Streets of Rage/Characters

Characters Introduced In Streets of Rage 1

Playable Characters

Axel Stone

• Calling Your Attacks: "Grand Upper!"
• Expy: Of Cody.
• The Hero: Is this for the whole series, but Streets of Rage 3 storywise implies that he's The Lancer to Blaze.
• Jack of All Stats: 1st game only; gradually leans toward Mighty Glacier as the series progresses.
• Shoryuken: Doing a series of punches in at least one of the Genesis titles has him finish the combo with this.
• Vigilante Man: After turning in his badge.

Adam Hunter

• Badass Normal: With none of Axel or Blaze's firey attacks, Zan's cybernetics or even the Charles Atlas Superpowers of Max or his young brother Skate, Adam holds his own against Mr. X's cyborgs, robots, self cloning samurai ninjas and kangaroos.
• The Lancer: To Axel in the first game.
• Mighty Glacier: In the first game.
• Out of Focus: His importance to the series decreased, needing to be saved in Streets of Rage 2 and then relegated to support in Streets of Rage 3.
• Vigilante Man: After turning in his badge.

Blaze Fielding

• Action Girl: Kicks ass like the boys.
• Bare Your Midriff: From the second game onward.
• The Chick
• Cowboy Cop: Quits the force in Streets of Rage 1 due to general corruption in the force, and uses unconventional methods of investigation in Streets of Rage 3.
• Fragile Speedster: 1st game only.
• Jack of All Stats: Streets of Rage 2, Streets of Rage 3 and the Remake.
• The Smurfette Principle: Is the only starting playable female character in all of the games.
• Vigilante Woman: After turning in her badge.

Syndicate Mooks

Garcia/Galsia

• Evil Redhead: Basic Galsia/Garcia have orange hair is orange and they are violent punks.
• The Goomba: The basic syndicate mook, though there are more powerful palette swap versions of him.
• Spell My Name with an "S": Inexplicably his name was spelled "Garcia" in the third game (he was still called "Galsia" in the Japanese version though).
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair: As the most palette-swapped mook in the game, pink-haired, white-haired, blond-haired, blue-haired and even lime green-haired variations can be seen.

Y.Signal

• Badass Longcoat: All of the Signal palatte-swaps wear longcoats, and their names are usually based on the color of the long coat (e.g. Y.Signal wears a yellow coat, B.Signal wears a blue one, G.Signal wears a green one...).
• Delinquent Hair/The Quincy Punk: He has a mohawk.
• Expy: Of J and Two P. The difference between them is the Signals have a punch attack, slide kick, and can throw you.
• Fluffy Fashion Feathers: There are messy looking feathers on the collar of his coat.

Nora

• Demoted to Extra: Specifically to being one of Electra's palette swaps in the sequels.
• Dominatrix: The Japanese manual mentions they work in questionable "Members only" clubs.
• Gainaxing: Added to her sprite in the remake version.
• Evil Blonde
• I Surrender, Suckers: In later stages of the game, they will pull this off if you punch them. Turn away and stand there, and they will whip you.
• Whip It Good: Nora exclusively use whips to attack.

Hakuyo (Streest of Rage 1)

• Arrogant Kung Fu Guy
• Badass Long Hair
• Spell My Name with an "S": The Japanese manual for the Game Gear port spells his name "Shirotaka", which is another way of pronouncing the kanji in Hakuyo's name.

Jack (Streets of Rage 1)

• An Axe to Grind: Lesser Jacks.
• Incendiary Exponent: Elite Jacks.

Syndicate Bosses

Antonio

• Battle Boomerang: Antonio mainly attacks with a boomerang.
• Lennon Specs: They're more visible on his remake sprite.

Souther

• Slasher Smile: Which is more noticable in the remake.
• Wolverine Claws: He wears gloves with blades on the finger tips.

Abedede

• Facial Markings: Has face paint around his eyes.
• Lightning Bruiser: Large, fast and really strong.

Bongo

• Breath Weapon: Bongo breathes fire.
• Fat Bastard: Not exactly an agile enemy, but you better not try and take advantage of that by throwing or slamming them if you're not Max or Skate (Blaze also can with her forward slam). The second game's iteration of him is an exception though for whatever reason.

Onihime and Yasha (Mona and Lisa)

• Dual Boss: Always.
• Dub Name Change: At least in the third game.
• Palette Swap: Of Blaze in the first game.
• Sensual Spandex: In the third game and the remake.

