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The following is a description of the Street Fighter timeline, as officially depicted in the series.

Series release timeline[]

The timeline of the main Street Fighter installments goes in this chronological order:

Character history[]

Characters with birthmonths and confirmed birthyears[]

  • November 22, 1952; Dhalsim is born.
  • July 2, 1955; Sagat is born.
  • December 23, 1960; Guile is born.
  • July 21, 1964; Ryu is born.
  • August 12, 1965; Guy is born.
  • February 12, 1966; Blanka is born.
  • April 18, 1967; Cody is born.
  • April 1; 1973; Lucia is born.
  • August 28, 1973; Maki is born.

Birthmonths[]

January[]

February[]

  • February 14; Kolin is born.
  • February 17; Luke is born.

March[]

  • March 10; Gen is born.

April[]

  • April 29; Remy is born.

May[]

  • May 15; Alex is born.
  • May 19; Hugo is born.

June[]

  • June 30; Juni is born.

July[]

  • July 3 or July 7; Rose is born.
  • July 22; Juli is born.

October[]

September[]

  • September 3; Ed is born.
  • September 9; Yun and Yang are born.
  • September 18; Elena is born.

November[]

  • November 5; Abel is born.
  • November 12; Menat is born.
  • November 13; Hakan is born.
  • November 25; Dan is born.

December[]

  • December 6; Ibuki is born.
  • December 31; Eagle is born.

Miscellaneous[]

  • In 1970, Sagat becomes the Muay Thai Champion at the age of 15.[6]
  • Gouken adopts a 6-year-old Ryu,[7] Gouken's sensei Goutetsu was challenged and killed by his former student Akuma, at his full potential, who performed the Shun Goku Satsu on his soul in a death match. Goutetsu died satisfied, proud to see that his student surpassed him in the art. Akuma then takes his sensei's prayer beads and disappears.
  • In 1977, Ryu (age 13) and Gouken's new student Ken (age 12) begin their decade-long Ansatsuken training together during the summer.[8][9]
SFV Cody SF1 Arcade Ending

Mike, Cody & Guy save Jessica from Mad Gear.

  • In 1987, Mike Haggar finally retires from wrestling to become elected as the Mayor of Metro City promising everyone to clean up the streets even if he has to get his own hands bloody to do it himself. Haggar's daughter Jessica is kidnapped by Mad Gear Gang. He alongside Cody and Guy rescue her.[11]
  • Ryu (age 23) and Ken (age 22) have graduated from their 10-year training, and set out on a warriors' journey to become the "strongest fighter".[12]
Ryu SFVAE SF1 Ending

Ryu defeats Sagat with a Shoryuken.

  • Sagat, loses to Ryu by receiving a massive bloody gash across his chest from Ryu's Shoryuken, promising to seek revenge against Ryu with a grudge match.[13]
SFV CG-16
  • Abel is born as an artificial man, and is rescued by Charlie Nash. Nash subsequently disappears under mysterious circumstances.[14][15]
  • After a few months,[16][17] A megalomaniacal dictator known as M. Bison travels all across the world to collect the world's most powerful and undefeated street fighters.[18]
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Mike and Maki during the Final Fight 2 opening.

  • The Psycho Drive is destroyed by Nash along with the intentional and unintentional help of Balrog, Blanka, Cody, Dhalsim, E. Honda, Guile, Karin, Rolento, Sodom, Vega, and Zangief (as well as Eagle which is non-canon). Officially destroying Shadaloo along with it.[21]
  • M. Bison launches "living incubator" plan to develop new alternative body that appears to be slender, with limitless Psycho Crushers.[22]
  • In 1993 (currently retconned by Capcom as 1991), the World Warrior Tournament is held due to the shadow of Shadaloo for their world domination plan, a total of only 16 street fighters have qualified and some have competed for their vendetta against the also-qualifying M. Bison, but Shadaloo was mainly aiming at the body of Ryu, the champion who defeated Sagat.[23]
  • S.I.N is destroyed.[26]
  • Coming from S.I.N, Balrog rescues and protects little boy Ed.[27]
Masters Family

Mel is born.

