Geese Howard (The King of Fighters)

Geese Howard is a major character from The King of Fighters series.
== Charactah Account ==
Geese, along with Jeff Bogard, trained under Tung Fu Rue in the art of Hakkyokuseiken. After learning that Jeff would inherit the style's secret arts, Geese left the school embittered, and swore revenge. He eventually became the most known mastermind in the criminal underground. He took control of Southtown after winning it over from Mr. Big and making him his underling. Afterwards, Geese finally got his revenge by killing Jeff Bogard in a vicious battle, and causing his sons to train under Tung for revenge. Over the course of several years he worked his way from police commissioner to mayor of Southtown. He decided to host the first King of Fighters tournament out of boredom, and faced Terry Bogard in the final battle after Terry defeated his right hand man Billy Kane. Geese lost and was given a swift boot out of the top floor of his tower, but somehow survived the fall.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Fatal Fury 2: The New Battle
* Fatal Fury: Legend of the Hungry Wolf
* Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture
* The King of Fighters: Destiny
=== Manga ===
* The King of Fighters: A New Beginning
=== Video Games ===
* Art of Fighting
* Art of Fighting 2
* Athena On Stage
* Capcom vs. SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium 2001
* Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Fight 2000
* CR The King of Fighters
* Days of Memories
* Fatal Fury 3: Road to the Final Victory 
* Fatal Fury Special
* Fatal Fury: First Contact 
* Fatal Fury: King of Fighters
* Fatal Fury: Wild Ambition
* Gang Legend
* Garou Densetsu Premium
* Garou Densetsu Sougeki
* Garou Densetsu Special
* Garou Densetsu vs. Fighter's History Dynamite
* Garou Densetsu: The Legend of Wild Wolf
* Garou: Mark of the Wolves
* Kimi wa Hero
* KOF x Garou Densetsu
* KOF: Maximum Impact
* Moeyo! SNK Gals Osuin Katoukai
* Neo Geo Battle Coliseum
* Neo Geo Heroes: Ultimate Shooting
* Puzzle & Dragons
* Quiz King of Fighters
* Real Bout Fatal Fury
* Real Bout Fatal Fury 2: The Newcomers
* Real Bout Garou Densetsu Special Dominated Mind
* Ryuuko no Ken
* SNK Dream Battle
* SNK Heroines Tag Team Frenzy
* SNK High School Collection
* SNK vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos
* SNK vs. Capcom: The Match of the Millennium
* Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
* Tekken 7
* The King of Fighters
* The King of Fighters '94
* The King of Fighters '95
* The King of Fighters '96
* The King of Fighters '97
* The King of Fighters '98 Ultimate Match
* The King of Fighters '98 Ultimate Match Online
* The King of Fighters 2000
* The King of Fighters 2002
* The King of Fighters 2002 Unlimited Match
* The King of Fighters All Star
* The King of Fighters Destiny
* The King of Fighters EX
* The King of Fighters Neowave
* The King of Fighters M: Fighting Stars Assembly
* The King of Fighters XI
* The King of Fighters XIV
* The King of Fighters XV
* The King of Fighters: Kyo
* The King of Fighters: World
* The Super Spy
== Trivia ==
* The fate of Geese Howard is one of the major reasons of why there are so many continuities within SNK's various fighting game series. In the Fatal Fury series, he is dead. In The King of Fighters series, however, he is alive (excluding the KOF: Maximum Impact series). He is sometimes known for using his "Nightmare" mode for games where he is dead, such as in Real Bout Fatal Fury Special.
** An interview with Neo Geo Freak reveals that this is mostly due to the fact that The King of Fightersdevelopment team wasn't initially aware about Geese's fate in the Real Bout Fatal Fury series. Once they heard about it, the developers from Real Bout team approved his appearance in the series due to their desires to create the "Boss Team" in KOF '96. Additionally, Geese's profile statistics during this series are the same ones for Fatal Fury Special (excluding his age).
* The command input of Geese's Raging Storm has remained mostly untouched in his game appearances due to its popularity with fans in Japan, and was even coined as the "Pretzel Command" by the fandom. It is one of the few moves from Fatal Fury to not undergo a command rearrangement in The King of Fighters series. In some games, such as Neo Geo Battle Coliseum, SVC Chaos, and KOF '98 UM, the command input is lax thus gamers can find a way to execute it with a simpler command that overlaps.
** Regarding its name, many different sources have romanized it as Raising Storm, Raging Storm or Rising Storm (the second naming variation which his son stays consistent with).
** Its command so far has been notably the most strict in The King of Fighters Neowave via his younger self, in that messing up the input may have him activate Deadly Rave instead. Though prior to that via, Real Bout Fatal Fury 2, its command input instead was that of the Haou Shoukou Ken (while still fairly tight).
** In The King of Fighters XIV, its motion instead changes to that of the Ura 108 Shiki: Orochinagi (a quarter-circle backward-to-half-circle forward) motion and is instead his only strongest move via acting as his Climax DM (with the removal of the Deadly Rave), which simplifies his character somewhat and also resembles the "windy" version his son uses.
** In Neo Geo Battle Coliseum, a unique form of his Raging Storm is used as a stronger version whenever he manages to land one of his counter throw, in reference to the one used in Fatal Fury 3, where it will turn red during a unique combination of attacks and deal more damage.
* Geese is not as antagonistic to the Bogard brothers in The King of Fighters series than he is in his native series, but doesn't mind keeping tabs and clashing with them.
* Geese's CD attack while it had a name in more in-depth movelists in the Japanese scripts (known as the Fudou Kassatsu Uraken, lit. Motionless Life-or-Death Backfist), was one of the few along with some others had that its name brought to light as a command normal in the vs. Capcom crossovers. However, via his ripped SvC Chaos incarnation that appears in the console versions of 2002, his default CD/Blowback Attack (along with Goenitz, Shingo and King's) inflicts no damage via a programming error, while the aforementioned command normal version of it does.
* When the silhouette of his younger AOF 2 appearance was leaked into Neo Geo Freak, many fans thought he was "an evil Andy" or Ryuhaku Todoh. Neowave Geese uses high-pitched re-recorded versions of Geese's battle dialogue from SNK vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos.
* Real Bout Fatal Fury has an impostor named Shadow who can only be fought by Geese or Billy. He is identical to Geese except that Shadow stutters.
* At the time of his debut in Art of Fighting 2, Geese was exclusively voiced by an English-speaking person, and spoke in full English words. This trend stopped in Fatal Fury: King of Fighters onwards.
* Ureshino alludes that Nightmare Geese's appearance in Maximum Impact 2 was done mainly due to Rock and Billy's appearances in the game.
* In the Neo Geo Freak's 1997 Volume 8 character poll, he was voted as the nineteenth favourite character with a total of 507 votes. 232 votes from the male fans and 275 votes from the female fans. In the character popularity poll on Neo Geo Freak's website, he was voted as the thirteenth favorite character with a total of 903 votes.
* The theme "Kiss Geese Once More", from the KOF: Maximum Impact series, while never used explicitly for Geese, is used in the "Infernal Gate" stage of both Maximum Impact and Maximum Impact 2. The stage is modeled after Geese's "throne room" from the original Fatal Fury.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Geese Howard at SNK Wiki
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