Terry Bogard

Appearance Terry is often depicted as an adult Caucasian male with a well-built muscular physique and long blonde hair, usually sporting a ponytail held by a blue hair tie. He is often recognized wearing a red vest with a white star marked on the back, white shirt, blue jeans, fingerless gloves, high top sneakers, and a red and white baseball cap as his signature accessory.

Personality Terry Bogard is an incredibly charismatic, cheerful and friendly man with everyone around him, given/despite his rough past growing up. In spite of seeming rather playful and/or insensitive to others in his dialogue especially when in combat, Terry truly bears no ill will towards anyone other than the truly malicious and outright irredeemable; this mainly applies to foes such as the likes of Geese Howard, the killer of his adoptive father, and the psychopathic Ryuji Yamazaki.

His relationship with Andy is that of respect, recognizing his younger brother as his fiercest rival despite Terry himself being the better fighter of the two. Be it in fighting, travels, or simply hanging out, Andy is the most affable and solid companion that he has, along with Joe. He feels a sense of kinship with Blue Mary for her loss, and the two developed a long time relationship with some hints of romance. He treats Rock as his son as he teasingly calls him "Rookie", but allows him to choose his own path in life. Terry is also well-informed of what goes on in the streets.

Even then, a common recurring gag is due to Terry's habit of only doing part-time work to get by, he tends to rack up a notable tab at the places he often eats out at.

Powers Sense: Terry can sense the presence of people nearby. Ergokinesis: Terry has an incredible power of energy, that he uses when gathering chi energy from Gaia. Gather Chi: Terry can gather chi energy from Gaia, the mother-earth. Power Wave: Terry can fire a projectile of energy that travels through the ground, or form an explosive area-of-effect strike known as Round Wave. Power Geyser: By punching the ground, Terry can make a more powerful version of the Power Wave, creating a massive geyser of energy coming from below the ground. He can either summon extra rows of geysers with a single punch, punch a few more times for one extra each, or wave his fist around to create more in one setting. Energy Attacks: Terry can use chi energy to increase the damage of his normal attacks. Burn Knuckle/Quick Burn: Terry can surround his fist in energy to deliver a fierce punch. Crack Shoot: Terry can surround his legs in energy and utilize it for a powerful jumping axe kick. Create Fire: Terry can create fire via an improved version of his Fire Kick move. Skills Acrobatics: Terry is very proficient with acrobatics in his fighting, using moves like Crack Shoot and Rising Tackle. Adaptability: Due to his training in various fighting techniques, Terry can adapt with any opponent he faces. This also can comically add to being able to analyze things at first glance (especially women's measurements). Resilience: Terry can take a lot of punishment when fighting brutish opponents like Wolfgang Krauser and Grant. Survival: Terry lived and grew up on the mean streets of Southtown and other parts of the USA where survival was an everyday battle. Basketball: The cornerstone of Terry's agility and fighting style, being especially skilled at shooting 3-pointers. Fishing: Terry appears to have a recurring knack for fishing, mainly with the trolling method via luring catches along his trail.

Fighting Style Terry uses a mixture of boxing, karate, kung fu, kickboxing and street fighting moves to create a very unique fighting style, mixed in with chi techniques learned from his Hakkyokuseiken master, Tung Fu Rue. He had also learned martial arts directly from his adoptive father, Jeff Bogard. Other sources state his fighting experience was also gained from brawling on the streets for years to hone proper techniques for himself, where he tested out varying methods of fighting to his tastes.

Terry is an all-around fighter, with extensive knowledge of many martial arts techniques. He uses many variations of punches, such as hooks and uppercuts and can also kick with ease. A majority of his techniques have a "power naming" motif, via Power Wave, Power Drive, Power Shoot and Power Geyser. Two of his signature moves, the Crack Shoot and Power Dunk, were inspired by Terry's love for basketball, in which the latter move was enhanced in The King of Fighters XIV and was renamed the "Star Dunk Volcano".

In later years, Terry also developed a technique that ties into his wolf motif, named the Buster Wolf. He also in a few instances, creates a technique that has the same input scheme as Geese's Deadly Rave (as a possible tribute), known as the Rising Beat, which first debuted in SvC Chaos. Terry also pays tribute to Geese's son Rock by having his own version of his stronger-version Shine Knuckle, the Rising Force (which acts as his HSDM/MAX2DM).