Fei-Long

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Fei Long
Street Fighter series character
File:Super Fei-Long.jpg Fei Long in Super Street Fighter II, drawn by Bengus.
First game	Super Street Fighter II

Fei-Long (フェイロン, Fei Ron, Chinese: 飛龍, Pinyin: Fēi-Lóng, meaning Flying Dragon, also the Chinese equivalent to Wyvern) is a video game character from Capcom's Street Fighter fighting game series.

Appearances

Fei-Long made his first appearance in Super Street Fighter II (Template:Vgy) as one of the four new characters introduced in the game. Fei-Long is depicted as an action film star from Hong Kong who enters the World Warrior tournament to test his skill as a martial artist. In his ending in the game, he gives up his film career and forms his own Kung-Fu style known as the Sky-Flying style (飛天流, Hitenryū). This dude is a mad mac.

Fei-Long was designed as a pastiche of real-life martial artist and movie star Bruce Lee. The English localization of the original arcade game pays tribute to Bruce Lee by having Fei-Long state "there could never be another legend like the great one and his son", a reference to Bruce Lee and his son Brandon, who died shortly before the release of the game, although these references were removed in the revised localization of the Game Boy Advance version of the game.

Fei-Long reappears in the console versions of Street Fighter Alpha 3 (Template:Vgy). The game takes place before Fei-Long achieved fame as a movie star, as he makes his first hit movie in his ending in the game. He returns as a playable character in the console versions of Street Fighter IV. His alternate costume in Street Fighter IV resembles Bruce Lee's outfit in Enter the Dragon.

As a non-playable character, Fei-Long appears as a spectator in Dan's stage in Street Fighter Alpha 2 and in Felicia's ending in Super Gem Fighter: Mini-Mix, in which he also has a cameo in one of the stages, in a ramen restaurant.

Stage

Fei-Long's original stage in Super Street Fighter II was inspired by the Tiger Balm Gardens. The stage bears a strong resemblance to the park and in addition, the same kanji that form the name of the place can be read in the carpet covering the floor of the stage, as follows: 虎豹別墅, Pinyin: Hǔ bào bié shù, meaning literally "The Tiger Villa", which was another name of the gardens.

In Street Fighter Alpha 3, his stage was inspired by Kowloon Park.

In other media

• In Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie, Fei-Long appears as an opponent who challenges Ryu to a match while taking a break from filming his new movie. He loses the fight with a broken arm, but he and Ryu become friends after Fei Long realises that his opponent was the one who beat Sagat. He was voiced by real-life martial artist Masakatsu Funaki in Japanese and voice actor Philip Williams in the English.
• In the anime series Street Fighter II V, Fei-Long is portrayed as martial artist and movie star who is a childhood acquaintance of Chun-Li, having been trained by her father, Inspector Dorai. He ends up fighting against Ken, who poses as a stunt actor during the filming of a new movie, and the two become friendly acquaintances along with Ryu. He later ends up having to protect his injured master from Cammy, who has been sent to kill him on Balrog's orders.
• In the UDON Comics adaptation of the Street Fighter storyline, Fei-Long is caught up in Shadaloo's affairs after turning down a criminal movie producer's offer. Eventually, he joins Chun-Li and Gen to bring down the heads of the Hong Kong Shadaloo operation, Xiayu and Yanyu (two of M. Bison's Doll agents). They engage the pair at their Triad compound and fight off a legion of thugs and criminals before they send the duo running.
• Fei-Long also appears briefly in the manga Cammy by Masahiko Nakahira. He challenges Cammy to a fight although he is ignored by her, and then is forced to return to a movie shooting. Nakahira depicted Fei-Long wearing Bruce Lee's trademark yellow tracksuit with black sidestripes from Game of Death.

Promotion and reception

The Seattle Times described Fei-Long as "the deadliest" of the new characters introduced in Super Street Fighter II. IGN ranked Fei-Long at number nineteen in their "Top 25 Street Fighter Characters" article, stating "If there's any martial arts star who deserves a videogame homage, though, Bruce Lee is probably the one. Fei Long helped begin a long...string of characters inspired by the kung fu icon Bruce Lee".

External links

• Fei Long's Street Fighter II, Street Fighter Alpha, and Street Fighter IV entries at StrategyWiki.org