GENERAL/STORY:
John Crawley is a martial arts instructor, and with his brutal and aggressive fighting style was known to his friends as "The Madman" and "The killing Machine." He enters the tournament to win the prize money and test his skills.

In the first AOF, Crawley has longer hair. By the time AOF2 occurs, his hair is cut shorter. Crawley also has been compared to Guile because of their similar hair color, special moves, and military motifs. In John's AOF2 ending, the US Military attempts to recruit him to rescue the President's canary, named Tweeter. John refuses, telling the General "Hasta la vista!"

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ORIGIN:
Art of Fighting

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OTHER APPEARANCES:
Art of Fighting 2, Card Fighters Clash, Card Fighters Clash 2

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REVIEW:
Seems like the early designers over at SNK had some trouble thinking up their own character designs in the beginning, and wanted their own "blonde-haired American army guy" for their fighting game... AKA subtly rip-off a newly created 2D fighting game icon, Guile. If, somehow, John wasn't an intentional rip-off of Guile, he still sucks as a design anyway.  

It's also very ironic that Capcom created Charlie in the later SFA series, who has a strikingly similar attire/color scheme to John (but much cooler hair of course)... Was this Capcom's retaliation for John? Knowing Capcom, it's entirely possible.

Visually bland, but most of all, John's personality really is as hollow as an "O"... I think SNK finally agrees, which is why they didn't bring back boring old John after all these years... They didn't even bother so much as to stick him in a background or something. Ouch.

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