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@@PapaJoJ dumbest comment ever, if that was true why would tophat even consider guile being the main character? he is not the american audience. but truth is the main characters were ken and ryu , guilie was just another fighter.
@@jkhadem5729 aside from the Street Fighter MOVIE and an entire animated TV SERIES where guile was the LEADER of the street fighter crew, Ryu and Ken were also top billing for the American audience
As an American kid in the 90’s, Guile was never the real main character for my family or my friends. Him being the main character in the movie and show was just the typical kind of inaccuracy we expected from adaptations, like Balrog being a good guy news reporter with Chun Li or Street Fighter being a code name for a group of government agents. Everyone always knew that Ryu and Ken were the main characters.
@@malafakka8530 if that’s what you want to call it, marketing is basically a euphemism for manipulation.. The military and Hollywood work hand in hand and they want to glorify the soldier archetypes for their benefit..
@@NewEdgeDesigns I think that’s true sometimes, but often times the movies just thought they knew better than the source material, didn’t trust the source material, or just plain didn’t care. Like Luigi being way younger and stacheless, Mario being scared of heights, and people turning into actual fungi in the Mario movie
Growing up in the U.S. as a huge SF fan, I never looked at Guile as the main character. I aways thought it was odd that they tried to appeal to "Americanism". Millennials were a different breed; we were practically raised on the lone Japanese/Asian warrior type. So Ryu always had an appeal to us. Oddly enough, Ken was the American character that appealed more to players. He was flashy, cooler, and more accessible as a character.
It was being able to charge both tje flash kick and sonic boom from the same crouching position that did it for me, that combination is a total chun-li breaker
In the 90's, the way fighting games used to work is the main character is... the guy you pick! That's why AOF and Fatal Fury only let you pick 2 and 3 characters respectively, so it is clear who the story protagonists are.
I'm convinced they only did that to be different from SF. Even still, not a whole lot of fighting games went thar route because a variety of playable characters was and always will be preferred.
@willdiesel8431 The Lead Developer of Sf1 went on to produce the SNK Games. It's clear from the SNK Games that Takashi Nishimaya wanted to expand on the storytelling aspect of those games, not realising the 2 Player feature would be the definitive selling point of all fighting games.
We it’s seems the creators of the game did look at it that way with all Film and comic mediums they clearly wanted Guile in the Europe and America, Chung Lee, Ken and ryu for rest. It literally laid out.
It's fun to point all this out. They were pushing him pretty hard. But I was like 10 or 11 when that movie and cartoon came out. As a big fan of the games, I already knew Ryu was the OG. I thought it was super lame that him and Ken had such bit parts in the movie, but I was eating up the Van Damme stuff from the 90s anyway. So it was fine. But I'd argue that Ryu and especially Ken were more for the Western audience who were fetishizing all that martial arts stuff pretty hard. Guile was just another one of those weird amalgamations of stereotypes where you figured that's how Asians saw americans. We were all muscular and we were all soldiers and had big American flag tattoos. I just figured the way that they told the stories in the cartoon and with the toys and stuff it was more clean cut to have the soldier leading the charge against bison and his forces . The Street Fighter 2 movie was rad AF. Thanks for getting us all talking about it🎉
Ironic Capcom came up with charge inputs to be easier for beginners but in reality it turned out harder, and less intuitive, than motion inputs. Just like Modern controls in SF6 turned out to be more convoluted, obtuse, and harder to use than just learning to play the game proper as well.
Guile is iconic, without a doubt. He's not a soldier though (that's the US Army). He's an Airman (since he's a fighter pilot and officer in the US Air Force). It's small but important distinction in the US military. If you call a US Marine a "soldier", you're definitely going to get an earful.
Wow and I thought snobbery and elitism was bad enough in the UK. I'd happily argue with a person like that haha! Talk about a complex! An Air Force pilot is considered a type of soldier, though they serve in a specialized role within the military. While the term "soldier" is typically associated with members of the Army, it can also be used more broadly to describe anyone serving in the armed forces. Air Force pilots are officers or enlisted personnel in the Air Force, and like soldiers in other branches, they undergo rigorous training, follow military protocols, and participate in defense operations. In short, an Air Force pilot is a military service member, but their role is more specific to aviation and air-based missions. A Soldier is a soldier!
