South Town

South Town (sometimes called Southtown) is a fictional city in the SNK universe.

Art of Fighting
Since the 60s, South Town has been ruled by crime. The first known crimelord of South Town is Mr. Big. Before the events of Art of Fighting, Mr. Big was losing control of South Town to the young Geese Howard. Big then started to look for allies and found the karate master, Takuma Sakazaki. Mr. Big asked Takuma to join him, but Takuma didn't want to get involved with crime. So Mr. Big kidnapped Yuri to make Takuma join him and so,triggering the events of Art of Fighting.

A year later, Mr. Big lose control of the city to Geese Howard. Geese spared Mr. Big but made him his underling. Geese created the first The King of Fighters tournament and invited the Sakazakis and Robert in the name of Mr. Big. Ryo Sakazaki won the finals and then defeated Geese who ran away to Japan. Jeff Bogard, one of Geese's Hakkyokuseiken enemies was back in South Town with his two adoptive sons. Geese then came back to South Town and killed Jeff in front of his two sons.

Fatal Fury
Terry Bogard and Andy Bogard, Jeff's sons, swore revenge to Geese. Terry traveled the world learning several martial arts and chi techniques from the Hakkyokuseiken school, while Andy traveled to Japan to learn Koppouken and Shiranui-ryuu ninjitsu.

They came back in 1992 for The King of Fighters tournament Geese was helding. They were aided by good friend Joe Higashi. Terry defeated Geese who then retired to the mountains to train harder to get his revenge against Terry. The town was freed from Geese, but not for long.

In Fatal Fury 3, a criminal named Ryuji Yamazaki came to South Town. Terry and company became aware of his presence and started looking for him. During their search, they were surprised to see that Geese is still alive (they tought he was dead). Terry fought again against Geese in Geese Tower. Their fight started a fire there and Terry had to be rescued by a helicopter while Geese was nowhere to be found. Terry was left where Yamazaki was. They started to fight and Yamazaki was defeated. Terry was then teleported to Delta Park where he met Jin Chonshu and Jin Chonrei, holders of the Jin Scrolls of Immortality. They were planning to take over the city and eventually the world. Andy came to Delta Park and aided Terry against them. During the fight, Geese sneaked behind them and stole the scrolls from them. Geese started to rule over South Town yet again.

A year later, crime was back to South Town. Terry tried to challenge Geese but was unsucsessful. Geese then started a new The King of Fighters tournament. Terry and friends entered the tournament. Terry ended up winning the finals and received the chance to fight Geese once again. Terry and Geese started to fight in Geese Tower's temple. Terry eventually defeated Geese with a Power Geyser. Geese was sent falling from the tower, but Terry saves him. Geese then frees himself from Terry's grip falling to his death.

South Town now belongs to its people.

The King of Fighters 2000
The finals of The King of Fighters 2000 were to be held in South Town. Zero (clone) masqueraded as Ling to fool Heidern and executed his plans of world conquest. He was intended to use the Zero Cannon, a space-based super weapon against NESTS headquarters. He led K', Maxima, Vanessa and Ramon to a place where a generator was absorbing their energy and sending it to the cannon. Zero fired several shots of the cannon on South Town destroying the whole city. The cannon only stopped when Kula Diamond destroyed it.

It is believed that South Town was NESTS headquarters and Zero wanted to destroy it. But NESTS was not destroyed along with the city. After the incident, all of South Town's people worked hard to reconstruct the city. They called the new city Second Southtown.

Places

 * Paopao Café - This is the bar of Richard Meyer. Terry and his friends often gather here to have a drink.


 * Paopao Café 2 - A subsidiary of the first Paopao, this is one is managed by Bob Wilson.


 * Sound Beach - The most famous beach of South Town. Terry and Blue Mary are regulars here.


 * Dream Amusement Park - The most visited amusement park of South Town.


 * West Subway - This is the subway of the west side of the city.


 * Happy Park - A park surrounded by stores.


 * South Town Village - Residential area in the east side of South Town. It is in a neighboring island to South Town called East Island.


 * South Town Bridge - The bridge connecting South Town to East Island.


 * Howard Arena / Karuta - It is a fighting arena, exempts the public. However, as he says the name, the owner of the arena is Geese Howard. The arena also possesss a temple of Chinese architecture and a small lake. Prior to Geese's rule of South Town, the place was called Karuta.


 * Pioneer Plaza - This is a construction in homage to the Pioneer. The Pioneer was the first person to step on in the land of South Town. Blue Mary always comes here.


 * National Park - Some animals are find there. The environment remembers the equatorial forests. Joe Higashi always trains in this place with Hwa Jai. Ryo Sakazaki possesss a farm here.


 * South Town Airport - The regional airport of South Town.


 * East Side Park - A park in the east side of the city. This park is rival to Dream Amusement Park and possesss an aquarium inside.


 * Port Town - The port area of South Town. Port Town possesss some dock berths and is there where the ships anchor.


 * South Station - This is the train station that is in the south of South Town. This place is not so passive of reforms.


 * Delta Park - This park if locates in the Delta Square. The park possesss an aquarium, a zoo, a forest and a small river inside of it. The park is famous for its majestical statues of dragons.


 * Industrial Area - South Town possesses an industrial area. It was the stage of The King of Fighters 2000 finals.


 * Kyokugenryuu Karate Dojo - Takuma Sakazaki's dojo.


 * Chinatown - The neighborhood where the Chinese people of the city lives.


 * L'Amor - One of the surmountings of L'Amor bar whose owner is King.


 * Garcia Mansion - Enormous mansion where the Garcia family lives.


 * Mac's Bar - This bar, created since 1964 is in the center of South Town. The bar is frequented by a group of riotous motorcyclists led by Jack Turner.


 * Geese Tower - This is where Geese Howard lives. It is also its ground of operations and where the base of the Howard Conection is located, the company of Geese. In the top of the tower, there is a garden that imitates the old Japanese architecture, with a dojo in the way of it. Some Japanese statues are present there, as well as (ironically) some American flags.