Gill

Gill (ギル, Giru^?) is a video game character from the Street Fighter series, first appearing as the main antagonist of Street Fighter III: New Generation. He is the leader of the Secret Society, a mysterious organization made up of humanity's elite who have controlled world events from the shadows since the dawn of history, and seeks to fulfill an apocalyptic agenda to ensure its own utopian salvation. Gill returns as a playable character in Street Fighter V: Champion Edition.

Biography

Appearance

Gill's appearance is characterized by his half red and half blue muscular body and flowing blonde hair. He bears a distinct and intentional resemblance to a Greek God. In keeping with that theme, Gill fights completely unclothed except for a white thong around his hips.

Gill's asymmetrical color scheme was a device for Capcom to display the graphical power of the CPS-3 board. In previous 2D Street Fighter games, details such as Sagat's eyepatch would switch sides depending on which way the character was facing. Originally, Gill was to be colored black and white, and utilize powers over light and darkness. It was later decided to color him red and blue, to better show off the game's graphical power. The black and white palette is used often as a secondary color. Additionally, Gill was designed to wear a loincloth to show off as much of his red and blue hues as possible.

The sprite of Gill's secretary, Kolin, has an intentionally asymmetrical haircut, so, like Gill, she appears graphically impressive when rotating from facing one direction to another, instead of being a mirrored sprite. In 3rd Strike, a special glow has been programmed to constantly render his sprite in both positive and negative coloration, further showing off the CPS-3 board's impressive graphical power. He is then known as "Omega Gill".

In the UDON comics, before he changed into his signature skin and eye colors, Gill's skin was tan and he had dark gray eyes.

In his pre-fight intro in New Generation and 2nd Impact, Gill wears a long gray robe. In 3rd Strike, he wears a light brown and red hooded long cloak with a long blue green robe and matching brown sandals.

In Street Fighter V, during Kolin's character story, Gill wears only a white robe-like cloak with the left side being sleeveless. This outfit later became his first alternate costume. Gill is also seen wearing a white robe in his own character story.

His battle costume resembles the outfit worn by the Roman Empire; an gold sleeveless armor with a matching helmet, gauntlets and leg guards, a brown Roman skirt that reaches below the knee and a long red cape. His flowing long blond hair is tied in a very low ponytail adorned with a white clip.

Concept

Gill's origins trace back to concept art for New Generations, the predecessor to Street Fighter III. One of the initial character concepts was a Pankration wrestler modeled after Greek statues, being entirely nude save for a single leaf, reminiscent of popular depictions of Adam in the Bible.

The team behind Street Fighter III: New Generations wanted to make a multi-faceted boss character that wasn't a villain like M. Bison. His desire is to control the world, but he's neither a villain or hero. Ever since Tomoshi Sadamoto worked on Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom he wanted to make a character who could use both fire and ice making Gill more of a science-fiction character. Having the ability able to control fire and ice is what makes him a boss character that pushed Street Fighter into a new territory.^[4] While the concept of elemental attributes were scrapped for Street Fighter III, a similar idea would later resurface with Gill's Retribution mechanic in Street Fighter V.

Gill is physically modeled after the Greek Gods of antiquity. His personality comes from various Judeo-Christian sources. Gill's name might come from the Hebrew Gilead, meaning "eternal joy". It is also a common Sikh name.

He is similar to Jesus of Nazareth in his claims of being the messiah, the savior of mankind. In that respect, Urien, his jealous brother, can be compared to Judas Iscariot; Urien's nickname in the Japanese Street Fighter III manual even refers to Judas. Gill's Resurrection technique may also be based on Jesus' resurrection from the dead, and the posture Gill assumes during this technique, suspended in the air with his arms outward, evokes the image of Christ during crucifixion. Gill's Seraphic Wing technique refers to seraphim, the six-winged, highest order of angels in Jewish and Christian beliefs; when Gill performs Seraphic Wing, he takes on the six-winged angelic form, "offering" salvation. Finally, in Gill's 3rd Strike ending, he parts the ocean and leads his people to the promised land, likening him to Moses.

In Street Fighter V, his outfits are based on Ancient Greek styles of dress and armor. His original costume from Third Strike evokes the nudity and celebration of the male form of Greek wrestling. His story-mode costume is a Greek toga, while his battle costume is the armor of a Greek hoplite or Spartan warrior.

His blonde flowing hair was further mentioned to evoke the concept of the "Nordic Aryan Superman" and that of "Norse Gods in the face of Ragnarok";^[5] in addition, his powers over ice and fire may also hearken to the frost and fire giants of Nordic mythology, both creatures believed to be the progenitors of the Aesir, and both their respective elements believed to have coalesced and created the universe. Alternately, his appearance and defining traits may find their roots in Greek Mythology, as it is believed that Gill was inspired by Frantisek Kupka's portrayal of Prometheus, the titan who dared to defy Zeus/Jupiter and spared mankind his punishments by sharing with them the knowledge of the welfare of food and fire, and was brought to Mount Olympus to be punished endlessly until being freed by Heracles.

