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OyajiBR☕

Apr 15 @ 9:35pm

Preecha is a male name.

It's actually old dudes' name in Thailand. The female is Preechaya or Preeda. Thus some suspect she's trans. The dyed hair colours and string match with the trans flag, but it could be just coincidence. There's even a famous clinic of gender switch in Thailand called PAI - PREECHA Aesthetic Institute. Japanese devs make sexually suspicious characters often and let people suspect without confirming or denying. Like Poison in Street Fighter, the androgenous Yumeji in Samurai Shodown 5, the Amazon from Dragon's Crown (in her ending an old couple says she looks like their lost son), even Majima from Yakuza has several scenes that say he might be bi, In the case of King, she used a male nickname because she was just disguised as male in Art of Fighting 1, so she doesn't count. Let's not forget that Fatal Fury is funded by saudis, who are conservative. making Preecha's case less likely (although they didn't ban Street Fighter 6 for having the openly bi character Marisa). A Thai guy comments Preecha's case on this video (it's in Portuguese, so use auto-subs in case you watch it):
https://youtu.be/KAtaPa7myvE?si=RcnT_hvbQ9Zmhw9k

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Originally posted by pauloaom:

I'm not gay but I'm not blind or in denial either. Japanese games and anime show signs of double interpretation frequently, some confirmed. The anime Sailor Moon has gay and lesbian couples (intentionally mistranslated to cousins in west), Sakura Card Captor's brother and friend have a suggestive friendship, Berserk shows sexual tension between Guts and Griffith who are also attracted to Caska, etc. In the same way Street Fighter has big signs that Poison is trans and even Yakuza shows signs that Majima is bisexual, so no surprise that Preecha has signs too after all SNK is the same company that made Ash. Capcom, SEGA and SNK don't confirm to avoid the rage of scandalized pseudo-machos but don't deny either to avoid the rage of militants, the 2 sides are annoying in different ways.

Of course, some cases are unfounded, like some people think that Zangief is gay because he as a typical bodybuilder loves muscles, or that Manon from Street Fighter 6 is trans just because she's tall and strong, or that King from Art of Fighting is trans because she pretended to be a man to be taken seriously by chauvinistic men. But Preecha's case sounds similar to Poison's.

The most important: who cares?

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Breeze

Apr 15 @ 10:36pm

Don't care.

Even if it's true, which I doubt, they're not shoving it down our throats and actually being subtle about it. It's not even part of her story (as much as we've seen so far) as she seems entirely focused on researching fighting techniques. I'm guessing it's not even going to be brought up.

This is also the same company that gave us Ash Crimson and Shion years ago before wokeness was even a thing, so yeah, SNK fans would not be phased by this.

Last edited by Breeze; Apr 17 @ 7:53pm

H-Foundry PIXIV Apr 15 @ 10:43pm

The Saudi's didn't really care about Marisa (even though her ending confirms she's LGBTQ). And they ran SF6 tournaments in their country.

But no one used that character so it wasn't exposed on air. It looks like a subtle balancing act is being played where SNK Preecha character is queer-baiting but probably won't be seen anyway due to not being tournament-viable at high level. So all the queer coded color in her hair and arm bands won't be seen. The colors don't need to be an exact match to the trans flag or anything before the message is sent. They are flying close to the sun with this though. Those Human Resources glasses is the cherry on top, looks like a student taken straight out of a Californian college humanities course.

https://i.imgur.com/aEW5SsS.jpeg

AikokuSenshi (Banned) Apr 15 @ 10:49pm

No she's not. Preecha is her stage name, and a lot of real life Thai fighters use stage names. Her hair is NOT trans colors, there's no red in the trans flag. If Ronaldo and DJ Nobody are in the game, it means Saudi has control of the game, and since they're anti LGBT they can not allow woke stuff. Get a clue, dude. Stop ruining fan bases and go back to Woke Fighter 6

Bumblescrump has FATAL FURY: City of the Wolves

(Banned) Apr 15 @ 10:59pm

Preecha is fun to play.

The Main Character (Banned) Apr 15 @ 11:30pm

She is not trans, she is a woman. It’s the usual people being obnoxious and wonder why everyone hates them, same with Poison.

Twitter fantasies and fan-fiction as someone else mentioned.

yui8 Apr 16 @ 1:10am

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3355251007

Hellhounfd3223 Apr 16 @ 6:50am

I remember when people dreamt of playing dungeon and dragons out in the real world. Now everyone dreams of naming their junk and flaunting it out in public. Maybe don't waste all your precious daily brain power thinking about junk? Crazy thought.

Bumblescrump has FATAL FURY: City of the Wolves

(Banned) Apr 16 @ 7:38am

Originally posted by Hellhounfd3223:
I remember when people dreamt of playing dungeon and dragons out in the real world. Now everyone dreams of naming their junk and flaunting it out in public. Maybe don't waste all your precious daily brain power thinking about junk? Crazy thought.

Fell for satanic panic, falls for trans panic.

Biotic Geth Prime has FATAL FURY: City of the Wolves

(Banned) Apr 17 @ 6:15am

"SNK doesn't confirm it, but doesn't deny either."

Wow.

So fan speculation becomes truth, until official word denies it?

It is just the opposite, boy.

Official word or no word.

This is how it truly works.

Real brains know that with fiction something is regarded as non-canonical fandom, until official word actually confirms it. Not the other way. And not even a second before it takes place. SHOULD it ever happen.

We are in 2025, and people still struggle with basic common sense.

Feel free to espose your pet theories, speculations, concerns... It can be ok, as long it is properly labeled.

Don't try to shove down our throats you wild theories as facts, when your own word, accolading that SNK DOES NOT CONFIRM it, disprove what you clam.

If there is no official confirmation, then it can be anything BUT fact.

Deal with it.

เฉิดฉาย

Apr 17 @ 11:41am

As a Thai person preecha is the male name for sure.

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Biotic Geth Prime has FATAL FURY: City of the Wolves

(Banned) Apr 17 @ 11:54am

Originally posted by เฉิดฉาย:
As a Thai person preecha is the male name for sure.

Right. Some time ago I was reading people saying that Michael was also a name for males only.

Even if you are right - and you could be misinformed - one should use occam's razor and favor the opinion that SNK made poor research, favoring the meaning of the name rather than the gender/sex, they favor the wildest theory.

Kids nowadays will jump to the most bizarre explanation. That they were able to hide a trans character in such a way that their largest investor would not take notice.

-But you dont understand, they are hiding it!

Yeah. Right.

It is the exact same behavior from the KS trekkie girls. The ones swearing that Kirk and Spock had an affair in the 60s. But the producers had to hide it in plain sight.

Common sense exists. Get there faster!

Why cant people be objective, and stick to facts?

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SuperShadonicX Apr 17 @ 4:29pm

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William Shakesman Apr 17 @ 4:31pm

OP is off the mark, and there is precedent for this. If he had played Garou 1 he would have known the reason Khushnood Butt had that name is that his parents were expecting a girl.

Last edited by William Shakesman; Apr 17 @ 4:32pm

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