Street Fighter: Moving Forward -Invincible Eagle

Street Fighter: Moving Forward is a series of sprite edits I plan to do whenever I have ideas and time to apply them. Basically these are my ideas for new characters and updates of the characters moving on. No real specific time period, but mainly I was inspired by SF 5's drastic changes and wish to share mine.

First up, we have Invincible Eagle aka Noboru Takayama. I loved Skullomania back in the day and am sad we'll never see him again since he's not a Capcom character, but rather an Arika-owned character. I wanted to take the basic idea of a Tokusatsu-themed street fighter and run with it. I made him an actual martial artist rather than an inspired salesman and with my recent renewed interest in Kamen Rider, let my mind wander.

I chose Shito-ryu mainly due to it being extremely fast, powerful and flashy. I felt those elements would work nice with a super hero.

Also, going with some of the elemental themes we see in many Street Fighters (fire being the most common) I felt that since he emulated the eagle, he could be wind based.

Like it? Hate it? Let me know!  Thanks for viewing!

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This is merely fan art made to celebrate Capcom's latest entry into the Street Fighter library, I don't intend to profit off of this, I'm just a humble fan showing my appreciation for the mythos. I'm sprite editing under the intent and purpose to honour Capcom with respect to Capcom's fan-work policy. Thank you and good day. The sprite sources (Eagle, Noboru, edited portrait, logo and Earth are copyright Capcom).