Blade

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Blade

Blade is a character from Capcom's fighting game Street Fighter: The Movie. He and his "clones" were the only characters besides Sawada included in the roster that were not in any way shape or form based on an existing Street Fighter II character.

Blade was a trooper working under the dictator M. Bison (rightly named a Bison Trooper). He was one of four Bison Troopers to be experimented and turned into cyborgs. Their mission is to eliminate Guile and his forces. In actuality, Blade is actually Gunloc, Guile's brother and was on an undercover mission for Guile to find out more about Shadaloo. In battle, Blade uses attacks that involves knives and a tazer. Though Bison Troopers were in the actual Street Fighter movie, Blade and the other cyborgs themselves were not seen or mentioned.

His appearance, and backstory, should be noted to not be part of Street Fighter canon (more important to note is that Gunloc in the official Japanese canon "is not" related to Guile in any way, shape, or form.)

Blade and his alternate versions have many times been compared to several characters in the Mortal Kombat game series. Because of Blade's knife-based special moves, he was blasted as being a cheap knock off of Kano (even though they have completely different movesets.) The cyborgs as a whole were similar in appearance but had color coded uniforms (basically, palette swaps of each other with little difference in moves), causing many to see them as poor impersonations of the ninja characters (Scorpion, Sub-Zero, Reptile etc.) from Mortal Kombat. When Capcom redid Street Fighter: The Movie for the home consoles, the cyborgs were omitted.