Duck King

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Duck King
Duck King in King of Fighters XI
Game series	Fatal Fury series King of Fighters series
First game	Fatal Fury
In-Universe Information
Birthplace	USA
Blood type	B
Fighting style	Personal martial art (based on various forms of dance, mainly breakdancing)

Duck King (ダック・キング, Dakku Kingu^?) is a character from both the Fatal Fury and King of Fighters series. In both games, he is a supporting character, one of a number of loosely-drawn characters introduced to help fill out the games' cast of characters.

He appears as a playable character in Fatal Fury Special and King of Fighters XI, and makes a cameo appearance as a striker (a character that hops on-screen to perform a one-time attack) in King of Fighters 2000. He also appears in the background of several King of Fighters games, often in the company of Ryuhaku Todoh and Heavy D!.

1 History
- 1.1 Fatal Fury
- 1.2 King of Fighters
2 Trivia

[edit] History

[edit] Fatal Fury

A Southtown native, Duck King grew up in an impoverished family in the city’s ghetto. It was in this poor district where he would take interest in fighting and even a greater interest in music and, even more so, dance. He spent a great deal of time with breakdancing and the B-boy culture so much so that it became a part of his life. Duck King began to frequent nightclubs as his dancing skills vastly improved. His overwhelming and thrilling antics on the dance floor worked its way into a fighting style of Duck King’s own design.

Using his fighting style confuse other fighters in the ghetto’s West Subway, Duck King started to create a reputation with the fighters in Southtown. When news of Geese Howard’s King of Fighters tournament broke, an excited Duck King jumped at the chance to enter. While being an odds on favorite, Duck King was manhandled by the Lonely Wolves (consisting of Terry Bogard, Andy Bogard and Joe Higashi), more specifically, Terry (as Duck King hates his Rising Tackle).

After his loss, Duck King went back to the ghetto to develop his fighting style to flow with the rhythm of battle. Around this time he met up with the bouncer, King and the two pulled together enough money to start a massive bar in Southtown. Here King’s King of Fighters tournament matches were hosted with Duck King acting as the DJ for the bar.

During the events of Fatal Fury 3 and Real Bout Fatal Fury, Duck was invited to Richard Meyer’s new night club, the Pao Pao Café 2. The grand opening was spoiled by the Jin twins Chonrei and Chonshu who wrecked the café. They sought the Jin Scrolls which were stolen from them. These scrolls eventually end up in the hands of Geese Howard, who was once thought dead.

As the Bogard brothers, Joe Higashi, and other allies banded together to stop Geese, Duck King unexpectedly joins the fight. When Geese dies in battle with Terry, Duck King parties at the rebuilt Pao Pao Café 2 taking a much needed rest from fighting.

[edit] King of Fighters

During King of Fighters XI, he is part of the "Fatal Fury" team composed of Terry Bogard and Kim Kaphwan. He is invited by Terry; but it took him, Terry, Choi, and Chang to convince Kim to join the team.

[edit] Trivia

In the first Fatal Fury game, Duck King wore parachute pants similar to those of MC Hammer. He has since been changed to wear clothing more suited to somebody who follows modern hip-hop culture.
As Fatal Fury was considered a rip-off of Street Fighter II in the early days, Duck King's possession of the Headspin Attack drew a lot of comparison to the character Blanka for possessing the same special move (Blanka's = Rolling Attack) and having unorthodox fighting styles.
His ending in Real Bout Fatal Fury 2: The Newcomers, shows that he gives each of his ducklings a different colored mowhawk, possibly to identify them better. Then again, given the endings in that game were for the most part joke endings, this may not be canon.
Duck King makes cameos in USA Team stage in KOF '98 with Ryuhaku Todoh, Mr. Big and Eiji Kisaragi, and in the Mexico stage of KOF 2002 with Brian Battler, Lucky Glauber and Bob Wilson.
Duck King makes two anime appearances. In Fatal Fury: Legend of the Hungry Wolf, he is defeated by Joe Higashi's Tiger Kick. Later, in Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture, he has his own nightclub that was promptly destroyed. Duck King was voiced by Matt Hill.
Duck's Break Spiral DM is one of the very few moves to retain its original motion since its debut. Most DM's were given simpler motions as the games moved forward. This, Geese Howard's Raging Storm, and a select few more, are a small group indeed.
He appears in the daytime Tower Festival stage of KOF: Maximum Impact 2, sitting on metal connecting the stage to the towers.