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So 5 more hours until the one of the most heavily debated match ever in this contest, can't wait for it. Have a feeling that Dante will win but it won't surprise me if Ryu come out victorious. Both of them are among some of my favorite characters. Go Dante, Go Ryu too, make the match as epic as ever seen.
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Snake's Mission "To make it to the finals for the fourth consecutive times"

did you know there was an earthquake in Chile?
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Please change your vector and move to a different coordinate because this quadrant is off limits.

I have a bad feeling that Ryu/Dante will be a big letdown. I'm half expecting one of them to get 55%, I just don't know who, but I won't be shocked if we can call the match after the first 5 minutes
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A pro isn't someone who sacrifices himself for his job. That's just a fool. - Reno, FFVII

^ This is true.

Way too many matches are debateable at first but wind up going flat once they actually start. So far I can only think of three matches this year where the winner was really in doubt for the majority of the time: Red/Ocelot, Missingno/Crono, and Ken/Wesker.

It's really hard to get a true nailbiter in one of these things, but we seem to get at least one every contest. Hopefully this contest has gas left for another one in the later rounds, where the stakes are higher. I'm sure the vast majority of people who ride "upset trains" do it not out of actually thinking they'll occur but of desperate hope for excitement.
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And then the car wash cost five dollars.
Pokemon Platinum: 1719 9497 5082

Dante is much more likely to win this match easily than Ryu is, but I suppose either one of them could.
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"I can set you free, mate."
"My freedom was forfeit long ago!"

awful pic for dante. I'm worried about Ryu's strength 1 on 1 post SF4. I have dante winning, and this is certainly up in the air for either.
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Nominate Red XIII for the Character Battle VII!
He's the Lion with a fire tail from Final Fantasy VII.

Don't let me down Ryu, SFIV was the flagship title, but the marginal stuff like HD remix, MVC2 and TvC, they are what saturates the fighting market with your face, Mr Face of Fighting.
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Shakes Fist!

Ryu/Danta will probably be close. It's such a debated match for a reason. Both characters are very similar in strength.
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"Like Darth Maul, the bastard child of Michael Flatley and Hellboy" - trancer1

I have a feeling it will disappoint though.
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Shakes Fist!

I'm rooting for this match to pull a Vivi/DK and for Ryu to again get 54% on Dante. http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=1350

Certainly would make the match seem totally not worth the hype!
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Not Wylvane

And no way would Vault Boy/Sackboy have been debatable for me, and I chose Sackboy over Kratos A! Vault Boy did great in the vote-ins, while Sackboy and LBP, while underrated thanks to Snake and MGS4, didn't impress before.

Of course, I wouldn't expect the two to be close! I'd figure it'd probably be a 65/35 affair myself! And it probably would be if he had his baby-punting pic!
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Not Wylvane

Speaking of which, if we ever have a second Villain's Contest, we so have to get Vault Boy in and submit pictures of him being a complete dick. There's certainly no lack of such pics!
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Not Wylvane

From: Not_Wylvane | #412
Speaking of which, if we ever have a second Villain's Contest, we so have to get Vault Boy in and submit pictures of him being a complete dick. There's certainly no lack of such pics!

Like... http://kotaku.com/5481821/fallout-2s-rejected-childkiller-icon-is-uh-whoa-
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"I do read sometimes." Mat Cauthon, The Wheel of Time.

Match LXXXVIII: (7) Ryu vs. (2) Dante

Last Round

Ryu – 68.97%
Balthier Bunansa – 31.03%

Dante – 69.37%
Axel – 30.63%

Analysis

This match is easily my most hyped match of the round. Dante is the best chance for the 2 seeds to have a second representation in the third round, but will the curse be too much for him to handle in this match of Capcom supremacy? Unlike a lot of the characters which performed below expectations both Dante and Ryu were able to blow out there weaker opponents.

While looking at the two performances it seems that Dante would be the favourite based on his performance on Axel. Well after getting almost what Mega Man got against Axel in 2006 I think it is safe to say that Axel isn’t the same character that we saw in previous contests. I guess as Kingdom Hearts 2 fades so will he. It also helps that Kingdom Hearts characters haven’t been looking their best in this contest.

