Capcom Apologizes for Street Fighter 6 Alex and Patricia 'Incest' Controversy, Announces Patch on the Way

Last week, Capcom added Alex to Street Fighter 6’s playable combatant roster. However, Alex’s accomplishment was overshadowed by his arcade mode ending (spoilers ahead!) successful which helium marries his adoptive younger sister/second relative Patricia. Not lone that, they are expecting a baby! These revelations prompted a flood of captious comments from grossed-out fans.

Today, Street Fighter 6 manager Takayuki Nakayama addressed the backlash, apologizing for what helium called the "confusion."

"While we person not changed the characters’ backstories, aft interior reappraisal by the improvement team, we program to revise definite substance passages that whitethorn person been misleading successful the adjacent future," helium said. However, this has lone prompted much disapproval from fans, arsenic Capcom shows nary signs of removing Alex and Patricia’s arguable marriage.

Alex and Patricia’s matrimony revelation successful Street Fighter 6’s arcade ending sees a large Patricia greeting Alex astatine the doorway with, “Welcome home, hon,” and commenting that their girl volition “grow up to beryllium large and beardown conscionable similar her daddy.” However, this came arsenic a daze to fans, who are utilized to the brace having a purely platonic, sibling-like relationship. This is due to the fact that Tom, Patricia’s dad, has been a begetter fig to orphan Alex since Alex’s debut successful Street Fighter 3 New Generation (1997).

But that’s not all. In Street Fighter 6 World Tour mode, there’s a dialog which states that Tom is really a relative of Alex’s mother, making Alex and Patricia 2nd cousins. Also, Alex has known Patricia since she was a baby, further adding to the “ick” origin for immoderate fans.

In his post, Nakamura besides linked to a caller abbreviated story, ‘A Toast betwixt Fathers.’ Written by Street Fighter 6’s script team, it takes spot successful a barroom conscionable aft Alex and Patricia’s wedding. The communicative explains that Alex and Patricia drifted isolated for immoderate time, but past Alex was the 1 who turned up and saved Patricia erstwhile she got progressive with the incorrect crowd. In this way, the abbreviated communicative tries to explicate however Alex and Patricia’s erstwhile sibling-like narration took a romanticist turn.

Patricia and Alex. Patricia is large with a girl. Special artwork (right) was drawn by Keisuke Mizuno https://t.co/4GKHaKKFVD pic.twitter.com/JCQc04p7V3

— Women of Street Fighter (@WomenofSFseries) March 17, 2026

However, galore fans did not admit this justification of Alex and Patricia’s marriage, with Nakamura’s station and the abbreviated communicative sparking aggravated backlash for failing to code what fans were unhappy astir successful the archetypal place.

“So according to the supplementary occurrence he's inactive marrying his (adoptive) sister that the writers marque aggregate references to him holding arsenic a babe and seeing arsenic a sibling? I don't deliberation 'revising substance passages' is going to hole immoderate of the quality assassination that has happened,” said 1 commenter.

As spotted by Eurogamer, illustrator Shuckle adjacent made instrumentality creation covering the situation, adding: “"We bash not privation Alex and Patricia to beryllium successful a romanticist relationship, that is the full problem. Alex tin wed anyone else, it's fine, but having his step-sister arsenic his woman is the problem. How was this missed successful the penning process? Did cipher talk up astir it?"

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— shuckle (@ssshuckle) March 26, 2026

Although it’s not wide astatine the clip of penning what adjustments volition beryllium made to the text, it whitethorn beryllium that the statement of Alex and Tom’s narration volition beryllium rewritten. In the English mentation of Street Fighter 6’s World Tour story, Alex explicitly states that Tom is his adoptive begetter (“He’s my trainer, my manager, my adoptive dad… No, helium is my dad”). However, the Japanese mentation uses the word ‘sodate nary oya,’ which is much vague and could conscionable mean that Tom played a portion successful raising Alex, and/or grooming him up arsenic a fighter.

However, astatine the moment, some the Japanese and English versions of the substance explicitly authorities that Tom and Alex’s parent are cousins (making Alex and Patricia 2nd cousins). It is not known whether this volition beryllium rewritten successful immoderate way, though Nakamura’s remark astir nary changes to the characters’ backstories suggests it won’t.

Verity Townsend is simply a Japan-based freelance writer who antecedently served arsenic editor, contributor and translator for the crippled quality tract Automaton West. She has besides written astir Japanese civilization and movies for assorted publications.