Franchise: Street Fighter

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.

When Rashid was unveiled as a playable character in Street Fighter V, his specific nationality was unknown, with players only knowing that he was Middle Eastern. However, in 2022 when the entire playable base game roster and first wave of DLC of Street Fighter 6 was leaked, it revealed a more specific country he was from, with Rashid confirmed as being Saudi Arabian.

In American Dad vs. Family Guy: Kung-Fu II Turbo! Hyper-Mega Edition, Ryu from the Street Fighter series appears as a playable character, using sprites from Street Fighter II instead of being redrawn into the Seth MacFarlane artstyle. Unusually, his stage is Sagat's instead of his own.