History VideoGame / FatalFury

The story of the series is set in the fictional city of Southtown, USA, and starts many years before the events of the first game, when martial artist Jeff Bogard adopts two orphans, whom he names [[Characters/FatalFuryTerryBogard Terry]] and Andy. Later, crime lord [[Characters/FatalFuryKingOfFighters Geese Howard]] killed Jeff Bogard, an event that young Terry witnesses. Swearing revenge, both brothers start to train, to fight Geese in his "King of Fighters" tournament. Andy leaves to train in Japan and Terry stays in Southtown. Ten years later, in 1991, the brothers and Andy's friend Joe Higashi enter the King of Fighters to avenge their father.

The story of the series is set in the fictional city of Southtown, USA, and starts many years before the events of the first game, when martial artist Jeff Bogard adopts two orphans, whom he names [[Characters/FatalFuryTerryBogard Terry]] and Andy. Later, crime lord Geese Howard killed Jeff Bogard, an event that young Terry witnesses. Swearing revenge, both brothers start to train, to fight Geese in his "King of Fighters" tournament. Andy leaves to train in Japan and Terry stays in Southtown. Ten years later, in 1991, the brothers and Andy's friend Joe Higashi enter the King of Fighters to avenge their father.

The story of the series is set in the fictional city of Southtown, USA, and starts many years before the events of the first game, when martial artist Jeff Bogard adopts two orphans, whom he names [[Characters/FatalFuryKingOfFighters Terry and Andy]]. Later, crime lord Geese Howard killed Jeff Bogard, an event that young Terry witnesses. Swearing revenge, both brothers start to train, to fight Geese in his "King of Fighters" tournament. Andy leaves to train in Japan and Terry stays in Southtown. Ten years later, in 1991, the brothers and Andy's friend Joe Higashi enter the King of Fighters to avenge their father.

The story of the series is set in the fictional city of Southtown, USA, and starts many years before the events of the first game, when martial artist Jeff Bogard adopts two orphans, whom he names [[Characters/FatalFuryKingOfFighters Terry]] and Andy. Later, crime lord Geese Howard killed Jeff Bogard, an event that young Terry witnesses. Swearing revenge, both brothers start to train, to fight Geese in his "King of Fighters" tournament. Andy leaves to train in Japan and Terry stays in Southtown. Ten years later, in 1991, the brothers and Andy's friend Joe Higashi enter the King of Fighters to avenge their father.

The story of the series is set in the fictional city of Southtown, USA, and starts many years before the events of the first game, when martial artist Jeff Bogard adopts two orphans, whom he names Terry and Andy. Later, crime lord Geese Howard killed Jeff Bogard, an event that young Terry witnesses. Swearing revenge, both brothers start to train, to fight Geese in his "King of Fighters" tournament. Andy leaves to train in Japan and Terry stays in Southtown. Ten years later, in 1991, the brothers and Andy's friend Joe Higashi enter the King of Fighters to avenge their father.

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[[caption-width-right:250: A new legend is about to begin.]]

->''Certainly, they existed...\\
Those blinded by ambition.\\
Those consumed with vengeance.\\
But here, they do not exist.\\
Only winners and losers here.\\
For here, THE MIGHTY RULE!''

''Fatal Fury'', known in Japan as ''Garou Densetsu'' (''Legend of the Hungry Wolves''), is a FightingGame series by Creator/{{SNK}} that was released for the UsefulNotes/NeoGeo arcade and home video game systems.

The story of the series is set in the fictional city of Southtown, USA, and starts many years before the events of the first game, when martial artist Jeff Bogard adopts two orphans, whom he names Terry and Andy. Later, crime lord Geese Howard killed Jeff Bogard, an event that young Terry witnesses. Swearing revenge, both brothers start to train, to fight Geese in his "King of Fighters" tournament. Andy leaves to train in Japan and Terry stays in Southtown. Ten years later, in 1991, the brothers and Andy's friend Joe Higashi enter the King of Fighters to avenge their father.

The first game only has three playable characters, and an interesting mechanic in which a second player joining in the middle of a fight will join the first player in double-teaming their present opponent before facing each other. The sequel drops this mechanic and adopts the World Tournament format used in ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'', introducing five new playable characters, and new bosses. More characters and villains are introduced in subsequent sequels, and the original BigBad Geese Howard also returns in most of them.

The distinctive characteristic of the series is the ability of the characters to fight in two different planes in most stages, giving them the capability to avoid attacks by moving between planes. This system would undergo some changes after the third installment and was dropped altogether for the last game.

Games in the series:
* ''VideoGame/FatalFuryKingOfFighters''[[note]]The subtitle in its arcade release)[[/note]] (1991, UsefulNotes/NeoGeo, [[UsefulNotes/SuperNES SNES]], UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis)
* ''VideoGame/FatalFury2'' (1992, UsefulNotes/NeoGeo, {{UsefulNotes/SNES}}, UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis, UsefulNotes/PCEngine)
* ''VideoGame/FatalFurySpecial'' (1993, UsefulNotes/NeoGeo, {{UsefulNotes/SNES}}, UsefulNotes/SegaCD, UsefulNotes/PCEngine)
* ''[[VideoGame/FatalFury3 Fatal Fury 3: Road to the Final Victory]]'' (1995, UsefulNotes/NeoGeo, UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn, Windows 95)
* ''VideoGame/RealBoutFatalFury'' (1995, UsefulNotes/NeoGeo, UsefulNotes/PlayStation, UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn)
* ''VideoGame/RealBoutFatalFurySpecial'' (1996, UsefulNotes/NeoGeo, UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn)
* ''[[VideoGame/RealBoutFatalFury2 Real Bout Fatal Fury 2: The Newcomers]]'' (1998, UsefulNotes/NeoGeo)
* ''VideoGame/RealBoutFatalFurySpecialDominatedMind'' (1998, UsefulNotes/PlayStation)
* ''VideoGame/FatalFuryWildAmbition'' (1999, Hyper Neo Geo 64, UsefulNotes/PlayStation)
* ''VideoGame/FatalFuryFirstContact'' (1999, Neo Geo Pocket)
* ''VideoGame/GarouMarkOfTheWolves'' (1999, UsefulNotes/NeoGeo, UsefulNotes/SegaDreamcast, UsefulNotes/PlayStation2)

While the last installment of the series appeared in late 1999, many of its [[Characters/FatalFury characters]] are still widely popular today and continue to appear in a number of SpinOff series and other main series, most notably ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'' series. More recently, pachi-slot machines with the ''Fatal Fury'' theme have been released and there is a crossover game with ''VideoGame/FightersHistory Dynamite'' available for mobile phones in Japan. Mai Shiranui appears in ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive 5: Last Round''[[note]]Astonishingly appropriate, we know![[/note]] and its sequel, ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive6'', while Geese Howard appears as a DLC Fighter in ''VideoGame/Tekken7''. Terry Bogard himself appeared in ''VideoGame/FightingEXLayer'' in 2018, and in 2019, was announced as the fifth [[DownloadableContent DLC]] character in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate''.

''VideoGame/ArtOfFighting'', a fighting game trilogy from SNK, is a prequel that takes place a decade prior to the events of ''Fatal Fury''.

