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Lei Fang

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Lei Fang

Lei Fang from Dead or Alive 4
Profile
Full Name Lei Fang
Known As Tai Ji Quan Genius
Fighting Style Tai Chi Quan
Nationality Chinese
Birthday April 23rd
Age 19
Blood Type B
Height 163cm (5'4")
Weight 50kg (110lbs)
Body Size B87 W55 H86cm
(B34" W22" H34")
Occupation College Student
Hobbies Aromatherapy
Favorite Food Sweet Tofu Dessert
Debut Dead or Alive
Japanese Voice Yumi Tōma
English Voice Zinnia Su (DOAX2)
"Everything in the world exist within the Tai Chi."
—Lei Fang

Lei Fang debuted in the first Dead or Alive game. She is one of the first females to appear in the series, alongside Kasumi and Tina.

A martial art prodigy and college/university student who grew up in a wealthy family Lei Fang is a woman of justice and very independently spirited. Throughout the series she seeks to fight Jann Lee, who is thought to have saved her life at one stage in her past, to prove herself to him that she too is a strong individual. However, Lei Fang has so far lost to Jann in every tournament. In every game, she trains harder to beat him.

Lei Fang's fighting style is Tai Chi Quan, a graceful martial arts style most commonly known in the world simply as Tai Chi.

Contents

[edit] History

[edit] Dead or Alive

Lei Fang joined the Tournament in order to fight Gi, a martial artist who saved her from a bunch of thugs six years ago. For that, she was very grateful, yet felt that she could have handled the situation herself. After that incident, she mastered the art of Tai Chi Quan and sought to prove her strength. During the tournament she faces Jann Lee, who turns out to be Gi, however she is defeated.

[edit] Dead or Alive 2

Defeated but not beaten Lei Fang trains harder and proceeds onto the next tournament. During her matches she forms a philosophical rivalry with Tina Armstrong, who believes that the meaning of power comes from physical strength. Lei Fang disagreed, arguing and demonstrating that power originated from the mind and was channeled into and through the rest of the body. When she finally faced Jann Lee she tells him that her martial art was perfected and that she was ready. However, Lei Fang loses again, resulting in Jann Lee retorting that she was far from ready.

[edit] Dead or Alive 3

Now long known to many as a young genius of T'ai Chi Quan, Lei Fang continues to train to defeat Jann Lee. She enters the third Dead or Alive tournament saying; "This time... This time, I am going to beat him!"

While Lei Fang once again fights her way to Jann Lee. When she finally reaches him, telling him it was time for him to release “the dragon” within him, Lei Fang once again loses the fight. After the tournament she rescues a young boy from getting kidnapped, easily defeating the kidnappers with her martial art skills.

[edit] Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball

Lei Fang was invited to Zack Island, believing it was an invitation to the fourth Dead or Alive Tournament. However she finds that she, along with the other ‘combatants’ who had shown up to fight, had been duped by Zack. Instead she spends the two weeks on the island playing volleyball, shopping and relaxing, making friends with fellow high-spirited prodigy Hitomi, however her rivalry with Tina from the second tournament is still evident.

[edit] Dead or Alive 4

Lei Fang enters the tournament to once again fight Jann Lee. She defeats Hitomi in a match after Hitomi demandingly tells Lei Fang that the cabbage she was buying was hers. She then defeats Bass Armstrong after he began attacking bystanders after losing his money at the casino. After both other these matches she finally reaches Jann Lee, who is not really surprised to see her. The two combating in the DOATEC Tritower the building begins to fall apart due to the attack made by the Mugen Tenshin ninja, however the two start their match anyway. The outcome of the fight turned out to be Lei Fang as the winner. Finally defeating Jann Lee and she headed for the final round to find ALPHA-152. However it seemed that ALPHA-152 was too powerful for her, therefore, Jann Lee saved her and he himself fought the experimental being. While he too was unable to defeat it the two managed to escape from the monster and the building before it exploded.
After the tournament she becomes involved in an accident on a train which involved her shirt's buttons being ripped opened due to her enormously big breast and getting inadvertently grabbed on her breast by an old man by accident. She loses her temper however, despite the situation being an accident, and literally kicks the man who grabbed her through a window and out of the moving train which the other passengers greeted with applause. (It is unknown weither they were applauding her kick, or mocking her due to the fact that the buttons on her shirt came undone)

[edit] Dead or Alive Xtreme 2

Invited once again to New Zack Island Lei Fang was looking forward to a vacation.

