Basic Profile
Name: Chun-li (春麗 or チュンリー)
Name Meaning: Spring Beauty
Birthdate: March 1st, 1968
Birthplace: China
Height: 169cm (SFA), 170cm (SF)
Weight: Always refuses to say.
Bust/Hips/Waist: 84/89/59 (SFA), 88/58/90 (SF)
Blood Type: A
Fighting Style: Chinese Martial Arts
Skills: Shooting
Likes: Fruit, American Candy
Dislikes: Crime, Indecisive People, M. Bison
Job: ICPO Special Detective
Seiyuu: Miyamura Yuko, Tanaka Atsuko, Neya Michiko, Jitsukawa Mari
Chun-li's Importance
Chun-Li is one of the earliest female video game protagonists to achieve widespread popularity. Prior to Street Fighter II being released in 1991, most female characters in games existed as objectives to be rescued or cast in the roles of other supporting characters, such as townspeople, girlfriends, the occasional opponent, or simply background decoration; as such, there were very few heroines in action-based video games. After the success of Street Fighter II and Chun-Li's popularity, female protagonists became increasingly common. Since then, in games with selectable characters, at least one or two of them will almost always be female; and a number of games released since that have placed a female character in the lead role.
Chun-li's Story
Chun-Li was an Interpol investigator who had been searching for clues to the recent death of her father. Getting into a friendly spar with an old teacher of hers and friend of her father, Gen, he gives her a lead into who may have killed her father—the mysterious crime syndicate Shadoloo. Finding its leader, M. Bison, she demands he tell her what happened to her father. To her surprise, Bison attacks and basically makes quick work of her, then flies away, laughing at her and telling her if she attacks him again he will kill her just like he did to her father. With tears in her eyes, Chun-Li swore revenge.
Chun-Li teamed up with an United States Air Force member, Charlie, to try to track and take down Shadoloo. She then ran into someone she would not have expected at all. It was Charlie's good friend and fellow lieutenant, Guile. Telling him he should not get in over his head and to leave the two be, she learns he has orders to bring Charlie back. Attempting to use force to stop him, she instead finds herself defeated; nonetheless, she insists that she and her partner be left alone, to which Guile replies that he will never abandon friends in need. Eventually, learning that Bison tricked the Air Force into cancelling the planned bombing of the main Shadoloo base, she rushed over to the two soldiers to tell them they were tricked and would have to destroy the base on their own. Chun-Li proceeded to plant bombs about the base as Charlie and Guile headed inside to destroy the Psycho Drive, but Guile then came rushing out, grabbing Chun-Li and telling her Charlie had urged both of them to get away. Along the way, Chun-Li saw a young girl escaping with several others (who turned out to be Cammy White leading the Dolls away from the base). Despite being distraught over the initial lack of evidence to prove Shadoloo's crimes, Interpol and Chun-Li managed to shut down much of the evil crime empire.
Chun-Li received an invitation to the second World Warrior tournament, and discovered that Bison had apparently survived the Thailand base's destruction. With this, she had the clear motive of destroying Shadoloo and avenging her father once again. The outcome of this tournament is not clear, but there are strong hints that Chun-Li earned the right to face Bison and possibly won the tournament, although Bison, himself, was killed by Akuma in the long run.
Having made her peace, she continued her work as a police officer, and retired from mainstream street fighting to teach young children martial arts after taking down Shadoloo for good. Urien kidnapped a young girl for his scientific projects and Chun-Li manages to catch up to him. Challenging him, she does her best to fight him and Urien, impressed by his opponent's fighting spirit, agrees to let the child go. Since then, Chun-Li has continued to raise her adopted kids.
Chun-li's Appearance
Chun-Li wears the qipao, a traditional Chinese dress popular among girls during the early 20th Century. Her outfit is modified to allow a far wider range of movement than a normal qipao. She also wears combat boots and dark brown sheer pantyhose with her blue qipao. She was originally supposed to wear a peach-colored qipao, as seen in her in-game profile and ending in the original Street Fighter II. This was corrected to the blue one in Street Fighter II: Champion Edition.
During the period covered in Street Fighter Alpha, she wore an embroidered vest, unitard and athletic shoes, as well as studded wristbands. It is unclear why she chose to stop using this outfit and switch to a qipao. With the switch to the qipao, she also swapped her wristbands for spiked training bracelets.
