Editing Abigail

{{Template:Infobox Character
|smallimage = IMG_4267.png
|name =Abigail
|image = [[File:Abigailrender.png|300px]]
|caption = Abigail, as he appears in ''[[Street Fighter V]]''.
|birthdate = October 16<ref name="Capcom CFN">http://game.capcom.com/cfn/sfv/column-130192.html</ref>
|birthplace = {{flagicon|Canada}} [[Canada]]<ref name="Capcom CFN"/><ref name="SFV Japanese site">http://www.capcom.co.jp/sfv/chara_abigail.html</ref>
|height = 8'0" (244 cm)<ref name="Capcom CFN"/><ref name="SFV Japanese site"/><ref name="Street Fighter V Stat Card">Street Fighter V Stat Card</ref>
|weight = 584 lbs (265 kg)<ref name="Capcom CFN"/><ref name="SFV Japanese site"/><ref name="Street Fighter V Stat Card"/>
|bloodtype = AB<ref name="Capcom CFN"/>
|eyes = Gray
|hair = Black (Final Fight)<br>Brown (Street Fighter V)
|style = Described as "Violent"<ref name="Street Fighter V Stat Card"/> (while taking advantage of his physique)
|likes = Bananas<ref name="Capcom CFN"/>, huge cars, Death Metal<ref name="SFV Japanese site"/>
|dislikes = Rust<ref name="Capcom CFN"/>
|special = Modding cars<ref name="Street Fighter V Stat Card"/>
|moves      = [[Abigail Punch]], [[Giant Flip]], [[Abigail Smash]], [[Nitro Charge]], [[Nitro Charge|Drop Back]], [[Nitro Charge|Dynamite Punch]], [[Nitro Charge|Avalanche Press]], [[Nitro Charge|Bay Area Sunrise]], [[Hungabee]], [[Ontario Drop]], [[Abigail Junker]], [[Max Power]], [[Hybrid Charge]], [[Hybrid Charge|Metro Crash]], [[Abigail Special]]
|firstgame = ''[[Final Fight]]''<br>''[[Street Fighter Alpha 2]]'' (''Street Fighter'' debut)<br>''[[Street Fighter V]]'' (''Street Fighter'' playable debut)
|japanactor = '''Ryota Takeuchi''' (''[[Street Fighter V]]'')
|voiceactor = '''[[wikipedia:Xander Mobus|Xander Mobus]]''' (''[[Street Fighter V]]'')
|rival(s) = [[Guy]], [[Ibuki]], [[Zangief]], [[Juri]], [[Vega]], [[Alex]], [[Mike Haggar|Haggar]], [[Cody]], [[Lucia]], [[Poison]] (friendly)
|species = Human
|alignment = Neutral
|affiliation=[[Mad Gear]] (formerly)
|occupation = Mad Gear lieutenant (formerly), Mechanic (current)
|status = Alive
}}

{{Quote|{{Nihongo|Don't think you'll get by me so easily!|あなたは私がとても簡単に手に入るとは思わない！|Anata wa watashi ga totemo kantan ni te ni hairu to wa omowanai!|}}|Abigail to [[Haggar]] (''[[Final Fight One]]'')}}

{{Quote|{{Nihongo|Time to kick it into top gear!|トップギアにそれをキックする時!|Toppu gia ni sore o kikku suru toki!}}|Abigail (''[[Street Fighter V]]'')}}

{{nihongo|'''Abigail'''|アビゲイル|Abigeiru}} is a video game character who debuted as the penultimate boss in the beat 'em up game ''[[Final Fight]]'', before appearing as a playable fighter in the ''[[Street Fighter series|Street Fighter]]'' series starting with the second season of ''[[Street Fighter V]]''.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcMiPWzXn0k</ref> He is a hulking brute of gargantuan proportions and former enforcer for the [[Mad Gear Gang]].

==Biography==
===Appearance===
Abigail is an extremely large man with a maple leaf logo flat-top haircut (originally a mowhawk). His attire in ''Final Fight'' closely resembles a white version of that worn by the [[Andore family]], but he is keen to point out that he is not one of them.<ref name="FF1 Cody cutscenes">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTUHZ-6ADbA</ref> He usually wears facepaint, but in ''[[Mighty Final Fight]]'', a non-canon retelling of the original ''Final Fight'' with chibi sprites, he is seen without facepaint.

