What makes the new Street Fighter IV "super," you ask? In case you haven't yet played Capcom's revamped fighter, it features many online multiplayer modes, an updated roster and better fighter balancing.

But as infomercial guru Ron Popeil says "But wait, there's more!" We spoke to Seth Killian, Capcom's "special advisor" on Super Street Fighter IV, to reveal five things you didn't know about the franchise, characters and new game on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

-- Dhalsim has a grudge against Balrog the boxer. In Dhalsim's original Street Fighter II background, you see six elephants trumpeting in the background. According to canon, the second elephant on the right is Dhalsim's pet elephant. The best friend of Dhalsim's pet elephant was killed by Balrog while he was practicing his "gigaton punch" technique, and the two have been sworn enemies ever since.

-- With his blonde hair and Californian love of convertibles, Ken is known as the all-American Street Fighter, but he's actually three-quarters Japanese. The blonde hair? He dyes it.

-- Hitting down, hard punch and hard kick in Super Street Fighter IVcauses Guile to bust out his mirrored aviator sunglasses that he took off in his pre-fight intro animation. Once they're on, he will wear them for the rest of the round. The move doesn't affect Guile's moves, but it adds a +10 to his awesome quotient.

-- The Final Fight and Street Fighter universes have a long-standing and mysterious connection. The game we now know as Final Fight was originally titled Street Fighter 89, and Street Fighter favorites Guy, Cody, Rolento, Sodom, Maki, and Hugo all made their first appearance in the Final Fight series. Chun Li and Guile both had cameos in Final Fight 2. A statue of Mike Haggar, mayor of Final Fight's Metro City, can be seen in the background of the Construction Area stage in Super Street Fighter IV, and one of Zangief's alternate costumes bears a striking resemblance to Haggar's outfit.

-- Ken is Guile's brother-in-law. Ken and Guile's wives (Eliza and Jane, respectively) are sisters!

By Marc Saltzman