R.I. P to Hollywood arcade who introduced me to Fei Long and Super Street Figther. There's nothing like walking into an air-conditioned arcade on a hot summer day with a pocket full of quarters. Nineties kids had the best childhood ever
@@azuresea7183 you're right but not only is she the lone exception, but I believe they broke up her moveset to boot. She had a high and low counter, which means they strictly wanted her offense oriented.
@@Brandons_guitar_coversto me it was the best fei long actor along side with Matthew Mercer (aka Levi Ackerman, jotaro kujo and and mcree) I wish Cranston could voice him in sf6 if fei long was DLC but his too old to play it
As you’ve probably gathered, Balrog’s design and original name of M. Bison was a direct reference to Mike Tyson. However, Capcom feared that they might have a lawsuit on their hands if they released a character modeled after Mike Tyson with the name M. Bison in the West. As such, they did a little name swapping. Well, Tyson went years without knowing this character existed much less that the original design and name were based on him. While he seemingly joked about having a lawsuit on his hands, he did say that he was “honored with that impersonation of me.”
I mean he was on punch-Out until he got swapped for Mr Dream. i think Mike changed a whole lot to the gooder side of his life. I think he would of allowed it, they just would of had to pay him tho.
The changes made sense. Vega is a common surname in Spain, fits him like a claw glove, and it was Bison's original name, it didn't fit him just like how Balrog doesn't fit Vega.
I would never call Fei Long a Bruce Lee rip-off! He is a homage to the legendary fighter that is easily the OG Street Fighter. He's never been disrespected to the point of scrutiny and has been honored as the legendary fighter he was based on.
@@thesun6211 In my eyes they're both the greatest fighters of all time. Sonny may be the OG StreetFighter, but Bruce has the most homages to him in media.
Fei Long is most definitely a rip-off just like Kim Dragon from World Heroes. The other Bruce Lee clones from other fighting games such as MK are homages because they're at least unique with different backstories.
My only issue with Fei Long is that as a character he never really developed past a Bruce Lee clone. Great character, but he REALLY NEEDS character development past what he started as.
I actually like that he’s Bruce Lee.. period. So much of the game is based off of Enter the Dragon. So leaving the legend be blended with Bruce Lee’s legacy is perfect to me. On another note, I hope they just left ‘Boxer’ as a 6’6 Mike Tyson. No further character development needed.
I agree with you. I think while others find it nice he's a direct homage, it almost feels like Capcom doesn't know what to do with him. If he's a powerful warrior trying to get better, then he overlaps with a bunch of other SF characters, many of which are Japanese. It'd be nice if they gave him something more just to let him stand out, especially because he's been surrounded by other Bruce Lee homages in other games since his debut. Edit: Some immediate ideas: 1) Trying to make the best movie ever? Never real enough, so he just records himself in real life? Sidekick character who documents it? Or is this too close to social media influencers? Maybe he's annoyed but his sidekick tells him this is the best way to show his skills to the world? 2) is he trying to document his world journey as a warrior and fighting philosopher? 3) Is he trying to build his style to be "like water" so he can be as versatile as possible?
Can't really get much character development when you're not part of the main line up cast of characters. Which is always the disappointing thing with fighting game characters, it leaves you wanting more from any particular character you might favor.
You have your opinion but a lot of us would strongly disagree law would be first and foremost actually probably Jan Lee(DOA) but law even over liu Kang and fei imo
We all know where the inspiration for Fei Long came from. I don't hear anyone calling Liu Kang, Forrest/Marshall law Bruce Lee ripoffs. There's one in almost every fighting game franchise. Literally no one laughs about Fei long being a bruce lee rip off. 🥴
@Winterhold Guard that's true. Marshall law looks like Bruce lee, dresses like Bruce Lee and practices Jeet Kune do as well. His character is based off bruce lee and many of the characters he's played in different films. They are all Bruce Lee clones.
Fei Long has been a great character in the street fighter series, Fei Long is not a rip off character of Bruce Lee at all, If Fei Long was a rip off character he would be a complete joke and just suck to no end, but he's an awesome character in his own right and that will never change, we didn't get Fei Long in SF 5 at all or a real Rekka character either and no Karin does not count at all, I really just want him to come back for SF6 we really need him badly, thanks for doing a nice job on Fei Long Top Hat Gaming Man ✊
He was in the vanilla SF4. He needed to be unlocked first, and you also had to beat the game with him to unlock Sakura I think. I was so hyped for SF4 strictly cause he was in it.
We need to go back to the old days where you unlock characters by playing Arcade Mode instead of constantly having to buy or painfully grind for new characters like in Street Fighter V.
Agreed, I really wish they'd go back to unlocking characters. I hate that unlocking characters now means buy them as DLC. I'm also glad to see so many others actually being fans of Fei Long. I really thought I was the only one. He's so underused.
The reason unlocks died for fgs is because of the competitive emphasis nowadays. I miss the joy of unlocking characters when I was a kid but this is ultimately better
Tremendous video. Fei Long was my main when I was a kid. I couldn't be stopped. Im terrible at games today lol, but there was a brief little while as a kid where I was unstoppable w Fei Long. God I miss that. Sometimes guys would get together and play SF for money like it was dice man. Shit was a great time. You put money in, you won some, lost some. F'ers used to get mad and FIGHT fight in person over this haha!!! I know the kids today have cool stuff and all, but I wish I could share w them the experience of what Street Fighter mania was in the 90s. It was just something completely different altogether.
