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Bruce Lee - Characters based on Lee

Bruce Lee - Anime and manga

• Lee Bailong (Lee Pai-Long) in the anime and manga Shaman King, especially the manga resembles Bruce Lee. The character was killed so that his body could be made into a Jiang Shi in service to the Tao family.

• Rock Lee from Naruto, resembles and is a tribute to Bruce Lee (as does his teacher Gai). In the anime and manga, the character is a martial arts master with a similar fighting style as Bruce Lee. Rock Lee is a very spirited taijutsu specialist who is the paragon of hard work and his hobby is hard work. Rock Lee also shares Bruce Lee's birthday of November 27. However, he seems to emulate Jackie Chan as well because he fights more effectively when he's drunk (i.e. Drunken Master)

• Also from Naruto, Hatake Kakashi is seen doing two-finger pushups popularized by Bruce Lee at the 1964 Long Beach International Karate Championships.

• The Pokémon Hitmonlee was named after Bruce Lee and uses primarily kicks. Similarly the Pokémon Hitmonchan was named after Jackie Chan and uses primarily punches.

• Spike Spiegel from the anime and manga Cowboy Bebop uses the quote "be like water" in the Cowboy Bebop episode Waltz for Venus when teaching the Jeet Kune Do to the promising student, Roco. Spike Spiegel also fights in a fashion similar to the fights in Lee's movies. Spike uses the nunchaku as Lee does and shares similar fighting stances. Cowboy Bebop incorporates many elements of Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do philosophy as the theme. Spike's innate fighting abilities and martial arts style (Jeet Kune Do) were borrowed from martial artist Bruce Lee, whose influence is seen many times in the series. The name of the bounty in the second episode is Abdul Hakim, borrowed from the Bruce Lee film Game of Death that co-starred Kareem Abdul-Jabbar who played a character called "Hakim". On two other separate occasions, Spike also makes mention of both Enter the Dragon and Way of the Dragon, two more Bruce Lee films and Spike is seen using nunchaku in the episode Stray Dog Strut. The creator of Cowboy Bebop stated that Cowboy Bebop was a tribute to Bruce Lee.

• In the anime Bleach, there is a female character named Sei Feng, just like Bruce Lee's feminine name. Her fighting style and appearance remembles Lee's.

• Kenshiro from the manga and anime Fist of the North Star got the same famous "cat screech" noise and "atatatah" battle cry whenever Kenshiro is punching his enemies. The creator Tetsuo Hara admits that he is a big fan of Lee's movies and his character Kenshiro is a tribute to Lee.

Bruce Lee - Videogames

Lee is one of the very few actors to have commercially released computer and console videogames named after themselves, not after a character they played.^[17] These include

• Bruce Lee, by Datasoft, for Commodore 64, PC Booter, and Apple II. (1984)
• Bruce Lee, by Ocean Software, for ZX Spectrum. (1984)
• Bruce Lee Lives: The Fall of Hong Kong Palace, by The Software Toolworks, for DOS. (1989)
• Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, by Acclaim, for SNES and Game Gear (1993)
• Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, by Atari Corporation, for Jaguar. (1994)
• Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, by Acclaim, for Sega Master System. (1995)
• Bruce Lee: Quest of the Dragon, by Universal Interactive Studios, for Xbox. (2002)
• Bruce Lee: Return of the Legend, by Vivendi Universal Games, for Game Boy Advance. (2003)

In addition, many fighting games have characters based on Bruce Lee, enough that it has become an archetype within the fighting game genre. Notable examples include:

