History Fridge / StreetFighterXTekken

* Why is Bad Box Art VideoGame/MegaMan so out of shape? He's been sat on his couch for the past 20 years plus, eating chips & waiting for Capcom to pick up the phone. Which also explains why he's so excited - "This is [his] destiny" after all.

* Why is Bad Box Art Mega Man so out of shape? He's been sat on his couch for the past 20 years plus, eating chips & waiting for Capcom to pick up the phone. Which also explains why he's so excited - "This is [his] destiny" after all.
* Wanna know why Ibuki and Rolento are together, besides [[AllThereInTheManual what the website says?]] In PocketFighter, when doing a certain move, she gets a costume change into Rolento! [[http://media.strategywiki.org/images/c/c3/PF_Ibuki_Rolento.png See it right here.]]
* Alot of people noted the similarities of Ogre resembling Seth of Street Fighter IV fame. The brilliance comes in upon noting that Ogre's playstle in Tekken 3 was him using moves from other characters, the same applies to Seth.
* Why is Heihachi Mishima the only character who does not succumb to Pandora? Aside from being made of pure badass, the Tekken 4 storyline had hinted that he could actually be immune to such things (though, in that game's case, it was referring to Ogre's DNA and Tekken 5 cemented that he is the only Mishima who was completely unaffected by the Devil Gene.) The intro of Tekken 6 can also lend credence to the theory that even if that wasn't the case, he can resist it purely out of sheer will (such as when he recovered after being blown to kingdom come and smashed into a grave.)
* Ironic that Nina is with Kazuya right? Her ending with Kazuya makes more sense if she's OnlyInItForTheMoney. Someone (likely Jin, if her Tekken 6 plot is to be followed) probably paid her more than Kazuya is dishing out.
* In Ken's ending, Ryu dissapears due to Pandora. Where did he go? [[VideoGame/CapcomVs The next crossover!]]
** You mean [[VideoGame/AsurasWrath this]]?
* In both this game and VideoGame/StreetFighterIV, Ryu gets a few titles, as well as a few lines, about his liking of beans. At first, it just seems silly, but then you look at win quotes from Alisa and Asuka toward Akuma about beans warding off demons, and then you remember that Ryu struggles with Akuma and the Satsui no Hado...
* Why is Abel suddenly [[ManChild more childish]] [[CloudcuckooLander and kooky]] than in SFIV, aside of invoking RuleOfFunny since his partner is [[ThecomicallySerious Gui]][[TheStoic le]]? Well, not only Abel himself is [[YoungerThanTheyLook barely out of adolescence]] (WordOfGod says he's 16-17 ''tops''), but his whole life has been spent either in labs (whether as a Seth clone or a subject for experiments) or in mercenary troops. It's no wonder that Abel goes goo gaa over petting bears or meeting aliens or fighting other people - such things are probably dreams coming true for a very young person who has barely had ''anything'' similar to a childhood or a teenagehood to begin with!
** There were already some hints of Abel's more child-like and naive than one thought nature in ''Super SFIV'', via his rival fight with Fei Long. (He's a huge Fei Long fanboy and while fighting him, he would say things like "wow, I've seen all your movies!") Since this game takes itself far less seriously than ''IV'' story-wise, it's the perfect chance to Abel's less-serious character traits and run away with them.
* It makes perfect sense that of the rival pairs, Ryu and Kazuya would be pitted against each other. Ryu is the undisputed face of Street Fighter while Kazuya was the original Anti-hero protagonist and face of Tekken. He is also a Mishima; the family that the majority of the plot of Tekken is centered around. The other perfect pair is M. Bison and Jin. Bison is the most famous villain of his series. Meanwhile at the time of this game's release, Jin, yet another Mishima, was the major cause of conflict in the latest Tekken. So who better to be pitted against Heihachi Mishima, Tekken's original villain of the first game? That would be Guile. The Street Fighter originally touted as the main character, and indeed one of the only two characters with an actual grudge against Bison when they all first debuted.

* Paul and Law's ending becomes much less funny when you realise both have been doomed drift through space, stuck in the next best thing to the Phantom Zone. You know, that thing Superman puts you in if you've been particularly naughty.
** In the text-and-narrator-only {{Stinger}} to that ending, Paul and Law were "kicked back to earth" after the box was retrived by aliens, and Paul challenged said aliens to a fight, and was defeated.

* Pac-Man in this game is apparently a representation of HorrorHunger. What does he do with his opponents...?

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* Ironic that Nina is with Kazuya right? Her ending with Kazuya makes more sense if she's OnlyInItForTheMoney. [[spoiler: Someone (likely Jin, if her Tekken 6 plot is to be followed) probably paid her more than Kazuya is dishing out]].

* Why is Abel suddenly [[ManChild more childish]] [[CloudcuckooLander and kooky]] than in SFIV, aside of invoking RuleOfFunny since his partner is [[ThecomicallySerious Gui]][[TheStoic le]]? Well, not only Abel himself is [[YoungerThanTheyLook barely out of adolescence]] (WordOfGod says he's 16-17 ''tops''), but his whole life has been spent either in [[spoiler: labs (whether as a Seth clone or a subject for experiments)]] or in mercenary troops. It's no wonder that Abel goes goo gaa over petting bears or meeting [[spoiler: aliens]] or fighting other people - such things are probably dreams coming true for a very young person who has barely had ''anything'' similar to a childhood or a teenagehood to begin with!

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* If Dan is stated DEAD, why is he the Tutorial trainer?
** FridgeBrilliance: It's probably his ghost, brought back through the power of Pandora (the training stage is supposedly within it, according to WordOfGod) and maybe a little bit of the power of Saikyo.
** Consider that the box grants wishes in many character endings. [[spoiler: He's found beaten up inside the box during Blanka and Sakura's ending. The two were searching for him.]]
* In every ending, the characters are in the Antartic; how are they not freezing to death!?
** [[AWizardDidIt Pandora warms its surroundings]]? Probably explains how the characters travel to the site in a (likely insulated or heated) tank (the one that the mammoth is chasing), then head outside to claim the box.

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** Similarly, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness he's shown with no partner in his ending video...]]

* It makes perfect sense that of the rival pairs, Ryu and Kazuya would be pitted against each other. Ryu is the undisputed face of Street Fighter while Kazuya was the original Anti-hero protagonist and face of Tekken. He is also a Mishima; the family that the majority of the plot of Tekken is centered around. The other perfect pair is M. Bison and Jin. Bison is the most famous villain of his series. Meanwhile at the time of this game's release, Jin, yet another Mishima, was the major cause of conflict in the latest Tekken. So who better to be pitted against Heihachi Mishima, Tekken's original villain of the first game? That would be Guile. The Street Fighter originally touted as the main character, and indeed one the of only two characters with an actual grudge against Bison when they all first debuted.

* It makes perfect sense that of the rival pairs, Ryu and Kazuya would be pitted against each other. Ryu is the undisputed face of Street Fighter while Kazuya was the original Anti-hero protagonist and face of Tekken. He is also a Mishima; the family that the majority of the plot of Tekken is centered around. The other perfect pair is M. Bison and Jin. Bison is the most famous villain of his series. Meanwhile at the time of this game's release, Jin, yet another Mishima, was the major cause of conflict in the latest Tekken.

So who better to be pitted against Heihachi Mishima, Tekken's original villain of the first game? That would be Guile. The Street Fighter originally touted as the main character, and indeed one the of only two characters with an actual grudge against Bison when they all first debuted.