| “ | You are so small! Aren't you scared? | „ |
| ~ Hugo |
Hugo Andore is the supporting character in the Street Fighter series. He used to be a villain as well as a member of the organization Mad Gear. Both he, and his closest friend Poison, left the organization roughly the same time. Hugo became a wrestler with Poison as his manager.
Biography
Hugo Andore hails from a family of powerful German pro wrestlers. Hugo and several members of his family were prominent members of Mad Gear for many years. After being beat up by Cody, Guy and Haggar for so many years, Hugo decided that the criminal life was not for him. He entered the third World Warrior tournament, accompanied by his new wrestling manager and former Mad Gear member, Poison.
In the timeline of Street Fighter III, Hugo decided the criminal lifestyle was not for him, and entered the third World Warrior tournament. His friend and fellow former Mad Gear member, Poison, accompanied him as his manager. Hugo's goal in the third World Warrior tournament was was to find a suitable tag team partner.During the tournament, Hugo fought Ryu and managed to continue fighting after being hit with a Shin Shoryuken. Hugo was eventually defeated, and even though Ryu became his temporary tag team partner, it seems that he failed in accomplishing his mission. After the tournament, Hugo and Poison also decided to start their own wrestling promotion, the Huge/Hyu Wrestling Army (HWA). Their main objective is to take over all of pro wrestling.
During Ultra Street Fighter IV, Hugo was working as a construction worker after the Mad Gear gang dismantled. When a mob of former Mad Gear members came to him looking for a fight, he was uninterested. Instead, they found him feeling homesick, crying for his mother's potatoes. When one of the thugs says that he's like a potato himself and strikes him, Hugo becomes enraged and thrashes them all, deciding to go to S.I.N.'s new tournament to show his strength. After defeating one of M.Bison's artificial beings in a wrestling ring, his former colleague Poison approaches him, offering to be his manager. Hugo declines, saying that he won't take orders anymore. Poison says that she won't be his boss, but that he could use her help because he has the brains of a potato. At this, Hugo becomes pensive. Poison interprets this as disinterest and announces that she'll leave him alone, as if she stays any longer she'll become a potato too. Hugo, excited, tells her that he will take her up on her offer and that she can be a potato too.
Appearance
Hugo is a muscular hulk that stands at just under 8 feet. Prior to Abigail's playable debut in Street Fighter V, Hugo held the mantle of being the tallest Street Fighter character in the series. He is also one of the heaviest. Hugo usually wears a pink leopard skin tank-top with darker pink jeans, brown boots, and black studded wristbands. He wears a thick chain from the back of his waist, to 3/4 of the way around his waist, ending at his hip. He has long, messy black hair, that bounces and moves around as he moves and attacks.
Abilities
Hugo fights using Pro wrestling. He is the epitome of a prodigy heavyweight wrestler, enormous in size and with sheer brute strength to match. Combined with his experiences in the Mad Gear Gang and fighting out on the streets, Hugo's strength is reinforced with hard knowledge of how to take out the opposition, making him a relentless and dangerous opponent.
Personality
Ever since his defeat and humiliation at the hands of Mike Haggar during the events of Final Fight, Hugo has been determined to assert himself as the number one wrestler in the world. Teaming up with Poison after the fall of Mad Gear in order to prove himself in the art of international fighting, he enters the world warrior tournament.
Hugo is often depicted (especially in recent portrayals) as somewhat typical "dumb muscle", being quite unintelligent and dimwitted; this is somewhat accentuated by his odd facial expressions, and he even occasionally acknowledges this. However, he is very short-tempered and will make any excuse to get into a fight, especially if he or his best friend Poison is insulted in any form. Hugo also takes a lot of pride in his size, strength and extremely muscular build, to the point that he often claims to barely feel most attacks as a taunt of sorts.
His partnership and friendship with Poison is the most solid and tightly knit one, which has been once put to the test in his story in Street Fighter V, in which the two had a falling out; this has since been mended thanks to his encounters with people like Lucia, and the reconciliation resulted in their partnership being stronger than ever.
In Ultra Street Fighter IV, Hugo is revealed to have a fixation on potatoes, as he can be seen talking about them frequently in his win quotes against other characters. To Hugo, potatoes are a symbol of strength and manhood, as his mother had inspired him to "grow like a potato" in childhood.
