After covering so much:
It's time to go out with a BANG.
Fist of the North Star
Hayate - Savage Reign vs Kenshiro
The King of Fighters '95
Heidern vs The Colonel
When Kyo (or the Japan team) defeat a brainwashed Saisyu, we get a unique cut scene, which is stunningly similar to a sequence with Kenshiro and Rei, prior to fighting Raoh.
Kenshiro: You bastard!
Kyo: Rugal, you slime!
Unlike Rei, Saisyu is shown to have survived.
As a side note, dude in question is immediately comparable to Claude/Zan in Irem's Undercover Cops.
Dragon Ball Z
Blue Mary - Fatal Fury 3: Road to the Final Victory vs Android 18
Master Roshi
Tung Fu Rue (powered up) - Fatal Fury
Chung - Savage Reign
Miscellany
Heavy D - The King of Fighters '94 vs Colonel Shikishima - Akira
Takuma Sakazaki vs Mas Oyama
Ryo's father founded the fictional Kyokugenryu Karate, which is a nod to Oyama's own Kyokushinkaikan.
White¹ - Real Bout Fatal Fury Special: Dominated Mind vs Alex - A Clockwork Orange
¹End boss is exclusive to Japanese only PS1 port of Real Bout Special.
Duck King - Fatal Fury vs 2P - Forgotten Worlds
Both and/or either may have been based on:
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| Bonebreaker - The Uncanny X-Men #229 - May 1988 |
I don't know anybody who likes him (as an action star or person), but I do get the Steven Seagal thing.
Southtown kingpin resembles King in first-person beat 'em up The Super Spy.
Just look at those outrageous pantaloons.
Dragon vs Bruce Lee
Brocken vs M. Bison/Vega
The deal breaker.
World Heroes 2
²Debuted in World Heroes 2 Jet.
Eve - Shin Megami Tensei NINE vs Freeman⁴ - Garou: Mark of the Wolves
Perfectly understandable.
Another King would debut in Art of Fighting.
I may be wrong, but geezer rings loud bells of Gustafson in Bloodsport.
World Heroes
Most characters are fictional, but some are based on actual historical figures, such as Rasputin (Grigori Rasputin) and J. Carn (Genghis Khan).
Muscle Power vs Hulk Hogan
Dragon vs Bruce Lee
Brocken vs M. Bison/Vega
The deal breaker.
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| Brocken Jr. - Kinnikuman |
Gee Gus is able to shapeshift at will (like Mortal Kombat's Shang Tsung), but is basically the T-1000 from Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
World Heroes 2
Dio vs Ikuro Hashizawa aka Baoh
Multiples
For reasons that will soon become obvious, portraits are from World Heroes Perfect.
Choi Bounge (The King of Fighters) combines Jack² and Master Roshi.
²Debuted in World Heroes 2 Jet.
Alfred - Real Bout Fatal Fury 2: The Newcomers vs Hanzou³
³Before translators fucked up, ADK's version of Ryu was originally Hanzo.
Final round
Now we get a bit crazy.
G-Mantle vs V - V for Vendetta
Mixing shit up.
⁴Unrelated to Yō Hinomura, aka Crying Freeman.
Whether coincidence or not, British serial killer smacks of:
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| Remy - Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike - Fight for the Future |
Finally.
Benimaru - The King of Fighters
It's widely speculated that geezer is modelled on Jean-Pierre Polnareff of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure fame.
Perfectly understandable.
But I'm suggesting something way more obscure.
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| Erg - X-Men: The Animated Series - S1 E5 (January 1993) |
Dude reappears in the fifth episode of X-Men '97.
After some professional editing...
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| Thank you! |
Fucking AMAZING, right?
For shiggles, hair was shorter in debut.
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| Power Pack Volume 1 - issue 12 (July 1985) |
Acta est fabula.
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