I went with Ryu because I feel that he still trumps Dante which is pretty bad reasoning I guess. Dante has a lot more reasons to defeat Ryu such as getting more games since their last match. Saying Dante will lose because he has never won a hyped match is wrong because he’s been rarely put in that position. His only loss that many people thought he should have won was against Yoshi. One match shouldn’t change the opinion of a character, especially since Yoshi is not a weak character.

charmander6000’s Bracket: Ryu > Dante

charmander6000’s Prediction: Ryu wins, 51.24% - 48.76%

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Board 8 BOP: http://www.freewebs.com/charmander6000/CB8%20BOP.xls
Character Battle VIII - 85/108 - Today's Winners: Leon and Ryu

Confirm/Deny: Sagat would be the weakest entrant possible from the original 12.
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who needs a dick when you're good at smash brothers - stingers
Now this is entertainment!

From: TagerBuster | #415
Confirm/Deny: Sagat would be the weakest entrant possible from the original 12.

Dhalsim
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Currently NOT on the CBVIII Leaderboard v_v
Dante > Cloud: ITS NOT HAPPENING

My logic here is that Sagat is the only member of the 12 outside of Ken who could have a sizable amount of anti-voters.
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who needs a dick when you're good at smash brothers - stingers
Now this is entertainment!

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who are the original 12? i thought sf had 8? If you mean sf2 Id pick balrog as the weakest.
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Nominate Red XIII for the Character Battle VII!
He's the Lion with a fire tail from Final Fantasy VII.

Ryu > Ken >= Chun-Li > Bison > Blanka = Guile >= Vega > Sagat > Zangief >= Balrog = Honda = Dhalsim
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The Gamer In Me
"Ike and Ash and co. saw a Yoshi and didn't catch it" - Mer telling us his dream

we need to get balrog into a contest and submit only pictures of michael clarke duncan

http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/9441/michaelclarkeduncan0202.jpg

hells yeah
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MY FIGHT MONEY!
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holy crap, you used an apostrophe to make a word plural at least 3 times in that post. that's like cryptonite to me if I was batman - Bako Ikporamee

Dante has looked better than Ryu in every contest from '05 onwards. I originally picked Ryu to win for the exact same reason charmander6000 ended up doing so, but logic dictates that Dante has this. Now of course KH stuff seems to be falling down this contest, but whatever.

On a side note, I just noticed that Gordon's certain loss to Tifa will be the third time we see KH2 own HL2 (with the first time being Sora > Gordon in '06 and then KH2 > HL2 in the games contest). And this time I'm not even staying by poor Gordon's side.

Ugh, I'm going to miss the start of Ryu/Dante today, but I'll be back on later to vote for Dante. Hoping Dante pulls out the win here.
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Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~
Popular at school, but not as cool as KrahenProphet, Guru Champ!

So what will the board vote look like here? Dante has brackets, but the Action Game Early Vote is pretty bad.

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KrahenProphet lived up to his name.

Dante usually has a pretty good board vote IIRC.
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Board 8 BOP: http://www.freewebs.com/charmander6000/CB8%20BOP.xls
Character Battle VIII - 85/108 - Today's Winners: Leon and Ryu

Ken lost it against Ganon, Ryu lost it against Balthier, and even Akuma lost it against Squall (barely) when everyone knew he was toast. Ken even lost it to Wesker when he had major brackets. SF's board vote is pretty bad, so Dante should be up at 5.
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http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=840
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3395
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3396

I'd go with Balrog as the weakest. That said, Vega or Blanka would be a fun rally sometime.
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T E A M C H O C O L A T E
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Guile > Vega > Blanka

Though do we need anymore besides Ryu/Ken/Bison/Chun/Akuma?
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Character Battle VIII - 85/108 - Today's Winners: Leon and Ryu

Midgar Division: Round 2 - Match 88 – (7) Ryu vs. (2) Dante

Moltar’s Analysis

Ryu
Round 1 - 68.97% vs. Balthier

Anything you can do…

Dante
Round 1 - 69.37% vs. Axel

I can do better~

This is a great match on paper. Two strong guys going at it. Two upper-midcarders going at it. Two characters people care about going at it.

