Guile (voiced by Michael Donovan) is the main character of this cartoon series, much like how he was in the movie. He's the one that usually always leads the Street Fighter teams into missions, and normally gets to fight Bison every episode.
GAME COMPARISON: Very close, although his hair goes more upward, in the games it goes more outward. The cartoon version is also missing the USA flag tattoos the game version has (except in one episode).
NOTES:
Guile is the only character to be in every season 1 episode, and
although he isn't in every season 2 episode, he does throw a Sonic Boom at
least once in each episode he appears in.
*In the games, Guile has a wife called Jane (Julia in the Japanese version) and a daughter called Amy (Chris in the Japanese version). Neither of these characters appear in the cartoon, instead, Lucinda was used for Guile's love interest/ ex-girlfriend or possibly ex-wife.
*Guile's eyebrows alternate colours between episodes, from black to blonde.
Chun-Li (Donna Yamamoto) is the main female character, and is usually always picked to be in any of Guile's teams when there is a mission. She wants to avenge her father who Bison killed when she was younger.
GAME COMPARISON: The animators did a pretty good job with Chun-Li, she looks more or less exactly like she does in the games.
NOTES: Chun-Li has a projectile attack she often uses. She often says different things when doing it though, in "The
Strongest Woman in the World" she yells "fireball!", later on she just grunts, then finally she says "kikoken" like she does in the games.
*Like in the live action movie, she has a secondary job as a news reporter.
After the events of the movie, it seems that Blanka (Scott McNeil) may have died in the Shadowloo city explosion. As "The Adventure Begins" shows, this is not the case. As the first episode ends, Blanka ends up joining with the Street Fighters and is often picked by Guile to help out on missions. Blanka is practically the other main good guy character in this cartoon.
After the events of "New Kind of Evil", Blanka's appearance changes slightly. His skin colour goes a darker green, his eyes change slightly and he's generally more powerful and more angry until he learns to control himself in "The Beast Within".
GAME COMPARISON: Cartoon Blanka looks exactly like game Blanka, no problem.
NOTES: He wears a
suit and hat whenever he needs to be in disguise, although why he doesn't wear it at certain points in episodes like "Face of Fury" is a mystery.
*Like in the movie, Blanka was originally Charlie, Guile's friend. In the games though, Charlie is another character entirely.
Ryu (Tony Lung) kind of just follows Ken around as he tries to steal treasure in season 1, but unlike his movie version, he never really wants to do anything bad and is much more dedicated to fighting. By season 2 he's more than ready to go his own way if Ken is up to no good, such as in "So, You Want To Be In Pictures".
GAME COMPARISON: Could have done so much better. He may use all of his game moves but his face just seems all wrong, and his hair.
NOTES: Any episode Ryu is in, Ken is in.
*Like in the games, Ryu is responsible for giving Sagat his scar (see "Second to
None").
*In "The Hand That Feeds You" Ryu is looking for his missing cousin, but in the games he seems to have no family at all.
*Everyone pronounces his name wrong in the cartoon. It's "Reeoo" and not "Raioo".
Ken (Scott McNeil) is still much like his movie counterpart in season 1: a jackass. He never particularly wants to help the Street Fighters in missions, and would rather go off doing silly things like trying to steal treasure, but eventually he gets smarter and by season 2, he's powerful enough to defeat Akuma. He's still fairly brash though. Ken had a facial redesign for season 2. His hair was made longer and it's colour was changed, and his eyebrows had a colour change too.
GAME COMPARISON: Season 1 Ken is closer to game Ken than his season 2 version but it just doesn't seem like him.
NOTES: Ken never uses his dragon punch in any episode (I know Akuma says "flaming dragon punch" in "The
World's Greatest Warrior" but that doesn't count).
*In the games, Ken has a girlfriend (who he eventually marries) called Eliza. Eliza is never shown in the cartoon though, so it leaves Ken free to flirt with almost every girl he meets.
Cammy (Lisa
Ann Beley) is a more minor character in season 1, but by season 2 she has a much bigger role to play. Bison reveals that he can control her and she switches sides, meaning Guile and the others have to try and get her to switch back. In the final episode, Cammy is saved and is freed from Bison's mind control, but she decides that she can't rejoin the
Street Fighters, and instead goes off to find out about her true life.
