The Street Fighter Plot Canon Guide Ver. 5.u Plot guide of all games that officially exist within the canon Street Fighter storyline, and how they fit into what has been officially confirmed as canon by Capcom of Japan. This FAQ was maintained by Tiamat, and now by vasili10. Please do not post it on other sites without permission, or claim credit for writing it, unless you're one of the people in the credits section of course. Credit is given to many of the people listed in the Special Thanks section, many of whom provided MUCH of the info that led this FAQ. If you're having trouble getting the guide to fully load, I find that clearing your temporary Internet files and then trying again sometimes works. The latest version of this guide can always be found on gamefaqs.com, where updates are submitted as progress continues. Thus check Gamefaqs before anywhere else as it's the only place guaranteed to have the newest version of the guide, via the following URL: http://www.gamefaqs.com/users/vasili10/contributions Disclaimer: As of this writing, vasili10 is not an employee of Capcom nor has he ever been one. Nor is he the one in charge of Street Fighter's storyline at Capcom HQ. The ramifications behind this and the guide should be self-explanatory. Slight language warning. This guide contains exerpts from various official statements, some of which have a little amount of profanity in them. I don't think even the Final Fight Streetwise statements get THAT gratuitous, though. About the worst that comes about is an older exerpt for M. Bison, and that's marked away with asterisks. This FAQ uses the original Japanese naming convention, with overseas names being secondary. Regarding the majority of information it takes into consideration, it goes by the original pre-localized authentic history as revealed by Capcom Japan. "Authentic history" or "seishi" in Japanese is what is considered the equivalent of the term "canon." With the previous paragraph taken into account, the guide when using the term "Capcom" (by itself, no "of" or region name attached to the end) is understood to refer to Capcom Japan aka CJ aka the parent corporation responsible for producing SF universe material prior to any localization actions. Capcom's American branch shall always be noted as such (Capcom of America, Capcom USA, CUSA and so forth), and due to English being the primary text base for other regions of the world, outside Japan, including Europe, Latin America, and the rest of Asia, all non-Japanese nomenclature references are herein dubbed as simply "overseas" references. What you will not find within this guide is a comprehensive list of differences from the overseas English-text based games and sources as compared to the original Japanese (that would take a whole other FAQ which would end up being around as big as this one). The guide's priority isn't doing that nor is it to badmouth localized results, but to provide what's correct, first and foremost, in accordance with the seishi creators. If readers would like to know more of how the sources and games themselves differ from English text to Japanese and vice versa, the maintainer welcomes questions, concerns and comments through his contact info listed at the end of this document, and will do his best to respond accordingly. Acronyms SFZ1 = Street Fighter Zero SFZ2 = Street Fighter Zero 2. SFZ2's storyline expands and overrides SFZ1. Capcom has stated as such. SFZ3 = Street Fighter Zero 3 SF1 = Street Fighter 1 SF2 = Street Fighter 2 and all its versions. Note that the latest version of SF2 (currently Super Street Fighter 2 X Revival) released by Capcom overrides all previous ones. 2I = Street Fighter 3 Second Impact. It expands and overrides Street Fighter 3 New Generation. 3S = Street Fighter 3 Third Strike. FF1 = Final Fight 1 FF2 = Final Fight 2 FFT = Final Fight Tough FFSW = Final Fight Streetwise MB = Muscle Bomber SMB = Super Muscle Bomber VSS = the commonly known "dolls" but more appropriately titled the Vega SS, the Vega Bodyguard Troops or the VSS for short throughout this guide (See the Shadaloo miscellaneous section for the reasoning why) Etc. etc. Etc. I'll probably use more acronyms but you should be able to figure them out. Contents: (use the Find feature Ctrl+F and plug in the page number then hit enter a few times or whatever to instantly warp to the listed page) pgI. Revision History pgII. Introduction and Opening Statement pgIII. Timeline and Canon Games pgIIIAboutMuscleBomber. pgIIIAboutPrivateJusticeAcademy. pgIIIAboutFinalFight. pgIIIFinalFight1989. pgIIIAboutCapcomClassicsCollection. pgIIIAboutFFR. pgIIIAboutFFSW. pgIIIAboutCaptainCommando. pgIIIAbsentGames. pgIIIVSGames. pgIIIAboutAnimeEtc. pgIIISFComic. pgIIIContinuity. pgIIIReleaseDates. pgIV. Quickie Game Summaries (Ctrl+F the page number to find that game) pgIVMBSMB. Muscle Bomber & Super Muscle Bomber pgIVSF1. Street Fighter 1 pgIVFF1. Final Fight 1 (Final Fight One) pgIVSFZ1. Street Fighter Zero 1 pgIVSFZ2. Street Fighter Zero 2 pgIVFF2. Final Fight 2 pgIVSFZ3. Street Fighter Zero 3 (latest version being Street Fighter Zero 3 Double Upper) pgIVFFT. Final Fight Tough pgIVSF2. Street Fighter 2 (Super Street Fighter 2 X Revival) pgIVSF4. Street Fighter 4 pgIVSSF4. Super Street Fighter 4 (including AE and Ultra) pgIVSF3. Street Fighter 3 New Generation/Second Impact pgIVSF3TS. Street Fighter 3 Third Strike pgIVFFSW. Final Fight Streetwise pgV.A-Z Major Characters List (Ctrl+F the page number to find that char) pgV2Ill. pgVAbel. pgVAbigail. pgVAdon. pgVAlekseyZalazof. pgVAlex. pgVAndore. pgVAstro. pgVBalrog. pgVBella. pgVBelger. pgVBirdie. pgVBlack. pgVBlackWidow. pgVBlades. pgVBlanka. pgVBratken. pgVCaine. pgVCallman. pgVCammy. pgVCarlos. pgVChang. pgVChunLi. pgVCody. pgVCViper. pgVDamnd. pgVDan. pgVDave. pgVDean. pgvDecapre. pgVDeeJay. pgVDhalsim. pgVDrake. pgVDudley. pgVEagle. pgVEdiE. pgVEHonda. pgVElena. pgVElFuerte. pgVElGado. pgVElStinger. pgVFeiLong. pgVFreak. pgVFreddie. pgVGeki. pgVGen. pgVGhost. pgVGill. pgVGouken. pgVGouki. pgVGuile. pgVGuy. pgVHaggar. pgVHakan. pgVHandsomeBob. pgVHarryHicks. pgVHugo. pgVIbuki. pgVIngrid. pgVJessica. pgVJoe. pgVJuli. pgVJuni. pgVJuri. pgVKarin. pgVKen. pgVKimalatheBouncer. pgVKyle. pgVLee. pgVLocksmith. pgVLou. pgVLucia. pgVLuckyColt. pgVMaki. pgVMakoto. pgVMike. pgVMBison. pgVMissingIQGomes. pgVMysteriousBudo. pgVNash. pgVNecro. pgVOni. pgVOro. pgVPaco. pgVPhillipe. pgVPoison. pgVQ. pgVRMika. pgVRemy. pgVRetsu. pgVRetu. pgVRipSaber. pgVRolento. pgVRose. pgVRufus. pgVRyu. pgVSagat. pgVSakura. pgVSnHRyu. pgVSean. pgVSgtSims. pgVSeth. pgVSheeptheRoyal. pgVSodom. pgVStiff. pgVStray. pgVTHawk. pgVTitantheGreat. pgVTwelve. pgVUrien. pgVVanessa. pgVVega. pgVVictorOrtega. pgVVitto. pgVWeasel. pgVWonWon. pgVWong. pgVWraith. pgVYang. pgVYun. pgVZangief. pgVI. Antagonistic Organizations (plus Metro City for FFSW purposes) pgVIMadGear. pgVIShadaloo. pgVISkullCrossGang. pgVIHMKS. (placeholder for the Secret Society aka Himitsu Kessha) pgVIMetroCity. pgVII. Miscellaneous Questions pgVIIDestroyPsychoDrive. pgVIISatsuiNoHadou. pgVIITournaments. pgVIIWinners. pgVIIReconciliation. pgVIISFBeauty. pgVIIStages. pgVIIVoiceActors. pgVIISF3Judges. pgVIISpecialMoves. pgVIIPowerTiers. pgVIIStoryWriters. pgVIIPronounce. pgVIIWutSources. pgVIITiamatJerk. pgVIINextSF. pgVIISFLicense. pgVIIRandom. pgVIII. Credits and Special Thanks and Author Contact Info pgVIIISources. pgVIIIArtCaptions. pgVIIIContact. ********************************** pgI. Revision History - Version 5.u additions: Ultra info included and updated, plus more tidying and sprucing. - Version 5.ae additions: AE info included and updated, plus some more usual cleaning and bookkeeping. - Version 5.0 additions: SSF4 coverage completed with the exception of any additional AE info, more bookkeeping as needed and noted. Construction sign on top finally lifted. - Version 4.9 additions: SF3 coverage completed, plus a few more bits of SSF4, and still more of the usual bookkeeping. - Version 4.8 additions: SFZ3 and entire Zero series plus SF2 coverage completed, a few more bits of SSF4 included, and as always more bookkeeping. - Version 4.7 additions: SF4 coverage completed, started on touching up Z3 battle summaries, Z3 updates to most of Z1's original 13-face cast, starting on preliminary SF4 rival battle summaries, tiny peeks at upcoming SSF4, and MUCH more bookkeeping n' stuff as before. - Version 4.6 additions: New SF4 character sections, Zero 2 battle summaries touched up, at least a little update for each SF2 and SFZ2 face as well as for Cody, Karin, and R. Mika, more bookkeeping here and there, like stated below, just stuff. - Version 4.5 additions: Maki isn't in love with Guy (far as we know, anyways). Misinterpreted the translation on that. Makoto's grandfather is still alive (you can see her brother and grandfather in her ending. Her grandpa's holding a photo of Masaru, Makoto's late father). The old man has tears in his eyes that the dojo can go on. ....Just stuff. Updating this guide takes long enough without listing all the revisions. On that note, Tiamat's removed previous revisions (but has them archived on his computer) because they were taking up too much space. ********************************** pgII. Introduction and Opening Statement The purpose of this FAQ is to give a coherent presentation of the storyline of Capcom's Street Fighter series, and all the many games that tie into it. This FAQ relies on official statements and confirmations from stuff that is canon, as well as using info from the games to determine stuff that is PROBABLY part of the official canon storyline. If I don't have a complete 100% assurance, even if it's only a slight bit of doubt on a bit of info, that bit of info shall be marked as such. Canon, for the purpose of this guide, is what is known as authentic history. Over the 20+ years of the saga's history, Capcom Japan has leaked piles upon piles of information about the SF universe which serve as the threads that bind the saga's chapters together, and unfortunately Capcom's overseas branches have often compromised these threads in both amount and genuinity. Contrary to what many people might think, more often than not, Capcom does take into account what's been previously written. As a result, flat-out rewrites are relatively few, and are pushed aside in favor of fleshing out or simply filling in previous blanks. Retcons or rewrites are usually placed on a last-resort basis, when there's no possibility for two or more elements to co-exist, in which the newer elements thoroughly replace the old. Hence, even accounts for a game like SFZ1 hold true as long as they don't conflict with anything written or stated later on. Finally, nothing is retconned out of existence simply because it's been forgotten or ignored. Ignorance fails to equal denial. Even though you don't read or hear about them much, minor characters such as Ojou-san, Mr. Marik of Shadaloo and Honda's brother still exist within the SF universe. SF canon has come about in two ways: either Capcom directly produces it and releases it publicly (usually through sourcebooks, magazines, guides, or interviews), or Capcom's inspired by selected elements within various media materials (most notably the SF2 Animated Movie and selected mangas produced by Nakahira Masahiko-sensei) and incorporates them into their established authentic history. One point to note, is that for canon established by Capcom's inspiration, the material as a whole is never established as canon, only bits and pieces of it are. Hence for example, Kanzuki Karin is a member of the SF universe, but the manga she came from, Sakura Ganbaru!, still stands alone from the SF saga's continuity. A final note on this, Udon has yet to inspire Capcom with any elements of its comics as opposed to Nakahira-sensei's manga which continues to do so as recently as with SF4 and SSF4 alike. Nonetheless, Capcom has been known to retroactively change their storylines and established canon. Due to this, if you see something in an older game and there's a new version of it in a newer game that obviously conflicts, take the new version and forget the old. This FAQ goes by the latest, most up-to-date version of the storyline which is the currently authentic one, and it shall continue to try to keep up to date. However, I shall try to mention times when Capcom has retroactively changed already-established parts of the storyline. Capcom's also not without