Terry Bogard

This page documents information about or related to a future release. All information in this article must be verifiable, and adhere to SmashWiki's new game procedure. Potentially contentious information should be discussed on the talk page before being added.

For fighter info, see Terry (SSBU).

Terry Bogard
File:Terry2000fix.png Official artwork of Terry Bogard from The King of Fighters 2000.
Universe	Fatal Fury
Debut	Fatal Fury: King of Fighters (1991)
Smash Bros. appearances	Ultimate
Most recent non-Smash appearance	The King of Fighters: All-Stars (2018)
Console/platform of origin	Neo-Geo MVS
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Place of origin	South Town
Created by	Takashi Tsukamoto
Article on Wikipedia	Terry Bogard

Terry Bogard (テリー・ボガード, Terry Bogard) is a prominent character in several of SNK's fighting game series. He is the main protagonist of the Fatal Fury series and one of the major supporting characters in The King of Fighters, and as such he is widely considered one of SNK's most iconic characters.

Origin

Terry Bogard is an American martial artist known for his charisma and friendliness. His fighting style is a mix of various techniques from a variety of martial arts, including boxing, kung fu, and kickboxing. Outside of fighting, his other hobbies include playing video games and basketball. Terry also has a love interest in Blue Mary and a pet monkey named Ukee.

Terry, alongside his younger brother Andy, spent his early childhood as an orphan living on the dangerous streets of the fictional South Town. They were soon adopted by Jeff Bogard, a student of the Hakkyokuseiken martial art. When Terry was 10 years old, he witnessed Jeff's murder at the hands of the local crime boss Geese Howard, host of the "King of Fighters" fighting tournament and former friend of Jeff. Terry and Andy thus spent the next decade honing their skills to avenge their father's death. After this, they, along with their friend Joe Higashi, enter the King of Fighters tournament and ultimately defeat Geese, sending him falling from the top of a high rise, as depicted in Fatal Fury.

The following year, in Fatal Fury 2, Geese's half-brother, a German nobleman named Wolfgang Krauser von Stroheim, sponsers a new King of Fighters tournament, bringing it from South Town to the world stage. Terry enters the tournament and defeats Wolfgang in the finals, earning Terry the title of South Town Hero.

Three years later, in Fatal Fury 3: Road to the Final Victory, Terry returns to South Town from his worldwide travels, meeting with his brother Andy and friends Joe Higashi and Mai Shiranui just in time for the grand opening of Pao Pao Cafe West. Soon they learn that Geese survived his fall, and that he intends to obtain the legendary Jin Scrolls, capable of giving immortality to its user. Terry and friends enter another King of Fighters tournament, where they meet Ryuji Yamazaki, a Japanese crime boss hired by the Jin brothers to find the scrolls. After beating Yamazaki once, he gets away. Terry later encounters Geese, whom he defeats. Terry reencounters Yamazaki and beats him again; afterwards, Terry suddenly gets teleported to a mysterious chamber by Jin Chon Shu, who challenges him for the scrolls; Terry ultimately defeats both him and his older brother Jin Chon Rei. However, while Terry was crowned the champion of this new tournament, he had discovered that Geese had managed to escape with the scrolls.

In Real Bout Fatal Fury Terry and his friends fight their way through the new King of Fighters tournament, once again in South Town. Terry eventually moves to the final battle in the tournament against Geese. By the end of the fight, Geese is kocked off the edge of this tower, but Terry grabs hold of him before he can fall any further. But this was not to be, as Geese knocked Terry's hand away, plummeting to what is believed to be his permanent death. In the aftermath of the tournament, Terry came across a boy named Rock Howard, Geese's son. Taking him in, he would raise and take care of him as means to put the feud between him and Geese behind, and would teach him how to fight on the streets of Southtown and his travels around the world.

The King of Fighters series ignores the continuity of many of the previous games that came before it, likely due to it being an "all-star" game. The main examples of this are:

• Fatal Fury and Art of Fighting characters are around the same age as one another, while originally Art of Fighting was intended to be set over a decade before the events of Fatal Fury.
• Geese and Krauser's deaths are ignored. Despite this, Rock is still raised by Terry like in Garou: Mark of the Wolves.

Terry has been a recurring supporting character in this series, where he is the core leader of Fatal Fury team in the main KOF timeline. The 3D fighting game spin-off timeline Maximum Impact series however, is heavily based on Mark of the Wolves storyline, where Geese perished at the end of Fatal Fury 3's tournament.

In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Terry as he appears in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

Terry was announced as a DLC fighter in the Nintendo Direct broadcast on September 4, 2019. He is the fourth DLC character available through the Fighters Pass, and is set to be released in November 2019.