This one's for you,
Mr. Robotto
.
Job #10: Unrepped Series Fighter - Terry Bogard (Fatal Fury)
Some of you probably saw this coming as he was in Smash before, but I was admittedly surprised when Kyo was brought up as the first SNK fighter over him in this project, though I'm fine since others like Iori tend to be asked over as he officially doesn't have a crossover guest role yet.
Anyway,
Terry Bogard is the main protagonist of the
Fatal Fury series created by SNK Corporation for their Neo-Geo console/arcade-hybrid system in 1991, the same year when Capcom released Street Fighter II: The World Warrior, designed by
Takashi Nishiyama who even created the first Street Fighter game itself. It is known for it's two-plane system, that allowed fighters to dodge their opponent's attacks by stepping between the planes. The franchise itself received the prequel series (
Art of Fighting, which had Geese as a secret final boss in the second game, like how Ryo Sakazaki did in Fatal Fury Special, which started "dream matches" in SNK's history), a trilogy of anime/OVAs, mangas, drama CDs and even guest appearances for various games like Geese in Tekken 7, Mai in Dead or Alive 5, etc.
The Legendary Hungry Wolf himself, Terry is an American fighter who entered the worldwide "The King of Fighters" tournament alongside his younger brother
Andy and friend
Joe Higashi, to avenge his adoptive father,
Jeff Bogard, by going after his murderer,
Geese Howard, later on becoming the surrogate father for his son
Rock, after he finally died in Real Bout Fatal Fury. He became SNK's
most iconic character and their mascot after Athena, prominently appearing on their merchandise and even regularly in their flagship series, The King of Fighters, and appeared as a guest character in other games, including the Capcom vs. SNK series, Arika’s Fighting EX Layer and Nintendo's famous Super Smash Bros. series, which's creator Masahiro Sakurai himself was
inspired by SNK's games.
Terry is an all-around fighter who uses a mixture of various martial arts styles such as boxing, karate, kung-fu, kickboxing and street fighting moves to create a very unique fighting style, mixed in with chi techniques learned from his Hakkyokuseiken master,
Tung Fu Rue, that allows him to perform various of his signature techniques such as (obviously, he wouldn't use the MAX Mode gimmick unlike Kyo):
- Power Wave: Terry punches the ground, creating an energy wave that travels forward across the ground.
- Round Wave: Same as Power Wave, except that Terry creates a short-ranged shockwave blast instead when punching the ground.
- Burning Knuckle: Terry dashes forward with his arm extended while it's surrounded with blue energy, knocking the opponent in-front of him.
- Crack Shoot: Terry jumps forward in an arc as he flips with his foot outstretched while performing an overhead axe kick.
- Rising Tackle: Terry jumps into the air and spins around upside-down with his foot upwards, performing an anti-air corkscrew kick that hits multiple times.
- Power Dunk: Terry leaps into the air, hitting the opponent twice with his knee and then performs a downward-angled diving punch towards the ground like a slam dunk technique in basketball matches, considering his love of the sport itself.
- Power Charge: Terry charges forward on the ground, hitting the opponent with a shoulder tackle.
- Power Geyser: Charging up chi energy into his fist, Terry punches the ground so hard that it will erupt a big geyser of energy in-front of him.
- Buster Wolf: Terry quickly rushes forward with his fist extended as he shouts his infamous "Are you okay?". If he hits an opponent, he will create a energy explosion with a second strike by punching with the same fist to send them flying away.
- Triple Geyser: Same as Power Geyser, except that Terry punches the ground three times to summon a chain of three consecutive Power Geysers forward instead. Following three moves can be used for a Final Smash-like ultimate move akin to Triple Wolf, next ones replacing Power Dunk and Buster Wolf respectively.
- Star Dunk Volcano: A powered-up version of the Power Dunk technique, which Terry starts by performing a brutal knee strike on the opponent's stomach, launching them into the air. He then catches them with a Power Dunk and upon descending, creates a huge geyser upon impact which surges through the opponent, launching them airborne.
- Stardust Ignition: Terry's new Climax Super Special Move in The King of Fighters XV, in which he tackles the opponent before uppercutting them and charging enough chi into his fist to make a large pillar of chi strike them, acting like a combination of Power Geyser and Buster Wolf, as he calls it: "Buster Geyser!"