“Dragon” From World Heroes Was The First Bruce Lee-Based Character I Have Seen Back In 1993. And On That Same Year, Capcom Released Super Street Fighter 2, Which Featured Their Own Bruce Lee-Based Character. It Seems That Fei Long Has Lasted Much Longer Than Dragon… Alongside Marshall And Forrest Law…
I liked Kim Dragon in WH2 more because he has all the iconic moves done right but I think they got sued and had to down grade him to some noise making Bruce Lee look a like in WH3 on wards. Then Kim Dragon died.
Mike Tyson recently appeared on ESPN for an interview/game of Mario Kart 8. It was then that he apparently heard for the first time that the popular Street Fighter character Balrog was actually based on him. Allow us to do a little historical housekeeping about this story. When Street Fighter II was released in Japan, some of the characters had different names than in the Western version of the game we eventually got. For instance, the character we know as M. Bison was called Vega and the character we know as Vega was named Balrog. So what was Balrog’s name? Well, it was actually M. Bison.
I want Fei Long to return in Street Fighter 6 He was My Favourite Street Fighter Bruce Lee Character since Super Street Fighter 2 The New Challengers I haven’t seen Fei Long since Ultra Street Fighter 4 and I hope Fei Long will return in Street Fighter 6
1:48 I have to add something: *Ryu* is based on Masutasu Oyama (Choi Bae Dal), the founder of Kyokushin Karate, one of the best styles. *Ken* is based on Joe Lewis, one of the greatest kickboxing and karate American fighters. *Zangief* is based on Victor Zangief, a real Russian Wrestling champion who competed in WWE.
3:58 Ken's stage and a few others were actually lifted from the Charles Bronson movie "Hard Times". They planned to call the movie "The Street Fighter", but a Sonny Chiba movie used that title when it was released in the US around the same time, so the movie went back to its previous name from its screenplay. However, in other countries, including Japan, it retained the title "The Street Fighter". Also, the Roman coliseum stage with the cats in Street Fighter Alpha was inspired by a scene from the movie Way of the Dragon where Bruce Lee fights Chuck Norris. 8:40 You've got the title wrong. It was actually called "Malcolm in the Meth Lab". :)
I never viewed Fei Long as a Bruce Lee clone. In fact, he ended up becoming one of my favorite SF characters. Wish Capcom would use him made. He deserves more than being put in the background!
I love Fei-Long, don't care if others love him or hate him. While I played SF II in the arcades and was mostly a Ryu player, Super SF II for the Sega Genesis was my first copy of SF that I owned and I just immediately dug Fei-Long.
I always thought that Super Double Dragon’s baddies,Roper and Williams, were direct homages to Roper and Williams in Enter The Dragon. Also, the original MK movie plot from 1995 I thought had direct parallels to ETD with 3 fighters coming to an island to thwart an overlord hosting the tournament 👊🏼
4:00 Interesting detail about the concept art of Zangief's stage, the sign in the background says はたらけ！はたらけ, translating as "Work! Work", whereas in the final release the sign says "Watching is prohibited" in Russian.
In a hilarious Tyson appropriate twist, though, it turns out that Mike Tyson had heard about the Street Fighter swap before and seemingly forgot about it or failed to mention it. Kotaku found a clip from a podcast Tyson was on in April in which someone tells him about the Tyson and Bison connection.
It always seems like Cammy is the only one of the 4 SF characters introduced in SF2 New Challengers that gets some love while Dee Jay, T. Hawk, and even Fei Long get shafted away.
True. Of the 4 new challengers, Cammy has featured the most prominently and gotten the most love. Feilong has always been somewhat underutilized and treated as something of a mid-card fighter, along with Dee Jay and a half-forgotten T Hawk. Feilong certainly deserves more recognition.
I feel the movie that had the most influence for street fighter 2, was "Blood Sport". The protagonist is sort of a duel role, the background of the military like Guile, but fights closer to a Shoto Ryu character. Even blanka is obviously an homage to the Brazilian fighter splitting coconuts, rolling around like an animal. It's got a sumo wrestler, the Thai kick boxer, looks like Sagat, nearly all the arch types are in that, save for , Dhalsim, Claw (Balrog/Vega) Chun Li ... But the final antagonist is named Chong Li.
Ha! A "World Heroes" reference! I thought I was the only one who appreciated that game! I know it's a Street Fighter 2 knock-off, but I loved it anyway. Where else could you find analogs for Rasputin, Joan of Arc, Ghengis Khan, and Hulk Hogan in the same setting? Makes me wonder why Sonny Chiba never got a fighting game character (that I know of)...
Awesome video and nice on the Bruce Lee stuff. Ill never forget the moment I saw Fei Long and Super Street Figher 2 intro at some arcade at seaside in Wales. I loved Bruce Lee so it was a dream true. Also Mortal Kombat’s Lui Kang was a big Bruce Lee clone
I could never see Fei-Long being a Rip-off to one of the great legendary martial artists Bruce Lee Capcom made Fei-Long to idolize Bruce and his legacy not to be a rip-off
If you think of it 90% of the fighting games have a "bruce lee". Not that is a bad thing tho.this only demonstrates the impact lee had/has on martial arts all this years.
Bruce Lee’s family has come out and said how the SF5’s composers comments are completely false regarding Bruce Lee like usage in other media and now Daniel Lindholm has been blacklisted by Capcom for spreading misleading information
Agreed, His a Jackie Chan acting as Bruce, I wished they'd imported Kim Dragon in since they are all from SNK and have a KOF team of HonFu, Kim Dragon & Kim Kaphwan because they all got: Ah-CHA! Attack. LoL!
I wouldn't say he's a rip off so much as he's a homage. And he's definitely one of the most memorable in my opinion. Fantastic video here, by the way. Excellent retrospective on Fei-Long.
CORRECTION - Bryan Cranston plays Walter White aka Heisenberg in “Breaking Bad”, and the goofy dad Hal in “Malcolm in the Middle” But I am completely mind blown knowing that was a young Cranston! My goodness!
Reading into history, I find it interesting now looking back at Hong Kong. When you grow up seeing things as a young boy, you sometimes never truly question the current events. I only just realized that when Fei-Long was introduced, Hong Kong at the time was in the end years of British administration; the Chinese would reclaim it in 1997.
Every fighting game has bruce lee representation Mortal kombat-liu kang Street fighter-fei long Tekken-Law Fatal Fury-Hon Fu Soul Calibur-Maxi Dead or Alive-Jann Lee
hah at the hand weapon being remeniscent of claw and hah at the island tournament being similar to another famous 90s fighting game ip. I think it's incredible that sf and mk can be heavily tied to 2-3 movies and yet have now spawned SO much media themselves.
When I was a kid and had a snes , getting super street fighter 2 was great. I didn’t know about Bruce lee at that time and once I got past the fireballs of Ken and ryu, Fei long became my favorite
Who cares of feilong is a bruce lee rip off hes is an awesome character very underrated and one of my favorite characters in the street fighter universe
Completely agree. He's my personal favorite. I was so hooked on SF2 when it came out, I couldn't stand the the idea of the Alpha series. Finally when he was put in Alpha 3 I tired them and can't get enough of them. He's also the reason I was so hyped for SF4 and now just want a port of it to Switch.
Great video as always, but it is a slip. When you mentioned the American voice actor as the bad guy....I had to do a double take... you stated it was on the show Malcolm in the middle @8:58
I've come to realize something: Yrs ago in the original SF, one of Ryu's end quotes would be: "You must defeat *Sheng Long* to stand a chance" Could it be, Capcom wanted Ryu to have an equal rival (besides his Shotokan brother) who he fights in his travels...so if someone defeated 'Sheng Long' , he'd be worthy to face Ryu? What if Sheng, allways coming to a draw against Ryu, has a younger brother named *Fei* who wants to avenge his brother's losses?
The quote was meant to be "you must defeat my dragon punch to stand a chance". Sheng Long was actually a mistranslation because they translated the original Japanese quote to Chinese & then to English & somehow missed it (Capcom didn't really have great quality control back in the day). The fans all thought Sheng Long was Ryu's master or something. A game magazine printed an April Fool's prank with fake pictures & instructions on how to fight Sheng Long & eventually that's what inspired the devs to create Akuma.
Super street fighter 2 was my first fighting game ever on the SEGA genesis or in general first arcade was kabuki clash at sun rx drug on eastern and bonanza. That place had most of the games I ended up playing soul edge or blade, marvel superheroes, X-men vs street fighter. Man so much fun at that little place.
Great video Fei Long is one of my favorite character. Sidenote can SOMEONE please explain or make a video about who is that character beside Akuma in that old Dark stalkers arcade game. We use to always say it was Akuma's son...
while the series may have forgotten him a bit i liked fei long in alpha 3(especially yun and yang clearing his name in the psp version.) and 4(weird in his ending seth is taken out by guy when the 2 don't interact though remember people oddly thinking it was ibuki.) and thought he was a nice homage to bruce lee(a ton of works take inspiration that rip off barely has meaning unless it actually shamelessly uses it as every fighting game character is based off something.) that i find funny the game/2v referencing the 2 being around and loved captain sawada(with him being in cfn profiles traveling the world destroying the remains of shadaloo.). actually loved him more in other media like the animated movie(favorite version of him being voiced by bryan cranston,his fight with ryu showing their character/group tac's awesome style for capcom and especially his silent goodbye to ryu that made me wish ryu fought him/sagat again at the end.) & 2v(he's pretty much a prototype for batsu from rival schools in it,also loved that episode.). also like his director appears in both and is a playful parody of snk's cheng sinzan as fatal fury:the motion picture came out around that time.(on my brothers birthday,actually.:3)
I just had to look it up. Brandon Lee was alive when SSF2 was realised in Japan ( why there is no reference to him) but died just before the western localisation. Hence his honorary inclusion.
kens stage is not inspired by enter the dragon. it's actually quite derived from "hard times" a movie starring Charles Bronson. zangiefs stage is too. the movies nickname is the street fighter.
@@TopHatGamingManChannel I see what you're saying I read about the original island concept but didn't think they had any stages of anything made for it.
