History Film / TheStreetFighter

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Both Kowloon Dingsau and Junjo Shinkenbaru exhibit this trait, as both only want a fair match against Terry. In fact, when King Stone and [[spoiler:Jadot]] shoot Terry during a fight, Kowloon proceeds to turn on them. Also Kowloon tells Terry he can go away with the girl if he wins fairly, instead of the other gangsters who simply will kill Terry and take the girl anyway.

* CompleteMonster: Don Costello subverts this; he's not only racist and sexist but willing to kill Otaguro for leaving a trail for the police to follow (to say nothing of what he does to [[spoiler:Kitty]] for being a triple agent), though he does have ''one'' redeeming factor: he has the decency to let Terry and Junjo continue their deathmatch.
* CountryMatters: Kitty calls Gentoku Ryo a cunt as Terry drives to perform the second half of the hit he was assigned in the opening scene after silencing Ryo.

* TurnInYourBadge: Yamagami resigns on his own initiative after failing to stop Terry from silencing Gentoku Ryo.

-->'''Frankie Black''': I heard that there are many people in Japan that can do this, but it's all nonsense! [...] If there's anybody that wants to challenge me, they're welcome! I'll expose their disguise!

** Kowloon Dingsau is a Type I.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Both Kowloon Dingsau and Junjo Shinkenbaru exhibit this trait, as both only want a fair match against Terry. In fact when the western gangsters try to shoot Terry during a fight, Kowloon proceeds to violently kill both of them for using dirty tricks. Also Kowloon tells Terry he can go away with the girl if he wins fairly, instead of the other gangsters who simply will kill Terry and take the girl anyway.

* CallBack: Terry puts Kunigami in an oxygen coma to keep him from interfering in a private investigation of where he hid the tape.

* TheChessmaster: Terry tries his hand at this at Aoidani Mortuary. In order to succeed at burning the first thug to try to get the money he had hidden in the furnace room, everything and everyone had to be in the right places: Terry inside one of the retorts, each casket in front of both retorts, the decoy near the shelf of urns, and Frankie Black (or whoever happened to try to retrieve the money) had to go for the decoy Terry had planted. After Mr. Black attacked the duct-taped decoy and punched a hole through his torso after knocking said decoy into the nearest casket, Terry emerged from the retort in which he had hidden himself and said, "[[GratuitousEnglish Hey, Black... ]]''[[GratuitousEnglish come on.]]''" Terry then overpowered Mr. Black in the ensuing struggle and burned him to death.

* DeadStarWalking: Sue Shiomi. To wit: her character (at least in the English dub) is a morally upright investigator (if a bit of a loose cannon) and pays dearly for it. [[VasquezAlwaysDies The fact that she was a woman probably didn't help matters.]] This is also the second time she dies in the films.

* LaserGuidedKarma: Appropriately enough, the laser-wielding Frankie Black gets this in the end, but not via his laser weaponry. He and Aya are directed to retrieve the MacGuffin at Aoidani Mortuary; Mr. Black starts looking for Terry to try to ambush him, to the point where he impatiently attacks the first person he encounters, believing him to be Terry. As Mr. Black realizes that the guy he attacked was a decoy, in comes Terry from BehindTheBlack, taunting him: "Hey, Black... ''come on.''" The two fight in a deathmatch near a pair of twin retorts, and Terry gains the upper hand, burning Mr. Black to death to seal the deal.

* DeadStarWalking: Sue Shiomi. To wit: her character (at least in the English dub) is a morally upright investigator (if a bit of a LooseCannon) and pays dearly for it. [[VasquezAlwaysDies The fact that she was a woman probably didn't help matters.]] This is also the second time she dies in the films.

-->'''Frankie Black''': I heard that there are many people in Japan who can do this, but it's all nonsense! [...] If anybody wishes to challenge me, they're welcome! I'll expose all their lies!
* {{Bowdlerise}}: This film loses footage of Kunigami getting his heart ripped out, in addition to Owada's demise and some dialogue. It also completely changes the plot of the movie, from being about a tape containing incriminating evidence of a governmental official's corruption to a tape describing the way to make heroin.

