History WebVideo / StreetFighterAssassinsFist

The full series, which was produced with the help of Creator/{{Capcom}} themselves, debuted on Machinima on May 23, 2014, and can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZLTS4u9M_2r89MGqgDNGGxQfmLuhtxqU here]].

The sequel, ''Street Fighter: World Warriors'', is currently in production. But as of February 2020, it's halted. Instead, ''Street Fighter: Resurrection'' took its place, serving a as its official sequel.

!!''Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist'' contains examples of:

* AwfulTruth: Gouki discovers that since Ansatsuken is an assassination art, [[spoiler: he and Gouken have been raised to carry on a legacy that can only have one master, and the two of them will have to fight for it at some point.]]

* BaitAndSwitch: Early on, a throw-away line seems to set up Goutetsu's brother, mentioned to have gone insane from abuse of Satsui no Hado, as Akuma, and Gouken refers to both Goutetsu and Gouki as dead.[[spoiler: It rapidly becomes clear that Gouki becomes Akuma, and that Gouken merely meant that Gouki as he once was is no more.]]
* BigBrotherMentor: [[spoiler:After discovering Ryu's Satsui no Hadou potential,]] Gouken chooses [[spoiler: Ken over Ryu]] as the more stable of his two students, and requests that he take care of the other once they've left the dojo. He even tells him that "you're the big brother now."
* CainAndAbel: Gouken and Gouki, as a result of the latter's use of Satsui No Hado. When things start getting bloody, Goutetsu immediately [[spoiler: banishes Gouki from the dojo, stating that he'd be considered an enemy if he returned.]]

* CharacterDevelopment: Ken starts off brash and impatient, already considering leaving the dojo. A few episodes in, and he [[spoiler: decides to stay and finish his training, refusing his father's offer to come home and take over the company.]] He ends up as a much more mentally and emotionally balanced person in the long run, [[spoiler: even more than Ryu.]]

* CliffHanger: An implied one. The series ends with Ryu and Ken completing their training and leaving the dojo, but it's clear that the long awaited showdown between Gouken and Akuma is close at hand.

* ContinuityCavalcade: The series is a love letter to various Street Fighter animated media.
** ''{{Anime/Street Fighter Alpha Generations}}'': The series may be considered a live-action adaptation of this OVA. The ShipTease between Gouki and Sayaka is enough to parallel [[spoiler: that Ryu is actually their son as in the anime, referencing Ryu's abrupt Satsui no Hado vulnerability.]]
** ''{{Anime/Street Fighter II V}}'': Gouken's way of charging up a Hadoken is winding both arms in a Yin-Yang motion, similar to how Master Yo Sen Kai taught Ryu in the anime.

** ''VideoGame/MarvelSuperHeroesVsStreetFighter'': Gouma, the kooky old fisherman, mocks Ken's fireball not being long-ranged as Ryu's, which is taken straight from the VS games from [=MSHvsSF=] onward. Ryu's fireballs were full range there, whereas Ken's were short range but slightly more powerful and could be aimed downward in midair.

** ''VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha'': The promotional poster, used as the main image for this page, has Ken and Ryu in the exact same pose as the original promotional poster for [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c3/Street_Fighter_Alpha_flyer.png the first Street Fighter Alpha]] game.

* CoolOldGuy: Gouken, even if he doesn't look that old.

* TheCorruption: Satsui No Hado is incredibly dangerous both physically and mentally, and it doesn't take long for it to affect Gouki. When Gouken finds out that [[spoiler: Ken used Gouki's notebook to learn the Hadoken]], he immediately confronts him and forbids him from ever using it again.
* CursedWithAwesome: The Satsui No Hado grants you immense power, but [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique takes a severe mental and physical toll, even leading to madness or death if not properly handled.]]

* DidNotGetTheGirl: Gouki walks out on Sayaka, and [[spoiler: Sayaka eventually walks out on Gouken after being traumatized from witnessing Goutetsu's violent death at Gouki/Akuma's hands]].
* DisappearedDad: Ken's father, who left him with Gouken while he saved his company in the States. [[spoiler: He comes back in after four episodes, asking Ken to come back and take over the company. Ken is noticeably upset, but hears him out. Ken eventually turns him down, opting instead to finish his training]].

