It’s a German word meaning “warrior.” Okay, that’s pretty clever. Let me look up “Kampfer” just to make sure… Ah ha. Or at least I hope it’s fictional or else I look like a real jerk. It immediately lands in the Street Fighteranimated universe, more specifically in a fictional Middle Eastern country. He gives chase and travels through time and space to retrieve it as the one and only hope in saving his world. Which is for the best, since the bad guys breach the castle and Warrior King IMMEDIATELY drops the orb into the portal.
Just in case the Warrior King loses the orb, the wizard enacts a spell that will intertwine their fates or some such. Warrior King’s Merlin-like advisor tells him to escape through a portal, lay low in another universe, and come back to save the day when he’s good and ready. Warrior King wields it, but if these dark mages were to get their mitts on it – and it looks like that’s about to happen – then the world is doomed. Turns out that Warrior World is sustained by a magical orb of unlimited power that controls the weather. Warrior King’s warrior kingdom is under attack by a squadron of evil sorcerers riding dragons. We begin in the Warrior King’s world of…um…Warrior World. Street Fighter rarely ever looked great, but this episode is infamous from how gnarly everything looks. Too bad you’d barely notice it due to the awful, awful animation.
All things considered, it’s a really well-written episode. “The Warrior King” is an episode that I imagine looked great on the written page. So let’s look at the history of the Michael Dorn-voiced Warrior King and his two-hour block of adventure: None of the episodes really advertise each other and on their own and in reruns and DVD, they’re mostly remembered by viewers as, “That weird episode when that Thor guy showed up. These shows were Street Fighter: The Animated Series, Savage Dragon, Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm, and Wing Commander Academy. Without any advertising hype or any kind of explanation, they decided to jumble up their schedule for one day only because four of their cartoons would work together as part of the same narrative. Saturday morning cartoons were still a thing and USA had quite the lineup of oddball shows. I can assure you that that’s an orb he’s holding and not a dinner plate. It’s the story of this man, the Warrior King. While the Street Fighter cast is the Street Fighter cast, Cyborg is more of a reference. Listen, as much as that guy was blatantly Kano with the cyber face and the heart-ripping, he’s not actually Kano.
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