I'm surprised you didn't mention how Charlie is Guile's mentor, which is why he's better at their fighting style, only needing one arm for the Sonic Boom and Somersault Shell being so much bigger and flashier than the Somersault Kick.

@auditoryproductions1831

Жыл бұрын

Charlie was my main through the whole alpha series and x-men vs. street fighter. I always liked how he felt/animated better then guile. I don't really like the robotic eye piece thing they did with him in sf5 though. I hope he comes back in SF6 a bit closer to his original vanilla ice look.

@TXilikakis

Жыл бұрын

I was surprised there was no mention of Chris Klein’s portrayal in that Legend of Chun Li movie. Hopefully he does come back in SF6.

Nash was always my favorite fighting game character for some reason. I was always drawn to the way he says "Too easy". 😂

@ActionJacksonForever

Жыл бұрын

Still say it to this day!

@Freeze151

Ай бұрын

Hey me too! I thought you'd like to know

Charlie is a fascinating character. Whenever Alpha popped up in arcades, I made sure to play him first. To see his journey unravel beyond death. I always wondered how he survived everything.

@deepaknarayan3713

9 күн бұрын

Charlie and Guy were my favorite characters.

Charlie is such a sad character in the series. being made for the sole purpose of being killed

@greenkoopa

Жыл бұрын

*cough Aeris cough*

@y0gafire

Жыл бұрын

one of my favs in the sf franchise. glad he at least was in the alphas n vs games. not a fan of his sfv version tho. but its interesting. RIP charlie nash...

@TomiSomolu

Жыл бұрын

I knowwwww 😥😥😥😥 So saaaaad

@SWIFTO_SCYTHE

Жыл бұрын

*Cough cough* Charlie is like Zero of Capcom's Megaman X

Charlie the Gigachad

Something that was kind of a big deal in 2009, when Street Fighter The Legend of Chun Li was being promoted, was the revelation that Charlie's name was canonically retconned to Charlie Nash. I can't find the original article from back then anymore though, but I remember reading that Capcom themselves gave the idea.

Wasn’t it Charlie the one sho taught Guile how to do the Sonic Boom and Flashkick ? 🤔

@y0gafire

Жыл бұрын

impressive. ya nash is the master of the sonic boom using only one arm. where guile needs both. then also their flash kicks are different... nash does his flash kicks in reverse n with style. i think charlie nash was the superior fighter of the two. hence why guile also had such huge respect for him.

@jeremyhall2727

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I think 🤔

@gokublack3107

Жыл бұрын

Yea...."Charlie" is his teacher and best friend.....

@GarkKahn

Жыл бұрын

Yup, guile learned those moves from charlie

Charlie is one of my favorite characters to use in the games. I appreciate the story recap you’ve put together here. Thanks mate!

The very first version of Nash's death according to Guile's SFII backstory: The former elite SOF teammate from the United States, Guile along with his best friend and co-pilot Charlie Nash were missing in action during a mission in Shadaloo, Thailand six years prior in 1987 during the events where Ryu fights Sagat in the Street Fighter I tournament. After many months of being Shadaloo POWs in Cambodia, he and Nash have succeeded their prison break from their cell to escape the jungle camps. During their perilous trek to civilization, Guile witnessed the ambush and murder of Nash at the nefarious hands of a caped dictator in a red uniform, this has stricken Guile with grief and vengeance ever since. In the present year of 1993, Guile is now affiliated with the USAF under the rank of Major, and has deserted both his wife and daughter for the opportunity to compete in the World Warrior tournament as an opportunity to avenge Nash against the host of the competition whom Guile holds responsible.

What started out as "ooh this be a great lil piece to open up the lore" at the time. Only a decade later, everytime I see him, his story, it's a big ol "Huh?"

“ Polishing off our Dog Tags “ 😂 that’s so great I love it 😂

“I’ve been looking forward to this.”

Charlie Nash is one of the most unique SF characters,ever since his appearance in the Alpha series. It’s cool that he’s been known in SF2. He went from being killed to turning him into a Frankenstein’s Monster.

Charlie Nash been through a lot over the years.

Just how many times has he died and was brought back now?

