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Set in the same universe as Street Fighter, and considered by many to be its cousin series, Final Fight became one of the most famous and successful arcade games of the 1990s. Many people credit the game with inventing the beat-em-up genre, due to the massive quantity of so-called 'Final Fight Clones' that followed after the game's success. (However, Final Fight was preceded by titles such as Kung Fu Master, the early Kunio-kun games, and of course Double Dragon.)

In the first game, the Mad Gear gang kidnaps Jessica, the daughter of Mike Haggar, former pro wrestler and current mayor, because Haggar would not turn a blind eye to their dominance of the city's underworld, as the previous mayor had. Haggar teams up with Jessica's street punk boyfriend Cody, and a ninja sworn to fight evil known as Guy, so that they can save the city and Jessica. The game has life meters not only for the heroes, but also for the villains.

The game's development contains some interesting titbits: The bosses requested a sequel to Street Fighter (remember, this was way before Street Fighter II) and what happened next depends on which Street Fighter creator you asked - Okamoto basicly says that the genre was changed after some market research, while Funamizu, the hater of sequels, says that they made Final Fight for the hell of it.

The game spawned two sequels for the Super NES, and a 3-D fighting game for the Sega Saturn. Four of the series' characters also appeared as playable characters in the Street Fighter Alpha series, and another appeared in Capcom vs. SNK 2. And then there is the sequel Streetwise which is unwanted by some.

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This game has examples of:

• Badass Mustache - Mike Haggar
• Bald Of Evil- The final boss Beliger fits this trope. Stampeding fat mooks G.Oriber, Bill Bull, and Wong Who are all bald.
• Bowdlerise - Several graphics and boss names were changed for the international SNES version, most notably the changing of two female transvestite enemies into just somewhat effeminate punks.
• Canon Immigrant - While most of Final Fight 2 and 3 was ignored when they exported the Final Fight characters to the Street Fighter Alpha series (to the point that the Alpha series gave Guy a different master than the one who appeared in Final Fight 2), an exception was made with Maki, who actually appeared in later Capcom fighting games.
• Cloudcuckoolander - Alpha-Guy and Alpha-Cody in the Game Boy Advance version, who act as if they've traveled back in time. There's even a Continuity Nod (or rather a Discontinuity Nod), in which Cody is unable to recognize Rolento since according to him, he took a shortcut to the Bayside Area (a nod to Rolento's absence in the SNES version).
• Combos
• Crossover - Eventually folded into the Street Fighter continuity with the release of the SF Alpha series.
• Crowning Music Of Awesome - Final Fight CD's soundtrack, composed by T's Music.
  • The Industrial Area's BGM, for example
• Death Trap - in the first game, when you lost the bad guys just tied you up with a bundle of dynamite. In the later games, they get a bit more elaborate.
• Die Chair Die
• Direct To Video - The two immediate sequels, Final Fight 2 and 3, were released exclusively for the SNES without any prior arcade release.
• Dropped A Bridget On Him - Roxy and Poison.
• Elevator Action Sequence - Ur Example.
• Even The Guys Want Him - The punk "girl" Poison, who is actually a guy in a drag since the original game. Although she may had gotten a sex change operation, depending on which regional version of Final Fight Revenge you're playing.
• Executive Suite Fight - The fight against Belger in the first game.
• Exploding Barrels - The ones that are on fire, anyhow.
• Expy - Cody is based on Tom Cody from Streets Of Fire.
  • Two P. is based on the Player 2 character from Forgotten Worlds (hence his name, Two P. as in "2P").
• Hilarious In Hindsight - A former Pro-Wrestler? Elected mayor? What's next, Governor?
  • The Mayor even looks like the future Minnisota governer.
• Hurricane Kick
• Improvised Weapon
• McNinja - Guy. Sodom is a McSamurai, as he's really American, but speaks entirely in Gratuitous Japanese (and messes up the pronunciation spectacularly) and dual-wields katanas.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed
  • Mike Haggar resembles professional wrestler Jessie Ventura, especially since he later became governer.
    • Although some think Mike Haggar's mustache and trim haircut makes him look like Freddie Mercury
  • The Andore family of enemies are modeled after famed wrestler André the Giant.
  • Axl and Slash of Guns N' Roses also appear as a pair of bikers.
  • And Abigail is a shout out to King Diamond.
  • Poison and Sodom are both named after the bands, as well.
• One Game For The Price Of Two: The Super NES port had two editions; one in which the player could select Haggar or Cody, and another which swapped Cody for Guy, titled Final Fight Guy.
• Palette Swap
• Rewarding Vandalism
• Save The Princess - Jessica
• Shaggy Dog Story - From the Game Boy Advance remake:
  Alpha Guy: As I thought, Jessica is here.
  Belger: Who are you? You are not listed...
  Alpha Guy: Maybe... I'm not the same person I was back then. I'm wearing new shoes!
  Belger: .....
• Sinister Subway
• Spiritual Successor - Pretty much every CPS beat-em-up Capcom produced afterward is Final Fight with a new theme or popular license (i.e: Knights of the Round is medieval Final Fight, Captain Commando is sci-fi Final Fight, and so on).
• Super Deformed - Mighty Final Fight, essentially the original Final Fight converted to the 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System with RPG Elements and chibi characters.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute - Pretty much everyone in Final Fight 2 who isn't a returning character from the first game is simply a parallel to a previous character. Notably Maki and Carlos have pretty much the same abilities as Guy and Cody, just with different quirks.
• Urban Segregation
• Vice City - Metro City
• Victory Is Boring: Cody is so addicted to fighting that he shows dark elements of this both in Streetwise and Street Fighter Alpha 3.
  • In Street Fighter Alpha he is thrown in prison and manages to escape just as everyone starts fighting.
  • In Streetwise Belger turns him into a fighting monster via drugs.
• Villainous Crossdresser - Poison in some versions.
• Wrestler In All Of Us - Mike Haggar, the mayor with the lethal piledriver. In the second game, he upgrades it to a spinning piledriver, similar to Zangief's in Street Fighter II.
  • Given who he seems to be based off and Capcom's apparent love for wrestling what do you expect?

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