Thread for fun: Fighting Game Characters and the IRL fighters who inspired them

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I'll start with Street fighter.
Whether we hate it or not, its pretty universally embraced for its source material.

And by "source material" I mean the beloved and sometimes notorious fighters who inspired it's characters....so this is basically my excuse to post highlight reels and discuss fighters on here.

Feel free to do the same.




Off the top of my head, here are a few obvious ones:

Hugo



Oro




Ryu (and Mr. Karate in his later years)



Balrog



Fei Long



Adon



Abel



Any other ones I missed?
 
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I've always thought Steven Segal was the inspiration for Robert Garcia, at least visually.



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Abadede from Streets of Rage

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terry.330 said:
Gai Tendo from Buriki One
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Hahah nice...I always said it was Genki Sudo but your guess make a little more sense.

Silber from Buriki One



Actually I'd go so far as to say that Ralph is single handedly responsible for every cheapassed, oversized, SNK endboss to ever come from Germany.

EDIT: Well...Him or Matthias Hughes....shit, the 80s really was an era of jacked Germans in Martial Arts films.

 
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Oh so we are doing movie inspirations now? cool.

Mike Haggar


Emilio, the big guy shown at 1:55, looks and fights exactly like Haggar.
 
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2d master, that's pretty awesome.

But Haggar has an IRL counterpart as well.

Here he is fighting G. Andorre:

 
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Cody Travers (FINAL FIGHT)

Michael Pare' as Tom Cody in Streets of Fire (even the hair is the same)

for those who don't know who Willem Dafoe is, Pare'
is the guy at the beginning of the link and who drives
up at the end in the red car.
 
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World Heroes is full of them.
Muscle Power
Jeanne D'Arc
Kim Dragon
Erick

And then some of the Samurai Shodown characters were based on legends of people that actually existed.
 
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Haohmaru - Miyamoto Musashi
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Ukyo - Sasaki Kojiro Genryu
 
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Rey Mysterio is El Blaze in Virtua Fighter 5. He is even smaller than the other fighters!

 
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Holy shit that Van Vader clip rocked....how could he not be the inspiration for big bear?




Anyway, here's a few more:

Dee Jay, Rugal Bernstein, Kitana



Patrick Von Heyting, Buriki ONE


Rob Python(pretty sure he's based on this guy)
 
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Spoon said:
Dee Jay, Rugal Bernstein, Kitana


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Lol, is it just me or does that fight/chase scene seem riped-off from the movie "Double Impact"?

Also, it's a bit weird to see the alien from "I come in peace" and Lo-pan from "Big trouble in little china" in the same movie. I gotta see this shit. I laughed at how the black guy just stood there and takes 20 roundhouses to the face, without even trying to defend himself.

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Joe Higashi


(Sorry the only video I could find of the scene)

This might seem far fetched as hell, but I always thought that this guy shown doing katas at 00:38 was an inspiration for Joe Higashi. If you watch the movie he's even a goofy, loud-mouthed, prankster like Joe.
 
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Spoon said:
I'll start with Street fighter.
Whether we hate it or not, its pretty universally embraced for its source material.

And by "source material" I mean the beloved and sometimes notorious fighters who inspired it's characters....so this is basically my excuse to post highlight reels and discuss fighters on here.

Feel free to do the same.




Off the top of my head, here are a few obvious ones:

Hugo



Oro




Ryu (and Mr. Karate in his later years)



Balrog



Fei Long



Adon



Abel



Any other ones I missed?
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Mas Oyama is obviously the inspiration for Takuma as he was the founder of Kyokushin and Takuma founded Kyokugen Karate.

Ryu was actually Inspired by Yoshiji Soeno who Mas Oyama sent over to Thailand to fight.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76pmkvf5N_I

Soeno later left Kyokushin and founded Shidokan(possibly the very reason that RYU and KEN's style was mis translated as Shotokan...)


Ken Masters was inspired by Joe Lewis. Full Contact Kickboxing champion. Wore red mostly..

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Now something I pointed out to Loopz.
If you watch the 1975 documentary "Fighting Black Kings" about the 1974 Kyokushin World Tournament you will see tons of images that Capcom and SNK have used for fighting game backgrounds for years...

This site here has a ton of ideas too!

http://fightingstreet.com/folders/variousinfofolder/ripofffolder/ripoffpage1.html
 
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Wasn't Adon around way before Prince Naseem was a known fighter?
 
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Loopz introduced me to Fighting Black Kings via youtube and man it's a goddamned crime it ain't on DVD.
 
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MilkManX said:
Ryu was actually Inspired by Yoshiji Soeno who Mas Oyama sent over to Thailand to fight.
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Maybe he was a combination of the two. Oyama was a wandering karateka of no fixed address that trained under waterfalls up in the snowy mountains....did this Yoshiji guy do the same?

This site here has a ton of ideas too!

http://fightingstreet.com/folders/variousinfofolder/ripofffolder/ripoffpage1.html
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LOL shit, there goes this thread....I guess they left out a few KOF and MK characters though.

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Wasn't Adon around way before Prince Naseem was a known fighter?
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I looked into it, the original Adon was based on nobody and he theoretically took on the likeness of Naseem with the release of SF Alpha in June of 1995....at that point Naseem already had 12 or 13 fights....so was he well known by then?

I'm not sure...

2D_Master said:
the black guy just stood there and takes 20 roundhouses to the face, without even trying to defend himself.
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SNK boss syndrome.


EDIT: Here's another one


Craig Marduk from Tekken (both gigantic heel wrestlers from Australia)


And if they ever made a samsho movie he would make a pretty good Seiger as well.
 
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Yeah maybe Ryu is a combination of Oyama and Soeno. Soeno was one of Mas Oyama's first students. He was chosen to prove that Mas Oyama's new style(not yet Kyokushin) was better than the Muay Thai fighters. Hence he was sent to fight the best Thai boxers.
 
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I just want ya'll to know that I love this thread.
 
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