History TearJerker / StreetFighter

* Ed's story mode can best be described as "a father-son/brotherly relationship falling apart", and arguably sets him as one of the biggest woobies of the franchise (while giving ''Balrog'', of all people, some JerkassWoobie traits). [[spoiler: During the Season 1 story, it's shown that Ed is constantly plagued by nightmares of Bison trying to take over his body, since him being a possible candidate as a vessel for Bison's soul is the reason he was kidnapped by Shadaloo in the first place, and he openly angsts over his RapidAging. While taking the chess piece from Guile and Zangief in India, Ed is visited within his mind by a strange Egyptian fortune-teller who warns him that she foresees hard times for him and Balrog in the future. Sure enough, Ed's issues come to a head, and Balrog tries, in his own way, to reassure him that as long as Ed stays with him he'll be fine. Of course, since it's Balrog, [[PoorCommunicationKills his choice of words comes out wrong]], causing Ed to lash out at him, saying that Balrog would be nothing without him. The two fight, [[PartingWordsRegret and end up parting ways on a sour note]]. Balrog [[GetOut tells him to get lost]], and Ed walks away with a deeply hurt expression on his face. The fact that Balrog sounded like he was gonna cry when he told Ed to get lost and refusal to recover to fight back just shows how much he used to care for the young man (and probably still does afterwards), unlike the indifference and hostility he has for everyone else.]]

** Creator/RaulJulia's whole performance, as he knew [[YourDaysAreNumbered he didn't have much time left]] and wanted to secure a big paycheck for his family, plus [[CrowningmomentOfHeartwarming do a role]] [[SoMyKidsCanWatch his kids wanted to see]]. [[DyingMomentOfAwesome And it was fucking awesome, too.]] Although the film as a whole is often ridiculed as being one of the sillier video game adaptations (and that's saying something), Julia's final appearance is generally treated with well-deserved respect, to the point where he was even posthumously nominated for a Saturn Award.

* "¡Vaya con Dios!" ("Go forth with God!") [[note]]Raúl Julia died not too long after filming the movie, as said above. The film is dedicated to him, with these words.[[/note]]

* Ed's story mode can best be described as "a father-son/brotherly relationship falling apart", and arguably sets him as one of the biggest woobies of the franchise (while giving ''Balrog'', of all people, some JerkassWoobie traits). [[spoiler: During the Season 1 story, it's shown that Ed is constantly plagued by nightmares of Bison trying to take over his body, since him being a possible candidate as a vessel for Bison's soul is the reason he was kidnapped by Shadaloo in the first place, and he openly angsts over his RapidAging. While taking the chess piece from Guile and Zangief in India, Ed is visited within his mind by a strange Egyptian fortune-teller who warns him that she foresees hard times for him and Balrog in the future. Sure enough, Ed's issues come to a head, and Balrog tries, in his own way, to reassure him that as long as Ed stays with him he'll be fine. Of course, since it's Balrog, [[PookCommunicationKills his choice of words comes out wrong]], causing Ed to lash out at him, saying that Balrog would be nothing without him. The two fight, [[PartingWordsRegret and end up parting ways on a sour note]]. Balrog [[GetOut tells him to get lost]], and Ed walks away with a deeply hurt expression on his face. The fact that Balrog sounded like he was gonna cry when he told Ed to get lost and refusal to recover to fight back just shows how much he used to care for the young man (and probably still does afterwards), unlike the indifference and hostility he has for everyone else.]]

* Ed's story mode can best be described as "a father-son relationship falling apart", and aguably sets him as one of the biggest woobies of the franchise. [[spoiler: During the Season 1 story, it's shown that Ed is constantly plagued by nightmares of Bison trying to take over his body, since him being a possible candidate as a vessel for Bison's soul is the reason he was kidnapped by Shadaloo in the first place, and he openly angsts over his RapidAging. While taking the chess piece from Guile and Zangief in India, Ed is visited within his mind by a strange Egyptian fortune-teller who foresees hard times for him and Balrog in the future. Sure enough, Ed's issues come to a head, and Balrog tries, in his own way, to reassure him that as long as Ed stays with him he'll be fine. Of course, since it's Balrog, his choice of words comes out wrong, causing Ed to lash out at him, saying that Balrog would be nothing without him. The two fight, and end up parting ways on a sour note. Balrog tells him to get lost, and Ed walks away with a deeply hurt expression on his face. The fact that Balrog sounded like he was gonna cry when he told Ed to get lost and refusal to recover to fight back just shows how much he used to care for the young man (and probably still does afterwards), unlike the indifference and hostility he has for everyone else.]]

