You forgot to mention her idle animation. She smiles and rocks her head back and forth to suggest she's a kind innocent and even caring person while simultaneously clenching and shaking her fist at her side as if she's concealing an aggressive and violent impulse.

7:15 *I'VE SEEN THAT PICTURE AND KNOWN THAT CHARACTER FOR YEARS AND I'VE NEVER NOTICED THE GUN EVEN THOUGH IT'S IN PLAIN SIGHT WTF*

Let’s talk about how this totally normal girl’s ending has her murder the big bad wolf and his family

Its also interesting how they played around the design of Red Riding hood. She's a universal icon of "the gullible child" and yet her silhouette is a red triangle, the shape and color language for danger. Using that concept to make BB Hood a master of deception is literally PERFECT.

What If the reason we haven't seen any other Darkstaler characters Nowadays because B.B. Hood killed most of them

Another bonus to BB's design, is that she could represent the deceptiveness of fairy tales. Cute and intriguing on the surface but horrifying underneath. Original fairy tales are rather brutal.

"Because fighting games don't often have good stories, it's up to the characters to convey everything about themselves and the world to the player, through the regular play experience." So it's like wrestling, then?

Little Red Riding Hood if she grew up in the Hood...

I'll say it. Darkstalkers is a much more visually interesting fighter than Street Fighter. Especially in arena and character design.

Ah, that girl. I remember the first time I saw her. I pressed the Heavy Punch button and suddenly machine gun. I pressed the Heavy Kick and suddenly landmines. And each time the dog freaked out. At this point, I was hooked! ...then I saw that "post-traumatic stress disorder over her grandma's death" excuse to kill the enemy and my jaw dropped lol Her and Donovan are my favorite Darkstalkers because they are so paradoxical (Hindu Dhampir ftw). Donovan lacks personality in his animations, or at least he doesn't have as much as B.B. but seriously, it's hard to flash brighter than Little Red Riding Hood with a basket full of deadly weapons.

She'd perform better as an assassin by hiding in plain sight as a little naive girl and only showing her true colors for the duration of the attack, but the super move makes it look as if she's enjoying the role-play. It's also funny how her wine bottle move was adopted later by both young Joseph Joestar and Elphelt.

One thing that's not explicit but nice to appreciate is how BB Hood's playstyle reflects her characterization. Usually in interviews when developers talk about new characters they talk about a gameplay niche they need to fill with the new character design. While Darkstalkers especially in the later entries is very rushdown-heavy, BB Hood's is especially intimidating with a variety of approaching tricks and her double jump, feeling very appropriate for giving the impression the other player has been caught in her trap.

A note that makes it even clearer that she's a villain is the slasher-like ending to her arcade mode. A wolf family hears a report on the news about a killer on the loose, who's shown to be B.B. Hood. They take note of it but don't seem too concerned, either because of their location or to not scare their child. It then cuts to a scene of B.B. Hood on the path to their house, a new take on the slasher staple of the killer standing still just outside the house. I don't fully recall the ending so sorry if my summary is off. If the horror or villainy of B.B. Hood still isn't clear to the player, they would have had to be paying little attention throughout the playthrough.

7:17 I NEVER noticed that gun until now

The Pixel art in this game is down right perfect, it is stylish, detailed, and artistic.

I could never pick a main in darkstalkers cause all of the characters are so loveable

No offense, but every darkstalker is the best darkstalker.

Gotta say my favorite of the Darkstalkers characters is Q-Bee. Mechanically, her air dash is pretty much the most unique air dash of any fighting game with air dashes. The fact that she auto-tracks the opponent is super neat. The closest thing I'm aware of that does this is the super dash in DBFZ. The Royal Jelly super is also an incredible tool. Design wise, she's terrifying. Like Skullgirls, the fan service wears off really quick, showing how she's just a giant insect. Makes her kinda like Eliza in that regard. But seriously, the egg laying move is nasty.

