Cody (Final Fight)

General CVG character
name=Cody


caption=Cody as drawn in the Super Famicom version of "Final Fight"
series="Final Fight" series, "Street Fighter" series
firstgame="Final Fight"
artist=Akiman
voiceactor=Koichi Yamadera (Street Fighter Alpha 3)
japanactor=
inuniverse=Street Fighter character
birthplace= flagicon|USA United States of America
fightingstyle=Street Fighting
likes=Starting fights, Spinach, Milk
dislikes=Mayor Haggar's discipline
specialskill=Knife handlingnihongo|Cody Travers|コーディー|Kōdī is a fictional video game character who first debuted as the lead character of the vgy|1989 beat-em-up "Final Fight". He would appear as a playable character in "Street Fighter Alpha 3" and later "Final Fight"-related spinoffs.

History

Cody first appears as the lead character of the vgy|1989 beat-em-up "Final Fight", where he is one of the three playable characters in the game, with Cody being the well-balanced character of the trio. In the game, he is a martial artist whose girlfriend Jessica has been kidnapped by the Mad Gear Gang. He teams up with his friend and rival Guy, and Jessica's father Haggar, to defeat the gang. In the game, he wears hand wraps, a white t-shirt, blue jeans, and tennis shoes.

After "Final Fight", he is mentioned in the SNES sequel, "Final Fight 2", where he is shown in the opening flashback to be the one delivering the finishing blow to Belger in the first game, but does not appear in the actual game, nor in "Final Fight 3". Cody was mostly regalated to background cameos with Jessica in later games such as "Street Fighter Alpha 2" and "Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter".

His next major appearance was in vgy|1998's "Street Fighter Alpha 3", being the fourth "Final Fight" character to appear in the "Alpha" sub-series. In this game, Cody ended his relationship with Jessica and became a convicted felon after getting in too many fights following the events of the original "Final Fight". He appears in a blue and white striped prison uniform with handcuffs alongside the hand wraps and tennis shoes he wore in "Final Fight" (he can freely remove his handcuffs at will when he taunts, but wears them anyway for no given reason, other than a "challenge"). [http://strategywiki.org/wiki/Street_Fighter_Alpha/Characters/Cody]

"Final Fight Revenge", an American-developed 3D fighting game based on "Final Fight" also released in 1998, features Cody as depicted in the original "Final Fight". In his character's ending, he gets arrested by police officer Edi E. after being framed by the surviving members of Mad Gear and he is shown in Poison's ending wearing the same jailbird outfit he wears in "Alpha 3". [http://strategywiki.org/wiki/Street_Fighter_Alpha/Characters/Cody]

A second American-produced "Final Fight" spinoff, vgy|2006's "", features Cody as the elder brother and mentor of the new main character, Kyle Travers. Cody wears his classic original outfit, but with an orange prison shirt over the t-shirt. Prior to the events of the game, Cody was willingly incarcerated for an unspecified crime committed by Guy, causing a fallout between the two former friends. Cody is kidnapped by Father Bella (the younger brother of Belger) and used as a brainwashed guinea pig for the experimental drug GLO. Cody regains his senses and helps his brother defeat Bella.

Gameplay

In "Final Fight", Cody was the 'balance' character, blessed with both strength and speed, although excelling in neither department. This made him a good choice for players new to the game. He was also the only player capable of stabbing when armed with a knife. By the time of his appearance in "Street Fighter Alpha 3", Cody has gained new special moves and super combos. Cody makes reference to this enrichment of his fighting style in one of his "SFA3" win quotes, stating that it is good to know "more than two moves" after such a long absence.

Techniques

His trademark attacks are the "Bad Stone", in which he throws a normal rock with the force of other fighter's projectiles, the "Criminal Upper", in which he throws an uppercut that releases a multi-hitting tornado that blocks projectiles, the "Ruffian Kick", a charging kick attack that varies on attack level depending on which button used, and the ability to use a knife lying in the middle of the stage in all of his fights, which Cody can pick up by pressing crouch and two punch buttons. This is a throwback to Cody's favored weapon in "Final Fight".

Cody's A-Ism "Final Destruction" super move is a reference to a glitch in the original "Final Fight", in which a player could start an attack combo, deliver two hits, and turn around, instantly cancelling the combo, allowing the player to turn back and chain the same two hits. Repeated, this could act as an infinite combo attack. Cody mimics the attack, and accordingly, "Final Destruction" is a devastating move if it connects. In X-Ism, using this move replaces his moves with the original "Final Fight" moveset: tapping any button repeatedly performs his normal combo from "Final Fight", and all his air attacks are replaced with the F+HK "Crack Kick".

"Final Fight: Streetwise" sees an alternate version of Cody, dubbed "Death". As he was chosen by a Metro City priest, Father Bella, to be a living incarnation of one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. This version of Cody has a more demonic look to him due to the fact that Cody was drugged with a mysterious substance that was dubbed "The Glow" (In reference to how the eyes of the user looked after taking the drug) and has a version of the "Criminal Upper" that emits a greenish glow to it; in addition, he gains the ability to throw waves of green energy that travel along the ground like many projectiles in SNK fighting games, as well as the ability to rain green energy down around himself.

In other media

An episode of the American "Street Fighter" animated series titled "Final Fight" adapts the plot of the same game. In the episode, Cody and Guy goes off to fight Mad Gear on their own accord, while Ryu and Ken are hired by Haggar to infiltrate the gang. Like in the game. Cody knocks Belger from the window of his penthouse (although Belger is not killed), and rescues Jessica. In this appearance, Cody is portrayed as a slow-witted, short-tempered character with a southern accent.

External links

* [http://strategywiki.org/wiki/Street_Fighter_Alpha/Characters/Cody Cody's Street Fighter Alpha] entry at [http://strategywiki.org/ StrategyWiki.org]