History Characters / StreetsOfRage

* BareYourMidriff: From the second game onward.

* MsFanservice: Aside from a thigh-length skirt, she is actually pretty moderately dressed in the first game. [[FanservicePack Starting in]] ''2'', however, she lost her jacket and dons [[BareYourMidriff nothing more than]] [[{{Stripperiffic}} a bra and a slightly shorter skirt]] (complete with {{Panty Shot}}s; the sprites were edited from ''Bare Knuckle 2'' to some versions of ''Streets of Rage 2'' to prevent this). She's also seen in a swimsuit in the good ending of ''Streets Of Rage 3''. [[spoiler:Her ending picture in ''Streets of Rage 4'' shows her in a torn shirt, red bra, and red panties.]]

* BareYourMidriff: In ''Bare Knuckle 3'' and ''4'', she wears short shorts and a tube top, leaving her midriff on display.

* BareYourMidriff: Wears a sports bra under her jacket that does this.

* BroughtDownToBadass: In ''3'' he was made slower and weaker than in ''2'', lost several moves and his Final Crash has less invincibility frames. He's still horribly overpowered and probably the best character in the game. In ''4'' he was given a glass jaw, and his Final Crash lost even more I frames, had his infinite combo removed, took a few post realese nerfs AND everyone else is more powerful than before. He's STILL the best character in the game (ranked at the top of S on most tiers), just less egeriously than SOR3

* [[VigilanteMan Vigilante Woman]]: After turning in her badge. While she returned to the force in ''[=BK3=]]'', she was eventually discharged for knocking out the commissioner over ethics.

* ShoutOut: To Music/{{Beyonce}} and Music/{{Rihanna}}.

* MythologyGag: His neutral jumping attack in ''4'' resembles his neutral Blitz from a fan game ''Streets of Rage Remake''.

* AssKickingEqualsAuthority: He's considerably stronger than the rest of the police force, and can move way faster to boot.

* TheCameo: A secret area in ''4'' allows you to fight him in exactly the same arena (and with the same graphics) as ''1''.

* AnatomyArsenal: ExtendableArms aside, ''Remake'' gives him a [[GatlingGood machine gun arm]] and an ArmCannon as blitz specials when holding a gun or a bazooka respectively. Since they make use of the special meter, they can be used [[{{BottomlessMagazines}} even when said weapons are out of ammo]].

* RammingAlwaysWorks: Zan's blitz attack works like this in ''[=SOR3=]''. In ''Remake'', however, Zan trades ramming mooks in favor of a [[ShockAndAwe dashing Electric Reach]] upon gaining two or three stars.

* SplashDamage: In ''Remake'', his "Energy Ball Toss" blitz weapon attack from ''[=SOR3=]'' becomes a weaponless blitz special that explodes when it makes contact with an enemy or a wall, damaging anyone caught in said explosion, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard including the player, if they are too close]].

* AfroAsskicker: In ''Remake'', if he beats Mr. X, he throws his hat off in celebration, revealing a small afro underneath it.

* DanceBattler: According to his profile in ''Remake'', his style is "breakdancing". Skate’s crowd control move is a windmill breakdance.

* MightyGlacier: He's slow as molasses and cannot jump to the enemy's back for the back throw. But God have mercy if he ever caught an enemy from the back, any of his slams takes out a HUGE chunk of damage. {{Downplayed|Trope}} in ''Remake'', where he can compensate his slow walking speed by running and rolling just like everyone else (although his run is about the same speed as Skate's walk). Amplified [[spoiler:as a boss in ''4'', where he cannot be stunned, but his attacks take several seconds to launch... at least until he TurnsRed]].

* WalkingShirtlessScene: His wrestling outfit is a pair of pants, boots, and absolutely nothing to cover his upper body, although he is seen in the ending of ''3'' and a few places in ''Remake'' wearing a leather jacket (with no shirt on under it).

* BadassBiker: He already looks like he could be a biker, but in ''Remake'', he actually attacks you while riding a motorcycle.

