Trivia / Street Fighter V

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• Acting for Two:
  • Miyuki Sawashiro and Caitlin Glass voice both Cammy and Decapre in A Shadow Falls. Glass also voices Eliza in Ken's story mode while Sawashiro didn't reprise the role.
  • Bonnie Gordon voices both R. Mika and one of the Kanzuki family's female ninjas.
  • Lauren Landa voices both Karin and Ken's son Mel.
  • Hiroki Takahashi and Kyle Hebert voice both Ryu and Kage.
  • Takashi Matsuyama voices both Necalli and Oro.
  • Akio Ōtsuka and Michael McConnohie voice both Seth and Daigo Kazama.
• Actor-Inspired Element: Capcom's recording team for the English dub was afraid Luke wouldn't sound American enough if he said "ORA ORA" during his super until Aleks Le, his voice actor, convinced them it was appropriate due to Luke's interests in anime and video games.
• Actor-Shared Background: Several hints indicate Lucia has Hispanic heritage. Jeannie Tirado, her English voice actress, is of Puerto Rican descent.
• Author's Saving Throw:
  • When the second beta was announced, the initial time frame would have given PC players only two days to play the game, at most. After a rush of backlash from PC players feeling they were being shafted, the final times were extended to give both PS4 and PC players an extra day of beta testing.
  • Many fan favorites such as Karin Kanzuki and Alex made their long-awaited returns, and the game places more emphasis on footsies and fundamentals than the high execution vortex insanity that was Street Fighter IV. The music has been well-received in SFV, with a higher selection of instruments and progressive rock elements added leaving more room for variety in the atmosphere, pacing, and energy of the soundtrack, even more so with the reveal in soundtrack page listings that several other composers joined Hideyuki Fukasawa in making the game's music. Masahiro Aoki in particular is being praised for his rock arrangements of several of the classic themes carrying a big-fight, bombastic atmosphere in contrast to the reintroductory vibe of Fukasawa's SFIV rearrangements.
  • Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition. The lack of an arcade mode in the initial release has been addressed by adding six different arcade modes, each one themed around the various entries in the Street Fighter series. The update is free for everyone who already has the game, and people who don't can buy it in stores and get every character from launch up to the end of Season 2 for only $39.99. Other changes include a UI overhaul and the addition of Extra Battle, a new mode where players fight against special NPC enemies, and the return of the Bonus Stage. Arcade mode even has over 100 different endings.
  • After the final SFV match for Capcom Cup 2017 ended, a new gameplay trailer for Sakura was shown. Of course, many were happy with her return, along with her Alpha 2 stage. However, the five remaining Season 3 characters were shown as silhouettes at the end of Sakura's trailer, which didn't go well with some. Yoshinori Ono had one more video to show the crowd, which was the cinematic opening of Arcade Edition. Along with characters already in the roster, it showcased Sakura and the other remaining Season 3 characters. This includes Blanka, Cody, Sagat, and two new characters; G^note a mystery man with a tall hat and a gold world map on his body and Falke^note the woman seen next to Ed at the end of his Story Mode campaign.
  • Some fans accused Capcom of whitewashing Sean in Street Fighter V due to Laura's Story Mode art showing him with a much lighter skin tone than he had in previous games. The new artwork for Arcade Mode in Arcade Edition depicts Sean with dark skin again, seemingly responding to the complaints.
  • The announcement of Cody in June 2018 came with numerous changes to the maligned Survival Mode, including a save feature for the higher difficulties, power-ups that don't drain your score meaning you no longer have to worry about having low health and a bad supplement for the harder fights, and the opportunity to continue at the expense of some in-game currency.
  • Massive controversy came when Loot Boxes were added; while they took only Fight Money, FM is notoriously hard to come by, especially for those who want the entire game's contents for free. That was mitigated by the announcement that reaching a score above par in Survival Mode would win you a free box, for twenty boxes a month. Not only that, the Survival Mode power-ups, unlike the supplements, do not reduce your score, and you get some for just completing the mode.
  • After a multitude of complaints towards Vega's new costume, which has him wearing a shirt for the first time in the games without an option to remove it, a Classic option was added to let players use his older, shirtless look.