* DubNameChange: Referenced; Both Akuma's English name and his Japanese name (Gouki) are used in this series. Here, Gouki is his birth name, while Akuma is used to describe what he becomes (a person consumed by the Satsui no Hadou).
* DysfunctionalFamily: Goutetsu, Sayaka, Gouken, and Gouki lived peacefully at the dojo until Gouki started using Satsui No Hado.

* EmpathicEnvironment: The fight between [[spoiler: Goutetsu]] and Akuma happens in the middle of a [[PartlyCloudyWithAChanceOfDeath storm]]. Akuma's heaven symbol even appears in the clouds afterwards. The latter also acts as a ShoutOut to the [=OVA=] ''[[Anime/StreetFighterAlphaGenerations Street Fighter Alpha: Generations]]'', where the same thing happens.

* EvilMakesYouUgly: Justified. Goutetsu explains that the Satsui No Hado takes a tremendous, deforming toll on the body, and that the Ansatsuken masters of ancient times usually lived to be 40 at most. The only reason he survived so long is because he developed a more balanced style. When Gouki sees his monstrous face in a reflection, he's shocked for a few moments.

* EyeScream: [[spoiler: Goutetsu]], a nasty result of being on the receiving end of a Shun Goku Satsu.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: We get a quick, but gruesome shot of how [[spoiler: Goutetsu died. This version of the Shun Goku Satsu doesn't just send the victim's soul to hell; it ''melts the face off'' the victim in the process.]]

* ForegoneConclusion: Anybody with even a vague knowledge about the lore behind Gouken and Akuma will know [[spoiler: that Akuma is Gouken's brother, masters the Satsui no Hado, loses to Gouken in their climactic battle, and ambushes him just before Ken and Ryu return from their Musha Shugyo many years later, putting him in a ten year long coma.]] The whole series is essentially a long setup for this.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Ryu and Ken play this straight; Ryu is quieter and more mindful of Gouken, while Ken is quick-tempered and more rebellious. [[spoiler: By the end, however, Ken develops into a more responsible and emotionally/mentally balanced person, while Ryu still bottles everything up and inadvertently taps into Satsui No Hado. Gouken notices how far Ken has come and privately asks him to take care of Ryu after they've left the dojo.]]

* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Gouki learns about the history of Satsui No Hado practitioners, and that Goutetsu intentionally hid it from him and Gouken. He stops meditating to clear his mind of the Satsui no Hado’s influence against Goutetsu's instructions and keeps the misconduct to himself [[spoiler: until he becomes so unstable that he nearly murders Gouken and gets kicked out of the dojo.]]

** [[spoiler: After murdering Goutetsu with the Raging Demon,]] Akuma proceeds to wear his master's prayer beads as his "successor". The "Ten" (Heaven) kanji on his back is partly influenced by his love interest Sayaka, as its design came from a memento she gave him when he left Goutetsu's dojo: a piece of paper with the kanji written by her.
** Ryu's red headband is given to him by Ken after their climactic fight. [[spoiler: Ryu went berserk with Satsui No Hado, and Ken stopped him with a flaming Shoryuken. The resulting blow cracked Ryu's head open, and Ken quickly tied the headband to stop the bleeding.]]
** Ryu and Ken start off with their red and yellow gloves respectively as with the Alpha games. After their training is completed, Gouken gives them the brown Hado-resistant Ansatsuken gloves from Street Fighter 2 (where what appear to be the user's hands can be seen within the fireball). Gouken also gives Ryu his signature black belt with the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C5%ABrinkazan Furinkazan]] markings evident in [[http://www.videogamesartwork.com/games/street-fighter-ii/ryu-1 Ryu's Street Fighter 2 artwork]].
** Less tangible, but Ken and Ryu get their distinctive fighting stance from Ken's father, who shows up to add some boxing pointers to their repertoire.
* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: What the fight between Ryu and Ken briefly boils down to [[spoiler: when Ryu triggers the Satsui No Hado and loses control of himself.]]

* IWasQuiteALooker: Gouken, judging by the flashbacks. Not that he's half bad now.

* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: When Gouki takes the exact wording of the Ansatsuken art to heart, Goutetsu quickly points out that it was developed in times of warfare and can be interpreted differently now. He points out how foolish Gouki is for thinking he understands such things, and that the Satsui No Hado is already destroying his body.
* KamehameHadoken[=/=]EnergyBall: It wouldn't be ''Street Fighter'' without it. However, the series focuses on Ryu and Ken actually ''learning'' to perform it; when Gouken demonstrates it for the first time, they react how people would in RealLife. It also requires more concentration and is less flashy than the video game versions.

