Team Women Fighters

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

Description
As the name implies, this team consists of any female character (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 consisted of King, Mai Shiranui and Yuri Sakazaki (the bartender and the Kyokugenryu student coming from Art of Fighting series and the kunoichi from Fatal Fury series.

This is also the team with 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 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 King of Fighters XIII is the only mainline game after the Orochi Saga with its classic formation.

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 two games of the series (three if counting the '98 game [and its remake]), the team was lead by non-founders, being them Kasumi Todoh (in KOF '96) and Chizuru Kagura (in KOF '97 and KOF '98 games), and only during the Orochi Saga.

Orochi Saga



 * King (Art of Fighting series) - 1st Founder, Leader of Team Women Fighters in '94/Re-Bout, '95, '99, 2001, 2003, XIII and XIV and member in '96, '97 and '98/UM.
 * Mai Shiranui (Fatal Fury series) - 2nd Founder, Leader of Team Women Fighters in 2000 and 2002, and member in '94/Re-Bout, '95, '96, '97,' 98/UM, 2001, 2002 um, 2003, XIII, XIV and XV.
 * Yuri Sakazaki (Art of Fighting series) - 3rd Founder and member in '94/Re-Bout, '95, 2000, 2002, XIII and XV.
 * Kasumi Todoh (Art of Fighting 3) - Leader of Team Women Fighters in '96 and member in '99 and 2000.
 * Chizuru Kagura (Original Character) - Leader of Team Women Fighters in '97 and '98/UM.

NESTS Chronicles/Tales of Ash

 * 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.
 * Hinako Shijou (Original Character) - Member of Team Women Fighters in 2000 and 2001. She left the team in 2003, and is also a member of the younger iteration of the team in 2002 UM and 2003.
 * May Lee Jinju (Original Character) - Member of Team Women Fighters. She only joined in 2002, except in its UM update, where she appears in the younger iteration of the team.

Shun'ei Saga

 * Alice Nakata (Garou Densetsu: The Legend of Wild Wolf) - Member of Team Women Fighters. Only joined in XIV.
 * Athena Asamiya (Psycho Soldier) - Leader of Team Women Fighters in KOF XV.

Team Pretty Girls Fighters
Team Pretty Girls Fighters (, lit. "Beautiful Girl 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, the team makes their canonical debut in The King of Fighters 2003, under the name Team High School Girls.

NESTS Chronicles

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

Tales of Ash

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

List of Members

 * Athena Asamiya - Leader of Team Super Heroines.
 * 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.


 * This team is the only of the KOF series with a wide variety of characters from other franchises.


 * Because May Lee Jinju only appeared as part of Team Women Fighters in 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 endings of KOF 2002 UM).


 * Team NESTS, Team Another World and Team Agents have similar all female member formations in The King of Fighters 2002 Unlimited Match, The King of Fighters XIV and The King of Fighters XV, respectively, thus making this team to be the first to have more than one another variant of the all female team. The two last mentioned formations are canonical and the first is a dream match formation.


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


 * The 2000 and XV are the only formations of this team which all her members have the same nationally (in this case, both are Japanese).
 * In addition, the 2003 is the only alternative formation of this team which all her members have the same nationally (also Japanese).


 * The XV formation is the only which all her members appears in SNK Heroines Tag Team Frenzy, a Tag-Battle game.