* {{Stripperiffic}}: More so by the third game where she gains more cleavage and loses those fishnets, which was {{bowdlerise}}d in the US release. Zigzagged all over the place in the remake, which includes the skirt and blazer wearing versions, the teddy and stockings wearing version, the teddy and skirt wearing versions, and the leather uniform versions.

* GrenadeSpam: The remake has Fogs that run onto the screen in large numbers, hurl explosives, and then run away.

* {{Cyborg}}: In ''3'', though it's unclear if it's even the same guy. In ''Remake'', it's clear that they ''aren't'' the same guy, as cyborg Jets appear with multiple weaker human Jets on a few different occasions.

* {{Expy}}: Big bald guy with ambiguously Middle Eastern skin tone and facial features with a mustache who boxes? Sounds a lot like [[VideoGame/PunchOut Bald Bull]]. ''Remake'' makes this even clearer, when one of his palette swaps is called Bald Bear.

* FinalBoss: Of the bad ending route in ''[=SOR3=]'' (if you fail to save the chief/general).
** FinalBossPreview: A strange case in that game. He is also [[DidntSeeThatComing stage 1's boss]], albeit heavily toned down. If you succeed in saving the chief/general, you don't get to fight Shiva again, subverting this.
** In ''Remake'', [[spoiler:he is the final boss of the ''[=SOR3=]'' route. You actually have the choice of trying to defeat him before or after you disable the bomb... it's extremely satisfying and difficult to beat him while the clock is ticking, [[ItsAWonderfulFailure but then you're left with an alternate version of the worst ending.]]]]

* LightningBruiser: Moves very fast, hits ''very'' hard. In ''Remake'', not only are his stats significantly higher than any other playable character, but his attacks have a longer range and are delivered faster.

* PromotedToPlayable: Can be played as in ''[=SOR3=]'' through a cheat code, albeit in a buggy, incomplete state with a limited moveset. ''Remake'' does him justice as a proper hidden character (a GameBreaker, unsurprisingly) and even features his ''[=SOR2=]'' version separately. This carries over into his appearance in ''4'', which features him alongside the rest of the cast of ''3'' as an unlockable. The ''Mr. X Nightmare'' DLC for ''4'' goes one further and makes his ''[=SOR4=]'' version playable as well.

* TheRival: In the remake, dialogue in one path implies that he's this to Axel. In ''4'', he personally addresses to him in respect, so this appears to have become canon.

* StatusBuff: The last update for ''Remake'' makes his initially useless SmartBomb button double his movement speed for a few seconds.

* DevelopersForesight: Being an animal with boxing gloves on his paws, he rides pillion with the police officer that backs the team up whenever a vehicle section is played in ''Remake''.

* LethalJokeCharacter: In ''Remake'', even with his pitifully short reach on his front attacks, he is quite fast and has some of the game's strongest throws and blitz attacks. What's more, proper spacing of his back attack can stunlock enemies, and even some bosses, at a a safe distance. In ''4'', his combos can effectively stunlock enemies and deal a ton of damage. His star move in the game has him summon his trainer as a backup ally, which may seem underwhelming at first, but using multiple stars in a row can summon multiple copies of him and doing so earns an achievement.
* NoItemUseForYou: His boxing gloves prevent him from picking up weapons in ''3''. In ''Remake'', he can hold items in his mouth, but still throws guns away automatically. In ''4'', due to recycling sprites from the canonical 3rd game, he once again is unable to use weapons.

* VocalDissonance: Despite being otherwise almost completely finished in ''3'' compared to the other secret playable characters, he uses ''Skate's'' vocal samples if you unlock him. ''Remake'' fixes this by sampling fellow boxing kangaroo [[VideoGame/{{Tekken}} Roger's]] voice instead.

* {{Stripperiffic}}: Wears a miniskirt and tube top. Averted in the American version of ''3'', which added a t-shirt under the crop top and tights under the skirt. ''Remake'' uses both the versions of her, as well as one with tights and a tube top. The fourth game goes back to the tube top and switches the miniskirt with equally short shorts.

* LethalJokeCharacter: By virtue of being [[ObviousBeta mostly unfinished]] in the original ''Streets of Rage 3'', in which he had a rapid fire attack that could deplete foes' health in seconds. The ''Remake'' makes him an intentional example, with unusual but strong attacks, a blazing fast run speed, and a universal SmartBomb that's great in a pinch.
* RefugeInAudacity: The character himself would count as this, but there are specific moments in ''Remake'' that fulfill this trope as well.
** One: Sliding down a stripper pole then proceeding to dance on it in the Atlas Nightclub.
** Two: The image of him if [[spoiler:HE BECOMES THE BOSS. He sits with his knees spread apart. Remember that he wears panties]].
* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: In ''Remake'', he uses the female death scream.

* PintsizedPowerhouse: Granted, he uses his entire body for leverage, but even so, it's impressive how he, [[MusclesAreMeaningless a twiggy preteen]], can throw the fat mooks just as easily as {{M|ightyGlacier}}ax does. Even moreso in ''3'' and ''Remake'', where all the adult characters (in the latter, save for Max) are unable to accomplish that feat.

* ButtMonkey: In ''Bare Knuckle 3'', he is knocked cold by [[AnvilOnHead debris]] (or an oil drum in ''Remake'') after crashing his bulldozer into a support. See DrivesLikeCrazy below. His slapstick mishaps in an otherwise serious game have branded him as comic relief in many a FanFic.

* {{Bowdlerize}}: The US release of ''3'' added leggings and a t-shirt to Soozie's model. It also changed her hands-on-hips pose to having her hands raised to fight. ''Remake'' and ''4'' kept the more realistic fighting stance.

* MyNaymeIs: In ''3'' and ''Remake'', Soozie is an unusual spelling of Susie[=/=]Suzy, and Rubby may by either an unusual spelling for Ruby or a typo. In ''4'', there's Saphyr (instead of Sapphire), but the others, including Ruby this time, spell their name normally.

* {{Flanderization}}: Not that his character wasn't already a raging homosexual stereotype, but ''Remake'' plays it up even more, using a patchwork of female voice clips for his new attacks, replacing his death scream with the one used by women in ''3'', and having him ''pole dance'' in one level.

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: The only enemy in the series ''not'' to appear in ''Remake''.

* BrainInAJar: Quite how [[spoiler:Mr. X]] was reduced to this is not clarified in any version of the game's story. ''Remake'' didn't bother to address the subject either, painting this as a BigLippedAlligatorMoment. It could be from the years of sustaining damage from the beatings at the hands of the heroes having managed to take their toll on his body.

* MythologyGag: His design is taken from the FriendOnTheForce that helped Axel's crew in ''1'' and ''Remake''. The "default" palette's name is the one given to the same character from the short lived Streets of Rage comic featured alongside the [[ComicBook/SonicTheComic Sonic Fleetway comic.]]

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The remake plays with this. You have the Axel from ''1'', who's the MightyGlacier with short combos but more powerful attacks, the Axel from ''2'' who's more of JackOfAllStats with an extra special attack, and the Axel from ''3'', who's a LightningBruiser that moves quickly but hits for less damage per attack.

* HeroOfAnotherStory: In ''3'', he's a little busy and thus unable to help Axel and Blaze in the beginning. Turns out, he's working on ''something'' behind the scenes leading to helping out the heroes like a DeusExMachina and went through the bad end route (exposing the phony General Petrov) if the other characters are on the good end route. A GameMod of the remake revolves around this ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg also featuring Max who's also absent in BK3]]).[[spoiler:He might be this again in ''4'', since he doesn't appear much in the story until the very end.]]

