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Courtesy of @owoshabae: Shego from Kim Possible has a Ryu Number of 2.

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Kahl from warframe

Kahl-175 has a Limited Ryu Number of 3.

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Courtesy of @owoshabae: Frederick Douglass has a Ryu Number of 2.

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“Mostly I am posting this because I want more people to know that Frederick Douglass canonically had to explain to Mario what Racism is.“

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Does Antonio Belpaese from Vampire Survivors have a Ryu Number?

Antonio Belpaese has a Ryu Number of 2.

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Cidolfus Telamon (Final Fantasy XVI)

Cidolfus Telamon has a Ryu Number of 2.

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The Cryptmaster from Cryptmaster?

The Cryptmaster does not have a Ryu Number.

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musashi from brave fencer musashi (ps1)?

(Miyamoto) Musashi has a Ryu Number of 2/does not have a Ryu Number.

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Musashi in Brave Fencer Musashi is explicitly summoned from... elsewhere, and so is his buddy(?) Kojiro.

That's basically enough for me to count it as historical figure Miyamoto Musashi, but in doing so, the fastest route actually has nothing to do with Brave Fencer Musashi at all, which is a significantly awkward position, since the ask was for specifically the Musashi in Brave Fencer Musashi.

Also, if we treat that Musashi as a separate entity, it really only makes sense to extend that same treatment to Kojiro, at which point there's nowhere else to go, to the best of my knowledge.

Which means, depending on how you want to interpret the ask, both routes are feasible answers.

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Raven from DC Comics

Raven has a Ryu Number of 2.

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Kai from Gravity Circuit?

Kai does not have a Ryu Number.

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Avatar Infernas, from Vampire Survivors.

Avatar Infernas has a Ryu Number of 2.

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Does the Unknown from Metal: Hellsinger have a Ryu number?

The Unknown does not have a Ryu Number.

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Did any characters from Hunt: Showdown have a Ryu number, such as Sheriff Hardin, in the past? If not, does the fact that Post Malone is a character in the game now change that?

Sheriff Wayne Hardin has a Limited Ryu Number of 3.

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I don't see an easy in for Hunt: Showdown characters other than Post Malone. The Ghost Face is explicitly someone not from the movies picking up the mask.

There are references to historical figures, but they appear to be limited to text, and those figures appear to be local to the Baton Rouge area, anyway.

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nightcrawler xmen?

Kurt Wagner a.k.a. Nightcrawler has a Ryu Number of 1.

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He shows up in Trish's arcade ending, where he tries to explain to Trish that he is not a demon.

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Ryu Number: Zhang Kai

Romance of the Three Kingdoms is a 14th-century literary work that dramatizes the fall of the Han* Dynasty, the fighting among the major power blocs that followed, and the final reunification of the land under a single banner—events that historically spanned about a hundred years from the late 2nd century CE to the late 3rd century CE.

One of the events covered in Romance of the Three Kingdoms is the Yellow Turban Rebellion, a peasant uprising which occurred at the end of the 2nd century CE that might not have directly caused the already weakened and corrupt central Han government to collapse like an undercooked sponge cake, but sure as heck didn't help.

By 193 CE, Emperor Xian** was nominally the emperor, but it was really the warlords occupying the imperial capital who were in charge. The rest of the empire was de facto splintered up under the rule of whichever warlord in the general vicinity could enforce it, many of whom were still officially Han empire officials just doin' their Emperor-mandated jobs, we swear.

One such fellow was the governor of Xu*** Province, Tao Qian****. According to one recounting of events (this version being the one used in Romance of the Three Kingdoms), Cao Song*****, the father of the warlord Cao Cao******, was passing through Xu Province to his son's territory, alongside other members of the family and laden with beaucoup belongings of value. When Tao Qian found out Cao Song was in the area, he supplied Cao Song his own officers as escorts. Unfortunately, among these officers was Zhang Kai*******, a former member of the Yellow Turbans, and partway through the journey he rallied up his fellow ex-Turbans in the company to kill Cao Song and fam, take the riches, and run off.

