There are aliens, raccoons, wrestling mayors, Avengers, and so on.
Im a man who loves his crossovers even though sometimes they dont really meet their full potential.
For example, Ryu was recently inSuper Smash Bros. for Wii U.
Man, seeing Ryu and Little Mac actually interact would be pretty fun, right?
Messing with Mega Man and Asura isnt enough here.
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25.
THE FERRET
MalibusStreet Fightercomic is one of my absolute favorite trainwrecks to talk about.
Heck, it deserved mention simply for being the firstStreet Fightercrossover.
Many mourn the death of Ken Masters, including E. Honda.
Ferret is left shaken and offers to hook Honda up with his Protectors teammate Amazing Man.
THE KINGPIN
In herMarvel vs. Capcom 3ending, Chun-Li is shown handcuffing Wilson Fisk.
Fisk boasts about his connections and how every authority figure worth a damn is in his pocket.
InUltimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, the art is the same, but with different text.
Chun-Li says that shed rather stay in the Marvel world because its overwhelming with criminals.
Kingpin reminds her that hell be back on the streets within a day.
Well, then I guess I have something to do tomorrow.
Dhalsim has Shuma Gorath, the Lovecraftian elder god of chaos, over for dinner.
Dhalsim and his wife appear in no way alarmed by this and continue to make small talk.
Yamazaki would make for an obvious enemy of Chun-Li and they play on that inCapcom vs. SNKand its sequel.
Chun-Li watches all this transpire with bemusement.
At least having Jackie Chan aid Chun-Li is less weird thanJackie Chan dressing as Chun-Li.
Everyone has something to say about everyone else.
One of the funnier instances is when Dhalsim fights Mai.
Mai is voluptuous, and maybe not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
Dhalsim keeps being coy about it in his insistence and soon Mai is ready to shut him up.
In fact, the final boss of the story is a 25-foot-tall Rufus bursting with Psycho Power.
Hakan still evades the gunfire and gets the better of his not-rhyming-in-the-comic opponent with the Oil Combination Hold.
ZANGIEF MEETS COLOSSUS
Even though his in-game rival/partner is Juggernaut, Zangief has a pretty obvious Marvel Comics counterpart.
Russia is under attack from a rampaging Omega Red.
Suddenly, we see Zangief and Colossus running together to team up against this threat.
Two good-hearted powerhouses out to protect Mother Russia and all its people.
It suddenly makes sense why the following games gave Zangief the ability to give himself Colossus-like armor.
Regardless, its nice to see Magneto get over his racism when succeeding in his megalomania.
Unlike all the other rivalries, this one doesnt even pretend that everyones on an even playing ground.
TATSUNOKO VS. CAPCOMS GIRLS GET-TOGETHER
Fighting games lend themselves well to a narrative.
Quiz games…less so.
Saki, being fromQuiz Nanairo Dreams, explains the general story via the logic of the game.
Once upon a time,Street Fighteraction figures were available under theGI Joeumbrella.
Not only were the original eight playable fighters part of GI Joe, but Shadaloo became a Cobra subsidiary.
Highlights include wondering, Whats a Dhalsim?
before getting a long-distance kick to the face.
Whats tougher than a Street Fighter?
A Street Fighters mother?
This does mean that Sergeant Slaughter and William The Refrigerator Perry are part of at least oneStreet Fightercontinuity.
SKULLOMANIA SAVES THE WORLD
Retroactively,Street Fighter EXand its sequels are crossovers.
Arikas characters are their own thing and will even be getting their own fighting game sometime soon.
Like Tom Kenny inPower Puff Girls, basically.
The narrator discusses how Skullomania thwarted Shadaloo and will continue to fight evil as we cheer him on.
It ends with mention that next week is Episode 25, Friend or foe?
King starts off defeating Mike Haggar in a wrestling match, which is already kind of a big deal.
As he and Marduk celebrate, Poison arrives with Hugo.
At the end of the trailer, DLC team Guy and Cody arrive on the scene.
Cody surveys the wreckage and notes that they missed the fun.
THE BAD-ANON MEETING
Ah,Wreck-It Ralph.
As this is an entry on a list ofStreet Fightercrossovers, we also have M. Bison and Zangief.
Bob likes seeing another round fighter who understands the marriage of speed and weight.
Not only does this come up in both of their fight intros, but also in their cinematic trailer.
