The History of POISON - A Street Fighter Character Documentary (1989 - 2021) 

In the 80's it was taboo to punch women but ok to punch transsexuals. In the 90's it became ok to dragon punch Chun Li. Everyone being puncheable is humanity moving forward. Lol

@@similaritiesendhere I am an advocate of true gender equality. If someone deserves to be punched for something, then their gender should not stop you or give you pause. If someone punches you without provocation, you should punch them back, man, woman, anthropomorphic pork chop sandwich with a side of mashed potatoes, anything.

She even name after a 80s rock band.

How does she personify the 80s?

​@@JJoh4040 her design

Agreed. By long and far better-looking IMO.

Billy and Sid- but those losers can't compare to Poison and Roxy! My lovely tough angels! ❤

i kinda like the journey poison goes through. hopefully in street fighter 6 she ends up a successful wrestling promoter. would love to see a team of her, andore,zanghief, r. mika, mike haggar (who she made amends with) and laura for the hwa.

@@supersmashbro596 we need grampa haggar on street fighter 6

Same sid and William look like last minute designs.

happy 35th anniversary street fighter!!! :3

And she Trans

Yep! That’s what makes Poison such an funny & interesting character when you think about it.🙃

​@@Ferbigga69 Even better

Please don't use "biological" when you really mean "cisgender". We trans women are biological, too. We're just misidentified at birth. "Biological sex" is far more complicated than what high school biology classes make it out to be. Gender dysphoria is a medical condition that scientists and doctors have known about for over a century. People can be born with chromosome combinations other than XY and XX (Klinefelter syndrome (XXY), Turner syndrome (X0), XXYY syndrome). People with XY or XX chromosomes can be born intersex depending on how the SRY gene activates during the embryonic stage of development (i.e., Swyer syndrome, De La Chappelle syndrome). A trans person's brain behaves like their identified gender instead of their assigned sex even before receiving hormone replacement therapy. Genetics plays a role in transness, too; a twin is more likely to be trans if their twin is trans.

Shut up

If she walks like a woman and talks like a woman she’s a woman. Capcom only added this to debate over

@@KudoShinichikun agreed. She’s a mighty fine female character either way, in my eyes. And that’s a triumph of character design right there. The way such a provocative design has stood the test of time demonstrates what a legend Akira Yasuda is for his work on final fight and street fighter II.

@@KudoShinichikun That would only make sense if you could define those traits, which no one can anymore.

Is it a different game than streetwise?

@@CriticalThought004 Revenge is a fighting game while Streetwise is a beat em up. But both are in 3D

@@FIGHTGamingChannel Aah. For me streetwise was really enjoyable. I and my brothers spent countless hours on it. The soundtrack was amazing imo

@@CriticalThought004 with Streets of Rage getting so popular maybe Capcom will consider another Final Fight game. Who knows. Thanks for sharing your story tho

@@FIGHTGamingChannel Leaked rumor in 2024 a. Final Fight. Remake is coming out

So women that can make you call them mommy

@tophatgamingman ty for talking about my favorite fighting game character ❤

That was so corny I had to puke

Roxy and poison are basically the same though?

I feel like Capcom would make Roxy as a palette swap of Poison.

Obviously they can make Roxy play completely different from Poison as well redesign her.

They could make Roxy Poison's twin brother that likes to get his cross dress on like alfred ashford, another Capcom character or say that he was so obsessed with his sister that he wished to be just like her in every way.

@@0errab0 Poison and Roxy are females

Look at John's outfit, then look at Cody's from the first Final Fight. The only difference is a tie! It has been staring us in the face the whole time that John and Cody are the same person!

🤯💯

I hate how much sense that makes.

agreed

I can see that. It's truly outrageous! 😁

I’m also Trans Poison&Chun Li are a prime example of representation matters you could argue capcom was ahead of it’s time when it comes to their characters and how diversified they are

I agree that Poison was meant to be trans, as evidenced by the original concept work/art. But saying that Chu-Li is, is a REACH. Unless, you have some kind of OFFICIAL evidence to support that claim.

@@marionhope7506 I don't think she was saying Chun Li is trans. I think she was refering to how chun li was one of the first female playable characters in fighting games. If poison is representative for transgender women, Chun Li is representative for women in general

I always saw her as more if a footsie character like Chun Li, Rolento, or Rose than a Zoner like Dhalsim or Twelve... 🤔

@@MomsAgainstCatboys Her projectile is as good as Ryu's, so she is zoner viable. Her C. Viper-ish overhead gives her good options to either be a little pesky or play with pressure.

