Final week, Capcom added Alex to Street Fighter 6’s playable fighter roster. Nonetheless, Alex’s arrival was overshadowed by his arcade mode ending (spoilers forward!) through which he marries his adoptive youthful sister/second cousin Patricia. Not solely that, they’re anticipating a child! These revelations prompted a flood of vital feedback from grossed-out followers.
Right now, Street Fighter 6 director Takayuki Nakayama addressed the backlash, apologizing for what he known as the “confusion.”
“Whereas now we have not modified the characters’ backstories, after inside evaluation by the event workforce, we plan to revise sure textual content passages which will have been deceptive within the close to future,” he mentioned. Nonetheless, this has solely prompted extra criticism from followers, as Capcom exhibits no indicators of eradicating Alex and Patricia’s controversial marriage.
Alex and Patricia’s marriage revelation in Street Fighter 6’s arcade ending sees a pregnant Patricia greeting Alex on the door with, “Welcome residence, hon,” and commenting that their daughter will “develop as much as be massive and robust similar to her daddy.” Nonetheless, this got here as a shock to followers, who’re used to the pair having a purely platonic, sibling-like relationship. It is because Tom, Patricia’s dad, has been a father determine to orphan Alex since Alex’s debut in Street Fighter 3 New Technology (1997).
However that’s not all. In Street Fighter 6 World Tour mode, there’s a dialogue which states that Tom is definitely a cousin of Alex’s mom, making Alex and Patricia second cousins. Additionally, Alex has identified Patricia since she was a child, additional including to the “ick” issue for some followers.
In his submit, Nakamura additionally linked to a brand new quick story, ‘A Toast between Fathers.’ Written by Street Fighter 6’s situation workforce, it takes place in a bar simply after Alex and Patricia’s wedding ceremony. The story explains that Alex and Patricia drifted aside for a while, however then Alex was the one who turned up and saved Patricia when she obtained concerned with the mistaken crowd. On this means, the quick story tries to clarify how Alex and Patricia’s as soon as sibling-like relationship took a romantic flip.
Patricia and Alex. Patricia is pregnant with a woman. Particular art work (proper) was drawn by Keisuke Mizuno https://t.co/4GKHaKKFVD pic.twitter.com/JCQc04p7V3
— Girls of Street Fighter (@WomenofSFseries) March 17, 2026
Nonetheless, many followers didn’t respect this justification of Alex and Patricia’s marriage, with Nakamura’s submit and the quick story sparking intense backlash for failing to handle what followers have been sad about within the first place.
“So based on the supplementary episode he is nonetheless marrying his (adoptive) sister that the writers make a number of references to him holding as a child and seeing as a sibling? I do not suppose ‘revising textual content passages’ goes to repair any of the character assassination that has occurred,” mentioned one (*6*)
As noticed by Eurogamer, illustrator Shuckle even made fan artwork masking the scenario, including: “”We don’t need Alex and Patricia to be in a romantic relationship, that’s the total drawback. Alex can marry anybody else, it is wonderful, however having his step-sister as his spouse is the issue. How was this missed within the writing course of? Did no person converse up about it?”
sigh pic.twitter.com/wk7yS52Rab
— shuckle (@ssshuckle) March 26, 2026
Though it’s not clear on the time of writing what changes will probably be made to the textual content, it might be that the outline of Alex and Tom’s relationship will probably be rewritten. Within the English model of Street Fighter 6’s World Tour story, Alex explicitly states that Tom is his adoptive father (“He’s my coach, my supervisor, my adoptive dad… No, he’s my dad”). Nonetheless, the Japanese model makes use of the time period ‘sodate no oya,’ which is extra imprecise and will simply imply that Tom performed an element in elevating Alex, and/or coaching him up as a fighter.
Nonetheless, in the mean time, each the Japanese and English variations of the textual content explicitly state that Tom and Alex’s mom are cousins (making Alex and Patricia second cousins). It’s not identified whether or not this will probably be rewritten not directly, though Nakamura’s remark about no modifications to the characters’ backstories suggests it received’t.
Verity Townsend is a Japan-based freelance author who beforehand served as editor, contributor and translator for the sport information web site Automaton West. She has additionally written about Japanese tradition and flicks for numerous publications.