yurinka
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No. No returning characters who were playable in previous (at least numbered?) SF during Season 2.
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5 of Street Fighter V Season 2 characters are going to be newcomers
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Dr. Kitty Muffins
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This is just guesswork, but when I look at the silhouette I see some kind of trench coat.
It might actually be an Australian character wearing a duster. It's a major country without representation, and Capcom has a really cool concept for an Australian stage set on a moving train.
We need an Australian bad. I really want a Zangief style gator wrestler.
thelastword
Banned
Dudley is back?I didnt do a perfect job, but I overlaid all the shots of silhouette #2 to get a better idea of what the character might look like.
I dont think its an existing character but rather somebody completely new (in the vein of Rashid and Necalli).
allintospace
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It doesn't look anything like Azam to me. Azam doesn't have studs/nails in his neck, and he has a giant ponytail that would be visible in the silhouette.
If it's an existing character and not somebody entirely new then I think it's Abigail. The hair, forehead and choker match.
Does Birdie have any noteworthy relations?
Professor Lexicovermis
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If we get an Australian rep, let's go full Tekken and have a boxing kangaroo! Heck, just make Roger a guest Fighter!
GotchaForce
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The first couple silhouettes made me think the CPT art of Goutetsu, Matt McCoy, Setsuki and Rook were it but the new shadows make it seem at least those first two are off. Huh.
Tizoc
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Iwas thinking itd be dudley for some time now
sixteen-bit
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no previously playable characters, right?
watch it be Gotch, Dudley's butler
rounding out the cast will be Effie, Jean Reno, and Ibuki's pet racoon dog
The SF3 sidekicks expansion
watch it be Gotch, Dudley's butler
rounding out the cast will be Effie, Jean Reno, and Ibuki's pet racoon dog
The SF3 sidekicks expansion
Further evidence in favor of Abigail: the studded choker could be a reference to the Road Warriors, who were big in Japan in the '80s/early ‘90s, just like Andre the Giant, who inspired Hugo. Nakayama, SFV's director, is a massive wrestling fan. Abigail already has a mohawk and face paint like the Road Warriors.
As much as I want Final Fight characters, I'd rather not have Abigail. In fact, I might be willing to take anyone else from Final Fight. I hate his design.
That said, you make a compelling case, Ryce. It very well may be him.
Same here. If we didn't know there'd be no additional veterans, I'd've said that would've put Dudley on lock.
Granted, I really love Dudley & would probably try to make a case for him any way I can.
That said, you make a compelling case, Ryce. It very well may be him.
Same here. If we didn't know there'd be no additional veterans, I'd've said that would've put Dudley on lock.
Granted, I really love Dudley & would probably try to make a case for him any way I can.
abstract alien
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We should all be pissed if it does turn out to be him, and he doesn't have the hexagonal hair. We need the hex in our lives, so do it right or just leave it out.
spazchicken
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Further evidence in favor of Abigail: the studded choker could be a reference to the Road Warriors, who were big in Japan in the '80s/early ‘90s, just like Andre the Giant, who inspired Hugo. Nakayama, SFV's director, is a massive wrestling fan. Abigail already has a mohawk and face paint like the Road Warriors.
Please not another big, ugly, dumb, black character.
Capcom, there are normal sized, intelligent and attractive black males in the world. Think about putting one in yours.
abstract alien
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We almost had the one with the cool Cobra/Rufus design, but that turned around quickly.
Pretty sure he's white tho?
ãInaba Residentã
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they already did tho
So out of the remaining 4 newcomers, one is obviously Satsuki. Currently, my guess is that the big one might be Abigail, one may be a 100% newcomer (Maybe an Australian), & the last one is a guest character, if only for that talk of a 4-Button fighter.
Yup. I agree w/ Spazchicken that we need a black character who isn't just a hulking stereotype, though. The only ones we have right now are Dudley & Elena (And even then, they each cover 1/2 of those qualifiers to a degree, as much as I love them/how it isn't really egregious, especially in Dudley's case).
Yup. I agree w/ Spazchicken that we need a black character who isn't just a hulking stereotype, though. The only ones we have right now are Dudley & Elena (And even then, they each cover 1/2 of those qualifiers to a degree, as much as I love them/how it isn't really egregious, especially in Dudley's case).
My current predictions:
- Akuma - the iconic demon
- Kolin - existing woman from SF lore playable for the first time (SF's first ice character)
- original man from new country with new fighting style
- Abigail - existing man from SF lore playable for the first time (tallest character in SF history)
- original woman from new country with new fighting style
- Garuda - the obscure demon, playable for the first time in the main series
SiegfriedFM
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I just can't imagine why GARUDA of all people would be the EX rep. He's a Bishamon ripoff with random spikes being generated randomly through his body. EX has a bunch of cool character, but he's not one of them.
Yeah. Plus, hasn't Capcom stated they're well-aware that Skullomania's the most popular EX character? If we're really getting an EX character, it'd be him.
Realistically, the first EX rep to get into the main series would probably be the lead hero (Hokuto) or villain (Garuda), opening the door for secondary characters in the future.
IntelliHeath
As in "Heathcliff"
Well, he could be the first Canadian character in Street Fighter franchise. I would like to see newcomers to represents brand new countries tho.