Getting a bit geeky, I think that, in the original games at least, Guile had some of the most effective non-special moves in the game. E.g. his double leg sweep, his uppercut and that medium kick where he flips upside. This meant when mastered, you didn't need to overly rely on his special moves.
I remember that cartoon and the live-action movie and I even had the GI joes....... I love Street fighter but we also can't forget all the interesting USA Network action cartoons from that at same time. A couple of which The source material would have been way too adult for kids
Ryu is like Scorpion, he is the poster boy Street Fighter changes the main protagonist in each game In SF1 it was Ryu In SF2, the main protagonists are Guile and Chun-Li In SF3 Alex became the main protagonist.
In SF2 was Ryu and Ken. Didn't you watch the anime movie? Or the anime Street Fighter 2 Victory? Guile was only the protagonist in Hollywood and that lame cartoon adaptation for kids. To be honest every american adaptation of SF2 was terrible. At least the first Mortal Kombat movie was cool but Street Figther with Van Damme? That was trash man and you can ask anybody would say the same.
@betoboyblogs135 Lame? LAME?! No show with this line could possibly be lame! "I killed your father, so what? I killed my father, too, and you don't see me whining about it!" But yeah, the American cartoon wasn't great. Most around that time werent.
There is one commandment for Guile. "In any game, thou shall always have two special moves, no more, no less, just two!" "For compensation you can have 3 supers later"😅😁
You forgot to mention Guile's first crossover appearance as a statue on Rugal's collection of defeated oponents in The King of Fighters 94, the flagship game of Capcom's biggest rival in the 90's, SNK.
The SuperSF2 players hint book leaned very heavily into the "Guile was the best". However, I was NEVER able to make Guile work for me... holding a direction for two seconds before being able to release a single special move...it didn't work well for me...I wanted a character I could spam specials with, not just every two seconds.
Guile Is my favorite fighter, since I was a little kid and I first played Street Fighter 2, he will always be my favorite fighter so to me he is the main character.
Guile was my main in World Warrior, but that was because of the glitches; invisible throw, freeze, third stance, golden stance/untouchable. Loved doing that stuff with him, but the main character is definitely Ryu, from Street Fighter 1 and his counterpart Ken. This was a game ahead of it's time and looking back, I didn't know how good this game really was, to busy enjoying it!
Guile of course is not the main character. But he was super OP as a game character especially in SF2, secret moves etc, which contributes to his rising popurarity as well. I really like his buddy scenes with ChunLi in the SF2 movie as he really cares about her.
When I first came to the game I thought Guile was the main character simply because of the ease of his move set. No one can really do a shoryuken without grinding 😉 so to do a blade kick and a sonic boom fairly simply made him seem like an accessible character for all which made him THE character for me.
I love how in the Streetfighter II Animated Movie, Guile is knocked out without doing much but at the end he's like, "We got our revenge, Chun Li." Anyway, I like how Guile's current "whirlwhind" forearms look like Wamuu - another JoJo character than was basically a more awesome Polnareff before Polnareff.
In the Netflix anime Hi Score Girl, they imply that Guile could be seen as the main character of Street Fighter-since he's the favorite character of the main protagonist, Haruo Yaguchi, who even sees him as a mentor.
I never thought Ryu was the main protagonist. When you watch Street Fighter The Animated Movie, most of it was centred around Guile and Chun Li. Considering the franchise was made by the Japanese to appeal to a Western audience, it makes sense that the main hero is supposed to be the American Top Gun guy. Ryu is a journeyman and pretty much all the fighter's style on the roster were designed around countering his abilities, so it was unlikely that he was supposed to be the top guy. We see this even now, he's stuck right in mid tier with a plethora of characters ahead of him. Guile is still one of the strongest characters in Street Fighter 6 presently. I have a little feeling though that Ryu may receive some significant buffs in the future.
Guile was totally absent in Street Fighter III, core releases of Alpha series, & primary roster of Street Fighter V. And he got a rather dim treatment when it came to the theme track in Street Fighter IV.
i actually always think guile is at least in second game he is main character because just look his ending i mean they made detail more than others (guile holding bison) also more sense to me.
Personally, I've always thought of Guile and Chun-Li to be the dual protagonists of Street Fighter II; they're both the only characters (except T. Hawk and sorta Cammy - but they came later) specifically trying to take down Shadaloo and they both have personal beef with Bison himself. Also, we don't talk about Street Fighter V's story.
