M. Bison
M. Bison is a male video game character who features in Street Fighter.
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Biography
M. Bison was a mysterious man with little known of his past except that at one point he was simply a young martial artist with overwhelming ambitions. One account claimed that he killed his own parents for unknown reasons and was eventually found as well as raised by a tribe of nomad Gypsies. Their leader took the young Bison under her wing where she trained him in the art of Soul Power. In time, he came to pass on knowledge of this technique to Rose who was his only disciple. His own desire to be the best martial artist in the world resulted in him murdering his own master and giving himself up to the power of complete chaos. It was then that he came to manipulate a force of evil energy hat was known as Psycho Power with Bison being one of three students to learn it from their master. Shortly afterwards, hoping to seek both knowledge and strength to become the strongest in the world, Bison sought out many practitioners of other fighting styles to defeat and learn of their techniques, in the pursuit of being able to reinforce and keep his title as the strongest martial artist in the world. Later on, Bison would somehow come into power over his syndicate of Shadaloo. At some point, M. Bison heard rumors of an assassins fist, and tracked down Gouken who was the heir of the Ansatsuken. Gouken expected that M. Bison would eventually come to him. However, he faced M. Bison with only his fists, not relying on moves such as Hadoken and Shoryuken which resulted in his defeat. M. Bison noticed this and cursed Gouken for not showing his true power, he then commented on his students being more willing to show Ansatsuken's true power and departed.
Bison as the leader of the criminal organization known as Shadaloo came to hear of a fighter named Ryu who defeated his new henchman, Sagat. Bison decided to recruit Ryu and began a search for him. In the meantime, he was confronted by Rose, a mysterious woman who wields a power that is in many ways similar to his own. Rose won the ensuing battle, only to find out that M. Bison has left the battlefield completely unscathed. Afterwards, M. Bison encountered Chun-Li; they have a brief duel, in which he toys around with the girl, before fleeing and letting Chun-Li know that he murdered her father. Bison is then finally able to track down Ryu, and at first, attempts to persuade Ryu to join him by promising that he would make him the greatest fighter ever. Ryu refuses, however, and the two engage in combat; M. Bison wins and takes Ryu's body to his scientists for a brainwashing via exposure to Psycho Power. During all of this, Bison would eventually encounter Charlie Nash, who is on a mission to defeat Bison. Although Bison wins in the first encounter, he would then be confronted by Charlie again by a waterfall, who informs him that the helicopter will arrive in five minutes, to which Bison retorts to Charlie to enjoy this time, as it will be the very last five minutes of his life. The two would clash, and although Charlie wins, he is then shot in the back by a military helicopter, and Bison finishes off Charlie by punching a hole through his chest. This caused Charlie to drop his dogtags and fall to his possible grave. One of the Air Force soldiers working for Bison asks him if Charlie could survive, but Bison says that even if Charlie did, there was no coming back from it, as Charlie now knows that everything had a price.
The Psycho Power began pushing M. Bison's body to its limits. Having predicted this event, he had his scientists engineer a body that he could transfer his essence into in the form of Cammy: a genetically engineered girl created using M. Bison's DNA as a template, and part of his elite squad of Dolls, brainwashed young women who serve as assassins. However, Cammy began to develop self-awareness and goes rogue. Bison sends Vega to retrieve her, and then Juli, another member of the Dolls when Vega fails. Considering alternatives for the spare body, M. Bison turns his sights to Ryu, one of the strongest fighters in the world, and the personal nemesis of his right-hand man Sagat. On his journey to find Ryu, M. Bison learns of Akuma, the lone warrior that employs fighting techniques similar to Ryu's, and the evil energy that surrounds him. In his story, when M. Bison defeats Akuma, he claims that the Satsui no Hado is "less than nothing", and that is only a matter of time before he claims Ryu’s body. M. Bison then sends Juni, another Doll, to gather data on Ryu. In order to lure him out, M. Bison kidnaps his best friend and rival, Ken Masters, brainwashing and pitting him against Ryu. Enraged by M. Bison's actions, Ryu manages to defeat Ken and free him of M. Bison's evil influence. Ryu then takes on M. Bison but loses despite giving his all. Once defeated, Ryu is subjected to M. Bison's Psycho Power. Sagat, witnessing these events, objects and M. Bison responds by telling him he can finally have his long-desired rematch with Ryu. As Sagat urges Ryu to snap out of M. Bison's hypnosis, Ken and Sakura attack M. Bison and engage him in battle, allowing Ryu to break free of M. Bison's mental grip.
At some point, Bison ordered the creation of at least 26 androids by S.I.N., the weapons division of Shadaloo. Among these included android #15 that was chosen to be the new head of S.I.N. after demonstrating a higher level of intelligence than the others. In time, #15 was referred to indirectly as 'M. Bison's right hand'. Around this point, Bison also had a Korean official murdered along with his family leaving their young daughter, Juri, barely alive. By adulthood, Juri came to join S.I.N. where #15 gave her cybernetic enhancements after deciding she can be used as a test subject since she already was a Taekwondo prodigy.
