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It's implied in World Tour that after all his training he has kind of figured out ki like other characters. Meaning he could theoretically throw a projectile but it's just not his style.

Street Fighter: The Movie's EX Green Hand for Zangief can actually reverse opponents fireballs on them which was pretty neat.

If I remember right, wasn't it explained briefly at some point that green hand as a technique was literally born from his hatred of others constantly throwing projectiles at him? Like, the fire was literally his burning hatred of zoning.

I think a missed opportunity for Capcom was having his Drive Impact animation not be the green hand animation. I feel like that would've been a good middle ground for the character.

The flame comes from him sweating vodka, and slapping the air so hard it ignites.

The lore was he learned it to beat fireballs in the comic. He didn't understand Ki but through training he learned away to block it.

The green hand animation in the alpha series looked so nice.

To explain the reason for Zangief having green energy on his hand, capcom can say storywise, Zangief saw it fit to learn how to use his inner spirit energy to increase his physical power. In Zangief understanding, he comes to rationalize that this energy is from within himself and not some cheap trick. The reason he only has the energy on one attack is because he is still a beginner at using energy and is in no hurry to progress his skill using it.

Dang, they gave Zangief a White Wild Assault before it was invented, crazy.

Don't worry. Three years down the line when we get the "final" season of DLC for SF6, they'll do a character movelist update and add back Green Hand and also give us Aerial Tundra Storm so Geif can counter kicks in the air and go from A tier to X tier and banned from tournaments.

19:25 Back in the day when Street Fighter IV was new, me and my buddy always played it at his place after school. One day, during a heated fight, he came up with the name "Fist of Chernobyl". We called it that ever since.

"Simple" solution:  let Tundra Storm catch and reflect fireballs.

As kids (I'm near 40) we use to say that Zangief has the green hand move because he's from Russia and he was exposed to radiations because of Tchernobyl XD

Ed completely immune to Tundra Storm in 6.

I think people are just afraid to make zangief a fire bender again


Or... whatever green hand is supposed to be

Poetically, Tundra Storm was initially DP+P in SFV, but they changed it to DP+PP because players kept getting it accidentally XD

Quick little extra with SF2:

The "Banishing/Vanishing Flat" had an important use in his toolkit.

Block forcing.

As a grappler, having people walk back out of his range was annoying. But anyone just holding back would get locked in block if he did it with proper spacing, putting them right in SPD range.

Being able to make forward progress while locking someone in place, and it be basically invisible giving the input, if they aren't jumping as a grapler is scary. And when he's in, usually unless they have a good 'get off me' move, it's SPD city to KO.

And if spaced with a zoner to catch their fireball as it coming out but not hit them?

Why at high level you will see it used almost exclusively as a move that whifs if used, and spaced to do so. Or after knockdown.

Honestly, my only real confusion is why it isn't red energy for a guy nicknamed Red Cyclone. I actually like that Zangief would use those kinds of techniques exclusively to counter fireballs, it feels very in character and I'd love to see it return in some way.

7:48 "They don't usually let grapplers get that strong" nailed it right on the head. Gief wasn't 'busted' or 'broken'. He was near top tier. That was the only issue. There's no issue with Akuma always being top tier. Chun li being top tier for 30 years. Ken. etc. I honestly don't know why they keep putting him in the games if they despise him.