Team Women Fighters

Team Women Fighters (, lit. "Female Fighters Team"), originally called the Female Team in earlier English translations, also called the Queens Team  in The King of Fighters: Destiny series, and as Team Heroines, is a recurring team in The King of Fighters series.

Description
As the name implies, this team consists of any female characters (or heroines), either from the own series and/or other SNK franchises (particularly from the shared universe games such as Fatal Fury and Art of Fighting). In the first games of the series, the group/team consisted of Mai Shiranui (from the Fatal Fury series), King and Yuri Sakazaki (both hailing from the Art of Fighting).

This team has made the most formation changes, starting with The King of Fighters '96. Originally, most of its members are locals, residing and/or had multiple crisis involvements at the city of South Town, including those who are associate to the town's local fighters (such as May Lee Jinju being associated to Kim Kaphwan), until The King of Fighters '97, it introduces a member who has nothing with the town nor had past associate its locals completely, such as Chizuru Kagura, and later Hinako Shijou. The 13th installment is the only mainline game after the Orochi Saga with its classic formation (along with the spin-off KOF Neowave).

In most of the formations, King or Mai (the founders of the team, along with Yuri) shares the leadership, regardless of both being on the same team or not, and in all formations, one or more members of the first formation appears in this team. In only three games of the series (four if counting the  '98 game and its remake), the team was lead by non-founders, those being Kasumi Todoh (in KOF '96), Chizuru Kagura (in KOF '97 and KOF '98/UM games), and Athena Asamiya (in XV). Kasumi and Chizuru leads the team during the Orochi Saga, and Athena, in the second chapter of the current saga.

 

First Founder & First Leader

 * King (Art of Fighting series) - 1st Founder. Leader of Team Women Fighters in  '94/Re-Bout,  '95,  '99, 2001, 2003, XIII and XIV and a standard member in ' 96-'98 and  '98 UM.

Second Founder & Fourth Leader

 * Mai Shiranui (Fatal Fury series) - 2nd Founder. Leader of Team Women Fighters in 2000 and 2002, and a standard member in  '94/Re-Bout, '95- '98, 2001, 2003,  '98 UM, 2002 UM and XIII-XV.

Third Founder

 * Yuri Sakazaki (Art of Fighting series) - 3rd Founder and member in  '94/Re-Bout,  '95, 2000, 2002, XIII and XV.

Second Leader

 * Kasumi Todoh (Art of Fighting 3) - Leader of Team Women Fighters in  '96 and a standard member in  '99-2000 and 2002 UM.

Third Leader

 * Chizuru Kagura (Original Character) - Leader of Team Women Fighters in  '97- '98 and '98 UM.

Members

 * Blue Mary (Fatal Fury series) - Member of Team Women Fighters in  '99 and 2003. She left the team in 2000 and XI.
 * Li Xiangfei (Real Bout Fatal Fury 2) - Member of Team Women Fighters in  '99 (with a small absence during 2000) and 2001. She left the team in 2003. Also a member of younger iteration of the team in 2002 UM.

Member

 * Hinako Shijou (Original Character) - Member of Team Women Fighters in 2000-2001. She left the team in 2003, and is also a member of the younger iteration of the team in 2003 and 2002 UM.

Member

 * May Lee Jinju (Original Character) - Member of Team Women Fighters. She only joined in 2002, and appears as a standard member in the younger iteration of the team in 2002 UM.

Member

 * Alice Nakata (Garou Densetsu: The Legend of Wild Wolf) - Member of Team Women Fighters. Only joined in XIV.

Fifth Leader

 * Athena Asamiya (Psycho Soldier) - Leader of Team Women Fighters in XV.

Team Pretty Girls Fighters
Team Pretty Girls Fighters (, lit. "Beautiful Girls Fighters Team"), is a younger iteration team of Team Women Fighters in The King of Fighters series. While the team first appeared in The King of Fighters 2002 Unlimited Match (a Dream Match game), the team makes their canonical debut in The King of Fighters 2003, under the name Team High School Girls.

First Leader

 * Li Xiangfei - Leader of Team Pretty Girls Fighters in 2002 UM. She left the team after this game.

