milford coppock MANAGING ART EDITOR

Fighter: O’Donnell Country: Ireland Stage: Irish pub

Bio: A hard-drinking, hard-training, travelling man, O’Donnell is covered in bruises from constant training, and tattoos of his beaten opponents. In combat, he’s a flurry of hard elbows, knees and spinning backfists, and can launch himself off the side of the screen for a superman punch/kick. To celebrate wins, he shows off a new tattoo of the opponent he’s just beaten, while drinking a whiskey.

Appearance: He comes across as slightly dishevelled/scruffy, with his beard/hair rumpled and his shorts in tatters from all the constant training and travelling. Lean in build, he’s definitely not the biggest Street Fighter.

V-Skill: Can change stance to shift emphasis from punches and elbows to kicks and knees. V-Trigger: He teleports across the screen.

Critical Art: Takes a glug of whiskey before launching into spinning chained backfists, and a succession of hard knees, finishing off by smashing a bar stool over his opponent’s head. Likes: Drinking, training, horses. Dislikes: Cars, global warming.

Ono says…

“This is clearly the most committed illustration and character concept. Whoever designed this one clearly got into this whole thing more than the others (laughs). I can instantly visualise the Irish pub stage idea, and the keywords like horses, whiskey and so on in his biography put me in mind of the Irish countryside and make me want to get started on the character.

But sadly we can’t use alcohol references in Street Fighter for various reasons, so I have to reject this one too.”