The Street Fighter Plot Canon Guide Ver. 4.8 ************************************************************************** ************************************************************************** UNDER CONSTRUCTION UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE (most likely the dust will settle by ver. 5.X or so) ************************************************************************** ************************************************************************** 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 to 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. 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 Etc. etc. Etc. I'll probably use more acronyms but you should be able to figure them out. Contents: (use the find feature control-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. pgIIIAboutFinalFightRevenge. pgIIIAboutFFSW. pgIIIAboutCaptainCommando. pgIIIAbsentGames. pgIIIVSGames. pgIIIAboutAnimeEtc. pgIIISFComic. pgIIIContinuity. pgIIIReleaseDates. pgIV. Quickie Game Summaries (control-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 pgIVSF3. Street Fighter 3 New Generation/Second Impact pgIVSF3TS. Street Fighter 3 Third Strike pgIVFFSW. Final Fight Streetwise pgV.A-Z Master Character Index (control-f the page number to find that char) pgV2Ill. pgVAbel. pgVAbigail. pgVAdon. pgVAlekseyZalazof. pgVAlex. pgVAndore. pgVAstro. pgVBalrog. pgVBella. pgVBelger. pgVBirdie. pgVBlack. pgVBlackWidow pgVBlanka. pgVBratken. pgVCaine. pgVCallman. pgVCammy. pgVCarlos. pgVChang. pgVChunLi. pgVCody. pgVCViper. pgVDamnd. pgVDan. pgVDave. pgVDean. pgVDeeJay. pgVDhalsim. pgVDrake. pgVDudley. pgVEagle. pgVEdiE. pgVEHonda. pgVElena. pgVElFuerte. pgVElGado. pgVElStinger. pgVFeiLong. pgVFreak. pgVFreddie. pgVGeki. pgVGen. pgVGill. pgVGouken. pgVGouki. pgVGuile. pgVGuy. pgVHaggar. pgVHakan. pgVHandsomeBob. pgVHarryHicks. pgVHugo. pgVIbuki. pgVIngrid. pgVJessica. pgVJoe. pgVJuli. pgVJuni. pgvJuri. pgVKarin. pgVKen. pgVKimalatheBouncer. pgVKyle. pgVLee. pgVLocksmith. pgVLucia. pgVLuckyColt. pgVMBison. pgVMaki. pgVMakoto. pgVMike. pgVMissingGomes. pgVMysteriousBudo. pgVNash. pgVNecro. pgVOro. pgVPaco. pgVPhillipe. pgVPoison. pgVQ. pgVRMika. pgVRemy. pgVRetsu. pgVRetu. pgVRipSaber. pgVRolento. pgVRose. pgVRufus. pgVRyu. pgVSagat. pgVSakura. pgvSnHRyu. pgVSean. pgVSeth. pgVSgtSims. pgVSheeptheRoyal. pgVSodom. pgVStray. pgVTHawk. pgVTitantheGreat. pgVTwelve. pgVUrien. pgVVanessa. pgVVega. pgVVictorOrtega. pgVVitto. pgVWonWon. pgVWong. pgVWraith. pgVYang. pgVYun. pgVZangief. pgVI. Antagonistic Organizations (plus Metro City for FFSW purposes) pgVIMadGear. pgVIShadaloo. pgVISkullCrossGang. pgVIHMKS. (placeholder for the Secret Society) pgVIMetroCity. pgVII. Miscellaneous Questions pgVIIDestroyPsychoDrive. pgVIISatsuiNoHadou. pgVIIReconciliation. pgVIITournaments. pgVIIWinners. pgVIISF3Beauty. pgVIIStages. PgVIIVoiceActors. pgVIISF3Judges. pgVIISpecialMoves. pgVIIPowerTiers. pgVIIStoryWriters. pgVIIPronounce. pgVIIWutSources. pgVIITiamatJerk. pgVIINextSF. pgVIISFLicense. pgVIILiveAction. pgVIIRandom. pgVIII. Credits and Special Thanks and Author Contact Info pgVIIISources. pgVIIIArtCaptions. pgVIIIContact. ********************************** pgI. Revision History - 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. ********************************** 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 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. 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. 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 official 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 Street Fighter 4, 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. It remains to be seen what the upcoming Street Fighter World Warrior Encyclopedia will do. ********************************** 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 3 (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) 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 late 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.) Going back to how I said that Capcom has 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 that shortly after FF:SW was released, the American Studio that developed it (and Maximo, and had the team that made FF:R), 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. 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. 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 the US 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. By now, Capcom seems to have disregarded many Final Fight 2 plot details...) 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 Cammyfans with Cammy's Official Shadaloo story, to the point where most people can't believe it to be true) 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) 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 1980’s. 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 CWA’s 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 “crash carnival,” to decide the new king of the CWA. The gong that determines the new “Master of Muscle Bomber” 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 2 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 the longest time). 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 latest 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 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 an 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 badguys 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. So that revival is probably going to be short lived. 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 ’89 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 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 characters 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 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. 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 the exact same thing pretty much 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 Sagat and Vega's 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 Master Characters list. Street Fighter Zero 2 Boss Battles Any SFZ2 Boss Battle that had no dialogue before it definitely did not happen, and thus will not be mentioned here. Like Street Fighter 3rd Strike will all those Gill boss battles, Capcom doesn't include storyline dialogues for battles that didn't happen in the story. 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 Masters Character List 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 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 useful. 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 him. 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, though. 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 into 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) was making 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, knocks 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 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 of 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 the 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 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: Like Street Fighter Zero 2, for Street Fighter Zero 3, characters are basically just going around filling 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 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 Masters Character List. 