Fei Long

Fei Long (フェイロン) is a character in the Street Fighter series.

Character Basis
Fei Long is a tribute to the Kung Fu movie legend Bruce Lee. Not only do the two look alike and come from the same city, Fei Long also lets out similar battle cries to Lee, and is just as furious and fast a fighter. Also, Fei Long is Mandarin for "flying dragon", as well as a type of kick; Bruce Lee's Chinese screen name was 李 小龍 (Li Xiao-Long) or "little dragon." He was one of the early Bruce Lee look-alike characters in fighting games, after Kim Dragon from World Heroes and Liu Kang from Mortal Kombat, but predating Marshall Law and his son Forrest Law from the Tekken series, Li Long and Maxi from the Soul series, and Jann Lee from the Dead or Alive series. Along with Akuma, Fei Long was the only original Street Fighter character not to appear in the Street Fighter movie.

Story
A youthful and talented man from Hong Kong, Fei Long developed his own form of Kung Fu and fought on the streets to sharpen his skills until he caught the eye of a movie director, who got him into the big times and made him an international sensation. He also attracted the attention of the criminal organization Shadaloo, which tried to recruit him by force.

Super Street Fighter II
He made a string of action movies until he participated in the second World Warrior tournament. He realized that he preferred the real thing to the staged, choreographed fight scenes in his movies, and gave up his career and disappeared into the streets. Despite this, he soon returned to the world of cinema.

Street Fighter IV
Fei Long returned to the world tournament stage, after Shadaloo agents were suspected of attacking stage hands and co-stars in the movie he was working on at the time. It transpired that the plot of the movie bore a dangerous resemblance to S.I.N. operations, which is what attracted their attention to the movie's cast and crew. When Fei-Long demanded answers from Seth (or one of his copies), Seth replied that "Sometimes the media can get too close to the truth". However the conversation is interrupted when a kunai (a ninja throwing dagger) strikes Seth in the neck, killing him. Fei-Long left the S.I.N building without answers. Presumably the film was completed after the defeat of Seth.

Techniques
Fei-Long has two special techniques in his debut appearance in Super Street Fighter II. The Rekkaken (烈火拳) is a series of rushing punches towards his enemy. When the player inputs the Rekkaken command while Fei-Long is already performing the technique, he will follow it with another Rekkaken. He can perform up to three in a row, the third ending in a different cry and a cooldown that plays off of Bruce Lee's notable finale of tensing himself after the final blow. The Shienkyaku (熾炎脚), his other special technique in Super, is a jumping flame kick. This technique is also referred as the Rising Dragon Kick, due to its similarity with Ryu and Ken's Shoryuken (Rising Dragon Punch) and its similar input command. He gains an additional special technique and his first Super Combo in Super Street Fighter II Turbo. The Rekkukyaku (裂空脚) is a technique in which Fei-Long jumps towards the opponent with a spread kick. His Super Combo is the Rekkashinken (烈火真拳), a more powerful version of the Rekkaken.

In Street Fighter Alpha 3, he has all of his techniques from Super Turbo and two new Super Combos in A-ism mode. The Shienrenkyaku (熾炎連脚) is a more poweful version of the Shienkyaku. The Ryuhassai (龍八砕) is a Lv.3-only Super Combo in which he punches an opponent and then uppercuts them into the air, followed by a jump kick. If the move connects at maximum distance, then it becomes the Ryu Shin Hassai and does much more damage.