Dan Hibiki

HEIGHT 5'10"[3] (177 cm)[1][2][4] WEIGHT 163 lbs (74 kg)[1][2][4] EYE COLOR Brown HAIR COLOR Brown BLOOD TYPE O[1][2][4] MEASUREMENTS B113／W83／H88[1][4]

FIRST GAME Street Fighter Alpha BIRTHDATE November 25[1][2] BIRTHPLACE Hong Kong[1][2] FIGHTING STYLE Saikyo "Ultimate" Style[2] LIKES Taunting people,[1][2] his father, Sakura, Blanka, himself DISLIKES Wakame (seaweed), evildoers, cool guys,[1][2] Sagat, Ryu, Ken, people he considers cooler than him[5] OCCUPATION Martial Artist (Instructor)/Unemployed RIVAL(S) Blanka (Friendly), Sakura (Friendly), Sagat, Guy (SFA2), Ken (SFA2), Chun-Li (SFA3), Crimson Viper, Ryo Sakazaki, Yuri Sakazaki (CvS) SKILLS Breaking tiles, karaoke[1][2] MOVESET Gadoken, Koryuken, Dankukyaku, Airborne Dankukyaku, Danretsuken, Air Taunt, Rolling Taunt, Saikyo TenjinsaiΩ, Haten Gadoken, Goh Koryuken, Saikyo Defense, Premium Sign (MvC series), Saikyo-Style Buraiten no Kamae, Saikyo-Style Otokoboe, Tenchi Saikyo no Kata, Saikyo Donukigeri, Gadou Shoukouken (SvC Chaos), Kyuukyoku Tenchi Gadou Zuki (SvC Chaos), Shinku Gadoken, Koryuu Rekka, Hissho Buraiken, Legendary Taunt, Oyaji Blast (Pocket Fighter), Shisso Buraiken, Haoh Gadoken, Otoko Michi, Jun Koku Satsu (Pocket Fighter), Shun Goku Satsu (UDON Comics), Mythical Taunt, Shin Koryuken (Pocket Fighter) ALIGNMENT Good STATUS Alive RELATIONSHIP Go Hibiki (father) Yuriko Hibiki (younger sister)

Dan Hibiki (火引 弾, Hibiki Dan?) is a video game character from the Street Fighter series, first appearing in Street Fighter Alpha. He is an arrogant, overconfident and feeble self-taught martial artist that runs a failing dojo.

Dan has a similar outfit to Ryu and Ken, wearing a traditional karate gi with a black undershirt much like SNK fighter Ryo Sakazaki's. He has brown eyes and brown hair in a ponytail, making his head and face closely resemble Robert Garcia from SNK's Art of Fighting, while his outfit is bright pink as a parallel to Ryo's usual orange. Supplementary materials claim that his gi was turned pink when unintentionally mixed color red whilst doing laundry. His gi is now his nostalgia outfit in Street Fighter V.

His fighting stance is similar to Ken and Ryu's, due to originating as a palette-swap of those two; in later games, it is more "loose" and animated. As seen below, his appearance in Capcom vs. SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium 2001 is more distinct in that he's lighter on his feet and his arms are positioned differently. In the Street Fighter IV series he abandons the traditional shoto stance entirely, instead slowly performing exaggerated mawashi-uke motions before transitioning to a parody of the stance used by Ryo Sakazaki in The King of Fighters '97 onward (a low shiko-dachi with outstretched arms). Many of his mannerisms directly mirror those of Yuri Sakazaki. His Street Fighter V stance is more rigid and compact, matching Ryo's stance in both the original Art of Fighting series and current The King of Fighters titles, while reverting to the shiko-dachi if left idle for enough time.

In his Shadaloo C.R.I. profile art, Dan has his gi worn loose, he wears a black short sleeve shirt with a white kanji at the left; his gi pants have a single tear on the left leg. He also has started to grow some facial hair on his face.

