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Line 1: {{trope}} [[File:~~Hadoken_Shoryuken_by_el_grimlock~~Hadoken Shoryuken by el grimlock.jpg\|link=Street Fighter\|right]] {{quote\|''"More fireballs? Geez... [[Lampshade Hanging\|They're pretty popular around here lately."]]''\|'''Zangief''', ''[[Street Fighter IV]]''}} Line 6: {{quote\|''"Just how many of you Hadoken-throwers are there, anyway?"''\|'''Fei Long''' on Gouken, ''[[Street Fighter IV\|Super Street Fighter IV]]''}} Perhaps the most basic form of [[Fighting Game]] character. Usually [[Jack of All Stats]], this fighter's two most notable [[Special Attack~~\|Special Attacks~~]]s are a fireball or other projectile attack, and a rising physical attack, usually an uppercut (The standard versions of these are the [[Energy Ball\|Hadouken]] and [[Shoryuken]]). Wearing a ''gi'' or headband is optional. As you may have guessed, this character is essentially "inspired by" Ryu, the protagonist of the ''[[Street Fighter]]'' series. Note that having a projectile and something vaguely resembling an uppercut will get this label slapped on a character regardless of which moves are actually their most notable (A "true" Shotoclone also uses the same Quarter-Circle Forward and Dragon Punch (Forward+QCF) joystick motions respectively). The term [['''Shotoclone]]''' comes from the English localization of ''[[Street Fighter]] II'' for the Super NES, which identified the fighting style used by [[Ryu and Ken]] as Shotokan Karate in the instruction manual. The martial art of Ryu and Ken has never been given a proper name in the Japanese versions (or in the games themselves), although the back-story in later games reveals that Gouken (Ryu and Ken's master) developed the fighting style from the original assassination art he learned with his brother Akuma from their master Goutetsu. For the record, Ryu and Ken's original moveset is largely based on Shotokan karate (no, not the special moves!), while in later games Ken's technique - notably his kicks - moved towards Kyokushin, in a textbook example of [[Divergent Character Evolution]]. The Japanese term "Ansatsuken" (literally "assassination art", a martial art made for killing) has been [[Blind Idiot Translation\|misinterpreted]] by English-speaking fans as the name of Ryu and Ken's fighting style and has replaced "Shotokan" in recent localizations as the name of Ryu and Ken's style. Despite this, "ansatsuken" is not the actual name of Ryu and Ken's specific fighting style but a Japanese neologism commonly used in many martial art-related fiction to classify any hand-to-hand style with the capability of causing the death of an opponent. Gen's distinctively non-"Shoto" style has also earned the "Ansatsuken" classification as well in the Japanese continuity. The term actually predates even the first ''Street Fighter'' game, being used in ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'' to describe Hokuto Shinken, the martial art used by Kenshiro to cause his opponent's heads to explode.

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