* Ed's story mode can best be described as "a father-son relationship falling apart". [[spoiler: During the Season 1 story, it's shown that Ed is constantly plagued by nightmares of Bison trying to take over his body, since him being a possible candidate as a vessel for Bison's soul is the reason he was kidnapped by Shadaloo in the first place, and he openly angsts over his RapidAging. While taking the chess piece from Guile and Zangief in India, Ed is visited within his mind by a strange Egyptian fortune-teller who foresees hard times for him and Balrog in the future. Sure enough, Ed's issues come to a head, and Balrog tries, in his own way, to reassure him that as long as Ed stays with him he'll be fine. Of course, since it's Balrog, his choice of words comes out wrong, causing Ed to lash out at him, saying that Balrog would be nothing without him. The two fight, and end up parting ways on a sour note. Balrog tells him to get lost, and Ed walks away with a deeply hurt expression on his face. The fact that Balrog sounded like he was gonna cry when he told Ed to get lost and refusal to recover to fight back just shows how much he used to care for the young man, unlike the indifference and hostility he has for everyone else.]]

* Ed's story mode can best be described as "a father-son relationship falling apart". [[spoiler: During the Season 1 story, it's shown that Ed is constantly plagued by nightmares of Bison trying to take over his body, since him being a possible candidate as a vessel for Bison's soul is the reason he was kidnapped by Shadaloo in the first place, and he openly angsts over his RapidAging. While taking the chess piece from Guile and Zangief in India, Ed is visited within his mind by a strange Egyptian fortune-teller who foresees hard times for him and Balrog in the future. Sure enough, Ed's issues come to a head, and Balrog tries, in his own way, to reassure him that as long as Ed stays with him he'll be fine. Of course, since it's Balrog, his choice of words comes out wrong, causing Ed to lash out at him, saying that Balrog would be nothing without him. The two fight, and end up parting ways on a sour note. Balrog tells him to get lost, and Ed walks away with a deeply hurt expression on his face.]]

* [[spoiler: Kolin]]'s Story Mode reveals her past, and [[DarkAndTroubledPast it's not pretty]]. [[spoiler: She was found by Gill when her whole homeland (a part from the Soviet Union) had already collapsed, her friends and family were dead, and she was so past the DespairEventHorizon that she was willing to let herself die [[SnowMeansDeath in the middle of a snowy wasteland]]. Gill was the one who took her in after all of that, and [[IOweYouMyLife that explains]] [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe a LOT]] of her UndyingLoyalty to him.]]

-->[[spoiler: '''Kolin''']]: "[[LossOfIdentity I have none.]]"

-->[[spoiler: '''Kolin''']]: "[[YouCantGoHomeAgain It's gone...]]"

* [[spoiler: Kolin]]'s Story Mode reveals her past, and [[DarkAndTroubledPast it's not pretty]]. [[spoiler: She was found by Gill when her whole homeland (a part from the Soviet Union) had already collapsed, her friends and family were dead, and she had fallen past the DespairEventHorizon. Gill was the one who took her in after all of that, and that explains a ''lot'' of her UndyingLoyalty to him.]]

-->[[spoiler: '''Kolin''']]: "I have none"
-->[[spoiler: '''Gill''']]: "Where is thy country?"
-->[[spoiler: '''Kolin''']]: "It's gone"

* Almost all of the Street Fighter characters have tragic backstories, with most of them involving being affected by a member of Shadaloo in some way (Guile, Charlie, Chun-Li, T. Hawk, Juri, Dan, Cammy, the Dolls, etc.), but also involving broken homes (Remy, Vega), being survivors of tragic incidents (Blanka, Dhalsim, F.A.N.G), being the results of experimentation (Necro, Abel), or being orphaned (Ryu).

** Related to the issue, [[http://thechamba.deviantart.com/art/Hold-your-Head-Up-107623923 a variant cover]] drawn by UDON artist Jeffery "Chamba" Cruz shows [[spoiler: a wounded Sagat clutching onto a bloodied Go Hibiki's head, while behind him, Dan screams for his father with Chun-Li desperately holding him back]]. Never before has a ButtMonkey JokeCharacter brought anyone to tears...

