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Well, that's definitely not a Honda.

This is still a Street Fighter title, so with it comes plenty of laughs and levity.


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    World Tour 
  • Bosch's introduction, as shown in the Street Fighter 6 showcase video and the demo, entails him attempting to land a surprise flying kick on the player, only for Luke to push them out of the way. Cue the player and Bosch facing off, with Luke crossing his arms and rolling his eyes as if thinking to himself, "Not this shit again..."
  • The idea of using some of the franchise's staple Special Moves as means of traversal or clearing obstacles is both awesome and inherently hilarious since this also includes using Chun's Spinning Bird Kick (aka, turning your fighter into a human helicopter) as a means of clearing large gaps.
  • The Cross Counter between you and Bosch at the end of the tutorial can be quite amusing depending on how you customized your character — especially one with short arms.
  • The cutscenes where your character first starts to learn from each of the Street Fighters are many and varied, and some are worth a chuckle or two, especially the ones where you get off to a rocky start.
    • Li-Fen pulls you into a lesson with Chun-Li. It starts off as normal, with you copying every action she makes, then the scene gets a sepia filter as you slowly start to get the hang of it, until finally Chun-Li finishes with a perfect vertical standing split, which you just copy... for about two seconds until you fall on your butt. Don't feel bad though; the camera panning out shows just about everyone else in the lesson, aside from Li-Fen and a random old lady, falling on their butts too.
    • Kimberly's first lesson in Bushin-ryu is a copycat lesson in free-running. The two of you leap over awnings, backflip over rooftops, slide under pipes, in preparation for the big leap at the end... only for you to realize right as you go over that Kimberly just backflipped and landed back on the ledge while you go falling several stories. Street Fighter-in-training that you are, you land on your feet without any serious harm, but the shiver that goes up your body and your grimace of pain upon impact is damn funny.
      Kimberly: Really thought I was gonna jump, huh? Gotcha!
    • Upon accepting you as his student, Jamie offers you a cup from his flask. He says it's not booze, but a family-made herbal drink, but you make one hell of a Spit Take after you down it. Moreover, despite what he said it was, you start swaying around like a lightweight immediately after!
    • To start his training, Dee Jay starts the music, the groove, and the rapping, with his colorful music notes exploding out everywhere. However, your first attempt to join the groove is so cold, the music scratches out and the music notes turn grey and fall out of the air.
    • The impetus of Blanka's training is you doing him a favor - putting on the Blanka-chan mascot costume and learning to move like him so that none of the tourists will think its him in the suit.
    • What is the first thing Zangief has you do when training with him? One-legged squats. And though he's damn encouraging about it, the moment you succeed, he slaps you on the back and tosses you some dumbbells to resume your one-legged squats.
    • You trying to imitate Dhalsim's yoga flexibility for the first time goes just about as well as you'd expect, especially when he starts floating.
  • To increase your bond with Masters, you can give them gifts. Each Master has a specific gift or two that that will increase their bond over twice as much as any other, supposedly because they like it so much... until you notice that quite a few of those gifts turn out to be things that they actually hate, often for silly reasons, which they will be forced to take repeatedly so you can max out their bond.
    • Honda turns out deathly afraid of Rubber Ducks ever since he slipped on one coming out of the bath. He'll take the duckies from you, but only to keep the rest of the world safe from them.
    • Luke is a gamer, but hates horror games. Your special gift for him is a Resident Evil clone, which he promises to play... five minutes a day. When you give him additional ones, you get him to take it by conning him into thinking it's less scary, but actually more about combat than scares - a bit of Self-Deprecating Humor from Capcom directed at Resident Evil's 4 (and games in the series like it), whose remake is Capcom's big newest release in the series, and which is famous for being a more actionized departure from form for the series.
    • Ken cannot cook, at all. Your gifts for him are Cookbooks. He accuses you of making fun of him.
    • Juri will accept Wrenches... but she already has high-quality tools of her own, and berates you for not bringing her lubricant or other things she actually needs. Give her another Wrench and she threatens to beat you up with it or shove it down your throat.
