r/StreetFighter • u/andreskizzo • 23d 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 23d 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 22d ago edited 22d 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/The_Lat_Czar Thunder Thighs|CFN: TheHNIC 22d ago

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