Cammy


Cammy White, also known by the codename Killer Bee, is a fictional character in the Street Fighter fighting game series created by Capcom. She debuted in Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers. She has also been featured in the Street Fighter Alpha games, first as a secret character and then as a playable character. The games explore her backstory as one of M. Bison's "dolls" turned into an amnesiac operative for MI6.
Cammy has also appeared in other Street Fighter media, such as the 1994 live-action Street Fighter film and its animated spin-off, as well as Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie, where she first received her full name prior to being integrated into the later mainline games. She has also been featured in various official comics and merchandise, as well as in the crossover series Marvel vs. Capcom and SNK vs. Capcom. Cammy has garnered positive critical reception from critics and fans, with praise towards her backstory, gameplay, and character design. She is a frequent subject of cosplay and is particularly noted for her sex appeal. Cammy is one of the most popular characters in the series, often receiving high rankings in fan polls.

Character design

's research and development head Noritaka Funamizu stated that Cammy's inclusion in Super Street Fighter II stemmed from his feeling that the game needed another female character besides Chun-Li. She was originally designed by the same person who had previously made Street Fighters Sagat and later also Morrigan Aensland for Darkstalkers. Compensating for the difference in sheer strength, Chun-Li and Cammy are faster than the other characters in the game.
Cammy is a fighter with a slender yet muscular body. She has long blonde hair which she usually wears in two braided pigtails, blue eyes and a scar on her left cheek. In Super Street Fighter II, she is shown wearing a green sleeveless thong leotard, a military red beret, red gloves and black boots, with green camouflage stains on her legs. This iconic incarnation is known as Delta Red Cammy and appears in the Street Fighter II series of games, in some other games, in the American film and television productions, in several manga and comic book adaptations, in the home versions of Street Fighter IV and its updates. Street Fighter V retains largely the same look, with the addition of a black harness on her torso and a gun holster around her right thigh, but she no longer wears the camouflage paint on her legs.
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A different look was introduced in X-Men vs. Street Fighter, where her style and moves are similar to those of both Spider-Man and Psylocke. This time, Cammy was depicted wearing a light blue, long sleeve thong leotard, a matching garrison cap, red gloves, brown leather boots, and a yellow necktie. The camouflage of her legs was replaced with blue stains in the shape of lightning bolts. This incarnation is known as Shadaloo Cammy' or "Killer Bee" and appears in the Street Fighter Alpha, Marvel vs. Capcom and Capcom vs. SNK series of games, as well as in Namco × Capcom and in several manga and comic adaptations. Shadaloo Cammy is approximately 16 years old.
In Street Fighter IV, in addition to the Delta Red attire, her default, Cammy has an alternate appearance which is reminiscent of the Shadaloo version. This consists of her wearing a blue zipped-up fleece thong leotard with matching knee-high boots with woolen trim, a Delta Red garrison cap, midnight-blue gloves and arm braces, and blue camouflage on her legs. In the consecutive Super Street Fighter IV, she gains an additional alternate costume based on M. Bison's, mostly by its red color and the similarly shaped hat and accessories. However, she still wears a thong leotard and camouflage paint on her legs. Her fourth alternative costume in the game has her in a catgirl-like costume, with metal gauntlets and leg coverings. In Street Fighter X Tekken, Cammy gains an additional two alternate costumes: one is based on King from Tekken, and the second is an all-original design inspired by a punk rock type of look, with her sporting a huge red bow, a black vest with a pink top, a red skirt with leather straps and black leather knee-high boots; she also got a leopard motif costume in an update. In Street Fighter V, Cammy has various different alternate outfits, from a combat swimsuit to a schoolgirl uniform, along with another catgirl outfit, One of her poses in that game was adjusted due to changing cultural attitudes. In Street Fighter 6, in addition to being older, Cammy now has an entirely new outfit, consisting of a bob haircut with her classic front hair bangs, a turquoise blue leather jacket with belt straps and a union jack, a black crop top with white trim, black leggings with a white linear design, red combat boots with black socks, and her classic arm gauntlets with slight modifications to them.
Cammy has a strong personality. She has a tough attitude, where one wrong word to her could mean a snapped neck, and is fearless in battle. She refuses to go down without a fight, using her extensive skills and abilities to her advantage. She is a driven and determined young woman; with a strong sense to help others in need. She wants to see herself as a protector of others as noted in her Street Fighter V story where she is seen taking care of Juni and looking out for her as she recovers from being a brainwashed Doll. Cammy is gentle, respectful, and kindhearted, but she can also be very irritable and dismissive, and can be very harsh on herself when she makes mistakes. One of Cammy's most notable characteristics is her love for cats.