  • After the lukewarm reception of Kage, the Summer Bundle of Season 4 characters brought back some familiar faces. E. Honda returned with his original bathhouse stage, finally completing the original World Warrior roster. Along with his reveal came Lucia, one of the protagonists from Final Fight 3, as well as fan favorite Poison, complete with a new look and whip. All characters came with plenty of new costumes (four for Honda, five for each girl), all in one $15 bundle.
  • Champion Edition and Season 5. Not only does the package include the vast majority of items you can buy in the Shop (barring some exceptions like the Capcom Pro Tour DLC), but the new balance changes have been incredibly well-received by the player base, with mostly buffs all around to characters as well as new V-Skills and options for every single character. First impressions appear to be that this is the most open-ended, fun, and balanced version of the game yet.
  • After being relegated to non-SF crossovers for nearly two decades, Rival Schools has been given justice with the inclusion of Akira Kazama, finally making things full circle since Sakura's guest appearance in that series.
• Blooper: Not the game itself but at one point, Ibuki's trailer◊ has a mouse cursor that suddenly appears.
• Casting Gag: One of Ken's costumes is a Dante cosplay. That said, they share an actor in English.
• Christmas Rushed: Part of the reason for the game's bare-bones feature set at launch can be laid at the game having to be released in February 2016. The release window can be chalked up to three major factors: making it in time for the end of Capcom's financial year in March, having the game out in time for the Capcom Pro Tour series of tournaments that kicked off two weeks after the game launch, as well as giving the general Fighting Game Community enough time to study and adapt the new tech in preparation for said Capcom Pro Tour.
• Content Leak: The EVO 2019 announcement of Season 4 DLC characters E. Honda, Lucia, and Poison was inadvertently leaked when Steam made the announcement trailer available days before hand. As a result, there was no major announcement ad for the game at the finals, only a promise by Ono that more news would come at the end of the year.
• Creator Backlash: A lengthy Tweet from the official Street Fighter Japan account reflected on the launch of Street Fighter V and apologized for the initial lack of content. They also took the time to thank fans for sticking with the game throughout the years, and Capcom was happier with how latter seasons of V turned out.
• Creator Killer: V's difficult launch, as well as the underwhelming sales and reception of Street Fighter X Tekken and Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite, led to former series producer Yoshinori Ono to be Kicked Upstairs at Capcom. Ono eventually left in 2020 to work for Delightworks and Lasengle.
• The Danza:
  • Ed is voiced by Edward Bosco.
  • Peter, the police officer Cammy fights in the story mode, is voiced by Peter "Combofiend" Rosas.
  • Akira Kazama is voiced by Akira Sekine.
• Defictionalization:
  • Sort of. During the early stages of development, there was a leak that claimed there would be four new characters; Rashid from Africa, Laura from Brazil, Zen from India, and a new boss. Rashid and Laura were proven true,^note Even though the former nationality was wrong. and the "new boss" could reference either Necalli or F.A.N.G, but Zen never showed up. This character never actually existed during development of the game, but one of the Capcom artists noticed the buzz around this non-existent Zen character, and ended up drawing some concept art of him. While this is more or less the official design for Zen, he doesn't appear in the game, at least not physically.
  • There was a Japanese Collector's Edition for the Arcade Edition that came with real life versions of Blanka's "Blanka-Chan" dolls. There's also ones sold on Capcom's European Online Store.
• Dueling Games: With Killer Instinct (2013), both being console exclusive fighting games with releases on PC within a month of each other and with extra content being released each month through DLC.^note Killer Instinct and Street Fighter V are console exclusive for the Xbox One and PlayStation 4, respectively.
• #EngineeredHashtag: #RiseUp was used in advertisement, encouraging the players to step up their game to the big league.
• Executive Meddling: ESPN had the development team remove R. Mika's butt-slap shown in her reveal trailer. This was done in order to make televised airings of Street Fighter V tournaments broadcast-friendly. A shot of Cammy's crotch was also removed at ESPN's behest.
• Ink-Suit Actor: Possibly unintentional or pure coincidence, but Laura's English voice actress, Gina Bowes, bears a striking resemblance to her. Just look at the photo on Bowes' page and compare it to Laura's image.
• Meme Acknowledgment: Zeku's win quote against Juri contains the phrase "Your sadness, profound", which is what his apprentice Guy says after losing in Street Fighter IV.
• The Other Darrin:
  • Mostly averted, but there are a couple of examples in regards to the Japanese cast:
    • Nash is voiced by Kosuke Toriumi rather than Toshiyuki Morikawa, his voice actor from the Alpha series and other crossover appearances.
