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[[caption-width-right:300: Just so we're clear, is this supposed to be ''Franchise/StreetFighter''? [[InNameOnly No?]]]]

One of the most bizarre films to ever embrace the Hong Kong action style, directed by Wong Jing (the same year he did the live-action ''Manga/CityHunter'') and very very '''very''' loosely based on ''Franchise/StreetFighter'', in the sense that the characters look like Street Fighter characters, but they're not named after them, except for Chun Li, but only on the 'Chun' Future Cops is a rather unique experience.

In far future, Judge Yu Ti Hung is about to deliver a lifetime sentence to a nefarious crime lord named 'The General' (M. Bison). His henchmen; Kent (Ken), Toyota (E. Honda) and Thai King (Sagat); hatched a plan to go back to the past and brainwash the young Yu Ti Hung so he will let the General go during the penultimate trial. The local TimePolice aptly named 'Future Cops' sends out four of their men: Lung (Ryu), Broom Man (Guile), Ti Man (Vega) and Ah Sing (Dhalsim). The villains go back in time, while the Future Cops pursue them, except Lung because apparently [[{{Nepotism}} he's the Police's Director son in law]]. (The rest of the cops do not take this well for awhile)

So Broom Man, Ti Man and Ah Sing go to the past and gets help from a 20 years old high school student named Tai Hung (who's quite possibly based on [[Manga/{{Doraemon}} Nobita]] with the ThisLoserIsYou treatment dialled up to eleven) and pose as students and teachers in the school where Yu Ti Hung used to enroll, in hopes to find him and protect him. Things get wacky when they encounter the bad guys, as well as [[spoiler:[[TheReveal finding out that Tai Hung is actually Yu Ti Hung]]]]

If you have been reading the paragraphs above, yes, you will realize that the alignment of the good/bad guys have been messed up. Regardless, this show seems to be more of a parody, provides a lot of silly, hilarious and wacky moments and doesn't take itself very seriously.

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!!Tropes associated with this film:

* ActorAllusion: Ti Man eating snake liver is a reference to the 80s TV series Legend of The Condor Heroes, where Andy Lau gained recognition as a star by playing the main character Yang Guo, and did just that in the series. There's also Broomhead [[ThatRemindsMeOfASong suddenly singing in school]]. His actor Jackie Cheung is called the God of Songs in the Cantopop/Mandopop scene.
* AdaptationalHeroism: Vega/Balrog is usually an unabashed villain in ''Franchise/StreetFighter''. Ti Man, his counterpart for his movie, is undoubtedly a hero.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Ken and E. Honda are usually good hearted heroes in ''Franchise/StreetFighter''. Kent and Toyota are instead subordinates of the General, therefore, villains. [[spoiler:While Kent eventually pulls a HeelFaceTurn, Toyota does not.]]
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Played for laughs. To take on the BigBad, the Future Cops must give Tai Hung and Chun May more powerful versions of the MegaManning chips - with Chun May, the application is painless, but Tai Hung needs to have his chip ''shoved up his nose'' in a parody of that scene from the original ''Film/TotalRecall1990''.
* BeeAfraid: Tai Hung nearly jumped from the second floor only to find his girlfriend passing by. He stops in the middle of falling, standing on the balcony... then a random bee decided to be a dick and stung him and made him fall.
* BigDamnHeroes Tai Hung, who initially fails at it, but leads into [[spoiler:the TookALevelInBadass moment]]
* BishieSparkle: Subverted. Lung/Ryu looks like he has one after the reveal that he's not coming to the past due to being the Police Director's son-in-law. However, there's no sparkle, just some eye-flipping, and the sound effect of having a sparkle.
* ButtMonkey: Tai Hung for the first quarter of the movie and Broom Head's pigtailed female student, whose only purpose seems to be to get beaten up.
* CannotTellALie: The Future Cops. Anytime they tell a lie, a program installed in their bodies will electrocute them. This is how Vega/Ti Man spilled the beans to Chun May (later to be Chun Li), Tai Hung's sister.
-->'''Future cops:''' ''We never tell lies!'' *BBBBZZZZTTTTTTTTT!!!!!*
* CaptainErsatz: Every one of them
** Lung -> Ryu (both of their names can be taken to mean dragon).
** Kent -> Ken with a jacket.
** Toyota -> Honda with clothes.
** Thai King -> Sagat with hair.
** Broom Head -> Guile with a much taller hair.
** Ah Sing -> Dhalsim with a BadassLongcoat and hair.
** Ti Man -> Vega[=/=]Balrog with a BadassLongcoat and a different mask.
** The General -> M.Bison[=/=]Vega.
** Chun May and Chun Dai (her and Tai Hung's mom) (after their upgrade)-> Chun Li
** Uncle Richard/Green Wolf -> Blanka
** Yu Ti Hung/Tai Hung/Ng Kung/Ng Kwan Yu -> [[Manga/{{Doraemon}} Nobita]] at first, then [[Franchise/DragonBall Son Goku]].
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Or rather 'have no counterparts existing in this film'. Zangief and Balrog/M.Bison (Boxer) have no representatives, as does the newcomers of ''Super VideoGame/StreetFighterII'' (Cammy, Fei-Long, Dee Jay and T. Hawk). The latter can be justified with the fact that the movie is released on the same year (and earlier) with the game, which also explains why Akuma does not appear in this movie.
* DemotedToExtra: While Ryu is the protagonist of the ''Street Fighter'' series, his counterpart in this film only appears in the beginning and in the ending despite being played by a popular idol.
* DestinationDefenestration: The General does this to the three protagonists at the ending battle, when he's clearly winning and overpowering everyone.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: The General can't stand those who would sell out their own allies, so he had Kei-On flushed out to the toilet when he ran out of uses. However, attempting to kill the hostages instead of letting them go once his target would present himself were not part of his standards... but it ''was'' on Kent's evil standards, whereas [[PleaseSpareHimMyLiege his pleads to spare them]] went nowhere and eventually became his HeelFaceTurn trigger.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Nothing is known about The General's name, he's just called 'The General'. One dub gives him the name "Bipson".
* ExtremeOmnivore: The Future Cops were shown to first eat shoes, which they claim to be good for digestion. Later they were shown eating ''a refrigerator''. Also, a sports commentator ate a mike and a ''marble table'' after losing a bet.
* GeniusBruiser: Broom Head can teach any subject. Also, he made a ''nuclear bomb'' as an alternative to his CV. In seconds. Out of nothing.
** BrickJoke, ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:That nuclear bomb is the thing that ultimately beats the BigBad]]
* GRatedSex: Our heroes come from a NoSexAllowed future, and "orgasm pills" are created to rectify this.
%%* GratuitousEnglish Uncle Richard ([[spoiler:Blanka]]. Tai Hung also did this once.
%%-->''"Only you! Can seem the world so bright! Only you! Can make the darkness bright! London bridge is falling down! Twinkle twinkle little star! Please stand behind the yellow line! %%Next station is Wong Tai Sin! I am a man! A man and many many [[DoubleEntendre pens]]!"''
* GrievousHarmWithABody: [[spoiler:Blanka]] is used as a soccerball, an electric one.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Kent, in the last moment.]]
** Siu Wai/Crab Angel in the beginning is Kei-On's girlfriend and usually joins in bullying Tai Hung. But after a dangerous run-in with Kent and being saved by Broom Man, she is redeemed and mostly becomes a good girl.
* HereWeGoAgain: [[spoiler:The ending had Lung arriving and telling the Future Cops that there's a new criminal on the loose so they get to stay with Tai Hung's family and the quest are to continue as the movie ends.]]
* IHaveManyNames: Tai Hung by the end of the movie [[spoiler:learns that he's going to be Yu Ti Hung, and then]] adopts the name Ng Kung (Cantonese spelling for [[Literature/JourneyToTheWest Sun Wukong]]/[[Franchise/DragonBall Son Goku]]) for his alter ego, and later ''changes it again'' into Ng Kwan Yu (the latter part would be the Cantonese spelling of UsefulNotes/GuanYu of ''Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms'')
* InNameOnly: Inverted, as the characters ''look'' the same as in ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' but have different names. Though some of the character names are what they would be if they were translated to cantonese or mandarin.
* ItWasAGift: Tai Hung gets a HomemadeSweaterFromHell from his love interest. It becomes important later on.
