History YMMV / StreetFighterV

* UnfortunateImplications:
** In a case of bad luck and unfortunate coincidence, [[http://www.blogjob.com/oneangrygamer/2015/09/street-fighter-5s-new-character-is-rashid-911-announcement-causes-unrest/ Rashid was revealed at the Dubai Game Show on September 11, 2015.]] While it's obvious that this wasn't an intentional attempt on Capcom's part to stir up commotion, as they wanted to reveal a character from the Middle East to the fans in attendance, the timing of it created some controversy because the event just so happened to be scheduled on this date.
** The Thailand stage is set in a Buddhist temple, but the background music references Allah. The music was later [[https://www.gamespot.com/articles/street-fighter-5-stage-removed-over-unintentional-/1100-6449619/ replaced]].

** After being relegated to non-''SF'' crossovers for nearly two decades, ''VideoGame/RivalSchools'' has been given [[StealthPun justice]] with the inclusion of [[BikerBabe Akira Kazama]], finally making things full-circle since Sakura's own guest appearance in that series.

*** In her early non-playable Story Mode appearances, Juri had a healthy dose of NavelDeepNeckline. This was fixed when she became playable by having her wear a skin-tight body suit which covered her cleavage up. There are actually a good deal of players who think Juri looks better ''with'' the undersuit due to her BikerBabe-inspired design.

** Though it didn't affect gameplay (and whether or not it was considered good or bad depended on personal preferences), a very unusual bug occurred during the beta and other early builds of the game that somehow caused the JigglePhysics on the character selection screen to go nuts and get cranked UpToEleven with any character selected for Player 2's side of the screen:

** In Street Fighter IV, Cody remarks to Seth that he should cut back on the "weirdness" the next time they fight. Both are present in the next installment, and Seth's [[GenderFlip "weirdness"]] is now dialed UpToEleven.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter:
** Doubling as BadassDecay, this is a major complaint against Necalli following the release of the Cinematic Story Mode. The development team and the game itself spent a great amount of time hyping him up as this great terror comparable to the likes of Bison, Akuma, and Gill, with his story prologue showing him devouring Ryu, Dhalsim, and Bison. All this build up sadly leads to [[spoiler:an outright ''embarrassing'' display in the story itself where he has little to no bearing on the plot. He shows up mainly to fight the three victims on his list and gets his ass handed to him each time. After being defeated by Ryu, he leaves and is never seen again for the rest of the story, accomplishing practically nothing in the end.]] The expanded character stories end up twisting the knife even further as Necalli only gets to make apperances in Balrog's and Akuma's. [[spoiler: While it's confirmed that Necalli managed to survive his encounter with Ryu, his only reward is losing to both Balrog and Akuma in ''their'' story modes, with the latter fight implying that he was KilledOffForReal to boot.]]
** For a story exploring the downfall of Shadaloo, Guile and Chun-Li have shockingly little to do in "A Shadow Falls", with each of them of them only having one battle throughout the entirety of the story (the latter only being playable just before the battle with the FinalBoss). In the case of the former, we don't really see much onscreen interaction between him and Charlie either considering the history between them. Some players have also argued that they should have been the ones to [[spoiler:finish Bison off as opposed to Ryu who otherwise had little personal connection to Bison or Shadaloo.]]

*** In her early non-playable Story Mode appearances, Juri had a healthy dose of AbsoluteCleavage. This was fixed when she became playable by having her wear a skin-tight body suit which covered her cleavage up. There are actually a good deal of players who think Juri looks better ''with'' the undersuit due to her BikerBabe-inspired design.
** ''Street Fighter V'' had the unfortunate distinction of becoming the first major fighting game to embrace the [[DownloadableContent Season Pass model]] of DLC distribution. [[labelnote:explanation]]Season passes sees the consume offered the ability to pay an upfront fee for a series of yet to be released DLC, rather than wait for each DLC to be released individually.[[/labelnote]]. UsefulNotes/TheSeventhGenerationOfConsoleVideoGames already opened the door to the idea of individual characters getting added after release as DLC, but season passes, in particular, were a touchy subject because they were treated as exploitive. Part of the reason for the blowback too was the perceived impression that the base roster for the game was too small and Capcom was milking their fanbase. On the other side, people saw this as a necessary evil and a reality to avoid CapcomSequelStagnation. The fact that the Season Passes eventually evolved to also include balance patches and new inclusions into the game eventually led to people softening up on this concept. It also helped that [[FollowTheLeader majority of the other big fighting games]] also adapted to this and this format of supporting and updating the games became the new norm industry-wide.

