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"I'm number one!"
—Hugo (Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike)

"I'll fight you, little one"
—Hugo (Street Fighter × Tekken)

"You are so small! Aren't you scared? (オマエ小さいな。怖くねぇのか? Omae chiisai na. Kowakunee no ka??)"
—Hugo (Ultra Street Fighter IV)

Hugo (ヒューゴー Hyūgō?), referred to as Andore[4] in the Final Fight series, is a video game character who debuted as a common enemy in the beat-em-up game Final Fight, before appearing as a playable fighter in the Street Fighter series starting with Street Fighter III: 2nd Impact. He is a professional wrestler managed by long-time friend Poison, both of whom were former members of the Mad Gear Gang.

Biography[]

Appearance[]

Hugo is a muscular hulk that stands at just under 8 feet. Prior to Abigail's playable debut in Street Fighter V, Hugo held the mantle of being the tallest Street Fighter character in the series. He is also one of the heaviest. Hugo usually wears a pink leopard skin tank-top with darker pink jeans, brown boots, and black studded wristbands. He wears a thick chain from the back of his waist, to 3/4 of the way around his waist, ending at his hip. He has long, messy black hair, that bounces and moves around as he moves and attacks.

In the Street Fighter III series, his eyes are normally obscured by shadow during battle, giving him more of a sad look. During certain animations, they become visible, revealing that he has no pupils; later portrayals would make his pupils more visible. Also during certain animations as he stands still or crouches, he does a very visible twitch/spasm. The cause is unknown.

In his Shadaloo C.R.I. profile art, Hugo wears a pink leopard wrestling jumpsuit with a strap over one shoulder, a large, black belt and brown boots. He also wears a chain as a necklace and studded bracelets.

Personality[]

Ever since his defeat and humiliation at the hands of Mike Haggar during the events of Final Fight, Hugo has been determined to assert himself as the number one wrestler in the world. Teaming up with Poison after the fall of Mad Gear in order to prove himself in the art of international fighting, he enters the world warrior tournament.

Hugo is often depicted (especially in recent portrayals) as somewhat typical "dumb muscle", being quite unintelligent and dimwitted; this is somewhat accentuated by his odd facial expressions, and he even occasionally acknowledges this. However, he is very short-tempered and will make any excuse to get into a fight, especially if he or his best friend Poison is insulted in any form. Hugo also takes a lot of pride in his size, strength and extremely muscular build, to the point that he often claims to barely feel most attacks as a taunt of sorts.

In Ultra Street Fighter IV, Hugo is revealed to have a fixation on potatoes, as he can be seen talking about them frequently in his win quotes against other characters. To Hugo, potatoes are a symbol of strength and manhood, as his mother had inspired him to "grow like a potato" in childhood.

Concept[]

Hugo's design is a homage to famed real-life wrestler André the Giant (who coincidentally has the same birthday as him), as is those of the entire Andore family of enemies (likely intended to be named Andre). His updated design for Street Fighter V also features a costume similar to Andre's well-known wrestling singlet. In addition, Hugo's unique intro animation with Alex is based on the famous match between Hulk Hogan and André, which took place at WrestleMania III.

Minor inspirations also appear to be taken from professional veteran weightlifter and actor Lou Ferrigno, who portrayed the Incredible Hulk in the 1970s television series of the same name and was the central character of the 1989 martial arts action film Cage.

Character Relationships[]

Poison[]

Poison is Hugo's wrestling manager and former Mad Gear cohort. The two are on good terms with each other, and Poison is often the one who describes Hugo's best qualities to opponents. This relationship has survived fallouts and souring, as seen in Poison's character story in Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition.

Mike Haggar[]

Hugo holds a personal grudge against Haggar after the latter had defeated him during the events of Final Fight and because of this, Hugo had vowed to one day defeat Haggar and avenge his past loss.

Story[]

Background[]

Hugo is a giant man raised on a farm in Germany, where he was fed mainly on potatoes. His mother encouraged him to grow big like a potato, which can thrive in meagre soil. He crossed over to North America when he was 20 years old, and was able to use his sheer size and strength to start a career in professional wrestling. Hugo was undefeated in both the wrestling world as well as the ultimate fighting world.

Family[]

The Andore family (pronounced Ond-Ray as in André) is a clan of pro wrestlers, and are also the strongest underlings in the Final Fight series.

