Team Athena

Team Athena is a reoccuring Team in The King of Fighters series.

Description
As the name implies, this team is formed by Athena Asamiya and some characters who have aligned with her. For the most games of the series, this team is also known as Team Psycho Soldier, with Sie Kensou (like her, a character from the game Psycho Soldier) and Chin Gentsai, master of both characters. Later on in the series, the team would receive the presence of Bao (during the NESTS Chronicles Saga) and Momoko (in The King of Fighters XI).

Starting from Tales of Ash Saga, Athena forms alternative iterations of Team Women Fighters, always led by her. The first is formed in The King of Fighters 2003, under the name High School Girls Team, with the sumo student Hinako Shijou and the secret agent Malin, and the second is formed in The King of Fighters XV, with the kunoichi Mai Shiranui and the Kyokugenryu karate student Yuri Sakazaki, under the name Super Heroines Team.

Leader

 * Athena Asamiya - Leader of the team that bears her name.

Members

 * Sie Kensou - Member of Team Athena. Left the team in 2003 and XV, and returned in XI.
 * Chin Gentsai - Member of Team Athena. Left the team in 2003 and XV, and returned in XIII.

Member

 * Bao - Member of Team Athena. Appears in all games of the NESTS Chronicles Saga, in EX Games and in 2002 UM. Left the team in 2003.

Members

 * Hinako Shijou - Member of Team Athena in 2003. She left the team after this game.
 * Malin - Member of Team Athena in 2003. She left the team after this game.

Member

 * Momoko - Member of Team Athena, only in XI.

Members

 * Mai Shiranui - Member of Team Athena in XV.
 * Yuri Sakazaki - Member of Team Athena in XV.

Trivia

 * Due to the fact that the team bears his first name, Athena is the only character who is always present in him.


 * With exception of Athena Asamiya, Sie Kensou (both from Psycho Soldier), Mai Shiranui (a Fatal Fury series character) and Yuri Sakazaki (an Art of Fighting series character), all the other characters on this team are created exclusively for the KOF series.


 * With exception of Sie Kensou, Chin Gentsai and Bao, all the other characters on this team (all female) are Japanese.
 * All the other characters of this team are Chinese (born or raised).


 * The latest incarnation of this team (KOF XV) 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, as an alternative team with a secret ending illustration. This team makes their official and canonical debut in The King of Fighters XV.
 * All the members of this incarnation also appears in SNK Heroines Tag Team Frenzy, a Tag-Battle game. They also appears in appear in its predecessor, SNK Gals' Fighters.


 * This team, Team Women Fighters, Team Fatal Fury, Team Hero, Team Art of Fighting, Team Japan, Team East Asia, Team China, Team Kim, Team Kyo, Team Mexico, Team Outlaw, Team Rivals, Team South America and Team Wrestling are the only of the series with a some/greater number of team variants.
 * With exception of the variant formed by Athena, Kensou and Bao, all the other formations of this team are canonical.


 * With the exception of Hinako Shijou, Malin, Momoko, Mai Shiranui and Yuri Sakazaki, all the other characters of this team masters the Kung Fu style (and its variants).
 * Hinako practices sumo, Malin practices a style with illegal moves and weapons, Momoko practices Capoeira, Mai practices the Ninjutsu of his clan and Yuri practices the Karate style of her family.