Charlie Nash/Trivia

Trivia

• Charlie Nash's Street Fighter V seiyuu (Kousuke Toriumi) previously voiced Fei Long in Street Fighter Alpha 3, as well as being the prior initial voice of Strider Hiryu from Capcom's Strider action platformer series.

• Nash is the only fighter with a known birthplace that was later changed to unknown. This change, implemented in Street Fighter V, is likely intended to reference the fact that he is legally dead and therefore no longer an active citizen of the United States.

• Like Guile, Charlie must have had some flight training, particularly with the AV-8B Harrier II in order to perform the Sonic Boom and Somersault/Flash Kick.

• In the Mega Man Remix and the Mega Man Maniax manga by Ariga Hitoshi, Charlie briefly appears as a newscaster in several chapters. Instead of going by his Japanese name of Nash, he is simply called Charlie.

• In the second promotional trailer for Street Fighter V, which focused on the return of Charlie as a playable character, the theme Nothing Can Keep Me Away from the album Epic Action & Adventure Vol. 10 is playing as the musical background.^[1]

• As the story of the Alpha series takes place in the late-1980s, his background story appears to tie in heavily with the controversial real life US Government endorsed nationwide campaign of the "War On Drugs"; though the agenda was well and alive throughout in the 20th Century, the war saw higher activity during upon the 1970's and the 1980's due to the flood of cocaine and crack cocaine, and the start of a youth awareness program series to warn the young of the alleged dangers recreational drugs could have. Furthermore, how Charlie is targeting infrastructural corruption regarding the military and drug pushing is reference to many allegations throughout the US that certain branches of the US Military and government bought mass quantities of cocaine from South American rebels regarding the rise of Communist and totalitarian regimes, and to support by funding them to overthrow said governments, but remains highly questionable in practice and effectiveness on retrospect; how Shadaloo's position is located in South America in the Alpha series strongly hints at this.
• Charlie's outfit being a swap costume for Steve in Street Fighter X Tekken may be a reference to the real-life Irish boxer also named Charlie Nash.

• According to Udon's Street Fighter V comic, The Life and Death(s) of Charlie Nash, it is possible that Charlie may be a man of religion.

• On his Street Fighter V character artwork, the statues in the background resemble those of Gill's stage from Street Fighter III: 2nd Impact, hinting at his ties with the Secret Society.

• Charlie's Battle Outfit 1 in Street Fighter V has a color scheme that is possibly inspired by Gray Fox from Konami's Metal Gear series.

• Charlie also bears some physical similarities with Dean from the Final Fight games. Both wear military-inspired clothing, have similar fighting stances and have striking blond hairstyles. Dean also has a forelock similar to Charlie. Like Guy and Cody are the Final Fight counterparts to Ryu and Ken, Dean could be considered the Final Fight counterpart to Charlie.

• His Halloween costume in Street Fighter V is based on Victor from the Darkstalkers series, also made by Capcom. Dan even asks if he can shoot electricity now.

• His crossover costume in Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition is Captain Commando from Capcom's beat 'em up game of the same name. Coincidentally his Tragedy Assault looks very similar to Captain Commando's "Captain Corridor". He even has a new move called "Justice Corridor".

• Prior to his Street Fighter V appearance, Charlie is among the few American characters to wholly speak English all throughout his appearances.

• He is the first to have his full name be combined between Japanese and English names as of current mainline continuity since Street Fighter IV, followed by Thrasher Damnd in Street Fighter 6. Unlike Damnd, both of his English and Japanese names had no censorship issues during 2D era of Capcom games.

• Like his inspirational figure Noriaki Kakyoin, Charlie also died in the line of duty, but through betrayal of his comrades, compared to how Kakyoin was killed while uncovering Dio’s Stand abilities with the help of his comrades. Furthermore, for Kakyoin, it was the end, whereas Charlie was brought back to life through technology created by Secret Society, turning him into an undead. Still, he met his demise again during a second clash with Bison—but he might not be gone for good just yet.

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