Abigail's height and weight makes him the tallest character in the entire ''[[Street Fighter series|Street Fighter]]'' franchise, and the second heaviest, only being surpassed in weight by [[Gill]].

In ''Street Fighter V'', his tanktop sports skull prints, tire track prints on his pants, and tires worn as both rings and large armbands, the armbands with "''Mad Gear''" painted on them in white. On a wallet chain on the back of his pants are two tires worn through it, and around his neck is a black leather spiked collar. His fingernails are painted dark gray. In a possible manner like [[Birdie]], who is designed to be like a bird in fashion, Abigail's overall features come to give him the similarities of a bulldog, which are portrayed as relentless guard dogs in popular media.

His first alternate costume is similar to his default attire but he wears a welding mask to conceal his face, blue jeans, and one of the shoulders of his tank top is ripped. A large tire is stretched diagonally across his body.

His second alternate costume has him shirtless, but accessorized with a pair of goggles and large tire shoulder bands with chains draped across them. His black flap top hairstyle becomes red, shoulder length dreadlocks, he also gains a red, walrus mustache and holds a crookedly bent nail between his teeth. His tire-track marked trousers are suspended by a belt with a cog as a buckle. On a minor note, this outfit is most reminiscent of [[Skull Cross Gang]] member [[Caine]].

===Personality===
Abigail's personality is like that of most other stereotypical rev heads and ironically, while traditional Canadian stereotypes include being generally well-mannered and polite, Abigail very rarely displays these traits despite being in a gang and being an expert on vehicles; he is instead shown to be quite dimwitted, hot-tempered, abrash and childish. He always likes to pretend he's driving a car and making bad impressions of car noises. He is also known for getting upset and can start crying when he thinks someone has stolen his car, even if he lets his friends or subordinates borrow it for a day, such as [[Axl]], [[Roxy]] and [[J]]. His profile on the [[Shadaloo Combat Research Institute|Shadaloo C.R.I.]] website states he is a competitive quiz taker, which references his appearance in ''Mighty Final Fight'', in which he states he has been exercising his brain with quizzes, and makes the player take a quiz before fighting him.

He is not malicious or antagonistic though, as his win quotes against [[Chun-Li]] and [[Lucia]] (''"Keep your nose outta my business, copper. I'm totally legit now." ''and ''"Another cop trying to stick their nose into my business. I'm legit now, so get lost."'') and [[Nash]] (''"Why so moody, pal? Try smiling! Ah ha ha ha ha ha!"'') indicate that he has both put his Mad Gear days behind him and is akin to more of a jock with crude humor and a one-track mind, but fairly jovial. He also loves motorbikes as seen in his win quote against [[Akira]] which he gave her some advice as Akira is a former bike mechanic (''"That's a sweet bike you got! But it needs more horsepower! I wanna hear more like VRRROOOM!!"''). As Akira responded in her win quote against him (''"Horsepower's important, but so is technique. That's true for bikes AND fights!"'').

===Concept===
Abigail originally appeared in ''Final Fight'' as a hulking member of the Mad Gear gang, and was initially stated to be from the [[Netherlands]]. However, for his appearance in ''Street Fighter V'', his birthplace was changed to Canada. This is referenced in his profile on the Shadaloo C.R.I. profile, which states that he claims to be from Holland, but his passport states he was born in Canada.

