It’s more than likely an oversight.
It’s a sliding timeline. I know they established what year the previous games take place, but those are basically retconned. The games are taking place whenever they come out, and any previous games will move forward in time to take place. A game that once took place in 1996 could be said to take place in 2014 by the time of Street Fighter V.
Exactly. You can establish the time difference between one game and the other, but the precise year in which each game happens depends on the date of the latest date reference, which is usually given with the latest released game.
Yup. Sliding timeline. Saying it’s an “oversight” is willful ignorance of how these things are handled in fiction. SF2 did not take place in 1991, nor did SF5 take place in 94 or whatever. The timeline is sliding and the only thing that can be said for years is in relation to one another. IE: This game took place X years before this other game, etc.
Actually, there used to be a set date.
Nah, it’s just that the Ice Rink’s construction won’t be complete until 2016 
And with the sliding timeline, that birthdate is no longer applicable. If it were, Ken would be 51 by the time of SFV. If V takes place, say, 4 years after II, then Ken’s probably 30 right now, and his birthdate would be 1986.
Correct. It doesn’t make sense to say “there used to be a set date” just because you showed a date in one game. That means literally nothing in serial media.
Ah, now we know we’re getting additional stages in 2016 as well
All jokes aside, I’m sure we’ll get new stages too. I figure with 6 DLC characters, we’ll probably have 2 or 3 stages added as well.
Sounds like how Netherrealm made the new MK games with their sliding timelines, etc.
And the fact that those dates are no longer mentioned in any bios is a sign that Capcom has adopted a sliding timeline, avoiding giving birth years.
No way, man. When they made the sequel to their mediocre game Street Fighter 1, Capcom totally knew that the new game and its characters would be a mega hit and endure for decades and they always wanted the game to perpetually be set in the 90’s with a bunch of anachronistic things thrown in as the timeline (didn’t) progress thereby making it all incomprehensible, illogical and unnecessarily complicated with main characters in their 50’s that still look in their 20’s. It makes sooo much sense! There’s no way they just didn’t consider that those dates would become albatrosses around the neck of their games setting and have to be jettisoned later. Noooo way
I want to like this, but where’s my girl, Karin, at in this thing? Or am I just blind?
What do you mean? She’s right there in the Martial Arts circle…
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She’s not, and you’re not. Also Blanka should be out of the Technology circle.
Let me guess.
Cammy and Decapre are Technology and Martial Arts, because they’re clones, right?
Why are Juni and Juli there?
Viper and Rashid should be in the mixed area where Rolento is. They may use gadgets, but they obviously know how to fight.
Honestly I don’t even think there was a concrete timeline in the MK universe. I also think it was kinda generally accepted that by MK3, the original trilogy was taking place in the 90’s, and the games’ events happened pretty much one after another, so despite being split into three different games, story-wise they are all a one big continuity, so MK2 took off right from where MK1 canonically ended and then MK3 took off right from where MK2 canonically ended, which was also depicted in MK Shaolin Monks and then in MK9
MK4 also doesn’t state when the Shinnok’s invasion began exactly (i.e. how much time has passed between 3 and 4), although MK9 states that the invasion began right after MK9 ended (despite being a new trilogy altogether).
Then MKDA, MKD and MKA are also one big continuity and part of what can be called the second trilogy, and, like the original trilogy, neither of these mention any sort of “X years has passed” type of stuff. The events of all three games also happen right one after another and start off from the previous game ended (i.e. Shujinko wakes Onaga by the end of MKDA which we see in MKD’s Konquest, Earthrealm warriors go to battle Shang Tsung and Quan Chi to stop them and destroy the Soulnado, and in MKD’s intro we see everybody except for Raiden, Tsung and Chi bodied, and Onaga enters the palace. Armageddon could arguably considered non-canon since it brings everybody from the universe into the game, but as of MK9’s intro - the events of that game did happen. I’d assume it’s because of the Soulnado getting destroyed and the fallen MK characters coming back to life after their souls returned to their physical bodies)
Starting from Deadly Alliance, the MK Universe also seemed to had moved towards the modern world, though you only really get to see that in MKX since most of the stages of MKDA, MKD and MKA are set in the distant places of Earthrealm or in the Outworld
MKX IMO resembles the year it was released in the most based on just the technology used by the characters and what you see in the cutscenes or at the stages (guns, choppers, armored vehicles), right next to MK3 where you see more of the kinda real-world-ish locations like The Bank or The Streets or The Subway
So MKX is the first game in the series that directly states that its events take place 5 and 20 years after MK9
Agreed. He will be in the revision.
Cammy and Decapre are genetically engineered and enhanced human clones. All the other dolls have also been enhanced by Shadaloo’s biotechnology after their kidnapping. (Source: Alpha 3 Arcade Mode Cammy, Juni, Juli)
However, neither of them arguably would stand a reasonable chance without their technology. Rashid’s fighting style is ‘Parkouring’ according to his ID card, which only becomes a fighting style aided by his technology. Viper is even more debatable; For her fighting style in her SF4/SSF4 bio, I read several translations and only one of them included the word Martial Arts (‘Martial arts implementing spy secrets’). The others were like ‘Espionage (aided with tools)’, or ‘Using secret spy gadgets’. Since her whole shtick has been built around her suit (something she herself professes), I went with Technology only. For example, I doubt she would survive 3 minutes against Cammy without her suit, but with it she can utterly dismiss her.
The only reason Rolento is where he is is because he uses stuff like Grenades. While his knives and staff, are in fact ‘technologies’, weapons like them have been incorporated into traditional Martial Arts for a very long time. The Grenades I felt crossed an imaginary and debatable line that I arbitrarily decided on.