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Fighting Game Animals, Or Animal like people

Today actually marks the Early Access release of a brand new indie fighting game called Thems' Fightin Herds. For those who don't know, this was actually a fan made My Little Pony themed fighter that tried to get a push for EVO in 2013, but Hasbro learned about the project and sent a Cease and Desist Letter to the dev team. Then the project got a second life when it was rebranded as its own IP but maintain this theme of a fighting game that stars four legged animals (more than just ponies in case you were wondering). It had a successful Indiegogo campaign and now will be out on Steam (PC) as an early access title. TFH will have a 1.0 release as soon as they complete their story mode, which they cited was at an unacceptable state if they launched it with the rest of the game.

Even if you take away the My Little Pony associations and history tied to this project, its actually kind of unique that somebody made a fighting game where quadaruple legged cartoon creatures face off each other. Though TFH is certainly not the first fighting game to having animal combatants as playable characters. Tekken has a library of playable animals. Darkstalkers has some monsters that have animal-ish features. Heck, a little known gem called Fighters Destiny had a fighting cow!

TFH has a fighting cow, but Ushi (the cow above) had her bouts way back on the N64
TFH has a fighting cow, but Ushi (the cow above) had her bouts way back on the N64

So to vaguely commenerate Thems' Fightin Herds' Early Access launch today, I'm going to make a list of playable fighting game animals (or animal like people) that had their share of brawls before TFH came out:

Comments have brought up some big omissions, so I'll add to the list:

List items

  • Panda is Xiaoyu's pet and bodyguard and Kuma always want to get a date with Panda, but she also rejects Kuma. She's much more focused on helping her friend Xiaoyu.

  • A terminator rabbit from the Clayfighter series. Aren't they bringing the Clayfighter franchise back?

  • Guest fighter in Battletoads. Sure, that's one way to remind people about Battletoads by putting one Rare character in a Rare Franchise.

  • The fighting cyborg Raptor also from Killer Instinct.

  • From Killer Instinct. Also a werewolf but unlike Jon Talbain, he's actually a bad werewolf

  • This is for any other Pokemon that is in Smash or Pokken Tournament because I don't want to list every single one

  • Also a Smash Bros original, but has had some fights with Little Mac in the Wii Punch Out!

  • Also pretty popular in Smash Melee and he's a bird.

  • The Street Fighter 5 Nash of the Smash Series (namely Melee). Oh and he's from the Star Fox games too.

  • Has been a prominent fighter in the Smash Series and Pokken Tournament...

  • A squirrel girl who gets hired by the NOL Intelligence Division I think to serve as a spy?

  • The daughter of Jubei and is also a scientist cat lady.

  • Jubei, unlike Taokaka, is a full on cat who is responsible for spreading his cat genes to create the cat like person clan, the Kaka clan

  • Came from the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise, he debuted in UMvC3 and came back in Infinite.

  • A classic. Heihachi's pet is already intimidating because its a freaking bear and the first Kuma was also Heihachi's bodyguard. Sadly he passed away in Tekken II. The current Kuma (Kuma II) is the one we see in the most recent Tekkens and while he's smarter than the first one, he's also lazier and has a crush on the next character on the list:

  • Yet another Tekken animal. Like I said, Tekken has a rich library of these. He's a kangaroo with Boxing gloves that was a geneitcally engineered animal from one of Dr. Boskonovitch's experiments as Kazuya forced him to engineer fighting animals. He debuted in Tekken 2 and was playable in 5, 6 and both Tag Tournaments. He's also a counter part of another Boxing animal:

  • Alex is another genetically modified animal for fighting, except he's a Raptor. He was basically a palette swap for Roger and appeared in tekken 2 and both Tag Tournaments.

  • For the longest time, this character was known as "Lizardman" in the Soul Calibur series, but he finally got a name in Aeon Calcos. Aeon was at one point a human Spartan who got a message from God Hephaestus to destory Soul Edge. After passing out in a desert and being rescued by villagers, Aeon was controlled by the Evil Seed and killed everybody in the village. He was then captured by an evil cult and soon was transformed into the Lizardman we all know and love.

  • Felicia apparently has two forms. One of which is a pretty standard cat form, and the other is the one where you are seeing a picture of her right now. She's of the Catwoman race, where around ages 1-3 they develop like human children, but around 4-6 they grow cat ears, fur and tails. Felicia also fights to pursue a dream of becoming a world famous singer.

  • A friendly werewolf. Jon was actually born a werewolf when his human mother died of labour and his father was a wolf man who was healed by Talbain's mother, but the father seems responsible for having Jon's mother dying of giving Jon birth. Jon seeks to eventually become human and is the primary catalyst for him participating in the Darkstalkers tournament.

  • Q-Bee is from Darkstalkers 3 in particular. Apparantly she's amongest a race of bee people who collect souls to feed the colony of their Queen.

  • The third Ninja of Mortal Kombat. Reptile started off as disguising himself as a human, but in MK2 his fatalities would reveal that he is a reptilian race called the Reptor race. Though later Mortal Kombat's he's looked more and more Reptilian and has lost any semblance of his human disguise.

  • Mortal Kombat's Q-Bee I guess. She's an insectoid fighter who can summon other bugs to fight under her command and see seems to carry attributes of other insects as well.

  • This spot is actually meant to be dedicated to Ushi the Cow, who doesn't have a page here but is from Fighter's Destiny.

  • Originally from Okami, Amaterasu ended up being pretty popular in MvC3 and UmvC3. She was also a four legged fighter long before TFH was a thing.

  • Blazblue's equivalent of Felicia. Except she's a cat girl that is much more better dressed.

  • There's a hidden character in this game called Pojo, who literally a fighting chicken. its not even a buff or anthro chicken, just a regular ol' chicken fighting mythical warriors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXoaqdha2zE

  • A guest character in Tekken 3, Gon is actually a cartoon dinosaur from a manga series that interacts with a realistic and natural world of animals and plants. He's also one of the more annoying fighters in Tekken 3 because of how short he is. He was rocking this trend before Yoda in SC4.

  • The main character of Primal Rage. A Yellow T Rex who like the rest of the cast, is worshiped as a god and fights other dinos and primates to conquer territory.

  • You noticed that I said Primates earlier, well Blizzard happens to be a lot like King Kong in size and species but has ice powers too. He's also trying to conquer the world.

  • The Rest of the cast fall into this spot because again, I don't want to list every single one. I'll list what I think are the two characters people remember the most.

  • A Boston Terrier who has the power to summon the Stand of Sand, The Fool. He's from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure and is recruited by Jotaro to help his team on their journey to defeat an evil vampire named Dio Brando.

  • Ok, maybe not entirely an animal since he's a God of Destruction in Dragon Ball Super, but he has feline features. Also he's on this list mainly for his appearances in teh DB Xenoverse games and Dragon Ball FighterZ

  • How could I forget about Bloody Roar. Its a fighting game where regular people fight but have the ability to transform into anthromorphic animals.
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