Terry Bogard

**Terry Bogard** is the main protagonist of the *Fatal Fury* series. He fought Makoto Nanaya from Blazblue in Season 3 of Mini Rumble.

## Description

Terry and Andy were orphans who raised themselves on the streets. They were soon adopted by Jeff Bogard and eventually lived in Southtown. When Terry was 10, he witnessed the death of his father at the hands of Geese Howard. Knowing that they needed more training to confront Geese, the brothers made an oath to spend a decade to fine tune their martial arts before trying to avenge their father. Unlike his brother Andy, who left Southtown to train in Japan, Terry chose to wander in his home country, combining the skills learned from his father, his father's mentor Tung Fu Rue, and abilities gained from the streets.

## Trivia

* A tribute of Terry can be found in *Shadow Hearts: Covenant*, which was developed by Nautilus. The character Blanca (a wolf) can participate in a side quest called The Wolf Bout. One of his opponents is a wolf named Kelly. He wears a red and white hat and parodies a lot of Terry's lines.
* **Terry** is both a masculine and feminine given name, derived directly from French "Thierry" and eventually from the Germanic "Theodoric".  Both have the meaning of "Power is mighty" or the "ruler of the people". Ironically, there have been female versions of Terry, most notably in SNK Heroines Tag Team Frenzy.
* Sometime during 1995, Terry was also SNK's mascot for the Orix Buffaloes baseball team.
* According to developers for Mark of Wolves, Terry travels by riding his personal motorcycle. More often than not, Terry is usually mentioned hitching rides from truckers, buses, or trains. Alternately, he's seen walking on foot. They also jokingly stated that the reasons behind his apparent weight gain was due to Rock's cooking.
* Several of Terry's "Engrish" quotes have become a plethora of memes to the SNK fandom, most notably "Are you ok?" before launching Buster Wolf.
* In Capcom vs SNK, Terry and Yamazaki's special intro is a direct reference to Bunnoshin Inagi vs Kaoru Hanayama from Baki the Grappler. The scene can be found here.
* Terry's current outfit (*KOF XIV*) has the phrase "Get in the Ring" written on its back, a reference to *Real Bout Fatal Fury 2*'s vs. screen quote. The left sleeve of his jacket is the a logo that reads "91", which is a reference to the official year that the original Fatal Fury game was released.
* In the Art of Fighting/Fatal Fury continuity, Terry is the three time champion of the The King of Fighters tournaments winning the ones hosted in Fatal Fury, Fatal Fury 2 and Real Bout Fatal Fury.
* In Neo-Geo Freak 1998, the characters in KOF '98 have their own interviews. Here are Terry's response to the questions.
	+ **What is your aspiration in this competition?** - "It's natural to participate, but if it is, it's aiming to win."
	+ **Who would you like to fight the most?** - "It's Andy. When I was a kid, we fought in Dalian, but I never fought properly."
	+ **Who would you like to team up with? / Who would you not like to team up with?** - "Of course, my brother Andy and Joe. I can't imagine entering without them. The person who I don't want to team up with is Billy!"
	+ **What is "KOF" for you?** - "KOF is for me 'real'! It's one of my pleasures, what kind of guy comes out every year."
	+ **Finally, please give a word to your fans.** - "I'll fight at full power anytime!"
* In his development blog for KOF: Maximum Impact 2, Ureshino states that he doesn't know about Rock's mother or the true inheritor of Geese's legacy but hints that it would most likely conflict with Terry.
* At Vigamus, a museum of videogames sponsored by the municipality of Rome, a special illustration lists Terry as the mascot of the early 90's era of Neo Geo.
* On Falcoon's SNK 40th anniversary page he states that both Terry and Mai are his favourite SNK characters. He considered the *Mark of the Wolves* design to be one of his favorite designs before he began working. He was pleased when he got the opportunity to work on the character's redesign.
* In Gamest's 1997 Heroes Collection, Terry was voted as the staff's eighth favorite character. In Neo Geo Freak's 1997 Volume 8 character poll, he was voted as the fifteenth favourite character with a total of 690 votes. 270 votes from the male fans and 420 votes from the female fans. In a 2005 poll made by SNK Playmore USA, he was voted as the number one fan favorite character with a total of 10014 votes. He was voted as the second most favorite character at the time of *Garou: Mark of the Wolves* with a total of 162 votes, one commenter saying that "Terry's the eternal hero". In the character popularity poll on Neo Geo Freak's website, he was voted as the fourth favorite character with a total of 2,479 votes.