* DeadStarWalking: Sue Shiomi. To wit: her character is a morally upright investigator and pays dearly for it. [[VasquezAlwaysDies The fact that she was a woman probably didn't help matters.]] This is also the second time she dies in the films.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: While the gang led by Owada may be dirty and evil, Kunigami and Aya appear to be worse.

* GratuitousEnglish: "Hey, Black... come on." Mr. Black himself speaks nothing ''but''. There are other examples scattered throughout the film.
* HeroAntagonist[=/=]InspectorZenigata: Huo Feng.

* NoExportForYou: The uncut version.

* EyeScream: Happens tragically to [[spoiler:Kitty]] and very infamously in an example of SpecialEffectsFailure.

* RaceLift: In the original, Frankie Black is a former member of the Chicago native who happens to be dressed like a Mexican. In the English dub, he actually ''is'' Mexican (but oddly enough, he doesn't speak a word of Spanish during his screentime).

* HeelFaceTurn: Dingsau lets his code of honor get the better of him and kills Jadot when the latter tries to kill Terry during his deathmatch with Junjo. After Terry defeats Junjo, Dingsau is shown with Sarai helping a battered and bruised Terry get back on his feet.

* DoubleAgent: [[spoiler:Kitty]] is a triple agent; [[spoiler:she's a mobster herself but is willing to relay any information about the Mafia's evildoing to Terry. Don Costello makes her pay dearly for it.]]

* MoralEventHorizon: Otaguro comes close, but doesn't get the chance to seal his crossing of it before Don Costello shoots him three times (twice in the R-rated version). Don Costello himself crosses it by ordering his men to [[spoiler:blind Kitty]].

* YouHaveFailedMe: Don Costello drops a bridge on Otaguro for getting the police on the Mafia's tail.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:Kitty]] gets this in the face.

* CountryMatters: Pin Boke calls Gentoku Ryo a cunt as Terry drives to perform the second half of the hit he was assigned in the opening scene after silencing Ryo.
-->'''Pin Boke''': This cunt's had it, eh?
* EyeScream: Happens tragically to [[spoiler:Pin Boke]] and very infamously in an example of SpecialEffectsFailure.
* JiveTurkey: Pin Boke has elements of this, using such terms as "bread" and "Jackson," at least in the dub.

* VasquezAlwaysDies: Pin Boke.

* DestinationDefenestration: Terry wins his match against Gijun by dodging him as the latter lunged toward him... too late to realize he was headed out the window, literally.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Both Kowloon Dingsau and Junjo Shinkenbaru exhibit this trait, both only want a fair match against Terry. In fact when the western gangsters try to shoot Terry during a fight, Kowloon proceeds to violently kill both of them for using dirty tricks. Also Kowloon tells Terry he can go away with the girl if he wins fairly, instead of the other gangsters who simply will kill Terry and take the girl anyway.

* GratuitousEnglish: Jadot has two lines in English: "Yes, that's right" when [[spoiler:he confesses engineering the events of the movie to Sarai from her father's death onward]], and "Finish him off!" as Terry and Junjo engage in the deathmatch Junjo had longed for.

* YouKilledMyFather: Inverted; [[spoiler:Jadot]] tells Sarai that he was responsible for her father's death earlier in the film.

* AntiVillain: Nachi Shikenbaru is a Type II. She only wants Terry dead because he had the audacity to force her to prostitute herself as collateral for a previous caper earlier in the film. When Terry grabs her as she tries to butt into their final bout, she has Junjo run them both through. Unfortunately, Nachi is the only one who dies as a result.

* {{Bowdlerise}}: Among others, in the R-rated version Terry's clash against Gijun is over a minute shorter, Terry does not knock Lee's teeth out or smear blood on his mouth, Junjo's brother is not seen lying dead on the pavement, Nachi is not shown being exploited by the pimps, and Miss Young shoots Lee only once. Oh, and Terry doesn't castrate the black rapist with his bare hands.

* GoryDiscretionShot: In a film not afraid to explicitly show blood and gore at every opportunity, Miss Yang's demise is unique in that we only see Terry as he slays her (though he's seen crushing her hand at one point).