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 plotguide, 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 tried to brainwash Ryu into giving into psycho power. Ryu has an inner conflict with himself on whether to give in, similar to his conflict to give into 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 guesswork 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 shitenoh [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 shitenoh 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 shitenoh 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, Mertz, Satsuki, Santamu, Xiayu, 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 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 dolls (it's possible that Cammy's battle with Vega took place right after all other twelve dolls 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 Masters Character List 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 above. 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 doll. 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 the 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 threw 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 dolls 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 dolls 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 dolls were quite young, though. Chun-Li vs Vega - Chun-Li finally finds Vega and fights him 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 doll 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 doubt 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 using a toned down version of 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 masters character 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'd up 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 dolls 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 doll 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 anyway), 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 pro-wrestler. 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 though 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 dolls 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 dolls 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 doll 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 dolls 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 dolls 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 dolls) 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 where 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 is head of 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 got electrocuted and blown up. Ouch.) As stated previously, Capcom doesn't seem to really care about 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 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 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 much 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......? **************************************************************************** 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 Mash 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 ********************************** pgIVSF4. STREET FIGHTER 4 Canon date: 1994 (approximately 1 year after SF2) Gameplay: Almost a decade after the last release of Third Strike, Capcom Japan brings out what was planned as Super Street Fighter IIX 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! ***************************************************************************** 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! ****************************************************************************** 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. 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. Dhalsim vs Rufus - Not sure, not too important either way, but most likely Dhalsim does manage to baffle the stuffings out of Rufus if they meet. 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 - Might've happened outside the tournament. Otherwise their meeting didn't occur at all for both of them to make into the lab, unless Abel won their battle and/or Fei Long's ending scene is just for his movie. 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 during SF4. 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 most likely happened as it is another two-sided battle with no major conflicts. 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. M. Bison vs Chun-Li - Probably doesn't happen since both are free to rummage through the lab in their endings. Rose vs Ryu - Probably didn't happen. Both Ryu and Rose are active in the lab for their endings, so I don't see how that could take place if they met prior, in particular with Rose, as opposed to her just testing Ryu when they fought in Z3, trying to actually stop Ryu from proceeding. Rufus vs Ken - same as Ken vs Rufus Ryu vs Sagat - Doesn't happen. Sagat still remembers the fight with psycho Ryu in Z3 as shown in his ending, wonders if he's actually changed since then, and professes that only Ryu can respond to that. Maybe he does give Sagat an answer sometime between SF4 and SF3, but not during SF4. Sagat vs Ryu - same as Ryu vs Sagat Sakura vs Ryu - Doesn't happen. Though it's used to reveal that Sakura has aged, her ending notes that she and Ryu hadn't run into each other during the tournament before she sees him attacking BLECE. 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 - Like with Fei-Long 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 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, the return of bonus stages, and a "stilling" of character prologue animation. Nearly all new random win quotes, completely new character win quotes minus those to the character's self which appear to be eliminated entirely with the exception of Seth's since there's more than one of him running around anyway, and sixteen all new rival battles to complement the existing 25 from SF4. Hopefully the upcoming SF4 & SSF4 Complete Works from Capcom Japan will be a text trove as well as an art trove. 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 bretheren 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 __. ********************************** pgIVSF3. STREET FIGHTER 3: NEW GENERATION / SECOND IMPACT: GIANT ATTACK 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 she's the one who brought down "that organization". They don't even have the decency to call that organization by its name (Shadaloo). 