Hardcore Gaming 101: Fatal Fury

By ZZZ

SNK's fighters always have some kind of fairly simple theme that makes them stand out from the crowd. Samurai Shodown has weapons, King of Fighters has teams and huge character rosters, Art of Fighting has amazing visuals and innovative techniques, World Heroes has crazy characters and death matches - even their lesser known games each have some kind of novel concept to their gameplay. With their Fatal Fury series, it's the ability to move between the planes of a multi-plane playing field. However, opinions about this technique tend to be mixed among fans. It began as a mere novelty in the original game, but became a genuinely beneficial method of evasion in the sequels. For those who find the technique to be more awkward than anything else, it's absent from some of the later games in the series.
The original Fatal Fury is SNK's second fighting game ever, preceded only by Street Smart. Other than having jump started the production of fighters by the genre's most prolific developer, it's also the point of origin of the King of Fighters tournament, and it directly spawned SNK's most internationally popular series. It even created the fictional city of Southtown, which has since been the setting for innumerable SNK games. A great deal of its characters have become KoF regulars and made other appearances in SNK related cross-over fighters, quiz games, card battle games, video board games, and elsewhere. Despite its significance, Fatal Fury isn't quite as popular as King of Fighters and it doesn't have quite as intense a cult following as Samurai Shodown, but it's easily just as good as both series.
Something that really stands out about Fatal Fury is how much SNK often changed the feel of the series' gameplay from game to game. In fact, there are a good six individually distinguishable incarnations of the series. This could be said about both Capcom's Street Fighter and SNK's own Samurai Shodown as well, but Fatal Fury varies in that the differences between the feel of each incarnation's gameplay are so much more severe. Skills that you've mastered in one game don't necessarily translate to, or even prepare you for, another. So fighting game fans with all kinds of tastes are likely to find a game in the series that appeals to them, and it's an exceptionally rewarding fighting game series to get into as a whole. There really isn't any be-all-end-all game that obsoletes all the others either, so it might have the most "must have" titles of any SNK fighter series. It this respect, it could be argued to be SNK's overall greatest series of fighters.
In Japan Fatal Fury is called "Garou Densetsu", which translates to "Legend of the Hungry Wolf". The series has ten releases total, with nine originating in the arcades and the other being exclusively for SNK's portable console Neo Geo Pocket Color. All are available for a home or portable console in some form or other, and seven of the games have been compiled for PlayStation 2 as part of the compilations Fatal Fury Battle Archives 1 and the Japan exclusive Garou Densetsu Battle Archives 2.
Fatal Fury details the fall and subsequent aftermath of the criminal empire of Geese Howard. These events generally center around the King of Fighters tournament, with the chief protagonists being brothers Andy and Terry Bogard, and their Muay Thai practicing friend Joe Higashi - the trio collectively refered to as "The Lonely Wolves".
Table of Contents
Page 1 - Intro/Character Roster
Page 2 - Fatal Fury
Page 3 - Fatal Fury 2
Page 4 - Fatal Fury Special
Page 5 - Fatal Fury 3
Page 6 - Real Bout Fatal Fury
Page 7 - Real Bout Fatal Fury Special
Page 8 - Real Bout Dominated Mind
Page 9 - Real Bout Fatal Fury Special 2 / First Contact
Page 10 - Wild Ambition
Page 11 - Garou: Mark of the Wolves
Page 12 - Anime

Fatal Fury (Arcade)

Fatal Fury Special (Arcade)

Garou: Mark of the Wolves (Arcade)

Fatal Fury: Wild Ambition (PSOne)

Characters
(This roster excludes characters that only appear in Garou: Mark of the Wolves)

Terry Bogard
Known as the "Hungry Wolf", Terry Bogard is Fatal Fury's main protagonist and SNK's most enduring character. Throughout most of the series, he sports an iconic look which most notably consists of a red denim jacket that says "Running Wild" below a star on the back and a cap that says "King of Fighters" (or "Fatal Fury" in the KoF series). Amusingly, this makes him look a bit like a Dominoes pizza guy. He's Andy Bogard's older brother and is romantically involved with Blue Mary. He speaks English but with a very silly Japanese accent.("BUSTA WOOF!" "ARE YOU OK!", etc).

