Editing Terry Bogard

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{{Infobox Character General
|name           = Terry Bogard
|image          = [[File:Terry.png|200px]]
|caption        = [[File:FatalFurySymbol.svg|50px|class=invert-dark]]<br>Official artwork of Terry Bogard from ''[https://snk.fandom.com/wiki/Garou_Densetsu_Sougeki Garou Densetsu Sougeki]''.
|universe       = {{uv|Fatal Fury}}
|firstgame      = ''{{s|wikipedia|Fatal Fury: King of Fighters}}'' (1991)
|games          = ''[[Ultimate]]''
|lastappearance = ''[[wikipedia:Picross S|Picross S SNK Classics & NeoGeo Edition]]'' (2025)
|console        = {{iw|wikipedia|Neo Geo MVS}}
|species        = Human
|gender         = Male
|creator        = Takashi Nishiyama
|placeoforigin  = South Town, {{s|Wikipedia|United States}}
|voiceactor     = {{s|wikipedia|Takashi Kondō}}
|interwiki      = wikipedia
|interwikiname  = Wikipedia
|interwikipage  = Terry Bogard
}}
'''Terry Bogard''' ({{ja|テリー・ボガード|Terī Bogādo}}, ''Terry Bogard'') is the main protagonist of the {{uv|Fatal Fury}} franchise. Originally an orphan, Terry and his younger brother Andy begin their journeys as martial artists in order to avenge their adoptive father, Jeff Bogard, who was murdered by crime lord Geese Howard. Over time, Terry becomes renowned as a talented fighter who seeks to continue protecting his hometown alongside Andy and their mutual friend and fellow martial artist Joe Higashi.

Terry is also a prominent character in several of [[SNK]]'s fighting game series, and one of the major supporting characters in ''The King of Fighters'' series. As such, he is widely considered to be one of SNK's most iconic characters.<ref>[http://www.personal.triticom.com/~erm/www.neogeo.co.jp/garou/sss/vote_chara/vote_c.htm Popularity polls from Garou: Mark of the Wolves]</ref> Terry made his ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]'' series debut in ''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]'' as the fourth character of {{h2|Downloadable content (SSBU)|Fighters Pass Vol. 1}}. Terry is the third fighter in ''Smash'' to originate from a fighting game, following [[Ryu]] and [[Ken Masters]], and preceding [[Min Min]] and [[Kazuya Mishima]].

==Origin==
[[File:SSBU spirit Terry Bogard.png|thumb|left|Official artwork of Terry Bogard from ''Fatal Fury Special''.]]
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 (Eight-way Sacred Fist) 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''.

The following year, Geese's half-brother, a German nobleman named Wolfgang Krauser von Stroheim, sponsors a new King of Fighters tournament, bringing it from South Town to the world stage. During the events of ''Fatal Fury 2'', Terry enters this tournament and defeats Krauser in the finals, earning Terry the title of South Town Hero. After this, Krauser mysteriously disappears, apparently having taken his own life shortly after his defeat.

Three years later, in ''Fatal Fury 3: Road to the Final Victory'', Terry returns to South Town from his worldwide travels. He meets with Andy, Joe, and Andy's love interest, Mai Shiranui, just in time for the grand opening of Pao Pao Café West. They soon learn that Geese survived his fall, and that he intends to obtain the legendary Jin Scrolls, which are capable of granting their user immortality.

Terry and his friends enter another King of Fighters tournament, where they meet Ryuji Yamazaki, a Japanese crime boss hired by the twin Jin brothers to find the scrolls. After defeating both Yamazaki and Geese, Terry is suddenly transported to a mysterious chamber by Jin Chon Shu, who challenges him for the scrolls; he ultimately defeats both him and his older brother Jin Chon Rei, freeing them from the possession of their ancestors' spirits. The spirits of the two ancestor brothers had sought the Jin scrolls to resurrect themselves. While Terry is crowned the champion of this new tournament, he discovers that Geese had managed to escape with the scrolls.

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. Two years later, in ''Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves'', Terry and others receive invitations for a new King of Fighters tournament, with Geese's legacy as the prize. Knowing Rock's stake in this, Terry enters the tournament to check on him. Arriving at Geese Tower for the final match against Rock, Terry loses, but learns that he and Kain, with the assistance of Geese's old right-hand man Billy Kane, were able to locate Rock's mother, Marie Heinlein, who had been held hostage by rival crime lord Mr. Big (one of the antagonists of the ''Art of Fighting'' series) in return for the items of Geese's legacy, which include the Jin Scrolls. During the reunion, Marie ends up being injured from an assault by bar bouncer Jack Turner against Big, which causes Rock to react with anger. His emotions resonate with the Jin Scrolls, which are cursed such that those descended from the ancient Jin brothers can be possessed by their ancestors. There were actually three ancient Jin brothers all along, and through his parental lineage, Rock is a descendant of the third brother and a distant relative of Jin Chon Shu and JIn Chon Rei. He is then possessed by the spirit of his ancestor, the third brother, turning him into a form known as Fallen Rock.

Through the combined efforts of Terry in the real world, and Rock fighting from the inside as he learns the truth surrounding the scrolls and Geese's reasons for abandoning him and his mother, Rock is brought back to normal. But in a situation that nearly mirrors Geese's demise, the final blow sends Rock crashing through the railing surrounding the top of Geese Tower, whereupon he lets go of Terry's hand so he will fall to his death, not wanting to be a burden to him. However, this time, Terry jumps after Rock to grab him again, exhorting him not to give up so easily, both only saved through Billy's intervention. Terry then leaves Rock to be reunited with Marie while the scrolls are destroyed, and decides to leave South Town, concluding that Rock is now grown up enough to walk his own path. As he leaves the city by train, Rock follows on his motorbike, thanking Terry for everything. Terry throws his old cap to Rock, with the promise to spar again sometime in the future.

