No, he won them both - just one was at home and one wasn't.

>> (Say, that would make a good premise for a movie. I'll have to
>>remember to pitch it to Ken next time I see him. "Support Your Local
>>Street Fighter", a screwball comedy about a young fighter, new to the
>>circuit, trying to get his neighborhood on side for his breakthrough
>>bout against the wandering champ. Maybe we could finally get Fei Long
>>to try comedy.)
>
>*BWAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!*

It'll be mentioned somewhere - maybe in 08, when they're in Hong Kong - that the first time Gryphon and Fei Long met, Gryphon mortified Zoner by admitting that, although a huge fan, G ultimately prefers Jackie Chan because Fei Long's movies aren't funny. Fortunately, Fei Long didn't take offense. In fact, it's conceivable that he agrees. :)

>Blanka. In a Sombrero. *Boggles at that mental image* Hmm, that was
>the fight he hosted at home? Was it the one he won, or lost?

That was the home fight, yeah - held in the playhouse because after about mid-October, it's really too cold to be doing it up at Bancroft Tower.

>>(Sgt. Janet Marshall got that call. She was... amused.)
>
>*snicker* I take it she's familiar with both G and his profession
>from past encounters then?

Yup, we saw Janet reffing for the "home" match at Bancroft Tower back in Battle 03. (She's erroneously described there as a WPI Campus Police officer - in fact she's with the City of Worcester PD. She's based partially on a WPI campus cop Zoner and I knew when we were at WPI, whose name I'm ashamed to admit I can't remember, and the rest on the character from Virtua Cop/Fighters Megamix.)

>>I wound up flat on my back in the center of the floor with
>>Cammy kneeling astride my hips, and she took advantage of my compromised
>>position quite shamelessly by pinning both my wrists to the floor and
>>obstructing my airway with hers.
>
>I suddenly have an inking that several of UF-g's sparing matches with
>Sumire ended much the same...

"All right, I apologize. I'm really, really sorry."

>> M. gave her a patient look. "You're angry with me. It's
>>understandable. I don't hold it against you, though I do hope one day
>>you'll grow up enough to recognize why I had to do what I did."
>> "Go to hell," Cammy shot back.
>> "I probably will," said M. imperturbably.
>
>*Sighs* How do you manage to both distill and convey the essances of
>a charecter so well G?

It helps that in this case, I'm standing on the shoulders of a giant. That characterization of M. wouldn't be there to capture without Dame Judi Dench's outstanding performances from GoldenEye on (and particularly in Casino Royale).

>Not to mention the thought of seeing Supergirl and Batman engaged in a
>passionate liplock, though I'm sure given the nature of the 'net there
>not only are such 'ship fics, but ones where they dont get
>'interupted'.

I'm not going to go check, but I wouldn't bet against it, particularly in light of the adversarial dynamic they introduced between those two when they brought Supergirl back in Superman/Batman a few years ago. Something about characters who dislike and distrust each other seems to switch something on in the fanfic brain. (I am not passing judgment on this. I've played with similar themes too. :)

>>We get our major gunsmithing done at a small shop in
>>Chicago, but cleaning, small repairs, and the occasional part
>>replacement are all things we handle ourselves.
>
>Eheh. But this isnt the first time you've mentioned that Rally,
>Minnie Mae (and probobly by extension, Bean) are around, is it? It
>doesnt feel *Where did THAT come from*

"Our gunsmith in Chicago" gets mentioned in Battle 05, too, when Gryphon's describing the Makarov he carries on "spy jobs". (He may also have mentioned learning to "drive angry" from a friend in Chicago at one point even further back; I know I considered mentioning that, but can't remember now if I actually did.)

I don't know if we'll ever see Our Friends in Chicago on screen, but if we do, we can expect the old inside-joke line, "You must be at least as tall as this line to ride the Gryphon," to appear.

>>I doubt any kid has ever had
>>such comprehensive instruction, not only on the nuts and bolts of how to
>>use weapons, but the whys and wherefores of -when- and -why- to use
>>them... and not to.
>
>You know, our own courner of the multiverse might be a better place if
>we required that sort of course of legitimate gun owners. My personal
>$.02, of course.

Yeah, oddly, when I got my concealed carry permit a few years ago, I had to prove I was technically competent to carry a firearm without accidentally shooting myself or someone else with it, but at no time did anyone actually ask whether I had sense enough not to haul it out and start blazing away in the middle of a crowd or anything. I would have thought that would come up at some point in the process, but it never did.

>Mostly because its their job to make sure it really is 'cool' and that
>your not brainwashed/intimidated/whatever. They worry because of
>either personal concern or professional paranoia, but the net result
>is the same.

