History ComicBook / StreetFighterVsDarkstalkers

* BigBadDuumvirate: Jedah Dohma and Gill. [[spoiler:Until Issue #6, when Jedah backstabs him and becomes the sole BigBad]].

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:On the upside, Jedah's plot is foiled, Lilith and Morrigan merge as one and all people trapped in the Majingen returns to their homes. On the down side, Gill is brought back to life and Ken is still has his "Violent" side in him, which awakens when he reunites with Ryu, prompting a fight between the two friends]].

** Ryu hardly shows in this series, despite being present on a few covers.

* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: The Satsui no Hadou, naturally. [[spoiler:Chun-li unlocks it on Issu #5 to fight effectively against the evil Darkstalkers]].

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: [[spoiler:Anita, who is otherwise an EmotionlessGirl, is shown ''crying'' when seeing Donovan possessed by his SuperpoweredEvilSide]].

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Ken gets mind-controlled by Lord Raptor and forced to fight his friends. He is freed by Elena's shaman powers.

** [[spoiler:Victor Gerdenheim]] pulls this on Issue #6 forms a LastStand against Bishamon and his army to allow the heroic street fighters and Darkstalkers to flee the Majigen.

* WolverinePublicity: Lilith is given a lot of focus on the covers, purely since she is a hugely popular character whose comics debut was highly expected. The fact that she's a much more modest version of Morrigan helped.

** In two pieces of official art, Lilith is put in the place of Sakura.[[note]]Both were developed younger female versions of the series' iconic characters, Morrigan/Dimitri and Ryu/Ken, whose biggest desire is to find their counterpart.[[/note]]

* CurbStompBattle: Its revealed that Belial Aensland whooped the floor with Jedah before exiling him to the Majigen.

* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: The Satso no Hadou, naturally. [[spoiler:Chun-li unlocks it on Issu #5 to fight effectively against the evil Darkstalkers]].
* DarkIsNotEvil: Felicia discuss this trope when explaining that not all Darkstalkers are evil, since she (a catwoman) was raised by nuns and is a perfectly nice girl while her companion Jon Talbain (a werewolf) was able to control his dark impulses after training martial arts.

* GodzillaThreshold: [[spoiler:Chun-li is forced to use the Satso no Hadou despite its corrupting influence as warned by Sagat. Considering they are all trapped in a demonic realm surrounded by hostile monsters everywhere and fighting against an immortal samurai ghost like Bishamon, she notes things are bad enough for her to rely on such technique. Turns out it wasn't powerful enough to destroy him either]].

* ShoutOut:
** The final prelude chapter in ''Street Fighter Unlimited #11'' shows Gill being attacked by several red demons that resemble Red Arremer from ''VideoGame/GhostsNGoblins''.

* CanonWielding: The two series are shown to take place in roughly the same setting.

* TotallyNotAWerewolf: Rashid enters the Anakaris' tomb believing it to be an alien ruin and mistakes the mummified king for an alien.

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Ken gets mind-controlled by Lord Raptor and forced to fight his friends.

** Jeffrey “Chamba” Cruz's variant cover for ''Street Fighter vs. Darkstalkers'' #1 is an [[HomageShot homage]] to the ''Capcom Secret Files'' booklet for ''VideoGame/XMenVsStreetFighter'', which was also used as an arcade flyer for the game.
** During the ''Darkstalkers'' crossover, Lord Raptor transforms Ken into Violent Ken, his form from ''[[VideoGame/SNKVsCapcomSVCChaos SVC Chaos]]''.

** When summoning his zombies to fight the heroes, Lord Raptor dances like Creator/MichaelJackson while saying this is "[[Music/{{Thriller}} trilling]]".

*** Issue #2: ''Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon'' has [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/darkstalkers/images/4/42/Issue_2_Cover_C.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20170228142731 Rikuo carrying Laura Matsuda]] in his arms like the Gillman does with Kay Lawrence. And yes, he is referred as [[OverlyLongGag Curiously Attractive Fishman]].