  • On February 8, 1994[28], Mel Masters is born only six days away from Ken's 29th birthday.
  • The "Black Moon Plan" is crushed by the fighters, and Shadaloo is destroyed again.[32]
  • Chun-Li becomes the guardian of hacker girl Li-Fen.[33]
EdStory17

Ed leaves Balrog.

SFIII 2I-Alex Ending-1
  • Li-Fen, the girl Chun Li took into care, is abducted by a mysterious organization[41]
SFIII 3S-Hugo Ending-3
  • Hugo and Poison launch new professional wrestling organization "H.W.A (Huge Wrestling Army).[44]
  • Alex travels again, this time to improve as a fighter.[45]

Gallery[]

Series release timeline (Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection)[]

Trivia[]

  • Because of certain plot-errors in age continuity, canon birth-years on the profiles of playable characters were dropped by Capcom since, at least, Super Street Fighter II's release.
    • This includes Ken's son Mel Masters, in his ending in X-Men vs. Street Fighter, Eliza and Mel are the same age as how they appeared in Street Fighter III while Ken still appears in his young Alpha incarnation throughout the entire Marvel vs. Capcom saga.
    • Sakura Kasugano stays a teenager throughout the Street Fighter Alpha series to the Street Fighter IV series.
    • Yun's playable appearances in both the GBA and PSP ports of Street Fighter Alpha 3 is considered non-canon due to a lore-error. The Lee Twins were supposed to be little boys during the events of the Zero/Alpha series, and their plots and rival match-ups involving both Fei Long and Dee Jay were not supposed to occur yet until Super Street Fighter IV, in which their plot in that game is just a retelling of their Street Fighter III plot, but involving Chun Li.
  • There are many versions of Charlie Nash's murder by M. Bison, (his Alpha 2 ending currently being canon) but the very first version of the origin story according to Guile's Street Fighter II manual: The former elite S.O.F. teammate from the United States, Guile along with his best friend and co-pilot Charlie Nash were missing in action during a mission in Shadaloo, Thailand in 1987 during the events where Ryu fights Sagat in the Street Fighter I tournament. After many months of being Shadaloo POWs in Cambodia, he and Nash have succeeded their prison break from their cell to escape the jungle camps. During their perilous trek to civilization, Guile witnessed the ambush and murder of Nash at the nefarious hands of a caped dictator in a red uniform, this has stricken Guile with grief and vengeance ever since until six-years-later into the present-era of Street Fighter II where he is given an opportunity to enter M. Bison's tournament to avenge Nash.
  • The Street Fighter EX games takes place in an alternate timeline and is not canon to the main series. Chronologically, the first EX game occurs several months after Street Fighter Alpha 3 still taking place in 1989, and both EX2 & EX3 taking place in 1990. Ryu, Ken, and M. Bison have the same costumes as how they looked in the artwork of Street Fighter II; but on the artwork of EX, Ryu and Ken both still look young, with M. Bison still being muscular as how they were in the Alpha series.
  • Bushinryu's origin is said to date back about 550 years ago (14th century AD).[46][47]
  • The year in which Final Fight takes place has changed multiple times. Originally it was 1989, then the SNES version changed to "sometime in the 1990's" and in the Sega CD manual it is 1992. As of of now, both Final Fight and Final Fight Revenge are consistently set in 1987, which is a year between the events of the Street Fighter Alpha series.[48]
  • After the announcement of Super Street Fighter IV, the additional characters along with their profiles and age were made public. However, the age segment was taken down at a later date.[24][24]
  • Even though Street Fighter II was said to be set in 1993 (due to Cammy's age being 19 as revealed in her Super Street Fighter II profile), Capcom retconned the year into taking place in 1991 because that is the year where it all started in the first version of the game and Zangief's country being listed as "U.S.S.R.".