Mr. X

• Authority Equals Asskicking: Mr. X is simply a man in a business suit, yet he's the strongest of the Syndicate bosses, even without his tommy gun.
• Badass in a Nice Suit
• Big Bad: He leads the syndicate and is the Final Boss in all appearances.
• The Gunslinger: Type B: The Vaporizer.
• Mind Screw: He's unlockable in the remake, and can defeat himself in the Streets of Rage 1 route to BECOME THE BOSS... wait, what?

Characters Introduced In Streets of Rage 2

Playable Characters

Sammy/Eddie "Skate" Hunter

• Dance Battler: According to his profile in Remake, his style is "breakdancing".
• Dub Name Change
• Fragile Speedster
• Kid Hero/Kid Sidekick: Partly because his big brother got captured and he wants to help bring him back. It clearly runs in the family anyway.
• Muscles Are Meaningless: Granted, he uses his entire body for leverage, but even so, it's impressive how he can throw the fat mooks just as easily as Max does. Even moreso in Streets of Rage 3, where all the adult characters are unable to accomplish that feat.
• Nice Hat
• Rollerblade Good: A vital part of his attacks.

Max Thunder

• Mighty Glacier
• Walking Shirtless Scene: His wrestling outfit is a pair of pants, boots and absolutely nothing to cover his upper body, although the remake has some art of him wearing a leather jacket (with no shirt on under it).
• Wrestler in All of Us: Justified as he's a professional wrestler.

Syndicate Mooks

Donovan

• Ambiguously Brown: Donovan himself has an African-American skin tone, but some of the swaps are a bit paler.
• Bald of Evil: Hasn't got a hair on his head.
• Butt Monkey/Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: In Bare Knuckle 3, he is knocked cold by debris (or an oil drum in the remake) after crashing his bulldozer into a support. See Drives Like Crazy below. His slapstick mishaps in an otherwise serious game have branded him as comic relief in many a Fanfic.
• Drives Like Crazy: He leaves the driving seat of his pickup truck during a chase sequence in the remake to throw knives and oil drums at you. It works as well as you might expect.
• Expy: He's pretty much Dug with no shirt.
• Scary Black Man: Maybe, depending on palette.
• Sinister Shades: All his palate swaps wear shades
• Walking Shirtless Scene: Never wears a shirt of any description.

Jack (Streets of Rage 2)

• Evil Laugh: Lets out a sinister laugh when he hits you.
• Knife Nut: The Jacks in Streets of Rage 2 can pull an infinite amount of knifes out of their jacket to fight with.
• Unique Enemy: Only appears three times in total throughout Streets of Rage 2. The remake does include him in some more areas though.

Electra

• Dominatrix: Thigh high boots, fishnet stockings, whips it good...
• Evil Blonde
• I Surrender, Suckers: In the 3rd game, some of them do this as a Call Back to Nora in the first game.
• Karaoke Box: When first encountered she is singing on a microphone.
• Shock and Awe: Her whip is electrified.
• Stripperiffic: More so by the third game, which was bowdlerised in the US release.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To Nora from the first game. Subverted in that one of Electra's palette swaps is named Nora, but Electra is treated as the main version of the character.
• Whip It Good: Unlike Nora, Electra's whip is electrified.

Fog

• Badass Biker: They are pretty badass.
• Faceless Goons: They hide their face behind a gas mask of some sort with a red light in the middle.
• Walking Shirtless Scene: They do have those shoulderpads, but they wear no shirts.

Hakuyo (Streets of Rage 2)

• Kiai Whenever they drop in or do a jump kick. Also qualifies as Hell Is That Noise when encountered on the elevator.
• Ki Attacks: In the second game, Hakuyo can shoot a short range Ki blast from his open palm.
• Walking Shirtless Scene: In Streets of Rage 2, they wear no shirts.

Hanzo

• Calling Your Attacks
• Highly-Visible Ninja: All these ninjas wear bright uniforms.
• Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja: Well, why else would the game have ninjas (besides that the games were made by a Japanese company)?

Big Ben

• Breath Weapon: He'll sometimes start breathing fire and bolt across the screen trying to run you over.
• Evil Laugh: "HUHEHEHEHEHEHEHE!"
• Expy: A charging fat man? Check. He wears suspenders? Check. That definitely sounds like G. Oriber, Bill Bull and Wong Who. Also it looks like Big Ben's face resembles a human Majin Buu.
• Fastball Special: He throws the Garcia enemies at you in Streets of Rage 3, while they drop in with an elbow attack mid air.
• Fat Bastard: Big Ben's sinister laugh after he hits the player, suggests he enjoys causing pain.
• Kung Fu-Proof Mook: In the first and third games, the fat guys will crush you if you try to shoulder throw them.

Raven

• Hachimaki
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair: The main Raven-type has navy blue hair.