[[TheAnimeOfTheGame An anime adaptation]] comprised of two TV specials (often mislabeled as [=OVA=]s, even though they aired on Japanese TV before getting home video releases) and [[TheMovie a feature-length theatrical movie]] were based on the games, all including character designs by Creator/MasamiObari. The TV specials were based on the plots of the first two games, while the feature film had an original plot and villains. While both the specials and the film were released in the States in the late '90s by Viz Video (and re-released on DVD years later), those releases fell out of print years ago -- so Creator/DiscotekMedia snagged the licenses for [[https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=734401346588962&set=a.196378827057886.55668.147168055312297&type=1 all]] [[https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=671292786233152&set=a.196378827057886.55668.147168055312297&type=1 three]] and re-released them on DVD on August 26, 2014. Of note, their release of ''The Motion Picture'' featured anamorphic presentation for the first time.

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!!The video game series provides examples of:

* {{Acrofatic}}: Cheng.
* ActionGirl: Mai Shiranui, Blue Mary, Li Xiangfei, Bonne Jenet, Hotaru, and Tsugumi Sendo. Mai [[FauxActionGirl bounces in and out]] of the trope in the animated adaptations; she has the skills and uses them the major part pof the time, but sometimes [[DeliberatelyDistressedDamsel plays the damsel in distress intentionally]] in order to make [[CelibateHero Andy]] [[TheDulcineaEffect appreciate her more.]]
* AlternateContinuity: While the series initially shared a continuity with the ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'', Geese's death in ''Real Bout Fatal Fury'' and his continued survival in the ''KOF'' series pretty much confirmed that they are separate.
** This was already apparent by the fact that they share timeframes with the ''VideoGame/ArtOfFighting'' cast in KOF, which predated Fatal Fury by several years in the original timeline.
* AntiVillain: Arguably Wolfgang Krauser; while he seems highly evil natured in battle, he has a very gentle side outside of it. Kim Kaphwan's ending in ''Fatal Fury 2'' even shows Krauser being reformed by Kim. Additionally, when he wins he still respects you enough to say "you were good, you fought well" (even if you didn't), which is the opposite of most villains in any media.
** Also, Kain R. Heinlein, mixed with AffablyEvil. He never does anything heinous and the only motive he and Grant had to turn to crime was to protect themselves of much worse people after they've witnessed a boy being beaten to death.
* ArrogantKungFuGuy: Gato is ''the'' best example out there. The look, the moves, the win quotes... all of it. Laurence Blood and Rick Strowd, too.
* ArtisticLicenseGeography: Andy's stage in ''Fatal Fury Special'' takes place in Venice, with the fight happening on top of a boat floating down one of the canals. Yet in the background, you can see the Leaning Tower of Pisa and the Colosseum. In reality, those landmarks are on the other side of the country. Pisa is over 3 hours away from Venice, and Rome is over 5. The stage also has the Rialto Bridge and the Doge's Palace, which ''are'' from Venice, but the buildings around them aren't correct.
** Terry's ''Fatal Fury Special'' train stage is stated to be in West Albuquerque, New Mexico. But somehow this train magically passes by Monument Valley in Arizona and Mount Rushmore in South Dakota, which are over 300 and 800 miles away respectively.
* ArtisticLicenseMartialArts: A given since this is a 2D fighting game series with an emphasis on spectacular special moves, but special mention goes to Terry's Rising Tackle: an upside-down spinning [[WrestlerInAllOfUs double clothesline]] performed while casually jumping twice his height. [[Franchise/StreetFighter Zangief]] would be jealous. Special mention also goes to Mai's Musasabi no Mai, a high-flying dive attack performed ''face-first'', which would hurt her more than her opponent without the RuleOfCool in play.
* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: Many Brazilian players had complained that Richard Meyer's theme doesn't sound exactly like Brazilian Capoeira music, but more like a bizarre mix of traditional Brazilian, Arab and even Indian music with even more bizarre Portuguese lyrics and it fit better for a soundtrack from a movie with Arab [[BellyDancer belly dancers]] rather than battle music for a Brazilian capoerista.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Geese and the Jin brothers are stronger than their respective subordinates, Billy and Ryuji Yamazaki. Kain R. Heinlein, as well.
** Slight subversion with the latter, as Kain is more balanced (relatively speaking) than Grant, the true SNKBoss archetype in ''Mark of the Wolves''.
* AxCrazy: Freeman. He's a ''{{serial killer}}'', though, so what do you expect? And let's not even get ''into'' Yamazaki.
* BackFromTheDead: Geese at least twice.
* BattleAmongstTheFlames: For whatever reason Geese's stage in ''Fatal Fury 3'' will suddenly erupt in flames during round 2. If the fight goes to round 3 the fire will get even more intense. The music will also change to Geese's {{Leitmotif}} to match.
* BigBadEnsemble: ''Fatal Fury 3'' and ''Real Bout Fatal Fury'' have two competing [[BigBad Big Bads]]: Geese Howard and Jin Chonshu.
* BigEater: Xiangfei is basically always eating.
* {{Bishonen}}: Andy, especially his anime incarnation.
* BloodBrothers: Grant and Kain, who swore an oath of eternal allegiance to each other as children.
* BloodKnight: Krauser, who hosted the world edition of the tournament. Grant, too.
* BodyDouble: Playing as either Geese or Billy in ''Real Bout Fatal Fury'' will have the dialogues imply that Geese assigned his body double to run Southtown while Geese is away recuperating from his wounds and recovering the Jin Scroll, but that BodyDouble, Shadow, got too corrupt and refused to relinquish command, so either Geese or Billy had to participate in the tournament and boot him out by force and Geese can reclaim his rightful place. Shadow's texts show that he's scared out of his ass that the ''real'' Geese Howard or Billy Kane are going after him.
* BonusBoss: Ryo Sakazaki from ''VideoGame/{{Art of Fighting}}'' in ''Fatal Fury Special''. Geese returned as a bonus boss in ''Real Bout Special'', and ''Real Bout 2'' had Alfred. Interestingly enough, it was Ryo's guest appearance in ''Fatal Fury Special'' that inspired SNK to create ''The King of Fighters'' series.
** ''Netto Real Bout Garou Densetsu Special'', a handheld port of ''Real Bout Special'', included [[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters Iori Yagami]] as a bonus boss.
* BroadStrokes: ''Wild Ambition'' served as a rough retelling events of the first game that included most of the original core players (Terry, Andy, Joe, Geese, Billy, and Raiden; Duck King was added to the [=PS1=] port) as well as a few fan-faves from later installments (Mai, Kim, Yamazaki, Xiangfei), newcomers Tsugumi Sendo and Touji Sakata, and even an older Ryo as Mr. Karate II.
* BruceLeeClone: Averted with Hon Fu, whose actually a Creator/JackieChan clone. He ''does'' have the standard high-pitched {{Kiai}}s, though.
* CallingYourAttacks: Most characters do it. Avoided by Terry in ''Garou: Mark of the Wolves'', where most of the time, instead of shouting the names of his attacks, he yells things like "Rock you!" and [[GratuitousEnglish "Kick Bath!"]], all of which were ported to his ''[[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters KOF]]'' appearances from ''2002'' on.
** One exception: Terry has one special attack where he punches you, saying "Are you okay?" and then punches you with his other fist yelling "Buster Wolf!" (the name of the attack).
* CanonForeigner: Lily [=McGuire=], Tony, Elsa, Sulia, Laocorn, Panni, Hauer, and Jamin all from the anime version.
** Just to clarify, there's a Lily in the video games, but she's an unrelated character named Lil'''l'''y '''Kane''', Billy's sister who, like her bro, is a playable character in ''KOF 2006''/''Maximum Impact 2''. Lily [=McGuire=] did make a cameo in the Mexican Pao Pao Cafe stage in ''KOF '94''.
** The girl who appears to be going out with Terry in his ending ''Fatal Fury 2'' is named Medea and she was originally his love interest in ''Gamest''[='=]s manga adaptation of the first ''Garou Densetsu''. However, she is replaced a generic character in ''Special''.
* CanonImmigrant: Many details about Krauser's backstory (such as him killing his father or being related to Geese) became canon after the movie. There was an attempt to have him commit suicide as well, but that was abandoned. Likewise, in later games, Krauser gained the Gigatech Cyclone move, which was identical to the tornado spin attack he and Terry used in the anime.
** [[spoiler:According to ''Memories of Stray Wolves'', Krauser did kill himself after losing to Terry]].
*** [[spoiler:This contradicts Krauser's honorable depiction in ''Fatal Fury 2'' and ''Fatal Fury Special'' as well as his appearance in the ''Real Bout'' games, where he appears as a normal character while the deceased Geese appears as a "nightmare" one. Furthermore, ''Memories of Stray Wolves'' was released only in Japan as a DVD in a limited soundtrack collection without the involvement of either Takashi Nishiyama or Hiroshi Matsumoto, the creators of the series, who had long gone from SNK at the time of release, so his supposed suicide has not been established within a proper game. This only applies to the ''Fatal Fury'' continuity since Krauser was depicted alive and well in ''The King of Fighters '94'' and even participated in ''The King of Fighters '96'']].
* CityOfAdventure: Southtown is where the action of all the games takes place, with the exception of ''2'' and ''Special'', which were about a worldwide tournament. ''Garou'' isn't in quite the same place as the previous games, but a neighbouring city close enough to be considered an extension of it (it's even called ''Second Southtown''). Both locales also double as a ViceCity, albeit gradually moving away from this direction.
* ClockTower: Billy Kane's stage in ''2/Special''.
* {{Combos}}: From the third game onward.
* ComedicSociopathy: Terry's winquote against Bob Wilson in ''3'' is pretty insensitive, to say the least:
-->''What do you call a guy with broken arms and legs floating in a pool? Bob!''
* CompilationRerelease: ''Fatal Fury Battle Archives Volume 1'' (''Fatal Fury'', ''Fatal Fury 2'', ''Fatal Fury Special'' and ''Fatal Fury 3'') and ''Fatal Fury Battle Archives Volume 2'' (''Real Bout: Fatal Fury'', ''Real Bout: Fatal Fury Special'', ''Real Bout: Fatal Fury 2''), both on the [=PS2=].
* CoolBigSis: Hokutomaru seems to view Mai as such in ''Mark of the Wolves''.
* CuteBruiser: Xiangfei and Hotaru.
* {{Cutscene}}: The first game was notable for including a relatively extensive plot (for a 1991 fighting game, anyway), instead of telling it through short ending sequence like most fighting games did. This would continue in most of the series.
* DanceBattler: Duck King, Richard Meyer, and Bob Wilson. Duck King implies breakdancing, while Richard and Bob are Capoeiristas.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: Many of Terry's rivals (such as Duck King and Kim) became his friends after he beat them.
* DemotedToExtra
** Everyone from the first game (except for the three heroes, Billy, and Raiden, who undergoes a literal HeelFaceTurn to become Big Bear) in ''Fatal Fury 2'', although Tung Fu Rue and Duck King would return as playable characters in ''Fatal Fury Special'' (along with Geese, who was presumed dead in ''2''). This also happened to Jubei Yamada, Big Bear and Axel Hawk after ''Special''.
** Hwa Jai and Billy Kane were cut out as opponents in the Genesis port of the first game, but they still make background cameos in Duck King's and Richard Meyer's stages respectively.
* DetectEvil: Kim Kaphwan and, apparently, his son Jae Hoon.
* DifficultyLevels: Up to eight, less for the earliest home versions.
