Street Fighter EX/Characters

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Debuting in Street Fighter EX

Hokuto - Japan

The closest thing to a main character in the EX series, Hokuto is a practioner of the Mizukami style of Kobujutsu and the daughter of a branch family's leader. After turning 17, she learned from her adoptive father that she has a brother named Kairi, who disappeared when Hokuto was still an infant and was now walking the path of the "Asura". Hokuto was given the duty to eliminate her now renegade brother and as a failsafe in case she hesitated, she was implanted with the "Seal of Blood" to ensure she would accomplish her duty.


C. Jack - USA

A bodyguard and bouncer for hire, "Cracker" Jack entered the first Street Fighter EX to protect Blair Dame. In EX2, he enters the tournament to save his younger sister, who was taken captive by a rival underground fighter. After rescuing his sister, he was pursued by a criminal organization and ended up hiding in Blair's home by the end of EX3

  • Ambiguously Brown: Though from the United States, his appearance and theme music seems to imply Spanish or Latino descent.
  • Badass Baritone: And how!
  • Badass Normal
  • Batter Up
  • Big Brother Instinct: When his little sister is held hostage by an underground boxing champion, he risks regaining the attention of his pursuers to save her.
  • Bouncer
  • Blinding Hat: His eyes are never seen at all, whether it's his hat or sunglasses.
  • Canon Foreigner
  • Heel Face Turn: Not so much the character himself undergoing a change, but a shift in alignment thanks to the drastic changes in his backstory caused by the retcon. In the first game, he was a thug who served Shadaloo, in the later games he is more or less a good guy.
  • Home Run Hitter: TO THE MOON! No, really. He hits you so hard, you rebound off of the moon and come back.
  • I Know Madden Kombat: Kind of, uses a soccer kick as one of his attacks, and there is the bat thing.
  • Kick Them While They Are Down
  • Meaningful Name: He's named "Cracker Jack" because he wields a baseball bat. If you don't get it, Cracker Jack is a snack food commonly sold at baseball games.
  • Megaton Punch: Used to derail a Shadowloo train in his EX Plus Alpha ending.
  • Nice Hat
  • Retcon: Of all the changed backstories, his was one of the most drastic. Cracker Jack's original bio stated he was originally an enforcer for Shadaloo who used to train grunts by teaching them how to recover from serious injuries, but ended up betraying the organization. In later versions of his backstory, he is no longer a criminal and is on the run from an unnamed organization.
  • Sharp-Dressed Man: In the first game he was dressed like a thug. Now, you can't deny that his white suit with the pink lotus boutineer is damn sharp.
  • Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Jack has all the special moves Balrog had in Super Turbo except the Buffalo Headbutt.


D. Dark - Germany

A man named Holger once served under Guile with his own special tactical reconnaissance unit. He was injured during a scuffle with a rival unit led by Rolento (from Final Fight), which turned into a bloody battle. Holger was the only member of his unit to survive, but was severely injured, emotionally and physically. Outfitted with a portable breathing apparatus, he eventually escaped from the hospital and went into hiding, only to re-emerge as the deranged psychotic killer Doctrine Dark. Dark holds Guile responsible for starting the fight that caused the massacre of his unit and seeks to kill him as a result. Rolento, who actually started the fight, does not appear in the EX series. In EX2, it is revealed retconned that Holger's insanity is actually a result of his upbringing in a mercenary training facility that taught him how to kill as a child--and his subsequent murder of his own squad.


Skullomania - Japan

Skullomania is the superhero identity of a third-rate salaryman from Tokyo named Saburo Nishikoyama, who works to support his wife and children. After dressing up as a superhero for a department store attraction, Nishikoyama decided to become a superhero for real, choosing to fight crime as a hobby during the weekends. Outside the EX series, he also appeared in Arika's Fighter Maker for the PS1.


Pullum - Saudi Arabia

Full name Pullum Purna. The daughter of a wealthy and powerful magistrate in an Arabian country who tries to investigate her grandfather's connection with Shadaloo with the help of her bodyguard Darun Mister.


Allen - USA

Full name Allen Snider. A fighter once touted as the greatest Karate master in the United States, he was once the undefeated and favored champion of the U.S. Martial Arts Tournament until he was challenged by a then-unknown Ken Masters. Ken easily defeated him, telling him that he was still a "big fish in a small pond". Encouraged by Ken's words, Allen decided to travel the world and fight other warriors from other countries to prove himself otherwise. His special techniques, the "Soul Force" and the "Raising Dragon", were based on Ken's Hadouken and Shoryuken respectively. Allen's only subsequent appearance after the original EX and its re-releases was in Fighting Layer, an Arika-produced fighting game released exclusively for the arcades.


