Fei Long

Fei Long (飛龍) is a character from Capcom's Street Fighter series of fighting games.

Character basis

Fei Long is a tribute to the Kung Fu movie legend Bruce Lee. Not only do the two look alike (and come from the same city), Fei Long also lets out similar battle cries to Lee, and is just as furious and fast a fighter. Also, Fei Long roughly translates as Mandarin Chinese for "Flying Dragon"; Lee's nickname was "Little Dragon." He was part of a trend of including Bruce Lee-based characters in fighting games; examples include Marshall Law and his son Forrest from the Tekken series, Maxi in Soul Calibur, Liu Kang from the Mortal Kombat series, Dragon from SNK's World Heroes, and Jann Lee from Dead or Alive.

Story

A youthful and talented action movie star, Fei Long is the master of Hitenryu Kung Fu. While he fought on the streets to sharpen his skills, he caught the eye of a movie director, who got him into the big times and made him an international sensation.

He made a string of action movies until he participated in the second World Warrior tournament. He realized that he preferred the real thing to the staged, choreographed fight scenes in his movies, and gave up his career and disappeared into the streets.

Trivia

Fei Long is probably the first character in fighting game history with a continuous chain move (his is repeatable up until 3 times; and each fist provide a different animation).
Despite having little to no significance in the Street Fighter story, he remains one of the most popular characters.
Fei Long makes a cameo appearance in Dan's stage in Street Fighter Alpha 2.
In the Neo Geo Pocket game SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters Clash, his name appears misspelled as "Fei-Ling." Although widely criticized by fans, this must have been just a misspelling in the English version, rather than Engrish (as it is common in many Neo-Geo games), because the Japanese version does read "Fei Long."
Fei Long did not appear in the live action Street Fighter movie due to the similaries to Bruce Lee (and therefore the filmmakers didn't want to pay the Lee family royalties). This is the main reason behind the character of Sawada being created. It has also been stated that the producers thought that he was "too generic."
In Fei Long's ending in Super Street Fighter II and Super Street Fighter II Turbo, a movie director approaches Fei Long and tries to convince Fei Long into returning to make one more movie, but Fei Long refuses. In the English version, he says that "there could never be another legend like the great one and his son", which has been interpreted by many fans to mean Bruce Lee (actor that was the basis of Fei Long), and his son Brandon, who died shortly before Super Street Fighter II was released. This reference is not present in the original Japanese version.
Many of the moves of Fei Long are similar to the moves that Bruce Lee's character, Lee does in the film Enter the Dragon.

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