References[]

  1. "Although Street Fighter 6 occurs after the Street Fighter III series, Ryu still feels that he's "not there yet" - though he seems to have gained some dignity. The way he wears the kasaya (Buddhist robe) is reminiscent of his master, Goken." from Street Fighter Twitter
  2. Gamest Mook Vol. 159: Street Fighter Zero 3, page 137.
  3. Gamest Mook Vol. 81: Street Fighter III Fan Book. page 89.
  4. Mother, Brenda and Sean's 7-year-old brother and 6-year-old sister's family of 6(母, ブレンダとショーンの7歳上の兄と6歳上の姉の6人家族 Haha, burenda to shōn no 7-sai-jō no ani to 6-sai-jō no ane no 6-ri kazoku)
  5. Gamest Mook Vol. 81: Street Fighter III Fan Book. Page 89.
  6. All About Street Fighter ZERO page 010
  7. "My earliest memories are of Master Goutetsu and Master Gouken. I remember Akuma training with them." Ryu's dialogue from Street Fighter IV: The Ties That Bind
  8. His home country is the U.S.A, but due to his training in Japan for 10 years most of his family and friends reside there, new plot has emerged. Ending has been redrawn, as to add sufficient emotion to Ken and Eliza’s face, and are now managing life as an ordinary happy couple. Changed the facial graphics for “SSF2” to add more charm. In addition, a new photo is featured during the “SSF2X” ending depicting Ken miserably shopping with Eliza. (母国 は アメリカ だ が 、 日本 で 10 年以上修行 し て い た ため 家族 や 友人 は すでに アメリカ に はい ない 、 という 設定 が 浮上。 エンディング が 描き直さ れ 、 あれ ほど インパクト が あっ た イライザ と ケン の 顔 も 、 なんとか ふつう の 幸せ カップル の もの に なっ た。 『 スパ Ⅱ 』 では 顔 グラフィック も りりしい もの に 変化 。 また、 『スパ IIX 』 で エンデ ィング に 加わっ た 一枚絵 で は 、 イライザ の ショ ッピング に つきあわさ れる 、 ちょっと 情けない ケン が 見 られる 。) from Ken’s SSFIIT profile in All About Capcom.
  9. Ken: "It's already summer, why is the water here so cold. My hands are freezing." 「もう夏になるってのに、なんでこんなに冷たいんですか、ここの水。手が凍っちまう」from Gouken's Street Fighter IV Prologue
  10. Saturday Night Slam Masters profile.
  11. "A peaceful city. Wasn't it the title I got back a year ago?"(平和な街。それが1年前に取りもどした称号ではなかったのか。) from All About Street Fighter ZERO3 page 65
  12. Ryu and Ken, seeking to become the "strongest fighter", depart to battle street fighters.(隆と拳、「最強の格闘家」を目指してストリートファイトの旅へと出発する Takashi to ken,`saikyō no kakutō-ka' o mezashite sutorītofaito no tabi e to shuppatsu suru) from Street Fighter Memorial Archives Beyond the World
  13. Ryu beats Sagat with a Shoryuken. Sagat vows revenge.(サガット、隆に「昇龍拳」で敗れ、復響を誓う Sagatto, Takashi ni `shō ryū ken' de yabure, fuku hibiki o chikau) from Street Fighter Memorial Archives Beyond the World
  14. 14.0 14.1 5年前に救出 (Rescued 5 years ago) from Famitsu Super Street Fighter IV - Character Relationship chart
  15. "Abel is born as an artificial man, and is rescued by Nash. Nash subsequently disappears." from Street Fighter Memorial Archives Beyond the World
  16. A few months later... The figure of the man who was once called the emperor, illuminated by the morning sun, was a completely different person. Its body, which had been trained twice as big, was overflowing with strength as if to show off its existence. And finally completed, "Tiger Blow", a fist with the flame of vengeance. Now that he has gained overwhelming power and a new special move, and has regained absolute confidence, the fear of the past is no longer anywhere, only hatred and anger are in his fists. In search of Ryu, Sagat's journey to regain the throne has begun... (それから数カ月…朝日に照らされた、かつて帝王と呼ばれた男の姿は、まさに別人であった。二回りも大きく鍛え上げられたその体は、自らの存在を誇示するかのように溢れんばかりのカをみなぎらせてぃた。そしてついに完成させた、復讐の炎を宿した拳〝タイガーブロウ”。圧倒的な力と新たな必殺技をその手にし、絶対の自信を取り戻した今、かつての恐怖はもはやどこにもなく、憎悪と怒りだけがその拳にはあった。リュウを求め、サガットの王座奪回の旅は始まった… ) from Sagat's backstory entry in All About Street Fighter ZERO page 347
