{"id":44594,"date":"2025-06-06T00:00:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T04:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=44594"},"modified":"2025-06-03T03:31:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T07:31:51","slug":"m-bison-origins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2025\/06\/m-bison-origins\/","title":{"rendered":"M. Bison: Origins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the left, Washizaki from <i>Riki-Oh<\/i> #22, page 26, from February 1989.<\/p>\n<p>On the right, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/jt_sf2mb.php\">M. Bison's<\/a> original character portrait from 1991.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/jt_sf2mb8.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"300\" title=\"Corporate needs you to find the differences between these two pictures.\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>The Dictator's working name while the game was under development was even \"Washizaki,\" in case there was any lingering doubt about his inspiration. Of course, Washizaki himself was a take on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tohokingdom.com\/reviews\/romero\/tokyo_tlm.htm\" target=toho>Yasunori Kat&#333;<\/a>, so ripping off existing characters is apparently the theme of the day.<\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><H5>&lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;<\/H5><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Player 1, Player 2, Player 3\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2024\/08\/player-1-player-2-player-3\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Player 1, Player 2, Player 3<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"A totally Smashing toy display!!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2019\/02\/a-totally-smashing-toy-display\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">A totally Smashing toy display!!<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Street Fighter Stop Motion - Ryu vs. Ken\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2011\/08\/street-fighter-stop-motion-ryu-vs-ken\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Street Fighter Stop Motion - Ryu vs. Ken<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Power Rangers x Street Fighter\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2022\/08\/power-rangers-x-street-fighter\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Power Rangers x Street Fighter<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Crash Bandicoot (and friends)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2018\/07\/crash-bandicoot-and-friends\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Crash Bandicoot (and friends)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the left, Washizaki from Riki-Oh #22, page 26, from February 1989. On the right, M. Bison's original character portrait from 1991. The Dictator's working name while the game was under development was even \"Washizaki,\" in case there was any &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2025\/06\/m-bison-origins\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,160],"tags":[155],"class_list":["post-44594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addendums","category-comics","tag-street-fighter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44594"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44597,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44594\/revisions\/44597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}