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There have been rumors of a fourth installment for years, with Sega of Japan creating a demo of a ''Streets of Rage 4'' running on Dreamcast hardware. But since Sega of America was not aware of the series and its past success, the project was not followed up on. The Eidos brawler ''Fighting Force'' was also pitched to Sega execs as ''Streets of Rage 4,'' but because of the aforementioned lack of faith in the brand it was passed up, becoming the later independent title.
If you want to try out the series for yourself, there are three options. The second game can be downloaded from the Xbox Live Arcade (complete with online multiplayer), all three games are available on the Wii Virtual Console, and all three games are also available in the ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20110122172005/http://www.gamestop.com/Catalog/ProductDetails.aspx?product_id=72742 Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection]'' compilation disc for the Xbox 360 and [[Play Station 3]].
After ''[[Development Hell|eight]]'' years of development, Spanish fan developer group [https://web.archive.org/web/20071201162631/http://www.bombergames.net/sorr_project/ Bomber Games] released in 2011 their [[Freeware Games|free]] [[Fan Remake|unofficial remake]] of the game, aptly named ''Streets of Rage Remake''. It's basically a mish-mash of the three games with a lot of original and remixed content added; to make room for all the levels, the game makes extensive use of branching paths. Highlights include being able to play as any character in the series so far (including Adam) and [[Multiple Endings]]. The game [[Fanwork Ban|was pulled down]] [[Screwed by the Network|from the developer's site]] at [http://www.destructoid.com/sega-responds-to-streets-of-rage-remake-pull-198723.phtml Sega's request] (although details are sketchy), but not before having received wide coverage and [[Keep Circulating the Tapes|spread]].
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* [[Amazonian Beauty]]: Blaze, at least in her depiction on the Japanese cover art of ''Streets of Rage 2'' and the American cover art of ''Streets of Rage 3''. Stage 2 of the first game also features several posters showing what appears to be a female bodybuilder, although it's unclear if she plays the trope straight or is instead a [[Brawn Hilda]].
* [[Ambidextrous Sprite]]: Avoided as some mooks grab their weapons with both hands, otherwise played completely straight.
* [[American Kirby Is Hardcore]]: While the Japanese covers are [https://web.archive.org/web/20141226084840/http://www.segagagadomain.com/megadrive2/bareknuckle-cover.jpg no] [https://web.archive.org/web/20160217143528/http://www.segagagadomain.com/megadrive/bareknuckle2-cover.jpg less] [https://web.archive.org/web/20130623012611/http://www.zonesega.com/file/covers/megadrive/Bare%20Knuckle%20III%20%5BJAP%5D.jpg hardcore], though in more "[[Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You|Heroes about to punch you]]" style, the Western covers are [http://img.listal.com/image/309862/936full-streets-of-rage-cover.jpg more]{{Dead link}} [http://firsthour.net/screenshots/streets-of-rage-2/streets-of-rage-2-cover.jpg action] [https://web.archive.org/web/20210327173350/http://cache.wists.com/thumbnails/7/56/75632813847dc111cef7cc62e57671f9-orig packed]{{Dead link}}. The remake uses the cover art of ''Streets of Rage 1'' and ''Streets of Rage 2'' as route select pictures, but not before fixing them up (see [[Covers Always Lie]] below).
* [[Anti-Villain]]: Victy/Roo in the third game, {{spoiler|Rudra}} in the remake.
* [[Arrogant Kung Fu Guy]]: Shiva and the martial artist enemies.
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* [[Boss Dissonance]]: Kirby Type, although it's averted in very hard/Mania mode.
* [[Boss Rush]]: Stage 8 of ''Streets of Rage 1'' and ''Streets of Rage 2''.
* [[Bottomless Magazines]]: Played straight for [[The Men in Black]], Mr. X and the Remake gun-wielding enemies, while you get stuck with [[Throw-Away Guns]]. Unless, of course, you turn on the "Weapons Never Disappear" cheat, in which case your ammo likewise never disappears. [[Game Breaker|For full effect]], turn on both that cheat and the "Keep Weapons Between Stages" one, and pick up a machine gun. Sure, your end payout will suffer, but you '''finally''' get the chance to [[Beat Them At Their Own Game|beat Mr. X at his own game!]]
