Headscratchers / Street Fighter II

• Why couldn't Bison levitate?
  • The merger with Rose's half of his soul put a serious damper on his powers. Since Rose was the good half of his soul, and Psycho Power works based on negative emotion, he was brought down to a lower level.
    • Actually, it has nothing to do with him having temporarily used Rose, between the two stories. He just clones his body a lot, but some end up being more powerful than others. SFA body > SF4 body >= SF2 body.
  • That's probably the official storyline reason, but really it's just because the SFA people just thought he should float, so they put that into his character. Just like how a lot of people look significantly different in the SFA and SF2 art.

• What is the role of those two guys fighting in front of a building and why are neither of them playable?
  • I think those two are supposed to be Joe and Mike from the original Street Fighter.
• How come that crying guy in Balrog's stage always seems to lose a bet? You'd think after the fifth time Balrog punches off a guy's jaw that he'd wise up?
  • He didn't lose any bets. He's just so awestruck by the spectacle that is Street Fighter that he has to rub his eyes afterwards.
  • He always loses bets because he always bets on the wrong person. If Balrog wins, he cries because it means he bet on you, and your loss just cost him a lot of cash. If you win, vise-versa. Gambling doesn't pay.
• Was there any reason that Akuma fought (and killed) Bison?
  • "Power does not belong to the unworthy", or something like that.
  • He apparently killed him for deliberately abusing his powers for personal gain, and to hurt others. In his honor code, Akuma sees no problem with killing in battle, but despises using force to hurt innocents and such outside of combat. I'm not sure, but I think it's the only other time besides Gouken and Goutetsu that Akuma actually sought someone out and killed them.
    • Akuma doesn't give two craps about innocents, actually. His beef with Bison is that Bison's artificially boosting his power with things like the Psycho Drive. He doesn't care about how you use your power, as long as that power was naturally gained - think of him as a one-man version of the Anti-Doping Agency.
    • He DOES have standards as there's artwork of him selling fruit to a kid and All About Capcom had an instance of him rescuing another.