Guile also had for a brief moment, some of the best medium combos in the game. But they were nerfed by Charlie's introduction and never heard from again
Believe it or not the main character back in the day was actually Ken. That’s why he gets the woman at the end. Also, Sagat’s scar across the chest was actually given to him by Ken not Ryu.
Each character is supposed to represent a different area/ fighting style, _which makes all of them the main character._ This allowed Capcom to do exactly what you're saying- each country and/or fighting style would have a "main character" that aligned with their preferred demographic. The _real_ main character is Blanka, tho' (as his character and style are both unique). 😁
My cousin called him gully when we were kids. He got mad and demanded I supply a better name. Since I never saw the word before I said, "um... gwee-leh?" So we called him gully until seeing the van Damme movie
I thought only gringos believed Guille was the main character. It was always clear it was Ryu and Ken, they are the first characters in the select screen, they are the ones that have a clear rivality, and Ryu was the defending champion, since he defeated Sagat on the previous tournament. I mean, hadouken was what every kid was trying to imitate, nobody understood what Guille was yelling.
It was the American marketing. Even as kids, we noticed the lineup started with Ryu, but when we had a cartoon and movie starring guile, that was taken as proof.
the qhole context of this video really only makes sense if you didnt grow up playing the games and watching the media as it came out. im also not trying to invalidate the points. I think things were such a mess when they came out the only sense that could be made of the entire thing is in retrospect. i also think that many of us didnt care too much about the actual movie and generally wanted more from it.
Well 1st time I saw Street fighter I remember see Ken and Guile fight , his hair was cool and unique but I think I remember everyone now from the main guys, Ken , Ryu with their fireball and spin kick , E Honda , Chun Li , Dhalsim , Blanka , Dhalsim and E honda were cool with their hand techniques , Blanka scared me !!! Guile sonic boom and the now called flash kick ,there was no name for it then also remember as Street fighter went along they created stories , in the arcade no 1 cared about stories back then we just wanted to play the game , we invented our own names for moves example we called the flash kick "wind mill" Bison move where he stands on your head "tap dance". Over all we didn't care about names of moves or back story we just enjoyed the fun .
Playing the game growing up, I never saw Guile as the main Character. He was definitely the main character in the live action movie, which was really just a cashgrab. But Im sure people in India though Ghalsim was the main Character. Or people in Russia would have thought Zangief was the main Character. The animated movie doesn't portray Guile as the main Character. And is a much better movie.
When i first seen the promo art for SF2 before the game was released in the arcades i knew guile was gonna be my character and i was right. As soon as i got to play the arcade guile was my my favourite. I remember people saying back in the day guile players were feared as we could take out any character without any problems. The manga movie ruined the ending. Guile should have taken on bison and won.
I always thought guile should have been played by Dolph Lundgren and DJ played by Billy Blanks in the movie. But they just wanted Van Damme because he was super popular at the time.
It’s funny how M.Bison in the Japan is Balrog the boxer while M. Bison name in Japan is Vega and Vega name in Japan is Balrog. They change M. Bison in America because they didn’t want Mike Tyson to sue them.
Weirdly, I swear I remember Guile saying "Moon Kick" whilst performing the flash kick. Yet I can find no reference to it. I think I've jumped timelines again 😂
Street Fighter Main Characters Street Fighter - Ryu Street Fighter 2 - Guile Street Fighter 3 - Alex Street Fighter 4 - Abel Street Fighter 5 - Rashid Street Fighter 6 - Ken
Guile was never my idea of the top character of the game, but yeah, in the 90's in the US and Canada, Guile was pushed to be the face of the franchise.
He's not the main trio or even the fourth rail but he's popular enough to get recognized. He's not exactly second tier in terms of ease of play and popularity.
As a kid, I would swear there was a “ . “ after the G in his name. So I would call him General Uile. All my friends thought I was crazy. I thought I’d be vindicated when the movie came out. So when it did and he was rightly named Guile, I was laughed at for weeks 😂😂😂
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I wouldn’t consider anybody a main character of the game. Its more like the Stand. people might argue whether Stu, Nick, or Larry is the lead. But i argue even Lloyd might be a main lead as well…. But yeah, i might consider guile to be a side character.
