Leifang
| Leifang | |
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| Dead or Alive character | |
Leifang in Dead or Alive 5
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| First game | Dead or Alive (1996) |
| Created by | Tomonobu Itagaki |
| Voiced by (English) | Zinnia Su (DOAX2—DOAD) Cassandra Morris (DOA5) |
| Voiced by (Japanese) | Yumi Tōma |
| Portrayed by | Ying Wang (film) |
| Fictional profile | |
| Nationality | Chinese |
| Fighting style | T'ai chi ch'uan |
| Occupation | College student |
Leifang (Japanese: レイファン Hepburn: Reifan?), often written as Lei Fang, is a player character in the Dead or Alive fighting game series by Team Ninja and Koei Tecmo. She was introduced in the original Dead or Alive in 1996 and has appeared in the series' subsequent installments. She is a Chinese college student and martial artist who competes in the Dead or Alive tournaments to prove her superiority over fellow combatant Jann Lee.
One of the Dead or Alive series' more popular characters, Leifang has appeared on series merchandise and the feature film DOA: Dead or Alive. She has received mainly positive public and critical reception for factors such as her sex appeal and in-game costumes.
Leifang is a college student born into a wealthy family. She was officially aged nineteen prior to the two-year timeline skip in Dead or Alive 5. Leifang is depicted in the games as a personable woman of justice and bearing an independent spirit, and hopes that by honing her own martial arts skills, she can inspire others to do the same. Her youth and general life inexperience sometimes causes her to act impulsively.
In the storyline of the original game, she was saved from a gang of street fighters by martial artist Jann Lee. Rather than being thankful, she instead becomes obsessed over defeating Jann Lee in battle, as she is bitter over his intervention because she believes she was capable at the time of saving herself. However, she loses to him in subsequent DOA tournaments except that of Dead or Alive 4. She has a close friend in karate master Hitomi, and since Dead or Alive 2 she has formed a friendly rivalry with wrestler Tina Armstrong, who believes that the meaning of power comes from physical strength.
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