Never played darkstalkers before but have seen bb hood. I had no idea, she had me fooled! Was wondering what this sweet little girl was doing in a game like this.

One the MANY interpretations of the Little Red Riding Hood involves her killing the Wolf with a revolver after killing her grandma... Neat backstory for Bulleta right?

Excellent video. It's a shame they never did much with this franchise anymore. It's such a shame seeing BB Hood in the limbo like that.

That's why B.B. Hood is my main: A twisted bloodlust with a splitted personality and great acting skills. That's why Darkstalkers series is the only Capcom Fighting game that i ever like: Every single charactes has a personality, even Bishamon, Felicia and Lilith

B.B. Hood is the scariest of the Darkstalker characters: She's a psychopathic human that hunts Darkstalkers for profit and the joy of it.

I noticed that Cody from Street Fighter V also has a somewhat similar duality about him. Not that he prances about in a little dress he can't even fit in obviously, but the fact that as the mayor of Metro City, he's now gotta keep up appearances as a man of high social upbringing. As the fight escalates though and he takes one punch too many (reaches v-trigger state, in other words), the next thing his opponent knows, he's whipped out a lead pipe from seemingly out of nowhere and just hammers them mercilessly into the pavement with it, taking a laid back giddiness about having just hospitalized someone for about 7 months. Same goes for that combat knife he has no compunction about plunging into someone's kidney and playing it off like they fell on it or something. Once the fight rages out of control, he's done with keeping up pretenses for the paparazzi and is just out to cripple someone.

Like in the kim's pants video, i think the entire darkstalkers series deserves to be considered an animation excellence

I really hope you are going to do more Darkstalkers videos. It's a masterclass of animation and its one of my favorite series of all time.

Darkstalkers has gone into gaming myth, lore, and legend.

In my previous job there was an emulator we could play on during lunch breaks. I used to play Darkstalkers, which no one knew about. But when I chose BB Hood my coworkers would say stuff like “did little red riding hood just pull a machine gun?”. It’s incredible how much this character can grab the attention of someone with no context. Definitely one of the best character designs ever made.

I have two term papers, four reports, and three assignments for school....... *BUT SUGARPUNCH JUST UPLOADED A NEW VID I HAVE TO WATCH!!!!*

When my friend and I played mvc2, at one point I chose bb hood and thought to myself why is she in here, then I used her attacks and started laughing so hard.

If you do another Darkstalkers video, I’d suggest having a good look at the transform effects. Some of the ones for Midnight Bliss and even Anakaris’ curse are pretty genius.

Watching your videos about Bob and B.B. Hood made me realize I have a tendency to pick fighting game characters that don't play out the way you expect based on how they just look.

I was going to write some long comment on the genius of the character and the video but everyone else already did that 11 months ago. Let me simply add what I believe is the scariest thing about this character that I haven’t seen mentioned. According to her profile...B.B. Hood...IS TEN YEARS OLD!

Excellent video, I'll just add that while all the other characters in Darkstalkers series have frames of animation that morphs limbs and other body parts into different objects or mutations to make their attacks, Bulleta -being a human- is the only one that has "morphs" through her expressions. I guess Donovan also only "morphs" through his special attacks like the Flame, Lightning and Ice swords, , not fully changing the aspect of his body, but I should check his frames again. Bulleta sure is a great and deep character design.

I'm glad you gave Darkstalkers a spotlight, everything about the series is excellent. Honestly, these games were one of the reasons I decided to pursue animation professionally. To this day I still go back and analyze the spritesheets and admire them.