    • A long line of giving Masters food they hate. The mildest is Dhalsim. One of his disciples note that he's never eaten mild curry in his life. Guess what you give him. Dhalsim treats the revelation that curry can be mild like a scientific impossibility, and declares its existence a "miracle" after he tastes it.
    • You give Dee Jay Beer that's explicitly room temperature. Serving alcohol any way but cold turns out to be a Berserk Button for him, not enough to make him fully angry, but enough for his devil may care attitude to drop as he gives you a stern lecture!
    • The most extreme is Cammy, who gets Jellied Eel. Cammy doesn't just hate it, she actively can't stomach the stuff: she makes a point of eating it right in front of you to be polite, a process implied to be so messy and disgusting that she hopes it'll dissuade you from ever giving her any again. If you want that max bond, it won't.
    • Chun-Li's gift is Canned Herring. Unlike Cammy, she doesn't even bother eating it. She just cringes at how disgusting it smells and - like Ken - accuses you of enjoying watching her suffer.
  • Lily's introduction begins with you meeting her elder, a sage old man whose manner of speaking is so incomprehensible, his subtitles consist only of random symbols. When Lily makes her appearance, she initially misinterprets his mumbling as him calling you an "evil pest" and fights you. Afterwards, however, she realizes he's actually welcoming you as an "esteemed guest".
  • As Maximilian Dood found out the hard way, you can use Master Actions not only for mundane purposes as mentioned above, but you can also Engage (start fights) with them, too!
  • Every human NPC and enemy out in the game world uses the character roster's movesets since they use the same system and mechanics as the player character. This gives you the hilarious visage of a scrawny schoolgirl suddenly deforming slightly to fit Manon or Marisa's moves, or a random construction worker that was totally fine seconds ago suddenly hunching over, spinning through the air and electrifying himself because he uses Blanka's set.
  • If you go the route of designing your custom character to look like an absolute abomination, it creates a bit of tonal conflict with how they interact with other characters. And it's hilarious.
    Luke: (to your custom creature) Yeah gotta say, you're photogenic.
  • There are various food items you can consume mid-fight to give you various buffs, such as energy drinks, jawbreakers, and caramels. But then there are foods that debuff you, and they're all as questionable as you'd expect:
  • When you lose a fight, Luke will give you some advice on the continue screen. Some of his advice is match-specific, and against Carlos Miyamoto...
    Luke: Hold up—Carlos is using a SWORD? How cheap can you get?
  • Interacting with Chun-Li enough has her catch you staring at her legs. You have the option to say whether they're inspirational... or "thick". Choosing the latter gets you this:
    Chun-Li: If you want to know WHY they're thick... I'd be happy to teach you— until you beg for mercy!
  • The revelation that Ken Masters, on the run after his Frame-Up in the prequel comic, is Hidden in Plain Sight at a construction site that is down the block from his own headquarters. And despite him acting and saving construction workers there, and even lightly training them in his style if they aren't just taking inspiration from him, not a single person outside the site is aware of his presence.
    • Even funnier, you eventually run into a mysterious web informant who wants you to track down Ken at the construction site. How the informant found Ken at the site? One of his coworkers posted a big cheesy selfie with Ken chilling in the background and posted it to social media.
  • The fact that you can fight refrigerators in this game is something to behold. And depending on how you look at it, that they're among the toughest encounters in the game is nothing short of hysterical.
  • Cammy turns out to be quite clingy when it comes to text messages, as she ends up assuming the worst when someone doesn't reply to her within 10 minutes. One particular example has her send you cute cat stickers, and replying has her complain that you took too long to respond.
    • Cammy in general turns out to be Not So Above It All incarnate in story mode. There's a lot of Bait-and-Switch in that she's introduced as the intimidating superspy leader of the enigmatic Delta Red police organization... and then almost as soon as you get to know her she starts doing silly things like mother henning you over every little thing and sending you on top secret missions to find her cute cat photos. And then there's the fact that her special Master Gift is jellied eel - which she can't stand - complete with what's implied to be a Vomit Discretion Shot every time you give it to her.
