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Plot guide of all games that officially exist within the canon Street
Fighter storyline, and how they fit into what has been officially confirmed
as canon by Capcom of Japan. This FAQ was maintained by Tiamat, and now by
vasili10. Please do not post it on other sites without permission, or claim
credit for writing it, unless you're one of the people in the credits section
of course. Credit is given to many of the people listed in the Special Thanks
section, many of whom provided MUCH of the info that led this FAQ.
If you're having trouble getting the guide to fully load, I find that
clearing your temporary Internet files and then trying again sometimes
works.
The latest version of this guide can always be found on gamefaqs.com, where
updates are submitted as progress continues. Thus check Gamefaqs before
anywhere else as it's the only place guaranteed to have the newest version
of the guide, via the following URL:
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Disclaimer: As of this writing, vasili10 is not an employee of Capcom nor
has he ever been one. Nor is he the one in charge of Street Fighter's
storyline at Capcom HQ. The ramifications behind this and the guide should
be self-explanatory.
Slight language warning. This guide contains exerpts from various
official statements, some of which have a little amount of profanity in
them. I don't think even the Final Fight Streetwise statements get THAT
gratuitous, though. About the worst that comes about is an older exerpt
for M. Bison, and that's marked away with asterisks.
This FAQ uses the original Japanese naming convention, with overseas
names being secondary. Regarding the majority of information it takes
into consideration, it goes by the original pre-localized authentic history
as revealed by Capcom Japan. "Authentic history" or "seishi" in Japanese
is what is considered the equivalent of the term "canon."
With the previous paragraph taken into account, the guide when using the term
"Capcom" (by itself, no "of" or region name attached to the end) is understood
to refer to Capcom Japan aka CJ aka the parent corporation responsible for
producing SF universe material prior to any localization actions. Capcom's
American branch shall always be noted as such (Capcom of America, Capcom USA,
CUSA and so forth), and due to English being the primary text base for other
regions of the world, outside Japan, including Europe, Latin America, and the
rest of Asia, all non-Japanese nomenclature references are herein dubbed as
simply "overseas" references.
What you will not find within this guide is a comprehensive list of
differences from the overseas English-text based games and sources as
compared to the original Japanese (that would take a whole other FAQ which
would end up being around as big as this one). The guide's priority isn't
doing that nor is it to badmouth localized results, but to provide what's
correct, first and foremost, in accordance with the seishi creators. If
readers would like to know more of how the sources and games themselves differ
from English text to Japanese and vice versa, the maintainer welcomes
questions, concerns and comments through his contact info listed at the end
of this document, and will do his best to respond accordingly.
Acronyms
SFZ1 = Street Fighter Zero
SFZ2 = Street Fighter Zero 2. SFZ2's storyline expands and overrides SFZ1.
Capcom has stated as such.
SFZ3 = Street Fighter Zero 3
SF1 = Street Fighter 1
SF2 = Street Fighter 2 and all its versions. Note that the latest version
of SF2 (currently Super Street Fighter 2 X Revival) released by Capcom
overrides all previous ones.
2I = Street Fighter 3 Second Impact. It expands and overrides Street
Fighter 3 New Generation.
3S = Street Fighter 3 Third Strike.
FF1 = Final Fight 1
FF2 = Final Fight 2
FFT = Final Fight Tough
FFSW = Final Fight Streetwise
MB = Muscle Bomber
SMB = Super Muscle Bomber
VSS = the commonly known "dolls" but more appropriately titled the Vega SS,
the Vega Bodyguard Troops or the VSS for short throughout this guide (See the
Shadaloo miscellaneous section for the reasoning why)
Etc. etc. Etc. I'll probably use more acronyms but you should be able to
figure them out.
Contents:
(use the Find feature Ctrl+F and plug in the page number then hit
enter a few times or whatever to instantly warp to the listed page)
pgI. Revision History
pgII. Introduction and Opening Statement
pgIII. Timeline and Canon Games
pgIIIAboutMuscleBomber.
pgIIIAboutPrivateJusticeAcademy.
pgIIIAboutFinalFight.
pgIIIFinalFight1989.
pgIIIAboutCapcomClassicsCollection.
pgIIIAboutFFR.
pgIIIAboutFFSW.
pgIIIAboutCaptainCommando.
pgIIIAbsentGames.
pgIIIVSGames.
pgIIIAboutAnimeEtc.
pgIIISFComic.
pgIIIContinuity.
pgIIIReleaseDates.
pgIV. Quickie Game Summaries (Ctrl+F the page number to find that game)
pgIVMBSMB. Muscle Bomber & Super Muscle Bomber
pgIVSF1. Street Fighter 1
pgIVFF1. Final Fight 1 (Final Fight One)
pgIVSFZ1. Street Fighter Zero 1
pgIVSFZ2. Street Fighter Zero 2
pgIVFF2. Final Fight 2
pgIVSFZ3. Street Fighter Zero 3 (latest version being Street Fighter
Zero 3 Double Upper)
pgIVFFT. Final Fight Tough
pgIVSF2. Street Fighter 2 (Super Street Fighter 2 X Revival)
pgIVSF4. Street Fighter 4
pgIVSSF4. Super Street Fighter 4 (including AE and Ultra)
pgIVSF3. Street Fighter 3 New Generation/Second Impact
pgIVSF3TS. Street Fighter 3 Third Strike
pgIVFFSW. Final Fight Streetwise
pgV.A-Z Major Characters List (Ctrl+F the page number to find that char)
pgV2Ill.
pgVAbel.
pgVAbigail.
pgVAdon.
pgVAlekseyZalazof.
pgVAlex.
pgVAndore.
pgVAstro.
pgVBalrog.
pgVBella.
pgVBelger.
pgVBirdie.
pgVBlack.
pgVBlackWidow.
pgVBlades.
pgVBlanka.
pgVBratken.
pgVCaine.
pgVCallman.
pgVCammy.
pgVCarlos.
pgVChang.
pgVChunLi.
pgVCody.
pgVCViper.
pgVDamnd.
pgVDan.
pgVDave.
pgVDean.
pgvDecapre.
pgVDeeJay.
pgVDhalsim.
pgVDrake.
pgVDudley.
pgVEagle.
pgVEdiE.
pgVEHonda.
pgVElena.
pgVElFuerte.
pgVElGado.
pgVElStinger.
pgVFeiLong.
pgVFreak.
pgVFreddie.
pgVGeki.
pgVGen.
pgVGhost.
pgVGill.
pgVGouken.
pgVGouki.
pgVGuile.
pgVGuy.
pgVHaggar.
pgVHakan.
pgVHandsomeBob.
pgVHarryHicks.
pgVHugo.
pgVIbuki.
pgVIngrid.
pgVJessica.
pgVJoe.
pgVJuli.
pgVJuni.
pgVJuri.
pgVKarin.
pgVKen.
pgVKimalatheBouncer.
pgVKyle.
pgVLee.
pgVLocksmith.
pgVLou.
pgVLucia.
pgVLuckyColt.
pgVMaki.
pgVMakoto.
pgVMike.
pgVMBison.
pgVMissingIQGomes.
pgVMysteriousBudo.
pgVNash.
pgVNecro.
pgVOni.
pgVOro.
pgVPaco.
pgVPhillipe.
pgVPoison.
pgVQ.
pgVRMika.
pgVRemy.
pgVRetsu.
pgVRetu.
pgVRipSaber.
pgVRolento.
pgVRose.
pgVRufus.
pgVRyu.
pgVSagat.
pgVSakura.
pgVSnHRyu.
pgVSean.
pgVSgtSims.
pgVSeth.
pgVSheeptheRoyal.
pgVSodom.
pgVStiff.
pgVStray.
pgVTHawk.
pgVTitantheGreat.
pgVTwelve.
pgVUrien.
pgVVanessa.
pgVVega.
pgVVictorOrtega.
pgVVitto.
pgVWeasel.
pgVWonWon.
pgVWong.
pgVWraith.
pgVYang.
pgVYun.
pgVZangief.
pgVI. Antagonistic Organizations (plus Metro City for FFSW purposes)
pgVIMadGear.
pgVIShadaloo.
pgVISkullCrossGang.
pgVIHMKS. (placeholder for the Secret Society aka Himitsu Kessha)
pgVIMetroCity.
pgVII. Miscellaneous Questions
pgVIIDestroyPsychoDrive.
pgVIISatsuiNoHadou.
pgVIITournaments.
pgVIIWinners.
pgVIIReconciliation.
pgVIISFBeauty.
pgVIIStages.
pgVIIVoiceActors.
pgVIISF3Judges.
pgVIISpecialMoves.
pgVIIPowerTiers.
pgVIIStoryWriters.
pgVIIPronounce.
pgVIIWutSources.
pgVIITiamatJerk.
pgVIINextSF.
pgVIISFLicense.
pgVIIRandom.
pgVIII. Credits and Special Thanks and Author Contact Info
pgVIIISources.
pgVIIIArtCaptions.
pgVIIIContact.
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pgI. Revision History
- Version 5.u additions:
Ultra info included and updated, plus more tidying and sprucing.
- Version 5.ae additions:
AE info included and updated, plus some more usual cleaning and bookkeeping.
- Version 5.0 additions:
SSF4 coverage completed with the exception of any additional AE info, more
bookkeeping as needed and noted. Construction sign on top finally lifted.
- Version 4.9 additions:
SF3 coverage completed, plus a few more bits of SSF4, and still more of the
usual bookkeeping.
- Version 4.8 additions:
SFZ3 and entire Zero series plus SF2 coverage completed, a few more bits of
SSF4 included, and as always more bookkeeping.
- Version 4.7 additions:
SF4 coverage completed, started on touching up Z3 battle summaries, Z3 updates
to most of Z1's original 13-face cast, starting on preliminary SF4 rival battle
summaries, tiny peeks at upcoming SSF4, and MUCH more bookkeeping n' stuff as
before.
- Version 4.6 additions:
New SF4 character sections, Zero 2 battle summaries touched up, at least a
little update for each SF2 and SFZ2 face as well as for Cody, Karin, and
R. Mika, more bookkeeping here and there, like stated below, just stuff.
- Version 4.5 additions:
Maki isn't in love with Guy (far as we know, anyways). Misinterpreted the
translation on that.
Makoto's grandfather is still alive (you can see her brother and grandfather
in her ending. Her grandpa's holding a photo of Masaru, Makoto's late father).
The old man has tears in his eyes that the dojo can go on.
....Just stuff. Updating this guide takes long enough without listing
all the revisions. On that note, Tiamat's removed previous revisions (but
has them archived on his computer) because they were taking up too much
space.
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pgII. Introduction and Opening Statement
The purpose of this FAQ is to give a coherent presentation of
the storyline of Capcom's Street Fighter series, and all the many games
that tie into it. This FAQ relies on official statements and confirmations
from stuff that is canon, as well as using info from the games to determine
stuff that is PROBABLY part of the official canon storyline. If I don't
have a complete 100% assurance, even if it's only a slight bit of doubt on
a bit of info, that bit of info shall be marked as such.
Canon, for the purpose of this guide, is what is known as authentic history.
Over the 20+ years of the saga's history, Capcom Japan has leaked piles upon
piles of information about the SF universe which serve as the threads that
bind the saga's chapters together, and unfortunately Capcom's overseas branches
have often compromised these threads in both amount and genuinity. Contrary
to what many people might think, more often than not, Capcom does take into
account what's been previously written. As a result, flat-out rewrites are
relatively few, and are pushed aside in favor of fleshing out or simply
filling in previous blanks. Retcons or rewrites are usually placed on a
last-resort basis, when there's no possibility for two or more elements to
co-exist, in which the newer elements thoroughly replace the old. Hence, even
accounts for a game like SFZ1 hold true as long as they don't conflict with
anything written or stated later on. Finally, nothing is retconned out of
existence simply because it's been forgotten or ignored. Ignorance fails to
equal denial. Even though you don't read or hear about them much, minor
characters such as Ojou-san, Mr. Marik of Shadaloo and Honda's brother still
exist within the SF universe.
SF canon has come about in two ways: either Capcom directly produces it and
releases it publicly (usually through sourcebooks, magazines, guides, or
interviews), or Capcom's inspired by selected elements within various media
materials (most notably the SF2 Animated Movie and selected mangas produced
by Nakahira Masahiko-sensei) and incorporates them into their established
authentic history. One point to note, is that for canon established by Capcom's
inspiration, the material as a whole is never established as canon, only bits
and pieces of it are. Hence for example, Kanzuki Karin is a member of the SF
universe, but the manga she came from, Sakura Ganbaru!, still stands alone from
the SF saga's continuity. A final note on this, Udon has yet to inspire
Capcom with any elements of its comics as opposed to Nakahira-sensei's manga
which continues to do so as recently as with SF4 and SSF4 alike.
Nonetheless, Capcom has been known to retroactively change their storylines and
established canon. Due to this, if you see something in an older game and
there's a new version of it in a newer game that obviously conflicts, take the
new version and forget the old. This FAQ goes by the latest, most up-to-date
version of the storyline which is the currently authentic one, and it shall
continue to try to keep up to date. However, I shall try to mention times when
Capcom has retroactively changed already-established parts of the storyline.
Capcom's also not without a sense of humor as well, even within their own
publications. Fortunately most cases such as these will have them stating
things like "this page is all a lie!", especially for their flyers illustrating
what seem to be genuine facts, but are written in tabloid formats, complete
with impossible street dates like June 66 or Feb. 31.
Oh, THERE ARE NO ANIMES, MANGAS, MOVIES, COMIC BOOKS, OR GRAPHIC NOVELS
THAT OFFICIALLY ARE PART OF THE CANON. Not anymore anyway. One exception to
this was a short SF1 manga released by Capcom itself. It's been null and void
since the Zero series was released. With the most recent additions to the saga
from SF4 and SSF4 with its AE and Ultra exapansions, only the animated openings
and endings qualify for seishi status at this point. Excluded are the four
promotion trailers featuring Ryu, Chun-Li, Sakura, and C. Viper respectively,
as well as the new anime Newly Become Bonds aka The Ties That Bind. SSF4's
XBOX360-exclusive original animation featuring Juri is also currently excluded
from seishi status.
Of course, even then, you have to remember that a significant amount of
endings in the games don't happen. This is usually true for all fighting
game series. There are many endings that are just filler because the company
couldn't think of anything else, while there are many that can probably be
assumed to be canon depending on what happens in them and many more which
the company has stated actually did officially happen, whether it was
certain bits and pieces or in their entirety. The most significant example
of such cases was the multitudes of outcomes in Street Fighter Zero 3.
The SF Eternal translated version is influenced by Capcom of America
(Confirmed by Erik Ko of Studio Udon). So expect Vega to be M. Bison,
M. Bison to be Balrog, and Balrog to be Vega, ansatsuken to be Shotokan
(since that's what Udon had to use for the comic), and more. The recently
released Street Fighter World Warrior Encyclopedia is a hodgepodge of seishi,
overseas bits, and Udon's own input (as if the overseas editions of the games
themselves weren't divergent enough), making it a SF reference book according
to Udon first and foremost, despite any and all claims that it's any kind of
authoritative source in accordance with Capcom Japan's seishi.
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pgIII. Timeline and Canon Games
This is the order that the games within the Street Fighter plot's
universe takes place. The majority of these dates are official statements.
Muscle Bomber/Duo (1981, probably, going by Haggar's age)
Super Muscle Bomber (1982, probably. Ditto)
Street Fighter & Final Fight 1 (1987. FF1 stated to take place after SF1.)
Final Fight 2/Street Fighter Zero 1&2 (late 1987 thru early 1989: Guy wasn't
in FF2 because he was training, FF2 took place 1 year after FF1)
Street Fighter Zero 3 (1989 thru early 1990. Double Upper is the latest
version, Cammy ages from 15 to 16 by the time the psycho drive's destroyed)
Final Fight Tough (1991 is most likely)
Street Fighter 2 (1993. X Revival is the latest version)
Street Fighter 4 (1994, one year after SF2)
Super Street Fighter 4 (late 1994 to early 1995, Ultra SF4 is the latest
version)
Street Fighter 3 New Generation and SF3 Second Impact (1998. Second
Impact replaces and expands on New Generation)
Street Fighter 3 Third Strike (1999. This is SF3's epilogue)
Final Fight Streetwise (2006 going by release date. Lots of evidence
that it takes place waaaaaay after Final Fight 1, and the urban culture is
likely intended to be based around this date as well.)
pgIIIAboutMuscleBomber.
About Muscle Bomber's place in the timeline: Annoyingly,
Haggar being 'ex-mayor' during those games was made up by Capcom
of USA, if even that much. All About Capcom states that Haggar was in the
middle of elections during Muscle Bomber. Heck, even Haggar's profile in the
Super Nintendo Final Fight 1 instruction book for the US states that he
left wrestling to become the mayor. As for Hugo's Street Fighter 3 Second
Impact ending with the CWA, those are definitely just joke endings
that never happened (he doesn't have any tag team partners in Third Strike
nor does his Third Strike storyline indicate that his endings could have
happened in any way) and not meant to be taken seriously. Haggar's
appearance as a wrestler in those endings is most likely just an Easter
egg. If they aren't just Easter eggs, that's fine too and doesn't
contradict because it's wholly possible that Haggar has decided to go back
to wrestling since then because his tenure as mayor ended two years after
SFZ3 according to All About Capcom. Capcom hasn't stated it either way
though (though I myself am pretty sure it's just Easter egg appearances).
Even with that, however, the Muscle Bomber games themselves definitely took
place before Final Fight 1 as stated by All About Capcom.
Streetwise has an election poster in Haggar's gym that places Haggar's
elections (and thus SMB) at 1982. Other sources say Haggar was
elected 5 years before Final Fight One, which, if you go by FF1's retconned
date of 1987, is 1982 as well.
Oh, and Haggar being "newly elected mayor of Metro City" in Final Fight
was something Capcom of America added. He's just "mayor of Metro City" in
the Japanese version.
pgIIIAboutPrivateJusticeAcademy.
About the Private Justice Academy/Rival Schools Series
Due to Sakura having been redesigned for the series with a different
blood type than in the Zero series, not to mention the game's prologue listing
it taking place in 199X, the series has no place within the SF universe, if
it ever did at any point. With respect to Sakura, since her ending has her
yet to meet with Ryu after her initial glimpse of "that person" with the
white headband, the series is treated as the following what-if: after seeing
Ryu initially, Sakura went on to Tamagawa High School and became friends with
Hinata and Natsu, rather than Kei and later Karin.
pgIIIAboutFinalFight.
About when Capcom decided to have Final Fight take place within the SF
canon:
Contrary to what some believe, it was NOT Street Fighter Zero that
made Final Fight part of the Street Fighter universe and canon. Final
Fight has officially existed within the Street Fighter canon storyline
universe as early as when Street Fighter 2 was first released, and possibly
earlier than that, due to the game initially billed as Street Fighter '89.
Guile's and Bay Area's dogs were declared to be pals within the storyline
ever since Street Fighter 2 existed. It was just that the Zero series had
the first Street Fighter games with Final Fight characters directly involved,
but the Final Fight series still officially existed within the Street Fighter
universe before Zero was made.
pgIIIFinalFight1989.
Why does Final Fight 1's intro state it took place sometime during 1989?
Capcom went by the release date for Final Fight's date of occurrence. They
would do this with Final Fight 2 later on.
Before Zero 2 came out, the SF universe timeline went according to game
release dates for games prior to SFZ. SF1 happened in 1987, FF happened in
1989, SFZ events went clear into 1990 where Z3 is today, and SF2 in 1991.
Entering into SFZ, Guy is already proclaimed the 39th bushinryu master, so
he's already had his fight to the death with Zeku; aka the game's not about
his training to become the 39th, he already is, just like if you enter SFZ3
as him. The real-time year in the real world was 1995 at this time.
Next real-time year 1996, SFZ2 comes out. Now Capcom decided to have Guy still
training to become the 39th, and he meets Zeku at the end of the game, Guy's
ending, to then engage the fight to the death. Back to the SF universe
timeline: with Zero 2 events beginning in late 1987-early 1988, now FF is
backed up to 1987 because both FF and SF1 still occur prior to SFZ2 as
before with SFZ, and consequently FF2 backs up to where SFZ2 is as well, to
account for Guy's absence in FF2.
Street Fighter's dates take priority over Final Fight's due to FF being
the subset of the larger SF universe.
Final Fight Streetwise's election date of 1982 for Haggar places
Final Fight One at the year 1987, anyways (official statements are that
he became mayor 5 years before Final Fight One. Also, his official
ages for Final Fight One and Super Muscle Bomber are 5 years apart, and he
was in elections during the Muscle Bomber series.)
Although Capcom of Japan had initially set as equally official birthdates
and ages for the Final Fight cast, they may have eventually veered towards
the latter. For Haggar in AAC, his FF1 profile is listed minus his birthdate
and age (same for Guy & Cody), but he's declared to be 41 years old in Super
Muscle Bomber.
Also, even though Guy's Z3 game intro doesn't mention Metro City's peaceful
due to Mad Gear's defeat, Haggar's AAC Z3 entry does; it calls him the one
who crushed Mad Gear one year previous, and as Zero 3 opens, due to Shadaloo's
doing, Metro City begins to experience unrest yet again. The unrest may be
including Cody's jailbreak. Whether Shadoloo's operatives include the Skull
Cross Gang or some other unnamed group or individuals is not known for sure.
Haggar has a Z3 entry in AAC; it's where we learn that his term will end two
years later. It's assumed that because it doesn't mention Cody or Guy, it
refers to the final Mad Gear crush during FF2 and the scattered remnants in
Metro City during SFZ2, in which Cody and Guy didn't partake.
pgIIIAboutCapcomClassicsCollection.
Some bios are unlockable for Final Fight characters in Capcom
Classics Collection. This is relevant to Poison being a guy (finally stated
in English). Here's what the translator David Sirlin said about their
authenticity:
"We did not touch any of the text for the character bios. It was written
(or maybe gotten from old archives) by Capcom. It took a long time for
Capcom to even give us text because they needed a bunch of approvals for
it, probably from Capcom Japan. So it's pretty accurate, but you never
know when a company is rewriting history with their story. Bottom line,
it's a pretty trustworthy source, but you never know. --Sirlin."
pgIIIAboutFFR.
About Final Fight Revenge.
Final Fight Revenge was made by Capcom USA before it obtained the rights to
SF, and thus has no ties to the authentic SF universe.
pgIIIAboutFFSW.
About Final Fight Streetwise.
Made by the same team as Final Fight Revenge. This time, the team had
"free reign", although Capcom of Japan still had final word, thus the new
material it introduced is authentic, not that it significantly matters since
it takes place considerably long after any other canonized game in the saga.
Capcom of America owned the Street Fighter License by this time, and
shortly after FF:SW was released, the American Studio that developed it
(and Maximo), Capcom Studio 8, was closed down.
R.I.P., Final Fight. Your end came much later than the Private Justice
Academy series and didn't have as blatantly open a plot left (ditto for
Darkstalkers, come to think about it), but it also ended on what many will see
as a much more sour note.
For what it's worth, some press releases etc. began with "taking
place within the Final Fight universe" for Final Fight Streetwise.
pgIIIAboutCaptainCommando.
About Captain Commando.
It's uncertain if CC ties into Final Fight and the SF universe through Sho a
distant successor to bushinryu ninpou, and the game's 2026 setting in Metro
City IF such evidence can be tracked down anywhere.
pgIIIAbsentGames.
Any other games/series/movies/anime that are canon within the Street
Fighter universe?
Not at this time. This includes SF4 Newly Become Bonds/The Ties That Bind
and the four original anime trailers for SF4 featuring Ryu, Chun-Li, Sakura,
and C. Viper chronologically, as well as the XBOX360-exclusive Juri anime.
pgIIIVSGames.
About VS crossover games (X-Men VS Street Fighter, for example).
A not overly important but still notable side note: While the plots of
the VS games are all what-if, generally the characterizations (IE,
personalities) within them usually aren't for the most part. Generally
speaking, Capcom apparently uses the VS games to show character traits that
are official, even if the storylines aren't. Sometimes they'll go back on
it, but it only happens VERY rarely (Cammy in X-Men vs Street Fighter is
the only big one that I can think of where a character in a VS game truly
acts OOC, and that's because that game came out before Capcom had fully
fleshed out where they wanted to go with Shadaloo Cammy, it seems). Though
also bear in mind that these characterizations are generally meant to
REINFORCE character traits from the canon, not NEWLY ESTABLISH new ones
(again, the Cammy example failed to establish Cammy's personality). This
doesn't seem to really apply to Pocket Fighter that much, but that's
because Pocket Fighter is a joke up-beat goof-off type of game, so of
course character personalities will be made to be a bit more light-hearted
and such than usual.
Character endings in VS games may offer clues onto what endings
actually happened in the canon games, as well, and where characters may
be after their tenure in the canon has generally ended. Ditto for
character quotes. However, any material within crossover titles is subject
to question if it stands alone without any support from canonical titles
and the like.
pgIIIAboutAnimeEtc.
There has yet to be an officially endorsed manga or anime storyline for
Street Fighter, also, so you can't take any of those for canon (This
includes the SFZ animes, the SF2 animated movie even though that officially
was what inspired the SFZ series, Sakura Ganbaru! even though that
officially inspired quite a few things in SFZ3, the oh so wonderful
perfection piece of art known as the SF2 Live Action Movie, etc). Please
let me repeat. THERE ARE NO OFFICIAL ANIME SERIES OR GRAPHIC NOVELS OR MANGAS
OR MOVIES THAT COUNT TOWARDS THE STREET FIGHTER STORYLINE CANON, The only
officially endorsed storyline info for Street Fighter is from sources that
got their information directly from Capcom, or from Capcom itself. All About
Capcom is the most well-known and biggest of these. Note that overseas
official strategy guides generally don't get their storyline info directly
from the company (their purpose is game strategies, not game storylines) so
they don't really count either. There is evidence however, that the creator
of Sakura Ganbaru! worked very closely with Capcom during SFZ3's development
to the point where he used lots of stuff that's canon for the manga, and
Capcom decided to make lots (but definitely not all) of the stuff from that
manga to be canon. Of course, since the creator of Sakura Ganbaru! is also
Karin's creator, much of what he created for her typically ends up being canon
for her in the canon storyline as well. Ditto for certain bits of Ryu Final
as revealed in the accounts of SF4.
These mangas and animes have their own alternate universes that they
follow. The alternate universality becomes quite apparent in many cases.
With SF4, the 25 animated opening and ending clips found in the console
versions of the game are the only SF anime which currently qualify for
seishi status. The openings are more likely to be regarded as canon than
the endings of course. More on these with each SF4 character's section.
Ditto for SSF4AE but with 39 pairs of clips, and Ultra with 44 pairs.
pgIIISFComic.
The Street Fighter comic is not canon to the authentic history compiled
in this guide. Udon employees even said so. The storyline is checked over
by Capcom of Japan and approved, but that doesn't mean it's canon. It just
means that Capcom of Japan wants to make sure Udon isn't butchering their
characters etc etc. It's a good comic, though, I feel, and there are many
details in it where Udon (the comic's creators) ask for details from Capcom
regarding various things.
The creators and writers are more interested in keeping close to the
spirit of Street Fighter than the canon of it, since the latter could be
hard to do and also inflexible in a comic, so the comic isn't exactly a
good source of canon. They also stated that they had to go by overseas
names, including Shotokan instead of ansatsuken for Ryu's fighting style.
Finally, Nash is named Charlie Nash in the comic because they decided
that was basically the best way to please both people who preferred Charlie
and people who preferred Nash. His name in the actual canon still isn't
Charlie Nash, though. The comic I think is really good, a great
read, and I love the art, but just to stave off any possible feature
e-mails, I need to say that ANYTHING in the comic which seems off from the
canon probably means it really is indeed a liberty the writers took. I
still recommend it, though, because it's pretty cool and has nice art. All
the above applies to Udon's comic spin-offs to their main SF comic as well,
including SF Legends and the SFIV comic series.
SSF2T HD Remix being a joint product by Udon, Backbone Entertainment and
endorsed by Capcom USA does not override Revival endings and scripts. It's
viewed as ultimately Udon's take on the SF2 outcomes, inspired by their
comic series. Moreover, SF4 actually overrides HD Remix's displayed endings.
pgIIIContinuity.
HEY! Udoneko said that Capcom told them the games weren't connected and
are meant to be in their own separate universes!
The operative word here is "games": the sessions that you and I play,
the matches that we have together. Those are the separate universes, the
multitude of what-if possibilities we can witness within the constraints
of the game's engine and programming. The guide's not concerned with that.
Rather, it records authentic history, what has happened and is set in stone,
unless Capcom exercises its power to change it, which it has of course.
pgIIIReleaseDates. Capcom's release schedule of certain selected games.
This helps explain some storyline changes that Capcom had to
retroactively make (like why Cammy acts so different in X-Men vs Street
Fighter compared to SFZ3). Remember, this is the release date schedule,
and not the dates in which these games (where applicable) occurred in the
canon storyline.
Street Fighter (1987)
Final Fight (1989)
Captain Commando (1990)
Street Fighter 2 (1991)
Street Fighter 2 Dash/CE (1992)
Street Fighter 2 Dash Turbo/Hyper Fighting (1992)
Final Fight 2 (1993)
Super Street Fighter 2 (1993)
Super Street Fighter 2 X/Turbo (1994. The latest version of SF2 for
quite a while)
Vampire/Darkstalkers (1994)
Super Muscle Bomber (1994. Alias Slammasters)
Vampire Hunter/Nightwarriors Darkstalkers Revenge (1995)
Street Fighter Zero/Alpha 1 (1995. A rush job. Street Fighter
Zero/Alpha 2 would replace it with what SFZ1 was meant to be)
Final Fight Tough/3 (1995. The beat-em up genre was dying by now)
Street Fighter Zero/Alpha 2 (1996)
Street Fighter Zero 2 Dash/Alpha 2 Gold (1996. This adds in Shadaloo
Cammy but she doesn't have a storyline until the release of Fighter's
Generation/Alpha Anthology)
X-Men vs Street Fighter (1996. Shadaloo Cammy's noncanon debut where
she actually has a storyline. She would change significantly by the time
of her canon one)
Street Fighter EX (1996)
Street Fighter 3 New Generation (1997. like SFZ1, this was a rush job)
Street Fighter EX + (1997)
Vampire Savior/Darkstalkers 3 (1997)
Pocket Fighter/Super Gem Fighter Mini Mix (1997)
Street Fighter 3 Second Impact (1997)
Private Justice Academy/Rival Schools (1997)
Street Fighter EX 2 (1997)
Street Fighter Zero/Alpha 3 (1998. Capcom shocks Cammy fans with Cammy's
official Shadaloo story, to the point where most people can't believe it to
be true, though hints existed ever since 4 years prior in printed text)
Street Fighter 3 Third Strike (1999)
Street Fighter EX2 + (1999)
Final Fight Revenge (1999)
Capcom vs SNK (2000)
Final Fight One (2001. For Gameboy Advance. Updates FF1's storyline)
Private Justice Academy/Rival Schools 2 (2001)
Super Street Fighter 2 X/Turbo Revival (2001. Gameboy Advance. FINALLY
updates Street Fighter 2's storyline to help reconcile it with the Zero series)
Capcom vs SNK 2 (2001. Which would prepare 3 new characters to add to
SFZ3 Upper)
Street Fighter Zero/Alpha 3 Upper/Advance (2002. Gameboy Advance.)
Street Fighter Zero/Alpha 3 Double Upper/MAX (2006. Playstation Portable)
Final Fight: Streetwise (2006)
Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo HD Remix (2008, PS3 & XBOX360 online)
Street Fighter 4 (2008, console and PC release in 2009)
Super Street Fighter 4 (2010 for consoles, Arcade Edition slated for
release by the end of the same year and console/PC versions made available
by the second half of 2011)
Ultra Street Fighter 4 (2014 for consoles and PC alike, latest version of
SSF4 which adds 5 more characters to SSF4's playable roster)
The SFZ3 Upper port for the Gameboy Advance was ported to the GBA by
Crawfish. What little storyline there was expanded in the PSP's version
Zero 3 Double Upper.
Street Fighter EX was made and developed by Arika. Ditto for the SF EX
exclusive characters, whom are copyright to Arika and not to Capcom.
**********************************
PGIV. Quickie Game Summaries
********************************** pgIVMBSMB.
MUSCLE BOMBER/DUO: THE BODY EXPLOSION & SUPER MUSCLE BOMBER:
THE INTERNATIONAL BLOWOUT
(SATURDAY NIGHT SLAMMASTERS 1 and 2 overseas)
Canon date: 1981 to 1982?
Since Haggar was in the middle of elections, and 40 during
MB then 46 during Final Fight 1, which is during 1987.
SMB takes place a year after MB, by the way.
Of course, the way Final Fight's canon dates are botched with the
release dates or so in Capcom's mind sometimes, maybe MB took place
in 1983 instead. Haggar is stated to be 50 during Final Fight 2,
which of course would put MB into the 70's, but that age
doesn't make that much sense since it sets FF2 too far into the future
which would conflict with SFZ2. That age is likely the result
of FF2's release date as opposed to canon date considerations. This
seems to be something Capcom often did for the Final Fight games despite
how much it didn't fit and contradicted other statements. Or it could
be because those dates were set before the SF Zero series came along,
forcing a reconciliation.
...anyways, All About Capcom says that SMB was during elections, and
Final Fight Streetwise has a poster that shows that elections for
Haggar were during 1982, so 1982 for SMB (and thus 1981 for MB)
should be it.
Gameplay: MB is a wrestling game. Its sequel is more like a 2D fighting
game, which is too bad, since there are plenty of other 2D fighting games
out there already. The storyline explanation is that Astro proposed new
rules of win by KO instead of win by count.
Story: The 1980âs. During the unprecedented professional wrestling boom,
many professional wrestling organizations were started all over the world.
A severe rivalry existed among the organizations.
In order to resolve this conflict, 8 organizations combined to form the CWA,
led by Victor Ortega, the CWAâs founder and first champion.
One day, Ortega suddenly vanished. Ortega was basically the glue that held
everything together and his unexpected disappearance caused the CWA to enter
an age of confusion and disorder. The BWA, an illegal underground wrestling
organization, chose to take advantage of this opportunity and began moving.
With "Fighters of Muscle Bomber = Destiny" as the theme, the CWA chief
executives decided to organize/hold a world tour called the âcrash carnival,â
to decide the new king of the CWA.
The gong that determines the new âMaster of Muscle Bomberâ is sounded...
Super Muscle Bomber Story:
As the meeting of next fighting series "International Blowout" stepped into
a steady countdown one day, suddenly the BWA's leader Astro proposed a new
rule, furthermore the CWA's fight didn't go beyond having provoked a
circus show. The new rule, that is with the regulation of employing 3 normal
wins by knockout, not counted outside the premises, there are no so-called
rope escapes as a pro wrestling guideline was the unusual rule. Naturally,
every CWA wrestler fiercely opposed both the organization when the dangerous
atmosphere began to flow at that time, as unexpectedly now who had been
missing, that legendary Master of Muscle Bomber, Victor Ortega revealed his
appearance!
From the fact that Ortega is likely at that spot Astro's indicated rule was
approved, moreover it was alright until it was declared to wager the Master
of Muscle Bomber's champion belt.
Really where are his true motives? Also why unexpectedly everyone from before
revealed their appearances?
Mystery calling out to mystery, anyone can come to realize the reason for his
aims.
While there are seemingly growing signs of grand commotion, the International
Blowout is finally held.
...And so now, the new challengers each with expectations concealed in their
chests, now, in the role of the secret belt to be earned.
Muscle Bomber was about pro-wrestling for the Capcom Wrestling
Association championship (Heh. Capcom Wrestling Association. Can you
tell that Capcom wasn't really serious about storylines when they made
this game so long ago?) and the champion is the mysterious Astro.
Unlike Private Justice Academy though, at least it's confirmed that Capcom does
consider Muscle Bomber to be part of the Street Fighter universe canon, being
Final Fight's prequel and all. At any rate, the game didn't really have any
character specific endings, and I don't think Capcom really cares who won the
first Muscle Bomber Championship, either. At the end of the game (the ending
is pretty much the same for every character, with only slight alterations in
the text), the winner rambles about how he is the champion, then is approached
by three guys (Victor Ortega, Rip Saber, and I forget the third) who declare
that they don't think he's so tough, and the fight to defend the championship
continues. However, if you beat the game without continues, only Victor
Ortega comes out saying that he's coming out of retirement to challenge
you. Different characters say different things (most act disrespectful
except for Haggar and Titan the Great). This is what leads to the sequel...
Super Muscle Bomber is the sequel where all the wrestlers of the Capcom
Wrestling Association gather once again to wrestle for the championship,
but this time the Blood Wrestling Association has joined in to show
the CWA who's boss. Victor Ortega, the previous Muscle Bomber champion as
well as owner of the CWA had left because he couldn't find anyone strong
enough to give him a decent challenge. Now he's back, and is the guy to
beat to earn the championship. Like Muscle Bomber, though, the game didn't
have any big deviations from character endings to character endings, so
again, it's unknown and probably nonexistant who finally won the
Muscle Bomber Championship.
Another SMB intro account, incorporating Aleksey's thoughts:
The last time which the "Heat Up Scramble" ruler was decided to be carried
out the statement released was "there is no need for two rulers," deep in
the wrestlers' breasts.
The ruler would through severe training finally grip the seat of glory, so
that he would be seen lying in the center stage supreme summit of constant
spotlight, while revolving offstage, no comparison to the uneasy shrouding
darkness, the defeating matter to crush was the pressure that had become even
though the ruler must bear the isolation together with the held dignity.
"Why Ortega disappeared before everyone, there's now become a hunch."
Zalazof was muttering.
"Since Ortega's disappearance there have been a lot of post-in-name-only's
for Master of Muscle Bomber. This lineage bears the throne's held dignity,
forging the body as well as, that which exceeds the forged thing drawn out
from the heart is likely not unnecessary right? It doesn't mean that I'm
satisfied with my self right now. Eh, but..."
Just at that moment, Astro was gasping a feeling of despair.
As the BWA's commander he would bring in treachery to restore under the
umbrella of the CWA but, with the hot souls of the CWA wrestlers he proceeded
to preach with a completely chilled heart.
"Kh, we'll have good bouts with those CWA small fries, and it'll influence my
diginity as proclaimed sovereign emperor of darkness. Already there are two
uses to untie the seals on sure killing moves, to obtain the Master of Muscle
Bomber belt, to leave the place in small pieces. The entire world won't leave
to gaze before it!"
********************************** pgIVSF1.
STREET FIGHTER
Canon Date: 1987
Gameplay: Street Fighter 1 was Capcom's first one-on-one fighting game.
The only character you could play as was Ryu, though. And the second
player could play as Ken in VS matches.
Street Fighter
Story from SF1 arcade pamphlet
Having studied various fighting techniques from the time they were young,
"Ryu" and "Ken" two youthful talented fighting stylists finally established
characteristic fighting styles.
Both of them being rivals, they participate in aiming for the peak of the realm
of fighting moves, beginning a trip for the fight of the world.
Boasting to street fighters of all countries as opponents with moves of
ultra-top-grade power, will the name of "strongest man in the world" go to the
hands of "Ryu"?, or to those of "Ken"!?
******************************************************************************
Highlights:
-both Ryu and Ken are noted to be talented fighters to be studying under their
master when they were introduced for the first time, as Sakura would be labeled
as a prodigy 9 years later in SFZ2.
The first Street Fighter tournament was held and hosted by Muay
Thai emperor Sagat. Apparently not happy with being just the peak
of Muay Thai, Sagat wanted to prove that he was King of the Hill over
everyone, it seemed. Contrary to popular fancanon, Shadaloo officially had
NOTHING to do with Street Fighter 1. The main character of Street Fighter
1 is Ryu, a prospective student under ansatsuken master Gouken who's entire
life was the fight. Hearing about the Street Fighter tournament, he
eagerly signs up to test his mettle.
Note from documentations: Ryu's only confirmed to have fought Sagat and Adon
during SF1, no one else you go up against in the game. This was carried
forward and expanded in the Zero series, such as Zero 3 when Ryu and Gen
speak as if they've never met before. It's no doubt however, that all the
rest of the fighters entered to dethrone Sagat, as even the old SF1 arcade
pamphlet lists if the fighter fights for training, for pride, for sport, etc.
All we know is that Ryu won at the end.
Ryu finally defeated Sagat with a cheap deus ex machina shot (no wonder
why Sagat's so pissed off at him for a while). Ryu was down on
the ground after having been pummelled by Sagat, then Sagat reached out to
take his hand, knowing that he had won, but Ryu was so obsessed with
winning that satsui no hadou overtook him and he ripped through
Sagat's chest with his metsu shoryuken, becoming SnH Ryu for a split
moment there. This is an official statement, and a retroactive
change by Capcom entering the Zero series, considering that it wasn't until
one of the later versions of Street Fighter 2 that satsui no hadou even
freaking EXISTED as a concept within Capcom's writers' minds, however a theme
of murderous intent did from various manga that inspired CJ for SF2. At any
rate, you can also see this in SnH Ryu's ending in SFZ3. While SnH Ryu in
SFZ3 is a what-if character, he temporarily flashbacks about his fight with
Sagat in SF1, which is NOT a what-if occurrence (obviously). And you know
it's his fight with Sagat in SF1 and not his midboss fight with Sagat in SFZ3
because the post-fight dialogue didn't have Sagat acting like his chest just
got ripped through with SnH Ryu's metsu shoryuken. You can also see this in
Ryu's SFZ2 plotline in general (he's seeking out Gouki to find out more about
the satsui no hadou because he doesn't know what exactly overtakes him in
defeating Sagat). Again, though, it's official statement.
When Ryu, now the first World Fighting Championship's "victor," finally
got back from the Street Fighter 1 tournament, he wanted to ask Gouken what
happened to him. However, he found Gouken killed as well as his daughter
missing (Author note: Gouken having a daughter is a fact that Capcom seems
to have forgotten about by now and thus may never resurface. You
can only find out about his daughter in REALLY old Street Fighter official
sources). Ken, however, had seen the end of the battle that happened. It
was Gouki, Gouken's brother, that killed Gouken. Sensing Gouki's ki, Ryu
then embarked on a journey to find Gouki (because Ryu still needs to find
out what happened to himself when he beat Sagat).
********************************** pgIVFF1.
FINAL FIGHT 1
Canon Date: 1987, likely during between 09/03/1987 and 12/31/1987, going
by officially stated ages and birthdates for Haggar, Guy, and Cody (and then
taking into account the 2-year retcon). Which, oddly enough, would be during
Winter. Brrrrrr!
Final Fight being retconned to 1987 is sorta confirmed in Streetwise via
a poster in Haggar's gym that says "Vote Haggar for mayor in 1982!". Official
statements are that Haggar became mayor 5 years before Final Fight 1, and also
using Haggar's stated ages during FF1 and Muscle Bomber to calculate Muscle
Bomber's (which was during elections) date places Final Fight 1 at 1987 as
well.
There is unused dialogue in Streetwise (IE, doesn't appear in-game, but is on
the disc) where a NPC says "Remember when Guy and Haggar and Cody cleaned up
this neighborhood back in '89? That was awesome." However, this dialogue
didn't make it into the final game. Did they cut it because they realized
it was wrong or because they didn't want to address whether the date was
retconned or not? Something we'll probably never know.
Gameplay: Final Fight 1 is a brawling beat-em up game, and widely
considered to be the one that kicked off the genre (a genre which now seems
to have passed away). Basically, you choose a character then go from stage
to stage beating up all bad guys who stand in your way until you get to the
last stage and beat the last boss.
Story: Metro City is a crime filled cesspool, where the powerful Mad Gear
gang, ruled by Belger, basically does whatever they want. The previous
mayor was too scared to take them on and oppose them, but former
pro-wrestler and now mayor, Mike Haggar, has vowed to stop them. In
retaliation to this, his daughter Jessica is kidnapped by Mad Gear and they
attempt to blackmail him into letting them do whatever they want just like
the previous mayor. Haggar, unable to act as mayor, takes it personally to
the streets along with Jessica's boyfriend, Cody, and Guy, a bushinryu
modern day ninja. The way of bushin decrees that he fight against evil
like Mad Gear, despite how he doesn't even know Jessica.
Guy, Cody, and Haggar kick some ass and finally, Cody sends Belger
flying out of his skyscraper window and plumetting to his death. After
hugging her father, Jessica sees that Guy and Cody have already left. She
tries to catch up to them and calls out Cody's name, but Cody doesn't stop
for her. Guy (realizing how rude Cody was being, most likely. It couldn't
be because he liked Jessica because Guy never even knew Jessica prior)
forces him to stop though with a quick couple of punches followed by
kicking him to the ground, and then Guy leaves to let Cody be alone
with Jessica.
A note: The latest version of Final Fight 1, Final Fight One, for the
Gameboy Advance, actually has dialogues for each boss for each character.
In addition, you can play as SFZ3 sprite versions of Cody and Guy, who
really ARE Guy and Cody from SFZ3 teleported back to the past in a fit of
Easter egg ridiculousness. Zero Guy and Zero Cody are definitely just
Easter egg storylines, and probably never actually WERE teleported to the
past, and you can tell by the sillyness of their dialogues that Capcom was
goofing around and just having fun. However, Zero Cody and Zero Guy DO
give good insights into what happened in the canon for regular Cody and
regular Guy. For example, in Zero Cody's fight with Rolento, Zero Cody
reminisces about how in the past, he never went to the industrial section
and went to the bay area right after beating Edi. E. This confirms that in
the actual canon, regular Cody beat Edi. E then skipped past the industrial
section to the bay area in the actual official story, because Zero Cody is
remembering that as what happened to him in his past back when he was just
his younger Cody self during the actual time FF1 occurred. Of course the
real Cody going through Final Fight DID happen, so it's assumed that
Zero Cody wasn't lying when he talked about that past and that that past
is what actually happened in the canon storyline. Anyway, I transcribed
the dialogue, which, like many other dialogue FAQs for various Street
Fighter games, should be available at gamefaqs.com (in this case, the
Gameboy Advance section), if you want to see it. It is of note, however,
that Cody saying he skipped past the industrial section is a reference
to the Super Famicom port of Final Fight, where the Industrial Area
had to be cut out due to space restrictions.
Also of note is that production sketches depict entirely different
match-ups, with Guy vs the Andores (in the ring in the Westside stage,
it appears), Guy vs Damnd, Haggar vs Rolento, and Cody vs Sodom. These
arts are likely more for concept and game-planning and marketing than
for any canon indication, though (Haggar vs Sodom can't be true since it's
Guy that beat him, although possibly Haggar was meant to beat him initially
since Sodom was "a promoter of pro-wrestling").
Oh, Final Fight was Street Fighter's sister series or so, originally planned
to be called Street Fighter '89. Street Fighter covered the one-on-one aspect
of fighting, and Final Fight covered the brawling aspect of fighting. Since
then though, it looks like the poor Final Fight series has died after Final
Fight Tough (along with the entire brawling genre). Of course, it came back
with Streetwise. Then the studio that made FFSW got closed down, probably in
part because of FFSW's poor sales.
Boss list (in order)
1. Damnd
2. Sodom
3. Edi. E
4. Rolento (cut out of the SFC/SNES version because they ran out of space)
5. Abigail
6. Belger
(Later on, Capcom would release a game called Mighty Final Fight for
the Famicom/NES, where Belger, now a cyborg, kidnaps Jessica again. The game
is VERY comical and non-serious so it's pretty doubtful that it's canon, not
to mention like FFR Belger is never referenced to have taken Jessica hostage
more than once, normal, cyborg, zombie or otherwise)
The white dog in the background of the Bay Area is named Shiro, by the way,
whose name does mean "white" in Japanese. It's pals with Guile's dog Sub.
Haggar being "newly elected mayor" is something added to the overseas
version. Japanese versions just say "Mayor". He was, after all, elected
around Muscle Bomber time, which is hardly new.
Random tidbit: Final Fight was originally called Street Fighter â89
and did so well that it was part of what prompted Capcom to make
SF2 (from The Making of Street Fighter within SF2 The Complete File).
Street Fighter '89 was its working title though so by the time it came out,
they changed it to Final Fight.
********************************** pgIVSFZ1.
STREET FIGHTER ZERO (STREET FIGHTER ALPHA overseas)
Canon Date: No date, because Zero 2 overrides it.
Gameplay: Street Fighter Zero 1 was a one-on-one fighting game. Inspired
by the Street Fighter 2 Animated Movie (That does NOT make the Street Fighter
Animated Movie canon, though), Capcom decided to make a Street Fighter game
with anime-ish graphics that would also give more background to the
storyline of Street Fighter 2.
Story: You see the endings and all those storyline bits that happen in Street
Fighter Zero 1? FORGET EVERYTHING ABOUT THEM. Capcom has officially stated
that Street Fighter Zero 2 and Zero 3 is the current bridge between SF1 and 2.
Even several of the non-conflicting endings in SFZ1 that don't conflict with
SFZ2 have official statements that contradict them, really (not for all,
though). Considering that Zero 1 was actually an incomplete version of Zero 2
and Zero 3, this makes sense too (another official statement, and also why
Zero 1 had such a freaking small playable character roster). However, there
are some endings that look like they could eerily fit in and be merged with
SFZ2.
Endings that COULD have happened (courtesy of Vasili10):
Chun-Li- SFZ1 ending shows her get beaten up by Vega before flashing to her
bedside. Place the slightly modified beating-up scene right before her
SFZ2 ending begins and Vega flies to his VTOL. (CJ takes special note of this
sequence of events happening through AAC)
Ken- SFZ1 ending shows him meeting Eliza for the first time, SFZ2 ending
shows they've already met. Place the meeting scene between Ken giving
Ryu the headband and helping him up, and the scene with Eliza by his side.
(ditto via AAC concerning their first meeting)
Sagat- SFZ1 ending shows him being picked up by Vega and crew, SFZ2 ending
has him already on the aircraft. Place the picking up scenes right before
the dialogues while they're in flight.
Gouki- He reminisces about Gouken (specially noted in AAC) and Goutetsu; Vega
comes much later, if he'd care to remember him as well after SF2.
Endings that positively were rewritten (courtesy of Vasili10):
Ryu- If we assume (which we currently do) that Sagat doesn't see Ryu again
after SF1 until SFZ3 when Ryu's brainwashed, this ending cannot happen.
(Editor's note: Given that Sagat says he is still waiting to fight Ryu
in AAC, it is likely that Sagat and Ryu have yet to have a real battle
since SF1, and that includes this. Note that his battle with Ryu in
SFZ3 doesn't count as 'real' because that's a brainwashed Ryu).
Nash- Doesn't die until SFZ3, can't happen. (Vega taking him out from behind
cutting off his communication was along the lines of the original way Nash had
died prior to the Zero series, as recorded in Guile's Dash account)
Vega- Could possibly be his graphics look after the SFZ2 battle with Rose,
unless she was supposed to be dead after their SFZ1 battle, which can't happen.
Vega's pre-fight dialogue with Rose however, reveals that he wasn't aware of
there having been another soul power user alive.
Guy- transferred as his SFZ3 ending, which doesn't happen because he catches
up to Rose and Vega's gone, though via AAC his accepting the anguish of
bushinryu seen in his Z3 ending does happen.
Birdie- transferred as his ending pretty much in SFZ2.
Adon- transferred as his mid-battle in SFZ2, results are in the plot guide.
Sodom- He's still recruiting members and trying to get Rolento back to form the
new Mad Gear in SFZ3, and SFZ1 assumes he's finished, can't happen.
Rose- Transferred as her SFZ2 ending, unless she was supposed to be dead after
her SFZ1 battle with Vega, which can't happen. Her pre-fight dialogue with
Vega has the demon being (as CJ often refers to him) acknowledging that soul
power and psycho power are the same power.
Dan- Ok, I suppose Vega could approach Dan, I'd be shocked as hell if he
actually did and still spared him after Dan refused, but I suppose that's
another iffy one. Plus Vega expectedly dismisses Dan as trash by the end of
Dan's ending, the outlook which only intensifies in later games with Vega's
win quotes to Dan: "blasted garbage" in Z3 and "blasted buffoon" wishing he
had time to kill him in SF4.
SFZ1 was probably the most uncertain point for Capcom in terms of storyline,
thus you wouldn't always read quite the same thing for character backgrounds
if you looked at one SFZ book and then another. The following summary was
released by Capcom once the Zero 1 kinks were ironed out:
Street Fighter Chronology
?.1981
Ryu, Ken, began as students of fighting stylist Gouken. In those days, it's
to believe that Dan was already studying under Gouken.
?.1985
Ryu, Ken, through training acquire Gouken's fighting techniques. At this time
it is unknown where fellow student Dan was at but, it's a supposition that this
wasn't the time he was excommunicated.
?.19??
Chun Li, studied under Gen, a Chinese kenpo expert, acquiring fighting
techniques.
1985~87
Guy, goes to the States in order to train. Guy's master is Zeku, whose figure
suddenly vanishes.
?.198?
Gouki, having challenged to a battle his master Goutetsu, defeats him. For
Gouki's older brother who is Gouken, sensing danger in Gouki's fist, expecting
to prevent it, was conversely defeated in losing his life.
After this event, Ryu, Ken also depart from beside their master, and wouldn't
you believe they set out on their training journeys.
8.1987
Ryu, in a street fight, defeats Muay Thai emperor Sagat for the first time
(Street Fighter).
1987~89
Police detective Chun Li's father, his whereabouts unknown during investigation
(for the sake of a top-secret investigation, specifying a date is an
impossibility).
12.1989
In Metro City, a crime organization introduces itself as Mad Gear, kidnapping
Mayor Haggar's daughter Jessica. Cody, together with Guy meet for her rescue
(Final Fight).
Guy, having splendidly annihilated Mad Gear in this struggle, begins to sense
the power lack in bushinryu ninjutsu.
1989~90
Rose introduces herself as a mysterious woman, with a stage of sudden history
in place. Said to be pursuing Vega.
7.1991
Ryu, together with Sagat once again. Sagat with a new sure killing technique
to counteract but, similarly a new sure killing technique devised for Ryu,
again ended with defeat. However Ryu also, having sensed doubt in a
"hatred incurring fist", once again sets out on a journey of training aiming
at the true fighting style.
Ken, while street fighting in each place, desires to pursue Ryu's whereabouts.
From this time, the name of the mysterious organization known as "Shadoloo",
comes into being a rumor in the realm of street fights.
Nash, in order to make sure of the pursued narcotics organization's existence
being "Shadoloo", challenges Vega to a battle. For a moment defeating him,
mired into Vega's trick, he's brought down.
Chun Li, pursuing her father's whereabouts, verifying the existence of
"Shadoloo", tracking down Vega, one step later challenges him to the best of
her ability.
Rose, having confined Vega's psycho power, somehow defeats him, she comes to
an end also by her own power. His breath resuscitated, Vega chuckles.
Guy, having defeated Vega, acquires a newly become secret of bushinryu.
Sagat, joins as a "Shadoloo" member (Street Fighter Zero).
?.1991
Ken accomplished his destined showdown with Ryu, comes across Eliza.
12.1991
Having aimed for the true fighting style, Ryu continues his journey.
Hearing of Ken training in America, goes to fight him. Having become a
"Shadoloo" leader Sagat, comes to fight again. Searching for the cause of
comrade Nash's death himself, Guile collided with the name "Shadoloo". With
street fights continuing in all nations of the world, finally Vega holds his
own against them.
Chun Li, once again pursues her father's foe Vega (Street Fighter II).
1992~
The street fighters' struggles, now still continue.......
******************************************************************************
Highlights:
-SFZ1 with this timeline was the last time Capcom kept SF1 and SF2 four years
apart. After this the gap would grow to six years. Also the last time the
Final Fight chapters would be taking place starting in 1989 as was depicted
in-game.
********************************** pgIVSFZ2.
STREET FIGHTER ZERO 2 (STREET FIGHTER ALPHA 2 overseas)
Canon Date: late 1987 thru early 1989
Gameplay: It's another fighting game. Like it's prequel. Of course.
Story: Street Fighter Zero 2 takes place several months to a year after
Final Fight 1 and Street Fighter 1. It is not a tournament. It's mostly
just a whole bunch of various characters wandering around trying to fulfill
their own agendas.
From Vasili10: English Eternal says that Rolento and R. Mika entered
the World Warrior tournament, SF2 I'm assuming is what they're referring
to (Tiamat Note: Or SFAlpha is being referred to as a tournament).
Here's what Japanese Eternal says instead:
Rolento: in the paragraph above his story, it says he street fights, not
entered a tournament. Later on in the same text block, the using-weapons
clause goes from using weapons in the fight or the struggle in Japanese
to using weapons in the tournament in English.
R. Mika: English text says she entered the World Warrior tournament after
seeing posted ads for it. Hoboy. This was taken from her original story
text box which she's saying, "I'll tour the world in order to have my
name be in open field bouts," and she arranged for promotions to be set
up, which makes more sense with the scene in her Zero 3 stage. In any
case, the bouts of SFZ3 are open field and disorganized, rather than
matches orderly and regulated for a sanctioned tournament aka SF1, SF2,
SF4, SSF4.
Story from AAC
Several months from after he defeated Muay Thai's emperor Sagat, for Ryu,
rumors are being heard of a fighting stylist to manipulate a mysterious
power. In order to make sure of the truth or error, Ryu once again
journeys out. For that journey, having embraced fighters of various
intentions, he spurs on towards the place of struggle.......
******************************************************************************
Highlights:
-The "mysterious power" mentioned here was considered to be psycho power when
the story was first written for Z1, then got shifted in identity to satsui no
hadou for Z2.
For exact SFA2 dialogue and endings, visit http://www.vgmuseum.com and
look them up, if you want.
SFZ2 overrides SFZ1's intro storyline. Capcom has stated as such. Ignoring
official statements, a quick glance at SFZ1 shows that the majority of the
characters' beginning situations for that game are pretty much the exact
same thing as the beginning situations they have in SFZ2. Also note that
it seems like the majority of mid-boss (and even boss, sometimes) battles
in SFZ2 did NOT happen, though some did.
SFZ2 happens before SFZ3. This can easily be concluded by looking at
many character's beginning situations in SFZ3 and comparing them to their
ending situations in SFZ2. For instance, Dan's introduction in SFZ3 states
that he got revenge on the man that killed his father (Sagat), while in
SFZ2, Dan's ending is... well, him getting revenge on Sagat. Thus SFZ3 is
not a remake of SFZ2, unlike how SFZ2 is a remake of SFZ1 (with the
possible exception of selected fighters' storylines, which seem to blend
into Street Fighter Zero 3 a little).
Street Fighter Zero 2 is basically characters wandering around doing
their own thing. Due to this, to get the in-depth storyline details, see the
Major Characters sections.
Street Fighter Zero 2 Boss Battles
The first character is the one you play as when that battle takes place.
For example, if it says
"Ryu vs Sagat"
It's talking about the mid-boss battle with Sagat whom you fight while you
play as Ryu.
Also, for further details on the more storyline-significant battles to each
character, see the Major Characters sections for more details.
Adon vs Vega - Vega tries to make Adon join Shadaloo, but Adon refuses,
so Vega attacks. This meeting actually did happen via AAC, since Vega
shows that he knows Adon and references about how much Adon has changed
since Adon's fight with Sagat in SFZ3. I'd be rather surprised if the
meeting escalated into an actual battle just because Adon rejected the
offer to join Shadaloo.
Adon vs Sagat - Adon finally finds and challenges Sagat. Official
statement is that this one did happen, and Adon won because Sagat was too
enraged at his loss to Ryu to fight well. Adon still got whupped and only
barely won, though (again, official statement).
Birdie vs Dhalsim - Birdie and Dhalsim fight for... um... well, they just
fight. *shrug* Incredibly pointless battle that thus is probably just
filler and didn't happen, just a clash of morals versus a lack of scruples.
Birdie vs Vega - Birdie asks Vega if he can join Shadaloo and must prove
himself. While Birdie did end up impressing Vega (who from his dialogue
shows that he knows who Birdie is in SFZ3, so...) enough to get in,
official statements by Capcom state that he never fought or had to fight
Vega to do it, so while his ending happened, this fight itself did not,
and was at most a meeting.
Cammy vs Rose - Dunno. If it did happen, it was before Rose confronted Vega
the first time. Cammy's brainwashing is already showing some holes at this
point, as are noted in some of her win quotes.
Cammy vs Vega - Again not sure on the battle. Cammy's ending has her blacking
out and coming to her senses in the Shadaloo base. Whether this was a result
of her confronting Vega with even more resistance than he expected, thus being
granted a "psycho limiter" implant, is unknown at this time. Sidenote: Vega
reveals here that her name was Cammy even before the nickname "Killer Bee" and
before Colonel Wolfman named her after extrapolating from the pendant found in
her hand: CAMM 740106. "Cammy" may have been "CAMM-1" ("y" is plausibly
shorthand for "ichi" in Japanese), aka the first of the "CAMM project".
Chun-Li vs Gen - Gen asks where Chun-Li's skills come from. This battle
(well, probably more like a meeting) DID happen. She eventually goads him
into fighting her as well, but it turns out to be a sparring match at most.
Capcom has officially stated that Gen gave Chun-Li a lead to Shadaloo in
Street Fighter Zero 2.
Chun-Li vs Vega - Chun-Li finally finds Vega. Capcom officially stated this
battle happened, and even gave details (Vega beat up Chun-Li before flying off
laughing at her and saying her father amused him).
Dan vs Guy - Pointless filler battle and thus probably didn't happen. Just
Guy overestimating Dan and Dan being over-inflated as usual.
Dan vs Sagat - Dan fights Sagat to avenge his father. Official statements
and Dan's current situation when SFZ3 begins shows this battle happened,
and Capcom has stated that Dan won it because Sagat purposefully lost it
(SFZ3 hints at it too, but it's rather vague). Basically replace the Z2
pre-fight dialogue they have with Z3's Sagat vs Dan and that would be how this
battle proceeded more or less.
Dhalsim vs Zangief - Pointless filler battle and thus probably didn't
happen. At least they respect each other unlike Dhalsim and Birdie.
Dhalsim vs Vega - Dhalsim still seeks Vega in SFZ3, and his SFZ2
ending has nothing to do with killing Vega, really, and unlike Rose,
there's no official statement to back it up. This battle almost positively
did not happen.
Gen vs Chun-Li - Chun-Li asks Gen if he can tell her anything about
Shadaloo, being a notorious assassin. See Chun-Li vs Gen battle
above. This battle (mostly a meeting) officially happened.
Gen vs Gouki - See Gouki vs Gen below. Officially happened.
Gouki vs Ryu - This fight happened, but more in the form of when you play
as Ryu, not Gouki, so see below for more details.
Gouki vs Gen - Gouki and Gen, both searching for worthy foes, try to have a
death match. This fight officially happened and ended in a tie.
Guy vs Rose - Pointless filler battle and SFZ3 dialogue shows that Guy's
first meeting with Rose was SFZ3. Thus this battle didn't happen.
Ironically enough, Guy and Rose do fight each other officially in SFZ3.
Guy vs Vega - Guy tracks down Vega to stop him in the name of justice.
Capcom has officially stated that, while Guy's SFZ2 ending happened, this
battle did not. On a side note, in the US version, Guy tells Bison that
he's "already defeated a lot of his soldiers", but that was something in the
overseas version for some stupid reason. He doesn't say that in the
Japanese version.
Ken vs Dan - Pointless filler battle. However, it might have happened
though, since Ryu and Ken found out about Dan's existence and Dan found out
about theirs during SFZ2 (another official statement).
Ken vs Ryu - Ken sees something is bugging Ryu and fights Ryu, and wins,
then hands Ryu his headband. Even though they were too lazy to change
Ryu's headband accordingly, Capcom has officially stated this battle
happened. Ryu's a bit too disturbed by his battle with Sagat (due to
learning about satsui no hadou) to concentrate well during this fight.
This battle occurs almost a year after SF1; Ken remarks that he'd almost
given up trying to find Ryu after he heard of Sagat's defeat.
Nash vs Rolento - Rolento decides to recruit Nash, but Nash refuses and
would rather escort Rolento on his way to Vega. Capcom officially stated
this fight didn't happen by saying that Nash and Rolento never met, and
Rolento wasn't seen to be under anyone's custody during Z3 and beyond.
Nash vs Vega - Nash finally finds Vega, fights Vega, and falls down the
cliff. This battle is referenced by Guile's Zero 3 battle with Nash, with
Nash saying he's concerned for Vega escaping again. From the Gamest SFZ2
mook, Capcom states he DOES NOT die in his Zero 2 battle with Vega.
Additionally CJ states via AAC that Nash does pursue Vega, gets ambushed
by his own nation's air force and loses his dog tags after he's shot from
behind.
Rolento vs Sodom - Sodom and Rolento aren't getting along since Rolento
left Mad Gear. This battle definitely did happen, because in SFZ3, Rolento
tells Sodom that it's his last chance to join Rolento.
Rolento vs Guy - Rolento and Guy exchange with each other about the
past. Wouldn't be surprised at all if this meeting happened. If it did,
then at most, they probably just briefly skirmished with each other.
Rose vs Gouki - Rose detects satsui no hadou within Gouki (well, 'shoryuken
power' according to overseas SFA2. ...what the bleepgot? Oo) Doubt if this
meeting escalated into a battle, but Rose is shown to be more clear-headed
than Vega at least, noting that she distinguishes Gouki's power from psycho
power.
Rose vs Vega - Rose finally tracks down Vega and tells him that he's on
the wrong path, and that she warned him. She wins the fight, and thinks
she's confined his psycho power for good, but he manages to revive it.
Official statements by Capcom are that this battle and Rose's SFZ2 ending did
happen.
Ryu vs Sakura - Happened, as shown by beginning situations in SFZ3. See
Sakura vs Ryu below for more details.
Ryu vs Gouki - Officially happened. Official statement. Ryu finds out
about satsui no hadou from Gouki, and Gouki notes that he was able to sense
when Ryu gave in to SnH to scar Sagat.
SnH Ryu's boss battles (Sakura and Gouki) - Didn't happen. Satsui no Ryu
never awoke during the Zero series officially and his storylines when you play
as him are all what-if, so none of his boss battles could possibly have
actually happened.
Sagat vs Adon - See Adon vs Sagat above. Happened.
Sagat vs Ryu - Did not happen. Official statement is that neither Sagat
nor Ryu have a clean win over each other by the end of SFZ3. ...well,
okay, this ending battle sorta happened, but the real way it happened is
during SFZ3's Sagat vs Ryu match, so...
Sakura vs Sagat - Sagat asks Sakura where her moves come from and if she
knows who "he" is. She tells him they're from mimicking and presses for
the mystery man's name. Z3 win quotes from Sagat to Sakura and to a lesser
extent from her to him indicate that they at least met prior to finding
Ryu brainwashed in Z3, but most likely no battle occurred as Sagat's quote
has him brushing off Sakura's request to fight, instead to just keep him
informed if she does see Ryu again as he's always waiting (foreshadow of
Ryu's Sagat flashback). So Sakura did most likely learn Ryu's name from
Sagat at the very least, but after she finds and fights him as described
below.
Sakura vs Ryu - Sakura finds Ryu and challenges him to a fun match. Ryu
lets her win, and takes off leaving her with a photograph of himself.
Official statement, and the battle happening is implied by SFZ3 dialogues,
anyways.
Sodom vs Ken - Pointless filler battle and thus probably did not happen.
Even if it did, needless to say, Ken's unimpressed.
Sodom vs Guy - Sodom and Guy exchange with each other about the past.
Like Rolento vs Guy, wouldn't be surprised at all if this meeting
happened. If it did, then at most, they probably just briefly skirmished
with each other though, with Sodom trying to convince Guy that he's now
achieved enlightenment with the books he recently read, in vain of course.
Vega vs Nash - See Nash vs Vega above.
Vega vs Ryu - Vega takes Ryu to brainwash. This battle happens,
but not until SFZ3 where Capcom decides on the real way to have it finally
happen... CJ remarks via AAC that Vega does indeed succeed in pouring on
the psycho power pain on Ryu before he breaks out of the horrendous ability's
influence.
Zangief vs Birdie - Pointless filler battle and thus probably did not
happen. Bickering starts off with hairstyles then to the age-old "I'm the
strongest! No I am! No I..." argument, yeah.
Zangief vs Ken - Pointless filler battle and thus probably did not happen.
Zangief's ending (which did officially happen) doesn't require a battle
with Ken specifically, anyways. On a side note, Ken reveals here that he has
won at least one Pan-American Fighting Championship, the one he clenches with
his first ever shoryureppa.
A Note: Street Fighter Zero 2 has an insane amount of 'Easter egg'
appearances in character backgrounds. The majority of these don't have any
storyline significance and are just there for fun because quite a few of them
are characters from games which obviously did not take place at that time or
even have any existence within the SF canon at all...
********************************** pgIVFF2.
FINAL FIGHT 2
Canon Date: 1988 (apparently retconned from release date of 1993 to fit
in with Zero. Haggar stopped being mayor in 1992 (1 year before SF2) so it
HAD to have been retconned)
Gameplay: Another beat-em up brawler like Final Fight 1.
Story: Text on the backside of Jap. FF2's box cover:
After the last battle, it seemed as if peace had finally returned to
Metro City.
One day, Haggar suddenly got a call from the remnants of Mad Gear.
They announced their plan for world conquest and told Haggar that they're
on the move again.
The return of Mayor Haggar.
Maki, daughter of Genryusai.
The street fighter, Carlos Miyamoto.
The desperate struggle unfolds and explodes once again.
Text from Jap. FF2 instruction booklet:
Haggar, Cody, and Guy had defeated Belger, boss of Mad Gear.
Peace returned to Metro City.
Jessica and Cody went traveling, while Guy resumed training out of town.
However, Mad Gear hadn't been completely destroyed.
Mad Gear intends on getting revenge on Haggar, Cody, and Guy. They secretly
pursue Genryusai, Guy's teacher.
Genryusai and his daughter Rena were kidnapped by Mad Gear.
Rena is Guy's fiance.
Two days later, Haggar received a call from Maki, Rena's younger sister...
Final Fight 2 takes place at the same time as Street Fighter Zero
2. Guy is not a playable character in the game because he's away training
(his Street Fighter Zero 2 storyline). Cody, too, is not playable.
The story is that remnants of Mad Gear (led by Retu) strive an attempt to
make a comeback. Which... is again similar to Mad Gear's storyline in SFZ2
anyways. Mad Gear this time kidnaps Genryusai (the 56th bushinryu ninpou
master) who is the father of Guy's fiance, Rena, who is also kidnapped by Mad
Gear. Haggar once again takes to the streets to defeat Mad Gear, this time
teamed up with Maki, who is Rena's sister, and Carlos, a boarder that Haggar
was letting stay with him for a while. Final Fight 2 takes place around the
world and not just in Metro City, for some reason. There isn't really much
more here... unlike the bosses of Final Fight 1, the bosses of Final Fight
2 and Tough have not been incorporated into other Street Fighter games at all,
though Rolento does make a reappearance as a boss (no clue how that works.
Maybe he stuck around with Mad Gear a little longer or something to pick up
recruits for his army). The Andore family is back, too. At any rate,
Haggar and co gives them all the beatdown, knock Retu out of a window
(AGAIN with the windows...) and save Genryusai and Rena, then Guy writes
them a letter stating his thanks and that's it.
A note about Mad Gear. Official statements are that Mad Gear finally fell
apart for a good one year before Street Fighter Zero 3. Which would be one
year after Final Fight 2 and Street Fighter Zero 2, which could also be
interpreted as right after those games, if you think of them as taking about
a year to happen or so. At any rate, yea, Mad Gear was completely crushed
by Final Fight 2 and all efforts to revive it during Street Fighter Zero 2
failed. Rolento's army is a new thing that he started up that broke off,
and is not a part of Mad Gear (which would explain a large chunk of why he
and Sodom have a fall-out during Street Fighter Zero 3, though they make up
in their endings).
Stage List
1. Hong Kong 12:00 PM
2. France 5:00 PM
3. Holland 4:00 PM
4. England 8:00 PM
5. Italy 12:00 PM
6. Japan 11:30 PM
(storyline seems to take place over a span of 3 days)
Boss list of Final Fight 2 (in order)
1. Won Won. Some strange burly Chinese former-chef nutcase.
2. Freddie. Big army-clad shirtless brute fought in France. Former Navy
SEAL.
3. Bratken. Big brute who looks like Frankenstein/Hulk fought in
Holland. Has the mindset of a little child.
4. Phillipe. Psycho clown with a cane fought in England.
5. Rolento. Back yet again. Called Rolent in the manner of Sagat being
written with a "t" at the end while in Japanese his name's written as
"Sagatto".
6. Retu. Some sorta-Kabuki guy and the new leader of Mad Gear. Fought in
Japan.
********************************** pgIVSFZ3.
STREET FIGHTER ZERO 3 Latest ver: DOUBLE UPPER (STREET FIGHTER ALPHA 3 overseas)
Canon Date: 1989 through early 1990
Gameplay: Another fighting game, of course.
Story
The man who aims for the true fighting style, Ryu. As for the become power
inside "satsui no hadou" what does it bring about within his chest? Desiring
the answer, desiring formidable opponents, Ryu journeys out. ......Such that
his figure, has shined in Vega's eye desiring a strong fighting stylist's
"body." As for Vega's true intention? And also for the "psycho drive"......?
******************************************************************************
Highlights:
-Ryu keeps his spot as the main character in the Zero series due to remaining
in Vega's next-host-body sights, which unfolds Shadaloo's largest offensive on
the world yet, drawing nearly everyone else into the fray.
Overview: Like Street Fighter Zero 2, for Street Fighter Zero 3, characters
are basically just going around fulfilling their own agendas. Unlike Street
Fighter Zero 2, a really hefty portion of it centers around Shadaloo and
Vega this time. LOTS (but not all). Unlike Street Fighter Zero
2, Capcom decided to make Vega EVERYONE'S (sans SnH Ryu) final boss, whether
they actually fought Vega or not in the official storyline. This has led the
game's storylines to differ quite a bit from the official storyline (but you
can reconcile most of them and get the true storyline just by removing the
'kill Vega' aspect of most characters' story modes. The intent in Z3 was to
try giving everyone a spotlight, not necessarily the hero/heroine role, but
a spotlight regardless if they'd officially have one or not. You also
have to throw in forgetting about destroying the psycho drive or even
getting into Shadaloo's main headquarters even, unless the character is
one of those "officially stated to have fought Vega in SFZ3" ones).
Street Fighter Zero 3 also seems to have had quite a few more what-if
endings than fighting games usually have (All fighting games have filler
what-if endings for characters that never actually happen in the official
storyline, but SFZ3 had more than usual). In addition, Street Fighter
Zero 3 is the most storyline-wise convoluted and complex game of all the
Street Fighter games, as many characters' paths criss-cross and in order to
get the true whole story, you pretty much have to beat the game with nearly
EVERYONE and pay good attention to their endings and boss dialogues (unlike
SFZ2, most of the midboss battles in SFZ3 probably happened in some way,
shape, or form). Once again, to get the majority of what happened in this
game, see the Major Characters sections. The major point for Street Fighter
Zero 3 was that the evil organization known as Shadaloo was thrashed quite
a lot (but not fully destroyed) thanks to the combined efforts of Guile,
Nash, and Chun-Li, as well as several various rebellions and problems
within it. Vega, the leader of Shadaloo, was finally defeated when the
main headquarters of Shadaloo was blown up with him and Nash in it.
For a plot analysis of how all the character endings fit into the
overseas plotline for Street Fighter Alpha 3, see Tiamat's SFA3
plot guide... though note that it's kinda going to fall out of date now
with this full Street Fighter plot guide, instead. Here's a brief synopsis
of the 'core' plot of Street Fighter Zero 3 for here, though. At least,
the closest thing you can call a core plot since SFZ3 is mostly comprised
of a lot of individual mini-storylines.
Street Fighter Zero 3 first starts off with Vega tracking down Ryu
and confronting him, then trying to brainwash Ryu into accepting psycho
power. Ryu has an inner conflict with himself on whether to give in,
similar to his conflict to give in to satsui no hadou. At any rate, he does
give in, though it's important to note that brainwashed psycho power Ryu is
not the same as satsui no hadou Ryu.
Anyways, Ken and Sakura coincidentally arrive just at the same time as
Sagat arrives to see Ryu again. Sagat, who has regained his honorable
warrior spirit since confronting Dan in SFZ2 is infuriated when he sees how
low Vega stooped (or maybe Sagat was in the process of regaining it thanks
to Dan and seeing Vega stoop so low as to brainwash Ryu clinched it.
Could be either). Sagat fights psycho Ryu while Ken and Sakura fought
Vega (this is official statement, though you can sooorta see it in the
games if you study the dialogue really analytically, though that's kind of a
stretch there and still requires some guess-work as to what the dialogue
means). Sagat beats psycho Ryu and then, judging by the game, Ryu managed
to break out of his brainwashing and knock Vega away, forcing Vega to
retreat. That ends Ryu's main portion of the story.
The next main character of SFZ3 could be considered to be Cammy, since
she has a huge plot around her in SFZ3. This one most likely happened
after Ryu's part of the plot, and basically involves how for reasons she
can't figure out, Shadaloo decided to terminate her. This probably happened
around the same time as Rose's portion of SFZ3's plot; even though the two
characters' plots don't interlap too much, Rose's fight with the girl(s) in
the game does indirectly indicate this, though of course I'm not sure and
it really doesn't make too much difference either way (Rose can be considered
a semi-main character of SFZ3. Check out her bio for her story during SFZ3).
At any rate, Cammy encounters Balrog and probably Juli and Juni (judging from
her in-game storyline) during this period (Balrog and Juli were sent to
terminate her in some fashion). However, along with Dhalsim weakening the
bindings the psycho drive had on them, she managed to convince Juli and
Juni as well as all the rest of the girls how they were truly expendable to
Vega, and so all thirteen of the girls turned on Vega. In the process,
they were all almost killed. This is yet another official statement which
can also be realized through a really analytical look at the game's
storylines, though like Ken, Sakura, and Sagat's fight against Vega and
psycho Ryu, it's rather hard to realize it without the official statements
(though not as hard, thank goodness). Anyway, Vega was finally forced to
retreat once again, and Cammy made her way to the psycho drive and use it
to save the rest of the girls.
Finally, the last main character of SFZ3 is Guile. His story had to
have happened last in SFZ3 since it's the one that finally ends Vega by
blowing him and the base housing the psycho drive up. Basically, Guile
catches up to Nash and Chun-Li, then finally decides to join them and
together their combined efforts take down Vega for good in SFZ3 (though
he would come back for SF2). Nash and Guile confront Vega in the psycho
drive room of Shadaloo headquarters and Nash sacrifices himself to hold
off Vega while the entire base explodes and many people including Guile
escape.
As always, for the more complete details, check out the character bios.
The Ultimate SFZ Character Relations Chart
-main charts from Capcom Japan's webpages and Eternal, entries will be
presented in chronological order. Notes in [] are added by me for clarity.
-reading will be in the following format: "A" points TO "B", not FROM "B",
to minimize info repetition; if no arrow head is seen, it's treated below
as a double-headed arrow
RYU
to Ken: friend being a rival; fellow student rival
to SnH Ryu: one and the same character
to Gouki: master's foe
KEN
to Ryu: friend being a rival; fellow student rival
to Eliza: sweetheart
to Guile: fellas' wives are sisters
CHUN LI
to Nash: cooperates
to Gen: father's master
to Vega: father's foe
SAGAT
-Shadoloo shitennou [in Vega's eyes] with Bison and Balrog
to Adon: once a master-student connection; student
to Ryu: longstanding foe
to Vega: temporarily lends his capability
ADON
to Sagat: once a master-student connection; master
to Gouki: wants his power
BIRDIE
to Vega: aims for the psycho drive
GUY
-Final Fight team with Cody
to Cody: former companion; former comrade-in-arms
to Zeku: master
to Rena: fiancee
to Vega: the corrupter of this human age to defeat
SODOM
-Ex-Mad Gear with Rolento
to Rolento: originally Mad Gear companions; refuses
to Guy: resentment
to E. Honda: point of agreement as sumo's experienced person
NASH
to Chun Li: cooperates
to Guile: friend
to Vega: pursues
ROSE
to Vega: once a master-student connection; possessor of the same power
VEGA
to Rose: once a master-student connection; possessor of the same power
to Cammy: subordinate (substitute body possessing the same DNA); his own copy
to M. Bison, Balrog & Birdie: subordinate
to Sagat: subordinate [in Vega's eyes only, not Sagat's]
to experimental bodies: the secret organization Shadoloo
to Ryu: has an eye on him as his next body
GOUKI
to Shin Gouki: one and the same character
to Goutetsu: murderer
to Gouken: older brother
to Gen: death-meet connection
to Adon: intruding on the fighting tournament
DAN
to Sagat: father's foe
to Hibiki Gou: father
to Blanka: friendship connection; friend
to Sakura: master-student connection?; student (?)
DHALSIM
to Sally: wife
to Vega: severs the evil source
ZANGIEF
to E. Honda: comrade
to Vega: fights for the sake of the fatherland
GEN
to Gouki: death-meet connection; wishes for a death-meet
ROLENTO
-Ex-Mad Gear with Sodom
to Sodom: originally Mad Gear companions; invites to be companions once again
to Cody: scouts
SAKURA
to Ryu: admires
to Chitose Kei: friend
to Kasugano Tsukushi: younger brother
to Karin: a little bothered
to Dan: master-student connection?
BLANKA
to Dan: friendship connection; friend
E. HONDA
to Zangief: comrade
to Sodom: point of agreement as sumo's experienced person
BALROG
-Shadoloo shitennou with Sagat and Bison
to Vega: companion
CAMMY
-experimental body with Juli and Juni [and the other girls]
CODY
-Final Fight team with Guy
to Guy: former companion; former comrade-in-arms
to Jessica: originally sweethearts
R. MIKA
to Zangief: admires
to Harmageddon Youko: master
KARIN
to Sakura: regards as a rival; complete defeat
to Ken: complete defeat
M. BISON
-Shadoloo shitennou with Balrog and Sagat
to Vega: becomes companion for the sake of money
JULI
-experimental body with Cammy and Juni [and the other girls]
to T. Hawk: Thunderfoot tribe; same village
to Vega: Vega Bodyguard Troops
JUNI
-experimental body with Cammy and Juli [and the other girls]
to Vega: Vega Bodyguard Troops
FEI LONG
DEE JAY
T. HAWK
to Juli: Thunderfoot tribe; same village
to Vega: to take back the sacred ground
GUILE
to Nash: friend
to Vega: friend's foe
to Ken: fellas' wives are sisters
SATSUI NO HADOU NI MEZAMETA RYU
to Ryu: one and the same character
SHIN GOUKI
to Gouki: one and the same character
MAKI
to Rena: older sister
to Guy: searches for
Eliza
to Ken: sweetheart
Rena
to Guy: fiance
Enero, Fevrier, Marz, Satsuki, Santamu, Jiuyu, Yanyu, Noembelu, Decapre
to Vega: Vega Bodyguard Troops
Aprile
to Maggio: younger brother
to Vega: Vega Bodyguard Troops
Gouken
to Ryu & Ken: students
to Gouki: younger brother
Goutetsu
to Gouken & Gouki: students
Sally
to Dhalsim: husband
Ishizaki
to Karin: duty to look after
Shibazaki
to Karin: steward
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Street Fighter Zero 3 Boss Battles
The first character is the one you play as when that battle takes place
For example, if it says
"Ryu vs Sagat"
It's talking about the mid-boss battle with Sagat you fight while you play
as Ryu.
A note about the final boss battle with Vega: As stated above, nearly all
of these probably didn't happen. The only confirmed ones to fight Vega
are Ryu (sorta), Sakura with Ken, Rose, and all thirteen Vega SS (it's
possible that Cammy's battle with Vega took place right after all other
twelve VSS fought him, or that Cammy arrived in the middle of it to help
them out, too. Juli's ending shows this a little, too, since Cammy arrives
as Juli is fighting Vega or right after Juli loses consciousness to him or
what have you), all of which Capcom has officially stated happened.
Also, for further details on the more storyline significant battles to each
character, see the Major Characters sections for more details.
Adon vs Ken - Pointless filler battle and thus probably did not happen. Adon
unreasonably expects Ken to show him the SGS, while insisting he's no longer
Sagat's student.
Adon vs Rose - Pointless filler battle and thus probably did not happen. Rose
tries to offer some words of advice about becoming enslaved to power, and Adon
arrogantly affirms his obsession regardless if it could destroy him or not.
Adon vs Vega - Vega challenges Adon for the hell of it. Like all boss
battles with Vega in SFZ3 besides the confirmed ones, this did not
happen. ...oi, even Adon's SFZ3 ending is pointless (he's searching for
Gouki at the end of SFZ2, he's still searching for Gouki by the end of SFZ3).
Yeesh. Vega's death to Gouki in this ending is an accurate portrayal
of how Gouki offed him in SF2, though.
Balrog vs Zangief - Zangief attacks Balrog for being a supporter of Shadaloo,
though Balrog denies that, saying he doesn't care what that organization does.
Actually, I'm inclined to believe that this battle did happen, since Capcom
shows that Zangief knows about Balrog in Zangief's SSF2X ending, where he's
making fun of a picture of Balrog.
Balrog vs Cammy - Balrog finally finds Cammy, but also finds that he's
realizing she's more than just a mere experiment. This battle did happen,
since it's important to Balrog's ending which officially happened, and this
is Balrog's point of view on it. See Cammy vs Balrog above for more
information.
Balrog vs Vega - Balrog argues with Vega about Cammy. While the argument
might have happened (which would be another thing that leads Balrog to decide
to betray Vega indirectly by saving Cammy), Capcom has officially stated
that Balrog never actually betrayed Vega (besides saving Cammy) or fought
Vega, which is why Balrog's still a member of Shadaloo in SF2.
Birdie vs E. Honda - Pointless filler battle and thus probably did not
happen. Another hairstyle bicker leading to a show-me-whatcha-got scenario.
Honda being too kindhearted assumes that Birdie's not serious about trying
to usurp Shadaloo.
Birdie vs Blanka - Pointless filler battle and thus probably did not
happen. Birdie thinks that Blanka's fighting for Shadaloo.
Birdie vs Bison - Vega sicks Bison on Birdie. Real way it happened is
probably Bison vs Birdie below.
Birdie vs Vega - Birdie challenges Vega and demands for the psycho
drive. Like all boss battles with Vega in SFZ3 besides the confirmed
ones, this did not happen. His own ending where Chun-Li and Nash arrest
him at the psycho drive gets in the way of Guile's ending which officially
happened, so Birdie's own ending definitely didn't happen. The real way
his search for the psycho drive seems to have gone, if it occurred at all,
is probably Bison's ending (without having the psycho drive's destruction
due to Birdie and Bison, just like everyone else's ending that involves
destroying it besides Guile's), and thus I highly doubt he ever confronted
Vega in SFZ3.
Blanka vs Dan - A 'for-fun' battle that is a large basis of Blanka's SFZ3
storyline, which doesn't contradict with any other storylines once you get
rid of the destroy Vega and psycho drive aspects, etc, and thus probably
did happen.
Blanka vs Zangief - Pointless filler battle and thus probably did not
happen.
Blanka vs Bison - Pointless filler battle and thus probably did not
happen.
Blanka vs Vega - Vega challenges Blanka to make him into a guinea pig. Like
all boss battles with Vega in SFZ3 besides the confirmed ones, this did
not happen. Blanka does however stumble into the Shadaloo base together
with Dan and finds a fallen VSS. Honda's win quote to Blanka shows that
they do meet and Honda takes custody of the girl Blanka comes across. Also
specially noted in AASFZ3.
Cammy vs Dhalsim - Dhalsim notices that Cammy is consciously suppressing
within her heart. This battle might have happened. Not really too important
either way, except to verify that Cammy's gradually becoming a mental wreck.
Cammy vs Balrog - Balrog has been sent to investigate on Cammy. This battle
definitely did happen, since it's important to Cammy's and Balrog's
storylines that have been officially stated to have happened in SFZ3.
Cammy won this battle (she had to in order to reach and fight Vega, which
also officially happened), but Balrog's dialogue indicates that he
may have purposefully thrown the match, as he's rather lax.
Cammy vs Juni and Juli - A seemingly pointless filler battle, but it most
definitely did happen, as shown by Juli's storyline. Odds are this is when
Cammy met with the other VSS to rebel all together against Vega, which
officially did happen once the psycho drive was weakened thanks to Dhalsim.
Cammy vs Vega - Vega decides to finally exterminate Cammy, personally.
This battle officially happened, with some added bits from official
statements. Capcom has stated that all thirteen Vega SS rebelled against
Vega together, so Cammy almost definitely picked up Juni and Juli from her
battle with them. Or arrived in the aftermath to continue it, at least.
Chun-Li vs Birdie - Chun-Li gets information from Birdie about where
Shadaloo's base is. Actually, this battle happened via AAC. Birdie's
free to move on because all Chun-Li wanted the location of Shadaloo's
base from him, and most likely she doesn't realize how deep his position
under Vega's wing is. Of course, there IS the fact that the entire rest
of Chun-Li's SFZ3 plot when you play as her did NOT happen...
Chun-Li vs Cammy - Cammy attacks Chun-Li while in a painful mental state.
Didn't happen. Chun-Li's battles and ending from here on when you play as
her completely contradict Cammy's official storyline, that did officially
happen, in SFZ3.
Chun-Li vs Juli and Juni - Juni and Juli attack Chun-Li in the name of
Vega. Didn't happen for the same reasons as Chun-Li vs Cammy. Capcom
did use this opportunity to point out in-game that the VSS were quite
young, though.
Chun-Li vs Vega - Chun-Li finally finds Vega and fights to get him to
stop using poor underage girls like Cammy, Juli, and Juni. Chun-Li's real
SFZ3 story is when you play as Guile. This did not happen (it would make
no sense for Cammy's SF2 storyline, for one thing, and Balrog is the one
stated to have taken Cammy at the end of SFZ3)
Cody vs Birdie - May very well have happened. Cody and Jessica did take
a trip together following FF1, and Jessica does leave him to study abroad
in Europe. It's a stretch but assuming their vacation took them to
England, Birdie may very well had heard of Cody's hero schpiel as he was
no doubt getting into fights everywhere he and Jessica went.
Cody vs Guy - Guy tries to reform Cody. Final Fight One dialogue shows
that this battle did happen.
Cody vs Vega - Cody attacks Vega for the hell of it >:} LOL, I personally
like how Cody just wants to get into tons of battles just for the hell of
it because he's addicted to fighting, but I digress. At any rate, this is
generally a pointless filler battle that thus, like the majority of SFZ3
battles with Vega, did not happen. Guy never got that close to Vega,
anyways, so the majority of Cody's ending up until the destruction of Vega
most definitely didn't happen (though Guy wanting to reform Cody definitely
did, as shown by Final Fight One dialogue).
Dan vs Chun-Li - Hilarious joke battle, but not really any story relevance,
and Blanka's storyline seems to be the true way Dan's storyline played out
in SFZ3, so I don't think this one happened (or any of Dan's SFZ3 boss
battles when you play as him, for that matter).
Dan vs Sagat - Sagat is annoyed that Dan's pestering him again and Dan
offers to teach Sagat Saikyo style. I'd be surprised as heck if this
battle happened. I don't see why Sagat would purposefully lose to Dan
TWICE.
Dan vs Bison - Pointless filler battle and thus probably did not happen.
References Chun-Li the cop chasing Dan from his earlier battle with her.
Dan vs Vega - Like all boss battles with Vega in SFZ3 besides the
confirmed ones, this did not happen. His stumbling onto the psycho drive
base while searching for a new suitable dojo in Thailand did happen via
AAC. SF4 even hints at this with his win quote to Cammy, so it's likely
he even met a VSS or two during his stumblings, possibly Decapre.
Dee Jay vs Adon - Pointless filler battle and thus probably did not happen.
Dee Jay vs Sagat - Ditto. While the previous one led into this one,
neither are important to Dee Jay's overall SFZ3 plot at all.
Dee Jay vs Vega - Ditto once again.
Dhalsim vs Rose - Dhalsim tries to convince Rose not to rush into things.
Might have happened. Dunno.
Dhalsim vs Birdie - Dhalsim reads Birdie's mind to find out the location of the
Shadaloo hideout. Possibly did happen since Dhalsim would later on mentally
sabotage the psycho drive according to Eternal.
Dhalsim vs Juni and Juli - Again possibly, although highly unlikely that Vega
himself sets the girls loose on Dhalsim as the game shows.
Dhalsim vs Vega - Doesn't happen. Dhalsim's more concerned with the psycho
drive's vibes than with Vega. While his ending shows his mental tamperings
with the sinister device, he neither fights Vega head on nor destroys the
drive itself. His yoga severing the psycho hold on the Vega Bodyguard Troops
allows for their reception to Cammy's words and their later rebellion.
E. Honda vs Ryu - E. Honda and Ryu fight for fun. This battle happened.
It's referenced in Sakura vs E. Honda.
E. Honda vs Sodom - E. Honda and Sodom meet up again. This battle might
have happened. Probably did, but not important either way. It's another
fun reunion or something.
E. Honda vs Vega - Like all boss battles with Vega in SFZ3 besides the
confirmed ones, this did not happen. However Honda does manage to rescue
several if not all of the Vega Bodyguard Troops, at least one of them with
Blanka's help.
Eagle vs Guile - Doubting it happened due to Eagle presuming Guile to be
the air force's famed strongest. Wasn't Nash if no one else more fit for that
description? Moreover would Eagle know to find Guile in his elusive Z3
stage? Seriously doubting it.
Eagle vs Sagat - Doesn't happen due to the highly unlikely possibility of
Eagle learning about Sagat from Guile, thereby going with him to Thailand to
help rescue Nash, which Guile was ordered to do on his own.
Eagle vs Bison - Ditto as above.
Eagle vs Vega - Ditto as above. Eagle's Z3 goal of traveling the world to
polish up his baronet title doesn't require his path to cross anyone else's
really. And seeing as how he has to beat Guile to learn about Sagat and
head for Thailand, his involvement with Shadaloo, if any, would be
coincidental at best.
Fei-Long vs Bison, Balrog, and Vega - Everyone tries to get Fei-Long to
join Shadaloo. While Shadaloo might have been seeking Fei-Long, they
officially weren't trying THAT hard with that many marquee men going after
him, so those fights didn't happen, except in his upcoming movie perhaps.
Gen vs Ryu - Gen and Ryu fight for the heck of it. Actually less pointless
filler than that description gives. Here, Gen comments about how Ryu's using
a toned down version of an ansatsuken, and how he can sense the power within
him. Dunno if it happened but wouldn't be surprised if it did.
Gen vs Gouki - Gen finally gets his deathmatch with Gouki. ...well, not
sure if it was to the death, or if it happened in the form that is
portrayed here, really. See Gen's section in the Major Characters List
for more info.
Gen vs Vega - Vega and Gen fight for the hell of it (it's really easy to
tell by now just how BS the what-if plotline gets just to make Vega
the last boss of everyone). Pointless filler battle that, like many
battles with Vega in SFZ3, did not happen. The important thing to Gen's
storyline was the battle with Gouki.
Gouki vs Adon - Adon finally finds Gouki. Didn't happen since AAC states that
Adon never managed to find Gouki.
Gouki vs Guy - Guy wants to stop Gouki from seeing Vega, saying he has no
reason to, and that it's bushin's destiny. I'd be surprised if this fight
happened.
Gouki vs Vega - Vega challenges Gouki for the hell of it. Like all boss
battles with Vega in SFZ3 besides the confirmed ones, this did not happen.
Guile vs Chun-Li - Chun-Li tries to stop Guile from going after Nash.
Pretty important to Guile's storyline in SFZ3, which officially happened,
so this battle almost definitely did happen.
Guile vs Nash - Guile finally finds Nash. Officially happened.
Guile vs Vega - While Guile's ending happened, I don't believe Capcom has
stated whether or not Guile had to fight Vega to get Vega to retreat to
the base, or if Guile and Nash just infiltrated Vega's base without
having to fight Vega first (but 'fight' him anyways in the psycho drive
room). So... dunno.
Guy vs Karin - Karin tells Guy the corrupter's named Vega. Rose vs Guy shows
that Guy has a better grasp of the corrupter's identity by the time he sees
Rose the first time, so this battle most likely did happen, with Guy winning.
Guy vs Gen - Guy's assessment of his master's words, believing he's destined
to meet Vega himself. Didn't happen.
Guy vs Vega - Did not happen, though his ending did along with his involvement
in Rose's ending.
Ingrid vs SnH Ryu - Doesn't happen as Ryu never awakens to SnH during Z3.
Ingrid vs Rose - Doesn't happen as Rose never gets stopped from finding
Vega to potentially wipe him out once and for all.
Ingrid vs Vega - Doesn't happen like most other boss battles against Vega.
If Ingrid had intervened in any way against Vega in Z3, there would be no
SF2, which SF4 maintains still occurred.
Juli vs T. Hawk: See T. Hawk vs Juli below.
Juli vs Cammy - Juli finally finds her target. Almost positively happened,
as shown by Juni and Juli together going after Cammy when you play as her
(which also indicates that odds are very high that Juni was officially with
Juli the whole time. Those two really don't split up very often, but the
game's arcade mode storyline doesn't let you dramatic-battle play as both
for obvious reasons).
Juli vs Vega - Vega decides to finally exterminate Juli, personally. All
thirteen VSS did fight against Vega together, but dunno if it was like
the game portrayed here.
Juni vs E. Honda - Juni fights E. Honda. Doesn't happen since Honda
doesn't meet with any of the girls prior to psycho drive weakening.
Juni vs Ryu - Definitely didn't happen. As per official statements, Ryu
would fight Vega, himself, so Juni obviously didn't get to fight and beat
him.
Juni vs Vega - Vega decides to kill Juni after she beats Ryu. Definitely
did not happen in this format. The real way Juni's fight with Vega
occurred is with all the other girls, as shown by Juli's and Cammy's
storylines. The evidence highly points to Ryu's SFZ3 tenure taking
place at least a few days earlier than the Vega SS storyline.
Karin vs Blanka - Pointless filler battle and thus probably did not happen.
Karin vs Sakura - Might have happened, but dunno. Karin admits after it
that Sakura's still better, so it's not like it shifts storyline tiers at
all or anything even though Karin wins this match. I think it did happen
myself.
Karin vs Juni&Juli and Vega - Like all boss battles with Vega in SFZ3
besides the confirmed ones, this did not happen. This includes the Juni
and Juli lead-up battle.
Ken vs Karin - Ken and Karin have a fun and happy conversation about
Sakura. Actually probably did happen due to the two characters' connection
about knowing other, even if it's not too important to the overall story.
Ken vs Sakura - Before Vega shows up, Ken finds Sakura in Thailand ready
to meet Ryu. Almost positive this happened, since it coincides with the
official statement that Ken and Sakura fought Vega together after finding
Ryu under his control.
Ken vs Vega - Vega challenges Ken for the hell of it. It happened, but
not really like this format at all. The real way it did is officially with
Sakura and had more to do with Ryu than this, and thus probably more like
Sakura vs Vega, below. During this battle, AAC specially notes that Ken did
knock out Vega momentarily with a shoryuken.
M. Bison vs Gen - Bison lays the beatdown on Gen for scattering Shadaloo
smugglers. This fight probably just exists because Capcom wanted to show
more in-game about how Gen knew about Shadaloo and beat up its members
while looking for worthy opponents, which is official statement. This
particular battle with Bison, however, most likely did not happen.
M. Bison vs Birdie - Bison finds out about the psycho drive from Birdie,
assuming he beats the words out of Birdie enough. This battle most likely
remained in a stalemate until the psycho drive and base go up in smoke
(their win quotes to each other don't reflect any resolution except for
bickering over how ugly Bison's face is and who's messing on whose turf).
M. Bison vs Vega - Bison challenges Vega and demands for the psycho
drive. Officially did not happen. Capcom has officially stated that
Bison never got the chance to betray Vega in SFZ3, which is why he's
still a member of Shadaloo in SF2. Even in SF2, though, he was trying
to find opportunities to betray and take over the organization. In
Revival, he does succeed at the latter, but...
Maki vs Sakura - Might've happened, but not really important either way.
If Maki even won it, she wouldn't necessarily have gotten a concrete fix
on Guy's location since Sakura doesn't give her a definite answer, which
wouldn't help Maki anyway as she is indeed searching for Guy during Z3.
No clear confirmation anywhere that Sakura's actually even met Guy ever,
so more likely than not this battle is nothing more than an Easter egg
from the manga Sakura Ganbaru!.
Maki vs Guy - Doubtful that this battle happened, or that Maki even managed
to meet with Guy during Z3. Assuming that they did fight, Guy wouldn't
treat it properly because he's in a hurry to find Rose and Vega.
Maki vs Vega - Maki faces Vega because Guy wouldn't be able to give her a
proper fight for the successor of bushinryu if Vega's around. Doesn't
happen since Guy has to bail Maki out anyway in her ending (ala his final
strike at Vega copied from his ending which doesn't happen either), much to
her begrudging acceptance that Guy is still better than she is at that point.
Nash vs Cammy - Nash apprehends Cammy. Mere existence of it
contradicts Cammy's storyline, which did happen, and Nash's ending
generally didn't happen, so all evidence points to that this battle didn't
happen.
Nash vs Rolento - Capcom officially stated Nash never met Rolento.
...wow, this battle again? Oo Why does Capcom keep making Nash fight
Rolento if they never officially meet in the actual official storyline?
Well, guess there's no other "corrupt army soldier" character that Capcom
has, but bleh. Anyways, this battle didn't happen.
Nash vs Vega - Didn't happen in the form that playing as Nash
portrays it in. The true way it happened was Guile's storyline. ...why
does Nash always get the what-if storylines when you play as him?
Strange. His ending is hilarious in the context of how he's always
unfortunate, though. Nash's revenge!
R. Mika vs Karin - Karin decides to sponsor R. Mika if she ever becomes a
reputable prowrestler. Generally confirmed by Eternal that it did happen.
R. Mika vs Zangief - R. Mika finally gets to meet Zangief. May or may not
have happened. Actually probably did, but it's not a big deal either way.
R. Mika vs Bison and Vega - Like all boss battles with Vega in SFZ3
besides the confirmed ones, this did not happen. This includes the Bison
lead-up battle, in which she needs Zangief's help anyway, although it
seems that she gets stuck with the tougher adversaries while Zangief more
or less urges her on like a cheerleader.
Rolento vs Sodom - Sodom tells Rolento that he's lost sight of his ideals.
This battle is important to Rolento's storyline (which I'm pretty sure
happened, since after removing the psycho drive destruction like you should
with all SFZ3 storylines besides Guile's, it doesn't contradict anything
and is definitely not just filler for Rolento), so this battle definitely
happened. It's confirmed by Street Fighter Eternal, pretty much.
Rolento vs Cody - Rolento tries to recruit Cody, but then sees what Cody
has become and decides not to. This battle is confirmed by Street Fighter
Eternal.
Rolento vs Bison and Vega - Like all boss battles with Vega in SFZ3
besides the confirmed ones, this did not happen. This includes the Bison
lead-up battle. His infiltration of Shadaloo is mentioned in Eternal,
but it only mentions him stealing armaments like he said he would,
not destroy the psycho drive, though he'd rather have it destroyed as it
would have no place in his ideal utopia, via AAC.
Rose vs Guy - Guy wants to follow Rose, but she won't let him. Important
to Rose's ending, which did officially happen, thus this battle/meeting
definitely happened.
Rose vs Balrog - Balrog tells Rose that he doesn't understand why she's so
suicidal. This battle probably happened, as Rose gets a better fix on where
Vega is from delving into Balrog's mind.
Rose vs Juli & Juni [Aprile?] - Rose fights some of the VSS that Vega
sicks on her while he has other matters to attend to. (most likely Cammy,
but it might have been Ryu. I lean more towards Cammy since Rose in
general is more involved with the VSS than Ryu, and her meeting with Balrog
as well as this Juli & Juni boss battle implies that her storyline takes
place at the same time as Cammy's, which takes place after Ryu's does).
The actual battle was probably fought with Aprile, since J&J were most
likely pursuing Cammy at the time and Capcom officially stated that
Aprile's brother went to see Rose at the beginning of SFZ3, so Aprile would
be the one that's most storyline-significant to Rose. Seeing later that
Rose is insulted by the choice of opponents Vega left for her, Aprile
might've been joined by other non-weapon/non-menacing-looking candidates
such as Enero and Mertz during this battle.
Rose vs Vega - Rose finally reaches Vega. This battle officially
happened, and needless to say poor Rose loses it amidst one final
revelation learned before all goes black.
Ryu vs Rose - Rose warns Ryu about Vega. This battle probably happened
since it's semi-storyline significant, and Ryu flashbacks to her words in
his ending as well.
Ryu vs [psycho] Ken - Ryu comes across psycho power brainwashed Ken. This
battle officially did NOT happen and Capcom has directly stated as such,
and also stated that psycho Ken never existed. The real one who got
brainwashed was ironically officially Ryu, himself, as portrayed in
Sagat's and Sakura's storylines.
Ryu vs Vega - Vega challenges Ryu to brainwash and control him.
Happened, pretty much, though you need to take into account Ken and
Sakura's battle with Vega and how it fits in, too. Basically, Ryu fought
Vega, got brainwashed as per his ending, then... well, it continues into
Sagat's, Ken's, and Sakura's storylines there. ...actually, Ryu's ending
contains Ken's role in that particular arc of the SFZ3 storyline, too,
which is odd since everything but Ken's ending when you play as Ken
seems to fit in as well.
SnH Ryu's boss battles (Sagat, Vega, Shin Gouki) - Like SFZ2 SnH Ryu,
SnH Ryu's tenure when you play as him is officially entirely what-if, and
these battles did not happen.
Sagat vs Dan - Sagat fights Dan and sees the rage in Dan's eyes. It
reminds him of the rage he once felt. This battle is the true showing of
Dan's SFZ2 battle with Sagat and Dan which Sagat let Dan win. Happened
during Z2, so no repeat of it in Z3.
Sagat vs [psycho] Ryu - Sagat is mad at Vega for stooping so low as to
brainwash Ryu. Happened. Capcom officially stated that Sagat fought
psycho Ryu while Ken and Sakura fought Vega.
Sagat vs Vega - Didn't happen. Officially, Ken and Sakura handled Vega
while Sagat handled psycho Ryu. ...well, okay, Sagat did stand up against
Vega a little as Ryu began to break out of his own brainwashing, but
that's more Sagat's ending than this particular boss battle against Vega.
Sakura vs E. Honda - Sakura learns (generally speaking) from E. Honda where
Ryu is. Probably happened.
Sakura vs [psycho] Ryu - Sakura finds Ryu brainwashed by Vega! While she
did find out about that, she didn't officially fight psycho Ryu. Sagat
did. As per official statement by Capcom, Sakura, meanwhile, fought Vega
along with Ken.
Sakura vs Vega - Sakura fights to protect Ryu from Vega. Happened,
though Ken was with her to help. Too bad Capcom couldn't make this
dramatic battle to show it better. It wasn't until the Dreamcast versions
of SFZ3 that there was a fully working Dramatic Battle mode, and Capcom
probably wouldn't let the player fight dramatic battle style in arcade mode
just for storyline reasons, anyways, since arcade mode is supposed to be
solo. With the release of Street Fighter Artworks Ha though, fans finally
are able to see that Ken's last shot in Ryu's ending belonged in Sakura's
actually. In other words, both Ken and Sakura simultaneously see Ryu off,
not just one or the other.
Sodom vs Rolento - Rolento demands that Sodom join him. Happened, though
the more accurate version is probably Rolento vs Sodom above, since
Rolento's storyline isn't as much of a joke ending as Sodom's.
Sodom vs Chun-Li - Another thing that indicates that Rolento's version is
the real way things happened, instead of Sodom's, is the fact that Sodom's
storyline has boss battles like this, which definitely didn't happen.
(Battle was pointless filler with Chun-Li trying to stop Sodom because it
was her job to go after Shadaloo and she didn't want him to get in the way
or so)
Sodom vs Vega - Like all boss battles with Vega in SFZ3 besides the
confirmed ones, this did not happen. Sodom's storyline when you play as
him on a whole apparently is what-if, with Rolento's being the true
version.
T. Hawk vs Nash - Nash warns T. Hawk about Shadaloo. Might have
happened, though I'd be pretty surprised if it did. Doubtful that
Nash would go on to mention Vega though, as Capcom stated previously
that Hawk's father would do so just before he breathed his last.
T. Hawk vs Juli - Official allegations were that Noembelu was the VSS
T. Hawk was INTENDED to seek, not Juli. However, Hawk's story ended up
focusing on Juli, with Noembelu as a possible secondary. Might have
happened, but I don't think so since it doesn't seem to fit in with all
thirteen VSS betraying Vega together. Or maybe he found her and fought
her, but she got away, like what might have happened when you play as Juli
later, and then T. Hawk finds her again unconscious later after the VSS
betrayed Vega and were teleported away by Cammy.
T. Hawk vs Vega - T. Hawk fights Vega to free Juli. Like all boss
battles with Vega in SFZ3 besides the confirmed ones, this did not
happen.
Vega vs Gouki, Ryu, and Sagat - Vega gets a what-if storyline where he
destroys the world. These fights obviously did not happen in this form.
His brainwashing of Ryu itself happened in a different way, as per official
statements. Vega's real SFZ3 storyline basically involves him being all
the villain of the main characters of SFZ3 (Ryu, Cammy, Rose, and Guile).
Yun vs Dee Jay - Assuming that Yun and Yang are a part of Fei-Long's second
movie which was halted just before SF4, no indication is given either way
for this battle, nor is there any to support that Dee Jay and Fei-Long have
ever met on a sidenote.
Yun vs Fei-Long - Ditto. If they do fight, Fei-Long's impressed needless
to say.
Yun vs Juni & Juli - Ditto again. Yun insists that he can take on the girls
by himself.
Yun vs Vega - Ditto times 3.
Zangief vs Rolento - Pointless filler battle and thus probably did not
happen.
Zangief vs Chun-Li - Ditto.
Zangief vs Vega - Like all boss battles with Vega in SFZ3 besides the
confirmed ones, this did not happen. ...Zangief didn't really get to do
much during SFZ3, officially, except possibly some rescuing (R. Mika & a
little more subtley told, Abel), along with Honda (at least a few of the
VSS) as Zangief's ending and Eternal both show that he and Honda did team
up as comrades.
For further analysis on Street Fighter Zero 3 and how many of the endings
work out, you may check out my Street Fighter Alpha 3 Plot Canon Guide at
www.gamefaqs.com in the Street Fighter Alpha 3 sections. Note, however,
that that guide is only really good for looking at the analysis of how all
the overseas endings fit in to each other with official statements, and
everything else there is out of date / replaced by the information in this
Plot Guide here (no way am I going to bother keeping TWO humongous FAQs up
to date when this plot guide does nearly everything else the Street Fighter
Alpha 3 plot guide does and more).
Street Fighter Zero 3 has officially been announced to be the final game
in the Zero series. There really isn't much, storyline wise, that Capcom
could do with a new Zero game (assuming all Zero games have to take place
before SF2) since Vega blew up at the end of SFZ3.
********************************** pgIVFFT.
FINAL FIGHT TOUGH (FINAL FIGHT 3 overseas)
Canon Date: 1991?
Likely 1991, which is after Street Fighter Zero 3 so that Guy could be
back but also before Haggar's tenure as mayor ended. Guy officially didn't
return to Metro City until SFZ3 was done. Haggar officially is stated to
have finally stopped being mayor two years after SFZ3, which would be 1992.
Also, Guy was stated in FFT to come back after 'several years' of training,
so after Zero 3, whose last event took place only 2 years after Zero 2, which
is when Guy was training, seems most likely. Pre-retcon, its release date
was 1995, so maybe that was the original intended release date, although SFZ2
would be released only a year later to force a retcon of FF1's and FF2's
dates.
Gameplay: Capcom's last traditional Final Fight and beat-em up. To Capcom's
credit, while FFT seems to be something that storyline-wise, they didn't put
much effort into in my opinion, they DID try to renovate the engine a lot more
than Final Fight 2. Most of these renovations could be found in Sega's
Streets of Rage 2 anyway (Dash attacks, back holds, etc), but a couple
were new and still haven't been done again by any of those silly 3D beat-em
ups that would come later (motion command special moves like fighting games
have, super moves with super bar that fills up as you hit things, etc).
Story: Taken from the Final Fight Tough (Jap) instruction booklet:
Metro City, several years after the annihilation of the Mad Gear gang.
The city had regained peace after the collapse of the evil organization.
However, the city is gradually losing its power over criminal activity
and is steadily becoming disorderly.
The citizens have grown nervous/scared ever since The Skull Cross Gang
(Mad Gear's former subsystem) appeared and rose to power.
Again, insecurity and fear were budding in the city...
It was during this time that Guy who had finished years of training visited
the office of Mike Haggar, who's continuing his job as mayor of Metro City.
The 2 old friends get reacquainted.
However, the moment of reopening joy was broken when Special Crimes Unit
officer Lucia entered the room with bad news.
She says that the city police department and the detention center have been
attacked by a mysterious group.
After receiving the notice, Haggar was sure that a complete of the Skull
Cross Gang invasion had commenced, and hastened to the scene with Guy and
Lucia.
It was then that a mysterious man stopped Haggar and the others, who were
in a hurry.
He says he wants to aid them in the fight against the Skull Cross Gang.
Is he a friend or foe?
That battle for the streets has begun!
The fate of Metro City was entrusted to the fists of 4 fighters!
(after stopping the riot at the detention center, Dean reveals to Haggar
that he's fighting the Skull Cross Gang because they killed his family).
Hmm. Not too much, here, really. Metro City is in danger once
again as a new gang, the Skull Cross Gang (led by Black), rises to power
above all the other gangs left after the fall of Mad Gear. Mayor Mike
Haggar once again takes to the streets to bust some heads (just in Metro
City, this time, not the world). Guy is back, and goes with him to help.
He is also joined by Lucia Morgan, who's head of the Metro City Special Crimes
Unit (S.C.U.), as well as Dean, whom the Skull Cross Gang brutally murdered
his family so Dean wants revenge. Once again, Haggar and co. kick some
ass, though by the end of Final Fight Tough, Metro City is in shambles (wonder
if that's why Haggar is no longer mayor). Dean leaves because his 'fight is
not over, yet' (or in a different ending, he leaves to try to start a new
normal life) and that's about it. This is the final traditional game in the
Final Fight series. Guy has gone missing afterwards and Haggar is no longer
mayor after 1992.
Course, then 11 years later, Capcom released Streetwise, I suppose (Guy
going missing concluded in Maki's SFZ3 plotline assumedly and Haggar...
still isn't the mayor anymore)
Boss Battle list in order (though you can skip some of them in the
game)
1. Dave: Another crooked cop. Looks similar to Edi. E but dresses
differently and less potbelly:P
2. Callman: Bald guy who looks like a bouncer or a waiter.
3. Caine: You fight him in a scrap dump. Mechanic who wears goggles and
fights with a wrench.
4. Drake: Crazy sailor. Sometimes uses a huge anchor.
5. Wong: You fight him in a Chinese restaurant. He looks pretty different
from Won Won so they aren't one and the same. He's more like a monk,
complete with prayer beads.
6. Stray: Has iron gloves and a trenchcoat. And shades.
7. Black: Army guy. Skull Cross leader (doesn't fall out a window.
Instead he gets electrocuted and blown up. Ouch.)
As stated previously, Capcom doesn't seem to really care about visually
incorporating any Final Fight characters beyond Final Fight 1 into the rest
of Street Fighter (again, with the exception of Maki from FF2). Final
Fight Tough seemed like Capcom's last ditch effort to get some money out of
the Final Fight name before the beat-em up genre died (one can argue that by
the time FFT came out, it was already dead, I think). Of course, Capcom
of America seems to like Final Fight more, what with making Final Fight
Revenge and Final Fight Streetwise, and note that only overseas was the
game thought to be called "Final Fight 3."
********************************** pgIVSF2.
STREET FIGHTER 2 (latest version: SUPER STREET FIGHTER 2 X REVIVAL)
Canon Date: 1993
Gameplay: Released long before the Zero series, SF2 really kicked off the
fighting game genre and was very successful.
Overview: Shadaloo scientists have made Vega a new body, which his soul
transfers to from Rose (official statement. And one of the hardest if not
the hardest for people to swallow as being official, next to Cammy being
Vega's DNA clone...). Vega devises a plot to get revenge on and destroy his
enemies. He hosts the next Street Fighter tournament and sends out
personal invitations to many of the contestants who used to be old enemies
of his. The next Street Fighter tournament has begun. [Official? Saiki
told me this but now we're trying to track down the precise book it's
stated in where Vega sent out official invitations. Supposedly, it was
stated as the storyline for SF2 in a magazine, which COULD mean this
was the case even before the Zero series was introduced and conceived,
possibly, if the Japanese magazine was getting its data correctly.
Vasili10 hasn't been able to find revenge specifically mentioned, but says
that sources thus far implicitly reveal that Vega holds the tournament
to extinguish any threat or obstacle to his total world domination (whether
it means recruiting the opposition to his side or obliterating it
altogether), and for his pride as a fighter to be the best of the
world warriors so to speak. The closest thing is an old official SF2
artwork from a set of SF2 artwork of the SF2 characters where Vega's
art is just his hat with the caption, "After Ryu's magnificent battle,
news of Vega ceased. However the guy will surely return. Becoming a revenging
demon......." This art may take place after SF2 (thus it was retconned) or
may have taken place before. The only other art in the set that could hint
that is one of Guile in his military days, but even that could be Guile
flashbacking and not an indication of whether or not the set takes place
before or after SF2. On an extra note, the personal invitations notion may
have come from extrapolating that an invitation was sent to Fei-Long and thus
everyone else.]
Besides the personal invitation thing and Vega's new body, there is
very very little information given out by Capcom about what officially
happened during Street Fighter 2. The main confirmed info is that Gouki,
who wasn't registered and signed into the tournament, jumped in and snuffed
Vega at the end using the shungokusatsu, and Ryu found Vega's smoldering
remains afterwards. SF4 reveals that Gouki appeared on the scene after Cammy
received her startling revelation from Vega and after Guile held back from
taking Vega out himself. Oh, and Blanka was rumored to have fought Guile, as
it's stated in HnN that Blanka's mother came to seek him out after hearing
rumours of him fighting "a man in a military uniform". Of course, Vega is in
a military uniform, too, but that's a bit less plausible.
The champion of the Street Fighter 2 tournament has also never been
stated, and there likely wasn't one due to Gouki's intervention, prior to
Guile, Cammy and most likely also T. Hawk roughing up Vega as well as being
roughed up.
The final battle of SF2 doesn't take place on Shadaloo property, it
happens outside of the Ramayana Temple of Bangkok's Grand Palace.
Side note. Capcom mutated some of SF2's storyline when they made
Zero 2 and 3, which came out quite a bit after Street Fighter 2 did. Saiki
stated that he's surprised that Capcom didn't make one last version of SF2
to reconcile the differences that Capcom retroactively changed, which leads
into below.
Latest Version Notes: Super Street Fighter 2X Revival updates SF2 to
reconcile it with Zero. Cammy's ending was updated to clarify things a lot
more. Her original ending had Vega telling her that she was his spy (NOT
that they were lovers. That found its way into the US version for some
stupid reason). Her new ending in Revival has Vega telling her that she's a
guinea pig made from his own DNA, instead. They also updated Bison's ending
to be a joke ending where he somehow screws things up for Shadaloo and bungles
his chance for greatness, which was faintly implied at the end of his SSF2
ending as well, that his hour of fame and fortune would be short-lived.
Mike and Joe are rumored to be the fighters at the intros of SF2, SF2
Dash, and SF2 Dash Turbo, from Cap!#13 and the SF2 Gamest pre-mook. Rumored
because CJ hasn't said that they are nor that they aren't.
By the way, SSF2X stands for Super Street Fighter 2 X: Grandmaster
Challenge. It's the name for the original Japanese release of the game
known overseas as Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo. It's also where X in
X-ism comes from in SFZ3/SFA3.
Street Fighter II
Story
Several years ago the wandering fighting stylist Ryu had defeated Sagat-
Warriors from various nations, the goals of each one concealed in their
chests, they fight aiming for the top of the world. Who is the true
street fighter, and also, the mysterious man Vega whose body is wrapped
up in an evil aura, really what kind of person is he......?
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Highlights:
-World Warrior unveils for the first time that Ryu succeeds in winning SF1 by
toppling Sagat. Vega's introduced with a sinister air about him, naturally.
The Ultimate SF2 Character Relations Chart
-main charts from Gamest #61, the Complete File, the Fanbook, the SSF2X
pre-mook's poster, and Gamest #255 courtesy of Sano, and entries from
these sources will be presented in chronological order (aka first ones
from #61, last ones from #255, and last entries may override previous
ones where applicable. Also first entries may never again appear due to
no further expansion on Capcom's part, but are still included for
comprehensive purposes); dozens of other books pretty much repeat the
info from the above
-reading will be in the following format: "A" points TO "B", not FROM "B",
to minimize info repetiton; if no arrow head is seen, it's treated below
as a double-headed arrow
-printed notes on connections from the charts themselves will be in
brackets[]; clarification notes added by me will be in parentheses()
simply because I'll have more, lol
RYU
-to Ken: rival & leaves out infatuation with girls and such; similar
rival & friend [Complete File note: Ken's slightly offended that Ryu
'leaves out infatuation with girls']
-to Sagat: rival; destined rival; worthy opponent (latest statement)
-to the Soviet president: wants him to return the Northern territories
(brought up in WW, never shown again after that)
-to Vega: both mutually feel that "this is the one that must be defeated
no matter what"; happened upon flaming powder to brush away (latest statement)
-to Gouken: master; studied under
-to Fei Long: feeling of being understood as a fellow truth seeker; fellowship
-to Gouki: opponent whom he must surmount in order for conquest over
satsui no hadou (latest statement)
KEN
-to Ryu: rival; similar rival & friend [Complete File note: Ken's slightly
offended that Ryu 'leaves out infatuation with girls']
-to Sagat: rival; destined rival (kept until the SF2AM and the Zero series)
-to Eliza: family head; fellow lover
-to Guile: sworn brother [Complete File note: of course the 2 of them fight
over knowing this fact]; future sworn brothers?
-to Vega: dislikes the gloomy one; dislikes the treacherous one
-to Gouken: master; studied under
E. HONDA
-to Dhalsim: face paint rival
-to Guile: has a grudge for allowing whales for chanko (sumo stew) to
disappear (brought up in WW, never shown again after that)
-to Chun Li: talks of the hyakuretsu harite taken from him; hyakuretsu rival
-to Vega: is believed that he stole the super headbutt; stole his super
headbutt once
-his 4 students Hatonoyama, Yasuhanada, Marunoumi, and Nishinofuji want
to quit with the traditional red sumo crotch sashes [all 4 of them have
briefs as their favorite]; (Hatonoyama was originally named Ryuzan but
sometime between SSF2X and the Zero series his name changed for some reason)
CHUN LI
-to Balrog: not in her eyes (brought up in WW, never shown again after that)
-to Vega: killed her father?; her father's foe?
-to E. Honda: hyakuretsu rival
-to Chun Li's father: father
-to Gen: ?
-to Cammy: ?? (an explosion between the two of them, don't know what that's
supposed to mean)
BLANKA [true name Jimmy]
-to Samantha: mother
-to Balrog: dislikes the wire-netting [because of getting into cages];
[Complete File note: -Blanka once got himself into a cage]
ZANGIEF
-labeled as a dark wrestler
-to Chun Li: wants to shave for her; wants to beard-brush her (brought up
in WW, never shown again after that)
-to Vega: enemy in beliefs [Complete File note: with Zangief as a cooperating
relation, the president's peace policy is hindered by Shadoloo]
GUILE
-to Chun Li: likes her thighs (brought up in WW, never shown again after that)
-to Vega: killed his comrade; friend's foe
-to Julia: wife
-to Chris: daughter
-to Nash: friend
-to Ken: sworn brother [Complete File note: of course the 2 of them fight over
knowing this fact]; future sworn brothers?
-to Cammy: places her as military personnel at first glance
DHALSIM
-likes curry rice
-to Datta: son
-to Kodal: friend [mode of transportation]
-to E. Honda: face paint rival
-to Vega: won't forgive the foul-playing one
T. HAWK
-to Arroyo Hawk: father
-to Vega: tribe's foe & will take back the sacred grounds
FEI LONG
-to Ryu: feeling of being understood as a fellow truth seeker; fellowship
DEE JAY
-to M. Bison: unrefined one
-to Rick: friend [& manager]
-to all people: subject of inspiration
-to Beramacha [parrot]: buddy
CAMMY
-to Vega: obliteration directives
below the handpicked Delta Red including Cammy
-to Colonel Kieth Wolfman: commanding officer & her life benefactor
-to Operative Georges Ginzu [short one], Operative Matthew McCoy [big one],
First Lieutenant Lita Luwanda [woman]: (teammates)
-to Delta Red [British Intelligence Department: Special Building Unit
Members]: partner
-to Chun Li: ?? (an explosion between the two of them, don't know what that's
supposed to mean)
M. BISON
-to Kodal: defeated his parent with a sure-killing slaughter
-to Balrog: dislikes the suspecting one; doesn't agree to the other's tastes
-to Dee Jay: watered down one
-to Kodal's parent: murderer
BALROG
-to Chun Li: jealous of her beauty; [Complete File note: will not designate
Chun Li as an opponent]; jealous of her beauty? [desires to disregard Chun Li]
-to M. Bison: dislikes the idiot; dislikes the wild one; doesn't agree to the
other's tastes
-to Geki [SF1]: claw (same claw? I don't know); claw rival
SAGAT
-resurrected as a robot for SF3? (noted during WW, never brought up again
after that)
-to Ryu: rival; destined rival; defeated once; worthy opponent (latest
statement)
-to Ken: rival; destined rival (kept until the SF2AM and the Zero series)
-to Adon: student
VEGA
-shadow boss of the evil enormous organization Shadoloo? (naturally)
-rumored to be the so-called chairman of the association harrassing the
entire world
-to M. Bison: ? (blank at first); subordinate
-to Balrog: subordinate
-to Sagat: subordinate (in Vega's eyes only, not Sagat's) [Complete File note:
nowadays Sagat feels that he cannot keep following with Vega's methods of
foul play, the space between the 2 of them floats on dangerous air]
-to Blanka: let his airplane fall [in order to extinguish certain nations'
cabinet members]; [Complete File note: in order to extinguish certain
nations' cabinet members that were traveling together, Shadoloo's plot]
-to Soviet president: perestroika interference
-to E. Honda: is believed that he stole his (Honda's) super headbutt
-to Dhalsim: buys up the normal year spices so that curry can't be eaten
(noted during WW, never shown again after that)
-to Zangief: enemy in beliefs [Complete File note: with Zangief as a
cooperating relation, the president's peace policy is hindered by Shadoloo]
-to Ryu: mutually feel that the other must be defeated; interest as a
desperate situation fighting body (latest statement)
-to Nash: obliterated in order to seal his mouth; murderer
-to Arroyo Hawk & the Thunderfoot tribe: murdered with psycho power;
eradicated his tribe
-to Fei Long: invitation to the fighting championship
-to Chun Li's father: what's the connection behind his unaccounted-for
whereabouts?; murderer?
-to Cammy: educated as a necessary assassination personnel [mind control?];
mind control
-to Gouki: psycho power certainly doesn't prevail! (latest statement)
GOUKI
-vanished
-to Goutetsu: master & obliterated for the sake of technique completion?;
murderer?; murderer
-to Gouken: older brother; murderer (latest statement)
-to Vega: annihilates (latest statement)
-to Ryu: "..." (latest statement)
Eliza
-to Ken: her responsibility; fellow lover
-to Julia: actually sisters; sisters
(Chun Li's) father
-was with the Narcotics Investigations Division
-to Gen: ?
-to Chun Li: daughter
-to Vega: what's the connection behind his unaccounted-for whereabouts?
Gen [SF1]
-to Chun Li's father: ?
-to Goutetsu: development from the same school?
Samantha
-to Blanka: son
President
-(called Gorbie in WW, and simply Daitouryo (President) from Dash ever
since, also noted as "great man" aka "erai hito" as early as WW)
-apparently never parts with his helicopter (brought up in WW, never
shown again after that)
-member of the Pagitnoff Science Academy
-to Zangief: wrestling division's junior
-3 KGB's under him as subordinates
KGB #3
-to Sub: actually a spy dog (brought up in WW, never shown again after that)
Julia
-to Guile: husband
-to Chris: daughter
-to Eliza: actually sisters; sisters
Chris
-to Sub: pet
-to Guile + Julia: (parents)
-to Datta: pen friend
Sub [dog]
-to Chris: (master)
-to Shiro [FF dog]: friend
Datta
-to Dhalsim: (father)
-to Chris: pen friend (at first only Datta wrote to Chris apparently, not
vice-versa)
Kodal [elephant]
-to Dhalsim: friend & mode of transportation
-to M. Bison: parent's foe [Complete File note: in the old days, parent
was killed by a so-called sure-killing elephant slaughter move]
Geki [SF1]
-to Balrog: claw (same claw? I can't tell); claw rival
Adon [SF1]
-to Sagat: (master)
-to Vega: stole his kick from him (Adon) once
Nash
-to Guile: friend
Shiro [dog, FF]
-to Sub: friend
Arroyo Hawk
-to T. Hawk: son
(Fei Long's) director
-to Fei Long: performance trust
Rick
-to Dee Jay: friend
-to Beramacha [parrot]: pet
Colonel Keith Wolfman:
-to Cammy and the handpicked of Delta Red: subordinates
Goutetsu:
-to Gouken & Gouki: students
-to Gen: development from the same school?
-to Gouken (only): passed on ansatsuken (proof that Gouki's Z1 & Z2
accounts both happened, Goutetsu didn't necessarily die with a smile on
his face, Gouken acquired Goutetsu's beads, latest statement)
Gouken
-to Ryu & Ken: students
-to Goutetsu: master
-to Gouki: younger brother
Kodal's parent (elephant)
-to Kodal: child
Beramacha [parrot]
-to Dee Jay: buddy
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********************************** pgIVSF4.
STREET FIGHTER 4
Canon date: 1994 (approximately 1 year after SF2)
Gameplay: Almost a decade after the release of Third Strike, Capcom
Japan brings out what was planned as Super Street Fighter II X II, or SF4 for
short, first at the arcades in limited numbers, then consoles and most
recently, the PC. Boasting worldwide audience-capturing intentions like
never before, the Street Fighter saga is back, with follow-up Super SF4 hot
on its heels.
Overview: SF2's over, but reoccurring
incidents of mysterious nature keep sprouting all over the world,
sparking the suspicions of Chun-Li and Guile. Is Shadaloo rearing its
head again? Or are the events of a more "mystic" nature? Time will
tell, as old and new faces alike are pulled into the fray.
SF4 Story (from AOU 2008's Capcom pamphlet, the arcade version)
The following year after the so-called legendary World Fighting
Championship, they silently began___.
The questionable incidents following in succession, amidst a secretly
maneuvering mysterious organization. Chasers and those followed, within
a blend of fellowship and treachery, now, the curtain rises on a new
struggle!
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Highlights:
-The tournament of SF2 has become a legend in the minds of fighters everywhere.
Street Fighter IV (from the console and PC manuals)
Story
___Once more that tournament is being held___.
Having become partly legend the previous championship's excitement also not
subsiding that year, for information of a newly become World Fighting
Championship in a flash for the fighting stylists while spread out, at the
same time the murmuring of a strange rumor also was starting.
Disappearance events of celebrated fighting stylists following in succession.
To possess so-called menace's efficiency a new type of weapon. This time's
sponsor being the military affairs enterprise S.I.N. and, the link with the
ought to have been destroyed Shadoloo.
Turbulent-like rumors and seeming to hail each other, newly become fighting
stylists one by one launch their self-introduction.
A youth who continues to search lost memories. A female agent S.I.N.'s
management candidate and regarding to be one. A man to burn with tenacity
about beating a rival. A luchador to pursue the ultimate recipes.
And also to block the way before them even the previous tournament's
participants, each having determination and expectations they've been
starting to move.
Ones to fight for the sake of precious people. Ones who pledge to vindicate
honor for this year. Ones who shall make a roar of reputation in the world.
To become entangled in a complication of human relationships and, an enormous
conspiracy hidden behind the scenes of the championship.
Imperative to approach the separated from human habitation "true fighting
stylist", having continued training in earnest Ryu even again, is being
swallowed into that vortex__.
Chasers and those followed, to complicate within fellowship and treachery,
now, the curtain rises on a new struggle!
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Highlights:
-No main character specified for SF4; special emphasis given to the new faces
plus Ryu still at a locus for protagonists and antagonists alike.
SF4 Rival Battles: first name is who you fight as.
Abel vs Guile (and vice versa) - Happened as it's a two-sided battle (Guile vs
Abel and no other conflicts). Suspicious of each other at first, after running
in circles trying to find out more about Nash and Shadaloo alike, they're both
somewhat more trusting of each other as shown in Guile's ending.
Balrog vs Chun-Li - Didn't happen. Balrog remains out of Chun-Li's sights as
shown in his ending. CJ's notorious for keeping these two apart, and it seems
to stay that way in SSF4 as well. Maaaybe they meet in SSF4 per Balrog's last
words in his SSF4 ending, but even if they do then, whether or not the meeting
escalates into a battle is anyone's guess.
Blanka vs El Fuerte - Pointless but might've happened as it doesn't conflict
with anything else.
C. Viper vs Chun-Li - Happened as it's a two-sided battle as well as referenced
in Cammy's rival battle intro. Most likely Viper cut this fight short and
left after she saw that she wouldn't be able to make Chun-Li retire so easily.
Cammy vs C. Viper - Doubt that they met prior to their encounter in the lab,
so most likely didn't happen. Cammy would've interrogated Viper had she won,
and Viper probably wouldn't have pulled a gun to Cammy if she knew beforehand
that Cammy was from Delta Red, which Viper would realize during this battle.
Chun-Li vs C. Viper - same as C. Viper vs Chun-Li
Dan vs Sakura - Probably happens but not within the tournament since both Dan
and Sakura are shown to be in the lab for their endings. Chances are Sakura
wins and gets to choose ramen for lunch, having whupped Dan 23 times in a row.
Could've possibly occurred just as likely in SSF4.
Dhalsim vs Rufus - Not too important either way, but most likely Dhalsim does
manage to baffle the stuffings out of Rufus as referenced in Rufus' SSF4
opening.
E. Honda vs El Fuerte - Probably happens since Honda's lucky enough to try
El Fuerte's newest culinary creation in Fuerte's ending.
El Fuerte vs Zangief - Same situation as above, Zangief's the other fortunate
dude to taste El Fuerte's newest dish with "rising" results.
Fei-Long vs Abel - Happens as referenced by Fei-Long in his SSF4 ending
remembering Abel. Abel most likely won if it occurred inside the tournament
but could've gone either way if it was outside. In any case, each leaves a
good impression on the other by the end. The battle could've occurred during
SSF4's timeframe with the above scenarios as well.
Gen vs Chun-Li - Happened, but not during SF4. This battle's a re-enaction
of one that occurred prior to SF2. Gen reveals to a stressed Chun-Li that her
father was murdered, and that he feels he's partially responsible for the
tragedy: the flashback in Gen's opening prologue shows him unable to stop
Chun-Li's father from being taken away due to his disease.
Gouken vs Ryu - Like Gen vs Chun-Li, happened but in the even more distant
past: Ryu's final battle with his master before leaving the dojo and making
his way towards shaming Sagat in SF1.
Gouki vs Ryu - Doubtful that this battle happens in SF4 or SSF4. Ryu would be
neither ready nor sufficient in Gouki's eyes judging by what Gouki says if
you win this rival battle with him, and from Gouki's ending only if Ryu became
SnH Ryu would Gouki be drawn to him.
Guile vs Abel - same as Abel vs Guile
Ken vs Rufus - Seemingly pointless, but happened as it is another two-sided
battle with no major conflicts and referenced in Rufus' SSF4 opening. Ken
wins of course, since he mentions to Eliza in his ending that several other
guys got in the way of his ideal rematch with Ryu which he also had and thus
enjoyed the tournament, and because even Rufus admits that, though Ken won
then, he still insists that he's the best both before and after their fight.
M. Bison vs Chun-Li - See M. Bison vs Chun-Li in the SSF4 rival battle list.
Rose vs Ryu - See Rose vs Ryu in the SSF4 rival battle list.
Rufus vs Ken - same as Ken vs Rufus
Ryu vs Sagat - See Ryu vs Sagat in the SSF4 rival battle list.
Sagat vs Ryu - same as Ryu vs Sagat
Sakura vs Ryu - See Sakura vs Ryu in the SSF4 rival battle list.
Seth vs Abel - Most likely does not happen. Though Abel takes Guile's place
against the "Seth" which is overriden by Vega, Seth's rival battle is shown
to be #15 versus Abel. There's nothing to show that Abel's conversed with the
real Seth before he's outside the burning lab with Guile and Chun-Li.
Vega vs C. Viper - Most likely doesn't happen. If either did meet, according
to their rival battle speeches one of them wouldn't be alive at the end; the
other would make sure of it.
Zangief vs Abel - Might've happened outside the tournament since both are at
the lab during their endings. As with Guile, Abel has an opportunity to learn
more about Shadaloo from Zangief, plus he can't help but sense that Zangief's
somehow familiar to him.
********************************** pgIVSSF4.
SUPER STREET FIGHTER 4 (latest edition being Ultra Street Fighter 4)
Canon date: late 1994 to early 1995
Gameplay: The newest chapters of the oldest head-to-head fighting game saga
continue with more faces, more features, and the return of bonus stages.
Overview: The excitement starts winding down from the previous tournament, but
is nonetheless not forgotten. Though the media tried to assure the world that
the new organization S.I.N.-sha has fallen, they're ba~ack, and this time
appear to be out to leave everyone including recuperating Shadaloo POed.
Intro from the SSF4 Character Art Collection
THE LAST TIME'S WORLD FIGHTING CHAMPIONSHIP'S EXCITEMENT ALSO DIDN'T COOL DOWN
THAT YEAR, INCIDENTS BECOME OF THE UNKNOWN WHEREABOUTS OF FAMED FIGHTING
STYLISTS HAVE ARISEN AT VARIOUS AREAS OF THE WORLD.
Having known the incidents for Chun Li and Guile immediately commenced an
investigation, for having observed through that process, by means of
Shadoloo's connected enterprise S.I.N.'s CEO Seth there was an enormous plot.
S.I.N. developed BLECE as a new era's powerful weapon. Amplifying the power
of 'ki' that living creatures possess, for the sake of being able to manage
this weapon's research, for Seth having excelled in 'ki' manipulation dealings
through various areas kidnapping many fighting stylists, they have in fact
been forced into participating in experiments.
Having gotten swallowed into the incidents due to Ryu and Ken, Chun Li and
others' great efforts, for BLECE's last experiment barely prevented, for the
ringleader being Seth he himself being extricated due to someone, his figure
vanished.
Seth's whereabouts and S.I.N.'s trends, and also appearing and disappearing in
that background, the ought-to-be perished Shadoloo's silhouette. For Chun Li
and company to continue investigations in desperation, for the real situation
of the incidents are getting looked inside pretty well.
Such that within, from an incident having arisen with (South) Korea, for
Chun Li and company know the existence of the female called Juri. For Juri
appending a horrible combat ability, having settled in one eye an apparatus
copied from Seth's tanden engine. Not for her figure to make widely known
as Seth's right arm, tragedies at varous areas causes Juri. Pleasure through
brutality but, where be the also highly calculating face peeking through what
it is for her true intention?
__And also, a newly World Fighting Championship's holding has been declared.
Story
__In the tournament's shadow having been hidden yet another story is now,
opening the curtain__.
Due to the military affairs enterprise S.I.N. having opened a newly World
Fighting Championship, from that announcement in the beginning a dark rumor
has been following around.
Even after the announcement of destruction through the underworld of the
frightening secret society Shadoloo, a so-called new weapon to possess a
terrible ability, a connection to the series of fighting stylist disappearance
incidents.
With various speculations spreading wildly for the fighting stylists who
participated in the tournament, there were even those having not been known
until this.
A seeking out a lost brethren highly prideful warrior. A enjoying the
battle with relaxed open attitude born in the southern country musician. A
transmitted from ancients ninjutsu's successor. A turned his back on the
age within former hero. A breasts spurring on toward the future young ninja.
For the sake of protecting a dojo a having run toward it karateist. A having
indomitable fighting spirit English boxer. A aiming at the strongest title
Muay Thai fighter. A compatible industrialist and fighting stylist Turkish
man of valor.
-And also, a single female having appeared as S.I.N.'s CEO Seth's subordinate.
Individual intentions and organizational interests are intertwining in
complexity at the tournament's lining, at the end who is the one to prevail?
Even in earnest among the ramified trap, the true wire puller's loud laughter
is resounding throughout __.
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The Ultimate SF4 Character Relations Chart
-main chart from Famitsu Online and SF4 & SSF4 Official Complete Works,
entries will be presented in chronological order. Notes in [] are added
by me for clarity.
-following the chart will be entries originally introduced by CJ's Shiozawa
Natsuki-san from her personal character analyis. These were discarded later
on by Capcom Japan, some valid, some erroneous, all non-seishi and presented
here only for historical reference.
-reading will be in the following format: "A" points TO "B", not FROM "B", to
minimize info repetition; if no arrow head is seen, it's treated below as a
double-headed arrow
RYU
-to Ken: friend and rival
-to Guile: had him eat natto
-to Gouken: studied under
-to Sagat: left a scar on his chest
KEN
-to Ryu: friend and rival
-to Guile: respective wives are sisters
-to Gouken: studied under
E. HONDA
-to Zangief: chanko is much tastier!
-to Hakan: friend
CHUN LI
-to Guile: investigation cooperation
-to Gen: Chun Li's father's pretext
-to C. Viper: duties opposition
-to Vega: father's foe
BLANKA
-to Dan: friend
ZANGIEF
-to E. Honda: borscht is much tastier!
-to El Fuerte: prowrestler showdown
GUILE
-to Ken: respective wives are sisters
-to Chun Li: investigation cooperation
-to Nash: friend
-to Dhalsim: children are mutual communicators
DHALSIM (says, "This is also fate......")
-to Guile: children are mutual communicators
M. BISON
-to Dudley: boxer showdown
BALROG
-to Vega: utilizes
SAGAT (says, "This is that emperor.")
-to Ryu: dislikes the shoryuken
-to Vega: cooperated once
VEGA
-to Ryu: body is wanted
-to Sagat: once cooperated
-to M. Bison: employs through money
-to Seth: substitute body
C. VIPER (says, "In the middle of work!")
-to Chun Li: duties opposition
-to Nash: knows?
-to Seth: infiltration investigation
ABEL
-to Fei Long: fan
EL FUERTE
-to Zangief: prowrestler showdown
-to T. Hawk: old friend
RUFUS
-to Ken: one-sided rival outlook
GOUKI
-to Gouken: older sibling; once defeated [because of the definition of defeat
in Goutetsu's ansatsuken and Gouki's clinging to it, Gouken did in fact die
by Gouki's hand]
GOUKEN
-to Gouki: younger sibling
SETH
-to Vega: wants to usurp Shadoloo
-to Abel: an eyesore existence
-to Juri: a right-arm-type existence
-to Ryu: aims for his power
SAKURA
-to Ryu: admirable person
-to Cammy: friend
-to Ibuki: that uniform, isn't conspicuous?
DAN
-to Blanka: friend
-to Gouken: once studied under
-to Sakura: master surface [only pretends to be her instructor outwardly, not
truly]
FEI LONG (says, "Words and the like are unnecessary!")
CAMMY (thinks, "I so wanna raise a cat......")
-to Sakura: friend
-to Dee Jay: friend is a fan
-to Vega: I'm not a doll!
-to Juri: ex-bodyguard troop companions' foe
GEN
-to Chun Li: Chun Li's father's pretext
ROSE (thinks, "I want to get into a restful bath.")
-to Vega: wants to confine
-to Guy: old friend
T. HAWK (says, "Hao!")
-to Vega: I will get her back! [refers to Juli whom Hawk knows as Julia his
sweetheart]
-to El Fuerte: old friend
DEE JAY (says, "Let's dance!")
-to Cammy: an angered face doesn't suit ya!
JURI
ADON (says, "I am a god!!")
-to Sagat: once studied under
GUY (thinks, "Horizontal writing that's a weak point.")
-to Cody: once battled together
-to Haggar: once cooperated
-to Rose: old friend
CODY (thinks, "So dull......")
-to Guy: once battled together
-to Jessica: former girlfriend
DUDLEY (says, "Let's go gentlemanly.")
-to M. Bison: boxer showdown
IBUKI (thinks, "I so wanna eat a sweet.")
-to Sakura: wants to wear a sailor uniform
MAKOTO (says, "Thoroughly come!!")
-to Fei Long: defeating him she raises the dojo's name!
HAKAN (says, "My cooking oil is the best in the world!")
-to E. Honda: friend
Nash (from the Zero series)
to Guile: friend
to Abel: extricates 5 years ago [he holds Vega at bay and allows Abel to
escape the psycho drive base]
Haggar (from the Final Fight series)
-to Jessica: child
Jessica (from the Final Fight series)
-to Haggar: parent
Original Shadoloo faces- consists of Vega, Balrog, Bison, Sagat [not because
he considers himself part of them but because Vega continues to]
S.I.N. (Shadoloo's subsidiary [technology supplementer to its weapons branch,
not its subordinate division])- consists of Seth, Juri, Viper
Metro City's residents- consists of Guy, Cody, Haggar, Jessica
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Entries from Shiozawa-san's personal analysis (not canon overall, historical
reference only)
RYU
-to Ken: rival
-to Gouken: master
KEN
-to Ryu: rival
-to Gouken: master
E. HONDA
-to Hakan: old friend
CHUN LI
-to Gen: master *Udon flag* [he remains a shady elusive contact to her,
watching her from the darkness, nothing more]
-to Guile & Cammy: cooperates
-to Abel: acquaintance
-to C. Viper: opposes
BLANKA
ZANGIEF
GUILE
-to Chun Li & Cammy: cooperates
-to Nash: friend
-to Abel: sense of distrust
DHALSIM
-to S.I.N.: the water deficiency's source to search out
M. BISON
BALROG
SAGAT
-to Ryu: worthy opponent
VEGA
-to Bison & Balrog: subordinates
-to Rose: opposes
-to the Living Incubator Project: project for the sake of substitute bodies
-to Juri: snatches away her one eye and both parents
C. VIPER
-to Seth: scouts
-to Chun Li & Cammy: opposes
ABEL
-to Chun Li: acquaintance
-to Guile: sense of distrust
-to Seth & No. 21: identical genetic siblings
-to Shadoloo Group: pursues Shadoloo
-to Fei Long: fan
EL FUERTE
-to T. Hawk: amigo
RUFUS
-to Ken: one-sided rival outlook
GOUKI
-to Gouken: [older] sibling
-to Gen: death-meet opponent
SETH (No. 15)
-to Vega: plans to take over Shadoloo
-to Abel & No 21: identical genetic siblings
-to the World Fighting Tournament: holds it aiming for strong fighting
stylists
-to Ryu: aims for satsui no hadou
-to Juri: subordinate
GOUKEN
-to Gouki: [younger] sibling
-to Ryu & Ken: students
SAKURA
-to Ryu: admires
to Ibuki: a mutual understanding of meeting by accident
DAN
FEI LONG
-to Seth: pursues for the staff raid incidents
CAMMY
-to Chun Li & Guile: cooperates
-to C. Viper: opposes
GEN
-to Chun Li: disciple of his disciple
-to Gouki: death-meet opponent
ROSE
-to Vega: opposes
-to Guy: friend
T. HAWK
-to El Fuerte: amigo
-to Shadoloo group: pursues for his missing-whereabouts lover
DEE JAY
JURI
ADON
-to Sagat: hatred
GUY
-to Rose: friend
-to Cody: former companion
CODY
-to Guy: former companion
DUDLEY
IBUKI
-to Sakura: a mutual understanding of meeting by accident
MAKOTO
HAKAN
-to E. Honda: old friend
Nash
-to Guile: friend
-to Abel: extricates 5 years ago [he holds Vega at bay and allows Abel to
escape the psycho drive base]
-to mercenary soldier: entrusts Abel to *Udon flag* [CJ's never revealed
that Nash got him to be with his mercenary commanding officer father. All
that's said is that his mercenary friends rescued and turned him over to the
commanding officer, who in turn said to his underlings to show him the ropes
until he established somewhat of an identity again]
No. 21
-to Abel & Seth: identical genetic siblings
mercenary soldier
-to Abel: raising parent
anti-Shadoloo group- In order to stand against Shadoloo, ICPO's Chun Li, the
British Special Building Unit Delta Red's Cammy, the US armed forces' posted
Guile and others are, cooperatively undertaking an investigation. Also in
addition to opposing Shadoloo seems to be the organization but.......
-consists of Cammy, Viper, Chun Li, Guile, Nash
ansatsuken's successor- From time immemorial school that the successor
fighting stylist has feared as an ansatsuken. As for having sublimated it
into fighting techniques was Gouken's master, Goutetsu.
-consists of Gouken, Gouki, Ken, Ryu
Shadoloo group- The secret society with Vega as commander. Acting in
narcotics circulating and military weapon smuggling, from the undersurface
of the world it has it under its thumb and secretly maneuvers.
-consists of S.I.N.(Shadaloo Intimidation Network *Udon flag* [CJ's never
revealed what S.I.N. stands for])/BLECE Project, the Living Incubator Project
*Udon flag* [CJ's never referred to Vega's substitute vessel project by name],
and Viper, Juri, Seth (No. 15), No. 21, Bison, Balrog, Vega
S.I.N. (Shadaloo Intimidation Network) / BLECE project- For S.I.N. being the
enterprise in charge of Shadoloo's weapons development branch, the BLECE
project is an experimental project constructing the ultimate weapon that's
utilized the power of "ki".
-consists of Viper, Juri, Seth (No. 15)
Living Incubator Project- A project for the sake of developing Vega's
substitute body. For Seth and Abel, are experimental bodies produced for the
sake of this project.
-consists of Seth (No. 15), No. 21, Abel
mercenary soldier division- A mercenary group operating in the heart of
Europe. With bravery for the grieved division chief, Abel is entrusted to him
from Nash.
-consists of the mercenary soldier, Abel
World Fighting Tournament- To become the subject matter of S.I.N.'s BLECE
project, it was held with the intention to gather the superior fighting
stylists.
-consists of Ryu, Ken, Sakura, Dan, Blanka, Rufus, Zangief, El Fuerte, Honda,
Dee Jay, Dudley, Makoto, Adon
saikyo ryu (?)- Having been excommunicated by Gouken Dan's risen school.
Participating being Dan's friend is Blanka, Sakura also is forcibly enrolling.
-consists of Dan, Blanka, Sakura
SSF4 Rival Battles: first name is who you fight as. The AE-only rival
battles for Yun, Yang, Satsui Ryu and Oni do have intros scripted and voiced
but not animated, thus they don't show up in-game.
Adon vs Sagat - Probably happens and Sagat most likely wins if it does. With
Adon left in one piece this time he reaffirms in his mind that Sagat has truly
lost his once proud, ferocious tiger fangs as referenced in Adon's ending.
C. Viper vs Hakan - Might've happened. If it does, then Hakan backs off due
to Viper's fire and electric capacities definitely not in his favor, and she
loses interest in trying to recruit him as well. They probably part with
Viper apologizing for calling Hakan short-legged and her deducing that his
Achilles' heel is his daughters moreso than even oil.
Cammy vs Juri - Probably doesn't happen as either Juri would get her neck
broken or Cammy would get possibly abducted and/or killed like other girls
of the Vega Bodyguard Troops. They have fought prior to SSF4 and Cammy
lost back then. With this rival battle she's fuming to return the favor
for herself and her Shadaloo siblings.
Chun-Li vs Juri - Not sure if this one happens, but if so either Chun-Li lays
the beatdown and places Juri under arrest, or Juri keeps wailing on Chun-Li.
They'd met and fought prior to SSF4 when Juri had to quickly outwit Chun-Li
to get away, but for this battle she's in no hurry to stop the thrashing as
long as her Chinese opponent keeps getting back up for more.
Cody vs Guy - Happens and probably ends with no clear winner as Cody backs
away refusing to partner with Guy against S.I.N.-sha. Guy more likely had
the upper hand during this battle since he notes that Cody's gotten so sloppy
he's forgotten Guy's movements.
Decapre vs Cammy - Unknown if this happens, but not if the start of Decapre's
ending occurs, before Vega shows up. Cammy would most likely take the upper
hand and subdue Decapre but still be unable to help her unlike say Juni as in
Cammy's SSF4 ending.
Dee Jay vs Rufus - Like all other rival battles involving Rufus which did
happen as referenced by Rufus' SSF4 opening prologue, this one would more
or less be in the same boat and give both Dee Jay and Rufus some involvement
in SSF4. Rufus thinks Dee Jay wants to become his student and "tests" him
as the battle ensues, docking "match points" all along the way until Dee Jay's
left with a score of negative 66 (he got one point apparently for his first
attack). Dee Jay of course just wants to have some rhythmic fun with the big
bouncy guy.
Dudley vs M. Bison - Happens and it's not known who won, but Dudley looked
to have the upper hand as the fight progressed.
Elena vs Sakura - Happens and quietly referenced in the last scene of Elena's
Ultra ending. Difficult to tell who wins as both part ways satisfied at
having a blast with each other, but probably Sakura won it.
Guile vs Vega - Probably doesn't happen. Even if it does, Vega escapes
presumably the same way he appeared or soul-jumps away. Guile swears that
he'll be the one to escort Vega to hell this time, and Vega seeing Guile as
the "usual minnow," scoffs away Guile's threat.
Guy vs Rose - Happens and Guy manages to mentally learn that Rose is putting
her life on the line for Ryu's sake. Most likely Rose wins it.
Hakan vs E. Honda - Happens and apparently keeps carrying on to a stalemate
outside Hakan's residence as seen in his ending. Both stubborn that their
style is tops even though the other comes super close, and both are still good
buds.
Hugo vs Poison - Most likely doesn't happen, especially if they meet up ala
Hugo's Ultra ending scenario. If they did battle at all during the SF4 era,
Hugo would most likely win.
Ibuki vs Sakura - Probably happened, and most likely Sakura won it because
Ibuki wants to stress it as a play fight because she doesn't do very well.
Sakura likely tells Ibuki about Ken regardless.
Juri vs Vega - Dunno. If it happened, most likely Vega would be the one
left standing above a bloody-eyed Juri. Otherwise he soul-jumps away after
she manages to break his SF4 body or vanishes altogether the same way he
appears in front of Juri because he's got other priorities in mind.
M. Bison vs Chun-Li - Might've happened, and if it does, it veers towards
Bison getting arrested in the end. However, even if he does land in the
slammer, it may not be a stretch for him to eventually break out.
Makoto vs Fei-Long - Happens and Makoto wins, possibly because Fei-Long got
distracted towards the end. Either way she cherishes her victory and he
finds new respect for Rindoukan karate.
Oni vs Gouken - Doesn't happen. Oni doesn't come into being during SSF4.
Poison vs Rolento - Doubtful if this escalated into a battle of any kind,
if a meeting happened at all. Poison's ending definitely doesn't materialize
in any kind of shape or form, so Rolento probably wouldn't face any kind of
defeat or delay in his latest mission with his fellow troopers to capture
S.I.N.-sha's feng shui engine.
Rolento vs Cody - Also a doubtful meeting and/or battle. An apparent
rematch deja vu moment from Z3 which consists of the usual ideals clashing
and bickering, though this time Rolento doesn't appear to give up on trying
to rewire Cody from his carelessly criminal lifestyle. If Cody fights
Rolento and wins, he probably moves on while the Red Beret utopia fanatic
likely recovers and continues with his newest mission, but again that's
uncertain.
Rose vs Ryu - Depends on whether they meet before or after Ryu's fought with
Ken, Sagat, and Sakura if no one else. Rose is really insistent on not
letting Ryu proceed because she feels he's not yet ready to take on Vega
and prevail at this time, and she now acknowledges that Ryu, not she, is
currently the critical card for putting Vega away. However, this entire
encounter might've also been avoided courtesy of Guy. See Guy vs Rose
above for more on that. So dunno for sure if this battle happens.
Ryu vs Ken - Happens. Referenced in Ryu's SSF4 ending, and their last Z3
battle together before Ryu, Ken and Sakura all part ways, with Ryu's victory
pose in his Z3 ending while Ken continues his fighting stance, confirms that
Ryu indeed won that battle through their dialogue in this one. Whichever way
their battle here goes, Ken invites Ryu to come meet him once the baby's born.
Ryu vs Sagat - Happens. Referenced in Ryu's and Sagat's SSF4 endings. The
two rivals have finally gotten their desired match without any interference,
enjoy it, and part ways as friends.
Sakura vs Ryu - Happens. Referenced in Ryu's and Sakura's SSF4 endings, and
Sakura reveals that she has indeed aged and matured since their last battle
together.
Satsui Ryu vs Gouken - Doesn't happen. Satsui Ryu doesn't come into being
during SSF4.
Seth vs Hakan - Most likely does not happen with Seth as #15, but otherwise
maybe. Hakan notes that Seth is lighter than he looks to be as a side note.
T. Hawk vs El Fuerte - Most likely happens. A battle between old friends and
neighbors with El Fuerte asking how the village elder and Julia are both
doing, while Hawk intends to reiterate how important it is to take care of
food and to not depend on just strength in battle. Despite his lecturing
intentions he also enjoys their first fight in a long while.
Yang vs Ryu - Most likely does not happen. Assumes that Yang meets Ryu while
having lost and searching for his big brother, they fight and Yang of course
gracefully takes his loss as a good lesson. Nothing from the SF3 series
indicates that Yang and Ryu had ever met before, plus noting that their battle
journey according to Yun's ending came to a close after fighting somebody who
was tough to understand would steer towards this battle not happening.
Yun vs Chun-Li - Ditto. Yun goes off on his own spying on Chun-Li's
whereabouts, she realizes he's around and calls him out, he's shocked, and she
makes him promise that if they fight and he loses he goes back home right
away. He of course loses to her and consents, which again contradicts his
ending as described above in Yang vs Ryu.
********************************** pgIVSF3.
STREET FIGHTER 3: NEW GENERATION / SECOND IMPACT: GIANT ATTACK
Story
"Departing for the weekend!, Tom."
"Let's see...to calm down even my injuries, also the training gym's direction,
Luis will make a go of it..."
For Tom on a hospital's bed getting half-torsoed, from a considerable patch
having become a small foot's cast while it was relieving a thrashing.
"Well, come slowly! Even if the rehabilitating is dextrous, to leave the
gym it still doesn't suffer..."
"That's right, for the departure's time, allow me to go bid farewell to Pat!
It's not about going like a silent coldheartedness, as you are generally..."
For Tom talks of various things at once and his body posed on the bed.
"I know!"
For Alex answers with a bitter smile and, if leaving to journey even this
preaching of Tom's a fishy expression, for a while he believed he wasn't being
heard.
To Alex having left the hospital, a roadside tree's timber oversight day is
to downpour and, and that glistening light is to him having remembered a
single man's figure.
That day for that man fluttering of long blond hair, had in fact appeared
before the two of them going on the street.
Glistening long blond hair taking in the street's illumination's light and,
for an upright figure of a large-build body filled with confidence, to
somehow come forth from a Scandinavian myth he associated with the ideas
like Yggdrasil.
For the hoodlum fighter always seeming to be imaging like a wild animal and
a fierce animal he was believed to be something different.
With having taken up a street fight before Tom, the man's long hair seeming
to dance flashed in the open air and, for Tom beyond his control to
counterattack he was being defeated inside. To be saying the US military
prominence's veteran, even my challenging someday not to deprive an allowing
to fall is in fact that Tom.
For Tom being the strongest man as far as I know, that's the objective as a
fighting stylist. That before Tom's eyes as it is not even able to
counterattack the blond-haired man much the fact is he was defeated. What
in the world kind of matter is it likely to be. There's no reason for Tom
to lose so easily. There ought to be something.
Or else really, there's probably that much an extent of difference in
strength?....
I'll pursue the blond-haired man. One way or another if I'm allowed to
fight that man the fact is I will understand everything.
Let's go towards the world, beyond the scope of going out. Desiring the
strongest evidence.
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Highlights:
-The long unabridged version of the flashback in Alex's ending. Gill's blond
hair is what stays in Alex's memory as his journey continues, and interesting
is that he likens his initial impression of Gill to Scandinavian myth rather
than anything Greek, suggesting that (thankfully) Gill hadn't approached Tom
and Alex in the streets in the nearly-buff prior to Tom going down that day.
Second Impact replaces The New Generation. Again, this is official
statement, though really, this is a lot more obvious than SFZ2 overriding
SFZ1 considering that for almost all (if not completely all) of the old
characters, their storylines dialogue, and endings in New Generation and Second
Impact are EXACTLY the same.
Canon Date: 1998.
It taking place five years after Street Fighter 2 is official statement with
the release of 3S.
Gameplay: Another fighting game. See a pattern yet?
Story: Oi. Five years and with no games in between this and Street
Fighter 2. What a jump, there Oo Street Fighter 3 pretty much threw
most of the old Street Fighter storyline to the winds in terms of how
connected it is to the other games. The only returning characters are Ryu
and Ken, and they weren't even supposed to be in the game at first, but they
didn't get in due to fan outcries but by staff decision. The rest of the
characters are all new, and the majority of them don't have any relations
to previous SF characters, whatsoever. Due to this, lots of people
complained about the lack of unresolved plotlines in Street Fighter 2
(although truthfully, the majority of SF2 resolved itself within the
game's endings, anyways). What's really scary though is that technically
there is nothing to show within the game that Street Fighter 2 happened or
existed AT ALL until Street Fighter 3: Third Strike, and even then, it's
only vaguely referenced in passing with Urien telling Chun-Li that her
legendary legs cornered "a certain organization" into destruction. That
combined with Hugo never EVER officially being referred to as Andore makes
me wonder if they ever wanted this game to be a Street Fighter game in the
first place. The fact that some early marquees stressed the number 3 more
than the actual words "Street Fighter" didn't help. Anyway, moving along...
The story of the third Street Fighter storyline is that a mysterious
new organization has come to light, led by Gill. Gill holds Street
Fighter 3 non-publicly so that he may find the "chosen ones" that are worthy
to become part of his plan to create an ideal world.
A little visual support for no sans-Ryu+Ken NG beta; Gamest showed its first
2 shots ever of NG previewed at a 1996 game show, almost half a year prior
to its arcade debut. One shot showed Alex from what looks like a closeup of
one of his ending screens sitting over Tom maybe, and the other had Ken's
victory quote pose screen with Ryu defeated. I didn't find anything more
in the mook's interview to point to such a beta, as I had expected.
Noritaka-san's words about Ryu & Ken not being originally in the lineup I
also found in AAC; still nothing about a beta.
Very few details are known about the Street Fighter 3 "tournament,"
though more are known than Street Fighter 2, at least. Here are the few
official statements that could be found about it, most from Capcom Japan's
web page itself.
Sean lost to Ken. (referenced in 3S)
Ryu lost to Oro. (referenced in 2I)
Oro didn't show up for his fight against Alex. (implied in 2I)
Alex won the "tourney." (intro to 3S)
Oh, and Ryu -probably- beat Hugo, since Capcom stated how Ryu hit Hugo
with a shin shoryuken, and I can't figure out any other place that would
take place besides during 2I. (referenced in 3S that it was in 2I)
There were mid-boss and boss battles in SF3 Second Impact, but the
majority of them are sadly pointless filler battles and thus probably
didn't happen. And I doubt that Gouki's boss battles happened since all
indications are that he didn't even enter the tournament, just like SF2.
Ah well. Here's the boss battle list for SF3 2I. Remember, the character
name that comes first is the one you play as.
Alex vs Ken - Sparring match; might've happened, might've not. A point to
note is that Alex starts off mistaking blond guys in general for Gill,
including Ken. Alex is one probable candidate for the guy Ken tells Ryu
that Ken must face as SF3 opens, thus prompting their meeting after 3 years.
Alex vs Gill - Alex fights Gill to avenge Tom getting beaten up. This
battle happened, though Gill likely threw it as referenced by Gill's 3S
ending and pre-battle dialogue with Alex.
Dudley vs Hugo - Just a random duel. Might've happened, but probably not.
Dudley vs Gill - Dudley challenges Gill for his car. Gill comments that he
wants to see if Dudley is worthy of it. Apparently, Gill decided he was
after the test, since Dudley has his car in Third Strike and thus this battle
did happen.
Elena vs Ryu - Yet another random fight. A reference to them meeting prior
to SF3 which convinced Elena to go to study abroad in Japan.
Elena vs Gill - Elena tells Gill that fighting moves are not meant for
injuring others (because remember, kids! Learning to kick others in the
face is a sign of FRIENDSHIP!). Gill disagrees, saying that they're the
proof of the strongest kind, and that they signify death in her regard.
Didn't happen needless to say.
Gill vs Alex - It's the same dialogue as Alex vs Gill, for crying out loud.
Gill vs Urien - Urien challenges Gill for the leadership. Gill's 3S win quote
to Urien shows that this battle did happen. Urien lost it despite Gill
holding back.
Gouki vs Sean - Sean briefly mistakes Gouki for Ryu :P Sean's trying to
challenge Ryu because Ken keeps sicking Sean on Ryu so that Ken can have
some free time with his wife and this is the result? Hehe. Doesn't
happen of course.
Gouki vs Ryu - Gouki says to Ryu that now he's ready for them to truly settle
their match (which started in Z2 when they first fought). Ryu tells Gouki
that satsui no hadou is thoroughly surpassable, and he'll prove it. Eternal
notes that by 3S Ryu's the one actually ready to approach Gouki, not the
other way around as this scenario from 2I suggested. No real way to tell if
they ever met during 2I or 3S either, so the battle probably doesn't happen,
or at the most it's cut short since win quotes indicate that Ryu is neither
killed nor is Gouki leaving satisfied as he'd hoped, both in 2I and 3S.
Hugo vs Yun - Another match to test each other; that's pretty much it.
Might've happened, might've not, unimportant either way.
Hugo vs Ryu, Necro, Elena, or Gill - Hugo's match to find a tag team
partner. Though these battles, with the exception of Hugo vs Ryu, probably
did not happen. Or at least, none of them (including Hugo vs Ryu) happened
in this form I imagine. Ryu got eliminated by Oro although it's confirmed
that he did fight Hugo and win prior to that.
Ibuki vs Elena - Really random battle, but might've happened. If it did Ibuki
likely cut it short since Elena approaches her in the middle of her G File
mission however.
Ibuki vs Gill - Ibuki challenges Gill to take the G File. This battle
happened and ended with Gill being somewhat entertained at Ibuki's efforts.
Ken vs Dudley - Ken offers to let Dudley fight him for his (Ken's) car.
Not that Dudley would care for Ken's car, though. Might've or might've not
happened. Dudley is another probable candidate for the guy Ken believes he
must face, and Ryu's actually met Dudley prior to SF3 as well.
Ken vs Ryu - Another fight between the long-time friends. Likely happened
since they both note in Ryu's 3S battle before Gill that they both find it
hard to lose interest in fighting each other, meaning they had sparred not
too long ago, such as within a year's time. This battle likely occurred in
Sean's presence before they part for Gill's planned encounters, and Ryu
likely went easy on Ken since he hadn't seriously fought in the three years
since he had a son; also probably to keep Sean's interest in his "master"
alive and vibrant, prompting Ken's slightly more cocky taunt when he and
Ryu meet in 3S.
Necro vs Ibuki - Ibuki asks Necro where Gill could be found. Eh, may or may
not have happened.
Necro vs Gill - Necro challenges Gill for his freedom. Even when Necro
wins this battle, Gill doesn't give it to him, but Effie rescues him.
Oro vs Necro - Really random battle. Oro takes Necro for a joke needless to
say. Probably doesn't happen.
Oro vs Gill - Oro wonders if Gill is as strong as Ryu. Doesn't happen since
3S is when Oro first hears about the Secret Society, much less establishes any
contact with it.
Ryu vs Sean - Ryu meets Sean for the first time and realizes he's Ken's
student. Sean has come to challenge him (most likely sent by Ken). This
battle probably didn't happen here, though I imagine a battle just like it
happened right after the "tournament" considering Sean's ending. Sean's
ending showed that he never beat Ryu and official statement are that Ken
beat Sean prior to 3S, after all.
Ryu vs Ken - Same as Ken vs Ryu.
Sean vs Yang - Random battle with Yang's initial impression of Sean steering
towards being not even worth fighting. Might've happened with Sean getting
schooled of course, or might've not altogether and was at most a bickering
exchange.
Sean vs Ken - Sean's going to show Ken how he's come up with a succession
move at last, but Ken says Sean still has a lot to learn, and Ken is probably
right, since officially, Ken beat Sean and won this battle as referenced by
3S.
Urien vs Alex - Alex mistakes Urien for Gill, and Urien's all too obliged to
deliver Alex some punishment in return. Most likely does not happen, and
even if they do meet, Alex would presumably back off after recalling that Gill
has blond hair, and that Urien isn't the man he's after.
Urien vs Gill - Same as Gill vs Urien.
Yang vs Oro - Oro asks if Yang would like to be his pupil, but Yang
politely refuses. May or may not have happened.
Yang vs Yun - Yang and Yun challenge each other to see who's better. May
or may not have happened. If it did, Yun probably won since Yang still feels
like he's in his big brother's shadow come Third Strike.
Yun vs Urien - Urien says Yun should abandon his arts and follow Urien as the
servant he ought to be, to which Yun tells him to get lost with his ridiculous
words. Probably didn't happen, but not too important either way.
Yun vs Yang - Same as Yang vs Yun
Like in SF2, you can have Gouki jump in and kill Gill with the
shungokusatsu just like he does to Vega in SF2 if you meet the requirements.
However, unlike SF2, this obviously didn't officially happen in the storyline
because Gill is still alive and well during Street Fighter 3: Third Strike,
which takes place after Second Impact. A Shin Gouki-beaten ending shows that
Gill uses resurrection on himself to restore his stamina. However, since
Gill's never shown to have received the SGS prior to resurrecting himself
(unlike with Vega Gill didn't have a pose designed to show he bought the farm
via the SGS), his resurrection is due to having fought Alex, which did
officially happen.
Lantis has a great FAQ at Gamefaqs for the Street Fighter 3 series
endings.
The "Etcetera" section of Capcom Japan's SF3 Q&A sessions with Gamest follows.
The rest of the sections can be found within individual characters'
miscellaneous sections, under the heading "SF3 Q&A from SF3 Fanbook." These
sessions took place and were published between the releases of NG and 2I.
Etcetera
-Why, is it without midair defense *aka midair blocking overseas*?
A. The midair defense is blocking *known as parrying overseas*.
-Why, is it without selecting super arts save 1 of them?
A. A super art, was established as a projection of an "if (perhaps)" world
conception. If, Ken had previously acquired the shinryuken would he likely
hit upon the shoryureppa?? Would Ryu probably not utilize the shinryuken??
From this of SF3's world, for Ryu to utilize the shin shoryuken is to say
he doesn't know the shinkuu hadouken. For now to not master only 1 is
possibly the day to come of mastering all within those.
-For Chun Li to not appear, is it because as with her SF2 ending she became
an ordinary girl?
A. Even in the place of Chun Li gone back to being an ordinary girl, those
thighs won't be hidden. It's believed wherever there's rampaging.
-As for Sakura, aiming for Ryu even now, is she chasing him?
A. For Sakura, it's believed that she's active as a member of society. A
headband in suit, with the gloves-on-both-hands appearance if she's a woman
running around with a phone in one hand, it's perhaps agreed that she's not
a girlfriend.
-Since SF2 is it a world of how many years after?
A. Since SF2's announcement please think of the time as abstaining from
real time.
-With SF3 how are Vega and Shadoloo doing?
A. Even Vega also Shadoloo are in good health.
-About Gill's gang and relations to Shadoloo?
A. Gill's organization is such that the world conjectures. Shadoloo's
activities also, as long as Vega doesn't realize they've been utilized by
means of a large power, are being controlled.
-What kind of person is Gill? What is he plotting?
A. Gill is a human being chosen by the global world. Gill's ambition is
by means of his own hands, the matter of establishing the ideal unified world.
-Is it agreed that, Dan is that way even now?
A. That is what's believed.
-Gouki and Sagat, how are they doing?
A. It's agreed that in time, Gouki will appear before Alex and company. As
for Sagat, he's in Thailand.
-With having been active in SF2 Guile and Honda, Balrog and the others at the
present, how are they doing?
A. Guile, Honda, Balrog and the others of the world are continuing their
struggles.
-Is it agreed that Ryu is no longer going back to a major role?
A. In regards to Ryu, it seems that he has nothing to do with whoever has a
major role.
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Highlights:
-Many, including comments on the whereabouts of the SF2 cast, Dan, Sakura;
tidbits on Gill's true nature and influence on Shadaloo and the rest of the
SF universe, the idea behind one selectable super art, etc. (no pun intended).
********************************** pgIVSF3TS.
STREET FIGHTER 3: THIRD STRIKE FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE
Story
1 year since the struggle to decide the world's summit. Desiring the yet
unseen formidable opponents, for once again Alex has journeyed out. At
the same time, the fighting stylists within the world also, unfold the
struggle aiming at Gill. For the sake of discovering oneself, for the
sake of carrying out ambitions....... The journey to desire the strongest,
is in fact not finished deciding.
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Canon Date: 1999.
The aftermath of SF3
Gameplay: The latest game in the Street Fighter 3 series and the Street
Fighter world, and the last game of the Street Fighter 3 series (official
statement).
Overview: Once again, like Zero, characters are just wandering around
filling their own agendas now that the "tournament" is over. Because this is
the latest game, Capcom hasn't made many official statements about it (they
probably don't want to confine and corner themselves too much so they can
have more freedom with the next game's storyline, for one thing). However,
since most of the endings don't contradict, it's probably safe to assume a
majority of them happened (though there are some exceptions, probably,
mostly for really ridiculous ones). Also note that while Gill is generally
the final boss, for most characters there's no dialogue with him because
in the canon storyline, they didn't fight him in Third Strike (he's just
there to be the filler final boss for a majority of the characters). Heck,
a large majority of the boss battles in SF3 Third Strike don't have
dialogue or are simply incredibly filler.
You can't have Gouki jump in and kill Gill this time, and Urien's
ending is highly doubtful. Gill is most definitely still alive and well
after Street Fighter 3, continuing to keep a close eye on Alex.
The Ultimate SF3 Character Relations Chart
-main chart from Eternal.
-reading will be in the following format: "A" points TO "B", not FROM "B",
to minimize info repetition; if no arrow head is seen, it's treated below
as a double-headed arrow
ALEX
to Gill: Tom's foe
RYU
to Ken: rival
to Gouki: wants a true settlement
YUN
-sibling with Yang
to Gill: to protect the streets
YANG
-sibling with Yun
to Gill: to protect the streets
to Yun: a being he wants to surpass
DUDLEY
to Gill: wants to recover his father's car
NECRO
-experimental body with Twelve
to Gill: resentment
IBUKI
to Gill: wants the G File
to Oro: target for training acquirement credit
ELENA
ORO
to Ryu: being an expectation
to Gouki: fellow expert known through hearsay
KEN
to Ryu: rival
to Sean: student
SEAN
to Ken: master
URIEN
to Gill: older brother
HUGO
GOUKI
to Oro: fellow expert known through hearsay
CHUN LI
to Urien: criminal who has kidnapped the child
REMY
MAKOTO
to Ryu: wants to challenge
Q
TWELVE
-experimental body with Necro
to Necro: pursues
to Gill: master
GILL
to Urien: younger brother
to Twelve: servant
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Third Strike boss and mid-boss battles
As usual, the character who's name comes first is the character you're
playing as when the fight happens. This list only includes boss battles
that had actual dialogue, as with SFZ2's list.
Alex vs Ryu - Officially happened. Course, as you can see in Alex's
ending, Alex didn't exactly fare very well in it.
Chun-Li vs Urien - Urien promises to return the kid if Chun-Li entertains
him for a bit (of course he means by fighting!). Street Fighter Eternal
Challenge confirms it. The fact that Urien just promised to return the kid
in exchange for a little entertaining battle shows that he was most likely
more testing Chun-Li's might than actually fighting his hardest, though.
Dudley vs Ryu - Filler battle within the timeframe of 3S. It actually
happened prior to SF3. Both Ryu and Dudley develop a mutual respect for
each other as a result.
Elena vs Makoto - Elena fights to prove herself to Makoto, who thinks Elena
isn't serious enough about battle. Might have happened.
Gill vs Alex - Doesn't happen, but it does reference their 2I battle and
its outcome which left Alex the victor of SF3: Alex fights hard to bring Gill
down for Tom's sake, but Gill recovers after Alex leaves the scene.
Hugo vs Ryu - Hugo seeks out Ryu per Poison's suggestion and challenges
him to make him join Hugo's wrestling squad. Battle from 2I repeated here
more or less. Doubtful that it happens again.
Ibuki vs Oro - Ibuki fights Oro as a test to pass her ninja school
graduation exam. This battle is confirmed by Street Fighter Eternal.
Ken vs Urien - Another one which probably didn't happen, though it does give
Ken some impression of the Secret Society rumors he's been hearing about come
3S. Even if their battle did happen, Urien doesn't take Ken seriously just
as with Chun-Li.
Makoto vs Ryu - Yet another battle that has nothing to do with the
character's ending. Anyways, here Makoto, who has heard about Ryu wants to
challenge him to a match. That's pretty much all Street Fighter Eternal's
chart states.
Necro vs Twelve - Necro's made up his mind to put up his dukes against the
creature relentlessly chasing after them. May or may not have happened, but
it appears that the Twelve vs Necro scenario below occurred before this one.
Oro vs Gouki - Oro has finally found the man who's ki he sensed, and he and
Gouki decide to rough each other up a little. But again, it has nothing to
do with the character's ending. Oro's ending could conceivably have
happened even if this battle did take place, though, since it doesn't seem
like either Oro or Gouki are in a serious fight-to-the-death move so much
as mostly curious. Street Fighter Eternal confirms that the two did meet,
however.
Remy vs Alex - A pissed-off Remy attacks Alex for being a warrior. Remy
doesn't like fighters. What this has to do with his ending happening is
beyond me, though, unless Remy's father was in some way responsible for
Remy's older sister getting encased under the sea.
Ryu vs Ken - Ken challenges Ryu. For 'fun', of course. This battle
officially happened and Ryu officially won it.
Sean vs Ken - Sean fights his master for testing purposes, to see if he really
has changed from the previous year. Ken tells him to show everything he's got,
but doesn't expect much to come out anyway. Eh... no big deal.
