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Whether fictional or real life, plenty of video game characters tend to be inspired by/based from an existing character, or is a homage to said character. Unsurprisingly enough this is quite apparent on early 90's fighting games and even today you still see shades of them.
While I wouldn't mind "this character looks like <person>" stuff, let's at least focus more on official ones that are outright inspired by characters.
Let's get the most common one out of the way - Fei Long, the Marshals, and Kim Dragon from World Heroes (sadly unrelated to Kim Kaphwan though some attribute Kim to this guy) all reference Bruce Lee. Then there's Hon Fu and Lee who reference Jackie Chan.
First off is Jojo. Fucking Jojo man. Inspired a lot of fighting game characters. Especially Part 2. It's why it's the best part.
Rose and Lisa LIsa are one of the common examples, complete with the scarf.
Gill and Kars even share the homoerotic muscular look, and with being gods and all.
There's also Dio, the boss from World Heroes, who resemble Kars. But aside from that, he goes WRYYYYYY! and MUDA MUDA! too like the other Dio.
People say Brocken (from World Heroes) is a clone of M. Bison / Dictator, and I agree. But there's also another reference to him - our lovable Nazi cyborg of course. In fact he and Stroheim even share the same origins of sorts. And of course, Guile mimics Stroheim too (kinda hilarious when you think about it). Brocken himself is apparently named after Brocken Jr.
Away from Street Fighter, we got Polnareff and everyone's favorite electric guy, Benimaru. He himself has moves named after various shows (Electrigger from Red Baron, Shinkuu Katategoma and Genei Hariken from Hurricane Polymar).
We also get Juri and Part 6's protagnost, Jolyne. Surprisingly enough we don't references to other protagonists.
Besides Jojo, there's also Hokuto no Ken for reference.
Colonel, the guy who either (in the anime) is Shin's servant or (in the manga) believed in the coming of god, and a sub-villain in the first arc, is referenced by Rolento and Heidern.
Zeus from World Heroes definitely screams Souther. It doesn't help that Tetsuo Hara did the character art.
Some miscellaneous stuff.
Muscle Power (World Heroes) is Hulk Hogan
And of course, K9999 is a character based on Tetsuo from Akira
Know any other character similarities/basis?
While I wouldn't mind "this character looks like <person>" stuff, let's at least focus more on official ones that are outright inspired by characters.
Let's get the most common one out of the way - Fei Long, the Marshals, and Kim Dragon from World Heroes (sadly unrelated to Kim Kaphwan though some attribute Kim to this guy) all reference Bruce Lee. Then there's Hon Fu and Lee who reference Jackie Chan.
First off is Jojo. Fucking Jojo man. Inspired a lot of fighting game characters. Especially Part 2. It's why it's the best part.
Rose and Lisa LIsa are one of the common examples, complete with the scarf.
Gill and Kars even share the homoerotic muscular look, and with being gods and all.
There's also Dio, the boss from World Heroes, who resemble Kars. But aside from that, he goes WRYYYYYY! and MUDA MUDA! too like the other Dio.
People say Brocken (from World Heroes) is a clone of M. Bison / Dictator, and I agree. But there's also another reference to him - our lovable Nazi cyborg of course. In fact he and Stroheim even share the same origins of sorts. And of course, Guile mimics Stroheim too (kinda hilarious when you think about it). Brocken himself is apparently named after Brocken Jr.
Away from Street Fighter, we got Polnareff and everyone's favorite electric guy, Benimaru. He himself has moves named after various shows (Electrigger from Red Baron, Shinkuu Katategoma and Genei Hariken from Hurricane Polymar).
We also get Juri and Part 6's protagnost, Jolyne. Surprisingly enough we don't references to other protagonists.
Besides Jojo, there's also Hokuto no Ken for reference.
Colonel, the guy who either (in the anime) is Shin's servant or (in the manga) believed in the coming of god, and a sub-villain in the first arc, is referenced by Rolento and Heidern.
Zeus from World Heroes definitely screams Souther. It doesn't help that Tetsuo Hara did the character art.
Some miscellaneous stuff.
Muscle Power (World Heroes) is Hulk Hogan
And of course, K9999 is a character based on Tetsuo from Akira
Know any other character similarities/basis?