Street Fighter (animation): Difference between revisions

As the [[Opening Narration]] above explains, Guile leads a group of Street Fighters against terrorism, mainly related to Shadaloo. The majority of the ''Street Fighter'' movie's story had taken place in this show and most of the characters who were given full names (William F. Guile, Ryu Hoshi, Carlos "Charlie" Blanka, Viktor Sagat, etc.) and new roles (Dr. Dhalsim, computer-savvy Honda, Dee Jay and Balrog) were kept. However, the characters look like they did in the games, Fei-Long and Akuma (who were omitted in the actual movie) appear in the show, and everybody's alliances in the show (except Zangief, who even at the end of the movie was good) reflect how they were in the games.

 

 

That being said, ''Street Fighter'' lasted two seasons for a total of 26 episodes. It had more ''Street Fighter'' characters seen throughout its run than any other animated adaptation of ''Street Fighter'', considering the inclusion of the ''[[Street Fighter Alpha (Video Game)|Street Fighter Alpha]]'' characters during the second season and an entire episode devoted to ''[[Final Fight]]''.

 

 

* [[Actor Allusion]]: Akuma, voiced by [[David Kaye]], drops a dramatic [[Beast Wars (Animation)|"Yeeesss..."]]

* [[Adaptational Villainy]]: Zangief, who is among M. Bison's lackeys.

* [[Animated Adaptation]]: The American series is the source of many [[Youtube Poop|YouTube Poops]]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3ALwKeSEYs YES! YES!]

* [[Artistic License Physics]]: The series has far, far, ''far'' too many examples of this to list here, so let's just have a quote from Dhalsim sum it up:

{{quote| '''Dhalsim''': "Not if I were bound by your immutable laws of physics. Fortunately, I have advanced beyond such simple-minded perceptions and embraced the limitless enlightenment of metaphysics."}}

* [[Beam Spam]]: Guile. When all else fails, he'll just constantly throw Sonic Booms and Flash Kicks. Case in point: Guile and {{spoiler|Sagat}}'s method of ambushing Bison in the series finale "Cammy Tell Me True".

* [[Big No]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLjIOzQTBHc&feature=related All over the place.] One of the more notable examples is when Guile screams this and shakes his fists like an angry child when a brainwashed Cammy retreats with Bison and kisses him.

* [[Composite Character]]: Blanka and Charlie were made into one character, just like in the movie. A flashback in "The Medium is the Message" shows a pre-mutation Blanka looking just like Charlie did in ''Street Fighter Alpha'', but with a color scheme closer to Blanka (black hair with a green vest and brown pants). He reverts back to his human form for a while in "Eye of the Beholder."

* [[Continuity Cameo]]

** Guile's opponent in "Keeping the Peace" is Bred from ''Final Fight''.

** In "New Kind of Evil", Blanka's opponent is Mike Haggar in his ''[[Saturday Night Slam Masters]]'' incarnation.

* [[Easter Egg]]: An unintentional one is contained in the 5th episode of season 2, with a frame of [[media:blankaheads_4066.png|Blanka heads]] hidden during the climax.

* [[Enemy Mine]]: In the appropriately titled episode "Strange Bedfellows," Guile and Bison are left with no choice but to form a temporary alliance to counter Akuma.

* [[Evil Laugh]]

* [[Evil Tastes Good]]:

{{quote| ''[[Punctuated for Emphasis|This is]] [[Memetic Mutation|DELICIOUS!]]''}}

** Satin/Saturn Hammer is also prone to stating her view on the tastiness of whatever is currently happening.

* [[Flat Character]]: How most of the characters are handled.

* [[Follow the Leader]]: The premise resembles ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' more than it does ''Street Fighter''.

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|Sagat}} in the final episode, as he does not want the planet to be destroyed.

* [[Jerkass]]: These American adaptations have a thing for turning Ken into a colossal douchebag.

* [[Large Ham]]:

* [[Nothing Is the Same Anymore]]: Cammy in "Cammy Tell Me True".

{{quote| '''Cammy''': Everything is lies! EVERYTHING IS LIES!!!}}

** In "Keeping the Peace", a sniper take aim at Sawada. Guile pushes him out of the way. The sniper miss, but the shot appears to hit Guile's shoulder anyway, [[Just a Flesh Wound|with no lasting effects.]]

** "Desert Thunder": At one point a superweapon that Satin/Saturn Hammer commandeers misfires thanks to Guile and one of her shots goes wide and heads in Escher's direction. It looks as if it was supposed to miss Escher according to script but seems to hit him in the arm and the head. [[Made of Iron|It doesn't affect him in any way]] despite having the power to obliterate islands.

** Bison, Akuma and Guile all have a different facial expression in "Strange Bedfellows".

** In "The Warrior King", Bison has ''eight'' different facial expressions.

** Ken, while he's fighting Akuma. While it's OOC in comparison to his normal [[Jerkass|douchiness]] in this series, it's ironically closer to his actual [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold|in-game]] [[Spirited Competitor|persona]].

** As mentioned above, Bison saving Guile's life.

[[But for Me It Was Tuesday|...And for him, it was Tuesday.]] }}

* [[Shallow Love Interest]]: Mai-Lei, the girl Blanka falls in love with in "Eye of the Beholder", doesn't really have much going for her in terms of personality.

* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]:

** The famous "YES! YES!" scene is accompanied by a brassy, heroic fanfare (actually [[Johann Sebastian Bach|"Tocatta and Fugue in D Minor"]]), even though Bison is the [[Big Bad]] and might've finally triumphed over the heroes. Guile's [[Big No]] mentioned above also features a brassy stinger that wouldn't sound out of place on ''[[The A-Team (TV)|The A-Team]]''.

* [[Third Person Person]]: Blanka starts speaking like this for no reason when fighting Zangief (who also speaks the same way) in the episode "The Flame and the Rose".

* [[Vocal Dissonance]]: The feral boy in the episode "The Beast Within", who has the voice of a 10-year-old despite having the body of a teenager.

{{quote| ''[[Lame Comeback|"And you... you're a LOSER!"]]''}}