* UncannyValley:
** [[http://en.rocketnews24.com/2015/06/17/some-japanese-gamers-arent-liking-the-shockingly-ugly-cammy-in-street-fighter-v-%E3%80%90e3-2015%E3%80%91/ The reaction]] Cammy's been getting from some Japanese fans seems to be originating from such a sentiment. Her face was more in line with real life proportions than the beefy, almost made-of-clay look of the other characters. As a result, some fans found it off-putting, though [[http://kotaku.com/after-complaints-street-fighters-cammy-looks-kinda-dif-1727915517 it was evidently altered after complaints,]] which has been well-received in Japan.
** Some of Laura's color palettes have strange skin and makeup colors. For example, the third color of her standard outfit has blue clothes, blue-black hair, a skin tone that's best described as "dipped in caramel" and teal lipstick that make her look a bit fish-faced.
** There's something rather off about Guile's facial expression (or lack thereof) without his sunglasses on.

** Doubling as BadassDecay, this is a major complaint against Necalli following the release of the release of the Cinematic Story Mode. The development team and the game itself spent a great amount of time hyping him up as this great terror comparable to the likes of Bison, Akuma, and Gill, with his story prologue showing him devouring Ryu, Dhalsim, and Bison. All this build up sadly leads to [[spoiler:an outright ''embarrassing'' display in the story itself where he has little to no bearing on the plot. He shows up mainly to fight the three victims on his list and gets his ass handed to him each time. After being defeated by Ryu, he leaves and is never seen again for the rest of the story, accomplishing practically nothing in the end.]] The expanded character stories end up twisting the knife even further as Necalli only gets to make apperances in Balrog's and Akuma's. [[spoiler: While it's confirmed that Necalli managed to survive his encounter with Ryu, his only reward is losing to both Balrog and Akuma in ''their'' story modes, with the latter fight implying that he was KilledOffForReal to boot.]]

* ContestedSequel: ''V'' easily attracted some of the biggest debate and controversy in the franchise, the nature of which changed a lot during its run. It got off to an infamously rocky start lacking in major content, featuring [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks a disputed artstyle and simplification of mechanics that triggered plenty of backlash]], though Capcom's continued work on expanding and tweaking the game [[GrowingTheBeard regained plenty more positive reaction]]. However, even as the game now effectively sits complete, universal elements such as the simplified nature of its core gameplay (as well as its notoriously rough netcode) continue to leave it in a tough place where it's rarely called "bad", but not up to the standards of its more-beloved predecessors.

* ContestedSequel: This is how the game was thought of during its first two years. As of ''Arcade Edition'', it became more of a BrokenBase kind of situation between this and ''Ultra Street Fighter IV''.

** Fans have been begging Capcom to bring Nash back since the ''VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha'' series. [[NotHimself The presentation of]] [[SameCharacterButDifferent the character]], however, [[BrokenBase has also proven contentious]]. While there are ''Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition'' and ''Street Fighter V: Champion Edition'', anyone who already owned the game could download these iterations at a discounted price, making them essentially season passes.

** Fans have been begging Capcom to bring Nash back since the ''VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha'' series. [[NotHimself The presentation of]] [[SameCharacterButDifferent the character]], however, [[BrokenBase has also proven contentious]].

Index:
* ''YMMV/StreetFighter''

* ''YMMV/StreetFighterTheMovie''

* ''YMMV/StreetFighterIITheAnimatedMovie''

* ''YMMV/StreetFighterAssassinsFist''

*** A number of fans have expressed concern over [[FanservicePack the increased sexualization]] of the already fairly fanservicey females, comparing it to [[PantyFighter the more shamelessly blatant]] ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive'' series. [[note]]Chun-Li's Houyoku Sen Critical Art features a brief panty shot, R. Mika somehow is wearing [[{{Stripperiffic}} even less]] than she did in ''Alpha 3'' and slaps her ass before her Critical Art, etc.; only [[TokenWholesome Karin]] has escaped this so far, [[WalkingSwimsuitScene Premium Summer Costumes]] notwithstanding.[[/note]] Others don't mind it at all. This issue has come to a head with the introduction of [[ThirdPersonSeductress Laura]]. Adding fuel to the fire is [[http://www.gamespot.com/articles/street-fighter-5-tones-down-focus-on-female-bodies/1100-6432149/ the beta build changes that tweak certain camera angles for Cammy and R. Mika.]] [[note]]The crotch shot during the former's intro was removed, while the latter slapping her butt during the beginning of her Critical Art happens off-screen.[[/note]] Some think the changes are perfectly reasonable, while others decry it as unnecessary censorship. Those in the middle don't really care about the issue. As an addendum to the above issue, there's also the matter of "[[WalkingShirtlessScene Hot Ryu]]" and the media/marketing focus on his mind-boggling sexiness, which can open up another can of worms depending on who you talk to.