Pre-contest, Dante was the big favorite, even though he lost this match back in 2003, because he’s looked stronger in pretty much every recent contest. Also, Street Fighter had seemed to be on the decline as of late after looking at the results of the Games Contest.

Then the contest started, and we saw Ken “bomb” against Wesker. This doubt passes on to Ryu, who then tears Balthier apart. Ryu > Dante talk stirs up for about 12 hours before Dante thrashes Axel, pretty much silencing it. Now we’re pretty much back to square one, with Dante being the favorite in this debatable match.

I still like Dante to win here, even with the DMC2 picture. This being a day match favors him if it’s really close, and simply put, I believe that Dante has been a step ahead of Ryu since the 2003 match, and he’s still a step ahead today.

Moltar’s Bracket: Dante > Ryu

Moltar’s Prediction: Dante: 53% - Ryu: 47%



Lopen’s Analysis

The answer lies in the heart of battle.

So then Ryu does that, and Dante knows it actually lies in the heart of stylish slick combos. No one will mourn Ryu, not even the kiddies. Expect him to get some support early and then get slaughtered. Hit the road, hobo boy.

In all seriousness, though. Never understood the Ryu support. Ryu vs Dante hasn't looked like it'd be competitive since like 2005 (remember when Ryu got blown out 60-40 by Bowser), and given that SF4 got owned in the game contest I don't understand why anyone would think that'd boost him much. Dante wins in a walk. And round 1 certainly didn't do this upset any favors, when Dante actually outdid Ryu on a presumably superior opponent.

Lopen's prediction:
Dante with 60.01%



Transience’s Analysis

Prior to seeing the match picture, I was super confident in Dante. Consider:

- Dante has looked stronger in recent years
- Dante had a way better round 1 performance
- it's a day match and Dante's better in the day than Ryu (though not by a lot)
- the one argument backing Ryu was that it "feels" right to support him; he's much more classic than Dante is. it's basically the same argument people gave for Chief over Hayabusa -- Ryu's just higher on the Capcom hierarchy. thankfully, Hayabusa debunked that theory.

Which brings me back to the match picture. To me, that's Ryu's one huge advantage; ugly DMC2 Dante vs. kickass SF4 Ryu. If Ryu wins, I'm blaming that picture. I think part of Falcon's win today can be attributed to how Riku looked in that picture. I was going to go huge with Dante - like 58% or more - but that picture is going to make me be conservative.

transience's prediction: Dante with 54.78%



Ngamer’s Analysis

Quickie w/ Ng: All signs point to a 53% win for Dante... but I DON'T CARE. You have to go All In on the match that'll knock you out of the Guru, so time to go down with the ship!

Ngamer Says: Ryu > Dante, 50.05%



Kleenex’s Analysis

This is it. The Main Event™ of Round 2. In one corner, Mr. Consistency except for 2005. In the other, a way better character.

This match happened back in 2003, I believe, and Ryu won fairly easily. Dante's a bit of an odd one as far as results go. Good showing against Vincent in 2005, embarassing loss to Yoshi in 2006, amazing run to the semis in 2007, disappointing, but still respectable performance in 2008. Dante is a sine wave. Every other year, he seems to do well. Sucks for Ryu that this is Dante's "on" year. Yeah, that's right. No chance here.

Street Fighter in general has looked not so hot recently, from SF2/4 flopping in the Games contest, to Ken's shaky performance against Wesker, so other factors that may or may not exist that I will not outline here. When I predicted my bracket, I took Dante here without thinking twice. And I'm still not really worried about it. In my eyes, Dante is definitely like...half a step above Ryu. It'll be a "close" match, but Dante's never going to be in danger of losing this. Time for Ryu to go back to losing in Round 2 like he usually does.

