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Ken Masters has a Ryu Number of 50.

(clarification below)

First things first; yes, obviously, Ken Masters has an actual Ryu Number of 1.

This April Fools’ post is primarily inspired by this tweet from the Twitter account, where Ken’s Ryu Number was maximized to 21 under the limitation of one character per franchise to avoid trivial extensions.

So, naturally, when @jenni-e-doodles sent in the above tongue-in-cheek ask also in August of 2021, I decided to take a stab at it myself with the justification of April Fools’ and the additional limitation of one link per franchise, partially to avoid bouncing back and forth between entries of crossover series and partially just to see if I could.

Admittedly, I did stretch the definition of "franchise", especially with regard to real life people. I generally interpreted that as "sphere of relevance", and even then by far the dodgiest is probably not counting Brock Lesnar and Masahiro Chono under one category of professional wrestling. (In my defense, they had exactly one match together, even if said match was a three-way for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship that Lesnar won as his debut, and Lesnar's brief but notable stint in UFC makes him relevant in the MMA sphere, which cannot be said for Chono, even when that actually was true for some of his NJPW colleagues.)

I also tried to use links that had no noteworthy caveats at all, and came real close: Code Shifter's a bit iffy since all the characters in question are technically data for an in-universe game called Colorful Fighters. The ruling per the Twitter account FAQ is that the eligibility of in-universe media depictions is answered by the question “How lazy is it?”, which probably falls in Code Shifter’s favor since, past the part where it’s explicitly an ArcSys crossover first and foremost, you can outright play Colorful Fighters in Code Shifter.

Still, had I caught this earlier, I probably would have rerouted the whole thing to avoid it. (As it happened, I worked out it that it would probably require rerouting past at least Reimu, which was more effort than I was willing to put in at that point. Oops.)

All in all, I’m quite surprised that I not only hit my initial ambitious goal of 50, but probably had room for a few more. (You might notice a few blog staples are conspicuously missing.) This took an unconscionable amount of effort to plan and put together, but I’m glad it’s resonated as well as it has.

And while it wasn’t my intention in the slightest, I apparently did manage to actually fool at least one person.

So that’s neat, I guess.

In order, the characters used are:

Ken Masters (Street Fighter)

Strider Hiryu (Strider)

Iron Man (Iron Man/Marvel Comics)

Darth Vader (Star Wars)

Taki (Soulcalibur/Soul)

Morrigan Aensland (Darkstalkers)

Etna (Disgaea)

Toro Inoue (Doko Demo Issyo/Sony Interactive Entertainment)

Kratos (God of War)

Shovel Knight (Shovel Knight)

Dust (Dust: An Elysian Tail)

Guy Spelunky (Spelunky)

Meat Boy (Meat Boy)

Sash Lilac (Freedom Planet)

Gunvolt (Gunvolt)

Shantae (Shantae)

Abe (Oddworld)

Cthulhu (Lovecraftian/Cthulhu Mythos)

Hercules (Greek/Roman/Classical mythology)

Baba Yaga (Slavic folklore)

King Graham (King's Quest)

Leonardo (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)

Garfield (Garfield)

Nyan Cat (Internet memes)

Link (The Legend of Zelda)

Sonic the Hedgehog (Sonic the Hedgehog)

Vyse (Skies of Arcadia)

Selvaria Bles (Valkyria Chronicles)

Akira Yuki (Virtua Fighter)

Ryu Hayabusa (Ninja Gaiden)

Joan of Arc (French history)

Mario (Mario)

Shaquille O'Neal (NBA/basketball)

Brock Lesnar (WWE/US professional wrestling/UFC/mixed martial arts)

Masahiro Chono (NJPW/Japanese professional wrestling)

Kazuma Kiryu (Yakuza)

Lucina (Fire Emblem)

Abraham Lincoln (US history)

Batman (Batman/DC Comics)

Hellboy (Hellboy)

Negan Smith (The Walking Dead)

Heihachi Mishima (Tekken)

Don-chan (Taiko no Tatsujin)

Reimu Hakurei (Touhou)

Louise de La Vallière (The Familiar of Zero)

Super Sonico (Nitroplus)

Heart Aino (Arcana Heart)

Ragna the Bloodedge (BlazBlue)

Baiken (Guilty Gear)

Haohmaru (Samurai Shodown)

Ryu (Street Fighter, again)

and the links used are:

Street Fighter Alpha 2 (Street Fighter)

Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 (Marvel vs. Capcom)

Disney Infinity 3.0 (Disney Infinity/Disney)

Soulcalibur IV (Soulcalibur/Soul)

Namco × Capcom (Namco, Capcom)

Cross Edge

Disgaea 2: Dark Hero Days (Disgaea)

PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale (Sony Interactive Entertainment)

Shovel Knight: Shovel of Hope (Shovel Knight)

Cook, Serve, Delicious!

Dust: An Elysian Tail

Super Meat Boy (Meat Boy)

Indie Pogo

Runbow

Blaster Master Zero (Blaster Master)

Mutant Mudds Super Challenge (Mutant Mudds)

#IDARB

SMITE

Rock of Ages II: Bigger & Boulder (Rock of Ages)

Hoyle's Official Book of Games: Volume 3 (Hoyle's Official Book of Games)

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5 (Tony Hawk)

Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl (Nickelodeon/Nicktoons)

Scribblenauts Unlimited (Scribblenauts)

Sonic Lost World (Sonic the Hedgehog)

Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed (Sega All-Stars/Sega)

Valkyria Chronicles

Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax (Dengeki Bunko)

Dead or Alive 5 (Dead or Alive)

Warriors Orochi 3 (Warriors Orochi)

Mario's Time Machine (Mario)

NBA Street V3 (NBA)

UFC Undisputed 2010 (UFC)

Wrestle Kingdom (Japanese professional wrestling)

Yakuza Kiwami 2 (Yakuza)

Project X Zone 2 (Project X Zone)

Code Name: S.T.E.A.M.

The LEGO Movie Videogame (LEGO)

Injustice 2 (Injustice/DC Comics)

Brawlhalla

Tekken 7 (Tekken)

Family Tennis Advance (Family Tennis/Family Sports)

Taiko no Tatsujin: Rhythmic Adventure 2 (Taiko no Tatsujin)

Nendoroid Generation (Nendoroids)

Super Heroine Chronicle

Nitroplus Blasterz: Heroines Infinite Duel (Nitroplus)

BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle (BlazBlue, others)

Code Shifter (Arc System Works)

Samurai Shodown (2019) (Samurai Shodown)

Capcom vs. SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium 2001 (Capcom vs. SNK/Capcom, SNK)

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