Street Fighter 6 has plenty of Easter eggs for fans of the Street Fighter franchise, as well as fans of other Capcom fighting games. From cameos to visual nods and dialogue references, we have listed down all of the easter eggs that we’ve found in Street Fighter 6 so far, so read ahead to see which ones can be encountered in the game.
Character Actions and Interactions
These are some actions and animations done by some of the playable characters, including the customized character, that only eagle-eyed fans might notice.
NPCs react to gestures
While in World Tour, you can make gestures near some NPCs, and they will react according to the gesture that you make.
Character animations during a fight
Some playable characters have different animations depending on certain variables during a fight, such as:
- Luke has two different kinds of perfect win poses depending on his drive gauge level.
- Kimberly can change the BGM of a match when she activates her level 3 super. This theme is only the instrumental version of her theme, but if two Kimberlys use both of their level 3 supers, the theme changes into its with vocals version.
- Jamie has different kinds of taunts depending on his drink level, starting from sober and snappy, to drunk and teetering.
Chun-Li’s perfect win pose is a callback to her old victory pose. On the other hand, Juri’s perfect win pose is a mocking version of this exact pose.
References to previous Street Fighter games
There are plenty of visual references to the previous Street Fighter games all across the game, and they’re mostly found within Metro City.
Character Selection Screen
All of the masters appear in the same positions similar to how they appeared back in the previous games, with Ryu, E. Honda, Blanka, and Guile at the top row, followed by Ken, Chun-Li, Zangief, and Dhalsim at the bottom row.
Metro City Billboards
The Metro City billboards have tons of callbacks to the previous games and are arguably the most noticeable ones than the rest.
- The Paradise billboard is a reference to Gill’s ending scene. It also has the line “Paradise, everyone dreams of it and searches their entire for it.” while the people in the billboard have two colors split in the middle, similar to how Gill has two colors on either side of his body.
- Hakan has an ad billboard for his extra virgin olive oil that his company is selling.
- There’s a billboard showing the Giant Attack movie, a reference to the Street Fighter 3: 2nd Impact game and it shows Hugo Andore as the giant.
- There’s a small screen that shows the subtitles of three previous Street Fighter games:
- World Warrior for Street Fighter 3
- Champion Edition for Street Fighter 5
- Hyper Fighting for Street Fighter 2 Turbo
Metro City Walk of Fame
Metro City has its own version of Hollywood’s Walk of Fame, where it shows all of the names of the previous fighting games that have been published or developed by Capcom. They are also arranged in chronological order.
- Street Fighter
- Final Fight
- Street Fighter 2
- Saturday Night Slam Masters
- Final Fight 2
- Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors
- Ring of Destruction: Slammasters II
- Final Fight 3
- Street Fighter Alpha
- Night Warriors: Darkstalkers’ Revenge
- Cyberbots
- Red Earth Plasma Sword
- Pocket Fighter
- Rival Schools
- Street Fighter 3
- Vampire Savior: The Lord of Vampire
- Plasma Sword: Nightmare of Bilstein
- Tech Romancer
- Final Fight Revenge
- Street Fighter 4
- Street Fighter 5
- Street Fighter 6
Other Street Fighter References
Other visual and dialogue-based references to previous Street Fighter games include:
- The Ken Masters artwork on the side of the yacht docked in Metro City is the similar art that can be seen as Ken’s background in Street Fighter 3: 2nd Impact.
- One of the stickers on Li-Fen’s laptop shows a combo that goes down, up, K (kick) which corresponds to Chun-Li’s Spinning Bird Kick Combo. One of the stickers also show Lilith from Darkstalkers.
- The Scrap Heap mini game is a reference to the times when players smash vehicles during matches.
Final Fight References
Final Fight references are nothing new, as the other older Street Fighter games have been peppered with them. In Street Fighter 6, the game is chock-full of Final Fight references; even Metro City itself is the main setting of Final Fight. Even some of its locations, such as the Industrial Level, Subway, and the Bay Area (Bayside Area), are direct callbacks to the game.
Final Fight Characters
Familiar Final Fight characters have once again shown up as NPCs that can be challenged to a fight or appear just as cameos in the game.
- Carlos Miyamoto comes back as an NPC that you can fight against. He uses his Sword Attack as his special attack.
- Thrasher Damnd comes back in a cutscene and does his signature whistle to call his goons to fight you. His messenger profile pic is the same one shown in the Final Fight intro where he appears on a TV.
- Guy, Lucia, and Maki appear in illustration arts along with Kimberly, Chun-Li, and Ryu, respectively.
- Several other side characters appear once again such as Mad Gear Elissa, Roxy, the Andore Family, G.Oriber, and Two.P.
- Sodom is nowhere to be seen in the game, however the truck that was his background in Street Fighter Alpha 2 can be seen parked near the Haggar Stadium. His name was changed to Katana in the western release of the game, but the clerk managing the truck stall is named Gomorrah, a similar biblical reference referring to the cities Sodom and Gomorrah.
- Haggar’s statue can be seen from a distance, with a different pose than the one seen in Street Fighter 4.
Other Final Fight References
Here are some other random references to Final Fight.
- There is an NPC in the parking garage named Francis who talks about his friend that kneeled down in shock upon seeing his totaled car, a reference to the NPC in the Break Car bonus stage of Final Fight.
- There is an NPC in the basketball court that utters a line that references the Infinite Jab Lock move that can be done to stun lock an enemy.
- When standing close to Kimberly in World Tour mode, she can be heard humming the theme for the Final Fight slums.
- There’s a dog at the Bayside Area which may be a reference to the dog found in the Bay Area of Final Fight, although this dog doesn’t seem to have any special buffs for the player.
- When idling in the Subway, the “GO” alert will show up, similar to how it did in the previous game whenever an area is cleared.
These are all the references and easter eggs that have been spotted so far. Be sure to check out our other Street Fighter 6 guides to know more about the game, the characters, and upcoming news for it.
