Talk:Ken Masters

(Dark hadou) Ken/ evil ken or Ken with murderious intent Is Reveal In Street Fighter IV Comics
It is reveal that ken, dan, and sakura has the Dark hadou, every one that practice the same style as ryu.. go to www.capcomcomics.com and go up under street fighter IV, you will see the front cover page with evil ryu and evil ken. Aton Crow

It is also seen in the Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist that, while learning to channel the Hadou, Ken's early failures motivated him to try the Satsui no Hadou. With a single try, he surpassed Ryu's progression. Gunthaar
 * Sources?  TheStickMan  [✆Talk] 21:49, 23 May 2014 (UTC)

Super arts
Is this section really necessary? 1stLtLombardi 18:34, 4 August 2007 (UTC) Yes... 阿修羅96 19:28, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

Ok, if you say so. 1stLtLombardi 16:36, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

ancestry
Is he really 3/4 Japanese and 1/4 American? Is he not a pure American Kung-Fu mania?
 * Capcom's official biography for Ken states this. It also states that he is not a real blond, but instead dyes his hair. --Mitsukai 18:25, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, many fans will be disappointed. Because they believe that Ken is a pure American Karate master, like Bruce Wayne. Thanks for replying, Mitsukai.

You do know that Ken is more then half Japanese right? Newborns get more of their chromosomes from the mother. It's a scientific fact. Talking about birth has to do with science, not math. In blood he is more Japanese but in region he is American. Even if he wasn't born in America he would still be American because of his father being born in USA. So yeah. Violent-Ken-Masters 05:32, 5 October 2006
 * It's a pity he is not a pure American. I thought he was inspired by some American martial artist such as Chuck Norris when I first saw SFII. But his Japanese origin was already set in SFI, 1987. --Mato Rei 12:41, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Removed a conjectural line from the article: "Ken's Tatsumakisenpukyaku didn't knock you out and even though it does a lot of hits, you're still hanging in there." --Mitsukai 18:25, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

From SSF2T onwards, Ken's basics as well as specials differ from Ryu's (a simple example's the different overheads, though Ken has a different set of kicks and Ryu has a hop-kick in the Alpha series)


 * Come on, people, learn to count: if Ken's father is white and his mother is full-blood Japanese, that makes him half-white, half-Japanese. If he's "3/4 Japanese and 1/4 American", that would mean that his father is half-Japanese and half-white.  Someone find some consensus on this, please.--Mitsukai 12:27, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
 * isnt ken 3/4 american and 1/4 japanese? because he was born in the USA and in Street Fighter II V it said his father is white american and his mother is japanese --Dick Grayson
 * That would make him half-Japanese, half-Caucasian, not 3/4-1/4. We need to find out if he is 1/2 asian, 1/2 caucasian, or 3/4 Japanese, 1/4 caucasian (which would mean his father is half-half).--Mitsukai 02:39, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

Hey Mitsukai, do you have a link to the offical biography? Or did you get the info from a game booklet? I know it sounds lame but I like reading about the history of characters in fighting games so I was wondering if you have that link? I've searched for it but haven't been able to find it. If you are talking about the book "All about Capcom" from Studio Bent Stuff I don't think it is official. That company does these kind of books for a whole bunch of different games from a bunch of different companies. Their info sometimes has conflicts with later releases of games, as far as I can remember.

To the people who are making move lists:
Take a look at What Wikipedia is not. Wikipedia is not an instruction manual. "While Wikipedia has descriptions of people, places, and things, Wikipedia articles should not include instruction - advice (legal, medical, or otherwise), suggestions, or contain 'how-to's. This includes tutorials, walk-throughs, instruction manuals, and recipes." See? Explain to me why move lists don't fall under that category. If you can't, it's gone. --Yar Kramer 04:10, 26 October 2005 (UTC)


 * I get your point, and the moves have been removed. It is nice to see that someone is interested in actively maintaining these pages, it's just unfortunate that your attitude sucks. This whole issue could have been handle much more diplomaticly and politely on your part, but it doesn't matter now since I concede.  Just remember that you don't _own_ this page or any other on Wikipedia.  Thank you. Plotor 01:21, 27 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Yeah ... y'know what, sorry about that. I tend to have an attitude problem, sometimes, especially since I'm dealing with people who don't know me. I guess I was set off by that "DO NOT REMOVE!" comment on reverting my previous removal, which seemed to me to be even worse than that. --Yar Kramer 01:55, 27 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Apology accepted.Plotor 03:06, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

"Ken" in Street Fighter 2010
I don't believe this is worth mentioning for a number of reasons:


 * The primary reason is that the games are not related at all. It's not called Street Fighter anything in Japanese.
 * Beyond that, the tenuous connection that Capcom USA made was not based on any sort of conjecture, but as a mere attempt to get people to buy the game by slapping "Street Fighter" onto it and calling the main character "Ken".
 * Even now that Capcom USA has control of SF canon, they're not mentioning this; actually, the "future SF" timeline is supposed to be Captain Commando according to them.
 * Not many people remember the (very old) NES game in modern times.

