Street Fighter V Concept Art Tribute: Raven

As tribute to the wonderful collection of concept art of Street Fighters not in SFV and the series many, many MANY, support characters (see here www.fightersgeneration.com/gam…) and Capcom's attempt to flesh them all out a little  (see here game.capcom.com/cfn/sfv/column…), I would like to do a homage with a Street Fighter character that probably will not see the light of day in artwork, Raven.

Raven, like Captain Sawada was a character in Street Fighter: The Movie (the Van Damme/Julia one) played by former martial arts champ and the films fight coordinator, Benny "The Jet" Urquidez. In the actual movie, Raven was the bit player's bit player, he mad the likes of Sawada and Blanka look like they had staring roles. He didn't speak, he disappeared in the movie's first hour and he didn't even have a name. It was only during production of the Arcade version of SFTM: The Game (the one with the Bison Troopers) that a member of staff wanted Benny to be in the game, so Raven was born. Unfortunately, the makers of the game (Incredible Technologies) ran out of time so Raven (along with Fei Long, Gen, Shen Long, MEGAMAN! and initially Blanka and Dee Jay) were left on the cutting room floor.

I may try my hand at a bio for him, but for now a picture will do.