* {{Leitmotif}}: The neighbor from across the lake returns in episode 10 and performs a song he wrote for Ryu on his flute: Ryu's stage theme from ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII''. Ken's theme plays on a radio during their workout session shortly afterward.
** Ken's theme also plays at the end of episode 4, when he and Ryu have a training session with Ken's dad, who had taken up boxing.

* MissingMom: Ken's mother died when he was just a child. Ryu was found wandering alone in the woods as a child.

* MythologyGag: There's a board in the dojo that lists all the students that have trained there. One of them is Dan.
** The same board also lists Sheng Long as a former master, alluding to the old [=EGM=] April Fools joke.

** Ryu and Ken both pick up their trademark fighting stance from Ken's dad, who teaches them boxing.
** One episode has Ryu and Ken barhopping and picking a fight with soldiers, much like in the first two episodes of ''Anime/StreetFighterIIV.'' As an added bonus, Ryu was wearing a white T-shirt and jeans, which was his casual outfit in that series.

* NotMeThisTime: After Ryu and Ken's fight, Gouken immediately assumes Ken [[spoiler: tapped into the Satsui No Hado again. Turns out it was Ryu this time.]]

* ObviouslyEvil: Gouki, who is clearly obsessed with Satsui No Hado even early on.
** Arguably he's more misguided than out-and-out evil, as it was his desire to use the full potential of Ansatsuken that led him to unravel the secret of the Satsui no Hado.
* OhCrap: When Gouken realizes that [[spoiler: Ken learned the Hadoken via Gouki's Satsui No Hado notes]]. He immediately confronts him and forbids him from using the evil energy.

* OlderThanTheyLook: Gouken, who was not quite a teenager after World War II ended.
* TheOneThatGotAway: Sayaka for [[spoiler: Gouki ''and'' Gouken. The former when he was banished from the dojo, and the latter in the aftermath of Goutetsu's death.]]

* PhysicalFitnessPunishment: Mouthing off to Gouken earns you 50 pushups.
* PlayingWithFire: Gouken, most notably [[spoiler: burning Gouki's notebook by just holding it in his hand and staring]]. Ken manages to pull off his signature flaming Shoryuken near the end.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Goutetsu has ''very'' good reason for keeping his students LockedOutOfTheLoop with regards to the Satsui No Hado, but Gouki discovered it anyway. Gouken desperately wants to make sure the same doesn't happen with Ryu and Ken.
* PowerIncontinence: Once Gouki learns more about the Satsui No Hado, it quickly becomes obvious he's becoming consumed by it. Gouken desperately wants to make sure the same doesn't happen to Ryu and Ken.

--> '''Gouki:''' (in Japanese) Prepare youself... one thousand strikes! (cue Raging Demon on Goutetsu)
* APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil: Gouki seemed like a good enough kid, but that all changed once he got a look at the Satsui No Hado scrolls.

* SanitySlippage: Gouki learns the Satsui No Hado, making him much stronger but also more aggressive, delusional, and dangerously unstable.

* {{Shoryuken}}: Wouldn't be ''Street Fighter'' without it. Gouken can jump ''much'' higher than his students, leading Ken to wonder when they're going to learn it.
** The series also ends on Ken mastering this technique to a level never seen before in the story, according to Gouken, as he initially assumed that his signature flaming Shoryuken was a product of Satsui no Hadou. It's never mentioned, but it appears to actually work on the same chi-focusing principle of the Hadoken, simply applied to one's fist.
* SiblingTriangle: Gouken and Gouki vie for Sayaka's attention, culminating in [[spoiler: Sayaka blocking Gouki with her body and talking Gouken out of killing him with a Hadoken]]. It's later revealed she chose [[spoiler: Gouki, and was heartbroken when he walked out on the dojo. She later gets closer to Gouken, but ends up walking out on him and the dojo.]]

* SittingOnTheRoof: Ryu and Ken share a meal on the dojo roof while discussing [[spoiler: Ken's decision between going home and taking care of the company, or staying and finishing his training.]]

