Pants

[kingandy]

Is it wrong to have an in-depth discussion about what underwear the Street Fighter 2 characters wore?  If so, ed_fortune is a bad man.

Ryu - goes commando
Ken - tighty-whities (Y-fronts)
Guile - regulation army boxers (see Levis Jeans launderette commercial)
Vega - thong, possibly posing pouch (gold)
Zangiev - Jock strap (shudder)
M Bison - cricket box / athletic cup
Dahlsim - loin cloth
E Honda - whatever Sumo usually wear under there
Chun Li - slinky little silk two-piece, no frills, pure class
Cammie - Union Jack knicks

I know Cammie did not appear till later in the series, but Ed insisted.  And underwear discussions are probably not the place to worry overmuch about continuity.

Comments

[kmazzy.livejournal.com]

i strop at street fighter because Vega should be the ponytail Wolverine claw dude and M Bison the big shouldered psycho crushing dude. but really M Bison is the boxer (Balrog) and Vega is the shouldered dude and Balrog is the flouncy mask one. but that is SO WRONG! (even with the M Bison=M Tyson thing.)

also Ryu and Ken should have matching pants but in different colours!

[arwel.livejournal.com]

The original Japanese version of Street Fighter 2(and I assume every Japanese version from there on in) did indeed sport mixed up names for three of the 4 bosses. Balrog was also misspelt as Barlog.

[kingandy]

I think the US release switched the names around on purpose, since they didn't want Mr M Tyson to think boxer M Bison was anything to do with him (it was).

[kingandy]

I think the US versions make more sense too, hence Vega (spanish prettyboy) in thong.

[kmazzy.livejournal.com]

oh yes.

there was someone in Operacion Triunfo (Spanish Fame Academy) called Vega, and she is a girl...

i still say Ken & Ryu should have matching pants though.

[kingandy]

ps I did think about co-ordinating Ken and Ryu, but they do have basically different backgrounds. Ken is so all-american he has to go pants, but Ryu has always struck me as the commando type. I do not know why.

[kmazzy.livejournal.com]

nah, Akuma would be the commando one...

[arwel.livejournal.com]

Nah, Akuma probably opts for the firm control of a pair of Marks and Sparks A line shorts. I doubt he'd take the risk of unecessary flapage. Blanka is the most likley not to wear pants, they probably got torn to shreds or disintegrated through overuse.

[kmazzy.livejournal.com]

i'm surprised more of them don't wear flameproof pants.

[kingandy]

I am afraid I do not know Akuma. But seriously, white linen trousers? You can't wear anything under there...

[kmazzy.livejournal.com]

Akuma is super.

hmmm, i always thought of the trousers as being pretty opaque.

[kingandy]

Perhaps I am rationalising. I have no real reason for the notion, it's just a vibe I get from him.

[arwel.livejournal.com]

Akuma's a better demonic version of Ken and Ryu and was the final boss in one of the endless itterations of SF 2. I can't believe that level of uberness was achieved through having his tackle flapping in the breeze.

[kmazzy.livejournal.com]

he probably has the amazing superpower to control his bits by sheer muscle power and, erm, stuff...

[kingandy]

Hmm ... do not know "A-Line". Do you mean these?

Maybe he's a Hipster man...

[arwel.livejournal.com]

Vega strikes me as being more at home in silk boxers

[kingandy]

It is a possibility, but I see him as more vain than extravagant.

[jfs.livejournal.com]

E Honda - whatever Sumo usually wear under there

Bandages and strapping, to move their testicles up behind their pelvis and then keep them there during the fight.

Seriously.

[kingandy]

Then that is what E Honda wears.

Echh.

[kmazzy.livejournal.com]

wait, doesn't Chun Li wear sensible white cotton schoolgirl type panties?

[kingandy]

I don't know about cotton, but they were certainly white. I see her as being a silk fetishist, though. At least, the rest of her outfit was silken.

[kmazzy.livejournal.com]

mmmmmmm silk against silk feels very nice. it'd be all slippery and helpful with her spinning moves.

mmmmmmmmmmmm. i like the bit in the animated movie with her in the shower...

[ed-fortune.livejournal.com]

I still maintain that T-hawk has tassles. Possibly a medicine bag (or at least beads...)

[ubernils.livejournal.com]

Okay, that all makes sense...but what the crap is a "cricket box"?

[myki.livejournal.com]

It’s a cup you wear over your bits when you’re playing cricket so you don’t get them injured by flying cricketballs.

[ubernils.livejournal.com]

Ah. That's what I figured.

Okay, so what the crap is cricket?
...Just kidding.

[myki.livejournal.com]

Cricket is essentially a ploy by washing powder manufacturers to sell more non-bio powder. Cunning scams.

[kingandy]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box - down at the bottom.

[masinkie.livejournal.com]

That's called an 'Athletic Cup' in the US, since it's used for more than one sport.

[myki.livejournal.com]

It's only really used in Cricket because you're having a solid wooden ball wrapped in hard leather thrown at you at 80 miles an hour...

Cricket - As boring as it is dangerous.

[tallulahs.livejournal.com]

I used to be called Chun Li (well it was nicknamed into Chunners actually) by some old work colleagues of mine because they said I looked like her and have her thighs.
I'm not sure how true this is though.

[myki.livejournal.com]

We can't really tell on the picture...you've got at the moment...

[tallulahs.livejournal.com]

What do you mean?

[myki.livejournal.com]

If you look like Chun Li or have her thighs.