* DistaffCounterpart: Kevin is basically a male version of Blue Mary. They're actually distant relatives.
* DistantFinale: All of ''Mark of the Wolves''.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: In one of her supers, Hotaru straddles her opponent and releases a ball of energy as she arches her back and screams.
* TheDragon: Billy, Laurence, Yamazaki, Grant and, in the anime movie, Jamin.
* DramaticDeadpan: The announcer in ''Mark of the Wolves'' from beginning to end.
* DudeLooksLikeALady: Come on, admit it. You thought Jin Chonshu was a girl, didn't you?
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The first game only has three selectable characters, Terry sounds different, and the bonus game is an arm wrestling match not using the fighting engine. It also lacks Mai, who was introduced in the next game.
* EvilLaugh: In the first game, if you get beaten, your opponent will let out an evil laugh. It doesn't matter who the opponent is, be it [[FunPersonified Duck King]], [[NiceGuy Richard Meyer]] or even Michael Max, who's just thanking God for his victory by making a cross sign, they all laugh evilly!
* ExecutiveSuiteFight: Geese likes fighting in his office.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Terry changes his clothes ''and'' cuts his trademark long hair in ''Mark of the Wolves''.
** In ''Garou: Memories of Stray Wolves'', it's revealed that other characters missing from ''[=MotW=]'' have also done the same. Blue Mary has her hair worn much longer, and Duck King no longer has a mohawk or MulticoloredHair.
* {{Expy}}:
** Geese has a striking resemblance to King, the final boss of ''The Super Spy'' (see comparison [[http://img88.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=superspy.jpg here]]). The intro to ''Fatal Fury 3'' may be a reference to it. He also draws comparisons with Aussie from the Jean Claude Van Damme movie, ''Bloodsport'' and Souther/Thouzer from ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar''.
** Also, Sokaku seems to be based on a [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3X7poql8fXs/SIc4ASTHrrI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/2tnkfg6AO5M/s400/1993+sengoku+2.png generic enemy]] of ''[[{{Sengoku}} Sengoku 2]]''.
* FaceHeelTurn[=/=]HeelFaceTurn: Raiden is a monster {{heel}}, but when he takes his mask off (and grows a beard), he wrestles as "Big Bear", an [[AllAmericanFace all-Australian face]], pulling a ''literal'' HeelFaceTurn.
** Later games imply that his HeelFaceRevolvingDoor is actually a gimmick and that he's a {{face}} in real life.
** Rock pulls a FaceHeelTurn... in a matter of speaking... it's revealed that [[spoiler:not only did he win the tournament in ''Mark of the Wolves'', but tournament host Kain tells him he has information about his mother supposedly being alive. Terry later finds Rock, who tells him he's going with Kain and nothing's gonna change his mind. Instead of being upset, Terry is pleased that Rock is about to forge his own destiny.]]
* FakeDifficulty: In ''Garou: Mark of the Wolves'', CPU controlled characters tend to do more damage than the player with the same attacks.
* FingerlessGloves: A ''lot'' of characters wear these, generally to emphasize the tough, combat-centric nature of the setting.
* FixedFloorFighting: Combat is possible in either the foreground or the background, but the stage itself is consistent.
%%* FragileSpeedster: Mai and Hokutomaru.
* {{Gainaxing}}: Mai.
** Or JigglePhysics if you like; Mai was the first video game character to do it. Blue Mary fit into this trope for a couple of ''Fatal Fury'' games.
* GameBreakingInjury: Terry injures his ankle right before being asked to fight Kim and was unable to use any sort of kicking attacks. He managed to come out on top. However, [[spoiler:his fight against Krauser did not go as well and his injured legs played a major factor in this loss]].
** Andy also
* GenkiGirl: Xiangfei.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Gato and Sokaku both have some very bad scars. Neither gets any explanation, and neither is definitively good or evil.
** Gato got 'em from his DisappearedDad. Geese also have some: a particularly nasty one on his back from [[DisneyVillainDeath surviving his fall off of Geese Tower]] and another across his upper chest (presumably from his failed attempt on his dad thanks to half-bro Krauser).
* TheGrappler:
** [=Raiden/Big Bear=]. As a pro wrestler, he was the series's first traditional example.
** Geese Howard is notorious for this, due his upper, mid, and lower body counters which all have insane priority; especially when [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard the computer's using him]].
** Jubei Yamada, a judoka introduced in ''Fatal Fury 2'', is a unique example in that he is not a very large person as typical, he is in fact a frail, short old man. That won't stop him from throwing people across the room.
** Introduced in ''Fatal Fury 3'', Blue Mary creatively uses combat sambo to strike a nice balance between Big Bear and Jubei's offensive throws and Geese's counter throws.
** Tsugumi Sendo in ''Wild Ambition'' brings Japanese wrestling to the table and has an appropriate moveset to match.
** Finally, there's Tizoc from VideoGame/GarouMarkOfTheWolves, who has some truly visually stunning throws with [[LargeHam plenty of ham]].
%%* GratuitousEnglish: Terry.
* GuestFighter: Ryo (of ''Art of Fighting'' fame) as a hidden final boss in ''Fatal Fury Special''. Alfred the Pilot was technically created to be the main character of ''Dominated Mind'' (a remixed UsefulNotes/PlayStation port of ''Real Bout Special''), but most fans outside Japan know him for his appearance as a secret final boss in ''[[MarthDebutedInSmashBros Real Bout 2]]''.
* GuideDangIt: The method to perform Hidden Desperation Moves in Fatal Fury 3 is extremely convoluted: first you need to enable them before the match by holding down all 4 buttons and Start before the match starts which turns your life bar green if you did it right, and after that, each character has an extremely specific condition that you need to fulfill to make your name flash, at which point you can perform one. The conditions include being as far away from the opponent as possible, performing a specific combo on them, getting knocked down, backdashing and having the timer be on an odd number and getting hit by a heavy attack
* HardWorkHardlyWorks: Kim Dong Hwan never practices, and basically made up all his moves himself, but is on par with his dedicated, disciplined brother Jae Hoon in skill and power.
** The same applies to the Bogards; Andy trained his butt off to learn Ninjutsu and Koppoken, while Terry was an ordinary street brawler who made up his own moves and hardly trains. Guess which one is the better fighter.
* HeadTurningBeauty: Mai is this. Signs are easily evident in comments made by the male characters, and it's more evident in the anime series. In contrast, Blue Mary, who's also considered attractive, attracts more attention because of her job.
* HerBoyfriendsJacket: Blue Mary. The boyfriend in question is deceased, though how was not elaborated on by much.
* HighlyVisibleNinja: Mai battles in a bright red and white outfit; Andy's worse, since his outfit is mostly white, and he doesn't even tie his long blond hair back or anything. Hokutomaru's... okay. He's more a highly ''audible'' ninja, given how loud and obnoxious he is.
* HotBlooded: Kim is a prime example. His son Kim Jae Hoon has tried to follow his example as much as possible... oh, and he's also got the literal fire powers, as well. But he can't hold a candle to his big bro Dong Hwan, who is clearly the {{Red Oni|Blue Oni}} to Jae Hoon's blue.
** [[DetectEvil Evil]] [[BadassCreed may be]] [[ThisIsUnforgivable unforgivable]], but not considering [[Creator/NobuyukiHiyama Joe]]'s blood [[LargeHam the hottest in the universe]] is [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking downright]] [[FelonyMisdemeanor monstrous]].
* IconicOutfit: The famous red hat, red jacket, white undershirt, and blue jeans. Terry changes wardrobe largely in ''Mark of the Wolves'', wherein he gives the hat to Rock and swaps out the sleeveless red coat for a brown, sleeved one.
* IKnowMaddenKombat: Terry's Power Dunk is said to be modified after a basketball move.
* ImageSong: While not quite to the extent of ''The King of Fighters'', quite a few characters get their own songs, such as Kong Kuwata (the seiyuu of Geese) [[KilledOffForReal fittingly singing]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqUfa6B9cY0 "Devotion: The Sunset Sky",]] the song that plays during the credits of ''Real Bout Fatal Fury''. Perhaps the zaniest and best example would be [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-LyKFGp4P4 "Dance de Peace!"]], which involves Duck King leading Terry, Blue Mary, Mai, and Xiangfei in rap while Yamazaki randomly intrudes and screams at them for not including him in the festivities. Each respective character part even incorporates parts of their past themes.
* {{Immortality}}: The entire premise of ''Fatal Fury 3''. Geese is rumored to have this after those events since he got the Jin scrolls.
* InflatingBodyGag: Cheng Sinzan already has a nearly spherical torso, and he can inflate himself with air during one of his attacks.
* KaizoTrap: White from the [=PlayStation=] port of ''Real Bout Fatal Fury Special'' (known as ''[[MeaningfulName Dominated Mind]]''). Beat him, and ''be ready'' to dodge his cane laser. Or jump over it.
* {{Kevlard}}: Cheng Sinzan blocks attacks with his large belly.
* KiManipulation: Pretty much everyone.
* KnifeNut: Yamazaki, and Freeman, sort of.
* LaterInstallmentWeirdness: The series' signature two-plane system was dropped in the last few games. This started in ''Dominated Mind'' (a revised [=PS1=] port of ''Real Bout Special''), and was played with in the 3D spin-off ''Wild Ambition'', before it was eventually ditched in the final installment ''Mark of the Wolves''.
* LeftHanging: ''Garou'' ends with some loose threads being left behind. [[spoiler:Rock joined Kain, but they were still in the beginning of trying to uncover the truth about the whereabouts of Marie Heinlein. Meanwhile, Gato and Hotaru's father is revealed to be at least allied with Kain, but for what reason, it's not known yet, and Gato has been blinded by him, with Hotaru still in the dark about the true nature of her father.]] All of them remained unresolved for ''years'' despite SNK promising to eventually revisit it 'when the time is right', preferring to continue dabbling with or putting the characters into ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'' continuity.
* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: Sound Beach in the third game is silent until Terry's pet monkey turns on a boombox.
* {{Leitmotif}}: Geese's theme, from game to game. So far he's had [[BreadEggsMilkSquick a kiss, soy sauce, a stiff neck, a nightmare]], [[PlayedForLaughs and now mustard]].
* LocalHangout: Let's just say that, if you're a fighter and you're passing through South Town, you ''have'' to stop at the Pao Pao Café. One of the intermissions in ''Fatal Fury 2'' even shows its patrons watching the tournament on TV.
* LoveFreak: Kim, because JusticeWillPrevail and [[ThisIsUnforgivable Evil Is Unforgivable]]!
* MacGuffin: The Jin scrolls count as these because there are two [[BigBad Big Bads]] looking to get them to gain power.
* TheManBehindTheMan: Kain in ''Garou: Mark of the Wolves''.
* MartialPacifist: Kim, Jae Hoon, Hotaru.
** The latter is a tragic example, as Hotaru fights to find her brother (heavily implied to be Gato) and reunite her family, but she either falls short or he acts like a major {{jerkass}} to her.
* MightyGlacier: Raiden/Big Bear, Franco Bash and Tizoc a.k.a. Griffon Mask. Both Raiden and Tizoc are pro wrestlers who use grappling moves, while Franco is a very muscular kickboxer.
* MirrorMatch: For all the sequels. In some games, the characters even have special phrases for their alter egos, and in Geese's case, [[spoiler:his double appears in Billy's ''Real Bout'' ending as an impostor.]]
