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Street Fighter is a fighting video game series by Capcom. Use for questions related to the story, as related in the video games, TV series and movies. Questions about video game mechanics are off-topic.

Street Fighter (ストリートファイター) is a series of fighting video games by Capcom. Originally released in 1987 for the arcades, there have been 5 directly named versions, as well as several cameos in other Capcom games.

There have been many media spinoffs, including

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What exactly is a Hadouken?

The Hadouken is an iconic attack in Street Fighter that appears to produce flames. But what exactly is it? I skimmed the Street Fighter Wiki, but it just says that it's "energy" that is "as warm as normal body temperature, contrary to popular belief…
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In Street Fighter, what does the M stand for in M Bison?

We keep referring to the leader of the international terrorist group called Shadoloo as M Bison. What really does M stand for?
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Is Akuma Ryu's father?

A friend of mine said that Street Fighter was "martial arts Star Wars." I asked him his reasoning. He said "Ryu was abandoned to Goken in order to be trained in a noble art, Akuma returned to kill Goken because he was the only one to have ever…
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