GAME COMPARISON: Just like the games, but with a horrible British accent.
NOTES: Cammy has a British accent in the cartoon, but she wasn't actually born in Britain in the games. This is explored in a much greater detail in her storyline in
Street Fighter Alpha 3.
*The whole storyline of Cammy been forced to work for Bison was used in
Street Fighter Alpha 3... the problem is that the second season of the cartoon was made in 1996/1997,
Street Fighter Alpha 3 came out in 1998. Did the game makers actually watch this show and copy the idea? I doubt it, but who knows?
Dee Jay (Paul Dobson) occasionally shows up to lend his support to the Street Fighters.
GAME COMPARISON: Looks a lot like the game version, even has the "MAXIMUM" shaved on the back of his head.
NOTES: In the movie, Dee Jay was a bad guy for reasons unknown. In the cartoon though, Dee Jay is now a good character again, like in the games. It isn't explained why he's switched sides, but it seems that the cartoon didn't acknowledge that Dee Jay had ever worked for Bison before anyway.
*For some reason, Dee Jay doesn't appear in season 2 at all.
T.Hawk (Paul Dobson) works with the Street Fighters. He's an undercover agent in "Desert thunder", but he soon becomes a normal Street Fighter after that episode and works with the AN at one point.
GAME COMPARISON: T.Hawk's head has been changed quite a bit... his face seems thinner and his hair is black. Some people reckon that he has T.Hawk's body but Nightwolf's head (Nightwolf is a Mortal Kombat 3 character). Apart from lacking the red face paint Nightwolf has, of course.
NOTES: The writers seemed to believe that T.Hawk had powers of flight when they wrote "Desert
Thunder", but in later episodes, he can no longer fly.
*T.Hawk was in the live action movie, by the way, and he was on the good side there, like he is in the cartoon.
After the events of the movie, it seems that Dhalsim (Garry Chalk) may have died in the Shadowloo city explosion. But he actually survived and decided to turn his back on science and technology, and went to live in the Himalayas to study the chi force.
GAME COMPARISON: Looks pretty much like he does in the games.
NOTES: Dhalsim doesn't have pupils in the games, but he does in the cartoon. Guess it made him look less scary to little kids.
Fei Long (Paul Dobson) is a Hong Kong action movie star, but he wants to learn the ways of the chi force (in other words, how to do special moves). He eventually does learn this, and keeps making movies whilst trying to take on the Hong Kong triads.
GAME COMPARISON: Like a few other characters, Fei Long's head looks different to the game version.
NOTES: He wasn't in the live action movie because the director thought he was too much like Bruce Lee.
*The reason Fei Long isn't in the series much is because he isn't actually part of the
Street Fighter team, and is only involved when some of the Street Fighters are in Hong Kong.
Sakura (Saffron Henderson) trains in martial artists to be like her hero, Ryu, who she watched defeat Sagat when she was younger. One day her dojo is attacked by Sagat and his forces, so she travels to America to find Ryu.
GAME COMPARISON: Similar to the game version (though I'm sure fan boys wouldn't agree), although her hair colour is black instead of brown.
NOTES: Like in the games, she copied Ryu's moves. That's why
she knows how to throw fireballs.
*In her single episode appearance, she is shown training at a dojo with some old
master guy and two other students. This dojo and it's occupants are not in the
games.
Guy (Jim Byrnes) fights in a tournament, but loses to Blanka (Eye of the Beholder). He later helps out Cody rescue Jessica in "Final Fight".
GAME COMPARISON: As usual, his face looks quite a bit different, but the costume is spot on.
NOTES: When Ryu and Ken watch Guy battle in "Final Fight" Ryu says that Guy learnt the Bushin style in Tibet, then added his own moves to it. This story is different from the games though.
When his girlfriend, Jessica, is kidnapped by the Mad Gear gang, Cody Travers goes out after her, with the help of Guy.
GAME COMPARISON: The cartoon series was made before Street Fighter Alpha 3 was released (where Cody had been locked up in jail and had prison clothes) so the animators went with his Final Fight appearance. In the cartoon, he has blonde hair, in the original Final Fight, he has brown. What's odd though is that in Street Fighter Alpha 3, he was blonde hair.
NOTES: He has a hillbilly accent in the cartoon, but he doesn't in the games.