Because of these reasons, I don't even think it merits a mention in the Ken Masters article, although I'm willing to give a passing "The Ken of the NES game is not related to this Ken at all" in the trivia section a chance. Danny Lilithborne 00:49, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Fighting Style?
Is his fighting style really "Goutetsu-style Ansatsuken learned from Gouken" isn't it just "Ansatsuken learned from Gouken" or "Gouken style Ansatsuken" ?? Didn't Gouken reject Goutetsus violent style?? Aeneiden-Rex 14:36, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Kobra
Why Ken Masters was the original name for Kobra in MK: Deception?

Because he looked a lot like him. MightyKombat 12:47, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Ken Masters' height
Isn't Ken 178cm tall? I played Street Fighter VI in www.everyvideogame.com and there was written that Ken's height is 178cm and also American sources say that Ken is 5'10" tall. There are two different versions of Street Fighter, The American version and the Japanese Verison. And the American version tells that Ken Masters is 178cm tall.
 * What the heck is this SFVI you keep talking about? SF only goes up to 3.  You don't seem to have any reliable sources that override the SF Plot Guide. Danny Lilithborne 19:31, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
 * He's talking about this: http://www.everyvideogame.com/play-nes-Street_Fighter_VI_12_Peoples_%5B!%5D.htm. --Tenkosaurus 17:10, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Oh, whee. A NES hack version of Street Fighter.  That sure sounds official to me! Danny Lilithborne 21:08, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Chill-out, I didn't say it did make it official. I was just pointing it out. --Tenkosaurus 12:13, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Not directed at you, I'm just mildly irritated that that was what Lt. Grenn was referring to all this time. Danny Lilithborne 18:18, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

I saw in the UDON Street Fighter comic that Ryu is 5`10 and Ken is 5`11 and also more info like blood type —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alen-san (talk • contribs) 09:22, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

Infobox
Could somebody tell me why this infobox and the Ryu one have been changed to a CVG one, whereas all the others are still Streetfighter ones? I must say, I liked the other one with height and weight. Cheers.DavyJonesLocker 12:07, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure, but I'm personally in favor of the new ones, as the heights and weights have been the subject of ridiculous edit wars. Danny Lilithborne 12:45, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

