Manon

"Prepare."

—Manon (Street Fighter 6)

Manon Legrand (マノン・ルグラン, Manon Ruguran^?) is a video game character from the Street Fighter series, first appearing as one of the new playable characters in Street Fighter 6. She is a French judoka fighter, who's also a ballet dancer and model.

Biography

Concept

Manon was pitched with the simple keyword "judoka". Feeling that making a normal judoka would be unimpressive, Manon's design would be modernized with grace in her feet movements, making her distinctly French by adding ballet as part of their inspiration. Her French heritage came from the sport's popularity in that country, with France having the second highest number of Olympic medals behind Japan, and the 2024 Summer Olympics taking place in Paris.^[4]

Manon was also originally named Mimi before consulting with the localization staff.^[5]

Personality

Manon is depicted as being idealistic who seeks herself for her self-improvement in beauty and enjoys street fighting which she wanted to become the world's strongest model by using her main fighting skills. Aside from being idealistic, Manon is also shown to be snobbish and haughty and like both Karin Kanzuki and Cody, she loves to fight strong opponents, as seen in her win quotes. Nevertheless, Manon is not without a standard, such as having a strong despise of people with hidden evil agendas like JP.

In her arcade story, Manon also displays her family problems after many accomplishments throughout her life. Deep down, she hates being called a "strong" person due to what her mother had said to her younger self before she had left, that Manon would be "just fine" without her because she was "strong". This made Manon become indifferent to any praise and accomplishments and somewhat aloof, as she believes that it's natural for her to do "just fine" in everything, while deep down Manon hates how people would idolize her "strong" prowess and think of her as not caring about her feelings or anyone else's. This is because Manon believed people treated her as if she would be "just fine" in any situation and viewed her as being perfect and thus unapproachable, resulting into her having trouble befriending other people.

This changed with her encounter with Marisa whose determination to improve herself despite her loss taught her that being "just fine" wasn't enough for her. Since then, Manon embraced that she is "strong" not because she has enough strength to do things herself; but because she has a drive and motivation to make herself stronger.

Although her fame and accomplishments made her a role model to many, Manon is an individualist who believes that everyone is at their best as who they are. One reason Manon dislikes the constant idolization she receives is that she believes that one should not try mimicking others and hope for the best, as it is better to simply find the "true self" and unlocking their true potential. Whenever she met those who has doubt about their life, Manon would advise them to be who they are, such as the case with E. Honda and Yasmine.

Appearance

• Outfit 1
• Outfit 2
• Outfit 3
• Outfit 4
• DriveTech Wear

Manon Legrand is a French woman with short light pink hair with hime-cut bangs and longer fringes in each side of her hair, reminiscent of a swan. In her default outfit, she wears a royal blue singlet with red, white and blue streaks, and with cutouts around her torso and hips. Embedded on her collar is a gold medal with two abstract figures, with one throwing the other. On top of her singlet, Manon wears a white gi with a turquoise trim, with the sleeves rolled up and the waist tied with a black judo belt. Her matching blue footguards and wristbands have white stripes across them. Her nails are also painted to look like the French flag.

Manon's second outfit reflects her ballerina trait prominently. She adorns a black and pink orchid feather cape that loosely covers her black bra while showing off her toned midriff. Her hands are protected by a pair of pink orchid gloves with four diamonds and purple palms that have long black gauntlets. The gold medal is attached to a black choker around her neck. Her legs are clad in glossy black leggings adorned with black ruffles around the hips that evoke the image of a ballet tutu. On her feet, she wears pink orchid gladiator sandals. Her hairstyle remains unchanged, and she completes the look with a pair of flat-top sunglasses featuring a purple tint.

As a child during her arcade story, she wears a karate gi used in Judo. Her long fringes are cut short to match up her short hair resembling a mushroom haircut. She also wears this as a young adult and her long fringes appear in shoulder-length.

When she bakes her cakes and any various desserts prior to her main appearance, her pink hair is long and was styled in ringlets similar to Karin Kanzuki's and wears a pink and white gothic dress.

Her third outfit is inspired from the French Revolution^[6]. It has her wearing a French royal military outfit; a dark blue and red short military jacket with red interior. It has gold parallel buttons, gold epaulettes, a large white jabot, gold wrist cuffs with ruffled white sleeve cuffs. The jacket also features long skirt that reaches down to knee height in a split tail design. She wears a pair of white gloves, a matching white military pants which are tucked into off-white knee-high cowboy boots with v-shaped opening both in front and back. The edges of the V-cut are adorned with gold trim, with a gold fleur-de-lis on each of the front opening. The boots also feature red violet sole and toe cap. While her hair color remains the same, the style drastically changes to Victorian ringlets, as it appears in her World Tour background story.