Glad you gave my favorite SF character some limelight. I enjoyed playing Guile when SF2 hit for being badass, but Charlie connected with me on being cool. Hell, I got his SF5 statue! But I love him not just because of canon, he's Guile's superior/teacher and one of the strongest characters in SF timeline for being one of the few characters to beat Bison (and at full Psycho power level). Now's he's a schrodinger's cat type character, tied to the hip with Bison in that "Are they dead?...or Alive?" If Bison can come back to life, so can Charlie. As with any fighting game, NO character stays dead. Hopefully in SF6 or SF7, Charlie will be back in some shape or form.

Bison should have payed attention to the Mishimas...throwing someone off a Cliffhanger doesent work

Lol, just yesterday I was wondering what the official story was if Charlie dying was, because he died three different times in Alpha, and once in X-Men vs Street Fighter. I’ve never played SF5, so I don’t know how that ended

@Lupo32

Жыл бұрын

X-Men vs street fighter he got Captured and experimented on Becoming shadow.

@sridrawings4510

Жыл бұрын

he didn't died in MVC series

Great Video on Charlie Nash, But in case you forgot, Charlie Nash did appear in the Live Action Mini Series, Street Fighter: Resurrection! Where Nash would locate M. Bison’s Whereabouts!

When they made Charlie was Blanka? I was like ok... Hahaha That movie change was like what?!

@Qtipz123

Жыл бұрын

Yea . . . Don't take the movie too seriously. I have no idea where these dumb ideas came from, but definitely not out of the Street Fighter lore. Chun Li, E.Honda, and Balrog working at a tv news station, Charlie mutated into Blanka, Dr. Dhalsim, Zangief working for M.Bison. There's just so many things wrong with that movie. One of, if not the best upside is Raul Julia doing the movie for his kids (R.I.P.)

Charlie is my favorite character besides ryu, he the reason why play with guile.. whenever he not on the game.

Definitely love how his character was defined in the Udon comicsc

keep going with the character documentaries! you're half way done!

Fun fact that you forgot to mention: Abel, a character that was introduced in SF4, was rescued by Charlie Nash from Shadaloo. He was also a playable character in the both Capcom vs SNK 1 and 2.

@jeremyhall2727

Жыл бұрын

oh yeah.. I forgot too

@ramonantoniodejuanbennett6239

Жыл бұрын

How, I never saw him in either of those games?

@jeremyhall2727

Жыл бұрын

@@ramonantoniodejuanbennett6239 I remembered he was in Capcom vs snk 2

@TheEmperorHyperion

Жыл бұрын

You sure you didn't mix Capcom vs. SNK with X-Men vs. Street Fighter and Marvel vs. Capcom 2? I've checked CvS's roster, and *Guile* is on there, not Nash. Though Kyousuke Kagami _does_ kinda look like Charlie a bit.

@jeremyhall2727

Жыл бұрын

@@TheEmperorHyperion I did 🤣 his not in CVS 2 as well.

Thank you for this video literally answered my prayers

Great video as always.

I wonder if he'll return somehow in Street Fighter 6. I doubt it, but it would be cool.

Street Fighter lore stopped making sense by the time Alpha 3 came out and effectively reintroduced every character from Super SF2 making some of the characters the replaced them redundant.

@y0gafire

Жыл бұрын

alpha 3 was the canon of the alphas. until sfv came along and retconned. n messed things up a bit. i prefer the guile ending. it makes the og sf2 ending kinda true. and ya alpha 3 was the best of the lot.

@realamericannegro977

Жыл бұрын

To me SF4 ruined the lore and 5 made it worse

@GarkKahn

Жыл бұрын

Still capcom NEVER even tried to give street fighter some lore besides some random bs they came up with in the mid 90s

- Too Easy. From Charlie Aka Nash

What doesn’t make sense to me is that Charlie was designed to essentially be a younger styled Guile …. But he was the older OG who trained Guile ….. ?

@gokublack3107

Жыл бұрын

Yeah. .he guile teacher and best friend....

@Lupo32

Жыл бұрын

Yeah guile was born 1960 Charlie born 1961 .

@AyeYoYoYooo

Жыл бұрын

@@Lupo32 Guile doesn’t seem like a dude who would be taught by a dude younger than he was …. How did that go in the lore ? Did they detail their first meeting in the military ? Or their military training together ?