Andy Bogard
The Luigi of fighting games, Andy Bogard is Terry's occasionally neglected younger brother, who's basically an American ninja. Where his brother is easy-going, Andy is portrayed as somebody who takes his martial arts training very seriously. He's also a romantic interest for Mai, whose father trained his sensei.

Joe Higashi
Andy and Terry's Muay Thai practicing friend wears nothing but shorts and sports a huge hairstyle. Joe Higashi was born in Japan, but has spent most of his life training in Thailand. Fatal Fury's "goof off character", he is known pulling down his shorts and tauning his opponents with his bare behind during his taunt animation.

Geese Howard
While his bizarre name might lead you to believe otherwise, Geese is quite simply the awesomest boss character in video game history. He's a German-American who's basically mastered the art of karate and dresses like a Japanese aikido fighter. A former corrupt police commissioner, he rose to power as Southtown's crime boss and has since been Fatal Fury's main antagonist. His most powerful move is a complicated attack called the Deadly Rave. While almost definitely not intentional, he resembles the character of "The Aussie" from the 1988 Jean Claude Van Damme movie "Bloodsport".

Duck King
Duck is a DJ who owns a bar in Southtown with King from Art of Fighting. Given his design, it would be easy to dismiss him as a result of the same focus group testing that produced those late 1980's/early 1990's platformer characters that invariably had "radical" somewhere in their name. But, consider this: He's the king of ducks. How could you not like a character like that? Being their king, he's accompanied by a duckling named P-Chan who mimic his every move. He attacks using a variety of breakdancing maneuvers.

Michael Max
Michael Max is a fairly generic boxer who retires after he is beaten by the Bogards and Joe in FF. He is not actually playable in the arcade game and only appears as a boss in the original Fatal Fury.

Richard Meyer
Richard Meyer is a Capoeira master and the owner of the Pao Pao Cafe nightclub in Southtown, a recurring stage in the series. The first Fatal Fury game is the only time where he's a fighter. He ends up training Bob Wilson in the later games of the series, although he returns as a playable characters in King of Fighter 2006.

Hwa Jai
Hwa Jai is a Muay Thai fighter on steroids. He is not actually playable in the arcade game and only appears as a boss in the original Fatal Fury, with cameos in a couple games after that.

Tung Fu Rue
Fatal Fury's "old master character". Tung Fu Rue is the former sensei of Andy, Terry, Geese, Cheng Sinzan, and Terry and Andy's father Jeff. In the original game, where he is a non-playable boss character, he can become a giant muscular version of himself and the image of this form appears in certain specials in his later appearances. He bears a resemblance to Muten-Roshi from Dragonball Z.

Raiden / Big Bear
Raiden (pronounced RHY-DEN) is a masked wrestler who goes by Big Bear without a mask in later appearances. He resembles real life wrestler Big Van Vader. After being left being in the Fatal Fury series after FF Special, he shows up Capcom vs. SNK.

Billy Kane
Billy Kane is Geese's henchman. He sports a bandana and wears a jacket with a "No Smoking" symbol on the back. He wields a huge stick and possesses various flame based attacks. His levels often have hard rock visual themes and stage music. His sister, Lilly, appears as a non playable character in a couple of his endings in the Fatal Fury series, but is a hidden playable character in King of Fighters 2006. His father is a pilot in SNK's Prehistoric Isle series of shmups.

Jubei Yamada
Fatal Fury's "other" old man character. Probably the strongest seventy year old man alive. In his old age he enjoys spending his time eating cookies (who doesn't?), tending to his Judo dojo, and bothering his former partner's granddaughter Mai, which generally leads to him getting knocked around by her. As a Judo master, most of his specials are throws, and he even possesses the first ever dash-in-and-throw move in a fighter.