During the development of his playable appearance in ''Street Fighter V'', Abigail's designs included one close to his original ''Final Fight'' appearance, a face-paint version, a version where he wears death masks of Mad Gear members on his shoulders and knees, and two kinds of version where he has make-up and wears fur.<ref name="EarlyAbigail">[http://game.capcom.com/cfn/sfv/column/132058 Street Fighter V Early Development Ideas: Abigail]</ref>

Much like how [[Hugo]] is based off of [[wikipedia:André the Giant|André the Giant]], Abigail is seemingly based off of Canadian born [[wikipedia:Édouard Beaupré|Édouard Beaupré]], who is one of the biggest wrestlers in history at 251.4 cm (8 ft 3 in). His overall name and use of eye makeup refers to heavy metal singer and lead vocalist [[wikipedia:King_Diamond|King Diamond]] and the eponymous album ''[[wikipedia:Abigail_(album)|Abigail]]''. Similar makeup was seen on WWF wrestlers [[wikipedia:The_Ultimate_Warrior|The Ultimate Warrior]] and the [[wikipedia:Road_Warrior_Animal|Road Warrior Animal]] of the tag team [[wikipedia:The_Road_Warriors|The Road Warriors]].

Abigail's inclusion in ''Street Fighter V'' stemmed from his exclusion of not appearing in ''[[Final Fight Revenge]]'' alongside his fellow Mad Gear comrades. His sheer size was considered imposing and terrifying, and [https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Cain_Marko_(Earth-616) Juggernaut]'s appearance in the ''[[Marvel vs. Capcom series|Marvel vs. Capcom]]'' series was used as a point of reference.{{Fact}} [[Bengus]] remarks that while he initially wasn't sure how to redesign Abigail, it was eventually decided to keep him roughly the same as his original look, only with an added car mechanic motif. Abigail is said to be part of a "Nakayama" slot, referring to rougher, crude characters that director Takayuki Nakayama enjoys, such as Birdie and Urien.{{Fact}}

==Character Relationships==

=== [[Poison]] ===
Poison tries to use Abigail as a replacement to Hugo after they have a fallout, but Roxy tells her that Abigail is not interested.

=== [[Cody]] ===
As Cody and Abigail have a complicated history towards each other, this was brought up when Abigail still remembers the mayor from their past after the latter had confronted him for illegal parking. Surprisingly, Cody expected him to have redeemed from his Mad Gear criminal past and contribute more to Metro City.

=== [[Lucia]] ===
Lucia initially did not expect Abigail to have renounced his criminal ways but much like Cody's situation, she expects Abigail to stick to them.

=== [[Alex]] ===
Despite having little interactions with each other (apart from a certain incident regarding a missing truck), both fighters according to their win-quotes generally have some mutual respect towards each other, possibly due to their shared interests in automobiles. Alex complements Abigail on his strength but tells him to refine his technique, while Abigail also complements Alex's strength and recommends the latter to fix his car first before other things, likely offering his services.

==Story==
===''[[Final Fight]]''===
Little is known of Abigail's origins and even less of how he ended up being involved with the [[Mad Gear Gang]]. Abigail first appears in ''Final Fight'' as a lieutenant in [[Belger]]'s fray, in charge of the city's [[Bay Area]]. When [[Mike Haggar|Haggar]]'s daughter [[Jessica]] was kidnapped by the gang, [[Cody]] and [[Guy]] took a shortcut through the Bay Area on their way to Belger's penthouse. It was there they encountered Abigail, who told them:

''"Hey, cool down. She must be having a good time with Belger!"''<ref name="FF1 Cody cutscenes" />

At this, Cody rushed to save Jessica from Belger's hands, leaving Guy behind to deal with Abigail. After a difficult fight Guy managed to beat Abigail.

===''[[Street Fighter V]]''===
'''Prologue - 'Fierce Beast''''
[[File:AbigailStory4.png|thumb|286x286px|[[Vega]] and Abigail fight because Abigail keeps making weird noises.]]
After the events of ''Final Fight'' and the fall of Belger, Abigail supposedly renounced his life of crime and started a mechanic's garage in the [[Metro City Bay Area]] called "Abigail's Scrap Metal," hiring fellow former Mad Gear goons [[J]], [[Axl]] and [[Roxy]] who also assumedly live at the garage with him.  

