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Terry Bogard is an American martial artist known for his charisma and friendliness. His fighting style is a mix of various techniques from a variety of martial arts, including boxing, kung fu, and kickboxing, in addition to the fictional martial art Hakkyokuseiken, created by his master, Tung Fu Rue. Outside of fighting, his other hobbies include playing video games and basketball. Terry also has a love interest, "Blue" Mary Ryan, and a pet monkey named Ukee.

Terry, alongside his younger brother Andy, spent his early childhood as an orphan living on the dangerous streets of the fictional South Town. They were soon adopted by Jeff Bogard, a student of the Hakkyokuseiken martial art. When Terry was 10 years old, he witnessed Jeff's murder at the hands of the local crime boss Geese Howard, host of the "King of Fighters" fighting tournament and former friend of Jeff. Terry and Andy thus spent the next decade honing their skills to avenge their father's death: while Andy traveled to Japan to learn the art of ninjutsu, Terry stayed in South Town, fighting through its mean streets. After this, the two of them, along with their friend, Muay Thai champion Joe Higashi, entered the King of Fighters tournament and ultimately defeated Geese, sending him falling from the top of a high rise, as depicted in ''Fatal Fury: King of Fighters''.

In ''Real Bout Fatal Fury'', Terry and his friends fight their way through the new King of Fighters tournament, once again in South Town. Terry eventually progresses to the final battle in the tournament, a bout against Geese. At the end of the fight, Geese is knocked off the edge of a high rise once again, but Terry grabs hold of him before he can fall any further. Geese, in a seeming act of egotism, refuses Terry's help and knocks his hand away, plummeting to what is believed to be his permanent death. In the aftermath of the tournament, Terry comes across a boy named Rock Howard, Geese's son, who lost his mother after Geese abandoned them and left his wife to die in illness. Terry takes Rock in as a surrogate son, raising him as a means to put the feud between him and Geese behind, and teaches him how to fight on the streets of South Town and during his travels around the world.

Several years later in ''Garou: Mark of the Wolves'', Terry is the only veteran fighter who participates in the King of Fighters Maximum Mayhem tournament, which is held by Rock's uncle, Kain R. Heinlein, in the neighbouring Second South Town. Though Terry realizes the tournament is meant to lure Rock into Kain's control, Terry reluctantly accepts Rock's decision to enter the tournament, driven by Kain's claim that his sister⁠—Rock's mother—is alive.

Terry is a recurring character in ''The King of Fighters'' series, where he is the core leader of the ''Fatal Fury'' Team, usually with Andy and Joe as his teammates, in the series' main timeline. Due to being a crossover series like the [[Super Smash Bros. (series)|''Super Smash Bros.'' series]], ''The King of Fighters'' series ignores the continuity of many of the previous games of each series that it features. For example, characters from ''Fatal Fury'' and its prequel series ''Art of Fighting'' are depicted as around the same age as one another, despite ''Art of Fighting'' being set over a decade before the events of ''Fatal Fury''. Another notable example is that Rock was still raised by Terry in spite of Geese and Krauser's deaths being ignored. However, the 3D fighting game spin-off series ''The King of Fighters: Maximum Impact'' is heavily based on the storyline of ''Mark of the Wolves'', where Geese perished at the end of ''Real Bout Fatal Fury''{{'}}s tournament, thus making it a direct follow-up to the main ''Fatal Fury'' games.