8 MORE Video Game Heroes Who Turned Evil In The Sequel

Come the end of the original Final Fight, Cody Travers was a hero of pretty sizeable proportions. Not only had he disbanded the Mad Gear Gang in pretty decisive fashion by battering their leader off the edge of a building, but he'd rescued the mayor's daughter Jessica and even had a pretty saucy smooch with her!

All in all that's pretty much the Hollywood ending right? Well unfortunately things took a dark turn come Street Fighter Alpha 3 where Cody is now sporting a very fashionable set of chains and a prison jumpsuit! So what the hell happened?

Turns out that in between the two games, Cody was arrested by a corrupt police officer who he knocked out on his original quest as well as the fact that he couldn't stop fighting due to his love of combat.

This obviously terrible outlet for his anger caused Jessica to leave him and thus lead him to declare that he was no hero at all, just a man who wanted to fight. Even when other characters could see the good in him, Cody saw himself as the villain. Pretty sad, right?

Well don't worry as in later appearances Cody seems to have found his purpose once more, becoming the Mayor of Metro city after having his crimes forgiven by Haggar.

Talk about a turnaround right?