sp |archive-date=2008-05-28 |url-status=dead}}</ref> However, after discovering that Geese was her client, Mary leaves the team.<ref>{{cite video game|quote='''Mary:''' Yamazaki's location: Unknown. He may be in Hong Kong but no clues remain. Searched during the contest. This client is part of Geese's massive organization. Duped by the Gesster, I've lost completely. But I'll get vengeance./'''Geese:''' A job well done./'''Billy:''' Yagami's lost but Yamazaki remains. He's Orochi that's for sure./'''Geese:''' I used Mary too. But losing her was a mistake.|title=The King of Fighters '97 |developer=SNK |publisher=SNK |date=1997-07-28 |platform=Neo Geo }}</ref> The team is also featured in ''[[The King of Fighters '98]]'', ''[[The King of Fighters 2002]]'', and ''[[The King of Fighters Neowave]]'', which do not contain a storyline.<ref>{{cite web |title=The King of Fighters '98 |url=http://kofaniv.snkplaymore.co.jp/english/history/history.php?num=kof98 |publisher=King of Fighters 10th Anniversary Official Website |access-date=2009-03-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090220174124/http://kofaniv.snkplaymore.co.jp/english/history/history.php?num=kof98 |archive-date=2009-02-20 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=KOF 2002 |url=http://kofaniv.snkplaymore.co.jp/english/history/history.php?num=kof2002 |publisher=King of Fighters 10th Anniversary Official Website |access-date=2009-03-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090207195941/http://kofaniv.snkplaymore.co.jp/english/history/history.php?num=kof2002 |archive-date=2009-02-07 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://game.snkplaymore.co.jp/official/neowave/ |title=The King of Fighters Neowave official website |publisher=SNK Playmore |access-date=2009-03-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090207193556/http://game.snkplaymore.co.jp/official/neowave/character/index.html |archive-date=2009-02-07 |url-status=dead}}</ref> In ''[[The King of Fighters '99]]'', she joins up with [[King (Art of Fighting)|King]], [[Li Xiangfei]], and [[Kasumi Todoh]] as the new Women Fighters Team, but leaves and becomes the fourth member of the Fatal Fury Team (composed by Terry, Andy Bogard and Joe Higashi) in ''[[The King of Fighters 2000]]'' and ''[[The King of Fighters 2001]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://kofaniv.snkplaymore.co.jp/english/history/kof99_story/index.php?num=women |title=Women Fighters Team Backstory '99 |publisher=King of Fighters 10th Anniversary Official Website |access-date=2009-03-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090421092827/http://kofaniv.snkplaymore.co.jp/english/history/kof99_story/index.php?num=women |archive-date=2009-04-21 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://kofaniv.snkplaymore.co.jp/english/history/kof2000_story/index.php?num=garou |title=Fatal Fury Team Story 2000 |publisher=The King of Fighter 10th anniversary website |access-date=2009-03-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080501072337/http://kofaniv.snkplaymore.co.jp/english/history/kof2000_story/index.php?num=garou |archive-date=2008-05-01 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://kofaniv.snkplaymore.co.jp/english/history/kof2001_story/index.php?num=garou |title=Fatal Fury Team Story 2001 |publisher=The King of Fighter 10th anniversary website |access-date=2009-03-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091023230152/http://kofaniv.snkplaymore.co.jp/english/history/kof2001_story/index.php?num=garou |archive-date=2009-10-23 |url-status=dead}}</ref> She would join forces with King again as member of the Women Fighters Team in ''[[The King of Fighters 2003]]'', this time with [[Mai Shiranui]] as their third member.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://kofaniv.snkplaymore.co.jp/english/history/kof2003_story/index.php?num=women |title=Women Fighters Team Backstory 2003 |publisher=King of Fighters 10th Anniversary Official Website |access-date=2009-03-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090528005406/http://kofaniv.snkplaymore.co.jp/english/history/kof2003_story/index.php?num=women |archive-date=2009-05-28 |url-status=dead}}</ref> In ''[[The King of Fighters XI]]'', she joins [[Vanessa (The King of Fighters)|Vanessa]] and [[List of The King of Fighters characters#Ramón|Ramón]] as a member of the Agents Team in order investigate the host from The King of Fighters tournaments, an organization named [[List of The King of Fighters characters#Those From The Past|Those from the Past]].<ref name="agent">{{cite web |url=http://kofaniv.snkplaymore.co.jp/history/kofxi_story/index.php?num=agent |title=Agents Team Backstory XI |publisher=King of Fighters 10th Anniversary Official Website |access-date=2009-03-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090420193252/http://kofaniv.snkplaymore.co.jp/history/kofxi_story/index.php?num=agent |archive-date=2009-04-20 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Blue Mary appears in ''[[The King of Fighters XIV]]'' as a playable character via [[downloadable content]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ_YeS47uoA |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/dQ_YeS47uoA |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title=The King of Fighters XIV - Blue Mary Trailer | PS4 |publisher=YouTube |date=2018-04-05 |access-date=2018-09-24}}{{cbignore}}</ref> In ''[[The King of Fighters XV]]'', she joins Vanessa again to form the Secret Agent Team, with [[List of The King of Fighters characters#Luong|Luong]] as their third member. She also appears in the 3D game ''[[KOF: Maximum Impact 2|KOF: Maximum Impact Regulation A]]'', which does not feature official teams.<ref name="mira">{{cite web |url=http://game.snkplaymore.co.jp/official/kof-mi-ra/character/chara_mary.html |title=KOF Maximum Impact Regulation A: Blue Mary |language=ja |publisher=SNK Playmore |access-date=2009-03-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090217225406/http://game.snkplaymore.co.jp/official/kof-mi-ra/character/chara_mary.html |archive-date=2009-02-17 |url-status=dead}}</ref> In the spin-off game ''The King of Fighters: Kyo'', Blue Mary appears investigating the actions from Geese along with [[Kyo Kusanagi]] and King.<ref>{{cite video game|title=The King of Fighters Kyo |developer=SNK|publisher=SNK|date=1999 |platform=PlayStation|level=Southtown: Downtown}}</ref><ref>{{cite video game|title=The King of Fighters Kyo |developer=SNK|publisher=SNK|date=1999 |platform=PlayStation|level=California: Hospìtal}}</ref> In Nintendo's ''[[Super Smash Bros. 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As the years go by, Rock becomes a formidable fighter, due in no small part to having been trained by Terry and his blood line. Approximately ten years after Geese's death, Second Southtown was established. During this time, a new King of Fighters tournament arose dubbed ''Maximum Mayhem'', which Rock and Terry both decide to join. By the end of the tournament, Rock finds his final opponent is [[Kain R. Heinlein]], who reveals himself to be both the host and Rock's uncle. Upon winning, Rock discovered that the tournament was orchestrated by Kain to bring Rock to him. Kain, aware that Geese Howard's will held presumably valuable secrets but unable to discover them without assistance, won Rock's aid in working through the document by offering information regarding Rock's mother—whom Kain claimed was still alive. Terry accepts Rock's decision to become Kain's new partner, with Rock promising to return.<ref name="mowgedrock">{{cite web | author=Rey, Kitsune Sniper | title=Ending for 'Garou:Mark of The Wolves''-Rock Good Ending(Neo Geo) | url=http://www.vgmuseum.com/end/neogeo/a/garourock.htm | work=[http://www.vgmuseum.com/ The Video Game Museum] | accessmonthday=February 27 | accessyear=2008}}</ref> |
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Blue Mary also makes an appearance in the ''Memories of Stray Wolves'' twenty-minute featurette that serves as a retrospective of the ''Fatal Fury'' series, with Terry narrating the events of the games ten years after ''Real Bout Fatal Fury''.<ref name="memory">{{cite video |date = 2006 |title = 餓狼伝説 15th Anniversary BOX |type = CD+DVD |publisher = SNK Playmore}}</ref> She also stars in [[manhua]] based on the games retelling her actions in the series. |
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His move list is an amalgam of his mentor, [[Terry Bogard]], and his father, [[Geese Howard]]. He possesses several of Geese's trademark moves such as the ''Reppuken'', ''Double Reppuken'', ''Raging Storm'' DM, the ''Shinkunage'' throw, reversals, and the ''Deadly Rave'' SDM. Moves loaned from Terry include the ''Rising Tackle'', variants of the ''Power Dunk'' and ''Crack Shoot'' moves, along with his ''Shine Knuckle'', which is a DM version of Terry's ''Burning Knuckle''. In addition, Rock's ''Hard Edge'' is similar to Geese's ''Evil Shadow Smasher''. Also, his ''Crack Counter'' is a reversal that can be directed high or low akin to Geese, where upon succeeding, Rock slams an opponent with a kick that resembles Terry's ''Crack Shoot''. |
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In comparison with his father, Rock still lacks the control over his "evil blood", which boils from time to time hurting him after using ''Raging Storm'' and the ''Deadly Rave''. Thus, most of moves taken from his father take him more time for recovering or are less powerful. However, the precedent of his lineage states that Rock has not reached the top of his game yet. |
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{{nihongo|Roberto "Bob" Wilson|ボブ・ウィルソン|Bobu Wiruson}} is a character introduced in ''Fatal Fury 3'' and appears as a playable character throughout the ''Real Bout'' sub-series. He is the bartender of Pao Pao Cafe 2 and was trained in [[capoeira]] by Richard Meyer. He specializes in spinning kicks and combination attacks. He later cameos as a bartender at a separate restaurant in ''City of the Wolves''. All of his special moves reference animals in some way, as his ''Fatal Fury 3'' Special Moves are the ''Wild Wolf'', the ''Bison's Horn'', the ''Lynx's Fang'', the ''Rolling Turtle'', and the ''Hornet Attack''. His Super Special Move is the ''Dangerous Wolf''. In ''Real Bout'', he gains the ''Monkey Dance'' special move and two Hidden Abilities, the ''Mad Spin Wolf'' and the ''Wolf's Fang''. ''Real Bout Special'' brings in the ''Sidewinder'', ''Hunting Frog'' and ''Hawk Talon'' Special Moves, and ''Real Bout 2'' discards Bob's previous Hidden Abilities for a new one called ''Dancing Bison''. |
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{{nihongo|Franco Bash|フランコ・バッシュ|Furanko Basshu}} makes his first appearance in ''Fatal Fury 3'' as one of the five new playable characters introduced in the game and also appears thorough the ''Real Bout'' sub-series. He is a retired Super Heavyweight-class [[kickboxing]] champion who works as a mechanic in South Town Airport to support his wife Emilia, and their son Junior. In ''Fatal Fury 3'' his son is kidnapped by Yamazaki, who blackmails him into helping him obtain the Secret Scrolls of the Jin. He rescues his son in his ending in ''Fatal Fury 3'' and trains to make his comeback in the ''Real Bout'' series. He makes a cameo at the end of ''KOF 2003'' cheering on the Fatal Fury Team. |
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=== Hon-Fu === |
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{{nihongo|Hon-Fu|ホンフゥ|Hon Fū}} is introduced in ''Fatal Fury 3'' as one of the new playable characters featured in the game and appears all the games in the ''Real Bout'' sub-series. He is a police officer from Hong Kong who specializes in using a [[nunchaku]]. His objective throughout ''Fatal Fury 3'' and the ''Real Bout'' series is to arrest the escaped convict Ryuji Yamazaki and is aided by Cheng in ''Fatal Fury 3''. He is a close friend of Kim Kaphwan according to his backstory in ''Fatal Fury 3'', as the two have nearly identical desperation attacks, although Hon-Fu was given a new one for ''[[Real Bout Fatal Fury 2]]''. |
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=== Jin Chonrei === |
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Jin Chonrei (秦 崇雷, Japanese: ''Jin Chonrei'', [[Pinyin]]: ''Qín Chóngléi'', also romanized as '''Qin Chong-Lei''') appears in ''Fatal Fury 3'' as the third and final boss character featured in the game and appears as a regular playable character thorough the ''Real Bout'' series. Like his younger brother Chonshu, Chonrei is possessed by the spirit of Jin Kuryu (秦 空龍), the elder son of Jin Ōryū and ancestor of Chonrei and Chonshu. In ''Fatal Fury 3'', they head to South Town to seek the Secret Scrolls of the Jin in order to unleash their true power. The scrolls are eventually taken by Geese Howard and in the next game of the series, ''Real Bout Fatal Fury'', the Jin brothers participate in the King of Fighters tournament to recover them. However, the scrolls are destroyed by Chonrei in the Jin Brothers' endings. In ''Real Bout Fatal Fury 2'', Chonrei becomes an apprentice of Tung Fu Rue, as seen in their corresponding ending (although Kim's ending in the game depicts Chonrei training as Kim's disciple along with his brother). Outside the ''Fatal Fury'' series, Jin Chonshu and Jin Chonrei have appeared in ''Neo Geo Battle Coliseum''. |
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In Gamest's 1997 Heroes Collection, Chonrei was voted as the staff's thirty-ninth favorite character. He shared the spot with four other characters, including ''Fatal Fury'' character, Joe Higashi, and ''Street Fighter'' character, [[Zangief]].<ref>{{Cite book | year=1997 | editor=Gamest | title=Gamest Game Hero Collection 1997; issue 208 | pages=1 | language=ja | publisher=Shinseisha }}</ref> |
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=== Jin Chonshu === |
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Jin Chonshu (秦 崇秀, {{langx|ja|Jin Chonshū}}, [[Pinyin]]: ''Qín Chóngxiù'') first appears as the second boss character in ''Fatal Fury 3'' and appears thorough the ''Real Bout'' series as a regular playable character. He is the younger half of the Jin brothers seeking the Three Secret Scrolls of the Jin. While he appears like a regular teenage boy, he is actually possessed by the spirit of Jin Kairyu (秦 海龍), who was the younger son of Jin Ōryū (秦 王龍), the ancient warlord who wrote the Secret Scrolls of the Jin two thousand years prior to the events of ''Fatal Fury 3''. In ''Fatal Fury 3'', they head to South Town to seek the Secret Scrolls of the Jin in order to unleash their true power. The scrolls are eventually taken by Geese Howard and in the original ''Real Bout Fatal Fury'' the Jin brothers participate in the King of Fighters tournament to recover them. However, the scrolls are destroyed by Chonrei in the Jin Brothers' endings. In ''Real Bout 2'', Chonshu then becomes a disciple of Kim Kaphwan, as seen in their corresponding endings. Outside the ''Fatal Fury'' series, Jin Chonshu and Jin Chonrei have appeared in ''Neo Geo Battle Coliseum''. |
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=== Ryuji Yamazaki === |
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:{{voiced by|[[Kōji Ishii]] (''FF3''–''KOF 2003''), [[Tsuguo Mogami]] (''KOF XIV'' onwards),<ref>{{cite tweet|user=SNKPofficial|number=849438795057463299|title=THE KING OF FIGHTERS XIV: We are proud to introduce the voice actors for all DLC characters to be {{sic|rel|ased|nolink=y}} on April 5th (PST)! #KOFXIV #KOF14|date=April 4, 2017|access-date=March 3, 2021}}</ref> [[Kenjiro Tsuda]] (''KOF for Girls'')<ref>{{cite tweet|user=KOFG_info|number=1314190462249394176|title=【お知らせ📺】 #KOFG サブキャラクターのキャストが発表！ 山崎竜二 CV #津田健次郎 さん ゲーニッツ CV #安元洋貴 さん 後日、ボイスの公開や実装を予定しております。 公式サイトやTwitterの更新をお楽しみに！ #KOFGファイパ #KOFG始めるなら今|date=October 8, 2020|access-date=March 3, 2021}}</ref>}} |
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{{nihongo|'''Ryuji Yamazaki'''|山崎 竜二|Yamazaki Ryūji||}} 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". In the game, Yamazaki is hired by the Jin brothers into recovering their Sacred Scrolls, which are able to give immortality to its user. In the following titles from the series, Yamazaki does not work for anybody, normally committing crimes just to entertain himself, despite to this, however, he had secretly still wanting to take the scrolls from Geese. In ''[[Garou: Mark of the Wolves]]'', he was believed to be the perpetrator of beating all of Marco Rodrigues's best students in his Kyokugenryu karate gym, as depicted in Marco's ending. Yamazaki's introduction in ''The King of Fighters'' series was made as a result of three popularity polls developed by three video games journals in which players voted which character they wanted to see in ''[[The King of Fighters '97]]'', the upcoming game from the series at that time. Yamazaki has also appeared in the crossover games ''[[Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Fight 2000]]'' and ''[[Capcom vs. SNK 2]]'' as a playable character. Video games publications have commented on Yamazaki's character, with some praising his introduction in ''Fatal Fury 3'' and development in titles from ''The King of Fighters''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://diehardgamefan.com/2009/04/28/interview-with-ignition-entertainments-shane-bettenhausen-about-the-king-of-fighters-xii/|author=Lucard, Alex|date=2007-04-28|title=Interview with Ignition Entertainment's Shane Bettenhausen About The King of Fighters XII|publisher=Diehardgamefan.com|access-date=2009-04-28|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120715042913/diehardgamefan.com/2009/04/28/interview-with-ignition-entertainments-shane-bettenhausen-about-the-king-of-fighters-xii/|archive-date=2012-07-15}}</ref> Other reviewers criticized how hard defeating him is in the ''Fatal Fury'' games and how strong he is in ''Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Fight 2000'' in comparison to other popular characters.<ref>{{Cite book | date=December 2004 |pages=106| title=The King of Fighters Fighting Evolution 10th| language=ja | publisher=SNK Playmore | isbn=978-4-575-16431-2}}</ref> |
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|birthplace={{flagicon|Japan}} [[Okinawa]], [[Japan]] |
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|birthdate=August 8, 1974 (FF series)<br> August 8 (KOF series) |
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|age=23 years old (RB2) <br> 33 years old ('97-'99 Evolution) |
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|height=192 cm |
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|fightingstyle=Self-taught brawling [[karate]] |
