History Characters / VirtuaFighter

-> '''Voiced by:''' [[note]]Takenobu Mitsuyoshi (''Virtua Fighter''), Creator/ShinichiroMiki (''2'' onward, anime [Japanese], ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive5''), Tony Schnur (anime [English]), Creator/MuhammadHadaki (anime [Arabic])[[/note]]

-> '''Voiced by:''' [[note]]Unknown (''Virtua Fighter''), Creator/JunkoIwao (''2''), Creator/MinamiTakayama (''3'' onward, ''Dead or Alive 5''), Creator/NaokoMatsui (anime [Japanese]), Creator/AmyTipton (anime [English]), Creator/HazarAlHerek (anime [Arabic])[[/note]]

-> '''Voiced by:''' [[note]]Unknown (''Virtua Fighter''), Creator/ShigeruChiba (''2'' onward), Thomas Bruning (anime [English]), Mohamed Khair Abou Hassoun (anime [Arabic])[[/note]]

-> '''Voiced by:''' [[note]]Unknown (''Virtua Fighter''), Dennis Gunn (''2 onward''), Nidhal Hammadi (anime [Arabic])[[/note]]

-> '''Voiced by:''' [[note]]Unknown (''Virtua Fighter'', ''2''), Ryan Dress (''3''; recycled audio from 4 onward), Dean Harrington (''4'' onward; new dialogue), Creator/RyuzaburoOtomo (anime [Japanese])[[/note]]

-> '''Voiced by:''' [[note]]Takenobu Mitsuyoshi, Creator/KiyoyukiYanada (anime [Japanese]), Geoff Whitesell (anime [English]), Creator/AdelAboHassoon (anime [Arabic])[[/note]]

-> '''Voiced by:''' [[note]]Unknown (''Virtua Fighter''), Lynn Harris (''2''), Chloe O'Connor (''3''; recycled audio from ''4'' onward), Colleen Lenki (''4''; new dialogue), Lisle Wilkerson (''5'' onward, ''Dead or Alive 5''), Creator/MayaOkamoto (anime [Japanese]), Juliet Cesario (anime [English]), Amal Omran (anime [Arabic])[[/note]]

-> '''Voiced by:''' [[note]]Unknown (''Virtua Fighter'', ''2''), Eric Kelso (''3'' onward, ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive5''), Creator/YasunoriMatsumoto (anime [Japanese]), Michael Granberry (anime [English]), Iyas Abu Ghazalah (anime [Arabic])[[/note]]

-> '''Voiced by:''' [[note]]Hitoshi Takagi (''2''), Mahito Tsujimura (''3'' onward), Creator/AdelAboHassoon (anime [Arabic])[[/note]]

-> '''Voiced by:''' [[note]]Unknown (''2''), Jeff Manning (''3'' onward), Creator/TetsuyaIwanaga (anime [Japanese]), Jonathan Frappier (anime [English]), [[Creator/MansourAlSalti Mansour Al-Salti]] (anime [Arabic])[[/note]]

* FightingWithChucks: For one episode in the anime, complete with FunnyBruceLeeNoises.

* DarkSkinnedBlond: Like a few other black women in the fighting game genre ([[Franchise/StreetFighter Elena]], [[Franchise/TheKingOfFighters Dolores]] etc) she sports bleached white hair and a dark(ish) skintone. The pattern was arguably started as a ShoutOut to Storm from ''ComicBook/XMen''.

* DarkSkinnedBlond

* ArabOilSheikh: Has that look about him.
* ArabOilSheikh: According to the [[AllThereInTheManual official guide]] of ''Fighters Megamix''), he is one of these. He uses his immense wealth to start his own fighting tournament after failing to qualify for the previous competitions in the last ''Virtua Fighter'' games (presumably making the game said tournament he is hosting).

->[[LegacyCharacter He is the tenth-generation of Kage-Maru]]. A member of the Hagakure clan, he was raised by the ninth-generation Kage-Maru and the eighth-generation Tsukikage, his father and mother respectively. His father trained him in the Hagakure style Ju-Jutsu to prepare for his birthright. Years ago, his mother was kidnapped by a mysterious figure and never found. Years later Kage-Maru's entire village was burned to the ground and his father was killed by a gunshot. Kage-Maru discovers that Judgment 6 is responsible for all of it and enters the first World Fighting Tournament seeking revenge. \\

He competes in the tournament but doesn't discover anymore information on J6. He enters the second tournament when he discovers that his mother, who was transformed into Dural by J6, is alive. He saves Tsukikage but she ill due to an after-effect of becoming Dural. \\

