{"id":52086,"date":"2025-09-18T13:43:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T04:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=52086"},"modified":"2025-09-18T13:44:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T04:44:02","slug":"street-fighter-6s-new-guile-ex-color-is-yet-another-jojos-bizarre-adventure-reference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/street-fighter-6s-new-guile-ex-color-is-yet-another-jojos-bizarre-adventure-reference\/","title":{"rendered":"Street Fighter 6&#8217;s new Guile EX color is yet another Jojo\u2019s Bizarre Adventure reference\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While Crimson Viper is the star of <strong>Street Fighter 6<\/strong>\u2019s aptly named \u201cC. Viper Arrives!\u201d Fighting Pass, other characters have cosmetics that are either for or themed around them. One of these cosmetics is a new EX color for Guile\u2019s Outfit 2, which is a reference to none other than Jean Pierre Polnareff from Jojo\u2019s Bizarre Adventure.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Street Fighter 6 - C. Viper Arrives! Fighting Pass\" width=\"1160\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iDhyJYuW0Fo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In a 1998 Weekly Famitsu interview, Street Fighter II producer Noritaka Funamizu revealed that Guile\u2019s almost vertical hair, <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20220610-13260\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lack of eyebrows<\/a>, tank top, and pants were inspired by Polnareff\u2019s appearance in Stardust Crusaders, which is Part 3 of Jojo\u2019s Bizarre Adventure. However, a pixel artist stretched out Guile\u2019s hair to the sides as a joke when creating the sprites for the game, making him look more like the character Rudol von Stroheim from Part 2, Battle Tendency, instead.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1348\" height=\"751\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1348px) 100vw, 1348px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250917-52086-001.jpg\" alt=\"Street Fighter 6 Guile wearing Polnareff's colors\" class=\"wp-image-52091\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250917-52086-001.jpg 1348w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250917-52086-001-380x212.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250917-52086-001-768x428.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1522\" height=\"851\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1522px) 100vw, 1522px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250917-52086-002.jpg\" alt=\"Jean Pierre Polnareff\" class=\"wp-image-52092\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250917-52086-002.jpg 1522w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250917-52086-002-380x212.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250917-52086-002-768x429.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>William Guile\u2019s surname and Sonic Boom are also based on Jojo\u2019s Bizarre Adventure. \u201cGuile\u201d was derived from J. Geil, the man who killed Jean Pierre\u2019s sister, Ch\u00e9rie Polnareff. While there is no mention of \u201cSonic Boom\u201d in writer Hirohiko Araki\u2019s work, Guile\u2019s iconic move was dubbed \u201cDivine Sandstorm\u201d during the development of Street Fighter II. Divine Sandstorm is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zEB81VkqaUc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wamuu\u2019s signature move<\/a> in Battle Tendency, where he spins his forearms rapidly to create two tornadoes that devastate his opponents in a manner similar to Guile.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1146\" height=\"642\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1146px) 100vw, 1146px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250917-52086-003.jpg\" alt=\"Rudol Von Stroheim\" class=\"wp-image-52093\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250917-52086-003.jpg 1146w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250917-52086-003-380x213.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250917-52086-003-768x430.jpg 768w\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">With Guile\u2019s hair fanned out, his appearance becomes more akin to Rudol von Stroheim than Polnareff<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Street Fighter fans were <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TaiMk2\/status\/1968153604554101097\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">quick to point out the similarities<\/a> between Jean Pierre Polnareff and Guile\u2019s new EX color. The color scheme turns Guile\u2019s blond hair silver, his green tank top black, and camo cargo pants for blue faded jeans. He still retains the same stretched-out hair of his classic von Stroheim look, which Capcom likely kept so as not to detract from his now-iconic Street Fighter design.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Related:\u00a0<br><a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/street-fighter-6-sees-massive-player-count-spike-following-swimsuit-skin-and-sagat-release\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Street Fighter 6 sees massive player count spike following swimsuit skin and Sagat release<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/jojos-bizarre-adventure-has-finally-entered-textbooks-in-japan-becoming-a-part-of-middle-school-education\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jojo\u2019s Bizarre Adventure has finally entered textbooks in Japan, becoming a part of middle school education<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Street Fighter 6&#8217;s new cosmetic alludes to Jean Pierre Polnareff, the actual Jojo character that inspired Guile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":52089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-52086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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