* [[Bottomless Pits]]: Appearing in the first game for Stages 4 (holes in the bridge) and 7 (getting thrown off a moving freight elevator). Falling into one would cost you a life. Oddly, the bottomless pits never appeared in game ''Streets of Rage 2'', but return in game ''Streets of Rage 3'' for the construction levels where falling into one had your character jump back up at the expense of losing at least 1/4 of your health bar. The remake has both varieties of these pits in their respective levels.
* [[Bowdlerise]]: The storyline of ''Bare Knuckle 3'' involved a convoluted plot of a powerful thermonuclear material called "Raksin/Laxine", fear of nuclear war between America and the fictional country of Lima, and the disappearance of a respected General Ivan Petrov, who has been replaced by a robot duplicate designed by Mr. X to instigate said war. ''Streets of Rage 3'''s storyline changes the game slightly to remove the intro featuring Wood Oak City being nuked by a Raksin/Laxine bomb, changed the General to the Chief of Police, and removed the fear of war storyline in favor of more general lawlessness and disorder in the city, as well as many dialogue changes, resulting in some dialogue making little to no sense. In addition, the dominatrices wore jackets, Blaze, Axel and Skate swapped colors so Blaze wouldn't wear red, and [[Macho Camp]] Ash was [[Dummied Out]] (he still existed in the game's code, but you had to use a game enhancer to use him). Oh, and they did a [[Paper-Thin Disguise|pretty piss-poor job of disguising the White House as a generic City Hall]].
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* [[Descending Ceiling]]: The machine presses in the industry levels.
* [[Diabolical Mastermind]]: Mr. X, of course.
* [[Die, Chair, Die!]]: When the fight goes into bars and dance clubs, the lifespan of the furniture tends to be low. The outside sections tend to have the same thing all over the place: tires, trashcans and road blocks.
* [[Difficult but Awesome]]:
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** Later games allow you to input specific button combinations to throw 3-star attacks even without said stars. These attacks are vastly powerful, and accessing them requires either accumulating 120,000 points without dying, or using these combinations, which are [[Some Dexterity Required|rather hard to execute quickly]].
* [[Difficulty by Region]]: In ''Streets of Rage 3'', the Japanese version's Normal is the North American version's Easy, Japanese Hard is North American Normal, and Japanese Very Hard is North American Hard. Also, in the NA version, enemies inflict more damage on higher difficulties, which does not happen in the Japanese version. On the flip side, performing special attacks in ''Streets of Rage 3'' costs much less energy than in ''Bare Knuckle'', and the sidestep actually works properly. Astute players eventually start thinking of their lifebar as [[Cast from Hit Points|offensive power]].
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* [[Doppelganger Attack]]: Yamato from ''Streets of Rage 3'', Rudra in the remake.
* [[The Dragon]]: Shiva in the second game, and Dr. Dahm (Dr. Zero) in the last one. Shiva returns as the boss of the first level in ''Streets of Rage 3'', is an unlockable playable character via a secret code and {{spoiler|if you go for the bad ending in the Town Hall, he re-appears as the final boss}}.
* [[Dual Boss]]: Onihime/Mona and Yasha/Lisa in ''Streets of Rage 1'' and ''Streets of Rage 3''. Not to mention that in the first game, playing with two players would spawn two bosses instead of one. Also present with Stage 6 of the first game, where you face Souther (whom you fought in the second stage). ''Two of him''.
** Similarly, some paths in the remake have you fight two Bongos.
** The remake also comes with an unlockable cheat to [[Self-Imposed Challenge|always spawn dual bosses]] out-of-the-box.<ref>Probably more fitting to say "out of the zip".</ref>
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* [[Executive Suite Fight]]: In the first two games during the final battle against Mr. X. The third game subverts this when the Mr. X you face is a robot.
