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Who is Alex and why is he so angry?

Alex is a long-time Ryu SF4 player dating back to Vanilla, with well over 15,000 matches played in arcades, online and local tournaments including most recently Shadowloo Showdown 2013. He can often be found in the bowels of an arcade yelling expletives at Akuma, Cammy and Seth players.

Main: Ryu
Alt(s): E.Ryu, Ken
GFWL: Gigadeath22
PSN: Gigadeath22

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  1. Stop being so discriminant against the twins. There are plenty of characters you love; Geif, Hawk, Chun (you know the one I'm talking about), etc.

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