Below are the characters from the game series Fighter's History, arranged by their debut game.
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Introduced in Fighter's History
Ray McDougal
Origin: USA
Fighting style: Self-taught
- Anime Hair: Very similar to a Super Saiyan's, in fact.
- Blood Knight: A mild example. Ray hates standing still and is almost always on the go, seeking out the next big case or worthy challenger.
- Blow You Away: Big Tornado, judging by its name and appearance at least.
- Cowboy Cop: By the time of Dynamite, he's working as a detective stationed in Los Angeles.
- Fair Cop: Though not much is made of his looks throughout the series.
- The Hero: He's presented as the protagonist of the series and is an unambiguously heroic character, always looking to better himself in combat. Despite being American, he's essentially this series' equivalent to Ryu.
- Shock and Awe: His Thunder Dynamite Tackle is an enhanced version of the attack that sees Ray envelop himself in an aura of lightning, and is one of the most damaging attacks in the entire game.
- Spirited Competitor: In both of his endings, he refuses to accept Karnov's fortune and helps the man back to his feet, only concerned with having a good fight which would determine the stronger of the two.
- Wrestler in All of Us: His throws are DDTs.
Makoto Mizoguchi
Origin: Japan
Fighting style: Jissen Karate
- Animal Motifs: Considering that three of his specials have the word "Tiger" in them and his Tiger Bazooka is even in the shape of a tiger, the tiger.
- Batter Up!: Exclusive to his appearance in
Suiko Enbu, Mizoguchi can create a baseball bat out of his spiritual energy and use it to whack opponents, knocking them out of the park (and into walls).
- Breakout Character: Compared to Ray, The Hero. Out of the entire cast, Mizoguchi is by far the most memorable character of Fighter's History and one of only two combatants from the series to show up anywhere else in fighting game history.
- Expy: Seems to be one of Momotaro Tsurugi, due to his general appearance, as well as his Tiger Bazooka and Gottsui Tiger Bazooka being his Rising Ki Tiger Spirit (or Shinki Fukon, depending on what translation you prefer) technique.
- Guest Fighter: In Suiko Enbu (alongside Yungmie) and The King of Fighters Maximum Impact: Regulation A.
- Hot-Blooded: Mizoguchi signals every single one of his special moves with a boisterously loud battle cry, whether he's screaming out the name of the move itself or in the case of Renzoku Keri, yelling out CHESTO with each successive kick.
- Running Gag: After being scouted by the Chinese mafia due to his abilities, Mizoguchi eventually grows homesick and attempts to leave the gang during each tournament he competes in, all of which (with the exception of KOF MI:RA) inevitably end in failure.
- Shotoclone: Ayup. Compare his Tiger Bazooka to the Hadouken (with the Gotsui Tiger Bazooka functioning as the Shinkuu Hadouken), his Koryusai and Tsutensai to the Shoryuken, and his Renzoku Keri to the Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku (although it's closer functionally to Dan's Dankuukyaku or Sean's Tornado).
Ryoko Kano
Origin: Japan
Fighting style: Judo
- Child Prodigy: Started with judo at age three.
- Cute Bruiser: She's very sweet-looking, and fights using a no-nonsense style of judo, completely averting She-Fu.
- Disappeared Dad: Her father left her at an early age, which is why she carried on the family judo practice. Her father returns in the ending to Fighter's History Dynamite.
- Expy/No Celebrities Were Harmed:
- Of Real Life judoka Ryoko Tani.
- Her story also takes a few pages from Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl.
- Of Real Life judoka Ryoko Tani.
- Glacier Waif: To an extent. She's surprisingly agile for a grappler.
- Little Miss Badass: At 17, she skirts the line, and is at least a head shorter than all the other fighters.
- Tomboy: Ostensibly; she sports short, unadorned hair and a big baggy judo gi. Her fighting style is also practical, no-nonsense and more of a type normally associated with male fighting game characters, featuring some brutal takedowns.
- Older Than They Look: She looks 14, tops.
- Unnecessary Combat Roll: Averted; her Zenten Ukemi doubles as both an evasive maneuver and an attack.
Liu Feilin
Origin: China
Fighting style: Mantis-style Kung-Fu
- All Asians Know Martial Arts: Master of the Mantis style.
