VGC Top Ten: Celebrities That Look Like Videogame Characters - News

by VGChartz Staff , posted on 23 December 2009 / 201,266 Views

If you are like me, you sometimes notice that our most beloved videogame characters seem to look like they got a bit of real-life inspiration from our celebrities. Some of these were intentional, as you can tell that they used that particular piece of art as a basis for the character, and others are just spooky. As normal, these are in no particular order.

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And as a Christmas bonus, I present to you a non-celebrity lookalike:

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I wonder who they look like?

92 Comments

TC_Squared (on 28 October 2011)

The Michael Biehn similarities is nothing impressive...that drawing was literally based on him.

zzyoshiman (on 03 January 2010)

i always thought john Travolta did look like marcus

Ravage27 (on 28 December 2009)

kratos will eat tyson for breakfast

TC_Squared (on 28 October 2011)

Cid in Final Fantasy VIII...I said that back in 1999 when I first saw him.

itaintrite (on 16 January 2010)

Oh come on, Johnny Messner is the best you can do for Sev?

Now THIS guy, Ray Stevenson, is the spit and image of Sev. Makes me wonder if Sev was modeled after him.

http://xrayvision.today.com/files/2009/03/2008_punisher_war_zone_004.jpg

onikenshi (on 28 December 2009)

Ron Jeremy hands down for Mario lol.

Kaixes (on 23 December 2009)

@Xoj

Squall is actually based off of River Phoenix.

Smeags (on 23 December 2009)

Yup, definitely did a double take on that John Travolta/Marcus Fenix one. :-D

Well done!

MontanaHatchet (on 23 December 2009)

The John Travolta/Marcus Fenix one made me lol so much.

Another great list Mr. Kelley!

jayson1 (on 04 August 2012)

Jason Stathom is a dead ringer for Nathan Hale of Resistance. Why sony hasnt tried to make a movie about Resistance starring Jason Stathom is beyond me.

Iveyboi (on 19 April 2012)

Hahahaha!!!!

mikecm87 (on 28 March 2012)

I don't see the resemblance in the Battletoads one.

davewade91 (on 26 July 2011)

I've got you all beat... Starkiller and Sam Witwer. In fact, the whole Force Unleashed series has a few exact actor to character models.

drinkvault (on 15 January 2010)

Yeah, Travolta should be Marcus for the Gears of War movie. lol at Wario comparison.

MasterOfHyrule (on 28 December 2009)

The non celebrities are Mario and Luigi it seems..

-ku- (on 27 December 2009)

Sorry but I didnt get who the non celebrities looked like....

wohdin (on 27 December 2009)

The squall one is funny, because Squall was actually designed after River Phoenix (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Phoenix) and Gackt's likeness was used in designing Genesis (FF7 compilation). Also, David Bowie is every video game character ever, trufax.

spdk1 (on 26 December 2009)

@ Keep_the-change

nah, it was on a photoblog I go to called sexy people blog

TaterTurds (on 26 December 2009)

and actually WWE wrestler Batista is the spitting image of Marcus Fenix, Travolta is too old and flabby to play him.

Keep_the_change (on 26 December 2009)

LOL @ Mario Bros!!!!

Is this the news writer uncles r something?

MasterZack (on 26 December 2009)

Amazing!! Good job!

TaterTurds (on 25 December 2009)

what about Johnny Resnick of the Goo Goo Dolls as Leon Kennedy of Resident Evil fame, now that's a dead ringer.

crak585 (on 25 December 2009)

How bout Hugh Jackman (X-Men Origins: Wolverine) looking exactly like Solid Snake especially when he smokes a cigar in that movie.

Fab_GS (on 25 December 2009)

WE WANT PART 2!!!!!!!!!

PerswAsian (on 24 December 2009)

Weird to see this again. I contributed Robin Williams/Cid FFVIII to Thor Antrim's site long ago. I also contributed the Lucca from Chrono Trigger/Velma from Scooby-Doo lookalike.

Kai Master (on 24 December 2009)

wow travolta and fenix!

Pellefant (on 24 December 2009)

HAHA!
The lead singer in IMMORTAL used to rent out an apartment to a friend of mine:) She also fed his cat:)

dizzydee_011 (on 24 December 2009)

Awesome article! haha Hopefully a part 2 soon...?

Xen (on 24 December 2009)

@forest-spirit:

Blasrynkh Mighty Battletoads.

NeoMatrix (on 24 December 2009)

Nicely done!

tedsteriscool (on 24 December 2009)

Coincidence?

http://totallylookslike.com/2009/06/08/johnny-messner-totally-looks-like-sev-from-killzone-2/

tedsteriscool (on 24 December 2009)

lol, nice.