Wait, he was Canadian? That just makes me want Abigail less, then. There were already 2 cut Canadian characters who looked cool, plus a Canadian among the slew of other wrestlers from Mika's federation.
She was cut because her playstyle felt too "weak," which doesn't make much sense for a hockey-style character. Canadian heritage aside, I want them to revisit this character. And the French Savate user/Koukakuken character.
I can understand the complaint he was too Darkstalkers-y (They could always just add Sasquatch, after all), but he supposedly had a gimmick where he sacrificed HP for his attacks. That would've been neat.
I know we already have a lot of grapplers, but wouldn't Abigail just end up being one, too? I mean, she's not as cool as the hockey player, but she by far looks better than Abigail.
IntelliHeath
As in "Heathcliff"
Wait, he was Canadian? That just makes me want Abigail less, then. There were already 2 cut Canadian characters who looked cool, plus a Canadian among the slew of other wrestlers from Mika's federation.
She was cut because her playstyle felt too "weak," which doesn't make much sense for a hockey-style character. Canadian heritage aside, I want them to revisit this character. And the French Savate user/Koukakuken character.
Since Capcom always like to use stereotypes for characters so I'm more surprised that they didn't come up with a stereotypical Canadian character that may be a lumberjack or mountie.
They could have Canadian Mountie to traveling around the world with his trusty horse (or moose if they want to do bad stereotypical Canadian)
OR
Nature lover Lumberjack who like to carry a jug of maple syrup with him
What's interesting is that only two of the cut characters on CFN got past the initial sketch phase:
Asuka's momentum-redirecting style was given to Kolin (System is practically the Russian version of aikido), so maybe the next character uses savate. He definitely has the gloves for it.Asuka
A character that uses a traditional fighting style, Aikido.
She uses her opponents power against them. We had too many Japanese characters in the game though, so she got the cut.
But I'd like to revisit this idea in the future!
Elizabeth
A French Savate fighter that wears armor to protect against attacks.
We were thinking she'd be an old arts dealer with money to spend.
But you know what? In the Street Fighter world there are way too many rich people!
But I really like the idea and concept.
On second thought, the silhouette kinda looks like he could be wearing a coat with pants tucked into his boots like a mountie. A French Canadian savate-using mountie could be interesting.
Hmm, Aikido fighter named Asuka, like Asuka from Tekken? Lmao
To expand on my previous predictions, I think silhouette #5 is a brand new female character who uses pencak silat.
- The headdress shape fits
- Pencak silat makes use of many different weapons
- The Raid movies have made pencak silat more well-known in recent years, and Capcom has said that they sometimes look to what's currently popular when designing Street Fighter characters
UcchedavÄda
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That's looks plausible.
I hope that you are right, as this could be a pretty interesting addition.
sixteen-bit
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A newcomer on some Raid shit would be amazing.
Knowing capcom they'd be a weird zoner or something unrepresentative of the actual martial art
Knowing capcom they'd be a weird zoner or something unrepresentative of the actual martial art
Lights and Waves
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So the chances of it being Iori Yagami are..?
Not very likely. The silhouette doesn't look anything like Iori to me, and with no disrespect to KOF, Capcom would probably want someone more mainstream for Street Fighter's first ever proper guest character.
Now you're speaking my language Ryce! I actually mentioned The Raid and Pencak Silat multiple times as sources of inspiration for a new character I'd like to see. My initial wish went with a male inspired by the "bum" character in the movie(s) but a female user in a traditional outfit would be cool as well.
You're doing some interesting analyses I must say, for Abigail as well.
(That said, I still don't really know why Capcom is so adamant on keeping the identity of brand new characters a secret behind silhouettes well into season 2 if their goal is to sell season passes. It's fun to build hype and stimulate speculation, sure, but this doesn't really work when we're mostly working with unknown variables in this case and when we end up with a majority of characters that nobody has any previous attachment to.)
Looks like a Sai on her right side. Or is that part of the costume?
Can you do a combo pic like the others? The presence of the Apron/Collar kinda leaves me w/ the position of "why the hell would this be part of a character design if it wasn't him?"
I think the last one is violent ken
That second picture gave me a flashback to Andre Panza's kickboxing on the Amiga.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWj2lPoCJHY
I think it might have been called Best of the Best in the US.
SixMachine
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Thinking about the Blonde Fighter 5 complaint, aren't there equal amount of brunettes in the game? I did a quick count and there seems to be 7 each before dlc, with Dhalsim and Bison both having white hair. The 1st season dlc characters are 2 blonde, 2 brunette, and 1 white hair. Akuma just released and he is a weird redhead. You really can't get anymore hair colors without going full anime like Dizzy's blue hair.
I still have hope for Akira. And hope for NOT AZAM.
Yep. Coat guy could be C. Jack.
UcchedavÄda
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But that's 7 blondes in a cast of 16 (~44%), now 10 out of 24 (~42%), compared to 6 blondes in a cast of 44 in USFIV (~14%), or 8 out of 44 if you count the two orange haired characters (~18%). IV had more brunettes and black-haired characters, but those are also much, much more common hairs colour compared to blonde, so it is not so obvious.
And speaking of orange haired characters, USFIV had a couple of additional hair colours:
Bring them back, Capcom!