Dan Hibiki(火引 弾) is consistently portrayed as an arrogant, overconfident, yet utterly weak character in many of the games he is featured in. He is widely considered to be the comic relief of the series because of his over-the-top poses and battle cries. In his most recent appearance in the home versions of Street Fighter IV, however, his moves have been slightly upgraded in order to be balanced with other characters.
Story
Dan’s father, Go Hibiki, was a rival of Sagat. Go gouged out Sagat’s eye and Sagat beat him to death in retaliation. Because of this, Dan sought revenge on Sagat, training to become a fighter, but was expelled from Gouken’s dojo when his motivations were learned. Dan thus developed his own style of Gouken’s martial art merged with Muay Thai elements and called Saikyo-ryuu, “The Strongest Style,” despite the complete weakness of his techniques.
After the events of Street Fighter Alpha 3, Dan believed he had achieved his revenge by defeating Sagat (who had actually thrown the fight), and his motivation switched to promoting and expanding his Saikyo-ryuu school, even to the point of offering exercise videos and correspondence courses. He has seemingly had some limited success promoting Saikyo-style.
In SFA3, he was Sakura Kasugano’s self-proclaimed sensei; in truth Sakura merely followed him around in order to meet Ryu. He’s also good friends with Blanka too, since Blanka saved Dan when he was young.
or go to the Prologues & Endings page to see video’s of this characters story.