In both Street Fighter IV series through Street Fighter V, he has the kanji 弾 (pronounced as Dan) in white on his back. His undershirt has a white kanji designs in the edge of his short sleeves, and his belt is notably shorter. His gloves are now purple instead of brown. In the anime cutscenes in Street Fighter IV through Ultra Street Fighter IV his undershirt is dark blue, and in Street Fighter V, it is indigo. On his character story, he was wearing brown geta shoes when he went to Plaza Capcom.

His battle costume is a torn orange gi and undershirt similar to his father's. Dan wears a red tengu mask with a mustache and wears gray fingerless gloves. Seen of the back of the gi top is the kanji 強, meaning strength or power. The outfit is an homage to Mr. Karate, the alter-ego of Ryo's father Takuma Sakazaki and basis for Go Hibiki.

His story costume has him wearing a mascot version of him (similarly to Blanka's Blanka-chan mascot costume) which is the Saikyo-Boy Doll costume.

His other costume has him wearing a dark blue and white pallet designed short sleeve jersey jacket with a red trim, the sleeves are folded into sleeveless, a white tank top, dark blue trousers with a matching white drawstring and sneakers. He retains his purple gloves from his main outfit.

Dan can be best described as being his own worst enemy. Dan refuses to back down from any fight, usually due to overconfidence, though this easily turns out to be arrogance or sheer stupidity. Although weak, Dan seems to still be somewhat intelligent and knowledgeable, possessing some knowledge of fighting styles; he acknowledges in Super Street Fighter IV that E. Honda uses moves that wouldn't actually be considered legal in Sumo (with the only other people noting are Rufus and Gouken). Several games (e.g. Street Fighter IV Volt and Street Fighter X Tekken) has Dan instruct the player basic gameplay and give tips on how to beat certain characters.

Despite his miserable record of losses, Dan still believes himself to be the superior fighter; his ego is so bloated that he even sometimes tries to steal credit for other people's actions. For instance, in Street Fighter IV, when being rescued by Ryu and Sakura from an engulfing explosion, Dan announces that it was his "awesome power" that saved everyone from perishing. Regardless, Dan strives to live up to his father's good name despite falling short of it.

Despite being portrayed as an arrogant and cocky man, Dan is ultimately good-natured and thoughtful; as an example, he says in his Super Street Fighter IV win quote against T. Hawk that he can relate to being homeless and "totally feels his pain" (despite T. Hawk not minding). Dan sees himself as a fatherly figure and mentor to his friend Sakura, constantly advising her on fighting techniques, though Sakura doesn't take his 'expertise' seriously, seeing him simply as a humorous and fun guy to be with. He also tends to lecture Blanka, his other friend, about "real manhood" and the Saikyo arts, much to Blanka's bemusement; both are close friends, strangely enough.

Recent portrayals for Dan retain his goofy and showboating attitude, but he appears more knowledgeable and less prone to poor decisions. One such example is settling his bills, and even planning branches and expansions for his dojo; this may also be due to the help of his younger sister Yuriko.

Dan has a deep dislike of Ryu and Ken, mostly on the grounds of them being the more revered fighters and Ken's "ladies man" persona. He has also been shown to be quite unpopular with the other characters, usually because they tend to have little patience for his antics.

Not long after Street Fighter II was released, rival video game company SNK released a fighting game, called Art of Fighting, starring Ryo Sakazaki and Robert Garcia. Ryo bore a marked similarity in appearance, fighting style and name to Ryu and had the same hair color as Ken. In a humorous retaliation, Capcom included Dan as a secret character in Street Fighter Alpha and many of his characteristics in the series and later appearances were developed to reflect those of certain other SNK characters.

As mentioned above, Dan's pink clothing is based off Ryo's orange attire, while his hairstyle and facial features is based off Robert's; he also taunts similarly to Art of Fighting character Yuri Sakazaki. Dan's second costume color for his original costume is orange, a reference to Ryo Sakazaki's default costume. Dan can also taunt infinitely like the Art of Fighting games, whereas other characters in the Alpha games could only taunt once per round. In addition, he has four unique taunts - one when he stands up, one crouching down, a short one when jumping and a taunt exclusive to one of his special moves, Roll Taunt. Each taunt slightly fills up his Super Gauge in his appearances.