Cheng Sinzan
An out of shape, middle aged and extremely wealthy business man. Despite his physical appearance, he actually has some kind of martial arts training, and can throw chi energy as green fireballs. Ever money-hungry, he joins the KoF tournament in hopes of winning its huge prize. He actually has an extraordinarily attractive wife that cheers him on and tends to his wounds.

Kim Kaphwan
Kim Kaphwan is a highly disciplined practitioner of Tae Kwon Do whose characterization is defined by his strong sense of justice. He has two children, Kim Dong Hwan and Kim Jae Hoon, who appear in a few of his lose animations, and later appear as playable characters in Garou: Mark of the Wolves. Most of his theme music contains the name "Seoul, which are usually hard rocking tunes.

Mai Shiranui
SNK's most popular character ever fights with fans and flame based attacks. Her father taught martial arts to Andy Bogard, whom she is romantically involved with. Probably the most shameless fan service character in fighters outside of Dead or Alive or Iroha from Samurai Shodown 6, she's known for her barely-there wardrobe, flirtatious intro and win animations, exaggerated voluptuous figure, and jiggling body parts.

Axel Hawk
Axel Hawk is a former champion boxer and Micheal Max's ex-trainer. He has a spoken quote ("Bust you up!") that was horribly pronounced with rather "interesting" results. He sort of resembles super heavyweight boxer Butterbean. He only appears as a boss character in Fatal Fury 2/Special, as his role was taken over by Franco Bash in subsequent games.

Laurence Blood
Laurence Blood is an arrogant bullfighter and bodyguard for Wolfgang Krauser, who finances his bullfighting activities. He attacks with a sword in a few of his moves and has a super in the Real Bouts where bulls stampede his opponent.

Wolfgang Krauzer
Wolfgang Krauser von Stroheim is an extremely tall mega-badass who temporarily replaces Geese as the main antagonist of this series for Fatal Fury 2. He lives in a huge castle in Germany and is Geese's half brother. Both of his theme songs were taken from Mozart's Requiem Mass in D minor.

Ryo Sakazaki
Ryo Sakazaki is the main protagonist of SNK's Art of Fighting series. He appears in Fatal Fury Special as a secret boss, but he becomes playable via a cheat that can only be entered after reaching him.

Blue Mary
Real name: Mary Ryan. Blue Mary is a secret agent who practices Sambo, a form of wrestling (though she is more of a counter character than a grappler). After her partner was mysteriously killed, she began traveling and eventually got caught up in the events of the series. She is followed around everywhere by her dog, but lacks any Galford-style dog based attacks. In her early artwork, she looks like Android 18 from Dragon Ball Z, and also wears a WIDE belt that doesn't quite fit her.

Sokaku Mochizuki
Sokaku Mochizuki descends from a lineage of exorcists and can conjure spirits during several of his attacks. He came to Southtown to prevent the threat posed by the Jin twins and Geese in FF3 and Real Bout. His family has a centuries old rivalry with the Shiranui family, but it never really leads to anything in the series. He wears a straw hat and huge beads, fights with a staff, and has a huge scar on his face.

Bob Wilson
Bob was taught Capoeria by Richard Myers at the Pao Pao Cafe, where he assisted in managing. After the second Pao Pao Cafe was built, Richard made Bob the manager. Bob is portrayed as a very easy going guy, and pretty obviously based on Bob Marley. Pao Pao Cafe is frequented by many of Southtown's best fighters, and Bob is friendly with several of the series' recurring characters. Several of his moves are named after animals.

Hon Fu
Hon Fu is a police officer from Hong Kong who is looking for Ryuji Yamazaki and has tracked him to Southtown. He is obviously based on Jackie Chan, with perhaps a little Bruce Lee. Not only does he look EXACTLY like Jackie, but he is portrayed with a humorous tone reminiscent of the characters that Jackie plays in most of his movies. He fights with a nunchaku, and is the unlikely brother of Cheng Sinzan.

Franco Bash
Franco Bash took up kick boxing to take his mind off his wife's death. He eventually joins the Bogards after Ryuji Yamazaki kidnaps his child. He has a move called "Armageddon Buster" that is different in each appearance and has odd properties in each that allow for many possible implementations of the move. He also sports a would-have-been-badass-in-the-1980's moustache.