* HeelFaceTurn: Terry starts the film by being set up as a VillainProtagonist SpearCounterpart to BruceLee from ''EnterTheDragon'', breaking a condemned man out of prison and then brutalizing the man's family when they fail to pay up. He makes the turn when his next clients turn out to be the Yakuza, whom he hates. He decides to protect their victim at no charge rather than help them.

* AntiVillain: Nachi is a Type II. She only wants Terry dead because he had the audacity to force her to prostitute herself as collateral for a previous caper earlier in the film. However, she doesn't wish to dirty her hands, so she has Junjo run them both through. Unfortunately, Nachi is the only one who dies as a result.
* BolivianArmyEnding: By the end of his deathmatch against Junjo, [[spoiler:Terry gravely injured and stumbling to his feet, leaving it ambiguous as to whether he'd survive his injuries]].
* {{Bowdlerise}}: Among others, in the R-rated version Terry's clash against Junjo's brother is over a minute shorter, Terry does not knock Lee's teeth out or smear blood on his mouth, Junjo's brother is not seen lying dead on the pavement, Nachi is not shown being exploited by the pimps, and Miss Young shoots Lee only once. Oh, and Terry doesn't castrate the black rapist with his bare hands.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Both Kowloon Dinsau and Junjo Shinkenbaru exhibit this trait, both only want a fair match against Terry. In fact when the western gangsters try to shoot Terry during a fight, Kowloon proceeds to violently kill both of them for using dirty tricks. Also Kowloon tells Terry he can go away with the girl if he wins fairly, instead of the other gangsters who simply will kill Terry and take the girl anyway.

-->'''Junjo''': ''I've waited too long to settle the score!''\\
'''Terry''': Don't be too impatient, my friend; we can finish this another time.

* YouHaveFailedMe: According to Miss Young, if a {{Yakuza}} {{Mook}} fails to kill his target, he must die. Absolutely no exceptions. Not even {{yubitsume}} is acceptable as a penalty.

* YouHaveFailedMe: According to Miss Young, if a {{Yakuza}} {{Mook}} fails to kill his target, he must die. Absolutely no exceptions.

* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler:Kurosaki's father was killed by the BigBad.]]

* RaceLife: In the original, Frankie Black is a former member of the Chicago native who happens to be dressed like a Mexican. In the English dub, he actually ''is'' Mexican (but oddly enough, he doesn't speak a word of Spanish during his screentime).

* FridgeLogic: How could Aya possibly think Mr. Black's death "was too cruel" when it's quite clear from the audio that Black may have actually been killed instantly by the retort? Terry may have actually been ''merciful'' to Mr. Black by burning him at full power.

* KillItWithFire: In ''The Street Fighter's Last Revenge'', Terry kills Frankie Black by pushing him into an oven and turning on the gas at full power. Not a very dignified way to die, and yet another in a long list of reasons why you don't fuck with Terry Tsurugi.

* AntiHero: [[SlidingScaleOfAntiHeroes Type V]]. Terry is a brutal and pitiless man. He's especially nasty in the beginning of the first film, where he sells a girl into slavery and kills her brother when they're not able to pay him for services rendered. He avoids VillainProtagonist territory by fighting against {{Yakuza}}, whom he despises, and working to protect the good guys, even though he does so for his own reasons. He's more of a Type IV in ''The Street Fighter's Last Revenge''.
* AntiVillain: Nachi from the first film is a Type II. She only wants Terry dead because he had the audacity to force her to prostitute herself as collateral for a previous caper earlier in the film. However, she doesn't wish to dirty her hands, so she has Junjo run them both through. Unfortunately, Nachi is the only one who dies as a result.

* {{Badass}}: Terry. Of course, this is where Sonny Chiba's legend of badassery starts
* BadassBoast: During the variety show:
-->'''Frankie Black''': I heard that there are many people in Japan who can do this, but it's all nonsense! [...] If anybody wishes to challenge me, they're welcome! I'll expose all their lies!

