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-> ''The figure stepped forward into view, trodding carelessly on top of the downed Dragons as he went. He looked a lot like Bruce Lee, but with large aviator shades, and tattoos of dragons covering his arms and chest.''
-->-- ''Fanfic/SameDifference'', "[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/SameDifferenceChapter57IsThisADate Is This a Date?]]"

When you want a badass for your series, who better to use than [[Creator/BruceLee the Dragon]] himself? Members of this trope love flashy, [[ArtisticLicenseMartialArts unrealistic moves]] and may have a penchant for [[{{Kiai}} high-pitched screams like "WATAAAAA!"]] and [[FunnyBruceLeeNoises other sounds]] while fighting. One-inch punches, bowl-cuts, [[Film/GameOfDeath yellow jumpsuits]] and nunchaku are also common, despite Lee himself devoting his life to stripping away such extravagances, mysticism, and inefficient techniques in martial arts.

Members of this trope may have honed their bodies to superhuman levels through relentless training, [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower Charles Atlas style]]. May have a penchant for [[ShirtlessScene not wearing a shirt]] and stretching out their ribs to flaunt their well-deserved muscles. They'll also have a similar name, either with Lee, Li, and/or a reference to the word for dragon, Long.

Character is often a BadassNormal, while providing the same kind of humor as an ElvisImpersonator.

In film, the use of Bruce Lee lookalikes was common after the man's untimely death when, [[EnforcedTrope naturally, the real Lee was no longer available]], and films with Bruce Lee lookalikes are often bundled under the subgenre of "Bruceploitation."

Lesser seen but a still common sub-trope is the Creator/JackieChan clone; a mop-haired, laid-back fighter who tends to incorporate either drunken boxing or the environment in his fighting style. These are almost always based on Chan's performance in ''Film/DrunkenMaster''.

In a Japanese work, this trope may occur because AllChinesePeopleKnowKungFu. A SubTrope of FountainOfExpies.
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[[folder:Advertising]]
* Mr. Dragon from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=o2hQGOOR5g0#t=15 this Japanese Fanta ad]].
* This [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7hKql6LD50 Levi's ad]] directed by Jonathan Glazer made as an homage to Bruce Lee films.
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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* From ''Anime/BakutenShootBeyblade'', we have Bruce, a boy from Hong Kong who had ambitions of joining the Bái Hǔ Zú, but had to let that go. He knows Kung-Fu, has a ShirtlessScene, wears his hair in a minor adjustment of a bowl-cut, and has nunchaku as his custom shooter.
* Power Joe from ''Anime/BravePoliceJDecker'' qualifies, with his stances, cries and preference towards using nunchaku (his toy even included one!). From a Japanese syllabic standpoint, his name is even based on Bruce's.
* Spike from ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' has a love for the 20th century icon, and bases his style on Jeet Kune Do. He states that he is a follower of Bruce's brand of philosophy. He apparently has a knowledge of nunchaku, but never used them in actual fights.
* One appears very early in ''Manga/DragonBall'' during the 21st Strongest Under The Heavens Tournament, facing off against Krillin. After the latter [[NoSell no-sold]] a flurry of kicks from him, he promptly quits. Amusingly, this was also the tournament where Master Roshi first enters [[CharlieBrownFromOuttaTown under his "Jackie Chun" persona]]. Goku faces another one in a street fight. He takes a beating, but refuses to give up until one of Goku's missed kicks breaks a brick wall, which then scares him into surrendering.
* Shin of ''Manga/{{Eyeshield 21}}'' is a football player version of Bruce Lee, though he doesn't make any high pitched noises. None the less, his signature "Trident Tackle" looks more like a martial arts move than anything legal in a real football game.
* The TropeCodifier (in anime, anyways) would be Kenshiro of ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'', although his [[TouchOfDeath fighting]] [[YourHeadASplode style]] is ''very'' different from Lee's. However, his [[FunnyBruceLeeNoises high pitched shrieks]] are spot on. Those are an invention of the anime, and almost certainly a deliberate invocation of this trope. He also has a ''lot'' more "[[RapidFireFisticuffs ATATATATATATA!!]]" moments in the anime than the manga. He also looks a lot more like Lee in the original anime.
* ''Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa'' has the Martial Arts All-Stars, a group of five different [[MonsterOfTheWeek Monsters of the Week]] that Kirby takes on in the second part of the two-part Snack Attack episode, with each one specializing in a different class of martial arts. His first opponent out of all five is Kung Fu Lee, a figurine monster armed with a pair of nunchuks who, just like his name suggests, specializes in kung fu. Guess who he's based on?