*** A number of fans have expressed concern over [[FanservicePack the increased sexualization]] of the already fairly fanservicey females, comparing it to [[PantyFighter the more shamelessly blatant]] ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive'' series. [[note]]Chun-Li's Houyoku Sen Critical Art features a brief PantyShot, R. Mika somehow is wearing [[{{Stripperiffic}} even less]] than she did in ''Alpha 3'' and slaps her ass before her Critical Art, etc.; only [[TokenWholesome Karin]] has escaped this so far, [[WalkingSwimsuitScene Premium Summer Costumes]] notwithstanding.[[/note]] Others don't mind it at all. This issue has come to a head with the introduction of [[ThirdPersonSeductress Laura]]. Adding fuel to the fire is [[http://www.gamespot.com/articles/street-fighter-5-tones-down-focus-on-female-bodies/1100-6432149/ the beta build changes that tweak certain camera angles for Cammy and R. Mika.]] [[note]]The crotch shot during the former's intro was removed, while the latter slapping her butt during the beginning of her Critical Art happens off-screen.[[/note]] Some think the changes are perfectly reasonable, while others decry it as unnecessary censorship. Those in the middle don't really care about the issue. As an addendum to the above issue, there's also the matter of "[[WalkingShirtlessScene Hot Ryu]]" and the media/marketing focus on his mind-boggling sexiness, which can open up another can of worms depending on who you talk to.
*** This censorship controversy was put into the spotlight again with Laura and Chun-Li's alternate costumes. Laura's outfits are so {{Stripperiffic}} that it makes R. Mika's butt-slap look positively tame by comparison, while Chun-Li once again dons the black dress without the pantyhose from ''IV''. It caused a lot of fans to question why the hell R. Mika's butt-slap, which happens for a fraction of a second, was considered too lewd, while Laura's outfits, which looks lewd from every angle, and Chun-Li's dress, in which her KickChick arsenal can't avoid producing {{Panty Shot}}s, were both left untouched.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Doubling as BadassDecay, this is a major complaint against Necalli following the release of the release of the Cinematic Story Mode. The development team and the game itself spent a great amount of time hyping him up as this great terror comparable to the likes of Bison, Akuma, and Gill, with his story prologue showing him devouring Ryu, Dhalsim, and Bison. All this build up sadly leads to [[spoiler:an outright ''embarrassing'' display in the story itself where he has little to no bearing on the plot. He shows up mainly to fight the three victims on his list and gets his ass handed to him each time. After being defeated by Ryu, he leaves and is never seen again for the rest of the story, accomplishing practically nothing in the end.]] The expanded character stories end up twisting the knife even further as Necalli only gets to make apperances in Balrog's and Akuma's. [[spoiler: While it's confirmed that Necalli managed to survive his encounter with Ryu, his only reward is losing to both Balrog and Akuma in ''their'' story modes, with the latter fight implying that he was KilledOffForReal to boot.]]

** The JigglePhysics on the characters tend to be a little awkward. Necalli's braids frequently clip through his body and spaz the heck out. F.A.N.G's qipao also has problems, with his long sleeves clipping into the ground and spazzing out in one of his moves. The long side of Laura's hair starts spinning in place in some of her win poses.
** The "A Shadow Falls" story cutscenes suffer heavily from this. It's hard to take things seriously when every other scene has something with the jiggle physics going bonkers, or things like Rashid's pointy hook-beard clipping into his chest whenever he looks down.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Doubling as BadassDecay, this is a major complaint against Necalli following the release of the release of the Cinematic Story Mode. The development team and the game itself spent a great amount of time hyping him up as this great terror comparable to the likes of Bison, Akuma, and Gill, with his story prologue showing him devouring Ryu, Dhalsim, and Bison. All this build up sadly leads to [[spoiler:an outright ''embarrassing'' display in the story itself where he has little to no bearing on the plot. He shows up mainly to fight the three victims on his list and gets his ass handed to him each time. After being defeated by Ryu, he leaves and is never seen again for the rest of the story, accomplishing practically nothing in the end.]]

