- "Hey, c'mon, c'mon!"
- —Terry (Capcom vs. SNK games intro quote, and SNK vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos and Street Fighter 6 taunt quote)
Terry Bogard (テリー・ボガード Terī Bogādo?) is a guest character from SNK's Fatal Fury, where he is the protagonist, and The King of Fighters. He is also playable in the SNK vs. Capcom series. At Summer Game Fest 2024, it was announced that he would make his debut in the Street Fighter series in the second year/season of DLC for Street Fighter 6 as he was announced alongside Elena, M. Bison and fellow Fatal Fury and KOF castmate and occasional teammate Mai Shiranui.[3]
Biography[]
Appearance[]
Aki Senno's official art of Terry's first alternate costume in Street Fighter 6 from Fatal Fury: Wolves sub-series entries (Garou: Mark of the Wolves and Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves), alongside Joe Higashi and Andy Bogard.
Terry is a tall and muscular man with long blond hair and blue eyes. His most recognizable outfit consists of a red sleeveless jacket with a white star on the back of it, a white undershirt that is torn at the shoulder, blue jeans and red sneakers modeled after Converse's Chuck Taylor All-Stars. His hat is a baseball cap that is red and white with the words Fatal Fury etched in red on the front, and he wears his hair in a ponytail. He also has black fingerless gloves, and a black belt with a silver buckle. His iconic outfit is his Fatal Fury 2 outfit, which he wears in most appearances.
His first alternate costume in Street Fighter 6 is his default costume from the Wolves sub-series, depicted in Garou: Mark of the Wolves and Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves. In it, he does not wear his cap, his hair is down and cut shorter to the length of his shoulders, and his jacket is now a brown leather bomber jacket with a star on a blue circle marked on the back and the words "Running Wild" under it. The jacket also has another star logo enclosed in a blue ring with the word "Airborne", patched on the left sleeve or both, and a white labeled patch on the left side at front with the "Airborne" text on it.
Concept[]
Terry is nicknamed The Legendary Wolf (伝説の 狼 Densetsu no Ookami)[4][5] and South Town Hero (サウスタウンヒーロー Sausu Taun Hīrō)[6]. His origin dates back to the original Street Fighter. In an interview, designer Hiroshi "Finish" Matsumoto mentioned the Caucasian man who wore a leather jacket during the game's opening sequence and punched the hole in the wall. Ryu had already been selected as the main character, but developers wanted to include him in the next game if given the opportunity. The mysterious man ended up being the model for Terry, as both Matsumoto and director Takashi "Piston" Nishiyama joined SNK from Capcom after the release of SFI before returning to work for Dimps and work on Street Fighter IV.[7]
Personality[]
Terry is a spirited and friendly young man known widely across South Town for both his fighting prowess and his easygoing personality, rarely showing any ire towards his opponents barring truly malicious individuals such as Geese Howard. In spite of Geese's cruelty and the death of Jeff Bogard, Terry still reaches out to save him from falling to his death, an act that Geese rejects. While he worries for Rock's path following Kain's guidance, Terry trusts him to make his own decisions, and ultimately respects Rock's choice.
Character Relationships[]
Mai[]
- "I seriously don't know anything about what Andy's up to."
- —Terry
- "I hope he hasn't gotten himself involved in some scheme, you know?"
- —Mai
- (Corresponding Japanese version character-specific win quotes as teammates from Capcom vs. SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium 2001)
Terry's friend through her semi-romantic relationship with his brother Andy Bogard. The two are amicable, and often encounter each other in various tournaments. either as allies or opponents. The most conflict the two appear to show is whenever Andy is involved, with Mai often pestering Terry about his brother's whereabouts or to stop teaming up.
Andy[]
His younger brother and a co-founder of the Fatal Fury Team. Andy sees him as his ultimate rival and eagerly awaits the chance to defeat him in a clean match, though he has never managed to do so. This fuels some of his insecurities. Despite taking different approaches to life and fighting after the death of their adoptive father, Jeff, the bond between the two brothers remains strong and unbreakable.
