M. Bison

M. Bison is a human from Street Fighter.

For you, the day Bison graced your franchise was the most important day of your life.

M. Bison is an evil dictator and leader of the Shadaloo criminal empire. His control over Psycho Power gives him immense superhuman strength, which he channels into his abilities such as the Psycho Crusher, a spinning forward rush cloaked in Psycho Power; the Head Press, a leaping attack that pushes both feet down against an opponent's head; and the Double Knee Press, a somersaulting kick performed with both legs.

Fiction

Street Fighter II x Transformers toy bios

Fighting a losing battle against Ryu, Ken, and Chun-Li in Thailand, M. Bison used his Psycho Power to create a dimensional gateway and send a message to the other side, where it was intercepted by Megatron. Promising the Decepticon leader immense power, he lured Megatron to his world and convinced him to join forces. Megatron agreed and scanned Bison, learning his moves and gaining his Psycho Power, and Bison used the opportunity to escape. Megatron quickly learned to channel Bison's Psycho Power into his fusion cannon, allowing him to fire blasts of it even in vehicle mode. Secretly, Bison's true aim was for Megatron to lose control of the Psycho Power so that he might take control of Megatron and turn the Decepticon into his new body. However, Megatron anticipated this and planned to use Bison's ambitions against him. Megatron [Vega] packaging bio

Toys

Street Fighter II × Transformers

I killed my father too, and you don't hear me whining about it!

• Convoy [Ryu] vs Megatron [Vega] (Two-pack, 2018)

• Release date: May 26, 2018
• Accessories: Cannon, rifle, Headmaster

Part of the exclusive Street Fighter II × Transformers toyline, "Megatron [Vega]" is a redeco of Titans Return Voyager Megatron in Bison's traditional colors, fleshy bits and all. He transforms from robot to tank to fighter jet (both of made-up models), complete with Shadaloo insignia. The smaller Headmaster unit's robot mode is also painted to resemble Bison.

Like all Voyager Class Titans Return figures, he has a pair of pop-up parts to fill in the area around his head; in this case, a pair of missile racks. However, those parts heavily restrict his neck articulation when deployed; unlike many others in his size class, his chest does not contain a pivoting assembly for a better range of movement. Due to the nature of his transformation, it is possible to transform Bison into tank mode without removing his head.

His cannon can plug into the short barrel of the tank turret or the rifle/Headmaster vehicle weapon. In an undocumented additional feature, the rifle can be inserted into the front end of the cannon. The cannon can be mounted on his forearm or held by any figure with 5mm hands. It also has a peg hole that an accessory such as his rifle can plug into, with extra square peg holes to hold the rifle in place.

Megatron was only available in a two-pack with Convoy [Ryu]. This set was available for pre-order on TakaraTomy Mall from November 22nd (a Wednesday, dammit) to 27th, with orders shipping on the 26th of May 2018 (a Saturday, dammit!). A pre-order goal was also set: the first 3000 pre-ordered units would include a free clear display stand.

This two-pack was later brought to the United States in 2022 as part of the Transformers Collaborative line, released as a Target and Hasbro Pulse exclusive. These releases are functionally identical to the Takara versions; the Hasbro versions have new manufacturing tampographs, but are otherwise the same. They even have all of the Takara packaging inside the new Hasbro outer packaging!

Notes

• In its original packaging, the Megatron [Vega] toy is posed performing a Psycho Crusher.
• M. Bison has been played by a few Transformers alumni, including Tom Wyner and Richard Newman in English, and Tesshō Genda, Kenji Utsumi, Norio Wakamoto, and (currently) Taitem Kusunoki in Japanese.
• If you hail from outside Japan, then you may be confused why the above red-themed toy was named "Vega" by TakaraTomy. Well, because that's his name in all Japanese Street Fighter media! Back in the 1990s, Capcom named the red-suited dictator "Vega", the masked claw fighter "Balrog", and the boxer "M. Bison". However, when the game was being localized for the west, Capcom USA thought "Vega" did not sound sufficiently intimidating for a final boss and were concerned about potential litigation from the real-life boxer Mike Tyson.^[1] Thusly the aforementioned three characters had their names rotated: the red-suited dictator became "M. Bison", the masked claw fighter became "Vega", and the boxer became "Balrog", a change that has continued to this day.^[2] In fact, most competitive Street Fighter players simply refer to them as "Dictator", "Claw", and "Boxer" to avoid this very confusion.

Foreign names

• Japanese: Vega (ベガ Bega)

References

External links

• M. Bison at Wikipedia
• M. Bison at the Street Fighter Wiki