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 the Street Fighter 3 tournament so that he may find the 'chosen ones' that are worthy to become part of his plan to create a new utopia. A little visual support for no sans-Ryu+Ken NG beta; Gamest showed it's 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 the SF3 tournament. (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. What's really ironic is that most of the match-ups that have officially been stated to have happened (Ryu losing to Oro, for example, or Oro vs Alex... or more accurately officially, the lack of) are not portrayed at all as mid-boss battles, the exception being Sean, who's final boss is Ken (Sean tells Ken that he finally found his inner strength, then Ken tells him that he'll show Sean that Sean still has a lot to learn). What the heck, Capcom? Oo Well, I guess it's implied that Alex fought Gill, in which case I'm pretty sure that Gill was impressed by Alex's power and decided to throw the match and let Alex win it (Gill didn't enter the tournament and host the tournament to win it, after all. He just did it to find worthy chosen ones). Ah well. Here's the boss battle list for SF3 2I. Remember, the character name that comes first is the one you play as. I won't describe most of these since the majority of them are just small talk or trash talk or taunting or such. 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. Gouki vs Ryu - Ryu tells Gouki that satsui no hadou is thoroughly surpassable. Though I'd be rather surprised if either of these Gouki battles happened (course, if it followed the plot of Street Fighter III Ryu Final, which is a manga done by the same author as Sakura Ganbaru!, this battle would have happened and ended with Ryu and Gouki killing each other. Of course, since both are alive in SF3 Third Strike, that's obviously not the case :P). Alex vs Ken - Sparring match. Eh. Alex vs Gill - Alex fights Gill to avenge Tom getting beaten up. This battle happened, though Gill likely threw it. ...so Alex got to avenge Tom a la Dan style. Yahoo! Dudley vs Hugo - Just a random duel. 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, since Dudley has his car in Third Strike and thus this battle probably happened. Elena vs Ryu - Yet another random fight. Elena vs Gill - Elena tells Gill that martial arts are not meant for hurting others (because remember, kids! Learning to kick others in the face is a sign of FRIENDSHIP!). Gill tells her that he agrees, and instead that martial arts exist to solely exert one's dominance over others, which is probably not the answer Elena was looking for. Eh. Gill vs Alex - It's the same dialogue as Alex vs Gill, for crying out loud. Gill vs Urien - Urien challenges Gill for the emperorship. Gill comments that the world will not be ruled by Urien's dark power because it has already chosen Gill (Hey, Gill thinks Urien is evil while he himself is good? Well, guess that'd make sense). Though this battle probably didn't happen since Urien and Gill both are still at it in Third Strike. Hugo vs Yun - Another match to test each other. 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 (although possibly that's referring to their Third Strike mid-boss battle, come to think about it). Ibuki vs Elena - Really random battle. Ibuki vs Gill - Ibuki challenges Gill to retrieve the G files. This battle probably happened since it's needed for Ibuki's ending, where Gill simply just hands her the files. Actually, SF Eternal hints that it did. Not that it really matters much since Ibuki got the files too late, anyways. 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. Ken vs Ryu - Another fight between the long-time friends. I dunno if it happened though since Ryu's off to travel to meet and fight Ken again in Third Strike (and I don't see why he'd want another match so soon if he already fought Ken in the tournament). Necro vs Ibuki - Ibuki demands that Necro lead her to Gill. 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 vs Gill - Oro wonders if Gill is as strong as Ryu. Eh, probably didn't happen since Oro dropped out of the tourney after his fight with Ryu. 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 in the tournament, after all. Ryu vs Ken - Same as Ken vs Ryu. Sean vs Yang - Random battle. Sean vs Ken - Sean's going to show Ken how he's found his inner strength. Ken says Sean still has a lot to learn, and Ken is probably right, since officially, Ken beat Sean in the tournament and thus probably won this battle. Urien vs Alex - Mistranslated by Capcom of America to indicate that Urien knows Tom when he in fact does not. Alex asks if Urien knows a man named Tom and (in the Japanese version) Urien comments that he can not recall such a name. Eh, doesn't really matter much if this battle happened or not. 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 seems to be a bit jealous of Yun in Third Strike. Yun vs Urien - Urien says Yun should be one of his soldiers, but Yun refuses because he doesn't want to wear that thong that Urien wears ^_~ As for whether it happened or not, probably not, but doesn't really matter much. Yun vs Yang - Same as Yang vs Yun Like the 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. ********************************** pgIVSF3TS. STREET FIGHTER 3: THIRD STRIKE FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE Canon Date: 1999. The aftermath of the SF3 tournament 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). Story: 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 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, like the SFZ2 one. 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 return 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 - Eh... Dudley's ending doesn't seem to have anything to do with this battle, so I doubt it happened. Elena vs Makoto - Elena fights to prove herself to Makoto, who thinks Elena isn't serious enough about fighting to be her friend. Might have happened. Hugo vs Ryu - Hugo seeks out Ryu per Poison's suggestion and challenges him to make him join Hugo's wrestling league. Possibly this is where the official statement that Hugo survived a hit from the shin shoryuken came from. 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 I suppose in Ken's defense here, he gets at least one storyline-significant battle when he fights as Ryu's mid-boss. Makoto vs Ryu - Yet another battle that has nothing to do with the character's ending. Anyways, here Makoto, who has heard about Ryu (he's probably really famous by SF3, after all) wants to challenge him to a match. That's pretty much all Street Fighter Eternal's chart states. Necro vs Twelve and Twelve vs Necro - Twelve has finally caught up to Necro to eliminate him, so they fight it out. But... ironically, neither of their endings mention or completely require this battle, so who knows who won or if it even happened? 