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Poison is shown to be a Caucasian female with long pink, somewhat rugged, hair. But in Japan, she simply tucks her business away to look female.' He later emphasized it again when asked about what female characters could be included in the game Street Fighter IV, stating that it would be too confusing to include her due to the region-specific gender. Street Fighter IV's producer Yoshinori Ono, when asked in an interview about the matter, stated 'Let's set the record straight: In North America, Poison is officially a post-op transsexual. Final Fight developer and Arika founder Akira Nishitani stated he supposed the character could be male, but added it was up to the viewer to decide. The discrepancy regarding Poison have been addressed more than once in interviews with former and current Capcom employees. The Final Fight-related character profiles featured in the 2005 compilation Capcom Classics Collection acknowledges Poison's transvestite characterization, while addressing Roxy as a 'she' who dislikes Poison's cross-dressing. Commentary about her ending in the game in All About Capcom suggested that the character might have gotten a sex change.

Ī later appearance by Poison as playable character in Final Fight Revenge, an American-produced 3D fighting game spinoff of Final Fight, portrayed the character in a highly feminine manner and had her romantically interested in Final Fight hero Cody.

According to the book All About Capcom Head to Head Fighting Games, the characters were originally planned to be female, but were changed to transvestites (or more specifically ' newhalfs') due to the suggestion that 'hitting women was considered rude' in America and the concern that feminist groups would sue. Named after the band by an unnamed female employee at Capcom, she was designed by Akira Yasuda to contrast against the bigger characters in the game and move about randomly. Poison's first appearance in Final Fight featured her and a palette swap character named Roxy as recurring minor enemies for the player to fight. Regardless of her gender, she has been noted as one of the most attractive video game characters by UGO.com, and praised for her design by others such as magazine editor Wataru Maruyama and GameDaily. IGN described her as one of the most memorable 'traps' in video games, 'a psychological, Crying-Game mental twist for gamers'. īecause of the alteration to the character during Final Fight 's development, her gender has been debated by both fans and media alike. Poison was also to appear in both Capcom Fighting All-Stars and Final Fight: Streetwise however, the former was canceled, and she was omitted from the latter as development progressed.

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After the Final Fight series she later appeared alongside wrestler Hugo, acting as his manager, with her schemes revolving around finding a tag team partner for him or developing their own wrestling organization. Originally conceived as a female thug in Final Fight and part of the game's antagonist group, Mad Gear, concerns about reactions from North American audiences to fighting women resulted in the character being changed to a newhalf. She is voiced by Atsuko Tanaka in the Street Fighter III series, and Masae Yumi in SNK vs. Created by Akira Yasuda for Capcom, Poison first appeared in Final Fight alongside a similar character, Roxy, later appearing in Capcom-produced games, media and merchandise related to the Street Fighter franchise. Poison ( ポイズン, Poizun ?) is a fictional character in the Final Fight and Street Fighter series of video games. Capcom: SVC Chaos) Ĭlass=' infobox hproduct' style='float:right width:264px font-size:90% text-align:left ' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='3'

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