a sense of humor as well, even within their own publications. Fortunately most cases such as these will have them stating things like "this page is all a lie!", especially for their flyers illustrating what seem to be genuine facts, but are written in tabloid formats, complete with impossible street dates like June 66 or Feb. 31. Oh, THERE ARE NO ANIMES, MANGAS, MOVIES, COMIC BOOKS, OR GRAPHIC NOVELS THAT OFFICIALLY ARE PART OF THE CANON. Not anymore anyway. One exception to this was a short SF1 manga released by Capcom itself. It's been null and void since the Zero series was released. With the most recent additions to the saga from SF4 and SSF4 with its AE and Ultra exapansions, only the animated openings and endings qualify for seishi status at this point. Excluded are the four promotion trailers featuring Ryu, Chun-Li, Sakura, and C. Viper respectively, as well as the new anime Newly Become Bonds aka The Ties That Bind. SSF4's XBOX360-exclusive original animation featuring Juri is also currently excluded from seishi status. Of course, even then, you have to remember that a significant amount of endings in the games don't happen. This is usually true for all fighting game series. There are many endings that are just filler because the company couldn't think of anything else, while there are many that can probably be assumed to be canon depending on what happens in them and many more which the company has stated actually did officially happen, whether it was certain bits and pieces or in their entirety. The most significant example of such cases was the multitudes of outcomes in Street Fighter Zero 3. The SF Eternal translated version is influenced by Capcom of America (Confirmed by Erik Ko of Studio Udon). So expect Vega to be M. Bison, M. Bison to be Balrog, and Balrog to be Vega, ansatsuken to be Shotokan (since that's what Udon had to use for the comic), and more. The recently released Street Fighter World Warrior Encyclopedia is a hodgepodge of seishi, overseas bits, and Udon's own input (as if the overseas editions of the games themselves weren't divergent enough), making it a SF reference book according to Udon first and foremost, despite any and all claims that it's any kind of authoritative source in accordance with Capcom Japan's seishi. ********************************** pgIII. Timeline and Canon Games This is the order that the games within the Street Fighter plot's universe takes place. The majority of these dates are official statements. Muscle Bomber/Duo (1981, probably, going by Haggar's age) Super Muscle Bomber (1982, probably. Ditto) Street Fighter & Final Fight 1 (1987. FF1 stated to take place after SF1.) Final Fight 2/Street Fighter Zero 1&2 (late 1987 thru early 1989: Guy wasn't in FF2 because he was training, FF2 took place 1 year after FF1) Street Fighter Zero 3 (1989 thru early 1990. Double Upper is the latest version, Cammy ages from 15 to 16 by the time the psycho drive's destroyed) Final Fight Tough (1991 is most likely) Street Fighter 2 (1993. X Revival is the latest version) Street Fighter 4 (1994, one year after SF2) Super Street Fighter 4 (late 1994 to early 1995, Ultra SF4 is the latest version) Street Fighter 3 New Generation and SF3 Second Impact (1998. Second Impact replaces and expands on New Generation) Street Fighter 3 Third Strike (1999. This is SF3's epilogue) Final Fight Streetwise (2006 going by release date. Lots of evidence that it takes place waaaaaay after Final Fight 1, and the urban culture is likely intended to be based around this date as well.) pgIIIAboutMuscleBomber. About Muscle Bomber's place in the timeline: Annoyingly, Haggar being 'ex-mayor' during those games was made up by Capcom of USA, if even that much. All About Capcom states that Haggar was in the middle of elections during Muscle Bomber. Heck, even Haggar's profile in the Super Nintendo Final Fight 1 instruction book for the US states that he left wrestling to become the mayor. As for Hugo's Street Fighter 3 Second Impact ending with the CWA, those are definitely just joke endings that never happened (he doesn't have any tag team partners in Third Strike nor does his Third Strike storyline indicate that his endings could have happened in any way) and not meant to be taken seriously. Haggar's appearance as a wrestler in those endings is most likely just an Easter egg. If they aren't just Easter eggs, that's fine too and doesn't contradict because it's wholly possible that Haggar has decided to go back to wrestling since then because his tenure as mayor ended two years after SFZ3 according to All About Capcom. Capcom hasn't stated it either way though (though I myself am pretty sure it's just Easter egg appearances). Even with that, however, the Muscle Bomber games themselves definitely took place before Final Fight 1 as stated by All About Capcom. Streetwise has an election poster in Haggar's gym that places Haggar's elections (and thus SMB) at 1982. Other sources say Haggar was elected 5 years before Final Fight One, which, if you go by FF1's retconned date of 1987, is 1982 as well. Oh, and Haggar being "newly elected mayor of Metro City" in Final Fight was something Capcom of America added. He's just "mayor of Metro City" in the Japanese version. pgIIIAboutPrivateJusticeAcademy. About the Private Justice Academy/Rival Schools Series Due to Sakura having been redesigned for the series with a different blood type than in the Zero series, not to mention the game's prologue listing it taking place in 199X, the series has no place within the SF universe, if it ever did at any point. With respect to Sakura, since her ending has her yet to meet with Ryu after her initial glimpse of "that person" with the white headband, the series is treated as the following what-if: after seeing Ryu initially, Sakura went on to Tamagawa High School and became friends with Hinata and Natsu, rather than Kei and later Karin. pgIIIAboutFinalFight. About when Capcom decided to have Final Fight take place within the SF canon: Contrary to what some believe, it was NOT Street Fighter Zero that made Final Fight part of the Street Fighter universe and canon. Final Fight has officially existed within the Street Fighter canon storyline universe as early as when Street Fighter 2 was first released, and possibly earlier than that, due to the game initially billed as Street Fighter '89. Guile's and Bay Area's dogs were declared to be pals within the storyline ever since Street Fighter 2 existed. It was just that the Zero series had the first Street Fighter games with Final Fight characters directly involved, but the Final Fight series still officially existed within the Street Fighter universe before Zero was made. pgIIIFinalFight1989. Why does Final Fight 1's intro state it took place sometime during 1989? Capcom went by the release date for Final Fight's date of occurrence. They would do this with Final Fight 2 later on. Before Zero 2 came out, the SF universe timeline went according to game release dates for games prior to SFZ. SF1 happened in 1987, FF happened in 1989, SFZ events went clear into 1990 where Z3 is today, and SF2 in 1991. Entering into SFZ, Guy is already proclaimed the 39th bushinryu master, so he's already had his fight to the death with Zeku; aka the game's not about his training to become the 39th, he already is, just like if you enter SFZ3 as him. The real-time year in the real world was 1995 at this time. Next real-time year 1996, SFZ2 comes out. Now Capcom decided to have Guy still training to become the 39th, and he meets Zeku at the end of the game, Guy's ending, to then engage the fight to the death. Back to the SF universe timeline: with Zero 2 events beginning in late 1987-early 1988, now FF is backed up to 1987 because both FF and SF1 still occur prior to SFZ2 as before with SFZ, and consequently FF2 backs up to where SFZ2 is as well, to account for Guy's absence in FF2. Street Fighter's dates take priority over Final Fight's due to FF being the subset of the larger SF universe. Final Fight Streetwise's election date of 1982 for Haggar places Final Fight One at the year 1987, anyways (official statements are that he became mayor 5 years before Final Fight One. Also, his official ages for Final Fight One and Super Muscle Bomber are 5 years apart, and he was in elections during the Muscle Bomber series.) Although Capcom of Japan had initially set as equally official birthdates and ages for the Final Fight cast, they may have eventually veered towards the latter. For Haggar in AAC, his FF1 profile is listed minus his birthdate and age (same for Guy & Cody), but he's declared to be 41 years old in Super Muscle Bomber. Also, even though Guy's Z3 game intro doesn't mention Metro City's peaceful due to Mad Gear's defeat, Haggar's AAC Z3 entry does; it calls him the one who crushed Mad Gear one year previous, and as Zero 3 opens, due to Shadaloo's doing, Metro City begins to experience unrest yet again. The unrest may be including Cody's jailbreak. Whether Shadoloo's operatives include the Skull Cross Gang or some other unnamed group or individuals is not known for sure. Haggar has a Z3 entry in AAC; it's where we learn that his term will end two years later. It's assumed that because it doesn't mention Cody or Guy, it refers to the final Mad Gear crush during FF2 and the scattered remnants in Metro City during SFZ2, in which Cody and Guy didn't partake. pgIIIAboutCapcomClassicsCollection. Some bios are unlockable for Final Fight characters in Capcom Classics Collection. This is relevant to Poison being a guy (finally stated in English). Here's what the translator David Sirlin said about their authenticity: "We did not touch any of the text for the character bios. It was written (or maybe gotten from old archives) by Capcom. It took a long time for Capcom to even give us text because they needed a bunch of approvals for it, probably from Capcom Japan. So it's pretty accurate, but you never know when a company is rewriting history with their story. Bottom line, it's a pretty trustworthy source, but you never know. --Sirlin." pgIIIAboutFFR. About Final Fight Revenge. Final Fight Revenge was made by Capcom USA before it obtained the rights to SF, and thus has no ties to the authentic SF universe. pgIIIAboutFFSW. About Final Fight Streetwise. Made by the same team as Final Fight Revenge. This time, the team had "free reign", although Capcom of Japan still had final word, thus the new material it introduced is authentic, not that it significantly matters since it takes place considerably long after any other canonized game in the saga. Capcom of America owned the Street Fighter License by this time, and shortly after FF:SW was released, the American Studio that developed it (and Maximo), Capcom Studio 8, was closed down. R.I.P., Final Fight. Your end came much later than the Private Justice Academy series and didn't have as blatantly open a plot left (ditto for Darkstalkers, come to think about it), but it also ended on what many will see as a much more sour note. For what it's worth, some press releases etc. began with "taking place within the Final Fight universe" for Final Fight Streetwise. pgIIIAboutCaptainCommando. About Captain Commando. It's uncertain if CC ties into Final Fight and the SF universe through Sho a distant successor to bushinryu ninpou, and the game's 2026 setting in Metro City IF such evidence can be tracked down anywhere. pgIIIAbsentGames. Any other games/series/movies/anime that are canon within the Street Fighter universe? Not at this time. This includes SF4 Newly Become Bonds/The Ties That Bind and the four original anime trailers for SF4 featuring Ryu, Chun-Li, Sakura, and C. Viper chronologically, as well as the XBOX360-exclusive Juri anime. pgIIIVSGames. About VS crossover games (X-Men VS Street Fighter, for example). A not overly important but still notable side note: While the plots of the VS games are all what-if, generally the characterizations (IE, personalities) within them usually aren't for the most part. Generally speaking, Capcom apparently uses the VS games to show character traits that are official, even if the storylines aren't. Sometimes they'll go back on it, but it only happens VERY rarely (Cammy in X-Men vs Street Fighter is the only big one that I can think of where a character in a VS game truly acts OOC, and that's because that game came out before Capcom had fully fleshed out where they wanted to go with Shadaloo