Ryus first appearance in the original Street Fighter replaced the red headband with a white one and depicted him with bright red hair, gray eyes, and red slippers.

In the Street Fighter Alpha series, Ryus hair became a lighter shade of brown, and he retained the white headband which hearkens back to his appearance in the first Street Fighter.

Ryu would not canonically receive his red headband until after a sparring session with Ken during this timeline.

He is a man of Japanese descent, who was trained with Ken under the tutelage of Gouken.

Ryu entered the World Warrior Tournament and won all the matches until he met Sagat; the two battled until Ryu was defeated.

Sagat gave out his hand to help Ryu up when he gave into the Satsui no Hado.

Ryu utilized a Metsu Shoryuken on Sagat scarring his chest and winning him the match.

After discovering his dark side, Ryu follows the path of warrior, looking for strong opponents while trying to keep the evil in him at bay.

While it may have the same moveset, it opts for more custom gameplay, but possibly takes cues from later installments of the franchise.

SNK 2 in general, Ryu features all of his moves prior to Street Fighter IV and a variety of Groove-specific mechanics without the Groove select; as if Normal Ryu wasnt enough, also included are Evil and Master variants that both sport their own unique traits.

It uses six buttons, has no strikers, and arguably has faster and better comboing than the source.

One must be able to defeat its aerial rave to stand a chance, but this isnt too hard, as it lacks an A.I.

Capcom: The Match of the Millennium, this version of Ryu has a very interesting version of the Mode Change hyper from Marvel vs Capcom that allows him to change his moveset to Kens or Akumas -like usual, but also having the ability to change his moveset into Dans.

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