Cody (Final Fight)
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 Cody in Final Fight |
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| Game series | Final Fight series, Street Fighter series |
| First game | Final Fight |
| Designed by | Akiman |
| Voiced by | Koichi Yamadera (Street Fighter Alpha 3) |
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| Birthplace |  United States of America |
| Fighting style | Street Fighting |
| Likes | Starting fights, Spinach, Milk |
| Dislikes | Mayor Haggar's discipline |
| Special skill | Knife handling |
Cody Travers (コーディー Kōdī?) is a fictional video game character who appears in both the Final Fight and Street Fighter series. He is a fifth-degree black belt in karate and has been training in martial arts since he was nine years old.
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[edit] Fictional Background
In the original Final Fight, Cody teams up with Guy and The Mayor of Metro City, Mike Haggar to save Jessica (Cody's girlfriend and Haggar's daughter) from Belger, the leader of the Mad Gear gang. Cody takes on many of Mad Gear's worst thugs, and his penchant for fighting often leaves the others free to pursue the bosses of the area. In particular, he defeats the corrupt Edi. E whose sanctimonious role as a cop infuriates Cody. Although in the Game Boy Advance version, "Alpha Cody" vaguely remembers following a dog (Shiro) in the Bay Area to Abigail, it is considered canon that in the original arcade version Haggar sends Guy and Cody on ahead and has a massive showdown with the other wrestler. Although Cody doesn't want to go (because Abigail makes comments that Jessica is probably having a 'good time' with Belger), he is rewarded for the decision, as he winds up defeating Belger personally by defenestrating him at the top floor of Mad Gear headquarters. Cody is then celebrated as the hero of Metro City, but tells Jessica that he can't sit still while evil stalks the streets and soon thereafter leaves the city for parts unknown.
Cody's next appearance is in Final Fight Revenge. He returns from a year of traveling to Metro City, where he learns that the Mad Gear is beginning to reform and Jessica has gone missing. Hoping to prove to himself that he is Jessica's hero, he again tries to come to her rescue, battling many thugs along the way. During the game he is framed for crimes he did not commit, and due to his addiction to streetfighting, he arrested by Edi.E and placed in prison.
In Street Fighter Alpha 3, Cody breaks out of prison after a riot ensues. During his travels, he is pursued by Edi.E (who appears during some of his win poses, trying to recapture him), Rolento, and even Guy. Rolento wants Cody to join his militant movement, which Cody refuses, while Guy wants to reform Cody. During their conversation, Cody states that he lives for fighting, and his former status as a hero was simply a side-effect of this. After their battle, Guy accepts that his friend has to live his own life. The two separate afterwards with Cody stating he still has traveling to do. Guy bids him farewell, realizing that deep down inside, Cody is still a good person.
In between games, Guy commits an unspecified crime that Cody is willingly incarcerated for. The two have not spoken since. After Cody gets out of prison, he retires from mainstream street fighting due to problems with his knees. Cody begins training his little brother Kyle as a pit fighter. However, Kyle is slow to realize his potential, only stoking Cody's burning desire to fight once more.
In Final Fight: Streetwise, Cody begins using the designer drug glycolauric octanol, or "glo", which acts as a steroid, increasing Cody's strength, and relieving the pain on his knees. Unbeknownst to Kyle, Cody begins fighting in mob boss Vito Bracca's fight club, until he runs afoul of Vito and is kidnapped by the mob enforcer known as "The Stiff". Kyle searches for his older brother, and finds him heavily addicted to glo, and serving as the horseman of Death to the psychotic Father Bella. When Bella threatens to kill Kyle, Cody comes to his senses, tackling Bella and falling with him off the roof of a church. Surviving the fall, Cody beats his glo addiction, and states that due to the massive dosage of glo Bella gave him, his knees are feeling "better than ever".
[edit] Appearance
In his initial appearances, from Final Fight up to Street Fighter Alpha 3, he wore hand wraps, a white t-shirt, blue jeans, and tennis shoes. In Street Fighter Alpha 3, he appeared in a blue and white striped prison uniform with handcuffs alongside the aforementioned hand wraps and tennis shoes (though, oddly, he appears to be wearing the handcuffs by choice as he can freely remove them at will when he taunts). In Final Fight: Streetwise, Cody wears his classic original outfit, but with an orange prison shirt over the t-shirt.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] In other media
In the US Street Fighter cartoon, there is an episode entitled "Final Fight", loosely based on the events of the same game. Cody acts jealous and angry towards Ken because he thinks that Ken wants to steal Jessica away from him. The ending of the episode reflects the end of Final Fight: Cody knocks Belger from the window of his penthouse (although Belger is not killed), and rescues Jessica. In this appearance, Cody sports dogtags and is portrayed as a slow-witted, short-tempered character with a hillbilly accent. In keeping with the show itself, this appearance is not considered to be canonical.
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