Twelve vs Necro - Twelve appears for the first time in front of a fleeing
Necro and Effie. Telling them in a chopped manner of speech that Necro's
existence is no longer permissible, Twelve attacks. Most likely happened
in the Necro vs Twelve format described above instead, and this scenario
was at most a meeting followed by a temporary retreat, leading to a scene
similar to that depicted in Necro's 3S ending.
Urien vs Gill - Doesn't happen. Gill's intent on killing Urien during this
battle upon winning, and Urien ends up destroying everything the Secret
Society has built up for millenia if he wins, including his big brother. Both
brothers are presumably alive by the end of 3S.
Yang vs Yun - Yang wants to prove himself against Yun after weeks of battles
for leveling up. Street Fighter Eternal Challenge confirms this battle, and
it accounts for the absence they've had from the vicinity of the Shoryuken
restaurant which Hoimei complains about in Yang's 3S ending.
Yun vs Gill - Judging by Yun's ending, most likely Yang was with him for
this fight. Here, Yun decides that Gill's a dreaming bigmouth and a battle
breaks out. This battle had to have happened for Yun's ending, where Gill
is impressed by his ability, to happen, of course. Actually, Street
Fighter Eternal Challenge confirms this battle and that Yang was with Yun
for it.
Street Fighter 3 Third Strike has been announced to officially be the
last game in the SF3 series.
********************************** pgIVFFSW.
FINAL FIGHT STREETWISE
Canon Date: 2006? (game was released in 2006. Judging by Cammy's
apparent age, Streetwise taking place after SF3 isn't very
far-fetched) It definitely happens quite a bit into the future
from SFZ3, though. The culture is based on "modern" urban
culture (whether accurately or not is another story) too. Also,
the events of Final Fight One are stated several times in the game
to have taken place "a long time ago" in tones of voices that
indicates it's in the distant past. Other things like hints that
Kyle was only a kid during Final Fight One, lots of characters
likely being old from Cody having bad knees to Andore being told,
"You still got it, Andore!" indicates that Streetwise is many many
years after Final Fight One.
...wow, and I thought the time between SF3 and SF2 was a big jump.
Gameplay: 3D beat-em up. You can earn money to buy weapons
and hire NPCs to help you supposedly. Also, 'tension' (experience
points?) to get new special moves, and built-up 'respect' which affects
how NPCs treat you. Free roaming storyline-event based. Kinda like River
City Ransom with lots of cut-scenes.
Extremely gritty urban atmosphere with a mature rating meaning lots
of violence and gratuitous curse words etc. Overly so in many cases.
Lots of people think it doesn't fit in. I think a little cursing
might have (Haggar curses to Damnd in many versions of original Final
Fight's intro, although it's either censored or cut off) but Streetwise
kinda overdoes it. Of course, none of that will be in this plot
guide because the plot guide isn't meant to have a mature rating,
but just use your imagination (or more accurately, take what
you can imagine and then multiply the cursing a hundred-fold).
Made by the same team that made Maximo. Which is the same team that
made Final Fight Revenge. ...no, the game doesn't look THAT bad,
fortunately. It does, however, have the completely random introduction
of Cody's brother that he never had before... :O And you'd think from
the reviews that the game was a completely unplayable piece of crap,
although I and many others felt that it wasn't THAT bad (not that it
was stellar in most peoples' eyes either. Just not the unplayable
mess I usually think of when I see a game consistently getting 3's and 4's
in reviews).
Interesting note: Tom Sekine (head producer?) stated in an interview
that originally the game was going to be a lot more like a normal beat-em
up, with cel-shaded graphics and Akiman on board as character designer,
but Inafune Keiji of CoJ told them they should do something more unique
instead of something that Capcom of Japan could do "just as well", so we
ended up with the River-City Ransom-esque free-roaming, Urban themes
with gritty cursing, and character 'designs' like Blades, Vitto,
and Weasel and.............. stuff. ...I still think it could have been
worse. But if you're one of those people who feels like strangling Capcom
of America for 'mutilating' your beloved Final Fight series, you might
also be able to redirect some of your unbridled fury towards Capcom of
Japan. Not that they'll listen, what with you probably being
not-Japanese (Sodom is a very sympathetic character, is he not?).
I suppose in CoJ's defense to those seething with steaming anger
right now, they did say they were trying to appeal more to a Western
audience a while back (before Streetwise) so assumedly they rejected
the Akiman idea because they figured a Western company going from scratch
would make a Western appealing game better than Akiman and they themselves
could. Although of course, we'll probably never know the exact details
so even the outcome of the what-if scenario of Akiman cel-shaded FF:SW will
forever be unknown. Still, I think they didn't realize that there's a
Sodom (The character!) deep down within all of us silly non-Japanese
westerners (or at least, there probably is. I'm assuming you guys aren't
reading this plot guide to pick up on the latest Grand Theft Auto
storyline. ...besides Final Fight Streetwise's, of course).
Please don't e-mail me about whether or not you think Inafune "ruined"
Rockman/Megaman because I honestly know nothing about that.
Rough translation of the interview question thanks to Jigsaw:
How did the project begin?
After we completed Maximo vs Army of Zin, we started working on Final
Fight Streetwise. It was Inafune Keiji who thought the series should
be brought back. It started as a traditional beat 'em up in the classic
2D vein, but with three-dimensional graphics. We were going to use a
cel-shading style for the graphics, and the plan was to have Akiman on
board as character designer, as he was responsible for the original
game's graphical design. Inafune thought we should do something more
unique instead. What we were doing, he said, Capcom of Japan could do
just as well.
A videogame news site (Eurogamer, I believe) stated that Capcom didn't have
finding roast turkeys in trash cans because they thought it was unrealistic.
Finding hot dogs and such from the floor, corpses of enemies, and even from
crates that were supposed to be packing GLOW is all good and yummy though!
Story-mode is single player, but arcade mode is multiplayer. Story-mode
was initially considered to be multiplayer (stated in an interview. Also,
possibly along those lines, there are story-mode voice clips for a second
character who sounds like Cody on the CD, but this might just be Kyle's
proto-voice). They decided that wouldn't work and made an arcade mode
instead. Arcade-mode only has basic skeleton filler plot while
you go bust up heads.
Storyline: Blarg, this plot guide was meant to analyze the plots of
games where there's like, only 10 lines of in-game storyline per character.
Streetwise, meanwhile, while being far from epic like an RPG, probably
has more in-game plot scenes and lines of text (and spoken lines. Whatever)
than all the other Street Fighter canon games combined. I think
I'll post an abridged summary here and a fuller summary in Kyle's bio
in the character section (entire game takes place from his perspective).
So jump to Kyle's section if you want the entire thing.
Prologue from the official site: "Your fists are the only things you can
rely on in this bullshit world." These words from my brother, Cody, were
drilled into my head way back when we were kids. My name is Kyle Travers. I'm
a streetwise underground pit-fighter, resigned to making my money in the back
alleys and dark basement fight clubs of Metro City. And sure, that money
comes in handy from time to time, but respect is what it's really all about
when it comes to survivin' these streets. I've been fightin' in this hood
for some time now, to the point where I've built up a bit of a "ghetto"
fabulous rep among the local gangs and punks. And I must say, lately I've
been collecting fight money like an uptown call girl. But this new
development has thrown things way out of whack!
So me and Cody are at our local watering hole, mindin' our own business,
when this guy they call "The Stiff" suddenly shows up with some of his goons
and takes Cody away right in front of me! Needless to say, I've got a very,
very bad feeling. What the hell is this all about?! This much I know: we're
dealin' with well-trained pros here. No bullshit Metro City street gang has
the balls to mess with the Travers brothers. Sure, Cody's gettin' older but
he's still the most bad-ass SOB I know!
Ya see, my brother has always been around for me, ever since we were kids.
Countless times, we've helped each other through nasty scrapes in order to
survive these mean streets. There's not much we haven't done to reach the
level of respect we've got now. But then there's this shit. Damn I'm the
only family Cody's got! Looks like it's time for me to really step up, and
get my brother back safely! But where do I start!?
The storyline at first is for the most part exactly what you'd expect
from the prologue. Kyle hits the streets asking around tracking down
information about his brother while beating people up. Along the way,
he learns about a drug called glycolauric octanol (GLOW), which
eventually overtakes the entire city as the game progresses along.
The city is supposed to descend more and more into anarchy as the game
progresses, and the storyline seems to indicate as such, as do previews
for the game. Sadly, actual gameplay doesn't have the areas really changing
over time at all (except for the final railroaded parts of the game).
...Metro City descending farther into anarchy over the course of the story
via gameplay probably simply didn't make the cut, but storyline-wise, that's
what's supposed to happen.
...er, yea, anyways, Kyle is searching for Cody (who's not actually
always captive so much as always one step ahead of Kyle or whatever)
and eventually has to take out GLOW's source to finally get his brother
back. And eventually, he does. Happy high fives, the end! ...a
better more in-depth synopsis is written in Kyle's section of this guide.
Following Kyle's journal reveals that Streetwise takes place over the
course of about four days (Thursday night to Sunday midnight).
Canonity would normally be questionable, but eh, with Capcom of America
now owning the SF license, I figure I'll just throw this one in and pretend
it's connected to everything else just for fun. Assumedly, it won't do
anything to really REALLY nuke everything else. Kyle Travers is a new
character and Cody was DEFINITELY never stated to have had a brother before,
but it technically doesn't conflict either because Cody was never stated to
be an only child nor was he ever stated to not have a last name. At least
for once I can rely on Capcom of America. No mistranslation shenanigans here!
Tom Sekine (head producer, I think) stated in an interview that
they pretty much had mostly free reign with what to do with Streetwise,
though COJ's final okay was required for each newly added part.
Since so many people feel that Streetwise doesn't tie into the rest
of the SF storyline enough, I decided to put together a list of various
facts that it managed to follow. Of note, however, are that several
of these may very well be completely coincidental (the Captain Commando
one is especially a stretch but hey, it works)
Storyline bits Streetwise possibly actually remembered: Guy's SFZ3 ending,
Haggar not being mayor anymore, Cody being addicted to fighting, Cody
constantly having run-ins with the law, Mad Gear and Belger's downfall (Duh),
Guy having a bunch of bushin warriors (ties in with Sho's bio in Captain
Commando, although this maybe wasn't on purpose), Guy being married to Rena?
(allegedly the case according to sfdevotion at comicon where he said Guy would
be married to "Maki's sister", but I've yet to find reference to it in-game),
Cody being the one who did the final blow on Belger, Haggar's election for
mayor occuring in 1982 (which incidentally fits more with Final Fight One
taking place in 1987 than 1989 given Haggar's age in Muscle Bomber where he
was also stated to be in the middle of elections. Swank.).
Still wish Poison and Sodom made it. There are voice clips for
what appears to be them (Sodom is easily identified by his bad
Japanese) on the CD and art for them in the pre-order bonus comic,
but alas, no. Bah. Judging by how some employees left during the
development of the game, I get the jist that it was a rather... rocky
road, to say the least.
Capcom Studio 8 (the American one) was closed down soon after FF:SW's
release. Guess things were rockier than I thought (although it's implied
that it wasn't just Streetwise that caused it). Of course, this does
mean that Capcom could one day say they don't care about Studio 8 at all
and override everything that ever happened in Streetwise, but I get the
feeling that instead Final Fight will simply never be revisited, given
that CoJ cared about it so little that they outsourced it to the American
branch in the first place, and the Final Fight series was always intended
more for the US than for Japan from the very beginning.
Hooboy...
(RIP, Capcom Studio 8. For all the ripping you got from critics,
without you the wonder that was Edi. E running his opponents down with
his police car would never exist)
Random Bit: The unlockable FF1 game in Streetwise is emulated horribly
using the Ultracade emulator. Supposedly, this was because Capcom
of America couldn't get the code from the version used in Capcom
Classics in time for release. ....yet another of many things that
show the final version of Streetwise was rather forced out the door.
Boss List (general order):
Handsome Bob (pit fight)
Locksmith (optional pitfight)
Weasel (fork lift)
Stiff (gun fight followed by fist fight)
Ghost (pit fight)
Andore (pit fight)
Lou (pit fighter)
Cammy (optional pit fight)
Blades
Weasel (sorta. Against his Blue Ballers as he throws grenades)
Stiff Death
Weasel War
Blades Famine
Pestilence
Cody Death
Father Belger & Cody Death
Most of the new characters die. Oh well.
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pgV. Major Characters List
The bios are set up like this. First, there's the official bio with
all the numbers released by Capcom of Japan (height, special skill, likes,
dislikes, etc. These are the official bios taken directly from Capcom of
Japan itself, and are the latest most up-to-date versions so far. If you
see a different 'official bio' that contradicts one of these, that's an old
version and has been overridden by Capcom by now), what that character did
and/or most likely did during all Street Fighter games he/she participated
in and where he/she is now, then finally miscellaneous facts and notes about
the character. Compiled collections of info from character charts and such
are found within the quickie game summaries for SF2, SFZ3, SSF4, and 3S.
This list is generally restricted to remotely major characters (any
playable or computer-controlled characters in any fighting game, Final
Fight bosses, and... characters that I didn't know what else to do with).
Minor storyline NPCs are mentioned within characters' sections that they
pertain to.
The stuff that is conjecture based off in-game storyline is generally
very likely (INCREDIBLY so, for the most part). Stuff that is not marked
with any disclaimers such as "it is probably that" for the miscellaneous
facts and notes sections ARE confirmed to be official. Stuff that is
marked with [Official] within the characters' descriptions of what they did
for each game is official statement straight from Capcom itself.
If you come across a piece of information on the net or whatever that's
not mentioned in a character's section or at least in this FAQ somewhere,
it's probably NOT canon. But there is also the possibility that I might
have just forgotten to put it in that character's bio or missed that piece
of info, though I generally try to be very thorough (course, judging by how
often I have to update this darn thing to include new information confirmed
to be canon, that possibility probably is higher than I'd like).
Bios were furnished wherever they could be found from official sources.
Numerical values in character profiles (height, weight, 3 sizes, etc.) aren't
based on a realistic scale, but rather on Capcom's own custom-made scale. It's
the relative rather than the absolute being the goal here, for instance if Ryu's
X kg and Sagat's Y kg, it's the proportions to keep in mind rather than the
values X and Y, which may or may not be realistic, more often not.
About geography and where characters are from: The phrases "hails from",
"native place" (by far the most commonly used one), "represents" (a common
one in much older sources) and "represented nation" (what's more recently
used in SF4 and SSF4) do not automatically indicate a character's birthplace.
They can, but they don't have to. An important note to consider when a
character's stage isn't necessarily the same location he was actually born in.
Fighting style captions listed within profiles are short or long descriptions
rather than official world-recognized titles. They're summary statements if
anything else, because more often than not, fighters draw from not one but
several real and fictional applications to come up with the arsenal we as
players can use at our disposal. For more accurate and detailed breakdowns
of what they use, please refer to character miscellaneous sections.
A set of post-SF2 artworks (well, they seem to be post SF2) published in
various Capcom artbooks and mooks indicates what may have become of many SF2
characters. It's old so some were likely retconned. Captions for them come
from Gamest and the Complete File (often the two gave slightly differing
captions). A complete set of captions from these artworks are available
towards the end of this guide as well: pgVIIIArtCaptions.
*** pgV2Ill.
2-ILL (formerly TWO.P in FF1)
He's probably around Cody's age of 39-40 in FF:SW. Perhaps a bit younger.
Final Fight Streetwise: 2-Ill stuck his nose where it didn't belong,
prompting the Stiff's organization to send some thugs to take him out.
Fortunately, at Vanessa's suggestion, Kyle at that time had arrived
to help him fight them off. Throughout the game, 2-Ill helps Kyle out
by giving him info, selling him weapons, and fighting alongside Kyle
(for a fee).
Eventually, the city had become overtaken by the addictive drug GLOW,
and 2-Ill found himself heading over to the Barfly to try to save
Vanessa while the city was in anarchy from the GLOWhead riot. Kyle
was already there, trying to defend an unconscious Vanessa from GLOW
addicts. More GLOWheads approached, ranting about crushing the sky and
their brains being inside out and other nonsensicals. Angrily punching
them away, more and more kept coming until 2-Ill arrived in his car,
running several of the GLOWheads down and shooting the rest with his
pistol (but totalling his car in the process). He tosses Kyle a gun
and tells him that they need to get out of there, but they couldn't
leave without Vanessa. Fortunately, Vanessa had woken up by then, and
tells Kyle she's alright, knowing he'd come. Anarchy is everywhere
and the three are swamped, but they continue to go forward and attempt
to make their way out of the Hood for the safety of 2-Ill's place.
Fighting through more and more GLOWheads with Kyle's fists, 2-Ill's
pistol, and Vanessa's... nothing, the three finally arrive at 2-Ill's
hideout. They can discuss their next move. Kyle states that he's going
back to the church to go after Bella, and Vanessa asks to go with him.
Not allowing his girlfriend to get into danger, Kyle refuses and tells
2-Ill that it's time to go, but hearing that he's about to be dragged
into things, 2-Ill quickly remarks that he isn't going, whereupon
Vanessa angrily tells him that he's not going to get away with that.
Vanessa calls him Two.P instead of 2-Ill while saying this, so 2-Ill
responds that first, it isn't his fight, and second, that Two.P stuff
was over long ago. However, he decides to help Kyle out by telling
Kyle of a shortcut to the church through the sewers that he used to
use back during the Mad Gear days. [from the game]
Where he is now: Dunno.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
The enemy character Two P appears in Lost/Forgotten Worlds as the
second player ("Two P" for 2P, "player 2" or perhaps more accurately,
"2nd Player"). Not that they're one and the same person in any sort of
storyline way, of course. 2-Ill using firearms in Streetwise might be a
throwback to Lost Worlds as well.
Two.P in Final Fight standing for "2nd Player" was stated by Akiman.
Given that Two.P is likely the type that would not fight alone (what with
his penchant for sneaking up on you while you're distracted fighting other
Mad Gear thugs), '2nd Player' would fit rather well.
Two.P is pronounced "Two P". Mad Gear loves its crazy misplaced periods.
In Final Fight, Two.P was typically stronger than J.
Kyle doesn't know what 2-Ill means. Perhaps no one does. Maybe
it stands for how he's 'reformed' compared to other Metro City Thugs
who are named more ferocious names like "2 Mean" and "2 Time" ('Time'
assumedly referring to jail time). 'Reformed' being relative, of
course. If he really wanted the name to be a badass version of sick,
I imagine he would have made it 2-Sick or something (not that I know
that much about urban lingo).
2-Ill's been "kicking up these parts" since Kyle was a kid. This
is reasonably good evidence that Kyle was just a kid while Final Fight
One was going on.
When Kyle first saves him, he's shocked at how much Kyle's ability
has grown. Likely this is in part because 2-Ill knew Kyle even when
Kyle was just a little kid, so now he's being saved by this guy who's so
much younger than him in a "those kids grow up fast!" sort of way.
Kyle doesn't like 2-Ill very much. He gives 2-Ill the brush-off
whenever 2-Ill says he'll be there to help. He especially doesn't like
paying 2-Ill for help.
He has his own 800 number. 1-800-UVV or something like that.
It's not revealed to the player in Streetwise until late in the game
that he's Two.P when Vanessa refers to him as such to point out that
he's being selfish. The lack of shock on anyones' faces indicate that
2-Ill being Two.P wasn't a secret to anyone nor does 2-Ill try to keep it
a secret so much as expresses with regret that he'd rather not be called
that anymore, and "that Two P shit is over". 2-Ill being revealed to be
Two.P was probably a lot cooler in the actual game than in this guide.
He's probably semi-close friends with Vanessa Sims. Vanessa is the one
who initially tells Kyle to go to 2-Ill for information and to trust him
despite Kyle's objections. Also when Metro City was in complete GLOWhead
anarchy, 2-Ill would drive down to the Barfly to try to rescue her (he would
arrive nearly at the same time that Kyle did). Vanessa also knows to call
him Two.P when she's mad at him for being selfish, so she obviously knows
him well enough to know how to push his buttons.
In FF:SW, the letters on the front of his jacket spell "WOOT". In FF1,
he has a green dragon artwork on the back of his orange jacket.
He always wears a jacket and sunglasses. It's a different jacket and
shape of sunglasses from what he wore in Final Fight One, but at least
he still likes wearing jackets and sunglasses. He also still wears green
(albeit there's no orange in Streetwise, unlike Final Fight)
His car (when he drives over to help out Kyle and Vanessa) is painted
green and orange and has 2's written on its doors. So although he doesn't
wear orange anymore like he used to, it's still one of his signature colors.
2-Ill's weapon in Streetwise is the pistol. The one time he fights
unarmed, his AI is set to stay away from the enemies (although he'll punch
if they get too close), which may both be a tribute to his fighting style
in Final Fight One, and also due to the simple fact that at that point in
the game you're trying to save him so it'd be counterintuitive for him to
suicidally participate in battle. Later on when you can hire him temporarily
as well as when he teams up with Kyle late-game, he continues to fight using
"cowardly" methods by primarily using a pistol, although he'll gladly kick
an enemy on the ground if the enemy is right next to him. For the one time
when he's unarmed, his fighting stance and his punch attack are the same
as Two.P in Final Fight (and just like back then, he usually only throws
one punch at a time). But instead of hit and run, he simply holds still.
The pistol might also be another Lost Worlds reference (as that game's
gameplay is primarily shooting stuff)
J isn't mentioned or anywhere in FF:SW far as I can tell. Ironically,
they chose Two.P instead of J. Course, this may have been because an autistic
person really wouldn't have suited the role 2-Ill has in the Streetwise
storyline.
Haggar probably buried the hatchet with Two.P. You never see 2-Ill and
Haggar interact, but 2-Ill casually says "Oh, you mean Mike Haggar's place!"
to Kyle as if 2-Ill knows Haggar well and without a tone of "Haggar keeps
kicking my butt! Eek!" in his voice. Not that I know if there was a
hatchet in the first place but I imagine Haggar introduced Two.P's head
to the pavement a few times during Final Fight One (not that I can be
sure, what with Two.P just being a normal enemy).
His real name has never been stated nor is it indicated either way
whether or not anyone knows what it is.
*** pgVAbel.
ABEL
Fighting style: composite fighting based on judo
Birthday: November 5
Native place: France
Height: 198 cm
Weight: 85 kg
BWH sizes: B130, W85, H89
Blood type: A
Likes: dogs (unable to keep one when always with a living in the squad,
believes he wants to raise one with that being over)
Dislikes: edible oysters (would be a serious matter if it breaks open his
stomach)
Special skill: sewing (in the mercenary soldier squad he did all the
mending himself, became his specialty)
SF4-era nickname: "Man Without a Past"
Street Fighter 4:
On the basis of merely a clue, a young man continuing to pursue the remnants
of Shadoloo. He uses fighting techniques appearing to be from army training.
Non-courteous at first glance, not that he dislikes people, a highly serious
careful personality. Has lost his past memories.
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Abel learns about Seth's tournament from Chun-Li, after recounting for her his
story of how he escaped from Shadaloo's burning base (the psycho drive base
in Z3), collapsed and rescued by a mercenary team. The team's leader who was
like a father to Abel, had warned him to stay away from anything concerning
Shadaloo. Prior to Abel meeting Chun-Li, his mercenary father died, and
contrary to the officer's words of caution, Abel was drawn to the word
Shadaloo like a moth to a flame. [from Abel's animated opening and sidestory]
Abel encounters all kinds of fighters along the way to Seth's laboratory,
while keeping in touch with Guile and especially Chun-Li. He tags in for
Guile to keep one of the extra Seth's at bay while Guile runs off to help
Chun-Li out of the pinch she's in. While grappling with the extra Seth,
Abel's opponent is privileged to be overriden all of the sudden by Vega,
who remarks that both Abel and he have been in "disguise" up until now. After
warning Abel that they'll meet again in time, Abel walks away and is seen
joining Guile holding a dazed Chun-Li in his arms while gazing at the burning
lab. [from Guile's and Abel's animated endings]
Super Street Fighter 4:
Abel's on a mission to investigate Shadaloo, but first he finds a stray dog
in the rain and leaves it to the care of one of his mercenary buddies. Hoping
that he'll return safely from his journey, he'll buy the dog a collar and give
it a name. Thus neither of them will be alone anymore. [Abel's opening]
Abel's journey has him encounter El Fuerte, Ibuki, and once again Chun-Li if
no one else. He gives the crazed lucha libre cook a chocolate bar, and he
temporarily goes into an uncontrollably dark state while fighting Ibuki.
Chun-Li finds and and helps him out of that mode though. Abel thanks her as
Chun-Li drives him home and asks what he plans to do next: Journey out again
once he settles down a little in his new home. [El Fuerte's and Abel's
endings, Ibuki's win quote to Abel and his to her]
Where he is now: Most likely continues to scour the world for more info on
Nash, on his mercenary father and on Seth because they shared faces, and all
three of them because they each were involved with Shadaloo one or more ways.
Those he comes across like Fei-Long who want to know more about S.I.N.-sha
and/or Shadaloo he presumably passes on to them similar cautionary words as
his surrogate parent did, that the more one knows the more danger there can
be in store for one.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
His MMA style uses judo as its foundation. He enjoys keeping up with the
latest goings-on within the fighting world, as shows his winning quote to
Zangief:
"You're, Zangief huh! I've seen, your bouts!"
His default win quote to Guile: "That move... Why do you use that move?"
He refers to the sonic boom. Abel fleetingly recalls seeing this technique
five years ago as he was running away from fire and smoke. During his rival
battle with Guile, Guile wants to believe that Abel knows something about
Nash. Unfortunately it's all in vain, minus the fact that both men view each
other somewhat less suspiciously by the end of SF4.
He's labeled as humane among street fighters. His homeland appears to be
France. He's sewn the uniform he wears, and is likely good at cooking as
well. Cannot stand to eat oysters; I wonder if he'd eat escargot though?
He's glad that he can be a pet (dog not cat) owner now that he's done with
the corps. He was a mercenary but can't be sure if he's had a connection
with Shadaloo since birth. (he's had one)
Abel from SF4
Before Father's Grave
Memories for Abel, are beginning from 5 years ago.
First memory is flames and smoke.
From a crumbling down building, he had run through while someone's arm was
supporting. And also, in brushing away to chase after someone, the locus of
a sharp technique....
The commanding officer of a mercenary unit took charge over Abel, rescued by
his own friends who instructed him.
"You help that guy out for a little while, he's been unaccounted for,"
regarding Abel the commanding officer was also his substitute father, was
usually a bright hearty man, with just occasions to talk to Abel wanting to
know about his own past, why the terribly serious expression, in conclusion
adding one thing to another endlessly.
"Understand, Abel. Don't get close to Shadoloo. Those guys are dangerous.
Don't have anything to do with them."
Although silently nodding, Abel to say wanting to know about his own past,
a near middle instinct of desire could not enable him to completely erase it.
Where was I born? Who brought me up? What kind of living was I doing? From
where was I rescued? No, in the first place, was that truly a "rescue"?...?
Thinking to collect the extent of considering, anxiety and frustration to an
unseen past. For Abel, he patiently endured it.
One hot summer day, the commanding officer died.
Appropriately daring it rang for the mercenary unit's commanding officer,
everyone would say it was a fine way of death, carrying pride they patted
Abel's shoulder. The end of the funeral, after all the attendants had left,
Abel was standing before the new commanding officer's gravesite. Hanging
from the tombstone was a cute-like wreath, before that a just overflown
bouquet paying tribute, was indicating the commanding officer's deep
popularity more than eloquent words.
For Abel, a straight line ends his mouth, he was staring at the commanding
officer's name engraved on the tombstone.
...Not having memories and family, was not loneliness. The commanding
officer and his mercenary comrades, were always beside him. Eating together,
sleeping together, they fought together. Laughing together, getting angry
together, sometimes they cried. For those, were unmistakable bonds. A brand
new bud sprouts in Abel's heart though his emotions are stiff, and so now,
he faces toward the future beginning to feel joy in living. However, strong
the bonds are, bright as the future is, his strong to say prayer for wanting
to know about his own past doesn't vanish, rather it just becomes worse.
"...Hey, Father. What, did you know?"
He couldn't even sense it himself, facing the tombstone Abel was asking it a
question. Suddenly a wind blows, the flower petals flutter about. He lifts
his face, already the day has entirely gone to nightfall.
"'Don't get close to Shadoloo', huh..."
Abel closed his eyes with a quiet shut. Gosh, no choice with this clue onto
oneself's past.
"Sorry, Father."
Abel lightly moves his head away from the gravesite and, turning he began
to walk.
He'll positively return.
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Highlights:
-Abel remembers dashing under someone's arm when fleeing from the flames 5
years ago. This was most likely Zangief, as Abel says during Zangief's rival
battle along the lines of "for someone I don't know you're pretty strong" as
if he ought to be familiar with this guy but doesn't recall his face.
Moreover, Zangief brings up Shadaloo at one point during their fight, which
really gets Abel interested of course.
-Abel also remembers the sonic boom. As he fights Guile in their rival
battles, he realizes that not only is Guile's move the same as what he's seen,
but the style and way it's thrown is the same as well, which rules out the
possibility of Abel having seen Nash throw it back then. By the end of their
rival battle, Abel admits that he knows no more about Nash than Guile does,
if not less, and admits that he wants to know himself, since it's one more
person in connection to Shadaloo he could get clues for.
Abel's SF4 arcade ending comments:
In the midst of Abel's battle, as he was about to regain his memories a
suddenly appeared Vega defeats Seth. Opposite Abel Vega leaving behind
words of profound meaning "the so-called form taken until here...", goes
away from that place.
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Seth refers to Abel as "the escaped prime field" before their rival battle
begins. He reveals that Abel was most likely #28 of Vega's spare bodies in
the planning stages during Z3 [Vega's Z3 Secret File entry]. "Prime field"
is a term that was also used for the 12 girls of the Vega Bodyguard Troops,
this time in relation to the psycho power vessels they could be as opposed
to the soul vessels the Seth's are seen to be in SF4. BTW, the Seth seen
in Guile's and Abel's endings isn't #15. As shown, this Seth doesn't mind
fighting Abel and even hopes to regain forgotten memories from doing so
(they're genetic brothers after all). #15 on the other hand despises Abel
enough to puke. [Seth's SF4 default win quote to Abel]
Abel's knack for sewing may have been carried-over residue from the fact that
CJ's original design for a SF4 judo fighter was actually for a female, her
appearance deceptive of her skill, as can often be the case with judo
practitioners in general.
*** pgVAbigail.
ABIGAIL
Height: 238 cm
Weight: 265 kg
Favorite food: bananas
Final Fight One: Abigail was the main guard for Mad Gear in the Bay Area
during Final Fight One (gameplay wise, he was the boss of that stage).
Cody ran into him as Cody was going through the bay in order to get to the
Uptown Area where Belger and Jessica were. Abigail confronted him, then
made a crack about how Jessica was probably 'having a good time' with
Belger. Abigail is a guy who relies on his anger to power him up, but his
anger was nothing compared to the anger Cody had after hearing Abigail say
that, so Cody whupped him [From Cody's and SFZ3 Cody's dialogue in Final
Fight One].
Where he is now: Um... beats me. He only appeared in Final Fight 1, and
Final Fight 1 isn't exactly the newest game in the world.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
FF1 Bio: Although Abigail is the strongest of all the Mad Gear gang,
he is definitely not the smartest.
Abigail is your generic big dumb stupid wrestler. And he's basically a
beefed up version of the generic enemy Andore in Final Fight. They even
have the same animation styles. However, Abigail despises being put in the
same category as the Andores, despite how he basically IS just a beefed up
Andore.
Perhaps to go along with his feminine name, Abigail in Mighty Final
Fight has an attack where he picks you up and kisses you.
*** pgVAdon.
ADON
Height: 182 cm, 181.2 cm (old SF1 design)
Weight: 73 kg
SF1 action: vertical rolling combination
BWH sizes: B112, W80, H85
Blood type: B
Native place: Thailand
Special skill: Waiku (Muay Thai's dance)
Likes: Muay Thai
Dislikes: Sagat, just mere-word fellows (those who don't back up what they say)
Fighting style: Muay Thai
SF1-era nickname: "Muay Thai's Young Kick Attack King"
SFZ-era nickname: "Behold! This Kick Be Divine Skill"
SF4-era nickname: "Pared Fangs Wild Beast"
Street Fighter 1: Adon participated in the Street Fighter 1 tournament to
prove to the world that he was more than just a lesser version of Sagat [A
guess. He most likely participated because of Sagat, somehow, though].
However, when he fought Ryu, he got cocky and Ryu just took him out with a
single shoryuken. [Official]
Street Fighter Zero 2: Adon is enraged. The fighting style of Muay Thai
has been humiliated as Ryu won the Street Fighter 1 tournament. However,
he's not mad at Ryu. He's mad at Sagat for losing to Ryu and being unable
to hold up the name of Muay Thai. He feels that Sagat no longer deserves
the title of Emperor, and goes out to defeat Sagat. When he finds Sagat,
Sagat himself is filled with rage at how Ryu defeated him, much more than
Adon. Adon challenges him, and Sagat was too enraged to fight well, so
Adon defeated him and became the new Emperor of Muay Thai. It wasn't
without cost, though. Adon had to go to the hospital and stay there for 4
months due to his injuries from the battle. After that, he eventually gets
news however of a man named Gouki when Gouki trounced one of Adon's
challengers. Gouki wielded the same moves that Ryu used to defeat
Sagat!!! Adon becomes determined to find Gouki and personally triumph over
the power known as satsui no hadou. [Official]
Street Fighter Zero 3: Adon spent SFZ3 searching for Gouki, but never
found him (specially noted in AAC).
SFZ3 File #05 Adon
He was once Sagat's best pupil, yet with Sagat seemingly defeated in
competition with Ryu, conversely it seems he's become scornful. He's
fighting for the sake of taking back Muay Thai's prestige from the
nameless eastern foreigner who defeated him. Recently he's showing an
interest for the so-called unknown power "satsui no hadou."
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Highlights:
-Adon was also defeated by Ryu, but his anger comes from his master Sagat
having been defeated by this outsider nobody.
Super Street Fighter 4:
Was Sagat's best student, disappointed about his master defeated by Ryu,
thereafter is frankly opposing Sagat in hatred. In order to prove the
matter that Muay Thai is of the strongest fighting techniques, he
continues the struggle.
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Though content with his place in the world of Muay Thai, Adon continues his
wrath burning against Sagat. His former master, reconciled with the foreign
nobody who dealt him a humiliating defeat, even as a friend of all things??
The new Muay Thai god won't stand for it, the man he looked up to has lost
his tiger fangs completely! Sagat must be killed by Adon personally for this
outrage! [Adon's opening; as of SSF4 the short battle between him and Sagat
in Sagat's SF4 opening is rewritten out of existence by CJ's word]
Adon probably finds and battles Sagat during SSF4, with Sagat most likely
winning or walking away because he doesn't wish to send Adon to the hospital
once again. Adon affirms in his ego that Sagat indeed has thrown away his
fangs and stops caring for the "monkey" of a man he once idolized, after
seeing that Sagat no longer intends to top the world of Muay Thai's spotlight
ever again. [Adon's rival battle exchanges and ending]
Where he is now: Still the self-proclaimed god of Muay Thai.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Adon from SFZ
Original account from SF2 Himitsu Hyakka
"Adon!, Muay Thai is the strongest martial art......and so might is
everything!" For Sagat, to his student Adon, in accordance with those
words he displayed might, taking in reverence from Adon as "emperor".
However.......
One day, having departed for a foreign match underneath Adon, "Emperor"
Sagat, he came to say be notified was defeated by a nameless fighting
stylist.
With feelings of disbelief, when Adon rushed before Sagat, already his
master, where had Sagat's appearance hidden to and the like.
Within Adon's heart, reverence for the "emperor", was slipping off in a
clattering sound.
"Sagat, your matters, I will not forgive......! Muay Thai is the
strongest fist......I will defeat you for defiling Muay Thai's name,
I will rise to the top!" Adon, swore with such heart and, later
journeyed out.
Even to this day, Adon's training continues to catch up to Sagat as he
continues to journey......!
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Official Story from Gamest SFZ and AASFZ
Still here, in order to search for the man, is the form of a roaming
one. For the purpose of meeting the emperor the man once his own master
Sagat, the journey continues for the figure of young Muay Thai warrior
Adon.......
Amidst the shining sunlight, his whole body covered from a cape with
eyes flashing like a hungry black panther's, the young Muay Thai warrior
was grumbling. "Sagat!, where and what are you up to now......"
Adon also still, became a name for Muay Thai, from the very bottom of
living did he not crawl up alone as a young one. Within the jostling of
numerous rivals, he suddenly took a chance. Sagat's eye stood still at
the match he was watching. Other than himself out in the distance a
great competing opponent before him, struck blood flowing, indeed the
fighting spirit would not escape from that young one's eyes, Sagat was
seeing himself piled up from old times.
"If it be this man!"
Sagat placed Adon under his care, throwing him into that philosophy of
his own techniques.
"Adon!, Muay Thai is the strongest martial art......and so might is
everything!" Sagat's watching as those words change into overwhelming
might. As a master, also as the Muay Thai emperor, Adon was embracing
an incomparable respect. And so with those lessons, Adon had a solid
position of rank next to Sagat.
Such that one day, a notice was received that Adon before did not
believe from the earlier expedition. The "emperor" so to speak was
defeated by a nameless fighting stylist. Why!......Muay Thai, the
emperor is not the strongest?! When Adon hurried back, already Sagat's
figure was nowhere. Within Adon, the myth of emperor began making the
sound as if it were starting to crumble.
On the journey's way to pursue Sagat Adon disappeared alone, on occasion
crossing fists with numerous fighting stylists, Adon was assuring that
Muay Thai is the strongest martial art after all.
"Sagat, your pride, I will not forgive......! Muay Thai is the strongest
fist......once I have defeated you for defiling Muay Thai's name, I will
rise to the top!"
The young warrior having brought forth his own answer, sooner or later
he'll likely meet his master and the decided battle, as with his burning
fighting spirit.
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Highlights:
-From the early Zero accounts, Adon was displayed his hatred for Sagat's words
to him crumbled like so much dust. He was taken under Sagat's wing for
reminding the towering emperor of how he was at that age, raised from the life
of poverty that he was born into, taught that might is everything in Muay Thai,
and then one day those ideals shattered, by a foreign stranger to boot.
-Adon's incomparable respect for Sagat was no more, and he had to search for
him in order to vent out his rage.
Adon from SFZ2
Jaguar Varied Assault
Letting out a roar, countless fists rip through the air.
That young one's move challenging Muay Thai's legendary emperor Sagat,
was frankly the gushing of fighting spirit, with the howl of a wild beast.
"......Ho, not a bad technique."
The emperor even without withstanding all the young one's strikes and
kicks, was such that he was being pressed by vigor. And so, extremely
savoring the long gap he wasn't satisfied with the chewing feeling.
For the bout, it was of course the emperor's total victory, even when the
young one bowed down to the ground still a sharp discernment was pointing
towards the emperor.
"Let me hear your name once more. My thanks for having entertained me in
such a long time......."
"I am Adon. Having challenged you, to win, furthermore to someday surpass
you is my dream......!"
The emperor smiled, as Adon spoke.
"Then that technique, will be good to polish up more and more. To your
degree as a man, that dream isn't necessarily foolishly conceited..."
And so many years later......The emperor challenged, in order to surpass
the emperor with the thoroughly tempered move, with disappointment and rage
seemingly released, Adon himself didn't expect that.
"Sagat!, already you're not the emperor. To atone for my dream trampled
underfoot, as was expected will be on the basis of this techniique!"
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Highlights:
-After Adon had caught Sagat's eye for the first time (the flashback in his
Zero 1 account above), Sagat invited Adon to challenge him for a "recruiting"
battle. Adon impressed the emperor still more with his jaguar varied assault
despite thoroughly losing to his superior. Sagat had urged Adon to keep
touching up his move, and Adon recalls all this plus his anger after hearing
about Sagat's defeat.
Adon from AASFZ3
Fighting Style
Contacts being a characteristic quality through slicing utilized of nimble
footwork, he specializes in attacks due to elbows and knees. In the case
of being compared with his master having been Sagat, physique is small but,
he goes to the top with speed and number of moves. Before coming out for a
progressive attack pose, even through Thailand's Runpini Stadium (the army
manages the great stadium) he's being highly appreciated.
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Highlights:
-Adon's quick and light on his feet, with a varied arsenal and formidable
speed. While Sagat was emperor of Muay Thai, Adon calls himself the god of
it, and manages to be praised that way, at least in Sagat's absence.
Fashion Style
With the matter of believing absolutely in Muay Thai's might, even from that
attire it is perceived. On the head an affixed hair ornament (monkhon) being
a Muay Thai object of uniqueness, for carving the same as with Sagat a color
scheme's trunks, upon victory tenaciously he indicates a letter V. For a
head of hair a pointed redhead, personally it's maybe expressing his rage
at the disappeared Sagat it seems.
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Highlights:
-Adon's looks are all about glorifying his beloved sport. It's suggested that
his hair's increased redness reflects the wrath for Sagat having apparently
flown the coop.
Khmer Ruins [THAILAND]
At the corner of the Khmer Ruins before the mirror of Muay Thai's training
spot, for Adon alone, was recalling matters of the olden days.
Adon handling having been born in a destitute home, for the town being on
the outskirts of those ruins, been holy ground merely for the chosen Muay
Thai warrior capable of the matter to fight, it was an envious target.
Having just become 5 years old for Adon pulling at Father's hand, the first
time he visited the ruins. Decorated in splendor for the sake of Emperor
Nuah Kahn's pre-noble bout over there, already a crowd was growing.
One by one challenging the emperor, the men are beaten. Atop his father's
shoulder he saw the pitiful figures of the defeated.
Having hidden his eyes from every person, for Adon without a feeling of
compassion towards the men, instead his eyes are captivated by seeing the
beauty of the emperor's movements. For the sake of seeing the emperor's
battle calling out asking for and receiving much stronger guys were the
thoughts.
For having come the day for Nuah Kahn to bend his knee, from there were
the matters of several years later.
To have defeated the emperor Adon say just several years isn't different,
in a so-called warrior too young was the boy so-called Sagat.
For that was a crimson full moon evening. With the Khmer's trikaya images
increased of holding dubious moonlight, only the limited permitting the
sessions at a so-called blood-battle's locale a strange atmosphere was
drifting about. Already seeming to make an entry after his father Adon
peeked at the bout through a stone wall's opening.
Even with how much life-and-death struggle blood inhaled above the stone
flooring, the two men held their own against each other. For one was
Emperor Nuah Kahn. Through ceremonial uniform, long hair tied in the back
it was put altogether. The other one was Sagat. Not saying any
unnecessary things, just with glaring and seething glints of the eye he was
facing toward the emperor.
Nearby the emperor's uniform is stripped off. More and more begins the
blood-battle. The gold dragon's embroidery attached to the top of the man's
shoulder, signals an arm swinging downward. For both warriors targeting
tension to their entire bodies, they sought mutual openings.
To the common man is the world that cannot be glimpsed at. There would be
the strong ones, the issue of following the emperor's and Sagat's movements
in exactness having been difficult.
Nay...There's another, one able to follow both of their movements. That's
Adon.
Through within an extreme exalting sensation, for Adon could be feeling the
five senses honing in a twinkle.
Even a breath not rising at the tip of offense and defense, at the end above
the stone flooring to have stood up, was Sagat. Even with the bone of his
left hand's fist fracturing, continues thrashing the wounded emperor's
stomach side, finally for the emperor has come to the point of surrendering
that throne to Sagat.
That splendidly violent encounter changed Adon's life. Furthermore several
years later, for Adon strikes Sagat's arena's entrance. Catching up someday,
and trusting the day they'll match fists.
And so, the present. His master being Sagat defeated by a traveling fighting
stylist, making a fool of his figure. For Adon his fist protruded through
the mirror in front as he spoke.
"Master......no Sagat!. I will make you realize the matter of the true Muay
Thai god."
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Highlights:
-Adon's Z3 stage is where he saw Sagat become the new emperor of Muay Thai,
and also where he decided to devote his life to the sport. He saw the previous
emperor Nuah Kahn for the first time when he was 5 years old and with his dad.
-Sagat ended up breaking his left fist by the time he won his fight against
Nuah Kahn.
-Adon after leaving the flashback denounces Sagat as his master.
Quickie note from Siegfried: Sagat's style is either Mue Tai (Japanese
simple writing) or Muay Thai. I don't think you can write it Muy Thai.
Adon and Sagat aren't too different in age. Maybe 5~7 years apart.
Sagat took in Adon as a student at least 3 years after Sagat became the Muay
Thai emperor.
Adon was Sagat's student, but because he despised being in Sagat's
shadow, he made sure that his style of Muay Thai was completely different
from Sagat's. Even after that, though, people still paid more attention to
Sagat than him. (CJ interview recorded in AASFZ)
Adon is very arrogant, and uses selective memory in his arguments
even. He's mad at Sagat for losing to Ryu during SF1 but neglects to
mention how he lost to Ryu during the first Street Fighter tournament, too
^_~ (Adon's Z3 character file and his Z3 win quote to Ryu)
Adon is still currently the god of Muay Thai after beating Sagat in
SFZ2... or at least Capcom hasn't stated that a new one took his place by
now.
He was invited to join Shadaloo once (SFZ1/SFZ2 takes this into
account by depicting Vega inviting him to join, as Vega references how he
knows that Adon managed to defeat an enraged Sagat despite going to the
hospital afterwards (Sagat's Z2 account and Adon's Z3 final battle intro
with Vega)). Adon of course refuses and Vega doesn't try to insist too
strongly either. (specially noted by AAC)
The Muay Thai stadium which appears in his SFZ2 ending is the Runpini
Stadium. The nation's army manages it.
*** pgVAlekseyZalazof.
ALEKSEY ZALAZOF (BIFF SLAMKOVICH overseas)
Age: 26 (25 during MB)
Height: 192 cm
Weight: 120 kg
Hails from, native place & stage: Moscow, Russia
Favorite/main attack: sunset splash, sonic fist
Favorite food: piroshkis (small Russian pastries filled with finely
chopped meat or vegetables, baked or fried)
MB specialty move: back drop
SMB specialty move: brain buster
Wrestling federation: RWA (Russia Wrestling Association?) (from V-Jump)
MB-era nickname: "Red Lion"
Muscle Bomber: He um... wrestled?
Super Muscle Bomber: He erm... wrestled some more?
Where he is now: Dunno.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
He's a friend/rival of Lucky Colt and they trained together
under Mike Haggar in Haggar's gym.
He's the son of a high Russian bureaucrat/government official.
He's been good at wrestling since he was a child and received
meritocracy/special ed.
He has won many titles in sambo, karate, etc. and trains rigorously.
He hates when people don't take wrestling seriously and regard it as a
show.
From a Muscle Bomber Flyer: Disliking showmanship, a genius strong
style wrestler.
*** pgVAlex.
ALEX
Native place: America: New York (hails from Manhattan)
SF3-era nickname: "Power Age"
Street Fighter 3 Second Impact: Alex begins his journey in SF3 to get
revenge on Gill, who injured his good friend, Tom. Tom
told him that it was a fair match that Gill had beaten him in, and thus,
Alex did not need to avenge him, but Alex would have none of it. Tom
decides to let Alex leave, telling Alex that it is Alex's decision, and
that Alex should see the world, for himself. Alex defeats Gill to win the
championship, though he didn't manage to kill Gill. However, when
he arrives back home, he is surprised when he sees that Tom has fully
recovered as Tom's daughter, Patricia, welcomes him back (specially noted
to have happened via AAC). Alex is glad to see everything is all right, and
is now over his thoughts of revenge. Tom notes that Alex now has matured,
and has a new face on things. Alex declares his new journey. To face the
greatest fighters in the world![Official]
Street Fighter 3 Third Strike:
Battling with the world's champions, the having realized fighting's dread and
profoundness Alex. Within himself, not understanding the seething
wonderous-like sense of uplift not sharpened to a control. He wants to fight
with the "strong ones"....... The thought spurring him on as he is, once
again for him desiring the still unseen champions he's rushed out away from
Tom's side. [CJ's 3S profile for Alex]
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After battling opponents from all over the
world, Alex is in the process of learning/has learned the depth and
fearfulness of the fight. His fighting spirit burns strong and he cannot
suppress it. He wants to fight and get stronger, so he leaves Tom in
search of a formidable/powerful opponent [Official]. Alex meets Ryu, and
they have a match. Ryu wins this and encourages Alex to keep on fighting.
With the weight of vengeance off of Alexâs back, he is now excited about
fighting and searches the world for Ryu and other challengers. He writes
to Tom, saying that he is determined to have a rematch and that he won't
be able to come home for a while, because he must find Ryu again. [Alex's
SF3TS ending]
Where he is now: Searching for Ryu and other worthy combatants (see above).
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Alex from AASF3
Backstory
From New York serving as a fighting technique instructor Tom and, that
daughter of his Patricia the 3 people having lived, from the day Tom was
defeated by a subduing mysterious fighting stylist, Alex's fate changed.
What kind of person is the blond-haired man?? As for the street fight......?
All kinds of inquiries in his chest, for he journeys out.
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Story
In a lone alley of New York, a war cry resounds.
"Eat thiis! Body slam, Christmas special!"
Christmas being soon, though until it's snowing a street fight at a cold alley
eh, not that he hadn't accepted that!
For Alex believed, for the time being this time's training journey would
proceed to locations not of a sweltering alley.
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Profile
Family- Hails from the USA. A young man fighting stylist living in Manhattan
of New York. Lifelong separation from both parents since his young boy period.
For now with his father's friend Tom, he's spending his time training every
day at that developing fighting techniques gym. As for Tom a war veteran but,
as a US armed forces prominence's fighting matches instructor the matter of
visiting bases is abundant. Ordinarily it's with Tom and his 14-year-old
daughter Patricia the 3 of them living together.
Personality- A personality seeming like a split bamboo is above unnerving.
The number of times many without a reason, for the sake of clearly saying
things even trouble is abundant. He is with a non-detesting personality.
Fighting style- Not allowing to feel a grand physique with explosive power
and stiff-like physical strength diving into an opponent's bosom, the fighter
battles with weapons of powerful throw moves and punch power.
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SF3 Q&A from Gamest SF3 Fanbook: Alex
-About having been separated for life from both parents, isn't Alex bothered
by it?
A. Concerning both parents, it seems that he ponders about them occasionally.
However for now the family with Tom, it's agreed that there's no change from
his real family. Living every day in the midst of companions and fighting
techniques, he's about polishing his own moves.
-Was Alex the only child?
A. Somehow or other it's unknown if Alex is an only child.
-Was Alex aiming to be a fighting stylist from the beginning?
A. From his young boy period, he was yearning after various sports.
-As for his numerous powerful moves, was he instructed by Tom?
A. For Alex's moves, he mostly took coaching from Tom. Provided that for
the spot of a rightly original is unsuccessful, it seems that he abundantly
allows power to arrange it.
-Which of Alex's own moves does he particularly consider his favorite?
A. It's the back drop.
-How does Alex, feel about Tom's daughter Patricia? Again, how does Patricia
feel about Alex?
A. As a real sister it's believed. Patricia also is adoring him like an
older brother.
-As Tom is a US armed forces war veteran, is it agreed that there are
acquaintances with the 2 people Guile, and Nash?
A. Concerning Guile, it's believed that he's heard at least the name, it's
not understood if there's any acquaintance. Concerning Nash's incidents, it
seems he's heard of them.
-In regards to Alex, what is the "street fight"?
A. About getting stronger surpassing Tom without giving up, is Alex's
objective.
-Even if the journey to pursue the "blond-haired man who defeated Tom" ends,
is it agreed that for him the struggle every day will continue standing his
body?
A. The matter to defeat the blond-haired man is not just an indirect proof.
His heart techniques body and also until the day comes believing he's
surpassed Tom, it's agreed that for him the struggle continues.
-Has he been realizing the existence of the fighting stylist called Ryu?
A. Through having fought with this time's journey, it's believed that he's
become an acquaintance.
-Is it agreed that he has interests outside of fighting techniques?
A. Sunday carpenter painting. After that bike meddling.
-Why, did Alex become the main character this time?
A. Expressing the NEW GENERATION, from observing the body the fighting
stylist has as a character, it was decided.
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Tom is a good friend of Alex's late father, and like a father to Alex.
Tom is the one that trained Alex and taught Alex everything he knows, and
Alex attends his gym. Patricia is Tom's daughter and Alex cares deeply
for both as a family to him.
Gill challenged both Tom and Alex to a fight. Alex witnessed the
battle between Tom and Gill.
Alex believed that nobody was stronger than Tom and was shocked when
he saw that Gill defeated Tom with ease.
All About Capcom and some other sources say Patricia is 14 in NG, which
would make her around 15 in Third Strike.
Patricia's nickname is Pat. Patricia calls Alex "Alec" by 3S.
There seems to be something special about Alex that concerns and later
intrigues Gill. See Gill's bio for more info.
Tom has heard of Guile's name just in passing, and he's heard hearsay about
Nash in relation to some incidents. That's pretty much all the SF3 Fanbook
says.
*** pgVAndore.
ANDORE
Height: 233cm (FF2)
Weight: 230kg (FF2)
Final Fight One: The Andore family are members of Mad Gear. Not much else
to say, though Uncle, Grandpa, and Father Andore were mid-bosses fought at
the West Side.
Final Fight 2: Still trying to keep Mad Gear alive, the Andores are
generic enemies in Final Fight 2.
Final Fight Tough: Still unable to stay out of trouble, the Andores are in
Final Fight Tough too, as members of the Skull Cross Gang.
Final Fight Streetwise: Growing old but still fighting and wrasslin',
Andore is one of Vitto's pit fighters (and likely the best one) in Little
Italy. Kyle beats him when Kyle offered to fight in Vitto's pit fights
though, but he continues to be a pit fighter in Little Italy. [from game]
Where he is now: Probably still pit-fighting. He's got a cameo in SSF4's
Metro City construction site stage.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
The Andore family in Final Fight 1 consisted of Andore and the rest as
generic enemy sprites, including Andore Jr., Uncle Andore, Father Andore and
Grandpa Andore (only in the steel cages of Edi. E's stage did Grandpa, Uncle
and Father appear, [and Uncle in 2-player mode only] as mid-bosses). Andore
wore purple, Andore Jr. wore red, Father Andore wore yellow, Uncle Andore wore
grey, and Grandpa Andore wore blue. Only Andore, Andore Jr., and Grandpa
Andore are in Final Fight 2 (blue for Jr., red for Andore, grey for Grandpa).
Only Andore is in Final Fight Tough (multiple possible colors).
Andore must be a family name. That's how his father, uncle, grandpa,
and brother are all Andore as well.
The Andores are based after the late wrestler, Andre the Giant.
Andore Jr's bio from Capcom Classics Collection (which is apparently
his FF1 bio as well, taken from Capcom of Japan's archives):
"Andore Jr. grew up acting as a sparring partner for his pro wrestler older
brother, giving him a good repertoire of wrestling moves. He's still in
training in hopes of one day surpassing his brother."
Uncle Andore wears a black outfit with white dots on his tank top has a
moustache, Andore Jr. wears a red outfit w/ black dots on his tank top, Andore
wears a pink outfit w/ black dots on his tank top, and Grandfather Andore
wears a blue outfit w/ black dots on his tank top. He also wears eyeglasses.
All for later console version artwork anyway.
Andore is pretty old by Final Fight Streetwise. One of the comments
that Vitto yells when Andore slams you is "You still got it, Andore!"
That's nothing you say to someone who's still in their prime.
From Kyle's journal during the Andore fight in Streetwise:
"Just my luck that I'm fighting Andore. He's a bit of a legend, himself!
IMPORTANT: Andore's a notorious grappler. Gotta keep my distance."
Andore is presumably the strongest pit fighter in Little Italy.
Vitto's men are surprised that Kyle beat him in some of their
comments after various pit fights with Andore, and Kyle commented
in his journal that Andore was a legend, himself. So even though he's
been relegated to just a pit fight boss in the game, storyline-wise
he's probably still very powerful.
Andore's comic art for Streetwise has him wearing a shirt that says
"Tommy's Gym." For the final game, they apparently changed it to his
classic outfit (the leopard skin).
*** pgVAstro.
ASTRO (THE SCORPION overseas)
Age: unknown
Height: 188 cm
Weight: 105 kg
Hails from, native place: unknown
Main/favorite attack: death spiral, pyramid crush
MB-era nickname: "Brown Flash"
Stage: "BWA Headquarters"
MB specialty move: front suplex
SMB specialty move: postponed kicking
Wrestling federation: BWA (Blood Wrestling Association)
Muscle Bomber: He um... wrestled?
Super Muscle Bomber: He erm... wrestled some more?
Where he is now: Dunno.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Commander-in-chief of the illegal professional wrestling organization,
BWA. His past is a mystery.
From a Super Muscle Bomber Flyer: Leader of the BWA, having power opposite
technique the fighting machine. Shows no mercy no matter which rival.
The probable things that made him a BWA member and not a CWA member are
his electricity and maybe his teleport. Though... besides his taunt, I
can't think of where else he uses his electrical powers.
*** pgVBalrog.
BALROG (VEGA overseas)
Birthdate: January 27, 1967
Height: 186 cm
Weight: 72 kg
BWH sizes: B121, W73, H83
Blood type: O
Native place: Spain
Special skill: affixing to fences, self-rapture
Likes: beautiful things, he himself
Dislikes: ugly things, opponents' blood returning to him
Fighting style: Spanish ninjutsu
SF2-era & SFZ-era nickname: âMasked Young Noble"
SF4-era nickname: "Blood-Smeared Claw"
Street Fighter Zero 3: Balrog is a masked noble with blood red eyes of
insanity. By order of Vega, the leader of the Shadaloo organization, he
must find a girl named Cammy, and report her whereabouts. Balrog ran into
Rose while searching for Cammy, and as he talked with her, he couldn't
understand why someone so beautiful would just go to Vega and thus go to
their death. Balrog finally finds Cammy, and tells Cammy that Vega doesn't
need her anymore. Cammy wins (Balrog most likely threw the match), then
Balrog warns her that she is to be terminated.
Cammy is shocked and runs off. After she is gone, Balrog thinks to himself
about how he thought he only cared for worthy foes, but finds himself
curious and wondering what Vega will do to Cammy. He confronts his leader,
and is shocked that Vega is disposing Cammy just because she's a copy of Vega
which is exceeding the original. He concludes in mild disgust that Vega is
incapable of seeing strength within beauty.
Vega tells Balrog that Balrog is mistaken, and that Cammy has to die because
as a self-conscious clone of Vega, she could take control of the psycho drive
and cause it to go haywire. [Conjecture based off in-game
storyline]. In the end, though, there is no fight. Just an argument, and
Balrog never directly betrays Shadaloo. While Balrog didn't betray Shadaloo
directly, he did end up finding Cammy unconscious in the psycho drive
room. Realizing the potential for a beautiful opponent like Cammy as well
as being alarmed at Vega for wanting to kill Cammy just because she had a mind
of her own, he rescues her from there, and his beautiful rival would live on.
[Official]. Balrog rescuing Cammy is confirmed, although it is unknown
whether he is the one that delivered her to Delta Red's 'doorstep' so to
speak or simply watched over her for a while and then left her on her own
(or even continued to monitor her as much as he could after she joined
Delta Red). Saiki stated that he brought her to Delta Red, but still
trying to confirm that. Most likely he delivered her to Delta Red's grounds,
subordinates of Balrog's left her, then the accident triggered her memory loss,
which at the time saved the British Intelligence Department and the rest of
the UK from her single-handedly annihilating them, as was Vega's conjecture on
her by the end of Z2 shown in Cammy's Z2 ending.
SFZ3 File #23 Balrog
The only one of Shadoloo's executives possessing the popular name "masked young
noble". With anything esteemed as a beautiful thing, it's verified that he
supremely ecstacizes in the subject of conducting blood offerings from ugly
opponents. Deluded by Vega's overwhelming might, he's undertaking a temporary
cooperation (disappeared Cammy's investigation).
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Street Fighter 2: Balrog participated in the SF2 tournament, most likely
officially because Vega ordered him to, but within his heart probably
because he wanted to see Cammy again. He most likely did see her there and
realized that she's still doing just fine [Mostly conjecture that I thought
up]. He also probably participated because he wanted to prove that the
beautiful are the best, as always [Conjecture based off in-game
storyline]. He was still officially a member of Shadaloo during SF2. AAC
specially notes that by the end Balrog does make sure of himself that his
beauty and strength are unsurpassed in the world, after Vega appears to bite
the dust I imagine.
Balrog- SSF2XR Character Concealed File
Born in Spain the masked ninja of madness Balrog. Those numerous moves being
like his aesthetics, magnificent yet cruel.
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Street Fighter 4:
Balrog believes he's the most beautiful narcissist. For the sake of his
own aesthetics, he was cooperating with Vega. Revealing many splendid
techniques of dreadful speed, onlookers don't cease to be fascinated. Not
much more to say of his whereabouts from the time of Shadoloo's collapse...
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Balrog's SF4 opening has him at a party which he leaves from. He then gets a
message from a Shadaloo agent that the "gentleman" (Vega) has been stirring
once again, and that ever since Balrog's took up residence in his current
abode, there's been more and more fiasco from Interpol and other authorities.
Balrog just snickers those words away, admiring himself in the mirror upon
taking off his mask.
His ending has him hacking into and retrieving data from the lab's computers,
securing what he's got onto a zip drive just as Chun-Li runs into the same
room. He stays out of sight and smashes through to the gas release button,
triggering the alarm. While Chun-Li's taken aback by what's just happened,
Balrog mutters to himself that the data he's gotten for Shadaloo will work
towards eternal good looks and youth for him.
Super Street Fighter 4:
Balrog from his window gazes down at Seth outside a black car. The MC of the
last tournament managed to escape from the blazes of the final stage lab along
with Balrog himself and others, and Balrog notes that "Vega's puppet" is ugly
as ever. He doesn't care though. Balrog's convinced in putting his faith on
the system which can create genuine flesh, thus making his fantasy for eternal
youth and beauty a pending reality. [Balrog's opening]
It's unknown for the most part what Balrog does in SSF4, except for
contemplating the possibilities for the data he stole that would satisfy his
narcissistic appetite. His SSF4 ending is the immediate aftermath of his
SF4 ending, seeing while airborne that Chun-Li got out of the burning wreckage
with extra help, and noting that other data previously thought lost for good
was still in someone's hands. He flies away in a helicopter with parting
words he'll meet again with Chun-Li someday.
Where he is now: Living the luxurious life while continuing to periodically
do Shadaloo's bidding unless his acquired knowledge from the lab dictates that
his time of lending a hand/claw of service to Vega is over.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Balrog from AASFZ3
Fighting Style
The alias of masked young noble just rightly earned, for the fight is it
brilliant through smart? Utilizing triangle leaping and wire netting, from
midair he commences the surprise attacks. For the waiting-to-be-sliced
techniques, applications of his own arrangement in ninjutsu. The time of
his childhood, the matter of his ugly father having killed his beautiful
mother rightly becoming a trauma, with the matter of cutting to pieces the
thoroughly unsightly defeated ones, he's obtaining mental composure.
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Fashion Style
From the waist to wave a crimson waistband is, associating the idea of a
matador's held cloth (muleta). For the tatoo carved in the shoulder top
expressing his vindictiveness, for a gold-colored claw symbolizes a polished
combat style. As for the expressionless-like mask, it shelters his orderly
face and at the same time, it seems for the role to conceal even alongside
it a facial expression warped in agony and rage.
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Requena Spiral Tower [SPAIN]
Over there isn't it huh, it's being called alias "Rose Cursed Tower."
For in the beginning the estate's feudal lord it appears sparing no expense
created it didn't he.
The encircling wild growth of roses blooming still more, the feudal lord's
honored employeed pharmacist through picking this a "moderate nourishment
medicine" was compounded. For the medicine as a "miracle drug for growing
young again" becoming a sensation isn't it, purposely from as far as great
distances there were people to come buy it.
With you know, one year, for the sake of a nation-wide-like abnormal climate
the rose is sharply declining.
For the feudal lord fearing the medicine's deficiency, he had the pharmacist
pick all the roses. Even with that the feudal lord's desire also at half the
measure seemingly not enough, for the reluctant pharmacist blending the dyes
he came up with a dilution didn't he.
This deception found out by the feudal lord, for the pharmacist was attached
the improperly said "for the sake of self-interest the medicine was concealed"
in the end he was killed.
From that next year ya know, the roses blooming as ever, for a compounded
medicine of another pharmacist let alone growing young again breaking out a
high fever of unknown cause it was changed to a deadly poison.
For the feudal lord having risked the illness, as if the entire body seeming
to be have been stuck with splinters innumerable wounds rising to the surface,
he bled to death.......
From that what is there! For in that tower's roses the killed pharmacist and
the accidentally died feudal lord's curses are now "filled" as is circulated.
......If I try to say it as such you know. Certainly I know that for that
rose is a dark(kura)-ish like blood red color!
With it not uncommon to definitely say a reliable lie is the matter so to
speak maybe huh.
"Rubbish."
If seen as keeping company with a gossipy bartender old man stretching even
20 minutes the ghost story even without altruism I got stuck with hearing it.
For me the hill's top appearing spotting it I started hiking. For the clouds
being numerous the weather wasn't bad. A strange breeze is lukewarm.
A moment ago the talk's tone that became the tower is rising on our path.
That's a surprisingly large tower.
For the appointed time is already approaching. Being an unlicensed fighting
bout and from that stock of dealers hearing on the boat their purposely
mentioning it I finally came as far as this road.
Not boasting for me that was a little bit of skill. As that former kickboxer
grade 20 in world rank is also the matter of having grasped it. National
depression, destined evil, from various kinds of reasons for now I'm gasping
in destitution. With here one shot, likely foul play probably whatever, I
want a large amount of money in my hands.
At the base of the tower I arrived. I looked around the vicinity. For the
talked-about rose to be there?
That moment, above the rose blooming in glory, an unexpected someone? fell
down.
That entire body is stained of blood. Not wounds of merely a rose's thorns.
Innumerable sharp gashes were carved. For the blood smeared man rising with
one leg bent in front and the other extended behind extends an arm, he became
unable to move with sheer strength. In petals and leaves, sporadically the
blood is dripping.
For the rose's hedge, from the tower's top looks down a line of vision.
"I've waited for you......Now then, come on up."
Back muscles are frozen. White mask. For in his hand something shines......A
claw-like object is attached. For I was seeming to shine onto, that place
unable to move.
And also, a completely strange-like sensation but, that man and tower, the
rose and blood's to have said red all visibility the extent of seeing I felt
it even beautiful.
A source-like terror maybe. A far-sighted view toward death perhaps. For me
staggering and, I was approaching towards the tower.
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Highlights:
-An elderly bartender's spooky story isn't enough to sway a destitute
kickboxer away from his impending bloodbath with Balrog. The crimson
mesmerizing that follows only drives him in all the more.
One of the Shi-Ten-Nou (the Grand Four) in some official sources. Balrog
is likely the third one.
Balrog from Gamest SF2
The shi-ten-nou's hailing from Spain Balrog.
From the carrying of that magnificent body people call out to the esteemed
masked young nobleman.
Genius agility at a mix of Japan's time-honored ninjutsu, having brought
forth superhuman speed and destructive power.
Facing an abnormal attachment to beauty, he believes that there's no value
in existing except for beautiful things. Naturally that's the street fight
which is also no exception. With back rolls to evade attacks in such a
manner etc. as would be expected from beauty and feeling, the wire netting
climbing being signs of loathsomely climbing and migrating and the like is
quite non-embraceable. The gallery smiling especially with no feeling,
the ultimate narcissist accomplishing considerations of what to not draw off.
Sure killing techniques being the cases of the wire netting climbing flying
Barcelona attack, and the thundering deeply thrusting izuna drop.
His private associates are saying "the absolute seized masked man" but,
the supposition is that he's a warped handsome man.
Such is Balrog but recently he's sensing the love in E. Honda's calves.
That spoiled one is believed to want to rub-rub the plump seeming to be
good fortune's calves...(disgustiiing!).
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(editor note: That last part has to do with how rubbing someone's calves
brings you good luck according to some superstition of Balrog's.
But only if they're hairless, so no go for Zangief. Balrog isn't gay.
...as far as we know. It's like rubbing a Buddha for good luck, I guess)
Balrog from Gamest SF2D
Attachment Towards Beauty
As a boy there was a kind sweet ambience in his rewarded face. Hanging down
from shoulder height, an eternally supple blond. As a slender one wanting
a wealth of flexibility, that was tightened with a wasteless body. In this
way, he seemed to be in the sight of men as well as women, now entering the
fight and changing into a different person who would have the supposition
of an advantage?
That man's name is Balrog. Carrying his body as a ninja and possessing a
pointed claw the hot cyclone of Spain. Appreciating only the superbly
beautiful things, the existence of ugly things never permitted masked
young noble.
His abnormality towards "beauty" to say of course embracing with utmost
persistence, a tragic lifetime sent from his mother originating in poured
favortism. She being the daughter of a proud distinguished family, for the
sake of her ruined house of birth, the miserable woman was made to marry
a wealthy but unsightly man and reputable father. From that recoil,
regarding what is beauty she would have what came to be an unusually
strong persistence. That influence on the couple's distance resulted in
the first and last child, naturally it happened to be Balrog.
For him it would seem that having inherited Mother's pronounced looks
it was possibly unfortunate to have been born. Why then consider his
mother's bearing on himself, that which was driven into him when young
is the insert of merited appearance. The attachment towards beauty of course.
Prey Pursuing Fighting Young Noble
As for his attachment towards beauty, from the time of childhood interest
placed on hunting strengthened at an increasing extent. However with prey
in desperation fleeing would be rather than resisting, it would be
powerless before the beautiful and also the strong ones. He was always
this type with a trifle superiority complex accompanying with ability
while feeling the gun's trigger. But with the companion growth, truly
nonresisting prey came out of recollections. His becoming desire turned
to even more resistant prey.
As for his solution to that, pursuing of directly resistant prey, striving,
previously having trifled with them he trampled upon the fighting moves
he wanted. And for that, more than hunting satisfied his atrocious
superiority complex.
Taught during childhood days from an Oriental ninjutsu, which ought to be a
light wonder, agility combined with the disbursed fluent sequential moves
from the body was a phenomenal powering up. With that excess splendor,
among his numerous slaughtered prey, absentmindedly he was fascinated by
those if only they were standing at their limit. But for such opponents
he never once offered sympathy. As the strong are always the beautiful,
the defeated are always ugly. He takes the ugly to exist with no merit
and such with nothing but meaninglessness.
And so nowadays with his self-beauty confirmed, in order to erase those
pigs from this earth, he proceeds with the struggle ready to challenge
at places of competition holding fools. To strike firsthand at the
filthy prey with a defending claw, for the times of the dirty-looking
prey's returning blood a mask is used to shun it, born is the warrior
Balrog, again spending refined moments trembling in delight.
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Prologue 8 (Balrog) from SF4
Taking a glass which champagne flowed into from a tray being carried by a boy
who passed by, the man surveyed the surroundings. Everyone wrapped up in
formal dress here and there several people piecemeal bundled, in friendly
chatting. A glance anywhere is similar to an elite party but, normally it
varies slightly, at that meeting place it was such a thing that all characters
were donning a mask. Of course the man also is donning a mask. From the
mask's holes he must peek into the outside, the field of vision narrowly fails
to settle. Burdened by the unaccustomed to wearing a tuxedo's collar's
distastefulness, from when he went to the meeting place he couldn't help but
feel uncomfortable all the way.
"-Found him??"
Abruptly was the voice close to his ears. From inside the mask a voice
prepared from ultra-small telecommunication units.
"No, not yet."
So that around the misunderstanding the small voice whispers, the man once
more looked around.
"If the folks here are really Shadoloo pawns and intelligence contacts,
they'll steadily be also discovered in good time but. ...Even so what a
masquerade ball!, what might its meaning be? Deep-pocket considerations
aren't understood."
"Who knows. Just continuously partying and, the usual party isn't done
completely in tiresomeness maybe?"
"I'm already tired with one day. ...And, I found him."
The man casually began to walk weaving his way through the masked people.
The room's opposite side, at a shortly distanced location the appearing-to-be
target to aim at a figure of a person standing still a while came in sight.
"...Height of a little over 6 feet. Long braided hair. Snake tattoo even
masked figure......alright, same as the data."
"Somehow or other bingo isn't it, Raven. That person is Balrog."
From turning towards the speaker he can hear the colleague's voice, getting
a little hot under the collar. Last month it was good discovering Bison,
after that the investigation concerning Shadoloo remnants had run into
trouble. On top of having failed with the vehicle's pursuit, the fact is
there was yet another person a staff leader Balrog's traces also undiscovered.
Shadoloo group's one from being a dormant spy unless information was
dispatched, today even this place he'd likely not have understood about.
Glass held in hand making a tuck at the breast, employing a camouflaged
mini-camera in the cuffs, he takes a picture of the target. Suddenly Balrog
raising his face, turns toward this direction. The man ceased his breath. In
an instant a feeling like a white mask's inside's eyes met his eyes, a
shivering coldness to run. Whatever was not as with Balrog's mask after he
also faced toward a different place, a feeling like a cold hand was closely
clinging to his back was remaining.
"What's wrong?"
"Now..., no, it's nothing. From the image to send, compare it just to be
sure."
"Understood. Looking forward to doing so at once."
At the bottom of the glass he presses a hidden button raising an eyeball and,
Balrog works his way through a nearby door to a spot. A little time leaves
behind, the severe suit's man continues after that.
"Somehow or other it appears like an arrival is also meeting. From this
direction I believe I can follow, what do I do?"
He lowers to ask a question and, the speaker within the mask merely shook.
"Makes no difference. It's not unreasonable for the rest of the lot to be
prearranged performances. -From there comparison conclusions got out. Make
no mistake that's Balrog. Becoming a tailing satellite to use all over the
country also, this time around absolutely we'll ascertain the hideout.
Quickly come back."
"Got it."
While heading for the meeting place's exit, the man reflected upon the secret
victory. The terror from some time ago already was vanishing.
-With this the trail is done. Next I'll surely arrest you, Vega.
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Highlights:
-Agent Smart Raven tracks down Balrog after SF2 following up with his discovery
of Bison. This is the prelude to Balrog's SF4 opening: Smart Raven's one
of the reasons he ends up leaving the party and notes him later on while
admiring himself in the mirror. 2 down 1 to go for Smart Raven, but the
last will be his last as well (see Vega's SF4 account in his section).
He's known as the "young noble of the mask" in the underground
fighting circuit. The serpent across his chest may be the crest of
of his noble family.
His mother was born into a distinguished family. She married Balrog's
father (who was also rich and famous) as an obligation to her family. As a
result, she developed an unusual attachment to beauty, which would eventually
be inherited by Balrog. However, Balrog seemed to develop a greater attachment
to beauty than his mother.
He enjoyed going hunting as a boy. However, he soon lost interest in
hunting because it wasn't much of a challenge. He was eventually
introduced to combative sports. He enjoyed it because the prey fought
back and showed resistance. He soon traded in his hunting rifle for a claw.
For Balrog, occasionally beauty loses to Vega's strength, and at any
time he may accumulate fangs toward Vega.
Balrog finds Bison to be very ugly and ill-mannered, disliking him
because of those. Vega still has Balrog in his grip due to being superior
in strength.
Balrog has trained in ninjutsu since childhood. This is stated in
paragraphs following the one saying he hunted as a boy, so it isn't meant
to conflict with that. ...wow, that's one young kid with a rifle and then
a claw. This is from the SF2D Gamest Mook, btw.
Balrog joined Shadaloo after being impressed by Vegaâs charisma and
competence.
Balrog wears his mask in order to protect his face in battle. But... you
probably already know that.
From HnN regarding his mask and claw:
Balrog doesn't fail to talk about his mask and claw.
To begin with the mask, at first it seemed the mask was for the sake of hiding
his plain face, the fact with his sober face, little by little, it assumes a
beautiful form.
Then speaking of why especially covering a beautiful face, it's for the face
to not breathe the regurgitating blood of ugly head-to-head fighting opponents.
Balrog's beauty, persistently facing the ego, he never flaunts at another
person.
Next up is the claw, happening to have on hand and same rank as the mask.
Filthy street fighters can be attacked by uneventfully immediate striking
of their skin. Balrog assumes, exceedingly enduring it is for my fist to
be dirty with the blood of ugly human beings. Also, a sharp claw providing
for enemy gouging strategies, his brutal personality's entire face is
protruding out.
This being for the thoroughly fastidious nature, the appearance of Balrog's
mask and hooked claw to be formed. Seen that how he believes is with no
concern for people, here is the world of the perfect ego fascination.
Incidentally, how does Balrog roll with the hooked claw? Assumed to be
a part of the rising human doubts, with his excellent agile nature, an
impossibility turns into a possibility at a superhuman pace.
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Balrog usually fights with an iron-made claw which he had fashioned for his
own use, but he may have other varieties as well such as gold, diamond, and
silver-made ones.
A well-liked rumour is that Geki, the claw-wielding ninja of SF1, was
the one who taught Balrog ninjutsu. It seems rather plausible (but not too
much since Balrog and Geki have significantly different moves), but so far
there is nothing to prove it. It is however true that he learned Japan's
ninjutsu from a certain mysterious Oriental.
Balrog and Geki are stated to be 'claw rivals'. IE, their skill with
the claw is about equal to each other. Perhaps this statement is what
makes many people think that Geki trained Balrog.
Balrog's original design used to be a Crusader knight with a sword, but
Capcom obviously scrapped that idea before the final version of Balrog. Some
concept art of him in that fashion might still be around on the net
somewhere... I know I've seen some, before, but I forget where. I believe
that the Balrog we have now though is much better than the sword one. The
knight design was scrapped because it didn't seem to fit with the times.
Other original proto-concepts for Balrog:
1) A ninja, with Balrog's mask and claw, but smooth semi-spiked hair.
2) More of a Blanka-Balrog hybrid- Blanka's hair, Balrog's mask, and dressed in
clothing similar to Sodom's.
His prototype name in SF2's early planning stages was "Spain ninja."
A balrog is a cruel/evil demon, by the way. This was likely meant to be ironic.
M. Bison's name was switched to Balrog for the US versions
because Capcom didn't want to get sued by Mike Tyson (for Mike Bison).
Vega became M. Bison (now Mister Bison) and Balrog became Vega due to this
switch.
An official art of Balrog depicts him in his luxurious quarters with a
panther and some other hunter cats prowling or sleeping around. ...Balrog
and Cammy would get along quite well in regards to their like of cats,
except I don't know whether or not Cammy would approve of really big ones
like lions and panthers :P
Vega is stated by the SF2 Fanbook to "likely be jealous of Chun-Li's
good looks". He is, from the character relations charts, plus his SF4 ending
shows that he prefers to avoid her altogether.
Some translated info about Balrog's SF2 stage:
Spain (Balrog) Fighting Barroom
At a street's back alley in Spain, a secret underground continuing down a
descending stairway and a housed barroom. This barroom having become a
membership system, with gambling of course, buying and selling of narcotics
and so forth seem to take place. Here the best special attraction, is
the present age pankration, the street fights. Among the barroom's stars
is Balrog, with a succession of victories, proceeding to a point of
no rivals.
Tonight, for this secret club the excited crucible will transform.
At any rate, the daily main event being the wandered-from-place-to-place
street fighters to therefore turn up so to say.
"Hmhhmhhm......it's only natural for beautiful me to win. The defeated
are always predestined as the ugly ones......"
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Highlights:
-Like Bison's stage in Las Vegas, Balrog's has gambling, but also serves
as a front for drug dealing.
The cage makes for an inescapable death match of course, and the arena is
fashioned like a bullring. The barrel-dropping bonus stage may be in a
basement storehouse of Balrog's SF2 stage.
One final note on his stage: a blinking sign above the dancers (mostly hidden
by lifebars unless you jump at the right timing) says "Mesón de la Taberna."
It may surely be in Barcelona...probably taking from the names of his moves.
Balrog's SF4 arcade ending comments:
Verifies that Chun Li seized the matter of S.I.N.'s secret data and, Balrog
compresses the establishment's interior's fire extinguishing switch. Taking
advantage of the confusion Balrog leaves, Shadoloo's collapse, and also was
to assure his own good looks and youth to become eternal.
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*** pgVBella.
FATHER BELLA (actually FATHER BELGER)
No bio.
Final Fight Streetwise: A priest that Vitto confides in, Bella is actually
the mastermind behind the drug GLOW that is spreading through the city.
He forced Dr. Chang to invent the drug and has Blades making people think
Vitto is responsible for it. He also takes particular interest in Cody,
having his lead henchman, Devin "The Stiff", make a deal with Cody to give
Cody GLOW so that Cody can fight again. Eventually, when Vitto gets to
be too much trouble, he has Blades kill Vitto in the church. Soon, the
city erupts in chaos and revolts as people are driven insane by GLOW.
The police along with Kyle finally trace things back to Bella's church,
but all the police besides Sgt. Sims get killed in the assault. Inside,
Bella sicks his Horsemen of the Apocalypse on Kyle and Sims. Sims
gets killed by Famine, but Kyle manages to beat him, War, and Pestilence.
Kyle finally confronts Bella on the church rooftop, who calls him Cain,
just like Cain and Abel in the Bible, so Kyle responds that 'Cain' is
going to kick his ass. He once again demands to see his brother, so
Bella tells him that he feels Kyle's pain, for he used to have a brother
he cared about as well. Bella tells Kyle that long ago, his own brother
came to America seeking happiness, but then Cody savagely killed him.
Kyle is stumped about this, telling Bella that Cody is a hero who did more
good for the city than Bella could ever dream of. Bella brushes him off,
proclaiming that his suffering led to his inspiration, which in turn would
lead to Kyle's death! At this, he points to the side, and Kyle turns his
head only to see his own brother, now horribly mutated from GLOW into a
sort of hulk with green glowing eyes and the word "DEATH" cut into his
chest. Bella proclaims that he's going to have an eye for an eye, brother
for brother, Cain to Abel, and now he was going to kill Cody's brother as
well. Pissed, Kyle tells Bella that he'll be praying for his own death when
Kyle gets through with him. Hearing this, Bella proclaims that his name isn't
actually Bella. It's Belger! He was the brother of the leader of Mad Gear
that Cody killed years ago. His prized Horseman of Death, Cody, attacks
Kyle. Cody Death, completely consumed by the GLOW, is unable to listen to
Kyle's pleas about being his brother, but upon hitting Kyle, struggles with
himself to stop. Kyle takes advantage of this, and eventually defeats his
own brother, whereupon Father Belger revives him with GLOW and tells him
that he will be fighting at Death's side. Belger attempts to take Kyle out
with grenades and rocket launchers while Cody Death attacks with burning GLOW
flames and sheer brute force, but eventually Cody Death is taken down again.
Belger then attempts to revive Cody while fighting off Kyle with a machine
gun and his sword, putting him into position for Kyle's own attacks.
Eventually, Cody Death finally got up and tried kill Kyle one last time.
Approaching Kyle slowly, Kyle again tries to get Cody to recognize him, but
at that moment, Cody Death is shot in the back by Belger, who proclaims that
he will not allow his vengeance to be taken away from him and he'll kill
Kyle himself. He approaches Kyle with his gun pointed at Kyle, but then
Cody Death gets up and launches himself at Belger, sending the two of them
flying off the rooftop, with Kyle shouting after his brother.
On the ground outside, a wounded Belger attempts to crawl to and reach his
gun, but Kyle grabs it just out of his reach. Father Belger proclaims that
he's Kyle's savior, but Kyle replies that he's actually nothing, and shoots
him in the head. He then dashes to an unconscious Cody Death and says
that everything will be okay. [from the game]
Where he is now: A gunshot to the head, and you're probably dead.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes:
His name is Belger because Belger is a last name. His first name
is never stated.
Assumedly, Bella went by Bella and not Belger because he didn't want
Cody to be suspicious when he offered Cody the GLOW, assuming he was
the one that offered Cody the GLOW. Stiff indicates that Cody and
Stiff's boss were talking and making deals with each other at the
beginning of the game, after all.
Bella wanted to kill Kyle, not Cody. This is because he sees it as
"an eye for an eye" (Cody killed his brother, so he wants to kill
Cody's brother). This explains why he turned Cody into a monster
to help him kill Kyle as opposed to simply killing Cody instead. It
also explains why he smiles eerily at Kyle when Kyle first sees him
back at Vitto's restaurant as the two walk past each other when there
really isn't much other reason for him to care about Kyle.
Bella's four horsemen were War (Weasel), Famine (Blades), Pestilence
(unknown/nobody), and Death (first Stiff, then Cody).
Bella first wanted Stiff to be his Death horseman. Cody instead,
was likely starting to get out of hand, as Bella tells Blade to kill
Cody because he was starting to become troublesome. Later however, Stiff
Death was killed by Kyle at the GLOW factory before he could be complete
(you can see the incomplete writing of DEATH on his chest where only the
D and the E are there), and thus a new Death was needed. It is likely
that this was the time when Bella decided to make Cody into his fourth
Horseman (Death) instead. Also, Stiff is named "Stiff Death" in the
second fight against him while he's enhanced by GLOW.
Possibly a throwback to his brother, the fight with Bella also
involves chasing him down while he tries to hide behind his henchman
(Cody in this case). Like his brother, he fights armed, using grenades,
a rocket launcher, machine gun, and a sword.
He's Father Belger, not Father Bella, when you fight him.
*** pgVBelger.
BELGER
Native place: whatever it is, it's not America (from FF:SW)
Height: unknown
Weight: unknown
Favorite food: none
Final Fight 1: The rich leader of the Mad Gear gang, Belger fought Haggar
and co (well, I don't know who he fought but from the ending of FF1, I'm
going to assume it was all three) at the top of his skyscraper in the
Uptown area of Metro City. When he was defeated, he got knocked out of the
window by Cody and went splat [From the game and FF2's intro].
Where he is now: Dead dead dead. Lights punched out by Haggar, Cody, and
Guy, knocked out of the window by Cody according to FF2's intro, plummeting
many stories to go splat.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
FF1 Bio: Belger is the head of a corporation which is secretly
manipulating the Mad Gear gang. Often seen in a wheelchair because he hates
walking. Belger is a crackshot with the crossbow.
He's secretly suspected by Haggar to be the mastermind behind Mad Gear's
uprising, even though Damnd kidnaps Jessica and calls the mayor in FF1.
Although he was a businessman, he was commanding the Mad Gear in
secret. In public, he was the CEO of a huge corporation.
Belger believes the people of Metro City need him. He says to Haggar
before their final battle in FF1 that people and especially the youth
flock to Mad Gear because they're simply fed up with Metro City as it is.
Haggar argues that the people are merely deprived of where they can go,
and swears that he'll change things.
He's an immigrant, although he probably came to America long ago for
him to have been able to build up such a massive corporation and crime
ring. This is revealed in Streetwise, where his brother states that he
"came to this country seeking happiness". Possibly, Belger was extremely
poor before he came to America, since 'seeking happiness' seems to me what
one would describe a poor person coming to America to try to live the
American dream (of getting RICH!). Also possibly, this may be why Belger
(presumably) sympathizes with the low-life youths of Metro City as per
Mad Gear's idealistic vision, if Belger himself used to be poor as well.
Him not being born in America isn't too surprising. Several Mad Gear
members weren't (Andore and El Gado off the top of my head). Metro City
IS part of NYC (for the most part) which is where many overseas immigrants
enter America, after all.
It is revealed in Streetwise that Belger is a last name, as his
brother refers to himself as Belger, as well. Neither of their first
names is ever stated.
In the battle with Belger's brother, Kyle remarks in his journal
that Belger is a name with ugly roots in the history of Metro City.
*** pgVBirdie.
BIRDIE
Height: 216 cm, 201 cm (old SF1 design)
Weight: 111 kg, 114 kg (old SF1 design)
SF1 action: head bat (probable typo for head butt)
BWH sizes: B156, W102, H106
Blood type: O
Native place: England
Special skill: gluttony, criminal practices
Likes: beer, beef jerky, money-making talk
Dislikes: kids, police
SF1-era nickname: "Superhuman Strength Warrior of Tacit Rocky Consent"
SFZ-era nickname: "Unfavorable Ones He Sends Flying"
Street Fighter 1: Birdie is a thug who got tired of wrestling. He joined
the Street Fighter 1 tournament in order to find some strong opponents
[Official].
Street Fighter Zero 2: Well, Birdie's still bored. He wants to reach the
big times of crime, now! Hearing of a recently unveiled organization named
Shadaloo, Birdie decides that he wants in on it. He finally manages to
catch Shadaloo's attention and succeeds with getting in. However, eventually
after he does, he manages to sneak into a Shadaloo data room and discover
something. Unknown to him, however, Vega was watching when he did.
[Official. Note that his fighting Vega like he does in the game never
happened in the official storyline, though]
Street Fighter Zero 3: Birdie is a member of Shadaloo. But as a mere
henchman, his daily life became very dull. And so he gathered information
to overthrow Vega. Soon, he found the keyword.... "psycho drive".......
Most likely, he spent SFZ3 looking for the psycho drive. However, he was
unfortunate to run into Chun-Li and spill out the location of the psycho
drive base to her (specially noted in AAC).
Shadaloo caught onto him, and Bison was sent to terminate him. Birdie, in
a desperate attempt to buy some time, tells Bison about the psycho drive,
and offers to lead Bison to it. However, Birdie himself plots in his mind
that once he finds the psycho drive, he'll use its power to become strong
enough to destroy both Bison and Vega. Unfortunately, Bison kept Birdie
in a stalemate, thus Birdie was never able to find the psycho drive before
it exploded [based on both of their win quotes to each other].
SFZ3 File #08 Birdie
Show prowrestler, by way of being a bar's bodyguard, presently is servicing
as member of Shadoloo the secret organization Vega built up. Well to say
that there's no reason to be obeying Vega, perhaps he may someday lead the
organization. Just that even with Vega the present spot stays afloat with
freedom for him.
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Highlights:
-Birdie's got perks for now in Shadaloo, but he doesn't necessarily wish to
stay in one spot within the criminal syndicate.
Where he is now: Probably went back to being a regular thug, again. Either
that or he's in jail. Hard to tell.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Birdie from SFZ
Original account from SF2 Himitsu Hyakka
Zubaan! Birdie's invincible punch caved into the hoodlum's body! Jarajara!
Boom! Birdie's arm chain, twined around the hoodlum's body, hurled the
hoodlum out into the night street.
"What! This weakling is Shadoloo? That rumored narcotics syndicate?!"
For Birdie, from having knocked down the hoodlum, originally from inside
the bar, with a whiff he thought about it.
"I being this world's strongest, being a bar bodyguard, should be carrying
money with such weaklings and their huge mugs! Unforgivable! If I get
serious, I believe money and fame will show for it. It's settled, farewell
to this living! From here on, will be the reign of Lord Birdie!"
That night, celebrating his stand, a great party at the bar. And so the
next morning, Birdie was journeying out alone. Bilking out on the bar's
party charge.......
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Official Story from Gamest SFZ and AASFZ
It is the back alley of the red-light district where, together with the sound
of a thud a piercing voice arose. "You're, quite insistent!! Come forth or
leave!"
From a house pub a man was discharged, after that a man of bear-like physique
appeared. Combing his prided mohican head, he faced the man calling out.
"Shadoloo? You mean that rumored narcotics syndicate? So what of it, I'm in a
bad mood today! What? You'll take me on as my opponent you say?"
Within a moment the man went flying, jarajara to say the sound of chains echoed
out into the night street.
"What, with this guy deserting me, I should become more reaching!!" Returning
to the shop triumphant at having swiped the man's wallet Birdie suddenly
considered. Living like this as a bar's bodyguard isn't the way. At one time
proud of my various invincible fighting moves, there isn't much as far as strong
opponents anymore for me. If I get serious, I believe that money even fame will
come to be right?...... Okay I've decided, farewell to this living. From here
on I'll make it the reign of Lord Birdie!!
"What Birdie, are you not in an awfully good mood?" The pub's master spoke and,
unexpectedly Birdie stood up, calling back to him.
"Pops, today a party is celebrated for Lord Birdie's new start! Everyone, it's
my treat of course. Rave through the morning!"
From here and there of the shop cheers went up, gushing out Birdie calls as they
flourished.
That's right, in the town, no in the world their yelling out my name loudly
easily comes!
Assured of glory daily, Birdie gulped down bourbon in anticipation of
celebration.
And so the next morning, Birdie as 1 person journeyed out. Leaving behind for
the soundly sleeping master 1 farewell note.......
"I leave to you the successful career bill! Later, as a farewell gift I'll be
taking the register's money!"
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Highlights:
-As a bar bouncer, Birdie's unmatched by any wandering riff-raff. Even minor
Shadaloo hoodlums are sorry they ever saw his face. Prior to seeking Shadaloo
on his own, he shows his true colors of appreciating no one but himself as he
runs off with the pub's money on top of not paying a single bit for the
celebration bill he racks up.
Birdie from SFZ2
The Birdie
"Hey hey, don't be joking! You're not even the least bit sorry!?"
Having received from the shop's master this month's wages, they weren't even
half the settlement amount.
"Now, the beginning contract, did you really write it off? You broke down the
costs of the shop's articles, subtly from the reward, didn'cha!"
"......Keh! Damn it you!"
The one who was to say hired as this shop's bodyguard, is not satisfied.
Not thrusting aside his own dull misfortune, his spirit was full of abusive
language.
To move into the shop, having replaced several people as a muscular man, the
pressure that entered in would dislodge Birdie. Those ones would accost him
alone.
"Yo! Are you, really that punk rascal they call Birdie!?"
That guy, once during the period when Birdie was a show prowrestler, competed
as the baby face (ally of justice) role among wrestlers. On the basis of being
fixed for a set-up job scenario, everyday he'd play the role of "a punk
influenced from the USA". Having recalled being put on airs by top stars as
a third-rate wrestler all the while being oppressed in a manner of speaking as
he was laboring for his cash income, his anger arose.
"Had you not noticed this place, would you have stopped doing it completely?
Your gale, was great for sufficient fame wasn't it!"
The men guffawed at him. Birdie flipped out.
Pulling the man's stomach pit toward himself with a jerk, he informed him close
to the ear. "Get out right now......!!"
Those guys didn't know. Why Birdie, had left the world of show prowrestling.
With irrationable scorn and unable to endure the insults, regardless of enemy
or ally no less than 20 people wrestlers and customers were sent off to the
hospital, by the sure-killing consecutive headbutts.
As if taking consecutive beatings from a machine gun, the man's face became
deformed. The final blow, pulled in from behind his companions and the shop's
master, knocking down even the wall.
"......The cost of repairs, pull it out of your retirement allowance. You
don't need help, good-bye!"
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Highlights:
-Before his ears caught word of Shadaloo, Birdie was bar-bouncer hopping, and
leaving a trail of destruction and mayhem wherever he went.
-"Baby face" Birdie got royally fed up with the competition ridiculing his
punk look.
-His super the Birdie sent both guiltys and innocents to the medical rooms, 20
at a time.
Birdie from AASFZ3
Fighting Style
To swing a thick heavy threaded chain is the emphasis of the rough brawl
fight. For the sake of not managing more than enough power, motions in
pointlessness and openings are conspicuous. Having served as the villain
through prowrestling's ring he acquires a personal history, in the present
fight style there's not a wrestler's trace. For in the natural hard head
stays a possessing of self confidence, sure-killing techniques being as
attacks due to headbutts.
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Highlights:
-Birdie's confident, powerful, but he's got plenty of kinks that can be
exposed when he fights.
Fashion Style
Via having started the street fight, it's in order to appeal to the world
far and wide of his own existence. From those days wearing gaudy attire,
having become Shadoloo's member even now, the decision he has not seemed
to change. Sometimes he pulls from his pocket a knife-style comb, that's
an object in order to set application of his favorite hairdo.
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Highlights:
-It's no wonder unfortunate bar victims are pressed to make fun of Birdie's
look; even CJ calls his clothes gaudy at best.
Train Cemetery [ENGLAND]
"That soldiers are necessary. Isn't that the story to take you in huh?"
As if gossip seems to be familiar, at the wreck remained in seclusion as
though buried there was a voice talking to the rogues.
"Ah!?"
The men raise a glare. Recognizing an all-too distinctive feature-like
hairstyle, in confusion the hoodlums adjust their sitting positions.
"B......Boss Birdie?"
The mohican giant was grinning broadly. 2 years before, this scrap wood
standing area (for people call it "cemetery") Birdie had parted from. The
undersurface highway's broken roof, the black hammer and the like how many
other nicknames he had, from the scoundrels keeping a glance, a terrifying
man.
Nowadays for his appearance to not be seen at all, the rumor was being
passed for the sake of having joined as management for that Shadoloo. The
fact that Birdie became a member of Shadoloo, he was leaving from the
streets.
"Stop right there."
All of the sudden, a large-barrel handgun is thrusted at the temple of
Birdie's forehead.
A black coated girl. Still young.
Where in the world was she lurking, they realize and for Birdie & the others
a 10 several black coat group was surrounding them. The hoodlums swallow
their breaths.
"......Exposed yourselves after all eh. Preparations were quick weren't
theey."
"Obliteration that's the order. For you have penetrated your head too far."
Drag-iron's finger moves in unison as the chain from Birdie's hand bellowed,
as it warps like a whip the coat girls are sent flying.
For the chain under the scrap wood entangles a buried train's scrap chassis.
Nimbly in a rematched gun posture the coat group fires. Heavy shots
reverberate sparks are scattered, the hoodlums duck their heads.
An enormous steel chunk intercepts the bullets. With Birdie's superhuman
strength having dragged up the train it's slapped on top of the coat group.
For nearby gunpowder smoke and earth is become totally beaten the hell out
of it.
"Hey! Saw that didn'cha back me up! Snatch the guns from those brats!"
While swinging the chain Birdie exclaims. For the hoodlums unable to stand
up due to fear or surprise stuck on appalled facial expressions draw back
from the situation.
"D, D, Don't joke like thaat! We don't, wanna die yet!"
The hoodlums disperse in all directions. The coat girls some have become
gravel under the train it seems but, still many of them readying guns
including the distance.
"Keh! They have to be soldiers after all huh......Going for it alone eh."
Once again the chain heaves up the steel frame. It draws close to the girls
an offhand shield of steel plate.
"Because until thus I wanted to protect it, different from worthy value
physiography isn't it......I mean the psycho drive so to speak!!"
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Highlights:
-Birdie vs the Vega Bodyguard Troops! They were sent to terminate him after
he discovered Shadaloo's dirty secrets as shown in his Z2 ending. Most likely
it's Fevrier who almost succeeds in blowing his head off, but Birdie shows
his overly impressive strength by using the half-buried train chassis to slow
the girls down and make his escape. Needless to say Birdie's old gang from 2
years ago is too freaked out to lend him any help he demands.
Birdie was an English Caucasian punk in SF1, but Capcom Japan redesigned
him in the Zero series, along with Ryu, Ken, Adon, Sagat, Eagle, and Gen in
terms of heights and weights.
Birdie is acquaintances with Titan the Great of Muscle Bomber. There's an
official art of the two together. Both are English and Birdie was into
wrestling, himself. The description with the art stated that Birdie and Titan
the Great were best friends and rivals. While they were prowrestling, they
were occasionally a tag team and were called the "500 Trillion Powers."
Birdie was undefeated/well-versed in pro wrestling, but got tired of
it because of the lack of competition and became a bar bouncer. That would
help explain why his SF1 stage is set in front of a bar.
Vega didn't actually go up to Birdie and invite him personally as
far as we can tell. SF Eternal just states that he was offered a position
in Shadaloo after drifting around for a bit as a bouncer but didn't even
know who was in charge, as after he joined, he began trying to find out
so that he may overthrow the organization and seize power.
The secret data he found in his Z2 ending contained at least one
reference to the psycho drive.
Eagle and Birdie are named after golf terms (an Eagle is -2 points,
a Birdie is -1). Another reference to this is Eagle's special skill, golf.
It seems plausible that he's from Hampstead, London NW3 (where Ian Dury
used to hang around, and they have half a dozen tube stations on the lines
that use that design of train). In SF1 we can see the Lonsdale Factory
in W1F (which is under 1 mile from Hampstead).
*** pgVBlack.
BLACK
FFT boss and the final one, but still there's no bio for him.
Final Fight Tough: Black is the leader of the Skull Cross Gang. For some
reason, he's in jail, though a riot staged by Dave caused a distraction
that allowed his gang to break him out of jail. Things finally come to a
showdown with Haggar and co on top of Metro City's tallest building when
Black greets them by leaping onto the roof from his helicopter to confront
them. However, he eventually got knocked into a (really randomly placed)
high voltage electrical power generator, promptly resulting in him getting
electrocuted then said generator exploding, taking the entire top area of
the building with it. Haggar and his friends escaped, most likely by
stealing Black's helicopter. [from the game]
Where he is now: Well, being electrocuted then blown up usually tends to
make one lose that little thing we like to call "life", so...
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Lots of similarities to Rolento. Like Rolento, he has a helicopter,
he's an army guy, and also has knives plus a baton as well. Unlike Rolento,
he gets electrocuted after the fight with him, but like Rolento, he gets blown
up (albeit not by grenades, unlike Rolento). Rolento, however, is still alive
and kicking, unlike Black. Sucks (or rather, sucked) to be him.
*** pgVBlackWidow.
BLACK WIDOW
Height: 205 cm
Weight: 95 kg
Native place & stage: Hannover, Germany
SMB specialty move: Frankensteiner
MB-era nickname: "Metal Burst"
Super Muscle Bomber: She um... wrestled?
Where she is now: Dunno.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Black Widow in the game has a guy's voice and an androgynous sprite
(well, okay, maybe not the hips, but definitely the chest), but it's all
probably an act. Beating the game with her causes her to take off her
costume for a split second and laugh, revealing her true gender and
not-so-manly voice.
From a Super Muscle Bomber flyer: A full body costumed wrestler. Her
movements are as flexible as a spider as she brings down foes.
(note: the flyer uses a gender neutral pronoun when referring to
her, I believe. I was told her gender was not immediately obvious
from it)
She's from Hannover, Germany. For those who don't know, Hannover's a
port city in northwestern Germany.
It's stated that she has a lean but slightly muscular body, and her
opponents are manipulated by her flexibility.
Sakura's designer stated that Black Widow from SMB was one
inspiration to create Sakura's character.
*** pgVBlades.
BLADES (DINO A.K.A. "BLADES")
No bio.
Final Fight Streetwise: Blades helps Vitto evict Kyle from his restaurant
when Vitto gets sick of Kyle's disrespect. He later on betrays and murders
Vitto on Bella's orders before Kyle defeats him in the graveyard. Surviving
that ordeal, Bella and Dr. Chang would later take him and infuse him with
GLOW, mutating him into a Horseman of the Apocalypse, Famine. When Kyle
and Sims arrived, War would fight Kyle while Blades Famine took care of Sgt.
Sims. Kyle beat War and arrived just in time to see Blades Famine cut
Sim's head off. Using his trademark knives and new stretchy arms, Blades
Famine attacks Kyle but is eventually defeated and basically plops to the
ground. [from the game]
Where he is now: Presumably dead, although he literally DOES just flop
to the ground after spazzing a bit, unlike the more graphic deaths in FF:SW.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
From the official website: A most efficient assassin, with a penchant
for carrying out assignments with grotesque methodology. Blades is
unpredictable, cutthroat and as sick as they come. Yet his reputation
also includes a great degree of reliability, and his services are
highly-valued.
He's pretty much your typical knife psycho killer. Sadistic, likes to
cut things, licks people, long hair, Marilyn Manson, fast and agile, etc.
You know, like Balrog without the mask and narcissist additions.
Blades can even block bullets with his knives. After becoming Famine,
he doesn't block anything. Course, with GLOW making one not feel any pain,
he probably can't be bothered to.
Blades' tone and facial expression seem to agree with Bella when
Bella mentions their revelation, so presumably he chose to work for Bella
and betray Vitto because he liked Bella's idea of apocalypse more.
Famine is definitely Blades. It's in Kyle's journal during the
battle. And it's likely also why Kyle is so distraught when he first sees
Famine (he's really not in the mood to fight that sicko again). ...that
and he's named "Blades Famine" in that fight.
*** pgVBlanka.
BLANKA
Birthdate: February 12, 1966
Height: 192 cm
Weight: 98 kg
BWH sizes: B198, W120, H172
Blood type: B
Native place: Brazil (birthplace is most likely Thailand where mom's from)
Special skill: hunting, electric discharges
Likes: tropical fruits, pirarucu (large Amazonian catfish), his mom Samantha
Dislikes: army ants
Fighting style: electricity, wild movements
SF2-era nickname: âMother Nature's Wild Childâ
SFZ-era nickname: âAmazon's Beast Beingâ
SF4-era nickname: "Jungle Warrior"
Street Fighter Zero 3: Blanka lived as he pleased, deep within the jungle
of the Amazon. One day, he unwittingly hitched a ride on a traveler's vehicle.
Curious and excited, Blanka now ventures into the outside world. In the
outside world, he probably met his childhood friend Dan as well as Dan's
'student', Sakura, before he went back to the jungle [Conjecture based off
in-game storyline]. He also likely followed Dan into Shadaloo's territory
and came across a fallen VSS whom he left in Honda's care after the sumo
wrestler showed up [Honda's win quote to Blanka as noted in AASFZ3].
SFZ3 File #20 Blanka
Real name- Jimmy. Raised in Mother Nature's Amazon an isolated wild child.
The time of his youth, together with both parents he was taken in to an
international route passenger plane dragged into a crash through Shadoloo's
explosion terror. Miraculously the one life saved being his, in lifelong
separation from his parents, alone he was released into the jungle. For the
sake of a rigorous environment?, the protective coloration's green changed
his skin, repeatedly fighting with electric eels until finally his body
applies electric discharge abilities. From the accident several years after,
flourishingly curious he has started to possess an interest for the world
beyond the jungle.
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Highlights:
-Though you never hear about his father, both of Jimmy's parents got him onto
the plane that would crash into the jungle due to Shadaloo's planted bomb.
-Blanka developed electric abilities through fighting with electric eels, and
his skin's green due to a permanent camouflage.
Street Fighter 2: Blanka participated in the SF2 tournament, which his
mother saw him at the final stage in Thailand. She recognized him by the
anklet he wore which she'd given to him as a birthday gift. There is a
tearful reunion as his mom is finally reunited with her long lost son
[Official from HnN and proven with SF4].
Blanka- SSF2XR Character Concealed File
From the time of youth, he has a past of desertion in the jungle from an
accident. With instinctive strife he fights like a wild child.
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Street Fighter 4:
Gotten aboard an airplane which henceforth crashed into a jungle at the
time he was a child, merely struggling alone, a survived genuine wild
child. Trifling with opponents, his style is characteristic of captured
movements. In order to become a son his mother can be proud of, he
journeys out.
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Blanka's SF4 involvement has him leaving mom's side so he can make more of
a respectable name for himself despite his appearance. Apparently he
trades his anklets for shackles (to toughen his already menacing image
maybe?), leaves mama a sloppy letter written in Thai for why he's leaving,
and is last seen riding a whale away from the harbor, from his opening in
SF4. He goes to hang out with old buddy Dan, is shown to be saved along
with Dan by Ryu and Sakura from a wall of incoming flame as shown in Dan's
ending, and sends Samantha one more letter saying he's in Hong Kong before
she travels there to find her son, from Blanka's ending.
Super Street Fighter 4:
Blanka steps out once again. He still wants to make himself great enough
to be respected by the populace. He knows his mom will love and be proud
of him no matter what, but Blanka is nevertheless driven onward by Dan's
challenge to win a world fighting tournament. So he sails away with Dan
and Sakura to try once more. [Blanka's opening]
In addition to arm-wrestling with Sakura and losing track of Dan at least
once, Blanka does manage to prove himself great as he attained a major role
in taking S.I.N.-sha's latest laboratory stage down to its foundations that
he ended up making the newspaper headlines. [Sakura's opening, his win quote
to Sakura, and Blanka's ending]
Where he is now: Happily living with his mother and now many long-desired
understanding neighbors and friends.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Blanka from AASFZ3
Fighting Style
Having been forged with the Amazon muscle is produced, carefree-like movements
are the distinctive feature. Body rolled up flight possible of instantaneous
force and, in repeated fighting with electric eels a practical usage of
electric discharge ability learned within, unfolds a fight overflowing of
wildness. Moving body eyesight is exceedingly for the sake, of his own
movements also agile without the matter of losing sight of opponents.
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Fashion Style
Ferrying through a long period for the sake of having lived with the
uncivilized earth, for his head hair and body hair have lengthened as
they are. In the surroundings of a natural environment a must to adapt,
for his skin is transitioning into a protective coloration's green.
Having worn semi-trousers, seeing the was-a-human-being remembrance period
is, the matter for him unable to say in words. As for the anklet
ring-placed around his leg, it's in fact something received from family
as a birthday present.
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Madeira River branch - wetland [BRAZIL]
At the Madeira River the captured poacher group leader's testimony:
From the beginning of this business, how many times had I not been without
encountering a careful eye.
But, not coming close that's extraordinary.
Even the thoughts coming out today, truly the matter that happened perhaps
is not cleear.
Certainly......That's right, refusing the local guide, with only ourselves
we'd assembled a team going up the river. For the local guys though a little
danger to come in such a location and besides that feeling like doing it
iisn't it. for over here are totally armaments, whatever scary thing there
"isn't", to dispute on going or not going is after all irritating isn't it.
That's right......With that, for us was attacking up until now not having
climbed the north bank's branch. For at that region huge pirarucu are
acquired. Not being an amateur, one could value them at a good price. Yeah,
of course could it not be for the money already huuh!.......
......With the day ended, particularly the lookout above the boat stayed.
In the mere evening unacquired game also is encountered, even one by one
escapes the fundamental game coming back. Still with no one going out to
the backwoods then, no mistaking that no fish are biting at any cast.
Around 3 hours into the evening was a strange water sound, for at that time
I wasn't paying attention to it. Considering it from afterwards, that was in
fact a fellow. He looked at our situation! The night commences, for us
we've advanced upstream. A location having ascended as much as 20 km, through
tree leaves and tree branches what looks like a capsized hut is seen.
It has to be clarified, that's a man-made "house." In such a thing as this
are indigenous people maybe I'd thought, for the house is the only one.
Jutted out of the riverside. Though believing it to be unexplored, that was
the reason for the unthinkable preceding visitor there was.
There wasn't a presence of a person. For us weapons in hand, in caution the
boat was anchored to the riverbank.
A risky atmosphere that was there. Strangely quiet!.......
Suddenly! From the beginning with a gun even raining down? I had thought. A
column of water follows swirling, and building up, the boat got overturned.
The extent of two companions fell from the boat.
For those were unbelievably huge pirarucu. They were beyond 2-fold of
ordinary guys weren't they. Abruptly from the water surface they sprang up.
Though ya know......After that, that fact is I wasn't a figure filled with
more confidence.
That is, even just at the bellies of those unbelievably giant pirarucu, there
was a biting fellow.
That waaas......What could I seem to say? The whole body's a green color.
Hair and fur's reddish, wearing jeans below......Haha, what kind of monster
with jeans?
Nah......But that's the truth. That one's, a fellow which maybe was a human
maybe was a beast, slapped the pirarucu onto the water surface.
As for after that I'm not recalling......The entire body, looking like it's
going numb from having taken an electric shock, I blacked out. Before my eyes
a spark dispersing, becoming quite white.......
After that I was rightly understanding. With all of you downstream the time
we were captured, I frankly believed I was rescued.
......In any case for us, we're no longer going to such places.
Yeah, I know! Which way to not go from being captured right?
That's fine, all kinds of business I had believed were favorable opportunities.
A head cooled down making a distinction!.......
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Highlights:
-A poacher group leader doles out his seemingly preposterous story of his
encounter with the deep Brazilian jungle and Blanka, making sure he's not
crazy and all, especially after recalling that the "monster" had jeans on.
Blanka from Gamest SF2
The one (wolf boy) raised by wolves exists, in the Brazilian jungle as Blanka
(alias) grown up with nature as his opponent. But, he doesn't understand if
the jungle had borne him. At the time he was young when the airplane's at
its point to pull down, that airplane crashes. He has a sad past of lifelong
separation from his parents. Why, an infant boy alone in a dropping airplane
is a mystery....
With him growing in the jungle, his ordinary human examples exceeded as
movement speed. Claws became lengthened as to be able to mix into intense
attacks. It's a sure thing that for his sake he was native-born in the jungle.
A jipan of filth is what the story tells. From the time as a child he doesn't
understand how his trousers become so big. It's theory that in the jungle he
takes in sentences brought about from quite ordinary people.
Having learned from his opponent Mother Nature, the shocks from electric eels
known as "electric thunder" and, the human bullet attack "rolling attack."
However the rolling attack is a self-abandoning attack. Contrary to receiving
attacks double the damage it's a double-edged sword. Besides those techniques
are said to be moves not of Mother Nature's power but likely taken from what
can be said to be fighting style wonders.
In conclusion, even now he stiffens at migrating airplanes. Does he probably
not like the wandering journeys?
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Highlights:
-"Blanka" was the boy's assumed name from the beginning.
Blanka from Gamest SF2D
As for that name Jimmy
"Ok? Once arriving at your uncle's house in Brazil your most proper greetings!
Understood?"
"Right, I get it! Don't worry, Mom!"
That was a young kid taking on what was expected to become a grand adventurous
combined with entertaining journey. However with numerous people's dreams taken
in kicked off the solid earth as expected of an airplane, before one's eyes the
destination of a deep jungle crash, the one saved ironically was one person the
youngest male child. After that this king of beasts named Blanka with a life
full of hardship, at this instant is the reason that the curtain was cut down.
In the midst of Mother Nature science's power still cannot explain the
mysterious numerous existences. At this moment captured with wide significance,
10 unfilled years of childhood, 1 person also having grown native-born in the
middle of a strictly natural environment, this mystery included here is probably
1 to count. With this world filled with danger, generally even without what
mood is taken to action from 1 error, it is said to be not at all unusual for
inviting one's own death.
Flesh Beyond Human Limits
Naturally also with Blanka's jungle living, from the beginning was no reason to
have been favorably conditioned. Rather than compare to a man of virtue, it's
no doubt that suffering would be how many-fold. But, Blanka's mercy called in
as a heavenly miracle, or else instinctive accomplishing acts is uncertain yet,
due to the state of his own flesh altering to the point of a beast, a wild death
from being left behind since then quickly became a conformity within Mother
Nature. First of all, in order to get today's native-born provisions 2 long
arms since then became filled out like logs, the tips of the hands reached to
claws became to the extent of weapons cutting apart firm ground. The torso
changed into a hardness approximately lacking a tiger's fangs, the feet from the
impressions don't seem to possess the conjecture of producing speed. And so
that returned wild flesh was not to remain unaffected by all the more peculiar
courses of evolution. Among the first to catch in a list, is of course likely
his physical constitution of electric discharges. This is for his time being in
the jungle, until the final fatal fear was savored from the electric eels the
physical constitution was experienced. Fundamentally he but at one time
accepted humiliation from opponents, surely all the power can be used in
retaliation. Even so, at the roadside toe kicks would without delay encounter
stones. A necessary matter although these electric eels also with the range of
vision is contended for flying into a fight. The first thing also having not
known how to handle these opponents gradually his enemies were disappearing.
And so approximately when he was gaining victories with ease, unawaringly he
also freely became able to electrically discharge himself, at the same time it
was that his enemies from the jungle ceased to be there.
Desiring the Fight...
Everyday no enemies...that is alone in the jungle thrown out from days of youth,
lying ahead always a belief in his heart painting it was a dream. That is
ten-odd years passed now, finally it became reality. However Blanka frankly
felt something joyless. Everyday he took up literally death struggles, too
late for a peaceful living to be able to grant as it's become boring.
In several days, he considered the consequences, he would journey out to search
for more "strong ones." The jungle is spacious. And so at this vast jungle's
"end", certainly he considered to himself that no doubt would there be
formidable enemies. Resolved Blanka having food dangling from both hands and,
proceeding to the airport it was that he stepped out.
First, in order to retaliate from the time of childhood he was slapped into
an airplane....
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Highlights:
-Jimmy was to go visit his uncle in Brazil when he was 10.
-Once Blanka was so accustomed to living in the wild jungle that nothing proved
to be a danger or a challenge (once he had developed his electric abilities at
last), he started looking towards traveling throughout the rest of the world.
Prologue 4 (Blanka) from SF4
"Here huh..."
For Blanka looked up at that building. With recklessly and robustly
handwriting, "Saikyo Ryu Dojo" affirmingly written on the signboard, he opens
the door.
"Anybody here??"
"Hey now, that voice if it isn't Jimmy?!"
With a whomp-whomp sound, from the dark interior of the dojo Dan made an
appearance.
"How's it going!, been a while hasn't it! Came by this direction for your
travels eh?"
"Not quite. I, have discussion with you."
"Discussion? Certainly I'll join you then. We're buddies aren't we! Now
then bring it up."
The floored with boards dojo's inside was in the role of feeling pleasantly
cool. From the window only a light coming in was illuminating the gloomy
indoors. Sitting above the padding, Blanka surveyed the vicinity.
"Dan, you don't use electricity??"
"Oh yeah, for now it's stopped for a little while hasn't it. Saying to pay
for the next month's settlement conclusion, really the townies are with
cold! hearts aren't they. ...And, that's good for such a story eh. Well,
Jimmy, what's the discussion? With the exception of a money matter tell me
anything."
With Blanka directly having sat down on the same padding Dan, looks into
Blanka.
"Dan, I want to become mighty. What's the best thing to do to become mighty?"
"Become remarkable?"
Dan suddenly blinked.
"What for?"
Blanka hung his head in shame.
"I, from my large face being scary, everyone's scared of me. I'd say it's
even scaring Mama. Nevertheless Mama is so kind. Therefore I, want to become
mighty. If I became mighty, Mama can boast to everybody. Together with her I
would be happy..."
"Uooh, Jimmy!!"
"Gaah?"
While considering bit by bit the words being spoken for Blanka, Dan's abrupt
loud voice feeling astonished jumps him backwards, stood his hair on end.
Right before his eyes Dan started up, trembling with excitement.
"Jimmy, I've been deeply moved! To think for a parent wanting to be proud,
that feeling!"
Even I experience such an isuue don't I, and saying it, Dan with his fist
wiped his eyes.
"If the thing is like that then it's a thought. Right now, a warmly oriented
story has come to hand!"
"Warmly, orientation?"
"That's right, the fact is that there's a world fighting tournament again.
Thereupon winning, even you are even I am a spoiled celebrity! Anyone
magnificently facing another is the question to be ready for!"
"Celebrity."
Blanka pondered. Mama if I became famous surely would be happy probably
wouldn't she. If even I have non-special street fights, surely I would win
a lot...
"Okay. Dan, I'll, do it."
Unnoticed is a distant eye saying "a world fighting tournament, holding a
meeting huh..." and, in leaving Dan behind the memories started flooding in,
for Blanka a peaceful determination was confirmed.
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Highlights:
-SF4 has Blanka going to Dan for advice on how to make his mother proud. This
occurs before they meet in Dan's opening and before Blanka's when he leaves
Samantha (who looks quite good now having lost some weight) the sloppy note.
-Blanka first learns about Dan's "hardships" concerning his dojo in Hong Kong.
There are two accounts concerning his name's origins. Both can be, however
coincidentally, possible, since they're from two different perspectives. He
calls himself Blanka from the sound of a animal's sneeze, and the natives give
him the alias Blanka after the Spanish (and Portuguese) word for the color
white, suggesting that he was lighter-skinned in the past. Once he heard the
locals say "blanco/branco", he may very well have tied it to the sound the
jungle beast made as it sneezed.
Blanka is considered a sneering talent with the innate ability to adapt.
From HnN regarding Blanka's green skin:
Living in the jungle will tend to make one become darker colored from the
burning days, so how come Blanka's skin altered to a green color? That reason
comes from the time of a young child like a soccer ball. At the time of the
airplane crash and the rearing into human society, it could not be known how
many foreign enemies were living in the jungle.
However, he lived owing to his unique abilities, and adapting to the
surroundings, he learned techniques to deceive the eyes of the enemy. One time
he mimicked the shape of a tree, another time he imitated a moving stone, and
he frequently drowned while doing fish imitations... But just doing it shows
that such are his limits. The abundant green of the jungle. Unless one has
a protective colored body the eyes of the foreign enemy would not be deceived.
Here's how he thought. "If the skin is made green as the plants, (those
filled with chlorophyll) in that case eating them is fine!" However the child
seemed to be conceived, but actually this was his amazing circumstance.
Simply, true green he became not, after gathering suitable plants and leaves
and softening that fluid to use to paint on his body he got covered.
With months and years rapidly passing the paint necessity became no more.
It is said, that the fluid painted onto his body permeated into the skin of
his body. Blanka became green colored and adjusted to the jungle. From here
on, survival intellect with talking probably ought to be within reach?
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Highlights:
-Blanka's skin is green because he painted himself with plants to the point
where the chlorophyll became the permanent color of his skin.
His long arms and hair turned fur is possibly due to an alteration of his
male hormones.
Pirarucu is a South American freshwater fish that is normally about ten
feet long. (Thanks, Juppo!) It belongs to the catfish family.
Blanka was the sole survivor of a plane crash that crashed in Brazil.
The plane was sabotaged by Shadaloo due to several world leader figures on
board.
One day Blanka stepped out of the jungle attracted by something shiny he
saw. As he got closer to it the weather turned ugly and looked like it was
going to start pouring any moment. He got struck by lightning and got burned
black but survived of course. The shiny thing was a watch an explorer had
dropped. This event may have inspired him to grapple with electric eels later
on.
Blanka lived the classic tale of being raised by animals. He also learned
how to channel electricity through himself from electric eels. His electric
attacks generate an average of 1200 volts (SF2 Complete File). Also he
rolling attacks at a speed of 146 kmph, which is faster than the average
speed of a thrown baseball at 130, although a pro player can reach 150.
His mother, Samantha later finally reunites with her son in SF2. She
recognizes her son by the pair of anklets she gave him for his birthday while
he was a kid. Which... seem to have had the amazing capability to grow along
with their wearer along with his pants...
From HnN regarding how the plane crash:
Why did the airplane probably crash?
500 sumo wrestlers, and four thighs probably trampled simultaneously? It's
not likely that it would crash due to overweight. Besides, the beginning
takeoff was easily done, the weight check was as expected. The vehicle maximum
carrying capacity was settled.
It was public from incidents and announcements that there was engine and power
system trouble, in addition to other facts nonetheless!
Blanka flew the same flight as did a certain country's cabinet members. And
so, to wipe out those cabinet members, something on the plane exploded.
Then, who really would do such a thing? Why, for that matter Vega and the
doings of Shadoloo would be at the top of the list.
But, how was the evidence probably destroyed? With the explosion as it is,
of course the nation shouldn't be silent. However, the news from all the
countries of the world don't report only the accident. People will believe
to not question the report. Here will be the terrible place for the
organization called Shadoloo. Using an average army maneuvering member,
airplane engine ingenuity tricks were conducted. The eyes of the crash's
investigation team duped by the special tricks...
Knowing this as it becomes known, Blanka sees Vega considerably as an enemy.
He begins, having been dragged into that accident, unexpectedly a mourn for
the deceased. Praying.
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Highlights:
-Shadaloo had planted a bomb in Jimmy's flight to take out cabinet members.
-Blanka comes to learn who and what caused the plane crash, and leaves a
mourning prayer for all who were on board before leaving for SF2.
From HnN regarding the aftermath:
Jimmy's ridden airplane crashed and it was heard that he was alive but lost
his mother, zero survivors and it was heard that it was probably impossible
to be any. Means to live separated the situation of piece of mind, but she
didn't want to fall from hope despite of given information. Merely
discovering Jimmy within those passengers' remains, moreover finding those
footprints of the person in the jungle it is said. Already Samantha
desperately would lack for giving up on Jimmy being there, that's parental
love after all. Surely the child is living somewhere! Such was the firm
belief, she went on a journey to search for her son.
She arrived in the Amazon and from the jungle's guide, she was on Jimmy's
trail how many days soon after but, as a street fighter journeying in
various places around the world, already it is said and known that he isn't
in Brazil.
Where did the blockheaded beast man turn to? Discouraged she returned to
her homeland in Thailand. After a long time she stepped onto village soil,
her spirit escaping with every step, she hears a rumor about a man in a
military uniform and a beast man fighting, thinking that place was where
he went, an innocent appearance, his form completely changed, the sole clue
being the leg ring (?) that she discovered. Now Samantha's bitter journey
of ever-changing panoramic running around, believing him to be originally
her son she starts running. "Jimmy." "Mother." Thank goodness. Mmmhmm.
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Highlights:
-Samantha's home (thus most likely Jimmy's as well) is stated to be Thailand.
-While in Brazil it was heard that someone did indeed survive the plane crash,
on the other side of the globe Samantha heard there were none, despite her
desperate cling to the hope that Jimmy could still be alive somehow.
-Blanka's mom actually traveled to the Amazon to look for her son once it was
confirmed much later that footprints were leading away from the crash site.
She wouldn't find him until she went back to her home country though.
A man in a military uniform? Perhaps Blanka fought Guile in SF2.
Just a rumor though, as stated above.
Blanka's real name is Jimmy, as shown in his SF2 endings as well as
conversations with Dan in SFZ3. Officially, Dan learned Blanka's real name
from...well, Blanka. An unexplainably deep childhood affinity those two
have...
Blanka saved Dan's life in the jungle when Dan was young (Official.
Also see Blanka's midboss dialogue with Dan when you play as Blanka) and
Dan started calling him "Jimmy" from then on. Dan was the interpreter
who helped Blanka speak human words decently again, mostly after Z3.
English is one language Dan may have helped Blanka with, but most likely
Thai and Japanese before that.
Though Blanka lost most of his human language knowledge after the plane
crashed, he always remembered his actual name, and he started catching other
bits and pieces from television that he saw from time to time before Dan
came along. In the beginning he had beast language equivalents for "good
day", "good evening", "thank you", and "you're welcome."
Like many other things in SFZ3, Blanka and Dan's connections to each
other were inspired by the manga, Sakura Ganbaru!.
When he became more than a match for any jungle animal, he got bored
and traveled randomly through the jungle until he came upon a village.
Shortly after that he also found more worthy fighting opponents to test
himself against.
He's scared of the fence in Balrog/Vega's stage, and wary of airplanes
in general. The sentence says that Blanka hates the wire mesh in Balrog's stage.
Wire mesh reminds him of a cage, and he's wary that people will place him in a
cage due to his appearance.
Blanka's original character design had him looking a lot more human
(caveman-ish), but Capcom decided to have him be more beastly looking by
the time Street Fighter 2 came out. Another fun character designing fact
for him is that for later versions of Street Fighter 2, they made him look
a lot more ferocious because they thought that he looked too cuddly. When
Street Fighter Zero 3 came out, it looks like Capcom went back to making
him cuddly, again. And funny, too. Strange.
His prototype name was Hamablanka and even before that, "beast man".
From HnN regarding the camera man in Blanka's SF2 stage:
In the vicinity of the screen due right, flash-flash of Blanka's fight he
photographs, what's with him really?
Merely where a tourist, one of probably many believing Blanka is human and
taking pictures, actually he is the principal managing person for Blanka.
He is a freelancing cameraman wandering all over the world from place to place.
Having gone all around every area of the world, yet to become famous with the
scenery and people and so on collected on film, that is why the broad man does
it.
And so, one day by chance, encountering Blanka's fight in Brazil, there the
interest he waited for, frantically he continuously pushed the shutter.
Blanka's fight just over, Blanka himself the interest he waited for,
immediately he talked to Blanka, throwing out various questions. The story
proceeded, the airplane accident when very young, lifelong separation from
both parents, jungle life, the becoming kindred to the street fight and such
that cannot be known. This story striking the heart, he sympathized for
Blanka, and helped out a little for his kindred, acting as managing finder
for Blanka's appearances, resolved to spread him all over the world.
For solitary Blanka a lone object for protection, an object of support
appeared instantly.
But this is the persistent rumor, the story is said that he's truly an
ordinary tourist.
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Highlights:
-Blanka purposefully tried to make himself famous in hopes that his mother
would seek him out from it.
-The cameraman is Blanka's own manager.
From HnN regarding Blanka's SF2 stage:
Now it's a run-down house but, people nowadays dwell there as normal.
However, with the street fights beginning and the spectators it underwent
a complete change. According to inquiries of the place, it is said that
a little money was gathered. A small amount of plaster to care for, it is
not clear if there was any advantage gained from the empty offer on one's
own house. Yet, what can be thought of this house from its inside to its
outside?
But don't worry about the owner, it's not Blanka. Why then, the desire to
live in the heart of the jungle thus, with presumably no house in this
place? There it would be a waste to journey from all over the world to
the house for street fighting. Actually, this house is this vicinity's
landlord's house. This landlord likes the finest of fighting moves, his
own house's part used as a witness to the fights.
Having an interest in Blanka's strength the landlord has Blanka and strong
warriors from all over the world fighting, and is believed to be making
money moreover. It's the landlord and Blanka together who make a trip all
over the world for the sake of street fighting (travel expenses from the
earned money at Blanka's stage).
Actually for the house, its external look is that of a run-down hut but,
naturally there's heating and air conditioning, a refrigerator among AV
machinery and tools and so on, all manner of perfect modern conveniences...
Of course a source of electricity everyone imagined, it can't be Blanka's
human electric generation.
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Highlights:
-The shack actually belongs to the local landlord of that quarter of the
Amazon. This landlord happens to be a fighting connoiseur who's making a
profit off of Blanka's fighting, and also happens to be Blanka's travel
partner.
-The shack itself boasts of all the usual modern conveniences inside, despite
it being a house out in the middle of the jungle nowhere. Kudos to Blanka
for the supplied power of course.
A translation of some other info about Blanka's SF2 stage:
Brazil (Blanka) Amazon River Basin
With Blanka usually in the deep jungle dwellings, for the first time in
1 year he descended towards a town. The talk of the town was rumors.
Anything, from street fighters revealed daily, to street fights spread out
as such.
Now, if only he were previously like the thicket king Onsa (a panther) he'd
also be the same as a cat. Even with the great Amazon jungle full of danger
as well, his enemies quickly became no more.
"Uoh, uoh, uohruuuu!"
Desiring formidable opponents his blood within rose in an uproar. Desiring
a newly become struggle he pledged his determination to journey out into the
world.
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Highlights:
-Even though his environment eventually proves to be no match for his prowess,
Blanka nonetheless continues to respect the attributes and animals he grew up
with.
Blanka's SF4 arcade ending comments:
The source being a letter from Blanka, his mother Samantha visited her son
in so-called Hong Kong. Continuing to search for her son before her appears
a pink padded undershirt man, due to his cooperation fulfills for Blanka the
tranquil reunion with Mother.
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*** pgVBratken.
BRATKEN
Height: 205 cm
Weight: 197 kg
Blood type: AB
Native place: fought in Holland (not conclusive of birthplace)
Final Fight 2: Bratken is a psychotic overgrown boy who loves to play
with toys. To have Bratken join the gang, some gang members bribed him by
locking him in a room filled with toys.
Where he is now: *shrug*
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
He's a big psycho lunatic who's too big to control, so he's kept in a
prison when he isn't needed. A single celled mother complex. Scary when
restless.
*** pgVCaine.
CAINE
An FFT boss. FFT bosses don't have bios to my knowledge.
Final Fight Tough: Caine's a possible third boss that you fight if you take
the bus on the third stage. He's fought in a scrap dump. However, to get
what is probably the best ending, you skip right past him and never fight
him at all. [from the game]
Where he is now: Wondering why Capcom doesn't give him any love like they
did for the Final Fight 1 bosses? Dunno.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
He's a mechanic. With goggles and a wrench. A wrench that he pokes
you with. Which... seems to be the only thing he does.
*** pgVCallman.
CALLMAN
Another FFT boss with no bio!
Final Fight Tough: The second boss you fight. You either fight him in a park
or in a restaurant (he's probably the bouncer there), depending on which path
you take. Not much more to say. [from the game]
Where he is now: Wondering why Capcom didn't even bother to so much as
give him an official bio when Capcom gave all the FF2 bosses some? Dunno X 2.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
He's a bouncer. With suit and tie. And... um, do I have to say that
all the FFT bosses are Skull Cross Gang members?
*** pgVCammy.
CAMMY
Birthdate: January 6, 1974
Height: 164 cm
Weight: 46 kg
BWH sizes: B86, W57, H88
Blood type: B
Native place: England after she joins Delta Red (birthplace is unknown
(as Killer Bee))
Hobby: ?
Special skill: knife throwing
Likes: combat data accumulation (Shadaloo), cats (Delta Red)
Dislikes: sympathetic eyes (Shadaloo), everything noticeable when
sullen (Delta Red)
Fighting style: - (unspecified)
SFZ-era nickname: "Tranced Combat Puppet"
SF2-era nickname: "Innocent Killer Bee"
SF4-era nickname: "Killer Bee's Blow"
Street Fighter Zero 2: Cammy was in the latest version of Street Fighter
Zero 2, Street Fighter Zero 2 Dash, but she was a hidden character that
you could only play in VS mode so she had no story, until SFZ Fighter's
Generation came out. Her debut as Killer Bee had her running into Rose and
Vega before he places a limiter on her psycho power abilities because her
destructive potential is so great, much to Vega's glee.
Street Fighter Zero 3: An assassin of Shadaloo, Cammy began to realize that
Shadaloo was out to kill her for reasons unknown. Eventually, Balrog, who
was sent to spy on her, found her. Balrog tells her that she's just an
experiment, and that Vega doesn't need her anymore. He then attacked! Balrog
purposefully lost the match. He revealed that Shadaloo knew Cammy was
becoming too independent and was going to kill her. Poor Cammy can't
understand why, because she never even betrayed Shadaloo or anything.
Later on, Cammy had to deal with two of her fellow VSS, Juli and Juni, who
were sent to terminate her, but with the help of Dhalsim sabotaging the psycho
drive's hold on the girls, she was able to convince them and the rest of the
VSS that they were all simply being manipulated. When she finally reached
Vega, Vega demanded to know why she didn't finish off Balrog, and when Cammy
can't answer, he answers for her, telling her that she has gained
self-consciousness. He then tells her that she was created to be his next
body, but now that she has gained an ego, she's useless to him and he will
terminate her personally [Conjecture based off in-game storyline].
All thirteen of the girls turned on Vega, resulting in them almost being
killed [Official], but they were finally able to force Vega to retreat. Vega
told Cammy that she was just a copy of him, and that he'll always be within
her. He then tells the other girls that if he dies, their lives are in vain,
and that they could never even hope to live like human beings. Cammy can feel
Vega creeping into her mind, but refuses to listen and give in to him, and
they all quickly head for the psycho drive. On the way, Chun-Li, who is there
to blow up the base, briefly spots Cammy for a split second, and possibly
other Vega SS ladies.
Cammy sacrifices herself by staying behind to operate the psycho drive and
rescue the rest of her fellow VSS companions. She transports them out of the
room, then finally loses consciousness, herself [Conjecture based off in-game
storyline]. Later on, Balrog would come across her in the psycho drive
room... finally, Chun-Li, Nash, and Guile together destroy Shadaloo's base and
presumably Vega, but thanks to Balrog, Cammy wasn't in it when it blew
up [Official].
SFZ3 File #18 Cammy
Shadoloo combatant, Cammy. For the sake of the intention to create a
faithfully superior combatant, through unique DNA rearranging skills was born
a single enhanced human being. Through complete mind control a fake memory was
transplanted, as per Vega's imperial edict concerning combat data accumulation
missions. However, certainly completely as her mind control unravels, ego has
begun to sprout. For Vega, taking these circumstances for her existence with
himself and Shadoloo he's concluded as to become a troublesome thing, he orders
assassination detachments for her obliteration. But she still, isn't realizing
those conspiracies.......
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Highlights:
-Cammy was created through a rearrangement of Vega's DNA: the ideal duplicate
of him in the deceptive shell of a young girl.
-Like her masculine genetic prototype, Cammy also developed an ego, which Vega
wouldn't tolerate and ordered her destroyed.
Street Fighter 2: Cammy woke up, with amnesia and no memory of who she
was. She was near the British government and practically on the doorstep
of Delta Red (a unit of the British Intelligence Department that specializes
in combat units), which took her in (As for who brought her to Delta Red,
look above and take a guess). Colonel Wolfman became her leader, and she
stayed with them for three years before SF2 started. Upon SF2, she
remembered about how Vega was connected to her past somehow, and
participates in the tournament so she may finally confront him and find out
about her past [Official]. When she finds him, Vega tells Cammy that she
is actually a DNA copy of him. He tells her that she was slipped into the
British Empire, but he didn't think that Cammy would have lost her memory. He
then says it doesn't really matter, since he doesn't have a use for Cammy
anymore. Cammy is shocked at what she hears. However, her Delta Red teammate
(Lita) later tells her that it's her future that counts, not the past.
Realizing this, Cammy lives her future life with Delta Red accepting her now
just as before. [in-game storyline and specially noted in AAC]
Cammy- SSF2XR Character Concealed File
The British Intelligence Department's superior Special Building Unit member
Cammy. In order to regain her own memory, the struggle continues for her.
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Street Fighter 4:
Boasts of high attack power and speed, a member of the British Special
Building Unit Members Delta Red. Was once a brainwashed enriched soldier
for Shadoloo. Accepting a cruel past, together with companions she proceeds
to a new mission.
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Cammy is now living her new life with Delta Red to the fullest. She's back in
SF4 still with Delta Red, to track down the connection with BLECE, abducted
dead fighters, and the new corporation S.I.N.-sha headed by its CEO Seth,
even noting eerie resemblances with the attire of Shadaloo agents, from
Cammy's SF4 opening.
Keeping in touch with Chun-Li, Cammy's notified of potentially meddlesome
C.I.A. agent Crimson Viper. Cammy eventually learns from the lab's files
what BLECE stands for and its horrible potential for creating loyal killers
just like she used to be. Despite being at gunpoint courtesy of Viper,
Cammy erases the BLECE data which has Viper back off and walk away. Also
from Cammy's ending, she apologizes to Colonel Wolfman for failing to
retrieve BLECE's data as they watch the lab go up in flames, to which he
congratulates her execution which he still saw from a distance. Finally
prior to SSF4's timeframe, Cammy meets and fights Sakura. They either draw
or Sakura wins according to their SSF4 win quotes, but either way the two of
them become good friends from then on.
Prior to SSF4 unraveling, Cammy and Chun-Li encounter a mysteriously
powerful Korean woman named Juri. She's able to mop the floor with
Cammy as well as Shadaloo's newly repossessed Vega Bodyguard Troops
girls. Unable to stop Juri from abducting at least some of them if
not all, Cammy fumes with red-hot murderous daggers for the tae kwon do
fighter. [references from Cammy's and Vega's openings as well as Cammy's
rival battle intro with Juri]
Super Street Fighter 4:
Parting farewell to a cat whom she finally succeeded in befriending, Cammy
dives into the struggle against S.I.N.-sha and Shadaloo once again. Three
words describe Cammy overall: royally pissed off. She swears the collapse
for both organizations and Juri to be pushing up daisies. [Cammy's opening]
Whether or not she finds Juri again, Cammy manages to recover and care for
Juni if no one else by the end of the crumbling lab's terminal collapse.
[Cammy's ending]
Final Fight Streetwise: Cammy's an optional pit fight in Japantown. No
storyline reason for her being here is really given. Guy's men speak of
her with a respectful tone but don't say why she's there. Of note is that
the pit fights in Japantown take place in a dojo without an audience and
thus don't seem as seedy, shady, and illegal as other pit fights, but I
dunno. Don't see why Cammy would travel to Metro City to pit fight for
money or something. She has her own lager brand in Final Fight Streetwise
judging from the (possibly just Easter egg) marquees above the pool tables.
She starts each match with a respectful salute so I don't think she's there
just to trash talk for her ego. ...maybe someone at Capcom was just a big
Cammy fan or something and thus decided to include her in this game. It
might also be a reference to that Maki + Cammy official artwork, despite how
it was stated by the artist that the art had no storyline significance.
Where she is now: By Streetwise, dunno, but she's probably still
with Delta Red (It's her Delta Red butt that's on her lager advertisement,
after all, although in-game she wears combat army shorts, possibly to show
that she isn't there on Delta Red business. ...I don't know. Maybe she
became a super model or something. A pit-fighting one!).
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Cammy from AASFZ3
Fighting Style
Weighing the intervals with mincing-like steps, driving in shrewdly observed
attacks in a style foundational for combat. Physical strength and reflexes
for the sake of enhancing artificiality, the physique is of short stature
but, the combat ability is high. For to acquire it, attacks of utilized
legs. Even for gymnastics contestants to compare with such a flexible body,
with suppleness comes forth acrobatic-like motion.
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Fashion Style
For the clothing being from the organization's provision articles, a design
not of a sense of livelihood. For the adhere-to type suit while being a
lightweight dress the functional nature is high, to shelter the neck's vitals
also. Through violent combat in order to safeguard against injury, for in
the forearms a large-sized protector, for in the shoulders an outfitting of
internal-type shoulder guards. As for the arm band wrapped around the upper
arm, it's signifying the matter of being a member of the Vega Bodyguard
Troops.
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Highlights:
-Though it's not immediately apparent, Cammy's Shadaloo uniform protects her
neck, forearms, and shoulders.
Mykonos Island [GREECE]
"Well then, to begin with the regular reports meeting."
On the dark room's wall before a furnished 80-inch projector, having put on
spectacles a great-statured man began reading the documents on hand.
For in the room being 10 people the extent of those present on occasion,
complying to the man's voice.
"For this time's investigation was conducted in Greece. For in here as you
rightly know, is the Muwajik Republic's prime minister Gihad's recuperation
facilities. For this is Mykonos Island's southeast, through Kyuanoeides Beach
that's the photographed image."
Seeming to be captured the blue sky and the white sandy beach came out copied.
A few days ago Gihad assassinated, unreservedly in broad daylight it was
carried out on this sandy beach. As is the information a passing heart attack
is, as you see."
The image moves. For centered within the frame a young girl is seen of the
figure playing in the sand. It seems to be photographing through a home video
Gihad's wife's daughter.
At a great distance sitting in a beach chair minimally projecting a man.
That's Gihad.
Inside the frame is a repeatedly going in and out. For especially a peculiar
activity is not being seen.
"Here."
The image is rewinding. In the frame's edge, a seemingly instant cloth-like
object is intersecting. Gihad's seated beach chair after that 1 second slowly
goes collapsing. For the photographer with this occasion still at a great
distance's abnormality nothing of circumstance is realized.
The child's cheers resound in innocence.
"An unbelievable matter but, during these merely several seconds, for Gihad
in the neck region is injected a immediate-effect fatal natured deadly poison.
From the scene the whole of physical evidence is not being detected."
The photographer realizing at the accident, releasing the camera goes running
towards the husband's side.
With there the images had stopped.
"Similar mysterious-like assassination incidents during this last 1 year is
multiplying. Furthermore......I want you to help yourself in seeing over
here."
For the next revealed, was a young girl's picture. The whole body's facade,
side, rear.
Asian lineage, looking to be approximately early to mid-teens.
"That's the girl who had boarded the seized shipwreck in the vicinity, 150 km
south of the Do'ngsha Archipelago. For on the same boat having included
Chinese 38 people Orientals who were boarded already annihilation for all of
them. This girl also with the highest degree of malnutrition reclaiming after
55 hours since having died. For amazing in this girl's body interior a large
quantity of uniform muscle increase and uniform spirit equilibrium, again
unidentified components of a compound hormone is the matter of having been
administered. Muscle tissue as well as the physique's abnormal-like
development. The matter of it not to be disease and hereditary things is
above the obvious, to distinguish without exception this girl's identity has
been unable to be detected. The plural injection marks to both hands both
feet, from memory deficiency and the like, beyond lately was the report
precedent to conform with the distinctive feature of 'enhanced body'."
"......In other words?" One of those present incites.
"For in these two incidents are as of seriously associated nature, the
investigation records' reconsiderings as well as the investigation
organization's enhancing I want to help ourselves to examining them in
urgency. That organization......in order to approach 'Shadoloo' is to
decide and to be taking a quantity of momentous paces."
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Highlights:
-Among the various cold missions with which Killer Bee was ordered, was
to take out a foreign republic's prime minister while vacationing with his
family in Greece's Aegean Islands. Of particular note made by the authorities
is that Killer Bee is of Asian lineage, but that's as specific as they
describe her. Perhaps she and consequently Vega are of true Aryan descent.
Or (Asian) Russian like Decapre maybe. Let the speculations commence......
Shadaloo Cammy's codename is "Killer Bee." Of note is that Cammy
has been referenced as the Killer Bee even in Club Capcom notes as old
as 1994 (way before Zero-era Cammy existed).
Cammy has a birthdate. Shadaloo created her as a baby and
watched her grow. Unlike the other VSS, she WAS definitely 'born' within
Shadaloo.
Cammy was created to be Vega's next body (this is most likely a good
chunk of what Vega means when he calls her a copy), but when she gained
self-consciousness, that kinda fubarred that plan really badly. Vega
seeks out Ryu to be his next body instead in SFZ3.
From Siegfried, because I'm constantly needing to reiterate and
emphasize this for some annoying reason: Cammy isn't a clone (as in being
male and having black hair), but rather a completely artificially enhanced
human prepared to accept Vega's mind and be in top condition physically,
so that he would have a backup body in case his was destroyed. They
probably did some genetic engineering before her birth, but she's human.
Cammy is 100% female.
Vega also wants to destroy Cammy because with self-consciousness,
there's a chance Cammy will take control of the psycho drive which could
cause tons of devastation. In truth, Cammy DOES end up taking
control of the psycho drive, but she uses it for a good reason: to save the
rest of the girls.
How Cammy got her scar is unknown. HnN suggests that she got it during a
terror group mission with her team, which would suggest today that it was
a Shadaloo mission since she has her scar as early as Zero 2, but at the time
was assumed to be within Delta Red's regimen.
Unlike the other VSS, Cammy can physically and mentally survive even after
Vega is dead. She was created with this in mind so she'd still be alive for
Vega to transport into her body after Vega's current body expires. This is
why Cammy doesn't need to restore herself with the psycho drive in order to
keep on living, though she was still too wounded by fighting Vega and from
Vega trying to conquer her mind to get out of the base (which is why Balrog
had to rescue her).
From her Gal's Island #3 Capcom profile, it's stated that Cammy is
indeed 19 during SF2 and her place of birth even then (1994 real time) was
unknown, although her current home is listed as England.
Cammy's moods change on a whim.
Cammy's ending in SF2 in the Japanese version has Vega telling her
that she was his spy, not that they were lovers.
Cammy's Delta Red teammates:
Delta Red chief Commander W. Watson
Matthew McCoy- The big cyborg dude.
Colonel Keith Wolfman- Dude with the scarred face. He's like a father to
her.
1st Lieutenant Lita Luwanda- Girl with the bigass blade. (specially noted via
AAC that she's credited with telling Cammy her past doesn't matter to them)
George Ginzu- the funny-looking kid.
No canon info seems to exist on the blue goopy thing on Ginzu's head.
You can see it in both Delta Red's official art and in Cammy's SF2 endings,
but the thing isn't mentioned at all in any official source. Strange.
(FYI, I'm talking about the thing that many people think looks like one of
the ghosts from Pac Man. It has eyes and such.)
Judging from her SFZ3 ending, there is a chance that deep down within
Cammy, Vega's soul still exists waiting for a time to come out, that is if
her own ego ever falls prey to him.
Cammy, like the rest of the VSS, talks like a robot, though she uses
'normal' speech a bit more often than the other girls, too.
For more on the VSS, see Juli and Juni's bio.
The_Emperor of Living Room Games for the Capcom World Tournament game they
were producing (but was cancelled) referred to her as "Unit Zero (aka Killer
Bee)" while listing the VSS.
It's possible that Cammy being a pit fighter at Guy's dojo is a really
vague reference to the Cammy + Maki artwork. Maki herself isn't in Streetwise
(although an angry schoolgirl has the same name) but her sister (Rena) was
apparently meant to be married to Guy (something that seemingly didn't
make it to the final version).
Cammy has pants (shorts) in Final Fight Streetwise. Oh the humanity!
The ad for Cammy Lager in Streetwise reads "Get cannon spiked!" (Lager
is a type of beer). ...Cammy was quick to commercialize on her popularity
after SF2, I guess. It's Delta Red Cammy that's depicted in the ad. Well,
more specifically, the back of Delta Red Cammy's lower half...
Cammy in FF:SW greets you with a respectful salute before each battle,
so it doesn't seem like she's pit-fighting there just to be badass.
Maybe she was just invited there by Guy or Maki (not that there was ever
an established relationship between any of them). Guy's ninjas seem
respectful of her as well, so the thing as a whole doesn't feel as shady
as the other pit fight areas in the game. Arcade Mode doesn't reveal
anything about why she's there (she's a mid-boss so there isn't any
dialogue related to her even. Not that Arcade Mode's storyline is
anything to be considered, anyways).
Artwork in the FF:SW promo comic implies that she was originally going
to wear long camo pants, but it got changed to shorts for the game. Either
way, Cammy has pants for once. Travesty!
SF2 stage secrets from the Fanbook:
England (Cammy)
The old fortress is called Fraser Bala Castle. Nearby is the British
Intelligence Department's base.
The lighted window...
Delta Red's comrades watch over the match's whereabouts!?
Aurora
An artificially made aurora in order to camouflage the Intelligence Department!?
Mysterious mansion
What the, a character location which has them disappear!! The Intelligence
Department's base!?
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Highlights:
-Pretty cool that a fake aurora is used to hide British Intelligence's
headquarters.
The path to Fraser Bala Castle is a stone bridge 1 meter wide. On either side
of it is a sheer precipice; particularly dangerous fighting grounds.
Colonel Wolfman named her after discovering the pendant in her hand. Prior to
that, Vega most likely named her from the "CAMM" inscription as well: "Cammy"
from "CAMM-ICHI" or "CAMM-1" in Japanese for the first of the CAMM project's
products.
Cammy is curious about her age prior to SF2 beginning, because test results
from one drop of her blood revealed that she should have shockingly different
measurements including height and weight, plus the opposite gender from what
she does have.
Cammy from Gamest SSF2
Story of Cammy
At the site of the old castle the top secret institution was built- British
Intelligence Department: Special Building Unit Members Training Base. That
being, the higher class division is quite a section of people nothing but
unknown.
It's a stormy night.
Near the base a landslide occurrence, it paralyzes a part of the generator's
capacity.
As group members proceeded to repair the actual place, from under the crumbled
earth there was detection of a single young girl. Sustaining injuries, losing
her consciousness they protected the young girl, bringing her back into the
base.
In time the young girl regained consciousness, with complete loss of memory.
Who was she herself? How was she at such a place?
A clue to the young girl's identity, a pendant in the young girl's hand had only
these characters engraved.
CAMM 740106
The military placed the young girl within the institution, in order to not have
indications leak out into the outside world.
The young girl was placed under the supervision of the training commander
Colonel K. Wolfman.
The young girl diligently kept firm, while in her mind not understanding what
she was, she was feeling signs of heavy anxiety.
For Colonel Wolfman, from the military the young girl's surveillance report was
obligated.
Nonetheless the institution's existence cannot be public, on account of this
young girl also the incident she's involved in, a terrible calamity, the colonel
believed.
However in time he came to know unexpectedly of the military's true motives.
The young girl's injury recovery power, was by far surpassing the healing power
speed for typical people.
Complete recovery in 2 some days trivial and the whole body frequently a bone
fracture scene, but in 3 days seeing coming out cured, 1 week later a wholly
healthy body was returning.
"......in any case, common sense is not to be considered. Her flesh is such
that, as with same aged average girls it doesn't particularly change. However,
regeneration ability as well as interior blood antibody generation speed,
biological history is but a class to examine......"
While hearing the trained excitement from the doctor in charge, Colonel Wolfman
felt a disgreeable hunch.
"The military is speeding up the investigation, the living body weapons
project....do they plan to utilize that test?"
Although the colonel didn't know that project's details very well, the matter
of treating her as a suitable test model he could easily imagine.
"This girl will probably know each and every thing......even this matter,
sooner or later......"
Her facial expression was gaining brightness daily.
The colonel, from the pendant's characters, decided to call her Cammy (CAMMY).
"Cammy......that's, my name......"
"I still don't know your true name, to be forever nameless would be likely
distressing. I believed it wouldn't be a bad name no?"
"......Thank you. Cammy, is it?......"
For the first time one could see in relation to her facial expression, the
colonel began to smile broadly in the face. However, uneasiness bearing down
from the colonel's heart could not drive away the matter.
And so the uneasiness, would become a real circumstance in an unexpected shape.
From the day that Cammy recuperated 3 weeks passed by.
For the Special Building Unit's commander-in-chief, it would be Supreme
Commander W. Watson's regular inspection day.
For the supreme commander to visit Cammy's room, was inquired of Colonel
Wolfman.
"This girl, is illustratively a young girl yes?"
"Yessir."
"Hmm......is she not still a kid? To be confined in such a place, is likely
boring."
The supreme commander held out a hand, at that moment Cammy approached.
Cammy's figure, flew out in the manner of a flip. With superhuman speed, she
thrusted a leeward hand blade at the supreme commander!
"......?......huuh!?"
Our returned Cammy's left hand, was pinning onto Colonel Wolfman's side. By a
hair's breadth spot, the colonel parried Cammy.
Lukewarm flowing blood is going along Cammy's arm. From the colonel's belly a
large quantity of blood is breathing out.
"Iyaaaaaah......!!"
Cammy loses her spirit, to defeat.
"Colonel!! Hang on, hey, somebody a doctor!!"
"Supreme commander......my greatest apologies, this carelessness, I'll atone
with my life......as for what of this young girl's disposal......guh......I,
honorably entrust......"
The colonel distantly withdrew while enduring consciousness, pleading for Cammy.
This time the colonel was being assured.
She......Cammy, without being released from the evil spell. To do that, it can
only be me and no others, quote.
The supreme commander, gazing at the colonel's strong determination, laughed.
"Mmm......none other than your appeals would each be a reason to
refuse......very well, regarding that young girl, you are entrusted completely.
Rest assured."
"Th......thank you......very much, Supreme Commander......"
The colonel and Cammy are transported on stretchers.
"Colonel Wolfman......I request of you. In this young girl, a revelation has
begun interest among the military's supreme management. To not engage the
matter into a great tragedy, the bad sprout has to be plucked. Unless the
nation gets going, I cannot cover up for you......"
As a blessing, the colonel's wounds didn't become an emergency.
However, Cammy after that for quite some time - roughly 3 days' time -
occasionally lost consciousness. And so from her brain waves new facts were to
become clear.
Under the deep psyche's special mind control. Her own purpose as defined
unrelated, inducing techniques of specified action, she was performing them.
Usually, that would seem to be a shock of memory lost, that effect being mostly
lost. Probably from here, suddenly people would advance as it was likely no
matter whatsoever.
With this event as a start, the military seemingly would come to a mustering
manner for the high interest in Cammy. These were the misunderstood unnaturally
performed ones, the military would handle those theories' explanations as
maximum priority items that would supersede any break-through's.
Already having existed was the menacing biocontrol technology. Making a belated
start in development, defeat would be significant.
For Colonel Wolfman, having thought between such a military intention, usually
like Cammy an age not going to a young girl against being a person assigned a
cruel fate, she would have recalled unspeakable resentment.
"Something with great power, will be set in motion......"
Before her even more increased strict observation would be placed for Cammy.
1 week elapsed since the attacks on the supreme commander- calmness returned to
her, she was solidifying her primary determination.
For Cammy, Colonel Wolfman would volunteer.
"For myself as well, please let me train."
"What?......no, it's unreasonable for you!"
"No, I will do it. I'll do it on a hunch as such. ......I, know. The military
treats me as a "weapon" sample right? Wanting more accurate data,
so to speak......"
"You......were finding out about that, how......"
"Colonel......you have helped me. For I trust that, only you are alright.
Unless you say absolutely not, I won't do anything reckless......but, I want to
do your work. I want to exert as much as will become your ability. As it is a
caged bird's way will always seem to live......"
Cammy's eyes didn't have a spot to be nervous. For Colonel Wolfman, his own
worrying spirit at the extent of her weaklessness he forbade not profiting from
a forced smile.
This girl, is a strong child.
"Your human life is your own. No one can shackle it. That which continues to
clear away your own destiny, I don't resist. Instead, I believe in wanting to
do with becoming ability!"
"Colonel......then......"
"Cammy! It seems that today, you can take up an education with my squad's
qualified regular members. It'll be harsh training......care to follow us?"
"Y......yessir!!"
- Cammy!, I have decided to not believe that you are a "weapon".
For you, the struggle will be for the sake of cutting off from your tormenting
evil past.
From this time forth, therefore you will handle as a true human life -
Thus Cammy's living of training began.
Her motor nerves, surely were beyond imagination. Very much no more than a
20-year-old woman's movements could be believed. Her body possessing latent
ability, before long limits were extending.
Dealing with weapons and the like, to the degree of a blink of an eye she
recalled. As though in order to know for her health. With her team
(comprised of 4-5 people) in a short time rising to wonderful ratings, more
and more did the military upper layer section having judged without a margin
suspect her concerning her ability.
The military's supreme management plans experimentations.
"Here is one, how much of her ability, as we can get her to show us."
"Indeed......and, that is to say, you don't suppose......"
"That's right......the most troubling existence we handle, the spy for
'Shadoloo' is brought in. Now whichever missions she has or not, their
assisted leaders'existence investigations......unless she, grasps onto some
hands perhaps, not......"
"If the risk is oversized......?"
"Already our military's test preparations are continuing settlements. After
that will be data through actual fighting. An amazing outcome to anticipate
will it not?"
Cammy cleared nearly all of Assessment SA (Special A) in the curriculum.
In her team, as it were a graduation subject of to say announcing actual
fighting missions.
"Restrain the unlawful narcotics smuggling organization LA-66-Codename
'Shadoloo''s real leader's person!"
"!" Colonel Wolfman is surrounded by an intuitive of distrust.
"Shadoloo......surely only the British interior would've targeted it, a
worthless puny organization......previously an organization such that it's
existence was quite dangerous, says the data but......"
Regarding Shadoloo's truth, there's almost no one who knows that exact detail.
They of the Special Building Unit Members aren't an exception.
However for Colonel Wolfman, he sensed in "Shadoloo"'s name some kind of heavy
ill omen.
"What will the military to say do with Cammy......Will the living body weapons
project be discontinued to say reported......you don't suppose, no."
There wasn't a thing he wasn't suspicious of one way or another. The mission's
execution being the most priority.
"This mission's success, should become the greatest step for her human
life......such that I couldn't believe."
The eastern sky continues increasing in brightness.
The boarded team takes off in a helicopter.
That, in time to arrive at the destined battle, peacefully passing the play
has opened- .
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Highlights:
-A landslide on a stormy night alerts Delta Red to Cammy's hidden presence.
She's rescued with no memory of who she was, and is taken in by Colonel Keith
Wolfman.
-Cammy's healing and recovery abilities are noted to be extraordinary in
comparison to an average person's. Broken bones return to normal in as little
as 3 days and her total well-being recuperates in a mere week.
-Wolfman is determined to take full responsibility for Cammy even though she
suddenly tries to attack Delta Red's Supreme Commander Watson with a knife.
-Shadaloo is viewed by British Intelligence as a previously dangerous existence
but not anymore.
Prologue 11 (Cammy) from SF4
Cammy was lurkingly moving secretly through the grass. As long as the flicker
doesn't almost, kill the mood. Whatever small thing it may be, if it's
irregular motion being for one, suddenly the matter finishing of an opponent's
wariness calling to mind, she's arranged a study from here a few weeks' time's
bitter experience. No more than a number of meters' range she's come close in
progress 1 time, finally in the scope of her reach the target is seen.
Conveniently fast-beat pulsations even if the opponent were to hear them
"oh well" and, she doesn't consider to lower her body. From the space of the
grass, seemingly light-colored hair was seen. Softly a hand extends. After a
little bit more-.
"Cammy?"
"Wha."
From behind the voice heard she didn't expect it her shoulder to shake, the
voice came forth. JUst, from the bush skipping before her eyes a small cat
being an upstart, purring a "meow" suddenly disappears. Letting out a sigh
for her fingertips come out for the sake of the furry sense of touch, for
Cammy getting up turns around.
"......Something I can do for you?, Colonel Wolfman."
"D, Don't look with such eyes, Cammy."
So overawed he seems with the bitter bothered look, Cammy's superior
authority Wolfman backspaced.
"I just, request to everyone don't I......"
"Everyone?"
For Cammy blankly blinked. A facial expression of completely not happening to
know, Wolfman lets out a sigh.
"Yeah. Everyone is concerned about you, Cammy. -For the time being will you
not swap places??"
From the bush a concealed Cammy interposes towards the side of the path to a
park bench, the two of them sat down.
"And with that Colonel, what is the 'concern'??"
"In the long run isn't it, what has likely become of your latest quick
returns? If until now what of your self-imposed discipline yet to remain."
"Yessir."
"Besides having a reputation for lively enjoying the unusual. At times as far
as laughing while reminiscing maybe."
"...Yessir."
What's with these, and like writing on a face, at last Wolfman gushed out.
"Therefore you know, Cammy. It's becoming a rumor in the group, you've
finally gotten a sweetheart haven't you."
"S, Sweetheart!?"
"Extremely furry numerous sweethearts aren't they, Cammy."
While Wolfman laughs, his fingertips lightly poked at Cammy's forehead.
"What would you do if it would be a bad man, especially not strangling a one
time companion, minding everyone else, the so-called reason I've come is as
I'm the wait-and-see delegate.
-Well, I was hoping for such a matter probably wasn't I."
"M, My greatest pardons. For me it's just, discovering last month's cat, I
wanted to touch it....... But exceedingly wary being a strong child......how!
I caused everyone to be of such concern......Um, I......"
Shifting his attention to the gradually turning red Cammy head hung in shame,
Wolfman stood up.
"Don't worry about it. They're free to be concerned for you. But to consider
causing someone to worry, win over that cat as quickly as possible so everyone
will go ahead talking about it. Success with First Lieutenant Hannah because
you like animals she'll likely be glad."
In a flash Cammy raised her face, considering the awkward wink. Cammy's face
smiled broadly in a big way.
"Yessir, Colonel!"
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Highlights:
-Cammy's SF2 aftermath. Taking to heart the words she heard on leaving her
past behind, she turns to focus on what she likes, namely cats, so much and
at such odd times of the night that her team mistakes her having found
a significant-other.
-First Lieutenant Hannah is introduced from Nakahira-sensei's manga Cammy
Gaiden for the first time, with sharing Cammy's interest in animals no less.
Her SF4 console profile originally included the phrase "pursuing Ryu" at the
beginning, but was later dropped off.
One of Cammy's friends is a fan of Dee Jay, and should Cammy and Dee Jay meet
in SSF4, she manages to get an autograph from him. Cammy has plausibly also
run into Dudley during the SF4 era, as he's notes he's familiar with her in
his win quote to Decapre in Ultra SF4.
*** pgVCarlos.
CARLOS MIYAMOTO
Age: unknown
Height: 189 cm
Weight: 61 kg
Native place: probably South America, since that's where he grew up
Hobby: collecting katana class swords
Final Fight 2: When Mad Gear is rising again, Carlos, who just happened to
be staying at Haggar's at the time, decided to help take them down [From
the game].
FF2 Guidebook bio:
A fighting stylist aimlessly turned up from the direction of South America.
Settled in Metro City, originally a freeloader off of Haggar. With outward
appearance harboring a cool nihilistic impression, occasionally an
entertaining fool.
Where he is now: Still traveling around and training I guess.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Carlos does have a connection to Guy, although I'm not sure what it is. In
Final Fight 2, he specifically says to Haggar, "I owe you and Guy so much"
indicating he knows Guy and more. Of course, this assumes Capcom USA didn't
add that in themselves (although I'm pretty sure Saiki mentioned they were
friends as well which is why I have that written down in the guide)
Carlos was a boarder at Haggar's whom Haggar let stay there while Carlos
was in the area and training. He was studying different types of martial
arts, and moved to Metro City to finish his studies.
He's apparently a friend of Guy (official statement, though he does
refer to this briefly in FF2's intro when he says to Haggar, "I owe you
and Guy so much".
Even though he knows many martial arts styles, he prefers to use his
sword to slice up enemies.
Carlos is described as nihilistic. He gives off a cool impression, but he
can be kind of stupid occasionally.
"His appearance is nothing to embrace, occasionally an idiot."
His bio also says that his natural sense of justice and his obligation
to Haggar compel him to participate in the fight against Mad Gear.
He's of Japanese decent (his last name gives off that much, in kanji it
means roughly "princely basis").
*** pgVChang.
DR. CHANG
No bio. Of Chinese ancestry at the very least, obviously.
Final Fight Streetwise: Dr. Chang is working on something underneath
a sheet when Kyle arrives via air vent. Kyle suspects that she's
the mastermind behind GLOW, but she doesn't seem to fear him at all and
doesn't even bother to answer his questions until Kyle finally grabs her
by the shoulders a bit. She introduces herself to him as Dr. Chang, but
she doesn't have time to concern herself with just one simple junkie
like Kyle's brother Cody. This of course pisses Kyle off, so Chang tells
him that a lot of other people besides Cody are suffering too, and explains
that Bella forced her to produce the drug and that she's not happy about it.
However, she does inform him that she could detoxify Cody depending on the
situation, but Kyle is interrupted by a phone call from Guy before she can
finish. Guy tells him that the explosives that he never told Kyle about
earlier were primed and ready, and to get out of the lab immediately. Kyle
is shocked, but Guy says that such drastic measures are necessary to stop
the drug. Kyle turns around to get the doctor but then notices her leaving
in an elevator. Before he could go after her, the being on the table
ripped its sheet off and laughed at Kyle as he recognized it as the
Stiff! But only barely, as Stiff had been infused with so much GLOW
that he had green spikes glowing out of his back and even had GLOW
glowing through him, particularly through the two letters "D" and "E"
cut into his chest.
Stiff maniacally laughs before grabbing a nearby GLOW rat that was running
by and devouring it, empowering him even more. In the ensuing battle
consisting of falling cable wires, spiky projectiles, and an enraged Stiff
(now "Stiff Death" for reasons not stated yet but really not related to
resurrection), Kyle managed to stomp out the majority of the GLOW rats hiding
in crates in the lab before Stiff could consume them and regenerate, and
eventually managed to defeat the mutated man. Stiff Death's GLOW running
out, he fell to the ground before crumbling into dust, and the GLOW lab is
blown up by Guy's explosives.
Afterwards, Chang is there to treat a wounded Kyle as he wakes
up in Haggar's gym. Guy pulls out a gun, demanding that she tell him
where the mastermind behind GLOW is, but Haggar stops him, saying that
wasn't how they'd do things. Kyle tells them both to knock it off and
asks Chang how to reverse the effects of GLOW so he can cure Cody. Chang
tells him that like any other drug, GLOW wears off over time, but before
she could fully detail the withdrawal symptoms, Kyle notices a newscast
on the TV showing his hood in complete anarchy as Metro citizens and
gang members, now driven insane by GLOW, were rioting in the streets.
Realizing that Vanessa is in danger, Kyle heads back to his hood. Chang
decides to leave as well, telling Guy that people were suffering and
needed her help.
It is unknown whether Chang was lying to Guy and Haggar or if she was
sincere about leaving to help others, but she's later back with Bella
again at the church. Not necessarily of her own free will, as Bella
threatens her at swordpoint when she protests his madness, so she finally
completes the creation of his Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse for him.
The first one, War, would immediately attack Kyle who had entered the
church at that point. Later after beating him and Famine, Kyle sees Chang
sitting up in the rafters, with a huge green monsterous skeletal being
underneath, its gigantic spiky back and height reaching almost all the
way up to Chang. Dr. Chang laments about how she could have created
so many great and wonderful things, but all her talents were wasted by
Bella. But, despite this, she still has her wonderful creation and
vision, Pestilence.
Chang's ranting reveals that she's actually rather loony herself, and she
doesn't even pay attention to Kyle when he demands that she tell him where
Bella is, at least until he threatens that he'll come up there. The doctor
simply scoffs at this and then orders Pestilence to consume him, whereupon
Pestilence savagely attacks! And by savagely attacks, I mean slooooowly
walks around the room as his shell's butt drips GLOW onto the ground, every
once in a while stopping to throw easily-dodged pieces of it at Kyle, and
every now and then barfing GLOW bombs in all directions.
After an excitingly slow-paced molasses battle of Kyle tossing said GLOW
bombs back at the creature, his shell was blown off and he became much faster,
swiping at Kyle, throwing GLOW bits at him, and ripping off entire church
benches to try to slam on him. Kyle eventually managed to overcome the beast
and it melted into its own goo. But by then, Dr. Chang was gone.. When Kyle
and Cody were recuperating in the hospital after Kyle had finally killed
Belger for good and Cody had overcome GLOW's effects, Kyle is suddenly
distracted by something on the TV. On the television set, a news reporter
states that Dr. Chang was taken in for questioning after the incident but
was released. Cody asks Kyle what's wrong, but Kyle quickly shakes it off
and responds "Nothing". [from the game]
Where she is now: With Bella gone, she's now free to follow her dream and
vision. What this dream and vision is, I don't know, but it's probably
something sick and wrong.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Not including the fluke Harry Hicks, I think Chang is the only
non-fighter character to have her own section in this guide. I'm still not
sure if she deserves one but she'll likely have more development (and
possibly become more than just a non-fighter storyline NPC) and such if
Capcom somehow decides to make a sequel to Streetwise (which of course is
a long shot in the dark).
Exactly why Chang was working for Bella in the first place is
questionable. She tells Kyle that she was forced to make GLOW and seems
sincere enough about that, but later on while she's raving like a mad
scientist (because she is one), she remarks how working with Bella turned
out to be an 'error in judgment'. It seems that odds are decent that
Bella enticed her into joining him with the promise of something
'idealistic' that was different from GLOW (but likely just as insane
judging by Dr. Chang's mindset). Maybe he just promised her funding
and resources for various mad scientist experiments that would result
in things like Pestilence but then forced her to make GLOW instead when
she'd rather be doing something else.
From Kyle's journal regarding Pestilence:
"This is a nightmare WITHIN a nightmare! What the hell is that!? What
kind of sick mind would make a monstrosity like that?!!!!
A sick but BRILLIANT mind, clearly!"
Unlike Famine or War, nothing in the game indicates that Pestilence
is anyone the player already knows. This includes Kyle's journal.
It likely was just some random person (or maybe group of persons, as
some people speculate that Pestilence consists of multiple people
merged together. Of course, far as I know, there is nothing
to indicate that GLOW goes beyond mutations to the point where it
can do things like merge people. I think what looks like multiple
limbs are really just an extremely spiky shell. That shell doesn't
do anything but drip goo after all).
Chang is very attached to Pestilence, calling him "Sweetie" and
basically babying the thing. Possibly Pestilence was someone dear
to her before she mutated him, or possibly she just is really attached
to him because it's the ultimate culmination of her scientific achievement.
Pestilence may have been a special case to GLOW's restrictions, as there
was likely a reason why Chang was so much more proud of him than any other
GLOW horseman of the apocalypse. Not that the game actually tells you much
about him either way.
"GLOW is like any other drug." The effects will wear off with time but
not before the addictee suffers severe withdrawal symptoms. Getting taken
off GLOW too fast could lead to delirium, according to Dr. Chang (not that
this stopped Cody from getting over it ludicrously quickly). Of note is
that there is nothing in the game that indicates GLOW has the ability to
bring people back from the dead. Just because they all look like zombies
doesn't mean they ARE zombies.
GLOW making people mutate to the point where they look like monsters is
as temporary as the other drug effects of GLOW (as shown by Cody being back
to normal at the end. ...he still seems to have recovered abnormally fast).
It is never explained what happened shortly after Chang left Guy and
Haggar to "help those people in need". She just shows up later in the church
apparently forced to work for Bella again. Was she lying when she told Guy
and Haggar that she was leaving to help people or did Bella just capture her?
I wonder if she's named after that guy who maintained the Street Fighter
plot guide that can be found online. That the normally calm and seemingly
good-natured creator of such a ridicously big fanboy-esque undertaking
would deep down be a crazy psychotic mad scientist woman who revels in the
sick twisted convolutedness of her own creation as a piece of art would not
be too surprising.
(Nah, in all seriousness, if anything, she's named after FF:SW programmer
Joey Chang)
*** pgVChunLi.
CHUN-LI (CHUN LI the phonetic spelling in translated excerpts).
Originally CHUN-LI CHUNG.
Birthdate: March 1, 1968
Height: 170 cm (SF2), 169 cm (SFZ, SF4)
Weight: unknown (secret)
BWH sizes: B84, W59, H89 (SFZ), B88, W58, H90 (SF2, SF4)
Blood type: A
Native place: China
Special skill: shooting (ranked 6th in an international contest)
Likes: crepes, varieties of fruits, Western confectionery
Dislikes: crime, people who don't make themselves clear, Vega
Fighting style: Chinese kenpo
SF2-era nickname: âSplendor Become Dance Splits the Airâ
SFZ-era nickname: âChanged Determination Attacks Great Evilâ
SF3-era nickname: "Graceful Long Beautiful Legs Returnâ
SF4-era nickname: "Divine Leg Excellent Performance"
Street Fighter Zero 2: Chun-Li's father has gone missing on assignment.
Following a lead from a friend of her father's, Gen, Chun-Li sets out to
investigate the evil organization known as Shadaloo and find out who's
responsible. She finally came face to face with the leader of Shadaloo, Vega.
Demanding to know what happened to her father, Vega and she
fought, and Vega proceeded to kick the crap out of her then flew off, leaving
behind a clue about her father having amused him.[Official].
Street Fighter Zero 3: Chun-Li is the I.C.P.O.'s special detective
assigned to Shadaloo. With management corruption, she was powerless as an
official. So, she works in cooperation with Nash to defeat Shadaloo.
Unfortunately, Guile came to intervene. Chun-Li tried to stop him, telling
him that the army was corrupt and that Nash had to be left alone so
Nash could take care of Vega, but Guile would have none of it.
However, after Guile himself met Nash, he himself had realized what was
going on, and he joined them too. The bombardment of Shadaloo, however,
was called off due to corruption in Interpol and Vega's manipulation, so
Chun-Li realized that they had to destroy the base themselves. As Guile and
Nash go to destroy the psycho drive, Chun-Li proceeds to set explosives
around the base. While doing this, she captured a brief glimpse of a
mysterious young girl, but wasn't able to see much more before that girl
(Cammy, and maybe some of the other girls) ran off [Conjecture based off
in-game storyline and official statements]. Unfortunately, Nash doesn't
make it out of the explosion thanks to Vega. However, many of Shadaloo's
facilities have been shut down via Interpol, finally... [Official]
SFZ3 File #04 Chun Li
For the sake of clearing away the become unknown whereabouts of her
narcotics investigations division's father's regret pursuing the secret
organization Shadoloo, she herself becomes ICPO's investigations division.
However with the influence of new authorities having dealt with Shadoloo's
breath, the investigation scale is being reduced. For that reason lately
she cooperates in hand with Nash, unfolding especially on a characteristic
investigation of said ICPO.
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Highlights:
-Chun-Li takes her father's place in ICPO (her Z2 ending verified). Even
Interpol is placing limits on how far actions against Shadaloo can be taken,
so she teams up with Nash to first investigate ICPO before moving on to
Thailand and Shadaloo.
Street Fighter 2: While reeling, Shadaloo isn't dead, yet. Worse off,
apparently Vega is somehow still alive. Chun-Li enters the tournament,
suspecting more than ever that Vega's behind her father's disappearance
years ago [Official]. After the tournament, Chun-Li systematically took
Shadaloo down for good. After Shadaloo was destroyed, Chun-Li visited
her father's grave, telling him that he can finally rest in peace. She
tries the lifestyle of an ordinary girl (which Ken knows by the end of SF2)
but soon goes back to being a detective [Chun-Li's SF2 Revival ending and
specially noted in AAC].
Chun Li- SSF2XR Character Concealed File
The woman of the Narcotics Investigations Division searching out the man
who murdered her father. Clues on the man are her desire for continuing
to struggle.
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Highlights:
-By the eve of SF2 Chun-Li knows that her father was actually murdered by
a Shadaloo male. SF4 and her Z3 win quote to him reveal that she learns
this painful truth from the man who gave her a lead to Shadaloo back in
Z2: Gen.
Street Fighter 4:
Fighting with magnificent leg moves, ICPO's investigator. In order to
search for her unaccounted for father, she became a detective at 18 years
old. Having felt that Shadoloo's shadow ought to have been driven to
annihilation, she begins an investigation together with Guile.
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Highlights:
-Chun-Li joined ICPO at age 18, 1 year before SF1.
-For SF4, she teams up with Guile to investigate Shadaloo's "destroyed" status.
Along with Guile, Chun-Li also allies with Cammy and newcomer Abel during her
infiltration of Seth's tournament. She also runs into C. Viper and later warns
Cammy about her (Cammy's rival battle intro). Once she makes it into the lab,
she hacks into S.I.N.-sha's database to find info on this new enterprise and
its possible relation to Shadaloo. Balrog however, doing some hacking on his
own, tries to trap Chun-Li in that room with fatal gas seeping through the
vents. Chun-Li tries to escape but it's no use as the gas proceeds to fill
room. She weakly begs Guile to escape with the new data and then blacks out.
Next thing she realizes she's in Guile's arms, Abel at his side, and they're
watching the burning lab as Abel hands her the data they acquired (Balrog's
and Chun-Li's SF4 endings).
Later on both Chun-Li and Cammy run headlong into the mysteriously powerful
Korean fighter Juri. Chun-Li gets outwitted while Cammy takes the brunt of
the abuse before Juri escapes from them. (referenced in Chun-Li's new rival
battle intro with Juri and win quotes to Cammy as well as Cammy's to Chun-Li)
Super Street Fighter 4:
Chun-Li continues collaborating with Guile: S.I.N.-sha's behind this
upcoming tournament as well, and it must be stopped for good given Juri's
recent incidents. Chun-Li maintains her thoughts about her father. Even
though he's long gone she wants to know where he'd been as much as possible,
and to see that the same villainous syndicate which he long ago fought against
have its shadow vanish permanently. [Chun-Li's opening]
Chun-Li spent SSF4 possibly apprehending Bison and meeting Juri again, as well
as tracking down Abel most likely fighting Ibuki at the time. Abel goes into
a dark berserk state before Chun-Li helps him break out of it. She also might
have met Cody in the vicinity of the crumbling laboratory, appalled at his
having gone convict. After SSF4 is over she drives Abel back to his home, and
bids farewell to Yun and Yang at the restaurant before turning away and
surprised to see Guile waiting ahead of her. One way or another S.I.N.-sha
is out of the picture, and a new realization has dawned for Chun-Li: maybe
from her latest episode with Abel getting him back under control she finds
out that her life and capabilities are more than simply following her father's
whereabouts. Helping out people is another way to emulate his efforts, and
Guile's in a comfortable agreement. [Chun-Li win quotes to Bison, Abel, and
Cody; Abel's and Chun-Li's endings]
Street Fighter 3 Third Strike:
The gone far off from the long-continued fight Chun Li. However an incident
has abruptly arisen. A student of her kung fu classroom, has in fact
suddenly disappeared. In order to pursue her whereabouts, she determines on
the matter to return to the stage of battle. [CJ's 3S profile for Chun-Li]
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Chun-Li withdrew from "street fighting" long ago until one day her kung fu
student mysteriously disappears. She is left with no choice but to come back
to the long-continued stage of battle and search for her lost student.