Further allusions to Norse Mythology made to him in supplementary materials and in game (ie. Ragnarok Winners), his role as a villainous savior, and his pure martial arts fighting style, also has him draws similarity to Dhaos, the primary antagonist from the Namco RPG Tales of Phantasia. Gill also bares a strong resemblance to (and is possibly based on) both Kars and Santana, villains from the Battle Tendency story arc of the manga/anime series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure; he is especially similar to Kars since both are responsible for the rise of their respective series' dominant antagonists (M. Bison and Dio Brando) and they both obtained a different kind of immortality (Kars by gaining invulnerability to sunlight and enhanced body manipulation, and Gill via his resurrection ability).

In addition to his Greek God and Hebrew Abrahamic influences, Gill was also envisioned as a "Greek Pankration like Gandhi" by Akiman during conception of his character,^[5] and some of his aspects were lifted from the henshin hero character Android Kikaider.^[5] Coincidentally, Kikaider also had an archenemy who is also named Professor Gill.

Personality

He is presented as a cult leader who would become a benevolent and compassionate monarch over his worthy subjects (akin to a Cult of Personality). Worldly, majestic, impressive, and charismatic in his pursuits, Gill is not without flaws however, being haughty, arrogant, disdainful, manipulative, and even outright draconic and elitist at worst, with his cult using immoral and Machiavellian ways such as kidnapping, coercion, DNA manipulation, brainwashing, and extreme force in a similar way to Shadaloo in order to select their chosen people, and they have been behind a majority of the world's events and criminal organizations to attain their ends. Gill is also not above murdering innocent people to complete his ultimate ambition, and claims his faults and flaws are absolved and sublimated by the same supremacist exceptionalism the Secret Society hold themselves to, including a god complex and the excuse that self improvement of the Emperor excuses him from moral responsibility.

According to supplementary materials and Menat, Gill also holds an esteemed spiritual pursuit for learning and the arts, and especially the martial arts, sharing the same drive as Ryu to hold the title of the World's Strongest. However, unlike Ryu's sojourning warrior's pilgrimage to just about every far corner of the globe to know the interconnected and intrinsic core of the fighting spirit that goes beyond boundaries face-to-face, Gill seeks merely power and the prestige to gather greater influence for the Secret Society and to honor their dubious fringe beliefs of the Messiah, and his self image of godhood in this sense provides only a misguided motivation for his cause to seek power and spiritual development.

As far as achievements go, Gill often takes a loss, sometimes in order to fulfill a much bigger goal; other times, he does so out of respect for his foe's fighting ability.

Judging by his Street Fighter V win-quotes, Gill has respect for his opponents. He also gives some fighter's advice. He has shown disdain towards fellow villains like M. Bison, Kage, Balrog, F.A.N.G and Urien. Ironically, he has also shown a vague sense of concern for his brother, from hints of granting his death to give him peace, to hastening the prophecies so that their lives can return to what they once were, or even forge the path he desires, as hinted in his character story.

Character Relationships

Urien

Urien positively dislikes Gill due to the fact that his older brother won the election of being President of the Secret Society, and when the two fought, Gill purposely threw the match so that he can be emperor, which made Urien upset, hating him even more. Gill takes no chance to belittle his brother whenever they encounter. It is shown that the two were very close before acquiring their powers and eventually falling out, mainly due to Urien's jealousy. Some brotherly concern remains in him, though subdued.

Kolin

Kolin is deeply loyal to Gill, entirely convinced that he is the prophesied messiah. At the end of A Shadow Falls, she is shocked and honored that despite her failure to satisfy the ancient prophecy with her Nash project, Gill still wishes for her to serve at his side. It is believed by Street Fighter III, they become romantically involved.

Chun-Li

While they have yet to meet each other in person, Chun-Li does despise the Secret Society, which Gill leads, for kidnapping Li-Fen, Chun-Li's adopted daughter.

Akuma

Upon hearing about his powers, Akuma desired to fight Gill. Akuma killed Gill with the Raging Demon, but left without realizing that Gill could resurrect himself. It's likely that Gill only wanted to see how strong Akuma was.

Alex

Gill was directly responsible for hospitalizing Tom, Alex's mentor, leading to the latter harboring a deep hatred towards him which causes the young man to challenge and defeat Gill in the Finals of the 3rd World Warrior Tournament.

G

Gill fights G as part of the latter's stream video, revealing his existence to the world. G sees Gill and himself as one and the same, wishing to become one with the Earth. Gill is intrigued by G, noting that the president's power is both unforeseen and familiar, though the two do not appear to formerly know one another prior to their match.

M. Bison

It is implied Gill intentionally allowed the creation of Shadaloo as a part of their world domination, but somewhere along the line, the organization has gone rogue and is thus marked for destruction. Though unaware of the bigger organization's role in the creation of Shadaloo, Bison has enough knowledge to harbor a significant disdain for Gill, to the point that, for the first time in the Dictator's personality, it agitates him.

Story

Background

Gill is the leader of a mysterious cult-like organization called the Secret Society which has manipulated world events for over 2000 years, and is dedicated to the salvation of mankind, and creation of a new utopia. Supplementary material notes that, unlike the other candidates for the leadership of the Secret Society, who are kidnapped and brainwashed into doing their bidding, Gill and his younger brother Urien were born to parents who were long time members of the cult. Both their parents are said to have been candidates to the presidency of the cult; being holders of Ph.D(s) in their respective fields. It is noted that their mother, an Olympic level athlete and a doctorate in Sports Dynamics was especially a favorite to become the President.

