Debut: Street Fighter II
Ken is awesome. How awesome is Ken? He can literally set you on fire by punching your face. He's also an ALPHA -- rich, married, a skilled martial artist, likes cars, dislikes soap operas. If Board 8 has taught me anything, it's that you gotta flaunt that inheritance. Ken passes tha test with flying colors. I'm not sure it's so ALPHA to dye your hair blond, but he keeps his eyebrows black. This would bother some people. Ken? No chance. It makes him mysterious. How many people on the Internet have debated the reason for this? Enough said. Ken is also part American, part Japanese -- the ultimate warrior. He'll eat some soba, drink some tea, bow, and then fire bullets out of his fist accompanied by an American eagle soaring overhead. To round it all off, a Ken Boat actually exists --
Ken's cool. He wasn't the first character I picked up in SF2 (Ryu), but eventually, I had to pick the blond hair guy in the red karategi. Once I did, there was no going back -- even if they were mostly the same back then, Ken had FIRE DRAGON PUNCH -- and I played him for the better part of fifteen years in any Capcom fighting game where he was a fighter. That stopped when SFIV came out. I don't know why, but I never bothered to try to pick him up. He's not a bad character in the game either! I think his popularity stems from the fact that there's a natural inclination whenever someone chooses Ken to be flashy, to rushdown like crazy, because if you're not doing that then you're doing it wrong, win or lose. That has appeal. Also, he can flowchart like no other -- and if you can't handle the flowchart then why even bother trying at all.
Do you like Ken Masters?
A: Yes - insert why
B: No - insert why
C: Haven't played Street Fighter
D: i need another option and don't know what to put here
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