* [[Exploding Barrels]]: In the [[Remake]].
* [[Expy]]:
** The final boss uses a projectile weapon like [[Double Dragon|Machine Gun Willy]] and [[Final Fight|Belger]], Abadede is The [[Ultimate Warrior]], and Zamza is a clone of [[Street Fighter II|Blanka]] (he even has the same spinning attack). Not to forget that Axel is an expy of [[Final Fight|Cody]], or that the Muay Thai-using enemies in ''Streets of Rage 2'' (the ones with bird names) look exactly like [[Fatal Fury|Joe Higashi]]. Speaking of Cody, the remake features a Cody ripoff that looks like a Galsia in a bad disguise with blond hair. When killed (and not thrown into a pit), he drops an extra life for some reason.
** The biker enemies in ''Streets of Rage 2'' look suspiciously like Jagi from ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'' (a.k.a. ''Hokuto no Ken'').
** Mona and Lisa resemble Motoko Kusanagi from ''[[Ghost in the Shell]]''.
* [[Face Heel Turn]]: In ''Streets of Rage 1'''s 2-player mode, {{spoiler|''you'' can do this, if one player chooses to join Mr. X and the other doesn't. This leads to an "evil" ending. Unless you both do it, in which case you just get boned and have to play through some levels again}}.
** {{spoiler|Possible in the remake, as well, through the same method. This leads to [[Mind Screw|funky]] situations when you, for instance, unlock Mr. X and defeat Mr.X as Mr.X to BECOME THE BOSS}}.
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* [[Hitbox Dissonance]]: Suffers a bit from this. The most frequent example would be attacks that miss initially, but hit a target who happens to wander in right before the end of the animation when the attack shouldn't have power anyway.
* [[Hyperactive Metabolism]]: Apples, beef and roast chicken immediately heal you.
* [[Idle Animation]]:
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** In the third, Dr. Zan crackles with electricity, Skate beckons to the enemy, and {{spoiler|Ash}} giggles.
* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]: Your backup in the original game and the remake is skilled enough to:
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* [[Joke Character]]: [[Macho Camp|Ash]] and [[Boxing Kangaroo|Victy/Roo]]. They're both [[Lethal Joke Character|quite capable of kicking ass, regardless]].
* [[Kangaroos Represent Australia]]: Roo/Victy.
** [[Everything's Better with Spinning]]: Him
* [[Ki Attacks]]: A few of the characters' specials get a little [[Power Glows|glowy]].
* [[Kick Chick]]: Though not as prevalent as in other games, Blaze and the female enemies have powerful kick moves.
* [[Lady in Red]]: Blaze Fielding. Unlike most examples, she's no [[Femme Fatale]] and is instead a straight-up [[Action Girl]]. ''Streets of Rage 3'' makes her a [[Woman in White]], however. There's a straighter example in Electra.
* [[Launcher Move]]: Adam's normal combo consists of two jabs, an uppercut that launches the enemy high into the air, and then roundhousing said enemy before/just as he/she lands. See [[Meteor Move]] below for Rudra's.
* [[Lennon Specs]]: Hard to see in-game due to low resolution, but Antonio wears these. His higher resolution sprite in the remake render them both far more visible.
* [[The Lethal Connotation of Guns and Others]]: All the bosses are various types of [[Badass]] with various methods of using their fists and feet. Mr. X, being an [[Expy]] of the final boss from ''[[Final Fight]]'', just packs a cool suit, infinite mooks and a Tommygun. The front end hurts like hell, and the back end halves your health. This is because unlike that crossbow-wielding loser, Mr. X is made of hair gel, capitalism and [[Badass]]. On the other hand, firearms in the remake don't offer much of a damage advantage over good ol' fisticuffs, and are mainly useful for holding a near monopoly on ranged attacks.▼
▲* [[The Lethal Connotation of Guns and Others]]: All the bosses are various types of [[Badass]] with various methods of using their fists and feet. Mr. X, being an [[Expy]] of the final boss from ''[[Final Fight]]'', just packs a cool suit, infinite mooks and a Tommygun. The front end hurts like hell, and the back end halves your health. This is because unlike that crossbow-wielding loser, Mr. X is made of hair gel, capitalism and [[Badass]].