The Secret Society had genetically enhanced Gill in his youth, increasing his strength and speed so that he could participate in an intense hand-to-hand combat training program. Gill became the top student out of the hundreds of enhanced warriors involved, surpassing even his own jealous brother, Urien.

According to Secret Society's legend, the soul of the previous Secret Society Emperor would be reincarnated into a new body after death; the organization determined, through the results of their special training program, that the latest incarnation of the Emperor was Gill. Therefore, at the age of 22, Gill was appointed President of the Secret Society. Urien was overlooked due to his emotional instability, and appointed vice president under Gill. Later, Urien challenged Gill for the presidency of the Secret Society and succeeded. Urien then became the president of the Secret Society. However, Gill was not demoted - in fact, he was promoted out of the title of president and became the new Emperor and messiah.

Street Fighter V

Gill was seen in the ending of A Shadow Falls. Helen, who is actually his secretary Kolin, informs him about Shadaloo's destruction and M. Bison's defeat at the hands of Ryu. Gill states that despite a different ending, he knows of his own plans and starts to go somewhere.

Urien also has an alternate costume based on Gill.

On November 17th, 2019, Gill was confirmed as a returning playable character in Street Fighter V: Champion Edition, he became available on December 2019.

Other character story appearances

Gill appears in Kolin's flashback in her character story, meeting a younger Kolin who is saddened for losing her hometown in a war.

Street Fighter III series

2nd Impact

Under Gill, the Secret Society continued to gain power and resources, acquiring capital and estates through various business transactions. When the organization came into possession of a certain Jaguar automobile from the father of a British heavyweight boxing champion known as Dudley, Gill himself was challenged by the pugilist in order to have the automotive heirloom returned. Gill, being respectful of powerful fighting ability, agreed to return the precious car, as its worth was both petty and insignificant compared to the coffers of his organization.

Sometime before the World Warrior Tournament, Gill had fought against a military martial arts instructor by the name of Tom, and had done so to the point of nearly crippling him and sending him off to the hospital. Unbeknownst to him, Tom's disciple and ward, Alex, distraught and angered, had entered the World Warrior Tournament to exact revenge on Gill for what he had done to Tom.

The Secret Society continued to conduct genetic enhancements and other intrusive mutations on humans, either kidnapping their subjects or creating and/or enhancing them artificially, in a development series known as the G-Project. These experiments resulted in the creation of the super soldiers known as Necro and Twelve, enhanced beings designed to carry out the bidding of the Secret Society (though Necro went rogue). This project also led to the abduction of a young girl who was under the care of the ICPO agent Chun-Li.

With the aid of his faithful secretary Kolin and despite his younger brother's meddling, Gill organized the World Warrior tournament with the aim of finding those strong enough to be worthy of repopulating humanity after the end of the world. During this tournament, Ibuki was tasked by her clan to retrieve the G-Project files. Fortunately for her, Gill gave up the files voluntarily; the project was already underway at the time, meaning that the files would no longer be needed.

At some point during the end of the tournament, Gill was defeated by Alex. Though Alex had won the tournament, he refused to outright kill Gill. Since then, Gill has noticed something special about Alex, particularly something that would help a great part in preparing for the upcoming apocalypse.

At some point during the tournament, although disputed whether canon or not, Gill was killed when Akuma caught him by surprise with the Shun Goku Satsu, though he resurrected himself as Akuma left the battle.

Urien stakes his claim to the Presidency by challenging Gill to a match in order to prove his superiority. Gill purposely throws the match and Urien is made the President. Immediately after, Urien learns that the President is outranked by the Emperor in the hierarchy of the organization, his recently promoted brother Gill, much to the outrage and chagrin of the former.

Prologue - 'The Emperor Doesn't Look Back'

After the events of Street Fighter III^[6][7], Gill first appears alongside his secretary Kolin as he had apparently requested to have a match against G to test his strength and abilities, as well as allow all of his efforts to be seen across the world via video live streaming. Gill is also worried about the prophecy before evaluating G at the beginning of the match, stating that the prophecy does not seem to mention G. After defeating G, he finally questions him of how he had gazed upon him during their match as the latter replies because his vision between them are one and the same as both were earthlings. G goes on to claim their one wish is to become one with the Earth. When G claims himself as the President of Earth, Gill states about the odd feeling of his power he had felt somewhere before. This battle with G was watched by his younger brother Urien, who is now furious and rages by breaking the monitor with his fist, wanting to fight his older brother for exposing himself in a video. He forcibly orders Kolin to bring Gill to him to which she reluctantly agreed.

Gill immediately defeats his brother who becomes angry and frustrated. Gill states that the reason of his defeat is because everything in the prophecy has been written. Urien replies that he wants to destroy this accursed prophecy. Gill berates his brother Urien that his time for being his replacement will come to pass. That remark causes Urien to become even more furious, thinking it was an insult. Gill continues to berate him that he will never be his replacement and never serve any purpose because he himself is the one who will achieve the wishes of the Secret Society as their Emperor. Despite Urien's fury, Gill informs him about the long awaited wish that he needs to fulfill. The prophecy between them as brothers and the tenets which followed will disappear, and he will let his brother live anywhere he wants. Gill dismissively leaves while Urien continues to call his name in a fit of rage.