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 warriors. What this has to do with his ending happening is beyond me, though. Third Strike could really have used some post-battle dialogues, since as it is, so many of these battles and even character-storylines seem rather filler to me. Ryu vs Ken - Ryu challenges Ken again. For 'fun', of course. This battle officially happened and Ryu officially won it. Sean vs Ken - Sean fights his master for testing purposes. Eh... no big deal. Urien vs Gill - Actually, I don't see how Urien's ending could have happened if this battle did happen, since if Urien won this battle, Gill would already be gone, not in the stasis tank in Urien's ending, and if Urien lost, he'd be too dead to be in his own ending. Course, there's also the fact that Urien's ending seems kinda doubtful, too, in general, though either way, can't see how this battle could have happened. Yang vs Yun - Yang wants to prove himself against Yun, though he denies it when Yun tells him to get over that jealousy. Street Fighter Eternal Challenge confirms this battle. Yun vs Gill - Judging by Yun's ending, most likely Yang was with him for this fight. Here, Yun decides that Gill's ideals are dumb 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 its 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 build 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 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 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 get 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 Keiji Inofune 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 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 Keiji Inafune 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 hotdogs 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 multi-player. 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 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. Among 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 rail-roaded 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 where ever) 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's version, since they're the ones making the game. No mistranslation shenanigans, here! Tom Sekine (head producer, I think) stated in an interview that they pretty much mostly had 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 past 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. 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. ********************************** pgV. Master Character 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 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 game quickie summaries for SF2, and in future updates for Zero 3 and Third Strike. 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. Remember, Final Fight Streetwise might not be canon. Anything taken exclusively from Final Fight Streetwise will be marked as such so you know to take that with a grain of salt. 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 as info becomes available. 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: pgIIIArtCaptions. *** pgV2Ill. pgVTwoP. 2-ILL (formerly TWO.P) He's probably around Cody's age of 39-40 in FF:SW. Perhaps a bit younger. FF1 pallete Two.P's height: 183 cm FF1 pallete Two.P's weight: 82 kg Final Fight One: A member of Mad Gear, his fighting style was similar to J's (cowardly hit and run). He was just a generic enemy, so presumably, Haggar introduced him to the pavement or something. 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 "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 Forgotten 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 bad-ass 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 Vannessa 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 hates being referred to as Two.P in Streetwise (and assumedly being reminded of his days as a Mad Gear member) because he considers those days to be long over. 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 Forgotten 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. 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) Where he is now: SSF4 will most likely tell. 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. ****************************************************************************** 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. 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 Squad, 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 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." **************************************************************************** Highlights: -Adon was also defeated by Ryu, but his anger comes from his master Sagat having been defeated by this outsider nobody. 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. Where he is now: He's still the god of Muay Thai, and shows up in SSF4 continuing to proclaim that Muay Thai is the best; remains to be seen how his reign will unfold, especially after Sagat's SF4 opening showed Adon down on the mat from Sagat's new ultra the tiger destruction. 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......! **************************************************************************** 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. **************************************************************************** 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!" ****************************************************************************** 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. ****************************************************************************** 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. ****************************************************************************** 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 seeked 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." ****************************************************************************** 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. There's an official Zero sketch of Adon with Eagle for some reason. Well, Eagle has a relationship to Sagat (he was hired to go defeat Sagat in the SF1 tournament) which I guess could somehow give him a relationship to Adon, but whatever it is, I don't know it. Most likely just one of Bengus' several SF1 art tributes during Street Fighter Zero. 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 (Gunloc) 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 enters the Street Fighter 3 tournament 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. In the SF3 tournament, Alex progresses up to become the champion. 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 the face of a true man. Alex declares his new journey. To face the greatest fighters in the world![Official] Street Fighter 3 Third Strike: 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 Alex’s back, he is now excited about fighting and searches the world for Ryu and other challengers. He writes to Tom and Patricia, telling them that he is determined to have a rematch and that he can't come home, because he must find Ryu, again [Alex's SF3TS ending] Where he is now: Searching for Ryu and other worthy combatants. Miscellaneous Facts and Notes 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 family to him. Alex idolized Tom as a boy. His goal was to be as strong as Tom. 