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Sodom (a.k.a. Katana) is a video game character from both the Final Fight and Street Fighter series. He was a top member of the original Mad Gear gang. A caucasian male born in the United States, Sodom is obsessed with Japanese culture. He is well-versed in many elements of Japanese culture, though his usage of the language is somewhat dubious. Image File history File links Sodom_SF.jpg Sodom Source: http://www. ...
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Story In the original Final Fight, Sodom controlled the Mad Gear gang from the Metro City Subway. He was undefeated in underground pro wrestling, albeit due to his use of "foreign objects" (the swords), until he met Guy, as well as Cody and Haggar. At first Sodom was honored to face a true ninja of Japanese descent like Guy, but this honor would turn into deep shame as Guy and his allies beat him. From then on, Sodom hated Guy for not only being one of the people to rid Metro City of his gang, but for destroying his undefeated streak which proved in his mind he was no match for a true Japanese fighter. The incident also cost him a lot of respect amongst his fellow gang members. A rapid transit, underground, subway, tube, elevated, or metro(politan) system is a railway system, usually in an urban area, with a high capacity and frequency of service, and grade separation from other traffic. ...
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Final Fight Revenge showed Sodom's determination to resurrect Mad Gear (this gang actually seems to be the same Mad Gear in Final Fight 2) and his decision to go to Japan to find strong warriors for the new organization. The new crime syndicate was established all about the world and was held together by a powerful second-in-command-a Japanese kabuki named Retu. Rolento, Sodom's proclaimed blood brother was also being part of the criminal organization. Guy's fiancée Rena and her father Genryusai were kidnapped by them as part of a revenge plot, but this Mad Gear fell at the hands of Haggar, Maki and Carlos, three acquaintances of Guy. Mad Gear was defeated permanently. Final Fight Revenge is a 3D fighting game in the Final Fight series. ...
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Street Fighter Alpha 2 reveals why Sodom wasn't seen in FF2. He was attempting to find more strong warriors for the gang. He had an argument with Rolento over how the militant man had lost sight of their gang's ideals, to which Rolento snapped back that he had never lost sight, was simply trying to find a successful way to implement them. The two fought, and Sodom lost. Sodom had also attempted to recruit E. Honda and fought him in a sumo match, but failed to win the match and his objective. The Street Fighter Alpha (Street Fighter Zero outside the USA and Europe) series of fighting games is part of the Street Fighter series by Capcom. ...
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After possibly fighting Honda in a friendly rematch, the Japanese affectionado met Rolento again in Street Fighter Alpha 3, where he once again lost to Rolento in another fight over their values. Despite losing, he tracked Rolento down to Shadoloo's base containing the Psycho Drive, and finds Rolento decrying it as a poor attempt to control people. Sodom realizes that Rolento did not lose sight of Mad Gear's ideals, and the two reconcile their differences. They decided to work together toward making a great utopian nation. The Street Fighter Alpha (Street Fighter Zero outside the USA and Europe) series of fighting games is part of the Street Fighter series by Capcom. ...
Shadoloo (often spelled as Shadowloo, Shadaloo, Shadowlaw and Shadowland, Japanese: シャドルー, Esperanto, in the movie: Ŝadoluo) is an international crime syndicate which is featured prominently in Capcoms Street Fighter series. ...
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Appearance In combat, Sodom wears Japanese socks (tabi) and sandals (getta), samurai gauntlets, blue jeans, body armor, and a samurai kabuto with a mask. Japanese samurai in armour, 1860s. ...
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On the front of his outfit, Sodom has scrawled the Japanese kanji shi (死), meaning death. However, this kanji is not written properly, and actually has no meaning. This is meant to be humorous to the Japanese audience, who can see Sodom's failed attempt at Japanese calligraphy emblazoned across his chest at all times. Japanese writing Kanji Kana Hiragana Katakana Hentaigana Manyogana Uses Furigana Okurigana RÅmaji Kanji (Japanese: ) are the Chinese characters that are used in the modern Japanese logographic writing system along with hiragana (平仮å), katakana (片仮å), and the arabic numerals. ...
He is never seen fighting without a pair of jutte or katana blades. In the English version of Final Fight, both katana are named Masamune, and Muramasa in the Japanese version. A modern jitte The jitte or jutte (Japanese: å手 literally ten-hand, i. ...