* BittersweetEnding: While the BigBad in each entry in the ''Sister Street Fighter'' series is ultimately defeated, ''Return of the Sister Street Fighter'' is the only one that isn't a DownerEnding, as at least Tina doesn't lose [[spoiler:Rika]] like they lost [[spoiler:Shurei]].
* BolivianArmyEnding:
** ''The Street Fighter'' ends with [[spoiler:Terry gravely injured and stumbling to his feet, leaving it ambiguous as to whether he'd survive his injuries]].
** ''Sister Street Fighter: Fifth Level Fist'' ends with [[spoiler:an ambulance showing up for Takagi after he had been grievously wounded against the BigBad.]]
* BondVillainStupidity: Inubashiri, did you really think leaving Tina to the sharks was honestly going to stop her?
** The BigBad of ''Return of the Sister Street Fighter'' is known for this; at least one reviewer commented on the similarities between him and the typical Bond villain.
* {{Bowdlerise}}: ''Sister Street Fighter'' and ''The Street Fighter's Last Revenge'', both edited for violence, cutting out Kunigami getting his heart ripped out, and Owada's demise. Sister Street Fighter misses, Chiba ripping a fat guy's guts out of his chest, one fighter pulling a blade out of his eye, a shot of the martial arts school sign, the fight between Inubashiri and Chiba was shortenend, Mansei being hit in the chest with arrow and falling on the ground, close up of Mansei's bloody body and face, one fighter getting skewered on a spike trap, Koryu kicking one fighter in the face causing him to spit blood, the guy with the sai in the head slumping to the floor, Chiba killing one fighter by stepping on his chest hard causing his bones to crack, Chiba kicking and punching a opponent causing him to spit blood, The ending of the fight between Koryu and the Nunchaku fighter and parts of Emi fighting with another fighter, Inubashiri (or Hammerhead) falling down after having his face smashed into a mirror by Chiba, showing his face with mirror shards in it and blood dribbling from his mouth the big bad standing up with his claw in his chest causing a geyser of blood to erupt out of his body, and Koryu turns one gangster's head 180 degress and then makes him walk down stairs his head turned backwards. ''The Street Fighter's Last Revenge'' also misses out on some dialogue, and compeletly changes the plot of the movie, from being about a tape containing incriminating evidence of a governmental official's corruption to a tape describing the way to make heroin.
* BreakTheHaughty: Terry finally loses a match in ''The Street Fighter's Last Revenge''. His opponent? Kunigami.
* TheChessmaster: Terry tries his hand at this at Aoidani Mortuary in ''The Street Fighter's Last Revenge''. In order to succeed at burning the first thug to try to get the money he had hidden in the furnace room, everything and everyone had to be in the right places: Terry inside one of the retorts, each casket in front of both retorts, the decoy near the shelf of urns, and Frankie Black (or whoever happened to try to retrieve the money) had to go for the decoy Terry had planted. After Mr. Black attacked the duct-taped decoy and punched a hole through his torso after knocking said decoy into the nearest casket, Terry emerged from the retort in which he had hidden himself and said, "[[GratuitousEnglish Hey, Black... ]]''[[GratuitousEnglish come on.]]''" Terry then overpowered Mr. Black in the ensuing struggle and burned him to death.
* ClosingCredits: ''Return of the Street Fighter'' is the only film in the trilogy to have these.
* TheDanza: Emi Hayakawa in ''Sister Street Fighter''.
* DeadStarWalking: Sue Shiomi in ''The Street Fighter's Last Revenge''. To wit: her character is a morally upright investigator and pays dearly for it. [[VasquezAlwaysDies The fact that she was a woman probably didn't help matters.]]
* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:Go Kurosaki]].
* DownerEnding: The first two ''Sister Street Fighter'' movies end with the LivingMacGuffin of each film dead, Tina having busted the BigBad's operations too late to save him/her.
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** In spite of being a terrific asshole, Terry has a sense of honor. He'll risk his life to protect his friends, won't sell out those under his protection even under torture, and will fight against anything the {{Yakuza}} does without any benefit to himself.
** In the first movie, both Kowloon Dinsau and Tatei Shinkenbaru exhibit this trait, both only want a fair match against Terry. In fact when the western gangsters try to shoot Terry during a fight, Kowloon proceeds to violently kill both of them for using dirty tricks. Also Kowloon, tells Terry he can go away with the girl if he wins fairly, instead of the other gangsters who simply will kill Terry and take the girl anyway.
** In the third movie, the gang led by Owada, may be dirty and evil, but Kunigami and Aya seem like the worse.
* {{Expy}}: Ebikura is a [[SpaghettiWestern Sabata]] expy.
* EyeScream: Happens all the time throughout the series
** The most tragic example is [[spoiler:Pin Boke]].
** For the most infamous example, see SpecialEffectsFailure further down the page.
** Where do we even ''start'' with ''Sister Street Fighter 2: Hanging by a Thread''?
* FemmeFatale: Aya Owada.
* FridgeLogic: How could Aya possibly think Mr. Black's death "was too cruel" when it's quite clear from the audio that Black may have actually been killed instantly by the retort? Terry may have actually been ''merciful'' to Mr. Black by burning him at full power.
** FridgeBrilliance: Terry wanted to make sure Junjo got the deathmatch against him that he wished for ASAP, otherwise he wouldn't have been such an asshole to his siblings. Then again, when Junjo first intercepted him later on, he was already preoccupied with something else at the moment:
-->'''Junjo''': ''I've waited too long to settle the score!''\\
'''Terry''': Don't be too impatient, my friend; we can finish this another time.
* GoodAllAlong: Go Kurosaki.

