History YMMV / FatalFury

* MemeticBadass: This applies more to ''KOF'' than anything, but some fans see Yamazaki as the SNK equivalent to ChuckNorris.

* CompleteMonster: White from ''Real Bout Dominated Mind''. When you, a one-shot villain, make Geese and Yamazaki look like saints in comparison, you know that your evil quota is a cloth cut above the rest.

* LoveToHate: Geese has done terrible things over the course of the series but is ''beloved'' by the fandom (not unlike [[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters Rugal]]), cementing him as one of ''the'' premier SNK villains (and a more notable fighting game villain from the 90s in general). Geese can do no wrong because the fandom '''''worships the ground he walks on'''''. It doesn't hurt that he's charismatic, has a sense of style, and despite his wicked deeds, [[EvenEvilHasStandards never quite crosses the]] MoralEventHorizon into CompleteMonster territory. Oh, and he's an uncontested {{badass}}.

** Depending on the fandom, Terry and Joe also qualify.Terry says to achieve this status.]]

* MemeticMutation: [[FountainOfMemes Expect anything

* CultClassic: ''Garou: Mark of the Wolves''. The fact that it's widely considered to be not only the MagnumOpus for this series, but '''{{SNK}} itself''' should tell you something.

** Billy Kane's father is (allegedly) the pilot from ''PrehistoricIsle''.

** Depending on the fandom, Terry and Joe also qualify.
* MemeticMutation: [[FountainOfMemes Expect anything Terry says to achieve this status.]]

* MemeticOutfit: The famous red hat, red jacket, white undershirt, and blue jeans. Terry changes wardrobe largely in ''Mark of the Wolves'', wherein he gives the hat to Rock and swaps out the sleeveless red coat for a brown, sleeved one.
* {{Moe}}: Hotaru. Dear God, ''Hotaru''. It doesn't hurt that she's also '''the''' [[TheWoobie Woobie]] of the series.

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Jamin and Panni in ''[[TheMovie The Motion Picture]]''.]]

** Duck King is ''very'' popular among the {{fandom}}. [[WhatCouldHaveBeen He would have crossed over to]] ''[[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters KOF]]'' [[WhatCouldHaveBeen earlier]], but lost out to Blue Mary (herself a darkhorse) for the final spot on the ''[='97=]'' Special Team. He was relegated to background status for some more games (there was even a piece of [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/snk/images/1/1d/Kof98_58.jpg artwork]] depicting Duck alongside fellow [[PutOnABus bus-riders]] [[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters Heavy D!]] and [[ArtOfFighting Ryuhaku Todoh]]), but ''finally'' joined the roster in ''XI''.

* UncannyValley: Overlaps with RedEyesTakeWarning. After you beat White, ''Dominated Mind'' shows a cutscene of him falling to the ground in defeat. He tries to get up, and when he opens his eyes, ''they're nothing but [[HellishPupils blank red spheres]]''. [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel Brrr...]]

** At least ''half'' of the ''Garou'' cast. Rock Howard (who, as TheHero of ''Garou'', is more of a meta example for the SNK fandom), Bonne Jenet, Gato, Hotaru, Tizoc, Khushnood Butt... In fact, the ''only'' thing that's stopping Rock from crossing into the main ''KOF'' titles? SNK Playmore is "[[ExecutiveMeddling saving]]" him for the sequel to ''Garou''. Now ''how'' long has that title [[{{Vaporware}} been a pipe dream]]? Just be thankful that he's made it into ''[[VideoGame/CapcomVsSNK2MarkOfTheMillennium Capcom vs. SNK 2]]'', the ''Maximum Impact'' titles, and ''VideoGame/NeoGeoBattleColiseum''. Likewise, [[WordOfGod interviews]] say that Butt is one of the most requested characters for the ''KOF'' lineup.

** Duck King is ''very'' popular among the {{fandom}}. [[WhatCouldHaveBeen He would have crossed over to]] ''[[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters KOF]]'' [[WhatCouldHaveBeen earlier]], but lost out to Blue Mary (herself a darkhorse) for the final spot on the ''[='97=]'' Special Team. He was relegated to background status for some more games (there was even a piece of [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/snk/images/1/1d/Kof98_58.jpg artwork]] depicting Duck alongside fellow [[PutOnABus bus-riders]] [[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters Heavy D!]] and [[ArtOfFighting Ryuhaku Todoh]]), but ''finally'' joined the roster in ''XI''. AndTheFandomRejoiced.