Diagram showing the parts of a katana Katana (刀) is the word for sword in the Japanese language. ...
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Gameplay Sodom is the only character in Street Fighter Alpha 3 whose weapons depend on what Ism is used. If using X-Ism fighting style, he'll use his katanas; otherwise, in the A-Ism and V-Ism styles, he will use his jitte. This is because his X-Ism visage is based on his Final Fight appearance. Diagram showing the parts of a katana Katana (刀) is the word for sword in the Japanese language. ...
A modern jitte The jitte or jutte (Japanese: å手 literally ten-hand, i. ...
Sodom was notable for being fairly difficult to defeat head-on in the original Final Fight, due to his dash attack being nearly invincible and quite damaging. However, it is possible to defeat him without actually taking any damage at all if the player approaches him along a vertical axis and uses grabbing and throwing moves, since his dash attack can only move horizontally or diagonally. Successful application of the above method can allow the player to easily defeat Sodom without harm, since he is the only boss character in Final Fight who does not have henchmen to back him up during battle. The word Henchman referred originally to one who attended on a horse, that is, a groom. ...
Use of Japanese Language Since Sodom is an American character trying to speak Japanese, he is a comedic object of ridicule in his failed attempts at the language. In the Japanese version of Street Fighter Alpha, Sodom's inability to speak fluent Japanese is portrayed in his win quotes by having him use English words that are pronounced similarily to whatever Japanese words he's trying to say with a Japanese translation below. For example, his attempt to call his opponent "truly pathetic" in Japanese is rendered to "SHOW SEA SEND BANG", which is somewhat close to what he's trying to actually say (Shoushi senban): this can be somewhat likened to a reverse version of ateji. American releases, however, show Sodom's misheard wordings of Japanese words, but with loose romanizations of what he was trying to say. Ateji (当ã¦å— ) guessed characters are Kanji selected to write a borrowed non-Chinese or native Japanese word with the intent of implying an etymology, which is fanciful or false. ...
In his Street Fighter Alpha ending, Sodom unfurls a scroll that is meant to read "Mad Gear", using Japanese script. However, the humor lies that Sodom failed to write the scroll in katakana, and instead used the kanji "魔"-(ma), "奴"-(do), "義"-(gi) (miswritten) and "亜"-(a) to phonetically spell out Mado Gia (Mad Gear). Because each kanji has meaning, this appears to the Japanese reader to be a nonsensical coupling of characters: "devil", "slave", "honor", and "to come after" as in a rank or position. "亜" can also mean "Asia" or "mute." This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
Japanese writing Kanji Kana Hiragana Katakana Hentaigana Manyogana Uses Furigana Okurigana RÅmaji Kanji (Japanese: ) are the Chinese characters that are used in the modern Japanese logographic writing system along with hiragana (平仮å), katakana (片仮å), and the arabic numerals. ...
The "shi" (死) kanji on his armor is miswritten (see Appearance).
Trivia - As noted above, Sodom actually seems to be the Mad Gear's penultimate leader. In Street Fighter Alpha 2, he remarks to Rolento in their matchup that Mad Gear is gaining strength under his command. Final Fight Revenge shows that out of all the various members who attempted to take over the gang, only Sodom's seemed to have made sense. Also, kidnapping Guy's mentor and fiancée makes sense if one remembers Sodom hated Guy in particular.
- In the American SNES version of both Final Fight and Street Fighter Alpha 2, his name was changed to Katana, because his original name guards relation to the biblical cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, or to sodomy. Ironically, there are some who feel that Katana is a more appropriate name, given the character's original weapon of choice.
- In SVC Chaos: SNK vs. Capcom, Sodom makes a cameo appearance in Chun-Li's ending.
- It's come into question whether Rolento's SFA3 ending occurred or if Sodom's did. Sodom's involves him blowing himself and his truck up over the Shadowloo base, taking the base out with him. While at first this makes little sense, it may be practically true: in several of the SFA3 endings, the base begins to collapse before the actual self-destruct (Charlie bombing the base in many endings is an event that didn't actually happen). This would coincide with the fact Sodom doesn't appear in later games, even as a cameo (though Rolento does). If true, this would mean Sodom is very much dead.
- In SFA3, Sodom has different stage music from normal if you use the "X-ISM" style of fighting.
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External links - WikiKnowledge.net’s entry for Sodom Previously hosted by Wikibooks
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