History Headscratchers / DarkStalkers

** Morrigan IS Scottish or at least holds that nationality, the games put Scotland as her home country. She may have been raised in the Makai, but it is canon that she spends most of her time messing around in the human world. And since she is pretending to be a normal human girl who is from scotland, what accent would be the logical choice for her to pick on?

** Nearly all of the characters in this series have a "nationality" a la ''StreetFighter'' (the game's sister-series), because they are based on the legends found in or based in various diverse countries. Morrigan herself is named for a Celtic war goddess, and Scotland is her earthly dwelling of choice, and has been listed as such since her debut, so it stands to reason that if she communicates in the earth-realm, she would do so in the accent of her locale. What accent should they give her? Generic "American" would make even less sense.

* Does ''Darkstalkers'' take place in the same universe as ''StreetFighter'' and ''VideoGame/FinalFight''?

** Supposedly, those little bats she uses to create clothes and weapons are each a physical form of a person's soul. The soul, rather than being aware of its fate, seems to think its in some state of bliss so it can't object. Exactly WHAT that state is, however, is open to interpretation--maybe they're living out their greatest fantasies, maybe they're peacefully sleeping, maybe they're spending some "alone time" with Morrigan herself.

*** Its left entirely to interpretation.
*** No, it's not.

*** Right. It’s just a bit curious since he seems to be targeting very specific parts... like Raptor’s ass..

*** The guys at Udon either never did the research (which is bizarre, considering they get most of Street Fighter's story right) or they deliberately chose to make her evil for some reason. You'd really have to ask them.

*** Its left entirely to interpretation. She did whatever you want to believe she did.

*** Right. It’s just a bit curious since he seems to be targeting very specific parts... like Raptor’s literal rump, for example.

** Speaking about Morrigan, why is she portrayed as an evil demon lacking of redeeming qualities so often? She is perphaps the most heroic and friendly succubus in fiction, and Capcom has even confirmed she has never killed a human in her life and that she feeds from dreams and excitement, not souls.

** Morrigan and Felicia are on Ken's stage in Street Fighter Alpha 2 and Blanka is metioned in one of Felicia's endings.

** Absolutely not. The mythology behind both universes makes that abundantly clear. The earth of Darkstalkers is a completely different place (also, in the past). Any cameos of Darkstalkers characters in Street Fighter are to be considered not canon, and can be [[HandWave hand waved]] away as somebody cosplaying it up... which brings up the interesting question: does the Darkstalkers ''game'' exist in the Street Fighter universe? Ken's stage is choc full of not canon appearances, as it's a long list of references and homages LeaningOnTheFourthWall. Example: Strider Hiryu playing with a teddy bear (also a non canon appearance) is a homage to a former Capcom dev who had died (of over-working!) shortly before that SF game was made, and had previously worked on the Strider game.
*** It's extremely likely Darkstalkers exists as a game in the Street Fighter universe, given Mega Man exists as a game in the Dead Rising universe.

* As much as I love the Darkstalkers games, you know what's something that always annoyed me to no end? Donovan and Anita's appearance in Vampire Savior. Vampire Savior takes place exactly 16 years after Vampire Hunter. I know because Lei-Lei/Hsien-Ko and Lin-lin/Mei-Ling "died" were resurrected as humans at the end of Vampire Hunter, and exactly sixteen years after that happened (their sixteenth birthday), they were teleported to Jedah's new world. I understand characters like Demitri and Morrigan not aging due to being demons with much longer lifespans, and I can sort of understand Donovan as he is a dhampir. But why has Anita not aged at all?! My guess is that "Dee" (the Evil Ryu equivalent to Donovan) is canon, and Anita's psychic powers have grown to the point that she can mentally project an illusion of her younger self as well as a false Donovan created from her memories of him to deceive her opponents. Either that or Capcom can just completely retcon Donovan's appearance in Vampire Hunter as not canon, just like how Guy and Sodom were technically guest fighters in the first Street Fighter Alpha.

*** I wouldn't mind it so much, but they did link him to the story. Jedah tells Donovan that Anita is destined to become the new ruler of the world. The fact that they at least attempted to integrate him to the story rather than give him just a credits ending means there is the chance of a retcon. Someone like Yun in SFA3 goes so blatantly against the canon that it is obviously not canon. The developers never explicitly stated that this game was not canon and nothing really goes against it, unlike something like Street Fighter EX. Besides in Capcom games rereleased games (or at least the latest one) like SSF4 are often considered canon unless retconned by a later game. Besides, almost all of the events in SFA1 was basically written out of canon due to conflicting events in Alpha 2 and 3. Even though adult Anita was planned but removed later, the fact that they went through the effort of putting her in Dee's ending was what led to the possibility.

*** Was referring to Raptor, but I guess that applies to her as well. Apparently that flesh colored paint also had a magical side effect of making her and her sister shorter and younger like in their midnight blissed/"reincarnated as human" appearances (other than her mvc3 ending, in which she looks exactly the same, only human, though it was technically a drawing). Speaking of MVC3, its somewhat implied that the Capcom World is a shared universe in specifically that game (or possibly mvc series), seeing how its the Fate of TWO Worlds (the other obviously being Marvel) and how some of the Capcom characters act as if they already know each other in the episodic trailers (i.e. Haggar and Felicia), though Zero's ending may disprove that theory.

* Why does Marvel vs Capcom 3 even bother having Morrigan speak with a Scottish accent if she was raised in the Makai from infancy and thus shouldn't have it, has never been portrayed with an accent until this game (and don't be a smartass and say "She had a Japanese accent before!" because Yayoi Jinguji only spoke the lines in Japanese), and her actress doesn't even hold it for half her lines anyway?

* What's the difference, if any, between Morrigan's [[DoppelgangerAttack Astral Vision and DarknessIllusion]] attacks? Both create Dopplegangers, and one is probably stronger from an in-game perspective, but beyond that, in universe, is there any functional advantage to using one over the other?

* How does that eternal bliss thing from the UDON comics works? I really hate the comics for what they did to Morrigan, but even today something I've never could quite get in my head is how does the so-goof "eternal bliss" that UDON Morrigan gives to the souls of the poor men she tricks and kills.