Mike Haggar
Haggar also appears in Final Fight: Streetwise as a retired mayor in charge of a boat repair shop and training gym, offering assistance to Cody's brother Kyle.While the plot followed that of the same arcade game, Haggar was unable to act against the Mad Gear gang due to them holding Jessica hostage, and instead recruited the help of Ryu and Ken to rescue her, along with Cody and Guy.Haggar also appears as a mayor in the online flash cartoons Weebl and Bob's Team Laser Explosion, and as the protagonist in the stop-motion animation "A Sentinel in Metro City."Haggar also appears in the Final Fight fan film "The Broken Gear", portrayed by former professional wrestler and MMA fighter Don Frye.[9] Created by Akira "Akiman" Yasuda, Haggar's creation was based around the need of a "big dude" for players to be able to select in Final Fight.Series producer Akira Nishitani recalled Yasida was a big fan of Les Misérables during the first game's development, with Yasuda noting that Haggar was influenced by the musical's protagonist Jean Valjean, who becomes a mayor in the latter half of the story and is portrayed as a devoted father.[22] In 2021, author Carlos Cesar Domingos do Amaral gave a dissertation on the character as part of a seminar for the Universidade Metodista de São Paulo in Brazil.In the presentation, titled Mike Haggar – Um Ícone da Luta Livre nos Games, he felt that the character represented a snapshot of wrestling and its themes in the 1990's, namely through his muscular physique and moves but also the emphasis of simplistic good vs. evil in his storyline.