Shantel Jameson

Sassy Boxer

Bio
Shantel is a sassy but rough Bantamweight boxing champion and the younger sister of Murdock. She's also a survivor of a family massacre at the hands of serial killers belonging to a terrorist cult known as the Neo Ku Klux Klan. In recent events, she's a target of a murder planned by Don Z, however, she and her brother swear to put him a lesson that will never forget by competing in the 13th International Tournament of Rhythmic Martial Arts.

Gameplay
She's a Bantamweight Boxer who's currently the long reigning-champion of her category. Her fighting style is an amalgamation. Shantel's fighting style is Boxing and Blues, which is Boxing combined with Rhythm and Blues. Part of her R&B motif is her sassy personality and calm temper.

Special Moves

 * Cross Punch: She does two punches which forms line waves resembling a cross.
 * Her Super Rhythmic version, Cross Knockout, said waves cause more damage and adds a straight punch if the move is connected.
 * Upper Rush: She rushes and then does an uppercut punch to her opponent. Serves as a Combo Opener.
 * Her Super Rhythmic version, Upper TKO, dashes twice the speed and deals five hits in succession.
 * Evasive Maneuver: She zips to her opponent either backwards or forwards and tresspasses others' projectiles. Can be followed with either a Power Jab or a Gut Punch, and both follow-up attacks serve as a Combo Opener.
 * Her Super Rhythmic version, Dashing Maneuever, does the follow-up attacks directly with three punches depending on the direction.
 * Ground Quake: She does a ground punch, tripping her opponent.
 * Her Super Rhythmic version, Ground Tremor, the tripping effect goes further at low speed, allowing her to make juggles.

Ultra Rhythmic Move

 * Gold Digger: Shantel prepares by pumping both of her fists as she says "It's 'bout damn time!" and then dashes towards her opponent. If this move connects, she does a series of punches towards him/her with peak-speed. Her opponent gets groggy from the punches and Shantel prepares a huge uppercut to his/her head, sending her opponent to fly. Shantel turns backwards arrogantly and then raises her right fist with a smirk as her opponent falls to the ground.

Battle Intro
Shantel is flexing both of her arms and says "Wanna fight? Betcha you will!" before she goes to her Boxing and Blues stance.

Match Point
Shantel sighs and puts her gloves to her hips as she says "What a big trouble!".

Victory Pose
Shantel does some shadow punches and then rushes towards to deliver a powerful punch as the camera focuses closely on her. Magenta colored light streaks follow her post-sequence.

Victory Screen

 * (Mirror Match) "What a bad imitation! The original is always the better!"
 * (vs. Carlos) "Your skills are not bad for a wanderer like ya'!"
 * (vs. Joaquín) "For the last time... I have a boyfriend. You better buzz off of my sight!"
 * (vs. Rina) "Did you know that you're risking your own carrer? Dating is not allowed for an Idol like you!"
 * (vs. Adriana) "Control your not-boyfriend, gurl! What kind of man is always ignoring you?"
 * (vs. Iván) "What a kickboxer! Can I mind if you spar with me in the gym?"
 * (vs. Takeru) "You left the Yakuza? What the heck they did to you?"
 * (vs. Murdock) "Sorry for the unintentional beating, Brother. Siblings should support to each other."
 * (vs. Jacob) "Your sandstorms are no match against my quick fists!"
 * (vs. Natalie) "Next time... stop wielding that knife of yours and fight cleanly!"
 * (vs. Damian) "Nice try, narcissistic man! I may be materialist, but I have more effort in my looks."
 * (vs. Garrett) "Hah! You're not but a mere canadian knucklehead!"
 * (vs. Reggie) "You're astonishingly good, Mister Weimann. I wish you good luck with your activist duties."
 * (vs. Tomas) "Are you expecting me to dance in your carnival? Sorry, I'm not in the mood to do so."
 * (vs. Fong) "Sorry for mentioning that Disco music is so yesterday. On the another hand, I like your movies."
 * (vs. Kastor) "Sincerely enough, I'm glad that you're still fighting at old age."
 * (vs. Don Z) "I think you're not a bad person after all, Donovan."
 * (vs. Doctor Giga) "No more interdimensional conquest for you, evildoer!"
 * (vs. Valerie) "I can work out well like ya'. Trust me, gurl. You got my respect."
 * (vs. John) "Needless to say, yo' are an inspiration for people everywhere."
 * (vs. Hiroto) "Seriously? What are ya'? A clown from the funhouse?"
 * (vs. Marion) "You talk like that one queen from Frozen? That's too mainstream for me!"
 * (vs. Patrick) "You think chairs are useful in combat? I don't think so."
 * (vs. Amadeus) "Don't take your defeat so badly. You're more of a pacifist, right?"
 * (vs. Raystrom) "If anything, we share similar tragic backstories."
 * (vs. Captain Lyrus) "Even in other places, there are heroes who never give up!"

