I’ll submit
Jean Valjean from
Les Misérables.
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Les Misérables is a famous novel written by Victor Hugo, later adapted to a stage musical (as well as a few other adaptations in other media), which takes place in France from 1915 to 1932, also the year when the “June Rebellion” took place. There are a good few characters with their own subplots, but Jean Valjean is the main character, pretty much. He is a paroled criminal trying to lead a normal life, but is consistently pursued by Inspector Javert.
Why am I placing basically a human from the 1800’s with no supernatural qualities into this? Well, for one, both the novel and the musical are incredibly successful and influential. Two, it is incredibly incongruous to have him be in a fighting game, but…there already is a Les Misérables fighting game. As you may or may not be aware,
Arm Joe (a pun name based on the Japanese title of the book/play) exists, with various characters from the original work, including, of course, Jean himself, throwing down and pulling out Street Fighter-esque moves, as well as strange extrapolations of their characters. This really would fit into the modus operandi of this thread. We have a wide variety of iconic characters from various mediums to put into here, both fitting for a fighting game…and not. But that’s at least half the fun of it, I suppose.