Ryuji Yamazaki
Ryuji Yamazaki is a sadistic assassin that has been hired as a bodyguard by the Jin brothers. He has the blood of the Orochi, and as that has everything to do with the plot of King o Fighters and nothing to do with Fatal Fury, he later made his way into that series. He attacks with a knife and can punch really, really, really fast. Except when he's stabbing people, he generally attacks with a lone arm and keeps the other in his pocket.

Jin Chonshu
Jin Chonshu is Jin Chonrei's twin brother. He appears to be more sarcastic than his brother, but is actually primarily responsible for motivating their search for immortality and omnipotence. Years later, SNK Playmore made him a playable character in Neo Geo Battle Coliseum.

Jin Chonrei
Jin Chonrei looks suspiciously like Vegeta from Dragon Ball Z and is the twin brother of Jin Chonshu. He is actually less interested in immortality and power than his brother and prefers to live a normal life. Both brothers have the spirits of their ancestors of the last 220,000 years living within them, which seems to be a motivating force for their actions. Like they did with his brother, SNK Playmore later made him playable in Neo Geo Battle Coliseum.

Rick Strowd
Rick Strowd is a light-weight boxer who is introduced in Real Bout 2. He searches Southtown for worthy opponents to fight and is always seeking to improve his skills. He would later appear in First Contact for NGPC and both SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters Clash games, but has been completely absent in any other fighters since.

Li Xiangfei
Li Xiangfei is a goofy martial artist with a big appetite. She wears her hair in a twin braided style with bells in it and is known for a super move called Majinga, which does more than 100 hits if it connects. She fights with a drunken boxing style and would later show up in a couple of King of Fighters games.

Alfred Airhawk
Alfred Airhawk is a pilot who flies an old bi-plane left to him by his late grandfather (who is theorized to be a character in SNK's Prehistoric Isle). White invaded his village and killed his grandfather, but he was able to escape and shortly thereafter began flying around the world. His travels eventually brought him to Southtown where he again encountered White. He is first introduced as a hidden boss character in Real Bout Fatal Fury Special, and later is playable in Real Bout Special: Dominated Mind, an enhanced port of RBFFS for PlayStation with a slightly different plot, and in Fatal Fury: First Contact for Neo Geo Pocket Color.

Lao
Lao is a member of Bonne Jennet's Lillian Knights. In Mark of the Wolves, he appears in B. Jenet's intro and win animations, and in her ending as well. His lone appearance as a playable character is in First Contact, but he first appears as the poor sap getting the crap kicked out of him in the intro to Real Bout Fatal Fury 2. It's so fast you can't really see him without running the game in slow-mo. His father, mother, and sister are named Darren, Samantha, and Tabitha respectively and his dog is named Lassie. So, yeah... somebody at SNK was a big fan of 1960's Hollywood sitcoms.

White
White is featured in the PlayStation port of Real Bout Special and is based on the portrayal of the character of Alexander DeLarge from the movie version of A Clockwork Orange. A powerful crimeboss with mind control abilities, he comes to Southtown in the aftermath of the fall of Geese's criminal empire and intends to gain control of the city's crime via his psychic powers. Unfortunately, he doesn't appear in any other game.

Toji Sakata
A crazy old midget of a man wearing a funny hat and an evil glare. He basically takes on the same role as Jubei Yamada in Fatal Fury: Wild Ambition, but doesn't really appear anywhere else.

Tsugumi Sendo
Tsugumi is just another high school girl character (taking after Sakura from Street Fighter Alpha 2) who only appears in Fatal Fury: Wild Ambition. She's a professional wrestler, kind of making her a precursor to Hinako, the female sumo wrestler in the King of Fighters games. Her sole cameo in other SNK titles is in the SNK Card Fighters Clash series.