[Official]
Chun-Li goes out to investigate, and finds out that Gill's organization has
kidnapped her student. She finally confronts Urien, and fights for the
child's freedom. Urien promises to release the girl if Chun-Li entertains
him for a while with her fighting ability, for he has heard of her
legendary status. Impressing Urien in battle, Chun-Li manages to convince
Urien to release the girl. Rescuing her, Chun-Li rediscovers her purpose
in life, which her father protected originally. Six months later, Chun-Li
thinks back about what she learned that day. Now, for her father as well
as all the warm-hearted people they've both met throughout the world, she
shall train the next generation to reflect genuine strength, beauty, and
kindness in their arts [from her 3S ending].
Where she is now: See above.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Chun Li from SFZ
Original account from SF2 Himitsu Hyakka
"Father......where could you be and what could you be up to right now......"
For Chun Li, deep breaths, as she slept in bed.
While tracking down the narcotics organization, in order to search for her
father's become unknown whereabouts, Chun Li, like her father became an
Interpol detective, with very little progress along the way with investigations.
Pururu, pururu....... As Chun Li was sleeping, suddenly, the telephone began
to ring.
"Yes this is Chun Li......hello......?"
Chun Li gripped the phone still, no one was replying. A little while later,
she heard an eerie male voice from the phone.
"......Now, you are behind this case, and in turn with the stirrings of a grand
narcotics organization. Furthermore, this organization has ties with all
authorities. Naturally even the police's upper strata......for approachers
awaits 'death'. ......Watch your back......"
"W, wait, you are!?"
No answer to Chun Li's call, from the receiver, a dispatching sound could be
heard.
"This, wasn't a prank call......, impossible......it couldn't be......"
Chun Li tightly grasped the receiver as she was standing up.
Now, Chun Li's fierce battle begins!!
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Official Story from Gamest SFZ and AASFZ
Chun Li gave a great sigh, and as such she collapsed into bed.
For the sake of searching out her father's become unaccounted-for whereabouts,
bravely Chun Li became an Interpol detective, with investigations having nothing
special being shown with progress, in vain the months and days passed.
Up until just before her father's disappearance it was Interpol's Investigations
Division pursuing a so-called narcotics organization-from that exposure
Interpol's full capacity was expected to pour into it, influential news
originally caused for even exposed military operations, how was it that nothing
but the color of feet continued being trampled on. Such that within, Chun Li's
heart gathered feelings of only impatience and irritation. At times her mind
would unavoidably think of the "worst" of circumstances.
"Father......Where could you be and what could you be up to right now......"
With Chun Li grasping her sheets, she murmured. But, she shut her eyes and,
with her entire body's overflowing sense of fatigue in time a world of sleep
lured her.
Unexpectedly a living telephone noisily rang. Honestly just about everything
that can release one from a slumber, recalling at last her listless body awakens
and, seemingly dragging along the mouthpiece she faced it.
"Yes this is Chun Li......hello......?"
In that instant, was a male voice.
"......Now, you are the one pursuing behind this case, your imagination is
beyond big......and in turn with the stirrings of a grand narcotics
organization. Furthermore, this organization has ties to say links with all
authorities. Naturally even the police's upper strata......for approachers
awaits 'death'. ......Watch your back......"
"W, wait, you are!?"
Her call went unanswered. Just from the ear of the phone receiver was a small
echoing back.
With entirely no idea about the man from the sudden phone call......furthermore,
that man spoke with astonishing detail.
"Impossible......it can't be......" Chun Li tightly grasped the receiver and
nothing more as she continued standing up. Merely a random prank......?
Still.......
With the occasion for this mysterious call, a situation began to move.
However, that was one which Chun Li didn't yet know the result for the vortex
of struggles and, even the matters she would be dragged into.
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Highlights:
-Chun-Li receives a call from a mysterious stranger warning her to watch out if
she continues the case her father started. Just the thing she needs to
alleviate the stress she's accumulated from turning up zero on anything about
her father's whereabouts for months on end.
Chun Li from SFZ2
Senretsu Kyaku
Her training in Chinese kenpo began from the time of age 5. Starting from
when she was young, at Cantonese theatres with her father she saw classical
Chinese opera.
Naturally the subject of talk and such being mostly not understanding it,
at that moment the performers' splendid movements remained as an intense
impression. Dynamic limb movements, a bounding ability seemingly a midair
dance. Even from returning to her own home forgetting about the spectacle,
she saw to say attempt learning from watching others.
And so one day, to have perhaps greatly resembled her father's movements
on the mark by striving on those beautiful motions with her martial arts
discipline every morning, such the matters would begin of her own badgering
him wanting him to teach her.
In other words, Chun Li's undertaken master worship was started with her
father. However enchanted the Chinese opera movements she would only request
him to teach (?) for Chun Li it being opposite the hackneyed route of
tai chi chuan, it wasn't to say very positive. Accordingly her father perhaps
first taught her a Cantonese system of kenpo being koukaken. After 3 years,
it would come to be that she would learn as standard credit dantai and chouken.
Havingly had talent likely by nature, for Chun Li in the manner of sand
soaking up water she was absorbing many standard credits as such.
When she was 15, as an extension to standard credit she would perform sanda
in a similar manner, increasing since then in combat character. Especially
in her case "kicking" being her pride, even with praising words her father
broke into ardently helping her out with still more practice. Her father
also, just from being known as a "kicking" expert within the Hong Kong
police, gazing at his daughter's manner of progress was said to be his one
pleasure. It'd be nice if he could see at this present time her standard
style established. Such that it was done within this, with tae kwon do and
kicks still prevailing in Hong Kong, she even transported to a combat karate
and Capoeira dojo in the same manner, constantly gaining on her characteristic
"kicking" moves.
With that result thought out, the fixation of the pivot leg grounded for the
trembling kick, launching the kicking leg to send out phantasmagoric kicks it
was so-called a preposterous physical labor.
Since then it is the base form of the techniques called "hyakuretsu kyaku" and
"senretsu kyaku".
Now she has become the Narcotics Investigation Division's 'trump card treasured
sword' also called from that move, "senretsu kyaku". Her thoughts on her father
also was her severe master, there she includes it.
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Highlights:
-Chun-Li's interest in her country's fighting arts began with watching
classical Chinese opera (Peking drama plays) and watching the performers'
movements. She started training when she was 5, with begging her father to
teach her what he was able to do.
-First came tai chi, which she didn't like when looking back at the opera
performances she had seen. By age 8 she was excelling in four distinct arts
including tai chi. By the time Chun-Li took her father's place in ICPO, she'd
even soaked up karate and Capoeira to come up with her own distinct style,
which included the basis for her super the senretsu kyaku, following in her
father's footsteps as a master of particularly kicks.
By age 20 Chun-Li was considered skillful enough to teach fighting arts to
students of her own. She'd end up doing so at most 11 years later if not
earlier than that.
Chun Li from AASFZ3
Fighting Style
Made the most of pride's walking ability, she evolves jumping and kicking the
constituents of battle. For the sake of surpassing balance of the entire
body's muscles, even the continuing manner of emitting kicks doesn't overlap
the center of gravity. The vicinity to establish her present fighting style,
is an acquirement of a great number of different kenpo, the midair leaping
kick "nikikyaku" in chouken's (northern China's kenpo) influence is seen.
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Fashion Style
For the habitual use of easy-to-move sportswear and shoes, the nature of her
profession a so-called detective perhaps. Attire being a simple functional
part, comfortable long legs are prominently seen. On occasion with wearing
a splendid China dress, the consciousness opposing her street fight, may
possibly be in the process of signifying a transformation of delicateness.
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Highlights:
-Her Zero look may be her detective clothing, and her purely fighting attire
is her trademark China dress.
Zhidan Plaza [CHINA]
Zhidan Plaza- Inside a park is at that plaza every morning numerous people
gathered, tai chi chuan training taking place. Chun Li lives in a house also
in that vicinity. Early morning, from finishing her own training she visits
the plaza, to her it was at first a relaxing time.
For Chun Li liked to be gazing at everyone as they calmly did tai chi.
To think of the matter of her whereabouts unknown father and her worry would
return to flowing back at her, at that park she can sense Father's "smell"
only. That being the nice mood, her heart above all was allowed to be calm.
"Ufufu......When I was little, I hated tai chi chuan, didn't I......"
During such a matter of thoughts unexpectedly it diverts her line of vision
and, for some reason looking around restlessly a male child's appearance from
out her eye. She quickly understood that he seems to be insecure.
"What's wrong, kiddo?"
Chun Li walks over to the spot the boy is at and, leaning over gently he began
a voice.
"Auntie......"
The boy expressing with eyes full of tears responded.
"I'm not, Auntie right? I'm Big Sister, okay?" Chun Li says while smiling.
"Big...Sis...ter......"
"What's wrong? Your mother and father?"
"Gone and......disappeared......"
While saying it the boy was sobbing more and more.
"Gone and disappeared? It's alright! Big Sis will search them out won't she.
We'll find them soon!~"
For Chun Li seemingly was calming the boy down jokingly on purpose she
answered.
"Really......?"
"Yep, really!"
This time distinctly expressing self-confidence she spoke.
It'd be one point in taking lessons for lost child service. Nay, even without
being taught for her the child's service was also much more triumphant.
"Alri~ght, then let's go search together!~"
Pulling the boy's hand, at that moment they seemed to have begun walking.
"Li Fei! Li Feeeii!"
From behind seeming to be voices of both sexes and betting on a couple, they
rushed. For certain it was Li Fei's parents.
"You're the parents?? Please don't part your eyes from your child at this age
will you."
"Y, yes....... You are?"
"A tentative police officer......I wonder."
For Chun Li proof of status also is displayed by notebook.
"I see, so that's how it is then? Thank you very much."
For the parents very deeply bow their heads.
"Ah no, it's not......please don't worry. He's quite an adorable kid isn't
he."
"Far from it! He can't help but be so naughty....... Why today this child,
'Tai chi chuan is so uncool I don't wanna train anymore!' is what he said!"
Saying that the mother laughed.
"That's no good, kiddo! Properly do your go'ngfu (kung fu)!"
At the boy's forehead with an earnest finger pokes Chun Li. Bidding farewell
the parents and child, she murmurs.
"I also......will not lose."
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Highlights:
-Chun-Li lives close to her Z3 stage, a park where tai chi chuan is practiced.
It reminds her of the days when her father strictly pressed on her to do her
daily drills, and she gets to pass the same kind of encouragement to a boy
named Li Fei whom she finds is separated from his parents. She ends up
scolding both the child and the parents lol.
Chun Li from Gamest SF2
The first woman fighting stylist, China's Chun Li.
She's traveling through various places in the world searching for news of her
missing father. Having come across the Narcotics Investigations Division
becoming a detective herself following as her father's successor she's the
investigations top end, to ascertain that her father's disappearance is
leaning toward the evil enormous organization "Shadoloo." As for Where's
the organization's wirepuller Vega....
Such is the rather glum story of Chun Li. However she fights amidst true
intentions boasting wherever "I am the world's best fighting stylist!" to
her knocked out opponents with comfort in remembering the circumstances.
The intentions of searching for her father and fighting cannot be drawn off.
True, with that whim as a young girl, and a warm eye that watches over
that's that!
As for sure killing techniques an infinite beauty of leg lines, the hyakuretsu
kick, also the magnificently becoming dance, the spinning bird kick.
As a result her daily training takes pride in her foot moves. The spectacular
active rumor is she's the target of Japan's female pro wrestling world scoutmen.
With intentions completed could it become a not too distant day when later
Chun Li will be seen in the ring...?
If it's the case then surely Chun Li would become the beautiful and strong
queen of the ring. And then truly the world's best fighting stylist she'll
become!
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Highlights:
-Prior to Revival, it was known only that Chun-Li's father disappeared and only
assumed that he was deceased.
At 18 she began aspiring to be a detective.
From an interview with Eri-pyon, credited to Chun-Li's Zero series look,
she wears Adidas TRX sneakers.
Chun-Li claims to be the best fighter in the world during SF2. Her
"strongest woman" claim is only overseas.
She's considered an overachieving romanticist.
Chun-Li's father (who does not have an official name. Don't trust the
names given by anime and manga. It is NOT Dorai but it could be considered
as Detective Chung) was friends with Gen.
Gen passed down to Chun-Li's father the Genden ansatsushuu (her crouching
roundhouse) who in turn taught it to his daughter according to AASFZ3.
The kick's name literally translates to "Gen's legendary assassin kick".
The old man training a child Chun-Li in an official picture is neither Gen
nor Chun-Li's father. His name is Shao-I-Fei and he taught Chun-Li Chinese
martial arts. He's Chun-Li's uncle, but the pic is not considered
canon, as it was done for the paperback novel, "Street Fighter Zero
Chun Li" (ISBN: 4-8470-3180-6). It was released in March of 1996, and had art
drawn by Edayan. Shao is Chun-Li's mother's last name, so he is her
mother's brother. Chun-Li takes her father's last name in her novel
bio Fuang, while Shao is in parentheses. Of course, a novel isn't a
very canon source most of the time. The closest to an actual canon
last name for Chun-Li is actually Chung from older sources.
Speaking of Chun-Li's mother, she lost her mom when she was quite young, and
all she had to remember her by was a picture. This picture showed Chun-Li's
beautiful mother in a China dress exactly like the one Chun-Li wears when
fighting. She decided on it to be her fighting attire after resolving to
always be graceful like her mother was, above being a fighter or being a girl.
She also modified it to be heavier so it toughens her up along with the
bracelets.
From Udoneko (of Udon Studios, makers of the SF comic) about
Chun-Li's father: "And funny thing about Chun-Li's father.... we asked
Capcom how he looks like, and they said they never designed him. And they
just ask us to reference the 2V Anime for him..... so that becomes the
comic "father" too."
Chun-Li was very close to her father. He was constantly away doing
investigations, but she always eagerly awaited his return. Neighbors
and such respected her father and when impressed by Chun-Li's agility,
would say "As one would expect of the Chung family's daughter" with
applause (this is in her Gamest SF2D mook, and where the last name
Chung is mentioned)
Every Japanese SF-related site as well as many sourcebooks list Chun-Li's
fighting style as Chinese kenpo or Chinese fighting arts.
AASFZ3 emphasizes the "double rising leg attack" in Chun-Li's fighting style
section, the nikikyaku.
Chun-Li is a very maternal lady who has a motherly side to her. While
this is better shown in SF3, it is also shown in her SFZ3 storyline. I
guess Capcom figured that if they were going to give her a plot when you
play as her that doesn't happen in the actual canon in any way, they might
as well use it to show a side of her character some more. Chun-Li is very
mad at Vega for using 'children' as killers. This is more in-game
confirmation that all the Vega SS are underage by the way, if you didn't
figure that out already.
I.C.P.O. stands for International Criminal Police Organization, or
Interpol for short (http://www.interpol.com). Though.... Capcom's version
of Interpol varies a bit from the real world version (The real interpol
doesn't send officers on combat enforcement missions, I believe, for one
thing, probably doesn't recruit them at 18 years of age either...).
She's got a Bruce Lee poster in her room. That Fei-Long resembles Bruce Lee
and how that would affect Chun-Li's viewpoint of Fei-Long has never been
mentioned, alas :P She's admired Bruce Lee since she was little however.
"Peking" is "classical Chinese" interpreted one step further. "Opera's" sort
of a misnomer however; it's considered to be more of a "drama" instead. It's
made much clearer in AAC, that she saw dramas or plays when she was 5.
Chun-Liâs father was a detective for the Hong Kong police. Heâs
the reason Chun-Li became an A-rank detective. It's rumored that she
keeps a homing transmitter in her hair braids during infiltration missions.
She's a narcotics investigator during the SF2 series, an Interpol
officer during SFZ 1&2, and an anti-Shadaloo special criminal investigator
during SFZ3 (she was promoted to that position in her SFZ2 ending. SFZ1
isn't canon but it's the position she has come SFZ3). The narcotics division
is a special division within Interpol.
Her bracelets weigh 7-10 kg each (from HnN). Heavy! Gamest World
Capcom JOKED that they weighed 20 kg, but that's just nuts. They're made
of iron and help balance out her center of gravity especially when letting
loose a hyakuretsu kyaku and keep her trajectory reasonable during a spinning
bird kick it seems (guessing that's why it may take collectively 20-kg
bracelets to keep her super combo the senretsu kyaku from overwhelming her
balance possibly), on top of giving her a menacing impression. Also the
"bird" of her spinning bird kick is a crane; she officially emulates a crane's
legs with that move.
According to the SF2 Complete File her hyakuretsu kyaku (100-burst leg) puts
forth 100% of human power into her kicks. Whether this can be extrapolated
to mean that her super combo senretsu kyaku (1000-burst leg) multiplies that
same output 10-fold is anyone's guess.
UPDATE: Old old sources have been dug up for Street Fighter 2 where
Chun-Li's bio lists her as a member of the Chung family. In addition, that
picture where people say her tag says her last name is Xiang upon closer
inspection supposedly looks like "Chung" as well. This would mean that
Chun-Li's last name could officially have been Chung, but is likely one
of those many "forgotten facts" that even Capcom doesn't remember, by now.
Chung would be the best possibility for her last name. Red Cyclone's
webmaster has an analysis for all the last names she's been given in
Capcom related products, from Zang-live movie to Li-XvSF to Fuang-SFZ
novel, and this is the only one from he's noted as being from Capcom's
direct word, Chun-Li's account from the Dash pre-mook. So it would
definitely qualify as a "forgotten" fact. It is mentioned in
SF2 Dash Gamest issue #77 (account below, the daughter of the Chung family
so her father's last name is Chung), and the pic's in several places:
the Wani Books SFZ Chun Li novel, Eternal, a nice big version in the
US SFA2 guide.
Her name in kanji translates to roughly "spring grace." In Japanese it's
pronounced "Shun-Rei" with the same meaning.
Chun Li from Gamest SF2D
Daughter of the Narcotics Investigations Division
Once her father was, the Narcotics Investigation Division's man of ability
referred to as the going-in-ten-fingers for China.
With him having practiced kenpo, from whatever practice of impossibility
said to be a duty yet surely able to be settled he returned. But, such was
his inanimate nature of fate that could not be opposed. He flew to that
taken special appointment of a private investigation overseas, that's all
there is and it was such that the news was severed there.
Young Chun Li loved her father very much. The extent of days without a home
was numerous, whenever she waited for him to come back he returned with
presents from various countries, the neighborhood was enlivened with humorous
matters. Because Father certainly wanted to keep close to home whenever
the time existed.
The encounter with fighting moves was also of course passed on through her
loving father. Since she was naturally carefree her father taking leave as
well as that friend's pursuit of knowledge the matters were without
understanding. Everyone's tongue even rolled about the carrying of that
agile body of hers, "As one would expect of the Chung family's daughter"
would be the applause.
In time she grew from a little girl to a woman, that flesh growth exceeded
without use, agility was the plus for characteristic technique development.
Especially that charming point from which the beauty of leg lines is called
forth "hyakuretsu kick" with, the agile and reality stretching progressed
legs' utilized centrifugal force "spinning bird kick", she waited for her
father to show him her wonderous might.
But, nevertheless she remained in place unaffected, utilizing the strength
of her opponents to bounce back with the intense throw move "koshuutou",
the thick femur felt enemy face trampling "yousoukyaku", the opponents'
significant strike "sankakugeri" the at-will one-after-the-other move in
progress, certainly exchanging blows on par with her master father,
occasionally overwhelming such that the extent of her skillfulness was seen.
Setting Out as a Fighting Stylist
With her father suddenly unaccounted for, her dawning driven personality
strangely became a complete change, from the might of her natural spirit,
such that attitude was completely unshown. Far from that, not left behind
with being entrusted the official facility of her father's investigations
and, that being the case she aspired to be a police detective.
"As for Father's circumstances, I will show that they will be found out!"
With Chun Li having become a detective, during continuing investigations
also turned into a failure for continuing the pursuit of knowledge of
fighting techniques.
For the sake of a continued rigorous search and also the case of a stiff
body to consider for a necessity, combined with a diet it would be for her
daily work. But being reckless, for her that capacity became the matter
of opening her heart. Why then, in order for her moves to be excessively
mighty, that is from the repression about her father. However, with her
strong spirit, finishing off challenged opponents with outgoing limb
assaults, taken aback from charmed spirit, for a short while the matter
is believed to return. But, on the other hand, even if it seemed that
electricity ran from the trailing slope of the framed nape hurriedly
declares agreeable sensation, no matter what she's also a fighting stylist.
After that, coming to know of the existence of the world-famous mysterious
organization "Shadoloo", as for that organization, the source of her
father's unaccounted-for status became an intensified incident desiring
distinguished participation. And so, the wirepulling rumored man called
"Vega", referred to as far as the fighting king, the arm of the fighting
stylist will rise for this....
"Let's go!" For Chun Li, she's resolved to set out. Travel expenses
probably came out of investigation title outlays. Within reach of gradually
defeating famous fighting stylists of various countries, at any rate she
should be struggling on to Vega! And also, show with complete means to find
out about Father's whereabouts! With simply that thought, at the occasion to
the extent of strong opponents defeated, how much feeling is
alright...Chun Li considered.
The journey for Chun Li of the Investigations Division now, has merely begun.
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Highlights:
-The "friend" of Chun-Li's father mentioned just before her family's name is
confirmed to be Gen from Gen's SF4 opening, as well as mentions of Gen
training her father who in turn trains Chun-Li.
Prologue 3 (Chun Li) from SF4
Within the crowded establishment, Chun Li strained her voice turning towards
the kitchen.
"2 orders of shouroupou! Cho Fun, side of fish rice gruel, provision of oil,
and also 1 order of daikon mochi, if you please!"
"As usual a big voice isn't it, for Chun Li."
In some respects a seemingly amazed voice she turns around and, the coworker
young man was laughing.
"In my previous work, I've put out many a loud voice!"
"Ah, when you were a detective right? ...And, already at a time like this
huh. I'm going on break but, how about also you Chun Li?"
"Well, I suppose shouldn't I."
At one nod, Chun Li took off her apron. From behind the young man she
proceeds to run towards it and, the establishment's rooftop had been vacant.
With the restaurant's employees using this location as a space for relaxation,
even benches and tables are in place. So that today be a refreshing day, even
being a secondary twist to the conjested establishment it suited quite
perfectly.
"Ah- I'm hungry. Don't you feel it's become so busy nowadays?"
"Really? I've a feeling that it hasn't changed very much though."
For Chun Li's present time worksite being the restaurant, though very small
the flavor of a reputable establishment, even with the exception of mealtime
there's no subject of a pause with customers.
"Nay they've unmistakably increased, the guests. Because of Chun Li, recently
it isn't that they don't come often even to not eat lunch."
"From which I'm getting too familiar with."
"Getting too familiar with not including meals you say..., in addition to that
of your previous job?"
"At such a time to arrest criminals, even a reason to place a carefree sitting
meal will not do will it."
At Chun Li's reply, ceasing his hand to eat his lunch's manjuu, the young man
frowned.
"Whoa, police was immense wasn't it. By any chance, was that also the fault
that you quit?"
"It isn't that but..."
With a vague smile, Chun Li looked towards the sky.
"For a long time now the organization I'd been pursuing is no more, the work
I ought to do has been finished since then, perhaps. Besides, the whole time
I yearned after such a living. Enjoying work with everybody, doing shopping
once in a while, it's similar to going on a journey...of an ordinary girl's
living."
Bowing his head in assent a great deal, the young man inclines his head to the
side in doubt.
"But ya know, this other day the time Chun Li caught the bilker, really! for
me from being raised around here, I've tolerably seen strong ones even until
now however, having seen that sort of kick was also for the first time.
You're suited for work like that aren't you?"
Well from being busy now if she would quit you know he'd be worried, and
smiling the young man stood up.
"I'll probably run out of patience from waiting for my older brother during
shifts, I'm going back to the establishment! Pardon!"
She sees off with a smile the young man's retreating figure precipitating
downstairs and, from Chun Li finally a very small sigh. Even with growing
accustomed to the busyness, no joke she's even been growing accustomed to
such a living. But, she seems to half wish it not to be any more hectic on
purpose. Not seizing a meal as her operated side, she completes her
non-consideration. Matters that should be ended- the matter of Father and,
the matter of Shadoloo.
"I need to stay firm."
Having murmured the next breath, she heard from the main street a female's
shriek. A continuing automobile's harsh braking and, even some kind of
breaking sound resounds. For Chun Li reflexes build up, immediately her body
dodged. From that face the "ordinary girl" facial expression wiped out
seemingly vanishing, as the once investigator fought against evil, a severe
look was shining.
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Highlights:
-Prior to her SF4 opening, Chun-Li engages in some conversation with Yang. All
three of them work at the same restaurant, at least before Guile finds her.
-Chun-Li put her police skills to the test to catch at least one eat n' runner.
Yang's amazed at her kicks, noting that he'd never seen that before, despite
having been raised in their area.
On a random note, that same official art about Chun-Li's youth also has
a very young Chun-Li playing the erhu (a Chinese string instrument similar
to a fiddle). In spite of this art belonging to the SFZ Chun-Li novel as
well as the art with her and her uncle described above, Chinese talent is
prominent with musical instruments in addition to the martial arts.
Chun-Li is friends with Ryu. This is one of the reasons why she appears
in Ryu's SFZ3 ending as Ryu flashbacks about his friends.
For how Chun-Li teamed up with Nash in SFZ3, see Nash's bio. See also
Guile's section for one of her kicks that she picked up from seeing the
somersault kick in action.
I don't think Chun-Li and Ryu will ever hook up, and I think it would
be very out of character for both of them to fall in love with each other.
While Ryu's ending in SFZ3 implies that he did meet Chun-Li once, it's
obvious that it was a brief meeting and mostly just for a fight to test
fighting skills. Other than that, Ryu has never been portrayed with
Chun-Li in any way beyond that, so it's obvious that Capcom isn't pursuing
a Ryu + Chun-Li relationship. I don't think Chun-Li will ever be getting a
boyfriend, at least not if her SSF2 ending alternate is any indication.
She adopted a girl in SF3, as well as a whole bunch of other kids, which I
feel might be Capcom's way of giving her a successor/daughter without her
having to actually fall in love with someone.
Looking back, I'm not sure I remember ever getting an official statement
that she actually adopted anyone so much as just had a bunch of students she
deeply cared about. Well, regardless, the whole "successor" theme remains.
From Gal's Island #2 Capcom interviews: Chun Li's daily training regimen
at least during SF2 includes 7,000 squat repetitions and bench-pressing 150
kg.
From Gal's Island #3 Capcom interviews: if Chun Li ever got together
with Ryu, she'd have to get over his sloppy table manners.
Her earliest prototype's name was Chi-Lei (she looked sorta like
Lucia of Final Fight Tough). Her next one (once Ryu and Ken were decided to
be returned for the SF2 roster) named her simply China Girl.
Some translated info about Chun-Li's SF2 stage:
China (Chun Li) Shopping District, Peace Road
Hearsay of investigations have fair activity. Even today in order to search
for narcotics routes, there's hearsay at the shopping district. At the bustling
street's conjested center, a peddler woman well recognized by face starts her
voice on whatever hasn't changed.
"Dunno, who knows right? But recently, with street fighters or something other
appearing, 'Are there no strong ones for me here?!' and she appeared to leave.
By all means that one was saying, said Vega or whatnot was a bad guy, in order
to defeat that one she'll even wander from place to place throughout the world.
Perhaps that one with narcotics......, ah well, she went. She's been
considering since earlier to take action hasn't she, that girl.
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Highlights:
-An older lady's perspective reveals that Chun-Li went after Vega, but not
before she realized that no one else in her neck of the woods was a challenge
anymore, a similar scenario with Blanka leaving his stage.
Some other notes for her SF2 stage: the ice delivery guy in the far background
who never seems to leave may be a monitor cyborg (yes just like in SF2AM), the
old man riding a bike may be a fellow Chinese kenpo expert since the battles he
passes by don't seem catch his attention, there's a meat shop under the Chinese
sign, and a no-spitting area just next to it with another unseen Chinese sign.
Chun-Li also seems to cameo in the background of Final Fight 2's 1st stage
in China eating some food with a man who looks a little like Lee (but doubtful
that it's him, neither confirmed).
Chun-Li's SF4 arcade ending comments:
Chun Li procured the data to reveal S.I.N.'s full story on Shadoloo's
weapons branch but, the establishment interior has filled up with fire
extinguishing gas, she's losing a means of escape. She began giving up
when, Guile and Abel appear, they rescue Chun Li.
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*** pgVCody.
CODY TRAVERS (last name added with Final Fight Streetwise)
Birthdate: April 18, 1967 (note: This birthdate was taken from the original
Final Fight, where Cody is also officially stated to be 22. It'd be 1965
if one keeps Cody's age but uses the retconned Final Fight 1 date. Which
is the "likely-intended 2 years older than Jessica" date.)
Height: 182 cm (FF1); 185 cm (SFZ3)
Weight: 85 kg (FF1); 80 kg (SFZ3)
BWH sizes: B139, W86, H97
Blood type: O
Native place: America
Special skill: knife treatment
Likes: matters to pick a fight, milk, spinach
Dislikes: Haggar's preaching and in general
Fighting style: brawling methods of killing
SFZ-era nickname: âCapricious Escaped Prisonerâ
SF4-era nickname: "Boredom Become Jail-Breaking Criminal"
Final Fight One: Cody is told by Haggar that Jessica has been kidnapped by
Mad Gear! He sets off with Guy to save his friend since childhood and
girlfriend. He hears about Mad Gear member Damnd being the one who
kidnapped her, and went to the slums of Metro City to find him. Damnd
tells her that he's too late and that he thought Cody got scared and ran
away. Cody defeated him, but didn't manage to find Jessica. Somewhere
along the line, Cody found out that Jessica was being held by Belger in the
Uptown area of Metro City. He then hit the Westside of Metro City, where
he ran into a cop who was also a member of Mad Gear.
Disgusted by how corrupt Metro City is to the point where even a policeman
would join Mad Gear, Cody ended up defeating him too. After that, he skipped
past the Industrial Section by taking a shortcut through the Bay area.
Walking along the coast, he stayed in front of a dog for a bit (That was your
pointless in-game fact for the day. :P SFZ3 Cody reminisces the dog in the
background in FF1. Standing in front of one of them recovers your health).
He reached the end and ran into Mad Gear member Abigail. Abigail
made a comment about all the fun Jessica must be having with Belger, and
enraged, Cody defeats him as well. Finally, Cody has reached Uptown.
Eventually rejoining up with his friend Guy and Haggar, Cody reaches the
top of Belger's skyscraper. Belger tells Cody that he is glad that Cody
could come, and that Cody is the strongest. He asks Cody to join Mad
Gear and then he'll free Jessica, but Cody refuses. Eventually, Belger is
knocked out the window by Cody and sent plummeting to his death. As
Jessica reunites with her father, Cody and Guy leave. Jessica eventually
catches up to them and calls out to Cody, but he doesn't turn to face her.
Guy, seeing this, leaps in front of Cody and knocks him down so that
Jessica can catch up, then Jessica asks why he's leaving. Cody tells her
that he wishes he could be a guy living normally, but nonetheless invites
her to come with him and live as they please with no one to get in their
way. Jessica kisses him and Final Fight One ends [Conjecture based off
in-game storyline].
Street Fighter Zero 3: Cody used to be a hero, famous for saving Metro
City. Bored with the peaceful life, he kept fighting, day and night....
Until he was jailed. One day, he managed to break out of prison. Wandering
outside, he now seeks something that will satisfy him. He encountered
the ex-Mad Gear member Rolento, who wished to recruit Cody into his new
army, but Rolento then saw what Cody had become. Rolento was extremely
frustrated that he had searched so hard for a warrior like Cody only to find
someone so corrupted.[Official]
He then decided after seeing him in jail clothes that Cody wasn't really top
material for Rolento's army, and left. Eventually, Cody finally ran into
his old friend, Guy. Guy is shocked when he sees what happened to Cody!
He's an escaped convict, jailed for always beating people up! How could a
hero have fallen so much? Cody, however, realizes that he never was a
hero at all. He was just faking it. The truth was that Cody was fighting
evil just because he enjoyed fighting so much, not because of a sense of
justice. Guy however, could see that deep down, in the end Cody was
still a good guy because he still sought to beat up bad guys.
Guy wants to reform Cody and get him back on the good path, but he eventually
accepted that Cody lives his own life, so they go their separate ways.
[Conjecture based off in-game storyline. Final Fight One dialogue when you
play as SFZ3 Guy shows that Guy and Cody's SFZ3 meeting did occur, too].
SFZ3 File #22 Cody
In order to rescue his taken hostage sweetheart Jessica, allowing Mad Gear
to collapse he brings about peace to a commotioned Metro City. However
incapable of the native-born peace now, he's been brawling day in and day
out. Even using up his amiability for Jessica he goes to separate. Clumsily
with him often breaking out of his cell, even today he amuses himself with
street fights.
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Super Street Fighter 4:
Having been once the hero who saved Metro City not becoming familiar with a
peaceful living, kindling violent incidents he was imprisoned. Being bored
also of a criminal living having broken out of jail, accordingly he
encounters a plot.
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Cody's bored (surprise surprise). The streets of Metro City have become so
quiet that it's not even worth for him to keep breaking out of his cell
because he just won't find anybody to bash heads with. He's also disgusted
that Haggar didn't think to consider him when the Skull Cross Gang was at
large. Only a glimpse of his seeing Guy from outside his bars makes Cody
itch to break out yet again and ease his boredom. [Cody's opening]
Cody probably got approached by Guy at least once during SSF4, if not the
rival battle wherein Guy tries to have Cody join his fight against S.I.N.-sha
since Cody's head's already facing their direction, then at the end when
the crumbling laboratory's fully crumbled and Cody via Guy's words ended
up with a major role in bringing down the house. Cody's actions convince
Guy that Cody stills wants to battle for the sake of justice, but Cody
insists that he only did it because Seth and company was just in the way.
Additionally if he met Chun-Li in the area, he reassures her that the
"could-be-a-hero" Cody is dead. Parting the scene Cody returns to his
jail cell for a nap no doubt. [Cody's rival battle intro, ending, and
win quote exchange with Chun-Li]
Final Fight Streetwise: Cody's been growing old and slow. His knees
have failed him and he no longer fights, but he continues to coach his
younger brother Kyle, realizing all the potential his brother has. Still,
Kyle's progress is slow, and he's tired of waiting. The fight still yearns
inside him, but one day he found something that could help. And so he
made a deal with Stiff and Bella, who gave him a new drug called GLOW
that would let him get back into the fight again.
Unfortunately he had no idea who Bella really was (and presumably had no
idea about GLOW's side effects). Stiff comes to him to see Bella again at
the Barfly, but Cody says that he knows the deal and refuses because he's
too busy having a drink with his brother. After a huge barfight with Stiff's
goons, Cody finally goes along with Stiff (voluntarily or involuntarily)
after Stiff knocked out Kyle. Later, Cody was free to pit fight in Little
Italy for Vitto. Finally, he was back in the game. He fought to his hearts'
content and won a lot of money for Vitto in the pit-fights of Little Italy,
but the Metro City police began to take notice and it didn't take long for
Vitto to realize that Cody was hooked on GLOW. Knowing that Cody was
dirty, Vitto had to let him go. By now, Cody had become addicted to
GLOW, and its effects on him were readily apparent, with his eyes glowing
green and his mental stability crumbling.
For whatever reason (perhaps to get more GLOW), Cody heads back to Stiff's
headquarters at the Bijou Hotel. The only person waiting for him there
was Kyle. Cody demands that Kyle stop following him and go home, but then
is approached by Sgt. Sims of the police, who tells Kyle to step away so he
can arrest Cody. However, Kyle stops Sims before he can shoot Cody who
escapes.
More and more addicted to GLOW, Cody was getting more and more
destructive, and even Bella was starting to think he was becoming too
much trouble, deciding to tell his assassin Blades later that he might
need to kill Cody. Guy, using his genin and his resources, had finally
managed to capture Cody and held him at Lou's basement. By the time
Kyle had arrived, Cody was completely descended into madness and could
only scream at Kyle random commands that made no sense. Kyle left to
get revenge on whoever did that to Cody, but Cody had become too
powerful and even Guy couldn't contain him. He busted out again.
Later, Bella would find him. By then, Stiff was dead courtesy of Kyle,
and Bella needed a new fighter to take Stiff's place in his grand scheme.
Seeing an opportunity, he took advantage of GLOW's apparent brainwashing
properties and forced GLOW's creator Dr. Chang to proceed with massive GLOW
experiments on Cody at his headquarters at Little Italy's church.
Kyle eventually arrives at the church, and fights through Bella's other
Horsemen of the Apocalypse War, Famine, and Pestilence; and finally
confronts Bella on the church rooftop. He demands to see his brother, so
Bella tells him that he feels Kyle's pain, for he used to have a brother
he cared about as well. Bella tells Kyle that long ago, his own brother
came to America seeking happiness, but then Cody savagely killed him.
Kyle is stumped about this, telling Bella that Cody is a hero who did more
good for the city than Bella could ever dream of. Bella brushes him off,
proclaiming that his suffering led to his inspiration, which in turn would
lead to Kyle's death! At this, he points to the side, and Kyle turns his
head only to see his own brother, now horribly mutated from GLOW into a
sort of hulk with green glowing eyes and the word "DEATH" cut into his
chest. Bella proclaims that he's going to have an eye for an eye, brother
for brother, Cain to Abel, and now he was going to kill Cody's brother as
well.
Pissed, Kyle tells Bella that he'll be praying for his own death when
Kyle's through with him. Hearing this, Bella proclaims that his name isn't
actually Bella. It's Belger! He was the brother of the leader of Mad Gear
whom Cody killed years ago. His prized Horseman of Death, Cody, attacks
Kyle. Cody Death, completely consumed by the GLOW, is unable to listen to
Kyle's pleas about being his brother, but upon hitting Kyle, struggles with
himself to stop. Kyle takes advantage of this, and eventually defeats his
own brother, whereupon Father Belger revives him with GLOW and tells him
that he will be fighting at Death's side. Belger attempts to take Kyle out
with grenades and rocket launchers while Cody Death attacks with burning GLOW
flames and sheer brute force, but eventually Cody Death is taken down again.
Belger then attempts to revive Cody while fighting off Kyle with a machine
gun and his sword, putting him into position for Kyle's own attacks.
Eventually Cody Death finally got up and tried kill Kyle one last time.
Approaching Kyle slowly, Kyle again tries to get Cody to recognize him, but
at that moment, Cody Death is shot in the back by Belger, who proclaims that
he will not allow his vengeance to be taken away from him and he'll kill
Kyle himself. He approachs Kyle with his gun pointed at Kyle, but then
Cody Death gets up and launches himself at Belger, sending the two of them
flying off the rooftop, with Kyle shouting after his brother.
On the ground outside, a wounded Belger attempts to crawl to and reach his
gun, but Kyle grabs it just out of his reach. Father Belger proclaims that
he's Kyle's savior, but Kyle replies that he's actually nothing and shoots
him in the head. He then dashes to an unconscious Cody Death and says
that everything will be okay.
At the hospital, a beat-up Kyle and Cody are in separate hospital beds in
the same room. The effects of GLOW have mostly worn off and Cody is now
a normal human being again. He and Kyle joke for a bit as if nothing
happened, but when Cody finally begins to ask why Kyle went through so much
trouble to help him, Kyle interrupts saying that Cody would do the same for
him and that it was for survival, so the two brothers punch their fists
together in agreement. They wonder when their next fight should be, at which
Vanessa enters the room and tells them to knock it off, because neither of
them would be fighting for a while. Cody responds that at least now, his
knees have never felt better. He kicks his knees around a bit and realizes
something, and then begins to excitedly tell Kyle something about them before
he notices that Kyle is distracted by the television set. On the set, a news
reporter states that Dr. Chang was taken in for questioning after the incident
but was released. Cody asks Kyle what's wrong, but Kyle quickly shakes it off
and responds "Nothing" as the news reporter states that the clean-up after
the devastation was starting. Vanessa says that the nightmare was finally
over and it was all just a bad memory, but she states this with sadness as
she holds onto her deceased brother's badge. Kyle, perhaps realizing this,
sarcastically replies, "Yeah, right".
Where he is now: Probably going around kicking butt as always. I'm pretty
positive the thing he was about to tell Kyle before he was interrupted was
that his knees were back in top condition again (go go drugs!). He'll likely
be in fighting shape again if Streetwise ever gets a sequel (somehow).
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
FF1 Bio: A gifted street fighter. Cody is very skilled at knife
fighting. His childhood friend and current girlfriend Jessica was
kidnapped by the Mad Gear gang.
His name likely comes from Tom Cody, the main character in the gang-
themed movie Streets of Fire. (from which Final Fight took a lot of
inspiration)
Cody's girlfriend is Jessica, who is the daughter of Mike Haggar. Of
course, Cody played a part in bringing down Mad Gear but you really should
know that by now. Cody looks up to Haggar, while Haggar sees him as the
neighborhood brat, recorded in an old FF1 character relations chart in Gamest
#51.
Final Fight 2's intro shows that Cody was the one to personally
uppercut Belger out the window. I suppose this is also why he's the one
generally considered the hero of Metro City and not Guy or Haggar.
Bella in Streetwise confirms that Cody was the one who killed Belger.
Guy's taught him some moves in exchange for Cody having Guy's back during
rough times, also from the old FF1 character relations chart in Gamest #51.
Cody's Z/A-ism super final destruction is a reference to his original Final
Fight combo, where you could land three hits, turn around, and continue
the combo, thus creating an infinite. (The X-ism is the complete chain
to his FF1 combo)
Streetwise implies that his parents are long gone, as Kyle says
"I'm the only family he's got!". Was Cody an orphan? I also wonder if
Haggar raised or took care of him (although Cody was likely the one who
took care of Kyle).
In case you didn't know already, Cody used to spar/train with Guy.
Cody- Prison Breaking
Together with Guy and Haggar, Cody once repelled Mad Gear's party that
assaulted Metro City. However, getting bored of the afterwards peaceful
living, continuing in brawls gets him imprisoned, and he also comes to be
neglected by his lover Jessica in the midst of a Europe study abroad.
Even with that for him, the mood of circumstances to proceed has him breaking
out of jail, staggering in the streets, not suited for going to send guys
flying, if the opposite feeling is to return to jail, it seems that he's
repeating this so-called living.
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Highlights:
-Possibly the last thing that Capcom reveals concerning Jessica: she's left
Cody for his constant brawling and studies abroad in Europe somewhere.
Cody from AASFZ3
Fighting Style
For being known once upon a time as a knife expert, become a convict for now
he cannot be about carrying weapons. Since the brawling fights learning to
supplement even dirty-like tactics, he uses without even a shy face a
seemingly throwing-things style. Staggering the streets, the unsuitable guys
around knock them off their feet so to speak, he's spending every day suiting
them to his own convenience.
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Fashion Style
As for the t-shirt + jeans appearance the time he rescued Metro City, changing
suddenly to a convict uniform that covers his body. Seeming to not be holding
hidden weapons in the thinly made cloth, developed pectorals rise to the
surface. For the white bandages wrapped in both hands, it's evidence through
having done the fist's forging even within prison. Without a loosely
long-grown lazy beard is, to indicate a recently depravish living style.
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Metro City Police Jail [U.S.A.]
-25th of the Month
With tedious work even after 1 week that's over. For in retiring age a quick
5 years is, getting at the close of this month half the amount of the quitting
allowance it's about resigning. My son in the country through having bought a
house, though it's doing a hobby's change it's carefree living is what I
believe. Waiting for the distant end to the week.
-26th of the Month
A curious visitor. With the day before yesterday's drug dealings household
search through the above mentioned coming in is a captured man. Whatever
through the newspaper it appears to be exciting, I really don't know. Dried
up like a dead fish, for the so-called bad guy I'm no enforcing eye. Anyhow
I had said for observing important-consideration-person-like in strictness.
Having said that I'm dreading adding an ordinary key to the 4 cylinder locks.
Seems like the fierce animal treatment.
-27th of the Month
Trouble has turned up. For to say a burden happening at an unwanted time
happens. Well that's because it's probably a burden. Anyhow the reason for
the 4 locks I've known this morning. That's of the owner possessing
unthinkably ridiculous power. Yesterday the man who came in got out. And
that was as he pleased. Smashed down the wall. From the superior authorities
questioned of the responsibility, in the first place what! it's not their
fault. Beyond that how's to say it in strictness? Such is explained then
it's kept silent. Well I likely suppose. For the police has organized that
search party it seems. 10 people and everywhere it being short-lived I
believe is such. Calling the wall's repair tradesmen, the matter of it put
back up.
-28th of the Month
The agitating day continues. Even I don't know what could happen. Without
the search party discovering him, the man came back to jail. Sleeping with
loud snoring. As for me I contacted the appalled search party's persons
responsible. After a long questioning, I talked to the man who had come back.
The fact is I had little interest. Saying "what, have you come back for" and
the man answered like it was a bother.
"Who knows huh. To gather back probably." That's a shocking man.
-29th of the Month
The man is staying quiet. Identity understood (although one might say until
today the received documents were just not fully read). What, having
forcefully driven away that Mad Gear lot is to say heroish. Even seems
acquainted with the mayor. That's one who's drawn off the post of humane.
-30th of the Month
Arranging for a getup. That in a blink of time being roughly without a choice
exchanging clothing with possessions and the like. The man......Cody's prison
wall was completely filled up. For the thick 50 cm of concrete, seems like an
air of overdoing it. In order to continue the quitting allowance's deposited
transfer previous modification at hand, from the afternoon I proceed to the
management department headquarters. With catching a cold getting a young guy
to replace me for night duty, I sleep at the apartment.
-31st of the Month
That's good weather. The cold doesn't seem all that much. To say the jail's
jailer, I don't know how it wasn't worth doing the work even today thinking
it's over and, in itself was a relentless feeling I had. For the prison again
was in an uproar. Naturally I'm not in an honored separate party. 50 cm of
concrete is destroyed, seems that Cody has gotten out again. Ah if there's
that so-called man even work is more enjoyable isn't it, so I believe, for now
it's enough. For trouble anybody likely hands it over. In strangeness that's
a candid mood. Jail-breaking......eh. Even again for me, over there it's
possibly getting arrested.
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Highlights:
-Why Me?- A Dumbfounded Deputy's Diary. In a week's time a local Metro City
cop goes from "ho-hum" to "you gotta be kidding me" to "why is he like this?"
and back to "eh, forget about it."
Cody was thrown in jail because he got into too many fights. Policemen
do NOT like vigilantes. Cody was addicted to fighting. According to Cody,
he participated in Final Fight One not for justice, but just so he could
get lots of fights. You can see this in Final Fight One for the Gameboy
Advance when you play as Cody then when you play as Zero Cody (who's Cody
after the events of Street Fighter Zero 3 occurred flashbacking the
past). Zero Cody talks about how he admitted that he was really just
faking being a hero back then, and instead of demanding justice, he's now
just demanding that everyone fight him. He couldn't even stay with Jessica
because he was addicted to fighting.
Cody being arrested on multiple occasions seems slightly confirmed
from an interview with Tom Sekine, Final Fight Streetwise's head producer.
He gets thrown in jail again before Streetwise thanks to a crime that Guy
committed. The exact circumstances are never gone into, although Guy
shows some regret when he says that Cody went to jail so that Guy could
go free. Guy hasn't "heard a word" from Cody since. Exactly how long
before Streetwise that happened is unknown, although if the jail uniform
Cody wears in the game comes from that incident, it probably wasn't too
long ago (even 'not too long ago' could still mean a few years, though).
You can see Edi. E sometimes when Cody wins in SFZ3. Cody will look
off to the side, scream, then run away while Edi. E runs onto the screen,
screams "Get back here!", shoots his gun into the air, then continues
running after Cody. One of my more favorite victory animations. ^_~ An
even funnier one has Cody running back onto the screen to beat Edi. E up,
hehe.
He can break through a 50-cm-thick cement wall. He's also stated to be
pretty good at taking hits.
How did Cody break out of jail for Street Fighter Zero 3? Well, he
sorta didn't, really. There was a huge riot at the prison he was in, and
it left a hole in his cell. Seeing that, Cody basically just walked on out
because he was bored. :P This explains the busted jail and the rioting
going on in Cody's SFZ3 stage too.
It is never directly explored how Haggar reacted to Cody getting thrown
in jail all the time. Haggar got Lucia cleared of that corruption charge,
so you'd think he'd give Cody a mayor's pardon as well, but... I imagine
Cody probably didn't need one, given that it was stated that he got thrown
into jail and then simply punched his way out on more than one occasion.
Given that Streetwise showed that Haggar continued to hang out with Cody,
Haggar probably didn't bear any ill will to Cody for busting out of jail
so often, but when I think about it, this might be where Cody's dislikes
of "Haggar's lectures" come from (especially that dislike was added for
Cody's SFZ3 bio).
Cody seems to wear a modern jailbird outfit come Final Fight Streetwise.
This latest one comes from him getting jailed wrongly for a crime that
Guy committed. However, he's obviously not in jail anymore and one really
has to wonder how long his sentence was, given that Kyle and Cody were
always there for each other and Kyle doesn't seem to be bringing up any
particular point where Cody was gone for a long period of time. Of course,
going along with how Cody still has his jail uniform even though he's not
in jail anymore, this can easily be explained by Cody simply busting out
of jail for the hundredth time.
From what I can make out, Cody's modern jail serial numbers are 15388Q
on the left and 8484H on the right (in Final Fight Streetwise). The back
of his uniform says "Metro City Jail".
Tom Sekine stated in an interview that one thing he liked about Cody
was that it was "also neat that he's so troublesome and ends up beind bars
now and then". This also applies to his new jail uniform in Streetwise).
Cody's fighting style is similar to Joe of SF1's fighting style, if
anyone cares. There is no real storyline reason for this (though both are
literal American street fighters, so it'd be logical that they'd have
similar styles).
For a little on Cody and Guy, see Guy's bio.
Cody... is a rather ironic character. Belger offers to let him join
Mad Gear in Final Fight One, and when you play as SFZ3 Cody, Belger points
out, as he sees jailclothes Cody, that Cody's true calling apparently WAS
Mad Gear. If he joined Mad Gear, he wouldn't have gotten thrown in
prison. And the guy who actually finally arrested him and DID throw him in
prison was a member of Mad Gear, too:P Yet all throughout that and despite
how Mad Gear is supposed to be for fighting youths (and Cody is a fighting
youth), Cody can't join Mad Gear not because it's evil, but because he just
feels that it's not right for him to join Mad Gear. I believe the reason
for this is because while Cody is a youth who can do nothing but fight, and
Mad Gear caters to that, in the end, Cody is not an idealistic man, and Mad
Gear actually appears to have a freedom ideal. Rolento realizes this when
he meets Cody again in SFZ3.
His last name is now Travers from Final Fight Streetwise. Assuming
Capcom of Japan doesn't decide to spit on the 20+ hours it took Tiamat to
make this Final Fight Streetwise update by saying "Capcom America made
that game and we hate it so we're throwing EVERYTHING remotely related
to it into the trash can!"
FFStreetwise Website Profile: Cody, a well-respected hero in the Hood,
is a long way from his glory days of fighting Mad Gear gangbangers years
ago. His knees have since failed him, and he's resigned himself to
training his younger brother to uphold the family name in the underground
fight clubs of Metro City. But that hunger for the ring still burns, and
Cody can't put to rest the thought of someday, somehow fighting again.
Even if it comes with a heavy price.
Cody's serial numbers on his jail uniform in Streetwise are 8484H on
the right and [something] on the left. The back reads "Metro City Jail".
Cody almost seems more like a father than a brother to Kyle sometimes.
Most telling is how frustrated Cody is that Kyle isn't living up to his
potential. Cody (who possibly has the typical "father wants to live his
glory days through his son" complex) is coaching Kyle to improve not as
a rival but as someone who's raising him. Cody being the older brother who
is constantly taking care of the younger brother was confirmed in an
interview with Tom Sekine as well. Of course, given that Cody is probably
a LOT older than Kyle (Cody is probably 39 during Streetwise while Kyle is
likely only 22 to 24), this isn't too surprising.
Cody's apartment is a lot bigger and cleaner than Kyle's. A considerable
improvement from the trash can he'd sleep in in the SFZ3 VMU mini-games :P
His knees by FF:SW might be going bad but he's still getting some 'action',
at least. Madame Celeste (psychic) "mysteriously" has the keys to his
apartment. It doesn't take long for Kyle to figure out why.
In FF:SW, the front page headline of the newspaper in Cody's apartment
on his table reads "GLOW hits the streets".
Guy hasn't "heard word" from Cody ever since Cody took the fall for
his crime. It was indicated that Cody did spend some time in jail, although
whether he stayed for the full sentence or simply broke out like usual was
not stated. He still has his modern Metro City Jail uniform, though, so it's
possible he just broke out again when he got bored. Sgt. Sims however didn't
mention anything about it while talking about Cody to Kyle. Maybe the police
just gave up on him after he broke out, although Sgt. Sims was trying to
arrest Cody once again after Cody got even more caught up with GLOW, but
that's due to new things that Cody got caught up in (GLOW).
Guy continues to respect Cody after Cody took the fall for his crime,
immediately adding after telling Kyle about it that from what he knows
of Cody, Cody would give his life for Kyle. I think this vaguely implies
that Cody took the fall for Guy's crime on purpose (as opposed to Guy
framing him for it) but just like Guy's crime itself, this isn't stated
directly and one can only speculate. Cody never talks about Guy in
Streetwise, although he kept the half of the photo with Guy in it in
his wallet (that Kyle would later find) and Guy says "We haven't heard
word since" instead of "We haven't spoken to each other since", so I'm
under the impression that Cody wasn't bitter about the thing. ...it's
not like Cody isn't used to jail by then, anyways.
I have no idea why Cody ripped that picture of him, Haggar, and Guy
together into two pieces, nor do I know why Cody holds onto the half with
Guy while leaving the half with Haggar at home. Haggar's phone call on
Cody's answering machine indicated that the two still saw each other and
were friends so it's not like there was a falling out there. Maybe he
ripped it out of frustration but kept the Guy half because he hadn't talked
to Guy in such a long time and was planning on doing so finally, soon.
GLOW's steroid-esque properties healed Cody's knees while he used it, but
it is also implied that the healing remains at the end of the game even after
the rest of the GLOW effects wore off, as after Cody makes the joking remark
that his knees never felt better, he then gets excited and wants to tell Kyle
more before he is interrupted. The moral to this story is that drugs do a body
good! A similar case with psycho power as well.
Oddly/interestingly enough, in FF:SW, Cody doesn't normally have the
tornado effect in his uppercut like he does in SFZ3, but Cody Death does.
...maybe it's those knees.
Where does this guy get so much willpower? Chang says that GLOW is like
any other drug and that it wears off over time, but like any other addictive
drug, quitting it is hard and there are SEVERE withdrawal symptoms including
insane delusion, etc. And yet, Cody gets over his ridiculously humongous
overdose of GLOW obscenely quickly. Chang said she could detoxify him earlier,
but Chang definitely had nothing to do with his recovery at the end of the
game because she wasn't even around. While it's true that Cody's willpower
is strong (he's able to wrestle with GLOW's control over him during the final
battle against Bella and finally overcomes it in the end), that he can quit
an addictive drug so quickly like that without going through a prolonged
withdrawal period and craving even after Chang said there'd be one is a bit
hard to swallow. Hmm... maybe it's because there's only room enough in Cody's
system for one addiction at a time (which would be fighting of course!).
And I guess Cody managed to fully heal from GLOW's effects by punching a
trash can and then eating the roast chicken it left behind or something.
*** pgVCViper.
CRIMSON VIPER
Fighting style: secret spy tool fighting
Birthday: July 18
Native place: America
Height: 175 cm
Weight: 56 kg
BWH sizes: B98, W60, H90
Blood type: AB
Likes: her daughter, money
Dislikes: overtime
Special skill: tricks
SF4-era nickname: "Ms. Perfect"
Street Fighter 4: Tough and smart female agent. Always moves businesslike,
yet doesn't seem to steer towards duty or humanity. Having trained her
entire body as a weapon she draws forth attacks from her suit, certainly a
menace. Secretly maneuvers in various places, her true nature wrapped in
mystery.
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C.I.A. agent Crimson Viper debuts in SF4 pretending to be loyal to Seth and
the enterprise S.I.N.-sha. Viper learns that Ryu's data is planned to be
at the focal point of the BLECE project, and passes along this info to the
C.I.A., while noting that this opportunity has been a long time coming [Ryu's
SF4 opening]. She utilizes a special suit made by S.I.N.-sha to the fullest
capacity possible, which pleases her contact. He agrees to see that
arrangements will be made for her to head the BLECE project, if she passes
with flying colors in the tournament with respect to her suit's optimum
performance. Upon receiving this confirmation, she receives another call,
this time from her true employer the C.I.A. She's ordered to relay any new
info she's intercepted and proceed with infiltrating the shadowy enterprise's
hosted tournament, cautioned that if things get too hairy for her, to at the
very least verify the identities of all the contestants participating [Viper's
SF4 opening].
Viper runs into Chun-Li during the course of SF4, who in turn warns Cammy
about this annoying agent getting in the way [Cammy's rival battle intro].
Cammy's ending has Viper sneaking up and holding Cammy at gun-point while
Cammy's uncovering files on BLECE in the lab, then once Cammy deletes the
BLECE data, Viper backs off and mutters how many years' worth of investigation
was wasted just like that [Cammy's ending].
Super Street Fighter 4:
Investigators and fellow companion agents are dropping like flies left and
right thanks to S.I.N.-sha and the refusing-to-be-extinguished Shadaloo.
Viper swears that they will be stopped because they forget the worldwide
authorities they're daring to deal with. [Viper's opening]
Viper possibly runs into Hakan during SSF4 to try recruiting him and
replace a companion or two fallen in the battle against the world's
persistent evils. He's definitely at a disadvantage fighting her suit
and most likely yields, but she remains intrigued by his appearance and
nature as they part. [Viper's rival battle exchanges]
While Shadaloo's stench continues to linger by the end of SSF4, S.I.N.-sha
gets wiped out, and Viper heads back home to meet her daughter Lauren with
an earlier-than-expected welcome. [Viper's ending]
Where she is now: Still working for the C.I.A., and hopefully spending more
time with her daughter now that S.I.N.-sha's somehow or other out of the
picture.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
C. Viper from SF4
Her Names.
That room's illumination was put out.
Outside the window was only a night view light spread out, at the window blue
and white was shining out on a standing woman.
Suddenly a high-pitched sound reverberates, a cellphone above the bed rang.
In the dark room, the arrival of an acquainted light, as if it be like a single
neon flashing.
The woman stares at that flashing, exactly 3 calls later her hand took the
cellphone.
"Yes."
"Ah, it's me. The experimental results from the other day are to be placed up
high. Provided they satisfy even the uppers is likely."
From the speaker, the man's voice was lowered to be audible.
"Well then I appreciate it."
Even without sarcasm, the woman bluntly answered.
"With that, how is the schedule for the final benchmark experiment hmm?"
"It's something that's just right. Our company's sponsoring a world fighting
tournament, that which I'm participating. The combat of noted fighting stylists
from around the world......Displaying with this suit's performance, I hope for
the best scene."
The voice on the other side of the phone lightly laughs,
"I see. You're also an interesting matter to consider, Maya. Understood, I
shall report as such to the board of directors. We'll likely be in touch later
on."
"Sure, if you would please."
Even without the reverberation to disconnect them, the woman called Maya tosses
the cellphone above the bed, letting out a light sigh.
"......At last, I've gotten as far as this."
Opening a laptop on top of the desk, she strikes the keys in a seeming flow of
time.
"Do the data request once more, and. After that, check on the tournament
entrants also call in......"
One by one while being absorbed in the coding for opening confirmation screens,
she inputs the requested matters to the "uppers."
The key strikes are just a dry sound, colliding with the dark room's barrier
and vanishing.
An inorganic matter of time passed as several minutes.
And, different from some time ago, an out-of-place cheerful melody, resounds
in the room.
Her face is taken aback, for Maya her hands are promptly finished, she took
another cellphone she had placed above the sideboards.
"Hello?"
"......Mama?"
Anxious from the opposite direction of the phone a young girl's voice calls
out, her cheek, loosens up as though it's ice melting.
"What's wrong, Lauren? It's not already time for no sleep is it?"
"Umm you see, today I went to see fireworks with Sally."
Relieved at hearing her mother's never-changing voice, the little girl's voice
leaped.
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Highlights:
-C. Viper: double agent and mother. She's finally earned S.I.N.-sha's trust
under the identity of "Maya". Not quite known at this time whom she's speaking
with on the other end of the phone. Could be a S.I.N. rep like the one in her
SF4 animated opening, could be Seth himself, that is if he were to have still
others within the "board of directors" he conveys to as well.
Her Family
That day, Lauren was grappling with her elementary school writing.
The theme given to her from famed language teacher Ms. Sarah was a strict issue,
"my family."
For Lauren, resting her chin on her hands looking up at the ceiling, she was
thinking about it while her feet not reaching the floor swayed to and fro.
For Lauren, were 3 important people as family. Mama and, her rabbit Cicero,
and then Aunt Emily.
Cicero, being a stuffed toy Mama gave her for her 5th birthday, fluffy white,
could be some spottish pink satin, is a very fantastic rabbit. Aunt Emily,
the times when Mama isn't at work, is a person who comes to help out in the
house. Awfully kind, skillful in song. Even sewing being her specialty, a
bag but a one-piece dress but, Lauren wants whatever she makes to give her.
In addition, the food Aunt prepares is incredibly delicious. Having returned
from school Lauren, sees the evening cook's collection of goods,
"So yummy!"
For the slaved-over menu, next day, they'd certainly line up at the dining
table. Previously, Mama had said that, "If Lauren gets along well with
Ms. Emily, Mama is glad," she said smiling, but that smile seemed a bit lonely.
Lauren peered into Mama's face, "Mama, number one is Mama of course!!" she
said with a serious look.
"Awkward in song but, don't take on appliques also, even burn the food a
little bit, such things have nothing to do with it! Mama is the best!!
There is no Mama like my strong and cool mother! You can do tricks, besides
before that when you keri-ed that robber..."
"Oh Lauren."
Mama, quickly touched a finger to Lauren's lips.
"What...! Where did you recall keri? Don't be using such words!"
The shape of her mouth was laughing but, Mama with only one eye when made
narrow was when she got angry.
"I'm sorry."
As a genius Lauren apologized.
Be it boys be it girls, there's no using dirty words. So to say, was
Mama's favorite phrase. Even having expected Lauren to understand that well,
which ones though were the dirty words, Lauren occasionally couldn't come
to understand.
"Umm..., Mama kicking the robber, when she sent the robber flying into the
counter her form was amazingly great, is all I was saying."
"I see, thank you."
Mama sweetly smiles, gently she stroked Lauren's head. Lauren, likes very
much when Mama's hand strokes her head. Warmly, fluffily, as though a sense
of security completely hugs her.
"Hey Mama. I, want to become like Mama don't I."
Saying that, for Mama her eyebrows rose on one side, she roughishly inclined
her head to the side in doubt.
"Oh my, but Mama is awkward in song, she doesn't take on appliques, she
doesn't prepare any delicious food right!?"
"Aunt Emily is doing those for us it's okay!"
With that, Lauren continued.
"If I become strong like Mama, I'll be able to do them together with work
right?"
"Lauren..."
If Mama was blinking in glittering surprise several times, she would
delightfully smile.
"That's right isn't it. If Lauren were to prevail on such a grand scale,
work together with those perhaps. Certainly would be enjoyable."
Thinking to grandly open for Lauren her round eyes, instantly her whole face
expressed a smile.
"Absolutely!!"
And, Mama's forehead knocked onto her own forehead with a clunk. Mama
softly closed her eyes, Lauren also closed her eyes and, there was Mama's
usual scent. A tender fragrance of flowers. Unable for patience her eyes
open and, Lauren as it is tightly hugs her mama about, she inhaled that
sweet smell with all her strength.
"Mama, I love you!"
"Mama also loves Lauren!"
...is the extent of what she recalls remembering, spurred on by the
feelings of wanting to have waited at the entranceway for Mama's return,
Lauren firmly beared with it.
"I'll quickly write my composition, and if Mama comes back I'll read it
to her and!" She says delightfully and, Lauren immediately hurries to
the pen.
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Highlights:
-Viper's daughter Lauren and her writing homework. An assignment about her
family, who consists of her mom who's frequently away due to her work, a
housekeeper going by the name of "Aunt Emily", and Lauren's stuffed toy
rabbit named Cicero.
-Viper wishes to shelter Lauren from fighting circles as much as possible,
labeling fighting lingo as "dirty words."
She has two faces: cruel beauty agent and loving mother. Her pride wouldn't
forgive her to not complete her work punctually. Her special skill is
using her techniques off-duty to amuse Lauren, kind of like giving your kid
a fireworks/flying show demo. Viper's sense of punctuality motivates her
to always strive on getting her assignments done and getting back home before
her daughter wakes up in the morning.
Revealed from CJ's SF4 blog, Viper's alias under S.I.N.-sha is Maya
(was Leila at first); her name under the C.I.A. is Crimson Viper, her
real name's unknown (even to the developers), and her daughter's named
Lauren. CJ's artist Ikeno notes that he had originally planned Viper to
be a 20-year-old single mom.
Viper's SF4 arcade ending comments:
Defeating Seth, Viper finishes up that report to the organization. She
declared with the issue of Seth being the meaning of felt words "No. 15",
and there are 26 remaining bodies of prime fields to dispose of, she
informs the phone receiver.
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*** pgVDamnd.
DAMND
Height: 218 cm
Weight: 201 kg
Hails from: America
Special move: flying kick
Favorite food: strawberry sundae
Final Fight One: A member of Mad Gear, Damnd was the one who kidnapped
Jessica and called up Mike Haggar to blackmail him. He then took Jessica
to the slums which were under his control, and knew that Cody would come
for her, but by the time Cody arrived, Jessica had already been given over
to Belger. Damnd fought and was defeated by Cody after that. [Conjecture
based off of in-game storyline]
Where he is now: Hacking into security systems and cackling somewhere; who
knows.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
FF1 Bio: Damnd is one of the leaders of the Mad Gear gang and heads the
Mad Gear's worldwide information network. He uses informants from many
government agencies including the FBI. Damnd's information keeps the Mad
Gear gang one step ahead of the authorities.
Damnd's name was censored to Thrasher for the Super Nintendo version of
Final Fight overseas.
It's possible, due to his name being spelled in katakana, that his name
was mistranslated and it was meant to be Damned. Not that there's much
difference there, though:P
Damnd's whistle returns in FF:SW. Some Punx use it to summon other
Punx. Sadly, Damnd however is not in the game.
*** pgVDan.
HIBIKI DAN (last name listed first)
Birthday: November 25
Height: 177 cm
Weight: 74 kg
BWH sizes: B113, W83, H88
Blood type: O
Native place: Hong Kong (belongs to China after SF2)
Special skill: tile breaking, karaoke
Likes: taunting
Dislikes: wakame (edible brown seaweed), snobby guys, little rascals
Fighting style: saikyo ryu (based on the teachings of Gouken)
SFZ-era nickname: "For My Dad Was Strong"
SF4-era nickname: "Rushing Burst! Strongest Road"
Street Fighter Zero 2: Dan seeks out Sagat in Street Fighter Zero 2 in
order to avenge his father's death. He finally finds Sagat, and challenges
him. Defeating Sagat (though what he didn't realize was that Sagat lost on
purpose... odds are high that Sagat simply let Dan punch him once then
purposefully fell down and didn't get up), Dan believes that he has finally
avenged his father's death and now prepares to start a dojo to teach his
saikyo style to the world! [Official]
Street Fighter Zero 3: He probably just tried to make Sakura his student
as well as got to have a reunion with his childhood friend, Blanka. He
already got revenge on Sagat when his tenure starts in SFZ3, as you can
see by his description (for more on that, see Sagat's storyline during SFZ2
and SFZ3) [conjecture based off in-game storyline]. He also stumbles onto
Shadaloo's psycho drive base while searching for a suitable place to start
the Thailand branch of his dojo, and possibly runs into Cammy or one of the
other girls in the process (specially noted in AAC and his SF4 win quote to
Cammy). Seeing as how he's still alive and well for SF4, he was one of the
many who fled the exploding base, he of course ala Mr. Satan-from-DBZ style.
SFZ3 File #12 Dan
Real name- Hibiki Dan (fire-coated bullet). The self-styled Hong Kong
dwelling saikyo ryu dojo teacher of Japanese ancestry. Once his father Gou,
challenged to battle the then young Muay Thai champion Sagat, taking Sagat's
one eye also in taking a counterattack he lost his life. Piling on his
self-taught training in order to strike back at his father's foe being the
hated Sagat, he became a street fighter but, with using the same system of
techniques as Ryu and Ken even incomplete isn't it earnestly a regretful
circumstance? Presently, he's in the middle of recruiting disciples.
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Highlights:
-Dan has both Thai and Japanese blood in his roots. His Z3 status reveals
that he has gotten his desired revenge on Sagat (whether Sagat pitied him or
not), and his current goal is gathering fellow fighters for his style.
Street Fighter 4:
A fighting stylist with the distinctive features of colorful provokings and
incomplete moves. Even with the matter of having studied under Gouken once,
those fighting techniques of "saikyo ryu" are deep with the color of self-
taught.
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Dan is visited by Sakura who's wondering if Dan's found out anything about
"that person" aka Ryu. Dan tells her there's a tournament coming up which
both Ryu and Ken might be attending, but he's not totally sure, which doesn't
matter since that's news enough to get Sakura beaming with gusto [Sakura's
SF4 opening]. Afterwards, Dan looks forward to going to the tournament
himself since he missed the opportunity for SF2 apparently because his
phone service was cut off when Blanka tried to call him and inform him
about it. Nonetheless, Dan's pumped that he'll be going to Seth's tournament
representing saikyo ryu together with Blanka and Sakura, swearing to his
father (while gazing at his own mirror reflection) that he'll show his
self-made "strongest" style to the world [Dan's SF4 opening].
Dan is shown to just barely inch by to reach the participatory levels of
Seth's tournament [Seth's SF4 opening]. His ending has him bump into Blanka
while fleeing from a wall of flame rushing towards them. Upon being saved
by Ryu and Sakura's efforts, he maintains his arrogant facade leading the
way to the lab's exit, the other three staring back at him with stupefied
faces.
Super Street Fighter 4:
Tournament time again hence another journey with Sakura and Blanka, and Dan
launches a TV commercial to bring entrants into his dojo. He pulls out all
the stops: half-price admission, a T-shirt and a small pruning tree. No
calls accepted because he still has no phone service, just come to the
dojo in person. [Dan's and Sakura's openings]
Dan might've fought Sakura per his rival battle with her, and most likely
handed himself his 23rd straight loss between the two of them. Sakura's
ending shows him calling out to her to board the ship as Sakura's bidding
Ryu a satisfied farewell, and Dan's ending displays the fruits of his
TV commercial efforts: nothing. Not one applicant. After Sakura almost
trips on him once she steps into the dark dojo, she asks if he included
the dojo's address along with his TV offers. A howl resounds throughout
the neighborhood as poor Dan realizes he never told the TV viewers where
his dojo was!
Where he is now: Probably still looking for students to teach saikyo ryu
to, and bailing or getting bailed out of hairy situations as usual.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Zero's World vol. 5- Dan
His name is Dan (Hibiki Dan).
Presently living in Hong Kong.
Once the young Muay Thai champion Sagat was challenged, by a regretted and
torn apart fighting stylist while deprived of that one eye. That's Dan's
father Gou (Hibiki Gou). After the battle with Sagat, before long Gou died.
For young Dan, the death of his father forced on him a hatred for Sagat.
For the sake of revenge he migrated to Japan to study fighting techniques,
to continue with Master Gouken's original training, bringing forth a malicious
heart's unrest and unreasonably indicative of it, he becomes excommunicated.
After that, Dan returned to Hong Kong, all the while continuing to train well
his self-taught moves at combat levels. And so on Dan's basis to acquire
chance for retaliation, "Sagat defeated!!" was the so-called hearsay that
flowed out. According to news, an unknown Oriental, is said to have held him
down with one blow.
Seriously what was that guy?
Could such a guy become a hindrance......?
Dan hurriedly flew to Thailand, chasing after Sagat's whereabouts.
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Highlights:
-Dan makes his debut in the Zero series due to hearing that someone took out
Sagat before he was ready to carry out his revenge. He heads for Thailand
immediately after hearing this rumor which proved true.
Dan from SFZ
Original account from SF2 Himitsu Hyakka
During the time Sagat's one eye was plundered, his father died in the midst
of the bout. In order to defeat his father's foe, Dan would walk the fighting
path. However, with Sagat defeated by a nameless fighting stylist his figure
had disappeared.
For the sake of chasing after vengeance Dan, began as a student before Gouken.
Dan's fighting ability, was steadily becoming stronger.......
"Dan!, for what sake do you struggle!?" Gouken, asked of Dan. For Gouken,
in the midst of training within Dan's fist, he saw hatred. Dan, could not
respond. As Dan's fist was that Gouken had taught, a righteous fist it had
not become.
"Dan!, depart from before me, ......furthermore, abandon your fist!"
At Gouken's words, Dan shedded tears. Dan was excommunicated.
However, Dan for the sake of revenge could not throw away his fist. From
that day Dan's self-taught-style training began.
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Official Story from Gamest SFZ and AASFZ
Before Gouken's eye, seemingly with that brow touching the floor, 1 person
a young man was squatting down.
From where had he heard of it, a lonely mountain recess where his own
techniques would thus be polished with the family constitution before Gouken,
as a young man he requested to be taught. One day Gouken saw through him.
Within this young man, a matter of concealing a rare fighting ability.......
"Ahem Dan, what is it that you desire of your fist?"
At those words of Gouken the young man quietly raising his head, coldly
answered.
"Just, only strength!"
Gouken had interest in Dan's talent, from being ushered as a student, how many
months and days had elapsed. Gouken's suspicion penetrating, while Dan's talent
was blossoming, something, was funny. Calling forth a fist that which is always
tagging along, especially like a blazing up of malice desires, like something
spurring on impatience....... The heart of Gouken's aiming fist, Dan's fist
came to be losing it. "I perhaps was mistaken......" Gouken determined
something in his eye, such that he would murmur.
Within jet black darkness, only a candle light flickered faintly in the dojo,
beginning to seemingly encounter the day, motionlessly 2 people's figures sat
facing each other.
"Dan!, with what are you being burdened?" Seeing Dan with his head looking
away from him in silence, Gouken slowly arose.
"Then your fist, don't only close it up." Having silently approached him,
placing him up on his knee aiming Dan's fist at a released thrust.
His body stiffened Dan slowly opened his eye and, from that thrust Dan's fist
had just stopped. Ever as a master, having the lessons by his own hand for
the student's fist broken and such, Gouken could not seem to expect any more.
"Dan!, depart from before me......furthermore, abandon your fist!" Declaring
such that his back would face him, as Gouken shedding tears left Dan behind,
he had gone back into the dojo.
That night Dan left from Gouken's side. With him seemingly smeared with
hatred and, he could not for reason abandon his fist......that's right, as
long as revenge to carry out on that man!
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Highlights:
-Dan failed to stay with Gouken because he only wanted strength to unleash on
Sagat, while Gouken wanted Dan to let martial arts better himself, through
moral development.
-The day Dan was excommunicated, both master and student wept as a result of
their partings.
Dan from SFZ2
Hisshou Buraiken
As an incandescent lamp would shine, 2 men would rise to the surface.
A giant man of more than 2 meters, over such a suffering rough breath.
There he would spring upon the lone man.
"Is that...my, dad? That's right, that's, the form of my dad challenging
the Muay Thai champion. And, this happening......!? No......stop, stop it!!"
Opposite from the giant man's eyes, a brutal red light emitted.
That was fresh blood spurting out....... "Stooop!!"
As for the man sprung upon, his entire body bathed in blood, conversely was
blown off. The world, would be dyed in red.......
"!!" From the bed Dan jumped to his feet. His whole body trembling,
discomforting sweat was soaking the sheets.
"Again, that dream?......!"
His father was a fighting stylist, losing his life immediately following the
match with Muay Thai champion Sagat ten-odd years ago, this nightmare
continued to torment Dan.
Until the result of revenge this nightmare will not go away. Believing that,
Dan recklessly, his own fist lodged in murderous intent and hatred, he piled
on training to destroy the demon Sagat. Dan would slowly stand up. Flame-like
power swells up throughout his body.
Standing in front of a sand bag swaying before his very eyes, Dan released his
power.
"Orahorahorahorahoraaahh!!"
Releasing kicks and thrusts with amazing vigor, like the sand bag wasn't
absorbing even a tenth of the openings. He would drive all the moves he has
into that instant......At the time Dan's wrath reached critical, he'd invoke
the restraint-impossible transcendant technique "hisshou buraiken".
"Koouryuukennn!!"
Not even a trace of the sand bag scattered away. Now for Dan, in his heart
there's no fear of Sagat. As for fear of wrath, he would show panic exchange
for hatred......Seemingly making sure it was imposed on himself, the fact was
that Dan alone, would push it up.
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Highlights:
-After leaving Gouken's dojo, Dan had recurring nightmares of his father
getting torn limb from bloody limb by Sagat. His hatred for his father's
killer served as the fuel for developing his super the hisshou buraiken,
which can manage to turn a sand bag into nothing at the very least.
Dan from AASFZ3
Fighting Style
Although establishing a characteristic style (saikyo ryu), for flowing in that
basis, the martial arts learned from Gouken. Beyond the idea of hatred
concealed within having been sentenced to excommunication from his master, in
the present character he's not sensing the shaded portion. With taunting he
boasts of peculiar tactics for opponents' trembling, through a spirit facade
to stand in superiority for the sake of intellect-like strategy maybe, simply
his personality perhaps.......
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Fashion Style
Once it was also in accordance with the same master, for fundamental attire
the same as with Ryu and Ken. However, a luck-pusher-like personality is his
ruin, for in the waist's black belt the dignity he's not sensing. The
uniform's tint diametrically opposite so to speak, for N hairs tied in a
bundle as his back hair is a simple thing. Perspiration's absorption doing
well with his inside black shirt, it appears to be something imitated of his
late father's attire.
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Highlights:
-Dan's black shirt inside his gi is a memento to his dad. Not only did Gou
wear something similar, the sweat Dan produces amplifies his efforts in his
father's memory.
Sunrise Park [JAPAN]
Setagaya Sunrise Park.
Sakura goes to visit Dan's tent.
Dan: "Ohh, if it isn't Sakura ehh. Been a while hasn't it."
Sakura: "As usual isn't it-. Eating proper meals?"
Dan: "What's with you, that's talk like your mother isn't it."
Sakura: "Besides that, actually there's iincredible news."
Dan: "Huh?"
Sakura: "This time, it's to perform at Ken's birthday party!"
Dan: "Well I'm noot in the mood to congratulate that pompous rascal."
Sakura: "That's not it. At that meeting place, it'll do fine as su-per
fighting tournament. Some kind of prize would maybe come out."
Dan: "You, want money perhaps!"
Sakura: "Thaat I do want although......Beyond that, it's the Pan-American
Fighting Championship's victor Ken's party!? There'll be awesome fighting
stylists gathering won't there? That is, what if even that person also
comes."
Dan: "That's the intention?! Well, what've you come over to my place for?"
Sakura: "Dan also, contrary to your appearance your strong point is foreign
languages right? English and Thai perhaps?......"
Dan: "For appearance that's extraneous. Well you know, those you said
assuredly Japanese, English, Cantonese in Thai. French and Russian also I
can do a little maybe."
Sakura: "Aaamazing! I'll come to rely on you after all won't I. Then, with
anticipating that talent, I want us to go to the tournament together! Getting
to become acquainted with various people, I want to create a chance to meet
fighting stylists all over the world."
Dan: "It's even about your whims eh, even though a highschooler that's your
enthusiam with the exception of studying isn't it. ......Well, if I attach
a proviso I'll even accept ya know."
Sakura: "'Proviso'?"
Dan: "You know well that now for me, is seeking out saikyo ryu's disciples.
You also must enter somehow shouldn't you......"
Sakura: "As for that that's......eheheh, it's not allowed in high school
for me a highschooler......okay?"
Dan: "Well said. That hooky demon......well, that. If you come to be
acquainted with your new head-to-head opponent, with that I would enter you
into saikyo ryu. That's the proviso."
Sakura: "Huu~uh!? How can you say such a person wants to enter? Though I
believe they'd say absolutely not......"
Dan: "They shall enter!! If you don't enter then that's the least you'll
do."
Sakura: "Ye~ah......I'll cooperate as much as possible, for that
matter......"
Dan: "Alriight! Protect that agreement!! Don't worry about anything. If
you take a look at my great self's superior techniques, there'll be noo
non-entering! It'll be ki taken into an ocean liner!!"
Sakura: "(Whatever maaybe......) See ya, until the day of departure, later!"
Sakura runs away.
Dan: "Fufufu......It's boarded the railway hasn't it! Behold! Dad, the day
for saikyo ryu to dye the world is also approachiing!!"
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Highlights:
-Sakura hears about Ken's recent victory of the Pan-American Fighting
Championship, and of Ken's birthday (Valentine's Day) to specially celebrate
the event, and goes to tell Dan about it, hoping to get him to go with her to
the fighting event Ken's helping his uncle host (see Ken's Z3 account in his
section).
-Sakura makes an excuse for not becoming an "official" student of saikyo ryu
using her school's regulation of not allowing highschoolers to get involved
in any martial arts discipline, most likely along with not allowing them to
have a part-time job or other work as well while they're in school.
-Dan impresses Sakura with his multilingual skills. The man can easily go
to English, Japanese, and Cantonese from Thai first, and boasts of a little
French and Russian to boot.
Prologue 5 (Dan) from SF4
"...At any rate I'm hungry."
He murmurs, for Dan having lain down from the deck has gotten up.
"Hey, Sakura. Shall we go a single match wagering for lunch??"
At a distance from the location stretching alone was Sakura, at that voice she
raises her face.
"Yeah."
"What's with you saying 'yeah'! In the mood to backtalk at your master?"
"But Mr. Hibiki. In proportion to lately, you're still not treating for
lunch!"
"Guuh."
That was the case wasn't it, and muttering inside his mouth, for Dan feigning
ignorance as such looked up at the sky. Like that was Dan's manner for a
shocked face, Sakura goes to meet him halfway.
"Moreover Mr. Hibiki, travel expenses. What have your thoughts been to do for
them?"
"Oh, what indeed eh!"
For Dan swiftly bent forward.
"In Hong Kong my acquaintance turns up at the fighting skills facility, then
every week fighting stylists have been doing a battle show. Of course they're
real earnest battles. Every bout win has a guarantee come forth, if it's good
then the popularity enjoyed amongst them is also a guarantee up. Jimmy and I
and you the 3 of us, with wins tucked away on everybody, in two weeks we'll be
able to journey around the globe!"
"It's not a trip!! ...But, certainly it seems like somewhat of a discussion
doesn't it. Would the people to get over there be strong??"
"Whaat, that side of lads would probably not be with a space for strong, after
all they're amateurs!"
"Yeah..., they'd be weak huh..."
"Hey, don't suggest disappointment!"
"I'm not disappointed but..."
Even while saying it, Sakura seemed bored as she was pouting.
"Hey now, heading out to the world fighting tournament, things like a battle
show are like hair-sprung to amateurs and with that cannot be compared with
formidable foes and probably as many battles as one likes! With that being
such an issue, it's the relishes before the main course! It's the
hors d'oeurve! It's the hot, moistened hand towel!"
Formerly several times he just turned up as the show's layer per team member
to be honest he wasn't very self-confident, for Dan at any rate would state
definitively puffed up with pride. With Sakura's facial expression becoming
cloudy he would go clearing it up.
"Really, it's that way isn't it. Besides, at the world fighting tournament I
might even get to meet that person as an excuse!"
"Oh, that also!"
Dan more and more puffed up with pride.
"If that's settled, to tidy up the disruption there's the subject of organizing
travel expenses, going all out in anticipation of your success today..."
"What are you saying?! It's for departure immediately!!"
"Yeah, but still for a schedule-like flexibility..."
"Alright, gotta run for just a little bit! Ah, from afterwards I'll continue
to the dojo, until then please call out for Jimmy will ya!"
Having said it Sakura ran away, for Dan saw her off in a blank amazement.
"...The youth are quite energetic aren't they."
Well whatever. Were he to take first place at this tournament, the name of
saikyo ryu would upsurge, even flood with primer candidates. Not late for a
party after that.
However, that is and then-. Dan looking at the sky, murmured once more.
"Today's lunch, what'll I do about it eh..."
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Highlights:
-Dan, Blanka and Sakura are in the midst of collecting expense money to go
travel to the opening of Seth's tournament. Despite each of them having
different goals in mind, Dan remains convinced that anything any one of the
trio will do shall be to the benefit of Dan's own cause.
Dan's father Hibiki Gou was a Muay Thai fighter. This is why he
challenged Sagat. Gou gouged out Sagat's weak eye during the battle, and
in a rage due to that, Sagat killed him. Some people have noted that you can
see a touch of Muay Thai in some of Dan's moves if you look carefully (the
dankuukyaku is a good example). That might be just coincidence but I don't
think it is and it's been officially confirmed that his father practiced
Muay Thai anyway, so I'm pretty sure that his moves seemingly having a
touch of Muay Thai was done on purpose by Capcom.
Sometime after the battle with Sagat, Gou died. He didn't die during
the battle, but he died soon after it due to his injuries. Dan, as a young
child, hated Sagat because he killed his father. To prepare for his
revenge, he traveled from his home in Hong Kong to Japan to study martial
arts. He trained under an ansatsuken master named Gouken for a time, but
was kicked out of his dojo because his heart was too filled with hatred for
Sagat. After that, Dan returned to Hong Kong and trained himself using his
own "style."
Dan was Gouken's student before Ryu or Ken were. Ryu and Ken
didn't even know of Dan's existence before SFZ2. Same goes for Dan (though
it's possible that Dan might have spotted Ryu briefly because Gouken raised
Ryu, but that's not a big deal either way because Dan wouldn't recognize
him later on).
The family name Hibiki in kanji is roughly "fire-coated." Dan's means
"bullet", while his late father Gou's means "might." Gou, Gouken his son's
one-time master, Gouki and Goutetsu all have a different kanji for "gou" in
their names. Also saikyo ryu means "strongest school/style."
There's an official artwork of Retsu (first guy you fight in SF) beating up
Dan. This event DID happen, but it happened long after Dan got kicked out of
Gouken's dojo. The details of why it happened are unknown. From Saiki.
Captions for the artwork state that the battle occurred in the midst of Dan's
training, so unless Saiki was mistaken, the training mentioned was for saikyo
ryu rather than his training under Gouken. However, if the training did
refer to Gouken's, it's a smoother implication for how Retsu would be
Gouken's acquaintance.
Dan's relation to Sakura from Dan's point of view is similar to Mr.
Satan of Dragon Ball Z and his 'students.' Basically, Dan THINKS he's
Sakura's teacher, but in reality Sakura isn't paying attention to him and
doesn't care about him, and probably never really agreed to be his student
in the first place (Blanka's ending shows that Sakura doesn't even realize
much that Dan took her on as a student). She's a better fighter than Dan,
anyway. Why does Sakura follow Dan around? Read on.
Dan can speak multiple languages as well as is an adult; he's
Sakura's ticket to traveling around the world to find Ryu and such.
Sakura's relationship with Dan in the manga Sakura Ganburu! isn't
necessarily official, but like many other things from that manga, Dan and
Sakura knowing each other was probably inspired by it.
For Blanka and Dan's relationship, see Blanka's bio.
Dan himself is a big parody to Capcom's rival game company, SNK, too.
His moves and clothes are very similar to several SNK characters from their
Art of Fighting series, and taunting, of which Dan is the king of, is a lot
more prevalent in SNK fighting games than Capcom fighting games. And of
course, there's his classic overseas quote, "I hate the art of fighting, but I
want to be the king of fighters", which makes a pun out of two SNK game series
in one sentence. This is Capcom's tongue-in-cheek revenge for SNK ripping
off Ken and Ryu apparently with their Art of Fighting characters, Ryo and
Robert. Also, saikyo ryu is a vocal combination of the names Saisyu and Kyo
(two major characters in SNK's King of Fighters series).
Dan is 1/2 Japanese, and likely 1/2 Thai since his father's a Muay Thai
fighter. He was born and raised in Hong Kong.
There is a battle intro between Sagat and Ryu where Sagat throws a
defeated Dan off to the side. This is based off of an official art that
has Sagat holding a defeated person before Ryu came along. Capcom took
their inspiration to make Dan from that official poster but then decided to
alter him a bit since then. The game intros have nothing to do with the
actual storyline and that intro is actually more a tribute to how Dan was
inspired by that official poster. The story is that originally, that guy
that Sagat was chucking away was just a nameless nobody but Capcom decided
to make a story with him and thus came up with Dan, then they decided they
wanted to alter that story a bit since then. *shrug* Strange Capcom.
A scrapped plotline is that Dan was originally supposed to be Gouki's
angry student (from the caption in an allegedly official artwork) but that idea
was scrapped when they decided to make him more of a joke character and
parody-upped him more to parody SNK. I suppose his being an ex-student
of Gouken's might be a remnant of that idea.
*** pgVDave.
DAVE
I don't believe Capcom made official bios for the FFT bosses.
Final Fight Tough: Dave's like... a twisted riot cop who's leading a riot in
Metro City. The riot's actually a distraction so that the Skull Cross Gang
can break their leader out of jail during the commotion. He's the first
boss in the game. Not much else to say. [from the game]
Where he is now: *Shrugs*
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Hey hey! It's Edi. E without the fat and the gun! Still has the billy
club and facial hair though.
*** pgVDean.
DEAN
Height: 197 cm
Weight: 91 kg
Likes: driving (fast)
Favorite food: beef kabobs
Final Fight Tough: Dean's family was slaughtered by the Skull Cross Gang. He
joins Mike Haggar in taking them down to get revenge. Initially Haggar
and company didn't know who he was, but Haggar accepted his offer to lead
them to the Skull Cross Gang due to the urgency at hand. There are two
different endings to Final Fight Tough. One where Dean feels his fight is not
over yet and one where it is, but he needs to learn to live again. I think
the latter is the good ending, so I'm going to assume that's what happened.
At any rate, in both endings he walks off into the sunset to find his own
path, alone.
Where he is now: Trying to live a normal life again, I guess.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Dean
Characteristic: powerful, but a bit slow.
Sure-kill technique: electric shock
Weapon of preference: hammer
Special ability: distance grab
Super move: scrap dunk
Dean's a former street fighter with thorough knowledge of the Skull
Cross Gang's operation. He's very mysterious, and rumors say he's not
completely human. He was asked to join the Skull Cross Gang, but he refused
so they slaughtered his family. This angers him so he plans to avenge his
family by destroying the Gang.
He always carries a small picture of his family wherever he goes.
He wields electricity, so people wonder if he's a cyborg, but that's
not for certain.
*** pgVDeeJay.
DEE JAY
Birthdate: October 31, 1965
Height: 184 cm
Weight: 92 kg
BWH sizes: B130, W89, H94
Blood type: AB
Native place: Jamaica
Special skill: musical composition, dance, bamboo dance
Likes: shouting, singing, dancing
Dislikes: stillness
Fighting style: kickboxing
SFZ-era nickname: "Kick & Music"
SF2-era nickname: "He's a Funky Jamaican"
SF4-era nickname: "Cheerful Maracas Fighter"
Street Fighter Zero 3: Dee Jay is a young kickboxer, known as the
"Southern Comet". In high spirits, he now searches the world for good fights
utilizing combat rhythm. And he... does nothing. He became a music star
apparently, since while fighting during Z3 he did catch the eye of a record
company [specially noted by AAC].
SFZ3 File #30 Dee Jay
Admired as the Southern Country Comet, a young kickboxer. Carrying through
seemingly with dance steps he merits of a nimble battle style, a positive guy.
Yet even with any kind of moment never running out of sharp smiling faces,
through a cheerful fighting style at once he's gotten the arrogance of a
champ. With Jamaica's unbounded brightness, through Latin a soulful
environment, he it seems was brought up as a singing dancing fighter. In
the latest, he's beginning to index a unique agreeable sensation in the midst
of combat rhythm.
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Street Fighter 2: Dee Jay participates in the Street Fighter 2 tournament
to find some more rhythm for his songs as he fights. He realizes a cool
new beat and becomes more popular than ever [Conjecture based off in-game
storyline].
Dee Jay- SSF2XR Character Concealed File
The man who as a fighting stylist is a pro musician. In order to search out a
new rhythm, he participates in the battle.
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Super Street Fighter 4:
Being an extremely talented kickboxer, yet continuously running million sellers
a top musician. Consecutive attacks produced from "attack rhythm" are, his
true worth shown. For that bright personality appraised as far as "cheerful
rather than optimistic", he never lets his smiling face go out. From
unexpected details it's been arranged so that he participates in the world
fighting tournament.
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Highlights:
-Dee Jay's "combat rhythm" from Z3 has apparently graduated to "attack rhythm"
by SF2 and SSF4. Alrighty then.
Dee Jay continues to find hoodlums to bash heads with in the Lemony. One day
he finds that one of them has a flyer showcasing Seth's latest tournament, and
his perpetual grin shows interest. [Dee Jay's opening]
Dee Jay most likely ran into Rufus in SSF4, and possibly met with Cammy as
well. If they did meet, she successfully got an autograph for her friend who
adores Dee Jay, and he more likely than not tried to turn Cammy's frown upside
down. [Dee Jay's rival battle and win quote exchanges with Cammy]. His ending
has him duking out with an empty Seth and later on partying the night away as
always.
Where he is now: He's still a music star. According to SF Eternal, he
continues to travel with the dream to master both the arts of fighting and
of music.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
The following were eventually altered/omitted from his profile as shown on
Capcom Japan's SSF4 site:
Name variations: DEEJAY/D.J.
Age: 29
Occupation/pedigree: musician/kickboxer
Special skill: - (unspecified)
And his originally posted profile summary (even his nickname changed)
Southern Country Comet
A kickboxer representative of Jamaica and being at the same time, being a
popular musician with all produced CD's so-called million sellers a unique
fighting stylist. With an exceedingly cheerful personality never letting his
smiling face go out. Defeating the unexpected hoodlums that come to his
favorite establishment, challengers having heard that rumor and, his defeating
assassins dispatched from the organization happens to finally arrive to Seth.
Dee Jay's manager has a pet bird named Beramacha. Dee Jay and the bird are
best buddies.
His manager's name is Rick.
He's always smiling, (even when sleeping). Dee Jay likes lots of things and
dislikes lots of things, yet has a good sense about him. He's talkative and
seeks out severe battles.
He does stay strong with swinging iron-made maracas.
From HnN regarding Dee Jay's rhythm.
Ever since Dee Jay was young, he was absorbed into music and kickboxing. As
a result, he became a super top-notch musician as a kickboxer.
Can another glance at the two be probably how he practiced? At first
considering the matter, the destined rhythm from the fact that is said from
both, the time of kickboxing practice, if not then constantly playing high
spirited music? Besides coming from the nature of the rhythm's feeling and
a polished fighting sense, due to consideration his own personal rhythm is
affixed to his body.
Battling head-to-head with his head constantly flowing with the music,
reckless opponents likely can't wait much longer. Is that not probably
Dee Jay's secret of strength?
Also, amidst head-to-head battling inspiration grows. Lately, in the world
as a street fighter beginning to battle as it goes how it all started, with
more opponents' queries of his strength and the degree of strength his
inspiration clears, a fresh composition written from what is said to be
turned-on persuasive power perhaps?
Besides what is done it is believed that Dee Jay is what is said to be a
wholly optimistic man. You might say his album before long will most
certainly be heard. Maybe the vocals already came around (by all means
Capcom).
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Dee Jay uses Capoeira in the Street Fighter comic by Udon, but
the writers stated in the RAW that they just did this because it suits
his character and they don't think he uses Capoeira in the games (he
doesn't).
Fun random fact. Dee Jay is the only SF2 character (and probably only
SF character ever) designed by Capcom of USA. When Super Street Fighter 2
with four new characters (Cammy, Dee Jay, Fei-Long, and Thunder Hawk) was
made, Capcom of Japan made three of them and Capcom of USA made one, Dee
Jay. ...this might explain why Dee Jay is the least developed SFZ3
character (little incentive for CoJ to develop the storyline further for a
character they didn't design).
A post to the Gamefaqs message board by James Goddard, the man
responsible for designing Dee Jay.
That is true. Capcom had sent us pics of the 4 new challengers. There was 2
Fei Longs (head swaps). I felt this was bad for the players and asked for a
shot at creating a real 4th. They let me try and after watching King of the
Kickboxers with Billy Blanks (yes the tai-bo guy before he wore tights!!) I
got the idea. I sent a real rough/crappy sketch. They sent back a good one.
I did a final kickass one from theirs with the hairstyle and such, and
pitched it in Japan. I cannot remember the artist's name but he made it
happen. I have read stupid threads in the past about how I am not a good
artist; the joke is I never said I was an artist! LOL! I draw cartoony
stuff. I get to co-create characters in this biz because I am able to write
the background and pull out the character's feel/motivation, etc. do a lame
sketch when needed and work with great artists to collaborate the end
result- with them nailing the look! I think Dee Jay is fun, so even though
he is not critical to the SF storyline, he has tons of potential!!
Dee Jay's machine gun upper was born when he tried to knock some punks out to
the beat of machine-gun-like background music playing. His punching power
totally changed when this rhythm became in demand.
Secrets of Dee Jay's SF2 stage from the Fanbook:
Jamaica (Dee Jay)
Sunset at the establishment known as "Lemony" at the pretty Kingston beach.
Parrot
Flies when the match is decided. Also Rick's pet, Beramacha?
Tune
Dee Jay's tune, is MAXIMUM (also written on his trousers) the center of the
musical performance!?
Band
"Lemony"'s specialty exclusive band with songs treated to salsa.
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Before Dee Jay became famous he danced at the Lemony just like those in the
background of his stage.
Dee Jay from Gamest SSF2
Story of Dee Jay
Twilight approaching on Kingston Beach.
For a beautiful sunset, five points can be counted in the world.
The cafe bar & restaurant of the coastland with a turnout of numerous tourists,
at the sandy beach from occupied lovers an exchange of sweet whispers made of
each other's memories.
Reggae's notorious in Jamaica but, connecting with the shore detail, nowadays
it collects every single music style in the world.
At that shop "Lemony"'s stage, a salsa band resounded with a lighthearted
rhythm. Nearly all the visitors being tourists, among them even the figures of
Orientals could be seen. Brilliantly colored cocktails amongst the flickering
lights of torches. Gently time was flowing by.
That man, automatically turned up.
Seated at a counter seat close by the stage, he ordered champagne.
With a baseball cap and sunglasses, a t-shirt hidden by a bolero, while kneeling
the linen pants hid sandals and everything else.
The skin a burly brown, with considerably tough stature, forged arms could come
into sight.
Having taken a sip of champagne, the shades guy looked at the stage. He was
taking hold of the form's natural rhythm. As the band performance ended, the
next composition began.
A short time later still alone, a strangely unstable man came about. That man
wore a pudgy aloha shirt, he surveyed and considered the restless shop interior
and, hanging on a heartbroken shoulder, with a compassionless face he haunched
down onto the edge of the counter seat.
The shop's master with a full-faced smile approached him.
"Hey, Rick! Been a while hasn't it?!"
Slowly that man's face rose, for Rick, the master being diameterically opposite,
such that now his face burst into tears as he stiffly spoke.
"No matter how hard I try, there's nothing! Why am I not doing well......"
"Hey hey, what's wrong?"
That's how the master was being, never with behavior for a move of worry. After
all with having lost on a wager, having seen his wife with Henkley, such would
be the scene.
"Anyway calm down!, have a drink. After a year again."
"With this, I will calm down?!"
He exclaimed, while the master presented for Rick a double whiskey to pleasantly
drink up, he sobbed convulsively.
"Now what? With your place, recent partners get sold, that's not how it should
be? Isn't that likely the reason for being troubled over money?"
"Those partners are difficult cases!"
"Huh?"
"Partners....that Dee Jay, he melts it away!!"
Dee Jay. There's not a person in this Jamaica who knows not his name. 1 year
ago, like a comet he appeared a top musician. Concerts always packed with
people, with his released CD's being all million sellers he's known as a
superstar. Rick being a friend from 4 years ago, presently, has come to work as
his manager. Because also, with Dee Jay himself a considerably sloppy
character, working and playing tending to be his mood of favorite convenience,
having been a strong feeling, Rick in his natural form was opposed to
socializing.
Enriching what was heard as reasonable, as adequate, indeed celebrities seem
from personalities of happiness or of curses, Dee Jay and Rick's relation ran
across from approximately what became a change of circumstances.
"Melted......you say, you mean like gone?"
"Of course! Surely you know he does kickboxing? Nowadays being with that
domestic tournament, that guy also went out for that. Then, in the midst of
the bout all of the sudden he leaps out, and tears them all up.
Naturally an uproar, fumbling however, already hotel baggage
increases......damn it!"
As Rick was watching over them, he totally didn't suspect the event of the
matter.
Now what other problems could turn up......all hands used up over the fumbling,
like taking the last hand, Rick and Dee Jay met at what came to be this shop.
With hope also extinguished he, already was gulping down the liquor.
That was that time.
The resounding guitar's song suddenly, died out.
All at once the customers turn toward the stage and, a lowbred company of 5 to
6 people, step in to brush aside the stage's bandman.
That private person, pulled out the amp's electric cord.
"Again?......" the master muttered.
In a space of 2 months here, 3 days of opening came to be of company. For
Kingston Beach's sight-seeing guest party restaurants, they became the local
Mafia's suitable income spots. Being impossible to hire bodyguards, there are
high money robbings.
But still, beyond that matter isn't a warped understanding, for in the vicinity
of the shop reluctant guys are swallowed on requirements. As such the
settlement is for safety, it is also to avert trouble. Yet, recently it's
become, a mysterious business for several turned shop interiors.
For "Lemony", it's such that their anti-compulsory demands now carried can be
brushed aside. With song and laughter and appetizing liquor sold at this shop,
acts of loitering by such unpolished company rightly die in vain.
"My bad, Master! I'lll be quiet and have my favorite drink! For a guest
request, naturally let us listen to youu! Gahahaha!"
Frightened guests surrounding the stage are driven away. That being the center,
flashy violet charmed bad suited men, take seats with vulgar loud laughter.
The shop inside returns to quiet.
The master, for tonight, has decided in thought, to get the violet suited men to
approach the counter.
"Sorry......take off! You bother everyone!"
"Hey, did you hear that?! We're also guests, and still we have to get out!
Let us slowly enjoy our alcohol okayy? In this shop, money wipes off responses
dooesn't it, everybody! Gahahaha!"
The huge body built company glared at the master. The master hid his eyes.
A rapid fist assuming a form of endurance, Rick was seeing trouble.
That's it, the police - he thought as he saw part of the counter's interior
telephone, he would show off with the headphones the party guys while he would
grin and laugh.
"Mister Master!! This tone, likely makes for poor business! How about it!?
Every night you agree to be bloodstained!! Hire us, the shop's safe, business
prospers! Don't refuse our terms!"
"Hold it right there!"
That voice was heard from the counter. The sunglasses man.
Seeing that, Rick thought about exclaiming "yeah". The show-off master was
one and the same.
"What, bastard!" Having stopped the frivolous laugh since some time ago, the
suited man dreadfully enlivened. The shades guy took off all his upper garments
and stood up. Too much splendid muscle. No more than this agreed to cool his
smile, the suited man pointed.
"You! I'm astonished!"
"Yeah!?"
"Tonight is a special night. It's too silent here, boring."
For the sunglasses man, seeing the sides of the master and Rick, thumbs were
raised.
"Master! Music, please!"
Rick aware of everything, the shades guy sent back the so-called signal. That
thumb signal, was the dance starting sign. Rick went around the counter
interior, putting in the power to the CD player. A giant noise shot through the
shop.
"Don't joke around! Hey, do it!!"
At the suited man's signal his accomplices would spring upon the sunglasses man.
Having waited out on declaring a facial expression, the sunglasses guy
exclaimed.
"Yahhhhhhhhhh!!"
That movement, was that of a dance. Stretching out his legs, his hands, one
after another the men were removed with attacks as such, going to their defeat.
Connected punches settled for the shin drum explosions.
The surrounding guests were totally excited.
One guest suddenly felt it.
"This tune being......'Maximum', he's......Dee Jay!?"
The tune rose, approaching the last phrase. The hoodlums thoroughly defeated,
the purple suited man became the only one left. Frightened the suited man
admirably ran away.
"H......help mee!!"
At the last tune, Dee Jay's uppercuts piled on each other.
"Dadadadadadadadadadahhhhhhhhhhh!!"
At the same time the suited formed man took off at full speed, the tune ended.
"Dee Jay! Dee Jay!"
Already completely the true colors were exposed. The Dee Jay call would rise.
Rick came running up to Dee Jay.
"You were here, Dee Jay......"
"Yeah, here is my and your, ought-to-be commemorative meeting spot of course!"
Rick began to feel glad. For Dee Jay, my having gone northward cannot be
understood.
After all this guy, is my best pal!
"C'mon......let's go back. Everyone's waiting. Even the fans are anxious."
"Nah......sorry but I'm not returning."
"Huh!? How come!?"
"I've been excited about another new inspiration. Surely it's a new rhythm."
At hearing that Rick held his head. Again something fishy with this guy has
begun!
"Don't worry, I'll return in time for the next concert tour! See ya!"
"H, hey! Wait! What are you going to do, about the next new tune recording!!"
Dee Jay was surrounded by guests flying over, from out the shop. Gold Pampul
Open Sports tires squealing became more distant.
Rick slid into heartbreak, reaching to his knees.
The master to gamble on his voice.
"Yeah if it resounds, it'll be one way or the other......I think, that's the
way it is right, Rick!"
To amass for his sake, finally Rick burst into tears.
"Deeeeeeee Jaaaaaaay!!!"
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Highlights:
-Dee Jay tries to get his distraught friend and manager Rick cheery again in
the old-fashioned "don't worry be happy have a drink" manner. The drink
happens to be a double whiskey in an attempt to have Rick get over the facts
that he fell through on some big-time gambling wagers plus his seeing his wife
with another man named Henkley.
-The joint in Kingston, Jamaica known as Lemony is Dee Jay's own place as well
as his SSF2 stage. It periodically gets visited by the ideal ruffians for Dee
Jay to mop up and treat his screaming fans in doing so.
-Dee Jay met Rick back in 1989 and they've been friends ever since. Rick
started being Dee Jay's manager more recently (1993), shortly after Dee Jay
really hit the top of the charts with his music the year before.
*** pgVDhalsim.
DHALSIM
Birthdate: November 22, 1952
Height: 176 cm (variable)
Weight: 48 kg (variable)
BWH sizes: B107, W46, H65
Blood type: O (possibly variable as well)
Native place: India
Special skill: Buddhist sermons, anatman (Buddhist selflessness)
Likes: curry, meditation
Dislikes: sweets, meats
Fighting style: yoga inner mysteries
SFZ-era nickname: "Yoga's Marvels Infinite Reach"
SF2-era nickname: "Splendid Isolation's Yoga Warrior"
SF4-era nickname: "Deeply Caring Ascetic"
Street Fighter Zero 2: An illness has hit his village and he is street
fighting in order to afford medicine for his fellow villagers. Thatâs
why the villagers and Sally are thanking Dhalsim in his ending.
He dislikes the violence he must do for good, but his wife assures him
that he has saved and helped many people. [Conjecture based off in-game
storyline and specially noted in AAC. Illness is from official SFZ2 bios]
Street Fighter Zero 3: The yoga master, Dhalsim, fights for his family
and for the poor. The increasingly evil energy forces him to decide....
The source of this evil surge must be severed [SFZ3 Prologue].
He might have met Rose and tried to dissuade her from taking on Vega alone.
He may have also met Cammy and sensed the conscious turmoil within her.
[conjecture based off in-game storyline] In the end he manages to weaken
the psycho drive's hold on the girls which allows Cammy to later convince
the rest of them whom they really ought to be fighting against.[psycho drive
sabotage verified by Eternal]
SFZ3 File #15 Dhalsim
Yoga's training monk with matters capable of freely elasticizing his limbs.
For the sake of helping out his village suffering of illness and poverty,
reluctantly he's earning money through street fights. In time he comprehends
an increasingly negative energy, in order to get rid of the calamity he
leaves behind his homeland. Incidentally for him Sally being his wife so to
speak, presently she's during her pregnancy.
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Highlights:
-Although Sally is shown with their newborn son Datta in Dhalsim's Z2 ending,
CJ rewrites the course of events with Z3 such that she's only pregnant with
Dhalsim's son during Z3. She's still Dhalsim's 17-year-old wife (!) though.
Street Fighter 2: As shown by his new ending in SF2 Revival, he DID enter the
SF2 tournament to help go after Shadaloo and win money to feed his son. At
any rate, after the SF2 tournament he went back to his loving family.
[Conjecture based off in-game storyline]
Dhalsim- SSF2XR Character Concealed File
Having thrown himself into the street fight for the sake of his young son, the
kind-hearted yoga master.
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Street Fighter 4:
Disciplined Indian monk who's mastered yoga's hidden purposes. While
hesitant in wounding others due to fighting, for the sake of rescuing
his family's dwelling village, he wields his blazing techniques once
again.
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Dhalsim takes up fighting once more in SF4 in order to recover a precious
resource for his people: water. After hearing from his son Datta via Guile's
daughter Chris that Guile's taken on a new mission, Dhalsim promises the
desperate villagers that he will bring their water back from the agents of
S.I.N.-sha who've built a dam to deprive Dhalsim's village of its H20
[Dhalsim's SF4 opening]. He succeeds, and Datta writes back to Chris after
she does the same saying that her dad's work went well also [Dhalsim's SF4
ending].
Super Street Fighter 4:
The village manages once more thanks to Dhalsim's efforts, but he senses that
S.I.N.-sha and Shadaloo still linger in the world. As a corrupted component
of humankind they must be taught a lesson, and so Dhalsim journeys out yet
again to do just that, wielding his divinely bestowed illusional flames.
[Dhalsim's opening] Seth and S.I.N.-sha are eventually brought down, and
Dhalsim returns home, feeling that he's not alone in the battle for
righteousness, that he can trust humanity as a whole to prevail against
evil and suffering as he hugs his son Datta. [Dhalsim's ending]
Where he is now: Still being a revered philanthropist I'm sure.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Dhalsim from SFZ2
Yoga Inferno
As dusk draws near on the bank of the Ganges River, facing the western sky
meditating was the form of a training monk. His name is Dhalsim.
Now, from tomorrow he prepares for a journey of trial, having calmed his heart.
Up to half a year ago a prevailing disease (hayari yamai) struck his village.
......If the reason was insufficient medical treatment for the poor village,
many villagers would collapse, bedridden by the disease.
With everyone certainly unable to pay their medical bills, Dhalsim unable to
let that present condition pass unnoticed, it is such that he realized the
method for to say earn money would therefore be the means of the so-called
street fight.
At the riverbank he was thoroughly dispirited, continuing to meditate all the
more at Dhalsim's back, a lone woman was stepping up toward him. It's Sally,
his wife.
Her husband's determination, while she knew not to worry in the end, she
couldn't help but be concerned as his wife. The so-called struggle, so far
a silent living contrary to gazing at the world itself having become thrown
onto her husband's back, she stood stock still.
It is that time. Suddenly Dhalsim's body, wrapped into an enormous flame
pillar.
Sally astonished, called out to her husband. "Dear!" However Dhalsim calm,
turned around. "There's no need for concern. This is a marvel of yoga, a
fabricated blaze borrowed from the power of the fire god Agni......it's
alright!"
As he would say it, without a sound the flame went out. Somehow or other
that is, to sightseers it would seem that the image of the flame was like a
battle spirit type of thing.
"Utilizing this power, opponents won't be injured more than is necessary, I
can likely battle to win......" Dhalsim would face his smiling wife, having
stiffened those pupils.
A cruel struggle hardening in his place before Dhalsim, Sally kindly addresses
him.
"Your beliefs, are surely the proper ones......"
Hearing those words, even Dhalsim's final hesitation, seemed to ooze out.
Several months from this event, constantly Dhalsim looks back at his own
conduct endowed him with the technique. That move bluntly named
"yoga inferno", it was to become Dhalsim's powerful weapon.......
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Highlights:
-He doesn't want to fight, but he has to. In Dhalsim's view, evils in the
world such as epidemics and destitution exist so that they be stood against.
-From a passive mindset of using his power for the purpose of minimal injury
to adversaries, Dhalsim's super the yoga inferno is born.
-The disease inflicted on his village is most likely a strand of influenza.
Zero 2's News TOP SECRET: Dhalsim
Top Secret Notification Part Number 8074890
Shadoloo Intelligence Department Investigation Room C-26
His Excellency the Commander's Directly Supervised
New Fighter Acquisition Candidacy Reconnaisance Report
NAME: Dhalsim
(full name unknown, possibly his name as a monk)
AGE: age unidentified
(presumed to be from early 20's to mid-30's)
SEX: male
NATIONALITY: Indian
Herein is the report of the character Dhalsim, who's not strictly a fighting
stylist. Separated from an ordinary human with body manipulation techniques
through yoga, resistant to agony and adversity brought about by many long
years of penance as a Brahman monk, this investigation room considered him
being a superhuman factor even as foremost a fighting stylist.
At his birthplace being the Indian province of Kerala his training contents
of "ikingyo" and fighting move-like factors are matters taken in as
inseparable. Why then, his grounds therefore in representing almost all the
world becomes the striking thrusting related fighting moves from also the
ancenstral origin grounds of the foundations of "Gandaara martial arts."
Though today exists a succeeding name to "Kalaripayattu", the matter that
his fighting techniques will also at any rate vary is of no space for doubt.
As the world is as wide as each joint unit of desorption, from where would
not the existence of the meeting and parting of the skeletal and muscular
systems' flexibilities going at will for fighting techniques and the like.
Namely, having said that the matter of his skills be learned by other people
by example our Shadoloo assassination-necessary personnel's handpicked isn't
an exaggeration to say a near impossibility, even bringing in consideration
for he himself with only a specially characteristic physical constitution,
he's a greatly profound interest as a subject of study. As opposed to
becoming a superior Shadoloo science companion, his own self as the target
investigation object, would we receive a willingness to cooperating.
Nevertheless, according to the measurement machine from his brain even at
normal times a great deal of alpha waves is being detected. In other words
it forecasts trouble for the brainwashing machine in "persuasion".
Furthermore, his fighting motive being from religious morality becomes the
manner of aiding the weak. Somewhat childish heroism but, as for this
investigation room required character care is concluded for this Dhalsim.
As the situation has also detected a hostile manner with us of Shadoloo and
him, if by any chance preparation is set as a necessity add to the matter
in advance. His habitual movements, in the speech and conduct of those many
supporters, the concealed man may therefore take one wrong step for the
possibility of even becoming possibly the "Second Gandhi".
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Highlights:
-Shadaloo's assessment of Dhalsim in the Zero series. Fascinated by the
flexibility of his physique, admittance in the struggle to try brainwashing
him if he were to be captured.
Dhalsim from AASFZ3
Fighting Style
Through penance manipulating comprehended yoga's miracles, from distant
intervals he attacks opponents. As far as extremities for flesh cut clean
of fat even while the joints' abnormal-like limbs are materialized, in
battle the essential parts of muscle mostly not in sacrificing. Also at
any time for a mentality not to forget of compassion's heart, when releasing
kicks even from showing a pressing of palms together (in prayer) one can
feel it.
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Fashion Style
In the ascetic monk's name he wears appropriately simplistic clothing, he's
binding the waist's section with rough straw rope. For paint applied to the
face and head, believed to be also a relation to his creeded doctrine, as for
the rings affixed to the wrists and ears a suggesting of the soul's
transmigration. Taking human death as a thing of severity from customs?, for
hanging from his neck are multiple skulls.
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In front of Jaunpur Monument [INDIA]
Letting down a heavy load, for Dhalsim before an elder sat down.
His return home after 4-some months.
The street fight to say, not without infringing on divine instruction (oshi)
with a drastic rumor Dhalsim resolved to rescue the villagers from starvation
and disease.
Thus including with the elder everyone's hearts by means of the appreciation
right in front of him and, also within his aching chest is the curing thought.
For the village the certainty was becoming clear. For merely each a certain
living's allowance also seems to have come out. In exactly a year reserving
for tomorrow a 2-fold village festival, for the village's girls at the public
square in front of a monument are said to be attending to those preparations.
As for the village elder in Dhalsim, followed with his eyes that quickly he
must be shown that his wife's figure is safe.
The Jaunpur's monument. For in a tiny village that's a non-well-matched
imposing monument.
Having protected people from pestilence and war disaster calamities the hero
of ancient times Jaunpur is being revered, through the utmost of relationship
to the village the transmitted oral tradition biography doesn't expire.
Be that as it may for the monument the villagers' prosperity and decline was
together.
For the public square in front of the monument decorations were being attached
with multicolored curtains and streamers.
Within that discovering Sally's figure, Dhalsim talked to her.
The wife delights in meeting again with the husband.
For a brief period giving a relief, both of them raise their eyes to the
monument. A fine sensation of a breeze goes crossing through the public
square.
"For me to have encountered you, it had to be in front of this stone monument
didn't it."
Curious from his wife that such a topic of conversation had broken the ice.
Having realized whether or not it's her and for presumed Dhalsim, having made
the decision he's transmitting the true meaning.
"For me however much income I've brought, for to the heavily ill ones it has
been about granting purchases for medication. There is no reason that I
mustn't continue the struggle beyond this. However......The fact is I have
been perceiving. In the entirety of this world, a powerful negative energy
seems to be rising. Unable to avoid it being an unreasonable calamity, to us
while it's known as surrendering for the matter of overlooking this......For
in me, it cannot be."
Shutting her eyes, having quietly heard her husband's words for Sally slowly
answered him.
"From the time I saw your face when you had returned, I had rightly sensed
that it was not to be so."
Just now her eyes face toward her husband. An always unchanging gentle
facial expression.
"To trust in you is your wife's duty. And also......In surely coming back
alright, as a father is your duty."
"Father......Ohh, Sally!"
Steadily he gazes at his wife's eyes. For that was also a mother's eyes
affectionate to a child.
Thoughts of a newly family with a son in the mother's womb to come, indeed
for Dhalsim's decision there wasn't a matter of swaying.
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Highlights:
-Dhalsim meets Sally to learn that he's going to be a dad, during a festival
in the district of Jaunpur, the festival honoring a protectorate of the same
name. Dhalsim had been gone from his wife around 4 months prior to receiving
the joyous news and the further incentive to return safely after placing the
negative energy he's been sensing in check.
Dhalsim from Gamest SF2
SFII's strange character and speaking of the foremost to recall is probably
Dhalsim.
Uncanny paint, a repulsive skull necklace, unusually huge bracelets, and
also flax (?) trunks (?). Now an exceeding expert of yoga which is said to
hold a good feeling, and performing hallucinations to their limits.
For his sake as a young child, the wounds of people were taken in sparingly
and not separated from the specially necessary evil within which was to be
admonished from struggling against. An unreasonable argument. For the sake
of children why likely struggle that which is necessary? That boundary of
meaninglessness may possibly be the rationale boundary for Dhalsim.
As for his sure killing moves, scorching the separated opponents, the ashes
left behind "yoga fire," and approached likely by his wife (?) and by his
child, everything wrapped in raging flames is the "yoga flame."
Even not doing these, his limbs can freely extend. An endlessly unfair guy.
However, with his extended limb assault hits are exceptionally anguishing
facial expressions also.
The rest in midair are the sudden angled-degree direction-changing
"drill attack" a queer becoming move he uses, a circumferencing being
grasping uncanningly what no one else can approach.
That's the opened Buddhist enlightened clown Dhalsim.
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Highlights:
-Dhalsim was revealed early on to be capable of inducing hypnotic
hallucinations like he does to Honda in the SF2 Animated Movie. Moreover it
was foreshadowed since World Warrior that his wife would be somewhat alarmed
while Dhalsim performed more flame-intense moves like the yoga flame.
Dhalsim was said to breathe fire by channeling his yoga energy as well
as because he eats lots of spicy curry. At least, that's what my Capcom of
USA SF2 instruction booklet as well as Nintendo Power told me. As it is,
the actual reason is because he drew powers from the Hindu god of fire,
"Agni". He does eat plenty of "special dhal curry" though, as well as
meditate after his prayers and meals.
Dhalsim's Z2 backstory has him deeply meditating somewhere in the
surrounding area of the Ganges River. The people of his village suffer
from poverty and illness. He needs money quick in order to save them.
Dhalsim's wife is Sally and his son is Datta.
Sally's 3 sizes are B82, W57, H86 during the Zero series. She's also 156 cm
tall and weighs 40 kg (!).
Guile's daughter Chris and Dhalsim's son Datta are penpals since SF2
was made (which probably was made in part because Guile and Dhalsim were the
only ones with canon families at the time so Capcom decided to connect the
two).
Typical topics that Datta would write about to Chris include meditating with
his dad, practicing limb stretching as well as sending her his father's curry
recipe.
Dhalsim was born in Kerala, a province in India, as noted by Shadaloo agents.
Dhalsim's Dash account:
Dhalsim from Gamest SF2D
The Vanity of All Things
My name is Dhalsim. I am a man known as an extremity expert at Indian yoga.
As for the obstinates of the West, who don't recognize from the head the power
of yoga, my yoga secrets if looked at can be conclusively authorized. How
about looking at taking from an apple tree if it's 5 meters ahead? Seen balls
of fire emitted from the mouth?! No matter What kind of trick it is.
Borrowing the evil-consuming flame from the power of the Indian fire god "Agni",
it is ready to be comprehended by things such as Western science.
For the pursuers of yoga knowledge, money should not be a need. Food intake
quantities can be regulated at will, the minimum necessary limit of money
agreeable enough among begging priests. For me, if I go into meditation from
morning until evening, that's 1 day passed by. My good-natured wife an
understanding person, at last this time on the side of forgetting hunger,
self-taught to say the techniques of yoga during perception, my family with
money for so-called existence value, still more sparse things were to become.
And so, this is the distant prospect, the change that could not make all
carried.
Void is This Color
However, it was one small life that was largely overturned.
Between myself and my wife a child was born. For me, this child was already
granted by god, a pledge at the same time a thanksgiving to protect this
changing life....grind, weep. It was a leisure openhearted as wanting to cry.
Why was this? So I love you my darling.
That's what it's called. This son, unlike myself and my wife was getting
hungry. Drinking milk thankfully brushed it away but, now it's become that
food is a necessity. So that I heard from my wife say to buy food.
"Dear, there is no money."
How can this be. For my family I believed that money wasn't a necessity,
this has become the shape of necessity...! However, for me there was no work
and the like, really what I can do that'll be enough.
Yoga's Extremity Secrets
The way to make a living in my mind, is to have yoga circle consultations
revived.
"If they could this time be continued as fighting techniques for the world
battle championship, a lifetime of idleness in India can be overwhelmed
with a monetary prize to be obtained."
This is it, no other choice. If I have my yoga, I'll be beneath the notice
for fear of a barbarous fighting stylist and such. But, I was born until
today, above all to not wield violence and the like. The so-called wounds
of people, sufficiently opposing god's teachings, are barbarous things left
to chance. However, to relieve the starving of a beloved son, there's no
other choice for helping this matter. This is one, to say necessary evil
which I can try to get god to close an eye on.
The following day for me, while the wife in training was sleeping I
discovered a famous fighting stylist wanting to challenge me for a wagering
bout. I feel it passed through, that as for me I became 1 person as someone
who would stand before my yoga. And so I decided in conclusion on being a
competitor speaking, with the words "It's unfair...".
What can be said, the Indian vehicle god Skanda surely will not sleep on
unfairness for any reason. As for my extending limbs, the gifts of strict
pursuit of knowledge. It's fine if all of you find mortifying my
reaching-out limbs through pursuit of knowledge.
And, with me needing to have traveling expenses sufficiently collected,
I prepare for the journey. My son, wait for me. When I will return,
there will be curry to eat to your heart's content.
My name is Dhalsim. An extremely potent man in the world.
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Highlights:
-Dhalsim introduces himself to Westerners who might overlook the extremities
of yoga. He and his wife Sally commit to a strict ascetic life of poverty
and fasting, but they found that upon their child being born, these extremities
had to be relaxed for Datta's sake.
-Dhalsim would fight in SF2 for monetary purposes, and with the intent of
hurting others as little as possible.
He is referred to as a monk in AASFZ2, but the context and word used
indicates that it is more as a knowledgeable person about religion
than the definition of monastic monk that most people know (which is why
he has a family, etc). He prays to both Hinduism's beings of the deva
realm and to Buddha (seen as a reincarnation of the deity Vishnu).
Yoga gives Dhalsim many innate mental abilities, such as reading minds
and sensing evil. But you probably already know that. Through the power
of satori (enlightenment in the Buddhist sense) he can de-materialize into
3-D holograms upon teleporting. Truly a yoga mystery. This goes for his
limb extending as well.
The elephant he rides on in his SF2 ending is called Kodal.
Bison once killed one of Dhalsim's elephants just for the hell of it.
Kodal's parent was the elephant killed by Bison.
From HnN regarding Dhalsim and elephants:
There's a drawn picture in the center of Dhalsim's stage. It seems to be an
elephant seated on a rug with both hands holding mysterious weapons.
Ordinarily a picture as such would be overlooked, but this picture is quite
deep within, as deep as the southernmost crevasses of the Mariana Trench,
secret as profound myths and legends.
With this picture, Dhalsim kept his creed alive and belief in the Hindu-taught
deity Ganesh (Kangiden) and perhaps no more than that?
Ganesh is the elephant deity. Drawn within this picture is an indiscretion
with the elephant there, such that is not considered.
In India, elephants are used as holy messengers and held with immense respect.
Dhalsim honors those elephants, through the heart of his creed they're in the
fighting arena of course. Dhalsim's elephants in comparison probably believe
they don't measure up to that known level.
In Dhalsim's stage, six elephants cry out PA-O!...PA-O! twenty-four hours a day,
in the center the elephant god Ganesh brings out the like, in Dhalsim's
religious view, it realistically appears.
Wild elephants decrease in numbers these days, for all of them does the great
Dhalsim not follow their example and cry out for the elephants' protection with
a loud voice?
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Highlights:
-Dhalsim has six elephants in all to praise and honor the Hindu deity Ganesh.
Dhalsim's fire isn't real fire. Apparently, the flames are just an
illusion. That might be why his opponents don't receive any permanent
burns despite being completely engulfed in flames. The significance of
Dhalsim using flames has to do with the fact that some religions
believe that requests and prayers are carried to the heavens by the smoke
and flames. According to yoga, fire is capable of purification.
Dhalsim's views are reflected in this, seeing as how he attempts to
bring peace by erasing the wicked from this world and/or the evil that
aggravates their souls.
Kodal often accompanies Dhalsim as he travels the world. Datta enjoys
playing w/ Kodal.
Dhalsim's fighting style may have been inspired by Kalaripayit as
noted by Shadaloo agents, an ancient Indian form of combat whose unarmed
moves include punches, strikes, kicks, locks, holds, and throws. This martial
art requires tremendous flexibility.
Likely caste where Dhalsim and his family come from:
From initial appearances, Sally and Lilly are definitely easier to label
than Dhalsim:
Lilly: probably a Sudra (servant or laborer)
Sally: probably a Sudra at birth, now most likely a Pariah (outcast).
Dhalsim: he's tough because of many varying qualities he has. Due to his
poverty he might be a Sudra, for the fact that he is or was an (unorthodox)
warrior, he could be classified as a Kshatriya (ruler or warrior, or if
he's considered an authority in spirituality as he is often depicted he
could be a Brahman (priest or scholar). Possibly though he is a Pariah
IF he practices Buddhism which totally discourages India's caste system
by promoting universal brotherhood.
Haggar and Dhalsim are the oldest SF chars in the canon that have
actual specific ages stated for them.
His prototype name was Naradatta and later on Hindustan. He got his
current name from a curry shop near Capcom's headquarters called "Dhal,"
after the Indian cooking ingredient.
In the Japanese version of SF2, Dhalsim says that the photograph is of
him a long time ago. Overseas, he says it is him "in his past
life". Since only three years had passed, he obviously didn't actually
mean that he had died and been reincarnated since the photograph had been
taken. This photo isn't mentioned in his SF2 Revival ending though. The
SSF2XR ending is more about how Dhalsim fights evil now.
A translation about Dhalsim's SF2 stage:
India (Dhalsim) Maharajah's Palace
Indian model decision battles took place at the Maharajah's palace. Now the
ceremony praising the fighting king is just over.
"The king of greatness to become, who besides can it be?"
"Hmm, as for the challengers from foreign nations. This is agreeable, Dhalsim!,
your power will be a supportive test. How much you separate will also be the
remainder of what will be watched over."
"I must win only with motive. Fate cannot be opposed. Such is fate......"
Dhalsim once confronted the whole of yoga training. He took himself as the
same as whoever was a challenger. The greatest enemy therefore being his own
self.......
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Highlights:
-Battles at Dhalsim's stage are fought with the Maharajah's consent.
HnN pointed out that the skulls of his necklace were probably children he
could not save. Then when the Fanbook came out, it was revealed that each skull
represented three worldly elements: fire, water, and earth. Possibly each child
perished from a wildfire or lightning, etc., a flood or just drowning, etc.,
and an earthquake or mudslide, etc.
Although AASFZ3 mentions nothing about his necklace in his fashion style
section (kind of surprising), his Z3 art does show especially from an angle that
the jaws have larger and fewer teeth than would an adult's jaw, and the eye
sockets are reasonably big. Going by the jaws, the children wouldn't have been
older than 2 or 3 years.
Dhalsim's SF4 arcade ending comments:
As Dhalsim knocked down the strong one by one, he achieves in regaining the
water in his family's dwelling village. In the village the children's innocent
smiles overflow, seeing that for Dhalsim is such a happy smiling.
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*** pgVDrake.
DRAKE
An FFT boss. They don't have bios.
Final Fight Tough: A Skull Cross member, Drake is a possible third boss you
fight (and the one you fight on the way to get the 'best' ending). He's in
charge of smuggling weapons for some mysterious company called The Sims.
[from the game]
Where he is now: Hmm.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
He's a sailor you fight on his boat.
...what the heck are The Sims anyways? They're just mentioned after
you beat Drake and that's that, but something must have been important
because stopping their weapon shipment lets you get a 'better' ending where
everyone comments that their job is done (as opposed to the alternative of
feeling like their job isn't done).
*** pgVDudley.
DUDLEY
Native place: England (hails from London)
Birthday: January 27
Height: 185 cm
Weight: 101 kg
BWH sizes: B160, W90, H100
Blood type: B
Likes: black tea, roses
Dislikes: rude fellows
Special skill: ceramics judgment
Fighting style: boxing
SF4-era nickname: "Glittering Within the Battle Dandyism"
SF3-era nickname: "Boxing Gentleman"
Super Street Fighter 4:
Highly prideful perfection principle Britain's heavy class pro boxer. By
means of his father's enterprise's failure for a time strengthened a
totally bottom's living, with one long arm he recovered most of the original
assets. For a powerful rush's impression through close combat to the
contrary, it's balancing also one surface to love black tea and roses.
Responding to an invitation for the world fighting tournament, he decides
to participate.
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Pretty much what's said up above. Dudley's got everything back except for
his father's Jaguar, and suddenly an invitation for a world fighting
tournament arrives. He needs a mood distraction, he needs to acquire
fresh stocks of roses, perfect timing to journey out. Despite sensing
a non-gentleman-like air about this tournament, he asks his butler to
respond positively anyway. [Dudley's SSF4 opening]
If no one else Dudley does get to meet and fight Bison during the course
of SSF4, possibly Ryu as well since SF3 maintains that they had met
sometime prior to 2I and 3S, and likely also Cammy with his win quote to
Decapre. Dudley's ending has him returning back home to find a newly
blossomed wild rose in his garden. He notes that beauty and refinement can
be found not only where one hopes to see it, but also where one doesn't
easily expect to see it. His butler agrees.
Street Fighter 3 Second Impact: Dudley journeys out in SF3 to recover
his father's car that Gill acquired via the black market. [Official]
Even though he didn't win the "tournament," he impressed Gill enough to get
his car back. He accidentally breaks off the steering wheel while driving
it though, but quickly puts it back on. Problem solved! [Conjecture based
off in-game storyline].
Street Fighter 3 Third Strike:
Reflourishing in a champion title, the having been awarded the impressive
special title of "Sir" Dudley. By means of an invitation from the royal
family, he's amounted to being announced to a contest held in the presence
of nobility. "If it won't be a dramatic match to win more than
perfectly......." Still is the day. Circling the world, there's plenty of
time to measure an even more level up. [CJ's 3S profile for Dudley]
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After winning a championship title, Dudley was knighted. Shortly afterwards,
the royal family announced that they will holding an upcoming contest and
invited Dudley to participate. Dudley believes he must fight flawlessly and
give a perfect performance, or everything will be in vain. There's plenty of
time for him to improve his abilities and skills against fighters from all
over the world [Official]. His ending fast-forwards to Dudley still having
this contest scheduled for that very evening, about 5 hours from then, and he
still thinks about his father and their likeness for roses, that is, until
Dudley's butler politely snaps him out of his rose-addressing and they hurry
their long trek back to the mansion. [Dudley's SF3TS ending and specially
noted in AAC].
Where he is now: See above.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Dudley from AASF3
Backstory
One raised in England's affluent-like home, due to his father's enterprise's
failure for him having lost all his assets, the matter of success as a pro
boxer he determines to recover the assets. After several years, that became
a reality. Just one, being Father's youth and prided symbol, for at the
present in the world not merely several vehicles remaining is to be saying
except a famous car Jaguar.......
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Story
On the vehicle's front glass London's mist-seeming rain begins to coil about
and, in Dudley's mind a recalling the matter of that day. From his successful
father his beautiful mother, a grand mansion, the day she parted during his
non-discomforted young boy period. From his father's trivial-like
enterprise's failure the gullible entire assets were lost that day also, such
rain was falling.
With success through his boxing though now having become restored, as for
that day's humiliation he won't forget it.
"The lost mansion, the corporation, everything I've recovered to my
household. After that all save that car."
A Jaguar of a mere few vehicles not remaining in the world, that was of
father's youth and pride.
"Whatever it takes, to obtain it one more......"
But, as for that car's whereabouts it seems to be floating in the black
market, sought fair and square incidentally, it's to say that he indeed
hadn't known.
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Profile
Family- Hails from England. His father through England was successful as
a sports athlete, a character who achieved success even with an enterprise.
For Dudley lived his young boy period without discomfort. Even his university
period his father's enterprise's failure, this time he through achieving as
a pro boxer recovered.
Personality- A freshness in highly prideful dandyism, to aim flawlessly at
anything to other persons is splendidly naive.
Fighting style- As a heavyweight class boxer he's quite small but, that
share of destructive power also speed of course, even technique are thing
he has. Particularly for technique, from outboxing, as far as a feet stopping
infight easily carried, he trifles with opponents. However a perfect-like
fight, he desires a finish too much, it's about to become packing lightly.
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SF3 Q&A from Gamest SF3 Fanbook: Dudley
-Why, in persistence is he fixating on the lost car "Jaguar"?
A. Through his father's bankruptcy temporarily he had lost everything. Due
to his success, until the 1 spoon he had recovered everything, only that
vehicle was he not able to discover. The matter to recover the car is a
symbol of complete comeback and youth.
-As for his family now, how is it doing? Again, about the family composition?
A. Even his father also his mother is in good health, his father through
retreating to the London outskirts he's doing the leisurely easy and
comfortable living. The 1 girl is, married to an American dwelling in the
American west coast.
-To associate the idea of a boxing trunks appearance, the matter to battle
with a trunks figure, is it agreed that it's against Dudley's policy to do
so?
A. It's because on the road the same as a partially clothed appearance is
against etiquette.
-Even in the midst of a street fight, does he not break a tea time?
A. For tea time is not broken.
-At the start time the car he's riding in is he driving it himself?
A. He's driving it himself. With his gloves put on as they are...
-Consequently is his experience light in having lost a battle?
A. Without suggesting about light losses, rather becoming the proud result
of an opponent's reckless offensive, the matter of beyond a necessity to
injure an opponent is, as it seems to be.
-Where is Dudley, doing daily training? Again, is there a master?
A. Dudley, was once a student champion. Though particularly with no fame
he accepted guidance with the university's coach. As for daily he's doing
training in a gym constructed in the basement of his private residence.
-Thinking it seems that there are even boxing digressed techniques, is that
his arranging?
A. That is what's believed.
-Is he acquainted with Bison?
A. To the extent that he's seen videoed matches of Bison.
-What does he regard boxing as?
A. Boxing in regards to him is battle to say the midst of extremity, it's
conduct for the sake of certifying reality's self.
-Is there a sweetheart?
A. There is a sweetheart.
-His favorable type of woman?
A. A blonde beauty.
-Please tell about his 1 day's manner of passing likely in elegance.
A. He's getting up at 6 am for training. Throughout the morning he's
collected reports from the corporation's executives and the electronic
mail check. While taking a lunch he directs the corporation through
electronic mail, the document procedures. Until 8 he's finishing work.
For the evening his meetings with people dining together is abundant. For
Saturday while directing the landscape gardener he's gardening. He's
raising rosebushes.
-Please tell about who manages the tea, his butler in detail.
A. His name, is Orto K. Gotchi. Having done so in the mansion since the
time Dudley was 5 years old, with his father's bankruptcy also in the middle
of its downfall even in spite of being unpaid he continued his work as a
butler with Dudley under his supervision. Born in 1940.
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Dudley is described as a Black of African descent by sources including AAC
and Eternal.
His stage in 3S looks to be outside Harrods in Knightsbridge SW7, which is
half a mile from Westminster. Big Ben is seen in Second Impact.
Dudley's family used to be rich, but through his father's enterprise's
trivial failure, he lost everything he owned, including the car (Gill
acquired it through the black market). Dudley became rich again by boxing
and managed to buy back everything that was once his dad's.
Dudleyâs father lost his fortunes while Dudley was in college.
The rose garden in Dudleyâs SF3TS ending once belonged to his father.
Below are the kinds of roses in bloom in the garden:
Saint Swithun
Abraham Derby
Uncle Walter
Dainty Bess
Of course, he likes tea; never breaks a single 4 pm tea time.
He's a bit small for a heavyweight boxer, but of course he makes up for
it with speed and skill.
His butler's name literally translates as Orto K. Gotchi. A rough
translation could be Orlando. Mr. Gotchi has served Dudleyâs family since
Dudley was 5.
*** pgVEagle.
EAGLE
Height: 184 cm, 182 cm (old SF1 design)
Weight: 75 kg, 78 kg (old SF1 design)
SF1 action: rolling attack
BWH sizes: B105, W80, H86
Blood type: AB
Native place: England
Likes: roast beef
Dislikes: boorish fellows, ungentlemanly conduct
SF1-era nickname: "Callous Coldhearted Oni"
Street Fighter 1: Eagle was an English bodyguard who was hired to beat
Sagat (according to Saiki). After losing the SF1 tournament, he returned
to being a bouncer.
Street Fighter Zero 3 Double Upper: Eagle, a bouncer from Great Britain
who's a bojutsu expert. His desire for the title of Dalyell Baronet has set
his eyes on the world. [prologue]
Besides the fact that Guile prefers to stay on his own to find Nash, that
Eagle needs to hear the name "Sagat" in order to spark his interest toward
cooperating with Guile and head toward the psycho drive base with him, and
that Nash alive at the end of everything, Eagle's goal in Z3 Double Upper is
in no way dependent on him to head for Thailand and Shadaloo specifically,
much like Dee Jay. Whether he does anything more to aim at the baronet title,
besides being a bouncer throughout Z3 is anyone's guess.
Where he is now: Still being a bouncer most likely.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
His bio in both the Street Fighter Fanbook and All About Capcom say
he's an inanimate, coldblooded and cruel bodyguard for a noble family,
probably from the castle in his background in SF1. Neither of the books
mentioned anything about being hired to defeat Sagat. Both sources call
him a coldblooded individual who's been hired as a newly-rich noble
family's bodyguard.
...he doesn't seem that coldblooded in SFZ3 though. Not like
SF1 showed off his supposedly coldblooded personality very much, although
using iron rods like wooden bo staffs can be seen as painfully coldblooded.
Judging by his pre-fight dialogue, Eagle remembers Sagat, which of course
makes no guarantee that they actually met during Z3, and they most likely
didn't.
Eagle fights with iron rods, the tools of the trade for his bojutsu style.
Eagle and Birdie are named after golf terms (an eagle is -2 points,
a birdie is -1). Another reference to this is Eagle's special skill, golf.
Although Birdie was also a bouncer, Eagle doesn't seem to show any
indication that the two know each other in his SFZ3 win quote to Birdie.
Another small note from the SF1 interview: SF1's fighters from England indeed
had their names come from golf. At first they were planned to be named Birdie
and Bogey, but the latter after much laughter was named Eagle.
*** pgVEdiE.
EDI. E
Height: 204 cm
Weight: 145 kg
Hails from: America
Special skill: Shooting
Favorite food: rare steaks (literally blood-dripping ones)
Final Fight One: A corrupt policeman who was a member of Mad Gear, Edi. E
found Mad Gear to be very good for his career. Being affiliated with the
gang, he was able to use Mad Gear's resources to jail many other gangs.
When Cody opposed Mad Gear and hit the West Side, Edi. E, who ruled the West
Side with an iron fist, confronted Cody among a watching crowd. Cody is
disgusted when he sees how corrupt Metro City is that a policeman would
join Mad Gear. Edi. E fights Cody but is defeated by him. [Conjecture based
off in-game storyline]
Street Fighter Zero 3: Cody has busted out of jail. Edi. E appears to be
trying to get him back judging by Cody's win animation... Dunno how much a
win animation should be trusted but mweh, it probably did happen. He never
caught Cody though.
Where he is now: Probably still a policeman of Metro City. And probably
still corrupt too. By Streetwise, who knows? He'd be pretty old by then.
Sgt. Sims is just a sergeant, and you never get to see or hear about anyone
who's higher ranked than that.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
FF1 bio: A vicious ex-policeman. Edi E controls the entire west side
of Metro City (note: Apparently rewritten so that he's still a policeman).
He received administrative guidance from Haggar to become a policeman and
later betrayed him, from an old FF1 character relations chart.
Yes, his name is spelled Edi. E without a period after the 'E'. Dunno
what's up with that. Course, dunno what kind of parents would name their
kid 'Damnd' or 'Sodom', either. It's possible that Capcom mistranslated
his name and it was supposed to be Eddy E.
Metro City is so corrupt that Edi. E managed to hang onto his job
despite being a known member of Mad Gear.
Edi. E also is often chewing gum.
I wonder if the many freudian remarks about Edi. E and his attachment
to his gun in Final Fight One were done on purpose (the funniest one being
SFZ3 Cody's remark about it, hehehe. "You need a gun when you're about to
die don't you?" It comes complete with authority figure connotations!).
Like Edi. E, all cops in Streetwise rely primarily (exclusively, even)
on firearms. Sadly, Edi. E himself isn't in the game.
*** pgVEHonda.
E. HONDA aka EDMOND HONDA
Birthdate: November 3, 1960 aka Showa 35 in Japan's calendar
Height: 185 cm (including bend-over)
Weight: 137 kg
BWH sizes: B212, W180, H210
Blood type: A
Native place: Japan
Likes: tiramisu, baths, chanko nabe (stew for sumo wrestlers)
Dislikes: indecisiveness
Special skill: hotpot dish cooking and serving
Fighting style: Japanese sumo wrestling
SFZ-era nickname: "Sumo World's One Lucky Adventurer"
SF2-era nickname: "Open Hand Slap Ten Round Battle"
SF4-era nickname: "Zealous Sumo Wrestler to Call On!"
Street Fighter Zero 2: He wasn't playable in the game, but he did appear
in Sodom's ending briefly. Sodom visited E. Honda and challenged him to
make E. Honda a member of Mad Gear. The match was fun, but apparently E.
Honda won [based off SFZ2 and SFZ3 dialogues]
Street Fighter Zero 3: E. Honda wants to find worthy opponents and show
them the strength of sumo. In the hopes of finding stronger opponents, he
begins a journey. He fought Ryu in a fun match, and probably got to meet
Sodom again. And he told Sakura where to find Ryu [Conjecture based off
in-game storyline]. Oh, it's indicated by Street Fighter Eternal that his
team-up with Zangief to help take down Shadaloo happened in some shape or
form. His SFZ3 ending where he finds some VSS after Shadaloo went boom
then took them in for a while because they couldn't even remember their own
names happened, too. E. Honda said they could leave if they wished once they
regained their memory (specially noted via AAC).
SFZ3 File #19 E. Honda
Of merely custom and status in the esteemed world of sumo. Honda takes it as
wanting to pursue just strength, that not being also nothing tedious. Thus
for him from limited Japan his eye seems to have come to face toward the world,
wherever it circulates? his power he must test he thrusts out of Japan.
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Street Fighter 2: E. Honda joins the Street Fighter 2 tournament when he
hears that many in the world are clueless to the existing marvel that is sumo
wrestling. He now wants to prove the power of sumo to the entire world
[Official]. Dunno if he did or not, but I imagine he made quite a good
show and thus proved to most people at least that sumo was a respectable
sport.
E. Honda- SSF2XR Character Concealed File
The man who does nothing but practice with effort and spirit. In order to
actually prove the strongest sumo he continues to street fight.
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Street Fighter 4:
A strong man with a collective notice of unprecendented sumo wrestling.
His ranking is below yokozuna but, his true ability is said to be yokozuna
class. For the sake of "worldwide" sumo, he flies out of the sumo realm
journeying on a provincial world tour.
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After his tour which possibly included getting nearly poisoned by El Fuerte's
cuisine (lol) after arguing with old comrade Zangief what's the best food
the strongest fighters should eat [El Fuerte's ending], he steps down onto
Japanese soil only to be berated by the venerable Yokozuna for his crazy
antics. Honda's unfazed, and proclaims to the media that he's going for the
Olympic Games next [Honda's SF4 ending].
Super Street Fighter 4:
Honda's provincial world tour part 2. He finds himself in an unknown country
when he thought he boarded a ship to the States (!), but of course it takes a
great deal more than that to dampen his boundless spirits. [Honda's opening]
He ends up meeting old fellow wrestler buddy Hakan and they have a match or
two. [Hakan's rival battle and/or ending] Finally back in Japan, sumo
wrestlers and the Yokozuna notice that Honda's flown the coop again. Onboard
a plane with everybody staring at him, Honda's determined to personally enter
the IOC itself to make sumo wrestling an official Olympic sport! [Honda's
ending]
Where he is now: He's still a sumo wrestler, as always. And training his
students of course (specially noted via AAC).
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
E. Honda from AASFZ3
Fighting Style
With hand slaps and tosses and other sumo techniques as its core, a reassured
fight is the merit. From a heavyweight rank's physique is unleashing attacks
with destructive power pre-eminence, massive subcutaneous fat is absorbing
strike techniques' impacts. Through flying horizontally for the inquired move
of headbutting, in sumo's presence a likely acquired hint? With the
ceremonial leg raising and stomping being a disciplined perseverance the legs
and loins are, possibly doing a hearty-like kicking move.
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Fashion Style
The usual of a sumo wrestler, to fasten a sumo loincloth as with the wrestling
arena is, as an exception to a national official, pulling up until the knees a
bathrobe's hem, through an appearance of both shoulders undressed he attends
the fight. For the head's gingko-leaf topknot rightly allowed to set in
stability, isn't about conducting even agitating headbutt attacks. For the
facial paint applied to the face, for the sake of appealing to his own
existence is considering it an adoption from kabuki.
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Higashikomagata - Kabukonyu [JAPAN]
It is assuredly that Honda likes grand bathhouses.
In Higashikomagata there's a public bath (Kabukonyu) a 60-year
long-established shop. For his attendant's booth father fond of the finest
sumo, to Honda is an acquaintance from before he entered.
After the practice, through a supervising hand with the students assisting
with the bathhouse cleaning, after that helping himself to the best hot bath
here was becoming a several years' custom.
Even today for Honda, he's come with his 4 students to the Kabukonyu.
Every time it seems they're doing a cleaning and, imagining Father's
lonely-like face he came to talk about it to Honda.
"Thank you for always!......But ya knoow, even that it's already a single
month iisn't it....... Here, I'll have to close up!"
"Wh, what for!?"
"This depression, not even in the least to reeap!......With there being a
building project for upper houses or whatnot, I'm reluctant to part, even
here......"
For his father a surfacing smile of giving up crushed it. Stimulating Honda
a long time, having taken the scolding for such to be a day to not come to
get into his father's bathhouse, even in a dream he hadn't believed it.
For Honda after a mmm to a secret hot spring, he flickered a sharp glance.
Striking his father's shoulder, he loudly laughs.
"Gaaaahaahaahaa! Leave it, to me!"
Next day.
Expressing the morning's cleaning for his attendant's booth father exited,
all of the sudden a spectacle surfaced.
Before the exterior's shop curtain, a ring is being made.
There Honda and, the students were engaged in practice.
"Dosukoooi!! Once moooore!!"
Encircling the ring, one after another people come to gather. In the blink
of an eye, the front of the public bath became a don't shove don't shove
uproar.
For Honda facing the gathered sightseeing guests he exclaims.
"Nooow then the initial sumo charge. I shall be your opponent. If you push
me out half a step, the hot bath fee is just that! The bathhouse while you're
at it, how about it with an experienced geishaa!?"
Because of his coming off as a popular rikishi and sumo, little by little the
aspirants accumulated.
Everyone with a frantic expression challenges Honda. For Honda while not
trifling announcing his particular ceremonial leg raising and stomping carry
through he answered the spectators' cheering.
"What's wroong! C'mon put more hip into it, come with a thud!!"
Even a notice a large barrier's roughness taking a refreshing practice, it
goes to become sweaty for everyone. Suddenly for the public bath it's become
a turnout packed with people.
For his father out of character is moved to tears.
"Golly that Hondaa, bloody fool!......going and making me weep!"
In the downtown section a newly become place of interest is born. Honda's
loud laughing reverberates.
"Gaahahahahaa! This one is a huge success if I do say so myself! For on
the way I should make a ring inside the bathhouse also shouldn't I!
Gaaahaahaahaahaaaaah!!"
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Highlights:
-Honda saves his dad's public bath house from closing its doors for good.
Going the sex-sells persuasion route eventually convinces him to arrange
for his future SF2 stage layout.
E. Honda from Gamest SF2
He's a sumotori [sumo wrestler]. Suddenly like that, "In the world, sumo
should be perceived as magnificent," he journeys out there. That's right,
he's a quite extensive lively personality. What's the matter with a
Japanese wrestling pavilion!? where doubts are alright? Wrestling pavilion
intervals have "provincial tours" going on.
However, he kicks and jumps there, he doesn't believe that this would be
perceived together as sumo's glory. On his face he applies facial paint
as Japan appeal (!?) but likely as a plan, such that wouldn't exist in a
sumotori. His twin who ran for board chairman learned of this fact and
likely regrets it. But the underwear is a red sumo loincloth. The
underwear's width makes spirited use of winning by tossing an opponent
without close body contact.
As for sure killing moves, there are the air-cutting-up "hyakuretsu harite"
and the "super headbutt." Especially for the super headbutt, the topknot
has a fried chicken bone hidden within.
In the street fight he introduces himself as "Japanese sumo wrestler,"
his principal occupation is a sumotori after all. Every morning lacking
in figure, meals consist of chanko nabe [traditional sumo stew in a pot].
He strives for aiming at the yokozuna class. He pursues his own strength
to the end. He's also become a fighting stylist after all.
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Highlights:
-Honda has a twin brother who's some entity's chairman of the board, and his
face paint measures up to somewhat protecting his more serious brother's
integrity.
-Honda hides a fried chicken bone in the topknot of his hair, which serves as
his headbutt's extra oomph.
E. Honda never became the Yokozuna even though his abilities are at that
level; he made it to the Oozeki status (one before Yokozuna), then he left
for the world. Rikishi is a general term for sumo wrestlers, if you didn't
figure that out already.
Honda's first name is definitely Edmond. It's stated in his beginning
prologue when you play as him in SFZ3. His family name in kanji means roughly
"main rice field."
E. Honda's students shown during his SF2 ending are Hatonoyama,
Marunoumi, Yasuhanada, and Nishinofuji. (approximately "dove's mountain",
"lake from perfection", "relaxed flower field", and "enriched gentleman of the
west", respectively. Hatonoyama was originally named Ryuzan (dragon mountain)
but was changed later on for some reason.
Both he and his students do drills for toughening their legs and loins before
moving on to practicing their sure-kill moves each day. Honda also hops
around and grunts (dosukoi!) several times while he's training.
He'll employ willpower to get out of any pinch he's in. He's mistakenly
seen as violent but he's only incredibly stubborn at making great efforts
to show sumo to the world.
Sodom challenged E. Honda to make E. Honda a member of Mad Gear in SFZ2.
"Fujinoyama" is what the ref calls him, but All About SFZ2 confirms that
it was E. Honda. Perhaps he took an assumed name as a cover, as he has
been known to do this with his face paint as stated by HnN). E. Honda
in SFZ3 refers to this, so you know it happened. E. Honda appears to
have won that match, though both he and Sodom continue to respect each
other greatly.
E. Honda having a different name in Sodom's ending is part of a sumo
tradition. For those actively participating in sumo as a sport, they are
given a shikona, which is a name specifically for wrestling.
E. Honda likes his fellow countrymen. Canonwise, he probably met and
fought Ryu during SFZ3 as shown by several dialogues, and he gets along
well with Sodom, too, who's almost Japanese... or at least tries very hard
to be:P Though... E. Honda in general is a very easygoing guy who likes
everyone, it seems. Even when Vega's being all evil, E. Honda remarks
"Don't say things like that! It makes you sound like a bad guy!" ^_^
Zangief, according to Street Fighter Eternal, knows E. Honda. In SFZ3,
Zangief and E. Honda meet in Zangief's ending within the Shadaloo base. They
most likely had rescue roles once inside: plausibly Abel and R. Mika for
Zangief, and the Vega Bodyguard Troops for Honda.
The relationship chart in SF Eternal refers to Zangief and E. Honda as
"kindred souls" or "comrades".
E. Honda likes tiramisu. Itâs a dessert of cake infused with a liquid
such as coffee or rum, layered with a rich cheese filling, and topped
with grated chocolate.
Honda's SF2 planning stage prototype was named E. Sumo or simply Sumo. At
the final stages, he was almost named E. Suzuki. "Edmond" is a name Capcom
took from a nearby billboard from its main office.
He would disturb and annoy his neighbors by often yelling hrough a
microphone hooked up to huge speakers bragging about his grueling
training schedule and fighting prowess (his Dash account below).
Here's something from HnN regarding Honda's face paint. Apparently,
he was into investigating Shadaloo due to sumos taking drugs during SF2
as well even before his 'investigate Shadaloo' storyline was conceived
for SFZ3.
Hidden at the surface with Honda......the petty rumor is secretly said-
recently, in the sumo world incidents of unrest were frequently occurring.
Within the training of Japanese wrestlers, the word is that things like
fatigue result in sudden acts of rage. That degree in the manner of rage
is rarely a terrible thing.
Investigating the factor's circumstance, sources of narcotics are restrained,
for the sake of drug selling organizations making sure of a single man
dispatched. That's right, that man is Honda, said to commence with face
painting.
From successfully catching drug dealers, Honda heard of the drug selling
organization's name "Shadoloo." However, Shadoloo's entity a complete
mystery, investigations came to a standstill. At that time, Shadoloo's
decision to hold a battle against the world was said to be in the ears of
the news. With that was Honda's turn, his attending hand would gain
from this...
At that time, the true colors fearfully exposed, it is said that Edmond
Honda's name being of a racially mixed lineage, painting the face, the
sober face is hidden. Then why with the face painting? That's the case
it is said of the hushed life searching for Shadoloo and for them not to
realize it, and with the higher sumo principles it is said to be a justice
to broaden the world with its magnificent fighting moves, he became a
street fighter.
As it is understood, Honda's facepaint is for his underway top-secret
investigation (one sees what is seen then the true colors are understood
of what is worn...).
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Here's the answer to #19 in HnN, "Why is there a ring in the
bathroom of Honda's stage?"
It is said that Honda so earnestly practiced amongst the sumo world. He
becomes a street fighter looking for new practice locations, so that by
no means any area would weaken him. This his father would see and not
go unnoticed, "My place is for conditional use." These two requests he
accepted.
As for this place, as Honda's training location all desired stipulations
were fulfilled. The first proviso is that scaffolds are bad. This
supported feeling of balance and on the other hand, the legs and loins
are hardened as much as possible. About the second proviso, after practice
is over, sweat immediately pours. This for human beings, is probably
specially understood from the mental attitude of the Japanese. Besides
this, rent is cheap, there is a fixed wide floor, the walls are durable
and so on. That location was where father constructs a bathhouse.
However, the above-mentioned manner, the practice place accomodates
utilization of the provisos. From morning until noon a rope is laid above
the cheap tiles, which can be used as the ring. Yet, evening and thereafter
a bathroom for the sake of a guest arriving, the rope is taken away, coming
and going as needed. For that purpose, Honda and his students after
practice bathe in the single bath, remove the hot water, clean up, and for
the water still spread around, boil it. Here still it is used on top of
exchanged stipulations, it is believed.
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Highlights:
-Honda's SF2 stage is within a bathhouse that belongs to his father, who
rents it out to his son.
Some other translated info about E. Honda's SF2 stage:
Japan (E. Honda) Edo Hot Baths (Tokyo)
With real ability the one worldly edge, for the largehearted son of Japan
E. Honda, every time after practice comes a bath.
From the time he was little Honda was brought up with a large bath, and
of course he likes a large bath most.
It became a predicament for Honda between his favorite sumo and large bath,
"Might as well, put'em together!" he says, what a bathhouse placed with
a ring.
Curious it was, his strength walked along together with outspokenness, day
after day turned into suspicions. (especially from the manly sumo wrestlers)
Such that rumors were heard, a street fighter could be fighting around at
the Edo Hot Baths.
"Hahhahha, a bath is exceptional after bouts. Let's quickly apply the
conclusion!"
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Highlights:
-Honda's SF2 stage reflects two of his joys: the rope ring for sumo wrestling,
and the large tub for baths after fighting and training.
The rope ring in his stage is most likely made of vinyl, and his students
operate the decorative illumination behind the tub.
E. Honda from Gamest SF2D
Town Wrestler
In that town with people of all livings dwelling, people ignorant of reasons
taking an approximately uncanny feeling, there were exceedingly proper
regulations. Anyhow it was the reason for everyone, to return from duty
and amusement immediately under the bed. It was mistaken late at night good
heavens!, until late drinking drunk people and such it couldn't be for 1
person. Why this turned-into situation so to say, the reason which that is
the town's center being the sumo stable was the case.
"Dosukoi, dosukoi." The rest of that room's morning or else compared to
quickly extraordinary. Still the days don't add up from the time ears
shatter from seemingly shouting and, the vibrations reminding one of a great
earthquake scattering through the neighborhood surroundings as the training
was to begin. For the residents dwelling in the neighborhood to take it,
to not bring up this matter of nuisance, everybody equally tacitly wanted
to endure the phrases, than to say from the feeling early on to give up.
Of course the beginning had people flying into protest. But, that training
hall's master to say wanted to change it is said forcibly, out of breaking
the ice of the story he was catching the rapidly visiting people, "Is it is
it, that I want to do my honored sumo?" said to be unreasonable to accompany
a training place, to pass up on plenty of grand opponents. Due to this tune,
at the end everyone thoroughly gave up, it was in order to become something
he wanted to have entrusted to him.
However, that was a mistaken reason. Because for that training hall's master,
Edmond Honda, to say, "The closest people don't grow to change. This is to be
undoubtedly never from sumo's distinguished magnificence. Thus the matter is
for everyone to understand that it is to be my own occupation," rushing to an
assumption of unselfishness, in addition to boisterous training, from it became
the result of still more spurs beginning.
From Japan's Strong Man to World's Sumo Wrestler
But, finally that town's residents were rescued as time came along. Honda
suddenly went out to journey around the world, and it was the like that was
talked about. This man's whim an adjustment from everything former, at once
was dancing, this time merely unanimity supported his consideration. That mere
moment quickly leaving from Japan and it is gone out as far as a farewell gift.
An ambitious undertaking with tears Honda knew would be tears of gratitude to
sob though, "Such is my matter...I reeally want to have everyone's feelings
understood! In the event that the world accepted the approval of sumo's
magnificence, I will promise to once again come back to this town." and, not
desiring the residents speaking of him as the best, the fear of each person
knocking him down to the very bottom.
The day of Honda's departure from Japan, at the airport due to drawn lots were
selected 2 names of residents who came to see him off. They somehow helped
Honda into the airplane it is verified and, began to talk with looks of relief.
"Hey, how do you believe this guy being Japanese probably sees everyone in the
world as?"
"Who knows. But from tomorrow if I'll be thinking about sound sleeping, that
will be on my mind no matter what else!"
"That's correct, that I'll be thinking with anticipation again."
"But from tomorrow that annoying voice won't be heard also, be kind of a lonely
atmosphere."
"Yeah..."
But the feelings of the two people were set just like that. The following day,
that town's residents always woke up to the same voice. A speaker connected to
a receiver from a Honda made telephone, it is a streaming out international
telephone to scold students.
That henceforth, for that town's people there were students believing in Honda's
renewed recognition...called thus the yet to be opened story.
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Honda's SF4 arcade ending comments:
With the men of valor in the world outdone, having shown sumo's might Edmond
Honda in a manner of satisfaction, returns to Japan. Such that awaiting him at
the airport were yokozuna and crowds of strong men. Seeing that Edmond Honda
furthermore gets into the strong spirit.
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*** pgVElena.
ELENA
Native place: Africa (hails from the savanna)
Represented nation: Kenya
Birthdate: September 18, 1981 (she's 17 during 2I)
Height: 183 cm
Weight: 54 kg
BWH sizes: B83 W58, H88
Blood type: unknown (due to perhaps her healing ability capacity?)
Likes: song, dance
Dislikes: things that destroy nature
Special skill: making new friends
Fighting style: Capoeira
SF4-era nickname: "Wind and Earth's Capoerista"
SF3-era nickname: "Earth's Warrior"
Ultra Street Fighter 4:
Through a livelihood in Africa's savanna, a small tribe's chief's youngest
daughter. Growing at ease within Mother Nature, brightly serene even in
everything she doesn't forget the excitement and feelings of gratitude.
Having been informed by her honored father from a shaman of an existence
of "producers of death", for Elena wanting to make sure of what's arising
perhaps in the world she journeys out.
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While Elena is training and receiving praise from her older brother Marcus
for her improvement, she suddenly senses an unusual stirring among the trees
around them. Their father and tribal chief Jafari approaches them and confirms
Elena's untimely alarm: nature itself is shuddering at the surfacing of whom
the local shaman described as "producers of death", that is Seth and his
military enterprise S.I.N.-sha with their latest hosted fighting tournament.
Though Marcus insists that the danger is too much for her, Elena agrees to
her father's command of participating in the tournament. She beams at the
thought of traveling the world. [Elena's USF4 opening]
Elena during the SF4 era meets up with and fights Sakura, and also possibly
Ryu and Ken. According to her ending she also runs into Blanka, Dudley, and
El Fuerte, and takes a selfie with Gouki, which most likely does not happen
since even if they did meet there's a translation barrier between them, given
that Elena mistakes Gouki's archaic and demeaning speech usage for a mention
of dogs [Elena's and Gouki's win quotes to each other]. Elena's ending also
cements her knack for making friends and convinces her to continue touring
the globe for the sole purpose of befriending people, starting with going to
Japan where she'll eventually study abroad.
Street Fighter 3 Second Impact: Elena journeys out in SF3 to meet new
friends, and might've briefly run into Ibuki. She writes to her parents
that she especially wants to keep close contact with her Japanese friend
Narumi [Conjecture based off in-game storyline, and AAC specially notes
that Narumi does get to hug a baby lion eventually, as shown in Elena's
ending, hence Narumi at the very least accepts Elena's invitation presented
in her 3S ending described below].
Street Fighter 3 Third Strike:
Close to 1 year lapses since parting from her Japanese friend. For Elena from
the new spring she had become about studying abroad in France. The enjoyable
fights every day also, leaving for a little while possibly....... Such she
considers and, unable to contain herself "O-kay, let's go discover new
friends!" [CJ's 3S profile for Elena]
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Almost one year has passed since Elena parted with Narumi. She's plans on
studying abroad in France for the New Year. Every day is pleasant and she
enjoys fighting, but she is restless, so she decides to go find/make some new
friends [Official]. In her in-game storyline, Elena finds Makoto, who thinks
Elena isn't serious enough about fighting. In her ending, Elena writes to
Narumi about how wonderful their summer in Japan was last year, and she
invites Narumi plus her friends to come over to her country to visit. She
then gets back to studying for her exams [Elena's 3S ending].
Where she is now: See above, I guess.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Elena from AASF3
Backstory
From the African savanna is living a small tribe's chief's youngest daughter.
Seeming to not forget the warrior's blood drawing from the tribal
spirit......to say from her father's teaching, she acquires Capoeira. Through
that side, like her Ph.D. acquired father at one time studying abroad in a
French university, even as an overseas student herself a dream perhaps of
studying throughout the world.
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Story
Looking out over the fighting techniques tournament's panoramic view there's
a chief's seat in the locale.
For the father donning that seat, he finishes looking out over the grounds
and, has spoken to his accompanied youngest daughter. "Do you dislike
fighting techniques??"
For Elena nodded a little.
"I see, but my tribe is of holders of the warrior's blood. The matter to
fight is in fact something being an existence of the tribe's culture. For
the times to elapse no rather forgetting that must not be allowed. For that
to the surviving animals of the earth is to lose the earth and, in fact the
same matter.
How do you believe the animals become if the earth vanishes?"
"Uum, they fall down I wonder?" In somewhat of a difficult talk for the
still young Elena while tilting her head she answered.
"That's right. If the culture to say of earth disappears in the same manner
people will go falling.
And also with no freedom in the fallen midair for the frivolous soul, there
is in fact no true freedom for one who neglects one's own blood and history!"
In the rendered earth transferring a large log a battle through a created
scaffold. As a coming-of-age warrior the grown up Elena was there.
"It looks like father's tournament is going to escalate every time. Though
it's a little cruel what on top of the log. It seems like taking a roundabout
path can't be done can it."
And that moment, the rope supporting the log snapped.
"Kiyaa!" For Elena makes a brief shriek and preparing for a landing she was
adjusting her stance.
While dropping Elena was recalling her father's words of her young days.
"Truly, with frivolousness in midair there is no freedom!"
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Profile
Family- Hails from Africa. Living in the savanna a small tribe's chief's
youngest daughter. As for the chief her father, from his days of a young man
he holds from studying abroad in France's university a Ph.D.
Personality- Under Africa's severe also kind nature, adorably enumerating as
an only daughter to her father who holds a Ph.D., she was raised
broad-mindedly. Like her esteemed father her dream is to study throughout
the world as an overseas student. A girl who doesn't even forget anything of
emotional and appreciative thoughts.
Fighting style- Making the best use of innate disposition's springing, she
uses foot moves fighting techniques Capoeira. For foot moves Capoeira
compensating for a woman's disability, though a bout with a man through power
it doesn't pick up a defeat. Multiplied in rhythm with movements flowing
like there's no pause, for again in the process of disturbing the dominating
opponent, a chance drives into the speed multiplied legs.
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SF3 Q&A from Gamest SF3 Fanbook: Elena
-Please tell about the composition of her family, and the family names.
A. Her father is Jafari being the family head. Her mother is Amina. The
family head to become succeeding after her father is older brother Marcus
the 4 people of the family.
-Who taught fighting moves to Elena?
A. Fighting moves are regarded as the pride of a tribe's people. From the
time of a child, all of the tribe becoming as 1 trains fighting moves to the
children.
-What does Elena regard as the fighting moves of "Capoeira"?
A. For Capoeira through foot moves being able to make up for disability, any
motion is beautified seeming as to dance. The time she first saw them, it's
believed that it seems immediately taking a liking she mastered them.
-Does she not resist the matter of fighting?
A. They regard the matter of fighting being the matter of surviving, for the
matter within the battle becomes wholly sacred.
-What age is Elena? Again, the school which is agreed that she's going to
(course and the like)?
A. Elena age 17 is a high school student. At this time, she has enrolled
as a 2nd year student in a Japanese high school. As for a university,
aspiring for the same French university as her father, she plans to study
history.
-What people are those in the background of the Elena stage?
A. The Elena stage is the grounds of an armed struggle tournament. The
surrounding people there are referees and proceeding director persons.
-Is that, what is called her fighting uniform?
A. Her uniform, for the fight and the hunt, she's using even for festivals.
Usually she's wearing a one-piece and T-shirt also with jeans.
-Isn't it agreed that she gets along very well with many animals?
A. The tail its weak point, a carefree male lion approaching the village
she's always settling it down. From the time of a child meeting it she's
attached the name of Largo to it.
-Please tell about her daily living.
A. For the weekend going into town she's part-timing at a fast-food shop.
She's using the part-time rate to go to movies and concerts. Once a month,
she goes with friends to armed struggle tournaments' practice matches. For
the practice matches stretching continued until midnight, it's assuredly hard
to not even break her normal training.
-Why, has she been going to a Japanese high school?
A. Through battles with Ryu and Ken in the midst of them, it's because she
felt a spirit that resembled that of Elena's tribe. If she hadn't fought with
them it's believed that she wouldn't have chosen Japan.
-With her being friendly even towards head-to-head opponents, is there an
opponent such that Elena has thought hateful from the bottom of her heart
(with whom she wouldn't become friendly)?
A. Occasionally on the way to a started battle she abandons it and, the
opponent gets angry with everyone.
-Why, is she aiming for Gill?
A. Passing through fights through sensing the world's great many strong
people's hearts, she can't help but to make certain of the tribe's history
and pride. If there's a person desiring a fight, she must go over there.
For the fight with Gill, it's by means of his summons.
-Her favorable type of man?
A. A person to have a non-losing heart.
-Elena's 3 sizes?
A. She's B 83 cm, W 58 cm, H 88 cm.
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Elena was born in the African savanna. Her fellow tribesmen and women
are born soldiers/warriors and fighting is a big part of their culture. That's
how and why she learned Capoeira.
Elena is likely from Kenya. The African savanna covers several countries
in Africa, but Kenya is most likely. Her stage in 2nd Impact is set in Nairobi
(which is the capital of Kenya), while her 3rd strike stage is also set in
Kenya. In 3rd Strike, Elena says different things to her opponent before the
fight starts. Sometimes Elena will just laugh for joy, but other times Elena
will specifically say "Jambo!". Jambo is Swahili for "hello". Swahili is the
official African language of Kenya. Jambo is used when it is assumed that
the person being spoken to is a tourist or visitor that doesn't speak Swahili.
So when Elena is saying Jambo to her opponents, she is saying hello, but Elena
is using Jambo because her opponents don't speak Swahili (special thanks to
Trutenor for this information).
Elena's schoolgirl friend and penpal is Narumi.
Elena studied in Japan during SF32I and studied abroad in France during
SF33S.
Many Capoeira matches aren't focused on actually hurting the other
opponent but instead focused on the art and finesse of the presentation.
Matches are typically done to music as well. This goes along well with
how Elena 'fights' to make friends.
She returned to the savanna after SF3:2I/NG (attending high school in
Japan) and kept fighting. Almost a year later she traveled to France and
resumed studying abroad.
Elena plans to attend the college that her father went to for his Ph.D
in France and study history.
Elena was inspired by battles with Ryu and Ken to study abroad in Japan,
prior to 2I.
*** pgVElFuerte.
EL FUERTE
Fighting style: Lucha libre
Birthday: October 29
Native place: Mexico
Height: 168 cm
Weight: 70 kg
BWH sizes: B120, W82, H90
Blood type: B
Likes: nopal (inside from the cactus)
Dislikes: annexations
Special skill: 2-hour neck bridge
SF4-era nickname: "Hot Wind Hurricane"
Street Fighter 4:
Said to be a Luchador and cook, he wears two hats. With that feverous
blood-circulating soul, he's also not inferior to outrivaling the Red
Cyclone. Journeying out desiring the ultimate cuisine, his skill as a
cook is now first.
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El Fuerte's quest for the ultimate fighter cuisine takes him out of the
kitchen and into the battle arenas, where his hunger for lucha libre can
be satisfied as well. He possibly runs into Blanka, Honda and Zangief along
the way, granted an unanimous impression from each [El Fuerte's opening,
ending and rival battle interactions; well, maybe Blanka suffered the
least despite insulting El Fuerte's mask].
Super Street Fighter 4:
Sigh...El Fuerte...chased out of restaurants at knife-point. El Fuerte...
forcing barely edibles down opponents' throats. How can one's passion
turn into such a disaster for everyone else? It boggles the mind, really.
[El Fuerte's opening]
The Mexican Hurricane continues his quest for ideal cuisine to satisfy the
hunger pangs for the strongest of the strongest. He meets and gets a
chocolate bar from Abel with his recent exploits, as well as most likely
spars after a good long while with his old friend and neighbor T. Hawk.
El Fuerte's ending has him "assisting" a frustrated cook with his preparing
chili soup. First green juice from Honda, then a chocolate bar from Abel.
Mix them all together and pinch your noses. Bon appetit anyone?
Where he is now: Where unsuspecting souls wait to be fed his latest
creations. Will his cooking knack ever turn over a new leaf? Who can say.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
El Fuerte from SF4
The Super Dynamic Cook!
One early afternoon, a South American harbor.
A solitary sheath knife man, was in the role of boarding a ship.
Those looks overturned by a showy masked cranium, the glances of many
people coming and going were gathering at the harbor. Naturally, the
ship's crew can't avoid being alert. Referring to looking up at the
enormous merchant ship's embarking having risen to full height the
crew raised their hands from their hips, overlooking what the sheath
knife man is doing.
"Whaat, are you?"
It was made public that the ship was giving ride to a mood of
non-rustling state but, the sheath knife man cared not that, from a
far-off distance turning towards him to speak answered him with a
large voice.
"Unh, me? To even care about what I'm called is absurd, for my name is!
El! Fuerte!"
Besides his looks, reacting to that voice, moreover with the matter of
the many turned around faces, El Fuerte wasn't aware.
"Wh, what a suddenly huge voice you got huh! You're probably not a
sailor! Quickly disappear huh!"
For the crew, El Fuerte's state wasn't being like a sheath knife form
with his large voice and strong look, although he drew back a step,
letting him approach to the wrinkle of his forehead he yelled. El Fuerte
grandly bows his head and, "Certainly I'm not a sailor! I'm a luchador
and cook!"
"C, Coook?"
The crew, coming near his forehead more and more, stared anew at his
whole body. Loosening up with a satisfying smile, El Feurte continued.
"I'd heard there was recruiting for a cook here right! Just with tasks
as crossing the ocean, while laboring to that extent I got called upon
to get a ride!"
While he spoke, being burdened from a large rucksack, feeling as if it
was in use to extract ladles for many years, very high and hanging out
he displayed it. Seeing the shine from the sun's light reflecting on the
ladle, the crew was perhaps overawed, "Oh, oooh. If that's how it is,
then it's a different story."
And, opening the path, leading his newly comrades he began to ascend up
the gangway.
"Nah, you saved us. That rascal cook, because he departs today, all of
the sudden he says his stomach hurts and collapsed. Anyway because of
that we can't find someone, whom we feel we're in a spot with no choice
but can prepare a substitution of meals. No no, the thing with crossing
over to the ship..." The previous situation suddenly changed, as the mood
of chatting endlessly continued from behind the crew for El Feurte hope
was being raised with the filled expressions on the ship.
"At the tournament, what kind of opponents will I likely meet. Certainly,
from various nations, it wouldn't differ from assembling acknowledgers of
various cuisines and fighting techniques! If I were to gather much
information from them, again one step from the ultimate recipe, surely
it'd be closer to completion!"
Thus, the enthusiastic cook, El Fuerte ushered into this ship, departed
before long.
After that.
He revealed meals on that ship, not even a little more than a week he'd
become legendary, such that it was handed down to the long-time marine men.
As the "super dynamic cooking tragedy"....
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Highlights:
-Can we say 'out of the frying pan and into the fire'? A ship's cook flies
the coop, only to be replaced by the luchador chef himself. Needless to say,
El Fuerte didn't stay with the ship's crew very long.
El Fuerte's SF4 arcade ending comments:
Concerning appetizings "chanko!" "borscht!" mutually Honda and Zangief don't
give up. Opposite this Fuerte combined both things perfecting the "manly red
hot mole".......
*** pgVElGado.
EL GADO
Final Fight 1: El Gado most likely was in the Industrial area and fought
Guy. I don't know. He was a generic enemy in Final Fight 1, for crying
out loud. Three of them hop down right before Rolento does, though.
Street Fighter Zero 2 and Street Fighter Zero 3: Appearing in many of
Rolento's victory poses, El Gado is still a member of Rolento's army even
after it broke off from Mad Gear.
Where he is now: Probably still working for Rolento.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Another one of Rolento's men is Holly Wood (basically an El Gado
pallete swap without the facial hair). Although both can knife-fight,
Holly Wood is the only one that wields molotovs (and typically sets
himself on fire accidentally in Final Fight :P)
He's typically stronger than Holly Wood.
And... that's about it. What do you expect from a guy who was just a
generic enemy?
The knife MCT enemies in Final Fight Streetwise are likely a
throwback to El Gado. Some of their names start with "El", and they
also have an infinite supply of knives to draw upon as well as fast jumping
attacks that get enhanced with knives, just like El Gado. They're a lot
easier to beat than El Gado, though. Sadly, El Gado himself is not in the
game.
