Let's make this simple: You want to know if there are any mid- or post-credits scenes in Street Fighter. The answer is yes, as the film features an animated mid-credit scene.

Street Fighter is back on the big screen this week, with the third live-action incarnation of the popular video game franchise after attempts in 1994 and 2009. Was the third time the charm? Well, as Tom Jorgensen’s Street Fighter review for IGN notes, not exactly, though it’s certainly superior to The Legend of Chun-Li.

So how did things play out in this go-around? The story this time centers on old friends Ken (Noah Centineo) and Ryu (Andrew Koji), who are reunited after a years-long rift when they are both recruited by Chun-Li (Callina Liang) for the second-ever World Warrior tournament, which is being presented by Shadaloo dictator M. Bison (David Dastmalchian).

Soon, the best fighters in the world are gathering in Shadaloo, even as Bison has ulterior motives for holding the tournament at all, as his main goal is to get ahold of Ryu – the winner of the one previous World Warrior – in order to drain his “Hado Power” (which gives Ryu the rare ability to create a Hadouken) for himself.

So how did the tournament play out? And who had the Hado by the hand by the end? And why does Street Fighter feel notably incomplete as a movie? Let’s dive into the spoiler zone!

To be fair, it is an intentional plot point that the tournament is all a ruse for Bison’s larger plan, which is something Ken himself doesn’t initially want to admit because it means so much to him.

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