Team USA: Ken Terry Team Russia Zangief Twelve Ken made his first appearance in the original Street Fighter released in 1987. The character’s name was originally spelled in Japanese as 拳 (Ken), which is the kanji character for fist, although Capcom dropped this in subsequent games, spelling his name in katakana instead (ケン). Ken is three-quarters Japanese. He is characterized as the former sparring partner, rival and best friend of the main character, Ryu, who trained under the same master (a character whose identity would later be fleshed out as Gouken). Within the actual game, Ken is for all intents and purposes a clone of Ryu controlled by the second player during competitive matches, with the only distinguishing aspects being that Ken wears a red keikogi, has dyed blond hair and fights barefoot (in the original game, Ryu wears red shoes). The single-player tournament can only be played with Ken after the second player defeats the first player in a two-player match. Terry Bogard (テリー・ボガード, Terī Bogādo) is a fictional, video game character created by SNK Playmore (previously 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 recants from …