It's Officially The End of An Era For Street Fighter

Image via Paramount Pictures / Courtesy Everett Collection Published Nov 2, 2026, 3:00 PM EST Patrik Walker is an Emmy Award–winning writer who covers all things Comics & Superheroes. His work can also be found at the Dallas Cowboys, The Sporting News, and CBS Sports, among other outlets. One of the most respected names in his field, he is also a diehard enthusiast of all things comics, anime, gaming and movies — thriving in spaces where discussions involving those or similar topics reign supreme. Sign in to your CBR account The continued relevance of the Street Fighter franchise could be studied in a lab somewhere. Capcom has routinely found ways to reinvent the storied characters, while often injecting new ones that furthered the storyline, to avoid the graveyard in a genre that eventually fell in love with 3D fighters like Virtua Fighter, Tekken, Soul Caliber and the like. And now, more than 35 years after the release of the game that changed fighting forever, Street Fighter 2, it's also carved out an impressive foothold in the comics space (and then there's the anime — chef's kiss), and the latest crossover with its disrespectfully underrated Capcom brethren, Darkstalkers, ...