Geese Howard isn't dead in the Fatal Fury timeline.
- The canon may state he's dead, but now let's look at it. When you use Geese or Billy in Real Bout, Geese would be replaced by 'Shadow Geese'. He loses composure when the real things arrive (it was pretty normal), but if he's not, he is as composed as Geese, near-perfect imitation. Thus, Terry would've killed the Shadow Geese instead of the real Geese, whereas the real Geese is recuperating his wounds back in the first game, enabling him to appear in The King of Fighters timeline. And perhaps he would've been the one behind Shadow Geese, telling him to steal the Scroll of Immortality for him, though the shadow decided to use it for his own and Geese either had to take things to his own hands or have the Bogards finish the Shadow off for him.
- In other words, Terry's guilt is planned big time by Geese while he safely hid in shadows (and enables him to put Gato in KOF 2003).
Geese Howard will be the Final Boss of Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves, but he won't be brought back in the way you think.
- Everyone will question him on how he could've survived his death from falling off of Geese Tower in Real Bout Fatal Fury, and it will be revealed that Geese... didn't. Geese will explain how he found himself alive in an Alternate Universe with its own Geese Howard, the implication being that this version of Geese was one of the Resurrected Souls in the KOF Universe before finding a way back to his original universe. As Heidern speculated and Team Awakened Orochi's Ending in The King of Fighters XV implied, SNK's video games exist in a multiverse with worlds diverged on the crossroads of choice. And thus Geese Howard, the original SNK Villain, would have learned to bridge that gap.
- As a corollary to this, Geese Howard's Ending in Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves will have him fight and kill another Geese Howard and reveal that the particular version of Geese the player had been playing has gone from being a Super Mob Boss to a Multiversal Conqueror, a true Nightmare Geese for not just one universe, but for all universes. The Bad Guy Wins, indeed!
Geese is Andy's real father.
- Take a look at the younger Geese in Art of Fighting 2; he looks almost exactly like Andy. As corrupt as Geese was even as a younger man, it's possible he had had a one-night stand or something, the mother would be unable to care for the baby on her own and put him up for adoption, when he was taken in by Jeff Bogard.
Axel Hawk was originally going to be Michael Max, but for whatever reason he was replaced by Axel.
Axel Hawk shares the "Tornado Upper" move and uses the same soundbyte for it with Michael Max, he could have been replaced because Billy Kane already returned as a sub-boss in Fatal Fury 2 and the developers wanted to make a completely new character to make the last four fights feel fresh and unique. Rock's mother isn't dead, she's
- ...Miranda Jahana.
- It wasn't long before Geese realized her ambition, but he didn't intend to share control of South Town. So they divorced after a violent falling out (that ended in angry sex), with Geese retaining custody of their son after the split. He later fabricated the story of his wife's alleged "death," both as a final act of disassociation and to maintain his public image.
