Pretty much ever since Akuma’s release, Capcom has been going kinda nuts putting special Easter eggs into the inputs of their DLC characters in Street Fighter 6.
We already saw that Mai was no exception with her special explosive taunt that can actually do damage, but that’s not the only one she has.
Instead of putting on a show for a move with 430 frames of startup (that’s just over 7 seconds), the Fatal Fury heroine has another Easter egg taunt to rile up the opponents.
As pointed out by Treacherously, Mai will go out of her standard taunt pose into something different.
It seems Mai has another Easter egg stashed away in her Street Fighter 6 taunts pic.twitter.com/Tn9ekma9eR
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She wraps her and around her tail in another nice bit of animation for the character while pointing her closed fan at the opponent with the poignant line:
“Hey, what are you looking at? Up here.”
At the very least, this appears to be a reference to her Capcom vs. SNK 2 portrait artwork where she strikes a similar pose though we wouldn’t be surprised to see it did come from an older King of Fighters game or something else first — so if there’s an earlier reference going on here, let us know in the comments.
So how do you do the extra taunt?
Just hold down the taunt button.
That’s it.
mai oh mai pic.twitter.com/ij0oriIFRU
— Treacherously (@TreacheryDevour) February 5, 2025
There’s no other special inputs needed like Shin Akuma while Mai’s explosive showcase is her back taunt.
So it’s just another fun little Easter egg Capcom has put into this labor of love for the crossover, and we’re going to be talking a lot more about what else they’ve added to SF6 in a similar fashion soon.
Source: Event Hubs
