Bonus Bonus Points: -Liu Kang's rendition of Jeet Kune Do is called “Jun Fan”, a nod to Bruce’s birth name, "Lee Jun Fan". -Reiji apparently does have a one inch punch. -Reiji does a nose flick during one of his combos. -Jam apparently does have dragons. Bonus Fighters: -A lot of people are saying K' is a Bruce Lee homage, but have given me no evidence. He might qualify as an honourable mention like Jacky and Kim Wu. -One of his Shaolin Monks Fatalities is the stomp from Enter the Dragon. -John Talbain apparently counts? -Chin Wo from Eternal Champions has been brought to my attention. He certainly qualifies. -Li Long from SoulCalibur has come up. Honestly, I'm not as familiar with him as Maxi, and I didn't think there'd be much there given how quickly Maxi replaced him, but he's probably worth looking into for a future revisit of this concept. -Billy Wei from Fighters Legacy. Also, UFC isn't a fighting game. It's a sports game. They're not the same. Also, having "fight" in the title doesn't qualify or else Final Fight is a fighting game.

It’s not a fighting game without a Bruce Lee homage!

How the hell Does Marshall Law not get a bonus point for having a son based on Brandon Lee, Bruce's Son

So many of Marshall Law's attacks are based on Bruce's. Even some bonus points given to other characters apply to him

This isn’t about a fighting game, but when I revisited Cowboy Bebop, I was pleasantly surprised to learn that Spike Spiegel’s ideals and fighting style was influenced by Bruce Lee. Gotta love subtle homages.🥰

Bruce Lee is a God dang legend. No wonder there's so many Bruce Lee clones in fighting games. My main favorites are Marshall Law and Liu Kang.

Fun fact : Li long was the original homage to Bruce Lee in the Soul series.

Goes to show how impactful Bruce Lee was to a ridiculous amount of people. I usually gravitate towards the Bruce Lee clone in a fighting game since it's usually more fun to play as them.

"Jann Lee: Probably the loudest guy here." and we love him for it lol

I love how Jann Lee is an obvious Bruce Li homage without looking like a clone of his..

Nice touch using Bruce’s entrance music from the ufc games. ALSO Liu Kangs fighting style “Jun Fan” is a play on words for Bruce’s birth name, Lee Jun Fan

Jann Lee deserves his top spot by being the Bruce Lee Clone in a world where Bruce Lee existed, effectively making him an in-universe impersonator. Fun Fact: Jann Lee's mocap animations were preformed by occasional Bruce Lee impersonator Muneki Ebinuma (credited as Ebinuma Lee) who was the planner of Super Double Dragon & Double Dragon Advance. Fun Fact 2: Mr. Jones from Rage of the Dragons (a de-canonized Double Dragon fighter) is a hybrid of Bruce Lee & Jim Kelly. Another one of my favorite homages to Bruce Lee is ironically, the least like him. K' from King Of Fighters uses more practical style of Jeet Kune Do, but there's little connecting him to "Bruce Lee" as a memetic figure. Instead of being another "Bruce Lee Clone" it makes K' stand out as his own character who just so happens to use JKD, like Jacky Bryant.

I know of one that wasn't here: Maxi isn't the only Bruce Lee in the Soul Calibur series. Li Long, the original nunchaku user in Soul Edge. Considering Bruce Lee's name in Mandarin was Li Xiao Long, it's clearly a reference.

People don't realize that Dragon from World Heroes was THE first Bruce Lee clone in fighting games. But yea this seems pretty accurate to me, Jann Lee and Fei Long always seemed the most authentic to Bruce Lee's persona and personality to me.

Reiji from Kakuto Chojin does have a one inch punch in his Chojin moveset, that can be done with his Pak Sao stance. Clair Andrews from Ehrgeiz is also a Bruce Lee homage in terms of moveset, and battle cries. Lastly there's Jon Talbain from Darkstalkers who is basically werewolf Bruce Lee.

K' from KoF is also a bruce lee homage, having one inch punch and flying kick and yelling during some moves

Ya know I always thought of Maxi as some sort of fusion of Lee and Elvis. This was a pretty entertaining video and I would be down seeing something like this again. Its crazy that Bruce was so impactful that we still see it till this day in a lot of forms. Hell 9 time out of 10 you will see something Bruce like in every fighting game released.