Hmm I sued to mix this up with "Game of Death' (the one with Bolo) and think 'hey that's where MK got it from', but now I see each game took from a different movie. Great vid! ---EDIT---- okay, now I'm confused because Bolo was in this movie and I always thought of it as MK's inspiration. Am I trippin?? So they just both took from the same movie?? Or what is going on here.
Although I don't think Fei Long should be removed from SF as he was never a disrespectful representation, but I do definitely agree with Bruce Lee's daughter's comments on that Tarantino film. I also think they could've easily replaced bruce lees characters when making the film, it wouldn't have changed the film that much.
I don't consider him a clone at all. If anything, he's an homage character. His design in the original Super SF2 is Bruce as far as I am concerned. All his designs afterwards were changed more and more to separate Fei from Bruce. In later versions of SF, you can see how much more buff he is. But in SSF2 and SSF2 X he's pure skin, bone and lean muscle. He's my main fighter in the classic games and is one of the wild card fighters(meaning he may be considered middle tier on paper, but in the right hands his clutch factor is explosive).
R.I. P to Hollywood arcade who introduced me to Fei Long and Super Street Figther. There's nothing like walking into an air-conditioned arcade on a hot summer day with a pocket full of quarters. Nineties kids had the best childhood ever
Agreed
Okay high score.🤔🤨🧐
Yes..4 sure..and lets not 4 get.....flawless victory......finsh him......but im so street fighter...4... Me..
no lies spoken
With ya bro! I had a magazine introducing him then going arcade to play where it had people everywhere I was like 12
Not a "rip-off", more like an homage.
Everything fighting game pays homage to Bruce Lee. Even Soul Calibur.
Pastiche
Agreed, and he should be a base character in the series, his game-play style is noticeably absent in SFV
@@patricklacey4946 they given other fighters a chance. The developers all but left off "true" rekka fighters.
@@willdiesel8431 welp karin is a rekka character has been since alpha 3 for playstation 1 as far back as I can remember.🤔🤨🧐
@@azuresea7183 you're right but not only is she the lone exception, but I believe they broke up her moveset to boot. She had a high and low counter, which means they strictly wanted her offense oriented.
Bryan Cranston voiced Fei Long. Mind completely blown.
Your telling me that Hal, zordon (the 2017 power rangers movie), and that guy from breaking bad is fei long!?!?!?
@@Brandons_guitar_coversto me it was the best fei long actor along side with Matthew Mercer (aka Levi Ackerman, jotaro kujo and and mcree) I wish Cranston could voice him in sf6 if fei long was DLC but his too old to play it
@@alexspyro563 totally agree
As you’ve probably gathered, Balrog’s design and original name of M. Bison was a direct reference to Mike Tyson. However, Capcom feared that they might have a lawsuit on their hands if they released a character modeled after Mike Tyson with the name M. Bison in the West. As such, they did a little name swapping. Well, Tyson went years without knowing this character existed much less that the original design and name were based on him. While he seemingly joked about having a lawsuit on his hands, he did say that he was “honored with that impersonation of me.”
Yep. Mike Bison, Mike Tyson. No similarities at all /s
I mean he was on punch-Out until he got swapped for Mr Dream. i think Mike changed a whole lot to the gooder side of his life. I think he would of allowed it, they just would of had to pay him tho.
He is a better man now, but being on a flight with Florida man is too much for anyone.
The changes made sense. Vega is a common surname in Spain, fits him like a claw glove, and it was Bison's original name, it didn't fit him just like how Balrog doesn't fit Vega.
I would never call Fei Long a Bruce Lee rip-off! He is a homage to the legendary fighter that is easily the OG Street Fighter. He's never been disrespected to the point of scrutiny and has been honored as the legendary fighter he was based on.
I agree. He’s an homage to the dragon.
Sonny Chiba was the OG "Street Fighter," not Bruce Lee.
@@thesun6211 In my eyes they're both the greatest fighters of all time. Sonny may be the OG StreetFighter, but Bruce has the most homages to him in media.
Fei Long is most definitely a rip-off just like Kim Dragon from World Heroes.
The other Bruce Lee clones from other fighting games such as MK are homages because they're at least unique with different backstories.
This was a goofy title. Everyone knows Fei longs a homage character in this series.
FEI long must return in SF6 at all cost. He is such a great character and need more love
At best they could add a character that homages Jet Lee being tutored by Fei Long.
How they left him off for some of the other garbage they put on 6 is beyond me
@@leoalcaraz6153 We still don't know the full roster of thew game. It's better wait before venting our frustrations agains Capcom.
@@StellaFangX yeah sorry i meant 5 got 6 on the brain
Also can we please put Gen in the game regardless of his Canon story
My only issue with Fei Long is that as a character he never really developed past a Bruce Lee clone. Great character, but he REALLY NEEDS character development past what he started as.
I actually like that he’s Bruce Lee.. period. So much of the game is based off of Enter the Dragon. So leaving the legend be blended with Bruce Lee’s legacy is perfect to me. On another note, I hope they just left ‘Boxer’ as a 6’6 Mike Tyson. No further character development needed.
@@ismalali agreed. He IS Bruce.
