Agreed about them adding more, though I think they mean between the final versions of each game – 3S and USF4. I’m actually upping the ante that we will start out between 20-25 chars. Hoping it would be like 4-6 chars from each SF (SF2, SFA, SF3, and SF4). We already know Ryu, Chun-Li (from SF2) and Charlie (SFA). Rumor about the 4 newbies for SF5. So, the guessing continues.
SF3 and Alpha characters for the win. O_O
Between SF3 and SF4 would mean a minimum of 20 characters, 4 of them new. So 16 returning characters in the vanilla version minimum.
please let there not be Ingrid in this game. Honestly, I dont see what the great deal is with her.
This is her moves list from fighting Jam, I mean am i missing something? Whats so great about her?
If he mean in theyr first versions
SF3: 12
SF4: 19 (+6 on console)
Wich is kinda compatible with the 16 previous rumor
Pretty much just waifu warriors. She’s always been boring gameplay wise.
Eh, I’ll have some fun and throw my hat in the ring when it comes to characters, and probably gonna have fun on Twitter making a #CharactersforSF5 trend. But going with my theory on characters, plus the fact Charlie is back, I’m guessing we’ll see the following:
SF2:
Ryu
Ken
Guile
Chun-Li
M. Bison
SFA:
Charlie
Birdie
Sakura
R. Mika
Karin (maybe)
SF3:
Necro
Sean
Urien
Q
Remy
Alex
SF4:
Rufus
Abel
C. Viper
Gouken
Juri
And the 4 newcomers for SF5. Of course, those I listed may not be in Vanilla SF5, but in some way I think they’ll show up. The characters I think that may come later, would be: Sagat, Cammy, Akuma, Rose, Sodom, Dan, Makoto, Oro, and Twelve. If Sodom did show, then other characters from Final Fight may rejoin as well. But again, all theories. 
I don’t believe that rumours, the new characters names sound too cheesy even for Capcom standards.
There’s no big deal with her, i just feel like she’s going to be in it, not a huge fan of her or anything. What’s wrong with her move set? I think she would look pretty nice in SF5 graphics, and her the luminescence of her attacks would look pretty/flashy. (her design is definitely nothing out of the ordinary though) 
Absolutely nothing. The last thing we need in SF is an Mary Sue Time Traveling Loli.
You honestly didn’t think they’ll recycle the SF3 characters from ultra? Like Hugo, Poison, Ibuki, Rolento, Elena, Makoto?
This is it. This is honestly what I believe the game needs to REALLY make things interesting and set itself apart from the previous SF titles. The -isms and grooves had some interesting systems in previous Capcom games, but I believe Capcom has more room for creativity here, and tying separate mechanics to different, unique elements is very appealing, especially to the casual crowd. There’s a lot of potential here, and it also introduces the “variable effect” which helps keep things fresh.
In my personal opinion, I say keep custom combos out, but drum up some more really cool elemental based stances with appropriate passive and active traits. Considering we so far have Lightning (Seems to make specials cause guard breaks and maybe cause more hitstun) and Water (Seems to add additional attacks to specials, adding more hits), I can see things such as Steel granting a certain amount of armor when activated, Fire granting simple damage boosts or possibly even a burn effect, or maybe even a Time element, which allows you to spend all your meter to perform an “Angry Scar” like effect, freezing time for a split second to allow the player to react to something.
I hope this is the case, but I do feel it’s a bit unlikely, due to the fact that they’d have to give every character unique animations in the case of the “Water” stance, and possibly other stances that give characters extra animations. If they went through the trouble to do this though, I’d be extremely impressed.
They may, as it would be easy for them to. The only 2 from what you posted that I don’t think will return are Ibuki, and Elena. The others might indeed show again later on.
My question is on Charlie with that dot in his head? Is he a cyborg re-animated? Is he Q from SFIII with out the coat?
begun, the waifu wars have
The belief is that the “gem” on his forehead means he has been caught and brainwashed by the Illuminati, and this may be Gill, or Urien’s doing. He would be under their control, and going by the name “Shadow.”
I hope Japan takes the cues and release a live action movie titled “Deus Ex Machina Mary Sue Time Traveling Loli” XD
I thought it Bison who brainwashed Charlie with his psycho power.
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Look closely at the hadouken; the hadouken ball has an after image of ryu’s hands, like in SFII
That’s only in Charlie’s Marvel VS SF ending.
In the SF timeline, no such event has happened.