Related to my Dragonboy Z post from a while back, I think this was the title that started that trend in the Philippine comics industry in the 1990s. Kick Fighter is an obvious pastiche of Street Fighter, but to the creators’ credit, they gave the characters original backstories that were totally unrelated to the originals they were based on.
The two guys above are Jolas Zuares, a secret agent whose look was obviously based on Ken. The other is the cyborg amnesiac son of a murdered cop named Biotrog, short for Bio Technological Roger, whose appearance is based on Vega (or Balrog if you’re from Japan). They both started in their own solo series, but after a while were teamed up in a new series called Blades and Bullets.
