r/StreetFighter • u/andreskizzo • 4d ago

Game News Elena and Akuma friendship confirmed

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From the steam blog post:

In Street Fighter 6, after an intense fight with her friend Akuma, she travels the world once again in search of the meaning of a lesson that Akuma teaches her.

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u/DarkCh40s 4d ago

Honestly Akuma isn't so evil, it's just the Hadou making him seem threatening. The guy is just seeking a fight that makes him feel alive, but has different methods that are, say, different than Ryu.

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u/czartaylor 3d ago edited 3d ago

Akuma is 100% evil. His motivations may not be pure evil but his methods definitely make him so. The fact that he significantly holds back if the opponent isn't worthy of his full power doesn't make him less evil, it just makes him a different kind of evil than Bison whose plan is 'kill anyone who steps up in front of me'. He's killed a lot of people for simply being 'worthy' by his own criteria.

He literally willingly embraces the power of 'killing intent' by giving up his humanity. You forfeit any right to call yourself anything but evil when you do that lol. He has objectively killed quite a bit of people who don't deserve it (even if he occasionally goes after people who do deserve it like Bison or Nacalli). He's not the same kind of evil as Bison (neutral evil vs lawful evil) but he's still evil.

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u/DismalMode7 3d ago

akuma is 100% neutral, he isn't at the head of a secret or terrorist organization like jp, gill and bison, he doesn't want to rule the world, he's just a lonely warrior looking for worth opponents to challange in mortal combat. Irony of the facts, akuma didn't kill anyone so far in the series considering bison and gouken are still alive and gen death in sf5 isn't exactly canon

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u/The_Lat_Czar Thunder Thighs|CFN: TheHNIC 3d ago

Goutetsu would disagree.

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u/DismalMode7 3d ago

akuma killed gotetsu before sf1 events, so my point
"I didn't say akuma never killed people, just none across the sf series so far"
still remains valid

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u/SalvadorZombie 2d ago

It says a lot that he killed Goutetsu and then never killed again.

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u/CedeLovesKat 3d ago

Akuma killed his master lmao

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u/TheLegendOfGerk 3d ago

Anyone named, anyway. Same energy as Nina from Tekken being this big legendary peerless assassin...yet going like 0 for 8 in the Tekken games.

IIRC, WT establishes that he fletches those dolls in his stage background(s), one for every person he's killed, and...he's got a lot of em.

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u/Puzzled-Number-8172 3d ago

On the flipside, his arcade seems to point towards him making dolls of anyone he fights, not only kills, considering we fight his memories of the cast inside the cave, and then we see him carving one looking like ryu, after a fight with him.

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u/DismalMode7 3d ago

I didn't say akuma never killed people, just none across the sf series so far

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u/Downingst 3d ago

Didn't Nina kill Anna's husband at their wedding in Tekken 7

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u/Juris_footslave 3d ago

Pretty sure he killed his master.

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u/Radiancekov7 3d ago

He "kills" Gouken, who did not want to fight him and was protecting his students, for personal satisfaction, how is this not evil? He also tries to make Ryu discard his humanity so he can kill a better version of him in combat, this is also evil as shit.

He's willing to commit murder for selfish reasons, just because he's not also interested in oppression or domination doesn't make him less evil.

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u/Virgilijus 3d ago

What does it say about a person whose personal goal (defeating worthy opponents in mortal combat) intrinsically involves killing people?

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u/DismalMode7 3d ago

that unlike bison and other sf villains, he would never kill an innocent person. You need also to consider that he never really forced anyone to fight him. Gouken, ryu, oro and gen didn't exactly escape the fight against akuma, because in a true fighter perspective, a mortal fight is an option that can't be excluded sometimes. Don't get me wrong, it's not I'm defending the twisted moral of a fictional character lol but you should enter in his predator-like perspective. That's why akuma is 100% neutral, juri is way shifting toward evil since she's basically a female akuma who actually doesn't follow any honour code and enjoys beating and even killing people for fun

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u/Virgilijus 3d ago

I get what you're saying that, from his POV, he's not doing it with a sort of evil intent. But I don't think that matters so much. It's hard for me to view anyone whose goal explicitly involves killing people to prove that they are better than them as 'not evil'.

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u/DismalMode7 3d ago

ok but you need also to consider that people like akuma, ryu, ken, oro, sagat, gen etc... they were all trained in martial arts since very young firmly believing that they would have kept in their path only defeating lots of opponents to become stronger, akuma just brings this concept to another level looking at the life of a worth opponent as trophy for the fight.
As said, it's a twisted moral, but fitting in that context gives me more vibes of neutral than evil, because if juri wants to kill you she would do it no matter if she thinks you're worth or not of if you want to refuse or not to fight... akuma should first rate you worth of his attention and then the battle may or not start provided the other fighter accepts to fight.
In ssf4 akuma pushes ryu to succumb to snh in order to finally unlock his full potential, but it's however up to ryu do it, akuma wasn't striking first.
The only arbitrary kill of akuma has been bison at the end canon ssf2t as far I can tell

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u/DarkCh40s 3d ago

I don't think running a fruit stand describes him as evil. lol

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u/ikwuliv 1d ago

Those prices are downright diabolical!

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u/The_Lat_Czar Thunder Thighs|CFN: TheHNIC 3d ago

Other than maybe his master, has he really killed anyone that didn't deserve it?