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 learned that Gill defeated him with ease. The gym Tom manages is located on a military base in NY. Alex lives with Tom and Patricia. All About Capcom and some other sources say Patricia is 14 in NG, which would make her around 15 in Third Strike). Hrm... well, despite how Patricia's 14 years old, it's possible Patricia is in love with Alex (maybe a crush?). There's some art of her in the SF3 secret files flyer that has her kissing Alex near the lips (though Alex seems to be taking it more as just a showing of general affection, despite the look on Pat's face), and another official art with Alex carrying Patricia in his arms and the words saying (in English, too!), "I want you to realize how I feel about you." over Patricia's head. Pedophilia once again wins. And with a quote like "I want you to realize blah blah blah", it's not even the cute kind of kiddie worship. It's portrayed as actual romantic love. ...meep? However, this many arts in the secret files don't seem like they were meant to be serious, but they were done by designers so it could count as being endorsed by Capcom. ...oi. And 14 is/was the legal age in Japan, anyways. Patricia's nickname is Pat. Patricia calls Alex "Alec". Alex's father was in the military, which is why Alex himself is quite militaristic. Tom is a war veteran, too. Unverified: Alex is a retired soldier. This, however, is not mentioned anywhere in AAC far as we can tell. Still checking. Likely, in places this is mentioned, people are confusing Alex with Tom, who is confirmed to be a retired soldier. There seems to be something special about Alex that Gill can sense in him. See Gill's bio for more info. I heard also that this is because Alex was also one of the candidates for rising up to become the next Messiah, but I'd be really surprised now, since there's no evidence and I imagine Alex would have remembered something as big as that. In the American version of SF3, Urien indicated that he knew Tom but that was a mistranslation by Capcom USA. In the Japanese version, he actually says "I have no memory of what you speak of!" when asked about it. Alex's special intro with Hugo is a parody of Hulk Hogan vs Andre the Giant. The way that Hugo (representing Andre, of course) shoves Alex away easily is exactly what Andre did to Hulk. I highly doubt this intro means the two know each other. 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 construction site stage. Miscellaneous Facts and Notes The Andore family in Final Fight 1 consisted of Andore and Andore Jr. as generic enemy sprites, and Uncle Andore, and Grandpa Andore (only on harder difficulty levels did Grandpa appear) as mid-bosses fought in the steel cage at the Westside of Metro City. Andore wears purple, Andore Jr. wore red, Father Andore wore pink, Uncle Andore wore white, and Grandpa Andore wore grey. 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, and Grandfather Andore wears a blue outfit w/ black dots on his tanktop. 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: “Masked 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). 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. 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... 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. Where he is now: Remains to be seen if he'll put the data he got from the lab to any good use in SSF4. 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. 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. 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. ***************************************************************************** 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-Oh (the Grand Four) in some official sources. Balrog is likely the third one. Balrog from Gamest SF2 The shi-ten-oh's hailing from Spain Balrog. From the carrying of that magnificent body people call out to the esteemed masked young nobleman. Genious 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!). (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. 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. ***************************************************************************** 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 Vega’s 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. 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 Vega 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 so many people think 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......" **************************************************************************** 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. *** 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 make 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 dead 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 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, plummetting 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 in 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 manages to get 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 him 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 Nash blew it up [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. **************************************************************************** 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....... 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!" ******************************************************************************* 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 not paying a single bit for the celebration 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!" "......ke! 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!" ****************************************************************************** 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 (his nickname during his prowrestling days) 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. ************************************************************************** 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. ************************************************************************** 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 been 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!!" ***************************************************************************** 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 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 file he finds at the end of SFZ2 is stated to contain numerous secret files, including 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 Muscle Bomber 2 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. pgVDino. 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 narcisism 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 is 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: “Mother Nature's Wild Child” SFZ-era nickname: “Amazon's Beast Being” 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 doll 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. ***************************************************************************** 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. 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. Where he is now: Blanka probably now lives a regular happy normal life with his mom. ...or as much as a green freaky weirdo like him could live. :P His 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. Remains to be seen where SSF4 will take Jimmy. 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. 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. 