Dan Hibiki

Dan Hibiki
Street Fighter character
Dan in Street Fighter Alpha 3, as drawn by Bengus
First game	Street Fighter Alpha (1995)
Voiced by (English)	Ted Sroka (Street Fighter IV Street Fighter X Tekken) Bob Papenbrook (Street Fighter Alpha: The Animation)
Voiced by (Japanese)	Osamu Hosoi (all but SFIV) Kazuyuki Ishikawa (Street Fighter Alpha: The Animation) Toshiyuki Kusuda (Street Fighter IV Street Fighter X Tekken)
Fictional profile
Birthplace	Hong Kong
Nationality	Hongkonger
Fighting style	Saikyo-style karate (サイキョウ流空手, Saikyō Ryū Karate?)

Dan Hibiki (火引 弾, Hibiki Dan^?) is a player character from Capcom's Street Fighter fighting game franchise. He was created to parody Ryo Sakazaki and Robert Garcia, the two lead characters of SNK's Art of Fighting series, as Capcom saw Ryo as a ripoff of Street Fighter characters Ryu and Ken. Since then, Dan has become a fan favorite due to his humorous design, signature moves, and mannerisms.

Introduced in Street Fighter Alpha, Dan is consistently portrayed as an overconfident, arrogant, and utterly feeble character. In the series' storyline, Dan is a self-taught martial artist whose goal is to defeat Sagat, who killed Go, Dan's father, in a brutal fight that resulted in the loss of Sagat's right eye. After defeating Sagat, Dan opens an unsuccessful school for his fighting style, Saikyo-ryu ("Strongest style").

Dan is introduced in Street Fighter Alpha and Street Fighter Alpha 2 as a martial artist who developed his own fighting style called Saikyō-ryū, "The Strongest Style", despite the considerable lack of power in his techniques. During these two games, Dan seeks to defeat Sagat to avenge his father's death. While Dan is an unlockable character in Street Fighter Alpha, in following games he is already available. By Street Fighter Alpha 3, Dan has succeeded in his quest, and seeks to perfect and promote his fighting style. In this game, he also declares himself the mentor from the fighter Sakura Kasugano and is revealed to be one of Blanka's friends.