Cammy White

Cammy White is a character from the Street Fighter franchise.

This British bombshell is a teen-aged agent of the Delta Red commando task force, operating within Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). Enhanced by Bison's genome, she once worked as an assassin for Shadaloo under the codename of "Killer Bee". At the end of Alpha 3, she rebelled against Bison, lost her memories, and was taken to Britain; it was there that she joined the special forces unit known as Delta Red.

Cammy participated in the Super Street Fighter II tournament to learn about her past; she learned the shocking truth from Bison himself, but managed to cope with the revelation thanks to the support of her Delta Red comrades.

Appearance
Cammy has light-blue eyes and long blonde hair that she styles into two braided pigtails, a large forelock, and a scar on her left cheek. She has a muscular body with a very fit physique and is of average height; Cammy's choice of attire is a leotard as it gives her increased movement, speed, and flexibility. It enhances and complements her acrobatic and gymnastics fighting style that require her to quickly shift and twirl her legs and body, which Cammy is able to do effectively and comfortably in her leotard. Cammy heavily relies on her agility and limberness, which is why wearing a leotard is most suitable for her. It is how she is able to move with immaculate precision, grace, and power.

In Super Street Fighter II and Super Street Fighter II Turbo, Cammy wears her signature outfit, a sleeveless green thong leotard that consists of a Delta Red triangle insignia on either the right or left breast (some promo art has it on the right while other instances, including her endings in SSFII, have it on the left), a red beret, red socks and black calf-high combat boots, and red gauntlets. Her legs were sparsely decorated with green camouflage paint. This classic incarnation is known as "Delta Red Cammy." One of the earlier drafts of Cammy's character design has her wearing harnesses and a gun holster, details which were eventually incorporated into her Street Fighter Vdefault design.

In Cannon Spike, Cammy is wearing an outfit similar to her SSFII incarnation, except she has knee pads and inline skates, as well as two sub-machine guns. In her right hand, she holds a standard Uzi sub-machine gun, and in her left, a Skorpion vz. 61. Both guns are depicted as comically larger in size compared their real counterparts.

In X-Men vs. Street Fighter, Street Fighter Alpha 2 Gold, and every subsequent game in which she appeared in her "Killer Bee" or "Shadaloo" persona, Cammy wore her light blue thong leotard that had a small yellow tie attached to the front of her turtleneck, a small blue garrison cap, knee-high brown boots, and red gauntlets similar to her classic incarnation. The leotard also had an opening in the upper back portion to reveal her upper back, just below her shoulder blades. Her legs were lightly adorned with a blue lightning bolt design. This uniform is a lighter version of the Shadaloo Doll uniform, and swaps the standard tights for the bare legged, lightning bolt design. The lightning bolts could be symbolic of speed; they are often attributed to real world military forces, known for conducting raids. This was probably adoptive of lightning bolt symbols that were used in the Roman empire. This outfit is often referred to as her Alpha costume or Killer Bee outfit.

Shadaloo Cammy's pre-fight intro has her wearing an over sized red cloak (the same seen in Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie), which she quickly discards, revealing her previously hidden identity.

In the anime series Street Fighter II V, Cammy's hair is styled in a high ponytail instead of the braids (though she is seen in her original pigtails in a photograph in episode 17). She wears a black leather tank top, matching black leather tights, and a choker decorated with a crucifix, the latter which she used to conceal a deadly garrote to assassinate her victims. In the series, she usually works as a contract assassin.

In Final Fight: Streetwise, her attire reflects the game's urban aesthetics while retaining her trademark pigtails and red cap. In this game she sports a sleeveless sweater top, silver and red gauntlets, and baggy fatigued cargo pants that sag slightly.

In Street Fighter IV, Cammy appears in her classic Delta Red attire. Her alternate attire, available as DLC, resembles her Killer Bee attire with key differences. The top is a padded, collared, tight fitting 'winter' jacket with fur trim, and a Delta Red symbol on the chest. Cammy has a matching hat and tall knee lace-up boots as well, and retains her signature gauntlets; a variation of this outfit appears as her "nostalgia" costume in Street Fighter V. She appears to be wearing her thong leotard under the jacket while her legs are still painted with fatigue strips. Her third Super Street Fighter IV alternate costume resemble M. Bison's attire, and her new alternate costume resembles DC Comics character Catwoman's suit with military touches.

