Charlie Nash

**Charlie Nash**, known as **Charlie** or **Nash** dependent upon the game and region, is a character from *Street Fighter.* He fought Ash Crimson from *King of Fighters* in episode 15 of Mini Rumble Season 1.

## Description

Charlie's fierce sense of justice was ever present even at a young age. According to supplementary materials, Charlie Nash's past saw him as a young U.S. Marine enrolled university student with a major in psychology and an interest in martial arts. His career eventually saw him climb the ranks, and become skilled enough to win the Pan American Martial Arts Tournament.

Soon to be a member of a "secret elite military team", Charlie co-piloted a special mission into Thailand along with his long-time friend, Guile. Their mission backfired and they were both captured. After their escape, Charlie was convinced that the enemy had inside information from someone within the U.S. military, and became determined to get to the bottom of it, seeking whoever had been behind the incident in Thailand.

As suggested by the fighter planes seen in the background of his stages, he has some kind of flight training, but rather was in the **United States Marine Corps** Aviation. Also, the Marine Corps has its own fighting style called **Marine Corps Martial Arts Program** (or **MCMAP**).

Sometime before the series, Charlie eventually discovered several of his fellow officers were pushing drugs during their service, and his investigations lead him to discover their connections with Shadaloo. Much to his dismay however, Nash also found that the infrastructural corruption and grasp the criminal organization reached even to his superiors, who dismissed the suspects' possession of narcotics and pushed their power to illegal limits. Not going down without a fight, Charlie pushed his pursuit further as a lone wolf to bring them to justice.

As his investigation into the conspiracy continued, he eventually gained Chun-Li's acquaintance as a connection to the ICPO and a valuable ally.

## Trivia

* Nash's *Street Fighter V* seiyuu (Kōsuke Toriumi) previously voiced Fei Long in *Street Fighter Alpha 3* and is the voice actor of Strider Hiryu from Capcom's *Strider* action platformer series.
* Nash is the only fighter whose birthplace listed as unknown to actually be confirmed as he was previously listed as from the U.S.A. His birthplace being listed as unknown in Street Fighter V is likely intended to reference the fact with him being legally dead Charlie Nash doesn’t technically exist in U.S.A. records anymore.

* 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.

* Capcom character Dave the scientist, who is one of Devilotte's assistants in *Cyberbots: Fullmetal Madness*, has a minor similar hair and facial appearance to 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.
* Charlie's outfit being a swap costume for Steve in *Street Fighter X Tekken* may be a reference to the real-life Irish boxer also named Charlie Nash.

* According to Udon's *Street Fighter V* comic, *The Life and Death(s) of Charlie Nash*, it is possible that Charlie may be a man of religion.

* On his *Street Fighter V* character artwork, the statues in the background resemble those of Gill's stage from *Street Fighter III: 2nd Impact*.

* Charlie's Battle Outfit 1 in *Street Fighter V* has a color scheme that is possibly inspired by Gray Fox from Konami's *Metal Gear* series.

* Charlie also bears some physical similarities with Dean from the *Final Fight* games. Both wear military-inspired clothing, have similar fighting stances and have striking blond hairstyles. Dean also has a forelock similar to Charlie. Like Guy and Cody are the *Final Fight* counterparts to Ryu and Ken, Dean could be considered the *Final Fight* counterpart to Charlie.

* 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.

* His crossover costume in *Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition* is Captain Commando from Capcom's beat 'em up game of the same name. Coincidentally his Tragedy Assault looks very similar to Captain Commando's "Captain Corridor". He even has a new move called "Justice Corridor".
* Prior to his *Street Fighter V* appearance, Charlie is among the few American characters to wholly speak English all throughout his appearances.