Characters who appear in the fighting game Global Champion.
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Kazuya - Japan
Voiced by: Kazuki Yao
- Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: He is quite arrogant about his skill in his win quotes.
- Casanova Wannabe: In his special win quote against Lihua and Liza, he tries hitting on them and in his scene in the credits, he used his Shoryuken-like attack to lift a girl's skirt.. Said girl was NOT pleased and Kazuya ends up getting slapped in the face for his trouble.
- Corrupted Character Copy: Downplayed example, he's Ryu if you took out everything honest and good natured about his competitive drive and just made him kind of a jerk. And also if he was a shameless philanderer.
- Shoryuken: Two variations; one starting with a crouch dash when done on the ground and one in mid-air.
- Shotoclone: As the main character of the game, Kazuya being one is a given.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: Other than his Sarashi wrappings and his gi top which he uses more than a Coat Cape, he fights bare-chested.
Barts - USA
Voiced by: Ryōtarō Okiayu
- Badass Biker: In his scene in the credits, he is seen riding one with his girlfriend, Sarah.
- Expy: Terry Bogard and Guile combined.
- Shock and Awe: He uses electricity in his attacks.
- MMA Fighter In All of Us: His fighting style is mixed martial arts.
Lihua - Taiwan
Voiced by: Saeko Shimazu
- Anime Chinese Girl: Well, more like Anime Taiwanese Girl in her case. Though if her name is anything to go by, she is ethnically Chinese at the very least. Regardless of squabbles regarding nationality and ethnic identity, she definitely has the upbeat but serious demeanor of this archetype.
- Blow You Away: Her Desperation Attack have her create a tornado around her and sucking in the poor sap that is too close.
- Cool Sword: She uses it mostly in her special moves. It should be noted that she is the only one besides Gekkou to have a weapon.
- Iaijutsu Practitioner: Returns her sword to its sheath after every attack.
- I Will Find You: Lihua is quite determined to find her missing parents.
- Lady of War: She is quite the graceful fighter.
- Mundane Utility: In her scene in the credits, she used her sword to cut some food up when cooking.
Boggy - USA
Voiced by: Andrew Holms
- Captain Ersatz: Looks like Bobby Brown with the talent of MC Hammer.
- Chick Magnet: Unlike Kazuya, he seems to be quite popular with the ladies with two women literally run up to his side in his second win pose.
- Dance Battler: He joins the tournament to use the money to boost his dancing career and his Desperation Attack includes him dancing under a spotlight while his opponent is literally stunned by this and when he is done, the opponent is somehow electrified.
- Kiss of Death: Sort of. It's actually a projectile attack.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: He wears an open jacket but no shirt.
- Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: Maybe it is his nickname when dancing but still...
Liza - Brazil
Voiced by: Aya Hisakawa
- Assist Character: Her animal friends, a bird and a monkey fight alongside her and attacks when she commands them to. Not unlike Nakoruru and Cham-Cham.
- Boyish Short Hair: As opposed to Lihua's ponytail.
- Dance Battler: Her Desperation Attack is literally putting on a Carnival dress out of nowhere and dancing with it.
- Fur Bikini: She wears a leopard-printed one.
- Hurricane Kick: Hers performed with Button Mashing. She has a Desperation Attack variant where she's wearing a dress.
- Jungle Princess: Not much is known about her past but considering her outfit, her animal friends, her savage fighting style AND the fact that her stage is in the jungle, it's safe to believe this is a safe bet.
J. McCoy - USA
Voiced by: Kazunari Tanaka
- Action Dad: Has an unnamed son that shows up in his win poses and ending.
- Boxing Battler: He is the token boxer of this game. Though unlike most examples, he is not restricted to using only his fists in battle.
- Eagleland - Flavor 1. I mean like at what he is wearing for crying out loud!
- Extremity Extremist: Averted, even though he's still a boxer.
- Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs: Not surprising, considering his fighting style.
- Shoryuken: Starts with a forward dash.
Wulong - China
Voiced by: Yasushi Horibata
- Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: Even in his one quotes where he complimented his opponent's spirit, he also said that they will never be his equal.
- Good Scars, Evil Scars: He has a scratch scar on his cheek.
- Perpetual Frowner: Never smiles unless he wins the match or in his ending when he defeats his boss.
- Supercop: He is a detective that manages to take down armed men in his ending.
Gekkou - Japan
Voiced by: Hideo Ishikawa
- Fuuma Shuriken: Throws one as a projectile.
- Highly-Visible Ninja: A ninja clad in PURPLE?
- The Stoic
Marco - Germany
Voiced by: Hisayoshi Ogura
- Amazing Technicolor Population: He has purple skin. Justified because of the mutation he had went through.
- Bandaged Face: His entire face save for one eye is covered in bandages.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Despite his frightening appearance, the fact he fights in a haunted house with a torture dungeon behind one of the walls, and his victory quote where he threatens his opponent, he is otherwise a nice guy.
- Dumb Muscle: Maybe it is the effects of the mutation because he doesn't appear to be too bright. In fact, he seems to act like a Manchild. One of his attacks even includes flailing his arms around while crying.
- Eek, a Mouse!!: In his scene in the credits, he freaked out over a mouse. Let me repeat that. The big, hulking monster got scared of a little mouse.
- I Am a Monster: His goal in the tournament is to win the money so he could fund a science research to make him human again.
- Mighty Glacier: He not only slowly and hits hard, his jumps are slow.
