Quotes / Street Fighter

Street Fighter IV

Seth: Juri... That power... That eye... She's no ordinary fighter. She is an untamed animal who seeks to destroy and consume all that enters her sight. And that includes me. Still, as long as I can manipulate her like a pawn in my grand game, I shall leave her to her own devices. She has altered her own body in her insatiable quest for power. She respects no law. No morality. She does whatever it takes to achieve her goals and quench her limitless thirst. In that way, she's no different from me. Of course, all of humanity walks that path, whether they admit it or not. Strip away the restrictions of law and common decency, and it becomes clear that the engine that drives humanity is their own selfish ambition. To achieve one's own goals necessitates trampling those of others underfoot. Yet mankind is all too anxious to label those who would do so as evil. What tragic irony. Humanity's defeat at my hands will serve to strengthen me. I will be baptized in the fire of their unabashed ambition and be born anew, ready to usher in a new age free from the restrictions of artificial morality. Ha ha ha... I can then hunt down this emotionless animal for sport and put her down for good...

Seth: I understand, Ryu. I know why we are here. You see, I simply could not resist to test out the legendary power you possess myself. You struggle against the temptation of that power. Oh, it must be torture! Still, some questions must be asked, some situations faced head on. Surely you, who are most at home in the ring, find this power inside to be a great temptation! And yet you struggle in vain against it even as it seeks to control you utterly! Why do you fight it?! WHY?! Keep it inside and you will die! Your death will garner nothing, it would be without meaning! Power only has meaning if it is put into action. It defines you. Power like that is what rules the world! Everyone seeks power, seeks to grow in strength, but this goal is out of reach by ordinary men. The poor seek riches, the ugly beauty, we compare ourselves to others and seek to cover our own inadequacies to find peace of mind. The mere existence of those who are better than us becomes intolerable. We fight in retaliation! If beauty is not enough, we use money. If money does not work, we resort to violence! This energy is what powers our world! It is essential! All I seek is to help this natural process along! This destructive force begotten from conflict! This power that everyone lusts for, I will spread it over the world with but a touch! It is like a well that can never run dry! A precious mineral flowing from an inexhaustible mine! This power will be mine!

Street Fighter V

Juri: Between you and me, Seth, violence and chaos are all I have left. I focused my mind and body, my whole being, on training so that when given the opportunity to pay back Bison, I'd be more than capable of doing just that. I was so obsessed with becoming a powerful fighter that I wasn't just doing it to settle a score with Bison anymore, I was doing it for me. But with him dying during that tournament somewhere in the middle of the ocean, that chance was stolen from me. Where did that leave me? What could I do with the drive for my entire existence taken away? Turns out I still had one purpose left: fighting. I'd become so obsessed with becoming a more powerful fighter that as much as I was doing it all to settle a score with Bison, I was also doing it for me. Apparently, I had developed a taste for delivering pain and mayhem and Bison's death didn't stop my cravings for it. I discovered that this hammer was too good at smashing things to be stashed away in a toolbox just because it'd lost its nail. Smashing other things, anything, was pretty fulfilling too.

Street Fighter: The Movie

"Something wrong, Colonel? You come here prepared to fight a madman, and instead you found A GOD?!"

— M. Bison, to Guile

"Quick! Change the channel!"

— Zangief upon seeing a bomb heading right toward him on a TV monitor

Bison: But why? Why do they still call me a warlord? And mad?! All I want to do, is to create the perfect genetic soldier! Not for power, not for evil, but for good. Carlos Blanka will be the first of many, they shall march out of my laboratory! And sweep away every adversary! Every creed! Every nation! Until the very planet is in the loving grip of the Pax Bisonica. And then peace will reign in the world, and all humanity shall bow to me, in humble gratitude.
Zangief: [nearly in tears] That was beautiful.
[Dee Jay gives Zangief a "What the Hell?" look]

—Bison's New Era Speech and its reactions

Chun-Li: My father saved his village at the cost of his own life. You had him shot as you ran away! A hero at a thousand paces.
M. Bison: I'm sorry. I don't remember any of it.
Chun-Li: You don't remember?!
M. Bison: For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday.

—M. Bison and Chun-Li, right before Chun-Li attacks

"Well, I'm not going home. I'm going to get in my boat, and I'm going up the river, and I'm going to kick that son-of-a-bitch Bison's ass so hard, that the next Bison wannabe is gonna feel it. Now who wants to go home, and who wants to go with me?!"

—Guile, to his troops

Sagat: Guile? Alive?
Bison: OF COURSE! His "death" was meant to integrate his spies with you. [Covers one eye, mocking Sagat's eyepatch] I guess you didn't SEE that, did you?

—M. Bison and Sagat, as Guile speeds toward their base

"GAME...OVER!"

—M. Bison, after thinking he blew up Guile

M. Bison: You have made me a happy man.
Guile: Next, I make you a dead one.

—Guile vs. M. Bison

"You still refuse to ACCEPT...my godhood? KEEP your own God! In fact, this might be a good time to PRAY to Him! For I beheld Satan as he FELL FROM HEAVEN!...LIKE LIIIIIIGHTNIIIIIING!!!"

— M. Bison to Guile

"Oh, man. I shoulda stayed at Microsoft!"

—Dee Jay, while escaping M. Bison's base

Street Fighter: The Animated Series

Bison: [cackling while watching Guile get beaten up by one of his monsters] This is DELICIOUS!
Balrog: Guess you won't be needing those tapes I made for you. Want me to get rid of 'em?
Bison: Don't be hasty. Not until I see those Street Fighters pummeled to dust! Which should be any moment now.
[Guile gets beaten up again.]
Bison: [Triumphant trumpets play in the background] YES! YES!!!

— M. Bison and Balrog, The Medium Is the Message

Chun-Li: Monster! You killed my—
Bison: Yes, yes, I killed your father. What is it with you women, anyway?! I killed my father, too, and you don't hear me whining about it!

— M. Bison vs. Chun-Li, Cammy Tell Me True