the raging demon


what does it really do. he grabs the guy and u see flashes nad then he's knocked out. for anyone who doesnt know the raging demon is akimas trademark move.

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I got this from

http://db.gamefaqs.com/coinop/arcade/file/street_fighter_plot.txt

"What happens during the shungokusatsu is that they go to hell. The
demons in hell will attack the person even if they're sin free or not.
They're demons, they'll go at anything. But with evil characters, their
past sins will also haunt on top of the demons attacking them for that
split second. Gen survives this because he empties his spirit, heart and
mind. "Onore wo mu ni suru". "Mu" means emptiness, nothingness. One of the
reasons why Gouken has the kanji "Mu" on his back. It's really not about
how strong the person is but how tuned and focused they are with their mind
and soul."

The guy who wrote the above apparently got it from official Japanese plot guides, so I'm thinking he knows his stuff.

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It was also said that when Akuma did it to Bison in SSF2T, when you fight Akuma in Bison's stage, that Bison actually did get killed by the Raging Demon and it affected him even more because Bison has sinned a lot. Here's something from that same website:

" Why can Gen survive the Shun Goku Satsu while Bison couldn't? Bison's
more evil than Gen, needless to say. In fact, Bison's entire body is
filled with negative energy (since that's what Psycho Power is). This
makes him more vulnerable to the Shun Goku Satsu than Gen (much more so),
since the Shun Goku Satsu hurts you more if you have sinned more because it
drags you to hell and demons are attracted to sin. Also, Bison relies on
his Psycho Power for power. Gen, meanwhile, relies on meditation and
training, just like Akuma does. This makes Bison less able to empty his
mind in order to protect himself from the Shun Goku Satsu like Gen can,
because Gen is used to meditating and training in the mind to empty it.
Or, at least, I'm pretty sure that's it."

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This also explains why Akuma is also unaffected by Gen's Zanei and why Evil Ryu is unaffected by the Raging Demon (as seen in the Street Fighter Alpha 3 intros Akuma vs. Gen and Evil Ryu vs. Akuma).

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That's pretty cool. I wonder now. Why isn't one of the Demons that attack the victim of the Shun Goku Satsu a boss character in the series? Going against something like that would be awesome!

Welcome to my Nightmare- Freddy Krueger

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