Ken Masters
Ken Masters from Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike
Game series	Street Fighter series
First game	Street Fighter
In-Universe Information
Birthplace	USA
Blood type	B
Fighting style	Goutetsu-style Ansatsuken learned from Gouken
Likes	Skateboarding and Pasta
Dislikes	Umeboshi (salty pickled ume fruits), Soap Operas
Special skill	Cooking (Pasta boiling)

Ken Masters (ケン・マスターズ, Ken Masters^?) is a video game character created by Capcom. He is one of the main characters from the Street Fighter series of fighting games alongside Ryu. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (600x800, 53 KB) Summary www. ... Street Fighter (commonly abbreviated SF) (ストリートファイター in Japan) is a popular series of fighting games in which the players pit combatants from around the world, each with his or her own special moves, against one another. ... Street Fighter (1987) is the first fighting game in the Street Fighter series. ... It is popularly believed in Japan that a persons ABO blood type or ketsu eki gata is predictive of their personality, character, and compatibility with others. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... Gouken Gouken (剛拳, Gôken, in Japanese, means Strong Fist) was the master of Ryu and Ken in Capcoms Street Fighter fighting game series. ... Umeboshi Umeboshi (梅干, pickled ume) are a type of Japanese pickle. ... Binomial name Prunus mume Siebold & Zucc. ... A video game character is a fictional character appearing in a video game or computer game. ... Capcom ) TYO: 9697 is a leading Japanese developer and publisher of video games. ... Screenshot of Street Fighter (arcade version). ... Screenshot of Kung Fu Master (1984, Irem). ...

Character History

When Ken was about 12 years old, his father, a rich hotel tycoon, thought that his son needed to learn about discipline, lest his son become a spoiled brat all of his life and try to leech onto the Masters family fortune. In order to do so, the elder Masters sent Ken to Japan to train under his best friend, the mysterious karate master Gouken. At first, Ken was very hesitant to learn from Gouken, wanting to go back to the United States, but later began to respect his master. He even enjoyed the company of Gouken's adopted son, Ryu, since he had a foil to finally pull pranks on, although this got Ken into a lot of trouble. lkdsfg;sdgnadfgnbgvbSDBvuisaebgb ew vxc h lvawtws (alternatively spelled spoilt brat in British English) is a child whose parents or other educators systematically fail to teach socially acceptable behavior and discipline eg (antonia is a spoilt brat) // Word history The word brat is recorded in the English language since circa 1505... Gouken Gouken (剛拳, Gôken, in Japanese, means Strong Fist) was the master of Ryu and Ken in Capcoms Street Fighter fighting game series. ... Ryu (リュウ, 隆 in Japanese) is a video game character created by Capcom, and is the protagonist of the majority of the games in the Street Fighter series. ...

When Ryu was 18, Gouken decided that both of his pupils had grown up to be fine fighters and decided that their training was over and could now leave the dojo. Ryu decided to travel the world in order to continue his training, whereas Ken was finally happy to be going back home to the United States after his years of straining his back for master Gouken and finally learning the meaning of humility. After coming home, Ken competed in many different Martial Arts tournaments held in the United States, winning most of them.

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After winning the U.S. martial arts tournament, Ken returned to his training ground to tell his master Gouken the good news, he witnessed his master's death at the hands of Akuma, and tried to fight him, but was defeated. Akuma (demon in Japanese), known in Japan as Gouki (豪鬼, powerful spirit), is a video game character created by Capcom. ...

He began wandering the world in search of Akuma, and his friend and fellow student Ryu. He wanted to tell Ryu what happened to their master and also hoped to win a match against him. Along the way, he fought and defeated Dan, who had unwisely taunted him with copying Saikyo-style moves. He eventually finds Ryu in seclusion. Ryu is dejected upon seeing his long-time friend, but Ken makes him go try out a spar anyway. Over the next few days, Ken realizes how stressed out his best friend is since his fight with Sagat. Ryu explains to Ken that deep within him there is a burning rage. A power trying to overcome him. Giving Ryu his red headband, Ken tells him to stay focused, which greatly cheers Ryu up. Ken returns home and begins training harder. Knowing even with his recent feelings, that Ryu is always stronger than he looks. Dan Hibiki (火引 弾 Hibiki Dan), is a character from Capcoms Street Fighter series of fighting games. ... Sagat (สกัด in Thai) is a boss character from the early editions of Capcoms Street Fighter fighting game series. ...

