Felicia (Darkstalkers)

Felicia is one of the major characters from the Darkstalkers series.
== Charactah Account ==
Felicia was raised in an orphanage by a nun named Rose (not that one). After Rose passed away, Felicia decided to make a name for herself in show business and left town. Meeting other cat-women along the way, they started a musical group which was a smash hit.
Felicia is an energetic and optimistic catgirl who enjoys singing, dancing and making friends with people. All she wishes for is peaceful coexistence with humans and doesn't resort to fighting unless she cannot avoid it. Because of this, she stands out among all the other Darkstalkers, many of whom are antihero at best.
Felicia's nice attitude has made some people tolerate Darkstalkers more and this gives her more motivation to persuade more humans to accept them since Felicia loves humans due to their personalities and open-mindedness. Despite some humans not accepting Darkstalkers easily, she doesn't give up her passion to make friends with the ones that care.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge
=== Cartoons ===
* Darkstalkers the Animated Series
=== Comics ===
* Darkstalkers
=== Manga ===
* Vampire Savior
=== Video Games ===
* Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium
* Capcom Fighting Collection
* Capcom Fighting Evolution
* Cross Edge
* Darkstalkers 3
* Darkstalkers Chronicle: The Chaos Tower
* Darkstalkers Resurrection
* Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors
* Eroico
* Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes
* Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds
* Namco x Capcom
* NeoGeo Pocket Color Selection Vol.1
* Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge
* Pocket Fighter
* Project X Zone 2
* SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters DS
* SNK vs. Capcom: Match of the Millennium
* Street Fighter Alpha 2
* Street Fighter Alpha Anthology
* Street Fighter Battle Combination
* Street Fighter X All Capcom
* Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo
* Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix
* Super Puzzle Fighter II X for Matching Service
* Teppen
* Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3
* Vampire Chronicle For Matching Service
* Vampire: Darkstalkers Collection
== Trivia ==
* The following are tidbits about Felicia herself:
** Although her fur preserves her modesty, Felicia is fully naked and wears no clothing.
** In an interview with the devs, it is stated Felicia eats the same things as normal people and prefers fresh foods over processed foods.
** When asked if Felicia ever were to get into a relationship (with Jon Talbain) Capcom replied that they don’t think she would limit herself to other Darkstalkers and that “she’s probably a bit immature to be thinking about relationships.“
** Felicia also doesn’t think about her fighting too deeply, and enjoys doing what she’s good at.
** Felicia had a world tour called “The World Is Mine” where she visited every major city in the world.
* Some people believe that Elena from Street Fighter III: New Generation was inspired by one of Felicia's original concepts as an African werepanther. Felicia was inspired by the Maasai people, an ethnic group from certain parts of Kenya and northern Tanzania and in later games the country Elena comes from is Kenya (originally her country was just listed as "Africa").
** The two share many similarities such as having bright and energetic personalities, white clothing/fur with a slightly similar appearance, bright/light colored hair with dark/tan skin and bright blue eyes, with the blue eyes being more of a color error on Felicia's design rather than her canonical appearance but is still common in various art and media.
* Felicia has the largest bust of the Darkstalkers females, beating even SNK's Mai Shiranui from the Fatal Fury/King of Fighters franchise by one centimeter. Her idle stance also displays some of the only breast jiggle in the series.
* Felicia has the second-most appearances outside of Darkstalkers behind Morrigan Aensland.
* In Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Felicia's win quote against Frank West has her mentioning her goal of extending her career from musicals to films. This could also be seen as a reference to her Pocket Fighter storyline where she sought out Ken to gain a movie contract.
** In another win quote from the game game, Felicia mentions she wanted to start a broadway musical called "Cats", only to discover someone had beat her to it.
* Felicia is the first barefoot female fighter in a fighting game.
** In Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes, for that matter, Felicia is the only barefoot female character.
* Felicia's DLC for Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 has her play as Yellow Iris from Battle Circuit, a classic Capcom beat 'em up. Yellow Iris was heavily inspired by Felicia, even having some of Felicia's attacks in her moveset.
* Like Morrigan, Felicia was voiced consistently in the games up to Cross Edge by her original Japanese voice actress, Kae Araki. As of Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds, she is now voiced by Kana Asumi.
* Felicia shares some similarities with Sonic the Hedgehog. Their battles techniques, involving rolling into a ball (her rolling bucker and his spindash) and their kicking moves (her delta kick and his numerous kicking attacks). They're also the fastest characters of their respective worlds, have blue hair/fur with green eyes and are both animal/human-like creatures. In the 2020 Sonic The Hedgehog film, Sonic's powers are given much more of an electrical effect to them and Felicia transforms into a humanoid via lightning.
* Felicia's official art for Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 is visually similar to her official art from the original Darkstalkers game.
* In Revelations: Persona, the catgirl-type enemy Nekomata has the same name (in the English version) and traits as Felicia.
* Felicia's "Midnight Bliss" form is a shout-out to the famous skirt blowing action of Marilyn Monroe.
* Some of Felicia's artwork depicts her incorrectly with blue eyes instead of green, and it seems to have become an increasingly common error in recent years, with even her Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds' character model having this incorrect eye color.
* Felicia breaks the fourth wall in one of her win quotes in Vampire Savior/Darkstalkers 3; mentioning her appearances in Night Warriors, Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo, and Darkstalkers. She also mentions Blanka from Street Fighter in her ending for Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge.
** The catwomen in Darkstalkers share similarities to the bakeneko but seem to be a partially inverted interpretation of them. The difference is that instead of normal cats, they start out as normal humans who gain catlike traits as they grow, while the similarities are more obvious as they are still shapeshifting supernatural cat-humanoid beings who start changing and gain new abilities once they reach a certain age.
* Although Felicia's birth year coincides with the release of the poem The Curse of the Catwoman, the 1942 and 1982 remake of the horror movie Cat People also come to mind, in where themes of romance, forbidden desire, and human psychology regarding an attractive yet dangerous werecat woman are prevalent themes in its story.
* Cats are known avatars of the Egyptian god Bastet, that is said to have powers in the underworld as well as being potent against darkness and evil. By extension, this would be true for the likes of Felicia as well, and coincidentally, Felicia was raised by a woman of faith. While this would make her an object to fear for Anakaris, a mummy, no such interaction (apart from a special pre-battle intro in Vampire Savior) has been observed.
* The sprite of Felicia's companions as seen in Marvel vs. Capcom 2 appears to be inspired or drawn over Lilith and/or Morrigan's sprites, which is obvious in the body poses.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Felicia at Darkstalkopedia
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