Thread 12075049

Who is truly the best fighting game protagonist

>>12075049 (OP)
Liu Kang because hes not afraid to kill the other chumps

>>12075049 (OP)
Liu Kang is not the protagonist anymore. He and Raiden switched places.

>>12075049 (OP)
Terry

>>12075157
based

>>12075157
Based

>>12075058
Liu Kang is obviously the protagonist in the newer MK games

Anyone of those, except the Tekken guys (and maybe Liu Kang).

Tohno Shiki, of course.

>>12075049 (OP)
Terry
>Memorable catchphrases
>Hotblooded personality
>Unique fighting style
>Defining storyline: guy on the streets goes after the big bad rich villain that killed his dad, takes in villain's son and raises him as his own
>Fatal Fury->Mark of the Wolves shows passage of time
Mark of Wolves made his design even more badass with the bomber jacket
Terry's overall design from visuals to narrative is simply masterclass.

>>12075057
Well actually Liu Kang was dubbed the most heroic because he was the only character without a true fatality, his finishers were non lethal

>>12075386
One of his finishers in the latest game is teleporting both himself and his opponent near a black hole and just holds the person there, slowly being pulled apart by the gravitational force of the black hole. Liu Kang's fine because he's an elder god now

>>12075352
t. kevin smith

>>12075417
That's not me I'm the OP

Terry is the only MC of a fighting game franchise that I consistently use, unless we have collectively decided that Morrigan has stolen Demitri's role as the star of Darkstalkers. There is also Asuka from Asuka 100% that i rather like since she is some chemistry class geek that uses chemical reactions to throw out hadokens. Bad Mr. Frosty in Clayfighter is also pretty cool.

It's that retarded thread by kevin smith again

>>12075058
This is the retro board though. We don't care about any of the gay new shit.

Who wins in a fight between them? Terry beat a Roman god in the anime but I don't know his feats in the game canon

The apple guy in Samurai Showdown.

>>12075535
>The girl trying to fit in with the FGC
Lmao

>>12075557
He beat the anchient immortal spirits out of two little boys.

Bad Mr. Frosty

I can't think of any boring protagonist characters that I like in these games because they are all boring. Well except I guess I like Mario in Mario games, but who cares about that when it's Smash Bros., wherein he is boring.

>>12075049 (OP)
mitsurugi or siegfriend.

Kazuya or Jin because they have the best movesets and are the most fun to play as out of these

>>12075342
Look's so fucking lame, it's your average harem lead from the 00's

>>12075957
He's too cool for you

>>12075049 (OP)
Ryu is not a "protagonist". He's just a guy who likes to fight.

>>12075049 (OP)
Kazuya because doing electrics is fun and having a villain lead is cool. I like how all the Tekken leads are people that get consumed with anger and become villains, although I don't think Jin should have followed that path.

Haohmaru is cool because he kills his opponents.

And Terry is great because he's such a 90s guy with being annoying about it.

For me, it's Kasumi

>>12075386
>his finishers were non lethal
Wut?
In MK1 his only finishing moves were that cartwheel uppercut and a stage fatality. His uppercut could arguably be called less lethal (as less lethal as an uppercut that sends you high enough to go off screen can be), but considering it's called a fatality in game, it's definitely a killing move. The stage fatality speaks for itself, and you could also do the cartwheel uppercut off the pit, confirming the lethality of that move.
In MK2 one of his finishers is turning into a dragon and eating half the opponent, and his special uppercut returns, retaining its fatality classification.
In MK3 he either incinerates the opponent or crushes them to death with an arcade cabinet. No arguments there.

>>12075990
Protagonist doesn't mean hero

>>12076004
She's hot but I never played those games cause they seemed redundant after Tekken, perhaps wrong but how it seemed

Doryaa!

>>12075538
>>12077138
REKT

>>12075049 (OP)
Liu Kang would fuck Chun Li

Kazuya and Jin.

