Blanka
Blanka in Capcom vs. SNK 2.
Game series	Street Fighter series
First game	Street Fighter II
Voice actor(s) (English)	Tom Carlton (Street Fighter II movie), Scott McNeil (U.S. cartoon series)
Voice actor(s) (Japanese)	Unshou Ishizuka
In-universe information
Birthplace	Brazil, though this is only assumed. He grew up here due to a plane crash.
Fighting style	Savage fighting
Likes	Tropical Fruit, Arapaima
Dislikes	Army Ants
Special skill	Hunting, Electrical discharge

Blanka (ブランカ, Buranka^?) is a video game character from the Street Fighter series of fighting games. Blanka has green skin and long orange hair, resembling a monster more than a human. He is one of the original eight characters featured in the first version of the extremely popular Street Fighter II games. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (540x768, 288 KB) Summary http://www. ... Capcom vs. ... Street Fighter ), or commonly abbreviated as SF, is a popular series of fighting games in which the players pit combatants from around the world, each with his or her own special moves, against one another. ... Street Fighter II ) is a 1991 competitive fighting game by Capcom. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Scott McNeil (born September 15, 1962 in Brisbane, Australia), is a voice actor. ... Unshou Ishizuka (石塚 運昇 Ishizuka Unshō) is a seiyÅ« who was born on May 16, 1951. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Brazil. ... Binomial name Arapaima gigas (Cuvier, 1829) Arapaima showing its full length. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Fictional character. ... Street Fighter ), or commonly abbreviated as SF, is a popular series of fighting games in which the players pit combatants from around the world, each with his or her own special moves, against one another. ... Screenshot of The King of Fighters XI (2005, SNK Playmore). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Street Fighter II ) is a 1991 competitive fighting game by Capcom. ...

Character history

Blanka's first appearance in the Street Fighter series was in Street Fighter II. His prototypical name was "Big Dean Caves." Blanka was originally going to look more like a caveman and there are rumors that the design for King Rasta Mon from Saturday Night Slam Masters was one of the early Blanka character models. However, the design was changed to make him look more beastly. In later games in the Street Fighter II series, Capcom made him look more "cuddly" because they thought he was too ferocious. King Rasta Mon (Missing IQ Gomes in Japan) is a video game character in Capcoms Slam Masters series. ... Saturday Night Slam Masters (Muscle Bomber: The Body Explosion in Japan) is a series of pro wrestling games by Capcom. ...

In his Street Fighter II ending, he reunites with his mother who recognizes him from the anklets he wears. She reveals that Blanka was once known as Jimmy, before he was in a plane crash as a little boy. This crash caused Jimmy to grow up in the wild, although he has connections to a local village. Ever since the crash, Blanka/Jimmy had been separated from his mother. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

In Street Fighter Alpha 3, his character design was again changed to make him look less ferocious-looking. His in-game story, just like the in-game stories of the other characters in the series, serves as a precursor to the events of Street Fighter II. The game tells a tale of how Blanka ate a melon on a poacher's truck and traveled to civilization for the first time. Playing the game as Blanka, the player eventually faces Dan Hibiki as one of Blanka's mid-bosses. It is then revealed through in-game dialogue that the two know each other and that Blanka had once saved Dan's life. Blanka faces Zangief as his second mid-boss and unwittingly prevents Zangief from helping to destroy the Shadaloo criminal organization. He then faces Shadaloo member Balrog before facing M. Bison.^[1] After Bison is defeated, Blanka, Dan and Sakura work together and destroy Bison's psycho drive weapon. This article does not cite its references or sources. ... A prequel is a work that portrays events which include the structure, conventions, and/or characters of a previously completed narrative, but occur at an earlier time. ... For other uses, see Poaching (disambiguation). ... Dan Hibiki ) is a character from Capcoms Street Fighter series of fighting games. ... Flag Ship from the video game Gorf A boss is a particularly challenging computer-controlled enemy in video games. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Shadoloo (often spelled as Shadowloo, Shadaloo and Shadowlaw, Japanese: シャドルー) is a fictitious international crime syndicate which is featured prominently in Capcoms Street Fighter series. ... Balrog (M. Bison in Japan) is a character from the Street Fighter fighting game series. ... For the Street Fighter character known as M. Bison in Japan, see Balrog (Street Fighter). ... Sakura Kasugano ) is a video game character in the Street Fighter series of fighting games. ...

