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>he's a much more chill and focused on perfecting himself in the games and bits of lore but in their version, he's pure evil
Udon started their SF comics when SF4 vanilla hadn't come out yet, by that point Akuma was confirmed to be a guy who killed his master, his brother (lolretcon), Bison/Vega just for the lulz and maybe? possibly? Gen. He also kept harassing Ryu to turn him to the dark side of whatever. Not nearly as evil as Vega/Bison, but far from being chill. The most chill he was was in that piece of trivia about him selling shit on the market like any other asian old man.
It's with SF4 onward that they started pushing more on the angle of "lonely monk with anger issues", with his friendship with Elena, nobody being killed except Goutetsu (who was likely an asshole anyway) and him deciding after a while to leave Ryu alone (kind of). I don't blame Udon for going with what was clearly the initial intended path for the character: a guy who wasn't exactly evil incarnate, but was evil enough to go around and kill people simply because they were strong enough.