    • Cammy is so much of a cat person that she represents herself with an adorable cat anime chibi with her Red Delta hat, uses cat stickers in her chats, and treats a random dog on the street as a serious threat that paralyzes her with fear as she begs the player for advice.
  • Nearly all of Juri's messages are filled with savage insults and mockery, which quickly loops back into being utterly hilarious. It becomes even more hilarious when she gets annoyed at the fact that you're unaffected by her insults.
  • Juri's "advice" to you when it comes to fighting.
    Juri: Do all the crap your opponent hates. ALL of it. Repeatedly. Get it? Got it? Good. Make 'em miserable. No excuses.
  • At one point in the story, you have to climb a mountaintop to find powerful fighters to join your team for a tournament. Eventually, you come to a mysterious martial artist training by himself near the peak. He senses your presence, and dramatically declares that he will show you true power if that's what you're seeking... and then the moment you square up to fight someone else suddenly leaps out from nowhere and knocks him out with a kick to the face. The rest of the quest then pivots to tracking down this other guy.
    • He came back! When Rashid got added to the game, you will first stumble upon him in the middle of filming his fighting blog, and his chosen opponent is the aforementioned shmuck. He does the same basic shtick for Rashid as he did for you, impressing him enough to accept the challenge... only for Rashid to school him in, like, five seconds. Rashid himself even comments that maybe the video will work as a comedy piece.
  • Manon has prepared a splendid reward for you! The reward? Exposure. Still, she is a world-famous judoka/model/ballet dancer, so effectively being endorsed by her is worth it... right?
  • Anything related to Ryu's experiences with things that don't involve training can fall under this.
    • One of Ryu's memories has him tell you about how his current outfit is for training, but not the only pair of clothes he has, bringing up his iconic gi. He notes how his gi had a tendency to make things more inconvenient for him, like making traveling between countries more difficult and setting off red flags at airports. Chun-Li tried to help make sure this didn't happen again by taking Ryu clothes shopping, which is told over this image of Ryu, who is wearing a white t-shirt and cherry blossom jacket (which grew on him), yet still wearing his headband, with the expression of someone who just wants to leave the store as Chun-Li keeps handing him clothes to try on.
      Ryu: I'm far from a stickler for fashion, but I can vividly recall Chun-Li insisting I try on all sorts of outfits.
      • Said white t-shirt and cherry blossom jacket later shows up as a new skin for Ryu, but he's also wearing Honda-provided sandals, and instead of his headband, he's instead wearing a towel as if he's just walked out of a bathhouse.
    • Ryu reveals that, because Ken basically forced him to have a credit card, with an account that, in Ken's words, is filled with his tournament winnings, surprise guest appearances, and "local crisis" problem-solving, given Ryu's lifestyle, he's basically set for life. Ryu is a wealthy man, and he laughs at the thought because he doesn't really feel like it.
    • Ryu's first attempt at using a phone to send you text messages is a sight to behold. How he manages to mistype "better" as "butter" is anyone's guess, but the fact that he also signs his messages adds on to how foreign the use of a phone is to Ryu. It gets to the point where he uses a pen to type better.

    Arcade Mode 
  • Zangief's Arcade story has him encounter a flyer searching for a partner. Believing it to be searching for a tag team wrestling partner, Zangief happily enters the colosseum, not noticing the second part of the flyer, which turns out to be Marisa searching for a marriage partner. Sure enough, the two giants clash, and Marisa happily declares that Zangief will make a great husband, to his utter shock. The Red Cyclone quickly makes up an excuse to leave and gets the hell out of there, leaving an amused Marisa to admit that while the whole "marriage partner" thing was a jokenote , she starts to develop a genuine interest in Zangief.
  • In both Luke's and Jamie's endings, they will bump into each other, realize who they bumped into, and immediately square up right then and there. Even funnier, neither are, in almost every other circumstance, relaxed, friendly, and helpful; they just piss each other off that much.
    Luke: Y'know, when you bump into someone, it's polite to say something.
