Fun Fact: As stated in an interview, the reason Zangief is a "Bad Guy" in the Wreck-It Ralph movie, is because the director hates grapplers. Appearently he would always lose to Zangief when playing SF2 in the arcades, and since then he has been hard-coded as a pure Villain in his mind.
That's kinda funny because grapplers have a stigma in fighting games community that makes people salty when losing to them. Most people don't enjoy losing most of their health to a 50/50 grab mixup. It's a bit ironic though since they tend to be on the lower end of the meta strength-wise in most games.
One of Cody's taunts and win poses is him pulling the cuffs off to rub his wrists implying, he could take them off anytime but chooses to keep them on for an added challenge. Gotta love that guy.
51:07 - Dan’s gi being pink because he failed to separate his whites and colors in the wash is perfect. Can just imagine him opening the washer and whining, ‘awwww, but the fight is toodayyy! They’re gonna make fun of me!’ Then he kicks the washer and breaking his toe.
Fun fact about Gill: The main reason he is split down the middle with red and blue is because Capcom were tired of people making fun of characters' sprites, particularly Sagat's, only flipping depending on which way they were facing. So they flexed on the haters and created a character who has 2x the amount of sprites a normal character would have to face both directions.
TBF while they flexed with Gill the fact is that Guile still exist and the reason he has two identical tattoos is the sprite only flipping and they were forced to keep it like that ever since
Ryu is actually quite rich, Ken opened a bank account in his name and put all of Ryu's winnings in there. Ken also donates some cash every now and then. Chun-li forced Ryu to pick up some new clothes so it's easier for him to travel in airports. He also has a cell phone that Ken gave him to call on, but he isn't that good with technology until the events of World tour
So Ryu is self-made, and that wasn't even his goal. That's impressive. 😊 And I don't think I need to say this, but Ken and Chun-Li are my kind of friends. ❤
I had that burned into my mind by the SF cartoon (the infamously bad one), because every episode starts with the narrator saying "Colonel William Guile..."
Karin's anime archetype is "The Ojou": the upper-class/rich girl. They tend to be haughty, have tsundere tendencies, and invariably have a hidden heart of gold, deep down. The maniacal laugh is colloquially referred to as the "Noblewoman's laugh".
There's nothing that says the ojou needs to be good; the ojou is just as likely to be a rich bitch without the complications of a heart of gold. The term refers to a girl from a high-status family, which may or may not actually have wealth and/or a noble title. And it almost always refers to a girl, because they tend to be married off for dynastic purposes, even when they're merely rich commoners.
There actually is a thing that pointed out from Ryu's own perspective that he does have a home, he does have shoes and other things, he just doesn't use them much thanks to all his worldly traveling.
1:03:14 - that, my friend, is the ojousama trope. The signature “ohoho!” laugh that accompanies it involves a hand out over the mouth because back in the older days, when class and social status defined everything, a high class woman’s laugh was deemed too pure to be witnessed by public commoners. Nowadays, the ojousama (madam, girl/woman of high social status/class) is used to describe a snooty rich girl with an inflated ego, and the laugh is the cherry on top of the sundae that is this character trope.
It’s also just a common polite action in Japan to cover one’s moth when laughing. They refer to a western open mouthed laugh as a “horse laugh” that is akin to a horse neighing. It’s, like most western things, considered boorish.
When you think about it, the story of Street Fighter 2 is kinda like a lot of movies during the Cold War period that waned American and Russia to "just stop fighting and bring world peace." In SF2's case is was basically having the strongest powers and countries come together and beat up the most evil man ever. Imagine if Rocky 4 was actually the story of Rocky and Ivan Drago teaming up to defeat Satan.
It’s really funny how SF6’s world tour shows that Metro City just follows beat ‘em up logic even outside of an arcade game, the place and people are just like that
I love how Gil made up a whole new position just to tell Urien to go fuck himself, he's so petty he made a new position just in case he lost, hell maybe he was going to make Urien president anyway if he wins just to spite him as emperor.
The prophecy stated that the Emperor would lose as the president. So he just let Urien win to make everyone happy. The prophecy was true since Gill got the glow lol😂
You forgot to mention that Vega’s backstory involved him killing his ugly stepfather who killed his mother and how that skewed his view on beauty and it’s how it aligns with morality. Also how Geki was the one who taught him Ninjutsu and gave him his claw.
@@waypastcoolkid Thats also False dude. Cause VEGA doesn't teleport, your logic is like saying random NARUTO ninja tought another one how to use a shuriken, just becuase they both use shurikens. Don't be spreading false facts - comming out of what you believe, not what you know, there's a difference.... Beliefs =/= Knowledge - on the internet, that's just weird
One detail about G/Q I'm surprised wasn't mentioned is that they share the majority of their movesets. But while G is charismatic and moxious, Q seems almost like he's being puppetted by someone else, even sounding like he'sin pain at times. His movements are stiffer and more awkward - literally tripping over himself at times. There is a pretty great video doing a side-by-side that really shows the degeneration in the movements.
Not only that, but everyone who is electrocuted shows an X-ray image of bones. But when Q is electrocuted, it looks metallic. I'm willing to bet Q is a doll version of G.
If you compare Q's heavy kick attacks to their G equivalent you can see how Q just flops to the ground. Also he has an incomplete version of the deadly double combination that G has. Bro is going through a rough time
About the skulls on Dalshim. He says they were the skulls of children dead of illness and famish in the second volume of Street Fighter 2 the comics, during his fight against Ryu. During said fight, he has Ryu cornered, but keep hearing the supplication of the spirits of the children, which allows Ryu to do à sho-Ryu-ken Said attacks shatters the skulls qave Dalhsim, as at this point the shoryuken was a death sentence. Dalhsim consider himself foolish to have entered the fight as it was not virtuous, and believes that beating up good people for money is not what they would have wanted.
Fun fact: Akuma did not kill Gen at the end of SFV, he actually found out that Gen was suffering from leukemia before the finishing blow was thrown. Knowing that, Akuma just spared Gen, hoping one day they would have a rematch when they are all healthy. Edit: it wasn't at the end of SFV, it was in SF Alpha 2, I think so.
Kinda makes me think of AVP where the Predator spares the president because he had respiratory issues. Only to get a flamethrower to his back and he turns and kills the man anyway
@@simple11q oh shit i think i screwed up. His health issue was indeed true, and Akuma nearly killed him once, but not at the end of SFV. It is officially unknown if Gen has died or survived his latest fight with Akuma.
Clement going from Tekken to Street Fighter lore just feels so good, as both a lifelong fan of each series and an avid watcher of his content since 2012
@@TheRealMoeru he might need to separate it to two or more videos with how truly insane the King of Fighters lore can be... and that's not even getting into the many manga and manhwa tie-ins that just get even more insane than the games' stories.
To clarify a thing about Akuma and Bison... Akuma definitely did kill a Bison, but with him being able to jump into bodies he was able to survive the encounter. The Aftermath event was likely between SF2 (officially taking place in 1991) and SF4 (1994 is when Seth decided to have SIN split from Shadoloo) due to how all those fighters were gathered together in a random place and not some elaborate location. The Street Fighter Wiki has a source stating the 1994 date comes from the Street Fighter Memorial Archives Beyond the World. So it is entirely possible both Akuma destroying Bison and his self-destruct happened. As for why Bison isn't focused on Akuma, the same reason Akuma is focused on Ryu: he has more potential that makes them worthy. At that point, Ryu could be influenced by the Satsui No Hado or the Psycho Power to become the most powerful fighter. All he needs is a strong influence. So while Bison may have issues with Akuma, Ryu is still the ultimate body for him to possess so why bother when you can get rid of your body like if it was an old car and get a newer, better one.
