Charlie Nash

Charlie Nash, usually known as Charlie in foreign regions or Nash in Japan, is a fighting game character from Street Fighter series specifically Street Fighter Alpha 2. Charlie is also Guile's best friend and the First Lieutenant of the United States Marine Corps, with whom he often flies the VTOL Harrier for, and along with Guile, fights for justice together against Shadaloo's criminal activities.
==Story==
===Backstory===
Charlie was Guile's superior officer in the United States Air Force and also taught Guile most of his trademark moves. A member of a "secret elite military team", Charlie co-piloted a special mission into Thailand along with Guile. However, their mission backfired and they were both captured. They managed to escape, but Charlie became convinced that the enemy had had inside information from someone within the U.S. military and was determined to get to the bottom of it, seeking whoever had been behind the incident in Thailand. 
=== Street Fighter Alpha 2 ===
In Street Fighter Alpha 2, Charlie encounters Rolento, who wants to know what Charlie's intentions are. When Charlie mentions Shadaloo, Rolento decides to stop him. Charlie eventually tracks down Bison to Brazil and confronts him near a waterfall. After the battle, Charlie interrogates Bison. Before he could get a response, he is shot from the back by his intended backup helicopter and falls from the waterfall. Bison does not see him as a threat and does not bother to confirm whether he died.
In Street Fighter Alpha 3, his ending shows him surviving the final battle and destroying Shadaloo's secret base. In Guile's SFA3 storyline, he is ordered by his superiors to track Charlie, who has supposedly gone AWOL. In reality, Charlie was undercover to investigate Shadaloo and its connection to the military, whereas Guile was sent to put a stop to him without knowing it. After realizing this, Guile teams up with Charlie and Chun-Li in order to destroy Bison's Psycho Drive while Bison's was regenerated after Ryu destroyed his body in the process. Guile escapes, while Charlie stays behind to hold off Bison and sacrifices his own life in order to destroy M. Bison permanently.
==Personality==
Charlie has a calm and confident personality with a strong sense of justice. His behavior is akin to his best friend Guile is crime fighting, though more righteous than vengeful, even if he acts recklessly sometimes. While he normally acts in a professional manner, he lets his emotions get the better of him at times.
When Charlie is revived in the fifth game of the main series, his personality has changed drastically from the calm, cool and drastic paragon of justice that he originally was in the Alpha series for unknown reasons. He is now extremely consumed with the need to defeat M. Bison to the point of obsession and is ruthless to his friends and foes alike. For example, he tells Alex not to fight him if he's not prepared for death.
He is also less forgiving to the extent that he judges Cammy as being guilty as his mortal enemy M. Bison for becoming his slave, whereas during their encounter in Street Fighter Alpha 3, he considers her a victim of M. Bison's incidental plan. Charlie considers the existence of Birdie useless, whom he called an "idiotic pig" during their encounter and asked why he was still alive, although it's worth noting Birdie is formerly a part of Shadaloo by the event of the fifth main entry. However, he still shows shades of his calmer personality from the past, such as remembering his friends Guile, Chun-Li and Cammy.
==Powers and Abilities==
===Powers===
*Superhuman Strength: Charlie has excellent strength that normal humans don't.
*Superhuman Speed: Charlie is extremely fast fighter and can amplify his speed to teleport behind opponents and disappear in a flash,
**Superhuman Agility
**Superhuman Reflexes
**Teleportation
*Superhuman Stamina: Charlie has unlimited stamina when it comes to facing even the most powerful opponents like M. Bison or Urien.
*Superhuman Durability: Nash can tolerate high amounts of physical pain. He has managed to deal with powerful hits from fighters like Ryu, M. Bison, and Chun-Li.
*Energy Manipulation: Charlie can manipulate blue energy to convert them into projectiles and can use it to add effect to his attacks.
**Sonic Boom
**Sonic Scythe
**Moonsault Slash
===Abilities===
*Master Martial Artist: Charlie is very experienced fighter and can defeat or hold his own against many fighters. His fighting style is based on using Wrestling combined with martial arts that the military use.
**Wrestling
*Master Acrobat: Charlie is very skilled in using acrobatics. His skills are shown in his move set which uses flips and leaping.
*Gifted Intelligence: Charlie is very intelligent in certain things. He was the one who taught Guile his fighting style and can come up with great stratagies. His military training has made him knowledgeable in many fields like leadership, piloting, harrier maintenance, psychology, stealth, and even assassination. 
**Leadership
**Piloting
**Harrier Maintenance
**Psychology
**Stealth
**Assassination
*Indomitable Will: Charlie has a very strong force of will. He is known to be very cooperative with his friends Guile and Chun-Li. When Nash was ressureceted by the secret society, his main goal was to kill Bison for revenge and won't let anyone stand in his way. This led him to coldly fight his friends, but after hearing Rashid's story about his friend, Nash's conscious was reawakened and realized that his friends needed him the most and that they care for him just like he cared for them.
==Other Media==
===Super Smash Bros.===
Charlie appears in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as a advanced-ranked support spirit that equip the user a Death's scythe. His spirit battle is a stamina battle against Captain Falcon who turn metal at high damage on the ship deck portion of Halberd with reduced jump power.
==Gallery==
===Images===
FQvx8z7aUAEKP7j.jpg|Street Fighter Alpha series appearance.
11_sf5london22.jpg|Street Fighter V appearance.
E2apyUGXwAsW5Vo.jpg|Charlie on a tarot card (courtesy of Capcom artwork collection)
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==Trivia==
*Nash's Street Fighter V seiyuu (Kōsuke Toriumi) previously voiced Fei Long in Street Fighter Alpha 3.
*Like Guile, Charlie must have had some flight training, particularly with the AV-8B Harrier II in order to perform the Sonic Boom and Flash Kick.
*In the Mega Man Remix and the Mega Man Maniax mangas by Ariga Hitoshi, Charlie briefly appears as a news caster in several chapters. Instead of going by his Japanese name of Nash, he is simply called Charlie.
*In the second promotional trailer for Street Fighter V, which focused on the return of Charlie as a playable character, the theme Nothing Can Keep Me Away from the album Epic Action & Adventure Vol. 10 is playing as the musical background.
*As the story of the Alpha series takes place in the late 1980's, his background story appears to tie in heavily with the controversial real life US Government endorsed nationwide campaign of the "War On Drugs"; though the agenda was well and alive throughout in the 20th Century, the war saw higher activity during upon the 1970's and the 1980's due to the flood of cocaine and crack cocaine, and the start of a youth awareness program series to warn the young of the alleged dangers recreational drugs could have. Furthermore, how Charlie is targeting infrastructural corruption regarding the military and drug pushing is reference to many allegations throughout the US that certain branches of the US Military and government bought mass quantities of cocaine from South American rebels regarding the rise of Communist and totalitarian regimes, and to support by funding them to overthrow said governments, but remains highly questionable in practice and effectiveness on retrospect; how Shadaloo's position is located in South America in the Alpha series strongly hints at this.
*According to Udon's Street Fighter V comic, The Life and Death(s) of Charlie Nash, it is possible that Charlie may be religious.
*On his Street Fighter V character artwork, the statues in the background resemble those of Gill's stage from Street Fighter III: 2nd Impact.
*His Halloween costume in Street Fighter V is based on Victor from the Darkstalkers series, also made by Capcom. Dan even asks if he can shoot electricity now.
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