Talk:Bad-Anon/@comment-27108393-20170716021554/@comment-3026055-20180620181656

According to screenwriter Phil Johnston, the reason for Zangief's villainy was due to the fact that he found him very hard to beat when playing Street Fighter II as a boy and personally considered him to be a villain. Johnston also maintains that Zangief's high difficulty level would make the wrestler feel bad about some of the things he had to do to defeat players, making him feel like a Bad Guy