Cammy, it seems). Though also bear in mind that these characterizations are generally meant to REINFORCE character traits from the canon, not NEWLY ESTABLISH new ones (again, the Cammy example failed to establish Cammy's personality). This doesn't seem to really apply to Pocket Fighter that much, but that's because Pocket Fighter is a joke up-beat goof-off type of game, so of course character personalities will be made to be a bit more light-hearted and such than usual. Character endings in VS games may offer clues onto what endings actually happened in the canon games, as well, and where characters may be after their tenure in the canon has generally ended. Ditto for character quotes. However, any material within crossover titles is subject to question if it stands alone without any support from canonical titles and the like. pgIIIAboutAnimeEtc. There has yet to be an officially endorsed manga or anime storyline for Street Fighter, also, so you can't take any of those for canon (This includes the SFZ animes, the SF2 animated movie even though that officially was what inspired the SFZ series, Sakura Ganbaru! even though that officially inspired quite a few things in SFZ3, the oh so wonderful perfection piece of art known as the SF2 Live Action Movie, etc). Please let me repeat. THERE ARE NO OFFICIAL ANIME SERIES OR GRAPHIC NOVELS OR MANGAS OR MOVIES THAT COUNT TOWARDS THE STREET FIGHTER STORYLINE CANON, The only officially endorsed storyline info for Street Fighter is from sources that got their information directly from Capcom, or from Capcom itself. All About Capcom is the most well-known and biggest of these. Note that overseas official strategy guides generally don't get their storyline info directly from the company (their purpose is game strategies, not game storylines) so they don't really count either. There is evidence however, that the creator of Sakura Ganbaru! worked very closely with Capcom during SFZ3's development to the point where he used lots of stuff that's canon for the manga, and Capcom decided to make lots (but definitely not all) of the stuff from that manga to be canon. Of course, since the creator of Sakura Ganbaru! is also Karin's creator, much of what he created for her typically ends up being canon for her in the canon storyline as well. Ditto for certain bits of Ryu Final as revealed in the accounts of SF4. These mangas and animes have their own alternate universes that they follow. The alternate universality becomes quite apparent in many cases. With SF4, the 25 animated opening and ending clips found in the console versions of the game are the only SF anime which currently qualify for seishi status. The openings are more likely to be regarded as canon than the endings of course. More on these with each SF4 character's section. Ditto for SSF4AE but with 39 pairs of clips, and Ultra with 44 pairs. pgIIISFComic. The Street Fighter comic is not canon to the authentic history compiled in this guide. Udon employees even said so. The storyline is checked over by Capcom of Japan and approved, but that doesn't mean it's canon. It just means that Capcom of Japan wants to make sure Udon isn't butchering their characters etc etc. It's a good comic, though, I feel, and there are many details in it where Udon (the comic's creators) ask for details from Capcom regarding various things. The creators and writers are more interested in keeping close to the spirit of Street Fighter than the canon of it, since the latter could be hard to do and also inflexible in a comic, so the comic isn't exactly a good source of canon. They also stated that they had to go by overseas names, including Shotokan instead of ansatsuken for Ryu's fighting style. Finally, Nash is named Charlie Nash in the comic because they decided that was basically the best way to please both people who preferred Charlie and people who preferred Nash. His name in the actual canon still isn't Charlie Nash, though. The comic I think is really good, a great read, and I love the art, but just to stave off any possible feature e-mails, I need to say that ANYTHING in the comic which seems off from the canon probably means it really is indeed a liberty the writers took. I still recommend it, though, because it's pretty cool and has nice art. All the above applies to Udon's comic spin-offs to their main SF comic as well, including SF Legends and the SFIV comic series. SSF2T HD Remix being a joint product by Udon, Backbone Entertainment and endorsed by Capcom USA does not override Revival endings and scripts. It's viewed as ultimately Udon's take on the SF2 outcomes, inspired by their comic series. Moreover, SF4 actually overrides HD Remix's displayed endings. pgIIIContinuity. HEY! Udoneko said that Capcom told them the games weren't connected and are meant to be in their own separate universes! The operative word here is "games": the sessions that you and I play, the matches that we have together. Those are the separate universes, the multitude of what-if possibilities we can witness within the constraints of the game's engine and programming. The guide's not concerned with that. Rather, it records authentic history, what has happened and is set in stone, unless Capcom exercises its power to change it, which it has of course. pgIIIReleaseDates. Capcom's release schedule of certain selected games. This helps explain some storyline changes that Capcom had to retroactively make (like why Cammy acts so different in X-Men vs Street Fighter compared to SFZ3). Remember, this is the release date schedule, and not the dates in which these games (where applicable) occurred in the canon storyline. Street Fighter (1987) Final Fight (1989) Captain Commando (1990) Street Fighter 2 (1991) Street Fighter 2 Dash/CE (1992) Street Fighter 2 Dash Turbo/Hyper Fighting (1992) Final Fight 2 (1993) Super Street Fighter 2 (1993) Super Street Fighter 2 X/Turbo (1994. The latest version of SF2 for quite a while) Vampire/Darkstalkers (1994) Super Muscle Bomber (1994. Alias Slammasters) Vampire Hunter/Nightwarriors Darkstalkers Revenge (1995) Street Fighter Zero/Alpha 1 (1995. A rush job. Street Fighter Zero/Alpha 2 would replace it with what SFZ1 was meant to be) Final Fight Tough/3 (1995. The beat-em up genre was dying by now) Street Fighter Zero/Alpha 2 (1996) Street Fighter Zero 2 Dash/Alpha 2 Gold (1996. This adds in Shadaloo Cammy but she doesn't have a storyline until the release of Fighter's Generation/Alpha Anthology) X-Men vs Street Fighter (1996. Shadaloo Cammy's noncanon debut where she actually has a storyline. She would change significantly by the time of her canon one) Street Fighter EX (1996) Street Fighter 3 New Generation (1997. like SFZ1, this was a rush job) Street Fighter EX + (1997) Vampire Savior/Darkstalkers 3 (1997) Pocket Fighter/Super Gem Fighter Mini Mix (1997) Street Fighter 3 Second Impact (1997) Private Justice Academy/Rival Schools (1997) Street Fighter EX 2 (1997) Street Fighter Zero/Alpha 3 (1998. Capcom shocks Cammy fans with Cammy's official Shadaloo story, to the point where most people can't believe it to be true, though hints existed ever since 4 years prior in printed text) Street Fighter 3 Third Strike (1999) Street Fighter EX2 + (1999) Final Fight Revenge (1999) Capcom vs SNK (2000) Final Fight One (2001. For Gameboy Advance. Updates FF1's storyline) Private Justice Academy/Rival Schools 2 (2001) Super Street Fighter 2 X/Turbo Revival (2001. Gameboy Advance. FINALLY updates Street Fighter 2's storyline to help reconcile it with the Zero series) Capcom vs SNK 2 (2001. Which would prepare 3 new characters to add to SFZ3 Upper) Street Fighter Zero/Alpha 3 Upper/Advance (2002. Gameboy Advance.) Street Fighter Zero/Alpha 3 Double Upper/MAX (2006. Playstation Portable) Final Fight: Streetwise (2006) Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo HD Remix (2008, PS3 & XBOX360 online) Street Fighter 4 (2008, console and PC release in 2009) Super Street Fighter 4 (2010 for consoles, Arcade Edition slated for release by the end of the same year and console/PC versions made available by the second half of 2011) Ultra Street Fighter 4 (2014 for consoles and PC alike, latest version of SSF4 which adds 5 more characters to SSF4's playable roster) The SFZ3 Upper port for the Gameboy Advance was ported to the GBA by Crawfish. What little storyline there was expanded in the PSP's version Zero 3 Double Upper. Street Fighter EX was made and developed by Arika. Ditto for the SF EX exclusive characters, whom are copyright to Arika and not to Capcom. ********************************** PGIV. Quickie Game Summaries ********************************** pgIVMBSMB. MUSCLE BOMBER/DUO: THE BODY EXPLOSION & SUPER MUSCLE BOMBER: THE INTERNATIONAL BLOWOUT (SATURDAY NIGHT SLAMMASTERS 1 and 2 overseas) Canon date: 1981 to 1982? Since Haggar was in the middle of elections, and 40 during MB then 46 during Final Fight 1, which is during 1987. SMB takes place a year after MB, by the way. Of course, the way Final Fight's canon dates are botched with the release dates or so in Capcom's mind sometimes, maybe MB took place in 1983 instead. Haggar is stated to be 50 during Final Fight 2, which of course would put MB into the 70's, but that age doesn't make that much sense since it sets FF2 too far into the future which would conflict with SFZ2. That age is likely the result of FF2's release date as opposed to canon date considerations. This seems to be something Capcom often did for the Final Fight games despite how much it didn't fit and contradicted other statements. Or it could be because those dates were set before the SF Zero series came along, forcing a reconciliation. ...anyways, All About Capcom says that SMB was during elections, and Final Fight Streetwise has a poster that shows that elections for Haggar were during 1982, so 1982 for SMB (and thus 1981 for MB) should be it. Gameplay: MB is a wrestling game. Its sequel is more like a 2D fighting game, which is too bad, since there are plenty of other 2D fighting games out there already. The storyline explanation is that Astro proposed new rules of win by KO instead of win by count. Story: The 1980’s. During the unprecedented professional wrestling boom, many professional wrestling organizations were started all over the world. A severe rivalry existed among the organizations. In order to resolve this conflict, 8 organizations combined to form the CWA, led by Victor Ortega, the CWA’s founder and first champion. One day, Ortega suddenly vanished. Ortega was basically the glue that held everything together and his unexpected disappearance caused the CWA to enter an age of confusion and disorder. The BWA, an illegal underground wrestling organization, chose to take advantage of this opportunity and began moving. With "Fighters of Muscle Bomber = Destiny" as the theme, the CWA chief executives decided to organize/hold a world tour called the “crash carnival,” to decide the new king of the CWA. The gong that determines the new “Master of Muscle Bomber” is sounded... Super Muscle Bomber Story: As the meeting of next fighting series "International Blowout" stepped into a steady countdown one day, suddenly the BWA's leader Astro proposed a new rule, furthermore the CWA's fight didn't go beyond having provoked a circus show. The new rule, that is with the regulation of employing 3 normal wins by knockout, not counted outside the premises, there are no so-called rope escapes as a pro wrestling guideline was the unusual rule. Naturally, every CWA wrestler fiercely opposed both the organization when the dangerous atmosphere began to flow at that time, as unexpectedly now who had been missing, that legendary Master of Muscle Bomber, Victor Ortega revealed his appearance! From the fact that Ortega is likely at that spot Astro's indicated rule was approved, moreover it was alright until it was declared to wager the Master of Muscle Bomber's champion belt. Really where are his true motives? Also why unexpectedly everyone from before revealed their appearances? Mystery calling out to mystery, anyone can come to realize the reason for his aims. While there are seemingly growing signs of grand commotion, the International Blowout is finally held. ...And so now, the new challengers each with expectations concealed in their chests, now, in the role of the secret belt to be earned. Muscle Bomber was about pro-wrestling for the Capcom Wrestling Association championship (Heh. Capcom