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And then beat their asses.

Needless to say, they are gonna wish they'd just reformed.

Alternatively, maybe Kim's had some effect on them and they are now trying to reign in Xanadu from going on a killing spree.

...

Hard to believe with a name like Villains team, but I suppose it's not impossible.

I mean, if you want to be a bank robber, having homicide investigation after you is a problem.

Wasn't Choi a serial killer before Kim took him in? And possibly while he was being "rehabilitated?"

Choi has honestly never looked cooler.

This new Xanadu guy though...his moves look pretty dumb TBH. Probably my least favorite team overall.

Chang seemed to lose his Hienzan and Choi loses his flip kick, so if anything, I think they're trying to unlearn whatever they got from Kim.

Also, noticably, when the Team Villain go against Team Kim, looks like Luong was absent (Xanadu was up against Gang-Il). Considering her more sadistic style, I'm starting to think that my WMG might come true: Luong is a spy from Team Villain, her encounter and 'love' with Gang-Il were all ploys to get close and destroy Gang-Il and Kim on orders of Xanadu, who's just putting a Psychopathic Manchild outlook to fool people about his legendary status.

Also, Villain Team profiles are up:

'*XANADU: This legendary criminal is currently imprisoned in an underground jail. He has ideas and concepts hard to understand for the average person. Xanadu is considered as the "King of the Underground" by the other prisoners. Will he bring back Chang and Choi to their dark days again?

• CHANG KOEHAN: Once a feared and violent criminal, the two-meter-and-more-tall Chang battles with an enormous iron ball he spins like a tennis ball. Chang trained hard in the past in tae kwon do while under Kim's "Rehabilitation Project", but he teams up now with Xanadu.

• CHOI BOUNGE: Butcher during the day, Choi was once feared as a ripper during the night. Choi gives a hard time to his opponents thanks his super speed and claw attacks. One day, he chanced to have stalked on Kim during one of his nightly walks, and was then forced to join his "Rehabilitation Project". His rehabilitation program over, Choi teams up now with Xanadu.'

edited 16th Jun '16 5:56:51 PM by kkhohoho

Should Shun'Ei, Hein & Gang Il's profile should be updated as well?

For Shun'ei was from KOF Vol. 1 interview:

• Abusive Parents: Because of his eerie power, he is abandoned by his biological parents, until he is Happily Adopted by Tung Fu Rue
• Bad Powers, Good People is also because he is Happily Adopted by Tung Fu Rue and becomes his best disciple
• Hetero Sexual Life Partner: With Meitenkun

Let's not be too hasty on that last one. For all we know, Meitenkun could actually be a girl at this point. We still haven't seen or heard enough of him or her to tell, and it could really go either way. So for now, it's probably best to leave out that little tidbit until we get a better of just what's going in Meitenkun's trunk, because at this point, it's still just to early to tell.

Shun ei was designed by 20 to mid 20 year olds by their definition of an appealing character. Sadly, it shows. A LOT.

I Know I'm in the minority saying that I like Shunei. He represents the modern day protagonist, same way how K' and Kyo were modern day protags back in their time.

edited 17th Jun '16 8:56:11 AM by Niitris

Say, is it weird that I find Shermie and Chris likeable characters (even as villains), but not their teammate and leader Yashiro? I even remember a really old fanfic that I cannot seem to be able to find anymore (I forgot about it for a couple of years, and since then I cannot remember how I found it in the first place) where it seemed Chris and Shermie were intended to end up having a Heel–Face Turn while Yashiro remains a villain (it involved Chris having ominous dreams of Shermie as a Human Sacrifice to Orochi, and a budding relationship between the two).

I like Shermie quite a bit, Yashiro is just okay(his top is silly looking), but I think Chris is annoying. His fighting style sucks too, although Orochi Chris is a lot cooler and the dual flames are pretty awesome. He's probably the only New Face whose Orochi form I like over the base form. I used to think Chris was the leader at first lol.

edited 18th Jun '16 5:42:37 PM by Vertigo_High

Well, he's technically better than being the leader.

I like all three. They seemed like cool people before the whole remembering they were incarnations of Orochi's will shtick.

But we're all old men! We need to attack a character that represents all this new,stinking, youth, without even waiting the game to be released!

...Sylvie?

Oh, and I'm 25, just so you know. Does that count as being youthful?

Shunei doesn't annoy me nearly enough then Hakan's... Whatever is on his head.

His hair?

Cause I can understand why you'd find it offensive.

Also, since Vice and Mature seem to have been revived, despite Iori literally ripping them to pieces in the same game when the New Faces died, I'm wondering if the latter group might be somehow revived at some point.

T'is not as crazy as it sounds.

He killed them in 96. New Faces died(?) in 97.

Still though. There's really not much holding back their returning, and they're popular enough to show up in the 2 big dream matches, so it's definitely not off the table.

My bad.

But yeah, that's pretty much what I'm saying.

Meitenkun is beautiful an I hope his anime hair is just a really bad case of bedhead

I doubt. Vice and Mature are there because SNK can no longer think of a reason for anyone to ally with a jerk like Iori. Bring back New Face Team when Orochi is no longer around is an entirely different matter.

(Reposting this old post of mine on the now-locked other KOF thread in hopes it gets actual feedback this time around.)

Say, an old Mai-centric one-shot fanfic that I've read (and which, sadly, is lost forever due to the author's site being shut down) ends with The Reveal that Mai is not as much of an airhead or "incompetent" at being a real ninja as she seems to be in the games or the anime, and has had me thinking... Could Mai actually be pretending to be an airheaded bimbo who is seemingly comically obsessed with her Love Interest and has no idea how an actual ninja should dress or fight, partly as a psychological ploy to cause opponents to underestimate her at their own peril (and hide her more lethal skills for actual ninja work), and partly because she revels in the freedom and received attention?

As an extension to the above old post, I'm of the opinion that Mai is actually proficient in a lot more kinds of weapons than just her Combat Hand Fans. Kodachi, shuriken, kunai, kusarigama... any weapon that you could reasonably concieve of as something a ninja would definitely use in the right situation, Mai was probably at least trained in the most fundamental basics of its usage. Furthermore, that parasol she has in some of her intros and victory poses? The handle doubles as a sheath for a hidden sword, a la the oiran-slash-bodyguard Setsuka. What do you think?

That actually has been my headcanon in awhile. Ninjas use every tricks they have in disposal.