Janne (now spelled "Jeanne") also shows up in the 2018 all-girls fighting game SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy as a Downloadable Content character, marking the first time a World Heroes character has appeared since Battle Coliseum. The only appearance it made ever since was in NeoGeo Battle Coliseum, where Hanzou, Fuuma, and Mudman were playable characters and 2/ Perfect Big Bad Dio was one of the bosses (in his form from Perfect, Neo Dio.) This is because after its bankruptcy ADK was bought by SNK Playmore and the series actually become part of the SNK's Expanded Universe. Unfortunately, cool characters and gimmicks weren't enough to make the series stand out, and it languished into obscurity, during only between 19. There was also a slew of Rule of Cool involved in the character selection the sequels added even more thinly-veiled historical personages, including characters based on Captain Kidd, Erik The Red, Joe Montana, Lu Bu and Jack The Ripper, as well as generic witch-doctor Mudman for some reason. While initially largely derivative of Street Fighter, which explains its complete lack of longevity, it developed some interesting gimmicks later on by Jet and Perfect. That's World Heroes in a nutshell a one-on-one fighter built around No Historical Figures Were Harmed versions of famous people beating the snot out of each other. Imagine Hattori Hanzou, Kotaro Fuuma, Rasputin, Joan of Arc, Genghis Khan, Bruce Lee, Hulk Hogan, and a Nazi super-cyborg coming together and battling each other for the right to fight an alien shapeshifter bent on taking over the world. A series of fighting games developed for the Neo Geo by ADK and also co-created with SNK.
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