moving from what got you started...
All fighting games have at least 3 major characters during matches... Fighter 1, Fighter 2, and the stage backdrop.
What are each of your favorite stages, overall, from the main fighters (just post one for each... dosn't matter what games though):
Tekken series: Tekken 4's basement fight club... I still think that stage needs a comeback in tekken 6 or later. It was so constraining and the interactivity with the crowd just kicked ass.
Soul Calibur series: probably in soul edge the original raft stage... was too awesome for words at the time.
Virtua Fighter series: Wolf's cage stage in VF4. The music was decent and the crowd was neato.
Street Fighter series: probably Guy's Alpha 2 or Alpha 3 stage... all the Final Fight references just kick ass.
Darkstalkers series: Dimitri's wasn't too bad... nothing ever amazing from this series.
Vs. Series: Definitely the bath house from MvC1. the fact that you could throw opponents into another scene rocked and the naked guy washing up in the back was a great touch.
KoF series: in KoF 98... the most badass one... the one in front of car traffic with the Neo Geo arcade in the back... the cool thing was also if you removed the sprite layers of the cars you could see mini versions of KoF characters doing famous animations like the Ralf/Clark entrance animation.
Guilty Gear series: hard to say... probably Venom's GGXX stage largely due to it having the best music i've heard in the series.
Mortal Kombat series: out of all fighters, this one is the hardest since almost all of the 2D MK's stages are classics... every stage in MKII rocked.
also... I keep finding different pics of this photo shoot, but this one was new to me and probably the hottest: