The Inevitable Street Fighter V Story Thread: ARCADE EDITION!

[PVL_93_RU]

Why is Terry a redhead and why is Billy brunette

Because Japan. Seriously Ryu has had three different hair colors (red, black, and brown). Chun Li has had two.

Two? I always thought she always had dark brown hair.

I know Vega switches from blonde to brunette from game to game.

Vega is the most triggering one, honestly

SFII World Warrior - dark brown

SFII Champion Edition - light brown

SFII Animated Movie - blonde

SFII V Animated Series - blonde

https://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/streetfighter/images/8/8c/Vega_V.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20110516140743

SF Alpha 3 - blonde

SF EX - blonde

CVS2 - blonde

SVC Chaos - blonde

SFIV - dark brown

Super SFII Turbo HDR - blonde

SFV - blonde (again)

Like, nigga, make up your damn mind

[The_Shakunetsu]

There was a fan thought of Ryu’s hair being red by associating it with SNH in SF1 game. I hope Capcom would just come out with story to make that thing logical.

[YagamiFire]

Blond Vega is best Vega. Anyone disagreeing is wrong.

SFIIAM = best Ryu and best Vega looks.

[DarthEnder]

Colors wise SF2 Ryu best Ryu, specially SF2AM one

SF2AM is the best everything.

[Cestus]

Colors wise SF2 Ryu best Ryu, specially SF2AM one

SF2AM is the best everything.

Can’t disagree

[PVL_93_RU]

Colors wise SF2 Ryu best Ryu, specially SF2AM one

SF2AM is the best everything.

Cammy’s round face is questionable but otherwise yeah, SF2AM designs were pretty sick

Chun never looked so good

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[The_Shakunetsu]

Imagine SF2 AM being the Art Direction of a anime fighter in an engine and animation of Xrd or DBFZ but playstyle like SF4 or SFV. Everyone would surely blown away.

[Cestus]

Blond Vega is best Vega. Anyone disagreeing is wrong.

SFIIAM = best Ryu and best Vega looks.

Blond Vega work fine as design but still the best imho is ingame SF4 one

Brown/reddish hair color will have been very unique instead being just another blonde (specially in SFV), plus i think that shade of red it really fit and give some elegant and bloody vibe, i don’t ever praise SF4 art direction but they really nailed the look there

I wish if they do a nostalgia costume for him, they stick with this as #1 color, then they can go blond for other #

I think standard SFV #2 kinda tried it, but sucked

[Shockdingo]

Colors wise SF2 Ryu best Ryu, specially SF2AM one

SF2AM is the best everything.

Agreed. When I was a kid and thought a MvC anime would be around the corner, I pictured it in this style (the X-men TAS anime opener really helped that fantasy along). It’s just a really solid, powerful art style from the heyday of anime - not too slick, overproduced, and flashy, not boring or sterile. Just right.

[Magegg]

People’s hair darken over time. Maybe that was the reason why Vega’s hair is blonde in Alpha and brown in II onwards.

But considering Vega’s narcisism, it wouldn’t be weird for him to bleach or dye his hair.

[Super_Sonic]

My favorite Vega models are in SF4 and SFA3. They’re both awesome. Nothing can top that shit.

[PVL_93_RU]

People’s hair darken over time. Maybe that was the reason why Vega’s hair is blonde in Alpha and brown in II onwards.

That logic fails when you consider how his hair goes from blonde (alpha) to brown (SF2) to blonde (SFV)

[The_Shakunetsu]

But considering Vega’s narcisism, it wouldn’t be weird for him to bleach or dye his hair.

Nice consideration. The hair dye thing could work for him but not for Ryu.

[Magegg]

Ryu might have a super saiyan stuff where his hair changes color depending on his power level.

Or he could have just taken a shower; he’s a hermit, not necessarily the cleanest guy, maybe his hair wasn’t that dark but only dirty at some moment.

People’s hair darken over time. Maybe that was the reason why Vega’s hair is blonde in Alpha and brown in II onwards.

That logic fails when you consider how his hair goes from blonde (alpha) to brown (SF2) to blonde (SFV)

Not necessarily, maybe after SF2 he looked himself into the mirror and thought “damn, my hair looks so much darker than before, I should start dying it”. And thus, he’s “blonde” again in SFV.

[Phantom_Miria]

Imagine SF2 AM being the Art Direction of a anime fighter in an engine and animation of Xrd or DBFZ but playstyle like SF4 or SFV. Everyone would surely blown away.

[YagamiFire]

@Phantom_Miria beat me to posting literally that same link.

[DarthEnder]

Imagine SF2 AM being the Art Direction of a anime fighter in an engine and animation of Xrd or DBFZ but playstyle like SF4 or SFV.

There’s nothing I want more in this world.

[MrPyro]

That inspired the Alpha art style, so they should’ve gone through with it.

[bakfromon]

Why is Terry a redhead and why is Billy brunette

Seriously Ryu has had three different hair colors (red, black, and brown).

Even more lol

SF1 Red
SF2 Brown
SFA Reddish brown
SF3 Blue
CvS Light brown
SF4 Dark gray
SFV Black

Colors wise SF2 Ryu best Ryu, specially SF2AM one

Blue hair??? You mean black, which was highlighted by blue due to sprite limitations?

His hair is very dark brown in SF4 game models, it probably looks kinda gray due to weird lighting.

[mikros]

But considering Vega’s narcisism, it wouldn’t be weird for him to bleach or dye his hair.

Wouldn’t it make more sense for him to keep his natural color since he believes he’s perfect?

Blue hair??? You mean black, which was highlighted by blue due to sprite limitations?

They could have used any color they wanted because of the richer palettes available in SF3. Note how, unlike previous sprites, the SF3 one does not have to share the hair shades with any other element of the sprite (skin or gloves), so they had total freedom.

That said, yeah, they were going for black and gave it the blue highlights to make it stand out more than if it had gray or brown highlights.