Street Fighter is officially out in theaters now, and if you’re reading this, you’ve probably already seen the live-action adaptation of Capcom’s fighting game series and are sitting in the theater now waiting for the credits to end. Or maybe you’re just curious and wondering what director Kitao Sakurai and crew put in the movie’s credits to set up a hypothetical sequel. If you somehow clicked on this by accident and are scared of spoilers, you’ve had a whole three sentences now to click away, so let’s get into Street Fighter’s post-credits scene.
Throughout Street Fighter, we get a number of animated sequences, but these are reserved for flashbacks. In a mid-credits scene, it breaks this rule (not that it was really abiding by many rules to begin with), using animation to show a moment that takes place after all the street fighting is over. Sagat, who was first shown in the opening scenes of the movie as Ryu’s final opponent in the first World Warrior tournament, is now seen angrily training, clearly still holding a grudge against Ryu for his defeat. M. Bison, Vega, Cammy, and Juli all show up during his training session, presumably to recruit Sagat to their cause of evil doing.
It’s just my extrapolation, but my assumption is that this scene was animated because the movie hasn’t cast anyone for Sagat yet. Even his grunts as he’s training don’t seem to have a credit attached. But this lets the movie confirm that Sagat will make a proper live-action debut in the sequel without having to commit to an actor to the role of Ryu’s rival.
Street Fighter doesn’t really resolve what is, ostensibly, the movie’s main conflict, with Akuma appearing at the eleventh hour and usurping the main villain role from M. Bison. So there’s plenty of room for a sequel, it’s just a matter of whether or not the film does well enough to get it greenlit.