Funny / Streets of Rage

• The level where you have to smash your way through some walls and another Donovan mook try to run you over with a bulldozer. At the end of the level, there is a steel pillar that finally gets between you and the bulldozer. The bulldozer will crash into it and the impact sends a barrel rolling down from the above level, and knocking the mook out.
• The first and third games have Bottomless Pits. On the higher difficulty levels where enemies have more health bars, hilarious to see an enemy with two whole lifebars, grab them, and toss them into a pit where they will die instantly.
• The Soozie/Garnet tend to jump backwards while fighting and sometimes when they do this on the elevator section of the third level in Streets of Rage 3/Bare Knuckle III, they inadvertently end up jumping off the elevator to their deaths.
  • This can still happen to them in 4 and Survival Mode.
• The bar level in the fourth game has Roo, the playable kangaroo from the third game, tending to the bar in the same way Barbon did in the second game. While still wearing the boxing gloves.
• One section of the Art Gallery stage in the fourth game has a golden chicken (modeled off of the usable health restoration version) that you can pick up and smash enemies with. The backroom of the gallery is full of the same golden chickens, hinting that the golden chicken is a fake, and you'll even get an achievement titled "Family Reunion" if you manage to bring the first chicken back to the rest. Oh, and it's the single most potent thrown weapon in the game by a long shot! Its even funnier if you set the large food item to anything other than the chicken, as the golden statuette doesn't change, allowing you to see through the potential trick.
• As of the Mr. X Nightmare DLC for Streets of Rage 4, one of the icons you can set for full-health items is a durian, complete with stench aura. Within the same DLC, Survival Mode features an unopened durian as a melee weapon.
• Several weapons added along with the Mr. X Nightmare DLC include fish, such as the puffer fish that inflicts poison on whoever it hits to the giant marlins that reach half a screen's length.
• In Streets of Rage 4, one of Shiva's character select lines lampshades his refusal to hold onto weapons (instead kicking them up and launching them at enemies):
  Shiva: I don't need weapons. I am the weapon!