The 10 weirdest ‘Street Fighter’ characters of all time

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For 35 years Capcom’s Street Fighter has served up some of the freakiest and strangest characters in gaming history. We’re now on the cusp of Street Fighter 6, which brings back icons like Ryu, Chun Li, and Zangief along with a smattering of new weirdoes bristling with combo-heavy special moves.

With those new characters about to stride into the video game hall of fame, it’s worth remembering that Street Fighter has always balanced ‘regular’ fighting game characters like E. Honda, Sagat, and Ken with some very odd challengers like Seth and Blanka. So, let’s take a look back at the strangest, most-ill conceived and downright imaginative characters Street Fighter has ever seen.

One of the core conceits of Street Fighter is that it’s about warriors from around the world and as such has a truly international cast. As the series has developed Capcom has tried to incorporate as many countries as possible, but faced with Super Street Fighter IV‘s Hakan, we suspect Turkey wishes they’d been skipped over.

Hakan, the Turkish representative for the game, is a bright red muscled man with aquamarine hair and a mustache whose move set involves drenching himself in cooking oil and then writhing around on the floor. His fighting style is based on his “slipperiness”, so the more oily he is, the faster and further he slides around the arena. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Hakan hasn’t returned in any other Street Fighter games since IV.

F.A.N.G is Street Fighter‘s first (and so far only) poison-based character, with his attacks inflicting damage that slowly chips away at his opponent’s health bar. F.A.N.G’s backstory is that he was repeatedly exposed to deadly poisons as a child, eventually giving him the fabled “Poison Hand”. This manifests as