Blair - Europe

The young heiress of the wealthy multi-millionaire Dame family in Europe. In addition to having a formal education and training in etiquette, Blair also practiced and mastered various martial art styles since her childhood. She trains not only for the sake of the hobby, but also in case she would ever need to defend herself. In addition to attending social events, Blair also likes to travel the world and participate in various fighting tournaments and events. Due to her overprotective parents, she is accompanied in these events by her bodyguard Cracker Jack. Blair is also a close friend of Pullum, as they're both members of the International Debutante Club. Like Allen, her only appearance after the original EX and its re-releases was in the Arika-developed arcade-exclusive fighting game Fighting Layer.


Kairi - Japan

Hokuto's elder brother. When he was young, Kairi fell off of a cliff after fighting his own father. Kairi survived, but suffered a memory lost and began wandering the world, with nothing but his innate knowledge of the Mizukami fighting style and his will to survive to guide him. His body is covered with all kinds of scars from past battles, and his hair eventually changes from black to white due to all of his stress.


Darun - India

Said to be the strongest and most popular professional wrestler in India, Darun Mister seeks to travel the world to fight against other wrestlers such as Zangief and Victor Ortega. He travels the world as Pullum Purna's bodyguard.


Garuda - Japan

Possibly the closest thing to an antagonist the EX series, Garuda is a demon dressed in samurai-like armor. Depending on the source, Garuda is either, a composite of undead souls of warriors who killed by the Satsui no Hadou (according to the first EX), or the embodiment of every negative feeling mankind has ever felt (according to EX2).

Debuting in Street Fighter EX Plus

Cycloid-β and Cycloid-γ

A pair of Dural-like cyborgs who were programmed with the combat data of various fighters. One of them is just a generic wireframed polygon character, the other is just an untextured model.

Debuting in Street Fighter EX2

Hayate - Japan

The son of a legendary swordsman from the mountain village of Kukunochimura, Hayate decides to follow up on his father's footsteps by becoming a swordsman himself. His father is a legendary hero who sealed the beast of Orochi. When Orochi escapes from his imprisonment and kidnaps the local shrine maiden, Hayate slays the demon like his father did before him. Hayate and the maiden then become the new guardian deities of the village. Oddly enough, Hayate appears in the original EX2, but was omitted from the arcade version of EX2 Plus (being re-added in the Playstation port) and is completely gone from the series afterwards.


Nanase - Japan

Introduced in EX2, Hokuto's younger sister who was also trained in the ways of Mizukami Kobujutsu, who goes on a journey to prevent her older siblings from fighting each other.


Sharon - Unknown

Debuting EX2, Sharon is a redheaded woman with a tattoo of a rose on her right chest who leads a secret double life, working as a nun by day, taking caring of orphans at the monastery where she was raised, but by night she's a top-class agent employed by an intelligence group to conduct assassinations. When she learns that a member of a certain criminal organization she was hired to eliminate has the same rose tattoo she has, she ignores her orders and decides to chase after her target in order to learn about her past.


Shadowgeist - Unknown

An antihero from a nameless dystopian nation who decides to avenge his lost wife and daughter by bringing the totalitarian government responsible for their deaths to justice. He has artificially enhanced his body with cyborg implants. Essentially a darker version of Skullomania.

Debuting in Street Fighter EX2 Plus

Area - Unknown

First appearing in EX2 Plus, Area is the daughter of a scientific inventor who works as a clerk in her father's store, where she sells his inventions. One day, her father invents a large mechanical arm codenamed "Cancer", developed for the purpose of digging. Area modifies it as a weapon and decides to test it against other martial artists from around the world.


V. Rosso - Italy

Also debuting in EX2 Plus, Vulcano is an Italian fighter employed by some kind of secret organization. When his girlfriend is murdered, he leaves his organization to seek revenge. Possibly the most stereotypically Italian character in a fighting game ever, his special moves are named after locations in Italy (i.e: Pisa, Canossa).

Debuting in Street Fighter EX3

Ace - Unknown

The sole "new" character in Street Fighter EX3, Ace is a secret government agent from an undiclosed nation who has the special ability to learn the techniques of his opponent after gathering battle data. He is asked by the Prime Minister of his country to gather information of a secret weapon being developed in an underground base.

  1. ↑ if you want to be technical: Gouken and Akuma are brothers with much hostility, while Ryu is Gouken's adopted son; Guy is Maki's brother-in-law; Yun and Yang are literal Bash Brothers
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