It's been replaced with the new infobox so we can have a unified appearance and always have the fields for certain important real-world facts, and the Street Fighter sub-box doesn't have the ridiculous trivia (gender? Height? Weight?) because it's unverifiable and wholly unencyclopedic. The reason that only a few characters have it is because I'm the only one converting infoboxes, and it's a very tedious job so I don't spend a lot of time doing it. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 14:26, 7 October 2006 (UTC) It's probably too late now you've changed the lot of them, but I'm a bit disappointed that doesn't have the stats. And birthdate's gone too. DavyJonesLocker 13:38, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I can do it. Danny Lilithborne 23:02, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Alright, I added the CVG info boxes for all the "major SF characters". I'll do the Final Fight ones later. Danny Lilithborne 01:26, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I ditched the inane biographical information which isn't even consistent in "official" sources, is almost always added to the article completely unsourced, and just plain doesn't have a place in an encyclopedia. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 16:20, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Actually it stop at SFIV not SFIII —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.188.4.4 (talk) 02:18, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Fancruft?
This article is nothing more than a glorified fictional biography of Ken Masters than an actual encyclopedic article about him as a video game character. It doesn't elaborate on his evolution as a second-player version of Ryu to a character in his own right besides a brief paragraph. It doesn't even bother mentioning how he attained the surname Masters. Then again, you can say the same thing about every Street Fighter article, but still. Jonny2x4 21:37, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree; you can add those things, although I'm not sure what kind of sources you can get for Ken's evolution as a character. Danny Lilithborne 21:38, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
 * The main problem with these Street Fighter articles (and most fighting game articles in general) is that they concentrate too much on the character's backstories than their actual playing style. If we ask ourselves honestly, do people really play Street Fighter for its plot? For example, just because his Street Fighter Alpha backstory established that Ken did not participate in the Street Fighter 1 tournament doesn't change the fact that he's still a playable character in the game. They also ignore how the character came to be created. The idea for Evil Ryu came from a Street Fighter Alpha manga, but no one would know that if we follow an in-universe perspective because the manga is non-canon Here's how I propose Ken's article.
 * His introduction in SF1 as the Player 2 version of Ryu.
 * His appearance in the SF2 series as a selectable character and how his fighting style began to deviate from Ryu.
 * His role in the Street Fighter Alpha and 3 games, and any influences from other media.
 * It's not that hard to construct a decent article about Ken Masters.Jonny2x4 02:53, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I hear you, but I think there should be a balance between the two. Wikipedia is not GameFAQs, either, and articles really shouldn't devote entire sections to the difference between Ken's Hadoukens in different SF games (to use an over-the-top example). (I don't have time to expound too much right now, but let's keep talking.) Danny Lilithborne 03:48, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm not suggesting to go that far. His backstory is still important, but it's there to supplement the game, not to override it. At the very least, it should mention how Ken's fighting style began favoring Shoryuken-based super moves (like the ShoryuReppa) in constrast to Ryu, who favors Hadoken-based super moves (like the Shinku Hadoken). Jonny2x4 20:07, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Ken Parodies?
Should there be a section for Ken parodies? I can think of a scene in Jackie Chan's City Hunter where apon falling into a Street Fighter 2 arcade machine, Jackie imagines the villain's blonde long-haired henchmen as Ken complete with SF2 theme music. I'm sure for such a recognisable character there are more. Or would this just be wasting space? CSkankRabbit 17:52, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
 * This is already in the Street Fighter II article and doesn't need to be mentioned anywhere else. JuJube 00:25, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Article's Name
Why is this article called "Ken (Street Fighter)" and not "Ken Masters"? I'm pretty sure it's Wikipedia policy to have the person's full name as the article name if it's known, and also to try to avoid names with brackets in them. --- Silent RAGE! 12:18, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Ask User:Mr.bonus. JuJube 12:44, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia also prefers using a person's, or more precisely in this case, a character's more common name. Virtually everyone in the series are more commonly referred by a single name, even those that do have full names like Ken and Sakura. Not even the instruction manuals bother referring to the characters by their full name. Jonny2x4
 * On the contrary it is my understanding Wikipedia would prefer a first name (abbreviated to the most common abreviation) and a surname for article names, and middle initial if commonly used. The hero of the Evil Dead series is never refered to in-series as Ash, but his official article here is Ash Williams. The characters of Final Fantasy are seldom mentioned with their surnames in game, many not at all, but all have their surnames present in their articles, common or not. For encyclopedic accuracy for such characters, a full name should be given if at all possible.--Kung Fu Man 05:03, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Jonny2x4 is right. That is my argument also. Articles with full names are wrong - I never knew Ash Williams was his name as I have never sat through an Evil Dead film. So why is the article title giving me extra information? The article should be titled Ash (Evil Dead) or something similar. If someone was talking about good film characters, they wouldn't say "I like Ash Williams", they would probably say "I like Ash from Evil Dead". Using less common names as article titles is silly. Mr.bonus 17:51, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
 * You managed to miss my point by about a mile. It's not encyclopedic: if it bothers you that much not to have a characters common first name and given surname in the title of an article. This has to do also with the fact that the title of an article should be the exact name given: stuff like "Ken (Street Fighter)" or "Ash (Evil Dead)" should only be used when there is no surname given at all. If you've really got a problem with this, feel free to hit every fictional character on this site and change it up. Come on back here when you're done.

Of course, that wouldn't be common sense. Nor is this here matching up to the standards set by the rest of wikipedia in terms of fictional articles.--Kung Fu Man 01:56, 21 January 2007 (UTC)


 * I don't care how many artiles have full names as titles. It is ridiculous to try and give extra information in article titles. The article titles should always be the name people know them by and not their full name. I suppose if there were two Tom Cruise's, instead of having Tom Cruise (actor), you would prefer Tom Cruise Mapother IV because apparently parenthesis should only be used as a last resort. Ridiculous. They should be used when it's right - ie - to basically say Ken from Street Fighter which is what everyone in the world refers to him as. Mr.bonus 15:28, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
 * The point is consistency with naming conventions. And to assume everyone calls him "Ken from Street Fighter" is your POV, which last I checked didn't belong in these articles.--Kung Fu Man 21:30, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I've chosen to actually disagree with your statements and move the page back to "Ken Masters". David Pro 10:16, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
 * This is generally not a good idea. Wait until the mediation ends. JuJube 00:10, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Ken's Name
Why does this article not mention the origin of Ken's last name, whereas Ken Carson does? Kouban 18:00, 22 March 2007 (UTC) Something else which I think merits inclusion is the fact that Ken's theme music opens with a hook virtually identical to Cheap Trick's Mighty Wings. Kouban 19:30, 23 March 2007 (UTC) Sabishii_Kage 00:03, 28 March 2007 (UTC) Sabishii_Kage 00:12, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
 * That information doesn't have an independent source. JuJube 22:05, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, I don't think anyone *will* find a primary source for that, unless they actually asked Capcom.
 * I've removed that way too many times. Without Capcom or the composers coming out and saying so, it shouldn't be here. JuJube 23:45, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
 * On the subject of explaining pronunciations, I'm (obviously) new to wikipedia contributing and did not mean to throw myself into any animasity but rather to simply help wondering fans pronounce the names of their favorite characters. Sorry if I was out of line.
 * Thanks for the contribution, but it's really not necessary. The games as of late have regularly voiced the names of the characters, and there is not much difference between the way "Ken" in pronounced in-game from the way "Ken" is pronounced in English.  And Ryu (Street Fighter) has a voice clip showing how the name is pronounced. JuJube 00:05, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I agree with you for the most part because I saw this with Ryu (the sound file) I only add pronunciations to those without them. But for the most part your right, I simply wanted to get into a little more detail is all. Thank you for being so patient. I certainly don't want to write any un-true material.
 * In fact, please feel free to look at any of my other contributions to see if I was out of line anywhere else. Thank you again.

