Toro Inoue

"Nya?"

- Toro

Toro Inoue (井上トロ), also known as the Sony Cat in English, is the official mascot for PlayStation in Japan, and a playable character in PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale. Toro's in-game rival is Heihachi Mishima.

Biography
NYA?

Adopted by a kindly sushi store owner, this once-abandoned cat is on a quest to become more human. Toro has the ability to assume any of a variety of roles instantly, adapting as the situation requires. An unabashed fan of games, Toro is thrilled to finally meet so many of Their heroes.

THE LEGACY OF TORO INOUE:
 * Doko Demo Issyo (PS1)
 * Toro and the Shooting Star (PS2)
 * Mainichi Issho (PS3)
 * Weekly Toro Station (PS3)
 * Toro's Friend Network (PSVita)

Opening
One day, Kuro informs Toro that there is going to be a fighting tournament. Seeking to become more human, Toro agrees to enter the tournament.

Transcript
Kuro: There is a gathering of mighty warriors happening!

Toro: What?

Kuro: It's close! And everyone will be there!

Toro: You don't mean...

Kuro: Yes! All of our favorites!

Toro: Perhaps I can go there to meet them! If I can learn to fight like them, I might become human.

Kuro: And maybe there will be some pretty ladies there!

Toro: Kuro! We must be respectful around such legendary humans! And we should also not be late! Let's go!

Rival
Name: Heihachi Mishima

Reason: Toro and Kuro encounter Heihachi while They is busy training. Heihachi tells them to leave, but Toro and Kuro are eager to catch up with Heihachi, even asking why They looks young. Heihachi, angered by the cats' persistence and seeing that telling them to leave did nothing, refuses to answer and "makes himself clear" by challenging both of them to a fight.

Transcript
Kuro: If these humans only want to fight you, we should at least bet on the outcome!

Toro: I'm here to meet these people so I can learn to be like - look!

Kuro: Ah! Heihachi! I had a feeling They was around here somewhere.

Toro: It is Heihachi, but... They looks different.

Heihachi: Move along, kitties. This is no place for you.

Toro: Heihachi! Is it really you?

Kuro: You look different!

Heihachi: Such impertinence!

Toro: We just want to ask you some questions, Heihachi-san.

Kuro: Why are you so young?

Heihachi: These matters don't concern you. I already told you once to leave, but it seems I haven't made myself clear!

(Both Toro and Heihachi are showing off some moves before the fight starts.)

Ending
Kuro and Toro found the "tournament" as an exciting experience where they've got to meet many new people (the other All-Stars), however, Kuro sees in Toro's face that They became sad when They got home. After asking Toro what's the matter, They answered: "Even after all of that, I'm still not a human" to which Kuro responds by telling him all the humans wanted to do was fight, and They needed a better way to become human. After a short laugh, they talk about Toro's new power from Polygon Man, which, as described by Toro, "suits me very well, don't you think?"

Transcript
Kuro: That was a great adventure!

Toro: Yes. It was very exciting, and we got to meet so many new people.

Kuro: So what's the matter?

Toro: Even after all of that, I'm still not a human.

Kuro: All those humans wanted to do is fight you! You'll have to find a better way to become a human, Toro.

Toro: I guess you're right, Kuro. I will just keep learning new words.

Kuro: That's the spirit, Toro. And besides, even if you're not human... look how much you've learned!

Toro: That's true! This new power suits me very well, don't you think?

Taunts
Don't Make Me Giggle: Toro moves Their paw from Their chin to Their side while shaking Their head.

98, 99... 100: Toro puts an arm behind Their back and does a one-armed push-up, then jumps up for joy.

Too Love-able to Lose: Toro puts Their paws up to Their face and meows.

Quotes
(Toro can only make cat sounds.)

Introduction

 * I'm Too Cute to Lose: Toro waves and bows.
 * Kitty 'shups: Toro struggles to do some push ups.
 * Dance Battle Time: Toro dances around and then puts Their paw in the air.
 * Ready For the Ring: Toro tightens Their headband and gets into a fighting stance.

Winning Screen

 * Purrrrfect: Toro jumps for joy.
 * Kitty Got Skills: Toro puts on a happy face and waves Their arms in joy.
 * Cat Wins: Toro spins around with Their arms stretched out joyfully.
 * Weee: Toro is slouched in joy, then stands on one foot and puts Their paws together.

Losing Screen

 * If using Purrrrfect: Frowns and crosses Their arms.
 * If using Kitty Got Skills: Stomps petulantly with Their eyes shut.
 * If using Cat Wins: Holds Their hands on Their eyes and cries.
 * If using Weee: Toro has Their eyes closed and spins Their head, possibly from exhaustion.

Result Screen
Winning: Waves Their arms for joy.

Losing: Crosses Their arms, either with a sad or angry expression.

