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- Awesome Moments: Ryu's He's Back! moment as he fights Seth, reaches the State of Nothingness and finally manages to put his inner demons to rest. A Curb-Stomp Battle follows.
- Funny Moments: Eliza's brief Violently Protective Girlfriend moment when she beats up a guard with what looks like a white baseball bat before he hits Ken In the Back.
- Heartwarming Moments:
- Ryu returning to his senses after his Heroic BSoD. The utter joy in Sakura's face says all.
- The scene where Ken finds the kidnapped Eliza, she's finally able to tell him she's pregnant (and does so in a very adorkable manner) and once it sinks in, Ken hugs her in joy.
- Ken, Eliza and Sakura supporting Ryu after he defeats Seth.
- Iron Woobie: Ryu. He has to deal with an horrifyingly strong Superpowered Evil Side, gets involved in a massive conspiracy due to said side, almost loses himself to it and is terribly shaken when that happens... but ultimately refuses to fall in despair and anger, and with his friends's help he comes out stronger than he was before.
- Memetic Molester: C. Viper, on account of the Breast Attack she inflicts upon Cammy during their fight.
- Nightmare Fuel:
- The Reveal on what the BLECE weapon does, and as it turns out, it's Exactly What It Says on the Tin: it causes the cells in victims to boil, expand, and then burst.
- When Ryu is briefly taken over by the Satsui no Hado, the effects are both heartbreaking and terrifying.
- Signature Scene: The confrontation between Cammy and C. Viper, followed by Ryu losing himself to the Satsui no Hado, is one of if not the most remembered and discussed part of the film.
- Tear Jerker: The scene where Sakura cooldown hugs Ryu in tears and barely manages to bring him back from the Satsui no Hado comes off as surprisingly and genuinely powerful.
- They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Not so much within The Ties That Bind itself, but rather its intended nature as a canonical prequel to SFIV. As mentioned under Schrödinger's Canon on the main page, the OVA's events are irrelevant at best and contradicted at worst within the game itself, meaning its more dramatic events, such as C. Viper’s near-fatal brutalization of Cammy and Eliza being kidnapped and held hostage by S.I.N., are never followed up on or even mentioned afterwards. Notably, this is in contrast to the SSFIV OVA, the events of which are explicitly mentioned by—and partially what motivate—Chun-Li and Cammy in their updated Arcade routes.
- Unintentionally Unsympathetic: C. Viper, on account of her Adaptational Villainy. Though she is portrayed antagonistically by way of being The Dragon to Seth, the fact that she has a young daughter that she truly loves, and is revealed to be a double agent working to take S.I.N. down from within in her final scene, are intended to show that she is ultimately a good or at least sympathetic person. Of course, considering that her actions throughout the movie include attempting to capture Ryu so he can be experimented on by S.I.N., all but torturing Cammy just to provoke Ryu into giving in to the Satsui no Hado, and having Ken's innocent wife, Eliza, kidnapped and held hostage, and she neither displays any visible conflict about them nor faces any consequences for them, her happy reunion with her daughter at the end of the movie can come across as tone-deaf at best.