Wrestling Association. Can you tell that Capcom wasn't really serious about storylines when they made this game so long ago?) and the champion is the mysterious Astro. Unlike Private Justice Academy though, at least it's confirmed that Capcom does consider Muscle Bomber to be part of the Street Fighter universe canon, being Final Fight's prequel and all. At any rate, the game didn't really have any character specific endings, and I don't think Capcom really cares who won the first Muscle Bomber Championship, either. At the end of the game (the ending is pretty much the same for every character, with only slight alterations in the text), the winner rambles about how he is the champion, then is approached by three guys (Victor Ortega, Rip Saber, and I forget the third) who declare that they don't think he's so tough, and the fight to defend the championship continues. However, if you beat the game without continues, only Victor Ortega comes out saying that he's coming out of retirement to challenge you. Different characters say different things (most act disrespectful except for Haggar and Titan the Great). This is what leads to the sequel... Super Muscle Bomber is the sequel where all the wrestlers of the Capcom Wrestling Association gather once again to wrestle for the championship, but this time the Blood Wrestling Association has joined in to show the CWA who's boss. Victor Ortega, the previous Muscle Bomber champion as well as owner of the CWA had left because he couldn't find anyone strong enough to give him a decent challenge. Now he's back, and is the guy to beat to earn the championship. Like Muscle Bomber, though, the game didn't have any big deviations from character endings to character endings, so again, it's unknown and probably nonexistant who finally won the Muscle Bomber Championship. Another SMB intro account, incorporating Aleksey's thoughts: The last time which the "Heat Up Scramble" ruler was decided to be carried out the statement released was "there is no need for two rulers," deep in the wrestlers' breasts. The ruler would through severe training finally grip the seat of glory, so that he would be seen lying in the center stage supreme summit of constant spotlight, while revolving offstage, no comparison to the uneasy shrouding darkness, the defeating matter to crush was the pressure that had become even though the ruler must bear the isolation together with the held dignity. "Why Ortega disappeared before everyone, there's now become a hunch." Zalazof was muttering. "Since Ortega's disappearance there have been a lot of post-in-name-only's for Master of Muscle Bomber. This lineage bears the throne's held dignity, forging the body as well as, that which exceeds the forged thing drawn out from the heart is likely not unnecessary right? It doesn't mean that I'm satisfied with my self right now. Eh, but..." Just at that moment, Astro was gasping a feeling of despair. As the BWA's commander he would bring in treachery to restore under the umbrella of the CWA but, with the hot souls of the CWA wrestlers he proceeded to preach with a completely chilled heart. "Kh, we'll have good bouts with those CWA small fries, and it'll influence my diginity as proclaimed sovereign emperor of darkness. Already there are two uses to untie the seals on sure killing moves, to obtain the Master of Muscle Bomber belt, to leave the place in small pieces. The entire world won't leave to gaze before it!" ********************************** pgIVSF1. STREET FIGHTER Canon Date: 1987 Gameplay: Street Fighter 1 was Capcom's first one-on-one fighting game. The only character you could play as was Ryu, though. And the second player could play as Ken in VS matches. Street Fighter Story from SF1 arcade pamphlet Having studied various fighting techniques from the time they were young, "Ryu" and "Ken" two youthful talented fighting stylists finally established characteristic fighting styles. Both of them being rivals, they participate in aiming for the peak of the realm of fighting moves, beginning a trip for the fight of the world. Boasting to street fighters of all countries as opponents with moves of ultra-top-grade power, will the name of "strongest man in the world" go to the hands of "Ryu"?, or to those of "Ken"!? ****************************************************************************** Highlights: -both Ryu and Ken are noted to be talented fighters to be studying under their master when they were introduced for the first time, as Sakura would be labeled as a prodigy 9 years later in SFZ2. The first Street Fighter tournament was held and hosted by Muay Thai emperor Sagat. Apparently not happy with being just the peak of Muay Thai, Sagat wanted to prove that he was King of the Hill over everyone, it seemed. Contrary to popular fancanon, Shadaloo officially had NOTHING to do with Street Fighter 1. The main character of Street Fighter 1 is Ryu, a prospective student under ansatsuken master Gouken who's entire life was the fight. Hearing about the Street Fighter tournament, he eagerly signs up to test his mettle. Note from documentations: Ryu's only confirmed to have fought Sagat and Adon during SF1, no one else you go up against in the game. This was carried forward and expanded in the Zero series, such as Zero 3 when Ryu and Gen speak as if they've never met before. It's no doubt however, that all the rest of the fighters entered to dethrone Sagat, as even the old SF1 arcade pamphlet lists if the fighter fights for training, for pride, for sport, etc. All we know is that Ryu won at the end. Ryu finally defeated Sagat with a cheap deus ex machina shot (no wonder why Sagat's so pissed off at him for a while). Ryu was down on the ground after having been pummelled by Sagat, then Sagat reached out to take his hand, knowing that he had won, but Ryu was so obsessed with winning that satsui no hadou overtook him and he ripped through Sagat's chest with his metsu shoryuken, becoming SnH Ryu for a split moment there. This is an official statement, and a retroactive change by Capcom entering the Zero series, considering that it wasn't until one of the later versions of Street Fighter 2 that satsui no hadou even freaking EXISTED as a concept within Capcom's writers' minds, however a theme of murderous intent did from various manga that inspired CJ for SF2. At any rate, you can also see this in SnH Ryu's ending in SFZ3. While SnH Ryu in SFZ3 is a what-if character, he temporarily flashbacks about his fight with Sagat in SF1, which is NOT a what-if occurrence (obviously). And you know it's his fight with Sagat in SF1 and not his midboss fight with Sagat in SFZ3 because the post-fight dialogue didn't have Sagat acting like his chest just got ripped through with SnH Ryu's metsu shoryuken. You can also see this in Ryu's SFZ2 plotline in general (he's seeking out Gouki to find out more about the satsui no hadou because he doesn't know what exactly overtakes him in defeating Sagat). Again, though, it's official statement. When Ryu, now the first World Fighting Championship's "victor," finally got back from the Street Fighter 1 tournament, he wanted to ask Gouken what happened to him. However, he found Gouken killed as well as his daughter missing (Author note: Gouken having a daughter is a fact that Capcom seems to have forgotten about by now and thus may never resurface. You can only find out about his daughter in REALLY old Street Fighter official sources). Ken, however, had seen the end of the battle that happened. It was Gouki, Gouken's brother, that killed Gouken. Sensing Gouki's ki, Ryu then embarked on a journey to find Gouki (because Ryu still needs to find out what happened to himself when he beat Sagat). ********************************** pgIVFF1. FINAL FIGHT 1 Canon Date: 1987, likely during between 09/03/1987 and 12/31/1987, going by officially stated ages and birthdates for Haggar, Guy, and Cody (and then taking into account the 2-year retcon). Which, oddly enough, would be during Winter. Brrrrrr! Final Fight being retconned to 1987 is sorta confirmed in Streetwise via a poster in Haggar's gym that says "Vote Haggar for mayor in 1982!". Official statements are that Haggar became mayor 5 years before Final Fight 1, and also using Haggar's stated ages during FF1 and Muscle Bomber to calculate Muscle Bomber's (which was during elections) date places Final Fight 1 at 1987 as well. There is unused dialogue in Streetwise (IE, doesn't appear in-game, but is on the disc) where a NPC says "Remember when Guy and Haggar and Cody cleaned up this neighborhood back in '89? That was awesome." However, this dialogue didn't make it into the final game. Did they cut it because they realized it was wrong or because they didn't want to address whether the date was retconned or not? Something we'll probably never know. Gameplay: Final Fight 1 is a brawling beat-em up game, and widely considered to be the one that kicked off the genre (a genre which now seems to have passed away). Basically, you choose a character then go from stage to stage beating up all bad guys who stand in your way until you get to the last stage and beat the last boss. Story: Metro City is a crime filled cesspool, where the powerful Mad Gear gang, ruled by Belger, basically does whatever they want. The previous mayor was too scared to take them on and oppose them, but former pro-wrestler and now mayor, Mike Haggar, has vowed to stop them. In retaliation to this, his daughter Jessica is kidnapped by Mad Gear and they attempt to blackmail him into letting them do whatever they want just like the previous mayor. Haggar, unable to act as mayor, takes it personally to the streets along with Jessica's boyfriend, Cody, and Guy, a bushinryu modern day ninja. The way of bushin decrees that he fight against evil like Mad Gear, despite how he doesn't even know Jessica. Guy, Cody, and Haggar kick some ass and finally, Cody sends Belger flying out of his skyscraper window and plumetting to his death. After hugging her father, Jessica sees that Guy and Cody have already left. She tries to catch up to them and calls out Cody's name, but Cody doesn't stop for her. Guy (realizing how rude Cody was being, most likely. It couldn't

be because he liked Jessica because Guy never even knew Jessica prior) forces him to stop though with a quick couple of punches followed by kicking him to the ground, and then Guy leaves to let Cody be alone with Jessica. A note: The latest version of Final Fight 1, Final Fight One, for the Gameboy Advance, actually has dialogues for each boss for each character. In addition, you can play as SFZ3 sprite versions of Cody and Guy, who really ARE Guy and Cody from SFZ3 teleported back to the past in a fit of Easter egg ridiculousness. Zero Guy and Zero Cody are definitely just Easter egg storylines, and probably never actually WERE teleported to the past, and you can tell by the sillyness of their dialogues that Capcom was goofing around and just having fun. However, Zero Cody and Zero Guy DO give good insights into what happened in the canon for regular Cody and regular Guy. For example, in Zero Cody's fight with Rolento, Zero Cody reminisces about how in the past, he never went to the industrial section and went to the bay area right after beating Edi. E. This confirms that in the actual canon, regular Cody beat Edi. E then skipped past the industrial section to the bay area in the actual official story, because Zero Cody is remembering that as what happened to him in his past back when he was just his younger Cody self during the actual time FF1 occurred. Of course the real Cody going through Final Fight DID happen, so it's assumed that Zero Cody wasn't lying when he talked about that past and that that past is what actually happened in the canon storyline. Anyway, I transcribed the dialogue, which, like many other dialogue FAQs for various Street Fighter games, should be available at gamefaqs.com (in this case, the Gameboy Advance section), if you want to see it. It is of note, however, that Cody saying he skipped past the industrial section is a reference to the Super Famicom port of Final Fight, where the Industrial Area had to be cut out due to space restrictions. Also of note is that production sketches depict entirely different match-ups, with Guy vs the Andores (in the ring in the Westside stage, it appears), Guy vs Damnd, Haggar vs Rolento, and Cody vs Sodom. These arts are likely more for concept and game-planning