* [[Let X Be the Unknown]]: Mr. X, obviously.
* [[Life Meter]]: Also applied to the player's weapons in the 3rd game and an optional feature in the remake. Once the meter on the weapon was fully drained, it broke.
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* [[Meteor Move]]: Rudra's back throw, which consists of [[Launcher Move|kicking her victim straight up into the air]], ninja teleporting to catch the him/her, and then slamming them back into the ground using [[Spinning Piledriver|the Izuna Drop]].
* [[Mini Boss]]: The stronger mooks that don't become regular until one or two stages later.
* [[Mirror Boss]]:
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** {{spoiler|A robot version of Axel}} in the third game also serves as this in Stage 3, [[Turns Red|gradually turning redder as it takes damage]]. Unlike the Blaze knockoffs, {{spoiler|robot Axel}} is a LOT faster than {{spoiler|the real Axel}}.
* [[Mondegreen]]: Blaze's special move voice samples are ''clearly'' "You don't do that"/"But I do."
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* [[Secret AI Moves]]: Averted in the remake. The developers put a lot of work in improving {{spoiler|Mr. X's [[Gun Fu]]}} and working in additional animations (none of which are displayed during his boss fight) to make him as playable as the initially available characters, all while avoiding making him too [[Game Breaker|game-breaking]]. Granted, he can be more powerful than other characters of the cast, but not by much, which keeps playing as him interesting.
** Played somewhat straight with {{spoiler|Rudra}}, but then again, how would you control {{spoiler|her [[Doppelganger Attack]]}}?
* [[Self-Deprecation]]
* [[She Fu]]: To an extent, Blaze and some of the female enemies.
* [[She's Got Legs]]: Blaze and the female enemies.
* [[Shock and Awe]]: Dr. Zan.
* [[Shoplift and Die|Shoplift and Pay]]: In ''Streets of Rage Remake'', there's a shop (staffed by Blaze, of all people) that unlocks after you beat the game, enabling you to buy secret characters, cheats and extras. Should you access the shop while your computer's clock is between 5 and 7 AM, Blaze will be asleep, and you can attempt to steal an item. The chance of successfully stealing an item is 50/50, and the computer decides this at random. If you fail, Blaze wakes up, screams in your face, and you get banned from the shop until you beat the game again. If you succeed, however, you can get any one item - even the super-expensive ones like the SOREditor and the infinite lives cheat - for free... and you still end up locked out of the shop. And this time, you have to pay Blaze back for the item you stole by beating the game. Did you steal the ''Streets of Rage''maker? Have fun playing through the game 10+ times!
* [[Shout-Out]]:
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** The remake adds many of its own. Not only do other Sega games get references, homages and cameos, but other beat 'em ups and fighting games as well.
** The final fight in ''Streets Of Rage 1'' co-op play allows the two players to fight each other to death by choosing different answers from each other's, which is a reference to the duel between the two players after defeating the final boss in ''[[Double Dragon]]''.
* [[Shown Their Work]]: Skate's special move is an actual breakdancing move called the power windmill.
* [[Smart Bomb]]: In the first game, the player can summon a police car, and its driver will fire a missile or Gatling gun that damages onscreen enemies, but leaves the players unharmed. The remake gives one of these to all but three of its 19 playable characters, though some are special fighting techniques that don't actually involve summoning the police. The three that don't get one are {{spoiler|1=Mr. X, who taunts you for trying to call the police (he ''is'' a crime lord, after all) and both the ''Streets of Rage 2'' and ''Streets of Rage 3'' versions of Shiva, for whom the "police call" button simply does nothing}}.
* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: A lot of [[Mooks]] names are obviously misspelled. Galsia should be García, among other names. See also [[Theme Naming]] below. The third game fixes this.
