Stages: M. Bison

Note: the title should be read as a parody of David Bowie's "Changes" (i.e Staaa aages)

M. Bison. The Dictator, the final boss, the guy who's personification has evolved from basic to bulky to overtly realistic to whatever the fuck hes up to these days. Its safe to say that his status as a boss has severely diminished, like Bowser and other villains he was quickly forced into the lovable baddie role. Now he's just misunderstood, replaced by other uglier and stupider bosses (I mean blonde Jesus? wtf??)

The problem with Bison's stage is that its not representative of any country. Bison doesn't fight for a country, he fights for evil and by evil I mean a flag with a winged skull on it. Doesn't get much more evil than that does it? Sure I've heard that the stage is in Thailand, there are monks and a huge bell after all, but Bison doesn't look like a monk or like someone who's just in it for a good fight.

No, he looks more like a Caribbean dictator or, at most, an Eastern European dictator. So why then isn't Bison fighting out of Nassau or Belgrade? Ugh Capcom, did you really want to throw another character representing a country that is already represented? I mean your game is called The World Warrior, how about getting more of the world in there? I know there was no Wikipedia back then but surely you could have gotten ahold of an old CIA fact book.

Maybe that's why he technically represents a flag with a skull on it: Sagat was already from Thailand and so was Adon. Sure this was the height of the Michael Dudikoff and the American Ninja franchise but this didn't mean we needed more and more martial arts bullshit. Congrats, because of you we now have the UFC and the glorification of the bellicose douchebag.