What happened to Adon (the guy from Street Fighter and Street Fighter Alpha)?
It's heavily implied that he went to fight Akuma. Seeing that Akuma always fights to the death, it's not too hard to imagine what happened to Adon...
Akuma didn't kill Gen the first time they fought, nor did he kill Ryu.
Akuma fights by a strict code of honour. If he feels that the person he is fighting is not at the top of their game (ie. sick, or otherwise handicapped like Gen was, or still to reach their true potential like Ryu) he will stop the fight. If he meets a fighter significantly weaker than him (Adon) he will not fight them unless challenged. However, once someone challenges him, they are fair game.
As of SFIV, he's still around in the professional Muay Thai circuit.
And as of SSFIV he's back on the roster.
Does this mean that his fight with Akuma ended prematurely because he was found lacking? (see above points)
Maybe he only went looking for Akuma but didn't actually fight him.
Akuma only fights to the death against worthy opponents, so the implication is that Adon wasn't considered worthy enough by Akuma for a fight to the death.
How exactly is it possible to fight Akuma without being smashed into the ground? According to most sources, Akuma is more or less the strongest Street Fighter character.
Short answer, it's not. Long answer, Gouki was holding back on Ryu during their past encounters. So, therefore there's barely anybody that could stand a chance against Gouki at full power, except Oro. He's around the same level of power as Akuma, but for undisclosed reasons, Akuma didn't fight him. They engaged in a simplistic exploration of each other's power.
May I interject, but Oro is way stronger than Akuma. Which is why he binds his arm for his fights against even the strongest of opponents. Now if Akuma and Oro fight at equal strengths as you say with his arm bound, Imagine how much stronger he would be if he unbound his arm. There is more evidence to support this: play 3rd Strike one time with Oro and use a Super Art, say, for instance, his grab super. Notice how he still uses that one arm? Now do that same super move with ALL THREE punch buttons. Notice how he uses both hands? And now it is a One-Hit KO.
Un, no he's not. The two let out their full power, but didn't actually fight. They came to the conclusion that they'd just kill each other. Oro and him are equals, nothing more, nothing less.
Gen, Gill, and Alpha Bison are also around Akuma's power level. Gill did fight Akuma (and even got hit with the Shun Goku Satsu) but survived thanks to his resurrection power.
And Dan, of course, has a very logical explanation...
Cause Dan's power level is... OVER NINE THOUSAND!!!!
Why didn't anyone try to arrest Bison during the time between Alpha 3 and 2 Turbo?
Because, technically speaking, he was dead. He used his Psycho Power to stash his consciousness inside Rose, however, and used her until he could clone a new body for himself.
Word of God states that he actually was brought to trial after his resurrection at some point, but he merely bribed the judges to let him off scot-free.
That god must have been an impersonator then, as there's nothing from official Capcom sources that backs that claim up - everything points to him waiting for his new body to be cloned between the events of A3 and SSF2T.
Actually, he's correct, in Gamest's SF 2 Dash's (Champion Edition's) story account of Guile, it's stated that he brought Bison/Vega to court, but got off easy. If you read the Street Fighter plot guide on Gamefaqs, it's Capcom of Japan who wrote the story, so what they say is canon, not Capcom of America.
What happened to Vega (the guy with the mask and the claw) after Shadoloo collapsed? Sagat is training, Bison is dead, and Balrog is a bum on the streets.
He probably just had better things to do after his whole organization (which was his reason for entering the first few tounaments) was disbanded. It's likely he didn't want risk damaging his face again.
He returned to the life of a socialite. A socialite in a mask and silly pants.
Whatever happened to Gouken's (Ryu and Ken's master's) daughter?
She was in shock after the murder of her father. She ran away, probably lives a normal life.
Likely answer: Capcom simply forgot about her existence. Considering that she's never been mentioned in the games and that her only appearance was in an obscure SF I manga (way before Gouken was given a name and a face), chances are that she was never canon to begin with.
Wild Mass Guessing: Juri. She might be from Korea and use a Korean fighting style, but no-one ever said she was born there.
No, she may be forgotten, but by Capcom of Japan's word, she's still canon. The Street Fighter plot guide in Gamefaqs says that ignorance does not equal denial, so if Capcom of Japan says shes not canon, then she's not, but if they don't mention her that much, she's still canon.
