Dhalsim
Dhalsim is a male video game character who features in Street Fighter.
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Biography
Dhalsim (Japanese: ダルシム, Hepburn: Darushimu)
Against his beliefs, he entered the World Warrior tournament to raise money for his poor village.
Dhalsim raises money to save his village, and gains the respect of villagers where some call him the 'Great Yoga Master Dhalsim'. He though came to question what good could come from using his powers for violence.
Later, he sets out to destroy the evil M. Bison. He travels around the world and meets Rose and Birdie, and uses his mind control powers to seek answers. He is responsible for making Cammy White self-aware, thus freeing her from Bison's control.
Dhalsim enters the tournament to raise money for his village, but realizes that it contradicts his pacifist beliefs. Dhalsim retires from fighting after the second World Warrior tournament, and continues to roam the world helping those in need.
He then went free the flow of water to his village after S.I.N. builds a dam upstream. His son, Datta, is a penpal of Amy, Guile's daughter. When Datta informs Dhalsim that his penpal's father is away on a mission to investigate said dam, Dhalsim recognizes that the situation is even more serious than he thought. He is reluctant to use his powers for selfish purposes, but feels compelled to save his village. Dhalsim goes to participate in the tournament S.I.N. was organizing. While fighting at the tournament, he encounters Rufus who interrupts Dhalsim to ask about his yoga. After he defeats Rufus he defeats Seth. When the dam base is destroyed at the end of the game, the water returns to the village. Although Dhalsim believes that Shadaloo represents an evil in the heart of humanity that will never truly be defeated, he also recognizes that "the goodness in mankind's heart is also endless".
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Dhalsim was a male human who had the build of a normal man who exercised regularly though his abdomen and waist appeared out of proportion and emaciated. He was shown as being bald with his eyes being white and pupiless.
He was quite stoic, serious, self-disciplined, humble, and also very stern when needed.
Being a pacifist, he will never hurt a person more than necessary, or kill an adversary, even the most evil ones. He had said that he was not very fond of conflict. Despite that, if he was forced to fight then he meditated on the matter before proceeding to destroy his opponent.
As an extremely altruistic man, Dhalsim fights mostly for the poor and oppressed, as he constantly tries his best to raise money for his poverty-stricken people. Dhalsim is aware that if he uses his power to harm, he may become evil, and frequently questions his decisions to use his powers for fighting. Furthermore, all forms of yoga are meant to aid a personal journey towards enlightenment, and not to harm others. Therefore, Dhalsim is constantly concerned about his fighting style overwhelming his own principles of non-violence.
It was shown that he had an elephant companion by the name of Kodal.
Powers and abilities
He was notable for being one of the seven greatest Yoga Masters in the world. His fighting style is a Yoga-based style, in which Dhalsim can stretch his arms, legs, abdomen and even his neck to great lengths making him a decent long-range hand-to-hand fighter. He also uses many fire-based attacks such as Yoga Fire, Yoga Flame and Yoga Blast, the latter being an anti-air technique.
Among the techniques known to him included:
- Yoga Teleport (ヨガテレポート Yoga Terepooto?) :
- Yoga Fire (ヨガファイア Yoga Faia?) :
- Yoga Inferno (ヨガインフェルノ Yoga Inferuno?) :
- Yoga Sunburst (ヨガサンバースト Yoga Sanbāsuto?) :
- Yoga Catastrophe (ヨガカタストロフィー Yoga Katasutorofii?) :
Notes
- Dhalsim was created by Capcom where he featured in the setting of the Street Fighter universe.
- Lead designer Akira Nishitani noted that the inspiration for the character's abilities to stretch came from the manga JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.
In other media
Television
- In Street Fighter, Dhalsim appeared in the setting of the 1990s animated television series.
- In Street Fighter II V, Dhalsim appeared in the setting of the anime series where he was voiced by Japanese actor Shōzō Iizuka in the original version and by actor Steve Blum in the English dub. He was shown as a monk who lived in a remote village in India where he was a practitioner of yoga and had some psychic abilities. He had some familiarity with the Way of Hadou and years ago Sagat had sought him out for his wisdom but was turned down by the yogi. Years later, Sagat directed Ryu to Dhalsim when the young fighter was looking to learn more about Hadou and though Dhalsim was familiar in it he was unable to train Ryu to use the Hadouken.
Films
- In Street Fighter, Dhalsim appeared in the setting of the 1994 live-action film where he was portrayed by actor Roshan Seth. This version was a British Indian scientist who engaged in research that promoted peace but ended up being kidnapped by Bison who forced him to fulfil his evil ambitions. Dhalsim was then placed in charge of a supersoldier experiment that looked to turn Carlos Blanka into a mutated beast.
Video games
Appearances
- Street Fighter II: The World Warrior: (1991)
- Street Fighter V:
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