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Street Fighter Boss Character Names

I never knew this, but I happened across the Balrog article on wikipedia and discovered something interesting:

When Street Fighter II was localized in America, Capcom was afraid of a lawsuit from Mike Tyson over a character with his likeness and a similar sounding name (Mike Bison). Additionally, when the designers presented the game to Capcom USA’s marketing department, they believed that the name Vega was a weakling’s name. They decided to rotate the names of three of the four boss characters in the following manner:

The boxer is known as M. Bison in Japan and Balrog elsewhere.
The Spanish assassin/bullfighter is known as Balrog in Japan and Vega elsewhere.
The evil dictator and head of Shadaloo is known as Vega in Japan and M. Bison elsewhere.

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