Street Fighter II’s “Family Man” Line in Japanese

I was recently asked to take a look at a certain line in Street Fighter II – for some reason Guile sometimes tells Chun-Li to “go home and be a family man”:

This is a strange thing to say to a woman in English, so how did this line come about? What’s the deal?

The first part of the answer is that this is one of a handful of lines that Guile will say to defeated opponents. He’ll say this same “family man” line to other characters as well:

Another one of his victory lines has the same “man” issue – here we see Guile asking Chun-Li if she’s “man enough” to fight him.

I guess saying “man enough” is still a possible thing to say to a woman, it just seems odd. So the question is, what did the original Japanese line say for the “family man” line? Let’s take a look:

So it looks like the official translation was a quick translation done without considering the context. It’s actually a pretty cool line for something like this… it’s just a shame it doesn’t work 100% of the time, due to the addition of the “man” reference that wasn’t in the original.

So there you go: Guile tells Chun-Li to be “man enough” or “be a family man” simply because the translator didn’t consider all the possible situations the text would appear in. The original Japanese text didn’t have any “man” references at all.