Why is it called Happy birthday?

Classic Fighting Games Ultimate Marvel VS Capcom 3
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Been hearing it for since the orginal marvel 3 came out and never question it but why happy birthday ?<br><br>Because hitting 2 chars is like a  present or something ? Don’t quite get it.<br>

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<font face=“Arial, Verdana” size=“2”><span style=“line-height: normal;”>yea like getting a present</span></font><div><font face=“Arial, Verdana” size=“2”><span style=“line-height: normal;”>getting all 3 is a merry Christmas </span></font></div>

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<font face=“Arial, Verdana” size=“2”><span style=“line-height: normal;”>It probably originally started from when the term was used to describe Abel’s super in SFIV.  </span></font><div style=“font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;”><br></div><div><font face=“Arial, Verdana” size=“2”><span style=“line-height: normal;”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7fZElVasl8</span></font><br></div><div><font face=“Arial, Verdana” size=“2”><span style=“line-height: normal;”><br></span></font></div><div><font face=“Arial, Verdana” size=“2”><span style=“line-height: normal;”>I’m guessing people just saw 2 characters getting blown up for easy and just decided to carry it on into Marvel.</span></font></div>

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During my birthday a few months ago I got a present and when I opened it up it was two dead characters.

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I believe Noel Brown was the first to call it a “Happy birthday.” <br><br>And yes, it’s because the opponent gave you a gift, so Happy Birthday!!

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Back in at least MvC2 we talked about the free character you got when you made certain attacks (randomly getting a double snap or picking up a surprisingly called assist with a super or otherwise surprisingly killing someone).  I think you’ll find both me and Matrix talking about how “wow, it’s my birthday?” for the free gift character that they’d given us.  I feel like that’s something Isaac would have said too.  But there’s thousands of hours of footage, and I for one am far too lazy to track that kinda stuff down.

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I believe it originated during a match with PR Balrog and someone else, PR caught the assist of his opponent, and I think Noel Brown, said “happy bday” it was also PR’s bday at that time.<br>