Win Quote

A win quote is a feature in fighting games that lets the victorious player give a message to their defeated opponent after the fight.

Description
Win quotes are in all versions of the Street Fighter games.

In the original Street Fighter, Ryu and Ken never said anything after winning a match, but their opponents would all say the same losing quote after being defeated by either of them: "What strength!! But don't forget there are many guys like you all over the world". The only exception to this would be the final boss Sagat, whose own defeated quote is this: "You've outlasted the best. You are now the strongest Street Fighter in the world!". Should any of the opponents win against either Ryu or Ken, all of them would say the same win quote: "You've got a lot to learn before you beat me. Try again, kiddo!".

Some games such as Street Fighter II: The World Warrior shows the victorious player talk to their defeated opponent who is left bloody and bruised, but in Street Fighter Alpha 2, the win screen does not show the losing fighter's hurt face. The message is stored in a pink box when the player is victorious.

While some quotes are mean talking, some quotes may mention other people like Sheng Long from Ryu (which is in truth a mistranslation of his actual win quote "You must defeat my Dragon Punch to stand a chance!"): "You must defeat Sheng Long to stand a chance".

Each character has a certain quote (only one) when they win two rounds of the fight. Win Quotes are supposed to lead to a Game Over if the player is defeated.

Starting in the Street Fighter II series, actual win quotes debuted. Both in the II and Alpha series, characters has universal win quotes like Ken's "Attack me if you dare, I will crush you!!". This did lead to some questionable win quotes such as Guile's "Are you man enough to fight with me?" when he wins against Chun-Li.

Starting in Street Fighter III: New Generation, some characters would start adopting character specific win quotes that would not only fit their character, but their opinion on the defeated opponent. Examples include Alex telling Necro that both him and his moves are weird. These character specific quotes would revert back to their universal win quote system in Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike, albeit with more variety than the II and Alpha series.

Starting from Street Fighter IV onward, each character would get both universal win quotes and character specific ones. Universal win quotes usually consist of the character mentioning their own power (M. Bison talking about Psycho Power) or their opinion of their defeated opponent. Characters like Necalli and Oni even get a unique animation when they defeat their opponent before their quote appears on screen.

In Street Fighter X Tekken ' s Arcade Mode, official teams talk to each other rather than use win quotes. The Win Quote screen is used to advance the story and interaction between both characters.

Trivia

 * The original Street Fighter was the only game to feature characters that have voice-spoken quotes. As well as being the only game where only the loser of the fight can say something after being defeated.


 * Losing to the final boss in the original arcade version of Street Fighter Alpha 3 does not result in a win quote, but rather instead, it shows the bad ending.


 * M. Bison's character specific win quote towards Makoto in Super Street Fighter IV is a reference to the losing speech of defeated opponents from the original Street Fighter.
 * In addition to this, one of Ryu's win quotes in Capcom vs. SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium 2001 is also a reference to the losing speech of defeated opponents from the original Street Fighter.
 * One of Sagat's win quotes in the SNES Japanese version of Street Fighter II: The World Warrior is a reference to the winning speech of victorious opponents from the original Street Fighter.
 * Juri's win quote against Ibuki in Street Fighter X Tekken is also a reference to the winning speech of victorious opponents from the original Street Fighter.


 * Many win quotes against Poison in Street Fighter X Tekken had to be redone due to sensitivity reasons. This includes Chun-Li's former "You are not very ladylike at all, it feels like I was fighting a man" win quote and Kuma telling Poison that she smells like a man. There are still hints of her debated gender in the final game though, such as Craig Marduk saying "Meh, I don't sweat the small stuff. You're hot, that's all I care about" or Jack-X stopping his winning speech when he was about to state her gender.
 * Lili's win quote against Poison caused some confusion as Lili refered to Poison as "Auntie". While Asuka did refer to Poison as "Grandma", it was obvious that she was being sarcastic. It turned out that it was solely due to Poison's older age compared to most of the female characters in the game.


 * Ibuki's win quote against Lili references the Naruto series.


 * Guile's infamous "Go home and be a family man" win quote is used twice in both Super and Ultra Street Fighter IV: first against Ken and second from within a gender correct variation against Ibuki (as seen below).


 * Gouken's "You must defeat me to stand a chance!" win quote from Super Street Fighter IV is a reference to Ryu's infamous win quote from Street Fighter II: The World Warrior as already mentioned above: "You must defeat Sheng Long to stand a chance". What makes this more appropriate is that the Sheng Long rumor itself had unintentionally led to the creation of Gouken.


 * Rufus has the longest win quotes from within the entire Street Fighter series due to his loud and obnoxious personality.


 * There is a small glitch in the original Street Fighter where it takes the screen a little while extra after defeating Sagat to fully turn black, it stays with the top half showing the stage the battle took place on and the bottom screen showing perfectly. This is purely aesthetic and does not affect anything.