Team Women Fighters

Team Women Fighters (, lit. "Female Fighters Team"), originally called the Team Female in earlier English translations, also called the Team Queens  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 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 King, Mai Shiranui and Yuri Sakazaki (the bartender and the Kyokugenryu student coming from Art of Fighting series and the kunoichi from the 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 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 Shijo. 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, being them 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 and Leader of Team Women Fighters in '94/Re-Bout, '95, '99, 2001, 2002 UM, 2003, XIII and XIV and member in '96, '97 and '98/UM.

Second Founder & Fourth Leader

 * 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 (which she is a member of the Super Heroines iteration).

Third Founder

 * Yuri Sakazaki (Art of Fighting series) - 3rd Founder and member in '94/Re-Bout, '95, 2000, 2002, XIII and XV (which she is a member of the Super Heroines iteration).

Second Leader

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

Third Leader

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

Member

 * 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, all non-canonical.

Member

 * Alice Garnet 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 (and the Super Heroines iteration) in KOF XV. Also leader of the in the younger iteration of the team, in 2003.

Team Pretty Girl Fighters
Team Pretty Girl 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 (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 Girl Fighters in 2002 UM. She left the team after this game.

Members

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

Second Leader

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

Member

 * Malin - Member of Team Pretty Girl 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, simply as 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. It consist of the primary classic female mascots of the company, who appears in SNK-related crossovers and mainline games. This team made 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.

Members' Participation

 * Participation of the members of the team during the mainline series (and some spin-offs).
 * Note 1: About the colors in the table, they follow the logic below:


 * Yellow: for table titles and undefined/dual status.
 * Lime & Red: for the characters' participation in the team.
 *  Forest Green & Fire Brick: the first color indicates the characters who participated in the team in all times which he appeared in the series, and the second indicates the characters who were absent in the team from, at least, one game in the series.


 * Note 2: About Chizuru's yellow section in KOF '97, she appears as member of Team Women Fighters (mainline) and Team Sacred Treasures (alternative).