    • R. Mika is voiced by Hiromi Igarashi rather than Junko Takeuchi, who voiced her in Alpha 3.
    • Karin's gone from being voiced by Miho Yamada, her voice actress in Alpha 3 and Namco × Capcom, to Aya Endo.
    • Alex went from Hiroki Yasumoto (Tatsunoko vs. Capcom) to Shintarō Asanuma.
    • Sean is voiced by Ayumu Murase. He was previously voiced by Isshin Chiba in New Generation/2nd Impact and Mitsuo Iwata in 3rd Strike.
    • Urien is voiced by Masayuki Kato, and not Yuji Ueda like in 2nd Impact.
    • Of the Dolls, while most of the duodecad was Suddenly Voiced in V, Juni, Juli, Satsuki, and Noembelu go from, respectively, Haruka Kimura, Sachiko Kojima, Sachiko Okada and Aiko Kusumi—their actresses in the Super Street Fighter IV OVA—to Akiko Komoto, Kumi Tanaka, Nanako Mori and Satomi Moriya. In Juni's case, this doubles as Role Reprise; Komoto originally voiced Juni and Juli in Alpha 3 and Namco × Capcom.
    • Due to Ayumi Fujimura taking an indefinite hiatus from voice acting in 2019, Ibuki as of Season V is now voiced by Kana Ueda
    • As of her appearance in V, Akira Kazama is now voiced by Akira Sekine rather than Chiharu Tezuka.
  • The English cast:
    • Gouken is voiced by Keith Silverstein rather than Rod Clarke.
    • Alex is voiced by Mark Whitten rather than Michael X. Sommers (New Generation/2nd Impact) or Patrick Galligan (3rd Strike).
    • Urien is voiced by Bill Rogers as opposed to Lawrence Bayne, his 3rd Strike voice actor.
    • Michelle Ruff voiced Juni along with Juli, Satsuki, and Noembelu in the SSFIV OVA. She only still voices Juni in V; the other roles instead went to Elizabeth Maxwell, Erica Mendez, and Lisa Ortiz.
    • Gill is voiced by Liam O'Brien, as opposed to Lawrence Bayne, who previously voiced him in 3rd Strike.
    • Akuma is voiced by Richard Epcar instead of Dave Mallow, due to the latter's retirement in 2016.
    • As of Season V, Ibuki is now voiced by Cristina Vee instead of Kat Steel.
• Playing Against Type:
  • Shigeru Chiba, who is known for his heroic and Hot-Blooded roles, provided the voice of F.A.N.G in the Japanese version, albeit it's not the first time he voiced an evil Chinese guy. Although Chiba also did some villains, most notably Buggy and Kefka.
  • Romi Park as the very feminine Kolin, as she is normally typecasted by voicing male kids or teens like Edward Elric or Toshiro Hitsugaya or tomboys like Temari.
  • While not being the first time, Falke is this for Sumire Uesaka, since she is normally typecasted voicing cute, sweet girls, not of the femme fatale kind.
• Pre-Order Bonus: Depending on where you pre-ordered the game, you could get battle costumes for Ryu, Chun-Li, Cammy, and M. Bison.
• Promoted Fanboy: Former top player Peter "Combofiend" Rosas, who was previously the community manager for Capcom after Seth Killian (also a former top player, now a lead designer for the mecha fighting game Rising Thunder) resigned from the position in 2012, is now the Associate Producer for Street Fighter V. He also provides the voice for a minor character, a cop that is fought by Cammy at one point in the cinematic story mode. The cop's name? Peter.
• Real-Life Relative: Romi Park (Kolin) and Kazuhiro Yamaji (G) got married in real life. The same applies to their English voice actors, Cindy Robinson and Christopher Corey Smith.
• Role-Ending Misdemeanor: One of the composers from Season 2 of the game onward, Daniel Lindholm, ended up fired and blacklisted by Capcom after a comment he made about the possibility of Fei Long not being in future games went viral.
• Role Reprise:
  • Nearly every cast member from Street Fighter IV reprises their roles.
  • Akio Ōtsuka, in addition to already reprising Seth, also reprises his role as Daigo Kazama for the first time in over 2 decades after last serving as his voice in Project Justice.
• Throw It In!: Ed's name was originally a standin for ED (like the ending scene of anime). A designer mistook the note of "The ED boy" as his name.
