Geese Howard

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**Geese Howard** is one of the main antagonists of the Fatal Fury series. He made his debut in the first installment of the series.

## Background

Southtown, USA: home to crime, crime and more crime. Fortunate, then, that it’s also home to Howard Connection, a powerful public protection agency dedicated to keeping the people of Southtown safe. Unfortunately, its actual primary connection happens to be toward the mafia. Think of it as a corporate ouroboros. And at the head of this self-devouring snake, there was a single man blinded by ambition. A single man… named Geese. Born to an American woman and an Austrian terrorist, Geese and his mother (poor in every way) were promptly left to rot in Southtown. As you’d expect, Geese worked multiple odd jobs for the both of them, but still couldn’t make enough to keep Mrs. Howard healthy and fed. With his mother’s untimely passing, Geese was consumed by vengeance, deciding to cope by traveling abroad to assassinate his deadbeat father. This plan ended with his 9-year-old half-brother beating the everloving shit out of him. PREDICTABLY (and justifiably) humiliated, Geese did what anybody would and became a weeaboo. Oh, and he also trained in the martial arts school of Hyakkokuseiken. See, from Geese’s point of view, he’d learned first-hand that in this world, it’s power that grants results-- nothing else. PREDICTABLY (and justifiably), Master Tung Fu Rue disagreed, seeing Geese as unfit to learn the most sacred arts. So instead, he passed them onto one Jeff Bogard. Geese took this well. Severing his ties to the school, Geese focused his rage and indignation into something productive: returning to Southtown, overthrowing the local kingpin and establishing a criminal empire which controlled everything. And when that dastardly Jeff Bogard had the nerve to show up years later and become a pillar of the community, Geese wasted no time putting him in his place. A.K.A. six feet under. Certain that this wouldn’t come back to bite him, Geese enjoyed himself for the next ten years. He even got himself married, and sired a son whom he named Rock, further proving the Howard bloodline’s impeccable taste with names. Now, sure, Geese promptly… left his wife and son to... rot in poverty, and… even turned the boy away when he sought financial aid for his... deathly ill mother… But “Rock Howard” sure has a nice ring to it! Unfortunately for Geese, those ten years came to an abrupt end. In another bout of deja vu, Jeff’s own son had been hard at work becoming a mixed-martial arts master, determined to avenge his father’s assassination. In the final rounds of the King Of Fighters tournament Geese himself ran, he’d come face-to-fist with the man, THE MYTH, THE “LEGENDARY HUNGRY WOLF” HIMSELF…Terry Bogard.“OKAY” story short, Geese took a dive out his skyscraper window. Though he’d survive to terrorize Southtown on multiple occasions, he’d ultimately find himself in the same sticky situation: defeated by Terry, and moments away from falling to his doom. Mr. Bogard, being the good man he is, attempted to save his most hated nemesis. But Geese Howard merely laughed. For here, the mighty rule. And those who are blinded by ambition or consumed by vengeance... cannot exist.

