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Fighter’s History: Legally Not a Street Fighter Clone

But here’s why you may have encountered its Chun-Li analogue more than once in video games news in late 2024.

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Street Fighter’s Surprising Crossover With Red Earth

Weirdly, Capcom’s fantasy fighter is closer to its flagship franchise than the more popular DarkStalkers is.

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And is this the best name for a guy who’s most prominent trait is liking Japanese culture?

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And they never did in Japan, though the concept of the shotoclone lives on.

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One April Fool’s joke seemingly shaped multiple faces of the Capcom series.

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The Mets of Mega Man are a lot like Buzzy Beetle… which isn’t actually a beetle at all.

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It’s GamePro’s fault that I was technically wrong about Mega Man III on the playground back in 1990.

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Celebrating Halloween with Darkstalkers and the various other horror-adjacent Capcom monsters.

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How the weirdest character in Street Fighter II came to be — and how he got that name.

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How a rejected Street Fighter character got a second life.

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The man who would become Mr. Fatal Fury shows up in the attract mode for the original Street Fighter.

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Everyone character Street Fighter II — their looks, their movesets, even their names — exists for a reason.