Dan's fighting style, the Saikyō-ryū, is a parody of Kyokugenryu Karate, the fighting style used by Ryo and Robert. To further the parody, Saikyō-ryū means "Strongest Style", based off of Kyokugenryu Karate's "Extreme Style." Instead of using both hands to unleash his Gadoken as most characters do for the Hadoken; he propels it with one hand, like Ryo, Robert and Yuri do for their equivalent technique, the Ko-ou Ken (Ryuu-Geki Ken in Robert's case).

In Street Fighter Alpha 2, Dan is Ken's secret challenger (unlocked by finishing several fights in a row with Super Combos) and they exchange dialog, one line of which is Ken asking Dan if he knows the "art of fighting". One of Dan's win quotes in Street Fighter Alpha 3 is "I hate the art of fighting, but I want to be the king of fighters!", referencing both SNK series. In Dan's ending in Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter, Dan's sister, Yuriko Hibiki, appears to prevent him finishing off Cyber-Akuma saying "Don't you know who he is? He's our...", parodying the ending of the original Art of Fighting where Ryo was about to kill Mr. Karate before being told he is their father by Yuri (whom Yuriko was designed after).

In the SNK vs. Capcom series (more specifically in SVC Chaos: SNK vs. Capcom), Dan's moveset borrows even more from Ryo's and there is a running gag where Dan is often mistaken for Ryo or Robert, even by himself in a mirror match. He also mistook Mr. Karate for his father's ghost; however, in his ending in Neo Geo Pocket's SNK vs. Capcom: The Match of the Millennium, he seems to acknowledge that Takuma and Go are different people. In Ryo's ending for Capcom vs. SNK 2, it is hinted that Dan came to the Sakazaki's Kyokugenryu Karate school to sign up, which serves as the subject of a few comedic illustrations. A figure bearing a strong resemblance to Dan also appears in a piece of artwork showing the members of the Kyokugenryu school. Dan's fighting stance in Street Fighter IV bears resemblance to Ryo Sakazaki's stance in The King of Fighters series.

Outside of his SNK parody origins, Dan's design could have also been inspired by an official Street Fighter II artwork of Sagat holding a defeated opponent's head; this man wears a karate gi similar to Ryu and Ken and has a hairstyle like Dan's. Furthermore, it's also possible that the man Sagat is holding by the head is Dan's father, Go, as the man has an orange karate gi (in which, Go is mainly seen wearing) and the hairstyle is shared by both Dan and Go.

If Ryu and Sagat were to face off in Street Fighter Alpha 2 in the latter's native Thailand stage, Sagat is seen doing the exact same pose above (with Dan this time standing in), whom Sagat promptly throws out of the stage as he assumes his stance. This introduction, directly inspired by said artwork, even has a variation in Alpha 3 and is mostly visible in Versus Mode, in a randomized manner.

According to Dan-specific win quotes in SFIV and SFV, most (light-hearted) characters find Dan "entertaining", or "hilarious" while the others (the more serious) "can't stand him" or believe that he's "all talk". Abel and Elena in particular even thanks him for the laughs. His showboating, talking, and boastful mannerisms in particular is known to mostly rub people the wrong way, most notably with Ken.

Family

Yuriko Hibiki

Yuriko is his only known sibling and shows deep concern over his career as a fighter. However, it would seem she possesses more business and management acumen than her brother. Both work together in the absence of their parents.

Go Hibiki

Dan's deceased father, killed by Sagat. His death inspired Dan to enter the world of fighting tournaments and ultimately, create his own fighting style.

Blanka

Blanka is Dan's only true friend, with the possible exception of Sakura. It's unknown how long they have known each other, but Dan was saved by Blanka at some point before the latter's mutation. Dan always addresses Blanka by his true name, "Jimmy".

Sakura

Dan's only "student" and only other friend beside Blanka. Sakura has talent vastly superior to Dan's but Dan is convinced he is the only one who can bring it to fruition. Despite their relations being mostly and subconsciously double-sided and transactional, they are in good terms.

