head of an international investment NGO, and the main antagonist of Street Fighter 6, having been responsible for the Nayshall incident surrounding Luke and Ken’s lives. Aside from having a pet cat named Cybele, he is revealed to have a secret connection to the deceased primary antagonist of the series, M. Bison, due to him also having Psycho power and claims to be the late Shadaloo dictator’s successor. Kimberly was also first shown in the trailer for June 2022 before being announced at EVO 2022. She is an African-American graduate student and graffiti artist. She recently became Guy's kunoichi apprentice and loves 1980's pop culture. Kimberly is also a natural born fighter who easily defeated Zeku, which led Guy to accept her request to be his apprentice. Lily Manon is an idealistic French ballerina, judoka champion, and celebrity who joined the competitive world fighting circuits to pursue true beauty through self-improvement. Marisa is a giant muscular Italian jewelry designer and an MMA-Pankration fighter, whose medium-length red hair almost looks like a helmet. Inspired by Greco-Roman gladiator culture, she enters competitive fighting to seek both glorious beauty and strength. She was briefly seen in the first full trailer of Summer State Play 2022 before being fully revealed in Tokyo Game Show 2022. Introduced in the Street Fighter EX series The Street Fighter EX series is developed by Arika, a company formed of former Capcom employees. Arika later developed its own fighting game featuring characters from the series, Fighting EX Layer, which was released in 2018. Ace , who is introduced in Street Fighter EX3, is a government agent who is ordered by the prime minister of his nation to find information about a secret weapon being developed in an underground base. Ace uses a custom fighting style, which the player can edit by passing a series of trials in the game's Character Edit mode. Allen , who appears as a secret character in the original Street Fighter EX and as a regular character in Street Fighter EX Plus and EX Plus α, is a fighter who was said to be the strongest freestyle karate fighter on the American karate circuit, until he experienced his first defeat against a young Ken Masters at the All-American Martial Arts Tournament. Ken told Allen that he was only a "big fish in a small pond". Motivated by these words, Allen sets out to prove that