There is also one more from tekken too. Lee Chaolan was trained by Marshall Law and Paul Phoenix during his time in the USA, so he naturally shares some Bruce Lee-isms

Liu Kang Is the only Bruce Lee tribute that became a protagonist and eventually evolved into an unique character, therefore Is the best one to me... I hope this becomes a full series, since theres so many fun archtypes to break down, and Snake's one of the best Fighting Game YT content creators, hands down...

Fei Long and Liu Kang are my favorites and I would like to see Fei Long fighting with a nunchaku, and hopefully Liu Kang will keep his nunchaku in future games

Jam has dragons. Her flying kick has a fiery outline of a dragon head which gets more defined with each level of the special. Her Bao Saishinshou super also has a follow up depicting an eastern dragon flying past her.

One lesser-known Bruce Lee homage is Jon Talbain/Gallon from Capcom’s Darkstalkers series. He likely won’t have as many points to upset the standings much, but he has a surprising number of them to consider. He fights primarily shirtless (destroying his shirt in his transformation at the start of a match). His physique is very Lee-like (especially when reverting to human form although his wolf-form more or less has the same physique). He utilizes nunchaku in his Million Flicker move. Surprisingly he does have dragon references in his Dragon Cannon super, channeling his chi into a fiery blast consisting of a giant fiery dragon head to burn his opponent. He also does the finger wag as either a taunt or a win pose animation. His wolf howl he has in almost all his super moves sounds like Bruce’s signature cry. He wears a traditional Kung-Fu outfit like Bruce wears in the opening of Enter the Dragon (before ripping it to shreds in his transformation). Lastly, reverting back to human form in some win poses gives him a Bruce-like pose. Those are the definitives, but there may be a few more, depending on your point of view: supposedly his fighting style is based on Jeet Kun Do but I haven’t found an official source to verify that. His Dark Force move Mirage Body gives him an after-image effect that COULD be seen as homaging the Fists of Fury hand pose, though it’s a move similar in look and design to Wolverine’s Berserker Charge. His jumping kicks looks very much like the popular flying kick, but they don’t fly straight across like other characters. So that’s at least 7-8 points in Jon Talbain’s favor, making him a surprisingly good and unconventional Bruce Lee homage.

One of the few things MK 2021 did right was picking an actor for Liu Kang with a physique that fit the character and homage.

Bruce Lee is a legend in the world of martial arts. It’s no wonder why so many fighting games made their own versions of him. Granted, it can get repetitive at times. But then again, Bruce was a man who many people wanted to be like.

I was gonna say Law but Jan Lee is super underrated. Glad he got the top spot

Hitmonlee is a bruce lee homage in english only he's actually a personification of Taekwon Do and is named after a kickboxer Tadashi Sawamura as he's named in Japan Sawamular much in the same way "Hitmonchan is not a tribute to Jackie Chan but a personification of Boxing and is named Ebiwalar after Hiroyuki Ebihara

I would say Lee from Tekken is also a bit of a bruce homage, sharing his surname and fighting style. But he was originally law's mirror character in Tekken 1 which explains why he's not made to resemble Bruce but still fight like him. so he's obviously not as direct an homage as Law, but still shares the Bruce Lee roots

This was fantastic and I had no idea Johnny Cage would rank so comparatively high.

I recall Jann and Jacky having a wider selection of Bruce Lee quotes

Marshall and Forrest are still my #1 Bruce Lee homages. You can't change my mind.

I want to see Fei Long again in Street Fighter 6 I miss him so much since Ultra Street Fighter 4 I want to see the Yellow Jumpsuit from Game of Death Bruce Lee Wears for Fei Long in Street Fighter 6 He was my Favourite Street Fighter Bruce Lee Character since Super Street Fighter 2 The New Challengers and I hope Fei Long will return in Street Fighter 6

I always saw Hon Fu as more of a homage to Jackie Chan than Bruce Lee, since his design looks closer to Chan than Lee, is a police officer ala. Police Story films and similar cop roles Jackie played and has a more comedic flair in his fights.

Law has more moves you didnt count. The ball breaker side grab, stomp, headlock kick, new move in tekken 7 -low stance mid kick and forest has a taunt like bruces in tag 2

Love this concept! Curious as to who else could work for a sequel video!

Really interesting video Did not see a lot of these coming And YES PLEASE make more videos like this

Omg this is awesome! I'd been mucking about in my head at work a few nights ago, imagining what a video talking about fighting game stereotypes/archetypes for characters might look like, and suddenly I stumble upon this gem, and this is brilliant! Yes, I would love to see more. Cheers!