Joe Higashi[]
His and Andy's best friend and fellow founding teammate of Fatal Fury Team.
Blue Mary[]
Initially starting as friends, Mary and Terry's relationship eventually grew into a romantic one. Unlike Andy and Mai, whose relationship is marked by frequent arguments, Mary and Terry maintain a balanced, professional, and healthy dynamic. Both Mary and Rock Howard (Geese's son, adopted by Terry) often worry about Terry’s health due to his love for junk food.
Their relationship becomes more evident from The King of Fighters '97 onward. During the NESTS Chronicles saga, Terry allows Mary to join his team as a 4th member in KOF 2000 and 2001 after learning she was marked for elimination by NESTS following KOF '99.
Ken[]
- "Let's break our way through to the finals, just like this!"
- —Terry
- "Sounds good to me! Our team is the best this tournament has to offer!"
- —Ken
- (Corresponding Japanese version character-specific win quotes as teammates from Capcom vs. SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium 2001)
Terry's primary fighting game crossover rival and counterpart. The Steam blog about Terry's SF6 release refers to Ken as "a familiar face he hasn't seen in 20 years".[8] For comparison, the last SNK vs. Capcom series game, SNK vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos, is 21 years before Terry's arrival in SF6.
In SF6, Terry becomes worried of Ken's current situation after he was framed by JP for the criminal incident he never commited at Nayshall. Despite this, Terry still believes that hopefully, Ken will get his life back on track.
Story[]
Fatal Fury Series[]
Fatal Fury: King of Fighters[]
Terry and his brother Andy were adopted by Jeff Bogard and raised in the lawless streets of South Town. At the age of ten, Terry witnessed his father's death at the hands of Jeff's former rival Geese Howard, who had been passed over as the successor of the Hakkyokuseiken martial art and spent the following years amassing power in South Town as the CEO of Howard Connection. The two brothers trained for a decade, with Andy moving to Japan to learn Shiranui-ryuu Ninjitsu while Terry remained in his hometown, combining Hakkyokuseiken with his own combination of street brawling. Terry and Andy then entered Geese's King of Fighters tournament alongside their friend Joe Higashi, fighting through opponents before eventually throwing Geese off of the side of his own building to his presumed death.
Fatal Fury 2[]
Some time later, Wolfgang Krauser von Stroheim challenged Terry in order to witness the man capable of defeating Geese. Terry entered a second King of Fighters tournament and faced off against Krauser, leaving victorious.
Fatal Fury 3: Road to the Final Victory[]
Unbeknownst to all, Geese, however, survived his fall, and plotted to steal the legendary Jin scrolls, said to grant immortality. Terry defeated Geese, the assassin Ryuji Yamazaki and the Jin brothers possessed by the malevolent spirits of their ancestors, but could not stop Geese from obtaining the scrolls. He later encountered a boy named Rock and took him under his wing.
Real Bout Fatal Fury[]
A year later, Geese held another King of Fighters tournament, and much like before, Terry fought his way to the top of Geese Tower in a final confrontation. After knocking Geese off the side once again, Terry reached out to his adversary to save him, but was instead rejected as Geese plummeted to the ground, laughing all the while. Terry, learning that Rock was Geese's son and seeing the end result of his path of revenge, decided to raise him properly as a way to end their feud peacefully.
Garou: Mark of the Wolves[]
Ten years after Geese's death, Terry and Rock received an invitation for a new King of Fighters tournament, with a message telling Rock to join in order to learn about his deceased mother Marie. Though the two fought their way through Second Southtown and defeated host Kain R. Heinlein, Rock discovers that Kain is in fact his uncle, and that his mother is supposedly still alive. Terry, trusting Rock to follow his own path, let him go discover the truth about his past, and the two went their separate ways.
The Fatal Fury story is set to continue in Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves. Set to release in 2025, it is the first Fatal Fury title since Garou in 1999.
