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Video game characters who are based from other characters
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Keeper of the Light = Gandalf
Stallion Dan
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Is an old movie called Master of the Flying Guillotine, in it is a fighting tournament, one of the fighters is a yoga master who can stretch his arms to inhuman lengths.
DiipuSurotu
Banned
inspired by harlequins in general obviously, but I always assumed moreso from this: (not trying to reach. I've never even watched Batman)
Fun fact: in the prerelease version of Chrono Cross, she even had a bi-color costume instead of the fully red one:
He was voiced by Gackt too, so that one's pretty obvious.
Deified Data
Banned
Don't forget Drizzt, lone defector from a chaotic-evil race and the original try-hard Elric clone. His skin's black though so that's like the opposite of an albino, right?
Original character do not steal.
Rastafarian42
Member
Blade
Raven
Watch Da Birdie
I buy cakes for myself on my birthday it's not weird lots of people do it I bet
Not really. Mewtwo and Frieza are pretty different in terms of personalities (I mean if we go by the show since in the game he's a static character), but I do think he inspired Mewtwo's design a bit.
If anything, plot-wise, he's closer to Cell being intended to be the ultimate life-form and everything.
Professor Renegade
Banned
Eliza from Skullgirls has a Dio colour palette, though she's not even close to being based on the character.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Heh, the thought of Benimaru being Hayato is hilarious.
Legend tells that Guilty Gear's Baiken
was created when someone told that "the girl from Rurouni kenshin"
was actualy a male samurai and dude was like "meh, a girl samurai is an awesome idea"
Watsuki apparently admitted that he didn't realize he was mimicking a bunch of Samurai Shodown characters.
JediLink
Member
If we're going to bring Skullgirls into this, most of the palettes are a homage to something or other. Like Riker Beowulf:Eliza from Skullgirls has a Dio colour palette, though she's not even close to being based on the character.
Professor Renegade
Banned
If we're going to bring Skullgirls into this, most of the palettes are a homage to something or other. Like Riker Beowulf:
Or his most important palette: The motherfucking Baz
CAN YOU FEEL THE STORM?
Tye The Czar
Member
Dr. Spector from Ultima: Martian Dreams.
I'll let you figure it out for yourself.
I'll let you figure it out for yourself.
...BE those characters ?
is suposed to be
????
Literally how i first heard of Dota. I didnt even know what it was at all, but i was wondering how Dragon Slave was supposed to be balanced.
NipplesAndToes23
Member
The Lizard and Gorilla in Rampage are definitely King Kong and Godzilla. I'm not sure about the giant werewolf.
I always think of Ryo from KoF when this topic comes up.
They have tried to diversify Ryo in later games. In KoF XIII he has red hair. This comparison is ironic since Ken is a lot of fun and Ryo is so boring to play.
Also the whole Dota 2/Warcraft/Heroes of the Storm connection. As we all know, Dota 1 is based on many characters from the Blizzard universe. They have new names and sometimes modified appearances, but you can see the parallels. Omniknight is Uther, Crystal Maiden is Jaina, Axe is Grom etc. But now, Blizzard has their own MOBA with the characters that the Dota 2 characters are based off of. But you can see that the way they play is somewhat similar to how the Dota 2 characters play. For example, Skeleton King from Dota is based off of Leoric from Diablo. They just added Leoric in Heroes of the Storm, and his main gimmick is coming back to life, which is the same gimmick as Dota's Skeleton King. Some real inception shit happening here.
They have tried to diversify Ryo in later games. In KoF XIII he has red hair. This comparison is ironic since Ken is a lot of fun and Ryo is so boring to play.
Also the whole Dota 2/Warcraft/Heroes of the Storm connection. As we all know, Dota 1 is based on many characters from the Blizzard universe. They have new names and sometimes modified appearances, but you can see the parallels. Omniknight is Uther, Crystal Maiden is Jaina, Axe is Grom etc. But now, Blizzard has their own MOBA with the characters that the Dota 2 characters are based off of. But you can see that the way they play is somewhat similar to how the Dota 2 characters play. For example, Skeleton King from Dota is based off of Leoric from Diablo. They just added Leoric in Heroes of the Storm, and his main gimmick is coming back to life, which is the same gimmick as Dota's Skeleton King. Some real inception shit happening here.
Watch Da Birdie
I buy cakes for myself on my birthday it's not weird lots of people do it I bet
Just stock monster, basically.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
I always think of Ryo from KoF when this topic comes up.
They have tried to diversify Ryo in later games. In KoF XIII he has red hair. This comparison is ironic since Ken is a lot of fun and Ryo is so boring to play.
Nah Ryo has blond hair, it's just some weird sprite coloring.
With that said Ryo is very Ryu-like in gameplay. If you want the Ken of AoF go to Robert.
Ralf Jones from Ikari Warriors/KoF was based on Rambo, his XII/XIII design is closer to Rambo, and in Maximum impact he had an alt that looked just like Rambo.
I prefer his old KoF look though:
Also apparently Jonny from Guilty Gear
is based on Johnny Winter, but I don't see it.
Skelter Helter from No More Heroes
Cloud.
I prefer his old KoF look though:
Also apparently Jonny from Guilty Gear
is based on Johnny Winter, but I don't see it.
Skelter Helter from No More Heroes
Cloud.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Also video game characters being based on developers or part of the staff is not that uncommon. Isn't Sol Badguy Daisuke's self insert?
EricDiesel
Member
Theodore Roosevelt and Dr. Robotnik/Eggman
Surprised this wasn't mentioned yet.
MarkMan
loves Arcade Sticks
If people are mentioning Law/Fei Long -> Bruce Lee
Than
DiveKick has
Markman ! Based on ...Mark "Markman" Julio !
The character looks way cooler than me! :O
Axel Stone from the Streets of Rage series looks quite a bit like Jean Claude van Damme on the box art of Bare Knuckle II (that's what it's called in Japan), don't you think?
Also, you can't see it in this pic but the smiling face in the background is Arnold Schwarzenegger. The final boss looks nothing like Arnie, though, so it was just the artist having fun.
mcz117chief
Member
Artorias from Dark Souls and Guts from Berserk
SuperAngelo64
Banned
People also tend to forget Peter Pan's second companion aside from Tinkerbell (Navi) was his stubborn sentient shadow (Midna)
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
I thought Raidou was just doing the banchou attire, since Bison was mimicking more of those dictators like Che and Stalin.
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
I'm not 100% sure, but I think Liquid Snake has to be based off of some British movie villain somewhere.
It might just be because he's a collection of tropes, but knowing the MGS series' track record of basing its characters off of movie characters, there has to be someone out there who's a dead ringer for Liquid.
It might just be because he's a collection of tropes, but knowing the MGS series' track record of basing its characters off of movie characters, there has to be someone out there who's a dead ringer for Liquid.
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Actually that was a callback to the original Art of Fighting game, where Ryo's sprite had red-orange hair despite being blond in artwork.