In today’s video, we cover 9 strange facts that you likely didn’t know about Blanka. Let’s cover some of the more odd trivia that surrounds this classic Street Fighter 2 character and his presence in gaming.
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thunder bolt
06.11.2022He's half hulk half beast.
The CunninLynguist
05.11.2022His full name is Carlos "charlie" blanka /s
Ben Dares All
05.11.2022My favorite character! Woo!
Otaku
05.11.2022Jimmy!
Hdofu Fox
05.11.2022Blanka used to be my go to when I first got Strret Fighter 2 for the SNES, was the first character I got the ending for.
Vh-Ali N-Teen
05.11.2022Eyedol ending in Killer Instinct 1 has the similar ending like Blanka sf2
Rob Hou
05.11.2022The introduction to the genre was the face biting of Blanka back in '91!
atomicbrain9401
05.11.2022BRAZIL MENTIONED
BRAZIL MENTIONED
(~˘▾˘)~ (~˘▾˘)~
Bankkey Aoshi
05.11.2022Ppl used to think he was Charlie here in America back in the day.
Jeremy Naar
04.11.2022bruh that bit with the death of the philips cdi was extremely brilliant
Voidmaster Productions
04.11.2022I have never learned anything about blanka until now
Knife Teeth
04.11.2022You're regarded as a grifting beggar. Any response?
Net flix
04.11.2022I got the US import as soon as I could in the UK and got it on a Friday and me and a mate completed it with all 8 original characters before he went back home on Monday…Zangief was the last and hardest character for us to complete it with.
Great times
Isaac Kuo
04.11.2022What fun facts! Shocking!
John Pitts ii
04.11.2022Thanks for the amazing facts
Jeff Jacobson
04.11.2022I had misremembered the Japanese ending and thought the anklet thing was only in the US version. After seeing here the ending clearly shows the two looking at his ankle, I looked it up in a Japanese book that shows all the endings. In the original Street Fighter II, Blanka's mom, who's name is Samantha, uses the English word "bracelet" to refer to the thing around Blanka's ankle. In Super Street Fighter II, she instead uses the English word "anklet".
There is nothing in the Japanese ending about Shadowloo being involved in the plane crash (as is claimed in this video at 9:29), though, nor a plot to kill anyone on board. Both the US and Japanese endings just say there was a plane crash.
The thing about people thinking Blanka was yellow (prior to the games where you could select from various different colors) might have been just due to the TVs of the era. Many people played the game for the first time on SNES rather than the arcade. If your TV even had color adjustment controls, there was no "reset to factory settings" option on your TV. It was just a knob you could turn that would adjust the color until you thought it looked right. Maybe kids had the knob turned to a setting where Blanka appeared yellow.
Did the USA Network Street Fighter cartoon use the "Carlos Blanka" backstory from the movie? I never had cable TV and never saw the show, but that's what I remember hearing.
I think you mentioned it in a different video, but in the Street Fighter Zero/Alpha era they started depicting Blanka and Dan as being friends (and Dan calls him "Jimmy").
Junk Mail
04.11.2022As a Blanka main…I approve!!!
Speculative Dude Reviews
04.11.2022Another amusing Ono and Blanka fact, when Ono has his cameo in "Street Fighter Assassin's fist" the movie/min-series, he has his Blanka doll on a necklace, and it is very clear to see when he announces Ryu's fight.
JOSHUA KANE
04.11.2022Fact #10: He is the best street fighter character.
Caio Calejon
02.11.20221 fact: HANDSOME/HOT TOP DADDY 🥵🥵🔥🔥🔥🔥
Pablo Ignacio Scaletta
02.11.2022How odd that Blanka was named Charlie in the Street Fighter 1994 film despite the explicit mention of his name in his ending three years prior!
K. Gracia
02.11.2022The Charlie Nash misguided lore from the SF cartoon is hilarious. When you mentioned this i just cracked a smile remembering that from back in the day. Thanks for the memories and bringing this fun fact to the forefront!
James Bounds
02.11.2022Blanka is one of my favorite Street Fighter characters.
Waifu Video Gamer
02.11.2022Didn't use him much but he is indeed cool.
Lord Vlygar
02.11.2022Colors are a cultural and lingual aspect. With all the different shades, seeing Blanka's skin with a more yellow hue, we still call it green. However, in some other cultures, that may be a yellow to them. English has red and pink, yet other cultures and languages consider them both the same color (technically, they are). Italy has Azzure, but we call it blue. In older forms of English, black wasn't a color. It was a name for a kind emptiness, akin to today's word "void". There is a lot of history to it, but there are tons of videos on Youtube that explain it much better than I.
squishycld
02.11.2022There is a blanka cat costume in monster hunter
Ejay Camar
02.11.2022Its better if you spell it Filipino
Maurizio Bernotti
02.11.2022Blanka 💓
Phillip Lamb
02.11.2022I didn't wacth the video, i just wanted to comment that blanka is the most hated then/here/and now and im part of the majority.. Enjoy the video everyone else though..
LobsterPuncher
01.11.2022Seeing Blanka on the cover of SF2 as a kid is what made me want to play it. He's the reason I'm a lifelong Street Fighter fan.
Jay B
01.11.2022Come on, everyone knows his SF2 ending.
AlphaProto
01.11.2022The anklet on Blanka was later changed to be under the metal bracers on Blanka's legs in his Super STreet Fighter II HD REmix Online ending. So Blanka is Jimmy.
KnaveMurdok
01.11.2022I am surprised that you did not mention that in the American Street Fighter Animated Series, there is an episode where Blanka is able to revert back to his human form. This episode came out shortly after Street Fighter Alpha was released, so the human form Blanka got to turn into was a funny mashup of what live action Charlie looked like in Street Fighter The Movie and Charlie as he appeared in Street Fighter Alpha. Always makes me laugh.
Chu Morgan
01.11.2022"NOT THE HEAD BITE!"
Roninja 69
01.11.2022Blanka ate Jimmy of course and kept the anklet.
Dylan .T
01.11.2022Great video as always
AR
01.11.2022You forgot about the animated that followed this movie that had an episode where Carlos Blanka temporarily got his mutation reversed after an incident where he saved someone and the person called him a monster in japanese after seeing his appearance
Torell Suggs
01.11.2022i knew the earlier design of blanka was racist