History Main / BruceLeeClone

* ''Franchise/StreetFighter'': Ryu and Ken back in ''VideoGame/StreetFighterI'' are based on Bruce Lee. They were redesigned in ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'' into the beefy square jawed karate masters that we know now. Then, enter Fei Long...

* ''Franchise/StreetFighter'': Ryu and Ken back in ''VideoGame/StreetFighterI'' are based on Bruce Lee. They were redesigned ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'' into the beefy square jawed karate masters that we know now. Enter Fei Long...

* Pictured above: Fei Long from ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' comes complete with [[{{Kiai}} high-pitched shrieks]]. Shirt not included.
** Fei Long's alternate costume in ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIV'' is Bruce Lee's outfit in ''Enter the Dragon''. More than a few people who don't get the reference however, just wonder why he's wearing shorts. His newer alternate costume in ''Super Street Fighter IV'' is basically a sleeveless Kato costume.
** Fei Long's status as a Bruce Lee clone is lampshaded in his English ending of ''Super Street Fighter II'', where he acknowledges that he'll never be able to match up to "The Great One" [[ExpyCoexistence if he simply imitates him]], and leaves film to find his own path (the Japanese version makes no reference to Lee). Then again, by the time ''Street Fighter IV'' rolls around, he's making movies again.
** In a video, the composer Street Fighter V composer Daniel Lindholm, [[https://www.eventhubs.com/news/2022/may/08/sf5-composer-fei-long-never would have said that Capcom should no longer use the character]], after several articles, [[https://www.eventhubs.com/news/2022/may/08/sf5-composer-fei-long-never/ he denied the statement and Bruce Lee's family stated that they would not have complained to Capcom about the character]].
** [[VideoGame/StreetFighterEX Vulcano Rosso]] subverts this as, while he directly copies the signature Bruce Lee-style flying kick, he shares nothing else in common with the trope's source inspiration (similar to how [[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters K' and Kula]] use Jeet Kune Do techniques like the one-inch punch despite distinctly ''not'' drawing from Bruce Lee in design). However, since he greatly resembles Maxi from ''[[VideoGame/SoulSeries Soulcalibur]]'' (who, as seen below, ''is'' a Bruce Lee Clone), he's technically one by proxy.

* Jann Lee of ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive''. His backstory says he invoked this trope: tired of growing up weak and being pushed around, he idolized Bruce Lee and decided to model himself after him in order to become stronger.

* The UsefulNotes/AmstradCPC version of ''[[VideoGame/BadDudes Dragon Ninja]]'' had a Bruce Lee clone posing in front of a Chinese dragon on the title screen, for no better reason than the title.

* ''China Warrior'', a ''VideoGame/KungFuMaster'' clone for the UsefulNotes/TurboGrafx16, starred another shirtless Bruce Lee clone named Wang, and had a recurring boss clearly modeled on Creator/JackieChan.

** Fei Long's status as a Bruce Lee clone is lampshaded in his English ending of ''Super Street Fighter II'', where he acknowledges that he'll never be able to match up to "The Great One" if he simply imitates him, and leaves film to find his own path (the Japanese version makes no reference to Lee). Then again, by the time ''Street Fighter IV'' rolls around, he's making movies again.

* ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'' has 2 of these, Marshall Law and his son Forrest though Forrest strangely resembles another well known Bruce Lee imitator Dragon Lee of South Korea.

** Tekken seems to have a [[Film/BladeTrilogy Wesley Snipes]] clone too: Raven. Really, Tekken often bases its characters on existing culture. And who can blame 'em?

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* Bruce [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Li]] (real name: Ho Chung-tao) was marketed by the Creator/ShawBrothers themselves as Bruce Lee's true successor, benefiting from the fact he debuted before the others and was already a highly respected martial artist on his own right. His films such as ''Fist of Fury II'' and ''III'' served as unoffical sequels to Bruce Lee classics, were of much higher production values, and were the most widely distributed and most successful of the bunch. Growing frustrated with his marketing gimmick and being unable to find roles outside of it, he quit acting in 1990. In his own words from a 1995 interview, "I could act like him but I could never be him."

* Especially in the wake of Lee's death, exploitation kung fu filmmakers would market any martial artist who vaguely resembled him as a "Bruce Lee clone" (e.g. Dragon Lee, Bruce [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Li]], and Bruce Le). {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in the B-Movie ''Film/TheClonesOfBruceLee'', which starred ''[[RuleOfThree three]]'' of the "clones" as literal clones. And there was also another figurative clone who didn't play a clone in the film.

* In a similar vein, Creator/SonnyChiba was at first considered just [[ThePoorMansSubstitute a tasteless clone]] of the recently deceased Lee before he came into his own.

