Bill in Street Fighter vs. Bill in Final Fight

Recently, I came across two different elements in Capcom games that seemed to be related — one in the original Street Fighter and the other in Final Fight. The popular explanation online says that both are homages to the same real-life Capcom employee, but because they manifest differently in their respective games, I wasn’t sold. If there’s one takeaway I’d want from my Mario 101 project, however, it’s that confusing, overlapping and sometimes even contradicting origin stories can exist without invalidating each other. And upon looking into this particular example, I’m thinking it might be one of those cases where it all adds up after all.This also ended up being a timely mystery. In the previous post, I made the assertion that to some, one heavyset guy with a mustache might look like another. A commenter cried foul on this, given statements I’ve made in non-video game-related forums as well as the fact that more and more, I fit this description myself. I guess I should have…