Thinking that his monster truck was missing, Abigail was wandering around, crying and making various vehicle impressions. He was encountered by [[Ibuki]], [[Zangief]], [[Juri]] and [[Vega]], who were all puzzled and insulted by his behavior. He was making extremely poor vehicle impressions that Ibuki, Vega and Zangief misinterpreted as farting noises, pig sounds and boos, respectively. He also said that he felt like a "flat" tyre, and Juri misinterpreted this remark as him calling her "flat-chested". Only [[Alex]] was able to recognize one of Abigail's sounds (a 6.5 liter V8 Turbo Diesel engine, which is the engine of his truck), but the two of them fought anyway because Abigail wanted to vent his anger out. 

After they fought, J, Axl and Roxy show up and remind him that he originally let them borrow the truck for the day. The trio mock Abigail for forgetting this, causing him to fly into a rage and launch them all into the truck, then walks away casually.

==== Other character story appearances ====
*Abigail appears in Cody's character story, where Cody confronts him for illegally parking his truck and manages to defeat him in a fight.
*In [[Lucia]]'s character story, Abigail was beaten down by her, who believed he was still working with the Mad Gear gang, at the request of Mike Haggar. Abigail furiously tells her that he now works with his own scrap metal business. At the same time, he was mocked by both Roxy and Lucia for his black facepaint which was ruined after the fight.
*In Poison's character story, she visits Metro City Bay Area to search for Hugo's replacement for her wrestling organization. Poison decides to test Abigail's strength to see if he's qualified for as a wrestling partner. After defeating Abigail, Poison gives him a passing grade which allows him to go on a tour with her to become a wrestler, but Roxy claims that Abigail is too busy running his business, thus she leaves Abigail alone.

=== ''[[Street Fighter 6]]'' ===
Abigail makes no appearance in Street Fighter 6, facing it, he is seen in an advertisement in downtown Metro City, and also his workshop is present in world tour mode.

==Cameo appearances==
Abigail makes a background cameo in the [[Metro City]] stage in ''[[Street Fighter Alpha 2]]'' and in the [[Mad Gear Hideout]] stage of ''[[Street Fighter X Tekken]]'' and ''[[Ultra Street Fighter IV]]''.

==Gameplay==
===Fighting style===
Despite not having any fighting style, his attacks are mainly taking advantage of his physique. Abigail uses no finesse or any specific style in his fighting, just brute force. He picks up his opponents and throws them around like rag dolls. Despite updates nerfing his attacks, Abigail still has such high damage potential that he can get characters with low HP, such as [[Cammy]] and [[Akuma]], down to less than half of their health in one V-Trigger or stun combo. He can occasionally turn red with [[Max Power]], which swells his muscles, thus making him stronger and uses running body slams. Abigail has also shown he is deceptively agile despite his massive size and little speed, being able to perform a perfected front flip via his Giant Flip attack, being able to perform a very quick roll from the starting position of his Nitro Charge and can still jump reasonably high (although this is likely due to gameplay mechanics). In ''Final Fight One'', "Alpha Cody" (a non-canon unlockable character who is the [[Cody]] seen in ''[[Street Fighter Alpha 3]]'' somehow reliving the past) notes that he hadn't been terribly impressed by Abigail, asking whether he still stuck to "using only one attack pattern".<ref name="FF1 Alpha Cody cutscenes">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdAuLnFwqk4</ref> In ''Mighty Final Fight'', one of his humorous attacks is to pick up his opponents and kiss them.

===Moveset===
In ''Street Fighter V'', Abigail's playstyle is more of that of a striker like [[Balrog]] in contrast with [[Hugo]]'s wrestling style, possibly in order to deviate the former from the trend of large, hulking characters who are often grapplers. He and Hugo may have moves that charge towards the opponent, but Hugo does so in a way to set up throws as a wrestler whereas Abigail likes to bulldoze and pummel them like a brute. Additionally, Hugo's strikes set up his grabs, whereas Abigail's grabs set up his strikes.  

As he often states in victory quotes against speed-orientated characters, he cares little about speed or even a balance between power and speed; all he's about is hitting hard to cripple his opponents and is able to take hits from fast combos. However, this does not mean that he cannot pull off some devastating combos himself, because while his moveset consists of slow, hard-hitting attacks that are typically seen with other large characters, his moveset has two deadly throws ([[Abigail Smash]] and [[Bay Area Sunrise]]) and clever use of canceling between unique and special moves will really bring the fullest extent of the damage he can deal.

