Here’s a look at Bison’s history.
He fashioned himself that way for kicks.
M. Bison first appeared in 1991sStreet Fighter II.
Or Shadowlaw if youre watching theStreet Fighter IIanimes.
Since the potential legal issues from Tysons likeness made Capcom a bit anxious, they mixed the names around.
To make things less confusing, many fans just refer to them as Dictator, Claw, and Boxer.
He was just some evil general (or bus driver?)
who ran things in Thailand and was the big villain behind the World Warrior tournament.
The details on the guy only came from those who were out to get him.
Everyone else had their own thing going on and treated Bison like an afterthought.
Later versions of the game included T. Hawk and Cammy, who also wanted revenge and/or answers.
He was jaw-droppingly cheap.
Not that Capcom really gave us any details.
This turned out to be his downfall.
ThenChampionship Editionand the SNES version of the game allowed that to happen with alternate color schemes.
The third and final volume of his manga had theStreet Fightercharacters fighting their evil doubles.
This would be Julias final role and many would call it his worst movie.
Julia saves the movie by taking his lemons and making delicious lemonade laced with an extra portion of ham.
The video game movie would get its own video game spinoff with digitized graphics, much likeMortal Kombat.
Eventually, hes defeated by the team of Ryu and Ken.
You must defeat Chevrolet to stand a chance.
You have to record whats going on when the violence is happening and that will increase your stats.
All that build for one match.
If you lose, it shows you the regular ending to the movie.
Then he wanders off to find himself, walking a path much like Ryus.
The animated movie inspired theStreet Fighter Alphagames, which started coming out in 1995.
Chun-Li is still out for blood over her fathers death.
Birdie wants to fight him to prove hes good enough to join Shadaloo.
But more importantly, we get the inclusion of the mysterious Rose.
That goodness found its own sentient form as Rose, finally explaining their relationship.
In BisonsAlpha 2ending, which is canon, he defeats Ryu and captures him.
See, theAlphaversion of Bisons appearance is an overly-bulky man, compared to the slimmer take inStreet Fighter II.
The reasoning is that they are literally different bodies.
Psycho Powers limits are greater than what the human body can contain, including Bisons.
Alpha 3features Bison getting killed in nearly all the endings.
In terms of canon, hes blown to smithereens when he goes into Final Bison mode (ie.
Ryu fires the Psycho Power into Bisons system, which overloads him and makes him explode.
This is also after Guile and Charlie destroy Shadaloos underground headquarters at the cost of Charlies life.
The main one is Killer Bee, otherwise known as Cammy.
The point of this small army is survival.
To Bison, death is but a setback.
His soul can survive long enough that he can possess any one of these Dolls and move forward.
In the end, he doesnt actually use any of the Dolls.
Then he feels a slight chill wash over him.
He doesnt realize that Bison has possessed Rose.
Bison would later have his scientists create another body hisStreet Fighter IIappearance to inhabit.
I suppose he just couldnt get used to the heels.
Around the time theAlphagames were being released, they did aStreet FighterSaturday morning cartoon series in America.
In it, Bisons played with great zest by Richard Newman.
Cartoon Bison is most well known for this meme.
Truly the Daniel Bryan of his time.
Bisons main power in the cartoon is having the ability to hold people in magnetic forcefields.
It ended up being a fitting coincidence when Capcom releasedX-Men vs. Street Fighterin 1996.
In it, Bison is a rival and counterpart to Magneto.
Bisons ending shows him conquering the world in a pretty generic cutscene.
Magneto winning, on the other hand, has Sagat, Vega, and Balrog join his side.
Because if theres anyone Magneto wants help from, its three humans.
Watch out, world!
Magneto has a dumb guy who is really good at punching people on his payroll!
Defeating him causes Bisons supposed death and the destruction of his fortress, but it comes at a cost.
And thats merely thefirst volume.
Like I said, its totally batshit and only gets stranger from there.
2009 saw the release ofStreet Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, yet another cinematic take on the franchise.
Its a bad, bad, bad movie and Neal McDonough as M. Bison doesnt do it any favors.
But for me it was a weekday.
Also, according to Charlie Nash the most amazing thing about that movie Bison walks between the raindrops.
Abel then proceeded to scratch his head and call it a nonsense saying.
Speaking of Abel, that brings us to 2008sStreet Fighter IV.
M. Bison is a pretty prominent character.
That kill was his bread and butter!
Abel, an earlier and more humanlike creation from the project, was freed years ago by Charlie.
In the end, Bison destroys Seth, revealing that Seths whole rebellion is really part of Bisons plans.
Maybe he really is dead after all!
But who am I kidding?
Hell be back somehow.
Last, and certainly not least, Bison finally got to appear in a genuinely good film after all.
He appeared in 2012sWreck-It Ralphas played by Gerard C. Rivers (his English voice actor in the games).
Will he be trumped by a new big bad?
Well find out in time.
But all we know is that he isnt up to anything wholesome.
Because M. Bison is bad…and that is good.
