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{{quote|''"When you beat a man, they call you tough. When you beat an army they call you... '''[[Title Drop|The Street Fighter]]!'''"''|Tagline from the trailer}}

 

 

 

 

* [[Anti-Hero]]: [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes|Type V]]. Terry is a brutal and pitiless man. He's especially nasty in the beginning of the first film, where he sells a girl into slavery and kills her brother when they're not able to pay him for services rendered. He avoids [[Villain Protagonist]] territory by fighting against [[Yakuza]], whom he despises, and working to protect the good guys, even though he does so for his own reasons. He's more of a Type IV in ''The Streetfighter's Last Revenge''.

* [[Artistic License Martial Arts]]: Some of the moves in the movie can occasionally look pretty outlandish and improbable. It's especially jarring compare to Sonny Chiba's more realistic movies and the fact that he created the JAC/JAE later to promote realistic fighting techniques in Japanese movies and television shows.

** How Terry deals with the sister of the guy who couldn't afford to pay him after sending him out a window. Just in case we weren't aware that Terry is ''not'' a nice guy at all.

** The villains of ''Return of the Sister Streetfighter'' love to do this to Shurei and her relatives.

* [[Laser-Guided Karma]]: Appropriately enough, the laser-wielding Frankie Black gets this in the end, but not via his laser weaponry. He and Aya are directed to retrieve the [[MacGuffin]] at Aoidani Mortuary; Mr. Black starts looking for Terry to try to ambush him, to the point where he impatiently attacks the first person he encounters, believing him to be Terry. As Mr. Black realizes that the guy he attacked was a decoy, in comes Terry from [[Behind the Black]], taunting him: "Hey, Black... ''come on.''" The two fight in a deathmatch near a pair of twin retorts, and Terry gains the upper hand, burning Mr. Black to death to seal the deal.

* [[Lighter and Softer]]:

** ''Sister Streetfighter'' is not nearly as over the top violent, and the character is not the complete a-hole Terry Tsurugi was. Doesn't mean the uncut version wasn't rated X for violence like the main series was, though, and even ''The Streetfighter's Last Revenge'' lost less footage for its English-language release than this one did.

* [[Master of Disguise]]: In ''The Streetfighter's Last Revenge''. This works as well as you would think it does...

* [[Moral Event Horizon]]: The villains of ''Return of the Sister Streetfighter'' cross it by kidnapping Rika (Shurei's daughter) and using her as live bait with which to ensnare Tina Long. Ebikura proves himself even more sadistic when he leaves Kurosaki for dead and tries to take Tina and Rika down in the process, and the [[Big Bad]] crosses it by {{spoiler|killing Shurei, who protected Rika from a trio of bullets he had fired at them}}.

* [[Obfuscating Disability]]: {{spoiler|The [[Big Bad]] of ''Return of the Sister Streetfighter''}}.

* [[Precision F-Strike]]: In ''The Streetfighter's Last Revenge'', after Terry gets paid by the [[Yakuza]] in newspapers for delivering a tape to them and he lashes out at them:

* [[Pre-Mortem One-Liner]]: "You tell that bitch who sent you here how sorry I am I can no longer be her friend."

* [[Provoke Me Taunt]]: "Hey, Black... ''come on.''"

* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: {{spoiler|Ratnose}} in the first film. Subverted by {{spoiler|Kurosaki}} in ''Return of the Sister Streetfighter'' {{spoiler|(he was faking the dead in preparation for ambushing the [[Big Bad]], who had killed his father)}}.

* [[Special Effects Failure]]: In ''Return of the Streetfighter'', Terry hits a mook in the back of the head, knocking his eyes out. The effect is shown using a pair of googly eyes. Horrifying the first time, ''hilarious'' everytime after.

* [[Take That]]: Listen carefully when the guards take Terry to visit Junjo in his prison cell at the start of the first film, and you'll notice the English dub contains a snipe at the [[Bruce Lee]] clone phenomenon: "He thinks he's [[Bruce Lee]]."

* [[Tempting Fate]]: Aya in ''The Streetfighter's Last Revenge'':

* [[Traitor Shot]]: {{spoiler|Kurosaki gets one in ''Return of the Sister Streetfighter'' as the [[Big Bad]] kills Reika.}}

* [[Vasquez Always Dies]]: Pin Boke in ''Return of the Streetfighter'' and Huo Feng in ''The Streetfighter's Last Revenge''.

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