Guile

Guile
File:Guile SSFII.png Guile's official artwork from Super Street Fighter II.
Universe	Street Fighter
Debut	Street Fighter II: The World Warrior (1991)
Smash Bros. appearances	Ultimate
Most recent non-Smash appearance	Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection (2018)
Console/platform of origin	Arcade
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Place of origin	United States
Voice actor	Travis Willingham

Guile (ガイル, Guile) is a character from the Street Fighter series. He appears as an Assist Trophy in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Guile appears as an Assist Trophy. He mostly remains on the defensive, blocking attacks, although if a character tries to approach him from above, they will be attacked by Guile's signature Flash Kick. He can also use his signature Sonic Boom shots. Like Ryu and Ken, the hits from his attacks emit the original hitsounds from Street Fighter II.

Origin

Guile is one of the original eight playable characters from Street Fighter II: The World Warrior. He would go on to appear in every iteration of Street Fighter II, as well as Street Fighter Alpha 3, all incarnations of Street Fighter IV, and as part of the first wave of DLC for Street Fighter V.

Guile hails from the United States of America, and is a major in the United States Air Force. Guile learned to fight from his best friend Charlie Nash, who taught him moves such as the Flash Kick and the Sonic Boom. But because Guile has less focus and greater anger than Charlie, he is less effective at using these moves; his Flash Kick hits only once and is performed with a conventional backflip as opposed to Charlie's two-hit reverse backflip, and he requires both arms to use a Sonic Boom, whereas Charlie only needs one. When Charlie went missing investigating the mysterious Shadaloo cartel, Guile swore to find his friend and bring him home. His search brought him into the path of Interpol agent Chun-Li who was also investigating a disappearance: that of her father. The two eventually discovered that Charlie had been kidnapped and brainwashed by Shadaloo's dictator M. Bison. Charlie broke free of his programming and rescued Guile and Chun-Li, seemingly at the cost of his own life. Guile swore vengeance on Bison and entered the second Street Fighter tournament to this end. Upon meeting Bison however, Guile was stopped by the arrival of his wife and daughter, who persuaded him to spare Bison and abandon revenge. For all his taunts of "Go home and be a family man!" Guile did just that. It was not to last, as he was not convinced that Charlie had perished. Going AWOL, Guile set out to prove once and for all whether Charlie was alive. He soon found his friend alive after being revived and stitched together by the Secret Society in Street Fighter V's Story Mode, giving him a final farewell as the Shadaloo base is destroyed.

Guile is the second playable character to hail from the United States, the first being Ken. They are actually related by marriage. Ken's wife Eliza is the sister of Julia, Guile's wife, making the two brothers-in-law.

Guile's behavior as an Assist Trophy is a reference to the infamous tactic of 'down-backing', where the Guile player constantly holds down and away from the opponent, charging up both his Sonic Boom projectile and Flash Kick anti-air while blocking. This defensive style of play is notorious among lower-level players that attempt to jump over a Sonic Boom only to get hit by Flash Kick immediately afterwards.

Gallery

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  Official artwork from Ultimate.

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  Posing on Suzaku Castle.

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  Hitting Little Mac with a Flash Kick on Rainbow Cruise.