*** Issue #0: ''Film/FrakensteinMeetsTheWolfman'' with [[http://c-8oqtgrjgwu46x24x78kipgvvgx2eykmkcx2epqeqqmkgx2epgv.g00.wikia.com/g00/3_c-8fctmuvcnmgtu.ykmkc.eqo_/c-8OQTGRJGWU46x24jvvrux3ax2fx2fx78kipgvvg.ykmkc.pqeqqmkg.pgvx2ffctmuvcnmgtux2fkocigux2f0x2f07x2fUH_x78u_FU_2_25.rpix2ftgx78kukqpx2fncvguvx3fedx3d42383426275170_$/$/$/$/$/$/$/$?i10c.ua=1 Victor and Blanka representing the titular monsters]] and Chun-li as [[DamselInDistress Elsa Frankenstein]].

* EvilPlan: Jedah and Gill plan to reshape the universe to their will by fueling a demonic fetus with the negative energies from the fighting between the warriors.

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Victor Gerdenheim pulls this on Issue #6 forms a LastStand against Bishamon and his army to allow the heroic street fighters and Darkstalkers to flee the Majigen]].

* TheWorfEffect: Just like in VideoGame/StreetFighterV, Necalli only appears to get trounced this comic despite his nature as a divine being, when his fight with Morrigan is interrupted by Lilith, who unceremoniously buries him under rubble. His losing streak continues into Issue #6's extra, where he briefly fights Hsien-Ko and her sister and they both turn him into a stone statue.

* GodzillaThreshold: [[spoiler:Chun-li is forced to use the Satso no Hadou despite its corrupting influence as warned by Sagat. Considering they are all trapped in a demonic realm surrounded by hostile monsters everywhere and fighting against an immortal samurai ghost like Bishamon, she notes things are bad enough for her to rely on such technique]].

* BigBadDuumvirate: Jedah Dohma and Gill.

* CoversAlwaysLie: The third issue shows Sagat staring off against Victor, indicating the two would fight. They never face each other in combat, in fact, Victor fights against [[spoiler:Charlie]] of all people in this issue.

* TheWorfEffect: Just like in VideoGame/StreetFighterV, Necalli only appears to get trounced this comic despite his nature as a divine being, when his fight with Morrigan is interrupted by Lilith, who unceremoniously buries him under rubble.

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: In Issue #3 features lost pyramids in Brazil. While there are pyramids located in South America, they are none in Brazil since the local natives weren't as advanced as the Aztecs and Incans who build these monuments. Though in all fairness, the pyramids in these comics were believed to be legends and were just discovered by a archaeologist duo.

* MarsNeedsWomen: In Issue #5's short story, Laura is defeated and kidnapped by Rikuo to create "a new kingdom of mermen" with him. She doesn't mind it because he is curiously attractive for a fishman.

* BigCreepyCrawlies: The first monsters encountered by Chun-Li upon waking up in the Makai Realm are a couple of giant insect demons that are scared off by Sagat and Ken.

''{{Franchise/Street Fighter}} vs {{VideoGame/Darkstalkers}}'' is a crossover series by UDON between the two {{Creator/Capcom}} franchises clashing against each other. This event was preluded in previous titles such as ''[[ComicBook/StreetFighter Street Fighter Legends: Cammy]]'' where with each issue featured preview chapters with Darkstalkers facing against off against the fighters. After [[VideoGame/StreetFighterIII Gill]]'s death at the hands of Ryu in ''Street Fighter Unlimited'', his soul ends up being sent to the demonic realm of Makai where he is found by none other than Jedah Domah, who has also fallen from grace and proposes [[VillainTeamUp an alliance]] with the dark messiah to reshape the universe to their will. They send out Lilith to gather several warriors to complete their nefarious plan and unleash chaos upon the human world. The only hope of salvation lies in the martial artists and the dark monsters teaming up to stop the villains from fulfilling their goal.

!!''Street Fighter vs Darkstalkers'' features examples of the following tropes
* AlienSky: The heroes quickly realize that wherever they are, its definitely not Earth due to the twin moons in the sky.

