7 Fighting Game Characters Super Obviously Based on Real People

It's hard work designing fighting game characters. You have to decide on their fighting style and ridiculous haircut, for starters, and then how little clothing you can get away with putting on them. It's much easier to model your character on a real-life celebrity - such as with Fei Long, Forest and Marshal Law and Liu Kang, all of whom were based on martial arts legend Bruce Lee. Ponder these seven fighters who look mighty familiar.

The way Mortal Kombat's Johnny Cage closely resembles Bloodsport-era Jean Claude Van Damme is a special case. Mortal Kombat was originally meant to be a game about Jean Claude Van Damme, starring a digitised version of the Timecop himself.

When Midway Games weren't able to secure the license for Van Damme, they took their prototype and called the main character in it "Johnny Cage". They kept the tight shorts, JCVD-style haircut and signature move of doing the splits and punching people in the crotch, thank goodness.

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