## Powers & Abilities

* **Martial Arts:** Geese is a master martial artist, being trained in several styles and being more than lethal with each one of them. Geese is a known practitioner of:
	+ **Aikijutsu:** A style that focuses on grapple techniques, like throws and locks. This is often employed with Geese’s counters and his follow-ups after striking an opponent down.
	+ **Karate:** Geese’s overall fighting ability seems to derive from several Japanese martial arts, and the art of karate is present within his striking attacks.
	+ **Kickboxing:** Geese also utilizes this as this is mixed with karate and boxing. A style mainly for using kicks.
* **Chi Manipulation:** In addition to martial arts, Geese is a practitioner of the Hakkyokuseiken fighting style. He is able to gather, control and catalyze chi energy from Gaia (basically the planet) to fight in addition to his traditional Japanese martial arts. He can amp his physicality further, and manifest chi into powerful attacks.
* **Super Moves:**
	+ **Reppuken:** Geese swings his arm, creating a crescent-shaped wave of energy that travels along the ground. If it hits a projectile, the projectile will be cancelled out.
	+ **Double Reppuken:** Geese creates two crescent-shaped waves of energy.
	+ **Shippuken:** Geese fires an orb of energy that travels diagonally through the air.
	+ **Double Shippuken:** Geese launches two orbs of energy.
	+ **Explosion Ball:** Geese hits his opponent with a chi-infused back fist, then uppercuts them.
	+ **Ja'ei Ken:** Geese dashes toward the opponent and performs a swift combo, ending with a palm strike to knock them away. In some games, the final punch is followed by an explosion of chi.
	+ **Fudoken:** Geese delivers a swift palm strike to his opponent, followed by either a double palm attack, an overhead kick, or a sweeping kick. The attack is meant to disrupt the enemy defense.
	+ **Jōdan'ateminage:** Geese is famously known for his variety of counters and parries. Whether they are to fill his ego or a legitimate fighting strategy, he has developed a ton of them. The one above is probably the most famous where he slams the opponent to the ground.
	+ **Chūdan'ateminage:** Geese blocks an opponent’s attack and counters by grabbing them by the head and swinging them around to the other side.
	+ **Gedan Atemi-Uchi:** Geese blocks a low attack attack and backhands his opponent away.
	+ **Raimeigōha Nage:** Geese grabs his opponent by the head and slams them into the ground as a bolt of lightning strikes them.
	+ **Thunder Break:** Used in both KoF games and Real Bout Fatal Fury, Geese channels his chi and unleashes it into the ground to summon lightning bolts from the sky.
	+ **Deadly Rave:** Used ever since Art of Fighting 2, this move has had various revisions across multiple entries, but the general gist is a series of punches Geese unleashes back to back, finishing on a powerful chi-infused blow (or sometimes just straight-up explosion).
	+ **Raigou Reppuu Ken:** Geese creates a stronger Reppuken infused with the power of electricity that hits up to 4 times.
	+ **Oni Hammon:** A counter where Geese strikes a pose. If his opponent attacks him, he’ll grab them by the head and slam them into the ground with enough force to create a shockwave.
	+ **Raging Storm:** Geese channels chi into his hands and slams them into the ground, creating two columns of energy around himself. On some occasions, Geese can even increment the power of this technique. By doing so, it changes its usual blue hue for a more reddish one.
	+ **Rashomon:** Geese taunts his opponent before uppercutting them into the air. He then begins swinging both arms in opposite directions while charging chi into them, and as his opponent falls, he delivers a two-handed palm strike to their midsection.

## Feats

### Strength

* Comparable to Terry Bogard, whose energy can blow apart large structures like temples and factories
* Injured Terry Bogard with a palm strike
* Sent Terry Bogard flying with a strike
* Injured Andy Bogard significantly
* As mentioned above, defeated Verse who was capable of summoning a storm
	+ It should be noted as well that Verse is comprised of the souls of multiple beings within the KOF universe, such as Orochi and Ash Crimson. It is very likely that Verse is as powerful as Orochi and Ash Crimson.
	+ Orochi Shermie is shown to manipulate the weather to create storms in her stage (32.96 Megatons of TNT)
	+ Orochi Yashiro himself has the power of geokinesis, and in one such instance, created a large amount of lava in a stage (58 megatons-5.88 gigatons of TNT); Orochi Yashiro is also able to shake all of the lava when he wins
* Scales above the destruction of South Town via a Zero Cannon (1.72 megatons of TNT)
	+ He should be around the same level as characters like Takuma, who was able to deflect the city-busting blast with a Haoh Shikoh Ken
	+ In the same way Bao was able to not only absorb the blast’s energy but destroy the satellite itself
* Once destroyed a decent portion of a bamboo forest with a single Raging Storm
* Together with Terry, was able to match their power with the combined assault from the Orochi team, Foxy, Candy and Yamazaki
	+ It should be noted that K’ and Maxima joined in after their clash.
* Should be stronger than Goenitz, who can create a storm
* As part of Real Bout Special, Geese is strong enough to destroy a variety of things such as: A food stand made of concrete, a large training dummy made of wood, a small house also made of wood, and a whole wall made of stone, etc.
* Comparable to Kula, who once froze a huge area of a port in an instant just by awakening her power (2.12-125.94 megatons of TNT)
* Scales to Anime Terry who can destroy a forest with a Power Wave
* Comparable to the Art of the Fighting Team who destroyed a building with their Haoh Shoukou Ken
* Comparable to Angel who knocked over a fighter jet into the water just by running
* Can kill people with casual ki blasts
* Defeated the reality warping entity Verse, who can create a hurricane the size of a stadium (1.88 gigatons of TNT).