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!....... ***************************************************************************** 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? ****************************************************************************** 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.... ****************************************************************************** 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 hanged 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. ****************************************************************************** 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? ******************************************************************************* Highlights: -Blanka's skin is green because he painted himself with plants to the point where the chlorophyll became a 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. ****************************************************************************** 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. ************************************************************************** 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. ***************************************************************************** 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. ****************************************************************************** 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. ****************************************************************************** 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. *** 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 over-grown 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. FF3 overseas Bio: Nicknamed "The Destroyer." That says it all. He is considered by far the most dangerous fighter in Skull Cross. Caine's odd movements coupled with his long reach make him a brutal opponent. And throw in his skillful use of a wrench, and you've got an opponent that is hard to get close to. If there is any weakness to Caine, it is his lack of depth perception. Try jumping around and keep moving. He might have trouble finding you! *** 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 (that he's probably the bouncer of), 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 dolls, 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 dolls 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 self-conscious, 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 all almost being killed [Official], but they were finally able to force Vega to retreat. Vega revealed that if he were to die, all of them would die as well, and he told Cammy that she herself was just a copy of him, and that he'll always be in her mind. He then tells the other girls that if he dies, they'll die as well, and that they could never even dream of ever being able to live as humans. Cammy can feel him creeping into her mind, but refuses to listen and give in to Vega, and quickly heads for the psycho drive with the rest of the dolls to save them all. On the way, Chun-Li, who is there to blow up the base, briefly spots her, but only for a split second because Cammy's too fast. Cammy sacrifices herself by staying behind to operate the psycho drive and revive the rest of her doll allies, saying that they aren't just dolls and deserve to live. She tells them that even though she has to stay behind to operate the psycho drive to save them, the rest of the girls will survive and live! Cammy transports them out of the base, 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....... ****************************************************************************** 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, anyways. Cammy is shocked at what she hears. However, her Delta Red teammate (Lita) tells her that it's her future that counts, not the past. Realizing that they're right, Cammy lives her future life with Delta Red to the fullest, and forgets about the past, because the future is all that matters. Why live in the past, after all? [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. 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. 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: Cammy is now living her new life with Delta Red to the fullest at the end of SF2. 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!). 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. Remains to be seen in SSF4 what Cammy and Delta Red will head into next. 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. 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. **************************************************************************** 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." *************************************************************************** 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 nickname 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 Shadaloo Cammy existed). Cammy has a birthdate. Shadaloo created her as a baby and watched her grow. Unlike the other dolls, 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 dolls, Cammy can 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 are Delta Red chief Commander W. Watson Matthew Mcoy- 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 big-ass 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 Pacman. 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 dolls, talks like a robot, though she uses 'normal' speech a bit more often than the other girls, too. For more on the dolls, 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 dolls. 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 bad-ass. 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!? ******************************************************************************* 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-E" 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- . ******************************************************************************* 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!" ******************************************************************************* 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. *** 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 who 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. It says that 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 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 interupted 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 crumpling to 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 riotting 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 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 walk 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 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.. 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 be 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). 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 judgement'. 