History VideoGame / FatalFury

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: ''Garou: Mark of the Wolves''.

* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: There are actually victory animations in ''Real Bout Special'' if you ring yourself out with your opponent on the water stage.

* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: There are actually victory animations in ''Real Bout Special'' if you ring yourself out with your opponent.

[[TheAnimeOfTheGame Two animated TV specials]] (often mislabeled as [=OVA=]s, even though they aired on Japanese TV before getting home video releases) and [[TheMovie one animated film]] were based on the games, all including character designs by Masami Oobari. The TV specials were based on the plots of the first two games, while the feature film had an original plot and villains. While both the specials and the film were released in the States in the late '90s by Viz Video (and re-released on DVD years later), those releases fell out of print years ago -- so DiscotekMedia snagged the licenses for [[https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=734401346588962&set=a.196378827057886.55668.147168055312297&type=1 all]] [[https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=671292786233152&set=a.196378827057886.55668.147168055312297&type=1 three]] with plans for a DVD re-release (including a possible anamorphic transfer for the film!) in 2014.

** Also, Kain R. Heinlein, mixed with {{AffablyEvil}}. He never do anything heinous and the only motive he and Grant turned into crime was because to protect themselves of much worse people after they've witnessed a boy being beaten to death.

* FragileSpeedster: Mai and Hokutomaru.

* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: South Town. While its exact location in the US is never revealed in the games, it's heavily implied that it's located in Florida, and the city is inspired by Miami.

* BruceLeeClone: Averted with Hon Fu, whose actually a JackieChan clone. He ''does'' have the standard high-pitched {{Kiai}}s, though.

Known in Japan as ''Garou Densetsu'' (''Legend of the Hungry Wolves''), this is a FightingGame series by Creator/{{SNK}} that was released for the NeoGeo arcade and home video game systems.

* CanonForeigner: Lily [=McGwire=], Tony, Elsa, Sulia, Laocorn, Panni, Hauer and Jamin all from the anime version.
** Just to clarify, there's a Lily in the video games, but she's an unrelated character named Lil'''l'''y '''Kane''', Billy's sister who, like her bro, is a playable character in ''KOF 2006''/''Maximum Impact 2''. Lily [=McGwire=] did make a cameo in the Mexican Pao Pao Cafe stage in ''KOF '94''.
** The girl who appears to be going out with Terry in his ending ''Fatal Fury 2'' is named Medea and she was originally his love interest in Gamest's manga adaptation of the first ''Garou Densetsu''. However, she is replaced a generic character in ''Special''.

* CanonImmigrant: Many details about Krauser's backstory (such as him killing his father or being related to Geese) became canon after the movie. There was an attempt to have him commit suicide as well, but that was abandoned. Likewise, in later games, Krauser gained the Gigatech Cyclone move, which was identical to the tornado spin attack he and Terry used in the anime - but neither had used in the game.
** [[spoiler:According to Memories of Stray Wolves, Krauser did kill himself after losing to Terry]].

* GenkiGirl: Xianfei.

* ''Real Bout Fatal Fury''[[note]](a.k.k. KOF '98)[[/note]] (1995, NeoGeo, PlayStation, SegaSaturn)

[[caption-width-right:300: A new legend is about to begin.]]

* ''Fatal Fury'' (1991, NeoGeo, [[SuperNintendo SNES]], SegaGenesis)
* ''Fatal Fury 2'' (1992, NeoGeo, [[SuperNintendo SNES]], SegaGenesis, PCEngine)

* ''Real Bout Fatal Fury''[[note]](This was also used as the canonical KOF tournament for 1998)[[/note]] (1995, NeoGeo, PlayStation, SegaSaturn)

* HeyItsThatVoice: Preteen ninja goofball Hokutomaru is voiced by Creator/JunkoTakeuchi, whose most famous role is... [[Manga/{{Naruto}} Naruto Uzumaki]].

* ''Real Bout Fatal Fury'' (1995, NeoGeo, PlayStation, SegaSaturn)

While the last installment of the series appeared in late 1999, many of its [[Characters/FatalFury characters]] are still widely popular today and continue to appear in a number of SpinOff series, most notably ''{{The King of Fighters}}'' series. More recently, pachi-slot machines with the ''Fatal Fury'' theme have been released and there is a crossover game with ''Fighter's History Dynamite'' available for mobile phones in Japan.

