History Characters / TheRumbleFish

* LauncherMove: Her Trick and Tease Critical Art in the first game is an awkward variation of this. It can be cancelled as well as having different ending results.

** His Extension Heat Boost Dive (which is an alternate version of one of his Offensive Arts in the first game) flat-out gives him SuperArmor for the whole duration, making his attacks very hard to punish/breakthrough if timed right.

* FingerPokeOfDoom: Also works as his main mechanic. His Sunny Finger-based moves all fill up his Scorpion counter by 1 unit per successful hit, which can do quite a few wonders when he manages to land his Offensive Art successfully on someone...
** Regarding said Offensive Art, Boyd also performs one where just after landing from his attack right on top of the opponent's head, then leaps off and gestures his fingers to shock them.

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass[=/=]LetsGetDangerous: Something a bit more visual. Boyd normally looks like a happy-go lucky old man....but if his glasses are destroyed through the game's universal clothing damage mechanic, he'll reveal a very nasty and angry side to him that's quite the literal killer, as well as looking down on his foes more.

* ChainPain: His Crotalus Fling and Laticauda Capture (which is a grab version of it). A Offensive Art version of it in the second game known as Crotalus Barrage has him performing a SpamAttack with it.

A [[{{TheStoic}} stoic]] man fighting for himself. Originally of the Valor Gang during its height of fame, Zen is one of the few survivors of its downfall. He wanders the around searching for foes to fight as many people who have heard of his name fear him like so.

A [[{{TheStoic}} stoic]] man fighting for himself. Originally of the Valor Gang during its height if infamy, Zen is one of the few survivors of its downfall. He wanders the around searching for foes to fight as many people who have heard of his name fear him like so.

*** PowerPalms: Renhekishou (Chain Breaking Palm), where he performs the second part of his SP Kouhazan as an overhead.

* SNKBoss: His first game's incarnation is quite broken with VERY fast jab/light punch and light kicks speeds, and the properties of his special moves are greatly enhanced (and it's saying something in that ''even his Defensive Art'' does decent damage). This even applies to his playable version.

* DifficultButAwesome: Hazama's got a ton of versatility in his tools, being able to draw out combos from almost anywhere and having a ridiculous amount of mindgames he can play with his opponent. However, using any of his tools incorrectly can lead to a few disastrous punishments, so you still need to put some practice into using him. Using him well allows you to combo your opponent very well with his basic tools and to use his more complicated ones to make your foe have second thoughts about pushing buttons however.

* DifficultButAwesome: Hazama's got a ton of versatility in his tools, being able to draw out combos from almost anywhere and having a ridiculous amount of mindgames he can play with his opponent. However, using any of his tools incorrectly can lead to a few disastrous punishments, so you still need to put some practice into using him.

His fighting style is known as the Hakkaiken (Tearing Spray Fist), a modified form of personal martial arts styles.

* DivingKick: His Offensive Art, Tenra Sou'unkyaku (Heaven Gauze Spearing Cloud Leg) is a horizontal version of this, where he'll fire a ki projectile and while in slow-motion, kicks right into the said projectile to absorb it and kick through his opponent. He then does a BadassPose and cause his opponent to explode a bit before turning back around.

* LauncherMove: His Kuukashou (Air Suspending Palm). The SP

* StanceSystem: His main gimmick a la his Kaishin Ruten no Kamae (Stance of Turning Body Vicissitude), where he shows his BadassBack in a low bending stance with 4 followups (5 in the second game) available, barring being able to cancel it.
** Two of his special moves' strong button versions automatically also go into this stance, via the Tenrinshuu and Shinku mentioned above.

** Also done via her crouching strong/heavy punch attack on airborne hit and the HK version of her Biting Jest.

* SlideAttack: Her Biting Jest. The HK version also leads into a LauncherMove should it connect properly.

* {{Shoryuken}}: His Shiny Punch attack. The HP version has A TON of priority over other moves in the game, but is easily punished. He also does one during the HP version of his critical art as the finisher.

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* StanceSystem: His main gimmick.

A large man with a white mane of hair. He is a merciless fighter who has taken the lives of many people. Once known as the the "Vlad" of PROBE-NEXUS, he first made his appearance in the same wrestling circuit Orville was taking place in, seeking his prey. Hikari and Kaya's father was one of his many victims.

