Her father was a lawyer prosecuting powerful criminal
organizations, and was after Shadaloo. In retaliation, M. Bison had the
family's car attacked by a Shadaloo death squad. During the ordeal,
Juri's parents were killed and Juri lost her left eye to a stray bullet.
After the incident, she swore revenge on Bison and has vowed to "eat him up, bones and all".
Juri
fights purely for the thrill of the battle; unlike Ryu, who seeks
meaning, her drive is much more vengeful, selfish and ruthless, as she's
extremely sadistic, liking to inflict pain on her foes, and she's also
extremely hot-tempered, as she can easily lose her temper when she is
struck back in retaliation or without warning. Juri loves combat to the
point where she becomes irritated when it is denied to her like when
Rashid refused to fight her seriously, Juri scathingly replied that "he
could just die" if that was the case. She displays several traits of a
femme fatale, as she makes provocative and suggestive remarks toward her
enemies, as well seen in her win quotes; she is also very cunning, as
she is not above leaving her partners to further her own agenda. At
times, she appears to be brooding and depressed, Menat claimed she felt a
sense of "loneliness" from Juri implying all her wiles and cruelty is
just a cover for how broken she is on the inside.
However, despite her vengeful and ruthless behavior, she still has some vague sense of honor; during her mission (in the Super Street Fighter IV OVA), she left a young boy alive despite many civilians being caught in the crossfire. Juri also appears to detest fighting children, and views Evil Ryu to be a far more abhorrent type of ruthless, which somewhat contradicts her opinion on other Anasatsuken users. According to her win quote against Blanka in Street Fighter V, she is against animal cruelty. Juri is also slightly hypocritical in many of her criticisms and insults of other fighters, demonstrating that she needs to mask her pain by deflecting her flaws onto others. She mocks the suffering of Cammy and Decapre at the hands of Bison despite having gone though similar pain and trauma in her own childhood. But then always returns to help them in their times of need. Juri also calls Vega a "pervert" despite her deriving sexual gratification from hurting and taunting others. This seems to provide enough evidence that Menat was spot on in her observation about Juri's psyche.
Juri may also have been the first openly bisexual character in Street Fighter lore. Her listed interests upon her release originally included Spicy food, spiders and large breasts before being changed to only spicy food and spiders. Despite this, her flirtatious nature with both genders remains, amongst the female fighters, she has taken a particular interest in Cammy and Chun-Li, the latter of which she claims has a "schoolgirl crush" on her although it’s possible she is only mockingly flirting with people. This is supported by her usual tone whenever she makes flirtatious comments, making her sexual orientation unclear.
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