- Armor Is Useless: Wears a chestplate in battle... which doubles as her weak spot.
- Arrogant Kung-Fu Girl: Her main character traits are that she's highly skilled in Mantis-style kung-fu, and is very vain to boot.
- Beauty Is Bad: Not so much "bad" as "vanity." Feilin is very proud of her looks, nearly to the point of narcissism, but she isn't too bad otherwise.
- Cleavage Window: On her top underneath the armor.◊
- Cultured Badass: She's a Beijing Opera star when not competing in fighting tournaments.
- The Fighting Narcissist: Might toe the line. And if she is, she'd count as one of the few non-malevolent examples. (She's full of herself, yeah, but she's not evil.)
- Insult to Rocks: In the original Fighter's History, she tells Marstorius "My hairdresser has better moves than you!"
- Ms. Fanservice: A rather tame one, and mostly on the basis of her mannerisms and personality as opposed to her design itself; Feilin is conservatively dressed, even wearing ornamental (but not all too sturdy) armor into battle.
- Proud Beauty: She's very vain and is well aware of how beautiful she is, with her vanity being her most prominent characteristic.
- Spell My Name With An S: The Liu is sometimes spelled as Ryu (which is how her name is rendered in Japanese), while Feilin is occasionally hyphenated (i.e. "Fei-lin").
- Stereotypes of Chinese People: Top Beijing Opera actress. Curiously, she's not your stereotypical Anime Chinese Girl, although she falls far closer to it than a Dragon Lady.
- World's Most Beautiful Woman: Views herself as such and is equally determined to prove herself as the strongest fighter as well.
Matlok Jade
Origin: England
Fighting style: Acrobatics / brawling
- Alternate Company Equivalent: To Guile, alongside Jean. Matlok's Spinning Wave projectile is a dead ringer for Guile's Sonic Boom. There's also some Duck King in there with his general design and Dance Battler fighting style.
- British Rockstar: He fronts a punk rock band that can be seen in the background of his Dynamite stage, which is set at one of his gigs, and in a curious turn of events (given the age of the series), he's even voiced with an approximate Cockney/SE London accent — "Spinnin' Wive!".
- Cool Shades: Sports a pair of wraparound sunglasses, which get smashed up on his defeated screen.
- Dance Battler: To a degree — he's a very agile fighter, flipping all over the screen.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Based off of Sex Pistols' bass guitarist Glen Matlock.
- Punk Rock: He's a classic English punk rock musician, and joins the tournament in search of a famous electric guitar.
- Spell My Name With An S: Matlok, not Matlock, which is likely a deliberate, legally-safe misspelling as he's named after a real person (Glen Matlock), even though it would never be spelled that way in England.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: Sports combat pants and his torso is bare save for a studded leather harness in keeping with his punk theme.
Samchay Tomyamgun
Origin: Thailand
Fighting style: Muay Thai
- Expy: Being a nak muay and given his moveset, it's a bit hard to not compare him to Sagat.
- Gonk: Most of the series' characters are conventionally handsome, bar the evil duo of Clown and Karnov — apart from Samchay that is, who's conventionally very plain, sporting a long, sallow face and big rubbery lips.
- Martial Arts Headband: A Mongkhon in his case, traditionally worn by Thai boxers.
- Promotion to Parent: Takes care of his two younger brothers and a little sister.
- Younger Than They Look: Looks like he's almost in his 30's, but considering that he has pre-teen siblings to take care of, he's most likely in his early 20's tops.
Lee Diendou
Origin: China
Fighting style: Bājíquán
- Shout-Out: Named after famed Bājíquán teacher Li Shuwen. His fighting style is also evocative of the one seen in Kenji.
- Spell My Name With An S: Lee can be rendered as Li, and Diendo(u) is sometimes spelled as Tien-hou or Tendok.
- You Killed My Father: Is searching for the murderer of his dad. His Old Master barely manages to stop him from killing the culprit, Karnov, reminding him of the elder Lee's teachings.
Jean Pierre
Origin: France
Fighting style: Gymnastics
- Alternate Company Equivalent: To Guile, alongside Matlok, but only in terms of his moveset.