Comics

Street Fighter III: Ryu Final

In volume one, Ken tracks down Gill and challenges him to a fight. Gill is unimpressed by Ken's ambition for using him as a stepping stone towards surpassing Ryu, but nevertheless obliges. Revving up his power, Gill announces to Ken that he will soon taste the power of a god and both fighters clash.

UDON comics

Gill appears in UDON's Super Street Fighter comics.

In volume one of Super Street Fighter, New Generation, Gill appears in front of a crowd of Secret Society adepts shouting "our lives for lord Gill". This is the first time that Gill has appeared, but the second time that he appears during the Street Fighter III storyline later on, he is given a picture of Alex, and begins to grow interested by him, as his secret island was unexpectedly discovered by Tom, a close friend of Alex and because of this, he kidnapped him, knowing full well that this will easily and intentionally draw Alex out into the open.

The second volume, named Hyper Fighting, shows Gill before he acquired his divine powers: during a match against Urien, both of them transform. Gill wins the match very easily, telling his brother that ruling over the Secret Society is not about being served by the world, but by guiding people from the old world to the new one. At somepoint, his organization works in the shadows and begins to rule over everything by teaming up with Shadaloo and Bison, taking control of everything such as the United States Army, Delta Red and even Interpol itself.

However, the main display of Gill's immense influence and power is his fight at the end of "Hyper Fighting". In the previous chapter, Urien, assisted by Twelve who was disguised as M. Bison, was able to bring an immobilized Ryu for a planned Secret Society meeting (although Ryu seemed to handle Urien quite well earlier on, he was unexpectedly distracted by Sakura being put in danger by Twelve). At the end of Hyper Fighting, Urien and Twelve/M. Bison, accompanied by Juri (who pretended to betray Seth to get closer to M. Bison, not knowing that it was actually Twelve in disguise) are watching Secret Society henchmen transporting a frozen Ryu in order for him to be taken back to the Secret Society's hidden base.

Then suddenly from out of nowhere, Dan Hibiki arrives and fights a few of the Secret Society's common guards before being taken down by Juri herself. Sakura also arrives as well, but is unexpectedly corrupted by the Satsui no Hado (because she wasn't strong enough to protect Ryu from being kidnapped, she became infuriated and filled with rage, and Akuma manipulated her further). As Juri is fighting Guile, who arrived with Alex, Dan tries to stop Sakura from continuing her relentless assault, but Sakura refuses to listen and throws Dan against Ryu, breaking and freeing him from his ice-prison. As Sakura is about to execute Twelve/Bison, Ryu emerges and yells at her to stop fighting.

Sakura starts attacking Ryu, telling him that the Satsui no Hado is the only true path to absolute power and that he has been keeping it away from her. Although he is still more skilled than his fan, Ryu cannot convince her to let go of this power, and from there, he decides to absorb the Satsui no Hado from her so that he can place it in his own body. Struggling to control the immeasurable and unfathomable power of the Satsui no Hado, he asks Sakura and Dan to kill him before he is completely consumed by it.

At the same time, Juri attacks Bison, telling him that she wanted revenge for her parents' death and leaving her for dead with the lost of her left eye, but before she can deliver the final blow, Bison starts speaking in binary and reveals that he's only Twelve in disguise. Twelve starts attacking Guile and Juri then quickly flees from the scene. Urien and Alex are also fighting and Urien says that mankind will soon be used to Twelve's own kin.

All the fights soon stop unexpectedly as Akuma emerges and throws a Hadoken at Ryu. An infuriated Evil Ryu also emerges while Akuma unleashes his all power to become Oni. Guile, Alex, Dan, and Sakura are impressed by the power, while Urien belittles them, stating that they don't know what power really is, and that with all that ki acting as a beacon, "he (Gill) will soon arrive, he's already here".

Gill lands on the ground and demands calmly that both Oni and Evil Ryu calm down. Oni throws a powerful projectile at Gill, but Gill counters calmly with an even more powerful icy sphere that freezes him. Then Gill parries every attack from Evil Ryu, single-handedly, smiling and benevolently saying that destruction is a means of transition, and not an end, that violence is a false idol. Gill almost knocks Evil Ryu down with several attacks while Evil Ryu can't parry any of them. Oni emerges from his ice-prison and attacks Gill again.

Gill demands once again that both Evil Ryu and Oni remain silent, and states that there will be a place for them in the new world order that Gill is planning to build and establish. Gill then throws one fireball at Oni and one icy-sphere at Evil Ryu and knocks the two of them down upon sight, with Oni transforming back into becoming Akuma while Evil Ryu reverts back to Ryu once again. While Ryu calms down, Alex tries to attacks Gill as Gill himself had told him that he has been somewhat interested in meeting him for quite some time (knowing full well that they are a part of the same family line). After being defeated by Gill, Akuma (angry from having to transform back from his Oni state) savagely rushes towards Gill, who raises himself in the air, lifted by six seraphic wings, in a beam of light so strong that Akuma is knocked down once again.