* GoryDiscretionShot: Done in ''The Street Fighter's Last Revenge'' to conceal [[http://youtube.com/watch?v=AewA7ZfMM6k the burning of Mr. Black]].
* GratuitousEnglish: From ''The Street Fighter's Last Revenge'': "Hey, Black... come on." Mr. Black himself speaks nothing ''but''. There are other examples scattered throughout the film.
** ''Sister Street Fighter: Fifth Level Fist'' is ''loaded'' with this.
* GroinAttack: In the first movie, Terry deals with a would-be rapist by castrating him with his bare hands. This move, on top of all the other violence Terry does throughout the movie, earned the movie the American movie industry's first X rating for violence.
* HeelFaceTurn:
** Terry starts the first film as a VillainProtagonist, breaking a condemned man out of prison and then brutalizing the man's family. He makes the turn when his next clients turn out to be the Yakuza, whom he hates. He decides to protect their victim at no charge rather than help them.
** [[spoiler:Kurosaki]] also makes the turn in ''Return of the Sister Street Fighter''.
* HeroAntagonist[=/=]InspectorZenigata: Huo Feng in ''The Streetfighter's Last Revenge''.
* JiveTurkey: The black rapist from the first film has an element of this in his limited dialogue. Pin Boke from ''Return of the Street Fighter'' also has elements, using such terms as "bread" and "Jackson," at least in the dub.
* KeepItForeign: From the first film, courtesy of Nachi Shikenbara: "ONII-SAN!"
* KickTheDog:
** How Terry deals with the sister of the guy who couldn't afford to pay him after sending him out a window. Just in case we weren't aware that Terry is ''not'' a nice guy at all.
** The villains of ''Return of the Sister Street Fighter'' love to do this to Shurei and her relatives.
* KillItWithFire: In ''The Street Fighter's Last Revenge'', Terry kills Frankie Black by pushing him into an oven and turning on the gas at full power. Not a very dignified way to die, and yet another in a long list of reasons why you don't fuck with Terry Tsurugi.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Appropriately enough, the laser-wielding Frankie Black gets this in the end, but not via his laser weaponry. He and Aya are directed to retrieve the MacGuffin at Aoidani Mortuary; Mr. Black starts looking for Terry to try to ambush him, to the point where he impatiently attacks the first person he encounters, believing him to be Terry. As Mr. Black realizes that the guy he attacked was a decoy, in comes Terry from BehindTheBlack, taunting him: "Hey, Black... ''come on.''" The two fight in a deathmatch near a pair of twin retorts, and Terry gains the upper hand, burning Mr. Black to death to seal the deal.
* LighterAndSofter:
** ''Sister Street Fighter'' is not nearly as over the top violent, and the character is not the complete a-hole Terry Tsurugi was. Doesn't mean the uncut version wasn't rated X for violence like the main series was, though, and even ''The Street Fighter's Last Revenge'' lost less footage for its English-language release than this one did.
** ''The Street Fighter's Last Revenge'' is the most light-hearted of the main trilogy, but like ''Sister Street Fighter'' is still rated X for violence in its uncut version. Here, Terry Sugury ([[SpellMyNameWithAnS yes, that's how his name is pronounced in the film]]) is more of a JamesBond type than the ultra-violent mercenary he was in the first two films; however, he's still pretty ultra-violent, though not as much as in earlier films. Perhaps the most violent scene in the film is when [[http://youtube.com/watch?v=AewA7ZfMM6k Terry burns Frankie Black]].
* MasterOfDisguise: In ''The Street Fighter's Last Revenge''. This works as well as you would think it does...
* MoralEventHorizon: The villains of ''Return of the Sister Street Fighter'' cross it by kidnapping Rika (Shurei's daughter) and using her as live bait with which to ensnare Tina Long. Ebikura proves himself even more sadistic when he leaves Kurosaki for dead and tries to take Tina and Rika down in the process, and the BigBad crosses it by [[spoiler:killing Shurei, who protected Rika from a trio of bullets he had fired at them]].
** Frankie Black from ''The Street Fighter's Last Revenge'' gets his MEH when he kills Huo Feng in cold blood during an ambush.
* NoExportForYou: The uncut version of ''The Street Fighter's Last Revenge''; while it is in the public domain, nobody's bothered to release it uncut yet.
* ObfuscatingDisability: [[spoiler:The BigBad of ''Return of the Sister Street Fighter'']].
* PrecisionFStrike: In ''The Street Fighter's Last Revenge'', after Terry gets paid by the {{Yakuza}} in newspapers for delivering a tape to them and he lashes out at them:
-->'''Terry''': Drop the guns, or I'll tear his fucking head off!
* PreMortemOneLiner: "You tell that bitch who sent you here how sorry I am I can no longer be her friend."
* ProvokeMeTaunt: "Hey, Black... ''come on.''"
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Ratnose]] in the first film. Subverted by [[spoiler:Kurosaki]] in ''Return of the Sister Street Fighter'' [[spoiler:(he was faking the dead in preparation for ambushing the BigBad, who had killed his father)]].
* SpecialEffectsFailure: In ''Return of the Street Fighter'', Terry hits a mook in the back of the head, knocking his eyes out. The effect is shown using a pair of googly eyes. Horrifying the first time, ''hilarious'' everytime after.