The King of Fighters Series[]
Terry is a mainstay of the King of Fighters series as one of the co-founders Team Fatal Fury, often teaming with Andy and Joe Higashi. They competed for Italy in the original King of Fighters title, The King of Fighters '94. Terry has led the team in every King of Fighters title, and Andy and Joe have each been teammates of his in every title except one.
Terry has the distinction of being one of only six characters to appear in every King of Fighters title. The other five are Clark Still and Ralf Jones (both from Ikari Warriors), Ryo Sakazaki (Art of Fighting), Athena Asamiya (Psycho Soldier) and KOF original Kyo Kusanagi. All six are notable for being protagonists of their home series.
Terry's other teammates over the years on this team besides Mai include:
- Mary "Blue Mary" Ryan (Fatal Fury 3)
- Tizoc (The Griffon Mask) (Garou: Mark of the Wolves)
- Kim Kaphwan (Fatal Fury 2)
- Duck King (Fatal Fury: King of Fighters)
Because Geese is alive in this timeline, he is vigilant against whatever the crimelord plans. On the other hand, Geese is far less antagonistic to the Bogards and is more interested in other matters, even though he keeps tabs with them from time to time.
Street Fighter 6[]
A passionate fighter that hones his craft as he travels all over the world. Also known as the "Hungry Wolf". He came to Metro City after hearing about the opening of the sixth Pao Pao Cafe.
Arcade Mode[]
Terry: The Journey[]
While he is waiting for a train crossing on his motorbike, Terry introduces himself as the man who likes to travel. Terry then explains that he wanted to "traveling to new places, experiencing new things, meeting new faces and having good fights", with the added "bonus" of finding a good place to eat. This is because Terry believes that "life isn't something to throw away".
Terry later arrived to Metro City after he learns that a new branch of Pao Pao Cafe is about to be open. As he walked along the alley of Metro City Downtown, he encountered his old friend and rival Ken who he hasn't seen for 20 years. Ken notices Terry and greets him back, albeit with a rather tired voice. This, along with Ken's outfit, led Terry to assume that Ken has somehow went bankrupt, to which Ken simply responded with a sigh. Terry then assures to Ken that he's happy to see him again, and asking for a fight to "celebrate" their reunion.
After the fight, Terry notices that Ken doesn't seem to be in his typical fiery mood, as he describe how Ken's usual "red hot" attacks are now "a little bit soggy". Ken then apologizes to Terry for "disappointing" him, admitting that he has "a lot on (his) mind" that he can't focus on the fight. Terry comforts Ken and reassuring Ken that his "flame" (i.e. fighting spirit) hasn't died out yet, and that he believes that Ken will "rise from the ashes" of whatever that has troubled him. While admitting that he doesn't want to interfere with whatever Ken is going through, Terry encourages Ken to fight on, as he's always ready to give him "the fight of a lifetime". Energized from his rival's words, Ken stands up and compliments Terry for being a "good guy" and keeps on living his life the best that he could. Terry is glad that Ken seems to be able to bring back his old self, as Ken handed his baseball cap back. The two hot-blooded fighters then promise each other to bring "extra hot stuff" the next time they meet and then they bid farewell.
In the ending scene, Terry is enjoying his meal at the Metro City Pao Pao Cafe. Terry describes how his simple life goal of "fight, eat, drink, sleep" is a "good life", and that he is looking forward to his new journey.
World Tour[]
South Town Hero. The Legendary Hungry Wolf. Fatal Fury. (サウスタウンのヒーロー。伝説の飢えた狼。餓狼伝説。 Sausu taun no hīrō. Densetsu no ueta ōkami. Garō densetsu.?)
- "You'll get to know true strength soon enough. Your adventure is just getting started, rookie!"
