Street Fighter (TV Series)

Street Fighter: The Animated Series is an American-Canadian animated series based on a popular fighting game franchise of the same.

Plot
William F. Guile (his full name in the series), a US military colonel, travels around the world gathering a group of martial artists from different countries and forms a secret organization known as "Street Fighter", a team of crime fighters dedicated to protecting the world and fighting evil, most notably a terrorist organization named Shadaloo and its superhuman leader, General M. Bison.

Why It Can't Fight

 * 1) The show is an adaptation of a famous video game franchise that was turned into a generic action cartoon for kids with nothing unique added to it, just like Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm and Darkstalkers: The Animated Series.
 * 2) It barely has anything to do with the source material of the Street Fighter universe. For instance, the word "Street Fighter" is a name of a crime-fighting organization dedicated to fighting Shadaloo, where in the games, the lore of the franchise is about martial artists from around the world competing in a fighting tournament, and Guile is the main protagonist of the cartoon, but Ryu isn't like he is in the games.
 * 3) The fight scenes are slow-paced and incredibly stupid.
 * 4) Subpar animation, to the point where the characters' faces often come off as goofy.
 * 5) Blanka's voice sounds too deep and raspy for his character, and sounds more like Dr. Claw from Inspector Gadget.
 * 6) The dialogue is full of dumb quotes, like Ken saying to Fei Long "And you... you're a loser!".
 * 7) Inappropriate background music plays in some scenes, such as M. Bison's famous "YES! YES!" scene where a triumphant fanfare plays as Bison watches Guile get beaten up by his mutant warriors.
 * 8) The serious scenes come off as over-the-top and melodramatic.
 * 9) The voice-acting, for the most part, is mediocre at best.
 * 10) Some of the names are pronounced wrong, like Ryu, whose name in the show is pronounced as "Rye-you" instead of "Ree-you" like it is in the games.
 * 11) Some parts in certain episodes just come out of nowhere, like a brainwashed Cammy kissing Bison, causing Guile to yell "NOOOOOOO!" whilst shaking his fists like an angry person.
 * 12) *What makes that scene even weirder is that Cammy is one of Bison's clones, so in other words: Bison is basically in love with himself.
 * 13) The final battle between Guile and Bison in the series finale was anti-climactic, as it ended with the latter being sucked into his own supercomputer before it explodes.
 * 14) Zangief is one of Bison's lackeys, despite having never worked for him in the games.
 * 15) Tons of animation errors, including Dee Jay shrinking whilst running past a guard and Sagat's chest scar repeatedly disappearing.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Some scenes can be unintentionally funny.
 * 2) There are voice actors who actually did do a good job at voicing their characters, like M. Bison's voice actor, Richard Newman, who also did some impressive work in other shows like Transformers: Cybertron, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and the Ocean Group dub of Dragon Ball Z.
 * 3) Most of the character designs are still faithful to their game counterparts.
 * 4) The second season is somewhat of an improvement over the first, featuring characters from the Street Fighter Alpha and Final Fight games (with Rose, Sakura, Cody and Guy even being the main focus of three episodes) and having a season-long story arc where Cammy is brainwashed by M. Bison into becoming an agent of Shadaloo.

Trivia

 * This show spawned some internet memes, most notably M. Bison's two famous quotes "This is delicious!" and "YES! YES!", both of which were featured in the episode "The Medium Is The Message".
 * The episode "Final Fight" is included as an unlockable bonus feature in Final Fight: Double Impact for Xbox 360 and PS3, which is a remaster of the original Final Fight and another Capcom arcade game called Magic Sword.
 * Most of the show's production staff (such as Will Meugniot, Jim Graziano, Roger Slifer and Douglas Booth) had previously worked on mh:besttvshows:G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero.

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