| Blue Mary | Story | Move List | Gallery | Quotes | Trivia |
"Her opponents all go home with broken bones! She'll have you singing the blues...! BLUE MARY." - The King of Fighters XV
"Are you ready?" - Famous catchphrase
Mary Rian (マリー・ライアン), better known as Blue Mary (ブルー・マリー), is a character from both the Fatal Fury and The King of Fighters series. Her first appearance was in Fatal Fury 3 as a private detective. Her official nickname is "S Class Woman" (
Appearance
Blue Mary is depicted as an athletic woman with short, straight blonde hair and blue eyes. She wears a vibrant red crop top with white trim and a small logo, paired with a brown leather belt that has an intricate gold buckle. Her outfit is completed by blue athletic cargo pants featuring a large white star graphic on the leg, and white high-top sneakers. She also wears blue fingerless gloves. She is widely recognized for usually wearing a green bomber jacket, a keepsake that originally belonged to her late fiancé, Butch.
In Fatal Fury: City Of The Wolves, Blue Mary's blonde hair is slightly shorter. She wears a white, ribbed high-neck crop top with a front zipper underneath her signature open green bomber jacket, which features a thick beige fur collar. Her lower half consists of tight, slightly distressed blue jeans held by a standard brown belt, along with a secondary, low-slung red leather utility belt featuring gold hardware and a fringed side pouch. The outfit is completed with black fingerless gloves and tall, brown western-style boots.
Personality
Blue Mary is very friendly towards everyone, but she knows (or thinks) that her job must come first before everything else. Mary developed a strong bond with Terry, they seem to have a genuine care and fondness with each other. Based on one of her victory quotes, as well as from other characters, and her new nickname, Mary sometimes has a fetish side on breaking her opponents' bones/joints with her joint locking-based moves.
Abilities
- Ignore weight - Mary can throw her opponents, regardless of their weight.
- Energy Attacks - Mary can fuel her attacks and throws with ki energy. It can be shown as a red rose, a pink splash or red/blue streaks.
- Motorcycle Riding - Mary knows how to ride a motorcycle very well.
- Detective skills - Blue Mary has had extensive training in deep background investigation.
Fighting style
Blue Mary employs the fighting art of combat Sambo, which originated in the Soviet Union. This martial art uses striking and grappling techniques and is particularly well-known for its flying jointlocks, which she does make extensive use of. In some of her moves, she can summon a red rose and rose petals, along with some light beams.
Music
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Voice Actresses
Japanese
English
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Appearances
Similar characters
- EX Blue Mary, her violent alter-ego.
Trivia
- According to the magazine Neo Geo Freak, she is modeled after Android 18 from the Dragon Ball series.
- Being a private investigator, she is evocative of the main character LAPD Sergeant Pepper Anderson, as portrayed by actress Angie Dickison, from the 1970s police drama Police Woman.
- A music video of her song "Blue Mary's Blues" is a reward for those who beat Real Bout Fatal Fury Special with Mary.
- The cocktail she takes her alias from is a mysterious drink. From the drinker's perspective, the drink is a deep clear blue. From other angles, it appears to be transparent like water.
- Her win quote against Ángel in The King of Fighters XIV highlights the fact that Mary hates cats.
- In the Neo Geo Freak's 1997 Volume 8 character poll, she was voted as the fourteenth favorite character with a total of 705 votes,[3] and in the character popularity poll on Neo Geo Freak's website, she was voted as the fifteenth favorite character with a total of 857 votes. And in Neo Geo Freak's August 1998 issue, she was ranked as the 9th best character.[4]
- Starting from The King of Fighters 2002 Unlimited Match, SNK uses her complete alias in the select screen and next to the life bar. The lone exception is her latest appearance, in Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves, in which she uses only her first name next to the life bar but retains her alias on the select screen.
- Similar to how she used her EX counterpart's default color palette in Real Bout Fatal Fury Special Dominated Mind, her unused design from The King of Fighters XIV artbook might partially be an influence for her appearance in Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves, but with a white crop top, skinny jeans, boots and a visual update to her Real Bout Fatal Fury series jacket making it look more reminiscent of Terry Bogard's.
References
- ↑ Blue Mary's profile page from the Fatal Fury 15th Anniversary website.
- ↑ Official character profile from KOF: Maximum Impact Regulation "A" website
- ↑ Neo Geo Freak 1997-08 archive Neo Geo Freak character popularity poll results.
- ↑ Neo Geo Freak 1998-08 archive Neo Geo Freak 10 best character set original image collection.
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