Thrasher Damnd, referred to simply as Damnd (ダムド Damudo?) in most appearances, is a character who appears in both the Final Fight and Street Fighter series. He is a member of the Mad Gear Gang and the boss of the first stage of Final Fight, Metro City's Slum Area. In Street Fighter 6, he appears in the game's World Tour mode, serving as the current leader of the Mad Gear Gang.
Biography
Name
Damnd is named after the English rock band The Damned, keeping with the musical naming theme of Mad Gear members.
He was also known as Thrasher in the western console ports of the original Final Fight arcade game due to the censorship of his original name for profanity reasons that closely resembles the word "damned".
Like Charlie Nash, his full name combines between Japanese and English names as of current mainline continuity since Street Fighter IV. However, unlike Nash, his Japanese name used to have censorship issue in Western releases, and usage of the name is largely restricted to the English version of the game.
In Street Fighter 6, "Thrasher" is made a part of his name, and he is fully referred to as Thrasher Damnd, though the usage of this is largely exclusive to the English release of the game. Most of his attacks in that game are named after songs by the band that Damnd's name originated from.
Appearance
Damnd is an agile Caribbean man with a dark complexion, blond dreadlocks each ending in a number of beads, is almost as huge as the Andore Family, and is always seen manically grinning or laughing. He wears a white waistcoat (gold due to color limitations), white and blue shutter sunglasses, faux fur-lined turned-down boots, and various jewelry.
In Street Fighter 6, his appearance had some minor changes, looking a bit more aged than in his last appearance, wearing a full beard. He has a tiger print tank top with a leather black vest in the style of a motorcycle club (having a Mad Gear Gang MC Metro City patch at the back and another patch acting as the President of the MC on the chest), new blue framed sunglasses, and yellow fingerless gloves.
Concept
Designed by Akira "Akiman" Yasuda, the concept behind both Damnd and Blanka emerged in an early design as an African man named Anabebe who was raised by a lion. Damnd's original concept was likely inspired by Anabebe, a character from a popular manga series at the time called Jungle King Tar-Chan.
Anabebe's rolling attack made it to both Damnd and Blanka's movesets. One of the other inspirations behind Damnd was modeling him after Hulk Hogan, who would also be an influence for the Street Fighter III character Alex.
Story
Background
Damnd was a top lieutenant in Belger's Mad Gear Gang, and his first duty within the crime syndicate was working as a drug kingpin in Metro City.
He was also in control of the gang's information network, including having intel from the local police and the FBI, with the help of Edi. E.[1]
Final Fight
in 1986, Mayor Haggar refused to accept kickbacks and let the gang do as it pleased like the last mayor did before him, Damnd was on a search and capture mission by Belger for the current mayor's daughter Jessica, and he successfully kidnapped her.
Then Damnd phoned her father Haggar, telling him to turn on his television. When Haggar did so, he saw that Damnd was on air, laughing maniacally as he broadcasted images of his hostaged daughter who had an unseen gang member strip Jessica as she screams in the background, while Damnd tells Haggar to be reasonable. Haggar refused their ultimatum and he went with Cody and Guy to the slums of Metro City to rescue her.
Soon Cody found Damnd with Jessica in the Slum Area. Damnd retreated while his cronies held Cody and Guy at bay, and though Cody soon caught up to him, Damnd had by then successfully passed Jessica on to accomplices, and she was nowhere to be found. Despite initially getting the jump on Cody, the street fighter beat him senseless to get information on Jessica's whereabouts.
Final Fight Revenge
In 1988, Damnd has been recruited by the third Mad Gear big boss, currently being none other than former high-ranking lieutenant Rolento who became a self-promoted as the new big boss of Mad Gear, El Gado, Poison, Hugo, Sodom, and Edi. E are also on the same squad as Damnd, under Rolento their mission is to start a revenge war against Haggar, Guy, and Cody.
After the obliteration of Zombie Belger, Mad Gear is now in shambles, and now Damnd is bored with being a small time criminal. He longs to return back to the tropics, but can't resist the temptation to get into a few more fights one last time before he leaves for good.
Damnd still uses a couple of his old battle tactics from the original Final Fight, these being the cannon ball attack and emergency whistle, plus he has a couple of totally new attacks.
Street Fighter 6
Damnd appears in World Tour mode as a recurring antagonist and ally of circumstance.
In 2008, his faction of the Mad Gear gang are in conflict with Bosch regarding the unknown contents of a bag. Damnd uses his leverage over the Avatar and later kidnaps Li-Fen to force them to perform minor tasks. Circumstances later force Damnd and the Avatar to work together to infiltrate a tournament in Old Nayshall.