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{{nihongo|'''Ryuji Yamazaki'''|山崎 竜二|Yamazaki Ryūji}} is a [[video game character]] from both the ''[[Fatal Fury]]'' and ''[[King of Fighters]]'' series. In Gamest's 1997 Heroes Collection, Yamazaki was voted as the staff's fifteenth favorite character. He shared the spot with ''[[Samurai Shodown]]'' character, Galford, and ''[[Street Fighter]]'' character, [[Ken (Street Fighter)|Ken]].<ref name="gamest97">{{Cite book | year=1997 | editor=Gamest | title=Gamest Game Hero Collection 1997; issue 208 | pages=240 | language=Japanese | publisher=Shinseisha }}</ref> |
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Yamazaki's origin in ''The King of Fighters'' series eventually revealed that he was a former member of Hakkeshu, the followers of Orochi. Having had lost his father-figure yakuza boss that made him a psychopath, it saves Yamazaki from Orochi's Riot of the Blood mind control. |
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In contrast with most of the other fighters in combat video games, Yamazaki does not use any particular martial art - he is a self-taught brawler, and uses a wide variety of attacks in his fighting, including unfair and dishonest moves such as kicking sand in his opponent's eyes, and his ever-present knife. He also rarely takes his right hand out of his pocket unless he is using his knife. Yamazaki never had parents to look up to when he was growing up, so he quickly fell in with the wrong crowd at a young age. Eventually, after years of petty crime, he fell under the tutelage of a crime boss, where he soon climbed the ranks of crime until he became the boss's right-hand man. One day, Yamazaki and his boss went to a warehouse where an illegal deal was taking place. Yamazaki felt that something wasn't quite right with the situation, and told his boss so. The boss laughed Yamazaki's feeling off and ordered him to stay with him. Unfortunately, the deal was a setup, and both Yamazaki and his boss were ambushed by rival criminals. Yamazaki's boss was killed, and seeing the only "parent" that he ever had die before his eyes drove Yamazaki to insanity. He is now completely psychotic and is extremely mentally unbalanced. In 1995, Yamazaki was signed up by [[Jin Chonrei]] and [[Jin Chonshu]] to protect them and the scrolls of immortality. |
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In the ''King of Fighters'' series, as he was having fun at a local [[dojo]], Yamazaki was faced by an [[England|Englishman]] named [[Billy Kane]], who worked as the [[bodyguard]] of [[Geese Howard]], main crime leader of Southtown. Yamazaki refused Billy's offer to join him and participate in the ''King of Fighters'' tournament at first, but after terribly mauling one of the warriors, he felt an adrenaline rush through his blood. Feeling a need to fight and kill, he accepted Billy's offer. During the subsequent tournaments, Yamazaki did not enter, and its unknown what he did during this time. He finally returns in the ''2003'' tournament to participate with Billy and Gato to engage on another of Geese's attempts to take over Southtown. At the end of the tournament, tensions between the team members increase somewhat, and culminate in a fight. Gato, disgusted with his team members (whom he is obviously not friends with), simply takes his leave and reappears in the follow-up title KOF XI. However, Billy and Yamazaki continue to fight each other, and neither made an appearance in KOF XI. Whether or not this ending in canon remains to be seen, although it does somewhat explain the characters' disappearance. |
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=== Sokaku Mochizuki === |
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{{nihongo|Sokaku Mochizuki|望月 双角|Mochizuki Sōkaku}} is introduced in ''Fatal Fury 3'' as one of the five new characters featured in the game and appears in all of the games in the ''Real Bout'' series. Mochizuki is a Buddhist monk who practices the {{nihongo|Authentic Pathless style Martial Arts|正伝無道流武術|Seiden Mudō Ryū Bujutsu}}, a fighting style created to hunt down [[Asura|Shura]] after its founder lost to the Shiranui style. He is said to have the strongest psychokinetic power in the history of the art's style. In ''Fatal Fury 3'' and the original ''Real Bout'', his objective is to seek the Scrolls of the Jin and destroy them, because he believes that it would be a source of a Shura. His ''Real Bout 2'' ending shows him trapping a demon larger than a house within a single paper talisman. |
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|firstgame=''Fatal Fury 3: Road to Final Victory'' |
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|birthdate=July 3, 1946 |
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|age=48 years |
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|height=176 cm (5'8") |
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{{nihongo|'''Sokaku Mochizuki'''|望月 双角|Mochizuki Sōkaku}} is a character from the ''[[Fatal Fury]]'' series. The ancestors of Sokaku have been known throughout history as people with the ability to summon wandering spirits from the netherworld and use them against evil demons who raise their ugly head in the world of the humans. Their main task is to seal away any possible threat to this world that might come from another realm. As an heir to this tradition, Sokaku has devoted himself to his training, preparing himself both physically and mentally for the time his services might be needed. |
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== Introduced in ''Dominated Mind'' == |
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Having been secluded in a [[Buddhist]] temple for a long time, Sokaku knows little of the outer world. He only travels when the forces of evil grows strong in the mortal coil. Always wandering with his huge straw hat, his [[Buddhist prayer beads]], and his purification staff, Sokaku seeks and vanquishes any evil spirit who might be causing trouble. Not without his share of trouble, Sokaku has engaged himself in a personal war with the Shiranui ninjitsu clan, a rivalry that has been raging on for centuries even. It is said that the Shiranui ninjas differ with the unnatural powers of the Mochizuki clan, and consider it dangerous to possess. Sokaku himself has faced the past leader of the Shiranui ninja clan, Hanzo Shiranui, several times, with mixed results, no match ever defining a clear winner. Now that Hanzo has died, Sokaku keeps a close eye on Hanzo's granddaughter, [[Mai Shiranui]], so she may not interfere with his job. |
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=== Alfred === |
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A bad omen had haunted Sokaku lately, and it became evident to him that an evil force was at work again. This time, the demons of the Jin family began to surge again, embodied in a malevolent plan: the two children that are the descendants of the Jin would use the Scrolls of Immortality to attain eternal life and the possibility to control the world forever. Sensing that the balance of good and evil was about to be shifted, Sokaku travels to Southtown, current location of the Jins in the [[United States]], in hopes of dealing with the ominous force at work behind the curtains. When Sokaku arrived, he noticed that other warriors were at work to stop the Jins themselves. Among them, were the legendary trio known as the "Lonely Wolves". Sokaku sensed a powerful aura of justice in their souls. He also noticed that Mai was helping them out. Working on his account, Sokaku managed to scavenge enough information, but when he was about to resolve himself in facing the Jin twins head-on, a new enemy appeared in the fray: it was [[Geese Howard]], the greatest mob leader in Southtown, who had escaped certain death, and was now in possession of the scrolls. This unexpected plot twist made Sokaku lose perception of the danger of the Jins, and instead dedicated himself to finding Geese and to retrieve the Scrolls of Immortality, to avoid the improper use of the legendary documents. |
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{{nihongo|Alfred|アルフレッド|Arufureddo}} is the protagonist of the main story mode in ''Real Bout Garou Densetsu Special: Dominated Mind'', a Japan-only [[PlayStation]] game based on the original ''[[Real Bout Fatal Fury Special]]''. Prior to his debut, he appears as a secret final boss in ''[[Real Bout Fatal Fury 2: The Newcomers]]'' and ''[[Fatal Fury: First Contact]]''. When he was young, his friend John (the elderly co-pilot who accompanies Alfred) took him on a trip on his biplane. When John flew to Russian airspace, [[MiG]] missiles were sent after him, but he managed to outfly them without getting struck. John became a hero in Alfred's mind, as the man who won against the MiGs, and Alfred was charmed by flying since then. Alfred seeks to defeat White, who took over the hometown where his deceased father is interred. Alfred goes to Southtown to seek Terry Bogard's aid and help him defeat White. |
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Alfred makes minor appearances in later games, including as a secret striker in the Dreamcast version of ''[[The King of Fighters '99]]'', as a trading card in ''[[SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters Clash]]'', and as a stage cameo in ''[[KOF: Maximum Impact 2]]'' and ''[[The King of Fighters 2002#Unlimited Match|KOF 2002: Unlimited Match]]''. |
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After hearing the news of Geese's death, Sokaku thinks that the Jins would go back in using the Scrolls of Immortality for their evil purposes. But to everyone's surprise, Chonrei himself tears up the scrolls, forever banning the curse from the Jin family. Sokaku feels relieved about the decision of the Jin twins, and after burning up the shattered remains of the scrolls, Sokaku travels back to Japan, where he now dedicates himself to training the next generation of Mochizuki sorcerers in case a new evil force threatens the world. |
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=== Tizoc === |
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|name=The Griffon (Japan)<br>Tizoc (USA) |
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|voiceactor=[[Hikaru Hanada]] ({{lang|ja|花田 光}}) |
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|age=27 in ''MOTW'' |
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|birthday=April 25, 1979 |
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[[Image:Tizoc MOTW.jpg|thumb|left|150px|Tizoc in ''Garou: Mark of the Wolves'']] |
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'''Tizoc''', otherwise known as {{nihongo|'''Griffon Mask'''|グリフォンマスク|Gurifon Masuku}} or '''the Griffon''' in the Japanese version, is a character from both the ''[[Fatal Fury]]'' and ''[[King of Fighters]]'' series. He started out in the Fatal Fury game ''Garou: Mark of the Wolves''. By the time of ''Garou: Mark Of The Wolves'', Tizoc already sees himself as a washed up has-been and enters the tournament in order to gain his passion into going back into the ring. When the events of ''King Of Fighters 2003'' occur, Tizoc is an up and coming superstar in the [[professional wrestling]] circuit and joins the [[Fatal Fury]] team after being invited by [[Terry Bogard]] himself after his brother [[Andy Bogard|Andy]] becomes unavailable since he is teaching a young boy in Shiranui style [[Ninjitsu]] in Japan (the boy would later grow up to be known as [[Hokutomaru]] in the ''Garou'' series). |
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=== White === |
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:{{voiced by|[[Keiji Fujiwara]]}} |
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{{nihongo|White|ホワイト|Howaito}} is the antagonist of ''Real Bout Garou Densetsu Special'', where he serves as Alfred's rival. A demented psycho and all-around disturbed fellow, White finds pleasure in making people suffer and follow his every wish. He uses his mind-controlling abilities to make people his personal toys, manipulating them to his desire. White enjoys playing around with those foolish enough to challenge him, using the great amount of power that he possesses. He appears to be based on the main character [[Alex (A Clockwork Orange)|Alex]] from [[Anthony Burgess]]' ''[[A Clockwork Orange (novel)|A Clockwork Orange]]'' novel. |
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|name=Touji Sakata |
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|caption=Touji in ''Fatal Fury: Wild Ambition'' |
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|series=''[[Fatal Fury]]'' series |
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|voiceactor=[[Masashi Sugawara]] ({{lang|ja|菅原 正志}}) |
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|birthplace={{flag|Japan}} |
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|bloodtype=AB |
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{{nihongo|'''Touji Sakata'''|坂田 冬次|Sakata Tōji}} is a character from ''Fatal Fury: Wild Ambition''. He is an aged man and one of the 2 original characters in this game, along with [[Tsugumi Sendo]]. Touji was the rival of Tatsumi Suō ([[Blue Mary]]'s grandfather and [[Geese Howard]]'s master). |
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<br />A prime martial artist in his youth, Touji now spends the remainder of his life strolling down the streets of Southtown without a care in the world. Once a jolly and high spirited fighter who had earned a name for himself in the world of fighting with his solid and refined [[Aikido]] style, which allowed him to deliver several powerful blows in just a few seconds, Touji is now nothing more than a forgotten old man who is terribly resentful towards the society that once worshipped and admired his feats. |
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== Introduced in ''Real Bout Fatal Fury 2'' == |
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Touji just passes most of his time wandering around the crime infested streets of Southtown. Any thug foolish enough to try and mug him would suffer terrible consequences, and probably end up in a hospital for their insolence. However, ever since the appearance of [[Geese Howard]] in the fighting scene, Touji's interest has been somewhat moved. It seemed that the challenge of the crime lord had once again reactivated the dormant fighting spirit within him. Touji was fully aware of Geese's legendary Hakkyokuseiken style, since he had faced [[Tung Fu Rue]], Geese's master, several times in the past. Inspired by the new batch of fighters that have appeared to challenge Geese, Touji just might yet revive his old fighting flame, and teach the new generation a thing or two about true |
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=== Lao === |
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{{nihongo|Lao|ラオ|Rao}} is a character who first appears in the opening sequence of ''Real Bout 2'', being defeated by [[#Rick Strowd|Rick Strowd]]. He makes his only playable appearance in the versus mode of ''[[Fatal Fury: First Contact]]''. In ''[[Garou: Mark of the Wolves]]'', he becomes a member of [[#B. Jenet|B. Jenet]]'s Lillien Knights crew. |
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=== Li Xiangfei === |
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:{{voiced by|[[Mami Kingetsu]]}} |
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Li Xiangfei (Chinese: 李 香緋; [[Pinyin]]: ''Lǐ Xiāngfēi''; [[Japanese language|Japanese]]: 李 香緋 ''Rii Shanfei'') makes her first appearance in ''Real Bout 2''. She is a 17-year-old Chinese-American girl who works part-time as waitress in her Uncle Pai's restaurant in the Chinatown district of South Town and has trained in various Chinese martial arts since an early age. She also appears as a playable character in ''Fatal Fury: Wild Ambition''. |
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Li Xiangfei would later make her debut in ''[[The King of Fighters]]'' series in ''[[The King of Fighters '99]]'', forming part of the Woman Fighters Team along with [[King (Art of Fighting)|King]], Blue Mary, and [[Kasumi Todoh]].<ref>{{cite web|author=SNK Playmore |url=http://kofaniv.snkplaymore.co.jp/english/history/kof99_story/index.php?num=women |title=Woman Fighters Team Story in KOF '99 |work=King of Fighters 10th Anniversary Official Website |access-date=February 27, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090421092827/http://kofaniv.snkplaymore.co.jp/english/history/kof99_story/index.php?num=women |archive-date=April 21, 2009}}</ref> She was absent in ''[[The King of Fighters 2000]]'', but would return in ''[[The King of Fighters 2001]]'', taking Kasumi Todoh's place from the previous game.<ref>{{cite web | author=SNK Playmore | url=http://kofaniv.snkplaymore.co.jp/english/history/kof2001_story/index.php?num=women | title=Woman Fighters Team Story in KOF 2001| work=King of Fighters 10th Anniversary Official Website | access-date=February 27, 2008}}</ref> |
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=== Rick Strowd === |
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:{{voiced by|Taney Yamaguchi}} |
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{{nihongo|Rick Strowd|リック・ストラウド|Rikku Sutoraudo}} is one of the two new characters introduced in ''Real Bout 2''.<ref>{{cite web |last=Bridgman |first=Andrew |url=http://www.dorkly.com/article/15651/the-7-most-stereotypical-native-americans-in-fighting-game-history/page:2 |title=The Dorklyst: The 7 Most Stereotypical Native American Characters in Fighting Game History (Page 2) |publisher=Dorkly Article |access-date=2014-02-08 |archive-date=2014-01-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140125094825/http://www.dorkly.com/article/15651/the-7-most-stereotypical-native-americans-in-fighting-game-history/page:2 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He is a casino show boxer known as the "White Wolf of the Ring", who is the son of a [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] father and a white mother. He seeks the opportunity to fight in a championship match as well as fight Terry Bogard. Rick's Special Moves are the ''Shooting Star'', the ''Divine Blast'', the ''Hellion'', and the ''Blazing Sun Burst''. He also has a special dodging maneuver called ''Full Moon Fever''. His Super Special is the ''Gaia's Breath'', and his Hidden Ability is the ''Machine-Gun Wolf''. Rick is seen to have a girlfriend, a blonde woman wearing a red dress, name unknown, with whom he rides off into sunset on horseback in his ending. Fans have speculated a probable connection between him and fellow boxer, Vanessa, from SNK's [[The King of Fighters|''King of Fighters'']] series, as she later began using Rick's ''Hellion'', and had the ''Gaia's Breath'' as a DM in ''[[The King of Fighters 2002]]''. |