• Two Voices, One Character: In his new body, Seth talks with his usual masculine voice, but his body irregularly broadcasts notifications in another female AI voice.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Capcom considered adding Sodom, who last appeared in Alpha 3, to the launch roster, but had trouble thinking of a way to tie him into the story. And thus, he remains the only Alpha-era character not to have made the transition into HD.
  • Capcom's original plan was to replace Cammy with Decapre in the game's launch roster. However, this idea was scrapped after Decapre's debut in Ultra Street Fighter IV was met with massive negative backlash, so they kept Cammy instead and Decapre was relegated to being a story mode NPC. Remnants of this plan are still visible in-game, as when Decapre is fought in "A Shadow Falls", she practically has her full moveset from IV minus a Critical Art, making her most distinct Doll opponent, and she even has a completely unique character theme.
  • Some of the concept art included in the collector's edition shows some drastically different designs for characters both old and new. Highlights include an acrofatic F.A.N.G who seriously looks like King Kai, a F.A.N.G that uses fans and needles as weapons, non-fat and even non-black Birdie designs, an even more muscular R. Mika, and a werewolf-like Necalli. That last one would be revisited with the Halloween costumes, where Necalli is depicted as, you guessed it, a werewolf.
  • Word of God is that Necalli was originally going to eat his opponents. This was declared to be too mature, and was instead changed to him eating souls.
  • Before settling on making her an Egyptian fortune teller, Capcom had various other ideas for the character that would eventually become Menat, including a cheerful, redheaded pizza delivery girl who was actually an assassin, a cosplaying Italian delinquent named Rita, a magician with a top hat, and another magic-user who used playing cards as her weapon of choice. When they eventually settled on making her Egyptian, other ideas they went through included her being named Tahtib and wielding a staff, and another take that would've had her as a former gymnast.
  • There were numerous rejected ideas for new fighters:
    • The Literary Master,◊ a professorial type of character that would use brains over brawn.
    • The President Fighter,◊ who looks suspiciously like the Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li incarnation of M. Bison. This idea was what eventually led to G, who resembles Abraham Lincoln or Uncle Sam. JP in Street Fighter 6 also seems to borrow a few elements of this early design.
    • Careless Sexy-chan,◊ an Innocent Fanservice Girl who would regularly rip her own clothes and used mechanical tools as weapons. Her design is what eventually led to Laura.
    • A Brazilian Soccer Fighter◊ who also predated Laura. He was rejected for being too similar to Roberto from Rival Schools.
    • Gen's disciple,◊ who would have ultimately killed off Gen and gone after Akuma and Necalli. According to the Climax Arts book, elements of this design ended up incorporated into Seth's redesign.
    • Two sports-themed female characters, one from America that was football-themed◊ and one from Canada that was hockey-themed.◊
    • A "Koukakuken" user◊ who trained his arms so much that they had become red and hard like a lobster's claws. Was rejected for being too fantastical.
    • A Yeti,◊ rejected for being less Street Fighter and more Darkstalkers.
    • A South American Assassin,◊ rejected in favor of Necalli.
    • Asuka,◊ a Japanese Aikido practitioner who looks suspiciously similar to Hokuto. Ended up being dropped due to there being enough Japanese characters already. That and, well, there's already a famous Asuka who fits that description perfectly.
    • Elizabeth,◊ a French Savate user and wealthy antique dealer. Ended up in the rejection pile due to there being too many "rich person" type characters already. That and, well… SNK themselves already have their own Savate fighter named Elizabeth^note  Albeit with an "s" and not the usual "z". , too. She's also French, to boot.
  • According to this tweet, they considered adding Momotaro from Pirate Ship Higemaru, a very early Capcom game. To say he would be an Unexpected Character would be an understatement.
  • Allegedly, G was meant to be the Final Boss of the game, but, as he wasn't ready before the game shipped, Bison was made such in the story mode.
  • The game was meant to conclude with Season 4 as the final pass of content and the team transitioning on to working on Street Fighter 6. However, changes within Capcom's fighting game division (chief among them the departure of series director Yoshinori Ono) led to a delay in production for 6, and thus, in turn, led to the creation of a final fifth season of DLC. This notably saw the debut of 6's protagonist Luke as the final new character; his inclusion was finalized after his design for 6 had finished and was tweaked to resemble the environment of V.

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