Guile simply has more space for story that drives everyone else. I mean, Ryu Just fights. He doesn’t lead, holds no mission no grudges, nothing but fighting. Guile is just a better main character. He has a better drive to take down dictators. The perfect foil to Bison. Bison has no care or concern for Ryu, lol
One thing I never understood is why the developers choose to make the sonic boom move different than the hadoken and Dhalsim’s fireballs which were easier to do on your controller, I always hated having to press back then forward plus a punch bottom to do the sonic boom
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Your videos are like Kotaku levels of cringe
I can't believe how much time and effort you put in on a video game character. You need to go home and be a family man. 😁
Guile was never the main character aside from SF the movie. It's always been Ryu from day 1.
Guile would still go on to be one of the main abd recurring characters for the American audience
@@PapaJoJ Shame it wasnt Ken tbh
@@PapaJoJ dumbest comment ever, if that was true why would tophat even consider guile being the main character? he is not the american audience. but truth is the main characters were ken and ryu , guilie was just another fighter.
@@jkhadem5729 aside from the Street Fighter MOVIE and an entire animated TV SERIES where guile was the LEADER of the street fighter crew, Ryu and Ken were also top billing for the American audience
@@PapaJoJ ken was lol not guile
I bet over in India, Dhalsim is the main protagonist
😂😂😂😂
I was bout to mention that
Brazil seems to sure as heck love Blanka.
I don't think that's true, Ken was more popular in a lot of places.
@@beekarinsaan I never understood why. What can be better than to smash your opponent with HADOKEN!
We live in the wrong timeline where Van Damme played Guile and not Johnny Cage.
They dropped the bag not put Van Damme as Cage. Dolph Lundron would have been a better Guile.
never thought about that.
I always thought that too.@chriscranston7189
@@chriscranston7189 Mind fucken blown ...
Phillip Rhee would have been the perfect Liu Kang
As an American kid in the 90’s, Guile was never the real main character for my family or my friends. Him being the main character in the movie and show was just the typical kind of inaccuracy we expected from adaptations, like Balrog being a good guy news reporter with Chun Li or Street Fighter being a code name for a group of government agents. Everyone always knew that Ryu and Ken were the main characters.
It’s not inaccuracies, movies are programming and conditioning…
It’s more about a chosen narrative that brings about a certain societal engineering.
@@NewEdgeDesignsor......just marketing.
@@malafakka8530 if that’s what you want to call it, marketing is basically a euphemism for manipulation..
The military and Hollywood work hand in hand and they want to glorify the soldier archetypes for their benefit..
Balrog biggest Tyson rip off ever
@@NewEdgeDesigns I think that’s true sometimes, but often times the movies just thought they knew better than the source material, didn’t trust the source material, or just plain didn’t care. Like Luigi being way younger and stacheless, Mario being scared of heights, and people turning into actual fungi in the Mario movie
Growing up in the U.S. as a huge SF fan, I never looked at Guile as the main character. I aways thought it was odd that they tried to appeal to "Americanism". Millennials were a different breed; we were practically raised on the lone Japanese/Asian warrior type. So Ryu always had an appeal to us. Oddly enough, Ken was the American character that appealed more to players. He was flashy, cooler, and more accessible as a character.
I'm with you on that!
Guile was always my main... Man idk, there's just something very satisfying about landing a flash-kick.
Sonic boom.....
Same.
Charge characters are awesome
Jean (Fighter's History), Remy (Street Fighter 3), Cycloid Gamma (Street Fighter EX) are my favorite charge characters
It was being able to charge both tje flash kick and sonic boom from the same crouching position that did it for me, that combination is a total chun-li breaker
I did a total overhaul of Guile 's moves for My SF IV AE, which included making Flash Kick unpredictable, by removing the down charge command.
Nah bro… its all about the midair back breaker😎
You can't have Charlie and Guile but you can have Ryu and Ken?
It also doesn't hurt that Guile's theme goes with EVERYTHING! I know it was a meme, but it is actually true.
If you like Guile's theme, I recommend listen to "Travelers" (by T-Square) 🎵
You will love it 😊
It even went with reading your comment!
In the 90's, the way fighting games used to work is the main character is... the guy you pick! That's why AOF and Fatal Fury only let you pick 2 and 3 characters respectively, so it is clear who the story protagonists are.
They even won't let players pick the villains.
I'm convinced they only did that to be different from SF.
Even still, not a whole lot of fighting games went thar route because a variety of playable characters was and always will be preferred.