@@AkumaTh Are you familiar with the concept of retcons? Sequels after SF2 retroactively overwrite and rewrite SF2's events. Sequels also establish which of the endings end up becoming canon and which remain completely or partially "what ifs". Bison and Akuma never canonically met as of the modern SF era starting with SF4. They literally act like they don't know each other. Bison's only encounter with the SNH is from Ryu himself. The only thing Bison and Akuma have in common is their infatuation with Ryu.
@@ouranos0101 Again, 30th Anniversary SF Profile, which was released in 2018, with only had SFV Champion Edition and SF6 coming after, and thus came after the Aftermath stuff, States Akuma Challenged Bison. They have met and it is canon. Nothing in the new update or 6 contradicts that fact.
The name "Seth" is actually a biblical reference. Seth was the son that replaced Abel in the Bible after he was killed by Cain, just like how Seth in SF replaced Abel when he escaped and was possibly assumed dead
Sadly, it’s kind of a black mark on such an otherwise well-researched and comprehensive lore video that he missed what is a pretty obvious reference from Genesis.
At 29:11 there’s a bio from the Street Fighter Anniversary Collection that says different, but then again, I’ve noticed other things within those bios that are contradictory with what is established.
Just wanted to say, watching the whole thing felt like a Herculean effort. Can’t imagine the work it took to make this! Thanks for putting it together.
In Ryu's first fight against Sagat, Sagat acually wins but when he showed Ryu good sportsmanship by offering a hand for him to get up Ryu was taken over by the obsesion to win and shoryuken Sagat by surprise leaving him the scar and close to death. Ryu walks away confused and Sagat hold on to dear life by a thread of vengeful desire.
It is my headcanon that Akuma did beat Bison in Street Fighter 2, but he did it so hard, Bison just shat himself, fled (which then ends up him getting cornered again and blowing himself up) and decided to never want to deal with Akuma ever again.
@@404_nowheresnotfound3rugal Do that mess all the time on KOF After the defeat. No congratulations, no thanks Just blows the place up with him In it.
for me, Bison never saw it happen. He got ready to start the fight, BAM! * dies 1k deaths* barely survives since his soul straight ejected, wakes up on the floor later, assuming Ryu beat his ass.🤣
I'm just trying to figure out which Mega Man timeline Street Fighter is connected to. There's references between SF and the Classic timeline, but SF6 has the Battle Network version of MegaMan's symbol on a chip in the Story Mode. And are all these games fictional in the Dead Rising universe? What about Resident Evil? Is Luke Captain Commando? What about Viewtiful Joe?! Devil May Cry!? Phoenix Wright?!?
@@MegaManXPoweredUp Battle Network is alternate to the classic/mainline but crosses over with it. The answer is, genuinely, "both". Battle Network canonically time-travels (it can cross over within its own timeline (with Star Force), several hundred years into other series' futures (it crosses over with the Boktai/Lunar Knights series, BN4 to Boktai 2, BN5 to Boktai 3, BN6 to Lunar Knights), and with Megaman Zero 3 in BN4). Megaman also crosses over at the Zero era with SvC Chaos, where Zero gets displaced but still has radio communications with Ciel. Oh and in Marvel VS Capcom X era X and Zero show up, so... ...And in Tatsunoko VS Capcom we even see both Roll and Zero together so they can even still have time travel with each other. The timeline answer is that the Megaman timelines SF connects to is "all of them, and at multiple points in time, because MegaMan apparently has common enough time travel shenanigans that they could have a giant multi-generation party over at Ryu's place if they wanted to. (Remember, Megaman has robots that manipulate time AND canonical time travel machines.) Edit: but for the purposes of placing *Doctor Light* in this: it might be at around MM9's time, since Chun-Li is the news reporter there.
capcom doesnt need marvel at all, they already have a full beautiful universe to create ultimate capcom all star fighting game... also, where does monster hunter and phoenix wright fit in? lol@@Exlayer-pk8hy
I don't know much about street fighter. I really appreciated this video. You are so enthusiastic while being condescendingly sarcastic. Very satirical. I loved it. Thank you.
@@NoobGamer64-gj4ic I mean, cuz it was interesting. Besides, it's not like I wasn't already aware of the lore already. Plus, it's fun to see how other ppl interpret it or fill in the blanks. Besides, it's not like ppl need to watch it all at once.
I just bought Street Fighter 6 last night with absolutely no Street Fighter experience beforehand (beyond playing some arcade version on emulators almost 20 years ago) and had a blast playing couch matches last night. But I wanted to know some of the backstories for the characters, and that’s how I found this video. Thanks for making this, since I feel like I have a pretty clear image of what has happened now. I am excited for Akuma to be playable at some point. I was a little shocked to see how many characters the last game had!
Fun fact: Dan Hibiki's gi is based on the gi of Judo Gene LaBell, the legend who won the first real mixed rule fight against a boxer in the early 1960s. He then worked as a stuntman and was Ronda Rousey's honorary uncle. He actually got his pink gi the same way the first time.
also, gene labell made steven seagal piss himself. story goes that on the set of a movie, seagal bragged about how, thanks to his uber cia/aikido/bullshido training, it was impossible for him to be choked out. gene was actually a stunt-coordinator and already had a problem with him since seagal is notorious for being extra violent with stunt men. like he would legit hit them and send them to the hospital. gene took the challenge and with his permission, locked steven in a rear naked choke. steven tried to get out of it but sadly for him, he didn't know how to get out of it and promptly passed out. then he either pissed himself, shit himself or a combination of both. either way, his pants were not clean afterwards. of course, steven denies this took place but gene and several other people have confirmed that it indeed happened.
@@maxacorn see this story perfectly illustrates those who pretend they're chads by blowing hot air and those who actually are but they stay humble, awesome guy
Luckily the name switch fits them well, since Vega is a very spanish surname, M. Bison is such a dictator name and Balrog surely conveys the dude is able to punch a bull as a warmup
Dude I’m not even joking I was literally like “damn, I should probably catch up on the street fighter lore before I play sf6” and then behold this at the top of my recommended
My dude, your ability to weave the absolute catastrophuck of lore that amounts to the Street Fighter canon into a single vid is stunning enough on its own, but *then you made that shit chronological and sensical* [relatively]. Fantastic work.
I dont like it, *we* dont like it, but we have to face the facts that Japan loves to fetishize the 'we're not blood related so fcking my sister is fine' thing in fictional media, it sells so it could very much be a thing... :/
Small immediate correction. Goutetsu always used the Satsui No Hadou. He could use it at will. It was Gouken that refined the techniques to make it so they no longer required using killing intent. This is why Gouken was chosen as the successor to Goutetsu (which angered Gouki). Gouken actually evolved the techniques. The technique Gouki perfected was the Shun Goku Satsu and Goutetsu died happily because he wasn't able to use that technique...so both his students had surpassed him in different ways.
There's a really awkward common misconception involved with Goutetsu and the Satsui no Hadou: Typically, most martial arts masters disdain "forbidden techniques" and such, but Goutetsu was actually all for it, so when Goutetsu got killed by the Shun Goku Satsu, he was proud a pupil of his was able to tap into what he felt was the pinnacle of the martial art he invented. Spin-offs and adaptations proceeded to disregard that and follow the cliche of the Master forbidding such things and being disappointed a pupil would go down such a dark path. Goutetsu INVENTED his martial art with the intent to kill. He just couldn't tap into the Satsui no Hadou as good as Akuma would be able to later on. It was GOUKEN who stepped back and thought a killing martial art would be a bad idea, so he went over what he learned and turned down the lethality of the techniques so it could be passed down safely. If creators wanted that cliche virtuous martial arts master, they already had it in Gouken. Having Goutetsu be that way would render Gouken redundant and borerdline pointless.
