- Building on this, Reva Cody and Mercy aren't just played by the same actress, they're the same character; Mercy is Reva's nickname. Following the events of The Warriors she and Swan leave New York, but they eventually part ways and by the start of Streets of Fire Reva has settled down alone in The Richmond and started running a diner, escaping the fate of being trapped in her old neighborhood with several kids and a cockroach-infested apartment.
- All of the other characters are known to be poor, or at least - as in Billy's case - to have come from poverty. Life has made them tough. But the Roadmasters have "come down from King's Park" looking for some action in their bright shiny new car, with their fashionable clothes and haircuts. They're slumming rich kids who thought they could swagger and intimidate their way through a genuine bad neighborhood the way they probably do through their suburban high school. They were not prepared to deal with someone who could and would fight back, and they're lucky they ran into Tom, who was satisfied to teach them a lesson, rather than, say, the Bombers.
- The Diner Reva works at would years later become the Pine Pot. That's the diner in the first stage of the first game. It wouldn't become this until the Bombers had left Richmond. Let's face it. Richmond is screwed by default! Why? It's located in Woodoak City. And who is running Woodoak City to the ground at this moment? Mr. X and his Syndicate.
Take a look at the color of their hairs. Blaze Fielding is a brunette like Reva Cody and Axel Stone is a blonde like Baby Doll. There is a chance, but a tragic one, that Blaze and Axel are children of divorces. The mothers marry at the age of 18, but divorce the fathers in their early 20s. Blaze and Axel's respective mothers are tragically living in the Richmond district of Woodoak City far away from their kids. If their hobbies are to go by (Blaze likes Lambada and Axel likes video games), then both Blaze and Axel were more than likely raised by rich fathers.
Which raises a disturbing question: Why is Stage One in Streets of Rage in front of the Pine Pot Diner? Because that's the diner Blaze's mother is working at! Blaze, working with the police, may have found out about Reva by becoming a detective for the Woodoak Police Department. They're paying a visit to the diner for possibly a first, and last, family reunion between mother and daughter due to being on the night they would bring down the syndicate. And thanks to Blaze's detective skills, she may have found Baby Doll as well, possibly living outside of Woodoak years later, but Axel may have declined to meet her so soon as he wasn't sure if she would be ready to meet him. Though he would thank Blaze later on after moving out of Woodoak and eventually going to meet his blood mother. Blaze, Adam, and Axel were most likely taking their last meal at the Pine Pot to say goodbye to Blaze's mother Reva before going on a suicide mission to kill Mr. X.
A lighter note is basically Blaze, Adam, and Axel learning from Reva Cody that Tom Cody, whose name is of legend to the Woodoak City police department thanks to the now retired Officer Price, is Blaze's uncle. Something that could cause jaws to drop or make people laugh from surprise. As the incident of Ellen's kidnapping would have occurred when Blaze was 14 and Axel was 15. Another humorous note is learning that the Roadmasters tried to hurt Reva, but got worked by Tom instead.
A darker note as to why Blaze and Axel left the police force is that Blaze and Axel found out that their fathers were working with Mr. X and had ties to the Syndicate. By quitting the police force, they were possibly made Persona Non Grata by their fathers and Defector from Decadence on the same night. Essentially, they had nothing to lose as they both had no homes to go back to. This would also explain in joke why Street chicken is a thing in the In-Game universe.
There's also a chance that in the second game, their fathers are in prison for their crimes... or they're dead because they sung like Canaries to avoid a life sentence and Shiva was sent to kill them both. Which would explain why Blaze and Axel don't have residency in Woodoak anymore. They both moved away when they realized they were living in spaces bought by their fathers. As of the fourth game, Blaze went on to become a dance instructor as she always dreamed of. Axel, though, decided to forgo living a normal life and live in the wilderness as a drifter like Tom and McCoy already are living.
The traditional Bulk and Skull of Streets of Fire and Streets of Rage. It would explain why Blaze and Axel knew how to fight by the beginning of the first Streets of Rage game. The Roadmasters more than enough made their lives hell in High School due to the fact that Blaze and Axel's real mothers weren't from rich backgrounds. Meaning, Blaze and Axel were targeted by Classist. After taking martial art classes, where they more than likely met Adam and Sammy during their training, they probably attended school one day and kicked each of the Roadmasters' asses. This would explain why the Roadmasters went to the Diner in Richmond. Being that the Roadmasters are punks, they drove to the Diner to hurt Blaze (Their prides were hurt because they got beaten by a girl) by hurting Reva. If each rich family is close in communication with Mr. X, then they knew who Reva was to begin with: She's Blaze's blood mother. Too bad for them, luck and timing were not on their side... they chose the wrong day to harrass Reva when Tom was in town.
- We never get the last name of each member of the Sorels. One of them could have the last name Hunter and have ties to Adam and Sammy. However, this would be tragic if one of them is the father of the brothers. Adam Hunter is 23 years old at the beginning of the first game. Sammy is about 12 to 13 years old. If one of the Sorels had the brothers with a girlfriend or wife while they were 18 years old, then that member would become a grandfather at the age of 36 when Cherry is born. The fact that neither Adam, Sammy, nor Cherry bring up mention of Mr. Hunter, or Granddad Hunter in Cherry's case, is not a good sign.
- Tom Cody isn't in Woodoak because he is still wondering the country alongside of McCoy in the two sequels that never were: The Far City and Cody's Return. This would make Tom Cody the Hero of Another Story. Though Cody's Return would probably be occurring in Streets of Rage 4 after the Y Twins were brought to justice at the end, as the heroes would go meet up with Dr. Zhan to train for the next incoming threat. Meanwhile, a power vacuum has occurred in the absence of the heroes and it's up to Tom Cody and McCoy to save the day.
- If Cody's Return happens after the ending of the fourth game, then Cody would have been stopping by to check on if Reva was okay. He would be relieved to know she is safe (And the lead founder of the Pine Pot Diner franchise) when he returns home. Though the reason for the return would be on his unexpected friendship with Axel, who knows Reva and Blaze, Tom's niece.