Gill then flies away from the scene, asking his brother Urien to come with him, saying that these mortals need time to think about what they saw. Urien's helicopter and Gill fly away, while Akuma is swearing to Gill that he will pay dearly for the loss of his own demonic body.

In due time, Gill had soon hosted a fighting tournament as a way to lure out both Alex and Ryu for his own manipulative plans while having the governments of the world and the United Nations thinking that he is a hero after he had his own henchmen set off a rocket that he had easily destroyed. He had then told the world about his fighting tournament as a way to celebrate the new age of saving the world with the Secret Society through advanced technology made and created by them.

He was able to get many fighters, such as the former Mad Gear Gang members Hugo, Rolento, and Poison to join and enter his fighting tournament. Guy, Cody, Chun-Li, and Guile (who had personally believed that he wasn't a real hero and that he had something deviously planned) had also came to the fighting tournament as well in order to find out on what Gill was really planning and up to. Ryu and Alex were also able to make their own way to him as well. Gill's henchmen had a secret project that was very similar to the same design that Shadaloo's own weapons factory was working on and that it was almost ready and prepared for him to change the world in his own image.

When Rufus was badly wounded against Adon from within their match, Gill had used his power to heal him. Gill then had Twelve take the appearance of Akuma (the same trick that he had used to lure Juri over to his side by having Twelve take the appearance of Bison) as a way to lure out the Satsui no Hado in Ryu. It went perfectly according to his plan as Ryu had soon transformed into Evil Ryu and calls out to him. Gill had then told Ryu that he has finally revealed his true self as the two fighters soon battle against one another upon sight.

Near the end of their match, Gill freezes Ryu in suspended animation, which then enables him to show the fighters that came to his fighting tournament a secret weapon that would truly change all of humanity. As the secret weapon became very functional upon sight, Gill's entire body was completely destroyed from the result of the secret weapon's own blast explosion. However, Gill's soul was able to take over Alex's mind as the dual colors of both red and blue had soon marked itself upon him. From there, Gill, who is now in total and absolute control of Alex, knocks out Urien with much ease. When this happens, the former Mad Gear Gang members and the other fighters had finally saw Gill's true intentions to rule the world and many of them, including Poison and Hugo, had deemed him to be no better then Bison himself, thus all of them had instantly and immediately proceeded to fight against him in order to stop and prevent him from succeeding with his malevolent plan of world domination.

Gill had gained the upper hand, telling everyone that he is the one who can save the the world from itself, as he is the one who can truly bring justice and peace throughout the world. Before Gill can attack the fighters much further, he is unexpectedly stopped by Necro, who tries to tell him that this is going too far. Gill told him that he was saved by him and in return, he was to serve the Secret Society with undying loyalty and no questions asked. Necro, now finally realizing and understanding that this is not the justice that he was fighting for, told him that he is not a god and that he had tried to hold him off only to fail. Gill was then fought by Ryu, who told him that the New Age of the Secret Society must come to a close. Furthermore, to Gill's own shock and dismay, Alex had begun to overcome Gill's control over his mind and body, and through his own personal resolve and determination, Alex was able to break free of Gill's control as his body had returned back to its own normal color.

Gill's soul was then attacked by Ryu's Shun Goku Satsu and when this had happened, Gill himself had soon faded into total and absolute nothingness. After the events of Gill's fighting tournament, many of the members of the Secret Society had instantly and immediately went into complete hiding from the authorities. As Kolin herself had a new plan, she too also disappears as well, having both samples of Gill's own cells and a newly brainwashed servant.

Street Fighter vs. Darkstalkers

Gill makes an appearance in the comic book crossover Street Fighter vs. Darkstalkers, as he forms an alliance with the Grim Reaper-esque Shinigami known as Jedah Dohma, the two of them having plans and goals to rid their realms of chaos in order to establish order above everything else.

Cameo appearance

Capcom Fighting Evolution

Gill makes a cameo appearance in M. Bison's Capcom Fighting Evolution ending, where Bison is seen fighting and defeating him with Balrog, Vega, Sagat and the twelve Dolls watching. However, as M. Bison and his followers leave on the Shadaloo plane, Gill resurrects himself, looking completely unscathed from the recent fight.

Gameplay

Fighting style and abilities

Gill's fighting style appears to be based on the ancient Greek Olympic discipline of Pankration, and relies on the manipulation of fire and ice, as well as elemental clotheslines, headbutts, and knee-drops, all of which are used as well by his brother, Urien. He also has several other powers at his disposal, also mentioned above. According to supplementary materials, Gill also seeks out, studies, and practices other martial arts throughout the world in hopes of attaining the "ultimate fighting style."

By surviving the Shun Goku Satsu, Gill shows he is not only physically immortal with his power, but spiritually as well.

In Capcom Fighting Evolution he endured a similar punishment against M. Bison but again, got up from it as if nothing happened. His immortality may have a limitation, however, as per the UDON comics; it should be noted that after the loss of his body and later his control of Alex's body, Gill's soul was attacked by Ryu's own Shun Goku Satsu and faded into nothingness.