and marketing than for any canon indication, though (Haggar vs Sodom can't be true since it's Guy that beat him, although possibly Haggar was meant to beat him initially since Sodom was "a promoter of pro-wrestling"). Oh, Final Fight was Street Fighter's sister series or so, originally planned to be called Street Fighter '89. Street Fighter covered the one-on-one aspect of fighting, and Final Fight covered the brawling aspect of fighting. Since then though, it looks like the poor Final Fight series has died after Final Fight Tough (along with the entire brawling genre). Of course, it came back with Streetwise. Then the studio that made FFSW got closed down, probably in part because of FFSW's poor sales. Boss list (in order) 1. Damnd 2. Sodom 3. Edi. E 4. Rolento (cut out of the SFC/SNES version because they ran out of space) 5. Abigail 6. Belger (Later on, Capcom would release a game called Mighty Final Fight for the Famicom/NES, where Belger, now a cyborg, kidnaps Jessica again. The game is VERY comical and non-serious so it's pretty doubtful that it's canon, not to mention like FFR Belger is never referenced to have taken Jessica hostage more than once, normal, cyborg, zombie or otherwise) The white dog in the background of the Bay Area is named Shiro, by the way, whose name does mean "white" in Japanese. It's pals with Guile's dog Sub. Haggar being "newly elected mayor" is something added to the overseas version. Japanese versions just say "Mayor". He was, after all, elected around Muscle Bomber time, which is hardly new. Random tidbit: Final Fight was originally called Street Fighter ’89 and did so well that it was part of what prompted Capcom to make SF2 (from The Making of Street Fighter within SF2 The Complete File). Street Fighter '89 was its working title though so by the time it came out, they changed it to Final Fight. ********************************** pgIVSFZ1. STREET FIGHTER ZERO (STREET FIGHTER ALPHA overseas) Canon Date: No date, because Zero 2 overrides it. Gameplay: Street Fighter Zero 1 was a one-on-one fighting game. Inspired by the Street Fighter 2 Animated Movie (That does NOT make the Street Fighter Animated Movie canon, though), Capcom decided to make a Street Fighter game with anime-ish graphics that would also give more background to the storyline of Street Fighter 2. Story: You see the endings and all those storyline bits that happen in Street Fighter Zero 1? FORGET EVERYTHING ABOUT THEM. Capcom has officially stated that Street Fighter Zero 2 and Zero 3 is the current bridge between SF1 and 2. Even several of the non-conflicting endings in SFZ1 that don't conflict with SFZ2 have official statements that contradict them, really (not for all, though). Considering that Zero 1 was actually an incomplete version of Zero 2 and Zero 3, this makes sense too (another official statement, and also why Zero 1 had such a freaking small playable character roster). However, there are some endings that look like they could eerily fit in and be merged with SFZ2. Endings that COULD have happened (courtesy of Vasili10): Chun-Li- SFZ1 ending shows her get beaten up by Vega before flashing to her bedside. Place the slightly modified beating-up scene right before her SFZ2 ending begins and Vega flies to his VTOL. (CJ takes special note of this sequence of events happening through AAC) Ken- SFZ1 ending shows him meeting Eliza for the first time, SFZ2 ending shows they've already met. Place the meeting scene between Ken giving Ryu the headband and helping him up, and the scene with Eliza by his side. (ditto via AAC concerning their first meeting) Sagat- SFZ1 ending shows him being picked up by Vega and crew, SFZ2 ending has him already on the aircraft. Place the picking up scenes right before the dialogues while they're in flight. Gouki- He reminisces about Gouken (specially noted in AAC) and Goutetsu; Vega comes much later, if he'd care to remember him as well after SF2. Endings that positively were rewritten (courtesy of Vasili10): Ryu- If we assume (which we currently do) that Sagat doesn't see Ryu again after SF1 until SFZ3 when Ryu's brainwashed, this ending cannot happen. (Editor's note: Given that Sagat says he is still waiting to fight Ryu in AAC, it is likely that Sagat and Ryu have yet to have a real battle since SF1, and that includes this. Note that his battle with Ryu in SFZ3 doesn't count as 'real' because that's a brainwashed Ryu). Nash- Doesn't die until SFZ3, can't happen. (Vega taking him out from behind cutting off his communication was along the lines of the original way Nash had died prior to the Zero series, as recorded in Guile's Dash account) Vega- Could possibly be his graphics look after the SFZ2 battle with Rose, unless she was supposed to be dead after their SFZ1 battle, which can't happen. Vega's pre-fight dialogue with Rose however, reveals that he wasn't aware of there having been another soul power user alive. Guy- transferred as his SFZ3 ending, which doesn't happen because he catches up to Rose and Vega's gone, though via AAC his accepting the anguish of bushinryu seen in his Z3 ending does happen. Birdie- transferred as his ending pretty much in SFZ2. Adon- transferred as his mid-battle in SFZ2, results are in the plot guide. Sodom- He's still recruiting members and trying to get Rolento back to form the new Mad Gear in SFZ3, and SFZ1 assumes he's finished, can't happen. Rose- Transferred as her SFZ2 ending, unless she was supposed to be dead after her SFZ1 battle with Vega, which can't happen. Her pre-fight dialogue with Vega has the demon being (as CJ often refers to him) acknowledging that soul power and psycho power are the same power. Dan- Ok, I suppose Vega could approach Dan, I'd be shocked as hell if he actually did and still spared him after Dan refused, but I suppose that's another iffy one. Plus Vega expectedly dismisses Dan as trash by the end of Dan's ending, the outlook which only intensifies in later games with Vega's win quotes to Dan: "blasted garbage" in Z3 and "blasted buffoon" wishing he had time to kill him in SF4. SFZ1 was probably the most uncertain point for Capcom in terms of storyline, thus you wouldn't always read quite the same thing for character backgrounds if you looked at one SFZ book and then another. The following summary was released by Capcom once the Zero 1 kinks were ironed out: Street Fighter Chronology ?.1981 Ryu, Ken, began as students of fighting stylist Gouken. In those days, it's to believe that Dan was already studying under Gouken. ?.1985 Ryu, Ken, through training acquire Gouken's fighting techniques. At this time it is unknown where fellow student Dan was at but, it's a supposition that this wasn't the time he was excommunicated. ?.19?? Chun Li, studied under Gen, a Chinese kenpo expert, acquiring fighting techniques. 1985~87 Guy, goes to the States in order to train. Guy's master is Zeku, whose figure suddenly vanishes. ?.198? Gouki, having challenged to a battle his master Goutetsu, defeats him. For Gouki's older brother who is Gouken, sensing danger in Gouki's fist, expecting to prevent it, was conversely defeated in losing his life. After this event, Ryu, Ken also depart from beside their master, and wouldn't you believe they set out on their training journeys. 8.1987 Ryu, in a street fight, defeats Muay Thai emperor Sagat for the first time (Street Fighter). 1987~89 Police detective Chun Li's father, his whereabouts unknown during investigation (for the sake of a top-secret investigation, specifying a date is an impossibility). 12.1989 In Metro City, a crime organization introduces itself as Mad Gear, kidnapping Mayor Haggar's daughter Jessica. Cody, together with Guy meet for her rescue (Final Fight). Guy, having splendidly annihilated Mad Gear in this struggle, begins to sense the power lack in bushinryu ninjutsu. 1989~90 Rose introduces herself as a mysterious woman, with a stage of sudden history in place. Said to be pursuing Vega. 7.1991 Ryu, together with Sagat once again. Sagat with a new sure killing technique to counteract but, similarly a new sure killing technique devised for Ryu, again ended with defeat. However Ryu also, having sensed doubt in a "hatred incurring fist", once again sets out on a journey of training aiming at the true fighting style. Ken, while street fighting in each place, desires to pursue Ryu's whereabouts. From this time, the name of the mysterious organization known as "Shadoloo", comes into being a rumor in the realm of street fights. Nash, in order to make sure of the pursued narcotics organization's existence being "Shadoloo", challenges Vega to a battle. For a moment defeating him, mired into Vega's trick, he's brought down. Chun Li, pursuing her father's whereabouts, verifying the existence of "Shadoloo", tracking down Vega, one step later challenges him to the best of her ability. Rose, having confined Vega's psycho power, somehow defeats him, she comes to an end also by her own power. His breath resuscitated, Vega chuckles. Guy, having defeated Vega, acquires a newly become secret of bushinryu. Sagat, joins as a "Shadoloo" member (Street Fighter Zero). ?.1991 Ken accomplished his destined showdown with Ryu, comes across Eliza. 12.1991 Having aimed for the true fighting style, Ryu continues his journey. Hearing of Ken training in America, goes to fight him. Having become a "Shadoloo" leader Sagat, comes to fight again. Searching for the cause of comrade Nash's death himself, Guile collided with the name "Shadoloo". With street fights continuing in all nations of the world, finally Vega holds his own against them. Chun Li, once again pursues her father's foe Vega (Street Fighter II). 1992~ The street fighters' struggles, now still continue....... ****************************************************************************** Highlights: -SFZ1 with this timeline was the last time Capcom kept SF1 and SF2 four years apart. After this the gap would grow to six years. Also the last time the Final Fight chapters would be taking place starting in 1989 as was depicted in-game. ********************************** pgIVSFZ2. STREET FIGHTER ZERO 2 (STREET FIGHTER ALPHA 2 overseas) Canon Date: late 1987 thru early 1989 Gameplay: It's another fighting game. Like it's prequel. Of course. Story: Street Fighter Zero 2 takes place several months to a year after Final Fight 1 and Street Fighter 1. It is not a tournament. It's mostly just a whole bunch of various characters wandering around trying to fulfill their own agendas. From Vasili10: English Eternal says that Rolento and R. Mika entered the World Warrior tournament, SF2 I'm assuming is what they're referring to (Tiamat Note: Or SFAlpha is being referred to as a tournament). Here's what Japanese Eternal says instead: Rolento: in the paragraph above his story, it says he street fights, not entered a tournament. Later on in the same text block, the using-weapons clause goes from using weapons in the fight or the struggle in Japanese to using weapons in the tournament in English. R. Mika: English text says she entered the World Warrior tournament after seeing posted ads for it. Hoboy. This was taken from her original story text box which she's saying, "I'll tour the world in order to have my name be in open field bouts," and she arranged for promotions to be set up, which makes more sense with the scene in her Zero 3 stage. In any case, the bouts of SFZ3 are open field and disorganized, rather than matches orderly and regulated for a sanctioned tournament aka SF1, SF2, SF4, SSF4. Story from AAC Several months from after he defeated Muay Thai's emperor Sagat, for Ryu, rumors are being heard of a fighting stylist to manipulate a mysterious power. In order to make sure of the truth or error, Ryu once again journeys out. For that journey, having embraced fighters of various intentions, he spurs on towards the place of struggle....... ****************************************************************************** Highlights: -The "mysterious power" mentioned here was considered to be psycho power when the story was first written for Z1, then got shifted in identity to satsui no hadou for Z2. For exact SFA2 dialogue and endings, visit http://www.vgmuseum.com and look them up, if you want. SFZ2 overrides SFZ1's intro storyline. Capcom has stated as such. Ignoring official statements, a quick glance at SFZ1 shows that the majority of the characters' beginning situations for that game are pretty much the