  17. "After a few months" (数力月後 Shù lì yuè hòu) from All About Street Fighter ZERO3 page 444
  18. Vega travels the world, searching for strong fighters(ベガ、優れた格闘家を集めるため自ら世界中!廻る Bega, sugureta kakutō-ka o atsumeru tame mizukara sekaijū! Mawaru)
  19. "Almost a year ago, the news of Thailand's national hero, Sagat's disappearance, ran around the country." (タイの国民的英雄、サガット失踪のニュースが国中を駆けめぐったのがほぼ1年前。) from All About Street Fighter ZERO3 page 45
  20. Mike Haggar's Final Fight 2 profile.
  21. (格闘家たちの手によりサイコドライブが破壊され表向きはシャドルーが壊滅 Kakutō-ka-tachi no te ni yori saikodoraibu ga hakai sa re omotemuki wa shadorū ga kaimetsu) from Street Fighter Memorial Archives Beyond the World
  22. (ベガ、新たな代替ボディを開発する「リビング・インキュベータ」計画を発動 Bega, aratana daitai bodi o kaihatsu suru `ribingu inkyubēta' keikaku o hatsudō) from Street Fighter Memorial Archives Beyond the World
  23. The World Fighting Championship is organized by Shadaloo - which now acts in the shadows (in secret). Vega is after Ryu’s body, who defeated Sagat. (シャドルーの暗躍により、「世界格闘選手権」が開催。ベガ、サガットを倒した格闘家、リュウのボディを狙う) from Street Fighter Memorial Archives Beyond the World
  24. 24.0 24.1 24.2 T. Hawk original profile from Super Street Fighter IV. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "SSFIV" defined multiple times with different content
  25. S.I.N’s CEO Seth rebels against Shadaloo. (S.I.N社のCEO、セスがシャドルーから離反 S. I. N-sha no CEO, Sesu ga shadorū kara rihan) from Street Fighter Memorial Archives Beyond the World
  26. S.I.N is destroyed. (S.I.N社が壊減する) from Street Fighter Memorial Archives Beyond the World
  27. Bison rescues the young Ed from S.I.N’s ruins. (S.I.N社からバイソンによって少年エドが保護される S. I. N-sha kara baison ni yotte shōnen Edo ga hogo sa reru) from Street Fighter Memorial Archives Beyond the World
  28. Street Fighter V: Masters Family
  29. Sagat estranges himself from Shadaloo. F.A.N.G takes Sagat’s former place among the Four Kings. (サガット、シャドルーより離反。四天王の座にF.A.N.Gが新たに就く Sagatto, shadorū yori rihan. Shiten'nō no za ni F. A. N. G ga arata ni tsuku) from Street Fighter Memorial Archives Beyond the World
  30. Shadaloo launches the “Black Moons Project”. NY’s zone is struck by a violent electromagnetic wave and plunges into chaos. (シャドルー、「黒い月計画」を発動NY一帯が強烈な電磁波により大混乱にる Shadorū,`kuroi tsuki keikaku' o hatsudō NY ittai ga kyōretsuna denjiha ni yori dai konran niru) from Street Fighter Memorial Archives Beyond the World
  31. The Kanzuki house calls fighters from all over the world to help. (神月家、世界中の格間家たちに協力を呼びかける Kōdzuki-ka, sekaijū no gōma-ka-tachi ni kyōryoku o yobikakeru) from Street Fighter Memorial Archives Beyond the World
  32. Through the fighters's fist, they crush the “Black Moons Project”. Shadaloo is destroyed again. (格闘家たちの手により「黒い月計画」が打ち砕かれ、再びシャドルーが壊減する) from Street Fighter Memorial Archives Beyond the World
  33. Chun Li becomes the guardian of the young hacker Li Fen. (春麗、ハッカーの少女リーフェンの後見人となる) from Street Fighter Memorial Archives Beyond the World