*** pgVElStinger.
EL STINGER (EL STINGRAY overseas)
Age: 27 (26 during MB, both official conjecture)
Height: 168 cm
Weight: 74 kg
Hails from, native place: Acapulco, Mexico
Favorite/main attack(s): screw diver, atomic dive
Favorite food: tacos
MB specialty move: tope atomico (atomic dive?)
SMB specialty move: flying headbutt
Wrestling federation: MWA (Mexico Wrestling Association?) (from V-Jump book)
MB-era nickname: "Acapulco's Killer Bee"
Stage: Mexico
Muscle Bomber: He um... wrestled?
Super Muscle Bomber: He erm... wrestled some more?
Where he is now: Dunno.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
He enjoys performing aerial moves and he's proud of his aerial fighting
style.
He's a cheerful pure Latin wrestler.
He has an apparent rivalry with Budo (Oni), who also uses a flashy
wrestling style. This is because their styles are somewhat similar (didn't
look that similar to me, but these things tend to fly over my head).
From a Muscle Bomber Flyer: Conspicuous in living a useful life, a
midair killing system is splendidly used from his characteristic race horse
speed.
*** pgVFeiLong.
FEI-LONG (FEI LONG the phonetic spelling in translated excerpts)
Birthdate: April 23, 1969
Height: 172 cm
Weight: 60 kg
BWH sizes: B108, W76, H80
Blood type: O
Native place: Hong Kong (belongs to China after SF2)
Special skill: self-directing action scenes
Likes: kung fu, self-assertion
Dislikes: lethargy, indifference, unimpressiveness
Fighting style: Hitenryu kung fu
SFZ-era nickname: âFreely Kung Fu Starâ
SF2-era nickname: âFire Kung Fu Heroâ
SF4-era nickname: "Billowing Waves of Gang Strikes"
Street Fighter Zero 3: Fei Long is a youthful, talented action star from
Hong Kong. He is the master of his own unique style of kung fu. On the
street, he seeks a good fight to sharpen his skills. His fighting
impresses a Hong Kong movie director, and he becomes a popular movie star.
His movie, Street King, is a hit. [Official and specially noted in AAC]
SFZ3 File #29 Fei Long
Hong Kong's young genius action star. Through a kind of seldom become
fighting sense, having grasped a characteristic kung fu style, he stirs up
a sensation in the Hong Kong movie world. Not letting the continually hot
passion go out, for him to have thoroughly tempered flesh, for the sake of
seeking for acting being of reality more dynamic, he faces at the street fight
with the world's champions.
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Street Fighter 2: After fighting in the SF2 tournament, Fei Long realizes
that acting (as opposed to directing) is not his calling, after all. It is
real fighting that truly matters, not just acting. He received an invitation
to SF2 where his first battle was at his SSF2 stage, and went on from there.
Fei Long- SSF2XR Character Concealed File
A fighting stylist also possessing the face of a genius action performer. In
order to start polishing up his acting ability he thrusts himself into the
fighting scene.
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Street Fighter 4:
Can be regarded in the Hong Kong movie world as a standing and burdened young
man actor. Piling on his training from the time he was young, and now is one
kung fu user unequaled in Hong Kong.
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SF4 opens for Fei-Long with the sequel to his post-Z3 blockbuster, Street
King 2 (coincidentally the same movie mentioned in Yun & Yang's Z3 storyline)
placed on production hiatus due to attacks being inflicted on the film's crew
[Fei-Long's SF4 opening]. Fei-Long tracks down the attack perpetrators,
learns that they're members of the organization S.I.N.-sha, and met Abel along
the way.
Fei-Long's ending is an interesting one to say the least. After Seth admits
that he and all under him are responsible for the raids against the film crew,
Seth slumps over with a grin, stabbed in the back with a kunai. If that's not
strange enough, Fei-Long watches all this happen without a hint of surprise
or alarm in his face, as if he'd known and expected this sequence of events to
occur beforehand. A pre-planned movie scene perhaps? More likely than not.
Super Street Fighter 4:
S.I.N.-sha under its CEO Seth has unveiled another world fighting tournament,
and Fei-Long now knows that they were behind it all concerning his latest
movie: the sponsor changing the script, the attacks on the photography crew,
the eerie development in the film depicting a shift from Shadaloo's apparent
responsibility for the crime-filled craters on the world to instead the blame
placed on a military-weapons caliber-producing enterprise, all to reflect the
"truth" as it ought to be known. Fei-Long's been advised to lay low and hide
until the movie's photography can resume, but he won't. [Fei-Long's opening]
SSF4 takes Fei-Long into a meeting with heiress of the Rindoukan karate style
Makoto. They fight and Makoto wins, possibly only narrowly due to Fei-Long
getting distracted towards the end. [Makoto's rival battle and dialogue
exchanges]
By the end of S.I.N.-sha's collapse, Fei-Long meets once more with his fan
Abel, who's got news to share with the kung fu artist, for Fei-Long to hear
at his own risk. [Fei-Long's ending]
Where he is now: Piecing together what Abel's told him about Shadaloo and
S.I.N.-sha together with all that's happened in regards to Street King 2's
modified elements. Beyond that and presumably finally completing the movie
(which Abel promises he'd see) in possibly its original form, Fei-Long
probably moves away from the Hong Kong movie scene and into his
future-depicted dojo for hitenryu kung fu boasting a not-too-far-off class
enrollment of three thousand students.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
He began practicing kung fu when he was around 6. He was a stunt man
before he became a movie star. He appeared in his first movie when he was
around 18 (as a stuntman).
His âhiten-ryuâ kung fu style possesses over 3,000 practitioners
and has many schools around the globe training new students, by the year 2013
at least. Fei-Long coined his style as hitenryu (Feitianliu in straight
Chinese) kung fu after SF2.
His name written in kanji translates to roughly "soaring dragon," and would
be pronounced roughly as "hi-ryu (hee-ryoo)" in Japanese.
He is an expert at wielding nunchaku, even though he brings them out after a
fight and not during one. Fei-Long most likely fights topless to show off his
confidence in the face of danger. He's considered passionate and unwavering
in his convictions. He's so overly confident in himself that he charms
opponents as well as psyches them out.
Fei-Long is obviously based after kung fu movie star Bruce Lee, if not
practically directly copied like Bison (Balrog overseas) was to Mike
Tyson. Though I probably really didn't have to say that.
As of SF2, he's never used his shienkyaku in a movie scene. He did use a
rekkaken once, but the scene was cut due to the move's intensity unable to
be shown on the big screen.
Secrets of Fei Long's SF2 stage from the Fanbook:
Hong Kong (Fei Long)
Hong Kong's most famed park. Used to get Fei Long to show his face!?
Legendary animals
Legendary animals calling out good luck, Seiryuu, Suzaku.
Park name
Tiger Balm Park. Alias "Tiger Leopard Villa (Fuubaao Bettsuaii)".
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Fei Long's SSF2 account reveals that the bouts he was invited to, at his
Tiger Balm Park stage, were in fact preliminary fights for Shadoloo's hosted
World Fighting Championship. Miscellaneous fighters not seen in the games
included a short guy in a gi and a long-haired dude in T-shirt and jeans.
Fei Long from Gamest SSF2
Story of Fei Long
The weekend. Cars come and go on the national highway. 8:30 at night.
For Fei Long, within a taxi, he could hear his own pulsing gradually
speeding up. The trembling wouldn't stop.
He had already wanted to be able for his heart's provision, of course
with his body, before the "struggle" it was stiffening. However "anxiety"
was what that resolved to not become. In him was a strong determination
and self confidence. Peaceful eyes closed, gripping fists, he was sparing
an erected prevailing heart.
He just now, was finished shooting the spot of the movie's location.
The last scene.
Raging waves to crumble an evening cliff. At a deceased friend's tombstone,
a scene of returning victorious. He decided on a magnificent 1 take.
In him, such things as today's shooting could not have honor even in the
enlarging process. From morning his power of concentration was tremendous.
Surely the action scenes dreadfully urged on. Everyone of the staff,
extraordinarily feeling his enthusiasm, advanced his shooting with high
tension circumstances.
Everyone, admired Fei Long's backbone as that of a natural pro, for him,
the true motive was increasing expectations.
After the end of the shooting the staff to finish with a party,
pretending of an errand to return home he hurriedly picked up a taxi.
By 9:00, he couldn't help but go to Hong Kong Island's Tiger Balm Park.
Fei Long saw his watch. It seemed that somehow or other the time was at an
agreeable interval. Settled down with a little bit of pleasure, besides his
line of vision was bound for it.
He sees a beautiful night view. What wasn't there, hitherto he remembered
seeing to his own matters.
He was born in Hong Kong and raised in Hong Kong. From younger times Fei Long
aspired to be an action star. From the time of age 6 he began daily attendance
at the town's kung fu dojo.
For a short-statured Fei Long, with his speed and sense he made fun of larger
opponents. His moves were exhilarating ones. Slipping through openings of
opponents' moves, yearning to dive in he quickly drove into sequential moves.
That talent was one of granted genius.
At the time of age 18, he entered the film world as a stuntman. At last he
was rough and ready. All the while carrying on with miscellaneous business
and supporting roles, surely his heart wanted to jump into a major role someday.
Indeed, within his acting, there was no glitter among the rest of the new stars.
That being his great energy, his self-confidence, having only an innate prodigy,
a person who could supplement a captivating power.
However, his zeal was of fruitless effort. Intently crediting the ego's talent
as a polisher, without appreciation of doing a plethora of tricks for his
assertion to frankly go beyond, as time bought into animosity, envy- that's
what it became.
He would take it, as a connection to an opportune successful career and such
of what became an interest. Grind, seizing the top in this world, cannot be
unless every surface is calculated.
Interrupting a conversation on positives in performance coaching, an idea to
see go out was enacting a sword battle. However the plan for new stars would
be laughing them down. Unless he held on, the movie's construction character
and also a butting-in unknown stripling would be to yell at. Unless coerced
into no more practicing, he would've retired.
To not do the thing he wants to do, several years gone to waste. He would
take it, with restless grinding teeth not the darkness of several years.
But, a naturally talented ability dragged in a chance. His case would take
in the assistant director he met by chance.
"Your, favorite method give it a go."
A scene to enact with 5 people as opponents. Cornered, a battle place to
end in defeat. Originally, multiple cuts separately taken, expected for an
editing hand afterwards.
For Fei Long, that scene a 30-second interval, one shot was taken by the
crane camera.
That talent, beginning with the assistant director, at that spot left all
members of the staff silent. Words wouldn't come out.
This experience surely seemed to flow by. At that moment Fei Long's holding
power began to deliver, the environment surrounding him completely changed.
Until then no different class action scene became for a record topic of
conversation as for that great hit movie. Fei Long who was an anonymous
new star became the movie world's man of the hour.
Next he was taken to various places from which he was invited, the assistant
director granted him a chance and, once more he decided on the matter of work.
That's been performances lately. Within his story, a momentous star role
that he took hold of raised his status.
And so today, he completely finished that shooting.
"Honored Guest, we have arrived!"
His self was taken aback. With money as payment, Fei Long came down from
the taxi.
The park's entrance crowded with sight-seeing guests during the day, the
tall gate locked, as if it was deserted. The enclosure of the garden stone
arrangements following a backwards rotation, a narrow stone step would rise.
That path, was expected to be connected to the side door.
"The World Fighting Championship"....illegal that gathering he had heard
rumors of a week before.
From the beginning of next time's movie location, no doubt a harmonious
feeling for an always continued sensation. That's the shooting he would
progress to in company with the greatly become going in his heart, with no
cheating impulses as he was brought up.
Truly with seemingly gathered circumstances, what are they? The fact to
rise in name as a silver screen star?
The directions so far being all those inquiries to throw question marks at,
unnoticed his heart controlled, unable to be set apart from it.
And also that rumor.
Once a year, a mysterious fighting bout takes place at Tiger Balm Park of
Hong Kong Island. Different kinds of fighting moves battle without all the
prohibiting hands, to grant the winner an enormous monetary reward. However
thus far, it is to say that the bout due to security hasn't retained someone
to return.
He wanted to be entrusted with the rumor's true meaning. Seemingly to say,
Fei Long himself set his heart on merely that knowing nothing else.
So far day in and day out it was kung fu on his own. To present oneself
with the most successful means as a chosen action star's dream of realization.
What does my body crave? Even for the moment, if asking the body to profit
from the opportunity....
Doubt, how would it be if it was said? At the time of having irritation to
spare and a scorching heart begun control, that "notice" rapidly came. That,
made him do the present's actions.
The side entrance's door was open. The whole park floating on "spirit",
Fei Long distinctly sensed it. And so he was assured. The rumors were true
after all.
As for Fei Long, he took out a single-sheet card. This morning, something
was put into the hiding space of his jacket pocket.
Today, Tiger Leopard Villa from 21:00 No 04
That was written on the card.
Tiger Leopard Villa (Fuubaao Bettsuuai) is here, another name for
Tiger Balm Park. Intuitively he understood. Someone entice me. A guy who
knows my circumstances, forward this to me. The rumors are true.
Above the stone flooring was exposed the cold wind. A bluish white moon,
shining on a white stage. His voice suddenly resounding, for Fei Long his
body spontaneously tightened.
"From here, I go for the bout!"
He sensed the usual line of vision within the dark. Fighting spirit couldn't
help but swirl.
And I, from the stage's other side the single man revealed. For the man
hiding in the falling moon's shadow of the park's architecture, a suitable
appearance cannot be seen.
"....already I believe that I've gotten to see the complimentary ticket.
Today's winner is one name just chosen. That person will be to witness
at the next Asia tournament's participation. You go by the card's number
order for bouts. Number 1 and Number 2 come up front!"
In answer to that voice, from both stage ends 2 men rushed out. One person
a short-statured man clad in a gi suit, one person a long-haired man in jeans
and a t-shirt. Glaring at each other they matched as it was without a stir.
"Begin!"
Fei Long fixated on the 2 people, ears strained.
How heedlessly the fist meets to swing down opponents agreeably dulling them
just by the grating sound. Difficult to resist the feeling of tension as
your breath stops.
Just like that the match settled. The long-haired man with his body in agony
lay face-down on the stone flooring.
Attention driven away he finally moved. Do these guys exist? These guys and,
my struggle against them? My moves are what these guys commonly use....?
Taking off his jacket, he takes deep breaths. His entire body swells
with spirit.
Within his heart was some hesitation yet complications also erased. To prove
one's own might. And also why I have lived. I fear nothing. For sure the
proof of my might, is the proof of my own human life!
"Next, Number 3 and Number 4, come up front!"
Only the dragonfly, jumped down onto the stage.
For him now, self confidence was such that he would absolutely prevail with
whichever formidable opponent would appear. Fear or losing his bearings, he
doesn't feel them a bit.
In order to win it all, Fei Long ran towards it.
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Highlights:
-The official name of the main Street Fighter tournaments was first revealed
here: World Fighting Championship. Also in Fei-Long's account it's seen that
he (and possibly by extrapolation everyone else in SF2) received a personal
invitation to compete. Fei-Long's fight through SF2 began (surprise!) in his
SSF2 stage, though in the evening starting at 9 pm.
*** pgVFreak.
FREAK
Age: 8 (during MB)
Height: 60 cm
Weight: 9 kg
MB-era nickname: "Intelligent Monkey"
Freak is Missing IQ Gomes' pet monkey. He's listed as a partner, has an
IQ of 200 or more (he's probably smarter than Gomes) and that he almost/mostly
understands human language.
Freak apparently has a wife and kids in Super Muscle Bomber. All monkeys,
of course.
*** pgVFreddie.
FREDDIE
Height: 195 cm
Weight: 185 kg
Blood type: O
Native place: He's fought in France, but probably born in America.
Final Fight 2: While Freddie was in the Navy Seals, he punched out one of
his superiors. This lead to his discharge by the Navy. Now as a freelance
mercenary, Freddie was hired by the Mad Gear gang to head their terrorism
unit.
Where he is now: *shrug*
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
He joined the Mad Gear after being discharged from the U.S. Marine
Corps for fighting.
Although it may be just an Easter egg appearance, Guile is apparently in
the background when you fight Freddie. ...cheering him on apparently, too.
Maybe he doesn't realize that Freddie's been booted from the force (ditto
for the rest of the troops there).
*** pgVGeki.
GEKI
Height: 180.6 cm
Weight: 72 kg
SF1 action: jump shuriken
Represents: Japan
SF1-era nickname: "Ninjutsu-Using Assassin from the Dark"
Street Fighter 1: Geki entered to test his skills. Not much info
on him. At all.
Where he is now: It is said that Geki went back into training.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Geki is not officially stated to be Ibuki's dad, or even a member of
Ibuki's clan. None of the ninjas that appear in Ibuki's stage is Geki.
They all have names, and Geki isn't one of them.
It is conjectured that Geki trained Balrog (Spaniard), but this is just
conjecture. Geki's moves really are completely different from Balrog's, too
(Geki has a disappearing teleport and mainly relies on shuriken attacks).
Balrog and Geki are stated to be 'claw rivals'. IE, their skill with
the claw is about equal to each other. Perhaps this statement is what
makes many people think Geki trained Balrog.
For Geki, the Fanbook says that he uses shurikens as a surprise attack,
and AAC says he's a shuriken expert.
His name in kanji means "incite" or "enraged."
He continues to fight in order to make known in the world the power
of ninjutsu, being of ninja descent.
*** pgVGen.
GEN
Age: Over 70 years old during Zero 2.
Birthdate: March 10
Height: 166 cm, 179 cm (old SF1 design)
Weight: 61 kg, 68 kg (old SF1 design)
SF1 action: arc punch
BWH sizes: B106, W75, H80
Blood type: O
Native place: China
Special skill: Chinese medicine formulas
Likes: meat buns, reading Chinese poetry
Dislikes: human crowds
Fighting style: Chinese kenpo (souryu, kiryu and others; ansatsuken-caliber)
SF1-era nickname: "Ansatsuken's Murder Machine"
SFZ-era nickname nickname: "Blood Fight Hundred Battles Origin of Matchless"
SF4-era nickname: "Silent Becoming Assassin"
Street Fighter 1: Gen entered the Street Fighter 1 tournament to find worthy
opponents [Official]. Considering how powerful he is, storyline-wise I don't
know how he could have lost, though he was ill at the time. At any rate, SFZ3
dialogue shows that Gen never met Ryu before SFZ3.
Street Fighter Zero 2: Gen goes around wandering about the shady alleys
hoping that he'll find a warrior strong enough to kill him in a fight to
the death, because he wants to die gloriously in battle and not while sick
in bed. Finally, he finds and hears of a powerful warrior named Gouki,
goes to find him and does.
Gouki used the shungokusatsu on Gen, but Gen survives it. Gen then did
his his zanei on Gouki but Gouki blocks it. As the battle goes on, Gouki
realized that Gen was sick and the two set apart. Neither one won the
battle. Gen survived the shungokusatsu because he emptied his spirit,
heart and mind (which makes him immune to pain from past sins) [Official].
Street Fighter Zero 3: Gen is insulted that Gouki left. He wants to
finish that deathmatch. Gen continued to seek out Gouki for his death
match in SFZ3. Most likely he finally found Gouki, too [conjecture based
off in-game storyline].
SFZ3 File #17 Gen
The legendary ansatsuken manipulating remarkable assassinist. His body
continually employed within battles, at times of no assassin's work he amuses
himself with street fights. Attacked by illness, the situation of his
remaining days before long but, rather than cease by the matter of dying on
his sickbed, having targeted by satsui no hadou the warrior of the fist, he's
fancying going head-to-head with Gouki.
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Highlights:
-Gen street fights when hitman-work is slow. He can feel Gouki's presence by
Gouki's emanated murderous surges (SnH).
Street Fighter 4:
A converted to legend in the undersurface society assassin. Desiring as a
"deathmeet" opponent an appropriately strong one, he's continuing to fight.
With there being a deep connection with Chun Li's father, he's embracing even
an intricate sentiment opposite Chun Li.
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Highlights:
-The term "deathmeet" is one exclusive to Gen and Gouki. The Japanese 2-kanji
equivalent, "shi-ai" normally means "a match" or "a bout", and the kanji by
themselves are for "test out" and for "meet", in other words "a meet or
encounter to test or verify one's skills." When Gouki or Gen use the term,
due to their mentalities of fighting to the death, the first kanji "shi" is
replaced by the same-sounding kanji for "death", and when put together with
the same second kanji, the term ends up meaning "an encounter to the death",
or "deathmeet". In other words, when they meet, they intend to have only one
of them walking away alive afterwards.
Gen in SF4 looks like he's already got one foot in the grave. CJ artist Ikeno
designed him with some peculiar attributes, and with more than 1 coincidental
similarity to Gouken, whose status in SF4 is quite out of the ordinary (see
Gouken's bio for more). Gen's SF4 opening has him watching Chun-Li going off
with Guile then he coughs while lingering in the shadows. Then we're shown
a flashback of an event long time coming that was first hinted back during
Chun-Li's account in SF2 Dash aka Champion Edition: her detective father
teaming up with his friend (Gen) to investigate the growing drug syndicate
Shadaloo. Gen fends off the agents in black, but is unable to stop them
from abducting his much younger partner.
Gen's ending has him shielding Chun-Li from fallen ceiling chunks within the
lab, his vacant eyes reflecting a scene of Gouki and Gouken about to unleash at
each other, then Gen himself rises up, apparently crushing the ceiling chunks
that were previously pinning both Chun-Li and himself down (what happens to
Chun-Li during all this? Moreover where/when does this happen? It's certainly
not the same room that she gets trapped into for her ending). Finally Gen
sports an aura and swears that he will not be dying unless it's in a fight to
the death.
Super Street Fighter 4:
Gen continues to roam the world in his threshold state. He dreams of the dead
stretching their arms out to him, and he sneers. The universe has dictated
that they are no longer worthy to even challenge him. He was among them, and
he was plucked out. If a death-meet with Gouki won't stop him it appears that
seemingly nothing will. [Gen's opening]
Gen walks on, having seen a genuine fight to the death between aura-clad Gouken
and SnH-raging Gouki. He wants the same thing, desperately. He coughs, and
sports an unsightly aura of his own as he chuckles, saying it's still not
over. [Gen's ending]
Where he is now: Gen looks to be still at large by the end of SSF4, but for
how much longer? Will Gouki ever consent to finally put Gen out of his most
recently-inflicted looping misery of shame?
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Gen from SFZ2
Shitenshuu
Furthermore even none other than Hong Kong's dark community, "the most
excelled assassin, is the martial artist who barehandedly severs his
opponent's life," being the case, the kind of status received in view
of it as a thought of honor.
Admired particularly as "Blood-Fighting Hundred-Battles, Gen the Invincible"
as far as an 'assassin' Gen having lived long is known as a character partly
transformed into legendary.
Day and night merely pretentious greenhorn martial artists come to aim for
his life. From him to snatch a life the martial artist takes a finger
remaining of both arms both legs, comes to challenge younger assassins and
such for the sake of a reputation of foolish fad ambitions, the so-called
chicks naturally.
Even today again one such chick, vigorously encouraged came before Gen.
"......You're the sage Gen known as 'Hong Kong's fist oni'??"
Gen would return no reply. That would-be calling himself "Hong Kong's
number one assassin" giant getting worked up inside, raised his voice.
"What's wrong, even your mouth can't ask before you'll visit death shortly??"
Finally Gen lightly laughed to respond. "That's the way isn't it."
"Your mouth will likely ask nothing. You come to challenge me with just
this mere show do you, don't say you're shocked."
Hearing that the man's face turned darkish. Without a hue, a strong thirst
for blood would reveal.
Raising a fist overhead, Gen's aimings recklessly sprang upon him. Besides
that facing him Gen would move in a gliding manner.
'Thud!!' A flashy sound reverberating, at the same time the man was taken
aback. Observing Gen's low palm as much as his wrist would cave the man into
a jellyfish. In the twinkle of an eye, a needle finger (index finger strike)
raising his howling struck with "rapport" "divine gate" "joint valley" and
other such warping pulses.
Just as the man's entire body was swooning into paralysis, still he wouldn't
wholly feel the pain. The technique handed down from the time-honored
continent, is a variety of the "pressure point strikes". After this had him
striking the "death points" with Gen's peculiar move "shitenshuu" completed,
Gen would not have visited it.
The man's eye color of death he was pleading for his life. This man was
probably not an "assassin." In his eyes was a light not to be found in a
passerby between the point of life and death.
What foolishness, shame be thy friend. At the time when a warrior is on
the verge of death, however one behaves care for that so-called real worth
in spite of it all.
Gen greatly disappointed, finishing the man with a stab in the neck left
that place.
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Highlights:
-Gen despite his Z2 stage being in Shanghai is notorious all the way to Hong
Kong for his reputation as a hitman.
-Gen kills the foolish man with paralysis rolling over into death with his
super the shitenshuu, shutting the guy's arrogant trap for good.
Zero 2's News TOP SECRET: Gen
Top Secret Notification Part Number 8074889
Shadoloo Intelligence Department Investigation Room B-67
His Excellency the Commander's Directly Supervised
New Fighter Acquisition Candidacy Reconnaisance Report
NAME: Gen
(full name unknown, possibly an assumed name)
AGE: age unidentified
(presumed to be from early 70's to late 80's)
SEX: male
NATIONALITY: Chinese
In the heart of Hong Kong, the leading personage of assassination contracted
by the dark community's antagonist organizations and government agencies, this
be the occupation of a dark kenpo artist. His style of work peerless cold sake,
to execute for the sake of swift yet reliable dependence even from those in the
same business he is to be feared, terror is granted to opponents not because of
going to assassinate barehanded even to the last small weapon, but believed that
it comes from the reason of pride as he is the one and only kenpo artist. In
another report he studied under a school founder a famed warrior, hearsay not
attributable to rumor has it declared in the world that he would have a past
matter of drawing out a barehanded fight with a British army opponent in the
"Boxers Rebellion".
With that side, this Gen becomes a character plural extender studied under a
kenpo artist is the supposition. If that be the true case, his manipulating
individual kenpo has techniques utilizing every school seen everywhere, it is
that he uses them properly from being practiced with adaptation to
circumstances.
Even during his advanced age still in secret active service in this world, this
manner of plural fighting styles while also conducting as a crafty one is
in analysis.
The above-mentioned is inscribed, for otherwise our Shadoloo necessary
assassination personnel training utilization's discipline and also his own
sheer requisite as an assassin the matter in which already he has on hand,
the subject to again pursue the empty-handed fight to become absolutely with
confidence and pride, and also the topic of devotion for opposing one's own
feeling of mission . . . .
Since, this kenpo artist Gen is as we who are members of the glory that is
"Shadoloo" a suitable character and this investigation room concludes the
reasons. By all means, higher document reference concerning this example,
is deliberated.
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Highlights:
-Shadaloo's assessment of Gen in the Zero series. They want him, enough said.
-Shadaloo surmises that Gen may have been trained by a famous veteran of the
Boxer Rebellion days. Goutetsu may have once had a similar type of teacher.
Gen from AASFZ3
Fighting Style
All kinds of Chinese kenpo integrated, as his characteristic assassin
techniques being for utilizing the skill of reorganized dual systems, he
evolves the ever-changing battle. As for one part of those possessed
techniques to Chun Li, the pattern via having been passed down to her
father (Genden ansatsushuu). The cause for martial arts having been the
goal of a murderer, he's desiring to seek out opponents able to seriously
"death-meet."
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Fashion Style
With long sleeves his body clad in a worn China uniform. As relaxedly as
it would've covered a clothed old body, for the hair style and beard's
whiteness it indicates in diligence old age. Even while risking it to
disease for he's without a declining fighting spirit, for the glint of an
eye probing of the chance for prevailing it's ultimately penetrating. For
thin kung fu shoes the matter of easily standing on tiptoes, does the
possibility about appoaching targets even without a sound.
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Victoria Harbor [HONG KONG]
A jumbo jet's whirring sweeps overhead.
For the pier was being embraced in the morning haze and plural bloodthirst.
At the wharf an old man is standing. Firmly not moving.
Arms folded like that, suddenly, and the old man jumps up. Immediately
after, the wharf gone to pieces dispersed. The water surface foamed, splashes
slip into the haze.
"Unpolished isn't it. For with lead bullets that be the principle to not kill
one another."
Abruptly, at the neighboring wharf a boat goes down.
His name is Gen. Through the Hong Kong dark streets no one knows not that
name, not one person non-fearful of it.
A notorious assassinist boasting a assassination rate of 180% being a Chinese
kenpo expert.
Surpassing the climax of 70 furthermore in a moment's fist to increase
sharpness wily he is.
From within the haze, moss-green suited men having prepared Steyrs (bullpup
submachine guns) approach. 5 persons in number.
Here a 2-years' span, suddenly in Hong Kong's undersurface society arose to
power an Italian lineage's Mafia group. In time the large business and
several people's family's lives Gen's work consequently is plundering.
As with the Hong Kong society, the matter of requesting assassinations to Gen
a success rate of above 100% is definitely promised so to speak. If stalked
there is no path of escape. Therefore resistance is meaningless. Rather, to
Gen being the value of stalking and, it's said that he feels dignified.
Obliviated to that "common sense" the young villains are, even in complete
recklessness it is that they must clear away grudges in stalking to pursue
after Gen's life.
"Gen......Quite the hard time you've given us haven't you. To one who
obstructs our dealings, equally we'll make him take death's punishment."
"Strange......You all don't recall your own obstructing."
"Stuff it!"
The Steyrs open fire. Gen's figure is already unseen.
"For today's friend is tomorrow's enemy. Reversal again to be so. As with
our daily's it must be rare."
The storehouse's roof's Gen says.
The man replies.
"In other words......Your existence is such a so-called matter of obstruction.
For hurdles are to thoroughly remove. Failure in our business will not be
permitted."
"............To go also to death, even to return to death eh. In that case
you'll scatter!, the bloody battle's luster......"
Once again a jumbo jet's whirring. Glimmering light and wind.
The impacting noise paralyzing the eardrum. For the world filled with
silence.
The hour of death even again mixed in the sound of a whir, goes to dissolve.
"......The weak doomed to perish, this be nature's reason......"
At the end for the assassins was just one alone standing.
The sound of waves returns and, for the old man feeling things brought to a
close, and he had vanished to the undersurface alleys.
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Highlights:
-Gen versus the Mafia. Result: Gen at 70+ years of age and a 180%
assassination success rate, 1; Mafia group consisting of 5 guys armed with
submachine guns taking out the wharf but not the old man, 0.
Gen's fighting style, like Gouki's, is designed to kill. Ansatsuken is
a general term for a style intended to assassinate, which is why both Gen
and Gouki can have it despite having significantly different fighting
techniques (what with it being a general term and all).
Note from Saiki: Both Gouki and Gen use ansatsuken. Gouki uses
ansatsuken but with more karate, judo, tae kwon do and koppo elements to it.
Gen actually should have more styles but I guess it'd be too hard to put it
all into the game. I can't remember all of them but I think it was mantis,
crane, tiger, bear, err, can't remember the rest. Ryu and Ken use a toned
down version that Gouken taught them that isn't designed to kill, unlike
Gen's and Gouki's styles.
If one were to consider Gen's zanei as taking out an opponent by targeting
all nine of the human body's vital points at once, only his level 3 zanei
in Z3 could fit to such a description. As opposed to Gouki's shungokusatsu,
Gen's zanei hasn't been implemented in gameplay with nearly such consistency
(the SGS within seishi titles has always been 15 hits, while the zanei has
gone from 4,5,6 hits in Z2 to 6,7,9 hits in Z3 to most recently 6 in SF4).
Souryu translates to mourning style, but kiryu depending on some
dictionaries can also read as mourning style because of how the kanji "ki"
is used in other words; it can mean detestable or abhorable along with
mourning. "sou" interestingly means only mourning by itself. Therefore,
the kiryu more commonly translates to hateful style, which is also what
the SFA2 Strategy Guide lists it as. (yes, kanji can be confusing at times)
In their Z3 pre-battle sequence, Gen does a kiryu guard pose as Gouki pounds
away with the shungokusatsu, then Gen immediately switches to souryu for the
zanei on Gouki. It's no coincidence that Gen goes for the kiryu pose at
the beginning, as the kanji "ki" in the style's name can also mean
"purification" in addition to "hateful." Thus their sequence starts out as
SGS versus "purifying" stance.
His name in kanji means "origin" or "source."
Gen is a great assassin. When he learned that he had a incurable sickness, he
set off into the underground world so he would die in battle, before he finally
heard of and ran into Gouki.
Contrary to popular belief, Gen is not Yun and Yang's (of SF3)
grandfather, or Lee's (of SF1) father (Lee was Yun Lee's and Yang Lee's
uncle). Additionally Gen has no restaurant; Genhanten exists only within the
context of Pocket Fighter.
It should be noted that there is a slight mistranslation in the US
version of SF Eternal that states that Gen is Yun and Yang's grandfather.
I've had several people who can read Japanese go over it and they say
that the Kanji 'gen' (which is the same as the kanji for Gen's name)
is used to refer to "origin", which is indeed the context it's used
in the Japanese version of SF Eternal (...and likely one of the reasons why
many misconceptions of Gen being their grandfather are floating around)
and not meant to be a name. ("Originally raised in Shanghai by their
grandfather" ended up being translated as "Raised in Shanghai by their
grandfather Gen", but the former is the intended context).
Gen was a friend of Chun-Li's father. For more information on that, see
Chun-Li's section and farther down.
The disease Gen has is leukemia, according to Saiki. Presently I've been
unable to locate a source specifying it to be in fact leukemia, but it may very
well be his disease as coughing up blood is indeed a symptom of it, as well as
a symptom for other disorders such as consumption (tuberculosis).
Assassins try to end his life daily, because he ticked them off in some
way, or because he's that legendary and good at what he does that everyone
wants to try bringing him down.
He likely does have more fighting styles (his SF1 crouching kick aka Chun Li's
crouching hard kick the Genden ansatsushuu is only seen in his SF1 arsenal),
and I believe he also uses bits of both mourning (souryu) & hateful (kiryu) in
SF1 from the stances he assumes.
So what's going on with Gen post-Z3? All evidence revealed thus far points to
him being an imposter similar to Gouken. Gen notes in his ending that he's
aware that he's actually died before. As to when he died, it might've been
during his latest fight with Gouki (see Gouki's SF4 beginning account) or more
regrettably in his opinion, to the disease he has. How does he know he's
died? Most likely from Rose. Her win quote to him cryptically mentions that
his grave is dug up and open, because a breeze can flow through the ground his
corpse was. So who dug his remains up? Most likely S.I.N.-sha. Seth's
win quote to Gen notes that very little modification shall be necessary due
to Gen's assassin nature, ideal for housing satsui no hadou.
What similarities does Gen share with Gouken? Elderly, long hair, round
sphere holding their hair...yes you read right. Gen's not just wearing a tiny
cap all of the sudden in SF4 for the heck of it. Plus it'd be odd, if it was
just a cap, that it never moves from that spot on Gen's head, even when he's
collapsed, say during his ending. Gen's win quote to Gouken reveals that
they're alike, in that they're both at the threshold of creation, on the fine
line of existence (life and death included) and non-existence. In other words
they're like puppets animated against their will (Gen's win quote to Rose
warns her to not become subservient to anyone but herself if she were to be
captured, and his win quote to himself has him disgracefully calling himself
a string-led zombie more or less) when the natural course of the universe
dictates they shouldn't even be breathing. And they both emanate an aura
inherently murderous, and yet not one like Gouki's because it's not pure
SnH, but simply dubbed as "ki" due to its hybrid artificiality.
Gen's mentioned in his SF4 profile to care for Chun-Li in a "watching-over-you
-but-want-you-to-hate-me" tough love kind of manner. The recent surfacing of
this may be due to SF4 Gen's reconstructed memory borrowing heavily from the
time he and Chun-Li's father faced Shadaloo. He cursed himself for letting
his partner be taken and wants to secretly watch over his partner's child as
a means of atonement, more vividly seen in Gen's SF4 opening, yet still keep
his heartless assassin image at the same time. And as seen in his SF4 ending,
these two desires of his clash, with his craving for a glorious end with a
fighter like Gouki winning out apparently.
*** pgVGhost.
THE GHOST
He's probably Italian since he's a pallete swap of Vitto's other men.
Final Fight Streetwise: One of Vitto's pit-fighters in Little Italy.
Kyle attempts to make a deal with Vitto to fight in Vitto's pit fights
if Vitto will give him information about Cody's whereabouts, leading to
a pit fight with Ghost in the basement of Vitto's restaurant. Kyle
manages to win, although Ghost would continue to be a pit fighter
for Vitto. [from the game]
Where he is now: Still a pit fighter, I guess.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
From Kyle's journal:
I've heard of this guy. "Ghost", they call him. He's got this Muay Thai
kick-boxing thing going on. Hmm... I'm always up for a new challenge.
NOTE: They say you can't block his low kick. Gonna have to avoid that
one."
"Ghost" is just a nickname. In the game, Vitto and his men
call him "Ghost", "The Ghost", and "Da Ghost" at various points.
It is never even remotely hinted in game why he's called the Ghost. It
MIGHT be an inside joke or reference to how he looks just like SF1's Joe.
People mistake him for SF1's Joe, as Ghost is the spitting image of Joe,
(as much as a generic design like Joe's you can be the spitting image of).
He has what looks like the exact same hairstyle, and his pants, belt, and even
shoes look the same as Joe's sprite and art (although his pants has some orange
on the side and around the belt, unlike Joe). Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if
Capcom named him "Ghost" as a tongue-in-cheek poke at Joe (IE, Joe is 'dead'
in that he has little chance of ever being shown again. Alternatively, he's
Ghost because he's 'back from the dead' in that Joe is finally being used
again). I lean more towards tribute myself though, as he doesn't seem to
have Joe's spin kick and Kyle's journal says he uses Muay Thai, while Joe uses
normal kickboxing. While Muy Thai has a few similarities to kickboxing, SF1
already had TWO Muay Thai fighters with Adon and Sagat so I doubt that Joe was
supposed to be associated with it as well. Course, maybe Capcom Studio 8 just
decided to say and use Muay Thai for Ghost's style because it looked and
sounded cooler. He's way too young-looking to be Joe, though, given how much
older all the returning FF characters in the game are and how much older Cammy
looks. For Ghost to be Joe, Joe would like, have had to not aged a single year
despite how Cammy (also from Street Fighter) aged significantly. So he's
likely a tribute, at best.
Also, Joe was 24 in SF1. He'd be like, 43 by Streetwise, and Ghost sure
as heck doesn't look THAT old.
The hairstyle similarity to Joe is likely a coincidence. It's the same
style as the rest of Vitto's men as well, except Ghost is blond. The game
indicates that one of Vitto's generic henchmen is actually Ghost when Vitto
tells Kyle to meet his acquaintance, and then one of Vitto's men stretches as
if he's preparing for a fight before he personally takes Kyle down to the
basement pit fight.
The generic Vitto henchman used to represent Ghost before the pit fight
has black hair instead of blond. This might be a bug, as I noticed a blond-
haired one (that of course looked just like Ghost in a suit) in the
background during Kyle's second visit to Vitto before fighting Andore, but
after the camera panned to Vitto and then back, his hair had suddenly changed
from blond to black. Maybe a glitch makes his hair black when Vitto's
introduced into the scene or something due to a color palette problem.
The second time Kyle gets escorted down to the basement of Vitto's
restaurant (this time for the pit-fight with Andore), Vitto specifically
calls the blonde-and-then-black-haired guy that's in charge of escorting
Kyle down to the basement "Bruno". This doesn't necessarily mean that
Ghost's real name is Bruno. After all, each of Vitto's henchmen (including
Ghost outside of the pits) looks the same besides the chefs ("Bruno" is
also one of the many names that a Vitto henchman can randomly have when
you fight them).
Ghost's punch attacks are the same lunging punches that the rest of
Vitto's henchmen uses. The Muay Thai kicks are exclusive to him, though.
He seems to have the same fighting stance as the rest of Vitto's henchmen
though (so like Stiff, his fighting style is apparently an advanced version
of his boss' generic goons' style. With some added Muay Thai, I guess).
One of his taunts is "Is my hair messed up? Of course not." (that's
the only one that really stood out to me).
*** pgVGill.
GILL
Age: 22 when he became Leader, which was a good while before SF3.
Native place: unknown
SF3-era nickname: "Divine Era's Supreme Ruler"
Street Fighter 3 Second Impact: Gill draws fighters to himself to find the
chosen ones that he would use to create the ideal society when the prophesied
time comes. Alex manages to take him down, and Gill was very impressed.
[Official]
Street Fighter 3 Third Strike:
From the olden days B.C. by management having ruled from behind the entire
world the Secret Society produced, the lord of miraculous power. Unyielding
even to his actual younger brother Urien's evil designs, with that nature of
overwhelming charisma he's holding onto the organization's full authority.
For the project for the sake of an ideal society materialization accelerating
by an amount of 200 years, now surely for Gill seems to be in the role of
reigning above ground as the divine present emperor. [CJ's 3S profile for
Gill]
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There is something special about Alex. Gill is very very interested in him.
It appears that someday in the future, Alex will be one of the key people once
the appointed time for the divine era comes [Official].
For more of what Gill did in the SF3 games to other characters, check out
various other SF3 characters like Yun and Urien and such.
Where he is now: Continuing to watch the rest of the world, and Alex in
particular. His 3S ending assumes that Alex wants to seek him out again,
which is unlikely since Alex believes Gill got taken care of the first time
and Tom is well.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Gill from AASF3 & Gamest SF3
Backstory
From the olden days B.C., controlling from a shadow on the world there's a
secret society. For them in order that it shall originate the ideal society
in this earth they rightly continue activity, for the Leader who is the
organization's chief, pedigree and genetics, astrology and the like under
various requisites is selected. Even Gill, from within a multitude's
candidacy through the greeted elite as Leader, himself living in as well
as envisioning to originate the ideal society.
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Story
From the olden days B.C., there's a secret society's leader controlling
from a shadow on the world. For the secret society in the year A.D. 2200,
in order to originate the ideal society in this earth, with every possible
spectacle they continue activity.
For the Leader being the organization's chief one time in 24 years, in
pedigree and genetic characteristics candidating the research-selected
1,024 groups of paired children, moreover those evaluated as standards as
far as four-pillar astrology, feng shui, astrology and the occult, several
people are intellectually educated. Within that a single person coming of
age 22 years simultaneously, comes to be in fact welcomed as the new Leader.
Spanning a millenium, among the ideal society materialization's schedule
progressing, for he (Gill) thought. Even the ideal society's completion
as it is now that's far off ahead of my own dying....... Within my own
existing, no rather, with this hand I want to complete the ideal society.
But for that, for the agreed year 2200, being a gap of even 200 years that
was being the craving.
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Profile
Personality- The Secret Society, for in that leader a strong will and
composed power, and also the matter of possessing absolute-like charisma
is demanded. For Gill though within successive generations of Leaders,
he's clearing that through a high level. For his underlying ruling and
believing it with inanimate nature is, about denying that of everyone
difficult. Why then, for the organization's intelligence gathering power,
analysis ability and also engineering ability, national boundaries and
races and religions, as long as time is exceedingly supporting him, until
he declaratively acquires the precognition level of his forged judgment
ability he'll be improving after all.
Gill himself is, regarding his deeds as being those of the world's conqueror
and perhaps, being capable for freedom to mankind and the like is not
particularly a matter of consciousness. Why then imperative to become
Leader for gripping an undertaking of education, for the matter to control
the world that's because it's about extremely natural. From before being
born it was about deciding, for in regards to him, that was an exceedingly
obvious matter after all. In accordance with the habitual him being faced
by a person is, even aiming at the matter of feeling in him that presence
and charisma nature, seldom a person to sense the peculiarly abnormal-like
feeling of oppression and physical unease. Accordingly to a person, if
someone would speak of it, with extensive knowledge the person says that
was an enjoyable person wasn't it, in an argumentive but changed matter the
consideration is abundant.
It's somewhat of a arrogant place, that being the disposition, controlling
the world is to say not something to come from conceit and the like.
Desiring for the ideals of the entire world no rather this earth, allowing
it to descend into neutral to the last his ruling is possibly said to be
the ultimate righteousness. However, to observe comprehending his aura
from the body's center in both the left and right, the ruling is to be saying
whenever he himself senses for the sake of sublimating various contradictions.
Fighting style- In regards to him obtaining the world, for personal interest,
there's the world of spiritual nature esteeming arts and martial arts. For
the sake of forging the body and the spirit, having enrolled in the program
for how to be a good emperor even now with karate and aikido the martial arts
for the private him, that is also limiting the world of fighting techniques.
He acquires research on every nation's martial arts and fighting moves from
the midst of history, the matter of perfecting the ultimate martial arts being
one of his hobbies is, even as the ideal society establishment's constituent
he's even considering it as being a necessity.
For that sake, having donned flawless flesh and imperial fighting techniques
the matter of he himself going out towards the world is also in abundance.
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Fact: Gill's catch phrase/nickname is "Supreme Ruler of the Divine Era."
Found mostly in 3S contexts, but also briefly in the NG Gamest mook. Gill's
NG/2I backstory calls his organization a "secret society." I've seen at
least one Japanese forum page list organization names in quotes: Vega's is
"Shadoloo" and Gill's seems to be a cut n' pasted phrase "The Secret Society
Wishing for the Divine Era," aka a likely tag or label for one of the many
real-life groups claiming the title "Illuminati."
Gill, from the belief of the organization that he comes from, is
prophesied to be a compassionate intercessor for the suffering populace.
Here's the transcribed prophecy from his Second Impact ending:
In the soliton's summit the time the eclipsed sun submerges
For the black moon breaking into seven
Above the head of the Altanian in uncoiled clothing it downpours
Even the high priest's prayer
Also the farmer's wisdom
Is unable to stop this
For a far and wide plaza
Becoming a bird of prey and a wild beast's habitat
Resistance combining to satisfy in agony
After one hundred thirty days of silence
Appears the golden haired child equivalent to have been filled with flames
and water
Being of genuine compassion it will presumably lend an ear to the people's
requests
~from Muraha's Written Prophecy . Ordinal Third Chapter Eleventh Verse~
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Note that Alex could also potentially fit the prophecy's description as he's
later depicted in Gill's 3S ending.
Gill describes to Yun that in the near future, the balance between people's
tendencies for positivity and negativity, normally cancelling each other out,
will shatter. That is when the Secret Society will act in the name of
benevolence for the rest of the world.
The year when Gill's organization shall bring about the ideal society,
according to them, is 2200.
Gill's organization determines who the next Leader is by having a batch
(1024 pairs) of genetically enhanced chosen ones train together and fight
together, and the one that rises to the top is determined to be the new
Leader. Of course, Gill is the one that rose to the top of his generation,
much to his jealous brother Urien's dismay.
Gill enjoys learning, and is constantly trying to improve himself
both mentally and physically. He's very knowledgeable of countless
martial arts, especially karate and aikido, and hopes to obtain the
ultimate fighting style.
There are 66 secret techniques of the mysterious organization,
including resurrection. Urien's Aegis reflector is another.
The reason Gill was elected Leader over Urien is due to Urien being
considered emotionally unstable. Urien later on became Leader per Gill's
command after Gill moved up to the position of "Sovereign", the supreme
watcher for the coming of the divine era and little-known true head of
the Secret Society.
Gill is VERY powerful, storylinewise. He was transformed by the
Secret Society into a tri-natured being, able to contain and maintain
three distinct auras of ki: a fiery quality from his right side, an icy
quality from his left, and an activation of all his seven chakra points
along his spine to revive him from a loss of stamina during resurrection
(introduced in NG). He has such a affinity to his conspicuous dual natures
that he can miraculously call forth fiery and icy projectiles from above
during his second super art meteor strike (introduced in 2I), and finally he
exhibits his dual-natured emotional side with his pulverizing third super art
in the name of warmth and love, the seraphic wing (introduced in 3S).
He's not immortal for he anticipates his eventual death, hence he wishes to
be the one responsible for ushering in the ideal society the moment the
Leader candidacy was his. In other words, though the prophecies say to wait,
he's not content with waiting once he has the power, since he is mortal and
his office term is also temporary (a Leader rules from age 22 until age 46,
24 years at max). This is why the scenario of his 3S ending is presented
as a possibility, should he decide to go back on his agreement with Yun and
Yang to hold off as originally planned and see just how people, particularly
fighters, will be able to cope with the coming imbalance of the opposite
powers meant to keep each other in check for the next two centuries or so,
according to his organization.
Though Capcom has kept Gill's and Urien's nationality unknown, the
majority of clues would lead them to be Indian. They both have a bindi
(forehead jewel) sported in particular by religious Hindu men and married
Hindu women that emphasizes and worships intellect in general. Akiman's
preliminary design for Gill was described as a "Greek Pankration-like Gandhi",
notes described in the AASF3 Fighting Bible. Also, the aura that follows
Gill's resurrection super art emanates from the body's line of chakras as
depicted in Kundalini yoga, including the tanden cited for Seth and Ryu.
Again, CJ's said nothing for their nationalities, but these three points of
observation are there for chewing.
Gill's secretary's name is Kolin. Official art indicates that they
might be infatuated with each other.
Gill is aware of Urien's plot against him. However, Gill isn't too
concerned about it. He obviously isn't intimidated by Urien.
While Urien is the one who took it further to produce Twelve and co,
Gill is likely the one that started the crisis management unit and Necro.
Gill giving Kolin that book is yet another thing inspired by Nakahira
Masahiko's Ryu Final manga. I think it was a book that detailed different
fighting styles or something, I forget. ~Sano
It might be a book on mysteries, but seems to be more about fighting styles.
Erik Ko of Studio Udon said that Capcom mentioned to him that Gill was
based on Kikaider, also confirmed in AASF3.
For more on Urien and Gill, including their childhood and their parents,
see Urien's section.
Gill's stages have always been scenes from antiquity. NG's might as well be
Thira (present day Santorini) which is a Greek island, but in 2I like Urien he's
in an ancient Egyptian scene. If you want Gill to stay in Greece for 3S, his
stage there might very well be Mt. Olympus, as hinted from his stage sound
file caption "GRE".
*** pgVGouken.
GOUKEN (formerly SHENG LONG overseas)
Birthdate: unknown (probably before 1945, older than Gouki)
Native place: Japan
Fighting style: fighting techniques rooted in an ansatsuken (utilizing
kikouhou)
Height: 185 cm
Weight: 90 kg
BWH sizes: B125, W95, H90
Blood type: unknown (we don't know what it was prior to his demise to Gouki)
Likes: dumplings
Dislikes: mosquitoes
Special skill: rod fishing
SF4-era nickname: "Fatherly Master Like a Rock"
Street Fighter 4:
Ryu and Ken's master as Gouki's elder brother. Having refined the techniques
of what was originally an ansatsuken, afterwards perfecting them into
first-class fighting moves, he instructed them to Ryu and Ken. Defeated by
Gouki, appeared to be dead, his figure appears once again.
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Highlights:
-Note: Gouken's "figure appearing once again" makes no indication that he
survived his second fight with Gouki; it just means that he shows up.
Gouken in his animated opening gazes down at Ryu and Ken walking off with
bags at their backs. His words are more than a little puzzling. He says
after cursing about his hair, that he can't believe how long it took him to
return conscious and that it's no wonder his pupils believe he's dead.
Then he brushes off that notion with a "oh well, it was time for them to
leave the nest anyway" as we see two birds fly away in the sky, and that
he looks forward to fighting them again.
How many "odd things" can you find with just this info so far? Read on.
In his ending, Ryu's face to face with his master, or is he? Ryu drops
forward flashing back to the moments that just occurred: Gouken's rapid
taps and pats, Ryu unleashing with a hadouken, Gouken unfazed, then finally
charges spinning around Ryu. Back to Ryu about to fall face-first, muttering
confused that he just felt and witnessed the art known as mu no ken, or
nothing's fist. After quietly moaning, "Master...", he finally falls, on his
back! Uuuh? Wasn't he about to collapse face-first in the beginning?
Finally at the end Gouken senses Gouki's ki behind him, saying that SnH
has been sniffed out.
Super Street Fighter 4:
Gouken's opening: He watches Ryu and Ken spar, first as they were young, then
as they've grown up. Gouken's aura kindles as he clenches his fist, somewhat
of a more pure quality for it now than it was in SF4. He's getting excited
for the upcoming tournament, and he'd enjoy fighting with his pupils as well.
Gouken's ending has him walking away from a wailing Ken. Ryu and Ken both
hustle up the path to see what's going on with the old man's antics.
Gouken rebukes their shouting out "Master", saying that there shouldn't be
someone like that, or else they ought to be willing to resort to water-drawing
chores again. If any of this happened in any way, it's not referenced in
either Ryu's or Ken's endings or anywhere else.
The only other instance we see of Gouken in SSF4 is in Gen's ending, showing
Gen flashbacking to what he saw of Gouken and Gouki charging at each other in
a death-meet that Gen so achingly desires.
Where he is now: Dead by Gouki's hand or roaming the globe like Gen.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Ryu and Ken's master didn't have a name at first. Capcom of Japan
finally named him after Gouki was introduced. Even then, his name was
first heard from Masaomi Kanzaki's manga SFII Ryu: Gouken. As a side note,
their master who provides the mantra of kikouhou provided below in the SF2AM
was named Goutetsu, and ditto in Itoh Mami's manga SSF2X Gaiden.
Kikouhou or chi kung is what Gouken incorporated into Ryu's and Ken's
teachings of his master Goutetsu's ansatsuken to minimize the tendencies
of satsui no hadou which is rooted in their fighting style (see Ryu's section
for more on Ryu and Ken's training regimen as described in HnN). Literally
the "principle of spirit cultivation", it has its origins within Taoism as
seen with its references to sei/vitality, ki/spirit, shin/soul, phases and
divination. The mantra below is what Ken and later on his master recite
as Ken heals from Vega's psycho power-induced brainwashing in the SF2AM,
transcribed from the movie's film manga:
Rensei kaki...renki kashin...renshin edou...kyorei choukei, gankyou batsusei,
shouyou, kyoujitsu bunmei...chinken tsuichuu, youi fuyouryoku, jouge souzui,
naigai sougou, souren fudan, douchuu kyousei...
Inyou kiwamatte shishou o umi, shishou kiwamatte hakke o shouzu. Gou
kiwamatte juu ni itari. Juu kiwamatte gou ga shouzu. Sono shitai wa shin
zenbi o kana sonae, onozu to uchuu no housoku o arawasu. Korezo! Shin no
hadouken!!
Collect vitality turn it into spirit...collect spirit turn it into
soul...collect soul to acquire the road...guide the emptiness to a
strong peak, contain it in the chest extract the height, loosen the
hips, truth and falsehood made clear...aloe shoulder falling arm, preparation
for useless strength, at the mercy of the phase high and low, combine the
phase inside and out, continuous phase gathering, motion within requesting
for quiet...
Reaching the extreme of positive and negative principles four phases are born,
reaching the extreme of four phases generates eight signs of divination.
Reaching the extreme of strength results in gentleness. Reaching the extreme
of gentleness generates strength. That style combines preparation with the
true, the good, and the beautiful; naturally revealing the laws of the
universe. This it is! The true hadouken!!
Note that Gouki or Vega would have obvious qualms about the "gentleness"
portion and onward. Also the positive and negative principles are more
commonly referred to as yin (negative) and yang (positive).
Gouken's name overseas was actually originally Sheng Long. I don't
know the exact details, but for whatever reason, that really was officially
his American name as given by Capcom of America themselves (this was before
Gouken himself had a name at all from Capcom of Japan). Did Capcom of
America know that it was a mistranslation of rising dragon punch (rising dragon
actually, but whatever)? At any rate, CoA switched over to Gouken for his
name shortly after the two EGM April Fools incidents out of embarrassment.
However, CJ with SF4 and SSF4 effectively refused to put this faux pas to
rest, twisting around the stake CUSA had driven into itself. In conjunction
with CJ's Ono-san saying the reason for Gouken ending up on the playable
roster was to resurrect the overseas notion of Sheng Long, this character
followed through the fate printed in the second EGM hoax: Sheng Long,
alias Gouken, born April 1, 1941, blood type O, was spotted by Ryu and Ken
fighting his brother atop a mountain ridge at dawn, then seen falling into
the cold, dark river below, "his body washed out to sea by the raging
currents."
Thus, overseas Ryu and Ken's master was never confirmed dead, and so it
confusedly remains to this day when referring to the subtley rewritten
English scripts.
Sheng Long is Chinese for "rising dragon, IE, sho-ryu. The "name" first
shows up in one of Ryu's win quotes in the overseas version of SF2.
The original text was:
"Shôryûken o yaburanu kagiri, omae ni kachime wa nai", i.e. "Unless you defeat
the shôryûken (= dragon punch) you have no chance of winning."
"Shenlong" (Chinese) = "shôryû" (Japanese) = "rising dragon"
So either the English translator was working from a Chinese translation, or
he was just having fun changing the name into Chinese (much more likely since
the original script of WW had no kanji to misread). Either way, Capcom of
America decided to have Sheng Long be the name of Ryu and Ken's master as well
until EGM embellished players' confusions with those hoaxes and CoJ gave him his
name of Gouken. Why? Who knows.
Gouken had a daughter. However, she wasn't originally "Gouken's"
daughter; she was Ryu's master's daughter before he was named Gouken.
Gouken's daughter has no official name (though Ryu and Ken called her
'Ojou-san' or 'Young Miss', from Saiki). There are two official arts of
her, though they differ greatly from each other so it's hard to tell which
one's supposed to be correct. The fact that Gouken had a daughter seems to
have been forgotten by Capcom and thus will probably never resurface (the
official arts of her come from old official sources and you can't find the
fact that Gouken has a daughter except in really old sources, too. Capcom
probably didn't even finalize what she is supposed to look like, considering
that the two official arts of her look completely different from each other).
The 2 Versions of Ojou-san:
Imagine Yuri with hair like Kasumi's (KOF '99-'00 style) and wears a yellow
gi. Give her an elbow pad. Curl the pants up to her knees.
Imagine Vice with black/blue hair. Give her a white gi. Curl her pants to
her knees and give her the same beads Gouki has. She never made it past the
story and sketches.
Ojou-san: Gouken's daughter ---A planned and ongoing summary
Two official arts were created for her, neither one made it past the
story and sketches. Both are quite different from each other, why? And why
is she so elusive? After 2 years of searching the following has been brought
to my attention, and is subject to change as new info becomes available.
Thank you for reading this, and as always feel free to ask questions and such.
FACT:
She appeared in Capcom's own manga story for SF1 called Hadouken:
Prelude to the Struggle, long before Ryu's master became known as Gouken.
This manga is found in Gamest Magazine #13 from October 1987. This story's
no longer official with the Zero series released, but in it she's shown with
hair in a ponytail almost exactly like Yuri from Ryuko no Ken/Art of
Fighting 1, as opposed to the longer hair Kasumi look from the SF2 Fanbook
that's closer to her official version 1 look, with earrings and a jacket+pants
uniform similar to that for kung fu practitioners.
I have found one official old source as suggested in Tiamat's SF Plot
Guide that speaks of Ojou-san (text, no pictures). This book is roughly
called SF2: Mysteries of the Hadouken from Shinseisha/ Gamest released in
June 1994. Since she has no offical name the text refers to her as the
unnecessary or useless warrior girl. Before the Zero series, before even the
SF2 Movie came out which inspired the event, Ojou-san gave Ryu his trademark
red headband. Ojou-san secretly admired Ryu from a distance everyday when he
trained with Ken in their master's dojo. Naive Ryu never once noticed her
feelings until the day he left the dojo to train on his own. The day he was
to leave, Ojou-san gave Ryu her red headband, and that day he realized the
feelings she truly had for him. Referring to the unofficial manga in the
SF2 Fanbook, the story of course isn't official but the relationship depicted
is, about the only thing still carried on from Hadouken: Prelude to the
Struggle.
Presently I have found no printed evidence that Ojou-san witnessed the
final battle between Gouken and Gouki other than Saiki's word from his friends
at Capcom he thinks. Ken's SFZ entry in AAC is a memory recall of both the
battle he and Ryu both saw when they were young and the battle he catches as
his master's last: Gouken fighting Gouki, Gouken wins the former, Gouki wins
the latter.
SF Eternal briefly and of course vaguely alludes to Ojou-san in Gouki's
storyline section. One sentence says "Also, Ryu, Ken, and a fellow student,
as may be expected, master the same kind of techniques." Yes I know it's not
much, but Eternal barely even talks about non-playable characters in the
storyline anyway.
A pre-development Makoto sketch found in two Gamest publications
strongly resembles Ojou-san's official version 2 look, with short Vice-like hair
and a white gi but no beads. Ojou-san was also a leading point to Sakura's
design; Gamest World #7 reveals that a design of Ryu's girlfriend (?) had a
hand into finalizing Sakura.
OPINION:
Why two completely different arts? My current assumption is that
she tried to enter the SF universe at two different points in time, the
timeframe of SF2 and the timeframe of SFZ, and she just got scrapped due
to continuity problems. From the story above, I assume that the first
description of Ojou-san in the Plot Guide fits for the original SF2
timeframe, and seeing her in the manga story which fits the first
description nearly exactly. Why do I think this design got axed? Because
she's believed to have given Ryu the red headband before he leaves Gouken's
dojo. But wait! He's got a white one in SF1! Oh well, back in the early
days of SF2 no SFZ yet so he could go back to Gouken after SF1 and then
leave again for SF2 and she gives him the red one then, but of course now
with SFZ we know that can't happen anymore. So at this point Ojou-san's
only major role in the story is shot. Another possible reason for axing
the first design is an indecision on whether she could fight or not. HnN
calls her useless, and in the Fanbook she's not shown to be much of a
fighter, being completely at the mercy of a giant bear springing out of
nowhere and fainting just before Ryu blows the bear and several trees away
with a hadouken. BTW all three manga stories in the Fanbook are true
within the storyline of the SF2 Animated Movie only, according to
disclaimer statements in the Fanbook.
Now for the second design of her, which I like to assume was made
for the Zero series. Seems hopeful. She has a white gi now which can
easily have a white headband to go with it, so SF1 problem seems fixed.
She's also supposed to have prayer beads like the kind you see on Gouki
and her father Gouken. I also think she was given her more subtle role
in the story of witnessing Gouken and Gouki's last battle at this point
in time. What about the beads? Are they possibly her father's? If Gouki
took Goutetsu's (which currently I haven't found printed evidence for
also BTW) then he wouldn't need Gouken's also. So why was this design
thrown away from the public's eyes? Or was it? After having read some
accounts on Gouki, I think one can assume this design might have been
scrapped simply for the beads. The beads I believe are worn by one who's
mastered Goutetsu's ansatsuken. That's the significance I've seen behind
them after these readings. So we can say that with this design Ojou-san
can fight to an extent. Since she has beads, is she as good as her father?
Perhaps Capcom couldn't decide how strong she should be and/or didn't want
to mess with more beads and thus trashed her second design for that reason.
Street Fighter Alpha Generations possibly shows Fuka as Gouken's
daughter, my opinion anyway. At least in the feature they confirm Sayaka
to be Goutetsu's daughter, again from Alpha Generations only.
UNCONFIRMED RUMOR:
A possibly non-canon comic depicted a young Ojou-san witnessing her
father's final battle with Gouki: she sees lights flashing from the dojo,
Gouki walks past her totally ignoring her after everything was over, then
he knocks out Ken who had just arrived soon after.
Can anyone approve or disprove of this at all?
Thanks again for reading, and I look forward to appending as more
info becomes available. As always questions and comments are appreciated,
especially help for the rumor.
/end summary
Doubt we'll ever see Ojou-san actively resurface anywhere in the
future. HnN said that it was originally hoped that she would have a more
prominent role in the next game planned after SSF2X, back then it was SF3.
Then the Zero series came along with Sakura, and finally 3S brought out
Makoto, and most people would say with those additions to the universe
Ojou-san's chances of prominence are slim to nill.
Not that it matters much but in the certainly non-canon Street
Fighter Alpha Generations anime, the other girl's name there is Fuka.
Seems like there are different ways to interpret who she is since they
don't flat out say. She's either -
1. Gouken's daughter
2. Gouki's daughter
3. Some random martial artist's daughter whose father got killed.
Gouki vs. Gouken related info is below in Gouki's section.
Prologue 14 (Gouken)
"Whoa, coold."
Raising a grandiose voice, the boy dipped in the river waved his hand. Taking
in an early summer sunlight filtering through trees, scattered drops of water
are seen to glisten and shine.
"It'll soon be summer I say, why is it so cold?, this water. My hand's
completely frozen."
While his mouth's becoming sour scooping water in held buckets the boy's hair
also, bathing in the sun's light is shining in a golden color. For Gouken
raised his eyebrows on one side.
"There are many caves in this mountain aren't there. As it becomes deep, in
the interior even through the summer there's ice that doesn't melt. From that
kind of location therefore cold water probably gushes forth.
-Besides that don't halt your efforts, Ken."
"...I don't mean I hadn't considered the absolutely necessary water service
did I."
Having merely apprenticed a few days ago Ken, for the time being is fussing
about perhaps yet grumbling in a very small voice, he bitterly smiles.
"Your own managing also to provide for yourself. This is also training.
Don't say nothing but complaints quickly scoop."
"Training...? It's drawing water??"
Dubiousness, rather than instead of doubt such a facial expression, for Gouken
this time distinctly laughed.
"Don't believe it do you."
"Ah, no! I believe! I believe I say!"
Ken flustering waves his hands.
"Good then, Ken. For in this world there are, while changing into all forms
perpetual motions. If I would compare it'd be like this water, flowing,
become in the clouds, downpours again to the ground. Now the fist I'm
teaching you is the same."
"Huh..."
"Even with forging only the flesh, it produces power from your own body only
the matter of using it is unable. But true power to say is not such a thing.
Earth, air, multitudes of living things..., of course you now even including
scooping water, from all in this world to produce power, also to continue to
express the body. In other words for the user of this fist, that's a reason
to suppose that power's river flows for oneself."
Ken with having the buckets drenched in the river, on the basis of his
eyebrows was coming near to groaning, in time heartbroken he dropped his
shoulders.
"I completely don't understand, Master."
For Gouken gently brushed the boy's jerking head hung in shame.
"In short, instead of laziness listen to Master's words, that's the thing
said."
"Eh-."
Even while Ken raises a discontent voice, he returned to the reluctant drawing
water work.
"Ken! Master!"
From over the way the heard voice, the pair raised their heads at the same
time. From deep in the forest to come at this direction is seen a white
padded undershirt.
"Observe. From too much loafing, Ryu has come."
"That's true."
Saying it with a lazied head Ken stretching waved his hand.
"Sorry, Ryu! I'll go soon!"
The manner until extent's mood not advancing for the aspect disappears, all at
once hanging the buckets on both hands he goes rushing up the slope. In time
having linked up the two of them separate buckets to go carrying one each, for
Gouken smiling saw them off.
-All things perpetually move, change appearance. That is small until before
the assassin's that being feared, the same as also this fist. While coming in
contact with friends and nature for the pupils' figures to grow it seems,
Gouken's training period to be wholly different.
"Again even the fist, is something passed down from person to person....
Within that how to go about changing it perhaps. Someday through this eye the
day to see it shall be enjoyable."
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Highlights:
-Instead of revealing about his SF4 involvement, Gouken's account takes us
back to just a few days after Ken became his disciple. The water-carrying
would be used later on in Gouken's SSF4 ending to show why he mentions the
chore to Ryu and Ken even though they "shouldn't be having a master anymore."
Gouken's win quotes to Ryu and Ken are the parting words he left them before
they parted from his dojo to travel and fight on their own (Gouken's rival
battle with Ryu is a more detailed enacting of Ryu's farewell battle, and it
does take place in the past due to Gouken never paying any concern for Ryu's
tapping into SnH during his ultra). On the other hand, their win quotes to
him show nothing short of disbelief. That goes for Dan as well. Gouki tries
to SGS him in Gouki's ending, but it's nullified, and Gouki doesn't understand
why until the old man turns to show his face. Only then does Gouki know what's
going on. Gen's ending has the legendary assassin seeing a vision of Gouki
and Gouken preparing to fight before he gets up. Gen's win quote to Gouken
reveals that Gen recognizes that he and Gouken are alike with respect to their
places in creation. Finally Seth's win quote to Gouken has the CEO of
S.I.N.-sha ushering out the fighting veteran, acknowledging that Gouken is
with just one shortcoming.
What do all these things in SF4 plus previous Gouken episodes say for his
appearance in the game? He's a well-crafted imposter. Like Gen, he's one of
the two characters who was seen to be purposefully redesigned by SF4's artist
Ikeno even though there wasn't much of a problem to keep him the way he was
depicted before this game, and it's not just an aging issue. His long hair
is held by a round sphere towards the end, his look is part Gouken, part Oro,
part Goutetsu and some may even argue part April Fool's creation Sheng Long
(even set up to be Sheng Long by Capcom Japan initially); his win quote to
himself has him detest himself as a figment of fantasy, most of everyone
else's win quotes to him show they can't quite put their fingers on who or
what he is, and he's shown in Gen's ending to have a colored aura just as
Gen's shown to emit shortly after. Gouken in SF4 believes Ryu and Ken never
said their goodbyes to him before leaving his dojo to go on towards their
respective tournaments, which points to him having an incomplete artificial
memory that stems from the time he fought and lost to Vega because he refused
to show the psycho-powered dictator the shoryuken, in which Vega did thrash
him into unconsciousness but didn't kill him (see Vega's miscellaneous section
for the account of this battle), and yes Gouken had recovered from Vega's
beating, to be killed by Gouki many years later.
Gouki has fought his brother more than once. He tries to SGS Gouken in Gouki's
SF4 ending, not knowing who's got his back facing Gouki until he turns around.
Gouki's been shown to be able to sense Ryu's SnH even from considerable
distances (Ryu's Z2 ending shows that Gouki had felt when Ryu attacked Sagat),
so it's unlikely he wouldn't have been able to feel his real brother's presence
as he's walking up to him, unless his brother's not quite what he appears to be.
Gouken's SF4 ending has him calling Gouki his "little brother." Not that it's
incorrect what he's saying or anything, but it is unlike Gouken's character,
especially if Ryu or Ken are in the immediate area. Gouken had kept secret
from his pair of pupils who Gouki was in relation to him, calling him simply
"that man" when they were younger (see Ken's Miscellaneous Notes for the account
of Gouken and Gouki's first battle after Goutetsu had died).
So who would be responsible for this Gouken and for what reason? Seth, due to
the BLECE experiments and his dealings into satsui no hadou, Gouken would be a
prime candidate for harnessing such power since he was the heir to Goutetsu's
ansatsuken and was trained to fight using it despite his decision to abstain
from it later. Also Seth's after Ryu for his necessity with the BLECE project,
as in Ryu's opening. What better measure to shock and snare him than with a
facsimile of the only parent figure he's ever known?
Like Gouki and Rose, Gouken's blood type is stated as unknown. It's not as
clear as with his brother and Rose, but Gouken too may have changed on the
spiritual level on the way to the state he is in SF4. Possibly merged with
cells of Goutetsu (could explain why he uses moves that incorporate SnH like
his super the forbidden shoryuken which is most likely the very technique
Goutetsu originally came up with, or the denjin hadouken), or others whom we
may not know at this time (several fighters perished in BLECE experiments from
Cammy's opening).
SF4-era Gouken existing outside of his own will is a direct statement from
Ikeno, which mirrors what various pieces of the game script say about him.
He was brought back via Seth's designs and to have his spirit be that of the
ki emanated by BLECE, a ki which has SnH be the principal component but also
includes soul power and psycho power blended together in minority amounts.
Soon after Gouken was ushered out, his ego began cleansing his self and he
effectively resisted the ki's effects from Seth and BLECE, except when he
would go all out against fighters such as Gouki, hence his colored aura as
opposed to a pure transparent aura he used to give off before the Zero series.
Seth's SSF4 quote to Gouken is what truly irons out his overall inconsistent
behavior and nuances: he has been repressing the new power within him, how
"regained consciousness" and how the essence of his current spirit is not of
his own doing, but of an "outside one," otherwise there would be no need for
Seth to label a power Gouken previously had as "new."
For a little more on the states of Gouken and Gen in SF4, see Gen's section.
Gouken in the arcade version of SF4 may have been at one time a being that
came back through having achieved complete enlightenment, though again Gouki's
behavior pointed to something being amiss with this being who appears to be
his late big brother.
With AE Gouken gets to be a rival to both Satsui Ryu and Oni, not that it
matters much since both characters are what-if existences during the SF4
series, although needless to say they both want to mutilate the stuffings
out of him even before he calls them both idiotic later on within their rival
battle exchanges.
*** pgVGouki.
GOUKI (AKUMA overseas)
Age: "around 48" (during SSF2X. From TONS of different official sources)
Birthdate: month and day unknown, 19??. Around 1945 (going by age during SF2)
Height: 178 cm
Weight: 80 kg
BWH sizes: B118, W84, H86
Blood type: unknown (we don't know what it was before his first SGS)
Native place: Japan
Special skill: unknown
Likes: unknown
Dislikes: unknown
Fighting style: unknown (Goutetsu's ansatsuken maximizing satsui no hadou)
SFZ-era nickname: "Destruction's Fist Even Massacres Oni"
SF2, SF4, SF3-era nickname: "One of the Ultimate Fist"
Street Fighter 1: He wasn't in the actual game, but shortly after it, he
was doing things. Gouki challenged, fought, and killed his brother,
Gouken, while Ryu was returning from the first Street Fighter tournament.
By the end of the battle, one of Gouken's students, Ken, had arrived, and
witnessed Gouki pulling off the killing blow. Gouki, victorious, then
leaves for the island Gokuentou, reminiscing about his brother as he leaves.
[Official and specially noted in AAC]
Street Fighter Zero 2: Gouken's student, Ryu, has tracked Gouki down, and
challenges Gouki as a fighter. Gouki, always looking for worthy foes,
tests Ryu's mettle at his island, Gokuentou. Gouki is very impressed by
Ryu's skill, and tells Ryu about the power satsui no hadou within Ryu. He
wants that power to awaken within Ryu, and tells Ryu that once it does, Ryu
should seek Gouki out again so they could have a real match [Official].
Gouki then forcefully slams his fist into the ground, and the island of
Gokuentou sinks into the sea, with Ryu escaping just in time [specially noted
in AAC that Gouki destroys the island].
One day, an old man named Gen found Gouki, and challenged him. Gouki
used the shungokusatsu on Gen, but Gen somehow managed to safeguard it!
Gen then did his his zanei on Gouki but Gouki blocked it. As the battle
goes on, Gouki realized that Gen was sick and the two set apart. Neither
one won the battle. Gen survived the shungokusatsu because he emptied his
spirit, heart and mind (which makes him immune to pain from past sins).
[Official] This is seen in Gouki's and Gen's Z3 pre-battle intro. After
Gouki leaves Gen, he senses the individuals who can provide him a worthy
battle: Gen, Vega, and Ryu, in that order, and laughs with glee. (Gouki's
Z2 ending)
Street Fighter Zero 3: Gouki spent SFZ3 looking for a worthy challenger.
He found Gen, once again, by the end of SFZ3. Gen remains persistent,
certain that only Gouki is capable of a match to the death. Capcom hasn't
stated who won this battle, though from their Z3 win quotes to each other
Gouki seemed to leave Gen once more, dissatisfied with the effort Gen puts
forth in his still severely ill state.
SFZ3 File #25 Gouki
Calls himself "the one become of the ultimate fist." Ryu, Ken's master
Gouken's own younger brother but, for the sake of acquiring the extreme power
"satsui no hadou", he murders Goutetsu through the forbidden move
"shungokusatsu." After that with his whereabouts concealed, he appeared once
again before Ryu. However the intention of his actions is a riddle.
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Highlights:
-Recount and affirmation of Goutetsu's murder plus Ryu's Z2 final battle that
happened, Gouki leaving Ryu cryptic words before appearing to bail out of the
battle.
Shin Gouki from SFZ3 Official Guidebook Master's Edition
The oni who's released his become concealed total power. That power is the
extent of mighty that doesn't let others come near.
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Street Fighter 2: Gouki has heard about the Street Fighter 2 tournament.
However, he doesn't sign up for it. When the final championship of the
match came with someone against the host of the tournament and leader of
Shadaloo, Vega (Capcom hasn't stated who, however SF4 reveals that both Cammy
and Guile had previously done some damage to him), Gouki decided to randomly
jump in and test just how powerful this Vega was. Vega was intentionally
caught and his body powderized by the shungokusatsu. Gouki then leaves the
scene.[Official]
Gouki (holding back)- SSF2XR Character Concealed File
For the sake of a persistent appetite to face strength, he continues to fight.
That appetite is mighty, even without regard to murdering people.
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Shin Gouki (all out)- SSF2XR Character Concealed File
The man who stands up to the summits of all fighting stylists. His eye
reflects, with the smeared blood of vanquished figures.......
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Street Fighter 4:
The fighting stylist declaring himself as the "one of the ultimate fist."
Having overthrown his older brother Gouken with "satsui no hadou", he
continues to walk the path of carnage. His desire being the ultimate
"death meet", that viewpoint guides him to Ryu as in accordance with
"satsui no hadou."
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Dunno at this point what involvement Gouki has in SF4. His ending depends
on Ryu awakening to satsui no hadou once more, which up until now has only
been a what-if scenario. His animated opening shows him meditating, sensing
various energies all over the place, sensing Ryu, then seeing that the moon's
red ala Z2 (meaning someone's blood shall be spilled this night). His ending
also shows him more than capable of taking out a Seth, as it's smoking at the
start of Gouki's ending.
Super Street Fighter 4:
Gouki is still waiting for Ryu in his opening. And he unleashes a new
technique which emits murderous energy both along the earth and upward into
the heavens in his ending, dubbing it the sekia kuuretsuha. Hopefully he
also finishes off Gouken and puts Gen out of his misery, but that's not
known for certain, although those would both be an incentive for Gouki to
focus solely on Ryu from now on. [Gen's ending]
Street Fighter 3 Second Impact: Gouki develops "the ultimate technique",
kongou kokuretsuzan. It is so powerful that it splits an entire mountain,
Ayers Rock, in half! [Akuma's SF32I ending specially noted in AAC].
Considering that he's a secret character, I'm pretty sure he didn't register
and sign up for anything, similar to how he just flat-out crashed the SF2
tournament. There probably wasn't even a sign-up for Gill's "tournament"
anyway, since SF3's fighters don't even know that Gill's guiding them along
every step of the way.
Street Fighter 3 Third Strike:
"The one of the ultimate fist" ....Gouki. The tenacity towards bad fortune
also pure "battle." At that back burdened with even myriads of the dead,
desiring the next strong person he roams about the underworld and transient
world's (utsushiyo) threshold. "My fist....no one crushes it!" This evening
even again, the sorrowful oni trembles (wanana). [CJ's 3S profile for Gouki]
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Oro has been sensing some powerful ki for some time. He finally tracks it
down and finds Gouki! Out of curiousity to see how powerful each other is,
they fight [Official]. Third Strike win quotes indicate that initial
impressions left them both disappointed, so they both backed off and there
probably was no death matching.
Gouki is still training. He has developed himself so much that he is now
powerful enough to do inhuman acts, such as stay deep under the ocean.
While training there, he uses the tenshou kairekijin to destroy a sunken
ship. Observed by a submarine and a nearby ship, the crew members are
shocked. The move is so powerful that it causes the sunken ship to be
blasted to the surface, causing chaos even for the other ship on the water.
[Gouki's SF3TS ending]
Where he is now: As shown by SF3 dialogue, Gouki still waits for Ryu to
get better to become a worthy match (even though officially, Ryu has since
then surpassed satsui no hadou, he still is improving and still has
potential) or to find a worthy match out there. Gouki himself is always
training and seeking new fighters to battle [SF3 CJ interview].
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Gouki from SFZ
Original account from SF2 Himitsu Hyakka
Gouki, around the time when he was a child, together with older brother
Gouken, during balding Goutetsu's training for successor of the greatest
ansatsuken in history. For Gouki, the one to become the strongest would
win. Like that, Gouki's appearance took that of an "oni."
"As the result of training, strike hard with everything!" Gouki challenged
Goutetsu, once Gouki and Gouken had learned all of their instructed
techniques.
With a raging storm inside, Goutetsu and Gouki's fighting spirits clashed.
Hours later the two continued fighting. hadou crashed into hadou! Fist
struck fist, blood sprayed and ran!
"Gouki! You're doing very well. But, this is the end!" With both hands,
Goutetsu began to amass fighting spirit. The terrible extent of
willpower....The students saw there for the first time the extreme
"satsui no hadou."
"Uoooh!" Gouki wholly roared, and charged at Goutetsu!
Sure-killing ansatsuken's clash!
The battle's winner was Gouki. For Goutetsu, already his breath was
dying out....
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Official Story from Gamest SFZ and AASFZ
Amidst the violently blowing storm, 2 male persons were confronting
each other.
They are Goutetsu (thunderous iron) and his student Gouki (powerful oni).
Gouki from the time he was young together with older brother Gouken
(fist of strength), was under Goutetsu for his pursuit of knowledge day
in and day out. He wanted to become strong. More than anyone more
than anyone...Such that his appearance was exactly that of an "oni."
They followed for years what came to be increasingly strict Goutetsu's
pursuit of knowledge. "Defeat in ansatsuken values as death......No
selection of means, only victory is all!" Catching those words in
sincerity, Gouki was being devoted to the pursuit of knowledge more
and more.
With them having concluded all instruction from Goutetsu, suddenly one
day, it was said that he himself entirely tried to show the pursuit of
knowledge's results.
Without warning he designated Gouki. Actually Goutetsu was looking
forward to this day. That was said to be fine for the fighting stylist's
blood to be throbbing. As far as Gouki's strong inanimate nature, and
also his fighting talent concealed within. That is what was before his
eye, he personally already could not restrain himself. Goutetsu also
before his "master", it is 1 person a fighting stylist who would be of
carnage.
Their fight extended several times. A collision of hadou and hadou.
Fist crossed fist with blood flying in the manner of sprays, the
relationship of teacher and student exceeded by an object of "killing
one another."
"Gouki!, you're doing very well. But, this is the end!"
Goutetsu started to sink in ki with both hands. His tremendous degree
of willpower, the students see for the first time the extreme satsui
no hadou. A mass of ki transformed into innumerable incandescent blazes.
"Uoooh!" Raising a war cry, Gouki was charging. Concentrating genuine
"muderous intent" from his fist.......
In conclusion the one to have risen from the ground, it was Gouki.
For Goutetsu already his breath was dying out......However on that face,
merely a smile was filling it. Nearby was Gouken's form petrified.......
Gouki was set on plundering the beads from the master's body, having
disappeared to somewhere without a word. His side profile, was of
seemingly crimson blood tears shed from the carnage.......
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Highlights:
-Gouki's first battle with Goutetsu after his training was over. One of the
things Goutetsu had taught both brothers was that the wages of defeat for
a ansatsuken-caliber fighter is only one: death, which is why, unlike Vega,
Gouki is never given by Capcom Japan the labels of "righteous" nor "evil".
Gouki more than took this teaching to heart, while Gouken shunned it.
-Goutetsu shows both of them satsui no hadou manifested for the first time,
consciously tapping into it like a switch, ala Ryu in Marvel vs Capcom. Yet
another revelation for Gouki.
-In Gouki's POV, this battle was a draw since he failed to slaughter his
teacher in one fell swoop. Thus he chose not to take Goutetsu's beads from
his neck, and instead left to further develop SnH on his own.
Gouki from SFZ2
Shungokusatsu
Master Goutetsu spoke of a forbidden technique, "shungokusatsu." With
that move, it was said that even one's own life would be also cut off in a
moment of unparalleled intensity. Namely with one to have made use of this
"satsui no hadou" would be impossible to control, to run wildly until that
life's very end, so it was said.
Gouki, pronouncing all ancestors "fools" for sealing this "shungokusatsu,"
selected his path to break that ban on his own.
"To become fighters, true warriors of the fist must possess all power
that can be utilized. Those who ban techniques cling to life in stinginess,
which this warrior of the fist does not!"
Gouki filled himself with confidence. Having controlled the ancestors'
"satsui no hadou", the "shungokusatsu" was utilized. But Gouki's own self
changed. Usually when collecting "satsui no hadou", to acquire manipulation
of it many years past became a piling heavy burden. "Who exists that is
stronger" now became the wish, and this request would be answered with the
spraying of blood incited by training. The forbidden move was done. He
selected Master Goutetsu as his opponent. As there was about to be a fight
to the death, the opponent had no deficiencies.
".....Arm yourself now!!" The spirit kept secretly inside exploded, the
cells of Gouki's entire body rose in sound with a resonating sensation.
......Several hours later, Gouki's entire body in blood returned a scarlet
hue, as he moved and saw the master's corpse.
Hadou's ultimate move "shungokusatsu," armed with "satsui no hadou" that
struck the master, was complete.
From then on, Gouki walked the long "path of carnage's" first walk.
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Highlights:
-Goutetsu's second and final battle with Gouki, many years later, 20 years
before SF2. Gouki's resolved to break the ban on the shungokusatsu that
even Goutetsu chose to stray away from, due to its suicidal effects.
-Gouki left his master a mutilated corpse; Gouken was next (Ken from AASFZ).
Gouki from AASFZ3
Fighting Style
Overwhelming power filled to the brim in each technique, inclusive of dropping
the feet to tremble the earth. If saying from the school of thought a fellow
student as with Ryu and Ken but, in his entire body he carries satsui no
hadou. In having refined spirit cultivation the capacity's difference is
apparent, from various stances he uses varicolored hadoukens for different
purposes. Having mastered the fist and precisely because he's self-styled,
for half-heartedly opposing battle not even a particle is seen.
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Highlights:
-Gouki includes kikouhou in his style just as Gouken and his disciples do as
well, but the emphasis is constantly shifted towards the harboring of his
master's art's fundamental root, satsui no hadou.
Fashion Style
Regarding as of Buddhism's Four Deva Kings a roughened hairdo and, wrapped
in a loop a braided rope stands out. For from the uniform's shoulders as
though a rock's scragginess both arms spread out, on his back as an onigami,
brought forth from the aura the "Ten" character surfaces. As for worn on
his neck a large-sized gem adornment, is it likely an object for the sake
of allowing to rest in peace the souls of those escorted to Hades?
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Highlights:
-Gouki's present image is that of a fierce Buddhist Deva. His trademark kanji
that surfaces on his back is due to the fierce god that resides within him and
provides his glowing red eyes that make others take him for an oni of Shinto
origin.
Oni Fang Cave [JAPAN]
As for rainy traces still violent. The pace's muddy road goes to flow like
a cascade.
A fine spray hanging over is resembling like a mist, in the daytime so to speak
unless with a flashlight you wouldn't know of the several meters ahead.
______ For me as a fire fighting group member I joined this time's search
party. From 2 days before, a child alone had its whereabouts become unknown.
It appears that in the middle of camping it strayed away from both parents.
For this vicinity's woods are thick. At a hastened slope the primeval forest
grew luxuriantly, until the shoulder extended suspends and weeds hinder
visibility. But still if I believed red clay also washed precipitously the
cliff suddenly appeared and danger starveless of this.
For the child wherever it is may possibly be ailing. To say nothing of it,
from last night with this heavy rainfall there would likely be the foundation's
becoming fragile spots also. The possibility of it unfolding to an accident is
high.
"He------y!"
For a shouting voice dissolving in the mist goes to be absorbed in the
mountain. Already since the beginning of the search beyond half the day, even
my tiredness came to reach the peak.
That negligence being intolerated maybe, taking foot in the muddy slush, I
slipped off the slope. The falling became such that as I gripped the electric
light furthermore my balance broke down, even scores of meters I fell down well
I struck my gut.
I'm in the process of rising up tsking, for there like a hollow ground was a
strange room.
A large tree's roots heading from a crumbled dislocation, seeming to be turning
away from overhead it's becoming approximate.
That interior's hollow......In a cave-like space, for me the eyes froze.
That's the child. The child I'd been searching is, crouching about the den's
shadows.
A single instant I imagined the worst situation. Evading the roots I try to
approach. There's no manner of injury. I let out a hand and, it seems like
it's trembling with cold.
"Hey, kiddo! You alright??"
"......Ah......uh-huh......"
Thank goodness. Seems to be alright.
"Now then, let's go back. Father and Mother are worried! You not hurt
anywhere?"
"Yep......I, got saved."
"Huh? Ah, that's right isn't it. From this old man having come, you're
already relieved!"
"That's not it! I, got saved yesterday, by Mister Samurai Man."
"Samurai......?"
"See, here, that's Mister Samurai Man's home."
I look a ways down the den's interior and, a chaamber, and light is seen.
Seems to be quite a deep cave. It can't be, in such a place someone is to
say dwelling perhaps?
Suddenly, a flash and thunder crushed the air.
The large tree before our eyes was struck by lightning. The tree split in
two, vertically shaking with a sound of caving in it collapses. For I
unconsciously with my arm protecting the child, we lay face-down.
......With time seeming to have possibly stopped, from per the noise having
gone out.
Slowly I look toward and, hoisting with one hand the enormous fallen tree a
person's shadow came into visibility. That silhouette beginning to turn, an
abnormal-like heat embracing it.
Oni. That was my imagined first impression.
A red-flashing eye. Bundle-tied hair.
In that overwhelming sense of intimidation, for me just a stiffened face being
exposed to the rain.
The oni spoke.
"Cleared of use eh......Then begone......"
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Highlights:
-Gouki rescues and keeps a kid from harm's way until a fire rescue man manages
to stumble into Gouki's secluded cave. The child calls Gouki a samurai for
his hairstyle, and both rescuer and kid witness firsthand Gouki's scoffing
of any ordinarily perilous danger before he bades them to leave.
Gouki's fighting style is not Shotokan. He's an ansatsuken
fighter (ditto for Ken and Ryu, except they use a style of ansatsuken
that's been toned down in terms of lethal killingness due to more of an
emphasis in kikouhou aka chi kung).
Note from Saiki: Both Gouki and Gen use ansatsuken. Gouki uses
ansatsuken but with more karate, judo, tae kwon do and koppo elements to it.
Gen has more styles but I guess it'd be too hard to put it all into the game.
I can't remember all of them but I think it was mantis, crane, tiger, bear,
err, can't remember the rest. Ryu and Ken use a toned down version that
Gouken taught them that isn't designed to kill, unlike Gen's and Gouki's
styles.
Saiki said until SF2 Ryu and Ken's style was Kyokushinkai karate, a
derivative of Shotokan, that I learned is a full-contact style with
considerable focus on strenuous training and philosophy. After SF1 he said
Capcom changed it to a generic ansatsuken. It likely wasn't until
SSF2X that this change occurred, since there's no source that breaks down
the style to its building blocks before the SF2 Fanbook, which lists karate,
judo, and training of the heart/mind; and AASFZ3 later on would describe
it even more. In any case, before Gouki appeared in Capcom's SF universe,
it was the basic moves themselves that defined Ryu and Ken's style, and
after that the emphasis was placed more on their three originally killing
moves as identifying their style, the present toned-down version of
Goutetsu's ansatsuken.
Gouki's ansatsuken having karate, judo, and tae kwon do is exact
statement from All About Street Fighter Zero 3, though Saiki isn't exactly
sure where he got koppo from (possibly from a misread of Karin's info which
does specify her to have koppo amongst her various fighting arts).
The type of karate in that ansatsuken was not specified. However, according
to Eric Musashi, several of Ryu and Ken's normal attacks and stances do in
fact resemble Shotokan, so it seems a safe bet to assume that some of that
karate in their ansatsuken is Shotokan, after all. Or of course that may
simply be due to the similarities that Kyokushinkai has to Shotokan.
Technically, ansatsuken should probably be considered more a level of
fighting caliber than an actual fighting style. In addition to all of the
above mentioned facts, it's stated in All About Capcom for Gen that "he has
developed his Chinese kenpo until it has reached the stage of being an
ansatsuken". All this implies that ansatsuken can consist of any martial
art and is more about the power you've developed your style to. ...Capcom
sure knows how to be confusing, sometimes.
To make matters worse, in several instances the style is referred to as simply
ansatsuken rather than just the level of achievement. Gouki, Vega and Gen
all make this reference within game/narrative script.
Interestingly enough, at the lrgames.com forums, an employee
(The_Emperor) at Living Room Games said that they had initially wanted to
use ansatsuken for Ryu, Ken's, etc. style but had to go by overseas convention
and use Shotokan for the SF RPG as well.
And yes, I'm 100% sure it's ansatsuken. The above paragraph wouldn't
have been an issue if it wasn't, obviously. The same goes for Udon wanting
to use it for SF Eternal but CoA making them use Shotokan there as well.
Gouki's brother is Gouken. His master (as well as Gouken's master) was
Goutetsu. You can see Gouken and Goutetsu in Gouki's SFZ1 ending. Goutetsu's
the older, more wrinkly looking one. Gouki fought and killed Gouken while Ryu
was returning from the SF1 tournament. He fought and killed Goutetsu, too,
over 10 years before.
This is probably the time Ryu and Ken first met Gouki. According to a
Japanese gaming mook, Gouki visited Gouken back when Ryu and Ken were still
'younglings' (the SFZ accounts at the start of Ken's Miscellaneous section).
Gouki stated that he was the true heir to ansatsuken, then Gouken stated that
Gouki corrupted his 'hadou no chikara/power of hadou.' Young Ryu and Ken
watched the fight, believing Gouken would win, and the match ended with
Gouken's final blow, leaving Gouki sprawling on the ground. Then Gouki said
to Gouken that he will come back to take his brother's life. Gouken says to
Ryu and Ken "When that man's power goes beyond mine, the great disaster you
both (Ryu and Ken) must face with your own power... the power which I will
pass on to you... "Wa ga ken no Subete o (All that is what my fist is), hadou
no Chikara o! (The power of the hadou!)." This is way before Gouki comes back
to kill Gouken, by the way, around 13 years ago.
Goutetsu, who invented the arts of hadouken, shoryuken, and tatsumaki
senpuukyaku, spoke about the shungokusatsu (instant hell murder) to both
Gouki and Gouken. (Gouki's Z2 account up above) The other three described
as the "three hidden secrets" (hadou, shoryu, and tatsumaki) are stated in
All About Capcom. Goutetsu also is stated to have described it as
'forbidden', but he did teach the first step to it (satsui no hadou). It was
forbidden because it endangered the user as well. This also means that
Goutetsu himself learned about it from his own master.
From Gouki's SFZ account, Goutetsu could consciously tap into and untap
out of it, much like treating SnH as an on/off switch. He was at that level
of discipline. Gouken, meanwhile, developed a completely different art from
Goutetsu and Gouki's. While it looks similar, the method used to draw ki is
completely different. Rather than SnH/ hadou(surges) of murderous intent, it's
kikouhou, the principle of spirit cultivation, or meritous intent.
It is recorded that Gouken and Gouki witnessed their master immersed
in it once, without it even named to them, Gouki wholly embraced it, and
Gouken viewed it as a poisoning of the power of hadou later on after
Goutetsu died. The key to tapping it is thinking only of fighting and
becoming stronger without regards to anyone or anything else, resulting
in becoming willing to go as far as fight to kill; that what Gouki's been
about most of his life, and that's the barrier Ryu crossed for a brief
moment to scar Sagat.
The following six are the 6 sure killing techniques of Goutetsu's
ansatsuken, taught to both Gouken & Gouki, as defined in the book
HnN (Hadouken no Nazo).
gou hadouken: powerful surge fist
gou shoryuken: powerful rising dragon fist
tatsumaki zankuukyaku: tornado air slashing leg
zankuu hadouken: air slashing surge fist
shakunetsu hadouken: scorching surge fist
ashurasenkuu: ashura flash void
Ryu didn't see Gouken battle his brother Gouki. Ken arrived near
the end of the battle and was able to witness it. This is confirmed
by AAC. Gouken's daughter witnessing the battle, however, remains Saiki's
statement from his Capcom contacts.
Goutetsu was killed by the shungokusatsu (Saiki confirms this from AAC,
and the details are posted up above, Gouki's SFZ2 account). How Gouken was
killed is unknown, but he most likely was capable of surviving the SGS like
Gen was, and is supported in Gouki's SF4 ending most recently. Goutetsu was
murdered 20 years before the second SF tournament.
Gouki's mentioned to be around 48 in SSF2X, so he's around 28 when he
kills Goutetsu, approximately 1973.
Goutetsu fought Gouki in order to see firsthand what his pupil had
learned. The fight went on for several hours. (Gouki's SFZ account above)
From Roland Kie aka Rokiseph, the SFZ mook also states that Vega once
visited Gouken, looking for the heir of ansatsuken. In the process, Gouken
was thrashed (but not killed, of course). Besides mooks being generally
very trustworthy, originally, back during the times of SF2 coming out,
Vega was the one that allegedly killed Gouken. This later got retroactively
changed to Gouki doing it. Capcom decided, instead of entirely
retroactively deleting it, to edit it into Vega just beating the heck out
of Gouken instead (From Saiki, again).
What happens during the shungokusatsu is that the user and victim are
held by the "other side" as AAC labels it, jigoku (literally earth prison)
or Japanese for hell by the following common numbering tradition viewed by
Mahayana Buddhism: 16 hells, 8 cold and 8 hot (before the move was fully
established beginning in the Zero series, a simpler classification of just
the 8 hot), SGS victims taking 15 hits and dying in the final hot
"traditionally seemingly eternal" hell Avici, while SGS survivors jostle to and
fro 16 times as seen with Gen's reactions against Gouki in Zero 3. In SF4
the shin shungokusatsu does 27 hits, with the witnessed numbering tradition
now being that of the Taoist-influenced Chinese Buddhist cosmology: 18 hells,
10 cold, 8 hot plus 10 preceding courts housing the 10 judges of hell including
Enma/Yama Daioh, again the 28th hit being for Avici the final hot
"longer-lasting than any other" hell; or alternatively the tradition held by
Shin Buddhism of 8 hot hells, 4 preceding gates, and 16 other secondary hells,
again adding up to 28 including Avici among them as with other enumerations.
Contrary to Gen's zanei, Gouki's SGS has been portrayed identically throughout
every canon SF game since it got its name. Gouki defines it in his Z3 ending:
"Instant hell murder" not because you're killed so quickly that you're
instantly taken to hell, but that each flash is an instant of hell, 16 in all,
or 28 for the SSGS. Gouki also verifies that it's not any attack of his own
which kills his victim (he's grabbing you after all in order to initiate it),
but that the move itself has your own iniquities kill you. This all happens
in a few fleeting moments: you see the slow-motion version with the Gen vs
Gouki pre-battle intro in Z3, and the real-time version with Gouken in Gouki's
SF4 ending.
The SSGS's opening with Gouki saying "Isshun sengeki!" is a tribute from
Nakahira-sensei's SF3 manga Ryu Final. It means "In an instance a
thousand (myriad of) blows!" With Gouki's analysis of the SGS it's the
equivalent of saying when the SGS or SSGS connects it doesn't dish out
15 or 27 hits only, but 15,000 or 27,000 hits, with a thousand hits
per instance.
The demons in hell will attack the person even if they're sin free or not.
They're demons, they'll go at anything. But with evil characters, their
past sins will also haunt on top of the demons attacking them for that
split second. Gen survives this because he empties his spirit, heart and
mind. "Onore wo mu ni suru". "Mu" means emptiness, nothingness, or
worthlessness. One of the reasons why Gouken has the kanji "Mu" on his back,
as being a polar opposite to Gouki. It's really not about how strong the
person is but how tuned and focused they are with their mind and soul, even
to the point of resisting suffering in all forms. Gouken is shown to be
able to survive the SGS the same way as Gen in Gouki's SF4 ending.
Gouki doesn't become Shin Gouki. Gouki IS Shin Gouki, except that he
holds back punches and uses only a small percent of his power. He does
this because he doesn't want to unnecessarily kill anyone who he feels
isn't out to kill him in the first place. He's not out to needlessly
massacre people like say, Vega for instance.
Gouken had the character "Mu" which means "nothing", "naught" on the
back of his gi. Gouki has the character "Ten" for "heaven" on his back,
but this can also be interpreted as "beyond human" which is most likely the
correct interpretation. According to some Japanese myths, the bearer of this
symbol is said to be immortal. Capcom of America used the literal
translation for it, "Ten", for SFA3.
The decomposition of the kanji in "shun goku satsu" and their meaning -
at least the "goku" one is emphasized in its "prison" meaning ("hell"/"jigoku"
is actually "earth prison"); with SGS being basically a grab move, it adds
another twist/meaning to the move's name...
Gouki himself is a human being and NOT possessed by a demon. Rather,
he possesses the demon instead since breaking the SGS's ban successfully.
Gouki has attained 'beyond human' status because of his sheer training, drive
for power (to the point where he gives into things like satsui no hadou), and
surviving the 'other side' through performing the SGS, resulting in the aura
of an onigami (terrible/fierce god) materializing on his back as the kanji
character "Ten".
The kanji letter "ki" in Gouki`s name doesn't actually mean "ghost" or
"demon". it means "Oni." Oni in Japanese is the imaginary monster that
looks like a horned human. In Japan it is also believed that a human or a
humanâs spirit can turn to an oni when theyâre extremely obsessed with hatred,
anger or vengeance.
Gouki may be evil by our moral standards (he killed his teacher and
brother), but he is not evil by his own ethical code. His code is the
harsh code of the absolute warrior. He had no qualms killing his teacher
and brother because he killed them in fair one-on-one combat. It didn't
matter who they were; the field of battle does not distinguish between
friend or foe. And he only fights and kills those who call themselves
warriors and train in fighting; he doesn't go around killing defenseless
normal people.
About the Shinkai 3000 in Gouki's 3S ending, the number besides Shinkai refers
to maximum amount of meters of depth it can dive down to, which is 3,000 meters
or 9,842 feet / 2 miles. It is designed to withstand huge amounts of water
pressure. Shinkai 3000 is referred to as a deep sub /deep submarine.
Gouki's island in SFZ2 is named Gokuentou. His destroying it at the end of
SFZ2 in Ryu's ending is official; his cave in SFZ3 is not on Gokuentou, only
Shin Gouki's is. His cave in SFZ3 is Kiga Doukutsu, or Cave of Kiga (Oni Fang
Cave).
The statues in his Z2 stage are four Deva Kings of Buddhism, and we don't
know why or how but Gouki sculpted them. From AASFZ2.
There's an official sketch of him apparently selling/giving some fruit to
a kid as a tribute to his small cameo in the SF2 Animated Movie.
Gouki seeks to awaken satsui no hadou in Ryu at the end of SFZ2, because
he sees Ryu's potential and realizes that, powered by muderous intent,
Ryu will be a worthy opponent for him. For more and how this ends, see
SnH Ryu's bio. Gouki even reveals that he was able to sense when Ryu
awakened to SnH in order to scar Sagat. (Ryu's Z2 ending)
Gouki's design was modeled after a Buddhist image or statue. It's somewhat
probable yet unconfirmed if inspiration for his creation came from Electronic
Gaming Monthly's Sheng Long hoaxes.
On the plus side for the English version of Revival, both old endings were
translated reasonably well into the new one so US players can finally read
what Gouki said originally because in the overseas versions of the game he was
completely mute.
Also Gouki telling Vega he's weak for not relying solely on his fists is
the pre-battle speech from SFZ3 of Gouki vs Vega which did not happen, and
probably still was never spoken in SF2 if Gouki just jumps in for the kill
with the shungokusatsu.
For a bit more on Oro and Gouki, see Oro's bio.
Gouki from Gamest SSF2X
pre-mook
Beyond the Fight, the Struggle's Limit Reached by Men
Once, Ryu and Ken's "shoryuken" "hadouken" "tatsumaki senpuukyaku" were taken
up, by a fighting stylist known as Gouken. Originally, these techniques,
were devised as an ansatsuken with the aim of snatching away life, Gouken
having grasped these moves from Master Goutetsu, moves themselves refined
from enhanced might dwelling in "satsui no hadou", they were completed as
a school of fighting moves.
And so after Gouken passed away, with surely only Ryu and Ken left to impart
the techniques into the world, from 20 years ago, having murdered Master
Goutetsu with "satsui no hadou", there was a disappeared man.
This being Gouken's younger brother, is Gouki.
From the start, Gouken seldom referred to his master's topics of conversation,
having taught that the master's cause of death was a natural one, those to know
of Gouki's existence, previously in the world there wasn't a single person.
Why, now Gouki's form is now presented, that is a truth which nobody
understands.
Of course, without Vega knowing of his existence, for Gouki there is no
connection with "Shadoloo" and Vega.
Gouki's moves are roughly, the same as those of Ryu, increased offensive
ability, with ansatsuken as the standard power he largely exceeds.
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mook
The strongest final enemy, the "satsui no hadou" wielding mysterious man. That
name is Gouki.
Ryu and Ken's sure-killing techniques being "shoryuken" "hadouken" "tatsumaki
senpuukyaku", these techniques were originally intended as an ansatsuken, the
master of the two Gouken being in this school, reformed it without "satsui no
hadou" it was completed as a school of fighting moves.
While, Gouken's master Goutetsu murdered 20 years before with "satsui no hadou",
there was a disappeared man. That being Gouken's younger brother, was Gouki.
From the beginning past Gouken was speaking to the very young ones in regards
to it, Goutetsu's cause of death came to likely be a sickness.
Now Gouken is passed away, Gouki's past is not known by anyone. Why now, has
Gouki's form presented itself? Any relation to Shadoloo?
With the original ansatsuken blood relation, the strong pulling Gouki.
His offensive ability wielding "satsui no hadou", an unreasonably ultimate
overwhelming might. Encouraged ones will all be instantly murdered!
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Highlights:
-Gouken had fibbed to Ryu and Ken about how Goutetsu died, whether he told
them it was through natural causes or illness. He succeeded in transforming
Goutetsu's techniques into ones fitting for present-day martial arts, hiding
away their original intention as assassination-caliber tactics.
Prologue 13 (Gouki) from SF4
A fighting spirit produced within the heat haze, that man was standing up.
Red unkempt hair, from a seemingly rock carved face's eye sockets to gaze at
this side even eyes, again red.
"You've waited impatiently for it, carrier of death's fist!"
Creeping the ground a similar-to voice, vibrates the eardrums. For Gen
quietly stared at the man before his eyes. With Gen's existing world, there
was not one who knew not this man's name. No one wouldn't bend at the great
voice for the summoner, packing fright every time to whisper the name. When
was the first time it was heard? More than to possess a person's body it must
be even an inexperienced time but, as for this man been born from an instant
happened to encounter an onigami and through nothing but inconsiderable might,
having buried many fighting stylists, martial artists, and also assassins.
"For I am the oni become of human shape! That assuredly I shall murder for
his pleasure."
To Gen such was informed for a same-trade's man died.
"It's said that the guy enjoys human's dread. He may possibly slurp defeated
opponent's blood."
Out of curiosity saying such a thing laughingly the man boasting of his
strength also died. Idiot, and Gen mutters to himself. An opponent's death
and dread, much less blood and the like must not be the goal. Cast aside the
world, to throw away encumbrances. The battle's hindrance to become
hesitation and compassion if it be human emotion, to cast aside the matter of
being human. For that be entirely for the sake of power. In aiming for the
height of might, unnecessary emotion and the like is needless. Even an
opponent to fight, even also one oneself is needless. Just if you only have
this fist is fine. The limit in everything cast aside is nothing but
impossible, the true struggle. To that extent, being the place that true
power appears, that matter of the death-meet so to speak. The gloom from the
bottom of the abdomen, seethes into a hot pleasure. From the time he
remembered above the slaughtered numerous corpses, Gen also again had cast
aside everything. How much even fighting with strong ones the hunger of a
death-match having not been obtained, he feels it from even this man.
"Gouki, the one of the ultimate fist, eh."
To bend over similar to stress during the battle, for Gen broadly grinning
sneered. From the opponent before his eyes emitting a massive ki, already
becoming physical power, warping the atmosphere, it's starting to introduce
fissures in the solid earth. Having felt Gen's fighting spirit?, Gouki's
stance became low. A fleeting fang like a canine is seen.
"Hmph, you also seem again to be a continuer of carnage's path."
Red eyes shedded out a strong light. The wavering of fighting spirits
became more and more violent, already even the surroundings' scene isn't in
sight. In the case of the average human being, just having touched this ki
would likely faint.
"Therefore even at this spot to death-meet, again the act of carnage."
"That kind."
Nodding, for Gen took a stance.
"For I am without a shortage of opponents! Let's go!"
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Highlights:
-Gouki's SF4 account reveals yet another fight-to-the-death episode with Gen.
This one most likely ends with Gen finally dying (specially noted in AAC that
Gouki does finally settle the death match with Gen despite his illness).
The term "death-meet" or "shi-au" which both fighters use is a play on the
kanji for "shiau" meaning to simply encounter each other; their version is
meant to emphasize that for their encounters, only one will walk away alive
afterwards. Though this scenario may seem redundant, don't get Gouki wrong;
he'd love nothing better than to have this last forever as long as Gen can
deliver; Gen able to nullify the SGS only raises the bar to Gouki's delight.
Gouki's SF4 arcade ending comments:
As his viewpoint regarding satsui no hadou guides him to a deathmeet with Ryu
before Gouki, elder brother Gouken emerges. He sees Gouken's objective as a
matter to obstruct Gouki's intention. With Ryu's fate wagered the deathmeet
between the 2 of them now, begins.
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*** pgVGuile.
GUILE
Birthdate: December 23, 1960
Height: 182 cm
Weight: 86 kg
BWH sizes: B125, W83, H89
Blood type: O
Native place: America
Special skill: martial arts, darts
Likes: American coffee
Dislikes: natto (fermented soybeans) Ryu had him eat in Japan, healthy food
Fighting style: blend of prowrestling moves into martial arts
SF2-era nickname: "Silent Become Revenger"
SF4-era nickname: "Vacuumous Blade"
Street Fighter Zero 3: Guile, an ace air force pilot, received an order
one day.... FIRST LIEUTENANT NASH IS MISSING. FIND HIM AND BRING HIM BACK.
Guile was sent to get Nash back, because Nash had gone after Vega on
his own. Chun-Li tried to stop him, but Guile would have none of it. But
shortly after he found Nash, Nash had just found Vega! There, Guile and
Nash fought Vega, to force him to retreat [Conjecture based off
in-game storyline]. Guile realized the corruption within the military
himself, and decided to join Nash and Chun-Li in bringing down
Shadaloo. It turned out that Guile's instinct was right, and the
bombardment of Shadaloo was called off due to Vega's tricks. With
Nash, Guile blows up the psycho drive, but Vega attacked before they
could set the explosives and get out. Vega was about to kill Guile with a
psycho crusher, but then Nash grabbed Vega out of it! Nash
sacrifices himself to save Guile's life and hold Vega off while Guile
escapes and everything explodes. Left with Nash's dog tags, Guile tells
Chun-Li that he'll still believe for Nash [Official].
SFZ3 File #31 Guile
American air force first lieutenant. An unsociable facial expression and a
penetrating insight, a combat expert having stoic thinking. Such that he
even, has to say one side for being careful above all else of his wife Julia
and his daughter Chris. One day, arrived before him a copy of a directive
note. For that, from his trainee period's pal Nash's investigation it was a
command. That meaning, having been brought near a reliance above family
together with inferring of Nash's crisis, the backing of a wriggling evil
existence he comes to sense.
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Street Fighter 2:
Guile participated in the SF2 tournament to finish Nash's noble deed [Official].
He makes his way to Vega and fights him, then Vega remarks how Guile has
become stronger and actually asks Guile to finish him! However, Guile is
then approached by his wife and daughter, who plea with him to finally go
back to his family, saying that destroying Vega will not bring Nash
back. Guile realizes his love for his family and agrees. Back
home, living happily with his family, Guile remarks that he feels like he
has woken up from a long dream [Guile's SF2 Revival ending]. Guile is
the most likely candidate for the one who reached the top and became Street
Fighter champion, due to the fact that his ending and the resolution to his
storyline is the only one which really relies heavily on him being the one
to beat Vega (Guile's family pleads with him to mostly spare Vega more
than actually come back, which makes Guile get over Nash's death and
realize that his family is important to him). ...ironically, though Guile
spared Vega, Gouki unleashes onto Vega anyways. :P
Guile- SSF2XR Character Concealed File
Naturally to avenge his comrade-in-arms Nash, he alone faces the enormous
organization Shadoloo as a warrior of high pride.
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Street Fighter 4:
A soldier belonging to the US air force. In order to attack Vega for his
killed friend Nash, he swore revenge. With moves appended by a distinctive
array of martial arts, they're all to say for tearing to pieces.
Suspecting Shadoloo's secret maneuvers amidst multiple incidents, he stands
up together with Chun Li.
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Guile's SF4 opening has him appalled on a decision recently made by his
superiors: Nash's status is now simply "DEAD" (apparently prior to this
it was something like KIA or more likely MIA). Guile argues that Nash's
death was never confirmed (although he still is dead as of SF4) and threatens
to leave the military for good. His general pulls him back with one keyword
however: Shadaloo. Guile's new mission is to find the connection between
the previously-believed-to-have-been-toppled crime syndicate and this new
military arms dealer named S.I.N.-sha presumed to be catering to terrorists.
Guile's on it. He finds and teams up with Chun-Li who's acquired additional
info on a weapon called BLECE which S.I.N.-sha is responsible for. The
weapon's fodder is fighters from all over the world, and S.I.N.-sha's also
sponsoring an upcoming fighting tournament [Ryu's and Chun-Li's openings].
Guile happens to have newcomer Abel notice his trademark projectile the
sonic boom, which raises questions for Abel as well as for Guile, about
Nash, but all in vain. Guile was hoping to get some more information about
Nash from Abel, but Abel unfortunately admits that he knows even less about
Guile's late friend than Guile does, by the end of their rival battle. Most
likely through their both knowing Chun-Li, Guile and Abel eventually start
to trust each other a little more, especially by the end of SF4.
Guile's ending has him running through the lab telling Chun-Li that he's
got the data (no way is he gonna try to escape and risk losing her the same
way he lost Nash), clashes with a Seth after having acquired crucial
data about S.I.N.-sha and Shadaloo's relationship. The Seth of course
demands a return of the intercepted data, and all of the sudden Abel rushes
to the tag-team rescue, yelling that Chun-Li's just ahead down the corridor,
and hurry. Guile, Abel, and Chun-Li all make it out of the burning lab
safely, then back home Guile receives a newspaper with headlines declaring
that S.I.N.-sha has been successfully taken care of. Needless to say, Guile
doesn't look as relieved as one might think he ought to be, as he turns and
greets his wife and daughter.
Super Street Fighter 4:
Guile rides off on a motorcycle in his SSF4 opening. The newspaper headlines
surely wore thin sooner than most people expected, but not he. Shadaloo's
done this to him before, and he's tired of it. The treachery, the victims,
the sheer number of both. Now S.I.N.-sha is following suit, and Guile, in
conjunction with Chun-Li, Cammy and others such as Abel and C. Viper, resolves
and heads out to do away with both shady syndicates once and for all. He was
merciful to Vega at the pleas of his family at the end of SF2; this time he
swears to Nash that he'll maintain a more violent face.
Guile meets an emerging Vega in his new rival battle. Whether he did or not
isn't clear, but even if he did meet the once and future commander of Shadaloo,
Vega most likely vanishes back into the same shadowy hole he came out of,
disgusted that Guile is a "minnow" as always.
After S.I.N.-sha is somehow or other crumbled, Guile visits Nash's grave with
some semi-comforting news. But because he can't verify that Shadaloo has
permanently fallen along with S.I.N.-sha, Guile cuts the toast short. [Guile's
ending] And along with Chun-Li, he starts to see and agree that his life can
accomodate more than it previously has. [Chun-Li's ending]
Where he is now: Hopefully Guile's back with his family and trying to live a
somewhat more normal life amidst his role as an Air Force Major.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
During SFZ3, Guile is a First Lieutenant, just like Nash.
Guile is a major during SF2 and beyond. He's considered an emotionally
strong guy from thoughts of a friend. He's an A-class driver whose favorite
car is a black Mustang, and Chun-Li may have gotten her kaenshuu kick by
witnessing Guile's somersault kick (before the Zero series came along then it
was from Nash since she has the kick in Z3 but not in Z1 or Z2).
Guile from Gamest SF2
His same-unit comrade, Nash killed by someone, shuddered in anger Major Guile
speaks ill revenge of the enemy as he travels out. A clue to Nash's last words
is only the name known as "Vega."
Collecting his life on his pal's foe thereupon he's quite stoic but it can't be
helped that abandoning his family is a difficult pardon. Owing to that his wife
everyday makes artificial flowers inside envelopes and the like as the family
business since the family expenses could not be met otherwise. What a pitiful
matter (even so, frequently from Thailand comes traveling expenses).
Now then, like that Major Guile recently entirely pierces the family service and
the manner of a good father distinctly so.
As a digression, before the struggle with one eye volleyed over Chun Li's thighs
for Major Guile, his little daughter Chris seemingly that way her thighs once in
a while can begin seeing the woman in her.
He spends a peaceful period of time daily sharpening sure killing techniques so
they won't weaken. The shock wave sonic boom, the ultra destructive power
summer salt...the somersault kick is well.
Also sometimes, his struggle can perhaps see a clear day.
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Highlights:
-Unlike Chun-Li's case, Guile had solid evidence for burning with fury towards
Vega. It's the name Nash left behind before he breathed his last.
-Julia has a home-based business that involves making and sending fake flowers.
Guile is the most likely candidate for the SF2 championship, since his
ending is the one which depends the most on him being the one to beat Vega.
All the others, storyline-wise, could have happened whether those characters
beat Vega or not.
In the overseas edition of SF2, Guile asks Bison if he remembers him
(Guile), and Charlie, and Cambodia. Bison says he remembers, and
that Guile was not the runt he was then. None of this is said in the
original Japanese.
During Guile's SF2 ending, Vega says something like, "Are you
Guile? You've become stronger." Therefore Vega and Guile must've fought
before, right? If you're wondering when they first fought (that is, if
you haven't assumed it already), it was during SFZ3, right before Guile
and Nash chased the fleeing Vega into his Shadaloo base and started
planting bombs.
Before he chose to participate in the SF2 tournament, Guile took
Vega to court and attempted to put him in jail. Unfortunately, the
court was under Vega's influence, Guile lost the case and Vega was
acquitted. I guess Vega bribed the court or something. Both the Dash
account and AAC however attest to Guile at one point putting Vega on
trial for Nash's death (prior to the Zero series for outright murder,
currently for Nash's death and Vega's survival). Vega most likely used
his special talents (psycho power) to get off scott-free, and that's why
Guile wants his head even more badly than Chun-Li does. So badly that Guile
abandons everyone and everything close to him, especially his own military
for seeing their incompetence firsthand of what he calls the "justice of
the States" in his Dash account, going off to personally wipe Vega
from existence since that seems to be the only way to stop Vega now,
in the tournament.
Guile from Gamest SF2D
Death of a Comrade
At the time I came running, Nash was already at the state of death's door.
While I lifted Nash's body, perhaps this becoming likely the end his words
descended on my entire body and soul.
"I'm taking note of the man called Vega...he freely uses psycho power
to...guuh..."
Those were the words left with me and my comrade died.
It doesn't seem even now that Nash's body was with innumerable scars wanting
to remain. It seemed to be these merciless inflamed burns, central region
wounds so to speak like seeing pictured sharp tools, an impossibility for
confirmation of a dangerous weapon.
But, for me it was able to be realized. This was caused by a fist, moreover
one that was likely shot out from a sufficiently hatred possessed man. This
is perhaps what Nash on the verge of death left unsaid of the man called
Vega's psycho power's might probably. While seeing those scars rage flows
out and seethes for me, to strike now on the existing figure called Vega.
And so avenging Nash, I swear after my comrade's corpse that I will surely
display Vega hang.
A Foe the Emperor of Darkness
The single word called "Vega" having been a clue, it was unexpectedly quick
how that man could arrive at such. With him being considerably distinctive
in the back of the world searched to the extent of investigation, in that
dark world mighty power is distinguished. With him to bring together a
secret organization and the US the point of pride in a foolish world within,
also being dominant of its force in the world it continues to wait hesitating
to do something. Moreover Nash knew to go beyond and thus was extinguished.
I acted on comprehending the mystery of him. And so to a diligent end, finally
it's the reason for a move to have seized evidence of Nash's murder. "This is
it at last, my comrade's foe has come out! I'll send him to hell!" That's
how I believed that evidence was grasped at the time. But, I was sentimental.
Justice of the States for me, and so too much power also confided as such.
It should be the hammer of judgment that he will hang, I would replace the
thrasher in an instant. By Vega carried in court under my arms, the black
to change into white and whatever such troubles were no longer there. For
me regardless of the crimes, the twofold defeat was more damage accepted
on my spirit.
I now recall, at the time of leaving the court Vega's self-confidence filled
his face. At that instant, my heart was decided, that he buries firsthand
whoever's hand borrows from his. His head within and the like is not too
late for me to not realize. But, sometime surely Guile will thrust the final
blow for repentance.
But Vega has one choice to merely scheme. That's how he goes out to sponsor
the martial arts tournament, his eye stays there. If he sees my strength,
he will undoubtedly come out! However, that tournament's kip in itself is
as I thought the man's necessity. There is no other way he would fight as
the necessity of the approximate man he is....
Many days later, I put in order my journey preparation and journeyed out alone.
I fastened my things to take, friends, troops, the States, and even also my
loving wife and daughter I sent away.
Probably this journey has no benefit or likely loss. However already there's
no retrogression. It is for the reason of wanting my comrade's foe that my
struggle has thus begun.
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A question is, how much of this was rewritten for the Zero series?
In Guile's Alpha 3 ending he says that, following Chun Li's words of
encouragement, he still believes Charlie is alive somewhere. In Zero 3
he doesn't mention the word "alive". He just says he'll always believe
in him. After this development, with Vega announcing himself and SF2 to
the world (see Vega's Gamest SF2 account in his section), a court episode
most likely occurred to get Guile's frustration going with his military
(not only does Vega have them around his little finger, but they couldn't
care less for Nash anyway as shown even as recently as SF4), and SF2 proceeds
as before. So how much was rewritten? Not too much, which is CJ's preferred
style.
Prologue 12 (Guile) from SF4
"No interesting story?"
Looks towards an abrupt voice and, sitting in the passenger's seat Chun Li
disagrees, such that to say "yeah" she's opening her mouth to raise her voice.
"......This, from some time ago is a yawn for the 5th time around. Not
talking puts me to sleep like that."
Reaching such a state of selling the yawn, for Guile bitterly smiles. He
looks out the window and, an empty color has become vibrant for the first
time. Finally all night.
"Certainly. Although there are indispensable parts in our occupations, just
waiting we'll become drowsy won't we."
"Not anything? A troops' life's story maybe."
"Who knows. Handling 3 branches, 3 times the reports to write. That's the
cycle. Probably resembled similar to issues even in ICPO."
"Although it seems so..., But nonetheless how many oni for Major Guile, it was
dark for all the foolish things with friends from olden days right? That's
right, speaking of friends, from where did you get to know Nash?"
"Didn't I tell you?? Jail."
"Jail? ...That's a change isn't it."
"The time I was still a youngster, on occasions blunder-committing rivals
arrested. At that time he came to the rescue, that was Nash."
For Chun Li a "really?", and staring in wonder, after that she burst into
laughter.
"What?"
"Fufu, I'm sorry. It's wonderful to hear however, I wouldn't guess it said
of your guys' early days."
For Guile shrugged his shoulders.
"The wonderful wasn't particularly ordinary. ...That's right isn't it, for
him to read a person's facial expression and behavior was skillful, no-one
outrivaled his edge. For I regained my darts..."
Speaking and, it was becoming at that time a hang-out a bar's spectacle
becomes lively. Surroundings of drunkards even with what kind of rumblings
stirred, one eyebrow motionless as the man was dealing cards. He recalls that
figure from it having been an extremely long time. Already throughout a long
interval, for recalling the matter of Nash, the matter of the time he became
unaccounted for was merely the fact. Suddenly, a distant sound was heard.
"It's come."
Murmurs and, Chun Li next to him nods. Even sleepiness also fatigue, even the
recalled olden days scenery, all of it to disappear in the blink of an eye.
For Guile strained his ears because of an increasing engine sound. In time
one vehicle a car made an appearance, soaking up a building before their eyes
they go. For the fleeting seen profile, that was the man's thing having
continued to wait overnight.
"No mistaking it, that's the guy."
The pair landing on the car, raised their eyes at the building.
"In other words this means that this is S.I.N.'s secret base. Well
prepared??"
"Naturally."
Walking out Chun Li abruptly stops. For Guile looked over his shoulder.
"What is it, Chun Li."
"Hey, the previous story was interesting. If we finish this I'll listen to
a continuation won't I. A foolish's story of your early life."
Teasingly saying it while they run continuing to see the retreating figure
off, for Guile broadly grinning and smiled.
"I suppose wouldn't you."
Murmuring he starts running. For once in a while even to remember those days
after days isn't bad-.
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Highlights:
-Guile and Nash were troublemakers when they were young, but when it came to
getting busted, Guile always was the one caught and Nash always the bailer.
-Come SF4, Guile oversees three branches within the air force, and has to deal
with three-branches' worth of paperwork as a major.
Storyline wise, Nash is the one who invented the sonic boom and somersault
kick. He taught it to the other troops, but none of them had mastered them to
Nash's level by SFZ3. Guile isn't even supposed to know how to do them that
well by SFZ3, yet he has the moves anyway. According to Capcom, to make up
for this and make it clear that Nash was the superior one, this is why Guile
sucks so much in SFZ3 (his sonic boom does like... a pixel of damage Oo).
Guile DOES tell Nash "I'm not at your level, but I still can not tolerate
injustice" to show how much Guile himself considers Nash to be above him. Of
course, from Saiki, though Capcom of Japan has officially stated they made him
suck on purpose for storyline reasons, it's probably more likely that those
guys in charge of balancing Guile in SFZ3 just were smoking some strong drugs
while they were doing it or something and Capcom decided to try to cover it
up. Now if only they can come up with an explanation why Thunder Hawk sucks
so much in SFZ3 compared to SF2... (probably is weaker back then despite him
being the best warrior of his village)
Guile was taught the moves by Nash but only managed to learn to do them
consistently after Nash had died, and with aid from the military's science
skills team as mentioned in the Fanbook and HnN. Their help, along with
Guile's ki abilities and natural martial arts knack are what provided his
mastery over the moves by SF2. The sonic energy that Nash and Guile utilize
as a type of ki has allegedly unknown military secret details.
Guile's daughter is Chris, and his wife is Julia (Amy & Jane overseas).
Guile has a pet dog named Sub (Safu) too. An interesting note is that Julia is
Eliza's sister, her older sister.
Guile's daughter, Chris, and Dhalsim's son, Datta, are penpals since SF2
was made (which probably was made in part because Guile and Dhalsim are the
only ones with canon families at the time so Capcom decided to connect the
two... for fun or something). Typical topics that Chris would write about to
Datta include new hairstyles, practicing the somersault kick with her dad, and
her parents' impression of the curry recipe Datta had sent her.
Guile's dog Sub is pals with the dog Shiro from Final Fight (the dog
in the Bay Area). This is from the SF2 Complete File. A really random fact.
I guess this means that Guile has visited Metro City before? This relationship
is even mentioned in All About Capcom. Random.
Guile's bio has his dislikes listed as "natto that Ryu had him eat in
Japan", which is odd. Though if he knows Ken, he probably knows Ryu, too.
Maybe Ryu sucks at cooking or something, or its just healthy food Guile
doesn't care to eat.
His fighting style is described as a mixture of martial arts and wrestling in
Street Fighter Eternal, as it is in SF4.
From Vasili10: His final portrait in SSF2X shows him with his usual
uniform kneeling in front of Nash's grave holding the dog tags. He probably
now visits Nash's grave periodically just like Chun-Li with her father's, and
Ryu with his master Gouken's (all specially noted in AAC)
Guile was a member of/worked in specialized units of the Wright-Patterson
Air Force Base as was Nash. Nash was in charge of the martial arts portion
of recruit training, at least before he learned about Shadaloo.
He likely smokes (from older official art). Prior to his name being finalized
as Major Guile, his prototype design for SF2 was labeled simply "soldier."
From the old HnN book about Guile's hair. His hairspray is an exclusive
(special-order)! Anyways, onto the article:
The broomtop, the exposed Guile surprise concerning the exploding hairstyle,
but what really is its significance?
The supposition is that while in the military, as the regulations stood,
one's satisfaction of an independent hairstyle could not be achieved. To
liberate himself from the strict military living, that reaction was Guile
thought no way he wasn't going to do a wild different hairdo. As a
hospitalized sick person he left the hospital at once, having gotten tired
of some kind of eats strongly resembling burnt ones. Everyone went through
the experience, who didn't there?
This hairstyle was trouble for Guile, and the main little but disorderly
tendency of the set was the hairbrush not releasing. With street fights
won, it is said that he excitedly straightens out at least a scarce few of
the set in his eyes.
Generally, to the extent of intense fights the hairdo doesn't collapse.
What spray does he use? Not one on the market, it is said from rumors that
his favorite one to use is a special-order spray.
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Small aside, Rose's hair being stiff might have the same case applied to her,
a special hair spray that is.
From the old HnN book about the plane in Guile's stage.
The upper screen's fuselage is that of the American air force's main
strength fighter plane, the F-16 Fighting Falcon.
Hailing from the US marines, Guile street fought for the sake of curing
his stormy mind, and occasionally it is said that the air force's base
comrades visited.
Perhaps within Guile's post in the military, the crowd of soldiers boasted
of his top-class ability, highly training the body to its limit, certainly
a human weapon.
But, however an excelled soldier he was in modern warfare, the air force's
backing he gradually accepted to seize victories.
In densely covered jungles, seemingly endless scorching heated deserts,
the times he was helplessly surrounded by the enemy, always their overhead
gleaming iron birds were there.
In the middle of Guile's own dangerous missions, how many times have the
air force's hand picks been ordered to help out?
The fuselage's consolidation crew is right on target, for the purpose of
safe successes day and night without fail, precisely on hand in the vacant
spots, watching over the street fights with an odd brightness in their
facial expressions.
Yet, the relaxation brought about for Guile, in conclusion it was the
street-fight- anyway fighting style's nature? Kind of sad.
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Some more translated info about Guile's SF2 stage:
America (Guile) Certain Air Force Base
In order to search for the guy who killed his comrade-in-arms Nash, today he
parted with his dear subordinates. Amongst bidding farewell to everyone,
always cool Guile is seen with a smile from all his might.
"However, at this point all at hand is the name known as Vega......"
The scope of things seen, clearly the guy doesn't have the only thing needed.
Such that the time, the challenger would be revealed before his eye.
Speaking of challengers, he learned of a story spoken about a man with a freely
manipulating evil aura. "Getting everyone to listen by force, there cannot be
resentment in you for the reason which I am overcome."
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Guile's SF2 stage is open to outsiders who wish to quench tempers and just
catch the sights.
Guile is apparently in the background of the France stage in Final Fight
2 when you fight Freddie (Stage 2). Although it's France, Freddie is stated
to come from America so those soldiers in the background are probably
American, but why they'd be cheering on Freddie when he was booted from the
force is beyond me. Oh, and despite slightly looping background, there
really is only one Guile (although other soldiers there have flattops too,
their hair isn't nearly as pronounced as the alleged Guile soldier).
The fight with Freddie takes place at an airport by the way (which could
also explain why a bunch of American soldiers would be in France. That
and Guile's a member of the air force).
Guile's SF4 arcade ending comments:
With Seth detering him, Guile has fallen into a pinch that he cannot come to
face the issue of Chun Li's rescue. However, a suddenly appearing Abel's
tackle is a success for Seth's confinement. He hurries over to Chun Li's side.
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*** pgVGuy.
GUY
Birthdate: August 12, 1965 (note: This birthdate was taken from the original
Final Fight. According to this birthdate and the fact that Guy back then
was stated to be 24, also from the original Final Fight, before Final
Fight got retconned 2 years. It'd be 1963 going by retcon date)
Height: 179 cm
Weight: 72 kg
BWH sizes: B108, W77, H82
Blood type: O
Native place: America (birthplace is most likely Japan where Zeku found him)
Special skill: sprinting (100 m in 10.2 s), bonsai (miniature tree & plant
growing), triangle leaping using the barrier
Likes: sneakers, chadzuke (tea poured on rice) with salmon powder, cold tofu
Dislikes: horizontal/European-style writing
Fighting style: bushinryu ninpou
SFZ-era nickname: "Shadow Leaps At Scene of Carnage"
SF4-era nickname: "Quiet Crimson Lightning Flash"
Final Fight One: Guy was Cody's training partner. However, one day
Cody's childhood friend Jessica was kidnapped by the gang Mad Gear. Guy
could not let this evil go unpunished. He hit the Subway area, then
challenged, fought, and defeated the Mad Gear boss of the area there,
Sodom, in an underground ring as many other Mad Gear members watched
[Official]. He then went to the Industrial area, where he found a military
member of Mad Gear, Rolento. Rolento saw that he was a true warrior and
asked if he wanted to join Mad Gear, but Guy refused, because Mad Gear is
evil and as a bushin fighter, Guy must destroy evil. Rolento and Guy
fight, and Guy wins [Conjecture based off both SFZ2 and FF1 dialogues.
It's pretty obvious in SFZ2 as Guy tells him, "I'll deal with you
once more."]. After that, Guy joins up with Haggar and Cody at the
Uptown area to take out Mad Gear leader Belger once and for all. When
Belger is finally defeated, Guy and Cody leave as Jessica reunites with her
father, Haggar. Jessica runs to catch up with them and Guy turns to face
her, but Cody doesn't, so Guy leaps in front of Cody and punches him to
stop him, then leaps off and leaves him with Jessica [conjecture based off
in-game storyline].
Final Fight 2: Guy has left to train and discover the power of bushin, but
Mad Gear is trying to revive. Mad Gear has kidnapped Genryusai, as well as
Guy's fiance and Genryusai's daughter Rena! However, Guy cannot participate
because he must complete his training [Official]. Rena's sister Maki fights
in his place. Eventually, Guy recieves a letter from Rena telling him that
she and her father have been rescued and are safe. Guy writes back, thanking
everyone, and says that he'll be back soon [based off FF2's ending].
Street Fighter Zero 2: Guy is training to find the true power of bushin
as well as become the next bushinryu master. Eventually, his master and
the 38th bushinryu master, Zeku, finally comes to him and challenges him
for who gets to be bushin master, for there may only be one in the world at
any time. Guy and Zeku fight with their lives at stake and with no evil; Guy
finally wins. Zeku then tells Guy about an evil intending to corrupt the
present world. It is a bushin fighter's duty to fight evil. With that,
Zeku dies. Guy is now the 39th bushinryu master [Official and specially
noted in AAC].
Street Fighter Zero 3: He is the ninja who lives in the present. He is
heir to the bushin style, which has endured for centuries. The shadow of
bushin will surface in the form of a corrupter. These are the words Master
Zeku left behind. What do they mean? Hearing it from his master Zeku, bushin
seems destined to fight against evil like Shadaloo. Guy went after Shadaloo,
but found a lady named Rose. He warned Rose not to risk her life against
Shadaloo and its leader. Despite that, he goes after her and finally
comes across her wounded from a fight with Vega. Vega's body has been
destroyed at the end of Street Fighter Zero 3, yet as Guy holds Rose, he feels
this unexplainable fear [Official].
Guy ran into Cody during SFZ3 too. Guy is shocked when he sees
what happened to Cody! He's an escaped convict, jailed for always beating
people up! How could a hero have fallen so much? Cody however, realizes
that he never was a hero at all. He was just faking it. The truth was
that Cody was fighting evil just because he enjoyed fighting so much, not
because of a sense of justice. Guy, however, could see that deep down, in
the end, Cody was still a good guy, because he still sought to beat up bad
guys, so even if Cody did it for the sake of the fight, he was still a hero
in the end. Guy wanted to reform Cody and get him back on the good path, but
eventually accepted that Cody had to live his own life, so they went their
separate ways. Before they part, however, Cody says that their encounter was
enjoyable [Conjecture based off in-game storyline. Final Fight One dialogue
when you play as SFZ3 Guy shows that Guy and Cody's SFZ3 meeting did occur
too].
Guy may or may have not run into Maki during Z3. Even if he did, she was
unsatisfied at his performance because he had Vega and Rose to worry about
[Maki's SFZ3 game storyline].
Guy continued training throughout SFZ3, until he had finally realized
the true power of bushin. After a revelation from his training, he
saw that its arts burden one so deeply, that questioning the power itself
is irrational, since it is about the choices of killing and letting live.
He accepts the duty to continue training, strengthening, and building a mind
suited to such an anguish. [Guy's SFZ3 Ending and specially noted in AAC]
SFZ3 File #07 Guy
With combat fighting techniques born in the period of warring states,
the 39th order legitimate successor who's inherited "bushinryu". In
those days at the time of Metro City's riots together with Mayor Haggar
and Cody the 3 of them destroyed Mad Gear. The previous age's master
Zeku's final testament, "the time when a corrupter appears in this human
age, will be bushin's shadow," In order to explore the true meaning of it,
he's wandering the world alone.
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Final Fight Tough: Guy has finally returned to Metro City, his training now
over. Just in time. A new gang has arisen in Metro City to take Mad Gear's
place. Guy is now ready to fight alongside Haggar again to rid Metro City
of the Skull Cross Gang, which they do. At the end, however, the city is
in ruins from the gang battles, but Guy's task, to rid the city of the
chaotic evil plaguing it, is over, so he leaves the rebuilding to Mayor
Mike Haggar. [from the game]
Guy in FFT
Characteristic: fast, but slightly less powerful
Sure-kill technique: bushinryu senpuukyaku
Weapon of preference: nunchucks.
Special ability: off-the-wall jump
Super move: 1,000-fist barrage
Super Street Fighter 4:
Continues a school of ninjutsu beyond the period of warring states,
bushinryu's 39th order successor. Feeling the rise of a newly become
evil, imperative to amend the corrupting of the age his figure appears.
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Guy whisks like a silhouette through Metro City in his opening. The streets
have grown quiet, too quiet even during a long-awaited full moon night. He's
heard of S.I.N.-sha selling weapons, and of Juri the girl with a strange eye
mopping the floor with her opponents. He'll go into action on a worldwide
scale, not because figures are simply posing as rulers of the globe, but
because he senses an element once again poised to corrupt the present human
age. Rose surely is feeling it too, as noted in Guy's rival battle intro.
Guy comes across Cody on his way to S.I.N.-sha and tries to convince his old
friend to fight alongside him on behalf of justice, but Cody is unfortunately
deaf and dead to such words. They fight, and most likely Cody backs off by
end. Guy also runs into Rose who's in a great hurry herself. They fight, and
beyond Rose's comprehension, Guy learns as they fight, that she's not with the
same mentality as before. She aims to keep Ryu safe rather than sacrifice
herself outright. Rose most likely wins the battle. [Guy's and Cody's rival
battle exchanges]
Guy in his SSF4 ending hides in wait atop Vega's VTOL, surprising the psycho
dictator who's carrying an unconscious Rose in his arms. Bushinryu's heir
offers a deal: let Rose go or Guy will demolish the plane, and Vega grimaces.
Next thing shown is Guy trying to shake Rose awake. Rose's perspective of Guy
working to rouse her is shown in her ending.
Later on with S.I.N.-sha's crumbling laboratory truly crumbled, Guy sees Cody
at the scene. Again he's helped stop evil. Won't he return to how he was?
Cody says he'll return alright, to his cell. [Cody's ending]
Final Fight Streetwise: Guy's path has taken some dramatic turns since his
hey day as a key protector of Metro City. After Cody Travers was wrongly
accused of a crime that Guy took part in, Guy fell into a life of organized
crime, and quickly became a powerful underworld figure in Metro City's
Japantown. Having mellowed a bit in recent years, he still uses his
tremendous power, skill, speed, and influence to protect Japantown from civil
unrest. Guy's secretive and devoted band of "Genin" warriors provides him with
deadly assistance. [From the website] However, the advent of a new drug
sweeping Metro City was causing him concern, and he realized that even he
would not be able to keep it from spreading to his section of the city if he
did not do something. It was then, one day, where one of his top men, Lou
"The Skin", had a man enter his tattoo parlor in Japantown and ask some
extremely suspicious questions. Questions which Lou responded to by slamming
a cash register over his head.
Kyle wakes up in Lou's basement surrounded by ninjas, Lou, and the man in
the photo, Guy. Lou tells Guy that Kyle's wallet says that he's Cody, and
Guy demands to know why Kyle is lying about who he is, but Kyle simply tells
them that only cheap shots could take him down. At this, Guy tells his men
to show Kyle what happens to those who don't answer his questions, so Guy's
men untie Kyle and attempt to extract the information from Kyle forcefully,
forming a ring around Kyle where they charged in with hit-and-run attacks
while the rest looked for openings. Lou eagerly jumps in to fight as well
after the men are defeated, but Kyle manages to beat him too. Frustrated,
Lou encourages Guy to kick Kyle's ass as Guy throws off his business suit
for his bushin gi and approaches Kyle. A simple demonstration of some
ridiculously fast katas shocks the hell out of Kyle and makes him decide
that it'd probably be a good time to explain that he isn't Cody. He
explains that he's Cody's brother but that Cody got into a lot of trouble
with GLOW and Vitto, among other things. Hearing this, Guy decides to
listen and invites Kyle to his dojo. There, Guy tells Kyle about his past
with Cody, about how Cody went to jail for one of Guy's crimes so that Guy
could go free. He says that from what he knows about Cody, Cody would give
his life for Kyle. He regrets that Cody had to go to jail for him but that
some debts could never be repaid. After this, he decides to 'quiz' Kyle
a bit. He tests Kyle in his dojo by teaching Kyle how to do the ki-based
charge punch. After the sparring, Kyle's skill proves to Guy that he is
indeed Cody's brother.
Guy takes Kyle to the lounge area of the dojo. Around the table, he tells Kyle
that he's proud about how he's managed to maintain order in Japantown and
fighting against the drug, and trying to keep it from entering the area.
However, it's proving very difficult, and sometimes Guy wonders if the man
behind GLOW is merely giving the people what they want. He tells Kyle that
from what he knows, the man behind GLOW is a man with no face, but that he has
a strong influence in Little Italy, and Guy has his men investigating it. At
that point, Blades bursts in and tosses the head of one of Guy's men to Guy
and Kyle, with dynamite strapped to it.
Guy and Kyle get out of the way in time as it explodes, but the dojo they're
in is now on fire and the whole building threatens to collapse on them both.
Worse off, Stiff's men have come in to help finish the job. Guy quickly leads
Kyle to the exit, but falling debris and flames constantly get in the way.
The flames were good for tossing mobsters and angry schoolgirls into them
though. ...why a bunch of angry schoolgirls also decided to get in on the
flaming fun is a mystery. Regardless, thanks to the help of a fire
extinguisher (Oh, and Guy, too), Kyle and Guy escape just as the dojo
explodes.
Kyle tells Guy that Blades was one of Vitto's men (not that Guy didn't know
that already), and that he was a fool to trust Vitto. Kyle goes after Vitto,
while Guy stays behind to gather his resources, saying the war has just begun.
Kyle tells him that he's glad Guy's on his side, and after a call from a
concerned Vanessa warning him that something nasty is going on down throughout
the city, Kyle leaves for Little Italy. Guy watches with a frown, possibly
wondering if he and Kyle really were on the same side.
Guy then found Kyle's brother Cody who had gone mad from GLOW, and attempted
to restrain him. He tells Kyle that they must stop GLOW to save the city,
but that isn't Kyle's goal. Kyle just cares about avenging his brother.
Seeing that their goals were different but the means to reach them was the
same, Guy tells him to start with Weasel, who's delivering GLOW with his
porn business trucks. Unfortunately, while Kyle was gone, Cody had become
too powerful and managed to bust free and escape. Knowing he had to stop the
GLOW, Guy teamed up with Kyle to destroy the laboratory at the pier that was
producing it, going as far as blowing up the entire thing with explosives,
despite the danger to Kyle. They managed to capture the scientist who
invented GLOW, Dr. Chang, after that. Guy pulls out a gun, demanding that she
tell him where the mastermind behind GLOW is, but Haggar stops him, saying
that wasn't how they'd do things. Eventually, they had to let her go to try
to help other people suffering from GLOW. Kyle would later defeat the
mastermind behind GLOW once and for all. [from the game]
Where he is now: Assumedly Guy is still trying to keep order in Metro
City. Possibly, he's also raising up the next generation of
bushin ninja to continue to maintain order and balance where needed.
Of course, many of them would end up joining Genocide.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Zero's World vol. 3- Guy
"Bushinryu ninjutsu"......that origin goes back from approximately 550 years
ago (age of A.D. 1440).
A pair of multitudes was as the premise for the super combat style fighting
techniques, during the age of civil war rear detachments of the great battles
swept over and completely subdued, having performed secret maneuvers on a
nationwide scale, and in records was being bequeathed. However, from the
Meiji period extended into modern times led into the present, ninjutsu becomes
unnecessary in the world. The once combat ninjutsu's influence was lost
as "bushinryu." Ninjutsu changed into not too far from a form of "dance
performance", like traditional accomplishments in pieces having become the
sights. But, with the distressful present situation, a man appeared wishing
for rebirth of the true "bushinryu". That was the 38th order legitimate
successor Zeku......Guy's master.
Zeku met before Guy, a swordlike discernment and a frankly hostile seemingly
pervaded beast of a boy. Many people concerned with Guy wanted to stay
away from him, only for Zeku, within his pupil was concealed a fighting
stylist's quality and, he wanted to see through the infinite possibilities.
"In the case for this guy......bushinryu can be restored!"
Thus for Zeku, to the young man was entrusted the future of "bushinryu."
......And so numerous years passed, for Guy continuing Zeku's original
training, he came to have received the name as "bushinryu's" 39th order.
Quite quickly Guy took it, that was none other than his own self's ambition.
When will be the day of "true bushinryu's" completion?
For that answer, it is within the restless struggle!
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Highlights:
-CJ's intro to bushinryu ninjutsu: an art whose roots go back to Japan's civil
war age, designed for one to handle multitudes of incoming adversaries at once.
-Zeku sees in Guy what no one else ever could due to Guy's hostile character
as a boy. He saw a person who could keep the combat aspect of bushinryu alive
in the present day, and not just the flamboyant show that ninjutsu in general
wa turning out to be.
Guy from SFZ
Original account from SF2 Himitsu Hyakka
Since the struggle in Final Fight's Metro City, there was a young man burning
his life for the sake of reviving the fighting techniques of true "bushinryu".
That's Guy. In order to take up genuine combat ninjutsu, he's challenged the
street fighter world!
From a distant some centuries ago, during the period of civil war, introduced
to the darkness of Japan were the super fighting moves of "bushinryu", now,
they are restored!
For the sake of seeking out bushinryu's successor, as Zeku was continuing to
aimlessly journey, in the streets his eye caught a brawling beastly young boy.
Perception of innate disposition. The mere fighting spirit of a genuine
fighting stylist.
"No mistaking it......" For Zeku, such was the murmur that the boy was
challenged.
Zeku dodged all of the boy's attacks.
"Wooah!" he screamed, as Zeku sprung upon the boy, mysteriously Zeku's move,
conversely brushed him away! Byubyun!
"Just now, what in the world was that!?" The boy shocked beyond belief, Zeku
extended out his hand.
"This is bushinryu! Come with me as your basis, I shall show you your path
of life!"
The boy's name is Guy. With Zeku as his foundation, Guy's transcendental
training has begun.......
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Official Story from Gamest SFZ and AASFZ
The resurrection of true bushinryu- that which needed a new force.
As the ages flowed past, the fighting techniques of bushinryu were becoming
a mere shell. A man waited to search out for the instrument that could
resurrect it. When would he be answered he knew not for his purpose to be
completed, aimlessly the man traveled throughout the country. The man's
name was Zeku. He was the 38th order legitimate successor of bushinryu.
He happened to encounter that "destined man", from now it has been several
years ago.......
Intently within the journey he stopped over, happening upon a street.
Amidst a rustling, some person was crying out like a wild goose. "A
hoodlum brawling eh......" It was as though that moment passed right
through, Zeku opened his eyes wide. Taking a step at the large man his
opponent while not withdrawing, a seemingly beastly young boy. Furthermore,
dwelling in that pupil was a genuine fighting stylist of characteristic
fighting spirit and, that innate disposition of quality. "No doubt about
it......" Zeku's eye twinkled.
That night, Zeku lay in wait, he wielded a fist at the boy's appearance.
"......This world has many much much stronger ones so to speak, and also,
unless one is taught as such you cannot learn......" As that man turned up
all of the sudden, the boy treated it lightly. With a launching strike cut
completely through the air, the opponent couldn't even touch him.
"Kuun!" Both he and the boy exclaimed as they flew that moment, the boy's
body on the other hand was being blown away.
"Just now what in the world!?" Wondering what it was himself, the boy
completely didn't understand.
"This is bushinryu! Come with me as your basis, I shall show you your
path of life." With the man's face thus declared, his own trust to step
towards the path 1 person as a fighting stylist was filling up with pride.
"Your name?" Zeku approached him, his waist fell over as though to sit
as he gently held out his hand to the boy. As the boy meekly took that
hand, he answered. "My name is......Guy."
Thus now, Guy has appeared having originally piled on the pursuit of
knowledge under Zeku. With no place of refuge for his power that boy was
possessing too much dazzle, not just with moves, even that soul taking over,
even bearing all of bushinryu was magnificently growing.
For the sake of true bushinryu's revival, The days of Guy's development would
begin already as far as he would be associating with it.......
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Highlights:
-Guy was wild as a young boy in the streets, and he was taken aback by Zeku's
swift moves which helped Guy take out some punks harrassing him.
Guy from SFZ2
Bushin Hassouken
The sound of a sobbing foghorn, fades away drawing in the long trail of the
night fog.
After the rain of the harbor's pier, 2 men were confronting each other
face to face.
The lighthouse's light, at fixed intervals would reveal illuminated in the
darkness the 2 profiles.
Bushinryu's 38th order legitimate successor Zeku and, his only disciple,
is Guy.
"Through combat, I will want to more than master bushinryu."
Speaking Guy's wish with eyes of sincerity, alienated from the island country
Japan, he was at a new training ground of the large country America.
And so setting to sea tonight......Out of Guy's proposal, before he'd part
from the master for a short while, he would exchange fists that have progressed
in order to test the disciplining results.
The silence was destroyed.
The 2 of them simultaneously fly into the open sky, starting to reply with
furious fists. Mutual decisive blows would break with now advancing now
retreating offense and defense continuing every few minutes.
With Guy overlooking his master's momentary attack openings, he was thrown
into precise consecutive blows. Quickly the intervals parted, Guy would
prepare for counterattacks. However, the state of his master was strange.
The fighting spirit from his master was disappearing. Already his stance
had his back facing Guy.
"......? Has something ailed you?" Guy did ask.
Hearing that, Master Zeku with eyes of frank disappointment glared at Guy.
"What's wrong. you say......? Surely as that is a foolish question, in the
least under Zeku, having been able to learn bushinryu there's usefulness
from your mouth!"
Guy was bewildered. In the battle now, what was to say the conclusive mistake?
The consecutive blows fired at the master in midair, they became moves based
on the foundation within bushinryu, not matching nothing whatever to the extent
of the mark of Zeku's teachings.
Zeku perceived Guy's state, for the sake of softening his facial expression his
face once again facing the darkness, he said. "......As a farewell present for
your setting off, a single word tradition to you. 'Climb over all!' ......!"
How often the foghorn would resound within, Zeku's form had vanished from
before Guy.
Since then, until he would come to understand in combat his master's true
meaning, Guy would come to devote numerous years. The midair consecutive
blows "bushin hassouken" .....Completing that sure killing technique as a
Guy original, still for quite a time it is the previous story.
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Highlights:
-Guy had a parting battle with Zeku before sailing for America and Metro City.
Guy wants to apply his training towards actual combat, and Zeku leaves him
with the challenge to surpass everything he comes across. At the time they
parted, Guy's incomplete by-the-book midair attacks left Zeku disappointed, and
would prompt Guy to perfect it into the super known today as the bushin
hassouken.
Guy from AASFZ3
Fighting Style
From the impression of a slender body able to rightly imagine, the carrying
of his swift body is his merit. With lightweight punches restraining
opponents rising, he drives into seeing openings combination attacks. A high
movement ability is indeed done in possibility of a shrewd conduct, moving
through midair is his ninja-like nature to drift about. Though within his
possessed techniques especially that being principal position pokes, in the
art name's head the name of "bushin" is designating.
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Fashion Style
A comfortable and quality also a non-useless clothing and, chain mail worn in
a jacket's interior is, to present a ninja-likeness. For originally having
to survive in the darkness to be targeting a shinobi's bright red-colored
uniform, to train personally through an opened world is to say a feeling
toward embodiment? Unified is the clothing and color even bland for his
sneakers, he is about the actual realization of the present day shinobi.
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Highlights:
-Though he doesn't look like a ninja with his bright clothing and sneakers,
Guy unquestionably moves and strikes like one.
Under 22nd Street Overhead [U.S.A.]
A peaceful street. That is 1 year ago that it hadn't gotten back to such
a degree?
For the street was losing color. As if its entirety seems like it's immersing
inside a haze.
In any case for Guy, he's advanced the steps toward the city hall. Being an
old friend there, with having been companions who fought together also it was
in order to meet with Mayor Haggar.
Through receipt of an inspirational purpose for a visit, Guy passes through
the reception room. Before long the mayor's figure is seen.
"OOh, you don't seem to change do you. Glad you're able to have come."
"Sincerely, I apologize for the unjust meet. Even you through whatever are
in good health's signs."
"Hahaha, even that sober address doesn't change eh. Quit it with the stiff
greetings."
After a little while of chit-chat, Guy cuts to the main question.
"......About that 'corrupter in this human age'?"
"For to me a coiled gripping matter I not at all understand. According to
my master Zeku's saying, the non-distant future for me, to have an audience
with that person probably, and."
"To corrupt this human age......huh. Guy!, coming to this street, didn't you
sense anything??"
"That it is different from 1 year before isn't it. For the crime organization
being Mad Gear management class is shifted somewhere else, hearing of the
actual destruction is......Still crime's stench isn't extinguishing it seems
to believe."
"So......I'm supposing. For just lately there aren't opponents to be hurting
me......"
For Haggar during the normal year he had drawn near the streets unnoticed to
what was said in regards to an ominous organization. For already the
deliberative assembly is in the hands of that organization it is said. For
Haggar's term of office is a remainder of two years.
"If the matter can be said of me, through arbitrary decision I'll allow the
issue of at least an enforcement investigation of the drug dealing scenes.
Even with how many underlings are caught I'll understand it's futile but..."
"Haggar-dono. How is Cody-dono doing?"
At that question, for the mayor eyes a little clouded he replied.
"Presently, in custody through assault suspicion."
"Custody......"
"He was at the scenes of the drug dealings on the occasion of an
investigation. Of course it was in no relation to the organization but as
many as 4 people through free-for-all fights are being sent off to the
hospital. He isn't rescued from sentences previous."
"Why such behavior for Cody-dono."
"If even we weren't doing the same thing 1 year ago."
"!......"
"In conclusion, what is peace so to speak? Who are ones that must protect?
For I don't see the answer. Naturally for me I fight my way. Taking Cody
it's surely the same. Just......I'm concerned. For now he, is separated
from my daughter. Getting stuck on changing how to live until now......No
the opposite, I must say that he hasn't changed huh."
"......is there still someone at that gym?"
"Hm? Oh......for now I'm closing, leaving it behind!"
Parting with the revelation from Haggar he left the city hall, for Guy faced
toward 22nd Street. Here 1 year ago, is the sports gym others had shared
with Haggar for bed and food.
Arriving at the spot of the overhead the day also fell, in the vicinity of
the thick evening's presence he's drawn near unnoticed. A light polluted
city's atmosphere. Cheap-looking glittering neon tubes steal the stars from
the night air. Recalling as the time that night had visited this street for
the first time, sensing behind him a mysterious presence, for Guy one eye
closed stands stock still.
"......Though I know not who you are, if it's to battle I'm taking you on.
......Let's go!!"
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Highlights:
-Guy visits Haggar after a long year of peace ensuing in Metro City to talk
about the prophecy Master Zeku left behind with Guy. He learns that Cody's
degraded and constantly hopping from the streets to the slammer and back
again, separated from Jessica, and alarmed to hear Haggar considering that
their actions against Belger and Mad Gear could've driven Cody to such a point.
-Haggar with around two years left as mayor adds to Guy that he's closing
the gym which once housed and fed Cody, Guy and Carlos.
FF1 Bio: A master of ninjutsu, Guy visited the States to provide his
ability in true street fighting. He is very agile and has developed a
variety of unique moves including a wall jump.
The bushin style has existed since the Sengoku (Warring States) period.
Being a style of ninjutsu it can and does employ the gestures of the kuji-in
or nine-character seal for enhanced defense, perception and enlightenment; as
shown with one of Guy's appeals/personal actions which was also referenced in
Nakahira-sensei's Street Fighter Zero manga.
Guy was most likely born in Japan. He was found and raised there by
Zeku, given that his FF1 Bio says he was visiting the states
during FF1 (although it seems that he's moved into Metro City since then,
given that he returns to Metro City in Final Fight Tough. He certainly has
moved in by SSF4 and Streetwise).
In Final Fight Streetwise, he has a heavy accent.
The writing on Guy's outfit means bushin warrior or bushin aka god of war,
depending on how you translate it.
Come Zero, he wears Nike sneakers. Not sure if they're still
Nikes in Streetwise, but they look like it to me. As stated in
Final Fight One, he's changed shoes since FF1.
Guy's fiance is Rena, and Rena is Maki's older sister. Both were
introduced in Final Fight 2.
According to Udon webmaster SFDevotion at New York comikon to Sano,
Guy is married to "Maki's sister" during Streetwise. I and anyone I've
asked hasn't seen any indication of this in-game however. Maybe she
was meant to be included but got cut from the final version. Regardless,
it's hard to imagine Guy not being married to his fiance after so many
years (barring catastrophes, of course).
Guy's master is Zeku. Guy defeated him in order to become the 39th
successor, for there can only be one legitimate ninjutsu successor at any
one time. Zeku's name written in kanji means roughly "correct space."
He was an arrogant and cocky kid before Zeku picked him up and raised
him and trained him to be what he is now (Guy's Z1 account above).
For more on Maki and Genryusai, see Maki's bio. On a random side note,
before FF2 came out, supported by his bio in the FF1 OST, Guy went from
being mentioned as the 57th successor of bushinryu ninpou to the 39th successor
of bushinryu ninjutsu. Despite the similarities in their suffixes, Maki's
info and more recently Guy's in SSF4 show that the former (ninpou) is separate
from the latter (ninjutsu), thus Guy in SSF4 is the 57th of one through
Genryusai as well as the 39th of the other through Zeku.
During Final Fight, Guy is the one that defeated Sodom in the ring (the
boss battle with Sodom). That's official statement.
The ending to FF1 where Guy beats up Cody so that Jessica can catch up
with Cody was probably done by Guy so that Jessica could catch up with
Cody. It's definitely not because Guy was jealous of Cody, since it's been
officially stated that Guy never was in love with her. Cody told him who
Jessica is after they both heard from Haggar via her kidnapper on TV.
Guy not knowing Jessica prior to FF1 isn't too surprising though, given that
he was only visiting the States when Final Fight One started according to
his bio. Heck, the guy never even met Cody's younger brother Kyle according
to Streetwise (granted, the concept of Kyle didn't EXIST back then but Haggar
recognized him in Streetwise, unlike Guy).
If you didn't realize it yet, Guy feels a sudden chill during Rose's
ending because he's sensing that Vega isn't really gone for good at all.
What Guy doesn't realize is he's holding Vega in his arms at that very
moment...
Official statement after SFZ3 was that Guy had gone missing, but
presumably this was resolved with Maki's SFZ3 storyline later when
SFZ3 Double Upper came out. Of course, he's back by Streetwise, and
even earlier during Final Fight Tough.
His name written as a kanji shown in AASFZ and other sources means
"victory song."
At the end of FFT, Guy comments that the rebuilding of the city is
up to Mike Haggar after Lucia brings it up. It doesn't seem like Guy
himself is very interested in helping with that particular aspect,
possibly because his own job as a practitioner of bushin (to defeat the
threat to the city, the Skull Cross Gang) was over. Of course, he may
simply have been joking. Or perhaps a little of both.
Final Fight Streetwise website: Guy's path has taken some dramatic
turns since his hey day as a key protector of Metro City. After Cody
Travers was wrongly accused of a crime that Guy took part in, Guy fell into
a life in organized crime, and quickly became a powerful underworld
figure in Metro City's Japantown. Having mellowed a bit in recent years,
he still uses his tremendous power, skill, speed, and influence to protect
Japantown from civil unrest. Guy's secretive and devoted band of "Genin"
warriors provides him with deadly assistance.
Kyle didn't know who Guy was nor did Guy imply that he had ever met
Kyle before after Kyle introduced himself as Cody's brother (of course,
Guy didn't recognize Kyle at all when he sic'd his men on Kyle earlier,
but Haggar didn't initially recognize Kyle either. The difference being
that Haggar immediately remembered him when Kyle introduced himself while
Guy did not). It's kinda odd that the two never met before but not
completely impossible given Guy's FF1 bio indicating that Guy didn't
spend much time in Metro City prior to FF1 since he was just visiting
the States back then.
Although Guy doesn't seem to have met Kyle, odds are that Cody at
least told him about Kyle, given that Guy isn't surprised at Kyle saying
that he's Cody's brother.
The exact crime he committed before Streetwise is never stated. Given
how Guy acts in Streetwise, chances are he committed the crime while he
was in the middle of doing something he thought was more important to
the big picture of keeping balance and order in Metro City.
Guy hasn't "heard word" from Cody ever since Cody took the fall for
his crime.
Guy continues to respect Cody after Cody took the fall for his crime,
immediately adding after telling Kyle about it that from what he knows
of Cody, Cody would give his life for Kyle. He specifically said that
Cody "gave up his freedom" which shows that Cody took the fall for
Guy's crime on purpose so Guy could be free. Cody never talks about Guy in
Streetwise, although he kept the half of the photo with Guy in it in
his wallet (that Kyle would later find) and Guy says "We haven't heard
word since" instead of "We haven't spoken to each other since", so I'm
under the impression that Cody wasn't bitter about the thing. ...it's
not like Cody isn't used to jail by then, anyways. However, this crime
had to have been a while ago since Guy didn't start up his organized crime
spiel with his ninjas until after the crime, so its kinda odd that he
hasn't been able to contact Cody since then. I suppose they were too
occupied by those damn schoolgirls.
That thing on his arm in Streetwise is a tattoo, not a burn. The one
who did the tatto for him was Lou "The Skin", who's also a member of Guy's
genin (though he uses a different fighting style).
In Streetwise, Guy typically wears a white business suit. However,
he changes into a new version of his red bushin uniform (still with sneakers)
for one-on-ones. You can see him remove his white suit (apparently he wears
his bushin uniform underneath) before he prepares to fight Kyle (although a
fight doesn't occur because Kyle decides to explain himself after Guy's
demonstration). He also wears his bushin outfit for sparring and training
in his dojo. However, even in normal combat against tons of goons, he wears
the white suit. I guess the bushin uniform is now reserved for special
one-on-one occasions and training.
"Genin" means rookie. It represents how Guy's bushin warriors
are all newbies compared to him.
It is implied by Psychic that while Guy's genin are skilled with swords,
they are vulnerable to swords as well ("He who lives by the sword dies by the
sword."). They are a lot easier to beat in the game if you pick up one of
their swords.
From what I can tell from in-game, Guy's genin (besides Lou) all use
bushin as well (though not as good as Guy, of course). Their punch is
the exact same animation as Guy's. Stance seems a bit less 'disciplined'
and jittery to me though.
Guy's genin in Streetwise: Akira, Araki, Kei, Keisuke, Koji, Manorito,
Naoki, Ryoji, Shu, Takao, Takehisa, Takiiozzo, Takaji, Takeshi, Tetsuya,
Yoshimasa, Yuichi.
(Ryubei and Naoki are named after the two voice actors who did their
voices, and several others are named after staff and special thanks).
Whether or not Guy is willing to resort to guns is unknown. He pulls
a gun in Streetwise on Chang, but that was for interrogation purposes,
not combat purposes. Given that right and wrong don't matter to bushin,
the interrogation at least shows he's not above using firearms to
accomplish a greater good despite how wrong it may seem (much to Haggar's
dismay) although I don't see why a skilled bushin master like Guy would
need a gun in actual combat situations (there aren't many cases in any
Street Fighter game where guns are endorsed more than fists).
Of course, it's possible that he and Haggar were purposefully pulling
an act of good cop bad cop to try to get Chang to answer their questions,
but I personally don't think so because I'd think a storyline writer
would have dragged the scene on longer in that case before Kyle cut them
off so quickly (then again, it's not like lots of other things from
Streetwise weren't cut short).
*** pgVHaggar.
MIKE HAGGAR
Birthdate: September 3, 1941 (40 years old during MB, which was 1
year before elections, which was in 1982 according to FF:SW, retcon of
FF1's date or not!)
Age: 50 during FF2 prior to retcon; 46-47 with retcon
Height: 202 cm
Weight: 140 kg (MB series); 121 kg (FF series); 122 kg in FFT
Hails from, native place & stage: New York City, Manhattan, America
Likes: curry rice, hamburgers
Dislikes: crime
Hobby: being the mayor
Favorite/main attacks: screw piledriver, double lariat
MB-era wrestling federation: AWF (American Wrestling Federation?)
MB & SMB specialty move: piledriver
MB-era nickname: "Mayor"
Muscle Bomber: Mike "Macho" Haggar was a pro-wrestler and in the middle of
elections [Official]. That's about it, really, since the game didn't even
have character specific endings.
Super Muscle Bomber: See above.
Final Fight One: Haggar is now the mayor of the crime capital,
Metro City. He vows to clean up the place, and refuses to accept the
bribes of the controlling gang, Mad Gear. When Mad Gear hears about his
plans, they take immediate action and kidnap his daughter Jessica. They
attempt to use Jessica to blackmail Haggar. With the help of Jessica's
childhood friend Cody, and Cody's friend Guy, Haggar manages to defeat Mad
Gear and send their leader Belger flying out the window of a tall skyscraper
to his death, and Haggar was reunited with his daughter [From the game].
Street Fighter Zero 2: Rolento, ex-member of Mad Gear, has started up his
own army and laid siege to Metro City with tanks! Fortunately, it didn't
last too long [Conjecture based off in-game storylines].
Final Fight 2: Mad Gear is still alive and they're trying to make a
comeback. Guy is away training to be a bushin master, but Mad Gear
kidnapped his fiance, Rena, and her father, Genryusai. Haggar, along with
Rena's sister Maki and a boarder staying over at Haggar's, Carlos, must hit
the streets again and defeat Mad Gear, this time around the world. Eventually
the new leader of Mad Gear Retu is sent flying out the window (Oh Mad Gear.
When will you learn that windows are your downfall?) and Rena and Genryusai
are saved [From the game]. Mad Gear is brought down, and eventually finally
collapses within a year [Official].
FF2 Guidebook bio:
Was at one time a street fighter, presently he works hard as Metro City's mayor.
For previous work, in order to rescue kidnapped daughter Jessica, together with
Guy, and Cody, a struggle unfolded with Mad Gear. Recently in order to rescue
Guy's master and his daughter kidnapped by the remnants of Mad Gear, he's come
to travel the world over.
Final Fight Tough: Will the crime never end? A new gang, the Skull Cross
Gang has risen to take Mad Gear's place. Haggar, along with Metro City
Special Crimes Unit member Lucia and Dean, who hates the Skull Cross Gang,
must again hit the streets and clean up the city. Unfortunately by the
end, even though the gang was brought down, the city was left in ruins (of
course, the city was in ruins since before Final Fight One anyway,
though...). [From the game]
Haggar
Characteristic: very powerful, but very slow.
Sure-kill technique: spinning clothesline
Weapon of preference: steel pipe
Special ability: wrestling prowess to execute air throws
Super move: slam fest
Final Fight Streetwise: It's been a long time since Haggar has been
mayor (Haggar officially stopped being mayor at 1992, presumably because
he was burnt out or it was simply too much work to be mayor and bust heads
at the same time). Kyle goes to see Haggar after seeing him in one of
Cody's photos, and after Kyle helps him bust up some Punx at Mike's
Maritime Maintenance pier, he teaches Kyle some moves and gives him some
advice. Haggar later is with Guy attempting to interrogate the scientist
behind the drug GLOW, trying to be a 'good cop' to Guy's 'bad cop' and
keeping Guy from using overly drastic measures. Chang implicates Bella
as the mastermind behind GLOW, and Haggar eventually has to let her go
to help all of the people addicted to it. [from the game] (yea, Haggar
doesn't appear in the ending. Maybe it got chopped like many other things
did)
Where he is now: Probably still running Mike's Maritime Maintenance
as well as his gym, Mike's Mat and Muscle, as well as beating up any
punks who try to take over his pier and helping out where he can.
Kyle does say when he first sees Haggar in the game that he suspects
Haggar will someday rise up again to try to fix Metro City with his
fists.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
FF1 Bio: Formerly a star of the professsional wrestling circuit,
Haggar is currently the mayor of Metro City. Extremely powerful, Haggar's
specialty is executing wrestling moves like the back drop or the pile
driver.
Haggar's wife Nancy has died since before Final Fight 1 (and probably before
Muscle Bomber even), so Jessica is the only close family he has left. This
is why he is really close to Jessica.
Haggar was NOT "newly elected" in Final Fight One in the Japanese
verson. That was added to the overseas version. Haggar is simply
"The mayor of Metro City" in the Japanese version, which makes more
sense, given that he was elected to mayor 5 years before FF1.
Lucky Colt was picked up by Haggar and trained under him along with Aleksey
Zalazof (Both from Muscle Bomber).
From a Muscle Bomber Flyer: How much entertainment cannot come out from
before him, a beat-out fight is his distinctive characteristic.
In addition to wrestler, Haggar was also a street fighter before he
became mayor. Dunno if that means he was in any Street Fighter tournaments
before SF1 (although it should be noted that the Street Fighter tournaments
aren't actually called "Street Fighter tournaments" in the storyline).
Heâs 40 years old during Muscle Bomber.
He puts a lot of effort/power into maintaining the town's public order
and keeping the peace. He has a natural sense of justice and power.
For more on Haggar and Zangief, see Zangief's bio.
For Final Fight Tough, Haggar gets an insanely long mullet for some
reason...
Official statement is that he stopped being mayor two years after
Street Fighter Zero 3 (which would be 1992, which is also likely 1 year
after Final Fight Tough). I don't know if he lost the election or simply
decided to retire from it (possibly because being mayor and busting heads
at the same time was too much work). I suspect the latter, given that
people still seem to like Haggar in Streetwise (as opposed to hating
him enough to vote him out of office) and Haggar doesn't seem bitter
whatsoever about not being mayor anymore (in fact, he laughs to himself
good-naturedly when he tells Kyle, "You probably don't remember me. Not
many people do, these days"). Perhaps he simply reached the maximum
legal term one may serve as mayor (he was mayor for exactly 10 years,
going by retconned age/date for elections during Muscle Bomber as well
as his Streetwise Election poster and the All About Capcom statement
of when his mayorship ended).
Streetwise Website: Once mayor of Metro City, Mike Haggar hates what
crime has done to it. Yet, the legendary muscleman stays because of his
idealistic love for what the city once was, and hopefully could again be.
Though far from his years of power in City Hall, Haggar does what he can
to keep peace in his own corner of town. And he keeps himself in solid
shape by training would-be pit fighters at his own gym, "Mike's Mat and
Muscle".
His name was mispelled as Hagger in most press-releases for Streetwise,
but it was corrected by the time the game came out and is Haggar in both
the game and the manual.
Haggar lay low after he left the mayorship according to Kyle's journal.
He manages Mike's Maritime Maintenance at the pier and his gym is Mike's
Mat and Muscle.
In Final Fight Streetwise, a poster in Mike Haggar's gym reads "Haggar
for mayor in '82. Fighting for a safer Metro City." Haggar was stated to
be in the middle of elections for Muscle and Super Muscle Bomber, and going
by officially stated age dates during Muscle Bomber and Final Fight One, then
taking into account that FF1's date was retconned to be in 1987 instead of
1989, this fits in perfectly with when Super Muscle Bomber likely occurred
(1982).
Haggar seems to have kept in touch with both Guy and Cody by Streetwise.
Kyle picks up his message on his answering machine where he asks Cody if
he wants to basically hang out and get some drinks, and Haggar doesn't give
any indications that he hasn't seen Guy in a long time in the brief scene
where he and Guy are interrogating Chang.
It is never directly stated how Haggar reacted to Cody getting thrown
in jail all the time. Haggar got Lucia cleared of that corruption charge,
so you'd think he'd give Cody a mayoral pardon as well, but... I imagine
Cody probably didn't need one, given that it was stated that he got thrown
into jail and then simply punched his way out on more than one occasion.
Given that Streetwise showed that Haggar continued to hang out with Cody,
Haggar probably didn't bear any ill will to Cody for busting out of jail
so often, but when I think about it, this might be where Cody's dislikes
of "Haggar's lectures" come from (especially since I'm pretty sure that
dislike was added for Cody's SFZ3 bio).
Far as I know, it's also never stated why Haggar has to go out to
the streets to bust punks himself instead of leaving it to the police.
Of course, police in general in Final Fight are always either portrayed
as corrupt (Edi. E and Dave) or simply over-tasked (Sgt. Sims and his men.
Other mini-quests in Streetwise show that cops are simply outnumbered
and outmanned in most of the things they try to do as well which is why
Kyle often has to help him out. ...leading to cash rewards, of course)
so it is likely that Haggar simply couldn't rely on them. And the one
police person he could rely on for help he had to clear of a corruption
charge (Lucia).
Haggar probably buried the hatchet with Two.P. You never see 2-Ill and
Haggar interact, but 2-Ill casually says "Oh, you mean Mike Haggar's place!"
to Kyle as if 2-Ill knows Haggar well and without a tone of "Haggar keeps
kicking my butt! Eek!" in his voice. Not that I know if there was a
hatchet in the first place but I imagine Haggar introduced Two.P's head
to the pavement a few times during Final Fight One (not that I can be
sure, what with Two.P just being a normal enemy).
He mentions to Kyle that he still has some friends in the Metro City
Police in Streetwise that he'll try to get to help in searching for Cody,
but it's never brought up again and doesn't go anywhere. I wonder if Lucia
was intended to be in the game.
Haggar would be pretty darn old by Streetwise if it's in 2006, around 64.
This is probably why they specifically emphasized in his official bio that
he 'keeps himself in solid shape' in order to excuse how he still manages
to be so strong despite his age. Kinda funny imagining a muscular Oro
or Gen type, though.
*** pgVHakan.
HAKAN
Name: Hakan
Represented nation: Turkey
Birthday: November 13
Height: 190 cm
Weight: 110 kg
BWH sizes: B172, W160, H165
Blood type: O
Likes: his bride, his daughters, chanko
Dislikes: tobacco, fire
Special skill: enka (traditional-style Japanese popular ballad)
Fighting style: yagli gures
SF4-era nickname: "Oil Trickling Good Father"
Super Street Fighter 4:
Being a world leading cooking oil maker's manager, though also yagli gures's
prominent contestant Turkey's man of valor. His body lacquered of oil from
performing fighting techniques moves are born through uniqueness, not just
opponents but as far as sightseers occasionally he makes them go into mayhem.
Through heartiness with a friendly personality, but also a family-sentimental
father. Accent is strong. For the sake of hobbies and practical use, he goes
around journeying out to the world's oil.
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SSF4 opens up for Hakan with a hoodlum snooping around his property. Certain
beyond the shadow of a doubt that the hoodlum's a spy from his competitors,
Hakan storms out from his extravangant abode to expand his oil-manipulating
territory. The olive oil his company produces is unsurpassed in the world,
and he aims to make the world realize that as he seeks new cooking oil sources
all across the globe.
During his journey Hakan finds and meets his old friend and fellow wrestler
Edmond Honda, and they pit their individual wrestling styles against each
other. Hakan may have also met C. Viper and/or an empty Seth prime field
during his travels. He's heard of S.I.N.-sha doling out peculiar weapons,
and finds Viper's initial impression of him quite rude (he's highly offended
at people with thoughtless manners), but she most likely apologizes by the end
of their probable encounter. [Hakan's, Viper's, and Seth's rival battle
exchanges]
As SSF4 comes to a close, Honda and Hakan are seen together once again,
arm-wrestling just outside Hakan's home. Honda concedes to a draw for the
time being and bids farewell to his Turkish friend, and Hakan admits that
even Honda's grasping power was enough to give both Hakan and yagli gures a
run for their money. As he hugs his 7 children, Hakan resolves to tour the
rest of Japan.
Where he is now: Continues to travel with his family wherever oil is to be
found, and showing the world that yagli gures is the strongest fighting style
there is. Beyond that, who knows.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes:
Olive oil's what's used for Turkish oil wrestling, and he tours the world for
sources of cooking oil rather than petroleum.
The style's name is more or less pronounced "yah-roo gyu-resh" from the kana.
The meaning of his name is "emperor," and his daughters call him "Hakan"
rather than "Dad" or "Daddy" or "Father." One of his little girls carries
a Hakan plush toy, and the hair "lumps" from one daughter to the next are
all different; meaning each of their seven hair patterns are different.
Finally they call their looker mother simply "Ma", and they're quite happy
sharing their dad's hair.
Hakan's hair is turquoise colored, as are the eyes of the lion insignia for his
company oil barrels and his belt buckle. From his rival battle exchanges with
Viper, a type of oil no longer in production may be what keeps him burning
inside and renders his reddish complexion. It's very probable that he's
been in a oil/fire-type accident in the past, long before he first met Honda
though since the sumo wrestler is able to recognize Hakan from a distance.
Hakan's liking for females extends beyond admiration for his fine wife and
joyous affection for his children. He'd be protective and encouraging of the
younger ones (Sakura, Ibuki, Makoto, Cammy) while totally smitten and turned
on by the older ones (Rose & Chun-Li) from his win quotes to them.
*** pgVHandsomeBob.
HANDSOME BOB
No Bio.
Final Fight Streetwise: Handsome Bob got beat by Locksmith the other
night. He was initially winning his pit fight against Kyle, but Kyle
beats him in the end as well. Then Kyle beats up his buddies that tried
to avenge him. Buncha losers! [from the game]
Where he is now: Probably still pit fighting in Metro City.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes:
From Kyle's journal:
"Gotta be careful. Handsome Bob's still pissed from Locksmith kicking his
ass the other night.
He fights dirty. But then, who doesn't?"
Kyle jokes in his journal after winning that he should apologize to
Handsome Bob's wife for rearranging his face. ...it probably doesn't
necessarily mean that Handsome Bob is married.
Some Metro City Thugs try to get revenge on Kyle for beating Bob after
the first fight, so he's probably affiliated with them. Or has a posse
(he also leads the thugs in the 1st stage in Arcade Mode, but that doesn't
mean much).