@@carlbloke8797 The Street Fighter Alpha manga released back in the 90s explains the whole backstory of Gouken, Akuma, Goutetsu and so on. As far as I know, that's where Goutetsu originated as a character. It's stated there that he created the shoto fighting style as a murder technique. Akuma embraced this and mastered it with the Satsui no Hado, while Gouken reshaped the shoto style to a more noble cause. Ryu briefly tapped into the Satsui no Hado during his shoryuken against Sagat, so he believed the technique could lead him to the dark path. After that, he tried to stay as far away from it as possible. Ken was more bold and brash, trying to push the shoryuken even further thinking that Ryu was being too afraid to improve. The two have a disagreement, have the fight at 45:33 and Ryu makes the first steps to evolve as a fighter while still having a good heart. So Ken wasn't actually lucky to win that fight, it was Ryu holding back on purpose. It's a good read, there's also a manga focused on Sakura that's even better and portrays her fight against Karin at 1:02:51
This is absolutely brilliant work, I watched it over three days, the humour, the info I never would have gotten had I not have watched this, top notch work my friend. Thank You!
Fun Fact about Dee Jay. In Street Fighter 2, his pants of course say MAXIMUM on them, but this wasn't originally going to be the case. Capcom originally planned for his pants to have the word "MANTIS" on them, but due to all of the character sprites being mirrored depending on the direction they face, the N and S in MANTIS wouldn't have been symmetrical. MAXIMUM has all symmetrical uppercase letters, so the word still looks the same even with the mirrored sprites.
Incredibly detailed video! Between this and your Final Fantasy retrospectives, you're definitely becoming **the** long-form content lore-historian of video games on TH-cam. Can't wait to see what's next. Though, one glaring omission from SF3 was the friendly match in the subways between Chun-Li and Ken, where she had him on the ropes until he parried a flurry of blows and responded with a knockout flurry of his own.
When you got to Akira of Rival Schools, I was thinking "this guy has to have a tekken vid". Then you later got to the Mishima Zaibatsu and casually started talking about Kirin... I always wondered "does bison know about the Mishima's and Geese Howard?" I've always forever assumed every game is connected, especially with the whole Ken being the king of "american" fighters. For the most part though, I know all this lore. I didn't know about Blanka being a boy lost in the forest after a shot down plane he fell out of.... strong kid to fall and live so it makes sense he turned into an electric green bean.
@@SmashFinale Honestly, fighting game lore in general is nucking futso. Mortal Kombat, King of Fighters, Blazblue, Guilty Gear, Dead or Alive, you name it. It's all bonkers.
18:52 actually in the Japanese version; guy literally is just some guy to Cody in final fight 1. No seriously in the jp version they never met till FF1. Cody is just mad and ranting about Jessica getting kidnapped and guy wants to fight him to prove how great his ninjutsu is, and agrees to help save Jessica as he views it as a worthy test of his skills. It’s why he decks the crap out of Cody randomly in the end. Guy then became friends afterwards seeing the righteousness in their causes and it inspired him to help the innocent in later appearances.
I genuinely think the Street Fighter 2 animated movie I had on VHS in the 90s sparked my love for Street Fighter. The characters just had... _character._ They had stories that existed outside of the tiny bit of information I got from the games at the time and really helped flesh out the world and characters.
Theres a believable theory that Luke starts the comandos in "captain comando" based on the similarities Cap and Luke have for costume design (the starts and color scheme) just like how Zeku may have started the future striders
It wouldn’t be a surprise if he going to do *The Insane Lore of Mortal Kombat* or *Killer Instinct* because both of them have really good stories. The main problem is that one of them resets the timeline.
@@jaretco6423 Johnny is more for doing individual games rather than long videos about narratives. He will mention the story, but only to the game it’s contained in.
Fun fact: as an alternate comparison to Akuma's intro into killing Bison in SF2, in Capcom Vs SNK, if you unlock the ability to fight Akuma he drops down and kills Bison in such a brutal way. He chops him and you see plasma (or clear bluish blood) splatter.
The amount of time and research that went into this is astonishing. Thank you. I’ve always been a casual fan of the series but this is making me intrigued into the lore now
Bison's Psycho Power degradation is similar to Dark Side Corruption from Star Wars and Bison's desire to be eternal is similar to the Sith and their desire to cheat death.
I and a lot of fans loved the video because it's nostalgic while giving a completely new (for me)lore and very interesting stories so being new and nostalgic at the same time is a niche we didn't know we needed but we loved it thanks bro ❤
It's only a matter of time till Clement does an Insane Lore video on the entire Sonic the Hedgehog franchise. This Absolute Canadian Giga Chad, has marathoned every single sonic game and has gone to very deep lengths talking about the story, characters, gameplay. Don't worry about replaying Sonic 06 or Lost World 3DS Clement, just use your old footage or get your fellas to help you out.
@@V-Jes That still cracks me up to this day, like they were so done with it they decided right at the ending to never wanna bring it up again, makes sense considering the shitty crunch that happened around making that game. But ig by the time Generations came out they were fine with embracing it, Sonic canon is a mess.
let's be real here, the best endings to alpha 3 are the ones where gief destroys the psycho drive by throwing honda at it, and the one where sodom blows it to hell with a bomb truck.
Dang, nearly 3 hours of lore and no mention of _Shen Long_ the strongest street fighter? Smh Excellent video Clement! Looking forward to your FF16 retrospective/review sometime in the future!
Fun fact: before Shen Long got attributed to Gouken, Street Fighter The Movie The Game tried to make their own. Apparently he would be so powerful that his power was turning him into a real dragon. This idea ended up scrapped because the costume was super low quality.
Grew up with franchise, dating back to the early 90s. Had no idea there was THIS MUCH LORE put into it. Makes me want to but the anniversary collection and Street Fighter 6. Thanks for the effort put into this video.
I'm excited for you to have to do a Smash Bros. lore video solely because there'll be several hour tangents where you just have to paste the lore videos of SF, Tekken, KOF, and every other fighting game technically featured.
Trying to do that would just be a waste of time honestly lol. Might as well just do individual lore videos for every series put in smash which is basically asking him to not make any other kind of video for most of his life.
Actually.... isn't the lore of Smash Bros just that every fighter is actually just the personification of their own creation and place in pop-culture in the video game industry as living figments of the imaginations of gamers? in Melee and Brawl we continue to get more confirmation that they are just meta-selves of the creation, in a fourth wall breaking way, by the fact that they come from a toy-box at one point, are shown as figures, and even in Smash Ultimate, become statues again when their spirit essence is drained and used to inhabit copy bodies? It's like how in Toy Story, Buzz Lightyear is not the fictional character Buzz Lightyear, he is the TOY of Buzz Lightyear. In a similar way, every character from 64 to Ultimate, is the fourth-wall breaking pop-cultural icon version of themselves and their bodies are just the constructs of people's imaginations. The characters in Smash Bros are the IDEA of video game icons and their worlds made tangible to fight and compete with one another. When you see Mario, or Simon Belmont or Sephiroth in Smash Bros, it is not their canon selves, they are the idea of our imaginations of them.
For Gouki it's possible he came to the conclusion that the Dictator and his Psycho Power wasn't worthy of a "true" fight and simply KO'd him instead. The Dictator's Psycho Power would have allowed him to recover from a beat down and then the rest of the endings happen. Street Fighter's lore is extremely convoluted but it is possible to stitch all the cannon endings in a way that would fit as long as safe assumptions are made.