- Awesome Anachronistic Apparel: Jean Pierre's stage is set in what appears to be Versaille Palace, and despite the series' modern-day setting, his supporters are all sporting late 1700s court fashions.
- The Casanova/The Charmer: In spite of the less... attractive facets of his personality, Jean seems to have a bit of a soft spot for women. He shows more than a passing interest in Feilin while commending her skills and also appears to do a bit of flirting with Yungmie (or at least trying to pass on a bit of advice) given his win quote against her. In Dynamite, he also decides to pull his punches with Ryoko.
- The Fighting Narcissist: Well, he is a gym practitioner as well as a fighter.
- Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs: His Needle Shower and Quick Needle Shower. Doubles as an homage to Fist of the North Star as the attack resembles Shin's signature finger strike techniques and the battle cry he performs is identical to the one used by Kenshiro during his Hundred Crack Fist.
- Second Place Is for Losers: In gymnastics, he always had a perfect score... then he received a 9.98, as he's The Perfectionist, this sent him into a rage.
- She-Fu: Male equivalent, although such is to be expected of a gymnast.
- Something about a Rose: He uses a rose as a projectile. Yes, even before Dudley became famous for it.
- Wearing a Flag on Your Head: Wears the Tricolore of France on his left pant leg, Ambidextrous Sprite notwithstanding.
- Wrestler in All of Us: Uses a Frankensteiner for his throw.
Marstorius
Origin: Italy
Fighting style: Wrestling
- Alternate Company Equivalent: To Zangief, being big bearded professional wrestlers with a nasty German suplex and a booming voice.
- Ancient Rome: His design takes inspiration from the Roman gladiators of antiquity.
- Boisterous Bruiser: By far the loudest character in the game, and definitely the biggest and strongest.
- Expy: Of pro wrestler Bruiser Brody. He also slightly resembles the late tenor Lucciano Pavaroti.
- Henpecked Husband: The only person capable of "keeping him in line" is his wife. Who's just as big and strong as he is.
- Jump Physics: As a counterbalance to his damaging throws (most infamously, the dreaded Double German), Marstorius has a very low jump (the lowest in the game), making it hard for him to effectively deal with and counter the numerous projectiles most of the remaining fighters have access to.
- Man in a Kilt: He dons a gladiator style kilt as part of his professional wrestling attire.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Very clearly modelled after the late Bruiser Brody, right down to the furry leg warmer boots.
- No Indoor Voice: Easily the loudest character in the game, Marstorius screams all of his voice lines at the top of his lungs.
- Mighty Glacier: Marstorius is by far the slowest character in the game, and his jump arc is pitiful. But when he's in, he can close out the round in just a few seconds.
- Spell My Name With An S: Marstorius, Marstorious and Marstrius have all been used in official material. The former seems to be the most consistent.
Clown
Origin: Unknown
Fighting style: Circus acrobatics
- Camp Gay: Clown's endings in the Japanese versions actually involves him trying to pick up younger men. The endings were altered in the English versions to downplay Clown's homosexuality, yet the manual for Karnov's Revenge still makes references to his sexual preference by stating that he likes "young boys" and is seeking an "attractive male fighter."
- Cool Mask: He sports a very creepy pierrot style mask as part of his clown schtick.
- Creepy High-Pitched Voice: Clown definitely has the most shrill voice among all the male fighters. Paired with his Monster Clown aesthetic and predatory antics, it makes him a rather unsettling individual.
- Death Dealer: He hurls tarot cards in combat — "Pick a card!"
- Depraved Homosexual: As an evil character, he's presented as such, leering at Jean Pierre, and in his official bio under "likes", he lists "pretty young boys".
- Evil Laugh: Both his victory pose and his throw have Clown belting out a shrill giggle.
- The Fighting Narcissist: His stage in Dynamite even has a gigantic self portrait of himself in the background, to really hammer the point home.
- Hated by All: His ending in Dynamite states that he is "thoroughly hated by all fighters" and a "menace to society" that nobody can stop.
- Insult to Rocks: His win quote against Marstorius in Dynamite."My poodle is stronger than you!"
- In the Hood: He sports a jester-style purple hood.
- Laughably Evil: Arguably qualifies on his better days.
- Monster Clown: A very odd, creepy character based on a circus clown, who acts as a sub-boss to Karnov.