    Jamie: Yeah, so? I'm waiting. Go ahead, man. I mean, I don't care either way. I'm not the kind of guy to raise a stink over nothing.
    Luke: (still faking a smile) Seriously, bro? You must have gonads the size of grapefruits, acting like I gotta apologize.
    Jamie: (visibly pissed) Haha. Maybe you gotta calm down and get outta my face before you really piss me off. BRO. Or I can give you a lesson in manners instead.
    Luke: THE HELL YOU JUST SAY?!
    Jamie: YOU WANT SOME?!
  • Rashid's ending has him going up in a rematch against Ryu and he comes out of it feeling somewhat enlightened and starts pondering over his future as a fighter. It's actually quite a quiet and reflective moment for the usually upbeat and cheery Rashid as he wonders if he'll ever find himself in Ryu's shoes in the years to come, fighting simply for the thrill alone instead of for the streaming and the resulting e-fame... Only for him to brush it off as it's revealed he blew some money on a new drone.

    Gameplay 
  • The Versus Character Splash is a goldmine for this, if Ryu and Luke's goofy faces are anything to go by. This is further seen with Juri pouting.
  • Some of the Win Poses in this game, while expressive as hell, can also be pretty amusing, too.
    • One of E. Honda's win poses has him celebrate his victory as an off-screen crowd pelts the arena with cushions. Anyone familiar with Sumo will find this to be standard farenote , but it can still be pretty amusing on account of said cushions coming out of nowhere. For populated stages like Fete Foraine or The Macho Ring, it makes (some degree of) sense, but it's pretty hysterical (since it implies that Honda has his own personal audience waiting at every opportunity to throw cushions in celebration) in an empty stage like the Training Room or the Genbu Temple when there's nobody else around.
    • If you get a Perfect KO as Juri, she'll mock Chun-Li's signature "Yatta!" win pose, laughing her ass off about it afterward.
    • On the topic of win poses, not only does a cat (the same one from Cammy's SSFII ending, in fact) accompany her in the character select screen, but it even appears in Cammy's win pose, too. It's equal parts touching and amusing since the cat literally drops out of nowhere to greet Cammy.
      Cammy: Target— (cue the cat literally falling from the sky to cuddle with her as she pets it) Not here, okay?
    • Relating to the above - and from a meta standpoint, between Cammy having a cat, Blue Mary having a dog, and Lili having been revealed to also have a cat (albeit one that clearly dislikes her), you can't help but chuckle at the sheer coincidence of each respective franchise's most prominent (and/or popular) blonde female fighter having their own Animal Companion tagging along with them.
    • Ryu does a seiza, which is pretty typical for him, if he wins the round with low health. However, if he happens to be right on top of his opponent after the KO, you're treated to the unintentionally hilarious sight of him sitting on the opponent's face!!
    • Lily's Perfect KO winpose has her jumping around in joy at winning… and then she clumsily trips and falls face-first on the floor, saying she meant to do that.
  • Some of the characters' poses for a Time Over/Draw are pretty amusing.
  • Kimberly's versus screen intro has her excited to the point of backflipping... out of view of the camera moments before the end, realizing her mistake, and rushing back into view.
  • The Blanka-Chan doll returns from V and now, Blanka can weaponize them outright and electrify them for added damage.
  • Thanks to the even better facial animations (which were already solid in the last two entries), some of the opponents' reactions to getting hit by a Level 3 Super Art/Critical Art are priceless, to say the least.
    • E. Honda's Critical Art sees him use his opponent to create a literal ring of fire (Ouch! That'll definitely sting for barefoot fighters like Luke or Juri…) that he just barely throws them over. …And then he Sumo Headbutts them with extreme prejudice as he finally rings them out! The close-up on the opponent's face before taking a headbutt to the gut is nothing short of hysterical.
    • While Kimberly's Bushin Ninjastar Cypher is awesome to look at, if you let her idle around after she gains the bonus for her walk speed and damage, she'll start dancing around in a way that comes off as amusing and adorable.