* * Many victory quotes against Evil Ryu in the Arcade Edition of ''IV'', especially from friends and associates of Ryu, express severe shock, sadness, concern or disappointment at his fall from grace. Some are quite heartbreaking.

* ''Generations'' may not be fully canon, but damn it is depressing. Specially in [[spoiler: the flashbacks to Akuma and Gouken's more or less happy lives before it went FromBadToWorse]], and the BittersweetEnding where [[spoiler: Akuma recovers some parts of his humanity after almost killing Ryu in battle (and mind you, this particular AlternateUniverse all but states that ''Ryu is Akuma's son'')]] and later [[spoiler: the OldMaster that Ryu befriends passes away, and Ryu leaves after mourning him.]]

** Related to the issue, [[http://thechamba.deviantart.com/art/Hold-your-Head-Up-107623923 a variant cover]] drawn by UDON artist Jeffery "Chamba" Cruz shows [[spoiler: a wounded Sagat clutching onto a bloodied Go Hibiki's head, while behind him, Dan screams for his father with Chun-Li holding him back]]. Never before has a ButtMonkey character brought you to tears...
* Juri's backstory, first revealed in the ''Super Street fighter IV: Juri OVA'' above, was expanded by UDON. [[spoiler:She was a Taekwondo prodigy who was frequently pressured to uphold her family name, and her parents, while loving, were strict and demanding. Her father's decision to prosecute Shadaloo led to Juri's mother being killed, and him being ransomed and publicly executed on camera. Juri, however, survived, but she lost her left eye to a stray bullet when Shadaloo attacked and fell into a coma for a month. All of this left Juri with a very intense hatred of Shadaloo, Bison in particular]].

* Rashid's entire storyline can count. He desperately tries to rescue his friend, a female scientist forced to work for Shadaloo. He even went so far as to work with the , who clearly don't care about his dilemma. [[spoiler: Tragically, he was too late as she was already murdered by F.A.N.G. Even worse, it happened just as Rashid was infiltrating the base, meaning he could have saved her if he didn't stop to rescue Li-Fen. Still, like Charlie above, he gets a CrowningMomentOfAwesome when he avenges her death by beating the crap out of F.A.N.G and using her final command code to stop the Black Moons.]]

* All of the titles unlocked in the original edition of ''IV'' by using a character tell something deeply personal about them, when they aren't being funny in a cheeky way. What's one of Ryu's title cards? "Wish I had a family". [[PlayerPunch OUCH!]] [[spoiler: If ''WebVideo/StreetFighterAssassinsFist'' and/or ''Anime/StreetFighterAlphaGenerations'' '''are''' canon, Gouken may be his biological father by Goutetsu's daughter Sayaka.]]

--> Sagat: "I am so disappointed, Ryu! Is this the power you so desired!?"

--> Dhalsim:"I pray that the hatred insinde of you is extinguished quietly..."

* [[spoiler: Bison's death. Yes, he '''totally''' deserves it, and his death scene is pretty awesome, but it's still a damn shame to see such an iconic villain who's been constantly kept alive finally die for real this time. What sells it is that he [[FaceDeathWithDignity faces death with dignity]] and gives off one final EvilLaugh before his body and Psycho Power are dissolved away by the Power of Nothingness, while F.A.N.G cries out for him in anguish.]]

* A few endings are genuinely sad. A notable example would be T. Hawk's ending, where he [spoiler: finds Juli/a with Rose's help, but her experience with Shadaloo has totally traumatized her to the point of being put in a near-catatonic state, mute, and unresponsive to external stimuli, being unable to remember T. Hawk at all when she meets him again]]. It is probably one of the most depressing things you would ever see in a fighting game.

* In Super Street Fighter 4, a couple of the endings are genuinely sad, namely Guile and T Hawk's endings. Guile's is more bittersweet, as he [[spoiler:visits Charlie's grave and has a toast on it, vowing to finish his takedown of Shadaloo so that Charlie can have closure.]] T. Hawk's is genuinely depressing, as he [[spoiler: finds Juli/a with Rose's help, but her experience with Shadaloo has totally traumatized her, and she is unable to remember who Hawk even is.]] Guile's can put a bit of a glow in the heart knowing that [[spoiler:he succeeded, since Shadaloo is gone by Street Fighter 3's events, so Charlie can rest in peace,]] but Hawk's ending is probably one of the most depressing things you would ever see in a fighting game.
* Guile's ''original'' ending in SFII was a big-ass tearjerker, actually. [[spoiler:His wife and pre-teen daughter practically have to beg Guile to not kill Bison because [[IfYouKillHimyouWillBeJustLikehim they don't want him to lower himself to commit deliberate murder]] and plead with him to return home with them.]] One single, simple phrase can still make many a player sniffle like a little child once in a while:

* The Alpha series gives us [[spoiler: Juni]]'s downright heartbreaking ending, where [[spoiler: she and Juli (aka Julia, T. Hawk's friend/girlfriend) hug each other in front of Bison's body as they become {{Empty Shell}}s (And they won't get better for a LONG time.)]] The montage in which [[spoiler: Charlie and Chun-Li discuss the project that made them borderline {{Robot Girl}}s]] really doesn't help.

* Whether the player [[FanPreferredCouple ships]] [[{{Ninja}} Guy]] and [[LadyOfBlackMagic Rose]] [[PlatonicLifePartners or not]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7G73EB7XtTE the scene in Guy's ending]] [[spoiler: where Guy holds Rose in his arms and begs her not to give into darkness]] is pretty heartwretching. [[spoiler: And it becomes a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming in Rose's own ending, since she hears his voice and manages to wake up, [[EarnYourHappyEnding finally earning something similar to a happy ending]].]]
* [[TheWoobie Bison's Dolls]] are a bunch of once normal and innocent girls who were kidnapped and brainwashed to become super soldiers. Most of them remember nothing of their past lives, are completely loyal to Bison, and even after Bison's death, the nightmare doesn't end. In ''IV'' [[GirlInABox they're kept]] [[PeopleJars in capsules]] since Seth plans to experiment on them all until they die, which is barely averted by Cammy and Guile's effort; and later the players learn how [[spoiler: Juni and Juli]] are [[BreakTheCutie so badly traumatized]] that [[spoiler: Juni [[TraumaInducedAmnesia can't remember anything]] and, as said above, Juli [[EmptyShell is near-catatonic]].]] The paragraphs below [[FromBadToWorse make everything even worse...]]
* [[spoiler: Decapre's ending]] in'' Ultra Street Fighter IV''. To put it mildly; [[spoiler: Cammy may have [[FaceHeelTurn become an agent for Bison]] all over again, [[LoveMakesYouEvil just to]] [[AlwaysSaveTheGirl save her "younger sister" Decapre]].]]
** Actually, ''everything'' about [[spoiler: Decapre]] is a [[TheWoobie serious punch to the heart and guts]]. [[spoiler: Her]] prologue is completely heartbreaking, specially with [[spoiler: all these flashbacks to her and the other Dolls being experimented on, and the young Cammy taking a protective older sister role towards her, and Decrapre's confusion and rage that finishes with her getting out of the capsule she has been stashed inside, saying [[MadnessMantra "Killer Be... kill... kill... kill... kill them all...! KILL ALL!"]].]] [[WhamEpisode Quite the nasty, heartbreaking surprise.]]
* [[TragicHero Cody's entire]] [[KnightInSourArmor character developement]] from VideoGame/FinalFight to VideoGame/StreetFighter. In Final Fight, Cody and his best friend Guy fought to rid the city of the Mad Gear gang, and rescue Cody's girlfriend Jessica. And while both were lauded as heroes, Cody was thrown into prison by a corrupt cop he had defeated along the way. While in prison, he develops an addiction to fighting that he carried with him when he got out, resulting in him walking the streets, looking for even the slightest reason to fight. When he is thrown back into jail, everybody but his best friend Guy abandons him. Eventually, he breaks out of prison to enter the various World Warrior tournaments. And while deep down, Cody is still a hero who longs to return to what he once was, he seems to have mostly convinced himself that he can never be a hero again.
* In ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIV'' all of the titles unlocked by using a character tell something deeply personal about them, when they aren't being funny in a cheeky way. What's one of Ryu's title cards? "Wish I had a family". [[PlayerPunch OUCH!]] [[spoiler: If ''WebVideo/StreetFighterAssassinsFist'' and/or ''Anime/StreetFighterAlphaGenerations'' '''are''' canon, Gouken may be his biological father by Goutetsu's daughter Sayaka.]]
* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sykMAfJ_C0 Gen's]] base [=SF4=] Arcade Mode opening, he speaks to the deceased Dorai (Chun-Li's father) about how his daughter has grown into an admirable woman...and then grabs his chest in pain and flashes back to when his cancer prevented him from saving Dorai from bring kidnapped by M.Bison, all the while cursing his frail body, clearly blaming himself for Dorai's death.