That's impossible, Juri's father was a lawyer in charge of prosecuting organized crime operations (including Shadoloo). The whole family was kidnapped, both parents were killed, and Juri lost her eye.
Who or what is Q?
No one knows. Yet.
It is a very good... Question.
We may never know, but, he does seem to share similarities with "David" the agent in the red tie and same colored pants. "Similar taste in clothing" indeed. Also, when you do a crouching hard kick or a jumping medium kick, you can see the skin above his gray socks, his skin is brown.
Crossover question: How in the hell did Dan and Joe wind up winning the Match of the Millenium tourney in the first Capcom vs. SNK game? Word of God states that they won, but it doesn't explain how.
Because everyone that could beat them were too busy fighting Rugal/Akuma. They won by default (and maybe beating up some losers who were too weak to even be shown).
Dan is a decent fighter. Compared to the likes of Ryu, Iori, and others, Dan is weakling but I'd figure he'd beat any average person in a fight. I can easily see Dan winning a contest that the stronger fighters weren't attending.
To say nothing of the fact that Joe's technically no slouch himself, either.
Indeed. He's the World Muay Thai champion, and he isn't even Thai! (This may be in dispute. After all, Sagat has the same title in the Street Fighter universe, and some believe that King would have the title if not for a... certain issue.
Dan can't pay his phone bill in SFIV; you think he could afford to hire somebody to do PR for his dojo?
Sure, the cost of the PR guy prevented him from paying his bill...
How in the HELL is Bison alive?! Getting your soul sent to Hell isn't something you can come back from easily.
He's just really strong, apparently. I guess Psycho Power lets him manipulate his own soul.
It's suggested in both SF 4 and the related media that Akuma never killed/defeated/meet Bison. Instead, Bison blew himself up to not be arrested after being worn out from a fight against Chun-Li, Guile, Cammy, Ryu and Ken.
shun goku satsu's fatality is relative. there are ways of surviving it, but the vast majority of people don't know how, or can't think clearly enough to do so. Gen, for example, managed to survive.
Speaking of which, why is a sixth of the console roster consisting of characters who have died in canon by the end of Street Fighter II? Admittingly, Gen looks like he crawled out of hell, and whatever brought M.Bison back would also bring back Rose, but even Sakura still looks like a schoolgirl when she should be college-aged.
Simple, the creator of SF 4 is an SF 2 fanboy and SF 4 is mostly a dream match game. He could care less about the story unless it has unimportant details such as Ken's baby.
Except that SF 4's not a dream match. All of the returning characters, save for Gouken, have been given justifications for their returns and/or appearance - Bison cheated death and transfered his soul into another body again; Rose was simply possesed, not absorbed, by Bison at the end of Alpha 3 and suvived when he got his new body back; Sakura has moved on from high school and uses her old seifuku as a fighting uniform/gi; and considering how some people have resisted fatal diseases for years after their diagnosis, it's not a stretch to think an elderly martial arts master like Gen could've done so as well. The producer is an SF 2 fanboy, yes, but that doesn't mean the game was designed to be outside of canon.
Oh and FYI, and of all the characters that return from the "dead" in SFIV, only Gouken was offically declared as dead in canon. Gen and Rose's endings in Alpha 3 were ambiguous and Capcom never bothered to actually say what their fates were post-A3 until they were added to the home version of SFIV.
Actually, if you read up about Gouken and Gen in the Street Fighter plot guide on Gamefaqs, it's says that both of them ARE dead, for Gouken, he may have survived the Shun Goku Satsu when he fought Akuma/Gouki, but died of mysterious circumstances that Akuma/Gouki would only know, SIN may have physically resurrected him for BLECE experiments and possibly to lure Ryu, his adoptive son, into said experiments, but has an incomplete memory, for Gen, may have died fighting Akuma/Gouki at one point post-Alpha/Zero 3, or his disease and brought back to life physically for BLECE experimentations like Gouken, though Gouken in SF 4 and SSF 4 may be another wink to the Sheng Long hoax.
There's something problematic about this theory though, there hasn't been any considerate evidence that Gen has infact died as the guide claims. Even in the Japanese dialog things seem rather similar on a whole, but there doesn't appear to be an entire alternate plot in regards to S.I.N.'s plans.