* CompleteMonster: [[TheSocialDarwinist F.A.N.G.]], the Nguuhao cartel assassin, is a [[PoisonousPerson literally poisonous man]] who [[PsychoSupporter worships M. Bison so much]] that he concocted Operation C.H.A.I.N.S. to empower Bison and his Psycho Power through widespread fear and chaos, knowing very well the world would become a HellOnEarth. Doing everything in his power to ensure the operation succeeds, F.A.N.G. intercepts a treasonous programmer and melts her down to a puddle before sampling the remains. Not even young teenagers like Laura's brother Sean or [[WouldHurtAChild actual children]] like Li-Fen are spared from his petty wrath, and the eccentric but sadistic F.A.N.G. takes special pleasure informing Rashid [[spoiler:of the fate he inflicted to his friend]].

* CompleteMonster: Nguuhao cartel assassin [[Characters/StreetFighterFANG F.A.N.G.]] is a [[PoisonousPerson literally poisonous man]] who [[PsychoSupporter worships M. Bison so much]] that he concocted Operation C.H.A.I.N.S. to empower Bison and his Psycho Power through widespread fear and chaos, knowing very well the world would become a HellOnEarth. Doing everything in his power to ensure the operation succeeds, F.A.N.G. intercepts a treasonous programmer and melts her down to a puddle before sampling the remains. Not even young teenagers like Laura's brother Sean or [[WouldHurtAChild actual children]] like Li-Fen are spared from his petty wrath, and the eccentric but sadistic F.A.N.G. takes special pleasure informing Rashid [[spoiler:of the fate he inflicted to his friend]].

* CompleteMonster: Nguuhao cartel assassin [[TheSocialDarwinist F.A.N.G.]] is a [[PoisonousPerson literally poisonous man]] who [[PsychoSupporter worships M. Bison so much]] that he concocted Operation C.H.A.I.N.S. to empower Bison and his Psycho Power through widespread fear and chaos, knowing very well the world would become a HellOnEarth. Doing everything in his power to ensure the operation succeeds, F.A.N.G. intercepts a treasonous programmer and melts her down to a puddle before sampling the remains. Not even young teenagers like Laura's brother Sean or [[WouldHurtAChild actual children]] like Li-Fen are spared from his petty wrath, and the eccentric but sadistic F.A.N.G. takes special pleasure informing Rashid [[spoiler:of the fate he inflicted to his friend]].

*** A number of fans have expressed concern over [[FanservicePack the increased sexualization]] of the already fairly fanservicey females, comparing it to [[PantyFighter the more shamelessly blatant]] ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive'' series. [[note]]Chun-Li's Houyoku Sen Critical Art features a brief PantyShot, R. Mika somehow is wearing [[{{Stripperiffic}} even less]] than she did in ''Alpha 3'' and slaps her ass before her Critical Art, etc.; only [[TokenWholesome Karin]] has escaped this so far, [[WalkingSwimsuitScene Premium Summer Costumes]] notwithstanding.[[/note]] Others don't mind it at all. This issue has come to a head with the introduction of [[ThirdPersonSeductress Laura]]. Adding fuel to the fire is [[http://www.gamespot.com/articles/street-fighter-5-tones-down-focus-on-female-bodies/1100-6432149/ the beta build changes that tweak certain camera angles for Cammy and R. Mika.]] [[note]]The crotch shot during the former's intro was removed, while the latter slapping her butt during the beginning of her Critical Art happens off-screen.[[/note]] Some think the changes are perfectly reasonable, while others decry it as unnecessary censorship. Those in the middle don't really care about the issue. As an addendum to the above issue, there's also the matter of "[[BadassBeard Hot]] [[WalkingShirtlessScene Ryu]]" and the media/marketing focus on his mind-boggling sexiness, which can open up another can of worms depending on who you talk to.