- —本当の強さはすぐにわかるでしょう。あなたの冒険はまだ始まったばかりです、新人さん！
Terry arrives at an annual fighting festival ahead of a celebration for a grand opening of the sixth Pao Pao Cafe branch at Metro City. His arrival pays a homage to an opening of his first appearance, Fatal Fury: King of Fighters. He guest appears in the fighting festival on briefly fight the player character without any harms on each other. Terry then heads out to a recently opened new Pao Pao Cafe 6, where the final annual fighting festival matches will start, and Terry is appointed as the cafe's honored guest fighter. There, he fights Alwaiss Louz, a fighter resembling Lao – who originally appears in Fatal Fury: First Contact and canonically as a frequent NPC character. As he is tired from fighting, just as the player fighter is tired of fighting people who are dressed like Blue Mary, Joe and Andy, and a triple threat against both Rudra and Thrasher Damnd, Terry immediately takes the player fighter as his student.
While speaking with the player fighter, Terry mentions his father Jeff, Geese, Tung Fu Rue, Andy, Blue Mary, Joe, Duck King, Ukee and Rock, who all appear in artwork as he's describing them to the player. Terry also brings up the giant fish he caught in Real Bout Fatal Fury 2: The Newcomers. He is then reunited with Blue Mary and Joe, with the latter two took the people who dressed like them as their respective apprentice. Terry briefly visits Ryu at Genbu Temple for a brief sparring, thanks to being brought in by the player character.
Gameplay[]
Fighting Style[]
Terry uses a combination of various fighting styles along with his father's own Hakkyokuseiken ki-manipulation techniques to form his own personal brand of street fighting. According to Terry, Tung Fu Rue barred his students from practicing the art outside of the dojo, prompting Jeff to modify it for Terry to learn.
Moveset[]
As both the main protagonist of the Fatal Fury series and a "successor" to Ryu's original Street Fighter incarnation, Terry has a wide range of attacks for any situation, serving as his home series's own version of a shoto. Power Wave is a ground-based projectile that travels along the ground, Rising Tackle is a rising attack that serves as an anti-air, reversal, and combo ender, Burn Knuckle is a lunging punch that lets Terry close in on his opponent, Power Charge is a shoulder tackle that can extend combos, and Crack Shoot is a flipping kick that travels over projectiles.
Terry's Street Fighter 6 incarnation draws inspiration from some of Terry's lesser known appearances, granting him even more unorthodox techniques to surprise his opponents. Round Wave is a stationary Power Wave that is advantageous on block and Quick Burn is a pair of burning punches with the second hitting overhead. Terry also has even more of his former special moves in the form of Target Combos, such as Passing Sway seeing him travel into the stage's background for a surprise attack much like his home series, Fire Kick going from a low kick to a launcher, and Power Drive, Power Shoot, and Power Dunk being options from his Medium Punch.
Terry's Level 1 Super Art is Buster Wolf, a lunging straight followed by a blast of energy. His Level 2 Super Art is Power Geyser, a stronger Power Wave that creates a massive eruption from the ground in front of him. He can further spend three Drive Gauges and an additional Super Gauge to perform Twin Geyser and Triple Geyser respectively. Finally, Terry's Level 3 Super Art is Rising Fang, a Rising Tackle followed by either a second burning Rising Tackle and ending with an inverted Buster Wolf for the standard version or a Power Geyser-propelled flying Buster Wolf for the Critical Art version.
Gallery[]
Quotes[]
Trivia[]
- Street Fighter is his third (fourth if counting the cancelled game Xuan Dou Zhi Wang) fighting game/series guest character appearance following Fighting EX Layer, and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
- Terry and Mai are both the first 3rd-party characters to appear in a mainline Street Fighter game.
- Many of Terry's animations pay homage to ones seen in his home series:
- Terry's Perfect KO round animation has him toss either his hat or his jacket, his default victory animation throughout the Fatal Fury franchise, although it is primarily based on his victory pose in Fatal Fury: King of Fighters. The jacket variant has it fall onto his opponent, similar to his student Rock Howard's winpose.
- Terry's Low Health round animation has him pat his hat against his leg, similar to his round win animation in the Real Bout Fatal Fury series.
