#Smash Bros (Ryu)

[mr-president]

thank you sol badguy and ryu street fighter and kuai liang scorpion and terry bogard and heihachi mishima and kirb :)

(hanzo hasashi scorp below as well)

[banchoramen]

Super! Smash! BROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOS!!!!! Vel 2/???

[smashbrosodyssey64]

I'm telling you people, Ryu is the nexus of all fiction.

[kchasm]

Ryu Number: Don Adams

Don Adams was an American actor, best known for his role as the incredibly skilled yet incredibly clumsy secret agent Maxwell Smart in the secret agent spoof sitcom Get Smart. If you don't recognize the title—which, fair enough, it aired literally sixty years ago—he also notably voiced the dimwitted cyborg police officer protagonist of the Inspector Gadget cartoons.

He has a Ryu Number of at most 4.

The last portion of Space Quest V: Roger Wilco – The Next Mutation features our titular protagonist infiltrating the SCS Goliath, making use of its cramped, labyrinthine maintenance tunnels.

Apparently someone in development thought the passageways a bit reminiscent, video-game-wise: Take the right wrong path, and Roger will speedily crawl in the other direction with an unexpected cameo on his tail.

Space Quest 6: Roger Wilco in the Spinal Frontier is fully voiced, including—as you may know already because @ryunumber—noted disc jockey, announcer, and voice actor Gary Owens. Normally this wouldn't be enough to count the actor themselves, even if they are credited in the game—but persist past the end credits and fade-out and you'll hear the narrator thank you for playing Space Quest 6 before extroducing himself specifically as "Gary Owens, signing off." Totally counts!

Finally, guess who got himself a copy of TV Land Presents Blast From the Past?

Mind, it's such a jalopy of a game I couldn't get it to run on my computer without serious graphical issues...

... but I was able to get it to run just runnily enough to confirm its nature! If you ever wanted to play a game where TV stars of a bygone era ask you trivia questions about the shows they were on... then you're not exactly choked with options, are you?

Gary Owens pulls double-duty here, playing both quiz host and TV star questionmonger, his questions focusing on the sketch comedy show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (where he was the on-screen announcer).

Don Adams' questions, of course, have to do with Get Smart. Unfortunately, I couldn't get any clean, non-glitched-out footage of him from my recordings, so have this video I extracted from the game files instead.

You know what? There's a charm to it.

[todayisafridaynight]

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RYO AOKI | “WHEN I RULE THE WORLD”

[ryunumber]

The smash sandbag (if you even count that as a character) has a ryu number of one, right?

Sandbag has a Ryu Number of 1.

(explanation below)

Sandbag's status as a character is actually rather unambiguous; it's stated as much from its first appearance in Melee.

What's more, it can even emote slightly in Ultimate.

In fact, the only thing that complicates Sandbag's eligibility is its status as an item in post-Melee entries. Some of you may remember CD factories back in the Brawl days, which only worked as well as they did because a lot of Sandbags could spawn.

So you could reasonably argue that this might disqualify Sandbag on account of there being multiple indistinguishable Sandbags.

But hey, turns out they changed it in Ultimate so that only one Sandbag can spawn during a match.

(Note the grayed out icon.)

So that's a neat little detail for this blog's purposes.

[californyankat]

For pride month I am going to post the pictures of fictional men/men adjacent things kissing each other I have save on my phone for out of context reasons. I encourage everyone to do the same in the reblogs. BEHOLD!

[tropeifier]

Originally posted online on November 24, 2018.

Despite Kid Icarus being a common feature of my comics, this is the first appearance of Dark Pit, and I believe the first in-person appearance of Palutena.

[kaos-mass]

Favorite Smash 4 Character Alts

[hallowedgal]

the six fanart challenge i done on twt and super pleased with the results!

♥ twitter upload / dA upload / pixiv upload ♥

[smashy-headcanons]

I have a headcanon that Falco and Ken ABSOLUTELY hate each other.

They would always fight and get into A LOT of arguments. The arguments have gone out of hand to the point that Fox and Ryu are feeling tired of Falco and Ken’s constant arguing.

