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Is he really 3/4 Japanese and 1/4 American? Is he not a pure American Kung-Fu mania?

  • Capcom's official biography for Ken states this. It also states that he is not a real blond, but instead dyes his hair. --Mitsukai 18:25, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
    • Well, many fans will be disappointed. Because they believe that Ken is a pure American Karate master, like Bruce Wayne. Thanks for replying, Mitsukai.

You do know that Ken is more then half Japanese right? Newborns get more of their chromosomes from the mother. It's a scientific fact. Talking about birth has to do with science, not math. In blood he is more Japanese but in region he is American. Even if he wasn't born in America he would still be American because of his father being born in USA. So yeah. Violent-Ken-Masters 05:32, 5 October 2006

  • It's a pity he is not a pure American. I thought he was inspired by some American martial artist such as Chuck Norris when I first saw SFII. But his Japanese origin was already set in SFI, 1987. --Mato Rei 12:41, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Removed a conjectural line from the article: "Ken's Tatsumakisenpukyaku didn't knock you out and even though it does a lot of hits, you're still hanging in there." --Mitsukai 18:25, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

From SSF2T onwards, Ken's basics as well as specials differ from Ryu's (a simple example's the different overheads, though Ken has a different set of kicks and Ryu has a hop-kick in the Alpha series)

  • Come on, people, learn to count: if Ken's father is white and his mother is full-blood Japanese, that makes him half-white, half-Japanese. If he's "3/4 Japanese and 1/4 American", that would mean that his father is half-Japanese and half-white. Someone find some consensus on this, please.--Mitsukai 12:27, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
    • isnt ken 3/4 american and 1/4 japanese? because he was born in the USA and in Street Fighter II V it said his father is white american and his mother is japanese --Dick Grayson
      • That would make him half-Japanese, half-Caucasian, not 3/4-1/4. We need to find out if he is 1/2 asian, 1/2 caucasian, or 3/4 Japanese, 1/4 caucasian (which would mean his father is half-half).--Mitsukai 02:39, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

Hey Mitsukai, do you have a link to the offical biography? Or did you get the info from a game booklet? I know it sounds lame but I like reading about the history of characters in fighting games so I was wondering if you have that link? I've searched for it but haven't been able to find it. If you are talking about the book "All about Capcom" from Studio Bent Stuff I don't think it is official. That company does these kind of books for a whole bunch of different games from a bunch of different companies. Their info sometimes has conflicts with later releases of games, as far as I can remember.

To the people who are making move lists:

Take a look at Misplaced Pages:What Misplaced Pages is not. Misplaced Pages is not an instruction manual.

While Misplaced Pages has descriptions of people, places, and things, Misplaced Pages articles should not include instruction - advice (legal, medical, or otherwise), suggestions, or contain "how-to"s. This includes tutorials, walk-throughs, instruction manuals, and recipes.

See? Explain to me why move lists don't fall under that category. If you can't, it's gone. --Yar Kramer 04:10, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

  • I get your point, and the moves have been removed. It is nice to see that someone is interested in actively maintaining these pages, it's just unfortunate that your attitude sucks. This whole issue could have been handle much more diplomaticly and politely on your part, but it doesn't matter now since I concede. Just remember that you don't _own_ this page or any other on Misplaced Pages. Thank you. Plotor 01:21, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
Yeah ... y'know what, sorry about that. I tend to have an attitude problem, sometimes, especially since I'm dealing with people who don't know me. I guess I was set off by that "DO NOT REMOVE!" comment on reverting my previous removal, which seemed to me to be even worse than that. --Yar Kramer 01:55, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
Apology accepted.Plotor 03:06, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

Speed vs. power

Ken is stronger and slower than Ryu. This is the truth. There are no games where Ken is faster than Ryu. Please ensure that there is no misinformation suggesting the contrary. Nawara Ven 03:23, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

  • It's a little more complicated than that. It's true that most of Ken's moves come out slower than Ryu's, but he is commonly thought of as faster because his playstyle is commonly geared towards showy players, whereas Ryu players are encouraged to play in a solid, by-the-numbers style. Danny Lilithborne 04:20, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
So that makes him "showy", not "fast". Nawara Ven 13:40, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
It doesn't matter ethier way. Inputting information such as "he's faster, he's stronger" is on the edge of biased. If it must be inputted, write it in statistical terms in wikibooks. Futhurmore, theres no sources to verify these facts. And if there's no source its classified as a violation of neutral point of view. This is not the type of information wikipedia is for. -Zero 14:18, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Biased? I can see where it might be looked at as a "I like how Ryu can dodge bullets in the Alpha movie", so I appreciate your concern! However, it's just plain fact. There's no opinion in it. Saying it's biased is like suggesting it's biased to say that a cheetah is faster than a rhino. One is just faster than the other. Would it be more suitable to say "in every Street Fighter game after the original Street Fighter it takes less time for Ryu to complete a punch than Ken"? The source to verify the facts are the games. Any of them, other than SF1. Go into 2p mode, chose Ken with one player, Ryu with the other. Press hard punch on both joysticks at the same time. Ryu will finish punching sooner. Ken, on the other hand, will do more damage. I didn't think this needed more explanation than that. I figured this was common knowledge to anyone who's been playing Street Fighter. I would hate for someone new to the series to be confused, though; these folks should be the primary audience of this entry. Nawara Ven 15:16, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