After Shadaloo' destruction, Bison was turned into a mere spectre called Phantom Bison who haunted people such as his replacement bodies Ed and Falke.
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, M. Bison was a male human who was typically garbed in a red military uniform with large silver shoulder plates, wrist bands, and shin guards where he wore a service cap that had a skull insignia on it.
Powers and abilities
He was a wielder of a mysterious energy known as Psycho Power (サイコパワー Saiko Pawā?) that was said to feed on fear, anger and the hatred of others. A mere fraction of his strength was said to be capable of levelling cities in mere seconds.
Among his fighting techniques included:
- Psycho Blast (サイコブラスト Saiko Burasuto?) :
- Psycho Crusher (サイコ クラッシャー Saiko Kurasshā?) :
- Psycho Shot (サイコショット Saiko Shotto?) :
- Psycho Reflect (サイコリジェクト Saiko Rijekuto?, Psycho Reject) :
- Psycho Inferno (サイコインフェルノ Saiko Inferuno?) :
- Psycho Punisher (サイコパニッシャー Saiko Panisshaa?) : by gathering energy into his hand he could then drive his hand into his enemy's chest and fired the energy through them.
Machines like the Psycho Drive were capable of amplifying his abilities by absorbing life energy and converting it into more Psycho Power.
He was able to achieve a more powerful state called Final Bison where his Psycho Power was significantly increased and deal more damage to his enemies. However, this came at a cost as his own body was mutilated in the process until it was eventually destroyed. However, his soul was capable of surviving the destruction of his body and able to transfer to another vessel in order to live on in them.
Notes
- M. Bison was designed by Akira "Akiman" Yasuda and Ikuo "Ikusan.Z" Nakayama where he featured in the Street Fighter universe.
- In Japan, the character was referred to as Vega (ベガ Bega).
- The characters design were inspired by Washizaki (鷲崎? "Eagle Cape") a villain from Riki-Oh; and Yasunori Kato (加藤保憲?) and the the antagonist from the fantasy film, Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis (aka Teito Monogatari (帝都物語?)).
In other media
Television
- In Street Fighter, Bison appeared as the primary antagonist in the 1990s animated television series where he was voiced by actor Richard Newman.
Films
- In Street Fighter, General M. Bison appeared as the primary antagonist in the 1994 live-action film where he was portrayed by actor Raúl Juliá. He was a drug lord turned warlord who declared himself a general. In order to fund his rise to power, he and his troops raided several villages in Shadaloo. In one of them, the villagers fought back and repelled the invaders, although before retreating Bison had his men execute the village's magistrate. Several years later General Bison attempted to take over Shadaloo's capital, Shadaloo City. He was repelled by Allied Nations forces led by Colonel William Guile, and retreated to his secret fortress outside of the city in a hidden temple. While retreating he took several hostages including three AN soldiers. On national television Bison told Guile that the AN had three days to give him $20 billion in exchange for the return of the hostages. This did not include the AN soldiers, two of whom Bison brutally killed after goading them into attacking him. The third, Carlos Blanka, was taken to Dr. Dhalsim's laboratory to be turned into a genetic super-soldier. As Bison went about mounting further plans to conquer Shadaloo, his efforts to buy arms from Victor Sagat were hampered by the (literally) explosive entrance of a spectre from Bison's past, the vengeful Chun-Li Zang, daughter of the village magistrate Bison's soldiers had killed. She along with her news team Honda and Balrog destroyed Sagat's camp with an explosives-laden truck but were taken prisoner. Shortly thereafter, Chun-Li, while in Bison's captivity, made an attempt on the General's life but he survived. The deadline came and went and the AN did not pay Bison his money. Disappointed, Bison decided to execute the hostages using the mutated Blanka. To Bison's surprise, Colonel Guile himself rose up in Blanka's place, Guile having infiltrated Bison's base, found the lab, and taken Blanka's place in the incubation chamber. An all-out assault on the fortress by AN troops followed. While the AN troops freed the hostages, Bison dismissed his own soldiers and fought Guile in hand-to-hand combat. Guile won the first found, and actually killed Bison, but Bison was revived by his computer and granted the power of electromagnetism. This allowed him to fire bolts of electricity from his hands as well as levitate and fly. Their private war continued, with Bison becoming increasingly self-assured of his own invulnerability, to the point of declaring himself a god. Guile however proved to the General he was indeed mortal by kicking him through a bank of television screens, causing a massive explosion that eventually destroyed the entire base (although Guile and the others managed to escape). This seemingly killed Bison, but his still-functioning computer revived him yet again, whereupon he set the computer to "World Domination: Replay."
- In Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, M. Bison appeared in the setting of the live-action film where he was portrayed by actor Neal McDonough.
Video games
- In Street Fighter X Tekken, M. Bison appeared as a playable character in the video game with Juri as his official tag partner.
Comics
- In Street Fighter × G.I. Joe v1 (2016), M. Bison appeared in the setting of the IDW crossover series with G.I. Joe.
Appearances
- Street Fighter II: (1991)
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