mr big (snk)

A villain in SNK's Art of Fighting and The King of Fighters series of video games.

The original boss of the South Town underworld, before a young Geese Howard swooped in and took over. Mr. Big was the mastermind behind the kidnapping of Yuri Sakazaki in AoF. After Ryo Sakazaki and Robert Garcia ran Geese out of town, Mr. Big disappeared for a time, with no love lost for Geese. In Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves, twelve years after Geese's death by Terry Bogard, Mr. Big returns to reassert himself as the OG of South Town. He secretly worked as part of a collaboration with Billy Kane and Kain R. Heinlein to protect Marie Heinlein, sister of Kain and mother of Geese's bastard son Rock Howard.

In the original Japanese story of Art of Fighting 2, it's explained that Mr. Big is a rival of Geese within the same criminal syndicate who are both vying for control. In an attempt to thwart Geese maneuvers to gain more power, he kidnaps Yuri to manipulate Takuma Sakazaki under his command and prevent Geese from recruiting him. In the English localization and Japanese Super Nintendo retelling of the events, however, Mr. Big is instead begrudgingly serving under Geese's as his second in command, and it was Geese himself who masterminded the kidnapping of Yuri and ultimately gained Takuma under his control.

In the King of Fighters continuity, Mr. Big again served as Geese's lackey before eventually turning on him, and he and Geese are in the midst of a gang war in South Town.