T. Hawk



Thunder Hawk (サンダー・ホークSandā Hōku?, T. Hawk) , is one of the four new characters introduced in Super Street Fighter II. A member of the fictional Thunderfoot Native American clan, T. Hawk ' s homeland was taken over 30 years prior to the events of the game by M. Bison, who also murdered his father, Arroyo Hawk. T. Hawk enters the tournament to reclaim his homeland from Bison. During the development ofSuper Street Fighter II, T. Hawk was originally named "Geronimo", a name which was changed after it was suggested by an American staff member that the name Geronimo might be seen as racially offensive.[19]

T. Hawk, since his introduction, has been billed from Mexico and his backstory explains he was born in the Sonora desert and resides in theMonte Albán plains. T. Hawk's second appearance as a playable character was in the home versions of Street Fighter Alpha 3. In Alpha 3, T. Hawk leaves his home village following the disappearances of some of the locals. He encounters Juli, one of Bison ' s bodyguards, as his last opponent before fighting Bison. The girl T.Hawk is searching for is revealed to be Julia, who was captured and brainwashed into becoming one of Bison ' s assassins named Juli. T. Hawk returns in Super Street Fighter IV. T. Hawk has regained his homeland following the events of the Street Fighter II series, but must fight Shadaloo once more, this time to rescue his girlfriend Julia, who has disappeared again. His fighting rival is El Fuerte, who challenges him after a previous and yet undisclosed defeat at T. Hawk's hands.

In the 1994 film version of Street Fighter, T. Hawk (played by Gregg Rainwater) is portrayed as a military sergeant serving the Allied Nations Peacekeeping Force under Colonel Guile. He is portrayed in this version as American, although Rainwater is of Native American descent. The Lightning Hawk Magnum weapon in Resident Evil 5 is an in-company reference to T. Hawk's full name of "Thunder Hawk".