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* [[Adaptation Displacement]]: Terry's [[Cartwright Curse]] in the anime trilogy, borders highly on [[Never Live It Down]]; 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 [[Ship Tease]] between them, if any, in the ''[[The King of Fighters (Video Game)|The King of Fighters]]'' doesn't help.) While ''Fatal Fury: [[The Movie|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 [[Useful Notes/Schrodinger's Cat|made things]] [[Stuffed Into the Fridge|a whole lot worse]].

** Duck King is ''very'' popular among the [[Fandom]]. [[What Could Have Been|He would have crossed over to]] ''[[The King of Fighters (Video Game)|KOF]]'' [[What Could Have Been|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 [[Put Onon a Bus|bus-riders]] [[The King of Fighters (Video Game)|Heavy D!]] and [[Art of Fighting|Ryuhaku Todoh]]), but ''finally'' joined the roster in ''XI''. [[And the Fandom Rejoiced]].

** Rick Strowd. Some haven't taken kindly to the fact that [[The King of Fighters (Video Game)|Vanessa]] started cribbing off of him (thus lowering his chances of getting into ''KOF'' himself), ''especially'' when she used his Gaia's Breath [[Limit Break|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 (who, as [[The Hero]] 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 "[[Executive Meddling|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 Mark of the Millennium (Video Game)|Capcom vs. SNK 2]]'', the ''Maximum Impact'' titles, and ''[[Neo Geo Battle Coliseum (Video Game)|Neo Geo Battle Coliseum]]''. Likewise, [[Word of God|interviews]] say that Butt is one of the most requested characters for the ''KOF'' lineup.

** A good number of fans see some sort of connection between Rick Strowd and [[The King of Fighters (Video Game)|Vanessa]], mostly because she stole some of his techniques.

* [[Good Bad Bugs]]: 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 ''[[The King of Fighters (Video Game)|The King of Fighters]]''.

* [[Love to Hate]]: Geese has done terrible things over the course of the series but is ''beloved'' by the fandom (not unlike [[The King of Fighters (Video Game)|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, [[Even Evil Has Standards|never quite crosses the]] [[Moral Event Horizon]] into [[Complete Monster]] territory. Oh, and he's an uncontested [[Badass]].