Blanka

Blanka
Blanka in Capcom vs. SNK 2.
Game series	Street Fighter series
First game	Street Fighter II
Voiced by (English)	Tom Carlton (Street Fighter II movie), Scott McNeil (U.S. cartoon series)
Voiced by (Japanese)	Unshou Ishizuka
In-universe information
Birthplace	Brazil
Fighting style	Savage fighting
Likes	Tropical Fruit, Arapaima
Dislikes	Army Ants
Special skill	Hunting, Electrical discharge

Blanka (ブランカ, Blanka^?) 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 Street Fighter II games.

Contents 1 Character history 2 Appearances in films 2.1 Street Fighter II animated movie 2.2 Street Fighter motion picture 2.3 Street Figher II cartoon series 3 Characteristics 4 References 5 External links

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. 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 him 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. 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. 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. 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.

Appearances in films

Street Fighter II animated movie

Blanka makes a brief appearance in a hotel where a luxurious convention is held. Blanka appears in the evening entertainment where he is lowered from a cage to fight Zangief. Blanka uses his Rolling Attack and Electric Shock when fighting. He was voiced by Unshou Ishizuka in Japanese and Tom Carlton in English.

Street Fighter motion picture

The 1994 live-action Street Fighter film combined Charlie and Blanka into a single character. 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. Carlos was tied to a specially designed seat to undergo genetic testing. Images of violence are constantly shown before his eyes on a special screen. His muscle mass began to increase on a daily basis. Carlos shouted helplessly as he felt he was being brainwashed. Fortunately, the scientist who was in charge of this project sympathized with him and tried to regain as much of the human side of Carlos as he could. Soon, Carlos's skin turns green and hair turns orange. He become muscular but looks like a caveman. The film was made prior to Charlie's introduction as a playable character in the Street Fighter Alpha games.

Street Figher II cartoon series

He was voiced by Scott McNeil. In the cartoon, Blanka was portrayed as the protector of a small Brazilian village who eventually "rejoined" the Street Fighter team. 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.

Characteristics

Blanka's most 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. Blanka's style of fighting in the games is a self-taught savage fighting style; however, Capcom's USA division depicted it as a Capoeira technique. 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, Bruce Banner theorizes that gamma radiation caused Blanka's mutations, as they did his.^[2]

References

External links

• StrategyWiki has more information about Street Fighter II Blanka
• StrategyWiki has more information about Street Fighter Alpha Blanka
• StrategyWiki has more information about Street Fighter EX Blanka

•  • e Street Fighter and related characters
Characters sorted by game they first appeared in
Street Fighter	Adon – Birdie - Geki - Mike - Joe - Lee - Eagle – Gen – Ken – Retsu - Ryu – Sagat
Street Fighter II series	Akuma – Balrog – Cammy – Blanka – Chun-Li – Dee Jay – Dhalsim – E. Honda – Fei Long – Guile – M. Bison – T. Hawk – Vega – Zangief
Street Fighter Alpha series	Charlie – Dan – Juni and Juli – Karin – Ingrid – R. Mika – Rose – Sakura
Street Fighter III series	Alex – Dudley – Elena – Gill – Ibuki – Makoto – Necro – Oro – Q – Remy – Sean – Twelve – Urien – Yang – Yun
No game appearances	Gouken – Goutetsu
Final Fight series characters	Belger – Carlos – Cody – Dean – Guy – Hugo – Kyle – Lucia – Maki – Mike Haggar – Poison – Rolento – Sodom
Others	Captain Commando – Saturday Night Slam Masters characters
Non-canon Street Fighter characters	Blade – Kevin Striker – Sawada – Sheng Long – List of Street Fighter EX characters