Blanka, lore-wise: Such a touching story, I wish the best for you! Blanka, gameplay-wise: I hate your guts! I wish it was you instead of Nash at that waterfall!
Wait so Bison is a dictator, but we don't know for which place he was a dictator. Combine that with the fact he trained an Italian woman before he was head of Shadoloo, making him likely Italian. Is Bison, Mussolini?
The one thing that connects G and Q even more is that they have very similiar moves. Like alot of moves Q does look like degraded moves G would do, without any of the earthbending G does and without keeping balance and whatnot. Does that mean G is Q? I dunno. Maybe?
Of course Ryu has a passport. His best friend is a rich American guy, lol. My personal head canon is that Ken finances the more expensive parts of of Ryu's travels and occasionally gives him pocket money for food and such.
Fun Fact: As stated in an interview, the reason Zangief is a "Bad Guy" in the Wreck-It Ralph movie, is because the director hates grapplers.
Appearently he would always lose to Zangief when playing SF2 in the arcades, and since then he has been hard-coded as a pure Villain in his mind.
That's kinda funny because grapplers have a stigma in fighting games community that makes people salty when losing to them. Most people don't enjoy losing most of their health to a 50/50 grab mixup. It's a bit ironic though since they tend to be on the lower end of the meta strength-wise in most games.
Zangief is on the side of good an evil.
This was before Putin's pets started murdering Ukrainan civilians.
@LucaltuveThat's quite the belief you have, lol
Damn. Talk about rent-free living.
One of Cody's taunts and win poses is him pulling the cuffs off to rub his wrists implying, he could take them off anytime but chooses to keep them on for an added challenge. Gotta love that guy.
Cody is one of most powerful SF characters, they need to add a 'cuffs off' version
@@kazzykaioken8873I'm pretty sure he doesn't wear cuffs in sfv unless you put on his og outfit
Woke deejay can take on a billion bisons
Its not official canon, but Oni win quote implies if he wasnt wearing the cuffs that he could have a chance to win
The funny thing with Cody is that he doesn't use Ki or some forms of mystical technique. He just generate a tornado out of sheer physical strength.
51:07 - Dan’s gi being pink because he failed to separate his whites and colors in the wash is perfect. Can just imagine him opening the washer and whining, ‘awwww, but the fight is toodayyy! They’re gonna make fun of me!’ Then he kicks the washer and breaking his toe.
Thank you for the laugh 😂
The machine is also totally broken afterwards too though
Fun fact about Gill: The main reason he is split down the middle with red and blue is because Capcom were tired of people making fun of characters' sprites, particularly Sagat's, only flipping depending on which way they were facing. So they flexed on the haters and created a character who has 2x the amount of sprites a normal character would have to face both directions.
Wow that’s awesome! Now that’s a flex lol
TBF while they flexed with Gill the fact is that Guile still exist and the reason he has two identical tattoos is the sprite only flipping and they were forced to keep it like that ever since
Gotta love 3rd strike
It's not actually two sets of sprites. It's palette trickery. Urien can also be palmodded to have dual colors, though it's significantly more broken.
Dee Jay’s pants say “MAXIMUM” because it’s a word made up of letters that appear the same, even when flipped
Capcom should pay you for bringing everyone up to date on the lore
Makes me wish SNK approached Clement for a Fatal Fury video since MotW2 is coming soon.
Copyright strikes his video instead
Pay him because he taught their franchise story on TH-cam by using their sites.......infos.....that people are too lazy to simply consult..........
@@hikari67 Everyone can do their own taxes but everyone usually pays someone to do it instead, right?
@@polarbear138I do my own taxes it's not that hard
Mike Haggar literally kicked an entire city's ass near single handedly, he's practically a Baki character.
and yet he doesn't get enough love
Man, now I wanna see Haggar fight Zangief.
Yujiro Hanma and Akuma are just watching this go down.
Didn't he have help from Cody and Guy though?
Fun Fact: Dhalsims fire is only but an illusion as stated by one of his win quotes. His mental powers are kinda crazy
But then there's Ken, Lucia and Gill actually channeling fire and other characters with elemental affinities, guess Dhalsim's humble lol
@@MagillanicaLouM They are working with actual fire. Dhalsims is some weird psychic attack on the mind that takes the form of fire.
He’s literally gaslighting
@@larvaedadindex LMAO
That's hilarious, thank you for sharing.
Ryu is actually quite rich, Ken opened a bank account in his name and put all of Ryu's winnings in there. Ken also donates some cash every now and then.
Chun-li forced Ryu to pick up some new clothes so it's easier for him to travel in airports.
He also has a cell phone that Ken gave him to call on, but he isn't that good with technology until the events of World tour
That's so cute, Ken is such a great friend
So Ryu is self-made, and that wasn't even his goal. That's impressive. 😊 And I don't think I need to say this, but Ken and Chun-Li are my kind of friends. ❤
He's kinda lie KIRYU from Yakuza, basically
@@KillaD69 he just swims from country to country 😂😂
Ryu trying to message you on his phone in World Tour is just adorable! and I like that he gets better over time while training the protag
In this near 3 hour video covering 30+ years of lore, the biggest eye-opener for me was GUILE’S FIRST NAME IS WILLIAM?!
William F. Guile😂.
Does his wife call him Bill? Or Billy🤣
@@Mikhael366 His wife also calls him Guile
Nash is sometimes called Charlie
I had that burned into my mind by the SF cartoon (the infamously bad one), because every episode starts with the narrator saying "Colonel William Guile..."
fun fact: Guile and Ken are actually brothers-in-law not stepbrothers
Karin's anime archetype is "The Ojou": the upper-class/rich girl. They tend to be haughty, have tsundere tendencies, and invariably have a hidden heart of gold, deep down.
The maniacal laugh is colloquially referred to as the "Noblewoman's laugh".
There's nothing that says the ojou needs to be good; the ojou is just as likely to be a rich bitch without the complications of a heart of gold.
The term refers to a girl from a high-status family, which may or may not actually have wealth and/or a noble title. And it almost always refers to a girl, because they tend to be married off for dynastic purposes, even when they're merely rich commoners.
more like "OHOHOjou-sama" :3
Ah, the Shantotto.
Also the drill hairstyle. Very common in the ojou-sama archetype.
Yup. Just like Lilli from Tekken
“Remember 2 hours ago?…” is wild
The reason sagat was built up as a villain was due to the rivalry Karate had with Muay Thai back in the 80s and 90s.
Just a bit of a correction, if Ken and Guile's respective wives are sisters, that makes them brothers in law, not step brothers
Yeah I learned that from Palutena’s Guidance in Smash Ultimate
@@reececollins9212same
This
Yes. He literally shows a victory screen where Ken says this in that moment lmao.
@@Majin_Xavierrasyes, but he does call them step brothers lmao.
There actually is a thing that pointed out from Ryu's own perspective that he does have a home, he does have shoes and other things, he just doesn't use them much thanks to all his worldly traveling.
Plus there's that player title in SF6 implying that he might be "secretly rich" 🤔
Also, Chun-Li took him shopping for new clothes at some point
Ryu's favorite costume is a tracksuit with sakura petal designs. According to sf6 world tour mode.
@charleshastings7260finally a rich character that actually helps his friends out 🗿
@charleshastings7260 holy shit, Ken's the broest of bros!
Fun Fact: 2:32:12 Akuma actually takes the picture instead of Elena because Elena hands are wrapped around Akuma
That's unusually wholesome in my book. 😊
1:03:14 - that, my friend, is the ojousama trope. The signature “ohoho!” laugh that accompanies it involves a hand out over the mouth because back in the older days, when class and social status defined everything, a high class woman’s laugh was deemed too pure to be witnessed by public commoners.
