A troubled historyĬapcom continues to sit on the fence when it comes to Poison’s transness. With the release of Street Fighter 6 coming next summer, it is time for Capcom to finally make Poison canonically trans. But in the 33 years since her debut representation for trans people in gaming has made leaps and bounds. Yet she has never escaped the problematic jokes and stereotypes that come with being a noncanonical trans character. But Poison continued to appear in Capcom games, eventually making her way into the Street Fighter series. Not even this was enough to save the two girls, as the final American release replaced them entirely with new male characters. Their first idea was to identify both characters as transgender, because in their minds that made them not women (an incredibly harmful notion). When it came time to port the game to North America, developers thought the idea of beating up women would turn off players, so they had to find a way around Roxy and Poison. Amongst the numerous enemies players were able to punch and kick were two women named Roxy and Poison. In 1989, Capcom released the beat-em-up game Final Fight.
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