History Recap / DeathBattleS05E08RyuVsJin

'''Boomstick:''' And for kicking the crap out of the other people! Like with [[Characters/StreetFighterRyu Ryu]], the wandering world warrior of ''Franchise/StreetFighter''.\\

'''Boomstick:''' [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers And for kicking the crap out of the other people]]! Like with [[Characters/StreetFighterRyu Ryu]], the wandering world warrior of ''Franchise/StreetFighter''.\\

Everyone has different reasons for studying martial arts. For personal honor, to improve health, [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers and for kicking the crap out of the other people]].

Like with Ryu, the wandering world warrior of ''Franchise/StreetFighter''. And Jin Kazama, the power-hungry martial arts master of ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}''.

Taking the spotlight first is Ryu, the Wandering Warrior whose name means "prosperous" and "plentiful". As a young orphan, he was adopted by Gouken, a martial arts master who trained Ryu (and Ken Masters, but [[Recap/DeathBattleS03E10KenVsTerry that's another Death Battle]]) in the art of Ansatsuken, the Assassination Fist. This schooling came to an abrupt end when Ryu and Ken returned to the dojo and found Gouken seemingly dead by the hands of his brother, Akuma. The vengeful Ryu swore to wander the earth and refine his abilities until he could avenge his master. Eventually he joined the World Warrior tournament, fought his way to the top, and faced Sagat, who promptly clobbered him... only for Ryu to unleash his Satsui no Hado for the first time and almost kill Sagat in retaliation, winning the tournament. With this and other victories under his belt, he finally took his revenge on Akuma.

Ryu has dodged bullets, destroyed a skyscraper, and withstood Balrog's Gigaton Blow (which, [[Recap/DeathBattleS04E10BalrogVsTJCombo as they've established before]], is strong enough to kill an elephant in one punch). He's also survived getting impaled clean through the chest, and is ImmuneToBullets in berserker mode. He has even lifted a humongous boulder estimated to weigh at least thirty-six tons... plus the man sitting on it... plus the boulder HE was lifting! To say that Ryu is no pushover would probably be the understatement of the year.

-->'''[[VideoGame/StreetFighterV Master Bison]]''': ''(walking up to Ryu)'' You have the power to actually defeat that beast. Now show it to me!\\

The Street Fighter's introduction done, Wiz and Boomstick move on to his opponent, Jin Kazama. Completely unassuming as a child, Jin was in fact raised by his single mother, who taught him the Kazama martial arts after his father disappeared. Sensing a great evil approaching, Jin's mother told him to seek out his grandfather, Heihachi, should anything happen to her... such as an ogre knocking Jin out and disappearing with her, as happened shortly after. Heihachi happened to be the super-rich owner of a multi-national conglomerate empire that boasted, among other things, a martial arts tournament, the King of Iron Fist. He found himself right up against his mother's kidnapper in the tournament, and killed him in combat... only for Heihachi to step in and gun his poor grandson down. It wasn't over, though: discovering the Devil Gene within him, Jin got back up and turned the tables on his grandfather.

-->'''[[Anime/TekkenBloodVengeance Ling Xiaoyu]]''': ''(frantically)'' Can't you understand? All this fighting is pointless! It's never gonna end!\\

The fight is over, but it wasn't easy to decide by any means, considering the impressive feats both combatants had, very few of which actually showcased their upper limits. Both could move about as fast and lift about as much in their base forms, but Ryu had more control than Jin did in their respective ultimate forms (and how canon it is on Jin's end is very unclear). Jin's fall from orbit is hard to quantify, but taken literally it's about 18 tons of force. However, it's their limits that matter, and they had to be scaled to comparable characters for their limits to be estimated with any accuracy. Jin's father Kazuya took a 3.7 megaton laser blast, but had to be in Devil form to do so, while his own laser blast was capable of causing an eruption, which is probably not as potent as the 100 megatons of TNT it was highballed as. Ryu, on the other hand, was scaled to Akuma, who has very similar abilities, but was capable of punching an island to pieces with one punch, which based on estimations, had to have taken equivalent force of 415 megatons of TNT. Admittedly Jin still had the speed advantage, but Ryu was so much stronger and more durable that it didn't make much difference, and in the end, Ryu's strength and control were just too far out of Jin's league.

...Oh, and the gun robot with a later model that destroyed a meteor? Jin could've been scaled to that, but even if it was supported by canon, Akuma's destroyed an even bigger meteor, so the outcome's the same.

-->'''Boomstick:''' Well, Jin up, everybody! Ryu's Tekken care of business.\\

* AwesomeMcCoolName:
** Discussed when Boomstick suggests naming his hypothetical children Satsui no Hado[[labelnote:translation]]Surge of Murderous Intent[[/labelnote]] and Shun Goku Satsu[[labelnote:translation]]Instant Hell Murder[[/labelnote]], after Ryu's SuperpoweredEvilSide and its Signature Move.
** Ryu's own name can be translated to "prosperous", "plentiful" and "abundant".

** According to WordOfGod, they wanted to push the ''RWBY'' references further by having Yang make a cameo only to go against it later.

* MythologyGag: The second half of the fight takes place in what some will recognize as the Spring Maiden chamber from ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}''. To make the reference clearer, Raven Branwan and Cinder Fall, whom originally fought in the chamber, carried on fighting atop falling stalagmites, which Ryu and Jin recreate in this match. (Remember that both Death Battle and RWBY are made by Rooster Teeth.)

Everyone has different reasons for studying martial arts. For personal honor, to improve health, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and for kicking the crap out of the other people]].