The ending in the US reflects the starting characters. Since AAC is a Japanese book(correct me if I’m wrong), then it shows the starting characters in Japan.
The Japanese version has a different set of opening characters??? I had to unlock Jin??? %$*&$ And you’d think there would be no way Capcom USA could screw you in a game that has no text at all!! I mean, the very @$#$% least they could of done was include the other ending as a bonus or something to unlock but NOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Anyway, thanks Nemisis for the answer. If I get a minute, I’ll list every character that appears in that ending, because I think it’s interesting to compare the two opening rosters.
Don’t bother. AAC is exclusively about the arcade games, in fact it doesn’t include console only releases. The arcade version of MvC2 had a different set of starting characters. That was the point of having to play in the arcade to unlock those characters on your own VMU for DC.
So I guess the ending simply has the original AC characters.
O.K. that makes sense.
Kenjo Tsujimoto?! I hope Norimaru(sp?) doesn’t show up in any other games. . . 
i was browsing through tiamat’s plot guide and i have 2 questions:
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in ken’s bio, you said that ken eliminate sean from the martial arts championship. i though that buff guy from sean’s ending was the one who KO’ed him
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about the fighting styles of retsu (Shorinji Kempo) and karin (kakutoukutsu): what are they like? what other arts can you compare them to?
also, does anyone have pics of lucia? i’m just curious to see what she looks like
URLs going down to the passage of time really sucks. I forget if it was official statement or not that Ken beat Sean in the Third Strike Martial Arts tournament. Maybe I was remembering wrong about how Ken beat Sean in the SF3 tournament or something… ack!
From a totally historical standpoint, Shorinji (also called Temple fist) Kempo is the original art from which Gen’s Crane and Mantis styles, as well as Lee’s Scorpion style came from. Shaolin monks created the art, and then there was a war, the remaining practioners of the art then created 6 different styles from the original one, all based on animals. (The other three are Tiger, Bear and Snake, I believe, but I’m not sure.) There are specifics to the history, but that’s the gist of it. So in short, Retsu probably may fight like, and is possibly better than Gen because his style overlaps Gen’s, and because he is a “fallen” monk, he uses the darker techinques of the style. I would say the best measure of how I think he would play is WuTang: Shaolin Style’s Xin; hard strikes, powerful ki based blows, not much flash, but damn effective.
Here is a picture a Lucia, scanned from the Final Fight 3 manual.
And here’s a sprite edit of Lucia based on Rogue.
Nice.
Did you make that yourself? If so, what program did you use? Because I’ve wanting to try one for a while, and with Tagmonkey supposedly down, I haven’t been able to try.
Wow, that’s a sweet Lucia edit. Enough to make me think she’d look pretty good in a fighting game.
http://www.vgmuseum.com/end/snes/c/finf3luc1.htm
Lucia’s ending in Final Fight 3, complete with an animated gif of her doing her tornado kick (or whatever it’s called) special move at the end.
Wow, Lee’s style is the scorpion? I was wondering about that
MGI Photosuite 8.1. Most editors use Paint Shop Pro, but I don’t like its setup.
I gathered Lee’s style was scorpion based on the official Capcom art from Street Fighter: Legends, which I attached. In case you didn’t know SFA was originally going to be SFL, a remake of SF1, but then Capcom changed their minds and made SFA. I’ve never played SF1, though I’d like to.
so what is kempo? i think i read somewhere that it’s a general term for budo (martial arts), but it seems like kempo refers more to chinese kung-fu (for example, some sources say that characters like sie kensou, yun and yang use chinese kempo)
I gotta question regarding fighting styles.
I thought the style that Fei Long uses was Jeet Kune Do, ya know the style Bruce Lee created, but the the plot guide lists his style as something else, or is the style listed as his basicly the same as Jeet Kune Do?
That’s Street Fighter Legends art? Wow, I thought that was official Street Fighter 1 art.
But yea, that’s his pose in Street Fighter 1, too. I just, with my ignorance of fighting styles, didn’t know what type of Kempo it represented 
From what I got in an e-mail, kempo basically is Chinese for kung-fu. Chun-Li’s fighting style used to be just listed as kung-fu, I believe. When Fei Long came along, Chun-Li’s bio supposedly was changed to tai-chi while Fei Long got Kung-Fu. Then when Yun and Yang came along, Fei Long’s was changed to “Hitenryu Kung-Fu” in order to differentiate him from Yun and Yang, who’s styles meant “Kung-Fu” already. …I think. Hard to keep track of convuluted stuff like that.
hey where is t. hawk from? i just wanna make sure i got it right. i read a long time ago that he’s from the U.S. and was run off to mexico cause of bison. is this true? or is he really mexican?
i THINK he’s an american who had to take refuge in mexico from bison’s land-grabbing
He sure pretty looks like an American Indian.
The Native American Indians from Mexico and the U.S. are one in the same. A few different cultures here and there but they are the same people. Don’t forget that before the arrival of Spaniards, Caucasians and what not, America including Mexico was all one big land not seperated by countries or states. Now, if T-Hawk is descended from one of these tribes never having mixed with Spaniards or anyone else, he’d be just like a Native American, so to speak.
Of course than there’s the name Thunderhawk which is in English and doesn’t sound Spanish or Indian. (Although many Native Americans through the years have translated their names from Sioux and other dialects to sound English, so some would have names like Thunderhawk.) Blame that on Capcom ignorance. I mean, originally he was going to be called Geronimo for crying out loud.
Although, I’m not sure how much research Capcom’s supposed to do or gonna do just 'cuz they want to add another grappler. Well, Noembulu sounds Indian at least even though it’s a play on the word “November.”
Tiamat: That pic of Lee is SF1 art.