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Graceful, Sexy & Cool
Full Name	unknown
Nationality	American
Birthdate	February 24 [1]
Gender	Female (possibly)
Race	Human
Relationships	Hugo (partner) Cody (crush)
Fighting Style	Self-taught martial arts
Occupation	Pro-Wrestling Manager
Debut	Final Fight
Vitality	950
Tag Partner	Hugo

"Now, the show's ready to begin!"

—Poison

Poison (Poison Kiss in Japan) is a character first introduced in the Final Fight series, She then appeared along side Hugo in Street Fighter III 2nd Impact and its update Street Fighter III 3rd Strike. She will, for the first time, be a playable SF character in Street Fighter x Tekken.

BioEdit

A former member of the Mad Gear crime syndicate. She is constantly at odds with her partner Hugo, although the two seem to get along just fine regardless. This finely curved woman looks very sexy.

AppearanceEdit

Poison is shown to be a Caucasian female with long pink, somewhat rugged, hair. She wears a black cap, a choker, blue cutoff shorts, red high heels, and a tanktop cut just below her large breasts. In Final Fight Revenge and some artworks, her hair is shown to be purple instead of pink. She wears several armbands around her right arm and has chains and a pair of handcuffs suspended off her shorts. Final Fight Revenge features her also possessing a whip used in attacks, though the character has not been shown with one in other titles or artwork. Poison stands about 5 feet 9 inches (175 cm) tall and has three sizes of 34-25-35" (88-66-89 cm).

PersonalityEdit

Poison's behavior is represented as womanly and sultry, ranging from flirtatious comments to pole dancing. She enjoys fighting and uses it as a means to stay in shape. She is also very smart about fighting and does not to fight children.

StoryEdit

Final FightEdit

Poison was a member of the Mad Gear gang when they kidnapped mayor Haggar's daughter Jessica. Though the females within the Mad Gear Gang are very few in number, they are considered to rank among the most insidious members of the gang. As the head of this small, but elite group of femme fatales, Poison helped fight against Haggar, Cody & Guy, but left the gang when the gang disbanded.

Final Fight RevengeEdit

After Cody was arrested and put in jail, Poison visited Cody Travers in prison to express her feelings for him. Poison realized that he would never return her feelings as his heart still belonged to Jessica.

Street Fighter IIIEdit

She started to be Hugo's manager during his time in pro-wrestling. Eventually, Hugo and Poison decided to start their own wrestling promotion, the Huge/Hyu Wrestling Army (HWA). Their main objective is to take over all of pro wrestling.

GameplayEdit

"It's a little too early for you to be on your back already."

—Poison

Poison's fighting style consist acrobatic flips and grabs to violent whip and dirty tactics. Poison's gameplay in SFxTK is mostly based on her footise and zoning she can also mix-up her opponet fairly well. Poison also has two unique attacks, the first being a hoping palmstrike. This attack hits overhead and can be comboed out of. The Second is a blackflip that goes back pretty far, can be used to evade attacks or to get out of a bad situation.

TechniquesEdit

Move Name	Input
Elbow Drop	+
Backflip
Slapshot	or N + +
Frankensteiner	+ +
Whip of Love	+ perform x4
Kissed by a Goddess	+
Love Me Tender	+
> Love Me Tender Throw	during Love Me Tender on hit
Aeolus Edge	+
Love Storm	+
Cross Art	+ +

History and Gender ControversyEdit

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. 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. According to the book All About Capcom Head to Head Fighting Games, the characters were originally planned to be normal females, but was believed to be changed to transsexual females (or more specifically "newhalfs") due to the suggestion that "hitting women was considered rude" in America and the concern that feminist groups would sue. However, Poison's original concept artwork referred to her as a newhalf already, meaning that she was never intended to be completely female.

A 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. Commentary about her ending in the game in All About Capcom suggested that the character might have gotten a sex change. The Final Fight-related character profiles featured in the 2005 compilation Capcom Classics Collection acknowledges Poison's transgender characterization.

The discrepancy regarding Poison has been addressed more than once in interviews with former and current Capcom employees. 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. 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. 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.

Also, in early developements of Street Fighter X Tekken, footage was shown of Ryu and Chun-Li's win quotes to Poison. Ryu said, "Your looks really can be deceiving. I'll be careful not to fall into your trap." Chun-Li then said, "You're not very lady-like at all! I felt like I was fighting against a guy...". After the footage was shown, and LGBT rights group contacted Capcom about Ryu and Chun-Li's win quotes to Poison, stating that it was really offensive to them and many other LGBT members. Capcom then changed Ryu and Chun-Li's win quotes to not revolve around Poison's gender.