57 Facts About Chun-Li

Chun-Li is a fictional character in Capcom's Street Fighter video game series.

Since her debut, Chun-Li has become a mainstay of the franchise and one of its most popular figures.

Chun-Li's has appeared in nearly all subsequent installments of the series and several Capcom spinoff games.

Chun-Li's is featured prominently in Street Fighter-related media, including two feature films, multiple anime and comic book productions, and other official series merchandise.

Chun-Li's has earned much positive fan and critical reception for factors such as her backstory, athleticism and in-game playability, and she is considered a trailblazer for female characters in fighting titles and general video gaming.

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Chun-Li was originally known as just 'Chinese Girl' among the development team.

Chun-Li's had a backflip attack that was popular among testers but deemed too strong, and unfortunately had to be cut from the game after they ran out of time.

Chun-Li was designed with an exceptionally strong physique because she was the sole woman among a roster of powerful male characters in Street Fighter II.

Chun-Li's was nevertheless the fastest but physically weakest character in her first game.

Chun-Li is particularly well known for her very muscular legs, while depictions of the rest of her body are more variable.

In Street Fighter II: The World Warrior, Chun-Li was originally depicted wearing a red qipao instead of blue.

Chun-Li's usually wears her hair in "ox horns", with silk brocades and ribbons in her hair.

Chun-Li's has by far most costumes out of all characters in Street Fighter V, including some with different hairstyles.

Chun-Li started as a weak and fast close-range fighter compared to the bigger male characters from Street Fighter II with the best aerial ability in the game, but she steadily gained an array of different moves through the games, such as a projectile attack or an anti-air defensive move, which steered her towards a more balanced type with an emphasis on poking and control of neutral game thanks to a rich set of non-special moves of relatively long range.

Chun-Li's has been noted to be one of the most powerful characters in the game, alongside Ken and Yun.

Chun-Li's was considerably weakened in Street Fighter EX, but has remained one of the fastest characters.

Chun-Li's started training in several styles of Chinese kempo at the age of five, especially tai chi chuan, which she would later complement with sanda and fighting styles from all around the world, such as taekwondo, full contact karate, judo and capoeira.

Chun-Li's has been noted in-universe for her fluent English, investigating skills, penetrating eyes, beauty and acting talent for deception.

Chun-Li is presented as a woman with a strong sense of justice, and her motives for fighting crime range from avenging the death of her father to protecting innocents.

Chun-Li's especially cares for kids, showing repulse for the use of brainwashed young girls in Street Fighter Alpha 3 and the kidnap of a girl in Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike.

Chun-Li was introduced in 1991 in the original version of Street Fighter II as the franchise's first playable female character, an undercover Interpol agent seeking to avenge the death of her father at the hands of M Bison and his criminal organization.

In non-canonical spin-off series Street Fighter EX, Chun-Li is a police officer investigating Shadaloo in search of her missing father.

Besides the core Street Fighter series, Chun-Li has made appearances in many other Capcom-produced fighting games, including all titles of the long-running series Marvel vs Capcom and Capcom vs SNK, and in Tatsunoko vs Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars and Street Fighter X Tekken.

Chun-Li's was planned to appear as a giant robot in Cyberbots.

Chun-Li is additionally playable in other Capcom games such as versus puzzle games Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo, Super Gem Fighter Mini Mix and Street Fighter: Puzzle Spirits, and social games Capcom All-Stars and Street Fighter Battle Combination.

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Chun-Li was a central character in the 1994 Street Fighter film, played by Ming-Na Wen.

Chun-Li was given a surname and posed as a television reporter working in Shadaloo in her personal quest to track down and kill Bison, who had murdered her father during a peasant uprising.

Chun-Li is held prisoner in Bison's private chambers, and after she relays the story of her father's murder, Bison mocks her and her fighting skills in response, which provokes Chun-Li into attacking him, having planned all along for an opportunity to personally attack Bison.

Chun-Li was played by a cross-dressing Jackie Chan in the 1993 live-action adaptation of City Hunter during the Street Fighter II spoof scene that positively surprised the original manga's author Tsukasa Hojo.

Chun-Li appears in the second season of Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist titled Street Fighter: World Warrior in a significant role.

Chun-Li is a central character in the 1994 anime film Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie, voiced by Miki Fujitani in the original Japanese version and by Lia Sargent in the English dub.