->Sarah is the younger sister to race car driver Jacky Bryant and master of western-style Martial Arts.[[note]]In Japanese, the English term "Martial Arts" is used as a loanword to refer to a particular style of combative sports.[[/note]] She is kidnapped by Judgment 6 after she investigates a mysterious accident involving Jacky. She is brainwashed by J6 and ordered to kill her brother in both the first and second World Fighting Tournament, failing both times. \\

At the end of the second tournament, Jacky rescues her but her memory is completely erased. She discovers training helped regain her memory and enters the third tournament hoping it would help her remember. Afterwords, Sarah had fully regained her memories, but also remembers what J6 did to her including trying to make her kill Jacky. \\

->Jacky is a professional racecar driver, a Jeet Kune Do practitioner and older brother to Sarah Bryant. Jacky was caught in a horrible accident and had to endure two years of grueling rehab to recover. He discovers Judgment 6, is behind the accident. \\

Around that time, his little sister Sarah disappears. Jacky enters the first World Fighting Tournament to find J6, who sponsors the tournament. He faces his sister but fails to rescue her. He becomes a Jeet Kune Do instructor and enters the second tournament intent on trying again to rescue his sister. \\

When he does rescue her, poor Sarah's memories are erased after they tried to un-brainwash her. When Sarah enters the third tournament, Jacky enters secretly to protect her. When she regains her memory and reunites with him, Jacky tries to focus on starting on his own racing team. \\

->Dural is the name of the final boss of ''Virtua Fighter''. She is a bald, nude woman covered in metal (usually silver) or stone. There have been several versions of Dural over the course of ''Virtua Fighter'''s history. The first Dural originally was Tsukikage, [[{{Ninja}} a member of the Hagakure clan]] and Kage-Maru's mother. Years ago she was kidnapped from her village. This was the work of the corporation, Judgement 6, who used her as their prototype for their Dural project. \\

Brainwashed and armed with various cybernetic enhancements she became a cold, unfeeling, cyborg. She was the final boss for the first two World Fighting Tournaments until Kage-Maru rescued her. Tsukikage was returned to her human form thanks to her son but became ill because she needed a part from the new Dural model. \\

The second Dural was defeated by Kage-Maru in the third tournament and he got the part he needed for Tsukikage. The part however turned her back into Dural and she escaped with the help of J6. A third Dural interrupted the fourth tournament but was defeated. \\

->An aged master of the Drunken Kung Fu who enters the second World Fighting Tournament after one of his friends mentions how successful the friend's student is doing in recent tournament competitions. After the tournament he discovered that one of his students, who he also raised, was participating. He never had the chance to talk to him and wanted to know where he was this whole time. \\

Shun enters the third tournament to get his answers. Afterwards, a letter was sent from the student saying he was trying to escape from Judgement 6, but was recaptured. When no follow-up letter from his student arrives, Shun enters the fourth tournament for answers. \\

->Young Lion Rafale is a wealthy Frenchman who learned Praying Mantis style from his father since he was five years old. Tired of his father's interference in his life, Lion enters the second World Fighting Tournament, winning his independence if he won the tournament. He lost in the first round to Kage-Maru, but the experience awakened the fighting spirit inside of him. \\

He trains harder to improve his skills and enters the next two subsequent tournaments. Again he intended to win both times but fell short twice again. After the fourth tournament, Lion found documents linking his father's company to Judgment 6. \\

->Aoi is a childhood friend of Akira Yuki and an Aiki Ju-Jutsu master. She was inspired by him to join the third World Fighting Tournament, to prove her her fighting ability. After she loses in the first round, she trains in Aikido, Kobujutsu and other martial arts in preparation for the fourth tournament. \\

He was defeated by several fighters in the tournament, and felt shamed. He initially became unmotivated in returning to sumo wrestling. With the help of his old sumo coach he trained hard to return to the sport. \\

Lei-Fei eventually does attack Lau, not wanting to wait to learn the secrets of Koen-ken. He almost kills Lau but Pai, Lau's daughter, interferes. Failing his mission and not learning Koen-ken at all, Lei-Fei trains harder to be prepared to defend himself from those who'd harm him. \\

->As a child, orphaned when her parents were killed, Vanessa was abducted by Judgment 6. She was trained to be a living weapon well learned in the art of Vale Tudo. A member of the special forces named Lewis infiltrated J6 and rescued her, but he was killed shortly after. \\

Years later, Vanessa learned that J6 was targeting Sarah Bryant and volunteered to be her bodyguard. Vanessa joined the fourth World Fighting Tournament due to her duty to Sarah, but to also find out who killed Lewis. Midway through the tournament, Vanessa disappears, reappearing at the Bryant's house months later. \\

