Zangief

In our research for a sketch featured in the just-concluded Ninja Christmas, Chris and I made a rather startling discovery. From the Wikipedia page for Street Fighter 2 character Zangief:

-Zangief was born in the Soviet Union on June 1, 1956.
-He stands 214 cm tall (a little over 7' 0" and weights 121 kg.
-He likes to wrestles bears and do the Cossack dance.
-He dislikes projectiles and young, beautiful women.

That's right. Zangief dislikes young, beautiful women. This came as quite the surprise.

Reading further we learn that "Zangief has been confirmed to be gay in the past" and "might still be gay." While at the end of Capcom Fighting Evolution Zangief is shown "sitting in a jacuzzi with three almost naked girls," this game is considered "non-canon" and thus doesn't really count.

I attempted further research on the subject, but could only find jerky jokes about Zangief's homosexuality that I won't repeat here. Thus, through the dearth of factual information about the subject I am forced to conclude that either a) this is merely an urban legend or b) Zangief is bisexual.

Let me one more time recommend the Wikipedia page for Zangief and point out how insane it is how much detail there apparently is behind a frickin' Street Fighter 2 character.