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Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves Lore – Please Keep Geese Dead (Seriously)

With Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves on the way, the hype train is picking up speed. Fans are already making their tier lists, predicting who’s in, who’s out, and most importantly—who’s going to be the final boss. One thing’s for sure: it’s not going to be Kain R. Heinlein. SNK is clearly prepping him for a face turn, which is great! He can finally stop monologuing about Nietzsche and start helping out for once.

But here’s my plea to SNK and the fanbase:
Please. Keep. Geese. Dead.

Yes, I know—Geese Howard is iconic. The man fell out of a skyscraper and still managed to be the most memeable villain in SNK history. But that’s just it. He had his moment. He fell. He died. He even got a cool memorial boss form in “Nightmare Geese,” which was honestly the perfect way to honor his legacy. We don’t need “Medium-Rare Geese” or “Geese Reborn with a Cyber Arm.”

Let’s not repeat the same mistakes we’ve seen way too often in fighting games.

Take Street Fighter. Remember when M. Bison got vaporized in SFV? It was epic. Charlie gave his life to make sure Bison stayed dead. Fast-forward to Street Fighter 6 and… surprise! He’s back! But now he has amnesia and is less evil, because I guess soul-destroying dictators just need a nap and a personality reset. That’s not redemption—that’s recycling.

Then there’s Seth. Destroyed in Juri’s ending in SFIV, only to come back in SFV—but now in a female body with a more “marketable” design. Because why let death or logic get in the way of a cool redesign, right?

And of course, Tekken. We finally got rid of Heihachi in Tekken 7, and they even introduced his daughter Reina to carry the torch. But then Harada had a sudden “you know what, never mind” moment. Heihachi might not be dead after all. Because nobody in Tekken dies permanently unless they’re an extra in the background.

Now, let’s give Mortal Kombat some credit. That franchise has gone full soap-opera with its timelines, but at least they’ve had the sense to keep big threats like Onaga and Kronika dead. Somehow, in a universe where people can literally punch time in the face, even they know when to let a boss stay buried.

So here’s the deal: If SNK must put Geese in City of the Wolves, keep it tasteful. Flashbacks, nightmares, hallucinations, whatever. Make him Rock’s Joker-in-Injustice-2-style mind ghost. Let him show up in Terry’s dreams saying “Predictabo!” as Terry bolts awake in a cold sweat.

You want Geese in King of Fighters? Go for it. That timeline’s already more tangled than a pair of earbuds in your pocket. But in Fatal Fury’s main story—where his death actually meant something?

Let. Him. Stay. Dead.

Geese fans, I get it. He’s cool, he’s evil, and he suplexes people off buildings. But it’s time to move on. New villains deserve their chance to shine. Kain might be going soft, but that just means someone else can step in to shake things up—someone fresh, someone new, someone not plummeting from South Town Tower for the third time.

Fighting games need to break the resurrection cycle. Let deaths matter. Let stories grow. Let iconic villains go out with dignity, not DLC.