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Curt (カート), full name Curtis (カーティス)[1], is a scrapped character planned for Strider 2, revealed on May 2023 by Capcom's official art team Twitter account.[2]
About
Curt was designed as a 2nd player character during early production of Strider 2. She was a young 13 years old dark-skinned girl with short blonde hair. Despite being a male name, Curtis was not intended to be a surname and was in fact her actual name[1]. No further information is known about her, although the released concept sketches seems to indicate she worked alongside Hiryu and fought using a firearm instead of a melee weapon like the Cypher.
Curt was designed by Capcom's artist Kinu Nishimura, and was inspired by manga character Alita from Battle Angel Alita[2]. She seems to have been created at a very early stage in development, as the main artist of Strider 2Harumaru didn't know of her existence before the reveal.[3]
In December 2025, Atsushi Tomita spoke a bit more about this character. He stated that, once he joined the staff for Strider 2, he felt the gameplay limitations of a character that only uses a melee-range weapon in a 2D action game, so he asked Nishimura to design a 2P character that'd fight using a firearm instead. Unfortunately, the development team was already overworked developing the game so the character was never implemented.[4]
Tomita also revealed the character was planned to be a girl soldier in the Resistance, and gave her name as Tetsuroko Hoshino (星野鉄郎子), a very different name from the one in the design sketches[5]. The name "Tetsuroko" is not an actual Japanese name, but "Tetsurō" (鉄郎, meaning "iron" and "son") is a masculine Japanese name, with the -ko being a suffix often added to female names. This appears to be the same specific oddity pointed out in Curt's concept art, where "Curtis" is her name despite being a male given name.