* LightningBruiser: In ''Remake''. Not to the extent of Shiva, but his stat totals come out to 2 stars higher than the rest of the main cast, and his standard striking combo sends enemies flying so hard they damage any other enemies they hit. So he hits almost as hard as Max, but moves a lot faster.
* MightyGlacier: In the first game -- he has the slowest speed and the highest power. In the ''Remake'', he's partially this, and partially LightningBruiser. ''4'' seems to move him back towards the Glacier role he originally had, although he can dash.
* MythologyGag: His neutral jumping attack in ''4'' is based on his neutral Blitz from ''Remake''.

* OutOfFocus: His importance in the series decreased, needing to be saved in ''2'' and then relegated to support in ''3''. ''Remake'' restored him to playable character, and he returns to the main series with ''4''.

* {{Shoryuken}}: Once he get 3 stars in the Remake. Ironically, ''4'' instead gives him a [[HurricaneKick Tatsumaki]] as a Blitz and an electric [[VideoGame/FatalFury Power Geyser]] for a Star Attack.

* FragileSpeedster: In the first game. Faster than the boys, but can't take as much damage. But in ''2'', ''3'', and ''Remake'', [[JackOfAllStats her damage, speed, and reach are average]].

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: His name is ''supposed'' to be Garcia, but it's written Galsia due to the L/R problem. The third game's English translation finally gets it right, only for the fourth to regress back. ''Remake'' makes them separate mooks.

* TookALevelInBadass: Granted it's only from 'weakest mook' to 'second or third weakest mook', but in ''3'' he now gains a jumping elbow drop (which was dropped in ''4''). ''Remake'' splits them into 2 characters - Galsia act as his pre-''3'' counterpart while Garcia is the one that performs an elbow drop and serve as his slightly tougher counterpart.

* RaceLift: They were Black in ''1'', ''2'', ''3'', and ''Remake''. Then in ''4'', they were suddenly White.

* {{Kiai}}: In the remake especially. Also qualifies as HellIsThatNoise when encountered on the elevator.
* NoSell: In ''Remake'', some of ''1'''s version of Hakuyo will, when "knocked down", land on their feet and immediately counter with a flying kick.

* TopHeavyGuy: He has a big torso and disproportionately huge shoulders and arms. Plus he's a big guy already. He's also got skinny little legs. In ''Remake'' he's even bowlegged, which makes his legs look even smaller.

* AxCrazy: In the remake, you are re-introduced to him [[spoiler:while he is brutally slashing some poor offscreen fella to ribbons, standing on a giant pool of blood!]]

* SlasherSmile: Which is more noticeable in the remake.

* LightningBruiser: Large, fast, and really strong. In ''2'' and ''Remake'', ''2'', he has the single strongest attack of any enemy[[note]]his backdrop is tied with R.Bear and Shiva's grapple combos for max damage, but the combos can be interrupted with a Special and his backdrop can't[[/note]]
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Looks very, ''very'' similar to the Wrestling/UltimateWarrior, although the facepaint and big metal boots are reminiscent of Wrestling/TheRoadWarriors. The remake renamed some of his [[PaletteSwap palette swaps]] [[Wrestling/GiantGonzalez El Gigante]] and [[Wrestling/TheBarbarian Barbarian]] after real wrestlers, both of whom he has some resemblance to.

* {{Acrofatic}}: In ''Remake'', he adds a leaping elbow to his offense. He only does it if you crowd him after he's been knocked down, and is invulnerable while doing it. It's to prevent players from stun-locking him. Also, he can run really fast while breathing fire.

* FatBastard: Not exactly an agile enemy, but you better not try and take advantage of that by throwing or slamming them — in ''1'' and ''Remake'' you'll take damage if you try, unless you're Max or using Blaze's front throw.

** ''Remake'', however, fully separates the two sets of twins — Onihime and Yasha are the set of twins that resemble Blaze, and Mona and Lisa are the more muscular, American looking twins with ground spark powers.

* MirrorMatch: In ''I'' and ''Remake'', if you're Blaze.
* PaletteSwap: Of Blaze in the first game. The remake [[LampshadeHanging hangs a lampshade]] on this. No longer the case as of the third game.