I wasn’t expecting Jam nor Chie on the list, but I’m not complaining. Also real good deep cuts.

I LOVED Bruce Lee as a kid, so watching this video was really cool for me. Plus, you did a really good job producing this! Since you mentioned it, I would really like to see that luchador concept come to fruition as well 👀

The amount of research you had to do for this video is incredible. Hats off to you

man you are killing with the new videos, i really dig it

Liu Kang and Fei Long are the biggest well known Bruce Lee knockoffs in video games.

Would love to see a Luchador video. One of if not my favorite archetype. I’m very proud my people practically invented modern WWE

This video is great man. Salute. As someone who loves fighting games, the homies are gonna love this. Excellent job.

I love using Bruce Lee homages cause Jun Fan “Bruce” Lee actually inspired me to learn martial arts, it's my way of paying respect to the man who inspired me to work hard on my fists and legs.

I would really like to see more videos like this. And about your ranking, I already knew by the title, that Jann Lee would be 1st place. And that only because my father - who was a extremely big Bruce Lee fan - picked Jann Lee as his Main character in DoA3 (yes my father played FGs with me) only because out of one reason: "This is the best version of Jeet Kune Do in a video game"

Jann Lee was the best Fighting game Bruce Lee clone by far before they switched his voice actor after DOA4. He might not visually look the most stereotypically Bruce Lee with the haircut and all but his yells/kias are the only ones imo that sounded like they were ripped legitimately from one of Bruce’s films versus an imitation or parody, whoever did the mocap NAILED the way he moves too. From his idle animation, his overall movement and his victory screens. There are MANY VERY spot on nods and relatively accurately recreated moves from significant moments in Bruce’s films. Real ones and Bruce Lee super fans know. Jann Lee might not have the haircut but he has/had ALL of the intrinsics. DOA3 and DOA4 are like peak “they ripped Bruce right out of The Big Boss/Fist of Fury/Way of the Dragon/The Game of Death/Enter the Dragon”.

If Jackie from Virtua Fighter can be up for consideration, then I feel like K' from the King of Fighters should be too, he canonically uses Jeet Kune Do as his fighting style and uses a one-inch punch and flying kicks and his typical fighting stance appears to be the phone fingers. K' also has a shirtless costume in the KOF Maximum series which is the only way to see his physique outside of how much his jacket is open and the summer wear in KOF All Stars. Also Hon-Fu uses a flying kick in his and Yamazaki's Real Bout Fatal Fury 2 endings so he has one more point. Love the video and would love to see more.

Thank you for this 4thSnake, I needed this today.....

This was a fun video. I would definitely would like to see a luchador character ranking list in the future.

Dude the amount of effort you put in to this video deserves a sub 👍

I love your creativity. I thought about the characters I know to be Bruce Lee images in fighting games before, but the way you made this video just screams creativity.

I have very limited esperience with fighting games, and have never watched a flick with Bruce, but this video was fascinating! Here's hoping for more!

Low-key thought you'd mention Dante bcs of Cerberus and his battle cries when using it but then I realized that's all Bruce Lee homages he got

God it's amazing how well the graphics of the first 3 DOA games have aged.

Jacky Bryant has a one inch punch. It's his punch parry, which also homages the start of the fight with O'Hara in "Enter the Dragon".

Bruce Lee is the martial arts Akira bike slide

You forgot about K' from the KOF series He uses Jeet Kune Do with his flames And he definitely has a one inch punch And it states that Bruce Lee loved Black Leather clothing and sunglasses so I count that as a bonus

Although probably not a high ranking one, K' from the king of fighters is heavily based on bruce lee. He even has the one inch punch

okay we DEFINETLY need more videos like this one.

Ty for this Bruce lee , Liu kang and Marshall are my fav fighting character

If you listen to the announcer say Law's name in Tekken 1 it sounds like it was cut off further proving that he was originally called "Law The Dragon"

I always liked Jacky Bryant's version of Jeet Kune Do. Yeah he's not a Bruce Lee homage exactly but his Jeet Kune Do is fully utilized for his lighting quick and powerful style.

Yes. More break downs like this please. Bring in other genres & memorable characters. I just subbed!

REALLY enjoyed this! More, please!

K' from KOF, why because he wears a black jacket and sunglasses like Bruce Lee and that he's a badass with white hair and dark tan skin.