- Rubber Man: To make up for his slow speed, he could stretch his arms out just like Dhalsim.
- Self-Destruct Mechanism: His ultimate attack though instead of it being mechanical, he is a biological lifeform.
- Stout Strength: He has a gut on him but it doesn't stop him from laying the beatdown.
- Taking You with Me: His Desperation Attack where he grabs the opponent and a number count appears over his head. When it reaches zero, Marco explodes, damaging his opponent in the progress. This is subverted when Marco somehow regenerates his body while his opponent is on the ground after taking a lot of damage.
- Use Your Head: One of his special moves have him take off his head and throw it across the screen.
- Wrestler in All of Us: Sort of. He IS the token grappler of the game, after all. At least the playable grappler in Gonzales' case.
Gonzales - Russia
Voiced by: Hisao Egawa
- Expy: He's a Russian version of Goro Daimon, given the fact that the two of them are judokas, having their Eyes Always Shut, and that their own judo moves go way beyond that of the standard judo techniques. However, it is worth noting that Kaiser Knuckle/Global Champion (came out in July 1994) preceded The King of Fighters '94 (released on August 25) in arcades by about more than a month.
- Eyes Always Shut: Gonzales rarely has his eyes open unless he's about to perform a judo move.
- Husky Russkie: He is the second biggest character in the game and his size isn't just so show as proven in his Desperation Attack.
- I Will Find You: Gonzales is very determined to find his missing fiance Tanya.
- Manly Tears: He sheds these in his win pose.
- Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: On the nationality variety. He is a Russian man that fights with judo which is a Japanese martial art, wears a coonskin cap which is associated with American frontiersmen AND has a Spanish name.
- Space Zone: Played with when using his Desperation Attack, where he grabs and tosses his opponent into space for a moment, burning them in the process.
- Wrestler in All of Us: On the subject of judo.
Azteca - Mexico
Voiced by: Ryu Kuzu
- Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: One of his victory quotes: "What a weakling! A wimp like you couldn't even lay a finger on my mask!"
- Cool Mask: He wears a green mask that looked like it is about to shatter with a single flick.
- Dishing Out Dirt: He has a special throw where he encases his opponent in a stone pillar.
- Expy: A clear expy of the Pillar Men from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.
- Fiery Redhead: He is quite loud when attacking.
- Identity Amnesia: He lost his memories so his goal in the tournament is to try to regain them.
- Mayincatec: Not only does his design screams this but his stage is also in front of an Aztec temple.
- Prehensile Hair: Uses his long hair to whip people. In fact, he can make his opponents spill blood from it.
- Rolling Attack: Attacks by rolling into his enemy, not unlike Blanka
- Taken for Granite:
- Walking Shirtless Scene: Fights with a top showing off his tattooed body.
- Wave-Motion Gun: His desperation attack which he fires from his mask.
General - Unknown
Voiced by: Steve Yamashita
- Catchphrase: "I am a perfect soldier!" Trust me when I say this, you WILL see this quote a lot.
- Doppleganger Attack: One of his infamous moves is sending out ghostly figures of him around him, making it nigh-impossible for the player to even get near him.
- Evil Laugh: "HUHUHUHUH! HUHUHUHUH!". He'll belt it out every time you challenge him, so get used to this one.
- Expy: Let's see. A SNK Boss that is dressed like a dictator. M. Bison much? His design is clearly based on the Golan Colonel from Fist of the North Star. Although, his face resembles the Mad Sarge, also from Fist of the North Star.
- Pet the Dog: In Marco's ending, he not only gives Marco the money to fund the science research project but he also helps out with it by giving up Marco a human body for him to have.
- Skeleton Motif: He has a symbol with a variation on it. Rather than set of crossed femur bones or swords, his has a set of scythes. It is located on his beret (including with the image featured for his entry here, granted not very clearly) and on the shoulders of his shirt. Though it is most visible on the floor of his stage.
- SNK Boss: Goodness. Observe.
This guy is basically the hardest boss throughout all fighting games since its release. For further proof? Even the writers from game magazines gave up to write strategies against him. It took until 2014 until he was finally beaten fairly, here, and even then it was a very narrow win. - Space Zone: His space station stage. How his opponent managed to get all of the way up there is up to debate.
- Teleport Spam: One of the big factors in his difficulty is that he can spam a DBZ-esque teleport like there's no tomorrow. And he knows it, closing every distance by a chokeslam-followed teleport and casually teleporting behind you every time he feels like it.
- Virtuous Character Copy: A downplayed example in relation to the Street Fighter series' M. Bison. Yeah, General has ambitions for global conquest and is extremely ruthless in battle. Though in contrast to the tyrannical Dictator M. Bison, General does have at least some good qualities as demonstrated in Marco's ending. General donates to him a new body and funds for a surgical operation for the disfigured fighter to have his brain placed in it so that he can finally have a normal life. Even if one wants to accuse that this act of charity is merely a ploy to give himself some good publicity and deflect himself from public scrutiny, or even serve an ulterior purpose of using Marco as a guinea pig to test if this can be done for his own soldiers and supporters or even himself if necessary, it is still a good deed at the end of the day. M. Bison on the other hand has never once done anything remotely humanitarian and for that matter the Street Fighter Alpha series of games released the year after Kaiser Knuckle/Global Champion would reveal that Bison intentionally expelled all good from himself in order to become purely evil.