This would be an absolute dream for me. If Capcom didn't want to do it then they should allow another studio to make it just what Sega did Streets of Rage. But realistically I don't see that happening because unlike Sega Capcom is still actually celebrating the Final Fight cast by incorporating them into Street fighter whereas Sega totally abandoned SoR. 😔 but at the same time Capcom should note that SOR 4 sold 2 million copies and even had a big DLC. Final Fight easily has the potential to do that and surpass it.

Plz capcom. Make the dream come true!

@@GreenTygur Surpass it without a doubt, I love SOR but Capcom's final fight would turn the heat wayyy up. It would be fitting to see that, since they inspired SOR originally (I think). Maybe even a sweet cross-over.

Side scrolling brawler with unreal 5 graphics.

Becareful what you wish for....you might not like it

For capcom it sounds more like a PR save cause even if they say she is cis from the start people will be upset. So they will say whatever they I’ll please everyone. Even though they believe she is a woman. They are not going to go out of their way to spell it out for anyone.

@@modell1084 well her creator and the final fight designer both said she was intended to be a woman but due to fighting against women in video games (this was before street fighter 2 and mortal Kombat) they decided to change her to trans hence why that manual calling her a newhalf came from. But it seems like they want to go back to what she was originally supposed to be but can't due to backlash. So they let fans decide on it

@@maverick9357 there is a tweet where the artist explains basically just that. But now there is a new layer which is fan backlash. Which is kinda sad cause cause some people will bull the artist just cause he did not specifically say poison is trans. So better off not saying anything. It’s bullying. But that’s the internet

@@modell1084 that's true. I seen people say how Bridget from guilty gear was originally supposed to be trans and that Bridget she be it. But if the creator of poison wanted to make her a female as she was intended to be then they would be getting harassed for it. So that's why they left it for the fans to decide. So no fight or send threats and everyone is happy

@@maverick9357 yeah. It’s unfortunate, but I feel like these days people should be encouraged to accept things as they are but if they want to envision their own version of a character they should do so without needing to harass other people. That way everyone wins.

That's right it is Trans instead

@@Ferbigga69 Neither is she that.

​@@Ferbigga69 "It" 🤨

Period, ally!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😍😍😍

Wrong. She is designated as “newhalf” in the original Japanese version of the game’s concept art. So, I’m going to stick with what the FACTS say, over your gut feelings, friend.

​​​@@marionhope7506 Newhalf? That's a funny way of saying not actually a woman.

And one of Capcom worker said her gender is up to the fans

delusion

Trans erasure strikes again. Capcom should have just come out and stated that Poison was trans right from the beginning, even made her a playable character. Representation matters. Fuck the whole "too controversial for Western audiences" bit. Hell, we trans and nonbinary people have existed worldwide as long as people at large have existed. All over the world, there have been people who've lived as genders different from their assigned sex and in many cultures, nobody batted an eye. There've been whole communities of us trans and nonbinary people, in fact. Examples of such people include the kathoeys of Thailand; the hijras of the Indian subcontinent; the baklas of the Philippines; the yinyang ren of China; the koekchuch among the Itelmens of Russia (specifically Siberia); the akava'ines among the Cook Islands Maori of New Zealand; the māhūs of Hawaii, the fa'afafine of Samoa; the ashtime among the Maale people of Ethiopia; the muxe among the Zapotec people of Mexico; various trans and nonbinary identities collectively known as two-spirits among tribal Amerindians in the U.S. and Canada; the femminielli of southern Italy; the Gala priestly class among the ancient Sumerians; the Galli of ancient Rome; the five-gender system among the Bugis people of Indonesia; the sworn virgins of Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Montenegro; the androgynos, ay'lonit, tumtum, and saris recorded in old Jewish texts; the mukhannathun of the Arab world (recorded in Islamic texts); the fakaleitis of Tonga; and the enarees among the ancient Scythians. As for notable individual trans and nonbinary people throughout history, examples include: -Elagabalus, Roman empress who reigned from 218 to 222 C.E. She insisted on being addressed as "Lady" instead of "Lord" and put out a ransom for any doctor who could perform sex reassignment surgery on her. Historians still misgender her today. -Marinos the Monk, Eastern Roman "Byzantine" Christian monk and trans man. -Chevalier d'Éon, French soldier, spy, diplomat, freemason, fencer, and veteran of the Seven Years War. She transitioned at the age of 49 and lived the remaining 33 years of her life as a woman during the 18th century. -Public Universal Friend, American preacher who came out and lived as nonbinary during the 18th and early 19th centuries. They shunned gendered clothing, names, and pronouns. -James Barry, British military surgeon and trans man who lived during the 19th century. -Albert Cashier, Irish-American trans man who fought in the American Civil War (on the side of the North). -Harry Allen, American trans man who was the subject of sensationalistic newspaper headlines about his string of petty crimes in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. -Lili Elbe, Danish painter. She transitioned with the help of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, who ran one of the first dedicated medical facilities for transgender patients in the early 20th century. In 1930, she became the first trans woman to undergo vaginoplasty. -Karl M. Baer, German trans man who underwent reconstructive surgery (the details of which are unknown) in 1906 and was legally recognized as male in Germany in 1907. -Dr. Alan Hart, American radiologist who pioneered the use of x-ray photography in detecting tuberculosis. In 1917, he was the first trans man in the U.S. to undergo hysterectomy and gonadectomy. -Dr. Michael Dillon, British physician who updated his birth certificate to male in the early 1940s and became the first trans man to undergo phalloplasty in 1946. -Wilmer "Little Ax" Broadnax, American gospel quartet singer who performed in the early 20th century. -Christine Jorgensen, American World War II bomber pilot and trans woman who transitioned with the help of Dr. Harry Benjamin, an endocrinologist and early advocate for trans people. Her vaginoplasty in 1952 attracted attention from the medical community. -Sir Lady Java, American transgender activist, actress, singer, exotic dancer, and comedian. With the aid of the ACLU, she was instrumental in getting Los Angeles ordinance Rule No. 9, which forbade cross-dressing, struck down in the late 1960s. Her 1967 case didn't strike Rule No. 9 down on its own but it was used as precedent in a separate dispute in 1969. She retired in the 1980s and has mostly kept a low profile since then.