* SensualSpandex: In ''3'', ''Remake'', and ''4''.

* MindScrew: [[spoiler:He's unlockable in the remake, and can defeat himself in the ''[=SOR1=]'' route to BECOME THE BOSS... wait, what?]]

* PromotedToPlayable: In ''Remake'' as a hidden character. Yes, he has the tommy gun. He's also unable to call for police backup.

* TurnsRed: Players of ''Remake'' who think they're used to dealing with his old tricks are in for a nasty surprise when he is down to his last lifebar. His stance suddenly changes to holding his tommy gun with only one arm, and he starts using melee moves like the playable characters. He even has a back throw and blitz attacks which, naturally, he can do without restrictions because he's a boss.

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'''Characters Introduced In Streets of Rage Remake''':

!!Elle
* FragileSpeedster: {{Subverted}}. She has the characteristics of this but is actually rather slow. In a nutshell, she has Zan's reach but is weaker on the whole, requiring a different playstyle.
* MysteriousPast: Woke up with no memories save for surviving an explosion, and that her right hand had been surgically replaced with a prosthetic whip limb.
* PaletteSwap: Not exactly. She looks identical to Electra from ''2'' (curly blond hair, blue gray one-piece swimsuit looking thing, fishnet stockings). However, a massive amount of new animations were created for her, so she doesn't share posture or motions with Electra.
* ShockAndAwe: Same as Electra, but [[spoiler:taken up to eleven if you hit "call police" — she generates enough electricity to fill the screen]].

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[[folder:Syndicate Mooks]]

!!Slash

* [[CanonImmigrant Fanon Immigrant]]: [[CoversAlwaysLie Originally appeared on the US Streets of Rage cover but not in the game itself]]. In the remake, he's now an actual enemy.
* {{Expy}}: Of [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason Voorhees]].
* HeadSwap: Of Jack from ''II''.
* MythologyGag: His "pain" sprite is the same pose he took on the US cover art for the original Streets of Rage.
* WhiteMaskOfDoom: A white hockey mask.

!!Trucker

* AmusingInjuries: He appears after the fight in the electronics truck carrying a crate, sees the destroyed truck, and drops the crate on his foot.
* AlmightyJanitor: Despite his profession, he's tough enough to qualify as a mini-boss.
* DeepSouth: Sports a Confederate Battle Flag bandana on his knee.
* HealthFood: Trucker's palette swap, Vodka, will repeatedly pause during the fight to swig from his booze bottle and regain health.
* LightningBruiser: This guy is eye-poppingly fast on the draw.
* PipePain: On the bridge level.
* UniqueEnemy: Only two of him appear in the game.

!!Sniper

* [[CanonImmigrant Fanon Immigrant]]: Much like Slash above, [[CoversAlwaysLie this character appeared on the US Streets of Rage cover but not in the game itself]]. In the remake, he's now an actual enemy. He appears in the upper-left corner of the box art.
* CrosshairAware: He fires at you out of a second story window. You-the-player can track his aim by a green crosshair; it flashes and stops moving when he's about to fire.
* InvincibleMinorMinion: You can’t hurt him, only avoid his shots.
* UniqueEnemy: Kind of. On one hand, he has ONE appearance in the entire game, the first level in the ''[=SOR2=]'' route. On the other, visually he appears to be just a Slum mook who has a sniper rifle.

!!Cody

* MetalSlime: Although he doesn't have any unique abilities (and as a Galsia clone, can't do anything besides punch), he has a large lifebar, drops a 1Up when defeated, and is fought in an area with a lot of pits, making it difficult to make sure he doesn't fall into one of the pits thus denying you the 1Up.
* ShoutOut: He is one of the ''Videogame/FinalFight'' player characters (who look exactly like ''[=SOR1=]'' Axel).

