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  • Birdie (Street Fighter)Birdie first appeared in the original Street Fighter game released in 1987 as a non-playable opponent. He stood among multiple enemies that Ryu or Ken…
  • Ibuki (Street Fighter)Ibuki made her first appearance in Street Fighter III: New Generation in 1997, and the very ponytail she was given nearly broke the animation team.
  • Makoto (Street Fighter)Makoto is a Street Fighter character who made her debut in Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike in 1999, and she arrived not with fanfare but with a simple…
  • Sakura KasuganoAkira Yasuda sat at his desk in 1996, staring at a character design that the development team had already rejected. He felt the Street Fighter Alpha series…
  • Alex (Street Fighter)Alex, the primary protagonist of Street Fighter III: New Generation, arrived on the scene looking like nobody who had come before him in the franchise.
  • Captain SawadaCaptain Sawada was not supposed to exist. In 1994, when the Street Fighter film went into production, a Japanese martial artist named Kenya Sawada had…
  • Akuma (Street Fighter)Akuma, known in Japan as Gouki, is a fictional character from Capcom's Street Fighter series who first appeared not through an announcement or a trailer, but…
  • Gill (Street Fighter)Gill, the final boss of the Street Fighter III series, is a character built around an unusual contradiction. He wants to conquer the world, yet his designers…
  • Oro (Street Fighter)Oro is a fictional fighter in the Street Fighter series by Capcom, and he may be the strangest character ever designed for a competitive fighting game.
  • DhalsimIn 1988, Capcom sketched a character named Great Tiger for a potential Street Fighter sequel. This early concept featured a long-faced man wearing a turban…
  • Juri (Street Fighter)Juri Han arrived in Street Fighter in 2010, and she did not arrive quietly. The development team at Capcom cycled through 400 to 500 ideas before settling on…
  • Laura MatsudaLaura Matsuda made her debut in Street Fighter V, the 2016 entry in Capcom's long-running fighting game series. She was revealed at the Brasil Game Show on…
  • ZangiefZangief is a fictional character in Capcom's Street Fighter series. His final size traces to four words from producer Akira Nishitani: "Please make him much…
  • Balrog (Street Fighter)Balrog made his first appearance in Street Fighter II: The World Warrior in 1991, throwing punches for a criminal organization called Shadaloo.
  • Kimberly JacksonCapcom hired Black consultants to help design Kimberly Jackson for Street Fighter 6. The team wanted her to be an authentic representation of Black people…
  • Ryu (Street Fighter)Ryu, the protagonist of Capcom's Street Fighter series, has been the subject of an unusual piece of research. A 2019 study calculated that he would need to…
  • Sean MatsudaToshi Sadamoto stood before a deadline that threatened to derail Capcom's Street Fighter III: New Generation. The team had run out of time to finish the…
  • Elena (Street Fighter)In 1997, Capcom released Street Fighter III: New Generation with a new character named Elena. Akira Yasuda and Hiromi Kotobuki created her to be the first…
  • Guile (Street Fighter)Guile has Shadaloo's dictator, M. Bison, by the throat in the ending of the original Street Fighter II. He reminds Bison exactly who he murdered, ready to…
  • Ken MastersKen Masters had already spent years fighting in Capcom's Street Fighter series when a single defensive read turned him into a legend beyond the arcade.
  • Vega (Street Fighter)Akira Nishitani stood before a whiteboard in 1990 and drew a list of countries. He needed fighters from Spain and Thailand to complete the roster for Street…
  • R. MikaRainbow Mika, the blue-masked professional wrestler of Street Fighter Alpha 3, made her debut in 1998 wearing a leotard with heart cutouts and pigtail hair…
  • Seth (Street Fighter)Seth, the chief executive officer of the Shadaloo Intimidation Network, is one of video gaming's most contradictory villains.
  • CammyNoritaka Funamizu, Capcom's research and development head, felt the game needed another female character besides Chun-Li.
  • Chun-LiChun-Li walked into arcades in 1991 inside Street Fighter II: The World Warrior. She became the first playable female character in a fighting game to gain…
  • Dee JayDee Jay made his first appearance in 1993, bursting onto screens in Super Street Fighter II as one of just four new fighters added to the roster.
  • F.A.N.G. (Street Fighter)Capcom unveiled F.A.N.G in 2016 as one of sixteen playable characters for Street Fighter V. The character emerged from a development debate during the…
  • Necro (Street Fighter)Necro is a character from Capcom's Street Fighter fighting game series, and he arrived in 1997 carrying a contradiction at his core: a grotesque living…
  • Sagat (Street Fighter)Sagat towers over every other fighter in the original Street Fighter at 226 centimeters tall, bald, scarred, and wearing a black eyepatch.
  • Sodom (Final Fight)Sodom is a fictional character from Capcom's Final Fight and Street Fighter series, and he may be the most self-defeating figure in all of fighting game…