  • I am unfamiliar with framedata for normal moves and the like, but I will say this much - Ryu definitely throws his fireballs faster than Ken, and has less recovery time than him, ever since Champion Edition. Danny Lilithborne 07:58, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
  • From what I've tested, it seems like either Ken is faster and Ryu is stronger or they're the same speed and strength in terms of basic moves. In terms of special moves however, Ryu's Hurricane Kick hits once and does a fair amount of damage while Ken's seemed to spin faster, hit more yet end in the same amount of damage as Ryu's one hit. Ken's Shoryuken was faster and hit harder than Ryu's, but Ryu's fireball was a lot faster than Ken's and either did the same amount of damage or more. The games I tested this all were Street Fighter II Turbo, Super Street Fighter II, Hyper Street Fighter II, Street Fighter III, Street Fighter III 2nd Impact, Street Fighter III 3rd Strike, Street Fighter Alpha 2, Street Fighter Alpha 3, Marvel vs. Capcom, Marvel vs. Capcom 2, Capcom vs. SNK, Capcom vs. SNK 2, and SVC Chaos: SNK vs. Capcom. -Chan Tanaka


  • Well there has to be some reason why Ken is considered a rushdown character ... *
  • In SF II Turbo and on, Ken's jab dragon punch is safe from sweeps, throws and most other follow-ups when blocked because the recovery time is much better than Ryu's. This allows Ken players to trap opponents in the corner with DP's and throws. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.85.197.69 (talk) 01:45, 4 March 2007 (UTC).

"Ken" in Street Fighter 2010

I don't believe this is worth mentioning for a number of reasons:

  • The primary reason is that the games are not related at all. It's not called Street Fighter anything in Japanese.
  • Beyond that, the tenuous connection that Capcom USA made was not based on any sort of conjecture, but as a mere attempt to get people to buy the game by slapping "Street Fighter" onto it and calling the main character "Ken".
  • Even now that Capcom USA has control of SF canon, they're not mentioning this; actually, the "future SF" timeline is supposed to be Captain Commando according to them.
  • Not many people remember the (very old) NES game in modern times.

Because of these reasons, I don't even think it merits a mention in the Ken Masters article, although I'm willing to give a passing "The Ken of the NES game is not related to this Ken at all" in the trivia section a chance. Danny Lilithborne 00:49, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Fighting Style?

Is his fighting style really "Goutetsu-style Ansatsuken learned from Gouken" isn't it just "Ansatsuken learned from Gouken" or "Gouken style Ansatsuken" ?? Didn't Gouken reject Goutetsus violent style?? Aeneiden-Rex 14:36, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Kobra

Why Ken Masters was the original name for Kobra in MK: Deception?

Ken Masters' height

Isn't Ken 178cm tall? I played Street Fighter VI in www.everyvideogame.com and there was written that Ken's height is 178cm and also American sources say that Ken is 5'10" tall. There are two different versions of Street Fighter, The American version and the Japanese Verison. And the American version tells that Ken Masters is 178cm tall.

Infobox

Could somebody tell me why this infobox and the Ryu one have been changed to a CVG one, whereas all the others are still Streetfighter ones? I must say, I liked the other one with height and weight. Cheers.DavyJonesLocker 12:07, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

It's been replaced with the new infobox so we can have a unified appearance and always have the fields for certain important real-world facts, and the Street Fighter sub-box doesn't have the ridiculous trivia (gender? Height? Weight?) because it's unverifiable and wholly unencyclopedic. The reason that only a few characters have it is because I'm the only one converting infoboxes, and it's a very tedious job so I don't spend a lot of time doing it. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 14:26, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

It's probably too late now you've changed the lot of them, but I'm a bit disappointed that doesn't have the stats. And birthdate's gone too. DavyJonesLocker 13:38, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

I ditched the inane biographical information which isn't even consistent in "official" sources, is almost always added to the article completely unsourced, and just plain doesn't have a place in an encyclopedia. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 16:20, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Fancruft?

