Balrog trying to do right by Ed, and Ed turning into a reasonably decent person, is "Johnny Cage is a doting dad / Sonya Blade flaked out on her family" levels of surprising character development in fighting games.
Considering the fact that "reality is stranger than fiction", I'm surprised that the Netherrealm devs never leaned into the whole "army spouse comes home only to find out their significant other cheated on them" stereotype. Speaking as someone who has a military dad, it happens a lot to both army men and women alike.
@@WTFisTingispingis I'm just happy he didn't perpetuate the "celebrity dad mistreating their own kids" routine. Instead, his daughter is a well respected soldier and they love each other (despite Johnny's sense of humor clashing with Cassie's 'Hot Cheeto girl with a gun' attitude).
@@antonhanna2423in Mortal Kombat X I think he mentions how he reached rock bottom after the divorce but he didn't want Cassie to see him like that so he tried his best
@@TupocalypseShakur Honestly, he did the best that he could. If you lived in the MK universe and you're old enough to enjoy being a parent, that residual stress is more than likely to give you a bad case of cynicism. Despite that, he gave it his all instead of ignoring everything.
I love Balrog and Ed's Father/Son dynamic. Balrog wasn't explicitly trying to raise Ed into a good person, he just managed to raise Ed with enough love where Ed isn't immediately a bad one. Ed knows the difference very well likely because Balrog showed him the Bad and the Good. He would have likely figured it out himself, but he has the option to pick because of it. Balrog was not the right person to raise Ed, but he wholeheartedly tried what he thought was best. It doesn't change who Balrog is or what he's done, but it helps appreciate Ed's upbringing and how lucky he really is to be where he is now.
Street Fighter 6 has been doing a great job making the characters that were lame or stunted in SFV cooler. Ed's an edgelord but he's not unbearably annoying because of things like how he sees his relationship with Balrog and how much his comrades mean to him.
Akuma being such an obvious top tier that its not even theoretically possible for him to be bad is such an interesting situation for a fighting game to have. He's inevitable, the question just becomes "how" and "when"
They will balance it out by giving him 30% less health than the rest of the cast thus being the only character that can be TOD by every character in the roster
i cant wait to see how they are going to try to pull off Akuma in World Tour. like is he also going to send me stickers through text messages and form a bond together lol
Ed feels like he would've had Luke's slot as the MC of SF6 if he wasn't so hated in SFV. Young Cocky Blonde that has MMA moves. He has more of a story than Luke in 6 too.
Ed was my main back in V and the amount of unnecessary hate this character got was crazy. But I love that not only does everyone like him now but now he's also just king of the freak club including having a psycho powered Gorilla and Dolphin by his side. Does make me wonder if eventually though they'll make Ed fall victim to Psycho Power and have him set up as the new villain to counter Luke as the new hero.
I think he would been more accepting if he wasn't a low tier character. Falke's tier is way higher than Ed from V that I main her. 6 is a way better version of him,
Akuma should be the only character that doesn't have a Modern mode because he believes people using Modern are unworthy Akuma was never a bad guy and he willingly took on the Satsui No Hadou to master it and bend it to his will, which is why he beats down on everyone else who is too afraid to use it.
Street Fighter 6 just got Ed, Tekken 8's first DLC character is gonna be Eddy. Mortal Kombat needs to complete the set by adding a character named Edd.
I just wish he didn't name his crew Neo-Shadoloo, cause it has some connotations that I'm certain he wasn't going for. Could be worse, he couldn't gone by Blue Shadoloo.
He didn't pick the name Neo Shadaloo. The other remnants of Shadaloo, including JP and excluding Ed and his friends, picked the name in order to bring back Shadaloo with the intent of making Ed the leader. It's explained in both his arcade story and his World Tour dialogue. Of course, you can tell how Ed and his friends feel about that.
"Yeah, my family suffered a lot in the 30's and 40's, but now that the evil people in charge of those horrible things there are innocent people left behind so I'll unite them against what those people did to us and I'll name that group the Neo-N... No, that's not s good idea."
I can just imagine Ed, just looking at Bison's hat, then at JP, then looking at Shadaloo's logo... Then back at JP again, before shrinking his shoulders and saying "It's actually going over your head, huh? Neo-Shadaloo? Fuck this imma go learn orthodox boxing"
Balrog is terrible person sure, but him raising Ed recontextualizes his need for that fight money and why he's willing to play dirty. He's got a kid to look out for
@@azabache6058No? Unless you mean his adopted dad, Balrog in which case I have to bring up how Leo's mom was Steve's mother figure and how she raised him as best she could before she was killed
I have a question, we know Ed was in a S.I.N. facility and S.I.N. had defected from Shadaloo, but like... When Balrog took him, did he tell Bison? Because I feel like telling his boss that he retrieved one of his backup bodies is the kind of thing Balrog WOULD do, but in SFV Ed is never around when Bison is. Did Balrog not realize he was a backup body for Bison? He had to at some point, right? Did he just keep Ed's survival on the down-low because he was against Bison taking his body/wanted to have an ace in the hole in case the Shadaloo gig didn't work out? Food for thought.
