Chun-Li (春麗, also チュン・リー, Chun Rī, simplified Chinese: 春丽; traditional Chinese: 春麗; pinyin: Chūn Lì) is a character in Capcom's Street Fighter video game series. She is actually the second playable female fighter of any fighting game as that title goes to Gaea from Konami’s 1985 fighting game, Galactic Warriors. Regardless she is the first playable female fighter of any fighting game franchise to gain mainstream recognition. She made her first appearance in Street Fighter II: The World Warrior in 1991. In the series, she is an expert martial artist and Interpol officer who restlessly seeks revenge for the death of her father at the hands of the nefarious M. Bison, leader of the Shadaloo crime syndicate.