Initially, Word of God was that Bison was dead post Street Fighter 2 via Shun Goku Satsu since Shadoloo is gone by the time Second Impact and Third Strike happen. It's more likely that they opted to retcon that when it was decided that SF 4 would be SF 2.5. It's likely that Gouken survived it in a way similar to Gen: By emptying his soul or embracing Nothingness. Gouki states that Gouken is tapping into the power of Mu in their endings (I forget which).
Why does Gouken have a fighting style so dissimilar to Ryu and Ken's? I mean he WAS their master!
Perhaps what Ryu and Ken practice is actually an incomplete version of the arts Gouken practiced. Remember, they were still being taught by Gouken when Akuma killed him left him unconscious at the bottom of a waterfall in their fight. It wouldn't be surprising that if Gouken had lived long enough not been knocked out for over 10 years, Ryu and Ken would've learned how to throw two fireballs at once or do a vertical Hurricane Kick.
No, they just took stuff from Sheng Long hoax 1997. He stay's dead in Japan because they do not like retconning a lot of things.
Gouken didn't want to teach them all of his fighting style, because it's a fighting style made for assassination. He trained them to be great warriors, not killers.
He has Hadokens and a variant of Tatsumaki Senpu-Kyaku. But he didn't create the Shoryuken, Ryu and Ken did that together. Remember in SFA 3, during Ken's ending, i believe. He said he was going to defeat Bison using the technique he and Ryu created.
When SIN may have resurrected him physically for BLECE experiments (see the Street Fighter Plot Guide for details), they infused him with Goutetsu's cells, which explains why he can pull off the Kinjite shoryuken, a move Goutetsu invented, as well as the Denjin Hadouken?
Will Ryu ever realize that there's more in life than just fighting, like making a family (Chun-Li is watching you!), passing on his skills to the new generation, and staying in the kitchen?
He has said in previous games, I believe MvC1, as a victory quote, that he thought of settling down and starting a family, but he can't because there is a lot of work left to do. (basically he's married to the job of training.)
Maybe he won't. Ken did, however. Let him do what he likes!
Ryu x Chun-Li is one of the oldest examples of fandom shipping out there. It predates the internet!
Clearly you've not read the short-lived Malibu comics adaptation.
Not that anyone will hold that against anyone else.
Speaking of feelings, doesn't Chun Li say she has a thing for blond guys in MvC3 against Thor? Hmm...
Conversely, Ryu is too much of a Chaste or Celibate Hero to return anyone's affections. Ryu is a Lighter and Softer mix of a Blood Knight and Spirited Competitor; to him, it's all about training and bettering himself through battle. Thus, he probably wouldn't go after Chun-Li nor would he reciprocate Sakura's admiration-borderline-schoolgirl crush. He's definitely friends with them, but I definitely don't see either of them becoming Love Interests to Ryu. Plus, shouldn't the fact that Chun-Li is too involved in her life's work to marry herself (and thus adopts by the time of 3rd Strike) put a rest to the notion that Ryu and Chun-Li would hook up? Yes it should.
Incidently, if you beat C. Viper with Ryu in Arcade mode for SSIV he says something like "Start a family? Maybe someday, but not right now. I still have too much to learn!" for his win quote.
How old are some of these characters supposed to be. Chun li looks the same in Street fighter III as she does in the earlier IV. Makoto and Ibuki have apparently not aged much either since the 4th game. It's hard to get a bead for how much time is passing between games, to say nothing of the confusion of numbering.
Especially since after SSFII, Capcom stopped giving exact birthdates for the characters, only the month and day. To wit: Ryu was born July 21, 1964. Alex was born August 3. Which year? I don't know!.
