Franchise: Street Fighter

Rose from the Alpha series was inspired by Lisa Lisa, a character from the manga series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. Rose's outfit is almost identical to Lisa Lisa's and both share a similar fighting style that consists of channeling energy into a scarf. Both characters are also known for enjoying baths. In addition, Rose's stage in Street Fighter Alpha 2 is Venice, which is the same city where Joseph Joestar meets Lisa Lisa in the story, and Rose's Soul Drain move is inspired by a scene in the manga where Lisa Lisa puts a breathing mask on Joseph Joestar.

The character design for Q from Street Fighter III: Third Strike is heavily based off of the 1970s Japanese superhero Robot Detective K.

The game's designer, Yoshiki Okamoto, originally wanted Chun-Li's health bar to be shorter than the other fighters'.

He said "You know how each character has a life bar? At one point, I wanted to make the power gauge for Chun-Li shorter than for the other characters because women are not as strong. But [another designer] didn't want to do that. We both had legitimate reasons, but then we came to an agreement to not make it shorter."

In a similar vein to Dan being a parody of Art of Fighting's Ryo Sakazaki, the appearance of Dan's father, Go Hibiki, is also a parody of Mr. Karate.

In Super Gem Fighter: Mini Mix, Dan can call upon his father's ghost, whose tengu-like face bears a striking resemblance to the mask worn by Mr. Karate, who is also known as Takuma Sakazaki, the father of Ryo Sakazaki.

The character Hugo Andore is a homage to the late wrestler, Andre The Giant. Hugo's intro is based on Andre's entrance at Wrestlemania III, and both share the same birthday of May 19th.

Dan Hibiki is a parody of SNK's Art of Fighting character Ryo Sakazaki, whose design had already been based on Ryu. His pink clothing is a spoof of Ryo's orange attire, while his head is a spoof of Robert Garcia.