* {{Mondegreen}}:
** Terry has too many to keep count of. ''[[UpToEleven To the point that his Mondegreens have Mondegreens]]''.
** Geese's Raging Storm attack. [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Is it Raging Storm, Raising Storm, or Rising Storm?]]
** Mai's win quote. It's "Nippon Ichi!" not [[JigglePhysics "Me Bouncy!"]]

* ViewerGenderConfusion: Jin Chonshu. He looks like a little girl, but is actually male. To make it worse, in some of the games, he seems to be wearing lipstick and {{guyliner}}...

* AdaptationDisplacement - Terry's CartwrightCurse in the anime trilogy, borders highly on NeverLiveItDown; when people think of his love life they often think of his dead love interests in the anime a lot more than Blue Mary, his perfectly alive one in the games. (Though the fact that SNK has been doing little ShipTease between them, if any, in the ''{{The King of Fighters}}'' doesn't help.) While ''FatalFury: [[TheMovie The Motion Picture]]'' was not a bad movie, things like this are one of the reasons why it's a shame that ''Fatal Fury 3'' didn't get a animated adaptation. Of course, if Blue Mary was ever in a 90's ''Fatal Fury'' anime, it would get folks to wonder if that would've averted this once and for all or [[SchrodingersCat made things]] [[StuffedIntoTheFridge a whole lot worse]].

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: All the soundtracks, really.

** Duck King, emphasis on both "crazy" ''and'' "awesome". Between the fact that he turned breakdancing into a physics-defying martial arts and the family of ducks living in his hair, Duck King was this trope from the start. Also of note... '''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1NLZu1bU24 I AM DUCK KING! QWACK! QWACK! QWACK! QWACK! QWACK! QWACK!]]'''

** Duck King is ''very'' popular among the {{Fandom}}. [[WhatCouldHaveBeen He would have crossed over to]] ''[[TheKingOfFighters KOF]]'' [[WhatCouldHaveBeen earlier]], but lost out to Blue Mary for the final spot on the ''[='97=]'' Special Team. He was relegated to background status for some more games (there was even an [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/snk/images/1/1d/Kof98_58.jpg artwork]] depicting Duck alongside fellow [[PutOnABus bus-riders]] [[TheKingOfFighters Heavy D!]] and [[ArtOfFighting Ryuhaku Todoh]]), but ''finally'' joined the roster in ''XI''. AndTheFandomRejoiced.

** Geese can do no wrong because the fandom '''''worships the ground he walks on'''''.

** Kim Kaphwan, who debuts alongside Mai in ''2''. ''Fatal Fury 3'' gives us Blue Mary and Yamazaki.
** Rick Strowd. People were [[SeriousBusiness pissed]] when it was discovered that [[TheKingOfFighters Vanessa]] started cribbing off of him, ''[[RuinedFOREVER especially]]'' when she used his Gaia's Breath [[LimitBreak P-Power]] in ''2002''. Ironically, Vanessa went on to become one of ''KOF'''s ''many'' darkhorses.
** At least ''half'' of the ''Garou'' cast. Rock Howard, Bonne Jenet, Gato, Hotaru, Tizoc, Khushnood Butt... In fact, the ''only'' thing that's stopping Rock from crossing into the main ''KOF'' titles? SNK Playmore is "[[ExecutiveMeddling saving]]" him for the sequel to ''Garou''. Now ''how'' long has that title [[{{Vaporware}} been a pipe dream]]? Just be thankful that he's made it into ''[[VideoGame/CapcomVsSNK2MarkOfTheMillennium Capcom vs. SNK 2]]'', the ''Maximum Impact'' titles, and ''VideoGame/NeoGeoBattleColiseum''. Likewise, [[WordOfGod interviews]] say that Butt is one of the most requested characters for the ''KOF'' lineup.
** From TheMovie we have Jamin. Who a lot of fans want to see in an actual SNK fighter as a CanonImmigrant.

** A good number of fans see some sort of connection between Rick Strowd and [[TheKingOfFighters Vanessa]], mostly because she stole some of his techniques.
** Billy Kane's father is (allegedly) the pilot from PrehistoricIsle.

* GoodBadBugs - 'Aerial Canceling', where you could cancel a jump into a special move, was already known to the developers but left in the game because an SNK higher-up thought it made the fighting look more frantic. This technique would be tweaked a bit and appear as part of the mechanics in ''KingOfFighters''.
* HesJustHiding - Kim was defeated by Freeman before the events of ''Garou'' and apparently goes missing. He shows up to berate his son Dong Hwan under certain circumstances, though.

* UncannyValley: Overlaps with RedEyesTakeWarning. After you beat White, it shows a cutscene of him falling to the ground in defeat. He tries to get up, and when he opens his eyes, ''they're nothing but [[HellishPupils blank red spheres]]''. [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel Brrr...]]
* ViewerGenderConfusion: Jin Chonshu. He looks like a little girl, but is actually male. To make it worse, in some of the games, he seems to be wearing lipstick and {{guy}}liner...

