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Fictional characters who can teleport

  • Ibuki (Street Fighter)Ibuki's ponytail nearly broke the Street Fighter III animation team. It took several months of extra work to finish.
  • GokuSon Goku, the hero of Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball, made his debut on the 3rd of December 1984. The first chapter, titled Bulma and Son Goku, ran in Japan's Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine. On the page stood an eccentric boy with a monkey's…
  • Akuma (Street Fighter)Akuma, a Street Fighter villain, was designed in just one hour. His face was modeled on a Buddha statue.
  • DhalsimDhalsim nearly had an elephant head in Street Fighter II. Capcom's designers modeled one draft on the Hindu god Ganesh.
  • Jill ValentineJill Valentine is a character in Capcom's Resident Evil series, and her name is forever tied to a sandwich. In the 1996 original game, a falling ceiling trap almost crushes her. Her partner Barry Burton then says, in stiff and awkward…
  • KyubeyKyubey offers girls any wish, but leaves out that its race feeds on their emotional energy.
  • Shadow the HedgehogShadow the Hedgehog speaks his first line in Sonic Adventure 2, released in 2001 for the Dreamcast. The line is “Hmph, aren't you the fake one here?” It lands in a scene where Sonic confronts a black hedgehog who has been posing as him.…
  • Seth (Street Fighter)Seth, a Street Fighter villain, is one of many androids built as spare bodies for M. Bison.
  • Mega Man (character)Mega Man was almost not called Mega Man. A Capcom USA executive called the Japanese name Rockman "horrible".
  • Satoru GojoSatoru Gojo, often called The Honored One, is a fictional sorcerer from Gege Akutami's manga and anime series Jujutsu Kaisen. In August 2024, Shueisha held its fourth Jujutsu Kaisen character popularity poll, and Gojo came first with…
  • Nightcrawler (character)Nightcrawler, the indigo-furred teleporting hero of Marvel Comics, began as a sleepless sailor's idea during a typhoon. Artist Dave Cockrum was serving in the United States Navy, stationed at Guam, when the storm kept him awake. He later…

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