* ActionGirl: Mai Shiranui, Blue Mary, Li Xiangfei, Bonne Jenet, Hotaru, and Tsugumi Sendo. [[GenreSavvy Mai]] purposely [[JustForPun bounces]] in [[FauxActionGirl and out]] of the trope; she has the skills and uses them the major part pof the time, but sometimes plays the [[DeliberatelyDistressedDamsel damsel in distress]] intentionally in order to make [[CelibateHero Andy]] [[TheDulcineaEffect appreciate her more.]]

* AlternateContinuity: While the series initially shared a continuity with the ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'', Geese's death in ''Real Bout Fatal Fury'' and his continued survival in the ''[=KoF=]'' series pretty much confirmed that they are separate.

Known in Japan as ''Garou Densetsu'' (''Legend of the Hungry Wolves''), this is a FightingGame series by {{SNK}} that was released for the NeoGeo arcade and home video game systems.

* HotDad: Kim, again. Specially in the movie. Also, his ''Fatal Fury Special'' intros/win poses and ending have young Jae Hoon and Dong Hwan hanging out with their dad. [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Aaaawwwww.]]

* TornadoMove: Joe's moves set includes multiple attacks of this nature. Beginning with his "Hurricane Upper" and "Twin Hurricane", which are two of his basic attacks. Followed by his [=DMs=] "Screw Upper", and "Exploding Screw Upper". He first gained "Double Cyclone/Cross Gigantes", which unleashes two Screw Uppers at once, in ''Capcom vs. SNK 2''. And last, but certainly ''not'' least, there's his [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcK49AnQ8cA NEO MAX, "Screw Straight"!]] They call him [[RedBaron "The Human Storm"]] for a reason.

* UglyGuyHotWife: Cheng is a very short, very fat, very immoral... with an incredibly beautiful and affectionate wife. Averted with Kim and Myeng Swuk, since she's an attractive mother and he's a HotDad with dashes of HotBlooded and LoveFreak.

* WeCanRuleTogether: Kain to his nephew Rock in ''Garou''. [[spoiler:Rock accepts, begrudingly.]]

* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: South Town. While its exact location in the US is never explained in the games, it's heavily implied that it's located in Florida, and the city is inspired in Miami.

* GuideDangIt: The method to perform Hidden Desperation Moves in Fatal Fury 3 is extremely convoluted: first you need to enable them before the match by holding down all 4 buttons and Start before the match starts, and after that, each character has an extremely specific condition that you need to fulfill to make your name flash, at which point you can perform one. The conditions include being as far away from the opponent as possible, performing a specific combo on them, getting knocked down, backdashing and having the timer be on an odd number and getting hit by a heavy attack

* KikukoInoue: [[FemmeFatale Lily [=McGuire=]]] and Tony's Mom, Elsa, in the anime.

* KotonoMitsuishi: Seiyuu of Mai in the ''Fatal Fury'' anime.

* MisBlamed: ''Mark of the Wolves'' is commonly called a ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIII'' ripoff for its smooth animation and replacing the entire cast with the exception of the main character, but few know that ''[[VideoGame/{{Art of Fighting}} Art of Fighting 3]]'' had done the same thing before either of them.

* AlternateContinuity: While the series initially shared a continuity with the ''{{The King of Fighters}}'', Geese's death in ''Real Bout Fatal Fury'' and his continued survival in the ''[=KoF=]'' series pretty much confirmed that they are separate.

* {{Badass}}: Geese can qualify as this. ''[[VideoGame/CapcomVsSNKMillenniumFight2000 Capcom vs. SNK]]'' gives him the line, ''[[GratuitousEnglish "I stain my hands, with your blood."]]'' (though it gets [[{{Engrish}} horribly mangled]]), and in ''[[VideoGame/CapcomVsSNK2MarkOfTheMillennium Capcom vs. SNK 2]]'' he says, "You cannot escape from death".

