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Naaaah, for it to be even usable they had to "train" it using all sorts of assets without artist's consent. It started with 100+ folks who never agreed to it and blossomed from there. A tool is photoshop, Blender, After Effects, etc. This is not anything close to that. Without being fed it couldn't make anything. There's literally been incidents where artist's mangled signatures appeared in the "new art". They're trying this in the voice acting world too and it's becoming a problem there too.

On the subject of Q, I do hope that he and G aren't totally absent in SF6. With Nakayama and Matsumoto putting a lot of focus on G and still being the same team working on SF6, I hope they address some of the story beats, cause there's a lot of interesting stuff they can do. One thing that gives me hope is that Nakayama's gone on record saying the team is aware of how people are trying to tie G, Q, the G file and other things together and it pleases them, so here's hoping. At the very least, I hope he gets some appearances in world tour mode as a teaser before and potential DLC. I'd love to see what SF6 can do with G or Q from aesthetics to how they'd tweak their designs for new costumes. As a parting thought, tne thing I think some of us can agree on is the theory that Q is Dorai doesn't work. I...just never liked that theory lol

Yup, I pointed out that one of the things that messes with my theory is the blond hair. You got my point wrong about the dates, I'm not talking about ages of Q, or Robert, or David, but more about the timing of when Luke lost his dad vs when Q's been seen. I have no idea when the incident happened, but for the heck of it, let's say Luke was 10 when Robert died. Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Nakayama recently say Luke in SF6 is in his early 20s/ younger than we all thought? If Luke is like 22 in SF 6 and SF 6 is like like 2005, then wouldn't the accident take place around 1993, but SF2 vanilla is '92? My math could be wrong and a lot of this is shakey due to not knowing how far SF3 to SF6 is and how old Luke is, but my point is that I think Q was spotted before the attack. You've got a point about David's age, unless if part of his modification (if he's related to Q) could slow his aging, but this is a HUUUGE bit of speculation on my part with no real grounds to stand on. I' ve mentioned it before, but Gill doesn't know who Q is or even if he feels familiar. He says "Even I, in all my omnipotence, can’t understand… Who are you?” in the Japanese win quotes. G appeared after a Shadow Falls and is gaining popularity over time, Gill unveils himself via his livestream due to his influence and eventually SF3 happens. Q's been confirmed to be the man in Ken's stage in SF2 & Viper's profile states she's looking into him as of SFV. A viewer on one of my videos even said it's possible she was chasing Q, but ran into Urien in the old SIN lab due to the mention of murders, but I dunno. Another issue is that even though the investigation officially kicks off in Q's ending (not sure exactly when it's supposed to take place), Q's been seen randomly for so long that he became an urban legend and public inquiry to the CIA forced Richard Burgman to put out a public statement that they can't confirm or deny "the Trench Coat Man" existing. This was from the old SF3 site. G being Q after getting beat by Gill wouldn't fit with the timeline or the quote. Good point about the heights, I forgot they gave David official measurements in SF5. Ah, got me with the dogtags, I forgot about that for Robert, hah. Still not sure that Luke got training as a kid like Gohan though or had a chance to see his dad fight, though, it's possible that after his death and him joining the armed forces, he looked more into his dad's past and found footage of him fighting? Thing is, I don't know if he was part of the special military martial arts guys like Charlie, Guile, and Luke himself. Not a lot of info has been given on his dad for me to fully discount anything. I hope we learn more about Luke in SF6.

Hey there, welcome to the forums, interesting theory! I don't know if it fully works though. I'm not sure of how old Luke is, but recently Capcom basically confirmed that Q's been around since SF2; Wayne Nakamura's profile quietly confirms the "Q was in Ken's SF2 stage" theory. As a result, I'm not sure if the timeline of Q being present that far back lines up with the terrorist attack that killed Luke's dad. Things get more complicated if we take Oro's Japanese win quote vs Q literally. On one hand it's a reference to the Robo Detective K show from the 70s, on the other, if to be taken seriously, it means that Q's been seen as is 25 years before 3s (1998/1999) In my research, one of the weirder things I've encountered about Q is that there's some inconsistency on his skin colour. Some pictures, like in the one you posted, he looks Caucasian with blond hair, some ambiguously tanned or darker skinned. I actually grabbed the hex values from his sprites and rather than shadows, his skin seems to be darker brown; I discuss this in an old video, but his ending seems to point to there being some implied connection to CIA agent, David Spender: Out of all the 3 agents, David matches Q the most; tall, male, having a white shirt and red tie. David's been described as being laid back & easy going, and he looks it in most of his art, but he gets strangely intense, asking Gillian if they know what his face looks like and, at the start of the conversation, he correctly guesses what her presentation is about to the point she cracks a joke about him being telepathic. Another thing to note is that of all the agents, David is just in the shirt and slacks, no jacket. We never see what order they leave the room, but "someone" gets dressed and it looks like Q passes in front of the projector, but in a more casual way than we typically see him. The main thing that throws a wrench into the Q-David connection is the blond hair in your picture and a few sprites in game. That, plus G's concept art has led me to believe that G has multiple followers or Q's. Q himself though seems to be a special case. Everyone, except for him has a hockey styled mask that they can freely remove, but Q is literally locked into his mask and the dev notes note that there should be a keyhole on one side and described him as seemingly being controlled from behind the scenes. One of my theories is that David may know more than he lets on, or is Clark Kenting and is a Q and Gillian's presentation has him so scared because it means the other Q's are coming after him, or he's learning he's not the only one out there and something's very very wrong. He may have rebelled against G and as a result was punished, locked into the mask, but he escaped. Just my theories, hard to say what they intended with Q back in the 90s vs now and whether anything will be retconned or not. Going back to the connections between Q and Luke part of your post, I don't know if there's something there or a connection, but Luke described his dad as very ordinary except for that one moment. No mention of military service from what I can remember. I think Luke got all his fight training from US armed forces and MMA, with his focus on his dad being ordinary, it doesn't seem like he got any training. Q's high speed slap move looks a bit more sloppy and varied to me. Luke's very much punching energy projectiles horizontally, but Q is swiping wildly and several of his swipes go from low, to medium, to high.

