Curated playlist
Action film characters
- Captain SawadaCaptain Sawada was invented to keep a fired Ryu actor in the 1994 Street Fighter film.
- DhalsimDhalsim nearly had an elephant head in Street Fighter II. Capcom's designers modeled one draft on the Hindu god Ganesh.
- Leon S. KennedyLeon S. Kennedy is late for his first day of work, and the reason is a fight with his girlfriend. That detail comes from the manual of Resident Evil 2, the 1998 survival horror game from the Japanese company Capcom. Leon is a rookie police…
- Balrog (Street Fighter)Street Fighter's boxer Balrog is called M. Bison in Japan, where the M stands for Mike.
- Ryu (Street Fighter)A 2019 study found Street Fighter's Ryu would need to move nearly 70 miles per hour to land his spinning kick.
- Lara CroftIn 2009, the English city of Derby let its residents vote on a name for a new ring road, and the winner was Lara Croft Way. More than 27,000 votes were cast, and the name took 89 percent of them. The road opened in July 2010. Lara Croft is…
- Guile (Street Fighter)Guile has dictator M. Bison by the throat in Street Fighter II's ending. His wife's voice and his daughter stop him.
- Ken MastersDaigo Umehara's Street Fighter Ken blocked and countered fourteen straight hits with 26 seconds left.
- Vega (Street Fighter)Street Fighter II's Vega never removes his mask, and a Shakespeare character helped explain why.
- CammyCammy, the blonde British commando from Capcom's Street Fighter series, once won a fan vote by a margin that startled the company. In 2008, Capcom asked which character fans most wanted in Street Fighter IV. Cammy collected almost as many…
- Dee JayDee Jay, a Street Fighter character, was designed by an American. James Goddard based his name on the nickname DJames.