Not mentioned in this great video. Her light kick is a sneeze lol. Creating this character for Mugen was very hard. She has too many “Helper” sprites that requires their own programming. The Dog even defecate on certain actions

i really hoped one day i would see BB.hood in a new modern darkstalkers :) she was my favourite

Capcom needs to fix their fighting game division before they can start thinking about making a new Darkstalkers, or any other fighting games for that matter...

im waiting for a big band (skullgirls) animation video

4:58 she's looking at the butterflies, thats why they immediatly move to other side, she also says "oh butterflies"

I hope you do more of these episodes about the Darkstalkers, many of them have extremly unique animations that help build up who they are, from Victor childish moves and muscle reorganization, to Jedah gorefest moveset and calm behaviour and my favorite Lord Raptor bizzare and metal moves

Imagine if the little girl in Bloodborne's sidequest was B.B. Hood. I don't think there'd be much left to hunt, if that were the case.

HRRRNG DARKSTALKERS FINALLY GETS SOME LOVE!!! it really deserves it and the time for it is excellent.

I'm a great fan of Darkstalkers since they appeared and this video amazed me. The analysis of B.B.Hood through his animation it's just brilliant. Nice work!

I also like her facial expressions on the ground & get up on that dash

Roald Dahl invented Little Red Riding Hood being dangerous killer. Both Big Bad Wolf (twice) and Third Little Pig suffered her skill of marksmanship.

Darkstalkers is fighting game perfection

I've started looking at Darkstalkers stuff since that one Capcom collection was announced, I've admittedly never been huge into fighting games, but Darkstalkers does seem like it has a lot of cool concepts.

The idea of the red hood having an uzi makes me want to play as her

Not enough youtube videos analysing darkstalkers' animation

She was my favorite character in MvC2. Her style and animation is just so unique!

Glad to see this kind of attention to Darkstalkers. Definitely checking out that link. Even as a kid, long before thinking of being an animation major, I couldn't stop staring at how fluid and lively the sprite animation was. That (and not wanting to see Sasquatch look so sad during the Game Over screen) was the biggest reason I popped that first quarter into the machine 20 years ago.

One of my favorite fighting game characters.

I'd love for her to appear in a Devil my cry game .I don't know why Capcom hasn't made that a thing yet.

3:45 Well hey, if that ain't the spittin' image of Manah from Drakengard. Now I completely understand the evil behind that character.

I love darkstalkers so much. It's my second favorite fighting game series just behind mvc 1 and 2. They need to make a new one soon.

BB Hood was one of my team for Marvel Vs Capcom 2.

Oh, how I miss Darkstalkers. It's one of my absolute favorite IPs, even if it's seen basically no love for years. I was always best with Morrigan (I do best with light, fast characters), but I still love Hsien-ko the most. B.B. Hood is a wonderfully designed character, though.

7:09 Is she playing with Flowey? Two masters of deception enter the ring, but only one will leave...

I said it once and I will say it again this game is a masterpiece

Darkstalkers is the best fighting game in term of character design

B. B Hood main t'ill the day I die. Love this character.

This intro really made me wish i didn't see the thumbnail or title first lol

1997 Capcom had a thing for red-dressed girls who seem sweet but are secretly off their rocker in some form. Heck, Hood and Iris almost seem like foils to one another.

Definitely one of my favorite fighting game characters. Momo from Rival Schools and Alisa Bosconovitch from Tekken are similar but don't go as far as BB Hood in being deceptively evil

Please do more of these. The rest of the darkstalkers need some love...ESPECIALLY Talbain

can we talk about how awesome the 90's 2D platformers were? Lion King, The Adventures of Lomax, Mega Man 8, Alladin was among the animation masterpieces i've ever seen in a videogame.