Her fourth outfit is a fashion-forward swimsuit ensemble. She wears a deep-cut one-piece with a pale blue upper panel and dark navy bottom, accented with a gold “M” emblem below her navel. Over it, she layers a sheer cropped shawl patterned with interlocking gold “M” motifs. Her accessories include stacking gold bracelets, a chain choker suspending her gold medal, and angular sunglasses with gold frames. She completes the look with gladiator-style gold sandals.

Character Relationships

Friends/Allies

Marisa

Manon's rival. While the two are opposites of each other in their personality and background, they both have an admiration for each other, namely Marisa's drive to work harder in spite of her loss.

E. Honda

Manon is the one who helped suggesting Honda to move his chanko business to Metro City, which proves to be successful.

Elena

Manon and Elena are friends during movie shots prior to Street Fighter 6, as Manon remembers Elena used to have a classic short hair hairstyle. Manon sees Elena being beautiful as her gold accessories and proportions. Although Manon was not aware that Elena is also a fighter until her pupil Avatar reveals who she also truly is to her. In hopes to meet Elena again, she entrusted the Avatar her contact numbers for the latter.

Enemies

Gameplay

Fighting style

Manon combines judo with ballet, utilizing various maneuvers that involve her "dancing" with her opponent. Many of her attacks utilize her long legs to attack from far ranges, complementing her powerful close-range throws.

Moveset

Manon uses a unique Medal system that powers up her grab-based special moves. Every Manège Doré command grab or Renversé hitgrab she lands increases the Medal level by one, up to a maximum of five levels. These levels do not reset or deplete in any way, even across rounds, making Manon even stronger as the match goes on. While starting off relatively weak compared to other command grabs, Manon at Level 5 can deal incredible meterless damage off a single grab. Manon's target combos further emphasize her close-range presence, with Temps Lié, A Terre, and Allongé dragging the opponent close to her at an advantage. Outside of her grabs, Manon also has some potent kick attacks, such as Rond-point, an anti-air kick that can lead into a Renversé if done early, and Dégagé, a series of kicks that can hit from both high or low depending on the strength, with the OD version being an overhead she can combo off of.

Manon's Level 1 Super Art, Arabesque, has Manon lunge forward across the screen. Her Level 2 Super Art Etoile is a series of flying kicks that serve as a powerful combo-ender, reversal, and anti-air option. Finally, Pas de Deux is a devastating Level 3 Super Art command grab that has Manon dance with her opponent before slamming them to the ground.

Sprites

Videos

Stage Themes

Street Fighter 6 Manon's Theme - Walk With Grace

References

Street Fighter series Playable Characters
Main Series
		Ken · Ryu
	The World Warrior	Blanka · Chun-Li · Dhalsim · E. Honda · Guile · Zangief
	Champion Edition	Balrog · M. Bison · Sagat · Vega
	Super	Cammy · Dee Jay · Fei Long · T. Hawk
	Super Turbo	Akuma
	Ultra	Violent Ken
	Alpha	Adon · Birdie · Charlie Nash · Dan · Guy · Rose · Sodom
	Alpha 2	Evil Ryu · Gen · Rolento · Sakura · Shin Akuma
	Alpha 3	Cody · Juli · Juni · Karin · R. Mika
	Alpha 3 Upper	Eagle · Maki
	Alpha 3 MAX	Ingrid
	New Generation	Alex · Dudley · Elena · Gill · Ibuki Necro · Oro · Sean · Yang · Yun
	2nd Impact	Hugo · Urien
	3rd Strike	Makoto · Q · Remy · Twelve
	IV	Abel · C. Viper · El Fuerte · Gouken · Rufus · Seth
	Super	Hakan · Juri
	Arcade Edition	Oni
	Ultra	Decapre · Poison
	V	F.A.N.G · Laura · Necalli · Rashid
	Season 2	Abigail · Ed · Kolin · Menat · Zeku
	Season 3	Falke · G
	Season 4	Kage · Lucia
	Season 5	Akira · Eleven · Luke
	6	Jamie · JP · Kimberly · Lily · Manon · Marisa
	Year 1	A.K.I.
	Year 2	Mai (Guest) · Terry (Guest)
	Year 4	Arjun · Bosch · Tifa (Guest) · Yasmine
Spin-offs
		Arkane · Blade · F7 · Khyber · Sawada
		Cyborg
	EX	Allen · Blair · C. Jack · Darun · D. Dark Hokuto · Kairi · Pullum · Skullomania
	EX Plus	Bloody Hokuto · Cycloid-β · Cycloid-γ · Garuda
	EX2	Hayate · Nanase · Shadowgeist · Sharon
	EX2 Plus	Area · V. Rosso
	EX3	Ace · Bison II
	MSHvSF	Cyber-Akuma · Dark Sakura · Mech-Zangief · Shadow
	MvC	Shadow Lady
		Shin