@@jermaineallen8310 he was in 2, turbo, 3, 3rd strike 4, ultra 4, the alpha series, the ex series, cvs2, marvel vs Capcom, and Tekken 7 to my knowledge. So I'd say he's a pretty important slot on the roster, definitely top billing villan
@@Detective_BonghitsThey were asking about starting roster and yes, he has been but only twice. Alpha and SF4. Every other appearance in the mainline franchise has been a later version of the game or as DLC. His first appearance in Super Turbo was as a non-playable (at least by traditional means) boss character.
@@Detective_BonghitsI don’t care, Akuma is such a Gary Stu boring invincible villain anyway I prefer everyone else. He’s alright sometimes but what made him cool originally has been overdone.
Balrog trying to do right by Ed, and Ed turning into a reasonably decent person, is "Johnny Cage is a doting dad / Sonya Blade flaked out on her family" levels of surprising character development in fighting games.
Considering the fact that "reality is stranger than fiction", I'm surprised that the Netherrealm devs never leaned into the whole "army spouse comes home only to find out their significant other cheated on them" stereotype. Speaking as someone who has a military dad, it happens a lot to both army men and women alike.
@@antonhanna2423 Johnny Cage being a genuinely good dad is shocking to me.
@@WTFisTingispingis I'm just happy he didn't perpetuate the "celebrity dad mistreating their own kids" routine. Instead, his daughter is a well respected soldier and they love each other (despite Johnny's sense of humor clashing with Cassie's 'Hot Cheeto girl with a gun' attitude).
@@antonhanna2423in Mortal Kombat X I think he mentions how he reached rock bottom after the divorce but he didn't want Cassie to see him like that so he tried his best
@@TupocalypseShakur Honestly, he did the best that he could. If you lived in the MK universe and you're old enough to enjoy being a parent, that residual stress is more than likely to give you a bad case of cynicism. Despite that, he gave it his all instead of ignoring everything.
Balrog being a decent father is the story twist I didn’t expect but welcome with open arms.
I love Balrog and Ed's Father/Son dynamic. Balrog wasn't explicitly trying to raise Ed into a good person, he just managed to raise Ed with enough love where Ed isn't immediately a bad one. Ed knows the difference very well likely because Balrog showed him the Bad and the Good. He would have likely figured it out himself, but he has the option to pick because of it. Balrog was not the right person to raise Ed, but he wholeheartedly tried what he thought was best. It doesn't change who Balrog is or what he's done, but it helps appreciate Ed's upbringing and how lucky he really is to be where he is now.
Ed and the Satsui No Thank You
Street Fighter 6 has been doing a great job making the characters that were lame or stunted in SFV cooler. Ed's an edgelord but he's not unbearably annoying because of things like how he sees his relationship with Balrog and how much his comrades mean to him.
Then there's juri.
I wish he had a cooler default, though.
@@TheSpiritus0 and then there's chunky
He's dead
@@RandoChrisYT Classic
Juri being an absolute loser is hilarious.
Granted, I wish we got some art of Balrog taking Ed to a barbershop existed, I love Balrog teaching Kid Ed at the boxing gym.
Yeah nah, there's no way Balrog has seen the inside of a barbershop ever
"Perfect K.O.!"
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I mean, he probably gets it cut a lot to always be that short.
Akuma being such an obvious top tier that its not even theoretically possible for him to be bad is such an interesting situation for a fighting game to have. He's inevitable, the question just becomes "how" and "when"
They will balance it out by giving him 30% less health than the rest of the cast thus being the only character that can be TOD by every character in the roster
i cant wait to see how they are going to try to pull off Akuma in World Tour. like is he also going to send me stickers through text messages and form a bond together lol
I hope there’s minigame where you can beat him at arcade or something and he gets super salt about it.
He'll be selling fruit at his stand at beat up a fruit thief while the player character watches and asks to be trained by him
@@MattManDX1 "sir I just saw you raging demon someone over an Apple. Please train me!"
Ed feels like he would've had Luke's slot as the MC of SF6 if he wasn't so hated in SFV. Young Cocky Blonde that has MMA moves. He has more of a story than Luke in 6 too.