Actually, Street Fighter 1 went by release date (1987). Street Fighter Alpha 2 (which removed Alpha 1 from canon) takes place late 1987 - early 1989, so Final Fight (which exists in the SF universe) took place in 1987 like Street Fighter 1. Final Fight 2 took place in the middle of 1988, to explain Guy's absence in Final Fight 2. With that, the Slam Masters/Muscle Bomber subseries took place 1981-1982 going by Haggar running for mayor of Metro City in the Japanese version, which is the canon version, not the American version FYI. Final Fight: Streetwise even confirms Final Fight 1 in 1987 with Haggar's election poster in Haggar's gym saying "Vote Haggar for 1982" or something like that. Street Fighter Alpha/Zero 3 took place 1989 - early 1990. Proof comes with Cammy being 16 when Delta Red found her (circa 1990), and that she's 19 in SF 2, which occurs in 1993. As for Final Fight 3/Rough, it took place 1991, because Japanese sources state Haggar left office in 1992, so 1991 for 3. SF 4 took place in 1994, while Super SF 4 took place after SF 4, SF 3 took place 1998-1999.
How does Guile's Sonic Boom technique, a destructive energy attack, defuse a bomb?
It's Street Fighter. That's probably not the most ridiculous thing the series have done. MST3K has nothing on the Street Fighter Mantra.
How do you pronounce "Ryu"? A lot of fans say it's "Ryu", as do most Japanese versions say. Most English dubs say it like its pronounced though, "R-you" or "Re-you". Why can't they get the characters' names right?
An image of him from Capcom Design Works (page 67, I believe) is captioned with the characters "ri," small "yu," and "u." A small character truncates the vowel sound of the preceding character, so the pronunciation is therefore "Ryuu." If it was supposed to be pronounced "Rai-you," then the characters would be "ra," "i," and "yu."
Where does anyone get "Rai-you" out of "Ryu"? So, it's "R-you"? The movie does say "Ryuu", but I've seen other official works say "Roo".
As someone who knows better and still says "Rai-you" it's simple. For many Americans with absolutely no idea how to pronounce anything in any language other than American English (seriously, listen to us mangle British English) it just rolls off the tongue much much easier than "Re-You" and "Roo" just sounds silly.
So.. What is everyone speaking? Their native language? What about when they talk to each other? English?
It's possible for a tournament organised by English-speakers that they stipulate English to be spoken on the premises. More likely, however, is that Translation Convention is in effect.
Several of the characters are likely multilingual. Ken would have had to learn Japanese while under Gouken's tutelage, and he probably taught Ryu to speak English. Chun Li would need to learn other languages to communicate with other Interpol agents. Guile and/or Charlie may have picked up some Japanese if they were stationed in Japan or Okinawa at some point. M. Bison's origins are unknown, but he runs an international crime syndicate, so he might have needed to learn several languages. Blanka's speech is... troubling for any person. When your series is taglined the 'World Warrior', you're likely going to have a few polyglots.
What are the standards of the various tournaments for how the contestants fight? Sure, maybe all of the ki blasts that so many characters do could be accepted since the blasts come from their own bodies, and Vega could get away with his claw if he fought in a division with weapons, but what about characters who carry concealed weapons (Geki, Ibuki, Viper, Cody), mess with the arena (Hakan), and other examples?
If Vega fights a division with weapons, surely all the others can fight the same division.
Juri's intro for Super Street Fighter IV says that Seth's tournament is 'no holds barred'. As in, at all.
Why did Metro City, Guy, or Haggar do nothing to help free Cody from his unjust stay in prison?(I read that he was framed)
If I remember correctly,Cody was initially framed for beating up Poison (Final Fight's Token Female enemy along with Roxy.) by Edi.E, the corrupt cop boss from the original Final Fight. Being in prison, plus losing Jessica as his girlfriend, he began to develop an addiction to fighting; I believe that on his first offense, Haggar did free him, but after the third or so time, he began to give up and simply appealed to have him moved to a minimum-security penitentiary. The fact that he repeatedly spring himself out of jail probably did not help. Most of this info comes from the UDON Comics, specifically Street Fighter Turbo #06, which is normally mostly canon.
How does Dan survive getting beat up almost every day? It seems that every time he challenges someone, he winds getting serious injuries that would normally kill a normal person. In the UDON comics he was even shown recovering in the hospital after his fight with Sakura, wrapped up in bandages.
What did Go Hibiki practice prior to his death and why did Dan not assume the mantle thereafter? Dan started the Saikyo-Ryu dojo in order to train himself to fight against Sagat after Gouken refused to train him for such reasons but wouldn't it make more sense to beat Sagat using the style his father used as proof he was the rightful heir? The UDON comics even show Go Hibiki as the dojo master of some martial art so it's at least reasonable to assume he was an accomplished practitioner up until he was killed.