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== Introduced in ''Wild Ambition'' == |
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=== Toji Sakata === |
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:{{voiced by|[[Masashi Sugawara]]}} |
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{{nihongo|Toji Sakata|坂田 冬次|Sakata Tōji}} is one of two characters who appears exclusively in ''Fatal Fury: Wild Ambition''. He is the legendary practitioner of the fighting style {{nihongo|''Dainan-ryū Aiki-jūjutsu''|大南流合気柔術||lit. "The Great South Style of Aiki-jūjutsu", modeled the non-fictional [[Daitō-ryū Aiki-jūjutsu]]}}. He was once the best friend and the rival of {{nihongo|Tatsumi Suoh|周防 辰巳|Suō Tatsumi}}, Blue Mary's grandfather and the man who trained Geese Howard in jujutsu. Believing that he was destined to challenge Tatsumi in a death match, this encounter never occurred since Tatsumi was eventually killed by his former student, Geese Howard. He enters the King of Fighters tournament to defeat the man who killed his rival.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.personal.triticom.com/~erm/www.neogeo.co.jp/garou/wild_ambition/chara-select/toji/toji.htm|title=Touji Sakata's bio from the official ''Garou Densetsu Wild Ambition'' homepage (waybacked)|language=ja|access-date=2009-01-07|archive-date=2009-02-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090208225943/http://www.personal.triticom.com/~erm/www.neogeo.co.jp/garou/wild_ambition/chara-select/toji/toji.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> |
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=== Tsugumi Sendo === |
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{{nihongo|Tsugumi Sendo|千堂 つぐみ|Sendō Tsugumi}} is one of the two new characters exclusive to ''Fatal Fury: Wild Ambition''. She's a high school girl from Osaka who was taught wrestling by her father, {{nihongo|Kantetsu|寛鉄|}} since an early age. However, she is secretly ashamed of this, especially after she was told by a boy she had a crush on that women wrestlers are "unfeminine", after hearing this she wanted to drop out of her wrestling training. After butting heads with her overbearing father, Kantetsu will allow her to drop out, but only under the condition that she brings a decisive victory in the King of Fighters tournament. Despite her original hatred for wrestling, she has come to enjoy fighting as she began to win matches.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.neogeo.co.jp/garou/wild_ambition/chara-select/tsugumi/tsugumi.htm|title=Tsugumi Sendo's profile from the official ''Garou Densetsu Wild Ambition'' site|language=ja |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010808100944/http://www.neogeo.co.jp/garou/wild_ambition/chara-select/tsugumi/tsugumi.htm|archive-date=August 8, 2001}}</ref> Some of Tsugumi's move names reference her hometown, like "[[Tsūtenkaku]] Driver", "[[Osaka|Naniwa]] Lariat", and "[[Okonomiyaki]]-Ire". |
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|voiceactor=[[Satsuki Tsuzumi|Kayo Deguchi]] |
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|inuniverse={{SNK character |
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|birthplace={{flag|Japan}} |
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|bloodtype=O |
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|fightingstyle=[[Wrestling]] |
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{{nihongo|'''Tsugumi Sendo'''|千堂 つぐみ|Sendō Tsugumi}} is a character from ''Fatal Fury: Wild Ambition''. She is a female high school wrestler and one of the 2 original characters in this game, along with [[Touji Sakata]]. A high school student who has entered a student exchange program in Southtown, Tsugumi soon finds herself submerged in a town with an unnatural passion for fighting. Although it wasn't precisely the kind of town she expected it to be, filled with crime and evil ambitions, Tsugumi found it to be a great place to practice her wrestling skills that she had learned in [[Japan]]. Tsugumi hears the rumors about a new crime lord in town called [[Geese Howard]], and is intrigued by the fact that Geese has defeated several fighters without contest. More so, Tsugumi finds it very interesting about the fact that many different fighters from different schools of martial arts roam the streets in search of a good fight. Tsugumi thinks that her trip to South Town might just leave her something more than just school knowledge. |
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== Introduced in ''Mark of the Wolves'' == |
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=== Tung Fu Rue === |
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[[File:Garoucharactersraw.jpg|thumb|300px|Characters appearing in ''Garou: Mark of the Wolves'']] |
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|firstgame=''[[Fatal Fury]]'' |
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|series=''[[Fatal Fury]]'' series<br>''[[The King of Fighters]]'' series |
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|voiceactor=Unknown (''Fatal Fury'')<br>[[Keiichirō Sakagi]] (''Fatal Fury Special'')<br>[[Shigefumi Nakai]] {{lang|ja|中井 重文}}) (since ''Real Bout Fatal Fury Special'') |
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|birthplace={{flag|China}} |
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|bloodtype=A |
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|fightingstyle=Bājíshèngquán |
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|likes=Meditation, Cha-tamago (egg tea), Tai Chi, The accomplishments of his pupils |
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|dislikes=Extravagance |
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{{nihongo|'''Tung Fu Rue'''|タン・フー・ルー|Tan Fū Rū}} is a character who debuted in the fighting game ''[[Fatal Fury]]''. He is a master of the ''Hakkyokuseiken'' and instructed [[Geese Howard]] & Jeff Bogard, Terry & [[Andy Bogard|Andy]]'s father. The legendary master of ''Hakkyokuseiken'', Tung Fu Rue was the former master of both the noble Jeff Bogard and the power hungry [[Geese Howard]] after he retired as a fighter himself. In Fatal Fury (the first game), when Tung took a lot of damage, he would 'buff up' & become muscular. He would then be able to perform his ''Senpu Gou-ken'' move (his super move in Fatal Fury Special & later game). In Fatal Fury Special, Tung would have a giant spirit appear when he does some of his special moves & in his super move. Also in FFS, Tung is capable of dodging many attacks by simply standing still... he is about half as tall as most of the characters, and a good number of attacks go right over his head. Even a few special moves will completely miss, for example [[Wolfgang Krauser]] (the boss) cannot hit Tung with his ''High Blitz Ball'' unless Tung is jumping. In Real Bout Special & Real Bout 2, Tung would 'buff up' into a giant when doing some of his special moves & when he did his supers. |
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=== Wolfgang Krauser === |
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{{main|Wolfgang Krauser}} |
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=== White === |
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|voiceactor=[[Keiji Fujiwara]] ({{lang|ja|藤原 啓治}}) |
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|birthplace={{flag|United Kingdom}} |
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|height=178 cm (5'8") |
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|weight=55 kg (121 lb) |
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|bloodtype=A |
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|hobbies=Card games, collecting dolls |
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[[Image:White RBFFSDM.jpg|thumb|left|150px|''White'' from his boss introduction]] |
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{{nihongo|'''White'''|ホワイト|Howaito}} is a [[fictional character]] from fighting game ''[[Fatal Fury|Real Bout Fatal Fury Special:Dominated Mind]]''. He appears there as the rival of [[Alfred Airhawk]]. He also appears in the popular card game ''[[SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters Clash|Card Fighters Clash]]''. A demented psycho and all-around disturbed fellow, White finds pleasure in making people suffer and follow his every wish. He uses his mind-controlling abilities to make people his personal toys, manipulating them to his desire. White enjoys playing around with those foolish enough to challenge him, using the great amount of power that he possesses. He appears to be based on the main character, Alexander DeLarge from [[Stanley Kubrick|Kubrick]]'s [[A Clockwork Orange (film)|A Clockwork Orange]]. |
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=== B. Jenet === |
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Renowned as a dangerous crime lord, White is in control of one of the most dangerous weapon and drug dealing organizations in the world. But White is far beyond any common thug. Despite his bizarre appearance and odd clothing, White has an attribute that makes him the menace that he is: he has incredible psychic powers, that allow him to look into the mind of any person, and be able to manipulate their thoughts to his pleasure. Since the moment that White surged to create his crime syndicate, he has easily thwarted any possible opposition to his rule, and has even made allies out of some of his enemies, thanks to his brainwashing skills. His wrath against society, and the desire to create a new world order, has inspired White to secure strategic locations which his illegal operations can pass through without any sort of danger. One of the places that he made his own base of operations was a small village where a young pilot called [[Alfred Airhawk|Alfred]] lived. But White, who always aims for higher ambitions, has set his sight on a better prey. For White, his ultimate ambition is to gain complete control of Southtown, an industrial city that proves to be more than perfect for his evil plans, since the city has always thrived on criminal activities. White meets his own share of enemies, but most of them quickly surrender to his superior mind power. White seems more than intent on winning Southtown over, but a young man, a survivor from White's past conquests, has stepped forward to put an end to White's twisted dreams. |
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:{{voiced by|Rei Saitō (''MOTW''–''KOFAS''), [[Mikako Komatsu]] (''KOF XV''–''COTW'')|Gina Rose (''KOF: MI2''), [[Amber Lee Connors]] (''COTW'')}} |
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{{nihongo|B. Jenet|B・ジェニー|B Jenī}}, real name {{nihongo|Jenet Behrn|ジェニー・バーン|Jenī Bān}}, is the leader of a group of pirates known as the ''Lillien Knights''. Jenet entered the Maximum Mayhem to rob [[#Kain R. Heinlein|Kain R. Heinlein]] of anything valuable he might be keeping in his mansion. In her ending, she passes out amidst the destruction of Kain's mansion after defeating him. Her crew saves her from being trapped under the rubble, but fails to secure any of the treasure they had been looking for. She decides to stay in South Town for some time, leading her to participate in the new King of Fighters tournament in ''City of the Wolves''. |
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In ''[[KOF: Maximum Impact 2|The King of Fighters Maximum Impact 2]]'', her parents are revealed to be incredibly wealthy; she formed the Lillien Knights when she became bored of her tedious lifestyle. Before the start of the tournament, she attends a party in her otherwise occupied parents' place. While there, the son of the host attempts (and fails quite miserably) to impress her with his paltry skills in [[Savate]]. Although Jenet is rather repulsed by his arrogance and embarrassing lack of skill, she learns from him that the King of Fighters tournament is being held once again. After her Lillien Knights knock the man unconscious and rob his father, Jenet decides to join the tournament in hopes of winning the prize money. She is voiced by Rei Saitō in Japanese, and by Gina Rose in the English version of KOF: MI2. |
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He cannot crouch, jump, dash or block, but his attacks have extreme priority, and his projectile will dizzy the opponent 100% of the time when it connects, even if the target is already dizzied. For his most dangerous attack, White has a final shot when you beat him that can only be jumped over or blocked low that he fires from his cane: if it connects, the player is instantly KO'ed and White gets up, winning the round. This becomes exceptionally dangerous if the opponent is hit by his dizzying projectile as White is knocked out: when they land, they'll be stunned, and take the attack head on. |
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Jenet is very comfortable around men, and her win quotes and prefight and postfight animations express that she doesn't seem very serious about fighting. In ''[[The King of Fighters XI]]'', she was in the tournament for monetary gain strictly, and she enters with Tizoc and Gato to form the Fatal Fury/Mark of the Wolves team. |
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== References == |
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Her fighting style, the LK (Lillien Knights) arts, is similar to savate, a French form of [[kickboxing]]. Her moves are mostly made up of attacks by swooping her dress (in moves such as specials "The Hind" and "Crazy Ivan" and Super Special Move "Aurora") and she is able to control the wind (being reflected in her projectile attack "Buffrass" and her Super Special Move "Too Many Torpedoes"). Her Super Special Leader Move "An Oi Madamoiselle" sees her take off her left shoe and beat her opponent with it. |
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*{{jp icon}} [http://www.garou15th.com/ Fatal Fury 15th Anniversary Official Website] |
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Her appearance consists of a purple dress with a skull and crossbones, red fingerless gloves, a red belt with gold lining, and blonde hair, along with stiletto heels as used in "An Oi Madamoiselle". |
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=== Freeman === |
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:{{voiced by|Eiji Yano}} |
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{{nihongo|Freeman|フリーマン|Furīman}}, real name unknown, is a mysterious English serial killer that fights using slashing movements with his hands as if they were claws. Little is known about him, except that he killed Kevin Rian's partner. Many of Freeman's special techniques are references to heavy metal bands, such as [[Nightmare (French band)|Nightmare]], [[Morbid Angel]], [[Overkill (band)|Overkill]], and [[Vision of Disorder]]. |
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=== Gato === |
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:{{voiced by|[[Kōji Ishii]] (''MOTW''–''KOF XI''), Yuma Yamaguchi (''KOF XV'' onwards)}} |
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{{nihongo|Gato|牙刀|Gatō}} is a martial artist searching for his missing father, seeking revenge on him for killing his mother. In his ''Mark of the Wolves'' ending, a stranger — insinuated to be Gato's father — saves [[#Kain R. Heinlein|Kain R. Heinlein]] from the crumbling mansion, but blinds Gato before he can act. As the stranger taunts Gato, he angrily swears vengeance. Gato is also implied to be the older brother of [[#Hotaru Futaba|Hotaru Futaba]], though he keeps his distance for her protection. |
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Gato first appears in the ''King of Fighters'' series in ''King of Fighters 2003'' as part of the Outlaw Team, along with [[Ryuji Yamazaki]] and [[Billy Kane]]. Gato is summoned to [[Geese Howard]]'s office and forced to cooperate in order to prevent his sister from being harmed. Gato does not like his teammates at all as revealed by the ending, in which Gato ditches the other two immediately and tells them off, leaving Yamazaki and Billy to fight. In ''[[The King of Fighters XI]]'' he is partnered with [[#B. Jenet|B. Jenet]] and [[#Tizoc / King of Dinosaurs|Tizoc]] to form a ''Garou'' Team. He also immediately leaves them, though on friendlier terms. |
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=== Grant === |
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:{{voiced by|Yō Kitazawa}} |
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{{nihongo|Grant|グラント|Guranto}}, real name {{nihongo|Abel Cameron|アベル・キャメロン|Aberu Kyameron}}, is Kain R. Heinlein's closest friend and personal bodyguard. Having protected Kain since he was young, Grant becomes disillusioned with the state of the world, and makes a deal with a dark entity that grants him knowledge of the dark style known as Ankoku [[Karate]]. Prior to the events of ''Mark of the Wolves'', Grant takes a bullet for Kain that becomes lodged near his heart, leading him to seek one last great battle before it kills him. He appears as the sub-boss of ''Mark of the Wolves'', finally perishing after his defeat. In ''City of the Wolves'', his apprentice [[#Vox Reaper|Vox Reaper]] carries on his will, donning the remains of his mask.<ref name=VoxReaper/> |
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=== Hokutomaru === |
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:{{voiced by|[[Junko Takeuchi]]}} |
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{{nihongo|Hokutomaru|北斗丸}} is a ninja and the student of [[#Andy Bogard|Andy Bogard]], who sends him to participate in the Maximum Mayhem tournament to complete his Shiranui style ninjutsu training. He is extremely fast and crafty, with many moves that are among the fastest in ''Garou'', making him a nearly unpredictable opponent to deal with. His stage is a traffic accident that he caused, as he was unfamiliar with urban ways due to his age and training. Hokutomaru carries a sword on his back, but he seldom draws it except during two special moves. |
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=== Hotaru Futaba === |
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:{{voiced by|Yuki Horie (''MOTW''–''KOFAS''), [[Manaka Iwami]] (''COTW'')|[[Suzie Yeung]] (''COTW'')<ref name="COTW">{{cite web|last=Romano|first=Sal|url=https://www.gematsu.com/2024/03/fatal-fury-city-of-the-wolves-launches-in-early-2025|title=Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves launches in early 2025|website=Gematsu|date=March 17, 2024|access-date=March 17, 2024}}</ref>}} |