@willdiesel8431 The Lead Developer of Sf1 went on to produce the SNK Games. It's clear from the SNK Games that Takashi Nishimaya wanted to expand on the storytelling aspect of those games, not realising the 2 Player feature would be the definitive selling point of all fighting games.
@@bruceleeds7988 makes sense as I was aware of the info too. Thanks.
We it’s seems the creators of the game did look at it that way with all
Film and comic mediums they clearly wanted Guile in the Europe and America, Chung Lee, Ken and ryu for rest. It literally laid out.
It's fun to point all this out. They were pushing him pretty hard. But I was like 10 or 11 when that movie and cartoon came out. As a big fan of the games, I already knew Ryu was the OG. I thought it was super lame that him and Ken had such bit parts in the movie, but I was eating up the Van Damme stuff from the 90s anyway. So it was fine. But I'd argue that Ryu and especially Ken were more for the Western audience who were fetishizing all that martial arts stuff pretty hard. Guile was just another one of those weird amalgamations of stereotypes where you figured that's how Asians saw americans. We were all muscular and we were all soldiers and had big American flag tattoos. I just figured the way that they told the stories in the cartoon and with the toys and stuff it was more clean cut to have the soldier leading the charge against bison and his forces . The Street Fighter 2 movie was rad AF. Thanks for getting us all talking about it🎉
I always liked Guile's moveset from the beginning but it was easier for me to do Ryu's moves so that's why he became my favorite.
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To this day I still struggle with charge characters/moves sometimes the input just won't come out for me.
@@DragonWaffleX same
Ironic Capcom came up with charge inputs to be easier for beginners but in reality it turned out harder, and less intuitive, than motion inputs.
Just like Modern controls in SF6 turned out to be more convoluted, obtuse, and harder to use than just learning to play the game proper as well.
Fun fact.
Guile's iconic theme was "inspired" by the song Travelers, made by T-Square in 1984 🎵
Another fun fact - Guile's theme was created by Yoko Shimomura
Haa! 4:08
The tank is Not "ridiculous", I still have mine. The choice to include the brown costume Guile instead of the green was ridiculous.
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Remember when guile's theme went with everything and was once the US natl anthem?
Should def get john cena to play guile live action
nah should have arnie...
in his prime. oh well.
van damme ruined it. he should been ryu. bloodsport the goat.
Guile is iconic, without a doubt. He's not a soldier though (that's the US Army). He's an Airman (since he's a fighter pilot and officer in the US Air Force). It's small but important distinction in the US military. If you call a US Marine a "soldier", you're definitely going to get an earful.
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Wow and I thought snobbery and elitism was bad enough in the UK. I'd happily argue with a person like that haha! Talk about a complex! An Air Force pilot is considered a type of soldier, though they serve in a specialized role within the military. While the term "soldier" is typically associated with members of the Army, it can also be used more broadly to describe anyone serving in the armed forces. Air Force pilots are officers or enlisted personnel in the Air Force, and like soldiers in other branches, they undergo rigorous training, follow military protocols, and participate in defense operations.
In short, an Air Force pilot is a military service member, but their role is more specific to aviation and air-based missions. A Soldier is a soldier!
@@TopHatGamingManChannel I can't believe you even entertained that mess 🤣
They like their special pronouns in the military " I'm a marine not a soldier"
LMAO 🤣🤣🤣
The fact that the default character is lined up on Ryu should tell you who the actual main character always was.
Getting a bit geeky, I think that, in the original games at least, Guile had some of the most effective non-special moves in the game.
E.g. his double leg sweep, his uppercut and that medium kick where he flips upside. This meant when mastered, you didn't need to overly rely on his special moves.
I remember that cartoon and the live-action movie and I even had the GI joes....... I love Street fighter but we also can't forget all the interesting USA Network action cartoons from that at same time. A couple of which The source material would have been way too adult for kids
"Interesting" is certainly one way to describe them...
Too bad Guile did not get a cameo appearance in the Wreck it Ralph CGI movies, that would have been epic.
Bet there's at least one from street fighter in that..or at least a facsimile of someone
@@patrickjorda5523 Was Zangief , Mortal Kombat's Kano got a facsimile
Ryu is like Scorpion, he is the poster boy
Street Fighter changes the main protagonist in each game
In SF1 it was Ryu
In SF2, the main protagonists are Guile and Chun-Li
In SF3 Alex became the main protagonist.
then SF4 it was supposedly Abel
SF5 allegedly it's Rashid
SF6 I guess is now Luke
Amazingly until mk5 (mid 2000s)Liu Kang was the star
In SF2 was Ryu and Ken. Didn't you watch the anime movie? Or the anime Street Fighter 2 Victory?
