Hugo

"I'll fight you, little one!"

- Hugo

Hugo (ヒューゴー) is a character in the Street Fighter series. He first appeared in Final Fight.

Pre-Final Fight
Hugo Andore is a giant man raised on a farm in Germany, and a former member of the Mad Gear gang. He crossed over to North America when he was 20 years old, and was able to use his sheer size and strength to start a career in professional wrestling. Hugo was undefeated in both the wrestling world as well as the ultimate fighting world.

Final Fight
Hugo Andore and several members of his family were prominent members of Mad Gear, although Cody outfought the elder members in a cage match in the West Side and Mike Haggar humiliated him in the original Final Fight, which infuriated the wrestler to no end; it made him so mad that in Final Fight Revenge, Andore attempted to give a televised broadcast to Haggar challenging him for the mayor-ship through a wrestling match, but unfortunately the broadcast was never aired. Andore and his family would continue to join Metro City's most prominent gangs for years to come, including a revived, worldwide Mad Gear in Final Fight 2 and Mad Gear's successor the Skull Cross gang in Final Fight 3. Even so, Haggar and his friends crushed each of these syndicates and Andore's hopes of glory.

Street Fighter III
Deciding that the criminal lifestyle was not for him, Hugo entered the third World Warrior tournament, accompanied by his friend former Mad Gear member, Poison. His goal through this action was to find a suitable tag team partner, due to his former one being mysteriously killed off by a rival. During the tournament, Hugo battled with Ryu, a traveler who is constantly perfecting his fighting skills. In that battle, Hugo was hit by the Shin Shoryuken, Ryu's most powerful move, but he was not knocked out by it and continued to put on an amazing performance. Ryu may have temporarily been his tag team partner anyway, but a permanent solution was not given and again, Hugo needed a partner.

Eventually, Hugo and Poison decided to start their own wrestling promotion in Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike, the Huge/Hyu Wrestling Army (HWA). Their main objective is to take over all of pro wrestling.

Family
The Andore family (pronounced An-Do-Ray as in André) is a clan of pro wrestlers modeled after André the Giant. They are also the strongest underlings in the Final Fight series. While it is clear Hugo is a member of the Andore family and Capcom has stated he appears in Final Fight, it is unclear if he's the original Andore, Andore Jr. or another family member entirely. However, there is evidence that point to him being the first Andore (who wears lavender) and Andore Jr. (who wears red) being his brother. This includes Andore Jr.'s bio states he practices many wrestling techniques with his brother and hopes to surpass him in fighting prowess.

Capcom's official info gives differing stats for Hugo and Final Fight Andore, bringing into question whether the two are the same or not, though the same book lists different profiles for characters like Akuma and Shin Akuma. Recently, an Andore appeared in the pit fights for Final Fight Streetwise, called simply "Andore" and according to several in-game characters is "legendary", leading to yet another possibility of him being Hugo.

Hugo's father, grandfather, and uncle all were last seen in Metro City with him, though only his grandfather has been seen since the fall of the first Mad Gear gang. All 3 dress in a fashion similar to Hugo with color variation: Grandpa Andore (G. Andore) wears a blue outfit in the original Final Fight and a gray outfit in Final Fight 2, also being slightly more tanned than his grandsons, Uncle Andore (U. Andore) wears dark-gray, and Father (Papa) Andore (F. Andore) wears yellow. Hugo's father is shown in a montage of the Final Fight cast to be significantly taller than his sons, and to wear glasses.

In addition, Hugo has two sisters. Hugo is stated as being the first born. It is entirely possible Hugo has more siblings. Hugo's mother still lives in Germany. The whereabouts of his two sisters has never been stated.

Appearance
Hugo is unbelievably tall. Standing at 8 feet, he is the tallest character in Street Fighter history. Hugo traditionally wears a pink leopard skin tank-top with darker pink jeans, brown boots, and black studded wristbands. He wears a thick chain from the back of his waist, to 3/4 of the way around his waist, ending at his hip. He has long, messy black hair, that bounces and moves around as he moves and attacks. Hugo's face is considerably odd. His eyes are normally obscured by shadow during battle, but during certain animations, they become visible, revealing that he has no pupils, though he clearly has pupils in his character portrait. Hugo's design is said to be an homage to famed wrestler André the Giant. The Andore surname seems to hint toward this.

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Trivia

 * Hugo's intro with Alex is based on the famous match between Hulk Hogan and Andre The Giant, which took place at WrestleMania III.
 * Hugo is the largest character in the entire Street Fighter series, yet he is somehow outweighed by Gill and his younger brother Urien at 745 lbs. with Hugo weighing only 440 lbs.


 * In Super Street Fighter IV, Hugo makes a cameo appearence in the Metro City stage. He is seen in the background with a bunch of other construction workers. Also in Street Fighter EX3 the muscle man that "Zako B" is close appearance of Hugo.


 * Also, Hugo can be seen in Street Fighter Alpha 2, in Guy's Stage.


 * In Street Fighter Alpha 3, Hugo can be seen standing in front of a billboard promoting Megaman in Cody's stage.
 * A prototype version of Hugo can be found in Street Fighter III: New Generation with the use of special codes or hacking. He only does basic moves like punches or kicks.
 * Hugo appears in a recently released cinematic trailer for Street Fighter X Tekken where he fights King and Craig Marduk.

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