Kick it. Kick it. Kick it.
There isn’t any character more associated with the Street Fighter franchise, and by extension Capcom, than Ryu. In a way, he provides the baseline for how the game is played and discussed. The quarter-circle forward is referred to as the “fireball” motion. The forward, down, down-forward motion is usually shorthanded to “Dragon Punch”. Ryu is the archetypical Capcom character. Above, you can see him engaged in the archetypical Marvel vs Capcom 3 activity.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at http://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2012/06/14/marvel-vs-capcom-3-what-i-expected