Juri Han (Japanese: ハン・ジュリ / Korean: 한주리) is a character in the Street Fighter series. She made her debut in Super Street Fighter IV, where she is a main character in the storyline. She is 25 years old (as of Super Street Fighter IV) and is described as a somewhat mean and nasty member of S.I.N.

The character was created by request of many Korean fans who wished for Capcom to add a Korean character in Street Fighter, something already established by SNK and Namco in their respective fighting franchises. Juri is the first South Korean character, the first Taekwondo user, and the first true villainess in the Street Fighter series.

Official Profile:

Birthdate: January 1st

Birthplace: South Korea

Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)

Weight: 101 lbs. (46 kg)

Eye color: Purple

Hair color: Black

Blood type: AB

Fighting style: Taekwondo (ITF-based and Feng Shui Engine powered)

Likes: Spicy food, spiders, strong warrior to battle with

Dislikes: Rules, tedious people, Shadaloo, M. Bison

Rival(s): Chun-Li, Cammy, M. Bison, Nao Yuuki (SFxMH), Shizuru Fujino (SFxMH)

Hobbies: She never forgets her way (photographic memory)

Alignment: Neutral (anti-villain)

Moveset: Fuhajin, Shikusen, Senpusha, Kasatushi, Fuharenjin, Kaisen Dankairaku

First game: Super Street Fighter IV

English voice actor(s): Jessica Straus

Japanese voice actor(s): Eri Kitamura

Bio

Appearance

Juri wears a small, purple breastplate, supported with black straps that fasten to form a spider pattern on her back. She wears long, baggy, off-white colored trousers and purple tights, and long, fingerless gloves. Her fingernails and toenails are painted bright pink. She has dark hair styled into two horn-like bangs at the top of her head, which appear to be fastened with pink ribbons. She also wears Tae Kwon Do foot garments.

Personality

Juri is a warrior who fights for the thrill of the battle; unlike Ryu, who seeks meaning, her drive is more vengeful, as she likes inflicting pain on her foes. She has some femme fatale elements, as she makes provocative and suggestive remarks toward her enemies; as well seen in her win quotes, and also betrays those she was working with for her own reasons. She possesses a strong, sensual figure, but is a cunning and somewhat reckless fighter with a urge to cause destruction to her most hated enemies.

Juri is a calculating person, callous to her foes at times, and treats her allies as pawns if needed. This behavior is typically likened to that of a female "spider", as partially indicated by her costume. Despite this, she will give her foes a chance to flee or leave, and only fights when she has to, meaning that she has a small sense of honor; during her mission (which took place during the events of Super Street Fighter IV), she left a young boy alive.

Juri is also among the warriors who notice Evil Ryu's savage and demonic nature. They share similarities of being cold-blooded to their arch foes, but the differences that Juri is somewhat flippant and sado-masochistic towards her enemies, while the latter has a strong disregard for life, vengeance, and the people that he cares about and his own humanity, even being heartless. Interestingly, if Juri faces Evil Ryu as a boss in Arcade Mode, the latter will recognize her reckless acts of violence, and says that his Satsui no Hado will consume her soul.

Abilities

Juri is an offensively oriented rushdown character, like most characters that use Tae Kwon Do in fighting games (e.g. Kim Kaphwan of King of Fighters and Hwoarang of Tekken). She uses a few punches, but mostly uses kicks. Juri is a very flashy fighter who likes to toy with her opponent, and is used best in bursts of aggression.

Juri has a projectile technique that she can choose to charge in a method similar to Balrog's Turn Punch or El Fuerte's Quesadilla Bomb. If she chooses to charge it, she does a high kick that leaves a trail of energy which will hit very close opponents or cancel out approaching projectiles if timed correctly. Juri can then unleash her fireball at any time after that by releasing the button, either immediately or much later in the match.

Her most notable technique is her pinwheel kick, which moves her forward as she does a wheel kick similar to Guile's Flash Kick and Chun-Li's Spinning Bird Kick. Juri also has a counter move known as Kasatushi, in which she taunts her enemy into hitting her, and if the opponent strikes, Juri will either move backwards, jump into the air (and optionally react with an air attack), or dart behind her opponent.

Juri possesses an aerial dive kick that moves at several ranges depending on the kick button pressed following the air motion, and can be followed up with more kicks.

Juri's Super Combo, Fuharenjin, has her unleash a flurry of fireballs that juggles the opponent, ending with a fireball that hits the opponent in the air diagonally. Her first Ultra Combo is Feng Shui Engine, which is a time-based move that allows her to chain together combos with her normal moves that ordinarily wouldn't combo together via the power of Juri's eponymous eye. Her second Ultra Combo is Kaisen Dankairaku (chosen more often due to its easier use and direct damage), where Juri kicks the opponent, follows up with a multi-hit helicopter kick, and then kicks her opponent to the ground. Using the Feng Shui Engine's power, she gets to the ground before they land, "catches" them with one last kick, and then slams her opponent to the ground.

In Street Fighter X Mai-HiME, the Kaisen Dankairaku is one of the said attacks that destroyed Julia, Nao Yuuki's Child. Instead of slamming Julia into the ground after catching her, she impales the latter with her feet.