Prologue
(Shantel is seen punching to the training bag in the gym. Her brother Murdock is seen behind in the wall.)

''Shantel Jameson, The Sassy Boxer. She's the current Women's Bantamweight Boxer champion in the World Boxing Association.''

(Shantel is later seen shopping with her friendly rival Connie Markov, a russian brown short haired woman. Both women wear casual clothing.)

''She won the championship against Connie Markov in her debut. However, both of them manage to have a good friendship that trascends the boxing world.''

(Shantel reads the invitation of the 13th International Rhythmic Martial Arts Tournament.)

Recently, Shantel is officially invited to join the 13th International Rhythmic Martial Arts Tournament in hopes to deal with Don Z, the man who attempted to kill her and her brother months ago in an ambush.

Pre-Fight Cutscene
(Scene takes place in Hong Kong Showdown. Lu Fong just finished his acting session.) (The filming crew applaud to Fong's performance.) (Shantel just came to scene in time.) (Fong's head is getting red of frustation after hearing Shantel's commentary.) (Fong goes to his Jeet Kune Disco stance and challenges Shantel.) (Shantel accepts his challenge and goes to her Boxing and Blues stance.)
 * Film Director: "Cut!"
 * Film Director: "That's a wrap!"
 * Shantel: "Hey! Are you Lu Fong?"
 * Fong: "What's up, lady?"
 * Shantel: "Gotta ask the following question?"
 * Fong: "I accept!"
 * Shantel: "I'm not of a critic, but everyone knows Disco music is so yesterday."
 * Fong: "Watch your mouth, lady! Disco music is the most funkiest musical genre ever existed!"
 * Shantel: "Take it with sarcasm, Fong."
 * Fong: "Beware, lady! Prepare to feel the power of my Jeet Kune Disco!"
 * Shantel: "Oh well... here it goes."

After Match Cutscene
(Fong is still unconscious and with his eyes spinning anime-style from the fight while imaginary chibi versions of the Bee Gees surround his head for a while.) (However, Fong shakes his head as he starts to recover his consciousness and gets up.) (The film director's voice is heard off-screen.) (Fong leaves the stage running comically. Then the camera focuses on Shantel, who's crossing her arms out of sincerity.)
 * Shantel: "Oops! Did I hit you so hard?"
 * Fong: "It's nothing, milady."
 * Shantel: "You're really a strange competitor."
 * Fong: "Not many people talked about that earlier."
 * Shantel: "Sorry for the commentary I mentioned."
 * Film Director: "Fong, time to take your rest."
 * Fong: "I wish we're still talking but... I must go!"
 * Shantel: "I'm really looking forward to your next movie!"
 * Fong: "Thanks, Miss Jameson!"

Pre-Fight Cutscene
(Scene takes place in the 13th Rhythmic Martial Arts Tournament Arena, which resembles an eSports stadium. The stage has a total attendance of 100,000,000 people and comes with a big screen on the entrance area. The ring is huge and circular, its floor is made of wood and has hard plastic borders.) (The crowd gets excited when both fighters enter the battlefield.) (Shantel goes to her Boxing and Blues stance and challenges Murdock.) (Murdock accepts her challenge and goes to his Rap Thai stance.)
 * Referee: "Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the 13th Rhythmic Martial Arts Tournament Finals! Tonight, we got a sibling fight Straight Outta Detroit! Introducing first... The Sassy Boxer, Shantel Jameson! And her oponent, is her own brother... The Emerald Avenger, Murdock Jameson!"
 * Shantel: "Hey, brother!"
 * Murdock: "Shantel? What are ya' doin' here?"
 * Shantel: "I need to win the tournament by myself."
 * Murdock: "It's not the moment to talk about that!"
 * Shantel: "Bet that you're still overprotective, Murdock."
 * Murdock: "There's no time to lose and let's fight, sister!"

