all male fighting games?

I CAN'T FAP TO THIS!

If DLC doesn't count, then MUGEN.

Those Karate Guy mirrors...

Street Fighter II can sometimes only have Ryu and Ken, notably.

Likewise, latest Killer Instinct can be Jago only.

As for a bigger roster, I forget if Street Fighter I had any females. Mortal Kombat always got around this by having 1 or more, thankfully.

The original Street Fighter was all men. It was mentioned on the first page.

Mortal Kombat, on the other hand, has avoided this with at least one female per game, as you noted.

If you mean the new KI for Xbox One, there was a spider chick (Sadira, I think) who was revealed not too long ago, so there is at least one woman on the roster already.

edited 13th Sep '13 6:52:05 PM by X2X

The starting roster is only Jago. You have to pay for everyone else. It's another MUGEN scenario, essentially.

I guess we need to distinguish if we're counting initial rosters only. Personally, I'd technically count KI if only because we know about the other characters in spite of Jago being the only one available from the start.

I specified that I was only referring to "without DLC" rosters. I don't think Starting rosters should count since you can naturally unlock them.

Albeit, Miru would have to weigh in.

Or we could just say there's multiple variations and the criteria doesn't matter as long as we specify it with our answer. That work?

Of course. Works for me.

I thought Orchid was confirmed for the new KI, though not as a starter.

No, there's a new female character. Orchid hasn't been announced as far as I know.

I was actually thinking about this sort of thing in regards to the Dead Or Alive series. From the surface, it seems like the DOA games have a majority of girls to guys, but it's really almost totally even between males and females. It's just that the girls in DOA get more focus and are more popular. If you ignore the fanservice, it actually seems kind of progressive. From what I can tell, in most fighting games girls only tend to make up about a fourth of the playable characters.

Getting back on the topic, an all male fighting game just seems like a bad idea. I think having Chun-Li in Street Fighter 2 was one of many factors in that game's phenomenal success. A fighting game is made stronger by having a diverse cast of unique characters, and having plenty of both genders really helps.

edited 13th Sep '13 7:38:46 PM by StarOutlaw

She is. But that was missing the criteria I mentioned. A roster ignoring DLC only. Keep in mind that's one type of All Male Fighting Rosters.

I think Miru may have meant their final roster had zero females. DLC included.

As I noted, it should depend the criteria. And KI definitely doesn't have that problem if we included the full roster. In any version ever made.

Of course it's a bad idea. Because there's no reason a woman can't fight. Also, many people didn't know Samus in Smash 64 was a girl, so... some might've thought that. Jigglypuff has no official gender in SSB either.(Pikachu is suggested to be male due to keeping a male design after they showed the differences between males/females right near Brawl. Jigglypuff is often female when caught, but there's no gender differences physically, so...)

edited 13th Sep '13 7:40:55 PM by Irene

There is one reason, but it's probably flimsy; in most real-life fighting promotions, there's no mixed matches. Women either have a separate division or don't compete at all.

That mostly applies to Sports-related fighting games, since MMA and Wrestling are often classified under it. Maybe Martial Arts specific ones.

But that's not a very good excuse for most fantasy games. Soul Calibur never had an issue with it. SSB didn't either.(albeit, not many could tell... in the first game)

The NES version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters has all four turtles, Shredder, Casey Jones, and a dragon named Hothead. You had to go 16-bit to get April or Aska.

Final Fight Revenge might qualify, thanks to the token female being Poison.

It's interesting that there are several (almost always indie, but even a few major) fighting games advertising exclusively female casts, but the inverse is completely unheard of.

The DBZ game on the Super Nintendo, Hyper Dimension I think, only had male characters.

Joy Mech Fight

The robots are described with male pronouns anyway...I think.