In various official art, she has also been shown in her police outfit, as well as (presumably) her favorite casual attire: a varsity-style jacket, T-shirt, and jeans. It has been shown in some official art that when wearing her casual attire she also wears her Alpha wristbands.
Her hairstyle is called "ox horns", a typical style in which Chinese children dress their hair; depictions of girls in Chinese paintings frequently show girls in ox horns.
During the Alpha series, she chose to wear them unadorned, while in the remaining games, she uses silk brocades and ribbons to cover them, presumably to match her qipao.
Moves
Hyakuretsukyaku: (百裂脚) Also known as the "Lightning Leg/Kick". Chun-Li's signature move. She stands on one leg and kicks blindingly fast with the other (allegedly, as the name says, one hundred times).
Spinning Bird Kick: (回転的鶴脚蹴). Chun-Li flips, does the splits and spins across the screen upside down, with her legs spinning like helicopter blades. In some games, this move could be performed in the air.
Sen'en Shuu: (旋円蹴). Chun-Li, goes into a handstand, flips forward and kicks her opponent while landing in a split. This overhead attack replaces the Spinning Bird Kick in the Alpha series.
Hazan Shuu: A variant of the Sen'en Shuu which incorporates a full body flip and landing in a more side ways split, which replaced the Sen'en Shuu in Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike.
Hienshu: An attack available to Chun-Li in the Street Fighter EX series. Chun-Li somersaults forward, kicking her opponent as she lands.
Kikouken: (気功拳) Chun-Li releases a projectile of ki. This move was first seen in Street Fighter II: Hyper Fighting.
Tenshoukyaku: (天昇脚) Chun-Li performs rising kicks to knock opponents out of the air. This move was first seen in Super Street Fighter II Turbo, and is an uppercut move, similar to the Shoryuken.
Sou Hakkei: An attack available to Chun Li in X-ism style of the game Street Fighter Alpha 3. Chun-Li performs a double palm thrust that knocks the opponent both down and back.
Tenshin Enbu: A throw attack available to Chun-Li in the SNK-Playmore game SvC Chaos: SNK vs Capcom. Chun-Li clutches the opponent and performs a handstand flip over the opponent. This attack does no damage but does leave the opponent momentarily open for attack.
Sankaku Tobi: Although technically not a special move in itself, Chun-Li was the first character who could leap against the side of the screen and use it as a wall to jump back towards the opponent, gaining more height. Vega and Guy are two characters who gained this move in later games.
Senretsukyaku: (千裂脚) Also known as the "Thousand Burst Kick". Chun-Li's original Super Move. She lunges forward twice while kicking her opppnent each time, and follows with a Hyakuretsukyaku.
Kikoushou: (気功掌) Chun-Li creates a giant sphere of energy in her palms, which is much larger in the Marvel vs. Capcom series and the Street Fighter III games. In Street Fighter EX 3 the Meteor version is called the Kikoushou Goku, which is an exceptionally larger, and more powerful energy sphere.
Hazan Tenshoukyaku: (覇山天昇脚) Chun-Li performs several more rising kicks to knock opponents out of the air.
Houyoku Sen: A variant of the Senretsukyaku which ends in a vertical kick which she learned in Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike. Widely regarded as her best super.
Tensei Ranka: A multiple-hitting Sen'en Shuu that travels straight up. She leaps up while surrounded by blue energy and comes down with a split kick that cause a large blade like effect on the ground. Widely regarded as her least-effective super move damage-wise; it is only useful for surprise attacks.
Shichisei Senkuu Kyaku: In Marvel vs. Capcom, Chun-Li had a Shun Goku Satsu style move that was a simple aerial kick that caused a massive burst of lightning in the background and five Chinese characters spelling out the move's name blazed across the screen, which translates as "Seven Star Air Flash Kick".
Appearances
Street Fighter 2
Street Fighter 2 Turbo
Super Street Fighter 2
Street Fighter Alpha
Street Fighter Alpha 2
Street Fighter Alpha 2 Gold
Street Fighter Alpha 3
Street Fighter EX
Street Fighter EX 2
Street Fighter EX3
X-Men vs Street Fighter
Marvel vs. Capcom
Marvel vs. Capcom 2
Capcom vs. SNK
Capcom vs. SNK 2
Namco x Capcom
Card Fighters Clash
Card Fighters Clash 2
Copyrights & Credits
This fanlisting is designed and maintained by Eimii and is in no way affiliated with Capcom or the Street Fighter Franchise. No Infringement is intended. Layout was coded in notepad and designed in Photoshop 7.0.