Allen Snider

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**Allen Snider** (アレン・スナイダー *Aren Sunaidā*?) is a video game character from the *Street Fighter* series, first appearing in *Street Fighter EX* as a secret character. He is an American freestyle karate fighter dedicated to his high intensive training.

allen snider appeared in street fighter armaggedon remix plus as of update 2.0

### Appearance

Allen is a tall and muscular young man with orange hair, huge sideburns and blue eyes. He wears a dark purple karate gi with a red strings tied, red undershirt and handwraps on both of his hands.

In his Shadaloo C.R.I. profile artwork, his karate gi is blue and he wears a red short sleeve fitted shirt.

In *Fighting EX Layer*, Allen's karate uniform has been recolored to look patriotic. His upper body karate gi is white, the word Justice is written on the front right side with strings tied on both of the shoulders and he wears a navy short sleeve fitted shirt. The word 'U.S.A' is written on the back. He wears gloves on both of his hands instead of white handwraps. On the other hand, the karate trouser has two different colours for both legs, red and blue.

### Personality

Allen Snider likes to enjoy a victory in a fight. He seriously intends to travel around the world, learning everything and getting stronger. One of his hobbies is training.

### Concept

Allen's design is based on a young Chuck Norris, just like the looks he had when he co-starred in the film Way of the Dragon (猛龍過江?) along with its own director and producer, the legendary Bruce Lee. Allen also borrows some gestures and mannerisms from Bruce Lee himself.

Allen was once modeled after singer Elvis Presley, and was even referred to as **Elvis** (エルビス) in concept art, where he had blond hair and was shirtless. In real life, Elvis was also known to have a great interest in the martial arts, and was a prominent practitioner of several styles, including Tae Kwon Do, Kempo Karate, and Shotokan Karate.

During the development of the original *Street Fighter EX* game, he was named **Cashew Snider** and had blond hair and a red gi.

## Story

### *Street Fighter EX* series

#### Background

A martial artist once reputed to be the greatest living Karate master in the United States. Allen was the favored contender in the All American Martial Arts Tournament, but lost on his first match against a then-unknown Ken Masters, who told Allen that he was still "a frog in the well" (a proverb similar to the saying "a big fish in a small pond").

Misinterpreting and motivated by Ken's words, Allen thought he said he had incredible springing legs like a frog. Allen renewed his training and developed new techniques based on Ken's such as the Soul Force and the Rising Dragon to "leap out of the well" and began traveling the world to prove that he is not only the "biggest toad in the well", but also the "biggest in the world".

### *Fighting Layer*

Allen, along with Blair, appeared in the Arika-developed *Fighting Layer*, non-Capcom fighting game distributed in arcades by Namco.

where he seeks to defeat the strongest opponent on South Island.

### *Fighting EX Layer*

In contrast to his story in the *Street Fighter EX* series where he is misinterpret and motivated by Ken, Allen shows his love of Japanese culture and both Karate and Martial Arts but there's something off about him.

He had previously encountered Garuda but the latter's energy did not react into him. After hearing rumors about Garuda, Allen became worked up and he became seriously determined and says. "I'll be the one to exterminate him!!"

### *Street Fighter Armaggedon Remix Plus 2.0*

allen snider is an american karate master who it was friends with ken masters he also met ehnyd and sean matsuda allen has the same moves as ken masters like soul force and rising dragon he is currently training to revamp more of his moves and make them very powerful

### **Gallery**

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