I agree with you. I think while others find it nice he's a direct homage, it almost feels like Capcom doesn't know what to do with him. If he's a powerful warrior trying to get better, then he overlaps with a bunch of other SF characters, many of which are Japanese. It'd be nice if they gave him something more just to let him stand out, especially because he's been surrounded by other Bruce Lee homages in other games since his debut.
Edit: Some immediate ideas:
1) Trying to make the best movie ever? Never real enough, so he just records himself in real life? Sidekick character who documents it? Or is this too close to social media influencers? Maybe he's annoyed but his sidekick tells him this is the best way to show his skills to the world?
2) is he trying to document his world journey as a warrior and fighting philosopher?
3) Is he trying to build his style to be "like water" so he can be as versatile as possible?
Can't really get much character development when you're not part of the main line up cast of characters. Which is always the disappointing thing with fighting game characters, it leaves you wanting more from any particular character you might favor.
@@csl9495 Guilty Gear does pretty well with that I find.
Fei Long is easily my favorite non projectile fighter. Hoping to see a revamped version of him in SF6
Shin Fei long
same
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Oof 😥
Fei Long is hands down the best Bruce Lee homage in the entire history of fighting games. Law is a strong second. ~_~
IMO Law encapsulated Lee’s style more using many of his moves and mannerisms during a fight.
Liu Kang: Am I a joke to you?!
You have your opinion but a lot of us would strongly disagree law would be first and foremost actually probably Jan Lee(DOA) but law even over liu Kang and fei imo
@@jamesthomas2410 I agree about law
WHUUUUAAAAAAAA!!
never really played doa so I don't remember that character
@@jackrotz2139 essentially Bruce Lee with kinda spiky hair
Yes!!! You did it! You have finally given us a Fei Long documentary!! Thank you! Thank you!
You can see the complete history of Fei Long in the 1993 movie "Dragon"
Exactly
We all know where the inspiration for Fei Long came from. I don't hear anyone calling Liu Kang, Forrest/Marshall law Bruce Lee ripoffs. There's one in almost every fighting game franchise. Literally no one laughs about Fei long being a bruce lee rip off. 🥴
That’s your favorite character
@Winterhold Guard that's true. Marshall law looks like Bruce lee, dresses like Bruce Lee and practices Jeet Kune do as well. His character is based off bruce lee and many of the characters he's played in different films. They are all Bruce Lee clones.
Fei Long has been a great character in the street fighter series, Fei Long is not a rip off character of Bruce Lee at all, If Fei Long was a rip off character he would be a complete joke and just suck to no end, but he's an awesome character in his own right and that will never change, we didn't get Fei Long in SF 5 at all or a real Rekka character either and no Karin does not count at all, I really just want him to come back for SF6 we really need him badly, thanks for doing a nice job on Fei Long Top Hat Gaming Man ✊
He was in the vanilla SF4. He needed to be unlocked first, and you also had to beat the game with him to unlock Sakura I think. I was so hyped for SF4 strictly cause he was in it.
We need to go back to the old days where you unlock characters by playing Arcade Mode instead of constantly having to buy or painfully grind for new characters like in Street Fighter V.
Yes me too!
Agreed, I really wish they'd go back to unlocking characters. I hate that unlocking characters now means buy them as DLC.
I'm also glad to see so many others actually being fans of Fei Long. I really thought I was the only one. He's so underused.
The reason unlocks died for fgs is because of the competitive emphasis nowadays. I miss the joy of unlocking characters when I was a kid but this is ultimately better
No you have to beat the game with Ryu to unlock Sakura
Tremendous video. Fei Long was my main when I was a kid. I couldn't be stopped. Im terrible at games today lol, but there was a brief little while as a kid where I was unstoppable w Fei Long. God I miss that. Sometimes guys would get together and play SF for money like it was dice man. Shit was a great time. You put money in, you won some, lost some. F'ers used to get mad and FIGHT fight in person over this haha!!!
I know the kids today have cool stuff and all, but I wish I could share w them the experience of what Street Fighter mania was in the 90s. It was just something completely different altogether.
they dont know
“Dragon” From World Heroes Was The First Bruce Lee-Based Character I Have Seen Back In 1993. And On That Same Year, Capcom Released Super Street Fighter 2, Which Featured Their Own Bruce Lee-Based Character. It Seems That Fei Long Has Lasted Much Longer Than Dragon… Alongside Marshall And Forrest Law…
Very true. Let's not forget Jann Lee from DOA.
@@xChris_Kentx oh yeah! he's cool too
The first Bruce Lee based character I played as was Lui Kang Mortal Kombat 1 in 1991.
I liked Kim Dragon in WH2 more because he has all the iconic moves done right but I think they got sued and had to down grade him to some noise making Bruce Lee look a like in WH3 on wards. Then Kim Dragon died.
@@Ming1975 he died??!! T_T
Mike Tyson recently appeared on ESPN for an interview/game of Mario Kart 8. It was then that he apparently heard for the first time that the popular Street Fighter character Balrog was actually based on him. Allow us to do a little historical housekeeping about this story. When Street Fighter II was released in Japan, some of the characters had different names than in the Western version of the game we eventually got. For instance, the character we know as M. Bison was called Vega and the character we know as Vega was named Balrog. So what was Balrog’s name? Well, it was actually M. Bison.