(submitted by w0rld0flight)

[horuslover]

....

[each-dustbin1]

Smash Ryu and Ken have the penis grab

[roboticoperatingbud]

kirby hats i forgot to include in my smash moveset concepts

[kchasm]

Ryu Number: Alice (i.e. of Wonderland)

Okay, I know what you're thinking. K.C., are you really churning out a post on Alice's Ryu Number? Sora is in Smash, for goodness' sake. That's Kingdom Hearts, which gets you the Disney version split-lickety.

Yeah, that's true. And it would be perfectly reasonable to shut the book on the matter right there and shout, "Problem solved!" But here's a question: Are Alice of Wonderland and Alice Liddell the same person?

That's a rhetorical question, by the way. If a century of Alicologists aren't going to come to an agreement, an opinion off the end of a tumblr post is unlikely to set off a scholarly paradigm shift. For what it's worth, Lewis Carroll himself seemed to consider Liddell and the literary Alice as separate individuals—the latter as more of an idealization than any real person*—but he's got some investment in the matter, so he's not exactly a reliable source.

(This is a joke. Don't at me.)

*Woolf, J. (2010). The Mystery of Lewis Carroll. St. Martin's Press.

... But we're not here for literary analysis, of course. We're here for the Ryu Numbers. So what's Alice Liddell's?

The most obvious route, of course, would be through American McGee's American McGee's Alice and Alice: Madness Returns video games. The lore of the second game straight out gives Alice the surname Liddell...

... and the opening cutscene of the first game features a photograph in Alice's bedroom of someone who might be Lewis Carroll (which is a bit weird, but whatever), as well as an Alice storybook (meaning Alice exists one narrative layer higher than the literary Alice).

...That said, if American McGee did mean for the game Alice Liddell to be the Alice Liddell, that's something it looks like he walked back in game two (or at least went in with plausible deniability about). Game Alice seems to have had just the one sibling, an older sister named Elizabeth, and her father's name was Arthur—the real Alice, on the other hand, had nine siblings in all (jeez), with her only older sister named Lorina and her father named Henry.

(Also all the Wonderland elements explicitly take place in Alice's head, which means technically we shouldn't be counting Wonderland characters any more than we'd count characters that show up in dreams or hallucinations, but I'll pretend not to notice if you pretend not to notice, alright? Call it the Code Name: S.T.E.A.M. precedent.)

To get to something plausibly Liddeller, I'ma jump back to the Apple II/Commodore 64 era.

Wait, the Laurence Yep? Aunno, maybe! I wrote to him once, because I wanted to know if the Charles Edward Stuart that appears in this game is actually Charles Edward Stuart, or just the White King believing himself to be Charles Edward Stuart, both of which seemed likely enough to me given the setting.

I never got an answer back, probably because I couldn't find any contact info for Laurence Yep and ended up writing to the most recent publisher of his works I could find instead. What I'm saying is that I doubt Mr. Yep ever laid eyes on my letter before it was slam-dunked into the nearest wastebin (Mr. Yep if you are reading this please DM me).

Anyway, shortly before Alice falls into the rabbit hole, gets swept up in the usual Wonderland annoyances, then finally makes her way up and out the same rabbit hole (i.e. no "it was all a dream," it's happening for realsies), Alice runs into a dude on a boat. It's Lewis Carroll, and you know he's Lewis Carroll because he says he's Lewis Carroll.

Add that that he's a teller of stories to this Alice, and and it serves as good implication as any that the player character is the historical Alice Liddell.

[incorrectsmashbrosquotes]

Link: I’m having so many ideas with this arm’s creation ability. What do you guys think of a enclosed mobile siege engine armed with cannon, with spiked wheels so that it can traverse rough terrain?  I call it… (shows a sketch of what is essentially Da Vinci’s Fighting Vehicle) the Battle Wagon!

Ken and Ryu: (Trying to think of a way to explain WW1) Uhhh…  

Link: Okay, what if it was on legs?

Snake: (Jolting up from a nearby Box) NO!