Ryu

Dan, for the most part, harbors a great deal of envy and resentment towards Ryu. Most on the grounds of how revered Ryu is among fellow fighters. Despite this however, Ryu himself does in fact considers Dan a friend.

Ken

Dan is jealous of Ken for many reasons; his unending supply of money, his good fortune with women, his superior fighting ability and constant good luck. Dan believes Ken to be a spoon-fed rich boy and that real men are hard workers like him. Ken happily exploits Dan's jealousy, as he has no qualms beating Dan up for the fun of it. Ken's family has little patience for Dan as well (Eliza Masters, for example, believes him to be an "obnoxious idiot").

Gouken

Dan's second teacher after his father and his last. Gouken kicked Dan out of the dojo when he planned to use the Ansatsuken arts for revenge. Sadly, Gouken believes that Dan is a talentless man who has no business learning the martial arts, much less teaching them. However, he does show a little concern for him though, fearing that he too may be tempted by the Satsui no Hado and become a dangerous individual, despite his obvious lack of skill or talent. Knowing this, Gouken attempted to "seal Dan's fist" so that he could never fight again but could never bring himself to do so. Gouken still attempts to fulfill his abandoned role to him, convincing Dan to leave his grudges behind, in his win quotes.

Chun-Li

Like most other characters, Chun-Li has no patience for Dan either and will gladly knock him out without hesitation if he interferes with anyone's business. It's also clear that Dan has no strong like of Chun-Li either. In his SFA3 post-rival fight against her, Chun-Li wonders how she was "beaten by such a pathetic style" after she tries to interrogate Dan.

Sagat

Dan's one-sided mortal enemy. Sagat greatly regrets Go's death and, despite considering him a nuisance, feels responsible for Dan. In the Street Fighter Unlimited series, Dan and Sagat face off, with Sagat eventually accepting defeat and kneeling before Dan so that he can allow Dan to exact his revenge. Dan, however, refuses, citing that killing Sagat would not have been what his father wanted. After Dan gets his shot against Sagat, he's been inhostile to him for the most part, even inviting him to try out his Saikyo style (in Sagat's storyline in Alpha 3 however, Dan is still the vengeful son, while in Dan's own storyline, he has since moved on).

According to the Super Street Fighter IV blog, Dan was born on November 25. Dan's father, Go, was a mixed martial artist and a rival of Sagat. Go gouged out Sagat's right eye and Sagat beat him to death in retaliation. Because of this, Dan sought revenge on Sagat, training to become a fighter, but was expelled from Gouken's dojo when his motivations were learned. Dan thus developed his own style of Gouken's martial art merged with Muay Thai elements and called it Saikyō-ryū, or "Strongest style," despite the complete weakness of his techniques. He set on a quest to find Sagat and take vengeance for his father's death.

In the All About Street Fighter Zero 3 Guidebook, Dan is revealed to be living in a tent in Hinode Park (His stage in the game), when he is visited by Sakura. She asks Dan to accompany her to a celebration of Ken's birthday, as there will be a large gathering of fighters, and she believes Ryu will be there. She states that she would like Dan to come with her as he is revealed to be skilled with several foreign languages (Japanese, English, Thai, Cantonese, French and Russian are all mentioned). Sakura wishes to get acquainted with fighters from across the world, needing Dan's help to do so. Dan agrees, but only under the condition that Sakura convinces those she fights to join the Saikyo Style. Sakura reluctantly agrees, and once she is on her way, Dan cries out to his father that the Saikyo Style is making progress.[8]

During his Street Fighter Alpha 3 arcade ladder, Dan travels the world, promoting Saikyō-ryū, until Chun-Li comes and questions him and asks if he is involved with Shadaloo. Dan fights her, wins and flees. While back in Thailand, he fights Sagat, hoping to take him under his wing, but refuses. After winning, he meets M. Bison, leader of Shadaloo and Sagat's employer. Dan remembers his fight with Chun-Li and blames Bison for it, who then orders Balrog to fight him. He defeats Balrog before fighting Bison himself, emerging victorious and finishing the villain off with his Hisshou Buraiken.