* {{Jerkass}}: Kei-On spends a lot of his time to just being a bully to Tai Hung for no reason, and eventually fancies himself as the General's buddy, first by gleefully revealing the existence of [[spoiler:Yu Ti Hung (Tai Hung)]] to the General, and then joins in wreaking havoc to the whole school on the General's reign of terror, even at cost of his bullying buddies. Notably, once the whole thing is over, he's not seen congratulating Tai Hung for the rescue, though that was because he was last seen taken to the toilet to be flushed off-screen because [[EvenEvilHasStandards the General has had enough]] of [[RewardedAsATraitorDeserves his bootlicking and selling out his supposed friends.]]
* KnightOfCerebus: The first three quarters of the movie are pure slapstick with some action. Then when the General arrives into the present, the show takes a slightly darker turn. There's humor here and there, but the General takes himself very seriously and his threat is genuinely high.
* MadeOfIron: The guys from the future. Ti Man was unharmed after being stabbed in the back by a knife.
** Broom Man also survived being smashed with multiple cars and got stuck with it, although he was depowered in that state... until he got kissed.
* MegaManning: Tai Hung is given three microchips by the Future Cops, allowing him to replicate their powers. Considering the TropeNamer [[FridgeBrilliance is also a Capcom property...]]
* MundaneMadeAwesome: Ti Lung picked up a live snake (part of a prank from a 'classmate')... then proceeds to rip its organ, eat it, spin it around and use it as a belt.
* MythologyGag: "Mythology" is probably stretching it, but there were some nods to the original ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII''
** Ah Sing masquerades into Tai Hung's school as an 'Indian Maidservant'. He's the stand-in for the Indian fighter Dhalsim.
** Kent, Thai King and Toyota first met Kei-On while the latter is playing a ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'' arcade.
** Both Chun May and Chun Dai do Chun-Li's "YATTA!" VictoryPose at separate points.
** When Uncle Richard makes a BigDamnHeroes as Green Wolf, the sound effect of Blanka's growl when he's doing a rolling attack is used [[spoiler:(fitting, because he ''is'' supposed to be the stand-in for Blanka)]]
* NobleDemon: Kent, who eventually gave the antidote to Ti Man (which he inflicted himself) after being 'spared' by Broom Man. Then he's really disconcerted when The General is about to inflict harm to the innocents just to get to Yu Ti Hung. He gets punished for it and [[spoiler:wisely did the right thing: [[HeelFaceTurn defecting]]]].
* OhCrap: Tai Hung freaks out when [[spoiler:he realizes that ''he's'' the Yu Ti Hung the future criminals are after]].
* OrificeInvasion: While Tai Hung's sister is given Chun Li's powers in a painless manner, he himself gets the same powers ''shoved up his nose.'' It's the size of an orange too. He promptly runs off, asking why they didn't just shove a durian into his brain.
* PunBasedTitle: The Mandarin title can be translated as [[Franchise/StreetFighter "Super School Fighter"]].
* PutOnABus: Not-Ryu appears in the future scenes in the beginning, then is transported to the present time at the very end of the movie.
* RefugeInAudacity: This movie not only blatantly steals from ''Street Fighter'' at every turn, but ''also'' has a scene that copies from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1''. And in that same scene, a character is shown ''actually playing Street Fighter II''.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Tai Hung is Yu Ti Hung.]]
* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: The General ordered Thai King and Toyota to flush Kei-On to the toilet because [[EvenEvilHasStandards even he thinks he's just a bootlicking dog]].
* RidiculousFutureSequelisation: One of the first signs of how far into the future these Future Cops are from is a row of posters for Creator/StephenChow's ''[[DieHardOnAnX Fight Back to School]] pt'' '''90'''.
* RumpRoast: As a result of an AttackBackfire on the General, Sing ends up having his butt set on fire. Complete with a shot of Simon Yam's exposed, naked ass, because NakedPeopleAreFunny?
* ShoutOut: Arguably, the entire movie is a blatant shout out/ripoff of Japan's 80s-90s video game/anime industry. We've got ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' and ''Franchise/DragonBall'' {{Exp|y}}ies, one scene where some people went into a [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]] level, etc.
** The movie ends with Lung telling everyone else that a [[Anime/DragonBallZ Super Saiyan]] has arrived from the future.
** Kei-On has the hairstyle of [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure Josuke Higashikata]] (which at the time was a very recent reference, with ''Diamond is Unbreakable'' having started only a year previously).
* SurvivalMantra: "The world is beautiful! The air's fresh!" (It fails at first. But... [[spoiler:After TheReveal, Tai Hung started reciting it again]])
* TeenGenius: Chun May is obviously younger than Tai Hung, but she has graduated college, gotten a job... just to emphasis further on Tai Hung's loser guy image. Oh, and if they end up in a sibling fight, ''she wins''.
* TemptingFate: The sports commentator makes claims about how Tai Hung isn't gonna win or else he'll eat something ridiculous (see ExtremeOmnivore above). Guess what happens. [[note]]Tai Hung uses the Future Cops microchip (See MegaManning above) to win his matches[[/note]]
* ThisLoserIsYou: Tai Hung is essentially what the average player of ''Street Fighter'' would be like in the ''Street Fighter'' universe - a complete nobody who can't even win a fight with his sister, let alone trained martial artists.
* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:Tai Hung, culminating him in transforming into [[Franchise/DragonBall Son Goku.]]]]
* TorsoWithAView: [[spoiler: The General at the end of the movie, after being run though by Ti-Man. And then Broom Man delivers the CoupDeGrace by [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill shoving a ''nuke'' into the hole]] in his midsection]].
* WhamLine:
-->'''Chun Dai''': After getting married, your surname should be changed to 'Yu'
-->'''[[spoiler:Tai Hung]]''': Fine!
-->'''Uncle Richard''': And according to our family, you should change your name to. In our generation, the word 'Ti' is used. So you should be named ''[[spoiler:Yu Ti Hung]]''.
-->'''[[spoiler:Tai Hung]]''': Fine!
-->'''Future Cops''': You are ''[[spoiler:Yu Ti Hung]]''?!
-->'''[[spoiler:Tai Hung]]''': *shaking* M-m-m-m-m-m-m-mom...I-I-I-I-I-I-I a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-am [[spoiler: Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Yu T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-Ti H-H-H-H-H-H-H-H-H-H-H-Hung...]]
* WolverinePublicity: Aaron Kwok was the most recently-breaking {{Bishonen}} idol in the cast at the time. He's prominently in the poster above. In the actual movie he appears for about ''ten minutes.''
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