Moveset

Gill's elemental control is such that fire and ice are perfectly balanced; this is reflected in both his appearance and a rather unique gameplay trait that changes the element of certain attacks (e.g. Pyrokinesis and Cryokinesis) based on the direction he is facing. This simply serves to demonstrate the CPS-3 board's power, and has no effect on damage and stun. Gill is both the first known character to utilize ice-elemental attacks (the second being his secretary Kolin whose power was in fact gifted to her by him), and also the first character known to have attacks with properties that depend on the direction he is facing.

Gill's overall style focuses on being offensive at all costs while negating anti-air attacks. Unlike Urien, Gill has the advantage of not needing to pause to charge his attacks, and can easily overwhelm a careless opponent. As the final boss, Gill is much more powerful than every other character in Street Fighter III (save for Shin Akuma). He inflicts heavy damage, does an extremely large amount of stun, and can string together very long juggles. He can also inflict block damage with normal attacks, which makes it difficult to employ defensive strategies against him. This also makes it virtually impossible to achieve a perfect victory against Gill. For this reason, he is often unusable during regular game play. However, he has almost no combo extendability in contrast to his brother, but it does not hinder him too much, since two of his Super Arts can be used as a counter at almost any given moment.

The only true way to play as a copy of Gill in the arcade version of Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike is to use Twelve's X.C.O.P.Y.; in home releases of Street Fighter III, Gill can be selected after he has been defeated at least once by every fighter, or by purchasing him as DLC in Online Edition. He is even playable in Xbox Live matchmaking service games; however, he is only usable in player-matches and is unusable in ranked-matches.

In Street Fighter V: Champion Edition, as a regular playable character, Gill is significantly toned down in order to make him more evenly balanced with the rest of the cast. In exchange, he is given more moves and several more mechanics as a playable character is given to him. When fought as a boss in Arcade Mode, he is somewhat more difficult, but still not quite as difficult, as he was in Street Fighter III. However, in Extra Battle Mode, there is a variation boss named Omega Gill, who is just as difficult, if not even more difficult, than his Street Fighter III incarnation, possessing higher stats and fewer handicaps.

Gill retains most of his moves from the Street Fighter III games, excluding Psycho Headbutt, with additional attacks on both fire and ice attacks besides the Pyrokinesis and Cryokinesis projectiles. Gill no longer switch sides to initiate exclusive damage properties and moves, and is now emphasized and encouraged with a focus on crossovers; his elemental attacks now induce and introduce a unique gameplay element known as "anti-damage", in where if an opponent is attacked while suffering elemental damage, the opposing element variety of the attack will do more damage, ex. fire on ice and vice versa.

Gill's first V-Skill, Divine Comet, has him hitting the opponent with an elemental projectile to inflict the corresponding status. His fire comet sets enemies on fire, dealing grey health damage very slowly over time, while his ice comet stops the stun gauge of his opponent from depleting. His second V-Skill, simply referred as Blocking, is similar to the Parry system, where he parries his opponent's attacks, choosing either high or low to defend. His first and second V-Triggers are the Primal Fire and the Ice of Doom, which strengthens his fire and ice-based attacks respectively, and both gives him two additional moves. As an arcade boss character, Gill's Meteor Strike is a hidden Critical Art.

Super Arts

Arguably the most dangerous gameplay element of Gill is his Resurrection Super Art. If his life bar is emptied by the player while his Super Art Gauge is completely filled, Gill will rise from the ground with his health gradually restoring itself. During his rising animation, his opponent is constantly pushed away from him, making it difficult for a player or their projectiles to approach and knock him out of it. In Street Fighter V, his Resurrection became his second Critical Art as an arcade boss character. Gill completely restores his health while being embedded with flames to knock away his opponents.

In Street Fighter III: 2nd Impact, Gill gains a Super Art called Meteor Strike, where around twenty Cryokinesis and Pyrokinesis projectiles will fall from the sky onto the opposite half of the screen from his position. This can deplete roughly 80% of an opponent's Health Meter on connection, but will not hit an opponent crouching directly next to him under normal circumstances. In Street Fighter V, his Meteor Strike now serves as his third and hidden Critical Art as an arcade boss character. The execution of the move has been shortened and Cryokinesis is replaced by Divine Comet.

In Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike, Gill gained the Super Art Seraphic Wing, which causes six wings form on his back and emit light waves from his body. Not only does this move cover the entire screen and do ludicrous damage, it is absolutely impossible to evade or parry, making Seraphic Wing Gill's most powerful ability. Its only weakness is its massive startup, though if he is hit out of it while he is rising into position, his Super Art Meter will not be depleted.

Gill possesses the unique ability to use all three of his Super Arts in one battle, rather than selecting one at a time; the only other character with this ability is Akuma, who may use three of his five.

Seraphic Wing is his Critical Art in Street Fighter V. He stuns his opponent with a powerful Cryokinesis, allowing Gill to form the six wings on his back as he emits powerful waves in white light while standing to obliterate his opponent.