Happy New Year, folks! I hope you're all well! The holidays allowed me to finish little something I had brewing, enjoy!

Hey guys, I'm on break so I'm working on videos again, can anyone tell me where is this image from?

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Awesome, thanks! Did anyone here get in the beta? Curious if any of the newer characters will be available for win quote harvesting.

My hope is that with the way he's set up business(es?) an identity of influence, distinct lack of resemblance to Seth & Abel, and the familiarity with Bison, I hope he's not a Prime Field. I do hope that he's the fellow student, it could be a cool touch to add to Bison (and hopefully Rose's) mythos. It'd be interesting if he was not as strong a student as Bison in terms of raw bural power, but still learned psycho power without falling entirely into its corruption, thus allowing him to have the demonstrated greater variety in usage. I think it could be cool if Oro was aware of JP and saw his unique approach to it and thus found Bison's usage of PS to be disappointing. Bison is great, powerful, and post-human via psycho power; he uses it to fly, teleport, cheat death etc, but it's interesting seeing how JP uses it. He wields it like his staff, a weapon, rather than him essentially being Psycho power incarnate (Bison). It's like JP holds it, but has enough distance from it that he's not burning down with the house, if that makes sense? I feel you can make JP interesting and dangerous without selling him in a way that punks or diminishes Bison (the DBZ/shonen method of the next guy is always more powerful than the last rather than thinking and fighting different/ smarter), but also show the diverting path between the two men. If JP was varied and subtle and built his empire while looking at what worked and didn't work for Bison, it could make for some interesting scenarios.

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Wat. The power of big muscle women drives some to Lovecraft lian madness, I guess lol

Right? I mean it's ridiculous, when they make something for everybody, no one's losing! Capcom's not walking back anything with their designs, no censorship and they're introducing new waifus and given us new takes on returning ones, (hell everyone's got jiggle physics this time around. Adding a muscle lady isn't hurting anyone's fun, they need to chill. Marisa's awesome, I love her and I'm happy Capcom didn't just decide to waifu'ise her. Variety's good.

Ooh! Looking forward to this book!

Could be a possibility, after all, all the info we were going on was from the leak and things change allllll the time during production. Number of reasons why they could have changed course.

Oh snap, that's a really interesting thread! Hey, she could still be a sweetheart that was swayed by the wrong folks or manipulated. One thing that I'm thinking is based on the posters in the first trailer, what if they're secretly recruiting people using different means; appearing as a feel good organization? Gill when public when fighting G, so the world may not know the truth behind them. Marisa may have joined up thinking they're altruistic and is slowly being pushed into the role of a pawn!

Definitely going to use some of Marisa's moves to try and create Q in World Tour since I'm sadly not expecting him anytime soon. ;_;

Interesting points! I have nothing to back this up, but I just had an idea. What if he's a "collector" of sorts. He takes Ken's reputation and ruins it, steals things (precious items and ideals) in the past to build his wealth, but his latest prize is that he's found a way to steal psycho power and he'll rob hope from the world. I'm also trying to figure out his dislike of sleep. I wonder if he's so driven because he's on the clock for something greater, or it's painting his as a workoholic who doesn't like to be away from working for too long? I really wanna know more about him, I'm digging him so far. I made a point on this in Twitter, but I find it interesting how he and Rugal are proud cat daddies in a sense hah. Speaking of cats matbookworm2 points something interesting about Cybele: and

I don't see either of them being villains, especially Marisa. For her, I see her being confident and full of warrior's honour with a semi-hidden softer side when it comes to the arts. Also her being so tall yet afraid of heights is cute. Manon I can see as being confident in her beauty and skills and at worst be a bit condescending, but not evil. I get the vibe that she likes what she does, but isn't super social, but not cruel.

I'm hyped, I'm happy and other than a lack of SF3 reps, I don't have any complaints! Everyone's looking great, I dig the voice cast, and love the moves in action. Also, I'm loving the mini games they're doing to teach people the game!

I think Dan is waaaay too arrogant to hold back. He's stronger than the average joe because of martial arts training and ki manipulation, but he's definitely lower than most of the cast. In SFV in game and from his own pov in arcade mode, he seems to be getting stronger. I think he could eventually find his true strength in being an unconventional and confusing fighter, but for now, he's gonna be everyone's favourite loser. Yeaaaah, crap in a hat did they do a disservice to her in that one. I don't expect anything major, but hopefully there's some light retconning in her story mode that has her do a bit more, but I'm not holding my breath. I'm thinking with all the focus on her this time around with the marketing and her new status as a master, she'll get her dignity back in full.

Ooh awesome, where are these from? Did another event happen?

Yuuuup. In the thread, they were said to have been given the story deets.

@Scotiawith some interesting Ken and overall details:

Aaah, Malibu comics, what a weird, weird SF adaptation. So glad it didn't influence future games or adaptations, cause oof.... On the topic of the early SF3 sketches, I really didn't connect with any of them to be honest. Maybe the big guy with fun mustache or the normal office man could have been fun, but yeah, it feels so different hah.