** Crossing over with real life, [[AmazonianBeauty the size of Chun-Li's]] [[ShesGotLegs legendary thunder thighs]] in this game were remarked as "unrealistic" by some circles, as was the case with ''IV''. Then, a fitness competitor by the name of Natascha Encinosa [[https://twitter.com/natyencinosa/status/703433227000745984 posted a picture of herself in a black dress,]] [[http://cosplay.kotaku.com/when-you-accidentally-pull-off-a-chun-li-cosplay-1772622273 making her the spitting image of]] [[http://9gag.com/gag/avP153O/to-those-who-say-chun-li-s-thighs-are-unrealistic Chun-Li in her alternate costume.]] There has been much buzz about this "real life Chun-Li," particularly on Encinosa's [[https://twitter.com/natyencinosa Twitter]] and [[https://www.instagram.com/nataschaencinosa/ Instagram]] accounts; so much so that she briefly used the dress image as her profile picture on both accounts. She also briefly changed the title name of her Website/{{Twitter}} account to "Chun Li."

** Luke, for a variety of reasons. Before his reveal, some were hoping that the final DLC character of ''SFV'' would be a highly-requested classic character or a potential GuestFighter, particularly from Creator/{{SNK}} as the day of the 2021 Summer Update just so happened to coincide with the 20th anniversary of ''VideoGame/CapcomVsSNK2MarkOfTheMillennium''. When Luke's design and gameplay were finally revealed, fans were split on the claims of him being "a glimpse into the future of the franchise". Some like his gameplay while saying his design is a bit iffy but decent, while others don't like his design and say he's boring as a potential protagonist. Also doesn't help that initially many had assumed he was the same Luke from the cancelled Capcom Fighting All-Stars game but reimagined, only for Word of God to confirm they are two different characters.

* ContestedSequel: Subverted. This is how the game was thought of during its first two years. As of ''Arcade Edition'', it became more of a BrokenBase kind of situation between this and ''Ultra Street Fighter IV''.

** Suprisingly averted by the announcement that, with ''Arcade Edition'', one-time Fight Money rewards would be removed. Many players considered this to be a fair compromise, as existing players would have earned a lot of that money already, while new players who bought Arcade Edition would have 12 free DLC characters in addition to the 16 base roster characters, so they would have enough Fight Money to never need to spend an extra penny on the game for the rest of its life had the rewards not been removed. However, this trope was played straight when, around the same time, weekly Fight Money rewards were cut in half without a prior announcement.

** Somewhat subverted with Ed, since fans did speculate that he would eventually be made playable, but it was when he was made playable that was unexpected. When Ed's name was leaked by PSN as the next character, many were confused since the silhouette after Kolin looked [[YouDontLookLikeYou absolutely nothing like Ed]]. He was a somewhat scrawny teenager in the game's story mode, and the silhouette showed a heavily muscled man in a totally different outfit. As it turns out, after aging Ed up into a teenager in the transition from ''IV'' to ''V'', Ed was aged up again into an adult, gotten significantly beefier, and donned a new uniform.

** Luke, for a variety of reasons. Before his reveal, some were hoping that the final DLC character of ''SFV'' would be a highly-requested classic character or a potential GuestFighter, particularly from Creator/{{SNK}} as the day of the 2021 Summer Update just so happened to coincide with the 20th anniversary of ''VideoGame/CapcomVsSNK2MarkOfTheMillennium''. When Luke's design and gameplay were finally revealed, fans were split on the claims of him being "a glimpse into the future of the franchise". Some like his gameplay while saying his design is a bit iffy but decent, while others don't like his design and say he's boring as a potential protagonist. Also doesn't help that initially many had assumed he was the same Luke from the cancelled Capcom All-Stars game but reimagined, only for Word of God to confirm they are two different characters.

** Luke, for a variety of reasons. Before his reveal, some were hoping that the final DLC character of ''SFV'' would be a highly-requested classic character or a potential GuestFighter, particularly from Creator/{{SNK}} as the day of the 2021 Summer Update just so happened to coincide with the 20th anniversary of ''VideoGame/CapcomVsSNK2MarkOfTheMillennium''. When Luke's design and gameplay were finally revealed, fans were split on the claims of him being "a glimpse into the future of the franchise". Some like his gameplay while saying his design is a bit iffy but decent, while others don't like his design and say he's boring as a potential protagonist.

** The final character to be added to ''Street Fighter V'' is Luke - one of three main characters from the cancelled ''Capcom Fighting All-Stars'', the game that became ''VideoGame/CapcomFightingEvolution''. What makes his presence all the more surprising is that he's been described as a hint towards "the future" of ''Street Fighter'' - implying that he may be one of the main characters of the next installment in the series.