*** pgVHarryHicks.
HARRY HICKS
Age: 31 (during MB)
Height: 170 cm
weight: 70 kg
Hails from: America
Favorite food: sushi
Proud/special skill: accurate unequaled refereeing
Main/favorite attack: counting to 3 with lightning speed
MB-era nickname: "Human Courthouse"
Muscle Bomber: He refereed?
Super Muscle Bomber: He refereed some more?
Where he is now: Refereeing? Probably but who knows.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Harry Hicks is the referee in the Muscle Bomber Series. He makes the most
accurate judgments (I guess they mean he always makes good calls during a
match) and is very trustworthy/reliable. Because of this, the fans love
him. He's listed as a sub-character in Muscle Bomber.
He gets his own section/bio here because he's special. Isn't his
main/favorite attack just the most powerful thing ever?
...well, okay, he gets his own section/bio here because I have no clue
where else to put it and devoting an entire miscellaneous question and
answer to it seems silly (...course, in retrospect, so does giving him his
own section. Ah well, he has a bio for MB just like Jessica so be it).
*** pgVHugo.
HUGO
Birthdate: May 19, 1964
Height: 240 cm
Weight: 200 kg
BWH sizes: unknown
Blood type: unknown (due to back/spinal complications when a youth or teen?)
Native place: Germany
Likes: Poison, white potatoes
Dislikes: fellows who look down on themselves
Special skill: weightlifting
Fighting style: prowrestling
SF4-era nickname: "Giant Wrestler"
SF3-era nickname: "Military Might's Great Giant"
Final Fight One: Having arrived in America at age 20, Hugo's enticed by Mad
Gear to join as more brutal muscle, but by 2-3 years down the road, Hugo quits
and starts his own wrestling career. Poison most likely followed soon after.
[conjecture and official statements from SF 15th Anniversary & SF Eternal]
Ultra Street Fighter 4:
A prowrestler possessing a superhumanly large build. While that superhuman
strength is valued in silliness, once upon a time it was supported for the
sake of numerous criminal acts as a single member of Mad Gear. In his
birthplace Germany his mother prepared white potato cuisine as his favorite
food. In order to personally prove the matter of being the world's strongest,
he participates in the world fighting tournament.
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Hugo by the SF4 era is heavily homesick. Years since his involvement with
Mad Gear, and even more years since he left Germany and his mother's delectable
white potato cuisine, he's caught in the middle of a gang remanants' faction
dispute in Metro City. The group dubbed Guns Backstreet is reported to be
causing trouble in certain city sectors, and one of their members cajoles
the big guy to come out, but then he's sobbing for missing his mom and his
favorite food from her. Then the foolish remnant member badmouths potatoes
and makes Hugo angrily lash out on the whole lot of them, even heaving at them
the whole trailer in which he was previously inside!
Hugo swears skywards that he'll definitely become like the potato his mom
encouraged him to be, grown and developed despite amidst harsh, non-ideal
environments, the strongest prowrestler in the world. [Hugos's USF4 opening]
Hugo eventually learned about and entered S.I.N.-sha's latest world fighting
tournament, and may have also found and subdued a spare Seth, though not
likely in a wrestling tournament setting ala his USF4 ending if at all. His
non-trival involvement was running into Poison either via his rival battle
scenario or his ending scenario, the latter probably making more sense. He
insists as he grabs Poison over his head that they will both be "potato"
successes upon teaming together.
Street Fighter 3 Second Impact: Hugo along with his manager, Poison, has
decided to travel the world in order to find a good tag team partner for his
wrestling career after mysterious circumstances by his rival lost him his
previous partner with the next CWA tournament only 3 months away. He was
stated to have put on an 'amazing performance' [Official].
His endings seems to be the just-for-fun types. Most likely Ryu beat Hugo,
since Capcom has stated that they fought. And Hugo obviously didn't beat Ryu,
since Ryu would've kept his word to join Hugo if that was the case. If Hugo's
ending did happen (even though it probably didn't), Ryu would be the most
likely candidate for the partner Hugo picked up (and of course, it'd have to
be only temporary).
Street Fighter 3 Third Strike:
With the previous tournament's complete victory-like's curse, it became
that everyone seemed to keep Hugo at a distance. Matches not linked day
after day for Manager Poison unable to put up with it any longer plans a
"New Army Corps' Foundation & Warrior Scouting". Already the weak attitude
is used up in courtesy. Warriors! gather, as for weaklings go away. Their
newly become challenge has begun. [CJ's 3S profile for Hugo]
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In-game he fights Ryu as a mid-boss to try to recruit him, per Poison's
recommendation, but Hugo's ending here is once again a ridiculously insane
one. It seems with Poison, they eventually formed the wrestling group HWA
(Huge Wrestling Army), and are forcing people to join and trying to take over
prowrestling, and in the ending, he has the entire SF3 cast's backing, which
has got to be a joke [Hugo's SF3TS ending].
Where he is now: Most likely still wrestling with Poison as his manager.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Hugo from CJ's 2I page
Family- Born to a farm family of Germany's remote countryside. His father
and mother both in good health, it appears that the year of having separated
from the two of them a younger sister also, the time of age twenty thrusting
out of the house for from going to the USA, even there being the matter to
go back to Germany, he's never going back again. After going to the USA he
flourishes as a prowrestler, for his manager is Poison of street warrior
origin. For to say Poison, there having been also diverging circumstances
2 times 3 times, there is no discrepancy in a best partner.
Personality- With that large build and superhuman strength, to say the fight
regarding the fight there's no suffering an utter defeat. To arrive in
self-confidence from there is a consideration, concerning the so-called
matter of recognizing the neighborhood he's indifferent. The result, even
becoming about taking a bashing, from the facade having the vitality to go
stopping an opponent's charge and swinging him down, in that heartiness it
seems that's sufficient for even an ally. A minute spot of splendid moves
him to tears.
Fighting style- A surpassingly great giant of height 240 cm weight 200 kg,
for tenacious physical strength is what wields that large build without
effort. Prowrestling's fortified techniques, as for possessing throwing
moves of megaton-class destructive power, that reach supplements the
remaining large build's starting speed's delay. Especially by means of
arms like logs for a lively lariat going mad sensing a head-to-head
opponent's speed, he grants pressure to the extent of being petrified.
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Despite looking like Andore, appearing on a billboard in Cody's SFZ3
page (confirmed by AAC that that's him and not Andore), having Poison as a
manager, and also parodying Andre the Giant in SF3 Third Strike against
Alex, there are no official statements whatsoever anywhere that his first
or last name is Andore. He has his own bio section and his own appearances
separated from that of Andore in All About Capcom, but this doesn't mean much
as AAC separates Shin Gouki from Gouki and Final Vega from Vega as well,
though not by bios but by extra game incarnation entries. Street Fighter
Eternal states that Hugo is from Final Fight while All About Capcom does not
list any Hugo appearances in Final Fight.
Hugo is at most referred to as Andore by title rather than by family name.
Being a dead ringer for them, he got "adopted" and lumped into the Andore
family after he reached America and joined Mad Gear. Cody may have crossed
fists with him sometime during the three years before FF1, or else mistook
him for one of the others in the Andore clan during FF1, the latter probably
being more plausible.
Hugo's measurements are different from Andore's. However, a lot
of time has passed between Final Fight and Street Fighter 3. Andore
losing some weight isn't outside the realm of possibility, but growing is.
Also on the subject of growing, Hugo may be abnormally large and tall due
back and/or spinal accidents or complications when he was a youth or a
a teen. Both Sakura's and Hakan's Ultra win quotes to him mildly hint at
this.
Hugo was stated to have made an amazing performance during 2I. He also fought
Ryu there, got hit by a clean shot of Ryu's shin shoryuken and wasn't knocked
out for the count. Hugo's 3S win quote to Ryu notes that upon having fought
Ryu before (in 2I), he does remember a "something shoryuken" move Ryu used and
was amazed that Hugo endured it (Ryu's 2I win quote to Hugo), as Hugo asks Ryu
to teach him the shin shoryuken.
It states in Hugo's history that he left home at the young age of 20 years,
a home consisting of him and his mother, father and his two sisters. And he
left home and went straight to pro-wrestling.
From Kao Megura (RIP) who said he got it from a friend who was
very knowledgeable about Street Fighter canon from Japan:
>Also, you may want to note this:
>Here's a little background info on our big buddy:
>He was born in the countryside of Germany. He also has two little
>sisters. When he was twenty, he aimed for a wrestling career and left the
>house.
>After that, he left the country and, even if he returned to Germany, he
>never stopped by his hometown. Ah, yes, his wrestling manager is a
>street warrior: Poison from the Mad Gear gang of Final Fight. For all
>those of you who don't know and still are drooling while looking at 'her'
>ass, POISON IS A GUY!!!! You got that?! Everyone at my arcade keeps
>staring at 'her' (him) and I have to break their hearts by telling them
>this shocking truth. He's split up with Poison two or three times, but
>it seems Poison is his best partner. The story for this game is that he
>is looking for a tag team partner, after he lost his old one.
20 years old for Hugo was during 1984. This is 3 years before
Final Fight One.
On a side note, the four confirmed appearances for Hugo are that
billboard, the two SF3 games he was in, and in Ultra SF4. He is listed as
separate from Andore himself who also cameos in Guy's Z2/Z3 backgrounds, as
well as more recently in SSF4's construction stage.
By the way, Munich doesn't have a harbour in reality. On the left
side of Hugo's 2nd Impact stage it says "Bratwurst" or "Bratwürste"
(grilled sausages) and on the right side "Bier" (for Beer).
*** pgVIbuki.
IBUKI
Native place: Japan (hails from a ninja village presumably in Kyoto)
Birthday: December 6
Height: 162 cm, 157 cm (old SF3 design)
Weight: 46 kg
BWH sizes: B95, W57, H90; B82, W57, H82 (old SF3 design)
Blood type: A
Likes: Don-chan (pet raccoon dog), roasted sweet potato, toads
Dislikes: supplementary lessons
Special skill: speed-eating
Fighting style: ninjutsu
SF4-era nickname: "Abundant Dreams Kunoichi"
SF3-era nickname: "High School Student Ninja"
Super Street Fighter 4:
Born in a ninja village, since the time of childhood a ninja having piled up
on training but, for the substance quite the ordinary teenager. On the way
to a journey seeking a "dreamy rendezvous", she gets dragged into unexpected
turmoil.
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Ninja schoolgirl Ibuki has finally been given an opportunity to go on a field
trip with her best friend Sarai. But the choices she's given for where to go
leave her teenage juices seriously deprived. Not one to waste a chance for
seeing the world and hanging out with more "dreamy" and "awesome" company, she
plays hooky and has Sarai cover her absence in return for a souvenir. [Ibuki's
opening]
Ibuki during SSF4 probably runs into Sakura in her usual hurry. If they
fight, Sakura accepts Ibuki's request to introduce the young ninja to someone
superb if Ibuki wins. Despite Sakura most likely taking the battle from the
immature, ditzy kunoichi, by the end she probably does let Ibuki know about
Ken. [Ibuki's rival battle exchanges]
Whether or not she fights Ken during SSF4, Ibuki does get to grapple with Abel
before S.I.N.-sha's latest tournament comes to a close. Abel loses control at
one point and demands that Ibuki stay away from him. She doesn't quite get
what's happening though, and thinks he's just gotten into a depressive funk.
Chun-Li arrives shortly and successfully snaps Abel out of his wild
phase. [Abel's ending and win quote to Ibuki as well as hers to him]
Finally Ibuki realizes that time's steadily gotten away from her. She rushes
back to the site of the ninja lodging and tries to stealthily insert herself
into the morning exercise with no one being the wiser, but no such luck. The
current instructor blows her camouflaged cover, Sarai facepalms next to Ibuki
being the cause Sarai was almost skewered by the teacher, and Ibuki lets out
a wailing apology. [Ibuki's ending]
Street Fighter 3 Second Impact: Sent by her clan, Ibuki journeyed out
to get the G-File from Gill[Official], running into Ken somewhere as well
since he remembers her in his 3S win quote to her, and possibly Elena and
Necro also to find where Gill was. Ibuki impressed Gill enough for him to
give the file to her, and he even suggests her to take more as homework.
[Conjecture based off in-game storyline and Gill's 3S win quote to Ibuki]
Street Fighter 3 Third Strike:
The preparing for nearing senior high school graduation Ibuki. Without a
school recommendation inauguration, she strongly aspires to enter a general
university. For in that sake she must pass a severe graduation examination.
Awaiting a new encounter with a sweet love, with thinking of just that her
power confines in "kunai" polishing. "Absolutely, because I'm gonna enjoy
campus life with a dreamy boyfriend!" [CJ's 3S profile for Ibuki]
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For her graduation exam, Ibuki has to "take down a fighting pro within 5
minutes." She chooses Oro and challenges him to a fight. Oro is so
disappointed! He thought Ibuki was going to reverse flirt with him
instead! [Official] After a refusal to join him as a hermit and likely
some sucking-up to get him to collapse for her as per their win quotes to
each other, Ibuki finally gets into a university! She can now finally live
like an ordinary girl! Eventually, another student invites her into his club!
There, she has tons of fun where she engages in all sorts of physical
activities and training! ...then Ibuki realized that that's not very much
different from her life as a ninja. Doh! The university she chose ended up
being ninjutsu-oriented after all! [Ibuki's SF3 Third Strike ending
and specially noted via AAC that her ninjutsu training continues]
Where she is now: See above. *shrug*
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Ibuki from AASF3
Backstory
In a small town of the gorge dwells a normal high school student but, actually
for this town from the period of warring states it continues to serve as a
"Ninja Village." The townspeople are all, in fact ninja. Of course she also
is without exception, from the time of kindergarten she's piled up training.
And also lately, imperative to seize the "G File" become data from a
mysterious organization, she proceeds to the mission.
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Story
......Something's with "us", ordinary elementary schoolers and it looks like
it's considerably different!
With today's library the seen "inter-high and national structure's archives",
isn't it something not even a little amazing.......
For Ibuki not a confined townsperson, in the town's north she goes to the
Shinto shrine there and recalls things.
For through this town the time she's promoted to a 3rd-year elementary school
student, assembling in this Shinto shrine's grounds, from the principal teacher
she's in fact being taught about the town's secret.
"Okay?, everyone until this day from having done harsh ninja arms teaching
within Japan this is the only such town.
Why then for us to live in a Ninja Village, is to be real ninja.
For a secret won't do unless it's protected! For a ninja is a shadow, if
light hits it then is the time which that will vanish."
Having experienced that harsh training day in and day out, as within Japan
only we are with something of an injustice. But well that also is an easy
mark.
After all for now if there are ninja missions there will also be places allowed
to go to in the world.
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Profile
Family- Hails from Japan. As for Ibuki she's a normal high school student of
a gorge's small town. Even so this town, from the period of warring states
arriving to the present as far as unbroken and continues service as it's been
a Ninja Village. Ibuki also enters kindergarten and, together with friends
she was diligent in ninja training.
Personality- Even with doing ninja training, for she is quite the ordinary
youthful idol-liking high school student. Has a bit of a carefree spot, a
do-when-it's-to-be-done core strong girl.
Fighting style- Uses classical ninja arts having combined them with ancient
Japan's bushido. Through without pointless sharp movements she slides into
an opponent's bosom and, drives in sure-kill blows aiming at the vitals.
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SF3 Q&A from Gamest SF3 Fanbook: Ibuki
-Please tell the full treatment about the people in the Ibuki stage's
background.
A. Everyone is a Ninja Village's companion. The rough man, is
"Raiyon Daisuke" ninja head age 38. His ordinary living is performing
carpentry. In the circumstance when Ibuki's lost the man to see is
"Sanjou Masayuki" ordinarily an internal medicine doctor age 29. As
for the plump man it's "Genda Kenichi" working as the town's water
bureau member age 32.
-What's Ibuki's connection, with that tanuki?
A. It's a shinobi tanuki who's accepted the same as ninja dog schooling
"Don" by name.
-Does Ibuki, feel that she seems a little too conspicuous as a ninja?
A. Not to confine Ibuki, it seems that with the young people's gap the
so-called image of a ninja as a person of darkness is fading. It's like
1 of the issues placed on the Ninja Village.
-Her capacity as a ninja, what kind of quality for it is agreed upon?
A. If combat ability ought to be extracted, frankly her figure to fight
as a ninja's sense seems to be non-suitable. Naturally, to go functioning
well limiting the missions, it doesn't come to advanced nations' intelligence
board parties' seemingly delicate things.
-As for the kirinkyaku and yoroi dooshi and other techniques, did Ibuki work
them out?
A. Techniques are generally teaching's option subdivisions. For Ibuki's
utilized techniques being difficult the person to execute them is considerably
scarce it seems. Proceeding in the yoroi dooshi, it's 1 person Ibuki since
a little girl.
-What's her number one favorite move?
A. Indeed the kunai. Because it's without firsthand thrashing.
-Is it agreed that, her school marks are good? Again, is Ibuki a "kogal"?
A. School marks are above average. In crazes like a kogal, she doesn't seem
to have much interest.
-What kind of route is it agreed that she'll amount to after graduation?
A. She's aiming for a 4-year system's foreign language university. With a
ninja pursuit of knowledge subdivision, from Texas accent English to the
king's English, she's got self-confidence in hearing.
-How is she feeling about Ryu, and the other fighting stylists?
A. From what the mission is it's believed she wants to have lost in good time.
-For Ibuki, how is 1 day spent generally?
A. Even occupied with club activities despite the outlook of having gone to a
movie, enjoying trekking, enjoying the indoors, and also the outdoors.
-Her way of spending rest days?
A. Even though it's Sunday club activities. Through a track n' field club,
she's in the midst of being active as a sprinter.
-Even when she goes out to play in the streets in private, does she carry
kunai about?
A. She always carries about, 2-3 kunai.
-Her favorable type of man?
A. A tall back, blunt sense, continuously enticing kind of person.
-What does Ibuki regard a ninja, and ninpou as?
A. Through missions being capable of traveling to various places, a wee bit
of the benefitting Ninja Village's high school's required subjects.
-What is Ibuki's dream?
A. Having capitalized on foreign language becoming a reporter, to go around
the world.
-Ibuki's 3 sizes?
A. She's a height of 157 cm, B 82 cm, W 57 cm, H 82 cm.
-What is to say the "G File"?
A. The G File's contents are the world restructuring project's number 1 stage
midway written report. An ordinary person to look at it with just world
incidents and events, it's agreed that it'd be thought a newspaper scrap. In
actuality everything is the incidents under the control of Gill and that
organization. If the warnings are profoundly read, it's agreed that they're
to shock of particular details not known to anyone. If considered about
inviting the world's chaos, that public presentation is a possibility.
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In regards to Ibuki's fighting style being bushido, Ibuki's fighting style
specifically says ancient Japanese budo, which would be more like bushido,
the full-contact art emphasizing combat, no holding back. As a ninja Ibuki
wouldn't tone down her style to the level of a martial art, bettering yourself
and others, practicing it as a sport and only using it for self-defense as a
last resort, shunning violence.
Her name written in kanji means simply "breath."
The G-File consists of over 20,000 volumes following the paper Ibuki took
from Gill, according to Gill's 3S win quote to her. The "G" stands
for "Gill" or "Genocide" according to the AASF3 Fighting Bible.
Ibuki has NO officially confirmed relation to Geki. Geki does not
appear in the background of her stage either. All of the ninjas in her
background have names, and Geki is not one of them. The names of those
ninjas:
Enjou - the one that actually looks like a ninja (looks like Geki, name in
kanji is approximately "round castle")
Genda - the small dinky bald guy
Sanjou - the skinny one with the weird cap and glasses
Raiyon - The big guy with beads
Homura Yuuta - the guy (whom some mistake for a girl) that Ibuki spars with
in one of her intros, name in kanji is roughly "blazing permanent hatchet."
Don - The racoon (Don-chan). He has a foulard around his tail. You can see
if he belongs to player one Ibuki or Player Two Ibuki (if both are Ibuki)
by the color of his foulard, usual is red.
The guy that shows up in Ibuki's SFIII 3rd Strike ending isn't her
boyfriend. For now, he doesn't have a name given to him. He's just referred
to as Ibuki's "senpai". And he's a different guy from any who show up
in Ibuki's win pose. Heck, he's probably 'senpai' because he's the one that
invited Ibuki into that club. And of course, that's where Ibuki and he
have just met and all. Senpai means "upperclassman", her senior if you will.
Raiyon's full name is Raiyon Daisuke. He's a resident of the ninja village.
Heâs 38 years old. Heâs the villageâs lead/head ninja. Heâs also a skilled
carpenter. His name in kanji is roughly "sound of thunder large shellfish."
Sanjou's full name is Sanjou Masayuki. Heâs 29 years old. Heâs the village
doctor. He's a ninja as well. His name in kanji is roughly "three articles
of justice."
Genda's full name is Genda Kenichi. He's 32 years old. Heâs a member of
the villageâs water bureau. His name in kanji is roughly "occultish field
and one."
One other burly ninja not seen in-game is named Taiga. He looks like a cross
between Zangief and Gouken.
The blue-haired girl is Kurosawa Sarai. She's Ibuki's friend, and her
name in kanji translates to approximately "black swamp rapid thunder." Also
a ninja and from Ibuki's home village. She and Taiga both sport a unique
symbol on their foreheads looking like a sideways crescent moon.
The ninja tanukis (raccoon dogs) of Ibuki's village:
Half - Canadian born tanuki
Kage - a black tanuki
Majiri - A fox who thinks he's a tanuki
Buchi - the quick-tempered one
Blue - shy towards strangers
Cool - composed at anytime
Nald - is never calm
Kyu - is always looking to the sky
Don-chan - the leader
Ran Ran - has a panda appearance
Senseh - the genius tanuki
Gusu - sleeping throughout the year
Kuma - the enormous tanuki
Kaku and Maru - the brothers who don't look alike
Skah - his face is scary but his mood is kind
only Don-chan can use ninjutsu, and there are 256 ninja tanukis all together.
Sarai was originally an early design of Ibuki during the gameâs
developmental stages.
Her ninja village has existed since the Sengoku (warring states) period,
same as the age of bushinryu ninjutsu and Suzaku Castle.
Currently, there is no evidence to show that Makoto's and Ibuki's
special introduction in SF3 Third Strike is there for anything else besides
just the fact that both are teenage fighting girls.
Ibuki kinda leads a dual lifestyle. She's a school girl, but she's
also a ninja at the same time. She secretly wishes to live just a normal
life, though. And, of course, she gets it in her Third Strike ending.
...well, sorta ^_~
Ibuki is stated to have a connection to Oro in Street Fighter
Eternal's relationship flowchart. Actually, this has to do with her midboss
fight with Oro in Third Strike. It lists Oro as her 'learning credit', which
is the reason she fights him in 3S. See Oro's section for more.
The name of the college Ibuki attends in her 3rd Strike ending would be
Shiritsu Sarusuberi University, or Private Crape Myrtle University.
*** pgVIngrid.
INGRID
Height: 152 cm
Weight: 39 kg
BWH sizes: B78, W54, H80
Native place: ? (the heavens perhaps)
Blood type: ? (she's a celestial being after all)
Street Fighter Zero 3 Double Upper: She does nothing. Vega never steals one
of her crests to use as the nucleus or core for the psycho drive. If he had,
not only would she take it back just like that, she'd stop SF2 from occurring
because she'd make Vega self-destruct by making her crest go critical, dispose
of the psycho drive herself, and spare Rose of her unfortunate fate, all in
one fell swoop (yes she's that powerful). SF4 showing that SF2 happens makes
any shoe-horning attempt in Z3 for Ingrid null and void, except for perhaps
observing all the events happening from above.
Where she is now: Flying through the heavens somewhere.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
She's officially part of the Street Fighter license now. Besides
being in SFZ3 Double Upper for the PSP, Jerry of SOTA toys said that the
Street Fighter license that lets them make Street Fighter Action figures
did indeed include Ingrid.
She can do a whole bunch of other supernatural things like levitate giant
Thai statues or knowing peoples' names before they tell her who they are,
so it seems that even in the SF world, her goddess storyline is similar
or the same as in CFJ and the scrapped Capcom All-Stars.
When Arnold Tsang was drawing Ingrid for an Arcadia cover,
one of Ingrid's character designer Ishizawa's main insistances
over and over again was that she be "cute and sexy". :}
What Vega renames, which in turn peeves Ingrid the most, is "her crest"
becoming "his psycho drive." What makes her entire Double Upper story
including her battles filler is 1) Vega's somehow stolen a supposed goddess'
crest which serves as the nucleus of the psycho drive yet she can manipulate
it at any time to work against his designs, and 2) she's capable of getting
the crest back without even confronting anyone, knowing immediately that when
Vega says "psycho drive" it's the crest renamed which annoys her. In any
case, SF4 shows that SF2 still occurs so Ingrid never has any role in Z3
except possibly watching everything unfold from above.
*** pgVJessica.
JESSICA HAGGAR
Age: 18 (during Muscle Bomber)
Hails from: America
Height: 165 cm
Weight: 50 kg
BWH sizes: B90, W58, H88
Special attacks: eyeliner attack, nice body
MB-era nickname: "Haggar's Daughter"
Nope, this isn't a typo. Jessica has her own MB bio. She's listed as a
sub-character in Muscle Bomber. She's described as a pure person with a
gentle character. Many guys hit on her because of her good looks.
The Japanese version of Final Fight has Jessica show up on Haggar's TV
with a bra. This scene was changed in the overseas version so that Jessica
was wearing a red dress.
Where she is now: see below.
FF1 Bio: Haggar's daughter and Cody's girlfriend. She was kidnapped
by the Mad Gear gang.
For more on Jessica, see Cody's bio.
Going by her age in Muscle Bomber, she's probably a year older than
Cody.
I don't think I've ever seen her officially referred to as "Jessica
Haggar". Probably because the last name doesn't suit her very well.
Of course, given that it's her dad's last name, I think it's safe to
assume it's hers, as well.
Some people say she appears in Final Fight Tough, but I don't know where.
She isn't mentioned at all in Streetwise. After FF1-FF2, she left Cody
for a study abroad in Europe, and they drifted apart from there. Cody sure
seems to have no qualms sleeping with other girls by Streetwise (Madame
Celeste).
*** pgVJoe.
JOE
Age: 24 (during SF1)
Height: 185.2 cm
Weight: 81 kg
SF1 action: rolling sobat
Represents: America
SF1-era nickname: "Perfect Fighter"
Street Fighter 1: He entered Street Fighter 1 to arrogantly test his skills
[Official].
Where he is now: Probably became just your average Joe, and maybe
managed to knock Mike out.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Capcom based some of Cody's fighting moves off of Joe's.
Joe is a master of "back-strike" martial arts, which seems to be using
moves like the backfist which Guile often uses, and the rolling sobat which
is a shorter version of Dee Jay's double rolling sobat (aka the double dread
kick). He is described as a "Back Champion".
Mike and Joe are rumored to be the fighters at the intros of SF2, SF2
Dash, and SF2 Dash Turbo, from Cap!#13 and the SF2 Gamest pre-mook. Rumored
because CJ has stated neither that they are nor that they aren't.
Like other SF characters, it's unknown where his stage exactly is. It
looks like a Chicago or New York trainyard (sorta like the trainyard in
Final Fight Streetwise). It also seems that the Empire State Building and
the Chrysler Building are both in the stage's backdrop, towards the left.
I find it rather doubtful he's Ghost in Streetwise. Ghost doesn't
look like he's 43+ years old, and Ghost's fighting style is different.
*** pgvDecapre. pgVJuli. pgVJuni.
DECAPRE, JULI and JUNI (and the other girls; The VEGA BODYGUARD TROOPS or
The VEGA SS)
Juli's Bio
Age: between 10-20
Height: 164 cm
Weight: 49 kg
BWH sizes: B92, W59, H84
Blood type: B
Native place: unknown (Shadaloo name hails from Germany)
Hobby: unknown
Special skill: unknown
Likes: unknown
Dislikes: unknown
SFZ-era nickname: "Heartless Assassin Doll"
Street Fighter Zero 3: Juli, most likely along with her partner, Juni,
was ordered to eliminate Cammy. When they finally found her, Cammy told
them that Vega was just using them all as expendable tools. Cammy had
realized her self-consciousness, and managed to convince Juli and Juni not to
kill her, with the help of Dhalsim weakening the psycho drive's hold on the
VSS. Juli and Juni didn't believe her at first, and reported back to
Vega, telling him that they terminated Cammy. Pleased with the completion
of their mission, Vega then tells Juli and Juni that they had done their
purpose, and now they should die at his command! Shocked, Juli and Juni
immediately entered into defensive mode, and Vega is impressed that their
will to survive overrode their brainwashing. Although Vega was winning
the battle, eventually Cammy arrived to help [Conjecture based off in-game
storyline. There's also the chance that Cammy simply convinced Juli and
Juni to go with her against Vega, but evidence from in-game dialogues and
the fact that the other twelve VSS turning against Vega was mentioned
separately from Cammy's fight with him points to the former]
Together with the rest of the VSS, they all turned against Vega, realizing
that to Vega, they are nothing but expendable dolls [Official]. In the
ensuing battle, they all almost get killed, and worse, it's discovered that
with Vega's death, they'll all die too! Cammy, shocked at what Vega told
them all, declared that they were not dolls! Sacrificing herself by staying
behind as the Shadaloo base was about to be destroyed, Cammy was able to
save Juli and the rest of the VSS by using the psycho drive to restore them,
even though they were cut off from Vega's psycho power.
Cammy also used the psycho drive to transport the rest of the VSS out of
the drive room. The last thing Juli heard before all went black was Cammy
telling her and the other VSS that they will be all right. [Conjecture
based off in-game storyline and official statements].
SFZ3 File #27 Juli & Juni
UNKNOWN.
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Where she is now: Upon Vega's apparent death, Juli and the rest of the VSS
completely lost all their memory and were transported via the psycho drive.
Somewhere, out there, most of them possibly even under Honda's care, are
twelve genetically enhanced psycho powered memory-less girls wandering
around... [Conjecture and specially noted in AAC]
Thunder Hawk found Juli after she was transported out of the drive room, and
she's with him now, since SSF4 shows they were together for her to leave him
again. After that, she's next seen in an elderly couple's home silently
watching out from a rainy window. Hawk's various SSF4 info confirms that Vega
abducted all of the girls once again prior to this latest tournament by Seth
and S.I.N.-sha, and following their kidnappings Juri wiped the floor with them
and took away many if not all of them. Was Juli able to escape Juri's hands
or even Shadaloo's prior to Juri's assault? Rose seemed to be the only one
who knew where she was to be found. Had she rescued Juli from Shadaloo's
latest girl abduction and brought her to this elderly couple? Unknown at this
point. In any case, Juli remains with a longing, even a subconscious one, in
her vacant eyes. [Vega's opening, Hawk's ending, Cammy's opening and rival
battle intro]
Juni's Bio
Age: between 10-20
Height: 162 cm
Weight: 46 kg
BWH sizes: B84, W56, H83
Blood type: AB
Native place: unknown (Shadaloo name hails from Germany)
Hobby: unknown
Special skill: unknown
Likes: unknown
Dislikes: unknown
SFZ-era nickname: "Cool-headed Silent Killer"
Street Fighter Zero 3: Most likely, Juni was with Juli searching out
Cammy. However, prior to joining Juli she spent the beginning part
of SFZ3 seeking out Ryu to help Vega find him. Because Ryu's part of SFZ3
happens significantly earlier than the rest of SFZ3, it's possible for
both of these events to occur, though she most likely never got to fight
Ryu or Ryu even see her at all if that's the case (probably just pinpointed
his location for Vega or something). At any rate, for what happened once
Juni found Cammy, see Juli's description [Conjecture based off in-game
storyline].
SFZ3 File #27 Juli & Juni
UNKNOWN.
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Where she is now: Upon Vega's apparent death, Juni and the rest of the VSS
completely lost all their memory and were transported via the psycho drive.
Somewhere, out there, most of them possibly even under Honda's care, are
twelve genetically enhanced psycho powered memory-less girls wondering
around... [Conjecture and specially noted in AAC]
Prior to SSF4 however, Vega and Shadaloo have renewed interest in them,
kidnapping them once more, and Juri later on wipes the floor with them.
Many if not necessarily all of the reinstated Vega Bodyguard Troops are
captured by S.I.N.-sha for Seth's purposes no doubt. By the time the
crumbling laboratory thoroughly collapses, most of the girls' whereabouts
are unaccounted for. Juli is eventually living with an elderly couple, Juni
is hospitalized and cared for by Cammy and her newly befriended cat, Enero
and Yanyu are last seen fallen on the ground in Vega's SSF4 opening, along
with what looks to be Juni with them given the girl's hair length and color.
[Vega's opening, Hawk's and Cammy's endings]
What happened to the VSS minus Juli and Juni by the end of SSF4? Did they
perish in the lab within the various sinister apparatuses, hence Cammy's
cursing of Shadaloo in her win quote to CPU Seth? Or were they successfully
rescued and hospitalized and comforted by Cammy like Juni, or even returned to
homes they previously had and/or were accustomed to, like Aprile and her
family in Italy, thanks to Rose's probable efforts? Nothing is for sure at
this time unfortunately, except for Decapre who although having escaped from
S.I.N.-sha's clutches is sadly back into Vega's and Shadaloo's, along with
possibly also Noembelu and/or Yanyu according to the last scenes of Decapre's
Ultra SF4 ending.
Decapre's Bio
Name: Decapre
Represented nation: Russia
Birthday: December 18
Height: 164 cm
Weight: 46 kg
BwH sizes: B86, W57, H88
Bloodtype: B
Likes: dogs
Dislikes: Cammy, ambiguity
Special skill: precision instrument servicing
Fighting style: Shadoloo fighting techniques + dagger
SF4-era nickname: "Light Ripping Flash Shadow"
Ultra Street Fighter 4:
One member of Shadoloo's Vega Bodyguard Troops (Dolls). Under Vega's
brainwashing for habitually to have no need to tabulate emotions is,
due to the brainwashing's imperfection, in the utmost excitement and
control becomes non-effective. A furious hatred for the original of
the Vega Bodyguard Troops being Cammy, pursues her thereafter.
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Decapre like the other VSS girls was steamrolled by Juri and captured for
the purposes of the military enterprise S.I.N.-sha prior to unveiling its
second World Fighting Championship tournament. Her Ultra opening shows
various flashbacks as she's within a human-sized test tube/tank. She
eventually comes to, snaps, smashes out of the tank, and uncontrollably
threatens to hunt and erase Killer Bee (Cammy) once and for all.
Decapre gets to encounter Cammy in both her rival battle and her ending,
however it's unknown whether either scenario happens as depicted in
gameplay. Whether Cammy runs into her or not, Decapre appears to be far
more physically and mentally unstable than either Juni or Juli are
portrayed, and Cammy remains frustrated that unfortunately it seems only
Vega can keep her animated and alive at this point of her existence, which
is suggested in Decapre's ending.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Juli from AASFZ3
Fighting Style
Acquiring command of fighting arts trained through Shadoloo for that combat
style, a close resemblance to Cammy. Provided that, for one among the Vega
Bodyguard Troops, to each individual's combat ability satisfying the
discipline is for the sake of being prevalent, moves to do and pride on are
varying. Supplementing kick systems' sure-kill techniques, mastering
characteristic flying kicks for her, that seems to be a blossomed leg power's
talent.
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Fashion Style
Wears a one-form-styled uniform to fit the whole body. With a color
gathering darkness in its entirety for cohering to it, is it for the sake
of corresponding to the secret undersurface's operational activities? For
in the attire from the non-personal matters, for individual distinction
encumbrances from hair style and hair color are prevalent patterns. The
brown arm bands wrapped on both arms are, representing of loyalty towards
the organization.
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Juni from AASFZ3
Fighting Style
Having accepted from Vega a situation of special directives, to exterminate
enemies through her combination with Juli. Even within the picked corps
having especially high ability, an acquirement of numerous sure-kill moves.
For mastering an instant movement technique and a swooping kick, it's believed
to be the result of training under Gouki's fighting data. Due to a intense
brainwashing, she sees Vega and halts a pose reminiscingly.
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Fashion Style
Wearing a navy blue uniform, she puts on her head a regulation cap. For a
uniform being of standard design, due to more than a pair at the time of
combination attacks, it creates the result of bewildering opponents. For
the sweatsuit-type of combat garb is rightly becoming from the back's cut
a clothed set-up, with combat deliberating the violent movements, it's
creating a highly elastic material.
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Secret Point 48106 (assumed not stated)
......Cold. I open half-closed eyes and, the strange-like shape of an
illuminated device is seen.
I'm reclining on something like a bed.
The head is pounding. Where could this be.
I'm like looking out over, the neck won't move. As for the eylids I'm
barely moving them.
I'm like getting up, strength doesn't flow in.
Dark. An inorganic matter-like white partition. A device I really don't
understand.
Hearing a voice. The neighboring room, beyond large glass I'm seeing. To
face it is bright.
A white robed male person is sitting. Looking at a monitor.
A stranger.......
Gachaa...... "As for the preparations?"
Another white-robed male person has, gone into the neighboring room. As
for me, only with the eyes I gaze at those two.
"Disillusioned. For the anesthesia is still effective."
"As for the muscle tension & relaxation alternation doses?"
"That's 20."
"Alright, after 5 minutes we start. For Lord Vega she will be further
gilded."
......Lord Vega?
The chaamber, and before my eyes it had become clear. At the shine the
lamp commenced.
Dazzling......Besides even that, how come I am naked......?
The bed jerks, and leaning, as I have been affixed like this, slanting I
was raised.
Again I'm hearing a voice.
"This is it for today huh?"
"There is one other. That one's preparations also are complete."
"......As for me, I won't get used to it."
"What's that? Now even a good heart will maybe ache. Or else you, a
taste in little girls?"
"Leave out the jokes. For that's how you are."
"Well, certainly at the beginning my chest hurt! But this is also a job.
Actually our laboratory is not becoming pointless. For within the washing
of the flesh-like agony, through a new development's nerve doses it became
almost nothing. For in them that should be not even anguish."
"But......They're disposable."
Unless they serve their purpose, don't they. That's the reason that we're
also dependent on them."
Washing......disposable......?
Suddenly the door before my eyes opened.
Who......? A person is coming in. No......! Stay away......!!
"We've been awaiting you, Lord Vega......"
Scary. Scary eyes. Who is it?
"That's pretty good material." Ah......what are......somebody......help
me......!
"You shall help me. Serve Vega! Relax, you will be for my keeping. For
everything of you is mine. Mine. Mi......"
For I......am to help? This person......I exist for this one person.
Aah, thank goodness......for I'm already....
Something I was anxious about maybe. Darn it I'm forgetting. For now is
just, this personal growth, if there's that then it's okay.......
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Highlights:
-The lab table, the mind melt, the forced submission. This is how it all
began for the girls identified from then on with only month names. Oh
yeah, and all this initiating in the nude to boot. Let the imaginations run
wild.
The Vega SS or VSS are an elite Shadaloo unit under Vega's personal command.
All of them were highly trained in the arts of killing, and developed their
own fighting styles based on the weapons they used. Due to their weapon
styles, their fighting styles are mostly distinct, though they all heavily
rely on kicks too. My guess is that if they were all playable in a
fighting game, their kick moves would all be the same though their punch
moves would all be different for the VSS that had weapons. The girls
have some psycho power ability too, though of course not to the extent of
Vega. Juni's psycho shield, Juli and Juni's psycho charge abilities,
and Cammy was able to control the psycho drive so she has it within her
somewhere as well (course, her body was specifically designed for it also).
No clue if they channel psycho drive power through their pseudo-shoulder
pads, but it's plausible.
It is not stated whether or not the canon-existing brainwashing drug
from Shadaloo called 'doll' was officially what Shadaloo used to brainwash
them, but it is interesting that the drug 'doll' existed since SF2, being
stated in old sources like HnN.
If you want to see the VSS in SFZ3, they all fall down during Juli
and Juni's introduction when you fight those two, with the exception of
Jiuyu and Enero, who can't be found in the game. Their names all
correspond to the months of the year in the language of the country or area
the VSS girl generally came from. The VSS don't have their weapons and
accessories in the game either, and much of the info here is garnered from
the one very cartoony official art of them that is known. The cartoony
artwork comes from a Club Capcom members-only issue. Club Capcom... didn't
stick around very long. Anyways, for those who want to see the art piece,
www.cammyfan.com has it somewhere on the site albeit slightly edited to
have the names added in (the original art piece has the names elsewhere on the
page). The paragraphs below indicate their name origins and where those hail
from, not necessarily or automatically their birthplaces.
Enero is Spanish and the VSS girl of January. Her trademark accessory is
the microphone. One can specialize in communication and still be classified
as an assassin. In fact, no assassin unit is complete without a member who
manages communications. Enero has really big, curly pink hair and is the only
VSS whom you could say has long hair, not including tails. It is unknown
whether or not Enero is the first VSS (besides Cammy, who definitely was prior
to any of the girls), but if she was, that does go to show even more Vega's
hidden eccentric side, what with his penchant for young girls, female bodies,
and apparently arming the first of his killer assassin death squad with a
MICROPHONE, let alone her poofy pink hair.
Février is French and the VSS girl of February. She specializes in firearms,
and has a gunbelt where she can keep her ammo as well as her gun. Her gun
appears to be either a pistol, or some sort of small handgun with a barrel
that curves inward then outward again which makes it seem sorta like a ray
gun. It's hard to tell from her only official art, which is also very
cartoonly drawn. Février has pink short hair. She presumably led the squad
to intercept Birdie after he learned too many of Shadaloo's secrets.
März's name is German, though she really looks Japanese to me. She's
the VSS girl of March. Her trademark accessory is a laptop computer with the
Shadaloo logo on its back. März's right glove also has a red wire that
plugs into her arm brace for some reason. Like the disclaimer for Enero,
one can specialize in information and still be classified as an assassin.
In fact, no assassin unit is complete without a member that manages
information. Information and recon is VERY important to pulling off a kill
in places with heavy security. März has neon short hair with straight arrow
twin bangs (straighter than Juli's). Her hair in her art is blue, but in
the game it's purple. I suspect she dyes it. She also is depicted with a
headset communicator. Phonetically in Japanese her name is given as Mertz.
Aprile is Italian and is the VSS girl of April. She carries around a white
first-aid kit bag as well as wears a white backpack. Unlike the other VSS,
her arm brace is supposed to be a white one with a red cross (first-aid)
instead of the usual brown one (though like most of the other VSS accessories,
this isn't in the game. Would require too much sprite editing for Capcom to
do I guess). Every military unit including special forces and assassin ones
always has a medic in it. As stated by Capcom, Aprile also has a brother
named Maggio that went to see Rose during Zero 3 to ask about her whereabouts,
and I wouldn't be surprised if in actual officialness, Aprile was a VSS that
Vega had fight Rose instead of Juli and Juni (who were most likely hunting
down Cammy at the time). Add others like Enero and Mertz as well to add onto
Rose's stated insult-to-injury at Vega.
Satsuki is Japanese and is the VSS girl of May. Her weapon is a sword that
she keeps in a sheath on her back. The official art has the sword sheathed
so I can't tell you what kind of sword it is, but obviously it's most
likely a Japanese one such as a katana. Her name is an older word for the
fifth lunar month of the year, the first half of the word meaning swamp or
shore.
Juni is German and is the VSS girl of June. She doesn't use a weapon but
seems to have a high amount of psycho power, able to do the mach slide at
will (whereas Juli and most likely the other VSS can only do it as a
Zero counter) as well as sporting a psycho shield. Street Fighter Eternal says
that at least some of this is because of Juni scanning Gouki and implementing
some of his powers (possibly, the hooligan combination and the mach slide
specifically?). She is described by Capcom of Japan as the "Cool-headed
Silent Killer." She is extremely close to her partner Juli, though there is
no solid proof that their relationship is a yuri one (if you don't know what
yuri means, you probably don't need to know for this instance). Juni's ending
just shows closeness, though I suppose that psycho rolling team-up super they
have DOES raise a few eyebrows, as does some design sketches of Juli hoisting
Juni on her shoulder in the secret files... *cue Saturday Night Live's
Ambiguously Gay Duo music* *Watch Tiamat duck the rabid fanboys now. Hey!
I'm a Juli+Juni fan, too!* From Juni's ending, I gather that Juli is the one
she confides in and Juli is the more leaderly of the two. Oh yeah, Juni and
Juli are not twins (they really don't look that much alike), and there's no
official statement even implying that they're biological sisters.
Juli is German and is the VSS girl of July. She is described by Capcom of
Japan as the "Heartless Assassin Doll." I guess she's coldhearted or
whatever because she's really depressed on the inside. In SFZ3, there are
a lot of vibes about her always having a sad look in her eyes from various
characters (they comment on Cammy seeming like a machine, but for Juli, a
large number of characters comment in their win quotes to her that she
looks sad, possibly because of her absence from T. Hawk). Juli's real name
is most likely Julia, as shown in Hawk's storyline. Juli too, is really close
to her partner, Juni. All About Capcom says that why Juli is connected to
T. Hawk despite how her name hails from Germany`is "a mystery left behind."
Santamu's (romanized for Thang Tam, Chris says it's Tháng tám) name is
Vietnamese, though she looks African to me (dark skin tone). She's the
VSS girl of August. Santamu has a yellow leg brace over her boot on her right
leg, unlike the other VSS. Her weapon is the spear, but she also seems
to have a pet golden lion tamarine (a small monkey) which has its own
backpack as well as a collar wire that can connect to Santamu's glove.
Santamu's anklets are African I believe (Elena also wears anklets like them).
Santamu is the name The_Emperor of Living Room Games used for her.
Jiuyu (Jiuyue) is Chinese and is the VSS girl of September. She has a blue
sash around her waist, and her weapon is the nunchuku. There is so far
nothing to show that she and Yanyu are partners like Juli and Juni,
besides the similar names and ethnicities. Due to that, however, I
wouldn't be surprised if they were partners. Heck, they probably are.
Xiayu is the spelling The_Emperor used when announcing she and the other
VSS would be in Living Room Game's (cancelled) Capcom World Tournament, as
well as within Udon's comic series. Her name is an older word for the ninth
lunar month of the year, the first half of the word meaning chrysanthemum.
Yanyu (Yangyue), depending on how you spell it due to romanization
differences, is Chinese and is the VSS girl of October. Her weapon is a
quarterstaff, I believe. She looks like... a younger Chun-Li, but not
quite. For one thing, her two hairbulbs don't seem to be as big. Also,
she has two braided tails from said bulbs. Jianyu is the name The_Emperor
used for her in the Capcom World Tournament press release. Her name is an
older word for the tenth lunar month of the year, the first half of the word
meaning positivity.
Noembelu's (or November, with the 'v' being pronounced as a 'w') name
is Latin American. Unlike other VSS girls, she doesn't hail from
[insert country here] but is instead described as "a Latin American".
She wears a brown vest, and has a stereotypical feather bandana which you can
see in the game, which makes her the easiest VSS to spot in Juni and Juli's
battle intro besides possibly März with her neon hair and Decapre with her
black mask. Noembelu fights using twin hatchets, which have ropes that she
ties around her gloves that allow her to use the hatchets as projectiles then
reel them back in. Her official art has her throwing one downwards. There's
a chance that unlike the rest of the VSS, Noembelu wasn't saved by Honda and
was saved by T. Hawk instead (As in T. Hawk's SFZ3 ending. ...well, Juli now,
but it was allegedly Noembelu). The_Emperor at Living Room Games when
announcing the VSS would be in the Capcom World Tournament RPG they were
producing spelled her name as Noembelu (alas, that table-top RPG was
cancelled). Funny enough, for Udon's (noncanon) Street Fighter comic, they
just went and decided to have BOTH Juli and Noembelu be from T. Hawk's tribe,
with Juli as the daughter of a German doctor trying to help Hawk's people.
That's one way to go about things.
Decapre (Dekabr) is Russian, and is the last VSS, the VSS girl of
December. She's also the most intriguing, because she looks exactly like
Cammy. Except she has a black mask, so you can't see her face. She also
Has longer lighter-colored hair braids than Cammy and is equipped with a
psycho power dagger unit that's battery powered and can also accomodate a
memory chip for accumulating fighting data.
The left side of her face is entirely burn-scarred, and she wears multiple
black masks. The one exposing her mouth she may have made herself, and the
other seen in Z3 covering her mouth likely had been originally issued to her
by Shadaloo, although her bout with JUri during the SF4 era may have broken
it so it also currently resembles the mouth-exposed model first described
above and seen in USF4.
Decapre appears to be the first girl that Shadaloo kidnapped, was used to
fashion Cammy along with Vega's DNA, but did not become an official member
of the Vega Bodyguard Troops until after Cammy as Killer Bee became the
first such member herself. Unlike Cammy's, Decapre's mental state never
progressed beyond that of a little child's. Hence when she's not overtaken
by murderous rage for Cammy due to the imperfect brainwashing she's received,
she behaves exactly like she did when she was younger and together with Cammy
as Cammy exhibited fright and pain despite Decapre trying to calm and reassure
her that everything's going to be okay.
Juliâs not as powerful or slavishly loyal as Juni.
Street Fighter Eternal says that Juni's brainwashing was more thorough
than the rest of the VSS, and thus she received the most important missions
from Vega. This is likely why she got whatever mission that allowed her
to scan Gouki and to later scout for Ryu.
Aprile's brother's name is Maggio. He's her younger brother.
From Rose's SFZ3 backstory: the VSS girl Aprile was kidnapped by Shadaloo
2 years before SFZ3. Her younger brother (Maggio) visited Rose's mansion
of mystery to ask her about the whereabouts of his sister. She
searched/explored his heart and told him that his sister isn't in Italy,
but somewhere in the Southeast on the other side of the earth. She also
told him that that his sister will return. Btw, Maggio is May in Italian.
So it's April and May. Oh those wacky parents! Southeast is likely
referring to Thailand where Shadaloo's base is.
Manga artist Mami Itoh made a (unofficial of course) compilation called
SSF2X Gaiden, which she tried to include all of SSF2X's characters in
significant and mostly serious plotlines. For T. Hawk's story, she sketched
a dying Arroyo and a little girl with T. Hawk called Rona, who might've been
a partial inspiration for creating Noembelu. Rona has the same feather and
same hairstyle as Noembelu as far as I can tell, but Rona's no more than four
or five years old while Noembelu's a teenager so that probably won't say much.
The official bios for each of the VSS besides Decapre, Juli and Juni (and
Cammy) only list what language their name is in and where they hail
from, really (except for Noembelu, where it calls her a 'Latin American
woman' instead of saying she hails from Latin America). This includes
Germany for Juli, the "German Native American". :P
The 12 VSS can't live without Vega because their bodies, souls, and
minds were so corrupted by Vega's brainwashing that without Vega, they
would collapse. They were *fixed* with the psycho drive by Cammy because
the psycho drive sent in the remaining psycho power into the 12 VSS so
they could at least briefly maintain physical and mental stability.
Unlike other Shadaloo members, Vega seems to be a lot more strict with
his SS. Other Shadaloo members he allows to go off to do their own thing
so long as they remain loyal to him (see: Sagat's SFZ2 ending. This aspect
of Vega's personality is referenced in his CFJ quotes with Urien) but
the VSS he turns on for whatever reason. For them, he expects complete
obedience and not just loyalty it seems. Perhaps this comes because of
Vega's expectations of their brainwashing, and would explain why he
apparently makes them sleep in boxes (Pocketstation reference) whereas the
general living standard in Shadaloo bases seems to be pretty darn high for
everyone else judging from that Shadaloo base artwork and descriptions (other
Shadaloo members even get to play video games!).
There's a reasonable chance that the VSS (including SFZ series Cammy) were
inspired by the two-novel series "Cammy History", by Minakawa Yuka.
However, because this is just an inspiration and not a direct port (unlike
Kanzuki Karin, who was taken directly from the manga she first appeared
in), this can't be proven, and Capcom has made no official statements
(again, unlike Karin). The book itself was made after Super Street Fighter
2 but long before SFZ3 (and even X-Men vs Street Fighter where Shadaloo
Cammy made her debut to the gaming scene) and had the concept of Cammy
being one among a number of Shadaloo girls, as well as a character named
Anne who looks very similar to Juni and had a partner named Bess (probably
Juli) in her past when she was one of the Shadaloo girls. Anne also
utilized a Balrog-ish mask which might have been the inspiration for Decapre
(her mask was white, unlike Decapre's though). Again, there is no proof
or official statements that this is the case, though it's plausible. Even
if it is the case, obviously Capcom changed a significant amount of things
from the novel series (Cammy herself is very different from the rest of the
VSS for example, unlike the novel) and the series itself shouldn't be
taken for canon at all.
The VSS all talk and act like robots, including Cammy (though Cammy
includes more human speech in her dialogue than the rest of the VSS do).
.....BAH. This is a canon fact that is popular to ignore in fanfics, and
I'm sure no one minds when it's ignored, too. I like the VSS a lot, but
sheesh, I hate hate HATE that aspect of theirs. On a side note, they
don't talk 100% like robots all the time (again, with Cammy being the
most 'human', but she still does the robo thing). ...wait, yes they do.
Until... well, see the note below.
You can actually see the VSS' own progression away from the robo-speak thing
throughout Street Fighter Zero 3. While not as gradual as Cammy's, it's
still there. Juli and Juni in both of their stories when you play as them
talk like robots 100% of the time with no exception whatsoever in all their
mid-boss battles, right up to their pre-fight dialogue with Vega. In both
of their endings, though, they no longer talk like robots at all. I
imagine it's supposed to be like, a theme of the VSS about them obtaining
their humanity or so. Both Juli and Juni stop with the robo speak
practically right after Vega mocks them that if he dies, their lives are in
vain, then says "Don't ever dream that you could live as a human!!"
Why did Vega want to kill the VSS in Juli and Juni's endings? I'm
not exactly sure, but a possible reason is because since Cammy was
gaining self-consciousness, he realized that the other VSS might also,
which would be bad if the other VSS could control the psycho drive and
thus potentially devastate everything.
Continuing with that, according to Cammy's, Juli's, and Juni's
storylines, it was technically Vega that turned against the VSS, not the
VSS that turned against him. Juni's ending allows you to look into her
mind and shows that the VSS WANTED to continue to care about Vega, but
they sorta can't when he was the one that betrayed them and not vice-versa.
Nowhere did Cammy ever betray Vega in her storylines. Vega just sent the
hit squads after her (the explanation being that it was done just for
self-preservation and because Vega saw Cammy as useless to him, even though
she was still loyal to him. See Balrog's and Cammy's SFZ3 storylines).
Assuming that Juni's ending was not OOC, even though it didn't happen, the
VSS were actually very emotionally crushed that Vega betrayed them even after
their brainwashing had gone away (indicated by their losing the robo-speak),
since none of them ever wanted to betray Vega in the first place, brainwashing
or not. Cammy's reaction to being marked for termination shows this too.
The piece of perfection known as the VSS uniform (...eh, I really like
it:P) appears to be an actual World War II female uniform (though the real
version isn't as... form-fitting). Complete with... yes, those dinky
McDonalds caps and funky little ties. It was seen on a 1954 White
Christmas musical. There was also a white variant of it in that musical
that was like Cammy's version of the VSS uniform (IE, no pants) Oo
For some more random VSS info, see Cammy's bio.
*** pgVJuri.
HAN JURI
Represented nation: (South) Korea
Birthday: January 1
Height: 165 cm
Weight: 46 kg
BWH sizes: B83, W56, H85
Blood type: AB
Likes: spicy food, spiders
Dislikes: non-easygoing fellows, rules
Special skill: doesn't forget a one-time passed street
SF4-era nickname: "Unrestrained of Destruction's Agreeable Sensation"
Super Street Fighter 4:
Fighting style: tae kwon do
As Seth's confidant an appeared mysterious woman. Within S.I.N.
she's designated as "Spider." Pleasure-seeking yet brutal, she discovers
delight about devoting destruction to fought opponents. A warped hedonist.
Being included in her left eye a mysterious system, with horrible power she
rushes for the spoils. By Seth's command she proceeds to bury antagonists
of S.I.N. one by one....
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Between S.I.N.-sha's first and second tournaments, tae kwon do fighter Han
Juri is inducted into the enterprise's hierarchy as the CEO's new confidant.
A fiesty female with daggers for pretty much anyone and everyone, armed with
the feng shui engine to replace her plundered left eye she proceeds to wreak
havoc for a recuperating Shadaloo by schooling the newly recovered ladies of
the Vega Bodyguard Troops including abducting many if not all of them, takes
down Cammy leaving her with lingering injuries, and outwits Chun-Li. [Vega's
and Cammy's openings, Cammy's and Chun-Li's rival battle intros]
The curtain is about to lift on Seth's second hosted world fighting
tournament, and he contacts Juri about it. Hoping that this latest
battle fest will get rid of the boring taste left in her mouth from mopping
the floor with Vega's elite Troops, Juri agrees to enter the tournament in
her SSF4 opening.
Juri's ending has her boss lying at her feet. Overly amazed at his continuing
charade and bravado, she's all too eager to remind Seth that he is after all,
just a pathetic spare puppet, and drives the message home with a pair of
crushing kicks. Finally in Vega's ending, she challenges the demon being
himself.
Where she is now: Probably either dead by Vega's hand, or continuing to
cause whatever exciting mayhem floats her boat.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
The following were eventually altered/omitted from her profile as shown on
Capcom Japan's SSF4 site:
Age: 25
BWH sizes: B75
Likes: big breasts (most likely a joke since at the same time her bust size
was stated to be smaller than it currently is, and simultaneously was omitted
together with her bust size changed to the measurement given in her profile)
Occupation/pedigree: S.I.N.'s covert operative
Fighting style: attacks with ki utilized by the feng shui engine
And her originally posted profile summary:
Called out by alias "Spider" a covert operative belonging to S.I.N. Through
her personality being belligerent yet provocative, she revels in turning on
the pain trifling with her opponents. Honor and money, regulations, the place
for such behavioral ideas is non-existent, to personally believe that behaving
for the sake of incidents and scandals (those mostly dangerous yet antisocial
ones) is interesting. In her left eye a ki booster called the feng shui engine
is embedded as an artificial eye.
Juri's eye and parents were stolen from her during the height of Shadaloo's
power between Z2 and Z3, after Cammy received her psycho limiter and the Vega
Bodyguard Troops were out in full force, massacring people left and right, such
as the foreign prime minister Killer Bee was ordered to assassinate while he
was on vacation with his family on the Greek island of Mykonos, per Cammy's Z3
stage account.
*** pgVKarin.
KANZUKI KARIN (last name listed first)
Age: 16 (during SFZ3 according to official website and Gamest)
Birthdate: September 15, 1973 (year from SFZ3 age, rest from Gamest mook/mag)
Height: 162 cm
Weight: 48 kg
BWH sizes: B83, W57, H85
Blood type: B
Native place: Japan
Special skill: various inner secrets (succession techniques) of Kanzukiryu
Likes: total victory
Dislikes: considering the common people
SFZ-era nickname: "Super Lady Debutante"
Street Fighter Zero 3: Karin is the only daughter of a corporate
family. She must honor her family motto. "Be the winner of everything". To
do such, she must battle the one girl who has defeated her.... To find
Sakura, she will travel the world... Erm, well, if her SFZ3 storyline
happened at all, then Karin basically found Sakura and challenged her and
won, but after the match was over, realized that it was just by chance that
time and that overall, Sakura was still the better fighter. From there,
she told Sakura that she then finally understood that the moment of the
fight was what's important, not winning or losing. [Conjecture based off
in-game storyline].
SFZ3 File #24 Karin
Real name is Kanzuki Karin. As the Kanzuki financial clique's only daughter,
for the sake of observing worldly living, while setting out with her butler
Shibazaki she's commuting to a downtown section's high school. "In taking
on everything you must always be a victor" with faithfulness to the so-called
family precepts, clearheadedness moreover with motor nerves of pre-eminence.
That being also affirmative concerning fighting techniques, at age 16 she does
judo, kendo, aikido, karate, koppo, Muay Thai, sambo, tae kwon do, hakkyoku,
tai chi, Shorinji, amateur wrestling, and other martial arts, has a total of
100th degree 8th rank. For some reason you'd say her quaint rival Sakura gets
her heart burning, at every opportunity she goes rushing.
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Highlights:
-With so many accomplishments, it's no stretch to see why Karin would keep
trying to best mimic-prodigy Sakura.
Where she is now: Whether her SFZ3 storyline happened or not, Karin is
still training to defeat Sakura after SFZ3 [Official]. By the time of SF3,
who knows? Guess even if winning and losing isn't important, the rivalry
still continues. In any case, SF4 shows that Sakura tries to stay in touch
with Karin.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Kanzuki Karin- Dosukoi-Tate-Roll
Alias "Lady Karin". Born 197X Sept. 15. The Kanzuki financial clique's
chief Kanzuki Daigen Juurou's only daughter of clearheaded form of grace.
"In taking on everything you must always be a victor" and the like originally
the relentless family precepts, at only 16 she's versed in all kinds of
Bushido martial arts fighting moves. Embracing a rival heart for classmate
"Kasugano Sakura", she takes constant action together with her butler.
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Highlights:
-Karin's father is Daigen Juurou from Nakahira-sensei's Ryu Final manga shorts.
Karin from AASFZ3
Fighting Style
Having integrated fighting techniques from inside and outside the country
(judo, sambo, hakkyokuken and others), she masters the fighting techniques
of Kanzukiryu. For the all-around style responded to opponents and their
distance, the striking moves and throwing moves it bears the width in mind.
Hypothesizing? a showdown between the ones of large physique, an acquirement
also of eluding counterattack moves. And directing herself constantly
towards the matter of being the winner, she unfolds the battle being of pride.
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Fashion Style
From observing a lady debutante-like self-indulgent role's hairdo and
large-sized ribbon is impressive. Conscious of her rival being Sakura, she
even again with a uniform appearance she throws herself into the fight. For
both fists with two-fold gloves staying firm and protecting, for to wear on
her feet thick-based hard boots, at the site of battle in order to crush
femininity to death?
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Flower Shopping District [JAPAN]
Bringing down in overhead judo throws 100 glimpsed opponents, for the man
breathing heavily took a quality "osu" stance. Being somewhat awkward, for
there was no one shown to the extent of having been able to clear this trial
fair and square.
Through the management room (control room) of that situation having observed
it exceeding for Shibazaki - the Kanzuki house's serving steward - even while
surfacing a facial expression of admiration, at the beginning embraced with
anxiety he hadn't acquired assurance.
In the man's facial expression, from the sensed obvious "heart of revenge."
"What is wrong Shibazaki? Is that man dissatisfying?"
Before he knew it, Karin was standing back up.
"No......For in his true ability I am completely mistakened. Rather until
here more than even any other candidate I'm holding an outrivaled temperament.
In just that......"
Karin follows in speech.
"Excellent even as a candidate, is he?"
"......Was acknowledged perhaps."
For Shibazaki managing the panel at hand, in another monitor deployed a
window.
Detailed-like data goes into indication.
"Makabe Sunao (Mah-kah-beh Soo-nah-oh) .......
Man of talent bestowed on the corporation 'Edo River Crude Escort' alias
ECE post.
Incidentally from this private enterprise every year it's employing several
people A grade successful applicants. The strength of the person himself
rightly aspired, as a special measure this kind of '100-person sparring' is
the reason he went......"
For Shibazaki opens a different window.
"1 year before......It was that my Honored Lady setting the contest decision
crushed the opponent in the finals of the Judo World Championship Delegates
Evaluation Tournament. How many times was desired a rematch to have pushed
down the Kanzuki house, for my Honored Lady rejected this."
"Now matter how many times I'm doing it the result has been the same."
"After that, he vanished......even presently not caring for that position.
And also this true lining to call a man. The place I saw, for countenance
and physique to become a delicate unusualness, probably......"
For this time's special measure, Karin's world training's journey is one in
order to evaluate intermediaries to travel together. For Shibazaki himself
as a different essential project's main-brain he's rounding them up. For the
matter of employing a new person even Karin herself had petitioned it.
Probably, when she saw his profile, she was likely feeling something at last.
"It's dangerous. For unmistakable that he to my Honored Lady is harboring an
individualistic grudge. Adding to it, that true ability......An amassed
reasonable practice and allowed to conjecture. To travel together and the
like, is too reckless......"
"My whole body embracing danger, constantly goes through that strenuous
feeling inside. If one is a Kanzuki, even if nearby a so-called unconditional
one lets a guard down it's a foolish act. To say a dagger, with just the
extent of waving it won't be without an edge. Shibazaki, even you always have
no problem getting my back!"
"Yes......I stand corrected."
Formally for Shibazaki, having admired Karin's heart before.
For Karin pushing the mic's switch, she talked facing the monitor.
"He's passed. Set him up immediately."
Turning her head from the room disappears Karin. To Shibazaki she leaves a
message.
"Shibazaki, I've left the rest to you. Until the day after tomorrow's
departure time, as a servant of the Kanzuki house offer to teach him, the
very fundamentalistic rules."
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Highlights:
-With the help of Shibazaki, Karin continues to recruit those deemed to be
the best in an effort to maintain her "best-ness" as heiress of her family's
financial clique. On a side note, while Sakura sent a karate fighter flying
into the trash cans in this same vicinity, Karin recruits a judo practitioner.
Karin belongs to a very rich family. She is well aware of Ken's rich
family, and she doesn't like Shadaloo because they pressure her family a
bit (though her family's rich and powerful enough to at least resist a
pretty good amount). As stated in her SFZ3 summary (and taken from Sakura
Ganbaru!), the motto of her family is "Be the winner of everything."
Her family name Kanzuki in kanji means roughly "divine moon." Her mom's
name Nadeshiko in kanji means either "fringed pink" or "lovable girl" and
may be applicable to R. Mika's rival of the same name. Karin's father's
name Daigen Juurou means roughly "great strictness ten clear", and he most
certainly is strict on his daughter the female heir.
Karin first appeared in the non-canon manga Sakura Ganbaru!. Capcom
liked her so much that they decided to make her an official character (note
that this does not mean the manga is official though, but Capcom DID take
a lot from it).
Lady Karin's Secrets ~special chapter~
199X, January 1, Karin grasped the magnificent "scorned eye". But, with
bundling gaps of daily repose. From Daigen Juurou "Never mind looking hard
at the earth!" were the riddled words announced. This from having been
born as a girl to the Kanzuki house, it is to say that if she doesn't charm
at minimum 5,000 people of the world's gentlemen she cannot inherit the
family headship, the true final training Kanzuki house ultimate hidden
mystery "graceful pupil" is the so-called subject she would master.
Incidentally her mother, Nadeshiko is said to have charmed 50,046 gentlemen.
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Highlights:
-Karin's expected to master even actions such as glaring and charming. For
the latter the minimum is 5,000, while her mom boasts a record of 50,046(!).
Lady Karin's Secrets ~that first~nativity chapter~
197X, September 15, a supersized typhoon directly hit the Kantou region,
observing in the open sea that one miniature archipelago a magnitude of
more than 5, with victory for a certain pro baseball team for the first
time in ten some years? she was raised with both arms this day, Kanzuki
Karin. This existence receives life. Her father being Kanzuki Daigen
Juurou had wished for a wholesome son, a daughter's birth a discouragement.
But with a word of "Karin is to be reared as a son" uttered, it's serious
so to speak.
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Highlights:
-Karin's birth. Her dad, having wished for a son, would raise her like one.
Lady Karin's Secrets ~that second~childhood chapter~
198X, July 25, Kanzuki Karin (time of age 9). Passing with only a small
quantity of water and food, she's thrown into Fuji's sea of deep forests.
This being a tradition formerly of the Kanzuki house, if she cannot return
safely, as heir she would disqualify from establishing the fortune. It is
assuredly that it's one rigorous pursuit of knowledge. Her father, Daigen
Juurou thinking of suffering more than 2 weeks from his own experience,
chose as the time Karin's summer vacation but, merely 4 days she had come
to safely return.
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Highlights:
-Given a survival test at age 9. Her father struggled two weeks to accomplish
this when he was her age, but Karin polished the trial off in 4 days.
Lady Karin's Secrets ~that third~blossoming chapter~
199X, April 19, even 50 heads of bulls roaring noisily around in the
streets! At that place Kanzuki Karin (time of age 14) happened to be
present, impressively she stills 50 heads of wild bulls. A seemingly
unbelievable incident but, the fact was that actually Kanzuki Daigen
Juurou arranged the so-called "wild bull fifty line" training. To the
fulfiller of this, it is said would be the passing down ritual of the
wealth to inherit in the Kanzuki house.
Being a digression, several tens of years before Daigen Juurou even
contended for this trial, 49 heads it seems were worn out.
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Highlights:
-Single-handedly stopping a running of the bulls at age 14. Karin subdues
fifty bulls in all, beating her father's record by one.
Lady Karin's Secrets ~last part~space chapter~
199X, June 30, Kanzuki Karin (time of age 15), is beyond the scope of
the atmosphere with the Kanzuki house's private use space shuttle
Cerise 8. This being for the sake of learning the Kanzukiryu public
skill inner mystery "scorned eye", from beyond the scope of the
atmosphere to overlook the earth to say a lie seems to be a truly?
non-understandable training. Really, from which period had this
training progressed is a spot to be bothered but, consider the
acquirings of also Daigen Juurou and, surprising history is perhaps
possibly profound.
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Highlights:
-At 15 years of age, back to the ideal of mastering "glaring." Karin takes
off into space so she can "scorn" at the entire earth at once.
Sakura Ganbaru! was in the making then made while SFZ3 was in development.
Capcom was actually working closely with Nakahira-sensei on the manga, which
would explain why lots of details in it ended up showing up in SFZ3 later.
Karin's rotund butler seen in some of her battle intros during SFZ3 as
well as victory poses is Ishizaki. There is no known name for Karin's pet
dog, yet. She also has an employee named Shibazaki, who handles the Kanzuki
family laser satellite (!?, yes specially stated in AAC) in her SFZ3 ending
(an ending which obviously didn't happen but the family does have it and
Shibazaki is indeed on standby to fire it at Karin's command if need be).
Daigen Juurou (pronounced die-gen-ju-row) is the name of
Karin's father.
Oh, and the Kanzuki financial clique's satellite is called the manjushage
in Karin's SFZ3 ending.
Sheâs an only child; her two sisters have thus far stayed only in
Ryu Final's manga shorts.
Ishizaki was assigned the job of baby-sitting/watching over Karin while
she traveled the world in search of a rematch with Sakura. His name in kanji
means roughly "stone cape."
Shibazaki is the Kanzuki family's steward. While steward usually means
butler, it has many other definitions, such as a person who manages another's
affairs and/or finances. His name in kanji means roughly "brush cape."
Although they're rivals, Karin and Sakura get along rather well.
Sakura addresses Karin a little more distantly (Kanzuki-san) than Karin does
Sakura (Sakura-san), possibly because Karin is a rich heiress, even though
ironically, Sakura is a few months older than Karin is.
*** pgVKen.
KEN MASTERS
Birthdate: February 14, 1965
Height: 175 cm (SFZ, SF4), 176 cm (SF2), 180.3 cm (old SF1 design)
Weight: 72 kg (SFZ, SF4), 76 kg (SF2), 77 kg (old SF1 design)
SF1 actions: psycho fire, dragon punch, hurricane kick
BWH sizes: B110, W82, H86 (SFZ), B114, W82, H86 (SF2, SF4)
Blood type: B
Native place: America (birthplace is Japan, born and raised)
Hobby: driving
Special skill: cooking (boiling pasta)
Likes: skateboarding, spaghetti, various pastas
Dislikes: umeboshi (pickled plums), soap operas
Fighting style: fighting techniques rooted in an ansatsuken (utilizing
kikouhou)
SFZ-era nickname: "Blazing Dragon Fang Rips the Heavens"
SF2-era nickname: "Rival Returned"
SF3-era nickname: "Blazing Rising Dragon"
SF4-era nickname: "Red Lotus Fighting King"
Street Fighter 1: Ken did NOT participate in the first Street Fighter 1
tournament. Instead, he went off to fight in US martial arts tournaments
and became a champion there, as well as met his girlfriend, Eliza. He got
back to his master Gouken's dojo just in time to see Gouken get killed by
Gouki [Official].
Street Fighter Zero 2: Ken wonders where his rival Ryu, went, and goes
to search for him. He finally finds Ryu, but sees that something is
wrong. Ryu seems confused, and when they fight, due to Ryu's mind being
clouded, Ken wins. Ken gives Ryu his red headband as a reminder should Ryu
lose again, telling Ryu that he realizes that Ryu was distracted and that
Ryu needs to be focused. Ryu thanks Ken for helping to get him back on
track [Official].
Street Fighter Zero 3: Wandering the world, Ken decided to seek out Ryu
again. He is approached by Karin, whom he talks about her rivalry with
Sakura, making him realize the greatness of the challenges of his rivalry
with Ryu himself (and I think he probably learned from Karin where Sakura
was). Eventually, Ken arrived in Thailand. He ran into Ryu's number one
fan Sakura, who asked him to spar with her for a bit because she wanted
to gauge her recent strength [Conjecture based on in-game storyline]. After
that, Sakura and Ken left to seek Ryu, but found a brainwashed psycho Ryu
under Vega's control instead! Luckily, Sagat had arrived at the same
time and saw that Ryu was brainwashed too, and was disgusted by it.
Together with Sakura, Ken held off Vega as Sagat fought psycho Ryu. Ryu
thanked Ken afterwards, telling Ken that though it's terrible to fight others
it's incredible also. Ken and Ryu's friendly rivalry continues [Official].
SFZ3 File #02 Ken
Being Ryu's pal, an eternal rival. From the time of youth, originally with
Master Gouken together with Ryu he strived with training. Raised with the
great financial clique Masters house's family lineage, is with beautiful
sweetheart Eliza. The Pan-American Fighting Championship, the World Battle
Tournament Tour and other numerous fighting tournaments victorious with
remained so-called brilliant scores, a notorious existence in America. As
with Ryu also his raised environment greatly differs his personality, for
thoughts of his fist being insufficient rather than be inferior to also
outrival Ryu, continually he even has a skilled study reform of a
non-neglecting hardworking facet.
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Highlights:
-By Z3 Ken's already famous in the US for clinching several championships.
Even so, he keeps striving to keep up with Ryu, until...(see below).
Street Fighter 2: For the past years, Ken has let his skill deteriorate
and has lived the good life of indulging and with his girlfriend. Only a
challenge from Ryu rekindled his fighting spirit⦠[Official SF2 bio]
Ken participated in the SF2 tournament, but eventually was approached by
his girlfriend, Eliza, whom he finally ended up marrying and settling
down a little after she tracks him down [Official and specially noted
via AAC]. He also ends up seeing and finding out from Chun-Li what her
prospects are after SF2 according to SF4.
Ken- SSF2XR Character Concealed File
Ken like Ryu studied techniques under the same master. Having shaken free
from a living of happiness with a lover, he throws himself into a path
of battle.
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Street Fighter 4:
Ryu's disciple brother is his pal, and also his greatest rival.
Representative of a syndicate in America, he's the son of the noble
Masters family. A new life due to his pregnant wife, in order to
respond to re-battle pride from Ryu, he takes Eliza's own encouragement
to set out on a trip.
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Yes you read right, Eliza encourages Ken to go meet Ryu when Ken thinks
he should stay because his wife's pregnant. Ryu sends a letter to Ken
telling him about a new tournament, and Ken tries to hide it from Eliza
at first. Once he has the green light from his spouse though, Ken writes
back to Ryu, insisting that they'll settle things with this tournament
(looks like they didn't fight each other in SF2) [Ken's and Ryu's SF4
openings].
Ken ran into Rufus and beats him along the way to seeing Ryu again. Eliza
is informed in Ken's ending that although Ken's experience was fun, it wasn't
ideal due to "other fellows having gotten in the way." In any case, Ken gets
to feel his baby kicking, and he's confident that a great future fighter is
going to be born. Eliza agrees [Ken's SF4 ending].
Super Street Fighter 4:
Soon to be a dad, Ken's as overly anxious as ever with everything. Grateful
that Eliza continues to support his fighting in tournaments whenever Ryu's
participating also, he keeps in touch with her by phone in his opening, and
even after he hangs up he still can't believe how quickly his life is changing
with every passing moment. And he wonders how Ryu would feel about such rapid
steps through life if his long-time friend and rival was in Ken's shoes.
Ryu and Ken do meet and fight with no interruptions by anyone this time
around, as referenced by Ryu's ending. Ken also possibly meets Sakura
and Ibuki during SSF4, and it's less certain that he fights either of them
following their meeting, but he might've. One thing that is certain about
Ken during S.I.N.-sha's second tournament, is that many people are
aware that his wife's almost due and that he's going to be a father soon,
whether they know him as a renowned fighter or as the heir of the Masters
financial conglomerate, be it El Fuerte or Hakan from their win quotes to
Ken, who don't know him very personally as well as Ryu and Chun-Li who do.
By the end of SSF4, Mel is finally born! Ken's ending has him congratulating
Eliza with bringing such a tiny little squirt into their world, as the child's
beaming dad welcomes Mel personally.
Street Fighter 3 Second Impact:
Around 3 years have passed since Ken became a dad and held off on any other
fighting until he received word about a "guy that he must face." Ken meets
up with Ryu, also taking Sean with him, at a secluded hot springs inn of his
native Japan. They all greet each other, and Ryu & Ken likely spar. Ken
later participated in Gill's "projected sphere of influence", proceeding to
beat his own student, Sean, though he wasn't summoned to Gill. And he also
ran into Ibuki somewhere along the way since his 3S win quote to her notes
that he does recall her as the "little miss" who's in the air all the time.
He's training his young son Mel to be a fighter (though at this point in
Mel's life, it's more like playing than training, though the former can be
considered to be the same as the latter, I suppose...) [Official and AAC
specially notes that Ken does get socked in the family jewels by Mel LOL].
Street Fighter 3 Third Strike:
He backward glances at Sean enthusiastic about facing toward participation
in a fighting tournament, for Ken breathes a sigh. For long is there being
no opponent of spirit to be fighting with. As it is even his skill that
will merely grow dull. Such a chance, the rumor of a mysterious organization
reaches his ear. Having started forgetting, to burn with danger's scent.
In Ken's pupil the hot blaze has come back. [CJ's 3S profile for Ken]
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Ken loses an earnest battle to Ryu but wins the Pan-American Fighting
Championship for the third time in a row [Official]. He offers the trophy
to Sean, but Sean declines it, saying he wants to win for himself [Ken's
SF3TS ending].
Where he is now: Ken has a family life, but he continues to practice and
train, too. He's still training Sean and his son. And of course, Ken's
rivalry with Ryu continues. Can he keep up despite having an actual life
to handle too?
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Ken from SFZ
Original account from SF2 Himitsu Hyakka
"That guy, he made it first!" For Ken, to say that Ryu defeated the emperor
of Muay Thai Sagat, in loud voices he heard the rumor.
"How far we go to become strong......right, Ryu?" Ken murmured as he began
the trip. In order to verify Ryu's merit, a reunion would be carried out.
Ken and Ryu's childhood period. Gouken's original training during his time
of balding.....
Gasshi! At the evening training grounds in the quiet mountain recess, the
sound of a furious fist striking echoed out. "The true inheritor of
ansatsuken, is only me!" A mysterious man donning a black uniform shouts out,
and attacked Gouken. A vicious fighting spirit emanated from the mysterious
man, and clashed with Gouken's transparent fighting spirit. "Your 'power of
hadou' fills with malice......it must be confined, because your fist has
become that of a murderer's!" Gouken like that, defeated the mysterious man.
The mysterious man disappeared, Ryu and Ken were there with Gouken. "That
man's power will someday exceed mine, a great disaster will likely befall
the two of you......unless before my power weakens you are taught......all
that is of my fist, the power of hadou!"
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Official Story from Gamest SFZ and AASFZ
Muay Thai's emperor Sagat defeated by Ryu- hearing of this rumor, Ken began
a trip by airplane to meet Ryu again. Immersed in the sheets up to his waist,
through streaming clouds with his eyes he'd see and, suddenly he remembered
that day. He saw the younger times, the matter of a battle for Master Gouken
and a mysterious man.......
Within a mountain recess' area for pursuits of knowledge which people would
seldom visit, the sound of fist clashing with fist resounded throughout, the
evening stillness was being disturbed.
"The true inheritor of ansatsuken, is only me! For you it finishes here!"
A black uniform marked the man who called out, and still a wicked crimson
fighting spirit surged. That vigor striking out words of defeat with every
step, that was when a man with a seemingly altogether different transparent
fighting spirit confronted him.
It was Gouken. "Your 'power of hadou' fills with malice......it must be
confined, because your fist has become that of a murderer's!"
The battle of these 2 people, nearby the boys without blinking saw. It was
Ryu and Ken from their younger days. This magnificent fight, of which the
not yet experienced boys had a chance and such to step into, the 2 of them
wouldn't merely trust in watching over their master's victory.
Suddenly within the starting rain, this fight thought to continue unknowingly
over, it was seen that the conclusion was merely Gouken's surpassing fist
which brought the mysterious man face down onto the ground. "Your life,
surely, surely I will take and receeive!" A moaning voice immediately rose
to a call, after the man's form disappeared in an instant, the mountain was
regaining its original stillness. Gouken came running up brushing down his
students' heads, looking up to the sky as he spoke.
"That man's power will someday exceed mine, a great disaster will befall the
two of you......unless before my power weakens you are taught......all that
is of my fist, the power of hadou!"
"How about a drink?" The stewardess' voice, brought Ken back to reality.
He went forward to take the cup and, within his mind he murmured. "How far
we go to become strong......right, Ryu?"
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Highlights:
-Ken's amazed, Ryu actually took his challenge seriously and managed to best
Sagat. Ken flies to Japan to try finding him.
-Gouken's aura is the color of the wind. Back when Ryu and Ken were little,
he defeated Gouki with ease. Sparing his younger brother's life, Gouken knows
that Gouki's threat is genuine.
Ken from SFZ2
Shoryureppa
"Ch......got me didn'cha."
It's the fighting championship's finals. For Ken Masters, in spite of being
the tournament's newly participating rookie, he won and advanced to the next
round with bamboo breaking vigor, hogging the subjects within the assembly
halls. Before his sure killing jumping upper "shoryuken", he was sinking the
victory nominated players one by one.
However, circumstances with the finals were different. Perhaps that blue gi
giant was likely a karate black belt, such that he was predicting the timing
of the ruling move shoryuken that he fortified a guard on it. And so catching
a defenseless Ken during his fall, he struck him into the ring. Already he
couldn't apply the shoryuken......At a breath Ken, was driven into a dilemma.
A better opponent, as he was seemingly waiting for the shoryuken. Having
captured his sure killing techniques, he could see to fight with composure.
"'Don't be taking me lightly......', still not less of a case which has room
for you eh?"
Sink or swim, Ken was realizing a planned clever scheme.
"Failure is an instant pinch, yet, it'll probably be interesting."
Quickly at the interval's end, Ken releases the shoryuken. His opponent
with a broadly grinning sneer, guarded this.
Did he take victory or defeat?......Everyone had concluded at that instant.
However, immediately following that blown outside of the ring, was the gi
giant's person.
The initial shoryuken slightly attacked, shifted before the predicted drop
point, in the twinkling of an eye he lets out the next shoryuken......even
Ken himself could not believe the consecutive move.
"Here's some sense for you fella......better watch out!" Even barely for
Ken victory was in his hands. There's a great uproar at the assembly halls
from the unexpected result.
Since then the name "shoryureppa" was given to the base form of the
combination upper.
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Highlights:
-Ken's first unleashing of his super the shoryureppa. It clenches his first
ever Pan-American Fighting Championship victory. Two more to go by 3S.
Ken from AASFZ3
Fighting Style
From the fact of loading up on training under the same master (Gouken), Ryu
and Ken's fighting style is with many common features. However, to turn an
eye towards the moves one-by-one and, you come to realize the impression and
qualities are subtly different. The flashy tumble jigoku guruma and, from
a shoryuken accompanied by flame, Ken's foundation to a flowing fighting
spectacle surely is to appreciate.
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Highlights:
-He likes to put on a show when he fights, and it shows with the flashes and
the flames.
Fashion Style
With him desiring luster within the battle, he doesn't forget for even his
person to become brightness. The targeted crimson uniform expressed directly
at his passion to fighting, blond long hair drifts about the pan-American
fighting king's dignity. Seemingly overconspicuous his attire likely appears,
particularly not feeling a non-harmony sense, from only his real ability it's
likely not just that.
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Highlights:
-Red is the color of his passion, and he still has long hair during Z3, despite
his red ribbon having become Ryu's headband.
Hotel Masters [U.S.A.]
Not a single cloud on a fine weather's Sunday.
At a certain high class hotel's garden, from seeing a good appearance of gold
all around uniformed gentlemen ladies are gathering. An out-of-place ring is
being prepared, it seems that some kind of event is to begin.
"Ken Masters Pan-American Fighting Championship Victory Commemoration Social
Gathering" the hanging curtain was describing.
That hotel's interior's one room.
"Hey, Ken! It's quite a suitable time for you also. Be moderately ecstatic
for fighting techniques, gradually earnestly how about you study business
management? It's trying nowadays with my acquaintances gathering by the lots.
I have a bit of a discerning eye for people that is so to speak I want to
receive from everyone!"
"Again with that talk!, Honored Uncle. I'm telling you for me that's not a
feeling."
Needless to say, the Masters house in America is a placement of illustrious
family lineage.
Uncle even with a face in political circles as a blooming first-rate manager.
For him to have anticipated there to be a management talent in Ken, something
with Ken and this sort of approach he commences.
"In general, what's with this event today? In time you open some fighting
tournament for your convenience. Some exhibition match with the winner and
me, it's as much as I will take lightly on fighting techniques."
"Well now, don't say that. Since you can't introduce an official place, it
can't be helped but to take on such a method! It's for the sake of your
prospects."
"Contemptibly talked as you like didn't you..." Hoo...Ken sighs.
A flat refusal for kindness even......And to bring out his face well at the
social gathering, it seems that he would accept an unimaginable welcome.
"The Pan-American Fighting Championship king, is Contestant Ken Masters!!"
The moderator via mic calls Ken's name. But complications it seems don't
have him going.
"Well, I request you to not be too hard on me. Because of the exhibition
you know."
With Ken taking a speech like that to the head-to-head opponent male, he
started lightly with footwork.
"Fiight!"
Immediately after the command, a sharp high kick had caught Ken's head side.
"Guu......!!" Ken instinctively staggers.
(Got me didn't he. He's, serious?!......)
The man's eye color was different. Even that was for certain. One who's
here announced for the exhibition, if he'd win against Ken it would come to
the matter of having Ken the Pan-American Fighting Championship king crushed.
He didn't know to have fathomed the fame he'd acquire.
"A good kick ya have there don'cha. Then, I'll come seriously aalso!"
That was just 2, 3 shots.
Eating an intense combination, the challenger in addition was blown off the
ring. Excessively too different between real abilities.
To glance at the loser and, for Ken with a uniform as he likes steps out from
the hotel's gate doors.
"Hey Ken! Where you going!" Uncle calls out.
"......Sorry, Honored Uncle. For me after all, especially for money anymore,
there's noo interest."
Looking back with raising one hand, for Ken miscellaneously winked on purpose.
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Highlights:
-Ken's uncle likes to get Ken interested in hotel management; Ken has other
ideas, but still promotes for his uncle with hosting a celebration in honor
of his recent Pan-American victory.
Ken from Gamest SF2
A fellow student pal, for Ryu a lifelong worthy opponent and approval, and
for the mutual agreement between them to become stronger and tougher with
each successive meeting, he crossed into America for warrior training.
However with him having gotten used to peace away from actual fighting,
unawaringly he's forgotten about the battles.
In time having left the blood offered past for a lover and sweet person on
the basis of Ken skipping the strikes that day, 1 letter arrived.
It was a letter from Ryu.
The fighting style in his blood was once more greatly excited as until then
his fist lately revives with his characteristic berserkness commencing.
Grind, the moment also too late, and the idle bill's remainder too large,
after all this time, Ryu and nothing but the same sure killing techniques
not even using those. Throwing 1 turnover too many will his temper at most
be expressed?
However this turning astray, therefore, southwise, the degree is said.
The sake for lack of discipline now the one trivial move humbly positioned,
by all means with the fixed use of many hadoukens, shoryukens, tatsumaki
senpuukyakus he'd be quite a tasteless person. For one to say reasonably
splendid yet wholly clumsy the fame is useless to feel.
In general, he handed over training for his person's social standing flirting
with his woman and the similar unmentionables.
But, comparing with the other 7 people is he actually probably the most
ordinary person?
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Highlights:
-Ryu's letter to Ken about SF2 was a wake-up call for him. Too long had he
slacked off on his diligent training from years before.
Ken from Gamest SF2D
Love
From that man having abandoned what is the "struggle", already the days
and months of how many years have likely flowed past? Once body wrapped
up in a true red uniform, a dashing running riot this man, now indeed only
a trace is felt at most, from the whole body what is the fighter is being
lost out. What likely in this way made him change as far as that? Fear
of the fight? Giving up from pending defeat? Or else hopelessly having
realized his own limits? No, his case is not that of those three, perhaps
others will no doubt believe it would have been impossible anyway. Why
then that man, Ken indeed having anticipated enemies and encounters,
therefore charms were confused.
That formidable enemy by the name of "love", it can't protect the goblins
in the best of them.
To Fight for What Sake?...
Many years before, the remarkably physique man, struggled onto a small
American harbor town.
A red uniform hanging on his shoulders, that was fastened with a black
belt. At a glance it is to understand that this man is a fighting stylist,
Ken was said to be his name. To cross over the end of the pursuit of
knowledge he was in Japan for over 10 years, loading the training still
more in the mother country America is in order to have returned. But,
because of the mother country with life in general was spent together in
Japan with rival Ryu for Ken, there shouldn't be reliance on family or
friends. Consequently that day's afternoon already, that crimson youth
here and there edges on moves, sharply polished fangs stabbing challenging
comers, having been the case for raising screams.
However, that daily struggle didn't continue for a long time. It doesn't
mean that Ken's power declined. Ken from inside his own self was exhibiting
doubts. It was that day, unexpectedly, surely unexpectedly in Ken's heart
plunged a gap. Such that with exceeding fighting moves then what to do?
Do you not sense what doubts are with your current living? These were
occasional shake-offs that insistent Ken dangled after, consequently to
drive away the day which cannot be ignored the extent of how great it has
become. And so at last with lassitude managed by the dark world, it dragged
Ken in. If Ken always had that degree of a slump extracted by natural
character, then still the remainder of anything else possibly could become
a struggle. But at that time of all times for Ken, recently with Eliza he
understood what it is to feel at ease.
With Eliza, it was then that Ken until now recognized the non-occurrences
of wonderous emotions from having embraced his first woman. Her at the
time wonderous and turned into parallel lethargic feelings, inversely
perfectly clear in his heart, taking her hand so to understand the limit
of the refreshing mood it was to become.
However, at the same time the blood and juice up until now painted on the
world would return believed to be here to stay, possessed by enough to
exceed the limit of power. For that sake, the former battles all the time
day after day already bursting in Ken's recollection, that consideration
in Ken was able to carry the tranquil and sweet living.
But, with his name having risen as a one time fighter everlasting rest and
the like would not be so. Ken not going to take the exception, it was
because of one fragile letter that fate crumbles away Eliza and his living.
The Crimson Surge Returns
That letter's owner is the rival from childhood times, from Ryu a written
challenge. Ken reading briskly the pictures and writings, parting from Ryu
after having mingled he remembers the promise. "At the time we each get
stronger, we meet to fight once again," was said the promise.
The man's eyes finished reading the letter, already one of weakness he had
become. As a tiger, as a fighting stylist these were returning. And so
that man living as up until now feels ashamed, for that reason silently
and particularly regulatory he began to be absorbed in.
"Just you wait Ryu! I, your rival am the marking man, I'll surely
show you!"
...And so, from the harbor town once again pursuing challenging opponents
is the crimson tiger's appearance.
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Highlights:
-Ken the fighter, taken out by Ken the lover. Life's good (why wouldn't it
be for him?), but he can't just throw away 10 years of excitement he once
had. Even the clash of a happy lifestyle can't completely extinguish his
old fire. He wants to keep fighting Ryu.
Prologue 2 (Ken) from SF4
That morning, Ken having slung baggage on his shoulder and ordinary clothed
Eliza, were facing each other before the front hall door.
"Take care on the stairway!"
"Be careful."
"Eat your vegetables."
"Of course."
"Iron also."
"Right."
"If you feel even the slightest something strange to Sis-in-law..."
"I'll contact her."
"Well um, after that...yeah, that's it. Don't ride on the bike now!"
"Oh Ken."
At last Eliza burst into laughter, she lightly claps Ken's shoulder.
"I've heard the pregnancy warnings 100 times since yesterday. I'm alright!
Now then go. Don't hurry and you won't be in time for the tournament!"
"But Eliza..."
"Stop."
As he even still kept saying a finger stands up to Ken's lips, Eliza lightly
glared at her husband.
"Already how many times have we spoken about it, Ken. The baby being born is
still first priority, to entirely protect it as the doctor has said of the
matter. Therefore don't worry, you can enjoy every minute of it."
"Eliza..."
"If the child is delivered tell Ryu to come and see, don't forget okay?"
She roughly emphasizes it and, Ken's facial expression gradually unrestrained.
"That's right isn't it. If I meet him it'll be the first and foremost to
remark! Yeah, and then the letter to Ryu, just in case..."
"I'll send it out. Because the addressee's name is just by name and post
office, I don't understand it to reach him though."
"Perhaps I might possibly meet him before we face no. ...Alright, well I'm
going!"
"See you."
Giving a peck on Eliza's cheek, at last Ken turns his back from her. Eliza
for a while stood beside the door seeing Ken off, until he went before the
gate Ken suddenly halted, putting his baggage at that place she sees him
running back to return, his head inclined to one side in doubt.
"What's the matter, forget something?"
"Eliza, I forgot to say it earlier. Don't have your stomach cool!"
"...Ken."
To Ken's eager expression, for Eliza includes a sigh, his hand touched her
waist.
"Go quickly! Golly don't return until you meet Ryu!!"
Raising a dissatisfied voice pushing Ken out she shuts the door and, puffing
she bursts into laughter.
"Honestly already."
Touching her expanded belly, Eliza gently talked to her own child.
"Papa, good to let him have enjoyment isn't it."
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Highlights:
-Ken the worrisome father-to-be come SF4. Eliza just enjoys the show.
His name written in kanji means "fist."
Ryu and Ken use a toned down version of ansatsuken that Gouken taught
them that isn't designed to kill, unlike Gen's and Gouki's styles.
Ken's only 1/4 American. He's 3/4 Japanese. His dad is Japanese and
his mom is half American and half Japanese. Ken started off as actually
being Japanese. He was changed to quarter American in SF2.
He isn't blond. In reality, his hair's dyed. This is why his hair has been
orange, gold, and blond. This is also why he has black eyebrows yet
blond-colored hair. His black hair comes from both of his parents.
His hair's been that way since middle school. Just before his parents
divorced, he dyed his hair as an act of confusion and rebellion, but since
then he keeps his hair dyed as a habit of standing out from Ryu.
He wears a red gi because when he trained with Ryu under Gouken, he saw
that Ryu was better so he wanted to stand out more and took on a red gi.
A little while before leaving Gouken's dojo, Ken suggested that he
and Ryu compete to see which one of them becomes a famous street fighter
first (Ryu's Z1 account in his section).
Ken's girlfriend during the Zero series is Eliza. He marries her after SF2
and they have a son named Mel, who's training to be a fighter like his
dad. Sean Matsuda is his student, though his son (who's only 3 - 4 years
old in Street Fighter 3) wants to be a fighter too. Ken met her at the Pan-
American Championship during SF1, which was depicted by Capcom in his
Street Fighter Zero 1 ending (specially noted via AAC).
Mel is 3 years old during NG/SI, and 4 years old during TS.
He met Eliza for the first time after the US tournament's preliminary rounds
had finished. Even while they were dating, she always tolerated his training
diligence (specially noted in AAC). Prior to the Zero series he had first met
her one morning during a trip to the supermarket.
He was a virgin before he met Eliza according to the Gamest SF2D mook.
Seems to be implied that he practiced abstinence too, as they didn't get
Mel until after they married. In any case, during the Zero series Ken is
depicted as a man who can charm the ladies, whether it's complementing their
appearance or inviting them for a lunch, he knows just how to make them
feel good and happy about themselves. Ladies first in his book, ala the
SFZ OVA and his treatment of Sakura.
Steet Fighter Eternal says that Ken goaded Ryu into entering the first
Street Fighter tournament. Ironically, Ryu would do the same to him for
the second.
English Street Fighter Eternal says Ken didn't marry Eliza until he
had a decisive victory against Ryu. This might be a mistranslation
or maybe people are just interpreting it wrong as it is not supposed
to mean Ken beat Ryu in SF2.
From the Japanese version, according to Vasili10:
For Ken with his objective being once a battle victory over his rival Ryu
from old times, that's quite separate from marriage with Eliza.
Ergo, Ken wanted in life to best Ryu until he met Eliza which then started
his desire to be with her forever, he never saw the headband-exchange battle
as a true victory, he wavered from then until the end of SF2 on whether he
should marry her or not, and afterwards he tied the knot, had a kid, gained
a pupil and the rest is history.
He was training in Japan for 10 years with Ryu according to his SF2D account.
Ken's considered an indecisive guy who likes new things.
I don't think I need to say it, but just in case you didn't know
already somehow, Ken's family is a very wealthy family.
Ken and Karin know each other because they're both from rich
prestigious families (which probably led to them meeting each other along
the line). They also fought in the past. That's why Karin tells Ken she's
lost yet again in SFZ3.
A long time ago, officially Ken used to not have a last name at all.
But when the action figure Ken came out, Mattel (makers of Barbie dolls)
sued Capcom for copyright infringement because Barbie's boyfriend is named
Ken, so Capcom USA made up an extra name for their own Ken in order to
differentiate Ken from Barbie's boyfriend. :P Masters was first a nickname
given to Ken for having clinched the champion title in the All- American
Fighting Techniques Tournament four times by SF2. It was finalized as his
last name during the release of SFZ2.
Eliza and Julia are sisters, and their husbands did try to duke it out
when they saw each other at Ken and Eliza's wedding, and didn't realize they
would end up being related by marriage.
Ken did NOT fight in the SF1 tournament. That's the official statement
now. Some old sources reference that he did though, so it was a rewrite
around when the Zero series came out that he didn't (which would seem to go
along with him witnessing Gouken's death, since Gouken's death was rewritten
in a way as well with the Zero series).
When Ken won the Pan-American Championship for the third time at the
end of Third Strike, he set a new record for the most amount of winning the
championship of that tournament. This also means that at most, Nash
could have only won the thing twice, since Ken winning it three times is a
new record. Eliza also praises Ken for this accomplishment (specially noted
via AAC).
From Saiki, Gouken was a friend of Ken's father. This is why Ken was
sent to train under Gouken. His father wanted Ken to have some more discipline.
It looks like his father's plan was only partially successful. ^_~ For more
about Gouken, see his bio.
Ken has most likely actually fought Gouki before or something. In SF3
Second Impact when you fight Shin Gouki with Ken, Ken remarks, "You're still
alive!?" then Gouki asks Ken to show him that burning fist "once more".
But... the only time that Ken really could possibly have run into Gouki was
back when he was witnessing Gouki kill his master, since there aren't any
other known storyline times that the two would have fought. Most likely,
Ken tried to lash at Gouki after seeing his master die, and Gouki just
swats him away though impressed at Ken's flame potential before leaving.
Ken knowing Gouki at all is definitely confirmed, at least. Ken is
stated to have witnessed Gouki and Gouken battle together twice before
SF2, once when Gouken won, and once when Gouki won. The first is a flashback
Ken has as he's flying to Japan after hearing Ryu beat Sagat in SF1.
Queston #4 in Hadouken no Nazo (an SF book) regarding Ken's SF2 stage.
A story from scores of years ago dating back to olden days.
One night, two guys exchanged blows in a duel at the harbor. Just then it is
said that at the scene, scores of the next wild horses rushed in, and
merrymaking gatherings ensued.
Since then, this harbor is admitted as a Mecca for the street fight, a
fixation for the local population center to unwind. Moreover in the present,
the natural image of street fighting is greatly spreading nonetheless.
According to evidence, two types of fights rolled out here. One is the
Beginner Course (weekly Saturday meeting, occasionally suspended due to
weather) and invites others, the coffee color of extreme sports. On
weekdays for salarymen and working fathers, those days they foolishly
begin some "street fighter." Overdoing it, numerous entrants pour into
hospitals nowadays.
The other one is the amassing semipro & pro Expert Course (throughout
the year without breaks, decisive action for rainy weather). Different
from the safety consideration of a mat laid out on the ground for the
Beginner Course, this faction fights on the firm tiles spread throughout
the surface, with the option of contacting with wooden boxes and drum
cans it is said.
Ken moved to this territory, with that excellent brawling sense a
record immediately arose, and now with the "harbor man" invited, it's
to be feared (the Expert Course that is).
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Highlights:
-People of all kinds fight at the harbor, young and old, devouts and party
people, and yes hospital cases are common as well. One course is available
with some safety in mind (mats on the ground), while the other is for
daredevils like Ken.
About Ken's SFZ2 stage (I have NOT actually confirmed this. It was posted
from someone called Kunai in a thread on a message board and he generally
seemed to know what he was talking about, but...)
> 6. What did Capcom do in SFZ2 to remember one of their own?
I believe I know the answer to this question. It involves Ken's "Happy
Birthday" stage, with Strider making a guest appearance in that background.
This was done to remember a certain programmer, who worked on a port of
Strider for the Japanese NEC SuperGrafx. This system was supposed to be
hyped as one of the most powerful home systems of its era, possessing hardware
that was supposed to be comparable to what the arcades had during that time.
People have said that there was a lot of pressure by the company to make this
specific port of Strider the best home port possible. Capcom wanted it to not
only be as good as the arcade... but even better.
This specific programmer worked long, tireless hours with deadlines fast
approaching. Unfortunately, he got so extremely stressed with the monumental
task, he snapped and committed suicide as a result. The SuperGrafx version
of Strider never did get completed, and the SuperGrafx itself ended up
becoming a dud of a system, due to lack of titles. Only less than 6 games
have been reported to have been created for it altogether.
The guy loved teddy bears, so that is why the Strider cameo holds one in his
honor. An interesting story to say the least. Shou (written in kanji as
"soar" is among the many cameos appearing in Ken's Z2 stage which is for
Eliza's birthday party BTW. Also even if the programmer described above
isn't remembered with Ken's Z2 stage, Capcom president and CEO Tsujimoto
Kenzou-san is: he's the butler with glasses towards the right, verified
by AAC.
A translation about Ken's SF2 stage:
America (Ken) Battle Harbor
With a street fight unrolling here everyday, the popular name is Battle
Harbor. Travelers from the world's nations and, always brawlings among
the sailors, naturally it has been converted to a street fight spot.
Recently it's come to be an attraction for raging drunk parties. This
port is the scene for Ken's training. The battles here, also having
forged the body, has money enter hands. It's two birds killed with one
stone. Today newly become strong ones go to cross over the ocean.
"It's fine for whitened up bodies to get warm. However that Ryu, really
what is he up to about now......"
Taking up a red uniform in the sea breeze, Ken today assures himself
of victory.
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Highlights:
-Gambling occurs at the harbor along with drunkenness. Ken sees it as an
ideal spot to toughen up.
Ken's SF4 arcade ending comments:
Though various interferences, having carried out the long time competition
with Ryu, Ken returned to the side of his wife Eliza. A good-humored Ken,
embraces the expectation for the child within Eliza's belly "to become a
fighting stylist surpassing myself".
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Ken from AASF3
Backstory
Under the same master he was piled up training as with Ryu, being a friend
for life, a lifetime rival. As for presently, from the US western sea coast
his wife Eliza and his become 3-year-old first son Mel the 3 people are
living. Seems that the matter of once upon a time participating frequently
towards fighting technique tournaments disappeared, the red lotus flower's
flames as the heart of combat is not yet being weakened.
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Story
"Oh, here, over here!"
At the high ground before his eyes the earlier designated hot spring hotel
to link up with Ryu has appeared.
"A bit, shabby oh well it's alright huh. Leave things to that scoundrel and
the school closing in the mountains would come to be designated after all
wouldn't it."
For Ken is turning towards it, behind him the voice of a hiking boy called
out to him.
"What's wrong, the hotel's before our eyes, hurry up come on now!, Sean!"
"Ye~essir, understoo~ood, Great Honored Master."
At Ken's back considerably behind, supplementing his own daypack, comes the
boy appearing to be of Japanese descent having carried in his arms Ken's huge
trunk and Boston bag.
While observing Sean's appearance thickly staggering the hill road, for Ken
considered.
"Now then, how to have this one reach out to Ryu maybe....... Uh-huh, if he
were to become my number-one student, you won't return until you take 1 normal
from Ryu, how about I say that. That's right, with that let's go!"
For Ken nods alone and, he stepped up to Sean.
"What, doon't be slovenly, from holding them alone lend me one won't ya."
For Ken says such and, he walked over snatching the absolute smallest Sean's
daypack.
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Profile
Family- Hails from Japan. At the US western sea coast, he's living with his
wife Eliza and also this year to become 3 years old his eldest son Mel. Even
capable with a child work-pressured he is but, through an agreement with
Eliza, even encountering Ryu to participate at a fighting techniques
tournament is becoming an agreeable matter.
Personality- Though capable with a child, the blazing in the man is of no
change. With a crimson uniform to cover his body a nice guy.
Fighting style- Even seen as reckless attacks at first glance, severe
training with Ryu and having fought many formidable opponents is to say the
matter of the endorsing mark. In that furious offense and red uniform figure,
for a person in the road it's to see the blazes blow upwards so to speak.
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SF3 Q&A from Gamest SF3 Fanbook: Ken
-A child also born, Ken living with a family of 3 people in the American
western sea coast, is he launching into fighting techniques tournaments
as usual?
A. Since Mel's birth, it has become to say that participation towards a
fighting techniques tournament is in vain. Even with that, he's accepted
as in keeping company with him an agreeable matter of participating in only
the tournaments Ryu participates in.
-For Ken, what's the feeling of bringing up his eldest son Mel on fighting
moves? If it's perhaps such a case what's Eliza's support of it?
A. Not a plan to be especially against it, he's considering the circumstances
of Mel's feelings. However, if he were to do just fighting moves for to
naturally possess an interest in fighting moves, for Eliza is believing he
ought to try out piano, through school clubs she plans to have him do other
kinds of sports also. In the midst of doing various things, it's agreed that
he'll want to discover his favorites.
-What kind of a papa, does Mel regard Ken as?
A. A father who's always spirited and seeming like a friend.
-On a rest day what does the family go out to do?
A. For Sunday, it goes to church. For brief consecutive holidays together
with Eliza's friend's household, close by the side of a lake they're riding
a camping car, there's plenty of things to do at leisure.
-Is Eliza working?
A. Circulating patchwork collections, sponsoring parties environmental
protection circle functions and the like, she's quite work-pressured. Even
with that still now, the time she's at Mel's side within 1 day is amounting
to the absolute longest it seems.
-Such as with Ryu also, why wasn't he using the kuuchuu tatsumaki senpuukyaku?
A. With Ryu not using it, as 1 way of the pursuit of knowledge, the
differentiated match arrangement's research being just right, the current
place is sealing it.
-Is there a secret story and the like for the shipuu jinraikyaku?
A. With the tatsumaki senpuukyaku made to float in midair, to float
temporarily and it's not capable of acceleration. "A skill's interval like
that of a formula machine, if it can grip the ground surface unceasingly even
power also interaction ability should increase," is to say the logic that was
taught to Ken from Ryu. In reality through Sean's tatsumaki senpuukyaku's
blunder, the follied time of going flying without a take-off, it seems that
in that destructive power he obtained the hint.
-Ken's impression having seen Ryu's shin shoryuken?
A. That's a Ryu-ish move. He believed he'd be going on with it.
-How is Ken thinking of his pupil Sean?
A. Occasionally when looking at Sean, it's about overlapping even until the
younger times of Ryu and his own figures. Seeming like a sensation of
flashbacking to his youth's memories, Ken enjoys it to that certain
significance. Except for that foundationally he's thinking of him as a
"guy who's irritatingly following me about." Even with that lately, having
stirred up sympathy he's considering "if you'll be staying obedient just a
little longer even upon seeing trouble you'll be okay won'cha."
-Sean came to be living in Ken's house?
A. For the beginning, even backing off also bad things being unpleasant, he
was just lodging in the house. Within that, why it's becoming as far as the
matter of a school living, for in regards to Sean it's a complete situation.
-Is Ken for the sake of Mel's special training smoothing out difficult topics
to Sean, having entrusted him to Ryu?
A. For the time being something of a boisterous brat, even being entrusted to
Ryu there's reason to consider him having to be somewhat silent. "What if
even going into being a student as far as Ryu his mood doesn't change?" is
what he's also thinking.
-Is there in Ken's view, believing that it's Ryu in persistency, a regarding
to him of the last boss Gill's existence?
A. Ken's rival is Ryu in persistency. Even a battle with Gill Ryu battles
with him, if he was hidden from Ryu Ken also wouldn't fight as there probably
wouldn't not be other freedoms.
-What does Ken regard as to say Ryu's existence, and also the street fight?
A. For Ken it's why together with Ryu has he walked the path of a fighting
stylist perhaps. Fellow students using the same techniques, strength also
on par. Yet for Ken there exists within Ryu, sensing that "something" lacking
in himself, that's shining. If approaching it the extent of closeness, if
going the same path it's going to the extent, the shape within Ryu's heart
being that of his own is about difference, and also deciding on 1 heavily
become incorrect matter it's for Ken a perceiving. From his time as a young
boy even having believed in spite of it all that he had felt their souls
coming that close mutually. In the ultimate-ness deciding on no matter of
having interviews is to say the feeling of forfeit. For Ken to walk behind
the scenes together with Ryu is entrusting in anticipation to Ryu that
"something" that can't be helped, and also possessing whatever possibility
of a "something" that he can't help himself, it's that he wants to verify
that he can bring about something. The street fight, for the matter of
extracting the battle from the fighting techniques with Ryu, and also with
everyone is a bond.
-Finally being married, Ken's favorable type?
A. It is indeed Eliza.
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*** pgVKimalatheBouncer.
KIMALA THE BOUNCER (JUMBO "FLAP" JACK overseas)
Age: 31 (30 during MB)
Height: 200 cm
Weight: 200 kg
Hails from, native place: Chicago, State of Illinois, America
Favorite/main attack: giant swing, pancake poison
Favorite food: anything resembling alcohol
MB specialty move: giant attacks
SMB specialty move: giant swing
Wrestling federation: BWA (Blood Wrestling Association)
MB-era nickname: "Raging Huge Whale"
Stage: Las Vegas, America
Muscle Bomber: He um... wrestled?
Super Muscle Bomber: He erm... wrestled some more?
Where he is now: Dunno.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Blood Wrestling Association member.
From a Super Muscle Bomber flyer: From his fat build he sends out
techniques of super might. He selflessly bullies the weak at the surface
not hating it.
The probable things that made him a BWA member are his fire breath and
his poison breath. I guess fire is a lot less 'acceptable' than the chi
projectile attacks Ortega uses.
He used to be a bar bouncer, but was fired after beating a customer too
severely. Kimala became a wrestler's bodyguard after that, but KO'ed the
wrestler to debut in Astro's BWA.
His weakness (or vice) is "IJIME". This translates to bullying/teasing.
IE, his weakness is he loves to bully others (as opposed to taking his foe
seriously or such, I guess)
He feels intense joy when he sees blood dripping from his opponents'
wounds.
He shows absolute obedience to Astro.
*** pgVKyle.
KYLE TRAVERS
Age: around Cody's FF1 age? (22-24. The game implies he was just a kid
during FF1, which took place many years ago, and Kyle's old enough to have
a girlfriend who's old enough to be a bartender. Also he seems to have
graduated college based on a degree in his apartment. No idea how THAT
worked out)
Native place: assumedly America
Fighting style: assumedly street fighting
Final Fight Streetwise: At the fight club after a little pep talk from his
brother Cody, Kyle pulls a comeback and sends Handsome Bob to the mat, much
to the cheers of the audience (especially those that bet on him). Later
outside, Kyle is drinking some beer when Cody arrives with the pit fight
money, annoyed that Kyle didn't get it himself but commenting that they were
at least making ends meet. He tells Kyle to meet him at the Barfly in 30
minutes but doesn't explain the 30-minute wait.
After punching some random people for randomly trying to punch him, Kyle
arrives at the Barfly early. To kill time, he plays some pool with the
Barfly bartender (and his girlfriend) Vanessa Sims, although she wins easily
as expected. Cody arrives late and aggravated, prompting Kyle to apologize
for the earlier fight with Handsome Bob not going so well at first. His
brother promptly responds that wasn't the reason he was mad, but that he's
getting tired of waiting for Kyle to live up to his potential and then tells
Kyle that he himself wants to be able to fight again. Kyle points out that
Cody's knee problem makes that rather unlikely, but Cody responds that he
found something that could help. The two are interupted when Devin "The
Stiff" arrives and tells Cody that "he" wants to see him. Cody refuses,
saying "he knows the deal", to which Stiff replies "Deal's changed." Kyle
has absolutely no idea what's going on, but doesn't take long to figure out
that whatever it is, it's trouble. Especially when a rather annoyed Stiff
decides to slam a chair over Cody's head. Cody yells at Kyle to back him up,
and the two brothers begin to lay the whoop ass on Stiff's goons, promptly
trashing the entire bar in the process, with Kyle noting with dismay in his
journal that Vanessa was going to kill him for that. Eventually the bar brawl
ended with Stiff pointing a gun to Kyle, who responded by spitting in his
face. Stiff, in turn, gave his own response by whacking Kyle in the head with
his pistol, knocking him out as Stiff's men held Cody back.
Kyle wakes up in his apartment with Vanessa at his side who tells him that
the Stiff left with Cody, to which Kyle responds that he's going after him,
much to Vanessa's protests. A piece of paper that was left behind from the
brawl had "Metro City Diner" scrawled on its back, so with that as his only
clue, Kyle headed there. The cashier at the desk refused to give him any
information until he helped out with a little cockroach problem, generally
by running around like an idiot trying to stomp them to pieces as onlooking
customers laughed. Making a note in his journal never to eat there again
because Kyle rather disliked the idea of roaches in his sandwich, Kyle
is told that apparently the local porn theatre manager Weasel was spotted
with the Stiff.
After arm-wrestling an extremely bored porn cashier who apparently finds
arm-wrestling more entertaining than pornography, Kyle enters the manager's
room, where Weasel and a hooker are busy with... stuff. Weasel denies any
involvement with Stiff, but the Bible on his desk with the words "The Stiff"
on it denies Weasel's denial. Kyle apologizes to the lady in the room with
the violence she is about to witness, chases Weasel down, and proceeds to
slam the door on his head a few times until Weasel finally tells Kyle that
Stiff is at the warehouse and to bring the Bible there to talk to him.
The Bible convinces the doorman at the warehouse to let Kyle in, although
upon entering, he just barely dodges a crate that fell from above. Weasel,
behind the warehouse crane's controls, angrily orders his gang of Blue
Ballers to get him while he attempts to crush Kyle with more boxes. When
his gang is defeated, Weasel realizes that his plan isn't working and
jumps into a forklift to try to run Kyle down. This plan only results in
severe whiplash from constantly crashing into walls as Kyle got out of the
way, and soon Weasel was in Kyle's clutches once again. He begs "Not the
face!", but his ugly face is spared thanks to his cell phone ringing.
Kyle makes him answer it, and eavesdrops as Stiff tells Weasel to meet
him at the hotel. Sparing Weasel's face, Kyle knocks him out by smacking
him in the back of his head and leaves, getting more angry at all the crap
he has to go through to find his brother.
Pondering just how angry, Kyle at the Barfly asks Vanessa if she's ever
killed anyone. Vanessa replies that she will if he ends up drinking all
her beer without sharing any of it with her, cutting off the rest
of the subject. Kyle tells her that he has no idea which hotel the Stiff
could be talking about, so she suggests he go see 2-Ill. Kyle objects
but doesn't have any choice, so he heads down to the train station where
2-Ill was hanging out, only to have 2-Ill tell him that he couldn't help
Kyle because he was in a heap of trouble at the moment. 2-Ill immediately
runs off, a bunch of Metro City thugs hot on his tail, and Kyle on theirs
to try to rescue the guy. Kyle quickly paid the local tattoo parlor
managor Paco (who just happened to be standing there) 100 dollars to help
out because he looked like he could at least throw a punch (although Paco
generally is more useful due to him simply providing an extra human shield
for 2-Ill's vulnerable self). The three beat back the attacking gang,
and 2-Ill is impressed at how much Kyle's fighting abilities have grown.
As thanks for Kyle saving him, he gives Kyle information for free,
telling Kyle that Stiff is at the Bijou Hotel at the pier district.
Doing a poor impression of Solid Snake, Kyle makes his way through the
hotel, stealthily avoiding Stiff's goons. ...or simply just running up
to them and punching out their lights just like everything else, but he
could pretend to be stealthy and sneak up on them if he wants to. A couple
of guard dogs also felt the wrath of Kyle's cockroach-crushing feet. Along
the way, Kyle is accosted by some Metro City civilians who ramble about a new
drug they've got. Their eyes are glowing green and they look more like
zombies than people, but Kyle clobbers them all the same when they attack.
At the top of the hotel, Kyle surprises one of Stiff's men by knocking him
off the building, before tackling the other and breaking through the glass
roof window to the penthouse, falling down right behind the Stiff and ruining
his moment of contemplation from looking at the bridge across the ocean.
Ignoring the fact that the rest of the hotel is a trash dump for some reason,
Stiff laments about how he just had the carpet cleaned. Kyle demands that
Stiff tell him where Cody is. Stiff says that Cody was stuck in the glory
days still, so he hooked Cody up with Vitto to pit fight in Little Italy.
Kyle doesn't believe him, and Stiff, annoyed at this, whips out a pistol and
fires at Kyle. With his own pistol that he took from the guards, Kyle fired
back, and after a brief gunfight, chased Stiff to the roof of the hotel.
Outside on the roof, Kyle tells Stiff that he's not looking to kill him and
just wants to know where Cody is. Stiff again says that Cody is with Vitto,
after remarking that he didn't think Kyle cared for guns. Kyle still doesn't
believe him, so they continue the fight with their fists. It ends with Stiff
getting knocked off the rooftop, but Kyle grabs him by the hand before he
could fall to his death. Kyle tries to get more info from Stiff, asking about
the Bible, but Stiff replies that it's not for religious purposes and he'll
burn in hell some day, but not tonight. He mocks Kyle, saying that Kyle isn't
a killer and won't let him fall to his death. He then shocks Kyle by saying
that not only is Cody with Vitto, but he's also now with them. Kyle tells him
that he's lying, and Stiff pulls out his pistol again and orders Kyle to let
him up or else he'll shoot Kyle on the count of three. He counts "one", then
"two", and then Kyle, weary and tired and frustrated, lets go on three,
sending Stiff falling to his doom, futilely shooting in all directions.
Apparently, Stiff wasn't paying attention earlier when Kyle knocked one of his
men off the roof to their generic enemy doom as well. Nor did he research
into the Travers' penchant for making villains fall off of high places.
Kyle arrives back at the Barfly to see Vanessa's brother Sgt. Sims, waiting
for him because Vanessa asked him for his help. It's help that Kyle doesn't
care for due to his dislike of cops, but Sims surprises him when he tells Kyle
that Cody is pit fighting in Little Italy. A complete shock despite Stiff
saying that three times. He warns about a new drug going around and tells
Kyle not to get involved before leaving. Afterwards, Kyle shows the Bible to
Vanessa, still not knowing what it's for, but then a flask with a glowing
green substance falls out, as well as a map that leads to Little Italy.
Kyle busts into Vitto's Restaurant at Little Italy, demanding to know where
Cody is. Vitto tells his men to 'escort' him out, prompting yet another brawl
in a dining establishment that leads to much destruction. Even Vitto's rather
angered chefs joined in the combat, but Kyle just beat them up too. Vitto
tells them to stop, realizing it was going nowhere. Kyle offers a deal where
he'll pit fight for Vitto if he tells Kyle where Cody is. Vitto refuses,
making Kyle state that the last person between him and Cody was sent
plummeting to his death. At this, Vitto perks up and says Kyle should have
said that he was the one who killed the Stiff sooner because then Kyle'd have
his gratitude, and gratitude earns respect. Kyle isn't impressed, and Vitto
finally tells one his fighters to escort Kyle to the basement for an
"interview". The fighter stretches before leading Kyle away, happy to oblige.
The interview went well, with Kyle whomping Ghost in the ensuing pit fight.
Afterwards, he repeats his demand to know where Cody is. Vitto states that
while Kyle was a good fighter, he despised Kyle's lack of respect. His other
men are too afraid of Kyle by this point to kick Kyle out, so Vitto's top
assassin Blades quickly leaps in and grabs Kyle at knife-point. Vitto tells
Blades not to kill him because they've gotten into too much heat from all the
ruckus already, so Blades dumps Kyle off back at Kyle's hood, saying that next
time he'll send a ice pick through Kyle's head. Kyle wonders why bother
waiting when they could just fight now, but Blades brushes him off and leaves.
Vanessa, always one to suggest random informants that Kyle doesn't like, tells
Kyle to go see Psychic (Madame Celeste) for possible leads. After a quick
game of concentration disguised as some powerful occult fortune reading card
set-up, Celeste tells Kyle that help will come from Cody's apartment. Kyle
wonders how he'll get into Cody's apartment but then Celeste hands him the
keys to it. He then wonders how Celeste managed to get the keys to Cody's
apartment. ...for all of one second. Cody's answering machine at his
apartment contained much less intrusive looks into Cody's private life,
containing nothing but some calls from Kyle asking where the heck Cody was,
and a call from Haggar asking the same thing and inviting Cody to go have some
drinks at the bar. Kyle finds half of a photo with Haggar in it along with
Cody, and "Pier 15" on the back, so he decides to go there. After quick call
to 2-Ill to find out where Pier 15 is, as well as get an offer from 2-Ill to
help out that Kyle doesn't give a crap about because 2-Ill will likely charge
him for such help anyways, Kyle heads to Mike's Maritime Maintenance at Pier
15.
The pier is overrun by the Punx, but their cheap imitation Damnd whistles,
light-pressing password puzzles, and randomly raining cheap imitation Rolento
grenades are no match for Kyle's button mashing skills. Their massive
numbers on the other hand, were starting to be a problem until Haggar himself
came out of his gym to lend a hand. After beating all of the thugs, Haggar
tells Kyle that Kyle better not cause trouble in his neighborhood, or else.
Kyle doesn't notice, being too much in awe at being with THE man Mike Haggar
to be afraid. He introduces himself as Cody's brother Kyle, whereupon Haggar
smiles and says that it's been a long time since he's seen him. He remarks
that Kyle probably doesn't remember him anymore, but not many people do.
Haggar sadly does not know anything about where Cody is, but hopes that Cody
didn't get caught up in the new GLOW drug hitting the streets. Contrary to
what Cody might think, GLOW won't make him stronger but will kill him. Kyle
laments that he hit another dead end, so Haggar teaches him a few moves so the
night won't be an entire waste. Finally, Kyle is ready to go try Vitto again,
and Haggar gives him some advice to show Vitto some respect, as that might get
him a bit farther. He also says that he still has some friends in the Metro
City police and will try to get them to help.
At Vitto's restaurant, Vitto is talking to a priest, saying that he needs some
help with something but is interrupted when Kyle walks in. The priest decides
to make his exit, but takes a moment to look at Kyle and smile at him before
he walks out. Vitto is mad, but Kyle apologizes for his lack of respect
earlier. He repeats his deal of fighting for Vitto, so Vitto decides to let
him have another go. At the pit fight in the basement, Kyle manages to defeat
Andore (likely thanks to the tried and true technique of running around in
lots of circles for most of the time). Back at the restaurant, Vitto tells
Kyle that Cody fought for him and made him a bundle of money, but he had to
let Cody go because Cody got hooked on GLOW. He lets Kyle keep his share of
the money, saying that he'd never cheat a stand-up guy like Kyle out of his
fair share, and apologizes that he doesn't know where Cody is anymore, and he
tells Kyle to be careful, as going after GLOW will likely be more than he can
handle. Outside, Kyle calls Vanessa and says he's going to check out Bijou
Hotel again, having no other leads.
At the Bijou Hotel, Kyle randomly lucks out because for whatever reason, Cody
is there. Cody jumps three stories to land right in front of Kyle, where he
orders Kyle to go home, his eyes glowing green with the drug of GLOW and his
voice sounding like he got possessed by a demon in some cheesy B-Movie. Kyle
refuses and tries to persuade Cody to come with him, but is interrupted by
Sgt. Sims, who tells Kyle to back away from his brother as he points a gun at
Cody.
Kyle tries to stop Sims and Cody gets away. Sims explains to Kyle that Cody
got into a heap of trouble and also tells Kyle to stay out of things before
running after Cody. Fortunately, he didn't notice that Cody dropped his
wallet. Kyle picks it up and notices the second half of the photograph, this
time with some guy in it in red with a tattoo. He heads back to the hood and
calls 2-Ill to ask where the tattoo parlor manager Paco might be.
Predictably, 2-Ill replies that the manager Paco is at the tattoo parlor.
House inspector is coming so Kyle is forced to run around like an idiot once
again stomping cockroaches in his apartment as well as a bunch of rats that
apparently got hooked on GLOW but go squish just as easily as the cockroaches
do. After Paco is done making Kyle do that (because they live in the same
building), Paco tells Kyle the tattoo in the photo was made by Lou "the Skin"
at Japantown, so Kyle heads over there.
At The Dragon's Skin, after putting up with Lou rambling over which tattoo
to give Kyle, Kyle shows Lou the photo, saying he wants to see the man
in it. Lou obliges by smashing a cash register over his head.
Kyle wakes up in Lou's basement surrounded by ninjas, Lou, and the man in
the photo, Guy. Lou tells Guy that Kyle's wallet says that he's Cody, and
Guy demands to know why Kyle is lying about who he is, but Kyle simply tells
them that only cheap shots could take him down. At this, Guy tells his men
to show Kyle what happens to those who don't answer his questions, so Guy's
men untie Kyle and attempt to extract the information from Kyle forcefully,
forming a ring around Kyle where they'd charge in with hit-and-run attacks
while the rest looked for openings. Lou eagerly jumps in to fight as well
after the men are defeated, but Kyle manages to beat him too. Frustrated,
Lou encourages Guy to kick Kyle's ass as Guy throws off his business suit
for his bushin gi and approaches Kyle. A simple demonstration of some
ridiculously fast katas shocks the hell out of Kyle and makes him decide
that it'd probably be a good time to explain that he isn't Cody. He
explains that he's Cody's brother but that Cody got into a lot of trouble
with GLOW and Vitto, among other things. Hearing this, Guy decides to
listen and invites Kyle to his dojo. There, Guy tells Kyle about his past
with Cody, about how Cody went to jail for one of Guy's crimes so that Guy
could go free. He says that from what he knows about Cody, Cody would give
his life for Kyle. He regrets that Cody had to go to jail for him but that
some debts could never be repaid. After this, he decides to 'quiz' Kyle
a bit. He tests Kyle in his dojo by teaching Kyle how to do the ki-based
charge punch. After the sparring, Kyle's skill proves to Guy that he is
indeed Cody's brother. Guy takes Kyle to the lounge area of the dojo. Around
the table, he tells Kyle that he's proud about how he's managed to maintain
order in Japantown and is fighting against the drug, and trying
to keep it from entering the area. However, it's proving very difficult,
and sometimes Guy wonders if the man behind GLOW is merely giving the people
what they want. He tells Kyle that from what he knows, the man behind GLOW
is a man with no face, but that he has a strong influence in Little
Italy, and Guy has his men investigating it. At that point, Blades bursts
in and tosses the head of one of Guy's men to Guy and Kyle, with dynamite
strapped to it. Guy and Kyle get out of the way in time as it explodes,
but the dojo they're in is now on fire and the whole building threatens
to collapse on them both. Worse off, Stiff's men have come in to help finish
the job. Guy quickly leads Kyle to the exit, but falling debris and flames
constantly get in the way. The flames were good for tossing mobsters
and angry schoolgirls into them though. ...why a bunch of angry schoolgirls
also decided to get in on the flaming fun is a mystery. Regardless, thanks
to the help of a fire extinguisher (oh, and Guy too), Kyle and Guy escape
just as the dojo explodes. Kyle tells Guy that Blades was one of Vitto's
men (not that Guy didn't know that already), and that he was a fool to
trust Vitto. Kyle goes after Vitto, while Guy stays behind to gather
his resources, saying the war has just begun. Kyle tells him that he's
glad Guy's on his side, and after a call from a concerned Vanessa warning
him that something nasty is going on down throughout the city, Kyle
leaves for Little Italy. Guy watches with a frown, possibly wondering if
he and Kyle really were on the same side.
Vitto isn't at the restaurant. One of the chefs offers to tell Kyle where
he is if Kyle helps stomp out a little GLOW rat infestation of the place.
After running around like an idiot squishing giant green-eyed glowing rats,
the chef tells Kyle that Vitto is at the church. The chef remarks that it's
a good thing it's a dark carpet while Kyle makes a note to himself to call the
health inspector on the place as he heads over to the church.
Kyle sneaks into the church to spy on Vitto, who is talking with the priest
that Kyle saw earlier, Father Bella. Blades is there as well. Vitto tells
the priest that for all his efforts, GLOW continues to spread throughout
Little Italy and he can't stop it. Worse off, people are beginning to think
that he's the cause of the drug. He tells Bella that he isn't an angel, but
that GLOW is not his doing and he was a persecuted man. Bella tries to calm
him down and suggests a prayer. Vitto kneels down to try to pray, but this
is put to a quick end when Blades slams an ice pick through his skull. Bella
tells Blades to take the body out back, and that he might need him to kill
Cody, in case Cody started to become too troublesome as well. No one must
stop their revelation, to which Blades solemnly nods and agrees. Kyle is
shocked, wondering why a priest of all people would have someone killed. He
realizes that first of all, he has to take Blades out of the picture
immediately, and follows Blades out back to the graveyard. Blades is more
than happy to finally have his chance to stab Kyle, but Kyle's fighting skills
(along with a submachine gun that happened to be lying around) proved too much
for him.
Outside, Kyle receives a call on his cellphone from Guy. Guy found Kyle's
brother. Kyle says he's on his way to Japantown, but Guy warns him that
Japantown has changed. When Kyle shrugs this off, Guy also warns him that
his brother has changed as well. At Lou's tattoo parlor, Cody is tied to a
chair trying to break out and rambling like a madman, his eyes still glowing
from the drug. Guy tells Kyle that unless they stop GLOW, there will soon
be nothing left of the city worth saving, to which Kyle responds that if Guy
hasn't noticed, there isn't much worth saving in the city anyways. All Kyle
cares about now is beating up the jerk who did this to his brother, so a
rather unimpressed Guy tells him that he should start with Nicky Wissell,
who's shipping in GLOW using trucks from his porn business. Kyle suddenly
realizes why Weasel had that Bible from Stiff, and tells Guy to keep an eye
on his brother while he goes to find out from Weasel where the source of
GLOW is.
At the warehouse, a vengeful Weasel attempts to take out Kyle by throwing
grenades while Kyle takes on his Blue Ballers, some of whom had become hooked
on GLOW themselves. This plan ultimately fails and Kyle once again is
slamming doors on Weasel's head (this time using the garage). Weasel tells
him that the GLOW-producing factory is at the fish packing plant at the Pier.
Outside the warehouse, Guy calls Kyle to tell him that Cody was too powerful
and escaped. The only option left is to remove the source of GLOW at the
lab, and the two decide to meet at the Pier. Guy tells Kyle to take a
shortcut through the freight trains.
The pier is overrun by riots from Punx and more GLOW addicts (GLOWheads).
Kyle meets up with Guy at the Pier lighthouse and the two bust into the
fish plant. Stiff's goons and a bunch of GLOW butchers are waiting for them,
but are no match for the two. Guy tells Kyle they should split up, and
he'll go take the stairs while Kyle takes the cargo elevator. Kyle agrees,
and eventually finds himself in a room with tons of boxes of GLOW as well
as a conveniently-placed gun turret in the center, which blows away
all the GLOW boxes, GLOWheads, GLOW butchers, and Stiff goons quite handily,
and Kyle eventually discovers a hidden passageway behind all the debris.
In another section of the lab, a female scientist is working on something
underneath a sheet when Kyle arrives via air vent. Kyle suspects that she's
the mastermind behind GLOW, but she doesn't seem to fear him at all and
doesn't even bother to answer his questions until Kyle finally grabs her
by the shoulders a bit. She introduces herself to him as Dr. Chang, but
that she doesn't have time to concern herself with just one simple junkie
like Kyle's brother Cody. This of course pisses Kyle off, so Chang tells
him that a lot of other people besides Cody are suffering too, and explains
that Bella forced her to produce the drug and that she's not happy about it.
However, she does inform him that she could detoxify Cody depending on the
situation, but Kyle is interrupted by a phone call from Guy before she can
finish. Guy tells him that the explosives that he never told Kyle about
earlier were primed and ready and to get out of the lab immediately. Kyle is
shocked, but Guy says that such drastic measures are necessary to stop the
drug. Kyle turns around to get the doctor but then notices her leaving
in an elevator. Before he could go after her, the being on the table
ripped its sheet off and laughed at Kyle as he recognized it as the
Stiff! But only barely, as Stiff had been infused with so much GLOW
that he had green spikes glowing out of his back and even had GLOW
glowing through him, particularly through the two letters "D" and "E"
cut into his chest. Stiff maniacally laughs before grabbing a nearby
GLOW rat that was running by and devouring it, empowering him even
more. In the ensuing battle consisting of falling cable wires, spiky
projectiles, and an enraged Stiff (now "Stiff Death"), Kyle managed to
stomp out the majority of the GLOW rats hiding in crates in the lab before
Stiff could consume them and regenerate, and eventually managed to
defeat the mutated man. Stiff Death's GLOW running out, he fell to the
ground before crumbling to dust.
Kyle escapes from the exploding lab just in time (again). Rather beaten,
he meets up with Guy who tells him that he didn't see any scientist
leaving the lab. Kyle promptly loses consciousness.
Despite what Guy had just said, Chang is there to treat Kyle as he wakes
up in Haggar's gym. Guy pulls out a gun, demanding that she tell him
where the mastermind behind GLOW is, but Haggar stops him, saying that
wasn't how they'd do things, so Guy argues that it's the only way they
can stop GLOW. Kyle interrupts and tells them both to knock it off, then
asks Chang how to reverse the effects of GLOW so he can cure Cody. She
tells him that like any other drug, GLOW wears off over time, but before
she could fully detail the withdrawal symptoms, Kyle notices a newscast
on the TV showing his hood in complete anarchy as Metro Citizens and
gang members, now driven insane by GLOW, were rioting in the streets.
Realizing that Vanessa is in danger, Kyle heads back to his hood. Chang
decides to leave as well, telling Haggar that people were suffering and
needed her help.
Kyle's hood was strewn with debris, fire, and GLOWheads, including some
absolutely humongous ones, but Kyle eventually managed to fight his
way to the Barfly, where he found Vanessa unconscious and the bar in
flames. More GLOWheads approached, ranting about crushing the sky and
their brains being inside out and other nonsensicals. Angrily punching
them away, more and more kept coming until 2-Ill arrived in his car,
running several of the GLOWheads down and shooting the rest with his
pistol (but totaling his car in the process). He tosses Kyle a gun
and tells him that they need to get out of there, but they couldn't
leave without Vanessa. Fortunately, Vanessa had woken up by then, and
tells Kyle she's alright, knowing he'd come. Anarchy is everywhere
and the three are swamped, but they continue to go forward and attempt
to make their way out of the Hood for the safety of 2-Ill's place.
Fighting through more and more GLOWheads with Kyle's fists, 2-Ill's
pistol, and Vanessa's... nothing, the three finally arrive at 2-Ill's
hideout. They can discuss their next move. Kyle states that he's going
back to the church to go after Bella, and Vanessa asks to go with him.
Not allowing his girlfriend to get into danger, Kyle refuses and tells
2-Ill that it's time to go, but hearing that he's about to be dragged
into things, 2-Ill quickly remarks that he isn't going, whereupon
Vanessa angrily tells him that he's not going to get away with that.
Vanessa calls him Two.P instead of 2-Ill while saying this, so 2-Ill
responds that first, it isn't his fight, and second, that Two.P stuff
was over long ago. However, he decides to help Kyle out by telling
Kyle of a shortcut to the church through the sewers that he used to
use back during the Mad Gear days.
Kyle arrives at the church which is already under siege by Sgt. Sims
and what few policemen Sgt. Sims has left. After Kyle informs him
that his sister Vanessa was okay and in a safe place, Sims tells Kyle
that he's running out of men and has no idea what's waiting for them
in the church, but that they have to stop the person behind GLOW.
He tells Kyle to stay back and proceeds to storm the church with his
men, but then Kyle notices Father Bella on the rooftop armed with
a grenade, declaring to God, "Thy will be done", before dropping it.
Kyle tells Sims to pull back in time to make it so the grenade only
hurts instead of instantly kills him and his men, but then tons of
GLOWheads burst out of the church and attacked as Bella threw more
grenades down from above. In the ensuing battle, all of Sim's men were
killed, but Sim and Kyle managed to survive. They entered the church,
where Bella is talking about how the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
were given the power of war, famine, pestilence, and death to end the
earth as was foretold by the Bible. Chang is with him, and she tells
him that what he's doing is madness. To this, Bella responds that he is
simply the instrument of God, and he threatens Chang with his sword,
forcing Chang to continue to work on four different subjects underneath
sheets. Kyle reveals himself and demands to know where his brother is, to
which Bella responds that his brother is free of human frailty and that
now Kyle must repent or die. At this point, one of the subjects removes
his sheet and looks at Kyle, recognizing him. He laughs, "Not the face!"
and Kyle realizes that it's Weasel, although by now Weasel was infused
with GLOW and was rather ripped with "WAR" inscribed on his chest with
GLOW. He grabs Kyle and tosses him through the windows above, before
following after him, leaving Sims behind.
Outside in the graveyard, Weasel War begins unloading on Kyle with a huge
machine gun and grenades. Kyle used the trees as cover until an opening
was available, and used the shotguns, pistols, and grenades conveniently
lying around (for whatever reason) to return fire. Eventually overpowered
by Kyle's assault, Weasel War's entire upper torso is blown up and explodes.
Back inside the church, Kyle makes his way to a sort of butcher room, where
he hears slicing and chopping noises. He peeps into the room to see a
mutated lanky Blades with "FAMINE" inscribed on his chest chopping someone
up. Sighing but knowing he has to fight, Kyle enters the room and realizes
that Blades' victim was Sgt. Sims! Sims tells Kyle to run before Blades
hacks off his head as Kyle shouts, unable to save him in time. Using
his trademark knives and new stretchy arms, Blades Famine attacks Kyle
but is eventually defeated and basically plops to the ground.
Further into the church in a large pentagonal room, Kyle sees Dr. Chang
sitting up in the rafters, with a huge green monsterous skeletal being
underneath, its gigantic spiky back and height reaching almost all the
way up to Chang. Dr. Chang laments about how she could have created
so many great and wonderful things, but all her talents were wasted by
Bella. But despite this, she still has her wonderful creation and
vision, Pestilence. Chang's ranting reveals that she's actually rather
loony herself, and she doesn't even pay attention to Kyle when he demands
she tell him where Bella is, at least until he threatens that he'll come
up there. The doctor simply scoffs at this and then orders Pestilence
to consume him, whereupon Pestilence savagely attacks! And by savagely
attacks, I mean slooooowly walks around the room as his shell's butt
drips GLOW onto the ground, every once in a while stopping to throw
easily-dodged pieces of it at Kyle and every once in a while barfing GLOW
bombs in all directions. After an excitingly slow-paced molasses battle
of Kyle tossing said GLOW bombs back at the creature, his shell was
blown off and he became much faster, swiping at Kyle, throwing GLOW bits
at him, and ripping off entire church benches to try to slam on him.
Kyle eventually managed to overcome the beast and it melted into its
own goo. But by then, Dr. Chang was gone.
Kyle finally confronts Bella on the church rooftop, who calls him Cain,
just like Cain and Abel in the Bible, so Kyle responds that 'Cain' is
going to kick his ass. He once again demands to see his brother, so
Bella tells him that he feels Kyle's pain, for he used to have a brother
he cared about as well. Bella tells Kyle that long ago, his own brother
came to America seeking happiness, but then Cody savagely killed him.
Kyle is stumped about this, telling Bella that Cody is a hero who did more
good for the city than Bella could ever dream of. Bella brushes him off,
proclaiming that his suffering led to his inspiration, which in turn would
lead to Kyle's death! At this, he points to the side, and Kyle turns his
head only to see his own brother, now horribly mutated from GLOW into a
sort of hulk with green glowing eyes and the word "DEATH" cut into his
chest. Bella proclaims that he's going to have an eye for an eye, brother
for brother, Cain to Abel, and now he was going to kill Cody's brother as
well. Pissed, Kyle tells Bella that he'll be praying for his own death when
Kyle was through with him. Hearing this, Bella proclaims that his name isn't
actually Bella. It's Belger! He was the brother of the leader of Mad Gear
that Cody killed years ago. His prized Horseman of Death, Cody, attacks
Kyle. Cody Death, completely consumed by the GLOW, is unable to listen to
Kyle's pleas about being his brother, but upon hitting Kyle, struggles with
himself to stop. Kyle takes advantage of this, and eventually defeats his
own brother, whereupon Father Belger revives him with GLOW and tells him
that he will be fighting at Death's side. Belger attempts to take Kyle out
with grenades and rocket launchers while Cody Death attacks with burning GLOW
flames and sheer brute force, but eventually Cody Death is taken down again.
Belger then attempts to revive Cody while fighting off Kyle with a machine
gun and his sword, putting him into position for Kyle's own attacks.
Eventually, Cody Death finally got up and tried kill Kyle one last time.
Approaching Kyle slowly, Kyle again tries to get Cody to recognize him, but
at that moment, Cody Death is shot in the back by Belger, who proclaims that
he will not allow his vengeance to be taken away from him and he'll kill
Kyle himself. He approachs Kyle with his gun pointed at Kyle, but then
Cody Death gets up and launches himself at Belger, sending the two of them
flying off the rooftop, with Kyle shouting after his brother.
On the ground outside, a wounded Belger attempts to crawl to and reach his
gun, but Kyle grabs it just out of his reach. Father Belger proclaims that
he's Kyle's savior, but Kyle replies that he's actually nothing, and shoots
him in the head. He then dashes to an unconscious Cody Death and says
that everything will be okay.
At the hospital, a beat-up Kyle and Cody are in separate hospital beds in
the same room. The effects of GLOW have mostly worn off and Cody is now
a normal human being again. He and Kyle joke for a bit as if nothing
happened, but when Cody finally begins to ask why Kyle went through so much
trouble to help him, Kyle interrupts saying that Cody would do the same for
him and that it was for survival, so the two brothers punch their fists
together in agreement. They wonder when their next fight should be, at which
Vanessa enters the room and tells them to knock it off, because neither of
them would be fighting for a while. Cody responds that at least now, his
knees never felt better. He kicks his knees around a bit, realizes something,
and then begins to excitedly tell Kyle something about them before he notices
that Kyle is distracted by the television set. On the set, a news reporter
states that Dr. Chang was taken in for questioning after the incident but
was released. Cody asks Kyle what's wrong, but Kyle quickly shakes it off
and responds "Nothing" as the news reporter states that the clean-up after
the devastation was starting. Vanessa says that the nightmare was finally
over and it was all just a bad memory, but she states this with sadness as
she holds onto her deceased brother's badge. Kyle, perhaps realizing this,
sarcastically replies, "Yeah, right". For now, Metro City was at peace
again, but at a price?
Where he is now: Probably still going around kicking butt for a living.
...this extremely brief "Where is He Now" section kinda makes me wonder
what I was thinking when I typed out that friggin' NOVEL above.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Website profile: Kyle is Cody's cocky and sometimes reckless younger
brother. Though a bit unfocused compared to his legendary older sibling,
Kyle shows natural fighting potential that Cody continually pushes him to
develop further. Kyle's devotion to his beloved Hood is surpassed only by
his unspoken admiration for his big brother.
First introduced/created with Final Fight Streetwise.
Kyle was likely just a kid during the original Final Fight. Evidence:
2-Ill has been "running around these places since I was a kid." Assumedly,
Kyle is referring to 2-Ill's 'career', which likely began with 2-Ill being
Two.P during Mad Gear.
Cody is getting "old and slow." Yet Kyle is not. Obviously Kyle must be
a lot younger than Cody for this to be the case. Also the way Cody wants
Kyle to live up to his potential and has been stated in an interview to be
the one who was always taking care of Kyle implies an almost fatherly
relationship, where Cody would be a lot older than Kyle.
The last Haggar saw Kyle, he was just a "scrawny knee'd bum." It's also
been so long ago that Kyle doesn't recall meeting Haggar in person before,
but Haggar recalls meeting him. Presumably, they would have met when Haggar
was still dealing with Cody on a more regular basis (IE, when Cody was
saving Jessica and fighting alongside Haggar, both during Final Fight One).
Also, the way Kyle idolizes Haggar in his journal seems almost more like
the way someone remembers their childhood super hero.
Kyle never met Guy before. While it is rather improbable that Cody never
introduced Guy to his little kid brother back during FF1, it's even more
improbable for Kyle to have never run into Guy if Kyle was a teenager
because assumedly Kyle would be getting out a lot more at that age.
Cody almost seems more like a father than a brother to Kyle sometimes.
Most telling is how frustrated Cody is that Kyle isn't living up to his
potential. Cody (who possibly has the typical "father wants to live his
glory days through his son" complex) is coaching Kyle to improve not as
a rival but as someone who's raising him. Cody being the older brother who
is constantly taking care of the younger brother was confirmed in an
interview with Tom Sekine as well. Of course, given that Cody is probably
a LOT older than Kyle (Cody is probably 39 during Streetwise while Kyle is
likely only 22 to 24), this isn't too surprising.
Cody's apartment is a lot bigger and cleaner than Kyle's.
Paco indicates that the cockroaches that Kyle has to stomp in his
apartment are a recurring problem. The GLOW rats were obviously new
though.
Oddly enough, he seems to have a college degree on top of the shelf in
his apartment (it seems to say 'college' on it). The guy pit fights for a
living, Cody implies they're only barely making ends meet, his apartment is
small and run-down (and Cody's bigger cleaner apartment shows that Kyle's
wasn't small just due to game constraints), and yet he has a college
degree. Maybe it's a comment on the state of Metro City or something.
Also might explain why Kyle is so pessimistic about Metro City when he
tells Guy that there was nothing in the city to save from GLOW in the
first place.
He also wears a pair of dog tags for some unknown reason. Perhaps he
got into college on a military program? That also might explain why
he smokes while Cody doesn't (far as I know). Lots of men in the military
smoke, and Guile and Nash do in some arts as well.
He smokes after particularly tiresome/annoying events are done (such
as after Blades boots him out of Vitto's).
Kyle's been playing most of the various mini-games in Streetwise since
he was a kid, including darts, shooting targets (ducks), and garbage can
smash. He remarks in his journal for one of the smash games that he used
to always kick Cody's ass at that game when he was a kid (he says "when
I was a kid", not "when we were kids". Cody and Kyle's age difference is
such that they weren't kids at the same time). Of course, given that this
is Kyle's journal, it might be a bit biased (that and given how much
older Cody was and Kyle was just a kid, I wouldn't be surprised if he let
Kyle win on purpose).
Everyone says that Kyle has a lot of potential, to which he remarks at
the beginning of the game, "Potential's good. If you're feeling good about
being potentially good" with a twinge of apathy. It's not that Kyle's
unconfident (quite the opposite, really. He's extremely confident in his
journal for the most part). It's just that he doesn't really care too much
to develop his skills beyond what he needs. Thus Cody is so frustrated at
Kyle not living up to his potential. By the end, Kyle has developed into
someone that Cody is proud of. Course, one could probably point out that
the only reason Kyle's ability developed thus is because Kyle was forced to
get better at fighting for the sake of saving his brother. :P Kyle having
potential but not being "The One" yet when FF:SW starts out is confirmed by
an interview with Tom Sekine.
Kyle's potential is meant to explain how in-game, Kyle can learn all
those moves throughout the game so quickly, where even Guy and Haggar can
teach him some of their moves within the span of a few hours (Kyle's journal
keeps track of the storyline date and time). So I guess he's like Sakura
in that he can pick up new moves extremely quickly. ...did I just compare
Kyle to Sakura? You know, this would be a lot easier to swallow if Capcom
of Japan didn't dissolve Capcom Studio 8 almost right after Streetwise came
out. ...whatever.
Unlike Cody, Kyle doesn't really look forward to the thrill of the fight
in particular. He's more than happy to beat up people who tick him off,
and he's 'always up for a new challenge' and probably does enjoy fighting,
but it's never implied in his journal that he's looking for a fight just for
the sole sake of the fight (which in part explains his apathy towards
developing his potential). Kyle mainly fights just out of necessity for
survival, as shown by Cody telling him, "We're making ends meet" after
handing him his share of the pit fighting money in the beginning of the
game (it's also stated that he pit fights to make ends meet in an interview
with ex-Capcom Studio 8 employee Joe Willis), and his stating survival as
his reason for going through everything to save Cody at the end of the game.
Also, advertisements used the tagline, "To save your brother, you must save
the city", indicating that saving the city is kinda just a secondary goal
for Kyle.
Kyle recognizes Haggar as the mayor, but not personally, although Haggar
indicates that they've met before. Haggar remarks that Kyle probably doesn't
remember him. When Haggar last saw Kyle, Kyle was just "a scrawny-knee'd
bum".
Kyle idolizes Mike Haggar. His journal constantly refers to him as
"THE MAN", and he states in it that he'd be a fool to lose the opportunity
to learn some moves from him. Although Kyle doesn't remember meeting him
personally, he apparently has fond memories of the coolness of Mike Haggar
personally hitting the streets to bust some criminal heads.
Kyle didn't know who Guy was nor did Guy imply that he had ever met
Kyle before or after Kyle introduced himself as Cody's brother (of course,
Guy didn't recognize Kyle at all when he sic'd his men on Kyle earlier,
but Haggar didn't initially recognize Kyle either. The difference being
that Haggar immediately remembered him when Kyle introduced himself while
Guy did not). It's kinda odd that the two never met before but not
completely impossible given Guy's FF1 bio indicating that Guy didn't
spend much time in Metro City prior to FF1 since he was just visiting
the States back then.
Kyle doesn't like 2-Ill very much. He gives 2-Ill the brush-off
whenever 2-Ill says he'll be there to help. He especially doesn't like
paying 2-Ill for help.
Kyle also doesn't like Psychic very much at first, but gets eerily
addicted to her cards' fortunetelling as the game goes on (assuming you
do the various card matching mini-games).
While generally a good guy, Kyle also doesn't particularly seek out
justice that much. He won't let a thug get away with stealing a lady's
purse on his watch and he'll help out a cop against some smugglers if asked
(albeit hesitantly), but he almost always appends "The money's good, too!"
to his good deeds for the day in his journal. He also constantly states
that he doesn't care about stopping GLOW so much as doing so just so
he can find his brother. This is rather similar to Cody really, in that
he's willing to go vigilante and generally does good things but justice
is a secondary bonus to his aims (for Kyle it's assumedly survival, while
for Cody it's assumedly the thrill of the fight).
Of course in Streetwise, you the player can make Kyle go around
beating up homeless bums and punching the lights out of civilians, but
Kyle's journal itself generally implies all that good guy stuff and there
really isn't any "evil" meter for Kyle no matter how many old ladies you
beat up (it just makes you lose "respect").
Kyle dislikes cops. He says that even though Sgt. Sims is a good cop,
he never met a cop he liked. Also late in the game, you can hire a cop
with a shotgun as backup, where Kyle says to himself, "I don't like the
idea of a cop backing me up. Love the shotgun, though." He's probably
a bit annoyed with cops always arresting his brother, although so far
Kyle himself seems to have been able to avoid having any run-ins with the
law. Sims doesn't like him much and wishes Kyle wouldn't get involved in
going after GLOW, but he doesn't imply that he thinks Kyle should be
arrested. Ditto for other cops you talk to (in fact, other cops are
reasonably nice to Kyle, Kyle being a juvenile vigilante considered.
On some mini-quests, some cops even work with Kyle, one asking for
assistance to accompany him while he goes to call for back-up, and
another to go bust down the Blue Ballers because the cop can't without
a warrant).
Like Cody, Kyle generally prefers using his fists (as shown by him
and Stiff ending their fight unarmed), although he's not above using
firearms as well and he still likes those, too (he likes the above cop's
shotgun, for example).
All three of his prototype designs had dreadlocks for some reason.
He was voiced by Trent Kanuiga (the concept artist), not David Hayes.
The fact that so many people ask about this shows that whether on purpose
or not, Trent did a semi-convincing Solid Snake impression, I suppose.
*** pgVLee.
LEE
Represents: China
Height: 178.8 cm
Weight: 96 kg
SF1 action: step punch
SF1-era nickname: "Ultra Speed Warrior Mastering the Path of the Fist"
Street Fighter 1: Lee entered the SF1 tournament to test his skills.
[Official]
Where he is now: ...Even after tons of digging around and asking and all,
couldn't figure out what happened to the guy. All official sources that
mentioned it indicated 'his days were numbered' during SF1, though, so those
rumors of the Mafia offing him seem likely true. However, with SSF4 there's
an extremely small possibility that he's alive in Hong Kong. This cannot be
certified at this time though.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Lee is his last name. Don't know what his first name is. He is stated
to be Yun and Yang's uncle, more specifically their father's younger brother.
I think that, like Gen, Lee has connections to the criminal underworld. Not
sure about that, though. He is however a Chinese kenpo expert like Gen.
His name written in kanji means "plum." Yun and Yang's are the same also.
*** pgVLocksmith.
THE LOCKSMITH
No bio. Uses kickboxing?
Final Fight Streetwise: Locksmith beat Handsome Bob the previous night
before the game started in a pit fight at the Fight Club. He would later
issue some challenges to Kyle as well (optional pit fight battles). [From
the game]
Where he is now: Probably still pitfighting in Metro City.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
All I could find regarding his nickname is that one of Locksmith's
taunts is "Locksmith's gonna open you up!"
"Locksmith" is confirmed to be a nickname as sometimes people refer to
him as "The Locksmith" (other times, they just say "Locksmith").
Locksmith's shirt in his art says "Westside Dragons" but in-game it's
just a random pattern. The Westside Dragon logo on his shirt in the art is
the same as the one in the slider puzzle that Paco asks Kyle to help with
at the tattoo parlor.
One of his moves seems to be a flashless somersault kick/flash kick.
He even has to duck for a couple of seconds before he can use it, just like
charging down to do a somersault kick. The rest of his fighting stance and
moves don't look like Guile's though.
One of the generic enemies is basically a pallete-swapped Locksmith,
although there's only two found at certain points in story mode from what I
can tell (but tons in the 'filler plot only' arcade mode). This enemy
doesn't have the somersault kick or enhanced AI of Locksmith, but is still
a lot tougher than other generics. Still, even Handsome Bob at least
gets his own unique model unlike this guy.
He's probably based off the Watchmen (a comic book group). His
outfit is similar to the Watchmens', and one of the generic Locksmith
wannabe names is Watchmann.
There's a character concept in the promo comic for some guy named
"Reefer Madness" with dreadlocks and tattoos. I wonder if that was
Locksmith's prototype (it likely wasn't Lou's since he's in the promo
comic concept section already as well). Or maybe it was the tattoo
parlor manager Paco's prototype?
*** pgVLou.
LOU "THE SKIN"
Native place: assumedly America (NOT Japanese)
Final Fight Streetwise: Kyle goes to Lou to inquire about a man in a photo
(Guy). Lou at first is excited and trying to figure out the best tattoos for
Kyle before Kyle shows him the photo. Suspicious, Lou knocks him out with a
cash register. With Kyle surrounded by Guy's men, Guy, wondering what Kyle
is doing with the wallet of his good friend Cody, orders them to extract
by force information from Kyle and why he was asking about the photo. When
Guy's men are defeated, Lou tries to take on Kyle and loses. Guy himself
however, convinced Kyle to explain himself with his lightning fast fists.
[from the game]
Where he is now: Probably still a pit-fighter in Japantown and still working
for Guy.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Website: Lou "the Skin" is a walking work of art. As a tattoo artist,
he is second to none, with unparalleled talent and creativity. His unique
style is well-known far beyond the limits of Metro City. Though not
Japanese, he has come to be embraced by the people of Japantown as one of
their own, and has a strong relationship with Guy. Lou is also an
established pit-fighter in Japantown, possessing superior agility and
surprising power.
I'm not sure what his fighting style is, but it has lots of handstand
work in it. It doesn't look like bushin. It's possibly Capoiera.
His exact position within Guy's 'clan' (or whatever you want to call
it) isn't stated, although he obviously works with them and is 'embraced'
'as one of their own.' He's not very disciplined unlike the rest of
Guy's men, screaming out all sorts of obscene cheers, etc. while Kyle is
fighting them and being quite... excitable overall.
Kyle mentions that he's possibly the best tattoo artist in the entire
country. He also says "There's a fine line between genius and insanity.
Lou just happens to re-ink that line from time to time."
His tattoo parlor is "Lou's Tattoo Parlor." Banners above it call
it "The Dragon's Skin."
*** pgVLucia.
LUCIA MORGAN
Height: 172 cm
Weight: 52 kg
Hobby: cooking (not a good cook)
Favorite food: instant noodles
Final Fight Tough: Head of the Metro City Special Crimes Unit (S.C.U.), Lucia
burst into Haggar's office while Haggar was talking with Guy to inform him
that the police department was under attack (something which Haggar probably
would have figured out anyway from the huge explosion outside his window).
She fought alongside Haggar and Dean to take down the Skull Cross Gang
which was terrorizing Metro City [From the game].
Where she is now: Probably still head of the S.C.U. It seems like her
job's never done with a city like Metro City.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Lucia
Sure-kill technique: hurricane spinner.
Weapon of preference: billy club
Special ability: kicks
Super move: hard hit knee
Lucia aids Haggar in Final Fight Tough also as thanks for Haggar once
clearing her of a corruption charge (assuming Capcom of America didn't
butcher the translation of Final Fight 3, she didn't meet Haggar personally
when he did it, though).
She was also an old friend of Cody's.
She um... dresses kinda oddly for a head investigator. Oo It's weird
because she's dressed like you'd expect an officer to be in FFT's intro
then her clothes are suddenly much 'less' after that.
I wonder if Lucia was based in part off of Chun-Li's early prototype
design (who also was blonde, short-haired, and had a jacket). Lucia's
kicks are similar to Chun's too, I think.
Was she supposed to be in Final Fight Streetwise? Haggar mentions to
Kyle that he still has some friends in Metro City Police that he would get
to help keep an eye out for Cody, but this never surfaces and it's not like
there weren't tons of other things that apparently had to be cut from the
final version of Streetwise. Of course, this is admittingly hard to
swallow, given that Lucia being in Streetwise means that Capcom would have
to acknowledge Final Fight Tough's existance, and that's something they NEVER
blatantly do.
*** pgVLuckyColt.
LUCKY COLT (GUNLOC overseas)
Age: 25 (24 during MB)
Height: 192 cm
Weight: 125 kg
Hails from, native place: Miami Beach, Florida, America
Favorite/main attacks: sunset splash, sonic fist
Favorite food: popcorn
MB specialty move: power slam
SMB specialty move: face buster
MB-era nickname: "Florida's Wild Horse"
Stage: Los Angeles (United States)
Wrestling federation: NWA (North Wrestling Association? Beats me)
Muscle Bomber: He um... wrestled?
Super MUscle Bomber: He erm... wrestled some more?
Where he is now: Dunno.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
A summary of Lucky Colt
Haggar attaches to the pro-wrestling group CWA's (CAPCOM WRESTLING
ASSOCIATION) wrestler.
Nickname is Florida's wild horse.
Popular, in the rumored all-American #1 powerful group.
At the fight's finish, Colt makes passes at Jessica, and brawls outside
the ring with Cody.
Together they have good bouts, as a young wrestler he finishes with draws.
He trained along with Aleksey Zalazof under Mike Haggar.
He's pissed others off more than once with the passes he makes
at Jessica.
Zalazof is also his close friend and rival. Unlike Zalazof, he has a
short temper and can be a hothead. Whenever he approaches/hits on Haggar's
daughter, she ignores him.
From a Muscle Bomber Flyer: The CWA's #1 quarreling case. Overdoing
exciting fouls has made him lose over and over.
*** pgVMaki.
GENRYUSAI MAKI (last name listed first)
Age: 20 during Final Fight 2
Height: 169 cm
Weight: 52 kg
BWH sizes: B85, W60, H88
Blood type: B
Native place: Japan
Likes: tapioca
Dislikes: troublesome matters, girl treatment matters
Hobby: brawling
Final Fight 2: Maki is a bushin fighter, like Guy. Her dad, Genryusai,
was a bushin master to Guy. However, when Mad Gear is attempting to make a
comeback, they kidnap her father and her sister, Rena. Maki calls up
Haggar and asks for his help, and tracks Mad Gear to Hong Kong, where the
group meets up with each other. She fights in Final Fight 2 in place of
her sister's fiance Guy, because Guy is out training to become the next
bushin master [Official]. Together with Haggar and Carlos, she saves her
father and sister and hugs them both in a tearful family reunion [FF2's
ending].
FF2 Guidebook bio:
Is Guy's master Genryusai's second daughter. In comparison Guy's fiancee is
her older sister Rena, with a mask that forces its way through she's not
without exception an unmanageable woman, an extraordinarily strong spirit of
rivalry. Incidentally during her student days, she was living as head of a
club of rabble-rousing reckless driving delinquents. Even so, she has Guy's
favor yet, with a disobedient character being a hindrance, when meeting they
say merely complaints.
Street Fighter Zero 3: Maki... a modern ninja and a master of the art
of bushin. She has traveled the world to find Guy, her fellow student.
She must determine if she is the true successor to the bushin style!
[prologue] Whether or not Maki found Guy during Z3, she continues training
to see who truly deserves the title of succession. The only confirmation
given by Capcom is that she was indeed searching for Guy during Zero 3 (even
before she was ported). All else is up to conjecture, including running
into Cody and possibly Ken during her journey (her Z3 win quotes to both
of them).
Where she is now: Still training to overtake Guy, I imagine.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Nothing about Maki liking Guy, and I'm not sure that was ever the case,
retcon or otherwise. Having Guy's favor means that she can always count on
him, but with the rough and competitive attitude she has, everytime they meet
they squabble like siblings.
A small crude relations/interactions chart is found in the premier issue of
Club Capcom for FF2, links Haggar to Cody, Guy, Carlos, and Jessica, etc.
Maki's connected only to Rena and Genryusai in this chart but not Guy, and
strangely Guy and Carlos are connected for some reason, maybe because they're
the male Japanese style fighters? Dunno.
Maki first and only appeared in Final Fight 2 before she was made a
playable character in CvS2 then ported over to SFZ3 Upper. She fought in
Guy's place (Guy was too busy in SFZ2 training to battle Zeku to help Haggar
in FF2) to save her sister.
There is official art of Maki in gangster punk outfit with a motorcycle
(and her sister and Guy there, too, though Maki is portrayed as the owner of
the motorcycle).
Canonwise, Maki is the younger sister to Guy's girlfriend and fiancee,
Rena. Maki is also a bushin fighter like Guy, and her father was
Genryusai, a bushinryu master to Guy. He's also really really old, despite
having a young daughter like Maki. Oo His old age would explain how he
could be bushin master before Zeku though. Note also that while there can
be only one bushin master in the world, the previous bushin master does not
have to die for a new one to take his place as bushin master. One other note
in the light of SSF4, there most likely is more than one school of bushinryu:
ninpou the more basic merit-based faction, and ninjutsu the more old-school
aggressive faction, also supported by AASF specially noting that Maki has
actually inherited a portion of Guy's techniques, even though she's never
studied under Zeku.
Maki apparently doesn't know Cody very well, if she even met him at
all. Her win quote calls Cody simply Guy's acquaintance, yet she's still
talking to him in a fairly polite manner despite her deliquent history. On
a side note, her win quote to Ken reveals that she was led to him through
hearing about a guy in a red uniform, again if they even ran into each other.
Maki and Guy argue a lot, but deep down are friends. Maki can never
bring herself to tell Guy this directly though (previously, I thought this
was an unrequited love thing, but the way it's worded isn't meant to be
interpreted like that).
Rena has black hair while Maki is blonde due to dying her hair as a
symbol of her rebellious years in the biker gangs. Genryusai has white hair
and is balding, but that's because he's old.
For a little more on Maki and her dad, see Guy's bio.
Maki seems like she's the only new character in Final Fight beyond
FF1 whom Capcom seems to care about, to the point where she even gets to be
in Capcom vs SNK 2, then ported over to SFZ3 Upper and then finally has
her SFZ3 storyline fleshed out with SFZ3 Double Upper. Sano speculated the
likely possibility that the reason Capcom used Maki while not using ANY other
Final Fight 2 or FFT character or storyline aspect is likely because of her
being in Nakahira Masahiko's Sakura Ganbaru! manga (which led to Maki
appearing in other publications like Hong Kong comics as well, increasing
her popularity and recognition factor).
Streetwise allegedly would acknowledge FF2 by having Guy being married to
Maki's sister Rena, according to what Sano was told by Udon Webmaster
SFDevotion, but this doesn't appear to be in the game at all (probably
simply didn't make it in time. Of course, the conspiracist could argue
that maybe Capcom of Japan forced it out).
Maki's last name is Genryusai, stated in several places including the
magazine Club Capcom where CJ introduced her early on.
Genryusai written in kanji means roughly "source of like willows." Maki's
own name written in kanji is roughly "genuine narrative." Lastly Rena's
name written in kanji, just like Ryuguu Rena's from the PC game Higurashi
aka When the Cicadas Cry, is roughly "what beauty," and she shares the
first character of her name with the second of Chun-Li's.
*** pgVMakoto.
MAKOTO
Native place: Tosa, Japan
Birthday: July 1
Height: 160 cm
Weight: 50 kg
BWH sizes: B80, W61, H87
Blood type: B
Likes: family
Dislikes: crimson ginger
Special skill: weekend carpentry
Fighting style: Rindoukan karate
SF4-era nickname: "One Charge Yelling, Hundredfold Spirited"
SF3-era nickname: "Super-Stalwart Karate Girl"
Super Street Fighter 4:
The stalwart with zeal karate girl. As heiress of Tosa's noted family karate
dojo Rindoukan, for the sake of rescuing the declined dojo's distress she
participates in the world fighting tournament.
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Makoto enters S.I.N.-sha's latest hosted fighting tournament for the money.
The family dojo is in desperate need of repairs and surely she'll be able
to net some easy cash with exemplifying the Rindoukan style's spirit and
zeal! [Makoto's opening]
Unfortunately zeal and spirit can carry her only so far when going up against
the world though. She did fight and defeat Fei-Long, but it may have been a
narrow fluke of a victory only. Their rival battle exchanges reveal that he
may have gotten distracted towards the end and thus lost. Nevertheless, she
wins a tangible purse for beating the Hong Kong film legend, and he gains a
newfound respect for the karate style seen and taught in the rural Japanese
area of Tosa.
Makoto heads back home convinced that she failed because she went about
achieving her goals the wrong way. She looked for a relatively easy way
out, and neglected the profit gained from hard labor and dedication. In her
ending her grandfather and older brother watch her ascend the dojo roof to
start plugging up the holes and leaks. While pondering that she'll never
again let the ruse of money steer her the wrong direction, her brother calls
out to her in caution. Makoto starts slipping and nearly falls off the roof,
which makes the two men gasp. After breathing a sigh of relief, Makoto also
probably resolves not to always rush into things.
Street Fighter 3 Third Strike:
The noted family karate dojo "Autumn Bellflower Mansion (Rindoukan)". But
for once prospering now not even a shadow of it is seen. For its only
daughter Makoto also, swears on the padded undershirt her father turned over
to her. "Once more....I'll show them how major we aare!" [CJ's 3S profile
for Makoto]
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Makoto fights to bring back prestige, pride, and honor to her father's dojo.
She wants to challenge the famous Ryu [Official]. People come from far and
wide to attend her dojo. She continues to accept and defeat many challengers
[Makoto's SF3TS ending]. Specially noted via AAC is that Makoto succeeds in
restoring vibrance to Rindoukan karate and her dojo, and that the style still
needs more practitioners under her youthful guidance.
Where she is now: Still working with her dojo, training, and fighting.
See above.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Makoto's late dad's name is Masaru.
The gi that she wears was passed on to her by her father before he
died.
Her last name is not Rindou. Her dojo is the Rindoukan Dojo though.
The translated name of her father's karate school translates to roughly
"Autumn Bellflower Mansion".
Makoto has a grandfather who helped run the Rindoukan dojo. He's not
able to manage the dojo alone, because he's the only other martial artist
left in the family but is too old now.
She's from Tosa, a district located in Kochi, Japan as noted in AAC
and her 3S ending. Her dialect as a result is something else altogether.
Rindoukan is actually a tribute and hodgepodge of many other karate styles
melded into one, including Shotokan. Makoto's attack names are credited to
those of real-life karate fighters.
And of course, her father's dojo used to have a lot of pride and
prestige. The reason her dojo is going down the drain is because her
father died and her brother (no known official name yet) had no potential
to be a martial artist so he became a 'salary man' instead, leaving Makoto
to uphold the dojo's name all by herself.
Currently, there is no evidence to show that Makoto's and Ibuki's
special introduction in SF3 Third Strike is there for anything else besides
just the fact that both are teenage fighting girls.
Originally, Makoto through at least 1 discarded design for Sakura was
planned to be Ryu's sister, but Capcom eventually scrapped that idea when they
decided it'd be too difficult to make a reasonable explanation for her (her
existence, not knowing Ryu until now, etc.). Too bad, really. Even before 3S
hit the arcades, the floating theory upon seeing her for the first time was
that "white gi & headband + Japanese looking = Ryu's little sister" according
to AAC's entry on Makoto.
Hmm... I wonder if Makoto's original storyline for her brother and the
dojo was that the dojo fell apart because her brother (Ryu) wasn't there to
take care of it, but when Capcom scrapped that idea, they changed it so
that her brother (now a new random person) just didn't have the potential
to be a martial artist. I heard that having a new brother was also done to
make it impossible to connect Ryu to Makoto anymore, but I haven't been able
to confirm that.
*** pgVMike.
MIKE
Height: 196 cm
Weight: 103 kg
SF1 action: left hook
Represents: America.
SF1-era nickname: "Killer Boxer with Godly Fists"
Street Fighter 1: Mike is the former heavyweight boxing champion. He got
kicked out of boxing because he killed someone in the ring. He now
participates in the Street Fighter 1 tournament in order to make some money
for a living, and to help his hospitalized little sister. [Official]
Where he is now: Contrary to what videogames.com stated, Capcom has never
remotely given any indication of what happened to Mike (sorta like how they
didn't really give much definitive info about where Geki is). Got
knocked out by Joe possibly.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Is Mike M. Bison? No. Mike was once a champion class boxer. Bison
continually aspired to become champion but never did. Also, Mike disappeared
from the boxing world after killing an opponent. Bison permanently injured
opponents but has only been known to have killed Kodal's father (Kodal's the
elephant Dhalsim rides in his SF2 ending).
Mike and Joe are rumored to be the fighters at the intros of SF2, SF2
Dash, and SF2 Dash Turbo, from Cap!#13 and the SF2 Gamest pre-mook. Rumored
because CJ has clarified neither that they are nor that they aren't.
*** pgVMBison.
M. BISON aka MIKE BISON (BALROG overseas)
Birthdate: September 4, 1968
Height: 198 cm
Weight: 102 kg
BWH sizes: B120, W86, H100 (SFZ), B120, W89, H100 (SF2, SF4)
Blood type: A
Native place: America
Special skill: gambling
Likes: women, bourbon
Dislikes: fish, labor, mathematics
SF2-era nickname: "Cruel Use's Hard Puncher"
SFZ-era nickname: "Explosive Megaton Punch"
SF4-era nickname: "Roaring Strong Arm"
Street Fighter Zero 3: Bison has joined the evil organization known as
Shadaloo and has worked his way up from the lower ranks [Official]. Most
likely, he spent SFZ3 and prior running errands for Vega, then was sent to
terminate Birdie. Bison was never told why he had to terminate Birdie, but
he soon found out after he found him. Birdie, in an attempt to buy some time,
told Bison about the psycho drive that he was seeking out. From their win
quotes however, Bison and Birdie managed to keep each other locked in a
stalemate until the psycho drive blew up, much to the dismay of both.
SFZ3 File #26 M. Bison
The boasting of wonderous punch power heavyweight boxing monarch.
Unaccepting of a suspicion put together on his surplus strength, banished
from the boxing world, the guy was doing bodyguarding and other stations
in life at the spot he was picked up by Shadoloo. For now his to say status
is the organization's executive but, with his own fists being weapons, he's
aiming for much higher posts.
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Highlights:
-Bison was taken out of the boxing world for his extraordinary power but not
because he was suspected of killing anybody, unlike Mike from SF1. Bison has
the potential for top heavyweight boxer hence being referred as a "monarch",
but his disregard for adhering to boxing's guidelines keeps him from being a
noted "champion."
Street Fighter 2: Bison is still a member of Shadaloo [Official. He never
directly was caught betraying Vega in SFZ3]. He now participates in the
Street Fighter 2 tournament for money, and also because he's a member of
Shadaloo (Vega is back, since Shadaloo scientists constructed a new body
for Vega. Hey, after Vega came back, maybe Bison did get paid after all!).
His new Street Fighter 2 Revival ending appears to be a joke ending (sorta),
but it also doesn't contradict anything, so it's possible that it could be
true (in fact, I myself am inclined to believe it is...). Apparently, after
Vega's SF2 body was destroyed, Bison took over Shadaloo, but due to his
incompetence, he lost all his power and money and turned into a bum, and
Shadaloo under his command basically self-destructed within a month.
[conjecture based on in-game storyline] Before he sent himself to the
streets once again, Bison had thought he'd finally realized the American
dream for a few fleeting moments, specially noted in AAC.
Bison- SSF2XR Character Concealed File
A ruffian brawler raised in the slum streets. With boxing applied to rough
fights he aims at the top of the world!
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Street Fighter 4:
Fighting style: "brawling style" boxing
The boxer who was banned from the boxing world due to a dangerous fight
style. Accepting a large amount of monetary reward, he became Vega's
close associate. Together with Shadoloo's collapse he'd become unaccounted
for....
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Whether M. Bison's SF2 Revival ending happened or not, he's most
likely once again a bum trying to find whatever ways he can to make cash,
again. His SF4 opening shows him causing trouble at various gambling tables
before a Shadaloo agent finds and escorts him into a black limo on orders from
Vega, to which Bison says it's about time he got called back. His ending has
him rummaging through drawers in the lab searching for anything of value, when
he hears a shriek nearby. It's a bandaged kid first pleading for help then
glows with an eerie light outlining the symbol of Shadaloo on his outstretched
palm. Bison then piggybacks the kid out of the room, convinced he's stumbled
onto a lucky break, all the while the lab's alarm is heard going off.
Super Street Fighter 4:
Bison's SSF4 ending is just the follow-up of his SF4 ending: outside of the
burning lab, he demands to know if the kid can do anything extraordinary since
he's assumedly an experimental husk of Vega's, but the kid declines, starting
to say that he can't do anything without the psycho dictator himself. Bison
curses and swears that he will make the kid useful to him...
As SSF4 opens, Bison's moaning about Vega's latest job charged to him:
surveillance of the empty Seth prime fields. The pay's good for the boxer,
but he starts brainstorming the possibilities for making more, simply due
to the time and resources poured into the prime fields, not to mention that
his own mightiness is guarding them. He does meet and fight Dudley during
SSF4, but although it's not known who won, rival battle exchanges point to
Dudley getting the upper hand as they keep duking it out. Bison possibly
also fights and gets arrested by Chun-Li, but even if this rival battle
occurs, it's pretty safe to say that no ordinary slammer could probably hold
Bison down indefinitely.
Where he is now: Probably either still under Vega and a recuperating
Shadaloo, or temporarily incarcerated, or a bum on his own yet again.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
M. Bison from AASFZ3
Fighting Style
With the exception of using attacks from below the waist and headbutting it's
based on boxing's fight style, for it entirely doesn't employ kick moves.
Also while the body weight is heavy for sharply rushing in an instant,
twisting the hips to fire out a straight punch he boasts a phenomenal-like
stretch. For a gruff personality that of a bison (buffalo), for before a
peerless strong arm, he reduces a head-to-head opponent to a sandbag.
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Fashion Style
Discarding boxing-type shoes, he has the trunks on. A broken front tooth
and jagged in the clipped hair is, all the more and emphasizing the
countenance's badness. For the thick gloves together with relieving in a
big scale the fists towards the impact, for when safeguarding to protect
the face also a role they achieve. Not to assume that's it's about him
striking himself, for in his mouth is not being equipped with a mouthpiece.
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Secret Point 48106
I was born and raised in the slums, it was plenty vigorous to survive every
day.
If it was stealing, through robbery-like matters it was even snatching
opponents' things.
Also in addition to not being allowed in society even things told I did lots
of them. That was in order to survive.
Even the brawls' from 1 until 10 I remembered here.
And also, through there scouting for hardened fists, it seemed to have become
the boxing matches.
From the eye of the matches a KO occurring continuously of my matches was the
answer to my great joy. Though such a thing, those idiot Association guys,
saying about the rules of overbeating they couldn't shut up about them. If
you're strong that's probably alright?
For I survived just with fists. Bargaining that's something like a weak
point.
For the advantage if not beating is finished. Not using triicks, having
waited for producing the sense of innate disposition evading a punch with
reflexes, to smash the opponent's guts with my sure-killing blow. With that
it's over. Eating my punch, there's noot a stood guy.
Actually with that I KOed all opponents. Sent to the hospital, comeback
impossibilities were frequent occurrences.
You're weak you lose. You don't wanna lose go ahead get strong. Isn't that
how it is in the "world of fists" huuh?
Yet for the Association's lot, my matches they crushed with phrases and
clauses like disastrous. To lose my means of livelihood!
As for the cooperating gym trainer with me, it seems that if I don't come to
have money, he'd start talking of discontinuing the agreement as he'd please.
On the dot with 2,000 dollars of spare change cut in green he says. I'm
getting irritated, I made him eat one blow. With complete recovery for
6 months' serious injuries, for I also from the Association got
excommunicated. That's the reason for their thinking of "targeting". Screw
that!