Chun-Li's is investigating M Bison's Shadowlaw organization suspected of murdering several diplomats and requests to work with Guile; he initially balks at this as he wants to pursue Bison himself, but later they become inseparable.

Chun-Li's remains hospitalized for the rest of the movie, as a distraught Guile promises her that he will make Bison pay.

Chun-Li is a regular character in the 1996 American animated series Street Fighter, voiced by Donna Yamamoto.

Chun-Li is introduced as the 15-year-old daughter of Inspector Do-Rai, a Hong Kong police chief who has schooled her in the martial arts.

Chun-Li serves as the tour guide for Ryu and Ken when they pay a visit to work on their training; Ken is smitten with her and later buys her lavish gifts, including an engagement ring.

The whole time, Chun-Li is under the influence of Vega's love potion, but it wears off when Vega is defeated.

Chun-Li plays her largest role in the five-part finale, when she and Ryu are kidnapped and brainwashed by Bison via cyberchip embedded in their foreheads and like in the 1994 American film, she acquires her signature outfit while under Bison's captivity.

Chun-Li appears in the 1999 anime OVA Street Fighter Alpha: The Animation, voiced by Yumi Toma in the original Japanese version and again by Lia Sargent in the English dub.

Chun-Li's believes the trail can lead her to her father, who at the time, was missing and presumed alive.

Chun-Li's accompanies Ryu, Ken, Birdie, Dan, Guy, Dhalsim, Sodom and Rolento to Sadler's hideout, where she sneaks into the facility with Ryu and Ken.

Chun-Li made cameo appearances in the animated films Wreck-It Ralph and Ralph Breaks the Internet alongside several fellow Street Fighter characters.

In Malibu Comics' short-lived Street Fighter series, Chun-Li is depicted as having known Ryu and Ken since her late teens, as well as having a romantic interest in Ryu, though both make their first appearances therein fighting each other after he sneaks up on her from behind.

Chun-Li's criticizes his overly devout dedication to his training that has seen him distance himself from Ken for a long time, while he tires of hearing her desire of revenge against Bison and is aghast at her announcement that she has started working with Interpol.

Chun-Li is one of several Street Fighter characters featured in Archie Comics' Worlds Unite event, which saw several Capcom and Sega franchises crossover in the Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic Universe, Mega Man, and Sonic Boom comic lines.

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Chun-Li's character was used to promote the film Ready Player One in Japan.

In 2018, Japanese company Onitsuka Tiger collaborated with Capcom for Chun-Li to wear their new Mexico 66 SD line of sports shoes, and the 30th anniversary of Street Fighter collaboration between Capcom and Japan's Saga Prefecture featured singer and actress Kayo Noro dressed as Chun-Li.

Wide variety of Chun-Li figures have been produced by various manufacturers, including by Capcom itself, Ace Novelty, BigBoysToys, Funko, Kotobukiya, Pop Culture Shock Collectibles, S H Figuart, SOTA Toys, Storm Collectibles, Takara Tomy, and Tsume-Art, among many others.

Similarities with Chun-Li were further observed in various other characters, such as the move sets of Jamm in Golden Axe: The Duel and Miyabi in Raging Fighter, or the looks of Mei Mei in unreleased Mission: Deadly Skies.

Chun-Li's blazed the trail for so many playable female characters in games, and she's showing no signs of stopping more than 20 years later.

Chun-Li is widely regarded as one of the most popular characters in the series.

In 2002, Chun-Li was voted number one in Capcom's own poll of top 85 characters for the 15th anniversary of Street Fighter.

UGO ranked her as third on their 2010 list of top Street Fighter characters, adding that as "the first female fighting game character", Chun-Li "was one of few female characters in the early '90s not cast in a role of damsel in distress, but instead showed that female characters could fight just as same as their male counterparts".

The creation of Street Fighter II: Champion Edition was in fact inspired by an argument between two girls over which one of them would play as Chun-Li, which was witnessed by Capcom USA's Jeff Walker who then asked Capcom's founder Kenzo Tsujimoto to make a version allowing both players to play the same character.

Chun-Li has appeared in many top list type articles for the fighting game genre, all video games, and in even in general fiction, often due to her attractiveness.

Chun-Li's was awarded the title of the "Hottest Babe of 1992" by Electronic Gaming Monthly, tying with Blaze from Streets of Rage.

In 2015, Chun-Li was ranked as second-most-sexy Oriental woman character in games by Indonesian television Liputan 6 and as the 13th-sexiest female video game character by Vietnamese daily Thanh Nien.