History Franchise / StreeTfighter

* WorldOfBuxom: Pretty much every gal in the series has a lot of stuff above [[AmazonianBeauty those pecs]]. Even the [[TokenMiniMoe younger girls]] are quite well-endowed. Basically, the only flat out exceptions to this are Sakura, Karin, Juni, and Ingrid.

* ViewerPronunciationConfusion:
** Ryu has been a victim of NoPronunciationGuide since the very beginning. When the ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'' arcade game made the franchise a cultural sensation in the early 90's, Ryu's name was often mistakenly pronounced as "Ri-yoo" with a long I sound, like "Rye bread" or "Ryan". This was exasperated with [[WesternAnimation/StreetFighter the animated series not exactly knowing how to pronounce Japanese names]] and [[Film/StreetFighter the live action film not really caring to try]]. It wouldn't be until proper English dubs of the [[Anime/StreetFighterIITheAnimatedMovie first anime adaptations]] and those same experienced dubbing crews adapting ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIV'' when Ryu's name would be normalized as "Ree-yoo".
** The Hadouken is often mispronounced by fans as "hah-DOO-ken," though those familiar with Japanese phonetics would realize that it's supposed to be pronounced "hah-DOH-ken."

* WolverinePublicity:

* ''VideoGame/FinalFight'', which was originally titled ''Street Fighter '89'' before they realized that the game played nothing like the original ''Street Fighter'' after which they then changed the title. Several characters from here has since joined the playable roster of ''Street Fighter''.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: 64, excluding the Arika characters introduced in the ''EX'' series, boosting the number to 82 or the ones from the movie games and ''Mouse Generation'', boosting it to a whopping 89 in this case. And that's not even going into the [=NPCs=]. Or those who never appeared in a video game.

* ''VideoGame/StreetFighter6'' (Announced February 2022. Slated for 2023 on PS4, PS5, Xbox Series, and PC. Slated for a 2023 release.)

* ''Street Fighter 6'' (Announced February 2022. Slated for 2023 on PS4, PS5, Xbox Series, and PC. New details to come later in the summer.)

* ''Street Fighter 6'' (Announced February 2022. New details to come later in the summer.)

*** Chun-Li -- the original {{Qipao}}-wearing, [[SheFu acrobatic]] [[AnimeChineseGirl Chinese]] action girl.

* TooLongDidntDub: Almost no English voice actor will say "Tatsumaki Senpuu Kyaku" and simply {{Kiai}} when a HurricaneKick is performed instead.[[note]]This is in spite of the fact that Ken's voice actor, Creator/ReubenLangdon, is actually fluent in Japanese.[[/note]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:''[[KamehameHadoken "HADOUKEN!"]]''[[note]]Clockwise from top: [[TheRival Sagat]], [[KickChick Chun-Li]], [[BigBad M.Bison]], [[BigGood Rose]]. [[TheHero Ryu]], [[BrooklynRage Alex]], and [[WhiteHairBlackHeart Urien]]. Center: [[SheFu Cammy]]]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Street Fighter|I}}'' (the first game; also known as ''Fighting Street'' on the [=TurboGrafx-CD=])

* ''Film/StreetFighter'' (the first live action movie)

* ''VideoGame/StreetFighterXMegaMan'' is more of an [[AscendedFanFic ascended]] ''VideoGame/MegaMan'' fan game, but nonetheless features a roster of ''Street Fighter'' characters as bosses.

* ''[[VideoGame/SaturdayNightSlamMasters Slam Masters]]'', known as ''Muscle Bomber'' in Japan, a trilogy of wrestling games featuring artwork by Tetsuo Hara (of ''Manga/{{Fist of the North Star}}'' fame) and featuring Haggar of ''Final Fight'' fame. The first two games, ''Saturday Night Slam Masters'' and ''Muscle Bomber Duo'' ([[OddlyNamedSequel the only game to retain its Japanese title in the overseas versions]]) were arcade-style wrestling games with ''Street Fighter''-esque special moves added to the mix, while ''Ring of Destruction: Slam Masters II'' (a.k.a. ''Super Muscle Bomber'') was a ''Super Street Fighter II''-esque fighting game with a wrestling theme.

Outside of the main series, a DLC pack for ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath'' has the [[{{Crossover}} title character going up against Ryu, Akuma, Oni, and Evil Ryu]], also providing the possibility that ''Street Fighter'' takes place thousands of years after ''Asura's Wrath''. Ryu also appears as a [[DownloadableContent downloadable]] GuestFighter in ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Super Smash Bros for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U]]'' and as part of the regular roster in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'', where Ken joins in as a MovesetClone and Guile is a summonable AssistCharacter. A number of ''Street Fighter'' characters are guest fighter in ''VideoGame/PowerRangersLegacyWars'', which later lead to Ryu become an original Ranger himself (the Crimson Hawk Ranger). He would later be joined in ''Legacy Wars'' by Chun-Li, who also became a Ranger (with the decidedly mundane title of "Chun-Li Ranger"), which would then see both characters arrive in the fighting game ''VideoGame/PowerRangersBattleForTheGrid'' in their Ranger identities (with Chun-Li now going by the mantle of the "Blue Phoenix Ranger").

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*** Blanka -- the archetypal BeastMan from the darkest depths of the TheAmazon.

** ''Anime/StreetfighterIITheAnimatedMovie'' and ''Anime/StreetFighterIIV'' are based on ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'', and follow their own continuity.

