![]() He zones out when Haggar or his assistant, Marlowe, try to dictate to him what needs to be done if he listens to what they say, he won’t be the one in control anymore. Plus, he doesn’t want to give up that control to anyone. It’s the reason why he went after Abigail pretty much unprovoked in Street Fighter 5. In Cody’s eyes, everything should be okay if he can beat people up. By beating up thugs who threaten the city, he can control the way gangs move around in it. This leads to the second possibility, one that is much more sinister and far more likely: Cody has an issue with control. He himself states just how bored he is with having to put up with all the deskwork, preferring to beat up thugs like in simpler times. You’ll end up like me if you don’t.” Granted, he didn’t need either to become mayor in 5, but it’s also clear he has zero tolerance of the responsibilities he needs to oversee as an elected official. While he can punch through brick walls with ease and take his handcuffs off at will, he doesn’t have financial independence and has little in the way of a formal education, as proven in his win quote to Ibuki in Street Fighter 5 in which he says, “I’d stick to school if I were you. Cody, however, has nothing to show for it but his own strength. As he states in his prologue, he thought that ending Mad Gear would make everyone happy, but in his words, “Everyone else goes on to live the high life and I get left behind in a prison cell.” Haggar continues his role as the influential mayor of Metro City and Guy keeps his freedom while pursuing the teachings of Bushinryu. However, there are two main possibilities we can speculate on.įirst, Cody simply feels inadequate compared to Guy and Haggar. He may live for the fight, but it isn’t a good enough reason for why Guy sees him as broken or why Cody believes he belongs in a jail cell. After Cody beats Seth, Guy finds him and tells him that since he beat a “great evil”, then “this means that you must still hold a shred of goodness in your heart.” Cody responds in the negative, stating simply, “he was in my way,” and would return to the prison cell he broke out of because “hat’s where I belong.” It isn’t stated anywhere in canon as to why Cody feels the way he does. The exchange between Guy and Cody in Cody’s Super Street Fighter 4 ending hints at this. There is something much darker going on with Cody. Since the people around her are fighters, this wouldn’t be enough to have them break up. Haggar is a fighter through and through himself. ![]() Granted, no person wants their significant other to be constantly in and out of jail for picking fights with strangers, but don’t forget: she is Mike Haggar’s daughter. See, here’s the thing: I don’t think the funk is what caused Jessica to leave him. Unless he can fight, his life has no meaning, and he’ll just end up slipping back into his self-imposed funk, fighting random people and getting into more and more trouble. In other words, Cody lives for the fight. However, there is a quote I found that explains Cody’s instability pretty well: While I could point out that Final Fight: Streetwise showed that Cody became addicted to a drug and was a willing participant in Father Bella’s schemes in order to get more, since that game is non-canonical, I’m not going to use any plot points from that game in this theory. He succeeded to an extent, but the corruption continued despite his, Guy’s, and Haggar’s best efforts, and eventually Cody became a part of the seedy underworld himself. His mission from the start was to excise Belger’s influence and eliminate all corruption in the city. This isn’t to say that Cody doesn’t have a sense of justice. Lastly, despite it all, he was elected mayor of Metro City and became Haggar’s successor.Ĭody has made some leaps and bounds and is seemingly on the side of good again, but the question remains: is Cody really a good guy now? Has he truly reformed? Third, he’s irritated when looking at the past, seemingly accepting that he’s become a bad guy. ![]() Second, he’s nostalgic about his days fighting with Guy and Haggar to clean up Metro City. ![]() First, he’s become bored out of his mind with his life and where he’s ended up. Over the course of his story from game to game, we find out a few things about him. It’s revealed in Alpha 3 that Cody went from being one of Metro City’s heroes to being one of its biggest troublemakers. While there is nothing in-game that states why they’re no longer together, it’s Cody’s actions throughout Street Fighter Alpha 3, Street Fighter 4, and Street Fighter 5 that paint a picture of Cody’s perspective on life and why the split happened in the first place. However, there was one thing in Cody’s background that has yet to be revealed: his breakup with Jessica. Much like Ken, too much of his story is in the open to say that he has anything at all to reveal. Trying to write a theory on Cody is extremely difficult. ![]()
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