"I'm
so pretty"... Donald
Glover. You made Jeffry McWild cool again. Sega needed a little
kick in the teeth to get hype building for VF6. Childish
Gambino's breakout music video for This is America (2018) is a work of
controversial art. Fighting game references? Aside from the
Jeffry McWild pants, Gambino also does a very Bruce Lee-esk "Wooo". Not sure
if that was intentional.
What's interesting to me is... Donald Glover was born 1 month after me
(in 1983). We are the same age. That means he is part of "The
Fighters Generation" if he was ever into fighting games as a
kid... so was his Jeffry McWild cosplay on purpose? Did Donald Glover want me to
raise Jeffry's rating a few points? I'm gonna leave it as plausible.
Mads
Mikkelson (As Le Chiffre) & Sergei Dragunov
(Submitted by Jet3000)
.
The
main villain of the film Casino Royale (2006) known as Le Chiffre,
played by Mads Mikkelson... and Sergei
Dragunov from Tekken. If Tekken
5: Dark Resurrection didn't come out in 2005, I would've said that
Dragunov could've possibly been inspired by Le Chiffre, since the Tekken
developers have used real life actors as inspiration for characters in
the past.
On a side note, that wimp from the crappy live-action Tekken movie has nothing on
Mads... this guy would make the perfect Dragnov.
Jinpachi
Mishima & This Tamarin Monkey
You
might think Jinpachi
Mishima's beard is a bit "far fetched" and
"unrealistic"... but don't tell that to this tamarin monkey
who lives here on Earth, because you might
hurt his feelings. Could some Namco designers have seen a tamarin monkey at a
zoo in Japan, and thought... "Hmm, this guy is totally Mishima".
I suppose it's "possible"... but it could also just be a
coincidence. In any case, when I'm rich I'm definitely getting a tamarin
monkey as a pet and naming him Jinpachi Jr. And if you don't think this
monkey is a celebrity, don't tell him that... you might hurt his
feelings.
These
Cats & The Mishimas
I
was rooting for the black kitteh... but sometimes you get hit with a
EWGF. Nothing you can do. And there's no way these cats didn't know they
were mimicking TEKKEN.
Jacky Bryant
& Sting (Submitted by
Mike)
Sting
(played by Feyd-Rautha from Dune) and Virtua
Fighter's Jacky Bryant are both masters of hair gel. You might even
say they have a similar facial
structure.
Christoph
Daum & Rugal (Submitted by Omar
Unal)
Christoph
Daum is a German football coach who freakishly resembles Rugal
Bernstein from KOF
(whom also hails from Germany). Mr. Daum has some prominent facial features which Rugal seems to
share, not to mention the hair color/style. I definitely don't rule out SNK
randomly being inspired by Daum's epic face angles, but
I think I'll call coincidence on this one.
Halle
Berry & K' (Submitted by Carlos
Hidalgo)
Halle
Berry as Storm from X-men: The Last Stand and
K' from the King
of Fighters series. K' debuted in 1999 while this short haired version of Storm debuted in
2006, making this one a pure coincidence... unless someone involved with X-men:
The Last Stand is a fan of King of Fighters.
Mark Hamill
& K' (Submitted by
Water_is_ever_flowing)
.
This
particular artwork of K'
(drawn by Shinkiro) strikingly resembles a famous
picture taken of Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker
from Star Wars. Since it is a rather famous picture, I can't
completely rule
it out as being intentional.
Sean
Connery & Joseph Joestar
"I'm
waiting to be impressed. . ." Sean Connery in Joseph
Joestar's attire? It happened.
Sean
Connery & Heihachi (Submitted by Alex B.)
Can you
imagine Heihachi
Mishima with Sean Connery's accent?
If
only the TEKKEN series went 100% mainstream in the 90's, Sean
Connery might've played Heihachi Mishima in another life. Perhaps this
not happening was for the best.
If
only the TEKKEN series went 100% mainstream in the 90's, Sean
Connery might've played Heihachi Mishima in another life. Perhaps this
not happening was for the best.
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