Nowadays, the ojousama (madam, girl/woman of high social status/class) is used to describe a snooty rich girl with an inflated ego, and the laugh is the cherry on top of the sundae that is this character trope.
So frieza then.
It’s also just a common polite action in Japan to cover one’s moth when laughing. They refer to a western open mouthed laugh as a “horse laugh” that is akin to a horse neighing. It’s, like most western things, considered boorish.
Love it. In anime it always makes me chuckle
Also known as the hime-dere.
I think it is still the same thing in Japan... Except change Commoners with Low Class. Same thing
When you think about it, the story of Street Fighter 2 is kinda like a lot of movies during the Cold War period that waned American and Russia to "just stop fighting and bring world peace." In SF2's case is was basically having the strongest powers and countries come together and beat up the most evil man ever.
Imagine if Rocky 4 was actually the story of Rocky and Ivan Drago teaming up to defeat Satan.
That sounds like a cool cheesy movie.
Hell yeah bruh sounds sick
They would have, but Satan runs Hollywood and wouldn't allow such anti-satan propaganda to be released.
1:28:20 Ken and Guile are NOT step brothers. Step brother would mean Ken's mom married Guile's father. Instead, they are brothers in law.
It’s really funny how SF6’s world tour shows that Metro City just follows beat ‘em up logic even outside of an arcade game, the place and people are just like that
Is it just me, or is every story event involving Blanka the most heartwarming stuff?
true
He’s like a big green puppy
Kaboom
He is pure baby
Tell that to a wild Pikachu.
I love how Gil made up a whole new position just to tell Urien to go fuck himself, he's so petty he made a new position just in case he lost, hell maybe he was going to make Urien president anyway if he wins just to spite him as emperor.
The prophecy stated that the Emperor would lose as the president. So he just let Urien win to make everyone happy.
The prophecy was true since Gill got the glow lol😂
You forgot to mention that Vega’s backstory involved him killing his ugly stepfather who killed his mother and how that skewed his view on beauty and it’s how it aligns with morality. Also how Geki was the one who taught him Ninjutsu and gave him his claw.
Where did you hear the part about Geki?
@@charlieharrington9555 They literally share moves and a claw, dude.
@@waypastcoolkid that doesnt necessarily mean thats the lore. But Im with you on it until something else contradicts that. I love Deep Lore.
@@waypastcoolkidso you just made that up then?
@@waypastcoolkid Thats also False dude. Cause VEGA doesn't teleport, your logic is like saying random NARUTO ninja tought another one how to use a shuriken, just becuase they both use shurikens. Don't be spreading false facts - comming out of what you believe, not what you know, there's a difference.... Beliefs =/= Knowledge - on the internet, that's just weird
One detail about G/Q I'm surprised wasn't mentioned is that they share the majority of their movesets. But while G is charismatic and moxious, Q seems almost like he's being puppetted by someone else, even sounding like he'sin pain at times. His movements are stiffer and more awkward - literally tripping over himself at times. There is a pretty great video doing a side-by-side that really shows the degeneration in the movements.
Not only that, but everyone who is electrocuted shows an X-ray image of bones. But when Q is electrocuted, it looks metallic. I'm willing to bet Q is a doll version of G.
If you compare Q's heavy kick attacks to their G equivalent you can see how Q just flops to the ground. Also he has an incomplete version of the deadly double combination that G has. Bro is going through a rough time
Back heavy kick is literally just Q falling over and hitting you with his flailing leg.
Cammy being Bison`s lover is a pure mistranslation. In original Japanese he said the she was his clone
That twist would be pretty cool, not going to lie
About the skulls on Dalshim.
He says they were the skulls of children dead of illness and famish in the second volume of Street Fighter 2 the comics, during his fight against Ryu.
During said fight, he has Ryu cornered, but keep hearing the supplication of the spirits of the children, which allows Ryu to do à sho-Ryu-ken
Said attacks shatters the skulls qave Dalhsim, as at this point the shoryuken was a death sentence. Dalhsim consider himself foolish to have entered the fight as it was not virtuous, and believes that beating up good people for money is not what they would have wanted.
I believe the pete holmes version is cannon.
Fun fact: Akuma did not kill Gen at the end of SFV, he actually found out that Gen was suffering from leukemia before the finishing blow was thrown. Knowing that, Akuma just spared Gen, hoping one day they would have a rematch when they are all healthy.
Edit: it wasn't at the end of SFV, it was in SF Alpha 2, I think so.
Kinda makes me think of AVP where the Predator spares the president because he had respiratory issues. Only to get a flamethrower to his back and he turns and kills the man anyway
Is there a source for that?
@@simple11q oh shit i think i screwed up. His health issue was indeed true, and Akuma nearly killed him once, but not at the end of SFV. It is officially unknown if Gen has died or survived his latest fight with Akuma.
@@namnasuu I believe it was Alpha 1/2 where Gouki spared Gen
I know this was insanely difficult to make and you put a lot of time and effort into this. Just want to say thank you for doing so and keep it up!
Clement going from Tekken to Street Fighter lore just feels so good, as both a lifelong fan of each series and an avid watcher of his content since 2012
Hopefully he does all the fighting game series. They all have wacky storylines.
@@RichSmithsonabsolutely agree
If he does mortal kombat and kof then he's got the big 4 from the arcade days covered
@RichSmithson the day he does kof is the day a 4+ hour video gets uploaded to his channel lol
@@TheRealMoeru he might need to separate it to two or more videos with how truly insane the King of Fighters lore can be... and that's not even getting into the many manga and manhwa tie-ins that just get even more insane than the games' stories.
To clarify a thing about Akuma and Bison...
Akuma definitely did kill a Bison, but with him being able to jump into bodies he was able to survive the encounter. The Aftermath event was likely between SF2 (officially taking place in 1991) and SF4 (1994 is when Seth decided to have SIN split from Shadoloo) due to how all those fighters were gathered together in a random place and not some elaborate location. The Street Fighter Wiki has a source stating the 1994 date comes from the Street Fighter Memorial Archives Beyond the World. So it is entirely possible both Akuma destroying Bison and his self-destruct happened.
As for why Bison isn't focused on Akuma, the same reason Akuma is focused on Ryu: he has more potential that makes them worthy. At that point, Ryu could be influenced by the Satsui No Hado or the Psycho Power to become the most powerful fighter. All he needs is a strong influence. So while Bison may have issues with Akuma, Ryu is still the ultimate body for him to possess so why bother when you can get rid of your body like if it was an old car and get a newer, better one.
Akuma and Bison never fought, never met, no interaction in the canon timeline. The event goes against established canon.
@@ouranos0101 There's a frikkin cutscene where he one shots M. Bison in SF2. Even the 30th Anniversary Profile states he challenged Bison.
@@AkumaTh not canon.
@@AkumaTh Are you familiar with the concept of retcons? Sequels after SF2 retroactively overwrite and rewrite SF2's events. Sequels also establish which of the endings end up becoming canon and which remain completely or partially "what ifs".
Bison and Akuma never canonically met as of the modern SF era starting with SF4. They literally act like they don't know each other. Bison's only encounter with the SNH is from Ryu himself. The only thing Bison and Akuma have in common is their infatuation with Ryu.
@@ouranos0101 Again, 30th Anniversary SF Profile, which was released in 2018, with only had SFV Champion Edition and SF6 coming after, and thus came after the Aftermath stuff, States Akuma Challenged Bison.
They have met and it is canon. Nothing in the new update or 6 contradicts that fact.