** Albert Sellers, the British Minister of Justice in ''Anime/StreetfighterIITheAnimatedMovie''.

** M. Bison's more muscular design in ''[[VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha Alpha]]'', compared to his original lean look in the early ''II'' games, is from both the character art for ''Super Street Fighter II'' and M. Bison's design in ''Anime/StreetfighterIITheAnimatedMovie''.

** Goutetsu is Ryu and Ken's master in ''Anime/StreetfighterIITheAnimatedMovie''. Goutetsu is established as Akuma and Gouken's master in ''[[VideoGame/StreetFighterII Super Street Fighter II Turbo]]'', and appears in Akuma's ''VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha'' ending.
** Cammy's surname White was introduced in ''Anime/StreetfighterIITheAnimatedMovie''.
** The battle with Ryu and Ken fighting M. Bison in ''Anime/StreetfighterIITheAnimatedMovie'' was represented in the first ''[[VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha Alpha]]'' with the two-on-one hidden Dramatic Battle Mode where two players as Ryu and Ken must fight a computer-controlled M. Bison. The Japanese version even plays [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkH9Ybg3SCc a Q-Sound rendition]] of "Itoshisa to Setsunasa to Kokoro Tsuyosa to," the battle theme from the original Japanese version of the movie.
** Ken gives Ryu his headband in ''Anime/StreetfighterIITheAnimatedMovie'', and in ''[[VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha Street Fighter Alpha 2]]''.
** The design of Bison's VTOL aircraft from ''Anime/StreetfighterIITheAnimatedMovie'' was used as the setting of his stage in ''[[VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha Alpha 2]]''.
** The stormy battle scene from Ryu and Sagat's opening battle from ''Anime/StreetfighterIITheAnimatedMovie'' is used as the stage for Sagat's final boss battle with Ryu in ''[[VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha Alpha 2]]''.
** Senoh is M. Bison's scientist in ''Anime/StreetfighterIITheAnimatedMovie'', and appears in M. Bison's ending in ''[[VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha Street Fighter Alpha 2]]''.

** The Monitor Cyborgs in ''Anime/StreetfighterIITheAnimatedMovie'' and ''Street Fighter II: The Interactive Movie'' have a profile in the ''Street Fighter V Character Encyclopedia'', and the ''Eiga Street Fighter II Memorial Kōshiki Fanbook'' suggests that the man standing in Chun-Li's stage is a Monitor Cyborg.

-->[-[[AC:You must defeat Sheng Long to stand a chance!]]-]

* ComicBookTime: In the early ''Street Fighter II'' games, the characters were given specific birth dates that coincided with the current ages of the characters at the time and the release dates of the games (i.e. Cammy was born on January 1974 and is said to be 19 in ''Super Street Fighter II'', which came out in 1993). As the years went by, it became obvious that Capcom had to age the characters if they wanted to maintain consistency, so they used vaguer dates in the ''Alpha'' and ''III'' series (i.e. Sakura was born on March [[ExtyYearsFromNow 197X]] in ''Alpha 2'') before they finally stopped giving out the years of birth in ''IV''.

** The first two games of the ''VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha'' series operate like this, as the last fighter your character faces is often a rival of theirs instead of the BigBad. M. Bison/[[FanNickname Dictator]] (said BigBad) isn't quite up to his level of prominence in ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'' since this saga is a prequel to the events of ''SFII'', but a few characters (Charlie, Chun-Li, Guy, and Rose) have him as their rival.

* CapcomSequelStagnation: With the exception of ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'', the series hasn't been been too terrible about this:
** The original ''VideoGame/StreetFighterI'' was originally the only game in the series to [[AvertedTrope avert]] this, as there is only one version (Although the console release changed the name to ''Fighting Street'', it is functionally the same game).
** The ''VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha'' series had 3 installments.
** ''VideoGame/StreetFighterEX'' had 3 iterations (''EX'', ''EX Plus'', and ''EX Plus α''.)
** ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIII'' also had 3 iterations (''Street Fighter III: The New Generation'', ''Street Fighter III: Second Impact'', and ''Street Fighter III: Third Strike'' (which got an updated ''Online Edition'').
** ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIV'' had 4 iterations (''Street Fighter IV'', ''Super Street Fighter IV'', ''Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition'', and ''Ultra Street Fighter IV'')
** ''VideoGame/StreetFighterV'' [[AvertedTrope eschewed having multiple versions]] in favor of just having DLC and periodic content updates.
** Of course, the absolute king of this trope is ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'', which not only had no less than 5 arcade iterations (and subsequent console ports), but also numerous console releases completely separate from the arcade releases (e.g. ''Ultra Street Fighter II'' for the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch).

** Of course, the absolute king of this trope is ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'', which not only had no less than 5 arcade iterations (and subsequent console ports), but also numerous console releases completely separate from the arcade releaeses (e.g. ''Ultra Street Fighter II'' for the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch).

** ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIV'' had 4 iterations (''Street Fighter IV, ''Super Street Fighter IV'', ''Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition'', and ''Ultra Street Fighter IV'')

* ''[[ComicBook/MalibuComicsStreetFighter Street Fighter]]'' (American comics from Malibu)

** Nida in the Malibu ''[[ComicBook/MalibuComicsStreetFighter Street Fighter]]'' comic.

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->''[[KamehameHadoken "HADOUKEN!"]]''

''For the Sonny Chiba martial arts series, see Film/TheStreetFighter. For the first game in the series, see VideoGame/StreetFighterI.''