Cody Travers

Cody Travers, also known as Hero of Metro City, is one of the main characters from the Final Fight series.
== Charactah Account ==
Cody Travers is a born street fighter who became known as the "Hero of Metro City" after rescuing his childhood sweetheart Jessica from the Mad Gear gang in Final Fight with his friend Guy and Jessica's father Mike Haggar. However, after breaking up with Jessica following his arrest, Cody became very apathetic, seeing his imprisonment as a punishment for his good deeds (even though he's gotten so strong that he can escape at any time he wants). During the events of Street Fighter V, Mike Haggar exonerated Cody of his crimes, leading Cody to become the mayor of Metro City and is slowly getting over his depression.
Cody is depicted as being a combative, reckless but ultimately positive and good-natured man, having a powerful sense of justice and love for his girlfriend, Jessica. However, in his Street Fighter appearances, after breaking up with Jessica, losing touch with his friends and spending several years in prison, Cody has become extremely aloof, apathetic and doubtful. He remains pugnacious as ever, occasionally breaking out of prison just to fight and relieve his boredom, and often maintains his generally dismissive air - a major exception being when he finds an opponent that can entertain him.
Cody interprets his imprisonment as punishment for his ultimately good deeds, and even admits that the idea of achieving any constructive goal (such as overcoming rivals or taking care of family) is lost on him. Cody harbors some internal resentment towards the outside world, musing that he fought solely for the sake of Metro City but ended up imprisoned for it. According to his ending in the Street Fighter IV games, he feels at home in prison. Despite this, and as certain dialogue indicates, while Cody appears to have given up on fighting crime, he still retains his old sense of justice and an enduring (albeit subdued and exhausted) desire to oppose evil. In particular, his win quote against M. Bison shows that his true feelings come through when he confronts great evil ("I don't consider myself a good guy anymore, but I had to take you down!"), although he immediately tries to hide it. Cody also gives his respect to people who need to do business. This is shown in his win quote against T. Hawk, in which he tells him to not let him stand in the way of what he has to do and then wishes him good luck ("Don't let me stand in your way if you got stuff to do. Good luck!").
== Appearance ==
=== Cartoon ===
* Street Fighter
=== Comics ===
* Street Fighter II Turbo
=== Video Games ===
* Capcom Fighting Jam
* Final Fight
* Final Fight Revenge
* Final Fight: Streetwise
* Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter
* Mighty Final Fight
* Street Fighter Alpha 2
* Street Fighter Alpha 3
* Street Fighter IV 
* Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition
* Street Fighter X Tekken
* Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
== Trivia ==
* Cody bears a mild resemblance to Joe from the original Street Fighter. Both are stated to be from the United States, and Cody's Crack Kick is similar to Joe's kick.
** Cody's official artwork for Super Street Fighter IV displays a broken brick wall as well as the Street Fighter logo. In the intro for the aforementioned game, he destroys an entire brick wall with just a small rock, and the camera does a closeup on the rock right before he throws it. Both appear to be echoing the original intro of the first Street Fighter, in which the person literally breaking the wall is in fact Joe, who does it with his own fists.
** The official Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition trailer also shows this as well.
* Cody is one of the first characters in the franchise to utilize "actual" street fighting as their primary fighting style, despite not originating from that series; of note in this regard is that Final Fight was originally titled Street Fighter '89 and was originally a sequel to the original Street Fighter.
* Cody's rival in Super Street Fighter IV was originally intended to be Chun-Li, but was then changed to Guyshortly before the release.[citation needed] His win quote against Chun-Li implies that she looked up to him as a hero.
** However, it seemingly counteracts in Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition, when according to her win-quote, Chun-Li was still suspicious of Cody and his position as mayor, even though the latter stated to the former (in his win-quote) that he had done his time in prison.
* Oni and E. Honda are the only characters who recognize that Cody is holding back during all his battles. Before Cody fights the former in the English version of Super Street Fighter IV's Arcade Mode, Oni implies that he might actually survive the battle if he doesn't hold back. In the Japanese version, Oni sees Cody wearing handcuffs as a sign of disrespect and makes no comment on Cody surviving the encounter.
* In the English version of Super Street Fighter IV if Cody wins in a fight against Akuma, he admits that he thought Akuma was rather weak compared to his expectations, being the only character to honestly admit being unimpressed by Akuma's strength. However in the original script Cody simply asks Akuma to go all out and makes no comment on Akuma being weaker than he expected.
* He and Rolento are the only two characters whose theme in Street Fighter IV is not their theme from their first Street Fighter Alpha appearance. His theme instead is a remixed version of the original Final Fight theme.
* If Cody wins against Oni in Arcade Mode, he'll say that it was the most fun he's had in his life worth living, making it the only time that he admits to having fun.
* Cody's win quotes against non-human challengers (such as Oni and Ogre) may hint that Cody thinks it is fun to fight against them.
* On some occasions in Street Fighter Alpha 3, Edi. E (who is a boss from Final Fight) chases Cody around, trying to arrest him after a win. An even rarer occasion shows him getting kicked off the screen after this.
* In Street Fighter Alpha 3 MAX, When Cody is in V-ISM, he can dodge certain attacks while blocking.
* In Street Fighter Alpha 3 one of Cody's win quotes is "After waiting for so long, it feels good to do more than two moves," referencing Final Fight's limited movesets.
* When Cody swings his pipe during his second V-Trigger, it resembles Cracker Jack's Batting Hero Special Attack, Home Run Hero Super Combo, and Home Run King Meteor Combo in the Street Fighter EX series and Fighting EX Layer where he wields his baseball bat.
** Additionally, when Walking Dead character Negan, in his guest appearance in Tekken 7, utilizes his bob-wired baseball bat, it resembles Cody second V-Trigger on its purest form.
* During the execution of his Side Arm V-Trigger, the way that Cody initiates his Rapid Fire nearly resembles Chris Redfield's Sweep Combo Hyper Combo in Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds, its update, and Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite. Cody also wields a combat knife that is nearly similar to Chris' own.
* Cody's official last name or family name, Travers, was first mentioned in Final Fight: Streetwise, and it has rarely been used since then, as he's commonly referred to as just Cody. Cody's SFV: AE trailer marks one of the few instances of his last name being mentioned outside Streetwise. Since then, his family name became officially and canonically recognized.
* The fact that Cody has succeeded Haggar as the new Mayor of Metro City (given the fact that Haggar himself had predated former WWE wrestler and commentator Jesse Ventura's past run as the former Governor of Minnesota) has coincided with Glenn Jacobs' (or better known as WWE's Kane) mayoral campaign for Knox County, Tennessee, to which he had won in due time. As of October 2018, Jacobs is still incumbent as the Mayor of Knox County, Tennessee while also continuing to wrestle for the WWE.
* His quote "You're already dead" in Final Fight Revenge may be a reference to Kenshiro from the manga series Fist of the North Star.
* Scott who was the blonde guy in the Street Fighter 2 intro bares a resemblance to Cody. He even wears a white t shirt and jeans just like Cody did from Final Fight.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Cody at Street Fighter Wiki
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