I know that there are alot of great characters, but I really love Sagat's story. He's the embodiement of redemption and self improvement
The name "Seth" is actually a biblical reference. Seth was the son that replaced Abel in the Bible after he was killed by Cain, just like how Seth in SF replaced Abel when he escaped and was possibly assumed dead
Sadly, it’s kind of a black mark on such an otherwise well-researched and comprehensive lore video that he missed what is a pretty obvious reference from Genesis.
@@DarthBoardBVEIt's only obvious if you have knowledge of the Bible. Not everyone is familiar with it.
@@DarthBoardBVEnot everyone has studied the bible
@@DarthBoardBVE agreed
Kinda surprise he missed such an important reference.
In the name of Kane!
Small correction: Bison was taught how to use Psycho Power by his master before he killed him, his Soul Power didn't "turn into" Psycho Power.
At 29:11 there’s a bio from the Street Fighter Anniversary Collection that says different, but then again, I’ve noticed other things within those bios that are contradictory with what is established.
Weeb
Bison learned his power was from rose
Do we know who his master was?
@@dereksable9941 other way around. See Rose’s alpha 3 ending.
Just wanted to say, watching the whole thing felt like a Herculean effort.
Can’t imagine the work it took to make this! Thanks for putting it together.
The most hilarious thing about Akuma is that he never actually permanently kills *anyone*
I mean... technically... very few fighting game characters have.
He kills Gen for good in SFV, but that's still only one guy.
His master
@@logie9672 he'll probably be back too eventually.
@@bungieman2810wasn’t gen already dying? I thought he killed him out of “respect “ better to die in battle than to an illness
20:13 "only trust your fists. police will never help you"
astronomically based
Oh.. to watch them bleed 🩸
realest
In Ryu's first fight against Sagat, Sagat acually wins but when he showed Ryu good sportsmanship by offering a hand for him to get up Ryu was taken over by the obsesion to win and shoryuken Sagat by surprise leaving him the scar and close to death. Ryu walks away confused and Sagat hold on to dear life by a thread of vengeful desire.
It is my headcanon that Akuma did beat Bison in Street Fighter 2, but he did it so hard, Bison just shat himself, fled (which then ends up him getting cornered again and blowing himself up) and decided to never want to deal with Akuma ever again.
This actually explains why he blows him self up for no reason. Since he knew Akuma was coming for him. It doesn’t really make sense any other way.
@@404_nowheresnotfound3rugal
Do that mess all the time on KOF
After the defeat.
No congratulations, no thanks
Just blows the place up with him
In it.
Rugal from KOF loses a fight he blows
The whole place up like WTF.
He hates losing.😂
@@404_nowheresnotfound3rugal
From KOF would like a word with you.😂
for me, Bison never saw it happen. He got ready to start the fight, BAM! * dies 1k deaths* barely survives since his soul straight ejected, wakes up on the floor later, assuming Ryu beat his ass.🤣
It's actually satisfying to know that Street Fighter and Final Fight are in the same universe.
I'm just trying to figure out which Mega Man timeline Street Fighter is connected to. There's references between SF and the Classic timeline, but SF6 has the Battle Network version of MegaMan's symbol on a chip in the Story Mode.
And are all these games fictional in the Dead Rising universe? What about Resident Evil? Is Luke Captain Commando? What about Viewtiful Joe?! Devil May Cry!? Phoenix Wright?!?
Strider and Rival Schools also take place in this universe
@@MegaManXPoweredUp Battle Network is alternate to the classic/mainline but crosses over with it. The answer is, genuinely, "both".
Battle Network canonically time-travels (it can cross over within its own timeline (with Star Force), several hundred years into other series' futures (it crosses over with the Boktai/Lunar Knights series, BN4 to Boktai 2, BN5 to Boktai 3, BN6 to Lunar Knights), and with Megaman Zero 3 in BN4).
Megaman also crosses over at the Zero era with SvC Chaos, where Zero gets displaced but still has radio communications with Ciel.
Oh and in Marvel VS Capcom X era X and Zero show up, so...
...And in Tatsunoko VS Capcom we even see both Roll and Zero together so they can even still have time travel with each other.
The timeline answer is that the Megaman timelines SF connects to is "all of them, and at multiple points in time, because MegaMan apparently has common enough time travel shenanigans that they could have a giant multi-generation party over at Ryu's place if they wanted to.
(Remember, Megaman has robots that manipulate time AND canonical time travel machines.)
Edit: but for the purposes of placing *Doctor Light* in this: it might be at around MM9's time, since Chun-Li is the news reporter there.
Yeah. I think it's really cool. 😊
capcom doesnt need marvel at all, they already have a full beautiful universe to create ultimate capcom all star fighting game...
also, where does monster hunter and phoenix wright fit in? lol@@Exlayer-pk8hy
I don't know much about street fighter. I really appreciated this video. You are so enthusiastic while being condescendingly sarcastic. Very satirical. I loved it. Thank you.
As a lore addict, I NEEDED this.
If you so addicted to lore. Now can you watch 6 hours Metal Gear lore by Suggestive Gaming??
@@NoobGamer64-gj4ic
I mean, cuz it was interesting. Besides, it's not like I wasn't already aware of the lore already. Plus, it's fun to see how other ppl interpret it or fill in the blanks. Besides, it's not like ppl need to watch it all at once.
@@LongTran-kp3kzU know a lot of RE series?
@@OkayLyo
If you mean lore, then yeah. I'm pretty knowledgeable about the RE series.
im gonna watch it right now@@NoobGamer64-gj4ic
Thanks for clearing up the ‘Rose is the incarnation of Bison’s good side’ issue. Rose is her own person who had part of Bison’s soul.
I just bought Street Fighter 6 last night with absolutely no Street Fighter experience beforehand (beyond playing some arcade version on emulators almost 20 years ago) and had a blast playing couch matches last night. But I wanted to know some of the backstories for the characters, and that’s how I found this video. Thanks for making this, since I feel like I have a pretty clear image of what has happened now. I am excited for Akuma to be playable at some point. I was a little shocked to see how many characters the last game had!
the roster for 6 is complete ass, iits basically just street fighter 2 with a few new ones
@@thefreshvince879coming on slowly
Theyre adding bison soon too
Fun fact: Dan Hibiki's gi is based on the gi of Judo Gene LaBell, the legend who won the first real mixed rule fight against a boxer in the early 1960s. He then worked as a stuntman and was Ronda Rousey's honorary uncle. He actually got his pink gi the same way the first time.
No, hes based on Ryo because Capcom thought SNK was copying them
@@scrubtoilet44He’s saying the gi, not Dan himself.
also, gene labell made steven seagal piss himself.
story goes that on the set of a movie, seagal bragged about how, thanks to his uber cia/aikido/bullshido training, it was impossible for him to be choked out. gene was actually a stunt-coordinator and already had a problem with him since seagal is notorious for being extra violent with stunt men. like he would legit hit them and send them to the hospital. gene took the challenge and with his permission, locked steven in a rear naked choke. steven tried to get out of it but sadly for him, he didn't know how to get out of it and promptly passed out. then he either pissed himself, shit himself or a combination of both. either way, his pants were not clean afterwards. of course, steven denies this took place but gene and several other people have confirmed that it indeed happened.
@@maxacorn see this story perfectly illustrates those who pretend they're chads by blowing hot air and those who actually are but they stay humble, awesome guy
LaBell didn't have shit on real martial artists like Ashida Kim!
