Blanka
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Blanka is a character from the Street Fighter series of fighting games. Blanka has green skin and long orange hair, resembling a monster more than a human.
Story
As a youngster, the fighter known as Blanka was named Jimmy. Traveling on an airplane to visit his uncle, Jimmy's plane was sabotaged because it was also occupied by several cabinet members representing a country opposed to Shadaloo. Jimmy was raised by wolves; he learned from electric eels how to use his bioelectricity as a weapon. His mother, Samantha, was not on the flight, so it is presumed Jimmy was traveling with his father.In Street Fighter Alpha 3, Blanka hitched a ride on a poacher's truck and met up with his old friend Dan. He once saved Dan's life in the jungle, and in gratitude Dan taught Blanka English. He had a friendly sparring match with Dan. He eventually met with Dan's 'student', Sakura, and promised her a match. He eventually left for the jungle again, unenamored of the outside world. He also seemed to have been hunted down by Shadoloo for a bit as a potential guinea pig for experiments.
In Street Fighter II, Blanka was invited to and fought in the second World Warrior tournament, in order to make him famous and help him find his remaining family, and likely fought Guile (see below). His mother was watching, and she recognized him from the anklets he wore. She immediately went to him and they had a tearful reunion.
Other storylines
Old sources from Capcom indicate that Blanka learned Shadoloo had been responsible for his plane crash and hated them for it, and the sourcebook All About Street Fighter Alpha 3 states he was hunted by Shadoloo, even if the in-game events telling this weren't necessarily canon. Years of meshing plants against his skin made the plants' chlorophyll change his skin to a green color according to the same sources that stated why he disliked Shadoloo.The same source also indicated he fought a 'military man' during the second World Warrior tournament, most likely Guile. It should be noted that demo matches in the arcade version of Street Fighter II often paired Blanka against Guile.
In SFA3, Capcom forgot that he wasn't suppose to know his name until his ending in Street Fighter II (his mom called him by his real name, and he didn't recognize it). Because of this, it was later retconned that he always knew his name. In Nintendo's Killer Instinct, the game's boss, Eyedol, has an ending that parodies Blanka's reunion with his mother.
In the non-canon Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter, Blanka becomes a friend of another green-skinned powerhouse, The Incredible Hulk. The Hulk theorizes that gamma radiation caused Blanka's mutations, as they did his.
Charlie: Charlie and Blanka are not one and the same; However, the 1994 live-action Street Fighter movie combined the two characters into one (prior to Charlie's actual appearance in the games).
Character design
Blanka was originally going to look more like a caveman, King Rasta Mon from the Capcom wrestling game Saturday Night Slam Masters was one of the pre-Blanka character models. However, it was changed to make his look more beastly. In later games in the Street Fighter II series, Capcom made him look more ferocious because they thought he was too "cuddly." However, in Street Fighter Alpha 3, they decided to make him cuddly again.He's known locally as the hombre blanco (white man) and adapted the blanco into his nickname, Blanka. This is strange because the language spoken in Brazil is not Spanish but Portuguese (in which that expression would be homem branco).
Blanka's fighting style is not capoeira. This was invented by Capcom USA. Capcom of Japan disproved this when one employee bragged that Elena was the first Street Fighter character to employ the fighting style.
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