R. MIKA (Rainbow Mika)
Created By: Unknown
First Appearance: Street Fighter Alpha 3 (1998)
Game Appearances: Street Fighter Alpha 3, Street Fighter V, Street Fighter X Tekken
Home Country: Japan
Role: Girl Powerhouse, Miss Fanservice
Vague Martial Art Basis: Professional Wrestling
PL 8 (97)
STRENGTH 2
STAMINA 3
AGILITY 4
FIGHTING 7
DEXTERITY 0
INTELLIGENCE 0
AWARENESS 0
PRESENCE 2
Skills:
Acrobatics 7 (+11)
Athletics 7 (+9)
Close Combat (Unarmed) 6 (+13)
Expertise (Pro Wrestling) 6 (+6)
Insight 2 (+2)
Intimidation 2 (+4)
Perception 2 (+2)
Persuasion 2 (+4, +6 Attractive)
Advantages:
Attractive, Chokehold (Daydream Headlock), Improved Grab, Improved Initiative, Prone Fighting, Ranged Attack 3
"World Warrior" Fighting Style: Accurate Attack (Jab), All-Out Attack, Defensive Roll, Extraordinary Effort, Fast Grab (Grab), Improved Critical (Unarmed) 2, Improved Defense, Improved Hold, Improved Trip (Throw), Power Attack (Roundhouse), Takedown, Withstand Damage (Block)
Powers:
"Power Strike" Strength-Damage +1 [1]
"Special Moves"
"Daydream Headlock" Strength-Damage +4 (Feats: +2 to Hit If Opponent Parried Last) (Reduced Parry 1, Inaccurate -2) (2) -- [4]
- AE: "Flying Peach/Shooting Peach- Ass Attack" Strength-Damage +2 (Inaccurate -1) (1)
- AE: "Paradise Hold/Wingless Airplane/Rainbow Typhoon" Strength-Damage +2 (Feats: +2 to Hit If Opponent Parried Last) (Reduced Parry 1, Inaccurate -1) (1)
Offense:
Unarmed +13 (+3 Damage, DC 18)
Special Moves +11 (+5 Damage, DC 20)
Daydream Headlock +9 (+7 Damage, DC 22)
Initiative +8
Defenses:
Dodge +10 (DC 20), Parry +12 (DC 22), Toughness +3 (+4 D.Roll), Fortitude +6, Will +4
Complications:
Motivation (Star of the Ring)- R. Mika wants to be the greatest pro wrestler ever, and joins the tournament to this end. This involves beating the $#!& out of people.
Relationship (Zangief)- R. Mika idolizes Zangief soon after meeting him, and wants to impress him. And break him like a pony. Ew.
Weakness (Predictability)- R. Mika, like all Street Fighters, cannot simply "spam" out the same attack over and over again, as the opponent will expect the attacks, and be ready for them (and a counterattack). The third time she tries the same technique (or same combo of techniques) in a short span, she will be at -2 to Accuracy, AND to her Active Defenses in that round. All will decrease by 2 every successive round the same move is done.
Total: Abilities: 36 / Skills: 34--17 / Advantages: 8 + 13 / Powers: 5 / Defenses: 18 (97)
-R. Mika's a character from
Street Fighter Alpha 3, back when they were really throwing whatever ideas they had at the wall to see what would stick. She's basically the Sakura to Zangief's Ryu, worshipping The Red Cyclone like a fanatic. Curiously, she resembles the stripperific outfits of '90s-2000s-era WWE women's wrestling more than Japanese Joshi Puroresu, which features some INCREDIBLE athletes, jarring toughness, ugly faces mixed with cute young girls, and incredible workrate. No less than The Dynamite Kid has outright stated that Japanese women's wrestlers were some of the best wrestlers of ANY gender in the world, and that many wrestling moves debut in the women's feds, which then get picked up by the Japanese men, and then American Indie wrestlers steal them. Witness Megumi Kudo's Kudo Driver becoming Shane Helm' "Vertebreaker", and other moves like it. Some American women's wrestlers were great (Trish Stratus, Victoria, Molly Holly chief among them), but none are even CLOSE to Aja Kong, Manami Toyota or Megumi Kudo.
-I find R. Mika's design a bit stupid, though. There's Fanservice and then there's like "HEY LOOK AT MY TITS!", and this is the latter. It comes off as weirdly cloying and embarrassing, versus the simple, good-natured perversion of Cammy's Power Thong or something like that. It's basically like the Jiggle Physics of
Dead Or Alive, a series which pushed the Fanservice so hard they're more well known for that than any gameplay qualities the series had. Hilariously, despite wearing THIS OUTFIT, fans still complained because Capcom altered the camera in one scene where she gratuitously slaps her ass as the set-up for a move, so you could not longer see it. I'm like... in a world where DeviantArt (and much, MUCH more hardcore options) is available, why is THAT a big deal?
-R. Mika's a solid comedy character, at least- her outfit and her obsession with Zangief is played entirely for laughs- she klutzes around, uses her butt for attacks, and plays up to the camera. Pretty much your standard Anime Miss Fanservice deal here. The Udon comics feature her a lot more than the games ever did (after
Alpha 3, she basically fell off the face of the Earth until coming in as a surprise entrant for
Street Fighter V). But she gets extra points for calling the "Wrap My Thighs Around The Opponent" move the "Paradise Hold".
-Fighting Style: R. Mika's a teenage girl-type fighter, but utilizes a lot more Grappling in her Special Moves and regular offense- this makes her fairly unique, as most Capcom Grapplers are monsters like Alex, Zangief & Hugo. She's hardly elite by any means, but she fits the PL 8 status of the other "Young Girl" fighters in the franchise. She'll have to appear in a few more games before I elevate her to "PL 9" status. Her Wingless Airplane is a Frankensteiner, and her Rainbow Typhoon a Giant Swing- the others are kind of random throws. One of her Supers entails doing a Moonsault off of a ringpost that has come out of nowhere (clearly there for laughs, but it implies some Create Object), while
Street Fighter V adds one where her PARTNER, Yamato Nadeshiko (named after the "Japanese Ideal Woman" archetype- a strong woman hidden beneath a veil of calm, serene femininity), comes out of nowhere to assist in a finishing move.