* MonsterBrotherCutieSister: Billy is a fearsome character, a sadistic punk with a large cane who's TheDragon of Geese and ArchEnemy of the "Hungry Wolves" team. His little sister Lilly, however, is a motherly-like younger sister who awaits for his brother when he's in fights ignorant ([[DependingOnTheWriter or not]]) of what's her brother is doing and always worried for him. She's also hinted in different appearances to be Joe's LoveInterest, which irritates Billy to no end.
* MsFanservice: Mai has always been like this, but never as much in the ''Fatal Fury'' games as in the anime or the SpinOff games, where {{Flanderization}} did its job. In fact, in TheMovie, ''Fatal Fury The Motion Picture'', Mai gets to try on various revealing outfits based on the location she's at. Blue Mary and Bonne Jenet are also fanservicey, but not reaching this extreme.
** B. Jenet probably ''does'' count, however, given Mai's absence in ''Mark of the Wolves''.
* {{Ninja}}: Mai, and later Hokutomaru, also part of the Shiranui clan. Oh, and [[McNinja Andy]].
* NonstandardGameOver: Lose to Geese in the first game and out the window you go.
* NormallyIWouldBeDeadNow: Geese was initially send flying out of his tower in the original game only to return in ''Fatal Fury 3''.
* NumberedSequels: Sort of: ''Fatal Fury 2'', ''Fatal Fury 3'' and ''Real Bout 2'', are the second, ''fourth'' and ''seventh'' games in the series, respectively.
* OddlyNamedSequel2ElectricBoogaloo: Except for ''2'' and ''3'', all of them; ''Dominated Mind'' probably takes the cake for the most oddly-named one thanks to having enough words to qualify as a WordSaladTitle.
* OldMaster: Tung Fu Rue, who can become tremendously large and muscular.
* OminousLatinChanting: Krauser's [[PublicDomainSoundtrack "Dies Irae" and "lacrimosa"]]. The intro cinema of the fight against him in ''Real Bout Special'' even has [[OneWomanWail a woman singing the latter one]].
* PaperFanOfDoom: Mai.
* ParentalAbandonment: Gato and Hotaru's father, who briefly returns in Gato's ''Garou'' ending just to knock him senseless and call him worthless.
** And ''blind'' him.
** Rock was also subjected to this by Geese, but Rock hates him for other reasons as well.
** In the second anime special, Geese himself was revealed to have been abandoned together with his mother by his father, Rudolph Krauser, and went to get revenge. His half-brother Wolfgang kicked the crap out of him.
* PhraseCatcher: "[[SayMyName Geese...]]"
* PlayerVersusPlayer: As in all {{fighting game}}s.
* PlayingWithFire: Mai, Jae Hoon, and Kevin.
* PromotionToParent: Terry adopting Rock.
* PsychoForHire: Yamazaki, Freeman, etc.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: Kim's [[MemeticMutation semi-famous]] ''"EVIL IS UNFORGIVABLE!"''
* RaisedByRival: Rock Howard, son of long-defeated BigBad Geese Howard, is raised by series' hero Terry Bogard.
* RankInflation: The system introduced by ''Fatal Fury 3'' and kept until the end of the series.
** Gets especially ridiculous in ''Mark of the Wolves'', where the highest rank is ''Miracle''.
* RecycledSoundtrack: The VS. player fight music in the original game' is a rearrangement of ''Street Smart'''s first stage theme.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Subversion: the red-eyed Rock may be Geese's son, but he rolls with Terry and his crew, and is one of the main characters in ''Mark of the Wolves''.
* RedOniBlueOni: Terry and Andy are the main Red and Blue (respectively). The Kim brothers from ''Garou'' also fit (Jae Hoon is the collected and disciplined Blue while Dong Hwan is the over-confident and arrogant Red).
** SiblingYinYang: True for both examples as well.
* ReReleaseSoundtrack: The ''Fatal Fury Battle Archives'' collections had the option to turn on new remixed soundtracks.
* RingOut: Oddly for a 2.5D fighter, ''Real Bout Fatal Fury'' had destructible sides in all arenas but one. Breaking one and knocking your opponent off (or into a train about to take off, an elevator, a fire, etc.) would result in an instant win. You could just as easily side step out of the way of an overzealous opponent and let ''them'' take a dip too, however.
* SaveTheVillain: Terry (canonically)[[note]](if you beat the game with Andy, the same scene will take place; the others just stand over Geese as he lies defeated)[[/note]] tries and fails in ''Real Bout''.
* SecretCharacter: ''Real Bout Special'' had the EX characters: alternate versions of some characters that had different special moves and personality, almost as an EvilTwin (inverted with Billy, who instead has a ''Good'' Twin, while Master Tung has a... Not-Quite-There Twin). BonusBoss characters were playable in the home versions. Additionally, bosses Grant and Kain are playable with a code in ''Garou''.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: The Jin brothers Chonshu and Chonrei.
* ShipTease: While Mai and Andy's situation is pretty much perpetual [[AllLoveIsUnrequited unrequited love]] ever since ''Fatal Fury 3'', Terry and Blue Mary has actually had a fairly good amount of it. Not so much in ''KOF'', but still.
* ShockAndAwe: Kim Dong Hwan, who can shoot lightning out of his ''feet''.
* {{Shotoclone}}: Jin Chonrei, Jin Chonsu, Khushnood Butt, Hotaru.
** [[VideoGame/ArtOfFighting Ryo]] [[TheCameo too]].
* SNKBoss: Geese, who started it all, Krauser (Geese's half-brother), and Kain, Geese's bitter brother-in-law. It seems to run in the family... including Geese's in-laws.
** Actually averted with Kain, who lacks any moves with absurd power or priority, has actually pretty long cooldown periods for some of his moves and is quite balanced as a player character, however he has the ability to overpower the player as a boss easily, thanks to him [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard being able to use charge-style attacks while walking towards his opponnent]] and his T.O.P. area expanding to his ''entire lifebar'' if you manage to win your first round against him.
* SourceMusic: Krauser's stage in the second game has an orchestra in the background, busily playing the background music (namely, [[PublicDomainSoundtrack "Dies Irae"]]).
* SpamAttack: Several, the earliest example being Geese's Reppuken from the first game.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: The central locale of the series suffers from this. Is it Southtown or South Town?
* {{Stripperiffic}}: ''Hello'', Mai.
* SunglassesAtNight: Duck King and Cheng.
* SuperMobBoss: Geese is a crime boss who has the control of the city of Southtown since TheSeventies during the events of ''VideoGame/ArtOfFighting''. But also, he was trained in the martial art of UsefulNotes/{{Aikido}} so he can beat up enemies who challenge him without help.
* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: Krauser and Franco Bash have an American voice actor in the games.
** Franco's "OH MY GAWWWD!" as he loses a match has to be heard to be believed.
* TakeMyHand: Terry[[note]]or Andy, if you play with him, but canonically it's Terry[[/note]] to Geese at the end of ''Real Bout''; averted when Geese rejects the offer and allows himself to die.
* TimeSkip: ''Garou: Mark of the Wolves''.
* TornadoMove: Joe's moveset includes multiple attacks of this nature. Beginning with his "Hurricane Upper" and "Twin Hurricane", which are two of his basic attacks. Followed by his [=DMs=] "Screw Upper", and "Exploding Screw Upper". He first gained "Double Cyclone/Cross Gigantes", which unleashes two Screw Uppers at once, in ''Capcom vs. SNK 2''. And last, but certainly ''not'' least, there's his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcK49AnQ8cA NEO MAX, "Screw Straight"!]] They call him [[RedBaron "The Human Storm"]] for a reason.
** [[BloodKnight Wolfgang Krauser's]] Gigantic Cyclone first made its appearance in the anime adaptation of ''Fatal Fury 2'' in the form of the Senpu-Ken move, where both he and {{T|heProtagonist}}erry [[{{Eagleland}} Bogard]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3IGOvlhVpM could use it (00:45-01:09).]] (though Terry used it in the previous anime as well and he also used a kick variant to beat Geese). It became a case of ThrowItIn, when {{Creator/SNK}} added it to Krauser's moves set, as his P-Power move, in ''Real Bout Fatal Fury Special'', where it was renamed "Gigantic Cyclone".
* TraintopBattle: Terry's level in ''2''/''Special'' and ''Mark of the Wolves''.
* TwinTelepathy: The Jin brothers.
* UglyGuyHotWife: Cheng is a very short, very fat, very immoral... with an incredibly beautiful and affectionate wife. Averted with Kim and Myeng Swuk, since she's an attractive mother and he's an equally dashing father with dashes of HotBlooded and LoveFreak. His ''Fatal Fury Special'' intros/win poses and endings, which have young Jae Hoon and Dong Hwan hanging out with their dad, will make you go "Aaaawwwww."
* UpdatedRerelease: Played straight with ''Fatal Fury Special'', which was a heavily revised version of ''Fatal Fury 2'' with more characters, but mostly averted afterward. ''Real Bout Special'' was a very different game from the original ''Real Bout'' despite its title.
* VersionExclusiveContent: The SNES port of the first game replaces the arm wrestling mini-game with one using the fighting engine where you kick tires that bounce towards you.
* ViceCity: At times, Southtown seriously shares some space with other craptastic American cities fictional or otherwise, like "America's Crudbucket And Worst City By Newsweek" [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Springfield]], [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield USA]] and [[PlaceWorseThanDeath "Where the weak are killed and eaten"]] Detroit, Michigan, being known as the city "where the strong survive and the dreams of the weak are torn apart and left for dead". It does get better as its future crime lords are weakened from their presence over the public and muncipal government by rising local heroes, but its miserable end of those who get the short end of the stick in its streets is known all too well by Terry and Andy, with even the post ''Real Bout'' novelization pondering the nature of happiness in its hard knock depiction of the modern urban world.
* VictoryPose: A few of them rather famous like Terry's and Mai's. In most games, characters also had specific animations when losing, but Krauser, Geese, Jin Chonrei, White from ''Real Bout Special'' and Kain, also had special ''defeat poses'', of which White's is actually ''[[KaizoTrap lethal to the player if ignored]]''.
* WakeupCallBoss: Hwa Jai in the original ''Fatal Fury''. Technically, all the fighters were "bosses" since you couldn't play as them, but the first four were easy, and then Hwa was almost unstoppable.
* WeCanRuleTogether: Kain to his nephew Rock in ''Garou''. [[spoiler:Rock accepts, begrudgingly.]]
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: ''Garou: Memories of Stray Wolves'' ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssrgc-IqGjE part 1]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USyvyPZWltk part 2]]), a bonus featurette for the [[MilestoneCelebration 15th Anniversary]] of ''Fatal Fury'', features appearances from characters missing from ''Mark of the Wolves'', notably Richard Meyer, Duck King, and Blue Mary. The movie reveals that [[spoiler:Krauser killed himself [[DrivenToSuicide after losing to Terry]] in ''2'']]. It also deals with the events leading up to and after ''[=MotW=]'', including Terry's feelings on his life's journey [[spoiler:and Rock's decision to join Kain after the tourney]].
* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: South Town. While its exact location in the U.S. is never revealed in the games, it's heavily implied that it's located in Florida, and the city is inspired by Miami.
* WorldTour: Probably to ride on the coattails of ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'', ''Fatal Fury 2'' had a worldwide tournament for a backdrop, rather than having all the action confined to Southtown like the rest of the series (not counting the ''Special'' games, which are {{Dream Match Game}}s).