### Speed

* Is fast enough to dodge Terry’s attacks (see the above image)
* Easily reacted to Terry’s strikes in KOF: Destiny
* Dodged Verse’s attacks
* Dodged Terry Bogard’s Power Wave
* Dodged Andy Bogard’s Hishou Ken
* Reacted to Andy Bogard’s attacks
* Should be superior to Bao, who shot a beam up into orbit to destroy the Zero Satellite (0.113c)
* Comparable to Iori, Chizuru and Kyo, who reacted to Orochi’s technique, Blend/Rounding Reaper (0.24c)
* Comparable to fighters like Elisabeth, who can move in tandem with her own light (4.3c)
* Comparable to characters like Benimaru, who can manipulate electricity and even summon lightning from the sky
* Comparable to fighters like Takuma, who intercepted the Zero Satellite Beam and redirected it (2.6% Speed of Light)
* Comparable to Billy Cane, who once intercepted a bullet with his… cane (duh)
* Comparable to characters like Ryo and Maxima, both who have been stated to move in “1/1000th of a second”
* In the same vein, Maxima was able to catch a bullet from a rifle bare-handed

### Durability

* Survived falling off of his own skyscraper (multiple times depending on the continuity)
* Survived being electrocuted
* Got a Terry Bogard boot to the face and is more amused then anything
* Blocked multiple attacks from Joe and Andy
* Got hit by Terry Bogard’s Rising Tackle
* Tanked Jeff Bogard’s attack and is sent flying
* Got his face smashed in by a Kyo clone
* Took hits from people capable of making storms and controlling weather
* Comparable to characters like Choi and Chang who survived a blast from a Zero Cannon head on
* Relatively comparable to Kula Diamond, who not only survived the destruction of the Zero Satellite, but also re-entry from orbit
	+ Kula also survived a direct blast from a Zero Cannon
* Likely tougher than his bodyguard Billy Cane, who once survived an orbital strike, for reference these strikes are shown to be this strong (since this took place before KoF: Maximum Impact and he appears alive there we can assume he survived)
* Withstood Verse’s power destroying his soul

### Skill

* Created and hosted The King of Fighters tournament
* Was able to defeat and kill Jeff Bogard
* Managed to obtain all three Jin scrolls
* Was the first in a long long line of infamously hard SNK bosses
* Owner, founder and CEO of the Howard Connection
* Became the reigning crime lord of Southtown
* Sired Rock Howard aka the best SNK character
* Fought against a combined assault of Orochi team, Foxy, Candy and Yamazaki with the aid of Terry, K’ and Maxima
* A man so threatening his animal acolytes terrorize the country of Canada up to this day
* Fought and defeated Verse in two moves (considering Verse has the power of several of SNK’s strongest characters such as Orochi, Ash and Goneitz, that is quite impressive)
* Defeated Andy Bogard, Joe Higashi, and Mr. Big

## Weaknesses

* **Arrogance:** This has led to him being beaten by seemingly weaker opponents, including Terry, as well as led to his many drops off of skyscrapers.