Street Fighter V

Blanka's ugliness shall shame Brazil no longer.

She looks like a mix of BJJ and Capoeria(sp?) from the still shots. I think she's pretty good looking myself, although her model is still unfinished looking.

edited 1st Oct '15 8:03:50 PM by Vertigo_High

Capoeira.

I must note how Tekken 7 also had an arab guy (Shaheen) and a Brazilian lady (Katarina Alves)... dueling games? It like the devs met and said, OK, let's both make these nationalities, see who does better...

edited 1st Oct '15 8:09:59 PM by FlamingoKai

Was about to ask what fighting style she had, since it looked really familiar to me. Is she the first in the series to use it?

It's weird, but I find her both "meh" and "cool-looking" at the same time. I definitely like that hairstyle, though.

if her style is Capoeira, then she's not the first by a long shot.

... I thought Kitana with B.Orchid's colors

I don't think there's a BJJ fighter for SF yet, if it's indeed BJJ. We also have Elena from Capoeira, but characters sharing a fighting style is nothing new.

Her hairstyle makes her stand out and adds a lot of personality I think, plus it's pulled off well.

I know one of Jacqui's Mk10 concepts had something similar to it and they should've went with it but gave her boring cornrows instead.

Wasn't there a few leaks of the new characters names? Does anyone remember the fourth?

Zen, somebody from southeast Asia.

Hoping they are cool...

Speaking of that, in before Zen is Filipino just like Tekken's Josie Rizal. That'll really prove that Tekken 7 and SFV have at least Dueling Characters... and the devs really talked about it just like Dreamworks and Disney.

Though if I'm to "award" an SF character to any remaining country, it has to be Singapore. They are bigger in SF than any Southeast Asian country I know. (Filipinos are more into Tekken than SF.)

edited 1st Oct '15 8:57:06 PM by FlamingoKai

She looks pretty interesting.

Agreed. There is clearly a lot of energy and personality in the character.

If she's a capoerista, she would at least be the first one in the series from a culture actually known for it.

Looks more like Jiu Jitsu, though.

edited 2nd Oct '15 11:08:28 AM by KnownUnknown

What is it with Brazilians in Street Fighter and electricity?

edited 2nd Oct '15 2:39:35 PM by MightyMatilda

We're energetic people. At least that's what we say to others.

I will tell something about this Laura: I don't like her hairstyle, I don't like her clothes, and you know why? Because I don't like it, simple like that. I'm very certain Capcom did their research about brazilian women. It's also the kind of brazilian women I don't want to deal with.

OMG, how I hate funk.

edited 2nd Oct '15 3:17:54 PM by MeetTheNewBoss

"Blanka's ugliness shall shame Brazil no longer."

lol. You are a terrible human being. Now I'm imagining your words coming out the mouth of Brazil's president as the character announcement gets made, and everyone in the country responds by going apeshit in the streets as if Carnivale came early! And Blanka is just weeping in the background while all this is going on. -lols harder-

Lauras is ugly. Horribly ugly. Urgh, she makes me puke. There, I said it.

Is women going half bald something of a trend today?

Also... in terms of Zangief... really? He's not going to have his Final/Ultimate Atomic Buster?

Is there a tale of a traumatic experience you had with a woman that looked something like Laura? -pulls up chair-

Ahh here we go

lol. You are a terrible human being. Now I'm imagining your words coming out the mouth of Brazil's president as the character announcement gets made, and everyone in the country responds by going apeshit in the streets as if Carnivale came early! And Blanka is just weeping in the background while all this is going on. -lols harder-

To be fair, Blanka is kind of insulting as a concept.

'Here's the character we chose to represent your country- you have lots of forests and rivers, right? So, um, here you have a wild man with a non-Brazilian name who fights half naked, like an animal, and emits electricity because he learned it from Electric eels. Doesn't that just scream 'Brazil'? No, we didn't spend more than five minutes researching on your country, why do you ask?'

Come Super Street Fighter II:

'Okay, Mexico, we learned from our mistakes with Brazil. Your representative will be a gigantic Indian chief from the United States dressed like one of the Village People. No, don't complain. At least we chose a full human this time'.

Well, Blanka just lives there, or used to. It's explicitly said in his Bio.

edited 2nd Oct '15 6:55:21 PM by Malco

Yes, it's called

(Enganging Pepe The King Prawn Voice)

I HHHHHHAte that hairstyle. Oh my god, how horrible and awful. Oh Lord from heaven, protect us from this abomination!

edited 2nd Oct '15 7:01:26 PM by MeetTheNewBoss

Ditto for T. Hawk and Mexico. It doesn't change the fact it still feels rather 'we couldn't think of anything that actually fits your homeland, so have some mutated Electro-Hulk instead'.

Mind, we have changed for the better a lot over time. And I sense Blanka is kind of a little old shame for Capcom by now.

edited 2nd Oct '15 7:02:17 PM by NapoleonDeCheese

I don't associate Street Fighter with their countries. They're not exactly Captain Ethnic screaming their nationalities in every move.

When I saw Blanka, I thought he was a curupira, simple like that. The magic electric man just sounds weird to me, not racist. We see clearly a normal brazilian in his stage.

I don't understand what's the big deal about "The First X from this part of the world". Just make good new characters, goddammit! Representivity will not affect the final quality of your game/movie/whatever.

edited 2nd Oct '15 7:14:15 PM by MeetTheNewBoss