  34. Ed leaves Balrog and forms his own independent organization. (エド、バイソンのもとを離れ独自組織を結成 Edo, baison no moto o hanare dokuji soshiki o kessei) from Street Fighter Memorial Archives Beyond the World
  35. “Street Fighter III was an event from 1997 to 200X, so let's say Ryu, born in 1964, is 33 years old.”(「ストIII が1997年から200X年にかての出来事なので、1964年生まれのリユウは33歳くらぃでしよう」 ) from an interview in Gamest Mook Vol. 81 – Street Fighter III New Generation ‘Fan Book’ page 85.
  36. It was the first time in a while that Ryu used the hot spring water in Japan. Ken said, "There's someone I want you to meet" and designated a Japanese hot spring inn as the meeting place. "A proper hot spring inn is good once in a while." The hot water that hits the trained shoulders bursts violently as if it had fallen on the marble. "Ken is also the father of a three-year-old boy........ When you become a father、 I wonder if it's hard to go out with me and go camping in the mountains." As expected, Ryu could not help feeling the flow of time by using the hot springs in his hometown of Japan. (リュウ自身、 日本の温泉の湯につかるのはしばらくぶりのことだった。ケンが「会わせたいヤツがいる」と言って、合流場所に日本の温泉宿を指定してきたのだ。「たまにはちゃんとした温泉宿もいいな」鍛えられた肩にあたる打たせ湯が、 大理石にでも落ちたかのように激しく弾けている。「ケンも、もう3歳の男の子の父親か・・・・・・・。 父 親ともなると、俺に付き合って山籠ごもりするのも大変かな」故郷日本の温泉につかって、 さすがのリュウも時の流れを感じずにはいられなかった。) from All About Street Fighter III: The Fighting Bible, page 226
  37. Tom, Alex’s guardian, is attacked by a mysterious blonde fighter. (アレックスの後見人トム謎の金髪格闘家によって襲撃される Arekkusu no kōken'nin Tomu nazo no kinpatsu kakutō-ka ni yotte shūgeki sa reru) from Street Fighter Memorial Archives Beyond the World
  38. Alex begins his trip to avenge Tom. (トムのかたきを討つため、アレックスが旅立つ Tomu no kataki o utsu tame, Arekkusu ga tabidatsu) from Street Fighter Memorial Archives Beyond the World
  39. "1 year since the battle to determine the best in the world," (世界の頂点を決める闘いから1年.) from ALL ABOUT Capcom Fighting Game 1987-2000
  40. Ibuki's Ending in Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike.
  41. Li Fen, the girl Chun Li took into care, is abducted by a mysterious organisation (春麗の保護した少女リーフェン、秘密結社に誘拐される Haruurara no hogo shita shōjo rīfen, himitsu kessha ni yūkai sa reru) from Street Fighter Memorial Archives Beyond the World
  42. "Master... I'm not the same person that I was a year ago!" Sean's dialogue before fighting Ken in Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike.
  43. "Street Fighter III 3rd Strike character introductions" (in Japanese). Archived from the original
  44. Hugo and Poison found the new pro-wrestling group Huge Wrestling Army (ヒューゴーとポイズン、新プロレス団体「H.W.A(ヒュージ・レスリング・アーミー)」を立ち上げ Hyūgō to poizun, shin puroresu dantai `H. W. A (hyūji resuringu āmī)' o tachi age) from Street Fighter Memorial Archives Beyond the World
  45. Alex departs once again to test himself. (アレックス、武者修行のため再び旅に出る Arekkusu, musha shugyō no tame futatabi tabi ni deru) from Street Fighter Memorial Archives Beyond the World
  46. All About Street Fighter ZERO page 011
  47. ""Bujin-ryu Ninjutsu" ... Its origin is said to date back about 550 years ago (1440 AD)." (「武神流忍術」・・・・・・その源流は約550年前 (西暦1440年頃)まてさかのぼるといわれる。`Bushin-ryū ninjutsu' sono genryū wa yaku 550-nen mae (seireki 1440 toshigoro) mate sakanoboru to iwa reru.)"
  48. All About Street Fighter ZERO3 page 65
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