Birdie

Birdie (バーディ) is a video game character from Capcom's Street Fighter series of fighting games. He is named after the golfing term "Birdie." The other English character from the first Street Fighter; Eagle is also named after a golf term. He was in the first game and made later prominent appearances in the Street Fighter Alpha games. He is depicted as a late 1970s British punk rocker.

Story
Prior to his criminal career, Birdie was a professional wrestler, teaming with occasional rival Titanic Tim (from the Saturday Night Slam Masters series) as the "500 Million Trillion Powers." He turned to a life of crime when his wrestling career ended, doing some street fighting on the side to add to his income.

His notoriety got him invited to the first World Warrior tournament. He was suffering from a particularly nasty strain of flu, however, and lost his fight with Ryu.

Despite this setback, Birdie rose up the criminal ranks. He eventually became aware of an organization called Shadaloo and managed to use his criminal reputation to join them.

Sneaking into a Shadaloo data room, he learned about the Psycho Drive machine, not aware that M. Bison was watching him. Thinking he could use it to overthrow Bison and become lord of Shadoloo himself, he set out to find it. Bison sent Balrog to kill Birdie, but Birdie convinced Balrog to help him instead by telling him how the Psycho Drive could make them powerful. Hindered by Balrog's incompetence, however, Birdie couldn't find the Drive before it exploded.

It is likely that Birdie remained with Shadaloo until it finally collapsed, and is back on the streets.

Appearance
Birdie is a hulking figure with dyed blonde hair, a leather jacket, several rings, and oddly pointed shoes. His unusual looking shoes are more common to punks in Japan, rather than the combat boots worn by punks in Birdie's native England. He also has a tattoo of a red heart on the side of his head and sports a patently impossible hole in the center of his mohawk, giving his unique hairstyle the appearance of a bird's beak.

Birdie's appearance in the Alpha series was distinctly changed from his appearance in the original Street Fighter. In Street Fighter, Birdie was a tall, not particularly heavyset white guy with a regular (without the hole) orange-red mohawk in confrontation screen and blonde during rounds. In the Alpha series, Birdie is considerably larger, more muscular and has a different skin colour. Acknowledging this, there is a win quote in Street Fighter Alpha 3, in which he says he was "pale" because he was "sick".

Stage Theme
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Trivia

 * In Birdie's stage in the original Street Fighter, several posters of Velvet Underground (recognizably enough, from their album The Velvet Underground and Nico) can be seen on the walls.
 * Birdie's SF1 stage music is remixed for the first two Street Fighter Alpha games.
 * The tag team name 500 Million Trillion Powers is possibly a play off a tag team from the wrestling manga Kinnikuman, the 20 Million Powers.
 * Birdie also has the notable quality of being one of the few Street Fighter characters to change so drastically in his appearance (white to black, changes in hair, clothes and stance)
 * Birdie, when standing up full height (best seen while walking), is about the height of Sagat, making him one of the tallest characters in the game.
 * In Hakan's opening in SSFIV, Hakan is shown beating and interogating a punk who closely resembles Birdie's original design.