Noo employment for me, at the outskirts of bars and casinos that's alright to
do as a bouncer.
At that time it was a "Shadoloo" lot that had talked to me.
For the boss Vega appreciating my power, he promised to offer a place to wield
power to my heart's content.
For me, fighting just as Vega said, I crushed opponents. Fighting stylists
and soldiers, police officers, fighting and even with non-green guys making
them understand don't I. I cooperated even in meaningless words of
experiments. Fighting fighting in recklessness, and also, having risen as far
as now's status.
"Shadoloo" ......For in here there iisn't even a mood permitting friend.
Even more than the experienced slums that's a foul place......Still, there's
money, there's power.
There's a place for wielding my power as I please. That's an alright
environment.
Still, it's noo reason being satisfied with this.
For I rose up until here with this fist. Still quite ahead of this, I will
rise with this fist!
The man of ability Balrog. With a sour look, don't understaand what he's
considering Sagat.
From there the boss Vega......How much a benefit he may be, for I'm noot fond
of that eye.
That's right, really not to talk merely about my own greatness, that's an eye
that made fun of me.
I'll directly freakin' bash those guys also. For my punch is what! the best
in the world.
To stand at the top will what! be me!!!
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Highlights:
-Bad boy of boxing Bison talks about how he went from having a gym trainer
for company to the criminal syndicate Shadaloo instead. The trainer took one
blow from Bison over a $2000 dispute, suffered 6-months' worth of injuries but
thoroughly recovered. Bison's opponents on his way to please the WBA however,
weren't so fortunate needless to say.
One of the four grand kings of Shadaloo, Bison is likely the fourth
(last) one.
His full name is Mike Bison in Japan. Mike from SF1 is his design
prototype, but they're two different characters.
Bison is considered to appreciate cleanliness and has a good affinity for what
Vega prefers. He may have shaved his hair to look like the outline of an "M"
in order to reflect that his heart's set on (M)oney or even (M)illions.
His name was switched to Balrog for the overseas versions because Capcom
didn't want to get sued by Mike Tyson (for Mike Bison). Vega became M. Bison
(now Mister Bison) and Balrog became Vega due to this switch. Bison's
prototype name during SF2's planning stages was Tyson BTW.
Bison from Gamest SF2
He's born in the slum streets, raised in a poor family. Such that for his
childhood, he did nothing but quarrel with the neighborhood brats every day.
Such that this was his dream. "Become the world's best boxer" is said to be
the dream. He would have dreamed of reaching for a living of large sums of
fight money.
His boxing style is surely a brawling style. From the time of childhood it
was a style soaked into his nature and body. In any case power is everything.
Inside work can what! go **** off. Boxing in its entirety isn't for the poetry
fellow. That's right. Power being that note, few miso brains won't suffice.
Such that his sure killing techniques are the 180-degree rotation doubling might
turn punch. However, a back to the enemy shows what is said to mean death.
Himself receiving double the damage of what becomes complete. It's a KO after
all. And so forth, are the leg strength might-increasing dash upper and dash
straight.
Now, why with his dream of the world's best boxer did he come along with the
street fight? That's for the sake of eating that he's fighting. Yes, after
all up until now he was destitute. Nevertheless kicks and other foot moves
he doesn't use as attacks. How many defeats it is also said have not been
just to fights but also to his own fists. Sure, abandoning the dream is fine.
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Highlights:
-Bison's fists win him money and feed him food. He was poor when he was
little, and he'll stop at nothing to keep from going back to a life of
poverty.
(I decided to censor one "f" word there because I'm not sure if having it
complies with Gamefaqs' guidelines. BTW yes Bison is that vulgar, even
in SF4 with one of his random win quotes to name one example)
Bison from Gamest SF2D
The Period of a Three-String Brawling Childhood
He lived as the youngest child in a poor black family of the slum streets.
As for the home more and more, living a life of eating and feeding every day
was the situation. Therefore from the beginning of his birth he wasn't very
welcomed, everything strongly established upon a cruel living. But, that
great shadow already he strikes back toward his parents for self-reliance.
And also commuting to a small school to be on time, already with too big a
mouth for standards the bad brat grew to adulthood.
A single day for him, said to begin with brawling and end with brawling is
also not an exaggeration for a gloomy hardened heart. Supposing if he kept
a journal, the majority of his sentences would likely say the word "brawl"
buried with no mistake (although a person wouldn't see letters of his writing).
Bison didn't stop in this way, dwelling in the slums made him see that humans
aim toward perfect satisfaction of the entire body regardless of genders. As
usual his circumstances with strangers frequently come out to be many driving
grudges.
Such that also Bison's heart after all was pulling toward this. Just those
two fists made great sums in "boxing." His povertous self held a dream that
couldn't be helped was a dream of wealthy living, merely the materialized
possibility of several boxing matches would be to turn things around. Having
known at that moment, it was that Bison's life met a major turning point.
"To become the world's best boxer." This was the aim of Bison's trial of life
that began. But it can't be distinguished for an abruptly become boxer how
many bold front shows there are. Of course for him in formality a gym coach
to receive money and the like would be what sometimes is not done, it is said
that he also did not have friends in boxing. Spontaneous, his is a hardened
self-taught boxing style. In short from the time of his youth he came around,
"brawling" not being the striking contrast. However this is also to say his
going into boxing from the captured result, also likely that he cannot torture
everyone. Raised under a hardened environment he saw "using foot moves are
wrong in brawling" and therefore he was not seen with them. So it was the
reason that in his boxing, it was decided that with such a form there shouldn't
be any rules. Once that was done, merely the full power to beat up opponents
would be approximated to "brawling law."
Shadow Boxer
And so time flowed by. The brown hooligan without hesitation rushed in body
to almost 2 meters in growth, also his heart's desire was resulting in the
debut as a boxer. Unregulated also rough fists sharpened during phenomenal
established powering-up, the use of that large build for dashing and together
with the disbursing straight, the upper, the body's rotating reverse punch
power the big scale up made for the turn punch of enormous destructive power
to boast of, it's to be that he becomes the one of an existing equivalent fit
damn it! But that strength inversely became harm. It is said that with him
completely not knowing moderation, it was the corner of comeback impossibility
for many boxers, finally bouts turned out to be rejected by everyone. Too
late for him to be famous if he would become that story's inside. However,
today's stomach satisfies as well as distresses as he makes it, this is already
for a boxer's life the same as cutting it off.
Bison drifted unnoticed to Las Vegas. Having already saved not even 10 cents
in his pocket he was already somewhat at the wrong place, finding one night
holding a large extent of money confused in this street of the feeling of
moneymaking fragrance that had to have come around. And so his splendid
admiration came true.
Weekend evenings at that casino's main hall, it is said that as a sideshow 2
fighters go off to battle. Naturally it is to be that these two names spread
their chips to gamble. As for the gallery, either chips expectation pretends
an estimated wager on the fighter, words of scolding incitements to meet from
hidden bad loans. But no defeats to boast for the nights Bison comes out,
the wagers' many models change. From the first bout's direction on going to
the obvious for the night, the challenger side's magnification also springs
up 7 fold. However today also for Bison, the challenger-betting people's
anticipations flourish in little pieces the crushing devil's fists.
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Highlights:
-In the slums Bison was the youngest of his family. Every day as soon as he
learned to wield his fists he got into a brawl, day in and day out.
-Due to his daily brawls he got the mentality that boxing is where it's at for
him and his dream for a better life.
-In Las Vegas where models and patterns are devised to win big, Bison's just
the ticket to shattering any and all predictions when it comes to the fighting
sideshow.
Because he got into nothing but brawls everyday, school and especially math
became a lost cause for Bison.
Prologue 7 (Bison) from SF4
At the fallen building's roof, a single man was peering in with binoculars.
"I say doing it flashy again aren't they."
A murmuring man's glance from before, is at the neighboring building.
Seeming to agree with a glimpse from this side of the fallen building but,
observing well for a crude sight just at the outer wall, here and there
surveillance cameras and guardman-resembling men and the like were spreading
out in a gold weighed defense. Sometimes going in with guests' garments also,
nothing but high-priced things. For the man's binoculars turn towards
convening to this side's alley vicinity it was turning to a small window.
Because in addition to comparing to the level above, a thick curtain toppling
over other windows just rendered here to have never been. Until a little
while before, from there dressed up people were seen in the appearance of
making merry via various gambling, now mediating on the binoculars' field of
vision alone is the man.
Extravagant card tables and billiards tables all crumbling scattered on the
floor, other guests and employees all collapsed on the floor moaning, he's
examining the men's states taking refuge inside.
Suddenly at his field of vision's edge several new male people stampeded in.
With batons and appearing to be stun guns in each hand although it looks like
they're preparing and, it appears like they're the establishment's guards.
Brief voices meet to greet with each other and, all at once the man who was
standing goes to attack.
"Hey hey, stop it now!..."
The rooftop's man murumurs rather fast, the man who was standing in the
middle roared, that arm greatly swung. As far as this side a totally massive
vibration reverberates, the guards all at once get blown. Parted from vigor
in the blink of an eye their bodies already being overthrown from above the
employees and guests they dropped. The man yelled something while he mowed
down a nearby table with one arm, that striking the window the sound of glass
shattering resounded. Guests' rising screams are heard.
"That face, glove, and also that power... No mistake is it. That's Bison."
Peeping through the binoculars he fixes up something with his pocket and, the
rooftop's man takes out a cell phone and briefly reported.
"Goal identified."
With the field of vision Bison reversed heel, faces toward the door. Panicked
guests and employees backing off, Bison opened the path. Affirming Bison's
vanished altogether figure, the man took his eyes off the binoculars. Someone
probably reported this. From a distance an ambulance's sound comes turning
toward this direction. It seems to be laced with a patrol car's siren but, I
don't believe an average policeman can capture and the like a Shadoloo staffed
Bison.
"...They've come out of the room. ...Ah......They face the other place. I'll
try to trace. ......That's right, afterwards I'm relying on you."
The man turning off the cell phone, made his way to the case of binoculars.
Previously overlooking, there's quiet walking at Bison's back. In time one man
meets up with him halfway, appearing like it's come for Bison he got into a
blackened automobile. Letting the car pass far off, for the rooftop's man
breathed a sigh.
"Bison has survived. ...In fact, I say there's no choice but to continue the
search for the other guys isn't there."
The brawny guards easily brushed away recall a strong arm and, their fingertips
shivered at their unconsciousness. Seeming to hide their shivering they made
tight fists, from that once more he pushes the cell phone's button.
"This is Smart Raven. Dispatch to the last confirmed location the next
target."
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Highlights:
-Agent Smart Raven's perspective is recorded for Bison's SF4 opening. The
first member of Vega's inner circle with as-of-yet-unknown whereabouts is
finally confirmed. More to be discovered for Smart Raven later on.
It says in the Street Fighter 2 Fanbook that the outward appearance
and profile can have one surmise that he (Mike) is believed to probably
be M. Bison's prototype.
He didn't kill anyone as a boxer, but he did permanently injure lots due
to seeing himself as having nothing to do with the qualities of a champion and
letting only raw power surface in boxing. Essentially he translated the
"no-rules" mindset in the brawlings he constantly got into when he was a kid,
to boxing. His disregard for the rules is part-ignorance, part-power-high.
Bison grew up in a tough neighborhood and wanted to be rich, so he
aspired to become a boxer. Even though he didn't receive any formal coaching
because of his poverty, there was excellent power in his punches. He was
the youngest child of a poor home in the slums in the United States.
Bison didn't make a lot of money as a professional boxer and moved
to Las Vegas after he was banned from the professional ring.
His only goals in life are to defeat Vega, take over Shadaloo,
get more money, and obtain the title of 'Best Boxer in the World.'
He reluctantly began working as a bouncer in a casino bar after he was
banished from professional boxing. During this time, Vega approached him
and promised Bison a large amount of money if he worked for him. Bison
accepted Vega's offer and joined Shadaloo.
He killed one of Dhalsim's elephants for the hell of it. Bison... is
a very powerful guy. The elephant was the father of Kodal, the pachyderm
Dhalsim is seen riding in his SF2 ending.
From HnN regarding Balrog's stage and its characters:
In the casino stage centered in what is known as Las Vegas, Bison's matches
seem to be financed matches. A slice of reality for the American dream with
a requisite of a large sum of funds. Here Bison conceived his boxing sense
to let loose, and the financed matches turned to street fights here...
Naturally, financed participations from people with supplied money, the rate
observers from the galleries earning a living probably not from what is said
are the funds of the American dream. And the supposition is it.
Thus said, it's possible that some people can probably witness this. In
truth, at Bison's stage one can see many types of spectators. A person
looking like a trainer and a silk hat wearing person, even a strange homeless
one witnesses.
However, what draws one's eye, are probably SFII's two stage girls from this
time. With these two, from the SFII upgrade, their designated proportions
included body exposure becoming quite showy. At the time of SFII,
anticipated fans (you out there?) secretly held back tears. With this series'
trend from now on, will there not be probably more good anticipations
forthcoming?
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Highlights:
-Lots of cash exchanges hands during Bison's fights, and not just the gambling
seen in the background of his SF2 stage. And yes the girls continue to show
off as well.
Some more translated info about his SF2 stage:
America (Bison) Las Vegas
Las Vegas 11:00 pm, today this street becomes a ring for Bison. A street
fight began by trivial chance, using a pair of fists as weapons he until
here rose in the world. A man gotten to be grounded into the American dream.
With powerful and actually quite profitable boxing, which he would exhaust
on liquor, gambling, and mostly women.
But in Las Vegas as much as possible, he can be a hero.
Still today, he takes up on a newly become challenger in his ring.
"My fists greedily wait for stained blood!"
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Highlights:
-Only in the city of a thousand temptations can Bison be viewed as a hero, at
one hour to midnight no less.
Bison's SF4 arcade ending comments:
Nothing of monetary value? and, with Bison to look in the vicinity, beside him
was a child who raises a scream. That child's suspicious eye light and hand
earnestly with Shadoloo's emblem rising to the surface, Bison feels also the
favorable scent of money.
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*** pgVMissingIQGomes.
"MISSING IQ" GOMES (KING RASTA MON overseas)
Age: 24 (23 during MB, both official conjecture)
Height: 198 cm
Weight: 150 kg
Hails from, native place & stage: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Favorite/main attacks: jungle panic, hurricane stomp
Favorite food: fried chicken
MB & SMB specialty move: biting
Wrestling federation: AWA (Amazon Wrestling Association?)
MB-era nickname: "Lost Intelligence"
Muscle Bomber: He um... wrestled?
Super Muscle Bomber: He erm... wrestled some more?
Where he is now: Dunno.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
I heard rumours that he was based off an early design of Blanka.
Haven't confirmed it, yet.
He lived peacefully with the monkeys, until he was discovered and his
athletic ability was evaluated. Soon afterwards, he debuted as a wrestler.
Gomes is usually calm/quiet, but when he enters the ring, his instincts
take over and he goes wild. Since he knows very little human language, he
studies it by watching cartoons.
From a Muscle Bomber Flyer: As a primitive man but his true ability
is top class. A monkey named Freak is a significant partner.
*** pgVMysteriousBudo.
MYSTERIOUS BUDO (THE GREAT ONI overseas)
Age: 23 (22 during MB)
Height: 182 cm
Weight: 100 kg
Hails from, native place: Kamakura, Japan
Favorite/main attacks: senbuukyaku, blood wind blade
Wrestling federation: AJA (Asian Japanese Association? ...nah)
Favorite food: uirou (a sweet made from rice-powder)
MB & SMB specialty move: rolling sobat
Stage: Tokyo, Japan
MB-era nickname: "Sobrietous Devil"
MUscle Bomber: He um... wrestled?
Super Muscle Bomber: He erm... wrestled some more?
Where he is now: Dunno.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
His speedy movements trifle with enemies, his Oriental appearance
(said to be of a Kabuki leader) excites the audience as a Japanese wrestler.
His white-painted face gave him the nickname "Pale-faced Devil." His
appearance influences his words sounding like the drama tunes of that period.
A rivalry consciously burns against the fast moving Stinger, whose advantage
is similar to his own. (from his official profile)
It's stated his flashy appearance (his costume and make-up) excites
audiences. He's done both karate and koppo while in Japan.
From a Muscle Bomber Flyer: An extraordinary fight style but, move
slices sharp, triumphs from severe fights.
*** pgVNash.
NASH (CHARLIE aka CARLOS "CHARLIE" NASH overseas)
Height: 186 cm
Weight: 84 kg
BWH sizes: B123, W81, H87
Blood type: AB
Native place: America
Special skill: Harrier servicing, psychology
Likes: righteousness, Scotch
Dislikes: injustice
SFZ-era nickname: "Justice Goes Through Cool Guy"
Street Fighter Zero 2: Nash was pursuing Vega after he learned about Shadaloo
distributing drugs to certain troops in his division, and alarmed that his own
superior tells him to stop poking his nose where it's not necessary. He goes
off on his own to track down Shadaloo's druglord. Whether he managed to catch
up to Vega or not in Venezuela, Capcom says he does not die and survives the
gunshots and the long fall depicted in his Z2 ending. Nash's speech to Guile
in Zero 3 references that Vega has escaped from Nash in the past.
Street Fighter Zero 3: Nash is a First Lieutenant of the American Air
Force. His inquiries of drug activity all pointed back to "Shadaloo". He
gathered his comrades to form a strike team. His objective: ...end
corruption in the army, and punish the man responsible! Nash teamed up
with Interpol officer Chun-Li to go after Shadaloo. Because it was against
orders (The army itself being too corrupted to do it), Guile was sent to go
after him, but ran into him right when he had found Vega! It was then
that Guile realized what was going on and joined up with Nash to fight
Vega and force him to retreat. After that, Guile, Nash, and Chun-Li join to
take down Vega once and for all. The three managed to meet up at and
infiltrate Shadaloo's base. Chun-Li prepares to plant explosives around the
base, while Nash and Guile head right for the source of Vega's immortality and
power, the psycho drive. [Conjecture based off in-game storylines]. However,
when they went there to plant the explosives, Vega was waiting! Vega was
about to kill Guile with a psycho crusher, but then Nash grabbed Vega out of
it! Nash finally ended up sacrificing himself to hold off Vega while the
psycho drive that made Vega invincible began to blow up, and Nash and Vega
were both in the room when it, along with Shadaloo's entire base, exploded.
[Official]
SFZ3 File #03 Nash
With a tough flesh and spirit possessed, an American air force first
lieutenant, is also the Pan-American martial arts tournament's victory
veteran. He one day, hears about the ties of the military's upper layer
divisions and a narcotics organization. For the sake of letting down the
hammer of justice onto the deceptions, placing confidence in colleagues and
subordinates a private corps is formed, a concealed investigation is
embarked.
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Highlights:
-Nash is mentioned to be a tough guy come Z3. Also mentioned is that the
suspicion he had about Shadaloo and the Air Force's mere troops escalated into
a full-fledged league in cahoots with the entire US military.
Where he is now: Dead. Capcom officially stated so, too, even if his
death was never directly seen. Course, Capcom could always change this
in the future, and no they haven't changed it with anything in SF4 or
SSF4.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Zero's World vol. 1- Nash
Before he was attached to his post in the American air force, in the
university he was studying biology. Also, he was even a veteran of the
Pan-American Martial Arts Tournament's championship.
A cool guy who fits in with a bit of a snobbish expression. That's
Guile's friend who's named Nash but, is it really the same person?
Regarding that detail it's not clear if there's no development, his
posted unit doesn't seem to be that of the person known as Guile. For
the latest struggle, what sort of connection will likely become obvious?
That's for the hand of you yourself to desire verifying.
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Highlights:
-Capcom's nutshell intro to Nash as he was first seen in Z1. Despite their
impression to try keeping them apart at the beginning, yes this is Guile's
friend and fellow comrade who would buy the farm come SF2 per Guile's
background.
Nash from SFZ
Original account from SF2 Himitsu Hyakka
Gasshaan! From within the shop, a hoodlum fly-whiffed intense kicks,
glass panes smashed, as he tumbled out.
"Humph, thought you're quite the pro?" During that, from inside the shop,
the circumstantial man came into view. On his chest, an air force dog tag
swayed.
The man's name is Nash. Man of justice!
"Now, talk......from whom did you get this white powder?" For Nash, while
gripping the nape of the hoodlum's neck, with brute force he was pinch
hitting for information on the narcotics organization. That is, narcotics
investigation Nash-style. In order to ascertain the so-called information
on soldiers' entangling with the narcotics organization, for Nash began a
narcotics investigation but.......
"First Lieutentant! This case, has already been resolved. Don't go poking
your nose at checking up on a matter that's fine." As he draws near little
by little to the narcotics organization's mystery Nash gets brought down
by his superior officer's order. "The military's interior, moreover the
upper layer unit level and the narcotics organization, they're failingly
entwined." Nash considered it such. Not even an ally.
"Although I'm alone yet, I'll do it!" Nash's struggle has begun!
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Official Story from Gamest SFZ and AASFZ
Together with the sound of gaudy glass smashed, the hoodlum flew out in a
tumble.
"Humph, thought you're quite the pro?" While arranging his vest with both
hands, slowly from the shop an intellectually faced man came out. On that
man's chest, an air force dog tag swayed.
"Now, talk......from whom did you get this?" Gripping the nape of the
hoodlum's neck, contained in the vinyl a white powder flitted.......
Soldiers tangling with drug dealings-in order to be certain of this rumor's
authenticity, Nash was single-handedly collecting information. But, thus
advancing the search above all Nash faced it, exceeding private level crimes
and not considering the words rounded up. "What madness......" Such thoughts
driving the days became worse.
Moreover during the continuation of the investigation, influential information
came from, firsthand drug dealers concerned with the time 3 people of the
soldiers could have been caught, he and the like did Nash understand that
matters did not go beyond merely the end. The confiscated narcotics were an
innumerable amount. The systematic "something" backing them that's
operating.......
"First Lieutenant! This case has already been resolved. Don't be poking
your nose prying into this." The superior officer did nothing more than take
all of Nash's words into his ears as imagination.
'The military's interior, moreover the upper layer unit level and the narcotics
organization are closely caught into each other!' Nash had thrusted before on
the superior officer's investigation conclusion, surely the military would take
it as being a 'preposterous burdened issue'. With superior officers handling
it, that would as a matter of fact be how would it not be an issue. That
reality would announce itself as an issue.
Negotiating with the police as comrades turned traitors-surrounding himself with
such a gloomy atmosphere and ignorance within, Nash made a decision.
"Although I'm alone yet......I'll do it!"
He began to move once again. For the sake of inflicting an iron hammer onto
this nation's corrupted justice.......
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Highlights:
-Nash busts a drug pusher. It fuels a rumor going on about troops being
involved as well, and he's out to find the truth.
-Nash's superior blows off any claims about the rumor, and tries to convince
Nash that any drugs issue started with random punks and ended with random
punks. Nash is appalled and goes off on his own, determined to uncover the
truth behind the narcotics which 3 troops had possessed, and why they had
gotten off the hook too cleanly.
Nash from SFZ2
Somersault Justice
A section of the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base......That place is an exclusive
military-use training facility. Even today under First Lieutenant Nash's
guidance, new troops were taking on the martial arts coach.
"Not yet! Higher, with all your might!"
The new troops having robust bodies and flexible motions, easily able to handle
inferior training, having been guided in steps for "kicks", they vehemently grew
with Coach Nash.
The new troops', sufficient precision and destructive force of their "kicks" was
opposed to, the furthermore higher level desired by Nash. A color of doubt
started to be seen in their eyes.
"What's wrong? Your faces say, that's as far as is adequate. Alright, I'll show
you the pattern!"
Nash with both hands bound behind him, just crouched on one knee.
"No need to hold back. 2 of you together attack me!"
What so-called counterattack could be from such a situation?
The 2 new troops while delusional would spring upon Nash.
Immediately following, in a sharp wind together with a closing noise, the 2 of
them were blown off backwards.
Somersault kick......The backwards revolving kick, 2 times in succession what
sort of preliminary execution from a stance not able, was released.
Nash having calmly stood up lent a hand to the defeated new troops.
The new troops astonished, as renewed US Air Force troops in order to not help
but go beyond they were recognized by height in the huddle.
"As you boost your foundational ability, you'll first seem to be capable of it.
Therefore my troop members, it is this standard of foundation you want to
master it."
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Highlights:
-Years before his ears caught word of Shadaloo, Nash taught martial arts to
other troops. His class witnessing his upgrade to the already impressive
somersault kick, his super the somersault justice, likely included Guile.
-Nash blew away two of the new recruits and astonished the rest with the
somersault justice they witnessed.
Nash from AASFZ3
Fighting Style
Through the military even with the matter of having guided soldiers a user of
martial arts (striking system fighting techniques for troops). Having a
personal history of having triumphed through the pan-American fighting
tournament, with close combat's deciding techniques he's gathering as
prowrestling's big moves also. From a cool external appearance a harsh
training to the extent incapable of imagination he rightly accumulates, for
that high leg power being as the possibility about unleashing the somersault
kick.
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Highlights:
-An instructor, a fighting champ vet, a rigorous trainer. Nash does it all,
including tragically taking everything on his shoulders alone.
Fashion Style
Invigorating hair trimmed up (crew cut), wearing on the body a
bulletproof-natured expensive vest. Sometimes to put on glasses for showing
off is for drifting about an intelligent atmosphere, in a researching past of
biology at a university due to the scene is likely grand. Hung on the neck
dog tags (identification) and the wrist's military watch is, about expressing
the approaching standpoint in combat being existent.
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Highlights:
-Nash's vest is bulletproof. Whether it always was that way or just for Z3
(after his first brush with Vega and the corrupted troops polished with the
directive to kill), Nash's tough skin has escaped some nasty scrapes, yet not
without some help.
Frankfort Hangar [U.S.A.]
For a woman was picked out, that was 1 page of pictures.
They were aviation pictures. Within the jungle a silhouette of historic ruins
is being taken.
"With our world, it is not merely information. Is there likely collateral?"
"It's a good understanding isn't it. That's the point!"
Fluent English. An Oriental, Chinese lineage huh.
However you look at it she doesn't seem like only a teenager, a penetrating
eye appropriate for ICPO's badge.
"Even so why me?"
"There's no time. The mutual interest is conformity, moreover a complementary
matching of weaknesses and carrying through with judgment! Naturally, an
arbitrary decision though."
"Likely isn't it. Much too much boldness. Having entered here also is
expedient isn't it."
For the woman begins to bloom a sweetly smile.
"That's to the extent of disappointing. To maintain good subordinates isn't
it."
For the gate subordinates however so appear to believe that I'm going out with
an Oriental beauty. That's not a bad acting style.
"...Well? What's your desire?" I inquired. I still haven't grasped this
woman's true motive yet.
"Mobile power! Unless my research is mistaken......In this Frankfort base
are 2 Hornets, 1 Intruder, 6 Apaches. All should be outfitted for feasibly
investible situations. Ammunition and even fuel assurance is settled isn't
it."
That's a significant female. My disbelieving mouth loosened.
In other words this youthful investigations division or whatnot also, slightly
chipped thoughtlessness of the so-called average common sense that was the
matter so-to-speak.
"For I personally inquired into their narcotics route. And so I found out
about this location. For this place an armament recently cancelled at the
region, there ought to have been violent combat. For such a grand historic
ruin remaining without a blemish that's unnatural. ......Even conceiving
every means unable to have been discovered the possibility is high for
'Shadoloo's' underground base to exist!"
"You don't suppose of marching in alone so-to-speak maybe?"
"No......Not without a little beyond the pair isn't it. Myself and, you and."
Unable to hold back anymore for I breathed out. There isn't such a pleasant
story. Go ahead say it's an astronomy-like probability. By no means in this
military operation, what a partner to be gaining!
For I was resolved. At any rate that it'd be laying down a readied life. Not
even sorry for the twin tags.
"There's a bit of a gap in your research isn't there. ......Over here."
Urging on the woman, we exited the room. Advancing towards the storehouse's
underground going down a narrow stairway, I lifted up the pad of an iron door
occupied with wooden boxes. Furthermore the two of us go down under the
stairway.
"This......!" For the woman is taken aback. As my hand flipped a lighting
switch I spoke.
"English-make Harriers. 4 of them. They're purchases from this base's
previous officer's broker. As for the higher-ups (ue) in expectation of
harming me here, this guy's remedial measures typical of his mind is picking
up a discharge. Therefore I choose to turn the tables."
For the woman looks toward me, her eyes brightening at me she desired a
handshake.
"To formally self-introduce. I'm Chun Li. ICPO's jutting outer!"
"I'm First Lieutenant Nash. Just, after the military operation's completion
to be needing now's rank? that's unknown."
Looking at each other's face we both laughed.
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Highlights:
-Nash and Chun-Li first meet; both rebels in their own way, she's got the
research, he's got the guns, both have the intellect, two peas in a pod. Nash
is impressed with Chun-Li's homework, but he still enjoys surprising her with
the warehouse's dirty little secret.
-Nash is convinced that he won't be coming back after this mission, and he's
not at all regretting that he got replacement tags to make up for the ones he
previously lost (another wink to his Z2 ending). The military wants to screw
with him, he'll go out in a blaze of glory screwing them back, using their own
illegal toys (the English Harriers one of which he personally flies as seen in
multiple Z3 endings plus their entire warehouse arsenal) to go on a mission
concerning a topic (Shadaloo) they specifically ordered him not to butt his
nose into.
Nash found out about Shadaloo and started investigating them. One of
his superiors who was a member of Shadaloo noticed his rash action of going
at it alone, and sent Nash away to a weapons warehouse in the far country side
hoping to discharge Nash since the plot to take him out in front of Vega
failed. But Nash didn't give up and gathered more allies and many more
weapons. Chun-Li found out where Shadaloo was located, and decided to work
together with Nash. And in order to get into his warehouse, she actually
pretended to be his Oriental girlfriend who speaks fluent English Oo ...it's
too bad Capcom didn't show that in the games because that's really
interesting, I think.
The weapons warehouse he was sent to was located in Frankfort, Kentucky.
One of the former superiors there was a scumbag. He used his own broker
to buy several foreign airplanes, which is a serious crime. The superior
planned to frame Nash and accuse him of the illegal purchases in order to
discharge him. Nash gathers the airplanes & weapons stored in the warehouse
and flees for Thailand with all his new fellow rebels, including Chun-Li.
Originally prior to SF2 and the Zero series, Nash died almost identically as
seen in his Zero 1 ending. Guile and Nash were still staying in touch with
each other wherever the Shadaloo base was, but they split up at some point,
in a similar manner seen in the last few episodes of SF2V, then Nash got
ambushed and offed by Vega as he was telling Guile he's got a feeling about
this Vega guy, which were his final words cut off with the transmission and
remembered by Guile, before the Zero series came around.
Nash was the previous winner of the USA martial arts tournaments
that Ken won.
Nash has perfect vision. He just wears glasses because he likes
them. Of course, not having good vision would prevent him from being a
pilot.
Studio Udon with Capcom's permission made his last name Nash in the Street
Fighter Comic, but for the actual game canon, it's still just "Nash", not
"Charlie Nash". Incidentally, "Charlie" as used overseas is a nickname for
Carlos.
The sonic boom is actually created by using ki. Nash will concentrate
his ki into his hand, arm or limb and thrusts it at a speed faster than
sound.
For a bit more info about Nash and his creating the sonic boom and
somersault kick before Guile, see Guile's bio.
Nash likely smokes as Guile does. There are artworks of him with
a cigarette in his hand and a cigarette in his mouth.
In one official art, there is cigarette smoke coming from behind Nash,
where Guile is. We know that Nash is a smoker, and Guile from old arts too.
They have a lot in common and we just recently heard that Guile doesn't like
healthy food so it would fit to his unhealthy lifestyle. The two are the
typical GI stereotypes who likely smoke and drink in their free time.
Forgot about this one but it's related to the topic. One art is a parody
on his SFZ2 ending where he drops down the waterfall). Next to the dog tag
that's flying away it says "have to make a new one again" this means Capcom
did spend a thought on the topic of Nash falling at least.
Guile was a member of/worked at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and
so was Nash. Nash may have been solely in charge of the martial-arts aspect
of recruit training.
*** pgVNecro.
NECRO
Native place: Russia (hails from a deserted village by a lakeside, the USSR
dissolves after SF2)
SF3-era nickname: "Bio Cyber"
Street Fighter 3 Second Impact: Bitter stretchy human cyborg Necro fights
in SF3 hoping to get revenge on Gill and to finally win his freedom, possibly
encountering Ibuki in the process. However, he is tricked and trapped by
Gill, who decides it's time to end the experiment and erase Necro with it.
Necro is restrained, but his girlfriend and fellow mutant Effie comes in and
rescues him. They are now free, but they don't know what will happen to
them [Necro's SF32I ending].
Street Fighter 3 Third Strike:
For the organization's relentless pursuer, without having granted a rest time
to Necro and Effie even taking advantage of dashing (hashi) in the darkness,
even concealing their bodies in the backcountry, for the black shadow
materializing before them, they go plucking at a faint hope. However for
Necro was believing. The day they would get their hands on "real freedom"
someday for sure. [CJ's 3S profile for Necro]
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Gill's organization sends Twelve to terminate Effie and Necro because they
feel they can't let Necro continue existing as the prototype of their efforts
leading to the human body remake theory. [Necro's SF3TS ending] AAC
specially notes that Twelve did chase Necro and Effie to the train riding the
Siberian railroad in Necro's 3S ending, and that Effie does get rescued by
his elastic limbs in the process.
Where he is now: See above. Poor Necro apparently is forever doomed to
try to keep running from Gill's organization until it finally manages to
catch him (or it somehow is destroyed, though Necro doesn't seem to have
the power to do that by himself, of course).
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Necro from AASF3
Backstory
From Russia for him having been born as the third male of four siblings, after
the crumbling of the Soviet Union he leaves the village desiring freedom and
fortune. However, contact in Moscow with a blond-haired man leading a secret
organization, he's reconstructed into a weapon human being his flesh having a
seemingly gum-like elasticity. For the present to fight for the
organization's sake, he fancies about someday obtaining genuine freedom.
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Story
What in the blazes am I doing.
For in his surroundings a line of various machinery and tools, chemical odors
and electrical machinery parts shorted out odors are lingering.
In a slender steel partition of an enclosed room there he was. For in
exactness in one of a train's rolling stock being the provisioned secret
organization's migratory laboratory.
For he having craved freedom, from the vicinity of a meager lake's poor
village he thrusted out, surely it was to obtain fortune and power.
For the country's collapse into his freedom, hadn't he taken that chance?
If he realized it, having been poor since long ago it seems he's still
within a black deep darkness.
That's right, for I reconstructed for the sake of unique engineering, an
enhanced human being living in the dark.
For having obtained superhuman power, light is to say light, even though
destitute anyone having the sun I've in fact lost it.
Seeming to disregard his heart's trembling, the train's regulatory proper
oscillation comes to circulate.
It transports him, for the iron railway, to the site of the next mission and
until the ground level's achieving frankly it was to continue.
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Profile
Family- Hails from Russia. Living in a poor village in the vicinity of a
lake. 2 older brothers 1 younger sister three males in 4 siblings. Hereafter
the Soviet collapse, leaving the village in the place of aimlessly wandering
the vicinity of Moscow, becomes the matter of contact with Gill's organization.
Personality- With upheaveling Russia, the hope towards freedom tends to
becoming the preceded radicalism but, the actual place to possess a strong
sense of duty, a man surviving with spontaneous substance.
Fighting style- His DNA reconstructed as a human experimental weapon of the
secret organization, in his flesh he's granted a superhuman-like elasticity.
For in order to produce combat techniques with that ultra ability, constructing
them by means of a computer, due to cyber skills they're one-time insertions
into the brain.
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SF3 Q&A from Gamest SF3 Fanbook: Necro
-How is his family doing now?
A. Even now it's living in Russia's poor village.
-Enhancing himself, isn't he thinking of taking revenge on the organization
utilizing him?
A. To the extent of adding to his deceived self's idiocy is rightly thought
of as cursed, it is believed that opposing the organization he shall
eventually scare the hell out of it.
-Doesn't he rampage?
A. In a 1 year interval from the reconstructing 2~3 times, advancing onto
the violent body's pain, it appears that the rampaging matter revolves.
-What is becoming the foundation of his fighting style?
A. As for Necro's classical martial arts analyzing his body's ability by
computer, it's cyber fighting arts demanded of maximum efficiency. For in
comprehension through bio-cyber skills they're directly inserted into the
brain.
-The matter of being a human weapon experiment, is it agreed that a series
2, series 3 development is also advancing? Perhaps, if those are perfected,
is it agreed that for Necro being an experiment he'll be disposed?
A. If the series 2, series 3 is perfected that outcome would feed back to
Necro little by little, it'll amount to a project complementing the ability.
-How old is Necro (before reconstruction, presently)?
A. The time of the Soviet collapse (1991) he was 18 years old. By means of
cold storage sleep with the human body reconstruction, a 2-year interval's
function rest period is blank so to speak. [the Soviet collapse was later
rewritten to occur in 1993 with Z3 & 3S as proven with SF4 and beyond]
-What does Necro regard the battle as?
A. A battle for the sake of exerting himself and winning tomorrow's freedom.
-For times of no mission and the like, what is he spending time doing?
A. At the room, he's air checking while satellite broadcasting naughty music.
-As for that piercing, is it agreed that there's meaning to it?
A. Thrusting out of the village, it's something he affixed when entering
Moscow.
-His favorable type of woman?
A. If feelings meet then OK! and if possible a soft bodied person.
-A dream to him?
A. Things such as a Rolex on his arm while eating a hamburger, jeans and a
T-shirt while driving a Benz around.
-As for the fat woman donned in a white robe in the background of the Necro
stage, what kind of person is it?
A. It's 1 person who monitors Necro's control.
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Necro's girlfriend and fellow mutant is Effie.
Necro's real name is Illia.
AAC says that he left his village wanting independence and riches, and in the
vicinity of Moscow, Gill's secret organization caught him. Now serving as a
reconstructed human weapon for the organization, his heart desires for true
independence.
Necro was tricked into joining Gillâs organization with the promise of a
wonderful future. He's the 3rd son of four siblings. He has 2 older brothers
and 1 younger sister.
'Necro' means death in Greek, if you didn't know already. This can refer
to lots of different things about Necro, really (his old life ended
after the Secret Society got him, and he's good as dead in their eyes now
that they're trying to kill him, or whatever you'd like).
In regards to a small art of the big burly nurse found in the SF3 Gamest mook:
The nurse pic's got some mighty small scribbly text around it. However, the
text block that points directly to the nurse who might be named Annetta,
Nehon, take your pick; says "gomu" in there at the beginning, which means gum
or rubbery. Also the other text block starts out saying distinctly "at first
planned as the rough for the boss stage." The lab scenario background was
planned to be used for Gill at first. So from these two pieces, the nurse
may very well be an elasticity specialist and thus may have had a hand in
turning Illia into Necro. The nurse has a nametag also, but I couldn't make
that one out, gomen.
The buckets in the same art piece might be burial marks which could be for
failed specimens, but I can't be certain with any of that.
*** pgVOni.
KYOUOSHIKI/KURUOSHIKI ONI; (Mentally Possessed) ONI
Represented nation: unknown
Birthday: unknown
Height: unknown
Weight: unknown
BWH sizes: unknown
Blood type: unknown (same case as with Gouki, see his section above)
Likes: unknown
Dislikes: unknown
Special skill: unknown
Fighting style: none (not unknown; he really doesn't have one)
SF4-era nickname: Kishin to Pierce the Heavens
Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition: The having continued consequence of
being exposed to "satsui no hadou", Gouki's appearance transfigured to one
completely not of a person. Already now for the flesh and sentiment as a
human being almost unremaining, with just a consciousness toward pure-like
combat is retaining his shape. For the one who stood before that, to fight
entirely the limit of desperate effort maybe, only the option of giving up
to die perhaps is not being granted.
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Where he is now: Nowhere. He doesn't exist during the SF4 series, and it
remains to be seen if he ever will in the future, although Gouki's gray hair
in the SF3 era may be hinting towards Oni's eventual surfacing down the road.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
In a similar way to how SnH Ryu or Satsui Ryu represents Ryu in the lowest of
spiritual pits, Oni does this for Gouki. Referencing back to Gouken's SF4 win
quote to Gouki that he's neither compromising with humanity nor becoming an
oni, Gouki achieves the latter with his AE opening and blowing apart a tree
after much groaning and growling (contrast with Gouki's opening, same forest
scenario, blows apart and uproots a whole area of ground and vegetation,
with slient lips and his aura).
Oni is described as a being with bare fragments of Gouki's consciousness
refusing to stop clinging, while the rest of its mindset is nearly completely
taken over by the onigami or fierce god that manifested itself as the kanji
"ten" on Gouki's back. He attained this state of being through over-exposure
to or being bleached by SnH, which never occurs more readily than when he
executes a shungokusatsu, only this time he fails to regain himself in his
own flesh, blood, and spirit after the technique.
Oni repeatedly refers to himself as a kishin, which is another reading for
onigami/fierce god. His body resembles Gouki's (at least from the waist up)
due to the lingering portions that Gouki's will remains intact, while
otherwise the rest of him is molded through the onigami's reckless whims. Oni
barely cares to clash fists and fight as Gouki did (he rips off the beads Gouki
normally wears around his neck and has them hover around him boastfully as
trivial trinkets), and exists for no other purpose except to consume and devour
anything and anyone, and yet never reaching a satisfactory level with any
amount of either one, constantly hungry and craving for more of them.
Although Gouki is almost thoroughly swallowed into the onigami with Oni's
existence, his will nevertheless successfully impedes both wills from
granting Oni's maximum potential strength-wise as a deity. The clashing of
mindsets resulting in the being's schizophrenia as well as a mis-allocation
of power and might, Oni delivers with quite a measure of instability despite
his imposing first impression. In his AE ending he expends a ridiculous
amount of energy and effort to make an already due-to-erupt volcano spew its
lava while only managing to make it create only moderate cracks and fissures
around its gushing cone. Again compare and contrast to Gouki back in SFZ2
with Ryu's ending: with a bare fraction of Oni's momentum Gouki's fist makes
the volcano of Gokuentou not only erupt but completely wipe out the entire
island, volcano and all, gone in fleeting moments. Even Gouki is appalled
that Oni, whom he even labels as an ashura or a fighting demon, would destroy
Gouki's long-time forged fist so utterly in Gouki's win quote to Oni.
*** pgVOro.
ORO
Birth year: around 1858 (no month or date given)
Hails from: Amazon jungle, Japanese descent
SF3-era nickname: "Wizardry's Wonderous Old"
Street Fighter 3 Second Impact: Oro journeys out of boredom to find a worthy
apprentice. He fought Ryu and defeated Ryu, but was very impressed by Ryu's
fighting ability and very intrigued too. He didn't show up for his battle
with Alex. He is now pondering about how much potential Ryu has, and he
wants Ryu to meet that potential so he can have a worthy opponent.
[Official and specially noted in AAC]
Street Fighter 3 Third Strike:
"......Spare time isn't iit." For Oro's boredom has been reaching the limits.
To see at even enrolling at his own convenience a young fighter is, not long
lasting for any one of them. One day, unexpectedly to pull his interest he's
heard of this world's rumors. "A mysterious organization, the one of the
ultimate fist eh......well, I'll probably mess around with those as they are."
[CJ's 3S profile for Oro]
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For her ninja graduation exam, Ibuki tracks down Oro and challenges him to a
fight. Oro is so disappointed! He thought Ibuki was there to reverse flirt
with him, instead! [Official] Though seeming silly at first glance, this
was one of the more thought-out battle scenarios in 3S. Both are taken aback
by their opponent simply from appearances. Ibuki thought such a decrepit old
codger couldn't possibly be a challenge as a fighting pro (her exam task is
to find and defeat a fighting pro within 5 minutes), and Oro, not in the dark
by any means with the trends and the times, mistakes her for a cosplaying
kogal there for potentially sexual favors, keeping up the stereotype that
elderly Japanese men are frequently depicted as perverts. In any case, 3S
win quotes show that Oro made Ibuki spout some praises before he agreed to
lose to her in a convincing manner.
Oro has been sensing some powerful ki for some time. He finally tracks it
down and finds Gouki! Out of curiosity to see how powerful each other is,
they fight [Official]. Third Strike dialogue indicates that the fight was
more just to see each others' strength than anything serious, and their
initial "disappointing" impressions of each other cause them to both back
away according to their win quotes to each other in 3S.
Oro is pondering how the only one who seems to have the potential and is
worthy enough is Ryu. His Third Strike ending has both of them training
unknowingly close to each other. Oro estimates that Ryu will be ready for
him to use both hands in about 30 years, and reveals that he had started
his own senjutsu training about half a century ago, in his 90's.
Where he is now: See above. Oro continues to hope Ryu will choose to
become his pupil someday given the potential he has.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Oro from AASF3
Backstory
Hearing the so-called words "not impossible to a hermit", at inevitable death
was Oro training, actually in having mastered senjutsu for having awaited him,
a surplus of having gotten overly strong was the cause's tedious-like
everyday. A sealing resemblance of his own dominant arm, he's indeed not
encountering a fighting stylist to make a serious effort. With that for him,
wasting time he's determined to grip a pupil he shall temper.......
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Story
From a faraway aperture is the oversighted sound of water. If it weren't for
that oversight even saying "this cave's time is ceasing" there's possibly also
a confident person.
To have sensed that he's mastered senjutsu not about to be settled sometime,
that since continuing living at this cave that seemed to have elapsed the
long months and years.......
"I can do anything. To a hermit there's no impossibility," is to say the
become persistent with a hermit, this made acceptable, the feeling doesn't
come out that whatever to do it is stupid.
A human being, for there isn't a fellow who can with all one's might do the
matter of understanding that it's absolutely capable. "Probably no
good......might be able to do more......" while believing that it's in fact
fine to go for it.
"Because for this training everyday which I had enjoyed....... Shall I seek
to grip a pupil?"
For Oro believed, if about himself though thoughts as they are of a hermit,
for such to become the matter of other people is also unsatisfactory.
"That's right, that's right, in regards to playing with a pupil, no rather I
shall temper one. I don't know but somehow it's been blazing!"
For the hermit Oro murmurs and, has come to begin a journey preparation.
Surpassing an age of 140 years, for as a hermit still quite inexperienced
was Oro.
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Profile
Family- Dwells in a cave of the Amazon's jungle. The details of his
appearing to be of Japanese descent are unknown. He's to become a hermit
mastering senjutsu. Age 140.
Personality- Looks slightly like he's playing dumb, with just a persistently
thinness, for ability characteristic with all faces being of ordinary people's
abilities several times as large. Killing time he journeys out to search for
senjutsu's successor.
Fighting style- Several fold of human experience and non-declining motion
ability is, to him through freedom allowing a natural body judgment. If at
first glance it's also futile to observe even motion, for an opening to take
advantage of is equivalent to nothing.
He's fond of classic martial arts training but, with him mastering senjutsu
the extent of allowing to get serious there hasn't been an opponent. To a
head-to-head opponent's deficiency a speculation's triviality, by way of
senjutsu he seals his own dominant arm. From ordinarily he's living with
just one side's arm. For some reason, the seal dispells only for the time
he holds chopsticks for meals. Again, the intervals for sleeping is also
the time the sealed arm is being substituted.
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SF3 Q&A from Gamest SF3 Fanbook: Oro
-Oro's one arm is, because of what?
A. The time of opponents to fight became no more with his own surplus might,
by means of senjutsu his own one arm as a handicap, he's sealed. Only the
time to eat meals does he dispell the seal automatically, holding chopsticks
and a rice bowl he eats a meal. Therefore doing meals to Oro is to attack
and, by means of both hands with a sure-kill technique below a blow it's
defeating him.
-Since when (from what age) had he started the pursuit of knowledge in order
to become a hermit?
A. From the year 1908 the Japanese's Brazil migration had begun, it's perhaps
agreed that he was around age 50.
-Until prior to his resolution to become a hermit, what kind of living
(occupation and the like) did Oro have?
A. The time he was young it looked like he'd be a martial arts instructor
it seems. Having tried to go to the new world Brazil together with a friend,
it's like that didn't turn out very well.
-The matter of fighting for the sake of seeking out a pupil, from Oro seeing
Ryu and Ken is it agreed that he's desiring a man of talent (being the
qualifications as a hermit's pupil)?
A. At best to kill time, if he's mistaken even though he's made a mistake
he doesn't care. If there's a fellow with willingness until he's tired of
it he plans to keep company.
-For a hermit encroaching the haze being well said, for Oro what's his
eating living?
A. For the specially changed things he doesn't eat, for meals it's
satisfactory to eat 1 meal in 10 days. In relation to food, in towns
when he's surrendered to fast food's new menu he's discovered, even not
being hungry trying it 1 time is his preference.
-Seeking out a pupil having descended the mountain for Oro being an interval
of 140 years old having developed culture shock in the towns, is it agreed
that he hasn't forgotten about losing his bearings?
A. Boarding a jumbo jet plane's roof until leaving for overseas this time's
as the first time, setting out into Brazil's towns it's possibly for pets.
Nowadays, with having discovered portable game machines, even with a
purchased game how to go about dispelling his one arm's seal, it seems
tempting.
-Is there an eyeball in Oro? Again, are his eyes seeing?
A. He properly, does have eyeballs. With visual power also the naked eye
both eyes together are suitable to a 4.0. However, with a construction
the same as with an ordinary human being it isn't understood how he is seeing.
-Is there to say, an opponent which Oro had become serious for?
A. Fundamentally, the time to do it he's always serious. Overdoing it, is
merely about finishing it too soon.
-Does he attach names to the animals he's collecting??
A. At the towns he's collected animals, generally as they are they don't
possess names. Even so they properly have a beginning with exclaiming fellows
yelling out "hey".
-As for Oro's daily living, what kind of impression is there?
A. The morning he sleeps? comes to the animals' aid and the like.
Occasionally having arrived in the jungle he's guiding and things like that
investigation squads and TV parties. If he goes out into town he also watches
movies.
-Oro's favorable type of woman?
A. It's an older female.
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Oro is VERY VERY powerful, storyline-wise. He has voluntarily
magically bound and sealed his arm in order to give his foes a fighting
chance, yet he is still a strong contender who was able to defeat Ryu.
You can see him unbind his arm in his three hidden EX super arts. Oro
breaks the seal on his arm for all three of his EX'ed super arts. When you
EX the tengu ishi super, he stretches both of his arms out to the side to
summon larger objects. When you perform the kishin tsui (EX kishin riki)
Oro grabs the opponent with both arms. Lastly, when you perform the yagyou
oodama (lvl 3 yagyou dama) Oro uses both arms to unleash his gigantic ki
blast. Also, if you defeat your opponent with the yagyou oodama, Oro
performs a special victory pose in which he uses both of his arms to draw
and encircle himself in sphere of ki (Clay's description).
Like Gouki, Oro has achieved his great abilities (such as living to
such an old age) through sheer training and focus, for the most part it
seems.
Gouki and Oro have never met each other until Third Strike, though
they've been able to sense each others' ki before then (because both are so
powerful). This would be why Oro feels like he's met Gouki in his win
quote against Gouki in Second Impact, though of course it's not until Third
Strike where they have a storyline mid-boss battle against each other and
thus meet for the first time. It was mainly just Oro and Gouki recognizing
each other's style that they've been sensing for so long.
Oro is over 140 years old, but as far as mastering senjutsu he considers
himself only a novice.
He's a hermit. Of course. This is why such a powerful guy as Oro
wasn't noticed by people like Gen or Gouki, despite how much Gen and Gouki
were looking for worthy opponents. It was only recently that Oro decided
that he must find a successor. ...my opinion is that Capcom simply is
making an excuse for how deus ex Oro is (just like the majority of Street
Fighter 3's plot, IMHO) but ah well. No biggie :P
Oro was born in Japan.
Oro moved to Brazil with "a friend". I don't know if this friend was
Sean's grandfather. Oro's win quote to Sean doesn't indicate Oro knows him
(but doesn't rule it out) and Sean's 2I quote to Oro is "Old maan! Weren't
you living in my neighborhood?!" ...it'd be funny if Oro reminded Sean of
his neighbor because Oro WAS his neighbor, though.
Apart from mealtime, he is limited to one arm for his daily affairs. Heâs
not sure whether or not he should use both arms when playing handheld games.
Oro occasionally leaves his cave and visits town. Other than that,
he lives in a cave in the Amazon rainforest.
Out of boredom, he embarked on a journey (travelling the world atop a
jumbo jet) to seek out the ideal successor to his senjutsu style. This
was the first time he left Brazil since he moved there.
A little something from the SF3 Fanbook. Oro did collect the animals he has
from a certain town, but no names for them are indicated. More inspiration
for his name though: more people shouting out to him, "Oi! Oi!" ("Hey! Hey!")
while collecting. Besides his appearance, this is another motive for peoples'
alarm I suppose.
*** pgVPaco.
PACO
Fighting style: boxing
Final Fight Streetwise: The owner of the Fresh Scrawl Tattoo parlor
(where Kyle also lives), Paco asks Kyle for help with a Westside
Dragons pattern. He was also there to help Kyle save 2-Ill from some
thugs (for a small fee) and finally, after getting Kyle to clean up
his apartment so the health inspector wouldn't bug him, Paco told
Kyle that the tattoo in a photo Kyle had came from Lou "the Skin".
[from the game]
Where he is now: Still managing his tattoo parlor and still getting
Kyle to clean up cockroaches, I imagine.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Hey, if Harry Hicks gets his own section... At least unlike Chang,
Paco technically actually fights (but Chang gets her own section
anyways because she's named after Tiamat). And it's not like he's
any less developed than say, Phillipe.
Paco owns and manages the Fresh Scrawl Tattoo parlor that's in the
same building as Kyle's apartment.
It's never really stated directly in the game that he's Kyle's
landlord, but Kyle lives in the same building and Paco gets all on his
case when Kyle's apartment has a little roach and GLOW rat infestation,
so I think Kyle is his tenant. Not sure. Maybe they just rent from
the same person and Paco is worried that Kyle's rat problem will make
the inspector crack down on his business as well. One possible text
for a NPC to ask Kyle is "What's it like to live at the Fresh Scrawl
Tattoo Parlor, anyway?" indicating that Kyle does rent from Paco.
His fighting style is listed as boxing, and he "Smells as bad as
a bum at the barfly, but at least looks like he can throw a punch".
The only time he actually fights in the game is if Kyle throws him
100 bucks to help save 2-Ill (who apparently knows him but not very
well since Kyle has to remind 2-Ill who Paco is at one point).
There's a Paco lookalike (same model, colors, etc) who runs
Tiger's Gym. I have no idea if that's Paco or if his name is actually
Tiger.
Paco's signs: "Yes, we use fresh needles. That's a stupid
question!" "It DOES hurt!" "No: Refunds, Checks, Moving or Crying"
Outdoor signs include "For rent: Call 555-DUMP" outside Kyle's
apartment and "Cheap tattoos without the prison time!" outside the
Fresh Scrawl Tattoo parlor. Also, the parlor's number written
outside is "555-OUCH".
*** pgVPhillipe.
PHILLIPE
Height: 182 cm
Weight: 67 kg
Blood type: unknown
Native place: fought in England (not conclusive of birthplace)
Final Fight 2: He may look like a normal clown, but Phillipe is
financially supporting Mad Gear by smuggling illegal items through the
circus. Haggar and co catch up to his train and beat him up.
Where he is now: Fear the clown!
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
His circus train says "R&B Circus" on it (possibly based after the
Ringling Brothers)
*** pgVPoison.
POISON (post-op overseas)
Native place: Los Angeles
Represented nation: America
Birthday: December 7
Height: 175 cm
Weight: 52 kg
BWH sizes: B88 (FF1); B91 (SF4 era), W66 (FF1); W60 (SF4 era), H89
Blood type: unknown (due to hormone imbalance, other physical anomalies?)
Likes: French fries
Dislikes: policeman
Special skill: acrobat
Fighting style: brawl murdering
SF4-era nickname: "Toxic Beauty"
Final Fight 1: I dunno. Poison was a strange-sounding generic enemy, for
crying out loud.
Ultra Street Fighter 4:
After the destruction of Mad Gear, an original member having converted to a
prowrestling association's promoter and seeming to make a name for himself.
For a beautiful appearance is with a big-sisterly disposition staying with
a manly personality, that true nature wrapping in a mystery. Aware of the
world fighting tournament's opening, wanting to put an end to a human life
lacking potential for advancement, he determines a participation.
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Poison in his USF4 opening is attempting to salvage a dying mania: the days
when Sodom entertained and Mad Gear hosted incredible wrestling matches to
the less-scrupulous masses of Metro City are but a distant memory, and Poison
can take the hint from the scarce audiences seen nowadays. After roughing
up his present wrestlers and spectators he spies a flyer indicating military
enterprise S.I.N.-sha's latest world fighting tournament. Poison chuckles
with glee as surely worthy and promotable prowrestling material should be
found at the tournament upon entering.
Whether in Hugo's rival battle scene or his ending, Poison eventually meets
and teams up with Hugo as the enormous German's manager. Poison may have
also run into Rolento on the way. but uncertain at this time and most likely
to no avail for either the utopia-obsessed Red Beret or the deceptively
convincing cross-dresser.
Street Fighter 3 Second Impact and Third Strike: Now Hugo's manager.
Where he is now: Probably still Hugo's manager. He was slated to be
in Streetwise so apparently he was storyline-wise supposed to return to
Metro City for whatever reason. Sadly didn't make it, though (likely due to
the game being behind schedule enough with delays as it was).
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Poison grew up in an orphanage in Los Angeles. Somehow he wound up in
Metro City and became a member of the Mad Gear gang, possibly due to the
rebellious and mischevous nature he had in his teen years. He lives with his
cat in a large apartment facing the back streets of Metro City.
Poison is a "newhalf", meaning a transsexual or transvestite. Poison
is a GUY. A guy with breasts, but a guy. This is official. This has been
official EVER SINCE FINAL FIGHT ONE EXISTED. However, most overseas players
wouldn't know this at all, due to lack of storyline publications in the US
and the fact that Poison didn't even EXIST in Final Fight One for the overseas
console versions. Capcom USA thought that Poison was a girl, so when
Final Fight 1 came to the US, they changed Poison and 'his' pallet swap,
Roxy, into generic male punks, Billy and Sid, because censorship was high
back then and they feared people wouldn't like the idea of hitting girls.
Poison has gotten a sex change overseas and is now a girl outside of Japan
and not a guy. Though within Japan he remains a guy looking, sounding, and
acting like a tomboyish girl. Though it's not easy for the SF universe's
public to realize what he is, examples including Dudley from his win quote to
Poison and at least one of Poison's lackluster promoted wrestlers from his
opening, Poison regardless hints at his retained masculine identity to others
such as Balrog and Ken via Poison's win quotes to them.
UPDATE: Hey, finally, confirmation of Poison as a guy in English!
Unlock 'her' bio in Final Fight in Capcom Classics Collection.
"Poison grew up in a Los Angeles orphanage. Even though Poison is a guy
he chooses to wear women's clothing. He, err, she even feels that fighting
is the best way to stay in shape and maintain her looks."
So there's no denying Poison is a man once the masses get their hands on
this. Roxy however:
"Roxy grew up in the same LA orphanage as Poison. She always looked up to
Poison although she doesn't really dig the cross-dressing thing."
So Roxy might not be male anymore overseas, so the masses can drool over her
instead. Of note though is I was told that old sources listed Roxy as a male
as well. Perhaps this was changed later on? Supposedly these bios did come
from CoJ's archives though, or Digital Eclipse assumed Roxy was female despite
old design sheet scans within CCC indicating they're both newhalfs.
In Final Fight, Poison is typically stronger than Roxy.
IMHO, Poison's voice in Final Fight 1 kinda sounds like a guy trying
to sound like a girl. His voice in Street Fighter 3 is a lot more
realistically female than his voice in Final Fight One, that's for sure.
However, I learned more about newhalfs and truth of the matter is that
a sex-change does not change your voice. Newhalfs must train themselves
to change their own voices over time to sound more like the opposite sex,
which is most likely what Poison is doing since just before the SF4 era
(training "her" voice to sound more feminine).
Poison and Hugo fight and bicker a lot, but they still get along really
well, especially when it comes to seeing eye-to-eye for Hugo's next partner.
Mighty Final Fight's Poison is dubbed Poison Kiss, along with all the other
renamed FF1 cast.
I've seen it mentioned in some sites that Roxy is his brother, but that's
also something I haven't been able to confirm. Wouldn't be surprised. Her
bio though above states that she simply comes from the same orphanage,
and talks as if Roxy is actually a girl.
"Lately, Hugo has been having trouble finding decent competition because
of his amazing strength, so he and Poison plan to start their own wrastlin'
organization, the H.W.A." This leads to their Third Strike storyline, it
seems.
He was likely originally meant to be in Streetwise. There is art
of 'her' in the promo comic that came as a bonus with pre-orders for
the game, and a scan through of the files reveals unused voice clips of a
rather energetic female that is either 'her' or Cammy. Sadly, it seems like
he had to be cut from the final version, as there are no other files for
Poison, unlike other characters actually found in-game.
*** pgVQ.
Q
SF3-era nickname: "Mysterious Existence"
Street Fighter 3 Third Strike:
"Determined on not wanting to be recognized, even by means of our
organizational capability, for the matter of his existence being officially
affirmed, at the present point is a difficult to say obtained conclusion."
(discussion from CIA Public Relations Office Richard Bagman)
[CJ's 3S profile for Q]
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Q is... basically just wandering around or something. Really not much here
[based off in-game storyline. Or... more accurately, the lack thereof].
Where he is now: Probably being pursued by the C.I.A. [Official]
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
What is Q? He makes clanking noises when you hit him and he doesn't
have a skeleton when he's electrified. Hmm... it's stated that he is in
fact a certified living person and thus not a robot, though. His gender is
unknown even (though he's regarded as a male in-game so keeping that here).
I heard you can actually hear him breathe in some of his grunts, too. He's
probably a cyborg (cyborgs actually exist within SF, example: Matthew McCoy).
To further support this, in Q's ending, there is a slip of paper next to the
projection screen near the end of the scene that says something along the
lines of "Robodexx-Q". It is possible that he may have been a cyborg project
that mysteriously escaped and hid his identity under the iron mask and
trenchcoat, which could also explain as to why a C.I.A. team was sent after
him shortly after his discovery.
He is known in the C.I.A. as "the man with the trenchcoat."
The bald CIA investigator who appears in Qâs ending is named David.
Julianne is the female CIA personnel/officer who carries out an investigation
report in Qâs ending.
Heâs been seen in crime scene photographs from mysterious
murders all over the world, 13 shots within a timeframe of 10 days.
Thus itâs been said that he seemingly defies the laws of time and space
because heâs been photographed in bizarre murder incidents all around
the world. Possibly there's more than one Q (one theory by The S being
that there's one for every letter of the alphabet)
He uses an unknown fighting style and his moves are named by
onlookers based on their visual appearance.
His name, Q, supposedly was chosen by Capcom because Q is the first
letter of Question, which goes with how there are tons of unanswered
questions for Q and very little official information on him at all (which
is done on purpose for some weird reason. Guess Capcom wants a wild card
character in reserve or something). Note that this doesn't mean that Q
stands for Question in the storyline, though.
The "Q in Ken's SF2 stage" theory has been going around for a while,
but it's not true. It's just some guy in a trenchcoat who's face
you can't make out. And the guy is cheering... that's more emotion than
Q's ever shown... All About Capcom lists every character's appearance and
background appearance (minus appearances in non-fighting games, like Chun-Li
in Breath of Fire) For example, it shows how Chun-Li was in the Tokyo Stage
background in SF3 New Generation and SF3 Second Impact. For Q, it only states
that he was in SF3 Third Strike and no background appearances for Q have
been stated. That cheering guy also is redesigned to look more human in the
SFC/SNES version of the game.
You can actually see a little of his skin by his neck.
A nice theory by Joe Grabko: Q is the black commissioner wearing a red
tie and white dress shirt during Q's ending. The evidence supporting this is
that the lone patch of exposed skin under Q's mask matches the complexion of
the man, their ties and shirts match, and after the two other people are seen
exiting the room, leaving the man alone, Q's silhouette is seen dashing in
front of the projection screen. It is also possible that there may have been
more than one Q, and the black man in the projection room left there at the
time was one of them. Although the C.I.A. as a majority discards the chance
of there being more than one Q at the time of 3S.
Also minor trivia: In the original overseas version of 3rd Strike, Q had win
quotes, albeit along the lines of ".......... (Yes.)" and ".......... (Done.)"
with the Japanese version having his quotes as merely small bursts of
punctuation, such as "...!?" When it was re-released as part of Street
Fighter: The Anniversary Collection, Q's win quotes were all removed.
Maybe it's a case where multiple people are secretly Q all over the world
or something in that case. Mysteeeeerious! In the end though, no one,
CJ's developers included according to Neo_G from Capcom Japan's staff, knows
who's the person behind the mask at this time. Q is SF's own self-contained
enigma.
Gouki and Urien seem to come the closest towards figuring out who or what Q
is, though it's more along the lines of them realizing Q's state after he's
been pulverized by them. Oro notes that Q's look has been around since around
25 years ago, most likely a reference to the show Robot Detective K which
aired in Japan approximately that time.
*** pgVRMika.
R. MIKA aka RAINBOW MIKA (real name is NANAKAWA MIKA (last name listed first))
Height: 168 cm
Weight: 62 kg
BWH sizes: B97, W72, H93
Blood type: O
Native place: Japan, Hokuriku
Hobbies: sandy beach running, finger push-ups, neck bridge
Special skill: gluttony
Likes: Lord Zangief's prowrestling ideals
Dislikes: juniors not knowing manners
SFZ-era nickname: "Ring's Number One Star"
Street Fighter Zero 3: Rainbow Mika is ready to make her debut as a pro
wrestler. She thought of the perfect promotion to make her a star.... She
would travel the world and fight famous street fighters! Mika takes her
first step to becoming "Star of the Ring"! R. Mika finally did get to meet
the great Zangief and cooperates in some way with his psycho drive mission,
though they most likely end up rescuing people with E. Honda (specially noted
in AAC), and now continues to train as a pro wrestler so that she can finally
meet him again later on. Officially, she did convince Karin to be her sponsor
since she did become a reputable prowrestler following Z3.
SFZ3 File #21 R. Mika
Real name is Nanakawa Mika. After graduation from a local junior high school,
she enters into her aim for a female prowrestler as pupil of Harmageddon
Youko. By way of a several year-interval training period, "I challenge the
famed street fighters in the world to wild bouts" the so-called plan she
debuted with. With humble respect for Zangief, she's looking forward to
battling with him.
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Where she is now: R. Mika is still professionally wrestling [Official]. She
probably to this day still hopes that she'll get to see Zangief again, despite
her loss to him on her home turf about half a year after Z3 (see below).
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Rainbow Mika- Over the Rainbow
From the time she was young having embraced a dreaming of "a ring star" Mika
has been continuing with training, it is to carry out her heart's desire's
pro-debut. For the sake to fight the legendary Russian national prowrestler,
"Red Cyclone" Zangief, R. Mika has been challenging to battle the street
fighters in the world.
"Zangief is an admirable person. Without fail I want you to lend me your
feelings!" (from Savor Sweat Zero 3 [Capcom Secret File] Aug. 21)
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R. Mika from AASFZ3
Fighting Style
A resolution to go up against opponents with all her ability is nicely a
quality characteristic. Freely using the motion's grand prowrestling
techniques, carries out a "enchanting" fight. For the bout progression
unrefined but, in that movement is to peek into a glimpse to be called a
star cadet. In Zangief's manner of fighting rightly noticing ideal
prowrestling, even herself prospering from stirring-like throwing moves.
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Fashion Style
While being a new-face wrestler, she wears a outshining-the-top-contestant
blooming-like costume. Detached from a Japanese person the vivid-like
blonde hair is, collectively in her movements to sway in non-seriousness.
The disguise of the eyes for the sake of concealing a sober face unable to
be realized is, for physique quite agreeable. Carefully thinking of
movement easiness?, for the elbows and shoulders' cloth being clipped off.
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Sardine Beach Special Installation Ring [JAPAN]
Dear Ms. Nanakawa Mika,
With it being a while since writing a letter and the like, it's mentally
straining.
For me appearing as non-suitable with defective speech, to journey out into
the world though with a little in you following a real intention and, having
picked up an unfamiliar pen.
The day of the encounter with me, you are remembering it right?
At that time, already for me 3 years have elapsed since moving active service
aside for an aching small of the back.
For I have planned to return to this world no more. Even as a contestant
also as a leader. That time - the first time I met with you - was just like
having gone to meet my original colleague wrestler Frisky. For Frisky talked
like that.
"Youko, how do you feel about that apprentice?"
For Frisky to break the ice with that kind of manner is a curious thing.
"The spot seen, she possesses both instant springing ability and elasticity.
This being contrary to a wrestler having held double the talent is to be
highly successful!"
For over there frantically above the ring a status elevation's senpai was to
spar with your appearance. For I remembered the standing goosebumps.
This kid will surely become big game......!
With my whole body I sense the innate disposition's nature that fully gushes
out from your entire body, for me the impression's quivering is unstoppable.
It's a quivering not known to merely a wrestler.
For me as a leader I believed in trying out this world once more. No, the
fact is instead of that I didn't come to do so.
Seeming long seeming brief, with you and your training everyday. Murmuring
and saying that my harsh tasks for you aren't to say that you didn't complain
did you.
For presuming me an oni-coach struck home. The world's harshness, a
foundational importance, and also more than anything grasping with only your
own power victory as number-one because you've wanted to feel it.
Though receiving insults how many times, though how many times the fencing
sticks fly, you have stood back up each time on that journey. Not even once
had you admitted defeat. To say it honestly, I am a little taken aback. Even
with such guts I didn't believe you to be a kid, did I huh. However at the
same time, indeed in my eyes not having gone haywire and from the bottom of
my heart you were being number one.
For you in the near future receiving the spotlight, surely and to the peak
right you'll go to the top. For I am about believing not doubting.
I don't suggest mere stereotype-like words, for your dream is my dream.
The dream's bridge, for the journey to aim at the sparkling rainbow, has
just begun.
Rainbow Mika. Having sent to you this ring name an included petition until
the day it comes true, I also from here as the world's strictest coach shall
watch over you. Please be well prepared for it won't you.
Sincerely yours, from your coach, Youko
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Highlights:
-Mika's "coach-from-hell" writes her a letter encouraging her to press on
towards her wrestling career with confidence, enduring the hardships that
continue to come her way just as Youko did.
-Youko reveals that she had a wrestling colleague who talked with the same
tomboyish mannerisms as does Mika. Her nickname's simply "Frisky."
R. Mika is a very big fan of Zangief, but you probably already know that.
R. Mika's large and in-charge scary female trainer is Harmegeddon Youko, who's
first name in kanji means roughly "bright child" and is cosmetically identical
to the kanji combo for "proton", read as "yoshi" instead of "youko."
Yamato Nadeshiko - Another female pro-wrestler and Mikaâs tag-team
partner. She's in the official artwork you can find at arcadefliers.com
or in SF Eternal or a whole lot of other places online. She's also Mika's
rival. Her name in kanji as a whole means roughly "woman displaying the
feminine virtues of old Japan."
Nanakawa in kanji means "seven rivers," and her first name Mika means
roughly "beautiful blossom."
According to in-game SFZ3 events, Karin and Mika fight. Karin is so
impressed w/ Mikaâs fighting ability that she promised that the Kanzuki
Zaibatsu would sponsor Mika if/when she becomes a first-class wrestler.
Karin sponsoring R. Mika is confirmed to have happened in SF Eternal since
Mika did later on become a reputable prowrestler.
July 7th- Sardine Beach Special Installation Ring
< Final Battle >
"Though he defeated me, he's a likeable person."
*single match (60 minutes 1 round fight)
Zangief (18 minutes 27 seconds shrimp fortifies) R. Mika
screenshot captions (from top to bottom)
-from the time of entrance Mika adequately yelled. "I thought of only the
feeling that there's no allowing a loss." (Mika)
-This was a given way and fallen brain buster which exploded when 15 minutes
had passed. A raging billow of an attack.
-Intense was Mika with this blow. "That was effective on me. My head
shriveled up. (laughs)" (Zangief)
-From the suicide explosion of this moonsault press the flow of battle
changed in a drink.
-The finish being the trump card treasured sword final atomic buster.
This move just took the great strenuous effort out of Mika perhaps...
-After the bout, Zangief displays flesh to audience with his usual pose.
That day unexpectedly came quickly.
Since her debut, "Zangief is an admirable person," Mika had declared without
hesitation, even with such a fast confrontation to be realized who in the
world would probably have imagined it?
"I didn't believe I was carrying my body as a newbie, and then that 1 round
1 shot of destructive power. I am now a wrestler in the utmost of interest."
A few days ago with speech she opposed Zangief, even Mika "Without fail I
want you to lend me your feelings!!" quickly responds. Intentions of the
persons concerned aren't verified, and even that unexpected degree of smooth
this time's confrontation is with exceeding reason.
Mika if to say a crashing demon machami fight would still be new to our memory,
having said that however "I'll probably come to flat-out face that 'red
cyclone'" is expected she'd say before the public.
Even so, it is. The expectation in good meaning was betrayed. Mika's awe
(and, dare to say) to the point of latent power, was far off surpassing our
conjecture.
It was Mika who took up the initiative. From the beginning Mika's figure flies
in with "My warmly welcomings as I'll strike hard with everything," feeling a
strong determination. Moreover Mika's fierce attack continues. For Zangief
having the "taken threat" being from several seldom wrestlers, the honest story
"with not a bit of room and the like, is she actually pushing me?" is the extent
of what he genuinely believed.
A strategic point for Zangief as ever the promising railway switchback to be
seen, however Mika's vigor doesn't stop. When 15 minutes passed a given way
and fallen brain buster exploded, and also another wrestler can't imitate the
springing ability the moonsault press boasts!
However, this Zangief dodges by a hair's breadth. This suicide explosion
completely changed the flow of battle. After that Mika also does counterattacks
in desperation, yet seeing the end she was tasting the subject of Zangief's
killer full course.
Naturally the "trump card treasured sword" was the chosen deciding technique.
Here is the number one only non-submitted great move that's come out for the
conclusion, Zangief undoubtedly sensed that Mika resistantly opposed him with
the best of evidence. Seeing it finish, surpassing victory or defeat Zangief
takes a distinctive theme upon having attended this bout it's to plainly
understand.
"With this begins a freshly noted contest," so said Zangief after the match.
The high wall is quite a steep one to clear. Mika hereafter which wall will
she go to scale maybe, for us it is a duty to ascertain. (Violet)
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Highlights:
-Around six months after the psycho drive was destroyed, Zangief finally met
R. Mika at her home stage for a public bout. It takes just under 20 minutes,
but Zangief finally trounces Mika with a final atomic buster. She still has
nothing but respect for him afterwards. Zangief remarks that she's got a high
wall to climb, but she's well underway.
*** pgVRemy.
REMY
Native place: France
SF3-era nickname: "At the Threshold of Love and Hate"
Street Fighter 3 Third Strike:
There are unforgivable chaps. Defeating, crushing and the heart is bellowing.
A pupil concealed in silver hair is in an instant's madness when it gleams,
for the young man's heart is dyed in darkness. Revenge's feast....... For
already afterwards it isn't in fact over! [CJ's 3S profile for Remy]
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Remy has been abandoned by his father, and his sister has been encased in ice
to preserve her. Remy wanders the world fighting the very people he so
detests: fighters, including possibly Alex who's all too happy to recommend
Remy for counseling if he's not in the mood for an earnest battle. However,
eventually Remy finally comes to terms that he must move on, so he finally
lets his iced sister remain in the depths of the Bisque Sea and forgets about
the past, preparing to step into a new light. [Remy's SF3TS ending]
Where he is now: Trying to get back to living a normal life.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Remy's father abandoned his family to go out and seek his calling as a
true warrior (sorta like how all these other 'true warriors' seem to be
doing so, with the exception of Ken). Due to this, Remy despised all
warriors and street fighters and such.
Remy's father is NOT Guile. It's really kinda obvious. Capcom
probably would have stated if Guile were his father by now anyway, considering
that his storyline seems to pretty much resolve itself in Third Strike.
Besides, Guile left his family and fought for the sake of revenge, not for the
sake of being a warrior.
Remyâs iced sister was the older of the 2 siblings.
Although they look similar, the method of channeling ki for Remy's
techniques is based on light, in contrast to that of Nash, Guile and Dee Jay
which is rooted in sound.
Gill may have a history with Remy and/or his father, as Remy does identify
Gill as the "main culprit" when it comes to noting an acceptance of hatred
with all the other emotions Remy's turmoiling through. From Remy's win
quote to Gill. Gill's overall evaluation of Remy is that the youth's
more or less where and how he ought to be in terms of emotions: keeping
them strong and prominent, and not casting aside either the "light" or
the "dark."
Remy's insignia on his jacket is "omega", the last letter in the Greek
alphabet, which can signify the end or the finish.
*** pgVRetsu.
RETSU
Height: 181 cm
Weight: 76 kg
Represents: Japan
SF1 action: jump kick
SF1-era nickname: "Depraved Monk Desires the Fight"
Street Fighter 1: A fallen monk who practices forbidden techniques of
Shorinji kenpo, he enters to fight strong opponents [Official].
Where he is now: After Street Fighter 1, Retsu went back into hiding to
improve his skills [Official].
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
From game: A priest and a Shorinji kenpo instructor (until he was
excommunicated). Itâs speculated that he's proficient in other
skills/techniques besides martial arts.
All About Capcom says he was excommunicated due to constant
personal struggles and strife.
He's a Shaolin Buddhist monk (he WAS, at least). Shorin-ji means
"Shaolin Temple" in Japanese.
He let violence overcome the peace he should have preached to others.
His techniques weren't forbidden in themselves, but making them full-
contact ones made them forbidden due to his strife which he couldn't
seem to keep in check; and with personal strife forbidden as well, he
was excommunicated from Shorinji kenpo, the institution as well as the
style. He's labeled in the Fanbook as a fallen fighting monk, like Anji
from Rurouni Kenshin.
He wasn't a 'sparring partner' of Ryu & Ken NOR was he Gouken's pupil.
Retsu was a good long-time friend of Gouken, but that's it. Well,
according to Saiki he was, and Udon portrayed that in its telling of the
story, but we're still trying to track down where that's stated. Vague
hints may begin with Retsu's stage in SF1 resembling Gouken's dojo of
Suzaku Castle in the background.
Retsu probably knew Gouken's daughter, though that doesn't really
matter since Capcom seems to have stopped caring/forgotten about Gouken's
daughter anyway. This is assuming his being a friend of Gouken's is
true.
His name in kanji means "violent" or "severe."
There's an official artwork of Retsu beating up Dan. This event DID
happen, but it happened long after Dan got kicked out of Gouken's dojo.
The details of why it happened are unknown. From Saiki. Captions for
the artwork state that the battle occurred in the midst of Dan's training,
so unless Saiki was mistaken, the training mentioned was for saikyo ryu
rather than his training under Gouken. However, if the training did
refer to Gouken's, it's a smoother implication for how Retsu would be
Gouken's acquaintance.
*** pgVRetu.
RETU
Height: 225 cm
Weight: 205 kg
Blood type: B
Native place: Fought in (and probably born in) Japan.
Final Fight 2: Retu leads the new Mad Gear in its attempt to make a
comeback. He holds Genryusai and Rena captive, before Haggar and co fought
him and knocked him out the window.
Where he is now: Probably dead, like Belger. Those windows are deadly
things, after all.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
He's stated to be responsible for reviving the Mad Gear. Doesn't seem
to me like he actually "revived" heresay given all the FF2 Mad Gear members
are completely new with the exception of Andore and Rolento.
I wonder if Sodom was the one who recruited Retu or something. The
crazy Japanese Kabuki fighter seems like just the type that Sodom would
like. I don't even know whether Sodom was the true leader of Mad Gear or
whether Retu was during the FF2/SFZ2 time period... I'd actually go with
Sodom though since Capcom doesn't seem to give a damn about the majority of
their FF2 characters, and judging by Sodom's SFZ2 dialogue with Rolento.
In-game storyline-wise, Rolento is suspected to be the boss of Mad Gear
in FF2 until he reveals that Retu actually is.
Retu is also pronounced "Retsu", but his name was romanized as "Retu".
He's not SF1 Retsu though, unless he decided to take up Kabuki and get a
spin kick and put on 130 kilograms of weight before joining an evil gang.
Admittingly, a kabuki wig would do a good job of covering his bald head.
*** pgVRipSaber.
RIP SABER
Height: 199 cm
Weight: 135 kg
Native place & stage: Calgary, Canada
SMB specialty move: dangerous weapon attacks
Wrestling federation: BWA (Blood Wrestling Association)
MB-era nickname: "Hell's Construction Warrior"
Super Muscle Bomber: He um... wrestled?
Where he is now: Dunno.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Blood Wrestling Association member.
From his Japanese bio: "...He treats every match as if it's a matter
of life and death, doing (and using) whatever it takes to win."
From a Super Muscle Bomber flyer: On the battlefield he seeks out a life
& death pro wrestling struggles. He dreads the greatest reversal.
The probable things that made him a BWA member are his hand grenades
and shovel. I probably don't need to mention why those wouldn't be
accepted in normal wrestling. Also, Rip seems to be less 'evil' than the
other BWA members in terms of personality (though that's really not too big
a deal).
He's the wrestler who came from the battlefield.
His core fanbase likes his weapon attacks and strange moves.
*** pgVRolento.
ROLENTO F. SCHUGERG (full name revealed courtesy of Shadaloo)
Age: 30-40 (during SFZ2, according to Shadaloo's file of him)
Birthday: November 15
Height: 180 cm, 182 cm (FF1)
Weight: 81 kg, 80 kg (FF1)
BWH sizes: B122, W86, H90
Blood type: O
Native place: America (nationality is East German, fought in Italy during FF2)
Special skill: establishing original trap schemes, ambushes, throwing hand
grenades
Likes: order, control
Dislikes: weakness, idleness, bats upon hearing them, gnats as they're set free
(these last two were most likely typo'ed as least liked foods for part of his
FF1 data in AAC, ditto for Damnd's height of 218 m (!))
Favorite food: unknown
Special skill: establishing original trap schemes, ambushes
Fighting style: military fighting techniques
SFZ-era nickname: "Collects For the Sake of Victory's Morning"
SF4-era nickname: "For the Ideal Nation's Sake"
Final Fight 1: A military man who joined Mad Gear, as its ideals fit his
goals of a utopian nation. Rolento was stationed in the Industrial area of
Metro City. Eventually, Guy came to the Industrial section. Rolento saw
that Guy looked like a true warrior and asked if Guy wanted to join Mad
Gear, but Guy refused, so they fought. Rolento was defeated by Guy.
[Conjecture based on SFZ2 and FF1 dialogues. Guy being the one who fought
Rolento is pretty obvious, though. Rolento DOES ask Guy if he wants to
join Mad Gear in Final Fight One]
Final Fight 2: Um... I don't know. I guess Rolento decided to hang out
with the new Mad Gear to see if they were any good. Considering that
Haggar and co. whooped them, they obviously weren't [Complete conjecture
based off nothing]. I wouldn't be surprised if Capcom completely forgot that
Rolento was even in Final Fight 2 or if they retroactively changed it so he
wasn't supposed to be there. In-game storyline seems to indicate that he was
thought to be the boss of the new Mad Gear but surprised Haggar and co. when
he told them that Retu was actually his master after they beat him.
Street Fighter Zero 2: Rolento has given up on Mad Gear and decided to start
his own army [Official]. He lays Metro City under siege with tanks! Though...
apparently that siege didn't work out very well [Conjecture based off of
in-game storyline]. At any rate, also it's never stated that the uprising
was brought down quickly, but you can tell by the fact that Rolento isn't
ruler of Metro City. :P Rolento's uprising being put down so quickly WOULD
be what would make him seek out armaments and soldiers like he's doing in SFZ3
too, since it'd make him realize that he needs a more powerful army in order
to succeed at his goals, at least twice as big as his Z2 force anyway.
Street Fighter Zero 3: Rolento's goal is to build the most powerful
military nation. He realizes he needs powerful allies to strengthen his
cause. He remembers a man named Cody, a fighter who was once his enemy.
He probably spent SFZ3 looking for Cody. Running into Sodom, Sodom is
stricken with grief that Rolento has broken off from Mad Gear. He tells
Rolento that Rolento has lost sight of Mad Gear's ideals (which I think was
an ideal of freedom through chaos or so, and Rolento's being too strict
with the military thing and apparently mainly just wanting power and
money). Rolento tells Sodom that he hasn't lost those ideals and that his
path is still conducive to those goals, but Sodom doesn't believe him.
Eventually, Rolento finally finds Cody. He remembers Cody to be a hero. A
fighting youth (who probably would have been a shoe-in for a Mad Gear
member). But when he sees Cody, he sees that Cody is now an escaped
convict! Rolento was extremely frustrated that he had searched so hard for a
warrior like Cody only to find someone so corrupted, but Cody responded
that he was just a loner, not corrupted. Cody then remarks about how
Rolento was still playing his stupid military games, whereas Rolento
angrily snapped back that it was Cody's mind which was stupid [Official].
He then decided after seeing him in jail clothes that Cody wasn't really top
material for Rolento's army, and left.
After that, he then looked for Shadaloo's armaments to equip his army. He
hears about the psycho drive, but then hears about how they work by
brainwashing people. He eventually realized that they weren't conducive to
his goals, and that one can't have a utopia if people can't make their own
decisions. When Sodom sees this, he sees that Rolento hasn't lost sight of
Mad Gear's ideals after all, so he and Rolento make up and decide to work
together towards their true utopia and ideals, once again. [Conjecture based
off in-game storyline]
SFZ3 File #14 Rolento
The explosive compounds and small arms managing experienced hand-to-hand
fighting pro. Calls upon soldier supreme-ism, he embraces by means of
soldiers for the sake of soldiers an extreme ideals nation establishment's
ambition, originally Mad Gear's member. For the sake of his intentions never
missing daily forging, diligently he scouts comrades those who are national
line-up members. Again, the national defense war potential's supplement and,
he's amidst a scheme to usurp the secret society Shadoloo. With around 40
people as subordinates are always in action together with him, his place of
struggle he turns into a trap establishing to conduct in the shadows.
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Highlights:
-In one year Rolento's force has doubled. With 40 strong behind him he
schemes to take over Shadaloo, which of course fails to happen due to his
learning about the psycho drive and concluding that the base might as well
go up in smoke as it doesn't align to his ideals (specially noted in AAC).
Ultra Street Fighter 4:
As an original staff leader of the criminal organization Mad Gear, a combat
pro at having become an expert in handling gunfire capacities. Continuing
to struggle at aiming for the ultimate ideal nation's founding for all people
being to say military personnel for Rolento having gained information of
S.I.N.'s developed ability of enhancement equipment, he schemes to plunder
for the sake of the expansion of armaments.
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Rolento's still at it with struggling to create his vision of an ideal utopian
realm. While continuing to bark orders at his men, one of them notifies him
of military enterprise S.I.N.-sha's upcoming tournament, along with the
organization's latest soldier-enhancing technology possibilities. Rolento's
sold after hearing his subordinate's report, and directs his troops towards
the tournament and more infiltrating for the sake of further expanding his
forces and global influence. [Rolento's USF4 opening]
Although the newest Ultra rival battles pit him against Poison and Cody, it's
uncertain whether or not he met either of them, much less battled them on the
way to storming S.I.N.-sha's latest laboratory. Though Rolento and his troops
are interested in the feng shui engine, it's also unknown regarding how much
they actually uncover about it, plus the Seth Rolento blows up in his ending
is most likely mistakened for the real Seth pulling the tournament's strings.
Where he is now: Probably still working for his ideal utopia, without
Sodom.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Rolento from SFZ2
Take No Prisoners
Within the slightly dirtied warehouse, about 20 people robust men were orderly
and in line before a single man.
They were with proper posture in tattered garments, standing at attention their
ears bent toward the zeal of that man's words. That man was clad in a military
uniform and a red beret cap, it's the mad soldier Rolento.
"Alright, you! One step forth!!"
"Yessir!!"
Unconcerned from that demeanor, those of them who took thorough military
training were asked about the matter.
"In battle what is essential in order to win?!? Answer!!!"
"Sir!! In order to win there's the matter of being non-selective of the
means, Sir!!"
Answered the young ones in the twinkling of an eye.
Likely often the question and answer session was repeated, the responses
handled flawlessly. "That's right! When the time comes for you to be also
'excellent troops', is said the matter of battle surivors. More slyness for
that sake, it's essential for distinguishing carefully among whichever enemy's
plan! At the expense of traps, opening and the like to cowardice is the height
of stupidity! Traps and schemes are subtly mankind's ultimate intelligence,
they're crystallizations of wisdom!"
Rolento's speech filled them with still more passion.
"Show me from now, all of you there! Come at me!!"
"Yessir!!"
Next the summoned young ones were wary. Hurrying to glance for Rolento's usual
skills, whatever wasn't being hidden, ascertaining in an instant, they were
facing him. With even nothing, such the young ones decided. However that was
a mistakened thing they realized in not even 2 seconds. That moment, from their
necks would wreathe a steel wire-like object, being raised.
"Ooh!!" The young ones would resound. By no means an unseen steel wire burying
their selves underfoot was even like an unbelievable dream.
The young ones so as to not die, cutting the steel wire Rolento turned round to
them.
"Understand?, take no prisoners (take no POW's), compassion to the enemy is
useless!!"
"Yessir!!"
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Highlights:
-Rolento the resounding speech-maker. To 20-some youths prepared to do his
bidding, he demonstrates for them his super take no prisoners. Fortunately
he does spare their lives before making his point.
Zero 2's SECRET: Rolento
Top Secret Notification Part Number 8074891
Shadoloo Intelligence Department Investigation Room D-15
His Excellency the Commander's Directly Supervised
New Fighter Acquisition Candidacy Reconnaisance Report
NAME: Rolento F. Schugerg
AGE: age unidentified
(presumed to be from late 30's to mid-40's)
SEX: male
NATIONALITY: East German
(actual unified German)
The character to become this Rolento, said to have a personal history being
entitled a certain country's unique squad member of "Red Beret", officially
the said squad's existence is verifiable, in general explaining for the unique
squad moreover is even more than considering there aren't transient
ultra-regulatory unofficial-resembling operations members.
Due to this investigation room having procured unverifiable information,
there are rumors said that he's also intensely connected to the infamous
national secret police "Stasi" in eastern Europe, all unsure.
Exiled to the USA in 1980, at the same time made the most of his experiences,
participating as a mercenary soldier in countries all over the world. He was
going the resembled way of the hearts of Africa, Central and South America. At
this time, taking advantage of the military leadership after the drug cartels'
previous existences to become the Colombia Mafia, having secured a cocaine route
to extend over Europe and America, within the USA in the low class crime
organization "Mad Gear" all over Metro City he establishes a careful
manufacturing factory. He's settled in as that cocaine factory's boss. In 1984
this factory unmasked a lockout, simultaneously insofar as the eastern sea
coastal area, even foolishly opposing our "Shadoloo" cocaine sales network, the
matter of our shipped inferior goods disorderly on the Pan-American cocaine
market a new recollection.
As for this investigation room, to learn a lesson from his personal history thus
far he has a link to narcotics routes, standpoint of being versed in treatment,
again a standpoint for consideration being disposition as assassination
necessary personnel also satisfactory to have on hand, and in conclusion he
should secure Shadoloo's market branch as a man of talent. Provided that
there's a megalomaniacal mannerism, mental condition instability caused by the
brainwashing machine a substance administering of "re-education" would likely be
an essential necessity.
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Highlights:
-Shadaloo's assessment of Rolento during Z2. They'd like him, but he'd have
to have his brain re-educated from the ground up since he is mentally unstable.
-Rolento was exiled to the States in 1980 and has had a cocaine factory for
Mad Gear since at least 1984, the same year Hugo arrived in the US.
Rolento from AASFZ3
Fighting Style
For him handling the street fight is to say, for the sake of achieving ideals
there aren't many method extents. That cause, for without a kind of fighting
ideology to so-called fight fair and square, in order to win then, to even
use however be the dirty means. In the matter of having weapons to fight as
a cause to not feel sheesh! inferior, to the defeated he's said to toss hand
grenades a deed he also executes without hesitation.
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Fashion Style
For him a military supremacist, even in advance to a street fight he wears
a military uniform. Having put it all together with a lively color concealing
knives, a hand grenade rigging utilized belt's clothing adheres to achieve the
role. As for the inner style's load, created with articles of justifiable raw
materials, the matter is a possibility to also use attacks to the extent of
springing assistance.
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N.Y. Camouflaged Subway [U.S.A.]
"Open to traffii---------ic!!"
Together with a shouting a great bursting-open noise reverberates. No people
to speak of having lingering effects after a while, from a cloud of dust a
light shines.
The New York City's underground.
Once upon a time for Rolento, it was for managing the storage of Mad Gear's
weapons ammunition.
In self-centeredness the maintained resources are still in fact remaining in
large quantities.
For the commodities are to become the source of funds. For to be widely
materialized of a grandeur-become new created world nation, to stockpile on
physical strength though little having placed it to that extent is good.
But, to one being one only without hesitation there's not a reason allowed
for mundane transporting.
The development project's deadlocked, for the left-behind old underground iron
mine road's utilization was on the verge of being its most suitable means.
This time's, dubbed the "Secret Trial Project", a performancing estimate
holding at a 4-some months' postponement, in just before 2-weeks' time Metro
City's new underground iron project is announced, in the project's early stage
performance there had to be pushing off.
This extent of quantity of weapons and ammunition is unless seen on the inside
would of course be confiscated. The announcement construction prior to
beginning must be passed into exchange.
"Each one, do not corrupt the ranks! In promptness execute your miission!!!"
With Rolento's command, scores of names of robust healthy physiqued youths
are, as through energetically mannered continue the resources' transfer
operations.
For these are also the group members' regulatory conduct's education being
lately.
Silent and wooden-box-like jute bag-like they progress. For half the members
have set about a traffic-opened tunnel's repair construction.
As for the operation under personal supervision of Rolento, it went going
through the night.
Finishing 1 week's time of forced marching, for Rolento gathering all members
of the underground tunnel's single section, he lined them up.
"Well done! For the resource-weapon-ammunition transfer has been safely
completed! My gratitude for all of your work!! ......Listen well! For us
deciding practices of war and invasion there is no group to acknowledge it!
Namely, in order to protect your own existence in the lowest eye's excepting
the goal of self-defense, any kind of bloodshed conduct also is not
forgiiven!! For us the law's observers worthy of possessing insight, to
oppose the present law discriminating the lowest eye's etiquette, the matter
of pinching the values of thiis!!!"
"Yessir!!"
A string of undisturbed control. For Rolento contentment in heads bowing in
assent.
"As all of you also rightly realize, our rising greatest hindrance to become
a lawless group, Shadoloo's existence displaying mysterious moovements! As
for I from today, am taking a special mission for Shadoloo's investigation!
In this nation to remove widespreadingly every absurdity until that daay!!
All hands! In not neglecting discipline stand byy!!!"
"Yessir!!"
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Highlights:
-After seeing the resistance he'd meet by parading his tanks through the
streets of Metro City (Rolento's Z2 ending), Rolento and his men turn their
sights toward navigating their amassed armaments via the underground subway
routes. With the heavy artillery transfers done, Shadaloo is next on the
agenda.
He's recently had his eyes on drug syndicates for Mad Gear's benefit, hence
his natural entry and interest in Shadaloo for Zero 2 before actually thinking
to take it over come Zero 3.
FF1 Bio: Reports are still being collected on this mysterious
operative.
Interestingly enough, his official FF1 bio says just that (above).
The other files on other Mad Gear members are more thorough. As they
are presented as case files, perhaps this is due to Rolento doing a
cover-up using his military connections (or because of his military
connections even)?
Rolento was a Red Beret before he joined Mad Gear.
AAC mentions former Red Beret member so that could be generalized as
Special Forces. AASFZ3 goes through a more wordy explanation: basically
weapon utilizing, underhanded, most efficient type of fighting possible,
whatever means needed to win. Aka special forces moves tweaked with a
staff and of course hand grenades.
Rolento wants to build a state "for the military man by the military
man". Gives a tiny bit of insight on what his vision of a utopia is.
Rolento was in charge of selling/distributing weapons and drugs when
he was a Mad Gear member...YES, the Mad Gear gang were drug dealers.
Rolento was thought dead after he blew himself up in FF1. He had been
secretly recuperating in between the events of FF1 and SFZ1/SFZ2.
Rolento's story from SF 15th: After the fall of "Mad Gear,"
Rolento returns to his ideal soldier's nation, complete peace through
the realization of the "ultimate defense" he desired. For that purpose
street fights are again sought for the necessary companions, with the
evil organization Shadoloo's sinister achievements the greatest
hindrance and judgment. With Rolento's field of vision coming in
about usurpation of military armaments and soldier wear, he proceeds
toward an investigation of the Shadoloo base.
It's said that Rolento did in fact sneak into the Shadaloo base and
succeeded in stealing armaments, but wasn't responsible for destroying the
psycho drive or the base exploding.
Rolento's henchmen that are with him in SFZ3 (in his victory pose) are
from Final Fight too. They were generic enemies in that game named El
Gado and several other names that specialized in knives and flaming
torches. In Rolento's victory poses, they often raise their knives in
celebration. Rolento's factory stage in Final Fight was filled with the
annoying guys.
The hook that El Gado brings down to hang Rolento's opponent in
Rolento's take no prisoners super move comes from Rolento's helicopter.
Rolento's army also has tanks, apparently, though some of those might have
gotten destroyed in the siege of Metro City during SFZ2.
Rolento's new army that he's raising up in SFZ2/3 is a new thing that
broke off of and is not a part of Mad Gear. This is why he has a fallout
with Sodom before/during SFZ2 and SFZ3.
*** pgVRose.
ROSE
Birthday: July 3
Height: 178 cm
Weight: 54 kg
BWH sizes: B96, W57, H86
Blood type: unknown (we don't know what it was before she acquired soul power)
Native place: Italy
Special skill: tarot divination
Likes: Sherry wine, baths
Dislikes: UV, early rising
Fighting style: soul power
SFZ-era nickname: "Enchanting Eye Manipulates Mystery"
SF4-era nickname: "Fate's Card"
Street Fighter Zero 2: Rose is a mysterious woman who wields the mystic
"soul power". She feels that calamity is fast approaching.... She must seal
Vega's power away no matter what. In Street Fighter Zero 2, she finally
tracks Vega down and they fight. Rose wins and thinks that she has stopped
the flow of psycho power for good, but when she is back home and checking her
tarot cards, the tarots and her intuition tell her that her nightmare is still
not over![Official]
Street Fighter Zero 3: Rose sees that she may not be able to handle Vega
alone anymore; he's become that powerful, and if she would die without taking
him with her, woe to the world. She starts to see a ray of hope in Ryu,
despite his brush with satsui no hadou when he fought Sagat. Rose finds Ryu
and asks him to battle her. Ryu prevails, and Rose, now more certain of her
premonition, cryptically warns Ryu about what to focus on when he'll be
fighting Vega, then leaves. As she's searched for Vega herself, Rose came
across a man named Guy.
Guy didn't like how she was so recklessly jumping into things alone, and
warned her to stop, but Rose refused [Official]. Rose also probably came
across Balrog later on, and wondered if she could learn Vega's whereabouts
from him.
Balrog is perplexed and wondering why Rose would go to her death without a
second thought, and doesn't understand Rose or Vega and why the two
want to battle like that [Conjecture from in-game storyline]. Rose finally
hunted down Vega and found him. There, Vega told her that she arrived quite
soon, and that he has other business to take care of (most likely Cammy), and
that they'll have to meet some other day. Needless to say, Rose refused,
whereupon Vega sicked some of his SS, likely Aprile among them, on her.
Rose manages to prevail against the girls, finds Vega once more and demands
to stop this chain of deception he thought to ensnare her with and have a
decisive fight once and for all. However, while it first seemed that Rose
would kill Vega, he began to turn the tide of battle. First praising her
efforts, then adding that "the soul" unfortunately shall not wish for such
an end. He grabs and pulls out her right hand which pierced him, and then
grabs and forces her left arm to knife completely through herself.
Laughing, Vega tells her to see her future. He then tells her that she will
be responsible for extinguishing the power they both grip. Rose realizes to
her horror what Vega means. Vega's other two plans for a new body (Ryu and
Cammy) failing miserably, Rose gets to be the unlucky one who finally does
get to become a temporary body. The mental power fueled by ego and hatred
(psycho power) returns to its long lost mindset of righteousness (soul
power's leash), Vega takes over Rose, then all turns black. Guy finally
catches up to Rose, and finds her unconscious.
Eventually the psycho drive and its base get destroyed by Chun-Li, Nash, and
Guile. As Guy carries Rose away to a hospital, he realizes that Vega is
finally destroyed, but yet, as he holds Rose, he feels this chilling fear
which he can't explain [Official].
SFZ3 File #09 Rose
Wielder of mental power substance converting "soul power", a shadow stealing
upon destruction, the matter of confining Vega is as the mission inflicted
on herself. From the previous fight, sensing it herself difficult to prevail
against Vega alone, for the sake of entrusting the mission to Ryu who in
negative power possessed undefeatable power, with resolution of preparedness
for death she sets out.
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Street Fighter 4:
Beautiful fortuneteller whom no one in Genova doesn't know. Through the
converting power of mental energy soul power she challenges Vega.
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Rose's SF4 opening has her reminiscing, of the time she defeated Vega, at
least she believes "she" was the one who did so. The flashback shows Vega
collapsed face first into the ground, and Rose's figure slowly walking away.
After this point, Rose admits she has no idea what happened (though we see
hands and two red eyes in the darkness reaching out for something or
someone), until her recollection becomes clear again. She came to outside
of a base. She steps out of her residence, feeling Vega's psycho power once
again.
If Gen's SF4 ending happened in any way, Rose most likely met up with him
prior to that. Even if his ending doesn't take place, they almost certainly
do meet prior to Gen's SSF4 opening (see Gen's section for more). Also if she
had any hand in securing Juli's end-of-SSF4 whereabouts to share with T. Hawk
as shown in his ending, related events would most likely be happening between
SF4 and SSF4.
Her ending takes place within SSF4's timeframe. After taking out a Seth with
effort exerted (she's breathing a little hard), all of the sudden Vega appears
behind her, clasps her head and demands that he'll make her pay back for
what she's kept in deposit, and that she'll add interest while she's at
it. As he proceeds to fry her, Rose sees images transferring back and forth:
DNA strands, Vega overseeing a project involving an empty prime field, the
boy in Bison's ending, then Rose shudders and asks Vega if he's demanding
payback for all these terrible visions she's seen. Vega releases his grip
on her skull after a violet ball of light passes from her into him. Ignoring
her half-question and she's already passed out, he says he'll continue to make
use of her, because she can sill amount to provisions for his soul.
Super Street Fighter 4:
Rose's SSF4 opening has her getting off a train. No matter how many times she
divines from her tarot deck, the outcome remains unchanged: Ryu, though to
Rose he's carefree and reckless, is the key to permanently putting Vega in
his rightful place. No longer does Rose assume that it's her mission and hers
alone to rid the world of Shadaloo's high commander, as she did in the Zero
series. Rose relegates herself to guiding and supporting Ryu as her final
declared responsibility, and walks away from the train station.
Rose has also deduced that although Ryu is the one to deal with Vega for good,
as of SSF4's timeframe he's not ready to do so. Thus, during the course of
S.I.N.-sha's latest tournament Rose tries to intercept Ryu and stop him from
proceeding any farther via her rival battle with him. However, Guy steps in
her path, mistakenly thinking Rose has the same mindset of suicide that she
did half a decade before. They fight, and Guy somehow learns that Rose's
mission has shifted gears to a certain extent, and she most likely wins the
battle. [Guy's rival battle intro and exchanges with Rose, and his win quote
to Ryu]
Back to the aftermath of her SF4 ending, thanks to Vega all goes black for
Rose, and she wonders if she's dead. But Guy's voice pierces through the
misty limbo she's floating in, encouraging her to not give up the ghost and
wake up, because he knows as she does that a mission is still out there for
her to carry out. She awakens in Guy's arms. [Rose's and Guy's endings]
Where she is now: Most likely keeping a close eye on Ryu as "The Fool"
apparently meant to stop the demon being for good.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Zero's World vol. 2- Rose
"Soul power" is, mental power brought out as a physical power. This ability
can be applied to fighting techniques and, it can boost attacking power.
Claimed to be a "ki", this power is one kind.
Why did this seeming "power" appear to have become manipulated? For her
there aren't many words for it. According to information, she had studied
how to use the "power" under a person called "master" for a period of
several years.
For Rose, possessing "soul power", is a kind of irresistibly forced
attribute made self-aware. This power which flowed into enchanting
human beings, could that really be likely restrainable?
"Soul power's" possibilities are endless. That therefore becomes an
invitation to major calamity should it be wrongly used. This situation,
could now be kindled like that.
The moment she sensed the existence of "evil ki", Rose assigned to herself,
an intensely grave mission. "Confinement of misused power prodigals, to
hold back before any calamity happens....... If that could be done, I
would be useless!"
Rose's new fate likely begins as of here.
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Highlights:
-Soul power is considered a mental power that can manifest itself as ki like
hadou and kikou.
-Rose can't quite explain why she can wield soul power. She remembers she's
studied for it over several years but doesn't know how she actually got it.
She's familiar with a "master" but doesn't remember ever knowing such a
person.
-Soul power is an ability Rose suddenly became self-aware of. It's not
explained how, just a fate akin to an act of God decreed that she would
possess it. (Could very well be that Rose was in the vicinity when Vega
killed his master though)
Rose from SFZ
Original account from SF2 Himitsu Hyakka
"Someday surely, your field of battle will come to be. Be not forgetful
of 'soul power', grip it, it is but a powerful weapon, yet a weakness."
Rose's master's words.
A blue, cold flame of hatred stretches in the world! Hell's fire has
become a great cluster, throroughly burning everything. ......Such a
spectacle, one day Rose saw in a dream. That is, evil soul power, a
premonition of it sweeping down on the world. For Rose, before the
dream become reality, she decided to check.
At that time, suddenly she sensed an evil presence. For her, hurriedly
opening the door, she rushed out to the street in front of the dwelling.
Several cars came in sight from the side streets, by Rose's side, the
objects would pass by at amazing speed. For her as a sigh, she stared
inside one vehicle. In there, a pale aura would release, a red military
uniformed man was riding. The man expressed a bold laugh, staring at
Rose....... That man for sure, was her enemy!
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Official Story from Gamest SFZ and AASFZ
From before it was some turbulent atmosphere she was sensing. That was
a wicked willed power, a malicious power seemingly controlling all. That
power, something she herself could treat as "soul power", that thing for
her was a thing of completely heterogeneous circumstance.
At first it was just a small thing non-excessive. However, she realized
that the power was gradually increasing. That also was certain.......
One day she saw a dream. A blue cold flame of hatred was stretching out
in the world. Hell's fire has become a great cluster, a scene of thoroughly
burning everything.......
That was surely a terror. She herself dreaded it, it would be that due
to "soul power" would suggest a thing as a great blaze.
The next day she saw that nightmare, she was considering as 1 person.
An unpleasant experience. Unless the dream is restrained before it becomes
reality......however.......
At that moment, she suddenly sensed an evil spirit. That was gradually
nearing this same manner of location. She hurriedly opened the door, she
rushed out to the street in front of the dwelling. However, there wasn't
anything mysterious. ......No! That was certain, from this direction it's
approaching! She once more concentrated in her soul.
Several cars came in sight from the side streets, by her side they would
pass by at wild speeds. She let out a sigh as she stared inside one vehicle.
In that black limousine was riding a man body wrapped up in a red military
uniform. Seeing him clad in a pale aura that figure was the one from her
nightmare. She fixed her eyes on him.
At that instant, the uniformed man looked back. Staring at her, all the
while expressing a bold laugh.......
A chill ran down her spine, he looked askance at her just standing stock
still as the vehicle had run past.
Rose was remembering her master's words.
"Someday surely, your field of battle will come to turn towards your steps.
......do not forget, 'soul power' you'll grip, it is but a powerful weapon,
yet also a weakness for it cannot conquer......"
In time for her, the true meaning of these words, she would come to know in
her cruel fate and within her battle.
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Highlights:
-Rose sensed evil soul power aka psycho power faintly at first, then greatly.
Coupled with this she had recurring nightmares of the world being engulfed
in blue flames.
-Vega and Rose see each other for the first time as Vega speeds away in a
black limo through the streets of Genova.
-Soul power's conscious mindset of righteousness keeps the mental power from
attempting to overwhelm and dominate out of pride and egotism. Rose would
be mindful of this also as she sets out in SF4 according to her opening.
Rose from SFZ2
Soul Illusion
Northwestern Italy, Genova____________
An old rubbed street of stores and houses. Advancing on a maze-like narrow
alley, several people completely blackened men. It was unmistaken from their
appearance that they were Mafia. "......It's here. Fortify the back!"
Finally seeing the intended "mansion", the leader determiningly ordered the
other characters.
"Mansion"______as for this port city's object, having heard of it at one
time, the so-called fortunetelling shop dwells an unequaled beautiful woman.
Recklessly opening the door, the men rush in. In the dim room a mysterious
aroma drifts about.
At the facade was a luxurious tablecross laid out on a low table, 2
candlestands made of silver lined up left and right. The mansion's hostess
seated, Rose lifted her face.
"What might your order of business be?"
"You, met with our boss 3 days ago isn't that right?"
"......That is correct, he came at me in the avenue in front of this shop
gentlemen. I saw a more than ominous future because of him, a word of
warning I give you."
"That evening, was a serious business discussion for the boss. Were you
to cease speaking about that, those dealings on the project from 2 years
ago......There would've been no reason to stop it!"
According to the man's story, the dealings location was designated as the
exploded restaurant seat, which the boss averted a direct hit by a
spaced hair's breath, owed to the so-called lacerations on his entire body.
"Are you, the one who led him into it? Not without having known the extent.
Those who make fools out of us, will disappear!"
With terrible resentment through misunderstanding, this was likely a
so-called honorable one in a troublesome spot.
The man took out a handgun, raised the firing hammer. At the same time
from the backdoor his newly arrived companions materializing at Rose's back,
she turned toward gun point.
"I told only of fate. Anything you say is useless."
Rose rises. In the instant the candle's flame radiantly flared up to think
that Rose's appearance had vanished.
"H, how in the hell!?" Immediately, Rose's form appeared at the men's
backs one by one. Their words lost, they dropped their weapons.
A number of people, had Rose informed every mouth.
"Go back......This is no place for you to come."
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Highlights:
-The fortunetelling knockout of Genova is visited by all manner of people.
Upon greeting members of the Mafia, and seeing their stubbornness to consent
to her advice, she gives them a taste of her super the soul illusion to scare
them spitless with her 3D-spatially arranged manifestations.
Rose from AASFZ3
Fighting Style
Psycho power being the ultimate anti-situation imposing on the soul power she
possesses to fight with. The matter of being able to convert mental-like
power into physical attack power, she utilizes her scarf as the power's
transmitting medium. Even displaying motions of illusion for soul power,
tricking opponents into confronting each other in a strange sensation, she
goes drawing the fight's base towards her side unawaringly within.
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Fashion Style
Her body wrapped in an elegant long dress, it dances in a field of splendor.
With the battle to utilize a merely long scarf, through her person constantly
she composes artistic lines. Agilely showing the card's illusion in a manner
of changing clothes, while fashion modeling. Being capable of smooth movement
with high-heeled footwear, it's probably also due to a prevalent balance
sensation.
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Mystery Mansion (Palazzo Mistero) [ITALY]
The path meanders.
Swerving through just how many corners? Some time ago the swerved path was
there after all......yeah, somewhat of a bad feeling.
For today is warm isn't it. Seems like I'm somewhat drunk, although it
wasn't the matter of having drunk alcohol, this staggering feeling, surely
not drunken such a feeling perhaps......ah, enough.......
...................
"Awakening?"
Ah......I, what am I doing. It's a female person. Seems that I'm resting
in a bed.
That's right......For I had gone astray in the path. In the street I hadn't
believed what I'd be going astray.
A notorious residence therefore, though I believed if I heard someone on the
way I'd understand it.
Getting to without knowing the path, being hot, but I shouldn't go impatiently,
that I'd collapsed. This person helped me out perhaps.
"You......yearned to visit me didn't you, boy."
......? Then this person is, the fortuneteller Rose?
For I was a little astonished. I had arbitrarily believed she'd be a more of
a grandmother.
An amazingly on the mark reputed female fortuneteller, from about merely what
I didn't know.
"It's alright even if you don't worry......As for your big sister she's safe!"
......Huuh!? How come I, the matter of searching for Big Sis had she likely
understood? I, though I still didn't say even anything yet.......
"Boy......Maggio, I presume? Your big sister......Aprile now, is not in this
Italy......All the way southeast, she's in the earth's opposite side."
For this person......Rose, my heart is being seen through......anything and
everything.
"Maggio......I also have business to face towards there! For I must fight. If
that ends......Your big sister shall return. Certainly......"
Already from even 2 years ago Big Sis is gone. It's been extremely lonely.
Gosh, she'd possibly died. Even Dad and Mom, have already given up.
Incredibly sad, but without believing she'd died, ......someone to have
verified that. Therefore I, came alone to Genova. I was anxious......but for
now.
"Go ahead rest well......"
Rose is smiling. How come though. With just that, a feeling of relief. For
surely Big Sis will come back. Such that I realize it.
......For I came down the hill road. I even became spirited.
Although from afterwards I'd heard, for Rose's residence, appears that it's
called the "Mystery Mansion". It did turn out to be a mysterious residence, I
also believe it. How did I arrive?, how did I come back are things I possibly
won't understand.
But......It's okay to believe isn't it! The divination, surely is on the mark
isn't it!
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Highlights:
-Little boy Maggio travels to see the famed tarot reader. Entranced by the
atmosphere as well as impressed beyond words, even his parents' doomed
attitudes cease to keep him from hoping that his older sister will someday
come home again.
Rose is based off of Lisa Lisa of the manga, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
(series 2). They do look really similar... I heard that Capcom even admitted
to imitating her right down to the fighting style for Rose.
Rose is referred to as the fortuneteller of Genova, which tells you
which Italian city she's from. As her SF4 bio states above, she's quite
reputable as a prognosticator.
Maggio, the brother of the girl who's become the VSS girl Aprile, once visited
Rose to ask about his sister before Rose's involvement in SFZ3.
Here's AAC's entry for soul power:
Rose's free-flowing power. From a righteous heart, mental power
changes to physical power, with "ki" called forth contained within.
With infinite hidden possibilities, misuse does not invite calamity.
Opposite to the representation of psycho power on the screen above as
a pale blue shine, presented as a yellow shine.
What's up with Vega and Rose?
Vega and Rose share Vega's soul. The reason Vega is so 'evil' is because
Rose is both her own person and who Vega was prior to acquiring psycho power.
Without his knowledge Vega expelled any capacity for righteousness out of
himself as he kept indulging into the negative energy aspects of psycho
power. That capacity along with any possibility for a mindset of justice
(what keeps soul power under control and away from ego) resided into Rose
by an act of fate (Capcom hasn't really gone into much more detail than that,
just one day she had nothing of the sort, the next day she had Vega within
her, supplementary memories and soul power).
On a side note, one of the reasons why Rose is weaker than Vega and Vega
was able to dominate is again because Vega wasn't even a very nice guy in
the first place. Psycho power feeds off negative energy, so by ditching
what little good he had, he was able to become extremely powerful. The
merging with Rose is primarily why he was weaker during SF2, because then he
was no longer pure evil.
Because Rose is Vega's pre-psycho-powered self, he naturally sees her as weak,
since she's essentially what he was before he became power-drunk from ego and
hatred, and would only consider using her as a last resort.
As you can see, Vega does possess Rose finally in her SFZ3 ending. And yes,
the whole "Rose having the good side and Vega being purely the bad" is
official statement.
Rose upon learning of Vega's psycho-powered existence tried various methods
to reform him (akin to his master striving to teach him for purposes of
devotion, despite knowing that Vega had nothing but murderous daggers for
him). She first tried reasoning via the astral plane, sending Vega a
telepathic message of warning (referenced in their pre-battle dialogue in Z2),
then soul-power-induced force (their Z2 battle), and finally a fight to the
death (their Z3 battle).
By Z3 Rose was aware that she had former Vega within her and that Vega's
soul was divided (Rose's dialogue to Balrog after their Z3 battle), and
reasoned that if a portion of a soul cannot exist on its own, both she and
Vega would have to die for Vega to finally be stopped. She also may have
hypothesized that the reason Vega wasn't stopped in their Z2 battle was
because she (former Vega) still existed. Rose fought Vega to kill him in Z3,
accepting that she'll die as well if Vega was killed by her hands. She might
have been right, but of course Vega wouldn't let her find out.
Street Fighter 2 #2 (comic by Udon) has Rose's mother being Bison's
master. This was stated to be a deviation from the canon in the RAW
issue #2. Ditto for the other stuff there regarding how Bison and Rose
are linked.
From Rose's SFZ3 backstory: The VSS girl Aprile was kidnapped by Shadaloo
2 years before SFZ3. Her younger brother (Maggio) visited Rose's "Mystery
Mansion" to ask her about the whereabouts of his sister. She
searched/explored his heart and told him that his sister isn't in Italy,
but somewhere in the Southeast on the other side of the earth. She also
told him that that his sister will return. Btw, Maggio is May in Italian.
So it's April and May. Oh those wacky parents! Southeast is likely
referring to Thailand where Shadaloo's base is.
Capcom seemed to be aware of all the things we learn in Zero 3 concerning
Rose and Vega: "same soul", "master-student relationship", "soul power &
psycho power", etc. ever since Zero 1. We're told that through "information",
Rose was studying soul power under a "master" for several years, yet we're
also told that soul power's something that she all of the sudden gained as a
"forced attribute." And later on we read her "master's" words are advisory,
cautious, caring, what you wouldn't imagine Vega passing on to anyone.
How do I feel that all this fits together? With just one small retcon
involving Vega's past revealed in his SF2 Dash account: his master
who was killed by Vega's psycho crusher taught him soul power rather
than psycho power (Capcom often calls psycho power "evil or poisoned soul
power" and queueing in for their choice on saying "psycho and soul are one
and the same mental power", "psycho" derived into Greek is in fact from the
word for "soul") Vega shed the goodness of his soul because of his
hatred for his master, and contrary to his master's words, he wanted
soul power to conquer, and that is what we now know as psycho power,
the mental energy bent on conquering others and fueled by hatred.
Vega's goodness "forced" itself into Rose, and with it all the knowledge
and memories of how he was prior to his power hunger, including his
master's words. That's how Rose would believe or explain to someone
that she's studied soul power for several years, because Vega did.
And even though the master's words were really from Vega's master,
the world's sole user of soul power just as before the Zero series
the world's sole user of psycho power (before Vega, psycho power wasn't
considered evil even in the early days of SF2, and with Vega's case it's
coined as "dark psycho power" so it can be seen as hardly a retcon anyway,
see Vega's section), she identifies Vega as her master because his soul's
goodness (his soul power self if you will) is the only reason she would now
recall at all the words of caution concerning soul power, the very words that
Vega himself hated to hear.
The two students trained with Vega haven't really been forgotten;
they're mentioned even in AAC, which also says (just further up the
paragraph so I hadn't immediately noticed) that Vega did go on a killing
rampage after he offed his master. Golden Dragon had asked me long ago
and I had said that only the students were mentioned in AAC and not the
murder spree. But I stood corrected especially with Vega's Dash account,
where everything we know about his master comes from, sans the psycho
power transition to soul power and his cautious words to Rose. The same
account called the power terrestrial though, so Ingrid being
extraterrestrial makes for a conflict about teaching soul power to a human.
I suppose it could be a slight rewrite, but way brief compared to say
Vega offing Gouken; in Himitsu Hyakka there's a character relations
chart that connects Vega and Rose with a "?". So for an extremely brief
period Capcom may have considered having Rose's master be a completely
separate character from Vega or Vega's late master, because during the
same game release period, the hints started surfacing about the "master-
student relationship" being anything but an orthodox one, plus Rose's
AASFZ3 profile states that she seems to have an "incomparable" connection
with Vega. A simple master-apprentice relationship (seen in so many other
characters of the SF universe) would unlikely be labeled "incomparable."
So what does Rose recall in the flashbacks of her SF4 opening? More or less
bits of the birth of SF2 Vega. Upon merging his soul into Rose's body at
the end of Z3, Vega became expectably weak, as he predicted to Rose as he
took over her body that the power they both wield will extinguish into
lifelong dark, yet his soul will continue to dominate. In spite of Rose's
physical weakness compared to his, her soul (Vega's former self) still
succeeds in almost thoroughly neutralizing his present self's ego-filled
psycho power, but Vega at the time believes once his new body is ready, he'll
kill her upon leaving her person.
The day Vega's SF2 body was finally ready, the empty husk was placed in
front of Rose-Vega (Vega in Rose's body), and he started to loosen himself
from Rose, hence she remembers "Vega being defeated" (either Rose-Vega spars
with the body a little to toughen up prior to entry, or Rose is only able
to reason that because Vega's husk has fallen over, that "she's" defeated
"him" aka that's all she's fated to see and recall as Vega prepares for
departure).
Either way, Rose-Vega walks away, Vega's soul seeps out of Rose (the hands and
red eyes) and enters his SF2 body. He's still extremely weak, too weak in
fact for Rose to even sense him up until his involvements in SF4, but he
leaves the area nonetheless, and Rose wakes up much later to find herself out
in the wilderness with only a base for a sign of civilization looming before
her. [See Vega's Gamest SF2 account in his section for a little bit on how he
gets to his SF2 power level. It seems that, considering his Z3 form being at
100% of his power potential, and using the SF2 "Vega the Pimp" artwork as a
reference, Vega's at around 45-55% during SF2, and Rose isn't able to sense
him until he's at least 65-75% (seems to be here for SF4 and SSF4)].
*** pgVRufus.
RUFUS
Fighting style: (wrongly guessed) karate
Birthday: July 30
Native place: America
Height: 195 cm
Weight: 185 kg
BWH sizes: B180, W250, H215
Blood type: O
Likes: his bike, his girlfriend
Dislikes: conspicuous guys
Special skill: karaoke
SF4-era nickname: "Fluttering Giant"
Street Fighter 4:
Fights freely with his self-taught kung fu, a self-proclaimed pan-American
number one fighting stylist. Regarding Ken as an intense rival, he challenges
to fight for the plain sake of who's strong. Jumping to conclusions, he
frequently completely mistakens for Ken another person to defeat.
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Rufus in his SF4 opening reads in the newspaper that Ken's the strongest
fighter in the US. Absolutely not! he bellows. He is and he'll prove it
to the world. His girlfriend Candy suggests that they fight on live TV so
that Ken will be publicly shamed. Rufus happily agrees and swears that
Ken's days of fame are numbered.
Well, after mistaking just about everyone blond for him and taken totally
aback by Dhalsim in the yoga master's rival battle, Rufus does run into the
real Ken via their identical rival battle scenarios. Ken mopped the floor
with Rufus, and his ending has them meeting up yet again, once as Rufus
plunges ahead across the desert on his bike with Candy at his side, and then
once more as the bike gets stuck. Candy's hat apparently blew away so Ken
replaces it for her as he pulls up to them, and offers a hand. Rufus about to
blow blood vessels from his pushing the bike, refuses, insisting that this is
training as well. But as Ken leaves Rufus convinces himself that Ken
intentionally did something to his wheels beforehand (groan lol).
Super Street Fighter 4:
Rufus and Candy are back on the road, and the big guy of course continues
running up the miles on his mouth odometer as well as on his bike. Due to
the latest tournament being so far away from their present location, Rufus
says his charm is dwindling, and blames that on Ken as well surprise surprise.
Ken's beaten him and Rufus still thinks he's greater when it comes to the
all-American roster. While praising Candy, recalling how skinny and out
there Dhalsim was, and mistaking a cow for a cat Rufus and his honey ride
on. [Rufus' opening]
Taking Capcom Japan's precedence into account, Rufus does most likely meet
and fight Dee Jay via the grinning Jamaican's rival battle scenario. For
who knows what reason Rufus sees Dee Jay as either a fan of his or a
potential student. Using a martial arts match point system Rufus declares
that Dee Jay fashionably fails as a would-be pupil, ending up with a
tremendously low negative score.
By the end of SSF4, Rufus' transportation gets pushed into a gas station for
a refill. The attendant notes how heavy the bike is and from where Rufus
could've pushed it, with Candy riding on top to boot. After dowsing and
gulping from an outside shower gush, Rufus boasts that he could push his
wheels around the world 7.5 times if he got really serious. Slightly
refreshed against the scorching heat and all refueled, Candy and Rufus next
ride north to find the North Pole and a cooler environment altogether.
[Rufus' ending]
Where he is now: Still with Candy and probably still traveling wherever they
please. By the end of SSF4 Rufus seems to have put the gripes and grudges for
Ken Masters in at least a temporary back seat.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
A genuine piggy, he thinks he's the strongest and the sexiest guy around, even
goes around yapping away (and yap he definitely does based on his paragraph-
sized win quotes) at the cute girls.
Rufus from SF4
Looking for the Blond
That day, at a back lane with no sign of life, a misfortuned man is alone again,
tumbled to the ground by means of a blow from the back. The blow included a
rebound from the disconnected earphone, which leaked out an intense rock rhythm.
The man, fallen prostrate on the ground didn't move.
"Alright! I defeated Ken Masters!" A rapid-talking voice would feel to cry out
with an air of importance and, for the voice's master that big frame quickly
grumbling, it took a pose of its index finger pointing toward the sky.
Immediately following that, "Kyaa, oh Rufus to defeat someone before the start
of the tournament, so cool!"
The high pitched voice this time running through the back lane, resounded as far
as the main street. A pompous body spins like a top, the big framed man rushes
over to the girl who called that man Rufus, as yet, having struck a daunting
pose with his pointing-to-heaven pose, the young girl's shrill voice seemed
befuddled.
"Hahhahha, don't praise me so much, Candy. It feels awkward!"
With the girl hanging clinging onto his big arm, Rufus of course with his air
of importance voice heartily laughed. Also rather than sturdy, the word plump
would suit both her sweetheart's flesh and joyful voice while, Candy landed
onto the ground. At their feet, the defeated misfortuned man from before is
fallen prostrate.
"Hey hey, this guy, did he die?"
Candy, crouching over the victim pinching his hair, saw certain defeat.
"Uuh..." A muffled voice, passed from his lips having gone face down.
"Ah, he survived!" Candy looks up at Rufus and, wrapped with the rider suit
like a whip around his legs, the misfortuned man's back grindingly treaded on.
Rufus', audacious even with some squealings voice, would fall onto the
misfortuned man's back.
"This unkempt blond hair! No mistake it's Ken Masters! You made it toward
the end of your rope to walk in a place like this didn't you!"
"You, you're wro.... I'm...this Ken you say, not, my name..."
The misfortuned man merely lifting his face, said in a chipped voice.
"You don't know when to give up! What a rascal Ken Masters, how shameful!"
Rufus, furthermore raises his fist overhead and, having sensed the hint, the
misfortuned man looks up at Rufus with frantic features, resorted to a
panicked voice.
"I'm...just a bandman.... I...just appear to be...the son of the
distinguished Masters family." Rufus, inclined his head to the side in doubt.
"Indeed...from what I've seen it said, the Masters family, is the story of a
famous rich man. But, no matter how I see it you're more gloomy than me.
No, naturally I myself's fashion sense, not just in America but popularly
circulates around the world is therefore obvious. But, even so your jeans,
are worn out aren't they. If you feel like wearing nicer clothes, you ought
to have sparkling shoes right! No wait!, what if that's the craze of celebs..."
Gushing out a swirl of words he seemed to gulp down, while starting to the
staggering misfortuned man, interrupted that swirl.
"My name is Thomas, it's not Ken!... In the first place, the Masters
Foundation headquarters building is separated from here no less than 100 km.
Something like the back lanes of a street like this, in which that manager
would likely have no reason to be."
"No way, 100 km! That's too far away!" Candy opened her eyes wide as she
shouted.
Rufus overcome by surprise was unable to move for a short while, raised his
eyes to the sky. With the building interval, clouds would calmly stream by.
For Rufus, finally noticed that his own defeated man was just an average
person and, in the rest of his anger, with all his strength he kicked up a
nearby garbage can."
"Damn, blasted Ken Masters! Again you produced a double didn't you! If we
meet at the tournament, you'll remember thiis!"
Rufus' angry voice roared through the back lane, yet also didn't...get
through to his still unseen rival certainly a far-off beyond 100 km away.
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Highlights:
-The latest Ken look-alike, Thomas the bandman. Ironic that Ken himself
is currently at his work at least 63 miles away. BTW Rufus isn't gender
specific: he'll chase after blonds and blondes hoping to teach Ken a thing
or two about who's the strongest.
Rufus's Treat
Rufus and Candy.
Their (pre)destined encounter sure enough, was an autumn day 2 years ago.
That day, for Rufus having been adorned with first place in the Midwest
fighting tournament, after the grounds triumphantly with the prize in his
hand, he was turning toward his favorite bike staying in the parking lot.
On the way, at quite a distance off Rufus was noticing noisy matters.
Indeed it's inevitable isn't it, because here isn't comfortable for popular
persons....
That big frame of Rufus quickly grumbling, was cured by heading in the
direction of the noisyness. That surely would be his fans from before, he'd
feel like teaching them at a place where he can be himself. Thereupon before
long, from the other side a young woman, like wildfire hurried to Rufus' side.
From after that also, numerous men hurrying came to be in sight. From the
footsteps coming up, the first woman similarly to wearing considerably high
heels but, swiftly with that dreadful speed, steadily she pulls apart from
the trailing men.
"Whoa, awesome!"
As Rufus raised an exclaiming voice the next instant, that woman dived into
Rufus' chest with resignation. The girl having in an instant buried her
diminutive body into Rufus' big frame, immediately raising her face the girl
cried out.
"Help me! They're chasing me!"
"What?!..."
Sooner than Rufus opens his mouth, a male voice cuts in.
"Bilker!!"
While observing, finally the pursuing numerous men, ran up with disconnected
footstep sounds. The previously mentioned person while breathing into his
shoulder, staring at Rufus and the woman, in order to feel relieved they
called out.
"...Pant, pant, really...unexpected to have run away. You saved us!, pass
that girl over this direction."
Having come to hear this, from Rufus a throaty voice.
"I refuse!" He declared.
"Huh?"
From vigorous Rufus' words, the men instinctively gaped their mouths open.
For Rufus before such men, a chat began with a large voice.
"All of you, from what I see this person has been chased hasn't she? The
match is her win of course! In general you, some time ago had interrupted
me talking didn't you. There'll be no gloomy irritating disturbances on my
chatter! I myself, although a charisma bike builder as the fighting stylist
of biggest names what...! commoners to interrupt Lord Rufus' words, it's fine
for saying such ill-mannered things?? By no means no. Probably no good
reason. What snottiness what indeed!"
"No, saying a match...to begin with she's bilking..."
Unexpected with Rufus' response, the young men taken aback chose as such a
trial somehow to answer back, this time a high-pitched voice's words
interrupted.
"So coooool! You're, named Rufus right? That fighting stylist right? How
strong are you? I, I'm Candy!!"
Candy peeps delightfully into Rufus' face and, even Rufus' view of her, was
with a blissful smile.
"Hm, you're also pretty damn good Candy. My strength, well it be the spot
for the Pan-American..."
"Whaat are you saying, if you talk of the strongest of America it's settled
to be Ken Masters...pfhh!"
Having incorrigibly interrupted Rufus' speech the man's head, was
self-assertively enveloped by Rufus with all his strength.
"Wh, what're you doing!"
For Rufus looked down on the pathetic "commoner", he shook his head in
disappointment.
"I said for the small fry to be silent. Disappear carrying that. I'm
talking to Candy!"
The men while with grimaces of dubiousness peered inside the envelope, the
next moment, oops an astonished voice arose.
"What's, this check! I, I'm getting it??"
"To pay the price for a lady's ignorance is therefore a celebrity's
obligation isn't it."
Already they're paying no attention to what is said and, Rufus turns about
to Candy.
"Now then Candy, already ate food haven't you? Then after eats how about
cocoa also?"
"Kyaaa, that's sweet! But Rufus, how is it with that check now?"
"What, just a petty prize."
"I don't quite get it but fantaastic!"
"Alright, then shall we go?!"
"Yep!!"
Candy springs up with a bounce, her slender arm entwined with Rufus' big arm.
As for the men who accepted the check, with the two folding their arms setting
off on foot, spread out not as they merely dumbfoundedly saw them off.
Rufus' and Candy's path to the world's strongest, it was from here that it
had begun.
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Highlights:
-When Rufus met Candy. One year before SF2, he rescued her from the
"unreasonable" folks chasing her because she skipped on her meal bills (It
boggles the mind that these two could ever form a conceivable pair).
Rufus' SF4 arcade ending comments:
The desert's caused an engine stall for Rufus. Originally having come by in
a vehicle Ken proposes "Want a pull?" Opposing this Rufus rejects with "This
is training!" The expectation is that against Ken he puts up such an opposing
degree of temper.
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*** pgVRyu.
RYU
Birthdate: July 21, 1964 aka Showa 39 in Japan's calendar
Height: 175 cm, 180 cm (old SF1 design)
Weight: 68 kg, 76 kg (old SF1 design)
SF1 actions: psycho fire, dragon punch, hurricane kick
BWH sizes: B110, W81, H85 (SFZ), B112, W81, H85 (SF2, SF4)
Blood type: O
Native place: Japan
Special skill: sleeping wherever, hitch-hiking
Likes: mizuyoukan (soft sweet bean jelly or paste), budo (martial arts) in
general
Dislikes: spiders
Fighting style: fighting techniques rooted in an ansatsuken (utilizing
kikouhou)
SFZ-era nickname: âWaits for Long-standing Foes at the Endless Roadâ
SF2-era nickname: âEternal Fighterâ
SF3-era nickname: "Splendid Isolation's Truth Seeker"
SF4-era nickname: "Continual Pursuer"
Street Fighter 1 - Ryu is a prospective warrior who was raised and trained
by his master, Gouken. When he hears about the first Street Fighter 1
tournament, he eagerly enters to prove himself. With his skill and
prowess, Ryu quickly advances to the finals, where he fought the host of
the tournament, Sagat. Sagat, however, was more than a match for Ryu, and
proceeded to kick the crap out of him. It seemed like Sagat won. Ryu was
down on the ground. Sagat seeing this, held out his hand to help Ryu up,
because the victory was obviously Sagat's and the battle was over. But Ryu
wanted to win at all costs. He was desperate to win. For a very brief
moment, he became CONSUMED by his desire to win. A strange mysterious
force overtook him (satsui no hadou) and he immediately tore through Sagat
with a metsu shoryuken. The powerful attack came out of nowhere and
caught Sagat completely off guard, tearing through and leaving a scar on
his chest, as well as an emotional scar which wouldn't heal for a long
time. Ryu didn't know what happened to him, but he did know that he won.
He had beaten the Muay Thai emperor. Ryu returned to where he was taught by
Gouken, hoping his master would know what happened to him when he defeated
Sagat. Gouken was dead, killed by Gouki. Ryu sensed Gouki's ki, and left
to search him out [ALL Official].
Street Fighter Zero 2: Ryu is encountered by a girl named Sakura, who saw
him fighting during one school day. She eagerly challenges him to a match,
and they fight. Seeing her determination despite the gap in skill, he likely
goes easy on her (she suspects this later on in her ending), and Sakura wins
the match. Sakura asks Ryu to train her, but he tells her that he can't,
because he's still training himself and feels he doesn't have what it takes
to teach others. He leaves her with a photo of himself walking off into the
distance [Official].
Ryu has found Gouki at Gouki's island of Gokuentou and challenges him as a
fighter. But Gouki was only testing him. Seeing Ryu battle, he tells Ryu
that Ryu wields the same power as he does! The murderous intent, satsui no
hadou, which is what happened to Ryu when Ryu defeated Sagat. He tells Ryu
that once he can magnificently draw it out, to find him, then he and Ryu may
have a real battle [Official]. With that, he punches the ground, and the
island of Gokuentou sinks into the sea, with Ryu getting out just in time
[Conjecture based off in-game storyline]. Ryu is left only with Gouki's
words, and is frustrated by what they mean.
Eventually, his rival and good friend, Ken, tracks him down. Ken wonders
what he has been doing, but Ryu's totally lost as to what he's been fighting
for, all this time. They fight, and Ken wins. Ken then tells Ryu that
something seems to be clouding Ryu's mind, and tells Ryu that Ryu needs to be
focused. He gives Ryu his red headband as a reminder, should Ryu lose again.
Realizing this, Ryu thanks Ken. He needs to get back on track and keep
focused, despite what Gouki said to him. Ryu has learned a lot, but there
is still more he needs to learn about being a true warrior, fighting, satsui
no hadou, and himself. [Official]
Street Fighter Zero 3: Ryu is still following the path to become a true
martial artist. What is the meaning of the "murderous intent" building within
him? He continues his journey to find the answers, and new challenges.
Wavering between giving into the satsui no hadou or not, Ryu continued his
journey. One day, he met a lady named Rose, who warned him about a man
named Vega who was trying to hunt Ryu down. She tells Ryu that Ryu
must fight with his soul, and not his physical power, or else he will lose
to that man [Conjecture based off in-game storyline]. Vega finally did
find Ryu. He told Ryu that even if Ryu destroyed his body, his soul would
remain, and that his next body would be Ryu! Ryu is caught off guard and
Vega begins to take control of him! He can feel the evil power, and
wonders if it is the murderous intent Gouki told him about long ago, then
finally, his mind gives in.
Eventually however, Ken and Sakura, who were looking for him, as well as
Sagat who happened to be going there too, arrived. Seeing what was going
on, Ken and Sakura got into a battle with Vega. Sagat, who was disgusted
by what Vega did to Ryu (by then, Sagat had realized there was more to
fighting than winning and that brainwashing Ryu was one of the lowest
things Vega could do), fought and defeated psycho Ryu. Thanks to the
combined efforts of his friend and rival, Ken, admirer Sakura, and rival
Sagat, he was contained and he eventually overcame his brainwashing to
smack Vega, and Vega was forced to retreat, shocked that Ryu has managed
to overcome psycho power, because he thought Ryu would give in to satsui no
hadou, which he believed psycho power is kindred to. Ryu has realized that
giving in to the want to just win is not the way, and shuns satsui no
hadou, eagerly looking forward to his future matches just to test his skills
and for the excitement of the fight [Official]. For what Ryu said to Sagat,
Ken, and Sakura after that, go see their sections:P
SFZ3 File #01 Ryu
For the sake of finding the answer to "what is true strength?", himself
desiring stronger opponents the journeying out into the world fighting stylist
of splendid isolation. Even as far as crossing fists with numerous formidable
opponents, that answer is not being found.......
"Also again you, are a carrier of the same power as me!!" What is the meaning
so-to-speak of Gouki's words?
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Street Fighter 2: Hearing about a second Street Fighter 2 tournament, Ryu
enters and participates to continue to test and hone his skills [Conjecture
based off in-game storyline]. He reaches the last stage in Thailand but not
before Gouki's already left wih a pile of blazing powder in front of Ryu.
He's concluded that though he made it to the end of the tournament, he still
hasn't reached the top by any means and continues to always strive forward.
(Official and from Ryu's Revival ending plus specially noted in AAC)
Ryu- SSF2XR Character Concealed File
"I go to meet the ones who seem strong" desiring simply genuine might,
the isolated lion that wanders the world.
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Street fighter 4:
Having studied and sublimated in the techniques under Master Gouken,
the splendidly isolated street fighter who piles on his drills daily.
His life condition and might is in attracting numerous fighting stylists.
Desiring the path of the "true fighting style" he's journeyed out into
the world, that power is such that it aims to engulf him into a plot
intrigue.
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Ryu sends word to Ken about the new tournament held in SF4, and gets a
response back once Ken sees that Eliza encourages him to go even though
she's pregnant. Ryu then continues to train, launching a hadouken at
the waterfall he recalls his late master's words: "return everything back
to nothing, nothing's fist." Then he picks up his bag and journeys once
more [Ken's and Ryu's SF4 openings].
Ryu's SF4 ending has him facing a Seth on the verge of evaporating into blue
flame. Then behind him, BLECE starts to flare up, and with it Ryu's SnH.
He feels like it'll swallow him, then he turns toward BLECE and fires a
hadouken at it. It seems to have stopped, then Sakura sees and calls to
Ryu from above. He tells her to stay away as the weapon starts to flare
up again, this time drawing SnH out of her as she's growing weak. Ryu
charges at it with a shoryuken and destroys it, then both he and Sakura
slowly get out [Sakura's ending].
Super Street Fighter 4:
Ryu's on his way to another world fighting tournament hosted by the weapons-
manufacturing enterprise S.I.N.-sha and its CEO Seth. He's heard that there
may be once again something sinister brewing underneath, but he's not fazed
by words of warning. Quite the contrary, he gets even more excited, how he
notes that he's been ever since the early years of his youth. Always pumped
for a battle. He looks forward to the many opponents he'll face this time
around. [Ryu's opening]
And facing opponents he does, three familiar ones if no one else throughout
SSF4. As referenced in his ending, Ryu battles with Ken and Sakura, as well
as Sagat at long last. They've all gotten stronger since the last time they
crossed fists with Ryu, and so has he. Upon releasing an improved hadouken
into the waterfall and through it, a pleased Ryu states that they will meet
again.
Street Fighter 3 Second Impact: After meeting Ken again in Japan along
with new tag-along student Sean, Ryu fought in Gill's "tournament" to once
again continue to test and train himself. He got defeated by Oro [Official],
and declined Oro's offer to study under him. Afterwards he reluctantly gets
Sean dropped onto his lap for a short time courtesy of Ken (specially noted
via AAC) before journeying throughout the world once more.
Street Fighter 3 Third Strike:
Running through even how many myriads of battles, the having exchanged with
a countless number of fists Ryu. For the imperative path of the "true
fighting stylist" is yet to be obscured as a form not established. But for
him there's no wavering. In elevating him to a guiding certainty, believing
in meeting with a newly become warrior he continues walking to the limit.
[CJ's 3S profile for Ryu]
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After Ryu lost to Oro in Second Impact, he travels to America. Of course,
being Ryu, he uses his loss to motivate him to become even stronger, after
seeing what Oro is capable of, but for the time being, he had more pressing
matters. He seeks out Ken so that they have another match. He travels across
the country (starting 30 miles from Oakland) and finally meets Ken in NY. Ken
is probably in NY to enter the Pan-American Fighting Championship, which he
wins [Ken's SF3TS ending]. Ryu wins his match with Ken, but also has a fight
with Alex while he was in NY. Ryu also wins this and encourages Alex to keep
on fighting. With the weight of vengeance off of Alexâs back, he is now
excited about fighting and searches the world for Ryu and other challengers
[Alex's SF3TS ending].
Where he is now: Still always looking for new challenges, even in SF4 and
SSF4. Ryu is always training and improving himself.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Ryu from SFZ
original account from SF2 Himitsu Hyakka
"Let's compete, to see who'll become famous first as a fighting stylist!"
On the final day of the training, Ken challenged Ryu.
"Fine, I accept!" For Ryu, having taken Ken's challenge, the struggle for
the world's strongest has commenced!
First, with the Muay Thai style kickboxing said to be the strongest of
disciplines, he'll battle Muay Thai's strongest emperor Sagat! Ryu began
a trip to Thailand.
"Okay! Twenty people from here on!"
Ryu's screaming voice resounded through the Thai streets.
In only 1 round, Ryu would knock out Muay Thai's formidable ones. Rumors
of the invincible, anonymous Japanese fighting stylist Ryu, spread throughout
the Muay Thai realm. "The outsider has a great face for defiling the name
of Muay Thai......miserable guy! I'll show him geniune Muay Thai!"
Like that, finally the emperor Sagat stood up. For the sake of "Muay Thai's
pride", he said he would go defeat this anonymous Japanese fighting stylist.
However.......
"Shoryuken!" Byubyun! The heavens danced from the vigor of Ryu's fist.
The power of the shoryuken, tore Sagat's chest! Deep red blood gushed out
as Sagat collapsed onto the ground. Ryu's victory!
From here, everything had begun!
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Official Story from Gamest SFZ and AASFZ
"Why don't we try competing, to see who will be the first to obtain a
reputation as a fighting stylist?"
The 2 of them having accumulated onto the conclusion of their pursuits
of knowledge, having casually spoken Ken's very words began it all.
Why then, it was from nothing but that which Ryu decided to challenge
the Muay Thai champ Sagat.
Possessing extraordinary fighting ability, he dashed at once toward
the so-called strongest discipline Muay Thai's peak being the man he
would cross fists with, wanting to see his own merit verified!
An embraced thought heated from previously, Ryu planned a trip to
Thailand alone.
With numerous strong ones clamoring Thailand's fighting world, himself
being a nameless fighting stylist it wasn't expected for him to be able
to all of the sudden challenge the champ, Ryu himself was greatly aware
of this. But he planned for it. That is, as the reigning tiger on the
throne summons the bait, as the Muay Thai champ cannot ignore the seeming
circumstances, his own fist would be created.......
To make Muay Thai's fighting stylist understand his reputation, with
already no less than 20 men as opponents, the Oriental would KO them
all in 1 round- amongst Thailand's fighting stylists, whispering rumors.
That was for Ryu, the secret plan for that man to summon him. Thus to
manipulate Muay Thai by fights with numerous fighting stylists, and also
with a series of victories, his own rumor sooner or later would naturally
reach also Sagat's ears. If it must be without a doubt, with Muay Thai's
pride on the line, Sagat himself would come around to smash him. With
such an intention, Ryu wanted to throw his body into a struggle
every night.
"The outsider has a great face for defiling the name of Muay
Thai......miserable guy!" Ryu's expectation prevailed, the
rumor-heard Sagat's fighting spirit flared. That man uses a
strange to say kenpo- 1 man as a fighting stylist with an interest
which Sagat was not able to embrace.
"I shall show you genuine Muay Thai!"
At last the emperor started to move. That battle would for both of
them be from then on their fate and decisive of all else, for the
2 of them a significance still unknown.
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Ryu from SFZ2
Shinkuu Hadouken
Within a drizzle at the gorge, he was coming to a thickly grown bamboo
thicket shortly thereafter seeing similar to a deserted house an old temple.
At first glance it was like an abandoned deserted temple but, here at
this place could be seen like traces of repair, not that it meant that
by no means they were handled carelessly. That temple's nave had
installed upon it statues of the two guardian Deva kings of the dual
natures of inspiration and expiration. At a glance with his eyes
gazing at the inner magnificence of their angry looks, a single man
remained idle in the center of the temple nave.
That man, is Ryu.
Now within his heart, a new suspicion was welling up.
Himself, admired as far as the world's strongest by having challenged
the "Muay Thai emperor" Sagat to battle, from this he won. Yet himself
now having been the "strongest fighting stylist", so to speak life's
"greatest purpose" ought to have been completed. However......Was the
'purpose' for himself, really finished?
Could he really say that the 'achievement was attained'?
"No!" Something within him would cry out. "Achievement, is yet of
attainment" such to inform him. Ryu would realize as he was taking
his stance.
"Hadouken" -----Assembling its idea, converted to a spirited attack
from the principle of beyond the scope of the heavens, releasing
from the core of his palm.
For Ryu the usual way was being surrounded with the spirit blood from
inside his body, as he would've released it from the core of his palm.
Still, on this day it wasn't in the usual manner. The wave motion of
ki transformed into a helix still didn't stop.
"-----Is this!?" He sensed a frenzy of power welling up inside his body.
In time 'that' having passed through the line of body vital points,
the whole ki erupted from his palm.
After a few minutes, Ryu was staring at his own palm. Before his eye
was the statue of the two guardian Deva kings expiration smashed up
into tiny pieces, having been converted into small splinter mountains.
'Shinkuu hadouken', it is a secret that surely Master Gouken would have
instructed if he was still alive. Himself, it was still something he
could not grasp what had happened, alone he had distinctly made a
circumstance happen.
Once when ancestors would walk a path, that path far and away would
be distant. And so he advanced himself onto the first step of the long
path not having gone beyond the so-called circumstance.
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Highlights:
-After learning that Gouken died, Ryu's journey took him to an old temple.
In formulating his super the shinkuu hadouken, on his own but with the
mindset his master left him, Ryu destroyed one of the statues guarding the
temple's entrance: the one symbolizing the end, the omega, expiration. It's
not the end in his sights, only the beginning and beyond.
Ryu from AASFZ3
Fighting Style
For him to aim at the true fighting style, he does not adhere to any single
fighting system. If the sake is to elevate one's own self, to contructively
take in also techniques from other systems, he goes about appending them in
his own special way. This being the result as so-called karate, judo, tae
kwon do all kinds of fighting moves mixed, he's inventing a characteristic
fighting style.
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Fashion Style
Desiring an unknown strength, he takes up living as a fighting stylist, the
matter spawned is the heart's agitation for unnecessary adornment. Gloves to
protect the fists and, wearing on his body a headband stiffened with feelings,
there's no subject of dressing up in excess. With his uniform's sleeves being
cut down, and for the sake of likely swinging his fist, the drawback of the
time that clothing would be caught is probably the matter of consideration.
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Genbu Plains [JAPAN]
A dense and overgrown coniferous tree looks up to the sky, proceeds to a
flowing seasoned valley's ravine.
This subject was certainly a desperate tendency. The matter of the time to
go back and the like, that time wasn't in my head.
Liking to have continued is the so-called job of the artist. Together with
the poverty living of eating and not eating a little at a time a passion rubbed
down, above all else to begin with it was unacceptable to have to be with
pessimism in pitiful physical strength.
I had planned for the farewell journey. Is there still in my heart the art?
Is the living subject hope? As the bend began whipping the spine, at the
mountain recess I stepped on my feet.
Even with the paced time of 4 hours, suddenly before my eyes it opens up, out
by the side of a lake.
Such a tranquil scenery I want to say. Finely split bedrock, sparsely dead
trees. At a far distance blue peaks carrying snow being hazy. A wonderous
loneliness sensation and it seemed to be just cleared.
Witnessing a person's shadow, seeming to stitch onto the rock face I was
walking close to it.
A youth clothed in a sleeveless garment, repeatedly thrusting out kicks. Is
it a prizefighting shadow boxing times guy so to speak?
Having come closer paying me no notice with enthusiasm he's wielding his fist.
"......You are?"
Sitting down I seemed to realize he was gazing at me, the young man took up a
conversation. For the young man unraveled from seriousness with an innocent
remaining boyish face, indeed the sense of a so-called honest person.
"Ah, pardon me would ya......I was fascinated with your training. Got in the
way didn't I?"
"Nah......I'm just thinking it curious for people to come to such a location
ya know."
The young man's tone to have existed thus, indeed it wasn't a rude image.
For that friendliness strangely relaxed me.
The young man introduced himself as Ryu. A fighting stylist so to speak. I
felt that such an occupation was probably directly income-less, seemingly
resembled immediately after my own also is the thought I bitterly smiled at.
"Once each year, I come here. The time I was young, I was training. Check it
out......At the mountain's base is a castle."
"Castle?"
He points ahead, sure enough there is a castle. It's a grand inner citadel.
Distant Japanese history, such a subject unseen in the mountain recesses is
remaining unnaturally and I felt it.
Again the young man still, excepting the matter with referring to that as
Suzaku Castle, I didn't seem to know of it.
It was likely that to him it wasn't a necessary matter to know.
"The time that doubt was born into my own fist, if I come here the feelings
settle down. ......In this way if I unleash a striking request, I could come
to light with worldly thoughts."
Removing such an enjoyably smiling face, the young man looked at his fist.
Ah......I see eh. Now at last, I realized it.
This young man is as the former me. Only a picture to draw just to fill up
everyday. Despaired nights at the height of not carrying out. Companions and
teachers. Passions gushing out of the scorched body, to let out destruction
and creation. Sufficiency and craving. There was where they were born.
"I will be staying around here. That okay with you?? The sun's already set."
"Uh yeah, sure, it has hasn't it......I'll go back! Hang in there!, Ryu."
"You too."
"Huh?"
"Don't keep losing to it. Isn't that right?"
For the final words, I may have misheard them. Without listening, from within
my immediate chest a vibration seemingly turned into spirit.
A completely lost color dyed wilderness. At my back the setting sun I was
walking on the path before me.
I look back at the young man having resumed training again.
Fu......and, the young man raising a fist, soared. Higher, emboldened.
Mainly looking at the young man's silhouette with the crimson coloring sun, in
laziness I didn't want to face towards the canvas.
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Highlights:
-Just before Ryu's Z3 adventures, along the way to pay his respects to Gouken,
he meets a painter who seems to see that they have quite a bit in common: they
both struggle, they both have teachers and friends on their minds, and they
both let out on what they like to do.
Ryu and Ken use a toned down version of ansatsuken that Gouken taught
them that isn't designed to kill, unlike Gen's and Gouki's styles.
Official statement by Capcom now regarding SF1: Ryu didn't beat Sagat
fairly. Sagat actually had a BIG upper hand. When Ryu was about to faint,
satsui no hadou awakened. Sagat was actually giving his hand out to help
Ryu up because he was confident he already won. Sagat was caught off guard
with Satsui no Ryu's metsu shoryuken. This is also shown in SnH Ryu's SFZ3
ending. SnH Ryu recalls when he nailed Sagat with the metsu shoryuken as
he comments about how invincible he is.
Ryu was raised by Gouken, the only parent-figure he's ever known. Capcom
hasn't touched the subject of Ryu's real parents or Ryu's birth.
Ryu travels the world going only by the name "Ryu". His family name's likely
omitted in order to keep himself isolated as a practioner of a notoriously
dangerous fighting style, in the event that he's targeted by villains and
the like, only he would be in danger and no one else close to him, aka no
forcing him into blackmail or hostage situations due to name connections.
During SF1 this was applicable to Ken as well, before he was given Eliza
and his title as heir to the Masters financial conglomerate.
Prior to Ken officially giving Ryu his red ribbon for a headband after their
battle shown in Ken's Z2 ending, and after Ojou-san was stated to have given
it to Ryu before he journeyed away from his master's dojo, Ken had given it
to Ryu while they were training together as depicted in SF2AM, injury and all.
While Vega sent out monitor cyborgs during SF2, they did report Ryu's fighting
potential to be in the range of 3,620 on whatever scale they used.
For more info on Ryu's master, Gouken, see Gouken's bio.
Ryu's considered reliable and with a strong sense of justice. During SF1
however due to his hair color, he may have been a rowdy delinquent once upon
a time (reddish hair with black eyebrows just like with Ken's blond hair),
or he may have just been that supportive to Ken's feelings (see Ken's section
concerning why he dyed his hair in the first place).
Ryu dislikes spiders because one night while hiking, he took up camp
and went to sleep, and the next day woke up with a spider in his mouth Oo
This happens to campers often, I hear.
When Ryu first started learning the hadouken, he began training for it with
no underwear underneath the pants of his gi since apparently underwear was
a potential obstacle to the tanden when he was little. Later on of course
once he could effectively harness both his ki and that of nature all around
him (and grew up), he covered up down below.
Ryu's karate belt: It's read "Fuu Rin Ka Zan", the phrase used by
military commander Takeda Shingen which expressed his war tactics. It
was the written model of his battle flags. The phrase was also written
on the signs in Ryu's stage during WW, and is taken as a quote originally
from Sun Tzu's Art of War.
The meanings were
To be swift like wind
To be quiet like a forest
To attack like fire
To mobilize like a mountain
His name written in kanji means "prosperity," rather than the far more common
character for "dragon."
Ryu specializes in the hadouken while Ken specializes in the shoryuken.
However, by Street Fighter 3, Capcom seemed to stop caring and gave both of
them powerful super arts in both. Supposedly, Ryu wasn't supposed to have
gotten the shinkuu tatsumakisenpuukyaku in the Zero games, but Ken was
(as a representation of his "fast, crazy kicks" that he had in SF2 Dash/CE
onwards). Capcom "corrected" this by removing the super HK from Ryu in SF3
and giving Ken the shippu jinraikyaku. Now it seems like Capcom doesn't
really care, and they both have their respective kick supers. (from Ultima)
Well, it wasn't really removed from Ryu, since the EX HK is the shinkuu
tatsumaki.
For a little look at Ryu's nonexistent relationship with Chun-Li, see
Chun-Li's bio.
Chun-Li is friends with Ryu. This is one of the reasons why she appears in
Ryu's SFZ3 ending as Ryu flashbacks about his friends.
He makes a little money as a martial arts instructor (using Gouken's
dojo) whenever he's in Japan. Occasionally, he'll make some money by
taking jobs that involve physical labor, which also serves as training.
His eating habits consist of nature's basics: mountain veggies and wild
plants, mushrooms and tree fruits, when in the mountains he helps himself
to wild animals he defeats with light blows of the tatsumaki senpuukyaku,
and he catches fish at the mouths of rivers. His three survival techniques
include willpower, yelling, and the hadouken.
He prefers roughing it when traveling as opposed to getting on an airplane
and having to wait for it to land. He's wary of flying as one eyewitness
claims that he even clings onto things as the plane takes off, and he often
can't afford airfare anyway.
Even Capcom jokes about how Ryu is only seen wearing a gi. There's an
official art of Ryu at the laundromat waiting in his underwear while a lot
of other people nervously look on (presumably because the only clothes he
has is the gi :P)
From HnN regaring Ryu's headband:
Ryu's headband is a furnished object that improves as its belt wears out.
Truly the man isn't he! Makes you cry doesn't it!
However, with it confidence to be able comes from the stripe, such a rumor
could fly in.
A red headband flying in the wind, this is the man's style. Pronounced
as Ryu's trademark. Here is the unexpected backstory.
Ryu in the middle of training, disciplining day in and day out, there
were pursuing eyes on his form. They were of Ryu's master's daughter.
Thickheaded Ryu, he didn't understand the little girl's feelings, and
from the master's daughter nothing until much later.
In time, someone got killed for the sake of avenging a master, and Ryu
sought the strong guy by setting out on a trip.
The day of parting, for the first time Ryu knew her true feelings that
were there.
It is said in pretext that the red headband she handed over as a token
for those on a journey. With that, no doubt there was the confession
with all her might.
That headband even for a moment won't separate them, for brave fighter
Ryu even today as his body is thrown into fields of carnage. It burns
within, a dazzling wind blowing with her thoughts. It is felt, in the
wind's emptiness, always.
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During the time of Ryu's training, as he tempered his form day in and
day out, he was being watched -- by the daughter of his master. But
thickheaded Ryu didn't understand girls' feelings, and so time passed
with nothing happening between them. Some time later, in order to take
revenge on the person who slew his master, Ryu set off on a journey
in search of those stronger than himself (according to the once official
manga Hadouken: Prelude to the Struggle). On the day they parted, Ryu
realized her true feelings for the first time. On the pretext of a
token for his journey, she handed him a red headband. It was without
a doubt, her heartfelt confession [of her feelings for him]. Since
then, He hasn't been without that headband, even for a moment -- even
today, as Ryu the brave fighter hurls his body into the field of battle.
The story itself is null and void today concerning the red headband and
his master slain before SF1, but the feelings Ojou-san (Gouken's daughter)
displayed in the Fanbook's manga story (also displayed in the manga mentioned
above) with Ryu are confirmed to be official from HnN.
From HnN regarding Ryu and Ken's training and ki techniques:
The fundamentals of Ryu and Ken's sure-killing techniques abound in the
principle of spirit cultivation.
For the hadouken, "ki" is accumulated within the body and released out
the body as a move. For the application of the shoryuken, from the
principle of spirit cultivation the attack's might doubles up as one
does the move. With the principle of spirit cultivation applied to
the body, these sure-killing techniques are unbelievable instances.
For the sake of both Ryu and Ken's learning secrets, it is said that
they were sent to a life of training lasting several years for the
master and respect for his school of martial arts.
As for their training ground, it existed within mountain recesses
isolated from human habitats. The location being such a location,
food was mostly stuff in the mountains provided with the room and
board (regarding that outcome, the current Ryu's survival considers
returning for working his way up).
The master taken by the students as not being a type of human being
more and more, that governor, particularly what he taught was of what
was not. Merely, sometimes to see counts of move refinements, for
the pair the training within was enough to fascinate.
Having copied the master's moves, Ryu and Ken struggled toward the
conclusion known as "kikouhou." (the principle of spirit cultivation,
or meritous ki)* Naturally, they were aiming for the "kikoushi"
(meritous ki wars)* of the "fighting style" that was not to be,
the martial art's lack of discipline was continuing. But for that
significance, it is said that the grouped hands of the opponents
becoming associated, the mutual feelings were a definite plus.
After the two mastered the secrets, they decided to vow on still
more devotion and reunions for either way taken.
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*-means this was added by Vasili10 for clarity.
Ryu from Gamest SF2
The main character in outline. Aiming at the true fighting style,
he's wanderingly journeying. In short he is not of the true fighting
style. His property is only a gi suit and a long headband. Unless
there's a dwelling now without a job, the meaning would be as with
Blanka a wild fellow.
Well, hearing of his graduated rival Ken's warrior training in America,
what a trip with managed expenses (how he made it is a mystery) he
proceeds toward North America.
As for his sure killing techniques, he administers the entire body's
ki and concentrates it to release as the "hadouken," he climbs well
and returns back with the scary double-edged "shoryuken," from a step
the quick and yet dizzying "tatsumaki senpuukyaku" are the three moves.
Steadily walking barefoot through the course of the seasons, regardless
of the weather Ryu sees completion of the way as just another spent
sheet (what a guy) and believes other people also don't realize he
even exists. However that sort of matter is fine either way. For
him in the game world as a resident determines let's give him
utilization!
Ryu's distinctive feature as it is, unlike Ken the words of his
win quotes are believed to raise up opponents. Ken provoking wherever,
feelings of angering hatred are harbored.
From Ryu's view though he's a good guy yet conclusively rash.
Because, unsuccessful person that he is, surely he'd realize from the
lost purse. Dreadful!
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Highlights:
-Ryu, the isolated warrior, strives forward rain or shine, barefoot anywhere.
Ryu from Gamest SF2D
To Live the Struggle Within
A man constantly walking wandering throughout the world aiming at the
true fighting style, this is all of what Ryu is as a human being. This
is with exception from his current telling to words, and also not
expecting to be discovered....
That day...Ryu taking in the sunlight amidst the 1 man he's opposing.
That man's name is Ken. From the time of childhood of sleeping and
eating together, the man who practiced moves under the same master.
But now with the surroundings of the 2, not reaching out some sense
of being wrapped up in a limited tense atmosphere. So to speak, just
the place taking the form of a queer space. Of course, now it doesn't
mean that it's become a well-matched showdown spot. However, this
showdown is always that difference which the 2 of them realize with
frequent bouts. It is Ryu aiming at the "true fighting style" taking
on Ken his good friend, again defeating yet not becoming enemies as
it is.
The match being indeed an advancing on par, from both sides as
opponents up against each other as storms their fists are fired out.
But in conclusion, the two men cannot reach at the right and wrong within.
The consequence of one's own possessed power run out, entirely by
sheer strength, already which one will remain with willpower maintained.
After that, the 2 of them finish up with their parting replies "we'll
meet again having become stronger together" joined by a firm promise,
each to the direction he pleases and leaves.
From that Ryu's journey for the "true fighting style" began. For some
10 years he's parted from his friend and rival Ken, in Japan, running
around in the world, crossing fists with all fighting move users. Once
at a street corner, and once again at a back alley, everyday the fight
repeated he stood above the brink of death.
Standing up to breaking the deadlock with everybody, they were
formidable enemies. However Ryu on the surface never to say makes light
of this, whether it's feeling listless from wounds or also the struggle
continually he reaps victory. But, Ryu at any rate cannot be conceited
of his own "true fighting style."
As a Fighting Stylist, as a Man...
And so time flew past. With Ryu returning to Japan, repeatedly referring
to answering his own questions again his self thrown into an intense
pursuit of knowledge. "Last time's journey for myself really, what was
gained?" "What were the fighting moves I picked up myself?"...thru days
and months earnestly he irritatingly brought out no answer and, his own
disappointing defied self-abhorrence, for Ryu his own body taunted while
repressing the torment, only a single discipline the discipline piled up.
The agonizing pursuit of knowledge continuing inside, unawaringly Ryu's
memory of Ken's appearance was becoming such that it surfaced. Days of
childhood, the man with whom he himself walked the same path of martial
arts together everyday, Ken. Whichever painful matter was met, that man
the eternal rival there as time able to renew as a spring. Of course
his self now was granted the answer with no choice but the guy!
From the seeming feeling Ryu's pursuit of knowledge intensely increases
still more, takes moves to be polished.
The invincible dragon "shoryuken", the yelling bullet "hadouken", the
raging billows of rotating succession "tatsumaki senpuukyaku"...and
also new overhead throws from Japan's judo, mastering shoulder throws,
the linking of moves and also the polishing has begun.
Just about everything feared to be finished shown regularly in Ryu's
heart, Ken after going overseas for warrior training was unexpected.
In time Ryu set aside to write his worthy opponent a challenge letter
and once again parted from Japan. In order for his rival and the promise
carried out, and for becoming the true fighting stylist. But before the
bashed gate to the reigning world champions, the name "Ryu" will be given
notice in the world not becoming forgotten. To accomplish it for a long
time being separated from the fighting sites will become as the opposing
trial for oneself, also up against the best lifelong rival would be from
becoming the minimum limit's courtesy.
Ryu's journey aiming at the "true fighting style" now, it has once again
started here.
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Highlights:
-Ryu, facing Ken, fighting others, refining his way of fighting: they're
all important to him. And he's tied to Ken by a promise to always meet
again to gauge how strong they've both become.
Prologue 1 (Ryu) from SF4
"Yo, karate man! Going to the waterfall after this?"
As Ryu had been walking through the dusty small town, his feet were taken to
a stop by an abrupt voice. He turns around and, while he took a full swing a
large mug man with a whitish paper held in hand, turns toward and walks over
to this person.
Before long it was that they seemed to be merely leaving the diner.
"From some time ago you were searching for the post office's Bob, good thing
he's entrusted me with it. The letter to you I mean! Here."
"Right, thanks."
Having recognized the address side of the envelope, of the recognized
characters only the post office and Ryu's name he had remembered.
"Though good thing it got through huh, that letter."
A peering man next to them, speaks in a seemingly amazed voice.
"Good thing that Bob and I know about you, otherwise it wouldn't be delivered."
"Appears so doesn't it."
Ryu laughed.
"Before this I had sent a postcard to a friend but, which reminds me it perhaps
wasn't at his address. Therefore probably, I likely wrote to the destination
for this postmark."
"Indeed isn't it. ...Or rather the residence and all, even you, weren't lodging
up in the mountains were you eh. If it's the case of a serious matter of a
letter what'll you do? You're also who you are but, even a friend is a friend."
Honestly, as the man shaking his head folds together his big arms.
"Is everyone who's called a karate man like that??"
"Dunno, somehow probably."
Laughing yet again, Ryu bade the man farewell. He walks a while and, the path
encricled by a deep forest became a mountain trail. Most recently he's had his
training place as the waterfall at this mountain's interior. While going up
the slope, Ryu recalled the sent postcard from 2 weeks-time before.
I want to fulfill the promise.
Is what he had written there.
"...Ken, how much stronger have you become?"
Gradually the waterfall's sound became bigger, abruptly the forest interrupted
him. For before his eyes the great waterfall, is running down far off from the
mountain up above. Admiring the waterfall he takes a breath and, for Ryu
having held still at that spot, once more he looked over the envelope. With it
held in his hand the envelope's light, he understands that inside is likely
quite a brief letter. He's become stronger as a fighting stylist, moreover
he's matured in proportion to it, the situations for the then fellow pupils
Ryu and Ken changed significantly. But for the promise at the time of
separating, from olden days it's always been the same.
_____Surely, we'll battle once again.
Ryu opened the envelope.
From before he opens the folded stationery, the answer is still even there, as
that was even around that same time formerly.
[I got your letter. At this time's tournament let's settle it! KEN]
Holding the payload of the envelope, Ryu stood up. In this year's tournament
also, similarly to the last time, the sponsor he hears is a mark of suspicion.
But Ryu's heart was quiet.
"For me it's just, I must do only what I can do. Isn't that right, Ken."
He looks at the sky and, as he seems to swim in a blue sea, a white bird
dashed off southward.
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Highlights:
-the prelude to Ryu's SF4 opening.
It's officially stated that the grave of Ryu's master Gouken is at Suzaku
Castle, which is what the significance of the location is. It's either in
Osaka or Yamanashi. Suzaku is one of the four godly beasts in Chinese myth
(there's more which can be seen in Fei-Long's SSF2 stage). Just one more
thing, his Z3 stage is named after another celestial beast, Genbu, for the
Genbu Plains.
Although he travels the world, he visits his master's grave every
year at Suzaku Castle. The castle itself dates back to the Warring States
Period, as does the style of bushinryu (see Guy's Zero's World account for
more).
A translation of official information about Ryu's SF2 stage (where it
is mentioned that Ryu is the one who invited Ken to SF2):
Japan (Ryu) Suzaku Castle
Ryu trained in the Suzaku Castle dojo indebted formerly as his old home.
As it appears that the world's champions start to move, and from rumors
heard, he sent a letter out to Ken.
With training also concluded while the wind's blowing 10 meters above
ground, if sometime or other comes a day of a trapped struggle with a
formidable enemy for the sake of a fighting stage it would be at dusk
for Ryu, a sudden dojo escape.......
"Good, this is alright, a place for practice yet to believe that
something's missing."
It's to become the beginning of a new struggle.
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Ryu's stage has the battles take place atop a rickety set of planks when
the early-morning moon is still out. The castle's roof in the background
may be where he eats breakfast, where bats appear to be seen flying when
he loses.
A theory about Kyokushinkai as Ryu & Ken's original style in SF1:
Saiki first mentioned this, but like Gill's organization known as the
"Illuminati", I have yet to see this explcitly written anywhere, but I
feel I can piece together a reason why it came about, and yes this involves
one of your SF rip-offs listed, aerialgroove.
SF1 and SF2 found inspiration through several mangas according to Gamest's
SF2 pre-mook. One of them was Karate Baka Ichidai (The Age of Karate Idiots),
whose protagonist was the Kyokushin karate legend Soeno Yoshiji, a fictional
version of the real-life Kyokushin practitioner of the same name. This karate
stylist was a model for Ryu, but I've never read Capcom admitting this
outright. Kyokushin's arsenal includes punches, kicks, and blocks, much like
Ryu & Ken's basic moves in SF1.
The real Soeno Yoshiji eventually progressed from purely kyokushin into
his own style which combined Kyokushin moves with grappling from judo
and some Muay Thai. He called this new school of karate Shidokan. If
Capcom USA had said Shidokan rather than Shotokan for Ryu and Ken,
which was formulated long before either Shidokan or Kyokushin, they
would've been closer to the truth, for in SF2, Ryu & Ken now have grabs,
throws, and close-up elbow & knee blows. Again Capcom Japan doesn't give
specific style names.
Just a theory based on facts, but nonetheless a justification for Saiki's
statement as well as a possible beginning for the transition to a toned-down
ansatsuken, its roots no longer satsui no hadou (murderous surges), but
instead kikouhou (the principle of spirit cultivation or meritous ki).
The chronological order is Shotokan, Kyokushin, Shidokan. Kyokushin's founder
Oyama Masutatsu first studied under Shotokan's founder Funakoshi Ginchin before
creating his own style, and Soeno Yoshiji under Oyama's tutelage later blended
Kyokushin karate with Muay Thai and judo to form Shidokan.
Hence I stand by my statement long ago that Kyokushin is a harder-hitting
derivative of Shotokan.
Yes there was a SF1 tournament. What the Zero account adds is more of what
happened as Ryu was in Thailand. Ryu had heard of Sagat before reaching
Thailand, but Sagat had paid Ryu no attention until word reached his ears of
what a laughingstock this foreign nobody was making out of Sagat's style in
his own home turf. Sagat didn't know or care where else Ryu had gone to fight
or who else he defeated before challenging him, because he was that sure no
one could beat him, and that was all that mattered. SF1 the first World
Fighting Championship was set up by Sagat's over-inflated pride to all.
Defeat Sagat and you're the champion was the premise. Many others entered for
various reasons, both faces seen and unseen in the game, and Ryu didn't
necessarily fight them all storywise to get to the end.
Ryu wanted Sagat to really notice him from mopping the floor with Sagat's
fellow Muay Thai practitioners, which made Sagat furiously challenge Ryu
instead of the reverse as all previous contenders had done (Ryu was quite
the cocky prideful jerk back then, not just Sagat), and SF1 was finished
with Sagat's scar and defeat delivered.
Ryu's SF4 arcade ending comments:
Ryu defeated Seth suppressing a severe fight, he discovers an enormous power
to break out from the apparatus "BLECE". Feeling from BLECE sinister "satsui
no hadou", such that it would come to overpower Ryu, immediately he takes a
stance. With a hadouken which had defeated many an opponent, he was to attempt
for BLECE's destruction.
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Ryu from AASF3
Backstory
Wandering through various nations of the world the splendidly isolated fighting
stylist. For a personality overflowing of a stoic-like posture and a sense of
justice towards the street fight, numerous fighting stylists fascinated, even
highly clamored with "he is the strongest". However, with that not about
living extravagantly, for Ryu the struggle continues. Desiring "true
strength."
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Story
Ryu himself, to submerge in Japan's hot springs bath was a matter of in a
little while.
Ken saying "there's a guy I want to face", they in fact designated the
Japanese hot spring hotel as a link-up spot.
"Even a little bit of hot spring moteling is fine once in a while isn't it."
In the hardened shoulder the hot water strikes to hit the spot, even though
like fallen marble it's intensely bursting open.
"Even Ken, already a 3-year-old boy's father eh....... To also become a
father and, keeping company with me secluding myself in the mountains is also
major isn't it."
Immersing into his homeland Japan's hot springs, as expected of even Ryu
having been able to not sense the passing of time.
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Profile
Family- Hails from Japan. For friends being in the world, a fighting
lifetime to roam desiring as of yet true strength. As for his friend Ken
from having raised a child a meeting wasn't bad.
Personality- A sense of justice loyal to duty is strong. Consequently to
say of training, with the fighting world being about injuring opponents, for
his conduct and speech, through discretion he's becoming judicious.
Fighting style- Uses characteristic fighting techniques based on karate.
Diametrically opposite to Ken who likes flashy motions, with steadiness for
a non-pointless technique's framework observing also in conservativeness is,
in a moment's good chance showing a mere brilliant intensity. As for the
flair of those moves, it's the only thing needed to repeatedly fascinate
head-to-head opponents.
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SF3 Q&A from Gamest SF3 Fanbook: Ryu
-Is Ryu this time, awakening to satsui no hadou?
A. A goal of his pursuit of knowledge's journey, is also about conquering
satsui no hadou.
-Why, was he without using the kuuchuu tatsumaki senpuukyaku?
A. In the move's slicing part not to go in consent being dropped, it's
refraining it from combat.
-On grasping the shin shoryuken, is this from having been influenced by Ken's
shoryureppa and shinryuken?
A. In the midst of a certain battle, up until now without it within swelling
ki the time he struck with a shoryuken, within unconsciousness the dispersed
technique, became the shin shoryuken's original form.
-Is there a secret story and the like for the denjin hadouken's grasping?
A. For hadou's ki's way of refining, in a brief interval is about allowing
to turn around in alternation, being capable of allowing to carry electricity
in hadou. This is to possess negativity's disposition, a tiny interval of
satsui no hadou's ki, with the matter of controlling it's become a thing of
possibility. Most likely if satsui no hadou were to be completely conquered,
it's agreed that the denjin hadouken would not become useable.
-This time's last boss "Gill" also in regards to Ryu aiming for the srongest
fighting stylist, is it agreed that he would not be merely too much of a
checkpoint?
A. Even if you'd say this time's boss, Gill also in regards to Ryu aiming for
the strongest fighting stylist isn't too much of a checkpoint such is
possible. Because saying further it's agreed that the strong ones are his
objectives and such to acquire? Unexpectedly within the battle with Sean,
it's probably also about discovering something as a true fighting stylist.
-What are the contents of Ryu's shouldering rucksack?
A. A change of fighting uniforms.
-How does Ryu feel, about his rival "Ken", having gone as far as marriage
and kids?
A. Just to fight opposing his self with all his might, to digest having
family even work he's respecting Ken.
-With this work is there a fighting stylist to whom Ryu takes off his hat?
A. Opposing Dudley's indomitable spirit and policy, he's thinking of him
as an Oriental samurai.
-What age is this time's Ryu?
A. From SF3's year 1997 building on incidents from the year 200X, Ryu born
in 1964 it's agreed that he's around 33 years old.
-His favorable type of woman?
A. As for his favorable type of woman, a Japanese woman suited to spring.
-Provisionally if he retires, is it agreed that he'd open a dojo to raise
a successor?
A. Provisionally if he'd retire it's agreed that he'd consider to open a
dojo, to raise a successor it is believed that it is not an intention to Ryu.
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*** pgVSagat.
SAGAT
Birthdate: July 2, 1955
Height: 226 cm, 213.5 cm (old SF1 design)
Weight: 109 kg (SFZ), 78 kg (SF2, SF4), 119 kg (old SF1 design)
SF1 action: tiger attack
BWH sizes: B140, W87, H95 (SFZ), B130, W86, H95 (SF2, SF4)
Blood type: B
Native place: Thailand
Special skill: underwater diving (for over 20 min)
Likes: strong head-to-head opponents, formidable opponents
Dislikes: makeshift fellows, shoryuken
Fighting style: Muay Thai
SF1-era nickname: "Emperor Stands at the Peak of Fighting Skills"
SFZ-era nickname: "Ambition Roughens In a Breast of Disgrace"
SF2-era nickname: "Fighting King- Returns"
SF4-era nickname: "Tenacious Emperor"
Street Fighter 1: Sagat was the Emperor of Muay Thai. The greatest Muay
Thai fighter there was. But that wasn't enough for him. He wanted to be
the greatest fighter in the world! He hosts the first Street Fighter
tournament to prove it, and great warriors from around the world come to do
battle. Sagat found himself up against a young man named Ryu. Ryu, however,
was no match for Sagat, and Sagat easily defeated him. Seeing Ryu on the
ground and that he was victorious, Sagat let out his hand to let Ryu up, but
then Ryu became consumed with a mysterious power and ripped through Sagat's
chest with a powerful shoryuken, knocking Sagat out, winning the match, and
leaving a physical scar as well as an emotional one that would last a long
time. Sagat realized that he had lost the tournament because of a
dishonorable cheap shot by Ryu, and was filled with rage at him. [Official]
Street Fighter Zero 2: Sagat wasn't the only one left with a bad taste in
his mouth. Adon, his student, was mad, too. Adon was mad at Sagat, for
being unable to defend the name of Muay Thai from a little upstart like Ryu
(the fact that Adon lost to Ryu too is conveniently forgotten by Adon). He
tracks Sagat down, and Sagat himself even more angry, wants to crush Adon.