I want Fei Long to return in Street Fighter 6 He was My Favourite Street Fighter Bruce Lee Character since Super Street Fighter 2 The New Challengers I haven’t seen Fei Long since Ultra Street Fighter 4 and I hope Fei Long will return in Street Fighter 6
1:48 I have to add something:
*Ryu* is based on Masutasu Oyama (Choi Bae Dal), the founder of Kyokushin Karate, one of the best styles.
*Ken* is based on Joe Lewis, one of the greatest kickboxing and karate American fighters.
*Zangief* is based on Victor Zangief, a real Russian Wrestling champion who competed in WWE.
Ryu was based on Mas Oyama and also his student who went to Thailand to fight Muay Thai fighters
3:58 Ken's stage and a few others were actually lifted from the Charles Bronson movie "Hard Times". They planned to call the movie "The Street Fighter", but a Sonny Chiba movie used that title when it was released in the US around the same time, so the movie went back to its previous name from its screenplay. However, in other countries, including Japan, it retained the title "The Street Fighter".
Also, the Roman coliseum stage with the cats in Street Fighter Alpha was inspired by a scene from the movie Way of the Dragon where Bruce Lee fights Chuck Norris.
8:40 You've got the title wrong. It was actually called "Malcolm in the Meth Lab". :)
I never viewed Fei Long as a Bruce Lee clone. In fact, he ended up becoming one of my favorite SF characters. Wish Capcom would use him made. He deserves more than being put in the background!
It's like the number one rule of fighting games to include a Bruce Lee character
It's mandatory.
yeah it Should be enforce At any Cost . :)
I love Fei-Long, don't care if others love him or hate him. While I played SF II in the arcades and was mostly a Ryu player, Super SF II for the Sega Genesis was my first copy of SF that I owned and I just immediately dug Fei-Long.
And for the record, I would have loved to see Fei-Long meet Kim Dragon from World Heroes. That would be pretty cool.
I always thought that Super Double Dragon’s baddies,Roper and Williams, were direct homages to Roper and Williams in Enter The Dragon. Also, the original MK movie plot from 1995 I thought had direct parallels to ETD with 3 fighters coming to an island to thwart an overlord hosting the tournament 👊🏼
Actually your not wrong that they are.
4:00 Interesting detail about the concept art of Zangief's stage, the sign in the background says はたらけ！はたらけ, translating as "Work! Work", whereas in the final release the sign says "Watching is prohibited" in Russian.
In a hilarious Tyson appropriate twist, though, it turns out that Mike Tyson had heard about the Street Fighter swap before and seemingly forgot about it or failed to mention it. Kotaku found a clip from a podcast Tyson was on in April in which someone tells him about the Tyson and Bison connection.
It always seems like Cammy is the only one of the 4 SF characters introduced in SF2 New Challengers that gets some love while Dee Jay, T. Hawk, and even Fei Long get shafted away.
True. Of the 4 new challengers, Cammy has featured the most prominently and gotten the most love. Feilong has always been somewhat underutilized and treated as something of a mid-card fighter, along with Dee Jay and a half-forgotten T Hawk. Feilong certainly deserves more recognition.
Hopefully Fei long appears in SF6. Such a cool character
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I feel the movie that had the most influence for street fighter 2, was "Blood Sport". The protagonist is sort of a duel role, the background of the military like Guile, but fights closer to a Shoto Ryu character. Even blanka is obviously an homage to the Brazilian fighter splitting coconuts, rolling around like an animal. It's got a sumo wrestler, the Thai kick boxer, looks like Sagat, nearly all the arch types are in that, save for , Dhalsim, Claw (Balrog/Vega) Chun Li ... But the final antagonist is named Chong Li.
Thank you for this. Been hoping for this for a long time.
Really appreciate these history videos
Ha! A "World Heroes" reference! I thought I was the only one who appreciated that game! I know it's a Street Fighter 2 knock-off, but I loved it anyway. Where else could you find analogs for Rasputin, Joan of Arc, Ghengis Khan, and Hulk Hogan in the same setting?
Makes me wonder why Sonny Chiba never got a fighting game character (that I know of)...
I always thought Art of Fighting's Takuma was a tribute to Sonny Chiba.
Love Fei Long! He's one of my top favorites of the series!
Awesome video and nice on the Bruce Lee stuff. Ill never forget the moment I saw Fei Long and Super Street Figher 2 intro at some arcade at seaside in Wales. I loved Bruce Lee so it was a dream true. Also Mortal Kombat’s Lui Kang was a big Bruce Lee clone
Capcom,Get this legend back into street fighter 6!
I could never see Fei-Long being a Rip-off to one of the great legendary martial artists Bruce Lee Capcom made Fei-Long to idolize Bruce and his legacy not to be a rip-off
Almost every fighting game has a "Bruce Lee" character.its something we're all used to
0:57 holy crap Ryu hit Dahlsim so hard it knocked *Bison* out of the air
Fei long is my favorite character he had freakin dragons in his background
If you think of it 90% of the fighting games have a "bruce lee". Not that is a bad thing tho.this only demonstrates the impact lee had/has on martial arts all this years.
