- "Do the crime, you do the time. (悪い子は逮捕すんで?)"
- —Lucia (Street Fighter V series)
Lucia Morgan (ルシア・モーガン Rushia Mōgan?) is a character from the Final Fight series of beat 'em up games. She first appeared in Final Fight 3 and as one of the four playable main characters. She later made her Street Fighter debut as a playable character in Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition.
Biography
Appearance
Lucia has very long, slender and muscular legs and short, blonde hair. She wears a fighting police outfit consisting of a blue sports bra with a brown vest and fingerless gloves, denim shorts, and tennis shoes. Her eyes are brown in the cutscenes and official artworks, but her sprite is blue-eyed. This outfit is her "Nostalgia" costume in Street Fighter V.
In her Shadaloo C.R.I. profile artwork, she wears a similar outfit, except that her bra is now white and her gloves are blue.
In Street Fighter V, Lucia's hair has grown into shoulder-length with fringes in each sides and is tied into a small ponytail. She wears her dark blue cap adorned with her sunglasses. Lucia's outfit in the game consists of a blue long sleeved mini jacket with police emblems in each sleeves, folded into her cuffs. The collar of her jacket is dark blue. Underneath, she wears a bluish-gray sleeveless collared shirt with a tie in the center. Her sports bra is black, her denim shorts is darker and she wears a bluish gray and yellow stripped stockings, dark blue combat boots and pink soles. She also wears a single dark blue bracelet on her left that resemble gauntlets which is connected to her dark blue fingerless gloves and the other being her matching elbow band on her right elbow. She also carries a tonfa baton which was holstered on the left side.
Her second alternate costume, her battle costume, consists of a black combat vest with several pockets with a dark blue tank top underneath, matching shorts with a black belt around the waist and black combat boots. She also has a black gun holster on her right thigh to match up her kneepads and wears gray fingerless gloves with black linings. Lucia wears sunglasses and wears a black cap with the sign "MPS" at the center of her cap.
Personality
Lucia is an enthusiastic, determined, and upright police officer with a smile. She is supportive of those in her company, especially with Cody and Haggar. Behind this smile however is her inability to do housework, most notoriously cooking, exaggerated to the point that she possesses the bad cook trope found in some prominent female characters, be it game, anime or anything in between, where her cooking is so bad it is humorously poisonous.
Concept
Lucia was possibly inspired by real life martial artist and martial arts movie star, Cynthia Rothrock, who was active around the time of Lucia's creation. Lucia's appearance (both are blonde and blue-eyed with similar short haircuts), fighting style (comprising mostly of attention grabbing kicks) and character archetype (Lucia is a cop, like many of the characters played by Rothrock) are all similar to her.
Story
Final Fight 3
A young and petite female detective in the SCU (Special Crimes Unit) from within the Metro City Police Department, Lucia interrupts Haggar as he's talking with Guy, informing him that the city is under attack and from there, Lucia, who wishes to repay Haggar back with a personal act of kind gratitude due to the fact that he had previously cleared her of a false corruption charge joins forces with him, Guy, and a mysterious street fighter named Dean in order to fight against and defeat the Skull Cross Gang, who had established themselves as the new dominant criminal organization of Metro City following the downfall and destruction of the Mad Gear Gang.
Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition
Having been originally leaked in July 2019,[3] Lucia, along with E. Honda and Poison, was confirmed as a playable character in Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition, marking her debut in the Street Fighter games and her first playable appearance since Final Fight 3.
In her character story, she was making instant ramen noodles until Mike Haggar visits her who reminiscing about their previous mission to deal against the Mad Gear gang. At the request of Haggar, she then investigates the scrap metal house owned by Abigail, thinking he was still part of a Mad Gear gang and beats him. Upon realizing that Abigail is no longer with the Mad Gear gang as both her and Roxy were mocking him because of his ruined facepaint during the fight. Later which takes place after Cody's character story where he fought Guy's master Zeku and being scolded by Marlowe for damaging the street lights, she had a sparring match with him and Cody loses. Cody also remembers the old times when they teamed up together to deal against the Mad Gear gang and Lucia realizes that Cody is the same mayor who deals against people who do the shady work at night by making hands-on in his business. Upon returning home, Lucia was horribly shocked that she forgot to eat her ramen noodles for lunch and her noodles are revealed to be overcooked.