!!The anime specials and movie provide examples of:
* AdaptationDyeJob: Despite being clearly blond in all games, Andy inexplicably appears with sky-blue hair in the first anime special.
* TheAnimeOfTheGame: The ''Fatal Fury: Legend of the Hungry Wolf'' and ''Fatal Fury 2: The New Battle'' TV specials, and the movie ''Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture''.
* CartwrightCurse: Anyone who is [[spoiler:Terry's]] [[LoveInterests girlfriend]] in the [[AnimeOfTheGame anime specials]] and ''[[TheMovie The Motion Picture]]''.
** The first ([[spoiler:[[FemmeFatale Lily]] [[BrokenBird McGuire]]]]) undergoes a HeelFaceTurn [[LoveRedeems after bonding and falling in love with him]], [[RedemptionEqualsDeath only to be killed by Geese while helping the heroes make their getaway]]. She returns as a SpiritAdvisor in TheMovie and [[ILetGwenStacyDie remains his source of agony]] [[MyGreatestFailure throughout the trilogy]], even when she tells him that it's not his fault [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy he shouldn't mourn for her anymore]].
** The second ([[spoiler:[[MysteriousWaif Sulia]] [[PluckyGirl Gaudeamus]]]]) asks him and his friends for help with [[CainAndAbel her maddened twin older brother]], has IntimateHealing with him, and [[HeroicSacrifice commits suicide]] [[spoiler:to save Terry from her brother Laocorn, who she shares a PsychicLink with]]. This leads to his short HeroicBSOD, but her words [[spoiler:allow Terry to [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu utterly decimate]] '''''[[PhysicalGod Mars, the God of War]]''''']].
** Presumably, if the movies had continued, the inclusion of [[spoiler:Blue Mary]] probably would have averted this, considering that she's too much of an ActionGirl to get into a dilemma. Plus, all of the ShipTease ([[ShippingBedDeath probably]]) wouldn't allow for it.
* ClothingDamage: Mai in both ''The New Battle'' and ''The Motion Picture''.
* ContinuityNod: In ''The Motion Picture'', Mai asks Andy if Joe's holding back in a kickboxing match because of his injuries, referring to the beating Krauser gave him in ''The New Battle''.
* CoolBigSis: Mai is this towards Sulia in TheMovie.
* CurbStompBattle: In the second [=OVA=], [[spoiler: Lawrence Blood and Axel Hawk both suffer a particularly humiliating one. After capturing Mai, Lawrence is overwhelmed by a [[UnstoppableRage furious]] Andy, who lands a Zan'eiken, an Hishouken and a Choreppa Dan in rapid succession on him. Axel does even worse, being downed by Terry in ''a single punch''.]]
** Earlier, Krauser deals one to Terry that sets Act 2 of the film in motion by sending him into his HeroicBSOD, [[spoiler:and another one to Joe when he tries to attack him in his hotel room, both of which]] serving to place him in the role of TheDreaded.
%%* DarkActionGirl: Panni.
* DirtyOldMan: Jubei Yamada, who bothers Mai a lot with his antics.
%%* FauxActionGirl: Mai, in the anime.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Sulia and later Laocorn, in the movie.]]
* IDontKnowMortalKombat: Demonstrated in the movie -- Terry sucks at fighting games, but his ''life'' is one.
* IntimateHealing: Sulia gives this to an injured Terry in ''The Motion Picture'', stripping to her bra and panties to ensure full body contact and then turning on her healing powers.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: Two examples from the movie: Panni follows Laocorn because she is in love with him; Hauer is obsessed with stealing Mai from Andy. In ''Garou'', Kain's love for his sister Marie and his despair over her apparent death is basically what turned him... [[spoiler:and Rock, apparently]].
* LoveRedeems: Lily, who worked as Geese's sort-of lady in waiting until she met Terry. [[spoiler:And ultimately, RedemptionEqualsDeath.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: At the end of ''The Motion Picture'', Laocorn has this moment when [[spoiler:Sulia commits suicide and Terry defeats Laocorn with his Burn Knuckle]]. He even says this nearly word for word.
--> '''Laocorn:''' "Oh, no... What in God's name have I done?"
* MysteriousWaif: Sulia from the movie.
* OffModel: While TheMovie has some [[AnimationBump feature-quality animation]], it also has some inconsistency to it, as it's easy to tell when one animator's section ends and another's begins. And a few genuinely OffModel moments get through: In one scene, Sulia's legs are unnaturally long.
* SequelHook: ''The Motion Picture'' pulls one. Geese, the Big Bad of the first special, and a [[HesJustHiding villain in hiding]] in the second, is seen training diligently in a secluded forest in order to enact his revenge on Terry. Billy interrupts his training session just as Geese pulls off a [[LimitBreak Raging Storm]].
* ShowerScene: Mai gets one in TheMovie.
* SqueakyEyes: Jubei in the second TV special, after Mai's debut.
* VengeanceFeelsEmpty: Invoked in ''Fatal Fury 2'' by [[SpiritedCompetitor Terry]], at the conclusion of his rematch with [[BloodKnight Wolfgang]] [[NobleDemon Krauser]], when he tells Tony that fighting for revenge leaves only emptiness.
* WorldTour: TheMovie has the group globe trotting to find the pieces of armor before Laocorn does.
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''BUSTAH WOLF!!''