In the ending, Dan turns the Psycho Drive Plant into his Saikyō Thailand dojo, where he and his friend Blanka, whom he correctly refers to as Jimmy, learn Rolling Attack. Later, Charlie, who arrived late, comes with a flight squad and bombs the base, and Dan and Blanka escape. In an unknown time, he takes Sakura, the number one fan of Ryu under his wing. However, while Sakura doesn't seem to mind Dan, he is unaware that she's using him to get to Ryu.

In Street Fighter IV, Dan is shown to be annoyed that he wasn't told of the second World Warrior Tournament, asking Blanka whether the crowds were bored to tears without a star like him to provide real action; in reality, Blanka tried to get in contact with him about the tournament, but couldn't, as Dan hadn't paid his phone bill and his phone was disconnected. Sakura also asks Dan whether he's heard anything about Ryu lately, since Dan has claimed that Ryu was an apprentice of his. To keep up this appearance, Dan says that Ken is rumored to be entering the next World Tournament, which makes it likely that Ryu will also show up.

Dan enters the new tournament to spread the popularity of his Saikyō style,[9] barely getting enough points to qualify as a last-minute entry. At the end of the tournament, Dan is seen at the S.I.N. base, bumping into Blanka before an explosion threatens to engulf them both. They are saved by Ryu and Sakura, at which point Dan tells them to be more careful, as "even with [his] awesome powers" they may not survive the next wave. He then makes his exit to the amazement of all.[9] During Super Street Fighter IV, in an effort to capitalize on his association with great fighters, he broadcasts a commercial advertising the Saikyō-ryū dojo, telling people to drop in to enroll (his phone is still disconnected). However, when no-one turns up, Sakura points out that the ad didn't contain the dojo's address, whereupon Dan realizes his mistake and screams, which is a point that Poison makes in her win quote to him.[10]

A message from him under the name "IamSaiKyo" appears on Rashid's phone during the latter's character story, with Dan expressing excitement about finally paying his phone bill. He also gives summaries of each DLC fighter available in the shop, as well as alternate outfits and stages. He sometimes breaks the fourth wall in these summaries, such as referencing Street Fighter III in the summary for Alex.[11]

Dan appears as one of the simulation fighters in Alex's character story, along with E. Honda and Hakan. He also makes an appearance alongside Hakan and Elena in G's Arcade Mode ending.

Dan was the first DLC character to be released in Season 5 of Street Fighter V.

In Dan's Street Fighter V Route Arcade Mode Ending, he is shown defeating G with a Dankukyaku, which was followed by Dan helping him get back up to his feet. He then goes on to upload a video of him training G, Blanka, Fei Long, Sagat, Vega, Balrog, M. Bison, Seth and Gill along with many other unknown individuals as the new students of his brand new Saikyo-Style dojo to his social media account. However, the last panel shows that this is just a delusion Dan experienced following his defeat at the hands of G, who appears upset at his feeble effort at challenging him.

Although Dan participated in a championship tournament using his Saikyo-Style martial arts, his dojo is still lacking in students.[12] Later on during his visit at Plaza Capcom, he overheard two schoolgirls debating about whether someone/something is cute or creepy. When he went over to take a closer look at what they were talking about, he realised that the girls were talking about the dolls from a claw machine which bear a strong resemblance to his best friend Blanka. While he was pressing his face against the glass of the claw machine, he accidentally broke the glass from the machine, causing the two girls to flee from the scene. Dan had no choice but to leave immediately only to be chased by Sakura who found out about the commotion. After being defeated by Dan, she informed him that if he was caught by someone else other than her, he could be jailed for accidentally breaking the glass from the claw machine, as well as for fighting with the employees from Plaza Capcom. After a short conversation with Sakura, Dan realized that the Blanka-chan dolls from the claw machine were indeed based on Blanka's appearance and after Sakura told him that the dolls were popular for a while among teens, he suddenly had an idea and decided to meet up with Blanka in Brazil by borrowing some money from Sakura.

