
Poor Athena barely understands what's going on! Similarly, in Regulation A, she's ticked off by Rock pressing this exact button, although it's moreso him trying to respectfully address her as his aunt. In her exchange with Athena in XIII, Mai even manages to get herself riled up by twisting her own fond memories of her days as a schoolgirl into Athena calling her old.
Later titles such as the Maximum Impact series ( 2 and Regulation A, specifically) and XIII give her a third one: do not imply that she's getting old. Two: don't you ever comment negatively on her Stripperiffic clothes. One if she asks you about Andy, don't refuse to reply her question. Berserk Button: While she's a genuinely nice person to be around with, it's best to avoid a couple of these that she has:. "She can charm any man on the planet! The Shiranui style ninjutsu successor herself! Mai Shiranui!" Her win quote against Geese is her being mad at him for beating up Andy previously. However, this is an alternate continuity. Their relationship isn't solidified until The King of Fighters XIV. All Love Is Unrequited: While Andy does kiss her in the movie, in the Fatal Fury series, no in-game event ever shows him unambiguously returning her feelings in the same degree as hers. Affirmative Action Girl: Mai is the first playable female fighter in the Fatal Fury series. And then her hair in her Real Bout Special ending is purple. Adaptation Dye-Job: Has brown or black hair in the games red in the anime. Though it's implied that the anime's supposed chickification is more about Mai going the Deliberately Distressed Damsel way just to get Andy's attention. She's more competent in the games, whereas in the anime she suffers a bad case of Chickification ( except for her fight with Panni, where Mai brutally curbstomps and kills her with a single but very well-timed and placed Chou Hisatsu Shinobibachi. Action Girl: Zig-Zagged depending on which media we're talking about.
Luckily for her, she quickly came across Alice Garnet Nakata, who proved her skills (even if it's a modified attacks of the Bogard brothers) and the Women Fighters Team rises again.
In XIV, Mai is pissed that Terry and Andy are teaming up with Joe, and is getting short of candidates for the Women Fighters team aside of King because she turned down other invitations (like Kasumi and Hinako) thinking that she'd be able to team up with Andy (she was too late), while the other candidates (Yuri, Mary and Vanessa) are busy with their own activities and jobs.