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{{nihongo|Hotaru Futaba|双葉 ほたる|Futaba Hotaru}} is a martial artist who practices the Juu-kei style of [[China|Chinese]] [[kenpo]], though she generally dislikes violence. Following her mother's death and her father and brother's disappearance, she enters the Maximum Mayhem tournament after hearing rumors her brother is participating. In her ending, she meets up with [[#Gato|Gato]], begging him to come home, but he denies knowing her and departs as she silently prays for her brother to return to her. As of ''City of the Wolves'', she continues to search for her missing brother. |
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Outside of the ''Fatal Fury'' series, Hotaru is playable in ''[[Neo Geo Battle Coliseum]]'' and the PS2 version of ''[[The King of Fighters XI]]''. |
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=== Kain R. Heinlein === |
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:{{voiced by|Jun Hashimoto}} |
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{{nihongo|Kain R. Heinlein|カイン・R・ハインライン|Kain R Hainrain}} is Rock Howard's maternal uncle, being the younger brother of Rock's deceased mother Marie Heinlein. Having grown up in poverty and surrounded by violence, he sought power and rose up the ranks of Second Southtown's criminal underworld. After learning of [[Geese Howard]]'s death, he began planning to secede Second Southtown from the United States, turning it into a city-state where the strong rule over the weak. To accomplish this, he hosted the King of Fighters Maximum Mayhem tournament to draw out [[#Rock Howard|Rock Howard]], planning to use him to obtain his father Geese's fortune and gain the resources needed to accomplish his goals. He appears as the final boss of ''Garou: Mark of the Wolves'', and is set to return in the upcoming ''Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves''. |
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=== Kevin Rian === |
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:{{voiced by|Yō Kitazawa (''MOTW''), Akihiro Sakata (''COTW'')|[[Jonah Scott]] (''COTW'')}} |
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{{nihongo|Kevin Rian|ケビン・ライアン|Kebin Raian}} is a high-spirited [[SWAT]] officer stationed in Second Southtown, with a nearly flawless arrest record. After his partner and best friend is murdered by [[#Freeman|Freeman]], he enters the Maximum Mayhem tournament in hopes of finding his killer. He is cheered on in his fights by Marky, his partner's young son whom he adopts after his death. Kevin returns in ''City of the Wolves'', still searching for Freeman to avenge his partner. He fights using [[Sambo (martial art)|Sambo]], similar to his distant relative [[#Blue Mary|Blue Mary]],<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20010822125216/http://www.neogeo.co.jp/garou/sss/q_a/q_a.htm [餓GAROU狼] 〜MARK OF THE WOLVES〜 キャラクター人気投票<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> although much of his fighting style revolves more around direct strikes than grappling. |
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=== Kim Dong-Hwan === |
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:{{voiced by|Jun Hashimoto (''MOTW''), Eiji Takeuchi (''COTW'')|Jerron Bacat (''COTW'')}} |
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{{nihongo|Kim Dong-Hwan|キム・ドンファン|Kimu Donfan}}, sometimes written as {{lang|ko|김동환}} (''Kim Dong-hwan''), was taught [[Taekwondo]] by his father, Kim Kaphwan, using techniques infused with lightning, and has a friendly rivalry with his younger brother Kim Jae-Hoon. He is more of a show-off and slacker than his brother, relying more on aerial attacks and juggles (i.e. attacks that strike the opponent into the air uncontrollably). He believes he is a "genius" in the story, and doesn't need to study diligently in order to master Taekwondo, but his father and brother see it differently. |
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=== Kim Jae-Hoon === |
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:{{voiced by|Hiroki Asakawa}} |
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{{nihongo|Kim Jae-Hoon|キム・ジェイフン|Kimu Jeifun}}, sometimes written as {{lang|ko|김재훈}} (''Kim Jae-hoon''), was taught Taekwondo by his father, Kim Kaphwan, using techniques infused with fire, and is a brother of Dong Hwan's. Jae-Hoon admires his father, so he fights more like him than Dong-Hwan does, with a combination of high and low attacks with plenty of power behind them. Like his father, he has a strong sense of justice and chivalry, but unlike his brother, he establishes his strength through constant practice. |
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=== Marco Rodrigues === |
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:{{voiced by|Hikaru Hanada (''MOTW''), [[Kenichirou Matsuda]] (''COTW'')|Earl Baylon (''COTW'')}} |
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{{nihongo|Marco Rodrigues|マルコ・ロドリゲス|Maruko Rodorigesu}} is a Brazilian Kyokugen-style [[karate]] expert, who trained under [[Ryo Sakazaki]]. He leads a somewhat austere life in a wooded area on the outskirts of town, and fights using powerful, deliberate attacks. He enters the Maximum Mayhem tournament to help promote Kyokogenryu and lure new students to his dojo. In ''City of the Wolves'', he is forced to train at [[Yuri Sakazaki]]'s fitness club due to his dojo's sign being stolen, and enters the King of Fighters tournament to reclaim it and rebuild his dojo's reputation. Just like Ryo, he has several famous moves from ''Art of Fighting'' with some of his own derivatives. |
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Marco was renamed '''Khushnood Butt''' in the U.S. release of ''Garou: Mark of the Wolves'', possibly to avoid confusion with mixed martial artist [[Ricco Rodriguez]]; the character's name would be reverted to Marco in future localizations beginning in ''[[The King of Fighters XV]]'' (2022). |
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=== Rock Howard === |
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{{main|Rock Howard}} |
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=== Tizoc / King of Dinosaurs === |
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:{{voiced by|[[Hikaru Hanada]]|Jalen K. Cassell (''COTW'')<ref name="COTW"/>}} |
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Tizoc, otherwise known as {{nihongo|Griffon Mask|グリフォンマスク|Gurifon Masuku}} or the Griffon in the Japanese version, is a character from both the ''[[Fatal Fury]]'' and ''[[King of Fighters]]'' series. He started out in the ''Fatal Fury'' game ''Garou: Mark of the Wolves'' and is described as being a well-renowned and popular [[professional wrestler]]. By the time of ''Garou: Mark of The Wolves'', Tizoc already sees himself as a washed up has-been and enters the Maximum Mayhem tournament in order to regain his passion for wrestling. |
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When the events of ''King of Fighters 2003'' occur, Tizoc is an up-and-coming superstar in the [[professional wrestling]] circuit and joins the Fatal Fury team after being invited by [[Terry Bogard]] himself after his brother [[#Andy Bogard|Andy]] becomes unavailable since he is teaching the young [[#Hokutomaru|Hokutomaru]] in Shiranui style [[ninjutsu]] in Japan. In ''The King of Fighters XIV'', there is a new character known as {{nihongo|King of Dinosaurs|キング・オブ・ダイナソー|Kingu Obu Dainasō}}, who shares the same voice actor, a similar fighting style, build, color schemes and feather decor as Tizoc, now teamed with the former NESTS agent Angel and Ramon on Team Mexico. During the tournament, several opponents, such as Tizoc's former teammate Terry, easily address King of Dinosaurs as Tizoc despite the new fighter's denials,<ref>{{cite video game|title=The King of Fighters XIV|year=2016|publisher=Atlus USA|developer=SNK|quote='''Terry Bogard:''' Yo! Long time no see, Tizoc! / '''King of Dinosaurs''': Terry, long time no... Wait, no. I don't know you or any Tizoc! I'm the king of the dinosaurs! KING OF DINOSAURS!}}</ref><ref>{{cite video game|title=The King of Fighters XIV|year=2016|publisher=Atlus USA|developer=SNK|quote='''King of Dinosaurs''': I have cast aside my past, now have a good taste of my prehistoric power! / '''Nelson''': Ah! Could it be... Are you Tizoc?!}}</ref> while other characters, who may or may not identify King of Dinosaurs as Tizoc, merely deem him foolish.<ref>{{cite video game|title=The King of Fighters XIV|year=2016|publisher=Atlus USA|developer=SNK|quote='''King of Dinosaurs''': YOU! The new masked one! Are you an assassin from the secret society to extinguish the dinosaurs?! / '''Mian''': You aren't supposed to sign in as a comedian, are you?}}</ref> Despite Eisuke Ogura's pre-release claims that King Of Dinosaurs is not Tizoc,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.4gamer.net/games/317/G031749/20160613002/|title = 新生Snkのモノ作りはここから始まる。「餓狼Mow2」の話題も飛び出した，「The King of Fighters Xiv」開発陣インタビュー}}</ref> the Team Mexico ending reveals that King of Dinosaurs is in fact Tizoc who suffered a humiliating defeat by Nelson. To seek revenge, Tizoc adopted a new "[[Heel (professional wrestling)|heel]]" persona, King of Dinosaurs, relying on his teammates Ángel and Ramón to help cover his former identity. In ''The King of Fighters XV'', King of Dinosaurs and Ramón team up with former ''KOF XIV'' tournament host Antonov to form the new wrestling team named "Team G.A.W. (Galaxy Anton Wrestling)". |
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== Introduced in ''City of the Wolves'' == |
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=== Chun-Li === |
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{{main|Chun-Li}} |
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=== Ken Masters === |
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{{main|Ken Masters}} |
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=== Preecha === |
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:{{voiced by|[[Chika Anzai]]|Mia Paige}}<ref name="COTW"/> |
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{{nihongo|Preecha|プリチャ|Puricha}} is a student of [[#Joe Higashi|Joe Higashi]]. She is boisterous and scientifically minded, using her battles to study her opponents and how their techniques utilize ki. Like Joe, she uses a Muay Thai-based fighting style.<ref>{{cite web | last=Mejia | first=Ozzie | title=Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves prepares to REV it up | website=Shacknews | date=2024-03-18 | url=https://www.shacknews.com/article/139147/fatal-fury-city-of-the-wolves-first-preview | access-date=2024-03-19}}</ref> |
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=== Vox Reaper === |
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:{{voiced by|[[Toshiyuki Toyonaga]]|Erik Ransom}}<ref name=VoxReaper>{{cite web | last=Romano | first=Sal | title=Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves adds B. Jenet and Vox Reaper; confirmed for PS5, PS4, Xbox Series, and PC | website=Gematsu | date=June 7, 2024 | url=https://www.gematsu.com/2024/06/fatal-fury-city-of-the-wolves-adds-b-jenet-and-vox-reaper-confirmed-for-ps5-ps4-xbox-series-and-pc | access-date=June 7, 2024}}</ref> |
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{{nihongo|Vox Reaper|ボックス・リーパー|Bokkusu Rīpā}} is a karate fighter and street assassin. Following a failed assassination attempt on [[#Kain R. Heinlein|Kain R. Heinlein]], Kain's bodyguard [[#Grant|Grant]] sees potential in Vox and takes him on as an apprentice. After Grant's death, Vox chooses to carry on his will and help Kain achieve his goals.<ref name=VoxReaper/> |
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==Reception== |
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The characters from ''Fatal Fury'' have received major positive reaction with [[GamesRadar]] calling [[Terry Bogard]] as "one of SNK's most memorable characters", as 86th "most memorable, influential, and badass" protagonist in games.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gamesradar.com/top-100-video-game-heroes/|title=100 best heroes in video games|work=[[GamesRadar]]|date=October 12, 2012|access-date=February 14, 2014}}</ref> [[IGN]] praised the increase of the series' cast but heavily criticized the final boss [[Geese Howard]] for his high difficulty.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ign.com/articles/2007/08/16/fatal-fury-battle-archives-volume-1|title=Fatal Fury: Battle Archives Volume 1|date=16 August 2007|access-date=November 3, 2015}}</ref> Avi Krebs from GamingExcellence.com commented that Billy Kane is one of the hardest boss characters from the first ''Fatal Fury'', but he remains "pale" in comparison to Geese.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gamingexcellence.com/xbox360/games/925/review.shtml|title=Fatal Fury: Battle Archives Volume 1 Review|publisher=GamingExcellence|author=Krebs, Avi|date=2007-10-19|access-date=2009-03-14}}</ref> Kotaku's Patricia Hernandez wrote "one of ''Fatal Fury 2'''s biggest contributions to the medium was that it was the first game to introduce a character with breasts that moved on their own. Known as Mai Shiranui, that character is famed for having very, uh, lively breasts. Though ''Fatal Fury'' may not be a huge franchise nowadays, its legacy is very much alive: many top fighting games include a similar jiggle effect".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kotaku.com/how-video-game-breasts-are-made-and-why-they-can-go-so-1687753475 |title=How Video Game Breasts Are Made (And Why They Can Go Wrong) |date=24 February 2015 |publisher=Kotaku.com |access-date=2015-07-09}}</ref> While acknowledging that ''Fatal Fury'' fans might be disappointed by the reduced roster of fighters in ''Fatal Fury 3'', ''[[GamePro]]'' praised the new third fighting plane and ranking system, and concluded that "instead of simply adding more fighters, ''FF3'' does more with fewer fighters (hidden moves and so on) and a unique method of gameplay".<ref>{{cite magazine|title=ProReview: Fatal Fury 3|magazine=[[GamePro]]|issue=82|date=July 1995|page=68}}</ref> They remarked that Bob and Franco are "uninteresting" new characters but praising and the modifications to Mai Shiranui's Swan Dive attack.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=ProReview: Fatal Fury 3|magazine=[[GamePro]]|issue=85|date=October 1995|page=80}}</ref> The cast of ''Garou'' was praised for their animations which was compared with the ones from ''[[Marvel vs. Capcom 2]]''.<ref>[http://uk.dreamcast.ign.com/articles/166/166258p1.html IGN: Fatal Fury: Mark of The Wolves Review<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081007042313/http://uk.dreamcast.ign.com/articles/166/166258p1.html |date=2008-10-07 }}</ref> |
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THEM Anime Reviews criticized the characterization of the main characters in the three films citing them as "one-dimensional" and also the villains.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.themanime.org/viewreview.php?id=22|title=Fatal Fury: Legend of the Hungry Wolf|publisher=THEM Anime Reviews|access-date=March 19, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.themanime.org/viewreview.php?id=94|title=Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture|publisher=THEM Anime Reviews|access-date=March 19, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.themanime.org/viewreview.php?id=23|title=Fatal Fury 2: The New Battle|publisher=THEM Anime Reviews|access-date=March 19, 2016}}</ref> On the other hand, [[Anime News Network]]'s Bamboo Dong enjoyed the portrayal of the characters in the films, particularly praising Terry's character development as "most adaptations of this nature barely let their characters show any weaknesses at all, much less an extended period of insecurity and despair, so it was pretty compelling seeing Terry's journey through his dark period".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/shelf-life/2014-11-17/.81136#ff|title=Shelf Life Kings of Reon|author=Dong, Bamboo|access-date=March 19, 2016}}</ref> In another review, Dong praised the selection of the main characters.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/shelf-life/2014-12-15/.82201#ff|title=Shelf Life Designated x Diver|author=Dong, Bamboo|access-date=March 19, 2016}}</ref> Chris Beveridge from Mania Beyond Entertainment also praised the development of the characters such as the interactions between the couple of Andy Bogard and Mai Shiranui as well as the grief of Terry over the loss of his girlfriend.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mania.com/fatal-fury-motion-picture_article_73576.html|title=Fatal Fury The Motion Picture|publisher=Mania Beyond Entertainment|author=Beveridge, Chris|access-date=March 19, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090420110849/http://www.mania.com/fatal-fury-motion-picture_article_73576.html|archive-date=April 20, 2009}}</ref> |
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Latest revision as of 01:05, 14 November 2024
The following is a list of video game characters featured in the Fatal Fury fighting game series developed by SNK.
Creation and design
[edit]Series' creator Takashi Nishiyama stated that giving the characters depth was of great importance when making the series. He noted that the first Fatal Fury featured a more polished plot and more fleshed out characters than that of his previous work, the original Street Fighter, which led to the game gaining a strong fanbase. To help market the games, certain character details were revealed in magazine promotions rather than the games themselves.[1]
Character appearances
[edit]The table below summarizes every single fighter in the series. A green cell indicates that the character is playable, while a red cell indicates that the character is not playable or does not appear.
- Notes
Introduced in Fatal Fury
[edit]Andy Bogard
[edit]- Voiced by: Jun Hashimoto (FFS–KOF '94), Keiichi Nanba (FF3–KOF XIII), Hiroshi Okamoto (KOF XIV onwards), Hiroyuki Kagura (young; KOF: D), Toshinari Fukamachi (KOF for Girls) (Japanese); Peter Wilds (FF anime films) (English)
Andy Bogard (アンディー・ボガード, Andī Bogādo) is Terry Bogard's younger brother. Andy practices the Shiranui-ryū ("Shiranui style" in Japanese) Ninjutsu and a form of empty-handed ninja combat called Koppō-ken, which he trained in after witnessing his foster father's murder, in order to gain revenge on Geese Howard. Mai is the girl he grew up with who is madly in love with him and proclaimed him her fiancé. She is also the granddaughter of Hanzo Shiranui, the man Andy learned Ninjitsu from. It was after his foster father Jeff's death that Tung Fu Rue took responsibility for raising him and Terry. Andy went to Japan to train under Hanzo and grew up alongside Mai, while Terry stayed in Southtown. During Andy's time in Japan, he met the Muay Thai fighter Joe Higashi and challenged him to a match. When Andy won, he invited Joe to return to the United States with him to enter the King of Fighters tournament, held by Geese.
