Well, folks, Capcom released the results of their character popularity poll this week, and I have to give them credit: this is absolutely delightful.
Apparently Ryu was so salty about coming in ninth - he's "Aiming only for the TOP!", don'tcha know - that he bounced before they could take his picture for the lineup. If that's not the most FGC thing that Capcom has ever done, I dunno what is. That ring girl up there is literally trying to find him to get him to hold his ninth place! It's amazing!
But I also have to say that the results of this poll are FUCKING BONKERS. Sakura was the most popular character, which, fine - she's got a great theme song, her stage is awesome, she's very playable and a lot of regrettable humans probably like her because you can see her underwear. Let's try not to spend a lot of time thinking about how many people voted for her because you can see her underwear. It's probably not a good number. Let's just listen to her theme instead:
Hooray for Sakura!
And then, okay, Makoto is number two, which is cool. There was a lot of hype Makoto play in SFIV, and obviously she was one of the favorites from Third Strike. But then the list gets VERY, VERY WEIRD. Juri - yes, GODDAMN JURI - is number three, which I can't explain at all. Q is number four, presumably just because he has the best name of any fictional character. (Fact: Q was the best character in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Q is also the only consistently likable character in the James Bond movies. Nobody named Q is ever bad.) And then, rounding out the top ten, it's Cody, Chun, Sagat, Akuma, salty Ryu, and Blanka.
Which...okay. That's fine. It's a perfectly okay top ten. But then things get very weird. Dan somehow finishes ahead of both Zangief and Guile. Boxer winds up in fucking SEVENTIETH place, behind such all-stars as Kairi and Garuda. My pick, Sean, dropped all the way to thirty-sixth (although he still finished ahead of E. Honda - get rekt, Mike Ross). Also, some guy named Skullomania finished in the top sixteen, and I'm gonna be completely honest here: I have no fucking clue who that guy is.
And, look, I know that this is all just fluff. "Popularity contest" is a phrase we use to describe shit that's shallow and unworthy of serious attention, and this is an actual, non-metaphorical popularity contest. Still, though, we'd better not get fucking Skullomania DLC before Sean comes back. Swear to fucking god.
Apparently Ryu was so salty about coming in ninth - he's "Aiming only for the TOP!", don'tcha know - that he bounced before they could take his picture for the lineup. If that's not the most FGC thing that Capcom has ever done, I dunno what is. That ring girl up there is literally trying to find him to get him to hold his ninth place! It's amazing!
But I also have to say that the results of this poll are FUCKING BONKERS. Sakura was the most popular character, which, fine - she's got a great theme song, her stage is awesome, she's very playable and a lot of regrettable humans probably like her because you can see her underwear. Let's try not to spend a lot of time thinking about how many people voted for her because you can see her underwear. It's probably not a good number. Let's just listen to her theme instead:
Hooray for Sakura!
And then, okay, Makoto is number two, which is cool. There was a lot of hype Makoto play in SFIV, and obviously she was one of the favorites from Third Strike. But then the list gets VERY, VERY WEIRD. Juri - yes, GODDAMN JURI - is number three, which I can't explain at all. Q is number four, presumably just because he has the best name of any fictional character. (Fact: Q was the best character in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Q is also the only consistently likable character in the James Bond movies. Nobody named Q is ever bad.) And then, rounding out the top ten, it's Cody, Chun, Sagat, Akuma, salty Ryu, and Blanka.
Which...okay. That's fine. It's a perfectly okay top ten. But then things get very weird. Dan somehow finishes ahead of both Zangief and Guile. Boxer winds up in fucking SEVENTIETH place, behind such all-stars as Kairi and Garuda. My pick, Sean, dropped all the way to thirty-sixth (although he still finished ahead of E. Honda - get rekt, Mike Ross). Also, some guy named Skullomania finished in the top sixteen, and I'm gonna be completely honest here: I have no fucking clue who that guy is.
And, look, I know that this is all just fluff. "Popularity contest" is a phrase we use to describe shit that's shallow and unworthy of serious attention, and this is an actual, non-metaphorical popularity contest. Still, though, we'd better not get fucking Skullomania DLC before Sean comes back. Swear to fucking god.
Theodore Hawkington, where you at!? 58? :-(
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