===In ''The King of Fighters'' series===
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''. Although both first and second games’ storylines of both ''Art of Fighting'' and ''Fatal Fury'' are being acknowledged in this continuity. Another notable example is that Rock was still raised by Terry in spite of Geese and Krauser's deaths being ignored, and eventually grows up and enters the tournament during the fourth arc's tournament, where he finally faces Geese. 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'' shared universe games.

The only ''The King of Fighters''’ saga where Terry played an important role was in its second storyline, NESTS Chronicles (from ‘99 - 2001). Terry helps Blue Mary while she is being targeted by the NESTS organization who kidnapped and cloned Kyo Kusanagi, while taking down one of its remaining secret agents/assassins who were sent by said syndicate somewhere in the world. With the death of all boss characters of the NESTS Saga, Terry returns to helping people in restoring South Town, which was half-destroyed by a traitorous clone of NESTS’ loyalist Zero (who disguised himself as Ling, a tactical advisor to Heidern) back in 2000.

Outside of these series, Terry has become a mascot for SNK as a whole like [[Ryu]] to [[Capcom]], often appearing alongside the company logo in promotional material. This has led to a plethora of guest appearances in other media such as numerous crossovers where he is often a headliner for the SNK side of the title. Of particular note is the game ''{{iw|wikipedia|SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy}}'', where Terry appears as a female with a new character design and voice. This is caused by antagonist Kukri creating a pocket dimension where various female SNK characters find themselves in. Any non-female characters trapped in this dimension turn female while inside, except Iori Yagami, under guise of Miss X (the final boss of ''SNK Heroines'' spiritual prequel, ''SNK Gals Fighters'') has options given by the players to switch between his female form or retain his original male form. Terry's ending depicts the ending of ''Real Bout: Fatal Fury'' where Geese Howard willingly falls off Geese Tower to his death while Terry watches, only for Terry to turn around and find a menacing Rock Howard, who proceeds to boot him off the edge. Terry then suddenly awakens in his apartment and realizes it was all a nightmare.
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==In ''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]''==
===As a playable character===
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[[File:Terry SSBU.png|thumb|Terry, as he appears in ''Super Smash Bros. Ultimate''.]]
Terry appears as a [[newcomer]] in ''Super Smash Bros. Ultimate'', with his inclusion being announced during a [[Nintendo Direct]] on September 4, 2019.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TVE44feo_I Nintendo Direct 9.4.2019]</ref> He is the fourth [[DLC]] character of {{h2|Downloadable content (SSBU)|Fighters Pass Vol. 1}}, and was released on November 6th, 2019.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvT-b5y9tsE Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - The Legendary Wolf - Nintendo Switch]</ref>

The overwhelming majority of Terry's moveset consists of attacks he has used throughout the ''Fatal Fury'' and ''The King of Fighters'' series, although his up aerial is unique to ''Ultimate'' because of the lack of a reasonably corresponding attack.<ref name=Tutorial/> Like fellow fighting game characters {{SSBU|Ryu}}, {{SSBU|Ken}} and {{SSBU|Kazuya}}, Terry always faces his opponent when one is left standing (teammates counted if [[Team Attack]] is on) and several of his normal moves can be canceled into his special moves.<ref name=Tutorial>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK3VltKv3JI Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – Mr. Sakurai Presents "Terry Bogard"]</ref>

Uniquely, Terry also possesses a number of mechanics from his home series: he has access to a dodge attack, a backward special move ([[Crack Shoot]]), and two super special moves ([[Buster Wolf]] and [[Power Geyser]]).<ref name=Tutorial/> However, his super specials only become usable when his damage percentage reaches 100% (or 30% of his starting [[hit points|HP]] in [[Stamina Mode]]). This is in reference to his home series, where characters can use Desperation Moves when their power gauge is full and they have less than half of their health left.<ref name=Tutorial/>
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===Spirit===
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SSBU spirit Terry Bogard.png|1,356. '''''Terry Bogard'''''
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==Names in other languages==
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|ja={{ja|テリー|Terī}}, ''Terry''
|en=Terry
|fr=Terry
|es=Terry
|de=Terry
|it=Terry
|nl=Terry
|ru={{rollover|Терри|Terri|?}}
|ko={{rollover|테리|Teri|?}}, ''Terry''
|zh_cn={{rollover|特瑞|Tèruì|?}}, ''Terry''
|zh_tw={{rollover|泰利|Tàilì|?}}, ''Terry''
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==Trivia==
*Terry is the first fighter to have debuted on the Neo Geo consoles and arcade cabinets.
*Though Terry is voiced exclusively by a Japanese voice actor, he speaks English phrases in all versions of ''Ultimate''. He is the third character with this distinction, following [[Ness]] and [[Captain Falcon]].
*Terry is the second third-party character who represents numerous series by the same company with his design elements, moveset, spirits and music selection, following [[Pac-Man]].
*Terry's ''Fatal Fury'' and ''Neo Geo'' hats make him the third playable character to sport a piece of clothing with a real-life brand, following [[Diddy Kong]] with his [[Nintendo]] cap and [[Banjo]] with his [[Rare]] backpack.
*Although he is able to crawl in several of his appearances in ''Fatal Fury'' and ''The King of Fighters'', Terry is unable to do so in ''Smash Bros.''
*Due to his trailers only using sprite animation, he is one of four characters to not have CGI models, the others being [[Ryu]], [[Joker]] and [[Dr. Mario]] (if Mario and Dr. Mario are counted as separate).

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://snk.fandom.com/wiki/Terry_Bogard Article on the SNK Wiki]

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