Wait why is Guile considered the main character? He is just an low IQ punk ass psycho, not the lead by any means. Ken and Ryu are the main character of Street Fighter 2 and get Guile always gets the canonical leading role. Someone even said in the other thread Guile is the one who has all the aura, but that is Vega by far.
Because Guile fights to beat evil which is a Western concept of heroRyu fights for autism and selfish pride which is the Eastern concept of heroThey simply split it based on audience back before the Internet globohomo
>>12739109He has the best official instrumental.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZYdqvKvdsk
Western insect non-canon doesn't count
>>12739126Actually it does because Capcom got the story for SF from Hasbro. Guile is canonically the hero because he's the one who fights Bison. Ryu is just a hobo, who they make win to cope, but Ryu is a side character with no backstory other than Akuma who is also a morally vague non character as the artists at Capcom prefer
>>12739109>>12739120THE REALAMERICANHERO
>>12739131One thing that made me think Akuna (Goki) is a big pussy and shit character is that he's presented as the ultimate evil because Bison is just a psycho but Aku is devil. However he is not a demon he's a LARPer who has only killed one man because he was an incel, no evil or wicked power at all just a virgin with rage who sells fruit and can't afford real shoes
>>12739120The original better tho: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B74wsIXY8pM
>>12739138If Akuma was really a bastard he would make Ryu choose between Sakura or saving Ken as he's ready to throw both into the ocean but Ryu wouldn't care because he's not heroic he'd just walk away to practice stoicism
>>12739132Yo, people really like turning Dolph Lundgren into Guilehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtrHYiNJq8Q
Guile should be the responsible tough hero, Ken the hot headed retard hero, and Ryu the smart but shy hero. Chun Li should be a dommy mommy. Bison should be a villain of the world but Akuma should be a serial killer who sucks the life force to enable his power and Bison considers him weak because he makes the whole world suffer and Akuma thinks Bison is a pretentious asshole because he kills in dirty clothes like an animal one at a time
>>12739153And the rest are the colorful cast caught between far more powerful forces.
>>12739151To be fair people have speculated for years that Guile was based off Dolph in Rocky 4.
>>12739109>Ken and Ryu are the main character of Street Fighter 2
>>12739145It's a great song no matter the format.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsFkW-qZ8ZI
>>12739109>Wait why is Guile considered the main character?It's been Ryu from the very first game. Guile isn't even in Alpha or 3. What went wrong with you?
>>12739109guile represents the gary-stu white heterosexual male loved by the conservatives and hated by the modern left.ryu is a vagrant who seeks for a challenge.ken represents the spoiled rich young male that born with all privileges. His money, his looks and his power makes him very arrogant.So, it depends how you see it.
>>12739459> hated by the modern leftWhere do rightoids even get this shit?
Cuz Murica.
>>12739576>Where do rightoids even get this shit?thoroughly buckbroken by the culture wars. everytime they approach something their NPC circuits take over and go "is thing left wing or right wing? input needed before continuing"
>>12739109Ryu is the main character of the Street Fighter series.Guile and Chun-li are the protagonists of the second game. Most SF lore-fags tend to agree that Chun-li was the person who delivered the final knockout blow to Vega during some kind of showdown in Thailand that probably wasn't part of the official Street Fighter II World Warrior tournament. Guile was probably nearby and may have also been involved. Ryu most likely never fought Vega, but instead was busy fighting Sagat (the winner of their match is unknown). The actual official winner of the SF2 tournament is unknown, or the tournament kind of collapsed and didn't have a winner.
>>12739281Guile isn't in Alpha because Alpha is a prequel for Guile, it explains why he's coming to get Bison
>>12740552He's also not on 3. Why did you only read the first part of that post? This is very disrespectful.
>>12739126Sorry pal, but Asians have already been designated as insect people in the racism meta
>>12740578That's because they prefer cold intellect to feelings and in their culture insects are much more revered than mammals
>>12740804It’s also their communalism versus western individualism
>>12739109Ryu is the main character for SF1 and became the posterboy for the series. Guile/Chun are the protagonists for 2 because they're trying to beat the big bad. Charlie/Chun are the mcs for alpha for similar reasons. Alex is the protagonist for 3.
>>12739109Guile is the one on an actual mission, Ryu is an autistic hobo background character really.
>>12739145The classic.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1iqJqNHX_g
>>12740389>just turn off your brain and enjoy it :)Peak NPC behavior
>>12739109>low IQHe's a Colonel and Jet Pilot in the Air Force, definitely aced every form of academia and many many hours of flight school.
>>12739109Here's how my SF2 headcanon goesRyu vs Sagat is the final official match of the tournament. Ryu wins, then walks away from the winner's ceremony.Guile and Chun-li track Bison to Thailand and confront him there. Guile and/or Chun-li face Bison in hand-to-hand combat and win. With Bison on the ropes Guile picks him up by the collar to deliver the killing blow, but his wife Julia intervenes and begs him not to kill Bison. Guile relents, and Chun-li is able to cuff Bison to bring him to justice. When everyone's back is turned Bison slips his cuffs and tries a cowardly attack on Guile or Chun-li. Akuma appears from the shadows and performs the Shun Goku Satsu on Bison, killing him. Ryu, nearby steps forward and answers Akuma's challenge. Ryu and Akuma fight, and Ryu wins. Akuma demands Ryu kill him, but Ryu just walks away.
>>12741196I like the thinking, but where is Ken in all of this?
>>12741205Ken gets his wanderlust out of his system during the tournament and realizes he misses Eliza more than he loves fighting.
>>12739170Dont post minors, they're only 17
>>12739131Hi Kevin
>>12739109Americans are the main characters of Earth. You literally cannot argue otherwise.
