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Seems like JP might just be able to teleport OTHERS (something we've never seen in SF) And his 'other dimension' stuff could just be stuff like psychic projection, etc that we know characters like Bison & Rose & Dhalsim are capable of...but JP can cause others to experience it. This would tie in again with his Rasputin-feel as Rasputin was a new age guru of sorts.

Yeah I love when we can at least get a glimpse into what characters have been up to!

Know what might be awesome?? If JP is the Shadaloo spy in the Secret Society. Show Bison's mastery of wheels within wheels

The Red Room was stated to be controlling world events "from the shadows" and the Ten Rings were stated to have "Conquered the world" with "nothing more to conquer" The world building in the MCU has just become garbage during Phase 4.

That's why I like JP being a component of either Shadaloo or the SS rather than being his own thing. I don't want to run into Hydra->Eternals->Red Room->Ten Rings nonsense where there's a bunch of organizations "controlling everything" somehow but not interacting with each other

JP's design combined with him potentially being some kind of manipulator also reminds me of White

Carlos seems VERY likely

I got you, fam

Wow SF6 is REALLY impressive thus far

Ruby Rod

So your contention is that, for a brand new unproven IP, the (at the time) biggest powerhouse arcade game creator in the world went to Tetsuo Hara and agreed to let him keep ownership rights to the characters he would create for that new IP which would make sure they were NEVER fully owned by Capcom and would have to pay Hara for future usage? Dude there is zero point zero percent chance of that happening. Ever. It defies all logic and makes no sense.

Totally untrue. K9999 went so far as to be replaced in KOF2002UM and it was a PROMINENT rumor/urban legend that he couldn't be used because they would be sued. It is nothing like KOF MI or Neo Blood. Nothing at all. So much so that in UM we got another entirely different version of the character (Nameless). They even kept K9999 out of anniversary books (which I own) and off their website which further fueled the rumor. K9999 got less mention than Slam Masters. Then it turns out the answer was "LOL we didn't like his design much...here's Krohnen" (which makes me CRAZY hype since I'm maybe the worlds biggest K9999 mark). So yes the comparison is quite apt in that I'm comparing rumor-mongering based on literally nothing at all. No. Slam Master has no name recognition. NONE. It was a non-event in the United States and was not some powerhouse in Japan either nor anyone else. It was an arcade game. It did okay. It is only "Off" to you because we're all giant Capcom nerds here. There is zero reason to re-release it since there is zero demand AND it doesn't fit into any of the collections they've released in a nice way. It isn't graphically gorgeous, it isn't highly acclaimed, it is not some cult favorite or lost gem. Nothing. There's lots of games like that that don't get re-released. It is what it is. There is no reason to "PLAY SAFE" with something they entirely own in every conceivable way. In fact, the ONLY thing they could ever be concerned about is how close they might think some of the characters are to real people. That's it. Full stop. It has nothing to do with Tetsuo Hara. Dude you are totally just inventing "Oh they probably do this blahblahblah" No. They don't. Period. Full stop. That is not how 'for hire' works. Have you ever been a contractor? Capcom was not about to create a game and go "Hey manga artist, we want to hire you for art for this game to make some characters...and if the series is SUPER SUCCESSFUL we will owe you money IN PERPETUITY FOREVER if we want to use them again" That makes zero sense. Capcom would not exist as a company today if they were that brain-dead stupid as a company. It makes no sense at all. Less than none. It is diametrically opposite to how this pays out in reality. A contract you have utterly invented to justify why some title with mediocre-or-worse performance with mediocre-or-worse character designs aren't being brought back...except when they are...and then we have to make up a reason why it was okay THAT TIME. It makes no sense. It's just layering explanations and suppositions on top of each other. You want to know how we know they're owned by Capcom? Gunloc is mentioned several times in other things including the SF Movie The Game and elsewhere. Did you see a credit to Hara in the credit for that game? No. Then he doesn't own it. Full stop. If they mentioned the character and it was owned by someone else they had contractual obligations with, even that mention would have to come with a credit. Unless we invent a reason why that isn't the case...as we keep doing for all of these exceptions instead of just using Occam's Razor (ie: Why haven't we seen them? Capcom doesn't care to do anything with them.) You find it likely based on literally nothing It is absolutely NOT likely. At all. Not even slightly. And if you think those twitter illustrators have any idea wtf they're talking about OR that they would dictate to a company like Marvel (or anyone else) what the terms would be then you are high af. Put down the crack pipe. 😜 Twitter is not real life. 5% of twitter is morons and the other 95% are bots. Capcom would approach Hara and contract him. Period. That's it. It's real simple. This was 1993 Capcom. Do you realize what a massive POWERHOUSE 1993 Capcom was? This is 2 years after the release of SFII, billions of dollars in revenue Capcom. This is creators of the biggest arcade game since the height of old arcades Capcom at the height of their power. 1993 Capcom could dictate the way arcade operators had to bang their wives, if they wanted to and both the operator and his wife would say "Yes, sir, Mr. Capcom. Thank you, sir." Hara would have been thrilled to work with them. Hara and HnK were specks of dust in the grand scheme of things compared to SFII-era Capcom. Yes, the company was built by a bunch of Hara fanboys taking his ideas...but by 1993 Hara would have been BLESSED to work on anything resembling a major Capcom arcade release. Simple as.

