Meet the new Street Fighter: El Fuerte

50 Comments by Justin McElroy Mar 13th 2008 12:15PM
Filed under: Fighting

As you probably already guessed from the illustration, El Fuerte is a luchador in the lucha libre style of Mexican wrestling. But now, he's trading the glitz and glamor of the ring for the newly-3D world of Street Fighter IV, as the third character to be announced for the game.

But El Fuerte isn't just another bag of muscles, he's a sensitive aesthete, who "divides his professional life between Lucha Libre wrestling and gourmet cooking." So, he's like Alton Brown, if Alton Brown could crack your skull open like a walnut? ... Color us petrified.

Tags: capcom, street-fighter-iv, streetfighter4, streetfighteriv

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xFenixKnightx: Mar 13th 2008; 12:21PM

Me gusta!!! Latino Heat baby!!

I cant wait to get my hands on this game!

xFenixKnightx: Mar 13th 2008; 1:22PM

In other Capcom and SF related news, via IGN

Two Capcom titles have been granted special permission to ignore Microsoft's restrictions.

Both Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix and Bionic Commando Rearmed will exceed 150MB. Capcom said that Rearmed holds far too much content to fit the current limits. To meet standards, Rearmed would need to shed some of the bonus material that would still appear on the PlayStation Network and PC versions. According to Capcom, SFII could not run in 1080p if not for Microsoft loosening the file size cap.

Carlos: Mar 13th 2008; 1:30PM

but... this is Street fighter IV none of the games you talked about.

xFenixKnightx: Mar 13th 2008; 1:58PM

Do you not see the correlation? I'm utterly and completely vexed on this one.

Raikage (LDF CRAB BATTLE!!!): Mar 13th 2008; 3:02PM

I'd buy this... If they renamed him El Scorcho...

The red-head said you shred the chello...
And I'm jello baby...

copa: Mar 13th 2008; 12:21PM

I think I liked him better the first time, when he was called Vega.

Mr.ESC: Mar 13th 2008; 12:26PM

Vega is a he? I thought it was androgynous.

J/K.

colin: Mar 13th 2008; 4:36PM

in the alpha series, i thought vega was a she. yun also looked like a female at first glance.

Mr.ESC: Mar 13th 2008; 12:23PM

A chanfle es el Mucho Grande!!!

Actually I like it but I think they are copying VF5 on this but thinking about it every fighting game out there now has at least one Lucha Libre fighter.

THE WICKER MAN (BWF) (GT: Dalek Prime): Mar 13th 2008; 12:46PM

I agree. REY REY!!!!!

upz: Mar 13th 2008; 3:38PM

I was just thinking the same thing. First El Blaze in VF5, now El Fuerto in SFIV... And next, announcing La Palma for Soul Calibur IV, the palm frond wielding, restaurant opening, luchadore Mayan with a passion for good fights and good food!

Kewlrats: Mar 13th 2008; 12:25PM

He's the Emeril of Street Fighter IV.

BAM!
SHORYURRITO to your FACE!
Now TRY MY BURRITO!

ViagraFiend: Mar 13th 2008; 2:04PM

Whos Emeril? Dont you mean Elazar?

Knock it up a notch? Bam? No?

Max Headroom: Mar 14th 2008; 11:47AM

Haha. Elazar is a parady of Emeril Lagasse.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emeril

Mr.ESC: Mar 13th 2008; 12:28PM

Now if you excuse me I have to make fun of the spanish used in Bleach.

Mucho grande,Jajaja.

Zertoss: Mar 13th 2008; 12:31PM

He should see a doctor. His arms appear to be gushing black blood at an alarming rate. The fact that the blood is black also raises red flags.

PojoMofo: Mar 13th 2008; 12:33PM

It is just ink from all his fake tattoos

ballistic3188: Mar 13th 2008; 12:32PM

okay now we need to answer the eternal question

Zangief or el fuerte in a one on one wrestling match who would win?

my money is on the huge bag of steroids that is zangief

PojoMofo: Mar 13th 2008; 12:34PM

are we sure this pic wasnt stolen from a Nacho Libre 2 movie trailer?

Count Noobula: Mar 13th 2008; 12:37PM

Just to let you guys know: I am in the game too!

Mr.ESC: Mar 13th 2008; 12:42PM

Count Chocula is in the game? Sweet I hope they include Frankenberry Boo berry and Captain crunch too.

Captain Crunch the only fighter with bones that stay crunchy even in blood.

Geo: Mar 13th 2008; 12:43PM

is Vega going to be in STFIV...??

Mr.ESC: Mar 13th 2008; 12:47PM

Probably I mean Balrog A.K.A M. Bison and Sagat were confirmed already.