They should've already changed her to Roxy. Fighting games do this quite often, it makes no sense a dedicated craft like a martial art is suddenly different, so they'd make it a sister or disciple or something who has their own path if they want to make signifacnt changes for the sake of gameplay balancing. Swapping a moveset is like suddenly making a character like coffee instead of tea. But then, I guess with street brawling it's not that much of a big deal.

@@sboinkthelegday3892 IDK why they swapped Poison's moveset between games (probably to make her more balanced in SF5). But I don't think they'll swap them out, at this point, because of Poison's popularity. That's why I suggest they simply add Roxy to the roster, just w/ Poison's old moves & riding crop as a weapon from SF4. It'd make her a :"new" character who's unique & distinct enough from Poison.

2014 : "On July 10, 2014, Akira Nishitani creator of Poison said in a discussion on Twitter that in his personal view, Poison is a woman." Source : Street Fighter Wikia

Poison will ALWAYS be a female to me. USA made her transgender way before transgender was ever a thing...

@@Shin-Blade you do know that transgender are to be viewed as the gender they are transitioned into right?..and why talk like transgender is a new phenomenon?

@@Shin-Blade I feel you on that! But nothing drums up sales like a little controversy, they say.

@@Shin-Blade no, she was never made transgender for the Final Fight U.S debut. Poison was always transgender. Where are you getting your false information from?

@@monetstallion9363 Don't listen to him. He doesn't know what he's talking about. Poison was transgender from the get go.

No, they never were afraid that by making poison a female that the West was going to sue them for beating up women in the video. Stop lying boy and get your facts straight. Everything you said was a lie. No facts whatsoever

Last I checked, capcom said it was a dude. It's on RU-vid somewhere stating this.

them, lol.

It's not so strange when you understand what was happening in the gaming scene in America at the time. Congress was clamoring for gaming regulations and threatening to rate games themselves if gaming companies couldn't do it themselves. Thus the ESRB was born. The Sega game 'night trap' was used as an example of violence towards women as well as mortal kombat. So capcom changed poison to Male on SNES home consoles which parents would see there children play. But the arcade version remained female. I owned the SNES version and got the point. But for me, if the creator says she's female then no one else can trump him. That second guy just made things more confusing after the creator went out of his way to clear things up.

A company doesn't do these decisions character by character, they do it release by release. They didn't "change" an existing character, they just declared the roster would be something with no violence protections, like robots, aliens, or human males, and slapped the characters they had on top of it. TMNT did the same thing.

We all do.

The Trans king also

You've seen enough.

what do you mean by that

Her? It’s a him

@@jonelbondyingnuezca742 the creator of the game said he sees her as a her so ima go with the creators statement

@@orkwarboxthe1rst208 the creator is my uncle and he said that Poison is a man.

I second that Dhalsim has always been one of my favorite SF characters.

Because some people probably need HER to be trans to validate their woke ideologies.

Exactly. Unfortunately, people just use the term gender more to cover it.

Same thing

​@@WzDk13both are the same some ppl are lost and confused cuz of new age bs

No, transgender. Stop lying to yourself

@@pollymars3776 She is a woman. And she is Trans. Trans women are women. You're both right.

@@rafabib The question isn't is Poison a woman. The question is did Capcom change Poison's gender due to censorship or was she transgender all along. All I'm saying is that the latter here is in the right and not the former.