Late in the tournament, Andy tried to kill off Geese by himself. Geese's power proved to be too much for Andy as he almost fell to his death. Terry saved Andy, who then acknowledged Terry as the superior fighter. After Terry beat Geese at the end of their first King of Fighters Tournament, a new tournament was held, this time hosted by Krauser. Andy, while present in the tournament, did not accomplish much story-wise.
Ever since Geese's death, Andy has been busy training his young apprentice Hokutomaru in the ways of the Shiranui-style ninjitsu and Koppo-ken. Instead of fighting in the KOF: Maximum Mayhem tournament himself, Andy sends Hokutomaru in his place to see what his apprentice has learned. In Hokutomaru's ending, Andy writes him a note saying that he was proud of how strong Hokutomaru has gotten. Then he ended the note by saying he is no longer his teacher but his rival and that they will cross paths again.
When the new King of Fighters '94 tournament was announced, Andy joined Terry and Joe in the new 3-on-3 matches. Since then, Andy has always agreed to follow his brother Terry whenever he decided to enter the new version of the King of Fighters tournament. The Fatal Fury Team maintained his original formation (Terry, Andy and Joe) from King of Fighters '94 to '98. With new rules in KOF '99 allowing teams of four members, Mai Shiranui (in KOF '99) and, later, Blue Mary (KOF 2000) joined the team. After the beginning of the Ash Crimson Saga (KOF 2003, XI) Andy left the Fatal Fury team to take care of Shiranui disciple Hokutomaru, who fell sick and Mai went after him. Andy made his return to The King of Fighters XII but does not participate in a defined team. The King of Fighters XIII sees Andy rejoining the Fatal Fury team as his brother's interest in the tournament has compelled him to reunite the original Fatal Fury team from the 1994 event. In his anime incarnations, though sometimes perplexed by her actions, Andy is more open to showing his affection towards Mai.
Billy Kane
[edit]- Voiced by: Katsuhisa Namase (FF2–KOF '95), Keiichi Nanba (FF3, "RBFF When start fight", Dengeki Bunko drama CD: Garō Densetsu), Atsushi Yamanishi (RBFF–KOF 2002, KOF: MI series), Seijirō (KOF 2003, KOF: AD, KOF XIII), Masaki Masaki (KOF XIV onwards), Shizuka Itō (Pretty Billy; KOF: AS),[2] Haruki Ishiya (KOF for Girls),[3] Daiki Nakamura (FF: LOTHW), Tomohiro Nishimura (FF: TMP) (Japanese); Paul Dobson (FF: LOTHW), Chris Sharpes (COTW) (English)
Billy Kane (ビリー・カーン, Birī Kān) is introduced in Fatal Fury as the righthand man of Geese Howard, a crime lord in the fictitious American city of Southtown. Geese holds The King of Fighters tournament every year with Billy as his champion. Billy was the undefeated champion of the tournament, until he is defeated by Terry Bogard, who moved on to later defeat Geese.[4] He also appears in Fatal Fury Special as a playable character for the first time.[5] After Geese recovers, Billy appears in Real Bout Fatal Fury to assist him in the conquer of Southtown. However, Geese is ultimately killed by Terry, causing Billy to leave Southtown.[6] He later appears in the two following games from the series Real Bout Fatal Fury Special and Real Bout Fatal Fury 2: The Newcomers which do not contain a storyline.[7][8] In the PlayStation version from Real Bout Fatal Fury Special, Billy is brainwashed by his half-brother White in order to aid him in the conquer from Southtown. He then appears as a sub-boss character in the arcade mode, but once he is defeated, he returns to normal.[9] A 3D fighting game version of the series, Fatal Fury: Wild Ambition was produced as well, which retells the plot of the first game.[10] By the time of City of the Wolves, Billy has assumed control of the Howard Connection after Geese's death, though he still seeks revenge on Terry for killing Geese.
In The King of Fighters series, Billy was meant to appear in the first game from the series as a member of an England Team, composed of him, Mai Shiranui, and Big Bear, but due to several problems with the capacity of the game, and the desire from the Art of Fighting staff to add Yuri Sakazaki, Billy was removed from the game.[11] When the new King of Fighters tournament began in The King of Fighters '95 under the control of a man named Rugal Bernstein, Billy is ordered by Geese to go in his boss' place because Geese was still healing. He joins with a ninja named Eiji Kisaragi and a mysterious man named Iori Yagami.[12] Billy's team does not win, and at the end of the tournament Iori beats up Billy and Eiji.[13] In The King of Fighters '97 Geese sends Billy to investigate the mysterious Orochi power in Iori. Geese hires a sadistic outlaw named Ryuji Yamazaki and tricks a good freelance agent named Blue Mary to help as well.[14] After the tournament ends, Yamazaki demands his pay from Geese by attacking him and Billy. The same team is shown in The King of Fighters '98, The King of Fighters 2002 and Neowave but none of those contain a storyline.[15][16][17] He also appears as an assistant character (known as "Striker") in The King of Fighters '99: Evolution and The King of Fighters 2000. In the former he is available for any character, while in the latter he is a striker for Andy Bogard.[18][19]
In The King of Fighters 2003, Geese orders the team of Billy Kane, Ryuji Yamazaki, and Gato to infiltrate the tournament in another attempt to take over Southtown.[20] During the spin-off game The King of Fighters Kyo Billy appears as boss character along Geese to fight against the Bogard brothers and the protagonist Kyo Kusanagi.[21] In KOF: Maximum Impact 2, it is revealed Billy has moved to the countryside of the UK with his young sister, Lilly Kane, and has decided to return to Southtown once again, willing to show the Meira twins: Alba and Soiree the town should be embarked by no one.[22]
Billy also appeared in the console version of The King of Fighters XIII, released in November 2011.[23] He is also present in the otome game King of Fighters for Girls.[24]
Billy Kane appears in the TV anime film Fatal Fury: Legend of the Hungry Wolf, where he is voiced by Daiki Nakamura in the original Japanese version and Paul Dobson in the English dubbed version. Like in the original Fatal Fury video game, Billy Kane is one of Geese Howard's underlings alongside Raiden, Ripper and Hopper. He enters the King of Fighters tournament alongside Raiden on Geese's behalf and later mortally wounds Tung Fu Rue while the Bogards and Joe are escaping from Geese's men. In the final battle of the film, he ends up fighting against Andy Bogard and ends up being defeated by him.[25] He appears again in the sequel Fatal Fury 2: The New Battle, where he makes an unvoiced appearance in the beginning of the film, in which he is confronted by Laurence Blood at the Pao-Pao Cafe and is defeated off-screen.[26] Billy makes an extended cameo appearance in the third film, Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture, this time voiced by Tomohiro Nishimura in the original Japanese version and once again by Paul Dobson in English. He encounters his old adversary Andy in a night club, but the two are confronted by Laocorn's henchman Hauer before they get a chance to fight again.[27]
In the second episode of the anime spin-off mini-series The King of Fighters: Another Day, Rock Howard, Geese's son, stops Billy from killing Lien Neville who was carrying out a hit on him. Billy tries to convince Rock to help him, because as he carries Geese's heritage, Lien would try to take him out too. Instead, Rock decides to save Lien's life and fights Billy, who almost manages to kill him as well for shaming Geese's legacy, but is blown away by a beam fired over Geese Tower.[28] He also stars in manhua from the video games which retells his actions from the games.[29] Additionally, in the manga The King of Fighters: Kyo authored by Masato Natsumoto, Billy starts investigating Kyo Kusanagi in order to make him talk about the ancient demon Orochi.[30]
In Gamest's 1997 Heroes Collection, Billy was voted as the staff's fourth favorite character.[31] In the character popularity poll on Neo Geo Freak's website, he was voted as the seventeenth favorite character with a total of 757 votes.[32] For the special endings in The King of Fighters '97, three video games journals, Gamest, Famitsu and Neo Geo Freak, had to create a team composed of three characters from the game so that they would be featured in an image after passing the arcade mode. The special team created by the Neo Geo Freak's staff was a team of fire wielders: Billy, Kyo Kusanagi, and Mai Shiranui. The special ending only appears in Japanese versions of the game.[33]
Duck King
[edit]- Voiced by: Kong Kuwata (games), Yūji Mitsuya (FF: TMP) (Japanese); Michael Beard (FFS), Matt Hill (FF: TMP) (English)
Duck King (ダック・キング, Dakku Kingu) appears in the original Fatal Fury as one of the first four opponents in the single-player mode. Possessing incredible talent when it comes to brawling and street dancing, Duck King once challenged Terry Bogard to a street fight and lost. He trained himself in order to surpass Terry. Duck uses a unique fighting style which includes rhythmical dance-like movements and attacks. His primary special move is a flying cannonball technique.
In Fatal Fury 2, Duck was one of the characters from the original game who is defeated by Krauser in one of the game's cut scenes, although he would appear as a playable character in Fatal Fury Special. He would retain his cannonball technique, now dubbed the Head Spin Attack, along with new special moves such as the Dancing Dive, Break Storm, and the Beat Rush. He also has a new hidden special move called the Break Spiral. From Special and onward, Duck would be accompanied by his pet chick "P-chan". He makes another quick cameo in Bob Wilson's ending Fatal Fury 3 before returning as a playable character in Real Bout Fatal Fury and its sequels, Real Bout Special and Real Bout 2. He also appears as an exclusive character in the PlayStation version of Fatal Fury: Wild Ambition.
Although Duck King has made numerous cameo appearances thorough The King of Fighters series, including as an alternate Striker (a character who helps the player in battle) in The King of Fighters 2000, he did not appear as a playable character until The King of Fighters XI, where he appears as a member of the new Fatal Fury Team along with Terry and Kim Kaphwan.
Geese Howard
[edit]Hwa Jai
[edit]- Voiced by: Sōnosuke Nagashiro (KOF XIII)
Hwa Jai (ホア・ジャイ, Hoa Jai) is the first of three opponents the player faces in the original Fatal Fury before the final match against Geese Howard. A former Muay Thai champion once nicknamed "The Hero of Muay Thai" (ムエタイの英雄, Muetai no Eiyū), he once fought against Joe Higashi in the past and lost, causing him to lose his title. Seeking to defeat Joe, he became a more reckless and dangerous fighter. After being banned from competing in the Muay Thai circuit, his brutal talent was noted by Geese Howard, who hired him to serve as one of his bodyguards and a participant in the King of Fighters tournament. His special technique, the Dragon Kick, was developed to compete with Joe's Tiger Kick. He also gains additional strength by drinking a sort of Super Drink, which thrown at him by one of Geese's men when he is in danger.
In Fatal Fury 2, Hwa Jai is one of the characters from the original game who gets defeated by an unknown challenger (Wolfgang Krauser). He is apparently hospitalized and visited by Joe Higashi, as seen in Joe's ending in the game and in Fatal Fury Special. He makes further cameos in the subsequent Fatal Fury games (Fatal Fury 3, Real Bout, Real Bout Special and Real Bout 2) as Joe's training partner and trainer. Despite having been absent since his original appearance as an opponent character in Fatal Fury, Hwa Jai has been confirmed to return in The King of Fighters XIII and marks the first time the character has been playable. Kim, following his "reform" of his previous teammates (Chang Koehan and Choi Bounge), seeks out Hwa Jai and Raiden as he believes they still work under Geese Howard. It is not the case as Geese had returned to America long ago but Raiden manages to talk Hwa Jai into joining the team to bolster their reputations as fighters. Hwa Jai accepts, partially due to wanting to fight Joe once again.
Joe Higashi
[edit]- Voiced by: Katsuhisa Namase (FF2, FFS, KOF '94), Nobuyuki Hiyama (FF3 – KOF XIII), Kōzō Mito (KOF XIV onwards), Chiharu Sawashiro (KOF for Girls), Masaaki Satake (FF: LOTHW), Kazuki Yao (Dengeki Bunko drama CD) (Japanese); Jason Gray-Stanford (FF anime films), Kevin Andrew Rivera (SF6) (English)
Joe Higashi (ジョー・ヒガシ, Jō Higashi, also written as 東 丈, Higashi Jō) first appears in Fatal Fury: King of Fighters as one of the three playable characters along with Andy and Terry Bogard. The plot features Joe allying with the Bogard brothers to enter the King of Fighters tournament and then defeat the host Geese Howard, who killed the Bogard brothers' father. In the tournament, Joe also beats his Muay Thai rival Hwa Jai, and they both become friends. In Fatal Fury 2, Joe learns that Hwa Jai was beaten by the new King of Fighters host Wolfgang Krauser and enters the tournament to avenge him.[34] Fatal Fury 3: Road to the Final Victory and Real Bout Fatal Fury end the fight between Joe and the Bogard and Geese, who dies falling from the Geese Tower.[6] The two following games, Real Bout Fatal Fury Special and Real Bout Fatal Fury 2: The Newcomers also feature Joe as a playable character but none of them contain a storyline.[35][36] Fatal Fury: Wild Ambition retells the events from the first game, but with characters who would appear later.[37] Joe returns in City of the Wolves, now training Preecha as his student.
In The King of Fighters series, Joe is a regular member from the Fatal Fury Team (also composed of Terry and Andy), and each game features them entering into an annual tournament to search for competition. Andy's girlfriend Mai Shiranui, joins them in The King of Fighters '99 since the tournament now requires four members per team.[38] By The King of Fighters 2000 and The King of Fighters 2001, Mai leaves and the new fourth member is Blue Mary.[39][40] The King of Fighters 2002 and The King of Fighters 2003 return the tournament to use teams of three members, but in the latter pro-wrestler Tizoc replaces Andy, who is busy taking care of his sick student.[41][42] By The King of Fighters XI, Joe leaves the competition as he enters into a new Muay Thai tournament.[43] However, he returns in The King of Fighters XII, which neither features official teams or plot.[44] The sequel casts Joe back into the classic Fatal Fury team that includes Terry and Andy, the reason being Terry's desire to reunite the original team to participate in the upcoming tournament. In the spin-off The King of Fighters Kyo, the player (who uses Kyo Kusanagi) can challenge Joe to a fight in a game, and also make him join to his team for the upcoming King of Fighters tournament.[45] Joe also takes a minor role in The King of Fighters EX as an assistant character (dubbed "Striker") for the Fatal Fury Team, now composed with the Bogard brothers and Mai.[46] Additionally, he stars in The King of Fighters Neowave with the original Fatal Fury Team.[47] He was also added to the crossover game Capcom vs. SNK Pro, an updated version of Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Fight 2000 for the PlayStation and Sega Dreamcast, and in the sequel Capcom vs. SNK 2.[48][49] He is also present the otome game King of Fighters for Girls.[50] Joe appears in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as a background character at King of Fighters Stadium.
Joe Higashi appears in each of the three animated films from Fatal Fury. Jason Gray-Stanford provides the voice of Joe in the English versions. Masaaki Satake provides the voice of Joe in the Japanese version of the first film and Nobuyuki Hiyama in the two following. In the Fatal Fury: Legend of the Hungry Wolf from 1993, Joe enters the King of Fighters tournament along with the Bogard brothers which cause Geese Howard to attack them. Upon learning that Andy and Terry's teacher, Tung Fu Rue, was seriously injured by Geese's right-hand man, Billy Kane, Andy and Joe set to fight Geese. None of them are able to defeat Geese, but are saved by Terry who later defeats Geese.[51] In the 1993 film Fatal Fury 2: The New Battle, Joe becomes ashamed after learning that Terry became depressed after being defeated by Wolfgang Krauser and tries to avenge him. However, he ends up being heavily wounded by Krauser.[52] In Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture from 1994 Joe joins Terry, Andy and Mai into helping a girl named Sulia into stopping her brother Laocorn Gaudeamus, who is the main antagonist from the film.[53]
Michael Max
[edit]Michael Max (マイケル・マックス, Maikeru Makkusu) is a black boxer who appears in the original Fatal Fury as one of the first four CPU-controlled opponents whom the player faces. Prior to the events of the game, Michael was a young boxing prodigy who was once considered a strong contender for the title of Worldwide Heavyweight Champion. However, he left the boxing circuit to seek real combat and participate in the King of Fighters tournament, feeling that professional boxing was a mere sport protected by rules. He is also the friend and student of boxing of Axel Hawk. His only other appearances in the series includes in the cut-scenes of Fatal Fury 2, where he is one of the fighters defeated by Wolfgang Krauser, and in Axel Hawk's ending in Fatal Fury Special, where he is depicted as Axel's trainer. In one of his victory poses, it is revealed that he is Catholic. Michael Max is the only character from the original Fatal Fury that has never appeared in The King of Fighters series until he makes a cameo at one of The King of Fighters XV trailer.