* [[Spy From Weights and Measures|Spies From Weights And Measures]]: The various places owned by [[The Syndicate]]. The beginning of the Remake's plot consists of the Heroes raiding these for leads and evidence.
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* [[Third-Person Seductress]]: Blaze. She even ''winks'' at you on the character select screen in ''Streets of Rage 1''.
* [[Throw-Away Guns]]: In the remake the heroes can pickup guns (imported from the Capcom's ''[[Cadillacs and Dinosaurs]]'' arcade [[Beat'Em Up]]) which the heroes throw them in the Mooks faces when out of ammo.
* [[Timed Mission]]:
** While the clocks in the first two games tick rather slowly, you will lose a life if the clock runs out. The third game gets rid of the clock altogether, except for Stage 6 when attempting to save the Chief of Police (General Petrov in ''Bare Knuckle 3''); if the timer runs out, gas floods the building, and you later fight an alternate [[Final Boss]] and receive the game's [[Bad Ending]]. Version 5 of the fan remake included a final [[Timed Mission]] in one route, but the premise was far more simple. {{spoiler|After defeating Robo X, [[Collapsing Lair|escape the building in 3 minutes (timer varying depending on difficulty) or explode with it]]}}. If you {{spoiler|find the keycard, you battle Shiva as your final obstacle to freedom. The ending you get, however, depends on whether or not you disarmed the bomb before getting to him or not}}.
** The [[Final Boss]] battle in ''Streets of Rage 3'' is against the super-powered Robot-Y (or Neo X in ''Bare Knuckle 3''). You have to defeat it within three minutes to get the [[Multiple Endings|good ending]].
* [[Token Trio]]: Adam (black dude), Axel (white guy) and Blaze (token woman).
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* [[Washington DC]]: In ''Bare Knuckle 3'', this becomes the final stage if you fail to rescue General Petrov. In ''Streets of Rage 3'', it's poorly censored into being a town hall.
* [[Wasted Song]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3QFHe37vMM "Up and Up"] from the first game, a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZzT-daZzBI slower mix] of "In the Bar", another variant of "Go Straight" and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4uZOWJyRNA "Little Money Avenue"] in the 2nd, and, for the US version of the 3rd game, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXO05XB7KV0 "Kama de Coco"], all found in the sound test but never heard in the games proper. Version 4 of the remake had a remix of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UfZ_SWzB4A "Spin on the Bridge"] used in the dance club stage in place of a mix of the original song, which proved popular. When Version 5 came out, and they went with a remix of "Dance Club" instead for that same stage, they kept the "Spin on the Bridge" remix... as a song that plays in the twenty second cutscene following the bosses' defeat.
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: While both Shiva and Yamato escape after being defeated in the third game, there are no signs of them returning or even being mentioned after the plot is resolved
* [[Whip It Good]]: Electra and other dominatrix ladies.
* [[With This Herring]]: One of ''Streets of Rage 2'''s weapons is probably supposed to be a kunai, but it's much more fun to think of it as "the fish".
* [[Wrestler in All of Us]]: Axel, Blaze and Adam list their fighting styles as kickboxing, martial arts and judo, yet their rear throws consist of German suplexes and overhead belly-to-belly suplexes. Skate features some flying grapples ala Rey Mysterio, and Max is, [[Pro Wrestling Is Real|well]]... [[Justified Trope|a wrestler]].
* [[Yellow Brick Road]]: A variation takes place in the remake. Version 5 has you begin on one of four starting points, but all routes lead to Mr. X's headquarters... [[Multiple Endings|though not to the exact same ending]].
* [[Your Princess Is in Another Castle]]: ''All'' the games have at least seven levels. So, when you confront [[Big Bad|Mr. X]] in Stage 5, [[Spoiled by the Format|don't be surprised]] if it's not over ([[Easy Mode Mockery|and try not to snap your controller if you're playing Easy Mode...]]). Done a bit more convincingly on one route in the remake, which has a similar setup to the above in Stage 8. You might assume that you would get a neutral ending after the fight with Robo X, until he delivers his [[Final Speech]].
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