Keep telling yourself that

@@rafabib i mean that is actually a disputed fact if trans women should count as women

eh. Fair enough.

Completely agree with you 100%

She is a girl A girl who is trans

@@andrewquick4176 come again?

@@sufamidan1006 Speedy is just a dude that loves females with dingalings...

Dudley! I am offended he is not in the game. I feel I have no representation!

@@TopHatGamingManChannel for me I want Fei Long to return in Street Fighter 6

@@joshualedesmasegovia Would be cool. I do hope they do not exclude Guile!

makoto,elena,dudley & necro/effie.(also hope we see sakura,ibuki,r. mika,menat,laura matsuda/sean,poison outside the cameo alongside roxy,karin,mike haggar and with how chun li's adopted daughter li fen is playable mel in 6.:3)

@@tracyndiyob162 What about Fei Long

You want to talk about intellectual disability. Look at yourself and reflect! If you're debating about a FICTIONAL character it just seems rather mindless and absurd to apply REAL. WORLD. SCIENCE. Reality Check! The reason Poison looks like a female and has the physical characteristics as one is because she was DESIGNED that way. You intellectually, bankrupt, mindless, twit! But no way does that indicate Poison is a biological female. But FYI, Poison is trans and was created that way from the beginning. Get over it, Karen

You can think she’s a woman all you want. But the fact is, Poison was designated as “newhalf” (trans) in the original Japanese game’s concept art_ That’s a FACT, you can read/see for yourself! Whether you, or me like it, Poison is transgender DEAL WITH IT, friend.😌

@@marionhope7506 And your free to think she's transgender all you want. But I'm not willing to disregard basic human anatomy here. Capcom has given the implication that she's female from her design and proportions, and that's enough for me to assume she is.

so do you not know that top surgery exists,,, also im pretty sure it doesnt take that long for a trans characters voice to change to the voice they want it to be

@@aniiii_wxs Poison is not trans, and was never intended to be trans originally. They needed to somehow censor the North American version of the game she debuted in because pile driving a woman through a telephone pole would have been considered bad, and violence against women. So they claimed she was trans in order to avoid that sort of criticism. It was simply a way to censor the original. Originally poison was designed as a cisgender woman, so canonically Poison is not trans. Trans was simply used as a way to censor it for that market. And since then, Capcom has left it rather ambiguous when asked about her gender, and has never confirmed her as trans when asked about this.

A trans woman IS a woman.

@@gen_pixel Sure, as soon as they can get pregnant I'm inclined to believe it.

No, it is Just mutilated man.

@@brotbrotsen1100 So infertile women are not women?

@@rafabib jeez idk, can they get prostate cancer?

What did Chun-li say? I never bought that Poison was trans. Like to me there is no history of it.

@@Felhate I believe Chun-li was suppose to have a win quote about Poison hitting like a man. I think it was removed. I believe at least one other character was going to say something similar.

@@Felhate Both Ryu and Chun-Li had scrapped quotes that pointed to Poison being a man it was scrapped cause it look like a mockery to the LGBT community but Ryu and Chun-Li quotes to Poison were "I'll be careful not to fall into your trap." Chun-Li then said, "You're not very lady-like at all! Chun-Li had another quote saying Poison looks are deceiving.

@@wingbeck4563 dang... quite ambiguous win quotes lmao

So if I'm understanding correctly. Because they omitted the quotes this would canonically make her female from birth. So then it would make since that the creator would say she's female. What id like to know is were these quotes in the Japanese version of the game and if so, were they removed. Because if it was never a quote in Japan then she's female. Interestingly I also collect the manga and I never got any hint of her being trans. In fact it was always people here in the west who would say that. That's why I've always been interested in what the Japanese say about poison because my experience with Japanese games, anime e.t.c is that if someone is trans they let you know in their speech and mannerisms. You NEVER have to guess. And the fact of the matter is. If you've played games with her in it any thought of her being trans came from other players, not the game itself. I think that's why they removed the quotes. Because the creator has decided she's female.

it's mentioned in the video. it's one ambiguous japanese word that sparked the rumor. the japanese creator designed her as a women

​@@karlsylvain yeah but she became trans after that

That's not Sid, dude. It's Two P. He's a double for J, just like Roxy's a double for Poison.

@@Kwaj Sid and Two P look the exact same so eh either way I would’ve wanted him and billy on the game 🤷🏾‍♂️🙄

@@brantinj.1467 Exact same? Two P has a spiked mohawk; Sid has spiked bangs. Two P has an orange pullover hoodie with green windbreaker pants; Sid has a white crop-top with tight blue jeans. They're pretty distinguishable from one another.

The creator clearly said she's a woman

@@masishta Yes he did. But he didn't say if Poison is a transgender woman or a biological woman. Did he?