The Slam Masters characters were created as work-for-hire for Capcom. There is NO WAY they don't own the rights to them. Castlevania Judgment had a manga (Death Note) designer and Dragon Quest has had one for decades (Toriyama of Dragon Ball fame) and neither have rights to the characters they designed for those games in a way that precludes the parent company from using them. This is not like Capcom making a Jojo game then no longer having the license to those characters. Slam Master characters are entirely owned by Capcom. Who designed them is irrelevant. Why aren't they used? Because Capcom chooses not to. Simple as that. This reminds me of the K9999 "Oh SNK can't use him or they'll get sued" urban legend that was never ever true. There should be nothing stopping Capcom from using Slam Master characters other than their own desire.

I own it

Konami is unrealistically incompetent. Seriously, they're like a parody of a company.

Udon story stuff is straight up terribad whenever they're not directly adapting something...and even then it's not good Need I remind folks of Half SnH/half Mu Ryu power-up? Yeah that was a thing. Just awful. Also... Nayshall? Nay Shall No Yes Weird.

To clarify https://snk.fandom.com/wiki/The_King_of_Fighters_RemiX This is the series I am talking about. Project '00 is readily available and scanned online various places but "End of NESTs" has been a phantom I've been chasing for YEARS so I'm fairly confident it is not scanned anywhere (though I could be wrong).

Hey all! This might be a little strange but I've come into possession of a reprint copy of King of Fighters RX2001 End of NESTs manhua. I have never been able to find scans of this manhua online anywhere and I believe they might simply not exist. The manhua had an extremely limited release as a convention exclusive and was a follow-up to the RX series (which IS scanned online). I don't want this part of KOF history to disappear. I didn't know if there were any KOF lore/history fans around that might have the access, interest and capability to scan the manhua so as to preserve it. I actually have 2 copies of it so I'm happy to ship one of the copies over so that it can be scanned for more people to have access to and enjoy. If anyone wants to, please just message me and I'll arrange to ship it out.

What a happy fellow Lord Bison is. He must make work so fun with such a positive attitude.

You're making my framing of Juri to put her in a valiant light but it's not at all. I'm not saying she's doing anything for the right reasons...just that she DOES seem to have uncovered something judging by the way she's talking and, previously, in SFV we saw her with her leads on what is going on as well. Even then, the SFV tournament uncovered A LOT of shenanigans beyond just Shadaloo...some of which Juri herself is aware of thanks to Urien, etc...but Chun-Li is totally ignorant to all of this stuff until at least SF3...but now post SF3 Juri still seems to have her finger closer to the pulse of what's going on while Chun-Li seems blissfully oblivious. All I'm really saying is is that there's clearly a lot of evil afoot in the world still and not even Shadaloo was fully dead and buried. Charlie knew not to always trust the judgment of his superiors because of room for corruption or complacency...so I'm not sure Chun-Li should ever go by that. Actually, in fact, Chun-Li saw reanimated zombo-Charlie with her own eyes and THAT should have been worth investigating in and of itself!

I dunno... With Chun-Li and Juri it seems like Chun-Li "got Bison", dusted off her hands and then hurried off to retirement... ...where-as Juri is actually putting in the leg-work to uncover stuff BEHIND Shadaloo and the real facts about the organization. I'm not sure how good that all makes Chun-Li if it plays out like that. It makes Chun-Li look like she was JUST obsessed with revenge against Bison rather than stopping Shadaloo from harming people in general...where-as Juri is doing all the work to ACTUALLY stop Shadaloo and make sure it doesn't come back??

SF5 is written stupidly and vapidly The MK stories have been largely incoherent with their own continuity and characters...and even with their own previous stories.

A reference to the exact Gill-embarrassing defeat I mentioned earlier 🤔

So she's MORE evil now?

I'm putting money on Haggar being alive but Cody dedicated a bunch of stuff to him as testament to what a good mayor he was. Plenty of stuff gets named after people while they're still alive