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Geese Howard (ギース・ハワード) was the boss of all organized crime in the fictional city of Southtown in SNK Playmore's Fatal Fury and Art of Fighting fighting game series. Geese is voiced by Kong Kuwata, who also did the voices for Genjuro Kibagami and Neinhalt Sieger from the Samurai Shodown series.

History

Childhood

Not much is known about Geese's childhood save that Wolfgang Krauser and he share a parent (the FF2 anime implies it is their father, who abandoned Geese's mother, but the anime movies do not count toward any official continuity). There is a Shinkiro illustration said to have been made for a novel about Geese's youth where he's shown as a younger bare-chested man with hair much shorter than he had in AoF2, also featuring younger versions of characters like Jubei Yamada and Tung Fu Rue, as well as modern-day portraits of the Bogard brothers and Joe Higashi - however, most intriguing of all was the large background image of a nun, which one may speculate to be Geese's mother. When he was old enough Geese began training in the school of Hakkyokuseiken with Jeff Bogard, but Master Tung Fu Rue passed him over and taught Jeff the secrets of the style. This angered Geese, as ever since Tung Fu Rue declared Jeff the favorite, Geese swore revenge against Jeff. Geese had other martial arts teachers over the course of his life, which apparently included "Blue" Mary Ryan's grandfather and Toji Sakata from Fatal Fury Wild Ambition.

Art of Fighting

Geese rose to the top in an unusual way. During the Art of Fighting series, Geese gained power as a kingpin of crime. First, he made good on his threats against the Sakazakis, since Takuma stood in his way. Geese forced Takuma to cooperate at all costs or suffer the consequences. Takuma did not like the idea of serving Geese Howard so when he was ordered to kill Jeff Bogard, Takuma refused. Geese kidnapped Yuri Sakazaki and had Mr. Big supervise Takuma to prevent Takuma from disobeying Geese. Mr. Big then ordered Takuma to fight his own son, Ryo Sakazaki. Ryo's anger almost had Takuma killed, but Yuri came unscathed, told Ryo not to do so, and revealed that both Ryo and Takuma were tricked into fighting each other.

Takuma resigned from Geese's ranks and swore revenge against Geese by doing the unusual. Takuma had to train Yuri as a vehicle for his revenge against Geese for disgracing the honor of Kyokugenryu Karate. During Art of Fighting 2, the Sakazakis (and Robert Garcia) managed to defeat Geese. Geese then evaded the Haoushoukouken deathblow attempted by Ryo and later attacked and killed Jeff in unarmed combat, which was witnessed by Terry, as seen in the Fatal Fury Wild Ambition intro sequence.

Fatal Fury

In his rise to the top, Geese obtained the services of Billy Kane as his personal bodyguard (he's known to have two others, Ripper and Hopper, although they don't actually fight in the games), and set Billy up as the champion when Geese organized the first King of Fighters tournament in a fit of boredom.

In 1991, three new contestants entered Geese's tournament: Terry Bogard, Andy Bogard, and Andy's friend Joe Higashi. Very few people defeated Billy, but Terry did just that, and earned the right to fight Geese himself. They battled in Geese Tower, and Terry managed to defeat him. The original Fatal Fury game showed Geese the loser of that fight falling from the top of the building, but later this was retconned in fatal Fury Wild Ambition into an almost fatal beating, explaining why Geese was still alive in later games, and yet was taken for dead by many until Fatal Fury 3.

Fatal Fury Special

Fatal Fury Special, much like Mortal Kombat Trilogy, was a mostly-apocryphal game that combined the rosters of the first two Fatal Fury games. Geese was the penultimate of the five bosses, preceded by Billy Kane, Axel Hawk, and Lawrence Blood, and followed by Fatal Fury 2s chief antagonist, Wolfgang Krauser
. The events of Fatal Fury Special are not considered canon to the series' storyline; Geese was still widely believed to be dead.
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