Though Hugo is intended to be the first-born "main" Andore from the Final Fight series, Capcom's official info gives differing stats for Hugo and Final Fight Andore (though the same book lists different profiles for characters like Akuma and Shin Akuma).

An Andore appeared in the pit fights for Final Fight Streetwise; he was simply called "Andore", and according to several in-game characters, he is "legendary", hinting at the possibility of him being Hugo. Also, in Street Fighter X Tekken, if a Hugo vs. Hugo match occurs, the Hugo that wins will comment: "...Andore Jr.?".

Hugo's father, grandfather, and uncle all were last seen in Metro City with him, though only his grandfather has been seen since the fall of the first Mad Gear gang. All three dress in a fashion similar to Hugo with color variation: Grandpa Andore (G. Andore) wears a blue outfit in the original Final Fight and a gray outfit in Final Fight 2, also being slightly more tanned than his grandsons, Uncle Andore (U. Andore) wears dark-gray, and Father (Papa) Andore (F. Andore) wears yellow. Hugo's father is shown in a montage of the Final Fight cast to be significantly taller than his sons and to wear glasses.

In addition, Hugo has two sisters, whose whereabouts are never disclosed. Hugo's mother still lives in Germany. She was briefly seen in Hugo's prologue opening in Ultra Street Fighter IV.

Final Fight series[]

Hugo (known as Andore at the time) and several members of his family were prominent members of the Mad Gear Gang, although Cody outfought the elder members in a cage match in the West Side and Mike Haggar humiliated him in the original Final Fight, which infuriated the wrestler to no end; it made him so mad that in Final Fight Revenge, Andore attempted to give a televised broadcast to Haggar challenging him for the mayor-ship through a wrestling match, but unfortunately the broadcast was never aired. Andore and his family would continue to join Metro City's most prominent gangs for years to come, including a revived, worldwide Mad Gear in Final Fight 2 and Mad Gear's successor the Skull Cross Gang in Final Fight 3. Even so, Haggar and his friends crushed each of these syndicates and Andore's hopes of glory.

Street Fighter series[]

In the Street Fighter Alpha series, Hugo can be seen in Street Fighter Alpha 2, where he makes a cameo in Guy's stage. In Street Fighter Alpha 3, a billboard advertising a wrestling match between Hugo and an unknown opponent can be seen in Cody's stage, and he can also be seen standing in front of a billboard promoting Mega Man in Guy's stage, alongside fellow Mad Gear members Poison and El Gado.

Ultra Street Fighter IV[]

After the breakup of the Mad Gear and deciding that the criminal lifestyle was not for him, Hugo eked out an existence as a construction worker. When a mob of former Mad Gear members came to him looking for a fight, he was uninterested. Instead, they found him feeling homesick, crying for his mother's potatoes. When one of the thugs says that he's like a potato himself and strikes him, Hugo becomes enraged and thrashes them all, deciding to go to S.I.N.'s new tournament to show his strength.

After defeating one of Bison's artificial beings in a wrestling ring, his former colleague Poison approaches him, offering to be his manager. Hugo declines, saying that he won't take orders anymore. Poison says that she won't be his boss, but that he could use her help because he has the brains of a potato. At this, Hugo becomes pensive. Poison interprets this as disinterest and announces that she'll leave him alone, as if she stays any longer she'll become a potato too. Hugo, excited, tells her that he will take her up on her offer and that she can be a potato too.

Street Fighter V series[]

At some point, Poison and Hugo had a massive fall out between them which resulted in Hugo leaving their partnership. In the end, Hugo would later return to see Poison again, apparently filled with regret, and she gives him another chance to be her partner.

Street Fighter III series[]

Hugo made his debut as a playable character in Street Fighter III: 2nd Impact. He was originally intended to be playable in New Generation, and a prototype version of Hugo can be found in the game's data via the use of special codes or hacking, with only his basic moves finished and his sprite unshaded. Performing certain attacks on him may cause him to become invisible or freeze the game.[5] [6]

Hugo travelled to the U.S when he was 20 to start a career in pro wrestling, using his absurd strength and massive frame to his advantage. He was excited to enter the tag team tournament until his tag partner ditched him for a rival. Hugo sets out to find a new partner within three months. Hugo entered the World Warrior tournament, accompanied by his friend and fellow former Mad Gear member, Poison.[7][8]

In the following sequel 3rd Strike, Hugo and Poison had decided to start their own wrestling promotion, the Huge/Hyu Wrestling Army (HWA), with the main objective being in that they want to take over all of pro wrestling and establish their promotion as the most superior and dominant form within the wrestling world itself.[9]

Crossover appearances[]

SNK vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos[]

Hugo appeared as a playable character in SNK vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos.

