El Fuerte
El Fuerte, as he appears in Street Fighter IV.
Profile
Full Name	?
Birthdate	October 29
Birthplace	Mexico
Height	5' 6" (168 cm)
Weight	154 lbs (70 kg)
Blood Type	B
Likes	Prickly Pears
Dislikes	Additives
Measurements (Bust, Waist, Hip)	B120／W82／H90
Fighting Style	Lucha libre

El Fuerte (エル・フォルテ) is a Mexican luchador who made his first appearance in Street Fighter IV. His name is Spanish for "The Strong One." He spends his time perfecting his lucha libre skills and honing his cooking abilities. His indomitable spirit is a match for even the legendary Zangief. He now travels the world in an effort to assemble the greatest recipes on the planet. El Fuerte's role in the story is minimal. He joins the tournament to fight the other champions and discover what they eat and also test his lucha libre skills. Along the way, he meets Zangief who is his rival and fights to see if "a hurricane is stronger than a cyclone." El Fuerte's ending finds him asking what recipe is suitable for a great hero. E. Honda and Zangief suggest their favorite food (Chankonabe and Borscht, respectively). El Fuerte then mixes them together, adds some chili peppers and some lemon. The results apparently taste foul, as Honda and Zangief's faces turn blue with disgust. Then El Fuerte proclaims the food "tastes so great it sends you straight to heaven!"

AppearanceEdit

El Fuerte is a short, but built Hispanic male. His official measurements are B120／W82／H90. He is 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighs in at 154 lbs. He dresses in a luchadore's uniform to match his playing style. He is topless, but wears black wrestling bands on his arms with a gold sash around his waist. He wears short, white, wrestlers tights having three blue stars on the rear that are buttoned up either thigh with four golden buttons. He also wears white, laced, wrestlers boots with golden soles. His mask follows the pattern of the rest of his outfit, being white with gold trim and having three blue stars on his forehead. El Fuerte's hair sticks out of his mask in a flared out ponytail-top. His hair also reaches out of the bottom of his mask and is brown in color.

NotesEdit

It is entirely possible that El Fuerte was based on El Stingray, a similar character from Saturday Night Slam Masters and Ring of Destruction: Slam Masters 2. Both are Hispanic wrestlers featured in Capcom games.

El Fuerte is shown to be a huge fan of R. Mika in the UDON comics. In one scene, one of her matches is being shown on TV at a restaurant. T. Hawk, watching, requests that the channel be changed, since he can't stand pro wrestling. After hearing T. Hawk badmouth both pro wrestling, and Mika, El Fuerte bursts from the kitchen and yells at T. Hawk. Mika's image adorns every piece of El Fuerte's cooking attire, and Fuerte seems to keep a lot of Mika themed knick-knacks around, such as lunchboxes, posters, figurines, etc.

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