Ken begins to wonder about his own life. Ryu seemed to be on the right track again, but what of him? Along the way to prove himself again, he encounters Karin who tells him she has followed his career and is trying to best her rival Sakura's to prove she is superior. Ken advises her it's good to have a rival, but not for supremacy, but to keep on training harder and focusing. With this, Ken finds himself again and is focused once more. Going off to meet up with Sakura, they too have a friendly match and Ken finally realizes that Ryu has the right idea all along. Both he and Sakura begin to travel to find Ryu, but find out that he's being brainwashed by the dictator M. Bison. Ken and Sakura both take Bison on together to distract him as Sagat (who had come along to also find Ryu struggling against Bison) took Ryu under control. Ryu eventually came to and slammed Bison away with the help of Ken, then talked to each of his friends — he told Ken to wait for his rematch, noting he still had much to learn. Ken himself promised to train harder. Karin Kanzuki ) is a video game character from the Street Fighter fighting game series. ... Sakura Kasugano (春日野さくら Kasugano Sakura) is a video game character in the Street Fighter series of fighting games. ... Brainwashing, also known as thought reform or re-education, is the application of coercive techniques to change the beliefs or behavior of one or more people usually for political or religious purposes. ... M. Bison (known in Japan as Vega) is one of the primary bosses of the Street Fighter fighting game series. ...

Ken received an invitation to the second Street Fighter tournament, but since his last U.S. Martial Arts tournament, he has let himself spend too much time with his girlfriend and not training. Only when Ryu challenges him rekindles Ken's fighting spirit and causes him to enter the tournament. Ken fought Ryu in the second World Warrior tournament. Because Ken had stated that he would only marry Eliza after winning a decisive fight against Ryu (after Street Fighter II, Ken and Eliza are married), it is widely speculated that he was victorious against his rival.

Ken then entered the third Street Fighter tournament. By this time, a Brazilian teenager named Sean had been pestering him to become his student, and Ken reluctantly accepted, beginning to train him. He fought Sean and won against him in the tournament; having defeated Ryu again, Ken commemorates his victory by beginning to train his son Mel in rudimentary fighting techniques. He also told Sean to go find Ryu and challenge him, giving him some free time with Eliza. Sean Matsuda is a character from Capcoms Street Fighter III fighting game series. ...

Though bored, Ken hears about a mysterious organization and goes to investigate, and may have confronted Urien. He does win his third straight U.S. Martial Arts tournament victory, which is a new record, and offers the trophy to Sean, although his student says he wishes to earn it for himself. He also learned that Ryu had sought him out and traveled all the way to New York from Oakland for their long-awaited rematch. Tossing some friendly jabs at each other, both have a good fight that Ryu wins. Since then, Ken has continued to train Sean and Mel, handle his family and business, and keep up with his old friend Ryu. Urien is a character in the Street Fighter III fighting game series. ... Nickname: Big Apple Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City 1,214. ... Oakland, founded in 1852, is the eighth-largest city in California and the county seat of Alameda County. ...

Differences between Ken and Ryu

In the original Street Fighter, and in the first iteration of Street Fighter II, Ken was identical to Ryu, in terms of gameplay. In later Street Fighter II editions, Ken's character was modified to be a variant of Ryu, using modified versions of Ryu's special attacks, though his animations and other attacks were still very similar to Ryu's, as Ken's sprite is always a head swap of Ryu. In the original version of this game, the only way to effectively have two characters with similar abilities fight each other was to have one player play as Ryu and the other play as Ken. Street Fighter (1987) is the first fighting game in the Street Fighter series. ... Street Fighter II: The World Warrior (1991) was a highly popular and immensely successful fighting game created by Capcom. ... Ryu (リュウ, 隆 in Japanese) is a video game character created by Capcom, and is the protagonist of the majority of the games in the Street Fighter series. ... Street Fighter II: The World Warrior (1991) was a highly popular and immensely successful fighting game created by Capcom. ... Head swapping is the act of removing the head from an animated character and replacing it with a different one. ...

With the advent of "mirror matches" (same character vs.) in Street Fighter II': Champion Edition, Capcom needed to vary the "Uppercut Brothers" playing styles a bit. Ryu was given a stronger, faster Hadouken and a one-hit knockdown Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku, while Ken was given a wider arcing Shoryuken and a multi-hit Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku. In Super Street Fighter II, Ken began deviating from Ryu further being given a multi-hit flaming Shoryuken. In the next SFII installment: Super Street Fighter II Turbo, Ken was given the super combo Shouryuu Reppa (which was simply Ken's Jab and Strong Dragon Punches chained together) and a number of different command kicks, plus a new jumping Forward and a Knee Bash hold. These command kicks would be incorporated as the standard movelist in the Street Fighter Alpha series, but remain commands in all others. The character select screen for Super Street Fighter II. Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers was the penultimate release of a long string of fighting games in the Street Fighter II series. ... A special attack (known also by other names, such as superpowers, hidden skills, secret techniques and the like) is a literary device of fiction, particularly comic books, manga and anime, though this is not universal; videogames, primarily those in the fighting genre, feature these attacks as well. ... The Street Fighter Alpha (Street Fighter Zero outside the USA and Europe) series of fighting games is part of the Street Fighter series by Capcom. ...

