From: KamikazePotato | #022
Well, Ryu/Ken is mostly a rivalry that came about through out-of-game means. Ryu and Ken are rivals in the SF lore, yeah, but who cares about the SF lore? It was mostly a Player 1 vs. Player 2 thing. If you play SF2 main mode it doesn't end with a climactic fight between rivals; the rivalry is just sort of 'there'. It's still Top 5 rivalry ever, but yeah.
Eh, I don't know if that was entirely true. It's probably just because I was a kid who grew up with Street Fighter, but there was always a "Who do you like better: Ryu or Ken?" underlying thing there, even when SF wasn't huge on story.
It does more than "sort of exist." There's a reason why Bacon picked it as one of the example rivalries you could nominate.
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