@Lupo32

Жыл бұрын

@@AyeYoYoYooo Capcom and snk both no longer give Their characters birth years but Guile was born 1960 and charlie nash 1961. Shoot half the cast of street fighter 2 Are in their 60s or 50s by now .

@gokublack3107

Жыл бұрын

@@AyeYoYoYooo I believe Charlie only few years younger than him... besides guile look older because the missing eye brows and the deep voice.

Best version of Charlie/Nash was shadow or the Zombie/SFV version ❤️ one of my favorite Ragging Demons was Shadow’s too easily in the Top 5 in my opinion 😂

@jeremyhall2727

Жыл бұрын

yeah he was awesome

@y0gafire

Жыл бұрын

i take his orginal design from alpha to vs games. also there is a hidden version called shadow charlie which also grants him a raging demon style super. it was called Final Mission i think. was badass.

@douglasmijangos3327

Жыл бұрын

@@y0gafire yeah I said Shadow was my favorite.. then it’s the SFV Nash version.. I love Shadow .. he was so sick

7:30 - No one could survive that fall... except a Mishima!!

@sridrawings4510

Жыл бұрын

If only nash has devil gene

Carlie nash is the Kenny McCormick Of street fighter.

So glad you explained the Street Fighter: The Movie messed up alternate story arc for Charlie. Boy did whoever wrote that screenplay really screw that up royally

I heard somewhere that Charlie was the US Martial Arts Champion before Ken. Is that true?

@krishrama

Жыл бұрын

ya thats canon to the lore. then ken took over after charlie died. but had he lived would ken be able to dethrone charlie as the champion...?! find out next time on dragonball Z.

4st Tophat is in the Koopa Troop now

Nash also appeared in the anime TV series, Street Fighter II V. As this series was made before the Zero/Alpha games, Nash has a completely different appearance. The Street Fighter story is so convoluted now. I miss the days when it was just people that wanted revenge on a bad guy that killed their family member or friend. 1:48 the localizers sure liked to add unneeded details that screw up the story. The most ridiculous one is in Blanka's ending, where his mom recognizes her son because he's wearing the same anklets he had as a baby. It is not explained how baby-sized anklets fit on a giant sized grown man.

My God! They killed Na... I mean Kenny! Debasterds!

He wears sunglasses? I thought that they were regular glasses.

@y0gafire

Жыл бұрын

lol. ya thought that too. nash doesnt even need them tho he has perfect eye sight he just wears them for overall style... which he has.

@suryans5851

Жыл бұрын

LOL! I know, right? Clear sunglasses aren't going to protect your eyes from the sun! 😂

Charlie just hits me different. A true tragic character whose fate seems to be to fail and fail again despite all the best of intentions.

@sridrawings4510

Жыл бұрын

Even in his own spin off series, he dies

The cartoon also said Charlie and blanka were the same character.

How Charlie Nash should've been depicted in Alpha 3: • Replace him with Agent Shadow. • Have his alive form playable via hidden roster code like Shin Akuma. • Have Guile's SFA3 ending take place where he tearfully gives the defeated Shadow a mercy killing by saying "forgive me, I swear I'll make Bison pay!" and then vanquishes Shadow by giving him a vertical Sonic Hurricane, leaving him dead with a scar on half of his body that had to be stitched up in SFV, where Nash uses the same vertical Sonic Hurricane as his finisher.

You missed 1 thing. In X-Men vs Street Fighter, When you fight in the canyon level in the background you can see Beast and Blanka at a campfire. If you play as Charlie in that stage, Blanka is not in the background suggesting that he IS Blanka. Even though that's not the case. It's super weird you can see it for yourselves.

Vega is an actual Spanish last name so it totally fits with Vega's character.

I don't like how Capcom ruined Charlie/Nash in SF5.

Sad when they finally made Nash unique from Guile they seem to want to scrap him on SF6.

Can the next Character Documentary be Skullomania?

personally charlie nash's name isn't confusing what so ever in the SFV story because its basically just calling him by his last name. we been calling Guile by his last name for years so why is some characters calling him charlie or nash in points of the story that hard to not understand to who they are referring to Edit: also Shadow (like Shadow Lady) is a robotic version of charlie nash that was hinted at in X-Men vs Street Street Fighter

Interesting how sf5 was capcom's biggest effort to give the franchise a story and yet it just made it even more confusing than ever

It would’ve been a cool story if M bison took Charlie’s body and Charlie (M bison) was the main villain. Imagine what the story would’ve been if guile had to take out his best friend in order to avenge him. That would be so cool.

