Capcom’s Street Fighter III stormed the arcade world in the late ’90s with amazing graphic detail, a complex parrying system, and a slew of new characters to master. It also introduced an assortment of fresh oddities for fans to find and have fun with.
Just as we did with Street Fighter II and Street Fighter Alpha, we’ve selected 15 peculiarities from all versions of Street Fighter III, including intriguing background details, cool cameo appearances, and disturbing revelations.
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Hugo’s nether region
Hugo's nether region
Engaging an 8-foot-tall wrestler must be nervewracking, but staring at his giant crotch can really mess with your mind. Alex cannot unsee this.
Hugo's manager and friend, Poison, looks, walks, and talks like a woman, but she's hiding a big surprise in her pants. Yep, she's a man. So it's not too shocking to find out that the gargantuan German's pubic area looks like female genitalia.
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Gardening with boxing gloves
Gardening with boxing gloves, like a boss.
Dudley is a world-renowned champion and a gentleman as well as a master gardener. His skills with pruning shears are so advanced that he doesn't even take off his boxing gloves when tending his massive hedge maze.
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Abusive relationship
Abusive relationship
Besides martial arts and Don (her pet tanooki), Ibuki is crazy about boys. In her 3rd Strike ending, she takes a break from fighting and goes to college, where she meets a young stud who invites her to his study club.
It turns out the charming hunk is really a psychotic ninjitsu expert, and he threatens Ibuki with a kunai ... because he can. "I'll kill you in your sleep. Ha ha ha!"
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Free plane rides
Free plane rides
It's easier spotting the elusive "mapinguari" beast in the middle of the Amazon jungle than a wild Oro. No one has seen the crazy old hermit in years, but that doesn't mean he doesn't leave his cave.
Oro travels the world in secret, hitching rides on airplanes by standing on their freaking roof. Madness, or genius?
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Two Jaguars
Two Jaguars are better than one
Dudley entered the third World Warrior tournament because Gill stole his father's car. I'm serious. Why a man-god needed a vintage motor vehicle remains a mystery.
In later versions of SFIII, the pugilist arrives at his fights in his dad's red Jaguar XK120. Now, if the match involves two Dudleys, the second player drives a green Jaguar SS100.
Who backs up the car once Dudley gets out? Probably his butler.
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Tom looks like Jean Reno
Tom looks like Jean Reno
Tom, Alex's trainer and father-figure, bears a striking resemblance to actor Jean Reno (The Professional, The Da Vinci Code).
Someone at Capcom clearly loves the Spanish-French movie star, because they later cast him as Jacques Blanc in 2004's Onimusha 3: Demon Siege.
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Mediterranean hell
Mediterranean hell
Gill's stage in New Generation shows ancient ruins somewhere in the Mediterranean Sea, as well as the huge skeleton of an elephant-like beast.
I'm no expert in paleozoology, but last time I checked, mammoths went extinct over 4,000 years ago. Notice that the animal still has a bit of flesh on the bones, meaning it just recently perished.
Also ... is that lava? You can see an erupting volcano in the distance on the left side of the arena (not pictured), so maybe it's just fire reflecting on the water. Or maybe it's a side effect from Gill's ungodly presence.
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Mega Man in New York
Mega Man in New York
Alex's stage in New Generation has an interesting graffiti on the far left of the screen. It's a kid holding a gun. But wait, what does it say on the bottom? "Mega Man in New York." OK, so that's what the Blue Bomber would look like if he joined a gang in the mean streets of The Big Apple.
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Unsophisticated behavior
Hooligan flips the bird
On the right side of Dudley's New Generation stage, three punks hang out, paying little attention to the brawl. One of them moonwalks all over the street and occasionally stops to flip off the player.
Why would a refined gentleman such as Dudley choose this vulgar corner of London to fight on?
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Pile of familiar corpses
Pile of familiar corpses
Makoto's mastery of rindoukan karate is evident in this shot from her 3rd Strike ending. That pile of corpses behind her is not composed of random, nameless fighters. Besides SFIII's Alex, Ryu, and Sean, you can clearly spot SFII's Cammy, Dee Jay, Fei Long, T. Hawk, and Zangief. Do you recognize anyone else?
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Oro is one with the “Force”
Oro is one with the "Force"
I wouldn't go as far as saying Oro was inspired by Star Wars' Yoda, but the similarities between the Brazilian hermit and the green Jedi are interesting.
Both characters are old as crap, are at master-level of their respective arts, live in secluded locations, use telekinesis to levitate objects, hide their true potential, and take on powerful warriors as their apprentices.
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Modern-day Sherlock Holmes
Modern-day Sherlock Holmes
A sign on the sidewalk in Dudley's stage shows the silhouette of a man wearing a deerstalker hat and smoking a pipe. Hmm....
On that same stage, to the right stand two men in the middle of the street wearing frock coats and bowler hats. The man on the left is holding a physician's bag and the other guy has a magnifying glass. Is it safe to assume that legendary detective Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson have traveled to present-day London to solve all these Street Fighter mysteries?
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Senoh working for the Illuminati
Senoh working for the Illuminati
Shadaloo's scientific division was under the supervision of Senoh, a gremlin-like evil genius. In Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie, Senoh works with M. Bison to corrupt Ken's mind, a procedure originally intended for Ryu.
At some point during the events of Street Fighter IV, M. Bison was defeated, presumably killed.
In Necro's stage, a short man wearing a lab coat pushes buttons on a console. He looks a lot like the rotten scientist.
It seems that after the fall of Shadaloo, Senoh was approached by the Illuminati to create genetically enhanced soldiers (like Necro and Twelve) for Gill's army. Or is Bison secretly alive and this is part of a much bigger scheme?
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Familiar ladies in the hot springs
Familiar ladies in the hot springs
Besides snow monkeys and white-chested bears, the hot springs in Ryu's New Generation stage are occupied by three popular female martial artists: Street Fighter II's Chun-Li and Cammy, and Alien vs. Predator's Lt. Linn Kurosawa.
Lucky for them, xenomorphs don't like hot water.
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Going commando
Going commando
Oro has spent decades living in a cave with bats, cats, dogs, and who knows what else. He doesn't see the need for clothing. I can understand that. At least he has the decency to wear a robe to cover his decaying body when he enters the third World Warrior tournament.
Actually, scratch that. A single frame during his crouching Roundhouse kick reveals a dark secret: Oro doesn't believe in underwear. Oh, the humanity!
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