** Terry has too many to keep count of. ''[[BeyondTheImpossible To the point that his Mondegreens have Mondegreens]]''.

** At least ''half'' of the ''Garou'' cast. Rock Howard, Bonne Jenet, Gato, Hotaru, Tizoc, Khushnood Butt... In fact, the ''only'' thing that's stopping Rock from crossing into the main ''KOF'' titles? SNK Playmore is "[[ExecutiveMeddling saving]]" him for the sequel to ''Garou''. Now ''how'' long has that title [[{{Vaporware}} been a pipe dream]]? Just be thankful that he's made it into ''[[CapcomVsSNK2MarkOfTheMillennium Capcom vs. SNK 2]]'', the ''Maximum Impact'' titles, and ''VideoGame/NeoGeoBattleColiseum''. Likewise, [[WordOfGod interviews]] say that Butt is one of the most requested characters for the ''KOF'' lineup.

** From TheMovie we have Jamin. Who a lot of fans want to see in an actual SNK game as a CanonForeigner.

** Terry has [[{{Understatement}} too many to keep count of.]] ''[[BeyondTheImpossible To the point that his Mondegreens have Mondegreens]]''.

** '''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzT-floFuTM A KARATE BEAR.]]'''

** Duck King is ''very'' popular {{Fandom}}. [[WhatCouldHaveBeen He would have crossed over to]] ''[[TheKingOfFighters KOF]]'' [[WhatCouldHaveBeen earlier]], but lost out to Blue Mary for the final spot on the ''[='97=]'' Special Team. He was relegated to background status for some more games (there was even an [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/snk/images/1/1d/Kof98_58.jpg artwork]] depicting Duck alongside fellow [[PutOnABus bus-riders]] [[TheKingOfFighters Heavy D!]] and [[ArtOfFighting Ryuhaku Todoh]]), but ''finally'' joined the roster in ''XI''. AndTheFandomRejoiced.

** Kim Kaphwan (debuting alongside Mai in ''2''). ''Fatal Fury 3'' gives us Blue Mary and Yamazaki.

** At least ''half'' of the ''Garou'' cast. Rock Howard, Bonne Jenet, Gato, Hotaru, Tizoc, Khushnood Butt... In fact, the ''only'' thing that's stopping Rock from crossing into the main ''KOF'' titles? SNK Playmore is "[[ExecutiveMeddling saving]]" him for the sequel to ''Garou''. Now ''how'' long has that title [[{{Vaporware}} been a pipe dream]]? Just be thankful that he's made it into ''Capcom vs. SNK 2'', the ''Maximum Impact'' titles, and ''VideoGame/NeoGeoBattleColiseum''. Likewise, [[WordOfGod interviews]] say that Butt is one of the most requested characters for the ''KOF'' lineup.

* ViewerGenderConfusion: Jin Chonshu. He looks like a little girl, but is actually male. To make it worse, in some of the games, he seems to be wearing lipstick and [[FacialMarkings eyeliner]]...

** At least ''half'' of the ''Garou'' cast. Rock Howard, Bonne Jenet, Gato, Hotaru, Tizoc, Khushnood Butt... In fact, the ''only'' thing that's stopping Rock from crossing into the main ''KOF'' titles? SNK Playmore is "[[ExecutiveMeddling saving]]" him for the sequel to ''Garou''. Now ''how'' long has that title [[{{Vaporware}} been a pipe dream]]? Just be thankful that he's made it into ''Capcom vs. SNK 2'', the ''Maximum Impact'' titles, and ''NeoGeoBattleColiseum''. Likewise, [[WordOfGod interviews]] say that Butt is one of the most requested characters for the ''KOF'' lineup.

* CharacterAlignment:
** Most of the heroes (Terry & co.) fall under NeutralGood. The more notable exceptions are listed below.
** LawfulGood: Kim Kaphwan, Hon Fu
** LawfulNeutral: Billy Kane
** ChaoticNeutral: Axel Hawk
** LawfulEvil: Wolfgang Krauser, Laurence Blood
** NeutralEvil: Geese Howard
** ChaoticEvil: Ryuji Yamazaki, White

* {{Narm}}: From ''The Motion Picture'': "But why do you have to DIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEE?!"
** Getting up to Geese in ''Fatal Fury Special'' using Terry in arcade mode leads to this threatening pre-match taunt:
-->'''Geese''': "Die like your father, you pin-headed son of an ice-cream maker!"

** LawfulEvil: Billy Kane