In the film Freaky Friday, mum Jamie Lee Curtis and daughter Lindsay Lohan trigger endless hilarity (we might be exaggerating a bit) by accidentally swapping personalities. Their bodies remain as before, but everything elܫse about them is switched. Now imagine the same thing happening with legendary Street Fighter characters Vega and M Bison.

Or, rather than imagine, watch. Because ahea🥀d of Street Fighter 5’s release in February, PC modders have already worked out how to transfer skins between characters. The most notable result is a pre-fight exchange where a newly macho Vega invites his opponent to "bow down to my Psycho Crushe𝕴r", to which a now super-camp Bison responds, “let my beauty intoxicate you”. And so the match unfolds, each unleashing the other’s customary moves.

Even more bizarre is the famously lithe Dhalsim – who, like Ryu, is newly bearded for the latest instalment – adopting the power moves of Zangief. At 0:15 of the video below he even nails the Russki wrestler's famous spinning piledriver on Chun ꩵLi.

Bizarre as these mix-'ems appear, the✨y’re not a new concept for the series, which has a bustling PC community devoted to playing around with conventions. , in Hulkbuster armour and are among t𝓀he characters ‘added’ to Ultra Street Fighter 4 in this way.

Even more Street Fighter 5 mods, such as Ken x Nash and Karಌin x Chun, are availab𒉰le to view on this .

Street Fighter 5 is released for PS4, Xbox One 🧸and PC on 16 February.

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