Oh, she knows they mean well; it just gets on her nerves being asked the same freaky questions over and over. It's like, hello, we've had this conversation already? :)

>>The masked wrestlers
>>of Mexico, los luchadores, are a national institution, and Milmáscaras
>>is one of the places where they came from. In Japan I'd once visited a
>>village, out in the sticks near Nagano, where everyone in town was a
>>ninja. Milmáscaras was, I'd heard, a similar kind of thing, but with
>>luchadores.
>
>Or like the district of Tokyo where all the Sumo gyms are

Indeed, though Gryphon was picturing something like the Ibuki Clan's ninja village, in the event it turned out to be a lot more like Sumotown. Like he says a few grafs down, in the ninja village literally everybody is a ninja. The grannies, the little kids, the raccoon dogs, everybody. It's a little freaky. Cool, but freaky. :)

>> "Hi, I'm MegaZone," said Zoner, putting out a hand. "Lead
>>singer and driver of the Winnebago."
>> El Fuego looked puzzled, switching to English: "You have a band
>>too?"
>
>Well, not YET. Wouldnt surprise me in the future, though...

The joke in the studio is that that's how you can tell WL isn't UF; if it were, they'd have discovered in the first episode that Cammy was a bassist and spent the next two episodes searching for a drummer, until Sakura showed up, and now they'd be a street fighter band. :)

>LETS GET READY TO RUUUUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMMBBBBBBBLLLLLLLEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!
>Seriously, I dunno if its what you were aiming for, but in my head
>Ray's voice is the same one you hear at pro wrestling events.

Ah, the immortal Michael Buffer, long may he wave.

My mental image of Rey is actually a Hispanic version of the Young Elvis, more or less. Not in the sense of a professional Elvis impersonator, but a guy whose personal style is so much like the '50s Elvis anyway that he just went with it. That's why he's called "Rey" (Spanish for "King"), and his gang, naturally, are Los Reyes (and yes, that is a Fallout New Vegas reference). :)

>>El Fuerte went so completely over backward that he ended up flat on his
>>face. For a couple of seconds, nobody moved; even the hometown crowd
>>had gone silent.
>
>Hmm. Was that the move combo for "Murder"?

Nope, that wasn't Murder on the Orient Express. The Stark Fist of Removal doesn't have any kicks or throws, it's just a whole lot of punches - sort of a closed-fist version of E. Honda's Hundred-Hand Slap or Chun-Li's Lightning Kick. Murder is a much more complicated affair.

>> "Your friend sounds like she's done this before," I observed.
>> "Yeah, there was this big conspiracy at her school last year,
>>and - tell you what, ask me later,"
>
>Hope not only does SF-G remember to ask, but that we get to see it in
>print, cause at it sounds really interesting.

It's a reference to the plot of the game Hinata, Natsu, and Akira all come from (more about this in a sec).

>Yup. Martial arts Volleyball. Hang on... I have this feeling that
>Sakura's school friends are a crossover import that I'm not
>recognizing. GAH. Now this is gonna bug me till I figure it out or
>someone clues me in.

It came up earlier in this thread, but, those three are from another Capcom fighting game called Rival Schools United by Fate (also known as Justice Academy: Legion of Heroes), in which pretty much everyone is either a schoolboy/girl or teacher. Sakura was a bonus character in at least one version of it, and in subsidiary material (like the UDON Street Fighter comics) it's established that Hinata and Natsu are friends of hers. (They didn't mention Akira, but she's my favorite Rival Schools character, so I added her.)

>> Moving slowly and calmly, Akira zipped up her leather jacket,
>>then picked up my older brother Rey's motorcycle helmet from where he'd
>>left it hanging on the knob at the bottom of the stairs. Her voice was
>>very soft as she said something I couldn't understand to the men.
>
>"I am Akira Montoya. You have threated my charges, prepare to DIE"
>(aka, beware the quiet ones)

Actually, what she said was, "You guys have the wrong house," but since the narrator of that scene didn't speak Japanese, I didn't have any way of sharing that directly with the readers. :)

["Broke into the wrong God damn rec room THIS time, DIDN'T ya!"]

>Give that Luchedor a Ciiiigar! And also explains why Balrog was
>mentioned... Balrog IS that first 'boss' you face, the boxer, right?
>or has my memory become corrupted?

Yup. Shadolu's resident specialist in dumb muscle. He was really the only choice to lead the Milmáscaras operation; Vega would have considered it beneath him and probably caused a great deal more bloodshed, which could have led to a larger-scale public outcry, and Sagat would simply have considered it beneath him, full stop.

In WL, his full name is Joseph J. Tolkan - disgraced ex-heavyweight champ and all-around morally dubious guy. He used to be called "Buffalo Joe" in the fight game, but when he started making a name for himself for dirty fighting and seriously injuring his opponents, some particularly erudite sportswriter noticed his surname's resemblance to that of the fantasy author and nicknamed him after the biggest, meanest, but rather dumbest monster in said author's canon.

That's my explanation for why he's called Balrog and yet has an attack called the Mad Buffalo, anyway. It fits the setting better than the real reason, which is that he was called M. Bison in the Japanese version of Street Fighter II, and Capcom was afraid Mike Tyson would sue them when the game came to the States, so they switched a bunch of the bosses around. :)

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