Bracket: Dante
Favorites: Dante
Prediction: Dante with 54.54%



Red Sox’s Analysis

I think this match has gotten more attention that it deserves- I don't see this Ryu upset happening, and never did. Of course, that's perhaps a sign that it will happen and I'll look stupid tomorrow. Dante has looked better to me the past few years:

2005: 46% on Vincent vs. 41% on Bowser- Advantage Dante
2006: 49% on Yoshi vs. 42% on Megaman- Even
2007: 42.20% on Auron vs. 56.06% on Leon- Slight Advantage Dante
2008: 42.63% on Crono with L-Block in the poll vs. 46.60% on Kirby in a match where Kirby stood out a lot- Slight Advantage Dante
2010: 68.97% on Balthier vs. 69.37% on Axel- Advantage Dante

Now from those numbers you can make an argument for Ryu, for example by attacking the idea that Kirby stood out in the match with Master Chief and Leon. I think Dante deserves to be the favorite here though, and I'm not too nervous about it.

Prediction: Dante with 54.00%
Upset Potential: 15%
Upper Bound: Dante with 59%
Lower Bound: Ryu with 51%



Guest’s Analysis - Heroic Mario

Here's the match of the contest -- two top tier characters, both about the same popularity, and your bracket will be most likely made or broken depending on how it goes. Random Pokemon, glitches, and boring Noble Niners got nothing on this! Glad this is my one crew write-up for the year.

I'm not too sure how this is going to break down for other people, though I could probably guess. Dante's got all the reason to win this match -- he's had two new games since the last time he faced Ryu, he's looked better the past couple of years, and he's 'newer' and 'fresher' in people's minds. There's a good argument for Dante, one that I can totally buy, but I think Ryu will pull this out. He's got a better shot here than most give credit.

Ryu's biggest advantage is his iconic status: everyone knows him and most people like him. He's far and away the most popular fighting game character in this thing, and rightfully so. I think that will net him a good chunk of votes from people who don't care much for Dante or Devil May Cry, votes that Dante would normally eat up against characters like Axel or whatever other fodder that no one cares about. Dante always puts up big numbers against fodder, but then has trouble once we get into the more popular, well known group. I don't think it has to do with 'choking' so much as Dante's fans aren't as likely to stick around against someone bigger and better.

Not really, but they wouldn't be wastes and they're characters I enjoyed. I'd say Dhalsim too, but he kinda sucks there.
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T E A M C H O C O L A T E
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The other big thing for Ryu is Street Fighter IV. Yeah, people will cry PERSONA 4?!?!, but the game struggling doesn't mean it can't help Ryu, who's always been more popular than any of his games. And despite GameFAQs' reluctance to get into fighting games that don't involve Nintendo characters, SFIV was the first mainstream Street Fighter since SFII, which was well nearly 20 years ago at this point. Street Fighter games may have come out since, but they've been somewhat niche. Not so much here -- SFIV sold nearly 3 million copies worldwide in its first year. Hard to argue with that, SF was clearly back in the spotlight this past year.

I wouldn't argue that this game is going to make Ryu significantly more popular than he already is or anything. I don't think Ryu can get much more popular than he is now. He's a known quantity, everyone is familiar with who he is and either likes him or doesn't. A new SF game, no matter how big or small, would have a limited effect on his popularity. He's kind of like Mario in that regard, I think.

But what SFIV can -- and should -- do is get people who are fans of both characters to side with Ryu. It's no stretch to think that there's overlap between the two, and some Dante fans who would normally be behind him here will go the other way because of SFIV. It's been a long time since people were QCF+P'ing their friends, I wouldn't underestimate that doing something!

Outside of that, both of these dudes look about even. Round 1 was a push -- Dante did ever so slightly better, but the difference was negeglible considering Balthier and Axel are probably right next to each other in strength (and KH has been pretty bad this contest, so there's no KH boost or whatever was being thrown around earlier). This could go either way and I wouldn't be surprised, but I don't expect the winner to do more than 53%.

but then again you never know how it's going to go when the HIERARCHY is involved Ryu with the doubling tbqh


Bracket / Vote: Ryu
Prediction: Ryu -- 53% ; Dante -- 47%



Crew Consensus: Ryu has two supporters, but Dante is the favorite here.

Damn it Ngamer Ryu could have had the match locked up.
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Board 8 BOP: http://www.freewebs.com/charmander6000/CB8%20BOP.xls
Character Battle VIII - 85/108 - Today's Winners: Leon and Ryu

Whyd i pick dante.. The pic, sf4 success, its all pointing to ryu.
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Nominate Red XIII for the Character Battle VII!
He's the Lion with a fire tail from Final Fantasy VII.