Victory Music
There Will Be Mochi (Unlocked at rank 4)

[Based on "Staff Credits" from Together Everywhere!: Let's Go (Doko Demo Issyo: Let's Gakkou!) [[File:Victory_-_Toro_A_(There_Will_Be_Mochi).ogg]] Meowzers (Unlocked at rank 45)

[Based on "Staff Credits" from Together Everywhere!: Let's Go (Doko Demo Issyo: Let's Gakkou!) [[File:Victory_-_Toro_B_(Meowzers).ogg]]

Fighting Toro
The default appearance of Toro. They starts off wearing a headband, a black belt, and wristbands as Justice Toro, goes into a ninja jumpsuit as Torobi the Kat, and wears an afro with yellow horns and a caveman skirt as Oni Toro.




 * Default: white headband (Justice), brown jumpsuit (Torobi), red afro and yellow skirt (Oni)
 * Green headband (Justice), green jumpsuit (Torobi), green afro and white skirt (Oni)
 * Blue headband (Justice), blue jumpsuit (Torobi), blue afro and light blue skirt (Oni)
 * Red headband (Justice), red jumpsuit (Torobi), brown afro and red skirt (Oni). Justice Toro's colorization appears to be based off Their appearance in Street Fighter X Tekken, where They wore a red headband.

Bistro Toro
Toro wears restaurant-themed clothing in each of Their forms. This costume is part of the preorder costume pack. They starts off dressed as a waiter as Justice Toro, turns into a dishwasher as Torobi the Kat, and becomes a chef as Oni Toro.




 * Default: dark grey vest and pants (Justice), white head wrap, black shirt and pants, red sash, and black apron (Torobi), white chef's hat and uniform, and purple bowtie (Oni)
 * Green vest and pants (Justice), green head wrap, white shirt and black pants, red sash, and green apron (Torobi), green chef's hat and uniform, and blue bowtie (Oni)
 * Blue vest and pants (Justice, black head wrap, blue shirt and pants, red sash, and black apron (Torobi), blue chef's hat and uniform, and yellow bowtie (Oni)
 * Red vest and pants (Justice), blue head wrap, red shirt and black pants, black sash, and red apron (Torobi), red chef's hat and uniform, and orange bowtie (Oni)

Melodic Toro
Unlocked at Level 10, Toro wears clothes modeled after musicians. They starts off wearing visors, Hawaiian shirt, and shorts as Justice Toro, turns into a punk rocker as Torobi the Kat, and has an afro and an Elvis suit as Oni Toro.
 * Default: blue Hawaiian shirt and pale red shorts (Justice), red mohawk, white tank top, black pants (Torobi), blue afro, white suit and red outlines (Oni)
 * Yellow Hawaiian shirt and red shorts (Justice), blue mohawk, red tank top, black pants (Torobi), black afro, black suit and blue outlines (Oni)
 * Green Hawaiian shirt and brown shorts (Justice), green mohawk, black tank top, purple pants (Torobi), purple afro, light purple suit and purple outlines (Oni)
 * Purple Hawaiian shirt and black shorts (Justice), pink mohawk, green tank top, blue pants (Torobi), brown afro, orange suit and brown outlines (Oni)