For bonus points, Marshall Law also has multiple moves with "Dragon" in it (dragon combo, dragon's fire, spinning dragon blow, etc), he has a customized costume in Tekken 5 where he can wear a black mask and a chauffeur hat to make it look like Kato from Green Hornet, Bruce used to work as a waiter and has some restaurant experience the same as Marshall, and I personally believe because he has a son (Forrest Law) who followed in his footsteps just like Bruce's son (Brandon Lee)

We need to see more of this type of videos, love them!!!

Fei Long's win quotes in SSF2 HD Tyrbo Remix was, "Water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend."

This is the strangest thing. I'm moving in a few days, and was just going through my Bruce Lee collection a bit not even 2 hours ago. What a strange coincidence, though of course a pleasant one. Now to see if this includes Maxi from Soul Calibur.

I think Marshall Law gets an extra point for having a son who follows in his footsteps similar to Bruce and Brandon. Also you missed Forest’s “Special Throw” in Tag 2 where if you equip the chest scars he has a finisher where he does punches similar to what Bruce did to the one guy in “The Big Boss”. Side Note: I always debated with myself if Long from Bloody Roar was a soft Bruce Lee homage.. I mean, his name literally means Dragon, his running “3” is a Fly Kick and while I don’t think it started until Bloody Roar 3 he does do Bruce Lee’s battle cries, also his outfits in Bloody Roar 1 and 2 were Bruce Lee adjacent. His draw backs though are that he fights in the Kenpo style which almost the exact opposite of Jeet Kun Do, his long hair and he transforms into a freaking tiger lol.

And also yes luchas next💯 Great vid man keep it going 👍🏿

I was worried Jacky wouldn't get a mention. VF is easily forgotten.

Even though its not technically a fighting game, it would have been nice to see Dante get a mention.

I would love to see a Fighting Game Archetypes video about luchadores next. With that said, R. Mika doesn't technically count as one but if you include her in the video, I want to see how many points she would earn toward being one.

Incredible material You need to makes more of this!!

I would LOVE to see more videos like this

You could certainly do a lot of these, between the wrestler/luchador characters, the female assassins who wear skintight clothing, the female ninja kunoichi, etc. There are a lot of stereotypes.

Ryu from Street Fighter II has a same stance from Bruce Lee. Also Ryu means Dragon in Japanese.

Wjat a cool ass video man. Must've taken a lot of work to get so much material

I literally never even thought of Hon Fu as a Bruce Clone, I just thought he was a straight Jackie Chan clone with a handful of Bruce-isms thrown in as a reference to Jackie Chan's early Bruceploitation film roles

I love Bruce lee man. Liu Kang and law are my favorites. Can you keep doing archetypes. I really enjoyed this video 👊🏽

Ufc is 1000% a fighting game i cant even take this video seriously now

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Absolutely love this type of video. I would love to see one about Jackie Chan homages

Luchadores and Sumo wrestliers would be cool to see with all the cultural significance.

I'm surprised you didn't mention Long from the Bloody Roar series. He doesn't use Jeet Kune Do but he does the flying kick, and has the high pitched screams.

Very good video snake bruce lee wasn't a big part of my childhood being born in 04 but appearently was for fighting game devs videos thanks for the video keep it up!!!! In answer to do you want to see more hell yeah man archetypes like this are so interesting I love this video!!! Whatever one you want to do next im all for it

Make this a series because I just found your channel off of this. I was planning on watching more of these then you said this is the first episode. That made my jaw drop. I'll be subscribing now.

Jan Lee is my fav, if only for how brutal his strikes feel. His 4PPPPP is godlike.

Yeah I think this sort of content is fun. Do more for something like samurai. Maybe Miyamoto Musashi clones? If any...

I hope to see more of this archetypes series, awesome job

Bruce Lee the king of all KINGS

You should do evil dark side characters next (like Evil Ryu and Devil Jin), then luchadors.

I think a video on Native American characters would be cool. I'm struggling to think of any evil NA characters or ones that deviate from the norm. BTW, you showed sumo wrestlers as Natives, but they're all Japanese. Great video, though.

Ahhhh yes…. A thorough breakdown of this was so long overdue.

watching this just makes me want to marathon bruce lee movies lol good times

Fei Long (Street Fighter) and Liu Kang (Mortal Kombat) are the best ones to honor Bruce Lee.

for me Marshall Law is the best homage to bruce lee in fighting video games

I always thought Hon Fu was more of a Jackie Chan homage than a Bruce Lee homage

I'd love to see more of this type of listing. Good stuff.