** Sulia Gaudeamus, [[TheSmartGuy The Smart Girl]]. She was a WaifProphet without any fighting skills, but also was the only one of the group who ''really'' knew what was going on and a scene [[MrExposition had her explaining the legend of the Armor of Mars in full detail]].

* GratuitousEnglish: Terry . He's the [[Pantheon/{{Theater}} God]] of it.

* HeyItsThatVoice: Preteen ninja goofball Hokutomaru is voiced by Creator/JunkoTakeuchi, whose most famous role is... [[{{Naruto}} Naruto Uzumaki]].

* HotDad: Kim, again. Specially in the movie. Also, his ''Fatal Fury Special'' intros/win poses and ending have young Jae Hoon and Dong Hwan hanging out with their dad. [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Aaaawwwww]].

* {{Misblamed}}: ''Mark of the Wolves'' is commonly called a ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIII'' ripoff for its smooth animation and replacing the entire cast with the exception of the main character, but few know that ''[[VideoGame/{{Art of Fighting}} Art of Fighting 3]]'' had done the same thing before either of them.

* OddlyNamedSequel: Except for ''2'' and ''3'', all of them; ''Dominated Mind'' probably takes the cake for the most oddly-named one thanks to having enough words to qualify as a WordSaladTitle.

* SorryILeftTheBGMOn: Sound Beach in the third game is silent until Terry's pet monkey turns on a boombox.

** [[BloodKnight Wolfgang]] [[BiggerBad Krauser's]] Gigantic Cyclone first made its appearance in the anime adaptation of ''Fatal Fury 2'' in the form of the Senpu-Ken move, where both he and [[TheProtagonist Terry]] [[EagleLand Bogard]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3IGOvlhVpM could use it (00:45-01:09).]] (though Terry used it in the previous anime as well and he also used a kick variant to beat Geese). It became a case of ThrowItIn, when {{SNK}} added it to Krauser's moves set, as his P-Power move, in ''Real Bout Fatal Fury Special'', where it was renamed "Gigantic Cyclone".

* HotMom: Kim's wife Myeng Swuk; lampshaded in the movie, when Joe tries to flirt with her until Mai reminds him that she's married.

* KikukoInoue: [[FemmeFatale Lily [=McGuire=]]] and Tony's [[HotMom Mom, Elsa]], in the anime.

* UglyGuyHotWife: Cheng is a very short, very fat, very immoral... with an incredibly beautiful and affectionate wife. Averted with Kim and Myeng Swuk, since she's a HotMom and he's a HotDad with dashes of HotBlooded and LoveFreak.

* DemotedToExtra: Everyone from the first game (except for the three heroes, Billy, and Raiden, who undergoes a literal HeelFaceTurn to become Big Bear) in ''Fatal Fury 2'', although Tung Fu Rue and Duck King would return as playable characters in ''Fatal Fury Special'' (along with Geese, who was presumed dead in ''2''). This also happened to Jubei Yamada, Big Bear and Axel Hawk after ''Special''.

[[TheAnimeOfTheGame Two animated TV specials]] (often mislabeled as [=OVA=]s, even though they aired on Japanese TV before getting home video releases) and [[TheMovie one animated film]] were based on the games, all including character designs by Masami Oobari. The TV specials were based on the plots of the first two games, while the feature film had an original plot and villains. [[https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=734401346588962&set=a.196378827057886.55668.147168055312297&type=1 All]] [[https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=671292786233152&set=a.196378827057886.55668.147168055312297&type=1 three]] have been licensed for a 2014 DVD release by DiscotekMedia.

[[TheAnimeOfTheGame Two animated TV specials]] (often mislabeled as [=OVA=]s, even though they aired on Japanese TV before getting home video releases) and [[TheMovie one animated film]] were based on the games, all including character designs by Masami Oobari. The TV specials were based on the plots of the first two games, while the feature film had an original plot and villains. All three have been licensed for a 2014 DVD release by DiscotekMedia.

[[TheAnimeOfTheGame Two animated TV specials]] (often mislabeled as [=OVA=]s, even though they aired on Japanese TV before getting home video releases) and [[TheMovie one animated film]] were based on the games, all including character designs by Masami Oobari. The TV specials were based on the plots of the first two games. The feature film had an original plot and villains.