exact same thing as the beginning situations they have in SFZ2. Also note that it seems like the majority of mid-boss (and even boss, sometimes) battles in SFZ2 did NOT happen, though some did. SFZ2 happens before SFZ3. This can easily be concluded by looking at many character's beginning situations in SFZ3 and comparing them to their ending situations in SFZ2. For instance, Dan's introduction in SFZ3 states that he got revenge on the man that killed his father (Sagat), while in SFZ2, Dan's ending is... well, him getting revenge on Sagat. Thus SFZ3 is not a remake of SFZ2, unlike how SFZ2 is a remake of SFZ1 (with the possible exception of selected fighters' storylines, which seem to blend into Street Fighter Zero 3 a little). Street Fighter Zero 2 is basically characters wandering around doing their own thing. Due to this, to get the in-depth storyline details, see the Major Characters sections. Street Fighter Zero 2 Boss Battles The first character is the one you play as when that battle takes place. For example, if it says "Ryu vs Sagat" It's talking about the mid-boss battle with Sagat whom you fight while you play as Ryu. Also, for further details on the more storyline-significant battles to each character, see the Major Characters sections for more details. Adon vs Vega - Vega tries to make Adon join Shadaloo, but Adon refuses, so Vega attacks. This meeting actually did happen via AAC, since Vega shows that he knows Adon and references about how much Adon has changed since Adon's fight with Sagat in SFZ3. I'd be rather surprised if the meeting escalated into an actual battle just because Adon rejected the offer to join Shadaloo. Adon vs Sagat - Adon finally finds and challenges Sagat. Official statement is that this one did happen, and Adon won because Sagat was too enraged at his loss to Ryu to fight well. Adon still got whupped and only barely won, though (again, official statement). Birdie vs Dhalsim - Birdie and Dhalsim fight for... um... well, they just fight. *shrug* Incredibly pointless battle that thus is probably just filler and didn't happen, just a clash of morals versus a lack of scruples. Birdie vs Vega - Birdie asks Vega if he can join Shadaloo and must prove himself. While Birdie did end up impressing Vega (who from his dialogue shows that he knows who Birdie is in SFZ3, so...) enough to get in, official statements by Capcom state that he never fought or had to fight Vega to do it, so while his ending happened, this fight itself did not, and was at most a meeting. Cammy vs Rose - Dunno. If it did happen, it was before Rose confronted Vega the first time. Cammy's brainwashing is already showing some holes at this point, as are noted in some of her win quotes. Cammy vs Vega - Again not sure on the battle. Cammy's ending has her blacking out and coming to her senses in the Shadaloo base. Whether this was a result of her confronting Vega with even more resistance than he expected, thus being granted a "psycho limiter" implant, is unknown at this time. Sidenote: Vega reveals here that her name was Cammy even before the nickname "Killer Bee" and before Colonel Wolfman named her after extrapolating from the pendant found in her hand: CAMM 740106. "Cammy" may have been "CAMM-1" ("y" is plausibly shorthand for "ichi" in Japanese), aka the first of the "CAMM project". Chun-Li vs Gen - Gen asks where Chun-Li's skills come from. This battle (well, probably more like a meeting) DID happen. She eventually goads him into fighting her as well, but it turns out to be a sparring match at most. Capcom has officially stated that Gen gave Chun-Li a lead to Shadaloo in Street Fighter Zero 2. Chun-Li vs Vega - Chun-Li finally finds Vega. Capcom officially stated this battle happened, and even gave details (Vega beat up Chun-Li before flying off laughing at her and saying her father amused him). Dan vs Guy - Pointless filler battle and thus probably didn't happen. Just Guy overestimating Dan and Dan being over-inflated as usual. Dan vs Sagat - Dan fights Sagat to avenge his father. Official statements and Dan's current situation when SFZ3 begins shows this battle happened, and Capcom has stated that Dan won it because Sagat purposefully lost it (SFZ3 hints at it too, but it's rather vague). Basically replace the Z2 pre-fight dialogue they have with Z3's Sagat vs Dan and that would be how this battle proceeded more or less. Dhalsim vs Zangief - Pointless filler battle and thus probably didn't happen. At least they respect each other unlike Dhalsim and Birdie. Dhalsim vs Vega - Dhalsim still seeks Vega in SFZ3, and his SFZ2 ending has nothing to do with killing Vega, really, and unlike Rose, there's no official statement to back it up. This battle almost positively did not happen. Gen vs Chun-Li - Chun-Li asks Gen if he can tell her anything about Shadaloo, being a notorious assassin. See Chun-Li vs Gen battle above. This battle (mostly a meeting) officially happened. Gen vs Gouki - See Gouki vs Gen below. Officially happened. Gouki vs Ryu - This fight happened, but more in the form of when you play as Ryu, not Gouki, so see below for more details. Gouki vs Gen - Gouki and Gen, both searching for worthy foes, try to have a death match. This fight officially happened and ended in a tie. Guy vs Rose - Pointless filler battle and SFZ3 dialogue shows that Guy's first meeting with Rose was SFZ3. Thus this battle didn't happen. Ironically enough, Guy and Rose do fight each other officially in SFZ3. Guy vs Vega - Guy tracks down Vega to stop him in the name of justice. Capcom has officially stated that, while Guy's SFZ2 ending happened, this battle did not. On a side note, in the US version, Guy tells Bison that he's "already defeated a lot of his soldiers", but that was something in the overseas version for some stupid reason. He doesn't say that in the Japanese version. Ken vs Dan - Pointless filler battle. However, it might have happened though, since Ryu and Ken found out about Dan's existence and Dan found out about theirs during SFZ2 (another official statement). Ken vs Ryu - Ken sees something is bugging Ryu and fights Ryu, and wins, then hands Ryu his headband. Even though they were too lazy to change Ryu's headband accordingly, Capcom has officially stated this battle happened. Ryu's a bit too disturbed by his battle with Sagat (due to learning about satsui no hadou) to concentrate well during this fight. This battle occurs almost a year after SF1; Ken remarks that he'd almost given up trying to find Ryu after he heard of Sagat's defeat. Nash vs Rolento - Rolento decides to recruit Nash, but Nash refuses and would rather escort Rolento on his way to Vega. Capcom officially stated this fight didn't happen by saying that Nash and Rolento never met, and Rolento wasn't seen to be under anyone's custody during Z3 and beyond. Nash vs Vega - Nash finally finds Vega, fights Vega, and falls down the cliff. This battle is referenced by Guile's Zero 3 battle with Nash, with Nash saying he's concerned for Vega escaping again. From the Gamest SFZ2 mook, Capcom states he DOES NOT die in his Zero 2 battle with Vega. Additionally CJ states via AAC that Nash does pursue Vega, gets ambushed by his own nation's air force and loses his dog tags after he's shot from behind. Rolento vs Sodom - Sodom and Rolento aren't getting along since Rolento left Mad Gear. This battle definitely did happen, because in SFZ3, Rolento tells Sodom that it's his last chance to join Rolento. Rolento vs Guy - Rolento and Guy exchange with each other about the past. Wouldn't be surprised at all if this meeting happened. If it did, then at most, they probably just briefly skirmished with each other. Rose vs Gouki - Rose detects satsui no hadou within Gouki (well, 'shoryuken power' according to overseas SFA2. ...what the bleepgot? Oo) Doubt if this meeting escalated into a battle, but Rose is shown to be more clear-headed than Vega at least, noting that she distinguishes Gouki's power from psycho power. Rose vs Vega - Rose finally tracks down Vega and tells him that he's on the wrong path, and that she warned him. She wins the fight, and thinks she's confined his psycho power for good, but he manages to revive it. Official statements by Capcom are that this battle and Rose's SFZ2 ending did happen. Ryu vs Sakura - Happened, as shown by beginning situations in SFZ3. See Sakura vs Ryu below for more details. Ryu vs Gouki - Officially happened. Official statement. Ryu finds out about satsui no hadou from Gouki, and Gouki notes that he was able to sense when Ryu gave in to SnH to scar Sagat. SnH Ryu's boss battles (Sakura and Gouki) - Didn't happen. Satsui no Ryu never awoke during the Zero series officially and his storylines when you play as him are all what-if, so none of his boss battles could possibly have actually happened. Sagat vs Adon - See Adon vs Sagat above. Happened. Sagat vs Ryu - Did not happen. Official statement is that neither Sagat nor Ryu have a clean win over each other by the end of SFZ3. ...well, okay, this ending battle sorta happened, but the real way it happened is during SFZ3's Sagat vs Ryu match, so... Sakura vs Sagat - Sagat asks Sakura where her moves come from and if she knows who "he" is. She tells him they're from mimicking and presses for the mystery man's name. Z3 win quotes from Sagat to Sakura and to a lesser extent from her to him indicate that they at least met prior to finding Ryu brainwashed in Z3, but most likely no battle occurred as Sagat's quote has him brushing off Sakura's request to fight, instead to just keep him informed if she does see Ryu again as he's always waiting (foreshadow of Ryu's Sagat flashback). So Sakura did most likely learn Ryu's name from Sagat at the very least, but after she finds and fights him as described below. Sakura vs Ryu - Sakura finds Ryu and challenges him to a fun match. Ryu lets her win, and takes off leaving her with a photograph of himself. Official statement, and the battle happening is implied by SFZ3 dialogues, anyways. Sodom vs Ken - Pointless filler battle and thus probably did not happen. Even if it did, needless to say, Ken's unimpressed. Sodom vs Guy - Sodom and Guy exchange with each other about the past. Like Rolento vs Guy, wouldn't be surprised at all if this meeting happened. If it did, then at most, they probably just briefly skirmished with each other though, with Sodom trying to convince Guy that he's now achieved enlightenment with the books he recently read, in vain of course. Vega vs Nash - See Nash vs Vega above. Vega vs Ryu - Vega takes Ryu to brainwash. This battle happens, but not until SFZ3 where Capcom decides on the real way to have it finally happen... CJ remarks via AAC that Vega does indeed succeed in pouring on the psycho power pain on Ryu before he breaks out of the horrendous ability's influence. Zangief vs Birdie - Pointless filler battle and thus probably did not happen. Bickering starts off with hairstyles then to the age-old "I'm the strongest! No I am! No I..." argument, yeah. Zangief vs Ken - Pointless filler battle and thus probably did not happen. Zangief's ending (which did officially happen) doesn't require a battle with Ken specifically, anyways. On a side note, Ken reveals here that he has won at least one Pan-American Fighting Championship, the one he clenches with his first ever shoryureppa. A Note: Street Fighter Zero 2 has an insane amount of 'Easter egg' appearances in character backgrounds. The majority of these don't have any storyline significance and are just there for fun because quite a few of them are characters from games which obviously did not take place at that time or even have any existence within the SF canon at all... ********************************** pgIVFF2. FINAL FIGHT 2 Canon Date: 1988 (apparently retconned from release date of 1993 to fit in with Zero. Haggar stopped being mayor in 1992 (1 year before SF2) so it HAD to have been retconned) Gameplay: Another beat-em up brawler like Final Fight 1. Story: Text on the backside of Jap. FF2's box cover: After the last battle, it seemed as if peace had finally returned to Metro City. One day, Haggar suddenly got a call from the remnants of Mad Gear. They announced their plan for world conquest and told Haggar that they're on the move again. The return of Mayor Haggar. Maki, daughter of Genryusai. The street fighter, Carlos Miyamoto. The desperate struggle unfolds and explodes once again. Text from Jap. FF2 instruction