Raiden / Big Bear
[edit]- Voiced by: Dango Takeda (FFS), Hisao Egawa (FF anime films), Daisuke Gōri (KOF XII–KOF XIII) (Japanese); John Hulaton (FF3–CVS2), Robert O. Smith (FF anime films), Iain Gibb (KOF XIII) (English)
Raiden (ライデン, Raiden) first appears in the original Fatal Fury as the second of the final four computer-controlled opponents in the single-player mode. He was once a popular face wrestler until he was betrayed by his tag partner during a match (a character later revealed to be Big Bombarder from the SNK wrestling game 3 Count Bout). This incident transformed him completely and he became a notorious heel wrestler. Not satisfied with venting his frustration in the ring, he enters the King of Fighters tournament as a masked fighter, acting as one of Geese's guardians. His primary special move in the game is the Vapor Breath. This character was modeled after real life pro wrestler Big Van Vader.
He returns as a regular playable character in Fatal Fury 2 and Fatal Fury Special, where he renounces his Raiden persona and now fights as an unmasked face wrestler under the identity of Big Bear (ビッグ・ベア, Biggu Bea). He trains at his native land of Australia, where his deadly strength increased on several levels. He also develops a friendly rivalry with Terry, as seen in his endings in both games. His special moves in Fatal Fury 2 includes the Giant Bomb, a rushing tackle, and the Super Drop Kick. He also has a hidden special move called the Fire Breath, an improved version of his Vapor Breath. In Special, he gains a new special move called the Bear Bomber. He later cameos as a wrestling commentator in City of the Wolves.
Fatal Fury: Wild Ambition, being a retelling of the original Fatal Fury tournament, depicts Raiden under his masked heel persona once again. Outside the Fatal Fury series, Raiden also appeared in the Capcom-produced crossover game Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Fight 2000, and its sequels, Capcom vs. SNK Pro and Capcom vs. SNK 2, being one of the few Fatal Fury characters who did not appear in The King of Fighters as a playable character (at the time) in those games. Raiden also appears in The King of Fighters XII and the sequel. In KOF XII none of the characters are assigned into teams but for KOF XIII they are. Raiden's teammates in KOF XIII are Kim Kaphwan and Hwa Jai. Kim is mistaken in thinking Raiden and Hwa Jai are still in the employ of Geese Howard, wanting to "reform" both men. Raiden convinces Hwa Jai to act as if they are so they are able to enter the tournament to build reputation for themselves. The Fatal Fury characters refer him as "Bear", his face persona, which he denies.
Richard Meyer
[edit]- Voiced by: Masaharu Satō (FF: TMP), Kong Kuwata (KOF: MI2) (Japanese); Ward Perry (FF anime films), Kofi Candela (KOF: MI2) (English)
Ricardo "Richard" Meyer (リチャード・マイヤー, Richādo Maiyā) appears in the original Fatal Fury as one of the first four computer-controlled opponents in the single-player mode. A capoeira mestre originally from Brazil, Richard makes his daily living in South Town as the manager of the restaurant Pao Pao Cafe. He competes in the King of Fighters tournament in order to make his capoiera style known to the world. In this game, his character specializes in numerous kick techniques. Richard Meyer was the first fighting game character to use Capoeira.
Richard makes cameo appearances in subsequent Fatal Fury games as a friendly acquaintance of the Bogard brothers and Joe. He appears in Fatal Fury 2 in the cut scene shown immediately after the first battle against the CPU, tending to a crowd of spectators at Pao Pao Cafe witnessing the player's fight on television. He appears again near the end of the game, where he is defeated in battle by Wolfgang Krauser, as well in Terry Bogard's ending, serving him and his date their meal.
In Fatal Fury 3, Richard opens a new Pao Pao Cafe restaurant, which is maintained by his capoeira apprentice Bob Wilson. In Fatal Fury 3, as well as in Real Bout series, Richard appears to cheer and encourage Bob before each of his matches. He makes cameos in The King of Fighters XI, trying to tell Kim to leave the cafe and in King of Fighters XIII witnessing several female fighters destroy his bar.
Richard appears as a hidden character in the PlayStation 2 game KOF: Maximum Impact 2 (released in North America as The King of Fighters 2006), participating as a fighter for the first time since the original Fatal Fury. Richard's real given name is Ricardo.
Terry Bogard
[edit]Tung Fu Rue
[edit]- Voiced by: Keiichiro Sakagi (FFS), Kōji Yada (FF: LOTHW), Shigefumi Nakai (RBFFS: DM–NGBC), Hajime Shikase (KOF XIV) (Japanese); Mina E. Mina (FF: LOTHW, FF2: TNB) (English)
Tung Fu Rue (タン フー ルー, Tan Fū Rū, Chinese: 糖胡芦; Pinyin: Táng Hú-Lú) is one of the first four opponents the players face in the original Fatal Fury (when either Andy or Terry defeats him in Fatal Fury Special, each Bogard brother addresses him as "Master Tan"). He is an elderly martial arts master from China who developed his own fighting style based on Bajiquan known as the Holy Fist of Eight Ways (八極聖拳, Hakkyokuseiken). In the past, he trained Terry and Andy's adoptive father, Jeff Bogard, and his nemesis Geese Howard (as well as Cheng Sinzan). He raised the Bogard brothers after Jeff was killed by Geese and participates in the King of Fighters tournament in the first game with the objective to defeat Geese. He can transform his body into steel and draw out great power using a deadly secret technique known only to himself. In the game, he appears as meek elderly man, but after taking a bit of damage, he transforms into a musclebound warrior, whose special moves including a flying whirlwind punch and a spinning whirlwind kick in which he shoots fireballs at both directions.
In Fatal Fury 2, Tung was one of the characters defeated by Wolfgang Krauser in one of the game's cut-scene. He would appear as a playable character in Fatal Fury Special, the upgraded version of Fatal Fury 2. Unlike the original game, Tung only transforms into a musclebound version of himself while performing certain special moves. Tung reappears in Real Bout Special and Real Bout 2. In Real Bout Special, there are two versions of him in the game. In regular version of him has improved versions of his previous special moves, as well as new moves, while the alternate version of him (EX Tung Fu Rue) has all of his moves from Fatal Fury Special and one Hidden Ability. In Real Bout 2, Tung has special moves from both versions of his character in the previous game.
Tung also appears in the SNK crossover game NeoGeo Battle Coliseum. This version of the character was used as an additional character in the PlayStation 2 port of The King of Fighters XI, until he canonically participates in The King of Fighters XIV. He is also one of the 20 background characters that appears in the King of Fighters Stadium Stage in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
In The King of Fighters timeline, Tung played a vital role in XIV. According to a profile of one of his disciples, and the protagonist central character of that arc, Shun'ei, Tung found Shun'ei after his biological parents abandoned him for having an eerie powers, related to the main antagonist of that arc. Sensing good in the young eerie powered boy, Tung decided to raise Shun'ei as his disciple to be trained by himself against the villains who had a connection to Shun'ei's eerie power, such as the villain who is connected to Shun'ei's left-half power, an avatar of fiery rage and soul containing entity known as Verse. Additionally, he has met Kyo Kusanagi's father, Saisyu Kusanagi, and a fellow elderly Chinese martial arts master, Chin Gentsai, sometime before.
Introduced in Fatal Fury 2 and Fatal Fury Special
[edit]Axel Hawk
[edit]- Voiced by: Hirohiko Kakegawa (FF2: TNB) (Japanese); Michael Beard (FF2), Michael Dobson (FF2: TNB) (English)
Axel Hawk (アクセル・ホーク, Akuseru Hōku) first appears in Fatal Fury 2 as the second of the final four opponents in the single-player mode. A former heavyweight boxing champion, he was said to be the strongest of all time until his retirement. According to his backstory, he began spending most of his days at home after his retirement, playing with his R/C car and being supported by his elderly mother, his father having died at some point. One day, he received an anonymous letter inviting him to the King of Fighters tournament and began training for his comeback. He was originally a non-playable character in the Neo Geo version of Fatal Fury 2, although he is playable in the SNES and Genesis versions of the game. He became a regular playable character in Fatal Fury Special. He is also the teacher of boxing and the best friend of Michael Max. He makes a cameo at the end of The King of Fighters 2003 cheering on the Fatal Fury Team.
Cheng Sinzan
[edit]- Voiced by: Jun Hashimoto (FFS), Shigefumi Nakai (RBFFS–RBFFS2), Chafurin (FF: TMP) (Japanese); Robert O. Smith (FF: TMP) (English)
Cheng Sinzan (チン・シンザン, Chin Shinzan, Chinese: 陳 秦山; Pinyin: Chén Qínshān; Cantonese Yale: Chàhn Chèuhn-sāan) is introduced as one of the new playable characters in Fatal Fury 2. A rotund fighter, he practices tai chi. Despite his immense strength, he hates training and becomes tired very easily. He enters the King of Fighters tournament seeking to gain international recognition and open his own training hall. He is characterized as one of the richest men in Hong Kong, who resides in a high class neighborhood and is married to a former Miss Hong Kong. Despite his social status, he seeks to find ways to make himself even richer. His Special Moves in Fatal Fury 2, as well as in Fatal Fury Special, includes the Thunderblast Powerball (氣雷砲, Kiraihō), the Belly Drum Blast (大太鼓腹打, Daitaikobarauchi), and the Avalanche Crunch (破岩激, Hagangeki), while his Super Special Move is the Exploding Thunder Powerball (爆雷砲, Bakuraihō).
He makes a non-playable appearance in Fatal Fury 3, helping Hon-Fu chase after Ryuji Yamazaki and doesn't return as a playable character until Real Bout Special and Real Bout 2. In the backstory of Real Bout Special, it is revealed that Cheng was once a disciple of Tung Fu Rue trained in Hakkyoku Seiken along with Jeff Bogard and Geese Howard, but was expelled due to his greediness. He would also make money by having people bet against him in street fights and then lose on purpose.
Jubei Yamada
[edit]- Voiced by: Dango Takeda (FFS), Jōji Yanami (FF anime films) (Japanese); French Tickner (FF anime films) (English)
Jubei Yamada (山田 十平衛, Yamada Jūbei) is one of the five playable characters introduced in Fatal Fury 2. An elderly judo master who was once known as "Yamada, the Demon" during his youth. Jubei Yamada is the best friend and rival of Hanzo Shiranui (the grandfather of Mai Shiranui). Having lost his charm from his younger days, Jubei fights in the new King of Fighters tournament in order to re-establish his popularity with girls around the world. Despite this, he refuses to change his womanizing lecherous ways. Although Jubei does not return as a playable character in later games, he makes several cameo appearances, including in Mai Shiranui's ending in Real Bout Fatal Fury, where he is shown to have an infatuation with her.
Kim Kaphwan
[edit]- Voiced by: Satoshi Hashimoto (FF2–KOF XI), Kazuhiko Nagata (KOF XII–KOF XIV), Daiki Nakamura (FF2: TNB, FF: TMP), Hiroshi Isobe (Dengeki Bunko drama CD: Garō Densetsu 2 and Garō Densetsu Special), Kunihiro Kawamoto (KOF: D onwards), Ayaka Ōhashi (KOFAS; New Kim),[54] Takuya Eguchi (KOF for Girls) (Japanese); David Kaye (FF2: TNB, FF: TMP) (English)
Kim Kap-Hwan (金甲煥 (キム・カッファン), Kimu Kaffan, sometimes written as 김갑환 (Kim Kap-hwan), usually written as Kim Kaphwan) first appears in Fatal Fury 2 as a playable character. He travels to Southtown to fight Wolfgang Krauser, who was looking for some decent challenges in the King of Fighters fighting tournament. On the way, he encounters the former King of Fighters champion Terry Bogard. They soon become good friends, and ever since, Kim always agrees to help Terry in all that he can, though a definite rivalry is maintained.[55] He also appears in all the Real Bout games from the series.[56][57][58] He is also present in Fatal Fury: Wild Ambition, a 3D game which retells the story from the first Fatal Fury game but with characters from the sequels including Kim.[59] He makes a cameo appearance in Garou: Mark of the Wolves in one of his son's (Dong Hwan) win poses.
In The King of Fighters, Kim is considered as both a sport and national hero in his native Korea. This status is what enabled him to convince the authorities to give him custody over Chang Koehan and Choi Bounge to rehabilitate them out of their criminal ways.[60] Although both men resent Kim for his actions, they later grow up to grudgingly respect him.[61] Due to the increase of required members in The King of Fighters '99, Kim's rival, Jhun Hoon, joins the Korea Team.[62] However, in The King of Fighters 2001, Jhun has an accident and he is replaced by Kim's student, May Lee.[63] By The King of Fighters 2003, the requirements of members return to three and this time the members of the Korea Team are Kim, Jhun and Chang.[64] In The King of Fighters XI, Kim appears as a member of the Fatal Fury Team along with Terry Bogard and Duck King as the team needed one more member.[65] In The King of Fighters XII, Kim is a playable character, but like each of them, he does not have a team.[66] As The King of Fighters XIII has returned to assigning the characters into official teams, Kim is cast as the leader of his team, composing of himself, Raiden and Hwa Jai (both from Fatal Fury: King of Fighters). He is teamed with the men because, after "rehabilitating" Chang and Choi, he seeks out Raiden and Hwa Jai believing they are still working for Geese (they are not but they pretend that they still do so they can compete in The King of Fighters tournament). The games from the series which do not contain plot, The King of Fighters '98 and The King of Fighters 2002, also feature Kim along with Choi and Chang in the Korea Team.[67][68] In the console version of The King of Fighters Neowave, Kim appears as a hidden character without an official team.[69]
In the spin-off game, The King of Fighters Kyo, Kim is not playable but he can be aided by the lead character Kyo Kusanagi in order to train Chang and Choi.[70] In the two games for the Game Boy Advance titled EX: Neo Blood and EX2, the Korea Team is featured in its original form.[71][72] Kim does not appear in KOF: Maximum Impact as he was replaced with his pupil Chae Lim.[citation needed] However, he is a hidden character in KOF: Maximum Impact 2 and also makes a cameo in Chae Lim's ending.[73][74] He also appears in the crossovers Neo Geo Battle Coliseum and the SNK vs. Capcom series as a playable character.[75][76] In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, he appears both as a background character in the King of Fighters Stadium stage and as a Spirit.[77]
Kim also appears in two of the three animated films from Fatal Fury in which he takes supporting roles. He is voiced by Daiki Nakamura in the Japanese versions and by David Kaye in the English dub. In Fatal Fury 2: The New Battle, Kim challenges Terry to fight after learning that he defeated the former crime lord from Southtown Geese Howard to test his own strength. Although he is defeated, he and Terry become good friends.[78] In the sequel, Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture, he also appears reuniting with Terry and his friends along with his family searching to have a rematch with Terry. However, during the meeting Cheng Sinzan (from Fatal Fury 2), enhanced by cyber-armor attacks all the people and Kim is seriously injured. Despite his wounds, Kim manages to defeat Cheng, but spends most of the time of the film recovering.[79] He also stars in manhua from the video games which retell his actions from the games.[80]
Laurence Blood
[edit]- Voiced by: Katsuhisa Namase (FFS), Hiroyuki Arita (RBFFS–RBFF2), Kōji Totani (FF anime films) (Japanese); Ward Perry (FF anime films) (English)
Laurence Blood (ローレンス・ブラッド, Rōrensu Buraddo) first appears in Fatal Fury 2 as the third of the four boss characters the player faces at the end of the single-player mode. He is a former Spanish matador who uses a self-styled martial art based on his deadly bullfighting methods (his fighting style is very similar to the fencing and the French martial art of the Savate). He serves as the right-hand man and servant of Wolfgang Krauser and participates in the tournament under his request. He is a computer-only character in the Neo Geo version of Fatal Fury 2 and became playable in Fatal Fury Special. Blood would return as a playable character in Real Bout Special and Real Bout 2. He is notable for being one of five bullfighter characters in fighting games (the other three being Vega of Street Fighter, Miguel of Human Killing Machine, Miguel Caballero Rojo of Tekken, and Kilian of Samurai Shodown). He is also the only boss character from Real Bout Fatal Fury Special and Real Bout Fatal Fury 2 that hasn't appeared in the King of Fighters tournaments.
