SolVanderlyn

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Boba Fett. Badass bounty hunter with weapons all over his body, particularly long range missiles and guns.

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Vile (Vava in Japanese). This dude is straight up just a purple Mandalorian. He even uses similar weapons to Boba. The only difference is his color and the fact that he has a giant suit of armor he rides around in.

This would probably get a class action lawsuit nowadays. It's like they didn't even try.

He even comes back with colors more similar to Boba in a later game.

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With The Mandalorian recently airing, it's even more blatant now that the design is more ingrained in the public mind.
 

Weiss

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You're gonna flip when you find out what the original idea for Mega Man was gonna be.
 

CypherSignal

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Geez, that's wild that that's the only iconic bit of Star Wars that MMX is inspired by. Good thing there's no other inspirations towards any of the other characters or Capcom would be in a real pickle.
 
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90's and 80s action games in general were like the wild west of blockbuster character rip-offs. Contra's Terminator and Xenomorph, etc. That one game that straight up had Godzilla in it without the rights
 

PlanetSmasher

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The irony is that VILE is a better and more interesting character than Boba Fett.
 

RochHoch

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Let's talk about all of the fighting game characters that were ripped wholesale from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure

There are quite a few of them
 

Weiss

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Let's talk about all of the fighting game characters that were ripped wholesale from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure

There are quite a few of them

SNK took it a step further with Benimuaru in KoF, where in the first game he even wears Polnareff's outfit.
 

Oliver James

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When will the vegetable farmers sue Dragon Ball, I wonder.

Anyway the boss designs and the subsequent boss powers you get on the Mega Man titles are always cool. I just wish these games weren't so dang hard.
 
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Like with L and R there's no distinction between B and V in Japan, so even though they transliterate it as "Vava" it's actually pronounced more like "Baba" which is even more blatant.
 

Mugy

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While i do thing Sigma was a great addition to MVCI, i would love to have Vile playable in a next game
 

Nessus

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Why would there be a class action lawsuit?

Class action means a bunch of people who are harmed all filing a single lawsuit together..
 

AnimaRize

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there is a big reason why they got away with it, the design is 60% different making it a new character
 

hikarutilmitt

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There are fine lines between ripping off, homaging and parodying. Vava is not the former.
 

Pharaun

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Duff McWhalen is the greatest boss name ever and I cannot be convinced otherwise. R.I.P. my boy Duff.
 

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My favorite part about this is that not only did the English localization do that for no real reason, Claire Redfield's voice actor is the one who made the decision.
Alyson's reason was "my SO was a fan of Guns N' Roses and was sad when they went on a hiatus" which I can respect since it gave us Duff McWhalen.
 

Birdie

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Japanese developers clearly ripping off popular media is one of the charms of classic video games.
 

Fularu

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It's fine, Star Wars ripped everything off of japanese and french comics anyway