I’m not saying her being a deity with a personality is the problem, it’s way too out there to have one as a person on the roster of this game. That’s the problem. I’m a broken record on this, but I’ll say it again, my fear for SF is power creeping into the DBZ method. I don’t want Akuma and the rest of the shoto bros to become so powerful, the rest of the cast is immediately irrelevant. Same applies for Ingrid and other similar characters. When you have a deity in a cast of characters that are pretty much superheroes at the most, but no one breaks into the cosmic arena, it’s badly skewed and it ruins the balance immediately. I don’t want every installment afterward to introduce new characters as part of a pantheon of rivals to Ingrid. You do that, then you can kiss most of the cast goodbye and have to invent some BS to build Ken and Ryu (c’mon who else would it be?) to somehow become insanely powerful to stand a chance. Once that’s done, you’ll never be able to take Ryu vs Guile, Ryu vs, Chun Li or ANYONE seriously again because he’d be Enlightened-Holy-Justice-Kun-Ryu.
Bison is plenty powerful, but can be beaten by some of the insane martial arts skill that’s shown to be in the universe (plus psychics jumping bodies are an old sci-fi trope so he’s not that outthere). Having to beat a goddess who can time travel ruins story integrity. No one poses a threat to her and everything would stagnate. Even if she’s holding back, it still wreaks havoc on things.
It’s like having a street level Marvel heroes movie (let’s say all the current Netflix characters – Daredevil, Punisher, Elektra, Jessica Jones and Luke Cage vs Galactus). Even though they’re in the same universe, it wouldn’t work without getting other characters involved. None of these guys would stand a chance one-on-one. That’s why in these events, you’ve got Reed Richards threatening and out-smarting Galactus with his own ultimate Nullifyer or getting help from Silver Surfer. It works in that medium, but in a story where people are mainly fighting one-on-one, you can’t do that.
If this was a game with multiple dieties and things of insane power then it wouldn’t be such an issue. While Ingrid doesn’t totally fit with the Darkstalker’s motif of movie-monsters, power and aesthetic-wise, she’d fit in with the other characters of the Maki kingdom.
None of the SF-ers would survive in that world. We previously talked about this in Ye Olde thread, but descriptions put conditions of the Makai kingdom to such dangerous levels, none of the top level SF-ers could last. We’ve got acidic land masses, oceans that are frozen and 100’s of degrees below Absolute Zero and forests filled with creatures that can rend souls.
I’m not against Ingrid, I just don’t want her in SF. If there was some new series where she was the lead and it was a magical girl show with super powered creatures or even a game of the same genre, then I’d be fine with that. She just simply doesn’t fit in with SF in my opinion.