Blanka
Blanka is a male video game character who features in Street Fighter.
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Biography
Blanka (Japanese: ブランカ, Hepburn: Buranka)
Blanka ate a melon on a poacher's truck and unwittingly traveled to civilization for the first time. Blanka eventually faces his old friend Dan Hibiki. He later faces Zangief and unwittingly prevented the Russian from helping to destroy the Shadaloo criminal organization. He then faced Shadaloo member Balrog before facing M. Bison. After Bison was defeated, Blanka, Dan, and Sakura work together and destroy Bison's Psycho Drive. Blanka has apparently developed a taste for street fighting and competes in the second World Warrior tournament. In his ending, he reunites with his mother, who recognizes him on televised broadcasts of his matches by the anklets he wears. She addresses him by his birth name, Jimmy, and reveals that she gave him the anklets before he was in a plane crash as a little boy. This crash caused him to grow up in the wild, although he has connections to a local village.
Blanka left his mother because people kept staring at him, and goes to Hong-Kong with Dan. Dan quizzes him on what the second World Warrior tournament was like. He, Dan and Sakura then decide to enter the S.I.N. tournament, each for their own reasons, with Blanka himself wanting to win to earn people's respect. He came to be wandering through S.I.N.'s HQ. There he bumps into Dan only to see flames heading towards them. The flames die before they can reach them, however, as they are extinguished by Sakura's and Ryu's Hadokens. It is revealed that his mother went looking for him and they are reunited, with Blanka resolving not to be concerned by the staring faces, since everything will be okay as long as he's with his 'mama'. He goes home, but isn't there long before he finds out that local visitors have arrived at his home to meet him and that he now has many new friends in town.
Overview
Personality and attributes
Despite having the appearance of a wild man, Blanka was generally passive and docile, and is fond of family connections and friendships as well as children. Yet, when angered, Blanka attacks as though he was a wild animal let loose from a cage, ferociously attacking his opponents with predatorial rage.
Due to being forced to survive and later overcome the harsh environment of the Amazon forest since his youth, Blanka has developed his own personal attachment with wildlife. He held the 'survival of the fittest' mindset, believing that those who were weak and being unable to adapt would naturally be preyed on by the predator. He cites his survival experience as a proof that humans were able to triumph over anything if they could adapt and respect nature, and did not treat his self-proclaimed 'king of the jungle' title lightly. Blanka also holds great respect to mother nature, saying that it is what made him who he is today, and is against those who are harming nature 'for fun' and not for sustaining themselves.
Powers and abilities
Notes
- Blanka was designed by Akira "Akiman" Yasuda where he featured in the setting of the Street Fighter universe.
In other media
Television
- In Street Fighter, Carlos Blanka appeared in the setting of the 1990s animated television series based on the 1994 live-action film where he was voiced by actor Scott McNeil. After his transformation, he and the Street Fighters kept looking for a cure for his mutation.
Films
- In Street Fighter, Blanka appeared in the setting of the 1994 live-action film where the character was combined with Charlie Nash and was portrayed by actor Robert Mammone. This version was Carlos "Charlie" Blanka who was a close friend of Colonel Guile where he was captured by Bison. The dictator then forced the scientist Dhalsim to transform him into a mutation to serve as a supersoldier in conflicts.
Video games
Appearances
- Street Fighter II: The World Warrior: (1991)
- Street Fighter V: (2016)
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