Chris

Chris is a character from The King of Fighters series. He is a member of Team Orochi (temporarily under disguised team name, "New Faces Team" in KOF '97). He is one of the Four Heavenly Kings of Orochi, and is the dark Orochi counterpart to Kyo in regards of his ability to wield dark flames. His official nickname is "Tempo Mixer".

Development
Chris and his teammates were created to offset the remaining top three characters. Chris was chosen as the host for Orochi's awakened spirit, a concept that began early in the game's production. He was designed as a character who can "kill with an innocent smile."

Personality
Chris is quite innocent, shy, cheerful, and has a heart of gold, though somewhat anti-social. He also seems to be quite soulful. In normal situations, Chris will try to be the mature one of the group providing information for his teammates when necessary. Chris appears as a well-mannered person, with him seemingly being a well-mannered young boy at a first glance. Despite his generally prim and proper decorum, it's been noted that Chris also possesses a murderous intent that is even stronger than Shermie's, which ties into him being able to "kill with an innocent smile." Alluding to this secretly violent behavior, Chris's dialogue can be a bit precocious and arrogant, and he tends to taunt opponents in a way to deliberately offend them, even his bandmates. Whether he is aware of his own haughtiness remains to be seen.

When Chris was revived, his Orochi heritage was retained as well, though pays less heed to it than usual. While they take their roles as Heavenly Kings seriously even in their normal forms, their band popularity takes priority over destroying what would be their fans, opting instead to antagonize the Three Sacred Treasures, by planning to orchestrate a rift between Kyo and Yuki.

Abilities

 * Super Speed - Chris can move faster than normal human beings.
 * Translocation - Using the Super Speed power, Chris can translocate himself to another place.
 * Energy Attacks - Chris can infuse his attacks with energy.


 * Musical Instruments - Chris plays the drums in his band, and also has musical knowledge due to his occupation.
 * Cooking - Chris has some culinary knowhow, doing this as a hobby.

Fighting style
Chris fights using his speed mixed with acrobatic maneuvers, which gives him a mixup-pressure-based fighting style that involves him playing mindgames with his opponents.

Originally, his moveset was deemed as subpar in his debut appearance, to the point where a majority of it was reworked in KOF '98. In 2002 akin to Blue Mary, gives him a classic system mechanic as one of his special moves (his "Leading" attacks are based on his stationary sidestep animation in Extra mode).

Music

 * Bloody - The King of Fighters '97, '98, R-1, R-2, 2002
 * Re:Bloody - The King of Fighters 2002 Unlimited Match
 * Resonant Objects - The King of Fighters XV

Voice actors

 * Rio Ogata - The King of Fighters '97 ~ 2002 UM
 * Shiki Aoki - The King of Fighters: World ~ The King of Fighters All Star
 * Yuki Sakakibara - The King of Fighters for Girls
 * Rui Yamasaki - The King of Fighters XV

Appearances
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Games

 * The King of Fighters '97
 * The King of Fighters '98
 * The King of Fighters: Kyo
 * The King of Fighters R-1
 * The King of Fighters R-2
 * The King of Fighters 2000 - as a Striker for Whip
 * The King of Fighters 2002
 * The King of Fighters Neowave
 * The King of Fighters '98 Ultimate Match
 * The King of Fighters 2002 Unlimited Match
 * CR The King of Fighters
 * The King of Fighters XV

Mobile

 * Days of Memories (second and fifth title) - non-playable; mentioned in the fifth
 * Moeyo! KOF Daiundokai
 * Cos大乱斗
 * Crash Fever
 * Tower of Saviors
 * Kimi wa Hero
 * Puzzle & Dragons
 * The King of Fighters: World
 * The King of Fighters Destiny
 * The King of Fighters All Star
 * The King of Fighters: Orochi Go
 * The King of Fighters M: Fighting Stars Assembly
 * SNK Fighting Age
 * The King of Fighters for Girls

Cameos
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 * The King of Fighters 2003 - in Edit Team ending
 * The King of Fighters XIII - background in London stage
 * The King of Fighters '94 Re-Bout - background in Team England stage
 * Neo Geo Battle Coliseum - in Shermie's ending
 * The King of Fighters
 * The King of Fighters 2
 * SNK Heroines Tag Team Frenzy - in Shermie's ending; mentioned in her winquote vs. Kula

Trivia

 * His quote during his SDM makes a reference to another SNK game, Crystalis. He is believed to be based on a character in the anime Armored Trooper Votoms.
 * Chris is also so far the only character via his HSDM of the Four Heavenly Kings to be able to manually access his other form. However, his portrait and current BGM do not change in both 2002 and Neowave until the former does in 2002 UM; even then, ending a round with a transformed-normal-Chris will have him revert back to his normal form in the next round.
 * In Gamest's 1997 Heroes Collection, Chris was voted as the staff's twentieth favorite character. And in Neo Geo Freak's August 1998 issue, he was ranked as the 10th best character.

Similar characters

 * Orochi Chris
 * Orochi