Video game series can be full of strange retcons throughout the years -- no company excluded! I remember the Super Street Fighter II games -- the ones that introduced Fei Long, Cammy, T. Hawk, and Dee Jay. Eventually, Akuma became a hidden character in Super Street Fighter II Turbo. As a child, I had this thing for Cammy more than Chun Li. I believe it was a result of the American superiority mentality going on -- never mind I actually dislike MOST American localizations of Japanese shows (and the vice-versa can be very true).
It's quite funny how Street Fighter II V and the American Street Fighter cartoon came out in 1995. The American Street Fighter live movie was in 1994. Cammy's first non-canon adaptation was in the Street Fighter movie. Cammy had two different adaptations. I prefer the Japanese Anime due to its better execution. Cammy was somewhat of a love interest for Guile in the American cartoon. However, Guile was canonically a family man and Ken Masters' brother-in-law. Street Fighter II V never presented Guile with a family. Cammy was introduced as an assassin-for-hire by Balrog. Strangely, Balrog was NEVER a boxer in Street Fighter II V.
Street Fighter II V never gave Cammy her iconic outfit. Instead, she was given the appearance closer to Nina Williams from Tekken. The incarnation was simply that attractive. It would be so easy to ignore she was an Shadaloo agent. Cammy met her redemption as the series progresses. Cammy was naively lied to by Balrog about Dorai. Dorai actually survives in the Street Fighter II V Anime -- in contrast to the actual canon.
Then the bummer came in Street Fighter Alpha 3 -- which came out in 1998. Cammy was revealed to be a female clone of BISON? Like WTF was Capcom thinking? Such retcons are plain retarded. It's not even explained how Bison's DNA could produce a female clone. I could understand if Abel or Seth were Bison clones. But CAMMY? Like what was Capcom thinking? Making a feminine Bison clone was just absurd on so many levels.
I felt Capcom could've just copied her Street Fighter II V interpretation. I mean, Mortal Kombat would copy some non-canon stuff into their canon. I feel Cammy should just be another brainwashed and crazy woman. Instead, it seems that X-Men vs. Street Fighter was already foreshadowing things. The game came out before Street Fighter Alpha 3. Cammy there had Psycho Power imbued in her -- hinting a connection to Bison. Still, I feel the story she's a modified clone of Bison to be WTF stupid!
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