Mai Shiranui
[edit]Ryo Sakazaki
[edit]Wolfgang Krauser
[edit]- Voiced by: Hirotaka Suzuoki (FF2: TNB), Takuya Iwabata (young; KOF:D), Yutaka Aoyama (KOFAS) (Japanese); Michael Beard (FFS), B.J. Love (KOF '96–RBFF2), Paul Dobson (FF2: TNB) (English)
Wolfgang Krauser von Stroheim made his appearance in Fatal Fury 2, where he serves as the final opponent in the tournament. Known as the only man in the world feared by Geese Howard (whom in Fatal Fury Special is revealed to be his elder half-brother from the same father, Rudolph Krauser von Stroheim or Rudolph Von Zanac), Krauser is a German nobleman who is publicly known as the current Earl of Stroheim, a prestigious family in Europe, but within the underworld he is a ruthless warlord known as the Emperor of Darkness. After Geese's supposed death in the original Fatal Fury, Krauser sponsors a new King of Fighters tournament with his three chosen warriors Laurence Blood, Axel Hawk and Billy Kane (a former underling of Geese himself) in order to lure the men who defeated Geese (Terry Bogard, Andy Bogard, and Joe Higashi).
Although Krauser takes his own life following the events of Fatal Fury 2 and Special according to the background story in the subsequent games,[81] Krauser appeared in the special installments of the series, Real Bout Fatal Fury Special and Real Bout Fatal Fury 2.
Outside the Fatal Fury series, Krauser appears as a member of the Boss Team in The King of Fighters '96 with his half-brother Geese and Geese's former partner-in-crime Mr. Big. The Boss Team made another appearance in the remake of The King of Fighters '98 titled The King of Fighters '98 Ultimate Match. Additionally, Krauser also appears as a "Striker" character in the console versions of The King of Fighters 2000.
Krauser serves as the main antagonist in the anime special Fatal Fury 2: The New Battle. According to character designer Masami Ōbari (who also worked on Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer), Krauser was redesigned to be ten years younger than his video game counterpart and given a clean-shaved appearance. In this special, Krauser challenges his half-brother's nemesis Terry Bogard to battle and wins. After Terry regains his courage, he challenges Krauser again and wins the rematch, causing Krauser to commit suicide due to his loss.
Introduced in Fatal Fury 3
[edit]Blue Mary
[edit]- Voiced by: Harumi Ikoma (FF3–KOF: MIR"A"), Sarah Emi Bridcutt (KOF XIV onwards) (Japanese); Allegra Clark (SF6) (English)
Mary Ryan (マリー・ライアン, Marī Raian), better known as Blue Mary (ブルー・マリー, Burū Marī), is a special agent investigating activity in the city of Southtown, and a recurring love interest of Terry Bogard. She makes her first appearance in Fatal Fury 3: Road to the Final Victory, investigating the Secret Scrolls of the Jin Brothers, items able to give immortality to their users.[82] Real Bout Fatal Fury shows Mary allying with Terry Bogard and his friends to fight the crime lord from Southtown, Geese Howard.[83] The two following games, Real Bout Fatal Fury Special and Real Bout Fatal Fury 2: The Newcomers, also feature Blue Mary as a playable character but neither of them presents a storyline. Real Bout Fatal Fury Special also features an "EX" version from Mary with her movesets from Fatal Fury 3.[84][85] The PlayStation version of Real Bout Fatal Fury Special also contains a music video clip featuring the song "Blue Mary's Blues" by Harumi Ikoma, Mary's voice actress.[86]
Following her Fatal Fury inception, Blue Mary becomes a regular character with frequently changing team membership in The King of Fighters series, beginning as a member of the '97 Special Team in The King of Fighters '97 along with Billy Kane and Ryuji Yamazaki. A mysterious benefactor (Geese Howard) requests her services to enter the King of Fighters tournament, along with Billy and Yamazaki, who starts to become insane due to the power from the demon Orochi.[87] However, after discovering that Geese was her client, Mary leaves the team.[88] The team is also featured in The King of Fighters '98, The King of Fighters 2002, and The King of Fighters Neowave, which do not contain a storyline.[89][90][91] In The King of Fighters '99, she joins up with King, Li Xiangfei, and Kasumi Todoh as the new Women Fighters Team, but leaves and becomes the fourth member of the Fatal Fury Team (composed by Terry, Andy Bogard and Joe Higashi) in The King of Fighters 2000 and The King of Fighters 2001.[92][93][94] She would join forces with King again as member of the Women Fighters Team in The King of Fighters 2003, this time with Mai Shiranui as their third member.[95] In The King of Fighters XI, she joins Vanessa and Ramón as a member of the Agents Team in order investigate the host from The King of Fighters tournaments, an organization named Those from the Past.[96] Blue Mary appears in The King of Fighters XIV as a playable character via downloadable content.[97] In The King of Fighters XV, she joins Vanessa again to form the Secret Agent Team, with Luong as their third member. She also appears in the 3D game KOF: Maximum Impact Regulation A, which does not feature official teams.[98] In the spin-off game The King of Fighters: Kyo, Blue Mary appears investigating the actions from Geese along with Kyo Kusanagi and King.[99][100] In Nintendo's Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, she appears as a background character.
Blue Mary also makes an appearance in the Memories of Stray Wolves twenty-minute featurette that serves as a retrospective of the Fatal Fury series, with Terry narrating the events of the games ten years after Real Bout Fatal Fury.[101] She also stars in manhua based on the games retelling her actions in the series.
Bob Wilson
[edit]- Voiced by: Toshiyuki Morikawa
Roberto "Bob" Wilson (ボブ・ウィルソン, Bobu Wiruson) is a character introduced in Fatal Fury 3 and appears as a playable character throughout the Real Bout sub-series. He is the bartender of Pao Pao Cafe 2 and was trained in capoeira by Richard Meyer. He specializes in spinning kicks and combination attacks. He later cameos as a bartender at a separate restaurant in City of the Wolves. All of his special moves reference animals in some way, as his Fatal Fury 3 Special Moves are the Wild Wolf, the Bison's Horn, the Lynx's Fang, the Rolling Turtle, and the Hornet Attack. His Super Special Move is the Dangerous Wolf. In Real Bout, he gains the Monkey Dance special move and two Hidden Abilities, the Mad Spin Wolf and the Wolf's Fang. Real Bout Special brings in the Sidewinder, Hunting Frog and Hawk Talon Special Moves, and Real Bout 2 discards Bob's previous Hidden Abilities for a new one called Dancing Bison.
Franco Bash
[edit]- Voiced by: B.J. Love
Franco Bash (フランコ・バッシュ, Furanko Basshu) makes his first appearance in Fatal Fury 3 as one of the five new playable characters introduced in the game and also appears thorough the Real Bout sub-series. He is a retired Super Heavyweight-class kickboxing champion who works as a mechanic in South Town Airport to support his wife Emilia, and their son Junior. In Fatal Fury 3 his son is kidnapped by Yamazaki, who blackmails him into helping him obtain the Secret Scrolls of the Jin. He rescues his son in his ending in Fatal Fury 3 and trains to make his comeback in the Real Bout series. He makes a cameo at the end of KOF 2003 cheering on the Fatal Fury Team.
Hon-Fu
[edit]- Voiced by: Toshiyuki Morikawa
Hon-Fu (ホンフゥ, Hon Fū) is introduced in Fatal Fury 3 as one of the new playable characters featured in the game and appears all the games in the Real Bout sub-series. He is a police officer from Hong Kong who specializes in using a nunchaku. His objective throughout Fatal Fury 3 and the Real Bout series is to arrest the escaped convict Ryuji Yamazaki and is aided by Cheng in Fatal Fury 3. He is a close friend of Kim Kaphwan according to his backstory in Fatal Fury 3, as the two have nearly identical desperation attacks, although Hon-Fu was given a new one for Real Bout Fatal Fury 2.
Jin Chonrei
[edit]- Voiced by: Kappei Yamaguchi
Jin Chonrei (秦 崇雷, Japanese: Jin Chonrei, Pinyin: Qín Chóngléi, also romanized as Qin Chong-Lei) appears in Fatal Fury 3 as the third and final boss character featured in the game and appears as a regular playable character thorough the Real Bout series. Like his younger brother Chonshu, Chonrei is possessed by the spirit of Jin Kuryu (秦 空龍), the elder son of Jin Ōryū and ancestor of Chonrei and Chonshu. In Fatal Fury 3, they head to South Town to seek the Secret Scrolls of the Jin in order to unleash their true power. The scrolls are eventually taken by Geese Howard and in the next game of the series, Real Bout Fatal Fury, the Jin brothers participate in the King of Fighters tournament to recover them. However, the scrolls are destroyed by Chonrei in the Jin Brothers' endings. In Real Bout Fatal Fury 2, Chonrei becomes an apprentice of Tung Fu Rue, as seen in their corresponding ending (although Kim's ending in the game depicts Chonrei training as Kim's disciple along with his brother). Outside the Fatal Fury series, Jin Chonshu and Jin Chonrei have appeared in Neo Geo Battle Coliseum.
In Gamest's 1997 Heroes Collection, Chonrei was voted as the staff's thirty-ninth favorite character. He shared the spot with four other characters, including Fatal Fury character, Joe Higashi, and Street Fighter character, Zangief.[102]
Jin Chonshu
[edit]- Voiced by: Kappei Yamaguchi
Jin Chonshu (秦 崇秀, Japanese: Jin Chonshū, Pinyin: Qín Chóngxiù) first appears as the second boss character in Fatal Fury 3 and appears thorough the Real Bout series as a regular playable character. He is the younger half of the Jin brothers seeking the Three Secret Scrolls of the Jin. While he appears like a regular teenage boy, he is actually possessed by the spirit of Jin Kairyu (秦 海龍), who was the younger son of Jin Ōryū (秦 王龍), the ancient warlord who wrote the Secret Scrolls of the Jin two thousand years prior to the events of Fatal Fury 3. In Fatal Fury 3, they head to South Town to seek the Secret Scrolls of the Jin in order to unleash their true power. The scrolls are eventually taken by Geese Howard and in the original Real Bout Fatal Fury the Jin brothers participate in the King of Fighters tournament to recover them. However, the scrolls are destroyed by Chonrei in the Jin Brothers' endings. In Real Bout 2, Chonshu then becomes a disciple of Kim Kaphwan, as seen in their corresponding endings. Outside the Fatal Fury series, Jin Chonshu and Jin Chonrei have appeared in Neo Geo Battle Coliseum.
Ryuji Yamazaki
[edit]
- Voiced by: Kōji Ishii (FF3–KOF 2003), Tsuguo Mogami (KOF XIV onwards),[103] Kenjiro Tsuda (KOF for Girls)[104]
Ryuji Yamazaki (山崎 竜二, Yamazaki Ryūji) 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". In the game, Yamazaki is hired by the Jin brothers into recovering their Sacred Scrolls, which are able to give immortality to its user. In the following titles from the series, Yamazaki does not work for anybody, normally committing crimes just to entertain himself, despite to this, however, he had secretly still wanting to take the scrolls from Geese. In Garou: Mark of the Wolves, he was believed to be the perpetrator of beating all of Marco Rodrigues's best students in his Kyokugenryu karate gym, as depicted in Marco's ending. Yamazaki's introduction in The King of Fighters series was made as a result of three popularity polls developed by three video games journals in which players voted which character they wanted to see in The King of Fighters '97, the upcoming game from the series at that time. Yamazaki has also appeared in the crossover games Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Fight 2000 and Capcom vs. SNK 2 as a playable character. Video games publications have commented on Yamazaki's character, with some praising his introduction in Fatal Fury 3 and development in titles from The King of Fighters.[105] Other reviewers criticized how hard defeating him is in the Fatal Fury games and how strong he is in Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Fight 2000 in comparison to other popular characters.[106]
Yamazaki's origin in The King of Fighters series eventually revealed that he was a former member of Hakkeshu, the followers of Orochi. Having had lost his father-figure yakuza boss that made him a psychopath, it saves Yamazaki from Orochi's Riot of the Blood mind control.
Sokaku Mochizuki
[edit]- Voiced by: Kōji Ishii
Sokaku Mochizuki (望月 双角, Mochizuki Sōkaku) is introduced in Fatal Fury 3 as one of the five new characters featured in the game and appears in all of the games in the Real Bout series. Mochizuki is a Buddhist monk who practices the Authentic Pathless style Martial Arts (正伝無道流武術, Seiden Mudō Ryū Bujutsu), a fighting style created to hunt down Shura after its founder lost to the Shiranui style. He is said to have the strongest psychokinetic power in the history of the art's style. In Fatal Fury 3 and the original Real Bout, his objective is to seek the Scrolls of the Jin and destroy them, because he believes that it would be a source of a Shura. His Real Bout 2 ending shows him trapping a demon larger than a house within a single paper talisman.
Introduced in Dominated Mind
[edit]Alfred
[edit]- Voiced by: Hiro Yūki
Alfred (アルフレッド, Arufureddo) is the protagonist of the main story mode in Real Bout Garou Densetsu Special: Dominated Mind, a Japan-only PlayStation game based on the original Real Bout Fatal Fury Special. Prior to his debut, he appears as a secret final boss in Real Bout Fatal Fury 2: The Newcomers and Fatal Fury: First Contact. When he was young, his friend John (the elderly co-pilot who accompanies Alfred) took him on a trip on his biplane. When John flew to Russian airspace, MiG missiles were sent after him, but he managed to outfly them without getting struck. John became a hero in Alfred's mind, as the man who won against the MiGs, and Alfred was charmed by flying since then. Alfred seeks to defeat White, who took over the hometown where his deceased father is interred. Alfred goes to Southtown to seek Terry Bogard's aid and help him defeat White.
Alfred makes minor appearances in later games, including as a secret striker in the Dreamcast version of The King of Fighters '99, as a trading card in SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters Clash, and as a stage cameo in KOF: Maximum Impact 2 and KOF 2002: Unlimited Match.
White
[edit]- Voiced by: Keiji Fujiwara
White (ホワイト, Howaito) is the antagonist of Real Bout Garou Densetsu Special, where he serves as Alfred's rival. A demented psycho and all-around disturbed fellow, White finds pleasure in making people suffer and follow his every wish. He uses his mind-controlling abilities to make people his personal toys, manipulating them to his desire. White enjoys playing around with those foolish enough to challenge him, using the great amount of power that he possesses. He appears to be based on the main character Alex from Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange novel.
Introduced in Real Bout Fatal Fury 2
[edit]Lao
[edit]Lao (ラオ, Rao) is a character who first appears in the opening sequence of Real Bout 2, being defeated by Rick Strowd. He makes his only playable appearance in the versus mode of Fatal Fury: First Contact. In Garou: Mark of the Wolves, he becomes a member of B. Jenet's Lillien Knights crew.
Li Xiangfei
[edit]- Voiced by: Mami Kingetsu
Li Xiangfei (Chinese: 李 香緋; Pinyin: Lǐ Xiāngfēi; Japanese: 李 香緋 Rii Shanfei) makes her first appearance in Real Bout 2. She is a 17-year-old Chinese-American girl who works part-time as waitress in her Uncle Pai's restaurant in the Chinatown district of South Town and has trained in various Chinese martial arts since an early age. She also appears as a playable character in Fatal Fury: Wild Ambition.
Li Xiangfei would later make her debut in The King of Fighters series in The King of Fighters '99, forming part of the Woman Fighters Team along with King, Blue Mary, and Kasumi Todoh.[107] She was absent in The King of Fighters 2000, but would return in The King of Fighters 2001, taking Kasumi Todoh's place from the previous game.[108]
Rick Strowd
[edit]- Voiced by: Taney Yamaguchi
Rick Strowd (リック・ストラウド, Rikku Sutoraudo) is one of the two new characters introduced in Real Bout 2.[109] He is a casino show boxer known as the "White Wolf of the Ring", who is the son of a Native American father and a white mother. He seeks the opportunity to fight in a championship match as well as fight Terry Bogard. Rick's Special Moves are the Shooting Star, the Divine Blast, the Hellion, and the Blazing Sun Burst. He also has a special dodging maneuver called Full Moon Fever. His Super Special is the Gaia's Breath, and his Hidden Ability is the Machine-Gun Wolf. Rick is seen to have a girlfriend, a blonde woman wearing a red dress, name unknown, with whom he rides off into sunset on horseback in his ending. Fans have speculated a probable connection between him and fellow boxer, Vanessa, from SNK's King of Fighters series, as she later began using Rick's Hellion, and had the Gaia's Breath as a DM in The King of Fighters 2002.
