Pai Chan

Pai Chan (Japanese: パイ・チェン, Hepburn: Pai Chen) is a fictional character in the Sega fighting game series Virtua Fighter, debuting in the first installment from 1993. She is the daughter of Lau Chan and a martial arts action movie star in her hometown, fighting using Mizongyi. She seeks to defeat her father and prove herself a worthy successor to his school of martial arts. She was initially hostile towards her father for neglecting her until Virtua Fighter 4, where she reconciled with him after finding out he had been diagnosed with an incurable disease. Although Pai Chan is from Hong Kong and her native language is Cantonese, due to the game's Japanese origin, she is voiced by an actress speaking Japanese, Iwao Junko, in Virtua Fighter 2, and Minami Takayama from Virtua Fighter 3 onwards. Besides the main series, Pai Chan has appeared in multiple spin-offs as well as the anime adaptation of the series, where she follows protagonist Akira Yuki and other fighters on a journey after being attacked by criminals.

Critical response to Pai Chan's character has been generally positive, with several writers noting her to be one of the earliest examples of a female character in a fighting game with a distinct sex appeal, often compared with Sarah Bryant due to their different nationalities. Her bad relationship with her father, Lau Chan, was also notable for showing a distinct negative characterization mixed with tragedy.