The picture won't be a factor in this match. It only works for extreme cases.
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Board 8 BOP: http://www.freewebs.com/charmander6000/CB8%20BOP.xls
Character Battle VIII - 85/108 - Today's Winners: Leon and Ryu

For God's sake, the picture isn't that bad.

1. It's more "stereotypically" badass than his other pictures, which, even if not working to his credit, never hurts.

2. It wouldn't surprise me if most people who vote for Dante only played DMC3/4, and really don't give a crap about 2.
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who needs a dick when you're good at smash brothers - stingers
Now this is entertainment!

Yeah, I don't know that the picture matters here. Dante doesn't look much worse than usual, definitely not enough to hurt his chances of winning or anything.

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wheresoever you go, go with all your heart

Vent your hate for the picture by rating it:

http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/genmessage.php?board=8&topic=53688669
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I dunno what to think. Street Fighter looked like it might be on the decline as of late (see: Street Fighter II never being in its R1 match with Sonic 1, SF4 struggling to beast PERSONA 4, of all games, and finally, SFII failing to beat Sonic 1 in R2 even after it was exposed, and with Mario 3 in the match, no less!).
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"Here I go! Divine judgment for an evil soul! Sacred Penance! Rest in peace." - Estellise Sidos Heurassein, Tales of Vesperia

Yeah, the pic itself isn't too bad and it's not like Ryu's is stellar or anything. Dante in DMC2 also looks like Dante in DMC1/3/4, so I don't think that will play into this -- you might have more of a case if DMC2 took a Toon Link-approach, but it didn't.
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T E A M C H O C O L A T E
http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/7355/64590879.png

Dammit, I meant beat... How'd I screw that up...
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"Here I go! Divine judgment for an evil soul! Sacred Penance! Rest in peace." - Estellise Sidos Heurassein, Tales of Vesperia

From: Fayt_Esteed | #440
I dunno what to think. Street Fighter looked like it might be on the decline as of late (see: Street Fighter II never being in its R1 match with Sonic 1, SF4 struggling to beast PERSONA 4, of all games, and finally, SFII failing to beat Sonic 1 in R2 even after it was exposed, and with Mario 3 in the match, no less!).

Clearly Persona 4 is a hidden powerhouse.

... Clearly.
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who needs a dick when you're good at smash brothers - stingers
Now this is entertainment!

You can make a case for DMC2 Dante because it's DMC2. Should be self-explanatory.

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KrahenProphet lived up to his name.

Street Fighter isn't on any sort of 'decline' lately. The games have never been popular on GameFAQs, that's nothing new. SFII getting rocked by SMRPG wasn't some fluke SFF thing!

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wheresoever you go, go with all your heart

Hmph.
52.40% on Leon
46.61% on Kirby
52.01% on Master Chief
44.01% on Sonic
30.51% on Sephiroth

Some matches from Dante last year. Are those really so impressive that we don't think Ryu can match them? Maybe I'll be proven wrong in ten minutes but I don't quite understand this "Dante has been totally awesome!" thing.

If you want to go back to 2007 he lost to the rat and got like 30% on Snake/MC.

If you want to go back to 2006 he lost to Yoshi.
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Mustache...and Green...

From: TagerBuster | #442
Clearly Persona 4 is a hidden powerhouse.

... Clearly.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3352

Mighty and unstoppable !

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KrahenProphet lived up to his name.

Guys, we've discussed this before: GTA4 4FF'd SF4 and P4 under the premise of Grand Theft Auto 4 being four words long if you count the 4 as a word instead of a number. That issue remains our biggest controversy of BGE2, however.
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T E A M C H O C O L A T E
http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/7355/64590879.png

Though if we're being fair here, Devil May Cry games are likely worse than Street Fighter. SFII would take down any DMC game pretty easy, regardless of whether Ryu wins or loses today.

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wheresoever you go, go with all your heart

From: KamikazePotato | #447
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=3352

Mighty and unstoppable !

Hypothetical "All Mediums" character battle:

Yosuke vs. Goku, who ya got
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who needs a dick when you're good at smash brothers - stingers
Now this is entertainment!