How does Hakan's wife stay slender and young looking after 7 children? And why such a huge family?
If Akuma's Shun Goku Satsu sends the opponent's soul to hell, why does the kanji for HEAVEN displays when you end a round with it?
Just because the attack kills by sending the soul to hell where it is ravaged by demons doesn't mean that the soul can't rise to heaven afterwards?
Is Bison really gone for good after SFVconsidering how Word of God said he's still alive and running Shadaloo during SF3?
Bison has a powerset that makes him very easy to bring back whenever they get the urge. Odds are he'll be back at some point.
When did Shun Goku Satsu, raging demon, flash prison murder change from an attack which involved the soul being sent to hell to be ravaged by demons to a purple punching thing? Fan games getting that wrong is one thing, parodies like Morrigan's "eternal slumber" or Videogame/Okami's laundry side quest are naturally going to take the most mundane interpretation and make it silly as possible, even Asura's Wrath portraying it as a generic punching attack in the dark can get a pass considering those fights had already taken far greater liberties, but come V, punching seems to be official. Why? He specifically says in Street Fighter Alpha that it is not his fist that kills when he uses raging demon, but past sins!
The sins being what kills them doesn't mean he's not still striking them physically.
If Bison didn't care, how could he remember it was Tuesday?
He just chose a day at random.
Tuesday's his killing day. Friday's barbecue day, Saturday's laundry day, and every other day is for STREET FIGHTING!!!
It wasn't. He just wanted a day. In fact, getting the day wrong would be another hit at her, and he's got a 6/7 chance...
Maybe she mentioned it earlier.
There's no good place in the conversation to squeeze that in. "It was a Tuesday. It was twenty years ago."
He was making a (very awesome) point about how greatest tragedy of her life was a normal, day-to-day occurrence to him. The point isn't that it actually happened on a Tuesday, but that it had the same meaning to him as "just another Tuesday". He's trying to be poetic, people!
Not only is he being poetic, the statement is also an ego-boost and proof he's a Card-CarryingMagnificent Bastard, implying that everywhere he goes, every day, his actions become the greatest moments in peoples' lives.
But the whole point of her speech is that Bison's forces WERE DRIVEN BACK. By farmers with pitchforks. So... Bison's raids on peasant villages usually end that way?
Probably not. Or at least not a huge number of times. General Bison is a successful and powerful conqueror and warlord by the time of the movie, but he undoubtedly suffered some setbacks on his way to the top. His forced retreat at the hands of Chun-Li's fellow villagers was one of those setbacks. He probably does remember it, (at least faintly) but he's not only a liar but a raging egomaniac. Bison's not going to clearly admit defeat, even a defeat long in the past, if he can instead slyly deny recalling it happening and be a smug bastard all at once.
Why are Balrog and Dee Jay on the opposite sides? And when the cartoon comes along, this is corrected...
Might as well ask why Ryu and Ken are con artists. Adaptations change things.
Why is everybody so forgiving of Zangief towards the end of the movie? Yes, we know he was simply too stupid and legitimately thought Bison was a good guy, but the characters have no way to know that for sure since from their perspective his whole redemption consisted of holding up a door. Ignorant as he was, the guy still aided a mad genocidal dictator and would be guilty of many war crimes.
Hey, the international laws and customs in this movie are clearly quite different from those in our world. For example, a colonel can lead an international coalition assault on said mad genocidal dictator in direct contravention of orders just because the civilian who gave those orders was "some moron who just canned me". And neither the colonel, his lieutenants nor all the other soldiers are implied to be at risk of facing court martials or other punishment for their insubordination. Not that that's even a bad thing, given the stakes, in my view!
Why didn't the AN advance recon force (Guile, Cammy and T-Hawk) bring assault rifles or some other long arms for when they infiltrated Bison's headquarters? All three of them ended up shooting enemy soldiers with their handguns, but said soldiers (despite being inaccurate) had quite the firepower advantage.
Other than it being poetic to make Guile's best friend into a monster, why didn't Bison ever use any of his own soldiers instead? Unlike Blanka, they probably wouldn't have needed the brainwashing program to be loyal to him.