* SupportingProtagonist: Ryu is the main character of the franchise in general, but [[spoiler: Ken goes through more CharacterDevelopment overall]].
* StartOfDarkness: Gouki ''really'' took to Goutetsu's teachings, to the point of secretly copying his Satsui No Hado scrolls. [[spoiler: After he attempts to kill Gouken in a sparring match, Goutetsu figures out what's going on and promptly banishes him.]]

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Ken manages to pull off his signature flaming Shoryuken. He needs to have his hand treated for the burn afterwards.

* TenderTears: Sayaka, once she realizes that [[spoiler: the family is damaged beyond repair once Gouki has been banished.]]

* TragicKeepsake: The iconic symbol on Akuma's back is the kanji for "heaven". [[spoiler: Sayaka drew the symbol on a piece of calligraphy paper, serving as a reminder of both her and his ultimate goal of immortal glory. He ends up burning the calligraphy, but keeps the symbol.]]
** Akuma obtained his prayer bead necklace by [[spoiler: challenging and killing Goutetsu.]]
* TruerToTheText: Compared to the two live action films, ''Film/StreetFighter'' and ''Film/StreetFighterTheLegendOfChunLi'', this series hues closer to the games, with Ryu and Ken, the original main characters, getting full focus rather than being sidelined or AdaptedOut, and shown using their staple attacks, the Hadoken and Shoryuken.
* UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny: The DVD version's extended ending cuts off right before Akuma and Gouken battle. According to older information, their first battle, [[spoiler: which Gouken wins]], ''levels a mountain range!''

* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Satsui No Hado is extremely dangerous. Knowing what happened to his brother, Gouken desperately tries to keep it out of Ryu and Ken's training.

The sequel, ''Street Fighter: World Warriors'', is currently in production. But as of February 2020, it's halted.

* RealityEnsues: Ken manages to pull off his signature flaming Shoryuken. He needs to have his hand treated for the burn afterwards.

* CaliforniaDoubling: Bulgaria is the stand-in for Japan.

* CursedWithAwesome: The Satsui No Hado grants you immense power, but [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique takes a severe mental and physical toll, even leading to madness or death if not property handled.]]

* ShoutOut: The series is a love letter to various Street Fighter animated media.
** {{Anime/Street Fighter Alpha Generations}}: The series may be considered a live-action adaptation of this OVA. The ShipTease between Gouki and Sayaka is enough to parallel [[spoiler: that Ryu is actually their son as in the anime, referencing Ryu's abrupt Satsui no Hado vulnerability.]]
** {{Anime/Street Fighter II V}}: Gouken's way of charging up a Hadoken is winding both arms in a Yin-Yang motion, similar to how Master Yo Sen Kai taught Ryu in the anime.
** Anime/StreetFighterIITheAnimatedMovie: The origin of Ryu's signature red headband is faithfully recreated. Ryu and Ken's climactic sparring through the greenery ended up with Ryu being injured. Ken wraps his ponytail headband around Ryu's head to suppress the bleeding.
** VideoGame/MarvelSuperHeroesVsStreetFighter: Gouma, the kooky old fisherman, mocks Ken's fireball not being long-ranged as Ryu's, which is taken straight from the VS games from [=MSHvsSF=] onward. Ryu's fireballs were full range there, whereas Ken's were short range but slightly more powerful and could be aimed downward in midair.
** VideoGame/StreetFighterII: In ''Super SF II Turbo'', Akuma assumes his Satsui no Hado pose (squat while standing at your toes) before releasing his fireball. In the series, Ken assumes the same stance when reading Gouki's notebook to charge ki quickly.
** VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha: The promotional poster, used as the main image for this page, has Ken and Ryu in the exact same pose as the original promotional poster for [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c3/Street_Fighter_Alpha_flyer.png the first Street Fighter Alpha]] game.
*** The mountain island cave that Gouki trained in before he became Akuma resembles the Gokuentou island caves, his stages from ''Alpha 2'' and ''3'', particularly more resembling the 3rd game's cave.
** VideoGame/StreetFighterIV: In one flashback, Gouken is seen training and at one point performs a fireball throwing motion that looks exactly like his ingame counterpart's low punch Hadouken throwing animation.

* AwfulTruth: Gouki discovers that since Ansatsuken is an assassination art, [[spoiler: he and Gouken have been raised to carry on a legacy that can only have one master, and that the two of them will have to fight for it at some point.]]