Gameplay
Fighting style
Lucia's fights using self-taught kenpō and self-defense techniques.[1]
Moveset
Lucia is an agile fighter who utilizes kicks in most of her attacks. She has the ability to emit flames from her feet.
Some of her kicking abilities in Street Fighter V bears a resemblance to Blair Dame's Shooting Kick when she pulls off her combo against her opponents and other being Chun-Li's own special attacks. Her first V-Trigger is Burning Fight where her flaming kicks are amplified and her second V-Trigger is Weapon Fury where she pull off her combo on the opponent using several kicks and a few punches. Her Critical Art is Hard Hit Knee; Lucia delivers a jumping knee strike, followed by a high spinning kick. If any of the initial two hit connects, Lucia kicks her opponent into the air and leaps toward them and delivers a flurry of fiery spin kicks, ending with a Hurricane Spinner into her opponent's midsection, causing a huge explosion.
Subpages
Gallery
- See: Lucia/Gallery
Quotes
- See: Lucia/Quotes
Sprites
- See: Lucia/Sprites
Trivia
- There exists official artwork (seen in her gallery) of Lucia doing aerobics with Chun-Li, Maki and Rena, which suggests the four of them may be friends. The fact that both Lucia and Chun-Li are detectives, and the resemblance of the former's moves to Chun-Li's signature move, Hyakuretsukyaku, hints that Lucia may have trained in martial arts with Chun-Li.
- Lucia has been compared to fellow beat 'em up hero Blaze Fielding from Sega's Streets of Rage series. She has even been speculated at one point by a USgamer journalist to be Capcom's answer to Blaze.[4]
- An image of Lucia, Dean and Haggar can be seen in issue one of Udon's Street Fighter Unlimited comic series.[5]
- She's an old friend of Cody's.
- She is not very good at housekeeping and cooking, so she usually eats at a Vietnamese restaurant or prepares instant noodles.
- For years, it was rumored that her surname was Morgan. This was confirmed with her Street Fighter V trailer.
- Lucia is the ninth Final Fight character to appear playable in the Street Fighter games.
- She is also the first Final Fight 3 character to appear playable in a Street Fighter game, and also the second playable female protagonist from Final Fight to appear playable in one, the first being Maki.
- Lucia, C. Viper and Poison are the only playable female characters in the Street Fighter games originating from the United States.
- In Street Fighter V, Lucia speaks with a Nuyorican accent, dubbed as "Metro city" accent by Capcom, and uses several Puerto Rican slang terms, such as "al garete."
- In the Japanese version of the game, Lucia speaks in a Kansai dialect.
Videos
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Street Fighter V Character Encyclopedia: Lucia
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Final Fight 3" bio
- ↑ https://steamcommunity.com/app/310950/discussions/0/1639792569843033220/
- ↑ Parish. "Virtual Spotlight: Final Fight 3"
- ↑ http://hadoken.net/street-fighter-unlimited-1-preview/street-fighter-unlimited-1-preview_page_09/
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Original | Birdie · Cammy · Chun-Li · Dhalsim · F.A.N.G · Karin · Ken · Laura M. Bison · Nash · Necalli · R. Mika · Rashid · Ryu · Vega · Zangief | |||
Season 1 | Alex · Balrog · Guile · Ibuki · Juri · Urien | |||
Season 2 | Abigail · Akuma · Ed · Kolin · Menat · Zeku | |||
Season 3 | Blanka · Cody · Falke · G · Sagat · Sakura | |||
Season 4 | E. Honda · Gill · Kage · Lucia · Poison · Seth | |||
Season 5 | Akira · Dan · Eleven · Luke · Oro · Rose | |||
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