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's real name is GlycoLauric Octanol. I forget if it's supposed to be all-caps like an acronym, but I like typing it in all caps. "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 convulutedness 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: “Splendor Become Dance Splits the Air” SFZ-era nickname: “Changed Determination Attacks Great Evil” SF3-era nickname: "Graceful Long Beautiful Legs Return” 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. **************************************************************************** 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. ************************************************************************* 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. *************************************************************************** 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). Remains to be seen where SSF4 will take Chun-Li. Street Fighter 3 Third Strike: 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 world of "street fighting" and search for her lost student. [Official] She goes out to investigate, and finds out that Gill's organization has kidnapped her. She finally confronts Urien, and fights for her 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 discovers her new purpose in life (since her old one is finished now that Shadaloo is gone), and she takes the girl in. Six months later, Chun-Li thinks back about what she learned, that day. Now, for her father and her country, as well as all the warm-hearted people she met throughout the world, she shall train the next generation and teach them the true meaning of strength and beauty [from the game]. Where she is now: Chun-Li is training a lot of kids in martial arts and teaching them to be... well, good guys and stuff. [from the game]. 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!! 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. ****************************************************************************** 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. ******************************************************************************* 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. 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. ***************************************************************************** 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." ******************************************************************************* 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! ******************************************************************************* 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 the pic 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 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 new 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 is Chinese kenpo or Chinese martial arts. AASFZ3 emphasizes the "Double Rising Leg Attack" in Chun-Li's fighting style section. 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 SFZ3 in her 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 dolls 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 Bruce Lee posters 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-Li’s father was a detective for the Hong Kong police. He’s 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 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 "sanshokukeri" 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. ****************************************************************************** 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. ****************************************************************************** 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 7000 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. ***************************************************************************** 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). Chun-Li's SF4 arcade ending comments: Chun Li procured the data to reveal S.I.N.'s full story on the 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. *** 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: “Capricious Escaped Prisoner” SF4-era nickname: "Boredom Become Jail-Breaking Criminal" Final Fight One: Cody is told by Haggar that Jessica has been kidnapped by Mad Gear! Being a hero, he sets off to save his friend since childhood and now 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, he 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, too. 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 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 plumetting 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 probably ran into 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 the targets he always sought to beat up were 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. [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. Final Fight One (Not sure if this happened, but as Cody said, it makes for an interesting story): One day, Cody had a strange dream. In it, he found that he was in a strange run down slum. He travelled through it, beating up random thugs, and was confused as to where he was, until he ran into Damnd. Seeing Damnd, Cody realized that, for some reason, he was back in Metro City during the events of Final Fight One! Strangely enough, however, because it's been a while since Final Fight One, Damnd can't recognize him. But Damnd, still a thug since it's back in the past, calls Cody a fool for coming to a place as dangerous as the slums of the Mad-Gear-controlled Metro City alone. Cody remarks that he stopped faking the hero thing, but eh, who is he to turn down a fun opportunity to kick some butt? Reliving the battle against Mad Gear, Cody has the time of his life battling everyone once again. As a restless fighting addict, he couldn't be any happier. Eventually, however, he ran into Edi. E, again. Edi. E doesn't recognize Cody, either, but he does see that Cody's an escaped convict. He eagerly proclaims that he'll arrest Cody and how much it'll do for his career! Cody is extremely flustered, and angrily snaps back at Edi. E, asking how can Edi. E even THINK that he's really on the side of the law? Unlike Edi. E, who continued to pretend that he was a good guy and keep his job as a police officer, Cody had admitted that he had only been a hero for his own selfish reasons. As expected, Cody eventually reached the boss of Mad Gear, Belger, himself. Cody is ecstatic to see Belger again, since Belger should put up a good fight, and Cody can't wait! Belger, meanwhile, is amazed at what he's seeing. Cody isn't a hero! He's a restless youth, just like many other members of Mad Gear! He tells Cody that it looks like Cody's finally found his true calling. Hearing this, Cody angrily tells him to shut up and just fight, because Cody could never be what Belger wanted him to be, despite how he looked! Refusing to ever become a villain, despite everything, Cody beat Belger all by himself, ending the dream. [Conjecture based off in-game storylines] 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. 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 brain-washing properties and forced GLOW's creator, Dr. Chang, 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 brushs 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 dead 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 interupts 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 excitely 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 clean up after the devastation was starting. Vanessa says that the nightmare was finally over andit 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, "Yea, 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 gets a sequel (somehow). Remains to be seen what his involvement in SSF4 will be. 