Damnd seems to hold begrudging, but genuine respect for the Avatar, considering them his ideal subordinate for restoring the Mad Gear gang to its former glory. He will do anything to get them to join his side, willingly or not.
During the Knock Out Festival, Damnd alongside the Avatar and Rudra end up as the winners as the titular tournament and end up winning tickets to the grand opening of Pao Pao Cafe 6. Following this he returns to Metro City where he can teach the Avatar his Falling Splash attack.
Other appearances
Mighty Final Fight
Damnd is the first boss. He asks some questions to the player's character before the fight, and loses a bit of health depending of the answers.
Cameo appearances
Damnd can be seen in the background of the Metro City stage in Street Fighter Alpha 2.
Damnd appears alongside Sodom in Chun-Li's ending from SNK vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos.
Damnd appears as a card in the SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters games.
Damnd is a boss in Capcom Quiz: Hatena? no Daibouken.
Damnd makes an appearance in the Mad Gear Hideout stage from Street Fighter × Tekken and Ultra Street Fighter IV, where he is seen punching the taiko drum with his fists alongside Axl. Once Haggar appears, he is seen knocked out on the floor. In the PlayStation Vita version Damnd and Axl are tied up by Haggar.
A statue of Damnd can be seen in the background of the New Metro City stage from Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite.
Damnd makes a cameo in Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition in the background of the Ring of Justice stage, as well as in part of Lucia's character story.
Damnd makes cameos in Street Fighter 6 in the backgrounds of The Macho Ring and Metro City Downtown stages.
Animation
Street Fighter: The Animated Series
Damnd appears in the episode Final Fight, where he assists Rolento to kidnap Jessica. He later attacks a train, where a disguised Ryu and Ken defeat him to join the Mad Gear gang.
Comics
Street Fighter UDON Comics
In Super Street Fighter #1, Damnd, J, and Mic eat in the Chinese restaurant owned by Yun and Yang. Damnd refuses to pay the bill, saying that asking him to pay is an offense and menacingly ordering another free meal to calm him down, resulting in him being beaten by the twins.
Fighting style
Despite his size, strength and agility, Damnd is a cowardly fighter who often retreats to a perch on a wall and signals for reinforcements by finger whistling. When his back-up is proved insufficient, he leaps from his perch and attempts to foot-land on his opponent. Damnd will also occasionally take a moment to crackle at either Guy, Cody, or Haggar which gives the player(s) a small opening to quickly counterattack. Aside from this, Damnd's fighting style is that of the typical Mad Gear punk, which is unique and effective enough to match up against any street fighter.
In Street Fighter 6, Damnd uses a variety of techniques in World Tour mode. These include I Fall (アイフォール Ai Fōru?), a move based on his kick attack from Final Fight, Politics (ポリティックス Poritikkusu?), in which he whistles for an assist from one of his henchmen, and One Way Love (ワン・ウェイ・ラヴ Wan Wei Rabu?), in which he whistles for one of his henchman to activate the crane at Abigail's Scrap Yard in order to drop several barrels on the player.
In the fight at Pao Pao Cafe in World Tour that allows the player to control Damnd, he is given an expanded moveset. Along with I Fall, he now has the moves Giant Slam (ジャイアントスラム Jaianto Suramu?), which has him grab the opponent and spin them around on his back before throwing them to the ground, Wrench Throw (スパナスローイング Supanā Surōing?), which has him throw a wrench as a projectile, and Double Sledgehammer (ダブルスレッジハンマー Daburu Surejjihanmā?), which is a jumping overhead double axe handle. He also possesses a unique attack called the Rolling Dodge (ローリングドッジ Rōringu Dojji?), a forward roll that lets him evade attacks that is done with Kick buttons, as well as two unique throws, named Fan Club (ファンクラブ Fan Kurabu?) and Lovely Money (ラブリーマネー Raburī Manē?). Most of these are common moves used by opponents in World Tour, though his throws, despite being the generic ones used by enemy characters, are given themed names in-line with Damnd's original special moves.
Gallery
Art
Screenshots
Animation
Miscellaneous
Sprites
Trivia
- On the SNES booklet, Thrasher Damnd is mislabeled as being 6 feet and 5 inches tall.
Stage theme
External links
References
| Final Fight Revenge Characters | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Playable | Cody · Damnd · Edi. E · El Gado · Guy · Hugo Haggar · Poison · Rolento · Sodom | |||
| CPU Only | Zombie Belger | |||
| Street Fighter 6 Characters | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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) | |||
| Year 3 | Alex · C. Viper · Ingrid · Sagat | |||
| CPU / World Tour Only | Albert Jackson · Andore Family · Antler · 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 | |||