I think something hasn't been considered: even without thinking about the common name/complete name debate, this article should still be named Ken Masters for disambiguation purpose. It can't simply be Ken, and Ken (Street Fighter) is overall less precise than Ken Masters. Kariteh 21:32, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

The Ken Carson article discusses this issue, and without attribution. This very page is named "Ken Masters" without mention of how this came about. Are you people really so focused on orthodoxy that you'll refuse to put in a blurb about Capcom and Mattel? 76.102.100.52 (talk) 00:09, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

If it helps, "Masters" is mentioned onscreen in both SF3:2nd Impact and SFA3. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.141.18.226 (talk) 15:43, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

Ken is a head swap
In Street Fighter One, Ken is not a strict head + palette swap. Ryu has booties or something while Ken is bare footed. The rest of the games it is true however. Borrada 15:34, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Recognized by his gloves?
idk about you but I have NEVER remotely heard of anyone being recognized by simple sparring gloves.

satsu no hadou/ken
why this power satu no hadou has not meant with ken yet? Sabishii_Kage 07:23, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Neither Ryu nor Ken were trained to use it. Ryu was naturally gifted with it. JuJube 01:08, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
 * The only reasons I can come to a conclusion with (besides JuJube's response) is that Ken is a little (if not a lot) more toned down with his training than Ryu is. This is true for many reasons: 1. He has always had a more rebelious/fun craving attitude than that of the completely training hellbount Ryu. 2. He has a wife and, as of recent, child to worry about unlike Ryu who has no true distractions. 3. Ken is satisfied with his lifestyle as in he knows his family, what they stand for and do, where he comes from, etc., unlike Ryu who has never known his family and the only man who could be considered family to him (besides Ken) was murdered. Which would mean all he really has to fall back on is fighting, which would explain why he would be (and has been) tempted to bring out the satsui no hadou through his rage during battle (cannonwise example being his fight with Sagat during the first Street Fighter Tournament) unlike Ken who, besides Ryu, has had no real rival face him.
 * Speaking realistically, "satsui no hadou" basically means the "surge of killing intent", and essentially stems from a belief that a fighter is only truly tapping into his abilities when he doesn't restrain himself from killing his opponent. It's sort of developed a mythology in the SF universe over the years, and has almost become some kind of mystical or spiritual force, I suppose, but, I digress. More or less, Ryu's fighting spirit and urge to win took over, and his "satsui no hadou" was awakened, turning him into a sort of enraged warrior without any sort of limitations holding back his abilities. One could probably simply assume that Ken's not willing to resort to murder in order to win a fight, while deep down, a part of Ryu is (or at least, was). WtW-Suzaku (talk) 12:33, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Move Protection
Please discuss the moves over at the Talk:Sakura (Street Fighter) before removing tags and moving pages. Dan Lander (talk) 02:37, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

violent ken
do violent ken have the satsui no hadou/ orochi power? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Allen jackson (talk • contribs) 17:57, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

"Violent Ken" is Ken under control of M. Bison (Vega), using the Psycho Power. Ken has yet to have an incarnation where he utilizes the Satsui no Hadō. 16:55, 28 October 2009 (UTC) Shin Kairi —Preceding unsigned comment added by 136.205.16.3 (talk)

Movies
The link for "Christian Howard" is not correct. It says that 'he' is a 'she' in the link. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.88.83.172 (talk) 02:21, 23 May 2010 (UTC) He's Ken, Howard is the character. Lg16spears (talk) 13:32, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

Protagonist
Ken is also a main character in the game series, i think he's a secondary one! Lg16spears (talk) 13:32, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Cool, find a source. Also, read what I said in Guile's talk page.  TheStickMan  [✆Talk] 14:34, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

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Where did Ken Masters grow up in the US?
I know he grew up, and lived in America, but where is he from? Is he from California? 68.197.64.93 (talk) 21:07, 1 November 2022 (UTC)