Franchise: Street Fighter

According to Street Fighter V director Takayuki Nakayama, Ed's name was the result of a mix up from the development staff at the time.


The ending in question is Balrog's ending in Street Fighter IV.

According to Capcom USA's Product Manager Scott Smith, the reason why Gouki's name was changed to Akuma for the international release of Super Street Fighter II Turbo is because Capcom USA felt there were too many characters whose name had the letter G. Scott Smith, who was tasked with coming up with a new name, chose the name 'Akuma' based on a news story from Japan where people were trying to name their child after the devil but the government wouldn't let them. Mr. Smith looked up devil in Japanese and found the name Akuma.

According to Capcom Japan translator Tom Shirawa, the reason why Nash's name was changed to Charlie for the international release is because the people at Capcom U.S.A did not like it. Nash wasn't an English name and he's supposed to be a U.S. soldier, so they felt that players could not connect with the character and suggested the name Charlie instead.

Capcom eventually decided to merge the two names into 'Charlie Nash' for Street Fighter IV.

At one point around November 2004, Capcom Japan sold the rights of the Street Fighter IP to its American subsidiary Capcom USA. The rights were reacquired by Capcom Japan in April 2021.

When Rashid was unveiled as a playable character in Street Fighter V, his specific nationality was unknown, with players only knowing that he was Middle Eastern. However, in 2022 when the entire playable base game roster and first wave of DLC of Street Fighter 6 was leaked, it revealed a more specific country he was from, with Rashid confirmed as being Saudi Arabian.

In the 1993 movie "City Hunter", there's a scene where Kim, who is Colonel MacDonald's main henchman, throws Ryo Saeba into a Street Fighter World Warrior arcade machine, where he suffers an electric shock and hallucinates Kim into Ken from the game. Ryo turns into E.Honda (renamed as E.Honde due to Jackie Chan's contract with Mitsubishi preventing any legal issues with the Honda brand) and Chun-Li, while his friends turn into both Guile and Dhalsim, who successfully defeat Kim/Ken. The music and sound effects are used exactly from the SNES version of World Warrior, and the artwork on the walls were drawn by Shoei Okano.

Captain Commando is commonly believed to be set in the future of the Street Fighter universe due to its numerous references to another series set in the same universe, Final Fight. Specific examples of this include Captain Commando taking place in Metro City (a recurring location from both Final Fight and Street Fighter) and Ginzu being trained in the fictional Bushinryu Ninjutsu style of fighting used by Guy. The latter connection would be elaborated on by Street Fighter 6 director Takayuki Nakayama, who revealed that Ginzu's father Gou (a character who had previously only appeared in concept art) would eventually succeed Guy as the 40th Bushinryu Grandmaster, with Ginzu eventually becoming the 41st Grandmaster.

Gou would later make his official debut in Street Fighter 6's World Tour mode during Kimberly's second memory dialogue, where she mentions how she was easily beaten by him. His appearance here depicts him wearing a purple version of Guy's Bushinryu outfit (similar to Ginzu's uniform) and holding a katana similar to Ginzu's signature weapon Lightning Light. Another reference in World Tour mode comes in the form of Carol, one of the minor enemies from Captain Commando appearing as an opponent during the "Fighty Mighty" mission quest. Her appearance is loosely based on her in-game sprite, wearing a blue tank top and pants as well as having pink hair (though here it's depicted as being straight rather than a ponytail), and her dialogue upon being beaten alludes to her role as a criminal in the original game: "Reminds me of old times, back when I was involved in some...slightly unscrupulous business."

However, there is one detail that brings this theory into question. In the Character Reference section of the Street Fighter V Shadaloo Combat Research Institute website, the profile for Yuta Homura mentions that he can clear Captain Commando using Mack the Knife (under his Japanese name Jenetty, "ジェネティー") with a single credit. The game is not mentioned by name though, and is instead referred to as an unspecified "beat'em up action game".