Phantom Bison

Phantom Bison
Shadaloo C.R.I. profile artwork
Characteristics
Species	Spirit
Height	5'11¾" (182 cm) (approximately)
Weight	Unknown
Blood type	Unknown
Personal
First Game	Street Fighter V
Birthdate	Unknown
Birthplace	Unknown
Fighting style	Psycho Power
Likes	World domination
Dislikes	Weak people, incompetent underlings
Rival(s)	Ed, Falke
Other forms	M. Bison (original human form)
Status	Sealed inside M. Bison's body in Street Fighter 6
Behind-The-Scene
Japanese voice actor(s)	Norio Wakamoto
English voice actor(s)	Gerald C. Rivers

Phantom Bison, or Phantom Vega (ファントム ベガ, Fantomu Bega^?), is a form M. Bison takes after his body is destroyed, his consciousness living on in an incorporeal form through Psycho Power. Despite the lack of a physical body, his will and power remain intact.

Biography

Appearance

Phantom Bison looks nearly identical to M. Bison's appearance in his physical body, save for the fact that he is now a transparent shade of purple. In Street Fighter 6, he temporarily forms nothing but a giant head before he was absorbed by the original, yet amnesiac M. Bison.

Personality

Even though he is in a non-corporeal state, his megalomaniacal personality remains the same, still having his like of world domination and dislikes of weak people and incompetent underlings.

Story

Street Fighter V

A Shadow Falls

Phantom Bison appears in the beginning of A Shadow Falls in the form of an illusion fought by Nash upon reawakening. He uses a near-identical moveset to his playable counterpart.

His Street Fighter V profile states that at the end of the Story Mode, after Bison's body was destroyed by Ryu, his consciousness remained, turning to an incorporeal form.

Character Story

Phantom Bison appears in Ed's character story. After the events of A Shadow Falls, Phantom Bison appears and haunts Ed, trying to take over his body. Ed fights the spirit, and is victorious. It is unknown what happened to Phantom Bison afterwards.

Phantom Bison also appeared as an opponent in Falke's character story.

Street Fighter 6

World Tour

Attempting to resurrect their fallen master, remnants of Shadaloo conduct experiments in the Ruined Lab collecting Psycho Power with the machinery that remains in the lab. Enlisting the help of the Avatar, they succeed in bringing forth a manifestation of Phantom Bison in the form of a large hologram composed of Psycho Power and various fragments of his memory (represented by clips and screenshots of previous games in the Street Fighter series). But at that same time, the Mysterious Man resembling Bison enters the lab and challenges the Phantom. In a battle of power and wills, the Phantom is absorbed by the amnesiac Bison, regaining his fractured lost memories as a result.

Gallery

Trivia

• Despite M. Bison's birthday being stated as April 17 by various sources, Phantom Bison's profile lists his birthday as unknown.
• Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition contains a challenge named Shadaloo Apparition with a powerful M. Bison as the opponent. Completing it grants the title Ghost of Shadaloo (シャドルーの亡霊, Shadorū no Bōrei^?, the challenge and title have the same Japanese name). Despite the name, the opponent isn't Phantom Bison (transparent with one color), but Shin-Bison (a "normal" M. Bison with a white palette and far more powerful skills).
• Though he has yet to be shown to possess the ability to speak in the storyline, it's presumable that Norio Wakamoto and Gerald C. Rivers would still be his voice actors like his playable counterpart.
• According to Chun-Li's Street Fighter Alpha 3 ending, Bison's spirit is immortal so long as hatred and fear exist in the world.
• With Bison himself resurfacing in Street Fighter 6 as an amnesiac with totally no memories or ambitions of his past self, the real and present Bison is this form. Phantom Bison is absorbed and now lives in the new body, together with the fragments of his memories and ambition.