Wrestling sub-plot will likely tie into Karin somehow given her relationship with Mika established in Alpha and having been shown to have interest both as a fan and financially in the wrestling entertainment industry. I would not be surprised to see some sort of cross over there, in addition Birdie has a connection to Bison but also could just as easily be moved into wrestling with his personality/style.
My money is on the chess pieces being tied to the Illuminati rather than Bison or Necalli, makes sense for a secret society to be cryptic. This points to Urien.
Alexâs screenshot fighting a Shadaloo goon points to a further deepening of the original prologue. Perhaps this is what leads to the illuminati taking an interest in him? Not sure, SOMETHING is going on there unless itâs just part of the extra mode and not tied to the story at all.
Here are some kind of bordering on âfan storyâ type plot potentials given how far I take them:
Hasnât the illuminati been around quite a while but been secret? I could easily see the relationship between Nashâs absorbing powers and Necalliâs being related to illuminati experiments and them tracking the rebirth of Necalli and trying to harness his abilities or create an artificial version of them via Nash. Kind of a long stretch to go down but, to me, feels like a pretty logical leap for their characterization and how these types of stories are often written.
Nash and Ryu are clearly the most âenergyâ powerful characters beyond Bison, it makes sense for Necalli to want to feed on them. Makes me wonder if we might see some interaction between Necalli and Bison. Urien/Necalli is also a possibility instead, and that feeds back into the illuminati / Nash / Chun, Guile, Cammy storyline. That one is definitely a large stretch but feels plausible.
Rashidâs story seems half throwaway still, just a fun way to to move him around and guide you to other characters. He seems too goofy and inconsequential at the moment, even with the Viper attachment. All he is doing is trying to recover one of his hacker friends, but that doesnât seem THAT important. At best it gives us some info into the start of the Bison plot but nothing that actually effects the end result. However, if Chunâs search ties into him, as his appearance in the preview indicates as a possibility, it could end up more important than I think now.
The ninjas in the Shadaloo stage potentially pointed to a future scene in the story, the is post shadow fall sequence starting I believe. I actually think they tie into Geki or Guyâs clan rather than Karin or Ibukiâs. Given the blue look and the sword, they especially appear to be a lot like the redesign of Geki rather than how we know Karinâs ninjas look like as well as Ibukiâs clan uniform. Remember, there still is a high chance of guest appearances, we already know Sean is making an appearance, in 3D model no less.
Juri/Ed/Balrog/Urien/Ken all have yet to appear post prologue sequence so we are certainly missing a large chunk of potentially direction so this could all go out the window.
Iâm not sure why Nash is seeking Guile for what appears to be some sort of revenge, we already know Nash is pretty much strictly revenge driven now. His memory seems hazy so it could be for answers, but it could also be a sense of betrayal by Guile/Chun given his âdeath.â It is interesting, to me, that they have effectively turned âShadowâ canon now as much of Shadowâs plots were based around attacking Chun/Guile without memory or under the control of a third party. We could look to that for at least hints of what happened. They will remain non-canon but can lead us to some conclusions.
I feel we will see some guests that arenât related to Season 1 that could appear in Season 2 or are simply plot driven. We have yet to see if Oro will do anything at all.
I can easily see some leftover plot points from SIN or Blece bleeding into this plot but that is the biggest stretch of all of these.
No knowledge if we will find out more about the Nash - Abel storyline hinted in SF4. SF5 takes place post SF4 but, as weâve seen with the prologue, there is no reason that they strictly need to conform to a forward moving timeline, we could see snippets of the past mixed in to make certain plot points have context.
Last but not least: I just realized a stupid pun, with Abelâs arm broken he is currently DIS-Abeled rimshot
