- "Too bad!"
- —Cody
The Bad Spray (バッドスプレー Baddo Supuree?) is one of Cody's special attacks, introduced in Street Fighter Alpha 3.
| Street Fighter Alpha 3 |  + upon getting up
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| Super Street Fighter IV Street Fighter X Tekken Street Fighter V |
 + upon getting up
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Description
Cody tosses sand at the opponent, which knocks them back and causes them to roll away quite a distance if struck.
This is a reversal-only move, and must be performed while getting up from being knocked down. In Alpha 3, it is done by performing a quarter-circle back-to-downward motion and pressing any punch button, similar to Alpha Counters in that series. In later games, this was changed to simply holding up while pressing punch.
Tactics
Landing it puts a fair amount of distance between him and the opponent, making it somewhat useful when pressured.
Street Fighter X Tekken's version is mostly identical to the IV games but despite not being a low the attack is bypassed by the universal Launcher the entire cast has access to, meaning that an opponent who correctly guessed Cody would use this could Punish him for high damage.
In Street Fighter V, Bad Spray is +5 on hit and has the priority of a Heavy normal, allowing it to beat frame traps using Medium and Light attacks. This serves as an unorthodox reversal that Cody can combo off of, though its long startup animation can be risky against a careful opponent. Worth noting is that while the actual animation is long, the time in which Cody is vulnerable from his downed position to the active frames of Bad Spray is only three frames, making it roughly equivalent to waking up with a three-frame Heavy normal.
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Trivia
- The original version of Ryuji Yamazaki's Suna Kake in Fatal Fury 3 up to The King of Fighters '97 looks similar to Cody's Bad Spray, where Yamazaki throws a pile of dirt into his opponent's face.