Luckily the name switch fits them well, since Vega is a very spanish surname, M. Bison is such a dictator name and Balrog surely conveys the dude is able to punch a bull as a warmup
Dude I’m not even joking I was literally like “damn, I should probably catch up on the street fighter lore before I play sf6” and then behold this at the top of my recommended
My dude, your ability to weave the absolute catastrophuck of lore that amounts to the Street Fighter canon into a single vid is stunning enough on its own, but *then you made that shit chronological and sensical* [relatively]. Fantastic work.
"calls Cammie gay for a doll" completely forgetting they're supposedly sisters
Oh boy thats another completely different can of worms.
@@coleabraham4350and I'm all for it
I dont like it, *we* dont like it, but we have to face the facts that Japan loves to fetishize the 'we're not blood related so fcking my sister is fine' thing in fictional media, it sells so it could very much be a thing...
:/
I'm not sure if someone else has pointed it out already, but… Super Street Fighter II Cammy's ending wasn't retconed, it was retranslated.
Small immediate correction.
Goutetsu always used the Satsui No Hadou. He could use it at will. It was Gouken that refined the techniques to make it so they no longer required using killing intent. This is why Gouken was chosen as the successor to Goutetsu (which angered Gouki). Gouken actually evolved the techniques.
The technique Gouki perfected was the Shun Goku Satsu and Goutetsu died happily because he wasn't able to use that technique...so both his students had surpassed him in different ways.
Its confirmed that Akuma killed M. Bison.
Clement is the definition of quality over quantity.
Facts
And the crazy part about that is there’s a shit ton of quantity too lol
Quality? His audio is terrible!
@@XXXXX8they mean the video and the details in it.
@@ItzDr3FTLFor real. His Let’s Plays were really well-played and thorough.
The fact that street fighter 6 world tour has it taking place in Metro City in EVERY prequel it connects there. Its wild.
"The longest win quotes of any fighting game character i've ever seen"
you would absolutely love (or hate) Xrd Bedman
Clement really pivoted and made his channel for the modern TH-cam landscape and he’s winning. This is awesome.
I love this video. You gave me literally a weeks worth of content, for my evening routine. So I just wanted to say thank you, Clement.
There's a really awkward common misconception involved with Goutetsu and the Satsui no Hadou:
Typically, most martial arts masters disdain "forbidden techniques" and such, but Goutetsu was actually all for it, so when Goutetsu got killed by the Shun Goku Satsu, he was proud a pupil of his was able to tap into what he felt was the pinnacle of the martial art he invented.
Spin-offs and adaptations proceeded to disregard that and follow the cliche of the Master forbidding such things and being disappointed a pupil would go down such a dark path.
Goutetsu INVENTED his martial art with the intent to kill. He just couldn't tap into the Satsui no Hadou as good as Akuma would be able to later on.
It was GOUKEN who stepped back and thought a killing martial art would be a bad idea, so he went over what he learned and turned down the lethality of the techniques so it could be passed down safely.
If creators wanted that cliche virtuous martial arts master, they already had it in Gouken. Having Goutetsu be that way would render Gouken redundant and borerdline pointless.
Honestly that sound much more badass and interesting. Makes Gouken stand out more, same for Gotetsu.
I’m genuinely curious where is your source on this about Goutetsu?
@@carlbloke8797 The Street Fighter Alpha manga released back in the 90s explains the whole backstory of Gouken, Akuma, Goutetsu and so on. As far as I know, that's where Goutetsu originated as a character. It's stated there that he created the shoto fighting style as a murder technique. Akuma embraced this and mastered it with the Satsui no Hado, while Gouken reshaped the shoto style to a more noble cause. Ryu briefly tapped into the Satsui no Hado during his shoryuken against Sagat, so he believed the technique could lead him to the dark path. After that, he tried to stay as far away from it as possible. Ken was more bold and brash, trying to push the shoryuken even further thinking that Ryu was being too afraid to improve. The two have a disagreement, have the fight at 45:33 and Ryu makes the first steps to evolve as a fighter while still having a good heart. So Ken wasn't actually lucky to win that fight, it was Ryu holding back on purpose. It's a good read, there's also a manga focused on Sakura that's even better and portrays her fight against Karin at 1:02:51
@@bulb9970the "shoto fighting style" is called Ansatsuken, I believe.
Ryu's kind of endearing, honestly. Dude's just an extremely straightforward meathead in a world where the Illuminati is a Thing That Exists.
This is absolutely brilliant work, I watched it over three days, the humour, the info I never would have gotten had I not have watched this, top notch work my friend. Thank You!
Fun Fact about Dee Jay. In Street Fighter 2, his pants of course say MAXIMUM on them, but this wasn't originally going to be the case. Capcom originally planned for his pants to have the word "MANTIS" on them, but due to all of the character sprites being mirrored depending on the direction they face, the N and S in MANTIS wouldn't have been symmetrical. MAXIMUM has all symmetrical uppercase letters, so the word still looks the same even with the mirrored sprites.
Incredibly detailed video! Between this and your Final Fantasy retrospectives, you're definitely becoming **the** long-form content lore-historian of video games on TH-cam. Can't wait to see what's next.
Though, one glaring omission from SF3 was the friendly match in the subways between Chun-Li and Ken, where she had him on the ropes until he parried a flurry of blows and responded with a knockout flurry of his own.
That was the iconic Evo Moment 37
Wait, is that actually canon?!
@@JustSomeMexicanwithaMustache no, but it’s such a legendary moment that it might as well be
When you got to Akira of Rival Schools, I was thinking "this guy has to have a tekken vid".
Then you later got to the Mishima Zaibatsu and casually started talking about Kirin...
I always wondered "does bison know about the Mishima's and Geese Howard?"
I've always forever assumed every game is connected, especially with the whole Ken being the king of "american" fighters.
For the most part though, I know all this lore. I didn't know about Blanka being a boy lost in the forest after a shot down plane he fell out of.... strong kid to fall and live so it makes sense he turned into an electric green bean.
Just heard the tek ken mention of vid.... guess what im watching next? Lol.
(Yes i just got here)
If Clement is gonna do "The Insane Lore of Mortal Kombat" in September, we're gonna have to do "The Insane Lore of Kingdom Hearts"
I would love to see that. I would also love to know his opinion on Kingdom Hearts is. 😊
NovaZone already did a fantastic retrospective on KH.
Also, Clement should do King of Fighters instead of Mortal Kombat. KoF lore is nucking futso.
NOOOOOOOOOO
@@SmashFinale Honestly, fighting game lore in general is nucking futso. Mortal Kombat, King of Fighters, Blazblue, Guilty Gear, Dead or Alive, you name it. It's all bonkers.
The power of Kingdom Hearts is too much for any mortal youtuber
I hope you update this to include street fighter 6.
You really, truly have found your niche! A soul calibur or KI lore video would be great as well.
Elena taking a selfie with Akuma might be the most insane feat in the Street Fighter lore
18:52 actually in the Japanese version; guy literally is just some guy to Cody in final fight 1. No seriously in the jp version they never met till FF1. Cody is just mad and ranting about Jessica getting kidnapped and guy wants to fight him to prove how great his ninjutsu is, and agrees to help save Jessica as he views it as a worthy test of his skills. It’s why he decks the crap out of Cody randomly in the end. Guy then became friends afterwards seeing the righteousness in their causes and it inspired him to help the innocent in later appearances.
That's hilarious
If Street fighter is the granddaddy of fighting games, would Mortal Kombat that dirty uncle that allows you to drink beer and smoke when you're 14?
Pretty much Lmao
I genuinely think the Street Fighter 2 animated movie I had on VHS in the 90s sparked my love for Street Fighter.
The characters just had... _character._ They had stories that existed outside of the tiny bit of information I got from the games at the time and really helped flesh out the world and characters.