* ''Fatal Fury''[[note]](Subtitled "King of Fighters" in its arcade release)[[/note]] (1991, UsefulNotes/NeoGeo, [[UsefulNotes/SuperNES SNES]], UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis)
* ''Fatal Fury 2'' (1992, UsefulNotes/NeoGeo, {{UsefulNotes/SNES}}, UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis, UsefulNotes/PCEngine)
* ''Fatal Fury Special'' (1993, UsefulNotes/NeoGeo, {{UsefulNotes/SNES}}, UsefulNotes/SegaCD, UsefulNotes/PCEngine)
* ''Fatal Fury 3: Road to the Final Victory'' (1995, UsefulNotes/NeoGeo, UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn, Windows 95)
* ''Real Bout Fatal Fury'' (1995, UsefulNotes/NeoGeo, UsefulNotes/PlayStation, UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn)
* ''Real Bout Fatal Fury Special'' (1996, UsefulNotes/NeoGeo, UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn)
* ''Real Bout Fatal Fury 2: The Newcomers'' (1998, UsefulNotes/NeoGeo)
* ''Real Bout Garou Densetsu Special: Dominated Mind'' (1998, UsefulNotes/PlayStation)
* ''Fatal Fury: Wild Ambition'' (1999, Hyper Neo Geo 64, UsefulNotes/PlayStation)
* ''Fatal Fury: 1st Contact'' (1999, Neo Geo Pocket)
* ''[[VideoGame/GarouMarkOfTheWolves Garou: Mark of the Wolves]]'' (1999, UsefulNotes/NeoGeo, UsefulNotes/SegaDreamcast, UsefulNotes/PlayStation2)

