Charlie (Street Fighter)

Charlie Nash
Street Fighter character
Promotional art of Charlie in Street Fighter Alpha 3
First game	Street Fighter Alpha (1995)
Voiced by (English)	Scott McNeil (Street Fighter TV series) Jay Hickman (Street Fighter II V ADV dub) Dean Elliot (Street Fighter II V Animaze dub) Mike McFarland (Street Fighter V)
Voiced by (Japanese)	Toshiyuki Morikawa (Street Fighter Alpha series, X-Men vs. Street Fighter, Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter, Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes) Kōsuke Toriumi (Street Fighter V) Ryōichi Tanaka (Street Fighter II V) Daiki Nakamura (Street Fighter II Mad Revenger Drama CD)
Portrayed by	Robert Mammone (Street Fighter) Chris Klein (The Legend of Chun-Li) Alain Moussi (Resurrection)
Fictional profile
Birthplace	United States
Nationality	American
Fighting style	Special Forces Military Training
Occupation	First Lieutenant in the United States Air Force

Charlie Nash (チャーリー・ナッシュ, Chārī Nasshu) is a fictional character in the Street Fighter video game series. He was first mentioned in 1991's Street Fighter II: The World Warrior, in which he is established to be a deceased friend of Guile who was killed by M. Bison prior to the events of the game's tournament. He made his first appearance as a playable fighter in 1995's Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams, although he's been depicted in a few Street Fighter related media with varying character designs prior to debuting in the games. He is characterized as a member of the United States Air Force charged with finding M. Bison, and destroying his organization Shadaloo. As a playable character, his fighting style is similar to Guile's, sharing some of his signature special moves such as the Sonic Boom and the Somersault Kick.

Charlie is first mentioned by name in Street Fighter II and its subsequent revisions, in which he is the military comrade and close friend of Guile, one of the playable fighters. Guile's motive for entering the tournament is to avenge the death of Charlie, who was killed by the tournament's host M. Bison sometime before the events of the game.

Charlie was made into a playable character in Street Fighter Alpha, where he is a first lieutenant in the United States Air Force, assigned to track down Bison and uncover corruption within the American military. Because the events of the Alpha series precede Street Fighter II, Charlie's ending sequence in the original Alpha, as well as in Street Fighter Alpha 2, both end with him being killed after defeating Bison: in Alpha, Bison attacks him from behind when he calls for backup and in Alpha 2 (the canonical depiction of his death), a corrupt officer piloting his intended backup helicopter shoots him for Bison and sends him falling down a waterfall. Street Fighter Alpha 3 was initially the sole exception to this convention, which actually has Charlie surviving in his ending, although the later console versions, which adds Guile as a playable fighter, has Charlie's death depicted in Guile's ending instead.