The main character of Bujingai was actually modeled after Gackt.

el_rika (on 24 December 2009)

Good effort buddy !

kupomogli (on 24 December 2009)

I dunno. I've always thought this site did it better even though it's rarely updated and is just an afterthought.

http://thor.mirtna.org/oddities/lookalikes/a-m.html

spdk1 (on 24 December 2009)

@ those saying godon freeman and Hugh Laurie:

I didn't put that one because I didn't feel as though they look much alike....freeman looks more like Charlie Sheen in a movie that I can't remember its name:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v65/PeepingMax/gordonsheen_heads.png

arcane_chaos (on 23 December 2009)

LOL! Gackt looks like squall! my friend will have a feild day this since Squall is his favorite videogame character and Gackt is his favorite japanese artist!

crazyj_86 (on 23 December 2009)

Dude...the weirdest look-alike i think is Psycho (from Crysis) and Jason Statham... He even talks like statham... uncanny...

shinsa (on 23 December 2009)

squall is based off of gackt....?

*face plam!"

Xoj (on 23 December 2009)

LOL @gackt.

squall is based of him

Hradekal (on 23 December 2009)

I love you VGchartz. Keep up the awesomeness.

Attoyou (on 23 December 2009)

LMFAO~!!!!! thats was Great! the last one was the best :P

Mummelmann (on 23 December 2009)

The most astonishing one is not on there; Doctor Eli Vance from Half-Life 2 and Bill Cobbs. Google it, you won't believe Vance isn't modelled off of this guy! Even the voice is really, really similar!

Retrasado (on 23 December 2009)

LOL @ John Travolta... I really did a doubletake on that one. The wrestling guy was a pretty good find too. Awesome list

Pho_Hybrid (on 23 December 2009)

John Travola as Marcus :D thats halirous,
he wouldn't do the roughed, tough soilder, or so we believe

tavo31 (on 23 December 2009)

Here's proof of what I said, along with some extras (damn... Owen Wilson DOES look like Glass Joe):

http://www.dasgamer.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/punch-out.jpg

tavo31 (on 23 December 2009)

You missed Adam Sandler = Don Flamenco

Red4ADevil (on 23 December 2009)

ROFLMAO!!! I knew I wasn't the only one who though cid from FFVIII looked like robin williams. That was the first thing that came to my mind when cid appeared.

ameratsu (on 23 December 2009)

The answer is always David Bowie.

haxxiy (on 23 December 2009)

They missed Hugh Laurie = Gordon Freeman

forest-spirit (on 23 December 2009)

Toads of Northern Darkness?

fazz (on 23 December 2009)

David Bowie and Gackt are the sexiest up there.

gurglesletch (on 23 December 2009)

Some of those look very similar but others not especially the bonus.

DeotoxSlayer (on 23 December 2009)

I'm surprised that whoeevr made this list didn't incluide the guy from House and Gordon Freeman from Half-Life I mean they look so alike.

Simulacrum (on 23 December 2009)

Nice ;P

Gilgamesh (on 23 December 2009)

lol yeh you pretty much could of made a list of video game characters that david bowie looks like

Severance (on 23 December 2009)

David bowie alone should have a 4 part list.

he is in EVERY GAME!

http://thor.mirtna.org/oddities/lookalikes/pics/raziel-legacy-of-kain-soul-reaver-david-bowie.jpg
http://thor.mirtna.org/oddities/lookalikes/pics/leon-kennedy-resident-evil-4-david-bowie.jpg
http://thor.mirtna.org/oddities/lookalikes/pics/sephiroth-final-fantasy-vii-david-bowie.jpg
http://thor.mirtna.org/oddities/lookalikes/pics/balthier-final-fantasy-xii-david-bowie.jpg

badgenome (on 23 December 2009)

You could have done a top 10 list with Bowie alone!

Ssenkahdavic (on 23 December 2009)

Angelina Jolie = Laura Croft

Xen (on 23 December 2009)

Yes! Put Travolta in the GeoW movie! He will dance the locust to death!

Raze (on 23 December 2009)

When he was younger, Leo DiCaprio would have made a good Link, circa de the Romeo & Juliet he was in.

c03n3nj0 (on 23 December 2009)

Aren't they making a gear of War movie? Or did I hear wrong?

If, so, freakin' put John Travolta in it!

jayke (on 23 December 2009)

Laurie*

jayke (on 23 December 2009)

They missed the most uncanny lookalike in video game history. Hugh Lorrie of HOUSE fame is a dead ringer for HL hero Gordon Freeman.

Ssliasil (on 23 December 2009)

Bruce Willis IS Auron FFX... i win

Xen (on 23 December 2009)

Black Metal is pretty great, Immortal especially.

KingFate (on 23 December 2009)

This is pure win, just from the Immortal reference alone.
OT: Those similarities are pretty sick.

spdk1 (on 23 December 2009)

@ Xen

LOL!! I saw the pose, and the gauntlets and I was like YES!!!

but yeah, I'm a huge metal fan, symphonic black metal and melodic death metal especially.

Xen (on 23 December 2009)

And that Snake picture was based on that exact one presented.

But dude, you know Immortal! Nice job!

Smeags (on 23 December 2009)

Yeah, Montana kinda looks like Okami Amaterasu... I'm surprised that he's not on there either.

RukiSama (on 23 December 2009)

well, squall was based on gackt so it's not a casuality

spdk1 (on 23 December 2009)

@ wfz:

that was Ron Jeremy actually wearing a mario costume for a g4 commercial, that doesn't really count....although if we do one of top celebrity cosplay, he would win.