Drop us a line or two, and cast a vote in the all-decisive poll below. But using character popularity, moveset, overall impact and editor's preference as our guides, we believe we have created a roster guaranteed to fill the Comments with a many a pissed-off, typos-be-damned reaction. It is a tough job to cull through all of the franchise's great World Warriors. The top 25 Street Fighter character countdown continues, with fighters from Street Fighter III, Street Fighter Alpha, and a certain famous face from Super Street Fighter II. He trained the two-man team of Yang and Yun Lee, who'd carry on his gimmick in Street Fighter III. In storyline terms, he's also the direct forefather of another fun split-personality character. Gen swaps back and forth between Crane and Mantis kung fu styles, which gives him a distinctive split personality and opens up lots of opportunities to torture your opponent with juggle combos. He's also an early example of giving a character two distinct movesets, which we'd later see in Tekken and the recent Mortal Kombat revivals. He represents an ever-reliable character type, made famous by dozens of kung fu movies – he's the old, decrepit, seemingly-crippled senior citizen who can still kick your ass blindfolded. Gen is one of the few characters (along with Ryu, Sagat, and…well, the Birdie situation is complicated) who made it out of the original Street Fighter into one of the successful installments in the series. When+he's+done+with+her,+those+cyclists+are+next. He showed up in the console versions of Street Fighter Alpha 3, which reunited the four newcomers from SSFII for the first time. Strangely enough, though, he's made only one return appearance since the Super Street Fighter II games. Fei Long helped begin a long (excuse the pun) string of characters inspired by the kung fu icon – Tekken's Marshal and Forrest Law, the Bryant family from Virtua Fighter, Jann-Lee in Dead or Alive, and a number of others in less famous games. If there's any martial arts star who deserves a videogame homage, though, Bruce Lee is probably the one. If you can't figure out what inspired Fei Long, go to the back of the fanboy class. Then you have characters that are a little bit easier to peg. Guys like Dhalsim, Blanka and/or Necro seem like the accidental products of a sick, fevered imagination. Some Street Fighter characters make you wonder where they came from. Fei Long (Super Street Fighter II)įei+Long+does+his+best+Enter+the+Dragon+impression.