Rock Howard

Rock Howard
Fatal Fury and The King of Fighters character
Rock Howard in NeoGeo Battle Coliseum
First game	Garou: Mark of the Wolves (1999)
Voiced by (English)	Jon Thomas (KOFMI) Mike Lane (KOFMI2/2006)
Voiced by (Japanese)	Eiji Takemoto (debut - KOFMIRA) Yuuma Uchida (KOFXIV)
Fictional profile
Nationality	United States
Fighting style	Martial Arts and inherited Ancient Martial Arts (古武術, Kobujutsu?)

Rock Howard (ロック・ハワード, Rokku Hawādo^?) is a video game character appearing in various games from SNK. Rock makes his first appearance as a playable character in the fighting game Garou: Mark of the Wolves, the last chapter in the Fatal Fury series, as the new lead character from the series. Rock appears in the series as the son of Geese Howard, the main antagonist from the previous Fatal Fury games, who was killed by Terry Bogard. However, Terry started to take care of Rock to the point he teaches him to fight. Besides his appearance in Mark of the Wolves, Rock is featured in few games from The King of Fighters series as well as various crossovers from SNK. He was voiced by Eiji Takemoto (竹本 英史) since debut until Maximum Impact Regulation A, later voiced by Yuuma Uchida (内田雄馬). In the English edition of KOF: Maximum Impact he is voiced by Jon Thomas, and by Mike Lane in its sequel.

Rock has also been featured in manwhua adaptations from the games he has appeared as well as the anime The King of Fighters Another Day. Rock's character has received various responses from video games publications. His debut in Mark of the Wolves has been highly praised by reviewers although some of them considered his character to be too strong in comparison to the others. However, his development in the KOF: Maximum Impact series has been criticized due to his English voice actor and his new outfit.