Streets of Rage/Characters

Axel Stone

 * Calling Your Attacks: "Grand Upper!"
 * Expy: Of Cody
 * The Hero
 * Jack of All Stats: 1st game only; gradually leans toward Mighty Glacier as the series progresses.
 * Shoryuken: Doing a series of punches in at least one of the Genesis titles has him finish the combo with this.
 * Vigilante Man: After turning in his badge.

Adam Hunter

 * Badass Normal: With none of Axel or Blaze's firey attacks, Zan's cybernetics or even the Charles Atlas Superpowers of Max or his young brother Skate, Adam holds his own against Mr. X's cyborgs, robots, self cloning samurai ninjas and kangaroos.
 * The Lancer
 * Mighty Glacier: In the first game.
 * Out of Focus: His importance to the series decreased, needing to be saved in 2 and then relegated to support in 3.
 * Vigilante Man: After turning in his badge.

Blaze Fielding

 * Action Girl
 * Bare Your Midriff
 * Cowboy Cop
 * The Chick
 * Fragile Speedster: 1st game only.
 * Jack of All Stats: 2, 3, and the Remake
 * The Smurfette Principle: Is the only starting playable female character in all of the games.
 * Vigilante Woman: After turning in her badge.

Garcia/Galsia

 * Evil Redhead
 * Goddamned Bats: If any of them are wielding knives, they'll likely be this.
 * The Goomba: The basic syndicate mook, though there are more powerful palette swap versions of him.
 * Spell My Name with an "S": Inexplicably his name was spelled "Garcia" in the third game (he was still called "Galsia" in the Japanese version though).
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair: As the most palette-swapped mook in the game, pink-haired, white-haired, blond-haired, blue-haired and even lime green-haired variations can be seen.

Y.Signal

 * Badass Longcoat
 * Delinquent Hair / The Quincy Punk: He has a mohawk.
 * Expy: Of J and Two P. The difference between them is the Signals have a punch attack, slide kick, and can throw you.
 * Fluffy Fashion Feathers: There are messy looking feathers on the collar of his coat.

Nora

 * Demoted to Extra: Specifically to being one of Electra's palette swaps in the sequels.
 * Dominatrix
 * Gainaxing: Added to her sprite in the remake version.
 * Evil Blonde
 * I Surrender, Suckers: In later stages of the game they will pull this off if you punch them. Turn away and stand there and they will whip you.
 * Whip It Good

Hakuyo (SOR1)

 * Arrogant Kung Fu Guy
 * Badass Long Hair
 * Spell My Name with an "S": The Japanese manual for the Game Gear port spells his name "Shirotaka", which is another way of pronouncing the kanji in Hakuyo's name.

Jack (SOR1)

 * An Axe to Grind: Lesser Jacks
 * Incendiary Exponent: Elite Jacks

Antonio

 * Battle Boomerang
 * Lennon Specs: They're more visible on his remake sprite.

Souther

 * Slasher Smile: Which is more noticable in the remake.
 * Wolverine Claws

Abedede

 * Facial Markings
 * Lightning Bruiser: Large, fast, and really strong.

Bongo

 * Breath Weapon
 * Fat Bastard

Onihime and Yasha (Mona and Lisa)

 * Dual Boss
 * Dub Name Change: At least in the third game.
 * Palette Swap: Of Blaze in the first game.
 * Sensual Spandex: In the third game and the remake.

Mr. X

 * Authority Equals Asskicking
 * Badass in a Nice Suit
 * Big Bad
 * The Gunslinger: Type B - The Vaporizer
 * Mind Screw:

Sammy/Eddie "Skate" Hunter

 * Dance Battler: According to his profile in Remake, his style is "breakdancing".
 * Dub Name Change
 * Fragile Speedster
 * Nice Hat
 * Kid Hero/Kid Sidekick
 * Muscles Are Meaningless: Granted, he uses his entire body for leverage, but even so, it's impressive how he can throw the fat mooks just as easily as Max does. Even moreso in 3, where all the adult characters are unable to accomplish that feat.
 * Rollerblade Good: a vital part of his attacks.

Max Thunder

 * Mighty Glacier
 * Walking Shirtless Scene
 * Wrestler in All of Us: Justified as he's a professional wrestler.

Donovan

 * Ambiguously Brown
 * Bald of Evil
 * Butt Monkey / Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: In Bare Knuckle 3, he is knocked cold by debris (or an oil drum in the remake) after crashing his bulldozer into a support. See Drives Like Crazy below. His slapstick mishaps in an otherwise serious game have branded him as comic relief in many a Fanfic.
 * Drives Like Crazy: He leaves the driving seat of his pickup truck during a chase sequence in the remake to throw knives and oil drums at you. It works as well as you might expect.
 * Expy: He's pretty much Dug with no shirt.
 * Scary Black Man: Maybe, depending on palette.
 * Sinister Shades
 * Walking Shirtless Scene

Jack (SOR2)

 * Evil Laugh
 * Knife Nut
 * Unique Enemy: Only appears three times in total throughout SOR2. The remake does include him in some more areas though.

