During last weekend’s EVO 2018, Namco Bandai held a presentation for their Tekken 7 game’s upcoming DLC, “Season Pass 2.” During the presentation, they announced some of the new season’s playable characters, including assassin Anna Williams (a returning character), supercop Lei Wulong (also a returning character), and… Negan from The Walking Dead? Hope you got your sh*ttin’ pants on.
Hope you got your sh*ttin’ pants on… Negan enters the @TEKKEN 7 ring in 2019: https://t.co/2S5e5rwMbx pic.twitter.com/Co87jzamSh
— The Walking Dead (@WalkingDead_AMC) August 6, 2018
Hot diggity dog. This news is magnificent. Now this is a crossover nobody saw coming. At first, people on Twitter were questioning reality:
https://twitter.com/luulubuu/status/1026482524405620736
Namco-Bandai just announced Negan is being added to Tekken 7 and now I'm questioning reality (again)
— Kris Naudus (@KrisNaudus) August 5, 2018
But they quickly embraced the news and suggested even more crossover characters:
everyone keeps freaking out about the crossover between Tekken and The Walking Dead but have you seen the other fighters that are joining the game pic.twitter.com/2JnNqlNwkU
— Shane (@FourScore64) August 6, 2018
#Tekken7 Season Pass Characters:
Anna Williams
Lei Wulong
Negan
Bart Simpson
Carl Winslow— GHOSTAL (@dunpir) August 5, 2018
https://twitter.com/baconaigis/status/1026258374327824384
Other people looked forward to settling marijuana-hazed arguments in college dorm rooms everywhere:
https://twitter.com/Chadunda/status/1026255349664428032
https://twitter.com/DAIROCKETTO/status/1026256617455546368
It really is quite a time to be a gamer.
i never thought i could say "try that shit on my negan" and not be shitposting
— tiaramisstsu (@tiaramisstsu) August 5, 2018
Negan walking into the Mishima Estate like pic.twitter.com/SVFfnojSkH
— Chariot (@ChariotDaGawd) August 6, 2018
And some people pointed out that, as strange as this crossover seems, it would be silly to complain about Negan’s inclusion in a game where there are already weird cat women and an “actual factual panda”:
Negan and Noctis are now in the same video game, with Akuma, Geese, Jin, Yoshimitsu and an actual factual Panda
— Celica #BlackLivesMatter (@nothingxs) August 5, 2018
https://twitter.com/SavinTheBees/status/1026270190449745920
And others brought up old grudges about missing Super Smash Bros. Ultimate characters:
Smash: Everyone is here.
Tekken: We’re adding Negan from The Walking Dead.
Smash: Some people are here.— Dan Fornace (@danfornace) August 6, 2018
"Smash Bros is the biggest crossover in gaming history" but can Akuma shoot Negan from The Walking Dead with a shotgun in it pic.twitter.com/xfeSuJCNKX
— D. Lancaster (@JustXenos) August 6, 2018
https://twitter.com/MarcSoskin/status/1026310959432749056
And a lot of the tweets about the announcement followed a similar flawed deductive reasoning format, but this one in particular was our favorite:
https://twitter.com/J_U_N_K_E_R/status/1026465289070960640
Meanwhile, some people couldn’t help but react to the news with sarcasm:
I main Negan starter pack pic.twitter.com/sN0yOjiZse
— TLOU (@TLOWNSU) August 6, 2018
https://twitter.com/8bitnine/status/1026275859320266753
I guess Negan's main attack in Tekken is he swings his bat and then you have to wait eight months to find out what it hit
— Mike Suskie (@MikeSuskie) August 6, 2018
(Hat tip to Dorkly)