Talk:Athena Asamiya

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This article would do well to better source some of its claims. For instance, who credits Athena as SNK's most popular character? Which fan guides (and why) claim that Athena goes to school with Kyo Kusanagi? Etc. -—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 128.119.168.145 (talk • contribs).

Yes, of course. If no sources can be verfied, it would be well within policy to remove such information. -Zero^Talk 18:11, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Athena, Yuki and Kyo go to the same school in the KoF: Kyo manga and games, which is considered at least semi-canon and even had a videogame based on it by SNK itself. Still, since it's not relevant information, it can be either left in or out. *shrugs* Lunamaria 23:48, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Forgot to log in but I edited the page last. Photon shermie 10:04, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Notice: Athena and Athena Asamiya are not the same person

According to Japanese source ja:麻宮アテナ and ja:アテナ (ゲーム), the KOF Athena who came from the game Psycho Soldier, is a descendant of the original Athena. This was set when SNK developed the game Psycho Soldier. And when they developed KOF '94, they took the Psycho Soldier Athena as Athena Asamiya, not the original one. The SVC Chaos Athena is the original Athena, but not the Psycho Soldier Athena.

ancestor	original Athena	=	SVC Chaos Athena
	x		x
descendant	Psycho Soldier Athena	=	KOF Athena Asamiya

Official references: 1 2

It's not a myth that people are confused. Before '94 they both are known only as Athena. But Japanese source identifies their statuses.

The original Athena is a princess of the Victory Kingdom, and a guardian of Heaven World in the SVC Chaos and NeoGeo Battle Coliseum storyline. She found herself superpowerful in the Fantasy World and defeated the evil emperor Dante who dominated there. So she could be considered as a semi-deity. And her image is an adaptation of the goddess Athena with many Greek mythic elements.

The Psycho Soldier Athena is basically a human with psycho power, which is explained by Japanese source it's from her ancestor. And her family don't have any of it. This makes sense the KOF Athena is not as superhuman as a deity, but rather a high school girl with certain super power, like Kyo succeeds the Kusanagi's fire power. It also explains why nobody in SVC Chaos mistakes the heavenly Athena for Athena Asamiya, but some does Dan Hibiki for Robert Garcia.

By the way, people continue assuming SNK's Athena was inspired by Saint Seiya because the similar plots. There is no evidence to prove it. SVC Chaos Athena's exceed move like "Pegasus Fantasy" or "Bow of the Judgement" are actually based on the equippable items in the original Athena game. One of those is named "Wings of Pegasus" and another is a crossbow. Other exceed moves are also based on the original Athena game. And they are essentiality based on Greek mythology. So it's of course similar to the contents of Saint Seiya. But both works made their debuts in the same year, and Saint Seiya manga took about a year to reveal goddess' secret identity. When SNK released the Athena game, the Athena in Saint Seiya was yet not struck by arrow. So the manga shoud have nothing to do with any SNK's Athena, period. --Mato Rei 13:36, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] About splitting Princess Athena

All the complete info bringed by Mato Rei makes me think about split Princess Athena to her own article, leaving this only for the KOF character and then avoid future confusions. Basara-kun 03:47, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Also, Athena: Full Throttle needs its own article. Suggested split both of them. Basara-kun 04:45, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

• I'm ok with any decision. Just make sure that after you split them, there won't be somebody who jump out and merge them back. They always cut lots of contents during that sort of process. --Mato Rei 15:19, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
  • OK, Princess Athena and Athena: Full Throttle have their own articles now. Mato Rei, I will feel glad if you can improve those articles ;) Basara-kun 18:05, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
  • I did as far as I know about now. Otherwise things will go subjective. I may add something later. If you want to know more about the arcade game outside of wiki, you can use this link. There is an english index for the pages but not complete. You can try japanese pages. --Mato Rei 06:54, 13 April 2007 (UTC)