Street Fighter X Tekken[]

Hugo appears as a playable character in Street Fighter X Tekken, with his manager Poison as his tag partner. In the story mode, Poison has been following the news and media of Pandora's Box, which has fallen in the Antarctic. At the same time, she's been managing Hugo as he aims to be the top professional wrestler in the world. She then realizes that travelling to find the box would be the perfect way for both of them to make their mark.

Using whatever purse money Poison has left, Poison and Hugo journey to the Antarctic. During their journey, Poison and Hugo confront Steve Fox and Hwoarang. After Poison flirts with them and Hugo declares to them that they're (Poison and Hugo) "Number One", Steve and Hwoarang challenge them.

In their ending, after they defeat Ogre, Poison becomes more than disappointed that they found Pandora's Box and that there's no one there to see them with it. Hugo then suggests that there may have cameramen in the Antarctic and that they must have already evacuated. Poison, however, is still upset, and then tells Hugo about still wanting to be world-famous, to which he happily agrees. Hugo then asks her what to do about the box, but Poison just calls it a piece of junk and leaves it. After they both leave, the box begins to glow and then disappears in an aura of blue.

Despite obtaining Pandora and having nobody to see their accomplishment, Poison returns to her original plan of having her and Hugo gain fame through sheer brute strength. Since they're both best skilled at professional wrestling, they both form their own wrestling association called the H.W.A. (as with their Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike ending). Hugo and Poison push their way into other wrestling competitions and force whoever they defeat to join their association. Whether or not they succeed in becoming the strongest wrestling association in the world all depends on Poison.

Cameos[]

Animations[]


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Street Fighter cartoon[]

Hugo, or one of his family members (which is the more likely case, as the cartoon predates the creation of Hugo as an individual character), appeared in the animated 1995 Street Fighter TV series.

Comics[]

Ryu Final[]

Poison overhears Oro's predicament on his and Ryu's limited income and suggests a way to earn some extra cash by participating in a three-minute match against Hugo.

During the fight, Hugo is adamant about fighting because of his desire to make his mother proud, but after some goading from Poison, Hugo violently emerges from Poison's trailer truck and the two begin their fight. Ryu is stymied by Hugo's monstrous size but fights on despite having his energy drained due to Oro's boulder training. The fight is evenly matched, Hugo wanting to end the match with his Moonsault Press attack, but is forbidden by Poison from using it. Hugo becomes frustrated by Ryu's persistence and eventually convinces Poison to let him use the Moonsault Press to end the match. As Hugo prepares to complete the attack, Ryu counters with a Shoryuken. The simultaneous attacks end the exciting three-minute match with a double K.O. With both fighters content with the end result, they collect their earnings and go about their separate ways.

Later in Thailand, Hugo is shown attacking Sagat, with Poison shocked at Sagat's resistance as Hugo's knuckles begin to bleed. They exchange insults (Sagat with stating Hugo's inadequacies and Hugo declaring his superiority over Sagat by the result of his fight with Ryu). Sagat mocks Hugo's lack of advancement after facing Ryu and ends the fight with his killing strike, the Tiger Knee.

UDON comics[]


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In the comics, he took part in the 2nd World Warrior tournament, where he fought against Ken and was defeated.

He was supposed to fight R. Mika in a match but withdrew and was substituted by Poison, who lost.

Gameplay[]

Fighting style[]

Hugo fights using Pro wrestling. He is the epitome of a prodigy heavyweight wrestler, enormous in size and with sheer brute strength to match.

Moveset[]

Though many of his basic attacks and specials come out somewhat sluggish and rigid, they can utterly decimate opponents when used correctly as many of them have immensely far range, do large damage and even have armor; his EX Monster Lariat, in particular, can absorb an infinite number of hits during the running as long as they do not possess armor break properties, a notable example of this is Hugo's ability to use this move to run through, and punish Ryu's Metsu Hadoken. These moves can end matches effortlessly and quickly. Especially if Hugo has the opponent in a corner. However, his sheer size can also be his downfall as Hugo is incredibly slow and has very short jumping range. This can leave many opponents to take advantage of Hugo's lack of speed and agility by keeping him at bay with frequent projectiles.