After sparring with Blanka in Brazil, the two of them had a reunion and Dan complimented Blanka about the popularity of his dolls after giving him a Blanka-chan doll. Dan then decided to make his own business by mass producing and selling his own version of the Blanka-chan dolls, the Saikyo-boy dolls (Mascot of Saikyo-Style) in order to draw the attention of teenagers around the world so as to convince them to visit his dojo and become students of his Saikyo-Style martial arts. Blanka also frequently corrected him that the Blanka-chan Dolls are not creepy and that he does not use the Saikyo-Style. Nevertheless, Dan was not bothered by his comments about him not using his fighting style and he was last seen continuing to make compliments about his Saikyo-Style being super cool until it echoes out in the end of the scene.

It is revealed that Dan is planning to open his dojo at Metro City.

Dan also appears in Ryu's flashback in a Japanese festival day where Ryu begin to grew a beard. There, he, Ryu and Retsu volunteered to perform at the festival events, where Sakura, Kei and Maki were cheering for them.

Dan uses the Saikyo Style (サイキョー流, Saikyō-ryū?, "Strongest Style"), an "ultimate" fighting style that he created by mixing several techniques, mainly his father's fighting style, unprofessional Ansatsuken that he learned during his short training with Gouken and colorful taunts of his own.[2] By using multiple provocations to show off, Dan can manipulate opponents to break their pace and lower their guard, giving him the opportunity to land "powerful" attacks.[16] Dan appears to to be a jack-of-all-trades with knowledge in multiple fields, but the lack of a specialization (other than his taunts) and his overconfidence makes him weak compared to other fighters such as Ryu, Ken and Sakura. Dan may have inherited some of his father's moves to use as his own as both of their various attacks are greatly similar to each (for example, Dan's Dankukyaku and the kick Go used to gouge out Sagat's eye).

Moveset

Due to his somewhat clumsy, slow and short moves, Dan is widely regarded as a joke character, not recommended to be used for any serious competition. Regardless, he is also popular as a handicap to skilled players, as his weakness makes winning matches more difficult and exciting when against notably powerful characters such as Ryu, Ken and Charlie. As such, selecting Dan can in itself be seen as a taunt, since doing so implies high confidence that a player is superior in skill to his or her opponent. Strangely enough, the sheer comedy value made Dan a campy fan favorite of sorts.

Although generally inferior to Ryu and Ken, in some areas he is slightly stronger. For instance, the wide arc his Dankukyaku does makes it very difficult to duck under like Ryu and Ken's Tatsumaki Senpukyaku can. His taunt jump allows him to jump higher than Ryu and Ken normally and it can interrupt in-air attacks. Each taunt also increases his super bar whereas Ryu and Ken's do not. He is difficult to use but he can be better than some of the other characters if used properly.

Though Dan is a joke character, he is typically not the weakest in physical strength/normal attack power in the games he appears in. In Street Fighter IV, however, although his comical mannerisms remain intact, Dan appears to be somewhat more serious, and his moves have been notably upgraded to do equal damage to the those of the other mid-weight characters. His buffs and updates to his moves in the more recent games have actually allowed Dan to become a legitimate choice in the tournament setting, to the point that players say that Dan's greatest strength is the illusion that he's supposed to be bad.

In the patch for Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition, Capcom has again improved Dan, albeit mildly on a basis of comparison to other characters. Capcom stated: "In a lot of ways, we are aiming to make this the strongest version of Dan ever in a Street Fighter Series, so we have changed many things". Despite this, he is still considered to be the worst character in the game mentioned. However, because his projectile still has a short range and rapid recovery, he can essentially fire it repeatedly to gain meter on the ground much faster than any other projectile users like Ryu, Akuma, Sagat, and so forth. Only Dan has this benefit, but it has no practical use other than building meter for Dan to use.

In the games he appears in, Dan is distinguished from Ryu and Ken by his ineffective special moves, such as Gadoken (or Self-Taught Fist), a projectile with a comically short range, and Dankukyaku, a triple-hitting flying kick that is easy to block; both are reminiscent of special attacks in Art of Fighting (if one had no Spirit Power in that game, special attacks become useless). Dan also possesses Koryuken, an anti-air uppercut (initially different, but eventually mimicking Ryu and Ken's Shoryuken) with very little horizontal range, during which he sometimes flashes and becomes completely invincible. He can also perform Premium Sign, where he autographs a portrait and flings it at the opponent.