* CallingYourAttacks: Most characters do it. Avoided by Terry in ''Garou: Mark of the Wolves'', where most of the time, instead of shouting the names of his attacks, he yells things like "Rock you!" and [[{{Mondegreen}} "Kick Bath!"]], all of which were ported to his ''[[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters KOF]]'' appearances from ''2002'' on.

* GoOutWithASmile: Maniacal grin and [[EvilLaugh laugh]], actually -- Geese sees his death as the last slap in Terry's face, and he lets it show as he falls.

While the last installment of the series appeared in late 1999, many of its [[Characters/FatalFury characters]] are still widely popular today and continue to appear in a number of SpinOff series and other main series, most notably ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'' series. More recently, pachi-slot machines with the ''Fatal Fury'' theme have been released and there is a crossover game with ''VideoGame/FightersHistory Dynamite'' available for mobile phones in Japan. Mai Shiranui appears in ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive 5: Last Round''[[note]]Astonishingly appropriate, we know![[/note]] and its sequel, ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive6'', while Geese Howard appears as a DLC Fighter in ''VideoGame/Tekken7''. Terry Bogard appeared in ''VideoGame/FightingEXLayer'' in 2018, and in 2019, Terry himself was announced as the fifth [[DownloadableContent DLC]] character in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate''.

* ViceCity: At times, Southtown seriously shares some space with other craptastic American cities fictional or otherwise, like "America's Crudbucket And Worst City By Newsweek" [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Springfield]], [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield USA]] and [[PlaceWorseThanDeath "Where the weak are killed and eaten"]] Detroit, Michigan, being known as the city "where the strong survive and the dreams of the weak are torn apart and left for dead". It does get better as its future crime lords are weakened from their presence over the public and muncipal government by rising local heroes, but its miserable end of those who get the short end of the stick in its streets is known all too well by Terry and Andy, with even the post ''Real Bout'' novelization pondering the nature of happiness in its hard knock depiction of the modern urban world.

* ViceCity: At times, Southtown seriously shares some space with other craptastic American cities fictional or otherwise, like "America's Crudbucket And Worst City By Newsweek" [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Springfield]], [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield USA]] and [[PlaceWorseThanDeath "Where the weak are killed and eaten"]] Detroit, Michigan, being known as the city "where the strong survive and the dreams of the weak are torn apart and left for dead". It does get better as its future crime lords are weakened from their presence over the public and muncipal government by rising local heroes, but its miserable end of those who get the short end of the stick in its streets is known all to well by Terry and Andy, with even the post ''Real Bout'' novelization pondering the nature of happiness in its hard knock depiction of the modern urban world.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: In one of her supers, Hotaru straddles her opponent and releases a ball of energy as she arches her back and screams. [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar Uhm]]...

* DarkActionGirl: Panni.