[edit] Personality

Lei Fang is a spunky, intelligent and cheerful 19-year-old college student. Practicing martial arts has given her a strong dedication to self-improvement, both mentally and physically. Lei Fang hopes that by honing her own skills, she can eventually help others to do the same. At the same time, her young age and general inexperience with the world around her can sometimes cause her to not fully think things through. Along with a strong motivation for self-improvement, Lei Fang is also somewhat prideful and becomes angry if she feels she is being taken advantage of or being looked down upon. This may be the core reason for her fixation and need to prove herself to Jann Lee, who had rescued her in a time of need six years previous to the DOA first tournament.

[edit] Relationships

[edit] Jann Lee

Jann Lee is Lei Fang's primary rival, target and obsession, as nominated by Lei Fang. Ever since Jann Lee, then known as Gi, saved her from a group of thugs, she perfected her skills so that she could prove herself to him and become a part of his world. It is unclear on what Jann Lee’s feelings are exactly about this rivalry/obsession, however he doesn’t seem to have made any attempts to stop her from continuing in its pursuit. Unless one calls soundly defeating her time and time again a form of an attempt in stopping her.

[edit] Tina

Stemming from a disagreement on the philosophy of martial power Tina and Lei Fang have since become rivals of a sort, if not for any other reason than for their difference in opinions.

[edit] Hitomi

Hitomi and Lei Fang are friends and martial art rivals, with both being students and at the same time are skilled in their martial styles. Both being young and somewhat naïve due to their cheerful personalities they can be playful with each other one minute and then become engaged in a heated battle the next over something as trivial as buying a cabbage.

[edit] Preferences

[edit] Gameplay

[edit] DOA

Lei Fang is a very technical character, focusing on powerful holds and parry maneuvers to expose the enemy for counterattacks. She also has an excellent air-juggling game. A common combo starter is the Renkan-Sho-Kinda, which hits 3 times in succession, and depending on the terrain height and launch duration, can hit up to 6 times in succession. Her kicks, similar to Gen Fu, are also excellent combo starters (such as Sanren-Kyaku) and have an excellent execution and recovery time frame. Due to her varying attack string levels, she can be very difficult to counter against. She is most compatible in tag-team battle with Helena and Jann Lee but particularly Helena, for "Power is not always the answer" and thus their combination of intricate techniques highly complement one another.

[edit] DOAX


Lei Fang is not the strongest character in terms of power, resulting in poor spikes, however she has good technique, jump and defense stats, thus making her an ideal defensive character in returning the ball and counterattacking.


Stats
  • Power - 1/5
  • Technique - 4/5
  • Defense - 5/5
  • Jump - 4/5
  • Speed - 3/5


[edit] Musical Themes

The below themes are played during matches against Lei Fang:

[edit] Other Appearances

[edit] DOA: Dead or Alive

Lei Fang was played by Ying Wang in the DOA movie, DOA: Dead or Alive. She makes several appearances in the beginning of the movie, until she got knocked out by Gen Fu. She also can be seen far away in the beach scene.

[edit] Trivia

  • Her Chinese name ‘Lei Fang’ means "Beautiful Phoenix", which is a common name for Chinese girls in Shanghai. This can imply that Lei Fang is from the area.
  • Her favorite color is lemon yellow.
  • In DOA4 it is revealed that she wears glasses. Pressing the "Y" button when selecting her to play will result in her wearing said glasses.
  • Lei Fang's hairstyle changed from braids to straight hairstyle in DOA4. In the previous games having her hair loose came as an optional costume accessory, much in the same way as Kasumi.
  • The Tai Chi style Lei Fang practices is a mixture of the Yang and Chen styles.

[edit] Gallery

DOA 2 render

DOA 2 render

Concept Art

[edit] Endings


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