


Martial Arts Headband: He's worn a blue martial arts headband in every appearance he's made, both in Streets of Rage and cameo appearances in other games.Manly Facial Hair: In between 3 and 4, he retired to the wilderness and grew a shaggy lumberjack's beard.Jack of All Stats: In the first game, his stats are even and average straight across the board.The Hero: Is this for the whole series, but Streets of Rage 3 storywise implies that he's The Lancer to Blaze.
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Tropes Are Not Bad, however, as this series pretty much focuses on how much Axel and his company can kick butt and he delivers well done.

Early-Installment Weirdness: The remake plays with this.Though by Street Fighter V (which is a prequel to III, but takes place after IV), Cody goes straight and becomes the mayor of Metro City. Meanwhile, Cody ended up on the wrong side of the law as of Street Fighter Alpha 3 and swapped his jeans and white t-shirt for prison stripes. By 4, Axel had grown a beard and added a flannel shirt tied around his waist to his wardrobe. Divergent Character Evolution: Axel and Final Fight's Cody started out as pretty much the same character.Bison has appropriated their Mecha-Mooks to his troops and is planning to blow up the SS Queen Zenobia with their leftover bombs. He joins the party in Chapter 11, having caught wind that following the Syndicate's defeat in Streets of Rage 3, M. Crossover: Appears as an Assist Character in Project × Zone 2.Closet Geek: His listed hobby in 1 is Video Games but this never comes up in the games proper.Breaking the Fourth Wall: The Japanese intro to the 3rd game shows Axel's back as he ties his bandanna on, just before he spins around and punches the screen, cracking it.He rejoins the police force in BK3, only to leave again after the events of the game. X's crime syndicate with his partners, Adam and Blaze. A former cop who left the Wood Oak police force due to its corruption in order to take down Mr.