*He also has a dog-tag in the cartoon, but again, not in the games.
Mike Haggar is the mayor of Metro City, but his daughter Jessica is kidnapped by the Mad Gear gang. Haggar lets Ryu and Ken try and save her, and also lets Cody and Guy help out.
GAME COMPARISON: He doesn't get to do much fighting or anything, but he does look like his game counterpart.
NOTES: In the episode "Final Fight" Haggar doesn't go and fight Mad Gears, but in the Final Fight games, he does.
Burke (Garry Chalk) is the head of a British special forces team, working for MI5. His love interest seems to be Cammy in "Chunnel Vision" but this whole idea is dropped in his later appearances. He usually uses a laser pistol to attack enemies.
GAME COMPARISON: His cartoon version is missing the scar which is usually across his left eye, plus he has a different hair colour. So far in his game appearances (which there have been few of) he wears a blue shirt, not a green one.
NOTES: He isn't actually a playable character in the games, but he appears in Cammy's
SSF2 and SSF2T endings. In the game canon, his name is Keith Wolfman, but his name has never actually been stated anywhere in the games. I guess the writers had to try and make a character out of someone who had only ever appeared in one ending.
*In the games, his team is known as "Delta Red" but this is not mentioned anywhere in the cartoon.
Celia (Janyse Jaud) works as part of Burke's team. Like Burke, she uses a laser pistol, but also uses kick attacks.
GAME COMPARISON: Geez, what happened? Celia looks nothing like her game counter part. She now wears a grey costume, has boots instead of standard shoes and has brown hair. I think they changed her so much so people didn't think she was Cammy or something. She also has a sword in the games, but not in the cartoon.
NOTES: Like Burke, she isn't actually a playable character in the games, but she appears in Cammy's SSF2 and SSF2T endings. In the game canon, her name is Lita Luwanda, not Celia.
Rory (Scott McNeil) has cybernetic arms which increase his strength dramatically. He also has a cybernetic eye. He is the final member of Burke's team.
GAME COMPARISON: His cartoon face is thinner than his game face. I don't know why they decided to give him cybernetic arms in the cartoon, he doesn't have these in the games.
NOTES: Like Burke and Celia, he isn't actually a playable character in the games, but he appears in Cammy's
SSF2 and SSF2T endings. In the game canon, his name is Matthew McCoy.
*Fun fact! In the games, there is another Delta Red member called
George Ginzu, who never made it into the cartoon.
Escher's the guy who briefs the Street Fighters on their missions.
GAME COMPARISON: He's a new character so he's never been in the games.
NOTES: He never usually gets to do anything exciting, apart from getting hit by lasers and not feeling pain, turning into a mutant freak in one of Guile's dreams, stealing Guile's love interest in another dream and.... drive buses.
Sawada (Michael Dobson) is the new colonel of the AN forces, and is sent on a couple of missions by the AN during the course of the two seasons.
GAME COMPARISON: He hasn't really been in any of the "proper" games, but appeared in the Street Fighter live action movie. His cartoon version looks nothing like the movie version though.
NOTES: Sawada gains a samurai sword in "The Hammer Strikes", which he never had in "Keeping The Peace".
Lucinda (Kathleen Barr) seems to be Guile's old girlfriend, or maybe his ex-wife, I'm not sure. She shows up in certain episodes.
GAME COMPARISON: She's a new character, really, and can't be compared to Jane/Julia.
NOTES: She and Guile don't get on that well until the outcome of "Strange Bedfellows", and in "The Beast Within" she seems to get along with him just fine.
Mai-Lei is one of the few people who sees Blanka not as a monster, but as a normal person. However, Blanka's rage eventually drives her away in "Face of Fury".
GAME COMPARISON: She is a new character to this series, and has not been in any of the games.
NOTES: She sure does get captured by Vega a lot am i rite
Rose (Teryl Rothery) has psychic "soul" powers, and in "The Flame and the Rose" she uses them to track down Bison and play a key part in the destruction of the Kali statue.
GAME COMPARISON: Face seems messed up, really. Her hair is brown instead of purple, too. (Although in "The Medium is the Message" her hair is purple)
NOTES: Rose never shows the ability to switch between the physical and psychic plane in the games, but she (and Bison) have this power.
