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{{quote|''"Quick! Change the channel!"''|'''Zangief'''}}

In the remote southeast Asian country of Shadaloo, the power mad dictator General M. Bison ([[Raul Julia]]) is trying to usurp power and take over first the country, then the world. [[Memetic Mutation|OF COURSE!!!]] To fund his megalomaniacal schemes, he's captured several dozen relief workers, who totally are not from the Red Cross, and is holding them hostage for the sum of twenty billion US dollars. It is up to the [[The Federation|Allied Nation]] forces, led by Col. William F. Guile ([[Jean -Claude Van Damme]]), to get in there, take out Bison, and rescue the hostages. And they have three days to do so before hostages start dying. His immediate subordinates include Lieutenant Cammy (Kylie Minogue). and Sergeant [[Magical Native American|T. Hawk]] (Gregg Rainwater).

The producers had some strange ideas about how to work the complex characters and storylines in the live action production. They didn't get a lot of them right, to say the least.<ref> Then again this was at the time when the series was still in its infancy and hardly had any information on the characters let alone the story.</ref> The film is sometimes lucky enough to go in the [[So Bad It's Good]] category due to the late Raul Julia's portrayal of M. Bison, who took the job knowing [[Doing It for Thethe Art|he was dying of stomach cancer and let his children pick out which movie would be his last]], and apparently wanted to [[Ham and Cheese|go out on a loud note]] for his final performance. Unfortunately, there are plenty of people who don't think this was enough to save the movie and continue to insist it's so bad it's just bad. Considering all the memes that stemmed from it, its most likely a [[Cult Classic]].

Aspects of the movie were expanded on in the cartoon ''[[Street Fighter (Animationanimation)|Street Fighter]]'', which came out shortly after the film.

Fifteen years would pass before another live-action Street Fighter film would be made. That one is called ''[[Street Fighter the Legend of Chun Li (Film)|Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li]]''.

{{quote| ''"The road not taken..."''}}

* [[Art Imitates Art]]: Mr. Bison [[Rearing Horse]] painting is just ''Napoleon Crossing the Alps'' after a [http://www.cerumen.cl/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/tumblr_ly3dzy2wEr1qghhwyo1_500.jpg switcheroo]{{Dead link}}

{{quote| '''Bison:''' You dare to interfere?<br />

''[beat]''<br />

{{quote| '''M. Bison''': ''You still refuse to ACCEPT...my [[A God Am I|godhood?]] KEEP your own [[God]]! In fact, this might be a good time to PRAY to Him! ''[[The Bible|For I beheld Satan as he]]'' '''[[The Bible|FELL FROM HEAVEN!]]'''...'''''[[The Bible|LIKE LIIIIIIGHTNIIIIIING!!!]]''''' ''}}

* [[Death Byby Irony]]: Bison kills the captured AN soldiers in this manner.

{{quote| '''Bison''': You came from across the world to fight me soldier. Now's your chance.}}

{{quote| '''Bison''': Your masters at the AN call me a wild beast. So be it. You do not deserve the martial dignity of a firing squad. You shall be killed ''by'' a wild beast!}}

* [[Evil Is Hammy]]: '''''[[Overly Long Gag|OF COURSE!]]'''''

* [[Face Death Withwith Dignity]]: Bison is willing to do this and expects Dee Jay to do the same, but Dee Jay isn't so enthusiastic about it.

{{quote| ''"Pax Bisonica!"''}}

{{quote| '''Bison''': Something wrong, Colonel? You come here prepared to fight a madman, and instead you found a god? [...] You still refuse to accept my godhood? Keep your own God! In fact, this might be a good time to pray to Him!}}

{{quote| ''"You got...''paid?''"''}}

{{quote| '''Guile:''' ''I'm gonna get on my boat, and I'm going up river, and I'm going to kick that son of a bitch Bison's ass so hard that the next Bison wannabe is gonna feel it!''}}

* [[I Just Shot Marvin in Thethe Face]]: Notably ''[[Averted]]'' in the scene when Sagat is making his weapons deal with Bison, everybody is keeping their fingers off the triggers and appears to be pointing the weapons away from each other (though of course, they are in a large room and it's unclear if they are pointing the weapons at anybody ''[[What Measure Is a Mook?|else]]''.)

{{quote| '''[[Cracked.com]]''': Raul Julia acted like his whole movie was a pantomime and displayed so little knowledge of the game that he probably thought a joystick was something you rented from a Thai ladyboy. But at least he was obviously enjoying himself. Raising the total number of people enjoying the movie to "One," or "[[Take That|One more than]] ''[[Street Fighter: theThe Legend of Chun -Li (Film)|Legend of Chun-Li]]''."}}

* [[Mook|Mooks]]s: The Shadaloo army, who, appropriately enough given how many are mowed down, wear [[Red Shirt|red uniforms]].

** Bison does too, but he screws up Zangief's name right before that.]]

* [[Not Even Bothering Withwith the Accent]]: Guile in the games is American. Guile in the movie is... a Belgian-American immigrant? Classic JCVD at work.

{{quote| "Had you worked together instead of against each other, you might have been successful."}}

{{quote| FOR [[A God Am I|I BEHELD SATAN AS HE FELL FROM HEAVEN]]... LIKE LIIIIGHTNIIIING!!!}}

* [[Punch Clock Villain]]: Dee Jay.

{{quote| ''"Oh man. I shoulda stayed at Microsoft!"''}}

* [[Recursive Adaptation]]: Had not one, but two video games based on it, both titled ''[[Street Fighter the Movie (Video Game)|Street Fighter: The Movie]]'', one for the arcades and the other for home consoles. Despite having the same title, they're '''not''' ports of each other.

{{quote| ''"Well, I'm not going home. I'm going to get in my boat, and I'm going up the river, and I'm going to kick that son-of-a-bitch Bison's ass so hard, that the next Bison wannabe is gonna feel it. Now who wants to go home, and who wants to ''go with me?!''"''}}

{{quote| '''Bison''': "This is merely Superconductor Electromagnetism."}}

* [[Shirtless Scene]] : Ryu - twice. When his shirt is ripped off by one of Sagat's lady followers before he fights Vega at the beginning and by himself when he fights Vega at the end.

* [[Signed Up for Thethe Dental]]: Dee Jay knows his employer is a power-mad dictator. But he pays well.

* [[The Stinger]]/[[The End - Oror Is It?]]: {{spoiler|Bison survives the massive explosion and immediately orders his computer to restart his world domination plans.}} [[Street Fighter (Animationanimation)|This is to kick start the cartoon.]]

* [[Title: the Adaptation]]: Subverted. The movie is simply called ''Street Fighter''. ''Street Fighter: The Movie'' was the title used for [[Recursive Adaptation|the video game versions]].

** This is quite funny when you realize this pretty much accurately portrays how [[Final Boss]] AI tends to work in [[Fighting Game|fighting game]]s. [[Let's Get Dangerous|You kick their ass in the first round, and then in the next, they suddenly get way tougher]]. [[SNK Boss|And sometimes even use moves they didn't before]] (although Bison could only use electricity in [[Recursive Adaptation|the game of the movie of the game]]).

* [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]]: Dhalsim lectures Guile over this when he decides Charlie is [[Betterbetter Offoff Dead]]dead.

{{quote| '''Bison:''' ''I was hoping to face Guile personally on the battlefield. One gentleman warrior to another, in respectful combat. [[Hypocritical Humor|Then I would snap his spine]].''}}

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