The clenched fist, the stark contrasting colours (black and red and white pants), fancier coat scream flashiness. Q was in a basic trenchcoat, slacks and a white t-shirt and tie. Classy and understated, but with what we've seen of G, he looks to be quite the arrogant showman.
One of the few things Q says is "I am....abomination" and he cries through the mask. The little we've seen of G, I can't imagine him to have a sympathetic bone in his gold-clad body. Now I'm seeing things differently. Let's look at what we have on the table:
-As Cestus noted, the recent design notes mention that Q's locked into the mask and misc notes mention he's possibly being controlled like a puppet
-Q has generally bizarre and loose movements, but at times such as when he parries, he can drop the act normal for a spell.
-When shocked, we cannot see his skeleton, we've theorized that this is due to incredibly dense muscle structure.
-His win poses have him shedding a tear, reflecting and saying he's an abomination, looking at the opponent and deciding to stare, leave or stomp on their leg.
-G appears to be a two-faced (look at the drastically different S3 preview pics that we were shown -- arrogant villain face, and noble face), media focused, proud to show off his global-patterned, golden arms and mocking, villainous sneer
-His story outfit bears an incredible resemblance to Q, but it appears much fancier and villainous. He also doesn't have a rigid pose as Q does.
I think that SF3 Q's movements are some residual damage (Nerve? Psychological) from being controlled and he remembers and regrets being one of the "Sons of G" hence him being an abomination.
From what we know, he's been seen around the globe at different crime scenes, but observing, not fleeing, or causing them.
His ability to show empathy and rage to me suggest that he's a victim of some sort and is lashing out in anger at being attacked, or maybe he thinks the strong opponents who fight him are a possible threat that need to be stopped like G and whatever operations he's connected to.
I'm thinking that G's vanity will be on display, and other Q's will be similar in appearance, but "our" Q is the only one who will act so bizarre. I dunno, I feel like he's broken control at a heavy price and is investigating whatever G's plots may be. IF the Kiki stuff isn't retconned, then he's already been active for some time and Viper is after him in between spying on Shadaloo, but G as we know him will be in his Abe Lincoln outfit.
I'm really digging AE. Thing's been a friggin' breath of fresh air. Between the arcade modes, endings, secret bosses, new missions and new v-triggers, it's been a breath of fresh air.
@TechPowah: Re the spoiler.I think he's Q's daddy. Here's some theorizing I've been doing on the SRK lore thread:
It's the only excuse you have for playing Blanka.
Those costumes are great! are there any more that we know of yet?
*edit: forgot it's usually only 2 costumes. Nonetheless these are great! Love sakura's especially.
also I hope we get more costumes for more characters soon. Especially season 2 characters and characters that were base roster who don't have much (fang, vega, etc)
Capcom rarely makes reference colors to games that would be deemed as their competition unfortunately so it's probably pretty unlikely.
It feels to me that some of those animations are like Capcom made some production sketches of moves that looked good in 2D but when 3D animated don't really translate well at all.