* A nunchaku-wielding martial artist malcontent from ''VideoGame/{{Medabots}}'', rather transparently. He had cropped black hair and the tracksuit and everything.
* Might Gai and Rock Lee (who shares Bruce Lee's birthday) of ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' come complete with bowl-cuts and ugly jumpsuits. Both even use nunchaku, and both do the "ACHOOOOO" sound at least once. Also, in the English dub at least, Gai sounds a little like Music/ElvisPresley sometimes, being one of a couple characters to take influences from both. Both Bruce Lee and Rock Lee also suffered a major injury, which they were expected to never recover from, but managed to do so.
* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', Bepo the talking, kickboxing Polar Bear has the kicks and the shouts, moreso in the Anime, but of course being a Bear, he doesn't look too much like Lee. The jumpsuit is also shared between him and the other members of Trafalgar Law's crew. There's also Sanji, whose kick-based fighting style incorporates Savate and Taekwondo much like Lee's Jeet Kune Do and the Chapter 710 color spread even [[https://i.imgur.com/2UMFMzC.png depicts]] Sanji wielding nunchaku and wearing Lee's yellow jumpsuit from ''Film/GameOfDeath''.
* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' has "Hitmonlee", a humanoid Pokemon known for it's kicking abilities. There's also "Hitmonchan" named after Jackie Chan.
* Lee Pai-Long from ''Manga/ShamanKing'' is what would happen if Bruce Lee was killed by a [[TheTriadsAndTheTongs Triad society]], chopped up into little pieces, and brought back to life as a ''[[ChineseVampire jiangshi]]''.
* Inosanto Dan from ''Manga/TenjhoTenge'' is an incredibly blatant Bruce Lee copy: he looks like him, he screams like him, he dresses in "Game Of Death"-style jumpsuits, he uses nunchaku, he's the president of the "Jun Fan Kung Fu Club", and so forth. His name is taken from Dan Inosanto, one of Bruce Lee's top students.
* ''Anime/TigerAndBunny'' has Pao-lin Huang/Dragon Kid, a pint-sized Chinese martial artist superhero that even goes around wearing the "Game Of Death" jumpsuit in her spare time.
* Ryu Harumaki from the gag manga ''Urayasu Tekkin Kazoku''. He is the main characters' school teacher, obsessed with martial arts fighting even wearing the iconic jumpsuit, and speaks with a verbal tic using "-cho" in each sentence. But he's a dimwit unable to teach class, very weak that you can compare him to [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Mr. Burns]], and living in PerpetualPoverty. He's pretty much one the series many ''[[ButtMonkey Butt Monkeys]]''.
* Lord Petora from ''Manga/WeddingPeach'', who loves his "Achoo!" screams. He also gets beaten in a fight by [[{{Tomboy}} Hinagiku]]. [[BadassNormal Without]] [[MagicalGirl transforming]].
* One appeared in the [[Manga/YuGiOh manga]] and "Season Zero" of ''[[Anime/YuGiOhFirstAnimeSeries Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'', an extremely ArrogantKungFuGuy and bully who idolized Bruce Lee, and claimed to be able to perform the one inch punch. He [[DisproportionateRetribution angrily beat up Yugi for beating him in a video game]], but was taken down by Jounouchi.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* Creator/{{Disney}} Italy being Disney Italy, they put a Bruce Lee clone in ''ComicBook/DoubleDuck'' as The Agency's self-defense instructor. One that warns you he's going to attack with a punch, give you a flying kick, and then warn you to "'''Never''' trust your opponent". Hey, at least this one is a CombatPragmatist as the original.
* Kefong from ''ComicBook/TheIntimates'', who even wears a ''Game of Death'' style jumpsuit in his first year (and one with the colors reversed in the second). He's also immune to psychic assault because he is ''that zen''. He's also a bit of a subversion in that he's literally always relaxed and calm - and identifies his role model as ''Dean Martin''.
* ''Prime-8s'' features Chimp Chan Z, an intelligent chimpanzee who was altered to roughly human size. He's an expert martial artist who wields nunchaku and has a black stripe down the sides of his yellow uniform. He becomes a movie star when the Prime-8s disband, and he even has the hair.
* Dashiell "Dash" Bad Horse from ''Comicbook/{{Scalped}}'' trained in Jeet Kune Do and even uses ''nunchaku'' to beat up criminals. His childhood room has a Bruce Lee poster.
* ''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'' version. 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.
* One issue of the ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' comics had Jedi Master Bruu Jun Fan. On top of his Asian appearance and distinctive fighting style, "Jun Fan" is also Lee's chinese name (like many Hong Kong natives, he had both a Western and a Chinese first name).