However, Sagat fueled by rage, is unable to focus on the battle, and Adon,
despite being seriously injured, defeats him to become the new revered (refers
to himself as god) of Muay Thai. [Official]
Sagat has begun to realize that the power of vengeance is limited. Deciding
that he must train to be stronger in order to defeat Ryu and also realize for
himself the true meaning of the fight, he tells Vega that he needs a temporary
leave from Shadaloo, but he'll be back for the psycho power discussion that
Vega mentioned to him about.
Vega feels that this is reasonable, as he wouldn't want to do any business
with third-raters who rushed to ask for help and power right away, anyways.
Sagat then leaves to train himself further for the day he'll meet Ryu,
again [Official]. This is the second half of Sagat's SFZ2 ending. Note
that Capcom officially stated that the first half and his battle with Ryu
did NOT happen, most likely in order to coincide with how they've decided
that they want Ryu and Sagat to each have one and only one 'dirty win' over
each other (even though IMHO it would have made more sense if it did
happen, and it more or less did but within SF1's timeframe instead of Z2's).
The scar upon his chest serves as a reminder of his defeat... ...to Ryu and
his shoryuken! He fights for vengeance alone... Then one day, during his
travels as he continued crushing opponent after opponent, he came across a
fighter in a pink gi, named Hibiki Dan. Dan himself is filled with rage
upon seeing Sagat. He tells Sagat that Sagat killed his father, and that
he will avenge him. Looking at the rage in Dan's eyes, and remembering how
he lost to Adon, Sagat begins to realize that the power of hatred is
limited, and that Dan is just like he is, filled with rage. He begins to
feel guilt for all the opponents he crushed in anger, which included Dan's
father, and that he needs something other than hatred. Realizing this, he
lets Dan win the match and feigns being knocked out when Dan hits him.
Shocked at his victory, Dan cheers, now that he has finally defeated Sagat
and avenged his father! Seeing Dan's happiness, Sagat realizes the true
meaning of honor. There is more to fighting than hatred, after all.
[Official].
Street Fighter Zero 3: Sagat's resolved to become strong on his own, and
refuses all of Vega's further invitations to join him; however, Vega has
a new surprise he wants to share with Sagat. When he found Ryu and Vega,
again, Sagat was in for a shock. Ryu was brainwashed by Vega's psycho power!
Sagat is disgusted that Vega would stoop so low. Fortunately, also arriving
on the scene were Ken and Sakura, who were searching for Ryu. Sagat fought
psycho Ryu while Ken and Sakura fought Vega. Winning against psycho Ryu, Ryu
then gets up, and battles with his brainwashing. Sagat shouts at Ryu,
demanding that Ryu not give in to such an idiotic deception! With Sagat's
encouragement, Ryu overcomes his brainwashing, and hits Vega, who has to
retreat. Sagat then tells Ryu that he has trained hard in order to have his
match against Ryu, but that he now sees that Ryu still isn't ready, yet. Ryu
tells Sagat that he still needs to train before they can have their true
match, seeing as to how Ryu wasn't strong enough to resist Vega and the power
sleeping within him, and asks Sagat to wait for him. Seeing Ryu leave, and
realizing the true meaning of the fight, Sagat is filled with excitement and
waits for their next match which he swears that no one will interfere with it.
[Official]
SFZ3 File #11 Sagat
Being feared as the "one-eye fierce tiger", emperor of the Muay Thai world.
A scar remains to reek his chest, of the time he was once defeated in battle
with Ryu, a carved object through the shoryuken. So-called utter defeat an
intolerable humiliation that knicked into wrath opposing Ryu the motive power
a burning revenge. In order to clear away the humiliation from the common
detached training he had been day in and day out, in his own belief to say
"strength = anger", steadily he's been feeling a tremor.
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Street Fighter 2: Hearing of the second Street Fighter 2 tournament being
held, Sagat participated in the SF2 tournament, hoping to finally have his
clean match with Ryu, but he didn't get it. Sagat recalls how the title of
Emperor used to mean something special, but that has changed. Now, he
looks forward to the fight! He prepares to train himself to be stronger
for the next time he and Ryu battle. [Sagat's Revival ending].
Sagat- SSF2XR Character Concealed File
Ought to have revenge on Ryu for having been defeated once, the Muay Thai
fighter lives a life of strict training day after day.
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Highlights:
-Revival does recognize that Sagat was beaten unfairly back in SF1.
Street Fighter 4:
The invincible tiger also the entitled emperor of the Muay Thai world.
Having moves of those kicks to rank equal with might as far as said for
no other man in existence. Having formerly received from Ryu a defeat once
that knicked into his breast, he acquires a new strength to continue training.
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Sagat's SF4 opening has him besting Adon in the ring with his new ultra the
tiger destruction (event is rewritten out of existence by CJ as of SSF4). He
hopes to find Ryu within this new tournament held by the shady enterprise
S.I.N.-sha, but is sold short once more. His ending shows that he's still
recalling the battle he had with psycho Ryu, and compares how Ryu was, even
while struggling under his brainwashing, he communicated as they fought, while
the defeated Seth before Sagat's feet, nothing of the sort. Sagat walks away
wondering if the time elapsed has turned him the same way, and concludes that
only Ryu can provide the answer to his question.
Super Street Fighter 4:
Sagat's second chance to tournament-fight Ryu courtesy of S.I.N.-sha. Ryu's
shoryuken changed Sagat slowly but steadily, making him wrathful then humble,
and eventually seeing that the matter of battling at all is of greater value
than winning, losing, or basking in the glory of titles and reputations. His
scar burns with the excitement of facing a genuine fighting spirit, and Sagat
hopes that Ryu sees this as well. [Sagat's opening]
Sagat probably met and fought Adon during the course of SSF4. Trying to
urge his former prime student away from the pleasure from merely crushing
opponents underfoot, he unfortunately only succeeds in making Adon truly
see his one-time master "completely devoid of his tiger's fangs." [Adon's
ending] Sagat also finally fights Ryu with no external interferences via
their rival battles and referenced in both of their endings.
According to Chit in Sagat's ending, he returned from his journey fairly
quickly (Did he meet Ryu early on and lose? Or withdraw shortly after they
battled? Or end the confrontation with Adon early since he believed it
was pointless for them to fight from the start?). In any case, Sagat met
and fought Ryu again as a friend, parted from him as a friend, and despite
the siblings' surprise, that alone was enjoyable and worthwhile for the Lord
Emperor of Muay Thai.
Where he is now: Training hard, fighting hard, and enjoying his renewed
fighter's friendship with Ryu.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Zero's World vol. 4- Sagat
Under the influence of brawling from the time he was young, his eyesight
from one eye was mostly lost. Regrettably facing his own helplessness,
having become motive power he stepped into the world of Muay Thai.
Thus for Sagat, a 15-year-old debut struggled several weeks into arriving
at the champion's seat. With a large build overwhelming others and a
springing nature he boosted to the top.
That's when the title defending battles began. The young genius fighting
king was challenged by a nameless fighter. Having quickly seen through
Sagat's weak point, he inflicted dead spot fought attacks. Sometimes he
would disperse penetrating punches exacted at aiming for the "eye."
Once the terror was brought back for Sagat, shifted to defensive mode he
was being driven into a dilemma. Already at that moment, Sagat was getting
left behind, victory was tenacious.
"Never ever again, will I lose......!"
Before his eyes was his urging opponent's clincher knee kick. Sagat
protected his eye held dear, firing a blow with the whole body. A terrible
"ki" following about from the fists, a rising roar would pierce out!
Thus for Sagat, with one eye victories would be exchanged and the title of
"emperor" earned.
After that, with the first crushing defeat received from the battle via Ryu,
his heart would swing from a throne to trouble. In the fight this time,
will Sagat's "strongest" name likely gain a victory once again?
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Highlights:
-Sagat's first title-defending match as Muay Thai emperor. To protect his
eyes, in rage he gives rise to the tiger shot for the very first time.
Sagat from SFZ
Original account from SF2 Himitsu Hyakka
"I surely will not lose!" Zugan! Dodon! The fist that struck big trees
many times over, while the fist was full of blood, Sagat cried out! Sagat
having lost to a nameless fighting stylist, the blood-stained training began!
"I, will not lose twice! With that guy's crushing power, this chest was
harshly battled with a fist of 'that move', certainly with my hand put out!"
In the depths of Thailand's forests, near the ancient historic ruins which
no one visits, for Sagat, an intense training he's endeavoring. Completely
bewildered, at the time which mental power is blocked off, Sagat's rage and,
his whole body swollen with hateful power, he gathers into his tightly
grasped fist tremendous "ki". "Nuooh!" Sagat's blow released from within,
tearing apart a big tree on a grand scale! Zugaga!
Several months after that, Sagat, had finally completed his strongest
sure-killing technique the "tiger blow."
In the midst of the morning sun......Sagat's journey to take back the
throne had begun!
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Official Story from Gamest SFZ and AASFZ
Chiseled out over a period of thousands of years, stopping the silence
at the ancient ruins dotting the inner forest, appeared 1 man a fighting
stylist smeared with humiliation.
"I surely will not lose!" Many big trees he struck and saw the blood from
his own fist, the man yells out in agony. That was once Muay Thai's throne
which he reigned on, the title of "emperor" he grasped as the invincible
tiger, it was Sagat.
Having been at the top of the Thailand fighting world he hadn't realized
defeat since during childhood. Just nothing but continuous victories
seemingly maintained by his own all, pounding his fist in every time
seemingly dissolving feelings......that is, within Sagat a great fear
was remaining as such. This unknown word fear he would seem to shake
off, Sagat's appearance vanished unexpectedly from the Thailand fighting
world, 1 man had been starting the pursuit of knowledge in isolation.
However, without warning the region was knocked into defeated confusion,
Sagat was appearing crazy on a grand scale, with his fist just striking
in vain repeatedly every day.
......From that fated struggle, how much time had passed. During the
pouring rain, Sagat's form continued standing. "I will not lose 2 times!
With that guy's crushing power, this chest was harshed with an opposing
fist of "that move" certainly with my hand put out!"
His own mental power blocked off in complete delusion, the moment Sagat
determined to return to battle, hatred and rage the feelings that moved
lively throughout his whole body of that man, his grasped fist focused on
gathering tremendous ki.
"Nuooh!" His fist released, the next instant, a great big tree was
torn apart.......
Many months from then on......as the morning sun shone, the form of the
man once called emperor, was a changed man. That body greatly tempered
thoroughly twice, his own existence to display of merely overflowing power
being filled to the brim. And so finally it was completed, the sheltered
fist of retaliating blaze "tiger blow." In that hand a new sure-killing
technique of overwhelming power, now recovered with absolute confidence,
where once the fear no longer was, that fist was nothing but of hatred and rage.
Hunting for Ryu, Sagat's journey to recapture the throne began.......
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Highlights:
-Sagat's raging assault on the forest after he's been scarred by Ryu. Defeated
as his hand was extended to help the nameless foreigner up! Here in his wrath
the tiger blow is born.
Sagat from SFZ2
Tiger Genocide
"The emperor of Muay Thai, disappeared."
As that news confusedly ran about within the fighting world, the said man
Sagat, was finding himself moving into the mountains near the border of
Myanmar.
Still for him now, he couldn't bring up the feeling of his own conclusive
defeat.
With overwhelming might, Sagat would take the damage while uneventfully
win and advance to the next round with the bouts thus far.
And yet, when he received counterattacks, he'd place himself for conquest
at the rivaling technique as a weakness and a blind spot, being one of
flawless strength.
With the eyesight from one eye virtually lost after the first title defensive
battle, he acquired reforming his own move as was that of his opponent's
sure killing technique knee kick.
And so now within his mind, memories of struggles numerous years ago were
being restored.
Yes......best pupil Adon's, mock bouts tens of times around. Sagat's one
knee, directed into the earth during battle, that time was the first for Adon.
By no means could there be cause for negligent conceit. His best pupil's
growth, unaffectedly Sagat admired. However seeing Adon's reaction after
that, was enraging for Sagat.
Adon, satisfied at having directed Sagat's knees into the earth, abruptly
settled the fight, his fighting spirit brought to a close.
What an insult. Abandoning the battle, gleefully at that manner of
conclusion!
Adon's pupil, drew near to Sagat's kick subtly at a moment already too late.
His sure-killing knee kick tied together with consecutive moves, onto
Adon's body a barrage would seemingly splash, breaking the bones of his
whole body. Adon would recover some 4 months from sustained heavy injuries,
that to be able to battle Sagat once more would require 1 year and a half.
"That's right, indeed at that time......I would arouse in wrath."
Sagat's technique, when brought out at the basis of wrath, there it would
become hell. His sure-killing knee kick, and also an upper repelling his
harshed disgraced chest blow......For the time the continuation is released,
all head-to-head opponents, will likely crumble away before his fist.
Just like that, it must be called a [Genocide (atrocity)], nothing but
the emperor's execution technique become possible.
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Highlights:
-Sagat had fought tons of mock battles with Adon in the past. The indication
of one winning by making the other give up was to force the loser on his knees.
Once Adon found Sagat enraged with his defeat by Ryu, they fought and the
battle ended the same way, which infuriated Sagat as to how lost his focus
was, and how arrogant Adon was to be treating the battle like this again.
Sagat in his crouching stance lost it and tore Adon apart with the following
super tiger genocide, finished at the end with his newly formed tiger blow.
Sagat from AASFZ3
Fighting Style
Having mastered Muay Thai for his main-shaft become attack, a knee-utilized
blow. With elbow-used attacks being seldom, a long reach appears to be for
the sake of leveraging. With kick forms particularly those tending to
captivate the eye but, the fist pressure accompanying the punch also is a
powerful weapon. Because from the time of youth he was able to pile up harsh
drills, he's overcoming the handicap being one eye.
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Fashion Style
Corresponding to Muay Thai's attire he puts on trunks. To make up for not
adding the gloves to wear at official bouts, he's protecting wrists and ankles
with bandages. A hairless head opposite to fighting a stoic-like posture
surfaces at times, a black eyepatch brings about a sensation of coercion as
emperor. For a chest accepted the shoryuken's blow, even in his inside
remained a great scar.
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Highlights:
-Ryu's shoryuken left a wound on Sagat both inside and out.
Nachappa Reclining Buddha Statue [THAILAND]
Through a moonlight night's footpath between rice fields a worn-out
small-sized truck rushes off.
While stamping a foot on the accelerator with all his might, for the Thai
sports paper's journalist Lun Pao, he was suppressing the impatient throbbing.
The vehicle is turning towards the nearby national boundary's Nachappa swamp
land. Having continued for 10 several years the rebellion settled, quite the
latest armament being a released zone.
Thailand's national hero, Sagat vanishes news ran about within the nation
approximately 1 year before. For the Muay Thai world for a while was in
disorder, best student Adon ascended in substance to the next emperor's
throne. Adon's might even again a spirit possession, no-one would snatch it
away if only a down from him. For before the people a new charisma having
already completely forgotten Sagat's existence perhaps it seems that they
regained the original mania.
But for Lun Pao it was different. To hold to Sagat, that extraordinary
feeling of being. That is truly the appropriate to call god. Sagat's
nearness at hand from it hurting, until age 16 having continued to learn Muay
Thai completely resign, the fact is the sports journalist progressed on the
path.
A peculiar information network freely used, he continued pursuing Sagat's
whereabouts.
Trials changing for the worse, finally he seized observed info. A phone
contact came forth several times before. To meet Sagat. To make sure of the
meeting. Not because of the matter of getting away. For god surely would
decide for a non-defeat.
A very clear night began to shine. The world proceeds to regaining color.
In time an enormous reclining Buddha statue was in sight. Stopping the
vehicle, he advances into the marsh land.
Overall length maybe 100 meters is the so-called giant statue. Even being
amidst the confusion of war it appears that only this statue remaining took
no damage.
For the vicinity was full of abnormal indications. Above the Buddhist image
discerning a person's shadow, in confusion he conceals himself to the back.
The eyepatch to the white of the eye. The morning sun to his back stands the
gigantic body. No discrepancy to Sagat.
"......Under any circumstance you won't unite with my organization so to speak
will you."
An unexpected voice. Not that of Sagat. From where does he come to hear it?
The emperor answers that mysterious voice.
"Surely I said that. I won't be indebted even to anyone's assistance."
At the reclining Buddha's overhead approaching the strange object, for Lun Pao
to catch his breath. A military uniformed man. A cape put on, arms folded,
in midair......he was floating.
What is he? No......What is happening?
"......Hu, well fine. Very soon will be a little sideshow. Sorry that for a
while I shall take care of your friend."
All of the sudden the presence vanishes, the military uniform man's appearance
also has disappeared. The fact is it disappeared. Looking up at Lun Pao's
back futilely without a word, Sagat walks off.
"!......Uh, um, E, Emperor......just now......?"
Not looking back, just while he stands only a fighting spirit rises, his back
to the morning sun Sagat mutters.
"No one is allowed to obstruct......"
Those gods even spread out such a ki would pierce in full while gazing at the
back, Lun Pao intuitized. For the emperor after all is divine and. The fact
is to say already there isn't a person of opponent to fight in the world.
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Highlights:
-Sports journalist Lun Pao, trying to track down the disappeared Muay Thai
emperor, happens upon both him and Vega (sees him even floating and
disappearing) quarreling. Sagat now refuses any further affiliation with
Shadaloo, and Vega teases him with hints of what he plans to do with Ryu
soon.
Formerly one of the Shi-Ten-Nou (the Grand Four) in some official
sources. Sagat was stated to be the second one (not that that's hard to
figure out, with him being 2nd-to-last-boss in SF2). Of course, that was
before the Zero series.
Quickie note from Siegfried: Sagat's style is either Mue Tai (Japanese
simple writing) or Muay Thai. I don't think you can write it Muy Thai.
Sagat from Gamest SF2
Once the emperor of fighting moves Sagat was, merely dealt a crushing defeat
by the startling fighting stylist Ryu (believing himself not to be a true
fighting stylist), afterwards a large scar on his chest. A miserable one
he is.
That hidden chagrin in his chest, here and now it has been arranged that
Sagat will once more make an appearance.
For him Ryu's employed shoryuken was imitated reformation appended to
completion as the "tiger uppercut." However as the reformation was sent
up with a high jump, the rest is the shoryuken almost unchanged.
Defenseless at the time of descent, nothing else until here...it appears
likely for a slaughter.
As for his sure killing techniques, this "tiger uppercut" and the other
is the "tiger shot." Previously since his might became weak he reached
the point of continuously stretching out.
With Sagat and his body dimensions, all attacks are of extremely damaging
power. A surprisingly light body, he does hopping leaps. But, Vega and
Balrog aren't far away with that either.
As expected with him, can he likely make a comeback to the seat of the
world's best once more (no probably impossible)? You might say, with
him as converted (?), from the goal with Ryu and the revived refreshing
battle is to quietly put the rascal in his place.
To bear in mind Sagat's body's limit, is it likely said to become a
scene of meanness?
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Highlights:
-Sagat develops the tiger uppercut to counter Ryu's scarring shoryuken. He's
miserable but not enraged.
Sagat from Gamest SF2D
Feeling of Supremacy
"For me how many years have passed..."
The man of great stature coughing out 1 man during the basking from the
rising morning sun's overflowing sunshine.
At that time, he himself was young. From surroundings the fighting moves
emperor and so forth wanted to call out for resounding spirit. And so,
that day the guy, until defeat by Ryu, the matter was the golden belief
that for him competitors and such did not exist in this world. But Ryu
smashed this all too quickly into pieces.
It is believed that now, I didn't realize Ryu until now as the competitor
he's become, not becoming shameful in conceit. A competitor just now,
this said to be gained title of emperor of fighting moves, replaced of
that seat concluding to say the motive of a completely visible party,
I placed on par with Ryu, suffering a put down by the guy from the
very beginning.
The result until now of my complete defeat has ended. And so, the
guy defeated me with a bit of a pleased facial expression shown, and
departed the place in silence. In my breast an earnest wound is left.
But from now on, I want to remember the wonder and refreshment felt
from then. Such as that feeling inclined from the time it began,
I want to remember losing the bearing of my own feelings....
Learning From the Past
However I was at one time the ultimate man at the top of the world.
That regrettably doesn't mean that it'll be forgotten. Since that
day's defeat, I'm 1 man as a fighter, returned to original aims,
from the same simplistic pursuit of knowledge. In order to take back
the fighting moves emperor's throne, god granting worthy opponents,
one of these days once again the fight will come back to the heart
for that day's sake.
And so, this time's pursuit of knowledge in truth will be numerous
lost matters recovered. Every day I will spend time fighting
amidst the unawareness, to seriously consider nothing but fights
to win is too much, challenging oneself continuously of matters
forgotten.
The challenges with oneself began from the moves looked again.
Supposing that with the exceptional human being Ryu and to fight
such things would likely be unnecessary. But with Ryu, devising a
move to crush that shoryuken is the limit, it cannot be an eternal
self-victory.
Perseverence and Determination
I am worried. To try having any kind of move, surpassing that
invincible fist changes the old to new. Changed of course, it
would become abandoned. But that will be maintained, as remained
the precedent scar on my chest. For me, at times trying to touch
the carved old scar due to that Ryu's shoryuken, humiliation and
remorse as new feelings, the concentrated thought of roaring
self-condemnation facing towards me released.
And so finally the first conclusion has been brought out. In other
words the possibility to surpass the invincible shoryuken, of course
for the shoryuken it was no choice. However indeed the same shoryuken
after all I would be with no chance of winning. With that thought
in mind the practicing is repeated. And thus finally it is that the
tiger uppercut was completed.
Immediately after the move was finished, I realized the breeze of
rumors of Ryu departing once again. Moreover before that, already
the day of the fight with the guy and myself is close, taking in the
instincts. Fate's worthy opponent Ryu will positively turn up here.
4 year's time has elapsed now, Ryu also with the pursuit of knowledge
is more greatly changing probably. What if the tiger uppercut in
front of Ryu even, possibly will teasingly become an equivalent move?
But, although a graze for Ryu it'll be a single burden that I believe
won't change. My desire is merely one, it is...to once again cross
fists with Ryu. With that necessary exception, there is no other
need for me.
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Highlights:
-Sagat realizes his pride during his younger days, and he's seen it
replaced with shame and humility. All he wants to do is defeat Ryu and
his shoryuken, nothing more, nothing less.
He got into fights as a child which lost him most of his sight in his right
eye. He made a promise to himself to become strong and took advantage of his
size by practicing Muay Thai. He eventually shaved himself bald supposedly
because his hair would get in the way (possibly also it'd get bloodstained
too often).
He became the Muay Thai emperor when he defeated the previous one, Nuah
Kahn. When he did that, he was only 15. Sagat was never a Street
Fighter champion. Just the Muay Thai emperor. He hosted the first SF
tournament though. (in general, it's the host of the tournament that's the
final-boss battle in Street Fighter games, not the champion. There can't
be a champion if the tournament didn't happen yet, after all).
Every year there's a "Best in the Muay Thai World Settlement War" in which the
current emperor is made to defend his throne against other Muay Thai warriors.
Sagat won this Settlement War at least 17 times before Ryu defeated him, 18
if the Settlement War was still held the year Sagat hosted SF1.
Although he lost to Adon when he was unstable, the super "tiger genocide"
actually damaged Adon enough that Adon had to go to the hospital for four
months then recover for about a year and a half. Sagat himself no longer
really minds that he lost to Adon, because he realizes he was filled with
rage at the time and after SFZ3, he has matured considerably beyond hating
someone just because he lost to him.
Sagat is/was considered a national hero of Thailand.
From Clay: Sagat was temporarily a member of Shadaloo. He was
approached by Vega and did join. I think that Sagat also wanted to use
Shadalooâs resources to help him track down Ryu for his rematch. However,
after Sagat came to terms with his defeat and regained his ideals (also a
true warriorâs spirit), he decided to separate himself from Vega. He is
an honorable man and there isnât any room for honor within Shadaloo. Sagat
realized that he didnât fit in with Vegaâs evil intentions and that he
was being used by Vega.
Note: Sagatâs initial joining of Shadaloo illustrates just how lost he
actually was (as mentioned in the previous statement). Sagat was so blinded
by hatred and his desire for revenge that he allowed himself to join an
international crime syndicate. Sagat was very vulnerable and beatable (as
Adon proves) during this time. This shows all of the character flaws and
personal weaknesses that Sagat eventually overcame in his SFZ2 ending and
SFZ3 storyline.
To resummarize: Capcom of Japan has officially stated that Sagat is no
longer a lord of Shadaloo in SF2. If you play SSF2X Revival,
there are no references whatsoever there of him being a member of
Shadaloo. The official storyline now is that he joined after SFZ2, then
quit Shadaloo FOR GOOD after he realized there was no honor in being a
member, most likely when he saw what Vega did to Ryu in SFZ3, therefore he
is not a member of Shadaloo for SF2 anymore. Groupings of all four
shi-ten-nou still exist however because Vega continues to see Sagat as
one of them even if Sagat himself doesn't.
On a side note, it was Vega that went to Sagat and asked him to
join Shadaloo, not Sagat seeking out Shadaloo to join it.
His SFZ3 entry in AAC starts with "Refusing Vega's repeated invitations
to come into Shadoloo..." However, he of course is going to see Vega
in the actual game, which is how he comes across Vega brainwashing Ryu.
Here's HnN's case about Sagat as a "temporary" member of Shadaloo.
As for Sagat, why did he probably become Vega's subordinate?
Sagat was shown Vega's overwhelming strength. However, he has no reason
to surrender to Vega's strength. For the sake of his destined rival,
Ryu and their fight did he enter into the evil organization. It was
believed that if the invariably evil emperor Vega appeared previously
to Ryu before him, it's believed that he would be what is known as
goose feathered.
In short, Sagat has no reason to be undeciding for Vega as ruler.
However, Vega is different. As a capable follower, he's treated
with courtesy. Second among the ranks of the Shi-Ten-Nou (the Grand Four),
after Vega. A close associate is probably not saying too much.
Then, ordinarily for the two of them, how do they probably keep in touch?
To start with, do they not compatibly practice their fighting techniques?
Vega's concerned opponent is a fighting style without a doubt, with Sagat
personally giving his name and the practice commences, quote unquote.
Due to practicing with a strong fighting style, he believes his own moves
are polished from Sagat already involved.
In addition, when in Thailand Sagat accompanies Vega as the occasional
bodyguard. A strange atmosphere proceeds from the two and an ominous one.
One is a high rising one-eyed man after all.
It is believed that Sagat likes to plan a rebellion to rise to the top but,
Vega by no means sees this desire. However, would that sort of scene be
the same motive for Sagat to become a subordinate?
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Highlights:
-Within Shadaloo (brief as it was), Sagat was Vega's personal sparing partner
and bodyguard whenever Vega made his presence known in Thailand. Sagat did
consider Shadaloo's resources to try securing another fight with Ryu.
Incidentally, CJ had stated that Sagat was rumored to have mastered the low
version of his tiger shot during the short time he was under Vega's wing.
For how Sagat lost to Ryu in SF1, see Ryu's bio. This is why Sagat was
filled with so much hate for Ryu. It was a cheap shot. Sagat overcame
this hatred and beat Ryu in SFZ3, but that's because Ryu was brainwashed.
Sagat was undefeated before he lost to Ryu.
Hibiki Gou challenged Sagat because Gou was a Muay Thai fighter and Sagat
was the emperor of Muay Thai. Gou gouged out Sagat's eye during the battle
then Sagat killed him in a fit of rage. This is why Sagat wears the
eye-patch. This happened long before SF1, since Sagat has the eye patch
there, and since Dan was Gouken's student before Ryu and Ken were.
Once Gou left Sagat with only one eye at the fighting tournament, he
suffered massive internal injuries (internals rupturing, torn up good for
taking away Sagat's eye) which ultimately led to his later death.
For more info on Sagat and Adon, see Adon's bio.
He did learn the tiger uppercut after SFZ2 and in retaliation to Ryu's shoryuken
(because that's what Ryu beat him with. Well, the metsu shoryuken but you
get the drift).
The Australian prairie stage where Sagat fights Ryu is based on the
opening scene of the animated "Street Fighter II Movie", in which Ryu and
Sagat fight in a prairie during a thunderstorm.
Some translated info about Sagat's SF2 stage from the Complete File
(the mention of Ken has been rewritten since the SF2AM & the Zero series):
Thailand (Sagat) Ayutthaya Ruins
Here at the Thai ruins the past and the present flow into existing as one
and the same.
Amidst intervals of rigorous training, alone in meditation Sagat mentally
trains bitterly.... "You're Sagat, eh. As is your beyond rumored true
ability."
A newly become challenger appeared.
"You only saw my true ability seen through you, you are also likely a
suitable rival to utterly defeat. However, that today is over. Not going
easy on you, come at me!"
Until that day which before his eyes Ryu & Ken be utterly defeated, Sagat's
training will not be to proclaim as over....
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Ayutthaya is a city of south-central Thailand on an island in the Chao
Phraya River north of Bangkok BTW. The Buddhist statue in his SF2 stage
isn't a real ruin amongst the others. It's a fake most likely made by
Shadaloo specially for Sagat, to fool the nation into believing that Sagat's
(temporary) alliance with Shadaloo would result in its hero maintaining his
nation's strength and dignity despite having been defeated by a foreigner
(Ryu). Psychological warfare by targeting a people's intellectual (religious
in this case Buddhism) system of beliefs if you will, and pulling their
role model into the mess as well. It's also completely separate from
the one seen in his Z3 stage which houses the psycho drive's laser.
When he's not absent from the public, Sagat trains at a temple near his SF2
stage. After his training finishes for the day, he would likely visit and
leave from the Buddhist image so that he never forgets the scene of struggle.
Prologue 10 (Sagat) from SF4
"Lord Emperor-"
"Where can he be?-?"
From some time ago the voice been heard gradually comes to face him
acquainting, for an elderly priest stopped the writing at hand. Shortly
thereafter a tree in the garden rustles and rumbles, two children turn up. A
short girl and boy are those juveniles. For them from a little while ago
they had settled down in this village as older brother and younger sister.
"Ah, hello, Great Sage. C'mon Chit, you greet him too."
"Hello."
Urged by the older brother, the little girl quickly bowed her head.
"Ah, hello to both of you. Looking for Lord Sagat??"
Yes, the boy nodded.
"Need him for something don't you?"
"It's not such a big deal. We could aptly offer deliciously finished
vegetables of the field..., just......"
Hesitating in speech, the boy looks downward.
"Just?"
"I may be misunderstanding, the Lord Emperor nowadays isn't energetic it looks
like......, no, I mean the vigor isn't there, like he's brooding or something
like that......Therefore we......"
"I see. You were worried about Lord Sagat weren't you."
For the elderly priest smiled.
"In this way for his strong side, we were intrusive or something like that,
but it's like a pretext for accepting that the Lord Emperor saved our lives."
"That's right. We, believe that with but a little we can become helpful."
"That's right isn't it."
Unanimously saying to the siblings, the elderly priest smiles whole-faced.
"We the weak seem to worry about those who have become weak, for in the strong
is likely a strong person's anguish. The great inner thoughts of Lord Sagat's
heart aren't clearly understood, as you remarked for something is worrying him,
I also understand. But, the matter of offering to remove that worry, is futile
for us."
"I see......"
Having dropped his shoulders, the elderly priest gently strokes the brother's
back.
"What, it's fine for us to do what we can do. The harvest has arrived, even
with returning to waiting, that's an important thing. -Oh, even now that I
mention it come now."
The elderly priest's finger points outside a window as the siblings turn in
unison, from facing the road seeing a familiarized high stature to come
walking they shouted for joy.
With hurried greetings they go rushing out. For the elderly priest the pair
attached to chasing after Sagat, seeing them accost him with one mind he
smiled. From the time the siblings walked together there was yet a slackened
gait, a peaceful facial expression when he's hearing the pair talk,
unapproachable previously a changed mood was evident to be varying. How many
years ago since he'd visited this village a foreign country's youth from
struggling against the sustained wound in his chest. For Sagat certainly has
begun changing. The elderly priest detaches from the window, while returning
to his desk nodding alone personally having soothed the sustained wound, more
and more he continues strongly growing.
That is the genuine emperor.
"Emperor! By all means because of your heart's commands, please make
preparations for a newly become journey."
We in this village shall be waiting, and murmuring in our hearts, for the
elderly priest started his writing's continuation.
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Highlights:
-After SF2 Sagat goes back into training. Chit and her brother from Ryu Final
are concerned with the Muay Thai emperor's emotional state and want to offer
some vegetables in return for him having been their life-saver in the past.
Sagat's SF4 arcade ending comments:
Immediately after Seth was defeated, Sagat realizes himself that in the midst
of battle with Ryu, they were both talking together through their fists. In
order to make sure of how much his own self changed, he resolves to fight with
Ryu again.
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*** pgVSakura.
KASUGANO SAKURA (last name listed first)
Age: 15 (during SFZ2)
Birthdate: March 15, 197X (most likely 1973 going by SFZ2 age)
Height: 157 cm
Weight: 42 kg
BWH sizes: B80, W60, H84
Blood type: A
Native place: Japan, Setagaya-ku 2-Choume, Tokyo
Special skill: English conversation, cooking a relatively strong point (looking
at it is the worst)
Likes: physical education (especially track-and-field), white rice
Dislikes: mathematics, her brother's game opponents
Fighting style: learning from watching Ryu
School: Boutoritsu Kyougaku HS in Setagaya-ku (freshman during Zero 2)
SFZ-era nickname: âOverflowing Thoughts Fail to Ceaseâ
SF4-era nickname: "Blossoming Declaration"
Street Fighter Zero 2: Sakura notices Ryu fighting one day. She learns to
mimic his moves and quickly picks up on his fighting style! Eagerly, she seeks
out Ryu so she can meet him in person, as well as have a match with him!
She finally does find Ryu and challenges him, and she actually manages to win!
She asks if Ryu could train her, but he tells her that he is still training,
himself, and thus he doesn't have the right to teach her. But he mentions that
he can tell that she'll get stronger on her own with her own skills. Ryu
leaves her with a photo of himself walking off into the distance. After
Ryu has left, she thinks he might've gone easy on her. Sakura wonders what
Ryu meant by that remark about him still training, and decides that she
must see him again. Back at school, Sakura's friend, Kei, asks about the
guy in the photograph. Sakura tells her that he's her "wholehearted master."
Instead of elaborating on what she meant, however, she just rushes off to
school, remarking that they'll be late if they don't hurry [Official].
Street Fighter Zero 3: Sakura continues to be fascinated by street
fighting. "What is a street fighter?". She asked herself one day. "I want
to see him, and fight him again! I want his answer!" She sets off on a
journey of new meetings and old reunions. Eventually, in Japan, she ran
into a sumo wrestler named E. Honda, who told her that he had seen a man
who must have been Ryu, and that Ryu mentioned he's wandering about India
and Thailand. Sakura, eventually arriving at Thailand, ran into Ken, who
was also looking for Ryu [Conjecture from in-game storyline]. There, the
two finally found him... while he was under Vega's control! Fortunately
Sagat had arrived at the same time, and was disgusted at what Vega had done
to the man who was meant to be his rival. With Ken, she defended Vega
from getting to brainwashed psycho Ryu as Sagat fought off psycho Ryu.
Vega is extremely frustrated at their insolence, and finally begins to
forcefully take Ryu's body for himself, but Sakura leaps in his way.
However, he easily smacked her aside. Noticing Ryu get angrier, Vega
laughs at the negative emotion he was displaying, but then at that moment,
Ryu overcame his own brainwashing, much to Vega's surprise, and hit Vega
hard, catching him off guard and forcing him to retreat [Official]. After
that, Ryu apologized for losing to Vega's mind control, and says he's not
ready yet, to have another match with Sakura because giving in to Vega's
psycho power showed his weakness. Both Sakura and he says they'll train
harder and eagerly look forward to the day they can have a real match.
Sakura smiles as she sees Ryu leave, feeling good that she was able to see
him again, and looks forward to the future [Conjecture from in-game
storyline].
Dan, Sakura's self-proclaimed teacher (Sakura's not-so-sensei sensei),
once took his good friend Blanka to meet Sakura. Blanka was a very strange
'man', but he was Dan's childhood friend. Eventually, though, Blanka had
to go back to the jungle. Sakura wished him farewell and asked that next
time they meet, they have a match, too [Conjecture based off in-game
storyline].
SFZ3 File #13 Sakura
Real name- Kasugano Sakura. Commuting to the metropolitan area's high school,
a fighting female high-school student. One day, noticing Ryu's figure
battling, that uncanny attraction blasting into the world of the street fight.
Still wanting to meet once more with that person = Ryu, in meeting wanting to
learn "what is a street fight?". Such a geniune thought was undeniable to
her. The struggles continue with her encountering various persons, knowing
there to be various motives for each person to fight, increasingly she goes
completely absorbed into this world.
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Street Fighter 4:
Pursuing Ryu a female high school student thrusted into the world of the
street fight. Enjoying anything with a cheerful personality, she doesn't
escape from the chance to fight a strong person.
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Sakura's SF4 opening has her heading into Dan's dojo to find out if Dan has
heard any news on Ryu (she's convinced Dan she's his student (lie of course)
and insists that she's entitled to any scoops given her winning record for
his dojo's sake (to raise money so she, Dan and Blanka can travel for Seth's
tournament)).
Dan weasels away on his news speech saying that he's heard Ken will be in it
and possibly Ryu of course, which is good enough for her to race out of the
dojo in high spirits.
In her ending Sakura finds Ryu up against the new weapon BLECE. He warns her
to stay away but the apparatus starts drawing satsui no hadou from her. Ryu
then charges at BLECE with a shoryuken to take it out, and they both slowly
exit the room as Sakura says to a silent Ryu that she's glad they finally got
to meet (in the tournament). They may have also saved Blanka's and Dan's
tails later on as well [Dan's SF4 ending].
Super Street Fighter 4:
Another tournament hosted by Seth and S.I.N.-sha means another chance for
Sakura to meet and hopefully fight Ryu. She takes to the seas with Dan
and Blanka, but nonetheless doesn't slack off on her training regimen.
Between numerous laps, push-ups, squats and more, she even armwrestles with
the ship's captain, Mr. Hibiki and Jimmy, as well as does a share of the
cooking for the entire crew, so she notes in her diary. [Sakura's opening]
During SSF4 Sakura likely met (more like literally ran into) Ibuki. The
ninja highschooler challenges her to a fight, and Sakura agrees to introduce
Ibuki to an awesome person if Ibuki wins. Due to Ibuki growing sloppy
towards the end of her rival battle, Sakura most likely wins the battle,
but probably lets Ibuki know about Ken anyway [Ibuki's rival battle
exchanges with Sakura]. Sakura does get to meet and fight Ryu as well, so
her rival battle scenario first introduced in SSF4's prequel finally gets to
play out in some form, as referenced by both of their SSF4 endings that they
did indeed fight. And of course they pledge to meet and battle again in
the future when they've both gotten stronger.
Where she is now: Presumably still being tardy for her meet-ups with Kei,
still possibly receiving Karin's letters of challenge, and maybe now walking
dogs while sporting her gym teacher getup from the end of Nakahira-sensei's
manga Sakura Ganbaru!. CJ's final thoughts include that she still keeps her
red gloves and white headband as well as a cell phone always on her by the
time the SF3 era rolls around.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Sakura took up fighting when she saw Ryu (which means she learned to be
a decent fighter, how to do hadoukens, and how to mimic the shoryuken and
tatsumaki senpuukyaku within one year of seeing Ryu Oo Capcom actually
acknowledges that Sakura is quite the fighting school girl prodigy due to
this, and so does Shadaloo).
According to SF Eternal and other sources, Sakura first saw Ryu fight
during her school commute one day.
Contrary to rumor, Sakura didn't take up fighting due to three men
accosting Kei which made Sakura want to fight back. She actually had already
started trying to learn Ryu's moves before then and actually tried to use the
moves against the three men.
Sakura's not-so-violent schoolmate friend seen in SFZ2 is Chitose Kei.
Kei is... very disturbed by Sakura's tendency to beat up other students.
I'd be, too, if I were in her shoes Oo ....hey, stop wishing you were in
Kei's shoes, Sakura fanboys! Kei's family name Chitose written in kanji means
approximately "thousand opportunities."
The incident with the three men (who were college age) was that Kei and
Sakura were approached by them on the way to school and one of them grabbed
Kei. There's a reasonable chance those men were doing so in order to...
well, rape them, though Capcom doesn't directly state what was with that.
However, the men asked Sakura and Kei if they "wanted dates" whereupon Sakura
and Kei felt threatened, and I've seen "want to go on a date" used for that
context in those situations before, so rape seems pretty implied.
Sakura fought them off though, by hitting the guy who grabbed Kei with a
rather poorly executed hurricane kick (while he was in the middle of laughing
at how stupid it looked). It was good enough to knock him out, but Sakura was
quite frustrated that it didn't hit him multiple times, paying no attention to
Kei yelling at her not to do that ever again because it was dangerous (I
imagine that deep down, Kei knew that Sakura saved her, though. Despite her
fear of Sakura's fighting, she keeps on hanging around Sakura even though
Sakura's fighting scares the heck out of her). The other men ran away
after that while Kei was wishing to herself that Sakura would find another
hobby. This story was actually Sakura's official SFZ2 account.
Sakura from SFZ2
Haru Ichiban
Her close friend classmate, Kasugano Sakura's invitation to go out, until
a neighboring street Chitose Kei turned up.
Sakura's voice with a robust boyish outward appearance breaks in a "please
street fight with me", a dangerous behavior that doesn't fail to get her
heart pumping.
Sakura's eccentricities didn't begin now, yet this time she truly can't
understand it. Anything, on the way to the school commute with the outward
appearance of a street fighter (and, to brand Sakura a fighting young man)
holding an interest to spread it, she'd even try and suggest it herself.
"Hey you, if you want to fight like that, how about you be my opponent??"
Before the 2 of them, 3 college student-styled guys drawing near while
grinningly smiling, accosted them. Clearly flirts. Kei tugged on Sakura's
hand, distancing herself from the spot with no clue. "Hey now!" The guys
surrounded the 2. Prudently looking around, they were being closed off from
alleys with scarce signs of life. With Kei trying to escape, 1 of the guys
catching her, bound her arms behind her back.
"Heelp!!"
"Hold it right there all of you!! Taking 3 people, gripping a hostage, that's
not at all a street fight!!"
Sakura drops her posture to her waist, her upper body spin increased. The
guys were interestingly viewing that appearance.
"Let's go!!" The same moment she yelled, Sakura rotated like a small spinning
object with a seemingly figure-skate spin. She steadily approaches in the
direction of the guy seizing Kei.
"What, is that!" The guys burst out in laughter. Immediately following
however, Sakura's revolving kick grazes Kei overhead, it cleanly hit the guy's
middle forehead.
The guy faints with a thud. The remaining 2 taken aback were taking her, Kei's
large voice let out once again desiring to be helped, they took flight.
"Golly......Don't do such rash things!, Sakura!"
"Uh-huh......Weird isn't it. I expected a consecutive smack-smack-smacking
in midair, yet I ought to settle for this kick......"
Kei holds her head. While hurriedly distancing themselves from that place,
it was then that she would pray for Sakura's subject of interest to quickly
change.
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Highlights:
-When three college guys come out of the woodwork to harrass both Sakura and
Kei, Sakura tries to put Ryu's tatsumaki senpuukyaku to work but ends up
bringing out her super the haru ichiban for the first time, then reasons
that it might not be a bad idea to keep refining that technique instead, much
to Kei's delight.
Zero 2's News TOP SECRET: Sakura
Top Secret Notification Part Number 8074893
Shadoloo Intelligence Department Investigation Room U-38
His Excellency the Commander's Directly Supervised
New Fighter Acquisition Candidacy Reconnaisance Report
NAME: Kasugano Sakura
AGE: 15
SEX: female
NATIONALITY: Japanese
(Tokyo - Setagaya)
The regular report was to be noted early morning on the 14th day of last month,
secret information of all things amidst the active investigators, a girl's
technique unable to exceed that of a non-government person's according to a
capacity for theft extradited to the Japan police. Certainly that in itself
is a limitlessly disgraceful matter, such that this above-mentioned girl is a
first-class combatant even defeating "Shadoloo" intelligence operatives unarmed
is in fact an event to be said worthy of attention. Lately the investigation's
subject relatively resembles as a reported case, presently the science group is
handling the project of subject "740106" joining the perception for this
reaction velocity improvement and adrenaline management as well as
super-recovery stimulant administering for every part of voluntary muscle,
moreover a cerebral implant measure by means of empty-handed fighting technique
"imprinting" in order to result from doing them for the first time, this
investigation room concluded that it's an irresistibly comparable target. Now
the usual events hereafter even with a continued follow-up survey result,
naturally while "Kasugano Sakura" is to become a girl in the manner of "740106"
having accepted a measure similar to a living enhancement without record, again
simultaneously it is being confirmed that her backing of every political
organization as well as also systematic circumstances are topics nonexistent.
If in this manner with absolutely no back-up circumstances are matters placed
down, until now records concerning for her hinted a high potential certainly
admirable which is what probably could be likely said. This is a tangible
reading of the denoted situation, she is a "Shadoloo" personnel qualifier
appearing to belong to the exceedingly scarce "level 4." Namely if it is a
defined level of a manipulating grade to attain psycho power utilizing
techniques is conjectured. Furthermore due to the results of the analysis from
the science group, her fighting style is besides established as resembling from
retrieval films of both persons A-4 as well as B-1 the records of Ryu, Ken
Masters. Regarding this it's guessed that some sort of casual relationship is
at the present time with her and both persons, and also unobservable for
evidence of contact during the past for the persons concerned, details are not
clearly known. In conclusion although the above-mentioned denoted manner of
uncertain factors, considering the kind of disposition of our glorious
"Shadoloo" members the matter of her sufficing the requirements is to be
obvious. Just among researchers "psycho power is a close relation to
higher-order brain functions to administer the cerebral cortex" is regarded as
the prominent theory, it's a matter to point out that "re-education" from the
brainwashing machine would be a considerably damaging riskiness to her special
qualities. As this investigation room twice precisely suggested the
consideration for the measure of winning her over to our side, this is the
report's settlement conclusion we want.
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Highlights:
-Shadaloo's assessment of Sakura in Zero 2. She's impressive they admit, very
much on par with abilities Cammy boasts of. However, because Sakura's
fighting ability is based on her photographic memory mimicking Ryu, they
conclude that brainwashing her to Shadaloo's side would render her useless
to them as a fighter.
Sakura from AASFZ3
Fighting Style
As for that fighting manner the spot of accepting her "core master" being
Ryu's influence is grand. The imitated shoryuken shoouken and, if observing
the copied tatsumaki senpuukyaku shunpuukyaku, it likely transfers to her
extent of admiring Ryu perhaps. Not just copying sure-killing techniques
even Ryu's disposition rightly followed, she's starting the search of whatever
is to say true strength.
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Fashion Style
With short all-put-together hair and a sportswear top the worn sailor uniform
is, for sensing a high-schoolish freshness. For to confront a battle wearing
a uniform, from feelings of ambitious undertaking to thrusting courtesy in
opponents. Hands inserted in crimson gloves and her forehead wrapped in a
pure white headband are, outright and signifying of her aiming at a fighting
stylist image.
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Flower Shopping District [JAPAN]
As for Kasugano Tsukushi exiting from the game shop, he was heading back home.
Passing through the shopping district's arcade on the way, he caught a voice
from behind him.
"Kasugano."
For the voice's owner was that of Murata of the same class.
Murata Miharu (Moo-rah-tah Me-ha-roo) ......As far as her hips stretched down
her long straight hair and her thin framed glasses are really the sense
so-to-speak of a humanities pretty girl. If said clearly, Tsukushi liked
Murata.
"Hey, Murata......something up?"
Darn it......How blunt of a reply with my own impatience.
In the habit of wanting to be on cordial terms a little bit of a cool habit
is in fact irreparable.
"Um......If I can just talk to you a little bit......Is it okay if we go to
Kasugano's house?"
",,,,,,Yes!?"
Talking about what probably. You don't suppose she likes me......nah, can't
be huh.
In the confusion of denying the wild idea, unperceived impatient feelings
seem to have followed.
"Ah, sure the house. Yeah, that's fine I got time. Ah, except I bought this
just now. You know it Murata? The ultra popular fighting RPG 'Dragon Fist
Strength Chronicles 2'. Today it got released. Ah, perhaps you're not
interested? But it is fun. Do it together from today?"
Aah I don't know what I'm talking by myself for.
In a flutter while both are standing in line at the arcade they're stepping
out and, the exit nearby is for some reason noisy. It could be a crowd of
people. A bad premonition.......
"Let's go from here."
Then forcibly in the side street at Murata's back that happened.
Gaasshan.
A karate-gi giant came flying here. Gaudily knocking over trash cans he
falls senseless. In the center of the separated crowd, was the
number-one-don't-want-to-see-now person.
"Ah, Tsukushi. Returning now?" The worst.
Tsukushi's older sister......Kasugano Sakura stepping away from the karate
gi man, raised her voice.
"That was fun. Please fight me again won'cha!"
For the man who's come to handshaking with Sakura, with bashful behavior he
was leaving.
"Sorry sorry. Getting challenged to a bout all of a sudden. Ah, your
friend? Pleased to meet you. I'm Tsukushi's older sister Sakura."
To see a next-door neighbor surely a puzzled face? and, for Murata folding
both arms before her eyes, while whirl whirling her eyes she was gazing at
Sakura.
......What's with that!
"Uh, um......Earlier in front of the station, you helped a junior highschooler
out of a quarreling didn't you huh!?"
"Uhm......and so?"
"I......forgetting to say my thanks......Even that time, also this time's,
good thing you were so awesome!"
For Murata probing her pocket, fetching an envelope, she thrusted it to
Sakura.
"Um......Read this pleease!!"
Her face blushing Murata seeming to escape from that spot was running away.
......The functions at my house.
"......Hey, Tsukushi. What should I do about that kid? This......letter
addressed to me? ......Bothersome isn't iit......Hold on, Tsukushi?"
......Dummy. Big Sis you dummy.
Tsukushi even again started running. As it is he'd also dropped the game
software. It's an autumn breeze's smidge cold October afternoon's incident.
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Highlights:
-Sakura's little brother Tsukushi has a crush on Miharu a girl from his class.
But his big sis unfortunately gets to her first, and frustration coupled with
confusion ensues LOL.
-The RPG Tsukushi buys and tries to get Miharu interested in his hobbies, has
its title be a "kanji" word play on the phonetics used for Ryu, Ken, Gouken,
and Gouki respectively.
Sakura's brother's name is Kasugano Tsukushi.
Her family name Kasugano in kanji means roughly "spring day plains." Although
her first name could easily be "cherry blossom", I've yet to see it in kanji
anywhere.
There was a Street Fighter Zero 2 arcade flyer released called a "Capcom
Secret File" (something that only Capcom club members could get, I
believe). In it, there's several sketches of Sakura along with a male
adult, female adult, and a biker girl. The text states that the adults are
Sakura's parents. The biker girl herself looks VERY similar to Akira of
Project Justice Academy/Rival Schools with slightly different clothes.
At any rate, after asking Saiki for some translations, I've confirmed that
the biker girl in that arcade flyer is stated to just be a rejected character
design.
From AASFZ2A and AAC, special colored Sakura in SFZ2A and Zero 2 Dash
was a palette swap made simply to fulfill a fan's request to depict her
with white panties instead of red or colored bloomer shorts. Even the
books themselves have a (?) next to this note, though...
For a little bit about Sakura's relationship with Dan, see Dan's bio.
Why does Sakura hang out with Dan when she's already a better fighter
than him? Well, Dan's an adult, as well as a guy who gets around a lot.
A very likely reason that Sakura follows him around is because doing so
allows her to travel around the world, easily, and he claims to know
several languages as well.
She's stated in the mook Gal's Island #4 Sweet Memory and elsewhere to be
15 during SFZ2.
Although they're rival classmates, Sakura and Karin get along rather well.
Sakura addresses Karin a little more distantly (Kanzuki-san) than Karin does
Sakura (Sakura-san), possibly because Karin is a rich heiress, even though
ironically, Sakura is a few months older than Karin is.
Sakura's designer's comment remarks that Black Widow from SMB was one
inspiration to create Sakura's character. Planner Murata Haruo said an older
thought was to design Sakura with spats, but that was thrown out because
they wanted Sakura to look more modern, hence the schoolgirl fighter look:
sailor uniform, bloomer shorts, and tennis shoes. These are from Gamest
Gal's Island #4.
There is no Dark Sakura in the VS games. It's always Sunburnt Sakura,
and she doesn't succumb to satsui no hadou (She still does Spring Hell
Murder). It's stated in AAC that Sunburnt Sakura is the result of Sakura
choosing to follow Gouki's footsteps instead of Ryu's.
She's 21 in SF4 despite her appearance. Her uniform is her combat attire,
and she tells Ryu in their rival battle (though it doesn't occur until SSF4)
that she has grown up since the time they saw each other in Z3.
Her win quotes reveal that she still keeps in touch with both Kei and Karin,
and that she wants to be a P.E. teacher while continuing to street fight.
Prologue 6 (Sakura) from SF4
At the instant the referee's count call was counted over at 10, the show
grounds was wrapped in a great joyous voice.
"Huu."
Sakura looked down at the opponent knocked out on the mat, she wiped off
perspiration.
The lightest youngest amongst the participating contestants, furthermore
being a woman the matter of Sakura having won reached a peak at once with
the spectators' excitement. For the spectators standing up in unison
shouted, there was an immense uproar on the grounds.
"Alright! With this it's 3 consecutive victories!"
Dan having rushed over from the corner smack-smack strikes her back, Sakura
lightly coughed violently.
"...Couugh. That hurts, Mr. Hibiki!"
"My bad may bad. However you really did it Sakura! As expected of my
apprentice!"
"What...! apprenticeship nothing..., I say no more already. Besides the
guarantee for this bout has been saved now hasn't it!? To use for the
tournament's travel expenses!"
"Yeah! Already we're good for anywhere!"
"Thank gooodness!"
While it was precipitating about the ring behind Dan, Sakura stroked down
her chest on a grand scale.
"What's that! what's that!, with that gloomed face! You don't mean you'll
freak out at the battles with formidable adversaries do you?? Well, you
still looking like an amateur is a reason isn't it. However it's alright,
have confidence! For my saikyo ryu..."
"That's not it I say!"
Sakura undoubtedly glares and, Dan stepped back.
"...Wh, what is it."
"From when we decided on doing the tournament, it's already 2 months!!
Initially, I and Mr. Hibiki and Jimmy would divide the labor for the fighting
show, we'd talked about that to raise the money we've collected didn't we?
Despite that..."
"Uh, yeah, that is so isn't it, Sakura. The matches I didn't win enou...no,
I was resigning from victories for more profound reasons. From here going to
the world fighting tournament, even as a joke being the instructor of saikyo
ryu if I, were to lose one carelessly, my students scattered in the world how
agitating it is?! To consider that you know, now even if only slightly
physical strength..."
"Yeah yeah, enough already!"
For shockingly Sakura bitterly smiled.
"Mr. Hibiki's said matters as it is were bad for even me to believe, from here
on I'll listen to around half from that. Anyway! For this occasion is like
such isn't it."
"...Caught in a verbal argument somewhat haven't, you. Whatever, at any rate,
if we board tonight's ship as planned..."
"That's right isn't it. Tonight's..., you say today's? Today's evening?! Mr.
Hibiki, this morning you said 'departure is for tomorrow night' didn't you?!"
"Hmm? Oops, that's right wasn't it..."
Rummaging through his padded undershirt he searches, Dan takes out a become
crumpled ticket.
"...As I thought, today isn't it."
"Eeeh, it's now already evening!! What time is it?? Just a sec, show me the
ticket please! Have to hurry!"
For Sakura, snatched the ticket from Dan's hand, looked at the clock at the
grounds.
"Uh, oh! Jimmy! Hey Jimmy, where are you? We gotta go!"
"Besides that, luggage! Mr. Hibiki, where did you set aside the luggage??!"
"Oh no! The guarantee for here hasn't been collected has it!"
With the appearance of thoroughly not hearing Sakura's questions and the like,
for Dan the guarantee, while crying out for the guarantee a crowd of people
was disappearing. Without time to be flabbergasted, hurrying to the grounds'
exit while beginning to run, Sakura mutters "Repeal of previous remarks!"
Absolutely enough!
Matters with Mr. Hibiki, are distrustful so absolutely enough!!
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Highlights:
-Dan screws up with preparations just as Sakura's won enough matches and money.
Wouldn't be surprised if she ditches them both at this point for her own
chapter in SF4, but SSF4 preferred to show that she doesn't abandon them for
keeps.
*** pgVSnHRyu.
SATSUI NO HADOU NI MEZAMETA RYU aka BLACK or SnH RYU; EVIL (Murderous) RYU
Represented nation: Japan
Birthday: July 21
Height: 175 cm
Weight: 68 kg
BWH sizes: B112/W81/H85
Blood type: O
Likes: the matter to defeat the weak
Dislikes: the weak
Special skill: to dodge flying shots
Fighting style: unknown
SF4-era nickname: Blood Battle's Roar
Satsui no Hadou ni Mezameta Ryu from SFZ3 Official Guidebook Master's Edition
Ryu awakened to Gouki's manipulating fighting spirit "satsui no hadou".
Essentially, besides the memories and thoughts Ryu had been possessing, to
manipulate "satsui no hadou" yet another personality is mixing.
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Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition: Due to "satsui no hadou" the has begun
to walk the path of carnage Ryu. Through hadou's influence in the process of
losing that ego, desiring only a much stronger opponent and to "death-meet",
it seems he's amounted to roaming about various places. Again outward
appearance and technique grandly transitioned, he's approaching the once
personally repudiated Gouki's figure.
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Where he is now: Nowhere. He didn't reawaken during the SF4 series and most
likely never will again.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Satsui no Hadou ni Mezameta Ryu roughly translates as "Ryu awakened to
the hadou of murderous intent/murderous surges".
Ryu first and only became SnH Ryu when he beat Sagat (See Ryu's bio
for more info). That's when it first awakened in him. He had no clue what
it was then. He then faced off against Gouki in SFZ2 and was told about
"satsui no hadou". In SFZ3 he was still swaying back and forth from being
Ryu and SnH Ryu, but SnH Ryu actually never managed to come into
existance during SFZ3, and is there just as a what-if character for the
player to play as. Notice how SnH Ryu seldom appears in anyone's
storylines but his own when you play as him, and his ending is so extreme
that there's no way it could have happened, since he ends up... KILLING
EVERYONE. The ONLY time in the storyline that SnH Ryu ever existed was
for that one brief moment at the end of Street Fighter 1.
Sagat's remark to SnH Ryu in SFZ3 when you play as SnH Ryu about how
SnH Ryu is not the same Ryu that defeated Sagat before is most likely because
Sagat doesn't know that Ryu was under the influence of satsui no hadou when
Ryu gave him that scar, and because SnH Ryu as played in the game is more
stable in his malice than the split instant he ripped through Sagat. Heck,
he generally doesn't even know what satsui no hadou IS, of course. Back then,
even Ryu didn't.
The symbol on SnH Ryu's back at the end of his Z3 ending is the Metsu
character. It means "Perish".
Psycho Ryu is NOT SnH Ryu. Otherwise, Capcom would have made you
fight SnH Ryu, not Ryu, during those battles (Unlike Noembelu, SnH Ryu
already existed as a character so why would Capcom cop out like they did
with T. Hawk's storyline by using Ryu instead of SnH Ryu?). Psycho Ryu is
merely Ryu being controlled by Vega. Because psycho power also feeds
off negative energy, it's similar to satsui no hadou, which is why Ryu
wonders if it's the power Gouki was talking about when he gets possessed by
it, but in actuality, the two are really different things.
The relationship between Ryu and SnH Ryu is like Gouki and Shin Gouki,
sorta. Ryu IS SnH Ryu. SnH Ryu is when Ryu wants to win at all costs
and thus is willing to KILL just to win. However, in the actual storyline,
there was only one time that Ryu got this desperate, and that was at the end
of SF1, so that was the only time that 'SnH Ryu' existed.
Evil Ryu in general is Capcom of USA's idea and wouldn't even exist as a
playable character if it weren't for them, though Capcom of Japan is still
keeping him as a what-if character only, when it comes to storylines (so
again, he never existed during SFZ2 and SFZ3 even though he's playable in
those games. Those are what-if storylines when you play as him).
Why Ryu rejects the satsui no hadou... well, satsui no hadou is murderous
intent. As in deliberately killing others. Ryu finally decided after going
through Vega's brainwashing that he doesn't really care for killing others and
proving his superiority over everyone. He just wants to be the best that
he can be. Obsessively so. This is why he so looks forward to future
matches with Ken, Sagat, and Sakura. He doesn't want to crush them. He
just wants to test his skills and improve himself. Gouki too sees Ryu's
potential, and now may believe Ryu will someday reach it even without
satsui no hadou and eagerly awaits that day so he can have a worthy
opponent.
Basic nutshell of Ryu's conflict with satsui no hadou: Ryu must make a
choice. Is winning the fight so important to him that he's willing to give
in to the murderous intent and thus KILL PEOPLE just to win the fight? In
the end, as you can see by the many flashbacks Ryu has in his SFZ3 ending,
Ryu decides that he cares for his friends and the fight itself too much to
give in to the satsui no hadou just to win the fight (although one could
argue that he started to decide this ever since Ken's SFZ2 ending).
In SSF4AE SnH Ryu is presented again game-wise, this time with more drastic
appearance changes such as Gouki's red eyes and spiky red hair, plus a rather
large hole in his chest. His opening has him remark that he was wavering or
hesitating before, with regards to letting satsui no hadou coarse through him
or not, but that phase has now passed and given way to a more murderous/evil
one.
Upon getting up from lying on his back then sitting on his hands and knees,
Satsui Ryu introduces himself in a Gouki-like manner to go with his looks: his
name is Ryu, the one awakened to satsui no hadou. He believes that SnH itself
is now guiding him and granting him true power, but there's also another force
at work, as indicated with a familiar chime in his opening and an even more
familiar "ten" mark shining in a red glow on his back. The onigami or fierce
god long associated with only Gouki has found a new feasting ground, and Satsui
Ryu unknowingly feeds it under the guise of seeking a "death-meet" battle that
both Gouki and Gen constantly desire.
Satsui Ryu's ending leaves two armed Shadaloo operatives at the mercy of his
brief but swift cravings for blood and carnage. His tainted heart refuses to
stop pumping even out of his torso's visible cavity as both his and the
onigami's hunger pangs fail to subside. Satsui Ryu hates what he's become,
as indicated by his intro line which was first heard in CvS2, roughly
bellowing out to his opponent, "make it stop, the sh*t spewing out of my
heart!" Satsui Ryu's what-if scenario has Gouki be the first person he kills
after his awakening via his win quote to Gouki (might as well had that coming
since Gouki's most likely the one who gave him the chest hole via his win
animation of skewering his opponents through if they're at his feet after
they're defeated), and through CPU Oni's intro speech to him it's discovered
that Satsui Ryu's entire SF4-era scenario likely comes into play should Ryu
fail to resist and be swallowed by the SnH effects of BLECE in Ryu's SF4
ending, as Oni does repeat Ryu's choice of words at that time, feeling like
the SnH emanating out of BLECE would swallow him, and Oni affirms that Satsui
Ryu was indeed taken over by having been "swallowed by hadou."
*** pgVSean.
SEAN MATSUDA
Birthyear: 1980 (no month and date given)
Height: 178 cm
Native place: Brazil
SF3-era nickname: "Hot Wind Kid"
Street Fighter 3 Second Impact: Sean tags along with Ken on his travels, be
it for a present for Eliza in New York, or to meet Ryu with Ken's luggage in
tow. He wants to unleash the new succession move he's sure that he's
developed through being by Ken's side, hoping to test his skills. However,
he was beaten by none other than his own master, Ken himself [Official].
Ken tells him to go fight Ryu, and that he must defeat Ryu if he wants to be
any good, so Sean does so, but a confused Ryu (confused at his persistence)
keeps whupping him (specially noted via AAC). Ken, meanwhile, free from
looking after Sean for a spell, can spend some time with his wife [Sean's
SF3SI ending].
Street Fighter 3 Third Strike:
Sean also more and more has amounted to participating in fighting
championships. But Master Ken severely declares. "Your true ability now
is just embarrassing," after merely until the tournament preliminaries.
Whatever it even takes, It'll be groaning Ken unless I grasp "my own type
(style) only" ! [CJ's 3S profile for Sean]
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A year has now passed since Ken defeated Sean in 2I. This has been Sean's
deadline according to his master to actually develop into a worthwhile
fighter. Ken tells Sean to show him what he's learned this past year, and
then it's off to the Pan-American Fighting Championship for both.
Sean believes he won the Pan-American Fighting Championship, but he realizes
that it was just a dream and he actually was knocked out, not even making it
past the preliminaries. Ken wins the Championship for a third time. He
offers the trophy to Sean, but Sean declines it, saying he wants to win for
himself. [Ken and Sean's SF3TS endings]
Where he is now: Sean... still has a looong way to go before he can be a
contender in the fighting world, it seems.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Sean from AASF3
Backstory
Observing Ken's fight at a certain fighting technique tournament, a
hot-blooded young boy determined on the matter to become an uninvited
student. He continues training in the belief that "even if I lose today
tomorrow I win", even offense also defense is still quite the soft spot. For
eventually, to possess an original sure-killing technique is his dream but,
for that to come true how soon will it likely?
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Story
In a New York street corner a lone young boy having donned a uniform is
standing up without keeping cool. Somehow or other he seems to be waiting
for a person.
"Where in the world has Master Ken likely gone off to....... Because it's
towards a present for his wife, he's slow with the shopping iisn't he. For
wearing a uniform here standing around in such a place, that's saying an
issue of picking for a brawl."
"Hurry up hasn't the fight started yet......."
At a single detached alley from the building was a man muttering as such. A
hot dog in one hand, awaited the brawl stealthily and circumstantially.
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Profile
Family- Hails from Brazil. A raised in quite a balance-like home
all-purpose sports young boy. Through a fighting techniques tournament
having been deeply moved by Ken's fighting figure for him, with an
aspiration for apprenticeship he follows after Ken.
Personality- A hot-blooded young boy who hates to lose. For instance even
if losing today for tomorrow is to win, is his creed. An upbringing by his
grandfather of Japanese descent, his place for the time being is being
courteous.
Fighting style- As the ideal of the manner in Ken's battles is to recklessly
attack, there's no reason for a scrap of a move as much as with Ken.
Consequently even though he seems to be attacking, having eaten punches quite
sufficiently himself, it seems that he doesn't prevail without a blemish. For
in time to possess an original sure-killing technique is his dream.
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SF3 Q&A from Gamest SF3 Fanbook: Sean
-As for the matter of looking up to Ken as a master so to speak, is it agreed
that someday he'll be seen with eyes the same as Ken becoming a seriously
considered fighting stylist?
A. Ideally such is agreed, for Ken's stirring form in the midst of many
severe fights with overcoming accomplishments even going in from the pattern
there is no creation. Through the midst of actual combat to pursue an ideal
is agreed to be considerably difficult. A spontaneous and, an indeed changed
individuality is believed will come.
-From before meeting Ken did he have sure killing technique experience?
A. From the time as a child being taught jujutsu from his Japanese descent
grandfather, from the time he was 10 years old he was firing up for soccer
and basketball and other sports.
-Does he know about Ryu's existence?
A. With this time's journey until he's introduced Ryu's name, is something
his little ear comes to overhear to an extent when Ken and Eliza are talking.
-Has he fought seriously, with his master Ken?
A. Sean's extent will someday be serious. For this interval becoming within
a dream biting at the end, he's fallen to an offended Ken.
-Is it agreed that there's a possibility for Sean to awaken to satsui no
hadou?
A. As for his awakening to satsui no hadou, first off until he approaches
a level to Ryu and Ken, his growth is essential. It's not to say that there
isn't indeed a possibility.
-Please tell about his family's composition and names.
A. His Japanese descent grandfather, Matsuda Kinjiro at the head, his barber
shop management father, Matsuda Yuichiro. His mother, Brenda and Sean's
brother 7 years older than him and sister 6 years older than him a family of
6 people.
-Before a bout, facing his opponent? his tossing a ball, is that for him a
taunting conduct?
A. Seemingly not to be looked down on as a believed brat, it appears that he
plans for taunting in general.
-Please tell about his private life?
A. For now a form of homestay dependent in Ken's house, from there he's
commuting to high school. As long as there's time he follows Ken around, an
all-purpose sporter in school, the matter to say of hailing from Brazil is
that he's allured by soccer matches and the like in abundance. Deciding that
Sean's job would be Ken's lawnmowing, it appears that it takes 3 days for him
to get it finished in its entirety.
-Does he have hobbies?
A. He's doing basketball and also soccer.
-What's his age?
A. He's born in the year 1980.
-What's his dream?
A. Prospectively, becoming big in the fighting world, it seem that he thinks
of wanting to eat into it. Yet, the target in place for now is about
developing an original sure killing technique.
-Sean's favorable woman?
A. A spirited cheerful girl.
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Sean is 1/2 Brazilian and 1/2 Japanese.
From Golden Dragon: He played basketball in college. Sean's grandfather
trained him for a while, before he became Ken's pupil. In case you didn't
know already, his grandfather is Japanese.
In Brazil it's possible to be in college as young as 17 actually, so yes he
is playing basketball in the university.
While CJ does reveal in the SF3 Fanbook that Sean's hobbies are both
basketball and soccer, basketball is mentioned first, and as he does
play it in college rather than soccer, he most likely is into basketball at
least a little more than soccer (despite soccer being the favorite sport in
Brazil), though again Sean's got a knack for all sports.
Sean's family: (the family name Matsuda is with the kanji for "pine tree
clearing."
Matsuda Kinjiro ("son of golden cure") â Seanâs grandfather. He originally
lived in Japan before he moved to Brazil. He trained and raised Sean
strictly. His influence is evident in Seanâs personality and manners.
Matsuda Yuichiro ("son of excellence") â Seanâs father. He runs a barber
shop.
Sean has an older brother and sister. His brother is 7 years older than he
is, and his sister is 6 years older than he is.
Sean's mother's name is Brenda.
Oro moved to Brazil with "a friend." I don't know if this friend was
Sean's grandfather. Oro's win quote to Sean doesn't indicate Oro knows him
(but doesn't rule it out) and Sean's 2I quote to Oro is "Old maan! Weren't
you living in my neighborhood?!" ...it'd be funny if Oro reminded
Sean of his neighbor because Oro WAS his neighbor, though.
Sean is Ken's student. He was determined to become Kenâs pupil after
watching him fight in a martial arts tournament.
When he's staying at Ken's home, Sean is responsible for mowing Kenâs
lawn (which takes 3 days to finish).
Sean knows Dan and hates to be referred to as him. Note that Capcom
of America added a LOT of Dan quotes to him, but the Japanese version
only has the one when you have a Sean vs Sean fight.
Sean goes by the belief/philosophy, "Even if I lose today, Iâll win
tomorrow."
Sean was going to be the sole ansatsuken fighter of SF3. Poor Sean. As
it is, Capcom doesn't seem to take him seriously anymore as his moves are much
more goofy and much more toned down in Third Strike from Second Impact, and of
course, his ending doesn't exactly show good prospects for him, either. Poor
Sean indeed...
*** pgVSeth.
SETH
Fighting style: transcendental fighting beyond human intellect
Birthday: unknown
Native place: unknown
Height: 198 cm
Weight: 85 kg
BWH sizes: B130, W85, H89
Blood type: unknown (unknown what happened during his prime field conversion)
Likes: the matter of erecting plans
Dislikes: coaxed humans
Special skill: reconstruction
SF4-era nickname: "Puppet King"
Street Fighter 4:
CEO of the S.I.N. Association bearing a burden on the Shadoloo weapons branch.
Almsgiving his own body for reconstruction, he possesses to use as an ability
for his own person fighting technique data from every school. However, sensing
suspicion of his own flesh to be Vega's substitute body, finally he schemes to
usurp Shadoloo but.......
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Seth in his SF4 opening is approached by his agent and informed that Dan just
barely squeaked by to enter the main tournament, but there's more news. Rumors
are spreading that Vega may be secretly operating behind the scenes as well.
Seth brushes this off as a mere rumor, and orders the agent not to let it leak
out any farther. After a shower, Seth decides to personify what the word
"strongest" stands for, personally, to Vega, phantom or otherwise.
Seth's ending has him choking one of his genetic brethren, #21. Angry at
being referred by his number (#15), he declares that as a superior existence
separate from all the other Seths adhering to Vega's every whim, he should
wipe out Vega as well as all the other prime fields, including the one he
notes as escaped in his rival battle: Abel.
Super Street Fighter 4:
Allowed by an anonymous identity to escape the burning catastrophe of a lab
at the end of the last tournament, Seth lays low for a short while to gather
accumulated data and to put new play pieces on the board, Han Juri foremost.
He's seen the degree of resistance his enemies can apply to him and his
ambitions, and with SSF4 his next hosted tournament he plans to rile them
all even more. The fighter kidnappings continue, which this time dip into
Shadaloo's elite female force, the Vega Bodyguard Troops or the Vega SS.
Sending Juri to make short work of them and then abduct them, he continues
to keep in mind that even she has nothing but fuming daggers for him, the
beast that must be kept at bay while allowed to roar and snarl until her
throat grows hoarse. [Seth's SSF4 opening]
His seen ending takes place actually prior to both his and Juri's SSF4
openings. Seth summons Juri before him after she's been initially playing
around with her newly installed eye toy, and states that Shadaloo as it
prospered during Vega's golden age of psycho power, the entity to blame for
her parents murdered and her left eye stolen, is no more. Seth reminds
her that Juri's out to topple both Seth and Vega (by this time he's admitted
to himself that Vega is still breathing and kicking somewhere), asks if Juri
doesn't want her "playing" to end, and if she wants to test Seth out right
then and there. Juri's response tells Seth that she'd prefer to "play" under
him which seems interesting for the time being, and letting her be, Seth
dismisses her and walks away, promising inside himself that things will
indeed turn interesting before long.
In Juri's ending Seth is weakened and at Juri's feet. Was he brought to that
state entirely because of her? Or was he previously given a thrashing by
Vega? Or possibly even by Blanka and/or Cody as they're the pair to have most
likely brought the public curtain down on this latest tournament? In any
case, there's no bailout for Seth this time, as referenced in Fei-Long's
SSF4 ending as well as Juri's.
Where he is now: Dead, most likely courtesy of Juri or possibly Vega.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
He has a tanden engine (abdomen's way too broad a region plus there are other
kanji for abdomen); there's not really any other way to describe it since it's
a focal point specifically in Oriental medicine. It's also the point of
origin for hadoukens (the Complete File 16 years ago had the blog's tanden
description almost word-for-word) and likely all other projectiles. To
visualize, picture a small red point right below your navel. That would be
where energy/spirit/chakra/chi/ki starts to gather, and Seth's got that red
point technologically amplified.
Juri's feng shui engine is more or less a tiny replica of the tanden engine
which serves as an artificial left eye for her.
Seth is the epitomy for displaying the Taoist roots found in martial arts,
medicine, and later influences of Taoism+Buddhism in Chinese and Japanese
culture. His tanden engine is constructed in accordance to Taoism's main
symbol of the taijitu (the dichrome circle seen by itself when tai chi is
represented) plus the bagua (the eight arrangements of 3 broken/solid lines,
known as the hakke or eight signs in Japanese). His secret laboratory stage
which includes an apparatus with two hands cupped together as when forming
a hadouken, reflects Taoism's more esoteric ambitions utilizing neidan
(naitan in Japanese) or internal/spiritual alchemy: interconverting the
very opposites of nature into their counterparts (light to darkness and vice
versa, positivity to negativity and vice versa, etc.), the pair of cupped
hands surrounded by a larger bagua arranged in the "Earlier Heaven" order.
His arcade profile's last sentence rewritten as the console profile's above:
Wary of there being the matter of Vega's substitute body, he schemes to usurp
Shadoloo.......
He's one of Vega's 28 prime fields (constructed compatibility-issueless soul
vessels) who went rogue and wants to take over Shadaloo and the world for
himself. He used to be referred to as #15. He hates Vega and the thought
of a being like Abel makes him want to puke. Seth has the ability to
assimilate data from other fighters and manipulate it so he can use their
techniques.
He's the only reason that Vega is still alive for SF4 (it took creating a
whole new character to save Vega's soul from Gouki during SF2). Although
Rose was also alive and available, it's not much of a stretch to reason
that Vega would rather die than go back to her again (see Rose's Miscellaneous
section for more on this).
*** pgVSheeptheRoyal.
SHEEP THE ROYAL (ALEXANDER THE GRATER overseas)
Age: 34 (33 during MB)
Height: 199 cm
Weight: 163 kg
Hails from, native place: Melbourne, Australia
Favorite/main attack(s): shotgun stab, tornado slam
Favorite food: young calf meat
MB specialty move: Canadian back breaker
SMB specialty move: DDT
Wrestling federation: OWA (Outback Wrestling Association?)
MB-era nickname: "Wavering Sheep"
Stage: Sydney, Australia
Muscle Bomber: He um... wrestled?
Super Muscle Bomber: He erm... wrestled some more?
Where he is now: Dunno.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
A CWA wrestler. Dwelled first in Australia, member of the national
rugby team, immigrated to America and at the same time converted to American
football. Famous player, but after some acts of violence occurred, turned
to pro wrestling. Although his name has a wind of nobility about it, his fat
figure, double mohawk and tongue out show that there's not an inkling of
nobleness in him. His nickname "the Stray Sheep" is said to lead opponents
into thinking he's not capable of killing them. (from his official profile)
He was a famous football player in America but was kicked out after
being too violent, so he got into professional wrestling.
From a Muscle Bomber Flyer: Having considerable confidence in his power.
Boasts of the packing might in his body weight loaded moves.
*** pgVSgtSims.
SGT. SIMS (SERGEANT SIMS)
No bio
Final Fight Streetwise: A cop, Sgt. Sims was asked by his sister Vanessa
to help Kyle, but he'd rather Kyle not get involved. He tells Kyle about Cody
being spotted pit-fighting in Little Italy, but eventually tries to arrest
Cody when Cody gets involved with the drug GLOW. When the city erupted into
anarchy from GLOW addicts driven mad by the drug, Sgt. Sims traced the source
to the church. His men surrounded it as Kyle arrived. Sgt. Sims tells Kyle
that he's running out of men and has no idea what's waiting for them
in the church, but that they have to stop the person behind GLOW.
He tells Kyle to stay back and proceeds to storm the church with his
men, but then Kyle notices Father Bella on the rooftop armed with
a grenade laughing. Kyle tells Sims to pull back in time to prevent
the grenade from only hurting instead of instantly killing him and his
men, but then tons of GLOWheads burst out of the church and attacked
as Bella throws more grenades down from above. In the ensuing battle,
all of Sim's men were killed, but Sim and Kyle managed to survive.
They entered the church, where Bella was waiting for them and was
forcing Chang to continue working on four different subjects underneath
sheets, despite her protests. Bella preaches a bunch of end-times
Bible verses to Kyle and Sims as he talks about his Four Horsemen
of the Apocalypse War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death, who will help
him bring the end-times about. At this point, one of the subjects
removes the sheet as he laughs, "Not the face!" Kyle recognizes the
voice as Weasel, although by now Weasel was infused with GLOW and was
rather ripped with "WAR" inscribed on his chest with GLOW. He grabs
Kyle and tosses him through the windows above, before following after
him, leaving Sims behind.
After Kyle beat War, Kyle makes his way to a sort of butcher room, where
he hears slicing and chopping noises. He peeps into the room to see a
mutated lanky Blades with "FAMINE" inscribed on his chest chopping someone
up. Sighing but knowing he has to fight, Kyle enters the room and realizes
that Blades' victim was Sgt. Sims! Sims tells Kyle to run before Blades
hacks off his head as Kyle shouts, unable to save him in time.
His sister kept his badge after his death. [from the game]
Where he is now: When someone cuts off your head, it makes you real dead.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Sgt. Sims was simply named "Simms" in the promo comic. Apparently they
added the Sgt. and removed an 'm' later on.
Sims is a "deep cover" cop. Kyle says Sims has seen some of the most
twisted things in Metro City so it's surprising that he can still sleep at
night. Kyle says Sim's a good cop, but adds that he never met a cop he liked.
The back of Sim's jacket reads "Wonderboy".
I don't think it was stated, but I'm pretty sure that Sgt. Sims is the
older of the two siblings, between him and Vanessa.
Like all other Metro City Police, he relies primarily on firearms. Also
like all other Metro City Police, hurting allies via friendly fire is possible
and hazardous to Kyle's health (This is possibly a throwback to Edi. E
relying on his gun and always shooting his own men if they're in the way).
Oddly enough, unlike cops earlier in the game, you can have Kyle punch
the crap out of Sims during the scene where Sims fights alongside you.
It's impossible to kill him there though. Both Sims and other police
can accidentally shoot Kyle if he gets in the line of fire.
...well, I guess Streetwise wouldn't be "hardcore" if at least one good
guy didn't die. They at least could have made it less obvious by giving
the poor guy more than 3 ridiculously short scenes and a first name though.
What, they couldn't spend 2 seconds to yank one of the hundred names
in Streetwise's random name selector to give this guy a first name?
Unless "Sgt." is actually his first name. Sure, Belger and Andore don't have
first names, but those two don't have immediate family that DOES have a first
name (in this case, Sgt. Sim's sister Vanessa).
It's actually possible (but hard) to get some of Sim's men to survive
the church battle, but it doesn't change the storyline. It's likely not
intended for that to be possible since it can only be done if they get
knocked away from Bella's grenades by the enemy (...or by an 'accidental'
thwack from a thug thrown by Kyle).
The GLOW heads don't target Sims. Despite this, you're allowed to punch
him for some reason and he has a life bar with the "Sgt." not being
abbreviated for once, but it's unlimited no matter how much you have Kyle beat
him up. Maybe there was more intended for him in the game that didn't make
it. ....like everything else.
*** pgVSodom.
SODOM
Height: 208 cm, 190 cm (old FF1 design)
Weight: 108 kg, 98 kg (old FF1 design)
BWH sizes: B148, W98, H103
Blood type: A
Native place: America
Special skill: change-of-position sword drawing haze slicing (can alternate
his stance to slice even mist with his swords), water stunts, jumbo vehicle
driving
Likes: geisha, Japanese item collections, researching Japanism
Dislikes: Guy
Favorite food: sushi
SFZ-era nickname: "Un-defeating Sodom Be Here"
Final Fight One: Sodom was a man who was a true Japanese guy in spirit,
but he was cursed with being Caucasian!!! What better thing for a poor
misunderstood guy like him to do than... join a gang!? Sodom joined Mad
Gear which was the perfect place for misunderstood guys like him, and his
fighting skill made him become very respected within the gang. He became
the boss of the Subway area of Metro City, until one day, a certain ninja
named Guy came and challenged him. Sodom was honored to be challenged by a
real ninja, and fought Guy in an underground ring within the subway, but
Guy defeated him. The resulting defeat humiliated him, and he was shown to
be inferior to a Japanese! No more was poor Sodom respected, for it was
shown that he was no match for a true Japanese fighter. Poor Sodom. Later
on, Mad Gear would be defeated through the combined efforts of Guy, Haggar,
and Cody [Official].
Street Fighter Zero 2: The kabuki fighter, Sodom seeks to achieve true
"Japanism". How will he reach a higher level of cultural worship? Mad Gear
is falling apart thanks to Mike Haggar and co! It's up to Sodom to take up
the reigns and help it get back on its feet. Rising back up the ranks of
Mad Gear, Sodom realizes that he must recruit new members. He sets his
sights east, to Japan again! Japanese warriors will give Mad Gear a fighting
chance! [Conjecture based on in-game storyline] Sodom is dismayed when he
hears that fellow Mad Gear member and friend Rolento has abandoned Mad
Gear to start his own army. But he must go on, for the sake of the evil-
honoring ideals of Mad Gear! He finally reaches Japan, and realizes that
sumo warriors would be great for Mad Gear! With that, he enters a sumo
house and challenges one of them, E. Honda, to a match... [Conjecture based
on in-game storylines and SFZ3 dialogue between Sodom and E. Honda. It's
pretty obvious].
Street Fighter Zero 3: It was a fun match, but sadly Sodom couldn't get
any sumo wrestlers to join Mad Gear. Mad Gear has died, for good. Could
the ideals of Mad Gear truly be lost forever? One day, he ran into
Rolento, again. Sodom is stricken with grief that Rolento has broken off
from Mad Gear. He tells Rolento that Rolento has lost sight of Mad Gear's
ideals (which I think was an ideal of freedom through chaos or so, and
Rolento's being too strict with the military thing and apparently mainly
just wanting power and money). Rolento tells Sodom that he hasn't lost
those ideals and that his path is still conducive to those goals, but Sodom
doesn't believe him. Rolento then left, and began to look for Shadaloo's
armaments to equip his army [Official]. He hears about the psycho drive,
but then hears about how they work by brainwashing people. He eventually
realized that they weren't conducive to his goals, and that one can't have
a utopia if people can't make their own decisions. When Sodom sees this,
he sees that Rolento hasn't lost sight of Mad Gear's ideals after all, so
he and Rolento make up and decide to work together towards their true
utopia and ideals, once again. [Conjecture based off in-game storyline.
Rolento's ending seems more likely since Sodom's ending seems mostly like a
joke]
SFZ3 File #06 Sodom
In order to master the "wabisabi mind", the kabuki fighter who walks roaming
about. Previously with Cody and company having destroyed his crime group,
for the sake of rebuilding Mad Gear, he's aiming at usurping Shadoloo.
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Highlights:
-Sodom did look at trying to make Shadaloo's base one for Mad Gear, at least
before he learned from Rolento what the psycho drive was all about.
-"Wabisabi" means "quiet simplicity and subdued refinement emphasized
aesthetically," usually in Japanese art. Applied to Sodom's warped sense,
it means essentially when you have a job to do, do it, dominate with it,
and be quiet about it.
Where he is now: Probably still trying to be Japanese ^_~ He was
originally planned to be in Streetwise but for exactly what, I have no
idea (the leader of the angry schoolgirls maaaaybe because there isn't
any other explanation for them being able to infest Japantown despite Guy's
presence like that, and because it would fit in perfectly with Sodom's
Japanism). Rumors abound during the SF4 era that he's washing feet or
has started up a yakitori eatery (Poison's USF4 opening), but apparently no
longer with Rolento.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Sodom from SFZ
Original account from SF2 Himitsu Hyakka
From the period of Final Fight, as a leader of the criminal group Mad
Gear Sodom called out as "Shogun", without the short metal truncheons
in both hands, taken up bewitching Muramasa sabres, he was with an
unrivaled might.......
One day, for Sodom, defeated by a user of the old Japanese budo school
"bushinryu", even Mad Gear was crushed. "Surely you're misunderstanding
about Japan. Do more training!" The young user of bushinryu, for Sodom,
like that, went away somewhere.
From there, Sodom from America turned up at a Zen temple in the Hida
mountain recesses, also an amazing training began. Struck by a waterfall
while chanting a "nen-boo", drawing water with "zehn", he acquired
ultimate "sah-toh-ree" about true "boo-she-doh".
Dohdohdohh! Driving moves of super power into large Japan cedars,
Sodom, understood himself as having become historically strongest.
Now, for the sake of Mad Gear's resurrection, the struggle for Sodom
is to begin!
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Official Story from Gamest SFZ and AASFZ
Struck by a waterfall, there was a man babbling nothing but merely
"nen-boo" repeatedly.
His name is Sodom. Having comprehended "boo-she-doh", in order to
profit from the essence of Japanese budo, flying solo from America
it is that he visited a Zen temple in the Hida mountain recesses.
Previously he was a leader of Mad Gear. At this time he was rightly
with the feeling of having earned his own way. Armed with bewitching
Muramasa sabres in both hands, his appearance to the struggle with
defending armor and a helmet on his body like many men of valor,
with respectful appreciation of his feelings he was being called "Shogun."
However, such a daily dream was also suddenly crushed. By a user
of a so-called old Japanese budo school "bushinryu".......
"Surely you're misunderstanding about Japan. Devote yourself more."
Those words are now but carving into his chest. As the greatest
humiliation.
......Had he mistakenly considered himself? What is true Japanism?
And of the Japanese spirit?
With arms folded in meditation numerous emerging thoughts vanish
within his head. These were whisked away as he was being pounded
with the silent pursuit of knowledge.
How many days likely elapsed. For him an empty mental state at last,
namely "sah-toh-ree" he grasped.
Having brought in from curio hands powerful Japanese emblems "ji-tte"
grasped tightly, the ultimate Japanese martial arts acquirement with
joy, Sodom trembled. His own moves driven into large Japan cedars, he
could sense the genuine power, his emotional voice would arise.
"I finally did it. This is, giving the ogre a meetal rod!"
That next day he began the homeward journey. For the sake of achieving
the next ambition. Having received aid from the Zen temple's chief
priest he befriended in appreciation, the rest of the training monks
he bid farewell as he was journeying out. Seeing his retreating figure
the chief priest to say murmured. "Nay, he was an enthusiastic
foreigner. However he did various things as he pleased, what in
the world did he come for?"
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Highlights:
-Sodom's defeated and disillusioned by Guy on what "Japanism" is. He tries
visiting a Zen temple in Japan, confusing the wits out of the monks there.
-When he's chanting "nen-boo", he's trying to do a Buddhist prayer. Bushido
is literally "the path of the warrior", satori is the Buddhist term for
"enlightenment", and "giving the ogre a metal rod" or "oni ni kanabou" is
is an expression meaning "making someone strong even stronger"; once Sodom
felt he effectively used his sais against the trees in the mountains, he's
convinced that he's now more powerful than ever.
Sodom from SFZ2
Tenchu Satsu
After the dismantling of Mad Gear, Sodom was sensing that there was
something mistaken with his own Japanism.
During however, he was still wanting to deny this feeling fully.
By no means ever a time for capriciousness and the like, it was
expected that for him would be a sincere attitude in pursuing for
Japanism.
Yes, that wouldn't be forgotten. The day he was touched by
"Japan's" culture born in the beginning, he was deeply moved the
time he saw Richard Chamberlain star in the TV drama "Shogun".
But, a long time had amassed since the "descent from heaven",
along with the pride of "Japan authority" was wanting to crush
that man's every word.
"You misunderstand something in the manner of Japan."......
The complicated thoughts in Sodom's mind controllably vanished.
His legs shall know to go towards the path of the Japanese.
Unexpectedly, while passing by a bookstore's show window his eye
stopped.
"Silent Meditation ZEN: THE WORLD OF WABISABI"
"Murder Within the Heavens: URANAI, THE UNLUCKY WORDS".......
Expressing a concern as a showcase of blows, he borrowed from
them upon returning home after he finished reading them in one
sitting. He was unable to comprehend a single passage he read.
For some reason or other he caught on to the books' contents,
that on a ferry to Japan he hardened his decision to carry out
training at a Zen temple.
Deeply within beyond imagining Japanism, seizing nothing but the
"boo-she-doh soul" cut through a grand mental world.
The "wa-bi-sa-bi mind" hidden in the "tea ceremony", anything at
all is not just for "showing off", indeed. And so the ordinary of
Japan's calendar and divination would utilize as
"unlucky words"...Such matters in Japan it is said that he would
loathe. How mysterious, for his mouth then to distance from
likely ominous things.
"Boo-tsoo-metsoo, dai-kyoh, ten-choo-sah-tsoo......"
This might be what someone would hear Sodom mutter.
This being the occasion on which his techniques would rush at his
enemy, the matter of uttering "unlucky words" presents mental
damage to opponents becoming the manner of the so-called technique
taking them in.
Since then still more mistakenings to risk polishing, even more
of a power-up Sodom would have fulfilled.
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Highlights:
-Before visiting the Zen temple in the Hida mountain recesses, Sodom during
his trip to Japan found two books of which he couldn't understand a single
page. In spite of that, the titles of the books grabbed him and led to a
twisted behavior he exhibits while fighting. A mix of psyching out his
opponents through fear and superstition (where the idea for his super the
tenchu satsu and other moves came from), while trusting his actions to be
showing-off the Japanese qualities of simple and beautiful at the same time,
like a tea ceremony. Yeah, messed up.
Sodom from AASFZ3
Fighting Style
In the facade of power with a pushed out fighting style, for in the techniques
it accompanies roughness. The like for Japan heightening the comprehended
Japanese martial arts is, for a conspicuous outcome not materializing. When
moves are put into effect for to blurt out unlucky words, is it said that his
intention is to grant mental damage to opponents maybe? For the sake of
mistakenly attracted to Japan culture, until it's a queer accomplishment unknown
to others he'll be learning.
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Fashion Style
Even as was said pointed out by bushinryu's user (Guy), for ornaments he's
consolidating through a mistakened Japan outlook. For death on his chest and
a heart confused in a seemingly odd ideograph is composed, for in hand he has
Japanese symbols and blind believed short metal truncheons and Japanese
swords. A helmet for the sake of covering the head unable to know the matter
of his unpainted face, for supposing that the pose of knowing Japan would appear
sincere more than anyone (?).
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Manhattan Building 49F [U.S.A.]
Beyond the Milky Way a dazzling skyscraper's light within, only there is
cutting down in the jet blackness.
A disasterous-like symbol's seeming of grotesqueness. For a non-lit by
lamps high-tech building, appearing like a seeming entrance to an arrived
at sudden empty space of hell.
For accidents happened since half a year before.
For the Manhattan building as a composite leisure center was being in
preparation for nearing completion.
One night, with the construction site workers' carelessness there's a fire
outbreak. Just like that the fire's hand spreading to all stories, as for
the new construction building through several moments it got reduced to
gigantic iron rubbish so to speak.
Since then, an evacuation expense's outlook doesn't stand to be neglecting
but, from neighborhood residents' complaints not having become extinct, with
the matter of the city's expense to finally evacuate it was thus decided.
The dismantling members' scene leader Audrey faces the topmost floor. For the
sake of an explosive establishing position's investigation.
Because the elevator is unuseable, to go up each 1 floor via emergency
stairways.
The limits of climbing expending 15 minutes, she goes out into the corridor.
That floor also having been a sky lounge, thoroughly burnt down. Advancing to
the slope appearance's hallway, to unexpectedly peek at the lounge's kitchen
and, from a partly opened steel-made door's interior vaguely a glow was shining
through. Moreover, intermittently a shuu, shuu, to say it seems to be even a
wind-slicing sound being heard.
For the master electric source should be degrading......No, to begin with in
here shouldn't the electricity have been established......?
A chill rushes.
After all a soul unable to rest in peace through having passed on in the
accidents? No, while that was just an accident, out of it there should not
have been even a single dead person. Besides in this age is no reason for
departed spirits or whatnot.
Timidly a light shining through the door Audrey appoaches it.
The instant she peered in, at that queer spectacle, she forgets the instant
breath.
A carried through Bon Festival for there were shining unrivaled candles. No,
that is...... Oriental Buddhists' utilizing so-called candle things maybe. A
whole surface straw core lined up illuminated by an orange blaze, ten some
bodies of mannequins standing close together.
In that center not a mannequin, was a man of quite abnormality.
At a half-naked upper body a closely packed written pattern. Probably so-called
Oriental kanji. On his head a mask......A man with a helmet put on is,
preparing to use Japanese swords is dropping at the hips.
"KILL EAST EIGHT, GO MA----NNNNN!!"
Together with a queer voice for the man recklessly swung the Japanese swords.
As for the mannequins gotten sliced to pieces, scattered and fall in the sea of
candles. Burning spread blazes paint the floor.
Departed spirit?, lunatic? For such a thing however doesn't matter. If she
doesn't escape from this place even a minute quicker......For Audrey while
tossing about tangles her feet she tumbled down the stairway.
After that, how many times? investigators visit the topmost floor, everyone
ends up in the same manner experiencing the abnormal spectacle scurrying away.
Night after night appears the samurai ghost. As for that true character, still
barely unknowing of it.
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Highlights:
-Sodom hides out in the 49th floor of an abandoned skyscraper just across the
waters from Metro City, where his abode is so creepy and bizarre he's written
off as a samurai ghost. Poor Audrey, leader of the building's dismantling
team, has little chance from breaking the chain of unfortunate victims seeing
Sodom then falling down the stairs trying to get away.
FF1 Bio: A promoter of professional wrestling, Sodom often gets in the
ring to defend this title. A lover of all things Japanese. Sodom often
attacks his opponents with his favorite weapon, an ancient samurai sword.
In the censored console versions of FF1, Sodom's name was changed to Katana.
Sodom was undefeated in underground pro wrestling (well, until he
fought Guy if they're referring to his stage in FF1. ...wait, that
might not count as pro-wrestling though).
Sodom is very envious of Guy because Guy is Japanese, and also because
Guy defeated Sodom in the ring during Final Fight. Sodom himself is a
Caucasian who wishes he was Japanese. ^_~ He also hates Guy for playing a
part in destroying Mad Gear, of course.
After Mad Gear was destroyed the first time, Sodom left America
to do a little soul searching. He began practicing at a Zen temple in
the heart of the mountains in Hida. For those who don't know, Hida is
the old name for a mountainous area in central Honshu.
Sodom was a member of Mad Gear, but you probably already know that.
Sodom's sword, according to Final Fight One when you pick it up, is
named Muramasa. ...both of them. There's a chance that Capcom of America
mistranslated it since it's called "Masamune" overseas. Both are names of
legendary swords/swordsmiths. They're also the names of Sodom's brothers
in Mighty Final Fight.
He calls himself and likes being called "Shogun."
Sodom even considered visiting a Zen temple in the Hida mountains for a
while to contemplate his newfound revelations, but after a few days he
shook off the idea. He was convinced now that "Japanism" isn't about the
"Bushido soul", but instead the essential "wabisabi mind."
Sodom may very well have recruited Retu to lead the remnants of Mad Gear
throughout the world in Final Fight 2. He does visit Japan more than once
to get sound inspiration from the culture he's obssessed with, and points
of support are given below:
1) Sodom is seeking to recruit members from the East. Odds are quite good
that he was the one that recruited Retu. Just look at Retu with that
Kabuki mask and hair of his. He's just the type of guy that Sodom would
get to join into Mad Gear and make into a high ranking member.
2) Sodom hates Guy. The one that Mad Gear targeted in Final Fight 2 was
Guy. They kidnapped his fiancee and they kidnapped master of his. If
Sodom were in charge of Mad Gear, the first person he would think to get
revenge on would be Guy.
3) Finally, in SFZ2, Sodom tells Rolento that Mad Gear is being remade.
Then you can look at the fate of all of FF1's bosses and pick out Sodom as
the next leader through process of elimination:
Damnd: shows no signs of disagreeing with Sodom in his Zero 1 ending.
Sodom: decides to become new leader to get Mad Gear back on its feet.
Edi. E: doesn't care for Mad Gear after Belger and most resources are gone.
Rolento: decides to break off to start his own military utopia.
Abigail: is an idiot.
Belger: is dead. Damn them windows!!!!!
Sodom is trying to find a new base for Mad Gear in SFZ3. Of course,
he hooks up with Rolento there.
Rolento and Sodom consider each other comrades. They broke apart
during Z2 but apparently are back together again after Z3, assuming
Rolento's ending from SFZ3.
Sodom owns a big mack truck/trailer with lots of graffiti on it, but
you probably already know that.
Sodom's kanji means "death", although it has one extra stroke that
makes one part of it look like "heart" or "mind". Typical Sodom blunder,
confirmed by Capcom via AASFZ3.
He was originally meant to be in Streetwise. There is art
of him in the promo comic that came as a bonus with pre-orders for
the game, and a scan through of the files reveals unused voice clips
of a guy who speaks using broken Japanese. Sadly, it seems like he had
to be cut from the final version. It would have been hilarious if he
had been the leader of those angry schoolgirls running around Japantown.
*** pgVStiff.
DEVIN "THE STIFF" ARANOC
No bio.
Final Fight Streetwise: Stiff, working for Bella, struck a deal with
Cody to give Cody some GLOW. Bella eventually wanted to see Cody
again, so Stiff dragged him off by force, leading Kyle on a chase
throughout all of Metro City to search for his brother. Stiff gave
Weasel a Bible with GLOW in it (assumedly so that Weasel could
learn about the drug to distribute it throughout the city) and Kyle
eventually used that Bible to trace Stiff to the Bijou Hotel, where
Stiff told him that Cody was in Little Italy in exchange for the Bible.
A fight broke out between the two anyways and resulted in Stiff getting
knocked off the roof of the hotel. Underestimating Kyle's capacity
to kill, Stiff threatens Kyle as Kyle held onto him, but Kyle eventually
let go and Stiff plummeted to his doom.
Somehow, Stiff apparently managed to survive. Dr. Chang infused him
with GLOW, healing him but also mutating him and transforming him
into Stiff Death. He then fought Kyle at the GLOW factory, but
despite eating GLOW-infested rats to regenerate himself, Stiff was
defeated and crumbled to dust as the lab exploded. [from the game]
Where he is now: Duuuust in the wind. All he is is dust in the wind!
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Website: A powerful leader in some sort of mysterious Metro City
mob. It is The Stiff's past dealings with Cody that prove to be a key
factor that leads to a dramatic upheaval in the brothers' daily lives.
Though it is unclear the origin of his nickname, The Stiff's rigid
posture, perfect businessman grooming, and unparalleled skills at
making people stop breathing all have certainly contributed to his
highly-feared reputation.
Kyle wonders what his nickname stands for, and its meaning is
never stated. Many of Stiff's guards also have strange nicknames
(The Mechanic, The Scholar, and The Milkman, for example). The only
other time the meaning of the name is remotely brought up is when
Weasel's hooker notes the sexual double entrende of it as a joke. Maybe
his name is in reference to his resilience or something (he tells Kyle
that he doesn't die easily, and he apparently manages to survive a
long fall unlike say, Belger or Retu. Doesn't survive getting another
beatdown after Chang's GLOW treatments, though).
Stiff's own unarmed fighting style is an advanced version of what
his elite guard uses (he has the same punches and dashing hop kicks, but
also has a lot more evasive ability and a shoulder tackle).
Stiff's nickname for Kyle is "Kung Fu". It even seems to be the
only thing he can say (besides laughing) after he's been mutated into
Stiff Death.
Stiff worked for Bella, although I don't think the game directly said
that. The Bible, the GLOW in the Bible, Vitto telling Kyle that Kyle has
his gratitude for killing the Stiff (Vitto is opposed to GLOW). When Stiff
tells Cody at the beginning that "he wants to see you", "he" is assumedly
referring to Bella.
Bella first wanted Stiff to be his Death horseman. Cody, instead,
was likely starting to get out of hand, as Bella tells Blade to kill
Cody because he was starting to become troublesome. Later however Stiff
Death was killed by Kyle at the GLOW factory before he could be complete
(you can see the incomplete writing of DEATH on his chest where only the
D and the E are there), and thus a new Death was needed. It is likely
that this was the time when Bella decided to make Cody into his fourth
horseman (Death), instead. Also, Stiff is named "Stiff Death" in the
second fight against him while he's enhanced by GLOW.
Of note is that Stiff was likely NOT resurrected by GLOW so much
as healed by it. Kyle does not state in his journal that Stiff was
resurrected and nothing in the game indicates GLOW has the ability to
bring people back from the dead. Just because they all look like zombies
doesn't mean they ARE zombies. Of course, it isn't like Capcom America
hasn't used zombies before (Zombie Belger! But he wasn't revived by GLOW).
Guard dogs being in the hotel at the Pier District might be a tribute
to Sub the dog from the original Final Fight One's Bay Area.
Stiff's Elite Guard is more skilled and aggressive than most generic
hoodlums, but there isn't much more to them than that. At the Bijou Hotel,
they'll also do things like talk to each other ("You get behind him!")
and run to each other for help (while warning that Kyle "means business").
You can also play around and spook them when they don't know you're there
(that hotel IS a pretty darn spooky place. The glow zombies don't help).
The rest of the time though, they're pretty much just more generics to
punch. Some of them have rather random nicknames, just like their boss.
They're a bit smarter too, as they will tell their buddies to "get behind
him" in an attempt to sandwich Kyle. They're capable of wielding bats
and other objects but usually don't. Ones in peach suits wield pistols.
From the FF:SW manual regarding the Stiff's Guards: This is the elite
fighting guard of the mysterious Stiff. Never will you see a better dressed
army of goons. They take after their boss with their no-nonsense approach and
efficient handling of "business matters."
Stiff's Elite Guard: Babyface, Big Country, Big Hurt, Billy Be Bad,
Blanksteak, Clothes Horse, Cut Man, Dapper Dirk, Dicky C, Dubbya,
Farmboy, The Fist, K Rover, The Mechanic, The Milkman, Mr. Clean,
No Neck, Rex Tommy, The Scholar, Scooter, Slapshot, Sleepy Jack,
Straight Up, Thumbscrews, Touchdown.
Guard dogs in hotel: Coco, Comet, Junior, Nightmare, Pain, Ripper,
Robe, Rusty, Spot, Trouble.
GLOW butchers in the GLOW lab: Butcher Bill, Gutmaster, Scales,
The Sharpener, Swordfish, Tuna, The Whale.
Stiff Death's GLOW rats that he tries to eat (yea, even the rats
have names): Bitey, Circus, Fufu, Harry, Little Squeaky, Ratso.
*** pgVStray.
STRAY
FFT boss, so there's no bio.
Final Fight Tough: Stray's in some sort of industrial computer complex. I
think his job is to guard the computers for the Skull Cross Gang or
something, because you can either skip fighting him entirely by taking a
special route and destroying all the computers there, or after you beat
him, there's a bonus stage where you have to destroy a computer. Anyways,
this is the second-to-last boss in FFT. [from the game]
Where he is now: Annoyed at you if you skip fighting him entirely? *shrugs*
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
He's a guy in a trench coat with spiked knuckles. He has insane reach,
speed, and power, and is always running and jumping all over the place.
Reminds me of fighting Balrog in the original SF2 without the fence.
The trench coat is green of all things. Combined with his shades,
purple gloves, pants, and even purple hair, Stray seems to have an
eccentric taste in fashion. Oh, and he rides a construction hook over to
you before fighting you.
*** pgVTHawk.
T. HAWK aka THUNDER HAWK
Birthdate: July 21, 1959
Height: 230 cm
Weight: 162 kg
BWH sizes: B114, W98, H112
Blood type: O
Native place: Mexico
Likes: hair ornaments, animals
Dislikes: lies
Special skill: making woodcarved sculptures, conversing with birds of prey
Fighting style: - (unspecified)
SFZ-era nickname: "Highly Prideful Sacred Beast"
SF2-era nickname: "Fearsome Thunder's Brave"
SF4-era nickname: "Highly Prideful Warrior"
Street Fighter Zero 3: T.Hawk is the greatest warrior of the proud
Thunderfoot tribe. Recently, many villagers have disappeared mysteriously.
Sensing something ominous, Hawk leaves the village. During Street Fighter
Zero 3, he looked for the cause behind the vanishing of multiple villagers.
One of them was Juli (who's real name is Julia also Hawk's sweetheart) and
another was possibly the VSS girl Noembelu as well. SSF4 shows that he did
find Juli, but not certain for Noembelu though. [Official]. He most likely
found her after she was transported out of the base by Cammy. (Julia was
allegedly intended to be Noembelu, but that was changed to Juli later on).
In T. Hawk's ending, he notes Julia continuing to cry out for Vega.
T. Hawk states that he believes that Julia will overcome what Shadaloo
did to her as like him, sacred blood runs through her veins. He then
takes her back home. [from the game]
SFZ3 File #28 T. Hawk
The proud combat tribe- Thunderfoot clan's descendant. For him having been
the best warrior in the village, his taciturn interior is a boiling heart of
conflict hidden in a giant possessor. For now having been chased off the
once sacred ground, he's living with his father on foreign country ground.
In recent years, multiple villagers are disappearing to say is the mystery
case outbreak, an alarming omen the moment he'd been sensing it, until even
news of his lover Julia suddenly cut off. Obligatory to make sure of the
facts, he sets out into the world pursuing Julia's whereabouts.
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Highlights:
-The village he lives in is outside the Thunderfoot's sacred grounds, and
is where he currently lives together with his father Arroyo Hawk, during
Z3 and at least up until SF2.
Street Fighter 2: T. Hawk participated in SF2 hoping to bring down Vega once
and for all. He confronts Vega, but Vega simply mocks him, telling him that
he took T. Hawk's homeland because it was impossible to resist taking
something so precious. He invites T. Hawk to return to his homeland and see
Vega's great work. When Hawk returns home, he finds to his dismay what Vega
has done to it. It is barren and lifeless. However, T. Hawk refuses to give
up. He promises to make his homeland great again, and to rebuild it!
[T. Hawk's SF2 ending]
T. Hawk- SSF2XR Character Concealed File
The man whose tribe Shadoloo snatched away its sacred ground. To take back
his race's pride, he begins a boundless struggle.
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Super Street Fighter 4:
The Thunderfoot tribe's greatest highly prideful warrior. From that big frame
unleashing attacks of strength but, on the other hand his sense of justice is
strong, holding a gentle heart to respect nature and animals. Following a
lengthy struggle having recovered the sacred ground uneventfully living
peaceably, for the sake of taking back his sweetheart Julia snatched away by
Shadoloo, the journey begins once more.
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The restoration of his tribe's sacred ground is halfway complete, but the
absence of his sweetheart Julia doesn't render T. Hawk as joyful for the
progress as he ought to be. Until he can bring her back, Hawk has declined
the village elder's offer to become chief over the area. [Hawk's opening]
During his SSF4 journey Hawk most likely met and fought his old neighbor and
friend El Fuerte. He enjoys their fight despite his dislike for his luchador
friend's attitude toward being strong and competing, and towards the end El
Fuerte asks him how the elder and Julia are doing. [Hawk's rival battle intro
and exchanges with El Fuerte] He also encounters Rose and learns from her
where Julia is. As he steadily walks through a rainy forest he finally sees
her in a nestled wooden cabin, with vacant eyes staring outside through a
window seeming to suddenly shed a brief tear against the rain trickling down
the window glass. [Hawk's ending]
Where he is now: Possibly now that Julia is found and back, Hawk now may
have accepted the role of chief in his village as he continues to oversee the
rebirth of his ancient sacred homeland, while also aiding in Juli's treatment
whatever way he can.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
The following were eventually altered/omitted from his profile as shown on
Capcom Japan's SSF4 site:
Birthday: July 25 (temporarily had a different birthday from Ryu and Akiman)
Age: 35
Occupation/pedigree: - (unspecified)
And his orignally posted profile summary:
The so-called "Thunderfoot Tribe" clan's brave. His father Arroyo Hawk
murdered by Vega, at the same time possessing a past of being driven out of
his birthplace being the tribe's sacred ground, the conflict is continuing
for the sake of recovering this. With a gentle personality, he doesn't forget
a constantly reverent heart towards animals. In order to look for his
sweetheart Julia, he pursues Shadoloo.
Shin mech gouki from the SFDevotion forums pointed out that T. Hawk's SSF2
stage is the Instituto Cultural Cabanas in Guadalajara. That's quite a ways
from his Zero 3 stage over at Monte Alban. If that's where he travels to do
his daily vending, that's a long way just hoofing it. Credit goes to
Shin mech gouki for this info.
Thunder Hawk is a member of the Thunderfoot tribe, as you can see from
his SFZ3 description. The Thunderfoot's combat style involved emulating
birds of prey such as the hawk and the condor as birds were considered their
protectorate deities from olden times. Hawk carries that tradition into his
arsenal.
Thunder Hawk's father was Arroyo Hawk. Shadaloo massacred T. Hawk's
people 30 years before SF2. (although he survived the initial raid, he was
killed prior to SF2). Hawk's red-tipped feather is a memento from his
father.
Arroyo is Latin American Spanish for gully, by the way.
Hawk is slow to anger, and easily melts away his seldom tempers due to not
being fond of contentions.
Typhoons frequently assaulted his village; he faced one at one time and
dove into it. This event likely led to his perfecting the Mexican typhoon.
Arroyo Hawk was known by name during SSF2/SSF2X; AAC's separate entry
for him lists those two games for him, and the Fanbook confirms his name
was known from its character relations chart. In short, Japan knew about
Arroyo long before the USA did, as is the case with a LOT of things.
T. Hawk and Julia are lovers, despite that the VSS can be aged anywhere
from 10 to 20 years (hopefully Juli is one of the 20-year-olds thus would
have only a 10 year-age difference with Hawk, or hopefully Noembelu was
planned to be that old). In any case, because neither of the girls would
be pureblooded Thunderfoots due to only Hawk and his father being the sole
survivors of the tribe (see Hawk's SSF2 account below), if either VSS
has "the blood of his tribe" in them, it's most likely due to consummation
(they're lovers after all) or possibly some kind of transfusion (if Vega
ever saw any kind of mystic properties in their bloodline, perhaps Hawk
would've liked his sweetheart to share it as well).
On a side note, Noembelu in contrast to all the other VSS is stated her
name as non-specific to a particular nation; she's just Latin American like
Hawk (yes Mexican is more specific but still is Latin American). So she
could very well have been one of the villagers in T. Hawk's current home,
another Native American just not a Thunderfoot.
T. Hawk was originally called Geronimo and was an American Indian.
Apparently someone from Capcom USA had told Capcom Japan that people in
the US do not like to be stereotyped with figures like Geronimo, so Capcom
Japan changed Geronimo a bit, gave him a new name (T. Hawk) and made him
Mexican. ...still stereotypical :P
Secrets of his SF2 stage from the Fanbook (his father made woodcrafts,
and Hawk is considered "Latin American" which ties into Noembelu):
Mexico (T. Hawk)
Hawk's home has a nearby sight-seeing area. Previously his father made
woodcrafts to be sold.
Sparrows!?
Birds that became completely turned to Hawk's summoning?
Supporters?
Appears to be a cheering party of 5 people yearning for Hawk. A
Latin American spread!!
No. 1 number of people
All stages have a maximum number of people. Who are they?
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The fictional Thuderfoot tribe is most likely based off of the Zapotec
tribe which claimed Monte Alban (Hawk's Z3 stage and his "sacred ground")
as their sacred capital. Monte Alban is in the Mexican state of Oaxaca
southeast of Mexico City.
In T. Hawk's SSF2 background we can actually read "Tehuantepec" (which is
near Monte Alban), even though his stage is quite far from there. His SSF2
stage is a sight-seeing area near T. Hawk's current home.
T. Hawk from Gamest SSF2
Story of T. Hawk
Clumps of red clay, the destruction exposed to dry winds.
Something narrowly withering an escaped highway along the river, that man
was walking.
The dust dancing, the man covers his eyes. However his legs have come
to rest.
On his back is a wooden box 1 meter square a large thing in itself, the man
shoulders it and looks around a little.
A highway with no sign of life would make for a single person inconspicuous,
for a man 2 meters in body height it would've far off crossed into that
of a giant. For arms that ordinarily couldn't carry an adult across a burly
chest, he could sturdily.
The man's name was known as Thunder Hawk.
He once a month, from his canyon home runs 3 times, walks downhill into town.
For tourist opponents, he wood carves souvenirs to sell them.
For him and his father, besides making their living in forestry, such a
side line couldn't have arrived. His father as a wood carver commonly
couldn't help but hold him in his arms while running, here at an advanced
age for several years of remarkably ill condition, he complained of his
physical strength declining.
At the foot of the town there was a cart and an automobile, those "vehicles"
which he disliked, with his own legs he migrated. As he would see it,
even three times at that distance is nothing. That day going to return
to his agricultural land he took the distance to his garden.
For Hawk, even so with such signs of having been tired, he stood still,
leaning on the roadside's megalith, he drank the bottled water. This
vicinity was already a canyon he could quite associate with.
The right hand hill slightly elevated from the primeval forest's overgrowth,
he looked up at a precipitous bare rock. Experienced in tracking he climbs.
At the peak before long he climbed and broke off, he could peer at the steep
canyon's bottom. For him, the heart of a scattered ravine was seen.
And there for him, he could see his father's dwelling. It can't be something
underneath the precipitous rocky mountain, a detour to the home before him
as he arrives from here furthermore 1 time as such.
At the considerably sloped mountain's western face, until sunset likely
came around he wanted to have considered it was nothing whatsoever.
A steep shadow began to stretch lengthwise down the highway with many
small feet stopped.
At that moment... for Hawk, a feeling of piercing-like indication, he
stood still. What is this.
"... wolves?"
It began to storm within Hawk's head. However, it was not for wolves.
What in this way, he seemed to recall a chill, an ill omen he felt.
After a while of exchanging looks on the vicinity, taking care to once
again take steps ahead in an instant, that's when he stood before his eyes.
"!!"
It was a human man. However, he didn't believe it was a very ordinary
human. Just as if there was no life. That is, the vicinity of his skin
was filled with the piercing ill omen. The scenery was the thing that
distorted as he was looking thus.
That man was with a jet-black cloak twined around his body. Eyes covered
by a hat's interior, two ill-feeling flashing pupils coming into view.
"... Arroyo's son is it?" The man questioned. A seemingly chilling
desolate voice.
"That's right......who, are you?"
"Me, you don't remember eh. Hmm......" The mouth of the man swerved,
gesturing a laugh.
"Who are you? Why, do you know my father?"
Hawk tensed up. A strained air, made for a cruel warning with him.
Instinctively he understood the man as an "enemy". For him, at all
times to eat up blows from thick arms would be loaded with power.
"Your father, was once a strong man......but how about now? Regrettably
there's nothing more to say."
"?.........what are you saying? Father, what did you do to him!?"
"Heh......still at any rate, you will come to meet him. At that time,
it'll be slightly entertaining......"
The man having spoken thus, all of the sudden he sprang amongst the rocks.
A sign of disappearance, the man's appearance also carried off.
Hawk in a daze for a little while, an intuitive of his father's
accident comprehended, racing towards their home.
"This man......"
While rushing to the man's circumstances he was remembering.
The mysterious man. Quite certain he was aged. And also, a seemingly
familiar reverberating in his head, as a fearful tone. Did that
seem to be a human?
Hawk approached his home put together with logs. He's in the state
of being changed and about to go out into the garden. But, the door
has opened.
"Father!"
While exclaiming he dashed in and, really his father, soon fell
prostrate from the right side of the door.
Hawk hurriedly helped him to his feet. His father's body confirmed
to be breathing, the worst situation escaped and relieved. Grind,
unexpectedly the state went to a worsening condition, he breathed
into his large shoulder.
"Mmm......you eh......"
Well having exceeded an ill body aged 70, the father ranking as taking
3-4 young men opponents to defeat was no more. Respectable with a long
run beard and sharp insight, as a grand dignity, he could also drive
away wild animals. That father on this day it seemed was met, already
that cloaked man came to the dispairity.
"Father!, hurry and take this!"
Hawk now took out merely a tablet he had bought. It's an internal
medicine for moments of spasms. However, because his father looked
at Hawk, his neck slanted to the side.
For Hawk, everything understood, he carried under his arms a loaded power.
To be agitated here, his father's every expectation.
Father Arroyo Hawk quietly began with the story.
"......Did you, meet that man?"
Hawk nodded.
"That man......once, eradicated our clan, the man who led the massacre
group called 'Shadoloo'. A story from 30 years ago......"
Hawk was appalled. Here for himself a past livelihood since then and
the like, to have considered it all.
"We, were people of the proud Thunderfoot tribe.
That night, in our village, the group named "Shadoloo" broke in. The
abundant mine veins of ore there in the village, these are what drove
many aimed sets. I believed those guys were companions of them.
However, it wasn't the intentions of those guys.
They, had fall into their hands the elderly and the children one by
one......set, fire......"
His father continued the story. Within that riot, fierce village
youths were angered, merely a single slaughtering cloaked man.
Hawk became terrified. Wasn't it the man from some time ago?
"That guy......soaks up a power of hatred, which I designated.
Before that guy's commanded pale flashes, all my companions were
defeated......
You the defending young, from a blazing hand flee from me, that
man said.
'It seems I am hatred......hatred freely is excellent.
That power is strong to the extent of enjoyable.
You, should become stronger. Hatred. Request of me to be defeated.'
The time my flaming heart had grown hazy I heard the guy's voice,
myself and you, will fall down flat engulfed in walls of flame,
tumbling into the pool below the waterfall......"
Occasionally his father came to perceive, the two of them father
and child, knowing by sight how to say the earth flowed.
"I have thought it over. That guy, hopes I will retaliate on the
matter. As with coveting a strong "hatred". Snatching away my
companions, the burned sacred ground will not attach to a toothed
grudge. Grind....that's how that guy thinks of it. If that's the
case, and......"
His father's options did not become avengeful.
As a young child, he settled into the new sacred ground. Mourning
his captured friends, that regret and resentment, it was for the
proud clan's descendants as the appropriate method of refreshment.
"Hatred spawned of black power, in time will destroy the self.
You were still little, that you seemed to not desire choosing that path.
Therefore you have persisted in concealing everything. Son!......I
desire you to forgive your continued deceiving father. And also, and
perhaps what that man likely said, 'you will be next'...... Before
that guy's power, your great arms are still unable. Don't settle
on hatred. Also don't harbor a grudge. That's what I wish for
with that guy."
Father Arroyo's eye, already came to not see Hawk. All that remained
of his power concentrated in his right arm, piled on Hawk's hand.
"Proudly our clan's descendants!...... That blood, must not be
stained with hatred. Attain the justice of oneself."
Hawk fully directly, was gazing into his father's eyes.
"Our sacred ground?......continuing the searching for 30 years, not
at all is this matter unable to be redeemed......"
For Arroyo, a thoughtful gentle face far away, died.
Something of a hot blaze, Hawk felt it.
From his father's hair, a hair ornament's red feather full-fledge
extracted, he inserted it into his own hair.
"......Father!, I will take back the sacred ground for you. Together
with me......"
Determination solidified in his chest, Hawk arose.
His blood is boiling. Feeling a welling-up infinite power, he for a
while, roared. That voice migrated through the valley. As even to the
world's end it was received.
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Highlights:
-Hawk meets Vega and learns that his father is dying. Before his last breath,
Arroyo confesses to Hawk for keeping from him the tragic history of his people,
and warns him not to give in to hatred for that's exactly what Vega wants to
keep him strong. 30 years after his ancient homeland was plundered and his
fellow tribe slaughtered, Arroyo dies leaving Hawk as the last remaining pure-
blooded proud Thunderfoot.
*** pgVTitantheGreat.
TITAN THE GREAT (TITANIC TIM overseas)
Age: 26 (25 during MB)
Height: 236 cm
Weight: 196 kg
Hails from, native place: Wigan, England
Favorite/main attacks: titan breaker, shock wave
Favorite food: black tea (darjeeling)
MB & SMB specialty move: neck hanging tree
Wrestling federation: EWF (England Wrestling Federation?)
MB-era nickname: "Strongest Last Giant"
Stage: London, England
MUscle Bomber: He um... wrestled?
Super Muscle Bomber: He erm... wrestled some more?
Where he is now: Dunno.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
He's the large-sized newcomer of the CWA.
He weighed over 5,000 grams at birth and stood over 6'3" by the time he
graduated from elementary school. He joined pro wrestling in order to fully
utilize his huge body.
Darjeeling is a fine variety of black tea grown especially in the northern
part of India.
Birdie is acquaintances with Titan the Great of MUscle Bomber. There's
an official art of the two together. Both are English and Birdie was into
wrestling himself. The description with the art stated that Birdie and Titan
the Great were best friends and rivals. While they were pro-wrestling, they
were occasionally a tag team and were called the "500 Trillion Powers."
From a Muscle Bomber Flyer: A short-timed carrier, making full use of
his large build, one silk top class enters.
*** pgVTwelve.
TWELVE
Native place: Russia
SF3-era nickname: "White Slaughter Machine"
Street Fighter 3 Third Strike:
Gill's organization's produced ultimate human-type slaughter weapon. For
the phantasmagoric living body, is the enhanced reformed completed figure
of prototype Necro. Absolute despair is chasing the target!
[CJ's 3S profile for Twelve]
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Twelve is one of the mutants from the human body remake theory project, from
Gill's organization. A genetically engineered super mutant that regenerates
and currently has no memory retention. He's in a capsule and being admired
by Dr. Kure (the Chinese-looking man) and the Official. The doc calls Twelve
the birth of a "deathless warrior." The last shot shows Twelve's vacant
eye sockets up close suddenly shining two red irises... The organization has
begun to manufacture an army of creatures like Twelve.
[Twelve's SF3TS ending].
Where he is now: Probably sent after and still going after the
broke-off-and-is-now-free mutant, Necro, to terminate him.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Necro was the prototype for Twelve and the rest of those... playdough
things. The head scientist of the project was Dr. Kure, and Urien was the
one heading it after Gill was done with the part of the project that
produced Necro.
Twelve can reassemble/repair any damage to his body. His creation was
based on something called the human body remake theory.
Twelve, and most likely his fellow mutants, all speak in binary notation
(1's and 0's) per his win quotes.
Twelve calls Urien "DAD" in his win quote to Urien (translated from
binary) and confirming that the human body remake theory is indeed Urien's
brainchild.
When he isn't running an errand for the mysterious organization or on
a mission, he's kept in a capsule at their research institute.
After every mission, he returns to the organization's research
institute/lab where his injuries are repaired through cell reproduction
and his memory is rewritten. Basically he's entirely reset to the way he
was before the mission. Supposedly, he can't die if this is repeated on a
regular basis.
His mission during Third Strike was to detain Necro and Effie, who've
escaped from the organization.
The part in Twelve's ending where 2 red irises appear implies that
there's a possibility that Twelve's true self will awaken. He'll be able to
develop his own personality, thoughts, and ideas if that happens. Dr. Kure
apparently isn't aware of this, and the Official in the lab insists that
Twelve isn't capable of dreaming.
From Dash no Chris: Twelve's design is based on that of the alien
monster in episode 12 (broadcast 12/17/1967) of the "Ultra Seven" TV
series. Ultra Seven was the 3rd installment in Tsuburaya Productions'
long-running series of "Ultraman" tokusatsu (live-action special effects)
TV shows. The alien monster in episode 12 was designated "Spehl-seijin" -
literally, "the being from the planet Spehl." The episode's original
Japanese title was "Wakusei yori ai o komete" [From Another Planet with
Love], while the English dub broadcast by Turner Network Television in
the early '90s used the title "Crystallized Corpuscles." Episode 12 is
something of a big deal in Japan, as it has been banned there since 1970.
The 1999 12-volume Japanese region-2 DVD release of Ultra Seven does not
include ep.12 -- vol. 3 contains eps 9-11, and 13.
*** pgVUrien.
URIEN
Native place: unknown
SF3-era nickname: "Rebellious Disciple"
Street Fighter 3 Second Impact: Urien finally advanced to become the
Leader of the organization. He is very proud, and thinks that he is now
at the top and above his brother Gill. But then he is told about the
Sovereign, whom only the Chairman and former Leaders got to know about.
Even worse, the Sovereign is his big brother! Doh! [Urien's SF32I ending
and specially noted in AAC]
Street Fighter 3 Third Strike:
Achieving treachery, the organization's newly become president Urien. However
for him, that's the dissatisfaction most of all. For at the organization's
silhouette's top remaining as usual is Gill as the "Sovereign". Is such an
irrationality permissible in itself perhaps. "I am the one that must control!
As for my foolish older brother I shall grant despair's punishment!!"
[CJ's 3S profile for Urien]
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One day, Chun-Li confronted Urien in order to rescue one of her kidnapped
kung fu students. Urien, impressed by Chun-Li's fighting ability, finally
agrees to do so. [Conjecture based off in-game storylines]
Urien's 3S ending assumes that he's finally bested Gill in battle and
inherited control of the entire Secret Society, which most likely doesn't
happen since it's through Gill's design that Urien becomes Leader to fill
the empty seat (and take over the crisis management unit that Gill had
intended to blow up as a result of Necro anyway) Gill left behind moving
up to Sovereign. Gill's 3S win quote to Urien reveals that Urien had lost
their battle in 2I despite Gill holding back, and that Gill himself swayed
the entire Organization to elect Urien as Leader. Their dialogue battle in
3S has Gill intending to fight his brother to the death this time around, so
it's highly unlikely that Urien's "3S victory ending" manifests in any way.
Where he is now: Still trying to overcome the shadow of his older brother
Gill.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Urien from CJ's 2I page
Family- One person having undertaken education as candidate for the
organization's Leader along with Gill. For his candidate father and
mother both of keen mind, even material with soundness he is to be of
a mere superior character. Urien's both parents also, holding Ph.D.'s
alike, particularly for his mother, she flourishes in the field of
sports dynamics being also an Olympic contestant herself. However, as
a befitting candidate for her selected children from becoming a parent
of a 6-year-old they were pulled apart, due to the organization they're
thrown into the study of how to be a good emperor. For that sake the
matter of their feeling extremely close for being capable of a human
being, together they learned the study of how to be a good emperor
being of several mutual Leader candidates.
Personality- As humanity's leader from the time of a child for that
personality having accepted the study of how to be a good emperor, surely
it's fine saying that it's thoroughly an emperor's disposition. However
during, it became the matter to transfer to Gill no more than a single
Leader's seat for that reality, in order to become Leader regarding him
having accepted the education he also won't with the exception of
disgrace. Every day in the depth of his chest, a grandly become dark
squirming sentiment, he himself aware of it in discord even a day of agony
such that it's probably not distant.
Fighting style- With regards to a human body as a fighter of ideal balance
and power, combining with speed, for the fighting arts he's acquired
knowledge of, the organization, thousands of years' history and conveying
only to the Leader candidacy, it is of secret compilation. For the matter
to acquire knowledge of all those fighting arts, credited as impossible, for
Gill as far as the final esoteric stage the progress of the 66 hidden
purposes he's acquired one within them resurrection. As for amongst Urien's
techniques, one is the hidden purpose Aegis reflector.
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Urien has an inferiority complex to his brother Gill, and is very
jealous of Gill. Gill seems to be naturally more powerful and Gill was
chosen to be the elite and emperor, leaving Urien in the dust, until the
end of 2I of course.
He has been a potential candidate for Leader since he was 6 years old.
His Ph.D.-holding parents were as well, especially his athletic mom.
The Aegis reflector is one of the 66 secret techniques of the
Secret Society.
While his brother Gill's elements are fire and ice, Urien's elements
appear to be wind/lightning and earth, judging by how he makes iron
clanking sounds when hit and his many special moves.
Urien is made the main man in charge of the Secret Society's crisis
management unit responsible for Necro, and later offshooting into the
human body remake theory which produced Twelve and his clones.
Urien thinks that the brains the Secret Society has collected over time
are ugly and foolish because they don't do anything on their own except
possibly take up space and collect dust.
Eternal states that his true ability is on par with Gill's, hence he
was more than likely paired up with his brother during the candidate
evaluation process which eventually selected Gill for his charisma and
greater overall emotional stability.
Kanji misreading on Udon's part sorry to say, unless they were told to change
it. The English text should've said emotional rather than mental instability.
Also the original Eternal text says that Urien was brought up for the position
of leader since he was 6 while the same translated block doesn't, but that's
already in the plot guide.
His 3S stage being among the ruins from the Olmec tribe of Mexico, is likely
located in La Venta, Tabasco.
*** pgVVanessa.
VANESSA SIMS
No bio. Probably around Kyle's age (22-24?). She's old enough to be a
bartender.
Final Fight Streetwise: Vanessa whines about Kyle getting in danger, helps
him out with information and suggestions, and also asks her brother Sgt.
Sims to help Kyle find Cody. Eventually, Vanessa gets knocked unconscious
during the GLOW riots. She wakes up just as Kyle and 2-Ill arrive to rescue
her, and after the three make their way to a safer place, manages to convince
2-Ill to help Kyle get to the church where the mastermind behind GLOW is.
Kyle manages to stop GLOW, but not before Vanessa's brother was killed by a
mutated GLOW freak (Blades). Everone was glad the ordeal was over, but
Vanessa kept her brother's police badge, sad about losing him. [from the game]
Where she is now: Still bartending at the Barfly, I imagine.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
From the website: The beautiful but tough-as-nails bartender at Kyle's
neighborhood bar, the "Barfly". Vanessa runs her joint with authority, quick
to lay down her house rules on any troublemakers. Yet, in spite of her "my
way or the highway" approach, she is clearly drawn to Kyle and his life "on
the edge." And Kyle can't help but be attracted to her. Not only is she
a clever and streetwise beauty, she's also the best damn pool player he's
ever seen!
She's supposed to be tough and implied to forcefully "lay down her house
rules on any troublemakers," but I'm pretty sure she doesn't actually DO
anything (besides get hit by enemies) during the time she's with Kyle and
2-Ill at the anarchy event. Maybe Vanessa actually being able to fight
in-game was yet another of many things scrapped before the game was done.
Speculation was that she was going to be the 2nd player character in
storyline mode (Capcom Studio 8 was initially on the fence on whether to
make story mode 2-player ir not. That was probably ditched early on though).
If this is true, then it must have been cut out early on, given that all
Vanessa does when 'teamed up' with Kyle and 2-Ill is stand there and get hit.
I have reason to believe that at least one of Studio 8's employees actually
left the company due to not being able to make the game 2-player (Joe Willis
stated shortly after stating that he left the company that "I think 2-player
co-op is necessary for this type of game to be successful") and it really
does seem like Vanessa was meant to do more than her rather small role
in the final game to me. Lots of things in the game are implied by various
press releases and interviews to have not been expanded to what was originally
intended.
I find it rather doubtful that she has anything to do with the weapons
smuggling company, The Sims, from Final Fight Tough. Although I suppose that
like how FF2's acknowledgement with Guy being married to Rena ended up
not being in the final game, it's possible that her last name might have
had to do with FFT's 'The Sims' but also didn't make it. It's not like
the designers weren't aware that FFT existed (one of them briefly
mentioned in an interview that the FFT version of Guy as his favorite FF
character).
*** pgVVega.
VEGA (M. BISON aka MISTER BISON overseas)
Birthdate: April 17 (year unknown, possibly his birth into his SF2 body)
Height: 182 cm
Weight: 96 kg (SFZ), 80 kg (SF2, SF4)
BWH sizes: B133, W90, H92 (SFZ), B129, W85, H91 (SF2, SF4)
Blood type: A
Native place: unknown
Special skill: hypnotism
Likes: world domination
Dislikes: weaklings, useless subordinates
Fighting style: psycho power
SFZ-era nickname: âBlue Darkness Psycho's Miasmaâ
SF2-era nickname: âDemon Being Clad in Darknessâ
SF4-era nickname: "Demon Being, Come From Hell"
Street Fighter Zero 2: Vega is the leader of the secret organization
"Shadaloo". Even though Shadaloo has been around for a while, it wasn't
until SFZ2 when Vega finally came out and into the limelight where people
could notice him. In Street Fighter Zero 2, he dealt with Nash and mainly
Chun-Li, who found him. Fighting her, he beat her up then flew away,
declaring that next time they met, he hopes she'd amuse him as her father did.
Another lady Vega tracked down was Rose, whom Vega had sensed and saw earlier.
Rose defeated Vega and thought she stopped him, but to no avail [Official].
...if this seems incoherent, it's because Vega is not a main character of his
own storyline and instead is the villain to many others, obviously.
Street Fighter Zero 3: Vega's inner power is about to exceed what his
body can hold. A new body that only the strongest of warriors possesses is
needed. Cammy was engineered and created to be the ultimate warrior and thus
Vega's new body, but her gaining independence and such made her worthless to
Vega, and he thinks Ryu is better anyway, so he seeks out Ryu. That plan
didn't work out so well, because Sagat who was against that, came and fought
Ryu just as Vega brainwashed Ryu while Ryu's friends, Ken and Sakura, came
along too and fought him, then Ryu came out of his brainwashing and smacked
him hard. Then Cammy, whom he had been trying to eliminate because she was
becoming too self-conscious, got all twelve of the other girls to betray him.
Eventually he had to settle for the woman who shared the same soul as him
anyway, Rose, when his body and the psycho drive got blown up by Nash and
Guile [Official].
SFZ3 File #10 Vega
Being the secret organization Shadoloo's commander, the psycho power
manipulating demon being. His own psycho power for him, feeling that
already his flesh's maximum permissible level has begun to exceed, research
has been continuing to create a new body. As that subject matter is optimum
persons, he observed Ryu, he's scheming to capture Ryu it seems. Parallel
with that, moving forward with the chance also for the ultimate weapon's
development, he's waiting for the nearness of its completion.
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Highlights:
-Shadaloo research is underway for a new body for Vega as of Z3. At the same
time the ultimate weapon the psycho drive is about to be unveiled as well.
Street Fighter 2: Shadaloo, or what was left of it, eventually completed the
new body for him by SF2. He transferred to that body from Rose's, and despite
his new body being weaker than the old but still formidable, publicly held the
SF2 tournament. There, after grappling with Cammy, Guile and most likely
T. Hawk, he got attacked by Gouki, who wasn't even signed into the tournament.
Gouki jumped in randomly and used the shungokusatsu on him at the final stage
of the tournament [Official].
Vega's ending, being the bad ending, is probably the only ending in SF2 which
didn't happen in any way, shape, or form. Ditto for pretty much all his
endings in general.
Vega- SSF2XR Character Concealed File
Commander-in-chief of the evil organization Shadoloo. For the sake of reigning
as an emperor, he collects fighting stylists from throughout the world to
battle.
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Street Fighter 4:
Narcotics, testing on living people, weapons dealings etc., his hand dyed in
all crimes as commander of the secret society Shadoloo, the demon being and
dreaded user of psycho power. Though it appeared that his fate was together
with Shadoloo to collapse, acquiring a new body to carry out revenge, an eerie
secret maneuver begins.
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As of SF4, Vega was still attacked by Gouki, but now with the creation of the
game's new boss Seth, Vega has new options. He sensed Gouki incoming, placed
a few previously misunderstood pieces about satsui no hadou together (his SF4
win quote to Gouki), and bailed out into an empty prime field aka empty Seth
vessel which would later meet and spar with Abel before getting overriden and
shut down by Vega's residual thoughts [Abel's SF4 ending], while Gouki
proceeds to SGS Vega's empty husk into flaming particles [Gouki's win quote to
Vega].
Vega resides unaffected within the Seth until his scientists have reasonably
completed another body identical to his old ones. He wants to be let loose
as soon as he's able, in contrast to his followers' advice to wait until this
new body can be fully capable of regulating the withstanding method in his
psycho power, to which Vega refuses the advice [Vega's SF4 opening].
From Vega's ending it's shown how there are multiple Seths, and that #15 has
been duped into proceeding with an inevitable chain of events that allowed
Vega to return. Tradition would dictate that Vega's ending doesn't actually
occur, but details are unknown at this time. From Rose's ending it's shown
that Vega of course has to do with the development of the empty prime fields
as well as the boy in Bison's ending. Additionally he'd prefer to keep
Rose alive as someone who can become provision for his soul.
Super Street Fighter 4:
Vega's SSF4 opening is the follow-up to his SF4 opening: he's out with his
SF4 body and has seen how much of a mess #15 has made in his absence.
Recruiting Juri to tear his elite female Troops limb from limb, scheming to
take over his criminal empire, enough is enough. It's high time the puppet
learned his place of existence, and any pawns along the way won't escape from
being smashed themselves. The demon being is back, and he's out for blood.
It's unknown if Vega's roaming through SSF4 has him meeting with Guile or
Viper as shown in their selected rival battles simply because he wanted out
solely to get Ryu but now he first has to clean up the messes known as Seth
and Juri. Even if he did meet with either of them though, he almost
positively ended up retreating through the same astral hole he crawled out
of (or flying away in Viper's scenario) because it's doubtful either the
mom or the dad would be dead by SSF4's close. Juri I suppose Vega could
kill off either in her rival battle or by the close of his ending, but that's
also unknown and he most likely retreats from their encounter if it's her
rival battle at all, while not necessarily in his ending.
By the end of SSF4, Vega has ensured the death of Seth, maybe Juri's end as
well, and has lost Rose to Guy. Ryu still remains in his desire for the
ultimate body no doubt as he escapes the vicinity in his VTOL implied in
Guy's ending.
Where he is now: Most likely still around but not as strong or as dominating
as he'd prefer to be. CJ's word is that both Vega and Shadaloo are in good
health come the SF3 era, but whether or not that means he's back to, say his
Zero-series level of power by then is not for certain.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Vega from SFZ
Original account from SF2 Himitsu Hyakka
A red moon shining on a dark night, the form of a man advanced on the mountain
recess. This man is Vega. This dojo in the mountains was discovered to be
Gouken's.
"Are you, the successor of the greatest ansatsuken in history Gouken!? Show
me all of your moves!"
The sound of Vega and Gouken's battle resounded through the mountain recess!
Zugagaaa!
The mountain's peace returns, Gouken has fallen. Because he didn't show his
sure-killing techniques to the vicious enemy during the fight, Gouken lost!
"Why you, you don't plan to show me your true power?....Therefore, your
students will see that technique when they're older." Vega laughed as he
rushed away.
"Damn it....the students..." Gouken's consciousness has become dim.
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Official Story from Gamest SFZ and AASFZ
In the midst of an awfully crimson tinted traced moon shining, a man's shadow
was advancing through the mountain interior. With all living things startled
by the man's shadow, as with a concealed breath, the vicinity was being wrapped
in silence. In this mountain appeared a dojo which Gouken continued his pursuit
of knowledge, that man was searching for him.
"Are you the so-called inheritor of ansatsuken?" No sooner had the moment
broken, within the dojo brightened by the light of a candle, that man's shadow
was before Gouken 1 man meditating with legs crossed arms folded.
"Show me, all of your moves." Those words were evident in confining murderous
intent. Hearing those words, slowly Gouken summoned a glare into that eye,
secretly determined.
"Heretic......"
Quietly raising his posture, at a breath Gouken released his fighting spirit.
When silence returned to the mountain once more, at the stone floor before
the dojo having been defeated, was Gouken.
"Hearing of the rumors for ansatsuken, this probably wasn't the standard."
That man, without shortness of breath from a set of both hands calmly stood
nearby.
This vicious ki the man had, which which he himself had expected to take on
Gouken. Still, the moment that man faced him, he understood the equal power,
the invincible rising dragon.daringly not using the strongest power of hadou,
fists crossed. In order to have that man not discern his own fist's
secret.......
"Why you, planning to not showing me your true power to the very
end?......well good......Therefore that move, your students will see when
they're older." Expressing a bold smile, that man spoke.
"!?"
"Don't be surprised, your spirit is an object of entirely talk."
The man's bottomless power, for Gouken's miscalculation, he didn't imagine
the resulting consequences that were to be incurred.
"Is this also what is called fate again?......" As his continued fade of
consciousness left Gouken behind, the man silently left.
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Highlights:
-Vega visits Gouken back when Ryu & Ken were still young, curious of this new
successor to Goutetsu's ansatsuken. He demands an all-out battle, but Gouken
holds back and loses as a result, falling unconscious but not dying.
-Gouken purposefully refrained from showing Vega the shoryuken. Though this
cost him the battle, it would provide Ryu and Ken an element of surprise when
they would both battle Vega at the height of his power in Z3.
Vega from SFZ2
Psycho Crusher
1 week elapsed as Vega secluded himself in the laboratory of his own hideout.
He was continuing to devise an experiment for the sake of psycho power
amplification.
Those contents of the experiment to say, namely fighting stylists kidnapped
during their battles, it was said that the anger and hatred from the opponents
would be things to attract a conversion to psycho power.
Now at this place, from this room there wasn't a single such existing person
come forth. Literally Vega had to have prey in order to profit from psycho
power. Certainly for one called a "demon being" it was said to be likely an
appropriate deed.
However now, Vega was feeling with a strong resentment that psycho power was
a contentedly demoted matter. Speaking of it the latest one to come was
just a fearful mere 2nd-rate fighting stylist. He himself would not face
the anger and hatred of opponents unless, there was no declining on psycho
power amplification. Before his own eyes there's no significance in how
many opponents if they're in the manner of fearful ones and such.
Other than to oppose a great power it was a craving and persistent
controlling greed, Vega's darkish lust cried to swell up to its limits.
Such at that time, news of the fighting stylist called Ryu entered his ears.
That man to say defeated that Thai hero Sagat.
"......Interesting! It'll be to say regrettable to defeat such a degree
of man for the sake of psycho power, perhaps I'll enjoy it to my heart's
content......"
As he would express a bold smile from Vega's entire body, blue fighting
spirit blazed.
"Ryu......I will quality test you, with Lord Vega's strongest technique.
Hurry and appear before Lord Vega, you cannot help but aim for the
strongest man!!"
The instant that was declared, Vega's body revolved in midair transformed
into a blue and white flash.
Were he touched by an instrument as an iron pole the vomitting splitting
screams, would have one turn to candy for care.
The "demon being" Vega's strongest move that exceeded human intellect, is
the "psycho crusher".
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Highlights:
-Vega hears of Ryu having toppled Sagat, and wants to test his psycho power
on him, despite believing Ryu might die tasting its full extent, the psycho
crusher which coming into contact with it is akin to feeling miserably drained
of any trace of positive emotion plus being shocked by live power lines so
much you want to puke.
Vega from AASFZ3
Fighting Style
Normal person surpassed physical strength and miraculous psycho power is
produced. With human being separated movements to overwhelm opponents.
From his entire body radiating a pale blue light (psycho power's
manifestation) imprinting terror's sensation, from his confronters to
plunder a coolness-like discernment. The types of punches and kicks without
conspicuous distinctive features are, for advanced stature in eccentricity,
he displays the dynamics of his moves one-by-one.
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Highlights:
-No matter what attack he employs, kick, punch or otherwise psycho power is
with each of them.
Fashion Style
For the demon being to reign at Shadoloo's peak, without only conduct and
speech, placing even in external appearance he boasts of an absolute feeling
of coercion. As for a jet-black cape foreshadowing that darkish interior,
for a crimson military uniform associating with the to-be-killed fighting
stylists' flowing blood. For Shadoloo's emblem's assumed ominous military
cap, even with rendering how far the fights to the death it's no subject of
decidedly falling out of sync.
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Highlights:
-His red uniform is meant to be in reflection to the endless blood he spills.
No doubt Vega and Balrog would see eye to eye on this.
Secret Point 48106
Milky white at a unified ICPO investigation room, a middle-aged man is reading
a 1-volume file.
"At the vicinity of Secret Point 48106 to a detected castaway having gone
against a deep level hypnotism experiment and that consequence report."
Name......Allen (full name unknown)
Gender......male
Age......around 30 years
Progress Report
For we against Shadoloo as the Special Investigations Unit's special duty, the
principal three people given as references of the above-mentioned subjected
beneficiary and the gone hidden questioning. As for the following, is a portion
of that record.
.Allen for the present has entered a solitary cell. Confined in a dark place
and, so far not even a reaction indicated he, began to speak on his own.
"......Heheheh, it's the darkness again."
.His ears seeming to reach us (possibly because the eardrums had slept much too
long in sea water, the hearing is becoming bad) raising the speaker's volume a
little we asked him a question.
"What happened?"
Hereupon the man shortly after began to answer. "L, light!"
For the man suddenly raises a so-called ee-ee-oo-oo voice and, clutching his
head, goes to flee the room's unpleasantness and, continued in the same state
of tiny stability.
.The single deep level hypnotism experiment person being Dr. Daniel Stan
participates in the experiment. From the solitary cell thus far Allen is
transferred to Dr. Stan's special medical treatment room.
.For Dr. Stan asked Allen several inquiries. Seems to be the normal as ever
no reaction. Within the doctor's inquiries at the vocabulary "psycho power",
in an instant a seemingly frightened facial expression is seen.
.Sometimes, Allen with a befuddled facial expression hardens a gaze into empty
space. Those intervals, he even ceases to breathe. Dr. Stan shakes Allen's
body and, something appears to be reflecting in the pupil of his eye, grindingly
jerking on the bed and chair, "......Don't come, don't come over here! Giant
blasted existence!" in a violent voice.
.With the experiment to have become even more of an essential testimony, the
time that Allen saw Vega's power's origin to be the psycho power's pseudogenesis
device's light.
"Wh, what're you doing? I'm not seeing anything! Honest! It can't be that
in such a place a person is......!"
For Allen suppressing such a gut clamoring and breathing foam from the mouth
he fainted. In a mysterious matter, in that abdomen a large draft is distinct
and an object having remained has since then become confirmed. For before the
experiment there are symptoms which were not hidden. Vega and the connection
to him being presently in the middle of investigation is, for the data
deficiency's sake of a misfortune connection's substantiation so considered to
be trouble.
.As for Dr. Stan with beyond this experiment it becomes about unreasonably
injuring the subject's mentality and abandoning continuation. For the riddle
remaining is, with Allen transferred to the national hospital's centralized
isolation ward, about to await a temporary healthy recovery.
Writer: ICPO Special Duty Unit
McCorvick Douglas
The man closes the file and, with an inner line telephone he called and
commanded his subordinates.
"It seems that at last is the critical moment. Continuing the investigation
in the Middle East with Chun Li also appearing to be heading towards Secret
Point 48106 contact her."
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Highlights:
-Interpol case of a victim fallen prey to Vega's mind manipulations. Full
recovery is scarcely a hope for poor Allen. Chun-Li happens to be in the
Middle East when the reader's group gets in touch with her.
Vega is one of the Shi-Ten-Nou (the Grand Four) of Shadaloo. Vega is of
course the first and highest one.
Vega from Gamest SF2
The all mysterious bell-has-tolled fighting king Vega.
The entire body entwined in an evil aura, all those who stand in his way
drink the poundings of hell's succession techniques. Peace and justice
received with fists of hatred, the entire skin weeping of poundings likely
delivered in turn by the earth.
The honor of the strongest also high for Vega but, from this point he looks
down on all of the world's people. Especially in Japan the imperial capital's
legendary Ka(maru)-san is said to be the spitting image of rebirth in order
to suffer spurs of torment. In case (Maru)to-san is still okay, finally in
the end, resembling the chin of (Maru)shi of the Ago hilly rice fields among
other things, not a severe ego mind you. Also it's a loss of face for the
king of fighting.
As for sure killing techniques is the psycho crusher attack. Vega can freely
manipulate psycho power but for that move.
Besides the side of psycho power, sitting and the like, surely he freely
manipulates it. Mr. Marik is the ghastly pale technician. Without fail
Vega got him to display psycho power's performance through television.
Having become considerably major that is to be said, Vega's identity is
still calling out mystery upon mystery. A Japanese female fan's (who is
past underage) private relationship settles as a non-ceasing rumor.
You might say that certainly women are received by looks as it is.
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Highlights:
-Vega was introduced with a severe "goodness" complex, despising having even
similar facial features with people who had righteous ideologies.
-His chief scientist/technician Mr. Marik is introduced as the one who's
principally responsible for Vega using television to flex his power and
threaten the world by announcing the tournament of SF2. He's been physically
training as well, and has bumps and bruises from sturdy terra firma to show
for it.
(editor's note: 'past underage' means she's old enough to be past the
age of consent. so it's not an example of say, Vega having a harem
of a bunch of underage girls like he did in the Zero series. It's
in reference to a girl leaning on him in an official art also known as the
"Vega the Pimp" art piece elsewhere in the guide. In that same
art, you can see 'Mr. Marik' working on a television set or something
and several other things as Vega's lounging around without his hat.
Vega was quite the ladies' man? May be why the VSS wanted to be
loyal to him even after he ordered them to die, not that that stopped
them from fighting for their survival)
According to All About SFZero 3, the M. in M. Bison stands for "Mister"
for the overseas version. The M. in M. Bison for the boxer in the Japanese
version of Street Fighter stands for Mike.
Capcom supposedly once told Arcadia Magazine for a fun 'top most wanted
[videogame] villains' article somewhat recently that Vega's birthdate
was in 1991, March. Now, assuming they're not just joking around or
something, could this be a possible time for when Vega got 'reborn'? Of
course, there's also just the really high chance that they were joking
around, considering that March 1991 was the original SF2's release date.
He used to be a fighter who wanted to be the best and strongest. He was
trained under someone, who at the time was the only psycho power (today soul
power) user. He also trained alongside two other students. Vega killed his
master and went on a rampage. It's unknown what happened to the other two
students. Psycho power outside of Vega's is currently soul power due to not
even psycho power being evil by default. "Psycho" originates from the Greek
word for "soul".
Vega murdered his master because he saw how his tremendous desire for rising
to the top in terms of fighting wouldn't be achieved with what he was being
taught. This is from Street Fighter Eternal and more detailed in AAC. He
killed his master with the psycho crusher per the SF2 Complete File.
Vega from Gamest SF2D
Under Fate's Star...
That man also, long ago genuinely aimed to continue the pursuit of knowledge
of a fighting stylist as a young man. Abiding by the master's fixed words,
encouraged together with comrades, personally well trained, it is said if
it could be seen where the removal of the young warrior became past. But
that man was lucky to be born under fate's star. Feared by all people,
he's the pursuer of ruin from the star of the devil. And so assuming if
he oh combined with that fate, in conclusion contrary to what can be will
not be mistaken. Why then, altogether not consider before his demonic fist
the rest of the scattered numerous people's deaths becoming meaningless,
human beings called exceedingly cursed perishables thus, yet a disgraceful
existence having risen from the ranks.
That young man...Vega himself oppressing with heaven's aimed strength. In
any case to argue with matters beginning, it would be what kind of devised
means to surely be risen at the top of the world lest he not be satisfied.
Recently with his especially dangerous personality able to grasp the extent
of furiosity, and so becoming due to serious control being the case, he
himself would take up control in spite of inevitable death.
This oppression turned into completely beyond strange. Seemingly Vega felt
an irritated mood able to radiate that demanded pleasure. And so that man's
eye remained there, now studying in that which was his dojo.
Doubtless that what's first is pleasure. However along with time, for
him looking again at fighting techniques was what it was becoming. Perhaps
for his nature's straight line personality, this time was likely an agreeable
etiquette existent. He being a student above all of conspicuous force,
gradually that standing out became as the manifestation. But he it seems
for human beings carries heart away, this is obvious.
Emperor of Darkness Born
As for power as a fighting stylist, although already completely exceeding
the old farewell master, always will he treat himself as inferior with the
master. For Vega, against the master it is obvious that there was harboring
of murderous intent. However, with him pressured by that belief of inevitable
death, the master wanted to work for the devotion. For some reason...there's
a master of this sole terrestrial psycho power that was in order to freely
manipulate human beings. The past, in which students being 2 people to skip
over the perception of techniques as psycho power's bundle becoming deceivingly
independent, is not for certain.
For him, the master's slightest efforts continued to burn in his revealing eyes.
And so finally because of this psycho power's mastery was finished.
The next day, as for his steps, with festering cruelty and even jealousy from
psycho power for the master, the faint breath was laid to rest.
"Now no other will make use of him but, thanks to his kicking the trap he does
not live up to his league..."
And so the master's final clincher pierced in an instant, particularly his note
of self control completely collapsed.
With power taken into his hand henceforth, having felt interference, he wanted
to crush all obstacles underfoot. Even if encountering women and children, his
hatred loaded in his fist, rains of cries for sympathetic forgiveness,
afterwards bodies melted as people are left behind. Naturally during going
into a rage he remembers the struggles of the challenged persons. But, for
him to take it, at the extent of time losing in an instant the good feeling
of killing would-be avengers as opposing persons, the fist and the whole state,
the brazen defiant one swelled up with abhoring dark psycho power.
Eventually for him, that dark power synchronized from his own mental condition,
moreover he realized that the might comes forth from hatred. Hatred being his
true power it's his principal drawn out feeling. With him manipulating it at
will, it increasingly repeated his belief of matters on brutal killings. But,
it turned this time, his cruelty went to authorities becoming widely known, in
whole countries his net of siege began to spread. However, his bad luck came
to an end. Between neighboring countries war broke out, in that place there
would not be a cut in between.
After that his circumstances are unknown. But unbelievably he easily didn't
to say die and such. Surely even today he continues having fun with the dark
power, inverting the defiant ones awaiting without a doubt.
The strongest fighting emperor, Vega. Right now really where is he likely to
be?
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Highlights:
-A bad apple or wolf in sheep's clothing from the start, Vega was fated as
such. A caring master working toward a blossoming devotion, fellow students
whose identities are unknown to this day, none of it mattered. Even once
Vega could far outdo what his master was capable of, he still wasn't
satisfied. Though he learned psycho power, his entire self would brim with
the dark kind of it upon letting his murderous intent fly loose and rendering
his master lifeless by targeting the mental (nervous system) to spread
terminal chaos into the physical (the rest of the body).
Prologue 9 (Vega) from SF4
That is, looking at it from the outside that was just a research facility.
Deserted deep in the mountains was built a boxy building, with scarce windows
for a school, not being any people coming and going for a hospital. For the
team that pursued Balrog last week, a long follow afterwards, it was affirmed
of the automobile entering this building. For the crime squad got excited.
However the situation after that wasn't a good thing. Examining even examining
also the information concerning this place nothing is found, the interior
somehow doesn't turn into one to be acquainted with. Perhaps because
Shadoloo's influence on the upper layer departments is still remaining, unless
there's a tangible absence of evidence, a daring assault's authorization is even
difficult, here being no choice but for careful supervision and, their bosses
had said.
The comprised investigation members had vehemently protested at the man. Now
is the time when even Shadoloo possibly transferred locations. If so then
again that investigation is at a starting point. More or less at the risk of
having the inside infiltrated, a dead giveaway must not be grasped huh. Such
that inside, for a crime squad one person a researcher male it seems that from
the facility came forth a discovery. After a short exchange of blows between
them seizing that researcher, ID and uniform is snatched away. And so the man
is now here.
For the inside of the building has the same impression as the outside's,
heavily quiet. Because of the ID and uniform there wasn't anyone questioning,
the man intently aimed at the interior. The corridor brought him to a deadlock
with an elevator. Non-hesitant including to ride, he confirms the button. The
basement's button even with ascertaining many things above ground all the way,
the man broadly grinned and laughed. If this is one of Shadoloo's locations
then, the building above ground is just a pretense, in the basement the base's
important section is certainly in expectation, somehow or other it appears like
he was hitting it. He pressed the lowest class' button.
The elevator falls and, before his eyes a great number of enormous water tanks
were lined up. Within a dark cave, only bright is a water tank illuminated in
green light. Even here wasn't a figure of a person. Suddenly uneasiness
arose. Considering that only for this facility, whatever the circumstances
it's beyond there not be a person. Besides even if there was the ID, even
checks are too thin. This infiltration, was it not cleverly gone to the
extremes??
"It's Smart Raven. I've reached the undermost layer. How's the state above
ground? ......Hey, you hear me?? Hey!"
The man turning toward an attached communication device in his collar talked
to it. But only noise is audible. Smacking his lips a little the man, abruptly
heard a voice that stiffened his body.
__Where are you all snooping? That puppet's subordinate maybe?
"Wh, what's that?"
Even looking around, there's not a puppet anywhere. But the voice he was
hearing seemed close to his ears.
__Well there's no need to answer. If I can just dwell firsthand in your head.
Therefore you called out for that sake didn't you.
Because of the aimless wandering manner the man's glance, turned towards within
the water tank right in front. That eyeball massively opens.
"Ve, Vega!? It can't be,......ah, guaaaaaaaaah."
The man's words from midway changed into shrieks.
From the water tank fired a violet light that engulfed the man's body which
convulsed several times, before long he crumbles down to the floor. The light
that engulfed the man contracted once, having returned to within the water
tank.
__Hmm, so that's how it is eh.
Wobbling and stirring within the fluid, having absorbed the light Vega
expressed a daring smile.
__For interruptors of my designs whatever the small fries are unforgiven.
All of you also, ......are also of that puppet aren't you!
Already upon the motionless man, only Vega's laughter has sprawled in the
darkness.
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Highlights:
-Agent Smart Raven has gone from tracking down Bison then Balrog and finally
Vega, where unfortunately his journey and his life both end.
Smart Raven sketch and notes from CJ's SF4 blog (Vega's latest victim):
attire arranged like Viper's, selfish-like personality, a narcissist, reacts
to things one at a time, a raven/crow image for a face.
Some speculated long ago for a while that his master was actually also
Ryu's and Ken's. This obviously isn't true anymore, although it has likely
to do with how originally, Vega was the one who was supposed to have
allegedly killed Gouken before Capcom came up with Gouki. Also with the HnN
entry provided below, hadou and psycho power are noted as similar to each
other (both are forms of ki), and they both, along with Vega's technique of
soul-jumping and Gouken's principles of kikouhou, have Taoist roots as their
basis (see Gouken's section for more on Taoism in relation to kikouhou).
Street Fighter 2 #1 (comic by Udon) has Rose's mother being Bison's
master. This was stated to be a deviation from the canon in the RAW
issue #1. Ditto for the other stuff there regarding how Vega and Rose
are linked.
According to Gamest SF2D, he was on the run from the authorities but
a war broke out between countries so he was able to escape while the
governments were distracted and would later resurface as ruler of Shadaloo.
Psycho power is basically mental energy devoid of a mindset for justice. It's
the same as Rose's soul power, except Rose's soul power derives mental energy
from a heart of justice. The result is the same, basically (purplish/blueish
energy blasts, effects, sparks, flames, etc). Vega's psycho power being powered
by negative energy was NOT a rewrite, as shown by this old HnN entry:
It can probably be said that for psycho power the fighting moves are of one
technique. Loaded with rigorous training, moreover becoming able to freely
mind control, because of its use for the first time.
For Vega's case, psycho power's origin is hatred. Furthermore, the concern for
the considerable hatred being strong, acquiring psycho power already made for
remarkable power. Ryu, Ken's hadouken appears to be a kind of psycho power.
True, the power's origin is obscure. In reference to the overseas edition's
Street Fighter (Eagle and Adon debut here) originator, the hadouken's voice
composition became that of psycho fire?
In any case, Vega's moves using psycho power regarding the instruction manual.
-Psycho crusher attack... psycho power emitting from the hand, high speed
rotation due to acquired propulsion. Maximum speed equal to 60 km/h
(conjecture).
-Head press... Vega's normal jump strength to the degree of as much as 1 m.
However, with the full use of psycho power the head press can jump to a maximum
of what 4 m (conjecture).
For normal moves, punches contrary to those utilizing psycho power, what can
be said for kicks really not utilizing it, Vega's abnormally strong kick power
(a soccer ball kicked 150 m?), it appears that even without psycho power
powerful homicidal kicks can be called forth.
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Highlights:
-Psycho power and hadou are alike in that they're both forms of ki. Their
differences stem from where their ki comes from. Psycho power from mental
areas such as the brain, hadou from both within the user and from the user's
surroundings, concentrated into the tanden (a medically represented red spot
in the abdomen just below the navel). See also Seth's section.
-The psycho crusher is actually Vega's act of immersing his entire body into
the mental power that emanates from him, even as he uses it to fry Rose
(Rose's SF4 ending and even her depicted demise in Udon's SF2 comic series).
Vega's actual torpedo-motion move is distinguished as the psycho crusher
attack, which was more often noted thus in older sources.
From HnN regarding Vega's power, both physical and 'political'.
Decidedly, it's world conquest. It can be believed that Vega participates
in all evil of the entire world. In that case, what kind of activities are
actually done, are said to be the exemplaries of drug smuggling. Vega
maintains the enormous drug syndicates. These syndicates in turn operating
under the shadowy organization "Shadoloo," the other parties are nicely
considered.
The conjecture from here, the drug smuggling profits in considerable money.
With these being funds, even more world conquest activities keep going.
As is natural, a person appears suspecting the syndicates. That is Chun Li's
father. With him as an authorized drugs investigator, the frantic
investigation will be sure to have the syndicate's hideout located. He
bravely infiltrated the hideout. In addition the interest of this
organization was sensed. Being an American soldier, Guile's comrade-in-arms
Nash is there. In the midst of war strife he observed by chance a drug
smuggling scene. Having skillfully tailed the smuggler, he located the hideout
and all was fine......
However, from then on both became unaccounted for. For Vega cruelty is
inanimate. Obstacles to world conquest are likely murdered. Moreover,
Vega is a fighting techniques expert. A fraction of fighting styles is he
unable to compete with. If it's the case with the remarkable fighting style
of Chun Li's father, could Vega have possibly been defeated?
Nowadays, what activities are Vega's subordinates perhaps up to in your streets?
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Highlights:
-CJ's first ever clue that both Nash and Chun-Li's father most likely were
murdered upon attempting to investigate Shadaloo's drug involvements. Also
mentioned here is that Vega, powerful as he is, cannot cope with a few distinct
fighting styles.
Vega still wants to be the best and the strongest. In his storyline
in SFZ3, he tells Ryu that his goal is to be honored as the mightiest
warrior of all time. This goal is reiterated in the bad ending of every
other character (when you get Game Over) when Vega proclaims how glad he is
that his and Shadaloo's name will be remembered forever.
His fighting style is simply listed as psycho power. It is NOT Ler
Drit. That's from the Street Fighter Storytelling RPG D&Dish game by
Whit Wwolf. Boy, did they make up a lot of stuff for Street Fighter under
CUSA's direction. Muay Thai can be seen in many of his moves though, moreso
than any other indications of psycho power-improvised fighting styles.
Lerd Rit: military-style Muay Thai. The art in all its brutality is
practiced by Thai law-enforcing personnel, and is pretty much prohibited
to civilians. Open handed strikes are emphasized, and strikes fiercely
target the joints and head. Haven't seen anything about eye-gouging and
such. Not sure about this, but "lerd rit" may mean Thai for the same thing
as "karate" is in Japanese, "empty hand." Definitely can be classified as
an ansatsuken, and most similar to Sagat's way of fighting in terms of
effectiveness and deadliness.
Shadaloo was fully formed by Vega thirty years before SF2.
Shadaloo's satellite apparently can give the psycho drive long distance
capabilities, as shown in various SFZ3 endings.
The city it blows up with the laser in the SFZ3 bad endings (or when
you beat the game with Vega) appears to be Hong Kong.
The psycho drive isn't Vega's source of power. It's used to channel
in all the negative energy of the world. Vega then allegedly uses his
shoulder plates to transfer the energy from the psycho drive to his body.
This might be a reason why the VSS uniform has shoulder patches too, but
that aspect of the VSS uniform is conjecture (allegated portions from
Saiki). A more concrete supposition is that Vega's shoulder blades are
components of special armor which amplifies his psycho power in general,
from the SF2 Official Fanbook.
The psycho drive can channel any negative energy or emotions. But
Vega can get more from fighters. Vega blows up because his current body
couldn't handle any more psycho power. When the psycho drive blows up, all
the energy stored in there gets released. The released energy goes to
Vega's body, Vega's body can't take it and *BOOM*
Considering that he managed to get Shadaloo fully developed by thirty
years ago, and thus must have been at least in his high teens to early
twenties then in order to do that, Vega is probably around his late
forties to early fifties.
Vega's psycho power turns his eyes white; normally his eyes are black. Also
it should be obvious to most, but he does have hair under his hat even though
it's completely covered underneath. He's considered with a strict
hierarchical relationship (when things go wrong/right he knows exactly whom to
blame/praise first, and he follows a pecking order).
For more on Vega and Rose, see Rose's bio and the Miscellaneous
Questions section.
During the Zero series and especially SFZ3, Vega is extremely powerful.
Due to how much the official storyline of SFZ3 differs from various aspects
of the game's portrayal (mainly Vega dying in EVERYONE'S ending), the game
does a horrible job of showing this. In actuality, Vega managed to fight Ken
and Sakura, then finally had to retreat when Ken, Sakura, Sagat, and Ryu
(who had broken out of his brainwashing) all ganged up on him, then he ran
into Rose and had to beat her, then he had to terminate Juli, Juni, Cammy,
and the rest of the VSS, and all thirteen of them attacked him, forcing
him to retreat from them (But not before almost killing all of them), then
he had to deal with Nash and Guile, and he -FINALLY- was taken down when
his entire base and the psycho drive blew up with him in it, thanks to
Nash. And all this in a very short timeframe (Rose most likely took
place shortly before Cammy because Vega told Rose that there was other
business he had, most likely Cammy, and Guile blowing up Shadaloo's base
took place shortly after because Chun-Li most likely spotted Cammy in the
base heading for the psycho drive).
From Street Fighter II RAW #2 (by Udon)
Ken Siu-Chong (one of the writers): Bison looks SERIOUSLY pumped up here...
(from Sano - after he emerges from the psycho drive) another difference
in our continuity from the games. In the games, Bison was stronger earlier
on, then weakened in SFII, but we wanted to make him STRONGER. It just
makes more sense structurally in the story (Udon's story).
By the way, from what I can see, Vega -FEARS- Cammy (not in a cowardly
way so much as realizes she can be a significant threat). He fears that if
she gains self-consciousness, she would rip control of the psycho drive
away from him. He fears her so much that he decided to have her terminated
even though Cammy NEVER betrayed him and was still loyal to him right up
until he personally decided to kill her himself, in SFZ3. This is why
Balrog in SFZ3 calls him a coward. Heck, he even decided to kill the rest of
the VSS just for good measure, apparently, even though they were still
loyal to him right to the end, too (they fought back only in self-defense).
Vega is weaker during SF2 (storylinewise, not gameplaywise) because by having
his soul whole again, his psycho power isn't anywhere near as powerful as
during SFZ3. Psycho power relies on negative energy. Because Vega merged
with Rose at the end of SFZ3, he's no longer fully negative since Rose had
his soul's righteousness. He's also weaker probably because he doesn't have
the psycho drive anymore, what with it being blown up and all. At least,
that's what Saiki said. Still trying to track down the official statement
where it's explicitly stated. In any case, Vega notes that during the SF2-era
he's lost his estuteness. In other words he's not as vicious and aggressive,
especially with his own ambitions as he would like to be. He actually
acknowledges that he's got some kind of conscience in him that he doesn't
want, and this was publicly released by CJ during WW, long before the Zero
series was even conceived.
M. Bison's (boxer) name was switched to Balrog for the overseas versions
because Capcom didn't want to get sued by Mike Tyson (for Mike Bison).
Vega became M. Bison (now Mister Bison) and Balrog became Vega due to this
switch. Bison's prototype name during SF2's planning stages was Tyson BTW.
Why can Gen survive the shungokusatsu while Vega can't? Vega's
obsessively more evil than Gen, needless to say. In fact, Vega's entire body
is filled with negativity. This makes him more vulnerable to the
shungokusatsu than Gen (much more so). The SGS hurts you more if you are evil
because your sins are that much more of a burden. Also, Vega relies on his
psycho power for strength, pure ego, and he's incapable of exhibiting any
shred of humility. Gen meanwhile, relies on meditation and training, just
like Gouki does. This makes Vega less capable to empty himself into nothing
to protect himself from the SGS like Gen can.
In the planning stages for SF2, he was named "Eagle Head." A reference from
the Arabic origins of his name "Vega" as the "fallen eagle" or "fallen
vulture," analogical to Satan as the fallen angel Lucifer, and capitalized
upon of course in the SF2V animated series with his psycho power-channeling
eagle head statue. Prior to "Eagle Head" Vega's prototype design was also
labeled as "Eagle Cape."
The version of Vega you face at the end of SFZ3 is officially referred
to as Final Vega in All About Capcom and other sources. He's Vega at the
height of his psycho power (the golden age of psycho power as CJ puts it),
his most powerful incarnation.
Vega's SF2 stage, rather than a joke of Shadoloo's base, is an
exaggeration of the Grand Palace's Temple of the Emerald Buddha, with
its statues and the suspended bell. The temple's not Shadaloo's as far as
I know. Ramayana Temple's a stage where supporting cast such as Eliza and
Samantha as well as fighters could enter without much resistance due to
it being a public area, and the stage story's what proves the final battle
is there in-game if that's what you were wondering. Vega does fight the
final warrior there. ~Vasili
Translation of his SF2 stage from the Complete File:
Thailand (Vega) Ramayana Temple
The time to announce the battle by the gong's tone resounding, by one fault
then two faults to gather by the probable men. From enmity, aiming at the
still fighting king's name, he will contend for this battle. Here only one
winning one bout after another, can fight this Vega. However for him to
understand Vega's true power is none other than the end of human life. A
one-sided match, from the fight is to say a massacre. Moreover to let
oneself approach hatred amplified is the overwhelmingly evil psycho power.
Where he goes for the body to use such a power, what is his purpose no one
knows. Only, that pace of time which the weak are utterly defeated mouths
rest in peace to an evil deity's smile, partly as a legend for the world to
know of the fighting king's name.
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Both the psycho drive and Vega have the ability to channel negative emotions,
for the purpose of strengthening Vega. That's a mental ability, ego taking
control of telekinesis if you will. Before he learned about Ryu, Vega learned
that the two unpleasant human emotions capable of fueling his twisted mental
powers the most were anger, and even moreso, hatred. He'd kidnapped martial
artists left and right, but because the majority of them were afraid of him,
their psycho energy outputs were just drops in a bucket. He discovered
through trial and error that fear's a minor power boost while hatred's what
hit the spot (Vega's SFZ2 account above).
Vega mistakenly thought Ryu's power when he scarred Sagat came from anger and
hate, instead of the flat-out desire to win no matter what; hence he later
believed that psycho power and SnH were kindred to each other when they're
really not. SF4 shows he got a little better idea of distinguishing them.
The "consumed by his own shadow" sentence was just an implication from
Akuma's Revival ending, which isn't quite what the original text states
for Gouki. Instead of consumed, the ending would say gazed or in the most
extreme case, enchanted, which I found is what's printed in Eternal. As
another note, prior to his final battle in Zero 3, which canonically
doesn't happen, Gouki doesn't tell Vega that he's weak for not relying
on his fists, but instead that he'll die in shame for not relying on them.
So shadow would likely mean ego in Vega's case, but the point is that Gouki
doesn't openly take it that far because he doesn't actually ever say it
to Vega, nor does Gouki's shadow ever refer it to anyone but himself.
Psycho power is indeed stronger, superior, yet corrupted soul power due
to the absence of its restraining harness, the mindset of justice.
Vega's SF4 arcade ending comments:
With Vega personally opposing a defied Seth "even this one's a flop eh" he
expresses a discouraging facial expression. "All of you be his opponents"
with such words declared from Vega's back, prime fields having the same
appearance as Seth, the fact is that they ominously stop.
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*** pgVVictorOrtega.
VICTOR ORTEGA
Age: unknown
Height: 210 cm
Weight: 156 kg
Hails from, native place: unknown
SMB specialty move: back drop
MB-era nickname: "Legendary Champion" & "Master of Muscle Bomber" in SMB
Stage: the CWA Ring
Muscle Bomber: Your victory prompts Victor to return to wrestling!
Super Muscle Bomber: He um... wrestled?
Where he is now: Dunno.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Victor Ortega was the owner of the Capcom Wrestling Association, but
went away for a while because no one could beat him. He eventually came
back to see better challengers. He is the final boss of Super Muscle Bomber,
though he isn't a Blood Wrestling Association member of course.
He's the founder of the CWA and its first champion after defeating "the
top-ranked wrestler," and he reigns supreme as the best wrestler in the
world. Then, he mysteriously dissappeared at the same time he truly became
the strongest in the world. A little more than one year after his
dissappearance, Astro (Scorpion) challenged/invited him to participate in
the "International Blowout" (Super Muscle Bomber), so Ortega accepted and
returned to the ring. His nickname is "The Master of Muscle Bomber".
He's the Hulk Hogan look-alike that cameos at the very beginning of the
Muscle Bomber intro, by the way.
From a Super Muscle Bomber Flyer: The legendary sovereign who left the
ring for having been too strong. Now, the flame blazes once again.
*** pgVVitto.
VITTO BRACCA
No Bio. He's Italian, of course.
Final Fight Streetwise: When Cody's knees are first 'fixed' by GLOW, he
goes to Little Italy and pit fights for Vitto. Vitto eventually realizes
Cody is addicted to the drug and lets him go. Kyle later arrives asking
for information about Cody, and after a bit of hassle involving Kyle
beating up many people, pit-fighting against Vitto's man Ghost, Vitto's man
Blades kicking Kyle out, and pit-fighting Andore for Vitto, Vitto
finally tells him about Cody getting hooked on GLOW. Vitto, being an
old-school honorable mobster, is trying his best to keep GLOW from
spreading through Little Italy but failing miserably. A religious man,
he's been asking the priest Father Bella for guidance for a while now.
Eventually at the church (with Kyle eavesdropping), Vitto tells Bella
how people are beginning to think Vitto himself is responsible for the GLOW.
Bella suggests he try another prayer, but while Vitto is praying, Blades
betrays him and smashes a pickaxe through his skull. [from the game]
Where he is now: A pickaxe to the head means you're quite dead.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes:
From the website: THE MAN in Metro City's Little Italy district,
whose no-nonsense approach leaves no doubt about his complete control
of all that goes on there. Vitto is rarely seen without a significant
number of expertly-trained bodyguards. He can come off as sincere and
compassionate one minute, then mean as hell the next. And he's never
met a plate o' linguini he didn't like.
He's pretty much your typical honorable mafioso type. Involved in
underground crime but still has his own code and values respect. A
code that's opposed to things like GLOW making everyone into crazy
psychopaths.
According to Kyle, the only two things he fears is God and running
out of linguini.
If he's rarely seen without a significant number of bodyguards, it
was too bad he didn't follow that policy during the church scene. ...eh,
Blades probably would have killed all his bodyguards there anyways.
Vitto doesn't like Stiff. He says that Kyle would have had his
gratitude if Kyle introduced himself as the man who killed the Stiff.
Likely this is because he knows Stiff is involved in dealing out GLOW,
and Vitto is opposed to GLOW.
Vitto has two beautiful dames leaning on him when he watches pit
fights from his comfy couch.
He has bad table manners. Belches freely.
Also called "Mr. V" by his henchmen, including Blades.
One of his strongest men, Ghost, uses Muay Thai, although I don't
know if this is an addition to the fighting style the rest of his men
use or if the rest of his men use Muay Thai as well. They share the
same stance and punches as Ghost but I've never seen any of them
besides Ghost kick.
One of the possible names for Vitto's men is Mario. A possible name
for the generic Italian thugs around Little Italy outside is Luigi. This
is probably a reference to Nintendo's Mario Bros.
Bruno gets to be the guy who escorts Kyle to go fight Andore, despite
just being one of many random names for Vitto's henchmen.
Vitto's henchmen: 3-Finger, Alberto, Bruno, The Croomer, Edgardo,
Giovanni, Gustavo, Hitman, Leonardo, Mario, Ottavio, Umberto.
Vitto's killer chefs: 8-Course, Deep Fryer, Frankie Filler,
The Master, Ollie the Oven, Saucier Sal, Steel Chef.
Andore and Ghost are two of his pit fighters.
