Sol Badguy

Sol Badguy
Guilty Gear character
Sol Badguy in Guilty Gear Xrd
First game	Guilty Gear
Created by	Daisuke Ishiwatari
Voiced by	Daisuke Ishiwatari Hikaru Hanada (Guilty Gear X2 story mode) Jōji Nakata (Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus story mode & alternative voice, 2: Overture and Xrd)
Fictional profile
Birthplace	United States

Sol Badguy (Japanese: ソル＝バッドガイ^?, Hepburn: Soru Baddogai) is a fictional character in Arc System Works' Guilty Gear video game series. He first appeared in the 1998 video game Guilty Gear, as the main character and namesake. In the series, he is a bounty hunter who has dedicated his life to the destruction of Gears, a race of magical bioweapons that plunged the world into a hundred-year war known as the Crusades. He was once a member of the Sacred Order of the Holy Knights, and this appearance was featured in another playable character named Order-Sol (聖騎士団ソル^?, Seikishidan Soru).

Sol Badguy, whose real name is Frederick, was named after Freddie Mercury's nickname, "Mr. Bad Guy", by Daisuke Ishiwatari, the series' creator, who also provided his voice in the video games. Despite being criticized as a generic fictional character, video game reviewers compared his relationship with his main rival, Ky Kiske, to that of other notable video game characters. Sol's fighting abilities and the choice of his name were also the subject of reviewers, receiving both praise and criticism.

Creator Daisuke Ishiwatari designed Sol in many ways as his alter ego, and also recorded Sol's in-game voice (the voice actor for Guilty Gear X2's story mode and drama CDs, however, is done by Hikaru Hanada). Ishiwatari's favorite band is Queen, and he put in Sol's profile that he is a fan of Queen, and named Sol Badguy, whose real name is Frederick (or Freddie for short), after Freddie Mercury, whose nickname was "Mr. Bad Guy".

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