* ''Street Fighter V'' makes it even worse by confirming that [[spoiler: Charlie did indeed survive, but was mangled horribly, and apparently underwent extensive and horrific surgery, and now resembles a stitched-together monstrosity.]] Even worse, [[spoiler: Charlie's body may have recovered, but his mind certainly has not. Gone is the cool-headed but passionate beacon of justice and mentor to Guile and occasional partner/almost boyfriend to Chun-Li from ''Alpha''. In his stead is a cold-blooded, cynical, and ruthless assassin who will not hesitate to remove any obstacles in his way of his goal, even if said obstacles are people he once called friends.]]
** [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6UaU5LrRwf8 His story mode]] manages to be an even ''bigger'' punch to the gut and heart by confirming that his ''Alpha 2'' ending, the one where he's betrayed by his fellow Air Force unit and shot via helicopter before being sent careening off a Venezuelan waterfall, is his '''''canon''''' death. One has to wonder what was going through his mind during that moment. A paragon of justice and virtue, betrayed by those he once called comrades. To make it worse, it pretty much retroactively renders Charlie's HeroicSacrifice in ''Alpha 3'' [[ShootTheShaggyDog null and void]].
*** Hell, even the ''title'' of his story mode is one big TearJerker by appropriately naming it, "The Man Who Lost It All".
* Many victory quotes against Evil Ryu in Street Fighter IV, especially from friends and associates of Ryu, express severe shock, sadness, concern or disappointment at his fall from grace. Some are quite heartbreaking.

--> Gouken: "You are no pupil of mine."

* Anime/StreetFighterIIV has[[spoiler: Fei Long's intense and tearful HeroicBSOD when he thinks Chun-Li's father, who trained him and treated him like a son, is dead]].
* The scene from ''The Ties That Bind'' where [[spoiler: Ryu snaps massively upon seeing Viper torture Cammy, '''practically loses himself to the Satsui no Hado''' [[BerserkButton out of anger]] and a tearful Sakura has to give him a CooldownHug to stop him]] is surprisingly powerful, and it's not helped by how [[spoiler: Ryu [[TwistedKneeCollapse slumps to his knees]] [[WhatHaveIBecome in horror]] upon coming back to his senses, with [[TheWoobie poor Sakura]] still hugging him, and a GreyRainOfDepression falls on them both as well as on Ken and the injured Cammy.]]
* From ''Anime/StreetFighterAlphaTheAnimation'', [[spoiler: Shun's death in [[DiedInYourArmsTonight his "older brother" Ryu's arms]].]]
* Anime/StreetFighterAlphaGenerations may not be fully canon, but damn it is depressing. Specially in [[spoiler: the flashbacks to Akuma and Gouken's more or less happy lives before it went FromBadToWorse]], and the BittersweetEnding where [[spoiler: Akuma recovers some parts of his humanity after almost killing Ryu in battle (and mind you, this particular AlternateUniverse all but states that ''Ryu is Akuma's son'')]] and later [[spoiler: the OldMaster that Ryu befriends passes away, and Ryu leaves after mourning him.]]
* Even the cartoon has one in "Eye of the Beholder." Blanka rescues the Japanese Prime Minister from an attack, only for the man to run away screaming that he's a monster. Blanka deals with his angst over being mutated for the rest of the series.

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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRT9CMh3s8c Ryu: Then and Now]], an animated short made by Egoraptor (of Game Grumps and Awesome Series fame). The short begins with Ryu during the SFII days, getting ready to take on the world. It then skips ahead to 20 years later, in which [[spoiler:he is now a businessman. The short ends with him looking at a picture of his young self and remembering the good ol' days, and starting to tear up as he does so.]] Anyone who grew up with the series is sure to shed a tear when watching this.

--> Guile: "[[IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight Nash... '''What on earth happened to you?!''']]"

** [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6UaU5LrRwf8 His story mode]] manages to be an even ''bigger'' punch to the gut and heart by confirming that his ''Alpha 2'' ending, the one where he's betrayed by his fellow Air Force unit and shot via helicopter before being sent careening off a Venezuelan waterfall, is the '''''canon''''' ending. One has to wonder what was going through his mind during that moment. A paragon of justice and virtue, betrayed by those he once called comrades. CruelAndUnusualDeath doesn't even describe it...