Although Blanka's appearance in Street Fighter Alpha 3 was his last appearance in the Street Fighter series, he made appearances in several spin-off titles. In the non-canon Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter, Blanka appears in the ending of another green-skinned powerhouse, The Incredible Hulk. In the ending, The Hulk theorizes that gamma radiation caused Blanka's mutations, as they did his.^[2] A spin-off (or spinoff) is a new organization or entity formed by a split from a larger one such as a new company formed from a university research group. ... Marvel Super Heroes vs. ... The Incredible Hulk in popular media, see Hulk. ... This article is about electromagnetic radiation. ...

Blanka is available as a playable character in the later games of the Street Fighter EX series, Street Fighter EX 2 and Street Fighter EX 3. He also made appearances as a playable character in Capcom vs. SNK and Capcom vs. SNK 2. According to his ending in Capcom vs. SNK 2, he thought he was flown home, but when he got off the plane, he ends up in a zoo instead. A gameplay image of Street Fighter EX 2 Plus. ... The SNK VS. Series is a collection of video games by either Capcom or SNK in which characters that appear in games created by both of these two companies appear. ... Capcom vs. ...

Appearances in films

In Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie, Blanka makes a brief appearance in a club/hotel where many crime bosses connected to Shadoloo are holding a convention/party. Balrog is there to check up on drug shipments for M. Bison. Blanka appears in the evening entertainment where he is lowered from a cage to fight Zangief and uses his Rolling Attack, Biting Grapple, and Electric Thunder moves.

Appearances in T.V. series

Blanka appeared in the U.S. Street Figher II cartoon series, voiced by Scott McNeil, who also voiced Ken. In the cartoon, Blanka was portrayed as the protector of a small Brazilian village who eventually "rejoined" the Street Figher team. He and Guile are actually old friends, but this is probably due to the error of Blanka being mistaken, once again, for Charlie. In one episode, Blanka agreed to take a serum to transform back into a human; his human form was an inaccurate portrayal of Charlie (he had black hair). Near the end of the episode, when Blanka went to fight Vega and was slowly reverting back to beast form, a pair of dogtags snapped off of his neck (because it grew too thick for them to stay on); one of them read "Charlie". In another episode, Blanka became more feral due to being shoved into an experimentation tank by mutants. He became larger and stronger in this form, but also more feral. He was still able to communicate with Guile and Chun-Li, but had great difficulty doing so and eventually parted ways from the team so as not to expose them to his dangerous new strength and feral behavior. Scott McNeil (born September 15, 1962 in Brisbane, Australia), is a voice actor. ...

Blanka appears as one of the more recurrent characters in the U.S. cartoon, acting as a scout gathering information for Guile and his friends on various missions. He hides himself in a trenchcoat and hat so as not to alarm anyone.

Street Fighter motion picture

Charlie and Blanka are not one and the same, but the 1994 live-action Street Fighter film combined the two characters into one. Robert Mammone plays the role of Blanka. At the beginning of the film, Guile's close friend Carlos Blanka (Charlie) is taken captive by Bison (Raul Julia) who subjects him to genetic testing to create the perfect soldier. Charlie, known as Nash ) in Japan, is a video game character from Capcoms Street Fighter series of fighting games. ... // November 1 - George Lucas leaves the day-to-day operations of his filmmaking business and starts a sabbatical (while on sabbatical, he wrote the prequel Star Wars trilogy). ... Street Fighter is a 1994 action movie based on Capcoms popular fighting game series Street Fighter. ... Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ... Robert Mammone is an Australian actor who has many television and film credits. ... Raúl Rafael Juliá y Arcelay (March 9, 1940 - October 24, 1994) was a Puerto Rican actor who lived and worked for many years in the United States. ...

