Post by Z451 on Feb 25, 2014 1:13:35 GMT
Kim Kaphwan
Kim first appears in Fatal Fury 2 as a playable character.
He travels to Southtown fight Wolfgang Krauser, who was looking for some decent challenges in the King of Fighters fighting tournament.
On the way, he encounters the former King of Fighters champion Terry Bogard.
They soon become good friends, and ever since, Kim always agrees to help Terry in all that he can, though a definite rivalry is maintained.
He also appears in all the Real Bout games from the series.
He is also present in Fatal Fury: Wild Ambition, a 3D game which retells the story from the first Fatal Fury game but with characters from the sequels including Kim.
He does not appear in the latest game Garou: Mark of the Wolves.
In the plot Kim was defeated by a criminal known as Freeman, and his two sons enter the new King of Fighters tournament to avenge him.
He travels to Southtown fight Wolfgang Krauser, who was looking for some decent challenges in the King of Fighters fighting tournament.
On the way, he encounters the former King of Fighters champion Terry Bogard.
They soon become good friends, and ever since, Kim always agrees to help Terry in all that he can, though a definite rivalry is maintained.
He also appears in all the Real Bout games from the series.
He is also present in Fatal Fury: Wild Ambition, a 3D game which retells the story from the first Fatal Fury game but with characters from the sequels including Kim.
He does not appear in the latest game Garou: Mark of the Wolves.
In the plot Kim was defeated by a criminal known as Freeman, and his two sons enter the new King of Fighters tournament to avenge him.
In The King of Fighters, Kim is considered as both a sport and national hero in his native Korea.
This status is what enabled him to convince the authorities to give him custody over Chang Koehan and Choi Bounge to rehabilitate them out of their criminal ways.
Although both men resent Kim for his actions, they later grow up to grudgingly respect him.
Due to the increase of required members in The King of Fighters '99, Kim's rival, Jhun Hoon, joins the Korea Team.
However, in The King of Fighters 2001, Jhun has an accident, and he is replaced by Kim's student, May Lee.
By The King of Fighters 2003, the requirements of members return to three and this time the members of the Korea Team are Kim, Jhun and Chang.
In The King of Fighters XI, Kim appears as a member of the Fatal Fury Team along with Terry Bogard and Duck King as the team needed one more member.
In The King of Fighters XII, Kim is a playable character, but like each of them, he does not have a team.
As The King of Fighters XIII has returned to assigning the characters into official teams, Kim is cast as the leader of his team, composing of himself, Raiden, and Hwa Jai (both from Fatal Fury: King of Fighters).
He is teamed with the men because, after "rehabilitating" Chang and Choi, he seeks out Raiden and Hwa Jai believing they are still working for Geese (they are not but they pretend that they still do so they can compete in The King of Fighters tournament).
The games from the series which do not contain plot, The King of Fighters '98 and The King of Fighters 2002, also feature Kim along with Choi and Chang in the Korea Team.
In the console version of The King of Fighters Neowave, Kim appears as a hidden character without an official team.
In the spin-off game, The King of Fighters Kyo, Kim is not playable but he can be aided by the lead character Kyo Kusanagi in order to train Chang and Choi.
In the two games for the Game Boy Advance titled EX: Neo Blood and EX2, the Korea Team is featured in its original form.
Kim does not appear in KOF: Maximum Impact as he was replaced with his pupil Chae Lim.
However, he is a hidden character in KOF: Maximum Impact 2 and also makes a cameo in Chae Lim's ending.
He also appears in the crossovers Neo Geo Battle Coliseum and the SNK vs. Capcom series as a playable character.
Links
Wikipedia> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Kaphwan
SNK Wiki> snk.wikia.com/wiki/Kim_Kaphwan
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