==Subpages==
===Gallery===
''[[Abigail/Gallery]]''

===Quotes===
''[[Abigail/Quotes]]''

===Sprites===
''[[Abigail/Sprites]]''

==Trivia==
*Abigail is similar to fellow beat 'em up opponent [https://doubledragon.fandom.com/wiki/Abobo Abobo] from the ''[https://doubledragon.fandom.com/wiki/Double_Dragon_(series) Double Dragon]'' series; most notably Abobo's appearance in ''[https://doubledragon.fandom.com/wiki/Double_Dragon_(Neo_Geo) Double Dragon (Neo-Geo)]''. His abilities are also similar to Abobo's such as fury attacks and increased muscle mass.

*Abigail is the ''[[Street Fighter series|Street Fighter]]'' series' first playable character from [[Canada]].

*Abigail is also the first playable ''[[Final Fight series|Final Fight]]'' character in ''[[Street Fighter V]]'', and the eighth ''Final Fight'' character to appear playable in the ''Street Fighter'' games.

*Abigail's ''Street Fighter V'' theme is a heavy metal remix of his original battle theme from ''[[Final Fight]]''. The [[Metro City Bay Area]] stage (which is the stage where Abigail was originally fought) also contains another remix of the Bay Area music from the same game which was first played in his reveal trailer.
**Abigail's theme from ''Street Fighter V'' is also the second theme to have lyrics over the entire song.

*Abigail is the tallest and heaviest character in the series.
**Albeit being 8 feet tall and nearly 600 pounds, every other character in ''Street Fighter V'' can somehow still throw him just as easily as they could with someone of normal height and weight, but this is obviously just for gameplay reasons.

*In ''Street Fighter V'', Abigail is the only character that can't be knocked into any of the stage [[knockout zones]], likely because he is too large, which would make several of the knockout animations look strange or even cause them to clip, thus possibly glitching the game.

*His ''Street Fighter'' route arcade ending in ''[[Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition]]'' is based on his encounter with Cody in ''Final Fight''. After Abigail told Cody about Jessica "having a good time" with Belger, Cody beats up the smaller gang members but Abigail managed to surprise him at some point and beating him, as well as taking him prisoner and locking him in a room with a lit pack of dynamite (which references ''Final Fight''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s continue screen).<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6_-ScGS6Nw</ref>

*His English voice actor, Xander Mobus, also voices the announcer in ''[[Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U]]'' and ''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]'' which Ryu and Ken also appear in (with Ken being playable in the latter).

*Abigail's colors 11-15 reference the [[Andore Family]] in this specific order; Andore Jr., Hugo, F. Andore, U. Andore, and G. Andore.
*Earthquake, a character from Samurai Showdown, has characteristics from both [[Birdie]] and Abigail. (Being the biggest character and highest stamina from Abigail and being overweight and having a chain from Birdie)

*Upon release, Abigail's victory animation had him with a large grin, his teeth clenched together. In later seasons the victory animation was slightly changed so that his teeth are now parted.

*When Abigail is selected, he seemingly gets irritated, faces the camera, and says his name. It seems that Abigail corrects the in-game announcer on how to pronounce his name, this makes him the only character who breaks the fourth wall on the character select screen.
**Furthermore, Abigail seemingly breaks the fourth wall again when players select his character story, most of the other characters say something relevant to the event such as [[Ryu]]'s "The answer, there shouldn't be only one." Abigail doesn't state anything related to his character story or the events within, simply stating "This is my story", seemingly talking to the player.

*During the development of ''[[Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike]]'', [[Twelve]] was originally going to morph into Abigail when using [[X.C.O.P.Y.]] against [[Hugo]].<ref>http://shmuplations.com/sfiii/</ref>

*Abigail's battle against Ibuki in his character story has to date the largest height gap of any canon fight in ''Street Fighter'', with a height difference of 2 feet 8 inches. He even lampshades this oddity by referring the girl-ninja to a "compact car with a little tank."

== Stage Theme ==
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File:STREET FIGHTER V Abigail Theme (long version)
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