Ed was my main back in V and the amount of unnecessary hate this character got was crazy. But I love that not only does everyone like him now but now he's also just king of the freak club including having a psycho powered Gorilla and Dolphin by his side. Does make me wonder if eventually though they'll make Ed fall victim to Psycho Power and have him set up as the new villain to counter Luke as the new hero.
I think he would been more accepting if he wasn't a low tier character. Falke's tier is way higher than Ed from V that I main her. 6 is a way better version of him,
Akuma should be the only character that doesn't have a Modern mode because he believes people using Modern are unworthy
Akuma was never a bad guy and he willingly took on the Satsui No Hadou to master it and bend it to his will, which is why he beats down on everyone else who is too afraid to use it.
Street Fighter 6 just got Ed, Tekken 8's first DLC character is gonna be Eddy. Mortal Kombat needs to complete the set by adding a character named Edd.
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I wonder how Seth's doing? Is he still stuck in the Doll unit 0 searching for inner peace, or is he scrapped somewhere?
He was banished to that same Phantom Zone in which El Fuerte and Abel are currently stuck in.
seth embraced his destiny and became a RealDoll
@@godzillainspace5922 "and eventually, Seth stopped thinking."
hopefully the error stopped and Seth just became a wandering kind of fighter that travels all over the world and steals data from other warriors
I just wish he didn't name his crew Neo-Shadoloo, cause it has some connotations that I'm certain he wasn't going for.
Could be worse, he couldn't gone by Blue Shadoloo.
He didn't pick the name Neo Shadaloo. The other remnants of Shadaloo, including JP and excluding Ed and his friends, picked the name in order to bring back Shadaloo with the intent of making Ed the leader. It's explained in both his arcade story and his World Tour dialogue.
Of course, you can tell how Ed and his friends feel about that.
"Yeah, my family suffered a lot in the 30's and 40's, but now that the evil people in charge of those horrible things there are innocent people left behind so I'll unite them against what those people did to us and I'll name that group the Neo-N... No, that's not s good idea."
I can just imagine Ed, just looking at Bison's hat, then at JP, then looking at Shadaloo's logo... Then back at JP again, before shrinking his shoulders and saying "It's actually going over your head, huh? Neo-Shadaloo? Fuck this imma go learn orthodox boxing"
Balrog is terrible person sure, but him raising Ed recontextualizes his need for that fight money and why he's willing to play dirty. He's got a kid to look out for
My fight moneeey
balrog realized he wanted to be the dad he didn't have.
It could always be that akumas red fireball gets turned into an od version of his normal fireball
Ed is just Street Fighter Steve Fox
But unlike Steve his perant loves him, and their relationship isn't nearly as broken
@@azabache6058No? Unless you mean his adopted dad, Balrog in which case I have to bring up how Leo's mom was Steve's mother figure and how she raised him as best she could before she was killed
@@cyberninjazero5659 Steve and Leo have lore? I've somehow never seen any mention of this.
@cyberninjazero5659 Okay fair. I'll admit I don't know tekken lore as well as I do ST lore
I see this as an absolute win!
Feed the monster
Neo-Shadaloo reminds me so much of Cyborg 009.
I have a question, we know Ed was in a S.I.N. facility and S.I.N. had defected from Shadaloo, but like... When Balrog took him, did he tell Bison? Because I feel like telling his boss that he retrieved one of his backup bodies is the kind of thing Balrog WOULD do, but in SFV Ed is never around when Bison is.
Did Balrog not realize he was a backup body for Bison? He had to at some point, right? Did he just keep Ed's survival on the down-low because he was against Bison taking his body/wanted to have an ace in the hole in case the Shadaloo gig didn't work out? Food for thought.
Similar to how Liu Kang became a Kung Fu Fire God when his Sensei was Bo Rai Cho it's crazy how someone trained by Balrog was as powerful as Ed
I would like form changes like mvc1 ryu
Oni install super maybe?
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Still a street fighter with no akuma is whack.
Has he ever been on the starting roster
@@jermaineallen8310 he was in 2, turbo, 3, 3rd strike 4, ultra 4, the alpha series, the ex series, cvs2, marvel vs Capcom, and Tekken 7 to my knowledge. So I'd say he's a pretty important slot on the roster, definitely top billing villan
@@Detective_BonghitsThey were asking about starting roster and yes, he has been but only twice. Alpha and SF4. Every other appearance in the mainline franchise has been a later version of the game or as DLC. His first appearance in Super Turbo was as a non-playable (at least by traditional means) boss character.
@@SlayaBEEThanks
@@Detective_BonghitsI don’t care, Akuma is such a Gary Stu boring invincible villain anyway I prefer everyone else. He’s alright sometimes but what made him cool originally has been overdone.