- Dark_Tzitzimine
- Oct 9, 2012
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by R. Guyovich
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For anyone interested on Injustice, Luthor and Bane has just been confirmed.
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- Dark_Tzitzimine
- Oct 9, 2012
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by R. Guyovich
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It's a lot easier to keep up with once you know what games don't take place in the continuity (of which there are many and I'll be omitting here). Here's a Cliff's Notes version of the storyline in what pertains to Terry (and Andy), Geese (and Billy), Rock and Kain.
Pre-Fatal Fury: Geese Howard and Jeff Bogard train alongside each other. Jeff is chosen for advancement over Geese; Geese in his jealousy, kills Jeff Bogard. Adolescent Terry and Andy swear revenge.
Art of Fighting 2: Most don't know this, but Art of Fighting takes places quite some time before Fatal Fury (AoF is 80's vs FF's 90's). This is when he is revealed to be the man behind Mr. Big as the new head of the Southtown underworld. Curiously, in his youth, he bears a striking resemblance to Andy (introducing a minor subplot of history repeating itself as Andy becomes increasingly ruthless with each successive game).
Fatal Fury: Terry knocks Geese from his skyscraper (Geese Tower) and into what he believes to be certain death. However, before hitting the ground, Geese shoots an airblast (Shippu-Ken) to break his fall. He lives, but is seriously injured from the explosion of glass from the nearby cars and buildings hit from his air blast. From this point he goes into hiding to recover and runs his empire from behind the scenes with his subordinates Billy Kane and Mr. Big (of Art of Fighting).
Fatal Fury 3: Ryuji Yamazaki, a psychotic member of the Yakuza recently out of prison, starts tearing up Geese's operations to draw him out of hiding. Geese emerges, now covered in scars from his experiences at the end of the previous game. News of his survival draw Terry, Andy and Joe back to Southtown.
Geese discovers that Yakazaki is now a bodyguard for the Jins (Chonrei and Chonshu), who are said to hold the scrolls of immortality. Geese obtains the scrolls, but believes them to be nothing more than legend. However, in the process he discovers that Yamazaki is part of the Hakkesshu (the Heavenly Kings of Orochi). This ties into what he had heard from Billy Kane after he and Eiji Kisaragi were beaten nearly to death by their former teammate, Iori Yagami, who's blood is tainted by Orochi's power and drove him into a murderous rage. Intrigued by this mysterious power, Geese decides to investigate the matter himself.
The King of Fighters '96: Geese Howard, Wolfgang Krauser (his half-sibling relation to Geese from the anime now made official by SNK) and Mr. Big enter the KOF tournament and have virtually everybody gunning for them from the start (no less than 4 teams: Fatal Fury, Art of Fighting, Team Korea and the Women's Team bear grudges). By the end of the tournament, Geese decides that the Orochi power just leads to destruction and trying to capture it tantamount to suicide.
At this point, Mr. Big makes his move by having a sniper attempt to kill Geese. However, Billy Kane blocks the shot and Mr. Big escapes before they can retaliate.
Real Bout Fatal Fury: Geese returns to his operations in Southtown with the Bogards in hot pursuit to finish him once and for all.
In his ending, Terry, upon realizing that Geese has a young son, attempts to save Geese so the child won't go without a father like he did. However, Geese throws Terry's hand away and falls to his death. Terry goes onto raise Rock as his own son so in hopes of breaking the cycle of revenge and to give him the life that Geese took away from him.
For his ending, Andy realizes that his pursuit of revenge has consumed his life and that he slowly turning into the man he's trying to kill. His attempt to save Geese was, in essence, and attempt to save himself. Like in Terry's ending, Geese throws Andy's hand away and plummets into the darkness. Finally realizing the life he's been neglecting, Andy retires from fighting, leaves Southtown and goes with Mai to Japan to open a dojo.
Garou: Mark of the Wolves: This takes place some ten years following the events of the previous game. Southtown's become peaceful since Geese's downfall; Rock's come of age, but is haunted by his father's legacy and begins to wonder about the family Terry is sheltering him from. A mysterious man, Kain R. Heinlein emerges with a keen interest in Rock.
As it turns out, Kain is his uncle (from his deceased mother's side), and wishes to take Rock in to help him understand his power and heritage. Terry opposes this, but respects Rock's wishes to reconnect with his family and hopes that Rock will resist Kain's influence.
Minor Note: Hokatumaru is from Andy and Mai's dojo. Whether he is their son has never been revealed.
The King of Fighters 2000: A very subtle clue here hints and what could have come in Garou 2. Amongst the strikers that are notorious in this game were a wide selection of hidden strikers. A number of these hidden strikers are characters that died in previous games (Yashiro, Shermie, Chris, etc). Whenever a living striker left the fight, they would leap off-screen; however, whenever a deceased striker left the fight, they would vanish. Geese was among these hidden strikers and when he was left the fight, he leapt off-screen.
The suggestion here was that the Scrolls of Immortality that he obtained in Fatal Fury 3 were real after all and that Geese was not only still alive, but was now immortal. Which opened all sorts of questions: why did he stay underground? Why did he let Terry raise his son? Did he send Kain to retrieve Rock? All of these things could've been answered in Garou 2; but it was a sequel that never came (the reasons of which are reserved for a whole 'nother post).
Cheesy as might be, the story is interesting. I remember reading somwhere that Terry and Andy were adopted by Jeff Bogard, is it true?
Shame about Garou that game was really fun and introduced Tizoc, one of my favorite characters.
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- Dark_Tzitzimine
- Oct 9, 2012
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by R. Guyovich
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Maybe, but the two characters are pasty white, and one of them is a blonde with a light brown goatee and the other literally has white hair. Even the woman in the top left isn't as white as them. Like, I'd believe that anybody on that cover could have at least some sort of hispanic heritage except for her.
E: Well okay, top middle looks white as gently caress with a bad fake tan, but my point still stands. Like hell, even white people from the southern US are probably gonna be kinda tan if they spend a lot of time outside, you know, street fighting.
As someone actually living in Mexico City, there are a TON of really white people around here so yeah, Ramon and Angel's looks are plausible.
If anything, Tizoc's frame is the unrealistic bit of his design because mexican luchadores tend to be in the smaller size and they're rarely as swole as american wrestlers.
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