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The aftermath animations have long since been considered unusable here on the wiki, and I just realized I never put an explanation note about them on the verse page. I talked about them in an old CRT, but I'll leave here a summary:
The Aftermaths were an early stage of promotional material but what they show has been later retold by the "Ties That Bind" movie which came out with the game and by the cutscenes within SF4 itself, such as Bison's resurrection or Viper's invastigation.
Those scenes are kinda confused, because they show a rather free adaptation of Alpha 3, saying it happened after SF2, when both sources coming before and after Aftermath confirm Alpha 3 occurred before, as the game itself also does, it's meant to be a prequel after all.
The base cast defeating Bison is a contradiction on multiple fronts, he's shown time and time again to be able to curbstop all of them, or to make short work of characters who can do that as well, such as Juri and Seth.
The final moments of Alpha 3 are muddy as well in canon, but SF4 and some more material tells us Bison was firstly knocked out by Evil Ryu, then finished off by Rose and some more characters involved.
Finally, Chun-Li exerting such levels of energy (the feat was Low 7-C) comes off as a huge contradiction both for feats (both of AP and Dura) shown by the characters and even statements as well, as Juri's 8-B levels of power shown in her OAV (which is canon for various reasons) are explicitly stated by Guile and Chun-Li to be terriyfing and beyon what a normal human should be capable of, thus cutting themselves out by default.
The Aftermaths were an early stage of promotional material but what they show has been later retold by the "Ties That Bind" movie which came out with the game and by the cutscenes within SF4 itself, such as Bison's resurrection or Viper's invastigation.
Those scenes are kinda confused, because they show a rather free adaptation of Alpha 3, saying it happened after SF2, when both sources coming before and after Aftermath confirm Alpha 3 occurred before, as the game itself also does, it's meant to be a prequel after all.
The base cast defeating Bison is a contradiction on multiple fronts, he's shown time and time again to be able to curbstop all of them, or to make short work of characters who can do that as well, such as Juri and Seth.
The final moments of Alpha 3 are muddy as well in canon, but SF4 and some more material tells us Bison was firstly knocked out by Evil Ryu, then finished off by Rose and some more characters involved.
Finally, Chun-Li exerting such levels of energy (the feat was Low 7-C) comes off as a huge contradiction both for feats (both of AP and Dura) shown by the characters and even statements as well, as Juri's 8-B levels of power shown in her OAV (which is canon for various reasons) are explicitly stated by Guile and Chun-Li to be terriyfing and beyon what a normal human should be capable of, thus cutting themselves out by default.