* Tatsumi Fujinami only resembled Bruce Lee superficially, but was compared to Lee in his foreign tenures, and according to him, people actually asked him often if he was Lee's relative and were afraid of working with him in case he felt like beating them up. Ironically, while many Japanese wrestlers do hail from martial arts backgrounds, Fujinami doesn't, and he once confessed he has never been in a real fight in his entire life.

* In a similar vein, Sonny Chiba was at first considered just [[ThePoorMansSubstitute a tasteless clone]] of the recently deceased Lee before he came into his own.
* Creator/AlexanderFuSheng was probably more a successor to Bruce Lee than Jackie Chan. Fu Sheng possessed Lee's leading man good looks, charisma, and was Hong Kong's biggest star after Lee's death and before the rise of Creator/JackieChan and Creator/SammoHung. Unfortunately, his life seemed to mirror Lee's. Like Lee, he died young and in the prime of his career. He was killed in a car accident at age 28. Ironically, after Bruce's death, Fu Sheng had moved into his old house in Hong Kong which some say was cursed.

* ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'': The card [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Chu-Ske_the_Mouse_Fighter Chu-Ske the Mouse Fighter]] is designed to resemble Bruce Lee.

* Especially in the wake of Lee's death, exploitation kung fu filmmakers would market any martial artist who vaguely resembled him as a "Bruce Lee clone" (e.g. "Dragon Lee", Bruce [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Li]]). {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in the B-Movie ''Film/TheClonesOfBruceLee'', which starred ''[[RuleOfThree three]]'' of the "clones" as literal clones.
** And there was also another figurative clone who didn't play a clone in the film.

* Bruce [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Li]] (real name: Ho Chung-tao) was marketed by the Creator/ShawBrothers themselves as Bruce Lee's true successor, benefiting from the fact he debuted before the others, his films were of much higher production values, were the most widely distributed, and were the most succesful of the bunch (being helped by the fact that Bruce Li was already a highly respected martial artist on his own right). Growing frustrated with his marketing gimmick and being unable to find roles outside of it, he quit acting in 1990. In his own words from a 1995 interview, "I could act like him but I could never be him."

* Creator/JackieChan was intended to become a Bruce Lee clone, and in fact worked as a stunt man on several of his films. He recalled many [[ItWillNeverCatchOn were dismissive of Bruce's style at first]], as his action scenes were much slower and raw compared to the faster paced flurries common at the time "[[MookChivalry They all attack him one at a time]]." But he did recognize Bruce's style placed [[TheCastShowOff more emphasis on the talent of the performer]]. Chan's Chinese stage name Cheng Long means "becoming the dragon", and Chan had to fight tooth and nail to introduce his style of slapstick action comedy, based on his upbringing in the Peking Opera. Around the same time Creator/JetLi entered the scene, but it took over 20 years for them to make a movie together (abandoning Chan's slapstick for more straight combat style) called ''Film/TheForbiddenKingdom'' ([[NeverTrustATrailer also starting a white guy]] who [[ThisLoserIsYou learned all the wrong lessons from Lee-type films]]).

* Especially in the wake of Lee's death, exploitation kung fu filmmakers would market any martial artist who vaguely resembled him as a "Bruce Lee clone" (e.g. "Dragon Lee", Bruce [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Li]]). {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in the B-Movie ''Film/TheClonesOfBruceLee'', which starred ''[[RuleOfThree three]]'' of the "clones" as [[CloningBlues literal clones.]]

%% * Long from the Chinese online fighting game ''VideoGame/XuanDouZhiWang''. [[spoiler: [[CloningBlues Literally.]]]]

* "Bruce Meow" in ''VideoGame/ShadowHearts: From The New World'' is a blatant parody; then again, they also include [[Film/TheKarateKid Cat Morita]], among others...

* Afghan martial artist and actor Abbas Alizada gained [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KprhIkDQ38M international fame]] for his [[{{Pun}} striking]] resemblance to Bruce Lee, though the resurgence of the Taliban in his native country forced Alizada to flee the country with his family.

* ''ComicBook/ShangChi, ComicBook/MasterOfKungFu'' is a Bruce Lee Clone at the initiative of Paul Gulacy, with [[DependingOnTheArtist some artists]] even giving him Lee's facial features. The homage was furthered during Creator/WarrenEllis' ''ComicBook/SecretAvengers'' stint, where Shang-Chi even wore a black and red variant of Lee's iconic ''Game of Death'' tracksuit. (ComicBook/{{Ultimate|Marvel}} Shang-Chi, by contrast, is a Creator/JackieChan Clone -- his ''Ultimate Marvel Team-Up'' appearance even features Uncle from ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures''.) In the film ''Film/ShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings'', many scenes were inspired by Jackie Chan, Brad Allan (1973-2021) and Andy Cheng, choreographers who worked with Jackie Chan, also collaborated on the film.

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' has "Hitmonlee", a humanoid Pokemon known for it's kicking abilities. There's also "Hitmonchan" named after Jackie Chan.

