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"The Medium is the Message" is the eighth episode in the first season of the Street Fighter TV series.
Synopsis[]
A martial arts competition titled the "International Street Fighters Tournament" is being held in India and Escher sends Guile and the rest of the six Street Fighters to compete in order to flush out any Shadaloo agents who might be participating. M. Bison is attending as well, and has a double threat of a plan; use his new mutant combatants to destroy the Street Fighters, and have Balrog create a fake video of the Street Fighters defiling a sacred Hindu temple. Both of Bison's plans fail when Guile saves a captured scientist and performs a Flash Kick on a time bomb.
Cameos[]
Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams[]
The other six challengers who competed in the International Street Fighters Tournament are shown on six different live-television monitors, those other challengers were Birdie, Sodom, Rose, and Guy.
Carlos "Charlie" Blanka also appears on the third monitor, but by his appearance, he resembles his own stage 1 transformation into a semi-beast (both an animation error and a continuity error); Guile's human friend was included on that scene, because of the canonized Charlie Nash being playable on the official cast of both the game, as well as being featured in the tie-in manga.
Adon also appears on the fourth monitor, and was also seen battling Birdie, of the latter, Adon would be the only one to not have a larger part or reappear in a future episode, not even with his mentor Viktor Sagat.
Final Fight and Final Fight 2[]
During the Adon vs. Birdie scene, there were Metro City heroes and villains such as Belger, Carlos Miyamoto, Maki Genryusai, and Rolento F. Schugerg whom all can be seen cheering in the audience.
During the Chun-Li Zang vs. Cammy White scene, the other Metro City heroes and villains such as Abigail, Cody (arm only), J, Jessica Haggar, and Mike Haggar are also seen cheering with the crowd. They most likely came to the tournament to show support for Guy and Sodom who are also both from the first game.
Trivia[]
- This is the only version of Sodom where his face is fully revealed.
- The International Street Fighters Tournament is loosely adapted from the plot events of the Second World Fighting Tournament from the game Street Fighter II.
- There are a total of 11 challengers who competed in the International Street Fighters Tournament.
- Out of every episode of this animated series, "The Medium is the Message" was considered to be at least the most game accurate episode, alongside the "Final Fight" episode.
- This episode is notable for producing an internet meme on YouTube (M. Bison's quotes: "This is delicious!" and "YES! YES!").
- Bison's jubilant shout of "YES! YES!" would later be heard as one of Evil Ryu's first attack banters in Super Street Fighter IV.
- "This is delicious!", with the exact same intonation as the show's, would be heard in Street Fighter V's Cinematic Story Mode, "A Shadow Falls", when Bison first appears in person, breaking up the argument between Balrog, Vega and F.A.N.G ("My generals are all killing each other? This is delicious entertainment!").