*** pgVWeasel.
WEASEL (NICKY "THE WEASEL" WISSELL)
No Bio.
Final Fight Streetwise: The owner of the Porn Theatre, Weasel is working
with the Stiff's organization to distribute GLOW around Metro City. Kyle
introduces doors to Weasel's head several times throughout Streetwise to
get information from him. He retaliates with his Blue Baller gang and
by trying to run down Kyle with a forklift or blow him up with grenades.
Eventually, the mastermind behind GLOW, Bella, has Dr. Chang transform
him into War, one of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Weasel War fights
Kyle in the church's graveyard but eventually gets his entire upper half
blown to bits in the gunfight. [from the game]
Where he is now: When a gun blows off your head, you're probably dead.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes:
Website: A true weasel: sneaky, twitchy, selfish and a surprisingly
annoying pain in the butt. The superficial little prick is the kind of
guy who would say anything to get what he wants. He has wild delusions
of someday achieving big-time criminal status. The Weasel holds a
certain degree of authority over his rag-tag gang of "Blue Ballers",
though no one's quite certain how. Maybe it's just his far-reaching
porn connections.
His signature quote is "Not the face!"
He initially wears a blue Blue Baller jacket like the rest of his
gang, but changes to a black Blue Baller shirt at the warehouse fights.
His porn video brand is Blue Ball Video.
He never fights mono-y-mono. The first time, he simply tries to run
away from Kyle. After that, he always needs to use other things to
assault Kyle like dropping crates via a crane, driving a forklift,
throwing grenades, and finally sheer massive gun power as War.
During interrogation, Kyle toys with Weasel when Weasel says "Lemme
go!" by responding, "Have it your way!" All Weasel can respond to that
is with "What the...? WHAT!?" because Kyle's response makes absolutely
NO SENSE whatsoever.
War is definitely Weasel. That's why he laughs with Weasel's quote,
"Not the face!", and one of his quotes when he's War is "You mess with
Weasel, you get War!" ...that and Kyle's journal says he's Weasel and he's
named "Weasel War" in the game.
The mini-game/side-quest where you bust up Weasel's SUV is a homage to
the original Final Fight's car-destroying mini-game. In another one of
those car-destroying 'quests' (Meter Maid Revenge), the car owner is shocked
at what happened to his car so Kyle tells the guy "Um, some large guy with
a pipe did it."
Blue Ballers can be identified by their dark blue jackets that have the
"Blue Baller" and their gang's logo on the back (looks like a bowling ball
with two smaller balls beneath like a hydrogen molecule). They have rather
derogatory nicknames. They're comprised of rather generic punks who can use
both bats and knives, the traditional charging fat guys, and later on,
GLOWhead Blue Ballers (tank type). The GLOWhead ones have the same names as
the generic Blue Ballers. They all wear sunglasses as well.
From the FF:SW manual regarding the Blue Ballers: A relatively new and
growing gang local to the 'hood,' they operate under the loose control of
The Weasel. And, much like their leader, they can be an extremely annoying
pain-in-the-ass.
Names of Blue Ballers: Basketcase, Edgy Freddy, Funny Pages, G-Ball,
Gutless, Headpin Pete, The Infant, Jitterbug, Mama's Boy, P-10 Jack,
Pee Wee, Perfect 3, Plittz, Scumball, Spanky D, Squirrel, Villy Vones.
Names of Fat Blue Ballers: Ball Joint, Cannonballz, D Vower,
The Large One, Moundball, Phatz O, Pork n Beans, Tiny, Wall-to-Wall,
World o' Hurt.
*** pgVWonWon.
WON WON
Height: 225 cm
Weight: 205 kg
Blood type: A
Native place: Fought in Hong Kong (and probably born there).
Final Fight 2: Instead of a chef gone bad, he's a former sailor/mariner
who closed the harbor neighborhood in Hong Kong. Apparently he's involved
with a local Mafia called "108 Dragon".
Where he is now: *shrug*
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
His Japanese backstory is completely different from his backstory
overseas. Instead of a chef gone bad, he's a former sailor/mariner
who closed the harbor neighborhood in Hong Kong. Apparently he's involved
with a local Mafia called "108 Dragon". Ironically, Won Won wields a
cleaver in the Japanese version, but it was censored from the overseas
edition of FF2. Rather silly when he's the chef outside of Japan.
"A brutal man who's respected by the area's local Mafia, 108 Dragon," is
his Japanese description. Still likes his knife for good cuisine.
*** pgVWong.
WONG
An FFT boss. As usual, there's no bio. He's gotta be Japanese.
Final Fight Tough: Either the fourth boss you fight (after Caine) or a
possible mid-boss you fight if you take a certain path after beating
Drake. He's a Skull Cross member you fight... in a kitchen. [from the
game]
Where he is now: Whoosh!
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
He's a monk. With robes and prayer beads. Not much else to say.
*** pgVWraith.
THE WRAITH
Height: 219 cm
Weight: 160 kg
Native place & stage: New Delhi, India
SMB specialty move: guillotine drop
Wrestling federation: BWA (Blood Wrestling Association)
MB-era nickname: "Demon Realm's Messenger"
Super Muscle Bomber: He um... wrestled?
Where is he now: Dunno.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Blood Wrestling Association member.
Alias "the messenger of the demon realm (Makai)," a ghastly contender.
With the hood pulled over the head and a tightly clinging robe, it is
said he looks more like an evil priest than a wrestler. He keeps within
his body inumerable snakes, living lethal weapons to use in a match. With
his ominous appearance and brutal, cruel fighting; everything can be
lost to the terror. (from his official profile)
From a Super Muscle Bomber flyer: With a ghastly appearance, the manner
of his rough fight is to ensnare with all objects of fear.
The probable BWA things he has are fire (fire spirit) and those long
fingernails and serpent attacks of his.
It's stated that his robe makes him seem more like a "priest"
than a wrestler, and he has countless snakes "in the body" (hidden in his
robe?) that he uses as deadly weapons.
*** pgVYang. pgVYun.
YANG LEE (Lee Yang in China)
Birthday: September 9
Height: 173 cm
Weight: 62 kg
BWH sizes: B102, W73, H85
Blood type: B
Likes: film festivals
Dislikes: hasty fellows, fermented tofu
Special skill: inline skating, the matter of taming cats
Fighting style: Chinese kenpo (based on hakkyokuken)
Native place: Hong Kong (belongs to China after SF2) (born and raised in
Shanghai)
SF4-era nickname: "Dashing Along Blue Dragon"
SF3-era nickname: "Hurricane Blue Dragon"
YUN LEE (Lee Yun in China)
Birthday: September 9
Height: 173 cm
Weight: 62 kg
BWH sizes: B102, W73, H85
Blood type: B
Likes: nikuman (meat-filled steamed buns)
Dislikes: heedless fellows, hundred-year-old eggs
Special skill: skateboarding
Fighting style: Chinese kenpo (based on hakkyokuken)
Native place: Hong Kong (belongs to China after SF2) (born and raised in
Shanghai)
SF4-era nickname: "White Dragon's Flight"
SF3-era nickname: "Elemental White Dragon"
Street Fighter Zero 3:
With SF4, Yun & Yang's Z3 involvement (if they had any in the first place)
is shown to be entirely for Fei-Long's movie, which ends up getting stopped
and rewritten as shown in his SF4 opening. Even if they don't have parts
in Street King 2 (whether it keeps the rest of the title "Three Dragon Stars"
or not), they're working in a restaurant with Chun-Li until she sees and heads
out with Guile (see Chun-Li's SF4 Beginning account in her notes section for
more). Of course they want to get in on the crime-busting as well but she
won't have any of that (Chun-Li's SF4 opening).
Super Street Fighter 4:
Yang: Has a good command of the Chinese kenpo driven into him by his
grandfather, Hong Kong's young fighting stylist. He journeys out accompanying
his twin older brother being Yun. Contrastive to his older brother a cool and
collected personality. Even in the height of battle constantly being able to
read an opponent's figured fingers possessing a profound perception, being
even of a hard worker's face always not neglecting devising and researching.
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Yun: Has a good command of the Chinese kenpo driven into him by his
grandfather, Hong Kong's young fighting stylist. Pursuing after Chun Li
who's been working at the same establishment, he plunges into a new world.
As for experience possessing a shallow natural fighting sense, scarce is
the person capable of the matter to see through those consecutive blows. An
optimist moreover with great confidence in himself, impertinent speech and
conduct also abundant. Yang is to say his twin sibling.
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With AE and its openings for them, Yun and Yang do follow after Chun-Li to
fight in S.I.N.-sha's latest hosted tournament. Yun of course wants to follow
because he's curious as to what kind of opponents could capture the interest
of a woman who can mop the floor with any and all local hoodlums, while Yang
is more reluctant but sees their journey as a learning opportunity for what
the rest of the fighting world is like, beyond what he's known through his big
bro, their grandfather and their adopted crime boss guardians, the only
people to whom Yang currently admits defeat in battle. He'll be able to test
his own might outside of any family bonds or familiarity through this trip.
Their journey could've ended with Hakan, as Yun notes in his ending that the
last fellow they came across was difficult to understand. Nevertheless, it
served as a good study for Yang as he lets Chun-Li know in his ending before
Yun comes out of the shop. As they approach the outskirts of their familiar
quarter of Hong Kong, Hoimei's all to eager to let them know that they've been
sorely missed back home, what with disappearing for a spell not informing
anybody that they'd be absent, and of course she takes her feelings out on
Yun the most.
One side note for the time being, the brothers' grandfather is most likely
gone from Shanghai and living in Hong Kong by the time of SSF4.
Street Fighter 3 Second Impact: Yun and Yang journey out during SF3 to
demonstrate their kung fu skills. They return to their home village, more
confident than ever before, having seen the outside world [Conjecture based
off in-game storyline]. AAC specially notes that they do indeed startle
the old man as seen in their endings (Yun flying over his restaurant the
Shoryuken with his skateboard and all, Yang the same with rollerblades), and
Hoimei does witness this.
Street Fighter 3 Third Strike:
For to protect the quarter's peace that's a job of pride. Naturally there's
no allowing to forgive the opponents of the become "mysterious organization."
Older brother Yun also is getting fired up in the sense of duty. "Well, leave
it to me this time also," says Yun triumphantly, for Yang mutters in his
heart. "I will not be relying on him all the time. Watch me Big Bro!!"
[CJ's 3S profile for Yang]
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Each person's living power is pleasant together with a feeling of tension
filling the streets, Hong Kong. For Yun and company having perceived a
threatening mysterious organization's existence, forestalling in the
organization's depths he's determined about marching into them. Not avoiding
a fight before, for Yun's throbbing beats fast. "Our streets, I'll show you
that I'll protect them!" [CJ's 3S profile for Yun]
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The twins both set out to confront the growing resistance in the form of the
Secret Society's agents within their Hong Kong turf, and remain absent from
the Shoryuken restaurant's vicinity for weeks on end. Eventually they
reunite, and Yang brings up the question of who's become the strongest this
past period. Yun gloats that he will always remain an "uncrossable barrier"
for Yang, and they fight. [Yang's 9th 3S battle with Yun] Afterwards they
set out together to find Gill.
Yun, with Yang, confronts Gill, telling him to stop with his project to
refashion the world. Gill's impressed with the twins' prowess (Yun's 3S
ending). Gill applauds them for their splendid battle performance, then
says he'll "leave" the care of Yun and Yang's quarter to the two brothers as
a sign of gratitude. Yun continues to argue that Gill's ideal world is
stupid, but Gill continues rambling about the Society's views. Yang is
troubled by Gill's words, but Yun tells him to snap out of it. They got what
they wanted, and now are the leaders of their streets in the Organization's
view as well, so it's time for them to go home [Official].
After getting home, Yang and Yun continue to brawl with each other. Hoimei,
annoyed at Yun and Yang's constant fighting and absences week in and week out,
argues with Yun that their behavior is worrying the sisters sick. Yun snaps
that if they let up, there may not even be a place for a restaurant to offer
Hoimei's bad-tasting fried rice, which of course really riles her up.
Meanwhile, Yang watches and sighs, noticing that Hoimei's got her sights on
Yun after all, and it's unbearable. Hoimei's sister, Shaomei, then comforts
Yang, telling him that Hoimei, though a cooking klutz, really was so worried
while the brothers were gone that she couldn't even eat normally. Shaomei
requests for them not to continue being so reckless, and Yang agrees and
apologizes. As the two leave together, Shaomei thinks about how she shouldn't
let her big sis beat her in love; she's gotta brave! [Yun and Yang's SF3TS
endings]
Where they are now: See above.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Yun & Yang from AASF3
Backstory
In Hong Kong's undersurface society the reigning 8 people bosses being their
entitled parents, twin siblings. The older brother the cheerful and
openhearted-like immature leader type, for the younger brother the level and
calm-like staff officer type and as for personality diametrically opposite
but, both are trusted by everybody as the streets' young leaders. In order
to test out to what extent their prided kung fu would circulate, they journey
to the world.
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Story
"I don't disagree with that much at least."
For Yun while picking up apples scattered on the ground, missing an even more
angry closing accosting by the gruff giant.
"Having to do this is boring isn't it......" He quickly thinks, Yun's
zensoutai sweeping the man's feet.
For the man the next instant floating in space, from his back he was slapped
onto the ground.
"You've done it huh you scoundrel!"
Staggering to stand up and rising onto the man's face at the same time, Yun's
fist drove into the man's nose bridge.
For the man completely losing spirit collapsed.
"What's with this again, big brother."
Unable to stop Yun's surplus quick work, for younger brother Yang just
grumbled at the constant foolishness.
"Brawling's intercession is always like this, after the settlement what's with
the trouble......"
"It's alright, anyone defeated by the blow just now would send even their
memories flying!"
"......What are you saying?, raging in front a crowd we'll be found out......"
The younger brother was getting fed up with the older brother's insolent-like
words.
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Profile
Family- Hail from Hong Kong. The time they were babies they were separated
from both parents. Having the undersurface society's 8 boss persons for their
godparents, at Shanghai they're raised under their grandfather who manages an
herbal shop. Now the 2 of them together, are entrusted as the streets' young
leaders.
Personality- For the older brother a cheerful jovial-like young leader type,
excels in intuitive-like discernment. As for the younger brother a composed
cool staff officer type, with ability for seeing through that insight and
general situation he assists his older brother.
Fighting style- The siblings together were disciplined by their grandfather
in various Chinese kenpo. With agile technique combinations pruning an
opponent's momentum, due to intense internal power release they use
sure-killing blows.
As for the moves' sharpness the siblings combining in quality, older brother
Yun (cap) through an instant's flash by means of move combinations like a
hurricane he knocks down head-to-head opponents. As for the younger brother
Yang with move combinations like a big wave's winding he engulfs to defeat
head-to-head opponents at his own pace.
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SF3 Q&A from Gamest SF3 Fanbook: Yun & Yang
-Please teach us about the detailed childhood for the 2 of them.
A. When the 2 of them were babies, their father helped out 1 man being a dark
street's boss, the matter of having helped out the boss both parents having
been wrapped into a dispute their whereabouts become unknown. As for just
having barely been born Yun and Yang, charging their grandfather being a kung
fu expert the master of the quarter's number one herbal shop, the 8 people
bosses of the dark streets became their godparents. As for the 2 of them now
as the streets' young leaders, they live there accepting the people's
reliance.
-Yun and Yang's master, in other words their grandfather who was active in
"Zero 2" isn't it Gen?
A. Gen is a different person. Has nothing to do with him. However, in the
midst of the dispute that resulted in the separating from both of their
parents, Gen's figure was possibly there.
-While waving the same fist, in character likeness the fighting style of the
2 of them varies, for the 2 of them, concerning their mutual manner of battle,
what kind of impression is it holding?
A. It's believed that for Yun's manner of using techniques his own orthodox
school is proper. For Yang's manner of using techniques unless there's
inventing there's no progressing, it's believed that the older brother
over-forges in a flash.
-Is Yun and Yang's kenpo mainly tourouken (praying mantis style)?
A. It's a mixture of tourouken, hakkyokuken (eight extremities fist), and
jaken (serpent fist).
-Their power seems like it's mutually on par, how is the true spot?
A. Discretion is confidential, Yun is possibly stronger.
-Does Yang offend Yun? Again, do the 2 of them quarrel?
A. It's not squarely guaranteed that Yun does more, they don't have very
many serious brawls. They're about taking messing around quite well.
-Mutually about Yun and Yang, how do they feel about each other? Are they
regarding themselves as rivals and the like?
A. Yun feels about Yang like "you leave it to be about using your head it's
alright." As for Yang he's respecting Yun's acting ability and intuition
ability. As a theme for his older brother's extraordinary ideas, when it
seems they materialize to sense in an instant Yang's strong spirit, as though
it's about surpassing the older brother.
-Hailing from Hong Kong so to speak do they know about Fei Long?
A. It's believed that they know about Fei Long as a star.
-About their skills with skateboarding and rollerblading?
A. As for skateboarding, and rollerblading, they won't fall even if they'd
doze off.
-Why, does Yun have a cap over his head?
A. As for the cap through fashion the badge's color is about varying with
the feng shui divination.
-As for their private lives, what kinds of sensations are there?
A. Imperatively active with street events, they're entrusted to the streets'
dispute peacemakings.
-Favorable types for the 2 of them?
A. While to say that a lady debutante type is ideal, a strong-willed spirited
girl is someone the 2 of them would get along with.
-What do they regard kenpo as?
A. Liking that it's about keeping the body active, it's essential power for
the sake of their protecting the streets.
-What are their dreams?
A. Enlarging the streets, the matter to become fruitful dwellers there hugely
profitable is the spot now, of the objective for the 2 of them.
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Yun and Yang are twin brothers (Duh). They are close and generally do
most things together.
Yun and Yang are the guardians of their streets, and in charge of
keeping the peace within them. Gill decides to let them "retain"
leadership of the streets in Yun's Third Strike ending.
The name of the Chinese restaurant Hoimei and Shaomei work at is
âShoryukenâ (House of the Rising Dragon). This is the family restaurant
the girls are referring to in Yang's TS ending (Their family, not Y&Y's).
The owner of this restaurant is simply referred to as "Old Man" (He's the
father of Hoimei and Shaomei).
Eternal states that they were raised by their grandfather in Shanghai.
Also, Japanese sites have stated for a while that they were taught martial
arts in part by their grandfather and raised in his herbal shop. Despite
English Eternal's printing, their grandfather isn't Gen, as noted by CJ
in the Q&A section above.
Yang is the quiet and calmer one while Yun is more outgoing and
impulsive, but you probably already know that. Yun is described as
"a born leader" while Yang is more subjective and thinks things through
instead of rushing in.
By Street Fighter 3 Third Strike, from Yang's mid-boss battle with Yun, Yun
realizes that it's pointless for them to keep trying to figure out who's
better. Yang acknowledges that, but with their leveling up during the past
weeks, he still wants to see how much they've both progressed. In the end
Yang wants to be able to stand on his own, the way Yun does already, minus
his big bro's cockiness.
Yun and Yang's girlfriends are Hoimei and Shaomei. Neither of the two
girls enjoy Yun and Yang fighting each other. Yang likes Hoimei, Hoimei
likes Yun, Yun seems to just want to get away from it all, and Shaomei
likes Yang.
Hoimei was named Fei in SF3 until 2I when Shaomei was introduced as her
younger sister.
Lee is stated to be Yun and Yang's uncle, not their father, but the
younger brother of their father. This is from AAC and AASF3.
Lee did not raise them either (their grandfather did).
Yun's & Yang's fighting style is listed as Chinese kenpo
learned from their grandfather. It's based on the Chinese boxing
style/martial art called âBaji Quan". In Japanese, itâs hakkyokuken.
A direct translation would be 8 Extremes Fist.
Yun's and Yang's fighting style is an original one that combines the
Mantis Fist, Snake Fist, and 8 Extremes Fist, 8 Etxremes listed as the
primary foundation by the time of SSF4.
Eight bosses who reign over the crime underworld in Hong Kong entrusted the
quarterâs safety to Yun & Yang. Eternal reiterates that their godfathers are
the 8 crime lords who run Hong Kong behind the scenes.
Yun and Yang's father helped a mysterious lone man a long time ago. This
lone man was one of the underworld bosses. Their parents ended up getting
caught up in the underworld rivalry between bosses and dissappeared, and their
grandfather took care of them after that. They were still babies during this
time, and it was actually the 8 bosses who gave them the names Yun and Yang.
*** pgVZangief.
ZANGIEF
Birthdate: June 1, 1956
Height: 214 cm (SFZ, SF4), 211 cm (SF2)
Weight: 121 kg (SFZ), 115 kg (SF2, SF4)
BWH sizes: B172, W133, H154 (SFZ), B163, W128, H150 (SF2, SF4)
Blood type: A
Native place: Russia (the USSR dissolves after SF2)
Special skill: vodka chugging in one gulp, enduring the cold
Likes: wrestling, Cossack dance
Dislikes: flying projectiles (hadouken and others), youthful beautiful women
Fighting style: Russian wrestling and American prowrestling mixed with
personal style
SFZ-era nickname: "Ground Trembling Attraction"
SF2-era nickname: "Iron Flesh Shakes the Earth"
SF4-era nickname: "Fired Up Communist Flesh"
Street Fighter Zero 2: Zangief went around wrestling lots of people and
the president-to-be of Russia was so impressed that he asks Zangief
to come fight for Mother Russia and prove Russia's strength to the world.
Zangief, being very patriotic, eagerly agrees and gets... low-budget
training. The president-to-be also addresses him in a letter along with
the best of Russia's vodka as his "beloved" comrade. [Official and specially
noted in AAC]
Street Fighter Zero 3: Now working for the Russian government and known
as the "Red Cyclone", he is the Russian hero, Zangief. He targets the
secret organization "Shadaloo".... A power that threatens the security of
his country. For SFZ3, he (apparently with his newfound friend, E. Honda,
his comrade from the East!) most likely went from trying to track down the
psycho drive to rescuing people (Honda the VSS, Zangief Abel). R. Mika
maybe helped him out too. [R. Mika's in-game storyline & Zangief's SF4 rival
battle interactions with Abel]
SFZ3 File #16 Zangief
A prowrestler revered in his fatherland Russia as the "Red Cyclone." As the
world must realize perestroika through fighting, he's wandering from place to
place in the world. Presently in the favor of his fatherland's leader's
decree, he's pursuing the riddle of Shadoloo's secret weapon psycho drive.
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Street Fighter 2: Zangief enters the SF2 tournament to prove the power of
Mother Russia!!! He probably put on a rather impressive showing then he and
the president dance in celebration along with the KGB men! [Conjecture based
off in-game storyline and specially noted in AAC]
Zangief- SSF2XR Character Concealed File
The aim of his struggle for his native Russia is to develop friendly foreign
relations. Will his burning pro wrestling soul reach everyone's heart!?
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Street Fighter 4:
The Russian prowrestler designated as the Red Cyclone. With that burly
flesh, constantly full of feverishly circulating patriotism he kept a dear
child's promise himself, in order to certify as the strongest, he throws
himself into battle.
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In his SF4 opening Zangief goes up to a group of kids playing, most of whom
believe he isn't anything special in terms of strength. One kid however
defends him, and he opens their mouths by uprooting one of the playground
logs and crushes it. Then Zangief promises them he'll show the world that
he's the strongest, at the upcoming tournament held by the enterprise known
as S.I.N.-sha.
On his way to making good on his claims, Zangief probably met El Fuerte at
some point, as well as got to see his old comrade E. Honda, leading up to
their culinary debate in El Fuerte's ending. However, try as hard as he
could, once in the lab Zangief failed to reach the end as the tournament
got interrupted (most likely from lab officials finding out that their
databases started getting hacked by their invited competitors). Zangief's
stumped beyond words as to how he'll get his big mouth (and heart I suppose)
out of this predicament. He spies a fallen Seth behind him, takes a photo
of himself with the prime field in a headlock and sends that to the kids
who now see the "proof" that he is the strongest after all! [Zangief's SF4
ending]
Super Street Fighter 4:
A snowstorm of epic proportions sweeps its way across Zangief's freezing
whereabouts, but he cannot let it deter him or he'll be late for the
latest hosted world fighting tournament and disappoint his country and his
fans, especially some new young ones! [Zangief's opening]
During his mostly-obscure trek through SSF4, Zangief may have met and fought
Abel as noted possible for Zangief's rival battle with Abel up above in
the SF4 section under rival battle descriptions. Or it still might've
happened prior as long as not within SF4's tournament timeframe since both
fighters are in the final stage for their SF4 endings. The rival battle's
placement here at least gives Zangief something somewhat definite since CJ
chose to give the Red Cyclone possibly the least involvement closure of all
SSF4 playable faces, but again it's not for certain.
Zangief's ending has him ultimate atomic busting a El Fuerte look-alike in
front of three of the boys who all now idolize him and gleefully accept his
tossed red cape. Whoopee.
Where he is now: Still wrestling and striving to make his fans and his
fatherland proud I'm sure.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Zangief from SFZ2
Final Atomic Buster
This man is every split bit the fighter of steel in the Russian fighting
world, Zangief.
During the feat of that thoroughly tempered body, he was gathering for
society's assessment a sense of pre-eminent techniques. For him constantly
research and reform of moves continuously met also with hard work.
At this spot for Zangief, the limit of the defending move foremost being the
piledriver's destructive power was being sensed. To begin with for him the
effortless piledriver an insufficient even ordinary for a prowrestler but, he
considered the standard for himself. Testing every method seen, how about the
good idea that didn't occur to him.
Such as that stormy night, a finishing bout was continuing the training outdoors
and, from the influence of eddy winds, a sudden large-scale tornado sprang
forth.
The howl of the tornado would rise as it would come approaching Zangief.
However at that moment, his hand at ease, folding his arms he was pondering.
Zangief was completely not noticing the sound drawing near. The torrent
apprehending him, slowly suctioning him into midair. With the extra vigor of
the tornado, Zangief's body was being lifted very high.
He however, same as the moment he was sucked up, had yet to fold his arms. In
time the moment he noticed his own body falling in a spin, insight visited
his mind.
"This is it!"
No sooner than he would cry out, for him together a great echo fell from his
head to the ground. A short silent while afterwards, from within the flashy
dust a hearty laughing voice would resound.
"This is good! This I'll use!!"
Shaking the fighting world since, that instant is the birth of a wonderous
sure-killing technique.
The insight of this time that the screw piledriver, and also the reason that
the severely unparalleled grip move, the final atomic buster was being in
development.
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Highlights:
-Zangief got caught in a storm one night, and a tornado amongst the winds
lifted him, and he spun to the ground landing headfirst. This served as
his inspiration for his super the final atomic buster.
Zero 2's News TOP SECRET: Zangief
Top Secret Notification Part Number 8074892
Shadoloo Intelligence Department Investigation Room C-75
His Excellency the Commander's Directly Supervised
New Fighter Acquisition Candidacy Reconnaisance Report
NAME: Zangief
(utilized as a ringname)
AGE: age unidentified
(presumed to be early 30's)
SEX: male
NATIONALITY: Federative Russian
(old Soviet Federative Russian Republic)
Herein is the report of the man called Zangief, whom few in the foolish
Soviet Union's interior know that name, his true ability actually values
observation. These days within the "Soyuz" paper's article writes "the
Russia wrestling world has boasted of an invincible might, due to possessing
a surplus of extraordinary physical strength, the said person's will has
caused many head-to-head opponents to be incompetent for comebacks", a fact
that this investigation room examines even as that number of just official
battles is revealing the cause of it amounting to 12 people. That result,
from whichever contender he kept at a distance, in the Soviet Union's interior
the primary factor from which not only the fights as official bouts he's
unable to abstain from, since he came to the chance of selecting the path of
fierceness. For him to provoke with that feared genuine ability, the political
party bureaucracy and the conspired nation's Mafia's supervision mingled with
"dark wrestle" contracts, the battle locations shift underground. The "Soyuz"
paper's latest publication on his official record erasure as could be seemingly
the consequence for such background if deliberately it's exceedingly necessary.
Presently, his fighting style is from the constituents of sambo Russian
wrestling, rather than that being near to American prowrestling. Perhaps
the spectators' news is likely mixed with intentional overlapping, as such
it is to believe that at this time many striking techniques are ones he
acquired.
Again from ordinary speech and conduct as well as actions, his purity of a
Russian patriotism advocate being a matter of no margin to doubt, this being
the period of his great-grandfather's imperial government Russia, the frontier
garrison and the maintenance of public peace an applicably attributable subject
to the "Cossack" troop members and not because this investigation room shall
analyze. The "Cossack" being the mental pillar of Russia's patriotic advocacy
as an organized matter is a common knowledge fact but, in him those ideas and
spirit are consecutive and inherent as also no mystery whatsoever. That reason,
he's on the verge with us the glorious Shadoloo members, this investigation room
has concluded that via the brainwashing machine "re-education" is essential over
how often in several months contact was attempted, someone therefore monitors
his movements by chance, even as we're being obstructed from contact. The
party's intention is unknown but, from those movement patterns the KGB "Second"
member, possibly that alumnus enters into his feelings. For their sponsor
being now furthermore unknown, there are expectations for immediate
countermeasure.
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Highlights:
-Shadaloo's assessement of Zangief during Zero 2. They'd like to have him,
but the KGB proves to be a problem for Shadaloo getting to him.
-Zangief rendered around 12 people unable to make any wrestling comebacks,
in both official and underground bouts.
Zangief from AASFZ3
Fighting Style
With numerous wrestling styles existing within the wrestling world, to pursue
strength he fights with an orthodox school's strong style. Using blows
sure-kill throw moves and powerful-like shock techniques, by means of
circumstance a seemingly snapping turtle-like rough fight to not even
approach. In his palm allowing to concentrate ki ingathering a Chinese kenpo
descent's technique, it's acting as a countermeasure to weak point flying
projectiles.
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Fashion Style
Having combined wrestling shoes to short pants, for as a wrestler an orthodox
style. As for coherencing to red's color tone, against Soviet Russia respect
and affection's feelings surfaced? A hairdo done in mohican cut and, an
extended beard of heartiness turning out an aggressive atmosphere is, for from
that talking mouth fierceness is not being sensed.
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Akademu Gorodowa Blast Furnace [U.S.S.R.]
"brabo! brabo! (Bravo! Bravo!)"
The exclamation splits the ears.
In a nearby closure at a prepared smelter the gathered numerous hundreds of
workers, have raised shouts of joy at the national hero's stage entry.
Crowded around a specially installed stage, a frenzy's roar downpours.
"The Red Cyclone" Zangief, has stood up on the stage's center an armful of
large anchors (ikari) in both hands. For in the rear the deep red mouth of
the opened blast furnace. In his whole body surfacing drops of sweat, he puts
power into steel's muscles.
"Gentlemen workers!"
With Zangief's single word, the place in an instant silences within.
"Behold!, this hot iron's seething! For gentlemen's souls are crimson
burnings eh! Even more than iron they seethingly heat up!!"
Ooh---!! Pushing up a fist, all at once respond the workers.
"For my country Russia, is welcoming the time of rebirth! Hot molten iron,
will become as ground-breaking as plowing the earth! It'll become like a
great railroad to penetrate Siberia! We even again! Reincarnate, the hot
soul!!"
Ooh---!!
"As for the old iron gather it!! Boiling it red! Hot soouls!! For our
blazes determine not to extinguish! All old things, even good things also
bad things everyone take them in, charge towards the next height!!"
For Zangief is raising the "very high" anchors, a brandishing yell, he threw
those into the blast furnace.
Ooooh---------------!! For the cheers like a tempest shook the prepared
smelter. Everyone's feelings reaching an extreme tears are flowing. As for
the shouts in time a voice praising the hero Zangief changed them.
"......Rely on him only."
Behind the workers' crowd, several people black uniformed men together with
them gazing at Zangief's gallant figure was a forty-some-year-old man. In
the sunglasses the blast furnace's red light is reflecting.
"Indeed......For his words are granting hope to everyone." One of the
black-uniformed responds.
"This nation's future, no rather, the world's future entrust to that man. For
in him only is that power and capability."
"Some time ago connections have been placed. For the speech afterwards, by
car......"
For the cheers have not yet grown cold. The limit of this enthusiasm, is also
in the future of Russia. For the "leader become grandeur" his own belief is
assured about correctness, with the black-uniformed ones he left the stage
behind.
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Zangief from Gamest SF2
Hailing from the Soviet Union, that name of the man with blazing red pants
is Zangief.
He comes around stirring up perestroika, from the time of infancy learning
American wrestling preparing for the piledriver and taking in other giant
moves, he established an original pro wrestling style.
Having presently opened a classroom for training children opponents, surely
that monthly tuition brings in wealth for a living a life. It's completely
as with an animal beach.
Such would be pleasant for Zangief but, with heavy symptoms of abstinence
from the fight, a spasmodic path to go the man stuck to it like a small
spinning object and gambled on the screw pile driver it seems.
A fierce attack Zangief began, growing accustomed to spots numerous meters
away the man was in an instant amidst engulfing places spinning round and
round...a virtuous good feeling from completion of rotation. Everyone as
such would have seen the spot not engulfed so that the familiarity would
be "nice, vacuum!!" and raising encouragement for him.
The results of daily training, from the sure killing techniques the
devices of a steel body, the all-kicked-about double lariat, the skull
pickpocket crushing screw pile driver.
Exceedingly yet merely rotating is Zangief.
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Highlights:
-During SF2 Zangief does make ends meet with teaching wrestling to kids.
Zangief wrestles bears for sport. That's how he got all the scars on
his body.
Zangief and Mike Haggar are rivals, as in they both believe they're better
than anyone else at their style of wrestling.
From HnN regarding the screw piledriver:
Zangief forges the mind in the intensely cold northern country, moves
polished, the body being tempered.
However for him, there's no reason not to expect how far to go for masculine
satisfaction through becoming stronger. All else insufficient, the last
deciding factor becomes a coveted grand move. The consideration fought
day and night, and more let-in thoughts were battled, little by little
this sure-killing technique could not be undone. Zangi considers.
"With what am I insufficient?" "What's missing?!" A fit of anger rose
with his self. His head hit onto a large tree with slight bleeding while
at the gym.
Brought to the snowy mountains, already how many days probably passed by?
One day, a bear awakened from hibernation by a growling stomach proceeded
towards him. The agony from the old days since how long had it been when
he had a more splendid opponent. The bout on even par, no, no no the
bear's side to see is superior. Zangi slowly approaches and draws back.
Foothold reaching at the river's edge. Already no more behind. The
fellow charges. Immediately he strikes with a comeback double lariat.
"Trouble! It's been parried!!"
The two (?) are before the basin under a waterfall. But still he doesn't
throw the fight. In an instant his opponent falls into his arms and,
in an moment's twist already added to rotations goes for a quality fall.
That's right, at that time the screw piledriver's prototype was completed.
However, after that brief accomplishment there was no reason for it.
Also, how many times pledged to be finished were already failures with
just today's screw?
His elevated heart doesn't know to remain in one place. Another newly
become sure-killing technique develops, today he strives.
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Highlights:
-Zangief develops the screw pile driver after witnessing a bear that wouldn't
go down with his double lariat alone. He grabs the bear and they both drop
down into the base of a waterfall while spinning.
Zangief is/was fascinated by American professional wrestling. His
style is a mix of Russian wrestling and American pro-wrestling.
He has one scar on his back which he got when he protected the
president of Russia, once. Zangief is considered a sincere man but with a
dual personality. He's so serious that he comes off as odd when trying to
express himself.
During the period of time from around SFZ3-SF2 Zangief fought for his
homeland mainly to break the ambition of Shadaloo and to promote his nation's
leader's perestroika policy. Perestroika was the restructuring of the
Soviet economy and bureaucracy that began in the mid 1980s. He seems like
a government tool. :P
He and the future president attended the same university.
They both wrestled there. He left the professional wrestling 'cuz
of the lack of competition and was undefeated.
The SF universe does acknowledge the fall of the Soviet Union, at an
indefinite time between SF2 and SF3, as stated by AAC in Necro's entry:
once the USSR collapsed, Necro left his family to seek his fortune and got
caught by Gill's organization. In any case, the USSR is still around while
Zangief's fighting; no ex-President junk. The man known as erai hito (great
man) in SFZ2 is still the daitoryo (president) in SF2 and is not stated to
be Gorbachev.
Zangief does lots of muscle man posturing in his win quotes, but it's
just that. Posturing. He really isn't a big dumb oaf, unlike what a
certain live action movie portrays him as. Just because someone is a tank
doesn't mean they're stupid. Whether he always knows how to properly express
himself when he speaks though, is another story (his Z3 win quote to Ryu).
Zangief, according to Street Fighter Eternal, knows E. Honda. In SFZ3,
Zangief and E. Honda meet in Zangief's ending within the Shadaloo base (E.
Honda heard about evil drug pushers and went to investigate, himself).
The relationship in SF Eternal refers to Zangief and E. Honda as
"kindred soul" or "comrade".
Zangief from Gamest SF2D
Without Opponents in Russia
His name is Zangief. Having come around with a sudden sigh in the frozen
land of Russia, a giant being with a body of steel.
As for him previously, he was a man called as far as rivalless in the Russian
wrestling world. However, even with that knowledge being extremely foolish
for each of the impossible comebacks with grapplers, at last, it already
became that no one even challenged him to a fight.
Thus, as Zangief the lone emperor of Russian wrestling, parting from
announcements of undefeated on the mat...as was expected that next day he
rose from the parted mat. Violently from a flashy decorated ring, sobbing
as if from tobacco smoke and the smell of liquor, that's right, with him
seeking opponents he launched himself into the realm of dark pro wrestling.
Unnecessary for rules, dangerous weapons- in the case that they were
snarled at in dark pro wrestling, 1 and 2 people to become human opponents
was the extent and treaded upon. However, that expectation collapsed
altogether. In the arms of the world recalling certain others gathered
notorious in the world of pro wrestling, his covered maniac attacks had
the others come to answer to him in 5 minutes. At about the time when
wagers on Zangief's fights died off, he was condemned to house arrest
from the owner, with battle witnessing occasions of suffering walkers.
A Coordinated Wrestling King Born
That sort of time, with pro wrestlers flowing from America, his eyes
became transfixed.
Apparently a waste to change, because the moves of American pro wrestling
appearing flashy, by no means would those pro wrestlers' body weight be
doubly heavy due to gravity, thrown into opponents, wanting to deprive
of trustworthy vitality. "This is it!" For Zangief, not forgetting
himself as an overpowered fighting opponent, in the middle of continued
specially regulated house arrest, it was at last that he completed
himself a mixture of American pro wrestling and Russian wrestling
fighting moves.
Dismissed from house arrest Zangief's greatest comeback struggle,
for spectators the eyes' scene wouldn't believe the success to be done.
Immediately after the gong, the opponent numerous meters away felt
to be in an instant sucked in amidst the arms and, together with
the opponent whirled up 3 meters like a rising top, pulling down
with all his body weight, the opponent was driven headfirst into
the mat. The next moment the ring was smashed into miniscule pieces,
for that severe earthquake, the spectators above made it rain
chandelier rain and so forth with the fixtures no longer there.
"Screw pile driver! Gahahahaha." Zangief loudly says as he laughs,
the screaming owner leaving with a look of askance.
Zangief set out to dwell alone in a constructed cottage dug out of
the rising snowy mountains.
"For people, it's inevitable that they'll immediately crush to death
from my pursuit of knowledge!" If Russia's surrounding rocky nature
is the opponent, likely devoting going as far as consent with the
pursuit of knowledge, and Zangief having thought it out, his
screw pile driver started awakening brown bears in hibernation each
day in succession.
And so to the World
In time the long winter gradually left, Russia's ground briefly had
spring visit it for a time, at Zangief's dwelling's snowy road at the
foot of the mountain 1 limousine stopped. Furthermore from inside the
car stepping cautiously on the lingering snow going to Zangief, nay not
just anyone in the world he turn out of respect and a hot observational
look, it is that he was a person in the public eye. He invited Zangief
inside the vehicle, and so what with double dealing, triple word
conversations crossed afterwards, Zangief's implied scarred hand
squeezed as he was questioned. "You'll do it right, Comrade Zangief?"
From the unexpected person, unexpectedly not having dreamed it in his
head Zangief was falling back and puzzled, while the road having become
activated finally he answered with a single word, "I'll do it!" he said.
That single word settled it.
From here he journeys into the world, wandering around fighting each
place's champions he journeyed out. The reason is naturally for the
sake of carrying out the requested intentions of the unexpected person.
But the contents of those intentions, are that person's and Zangief's
privacy therefore outsiders would by no means speak of them.
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Highlights:
-Zangief started out in prowrestling, going by the nickname "Red Cyclone",
then when no more opponents could be found for him, he purged himself from
there and set his sights on the underground circuits, where he started
sporting a mohican hairdo to try standing out from all the other wrestlers.
Yet he was too destructive there as well, and the ring's owner screamed him
out into exile, to the snowy mountains.
Are Zangief and the president gay? The following points to them being so:
1. The president does do things like squeeze Zangief's hand when he wants
a favor, and Zangief does give the president a hot look (not just out of
respect because that is mentioned as well, but a "hot observational look")
as noted in Zangief's Dash account above. Noting choices of words used.
2. The SF2 Fanbook calls them intimate (which can be considered nothing
more than friendly except they're also depicted with stars for eyes, which
is associated with the Japanese media stereotype that big brawny men have
a liking for the same sex; in other words the two of them are pictured
as a little too chummy for just "good close friends."
3. In Zangief's Z2 ending the letter his receives from the president-to-be
(erai hito) a letter signed "your beloved comrade." Again that's a little
too mushy for old male friends, which is likely why "beloved" was completely
dropped for Zangief's Alpha 2 ending.
4. Starting with Z3 and textually retained even in SF4, Zangief has a
dislike of youthful beautiful women. Why is "youthful beautiful" needed
when just "women" ought to suffice that he doesn't care for the opposite
sex? Well, consider that even straight males might not be attracted to
ALL women such as elderly women, but young beautiful ones are by default
the targets of their hormones (guys like young hot girls and girls like
young hot guys). Even if CJ doesn't explicitly state something along the
lines of "Zangief wa ookama desu" (Zangief is a homosexual), for them to
phrase one of his dislikes as such, not liking even the youthful beautiful
members of the opposite sex, displays an indicator that his sexual
orientation isn't quite that of a straight guy.
Although Zangief does tell Ryu in his Z3 win quote that he "likes him",
he precedes it with saying although he doesn't like projectiles, and he
follows it with one of his victory laughs. He's telling Ryu he's a good
guy, but with a choice of words that would definitely have Ryu look at
Zangief strangely, due to saying "omae wa suki da!" (literally "I like
you!") as in what a guy would say to a girl he'd like to start dating.
Zangief's interactions with R. Mika in Zero 3 neither support nor
deny his profile statement of disliking beautiful women. He sees
and acknowledges her as a fellow wrestler, nothing more.
Zangief had a Cossack superior officer for an elementary school teacher. Due
to his orders of doing 30 Cossack kicks in a row if students misbehaved,
today Zangief practices his Cossack kicks daily for 6 hours!
The picture of Balrog in Zangief's SF2 ending as Zangief
flexes at the mirror has "baka" (idiot) scribbled on it. Most likely, the
picture is to represent Zangief poking fun at Balrog by mimicking his vain
behaviour. I too initially suspected that it was a reference to Zangief
being gay, but it really isn't. Zangief doesn't like Balrog (as you can see
by Balrog's mid-boss battle with Zangief in SFZ3) and because they don't
see eye-to-eye on what the male appearance should be (their Z3 win quotes
to each other).
His prototype was originally named Vodka Gobalsky.
Zangief quit professional wrestling because of the lack of competition
and began participating in illegal/dark prowrestling matches.
Here's #10 in HnN. This account uses the term "dark pro-wrestling," which
is not really explained anywhere what that term exactly means, but is also
used in AAC for him during SF2/SF2DT. One interpretation for the kanji for
dark is also black-market, hence the earlier thought of "illegal" brought
up by people. So Zangief was in illegal, or underground wrestling at one
point. On to the book statement.
The mohican is not becoming for Russians. Why did Zangief willingly go
with that mohican?
Zangief's mohican top seems to be a secret from Zangief's past. Let's look
into what Zangief's past was.
Back when he was known in the world of wrestling as the Red Cyclone, enemies
were formed above the mat, it seemed for Zangief. That surplus power left
the ring.
However, Zangief couldn't forget about fighting, the rage done on the dark
pro-wrestling ring.
Here was how Zangief probably went for a mohican top. Strength in dark
pro-wrestling excepting "standing out" was a necessity. Zangief simply saw
large men. He went for a mohican top probably to become noticeable.
Thereafter Zangief left dark pro-wrestling, and became a street fighter,
but now for the mohican top, it seems that he is pleased with it.
A round of opponents cringed at the feared striking top, this is the
mohican top's influence.
A 2m+ large build and the entire body with innumerable wounds. And with
it the mohican top. It's enough to menace grappling opponents.
Zangief began âfighting for the homelandâ when erai hito visited
him in the mountains and asked Zangief to.
I have no idea why Blanka's in some of his SFZ3 win poses. Presumably
it's a joke of sorts and/or a tribute to their scenes in the SF2AM.
A translation about Zangief's SF2 stage:
Soviet Union (Zangief) Grand Factory
In a single bound Zangief became notorious in the underground pro wrestling
world. This time, the world's challengers to say take on the Soviet Union,
a direct calling out by the president.
"Teach all of the world's population of the Soviet might before them,
Comrade Zangief. But, to the extent of being reasonable, go out to the
places of general trend audiences......"
"Ah, Mr. President, if that is so then locally that grand factory would be
good wouldn't it? With everyone there recognizing my face, I believe my
bouts will be pleasant."
"Hmm, it should be alright there. Moreover what can be said on the
essence of our nation's working class. Keep persisting before them,
Comrade Zangief."
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Highlights:
-Zangief suggests to his president that the factory of his SF2 stage would
be suitable for showing the general public the USSR's physical prowess.
The brick pile bonus stage may be in another part of his SF2 stage, due to the
color of the bricks resembling that of sections in the factory (the flaming
barrel bonus stage on the other hand is pretty much a certainty). The Russian
signs in his stage say the following: high one in the background: "Sightseers
Prohibited", background fence: "Caution!" (there's a fire extinguisher below
it), and the foreground fence "Emergency Exit". Zangief possibly had some
illegal wrestling matches in the factory's basement prior to choosing it as
a stage for showing off the power of Mother Russia to the world. The
factory's electricity allegedly has a nuclear power source. Finally outsiders
are welcomed in the factory as long as there are possibilities of exchanging
dollars and other foreign money amongst them.
The background screen of his Z2 stage cycles through some Russian lines.
Initially the message given is "Work! Work! Employees!", and then it shifts
to expressing "Sleep...sleep...sleep...a lack of sleep." Fortunately it's
aimed at the factory's higher-end salary workers (maybe to bring them out of
their state of awe from witnessing Zangief's incredible feats there and back
to their work?), and not to those laborers who really sweat for their bread in
the harsh working environments. Noted from AASFZ2 and the Z2 Gamest mook.
Zangief's SF4 arcade ending comments:
In order to carry out the so-called promise certifying the strongest, even
in spite of Zangief having hard fought, the tournament comes to an interruption.
Worried Zangief grasped a more than defeated Seth for a picture taken, as the
strongest proof.
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pgVI. Antagonistic Organizations (plus Metro City since it stays a crime
cesspool according to Final Fight Streetwise)
The known antagonistic organizations within the Street Fighter universe and
information about them. Enemies and members is stuff I gleamed from the
games, myself. For a look at how each character in the Enemies and Members
list relates to that organization, go check that character's bio.
Long-term enemies are ones that opposed the organization for quite a
long time (at least a year or so). Because Ryu really only opposed
Shadaloo for a brief period (SFZ3 when Vega tried to brainwash him), he's
more a short-term enemy of Shadaloo, for example.
*** pgVIMadGear.
MAD GEAR
Members
FINAL FIGHT
Bosses - Damnd, Sodom, Edi. E, Abigail, Rolento, Belger (leader)
Generic enemies that were members:
Dug, Bred,
Jake, Simons,
Axl, Slash,
J, Two.P,
Holly Wood, El Gado,
Wong Who, G. Oriber, Bill Bull,
Poison, Roxy (Billy and Sid in the SNES version, though they don't
canonly exist far as I know),
Andore (Jr., U. (Uncle), F. (Father), G. (Grandpa))
Hugo temporarily (according to Street Fighter Eternal)
FINAL FIGHT 2
Bosses - Won Won, Freddie, Bratken, Philippe, Rolento, Retu (leader)
Generic enemies that were members:
Mic, Mark,
Schot, Jack,
Jony, Atlas,
Elias, Eliot, Joe (molotov guy),
Elijah, Bull,
Mary, Eliza (also censored to be Leon and Robert for the SNES),
Elick,
Andore (Jr., G. (Grandpa))
Serge (Axl swap. Looks like Rolento, fights like Axl), Tequila (El
Gado swap. Meant to be El Gado?), Iron (Bred swap. Meant to be Bred?),
and Gale (J swap. Meant to be J?) are in Mighty Final Fight (most likely
not canon). Also in Mighty Final Fight are the Sodom brothers,
consisting of Sodom, Masamune, and Muramasa.
Long-term enemies: Haggar, Cody, Guy, Carlos, Maki, windows.
Short-term enemies: Rolento.
Final Fight One: Mad Gear has ruled Metro City for a while, but then Mike
Haggar tore it down. See the Final Fight 1 section. Mad Gear's first
leader, Belger, gets knocked out the window and plummets to his death.
Street Fighter Zero 2: Sodom takes it upon himself to try to get Mad Gear
back on its feet. While Mad Gear is fighting Haggar again in Final Fight 2,
Sodom is going to Japan to attempt to recruit new members. He's not
successful though.
Final Fight 2: Mad Gear is reeling, but still going. This time, they
kidnap Guy's fiancee Rena, and her father Genryusai, then take to the
world. Mike Haggar, along with Carlos and Maki, tracks them down to Hong
Kong, then Europe (France, Holland, England, Italy), then finally Japan.
The three lay the beatdown on them and knock their new leader, Retu, out the
window, again. After this Rolento starts his raids on Metro City without
the banner of Mad Gear, for the sake of his own utopian martial nation.
Where it is now: In 1989, within a year after FF2 and SFZ2, Mad Gear
collapsed for good. [Official]
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Capcom presumably named Mad Gear after their racing game, Mad Gear.
See Belger's bio for thoughts on the Mad Gear's ideals. I'm too lazy
to repeat myself.
Bios of all the thugs in Final Fight 1:
SIMONS
Height: 178cm
Weight: 85kg
An unexpectedly hard worker, he's come to use various skills from his
companions. Said to be like a papa seen with his wife and kid at the
park on Sundays, he's a strange type to be in Mad Gear.
DUG
Height: 176cm
Weight: 72kg
A pervert, he looks indecently at girls and talks with vulgar words.
Said to be bald since he was young, he sees it as the true person's
style. Been drinking beer since half a year ago.
JAKE
Height: 177cm
Weight: 68kg
Bred and Dug are his companions. Their interests include sparring raids
and playing on cordial terms with cute girls. Suited to his image, he
likes puzzles and quizzes. As a result, he's with the leader personality
of the group.
TWO-P
Height: 183cm
Weight: 82kg
He entered Mad Gear as an amnesiac hobo. Even Guy would envy his agile
moves. Doesn't understand his name, and has a habit of saying, "Ah,
that's the same with me." Hates earthworms and lizards.
Jay
H: 181 cm
W: 78 kg
Cannot understand why he's considered autistic-looking. However, when
attacking opponents don't make light of his speed.
Andore Jr. (see also Andore's section in part V of the guide)
H: 229 cm
W: 232 kg
His brother a prowrestling member. From the time he was small in order
to be a prowrestler like his brother he memorized prowrestling moves.
Not yet surpassing his brother, he's presently amidst training for his
so-called goal to defeat his brother.
Bill Bull
H: 195 cm
W: 212 kg
To be referred to as the latest overweight companion, he's striving for
an original cocktail drink diet. His specialty is utilzized as charging
headbutts.
Axl
H: 193 cm
W: 90 kg
Likes biking and three meals a day, he enjoys highway races with his
company of rubble-housing reckless delinquent friends.
Poison (see also his section in part V of the guide)
H: 175 cm
W: 52 kg
Now as a fashionable newhalf, street fights for wholesome beauty of
figure. With long legs, his specialty utilizes agile kicking.
Bred
H: 178 cm
W: 70 kg
His personality, is ideal for Mad Gear but, because he was born with
so-called destiny, getting himself wrapped up into minor trouble,
he's a non-intermediary man. Liking automobiles, he's constantly
polishing up his beloved car.
Holly Wood
H: 202 cm
W: 85 kg
His face is suitable for song and characteristic dance as his name
Holly Wood implies. Likes to kill with a knife, he utilizes his agility
for song and dance from his specialty midair jump knife attack.
Sodom was Mad Gear's holder of the purse. He was also an underground
pro-wrestling promoter.
Best I can tell the Andores joined to utilize their pro wrestling skills.
Hugo probably joined for this reason as well, but quit sometime between
FF1 and Z3, more likely closer to FF1.
FF1 took place within the space of a month, stated back when the Zero
series debuted and when the game took place in 1989.
Physical stats of all the regular thugs in Final Fight 2
Mic
Height: 178cm Weight: 79kg
Atlas
Height: 201cm Weight: 126kg
Bull
Height: 180cm Weight: 80kg
Jony
Height: 204cm Weight: 128kg
Mark
Height: 166cm Weight: 58kg
Elick
Height: 160cm Weight: 120kg
Schot
Height: 182cm Weight: 79kg
Eliza
Height: 167cm Weight: 4?kg
Jack
Height: 184cm Weight: 60kg
Mary
Height: 166cm Weight : 4?kg
Elijah
Height: 179cm Weight: 82kg
Elias
Height: 195cm Weight: 85kg
Eliot
Height: 199cm Weight: 90kg
Joe
???
Andore Family (see also Andore's section in part V of the guide)
???
Like Poison and Roxy, Mary and Eliza were censored out of the overseas
version of Final Fight 2. Unlike Poison and Roxy, they aren't newhalfs,
I'm quite sure. Kinda strange though, since Maki's female and is allowed
to get pounded. I guess it's okay for her to be hit since she's being hit
by bad guys or something. ...unless you play a two-player game and have
Haggar or Carlos whack her. Eh. May of the Skull Cross Gang wasn't
censored overseas though.
Each FF2 generic enemy gang member is pretty similar to an FF1 one.
The enemy character Two P appears in Lost/Forgotten Worlds as the second
player ("Two P" for 2P, "player 2"). Not that they're one and the same
person in any sort of storyline, of course. Although 2-Ill using firearms
in Streetwise might be a throwback to Lost Worlds as well.
Oh, and Mad Gear dealed in drugs too. Rolento's been stated to have
been in charge of it (he produced them in the Industrial stage), ever since
1984 from Shadaloo's file on him.
Mad Gear is an equal opportunity gang. They got German (Andore),
Chinese (Wong Who), Carribean (Damnd), Italian (Rolento, depending on
the stage affiliation), Arabian (El Gado), African American (Two.P),
and... whatever country Belger's from (confirmed to be an immigrant in
Streetwise). And Sodom at least tries to be Japanese. And that's even
before they go all global in FF2.
A person in an SF2 artwork of Blanka going shopping is wearing a Mad
Gear t-shirt, although it is unknown if that's after the gang Mad Gear
or Capcom's video game, Mad Gear.
*** pgVIShadaloo.
SHADALOO (the new official English spelling from the settlement of a bar
bet amongst Capcom higher-ups; "Shadoloo" is used in translations as the
phonetic spelling throughout the guide)
Members: Vega (leader), the VSS girls (See Juli and Juni's bio), Balrog,
M. Bison, Sagat (briefly), Cammy in SFZ2-most of SFZ3, Birdie, Rose (after
Z3 and before SF2).
Long-term enemies: Guile, Nash, Chun-Li, Gen, T. Hawk, SF2 Cammy, Dhalsim,
Zangief, Guy, Karin, Rose (before SFZ3 ends and once SF4 opens).
Short-term enemies: the VSS girls, Ryu, Sagat, Sakura, Ken, Birdie, Gouki.
Street Fighter Zero 2: Vega makes his 'public' debut, revealing himself
to many warriors for the first time. [Official]
Street Fighter Zero 3: Vega attempts to get the ultimate body ready for
himself, but his plans are foiled by multiple people multiple times. Start
and end of the VSS project (not including Cammy, who was started 15-16 years
prior) [Official]. Much of Shadaloo is shut down by Interpol. [Conjecture
based off in-game storyline].
Street Fighter 2: Vega hosts the SF2 tournament to destroy Shadaloo's potential
obstacles, and still has his sights on Ryu. Vega is foiled this time by
Gouki, but still escapes [Official].
Where it is now: Soon after the Street Fighter 2 tournament, Shadaloo fell
apart, yet remnants remain to torment Seth, Guile, Cammy and Chun-Li [Official
based on SF4's intro story and the remnants continue to linger even at the
close of SSF4]. It's possible that it's partly Bison's fault that it did
mostly collapse (see Bison's bio). Chun-Li played a big part in tearing it
down after Vega was gone, according to SSF2X Revival.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Shadaloo (shadow rule), name derived as it's the iron fist from the
shadows, (the invisible puppet master if you will). Beginning with or
including the American military forces, whole nations financially bow
to the voice of Shadaloo's chief. (Vega naturally)
Shadaloo does drug carteling. But you probably already know that. Not
sure how many countries its business reached out to, but America, Brazil,
Thailand, and Russia are rather safe bets for some of the countries that it
did.
Shadaloo is funded by various illegal means, such as drug dealing, arms
smuggling, assassination, and casino management (in secret). Drug dealing
is its greatest source of funds.
From a small footnote from HnN: at least one of the drugs manufactured
by Shadaloo is "doll," the same drug mentioned in Kanzaki's manga Street
Fighter II Ryu. Not to be confused with SH-11, the drug referenced from
the SFEX series; doll is the drug that Chun-Li's father dealt with when
he was in the Narcotics Investigations Division. Given that HnN is an
old SF2 source, it is unknown if this was a pre-cursor to the Vega Bodyguard
Troops, or the actual drug used to brainwash them.
In Kanzaki's manga, one of the effects of doll makes you aggressive
and pain resistent. Chun-Li tells Ryu that he has to hit the nervous
system of a doll addict to beat him because he feels no pain and won't
give up. Also, as an example of the brainwashing effect, a guy
being injected with it and pointing a gun at Vega. Vega then stared
at the guy, the drug kicked in and he shot himself. In small doses, it
acts like any other drug (get high). Chun-Li says this to Ryu in Issue 2
after beating some sailor dude. In larger doses it makes the user do
things even if it is against their own will (Chun-Li Issue 2 again).
However, in the last few issues Vega explains that only his psycho
power can control someone on doll. It is likely seishi doll has these
same functions. That last part especially would fit in with doll being
what was used to control the Shadaloo girls as well.
Shadaloo wasn't well-known to the world governments until 1988 (SFZ2),
even though it's been around for much longer than that.
Random Shadaloo Statistics During SFZ3 (note that I believe much of
Shadaloo was shut down after SFZ3)
4000 members, 2000 of which are trained martial artists that are
skilled but weaker than the Vega Bodyguard Troops.
50 bases around the world
150 jet fighters
200 tanks
5 subs
1 satellite
Capcom used to state that the 2000 trained martial artists in Shadaloo
were "at least the same level as Chun-Li", but that was back during SF2
when storyline-wise, Capcom saw Chun-Li as not too powerful. They later
decided to 'up' Chun-Li's power level (to the point where Urien refers to
her legs as legendary), and when they did that, they changed the statement
about the martial artists in Shadaloo to 'skilled but weaker than the girls'.
Shadaloo was fully formed by Vega thirty years before SF2, which
would be 1963.
The mad scientist seen in Vega's SFZ2 ending is apparently Senoh,
who also appeared in the Street Fighter 2 Animated Movie. Capcom probably
took him from that, though like all other animes, the Street Fighter
Animated Movie isn't canon. Also, it seems to be more an Easter egg
appearance than anything, since I don't believe All About Capcom mentions
Senoh. SFZ2 has LOTS of nonstoryline-related Easter egg appearances. He
is simply referred to as 'Old man' or 'Old Professor' in several sources.
The kanji for 'Senoh' means brainwashing by the way, although it is likely
a real name for an actual character. One of Capcom's employees has the
moniker, "Dr. Senoh"...
So far, the location of only two Shadaloo bases has been revealed so
far. One is in Brazil, and one is in Thailand. The one in Thailand is NOT
named Mriganka. That's from the Street Fighter Storytelling RPG D&Dish
game by White Wolf. Boy, did they make up a lot of stuff for Street
Fighter, under Capcom USA's direction of course.
The main base in Thailand, like Mriganka, however, IS actually on an island
off the coast of Thailand. In the real world, the only large enough island
off the coast of Thailand is an island called Phuket Island, which may be
what this Shadaloo base (which is also the main base) and Mriganka was
based on.
There's an official art of the Shadaloo Thailand base, though it's from
the original SF2 so things might have changed since then. Up top, there's
a mountain with the faces of the four Shadaloo bosses carved into it (Vega,
Balrog, Bison, and Sagat) as well as an arena/coliseum. Underground is the
secret underground base which has all sorts of things from a port to launch
submarines to a weapons storage to some really random pyramid power generator
with an eye on top that's shooting a laser beam at some poor random
person. .....strange. Anyways, this island is still not stated by any
official source to be Mriganka. White Wolf used it to represent Mriganka.
At least a portion of it used in SF4 for Abel's opening flashback.
The SF2 Fanbook does suggest that the ice man in Chun Li's stage
(SF2-SSF2X) might be a monitor cyborg because he never seems to leave
his position there.
Shadaloo's logo is a winged skull.
From Vasili10 regarding when that logo started being used:
To represent all of Shadaloo it started from SF2 Dash/SF2CE. For Vega
himself, or rather his hat, there were quite a few transitions:
WW art: blank red hat
Dash and Turbo art: some single star shots but mostly winged skull
Super & onwards art: winged skull
WW to Turbo game portraits: single star
Super and onwards portraits: winged skull
Vega's actual game sprite gave him a blank hat until the Zero series
began. The winged skull can also be thought to represent his namesake,
Vega coming from the Arabic for the fallen vulture.
See Vega's bio for more. He's the epitome of much of Shadaloo
since he's the founder and led it throughout its tenure in the SF
storyline.
Nazi ties? References at the very least: the VSS' salute is the Nazi
salute and several Nazi generals did wear skull symbols on their badges
which coincides with how the symbol for Shadaloo is a winged skull, as well
as the girls' unit name being Vega "Shineitai" is also the term used in
Japanese for Hitler's elite bodyguard unit the Schutzstaffel or SS, hence
the use of the terms "Vega Bodyguard Troops", "Vega SS" or simply "VSS"
within this guide to refer to the twelve girls and often Cammy as Killer Bee
with them.
Vasili10's translation of Shadaloo's base artwork found in the
Complete file (and SF Eternal as well):
The island main base of Shadoloo completely cracked from the foldout
supplied in the Complete File. After the text "THE BASE," words in [] are
map entries specified and "-" indicate given descriptions. All other text
is added by me for map-traversing purposes.
This is the evil organization!!
The Shadoloo Secret Base
"For a Shadoloo member, placing struggles one-on-one, must not be defeated by
others!"
Every place in the world, the organization's lower grade group members follow
from the example of the leaders to what is called smoke with crushing defeats
in street fighting. Referring to this information, Commander "Vega" being the
first on the list of Shadoloo's supreme members the shitennou assembles the
young elites at a solitary island of the distant seas, here is established
the evil utopia.
Various Members
For a Shadoloo member, each possesses a suitable skill while foremost as a
fighting stylist.
Examples pictured are from left to right, general group member, scientist,
underwater worker, cook.
In your world, no matter what you believe Shadoloo is tied into it!
A Shadoloo member is mixed up with ordinary society. (the market pic)
The spot where the entrance to Shadoloo is. (the phone booth pic)
hexagonal briefs used for survival (front three days, back three days,
plan to wear every 6 days)
THE BASE
above ground (from left to right)
[Sagat's house]- here he strives to train night and day.
[monster statue] with [telescope]
next to the statue, the dome with [antiaircraft missiles]
directly above the dome,
[prison camp]- imprisoned are scientists and martial artists abducted from
each nation. Around an encircling pincushion, prisoners are transported
with the exception of being captured by a bridge girder every now and then.
Escape is impossible!!
next to the dome,
[ICBM]- constantly under camouflage, cannot be seen by even spy satellites.
to the right,
[Vega's palace]- this area governs the leader Vega's headquarters.
directly above, [parabola antenna for satellite communications reception use],
linking to satellite [servant of the stars Beelzebub]
skyline of the island, [Four Heroes' Wall of Faces], with [airplane hangar]
and [runway]
to the right of the mountain,
[Balrog's castle]- at the present time still under construction, it'll
take 100 years later to be called complete.
the casino below the castle and to the right of the palace,
[Bison's residence]- standing out, it's become unfinished.
at the edge of the island to the right of the castle,
[Cape of Treachery]- a place for the ill-willed ones to visit on occasion.
This cape's leading edge becoming a knoll for bungee jumps, it is being used as
an enlistment test for Shadoloo members.
below the cape is the [autogyro landing area] and
[Training Waterfall]- a training place for members today.
the domes between the palace, the castle, and the casino are the
[Shadoloo training 48 rooms]
to the right of the casino is [Hell's 10,000 Stairs]
below the statue is the [hospital], next to the hospital is the
[Great Competition Arena] with its [opening & closing ceremonial
all-weather type dome]
next to the arena is the [pool]-which separates; and a [jogging course]
underground
Within the hospital,
[experiment room]- for the sake of creating strong human beings, is
amidst the research.
directly below,
[specimen room]- live human testing failures are logically not futile
to utilize.
directly below is the [grand bathing area] and still further below is the
launching chamber for [special submarines]- children of the world will be
swept away with this. With the leading skull's eye becoming the torpedo
launching mouth, approaches an enemy with one serious heavy blow.
and further below is the [submarine hangar]
adjacent to the specimen room and bathing area respectively is the
[cooking room]- meals from around the world are occasionally created.
and below it the
[napping room]- occasionally on the interval of midday temporarily is
obtained the effect of almost having slept.
on the other side is the gigantic
[electronic brain processor room]- able to analyze all those on the earth.
and below it is the
[secret factory]- here occasionally a mysterious bell is concealed!!
and the [undersea breeding area]
directly below the competition arena is the
[grand conference room]- accordingly from the giant monitors come forth
instructions from the shitennou to the management staff. Those who oppose
are cast away without mercy, a heartless world!!
with a pool of [alligators] below it, together with the
[atomic reactor room]- with the latest model high-speed fast-breeder
reactor, at all times for security the blaze's status is able to be
confirmed, by use of a peeping window. With its ignition-employed
electric condenser and turbine-style power generator, it can supply
electric power to the entire base.
and the
[enormous rose]- why does it often extraordinarily grow?
a [station] is shown to the undersea breeding area accessible by
[subway train]- runs in operation 24 hours a day.
below the pool outdoors houses the
[emergency escape use spacecraft]- good for autopiloting to the
"Shadoloo secret ocean bottom city." (seats four people)
adjacent to the spacecraft room includes (from top to bottom)
the [game center]- employing all the research on fighting-technique games,
the foundation is completely copied. Most recently, it's become also
youths' dating and sports.
the [meal room]- here to eat are specials from around the world.
the [shopping center]- is the avenue for people's essentials for living.
the [rental video shop]- young girls and old folks alternate for store tending.
and the [bar], conveniently the closest to the atomic reactor's exhaust port.
******************************************************************************
...Shadaloo members sure had it good, didn't they? Except the girls,
who apparently based on the VMU mini-games for Japanese SFZ3 had to sleep
in boxes. I guess Vega couldn't justify the extra cost of getting his
brainwashed robot girls some decent living quarters when he was too busy
making sure that Shadaloo youths had a good dating and sports center.
And finally, this paragraph in particular from Cammy's SSF2 account is
evidence that the Zero era's portrayal of Shadaloo being powerful BEFORE SF2
but then getting all busted up so that by the time of SF2, it was much weaker.
"Shadoloo......surely only the British interior would've targeted it,
a worthless puny organization......previously an organization such that
it's existence was quite dangerous, says the data but......"
(So that whole thing about Shadaloo being really powerful during SFZ3
but then getting the beatdown before SF2 seems was true even before the
SFZ series came about)
ALMOST nobody knows the truth about Shadaloo's status just prior to SF2
and Vega going public using television as the medium and with Mr. Marik's
assistance. The data Colonel Wolfman references is already inaccurate on
the count of Shadaloo being no longer dangerous simply because of its
relatively dormant state, but I doubt the data would be wrong on the count
of Shadaloo having been dangerous in the past. British Intelligence would
have been aware of Interpol's earlier investigations through Chun-Li's
father and the US' earlier skirmishes using Nash, all for delving into
an organization that didn't seem to be so narrowly face-valued as just
another drug syndicate. Whether following the older SF2 accounts with
Shadaloo gradually building up and going public in SF2, or taking the
Zero series which by Zero 3 clarifies Vega and Shadaloo at the height
of power, taking a crippling blow, then recovering & returning for SF2,
Shadaloo's been a threat before the second World Fighting Championship,
and the main difference is the number of people aware that it is at
different points of the timeline.
*** pgVISkullCrossGang.
SKULL CROSS GANG
Members
FINAL FIGHT TOUGH
Bosses - Dave, Callman, Caine, Drake, Wong, Stray, Black
Generic enemies that were members:
G, Johnny (wimps),
Ray, Billy (hit and run),
Dirk, Rick (claw),
Fat Jack, Arby (traditional fat guys),
Joe, Fritz (midgets and grenadier midgets),
May (female assassin),
Hunter (golf mask baseball bat guy),
Andore (see also Andore's section in part V of the guide)
Long-term enemies: Haggar, Guy, Lucia, Dean.
Attempted forced recruiting: Dean.
Final Fight Tough: With Mad Gear gone, the Skull Cross Gang rises to the top
as new top gang of Metro City. They stage a riot to distract the police as
they break their leader out of jail, and they also smuggled weapons for a
(business?) corporation called The Sims (not sure exactly what that was
about, though. You only discover that on the path to the 'good' ending
too, and it's really vague). Haggar once again gives out some beatdown
and it is defeated (well, there's a 'bad' ending where apparently 'The
Sims' is still alive but rarely does the bad ending ever happen in
storylines).
Where it is now: See above.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
NOTHING. It was around for one game and it died in one game.
Yeeeeehaw!
*** pgVIHMKS. (placeholder for the Secret Society aka Himitsu Kessha)
Gill's Organization aka THE SOCIETY AWAITING THE COMING OF THE AGE
Members: Twelve (and the rest of his elastic playdough brethren), Urien,
Kolin, the Chairman, Dr. Kure and his various scientists and officials,
Gill (leader).
Long-term enemies: none (maybe Ibuki?).
Short-term enemies: Alex, Ibuki, Necro (and Effie), Chun-Li.
On the run: Necro (and Effie).
Street Fighter Three Second Impact: Gill "holds" SF3 so that he may
verify that Alex is a potential chosen one from prophetic scripture.
Street Fighter Three Third Strike: Alex seems to be the one. Gill is
watching him very carefully. [Official]
Where it is now: Still preparing for the creation of an ideal society in
the year 2200, though Gill wants the creation to commence 200 years earlier.
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
See Gill's bio. I'm too lazy to repeat myself.
I don't know exactly how similar Gill's organization in Street Fighter is
to the Illuminati of real world legend, but just so you know, the
Illuminati of legend is basically some sort of underground cult society,
which supposedly ran many things (everything, depending on which version
of the legend you're hearing) behind the scenes. It's been around for a long
time in the SF universe, since centuries B.C.; however, its notion to create
an ideal world within a 2-millenia timeline began around the late 2nd-early
3rd centuries A.D.
They house the brains they collected over the course of 2000 years in a
ziggurat-shaped building (like the Tower of Babel was) for the purpose of data
storage, seen in Urien's 3S ending.
Dr. Kure, seen in Twelve's ending, is the chief overseer of the Twelve project
implementing the human body remake theory credited to Urien.
The Chairman appears in Urienâs SF32I ending. Only all the past Chairmen
and Leaders know the existence of the Sovereign also in the organization.
I didn't include Yun, Yang, and Dudley as enemies because they never
really actively opposed the organization. Gill legally acquired Dudley's car
and Dudley just wanted it back and had nothing against the organization, and
while Yun and Yang think that Gill's wanting to take over the world is stupid,
the main reason they fought him was in order to impress him enough to
recognize their leadership of the quarter, not to take down the organization
or anything. Ibuki is listed as a possible long-term enemy because while
it seems like her clan is opposed to the organization or so, Ibuki herself
seems to only care about living a normal life. She was probably after the
G File simply because her clan ordered it, since she didn't seem to exactly
angst very much about the fact that the project already started after she
got the paper, not to mention Gill assuring her that anyone else studying the
file would find it to be nothing more than a noting of ordinary, day-to-day
current events, dismissing the idea of a being directing them all to be a
fat pile of crock.
Only a handful of humans are aware of the Secret Society's existence.
Among the cast of the SF3 saga, Ibuki, Dudley, and Alex are aware of
it by the events of 2I, and by 3S Yun, Yang, Chun-Li, Oro, and Ken add
themselves to the list. Everyone else either is directly affiliated (Necro,
Twelve, Urien, Gill) or might be aware and/or not care (Ryu, Gouki, Elena,
Makoto, Remy, Q, Sean, Hugo).
In SF4 we're introduced to a new organization: the S.I.N. Association, which
has Seth as its CEO. The Association's name in Japanese (S.I.N.-sha) has
more than a few correlations and similarities to Gill's organization, referred
to as "Himitsu Kessha" in Japanese. Time will hopefully tell if the two end
up being one and the same entity. Until then, note that Urien's position
in the Secret Society is more or less the same as Seth's for S.I.N.-sha, as
well as Seth's words to Fei-Long treating the Association as an entity that
really is the reality behind the tangible world everyone lives in and
observes, and as well as Seth's speech to his followers in his SF4 ending:
S.I.N.-sha's "eye touches to set apart" plus his announcing the beginning of
his new "kingdom." The large eye itself of S.I.N.-sha's emblem is also a
reminder to the multiple eyeballs seen in the structural backgrounds of
Gill's 3S stage, and additionally other architectural features of of the same
stage's background bear quite the resemblence to a scene in Zangief's SF4
ending, just as he spies the still Seth body over his shoulder.
*** pgVIMetroCity.
Number of Citizens: Probably the same amount as New York.
Location: Basically same as New York's Staten Island.
Landmarks: skyscrapers, giant bridges, same as New York.
Culture: New York's plus a bit more crime than usual.
Cultural Diversity: Lots, like New York.
Enemies: Crime, gangs, corruption, drugs, terrorists, etc, ala New York.
Other: It's... New York's Staten Island. Really. Haggar's bio says he was
born in New York, for crying out loud.
Muscle Bomber & Super Muscle Bomber: Haggar is running for mayor with the
slogan, "Fighting for a safer Metro City!" He gets elected! Yay! Oh, and he
wrassles, but that has nothing to do with Metro City.
Final Fight One: Overrun by Mad Gear, which kidnaps Jessica to try to
force Haggar to be under their control. Haggar (with Cody and Guy)
hits the streets and kicks butt.
Final Fight 2: Apparently, Mad Gear left Metro City alone to
branch out to the rest of the world for whatever reason. Metro City's
mayor Haggar somehow found the time to go country hopping and kick butt
(along with Carlos and Maki).
Street Fighter Zero 2: Stage for Guy which has many FF1 cameos in background.
Street Fighter Zero 3: Cody's stage where there's a jail riot, and Guy's
with more FF1 cameos.
Final Fight Tough: Gang wars occur but eventually, the Skull Cross Gang
rises to the top. Haggar (with Lucia, Guy, and Dean) kicks butt. City
is still in ruins afterwards. Haggar stops being mayor in 1992.
Super Street Fighter 4: The city is more or less rebuilt and has grown
unusually quiet as noted by Guy in his opening prologue, which also makes
things even more boring for Cody of course.
Final Fight Streetwise: The city is once again overrun by crime, and overrun
by GLOW over time too. Kyle stops the flow of GLOW and kicks butt.
Where it is now: Will Metro City provide us with more criminal hijinks
to kick the buttocks of, despite Final Fight Streetwise's low ratings and
Capcom Studio 8 being closed down (possibly due to FF:SW's low ratings)?
Areas
From Final Fight One (Map generally goes from east to west)
Stage 1 - Slums
Stage 2 - Subway (Sodom's underground wrestling ring)
Stage 3 - Westside (bar, steel cage fighting arena)
Stage 4 - Industrial Area
Stage 5 - Bay Area (Statue of Liberty in the background)
Stage 6 - Uptown
From Final Fight Tough (names are my description and NOT official)
Stage 1 - Police station and jail
Stage 2 - Regular City, alley, then restaurant or park (two options)
Stage 3 - Bus stop leading bus to garbage dump
Stage 4a - Japantown? to rooftops to Japanese restaurant to kitchen
Stage 4b - Bridge leading to dock area leading to a cargo ship
Stage 5 - Sewer to Industrial Area (you only start out in the sewer
if you took the Stage 4b route. You can also optionally go from
the sewer to stage 4a if you want to by pushing up against a ladder,
although it doesn't seem to do anything but make the game longer and
let you beat up Wong)
Stage 6 - "The Tallest Building in Metro City"
The map of Metro City that briefly appears in FFT's intro is the
same as the map of the city in FF1.
From Final Fight Streetwise
The 'Hood - Home of the Travers Brothers (east side of map on webpage)
(12th Street according to subway station signs)
(Possibly the Westside judging by Paco's sliding puzzle and Locksmith,
as well as proximity to a subway but the map on the FFSW website
indicates it's in the eastern part of Metro City)
Cash 'n Go Liquors
Kyle's Apartment (same building as tattoo parlor)
Cody's Apartment (across from diner)
2-Ill's Hideout
Boomer's Electronics and Music
The Barfly (run by Vanessa Sims)
Metro City Diner
Porn Theatre (run by Nicky "The Weasel" Wissell. Next to Psychic's)
Warehouse (Blue Baller hideout)
Psychic's Parlor (run by Madame Celeste A.K.A. Psychic)
Fresh Scrawl Tattoo Parlor (run by Paco)
Tiger's Gym (run by a Paco look-alike. Tiger? Paco?)
Fight Club (pit fights)
Pawn King's Pawn Shop
Subway Station
Pier District (south side of map)
Bijou Hotel (Luxury hotel but kinda run down. Stiff's HQ)
Pier Pressure (Bar)
Mike's Maritime Maintenance (Pier 15. Haggar's place)
Mike's Mat and Muscle (Haggar's gym at Pier 15)
Captain Cadaver's Pawn Shop (Captain Jack the pirate porn lover)
Fish Packing Plant (actually the GLOW lab)
Rico's Electronics and Music
Melon's Liquors
Subway Station
Little Italy (west side of map)
Little Italy Pawn King
Antonio's Electronics and Music
Booze Barn Liquor
Oedipus Rex (a theatre)
Vitto's Restaurant (Vitto's HQ. Pit fighting in the basement)
The Church (Bella's HQ, but still generally a normal church inside)
Japantown (North side of map)
Japantown Liquors
Japantown Bar
Electronics and Music Store
Pawn Shop (...they probably stopped caring by now)
Subway Station
The Dragon Skin (Lou's tattoo parlor)
Japantown Dojo (Guy's. functions as both a gym and a fight pit)
All four districts connect to each other in some way when police
aren't blockading off parts of it. Hood to Little Italy by road, to
Japantown by tunnel, and to Pier District by train tracks, and Little
Italy to Japantown or Pier District by road. The exception is there's
no direct connection from Japantown to the Pier District (although
one can take the subway to it).
Miscellaneous Facts and Notes
Although not stated, the amount of immigrants in Mad Gear indicates
that Metro City has lots of immigrants from all over the world.
The bay area in FF1 and the pier district in FF:SW are both on the
south side of the map, so you know where the coast is.
Metro City Police are always portrayed as either corrupt (Edi. E
and Dave), having internal problems (Lucia needing to be cleared
of a corruption charge), or simply overwhelmed by all the crime going
on (Street Fighter Zero 3 Cody's stage, Final Fight Tough's first stage,
Sgt. Sims and his men as well as other police needing Kyle's help
for various side-missions in Streetwise. The majority also carry
firearms (Edi. E stresses his gun alot in his dialogue in FF1 and all
Streetwise police use them) but this seldom helps as the Street Fighter
universe is one where mad crazy kung-fu generally carries the day,
as shown by Cody beating Edi. E, Chun-Li being excellent at firearms
yet always fighting unarmed, Kyle's unarmed fight with Stiff being
after the gun fight, and Ryu officially being able to dodge bullets.
Fight Posters in Streetwise:
Ryu vs Vega poster in Tiger's Gym
Balrog vs Dudley poster in Tiger's Gym
Rolento vs Sagat poster in Haggar's gym.
These posters are parodies on real life posters (the pictures on them are
even taken from real life posters, which is why they look practically
nothing like the stated characters) and thus likely are just for fun.
Arturo 'Thunder' Gatti is definitely the boxer on the left in the
"Rolento vs Sagat" poster. Due to this, I woudldn't give them much
storyline weight. (Rolento vs Sagat makes no storyline sense anyways)
Other posters include an Onimusha poster, a poster for a hammer company
that has a Maximo girl on it (Tink), and posters and advertisements
for the various rap artists that were licensed for the soundtrack.
There are also some Street Fighter 2 advertisements such as one for
"Cammy Lager" beer that is above the pool tables in bars.
The official soft drink of Metro City is Capcola (FF:SW manual).
Metro City Bodyguards that Kyle can temporarily hire or help:
Paco (boxing, tattoo parlor owner, only to help save 2-Ill)
2-Ill (pistol, any district)
Biker (knife, Pier District)
Haggar (wrestling, Pier District, needs money to cover expenses while
he's out helping Kyle)
Cop (shotgun, Little Italy late-game)
Guy (bushinryu, storyline only)
Vanessa (does nothing but get hit, storyline only)
Sims and his SWAT-Team(?) (pistol and shotgun respectively, storyline only)
Other citizens and gangs of Metro City:
Mad Gear (FF1 and FF2): See Mad Gear section.
Skull Cross Gang (FFT): See Skull Cross Gang section.
The rest below are from Streetwise (some are named after people who
contributed to the development of the game).
Citizens:
Capcom continues the tradition of openly gay characters even moreso
in Streetwise, as some guys will hit on Kyle if his respect is high
enough. (Kyle already having a girlfriend is presumably not interested)
Names of male citizens (includes males in suits, I think): Artie,
Big G, Billy Bob, Chris, DJ Cecil, Dougsy, Fast Eddy, Felix, Franklin,
Hector, James, Jason, Jayo, Jim, John, Johnson, Joey-Joey, Joker,
Joseph, JR, Junior, Justin, The Keibster, Lyle, Mad Alex, Markie,
Milton, Morrigom, Mr. Jones, Nels, Oscar, Patrick, Pete, Rad Brad,
Roger, Sick Eric, Stan the Man, Stevey, Walker, Zimmerman.
Names of female citizens (Kyle punched many women to bring you this
list! Much to his annoyance, half of them punched back): Allison,
Allysa, Annie, Ariel, Betty, Conse, Danigla, Ellen, Erica, Gabriella,
Jamie, Laura, Lillian, Rebecca, Renee, Rocky, Shanita.
Names of 'working girls' (cough): Bad Beth, Dreamy Diane,
Lucky Lara, Luscious Lizz, Miss Pleasure, Pinky, Pretty Baby, Rainbow,
Roxanne, Shawna.
Names of old women: Crystal, Daniela, Donna, Grace, Jenny, Lisa,
Lynn, Marissa, Renee, Teresa.
Names of bums (Kyle kicked many a homeless man to bring you this list.
Please note that the plot guide does not condone the beating of homeless
people in real life): Bill, Boozin Bob, Cranky, Hungry Jak, Mr. Sunny,
Nappy, Old Joe, Uncle Max.
Frankie the Snitch: some disturbing guy who's into Kyle beating him
up.
Mitchell: bald guy with vest who cheats Kyle out of a bat, thwaps
Kyle with it, and steals a stereo before Kyle smashes said bat over
his head.
Metro City Thugs (MCTs):
"The actual name these hoodlums like to go by is unprintable. Most
people refer to them as the "MCT." Though they mostly hail from the
hood, they can often be found kicking up trouble in other parts of
the city."
Masked MCTs sometimes wield bats, the hat MCTs are El Gado wannabes
with endless supplies of knives (rarely, some of them will be armed with
pistols as well), and Little Italy MCTs (at least, I think they're MCTs)
use pistols and bats. There are also Locksmith wannabes, though they're
extremely rare in story mode (not so much in arcade mode). I am aware
that one of the knife wielder names is Hugo.
Names of bat MCTs: 2 Mean, 2 Time, 40-Ounce, Baller, Big House,
Bulldog, Capper, C Man, Chin Check, Crimm Ni., Dicky O,
Gangster X, Grimmz, Hard Time, Ho Daddy, Hot Rod, Freaky Joe, Japper,
Juice, K Boom, Killa E., Kool K, l.Ektric, P-Boy, Pop Rox, The Real Deal,
Rig Root, Soldier K, Willie the Man.
Names of El Gado wannabe MCTs: Alejandro, Angelino, Caliente, Cannicas,
Carlos, Chuey Cruz, Don Juan, El Borachito, El Chingon, El Culero,
El Fuego, El Paton, El Saneron, El Ray, Gerandito, Gordo Jr., Hugo,
Jaimito, Jose P, Marcos, Pedro, Pero Bravo, Raphael, Rischero, Robby Room,
Sagato, St. Putasos, Tomas, Vato Loco.
Names of Little Italy MCTs: Altarboy, Chowderhead, Gibralter,
Greasy P, Jersey Kid, Kneecap, Lucky Vinny, Luigi, Painman, Paulie,
Pigrone, Pisello, Saputo, Scorregia, Spaghetti Boy, Stinkie, Street Rat,
Trigger Boy.
Names of Locksmith wannabe MCTs: Freaky Joe, K Daddy, Killer Q,
Nails, Rock, Smokin' Joe, Watchmann.
The Punx:
"These toughs roam the streets of Metro City's Pier District. They
make up one of your more "structured" gangs, if there is such a thing.
They always travel in groups, each with its own designated leader. And
they're always looking for blood."
Punx come in three types. Grey shirt, red shirt, and black skull
shirt (which is what their leaders wear). They all draw from the same
pool of names. They can use both knives and bats.
Leaders summon other punx to their aid by whistling, a la Damnd.
Names of Punx: Big Boot, Bloodhound, Crapboy, The Hurtmeister,
Jumpin Jed, Knock Knock, Lunatic Lars, Pisstofferson, Rackwoods,
Rigor Rod, Skullzone, Stomper, Straps, Tommy Whack, Waffle Iron, Walter.
Angry Schoolgirls:
They are referred to as "Angry Schoolgirl" in the FF:SW promo comic.
From the noncanon arcade mode: "Japantown used to be so peaceful...
but then these schoolgirls showed up!"
Lou "the Skin" is their leader in Arcade Mode, but definitely
not in story mode (where some enemy schoolgirls oppose Kyle even in
Guy's dojo as it burns) so that doesn't mean much.
Guy's ninjas are supposed to be keeping order in Japantown and yet
all the citizens and cops there warn Kyle that Japantown is becoming
more and more dangerous, with some drunken bums specifically pointing
out a bunch of "cute girls with sharp swords who will kill you smiling"
as the culprit while another calls them "little murder machines".
What, a bunch of SCHOOLGIRLS proving to be too much for a clan of
Bushin ninjas? Woulda been fun if Sodom's intended role in the game
before he got scrapped was to be the angry schoolgirl leader.
The cops don't like the schoolgirls either for whatever reason.
Lead some of them to the cops and the cops will start shooting at them
(Which I imagine leads to "Sorry I had to shoot your little girl on her
way home from school, maa'm, but she was just so angry! Might I
suggest you stop giving her giant katanas that are as big as she is?").
Fighting style involves lots of turns and flips that isn't
like Cammy's or Sakura's style.
The angry schoolgirl Maki is presumably named after someone in real
life (there's a Maki in the Special Thanks section of the credits), not
Final Fight 2's Maki. Several of the random names of generics in FF:SW
likely were named after the game's development staff (Ryubei from Guy's
ninjas is another example).
List of angry schoolgirl names: Ayumi, Chiaya, Eiko, Kiyoko, Kumiko,
Maki, Megumi, Misa, Mitsugi, Naomi, Samae, Yoshie.
GLOW Heads:
"This term is just recently hitting the streets, referring to users
of the rare new street drug GlycoLauric Octanol, a.k.a. "glow." Details
are extremely sketchy, but some officials fear that the spread of this
drug could have dire effects on the city."
GLOW heads can use bats and come in many different sizes. Some are
nearly immune to pain and can't be stunned at all (and are willing to
suicide themselves while holding live grenades).
They look more like zombies with green glow eyes than like people.
They aren't zombies though (even Stiff Death is likely just mutated,
not resurrected. The "Death" in his name is a reference to the Death
Horseman of the Apocalypse).
GLOW heads are actually just normal Metro City citizens hooked on
GLOW and driven insane by it. This is shown by how GLOWheads draw from
the same pool of names as normal male citizens. So see the list of
male citizens above for GLOWhead names (besides GLOWhead Blue Ballers,
who have Blue Baller names).
Stiff's Elite Guard (including chefs, dogs, & rats): see Stiff's section.
Vitto's henchmen (including chefs): see Vitto's section.
Guy's Genin: see Guy's section.
Weasel's Blue Ballers: see Weasel's section.
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pgVII. Miscellaneous Questions
pgVIIDestroyPsychoDrive. Who destroyed the psycho drive?
Guile's ending is the official way that the psycho drive was blown up,
the current reason that Nash died, and the way that Vega's body was destroyed
in Zero 3. That's official statement, though really, it's not too hard to
figure it out since all the other psycho drive explosion endings in SFZ3 are
either unclimactic or joke-endings.
pgVIISatsuiNoHadou. What is satsui no hadou?
SnH is hadou of murderous intent, or murderous surges. It's a
philosophy that manifests itself as, or in, one's ki. The philosophy is that
to be the victor in battle, one must win at all costs, even if it
comes down to killing the opponent. I'm sure you've known that by now
because that's Gouki's philosophy. Satsui no hadou is centered around one's
drive for fighting, potential and negative emotions, if you can call being
power-hungry and wanting to be the strongest that.
Vega saw satsui no hadou as kindred to psycho power because both rely on
strong negative emotions (including an infatuation with being the strongest
and the best). They aren't one and the same thing, but they parallel each
other a lot, which was why Ryu rejecting Vega's psycho power was symbolic
of him rejecting SnH too.
Satsui no hadou comes out the most in practitioners of Goutetsu's ansatsuken
fighting style, because the root of that style was the intent to kill.
Ryu might not have learned the killing arts of ansatsuken, but when he is
overcome by satsui no hadou, he becomes so horrifically focused no-holds-
barred and powerful that his ansatsuken very closely resembles, if not
mimics fully, the true killing non-dumbed-down art of Goutetsu's ansatsuken.
At any rate, after SFZ3, Ryu matures and strives to surpass satsui no
hadou, and thus the chances of SnH Ryu ever appearing again, even in
what-if form, are less likely without external influence. Gouki still uses
it of course, but he knows how to handle his rage and murderous intent while
staying focused, anyways.
The side effects of SnH include increased physical strength and being able to
perform moves/techniques that surpass the user's ordinary potential.
Substantial emotional strength is necessary in order to control SnH.
pgVIITournaments. What about the Street Fighter tournaments?
The primary SF (1,2,4,3) tournament is known within the SF universe as the
World Fighting Championship. It's not held at any specific time interval,
but it often occurs close to when the Pan-American Fighting Championship
happens.
The SF3 competition was somewhat organized from the view of Gill and his
society, since Gill was pulling quite a few of the strings that drew people
in, but as for knowledge it was highly hidden from the rest of the world, as
opposed to SF1, SF2 and SF4. Hence AAC doesn't lump SF3's with the other two
under the entry title "World Fighting Championship."
For SF1, SF2 and SF4 there were plenty of extra people competing, due to the
nature of the tournaments being "take out the host for his big mouth saying
he's the best", but for SF3 probably not. That one depended on how many
people Gill wished to pull their strings, to weed out who would be the
so-called elite.
pgVIIWinners. Who won the Street Fighter tournaments?
Street Fighter 1 - Ryu (known to the world more as "the foreigner who
defeated Sagat" rather than "the World champion" or anything to that effect)
Street Fighter 2 - Not officially stated. The two most likely
candidates are Chun-Li and Guile (Guile seems more likely though).
Probably isn't meant to have an official winner with Gouki's intrusion.
Street Fighter 4 - Unknown at this time. The tournament like SF2's may not
have had an official victor due to it being prematurely suspended as revealed
in Zangief's ending. Ryu and Balrog most likely took the lion's share for
bringing down the house and leaving the secret laboratory in flames.
Super Street Fighter 4 - Also unknown. However, this time Blanka and Cody got
the spotlight presumably for leveling the crumbling lab.
Street Fighter 3 - Alex (note that Third Strike isn't a tournament and
is the epilogue to Second Impact)
About the winner of SF2... well, Urien tells Chun-Li in SF3 that she was
the one responsible for bringing down "that organization", and IMHO, you'd
have to be pretty dense to not think he was referring to Shadaloo. Due to
this, LOTS of people think that Chun-Li was the one that won the
tournament. After all, if she beat Vega, then she took down Shadaloo,
right? Of course Urien could now be referring to S.I.N.-sha with SF4.
In actuality, I'm starting to lean more and more towards Guile being the
one that won it. Bison's ending in SSF2X Revival shows that Shadaloo might
have lived on for a while after Vega was defeated, and thus Chun-Li could
still be responsible for tearing it down whether she beat Vega or not.
Furthermore, Chun-Li's ending in Turbo Revival finally reverts back to its
Japanese roots by omitting the statement that she's destroyed Bison, while
her X Revival ending remains the same as was her first ending way back in
World Warrior.
It is wholly possible that Chun-Li was thus the one mainly responsible for
tearing Shadaloo down but she never got to defeat Vega, herself (not that
she really cares so long as justice is served).
Guile, meanwhile, is the only character whose ending completely relies on
him beating Vega. Well, Gouki's too, but Gouki wasn't an official
tournament participant. At any rate, everyone else's ending could easily have
happened whether they beat Vega or not with only small changes, including
Cammy's and T. Hawk's where they could just walk up to him and ask and I'm
sure he'd gladly oblige with the answer because the answer is something
neither Cammy nor T. Hawk wants to hear. :P While Guile's ending, defeating
Vega is required in order for his family to stop him.
On a side note, It's fairly certain that everyone's ending in SF2 Revival
with the exception of Vega's (for obvious reasons) happened.
pgVIIReconciliation.
When did SFZ3 happen compared to SF2? I thought that SFZ3 was a different
way of retelling how SF2 happened.
The final event of Zero 3 takes place 3 years before Street Fighter 2.
Look at Cammy's age. She's 15-16 in SFZ3 and 19 in SF2. Z3 was in no way
meant to retell SF2. That was the role of Revival with respect to SSF2X,
and a relatively minor retelling for that matter. SF4 takes into account the
subtle differences between X and Revival, meshing them together as practical
equivalents.
Why doesn't Ryu have his red headband even though Ken gave it to him at the
end of SFZ2?
Capcom was too lazy to change his sprite. Hey, they've been using the
same sprite of Morrigan for almost a decade now. Change Ryu's sprite even
if all they had to change was just a headband? Nah! Additionally, Ryu's
Zero look is with a white headband, just as Ken's is long hair tied with the
red ribbon. It's a matter of keeping the individual saga appearances iconic
and consistent.
Why do characters know moves in Zero that they don't know in SF2?
Who said they didn't know those moves in SF2? Maybe it was just that
you couldn't use those moves while playing as them. ^_~ Or maybe, they
couldn't due to tournament restrictions that forced them to use only one
type of super per match. Seriously, it's all just for gameplay reasons.
The SFZ series came after SF2, so of course Capcom's going to ADD moves because
games are supposed to evolve over real time, not digress over real time.
In the light of SF4 and SSF4, moves can also be altered or modified yet still
have the same name. Super combos, ultra combos and super arts aren't taught
to the fighters who use them; the fighters come up with them on their own,
and as such they can be seen as individual works of progress from era to era.
What is this about Vega being weaker in SF2 than he is in the Zero series?
Vega is weaker during SF2. Capcom stated as such. Why? There are
lots of reasons that could possibly be why. A sure one probably
being that there's no psycho drive, though other possible reasons are
simply that his new body is inferior, or his psycho power is weaker after
his soul became one again (see all that stuff in Rose's bio). You can see
how Capcom wanted Vega to be weaker not by his movelist (though that final
psycho crusher that is full screen and the teleport are pretty drastic
moves to add to his arsenal) but by how his walking animation in the Zero
series is him flying. Walking animation has nothing to do with gameplay,
and none of the other characters have had their walking animations changed
so drastically. The only reason that Capcom made Vega's walking animation
in the Zero series flight is to show how Vega was weaker beyond just a
gameplay reason. The series was his golden age of psycho power according to
developers' comments in the book All About Street Fighter Zero.
Is there any in-game proof besides official statements that the SFZ series
actually did happen within the SF universe together with SF3?
Not much that I can think of right now, probably due to how SF3 had
such an all new cast and SF2 was made before the SFZ series was conceived,
but there is one bit. Dan is an SFZ-only character. Sean in SF3 mentions
Dan. Thus SFZ must have had existed at some point if Dan existed. Also,
SSF2X Revival's new ending for Cammy reflects SFZ3 a lot more than her old
one did. And Ryu's conversation with Gouki in SF3 about how satsui no hadou
is totally surpassable implies that his events with Gouki and his going beyond
satsui no hadou in SFZ3 happened as well.
SFZ3 can't be canon!!! Clones!? Alternate female bodies!? All this
stupid stuff is too ridiculous!!
Your point? That's supposed to prove that SFZ3 couldn't possibly have
happened, how? Hey, if you don't like it, I'm sure Capcom of Japan has an
e-mail address posted somewhere on their website that you can rant to them
about it. Ranting about it to a lil' FAQ maintainer who's transcribed stuff
from a discussion thread ain't gonna do much. ^_^ Sadly, just because one
might think it's crap, contrived, pulled out of the ass out of nowhere, just
plain STUPID and whatever else you'd like to call it, etc., doesn't mean that
it isn't authentic.
Grumpy Tiamat version of the answer to this question: Just because
it's insane or really bad or whatever does not mean it's not the official
canon. Just because CJ might've been smoking some heavy crack when they came
up with it does NOT mean that it is NOT official canon. You can accept it or
you can stay in your wonderful magical fairy world of denial where what the
official company that makes the official storyline for the official game is
somehow MAGICALLY NOT official.
And yes, Capcom has stated that it's official. Why wouldn't it be?
Sheeesh.
Besides, SF3 has reincarnation overtones, playdough people, something that's
apparently a cyborg, an Illuminati-like mystic society, and men in thongs who
are the emperors of the world and you don't see people screaming about the
ridiculousness of its storyline. It's not like SNK's King of Fighters series
doesn't have its share of clones and gods and ancient scrolls of uber power
and what-if endings either... SFZ3 just happened to have pushed the bar a
little further on the zaniness with attempting to give everyone on the roster
a substantial story slice. That's all.
HEY! Udoneko said that Capcom told them the games weren't connected and
are meant to be in their own separate universes!
The operative word here is "games": the sessions that you and I play, the
matches that we have together. Those are the separate universes, the multitude
of what-if possibilities we can witness within the contraints of the game's
engine and programming. The guide's not concerned with that. Rather, it
records authentic history, what has happened and is set in stone, unless
Capcom exercises its power to change it, which it has of course.
pgVIISFBeauty. Who are the most beautiful Street Fighters?
Balrog!!! Oh, you mean women? Hey, I was joking! I think. I imagine
that officially, Balrog most definitely is supposed to be the most beautiful
guy at least. Anyway, while beauty is a matter of opinion, officially
within the Street Fighter universe, at the time of Street Fighter Zero 3,
according to Capcom, the most beautiful women are supposed to be Chun-Li,
then Rose, then Cammy in that order (Chun-Li is officially supposed to be
the most beautiful). I guess Rose comes before Cammy as she's constantly
regarded as a fortunetelling beauty. As for Chun-Li... well, she's the token
female character of Street Fighter, so of course she'd officially be number
one on the beauty chart. On a side note, Balrog likes Cammy instead of Rose
or Chun-Li simply because he met Cammy first, as well as probably actually
like, knew Cammy for a long time. And Rose's suicidalness confuses Balrog.
:P
pgVIIStages. Where are the stages located?
SF1 (EDUCATED GUESSES!!!)
Mike: South Dakota, Mount Rushmore [USA]
Joe: train yard in Chicago, Illinois, maybe New York [USA]
Gen: dunno, a street of shops somewhere in Chuugoku [China]
Birdie: Hampstead NW3 perhaps [England]
Eagle: could be Canterbury, Manchester, Oxford, Liverpool; dunno [England]
Lee: Great Wall, Shanhaiguan, or perhaps Jiayuguan, or any
place in between [China]
Geki: Honshu, Lake Yamanaka. Has Fuji-san (Mt. Fuji) in the background,
so possibly Kofu (in the Shizuoka Prefecture) [Japan]
Retsu: Might be Osaka, maybe Kyoto, Toji Temple [Japan]
Adon: Sukhothai, Sukhothai National Park, seen in the background of his Z2
stage. Main Background Feature: Buddha statue in Wat Mahathat [Thailand]
Sagat: Bangkok, Grand Palace (same as Vega's stage in SF2,
just different area)
Main Background Feature: Phra Mondop [Thailand]
SFZ1
-Ryu, Guy (sunset): certain city of Kansai, Japan
-Chun-Li, Gouki (sunset): Great Wall, China
-Ken, Nash (twilight): Metro City, Eastern America
-Sodom, Vega (AM): Chicago Amtrack Switch Station, (Mid)western America
-Birdie, Rose (sunset): spectators' seat of the Colosseum, Italy
-Adon, Sagat (twilight), Dan (sunset): Ayutthaya Ruins, Thailand
SFZ2
- Ryu: Suzaku Castle, Japan
- Rose: Genova Harbor, Italy
- Ken: San Francisco Bay, USA
- Chun Li: Beijing, China
- Sagat: Ayutthaya Ruins, Thailand
- Nash: Detroit Highway, USA
- Adon: Chaopraya River, Thailand
- Birdie: London Station Grounds, England
- Guy: Metro City, USA
- Sodom: Arizona Desert, USA
- Vega: Atop the VTOL, Brazil
- Gouki: Gokuentou, Japan (roughly "jail flame island")
- Dan: Temple Street, Hong Kong
- Sakura: Setagaya-ku, 2-Chome, Tokyo, Japan
- Dhalsim: Along the Ganges Riverbank, India
- Zangief: Bilsk Iron Works Factory, USSR
- Gen: Shanghai, China
- Rolento: New York, USA
- Grand Prairie, Australia
- Guiana Heights, Grand Waterfall, Venezuela
SFZ3
Adon: Khmer Ruins, Thailand
Gouki, SnH Ryu: Oni Fang Cave, Japan
Birdie, Eagle: Train Cemetery, England
Blanka: Madeira River branch - wetland, Brazil
Cammy: Mykonos Island, Greece
Nash: Frankfort Hangar, U.S.A.
Chun-Li: Zhidan Plaza, China
Cody: Metro City Police Jail, U.S.A.
Dan: Sunrise Park, Japan
Dee Jay: Port Antonio, Jamaica
Dhalsim: In front of Jaunpur Monument, India
E. Honda: Higashikomagata - Kabukonyu, Japan
Fei-Long, Yun: Kowloon Park, Hong Kong
Gen: Victoria Harbor, Hong Kong
Guile: Nevada Ghost Valley, U.S.A.
Guy, Maki: Under 22nd Street overhead, U.S.A.
Ingrid: can be in any other stage at random
Karin, Sakura: Flower Shopping District, Japan
Karin 2: The Queen of Victory (ship), Japan
Ken: Hotel Masters, U.S.A.
M. Bison, Vega, Juni & Juli: Secret Point 48106, Thailand
M. Bison (other stage): Las Vegas, U.S.A.
R. Mika: Sardine Beach Special Installation Ring, Japan
Rolento: New York Camouflaged Subway, U.S.A.
Rose: Mystery Mansion - Palazzo Mistero (Palace of Mystery), Italy
Ryu: Genbu Plains, Japan
Sagat: Nachappa Reclining Buddha Statue, Thailand
Sodom: Manhattan Building 49 F, U.S.A.
T. Hawk: Monte Alban plains, Mexico
Balrog: Requena Spiral Tower, Spain
Zangief: Akademu Gorodowa Blast Furnace, U.S.S.R.
Shin Gouki: Gokuentou, Japan (same as Z2, thus non-existent)
SSF2X
Japan (Ryu): Suzaku Castle
America (Ken): Battle Harbor
America (Guile): Certain Air Force Base
Soviet Union (Zangief): Grand Factory
India (Dhalsim): Maharajah's Palace
Brazil (Blanka): Amazon River Basin
Japan (E. Honda): Edo Hot Baths (Tokyo)
China (Chun Li): Shopping District, Peace Road
England (Cammy): Fraser Bala Castle (near Britain Intelligence HQ)
Mexico (T. Hawk): A nearby sight-seeing area to Hawk's home
Jamaica (Dee Jay): Sunset at "Lemony" at the pretty Kingston beach
Hong Kong (Fei Long): Tiger Balm Park, Hong Kong's most famed park
America (Bison): Las Vegas
Spain (Balrog): Fighting Barroom
Thailand (Sagat): Ayutthaya Ruins
Thailand (Vega): Ramayana Temple
SSF2X Revival (updates and follow-throughs from SSF2X)
Ryu: same location as in 3S but later at night.
Ken: new stage, reminds me of a place Sean might be, no people
E. Honda, Blanka, Zangief, Dhalsim: unchanged from SSF2X
Chun Li: back to her Zero 2 stage
Guile: new stage, kind of reminiscent of his Zero 3 stage, no people
Cammy, Dee Jay, T. Hawk, Fei Long: unchanged from SSF2X
Balrog, Sagat: unchanged from SSF2X
Bison: somewhat new casino stage, no girls
Vega: new stage, no people
Gouki: Ryu's stage at sunset
SF4
Old Temple -Japan, East Asia
Crowded Downtown -China, East Asia
Snowy Rail Yard -Russia, Europe
Cruise Ship Stern -Europe
Beautiful Bay -Vietnam, South Asia
Drive-In at Night -USA, North America
Small Airfield -Africa
Inland Jungle -Brazil, South America
Historic Distillery -Scotland, Europe
Overpass -Tokyo, East Asia
Volcanic Rim -Oceania (most likely Kilauea in the Big Island of Hawaii)
Deserted Temple -Japan, East Asia
Run-Down Back Alley -China, East Asia
Morning Mist Bay -Vietnam, South Asia
Pitch-Black Jungle -Brazil, South America
Secret Laboratory -Unknown (though most likely somewhere in Bermuda)
new for SSF4
Exciting Street Scene -India, South Asia
Festival at the Old Temple -(South) Korea, East Asia
Solar Eclipse -Savanna, Africa
Skyscraper Under Construction -USA, North America (possibly the rebirth of
the tallest building in Metro City from FFT)
Crumbling Laboratory -Unknown (though most likely somewhere in Bermuda)
new for Ultra SF4 (modified from Street Fighter X Tekken)
Half Pipe -USA, North America
Cosmic Elevator -Brazil, South America
Mad Gear Hideout -USA, North America
Jurassic Era Research Facility -Unknown (possibly the Line Islands)
Blast Furnace - Russia, Europe
Pitstop 109 -Japan, East Asia
SF3
(portions in brackets [] for NG/2I indicate sole identity given in game)
Ryu
NG, 2nd Impact stage - Hot Spring Inn Entrance (NG) & Inside (2I),
[Tokyo] (Japan)
3rd Strike stage - SUZAKU CASTLE ROOFTOP 1:33PM (Japan)
Alex
2nd Impact stage - Rooftop [New York]
New Generation stage - Alley [New York]
3rd Strike stage - SUBWAY STATION 1:31AM (America)
Yun
NG, 2nd Impact stage - Electric Train [Hong Kong]
3rd Strike stage - SHOPPING DISTRICT 7:45PM (Hong Kong)
Necro
NG, 2nd Impact stage - Siberian Railroad, [Moscow] (Russia)
3rd Strike stage - MOSCOW 5:51PM (Russia)
Ibuki
NG, 2nd Impact stage - Ninja Village, [Kyoto] (Japan)
3rd Strike stage - A ROAD IN KYOTO 5:51PM (Japan)
Hugo
2nd Impact stage - Town Square in [Munich] (Germany)
3rd Strike stage - HOME SWEET HOME 7:30PM (Germany)
Sean
2nd Impact stage - Local Street Accident in [Sao Paulo] (Brazil)
New Generation stage - Street [New York]
3rd Strike stage - SANTOS HARBOR 11:18PM (Brazil)
Urien
2nd Impact stage - Archaeological Dig Site (possibly Aswan (Temples of
Abu Simbel)), [Egypt]
3rd Strike stage - OLMECA RUINS 12:04PM (Mexico)
Elena
NG, 2nd Impact stage - Competition Spot, [Nairobi], Kenya (Africa)
3rd Strike stage - SAVANNA 7:08PM (Kenya)
Oro
NG, 2nd Impact stage - Cave [Amazon]
3rd strike stage - SANTOS HARBOR 4:48PM (Brazil)
Yang
NG, 2nd Impact stage - Antique Shop [Hong Kong]
3rd Strike stage - SHOPPING DISTRICT 10:22PM (Hong Kong)
Dudley
NG, 2nd Impact stage - Residential Street [London]
3rd Strike stage - MAIN STREET 11:05AM (England)
Gouki
2nd Impact stage - [Mount Fuji] (Japan)
3rd Strike stage - KOUSYU STREET 1:55AM (Japan)
Ken
2nd Impact stage - Boat Harbor in the [San Francisco] Bay Area (America)
New Generation stage - Hot Spring Inn Inside, [Tokyo] (Japan)
3rd Strike stage - SUBWAY STATION 9:27PM (America)
Gill
2nd Impact stage - [Hidden Shrine] (possibly Giza or Luxor, Egypt)
New Generation stage - Underground Cave [Mediterranean Sea]
3rd Strike stage - UNKNOWN
CHUN LI
3rd Strike Stage - CHINESE RESTAURANT 2:00PM (China)
TWELVE
3rd Strike stage - MOSCOW 12:50AM (Russia)
MAKOTO
3rd Strike stage - THE DOJO OF RINDO-KAN 6:15AM (Japan)
REMY
3rd Strike stage - CLUB METRO 11:29PM (France)
PgVIIVoiceActors. Who are the voice actors for the characters?
Note that voice actors' alternate role listings in other games, anime, etc.
are not meant to be comprehensive by any means, as that info already steps
beyond the original question above, decidedly kept intact by the maintainer
of this guide for nostalgic purposes more than anything else. So don't treat
this section like a thorough database or anything like that because it won't
be. If you're interested in more than what this section offers, you're
encouraged to research the voice actor names on your own elsewhere.
Japanese VA names are listed last name first.
Thanks to Sano and AJ for lots of it.
For SFZ3:
Ryu, Nash - Morikawa Toshiyuki. He's a singer in Japan who has released
albums of his own. Also did Ryu's voice in SVC Chaos. He's also done
Griffith's voice in Berserk and Jounochi/Joey Wheeler's voice in Yugi-Oh.
Also the voice of Nash in Z1 and Z2, and Ryu/Dan in Z1. Ishizuka Katashi did
Ryu's voice in Z2.
Ken, Guy - Iwanaga Tetsuya, Z1 & Z2 also. He was Kensuke Aida in Evangelion.
Chun-Li - Miyamura Yuko. After SFZ1 when people hated Chun-Li's
new outfit, for SFZ2 they not only made her SF2 outfit available but
they made her voice sound cuter. Also Chun-Li/Rose in Z1 and Z2. She's
done Chun-Li's voice in lots of games since then, especially the Marvel
vs. Series. She's most famous for being Asuka's voice actress in
Evangelion. She also did Lei Lei's voice in the Vampire/Darkstalkers anime.
Adon, Sodom, Birdie, Zangief, Gen - Takagi Wataru. He also did Adon's
voice in the SFZ Anime. He was also Onizuka's voice in the GTO Anime.
He did Hugo's voice in SVC Chaos. Also did Detective Conan, and
Adon, Birdie, Sodom in Z1 plus Adon, Birdie, Sodom, Gen, Zangief in Z2.
Rose - Neya Michiko. Also Lisa Hawkeye in Full Metal Alchemist.
Lei Lei/Hsien Ko in Vampire Hunter 2 and Pocket Fighter. She
also does Chun Li's voice in CvS2, and Sophitia in the Soul
Edge/Calibur/Blade games. Tao Jun in Shaman King, Rally Vincent
in Gunsmith Cats, etc. (many other random roles)
Vega, Gouki - Nishimura Tomomichi for all the Zero series. He also did
Gouki's voice in the SFZ anime plus Gouki and Shin Gouki's voice in SVC
Chaos. And he did Mike Bison's voice in SF2V. He's the narrator of Yu
Yu Hakusho and he also provides the voice of Koenma's servant in Yu Yu
Hakusho.
Sagat - Shinichiro Miki. Also Allen in Escaflowne. Kojiro/James in
Pokemon. Also Sagat and narrator for Z1 and Z2.
Dan - Hosoi Osamu. Also did Dan's voice in SVC Chaos and Zero 2.
Sakura - Sasamoto Yuko. She's been Sakura in nearly every game Sakura's in,
including the EX Games. Sakura's voice actress has never been changed.
However, the one who sang Sakura's song in Puzzle Fighter wasn't her. That
was Tatsurou Suzuki. Sasamoto-san was also Sally in Z2 and Z3.
Rolento, Eagle - Yamanoi Jin, Zero 2 Rolento as well.
Dhalsim - Yamada Yoshiharu, in Zero 2 as well.
Cammy, Juni, Juli - Koumoto Akiko. Note that Cammy gets a new voice
actress in virtually every single game she's in.
E.Honda - Sugawara Masashi. Also does Edi.E's voice in Z3.
Blanka, Balrog - Ueda Yuji. He's the voice of Rurouni Kenshin's Sagara
Sanosuke, Rival Schools'/PJA's Shoma, Jin Saotome, Guilty Gear's Zappa,
Love Hina's Urashima Keitaro, the blond dream walker in the X anime,
the guy with the parasite in his stomach in the Ninja Scroll anime,
Pokemon's Takeshi/Brock and many many more.
R.Mika - Takeuchi Jyunko. Voices Uzumaki Naruto in Naruto.
Cody, Mike Bison - Yamadera Kouichi. He's Spike in Cowboy Bebop, Sorata
in X, Zabel/Lord Raptor in the Vampire/Darkstalkers anime, Kaji in Evangelion,
Togusa in Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex, Ryoga and the Jusenkyo
guide in Ranma 1/2. Also Guile in CVS2.
Karin - Yamada Miho. She was a young Tsubaki in the Inu Yasha anime.
T. Hawk - Iizuka Shozo. Also Hawk in the SF2AM and Dhalsim in SF2V.
Dee Jay - Ohtsuka Yoshitada
Fei Long - Toriumi Kousuke. Also voiced in Strider Hiryu 2.
Guile - Tsuchiya Toshihide
Maki - Nagasawa Miki. Also Cammy in CvS2 and Ibuki Maya in Evangelion.
Ingrid - Jou Masako
Street Fighter 3 Voices (thanks to Golden Dragon and AJ)
Dudley
Bruce Robertson (SF3:NG, 2I)
Francis Diakewsky (SF3:TS)
Elena
Fujino Kahoru (SF3:NG, 2I)
Midori Mie (SF3:TS)
Ibuki
Amano Yuri (SF3 [all] & Pocket Fighter); Rain in G Gundam, Yukimura Keiko in
Yu Yu Hakusho. Also Effie in 2I and 3S.
Ken
Kishi Yuji (SF3:TS & CvS1); also Ken in SF4 and SSF4.
Tobe Koji (SF3:NG, 2I)
Ryu
Takagi Wataru (SF3:NG, 2I)
Okawa Touru (SF3:TS); also Gouken in SF4 and SSF4.
Hugo
Len Carlson (SF3:TS); did Ganon's voice in the US Legend of Zelda cartoon.
Takagi Wataru (SF3: 2I)
Yang
Takagi Wataru (SF3:2I, NG)
Suzuki Masakazu (SF3:TS)
Yun
Tobe Koji (SF3:2I, NG)
Itou Kentaro (SF3:TS, Z3 Double Upper); Minamio in Flame of Recca, Kage
Tetsuo in Hakuro no Go!, Akimichi Chouji in Naruto.
Sean
Chiba Isshin (SF3:2I, NG); also Kazama in Tekken.
Iwata Mitsuo (SF3:TS)
Oro
Tokumaru Kan (SF3:2I, NG)
Matsuyama Takashi (SF3:TS); was in the Japanese and English version of
the Grudge/Ju-on. Also in Ju-on 2. He played Saeki Takeo in all versions.
Nobunaga in Hunter X Hunter.
Urien
Ueda Yuji (SF3:2I)
Lawrence Bayne (SF3:TS); see above.
Gouki
Nishimura Tomomichi (SF3:2I, 3S)
Gill
Bruce Robertson (SF3:2I, NG, also NG/2I narrator)
Lawrence Bayne (SF3:TS): Nikita, but he was also the voice of Cable in
the 90s X-Men show. There's a good chance he did Cable's voice in MVC2
also since Capcom hired a lot of the X-Men cartoon voice actors.
Alex
Michael X. Sommers (SF3:2I, NG)
Patrick Gallagan (SF3:TS)
Necro
Michael X. Sommers (SF3:2I, NG)
Lawrence Bayne (SF3:TS); See above.
Makoto
Tsumura Makoto; she plays Atom aka Astro Boy in the new Astro Boy anime,
and Captain Blue Junior in the new Viewtiful Joe anime. Also Makoto in
SSF4.
Remy
Sekiguchi Eiji; Sniper in Yu Yu Hakusho.
Chun-Li
Tanaka Atsuko; Kusanagi Mokoto in all of the Ghost in the Shell animes.
Cassandra in Alexander AKA Reign. Eva in the Virtua Fighter anime.
Poison
Tanaka Atsuko (3S); see above.
Fujino Kahoru (2I)
Q
Len Carlson; see above.
Twelve
Lawrence Bayne; see above.
Street Fighter 4 Voices (thanks to Sagatryu, AJ and Gamefaqs)
Ryu - Takahashi Hiroki, Kyle Hebert in English
Ken - Kishi Yuji (also Ken in 3S), Reuben Langdon in English
Chun-Li - Orkisa Fumiko, Laura Bailey in English
E. Honda - Nagano Yoshikazu, Joe Dimucci in English
Blanka - Ueda Yuji, Talis Axelrod in English
Zangief - Miyake Kenta, Anthony Landor in English
Guile - Yasumoto Hiroki, Travis Willingham in English
Dhalsim - Egawa Daisuke, Christopher Bevins In English
M. Bison - Turuoka Satoshi, Bob Carter as Balrog
Balrog - Suwabe Junichi, Doug Erholtz as Vega
Sagat - Endou Daisuke, Isaac C. Singleton, Jr. in English
Vega - Wakamoto Norio, Gerald C. Rivers as M. Bison
Abel - Takahashi Kenji, E. Jason Liebrecht in English
C. Viper - Sonozaki Mie, Michelle Ruff in English
Rufus - Hatano Wataru, Chris Kent in English
El Fuerte - Ono Daisuke, J. B. Blanc in English
Seth - Ohtsuka Akio, Michael McConnohie in English
Gouki - Taketora, Dave Mallow as Akuma
Gouken - Okawa Touru (also Ryu in 3S), Rod Clarke in English
Sakura - Hukuen Misato, Brittney Harvey in English
Fei-Long - Nakamura Yuuichi, Matthew Mercer in English
Dan - Kusuda Toshiyuki, Ted Sroka in English
Cammy - Sawashiro Miyuki, Caitlin Glass in English
Gen - Tadano Yohei, Michael Sorich in English
Rose - Watanabe Akeno, Gina Grad in English
Super Street Fighter 4 Additional Voices
T. Hawk - Nara Touru, Dave Vincent in English
Dee Jay - Hamada Kenji, Chris Cain in English
Juri - Kitamura Eri, Jessica Strauss in English
Adon - Imaruoka Atsushi, Talis Axelrod in English
Cody - Kishio Daisuke, Michael T. Coleman in English
Guy - Mogami Tsuguo, J.C. Miller in English
Ibuki - Fujimura Ayumi, Kat Steel in English
Makoto - Tsumura Makoto (also Makoto in 3S), Jay D. Stone in English
Dudley - Kusumi Naomi, Stuart McLean in English
Hakan - Oohata Shintaro, Lance Holt in English
Arcade Edition
Yun - Itou Kentaro (also Yun in 3S and DU), Todd Haberkorn in English
Yang - Suzuki Masakazu (also Yang in 3S), Johnny Yong Bosch in English
Satsui Ryu (same as Ryu) - Takahashi Hiroki, Kyle Herbert in English
Oni (same as Gouki/Akuma) - Taketora, Dave Mallow in English
Ultra
Elena - Fujita Saki, Karen Dyer in English
Rolento - Yaminoi Jin (also Rolento in Z2/Z3 and Eagle in Z3), Dameon Clarke
in English
Poison - Tanaka Atsuko (also Poison in 3S), Karen Strassman in English
Hugo - Takagi Wataru (also Hugo in 2I plus others in NG/2I/Z2/Z3), Patrick
Seitz in English
Decapre (same as Cammy)- Sawashiro Miyuki, Caitlin Glass in English
Final Fight Streetwise (listing the ones of particular interest. Pretty
much all the voices were done by people already on the development staff)
Kyle
Trent Kanuiga: FFSW Concept artist. IE: not David Hayes, IE not Solid Snake.
2-Ill
Joe Willis: somewhat interesting, given that he left Studio 8 several months
before the game was released while 2-Ill still has lines up to practically
the very end of the game's storyline. He left shortly before the initial
planned release date that later got postponed.
pgVIISF3Judges. Who are the judges that appear when you get the judgment
scenario in SF3?
The judges:
Lilly - India, looks like Dhalsim's wife Sally
Tonli - China, name in kanji means roughly "winter grace"
Tonfa - China, the one wearing the white China dress, name in kanji means
roughly "winter flower"
Lifa: China, wears a blue Chinese dress, name in kanji means roughly
"grace flower"
Julia - England, the blonde
Anna - Russia, wears a fur coat and hat, looks like Cammy/Decapre
Fair Libra - America, she wears roller blades
Effie - Russia, Necro's girlfriend
Effie was miswritten as Eiffie in this guide for a while. But it's
"Effie" not "Eiffie", and she did not replace Lilly. Both are not in New
Generation but both are in 2I and 3S. Lilly is probably only missing in
the Dreamcast version of NG found in Double Impact. A little confusing.
pgVIISpecialMoves. Can you describe what some of the special moves are
supposed to be like, storyline-wise?
Well, Capcom went and described a lot of the projectiles at least.
Ryu's hadouken - About the same temp. as the human body. Feels like getting
hit by a nice solid kick. Once hit by this, the damage stays for a vey long
time.
shakunetsu hadouken - The same temp. as hot water. Not enough to burn
clothes.
Ken's hadouken - Neither hot nor cold. Feels like a nice solid punch. The
damage doesn't stay like Ryu's.
Sakura's hadouken - Is very warm, not as hot as Ken's. The effect varies by
which type. Small - feels like a hard slap. Medium - same as Ken's. Large -
same as Ryu's. Her ki manipulation ability is roughly equal to Ken's by Z3.
Gouki's gou hadouken - About the same temperature as the human body. Same
kind as Ryu's but much greater in power and effect.
Dan's gadouken - Very warm. Feels like a slap.
sonic boom - Guile's has an impact like crashing into a wall and feels colder
than Russian winter, while Nash's feels neither warm nor cool and impacts like
a precise katana slice.
Dee Jay's air slasher - Cuts through anything like a whirlwind. You hear song
as it hits you, and the wind has the same temperature as the surrounding air.
Power isn't much but hurts big time when it hits.
yoga fire - Same temperature as boiling hot water. The damage feels kinda
like the same feeling you get when you eat something very, very spicy such as
curry.
tiger shot - The damage feels like getting mauled by a ferocious beast. The
temperature is freezing cold.
kikouken - About the temperature of a warm bath. The hit doesn't feel like a
solid hit but more of an influence that affects the whole body.
soul spark - Isn't cold or hot. The hit itself isn't hard at all but it
makes the area it hits very numb.
psycho shot - Very, very hot. The hit will instantly burn the area it hits
and makes it very numb.
As a side note, the majority of these projectile descriptions, all provided
initially by Saiki, are verified by the SF2 Official Fanbook. Zero series
projectiles still need their info tracked down if possible, unless if their
info was merely possible extrapolation based on the Fanbook's data.
A side note summary on projectile temperatures based on Saiki's input:
cold ones- from negative emotions within the user, eg. Sagat & Guile.
lukewarm (neither hot nor cold) ones- from flamboyancy fighters, or those with
a mindset of justice and necessity to fight, eg. Nash, Rose, Ken, Dee Jay.
warm ones- purpose-driven fighters, may or may not be included with an intent
to kill, but definitely with an intent to either win for improvement and/or to
prove to oneself the justification for fighting, eg. Dan, Sakura, Dhalsim,
Chun-Li, Ryu, Gouki.
hot ones- Vega's psycho shot exchanges the cold emotions of fear, anger, and
especially hatred towards him for a super hot return of amplified psycho
power.
How would the characters actually move and fight like if they weren't
restricted by gameplay engines?
Capcom has actually stated that the most accurate portrayal thus far of
how various characters in Street Fighter could move and fight is the Street
Fighter Zero/Alpha anime, so you can watch that if you want to get a good jist
of how Ryu would actually fight in an actual battle. The storyline itself
of the anime isn't canon, of course, but it's a good representation of how
the Street Fighter characters could move and attack according to Capcom.
As examples, Capcom stated that Ryu actually did have the ability to move
fast enough to dodge bullets (not that he actually ever has, but he could
if the situation ever turned up) and Ken could really crack a cyborg's jaw
with certain moves. And Ryu and Gouki could easily smash pure wooden
dummies with basic blows. I'm positive they stated this, although I forget
exactly where (it was in an interview though. Possibly a DVD extra)
pgVIIPowerTiers. Who are the most powerful Street Fighter characters?
Going by Capcom statements about how powerful certain characters
are, and also by who has defeated who in what battles and the circumstances
of each battle, we've put together a POSSIBLE tier list for the characters.
Remember, this FAQ goes by Japanese names. Oh, and this is the character's
most present state since they were last seen. So just because Ryu is on a
higher tier than Gen doesn't mean that Ryu was actually stronger than Gen
back during Zero. It's Ryu in SF3 Third Strike that the list is considering.
This is why Ryu is as powerful as SnH Ryu, because by SF3, Ryu has trained
and focused his mind to the point where he's as powerful as if he'd given in
to the satsui no hadou, even though SnH Ryu was initially more powerful than
Ryu in the past (which is why Ryu had to decide between giving into it to
win or not, of course). I believe it's also why Sagat is as powerful as Vega,
because Sagat himself has developed significantly over the course of Street
Fighter as he got over his anger. This tier list is generally provided by
Saiki and Tiamat, by the way.
Tier 1
Gouki, Gill, Oro, SFZ3 Final Vega, Ingrid - the strongest out of the
SFer's. This group's in the godly range and outclasses everyone (in
some cases like Ingrid, literally).
Tier 2
SF2 Vega, Sagat, Ryu, SnH Ryu, Q(hinted), SF4 Gouken
Tier 3
Ken, Gen (and SFZ Gouki), Rose, Nash, Urien, Guy, Seth, Oni
Tier 4
Guile, Chun-Li, Hugo, Balrog, Twelve (hinted), Maki, Abel, C. Viper, Sodom,
Rolento, Cody, Sakura, Juri
Tier 5
Adon, Bison, Cammy, Zangief, Dhalsim, T. Hawk, Alex, Eagle, Birdie
(Saiki places Cody and Guy here, but Tiamat thinks they should go much
higher for Streetwise reasons, Vasili's compromising stand given above)
Tier 6
Everyone else but Tier 7 (things get really sloppy here, due to how most
characters below tier 5 do not have enough storyline info to tier on
noncircumstantial evidence). A pretty good guess I think, would be this
(consider the rest of the characters in this tier and below to just be
hinted)
Tier 6
the twelve girls, Karin, Necro, Dudley, Lee, Mike, Geki, Retsu, Joe, Hakan
(Saiki places Rolento and Sodom here, but Tiamat thinks they should go much
higher, again Vasili's compromise presented up above)
Tier 7
Blanka, Fei-Long, E. Honda, El Fuerte, Dee Jay, Ibuki, Makoto, Yun, Yang
Tier 8
Elena, Remy, R. Mika, Poison
Tier 9
Dan, Rufus
Tier 10
Sean
SOME possible reasons (considering that I didn't make these tiers, myself)
Tier 1: This tier should be obvious. Gill, especially, with his fire and
ice manipulation, seraphic wing, and his last boss towering status. Gouki
should be, too. By SF3, the guy can destroy mountains, islands, and stay
in deep ocean for crying out loud. And Oro beat Ryu in the SF3 tournament,
and that was despite being handicapped by binding his arm. The guy's
become powerful enough to live over 140 years... I won't go into a
deeper analysis due to how obvious this tier is. Who specifically is the
best among Gill, Oro, and Gouki is up in the air, but eh, tiers aren't
supposed to be THAT specific. Final Vega during SFZ3 probably went into this
range also. Being able to take on Ken and Sakura at the same time (only
forced to retreat due to Ryu coming to), then all 13 girls, then Rose,
Guile, Chun-Li, and Nash has got to say something.
Ingrid is here in the god tier because she's literally a goddess. Though she
doesn't officially get involved any point of the SF continuum, she could
single-handedly stop SF2 from ever happening because she can make Final Vega
implode at will, without a chance for him to ever soul-jump, that is if Vega
were ever to use her crest as the core of his psycho drive.
Tier 2
Vega: He's definitely high up. His weakened body wasn't weakened to the
point where he'd really really plummet in the tiers, and during Zero 3 it
took a rather ludicrous amount of consecutive battles against multiple
opponents to finally take him down. Judging by his state depicted in the
official artwork nicknamed by many fans as "Vega the Pimp", if Final Vega
in Z3 was considered to be 100% of his power potential, SF2 Vega would hover
between approximately 45%-55%, possibly even 60% at best. In any case, he's
weak enough for Rose not to sense him until SF4, when he'd be towards the
65%-75% range.
Ryu: Seen by Oro as the one with the potential to be trained, he whomped
Alex easily in Third Strike, only lost the SF3 tournament because he went up
against the godly Oro and even then impressed the old guy, etc etc. This
one should be pretty obvious.
SnH Ryu: A major point of Ryu's SFZ3 storyline is that he could follow
the path to warrior perfection without giving in to satsui no hadou.
Even though SnH Ryu was really high up back then, the reason regular Ryu
is on the same tier is due to Ryu's revelations since then. He has now
managed to reach and even go beyond what he could have been had he given in.
Generally shown by Ryu promptly telling Gouki that satsui no hadou is
surpassable in SF3. Er... yea. It's mostly implied as far as I know, but
the implications are more than enough to place the two into this tier with
enough certainty.
Sagat: Although he was too obsessed with revenge and unfocused during
Zero, by the end of Zero 3, he has realized the error of his ways and is
now on the path to the true warrior. All statements and storyline
implications from there on are that Sagat is matching Ryu step for step in
progress as they await their glorious battle, so it's really easy to tier
Sagat here. Note that this is Sagat in his most present state, not most
present state since when he was last seen in a game, since unlike other
characters, it's easy to estimate where Sagat is even without seeing him
due to all the statements and implications.
Q: Q is marked as 'hinted' because there's no way to really gauge his
tier, what with him having no interactions with anyone else in the
storyline. But he's robotic and can somehow zip around the world, and
those types are typically always powerful, and the effects of his moves
sure look darn powerful. So as a guestimate, he gets to be in this tier.
Though again, it's mostly a guess.
SF4 Gouken: Placed here because he had fought and defeated Gouki even when
his little brother acquired the SGS under his belt. Years later the best that
Gen ever did was draw because Gouki sensed his illness.
Tier 3
Rose: She's Vega lite. She's the only character in Zero that was
actually able to give Vega a somewhat decent match one-on-one. But... she
still lost, so she's a tier lower. Rose could put up a fight against Zero
Vega (well, actually, she WON in Zero 2. Only 'lost' in Zero 3) while
Chun-Li got owned for free in Zero 2, and since there really isn't much to
indicate that Chun-Li improved THAT much since Zero, Rose gets to be a
tier higher.
Ken: He's constantly trying to stay on par with Ryu and probably would if
he devoted himself as much without a normal life and a family, but Ken falls
quite behind Ryu by 3S based on Ryu's win quotes to him from 2I to 3S. Thus
Ken gets this tier.
Gen: I think it's hard to decide whether he's in tier 2 or tier 3, but
he's definitely up there. Gen was able to fight Gouki to a standstill in
Zero after all. He's definitely not as good as the further-trained Gouki
of SF3 though (Gouki still ridicules the extent that Gen exerts by SF4).
I'd be really surprised if he (and thus even Gouki during that time) was as
strong as "I take on tons of people by myself" SFZ3 Vega, so... generally
tier 3 for him. On a random note, Gen uses ki in his attacks with lots of
skill. It's just not as obvious as Gouki (not all ki usage manifests as
projectiles or something visual).
Although I'm on the fence on whether or not he should be in tier 2 or tier
3, I do lean towards tier 3 because any higher would make him on the same
level as SnH Ryu or current-day Ryu, both of whom are likely beyond what
even Gouki used to expect back then (with SnH Ryu slaughtering everyone
Shin Gouki included in his what-if SFZ3 storyline) and SFZ Gouki is roughly
on the same level as Gen, so... (of course, SF3 Gouki is a different
story)
Nash: Nash is a former US martial arts champion. Took down Vega in
SFZ3, albeit with a little help. What mainly puts him here with certainty
instead of circumstantiality though I believe is how he's better than Guile
(even SF2 Guile). Nash's ki manipulation is implied to be right up
there with Ryu and other top-notch fighters. He can shoot sonic booms from
any of his limbs, even his feet (something that Guile needs LOTS of
concentration to do. It takes Guile two hands and officially stated all
his focus just to throw one sonic boom). Since Guile, at least based on
what we can think of, comes into the tier below, and Nash is definitely
above Guile, even without the circumstantial evidence, we can generally
place Nash in this tier.
Urien: Like Gen, I'm personally not sure if he should be in Tier 2 or Tier
3, but he's up there. He's better than Chun-Li (he's only toying with her
in SF3 Third Strike after all) and definitely lower than Gill (Gill doesn't
even have to take him seriously and his power compared to Urien's is one of
the many things Urien is jealous of, of course). Anyways, Urien's
abilities include earth and lightning manipulation and an iron body (as
part of his earth manipulation). He's blinded by jealousy though. This
is why despite having power on par with Gill, he likely is weaker in actual
practice (less focused). I'm leaning towards tier 3 because it's hard for
me to imagine him as strong as the extremely focused SF3 Ryu, god-power or
not.
Guy: Maki admits he's better in her SFZ3 storyline, which leads to Guy
being here. Guy's a formidable fighter as the 39th bushinryu master who
held his own against Rose, and having taught Cody some moves, I place him
one tier above his fighting-obsessed friend.
Seth: The boss of SF4. As he was one of Vega's 28 prime fields and has been
shown to take out another of his brethren (#21) simply by choking him, he's
nothing to sneeze at for the time being. Moreover he wasn't looking to
consent peacefully despite Vega and several other empty prime fields at his
back in Vega's SF4 ending.
Oni: From his impressions in AE overlaid on top of Gouki's similar scenarios
this is about as high as he can go, and this may even be generous. Not being
able to show off momentous feats when putting in tremendously excessive effort
doesn't do him much good even if he is mostly otherworldly like Ingrid. With
Gouki's lingering mindset not about to relenquish Oni's body, soul, and spirit
any moment soon, not to mention Oni himself wanting blood to spill and life
to devour more than wanting fists to clash, the being's otherwise strange
power-hampering shouldn't come as much of a surprise.
Tier 4
Guile: Most likely winner of the SF2 tournament. If you decide to ignore
that, then there's also the way in how he's storyline-wise more interwoven
and more 'important' than most of the other SF2 characters, and they
typically get favored in the storyline power tiers. And I believe he's
meant to be the same power as Chun-Li, but I forget^^; Whatever the case,
he's been training really hard since SFZ3, though Nash in SFZ3 was still
most likely better than him (see Nash in Tier 3 for reasons).
Chun-Li: Weaker than Rose but then come SF2, Chun-Li isn't any higher because
she quit the ICPO and generally retired from fighting and training after SF4
(course, after SF3, she trains OTHERS, but that's another story). Anyways,
especially after moving on with her life when she pays her respects to her
fallen father, she remains a powerful force to be reckoned with.
Hugo: Actually rather surprising he's up here, but all the facts point to
it. Hugo is officially stated in 3S to have withstood the shin shoryuken
against Ryu back in 2I, which is officially allegedly stated to be one of the
most powerful moves in the world, so right there you know he's a really strong
guy. He is also officially stated to have made 'an amazing performance' in the
SF3 tournament, which probably means he's generally above the majority of the
SF3 characters (he most likely lost the tournament due to going up against
Ryu). Oh, and to those who think Hugo is all stamina and nothing else,
I highly doubt he would have been stated to have made an amazing performance
if he didn't at least put up a somewhat decent fight. So no, he's not just a
big punching bag with lots of endurance. As for who is better, Hugo or Alex,
well, Hugo withstanding the shin shoryuken means that he probably put up a
better fight against Ryu than Alex did. He withstood an attack that
officially could kill someone (Yea, Ryu's style isn't designed to kill, but
that doesn't mean it can't kill due to the sheer damage alone) compared to
Alex, who Ryu didn't even break a sweat fighting against. That would probably
earn him a tier spot higher. Ryu still beat him somewhat soundly though, so
he's definitely not up in Ken's tier. Note, though, that many of these tiers
are at best, educated guesses and estimates. Maybe Alex made a huge comeback
after Ryu was beating him (the fight wasn't completely finished in Alex's 3S
ending) but from all available evidence, this is the best that can be
estimated.
Rolento and Sodom: Saiki put them much lower, but I assume that
they're only slightly below Guy, much higher than Saiki placed them. Juni
also gave them high ratings. Sodom loses to E. Honda assumedly in SFZ2, but
Juni indicates that he's significantly weaker when unarmed (this position is
assuming he's armed).
Balrog: Cammy's love-hate rival is generally better than her, and almost
positively let her win in their fight in SFZ3. Therefore, Balrog's a tier
higher than Cammy. Easy. He's also a better fighter within Shadaloo than
Bison, I believe (not sure if it was officially stated. I think it was,
but I forget). He doesn't go any higher because that would place him on
Gen's level, which seems pretty darn silly. Capcom doesn't go around
praising his ability like they do for Nash. Course... a harder more
definitive proof might just be simply that Rose beats him in Z3. He
seems around the same ability as Chun-Li, given the rivalry Capcom initially
endorsed between them (where Balrog was jealous of Chun-Li's beauty). Of
course, I guess they decided Cammy was a better match later on.
Twelve: Again, there's a lack of storyline interaction. But Twelve
officially feels no pain, and he can morph into other characters, so he's
probably up there somewhere. He's at least tier 5, because all lab reports
from Gill's organization indicate that he should be superior to Necro in
every way (not that that means it's fact, but it's the best thing to go by
so far. Course, you never know how far 'spirit' could go, I suppose).
Maki: Likely one tier below Guy, admitting that Guy was better anyways (so
it's sorta like Karin's SFZ3 storyline where she admits Sakura was better).
Cody: Edges out over Rolento, Sodom and the rest of Mad Gear since he
delivered the final blow to Belger, but not enough to be on par with Guy due
to his addiction for brawling. Sorry Tiamat, I'm compromising between you and
Saiki on this one.
Sakura: She's better than Karin. It's allegedly officially stated that her ki
manipulation is equal to Ken's during SFZ3. The girl's ridiculously gifted
and able to learn Ryu's moves just by watching him. If Sakura continued
training on and on after SFZ3, she can really be something. Oh, and judging
from SFZ3, she can beat Honda, so she gets to be higher than him. Finally in
SF4, seeing as how she reaches farther in Seth's tournament than Zangief does,
(she reaches Ryu) she gets to be higher than the Red Cyclone as well.
C. Viper: Though her edge comes largely from S.I.N.-sha's spy gadgets, she
is pitted against Vega who is stronger than he was in SF2, and her ending does
have her disposing Seth (#15) himself. She's shown to be a formidable nusiance
against Chun-Li as well.
Abel: Can also hold his own against Seth after taking over for Guile, although
it wasn't #15 he grappled with. Maybe he belongs in tier 5, tough to tell.
Juri: Seth's new girl-Friday in SSF4. She can quite easily trounce Cammy but
needs to be on her guard with Chun-Li and moreso Guile whom she actually finds
annoying to deal with.
Tier 5. Everyone else who managed to cut it.
Saiki's Guy & Cody: Hard to tier, IMHO. They can beat Sodom and Rolento,
obviously. They can also beat a whole bunch of the Mad Gear gang, but it's
important to remember that they did not fight through Final Fight alone and
also that it's wholly possible and likely that the SF universe follows the
laws of anime (IE, any generic bad guy is really weak and easy to beat up
by most any semi-important character), thus the fact that they can take out
most of the Mad Gear scrubs isn't a very good gauge either. Actually, after
getting Juni's official power ratings that she scans in SFZ3, Tiamat and I are
for Sodom, Rolento, Guy, and Cody being probably higher than this. Of note is
that Juni can't get an accurate power measurement of either, as Guy's
bushinryu is too mysterious and Cody's power is dependent on his emotions.
Adon: Strong enough to beat Sagat in SFZ2. Sagat may have been unfocused,
but he was still powerful. There aren't many other matches to use to tier
him with hard core certainty, but beating SFZ2 Sagat and being the new Muay
Thai Emperor should be enough to give him this tier.
Bison: Can kill an elephant with his fist. Generally among the top
fighters in Shadaloo (not sure if it was officially stated, though I think
it was... it's implied, at least) and thus higher than the VSS. Oh, and
judging by SFZ3, he held Birdie down. Probably weaker than Balrog, so here he
goes. Even if he's an idiot, he's still armed with 'the world's strongest
punches'...
Cammy: She's better than the other VSS but weaker than Balrog. ...wow,
that was easy. During Z2 she was considered by Shadaloo to be on par with
Sakura, so it's feasible to place her one tier below Sakura now with her
psycho limiter installed.
Zangief: A bit hard to tier, but being implied to be Russia's greatest
warrior should account for something. He's better than R. Mika (it seems
he goes easy on her in SFZ3 and all), and R. Mika is most likely better
than Dan, so Zangief gets to go here.
T. Hawk: He can beat (and most likely actually has beaten) the VSS Juli
and possibly Noembelu, and could lay a few dents into SF2 Vega. ...Another
easy one.
Dhalsim: A bit hard to tier, but he's been going around doing lots of good
things for the world and has that fire power granted by Agni. There might be
more that I should poke Saiki for, but overall, this is a pretty good guess,
I think.
Alex: Alex is better than all the other SF3 characters (besides heavy
hitters like Ryu and Oro, who he never had to fight) as can be seen by him
winning the SF3 tournament. However, he's still not really that high up
since Ryu beat him VERY easily in Third Strike. Thus he only gets to be a
tier higher than where the other SF3 characters go. He's below Hugo even
though they never fought because Hugo actually put up a fight against Ryu.
Eagle: His SFZ3 storyline seems to put him on the same level as Guile
at the very least. However, assumedly Guile has improved significantly
by SF2, so Eagle during SFZ3 would be below Guile during SF2 and thus
Eagle's latest appearance goes here.
Birdie: Powerful enough to temporarily stop the VSS' assaults on him,
using whole train parts, yet still gets owned by Chun-Li and spills the
whereabouts of Shadaloo's psycho drive base. He didn't impress Vega for
nothing.
Tier 6: The extras
Basically everyone else but Dan and generic Shadaloo soldiers (who are
officially stated to be skilled but weaker than the VSS) go here. Hard
to tier among them exactly mainly due to lack of existance of factual
*comparative* data for a large majority of them. At any rate though,
they're definitely weaker than everyone else above them. Karin loses to
Sakura, the VSS lose to Rose, Cammy, and T. Hawk; E. Honda loses to
Sakura, every SF3 character not above this tier loses to Alex or Hugo,
etc. Moving along, good reasons for guestimates from here on IMHO are...
Tier 6: All the characters listed have been stated to beat other skilled
people, even if none of them were actually non-nameless goons. Or...
something to that effect. The twelve VSS are each stronger than each of
the other 2000 skilled martial artists in Shadaloo (They aren't called
elite for nothing), Rolento and Sodom (per Saiki) rise above all generic Mad
Gear members to be bosses, Karin loses to Sakura but still puts up a good
fight so she's probably only a tier lower, Necro is implied due to all his
genetically enhanced abilities that probably give him an edge, and Dudley beat
lots of guys in his boxing career to earn money to buy his dads' things back.
Juni, however, might be a little higher due to her augmentation she developed
from scanning Gouki.
Tier 7: 'Grown-up' nobodies and young'uns who impressed Gill and others.
E. Honda rose to become a good sumo wrestler at least, but not sure if that
says enough for him. He beat Sodom in SFZ2, but that's because Sodom was
fighting as a sumo wrestler and thus not using his primary fighting style,
so... (frankly, by now things become so blurred that these guys could
probably go into tier 6 anyways, applicable to Hakan although he's placed
in 6 because Viper and even Seth at least initially had a higher consideration
of him).
Makoto managed to narrowly beat Fei-Long in SSF4, and Ibuki, Yun and Yang all
impressed Gill enough to enforce their current needs to be met. Ibuki
especially has potential to straddle higher tiers if she would only take her
ninjutsu upbringing more seriously, but noting that Makoto's impression of
Ibuki goes from being a bloody shame in SSF4 to finally considering her a
somewhat cautionary threat by 3S, not looking to happen.
Tier 8: 'Teeny-bopper' nobodies. Poor Elena, R. Mika, Remy and Poison just
don't have enough official statements implying their good abilities to go
higher. Er... no offense to these characters with the 'nobody' remarks of
course. They're probably really skilled compared to the non-fighting
population.
Tier 9: Characters that Capcom of Japan just doesn't seem to like :P Well,
okay, Dan's probably weak on purpose, though he does manage to inch his way
into Seth's tournament, and Rufus has had a few victories under his belt.
Tier 10: Judging by where Capcom seems to be going with Sean, it seems
like he really IS weaker than Dan at this point. It's like a joke in
itself, almost. Almost like when Sean says "Hey, I'm not Dan!", he's
right. He's not Dan. He's worse! Even Dan doesn't get his ass kicked
THAT often in the official storyline. Sure, it was to Ryu and Ken, but
Sean gets portrayed as getting kicked around a lot more than Dan too.
Another note about these tiers.
The tiers generally try very hard to refrain from using circumstantial
evidence in gauging characters, anyway. The circumstantial evidence is
brought up, but not used as a means to solidify each character in their
tier. What is used to solidify each tier is generally factual information
from who is proven to be able to win over another character from their
battles with each other.
Truth of the matter is, the tiers of Street Fighter fall into place VERY
easily (at least, compared to SNK where at least I personally am having
lots of trouble making sense of how certain characters could logically have
won certain battles that officially happened. This may be because I do not
have all the official information though, of course, and that makes a BIG
difference. Such as Ryo beating Geese in AoF2 only because Geese was
testing him). I was actually surprised at how much thought Capcom
apparently has put into who officially won each battle and who officially
didn't (and from looking at the official statements of Ryo vs Geese, I
wouldn't be surprised if SNK put that thought into their fights too. Again
though, I don't know all the official info so...). Any official battle
where a lower tier character beat a higher tier one, it's very obvious from
the nature of the dialogue between those characters that the higher tier
one let the lower tier one win, or was just testing the lower tier one.
(Gill vs Alex for the winner of SF3, Balrog vs Cammy in SFZ3, Yun and Yang vs
Gill in Third Strike, Gouki vs Ryu in SFZ2, etc.)
So far, I have yet to see Capcom ever make a character win a battle to the
extent where it was basically like "okay, even if this character is
logically weaker, we want this character to win this battle in the official
story, so he will." The tiers are made up based on which characters beat
other characters for sure in battle, and which were just toying with
others etcetera, and the fact that a tier list was able to be made with
absolutely no big loopholes whatsoever based off factual information like
that shows that Capcom puts some thought into who wins each battle in the
storyline.
...the exception being SF2, but then again, Capcom never announced who won
the SF2 tournament. I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't just because
they knew that it'd be ridiculously hard to justify a winner without
screwing up the power tiers.
They aren't 100% sure of course. In real life, one player winning against
another player once wouldn't have everyone saying that person is definitely
100% better, but because characters in Street Fighter don't fight each
other hundreds of times over (the exception being Ryu and Ken), we have to
go by what little data we have to gauge things. It's the best we can do in
a crappy situation, but you don't have to take the tiers as a bible if you
don't want to. Just an educated guestimate.
pgVIIStoryWriters. Who is responsible for this mess!?!?
I know not much about Capcom employees and which ones were most
responsible for writing out the plot to the various Street Fighter games,
but Sano came up with some good conjecture which is copy-and-pasted here.
I think Funamizu was the main guy myself, or at least oversaw and had final
word on all of the storyline aspects. Akiman didn't have much involvement
in the SF Zero series, that was mostly Bengus and Bengus didn't have much
to do with the SF3 series, that was some Akiman, mostly Kinu, Shoei and
others. Funamizu was there for all of these games as general producer and
was there from the beginning, SF1. Okamoto too but he's an executive
producer, they are usually far removed from things like storyline but have
final say on things if it's something they really don't like.
If you read Funamizu interviews, he doesn't like making sequels. There was
one I posted here a while back, one in SF Eternal where the general vibe he
gives off is "But the players want another sequel, SIGH..." When Capcom USA
asked him to make a sequel to SF1, he made Final Fight, LOL!
Anyway, my guess is that the attitude of 'throwing away most of the old cast
and bringing in a new cast' - SF1 to SF2, SF2 to SF3 - is his way of making
sequels but not really, so that seems to be a big part of making SF what it
is. And as you know the Zero series is a 'filler series' so anything goes
there. Just my personal theory here.
After the storyline person for Vampire left for Arika (Junichi Ohno),
Funamizu was able to carry the storyline without him for Vampire Savior,
that leads me to believe he has mad storyline skills because Vampire Savior's
storyline is nothing short of brilliant.
Nishitani Akira who left for Arika might've been a main storyline person for
SF2. Some parts of the SF EX Series seem like they keep more of the SF2
realism and less of the anime SFZ/SF3 stuff. They even kept the 'old
Shadaloo soldier outfits' with Cracker Jack, and Capcom with the SFZ series
has gone with the more military look of the SF2 Animated Movie (he left with
Ohno).
And I'm not sure if Ohno had anything to do with SF2, but my guestimate is
that he was in charge of SF EX's story.
(Editor's note: Most of those guys including Funamizu are gone from Capcom
now :( )
Keiji Inafune was one of the developers for Final Fight and SF2. He's the
guy that Capcom Studio 8 ran their FF Streetwise stuff through (assumedly
including its storyline) and had final word on that. Likely the same
with Final Fight Revenge but that's conjecture.
For SF4 and SSF4, the most prominent story providers are the game developers
in collaboration with artist Ikeno.
pgVIIPronounce. How do you pronounce certain Street Fighter character names?
Special thanks to Saiki again for much of this.
Ryu - sounds just like the Ryu in "shoryuken," one syllable.
Blanka - rhymes with Tonka.
Sagat - Suh-got is the literal pronounciation. However, the Thai
pronounciation is Sah-Gat, with Gat rhyming with Butt. Also, Americans as
a cultural thing sometimes pronounce the A as O.
Zangief - it should be pronounced Zan-gief. The gi should almost sound
silent but is still pronounced.
Dhalsim - Dahroo-seem is the literal Japanese pronounciation. The Indian
pronounciation, however, would be Dal (as in Car) Sim. Actually, that's
how it's written in katakana too.
Gouki - Go-key.
Fei-Long - the g at the end should be silent under literal pronounciation.
However, Chinese pronounce the g, and Fei-Long is Chinese, so the g should
probably be pronounced.
Balrog - Bal-rog. Bal rhymes with ah.
Dan - Dahn (Hibiki Ran's name rhymes with Dan's also).
Juli/Juni - Yooli and Yooni. Also since there are several other females with
similar names:
Julia - Guile's wife (Yoolia), Julia - Hawk's sweetheart (Joolia),
Juri (Joori), Julia - SF3 judgment girl (Joolia), Julianne (Joolianne)
Jiuyu - Jew-yoo.
Yanyu - Yahn-yoo.
Karin - Kah-reen. Not pronounced Karen.
Rolento - the o at the end should be silent. This is a limitation on the
Japanese language. It's still spelled Rolento though (most of the time).
Necro - Neck-row.
Urien - it's supposed to be Jul/rian with the J being silent.
Chun-Li - Chun rhymes with tune and Li is pronounced as Lee.
Abel - Ah-bell.
Maki - Mah-key.
Fair Libra - first syllable of Libra is pronounced the same as lie.
pgVIIWutSources. What are all these "All About [whatever]" books anyways?
For a metaphor that might help some people about what the "All About"
series is about, the "All About" books are to fighting games what the
"Perfect Works" books are to RPG's. IE, THE sources to go to for canon
official info on a game or game series, whether it's shown in the game(s)
or not (even RPGs often have canon info that couldn't be shown in the game
but is still officially true).
For those who still don't know what I'm talking about, "All About" books
are basically books that get their information straight from the company
and are widely renown for their credible info and dissections of fighting
game storylines and designs. There's an All About SNK, All About Vampire
Savior, All About Capcom Fighting Games, etc. As stated at the top of this
Plot Guide, All About Capcom (Well, actually, it's All About Capcom
Fighting Games, but people generally refer to it as All About Capcom or AAC)
is one of the main sources, though Saiki and vasili10 also have many other
official credible sources, including All About Street Fighter Zero 3, even.
pgVIITiamatJerk. Why do you sometimes get so defensive about this plot guide?
Well, this mainly only applies to those people that question this plot
guide's credibility more than anything. Even after months of research and
careful combing through everything with a fine-toothed comb, it IS still
possible to make mistakes after all, so it's understandable that people
would be able to still find some things that really are genuinely wrong in
the guide.
(Warning. Rant ahead)
HOWEVER, when people dare to say stuff like "I'm not buying what you say is
official statement here" (see the notes above about how I can't PROVE most
of these official statements unless people go out and get the official
Capcom source books themselves) or saying that I'm purposely lying or
whatever general "This FAQ is not to be believed!!! The author must be
lying and making up information!" statement or implication as a whole, I
tend to get just a wee bit miffed. When you spend more than two months
painfully researching a subject, reading dialogue FAQs and having to deal
with Capcom of America's BUTCHERED text scripts and thus having to ask
Japanese-speaking friends if things are truly supposed to be the way the
games portray them, CONSTANTLY asking people with the official sources
questions and for confirmations on every little detail you see on the
Internet which is constantly full of fancanon and not the official canon so
sorting out the truth is a PAIN IN THE ASS, chewing through mailing list
discussions for quotes from those trusted and well-known Street Fighter
story gurus with things like All About Capcom with a fine-toothed comb
THREE TIMES EACH JUST TO MAKE SURE, and participating in and CONSTANTLY
monitoring a more-than-1000-post-long Street Fighter story thread with
many other gurus asking for official confirmation on EVERYTHING, as well as
having to deal with something as RIDICULOUSLY convoluted as the Street
Fighter storyline, and EVEN making sure to mark EVERYTHING you got from the
games and not from official sources just in case those might be wrong also
(Capcom doesn't make official statements about EVERY aspect of the
storyline, needless to say, so I have to rely on what I can gleem from the
games' dialogues and events in many instances, and I've made sure to mark
all the times where I had to do so), and ALL because you just did it out of
the goodness of your heart to show to the public and finally let everyone
enjoy and be able to make some sense out of the Street Fighter storyline in
a GARGANTUAN 1.58+ MB FAQ that took you another month just to finish writing
the damn thing, you'd be EXTREMELY PISSED too, whenever the thing was
brought up into question by people who obviously didn't do as much research
as you did! For those who still don't believe this FAQ and choose to bash
it on the public forums to everyone, then go research the Street Fighter
storyline for two to three months STRAIGHT, yourself (nevermind the fact
that I'm STILL getting official confirmations about things in the FAQ to
this day just in case), INCLUDING ONLY OFFICIAL SOURCES (You'd better know
how to read Japanese or know a friend that does), come back and then we'll
talk!
Besides, if you flame the plot guide, you're not even really flaming just
me. You're flaming EVERYONE who spent so much time and effort working and
collaborating together to get this plot guide up, and I tend to get even
more ticked off when I see people flaming my friends more than when I see
them flaming me.
I'm getting sick and tired of crazy people who say this plot guide is 'the
most ridiculous thing they've ever read' or that 'that author is
purposely LYING in the plot guide to brainwash us about the Street
Fighter storyline!!!' when they themselves are so blind that they still
think that SFZ3 takes place after or is a remix of SF2 despite insane
in-game evidence to the contrary, or others who claim this FAQ is wrong for
whatever stupid reason they RANDOMLY came up with without spending TWO+
MONTHS looking these things up and confirming them! If you don't like it
and see fit to go around blasting it all over public message boards, go
research Street Fighter and official statements and Capcom developer boards
and Japanese books that got their info straight from Capcom and discuss it
with other SF storyline versed people in a storyline thread that spans more
than 1500 posts, ALL for more than two YEARS, then write your own stupid
1.6+ MB Street Fighter story plot guide!
Note that the above only applies to people who flame the plot guide in an
insulting manner or in a way that tries to shoot down or question its
credibility as a whole. Otherwise, feedback and all is generally welcome.
I also don't mind (but also don't CARE either, in most cases, so don't
expect too much of a response to them) if the stuff marked as conjecture is
questioned because those are just conjectures anyway. At any rate, even
after months of research and careful combing through everything with a fine-
toothed comb, it IS still possible to make mistakes after all, so it's
understandable that people would be able to still find some things that
really are genuinely wrong. But PLEASE try to make sure that you're
ABSOLUTELY SURE of what you're saying if you're going to question something
marked as official (bring along official proof while you're at it). When
you receive FIVE different messages from five different people who didn't
do the research about the same aspect of the plot guide that they think is
wrong when you got the official confirmation that it's definitely right, it
tends to get VERY ANNOYING. Even then, try to use official statements to
back it up. Also note that I generally don't and won't trust in-game
evidence too much unless it's really glaring.
(end rant)
pgVIINextSF. When can we expect the next SF storyline canon game?
After SSF4 with AE, Ultra Street Fighter 4 released in 2014. Beyond that who
can say.
pgVIISFLicense. Did Capcom of Japan sell the Street Fighter license to Capcom
of America? I heard rumours about this.
Judging by how all copyright disclaimers on the official Street Fighter Zero
3 Double Upper website say copyright@capcomofamerica or so, I'd say yes.
Posted by Akiman on his site. The post was later deleted.
It seems that Capcom of Japan has sold the rights of Street Fighter to Capcom
USA. This will potentially make it harder to create images for Street Fighter,
since now those will have to go through Capcom USA instead of COJ." The rest
of the text seems to be (nervous?) laughter.
Posted by Jerry at SOTA's boards on Nov. 10, 2004 regarding the sale.
it's true..happened a couple weeks ago. It doesn't affect us at all as we're
friends with both ends of Capcom.
Don't have any more details than that. Capcom of Japan seemed a lot
more lenient and less restrictive with what Capcom of America could do
with new Final Fight Streetwise than with old Final Fight Revenge, though.
On a side note, there IS a overseas continuity that Capcom of America
is rather adamant about people following for whatever reason. They didn't
even let Living Room Games use ansatsuken for Ryu's fighting style in the World
Tournament Street Fighter RPG (that's since been cancelled). Living Room Games
eventually had to compromise and use "Gouken-Shotokan" or something like that.
So from Capcom of America's point of view, it's not a mistranslation so much
as their own version of the continuity. Not that that really means much to
most people (me included) or this guide.
pgVIIRandom.
Q. BOOBS!
A. SFZ3 Ladies Bust Size Lineup (in cm)
R. Mika: 97
Rose: 96
Juli: 92
Chun Li & Juni: 84
Cammy & Karin: 83
Sakura: 80
This was in a Gamest issue due to a fan's request, big shocker there.
Q. The Street Fighter Live Action Movie rocks!
A. From Udoneko (Erik Ko of Udon comics, doing the Street Fighter Comic):
It is funny, 'cause whenever I mentioned the live action movie to Capcom Japan,
they will always say, "Let's not talk about that..."
Q. How about distinguishing the ansatsuken characters' styles?
A. Gouken, Ryu, Ken, Sakura, Sean: Goutetsu's ansatsuken utilizing kikouhou
Gen: souryu/mourning style & kiryu/hateful style ansatsuken
Gouki: Goutetsu's ansatsuken maximizing satsui no hadou
If any defining of terms is necessary (ansatsuken, Goutetsu's ansatsuken, etc.),
those can be in the miscellaneous notes of each character.
Well, one more here for now since it applies to two groups:
Q. What is a prime field and how does it apply to the SF universe?
A. A prime field in algebra is a group or set to which anything can complement
it (add, subtract, multiply, square, etc.) without any operation restriction.
For the SF universe, Vega's empty Seth's are called prime fields because they
are 28 vessels which can receive his soul without any compatibility issues.
And each of the girls of the Vega Bodyguard Troops, also known as the VSS,
are considered psycho power prime fields, in that they were meant to receive
psycho power without any adverse effects, save the possibility of Vega dying
since he has them so brainwashed their neural networks will cease to properly
function and totally collapse (and in turn affect the rest of their systems)
if something happens to him.
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pgVIII. Credits and Special Thanks.
A list of people that helped out a lot with figuring out what's official
and what isn't, whether it be by discussion or by pointing out and giving
info from Capcom's official statements, as well as trial and error from
time to time. The discussion generally mostly took place on the shoryuken
forums (http://www.shoryuken.com). Many of these people also collabarated
together in the writing of this FAQ, too.
Saiki (for whom without this FAQ wouldn't exist at all. Also for All About
Capcom info and official bios and official confirmations and tons of really
vague info that's really hard to find these days, but is still true. He's
the true SF storyline guru. Ah, to be able to read Japanese...wish you'd come
back to SRK and stay Saiki-sama!)
Tiamat (whose made his best efforts to maintain this guide for over six years
plus. He's a guy if you didn't figure that out from various points in this
FAQ, despite how Tiamat is a female name ^^; Oops. Well, I didn't know when
I took the moniker up... Thanks for everything James :))
vasili10 (translation of Gen's ansatsuken styles, Patricia's age, TONS of
stuff. He can read Japanese also. Current primary translator and maintainer
of the guide)
FistsOfFury (who started the storyline thread at shoryuken.com)
Clay (lots of various details, tons of discussion and bits about Ryu and
Gouki, kept the thread very active and alive so that eventually...)
Golden Hell (Golden Hell could come along:P Besides the storyline
discussion, also invited and showed Saiki the thread)
Golden Dragon (general thread participation and details. Woke me up about
FF2 details. Some translating of bios, lots of other web translations)
Siegfried (Final Fight tidbits, lots of various general thread tidbits...
Also Fighter Mania. http://kattuggla.oru.se/dmd01/dm0103/test/ Siegfried's
awesome website was very good for reminding me of the finer details to
include)
Anthony Collado (Sano) for a bunch of random stuff
Ultima (general thread participation, discussion, and details and a good
chunk of it. His webpage of rambliness is at http://uramble.com/sfp)
Azrael-Sama (ditto, besides the webpage link :P)
Berias (also ditto)
Geocide (erm, more ditto^^; Hey! It's hard coming up with these credit
descriptions!)
Grenade Falcon (ditto, etc., etc...)
hcparker (Birdie with Titan the Great art confirmation, yada yada)
Igatona (Muscle Bomber and especially Super Muscle Bomber info)
redwiz (Rolento's last name in the SFZ2 flyer)
Nakkurusu (Hugo vs Alex special intro symbolism)
Trutenor (Elena being from Kenya)
Tool_028 (more miscellaneous details)
Muskau (symbol on Remy's jacket)
LucasBishop (ditto. Getting contributionary discussion tidbits from lots of
nice people. Later on, lots of Streetwise stuff too)
El_Gado (Streetwise voice clips apparently for Sodom and Poison)
Roland Kie aka Rokiseph (tons of info on past events with Gouki from a
Japanese mook)
Duke Serkol (minor correction in Yun and Yang's section)
Nael Masood (extra PJA evidence on it being a separate continuity from
Street Fighter)
Isaac Hamler aka Sagatryu on SRK (various SF interview info and Shadaloo's
spelling)
TAS (various Capcom art department info)
Eric Musashi (various Shotokan info regarding Ryu and co and Makoto)
dario venier (meaning of Illuminati)
D. L. Bryant (more Shotokan stuff)
Lord Vega (Karin and Nash birthdate possibility info and other miscellaneous
info)
Andrew Wilgus (Andore Jr., Hugo, and SF2 character invitation observations)
Lantis (SFZ2 stages, other)
Bowling Pin (stuff)
Circular (jutsu and do for the Ken shinryuken paragraph)
Koufuku (Urien's iron)
Special thanks also to Gilgamesh (from another thread. Various miscellaneous
details I accidentally forgot about. http://www.kikouken.com)
Ansatsuken (from that same thread with Gilgamesh. Various corrections,
miscellaneous details, lots of stuff on Gen, making me realize just how
much I fubarred some parts of this FAQ... hey, it's a big FAQ. :P)
Kitsune Sniper for the real name of Thunder Hawk's father
TS for some voice actor stuff
Jabel D. Morales for pointing out that Chun-Li's name is spelled as Chun-Li
in the Japanese version of CvS2
Hatsumomo (translating plot guide into French, some HnN stuff)
Chris of Dash no Taisen (I don't think the webpage is back up yet) for
talking with Siegfried who then relayed the information to me for this
guide. Info includes Mike not-equal Bison and VSS names and such
Eric C. for wushu info
Thefightisall for translation of ijime as bullying/teasing for Kimala
Noe Valladolid for some more judge birthplaces and for wrestling leagues
j g for some small Alex bio info from the Gamefan strategy guide
Olvier Hague for correction of Lee's relation to Yun and Yang
Zamuel for pointing out Patricia's age in Gamefan is probably wrong
Richard for a lot of characters' location info
Luis Coelho for some Akuma kanji play on words from Byakko
RamirezPlatinum for a Gouki design realization
Shin mech gouki from the SFD forums for T. Hawk's SSF2 stage location info
Mohammeda1i for some location info
Brandon Gordon for Guile's stage from SFZ3 for Dreamcast
aerialgroove for many other miscellaneous tidbits
Muscle Buster for bringing up Sagat's tiger uppercut origin
My friend Mess for where the VSS girls' uniform came from
My friend Juppo for a whole bunch of various error corrections
EscoZG for more insider information (since he's gone to work for Capcom now)
SiYkO for some Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter Dan corrections
Spoonman (name switch of Balrog, Vega, M. Bison, that I kept forgetting to
put in here)
Tamron Maggitt (FF3 boss bios. Abigail King Diamond reference)
The S (various stuff)
Jin Phoenix (various stuff)
Anon Spectre (various stuff)
Jigsaw (translating informative FF:Streetwise interview)
Jonny2x4 for digging up Capcom's old 2I character intro page and SSF2 attack
sequence translations from consoles
E-Man for noting on Andre the Giant's death and the Andores
Achuu-Ma!! from the SFD forums for noting Blanka's new shackles in SF4
Carmine for noting about Arroyo's name origin
Mikrós for notes on the hidden blinking sign of Balrog's SF2 stage
AJ for various supplemental voice actor and saikyo ryu info
Jerry of SOTA toys (for being president of a great toy company)
various info from contributors at gamefaqs.com and arcade-history.com
Udoneko (Erik Ko of Studio Udon, makers of the new SF comic. He's posted
some informative official bits at shoryuken.com here and there)
And that's it for the list o' credits.
Special Thanks to Lantis, because looking up dialogue in an SFA3 Ending FAQ
is soooooo much easier than replaying the darn game over and over again.
You can find Lantis' ending FAQ at http://www.gamefaqs.com/ Go there for
the specific dialogue for each character and ending because I'm too lazy
and I'm not sure if it's ethical for me to steal them from Lantis and plop
them here. Another good place to go for nearly all overseas SF endings is
the video game museum archive at http://www.vgmuseum.com/ They have
screenshots of all the SFA3 endings in their PSX endings section for instance.
Oh yea, and special thanks to Capcom. Because I actually LIKE Street
Fighter's plot (though I would have preferred that SF3 be connected just a
little bit more to previous games, at least).
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pgVIIISources. Sources
All About Capcom Head-to-Head Fighting Games 1987~2000
All About Street Fighter
All About Street Fighter Zero 3
Eiga Street Fighter II Memorial Koushiki Fanbook
Official Street Fighter Zero 3 Guidebook Challengers Edition
All About Street Fighter 3: New Generation Fighting Bible
Street Fighter Eternal Challenge
Street Fighter 15th Anniversary
info from Capcom's official website (http://www.capcom.com)
statements by Capcom employees including two of Saiki's contacts (ONLY to
confirm stuff from the books, not ask for new stuff)
The Arcade Flyer Archive (http://www.arcadeflyers.com) including scans of
Capcom Secret Files for Z2, NG, 2I, Z3 and 3S
SFII: Hadouken no Nazo (an SF paperback. AKA HnN. Mysteries of the Hadouken)
SF II The Complete File, Asahi Sonorama editions, December 1992 (A nice
summary at http://www.insertcredit.com/features/makingsf2/)
various Gamest Issues (16, 51, 52, 61, 169, 255, etc.), Special Issues/pre-mooks
(64, 77, 108, 120, etc.) & Mooks (1, 16, 17, 35, 75, 81, 159, 185, 194, 196,
etc.), Gamest World Issues (2, 8, 14, etc.)
FF1 & FF2 Official Guidebooks
poster from the Final Fight GSM Capcom 3 OST
V-JUmp MUscle Bomber sourcebooks (for wrestling federation names, etc.)
Japanese arcade pamphlets for SF1, 2I, and SF4
Street Fighter 1 Game Simulation Video
All About Series 11 (SFZ), 14 (SFZ2), 16 (SFZ2A)
Street Fighter Zero Comic (for its pre-Zero 2 SF Chronology feature presented
by Capcom)
SF2 Himitsu Hyakka
SSF2X Revival Head-to-Head Strongest Manual
Club Capcom and Cap! issues (particularly #8 & #13)
SF33S Official Guidebook (from Aspect & Capcom/mostly another verifying source
to mirror scarce 3S material)
http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~yamasai/story/stary-top.htm for console version
intro stories on TONS of FC and SFC (NES and SNES) titles including Final Fight
Tough/3.
Street Fighter 4 Master Guide Arcadia Mook
Street Fighter IV The Complete Guide
Street Fighter Artworks Ha
Super Street Fighter IV Character Art Collection booklet
Street Fighter IV & Super Street Fighter IV Official Complete Works
Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition Arcadia Extra Mook #85
Ultra Street Fighter 4 Art Collection booklet
Ultra Street Fighter 4 Arcadia Extra Mook
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pgVIIIArtCaptions.
Gamest/Complete File/Eternal pic set (what might've been potential SF2 ending
portraits, but didn't make the cut so-to-speak)
E. Honda
Gamest: "Hey! Put more hip into it as you're washing!" The students and
cleaning up together.
File: Honda commands, bath cleaning following splendid training. "Hey!
Put more hip into it as you're washing!"
M. Bison
Gamest: "Uugh, I've won in spite of Las Vegas' strongest..."
File: "Uugh, I've won in spite of Las Vegas' strongest..."
The enlivened man's back is turned back to the height of the glamorous stage,
in some respects the title is loneliness.
Balrog
Gamest: As such is the case beautiful things will be permitted their existence.
Relaxation in the mansion.
File: The strong will continually be beautiful.... As for the non-beautiful,
the non-strong, they will not be allowed to enter his mansion.
Vega
Gamest: "Lord Vega, the psycho power's extinguishing of intensity." "I've
lost my astuteness."
File: Fighting wounds still no injury. "I've lost my astuteness." Even in the
face of the invincible fighting king, it gradually invites irritation.
Ryu
Gamest: With those boys recalling the time of childhood with Ken.
File: While watching over the figures of the boys,
thinking of his own youth period training together with Ken day in and day
out....
Ken
Gamest: A drive in the car with Eliza....
File: Ken taking Eliza out for a drive.
With hard rigorous warrior training daily, did it now turn into something of
long ago...?
Chun Li
Gamest: "I've returned to an ordinary girl." Friends and a trip abroad.
File: "I've returned to an ordinary girl," says Chun Li but,
now training however is her primary daily task.
Guile
Gamest: Detached from the daily struggle, Guile tides over sharing happiness
together daily with the family.
Today painting single-handedly with his daughter, they proceed on the garage
wall.
File: Until spoken of as the world's strongest Major Guile also, returned to
his family as a good papa.
As a figure enjoying coating with paint smiling with his daughter, it's
happiness.
Dhalsim
Gamest: Talking of remembering the quality of meals. A family get-together
illustration.
File: Our family get-together in India. The time of proudly talking to my
son while recalling congratulatory victory at the fighting tournament.
Blanka
Gamest: Jimmy and Mother shopping out.
"He's scaryyyy!" "Don't look!"
File: Jimmy having become a completely civilized person, he goes out shopping
today with Mother.
"That man is scaryyyy!" "Don't look!"
Zangief
Gamest: Zangief in the pursuit of knowledge at the Soviet mountain recesses.
"I am the man with a body of steel, uoh."
File: "People, would no doubt shatter with my training!"
Having awakened a brown bear in the middle of hibernation, the struggle
challenged Zangief.
Sagat
Gamest: Sagat as 1 man in the pursuit of knowledge. When will be the day
he fights to become the world champion once again?...
File: Coming days upon coming days, Sagat continues training alone.
When will be the day of his comeback for the throne of the world's strongest?...
Complete File pic set
Zangief
199X ??, ?? Stepping out onto N.Y.'s streets, having seized a purse snatcher.
"Like this many will fear doing crimes."
M. Bison
A barroom quarrel-picking Bison.
"It's easy to be a hindrance for inviting girls. 3 fired strikes is a KO."
Guile
Captain Guile in the midst of military operations.
(in those days.right side of picture)
Blanka
"Wh, what in the world is that?" "He can't be from our university...?"
"......Sir, you can't eat anywhere else right?"
Ken
"The guy's at the extent of having become stronger...!" Ken while studying
his own weaknesses, having improved, wanted to prepare for the next fight.
"Ryu!, I'll show you that I'm definitely the man who has surpassed you!"
Balrog
"How unsightly, I am. This is as though it's the face of the defeated______"
Chun Li
"Poo, terrible face....... This is what no one accepts."
Dhalsim
Bathing Kodal in the river. Passing through the tender times."
Ryu
At the time of a tour in Asia, it's the victory congratulations at a
village's martial arts tournament, from the village headman "Accept the
girl already!!" says he, the scene of Ryu's gatherings.
E. Honda
Honda leaving the area. Another intense fight begins.
Sagat
"With the fight as the supreme pleasure, victory is true happiness."
Vega
After Ryu's magnificent battle, news of Vega ceased.
However the guy will surely return. Becoming a revenging demon.......
SSF2 pre-mook pic set (16 of these later became the SSF2X ending portraits,
most of them can also be seen in the Gamepro SSF2 guide)
The Daily Warriors
Vega
Vega: "The world is already in my hands. I will utterly defeat foremost
those who interfere."
Chun Li
Chun Li: "Hey, isn't this nice? Just a little lighter than my body likes
to wear however...."
M. Bison
Bison: "Heheheh! This is only a warmup! Tonight's opponent will be thus."
Old man: "This will be how many that were insufficient?"
Ryu
Ryu: "My struggle isn't over. As many strong ones as possible in the world."
Fei Long
Fei Long: "Feelings of tension before the actual performance...However
compared to fighting with real swords..."
Blanka
Blanka: "Uwo! Uwo! Uwooh." Aahn. (translation: Dear Amazon!
I want to quickly go back. But until I search out Mama......!!)
Balrog
Balrog: "Blood starving beasts, tonight for a short while the claw is
sharpened, rest a moment...."
Guile
Guile: "Nash! By these dog tags I'll surely avenge you! Your regret,
I will definitely clear away! Without fail!"
Sagat
Sagat: "Eventually once again! (pushup grunt!) Watch me for my
comeback at the emperor's seat! (pushup grunt!) Ryu!, just you wait!"
Dhalsim
Dhalsim: "For me to not neglect my pursuit of knowledge is for the sake
of rescuing the weak!"
Dee Jay
Dee Jay: "ZZZ...... I'm the champion of both music and fighting. ZZZ......."
Ken
Ken: "It's a moment of relief to love Eliza. But this is a tiring battle!"
E. Honda
Honda: "Dosukoi. Dosukoi."
New student: "Wooah, today he's really yelling isn't he."
Cammy
Cammy: "It's been a while since the mood's been good for going shopping.
Come now, I'd do it rather than laundry."
Zangief
Zangief: "How's that! This body's beautiful! I among winners and such
cannot be existing but above this earth."
T. Hawk
T. Hawk: "When coming into contact with animals, the earth's voice is
heard from the tribe's pride and courage being aroused."
Fei Long #2
Fei Long: "As an action star I grant the dreams of children.
However, to these kids I cannot show my true form."
Balrog #2
Balrog: "Within the beautiful masks continue well-polished masquerade
balls, and even this night...."
Cammy #2
Cammy: "Eheh (smugly), where did you go? Let's quickly go back home."
Some nice links for artworks:
www.fightingstreet.com (lots of rare arts, rip-off info plus inspirations)
www.arcadeflyers.com (lots of official flyers)
www.fightersgeneration.com (lots of art)
www.cammyfan.com (12 VSS art, slightly edited to add their names)
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vasili10 is not remotely affiliated with the latter four to my
knowledge and does not officially endorse nor condemn those sites and
their personal opinions (not that that applies to arcadeflyers).
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