Consider all this in the context of an internet conversation regarding history teacher of blue eyes/brown eyes fame, Jane Elliot. There are two POC characters from Brazil and many Asian characters to choose from, but the black characters do not include a ‘white knight’ archetype. However, you’re more than likely to encounter a Ryu or a Ken player than someone using the boxing, money-obsessed Mike Tyson clone, Balrog. These days, the straight male power fantasy is often villainous as it is heroic. The fighting games had yet to dominate and form the sport it is now, an arguably more strategy-driven playing field where the choice of character is less dependent on hero-worship. Both these white hat adventurers were for the most part coded as without race, but I digress.

Growing up in the early nineties was as much about platform adventures such as good guys Mario or Sonic. It would make sense to a child or teenager to pick Bruce Lee’s clone over many a brawler in the fighting games roster. An underdog borrowing the real-life sub drama of Lee, proving to other fighters that his skills were not dependent on edits, stunt doubles and a scripted win. Now, there was a hero character, if ever there was one. Capcom hit gold when a playable Bruce Lee clone named Fei-Long was introduced into their Street Fighter series in the early nineties.

We all like Bruce Lee, don’t we? We’ve made the sounds, quoted the lines, pretended to taste the blood from the chest wound (eyes fixed on the enemy whilst doing so), before high kicking into action. “I don’t think it’s a case of ‘if you are white you will inherit a racist view’ but rather if you are educated solely in an imperialist Eurocentric school system you will end up with a warped perspective whatever your race.” GuileĬhapter 2 – Candace Owens Is A Bad Special Move

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