In the SSFIV OVA, she wears her Delta Gear, though her gauntlets are dark blue instead of red.

Her Swap Attire in Street Fighter X Tekken is based on Tekken character, King, which also alludes to her fondness for cats. Adding pro wrestling gear inspired by King, the most distinct feature is a jaguar hood with cat ears - similar to her own catsuit in SSFIV. She also has jaguar fur on her lower body. Her alternate attire is inspired by her apparent interest in punk rock music; this is probably attributed to her being British; punk originally having stemmed from those islands. She wears a leather skirt, leather vest with a pink midriff top underneath, black gauntlets and armbands, and knee-high black boots with red socks.

Cammy's appearance in Street Fighter V is mostly unaltered from her appearance in the Street Fighter IV series. She loses the camouflage markings on her legs, but gains a shoulder and a thigh gun holster on her right leg. Additionally, the Delta Red insignia on her chest is removed; likely for an comfortable fit for the harness. Her costume is more streamlined showing her abdominal muscles more clearly; she also has a significantly larger bust. Her fighting stance has also changed, resembling that of Evil Ryu's in SNK vs. Capcom: Match of the Millennium.

She has twelve alternate costumes in Street Fighter V.
 * Story Costume: green military coat, white long-sleeve button shirt with a yellow tie, black panties underneath her coat and black knee-high military boots. She retains her classic red beret and Delta Red gauntlets.
 * Battle Costume: blue long sleeve thong leotard with white thigh-high socks, black knee pads, and a matching pair of black boots. She gains a black nylon utility belt on her waist, a matching pair of black mid-arm gloves, and a green backpack. She also has brown camouflage markings on her legs and face. Her long blonde hair is loose, with red rider goggles on her forehead.
 * Halloween Costume: dressed as a zombie bride, complete with a tattered wedding dress and veil, along with roses with thorns across her waist and right arm, as well as a tiara atop her head.
 * School Costume: English boarding school student, donning a school jacket with vest and button-up shirt and tie underneath the vest, dark grey stockings and Mary Jane shoes. Her long blond hair is tied back into a ponytail with this school costume.
 * Nostalgia Costume: collared, tight fitting winter jacket with fur trim, and a Delta Red emblem on the chest. She wears a matching hat, knee-high laced-up boots, and blue gauntlets. Her long blond hair is braided into a single pigtail.
 * Dolls Costume: dark blue long sleeve thong leotard with a yellow tie with a matching garrison cap. She also wears blue thigh-high socks, and short black boots. She has a black nylon utility belt on her waist, with a black pouch next to her right leg. Over the thong leotard, she wears a half-zipped, teal jacket. She retains her red gauntlets from her default costume. Her long blonde hair tied into straight pigtails.
 * Holiday Costume: white blouse with a green bow tie and a red miniskirt with white outlines. She wears a sleeveless Santa coat. She also has a long Santa cap with cat ears in the front. She wears red gloves and white, furry knee-high boots.
 * CPT Costume: black mini dress with a matching choker. She wears a gold bracelet around her left wrist and a silver ring on her right. She also has black heels with ankle straps. Over the dress, she wears a short-sleeve white, frizzy coat. Her long blond hair is tied back into a ponytail, held by a matching, black bow.
 * Cannon Spike Costume: light green leotard similar to her SSFII incarnation, except she has red knee pads and matching inline skates. In addition to the gun holster on her right thigh, she gains a second holster on her left shoulder.
 * Swimsuit Costume: dark blue bikini with neon-green shoulder holster and matching utility belt around her waist. She wears her signature red gauntlets with a matching garrison cap. Her legs are lightly decorated with green camouflage paint.
 * Jill Costume: Jill Valentine's standard and most well-known outfit from the original Resident Evil series; a pair of blue assault pants with a light blue formfitting shirt and shoulder/neck armor, completed with a blue beret on her head and black leather gloves with outward finger inserts.
 * Fiona Costume: Fiona Belli's standard and most well-known outfit from the Haunting Ground series; a white shirt with a snowflake-like design. It also has a square collar and long puffed sleeves. She wears blue brooch with a brown strip of cloth just over her collar. There are three similar strips on both sleeves. Her dark purple skirt begins around her stomach area and the upper half is simple and solid, while the lower half has folding and is slightly translucent. The skirt is rimmed with a flowery design and is quite short, ending well above her knees. Finally, she wears black translucent stockings with a solid edge and rusty brown knee-high boots.