When encountered as a boss in Street Fighter V's Arcade Mode, he is permanently in both of his V-Triggers, has his 3rd Strike coloration effect, and uses both Meteor Strike and Resurrection alongside Seraphic Wing. As a boss, this gives Gill the most Critical Arts of any character seen in the game, including other special encounters. As a boss in Arcade Mode, he is not quite as difficult as he was in Street Fighter III; however, in Extra Battle Mode, there is a variation boss named Omega Gill, who is even tougher than his original Street Fighter III incarnation, because unlike in Street Fighter III and in the regular Arcade Mode of Street Fighter V, he cannot be hit out of his Resurrection Critical Art.

Other appearences

Minecraft

As part of a Minecraft collaboration, Gill appears along with most of the Street Fighter V cast in the World Warrior skin pack.^[8][9]

Subpages

Quotes

Gill/Quotes

Gallery

Gill/Gallery

Sprites

Gill/Sprites

Music

Title	Game	Artist	Track
Street Fighter III
The Judgment Day	Street Fighter III: New Generation	Hideki Okugawa	File:17 - The Judgment Day Stage Greece .ogg
The Judgment Day [Heavy Tone]	STREET FIGHTER III NEW GENERATION ORIGINAL ARRANGE ALBUM	Hideyuki Fukasawa	File:-09- The Judgment Day -heavy tone-.ogg
Nile (Drum and Bass Mix)	Street Fighter III: 2nd Impact	Hideki Okugawa	File:20 - Nile (Drum and Bass Mix) Egypt Gill Stage.ogg
Gill Appears!	Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike	Hideki Okugawa	File:1-21 Gill Appears!.ogg
-PSYCH OUT-	Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike	Hideki Okugawa	File:1-22 Gill Stage -PSYCH OUT-.ogg
Street Fighter V
Theme of Gill	Street Fighter V: Champion Edition	Keiki Kobayashi	File:2.08 Theme of Gill.ogg
Sun Chase Moon -Unknown Stage-	Street Fighter V: Champion Edition	Keiki Kobayashi	File:1.16 Sun Chase Moon -UnKnown Stage-.ogg
Sun Chase Moon Alternative -Unknown Stage-	Street Fighter V: Champion Edition	Keiki Kobayashi	File:1.17 Sun Chase Moon Alternative -UnKnown Stage-.ogg

Videos

Trivia

• In Street Fighter III, if the player loses multiple times consecutively against Gill and continues, Gill will begin laughing; this signifies that the difficulty has been lowered.

• Despite showing realistic asymmetrical movements, Gill's loincloth folds can be still seen mirrored when he turns. His asymmetry comes from his powers being different, and sprite palette being applied depending on which direction he is facing.

• Gill's 3rd Strike entrance quote was originally meant to be "The mark of my divinity shall scar thy DNA".^{[citation needed]} But for unfathomable reasons, the word divinity became dignity, resulting in the quote "The mark of my dignity shall scar thy DNA". Considering dignity is normally not an object to be brandished, it is often seen as a dub error. However, it is possible this refers to dignity as it applies to ones noble/royal standing.

• Gill has an unused sound sample in 3rd Strike; "Witness my life eternal!". It is possible that it would've intended to be the voice sample that plays once Resurrection is activated.
  • According to Menat's victory quote against Gill, Rose states that Gill's card (from the tarot) is "The World", which means "Immortality", among other things.

• If the player is using cheats in Street Fighter III to select Gill as his/her playable character from the character selection, the game will crash at the final battle. However, this will not happen if the player selects any normal character and then change into Gill at any point after selecting their super art. The selected super art of the previous character will be irrelevant. Hugo's ending will play if the player win, where Gill, now a member of Hugo's HWA, can be seen in one of the scenes happily waving to the audience.

• Scumocide, a boss from Capcom's science fiction beat em' up game released 6 years prior to his first appearance Captain Commando, has the same powers and a similar moveset to that of Gill. Scumoside, however, resembles more of a demon, in contrast to Gill's angel/Greek god-inspired design.

• Gill is known as one of the first "supernatural" bosses in fighting games who is able to manipulate energies.
  • Algol, from Namco's Soulcalibur series, bears a strong similarity to Gill. In Soulcalibur V, Algol's costume bears resemblance to Gill as well as Urien.
  • In addition to Gill having resemblance to Android Kikaider, Kamen Rider W's HeatTrigger Half Change used by the epynomus Rider resembles Gill's powers, with the red left half being able to manipulate fire.

• In the ending credits in Street Fighter V, Gill's name is misspelled as "Gil".

• On Charlie Nash's Street Fighter V character artwork, the statues in the background resemble those of Gill's stage in Street Fighter III: 2nd Impact.

• In Street Fighter X Tekken, the Tekken final boss Ogre has a Swap Costume modeled after Gill.

• Both Gill and Urien share the same English voice actor in 3rd Strike, Lawrence Bayne. Gill however has a voice filter that is applied to his voice samples to emphasize his supernatural disposition whereas Urien does not have such filters applied to his voice.
  • This is similar to how other boss characters from Capcom's fighting games are given filter effects on their voices to emphasize uniqueness and perhaps imply superiority. Jedah Dohma from Darkstalkers and Dio Brando from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Heritage for the Future, employs a similar voice filter for the same purpose.

• Gill, along with Dudley, Alex, and Necro, originally did not have Japanese voice actors, as custom of Japanese fighting games in the 1990s, rather originating with English voice acting.
  • Gill's first and current Japanese voice actor, Fumihiko Tachiki, has his voice done similarly to the Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage incarnation of Raoh, the final major antagonist of its first series run.