Introduced in Wild Ambition
[edit]Toji Sakata
[edit]- Voiced by: Masashi Sugawara
Toji Sakata (坂田 冬次, Sakata Tōji) is one of two characters who appears exclusively in Fatal Fury: Wild Ambition. He is the legendary practitioner of the fighting style Dainan-ryū Aiki-jūjutsu (大南流合気柔術, lit. "The Great South Style of Aiki-jūjutsu", modeled the non-fictional Daitō-ryū Aiki-jūjutsu). He was once the best friend and the rival of Tatsumi Suoh (周防 辰巳, Suō Tatsumi), Blue Mary's grandfather and the man who trained Geese Howard in jujutsu. Believing that he was destined to challenge Tatsumi in a death match, this encounter never occurred since Tatsumi was eventually killed by his former student, Geese Howard. He enters the King of Fighters tournament to defeat the man who killed his rival.[110]
Tsugumi Sendo
[edit]- Voiced by: Kayo Deguchi
Tsugumi Sendo (千堂 つぐみ, Sendō Tsugumi) is one of the two new characters exclusive to Fatal Fury: Wild Ambition. She's a high school girl from Osaka who was taught wrestling by her father, Kantetsu (寛鉄) since an early age. However, she is secretly ashamed of this, especially after she was told by a boy she had a crush on that women wrestlers are "unfeminine", after hearing this she wanted to drop out of her wrestling training. After butting heads with her overbearing father, Kantetsu will allow her to drop out, but only under the condition that she brings a decisive victory in the King of Fighters tournament. Despite her original hatred for wrestling, she has come to enjoy fighting as she began to win matches.[111] Some of Tsugumi's move names reference her hometown, like "Tsūtenkaku Driver", "Naniwa Lariat", and "Okonomiyaki-Ire".
Introduced in Mark of the Wolves
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B. Jenet
[edit]- Voiced by: Rei Saitō (MOTW–KOFAS), Mikako Komatsu (KOF XV–COTW) (Japanese); Gina Rose (KOF: MI2), Amber Lee Connors (COTW) (English)
B. Jenet (B・ジェニー, B Jenī), real name Jenet Behrn (ジェニー・バーン, Jenī Bān), is the leader of a group of pirates known as the Lillien Knights. Jenet entered the Maximum Mayhem to rob Kain R. Heinlein of anything valuable he might be keeping in his mansion. In her ending, she passes out amidst the destruction of Kain's mansion after defeating him. Her crew saves her from being trapped under the rubble, but fails to secure any of the treasure they had been looking for. She decides to stay in South Town for some time, leading her to participate in the new King of Fighters tournament in City of the Wolves.
In The King of Fighters Maximum Impact 2, her parents are revealed to be incredibly wealthy; she formed the Lillien Knights when she became bored of her tedious lifestyle. Before the start of the tournament, she attends a party in her otherwise occupied parents' place. While there, the son of the host attempts (and fails quite miserably) to impress her with his paltry skills in Savate. Although Jenet is rather repulsed by his arrogance and embarrassing lack of skill, she learns from him that the King of Fighters tournament is being held once again. After her Lillien Knights knock the man unconscious and rob his father, Jenet decides to join the tournament in hopes of winning the prize money. She is voiced by Rei Saitō in Japanese, and by Gina Rose in the English version of KOF: MI2.
Jenet is very comfortable around men, and her win quotes and prefight and postfight animations express that she doesn't seem very serious about fighting. In The King of Fighters XI, she was in the tournament for monetary gain strictly, and she enters with Tizoc and Gato to form the Fatal Fury/Mark of the Wolves team.
Her fighting style, the LK (Lillien Knights) arts, is similar to savate, a French form of kickboxing. Her moves are mostly made up of attacks by swooping her dress (in moves such as specials "The Hind" and "Crazy Ivan" and Super Special Move "Aurora") and she is able to control the wind (being reflected in her projectile attack "Buffrass" and her Super Special Move "Too Many Torpedoes"). Her Super Special Leader Move "An Oi Madamoiselle" sees her take off her left shoe and beat her opponent with it.
Her appearance consists of a purple dress with a skull and crossbones, red fingerless gloves, a red belt with gold lining, and blonde hair, along with stiletto heels as used in "An Oi Madamoiselle".
Freeman
[edit]- Voiced by: Eiji Yano
Freeman (フリーマン, Furīman), real name unknown, is a mysterious English serial killer that fights using slashing movements with his hands as if they were claws. Little is known about him, except that he killed Kevin Rian's partner. Many of Freeman's special techniques are references to heavy metal bands, such as Nightmare, Morbid Angel, Overkill, and Vision of Disorder.
Gato
[edit]- Voiced by: Kōji Ishii (MOTW–KOF XI), Yuma Yamaguchi (KOF XV onwards)
Gato (牙刀, Gatō) is a martial artist searching for his missing father, seeking revenge on him for killing his mother. In his Mark of the Wolves ending, a stranger — insinuated to be Gato's father — saves Kain R. Heinlein from the crumbling mansion, but blinds Gato before he can act. As the stranger taunts Gato, he angrily swears vengeance. Gato is also implied to be the older brother of Hotaru Futaba, though he keeps his distance for her protection.
Gato first appears in the King of Fighters series in King of Fighters 2003 as part of the Outlaw Team, along with Ryuji Yamazaki and Billy Kane. Gato is summoned to Geese Howard's office and forced to cooperate in order to prevent his sister from being harmed. Gato does not like his teammates at all as revealed by the ending, in which Gato ditches the other two immediately and tells them off, leaving Yamazaki and Billy to fight. In The King of Fighters XI he is partnered with B. Jenet and Tizoc to form a Garou Team. He also immediately leaves them, though on friendlier terms.
Grant
[edit]- Voiced by: Yō Kitazawa
Grant (グラント, Guranto), real name Abel Cameron (アベル・キャメロン, Aberu Kyameron), is Kain R. Heinlein's closest friend and personal bodyguard. Having protected Kain since he was young, Grant becomes disillusioned with the state of the world, and makes a deal with a dark entity that grants him knowledge of the dark style known as Ankoku Karate. Prior to the events of Mark of the Wolves, Grant takes a bullet for Kain that becomes lodged near his heart, leading him to seek one last great battle before it kills him. He appears as the sub-boss of Mark of the Wolves, finally perishing after his defeat. In City of the Wolves, his apprentice Vox Reaper carries on his will, donning the remains of his mask.[112]
Hokutomaru
[edit]- Voiced by: Junko Takeuchi
Hokutomaru (北斗丸) is a ninja and the student of Andy Bogard, who sends him to participate in the Maximum Mayhem tournament to complete his Shiranui style ninjutsu training. He is extremely fast and crafty, with many moves that are among the fastest in Garou, making him a nearly unpredictable opponent to deal with. His stage is a traffic accident that he caused, as he was unfamiliar with urban ways due to his age and training. Hokutomaru carries a sword on his back, but he seldom draws it except during two special moves.
Hotaru Futaba
[edit]- Voiced by: Yuki Horie (MOTW–KOFAS), Manaka Iwami (COTW) (Japanese); Suzie Yeung (COTW)[113] (English)
Hotaru Futaba (双葉 ほたる, Futaba Hotaru) is a martial artist who practices the Juu-kei style of Chinese kenpo, though she generally dislikes violence. Following her mother's death and her father and brother's disappearance, she enters the Maximum Mayhem tournament after hearing rumors her brother is participating. In her ending, she meets up with Gato, begging him to come home, but he denies knowing her and departs as she silently prays for her brother to return to her. As of City of the Wolves, she continues to search for her missing brother.
Outside of the Fatal Fury series, Hotaru is playable in Neo Geo Battle Coliseum and the PS2 version of The King of Fighters XI.
Kain R. Heinlein
[edit]- Voiced by: Jun Hashimoto
Kain R. Heinlein (カイン・R・ハインライン, Kain R Hainrain) is Rock Howard's maternal uncle, being the younger brother of Rock's deceased mother Marie Heinlein. Having grown up in poverty and surrounded by violence, he sought power and rose up the ranks of Second Southtown's criminal underworld. After learning of Geese Howard's death, he began planning to secede Second Southtown from the United States, turning it into a city-state where the strong rule over the weak. To accomplish this, he hosted the King of Fighters Maximum Mayhem tournament to draw out Rock Howard, planning to use him to obtain his father Geese's fortune and gain the resources needed to accomplish his goals. He appears as the final boss of Garou: Mark of the Wolves, and is set to return in the upcoming Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves.
Kevin Rian
[edit]- Voiced by: Yō Kitazawa (MOTW), Akihiro Sakata (COTW) (Japanese); Jonah Scott (COTW) (English)
Kevin Rian (ケビン・ライアン, Kebin Raian) is a high-spirited SWAT officer stationed in Second Southtown, with a nearly flawless arrest record. After his partner and best friend is murdered by Freeman, he enters the Maximum Mayhem tournament in hopes of finding his killer. He is cheered on in his fights by Marky, his partner's young son whom he adopts after his death. Kevin returns in City of the Wolves, still searching for Freeman to avenge his partner. He fights using Sambo, similar to his distant relative Blue Mary,[114] although much of his fighting style revolves more around direct strikes than grappling.
Kim Dong-Hwan
[edit]- Voiced by: Jun Hashimoto (MOTW), Eiji Takeuchi (COTW) (Japanese); Jerron Bacat (COTW) (English)
Kim Dong-Hwan (キム・ドンファン, Kimu Donfan), sometimes written as 김동환 (Kim Dong-hwan), was taught Taekwondo by his father, Kim Kaphwan, using techniques infused with lightning, and has a friendly rivalry with his younger brother Kim Jae-Hoon. He is more of a show-off and slacker than his brother, relying more on aerial attacks and juggles (i.e. attacks that strike the opponent into the air uncontrollably). He believes he is a "genius" in the story, and doesn't need to study diligently in order to master Taekwondo, but his father and brother see it differently.
Kim Jae-Hoon
[edit]- Voiced by: Hiroki Asakawa
Kim Jae-Hoon (キム・ジェイフン, Kimu Jeifun), sometimes written as 김재훈 (Kim Jae-hoon), was taught Taekwondo by his father, Kim Kaphwan, using techniques infused with fire, and is a brother of Dong Hwan's. Jae-Hoon admires his father, so he fights more like him than Dong-Hwan does, with a combination of high and low attacks with plenty of power behind them. Like his father, he has a strong sense of justice and chivalry, but unlike his brother, he establishes his strength through constant practice.
Marco Rodrigues
[edit]- Voiced by: Hikaru Hanada (MOTW), Kenichirou Matsuda (COTW) (Japanese); Earl Baylon (COTW) (English)
Marco Rodrigues (マルコ・ロドリゲス, Maruko Rodorigesu) is a Brazilian Kyokugen-style karate expert, who trained under Ryo Sakazaki. He leads a somewhat austere life in a wooded area on the outskirts of town, and fights using powerful, deliberate attacks. He enters the Maximum Mayhem tournament to help promote Kyokogenryu and lure new students to his dojo. In City of the Wolves, he is forced to train at Yuri Sakazaki's fitness club due to his dojo's sign being stolen, and enters the King of Fighters tournament to reclaim it and rebuild his dojo's reputation. Just like Ryo, he has several famous moves from Art of Fighting with some of his own derivatives.
Marco was renamed Khushnood Butt in the U.S. release of Garou: Mark of the Wolves, possibly to avoid confusion with mixed martial artist Ricco Rodriguez; the character's name would be reverted to Marco in future localizations beginning in The King of Fighters XV (2022).
Rock Howard
[edit]Tizoc / King of Dinosaurs
[edit]- Voiced by: Hikaru Hanada (Japanese); Jalen K. Cassell (COTW)[113] (English)
Tizoc, otherwise known as Griffon Mask (グリフォンマスク, Gurifon Masuku) or the Griffon in the Japanese version, is a character from both the Fatal Fury and King of Fighters series. He started out in the Fatal Fury game Garou: Mark of the Wolves and is described as being a well-renowned and popular professional wrestler. By the time of Garou: Mark of The Wolves, Tizoc already sees himself as a washed up has-been and enters the Maximum Mayhem tournament in order to regain his passion for wrestling.
When the events of King of Fighters 2003 occur, Tizoc is an up-and-coming superstar in the professional wrestling circuit and joins the Fatal Fury team after being invited by Terry Bogard himself after his brother Andy becomes unavailable since he is teaching the young Hokutomaru in Shiranui style ninjutsu in Japan. In The King of Fighters XIV, there is a new character known as King of Dinosaurs (キング・オブ・ダイナソー, Kingu Obu Dainasō), who shares the same voice actor, a similar fighting style, build, color schemes and feather decor as Tizoc, now teamed with the former NESTS agent Angel and Ramon on Team Mexico. During the tournament, several opponents, such as Tizoc's former teammate Terry, easily address King of Dinosaurs as Tizoc despite the new fighter's denials,[115][116] while other characters, who may or may not identify King of Dinosaurs as Tizoc, merely deem him foolish.[117] Despite Eisuke Ogura's pre-release claims that King Of Dinosaurs is not Tizoc,[118] the Team Mexico ending reveals that King of Dinosaurs is in fact Tizoc who suffered a humiliating defeat by Nelson. To seek revenge, Tizoc adopted a new "heel" persona, King of Dinosaurs, relying on his teammates Ángel and Ramón to help cover his former identity. In The King of Fighters XV, King of Dinosaurs and Ramón team up with former KOF XIV tournament host Antonov to form the new wrestling team named "Team G.A.W. (Galaxy Anton Wrestling)".
Introduced in City of the Wolves
[edit]Chun-Li
[edit]Ken Masters
[edit]Preecha
[edit]- Voiced by: Chika Anzai (Japanese); Mia Paige (English)[113]
Preecha (プリチャ, Puricha) is a student of Joe Higashi. She is boisterous and scientifically minded, using her battles to study her opponents and how their techniques utilize ki. Like Joe, she uses a Muay Thai-based fighting style.[119]
Vox Reaper
[edit]- Voiced by: Toshiyuki Toyonaga (Japanese); Erik Ransom (English)[112]
Vox Reaper (ボックス・リーパー, Bokkusu Rīpā) is a karate fighter and street assassin. Following a failed assassination attempt on Kain R. Heinlein, Kain's bodyguard Grant sees potential in Vox and takes him on as an apprentice. After Grant's death, Vox chooses to carry on his will and help Kain achieve his goals.[112]
Reception
[edit]The characters from Fatal Fury have received major positive reaction with GamesRadar calling Terry Bogard as "one of SNK's most memorable characters", as 86th "most memorable, influential, and badass" protagonist in games.[120] IGN praised the increase of the series' cast but heavily criticized the final boss Geese Howard for his high difficulty.[121] Avi Krebs from GamingExcellence.com commented that Billy Kane is one of the hardest boss characters from the first Fatal Fury, but he remains "pale" in comparison to Geese.[122] Kotaku's Patricia Hernandez wrote "one of Fatal Fury 2's biggest contributions to the medium was that it was the first game to introduce a character with breasts that moved on their own. Known as Mai Shiranui, that character is famed for having very, uh, lively breasts. Though Fatal Fury may not be a huge franchise nowadays, its legacy is very much alive: many top fighting games include a similar jiggle effect".[123] While acknowledging that Fatal Fury fans might be disappointed by the reduced roster of fighters in Fatal Fury 3, GamePro praised the new third fighting plane and ranking system, and concluded that "instead of simply adding more fighters, FF3 does more with fewer fighters (hidden moves and so on) and a unique method of gameplay".[124] They remarked that Bob and Franco are "uninteresting" new characters but praising and the modifications to Mai Shiranui's Swan Dive attack.[125] The cast of Garou was praised for their animations which was compared with the ones from Marvel vs. Capcom 2.[126]
THEM Anime Reviews criticized the characterization of the main characters in the three films citing them as "one-dimensional" and also the villains.[127][128][129] On the other hand, Anime News Network's Bamboo Dong enjoyed the portrayal of the characters in the films, particularly praising Terry's character development as "most adaptations of this nature barely let their characters show any weaknesses at all, much less an extended period of insecurity and despair, so it was pretty compelling seeing Terry's journey through his dark period".[130] In another review, Dong praised the selection of the main characters.[131] Chris Beveridge from Mania Beyond Entertainment also praised the development of the characters such as the interactions between the couple of Andy Bogard and Mai Shiranui as well as the grief of Terry over the loss of his girlfriend.[132]
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