How Rufus Became Street Fighter's MOST HATED Character

I didn't realize that the King Cobra beta design was suppose to be Rufus 😭😭😭😭 that just makes me hate him even more 💀💀💀

I remember I saw an old comment that said Ken was how Japan viewed the U.S in the 90's Rufus was how they viewed us now

The worst part is Rufus is a totally salvagable character. He's a hyperactive, overweight tourist who loves kung-fu. That's basically just Po from Kung-Fu Panda and people love that character. Give him clothes that fit him properly, tone down the stupid just a smidge so he's not accusing Dhalsim of being an alien and just make him the hype man of anyone who it makes sense in world (Celebrity fighters like Zangief and Fei Long, for example). This is a guy who is traveling the world with his girlfriend, seeing the sights and meeting his heroes, dude is having a BLAST and showing some of that positive energy would make him way more fun to watch than his annoying "I'm the best, check me out" attitude he's currently sporting. Making Candy a fight announcer could be a good way to get her involved in his hobby a bit more than just being arm-candy (heh), what little of their relationship we see seems quite happy and healthy. I guess what I'm saying here is just make Rufus into Street Fighter Jack Black. I could take or leave the one-sided rivalry with Ken, although seeing him drop it because of the state Ken is currently in would be fun growth... and having him lose to some blonde popeye-armed whataburger lover only for him to become obsessed with getting that runback would be a hilarious punchline.

Rufus is the fighting game character equivalent of stretching a hilarious 5 minute sketch into a boring 2 hour movie.

And the worst but funny part, Justin got results with Rufus.

I think that Goldlewis from GGST is a much better "fat american" character for the sole reason that he's not a joke and a pain to look at.

Well when their overarching goal was to craft a character as aesthetically unappealing as possible and whose personality was an exaggerated hodgepodge of offensive stereotypes, can Capcom really be surprised at his reception? They succeeded in making the character they wanted, for better or worse.

The funny thing is that Rufus would be easy to salvage. focus more on the fact that he is actually pretty serious about his martial arts, has a guenuinely loving relationship with his girlfriend (though they're bot idiot), give him a outfit and hairstyle that's better. basically make him more of a funny idiot than a obnoxious idiot.

The funny thing right now is that when you research king “Rufus” Cobra (the early design) you find that his fighting is style is break fu (break dance with kung fu). Then if we go foward to the present, street fighter 6 in the other hand you can realize that Jamie siu is actually Rufus and king cobra mix because Jamie has Rufus hair style and he has drunken boxing and that is Chinese kenpo with break dance mix. In other words this king cobra is actually Jamie so we always wanting king cobra in street fighter. LOL

"I knew I made you my girl for a reason, honeypants!" Rufus

I hated Rufus because they scrapped King Kobra for this abomination.....

I feel like if they bring Rufus is back they need to bring back Sean. The supposed rival and supposed disciple of ken forming a weird friendship with each other

Space Opera Symphony is a cool ass name for a move, too bad it got wasted on Rufus.

Rufus' only purpose is to showcase the skin deformation animation capabilities of Dimps.

I still find it amazing that Rufus’s voice actor, Christopher Smith, would end up later voicing G whom became one of the most beloved characters in the series yet POWER TO THE PEOPLE OF EARTH!

One on hand, I'm surprised that they didn't bring up how Rufus was inspired by how Bob was dominating Tekken 6 in arcades, on the other, I'm not because who the hell even remembers that. It was a "joke" that stopped making sense after T6 was released on consoles and Bob was fixed. If you didn't know, it's the fighting game equivalent of watching one of the Scary Movie series without understanding any of the references. But like, somehow even unfunnier.

Rufus was one of the reason why I stopped and looked at the arcade machine back in the day as a kid. that's how i got into playing SF4.

Their barbaric rufus Our glorious dan

Rufus had a good gameplay design. J wong showed his strength

I'm still mad King Cobra was scrapped