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[[folder:Syndicate Bosses]]

!!Rudra

* BadassLongcoat: She wears a longcoat that only buttons to the waist and billows out behind her legs. And she's a ninja, so it's badass by default.
* CanonForeigner: She may not have been in the original trilogy, but she's proven to be pretty popular with ''SOR'' fans nonetheless.
* ConfusionFu: About midway through her boss fight, she magically creates [[DoppelgangerAttack low-health copies of herself]] to overwhelm you; destroying them all or knocking down the real Rudra prompts her to do it again.
* DarkActionGirl
* DistaffCounterpart: To Shiva, though they have no (known) relation — they're both ambiguously East Asian martial artists with blue hair and black-with-red-trim outfits.
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: If you weren't aware she existed or didn't play the older versions of the game, she can come off as this when she [[spoiler:jumps you at the end of stage 7 on the [=SOR3=] route]], which makes the subsequent high-speed boss fight even more harrowing.
* HeelFaceTurn: She's only a heel out of necessity (see I Have Your Sister below), but she can be unlocked as a playable character.
* LightningBruiser: As both a boss and a hidden character.
* [[IHaveYourWife I Have Your Sister]]: [[spoiler:Why she's serving the syndicate. [[AllThereInTheManual An SORMaker mod created by one of the developers]] sheds a little backstory on this.]] [[spoiler:Play as Rudra in a 1 player game and end the game on the [=SOR1=] or [=SOR2=] routes to save the kid.]]
* KillItWithFire: What happens when you use the "call police" button while playing as her.
* MysteriousWoman: According to her profile.
* {{Ninja}}: Her profile shows that she's trained in several disciplines related to ninja combat, and in-game her preferred weapons are the kunai and the katana.
* NinjaRun: She does a ninja run (body tilted forward, arms to the side) as her dash.
* TheRival: Her win-quotes in the game's Battle Mode paint her as one to Blaze, coupled with a bit of LeaningOnTheFourthWall.
--> '''Rudra:''' Your honor as the main female character could now be mine...

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'''Characters Introduced In Streets of Rage 4''':
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* {{Gainaxing}}: It's pretty evident in the third game.

* {{Gainaxing}}: Her character design in ''4'' includes a substantial amount of chest movement.

* ElectricBlackGuy: Technically not, as depsite his dark skin tone he's Polynesian. However, he was originally designed as an older Black man name Floyd Harper.

* ElectricBlackGuy: Technically not, as depsite his dark skin tone he's Polynesian. However, he was originally designed as an older Black man name Floyd Harper.

* SinisterShades: He wears a pair small round lense Lennon specs, although they're a bit hard to see in ''1''.

* {{Expy}}: Like ''Final Fight's'' Abigail, he's a high ranking boss in a criminal syndicate who utilizes a strength-based pro wrestling style fighting style.

* ElectricBlackGuy: Technically not, as depsite his dark skin tone he's Polynesian. However, he was originally designed as an older Black man name Floyd Harper.

* AnAxeToGrind: One of the two weapons Jacks throw are axes.

* {{Expy}}: Female mook with a surprisingly large health bar and WhipItGood tendencies who prefers to attack from a distance with a flying kick? Sounds like Poison and Roxy, albeit Poison and Roxy didn't use their riding crops in ''Final Fight''[[note]]and one or both of them might not be female, but this game came out years before Poison's Gender Controversy[[/note]]. Also, the idea of a female mook with a whip started with Linda from ''Franchise/DoubleDragon''.

* {{Kiai}}: They let out a nice martial arts yelp when pulling off their dropkicks.
* ISurrenderSuckers: In later stages of the game, they will pull this off if you punch them. Turn away and stand there and they will whip you.

* PuttingOnTheReich: Stiletto is a palette swap that wears form fitting black leather and an officer's cap. Stiletto then has palette swaps of her own.

* {{Stripperiffic}}: Wears a miniskirt and tube top. Averted in the American version of ''3'', which added a t-shirt under the crop top and tights under the shorts. The fourth game gives her shorts that are actually shorter than the miniskirt, and the tube top.
* ThemeNaming: Many of her palette swaps have gemstone themed names - Garnet, Diamond, [[{{Engrish}} Rubby]].