- Terry's stance in World Tour and the Character Select screen is taken from the character select screen in Fatal Fury: King of Fighters.
- Terry's Continue animation in Arcade Mode where he is staggered on the ground comes from the introduction to Real Bout Fatal Fury Special, while his standing animation comes from his Character Select pose in Real Bout Fatal Fury Special: Dominated Mind.
- Terry's stance when in Burnout is taken from his original Fatal Fury stance. If Terry performs an OD Power Wave that would cause him to enter Burnout, his voice is modulated to be similar to his original voice clip.
- The visuals of Terry's overdrive Power Wave are based on his Power Wave in the original Fatal Fury: King of Fighters.
- Terry's intro pose with his Mark of the Wolves outfit is based on one of his intros in Real Bout Fatal Fury Special.
- Terry's Drive Impact is his Blow Back Attack from the King of Fighters games, which is taken from his Back Spin Kick in Fatal Fury 2.
- In Capcom vs. SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium 2001, Terry has a special introduction against Ken, where Ken tosses Terry his hat and catches it, which is referenced in Terry's SF6 Arcade Mode ending after defeating him.
- Ironically, in early hacked PC versions of Street Fighter II, Terry and Andy were modded into the game. Terry’s eventual official appearance in a Street Fighter game can be seen as a full-circle moment, bringing this crossover dream to life.
- Street Fighter 6 is the second time time where both Terry and Mai are included in a same DLC pack within a same game they are in, as they both previously appeared in Fall Guys.
- Terry appears as a gender-swapped female in SNK's SNK Heroines Tag Team Frenzy alongside other popular SNK female fighting game characters including Mai, Yuri Sakazaki (Art of Fighting), Athena Asamiya (Psycho Soldier) and Nakoruru (Samurai Shodown). He is also the first known gender-swapped fighter in this game, followed by Skullomania (added in exchange for original male Terry's inclusion in Fighting EX Layer), and lastly and properly, Iori Yagami's disguised identity Miss X (original crossdressing form from SNK Gals Fighters serves as an alternate appearance).
- Multiple evidences in Arcade Story and World Tour confirms Terry and Mai's presences in Street Fighter 6 is that they are originating from The King of Fighters series' main timeline, instead of from the pre-Wolves sub-series storyline of Fatal Fury shared universe timeline.
- As Blue Mary's outfit in Street Fighter 6 is that of the one worn from prior to New Age Saga of the main King of Fighters series, Mai dons an exclusive outfit derived from her iconic Real Bout Fatal Fury Special looks (primarily having her heels and toes exposed, and no ropes around her shoulders) with flower patterns from that of a New Age Saga of the main King of Fighters series, while Terry and his original teammates Andy and Joe reprising their iconic outfit dating back to Fatal Fury 2, and Rock Howard is revealed to have been growing up like in Garou: Mark of the Wolves, Terry and Mai's involvements in Street Fighter 6 is likely taken place between Tales of Ash (end in The King of Fighters XIII) and The New Age story arcs (begin in The King of Fighters XIV).
- He has both moves which were exclusive to Fatal Fury and The King of Fighters series in Street Fighter 6 and Fighting EX Layer.
- Though Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves marks the first time Terry receives an English voice actor in the Fatal Fury series, Michael Allen Schneider technically debuts in the role first in Street Fighter 6.
- Rival Schools character Roy Bromwell bears a striking resemblance to Terry Bogard, both in his physical appearance and his moveset, most prominently with Dynamite Straight and Touchdown Wave resembling Burn Knuckle and Power Wave.
- In Terry's teaser trailer/World Tour introduction at the Pao Pao Cafe, other NPCs can be seen dressed as Fatal Fury characters who also appear in The King of Fighters such as Andy, Joe, Blue Mary and Billy Kane. Though Mary and Joe makes cameo appearances.
- In Terry's gameplay trailer, the opening cutscene features references to the attract demos for the arcade versions of Street Fighter II: The World Warrior and Fatal Fury: King of Fighters. Adding to the reference to Street Fighter II, Scott and Max are also featured in the cutscene fighting in the background.