Jin circa Tekken 3/Tag

>>12075537
Who cares faggit

>>12075049 (OP)
why's the tekken guy on there twice

>>12075049 (OP)
Terry is the coolest, Ryu is the most iconic, even though he's got a "less exciting" stoic and disciplined martial artist personality. Haohmaru gets an honorable mention.

>>12078203
Terry is a dweeb

>>12078224
Are you ok?

>>12078224
T. Christian Mormon or ethnic

Fulgore is the protagonist of KI

>>12075049 (OP)
Akira is the most fun to play. But it's gotta be Terry. Ken is a homogay and tekken is cringe.

>>12075049 (OP)
Terry is the coolest.

was both a protagonist and a villain and did it way better than jin or kazuya

I liked Kazuya and tolerated Jin but Tekken's story has gone to complete shit a long time ago, and ruined those characters.

STEP ASIDE, MORTALS

>>12075049 (OP)
danzaiver.

>>12075342
Tohno is not the protagonist of Melty Blood

>>12075049 (OP)
As a Hong Kong cinema fanatic Liu Kang was always the coolest to me even if I only played ninjas. I like Ryo more than Ryu and Kyo and he's sort of both of them at once and better, because Ryu is too milquetoast and Kyo is too idol esque. Terry is the most "classic" in the sense of being reminiscent of the early 90s era which is cool, Kazuya was always badass for being a true antihero, Jago always looked like a dollar store action figure

>almost no one picked Haohmaru
Sad

Skullomania of course.

>>12075049 (OP)
You would have to be a total faggot not to choose Terry.

>>12075538
ftfy

>>12079224
Demitri has a castle full of chicks. Does your favorite protag have a castle full of chicks?

>>12079605
But his roofie magic Chad status couldn't stop the rival female from being way more the mascot

>>12075049 (OP)
This dude

>>12080473
>some chink faggot

>>12080473
MK's protag is Liu Kang

>>12080480
MK:D's protag is Shujinko.

Personally I think MK has the best lore and story compared to other fighting game franchises. I also think Deception has the best story mode and single player experience of any fighting game (even though the actual fighting game play of Deception is mediocre). Because of that I'm attached to Shujinko as a main character in a way that I'm not for other fighting game protags.

>>12080473
>>12080497
Bravo Ed Boon...

>>12075386
that's retardedly untrue.
in the classic games he turns into a dragon and bites a person in half, drops an arcade cabinet on them and stage fatalities exist.

in the 3D era his fatalities involved him possessing his opponent and ripping their head off revealing his head in it's place like a fucking mask (fun fact: i think either shang tsung or quan chi stole this fatality in MK9) and blows them up.

in the reboot era he punches a hole through someone, rips out their throat, splits them in half, uppercuts their head off, fist of the north stars them, uses magic dragons to rip them apart and throws them into a black hole on top of the faction kills and brutalities which are fatal in MKX, MK11 & MK1.

>>12080505
Shujinko is deceived by a character named Damashi. Damashi means deception in Japanese.

>>12076012
You can chain his cartwheel uppercut into the stage fatality.

>>12080516
Fucking kek

>>12080497
>has the best story mode and single player experience
>even though the actual fighting game play of Deception is mediocre
Modern gaming industry in a nutshell

>>12080497
MK lore and story is too much fantasy and comic book superheroes and too little actually legit and cool martial arts

>>12075049 (OP)
:] ass smile

>>12080540
Deception is like 20 years old

Kyo is the worst

Ryu forever

>>12080610
Elaborate.

>>12075990
He was the protagonist of Street Fighter 1, and is the closest thing to a main protagonist for the entire series.
>He's just a guy who likes to fight.
That's what makes Ryu the ideal fighting game character. Endlessly fighting and training to improve himself out of a pure love for the game. Seeking the truth through martial arts (the answer lies, in the heart of battle). There's more than one character like that of course, but Ryu is the purest form of it.