* StayInTheKitchen: Lee's initial attitude toward Tina. This changes by the time [[spoiler:he dies]], as he wishes Tina to avenge him for the horrible things the drug smugglers did to him.
* TakeThat: Listen carefully when the guards take Terry to visit Junjo in his prison cell at the start of the first film, and you'll notice the English dub contains a snipe at the BruceLee clone phenomenon: "He must think he's BruceLee."
* TemptingFate: Aya in ''The Street Fighter's Last Revenge'':
-->'''Aya''': I don't want to die! I'll survive with the money!
* TraitorShot: [[spoiler:Kurosaki gets one in ''Return of the Sister Street Fighter'' as the BigBad kills Reika.]]
* VasquezAlwaysDies: Pin Boke in ''Return of the Street Fighter'' and Huo Feng in ''The Street Fighter's Last Revenge''.
* WhatAnIdiot: By the time we reach ''Return of the Sister Street Fighter'', you'd think Tina would've learned to never again trust calls that claimed something important about her mission. For all she knew by that point, the BigBad of each film could have sent either TheDragon or a {{Mook}} to ambush her after coercing someone close to her into divulging the RedHerring against his/her will via phone.
* WhoWearsShortShorts: Tina Long on poster art for ''Sister Street Fighter 2: Hanging by a Thread'' (she wears the same outfit, only with full pants instead of shorts, in the film proper).

* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler:Kurosaki's father was killed by the BigBad of ''Return of the Sister Street Fighter''.]]