Ken mainly focuses on the Shoryuken move, to the point where his Shoryukens set the opponent on fire. Ken's Tatsumaki Senpuu Kyaku does not allow him to dodge projectiles at the start of the spin, but spins faster, allows him to hit his opponent up to five times. Ken's Hadouken attacks are less concentrated than Ryu's, but Ken's Shoryuken is more powerful. To meet Wikipedias quality standards and to make a clear distinction between fact and fiction, this article may require cleanup. ...

Super Arts

By Street Fighter III, Ken has two Shoryuken Super Arts (Shouryuu Reppa and Shinryuken) and Shippu Jinrai Kyaku from the Street Fighter Alpha series although the priority and strength has been altered, and in Street Fighter EX 3, he has a meteor combo (a Level 3 super combo) called Kuzuuryu Reppa, a mix of his other three Super Arts. Kuzuuryu Reppa would be seen again in SVC Chaos: SNK vs. Capcom with it being one of Violent Ken's supers this time. Street Fighter III: New Generation is a fighting game produced by Capcom, released in 1997 on Capcoms CPS-3 hardware, which is a continuation of the famous Street Fighter series. ... The Street Fighter Alpha (Street Fighter Zero outside the USA and Europe) series of fighting games is part of the Street Fighter series by Capcom. ... The title screen for Street Fighter EX. Street Fighter EX is a series of fighting games. ...

Ken's super moves consist of the Shouryuu Reppa (Rising Dragon Whirlwind), in which Ken does two or three Shoryukens; the Shinryuken (Dragon God Fist), a spinning vertical Shoryuken (dedicated to his late master Gouken) that lacks range, but does greater damage and more hits, especially if the kick buttons are pressed rapidly; and the most recent addition to his movelist since Street Fighter Alpha 3 — the Shippuu-Jinrai Kyaku (Hurricane Thunderclap Leg), which Ken does a flurry of kicks before ending with a vertical Tatsumaki Senpuu Kyaku. Gouken Gouken (剛拳, Gôken, in Japanese, means Strong Fist) was the master of Ryu and Ken in Capcoms Street Fighter fighting game series. ...

Actors

While his original voice was a re-use of the Ryu audio samples, beginning with Super Street Fighter II Ken's voice was performed by Kenji Haga, who also did his voice in the Street Fighter II anime movie . Tetsuya Iwanaga did Ken's voice in the Street Fighter Alpha series, and Koji Tobe did Ken's voice in the Street Fighter III games. In other media, Damian Chapa portrayed Ken in the 1994 Street Fighter movie, and by Scott McNeil in the Street Fighter animated series. He was voiced by Kazuya Ichijo in Japanese and Steven Blum in the dub for the Street Fighter Alpha movie. A voice actor (also a voice artist) is a person who provides voices for animated characters (including those in feature films, television series, animated shorts), voice-overs in radio and television commercials, audio dramas, dubbed foreign language films, video games, puppet shows, and amusement rides. ... Tetsuya Iwanaga (岩永 哲哉 Iwanaga Tetsuya, born June 24, 1970) is a seiyū. Currently, as of 2005, Iwanaga is not affiliated with any production. ... The Street Fighter Alpha (Street Fighter Zero outside the USA and Europe) series of fighting games is part of the Street Fighter series by Capcom. ... Damian Chapa (born October 29, 1963 in Dayton, Ohio) is an American actor. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ... Street Fighter is a 1994 movie based on the hugely popular fighting game Street Fighter II by Capcom (though the movie also features characters from Super Street Fighter II). ... Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ... Street Fighter is an American animated television series that was featured on the USA Networks Cartoon Express and Action Extreme Team. ... An animated series or cartoon series is a television series produced by means of animation. ... Kazuya Ichijō (一条和矢, Ichijō Kazuya) is a seiyū who was born on April 11, 1966 in Hyogo. ... Steven Jay Blum (born April 28, 1965) is a voice actor known primarily for his work in anime dubs and video games. ... Street Fighter Alpha (Street Fighter Zero: The Animation in Japan) is a movie based on the popular fighting game, Street Fighter Alpha 2. ...

See also

• Street Fighter
• Marvel vs. Capcom series
• Puzzle Fighter
• SNK vs. series
• Namco x Capcom

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