Hadouken
lit. „surge fist”
The blue energy projectile attack performed by Street Fighter's Ryu and Ken — and the pose / shout copied by every kid who watched anyone else play.
Origine
Street Fighter II (Capcom, 1991) is one of the most important arcade games ever made — it founded the modern fighting-game genre, made the special-move quarter-circle input a universal control gesture, and turned head-to-head competitive gaming into a thing. Ryu and Ken are nearly identical karate fighters whose signature move is the Hadouken — both hands cupped forward, shout 'Hadouken!', a blue fireball flies out. The kids who played Street Fighter II in 1991 are now in their forties and still do the pose, often unprompted.
Folosire modernă
'Doing the Hadouken' (the cupped-hands, lunging-forward stance) is universal shorthand for any palm-blast pose. There is a well-known meme genre — 'Hadouken photos' — where one person poses doing the throw, others jump back as if blown away. The 'shoryuken!' (Ryu's rising uppercut shout) is the second most-quoted Street Fighter call.
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