History Headscratchers / ArtOfFighting

* Eiji Kisaragi's ([[{{Macekre}} English translation only]]) ending - has him lamenting the loss of his girlfriend to a "long haired" man; that girlfriend being no other than [[VideoGame/FatalFury Mai Shiranui]]. While this has, understandably, caused some fans to think that Eiji and Mai were originally a couple, the "revelation" can become creepy once you find that BonusBoss Geese Howard effectively sets the events of ''[=AOF2=]'' ten years ''before'' the original ''VideoGame/FatalFury'', so [[UnfortunateImplications Mai would have been only 7 years old by then...]]

**** Again, that's in KOF continuity only. Compare Geese's appearance in the 2nd AOF to that in FF1.

** In the first game, you're not supposed to know who he is, so he goes by the moniker "Mr. Karate" (or, more informally, "The Karate Master"). Less dumb than "Question Mark Guy". In SvC Chaos, it's morphed into something of an alter ego, which he uses whenever he gets tired of the grind and just wants to go out and kick butt. Yeah. That's about it.

**** Again., that's in KOF continuity only. Compare Geese's appearance in the 2nd AOF to that in FF1.

** The only explanation is that the Translator(s) that SNK hired for the game's English release apparently totally [[DidNotDoTheResearch forgot]] that the AOF storyline was set to happen years before the FF storyline did.

* Eiji Kisaragi's ([[{{Macekre}} English translation only]]) ending - has him lamenting the loss of his girlfriend to a "long haired" man; that girlfriend being no other than [[FatalFury Mai Shiranui]]. While this has, understandably, caused some fans to think that Eiji and Mai were originally a couple, the "revelation" can become creepy once you find that BonusBoss Geese Howard effectively sets the events of ''[=AOF2=]'' ten years ''before'' the original ''FatalFury'', so [[UnfortunateImplications Mai would have been only 7 years old by then...]]

*** Sorry, but the ComicBookTime typical of ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'' series doesn't apply to the ''ArtOfFighting'' and ''FatalFury'' series. Characters in those series did age as their bio sheets showed each subsequent installment. Not to mention that Jeff Bogard was alive during the events of AOF 2; Terry and Andy (and therefore, Mai) couldn't be anything but kids by then (it's even shown in the Wild Ambiton intro that they were indeed very young).

*** Sorry, but the ComicBookTime typical of ''TheKingOfFighters'' series doesn't apply to the ''ArtOfFighting'' and ''FatalFury'' series. Characters in those series did age as their bio sheets showed each subsequent installment. Not to mention that Jeff Bogard was alive during the events of AOF 2; Terry and Andy (and therefore, Mai) couldn't be anything but kids by then (it's even shown in the Wild Ambiton intro that they were indeed very young).

** In the first game, you're not supposed to know who he is, so he goes by the moniker "Mr. Karate" (or, more informally, "The Karate Master"). Less dumb than "Question Mark Guy". In CvS Chaos, it's morphed into something of an alter ego, which he uses whenever he gets tired of the grind and just wants to go out and kick butt. Yeah. That's about it.

* I notice everyone seems to say that Takuma's alter ego's name of "Mr Karate" started out as a FanNickname sorts. But I'm pretty sure the announcer calls him Mr Karate rather clearly in the very first game when you choose him in Versus mode (Although his name tag shows only "???") What's the full story, anyway?

*** Sorry, but the ComicBookTime typical of ''TheKingOfFighters'' series doesn't apply to the ''ArtOfFighting'' and ''FatalFury'' series. Characters in those series did age as their bio sheets showed each subsequent installment. Not to mention that Jeff Bogard was alive during the events of AOF 2; Terry and Andy (and therefore, Mai) couldn't be anything but kids by then (it's even shown in the Wild Ambiton intro that they were indeed very young).

*** You're also assuming, wrongly, that the ComicBookTime typical of ''TheKingOfFighters'' characters applies to the ''ArtOfFighting'' and ''FatalFury'' series. That's not the case, characters in those games did age as their bio sheets showed each subsequent game.

** You are also assuming, wrongly, that SNK characters go through stages of life like we do. If that were the case, Athena Asamiya would have passed jailbait status at the time Nests Cartel was still looking for a building permit. And Bao, whoo, do ''not'' get me started...

** You are also assuming, wrongly, that SNK characters go through stages of life like we do. If that were the case, Athena Asamiya would have passed jailbait status while Nests Cartel was still looking for a building permit. And Bao, whoo, do ''not'' get me started...

**** From what some have said, it was an intentional decision not to take the translation seriously at all.

*** That's exactly the case. Mai is not mentioned in Eiji's ending in the Japanese version of the game.