booklet: Haggar, Cody, and Guy had defeated Belger, boss of Mad Gear. Peace returned to Metro City. Jessica and Cody went traveling, while Guy resumed training out of town. However, Mad Gear hadn't been completely destroyed. Mad Gear intends on getting revenge on Haggar, Cody, and Guy. They secretly pursue Genryusai, Guy's teacher. Genryusai and his daughter Rena were kidnapped by Mad Gear. Rena is Guy's fiance. Two days later, Haggar received a call from Maki, Rena's younger sister... Final Fight 2 takes place at the same time as Street Fighter Zero 2. Guy is not a playable character in the game because he's away training (his Street Fighter Zero 2 storyline). Cody, too, is not playable. The story is that remnants of Mad Gear (led by Retu) strive an attempt to make a comeback. Which... is again similar to Mad Gear's storyline in SFZ2 anyways. Mad Gear this time kidnaps Genryusai (the 56th bushinryu ninpou master) who is the father of Guy's fiance, Rena, who is also kidnapped by Mad Gear. Haggar once again takes to the streets to defeat Mad Gear, this time teamed up with Maki, who is Rena's sister, and Carlos, a boarder that Haggar was letting stay with him for a while. Final Fight 2 takes place around the world and not just in Metro City, for some reason. There isn't really much more here... unlike the bosses of Final Fight 1, the bosses of Final Fight 2 and Tough have not been incorporated into other Street Fighter games at all, though Rolento does make a reappearance as a boss (no clue how that works. Maybe he stuck around with Mad Gear a little longer or something to pick up recruits for his army). The Andore family is back, too. At any rate, Haggar and co gives them all the beatdown, knock Retu out of a window (AGAIN with the windows...) and save Genryusai and Rena, then Guy writes them a letter stating his thanks and that's it. A note about Mad Gear. Official statements are that Mad Gear finally fell apart for a good one year before Street Fighter Zero 3. Which would be one year after Final Fight 2 and Street Fighter Zero 2, which could also be interpreted as right after those games, if you think of them as taking about a year to happen or so. At any rate, yea, Mad Gear was completely crushed by Final Fight 2 and all efforts to revive it during Street Fighter Zero 2 failed. Rolento's army is a new thing that he started up that broke off, and is not a part of Mad Gear (which would explain a large chunk of why he and Sodom have a fall-out during Street Fighter Zero 3, though they make up in their endings). Stage List 1. Hong Kong 12:00 PM 2. France 5:00 PM 3. Holland 4:00 PM 4. England 8:00 PM 5. Italy 12:00 PM 6. Japan 11:30 PM (storyline seems to take place over a span of 3 days) Boss list of Final Fight 2 (in order) 1. Won Won. Some strange burly Chinese former-chef nutcase. 2. Freddie. Big army-clad shirtless brute fought in France. Former Navy SEAL. 3. Bratken. Big brute who looks like Frankenstein/Hulk fought in Holland. Has the mindset of a little child. 4. Phillipe. Psycho clown with a cane fought in England. 5. Rolento. Back yet again. Called Rolent in the manner of Sagat being written with a "t" at the end while in Japanese his name's written as "Sagatto". 6. Retu. Some sorta-Kabuki guy and the new leader of Mad Gear. Fought in Japan. ********************************** pgIVSFZ3. STREET FIGHTER ZERO 3 Latest ver: DOUBLE UPPER (STREET FIGHTER ALPHA 3 overseas) Canon Date: 1989 through early 1990 Gameplay: Another fighting game, of course. Story The man who aims for the true fighting style, Ryu. As for the become power inside "satsui no hadou" what does it bring about within his chest? Desiring the answer, desiring formidable opponents, Ryu journeys out. ......Such that his figure, has shined in Vega's eye desiring a strong fighting stylist's "body." As for Vega's true intention? And also for the "psycho drive"......? ****************************************************************************** Highlights: -Ryu keeps his spot as the main character in the Zero series due to remaining in Vega's next-host-body sights, which unfolds Shadaloo's largest offensive on the world yet, drawing nearly everyone else into the fray. Overview: Like Street Fighter Zero 2, for Street Fighter Zero 3, characters are basically just going around fulfilling their own agendas. Unlike Street Fighter Zero 2, a really hefty portion of it centers around Shadaloo and Vega this time. LOTS (but not all). Unlike Street Fighter Zero 2, Capcom decided to make Vega EVERYONE'S (sans SnH Ryu) final boss, whether they actually fought Vega or not in the official storyline. This has led the game's storylines to differ quite a bit from the official storyline (but you can reconcile most of them and get the true storyline just by removing the 'kill Vega' aspect of most characters' story modes. The intent in Z3 was to try giving everyone a spotlight, not necessarily the hero/heroine role, but a spotlight regardless if they'd officially have one or not. You also have to throw in forgetting about destroying the psycho drive or even getting into Shadaloo's main headquarters even, unless the character is one of those "officially stated to have fought Vega in SFZ3" ones). Street Fighter Zero 3 also seems to have had quite a few more what-if endings than fighting games usually have (All fighting games have filler what-if endings for characters that never actually happen in the official storyline, but SFZ3 had more than usual). In addition, Street Fighter Zero 3 is the most storyline-wise convoluted and complex game of all the Street Fighter games, as many characters' paths criss-cross and in order to get the true whole story, you pretty much have to beat the game with nearly EVERYONE and pay good attention to their endings and boss dialogues (unlike SFZ2, most of the midboss battles in SFZ3 probably happened in some way, shape, or form). Once again, to get the majority of what happened in this game, see the Major Characters sections. The major point for Street Fighter Zero 3 was that the evil organization known as Shadaloo was thrashed quite a lot (but not fully destroyed) thanks to the combined efforts of Guile, Nash, and Chun-Li, as well as several various rebellions and problems within it. Vega, the leader of Shadaloo, was finally defeated when the main headquarters of Shadaloo was blown up with him and Nash in it. For a plot analysis of how all the character endings fit into the overseas plotline for Street Fighter Alpha 3, see Tiamat's SFA3 plot guide... though note that it's kinda going to fall out of date now with this full Street Fighter plot guide, instead. Here's a brief synopsis of the 'core' plot of Street Fighter Zero 3 for here, though. At least, the closest thing you can call a core plot since SFZ3 is mostly comprised of a lot of individual mini-storylines. Street Fighter Zero 3 first starts off with Vega tracking down Ryu and confronting him, then trying to brainwash Ryu into accepting psycho power. Ryu has an inner conflict with himself on whether to give in, similar to his conflict to give in to satsui no hadou. At any rate, he does give in, though it's important to note that brainwashed psycho power Ryu is not the same as satsui no hadou Ryu. Anyways, Ken and Sakura coincidentally arrive just at the same time as Sagat arrives to see Ryu again. Sagat, who has regained his honorable warrior spirit since confronting Dan in SFZ2 is infuriated when he sees how low Vega stooped (or maybe Sagat was in the process of regaining it thanks to Dan and seeing Vega stoop so low as to brainwash Ryu clinched it. Could be either). Sagat fights psycho Ryu while Ken and Sakura fought Vega (this is official statement, though you can sooorta see it in the games if you study the dialogue really analytically, though that's kind of a stretch there and still requires some guess-work as to what the dialogue means). Sagat beats psycho Ryu and then, judging by the game, Ryu managed to break out of his brainwashing and knock Vega away, forcing Vega to retreat. That ends Ryu's main portion of the story. The next main character of SFZ3 could be considered to be Cammy, since she has a huge plot around her in SFZ3. This one most likely happened after Ryu's part of the plot, and basically involves how for reasons she can't figure out, Shadaloo decided to terminate her. This probably happened around the same time as Rose's portion of SFZ3's plot; even though the two characters' plots don't interlap too much, Rose's fight with the girl(s) in the game does indirectly indicate this, though of course I'm not sure and it really doesn't make too much difference either way (Rose can be considered a semi-main character of SFZ3. Check out her bio for her story during SFZ3). At any rate, Cammy encounters Balrog and probably Juli and Juni (judging from her in-game storyline) during this period (Balrog and Juli were sent to terminate her in some fashion). However, along with Dhalsim weakening the bindings the psycho drive had on them, she managed to convince Juli and Juni as well as all the rest of the girls how they were truly expendable to Vega, and so all thirteen of the girls turned on Vega. In the process, they were all almost killed. This is yet another official statement which can also be realized through a really analytical look at the game's storylines, though like Ken, Sakura, and Sagat's fight against Vega and psycho Ryu, it's rather hard to realize it without the official statements (though not as hard, thank goodness). Anyway, Vega was finally forced to retreat once again, and Cammy made her way to the psycho drive and use it to save the rest of the girls. Finally, the last main character of SFZ3 is Guile. His story had to have happened last in SFZ3 since it's the one that finally ends Vega by blowing him and the base housing the psycho drive up. Basically, Guile catches up to Nash and Chun-Li, then finally decides to join them and together their combined efforts take down Vega for good in SFZ3 (though he would come back for SF2). Nash and Guile confront Vega in the psycho drive room of Shadaloo headquarters and Nash sacrifices himself to hold off Vega while the entire base explodes and many people including Guile escape. As always, for the more complete details, check out the character bios. The Ultimate SFZ Character Relations Chart -main charts from Capcom Japan's webpages and Eternal, entries will be presented in chronological order. Notes in [] are added by me for clarity. -reading will be in the following format: "A" points TO "B", not FROM "B", to minimize info repetition; if no arrow head is seen, it's treated below as a double-headed arrow RYU to Ken: friend being a rival; fellow student rival to SnH Ryu: one and the same character to Gouki: master's foe KEN to Ryu: friend being a rival; fellow student rival to Eliza: sweetheart to Guile: fellas' wives are sisters CHUN LI to Nash: cooperates to Gen: father's master to Vega: father's foe SAGAT -Shadoloo shitennou [in Vega's eyes] with Bison and Balrog to Adon: once a master-student connection; student to Ryu: longstanding foe to Vega: temporarily lends his capability ADON to Sagat: once a master-student connection; master to Gouki: wants his power BIRDIE to Vega: aims for the psycho drive GUY -Final Fight team with Cody to Cody: former companion; former comrade-in-arms to Zeku: master to Rena: fiancee to Vega: the corrupter of this human age to defeat SODOM -Ex-Mad Gear with Rolento to Rolento: originally Mad Gear companions; refuses to Guy: resentment to E. Honda: point of agreement as sumo's experienced person NASH to Chun Li: cooperates to Guile: friend to Vega: pursues ROSE to Vega: once a master-student connection; possessor of the same power VEGA to Rose: once a master-student connection; possessor of the same power to Cammy: subordinate (substitute body possessing the same DNA); his own copy to M. Bison, Balrog & Birdie: subordinate to Sagat: subordinate [in Vega's eyes only, not Sagat's] to experimental bodies: the secret organization Shadoloo to Ryu: has an eye on him as his next body GOUKI to Shin Gouki: one and the same character to Goutetsu: murderer to Gouken: older brother to Gen: death-meet connection to Adon: intruding on the fighting tournament DAN to Sagat: father's foe to Hibiki Gou: father to Blanka: friendship connection; friend to Sakura: master-student connection?; student (?) DHALSIM to Sally: wife to Vega: severs the evil source ZANGIEF