Ryu will continue being warrior man. Ken will be family man, we will see a boy Mel for the first time (chronologically speaking) here.
Chun-Li will take down Shadaloo and discover the details surrounding the ultimate fate of her father.
Guile will know the truth about Charlie and he won’t like it.
Charlie will die again, this time as a pawn for the Illuminati and their cause. Or he will live to become the villains he fought. Completing his transition to the dark side.
Shadaloo will fall, Vega, Balrog, and FANG will all betray Bison (Illuminati may be involved in this). Bison will ‘die’ but not before giving everyone the beat down of their lives. All the human incubators will be destroyed, except Bandaged Boy who will become host to Bison and no one will know about it. Bison will return many years from now obviously.
Laura will introduce Sean to Ken.
Necalli will die. This is possibly related to Bison and his new host body.
Another possibility is that Boxer sold Bandaged Boy to the Illuminati, who became interested in absorbing Shadaloo’s technology to form the basis of Urien’s G-Project, cuz Shadaloo’s scientists > Illuminati scientists. Either way, Bison will return.
Juri will join Shadaloo and then the Illuminati.
Sagat won’t really be in the game this time around and even if he his he won’t have plot significance because his story truly concluded in SF4. Unless they want to start a new arc with him.
Cammy will save the dolls.
Rashid will save his friend, who may or may not have been FANG’s new experiment. Perhaps Azam is now a Frankenstein’s monster of some kind.
Akuma is paying a debt in the Tekken universe and won’t be really involved in the main story arc of SFV.
We will see Adult Sakura, the same girl we saw at the end of her SSF4 ending’s timeskip.
If Rose is not involved physically in SFV, then she will be involved spiritually. Guiding Ryu as she vowed to do so but only through the dream or spiritual realm like she did for Hawk. Her body may still be in a coma because of what Bison did to her.
Also
-Birdie will get beat up by no less than 5 people for information (Ken, Rashid, Cammy, Chun, and FANG)
-Vega will troll Chun and Cammy but accomplish nothing important
-Mika and Zangief will meet as equals for the first time, Alex may be involved
-Karin will do a bunch of Mary Sue shit and generally be rich and superior to everyone in every way because waifu
-Dhalsim will either do nothing relevant like SF4 or be a complete bad ass like his was in A3 (he broke Bison’s mind control on Cammy)
-Ibuki will meet Karin for some reason
-Urien’s going to be salty that his brother is better than him at everything
How does this make sense when Juri and Bison are pretty much enemies now, unless they have a mutual agreement regarding a specific character (though that would be rehashing their SFxT story)?
I think people exaggerate Juri’s hate for Bison. Juri loves chaos and anarchy more than she hates Bison, this makes her prone to working for him - even if it is temporary. Juri’s ambitions are villainous and unjust, and Bison has no problem surrounding himself with treacherous lackeys. I think that during Bison and Juri’s encounter at the end of SF4, they had a talk and found out they have much in common. Bison made her an offer, and she took it. This is why we have no evidence at all of them fighting, because they didn’t.
I don’t think Juri and Bison’s pairing in SFxT is just coincidence, it is foreshadowing stuff that will happen in the canon. They got along very well in the [url"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qNAO6DCZcI"]SFxT Vita story series, a dysfunctional father/daughter.
So basically Bison is so fucking arrogant he’d be okay with hiring people who he knows would willingly betray him because he’s so badass that he could squash them like bugs
This post and the bolded part of it make me think that Street Fighter is and has been suffering from the Dragon Ball Z syndrome, as in there’s so many characters in this universe that get shafted to the background or often aren’t even present in the main story of the game which results in them being flushed down the drain importance-wise when they could be so much more
Necalli will consume Bison’s soul in his ending, while Bison will body hop into Necalli’s in his. Then we’ll debate the canon ending till 2026, when Street Fighter VI will reveal neither of them really interacted with each other.