The true monster

B.B Hood was my main back in MVC2 and I always used her with Roll Spiderman Tronbon Serve bot Wolverine Falicia & a few more Btw 55 sec since upload 51 views I am suspicious And yes we need a new darkstalkers

A thing or two...1) her win pose with Mr. K (the guy handing her the money) shows she's at least old enough to buy and smoke cigarettes as she pops one in her mouth as she counts the money even if it's not lit. 2) I'm pretty sure Harry is a Border Terrier based on his size, looks, and fur color...just a neat little thing. Apparently one of the reasons for her being as she is design wise is that in one of the versions of the story of Little Red Riding Hood...the Dahl versions specifically it's Little Red Riding Hood HERSELF that kills the wolf by shooting him, she then skins and wears his pelt. This version can be seen in the tabletop board game "Unmatched" where in the 2 player expansion Red Riding Hood vs Beowulf she teams up with the Huntsman to fight Beowulf and Wiglaf. Her special mechanic is "What's in my basket" and depending on the icon on her top card in the discard pile, extra effects can be used with cards in your hand...one of the icons is a pair of daggers, and her character miniature is wearing the wolf pelt. Sadly a good many of the classic Unmatched expansions are about to go out of print but I luckily got all the old ones and am working on the Marvel ones and future ones...hopefully they have a werewolf in one of the future sets so I can have a Gallon vs Bulleta style match with my friends lol.

You speak the truth. Capcom needs to learn to listen to their fan base and make a new Darkstalkers game

BB Hood should have been in every game that Morgan was in because she is a arbiter character

I used to main Phobos, but when I tried out B.B. Hood I INSTANTLY fell in love with her, so fun to play!

Loved this, hope you make more videos like this on other characters!

Little Red Riding Hood **UPGRADE* Ruby Rose **UPGRADE* B.B HOOD **FUCK GO BACK*

6:22 love how the guy's looking around

It's about damned time that we get an episode about B.B Hood. Oddly enough, I was just thinking about her recently. Now, all I need is an episode of Demitri Maximoff, my favorite video game character of all time.

New assassin:I always get caught but I do everything right Bulleta:Just do what I do. Be a normal innocent bystander and then attack!

That intro though.

Ah yes, B.B. Hood. Short for Bittle Bed Biding Hood.

I've always thought B.B. Hood was a badass in disguise. I wonder who trainer her to become a killing machine? And did she paint her hood with the blood of her victims?

Peacock from the past !😍

Liked this video before it even loaded. Full Darkstalkers coverage, please!

One wonders how you feel about Baiken and Zappa; Baiken for her one arm, and Zappa for... everything else.

If you hold down a flower pops up. ...

Thank you for making this video, Darkstalkers is my third FAVOURITE fighting game of all time

Awesome review as always. While you're in the theme of forgotten classics, how about a video about a character from The Last Blade?

My favorite Darkstalkers character. :)

I never noticed that gun in that drawing @7:15

I started crying when I heard her theme again in the video

you forgot her crouching sprite where all the butterflies go into a freshly risen flower and she just stands there looking at it.

I really wish Capcom would try making another sprite-style game like this. I’d gladly pay for DLC if it was super-animated sprites.

This video has one of the best intros ever keep up the good work good sir

To quote Deadpool: I so pity the dude who pressures HER into prom sex...

There days Im really afraid in what capcom would do with a new game...Thare are great chances that the animation would be weak.

I blame you for making me like Darkstalkers

B.B. Hood/Bulleta is hands down my favorite fighting game character, if not on my list favorite game characters of all-time. Used to play a lot of MvC2 and Darkstalkers 3 online years back. It's kind of funny how in that artwork at 7:18, Bulleta isn't holding an uzi like she does in-game. I read that Capcom designer Bengus went to a gun store to find references, but he couldn't find an uzi or something, so he drew a regular 9mm handgun. I'm no expert about firearms, but it's interesting to note. 3:38 - spiked ball which wasn't used in the final product. Her face actually looks terrifying with the long-sleeve blouse. I saw a scan of that concept art with a date that looked like August 24, 1996 (1996.08.24 on the lower left). So essentially Akiman created Bulleta around when I was born, even though Vampire Savior wasn't released until May 1997 :O It's little details like this that make characters interesting.

She deserves to be in marvel vs capcom game. Or movie the concept is nice

The only "kid" fighting game character that is actually cool.

This video is almost too good.