to E. Honda: comrade to Vega: fights for the sake of the fatherland GEN to Gouki: death-meet connection; wishes for a death-meet ROLENTO -Ex-Mad Gear with Sodom to Sodom: originally Mad Gear companions; invites to be companions once again to Cody: scouts SAKURA to Ryu: admires to Chitose Kei: friend to Kasugano Tsukushi: younger brother to Karin: a little bothered to Dan: master-student connection? BLANKA to Dan: friendship connection; friend E. HONDA to Zangief: comrade to Sodom: point of agreement as sumo's experienced person BALROG -Shadoloo shitennou with Sagat and Bison to Vega: companion CAMMY -experimental body with Juli and Juni [and the other girls] CODY -Final Fight team with Guy to Guy: former companion; former comrade-in-arms to Jessica: originally sweethearts R. MIKA to Zangief: admires to Harmageddon Youko: master KARIN to Sakura: regards as a rival; complete defeat to Ken: complete defeat M. BISON -Shadoloo shitennou with Balrog and Sagat to Vega: becomes companion for the sake of money JULI -experimental body with Cammy and Juni [and the other girls] to T. Hawk: Thunderfoot tribe; same village to Vega: Vega Bodyguard Troops JUNI -experimental body with Cammy and Juli [and the other girls] to Vega: Vega Bodyguard Troops FEI LONG DEE JAY T. HAWK to Juli: Thunderfoot tribe; same village to Vega: to take back the sacred ground GUILE to Nash: friend to Vega: friend's foe to Ken: fellas' wives are sisters SATSUI NO HADOU NI MEZAMETA RYU to Ryu: one and the same character SHIN GOUKI to Gouki: one and the same character MAKI to Rena: older sister to Guy: searches for Eliza to Ken: sweetheart Rena to Guy: fiance Enero, Fevrier, Marz, Satsuki, Santamu, Jiuyu, Yanyu, Noembelu, Decapre to Vega: Vega Bodyguard Troops Aprile to Maggio: younger brother to Vega: Vega Bodyguard Troops Gouken to Ryu & Ken: students to Gouki: younger brother Goutetsu to Gouken & Gouki: students Sally to Dhalsim: husband Ishizaki to Karin: duty to look after Shibazaki to Karin: steward ****************************************************************************** Street Fighter Zero 3 Boss Battles The first character is the one you play as when that battle takes place For example, if it says "Ryu vs Sagat" It's talking about the mid-boss battle with Sagat you fight while you play as Ryu. A note about the final boss battle with Vega: As stated above, nearly all of these probably didn't happen. The only confirmed ones to fight Vega are Ryu (sorta), Sakura with Ken, Rose, and all thirteen Vega SS (it's possible that Cammy's battle with Vega took place right after all other twelve VSS fought him, or that Cammy arrived in the middle of it to help them out, too. Juli's ending shows this a little, too, since Cammy arrives as Juli is fighting Vega or right after Juli loses consciousness to him or what have you), all of which Capcom has officially stated happened. Also, for further details on the more storyline significant battles to each character, see the Major Characters sections for more details. Adon vs Ken - Pointless filler battle and thus probably did not happen. Adon unreasonably expects Ken to show him the SGS, while insisting he's no longer Sagat's student. Adon vs Rose - Pointless filler battle and thus probably did not happen. Rose tries to offer some words of advice about becoming enslaved to power, and Adon arrogantly affirms his obsession regardless if it could destroy him or not. Adon vs Vega - Vega challenges Adon for the hell of it. Like all boss battles with Vega in SFZ3 besides the confirmed ones, this did not happen. ...oi, even Adon's SFZ3 ending is pointless (he's searching for Gouki at the end of SFZ2, he's still searching for Gouki by the end of SFZ3). Yeesh. Vega's death to Gouki in this ending is an accurate portrayal of how Gouki offed him in SF2, though. Balrog vs Zangief - Zangief attacks Balrog for being a supporter of Shadaloo, though Balrog denies that, saying he doesn't care what that organization does. Actually, I'm inclined to believe that this battle did happen, since Capcom shows that Zangief knows about Balrog in Zangief's SSF2X ending, where he's making fun of a picture of Balrog. Balrog vs Cammy - Balrog finally finds Cammy, but also finds that he's realizing she's more than just a mere experiment. This battle did happen, since it's important to Balrog's ending which officially happened, and this is Balrog's point of view on it. See Cammy vs Balrog above for more information. Balrog vs Vega - Balrog argues with Vega about Cammy. While the argument might have happened (which would be another thing that leads Balrog to decide to betray Vega indirectly by saving Cammy), Capcom has officially stated that Balrog never actually betrayed Vega (besides saving Cammy) or fought Vega, which is why Balrog's still a member of Shadaloo in SF2. Birdie vs E. Honda - Pointless filler battle and thus probably did not happen. Another hairstyle bicker leading to a show-me-whatcha-got scenario. Honda being too kindhearted assumes that Birdie's not serious about trying to usurp Shadaloo. Birdie vs Blanka - Pointless filler battle and thus probably did not happen. Birdie thinks that Blanka's fighting for Shadaloo. Birdie vs Bison - Vega sicks Bison on Birdie. Real way it happened is probably Bison vs Birdie below. Birdie vs Vega - Birdie challenges Vega and demands for the psycho drive. Like all boss battles with Vega in SFZ3 besides the confirmed ones, this did not happen. His own ending where Chun-Li and Nash arrest him at the psycho drive gets in the way of Guile's ending which officially happened, so Birdie's own ending definitely didn't happen. The real way his search for the psycho drive seems to have gone, if it occurred at all, is probably Bison's ending (without having the psycho drive's destruction due to Birdie and Bison, just like everyone else's ending that involves destroying it besides Guile's), and thus I highly doubt he ever confronted Vega in SFZ3. Blanka vs Dan - A 'for-fun' battle that is a large basis of Blanka's SFZ3 storyline, which doesn't contradict with any other storylines once you get rid of the destroy Vega and psycho drive aspects, etc, and thus probably did happen. Blanka vs Zangief - Pointless filler battle and thus probably did not happen. Blanka vs Bison - Pointless filler battle and thus probably did not happen. Blanka vs Vega - Vega challenges Blanka to make him into a guinea pig. Like all boss battles with Vega in SFZ3 besides the confirmed ones, this did not happen. Blanka does however stumble into the Shadaloo base together with Dan and finds a fallen VSS. Honda's win quote to Blanka shows that they do meet and Honda takes custody of the girl Blanka comes across. Also specially noted in AASFZ3. Cammy vs Dhalsim - Dhalsim notices that Cammy is consciously suppressing within her heart. This battle might have happened. Not really too important either way, except to verify that Cammy's gradually becoming a mental wreck. Cammy vs Balrog - Balrog has been sent to investigate on Cammy. This battle definitely did happen, since it's important to Cammy's and Balrog's storylines that have been officially stated to have happened in SFZ3. Cammy won this battle (she had to in order to reach and fight Vega, which also officially happened), but Balrog's dialogue indicates that he may have purposefully thrown the match, as he's rather lax. Cammy vs Juni and Juli - A seemingly pointless filler battle, but it most definitely did happen, as shown by Juli's storyline. Odds are this is when Cammy met with the other VSS to rebel all together against Vega, which officially did happen once the psycho drive was weakened thanks to Dhalsim. Cammy vs Vega - Vega decides to finally exterminate Cammy, personally. This battle officially happened, with some added bits from official statements. Capcom has stated that all thirteen Vega SS rebelled against Vega together, so Cammy almost definitely picked up Juni and Juli from her battle with them. Or arrived in the aftermath to continue it, at least. Chun-Li vs Birdie - Chun-Li gets information from Birdie about where Shadaloo's base is. Actually, this battle happened via AAC. Birdie's free to move on because all Chun-Li wanted the location of Shadaloo's base from him, and most likely she doesn't realize how deep his position under Vega's wing is. Of course, there IS the fact that the entire rest of Chun-Li's SFZ3 plot when you play as her did NOT happen... Chun-Li vs Cammy - Cammy attacks Chun-Li while in a painful mental state. Didn't happen. Chun-Li's battles and ending from here on when you play as her completely contradict Cammy's official storyline, that did officially happen, in SFZ3. Chun-Li vs Juli and Juni - Juni and Juli attack Chun-Li in the name of Vega. Didn't happen for the same reasons as Chun-Li vs Cammy. Capcom did use this opportunity to point out in-game that the VSS were quite young, though. Chun-Li vs Vega - Chun-Li finally finds Vega and fights to get him to stop using poor underage girls like Cammy, Juli, and Juni. Chun-Li's real SFZ3 story is when you play as Guile. This did not happen (it would make no sense for Cammy's SF2 storyline, for one thing, and Balrog is the one stated to have taken Cammy at the end of SFZ3)

Cody vs Birdie - May very well have happened. Cody and Jessica did take a trip together following FF1, and Jessica does leave him to study abroad in Europe. It's a stretch but assuming their vacation took them to England, Birdie may very well had heard of Cody's hero schpiel as he was no doubt getting into fights everywhere he and Jessica went. Cody vs Guy - Guy tries to reform Cody. Final Fight One dialogue shows that this battle did happen. Cody vs Vega - Cody attacks Vega for the hell of it >:} LOL, I personally like how Cody just wants to get into tons of battles just for the hell of it because he's addicted to fighting, but I digress. At any rate, this is generally a pointless filler battle that thus, like the majority of SFZ3 battles with Vega, did not happen. Guy never got that close to Vega, anyways, so the majority of Cody's ending up until the destruction of Vega most definitely didn't happen (though Guy wanting to reform Cody definitely did, as shown by Final Fight One dialogue). Dan vs Chun-Li - Hilarious joke battle, but not really any story relevance, and Blanka's storyline seems to be the true way Dan's storyline played out in SFZ3, so I don't think this one happened (or any of Dan's SFZ3 boss battles when you play as him, for that matter). Dan vs Sagat - Sagat is annoyed that Dan's pestering him again and Dan offers to teach Sagat Saikyo style. I'd be surprised as heck if this battle happened. I don't see why Sagat would purposefully lose to Dan TWICE. Dan vs Bison - Pointless filler battle and thus probably did not happen. References Chun-Li the cop chasing Dan from his earlier battle with her. Dan vs Vega - Like all boss battles with Vega in SFZ3 besides the confirmed ones, this did not happen. His stumbling onto the psycho drive base while searching for a new suitable dojo in Thailand did happen via AAC. SF4 even hints at this with his win quote to Cammy, so it's likely he even met a VSS or two during his stumblings, possibly Decapre. Dee Jay vs Adon - Pointless filler battle and thus probably did not happen. Dee Jay vs Sagat - Ditto. While the previous one led into this one, neither are important to Dee Jay's overall SFZ3 plot at all. Dee Jay vs Vega - Ditto once again. Dhalsim vs Rose - Dhalsim tries to convince Rose not to rush into things. Might have happened. Dunno. Dhalsim vs Birdie - Dhalsim reads Birdie's mind to find out the location of the Shadaloo hideout. Possibly did happen since Dhalsim would later on mentally sabotage the psycho drive according to Eternal. Dhalsim vs Juni and Juli - Again possibly, although highly unlikely that Vega himself sets the girls loose on Dhalsim as the game shows. Dhalsim vs Vega - Doesn't happen. Dhalsim's more concerned with the psycho drive's vibes than with Vega. While his ending shows his mental tamperings with the sinister device, he neither fights Vega head on nor destroys the drive itself. His yoga severing the psycho hold on the Vega Bodyguard Troops allows for their reception to Cammy's words and their later rebellion. E. Honda vs Ryu - E. Honda and Ryu fight for fun. This battle happened. It's referenced in Sakura vs E. Honda. E. Honda vs Sodom - E. Honda and Sodom meet up again. This battle might have happene