Now hopefully in part 6 when he does come back he'll be human with a brand-new quest to chase after the main bad guy but unlike the previous failures he'll succeed and you will get to fly off in the sunset like an alpha 3 then again final fight was originally the real sf2 based on the fact that it was called Street fighter 89 show guy being the hero Makes sense

what really baffled me when he showed up doing sonic booms and flash kicks was that IIRC guile's original story was that he learned those moves AFTER the escape from Bison where charlie got killed... from some guy who saved guile in the jungle

@dark_nightwing_xl2797

11 ай бұрын

Yeah

I think Capcom should let a (well established) studio convert the street fighter series into some sort of modern rpg. God knows there is plenty of content and characters to flesh it out.

Cool video. That's what I'm talking about. Good job to you and your wife your a good Team.you know alote of games.

Honestly I don’t get why they can’t have him on the roster without it affecting the story/them having to come up for a reason for him to be alive again especially if he’s dlc for a future street fighter

Nonsense like this is why I gravitated to the Neo-Geo side of things. When old school SNK killed someone, 9 times out of 10 they stayed dead. Truly miss those days.

@realamericannegro977

Жыл бұрын

SNK was always ahead of the game. Too bad many perfer the bad writing that keeps many games going too long. I think King of Fighters also does a good job with dead characters even if 14 set them up to return.

Hey, Top Hat Gaming Man. Can you please do a Street Fighter character documentary video on Rainbow Mika?

Street Fighter stopped making sense when every other character became a Ryu clone.

@TheCJRhodes

Жыл бұрын

What are you talking about?

Lets not forget the anime SF2 V and its take on Charlie looks DRASTICLY different but he still wore glasses but that's about it

@ShawnSandiego

Жыл бұрын

I was hoping this trivia would turn up here as well.

@realamericannegro977

Жыл бұрын

Reno was used there and in Onimusha. Capcom loved this guy.

@RikouHogashi

Жыл бұрын

@@realamericannegro977 Oh RIGHT he did look a bit like Jean Reno he's great but replacing Nash's iconic look with any celebrity feels like a sellout moment also it make better sense in Onimusha though i wonder about the portability of the game due to useing a famous person's likeness in future game means a lot of red tape

Atleast theres Kyosuke from Rival Schools

@sridrawings4510

Жыл бұрын

He also has nash vibes too as well, cool guy look but with serious attitude, I hope he would come back in 6 as a adult

I swear, I really like Nash’s story, and the thing with his names I found weirdly amusing. I also loved playing as him in SFA, and SFV, and his themes are kickass imo

Guile's SF6 bio did say he's successfully avenged him so who knows what Capcom is doing with Charlie at this point. Also I know we "Don't talk about that movie" but he was in the Legend of Chun Li movie as well.

We need the character that taught Charlie and guile The Flash kick! In sf roster

My all time favorite Street Fighter character. Hated beating the game w/ home just to see him die. I literally use to cry at playland in times sq when I’d turn the game over. Put ya quarter up era.

💪🏾💙

Im from the timeline, were charlie became blanka

When i was growing up i always thought that charlie and blanka was the same person and now i know why. That live action street fighter ruined my childhood lol

Charlie was also in the anime Street Fighter 2 V.

Charlie Nash is Guile's Top Gun boyfriend. He has that hair quaff dangling in his face because he loves things dangling in his face specifically Guile.

Charlie Nash hair is out of regs, guile’s hair maybe acceptable for US service members. Hair cannot be exceed 2 inches in length at any point.

@arcturionblade1077

Жыл бұрын

Beards are OK now, apparently.

@vaccinatedanti-vaxxer

Жыл бұрын

@@arcturionblade1077 im in the US army (guile and Nash are air force) but according to ar670-1, mustash that don't protrude the length of the lips are authorized. And only people with shave profile (many black folks that get razor bumps) can have beards, or religious exemptions. The tattoo policy recently changed.

I'm holding on to the hope that he can appear in SF6 with a brand new body courtesy of the Illuminati/Secret Society with a new lease on life now that Bison is gone.