Electra

 * Dominatrix
 * Evil Blonde
 * Karaoke Box: When first encountered she is singing on a microphone.
 * I Surrender, Suckers: In the 3rd game some of them do this as a Call Back to Nora in the first game.
 * Shock and Awe
 * Stripperiffic: More so by the third game, which was bowdlerised in the US release.
 * Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To Nora from the first game. Subverted in that one of Electra's palette swaps is named Nora, but Electra is treated as the main version of the character.
 * Whip It Good

Fog

 * Badass Biker
 * Faceless Goons
 * Walking Shirtless Scene

Hakuyo (SOR2)

 * Kiai Whenever they drop in or do a jump kick. Also qualifies as Hell Is That Noise when encountered on the elevator.
 * Ki Attacks
 * Walking Shirtless Scene

Hanzo

 * Calling Your Attacks
 * Highly-Visible Ninja
 * Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja: Well why else would the game have ninjas (besides that the games were made by a Japanese company)?

Big Ben

 * Breath Weapon
 * Evil Laugh
 * Expy: A charging fat man? Check. He wears suspenders? Check. That definitely sounds like G. Oriber, Bill Bull, and Wong Who. Also it looks like Big Ben's face resembles a human Majin Buu
 * Fastball Special: He throws the Garcia enemies at you in 3, while they drop in with an elbow attack mid air.
 * Fat Bastard
 * Kung Fu-Proof Mook: In the first and third games, the fat guys will crush you if you try to shoulder throw them.

Raven

 * Demonic Spiders: Probably the most dangerous non-boss enemy, as he hits hard, quickly and blocks often.
 * Hachimaki
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair

Barbon

 * Bring It: Shouts "Come on!" as he rips off his vest.
 * The Bartender: Of a Bad Guy Bar.
 * Degraded Boss: A Palette Swap of him, Wayne, is fought later on in level 5.
 * Waistcoat of Style: He rips this off before the fight starts off.

Jet

 * Cyborg: In SOR3, it may or not be the same guy though.
 * Jet Pack

Zamza

 * Expy: He is basically a non-green skin version of Blanka. He even has the same barrel attack.
 * Wolverine Claws

R.Bear

 * Bald of Evil
 * Everything's Worse with Bears: Not literally. But as his name implies, he definitely lives up to it.

Particle & Molecule

 * Epic Flail

Shiva

 * Arrogant Kung Fu Guy
 * Badass Long Hair
 * The Dragon

Gilbert Zan

 * Captain Ersatz: Of Cyborg Grandpa G
 * Cool Old Guy
 * Cyborg

Roo (Victy)

 * Boxing Kangaroo

Vice

 * Goddamned Bats: Them holding you down for others to hit you is very annoying.

Slum

 * Stone Wall: Will sometimes block your attacks.

Soozie

 * My Nayme Is: Averted by most of her palette swaps.
 * Stripperiffic

Tiger

 * Evil Redhead: With dreadlocks and a fitting patch of vibrant orangish chest hair.
 * Kiai
 * Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To Hakuyo from the 2nd game, even possessing very similar movements.
 * Walking Shirtless Scene

McBride

 * Badass in a Nice Suit
 * The Men in Black
 * Sinister Shades

Rocket

 * Jet Pack
 * Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To Jet from the 2nd game, except they're (more) common enemies this time around.

Ash

 * Camp Gay
 * Dummied Out: In the US version.
 * Lethal Joke Character
 * Refuge in Audacity: The character himself would count at this but there are specific moments in the remake that fufill this trope as well.
 * One: Sliding down a pole then proceeding to dance on it in the Atlas Nightclub.
 * Two:.
 * Warmup Boss

Danch/Bruce

 * Get Back Here Boss
 * Mini Boss
 * Monster Clown: In a way. He is an abusive kangaroo trainer. It doesn't help that he has two of them in the Remake.

Break

 * Evil Knockoff: Of Axel.
 * Frame-Up: Does this to Axel.
 * Mirror Boss: If you play as Axel.
 * Put on a Bus: The only enemy in the series not to appear in Remake.
 * Turns Red: Literally.

Yamato

 * Doppelganger Attack: Creates two copies to fight the player character before his Boss Fight.
 * Mook Chivalry: He displays it along with his copies, no less.
 * Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: A Samurai Ninja.

Dr.Zero/Dr.Dahm

 * Mad Scientist
 * A Worldwide Punomenon: Has one in the remake.

Slash

 * Fanon Immigrant: Originally appeared on the US Streets of Rage cover but not in the game itself. In the remake, he's now an actual enemy.
 * Knife Nut: Likes using knifes. However, he might pull out a gun out after he's knocked down.
 * Unique Enemy
 * White Mask of Doom: A white hockey mask.

Trucker

 * Almighty Janitor: Despite his profession, he's tough enough to qualify as a mini-boss.
 * Lightning Bruiser: This guy is eye-poppingly fast on the draw.
 * Unique Enemy

Sniper

 * Unique Enemy: Only has ONE appearance in the entire game, the first level in the SOR2 route.

Rudra

 * Dark Action Girl
 * : Why she's serving the syndicate.
 * Kill It with Fire:.
 * McNinja: Her profile shows that she's trained in several disciplines related to ninja combat, and in-game her preferred weapons are the kunai and the katana.
 * Mysterious Woman: According to her profile.
 * Ninja Run
 * Sailor Earth
 * She's Got Legs: Yes, she does.

Cody

 * Take That: A reskinned Galsia that looks just like Cody from Final Fight.