The Warrior King is from Warrior World, a planet under siege from evil forces.
Warrior King escapes for plan his counter attack.
Warrior King works alongside Chun-Li to retrieve the orb and during the adventure, the two become very close.
He probably should have stuck around because his adventure doesnothave a happy ending.
Nobody really reaches out to the other brand.
Except some characters have two possible endings.
God throwing punches in a pink karate gi, just as He intended.
DAN HIBIKIS TRUE FORM
TheStreet Fighter X GI Joecomic plays up its tournament.
For the first two rounds, nearly every battle is aStreet Fightercharacter against someone from GI Joe or Cobra.
There is a weird outlier in that, though.
The first round (recapped in text in the appendix) has Dan defeat Sakura in an upset.
That advances him into the top 16 against Chun-Li.
The fight goes the way youd expect at first.
Dan talks a big game and gets his face smashed in while looking like a complete jackass.
He then reveals that he was never Dan to begin with.
THE MARVEL VS. CAPCOM BBQ
Marvels YouTube channel used to do a series calledMarvel Super Heroes: What The?
!that featured stop-motion action figures poking fun at Marvel itself.
The two parties have fought enough, so they might as well have fun together.
Chun-Li briefly inquires about the lack of storyline in all of theMarvel vs. Capcomgames (i.e.
who entered them in those tournaments and why were they fighting?
), but its ignored.
It doesnt take long for Ryu to get in a confrontation with Deadpool, Hawkeye, and later Hulk.
At the same time, Dr. GUILE VS. RUGAL BERNSTEIN
Heres some fan service 16 years in the making.
This is an easy way for the game to tell us that hes EVIL.
One of those victims looks awfully familiar, though.
Its a man with brush-like hair, posing with arms crossed.
In other words, its SNK playfully flipping off Capcom by saying that Rugal killed Guile at some point.
Fast-forward to the year 2000 with the release ofCapcom vs. SNK.
Whenever Guile is in a round against Rugal, that statue stands in-between them.
The two take turns destroying it and get down to business.
It ruled so hard.
A few years later, they did a sequel calledWorlds Unite.
Everyone has to work together to face the forces of Sigma.
The heroes decide not to stop there and bring in all sorts of Sega and Capcom characters.
So yeah, its a party.
InCapcom vs. SNK 2, the developers decided to match him up with Rugal.
Two very different men at the same power level.
Rugal and Akuma have a showdown and the resulting battle destroys the surrounding city.
If Akuma wins, a dying Rugal impales him with his fist and forcefeeds him Rugals Orochi powers.
God Rugal (or Ultimate Rugal) is your boss fight and in defeat, his power overwhelms him.
The Akuma essence that he absorbed proceeds to take over, turning him into a full-on, well-dressed demon.
Understandably, Ryu gets a new ending.
freakout challenge and its then that we see that Ryu wasnt holding his headband after all.
The showdown between Akuma and Heihachi inTekken 7s story mode is really well done.
In the final round, Heihachis attacks have plenty of super armor attached, making him much more powerful.
The two attack at the same time and Akuma ends up the last man standing.
He walks off, thinking Heihachi dead, but even then, the old man survives.
Akuma would go on to fight Kazuya a couple times, but its not as good.
Mainly because we never get a real ending out of either fight.
Plus that Devil Kazuya vs. Akuma boss battle is total bullshit.
MARVEL VS. CAPCOM 3S PROLOGUE
So originally,Marvel vs. Capcom 3was supposed to have a story mode.
That was quietly brushed under the rug, though.
The first of which was also used as an announcement trailer.
Personally, I like to think hes flashing back to his fight with Sagat from the firstStreet Fighter.
Regardless, there is no hand and instead he has to continue fighting this berserk enemy.
Through four trailers, we get 11 minutes of absolute beauty.
The animation looks fantastic and despite there being no dialogue whatsoever, theres so much personality shining through.
There are many awesome moments in there.
Chris catching Morrigan out of the air.
Chun-Li rescuing a nameless helicopter pilot while Captain America protects them from Super-Skrull.
Iron Man saving Viewtiful Joes life and Joe giving him a thumbs up.
Chris coming to realize that Hulk isnt the enemy.
Then theres the final part, where Ryu passes out and has his hallucination again.
This time, Wolverine is there to grab his hand and help him up.
…Man, whos going to grab Ryus hand now?
