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The perfect examples of this are in the two most popular games of the era: Street Fighter II had Chun-Li, while Mortal Kombat had Sonya Blade as each game's respective token female character. Admittedly, the rosters were much smaller at the time, but even amongst the eight characters (on average) for each game, there would usually be just one woman amongst the bunch. Anyone who grew up during the heyday of fighting games remembers how scarce female fighters were.