* DeathFromAbove: His Antler special move, a overhead dunking red-energy heel kick.

** Also played straight with his Gae Bolg, a parry move that is [[DifficultButAwesome VERY HARD]] to time compared to the universe Impact Break mechanic. Also in the second game and during a said Impact Break, his Ga Baud, where he PowerPalms forward during for some solid knockback.

* AudiblySharpClaws: Not audibly, but more so flaming, via his Brunac special move.

* PracticalTaunt: His Pilum (latin for Pike) command normal, a palm attack move that can't be cancelled, but has great followup potential if you land a counter hit with it.

* SNKBoss: His boss version in the first game has several enhancements not gained from the player version.
* TheBerserker: Somewhat in his playstyle as well. A strong Greed player is a powerful

[[spoiler:His original name was Rouge]], and he used to be a close friend growing up alongside Zen during their times in the Valor Gang. However,

* PlayingWithFire: A ton of his moves also have fire-based names.
* PublicDomainSoundtrack: His stage theme is a remix of Bach's "Air On The G String".
* TheBerserker

Zen was the canonical champion of the F.F.S., having defeated an old associate named Rouge to prove himself. But by the second game, he is visited by the mysterious Hazama to be goaded into participating in the 6th tournament with the possible wish of meeting either Greed or Rouge once more.

* TheRival: To Greed. They used to grow up together during the times of the Valor Gang's height of fame.

* DisappearedDad

* {{Disappeared Dad}}

A large man with a white mane of hair. He is a merciless fighter who has taken the lives of many people.

A short, elderly man who can emit shots of energy from his fingertips. He's actually an assassin hired to kill anyone participating in the F.F.S.

* DifficultButAwesome: Trying to use his attacks properly is a bit difficult without getting punished to say the least, due to his lack of a far ranged game (unless he uses his Boost Dive, Sunny Shot, to turn his Sunny Finger into actual projectiles). However, should you accumulate his Scorpion counter enough with well-landed Sunny Fingers, prepare for the ''massive'' payoff from landing his Super Shiny Punch if so.
** That, and at least he has some powerful punishers in the form of his Shiny Punch and Fancy Kick, and an opener throw with his Mellow Throw command throw. His Soirée Chop is also an overhead needed for some mixups, as well as the fake/feint version added in the second game.

* FlungClothing: His hat, which he throws to the background before a match, since there's a creature (possibly his pet) underneath it. His victory pose has the hat return to him.
* NerdGlasses: If they come off through clothing damage, they'll reveal a rather fearsome and angry face behind his typical demeanor.

* ShockAndAwe

* UseYourHead: His new Super Steel Head Offensive Art in the second game, and the finisher to his LP version Critical Art.

A [[{{TheStoic}} stoic]] man fighting for himself.

* HelloNurse: Despite not being an actual nurse. Her outfit is actually made by Abel for not only RuleOfSexy, but it works as her main battle suit.

** FunnyBackgroundEvent: Her co-worker Abel pops up on the opposite side holding up a sign. The person that appears changes in the second game due to Abel missing during that game's story.

** Again for taking the real cake, her second Critical Art due to its very out-of-place command.

A playful woman who's a hacker as her main profession in terms of all sorts of info-gathering, legal or illegal. She mainly attacks with her legs.

** FunnyBackgroundEvent: A random dude with a pole-sign (which is someone she used as a footstool in the first game's console opening only in the said first game) also pops up on the opposite side. The person that appears changes in the second game.

* HelloNurse: Despite not being an actual nurse.

* LauncherMove: His Strike Burst is a grounded Axle Strike followed from two hooking punches that carries the opponent up pretty high upon connecting.

* {{Shoryuken}}: His Vertical Strike is a kick version. His Strike Burst is a grounded Axle Strike version of this that launches the opponent up pretty high.

** Not only does he have a standard projectile in the form of his Vanishing Strike, but he also has a stronger delayed version called Axle Strike, and even a faint version of said Vanishing Strike as well.
** His entire Vanguard Strike series of three multi-inputs not unlike [[VideoGame/StreetFighter Fei Long's Rekkaken]], which have a feint, overhead and low followup each. There's also a low version of Vanishing Strike as well.