- Practically Joker: A Laughably Evil clown with various circus-themed weapons, he's similar to the Joker albeit ugly, which is why he wears his mask. According to cut content from the first game, his name was originally meant to be "Joker" but was renamed.
- Rolling Attack: His Spin Attack and Spinning Drop. Both are performed in a distinctly Blanka fashion.
- Sissy Villain: He's arrogant, effeminate and not a very good person. He has a fascination with feminine looking men and his character bio mentions that he hates staying up late because it interferes with his beauty sleep.
Karnov
Origin: Russia
Fighting style: Unknown
- Adaptational Badass: In most of his appearances, Karnov is a rather silly character, and when he's an enemy it's usually a generic one or an early game boss. In this series however, he's the main antagonist and final boss.
- Balloon Belly: He can unleash the "Balloon Attack", where he inflates himself to crush his opponents.
- Big Bad: He's the final boss of the original game and its sequel, which even bears his name in the title.
- Bling of War: Downplayed; Karnov wears a rather elaborate golden necklace, but that's it.
- Blood Knight: Karnov lives to fight strong opponents, and only respects his fellow warriors.
- Canon Immigrant: Had his own game, Karnov.
- Eyes Always Shut: Unlike his depiction in his own game, here Karnov is usually drawn with beady black, heavily lidded eyes.
- Fat Bastard: Downplayed. Karnov is the final boss and main antagonist, but he's not really malicious or evil, just extremely battle hungry.
- Fat Flex: Sucks in his gut in one of his victory animations.
- Fat Suit: As seen in this concept art provided with the official CD soundtrack.
- Formerly Fit: Happens to him after the first game.
- Good Scars, Evil Scars: On his stomach, giving him more than a passing resemblance to Heart.
- Irony: Was forced to work for God for fighting people all the time, yet when he leaves the heavens after his sentence is over, he establishes a tournament to, you guessed it, fight.
- Leitmotif: His theme in Dynamite is a rearrangement of his theme from Karnov.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: He bears more than a passing resemblance to Abdullah the Butcher, a professional wrestler infamous for participating in bloody deathmatches.
- Playing with Fire: Breath Weapon variant — he can blast a gout of flame for one of his specials.
- Red Baron: "The God of Battle." Additionally, Zazie refers to him as the "King of the Desert."
- Stout Strength: Though he's certainly let himself go since the Karnov days.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: While he should cover up more, it's probably necessary considering Karnov can inflate himself.
- Yellow Peril: Despite being from Russia, he shares some characteristics with the classic Fu Man Chu villain archetype.
Introduced in Fighter's History Dynamite
Liu Yungmie
Origin: South Korea
Fighting style: Taekwondo
- Amazonian Beauty: She has the whole "Chun-Li thunder thighs" thing going on. Her arms aren't anything to scoff at either.
- Badass Adorable: Has her moments, more so in Suiko Enbu: Fuunsaiki than in the series proper, but of note is the fact that her defeat portrait is downright pitiable: Feilin looks disappointed by her loss, Ryoko scowls, Yungmie is on the verge of tears.
- Expy:
- She's the Korean equivalent of Chun-Li, albeit to varying extents. Her design has a few traits in common with Chun-Li (particularly her Alpha incarnation), such as the tights and eyeshadow. She's also a Kick Chick like Chun-Li, possessing a similarly muscular physique and a Hyakuretsukyaku-esque special. She decides to investigate the mysterious disappearance of her parents (similar to Chun-Li's Disappeared Dad) and has a vendetta against the Big Bad because of it (i.e. Chun-Li vs. Bison); however, she drops it upon learning that Karnov wasn't responsible. Yungmie even replicates Chun-Li's "Yatta!", although she doesn't do the corresponding win pose until her stint as a Guest Fighter in Suiko Enbu: Fuunsaiki. This would come full circle with Street Fighter IV: Not only does Chun-Li pick up an aerial splits kick (her neutral j.HK) like the one Yungmie uses that would follow her into V, but Super newcomer Juri Han is a Korean practitioner of TKD who does everything listed below in Kick Chick and also has an aerial splits kick as her neutral j.HK that even more closely resembles the move in question.
- Her hairband also looks a lot like the one worn by Mai Shiranui.
