Fara Phoenix

Like most popular Nintendo properties, Star Fox got itself a comic adaptation in the Nintendo Power magazine. This comic showed the Star Fox team’s adventures a few years after the events of the first game, including countering terrorist attacks, discovering a plot to resurrect Andross, and gaining a new teammate.

This is Fara Phoenix, the daughter of a wealthy Lylat system businessman and skilled pilot in her own right. Before Krystal, she was Fox’s main love interest, and even appeared in the cancelled Star Fox 2. Despite the name, she is an anthropomorphic fennec fox, not a phoenix.

As a fighter, she will be similar in nature to the other Star Fox team members, pulling from the exact same moveset, but with slight differences. For her, there will be multiple references to the comic in question.

Likelihood rating: Non-game (or . . . does she count as a game character? The comic came first, so . . . I don’t think so?)

Character Sheet: Fara Phoenix

FARA PHOENIX

And now we come to the end of our characters, with only four left to add. They include:

1. Fara Phoenix

2. Katt Monroe

3. Captain Shears

4. Goras

Starting with Fara Phoenix, she is a character from the Nintendo Power run of Star Fox comics who appears in some versions of Star Fox 2. She is a fox, like Fox, and is the daughter of a wealthy magnate who joins the Star Fox team due to her flying prowess. She is a "proto-Krystal" of sorts. She will be like the other members of Star Fox, with a similar moveset slightly altered to fit her more.

Here's her moveset:

Standard B: Blaster

Same as the others, except hers has the comic effects to its hits and explosions.

Side B: Vixen Sweep

It will be similar to the Fox Illusion, but she'll do a bit of a flip to get under and come back up behind her opponent, striking them in the back as she does so.

Up B: Phoenix Flame

She will blast upward like Fox and the others, except her flames will take on a phoenix shape.

Down B: Mud Bath Lid

This is based on the comic, when Fara ends up being saved in an early chapter by a lid suddenly popping off a mud bath and squashing her enemy.

Final Smash: Team Star Fox

This will be the comic version of this team, with Fara flying with them.

Entrance: Dropping out of her Arwing.

Taunts: Up, she will pose confidently. Side, she will swirl, showing off a dress. Down, she will spin her blaster.

Kirby Hat: Her ears and head-piece thing.

Kart: Her Arwing.

Special Move: Dropping a large lid on top of anyone behind her.

Spirit Battle: With Fox on Papetoon.

Victory Screen: Stepping out of her ship and asking "How was that?"

Losing Screen: Her ship crashing to the ground with smoke trailing.

Color Swaps: Her Star Fox uniform, her dress from the beginning, Fox's mother's dress, a black-and-white version of her, different colors for all four.

Thanks for reading! Next up, Katt Monroe is waiting for you!

Star Fox (Nintendo Power)

STAR FOX (NINTENDO POWER)

First up, we have probably the most famous of the Star Fox comics, run in 1993 in the Nintendo Power comics. This comic is written as a sequel to the original SNES game, and as such, the characters and their portrayal isn't quite nailed home yet (Case in point: Peppy is very much portrayed as "one of the bros," often just riffing with Falco on random stuff happening in the plot). It follows the team, now acting as a band of Robin Hood-style rogues on the planet Papetoon before being called on by General Pepper because Andross has returned.

Our main team once again consists of Fox McCloud (Jr.), Falco Lombardi, Peppy Hare, and Slippy Toad, as well as a new addition to the team added early on: Fara Phoenix, the daughter of a rich space magnate and a skilled pilot in her own regard. She is sort of the "proto-Krystal," a fellow fox and love interest for Fox. There's also a creepy thing later on about her looking just like Fox's mom and Fox getting turned on by that, and then Andross getting turned on by it too. I . . . try not to think about that part too hard.

General Pepper plays a regular part in the comic, also being portrayed as a bit more dumpy and scatterbrained than later portrayals. James is portrayed as Fox McCloud Sr. in this version, and he's more trapped in another dimension than dead, which might be the case in the games, but it's unclear. Here and there we also have various Cornerian soldiers and citizens of Papetoon, including small cameos by Miyu and Fay toward the end.

Andross is our villain once again, as is a clone of Andross who did the work of resurrecting the original. They also have a pig robot named Herbert who follows them around and helps out. And Monarch Dodora appears as a boss.

As far as stages, Papetoon is an original planet that serves as the team's home base, plus the Cornerian base where most of the training and battles take place.

Here's what we've got so far:

Characters:

Fara Phoenix: Same as the other Star Fox pilots' treatment, but with specific adjustments based on the comic.

Herbert

Stages:

Papetoon

Thanks for reading! Next up, we have a Star Fox 64-based comic!