Members

 * Hinako Shijou - Member of Team Pretty Girls Fighters in 2002 UM and 2003. She left the team after 2003.
 * May Lee Jinju - Member of Team Pretty Girls in 2002 UM. She left the team after this game.

Second Leader

 * Athena Asamiya - Leader of Team Pretty Girls Fighters in 2003. She left the team after this game.

Member

 * Malin - Member of Team Pretty Girls Fighters in 2003. She left the team after this game.

Team Super Heroines
Team Super Heroines is another iteration of Team Women Fighters. This team appears for the first time in King of Fighters R-1, as simply Heroines Team, and again in The King of Fighters '98 Ultimate Match under the name Neo Heroines Team as an alternative team with a secret ending illustration. This team will make their official and canonical debut in The King of Fighters XV.

Leader

 * Athena Asamiya - Leader of Team Super Heroines.

Members

 * Mai Shiranui - Member of Team Super Heroines.
 * Yuri Sakazaki - Member of Team Super Heroines.

Trivia

 * This team isn't available in The King of Fighters XI, due to the fact that its members of the previous formation are placed on other teams that they have been a part if before (King goes back to Team Art of Fighting and Mary, to Team Agents). The team is reformed in KOF XIII, with its classic formation.
 * In KOF XI, Mai Shiranui appears only as a PlayStation 2 exclusive character.


 * With exception of the Tales of Ash saga, this team receives new characters in his all new formations, between veterans of the series (and from other franchises) and newly-made characters.


 * Due to them being the team's founders, King, Mai and Yuri are always a part of team, even if one or two of them are on another team.


 * Due to the fact that May Lee Jinju only appeared as part of Team Women Fighters in KOF 2002 (a Dream Match game), she has canonically not been an official member.
 * This also might be the reason why she doesn't appear in the Women Fighters Team 's endings in following games to him (only in some special endings of KOF 2002 UM).
 * May Lee is the only character of this team with a non-canonical participation. All the other characters participated canonically.


 * This team is the only of the KOF series with a wide variety of characters from other franchises.
 * This team is also the only of the series with a wide variety of leaders, due to its constantly-changing formations over the years. The team counts with 5 leaders.
 * The Fatal Fury series has the most members in this team, with 4 female characters. The Art of Fighting and KOF series have 3 female characters each, while the Psycho Soldier series only has 1 female character.


 * This team and Team Ikari Warriors are the only teams beside the Hero and Rivals Teams whose members are important to the story of KOF series, through the connections as the main events of each saga (Chizuru's clan is responsible by the Orochi seal, one of the key themes of the saga of same name).


 * This team, Team Hero, Team East Asia, Team China, Team Mexico, Team Rivals, Team South America and Team Wrestling are the only teams in the series with notable formation changes.


 * This team, Team Hero, Team Fatal Fury, Team Japan, Team Art of Fighting, Team Athena, Team East Asia, Team China, Team Kim, Team Kyo, Team Mexico, Team Outlaw, Team Rivals, Team South America, Team NESTS and Team Wrestling are the only teams in the series with team variations.
 * Team NESTS, Team Another World and Team Agents all have similar exclusively female team formations in The King of Fighters 2002 Unlimited Match, The King of Fighters XIV and The King of Fighters XV. The former, however, only appears in a dream match, while the latter two are canonical teams.
 * This team and its variant in The King of Fighters XIV are the only formations with pachinko characters.


 * Athena's inclusion in the Women Fighters Team in KOF XV was foreshadowed in two mainline games prior, through her special conversation with King in XIII, and in some of Athena's win quotes against their members of the team in XIV.


 * The formations in 2000 and XV are the only ones in which all the members have the same nationality (in this case, both are Japanese).
 * Additionally, the alternate formation in 2003 follows this as well (also Japanese).


 * The XV formation is the only one in which all of the members appears in SNK Heroines Tag Team Frenzy, a spin-off tag-battle game. They also appear in its predecessor, SNK Gals' Fighters.


 * This team, Team Sacred Treasures, Team Kyo and Team Wrestling are the only ones in which one of the members is a sub-boss in past games.


 * In The King of Fighters '94, this team was called Team England, despite none of their members being English.
 * It may, however, be based on the fact that King is French, and both England and France are countries in the continent of Europe.