    • The Critical Art version of Lily's Raging Typhoon sees her pulling the move off much like T. Hawk before her… until she fumbles it on the second spin and falls ass-first on the opponent's back, with the freeze frame after a knockout being the cherry on top.
    • Manon's Level 3 is just… oh, goodness. She styles on the opponent by making them ballet dance with her (and making impossibly graceful giants out of the larger Marisa and Zangief in the process) before judo slamming them into the dirt. Even funnier with the Critical Art version, where she starts singing while doing sonote , before slamming them into the dirt with a hilariously cheeky grin on her face.
    • Both versions of Marisa's Level 3 are gold; the Oh, Crap! look on the opponent's face before the initial punch was already enough (as Manon and especially Zangief can attest), but the Critical version amps the hilarity with the rather smitten look on the opponent's face after Marisa caves their face in!
      Marisa: Take my love! (readies another Megaton Punch) Take... ALL OF IT!!!
    • Getting hit by a Shin Shoryuken to the gut will absolutely hurt like a bitch, but there's something to be had about some of the faces certain characters (namely Luke) make as Ryu guts them like a fish with the initial uppercut.
    • Zangief's Bolshoi Storm Buster (if it isn't busy being satisfying to land or That One Attack on the receiving end), notably the CA version, ends with him delivering the absolute mother of all Spinning Piledrivers against the poor schmuck of an opponent who dared to get close. Land a KO with it and you're treated to some hysterical looks on the opponent's face if you look closely (standouts being Blanka, Honda, Jamie, Luke, Rashid).
    • Dhalsim’s CA is mostly awesome, but the final freeze-frame if you get the KO can be mildly amusing, showing an upside-down Dhalsim balancing on his opponent’s torso with a serious expression.
  • Some of the animations for whiffing a Level 3 Super/Critical Art can be amusing on the receiving end (if they're not frustrating for the user):
    • Blanka sounds like a whining puppy if he whiffs Ground Shave Cannonball!
    • Dee Jay has a rather casual Delayed Reaction when he whiffs Weekend Pleasure. So much for that party getting red hot, huh?
    • While Interdiction is one of the most terrifying ones in the game next to A.K.I's, if you make it whiff (i.e., jumping as soon as you see it) you're treated to the Nightmare Retardant of JP letting out a deadpan, "Oh, my." The CA version instead has him groan in frustration, owing to a Failed Attempt at Drama on his part.
    • While Lily doesn't say anything, if she doesn't grab the opponent with her Raging Typhoon, she actually pouts as she stumbles forward!
    • If Luke whiffs Pale Rider, he'll stumble forward and go, "Wait, wait, wait! My bad!"
    • Rashid whiffing Altair results in a rather amusing Flat "What" for the normal version, while the CA version has him bemoan that he "Sucks at this [streaming]".
    • What happens when Zangief whiffs his Bolshoi Storm Buster? Well...
      Zangief: (on activation) "IT'S TIME TO GET SERIOUS!!! [whiffs] ARE YOU SERIOUS?!"CA Version
  • The Car Crusher minigame/Bonus Stage from the SFII days makes a return, now using a Peterbilt instead of a Honda. The fact that the truck itself appears on the loading screen is downright hilarious, especially when paired with the above-mentioned Game Face feature (i.e., Cammy giving a shocked look at the truck). First they wrecked a sedan, then an SUV, and now a full-on big rig. Johnny was right, the Street Fighters are assholes.
  • Most of the characters' facial animations slowly transition into labored breathing close to and during a Burnout. Dee Jay, on the other hand? His big, toothy grin becomes a big, toothy frown instead.
  • Even the Drive Parries can be pretty amusing in themselves. Special mention goes to Lily's and Blanka's animations; one literally spins her clubs to deflect incoming attacks while another just shakes the rump and dances around his opponent's attacks! And then there's Zangief, who simply just flexes his pecs. Body of iron, indeed.
    • Some of their voice lines on a Perfect Parry, while hard to make out at first, are also amusing, too.
      Dee Jay: Outta tune, 'mon!
      Honda: Blockhead!
      Jamie: Hold this L!
      JP: Idiocy.