Syndicate Bosses

Barbon

• The Bartender: Of a Bad Guy Bar.
• Bring It: Shouts "Come on!" as he rips off his vest.
• Degraded Boss: A Palette Swap of him, Wayne, is fought later on in level 5.
• Waistcoat of Style: He rips this off before the fight starts off.

Jet

• Cyborg: In Streets of Rage 3, it may or not be the same guy though.
• Jet Pack

Zamza

• Expy: He is basically a non-green skin version of Blanka. He even has the same barrel attack.
• Wolverine Claws: Similar to Souther, his gauntlets have three blades on them.

R.Bear

• Bald of Evil: R. Bear's head is entirely shaved.
• Everything's Worse with Bears: Not literally. But as his name implies, he definitely lives up to it.

Particle and Molecule

• Epic Flail: Their main attack is a spiked metal ball on a chain attacked to their bodies: they can shoot it out and reel it back in for a quick jab, or spin it in a wide circle for a more damaging attack.

Shiva

• Arrogant Kung Fu Guy
• Badass Long Hair
• The Dragon: To Mr. X.

Characters Introduced In Streets of Rage 3

Playable Characters

Gilbert Zan

• Captain Ersatz: Of Cyborg Grandpa G.
• Cool Old Guy: He's an electric cyborg.
• Cyborg: He's an electric cyborg.

Roo (Victy)

• Boxing Kangaroo: He doesn't wear those boxing gloves and boxing trunks to do karate.

Syndicate Mooks

Vice

Slum

• Stone Wall: Will sometimes block your attacks.

Soozie

• My Nayme Is: Averted by most of her palette swaps.
• Stripperiffic: Wears a miniskirt and crop top. The American version added a t-shirt under the crop top. The remake uses both the versions of her.

Tiger

• Evil Redhead: With dreadlocks and a fitting patch of vibrant orangish chest hair.
• Kiai: When he does a jumpkick.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To Hakuyo from the second game, even possessing very similar movements.
• Walking Shirtless Scene: All his palate swaps are shirtless.

Musashi

McBride

• Badass in a Nice Suit
• The Men in Black: They look and fight like government agents.
• Sinister Shades: Most swaps wear them.

Rocket

• Jet Pack
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To Jet from the second game, except they're (more) common enemies this time around.

Mark 2 (Robot)

Syndicate Bosses

Ash

• Camp Gay: Well, above the waist, he's a leatherman, and below the waist, he wears stockings and women's panties.
• Dummied Out: In the US version.
• Lethal Joke Character
• Refuge in Audacity: The character himself would count at this, but there are specific moments in the remake that fufill this trope as well.
  • One: Sliding down a pole then proceeding to dance on it in the Atlas Nightclub.
  • Two: The image of him if HE BECOMES THE BOSS.
• Warmup Boss

Danch/Bruce

• Get Back Here Boss
• Mini Boss
• Monster Clown: In a way. He is an abusive kangaroo trainer. It doesn't help that he has two of them in the Remake.

Break

• Evil Knockoff: Of Axel.
• Frame-Up: Does this to Axel.
• Mirror Boss: If you play as Axel.
• Put on a Bus: The only enemy in the series not to appear in Remake.
• Turns Red: Literally.

Yamato

• Doppelganger Attack: Creates two copies to fight the player character before his Boss Fight.
• Mook Chivalry: He displays it along with his copies, no less.
• Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: A Samurai Ninja.

Dr.Zero/Dr.Dahm

• Mad Scientist
• A Worldwide Punomenon: Has one in the remake.

Characters Introduced In Streets of Rage Remake

Slash

• Fanon Immigrant: Originally appeared on the US Streets of Rage cover but not in the game itself. In the remake, he's now an actual enemy.
• Knife Nut: Likes using knifes. However, he might pull out a gun out after he's knocked down.
• Unique Enemy
• White Mask of Doom: A white hockey mask.

Trucker

• Almighty Janitor: Despite his profession, he's tough enough to qualify as a mini-boss.
• Lightning Bruiser: This guy is eye-poppingly fast on the draw.
• Unique Enemy: Only two of him appear in the game.

Sniper

• Unique Enemy: Only has ONE appearance in the entire game, the first level in the Streets of Rage 2 route.

Rudra

• Dark Action Girl
• I Have Your Sister: Why she's serving the syndicate.
• Kill It with Fire: What happens when you use the "call police" button.
• McNinja: Her profile shows that she's trained in several disciplines related to ninja combat, and in-game, her preferred weapons are the kunai and the katana.
• Mysterious Woman: According to her profile.
• Ninja Run
• Sailor Earth
• She's Got Legs: Yes, she does.
• When She Smiles

Cody

• Take That: A reskinned Galsia that looks just like Cody from Final Fight.