Appearances

''Street Fighter'' games

Cammy was introduced in the fourth Street Fighter II revision, Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers, as one of four new characters joining the previous games's roster. In this game, Cammy is a teen-aged agent of the fictional Delta Red commando task force within Britain's Secret Intelligence Service formed to investigate and eradicate global crime syndicates. In the Japanese version of her ending, she is revealed to have been an agent working for the villain M. Bison in the past, but lost her memories during a past operation. The American version instead reported her as a previous lover of M. Bison's, but still having challenges related to amnesia. Other members of Delta Red include Commander Watson, Colonel Wolfman, Lt. Col. Hannah Ackerson, 1st Lieutenant Lita Luwanda, Matthew McCoy, and George Ginzu.
A younger version of Cammy appears as an assassin working for Bison's Shadaloo organization, with the codename "Killer Bee", first in Street Fighter Alpha 2 Gold, where she appears as a hidden character available exclusively in the second player and training modes, and then in Street Fighter Alpha 3, where she is a full-fledged playable character. In Alpha 3, Cammy is revealed to be a clone created from M. Bison's DNA. The Game Boy Advance version of Super Street Fighter II Turbo: Revival and the Xbox Live and PSN remake Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix take into account this revelation in their versions of Cammy's ending.
Cammy is again featured in Street Fighter IV. Set after the events of Street Fighter II, it depicts Cammy as having come to terms with her past as a brainwashed super soldier from Shadaloo and is now embarking a new mission with her Delta Red comrades. This is the first time since the Street Fighter II era that Cammy has appeared in her Delta Red depiction as opposed to her Shadaloo depiction, and also the very first time in which she actually speaks with an English accent as per Cammy's birthplace being officially listed as Britain. However, due to her nature as a clone of Bison, this might not be her true place of origin. In her ending in this game, she destroys the BLECE data, believing the project to be what Bison had used to brainwash her in the first place. In the update Super Street Fighter IV, Cammy still remembers her time as a "doll" and affectionately refers to the "Dolls" as her sisters, vowing to rescue them from Shadaloo. Her penultimate, "rival" fight is against newcomer Juri, on whom Cammy swears revenge for her ill actions towards the "dolls", only for Juri to counter the accusation by bringing up Cammy's dark past. In her new ending, Cammy consoles a recovering former "doll" ; this new ending establishes the fact that she is recovering her memories, or at least trying to atone for the things she did in the past. In Ultra Street Fighter IV, Decapre, an early result of the Shadaloo cloning experiments that created Cammy, appears as a playable character. Cammy returned in Street Fighter V, where Cammy is able to rescue Decapre, who then join her after being freed from the brainwashing, and the other remaining Dolls during a final war against Shadaloo. However, as confirmed in Street Fighter 6, where Cammy returns to investigate the connection between Amnesia's first attack at Nayshall and the remnants of Shadaloo's whereabouts, the death of her fellow former "doll", Marz saddens her and the other surviving "dolls".

Other video games

Cammy appears in her Alpha incarnation as a playable character in crossover fighting games X-Men vs. Street Fighter, Marvel vs. Capcom 2, Capcom vs. SNK, Capcom vs. SNK 2, and Street Fighter X Tekken. She also appears as a playable character in the shoot 'em up Cannon Spike, where she appears in her SSFII costume for her default form and in her Alpha outfit as an alternate appearance, in the browser-based social games Onimusha Soul, where she is re-designed to fit the feudal Japan theme, and Street Fighter Battle Combination, as well as in the mobile puzzle game Street Fighter: Puzzle Spirits, where she is a super-deformed character.
In the crossover tactical role-playing game Namco × Capcom, Cammy appears as a brainwashed enemy character who later joins the player's side as a partner to Chun-Li. Cammy has also made guest appearances in other non-Capcom games, such as Destiny Child, Gunslinger Stratos 2, Power Rangers: Legacy Wars, and Valkyrie Connect.
A redesigned Cammy appears in the beat'em up Final Fight: Streetwise as one of the underground pit fighters who challenges the player. In the action role-playing game Monster Hunter Frontier Online, players can dress up their hunters in Cammy's Shadoloo outfit, while Breath of Fire 6 and Monster Hunter Explore have her Delta Red costume. Frank West in Dead Rising 4 can also be dressed up as Cammy. Cammy was also added to Fortnite Battle Royale, alongs with Guile on August 7, 2021.