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	Terry Bogard Known as the "Hungry Wolf", Terry Bogard is Fatal Fury's main protagonist and SNK's most enduring character. Throughout most of the series, he sports an iconic look which most notably consists of a red denim jacket that says "Running Wild" below a star on the back and a cap that says "King of Fighters" (or "Fatal Fury" in the KoF series). Amusingly, this makes him look a bit like a Dominoes pizza guy. He's Andy Bogard's older brother and is romantically involved with Blue Mary. He speaks English but with a very silly Japanese accent.("BUSTA WOOF!" "ARE YOU OK!", etc).
	Andy Bogard The Luigi of fighting games, Andy Bogard is Terry's occasionally neglected younger brother, who's basically an American ninja. Where his brother is easy-going, Andy is portrayed as somebody who takes his martial arts training very seriously. He's also a romantic interest for Mai, whose father trained his sensei.
	Joe Higashi Andy and Terry's Muay Thai practicing friend wears nothing but shorts and sports a huge hairstyle. Joe Higashi was born in Japan, but has spent most of his life training in Thailand. Fatal Fury's "goof off character", he is known pulling down his shorts and tauning his opponents with his bare behind during his taunt animation.
	Geese Howard While his bizarre name might lead you to believe otherwise, Geese is quite simply the awesomest boss character in video game history. He's a German-American who's basically mastered the art of karate and dresses like a Japanese aikido fighter. A former corrupt police commissioner, he rose to power as Southtown's crime boss and has since been Fatal Fury's main antagonist. His most powerful move is a complicated attack called the Deadly Rave. While almost definitely not intentional, he resembles the character of "The Aussie" from the 1988 Jean Claude Van Damme movie "Bloodsport".
	Duck King Duck is a DJ who owns a bar in Southtown with King from Art of Fighting. Given his design, it would be easy to dismiss him as a result of the same focus group testing that produced those late 1980's/early 1990's platformer characters that invariably had "radical" somewhere in their name. But, consider this: He's the king of ducks. How could you not like a character like that? Being their king, he's accompanied by a duckling named P-Chan who mimic his every move. He attacks using a variety of breakdancing maneuvers.
	Michael Max Michael Max is a fairly generic boxer who retires after he is beaten by the Bogards and Joe in FF. He is not actually playable in the arcade game and only appears as a boss in the original Fatal Fury.
	Richard Meyer Richard Meyer is a Capoeira master and the owner of the Pao Pao Cafe nightclub in Southtown, a recurring stage in the series. The first Fatal Fury game is the only time where he's a fighter. He ends up training Bob Wilson in the later games of the series, although he returns as a playable characters in King of Fighter 2006.
	Hwa Jai Hwa Jai is a Muay Thai fighter on steroids. He is not actually playable in the arcade game and only appears as a boss in the original Fatal Fury, with cameos in a couple games after that.
	Tung Fu Rue Fatal Fury's "old master character". Tung Fu Rue is the former sensei of Andy, Terry, Geese, Cheng Sinzan, and Terry and Andy's father Jeff. In the original game, where he is a non-playable boss character, he can become a giant muscular version of himself and the image of this form appears in certain specials in his later appearances. He bears a resemblance to Muten-Roshi from Dragonball Z.
	Raiden / Big Bear Raiden (pronounced RHY-DEN) is a masked wrestler who goes by Big Bear without a mask in later appearances. He resembles real life wrestler Big Van Vader. After being left being in the Fatal Fury series after FF Special, he shows up Capcom vs. SNK.
	Billy Kane Billy Kane is Geese's henchman. He sports a bandana and wears a jacket with a "No Smoking" symbol on the back. He wields a huge stick and possesses various flame based attacks. His levels often have hard rock visual themes and stage music. His sister, Lilly, appears as a non playable character in a couple of his endings in the Fatal Fury series, but is a hidden playable character in King of Fighters 2006. His father is a pilot in SNK's Prehistoric Isle series of shmups.
