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If you're even slightly familiar with the ''Street Fighter'' storyline (what little it has, anyway), you'll notice something seems a little... well, ''off.''
 
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.
 
It's also been shown on G4's "Movies That Don't Suck" block, while Chris Gore makes snide remarks over the end credits.
 
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]]''.
 
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* [[Creator Cameo]]: Capcom's CEO at the time (Kenzo Tsujimoto) makes a cameo appearance during Guile's speech near the end (he's the stout middle-aged Japanese guy who appears prominently in a few shots).
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Dee Jay, oddly enough.
* [[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.}}
** Bison also attempts to kill the hostages in this manner by setting Blanka loose on them.
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* [[Egopolis]]: Bisonopolis.
* [[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.
* [[Faking the Dead]]: Guile's death was staged so that Ken and Ryu could [[Shoot Your Mate|gain acceptance]] with Sagat's gang and [[Reverse Mole|infiltrate Shadaloo]].
* [[Faux Action Girl]]: Bison accuses Chun-Li of being this, {{spoiler|but that was part of her plan}}.
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* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: Chun-Li teases Cammy about her change in hairstyle toward the end of the movie, which Cammy responds with "Look who's talking!" Chun-Li looks up at her hairstyle and wordlessly concedes that Cammy is right.
* [[Ignored Enemy]]: Ryu and Ken ignore their captors and have a brief fistfight in the prison camp, but it's a ruse to grab the keys to the lock.
* [[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]]''.)
* [[It Got Worse]]: This line is actually used by Ken when he and Ryu are lamenting their situation in Sagat's arms market, saying it can't possibly get any worse, right before realizing they're in the middle of a stand off between Bison's [[Mook|mooks]] and Sagat's [[Mook|mooks]].
* [[Kaiju]]: The battle between E Honda and Zangief in the model of Bisonopolis looks like a Kaiju battle when viewed through a security camera.
* [[Large Ham]]: Raul Julia's version of Bison is even more fondly remembered than [[Norio Wakamoto]]'s portrayals.
{{quote| '''[[Cracked]]''': 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]]''."}}
* [[Load-Bearing Hero]]: Zangief in particular.
* [[Logo Joke]]: The globe in the Universal [[Vanity Plate]] becomes embossed into the Shadaloo emblem seen on Bison's cap.
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* [[No Pronunciation Guide]]: Ryu's name is incorrectly pronounced "Rayu". Ironically, Guile, who fails to pronounce every other word in the dictionary, is the only character capable of saying it right.
** 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.
* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: Chun-Li as a reporter. "That's exactly...what I ''wanted you to think.''"
* [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You]]: Bison invokes this when informed of Guile's (fake) death, lamenting that he wanted to be one to defeat Guile.
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* [[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.
* [[Rousing Speech]]: Guile's "We Can All Go Home" speech.
* [[Sand in My Eyes]]: Or, as Cammie claims, tear gas.
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{{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.
** [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]: Realizing his job will soon [[Stuff Blowing Up|cease to exist]], Dee Jay hilariously drops out during Bison's [[Last Stand]] speech.
* [[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.]]
* [[Stock Scream]]: And it's one you'd least expect... wait for it... {{spoiler|WAH-HOO-HOO-HOO-HOOEY!}}
* [[Super Soldier]]: Bison attempts to turn Blanka into one as the prototype to create an army of them.
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* [[This Is What the Building Will Look Like]]: Bisonopolis
* [[Those Two Guys]]: [[Ryu and Ken]]
* [[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]].
* [[Turns Red]]/[[One-Winged Angel]]: Guile kills Bison, then calls Cammy to give an update. Meanwhile, the computer revives Bison, pumps him full of adrenaline, then gives him the power to fly and shoot electricity.
** 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 Could Have Been]]: The production team had originally made Guile and most of the "good" characters UN peacekeepers. But due to visits from representatives of the UN, they changed it to AN or Allied Nations. See [[Brand X]] for more details.
* [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]]: Dhalsim lectures Guile over this when he decides Charlie is [[Better Off Dead]].
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