Subpages[]

Quotes[]

Hugo/Quotes

Gallery[]

Hugo/Gallery

Sprites[]

Hugo/Sprites

Music[]

Title Game Artist Track
Final Fight
Andore's Theme Final Fight Revenge Jim Wallace
Street Fighter
Bottoms Up Street Fighter III: 2nd Impact Hideki Okugawa
The Circuit Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike Hideki Okugawa
The Circuit Street Fighter III: Third Strike Online Edition Hideki Okugawa
Theme of Hugo -USFIV Arrange- Ultra Street Fighter IV Hideyuki Fukasawa

Trivia[]

  • Hugo is the only common enemy to appear in every Final Fight game.
  • Hugo and Q are both voiced by Len Carlson in Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike.
  • His nervousness around steel pipes swung as a weapon likely stems from how they were used in Final Fight as a good ranged weapon, especially against the bigger enemies; ironically, the original arcade poster for the game depicts him failing to attack Cody with a steel pipe and lying on the floor bleeding and in pain, having been dealt a hard punch to the face.
  • Interestingly, in New Generation the beta version of Hugo has two prototype Super Arts.[10][11] They were called "Titan Riot" and "Hyper Knuckle". It is currently unknown what these Super Arts would do as Hugo could not perform them (them even having beta input displayers that did not align with how the rest of the cast had them displayed) and do not match up with the rest of Hugo's currently known moveset.
  • While Hugo is a big character who isn't considered agile, he actually does some front flips similar to smaller more agile characters during his second Ultra Combo that can be seen if the attack is slowed down significantly.
  • Recently, Hugo also seems to bear similarities to MMA Fighter and Professional Wrestler Giant Silva.

Videos[]

See also[]

References[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 Ultra Street Fighter IV Profile Archived from The original
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Street Fighter: World Warrior Encyclopedia Hardcover
  3. 3.0 3.1 Capcom 30th Anniversary Character Encyclopedia
  4. http://www.eventhubs.com/news/2010/feb/12/partial-translation-latest-ssf4-blog-new-images/
  5. Video showing details of leftover Hugo data in Street Fighter III: New Generation
  6. Round 4: Tomoshi Sadamoto Part 3 Archived from The original
  7. All About Capcom Fighting Games 1987-2000
  8. "The German giant born on a farm. He traveled to the U.S when he was 20 to start a career in pro wrestling, using his absurd strength and massive frame to his advantage. Although he is alive and healthy, he has not returned home since leaving his mother and two sisters. He was excited to enter the Tag Team tournament when subsequently his tag team partner ditched him for a rival, learning that the world of professional wrestling is about suffering defeat when you least expect it. For the three month leading up til the tournament he must search for a new partner, traveling to various places with his manger Poison to enthuse the crowd. He might not be too bright but he’s a lovable character, who is known to be sensitive and cry on occasions." (ドイツ の 農家出身 の 大男。実家 に は 父母 と ふたり の 妹 が 健在 だが 家出 し て 以来一度 も 帰省 し て い ない。20 歳 の とき に 渡米 し 、 その 巨躯 と 怪力 を 活かし て プロレスラー に。 プロレス の 世界 は おろか アルティメット 戦 で も 負け知らず で、 つづい て タッグ トーナメント に 挑も う と し て い た ところ、 ライバル の 陰謀 により パートナー を 失っ て しまっ た。大会 まで の 3 カ 月 の あいだ に 自分 の パートナー として ふさわしい 選手 を 見つける べ く 、 マネージャー の ポイズン とともに 各地 を ま わっ て いる。 頭 の 回転 は にぶい が 憎め ない 性格 で 、 涙 もろい 面 も。)
  9. Hugo and Poison found the new pro-wrestling group Huge Wrestling Army (ヒューゴーとポイズン、新プロレス団体「H.W.A(ヒュージ・レスリング・アーミー)」を立ち上げ Hyūgō to poizun, shin puroresu dantai `H. W. A (hyūji resuringu āmī)' o tachi age) from Street Fighter Memorial Archives Beyond the World
  10. https://tcrf.net/Street_Fighter_III:_New_Generation
  11. https://tcrf.net/File:Sfiii0001.png
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