Dan's Gadoken range has noticeably increased since his last canonical appearance in Street Fighter Alpha 3; it is much more reliable, but at the cost of him having a much slower release. The animation is also different: he extends his arm forward while launching the projectile.

Dan has a move known as the Hissho Buraiken, which is a standing parody of Ryo's flying Desperation move, the Ryuuko Ranbu. Dan also possesses a "Shoryureppa" type move called the Koryu Rekka, which was borrowed from the double uppercut at the end of Ryo's MAX Ryuuko Ranbu (he even imitates Ryo's "Kyokugen-Ryuu Ōgi!"/"Kyokugen-style secret!" yell that is used at the beginning of Ryuuko Ranbu, instead declaring "Saikyō-ryū Ōgi!"). Both moves have little to no range at all, and leave Dan wide open for attack if the moves are blocked.

Despite being the lowest tier amongst the main characters, Dan is still an above-average martial artist when compared to typical fighters. In the first volume of the manga Street Fighter: Sakura Ganbaru!, Dan enters a street fighting competition and is shown doing rather well (though he admitted to using underhanded tactics, as he would "do anything to win"), only losing to Ken, who later went on to win the entire competition.

This seems to tie in to his appearance in Street Fighter IV, when he appears to be more serious, and his moves have been slightly upgraded in order to be balanced with other characters. He gains the new and quite powerful Haoh Gadoken Ultra Combo in Super Street Fighter IV, which is much similar to Ryo's super fireball, Haoh Shoukou Ken. Dan's other Ultra in the Street Fighter IV series is Shisso Buraiken, which is basically his Hissho Buraiken, but he runs towards the opponent to connect. Similarly to the Haoh Gadoken, one can combo into the Shisso Buraiken with the Legendary Taunt.

In Super Gem Fighter Mini Mix, Dan retains most of his special attacks like the Gadoken, Koryuken and the Dankukyaku. He also carries a mallet which happens to be the soul of his father Go Hibiki as his long nose serve as a stick on its mallet to knock opponents and a megaphone to shout out on his opponents. He has the most taunts than the rest of the characters with a total of four when Dan does one of his win poses, smacks the opponent by bumping them down to do the same win pose, another of his taunt were he was surprised horribly by shaking both of his cheeks which it was seen as a defeat pose and lastly serving as a Mighty Combo by using various taunts without attacking on his opponent. He only has two disguises serving as his special attacks (Eg. a karaoke singer and cosplaying as the late Elvis Presley). He gains a Shinku Gadoken as his Mighty Combo as it appears in a slow ranged version of his Gadoken as the move can be deflected by his opponents (Like Morrigan for example). He also retains his Koryu Rekka and other Mighty Combos is to summon his father's spirit to make a parody version of Akuma's Shun Goku Satsu to deal more heavy damage and unleashing a powerful blast similar to the Shinku Hadoken whom he dubs as "Go Hibiki Beam".

Street Fighter V gives Dan the Danretsuken, a series of rush punches that function as a hitgrab, locking the opponent into an animation on contact. The attack originated in Ultra Street Fighter IV's OMEGA Mode and is both functionally and visually identical to Ryo's Zanretsuken attack. His gameplay style is similar to his Street Fighter IV and it's updates with new additional moves. His first V-Skill is Sakyo-Style Burairuten no Kamae where Dan would taunt after execution of some of his special attacks while his second V-Skill Saikyo-Otokoboe has the same function as the first V-Skill and his taunt can do a slow motion to distract his opponents. His Haoh Gadoken Ultra Combo becomes his first V-Trigger serving as his combo extender. His second V-Trigger is the Tenchi Saikyo no Kata. Dan's Gadoken becomes Haten Gadoken, which gains additional hits and gives him a juggle opportunity. His Koryuken also becomes Goh Koryuken, which is fully invincible and can be cancelled into his first V-Skill.