* FauxActionGirl: Mai, in the anime.
* FiveManBand in TheMovie:
** Terry Bogard, TheHero.
** Andy Bogard, TheLancer.
** Joe Higashi, TheBigGuy including bits of BoisterousBruiser.
** Sulia Gaudeamus, {{The Smart G|uy}}irl. She was a WaifProphet without any fighting skills, but also was the only one of the group who ''really'' knew what was going on and a scene [[MrExposition had her explaining the legend of the Armor of Mars in full detail]].
** Mai Shiranui, TheChick. FauxActionGirl, MsFanservice and CoolBigSis.

!!This series provides examples of:

* AdaptationDyeJob: Despite being clearly blond in all games, Andy inexplicably appears with sky-blue hair in the first anime special.

* TheAnimeOfTheGame: The ''Fatal Fury: Legend of the Hungry Wolf'' and ''Fatal Fury 2: The New Battle'' TV specials, and the movie ''Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture''.

* CartwrightCurse: Anyone who is [[spoiler:Terry's]] [[LoveInterests girlfriend]] in the [[AnimeOfTheGame anime specials]] and ''[[TheMovie The Motion Picture]]''.
** The first ([[spoiler:[[FemmeFatale Lily]] [[BrokenBird McGuire]]]]) undergoes a HeelFaceTurn [[LoveRedeems after bonding and falling in love with him]], [[RedemptionEqualsDeath only to be killed by Geese while helping the heroes make their getaway]]. She returns as a SpiritAdvisor in TheMovie and [[ILetGwenStacyDie remains his source of agony]] [[MyGreatestFailure throughout the trilogy]], even when she tells him that it's not his fault [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy he shouldn't mourn for her anymore]].
** The second ([[spoiler:[[MysteriousWaif Sulia]] [[PluckyGirl Gaudeamus]]]]) asks him and his friends for help with [[CainAndAbel her maddened twin older brother]], has IntimateHealing with him, and [[HeroicSacrifice commits suicide]] [[spoiler:to save Terry from her brother Laocorn, who she shares a PsychicLink with]]. This leads to his short HeroicBSOD, but her words [[spoiler:allow Terry to [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu utterly decimate]] '''''[[PhysicalGod Mars, the God of War]]''''']].
** Presumably, if the movies had continued, the inclusion of [[spoiler:Blue Mary]] probably would have averted this, considering that she's too much of an ActionGirl to get into a dilemma. Plus, all of the ShipTease ([[ShippingBedDeath probably]]) wouldn't allow for it.

* ContinuityNod: In ''The Motion Picture'', Mai asks Andy if Joe's holding back in a kickboxing match because of his injuries, referring to the beating Krauser gave him in ''The New Battle''.
* CoolBigSis: Mai is this towards Sulia in TheMovie. Hokutomaru seems to view her similarly in ''Mark of the Wolves''.
* CurbStompBattle: In the second [=OVA=], [[spoiler: Lawrence Blood and Axel Hawk both suffer a particularly humiliating one. After capturing Mai, Lawrence is overwhelmed by a [[UnstoppableRage furious]] Andy, who lands a Zan'eiken, an Hishouken and a Choreppa Dan in rapid succession on him. Axel does even worse, being downed by Terry in ''a single punch''.]]
** Earlier, Krauser deals one to Terry that sets Act 2 of the film in motion by sending him into his HeroicBSOD, [[spoiler:and another one to Joe when he tries to attack him in his hotel room, both of which]] serving to place him in the role of TheDreaded.

* DarkActionGirl: Panni.

* DirtyOldMan: Jubei Yamada, who bothers Mai a lot with his antics.

* FauxActionGirl: Mai, in the anime.

* FiveManBand in TheMovie:
** Terry Bogard, TheHero.
** Andy Bogard, TheLancer.
** Joe Higashi, TheBigGuy including bits of BoisterousBruiser.
** Sulia Gaudeamus, {{The Smart G|uy}}irl. She was a WaifProphet without any fighting skills, but also was the only one of the group who ''really'' knew what was going on and a scene [[MrExposition had her explaining the legend of the Armor of Mars in full detail]].
** Mai Shiranui, TheChick. FauxActionGirl, MsFanservice and CoolBigSis.

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Sulia and later Laocorn, in the movie.]]

* IDontKnowMortalKombat: Demonstrated in the movie -- Terry sucks at fighting games, but his ''life'' is one.

* IntimateHealing: Sulia gives this to an injured Terry in ''The Motion Picture'', stripping to her bra and panties to ensure full body contact and then turning on her healing powers.
* KaizoTrap: White from the [=PlayStation=] port of ''Real Bout Fatal Fury Special'' (known as ''[[MeaningfulName Dominated Mind]]''). Beat him, and ''be ready'' to dodge his cane laser.
** Or jump over it.

* LoveMakesYouEvil: Two examples from the movie: Panni follows Laocorn because she is in love with him; Hauer is obsessed with stealing Mai from Andy. In ''Garou'', Kain's love for his sister Marie and his despair over her apparent death is basically what turned him... [[spoiler:and Rock, apparently]].
* LoveRedeems: Lily, who worked as Geese's sort-of lady in waiting until she met Terry. [[spoiler:And ultimately, RedemptionEqualsDeath.]]

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: At the end of ''The Motion Picture'', Laocorn has this moment when [[spoiler:Sulia commits suicide and Terry defeats Laocorn with his Burn Knuckle]]. He even says this nearly word for word.
--> '''Laocorn:''' "Oh, no... What in God's name have I done?"
* MysteriousWaif: Sulia from the movie.

* OffModel: While TheMovie has some [[AnimationBump feature-quality animation]], it also has some inconsistency to it, as it's easy to tell when one animator's section ends and another's begins. And a few genuinely OffModel moments get through: In one scene, Sulia's legs are unnaturally long.

* SequelHook: ''The Motion Picture'' pulls one. Geese, the Big Bad of the first special, and a [[HesJustHiding villain in hiding]] in the second, is seen training diligently in a secluded forest in order to enact his revenge on Terry. Billy interrupts his training session just as Geese pulls off a [[LimitBreak Raging Storm]].

* VengeanceFeelsEmpty: Invoked in ''Fatal Fury 2'' by [[SpiritedCompetitor Terry]], at the conclusion of his rematch with [[BloodKnight Wolfgang]] [[NobleDemon Krauser]], when he tells Tony that fighting for revenge leaves only emptiness.

* CanonForeigner: Lily [=McGwire=], Tony, Elsa, Sulia, Laocorn, Panni, Hauer, and Jamin all from the anime version.
** Just to clarify, there's a Lily in the video games, but she's an unrelated character named Lil'''l'''y '''Kane''', Billy's sister who, like her bro, is a playable character in ''KOF 2006''/''Maximum Impact 2''. Lily [=McGwire=] did make a cameo in the Mexican Pao Pao Cafe stage in ''KOF '94''.

** The first ([[spoiler:[[FemmeFatale Lily]] [[BrokenBird McGwire]]]]) undergoes a HeelFaceTurn [[LoveRedeems after bonding and falling in love with him]], [[RedemptionEqualsDeath only to be killed by Geese while helping the heroes make their getaway]]. She returns as a SpiritAdvisor in TheMovie and [[ILetGwenStacyDie remains his source of agony]] [[MyGreatestFailure throughout the trilogy]], even when she tells him that it's not his fault [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy he shouldn't mourn for her anymore]].