- Terry is the first character in Street Fighter 6 whose animations are determinant on the outfit he is wearing, including;
- His intro pose, where he catches his hat with his original outfit, and he catches his jacket with his Mark of the Wolves outfit.
- His outro pose, which has him either throw his hat or jacket. 
- Power Dunk, which has Terry turn his hat backward briefly while performing the attack.
- His perfect win pose, which has him toss either his hat or jacket. 
- His low health win pose, where he either takes his hat off and pats it against his leg or runs his hand through his hair. 
- His down taunt, which has him either adjust his hat or run his hand through his hair.
- Terry's theme in Street Fighter 6 is an arrangement of Kurikinton, his theme dating back to Fatal Fury 2. This makes him the second character in the game to have a theme that is a remix of an existing theme for them, following Luke.
- Terry is the first DLC character whose gameplay trailer does not feature their own theme, instead using the stage theme for Pao Pao Cafe 6.
- Terry's Arcade and World Tour CGs are by Shinkiro, who reprises his realistic style from when he was an SNK artist before joining Capcom. This makes him the third character in the game to have their Arcade CGs done by Shinkiro, following Rashid and E. Honda.
- Terry is the only fighter in World Tour to be able to visit to other countries where other fighters based at.
- When meeting Terry in World Tour, his intro graphic features a blue background with large red font scrolling through reading "FATAL FURY", which is a reference to the intro of Fatal Fury: King of Fighters.
- When performing a Perfect Parry, one of Terry's quotes will be "Predictable!", a reference to the quote said by Geese Howard when performing his infamous Atemi Nage counter throw.
- Color 2 of Terry's second outfit is inspired by his student, Rock Howard.
Trailers[]
External Links[]
- Terry Bogard on Wikipedia
- Terry Bogard on the SNK Wiki
- Terry Bogard on The King of Fighters Wiki
- Terry Bogard on the Metal Slug Wiki
- Terry Bogard on the Super Smash Bros. Wiki
- Terry's moves in Street Fighter 6
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Terry’s profile from Street Fighter 6's English website.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Terry's profile fromStreet Fighter 6’s Japanese Website.
- ↑ Street Fighter 6 Year 2 Character Reveal Trailer
- ↑ The King of Fighters XII official character profile
- ↑ The King of Fighters XIII official website
- ↑ KOF Maximum Impact Regulation "A" official character profile
- ↑ SF25: The Art of Street Fighter page 436: Interview with Takashi Nishimyama and Hiroshi Matsumoto
- ↑ Terry Bogard Powers into Street Fighter 6 Like a Wave on September 24! Steam
| Fighting Layer Characters | ||||
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| Fighting Layer | Allen · Blair | |||
| Fighting EX Layer | Original | Darun · D. Dark · Garuda · Hayate · Jack · Kairi Sanane · Shadowgeist · Shirase · Skullomania | ||
| Downloadable | Area · Hokuto · Pullum · Sharon · Terry (Guest) · V. Rosso | |||
| Street Fighter 6 Characters | ||||
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| Original | Blanka · Cammy · Chun-Li · Dee Jay · Dhalsim · E. Honda · Guile · Jamie · JP · Juri · Ken · Kimberly · Lily · Luke · Manon · Marisa · Ryu · Zangief | |||
| Year 1 | A.K.I. · Akuma · Ed · Rashid | |||
| Year 2 | Elena · M. Bison · Mai (Guest) · Terry (Guest) | |||
| CPU Only | Albert Jackson · Andore Family · Antler Inoki · Axl · Azam · Bosch · Bred · Carlos Miyamoto · Carol · Chandi · Damnd · Eliza · Eternity · F.A.N.G · Fair Libra · G. Oriber · Gerald Golby · J · Kalima · Keiko Asano · Kenichi Kakutani · Li-Fen · Max · Mel · Retsu · Rewancha · Roxy · Rudra · Sheng Long · Somsak · Yua | |||