• Gill is the only boss who does not have a playable weaker counterpart, as all his playable exclusive appearances have had him just as powerful as his arcade mode counterpart (mainly with him being able to use all Super Arts regardless of selection). It should be noted that while Urien was created to serve this purpose he is a completely different character.
  • This has changed in SFV, as his playable version doesn't have Resurrection while his arcade counterpart does.

• Gill is one of only two characters in Street Fighter III with a move that causes the character to regain health in the middle of the match (Resurrection), the other being Elena.

• In Street Fighter V, Gill is utilized as an embodiment of what the opponent desires. For Kolin, it’s peace for her country. For Urien, it’s a brother. For Ryu, it’s a stronger opponent.^[10]

• Gill is the first veteran DLC character in Street Fighter V to not have a Nostalgia costume, rather having one based off of Pyron from the Darkstalkers series. This is most likely due to his base outfit remaining virtually unchanged from his original appearance in Street Fighter III.
  • Additionally, he is the 6th character to have a Darkstalkers costume, following Chun-Li, Juri, Ed, Urien, and Menat.

• His unique elemental based "anti damage" Retribution mechanic may likely draw upon further from his RPG inspired origins, in where inflicting status effects and drawing out weakness with elemental affinities on enemies are common mechanics and strategies within those games; a game that utilizes a similar mechanic is Final Fantasy XI, in where Ninja and Black Mage classes have "elemental wheel" enfeebling status effects to certain spells that inflicts additional damage to that spell's respective inherent elemental weakness going down the "wheel".

• Gill is the only character from within Seth's victory screen whose body doesn't fall belly-first to the ground.

See also

• Gill's moves in Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike
• Gill's moves in Street Fighter V: Champion Edition

References

Street Fighter series Playable Characters
Main Series
		Ken · Ryu
	The World Warrior	Blanka · Chun-Li · Dhalsim · E. Honda · Guile · Zangief
	Champion Edition	Balrog · M. Bison · Sagat · Vega
	Super	Cammy · Dee Jay · Fei Long · T. Hawk
	Super Turbo	Akuma
	Ultra	Violent Ken
	Alpha	Adon · Birdie · Charlie Nash · Dan · Guy · Rose · Sodom
	Alpha 2	Evil Ryu · Gen · Rolento · Sakura · Shin Akuma
	Alpha 3	Cody · Juli · Juni · Karin · R. Mika
	Alpha 3 Upper	Eagle · Maki
	Alpha 3 MAX	Ingrid
	New Generation	Alex · Dudley · Elena · Ibuki Necro · Oro · Sean · Yang · Yun
	2nd Impact	Gill · Hugo · Urien
	3rd Strike	Makoto · Q · Remy · Twelve
	IV	Abel · C. Viper · El Fuerte · Gouken · Rufus · Seth
	Super	Hakan · Juri
	Arcade Edition	Oni
	Ultra	Decapre · Poison
	V	F.A.N.G · Laura · Necalli · Rashid
	Season 2	Abigail · Ed · Kolin · Menat · Zeku
	Season 3	Falke · G
	Season 4	Kage · Lucia
	Season 5	Akira · Eleven · Luke
	6	Jamie · JP · Kimberly · Lily · Manon · Marisa
	Year 1	A.K.I.
	Year 2	Mai (Guest) · Terry (Guest)
Spin-offs
		Arkane · Blade · F7 · Khyber · Sawada
		Cyborg
	EX	Allen · Blair · C. Jack · Darun · D. Dark Hokuto · Kairi · Pullum · Skullomania
	EX Plus	Bloody Hokuto · Cycloid-β · Cycloid-γ · Garuda
	EX2	Hayate · Nanase · Shadowgeist · Sharon
	EX2 Plus	Area · V. Rosso
	EX3	Ace · Bison II
	MSHvSF	Cyber-Akuma · Dark Sakura · Mech-Zangief · Shadow
	MvC	Shadow Lady
		Shin

Street Fighter III Characters
New Generation	Alex · Dudley · Elena · Ibuki · Ken · Necro · Oro · Ryu · Sean · Yang · Yun
2nd Impact	Akuma · Gill · Hugo · Shin Akuma · Urien
3rd Strike	Chun-Li · Makoto · Q · Remy · Twelve

Street Fighter V Characters
Original	Birdie · Cammy · Chun-Li · Dhalsim · F.A.N.G · Karin · Ken · Laura M. Bison · Nash · Necalli · R. Mika · Rashid · Ryu · Vega · Zangief
Season 1	Alex · Balrog · Guile · Ibuki · Juri · Urien
Season 2	Abigail · Akuma · Ed · Kolin · Menat · Zeku
Season 3	Blanka · Cody · Falke · G · Sagat · Sakura
Season 4	E. Honda · Gill · Kage · Lucia · Poison · Seth
Season 5	Akira · Dan · Eleven · Luke · Oro · Rose
CPU Only	AS · Aprile · Decapre · Enero · Février · Juli · März · Peter Phantom Bison · Santamu · Satsuki · Shadow · Shadow Lady · Two P