      Juri: I see you!
      Luke: (mockingly) Uh-uh!
      Manon: Don't touch me!
      Zangief: I'm invencible!
  • Dee Jay's Drive Rush, when looked at in slow motion (or a freeze frame) looks almost like he's doing an Ashura Senku... but in his own Dee Jay way that makes it look like he's going low in limbo! That it's one of the better Drive Rushes in the game because of the distance it covers adds to the hilarity.
  • Some of the Game Over animations, mainly Juri, who simply points straight at the camera and says, "Huh? The hell you looking at?" Kimberly also deserves a mention, since she throws a temper tantrum like a petulant child once the timer hits zero... which is honestly something that you'd actually expect Lily to do.
  • A lot of the commentator banter can elicit a chuckle.
  • Dhalsim's face down pose bears a striking resemblance to the infamous Family Guy death pose.
  • Many characters tend to express shock when getting KO'd ("NO WAY!" "HOW'D I LOSE!?"), but Rashid?
    "I SUUUUUCK!!"

    Taunts 
  • One of Luke's taunts (Back plus all buttons) has him mockingly perform a Hadoken. The gesture and utterly disrespectful tone of delivery make it incredibly funny. Aleks Le admitted it was one of the best lines he's ever recorded for the game. The delivery is just as funny in Japanese, but what makes it extra cheeky is the fact that Luke shares a voice actor with none other than Kyo Kusanagi himself. In other words, Kyo is mocking Ryu's Hadoken!
  • Jamie's back taunt has him hum his theme... leading to the amusing assumption that, at the very least, he's one of the few characters aware that he has his own theme to start with.
  • Jamie's neutral taunt mocks his opponent by pretending that he's sleepy... by falling back as if he collapsed from sheer boredom before quickly getting back up.
  • Jamie's forward taunt changes with his drink level. When fully drunk, he legitimately falls over and passes out for eight seconds, ignoring the player's input until he recovers.
  • Guile's forward taunt has him do a mini Sonic Boom at his fingertips, which is somewhat amusing to think about if you remember that he's The Stoic. Perhaps he got that from Ken?note 
    Guile: You won't know what hit you.
    • Apparently, some have also noted that it looks like Guile is flipping the opponent off with a Sonic Boom. (Of course, he obviously isn't, but the mere idea is hilarious all the same.)
    • Also: Guile can taunt you while he's crouching (e.g. holding a charge for Sonic Boom or Flash Kick).
  • Pressing back plus all buttons as Kimberly has her do the classic Kuji-in associated with most Shinobi. The amusing thing is that the actual symbols appear in front of her fingers and she does it with the biggest shit-eating grin imaginable.
  • Chun-Li's classic yawn taunt from 3rd Strike makes a return as her back taunt. Even when she's a master by the time of SF6, she can't help but be bored by the opponent's lack of action.
    Chun-Li: (yawns) Are you ready yet?
  • On the topic of Not So Above It All, even Ryu is prone to some smack talk here and there. His back taunt, in particular, has him call out the opponent on their sloppy footwork.
  • Marisa's forward taunt has her lean forward and goad the opponent into hitting her. Actually do so, and you'll be treated to the sight of super armor on her taunt.
  • Want Cammy to stretch on command? Back plus all buttons. There you go.
  • Lily's neutral taunt has her take a picture of the opponent with her vintage camera. If they're close enough, the flash will actually damage them. Even funnier still is that the hit actually counts as a projectile... This also means you can use a camera flash to nullify a Hadoken.
  • A.K.I.'s back taunt has her form a poison bubble in the shape of F.A.N.G's head, which she subsequently gushes over. The kicker is that this bubble can be popped by her opponent walking into it, afflicting them with poison in the process. In addition, A.K.I. will react accordingly to this blatant defiling of her beloved master, going from obsessive glee to having what can only be described as a miniature temper tantrum, complete with foot stomp. It's a fun distraction from the usual nightmare fuel that comes with the character.
    A.K.I.: Isn't he wonderful~? (the bubble gets popped) Ngh! You're a trifling, little pest!

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