Juri

Juri Han (ハン・ジュリ / 한주리) is a character in the Street Fighter series. She made her debut in Super Street Fighter IV. She is described as being an "evil, mean and nasty" member of S.I.N. who is a main character in the storyline. She is also the central character in the official SSFIV Anime. The character was created by request of many Korean fans who wished for Capcom to add a Korean character in Street Fighter, something already established by SNK and Namco. Juri is the first South Korean character, the first Taekwondo user and the first true villainess in the Street Fighter series.

Super Street Fighter IV Anime
In the S.I.N. laboratory, Juri undergoes an operation on her eye. She gains the Feng Shui Engine, which gives her incredible ki, speed and power. It is revealed that Juri was a prominent practitioner of Taekwondo when she was 15. Her father was a lawyer in charge of prosecuting organized crime operations. In this capacity, Shadoloo was his next target, causing her family to be kidnapped by that very organization. During the ordeal, Juri lost her parents and gravely wounded her left eye.

After the operation, Juri proceeds to assassinate operatives in a public area. Even with guns, her enemies stood no chance against her as she took them out one by one. Chun-Li, Cammy and Guile were called to the scene to to stop her massacre. Chun-Li rushes into the scene to arrest Juri, and arrives just as Juri kills a man and a woman (however, the woman's son survives). Juri and Chun-Li battle, ending with Juri unleashing her eye's power and causing GBH to Chun-Li. As her victim lay on the ground, Juri prepared to deal the finishing blow. Just as she was about to murder Chun-Li, her eye malfunctioned, forcing her to flee back to the lab. After fixing her eye, Seth assigns Juri her next mission: capture Bison's elite female assassins, the dolls. Juri flies to the base of the dolls with several S.I.N employees. She manages to defeat every single assassin in combat, including Juli and Juni. As she was carrying the two unconcious assassins away to her plane, Cammy and Guile arrive. They have a heated fight, but Juri comes out on top. She boards her plane and straps Juni and Juli to beds with wheels. As it takes off, Cammy manages to jump and grab onto the open boarding ramp, and confronts Juri for one final time. After an intense conflict, Juri pushes one of the rolling tables (with an assassin on it) which collides with Cammy, who both fall off the boarding ramp into mid-air. Unluckily for Juri, they survive the attempted murder as there was soft snow at the bottom of their fall.

Super Street Fighter IV
She has a very strong rivalry with Chun-Li and Cammy. Shortly after working for Seth, she turns on him to kill both Bison and Seth. Chun Li and Cammy both try to subdue her but she escapes. In the end she confronts Bison, who had just beaten Seth, and while the battle is not seen, she appears to live from the battle. She approaches Seth and taunts him on him being a spare body for Bison before killing him by stomping on his Tandem Engine, revealing that she planned to become the new leader of S.I.N. ("I just wanted to pit you two idiots together while I took over.")

Gameplay
Juri appears to be an offensively oriented character with little defense moves. She uses a few punches, but mostly uses kicks. Juri is a very flashy fighter who likes to toy with her opponent.

Juri has a fireball technique that she can choose to charge in a method similar to Balrog's Turn Punch or El Fuerte's Quesadilla Bomb. If she chooses to charge it, she does a high kick that leaves a trail of energy, and she can unleash her fireball at any time after that by releasing the button. Her most notable technique is her pinwheel kick, which moves her forward as she does a wheel kick similar to Guile's Flash Kick and Chun-Li's Spinning Bird Kick. Her EX version does plenty of hits and launches the opponent into the air. She has a counter move in which she taunts her enemy into hitting her, and if she is hit, she can either move backwards, jump into the air (and react with an air move), or appear behind her opponent. She has an aerial dive kick that can go at any range and can be followed up with more kicks. Her EX version uses a wall bounce and can juggle afterwards.

Her super unleashes a flurry of fireballs and juggles the opponent, ending with a fireball that hits the opponent as they are falling.

Her Ultra I is Feng Shui Engine, which is a time-based move that allows her to do combos with her normal moves very easily. Her Ultra II is Kaisen Dankairaku, her most seen ultra. She kicks the opponent, does a helicopter kick to fly into the air and hit them repeatedly. She kicks her opponent to the ground, but gets to the ground before they land. She does a kick, and the opponent lands on her foot. She taunts her opponent first and then she slams her opponent to the ground.

Appearance
Juri wears a small, purple half tank-top, supported with black straps. She wears long, baggy, off-white coloured trousers and purple tights. Her fingernails and toenails are painted purple. She has dark hair styled into two horn-like bangs at the top of her head.

Personality
Juri definitely fits the motif of a "femme fatale". Although she's beautiful and possesses a strong, sensual figure, she's shown to be cruel, cunning and a sadistic, unforgiving fighter with a strong urge to cause havoc and destruction. Despite having a strong hatred for M. Bison (similar to what Chun Li, Guile and Rose have), she's in some ways similar to him in terms of being cold and callous to others, and treating their allies as pawns or ignoring the rules to achieve their own personal goals. Juri is a highly skilled Taekwondo practitioner and with the power of the Feng Shui Engine at her disposal, her killing and fighting potential does increase dramatically, making her a truly dangerous and powerful character since her debut in the series. It's shown that she enjoys teasing and taunting her opponents before or even during a fight.

Not much is known about her life before the events of Super Street Fighter IV, but there are a few theories of what Juri was like when she was younger. One theory is that although she's described as evil, nasty and mean, there is a good chance Juri is acting the way she is right now because of what Bison and his associates have done to her in the past. It's quite possible that she was once an innocent young woman who lived a happy life with her parents only to have it taken away from her, causing her to be scarred both emotionally and psychologically creating the person she is today, making her a "tragic villainess" of sorts. It is hinted at during a win quote with Chun Li after she defeats Juri she says: "What would your parents think if they saw you now"? However, another theory is that she had psychopathic traits before her parents were killed. The lack of parental discipline after their deaths simply allowed her to amplify her sadistic ways to become the wicked woman that she is currently, which would make her a much less sympathetic villain.

Trivia

 * There were over 100 concept designs for Juri, including a slightly overweight version.
 * Aspects of Juri's design, such as her hair and chestwear, seem to resemble Jolyne Kujo of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure.
 * Juri's personality, appearance and background is very similar to that of Tira from the Soul Calibur series. They are both young women who are servants of evil, who like to toy with their opponents sadistically before finishing them off. However unlike Tira, Juri is not bipolar.
 * One of Juri's moves,"Shikusen" has follow up moves called "Second Impact" and "Third Strike", a reference to Street Fighter III
 * One of her taunts in 'SSFIV' (number 9) seems to resemble that of Iori Yagami from 'KoF'.
 * Juri was originally said to like "large breasts". This was later removed from her bio. She still shows some lesbian tendencies in cutscenes, though.
 * 韓 is the Kanji for South Korea.
 * Juri is the first Korean character in all of Capcom's entire existence.

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