Hey, Top Hat Gaming Man. You should definitely do a Street Fighter character documentary video on Dhalsim.
Can’t wait for the video covering Nash!
Poor Fei Long getting omitted because the Lee family considers him a comedic effect.
R.I.P
1993-2014
Bruce Lee’s family has come out and said how the SF5’s composers comments are completely false regarding Bruce Lee like usage in other media and now Daniel Lindholm has been blacklisted by Capcom for spreading misleading information
@@AndersonTenecela Phew, I thought he was gone.
Fei Long for SF6!
Also, I'm pretty sure Fatal Fury's Hon Fu was based more on Jackie Chan than Bruce Lee.
Agreed, His a Jackie Chan acting as Bruce, I wished they'd imported Kim Dragon in since they are all from SNK and have a KOF team of HonFu, Kim Dragon & Kim Kaphwan because they all got: Ah-CHA! Attack. LoL!
World Heroes was ADK’s brainchild. SNK only acquired the rights to ADK’s properties after the company closed it’s doors.
@@YeldellGW That still means SNK owns the series now. They could totally bring World Heroes characters into KOF is they wanted.
I wouldn't say he's a rip off so much as he's a homage. And he's definitely one of the most memorable in my opinion. Fantastic video here, by the way. Excellent retrospective on Fei-Long.
CORRECTION - Bryan Cranston plays Walter White aka Heisenberg in “Breaking Bad”, and the goofy dad Hal in “Malcolm in the Middle”
But I am completely mind blown knowing that was a young Cranston! My goodness!
Reading into history, I find it interesting now looking back at Hong Kong. When you grow up seeing things as a young boy, you sometimes never truly question the current events. I only just realized that when Fei-Long was introduced, Hong Kong at the time was in the end years of British administration; the Chinese would reclaim it in 1997.
Every fighting game has bruce lee representation
Mortal kombat-liu kang
Street fighter-fei long
Tekken-Law
Fatal Fury-Hon Fu
Soul Calibur-Maxi
Dead or Alive-Jann Lee
Fei long not appearing in SFxTekken is such a missed opportunity...
Absolutely! We need a Fei Long vs Law match up, with an intro of both of them accusing the other of being a ripoff. Lol!
@@flykyrt81 Or they could also be one of those reluctant team mates when paired off.
hah at the hand weapon being remeniscent of claw and hah at the island tournament being similar to another famous 90s fighting game ip. I think it's incredible that sf and mk can be heavily tied to 2-3 movies and yet have now spawned SO much media themselves.
When I was a kid and had a snes , getting super street fighter 2 was great. I didn’t know about Bruce lee at that time and once I got past the fireballs of Ken and ryu, Fei long became my favorite
In Japan, the character of Balrog is named M. Bison (with the letter being an initial for "Mike") after real-life boxer Mike Tyson.
Not rip off.. TRIBUTE. 👍
Who cares of feilong is a bruce lee rip off hes is an awesome character very underrated and one of my favorite characters in the street fighter universe
Completely agree. He's my personal favorite. I was so hooked on SF2 when it came out, I couldn't stand the the idea of the Alpha series. Finally when he was put in Alpha 3 I tired them and can't get enough of them. He's also the reason I was so hyped for SF4 and now just want a port of it to Switch.
@@King-K-Club one person i no disrespected feilong calling him gaylong and a bruce lee rip off
SFIV is such a great game. I hope SFVI is closer to IV than it is to V.
Helloooooo Big Daddy Top hat 🎩
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Great video as always, but it is a slip. When you mentioned the American voice actor as the bad guy....I had to do a double take... you stated it was on the show Malcolm in the middle @8:58
He played Heisenberg in "Breaking Bad" not "Malcom in the middle". Awesome video though! Love your content.
Dude, Cranston was both.
Street Fighter = Enter The Dragon
Mortal Kombat = Bloodsport
I've come to realize something: Yrs ago in the original SF, one of Ryu's end quotes would be:
"You must defeat *Sheng Long* to stand a chance"
Could it be, Capcom wanted Ryu to have an equal rival (besides his Shotokan brother) who he fights in his travels...so if someone defeated 'Sheng Long' , he'd be worthy to face Ryu? What if Sheng, allways coming to a draw against Ryu, has a younger brother named *Fei* who wants to avenge his brother's losses?
The quote was meant to be "you must defeat my dragon punch to stand a chance". Sheng Long was actually a mistranslation because they translated the original Japanese quote to Chinese & then to English & somehow missed it (Capcom didn't really have great quality control back in the day). The fans all thought Sheng Long was Ryu's master or something. A game magazine printed an April Fool's prank with fake pictures & instructions on how to fight Sheng Long & eventually that's what inspired the devs to create Akuma.
One of my favorite SF characters.
In the Japanese version of the Street Fighter II anime, Fei Long was voiced by Pancrase founder, MMA legend and pro wrestler, Masakatsu Funaki.
It's a tribute to greatness of a man who made us believe.
Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery.
I remember when SSF came out. That game was epic at the time. Fei Long quickly became one of my favourite characters.
Super street fighter 2 was my first fighting game ever on the SEGA genesis or in general first arcade was kabuki clash at sun rx drug on eastern and bonanza. That place had most of the games I ended up playing soul edge or blade, marvel superheroes, X-men vs street fighter. Man so much fun at that little place.
