Street Fighter's iconic leading man, Ryu, has appeared in various slightly altered states over his long and illustrious video game career, from his original red-headed form in 1987's Street Fighter to Street Fighter 2's classic variant, Fortnite's shiny cartoon character model and his recent appearance in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
However, none of these relatively minor tweaks to his iconic look could have prepared any of us for how he appears when filtered through a fancy Google algorithm.
As reported by VG247, Twitter user @Siberian_644 has used Google AI to recreate the Endless Challenger, and a bunch of his Street-fighting pals, with the results turning out...well...have you had your tea yet?
Let's...let's take a look.
Eh. So, Ryu and Necalli are both looking a little bit worse for wear here, a wee bit like they might have hit the bar for a few days after their last victories.
Ryu and Necalli might be looking rough but, as you can see, both Ken and Laura are looking pretty decent, especially Laura who's actually turned out really well, is totally recognisable and doesn't appear as though she's recovering from a very long weekend.
Both Cammy and Balrog are doing just fine too, if anything Balrog looks like he's been de-aged, or maybe he just drank an entire bottle of moisturiser.
And Guile, Guile is looking absolut...he...he kind of looks like beefcake Gary Busey.
There are some absolute horrors in here too, let's have a gander at some of the worst ones.
Zangief and Gill looking like...you know what, maybe everyone should just stay away from Zangief and Gill right now, they look they're having quite a hard time. Just quietly walk away.
Ok, we need to go lie down for a while but make sure to check out @Siberian_644's Twitter account for more of these atrocities if you don't quite feel sated.
Which of these Street Fighters made flesh were your favourites? Let us know below.
[source vg247.com, via twitter.com]
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Ken and Gill remind me of the album cover for Poison’s Look What The Cat Dragged In.
Some of these actually look good. so when is AI going to make there own movie? 🤔
Guile looks like the ultimate Chad lol
@JayJ GigaChad
Ryu looks like a forlorn Ralph Macchio, and Guile looks like a less broken Gary Busey.
....I can't mess with this Google AI myself can I? >.>
Hahahahahhahabababahah wauwwwww.
Pees in my pants.
Hilarious!
Gill's face just screams "I wanna go home"
Guille reminds me of those two dumb twins off tiktok
Necalli looks way better than Ken.
Laura's not completely terrifying. The others, however...
Why does E. Honda look like a drunken Eric Schmidt?
I expected worse, to be honest.
Classic zangief
That’s not Ryu, that’s a Hobbit.
That’s not Zangief, that’s Quentin Tarantino.
Zangief Tarantino is definitely the best one for me. LMAO The eyes and those sideburns... wtf, oh wait that's a mullet, it turned his beard into a mullet, not sideburns.
M. Bison is a long way off from M. Tyson! 😂
They look like from a horror movie, and not a good one.
@samuelvictor Guess I'll figure it out eventually, then. Brought up Google AI's site and couldn't find anything. lol
@Unit_DTH Such an unexpected delight scrolling down and seeing that beautiful boy. Really good mullet design, robot.
In their Twitter you can see Chun Li, which turned out pretty good just like Laura
Haha, I think the ai broke when it got to Cody. Copy paste it is then.
Balrog (M.Bison) does look like Samuel L. Jackson. Am I the only one?
Hahahahahaha that zangief! 🤣 I needed a good laugh today
@samuelvictor I think you could be right.
Personally, every male character (with the exception of Zangief and Guile) looks slightly feminine
Zangief looks like Mr. Bean!
@samuelvictor Links should be fine, I guess it depends on the link itself. Anyways some complex software I've messed with I get used to pretty quickly. lol
@samuelvictor clicks on link
...Oh...code. >.>
Well anyways I'll mess with it later. xD
Lol the zangief one is hilarious but the Laura one looks pretty accurate, have they tried akuma?
lol hilarious those Pictures
Guile looks like Gary Busey.
@JayJ He looks like he just soiled his pants.
Am I the only person that expected “street fighter stars” to be the dizzy stars?
Guile looks like a constipated Rick Astley, and Ryu went from Japanese to vaguely Indian.
Laura and camy are beautiful.But the male just look hilarous.
Sneak peak at new character models for SF6.
This is hilarious. Ryu and Ken look oddly feminine, Guile looks like Jake Paul, and Gill became Meat Loaf in drag.
All I can muster is a chuckle and WTF😂
Ok, AI has officially gone too far. Google's entering mad-scientist, "I sewed a human head onto a cuttlefish's body because I could, mwahahaha!" levels of out-of-control here.
So that's where Netflix gets their casting ideas from!
Even computer AI is unsure what to make of Ken's hair.
Look at that they did to my boy, Guile.
Ken actually looks the best lol.
Had myself a field day laughing at how bad Google's algorithm performed to convey real-life models of the SFV characters, lmao.
Laura turned out okay... the rest, not so much.
Did they have female slider pushed to the wrong side for some of these?
Ah yes, my favourite characters... Neckbeard Mr Bean, and Angry Boxing baby.
WTF? Laura actually looks Brazilian!
Also why are all the brown skinned characters looking like Indian? That is very bizarre.
Confirmed, Ryu is actually Karate Kid's Daniel-san, and Guile came back from the future, I guess.
Does this mean Karate Kid, BttF and SF are set in the same universe?!?
Nightmare fuel. I love it.
Guile is Gary Busey?!?
Beefcake Busey!
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