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The masked shaman may live on, even if his fighting game series doesn’t. Having grown up in the ’90s, I played a lot of video games in which combatants from different countries meet up specifically with the intention of kicking the crap out of each other. As a result, I’ve encountered more than a few fighting game characters that amount to some kind of stereotype. Some are fairly benign. Some squeaked by back in the day but seem regrettable now. And some… well, it’s surprising that they made the cut back then, and there’s probably a larger conversation to be had about what one culture decides is acceptable versus what another says is not. Along these lines, I’d like to present to you