I wonder if we'll see SFIII Alpha yada yada fighters in SFIV.

shawn: Mar 13th 2008; 12:46PM

"he's a sensitive aesthete, who "divides his professional life between Lucha Libre wrestling and gourmet cooking." So, he's like Alton Brown, if Alton Brown could crack your skull open like a walnut?..."

so hes more like a mexican chef Gordon Ramsay.

yoink: Mar 13th 2008; 12:48PM

looks kinda cool, although zangief covers enough of the wrestler style. I hated R. Mika in alpha 3. hope he plays different.

Wilson: Mar 13th 2008; 1:00PM

if it wasn't for those stars on his forehead, he'd look a lot like El Santo. El Santo is fucking awesome, he fought vampires, mummies and pretty much everything.

Fernando Rocker: Mar 13th 2008; 1:05PM

Oh yes.

Mr.ESC: Mar 13th 2008; 1:11PM

El Santo counted to infinity 3 times.

The reason why there is no life in Mars is because El Santo killed all the Martians...with one hand.

El Santo ate more chicken wings than anyone in record.

El Santo beat chuck Norris, twice.

El Santo can divide by 0.

El Santo can kill you 500 times before you touch the floor using only 2 fingers.

El Santo knows meaning of life.

El Santo travels through the universe fighting evil.

(I can go on with this)

He also fought Nazi's, Mummies, Martians, Terrorists, Hercules and I'm not sure but I think he also beat Godzilla.

Fernando Rocker: Mar 13th 2008; 1:27PM

And more...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santo

Wilson: Mar 13th 2008; 5:39PM

El Santo should be included as Last Boss on every Fighting game EVER

jelipe: Mar 13th 2008; 1:00PM

Dey tuk er jebs!

Freelance: Mar 13th 2008; 1:02PM

"I'm not a monster. It's only a mask!"

Nigeria: Mar 13th 2008; 1:53PM

"Look. I'm a cleaner. I can feel no remorse from seeing a dead body. To me, it's merely cold, rotting flesh."

deadpool: Mar 13th 2008; 1:30PM

all his fingers are the same length

bm: Mar 13th 2008; 3:40PM

I was about to say the same thing.

It's even weirder though, from the way they're spread, for his index finger and pinky to still be at the same level, it would have to mean those two fingers are actually longer than the rest. Freaky. D:

I was going to say it might be foreshortening from the middle two fingers if he hold them in a sorta halfway throwing up the horns fashion, but the other hand looks sorta oddly drawn too, so I'm not sure.

...That's way too much text over nothing.

2-d: Mar 13th 2008; 1:37PM

Why is this game even being made? It's looks so bad.

*KOFXII*

bm: Mar 13th 2008; 3:41PM

Gesundheit.

Geo: Mar 13th 2008; 1:45PM

El Cabron sounds better.....

xFenixKnightx: Mar 13th 2008; 1:59PM

Haha, yea!

sure: Mar 13th 2008; 1:48PM

lucha libre y cocinero?

fuck you, capcom.

really.

Hostile: Mar 13th 2008; 2:26PM

All the new characters don't do ANYTHING for me. They feel like nobodies similar to the SF3 cast. I wonder why I took to most of the characters before SF3 though...

bm: Mar 13th 2008; 3:47PM

Nostalgia? Also, I agree with you. SF3 for the most part had great, imaginative characters. These just purely seem attempts to fit into the whole "SF2 in 3D!!!" thing, somehow.

CB: Mar 13th 2008; 3:32PM

I love their concept art style!

yojimb0: Mar 13th 2008; 3:47PM

Wow, ripping off virtua fighter much?

WiNG: Mar 13th 2008; 4:29PM

People complained about the characters in SFIII, but honestly at least they TRIED that time.

Let's see...

SFIV:
-luchadores or whatever the word is (i.e. masked wrestler)
-French wrestler
-business suit SNK ripoff mecha lady

SFIII:
-teenage ninja
-1920s style robot
-elemental Fabio
-female karate kid
-twins
-african dance diva

Johnny: Mar 13th 2008; 7:09PM

So When is Rey Mysterio going to get a royalty check?

He's in atleast 3 fighting games now.

619

Batzarro: Mar 13th 2008; 9:12PM

Having trouble naming your masked Lucha Libre wrestler? Don't wanna go looking for a Spanish dictionary? Suffer no more! With my patented "El" system, you can make any random word into an awesome and totally believable wrestler name*! Just add "El" to whatever comes out of a drug addicts mouth, and you got it. Watch!
-El Blaze
-El Fuerte
-El Toro Fuerte
-El Keeper of the Reaper

Try it!

*May not work on hispanic speakers, because "el" is just "the/he".

Zegim: Mar 13th 2008; 11:16PM

True. El Fuerte sounds ankward for a native spanish speaker (that's me).

If only he didn't look so awesome, I'd complain about that.

Batzarro: Mar 13th 2008; 11:50PM

Akward name quibbles aside, he looks like a good character. It reminds me of SF2's dynamic of putting different fighter archetypes from around the world in. Though, this probably quashes any hope of Mika being in, someone from Capcom already said console versions might have different characters from the series, specifically quoting Sakura and Ibuki.