* BaitAndSwitch: Early on, a throw-away line seems to set up Goutetsu's brother, mentioned to have gone insane from abuse of Satsui no Hado, as Akuma, and Gouken refers to both Goutetsu and Gouki as dead.[[spoiler: It rapidly becomes clear that Gouki becomes Akuma, and that Gouken merely meant that Gouki as he once was, is no more.]]

* ChickMagnet: When they go to the club, Ken immediately gets comfortable with a group of women. Ryu is too distracted and uncomfortable to realize the ladies are eying him as well.

** Goutetsu, who is actually much kinder and perceptive than he lets on.
* TheCorruption: Satsui No Hado is incredibly dangerous both physically and mentally, and it doesn't take long for it to affect Gouki. When Gouken finds out [[spoiler: Ken used Gouki's notebook to learn the Hadoken]], he immediately confronts and forbids him from ever using it again.

* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Gouki learns about the history of Satsui No Hado practitioners, and that Goutetsu intentionally hid it from him and Gouken. He stops meditating to clear his mind of the Satsui no Hadou's influence against Goutetsu's instructions and keeps the misconduct to himself [[spoiler: until he becomes so unstable that he nearly murders Gouken and gets kicked out of the dojo.]]

* KillingIntent: The Satsui no Hadou, as usual, which Gouki used to turn himself into an Akuma. And following the franchise storyline, Ryu has a surprising innate potential. He nearly succumbs to it and murder Ken, but luckily Ken manages to knock him out with his signature flaming Shoryuken. As a result, [[spoiler:Gouken asks Ken to watch over Ryu.]]

* OhCrap: When Gouken realizes [[spoiler: Ken learned the Hadoken via Gouki's Satsui No Hado notes]]. He immediately confronts and forbids him from using the evil energy.

* BadDreams: After moving on to the next level of Ansatsuken, Ryu starts having dreams about some kind of dark spirit or force hanging around the dojo. Three guesses as to what it is.

* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Gouki learns about Satsui No Hado, and that Goutetsu intentionally hid it from him and Gouken. He learns the technique and keeps it to himself [[spoiler: until he becomes so unstable that he nearly murders Gouken and gets kicked out of the dojo.]]

* BadassGrandpa: Goutetsu, a World War II veteran who inherited the dojo after the war.

The sequel, ''Street Fighter: World Warriors'', is currently in production. But as of 2020, it's halted.

A related sequel, titled ''Street Fighter: Resurrection'', premiered on March 15, 2016. The sequel, ''Street Fighter: World Warriors'', is currently in production.

''Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist'' is a {{web original}} series based on the {{fighting game}} series, ''Franchise/StreetFighter''. It depicts the training of Ryu and Ken, the franchise's original protagonists, as they uncover the past of their master, Gouken, and learn the dark secrets of their martial art, Ansatsuken.

!This work contains examples of:

* YoungerThanTheyLook: When Ken drags him to the bar, Ryu protests by saying they're not even old enough to drink. Gouma the fisherman ends up catching them and nearly rats them out.
** This is also a case of DawsonCasting, both the actors for Ryu and Ken are in their late 20s.

* {{Leitmotif}}: The neighbor from across the lake returns in episode 10 and performs a song he wrote for Ryu on his flute: Ryu's stage theme from StreetFighterII. Ken's theme plays on a radio during their workout session shortly afterward.

* DidNotGetTheGirl: Gouki walks out on Sayaka, and [[spoiler: Sayaka eventually walks out on Gouken.]]
* DisappearedDad: Ken's father, who left him with Gouken while he saved his company in the States. [[spoiler: He comes back in after four episodes, asking Ken to come back and take over the company. Ken is noticeably upset, but hears him out. Ken eventually turns him down, opting instead to finish his training.]]

* ElementalPunch: In the final battle between Ken and Ryu, [[spoiler:Ken performs his flaming Shoryuken, landing the final blow to Ryu and knocking him out of the Satsui no Hadou. Gouken witnesses this and initially assumes that Ken was the one with the Satsui no Hadou until Ryu admits that it was him.]]

The full series, which was produced with the help of Creator/{{Capcom}} themselves, debuted on {{Machinima}} on May 23, 2014, and can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZLTS4u9M_2r89MGqgDNGGxQfmLuhtxqU here]].

** {{Anime/Street Fighter II V}}: Gouken's way of charging up a Hadoken is winding both arms in a Yin-Yang motion, similar to how Dhalsim taught Ryu in the anime.