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Dan’s Dad

First Appearance: N/A

Last Seen: Dan’s nightmares

Okay, I’m stretching the boundaries of what constitutes a Street Fighter character that’s missing in action, as Dan’s father has never actually been in a Street Fighter game. His story ties in to Dan’s creation, and goes aaaall the way back a piece of promotional art of Sagat for Street Fighter II Championship Edition. The art piece was kind of a joke intended to poke fun at the SNK game Art of Fighting. That game had a character by the name of Ryo Sakazaki that bore more than a passing resemblance to Street Fighter’s own Ken Masters. To get back at SNK in a tongue in cheek kind of way, character artist Akiman drew a piece of art which depicted Sagat holding the dead body of a man that looked like a combination of Ryo and Robert Garcia, who was the other main character in Art of Fighting. This would later be the inspiration for the fully fleshed out joke character, Dan.

Dan’s backstory was that Sagat had killed his father and Dan was out for revenge. This would mean that the body Sagat holds in that piece of art is Dan’s father. In the Street Fighter Alpha series, Sagat has a special pre-match animation that happens once in a while where he can be seen holding that body before throwing it away. According to the exchange between Dan and Sagat in Street Fighter Alpha, Dan’s father is the one who took out Sagat’s eye.

Like Wolfman, Dan’s dad is a blank canvas with which to work fighting game magic. Who is he? What does he look like? We know he wears a gi similar to Dan, but we’ve never seen his face. Does he have a fighting style similar to Dan? Perhaps Dan only had a couple lessons from his dad before he died, which would explain why Dan sucks so much. Dan’s father would be an interesting addition to the Street Fighter series, ignoring the fact that he’s dead, but technically so was Gouken and he’s doing just fine in Street Fighter IV.