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'''Dan Hibiki''' (火引 弾: ''Hibiki Dan'') is a character from [[Capcom]]'s [[Street Fighter]] series of [[video game|video games]]. Dan is consistently portrayed as an arrogant, overconfident, yet utterly weak character in each game he is featured in. The name "Dan" is not short for "Daniel" but is Japanese for "bullet". However, English-speaking fans often pronounce the name as though it were short for "Daniel", rather than its proper pronunciation "Dahn". |
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Dan Hibiki is actually a parody of the games and characters of rival game producer [[SNK]]. He was first seen in an illustration of the Street Fighter character Sagat, who was depicted holding the limp body of a fighter who has the body of Ryo Sakazaki and head of Robert Garcia, the two protagonists of SNK's [[Art of Fighting]]. Later, in the game Street Fighter Alpha, there is an animated sequence of Sagat holding and throwing aside a character resembling Dan, possibly Dan's father. Dan himself appears in the game as a secret character, and can either be selected as the player's character or fought as a CPU opponent. He could be seen with an orange Gi (like Ryo's) or his now-trademark pink Gi. In the game, Dan was distinguished by his ineffective special attacks, such as a fireball with a comically short range, and his ability to taunt his opponents infinitely, much like the characters in Art of Fighting. Despite this clownishness, he is generally a decent character in most of the games in which he's featured. |
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In ''Street Fighter Alpha 2'', the character was made into a normally-selectable fighter. In later games, Dan's ability to taunt was expanded into a number of various techniques, special moves, and even super moves (hence introducing the term "super taunt" to the fighting game vernacular). He still exists to mock and parody other games and characters, and his satirical nature makes him popular among fans. |
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The parody continued in the [[SNK VS. Series]], where both [[Capcom]] and SNK games had a running gag where Dan was often mistaken for Ryo or Robert, or, especially in the SNK games, where Dan parodied even more of Ryo's attacks. |
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In Dan's backstory, his father Go Hibiki was a rival of the character Sagat. It is revealed that after Go put out Sagat's eye, he was killed in response. Because of this, Dan seeked revenge on Sagat, training to become a fighter, but was expelled from his dojo when his motivations were learned. Dan thus developed his own style of [[Shotokan]] [[Karate]] called Saikyou-ryuu, or "The Strongest Style." After ''Street Fighter Alpha 2'', Dan's revenge aspect was played down, and his motivation switched to promoting and expanding his Saikyou-ryuu school, even to the point of offering exercise videos and correspondence courses. |
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== Memorable Quotes == |
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* ''I hate the [[Art_of_Fighting|art of fighting]], but I wanna be the [[King_of_Fighters|king of fighters]]!'' |
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== Related Characters == |
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* [[Robert Garcia]] |
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* [[Ryo Sakazaki]] |
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* [[Sagat]] |
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== See Also == |
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* [[Art of Fighting]] |
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* [[Marvel VS. Series]] |
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* [[SNK VS. Series]] |
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* [[Street Fighter]] |
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[[Category:Street Fighter video game character]] |
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Revision as of 22:21, 13 June 2004
Given that there is one less MEP for each constituency (apart from SW England and Northern Ireland), what does the 'Change of Seats' figure mean? Is this compared to a hypothetical election with 1999 votes but the seats as present? Morwen - Talk 22:21, 13 Jun 2004 (UTC)