	Jubei Yamada Fatal Fury's "other" old man character. Probably the strongest seventy year old man alive. In his old age he enjoys spending his time eating cookies (who doesn't?), tending to his Judo dojo, and bothering his former partner's granddaughter Mai, which generally leads to him getting knocked around by her. As a Judo master, most of his specials are throws, and he even possesses the first ever dash-in-and-throw move in a fighter.
	Cheng Sinzan An out of shape, middle aged and extremely wealthy business man. Despite his physical appearance, he actually has some kind of martial arts training, and can throw chi energy as green fireballs. Ever money-hungry, he joins the KoF tournament in hopes of winning its huge prize. He actually has an extraordinarily attractive wife that cheers him on and tends to his wounds.
	Kim Kaphwan Kim Kaphwan is a highly disciplined practitioner of Tae Kwon Do whose characterization is defined by his strong sense of justice. He has two children, Kim Dong Hwan and Kim Jae Hoon, who appear in a few of his lose animations, and later appear as playable characters in Garou: Mark of the Wolves. Most of his theme music contains the name "Seoul, which are usually hard rocking tunes.
	Mai Shiranui SNK's most popular character ever fights with fans and flame based attacks. Her father taught martial arts to Andy Bogard, whom she is romantically involved with. Probably the most shameless fan service character in fighters outside of Dead or Alive or Iroha from Samurai Shodown 6, she's known for her barely-there wardrobe, flirtatious intro and win animations, exaggerated voluptuous figure, and jiggling body parts.
	Axel Hawk Axel Hawk is a former champion boxer and Micheal Max's ex-trainer. He has a spoken quote ("Bust you up!") that was horribly pronounced with rather "interesting" results. He sort of resembles super heavyweight boxer Butterbean. He only appears as a boss character in Fatal Fury 2/Special, as his role was taken over by Franco Bash in subsequent games.
	Laurence Blood Laurence Blood is an arrogant bullfighter and bodyguard for Wolfgang Krauser, who finances his bullfighting activities. He attacks with a sword in a few of his moves and has a super in the Real Bouts where bulls stampede his opponent.
	Wolfgang Krauzer Wolfgang Krauser von Stroheim is an extremely tall mega-badass who temporarily replaces Geese as the main antagonist of this series for Fatal Fury 2. He lives in a huge castle in Germany and is Geese's half brother. Both of his theme songs were taken from Mozart's Requiem Mass in D minor.
	Ryo Sakazaki Ryo Sakazaki is the main protagonist of SNK's Art of Fighting series. He appears in Fatal Fury Special as a secret boss, but he becomes playable via a cheat that can only be entered after reaching him.
	Blue Mary Real name: Mary Ryan. Blue Mary is a secret agent who practices Sambo, a form of wrestling (though she is more of a counter character than a grappler). After her partner was mysteriously killed, she began traveling and eventually got caught up in the events of the series. She is followed around everywhere by her dog, but lacks any Galford-style dog based attacks. In her early artwork, she looks like Android 18 from Dragon Ball Z, and also wears a WIDE belt that doesn't quite fit her.
	Sokaku Mochizuki Sokaku Mochizuki descends from a lineage of exorcists and can conjure spirits during several of his attacks. He came to Southtown to prevent the threat posed by the Jin twins and Geese in FF3 and Real Bout. His family has a centuries old rivalry with the Shiranui family, but it never really leads to anything in the series. He wears a straw hat and huge beads, fights with a staff, and has a huge scar on his face.
	Bob Wilson Bob was taught Capoeria by Richard Myers at the Pao Pao Cafe, where he assisted in managing. After the second Pao Pao Cafe was built, Richard made Bob the manager. Bob is portrayed as a very easy going guy, and pretty obviously based on Bob Marley. Pao Pao Cafe is frequented by many of Southtown's best fighters, and Bob is friendly with several of the series' recurring characters. Several of his moves are named after animals.
	Hon Fu Hon Fu is a police officer from Hong Kong who is looking for Ryuji Yamazaki and has tracked him to Southtown. He is obviously based on Jackie Chan, with perhaps a little Bruce Lee. Not only does he look EXACTLY like Jackie, but he is portrayed with a humorous tone reminiscent of the characters that Jackie plays in most of his movies. He fights with a nunchaku, and is the unlikely brother of Cheng Sinzan.
