Dan Hibiki returns to Street Fighter V as the Dan we all know and love: the buffoonish, self-centered, tactless goof we've all grown up with. Everything about Dan's appearance in the game fits his character. There is absolutely nothing different about him. He's learned nothing, he's still reliant on his friends, and his head remains … Continue reading The Decline of Dan Hibiki →

"There is a kind of darkness that cannot be dispersed with a mere smile." - Rose to Dee Jay, Super Street Fighter IV For someone who has appeared in three different installments of the Street Fighter series, Dee Jay has not gotten very much in the way of character development. His entire story is linear … Continue reading The Dark Depths of Dee Jay →

I knew I was going to write a theory on Thunder Hawk eventually. It's taken me this long to come up with something not just because his story is underutilized, but because the evidence that's there tends to be conflicting. In other words, T. Hawk is a bit hard to pin down. His design and … Continue reading The Final Flight of Thunder Hawk →

There has been some talk over the years from fans over the possibility of a shared Capcom universe, as in the games that Capcom produces are canon to one another. This most likely started with talk in the '90s that characters like Ken and Akuma were in Resident Evil 2 as hidden characters, and speculation … Continue reading The End of Street Fighter →

Glico, the company who makes Pocky, recently released a new campaign for their signature product: a crossover with Street Fighter V. Beginning with Ryu and Chun-Li, Glico would release five different boxes with different paired up characters. The other four are Cody and Lucia, Alex and Rashid, Vega and Cammy, and Juri and Menat. Each … Continue reading Judge, Juri, and Executioner →

The mystery surrounding Ortho K. Gotch was something I have been looking into for some time. Fans of Street Fighter would know he's Dudley's butler, but I was checking to see if there was anything sinister in his background. His unusual name and appearance, along with his status as a static character, certainly brings up … Continue reading Dudley’s Rose-Colored Glasses →

Life is but a walking shadow, a poor playerThat struts and frets his hour upon the stageAnd then is heard no more. It is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and furySignifying nothing.— Macbeth (Act 5, Scene 5, lines 24–28) The title of William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury comes from the … Continue reading Apollo Greed: The Fall of Balrog →

In Dan Brown's novel "The Da Vinci Code", the protagonist Robert Langdon must follow a cryptic set of clues to discover the secrets of the enigmatic Priory of Sion and solve the mystery regarding the murder of a French art curator. He ends up finding out that there's a worldwide treasure hunt for an object … Continue reading The Street Fighter Code →

The last time I touched on Sagat was in my theory on the Satsui no Hado, where I claimed that Satsui was based in internal sexual conflict. In his Street Fighter V Story Mode, Sagat briefly, and unwillingly, had an experience with the dark power, staving off the desire to kill people with his willpower … Continue reading The Crisis of the Tiger King →

Abigail is known for being a hulking brute of a character. His entire persona is of a muscle-bound gearhead who acts like a child, flying into rages when things don't go his way. What makes writing a theory on Abigail even more difficult is that he has very few connections with established characters. Being a … Continue reading October Surprise: The Deep Story of Abigail →