Geese Howard
The game's story is set a year after the original in 1979. Geese Howard, a rising star in South Town's criminal underworld, summons all 12 fighters both veterans and newcomers to the city for a martial arts tournament, "The King of Fighters". Geese was the final boss and series original antagonist of SNK's other related fighting game franchise "Fatal Fury", whose story took place two years after the events of "Art of Fighting 2" where the late "Jeff Bogard" had been murdered by the hands of his former Hakkyokuseiken sparring partner Geese, which sparks the revenge of Jeff's adoptive sons Terry Bogard and Andy Bogard to fight which takes place a decade later in 1991. The events of all three "Art of Fighting" sagas is canonically a prequel trilogy to the "Fatal Fury" series.