->Raised by her grandfather after her parents died, Eileen learned Monkey Kung-Fu from him at a young age. To improve her skills she worked as an actress for a Beijing opera troupe for many years. She happened to see a martial arts demonstration by Pai Chan, and was amazed by the beauty of her movements. \\

->Jean is a young Frenchman and at one time a friend to Lion Rafale. The two would boast who had better martial arts, Jean's karate or Lion's kung-fu. Jean was kidnapped by Judgement 6 and like Vanessa Lewis and Goh Hinogami he was trained to be an assassin. After Goh failed in his mission in the fourth World Fighting Tournament, Jean enters the fifth tournament to usurp Goh's mission and kill several of the fighters. \\

->Siba is an Arab fighter who was intended to be in the first ''Virtua Fighter'' game. His character model even appeared on older arcade cabinets (sometimes with the name "Akira"). Siba, was scrapped shortly before the game's release. \\

* CoolSword: Siba uses a scimitar that deals a good deal of damage.

* ShoutOut: Clearly based on Arab-themed wrestler {{Wrestling/Sabu}} from both his name and appearance. Though American, Sabu had been with Japanese promotion FMW since the mid-80s and was one of its biggest stars by the time of the first Virtua Fighter game. As he was still obscure in the US, they may have been concerned that people would not see the reference and think Siba was intended as a terrorist character. By the time Fighters Megamix came out, Sabu had returned to the US and established himself as a star in ECW and WCW, thus making the reference more obvious to people. and a likely justification for his inclusion in the game.

%% * [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative Bitch]]

* AwesomeMcCoolname: Don't lie, you'd kill for a last name like "[=McWild=]".

* CryCute: During her game over countdown in ''Final Showdown''.

* CryCute: During her game over countdown in ''Final Showdown''.

* ShesGotLegs: In ''5'', some of Vanessa's costume options really show off her well defined thighs and calves. [[StreetFighter Chun-Li]] would be proud.

* SupportingProtagonist: While Akira is the face of the franchise, [[StreetFighter much like Ryu]] his character arc is secondary to the ones involving J6, such as Jacky, Sarah, and Kage-Maru. Even in the anime, Pai's character arc takes more precedence over Akira's, who is more or less just swept up into the plot because he happened to be in the right place at the right time.

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* ScaryBlackMan: Sort of [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] in the first three games, then taken UpToEleven from the fourth game onward.

%%* KnifeNut: Even licks Jeffry's blood off of it.

* AnimeChineseGirl: A variation on the usual {{Qipao}}-clad Chinese fighter.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: His hair is a rather dark navy blue.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Her refusal to brainwash Pai at the of Season 1 is what ultimately stalls the marraige long enough for Akira and the others to arrive to Pai's aid, ultimately derailing Liu's plans in the process. Subverted as it's implied she did this intentionally to screw with Liu in th end, having conditioned the brainwashing to break with the TriggerPhrase "you may kiss the bride".

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Her refusal to brainwash Pai at the of Season 1 is what ultimately stalls the marraige long enough for Akira and the others to arrive to Pai's aid, ultimately derailing Liu's plans in the process.

* FrenchJerk: A [[DownplayedTrope downplayed example]]. He's French and pretty full of himself, but not a full-blown
erk. He's just overconfident, that's all.

* WrestlerInAllOfUs: {{Justified|Trope}}: Pankration was born out of the Ancient Greek boxing and wrestling, the latter of which created many of the modern wrestling holds.

* MagikarpPower: Initially, he only has access to part of his movelist. Take enough swigs from his gourd, though, and he gets the full one.

* ForgottenChildhoodFriend: Of Jean.
* FragileSpeedster: One of the faster characters, but not very durable.
* FrenchJerk: A [[DownplayedTrope downplayed example]]. He's French and pretty full of himself, but not a full-blown jerk. He's just overconfident, that's all.

* DarkSkinnedBlond: Like a few other black women in the fighting game genre (Elena, Mali etc) she sports bleached white hair and a dark(ish) skintone. The pattern was arguably started as a ShoutOut to Storm from ''ComicBook/XMen''.

* MulticoloredHair: Possibly. His Torn Blaze Mask custom item shows he has blond hair on top (which would make him a DarkSkinnedBlond), but his cowboy hat item shows he has dark brown hair in the back as well.

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* WrestlerInAllOfUs: {{Justified}}: Pankration was born out of the Ancient Greek boxing and wrestling, the latter of which created many of the modern wrestling holds.