This article is nothing more than a glorified fictional biography of Ken Masters than an actual encyclopedic article about him as a video game character. It doesn't elaborate on his evolution as a second-player version of Ryu to a character in his own right besides a brief paragraph. It doesn't even bother mentioning how he attained the surname Masters. Then again, you can say the same thing about every Street Fighter article, but still. Jonny2x4 21:37, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

  • I agree; you can add those things, although I'm not sure what kind of sources you can get for Ken's evolution as a character. Danny Lilithborne 21:38, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
    • The main problem with these Street Fighter articles (and most fighting game articles in general) is that they concentrate too much on the character's backstories than their actual playing style. If we ask ourselves honestly, do people really play Street Fighter for its plot? For example, just because his Street Fighter Alpha backstory established that Ken did not participate in the Street Fighter 1 tournament doesn't change the fact that he's still a playable character in the game. They also ignore how the character came to be created. The idea for Evil Ryu came from a Street Fighter Alpha manga, but no one would know that if we follow an in-universe perspective because the manga is non-canon

      Here's how I propose Ken's article.
      • His introduction in SF1 as the Player 2 version of Ryu.
      • His appearance in the SF2 series as a selectable character and how his fighting style began to deviate from Ryu.
      • His role in the Street Fighter Alpha and 3 games, and any influences from other media.
    • It's not that hard to construct a decent article about Ken Masters.Jonny2x4 02:53, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
      • I hear you, but I think there should be a balance between the two. Misplaced Pages is not GameFAQs, either, and articles really shouldn't devote entire sections to the difference between Ken's Hadoukens in different SF games (to use an over-the-top example). (I don't have time to expound too much right now, but let's keep talking.) Danny Lilithborne 03:48, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
        • I'm not suggesting to go that far. His backstory is still important, but it's there to supplement the game, not to override it. At the very least, it should mention how Ken's fighting style began favoring Shoryuken-based super moves (like the ShoryuReppa) in constrast to Ryu, who favors Hadoken-based super moves (like the Shinku Hadoken). Jonny2x4 20:07, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Ken Parodies?

Should there be a section for Ken parodies? I can think of a scene in Jackie Chan's City Hunter where apon falling into a Street Fighter 2 arcade machine, Jackie imagines the villain's blonde long-haired henchmen as Ken complete with SF2 theme music. I'm sure for such a recognisable character there are more. Or would this just be wasting space? CSkankRabbit 17:52, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Article's Name

Why is this article called "Ken (Street Fighter)" and not "Ken Masters"? I'm pretty sure it's Misplaced Pages policy to have the person's full name as the article name if it's known, and also to try to avoid names with brackets in them. RAGE! 12:18, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

    • Ask User:Mr.bonus. JuJube 12:44, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
    • Misplaced Pages also prefers using a person's, or more precisely in this case, a character's more common name. Virtually everyone in the series are more commonly referred by a single name, even those that do have full names like Ken and Sakura. Not even the instruction manuals bother referring to the characters by their full name. Jonny2x4
      • On the contrary it is my understanding Misplaced Pages would prefer a first name (abbreviated to the most common abreviation) and a surname for article names, and middle initial if commonly used. The hero of the Evil Dead series is never refered to in-series as Ash, but his official article here is Ash Williams. The characters of Final Fantasy are seldom mentioned with their surnames in game, many not at all, but all have their surnames present in their articles, common or not. For encyclopedic accuracy for such characters, a full name should be given if at all possible.--Kung Fu Man 05:03, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
      • Jonny2x4 is right. That is my argument also. Articles with full names are wrong - I never knew Ash Williams was his name as I have never sat through an Evil Dead film. So why is the article title giving me extra information? The article should be titled Ash (Evil Dead) or something similar. If someone was talking about good film characters, they wouldn't say "I like Ash Williams", they would probably say "I like Ash from Evil Dead". Using less common names as article titles is silly. Mr.bonus 17:51, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
        • You managed to miss my point by about a mile. It's not encyclopedic: if it bothers you that much not to have a characters common first name and given surname in the title of an article. This has to do also with the fact that the title of an article should be the exact name given: stuff like "Ken (Street Fighter)" or "Ash (Evil Dead)" should only be used when there is no surname given at all. If you've really got a problem with this, feel free to hit every fictional character on this site and change it up. Come on back here when you're done.

Of course, that wouldn't be common sense. Nor is this here matching up to the standards set by the rest of wikipedia in terms of fictional articles.--Kung Fu Man 01:56, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

  • I don't care how many artiles have full names as titles. It is ridiculous to try and give extra information in article titles. The article titles should always be the name people know them by and not their full name. I suppose if there were two Tom Cruise's, instead of having Tom Cruise (actor), you would prefer Tom Cruise Mapother IV because apparently parenthesis should only be used as a last resort. Ridiculous. They should be used when it's right - ie - to basically say Ken from Street Fighter which is what everyone in the world refers to him as. Mr.bonus 15:28, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Ken's Name

Why does this article not mention the origin of Ken's last name, whereas Ken Carson does? Kouban 18:00, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

  • That information doesn't have an independent source. JuJube 22:05, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
    • Unfortunately, I don't think anyone *will* find a primary source for that, unless they actually asked Capcom.

Something else which I think merits inclusion is the fact that Ken's theme music opens with a hook virtually identical to Cheap Trick's Mighty Wings. Kouban 19:30, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

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