Well Bison body hopping into Necalli makes the most sense to me. Bison remarks in Alpha 3 that the SNH is at its core a pure form of Psycho Power, purest even. A body who can handle the SNH is the ideal host for Bison’s soul. However this all depends on where and why Necalli comes from:
If Necalli was awakened by Shadaloo, then it is possible that they want Necalli to reawaken the SNH in Ryu so Bison can claim him. But this doesn’t make sense because Bison’s win quote suggests that Ryu is worthless to him now (Bison feeds on and can manipulate hate, despair, and anger so Ryu would be difficult to yield).
If Necalli was awakened by the Illuminati, they may have sent him to take care of Bison. Bison’s win quote suggests that he is aware of this and has his own contingency plan.
If Necalli is a solo agent rather than a pawn, and he just happened to awaken and be attracted to the scent of power (Ryu or Bison or a new tournament probably) then it is anyone’s guess what will happen. But we know that Bison has a plan involving him, so that’s all we have to work with now.
I still think that the final boss is an unplayable version of Bison in Necalli’s body, a new take on Shin Bison. Which would mean the body hop happens during SFV rather than it being a cliffhanger.
I can confirm it is a word in Brazilian Portuguese as well as Indonesian.
Edit #1 - No idea what it means, though (in either of them).
Edit #2 - Pure speculation here, but there was a theory that Necalli is something of a world wanderer. That he has probably travelled and faught all around the world. Greeks, Aztecs etc. Could he possibly have some connection to Indonesia? There are Hindu temples in Indonesia that can pass off as something like the structures found in his official artwork (ones that @Daemos insists are Hindu temples). Plus the deities in Indonesian Hinduism are seemingly depicted more ‘ferocious’ than in India. Some of the imagery can bear a passing resemblance to Necalli’s design.
I’m not convinced at all about connecting Necalli to India, Indonesia and Hindu culture. His name, appearance and mannerism, of course pumped and translated into the fiction and the context of the Street Fighter world, doubtless indicate that he is connected to ancient Mexican culture and people: the Mexica or “Aztec” as we, often improperly, call them. For this simple reason I’m quite sure that the background architecture of his character art represents a stylized and reinterpreted Mexico City’s Metropolitan Cathedral and he’s standing over the ruins of a Templo Mayor like area. Let’s see.
Look at those buildings in the back. Look at the towers, the windows, the arches, and the pointy domes. Now look at the bottom left corner here:
If you are observant of the India stage in game, you will recognize the similarity immediately. Sim and Necalli both share the India stage art, and stages in SF5 are not tied necessarily tied to characters.
Could be that way but I’m still not convinced about his connection to India. I remember the discussion in the deleted thread and I see the same structure in those towers: maybe the ground portion we see in Necalli’s character art is just the expanded section of the Apprentice Alley stage, if there’s one, maybe it’s a different stage or just a suitable scenario used solely for the composition. The same way R. Mika’s character art background has a totally unseen scenario, which is not the Underground Arena. And that can be applied to Ryu’s, F.A.N.G.'s and, the unclear, Rashid’s character art setting. Do we know from the beta leaks the official number of the initial stages?
The only stage concepts that are unaccounted for Mika’s wrestling ring, Desert City/Dubai, and FANG’s. Ryu’s stage art is the Kanzuki estate without a doubt. The mountain, the moon, the architecture, and the shape of the lamps confirms it. However it is likely an extension of the Kanzuki estate because the flooring is made of stone tiles and the Kanzuki estate stage has wooden flooring (which we also see in the far right of the concept art).
I don’t think anyone thinks that Necalli is Indian, because of his stage art. Claw isn’t English but his stage art is London. Necalli’s is a mishmash of several ancient warrior cultures, Aztec would be one of them but those dreadlocks are not synonymous with Aztec warriors at all.
Ryu’s background art looks more like a different stage and the same one on the back of this steelbook edition. A misty place at night. Could be Gouken’s dojo or a random one. It echoes this illustration, at least in my mind. The lamps and the Guzei bridge of the Kanzuki Estate stage appear similar but not the same if you look closely.
Switching back to the Blanka origin discussion, I’m still upset for this unused IV concept of the Brazilian stage which ties to his plane accident. What a waste.
