Seth (Street Fighter)
Seth is a video game character who features in Street Fighter.
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Biography
Seth (Japanese: セス, Hepburn: Sesu?) was part of an experiment conducted by Shadaloo in creating artificial beings that were superior to organisms compared to ordinary humans. He was the 15th model of his kind out of 26 others. However, he began to harbor a desire to being the ultimate power in the world and claimed he was superior to his comrades. He eventually rose to the position of head of SIN that was the weapon development division of Shadloo.
Seth also attempted to use Juri Han, a woman who possesses the Feng Shui Engine in her left eye that their company created who has a vendetta against Shadaloo. She confronts Seth and unexpectedly offers to work for them, to which they agree.
Seth hosts a World Warrior tournament in hopes of luring Ryu, and then using the Satsui no Hado to complete their BLECE project, but is dismayed at reports that M. Bison has once again returned from death. M. Bison finally encounters Seth and defeats them in combat, afterwards telling Seth that in fact everything that has happened has gone according to M. Bison's plan. After M. Bison leaves, Juri tells Seth that she intentionally pitted the two against each other, but was disappointed that Seth was not more of a challenge for M. Bison. She then crushes his Tanden Engine, leaving Seth dead and twitching on the floor. One of Seth's brethren was found by C. Viper, she then proceeded to finish said brethren off. After the tournament, C. Viper informed her superiors that the 'remaining 26' were in her sights. Ryu later encountered what appeared to be another 'Seth' and defeated him, destroying the BLECE machine as well.
The remnants of Seth's biological brain were later paired with one of the Dolls where it took root in Doll Unit Zero. Activated by Juri on behalf of an unknown party, the artificial intelligence coming online in the new feminine body.
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Seth was an artificial intelligence designed to inhabit synthetic humanoid bodies that possessed a Tanden Engine. As such, the entity was a genderless being able to inhabit both female and male bodies. One of the notable features of these bodies was their abdomen. In the abdomen, enclosed inside a pattern consisting of the Eight Trigrams of Taoist cosmology known as the Taijitu, is an exposed area, which contains a rotating sphere known as the Tanden Engine, which appears to be the source of their power. Their eye and skin color changes to yellow and black respectively, when the Tanden Engine was activated.
They noted that power only had meaning if it was capable of being put into action and that this defined a person. Seth stated that such power allowed one to rule the world and it was this reason that everyone sought it. It stated that power helped one grow in strength with this goal being out of the reach of ordinary people. Individual were said to constantly compare themselves to others in order to cover their own inadequacies and find a peace of mind. It was this that led to the poor being said to seek riches whilst the ugly sought to be beautiful. Seth stated that the mere existence of those better than a person was seen as intolerable to the human state of mind and that they fought this retaliation. It stated that if beauty was not enough then a person sought an alternative in money and if that was not enough then it changed into the need to resort to violence. Seth stated that this energy was what powered the world and essential in its functioning with itself seeking to help this natural process with this destructive force creating conflict. The artificial intelligence intended to spread this 'power' that everyone sought to all over the world.
Even though Seth had served as both a potential new replacement body for Bison and as the CEO of Shadaloo's S.I.N. weapons division, Seth had personally vowed to not be a mere puppet of Bison via his own personal self-awareness as he seeks to eliminate Bison and take over Shadaloo themselves for his own personal plans of world domination.
Powers and abilities
The core of his body served as the base of a Tanden Engine (丹田エンジン Tanden Enjin?) that was a large spherical machine capable of artificially generating and harnessing qi. After using their Tanden Engine and performing the Tanden Install grab, Seth can use their opponent's move once as an Install Art by performing the same command. Install Arts function similarly to the moves they copy, but can also be cancelled from Seth's own special moves. During Tanden Ignition, the Install Arts also have access to a corresponding follow up, depending on which move was used.
Among the techniques known to Seth included:
- Hecatoncheires (ヘカトンケイル Hekatonkeiru?) :
- Tanden Storm (丹田ストーム Tanden Sutoomu?) :
- Tanden Stream (丹田ストリーム Tanden Sutoriimu?) :
- Tanden Typhoon (丹田タイフーン Tanden Taifuun?) :
Notes
- Seth was created by Yoshinori Ono where he featured in the setting of the Mortal Kombat universe.
- Originally, the character was going to be named Abel but was renamed Seth after former senior Capcom community manager Seth Killian.
- In an interview, Matt Edwards commented, "You may be wondering why Seth looks somewhat different than in Street Fighter IV. In truth, Seth is more machine than human, and was never male or female to begin with. Seth’s exact origins were never made abundantly clear, but this character didn’t make it through the events of Street Fighter IV entirely unscathed. The form you see here is the remnants of Seth’s biological brain paired with the body of Doll Unit Zero. It’s a different look, to be sure, but Seth still speaks with the same voice and craves both M. Bison’s demise and data on the strongest fighters."
- There was some similarity with the character of S.E.T.H. from the Universal Soldier series.
In other media
Films
- In Street Fighter IV: The Ties That Bind, Seth appeared in the anime film adaptation. eth is first seen talking to a scientist about the experiment in the Amazon, wanting to make it commercially viable. Later, Seth discusses BLECE with Viper, revealing that BLECE is used to allow access to fighting energy, which is the reason why S.I.N. abducted the fighters, and are now after Ryu. C. Viper suggests that Seth come to see what Ryu is capable of personally. In a cruise ship owned by S.I.N, Ryu is in a struggle with Seth, and losing. Seth speaks in length about obtaining ultimate power. Ryu realizes that the power he was looking for is not what he thought, and, indirectly through Seth's speech, found his purpose of seeking strength - to protect what is good and fight evil. Seth laughs and tells Ryu his speech is pure nonsense and attempts to attack him. Ryu exhibits his new power, a result of rejecting the Satsui no Hado through his enlightenment (the same power Gouken uses and Ken used earlier, but even more powerful, his eyes glowing blue). His power burns the skin off of Seth's hand, and he defeats Seth with an unstoppable Metsu Hadoken, which burns through the android's muscles for a short period of time. After his defeat, Seth is rescued by S.I.N. members. Seth is eventually cornered by Guile, Cammy, and the U.S Coast Guard, however a Shadaloo helicopter picks up Seth, with Balrog and Vega on board, the latter of whom tells Seth that Shadaloo is the real manipulator.
Video games
Appearances
- Street Fighter IV: (2008)
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