After Match Cutscene
(After defeating Murdock, Shantel is declared the winner.) (A mysterious messenger of white hair from the Argonian dimension in black suit appears in front of them.) (Shantel decides to leave the arena and follows the messenger.)
 * Referee: "The winner is... Shantel Jameson!"
 * Shantel: "Don't feel bad, brother. Promise me that your revenge with the cultists will be settled."
 * Murdock: "I promise, sister."
 * (Murdock gets up and pumpfists his sister. However, the lights suddenly turn off except for the one where both fighters stand.)
 * Shantel: "Darn it! There's not a single moment anyone congratulate my victory?"
 * Murdock: "Someone's coming, Shantel."
 * Messenger: "Congratulations for your victory, Shantel Jameson."
 * Shantel: "I'm not in good mood for that, messenger."
 * Messenger: "Someone has watched your fights in the tournament. He's waiting for you in his basement. Come with me."
 * Murdock: "Don't go, sister! You're the only thing I left!"
 * Shantel: "No need to worry, Murdock. I'll be back!"
 * Murdock: "Take care well, Shantel."

Sub-Boss Cutscene
(Scene takes place outside of an abandoned building in Bayamon, Puerto Rico. The helicopter lands the destination as Shantel gets out of it.) (The helicopter leaves the scene. Don Z shows up in front of Shantel.) (Both fighters are now in their fighting stances.)
 * Shantel: "Mister, where's that guy yo're mentionin' earlier?"
 * Messenger: "First of all, you must defeat his most trusted henchman, Don Z."
 * Shantel: "He's the same guy who attempted to put an end to my life!"
 * Messenger: "If you win, there's a secret passage inside the building that will direct to his location."
 * Shantel: "Time to deliver him the biggest beatdown of his life!"
 * Messenger: "Good luck, Shantel Jameson. You will need it."
 * Don Z: "Surpised to see me again, Shantel?"
 * Shantel: "Don Z!"
 * Don Z: "Are you really angry with me?"
 * Shantel: "Exactly, dirty face!"
 * Don Z: "I expected a better commentary from you."
 * Shantel: "Enough talk, Reggaetonero."
 * Don Z: "I will stop your insolence, Miss Jameson."
 * Shantel: "Karma will devour ya' right now! Prepare yo'self!"

Final Boss Cutscene
(Don Z starts to recover his consciousness.) (Shantel shakes hands with Don Z as both start to respect each other.) (Then Shantel waves with her right arm and then goes to the abandoned building. Now inside, she pushes a bookshelf which hides a door to the other side and opens it leading to an underground secret passage, sees a spiral ladder and goes downwards. As Shantel goes forward to the tunnel, she stops after entering a villainous lair, which is a laboratory filled with gloomy things and decoratives, where a shadow figure is sitting behind.) (The shadow figure is eventually revealed as Doctor Giga as he starts to turn around.) (Shantel enraged towards Doctor Giga's actions and attempts to strike with her Upper Rush, but the dictator slaps her far back to the square one.) (Doctor Giga starts to get up, walks towards Shantel and prepares his fighting stance.)
 * Shantel: "Get up, Don Z and mention your true motives now!"
 * Don Z: "I will explain what really happened. It was an order from the shadow figure."
 * Shantel: "The shadow figure?"
 * Don Z: "He was my boss from an unknown dimension... until I fed up with his demonic plans. For this reason, I'm atoning for my misdeeds."
 * Shantel: "Okay! I understand... I accept your atonement."
 * Don Z: "From now on, there's no more bad blood between us."
 * Shantel: "We're now in peace... Before I go to his place, can you tell me the exact location of it?"
 * Don Z: "There's a secret passage inside the abandoned building. Here, you will encounter him."
 * Shantel: "Everything is now forgiven, Donovan."
 * ????: "Good night, Miss Jameson! You just came in time for the end of Earth."
 * Shantel: "Are you the boss Don Z mentioned earlier?"
 * Doctor Giga: "Of course I am. Name's Doctor Giga, and in a few minutes, I will become the future master of this pathetic world. What do you came here in first place?"
 * Shantel: "You manipulated Don Z into doing your dirty business!"
 * Doctor Giga: "That Donovan Zambrano is nothing but a sellout for betraying me."
 * Shantel: "This happens exactly to you for being a bad boss!"
 * Doctor Giga: "Nice try! I'm already doing my interdimensional conquest that started long time ago!"
 * Shantel: "Are you mad? What about the other worlds?"
 * Doctor Giga: "The other worlds you mentioned... I already took them!"
 * Shantel: "Did you notice that hitting on a woman like me is wrong?"
 * Doctor Giga: "Are you lecturing my ruthlessness?"
 * Shantel: "Better not to take Earth and its people."
 * Doctor Giga: "You're not but a troublemaker! I will take Earth once I'll finish you, so-called Sassy Boxer!"

After beating Doctor Giga in his normal mode
(Doctor Giga gets up from the ground.) (Doctor Giga grabs an injectable with a purple-colored plasma serum, he uses it in his right arm.) (Doctor Giga transforms himself into an horrific energy being as he laughs, and you should fight against him in only one round.)
 * Doctor Giga: "Don't claim victory yet!"
 * Doctor Giga: "Behold... my next step of the Argonian evolution!"