Guile was only the protagonist in Hollywood and that lame cartoon adaptation for kids.
To be honest every american adaptation of SF2 was terrible. At least the first Mortal Kombat movie was cool but Street Figther with Van Damme? That was trash man and you can ask anybody would say the same.
@@SorcererLance I didn't know that Rashid is supposed to be the protag of SFV, his presence was not that strong.
@betoboyblogs135 Lame? LAME?! No show with this line could possibly be lame!
"I killed your father, so what? I killed my father, too, and you don't see me whining about it!"
But yeah, the American cartoon wasn't great. Most around that time werent.
14:21 YUM!!!
Definitely one of my favorite characters
Whoa! I didnt know Guile was kens brother in law?!?!? *Mind BLOWN!!*
7:47 Rare footage of Guile going home and becoming a family man.
There is one commandment for Guile.
"In any game, thou shall always have two special moves, no more, no less, just two!"
"For compensation you can have 3 supers later"😅😁
He has 3 now lol. The new one is called Sonic Blade
You forgot to mention Guile's first crossover appearance as a statue on Rugal's collection of defeated oponents in The King of Fighters 94, the flagship game of Capcom's biggest rival in the 90's, SNK.
If he wasn't playable, why should it be mentioned?
@@willdiesel8431it's a viable Easter Egg that they recognize Guile instead of Ryu
The SuperSF2 players hint book leaned very heavily into the "Guile was the best". However, I was NEVER able to make Guile work for me... holding a direction for two seconds before being able to release a single special move...it didn't work well for me...I wanted a character I could spam specials with, not just every two seconds.
Guile Is my favorite fighter, since I was a little kid and I first played Street Fighter 2, he will always be my favorite fighter so to me he is the main character.
6:46…. That throw lol
The Magic Throw 😁
Invisible throw
I’ll be honest, when I first played this game in the arcades back in 91, I always thought Guile was the main character until after the 2000s.
I legit thought Abel was Charlie wen SF4 came out 😅😅😅
Guile was my main in World Warrior, but that was because of the glitches; invisible throw, freeze, third stance, golden stance/untouchable. Loved doing that stuff with him, but the main character is definitely Ryu, from Street Fighter 1 and his counterpart Ken. This was a game ahead of it's time and looking back, I didn't know how good this game really was, to busy enjoying it!
Guile of course is not the main character. But he was super OP as a game character especially in SF2, secret moves etc, which contributes to his rising popurarity as well. I really like his buddy scenes with ChunLi in the SF2 movie as he really cares about her.
Big Daddy Top Hat still making great content. Thanks!
This music really does go with everything.
Guile has been the main since SF2 as it should be. His story made more sense than anyone's in my opinion.
When I first came to the game I thought Guile was the main character simply because of the ease of his move set. No one can really do a shoryuken without grinding 😉 so to do a blade kick and a sonic boom fairly simply made him seem like an accessible character for all which made him THE character for me.
Guile was only the main character in the Street Fighter movie & cartoon on USA channel, Ryu was the main character in Street Fighter game Franchise
4:01 "What's a Dhalsim?"
*SMACK!*
"OH!"
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I love that commercial
3:28 Ryu's from wish.
I love how in the Streetfighter II Animated Movie, Guile is knocked out without doing much but at the end he's like, "We got our revenge, Chun Li."
Anyway, I like how Guile's current "whirlwhind" forearms look like Wamuu - another JoJo character than was basically a more awesome Polnareff before Polnareff.
In the Netflix anime Hi Score Girl, they imply that Guile could be seen as the main character of Street Fighter-since he's the favorite character of the main protagonist, Haruo Yaguchi, who even sees him as a mentor.
As a Guile main back in the day. YES!!!!
Guile clearly has a future in pro wrestling (along with several other memorable Street Fighter 2 characters)
One of the best characters. His stage and music are epic!
I never thought Ryu was the main protagonist.
When you watch Street Fighter The Animated Movie, most of it was centred around Guile and Chun Li.
Considering the franchise was made by the Japanese to appeal to a Western audience, it makes sense that the main hero is supposed to be the American Top Gun guy.
