There are many reasons for this assertion which I will now go through.

1: Just look at him. He is like the lovechild of Inspector Gadget and Dr Doom gone horrendously RIGHT. Firstly, anyone wearing a classic brown fedora and trench-coat combo, with matching red tie and trim, is cool, and adding the white pianist/professional killer gloves to it only makes it better. Scientists had studied for years, working on a way of possibly improving on this look, but, like breaking the speed of light it appeared to be impossible. That was before a genius in CAPCOM's design department was told by God to attatch A FUCKING IRON MASK WITH GODDAMN RIVETS, complete with glowing yellow eyes (and by god I mean he stole it ).

Q makes me want to be horribly burned just so I can have an excuse to look like him. All other fictional characters suck and look like a pile of slaughtered children compared to Q.

2: He is some kind of robot. Q is not human and he moves in a terrifying approximation of human locomotion. This also translates to his fighting style which is to say that he has none. He just swings his extremities about in a way that is only managed by things that don't feel pain, and not feeling pain is badass. Also he can self destruct himself on you, you can't do that and you suck. So if Q is Q, the self destructing is D, you are Y and sucking is S then...

D ) ~S
Q D
Therefore Q ~S

Y~D
therefore Y S.

See, I've proven it with my mighty robot logic.

3. He makes Akuma look like the guy who won't shut up. Q never speaks, he grunts under the strain of swinging his might and rasps through his mechanical breathing aparatus but that's it. He communicates in gestures and looks with his quote list being nothing but "...!" or "...?". But it's the way he says it that can imply "Again?" or "No!" or "Never!" or any other things he wishes to communicate like "I am new in town!" or "Where is a good place to eat?".

4. The way he starts his fights. He can leap in from off screen with his back to his opponent for a dramatic turn to face them, he can just casually wander on, or he can leap in chasing a bunch of people and their cat fleeing in terror. Nobody else starts a fight in the middle of terrorizing the locals, nobody else even terrorizes locals at all which makes them weak meaning they have no place in a fighting game to begin with.

5. The way he ends fights. Mostly he'll just wander over and look at you before wandering off, his job of fucking you up being complete, but sometimes he will wander over and step on your head. Nobody else does this, for every other character the fight is over at the KO, but not for Q, his cold mechanical heart needs to see brain matter coming out through a massive skull fracture before he deems his mission complete. Which is fucking great.

6. Slow...then FAST! His slow moves are great as they lure suckers in to try and hit you, only to get a double fisting. His fast moves are great cause they fuck people up when they get used to your slow ones. Mix these up and an opponent is boned. Also, Super Arts?, the first two have NO STARTUP LAG WHATSO-FUCKING-EVER. You can stand right next to an opponent getting up and lay in a "Deadly Double Combination" through whatever atack your opponent has been tricked into doing. I love doing that as being lured into attacking during startup invincibility, when they could have just blocked it, really pisses other people off.

7. Taunts. Q's taunt is cool looking on its own, but get 3 done and you take 40% less damage. This is great, you become the fucking Juggernaut and can happily survive huge combos and supers, just to hop back up and keep on fighting. You can trade blows with anyone and come out on top, winning matches all the way. But best of all you can survive that carnival of cheap cock-suckery Gill's "Wings of the Seraphim" move, a cheap shit SNK style "explode the screen and take hlf your fucking life even if you are blocking" affair.

8. Nobody else uses him and if you do and beat them they will hate you and themselves and probably commit suicide. This is true, if you beat someone with Q they will stay beaten forever, their hope and self worth crushed under the might of Q's icy robotic awesomeness. They will leave in a huff of tears and threats before going home, contemplating the valueless pit of despair their life has become, and taking a huge pile of sleeping pills in the bath. This, this is true victory.

There, that is why Q is the best character in any fighting game ever which is sort of expected for a character in Street Fighter 3 Third Strike, the best fighting game ever. Worship him as I do and your life will be a bountiful land of victory and happiness.

By Gabe.