Geese Howard is a fictional boss character and the main villain in SNK's Fatal Fury fighting game series.
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Geese Howard is a fictional boss character and the main villain in SNK's Fatal Fury fighting game series.
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Geese Howard created and hosts a fighting tournament named "The King of Fighters", in which he faces the brothers Terry and Andy Bogard who want to take revenge for their father's death.
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Geese Howard has appeared in other SNK's games such as The King of Fighters games, in which he seeks to get the power from the creature Orochi and often sends teams representing him.
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Outside video games, Geese Howard has appeared in the Fatal Fury animated adaptations as well as the CGI series The King of Fighters: Destiny.
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Geese Howard's reveal as guest character in Tekken 7 was met with acclaim due to how well he fit within the series' cast.
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Geese Howard was first added to franchise The King of Fighters in The King of Fighters '96.
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Geese Howard was partnered with two other SNK bosses, Mr Big and Krauser.
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Katsuhiro Harada said that if he could add a guest character into Tekken 7 it would be Geese Howard, praising the characters as he would fit into the cast.
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Geese Howard added that both he and an interviewer liked the character which led to the idea of casting him into Tekken 7.
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Geese Howard first appears in the original Fatal Fury, where he hosts the "King of Fighters" tournament.
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Geese Howard does appear in the revised version of Fatal Fury 2, Fatal Fury Special, where it is revealed that he survived his fall at the end of the first game.
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In either, Terry's or Andy's ending, Geese falls off his tower , refusing to accept help from either of the Bogard brothers, leaving Terry to later raise Geese's young son, Rock Howard.
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Geese Howard appears in the subsequent game which does not feature a plot, Real Bout Fatal Fury Special, as a hidden final boss named Nightmare Geese Howard.
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Geese Howard appears as a regular character in Real Bout Fatal Fury 2, which has no storyline, as well as Wild Ambition, a remake of the first Fatal Fury game.
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Geese Howard makes an appearance in the second game in the Art of Fighting series.
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Geese Howard is revealed to be Mr Big's boss and the mastermind behind the events of the previous game such as the kidnapping of Yuri Sakazaki.
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Geese Howard appears in a few games in The King of Fighters series, which does not follow the continuity established by the Fatal Fury and Art of Fighting games, despite sharing many characters and plot elements.
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Geese Howard would appear again in a non-playable role as the sponsor of the "Special Team" in The King of Fighters '97, which is composed of Billy Kane, Blue Mary, and Ryuji Yamazaki.
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Geese Howard appears in The King of Fighters 2000 as a striker, in the Xbox version of The King of Fighters 2002 and The King of Fighters XI as a selectable character, as well as in The King of Fighters '98: Ultimate Match, which brings back the Boss Team from '96.
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Geese Howard is a playable character in The King of Fighters 2002 Unlimited Match, alongside his "Nightmare" variant.
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Geese Howard appears as a playable guest fighter in Tekken 7 as downloadable character.
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Geese Howard appears in a trilogy of animated films based on the Fatal Fury video games, where his voice is provided by Hidekatsu Shibata in the original Japanese versions and Ward Perry in the English dubs.
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Geese Howard appears in many CD dramas and stars in his own character image album.
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Geese Howard has been well received by gamers, ranking high in several popularity polls.
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In 2018, Geese Howard was voted as the second most popular Neo Geo character behind Terry.
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Geese Howard mentioned that due to how difficult Geese is, almost twelve different IGN people had to help Clements to win, being only able to defeat him "resorting to the cheapest, most absurd tactics possible".
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Eric Bratcher from GamesRadar commented that Geese Howard is "the big hook" from the series along with Terry Bogard, labelling Geese Howard as "nearly un-killable".
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Geese Howard was in GameSpot's "All Time Greatest Villains" losing to Mother Brain from the Metroid.
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Raphael See criticized Geese Howard's final fight against Terry Bogard in the series' first original video animation as due to the chi-like techniques performed by the two fighters rather than actual regular martial arts.
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Gavin Jasper from Den of Geek found Geese Howard's reveal as surprising due to lack of possibilities the character would appear as a guest.
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