Chun-Li

**Chun-Li** is one of the main protagonists of the *Street Fighter* series. She fought Sanji from One Piece.

## Description

Chun-Li was inspired at a young age to take up martial arts lessons and become a skilled combatant in the future. She was taught by both her father and Gen in various techniques. When she was a teenager she became a member of Interpol and dedicated her life to taking down Shadaloo and it's criminal master, M. Bison, for the murder of her father. She allied herself with other Street Fighters such as Guile, Cammy and Ryu.

## Trivia

* Chun-Li and Ryu have made the most crossover appearances out of the entire *Street Fighter* roster. However Chun-Li appears in fewer *Street Fighter* series games than Ryu and Ken (both debuting in the game prior to her debut as well as appearing in the first two installments of the *Street Fighter III* series, Chun-Li not appearing until the third installment, except for a cameo appearance in Ryu's stage).

* Chun-Li is one of the six characters in the *Street Fighter IV* series to have second rivals. Her second rival is Juri.

* According to an interview, Chun-Li's daily training regimen (at least during *SFII*) includes 7000 squat repetitions and bench pressing 150 kg. As a result her daily training, she takes pride in her foot moves. The spectacular active rumor is she's the target of Japan's female pro wrestling world scouts.

* She's a narcotics investigator during the *SFII* series, an Interpol officer during *SFA1* and *SFA2*, and an anti-Shadaloo special criminal investigator during *SFA3* (she was promoted to that position in her *SFA1* ending, although that ending is non-canon but it's the position she seems to have during *SFA3*) The narcotics division is a special division within Interpol.

* From an interview with Eri-pyon, credited to Chun Li's *Zero* (*Alpha*) series design, she wears Adidas TRX sneakers.

* Chun-Li wanted to learn martial arts at the age of five because she saw a Bruce Lee movie, and is mentioned to be an avid Bruce Lee fan, with posters of him in her room and also having the same philosophies. The fact that Fei Long resembles Bruce Lee and how that would affect Chun-Li's viewpoint of Fei Long has never been mentioned.

* Chun-Li is an only child.

* Chun-Li's stage throughout the renditions of *Street Fighter II* has changed from morning to afternoon and later to dusk.

* In *Street Fighter X Tekken*, there is a running gag about Chun-Li's age when she faces certain female *Tekken* characters, e.g. Alisa and Xiaoyu, who comment about her age in their win quotes. Her win quote towards Nina also implies that Chun-Li is too embarrassed to speak of her age.

* In *Street Fighter II V*, Chun-Li is only two years younger than Ryu and Ken, while her official birth date has her as four years younger.

* During the Development of *Street Fighter II*, one of the game’s designer, Yoshiki Okamoto, originally wanted Chun-Li's health bar to be shorter than the other fighters'. He said “You know how each character has a life bar? At one point, I wanted to make the power gauge for Chun-Li shorter than for the other characters because women are not as strong. But [another designer] didn’t want to do that. We both had legitimate reasons, but then we came to an agreement to not make it shorter.”
	+ The concept of fighters having different amounts of health would be further refined during later games.