Ryu is a journeyman and pretty much all the fighter's style on the roster were designed around countering his abilities, so it was unlikely that he was supposed to be the top guy.
We see this even now, he's stuck right in mid tier with a plethora of characters ahead of him.
Guile is still one of the strongest characters in Street Fighter 6 presently.
I have a little feeling though that Ryu may receive some significant buffs in the future.
Guile was totally absent in Street Fighter III, core releases of Alpha series, & primary roster of Street Fighter V. And he got a rather dim treatment when it came to the theme track in Street Fighter IV.
Subtitles at 13:47 say "Sin's plans have been farted" - reminded me of Officer Crabtree from 'allo 'allo.
When I was in the military, I found a Guile figure key chain. Sadly, I lost it about a month later. I guess he wanted to stay in the military.
i actually always think guile is at least in second game he is main character because just look his ending i mean they made detail more than others (guile holding bison) also more sense to me.
Guile theme is best theme
Personally, I've always thought of Guile and Chun-Li to be the dual protagonists of Street Fighter II; they're both the only characters (except T. Hawk and sorta Cammy - but they came later) specifically trying to take down Shadaloo and they both have personal beef with Bison himself.
Also, we don't talk about Street Fighter V's story.
Thumbnail Guile with eyebrows is terrifying, lol.
Street Fighter is Ryu
And although guile was always a main character
I thought it was obvious that the primary main character has been Ryu from day 1
1:54 look at Little Daddy TopHat!!! Awesome.
Guile also had for a brief moment, some of the best medium combos in the game. But they were nerfed by Charlie's introduction and never heard from again
I've played street fighter....but I never had the tee shirt....but I was a guile man myself when I played
He was definitely my favorite. Always used him, and Blanka.
Sorry not sorry, I made my favorite character Ken Masters a long time ago!
Believe it or not the main character back in the day was actually Ken. That’s why he gets the woman at the end. Also, Sagat’s scar across the chest was actually given to him by Ken not Ryu.
Each character is supposed to represent a different area/ fighting style, _which makes all of them the main character._ This allowed Capcom to do exactly what you're saying- each country and/or fighting style would have a "main character" that aligned with their preferred demographic. The _real_ main character is Blanka, tho' (as his character and style are both unique). 😁
Many people from Asia in the past always pronounced his name as Goo Lee cos they could not say his name properly.
My cousin called him gully when we were kids. He got mad and demanded I supply a better name. Since I never saw the word before I said, "um... gwee-leh?" So we called him gully until seeing the van Damme movie
I thought only gringos believed Guille was the main character. It was always clear it was Ryu and Ken, they are the first characters in the select screen, they are the ones that have a clear rivality, and Ryu was the defending champion, since he defeated Sagat on the previous tournament.
I mean, hadouken was what every kid was trying to imitate, nobody understood what Guille was yelling.
It was the American marketing. Even as kids, we noticed the lineup started with Ryu, but when we had a cartoon and movie starring guile, that was taken as proof.
the qhole context of this video really only makes sense if you didnt grow up playing the games and watching the media as it came out. im also not trying to invalidate the points. I think things were such a mess when they came out the only sense that could be made of the entire thing is in retrospect. i also think that many of us didnt care too much about the actual movie and generally wanted more from it.
Guile isn’t a pilot.
He’s a JTAC/TACP Officer.
(Special Operations)
English for civilians please. Also, the animated movie had him disembarking a jet
Well 1st time I saw Street fighter I remember see Ken and Guile fight , his hair was cool and unique but I think I remember everyone now from the main guys, Ken , Ryu with their fireball and spin kick , E Honda , Chun Li , Dhalsim , Blanka , Dhalsim and E honda were cool with their hand techniques , Blanka scared me !!! Guile sonic boom and the now called flash kick ,there was no name for it then also remember as Street fighter went along they created stories , in the arcade no 1 cared about stories back then we just wanted to play the game , we invented our own names for moves example we called the flash kick "wind mill" Bison move where he stands on your head "tap dance". Over all we didn't care about names of moves or back story we just enjoyed the fun .
Nice going down memory lane!!
Always been more of Ryu/Ken guy, but Guile would be next up for me. A very pivotal character in the series.