Dr. Dhalsim (Roshan Seth), however, tampers with his mental programming. Whereas Blanka is shown video-footage of extreme brutality (from actual conflicts such as World War II) to make him a perfect killer, Dhalsim changes the programming to show him positive things (such as weddings, dolphins and uplifting figures like Martin Luther King). When Bison's henchman realizes what Dhalsim has done he attacks Dhalsim and in their fight Blanka is released. Roshan Seth Roshan Seth (born 17 August 1942) is a British Indian actor. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Nuptial is the adjective of wedding. It is used for example in zoology to denote plumage, coloration, behavior, etc related to or occurring in the mating season. ... Genera See article below. ... “Martin Luther King” redirects here. ...

He protects Dhalsim for a time and also attacks Guile when he first doesn't recognize him. He later allows himself to be killed when Bison's base collapses, knowing he will never be accepted in his current state. Dhalsim willingly accompanies him, paying for his part in the evil to which he subjected Blanka.

The film was made prior to Charlie's introduction as a playable character in the Street Fighter Alpha games.

Characteristics

Blanka's most readily apparent characteristic is his green color. His in-game storyline states that he was once extremely pale and was once known locally as the hombre blanco (white man) and adapted the blanco into his name Blanka. This is a strange storyline point because the language spoken in Brazil is not Spanish but Portuguese (in which that expression would be homem branco). His green skin color in the games is attributed to his constant use of chlorophyll from plants to better blend in with the jungle environment, a color change that eventually became permanent. His coloring changed in later games, making him bright green with vivid orange hair as opposed to the yellowish green skin he had in Street Fighter II. Chlorophyll gives leaves their green color Space-filling model of the chlorophyll molecule Chlorophyll is a green pigment found in most plants, algae, and cyanobacteria. ...

Blanka's style of fighting in the games is a self-taught savage fighting style, not capoeira as originally stated by Capcom's USA division. His original attacks in the first version of Street Fighter II were the electric thunder attack, an electrokinetic attack that is explained as being learned from electrical eels and the Rolling Attack, a projectile attack where Blanka flies across the screen, curled up as a rolling ball. Successive revisions of the game added more rolling attacks, including his Vertical Rolling attack and a Backstep Rolling attack. His original super combo, from Super Street Fighter II: Turbo was the Ground Shave Rolling attack, a powerful ground-based rolling attack. Street Fighter Alpha 3 added his "Tropical Hazard" attack, an unusual attack that involves him shaking fruit from trees and diving into the enemy for a great amount of damage. Once he reaches the ground again, he can kick the watermelons at the opponent, with different attacks causing them to fly in different angles.^[3] This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... For pseudoscientific uses (such as psionic abilities), see Psychokinesis. ... Suborders See text for suborders and families. ...

Despite being human, Blanka is characterized in Street Fighter Alpha 3 as only being able to speak in growling noises that could only be interpreted by certain people like his friend Dan Hibiki. However, in Street Fighter 2 he is able to speak English, as is evident in his English winning and ending quotes, having already grasped much of the English language thanks to Dan. Dan Hibiki ) is a character from Capcoms Street Fighter series of fighting games. ...

Related Characters

• Dan Hibiki
• Sakura Kasugano

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Trivia

• While not entirely relevant, the character Rico Banderas from the PS1 game Xenogears shares a striking physical resemblance to Blanka. Whether this was intentional or not is not known.

Bojack's transformed state from the DragonBall Z movie, Milky Way at the Brink!! The Super Incredible Guy has a striking resemblance to Blanka. Xenogears ) is a console role-playing game developed and published by Square Co. ...

• X-Men's Beast bears a slight resemblance to Blanka, only blue instead of green and different hair styles.

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References

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External links

• WikiKnowledge.net’s entry for Blanka Previously hosted by Wikibooks