* The above examples aside, comic books have pretty much {{averted|Trope}} this trope... by [[http://www.comicvine.com/bruce-lee/29-35606/ putting Bruce in comics years after he died.]] A Malibu's six-issue miniseries titled, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin appropriately]], ''Bruce Lee''. Her daughter, Shannon Lee and Jeff Kline wrote a series for Magnetic Press, Shannon also wrote the one-shot Bruce Lee: The Walk Of The Dragon. Bruce Lee also had a newspaper strip in the 1980s, it would initially be illustrated by veterans Milton Caniff and Noel Sickles, however it was eventually written by Sharman DiVono and illustrated by Fran Matera and Dick Kulpa. In the 1970s, Creator/JackKirby proposed a Bruce Lee comic book, but it was not approved, he took advantage of some pages in Phantom Force (1993).

* Bruce [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Li]] (real name: Ho Chung-tao) was marketed by the ShawBrothers themselves as Bruce Lee's true successor, benefiting from the fact he debuted before the others, his films were of much higher production values, were the most widely distributed, and were the most succesful of the bunch (being helped by the fact that Bruce Li was already a highly respected martial artist on his own right). Growing frustrated with his marketing gimmick and being unable to find roles outside of it, he quit acting in 1990. In his own words from a 1995 interview, "I could act like him but I could never be him."

* Kamen Rider Meteor from ''Series/KamenRiderFourze'' mimics Bruce Lee's cries, stances, occasional moves and even the "thumb across the nose" taunt. He's even capable of using the one-inch punch which he used both for the regular Zodiarts, [[spoiler: and to also kill Kamen Rider Fourze to get his friend back.]]

* ''[[Series/WonderWoman1975 Wonder Woman]]'': In "Going, Going, Gone", Wonder Woman faces off against a real Dragon clone from TheSeventies. His moves were very showy breaking of boxes, screams of "Hiyahh!", high and wide kicks, and two very clear and very ineffective punches that bounced harmlessly off her amazonian abs. OhCrap

* Dante of ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'' fame exhibits these quirks in [[VideoGame/DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening the third game]] when wielding the tripartite [[AnIcePerson ice]] nunchaku Cerberus. One of his attacks (Satellite) even has Dante produce a high-pitched "WOOOOO-''AAAAAAAA!''" {{kiai}}. The RapidFireFisticuffs, however, were included as part of his moveset with [[PowerFist Beo]][[ArmedLegs wulf]].
** ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry5'' sees Dante receive a new Cerberus Devil Arm to replace the original (which was broken in the game's prequel novel ''Before the Nightmare''), this time formed from the king of the Cerberus tribe, possessing [[FireIceLightning three different elemental affinities]], and with the ability to [[MorphWeapon assume the form]] of a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-section_staff three-section staff]] and a more "standard fare" [[MartialArtsStaff bo staff]] in addition to the default nunchaku. [[ContinuityNod The very first thing Dante does when showing off with King Cerberus?]] Flail around his nunchaku and belt out the FunnyBruceLeeNoises, which feature much more prominently in-game when players get to use the weapon for themselves.

* In ''Frank Bruno's Boxing'' for the ZX Spectrum, there is a clearly Bruce-Lee-inspired character named Fling Long Chop. And, since the game was a rip-off of ''Super VideoGame/PunchOut!!'' (see above), that made Fling Long Chop a rip-off of a rip-off.

* Chie Satonaka from ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'' has the haircut, fights using kicks, and says things like "[[DontThinkFeel Don't think, feel.]]" and "[[FunnyBruceLeeNoises WAAAAHTAAAH!]]". Her persona, Tomoe, wears the famous yellow tracksuit from ''Game of Death''. Being an outspoken fan of kung-fu flicks, it makes sense in-story and in-universe.
** In the UpdatedRerelease, ''Persona 4 Golden'', you can acquire a costume that is a direct shout-out to Lee, it's the previously-mentioned tracksuit, sneakers and all. It even changes her victory pose to a stereotypical Kung-Fu kickflip.

** Tekken seems to have a [[Film/{{Blade}} Wesley Snipes]] clone too: Raven. Really, Tekken often bases its characters on existing culture. And who can blame 'em?

* Hun from ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'' bears a striking resemblance to Bruce Lee, including physical appearance, fighting style and high-pitched shrieks. Hun emerged as a blond brute in the ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003'', his 2012 version resembles Bruce Lee in appearance and his name sounds like the Chinese surname Han.

* Bruce [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Li]]) (real name: Ho Chung-tao) was marketed by the ShawBrothers themselves as Bruce Lee's true successor, benefiting from the fact he debuted before the others, his films were of much higher production values, were the most widely distributed, and were the most succesful of the bunch (being helped by the fact that Bruce Li was already a highly respected martial artist on his own right). Growing frustrated with his marketing gimmick and being unable to find roles outside of it, he quit acting in 1990. In his own words from a 1995 interview, "I could act like him but I could never be him."