Tekken characters and old action stars

Posted Jan 2, 2007 at 2:40AM by QJ Staff Listed in: PS3, PSP Tags: Betamax, emo, Martial Arts, Tekken, VHS, Wikipedia

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Tag this as off-topic. This is not news. This is however, something that may be a bit entertaining if you're a Tekken fan. Consider this the byproduct of beer, too much Tekken: Dark Resurrection for the PSP, and a VHS/betamax marathon with buddies.

In this post, this blogger will point out a few observations regarding some Tekken fighters. Particularly, with which real-life celebrity they might've been based on.

Let's start with the obvious ones.

Law, Lee, Lei, and Chan

Yeah, most Tekken characters are inspired by pop-culture martial arts heroes and anime cliches. With characters like Law and Lei, the reference is pretty obvious, but with some other characters it isn't quite that immediate. For example, anyone remember Cynthia Rothrock?

Cynthia meet Nina...

Yes, we know, Nina Williams is a whole lot hotter than Cynthia Rothrock, but given that most of Nina's peers in the very first Tekken were obviously based on late-seventies, early-eighties action heroes, so Cynthia gets the credit for Nina, the Tekken 1 Nina. The future versions of Nina in the subsequent Tekkens owe more to anime-stylings, and peer pressure from Dead or Alive than to Cynthia (due to Nina's hotter bod), but if the Tekken 5 costume is to be taken into account, the influence is still there.

Other influences to be found in Tekken characters? There's King, and if you've got an international wrestling channel on cable, you'd be able to sniff the Luchador influence. There's Gon, who is more of a guest character than a "reference" Tekken character, since Gon is also a character in a classic Japanese manga. There's Jack Who's obviously a terminating Arnie.

Jack, Arnie, Feng, and Bolo

Baek resembles the a cliche suave Korean soap opera elder. Hworang resembles a Korean soap opera punk. Wikipedia claims that Feng Wei is based on martial arts B-movie actor Bolo Yeung. Bolo is that guy who got beat a lot by Bruce Lee and Jean Claude Van Damme.

But what is the Tekken reference of ultimate power and ultimate destiny? Well, Paul always said he was the strongest. That, and Paul's dynamic with Law reminds us of another martial arts hero who had an interesting dynamic with Bruce Lee.

Paul and Chuck...

We have Connan O'Brien to thank for this.

Given that the game already is infused with a huge number of in-game hollywood/movie references, the supposed 2009 Live-action movie version by Charles Stone III better be good. The characters are already based on stereotypes, how hard can casting be?

What about the Mishimas? Well, they're all a bunch of anime-induced emo-boys ('cept for old man Heihachi) so I won't bother with them. Of course that's just me being a bit too lazy to do some research on them. If you happen to know some odd factoid regarding the influences behind Heihachi and his progeny's character design, feel free to comment.

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Comments

# Brian Fury — Guest 2007-01-01 22:10

His moves are like Van Damme's

# Law — Guest 2007-01-01 22:58

Well it has already been said by a developer that it is based on Bruce Lee!

But look at the fist cover

http://uk.gamespot.com/pages/image_viewer/boxshot.php?pid=366755

# Chuck — Guest 2007-01-01 23:02

GOD NO! Paul is A STREET FIGHTER AND CHUCK IS A JUDO KARATE PR*T!

# .... — Guest 2007-01-02 02:59

y.. paul is jean cloud van damme

# in my opinion — Guest 2007-01-02 03:07

steve fox-brad pit from the movie snatch

murduk-bill goldberg

dragunov- hitler lolz

bruce irving-billy blanks (lol jk i dont kno, would be nice if he was based on tony jaa from ong-bak)

raven-wesley snipes

# Re: Chuck — Guest 2007-01-02 03:26

Chuck isn't a Judo Karate anything. Chuck learned JKD from Bruce and that's mainly what he does. JKD takes the good stuff from a lot of martial arts including Kung Fu, Judo, Karate and a lot of other arts.

Chuck was doing full contact fighting long before it was popular. In some of the Bruce Lee movies the two of them fight without pulling blows or doing stage fighting, they are really going at each other.

# Raven — Guest 2007-01-02 04:20

Raven = Blade

# actually — Guest 2007-01-02 04:24

I'd say that Draganov has a pinch of Jacko in him aswell

# list — Guest 2007-01-02 05:50

Reven= blade as they allrady said

jecky goes for lei of course

bruse will smith can play him

mmm... jin can be kiano rivs

it will be cool

kazuya... just find a crazy looking korean guy and it will be good

anna... there are alot!

but you know you cant put all characters of the game in the movie... there are 30+ , you cant use every one... think about it

# lolz — soopergooman 2007-01-02 07:34

Heihachi=Mr. Miogi from karate kid

# hmmmm — Guest 2007-01-02 07:50

if kianu reeves had the body of the rock it would be perfect for him

# the *****? — Guest 2007-01-02 08:02

stupid *****gots get some scrotum suackcing nuts im playing warcraft 3

# ... — Marq 2007-01-02 10:39

You guys should put in Tony Jaa in that cast. That'd be pretty cool

# ... — Guest 2007-01-02 12:09

yeah , but thats only if you feed him after mid-night

# Christie — Guest 2007-01-02 13:30

believe it or not Christie was based on none other that Jennifer Lopez! Weird huh?

# Paul? — Guest 2007-01-02 14:12

I always saw him as brad pitt for some reason...

# Good for you! — Guest 2007-01-02 14:14

Just don't forget to eat.

# yoshimitsu — Guest 2007-01-02 23:36

hhhmmmmmmmmmm.... what about yoshimitsu????????

# here is my list.. — doggmatic 2007-01-03 09:21

Dragunov - Johnny Depp (imagine Edward Scissorhands)

Lili - Paris Hilton

Anna - Carmen Elecktra

Nina - Ashely Judd

Michelle Chang - Jennifer Lopez

Julia Chang - Eva Longoria

Christie Monteiro - Jessica Alba

Armor King - Batista with mask

King - Kane with mask

Baek Doo San - Steve Blackman (former WWE)

Bruce Irving - Booker T

Eddy Gordo - Tony Jaa

Raven - Blade

Ling Xiaoyu - Zhang Zhiyi

Heicachi Mishima - Ken Watanabe (the Last Samurai with Tom Cruise)

# Hmmm — Guest 2007-01-04 03:47

I always thought Kiefer Sutherland would make a good

Paul just in the looks department, now teaching Ol'Kiefer

to do the martial arts sequences for the movie is another

question.

# TEKKEN FEMALES — Guest 2007-01-20 20:22

About the females! JUN=YUKIE NAKAMA NINA=KRISTIANNA LOKEN MICHELLE=ROSELYN SANCHEZ CHRISTIE=TYRA BANKS(they look alike twins) XIAOYU=VICKY ZHAO WEI JULIA =JESSICA ALBA(they have exactly the same face and body) ASUKA=CHIAKI KURIYAMA

# Tekken peopls — Guest 2007-01-23 17:35

Raven:Blade

Christie:J-LO

Jin Kazama:Keanu Reeves

Yoshimitsu:Pred ator

Lee:Jesse Mcartny

Wang Jinrei:My grandfather

# tekken females — Guest 2007-01-28 00:44

I looked the pictures and i realised that chiaki looks a lot with asuka.And i agree with you about tyra banks(maybe she is older for christie but she look like a 19 old)Jessica alba for julia is a very good idea,i think she look very much alike her!

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