Cao Cao put the blame entirely on Tao Qian, using the event as casus belli, which is a Latin term meaning "a good excuse as any to kick off a wardom." Hilarity ensued.

Anyway, Zhang Kai has a Ryu Number of at most 2.

*Pronounced in Mandarin in IPA notation something like /xan⁵¹/. /x/ is the sound at the end of "loch," /a/ is the "ah" sound that's pronounced more toward the front of the mouth than the back, and /n/ is the "n" sound that's in, uh, "n." The numbers indicate the tone of the syllable (Mandarin is a tonal language, which means things like uptalk make a linguistic difference), in this case a "falling tone."******** **/ɕjɛn⁵¹/. /ɕ/ sounds sort of like the "sh" sound, but the tip of your tongue goes in the area behind your bottom teeth and your tongue sort of bows up toward your hard palate (the hard part of the roof of your mouth) and the sound gets hissed out between that and the middle of your tongue. /j/ is the sound usually spelled with a "y" in English, like in the word "you." /ɛ/ is the English "eh" sound, like in the General American pronunciation of "bedhead." ***/ɕy³⁵/. Do you know the sound /i/? That's the "ee" sound, like in the English "free." /y/ is pronounced in roughly the same area and in much the same way as /i/, except /y/ is "rounded," i.e. the lips are more rounded than relaxed during the pronunciation of the vowel. The vowels in "load," "moon," and "foot" are rounded; the vowels in "lad," "men," and "feet" aren't. Also, this word has a "rising tone." This will be on the test. ****/tʰɑʊ³⁵ tɕʰjɛn⁵⁵/. /t/ is the "t" in the word "t." The superscripted "h" means the sound is aspirated, i.e. accompanied by a strong burst of breath. Say the word "Dutch," and then the word "touch"; odds are, the "d" in "Dutch" isn't aspirated, but the "t" in "touch" is. /ɑ/ is the "aw" sound that's made closer to the back of the mouth, like in the American English "palm." /ʊ/ is the "oo" in "hook" and "foot." /tɕ/ is like "ch" in the same way that /ɕ/ is like "sh."********* Tonally, "Qian" uses a "high tone." *****/tsʰɑʊ³⁵ sʊŋ⁵⁵/. /s/ is the "s" in the word "s,"********** which means that /ts/ is something like the end of the word "cats." /ŋ/ is the nasally sound usually written as "ng," as in "sing." ******/tsʰɑʊ³⁵ tsʰɑʊ⁵⁵/. *******/ʈʂɑŋ⁵⁵ kʰaɪ²¹¹/. Remember /ts/? /ʈʂ/ is like that, except retroflex, which means that the tongue is curled upward somewhat. /k/ is the "k" in the word "k." /ɪ/ is the sound in the American English "bit," which means /aɪ/ is the sound in the American English "bite." ********I say this like I'm any authority on the subject, but China is Big, and and phonemic/tonal realizations vary more than just a little. Take these pronunciations with hella salt. It's not like the Han Dynasty spoke Mandarin, anyway. *********In fact, the IPA for the English "sh" and "ch" are /ʃ/ and /tʃ/, respectively. **********I have every intention of running this joke into the ground.*********** ***********And this "excessive footnotes" gag, too, for that matter.

Now, the The Three Kingdoms DLC for Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition doesn't explicitly feature Zhang Kai; however:

(Source: Three Kingdoms: A Historical Novel, Luo Guanzhong, trans. Moss Roberts)

Yeah sure I'll consider that the same dude.

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Kohlrabi cookie from Cookie Run TOA?

Kohlrabi Cookie has a Limited Ryu Number of 2.

(CORRECTION: A previous version of the post incorrectly left out that this is a Limited Ryu Number. Thanks to @avzinelkein for the correction.)

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Morrigan from Dragon Age

Morrigan has a Ryu Number of 2.

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Slash from Snowboard Kids?

Slash Kamei does not have a Ryu Number.

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Jack Frost and Black Frost do appear in SBK: Snowboard Kids, but the Frosts especially seem to be nonunique demons in the SMT games, with Black Frost as a transformation.

This is a reversal from some earlier posts, but in light of that, I'm not super inclined to count Jack Frost appearances as eligible.