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* [[Ability Over Appearance]]: [[Jean-Claude Van Damme]] is not known for his acting abilities ([[Eloquent in My Native Tongue|in English]]) and speaks English with a very strong Belgian-French accent, but he can replicate Guile's super-human fighting style better than most. Not surprisingly, he was cast at behest of [[Approval of God|Capcom]]: the original game is all about action with a plot weakly attached to it.
* [[Awesome, Dear Boy]]: [[Raul Julia]]'s reason for making this film was because his kids thought it would be cool, so he did it for them... and single-handedly (sort of) saved the movie.
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Pretty much the whole damn cast:
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** [[So My Kids Can Watch]]: He knew that he was about to make his last film, because he was dying of cancer, so he let his kids choose his last role.
* [[What Could Have Been]]: Early drafts of the script focused on Ryu and Ken as the main characters. However, when [[Jean-Claude Van Damme]] signed on to appear in the film he insisted on being Guile and making him the central character. So the script was rewritten.
** In the year 2003, the movie was slated to finally have a sequel. Van Damme and Damien Chapa were to return as Guile and Ken, Holly Valance was to take over for [[Kylie Minogue]] as Cammy, Byron Mann was in talks to return as Ryu and [[Dolph Lundgren]] was supposed to appear in an untold role. However, once the rights to the franchise left [[Universal]] and went to [[FOX]], the sequel was scrapped and turned into a reboot called ''[[Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-
*** In the sequel it would have been revealed that Blanka and Dhalsim survived and the chemicals that made Dhalsim bald also gave him his stretching powers.
** They originally wanted ''Fabio'' to play Vega, which is understandable considering Vega's narcissism (and would've made a hilarious [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]] years later when Fabio's face was smashed after colliding with a goose on a roller coaster -- no, you did not misread any of that.
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