* TheDragon: Just like in ''Darkstalkers'', Lilith serves Jedah as his most important minion, since she is the one tasked with capturing all the warriors and bringing them to the Makai. However, she abandons him when she reunites with Morrigan and agrees to help her stop him if they [[FusionDance become one being once again]].

* TrappedInAnotherWorld: Jedah has several fighters and Darkstalkers trapped in the Makai to use their conflict as fuel.

''{{Franchise/Street Fighter}} vs {{VideoGame/Darkstalkers}}'' is a crossover series by UDON between two {{Creator/Capcom}} franchises clashing against each other. This event was set up in previous ''[[ComicBook/StreetFighter Street Fighter Legends: Cammy]]'' comics with each issue featuring prelude chapters with Darkstalkers facing against off against the fighters. After [[VideoGame/StreetFighterIII Gill]]'s death at the hands of Ryu, his soul ends up being sent to the demonic realm of Makai where he is found by none other than Jedah Domah, who has also fallen from grace and proposes [[VillainTeamUp an alliance]] with the dark messiah to reshape the universe to their will. They send out Lilith to gather several warriors to complete their nefarious plan and unleash chaos upon the human world. The only hope of salvation lies in the martial artists and the dark monsters teaming up to stop the villains from fulfilling their goal.

The series is scheduled to be 8-issues long, with the Issue #0 being released on February 2017.

* AlternateContinuity: In regards to ''Darkstalkers'' continuity at least, this comic is seemingly a retelling of ''Vampire Savior'' as Jedah serves the main antagonist and Morrigan meets Lilith for the first time. The main difference is that Street Fighter characters are featured too.

* LetsYouAndHimFight: It happens quite a lot. In the first issue, Chun-Li, Sagat and Ken attack Jon Talbain and Felicia who were spying on them, believing to be another kind of monsters. After realizing that Jon and Felicia are not evil, they cease hostilities and side with one and the other.

* TrappedInAnotherWorld: Jedah has several fighters and darkstalkers trapped in the Makai to use their conflict as fuel.

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: In Issue #3 features lost pyramids in Brazil being discovered by an archaeologist duo.

* BigCreepyCrawlies: The first monsters encountered by Chun-Li upon waking up in the Makai are a couple of giant insect demons that are scared off by Sagat and Ken.

* TheWorfEffect: Much like in VideoGame/StreetFighterV, Necalli only appears to get trounced during his fight with Morrigan, he gets buried under rubble by Lilith.

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: In Issue #3 features lost pyramids in Brazil being discovered by an due of archaeologists.

* TrappedInAnotherWorld: Jedah has several fighters and darkstalkers trapped in the Makai for some unknown purpose.

** When summoning his zombies to fight the heroes, Lord Raptor dances like Creator/MichaelJackson while saying this is "[[Music/Thriller trilling]]".

* WoundedGazelleGambit: Morrigan uses this tactic

''{{Franchise/Street Fighter}} vs {{Franchise/Darkstalkers}}'' is a crossover series by UDON between two {{Creator/Capcom}} franchises clashing against each other. This event was set up in previous ''[[ComicBook/StreetFighter Street Fighter Legends: Cammy]]'' comics with each issue featuring prelude chapters with Darkstalkers facing against off against the fighters. After [[VideoGame/StreetFighterIII Gill]]'s death at the hands of Ryu, his soul ends up being sent to the demonic realm of Makai where he is found by none other than Jedah Domah, who has also fallen from grace and proposes [[VillainTeamUp an alliance]] with the dark messiah to reshape the universe to their will. They send out Lilith to gather several warriors to complete their nefarious plan and unleash chaos upon the human world. The only hope of salvation lies in the martial artists and the dark monsters teaming up to stop the villains from fulfilling their goal.

* TheDragon: Just like in ''Darkstalkers'', Lilith serves Jedah as his most important minion, since she is the one tasked with capturing all the warriors and bringing them to the Makai.
* LetsYouAndHimFight: It happens quite a lot.

** During the ''Darkstalkers'' crossover, Lord Raptor transforms Ken into Violent Ken, his form from ''[[VideoGame/SNKVsCapcomSVCChaos SVC Chaos]]''.