>>12080540
If you were really a 90s kid you'd be interested in FG lore, because this was when they all had adaptions, were treated as multimedia, had movies comics anime etc
>But I was a teenager
Fair enough if so but as much as I hear this, it doesn't show. Even 90s kids are becoming a rarity on this board it's mostly 00s baby's

>>12080551
It's just more akin to Kung Fu than anime, pre 00s kung fu was more popular in the states

SF has as much superpower shit, scifi, demons etc

>>12080713
He is the "honest character", both in gameplay and as a person.

>>12075398
Cute party game protagonist

>>12080610
t. Iori

>>12080473
We need another thread to discuss the most iconic old man fighter.

For me, is Tung Fu Rue

If you really like any main character in any of these games, unless it's somebody cool like >>12079497 , then you are an incomplete person. You need to straighten yourself out. Fighting game protagonist characters are generally awful.

>>12081339
You play the female right

>>12078183
Kekd when I noticed Quan Chi

>>12079449
Jagos belly shirt fucking kills it for me, shit is quite simply fucking gay

>>12081339
>funny gag jap salaryman turned superhero= good!
>guy who spends youth training to get revenge for the death of his father= bad!

>>12075157
i came in here to post him

>>12080473
I liked him

>>12075049 (OP)
Ken

>>12081461
Why would he be a skeleton anyway, makes no sense

>>12075049 (OP)
Him

>>12083415
Talon and Vertigo for lyfe, hate monkeh

>>12075049 (OP)
It's obviously Terry

>>12080650
>by SF3 Ryu's so old he's having a midlife crisis and starts dying his hair

>>12083415
I always thought the rex(Sauron?) was the intended MC, if there is any. I guess Blizzard, Talon and the other tricertops one are the closest to "good guys" in the game.

>>12085485
Sauron the yellow Rex is a good guy technically but funny enough, pretty much just because he's neutral and not evil, he basically just wants to feed endlessly while the others protect or destroy (even though they all eat people but whatever I guess)

Old man terry>t3 jin> rock howard> terry> sigfried> k> kyou> kasumi > ryu.

Denjin Hadooouuuuken!

When ryu is forced to use the satsui no hado to win, he is the sickest protag of all time.

>>12075049 (OP)
why do all of them have the same color scheme?

>>12085745
Red white and blue are considered hero colors because of the impact of the USA and also American superheroes like Superman and Spider-Man, while green and purple are default villain colors usually

>>12080551
It's funny how MK gets the rep of not real martial arts when it's the only game made with real martial artists. The canon styles might not be accurate, but all the actors were martial arts stars in the early 90s doing legit moves even if they all had to do the same ones rofl. SF for example, might have more defined styles, but what's presented is a totally fantasy version of those styles. Ryu/Kens karate is nothing like actual karate, for example

>>12076004
Nah she doesn't count? Does she?

>>12085801
thanks doc

>>12087642
Tekken motion capture was done with actual martial artists.
MK I dunno. Pesina brothers, Tony Marquez and the rest were more like fitness instructors.

>>12087746
Tekken has like a hundred of legit mma holds, along with karate kicks, judo throws and wrestling grapples

>>12087757
Yep, also Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan moves. In Mortal Kombat everyone has the same set of punches and kicks that don't look inspired by any particular martial art or artist.

>>12087746
>>12087757
>>12087794
To be fair, being 3D, while primitive, allowed them to experiment with more "reallistic" movements and from the beginning mocap went hand to hand with 3D gaming.

>>12087814
I mean, 3D or not, if you're a true martial arts fan, games like VF, Tekken and DoA have you covered.
Jeet kune do, drunken fist kung fu, pro wrestling karate, kickboxing, taekwondo, kapoeira, judo, jujutsu, bajiquan. Every move is a reference to some classic movie or a match. Tekken has the kicks that Inoki used against Muhammad Ali in their infamous match for fucks sake.

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>>12079203
Soul Blade didn't really have a main guy
and if Soul Calibur had one it was Kilik

>>12087953
Wasn't Sophitia?

>>12075049 (OP)
Ken masters

>>12087872
nobody is ready for that

>>12079349
doesn't count