Dee Jay is a character in the Street Fighter series of fighting games.
He was introduced as one of the four "New Challengers" in Super Street Fighter II, along with Cammy, Fei Long and T. Hawk and Capcom vs. SNK.
Story
Known as "The Southern Comet", Dee Jay is a cheerful kickboxer who fights to musical rhythm. Eventually, he becomes a music star, though he still has time to enter the second World Warrior tournament to find some new rhythm for his songs.
Appearance
Dee Jay's cheerfulness has him smiling constantly, and he has a thumbs-up gesture. He wears only loose orange drawstring pants with yellowish-white lettering that reads "MAXIMUM" and orange sparring gloves. His hairstyle is a braided mohawk with a letter "M" on each side of his head, which stands for "MAXIMUM." Dee Jay is also seen, in the anime movie and some art, to be wearing a Caribbean chain necklace.
In other media
Dee Jay (like many other SF characters) made a small guest-appearance in Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie. Here, he beats up a few punks causing trouble at a nightclub, before being warned by Guile and Chun-Li that he is being spied on by M. Bison and company, Shadaloo.
Notes
- He is the only character in the series to be designed by Capcom USA. He was designed by James Goddard, who modeled Dee Jay after martial arts film star Billy Blanks. Dee Jay's braided mohawk also resembles Blanks's role as Khan in The King of the Kickboxers.
- Dee Jay is one of the few Street Fighter characters not to be directly associated with or tied in to the official storyline. This is probably because Dee Jay is actually a replacement character, made to replace what was supposed to be a clone character of Fei Long in Super Street Fighter II.
- He is the only Caribbean fighter in the Street Fighter series, let alone a fighting game.
- Dee Jay might know Fei Long on a personal basis, due to their pre-fight intro in Street Fighter Alpha 3 MAX. This is most likely because he was meant to be a head-swap of Fei Long.
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