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. (of which Final Fight took a lot of inspiration from) 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 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 w/ 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. ****************************************************************************** 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. 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. 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 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. ***************************************************************************** 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 realized 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 be 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 riotting going on in Cody's SFZ3 stage, too. Of course, with his ability to punch through walls, he has broken out of jail to 'head back to Metro City and cause trouble' on several occasions. The bandages over his hands are there to cover the scars from doing so. It's just that the time he got out of jail in SFZ3, it happened to be due to other reasons. 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 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 have 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). 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). Lucky Colt (of Muscle Bomber) trained under Haggar. He once put the moves on Cody's girlfriend Jessica, so Cody kicked the crap out of him. Cody... does not like it when someone touches or talks bad things about his girlfriend. 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. Either that, or it's because deep down, even if Cody himself doesn't believe it, Cody is still a hero in a way. He generally only goes around beating up bad guys after all, even if he's just doing it for fun instead of doing it for justice. 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 a lot bigger and cleaner than Kyle's. A considerable improvement from the trashcan he'd sleep in in the SFA3 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 interupted. The moral to this story is that drugs do a body good! 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 pro-longed 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 trashcan 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. 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 gunpoint 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). Where she is now: Still working for the C.I.A., and most likely still pretending to serve S.I.N.-sha, unless she actually disposed of #15 and Seth's now going by another number. Remains to be seen where SSF4 will take her. 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. ******************************************************************************* 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 anime 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. ***************************************************************************** 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. 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. *** 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 for the US. 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. ****************************************************************************** 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. 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. Where he is now: Probably still looking for students to teach the saikyo style to, and bailing or getting bailed out of hairy situations as usual. Remains to be seen what other scrapes SSF4 will present for him. 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. ****************************************************************************** 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. 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! ****************************************************************************** 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. ******************************************************************************* 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....... 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. ****************************************************************************** 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!!" ****************************************************************************** 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..." ****************************************************************************** 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. 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 Dragonball 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 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. Capcom since then has decided to retroactively change Sagat's storyline (they retroactively changed Sagat a lot, apparently) so that art and that intro has nothing to do with the actual plot by now. 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 him 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 bust 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, 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 Skull Cross 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 it's unknown. *** 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. 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. 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. ****************************************************************************** Highlights: -Dee Jay's "combat rhythm" from Z3 has apparently graduated to "attack rhythm" by SF2 and SSF4. Alrighty then. 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. Remains to be seen where SSF4 will take him. 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). 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 a creating a real 4th. They let me try and after watch 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. 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!!!" ******************************************************************************* 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. That’s 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 Vega on, 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. ****************************************************************************** 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. 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. 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). Where he is now: Still being a revered philanthropist I'm sure. Remains to be seen where Dhalsim will be led to help out others come SSF4. 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....... ****************************************************************************** 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". ***************************************************************************** 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. 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. 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. "F