New SF movie with Channing Tatum as Guiale, Bas Rutten as Sagot, and Mike Tyson as Bolrog. Maybe Robert Downey Jr as M. Myson
Playing the game growing up, I never saw Guile as the main Character. He was definitely the main character in the live action movie, which was really just a cashgrab. But Im sure people in India though Ghalsim was the main Character. Or people in Russia would have thought Zangief was the main Character.
The animated movie doesn't portray Guile as the main Character. And is a much better movie.
When i first seen the promo art for SF2 before the game was released in the arcades i knew guile was gonna be my character and i was right. As soon as i got to play the arcade guile was my my favourite. I remember people saying back in the day guile players were feared as we could take out any character without any problems. The manga movie ruined the ending. Guile should have taken on bison and won.
I still can't do his sonic boom move. Crazy part is he's my favorite character. 😂
The reason why America shows guile to be the main character in the game and in half of the media we had is because he was the most popular
I always thought guile should have been played by Dolph Lundgren and DJ played by Billy Blanks in the movie. But they just wanted Van Damme because he was super popular at the time.
It’s funny how M.Bison in the Japan is Balrog the boxer while M. Bison name in Japan is Vega and Vega name in Japan is Balrog. They change M. Bison in America because they didn’t want Mike Tyson to sue them.
Guile is my favourite SF Charakter since his Debut in the OG SFII and he ever will be.
Weirdly, I swear I remember Guile saying "Moon Kick" whilst performing the flash kick.
Yet I can find no reference to it.
I think I've jumped timelines again 😂
Street Fighter Main Characters
Street Fighter - Ryu
Street Fighter 2 - Guile
Street Fighter 3 - Alex
Street Fighter 4 - Abel
Street Fighter 5 - Rashid
Street Fighter 6 - Ken
Who remember skullo ... His moves where broken if you knew how to use him he was very hard to beat
yes. I prefer to believe he is the main character.
Used to think Guile was main guy growing up
Same, but as a kid I thought street fighter was American, and mortal kombat was made in japan
Sonic Boom.... Flash Kick!!
If I get a steam deck I can download marvel vs Capcom and play it on the plane without wifi?
Three main characters. C li guile and ryu.
I always thought soo myself. The three are the main characters. Ryu Guile and Ken.
@lisaroberts8556 Ken really didn't have a major story. Just a rich married dude trophy wife trying to prove himself to Ryu others and himself.
Hashtag not my main
Guile was never my idea of the top character of the game, but yeah, in the 90's in the US and Canada, Guile was pushed to be the face of the franchise.
Guile looks like bodybuilder but also less popular
He's not the main trio or even the fourth rail but he's popular enough to get recognized. He's not exactly second tier in terms of ease of play and popularity.
@@willdiesel8431 just military buff guy
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It’s the hair that stands out the most.
For me Ryu is the face of Street Fighter game. But Guile has something in his iconic design to be the main protagonists of this franchise.
As we learned from the sequel game "Street Fighter 2010", the ultimate victor of Street Fighter is Ken, who is the true main character.
As a kid, I would swear there was a “ . “ after the G in his name. So I would call him General Uile. All my friends thought I was crazy. I thought I’d be vindicated when the movie came out. So when it did and he was rightly named Guile, I was laughed at for weeks 😂😂😂
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6:45 no one really talks about his invisible throw in early versions of SF2
I wouldn’t consider anybody a main character of the game. Its more like the Stand. people might argue whether Stu, Nick, or Larry is the lead. But i argue even Lloyd might be a main lead as well…. But yeah, i might consider guile to be a side character.
Yes I thought everyone knew that. Ryu is a side character.
El Guille: SONIDO BOOM!!!!
Latin America fans will get the reference 😁
IN PAKISTAN WE NOT EVEN THINKS FOR PLAYNG WITH GUILE AS WE CALLED HIM MALIKO
Guile simply has more space for story that drives everyone else. I mean, Ryu Just fights. He doesn’t lead, holds no mission no grudges, nothing but fighting.
Guile is just a better main character. He has a better drive to take down dictators. The perfect foil to Bison. Bison has no care or concern for Ryu, lol
I feel there’s some credence to this claim when I was I child in the 90’s all I wanted was a flat top haircut like guile 😅
One thing I never understood is why the developers choose to make the sonic boom move different than the hadoken and Dhalsim’s fireballs which were easier to do on your controller, I always hated having to press back then forward plus a punch bottom to do the sonic boom
It's called playstyles and variation