Personality
Cammy is a strong, forceful, determined, and pertinacious young woman with a firm sense of justice, who is extremely polite, friendly, respectful, and enthusiastic towards those whom she knows and cares about including Delta Red, Chun-Li or Guile and even helping others she barely knew like Ryu, but can be very brutal and sometimes condescending to those whom she dislikes such as M. Bison or Vega. She refuses to go down without a fight, using her extensive training from both Delta Red and Shadaloo to her advantage in defeating her enemies. Enemies are usually aware of the threat Cammy holds and they know that underestimating her is foolish thinking considering her abilities and strength.

Though she does not believe in doing any more harm than necessary to her opponents, she employs some rather deadly techniques when they are needed. Overall, Cammy is not really fiery, impatient or obstreperous, she is just contemptuous, dismissive, and irritable. She is also rather relentless and harsh on herself when she makes mistakes. She could be a girl that's torn between childhood and adulthood, struggling with the resultant stresses. However, through support and compassion from her friends and fellow Dolls Cammy has gained more confidence and purpose in her life. Cammy is also fond of cats, especially street cats which she usually takes care of on occasions. She can also be rude, obnoxious, and argumentative, when in a bad mood and often shows irritation with comic relief characters.

Cammy doesn't believe people with loved ones should fight, after seeing Ken with his son Mel but Chun-Li, remembering her own father, stated it was the reason he was fighting. Cammy claimed that families "confuse her" since she doesn't have one. Later on, upon seeing Laura and Sean Matsuda wrestling each other, she asks Chun-Li whether their interaction is considered a normal brother-sister relationship.

Due to her connection with the Dolls she is unwilling to hurt them (especially Decapre) and can break ties with her friends in order to protect Bison's assassins, as Cammy attacked police officers and abandoned Chun-Li by fleeing with Juri and Decapre on a motorcycle when the latter were being detained by the authorities. Though Cammy quickly returned to Kanzuki estate (homebase) when Decapre was brought back to her senses.

Cammy also has a strong sense of military discipline and stern honor, to the point where even the more powerful fighters in the series ask her to "ease up" when they meet her, as she is a very driven person. It's because of this warfare mindset that she respects soldiers like Guile and Charlie so much. Her hatred for Bison drives her though much of her appearances, but at the end of Street Fighter V Cammy mellows out and no longer pursues vengeance against Shadaloo and mainly focuses on the survival of her "sisters", the Dolls.

Cammy's extensive training and abilities allow her to perform incredible athletic maneuvers and feats such as flips, or special attacks like Spiral Arrow and Cannon Spike. This is apparent in her fighting style; Cammy holds pride in her speed and fighting abilities as noted in her dialogue to some of the other characters.

Abilities
Cammy is a quick, impressive, close range fighter. She lacks any projectile or long-reaching attacks, and therefore hurls herself at the enemy relying on speed and priority. For example, her standing hard punch can often cancel an opponent's attack outright, if it connects. Priority such as this makes her one of the easiest characters to use in Capcom vs. SNK 2. Her original incarnation in Super Street Fighter II had trouble evading projectile attacks, so later incarnations involved reworked and additional special moves to evade fireballs with ease. Her move set utilizes many kicks, but she also has several grabs, her trademark being her Frankensteiner. At times Cammy also has a more brutal fighting style, such as her second ultra in Super Street Fighter IV.

Cammy's overall style revolves around doing sudden and rapid sweeping attacks. Her move set allows the player to attack from almost any given range, and with great agility as a benefit. Her combo ability rivals that of Akuma, and can easily be on the toes of the opponent throughout the battle. However, her moves are a bit awkward to execute, and can make her vulnerable if blocked accordingly since her moves can put the player right in front of the opponent for an easy counterattack.

