JP is barely a villain now

I mean, don't get me wrong, this game isn't so reliant on villains for its story to progress, since it's just some random person going around learning how to be strong, but like... JP has been absolutely neutered. This comes in three ever-humbling phases.

Phase One: The World Tour Protagonist

The World Tour Protagonist beat the snot out of JP, left him waking up coughing and wheezing, then left. No coup de grace, no villainous last words, nothing. JP lives on, dignity notwithstanding.

What this actually means: JP can't personally do any bad stuff without getting the spit beaten out of him.

The world tour protagonist is deeply stupid and tremendously trusting, but they're also very good at heart (like when they try to stop a guy from pickpocketing AKI) and are clearly not into the concept of killing, considering they immediately beat the nose off of JP's well-shnozzed face when he starts killing.

Basically, JP cannot win fights anymore without a bigger fish coming to take a chunk out of him.

This is fine though, JP was never a fighter, he's more of a planner.

Phase Two: AKI

AKI wants FANG to be the one to reinstate Shadaloo, so when JP starts trying, she goes through her arcade questline, sneaks up on him without anyone noticing, beats the crap out of him, and threatens to kill him if he tries to organize anything.

So... now JP isn't allowed to plan or he'll get murdered by impossibly stealthy Chinese snake assassin girl he doesn't even know the name of.

Phase 3? Ed

The last thing JP can reasonably do is train to be strong enough to defeat the two monsters breathing down his neck.

Then there's Ed, who has trained harder than JP for longer, has a solid moral compass, and basically, anything JP can try to do, Ed has vastly more experience doing. This means that JP cannot train his way out of this one.

Conclusion

It took Necali from February 2016 to June 2016 to be neutered. That's 5 months, but he at least got to beat Ryu once.

JP has 0 fight wins under his belt, and has been so thoroughly neutered at this point that we can basically see SF6 as not having a real villain. SF6 came out in June, it is now September. 4 months for JP to have both his balls forcibly removed by FANG's understudy and a custom character who has no thoughts but friendship and fighting. Maybe SF6 will get a real villain in the future, JP isn't it, Juri isn't it, and I don't think AKI is it either. We can hope for something from Akuma maybe.