Darkstalkers/Headscratchers


 * Okay, is B.B. Hood's grandma alive or dead? In-game, she has a move that implies her grandma is dead, fitting in with her whole "Ax Crazy Red Riding Hood" theme... but I've read fluff that describes visiting her grandma's house for errands as part of her normal routine.
 * Sounds pretty "Psycho" to me...
 * I go with B.B. Hood being crazy, but visiting grandma's house for errands as part of her routine doesn't mean Grandma's alive. I think Grandma may have been killed by a werewolf/wolf, thus B.B. Hood's hatred of wolves/werewolves and her psyco behavior is the result of the truma of seeing this happen (combined with some already existing psycological issues)....I guess this belongs in Wild Mass Guessing though.
 * This troper thinks that little B.B needs no explanation for her insanity. Even though she's the only pure human in the group, I don't think this crazy psycho bitch is capable of feeling any form of meaningful emotional attachment to anyone. In fact, the move in question actually suggests that she finished her grandma off herself and gleefully threw the body in a lake!
 * Or maybe she just snapped after her grandma was killed. Imagine that.
 * Does Darkstalkers take place in the same universe as Street Fighter and Final Fight?
 * Not clear. There's a fan theory that it does, and Anita grows up to be Rose from the Alpha series, but... yeah.
 * Rose? Where'd you get that from? Not only they don't look alike (thus shooting down the theory from the get-go), but it's been stated by Word of God that Rose is a Soul Jar for the long-lost good portion of Bison's soul (for some time, this troper even thought she was the corporeal form of said soul fragment, given how Bison pulled a Grand Theft Me on her between SFA3 and SFII and all, but SFIV apparently shot this down as well for me).
 * Erm, the "But... yeah" was about how this theory doesn't really make any sense and seems to just be an attempt to forcibly weld the two together -- I'm not the one who made it up.
 * It seems to come from that in Donovan's Vampire Hunter ending, the grown up Anita is seen wearing the exact same outfit that Rose did in the Alpha series. (Coincidental, it was most likely just Capcom making the same Jojo Reference twice over)
 * Morrigan and Felicia are on Ken's stage in Street Fighter Alpha 2 and Blanka is metioned in one of Felicia's endings.
 * It might be another Blanka, or an in-joke by the Capcom staff. Considering the game's timeframe (see ahead in the "Donovan in Vampire Savior" section), that could've been just after Jimmy's plane was shot down and he ended up in the Amazon jungle, and the second World Warrior tournament wouldn't have been for some years now. That, if there was a Shared Universe.
 * Hsien-Ko, Mei-Ling, and Lord Raptor are also in Ken's stage as humans, and Raptor's skin isn't blue like when he tries to assume a human appearance. Also the presence of captain commando, who won't be around until the future, and Strider-fricking-Hiryu being on that stage implies that all the "Capcom characters" are just cosplayers.
 * Maybe Hsien-Ko was kit with a truck of flesh colored paint on her way to the party
 * 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 MVC 3, 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 are Morrigan after being united with Lilith, and Lilith-dominant Morrigan or "Liligan" both about the same as Morrigan or Lilith in power in gameplay? According to the canon materials, they should be at least twice as powerful as either alone, but they seem to be about the same when they appear.
 * That's only in crossovers, and is therefore not canon.
 * Because Competitive Balance, only boss characters are purposefully made into game breakers, she's stronger according to the storyline and that should be good enough.
 * 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.
 * The Adult Anita and more original non-Dimitri Dee were planned as playable characters, but were scrapped due to time constraints. And after that Capcom became lazy with the sprites so they just used the existing sprites to get Donovan and Anita in the Updated Rerelease that people usually ignore anyway in favor of original Vampire Savior.
 * I actually knew that they were planned characters already, I'm just trying to make sense out of the story's canon
 * And what makes you think all Updated Rereleases are canon? It's not because Night Warriors/Vampire Hunter replaced the original as canon (that, or it's been aggregated; not really sure) that anything that came after the original Vampire Savior will. I say they just threw Donovan in as a Guest Fighter without really linking him to the story.
 * 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 SFA 3 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 SFA 1 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.
 * The official explanation is that on the day Donovan meets Anita, she has a prophetic dream/nightmare of the events to come. Donovan is absorbed into that dream during his meditation. Also Dee was planned to be a Demitri headswap from the beginning, what you see in the PlayStation 2 collection was mostly finished back in 1997, just left unused.
 * So...Anita's dream absorbed herself as well?
 * What dos Midnight Bliss do in a Mirror Match?
 * It varies based on the game. In darkstalkers he becomes a damsel in distress looking woman, while in CFE he becomes a young sorcereress looking girl with bats flying around her I think. In SVC, I think he becomes a spiky haired woman.
 * Okay, so: the power-levels given for various demons say that an average demon can take out a small army of humans by themselves, right? So how on Earth do B.B. Hood, and the other Darkhunters make a living killing them? Further, how could B.B. Hood possibly compete with the other characters?
 * She's Psychopathic remember
 * That has nothing to do with it. The Darkstalkers have DBZ-style power levels, and again: an average demon can take out a team of humans who are in great shape, and trained and equipped to fight. The only way they can do that is by being miles beyond human capabilities. Further, the Darkstalkers (ie: the bulk of the playable cast) are miles above average demons. B.B. Hood shouldn't even be able to dream about scratching them.
 * Perhaps the "darkness in her heart" does the real work and the bullets are just superfluous? That doesn't explained why she should fast enough to catch or avoid anything from Pryon, who casually travels between galaxies or bother the robot Huitzil or...you know what? Gameplay and Story Segregation. The same reason character who hover above the ground can slip on a dropped banana peel. The same reason Donovan bothers with fighting at all instead of letting his flying sword and summons do all the work.