- Amir-Hamza
World Fighting Game Characters: Asia Part 2 Orient/Far East Asia
Updated: Nov 3, 2021
They say that the fighting game community (FGC) is one of the most diverse fan communities within the videogame industry. But not only is the community diverse. So are the characters in each game as many intend to represent a country and usually the martial art of said country. So we wanna list how diverse the Characters of fighting games are. To be clear the games that we will include feature characters who debut from these games. So no Injustice or Marvel vs Capcom or Smash Brothers characters. Just characters created for fighting games.
Fighting Games Included are 3 Count Bout, Aggressors of Dark Kombat, ARMS, Art of Fighting, Battle Arena Toshinden, Battle of the Beast Gods/Savage Reign, Breakers, Buriki One, Darkstalkers, Dead or Alive, Dual Blades, Ehrgeiz, Eternal Champions, Fatal Fury, Fight Fever, Fighter's History, Fighter's Impact, Fighting Layer, Fighting EX Layer, Final Fight: Revenge, Guilty Gear, Kakuto Chojin, Kaiser Knuckle/Global Champion, Killer Instinct, King of Fighters, King of Monsters, Knuckle Heads Mace; The Dark Age, Martial Champion, Mortal Kombat, Omen of Sorrow, Power Instinct, Power/Deadly Moves/Athlete, Power Stone, Punch Out, Rage of the Dragons, Samurai Shodown, Saturday Night Slam Masters, Skullgirls, Soul Calibur, Street Fighter, Tekken, Tuff E Nuff, Virtua Fighter, War Gods and World Heroes.
For this list we are going to the Orient or the Far East of Asia. Covering characters from both South East Asia and East Asia but we have excluded characters from Mainland China and Japan as the over abundance of Chinese and Japanese characters will warrant articles for both nations. So China and Japan will get there own articles but lets see how the rest of the Far East holds up. We will also include diaspora, Far Eastern characters living in other nations. No Social, Political or otherwise unnecessary offensive comments please as this article is to share and celebrate culture and diversity
South Korea
Lee Hae Gwon from Aggressors of Dark Kombat
Lee Dao-Long from Breakers
Han Daehan from Ehrgeiz
Kim Dong Hwan from Fatal Fury
Kim Jae Hoon from Fatal Fury
Kim Kaphwan from Fatal Fury
Han Baedal from Fight Fever
Kim Hoon from Fight Fever
(He is Mexican. Likely Asian Mexican of Korean descent)
Master Taekuk from Fight Fever
Liu Yungmie from Fighter's History
Hong Gilson from Fighting Layer
Kum Haehyun from Guilty Gear
Kim Wu from Killer Instinct
(She is mixed raced Asian American. Specifically half Korean half Chinese)
Chae Lim from King of Fighters
Chang Koehan from King of Fighters
Choi Bounge from King of Fighters
Gang-Il from King of Fighters
Jhun Hoon from King of Fighters
May Lee Jinju from King of Fighters
Kang Jae-Mo from Rage of the Dragons
Kim Hae-Ryeong from Samurai Shodown
Seong Han Myeong from Soul Calibur
Hwang Sung Kyung from Soul Calibur
Seong Mi-Na from Soul Calibur
Hong Yun-Seong from Soul Calibur
Juri Han from Street Fighter
Baek Doo San from Tekken
Hwoarang from Tekken
Kim Dragon from World Heroes
(was originally Chinese, retconned to Korean)
Mongolia
Temjin from Art of Fighting
Jigjid Bartol from Fighting Layer
Hsu Hao from Mortal Kombat
Julius Carn from World Heroes
Hong Kong
Cuiling from Battle Arena Toshinden
Lee Shuwen from Ehrgeiz
(His stage is set in Hong Kong)
Hon Fu from Fatal Fury
Kahn from Kakuto Chojin
Ying Kai Li from Kakuto Chojin
Christine Myao from Knuckle Heads
Chaos from Martial Champion
Mad Ax Dax from Power Instinct
Dragon Chan from Punch Out
Lee from Street Fighter
(He is Yun and Yang's uncle and likely comes from Hong Kong too)
Fei-Long from Street Fighter
Dan Hibiki from Street Fighter
(He is at least partially Japanese by his Father Go Hibiki as their name suggests)
Yun Lee from Street Fighter
Yang Lee from Street Fighter
Lei Wulong from Tekken
Pai Chan from Virtua Fighter
Malaysia
Miss Til from Battle Arena Toshinden
Thailand
Tia Langray from Breakers
Payak Sitpitak from Buriki one
Hwa Jai from Fatal Fury
Samchay Tomyamgun from Fighter's History
Sadira from Killer Instinct
(She is a refugee to Thailand. Her original ethnicity is unknown but speculated to come from a Muslim background as her name Sadira is Iranian, her assassin motif and choice of dress fits the West Asia look, her Spider in the cave design has ties to Abrahamic stories (Jewish and Islamic). Assuming she is not Iranian, her refugee status hints at Rohingya, Palestinian or Uyghur but it is currently unknown)
Takeda Takahashi from Mortal Kombat
(He was born in Thailand, raised by Hanzo Hasashi, most likely in Japan but works with the mostly American Special Forces whilst being voiced with an American accent. He is ethnically half Thai by his mum Suchin quarter Japanese quarter White by his Dad Kenshi Takahashi who is a Eurasian Japanese swordsman)
Reayon from Power Moves
Adon from Street Fighter
Sagat from Street Fighter
F.A.N.G from Street Fighter
(His actually origins are unknown but the triads he works for are called the Nguuhao which is a Thai word for Cobra, but his and the Nguuhao entire motif appears to be Chinese, he even does Kempo. Its likely he is Thai Chinese. The Nguuhao are probably a Chinese Triad gang based in Thailand.)
Fahkumram from Tekken