• Fei Long in the Street Fighter series,strongly resembles Bruce Lee as do his movements and fighting style. This Bruce lee tribute has been featured in several movies and games.
• K' (K Dash) and Kula Diamond from King of Fighters 2000/2001, the characters use Bruce Lee's fighting stance and even have a move that imitates Bruce Lee's One Inch Punch, the move is named One Inch.
• Marshall Law and his son Forest in the Tekken series. In the early Tekken games, one of Marshall's outfits was a yellow tracksuit from the Game of Death. In addition, the sounds Marshall Law makes when he attacks are exactly like the whoops and shouts Bruce Lee is famous for. You can also also equip him, in Tekken 5, with the nunchaku seen in Game of Death.
• Kim Dragon in the World Heroes series.
• Liu Kang in the Mortal Kombat series. In the game Mortal Kombat: Deception he fights with the style Jun Fan. Also he uses nunchakus as his weapon.
• Johnny Cage in Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance uses both nunchaku and Jeet Kune Do. He's also known for being a great martial artist and a movie star. His clothing in Deadly Alliance resembles Bruce Lee's clothing.
• Jann Lee in the Dead or Alive series shares many similarities with and is closely modeled after martial artist Bruce Lee. The character have the same body type as his real-life counterpart; that is, "steely" abdominal muscles. In fact, their personas and attires are almost identical. Also, Jann Lee often yells and whoops in a Bruce Lee-like high pitched voice. The most obvious connection is their actual fighting style. "Light feet" play heavily, with neither staying motionless for more than a second a time. Jann Lee is one of the fastest striking characters in the Dead or Alive video game, with quick, intricate, string combos as well as sudden, hard hitting, jab moves.
• Maxi in the Soul Calibur series uses Bruce Lee's style of nunchakus and have a similar fighting stance as Bruce Lee.
• Ling Tong in Dynasty Warriors 5 uses a Nunchaku, moves quickly, and has similar physical characteristics and movements as Bruce Lee.
• Fei Fong Wong in Xenogears has a similar fighting style, techniques, and stance as Bruce Lee. The character's name Fei Fong Wong is Chinese and also tributes the martial art master Wong Fei Hung and Bruce Lee. His moves also similar to Jeet Kune Do. Fei also wears similar pants Bruce Lee wore in many of his movies.
• Reiji in Kakuto Chojin fights using Jeet Kune Do. Reiji's physical appearance also resembles Bruce Lee and wears sunglasses similar to Bruce Lee's
• In Double Dragon, Billy and Jimmy Lee are a tribute to Bruce Lee (the surname Lee is a big give away). In the remake Double Dragon Advance, there are Bruce Lee posters during the China Town level and in the cutscenes Billy and Jimmy looks similar to Lee when angry.
• When Dante Sparda wields his three-pronged Nunchaku in Devil May Cry 3, his shouts emulate Lee's famous whoops and howls.
• Jacky Bryant in Virtua Fighter has Jeet Kune Do, listed as his fighting style.
• In Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories a set of clothing you unlock is the jump suit he wore in Game of Death.
• In May of 2003, Vicarious Visions/Vivendi Universal Games/Activision released a cinematic video-game venture based on several of Lee's movies, called Bruce Lee: Return of the Legend, in which "the legend" himself plays the revenge-seeking Hai Feng.
• In 1984 Kung-Fu Master (movie Game of Death).

Bruce Lee - Film references

• Stephen Chow, Hong Kong actor and director, is a fan of Lee and has played and directed roles which are reminiscent of Lee, such as: Sing (Brother #4) in Shaolin Soccer (2001), and Kung Fu Hustle (2004)
• Lee from Rush Hour and Rush Hour 2 was named after Bruce Lee and has a similar fighting styles to Bruce Lee.
• In the Quentin Tarantino movie Kill Bill, multiple references to Bruce Lee can be seen e.g.Uma Thurman's yellow jumpsuit is a tribute to Bruce Lee from the movie Game of Death, and the villains from the "Crazy 88 gang" wore masks similar to that which Lee donned in his role as Kato in "Green Hornet".
• In the film No Retreat, No Surrender, Bruce Lee's ghost trains a young Bruce Lee enthusiast.
• In the film They call me Bruce the main character has an altercation with some thugs, after which he goes home and looks at a poster of Bruce Lee on the wall and says "If I was half as good as you I could have taken those guys in the bar".
• In the film The King of the Kickboxers the character Jake Donahue played by Loren Avedon watches a martial arts film and says "This is like a Bruce Lee film without Bruce".
• In the film American Shaolin there is a fighter who challenges one of the main characters at the beggining of the film who's fighting technique is the same as Lee's.

Adapted from the Wikipedia article "Characters based on Lee", under the G.N U Free Docmentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki