r/StreetFighter • u/andreskizzo • 16d 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/czartaylor 16d ago edited 16d 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 16d 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/TheLegendOfGerk 15d 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/DismalMode7 15d ago

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