* Strange as it may seem, Michelangelo of ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' started out as this: Kevin Eastman thought, "If Bruce Lee were an anthropomorphic animal, what's the most ridiculous animal he could be?", concluded that it was a turtle, and drew a picture of a turtle in a Bruce Lee pose, wielding a nunchaku. He and Peter Laird then began drawing pictures of turtles wielding other martial arts weapons, and the rest is history.
* JudgeDredd antagonist [[Creator/StanLee Stan]] [[PunnyName Lee]], also known as Deathfist, a bare-handed martial artist turned [[ProfessionalKiller assassin]]. One of the few humans to defeat Ol' Stoneface one-on-one.
* 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).
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[[folder:Film -- Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanSoulOfTheDragon'' did a RaceLift on ComicBook/RichardDragon, turning him from a MightyWhitey to a man of Asian descent that looks just like Bruce Lee. He even does Lee's famous BattleStrip during the finale of the movie. Dragon's voice was made by Creator/MarkDacascos.
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[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
* 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 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.
** ''The Dragon Lives Again'' is another notable Bruceploitation film starring Bruce Leong, which has Bruce going to [[TheUnderworld the Chinese Underworld]], where he teams up with ComicStrip/{{Popeye}} and [[Series/KungFu1972 Kwai Chang Caine]] to fight off Creator/ClintEastwood, Literature/{{Dracula}}, Franchise/JamesBond, and other popular 70s characters who wants to overthrow the King of the Underworld.
** It was also lampshaded in the mockumentary ''Finishing the Game'' about producers trying to get a replacement for Bruce in ''Game of Death''. One of the actors going for the role is named Breeze Loo and he stars in some familiar-sounding kung fu movies like Fists of Fuhrer.
** Sometimes people would become Bruce Lee Clones without their knowledge, as their films would be repackaged in non-asian markets to cash in on Bruce. The most notable example is the South Korean martial arts film ''The Stranger'', which was repackaged as ''Bruce Lee Fights Back From The Grave'', and its star, Taekwondo grandmaster Jun Chong, was rechristened "Bruce K.L. Lea".
* Bruce ''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 in 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."
* Creator/JetLi is generally considered to be the true successor to Bruce Lee, being renowned for his film presence and fighting ability rather than merely trying to imitate him. While Bruce's influence created the chop socky style of kung fu movies in the 70's, Jet Li helped to build the classical {{Wuxia}} genre in the 80's and 90's. Jet Li played Chen Zhen in Film/FistOfLegend, the remake of Film/FistOfFury starring Bruce Lee. In 1996, he starred in Film/BlackMask, adaptation of the {{Manhua}} of the same name by Li Chi-Tak, who also pays tribute to Kato Radio/TheGreenHornet and in Film/Fearless2006 played Huo Yuanjia, a real character and master of the fictional Chen Zhen.
* Creator/JackieChan was initially marketed as a Bruce Lee clone, and in fact worked as a stunt man on several of his films before getting his big break in the sequel ''New Fist of Fury''. 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]]).
** While working on one of Lee's films, Lee accidentally hit him square in the face with a staff. As soon as the director called "cut", Lee ran back to check on Chan, and was very apologetic whenever he ran into Chan for the rest of the shoot. According to Chan, he felt fine cause he was young and invincible. But when Lee apologized, he played it up cause he was getting attention from his idol.
** Chan actually gets his neck snapped on-camera by Lee in ''Film/EnterTheDragon''. It happens during the underground fight scene: Lee wraps up Chan's arm, kicks a random mook in the face, then the camera zooms in on Lee's face as he delivers the coup de grace.
** In Jackie's early career he was instructed to be a Bruce Lee clone while filming during his youth. Chan wasn't comfortable with the hyper-serious mannerisms and didn't think them credible when performed by a teen, so he began doing the exact opposite to differentiate himself: "Bruce Lee kick high, I kick low. When he not smiling, always smiling. He can one-punch break the wall; after I break the wall, I hurt. I do the funny face." Chan credits his early rise in popularity to breaking away from the Bruceploitation that plagued the martial arts movie market.
* Creator/DonnieYen played Lee's character in ''Film/LegendOfTheFistTheReturnOfChenZhen'', and he himself resembles Lee more than a bit: he brings a mad amount of aggression to his characters, knows how to be goofy as well, and uses grappling and mixed martial arts, a side of Lee none of his clones retained.
* In a similar vein to Chan, Creator/SonnyChiba 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, being 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.