His Hisshou Buraiken Super Combo is now his Critical Art but in a slow movement and his Koryuken can be damage in two hits.

A running gag in all games that Dan appears in is his ability to taunt, which continues the running gag of parodying Art of Fighting (in that game taunts would remove part of an enemy's Spirit Gauge, an important part of that game as special moves require a stock of it). In games where the player is limited to only one taunt, Dan is able to do an unlimited amount. Each Taunt also adds to his Super bar, generally (it varies by game) by a healthy amount. In Street Fighter IV, he is also able to perform a special Super Combo: the infamous "Super Taunt" (Chohatsu Dentetsu), which is simply a taunt dragged out for several seconds. It does absolutely no damage, and Dan is vulnerable throughout the entire escapade. It takes a whole Super Combo Gauge to perform.

This attack is often seen as the ultimate insult, as it shows the player's confidence in victory enough to make him waste a chance at using a super move in favor of this, and performing it under any situation other than total victory is suicide. The interesting thing about this move is that Dan can perform his Ultra during the taunt, and, by starting this combo with the Gadoken, is the easiest way to hit with his Ultra. With fast reflexes, it becomes a bait move for other players to drop their guard, as long as the player has sharp reflexes to pull off an Ultra before he gets hit out of the taunt.

Dan is one of only two characters in the Street Fighter series that has a super taunt, along with Sagat: Chouhatsu Densetsu (Legendary Taunt) and Chouhatsu Shinwa (Mythical Taunt).

Using Dan's crouching and air taunt in SSFIV against an opponent allows him to attack, but not cause any harm to his opponent. Despite this, certain characters with counters will register them as "attacks". Additionally, using his air taunt as soon the jump animation starts increases his jumping height, making possible for him to dodge attacks such as a strong Shoryuken from Ryu, Ken, or Akuma.

In Street Fighter V, Dan's taunts have been modified to instead be his V-Skills, with his rolling and air taunt being cancellable from his special moves and his standing and crouching taunt being cancellable from and into various other attacks. They now serve as combo extenders that allow Dan to pull off unorthodox combinations, albeit at the cost of also building the opponent's V-Meter slightly for every taunt.

In addition to his normal moveset, which parodies the moves used by "shoto"-style fighters, Dan has a move in some games known as the Otoko Michi (Way of the Man), which parodies Akuma's Shun Goku Satsu. The Otoko Michi is performed by doing the command for the Shun Goku Satsu in reverse. Depending on the game, the Otoko Michi can be as powerful as the Shun Goku Satsu, which can take off more than half of the opponent's lifebar, or it takes off a minimal amount of life from the opponent. In most versions, it leaves Dan with only 1% of his own life. Due to its slow speed and high costs, this move is considered highly unreliable and only used when absolute victory is certain. In Marvel vs. Capcom 2, it is the strongest single Hyper Combo in the game, even greater than the Shun Goku Satsu. In SNK vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos, it not only does a considerable amount of damage when used, but he loses no life from performing it: this is due to the fact that it is his Exceed attack, all of which can only be done once per match and needs to be at almost 45% or less amount of life remaining to become usable to begin with.

Ironically, Dan parodies even more Kyokugen-style attacks in the SNK-produced games of the SNK vs. Capcom series. He gains the Gadou Shoukouken (a Gadoken-ranged version of the Haoh Shoukou Ken) in both SNK-produced games (as a Level 2 version of Shinku Gadoken in The Match of the Millennium, and a regular special move in SVC Chaos). In SNK vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos:, he also gains a parody version of Ryo's Tenchi Haoh Ken called Kyuukyoku Tenchi Gadou Zuki that is able to block any attack during the charge-up period, even normally unblockable moves, but does not do much damage and has an extremely long recovery time since Dan punches the opponent so hard that he breaks the bones in his hand, and needs some time to tend to it.

In Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter, one can input a code just before the start of the match, in which Dan falls onto the ground, creating a comically huge explosion, instead of his normal entrance. He then gets up and the fight starts. This has absolutely no effect on gameplay.