>>12740578Their entire thing is just using racism already created by whites and reversing it the roles. It's hilarious because it reinforces their bug mentality incapable of creating anything original but they're too stupid to realize it.
>>12741085... What?No, seriously, what gives you this idea that the "modern left" doesn't like Guile? Did you read it on social media somewhere and then immediately believe it without question because it happens to fit your narrative? I don't consider politics at all when choosing a character in a fighting game. Because that would be fucking retarded.
Guile oozes a kind of charisma that Ryu doesn’t.
>>12742541I mean let's not kid ourselves regardless of which way you lean we all know the exact kind of person who would hate guile because he's straight, white, and a positive representation of American military
The MC is obviously Blanka, as you can clearly see. He already smashed Ryu and Chun-Li is next.
>>12739131Ryu is the main hero in all anime adaptations.Guile is only hero in the American cartoon and movie
>>12739131Akuma has undergone the same retcon characters like Raoh from HnK, Heihachi from Tekken, and Yujiro Hanma from Grappler Baki have.These guys were indisputably evil characters in their original presentation, but because Japanese geeks got older they started to see themselves in these old hard-ass characters and their morality was changed from psychotic evil to a more gray or even heroic presentation.
Low quality Kevin Smith thread.
>>12743656Raoh was a grey morality character even in the original manga.
>>12739109american marketing pushed him a bit more heavily for obvious reasons and he had a special role within the story along with chun li that got replicated in the movie. I'd liken the dynamic to the now well established pattern of a recurring series poster boy being paired with a special featured newcomer. ryu was always the guy but guile has a special place within sf2.
>>12743369>He already smashed RyuIn Ryu's defense, when that fight took place he was obviously in his mid-50s.
>Guile hears that Chun-Li is in the hospital>Drives his Mustang like a maniac across the city to make sure his friend is okay>Is the first person to visit her, tooHe's a cool guy. When the "main characters" are autistic Japanese karate men whose entire personality is "me fight, me win", the side-characters have ample space to shine.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuxlBPp5ZJ0
>>12741085You know there are options besides being an unthinking consoomer and being neurotic about direction politics right
>>12743667?
>>12739132he's a kiwi now
>>12743804It's funny people make videos about "why do they try to replace Ryu" but the truth is they try to replace Guile Either way it never works. Alex, Abel the Zoomer Bieber character, none of them ever get close, or really popular at all. The closest one was Charlie who was literally cool because of his association with Guile and basically being a different version of the same template for Guile like Ken/Akuma are to Ryu
>>12743356You are kidding yourself though. My medium-sized liberal canadian city has an unusually large gaming scene relative to it's population size, which includes a healthy fighting game scene. Guile is well-liked and picked frequently in games that he is in. We generally don't talk about or consider politics at all during fighting game meetups. Stop getting all of your "information" about what we believe from internet memes and echo chamber circlejerks.>>12744068I don't believe he does. People like him tend to have a childishly simplistic black-and-white world view.
Guile and Chun-Li canonically have son named Guy-Li. He's a school shooter.
>>12739109Street Fighter had blonde americanas as protags since Ken in Fighting Street
>>12739576Like most other things, they make it up in their head and then project it onto anyone who disagrees with them.
I just want to know why that person keeps mentioning Kevin Smith. What does that even mean
>>12745931Just the nickname of some shitposter, long story.
>>12739109Guile is the Lu Kang of Street Fighter. Ryu and Ken are like Sub-Zero and Scorpion.
>>12739109Because the conflict surrounding Ryu, Ken, Akuma, and Gouki is extremely far removed from normal life Bison is an active global terrorist, and Guile/Chun-Li are interpol agents There’s much more at stake with defeating Bison and Shadaloo, even if the Satsui no Hado mogs the fuck out of soul/shadow power The only reason Ryu even cares about Shadaloo is because they’re strong + Sagat is employed by them and they have a running grudge match
>>12747167>The only reason Ryu even cares about Shadaloo is because they’re strong + Sagat is employed by them and they have a running grudge matchIronically making the Chinese and American characters more heroic than their Japanese one
>>12739170This anime started off pretty good w Guile wrecking their shit. But the storyline just kind of goes no where when they go w Chun li into the den of bad guys, seemed like an easy place to insert characters from the game but as I recall it’s just random basic bitch newly created bad guys and I lost interest. I think I watched some clips from the end of it and it gets better but there is a slog that starts around them teaming w Chun Li and I don’t know that they ever even circle back to the rivalry w Guile after he crushed them for fucking up his soldiers. Maybe I need to just sit through the whole thing and push through the slog part.
>>12739281Guile is in the alpha 3 game I played on psx, it’s just alpha means beginning so Charlie is the prominent character because he is Guile’s whole motivation for going after Bison iirc and alpha is a prequel to street fighter 2 (as far as I understand it).
>>12739109>why does the movie made in America emphasize the AmericanI don’t know anon why would that be the case?
>>12747270Even though the American is played by a coked-up Belgian.
>>12747361And god bless him for it
>>12747361American is a state of mind. People don't even recognize Arnold Schwarzenegger as Austrian anymore. Dude was governor of California at one point.
>>12747361And that same Belgian was the inspiration for Johnny Cage, who's not afraid to die
>>12739576>Where do rightoids even get this shit?You got tricked by a troll post and now you're upset on 4chan.
>>12747238Idk man I love the series. Watched it through like 3 times back in the 2000s so I'm biased but I say you should give it another try. Then again the part you mentioned you didn't like was one of my favorites so I guess there's no accounting for taste. At least watch the episodes where Ryu goes to prison.
