Rose (Street Fighter)

Rose, also known as Rosa, is a character from the Street Fighter series.
== Charactah Account ==
Rose is an Italian fortune teller who utilizes "Soul Power", considered the pure version of Bison's evil Psycho Power. She confronts Ryu warning him about Bison's intent to find a new body, and when Bison is killed, he takes possession of her body so he can wait until he finds a new one. After Bison obtains his new body, Rose is released from his control and seeks to destroy him for good. Her encounter with Bison in Street Fighter IV goes south and she is rescued by Guy. By the time of Street Fighter V, she has taken on an apprentice, a young Egyptian woman named Menat.
Rose can best be described as a jack of all trades. Similarly to the Shotos, she does not excel in any particular area and has options for many situations, inclined towards a defensive play-style. Fitting for her nature as a fortune teller and a magician-type character, Rose is designed around misdirection and mindgames. She carefully strings her opponents along, prodding at them until she is able to force a favorable outcome where she can easily predict their next move and counter it, as if she were bending destiny to her will. To do this, she has an arsenal of strong poking and whiff punishment options, a projectile in Soul Spark that launches deceptively far from her sprite and can be fired at different speeds to throw her opponents' timing off, a series-first projectile reflector in Soul Reflect, a risky but powerful anti-air grab in Soul Throw, and a damaging combo ender and spacing tool in Soul Spiral that makes many of her approaches deceptively safe if performed at the right spacing.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Street Fighter Alpha: The Animation
=== Cartoons ===
* Street Fighter: The Animated Series
* Street Fighter: The Animated Series Season 2
=== Comics ===
* Street Fighter
* Street Fighter vs. Darkstalkers
* Street Fighter: The Novel
=== Manga ===
* Daigo The Beast
* Street Fighter Alpha
* Street Fighter III: Ryu Final
=== Video Games ===
* Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium
* Capcom Fighting Evolution
* Capcom vs. SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium 2001
* Gunslinger Stratos 2
* Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter
* Namco × Capcom
* Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection
* Street Fighter Alpha 2
* Street Fighter Alpha 3
* Street Fighter Alpha 3 MAX
* Street Fighter Alpha Anthology
* Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams
* Street Fighter Collection
* Street Fighter Duel
* Street Fighter IV
* Street Fighter IV Champion Edition
* Street Fighter IV Volt
* Street Fighter V
* Street Fighter x Mega Man
* Super Street Fighter II Turbo
* Super Street Fighter IV: Pachislot Edition
* Taisen Net Gimmick: Capcom & Psikyo All Stars
* Teppen
* Ultra Street Fighter IV
* We Love Golf!
== Trivia ==
* Rose is the first Italian fighter to be introduced, as well as the third playable female character in the series, after Chun-Li and Cammy.
* It's been revealed that Rose is stuck in a time loop trying to stop M. Bison.
* Strangely, in Street Fighter IV, Blanka's Amazon River Run will not hit Rose if she is walking forward; this glitch was fixed in the Arcade Edition of Super Street Fighter IV.
* In Rose's Super Street Fighter IV ending, she has a vision of Ryu and M. Bison fighting, arguably foreshadowing the events of Street Fighter V.
* In Rose's profile on the official Street Fighter V website, it establishes that she is the founder of the Palazzo Misterio house of divination (which is her stage from Street Fighter Alpha 3).
* According to her win quote against El Fuerte in Super Street Fighter IV, Rose is on a diet.
* Based on her win quote against Oni, Rose has somehow managed to foresee Akuma's transformation into Oni, which would be taking place at a later time.
* Rose and Birdie's stage in Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams is based on Bruce Lee's Way of the Dragon film, where Bruce Lee as "Tang Lung" fights Chuck Norris as "Colt" in the Colosseum in Rome. The background is identical to the movie, and even includes the stray cats who are passing by the stage.
* Rose's age is unknown, but in ALL ABOUT Capcom Fighting Game 1987-2000 it states that someone like Chun-Li (during the Alpha series) would consider Rose an Obasan, meaning 'aunt' or 'older woman'. In the Japanese version of Street Fighter Alpha 2, Chun-Li would say "I learned a lot, Obasan!" in her win quote. Yoshinori Ono would also call Rose an Obasan in an interview.
* Rose is the first fighting game character in Street Fighter who could manipulate an enemy's projectile by absorbing and reflecting those.
** Another Capcom fighting game character who can do this is Anakaris of Darkstalkers fame, who can not only return projectiles but mimic them too.
* In the updated version of Capcom's 2014 action game, Sengoku BASARA 4, one of the playable characters, Kyougoku Maria, has Rose's outfit as an alternate costume.
* Interestingly, between Rose was altered in Street Fighter Alpha 2 from Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams to where her battle sprites and personality appear to be more friendly than her initial appearance.
* In Street Fighter Alpha 2, Rose has the distinction of being the only character that acts as the mid-boss for two characters, Cammy (in the PS2 version of SFA2 Gold) and Guy.
* Rose's nostalgia outfit in Street Fighter V, while referred to as 'nostalgia', is in fact an homage to Capcom Fighting Evolution, in which this was the outfit Rose wore when affected by Demitri's Midnight Bliss, which in turn is an homage to JoJo character Lisa Lisa's first appearance as a masked boatman.
** Street Fighter V includes various homages to JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, such as Rose's win screen resembling Joutarou Kuujou's receipt after defeating Steely Dan, her twelfth default color being modeled after Lisa Lisa's design in the anime and Rose's taunt in Japanese including Jolyne's catchphrase.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Rose at Street Fighter Wiki
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