Trivia

 * In the Japanese Doko Demo Issyo games, Toro speaks in the 3rd person, as not to disclose their gender. However in English the character speaks in the first person.
 * Toro is the only character to originate from a Japan exclusive game.
 * As a result, PlayStation All-Stars, as well as Street Fighter X Tekken, mark Toro and Kuro's first appearances outside Japan, as well as their first appearances in crossover fighting games.
 * Toro's three different "stances" are based around many different fighting games, including Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Tekken, Virtua Fighter and The King of Fighters.
 * His neutral [[File:Btn_square.png]] attack in the air is the Tatsumaki Senpukyaku, or Hurricane Kick, from Street Fighter.
 * In Their Justice stance, Their basic [[File:Btn_triangle.png]] attack is similar to Akira Yuki's Dashing Elbow, from Virtua Fighter. While on the ground They can do combos with [[File:Btn_triangle.png]] that are similar to the combos in Tekken. Their [[File:Playstation-Lstick-Left.png]] / [[File:Playstation-Lstick-Right.png]] + [[File:Btn_triangle.png]] attack is based Ryu's Joudan Sokutogeri. Their Justice stance switch attack ([[File:Playstation-Lstick-Up.png]] + [[File:Btn_circle.png]]) is based on Ryu's Shoryuken. The last two attacks were also two of Their special moves in Street Fighter X Tekken.
 * His Torobi Stance is based on Mortal Kombat. Toro has a lobster chain to throw in the vein of Scorpion's spear ([[File:Btn_triangle.png]]), a slide move in the vein of Sub-Zero's ([[File:Playstation-Lstick-Left.png]] / [[File:Playstation-Lstick-Right.png]] + [[File:Btn_triangle.png]] on the ground), a parody of Liu Kang's Bicycle Kick ([[File:Playstation-Lstick-Left.png]] / [[File:Playstation-Lstick-Right.png]] + [[File:Btn_triangle.png]] in the air), and a play on Noob Saibot's portals ([[File:Playstation-Lstick-Down.png]] + [[File:Btn_triangle.png]]).
 * In Their Oni stance, They can do a mochi Hadoken with [[File:Btn_triangle.png]] that can be charged, Their [[File:Playstation-Lstick-Up.png]] + [[File:Btn_triangle.png]] attack while on the ground is a reference to the Oniyaki uppercut from The King of Fighters, Their [[File:Playstation-Lstick-Down.png]] + [[File:Btn_triangle.png]] in the air references Akuma's Diving Kick, and Their Level 3 Super ([[File:Btn_r2.png]] with all 3 Super bars full) is based on the Shun Goku Satsu.
 * The outfit Toro uses in their Justice stance is almost the same as Their outfit in Street Fighter X Tekken (both based on Ryu from Street Fighter), although they wear the gi in PS All-Stars compared to SFxT where they wear Their boxing gloves.
 * In SFxT, the headband Toro used was red and had the PlayStation button icons (Square, Triangle, Cross and Circle) in white in it, while in PS All-Stars it is all in plain color. However, one of Toro's alternate colors makes the headband red. Toro's headband being white in Their default costume could reference Ryu's appearance on the Street Fighter Alpha series or Akira Yuki from Virtua Fighter.
 * During their rival cutscene against Heihachi, not only does Toro recognize him, but they also notice that he looks a bit different than before. This is a reference to Street Fighter x Tekken, where Toro (as well as their friend Kuro) were guests in the PS3 and PS Vita versions of the game. As they recognize the older Heihachi from SFxT, them being confused on how Heihachi is younger is a reference and minor fourth wall break to Heihachi's appearance in the game, which is based on his younger appearance from Tekken Tag Tournament 2.
 * This makes Toro one of two characters who actually mention the names of their rivals, the other being PaRappa.
 * All of the names of Toro's supers are emphasized by emoticons.
 * Toro is one of only five first-party characters who started on the PlayStation 1, the others being Sweet Tooth, PaRappa, Sir Daniel Fortesque and Spike.
 * Toro is the only character whose voice had changed in the final game.
 * Toro is one of 3 characters to speak a language other than English, the others being Heihachi Mishima and Kat & Dusty.
 * Toro is also one of six characters that doesn't have normal speech patterns. The others are Heihachi Mishima (who speaks Japanese, as mentioned above), Sackboy (who cannot speak at all), Sir Daniel Fortesque (who sounds muffled due to his lack of a lower jaw), Big Daddy (who only makes monsterous noises) and Kat (who speaks in a made-up language that is intended to sound French).
 * Despite Toro Inoue being their full name, only Toro is written on the character select screen.
 * Toro and Spike are the only characters whose possible number of kills for each super is three.
 * In Toro's arcade mode cutscenes and picture in the game They is seen without Their headband and belt, it is most likely that They wears them so They could have different colors in Their costumes.
 * Toro is the only character whose official art is different from Their in-game model, as Their art from the website depicts him without their headband and belt, while in-game they wear them.
 * Toro technically has 9 costumes since They can switch into 3 different costumes for every costume.
 * Toro's character trailer is the only one to not show Their Level 2 Super Move.
 * Toro is the only character in the game with more than one expression during Their losing results screen.
 * Toro is one of the only characters to have the camera focused on him in Their announcement trailer.
 * Toro (and Kuro) are the only characters that recognize every character.
 * They're also one of few characters that doesn't hold any disdain against the others. The other being Sackboy.
 * Toro is the first character along with Spike (being second to be announced) are the two Japan Studio characters to be announced, the third being Kat & Dusty.
 * In Toro's trailer and in the Gamescom 2012 trailer, They first appears with a dark gray headband, but both in the trailer's gameplay footage and in-game, They has no such color.

Crossovers

 * Toro, alongside the other Together Everywhere! characters, have made cameo appearances in Ape Escape: Million Monkeys.KuroAEMM.png
 * Toro appears in Hot Shots Golf: Out of Bounds as a free DLC character.
 * Toro (and Their friend Kuro) have previously appeared in the crossover fighting game Street Fighter X Tekken,where they were guest characters alongside Cole MacGrath. Funnily enough, a character from Street Fighter X Tekken, Heihachi, appears in PlayStation All-Stars as a playable character, and was announced at the same time as Toro and is Their rival in story mode.
 * Toro (and Kuro) collaborated with a Vocaloid Hatsune Miku and made their appearance in the Japanese musical game Hatsune Miku Project DIVA F. They're available in the PoPiPo Special Edition DLC pack, in which they star in the "PoPiPo -Toro and Kuro Special Edition-" PV with Miku, as well as separate Toro and Kuro accessory packs.
 * Toro (and Kuro), alongside Kulche, Patapon, Echochrome's Figure, Lord Badman and Pipo's Helmet appear in Tokyo Jungle.
 * Toro (and Kuro), alongside Kat, Raven, Yunica, Gade, Alias appear in Picotto Knights.
 * Toro (and Kuro) appear as a costume in Tales of Graces F.
 * Toro (and Kuro) appear White Knight Chronicles II.
 * Toro (and Kuro) appear in Phantasy Star Portable 2.
 * Toro (and Kuro) appear in Phantasy Star Online 2.