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POST TRANSFORMATION BLANKA PLAYED BY KIM REPIA, BEFORE TRANSFORMATION PLAYED BY ROBERT MAMMONE.
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- Crossover appearances
- Comics
- Live-action films
- Movies and animations
"Seeing you in action is a joke!"
—Blanka (Street Fighter II series)
"Ow ow! Ow Aaaaah!"
—Blanka (Street Fighter IV series)
"I'm strong! You'll lose!"
—Blanka (Street Fighter × Tekken)
Personality
Despite having the appearance of a wild man, Blanka is 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 doesn't 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. As the series goes on, Blanka, while retaining his usual manner of speech, starts to develop a bit more common sense; which ironically makes him a more cautious-minded foil to the hot-headed Dan Hibiki. His dislike of masked men, as he believes good people shouldn't hide their faces, is also shown in his rival battle with El Fuerte and also with his win quote against Vega. Since Street Fighter V, Blanka has developed another persona known as "Blanka-chan" to act as the cuter and friendly version of him. Blanka is quite attached to this persona as evident by his anger when Laura accidentally steps on one of his Blanka-chan dolls. In Street Fighter 6, Blanka uses his Blanka-chan persona to great effect in promoting his tourism business by wearing the Blanka-chan costume, and assumes this persona while interacting with tourists. After his encounter with Lily, Blanka became convinced that his "power of the jungle" and Blanka-chan are one and the same and thus were "real" all along. Perhaps this is the reason that in World Tour mode, Blanka occasionally refers to himself as "Blanka-chan" even without his costume.
Concept
Designed by Akira "Akiman" Yasuda, the concept behind Blanka emerged in an early design as an African man named Anabebe who was raised by a lion. Blanka's original concept was likely inspired by Anabebe, a character from a popular manga series at the time called Jungle King Tar-Chan. After the release of Final Fight where a similarly designed fighter named Damnd (a.k.a. Thrasher in the SNES port) appeared as a boss character in Stage 1; Capcom again approached Street Fighter II and considered several designs for the Blanka character (including a masked wrestler modeled after Tiger Mask and a ninja-style warrior). His design later changed to a large man with thick hair and sideburns, named "Hammer Blanka". His finalized design was likely based on a character named Gorillaman from Ikki Kajiwara's Tiger Mask manga. Blanka's backstory mirrors that of Gorillaman with both characters having anklets made from chains and even had similar looking teeth. The staff then adopted Blanka's feral appearance, because they felt the game would be "dull" with only human characters.
Appearance and characteristics
Blanka's most prominent physical characteristic is his green color, initially attributed to his consumption of chlorophyll from plants to blend into his jungle environment, a color change that eventually became permanent. However, when Street Fighter II was brought to the US, Blanka's coloring was attributed to his being struck by lightning during the electrical storm in which his plane crashed. (In Japan, it was brought down by Shadaloo to kill a minister that was on the same plane) In Street Fighter II, Blanka's skin is yellowish-green, but later versions of the character are bright green. Early Street Fighter II artwork of Blanka showed him having pure green skin, despite the in-game renders showing him with yellowish skin color. Aside from his green skin, Blanka also has vivid orange hair. His appearance in Street Fighter II became his Nostalgia costume in Street Fighter V. Despite his strange appearance however, Blanka is in fact a human. In Blanka's redesign for Street Fighter V, his hair has grown longer and wild, on his head, limbs and chest. He has additional orange and green hair lining his limbs. His first alternate costume is a full sized 'Blanka-chan' doll from his character story. His second alternate costume is an Aztec-like garb, consisting of an eagle helmet on his head, a large medallion around his neck, and a shield affixed to his arm. In Street Fighter 6, Blanka now wears a yellow bandanna on his neck and wears blue short overalls with a left strap and a happy smiley design on the left side of his short overall. In the non-canon Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter, Blanka appears in the ending of another green-skinned powerhouse, The Incredible Hulk. In this ending, Bruce Banner theorizes that gamma radiation caused Blanka's mutations, as they did his. He is also seen in the background of one stage sitting in front of a campfire, crouching and snarling, across from The Beast, who mirrors his expression.
Samantha
Blanka's mother. Despite her son's current appearance, Samantha were able to recognize him by his anklets when they first reunited. She remains supportive and caring for his well-being, in which Blanka returns her kindness with his unyielding affection. Samantha is also hinted to be responsible for helping her son readapted with civilizations, as Blanka once said in Street Fighter IV that everything will be okay when "mama" is by his side when he initially left Brazil after the locals were intially startled by his appearance. She is also seen cheering for her son in some stages, such as in Street Fighter 6.
Dan
Blanka is Dan's only true friend (besides Sakura). It's unknown how long they have known each other but Dan was saved by Blanka at some point before the latter's mutation. Dan always addresses Blanka by his true name, "Jimmy".
Sakura
Blanka and Sakura are very close friends. It is known that in Street Fighter V, Blanka and Sakura stopped talking for a while, only to meet again.