Great video Fei Long is one of my favorite character. Sidenote can SOMEONE please explain or make a video about who is that character beside Akuma in that old Dark stalkers arcade game. We use to always say it was Akuma's son...
Heisenberg was on malcolm in the middle? You made quite a crossover right there lmao.
Can't say you don't listen to your fans...alot of people were asking for this
I see it's time for my obligatory "Dhalsim character bio when?" comment. All in a days work.
Again perfect to have any type of character like Bruce in fighting game, I felt it as praise to have someone like bruce.
The movie crow was great btw
SSF 2 the new challengers was my first SF game. It was the snes Era and I loved popping that game in any day of the week
"You must learn to block with my speed will overcome you!"
Make a video on Liu Kang next please 🙂👍
I always pronounced it "Fae Long"
I'm fairly sure you pronounce it correctly.
Yes,Fei Long means Flying Dragon in cantonese
If anything, Mortal Kombat has more similarities to Enter the Dragon than Street Fighter II
Cranston/Heisenberg/Breaking Bad. Malcolm in The Middle was another show Cranston was in. Great video tho. Fei Long was my favorite character.
Always ❤ Fei Long
I like Fei Long he is an amazing fighter from Hong Kong 🇭🇰. 😀👍🎮
while the series may have forgotten him a bit i liked fei long in alpha 3(especially yun and yang clearing his name in the psp version.) and 4(weird in his ending seth is taken out by guy when the 2 don't interact though remember people oddly thinking it was ibuki.) and thought he was a nice homage to bruce lee(a ton of works take inspiration that rip off barely has meaning unless it actually shamelessly uses it as every fighting game character is based off something.) that i find funny the game/2v referencing the 2 being around and loved captain sawada(with him being in cfn profiles traveling the world destroying the remains of shadaloo.).
actually loved him more in other media like the animated movie(favorite version of him being voiced by bryan cranston,his fight with ryu showing their character/group tac's awesome style for capcom and especially his silent goodbye to ryu that made me wish ryu fought him/sagat again at the end.) & 2v(he's pretty much a prototype for batsu from rival schools in it,also loved that episode.).
also like his director appears in both and is a playful parody of snk's cheng sinzan as fatal fury:the motion picture came out around that time.(on my brothers birthday,actually.:3)
1:56 I always imagined Sagat as a hairless version of Tong Po from Van Damme’s Kickboxer.
The street fighter v series expands feilongs story tremendously
I still remember the day I walked in a laundry and saw SF2...I feel in love🤩
Fei long was May favorite street fighter character ever since he was removed ! It was frustrating had to settle for Ryu
Law was the rip-off.. even the outfits
I almost choked on my lemonade when he said Malcolm in the Middle.. Lmao caught me off guard
The title was to bait me into commenting, and it worked Fei Long is an homage to the great Bruce Lee as you know.
it's about 75% of fighting games that's gonna have a character in Bruce's image. Bruce was the greatest!!!💯
I just had to look it up.
Brandon Lee was alive when SSF2 was realised in Japan ( why there is no reference to him) but died just before the western localisation. Hence his honorary inclusion.
You forgot to show the part in the street fighter cartoon where fei long mocks Ken's training and ken says "and you....you're a loser!!" Lol
Had to pause the video to watch 'Enter The Dragon' Feel better now
Great vid thanks just dhalsim t hawk and dj left now
I was 14 when I play the original SF2, also the first MK was inspired by Enter the dragon, Lui Kang was also inspired by Bruce Lee
Is it fee long or fay long?
The former
The latter
@@zu_1455 first time I tried trolling subtly and you ruined it, lol you're right
kens stage is not inspired by enter the dragon. it's actually quite derived from "hard times" a movie starring Charles Bronson. zangiefs stage is too. the movies nickname is the street fighter.
Doesn't detract from the fact that they were originally intended to be placed on the same island.
@@TopHatGamingManChannel I see what you're saying I read about the original island concept but didn't think they had any stages of anything made for it.
Hmm I sued to mix this up with "Game of Death' (the one with Bolo) and think 'hey that's where MK got it from', but now I see each game took from a different movie. Great vid! ---EDIT---- okay, now I'm confused because Bolo was in this movie and I always thought of it as MK's inspiration. Am I trippin?? So they just both took from the same movie?? Or what is going on here.
In the basic starts, I have followed Street Fighter with the video games, and the cartoon Street Fighter the animated movie.
Although I don't think Fei Long should be removed from SF as he was never a disrespectful representation, but I do definitely agree with Bruce Lee's daughter's comments on that Tarantino film. I also think they could've easily replaced bruce lees characters when making the film, it wouldn't have changed the film that much.
me just nodding along to your bryan cranston FACTS
I don't consider him a clone at all. If anything, he's an homage character. His design in the original Super SF2 is Bruce as far as I am concerned. All his designs afterwards were changed more and more to separate Fei from Bruce. In later versions of SF, you can see how much more buff he is. But in SSF2 and SSF2 X he's pure skin, bone and lean muscle. He's my main fighter in the classic games and is one of the wild card fighters(meaning he may be considered middle tier on paper, but in the right hands his clutch factor is explosive).