He's definitely seen better days.
- A majority of the defeated characters' poses in New Generation and Second Impact are pretty freaky, especially Oro's and Akuma's.
- Oro's loss portrait, as seen on the page image. Most of the other fighters are bruised and obviously look in bad shape when they lose, but Oro looks more a like zombie or even a damn corpse, with his skinny body, gaping mouth, and pitch-black eyes that look disturbingly like empty eye sockets.
- Akuma vomits in an already freaky way. In the Japanese release, Akuma vomits red blood, which makes it even worse.
- Some characters, like Hugo and Urien, look as if they were literally beaten to death. Ken, on the other hand, has his entire face horribly disfigured..
- New Generation and Second Impact are the first and thus far, only games in the Street Fighter series, as well as few of the fighting games in history to depict male characters shedding tears after being beaten. Usually, only the female characters (like Chun Li in the Street Fighter II series) cry after getting beat up.
- We don't know anything about Q, or if it's even a him, or if it's even human. They are a creepy looking figure in a trenchcoat with a seemingly metal expressionless face, they breath heavily and grunts without talking in fights. Absolutely everything about them is unknown, and they could be anywhere at any time. Even Q themself seems to agree with everyone on themself, as one of their winquotes has them uttering what sounds like "I am... abomination..."
- If Q's not investigating the murders in their ending, they may very well BE the murderer. And considering the murder sights are the game's stages, it's very likely the people they murdered are the rest of the game's cast. This especially falls in line with their victory animations, where they either starts crushing their head (the animation is cut off to the results screen) or they shed a tear and then move on.
- With Q’s ending, we only get more questions about what exactly Q is. How have they been in all these places at once? Is there only one or multiple? What is he doing at these murder scenes, which mind you are the stages in the game. And worse, the team investigating Q may have him as a Mole in Charge, or be on his hit list.
- Lastly, Q’s moveset, while Unskilled, but Strong, is absolutely brutal. His hits are freakishly strong and ruthless, which isn’t helped by the fact that he’s an Implacable Man. Even if he gets knocked out by light damage, he still tries to grab you before shutting down robotically.
- If Q's not investigating the murders in their ending, they may very well BE the murderer. And considering the murder sights are the game's stages, it's very likely the people they murdered are the rest of the game's cast. This especially falls in line with their victory animations, where they either starts crushing their head (the animation is cut off to the results screen) or they shed a tear and then move on.
- Twelve is overall quite creepy on his own, but what really takes the cake is the downright chilling voice he has while copying an opponent with the X-Copy Super Art... It must be heard to be understood... As a bonus, watch his animation when he's KO'd via Cherry Tapping. His body deflates and collapses into a skeletal husk.
- "You're dealin' with cold blooded killers and assassinators! They'll decapitate your body and leave ya for alligators!" It may be just a hard hitting lyric in a song set around standing tall, pushing forward, and fighting all the way through in a series where throwing down on the street is the focus, but look deep into the supplementary material. Sure, Shadaloo's been around, kidnapping people, subjecting them to experiments, killing them and disposing them in gods only knows where, but then we hit the Illuminati, who are rooted moreso in a realisic light, tied with not only corporations and the government, but also that of the mafia, drug cartels, big gangs, and even historic civilizations to move everything around in society as they please since the beginnings of human sentience. Outside of the ring, and without anything like the animes and even the anime movie for II and Alpha, what on earth else have they done?
- If Urien loses by time over, he grabs his arm and clenches his bicep so hard that he begins drawing blood, tensing himself to the point where he's shaking all the while.
- This is only in the Japanese release. The blood is taken out entirely in the international release.
- Keep in mind that Urien coats his skin in metal to fight. He doesn’t undo this for his Self-Harm. His Inferiority Superiority Complex goes so deep he tears through metal to punish himself.