I grew up knowing the Charlie/blanka version

@KenMasters.

Жыл бұрын

According to the writer/director: He had no idea where Blanka came from. (I don't think he cares either.)

Are they sunglasses? They look like regular glasses to me. 1

I love that you have done this level of research into streetfighter but still pronounce ryu as rye you

I absolutely agree with this! they should have just let his name be Guiile and gave him the redo over when alpha started!

The less said about the existence of another movie with Charlie Nash, Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, the better. ;)

Remy from 3rd strike does the flash kick better than Nash🤣

@y0gafire

Жыл бұрын

lol nah nash has the cooler looking flash kick. lore wise he is the originator of it all and master of it. but remy could be his son. or so many fan theory go... that would be kinda cool if so. but we wont ever know cuz sf6 fails. 😂

@Lupo32

Жыл бұрын

Charlie and nash use sound hence The term sonic Remy uses light hence his light of virtue

Nash should be a flashback playble character in sf6 with his Alpha 3 movesets

They retconned him in the movie to be Guile's personal cocaine mule. Poor bastard collapsed from exhaustion and died for the 19th time.

LOL About the video game movies... I think the Sonic movies have proven a rare gem... hopefully there are more from now on! 🤷‍♂

@y0gafire

Жыл бұрын

ya only fail on sonic movies is no FAT robotnik tho. hmm disappointed in ya jim. :(

@SharifSourour

Жыл бұрын

@@y0gafire He's probably too expensive to put in a fat suit at this point.

do find it interesting charlie was imo closer to being the star of a street fighter series than guile(& other blond u.s fighters) but find it sad he gets shot down in alpha 2(never had a problem with it retconning his alpha 3 death as while his strongest body got destroyed bison still lived with shadaloo not much worse for wear compared to akuma killing the dictator.) showing how powerful m. bison got in the alpha series and being used by the illuminati while being so mentally closed off he threatened his friends though liked him taking enough of m. bisons psycho power for ryu to kill him without reviving.(though still wish it had been ryu & ken like the animated movie alongside chun li.) also liked him in 2v(where he looks like jean reano/has a pretty disturbing death to bison.),cannon spike and being the one who saved abel in 4.

If Charlie Nash was a wrestler his entrance theme song would be BeeGees' "Staying Alive". #LOL

I am a local lawn care specialists in the suburbs of Chicago. At customers homes if there is not bathroom I have to hide in the corner of there fence to go to bathroom sometime it number 2 but I cover myself with a garbage bag so no one can see me. I have tried to jiggle customers door handles for maybe I can use there bathroom but they always lock there doors now. Smhh

@greenkoopa

Жыл бұрын

I have no words. You shit in people's back yards 🤔

This Nash is inspirational.

Those are reading glasses. Like the ones in good profile picture.

My favorite character who my never return

It will probably never happen, but I want Capcom to give Nash another chance in SF6, and not kill him again.

Wait..... Charlie Nash was his full name ever since Alpha. I know this for sure, because when I was in middle school in the mid-/late '90s, there was a character in a murder mystery book I read for school named "Charlie Nash", and I immediately made the connection at the time. The comics had nothing to do with it; it was almost a decade BEFORE the comics ever happened.

i think he was in street fighter 2 v anime, as a Jean Reno lookalike

Do a video on Remy from street fighter 3rd strike

Quif? What's up with the hairstyle! Hammer pants 😂. Inner city youth jacket 😆

M. Bison - Mike Bison - Mike Tyson

Those aren't sunglasses they are just glasses. The sf community was calling him Charles nash as soon as it was noticed that there was a name difference

Who knew Nash was partially based on a real fighter?

@Lupo32

Жыл бұрын

Sagat is based on sagat petchyindee

Oh my god, they killed Charlie.... You bastards

Chalies cool but I rather he just be someone mentioned that motivates guile to get bison. His moves n look is too much like guile.

Can you cover Ryu next please? :)

nash = winter soldier

Nash should be a main in every SF roster. I hope he returns in sf6 will buy it asap then. He has a fun movest, cool look and a solid plot to build around. Amazed Capcom use him as a middle tier or jobber character essentially. Put him on the roster please

he reminds me of vash the stampede

@sridrawings4510

Жыл бұрын

how?