Also, Cammy's offensive power lacks mix up, often requiring frame-traps and/or baits to open up her opponent's defenses. Due to her fast offense, she is able to apply solid wake up pressure and vortex mix-ups. Overall, Cammy is a very versatile character with a great offensive game with strong normals, and useful attacks to prevent her from being cornered.

Trivia

 * Cammy is the second female character in the Street Fighter series, and currently the only one to represent the United Kingdom.


 * In Cammy's Street Fighter IV win quote against M. Bison, she calls him Lord Bison before correcting herself, showing she still retains traces of Shadoloo's brainwashing.


 * In the Street Fighter 1995 cartoon, Cammy was depicted as Guile's love interest before being brainwashed by Bison to be his lover. This was due to her original ending in Super Street Fighter II. The animation series occurred before it was revealed that she's a clone of Bison. (however, in the Japanese version, it was never mentioned that Cammy was Bison's lover). In the series finale, Cammy breaks free of the brainwashing.


 * Cammy is among the two characters in Super Street Fighter IV who have been given a counter ultra, the CQC (Cammy's Quick Combination), with the other character being Fei Long, whose counter ultra is Gekirinken.


 * She was initially going to be in the front box cover for Super Street Fighter IV, before being replaced by Dudley near the final release; however, she is featured on the Japanese cover.


 * In Masahiko Nakahira's Sakura Ganbaru manga, Cammy was accidentally named by Sakura, who found her with a lost memory. Cammy couldn't remember her name, but Sakura called her Cammy, the name coming from a cat in her neighborhood she reminded her of.


 * In Makoto's 3rd Strike ending, Cammy can be seen among the fighters defeated by Makoto. This was most likely a cameo appearance then anything else.


 * Abel and Cammy share many similar character traits:
 * Their past is linked with Shadaloo (as "replacement bodies" for M. Bison and Shadaloo experiment objects).
 * They both share a soft spot for stray house pets: Abel enjoys dogs while Cammy prefers cats.
 * They both suffered from amnesia.
 * They both hate M. Bison: Cammy hates him because he brainwashed her and turned her into an assassin; Abel, on the other hand, hates the Shadaloo leader because he remembers him as the man from his past, probably linked with the disappearance of his adopted father.
 * They both have blonde hair, clear-colored eyes and are European born/representative: Abel is possibly from France, while Cammy possibly hails from England.
 * They both bear physical scars: however, while Cammy has a single one on her left cheek, Abel has numerous scars across his body, including five on his face.
 * Both of their English voice actors (Jason Liebrecht and Caitlin Glass respectively) are based in Texas.


 * In Decapre's Ultra Street Fighter IV opening, a young Cammy is seen comforting a young Decapre. Oddly enough, Cammy speaks in an American accent and not a British one, likely due to her origin story indicating she isn't actually a UK native.


 * In Street Fighter Alpha 2, M. Bison states that Cammy has the power to destroy an entire country. This being said, it is very possible that Cammy has not fully retained her skill after suffering from amnesia and could become considerably more powerful in the future.


 * Cammy's alternate "Horror" costume (a bee outfit, a nod to her codename "Killer Bee") in Ultra Street Fighter IV has a strong resemblance to Q-Bee from the Darkstalkers games, also made by Capcom.


 * Initially, Cammy's model in Street Fighter V had angular, European features, which were altered following complaints from Japanese commentators, who felt Cammy's new design was "aimed at foreigners" and “exceedingly ugly”.
 * In addition to complaints, parts of Cammy, R. Mika and Juri's bodies have been "censored" in Street Fighter V. For example, Cammy's opening scene is shown at a higher angle than before and her classic mid-fight pose has also been changed to a less revealing one. These changes have caused widespread controversy among the Street Fighter community. Many claimed that it should not have been added or was not needed, while others say it should not have been changed.


 * Cammy was mentioned in the Street Fighter: Resurrection episodes "Fight & Flight" and "Mission Critical".
 * Cammy is the first character to have a "Shoryuken" style attack that is done with a kick rather than with fists.