Falco Lombardi is a blue-feathered avian and the ace pilot of the Star Fox team. Although the exact details on Falco's past are unknown, he himself was once the leader of a gang of space runaways known as Free-As-A-Bird. He is a longtime friend and friendly rival to Fox McCloud, and was specially hired by him to be an expert member of his mercenaries-for-hire team, and flown in almost every mission they have made, usually retaining his brash, cool, and collected attitude. Being the ace pilot and seeing air combat as his second nature, Falco's Arwing skills rivals if not surpasses even that of Fox's (although this is not normally shown in gameplay where Fox himself is the player character), and he specializes in flying rings around his foes. Despite his masterful talent, however, his rebellious, brash and stubborn personality, taken from his time being the former leader of a gang of space bikers, causes Falco to instinctively take more daring chances than most other pilots of the team and consequently pays dearly for his brashness and boldness, getting at times caught in deadly situations from which not even he can escape. Often to his chagrin, he has to be saved by Fox when this happens, as seen in Star Fox and Star Fox 64. While Falco is not keen on discipline and authority, his loyalty to the Star Fox creed of justice and freedom has himself never let his team down, always using his natural hunting instincts to keep looking for shortcuts and alternate routes to get to the action much quicker.
Falco debuted in Star Fox and appears in all Star Fox series games to date (though he was mostly absent in Star Fox Adventures), as well as the comics and the Star Fox Zero promotional anime, as a supporting protagonist. He also appears as a playable character in the Super Smash Bros. games starting with Melee.
His Star Wolf team counterpart is Leon Powalski.
Much of Falco's early life is unknown as he apparently avoided talk of what he did before joining the Star Fox team, but he was likely born on Corneria, though a comment he made on Zoness implies he had visited that planet before or spent part of his life here. He may have enlisted in the Cornerian Flight Academy, but dropped out and became a rogue pilot. Not much is known after that, but it could be that his life before was filled with recklessness and adventure. He then formed the mercenary gang that would later be known as Free-As-A-Bird with himself as leader. He led them for a couple years, until he was asked by his friend Fox to join team Star Fox, where he agreed, although joining the Star Fox team may have been the result of a falling out between him and his partner, Katt Monroe, in regards to irritation about always having to save her that also resulted in him quitting the gang. He have also made friends with the other members Peppy and Slippy and was involved in numerous missions.
And He is reprised by Mark Lund in the English dub and Hisao Egawa in the Japanese dub.