Street Fighter Alpha 3
His in-game story, just like the in-game stories of the other characters in the series, serves as a precursor to the events of Street Fighter II. The game tells a tale of how 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 as one of his mid-bosses. Blanka later faces Zangief as his second mid-boss, and unwittingly prevents Zangief from helping to destroy the Shadaloo criminal organization. He then faces Shadaloo member Balrog before facing M. Bison. After Bison is defeated, Blanka, Dan, and Sakura work together and destroy Bison's Psycho Drive. It should be noted, however, that since many characters' endings in Alpha 3 each depict a different destruction of the Psycho Drive, Blanka's ending might not be canon.
Street Fighter II
In Street Fighter II, 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. Sometime between the events of Street Fighter Alpha 3 and his participation in the second World Warrior tournament, Blanka also learned to speak human language, presumably from Dan.
Street Fighter IV series
Blanka leaves 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. After he loses in the final stages, he is 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.
Capcom vs. SNK series
He also made appearances as a playable character in Capcom vs. SNK and Capcom vs. SNK 2. According to his ending in Capcom vs. SNK 2, he thought he was being flown home, but when he got off the plane, he ended up in a zoo instead.
Street Fighter X Tekken
Blanka appears as a playable DLC character in Street Fighter X Tekken, his tag partner is Sakura and their Tekken rivals are Lars and Alisa. Blanka and Sakura hear the news about Pandora located in the South Pole. A few months pass, leaving Blanka and Sakura to wonder where Dan has gone ever since he left and never came back, so the duo head out to the South Pole to find Dan and check out the Pandora Box. Continuing their journey to the South Pole, Blanka and Sakura run into Lars and Alisa, thinking that Lars is a TV star known as Red Warrior Bakori Man. Lars gets confused as to who this TV star is, and Alisa explains to him, after which Blanka and Sakura challenge them to a fight. After defeating Ogre, Blanka and Sakura feel excited, as they got to fight many fighters searching for Pandora. Soon, they remember that Dan is missing, so Sakura calls out his name. Afterwards, Pandora opens, prompting them to check inside. Looking inside, they find Dan freezing and beaten up, prompting the duo to help Dan out of the box.
Street Fighter × Mega Man
Blanka appears as one of the eight stage fighting bosses in the official fan made game Street Fighter × Mega Man. His copy weapon is Tropical Hazard, while he is weak against Dhalsim's copy weapon Yoga Inferno.
UDON comics
In UDON's Street Fighter II comics, Blanka is found by Delta Red as a test subject of a Shadaloo lab in Brazil. While the team succeeds in retrieving him, along with Dee Jay (who had been acting as a brainwashed flunky for them), he is later recaptured and assigned as a Shadaloo fighter in the upcoming Street Fighter tournament. He is defeated by Guile in the first round and, after the fall of Shadaloo, he reunites with his estranged mother. In the comics, the reason for Blanka's skin color and electrical abilities is the same as in the movies; it was because of Shadaloo's experiments.
Street Fighter vs. Darkstalkers
In Street Fighter vs. Darkstalkers, B.B. Hood mistakes Blanka for a Darkstalker and attacks him, but Blanka manages to fight her off.
Street Fighter motion picture
The 1994 live-action Street Fighter film combined Charlie and Blanka into a single character. Robert Mammone plays the role of Blanka. At the beginning of the film, Guile's close friend Carlos Blanka (Charlie) is taken captive by Bison, who subjects him to genetic testing to create the perfect soldier. The film was made prior to Charlie's introduction as a playable character in the Street Fighter Alpha games.
Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie
Blanka makes a brief appearance in a hotel where a luxurious convention is held. Blanka appears in the evening entertainment, where he is lowered from a cage to fight Zangief. Blanka uses his Rolling Attack and Electric Shock when fighting. He was voiced by Unshō Ishizuka in Japanese, and Tom Carlton in English.
Street Fighter cartoon series
He was voiced by Scott McNeil. In the cartoon, Blanka was portrayed as the protector of a small Brazilian village who eventually "rejoined" the Street Fighter team. Blanka appears as one of the more recurrent characters in the U.S. cartoon, acting as a scout gathering information for Guile and his friends on various missions. Near the end of the second season episode "New Kind of Evil", Blanka becomes much more feral and dangerous after accidentally being exposed to and covered in a mega-dose of mutagen ooze and although he soon develops a short and unforgiving temper after this, Blanka still works alongside Guile and his friends while personally attempting to find a way in changing himself back to normal.
Wreck-It Ralph
Blanka makes a cameo in Disney's 52nd Animated film Wreck-It Ralph during the closing credits. Ralph tries to fight Blanka, but ends up defeated when he gets shocked.
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Platform: Playstation/PS1Developer: CapcomPublisher: JP: Capcom - NA/EU: Acclaim EntertainmentYear: 1995Street Fighter: The Movie is a head-to-head fighting ...
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Jun 30, 2021 · Blanka was a supporting character in the live action film. He served as a soldier in the A.N. (Allied Nations) and the best friend of its leader, Guile. His full name in the film is Carlos Blanka (aka Charlie).
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Feb 20, 2021 · Played by Home And Away’s Robert Mammone, the Blanka in Steve E. de Souza’s film is a curious bastardisation of the Blanka we know and a character from the games’ wider universe,...