That Insane lore of Tekken is a masterpiece 👑
Theres a believable theory that Luke starts the comandos in "captain comando" based on the similarities Cap and Luke have for costume design (the starts and color scheme) just like how Zeku may have started the future striders
This Dan guy reminds me a lot of Hercules from Dbz. Joke character, fake teacher, fake skills, has his own dojo/school.
It wouldn’t be a surprise if he going to do *The Insane Lore of Mortal Kombat* or *Killer Instinct* because both of them have really good stories. The main problem is that one of them resets the timeline.
Resets the timeline... multiple times!
@@dnkakusei
How often has MK done that?
@@AlexThat200 Twice.
@@jaretco6423
Johnny is more for doing individual games rather than long videos about narratives.
He will mention the story, but only to the game it’s contained in.
Would rather see Killer Instinct as a Million people have done MK already... but seeing as how MK1 is about to come out...
As a lifelong Street Fighter fan and Capcom fanboy in general, this video is amazing to me. Thanks, Clement!
Fun fact: as an alternate comparison to Akuma's intro into killing Bison in SF2, in Capcom Vs SNK, if you unlock the ability to fight Akuma he drops down and kills Bison in such a brutal way. He chops him and you see plasma (or clear bluish blood) splatter.
The amount of time and research that went into this is astonishing. Thank you. I’ve always been a casual fan of the series but this is making me intrigued into the lore now
Bison's Psycho Power degradation is similar to Dark Side Corruption from Star Wars and Bison's desire to be eternal is similar to the Sith and their desire to cheat death.
That is not the desire of the Sith as a whole, only of Plaguis and Palpatine. Bison and Palpatine share many many parallels for this in fact.
Yes yes, everything is Star Wars 🙄
I and a lot of fans loved the video because it's nostalgic while giving a completely new (for me)lore and very interesting stories so being new and nostalgic at the same time is a niche we didn't know we needed but we loved it thanks bro ❤
It's only a matter of time till Clement does an Insane Lore video on the entire Sonic the Hedgehog franchise.
This Absolute Canadian Giga Chad, has marathoned every single sonic game and has gone to very deep lengths talking about the story, characters, gameplay.
Don't worry about replaying Sonic 06 or Lost World 3DS Clement, just use your old footage or get your fellas to help you out.
Knowing him he’d deliberately miss out 06 if he did a lore video on the series 😅
My man spent over a decade trying to play through every sonic game.
Give him some time off of the franchise.
@BH-98 to be fair, that game retconned itself out of the series canon, meaning there is no reason to bring it up when talking about canon games.
@@V-Jes That still cracks me up to this day, like they were so done with it they decided right at the ending to never wanna bring it up again, makes sense considering the shitty crunch that happened around making that game. But ig by the time Generations came out they were fine with embracing it, Sonic canon is a mess.
Just for the record, those ain't helmets on Hakan's kids. That's their hair which obviously they have their dad's genes to thank for
let's be real here, the best endings to alpha 3 are the ones where gief destroys the psycho drive by throwing honda at it, and the one where sodom blows it to hell with a bomb truck.
Dang, nearly 3 hours of lore and no mention of _Shen Long_ the strongest street fighter? Smh
Excellent video Clement! Looking forward to your FF16 retrospective/review sometime in the future!
Fun fact: before Shen Long got attributed to Gouken, Street Fighter The Movie The Game tried to make their own. Apparently he would be so powerful that his power was turning him into a real dragon. This idea ended up scrapped because the costume was super low quality.
Grew up with franchise, dating back to the early 90s. Had no idea there was THIS MUCH LORE put into it. Makes me want to but the anniversary collection and Street Fighter 6. Thanks for the effort put into this video.
“I sense nervous energy”
*”I LOVE HER”*
😂😂😂
I'm excited for you to have to do a Smash Bros. lore video solely because there'll be several hour tangents where you just have to paste the lore videos of SF, Tekken, KOF, and every other fighting game technically featured.
Trying to do that would just be a waste of time honestly lol. Might as well just do individual lore videos for every series put in smash which is basically asking him to not make any other kind of video for most of his life.
Actually.... isn't the lore of Smash Bros just that every fighter is actually just the personification of their own creation and place in pop-culture in the video game industry as living figments of the imaginations of gamers? in Melee and Brawl we continue to get more confirmation that they are just meta-selves of the creation, in a fourth wall breaking way, by the fact that they come from a toy-box at one point, are shown as figures, and even in Smash Ultimate, become statues again when their spirit essence is drained and used to inhabit copy bodies? It's like how in Toy Story, Buzz Lightyear is not the fictional character Buzz Lightyear, he is the TOY of Buzz Lightyear. In a similar way, every character from 64 to Ultimate, is the fourth-wall breaking pop-cultural icon version of themselves and their bodies are just the constructs of people's imaginations. The characters in Smash Bros are the IDEA of video game icons and their worlds made tangible to fight and compete with one another. When you see Mario, or Simon Belmont or Sephiroth in Smash Bros, it is not their canon selves, they are the idea of our imaginations of them.
@the-NightStar and then you have kid icarus where the events of smash bros are apparently canon to the series
@@the-NightStar that would explain why the locations in subspace emissary feel so random and more imaginary with the characters.
"She saves Li-feng for what it's hopefully a last time" Yeah.... Cue Street Fighter 6 people kidnapping Li Feng again. Lmao
such a BADASS video, I am only sorry that I found it so late! I look forward to whatever you do in the future, props to you good sir!
Loving the voices Clement puts on for the character dialogue moments, 1:10:23 for example, he's so into it!
Clement has been voicing the characters (when there are only texts) in his LPs since the beginning, and he always gives his all when doing it!
For Gouki it's possible he came to the conclusion that the Dictator and his Psycho Power wasn't worthy of a "true" fight and simply KO'd him instead. The Dictator's Psycho Power would have allowed him to recover from a beat down and then the rest of the endings happen. Street Fighter's lore is extremely convoluted but it is possible to stitch all the cannon endings in a way that would fit as long as safe assumptions are made.
Used his original name, didn't clarify that it was Akuma, based af.
@_Kenshin you do realize he was giving you a compliment right? Not complaining
I don't know if I've ever clashed so much with someone's voice and narration style but the video is very well researched
Blanka, lore-wise: Such a touching story, I wish the best for you!
Blanka, gameplay-wise: I hate your guts! I wish it was you instead of Nash at that waterfall!
Clement your tekken video literally got me into the series, and as a street fighter fan I’m so excited to see this be real
dude this video is nothing short of amazing. I never really took the time to study the street fighter lore and i had no idea how dope it actually is.
I’ve been watching you since 2012 Clement, and your evolution as a creator is amazing. Keep changing, improving and doing what interests you man!
"We were waiting for ya, kiddo. Welcome to the Masters Family" 😢
Wait so Bison is a dictator, but we don't know for which place he was a dictator. Combine that with the fact he trained an Italian woman before he was head of Shadoloo, making him likely Italian. Is Bison, Mussolini?
The one thing that connects G and Q even more is that they have very similiar moves. Like alot of moves Q does look like degraded moves G would do, without any of the earthbending G does and without keeping balance and whatnot.
Does that mean G is Q? I dunno. Maybe?
Of course Ryu has a passport. His best friend is a rich American guy, lol. My personal head canon is that Ken finances the more expensive parts of of Ryu's travels and occasionally gives him pocket money for food and such.
40:24 “he can float in the air. I’m not sure how but he can” lol 😂
The true lore lies in the heart of battle.
Mind blowing research man! Hats off to you.
"The Saturday Night Slam Masters" is absolutely gonna be my new D&D group name.