Terry Bogard | |
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Fatal Fury and The King of Fighters character | |
Terry Bogard as he appears in The King of Fighters 2000
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First game | Fatal Fury: King of Fighters (1991) |
Voiced by (English) | Mark Hildreth (Fatal Fury anime trilogy) |
Voiced by (Japanese) |
Satoshi Hashimoto (Fatal Fury: King of Fighters - Xuan Dou Zhi Wang) Takashi Kondō (The King of Fighters XIV onward) Tsutomu Kashiwakura (anime films) Kazukiyo Nishikiori Takeshi Kusao (Dengeki Bunko drama CD) |
Portrayed by | David Leitch |
Fictional profile | |
Birthplace | United States |
Fighting style | Martial Arts and Jeff's Deadly Brawling Arts |
Terry Bogard (テリー・ボガード Terī Bogādo?) is a video game character created by SNK, and is the main character of the Fatal Fury series. In the series, he is an American fighter who enters the worldwide tournaments called The King of Fighters to kill Geese Howard, a criminal who killed Terry's father. Terry becomes a formidable fighter, earning the title of "Legendary Hungry Wolf". In the fourth tournament he participates, Terry nearly kills Geese, but relents at the last moment. Geese responds to this by apparently committing suicide. Terry then decides to become the guardian of Geese's son, Rock Howard.
In addition to video games, Terry has appeared in anime films based on his adventures from the Fatal Fury series, as well as soundtracks and manga serialized to Japanese monthly manga magazine Comic Bom Bom. He is also a regular character in the crossover video game series The King of Fighters, in which he continues participating in tournaments. Dating back to the first Fatal Fury, Terry is one of SNK's first fighting game characters and has appeared as a playable character in every Fatal Fury and main King of Fighters game to date.
The character has been well received by video games players; he is ranked high in several popularity polls developed by SNK and video games magazines. Publications have praised the character and how he was developed from Fatal Fury to The King of Fighters. He is prominently featured on merchandise from SNK and their crossover series, becoming an icon for them.
In most of the Fatal Fury and King of Fighters games, Terry wears a red sleeveless denim vest with a white star on the back, worn over a white cutoff T-shirt; the latter occasionally features tattered sleeves. In the first Fatal Fury game and The King of Fighters XIV, however, Terry wears a red leather jacket that features rolled-up sleeves. He also wears black fingerless gloves, blue jeans, a pair of red Chuck Taylor All Star shoes, and a red-and-white baseball/trucker cap. The character has long, blonde hair, but keeps it tied in a ponytail with bangs around his forehead/cheeks.