Ending Cutscene
(Doctor Giga is defeated and returns to his normal state. He's trying to get up, but fails.) (Giga grabs an explosive switch and presses it. An alarm sound is heard many times.) (Then Shantel looks upwards and notices that the components are starting to break upside where Doctor Giga is located, of which the latter is getting scared.) (Shantel makes a sassy pose to Doctor Giga and leaves the place as it's starting to explode.) (The building is starting to collapse from the explosion. Damaged components of the stage are falling on Doctor Giga, effectively killing him off-screen. Then we cut to a flashback of Murdock disintegrating Azimilor to ashes in the cave [see Murdock's ending for details].) (Then we cut to the locker room, where Shantel is preparing for her match.) (She's then greeted by two familiar subjects, Tyson Floyd and Antwan Green. Both of them are wearing casual clothing.) (Both Tyson and Antwan gives her a thumbs up before she leaves the locker room. We then cut to the Boxing Ring as Shantel now makes her way along with her opponent, being none another than Sofía Melania [who wears her secondary attire from Brutal Fists 2, save for her gloves being traditional]. Both women are facing off for twenty seconds as the famous boxing announcer Michael Buffer starts to say his catchphrase.) (Both women pump their fists with each other.) (They start to fight for twenty seconds. Cut flash forward to the twelve rounds of the entire match, showcasing both boxers' strikes, knockdowns and taking rests between rounds. After that, the match finishes by judge's decision.) (The boxing referee raises Shantel's arm while the crowd cheers and then the judges give her the Women's Bantamweight Championship. After that, she and Sofía hug to each other for ten seconds.) (Terrence West, the fiancé of Shantel, is an afro-american bald man wearing a conventional trainer attire colored green, shows up along with Murdock in the boxing ring. Both men grab Shantel upwards as she puts her legs on their shoulders.) (Shantel celebrates her victory with her championship belt before the camera freezes for ten seconds. After this, the screen fades to black.)
 * Shantel: "Stay down, evildoer... I win!"
 * Doctor Giga: "Not so fast, Shantel... I got a last resort against you!"
 * Female Electronic Voice: *AUTODESTRUCTION SEQUENCE ACTIVATED*
 * Shantel: "What kind of madman is really insane to do that?"
 * Doctor Giga: "You wouldn't survive in the following seconds after the explosion as I will escape."
 * Shantel: "You are really pathetic... I expected a better threat than that!"
 * Doctor Giga: "Are you disqualifying me?"
 * Shantel: "Enjoy your last day in this scrapyard, sucka'!"
 * Doctor Giga: "Shantel Jameson... you are a bitch!"
 * Shantel (v/o): "Yesterday, both my brother and I stopped the machinations of Azimilor, an albino shapeshifting mass murderer who masqueraded as the leader of the Neo Ku Klux Klan. Since then, the deaths of our family are avenged."
 * Shantel (v/o): "And now... I'm ready to defend my championship against a familiar figure."
 * Shantel: "Hey, I know you two!"
 * Tyson: "Yo! I heard you stopped a madman's plans for world domination."
 * Antwan: "And because of that, you're now famous!"
 * Shantel: "Thanks! I noticed that you competed in different tournaments, right?"
 * Tyson: "In the one where I won the first, it involved criminals, weirdos and a japanese schoolgirl who plays videogames."
 * Antwan: "The one where I'm involved had a grimdark environment, the competitors are mostly military themed save for two of my friends Huang Jing and Nadia Zidane."
 * Shantel: "Good for ya'! I got a boxing match tonight... wish me good luck!"
 * Michael Buffer: "Let's get ready to rumbleeeeeeeee!"
 * Sofía: "Good to see the one who stopped Doctor Giga!"
 * Shantel: "I noticed your involvement in the second Brutal Fists tournament."
 * Sofía: "That one lovecraftian monster is pretty much a potty mouthed racist."
 * Shantel: "He's nothing compared to either Doctor Giga or Azimilor."
 * Sofía: "Enough talk and let's fight like proper damas."
 * Shantel: "Betcha' you do, Miss Melania!"
 * Michael Buffer: "Your winner... and still Women's Bantamweight Champioooon... Shanteeeeel Jameson!"
 * Sofía: "Thank you for the match!"
 * Shantel: "I wouldn't remain the championship had if not for my manager, Terrence West... and my brother, Murdock Jameson."
 * Terrence (voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson): "You did it again, my lovely Shantel!"
 * Murdock: "I'm proud of you, sister!"
 * Shantel: "Thanks guys, you two are my family."