	Franco Bash Franco Bash took up kick boxing to take his mind off his wife's death. He eventually joins the Bogards after Ryuji Yamazaki kidnaps his child. He has a move called "Armageddon Buster" that is different in each appearance and has odd properties in each that allow for many possible implementations of the move. He also sports a would-have-been-badass-in-the-1980's moustache.
	Ryuji Yamazaki Ryuji Yamazaki is a sadistic assassin that has been hired as a bodyguard by the Jin brothers. He has the blood of the Orochi, and as that has everything to do with the plot of King o Fighters and nothing to do with Fatal Fury, he later made his way into that series. He attacks with a knife and can punch really, really, really fast. Except when he's stabbing people, he generally attacks with a lone arm and keeps the other in his pocket.
	Jin Chonshu Jin Chonshu is Jin Chonrei's twin brother. He appears to be more sarcastic than his brother, but is actually primarily responsible for motivating their search for immortality and omnipotence. Years later, SNK Playmore made him a playable character in Neo Geo Battle Coliseum.
	Jin Chonrei Jin Chonrei looks suspiciously like Vegeta from Dragon Ball Z and is the twin brother of Jin Chonshu. He is actually less interested in immortality and power than his brother and prefers to live a normal life. Both brothers have the spirits of their ancestors of the last 220,000 years living within them, which seems to be a motivating force for their actions. Like they did with his brother, SNK Playmore later made him playable in Neo Geo Battle Coliseum.
	Rick Strowd Rick Strowd is a light-weight boxer who is introduced in Real Bout 2. He searches Southtown for worthy opponents to fight and is always seeking to improve his skills. He would later appear in First Contact for NGPC and both SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters Clash games, but has been completely absent in any other fighters since.
	Li Xiangfei Li Xiangfei is a goofy martial artist with a big appetite. She wears her hair in a twin braided style with bells in it and is known for a super move called Majinga, which does more than 100 hits if it connects. She fights with a drunken boxing style and would later show up in a couple of King of Fighters games.
	Alfred Airhawk Alfred Airhawk is a pilot who flies an old bi-plane left to him by his late grandfather (who is theorized to be a character in SNK's Prehistoric Isle). White invaded his village and killed his grandfather, but he was able to escape and shortly thereafter began flying around the world. His travels eventually brought him to Southtown where he again encountered White. He is first introduced as a hidden boss character in Real Bout Fatal Fury Special, and later is playable in Real Bout Special: Dominated Mind, an enhanced port of RBFFS for PlayStation with a slightly different plot, and in Fatal Fury: First Contact for Neo Geo Pocket Color.
	Lao Lao is a member of Bonne Jennet's Lillian Knights. In Mark of the Wolves, he appears in B. Jenet's intro and win animations, and in her ending as well. His lone appearance as a playable character is in First Contact, but he first appears as the poor sap getting the crap kicked out of him in the intro to Real Bout Fatal Fury 2. It's so fast you can't really see him without running the game in slow-mo. His father, mother, and sister are named Darren, Samantha, and Tabitha respectively and his dog is named Lassie. So, yeah... somebody at SNK was a big fan of 1960's Hollywood sitcoms.
	White White is featured in the PlayStation port of Real Bout Special and is based on the portrayal of the character of Alexander DeLarge from the movie version of A Clockwork Orange. A powerful crimeboss with mind control abilities, he comes to Southtown in the aftermath of the fall of Geese's criminal empire and intends to gain control of the city's crime via his psychic powers. Unfortunately, he doesn't appear in any other game.
	Toji Sakata A crazy old midget of a man wearing a funny hat and an evil glare. He basically takes on the same role as Jubei Yamada in Fatal Fury: Wild Ambition, but doesn't really appear anywhere else.
	Tsugumi Sendo Tsugumi is just another high school girl character (taking after Sakura from Street Fighter Alpha 2) who only appears in Fatal Fury: Wild Ambition. She's a professional wrestler, kind of making her a precursor to Hinako, the female sumo wrestler in the King of Fighters games. Her sole cameo in other SNK titles is in the SNK Card Fighters Clash series.