- She's the Korean equivalent of Chun-Li, albeit to varying extents. Her design has a few traits in common with Chun-Li (particularly her Alpha incarnation), such as the tights and eyeshadow. She's also a Kick Chick like Chun-Li, possessing a similarly muscular physique and a Hyakuretsukyaku-esque special. She decides to investigate the mysterious disappearance of her parents (similar to Chun-Li's Disappeared Dad) and has a vendetta against the Big Bad because of it (i.e. Chun-Li vs. Bison); however, she drops it upon learning that Karnov wasn't responsible. Yungmie even replicates Chun-Li's "Yatta!", although she doesn't do the corresponding win pose until her stint as a Guest Fighter in Suiko Enbu: Fuunsaiki. This would come full circle with Street Fighter IV: Not only does Chun-Li pick up an aerial splits kick (her neutral j.HK
- Guest Fighter: Joins Mizoguchi in the line-up for Suiko Enbu: Fuunsaiki.
- Ki Manipulation: Her Aura Smash, an air-only fireball that travels straight ahead.
- Kick Chick: To point of throwing her projectiles with her legs, throwing people with her legs, and even blocking with them while standing.
- The Rival: As of Mizoguchi Kiki Ippatsu!!, Feilin.
- Shoryuken: Nerichagi is a variant. Yungmie leaps straight up with a kick and comes back down with a second. The LK version will completely whiff on crouching opponents on the way down, while the HK version does hit crouchers but has enough of a delay between hits that an opponent can block the first and counter with a higher priority move, as Nerichagi lacks invincibility while descending.
- Spam Attack: Her Fire Kick, performed in the vein of Chun-Li's Hyakuretsukyaku. Unlike Jean and Zazie, Fire Kick can only be performed with two attacks of the same strength (LP + LK or HP + HK), meaning Yungmie can't instantly throw one out by mashing all four buttons, which makes the attack limited in use and somewhat unreliable outside of a combo ender at optimal ranges.
- Spell My Name With An S: Same deal as Feilin: her first name is sometimes spelled as Ryu/Riu. Her surname is also given as Yung Mie or Yung-Mie at times.
- Walking the Earth: In a sense. Yungmie's ending in Mizoguchi Kiki Ippatsu!! has her travel the world, working as a tour guide.
- Wall Jump: Has access to a triangle jump just like, you guessed it, Chun-Li. Yungmie's wall acrobatics allows her to use a splits kick during her angled jump by pressing down + HK in additional to her regular aerials.
- You Killed My Parents: To Karnov. He claims that he didn't do it (her father actually committed suicide after his loss), and adds that Yungmie's mother may be alive.
Zazie Muhaba
Origin: Kenya
Fighting style: Karate
- Boxing Battler: While his fighting style is listed as karate, many of his techniques resemble that of a boxer. He can bob and weave across the stage to duck under projectiles or play mind games with his opponent. Two of his signature techniques are a flaming uppercut and a series of rapid fire punches.
- Dreadlock Warrior: Sports of mohican of dreads tied up in a red Martial Arts Headband.
- Friend to All Living Things: He's the chairman of the 'African Nature Protection Society'.
- Nature Hero: He fights to protect African wildlife from poachers and earn money to fund his self-made environmental group.
- Playing with Fire: His Deshikakato and Hellfire techniques are an overhead axe kick and swift uppercut respectively that are augmented with a fiery blaze.
- Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs: His Vulcan Hook and Quick Vulcan Hook. Put him up against the aforementioned Jean, and...
- Shout-Out: The name of his fighting style? Hokuto Shinkan Karate.
- Wrestler in All of Us: Despite being a karateka, his throw is a professional wrestling back drop.
Ox
- Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Yeah, you have to fight this bull.
- Expy: Of the infamous Karate Champ bull.
- True Final Boss: You can challenge Ox if you reach the end of the game without losing or continuing on normal difficulty or higher.
Introduced in Fighter's History: Mizoguchi Kiki Ippatsu!!
Chelnov
- Canon Immigrant: From his own game, Chelnov.
- The Faceless: Dons a strange, Powered Armor-esque suit which conceals his face.
- Near-Death Experience: His alleged backstory. He was once a scientist who nearly died in a huge nuclear accident.