* Creator/MarkDacascos might actually be a ''Creator/BrandonLee'' clone.
* ''Enter the Fat Dragon'' stars Creator/SammoHung as a Bruce Lee fan who, in one scene, is cast as a mook in one of Lee's films. Unfortunately, "Bruce Lee" is really just a lookalike cashing in on Lee's name, and when Hung points that out, "Bruce" strikes him, then jokes about how slow Sammo is. Sammo then proceeds to deliberately mess up the fight scene by kicking the fake's ass, along with everyone else in the room, proving that he's a far superior Bruce Lee clone than that guy will ever be. The film itself is a parody of ''Film/WayOfTheDragon'', so Sammo Hung is himself a clone in that respect too.
* Leroy Green a.k.a. [[PunnyName Bruce Leroy]] from ''Film/TheLastDragon''. It should be noted that only the fighting style and name was taken from Bruce Lee. The character was an African American.
* Empty Hand from ''Film/ShaolinSoccer'', right down to the bowl cut and black-striped yellow jumpsuit. In fact, his actor, Danny Chan Kwok-kwan, would go on to star as Bruce Lee himself in ''The Legend of Bruce Lee'' and the ''Film/IpManFilmSeries''.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* Trong Tchen from ''[[Literature/JetlagTravelGuides Phaic Tăn]]'', a kickboxing champion who starred in a number of action films, including a movie adaptation of Theatre/{{Hamlet}}.
* In ''Men'', Yolo is an ''actual'' clone of Bruce Lee, which is ironic since his name is an abbreviation for "You only live once."
* A DownplayedTrope example is in the ''Literature/RedRoom'' urban fantasy series by Creator/CTPhipps. Derek Hawthorne is a rules-breaking half-dragon martial artist and agent for an Illuminati-esque conspiracy. Notably, Derek isn't ''that'' similar but [[InvokedTrope invoked this trope]] as he lives by the philosophy of Jeet Kune Do and openly states his admiration for the man on multiple occasions.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* Three episodes of ''Series/FamilyMatters'' had Steve Urkel becoming ''Bruce Lee Urkel''.
* 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/Warrior2019'' is based on Lee's writings, and so has two. There's [[AntiHero Ah Sahm]] and [[NobleTopEnforcer Li Yong]], who both tend to mimick Lee's body language and fighting style.
* ''Series/{{Wonder Woman|1975}}'': 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
--> '''Wonder Woman:''' ''(Standing over the defeated man)'' This really hasn't developed into a very good day, has it?
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[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
* Wrestling/TatsumiFujinami 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 backgrounds, Fujinami doesn't, and he once confessed he has never been in a real fight in his entire life.
* Wrestling/SatoruSayama, an avid martial artist aside from a wrestler, used to play a Bruce Lee clone, Sammy Lee, officially billed as Bruce's cousin. He came out wearing the famous yellow suit, wrestled with a lot of kicks, and carried a kendo stick as a weapon (ironically, a weapon the real Lee never used). Wrestling/AkiraMaeda later joined him as another cousin called Quick-Kick Lee.
* Wrestling/UltimoDragon, when he was first starting out in Mexico, was billed as the last student trained by Bruce Lee before he died (hence the name, which translates as "Last Dragon"). Basically, he was a luchador Bruce clone, though he has broadened his style since then.
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'': The card [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Chu-Ske_the_Mouse_Fighter Chu-Ske the Mouse Fighter]] is an obvious parody of Bruce Lee.
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[[folder:Toys]]
* Quick Kick from ''Franchise/GIJoe'' qualified with his shirtlessness, baggy kung fu pants and nunchaku (although this was largely ignored by the cartoon, and slightly less so by the comic), but more recent Joe media and toys really pushed it even further, with comics having him ape Bruce's moves and stances, and his 2010 action figure sporting the Onitsuka Tigers and yellow nunchaku from ''Film/GameOfDeath'' and the claw wounds on the chest and abdomen from ''Film/EnterTheDragon''.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* Ai Rin from ''VideoGame/AnarchyReigns'' is another rare female example. Her default color scheme looks exactly like Bruce Lee's tracksuit, and she fights with laser nun-chucks called Huanglong. Which actually translates to "Yellow Dragon."
* VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}} is a rare female example once you give her the Gun-chucks, Sai-Fung. When doing the five punch combo, she even does the high-pitched shrieks and "ACHOOOO!" for extra measure. The point is driven home when you realize that Sai-Fung is actually one of Bruce Lee's old nicknames and buy Sai-Fung's costume set.
* Daigo from the doujin game ''[[VideoGame/BigBangBeat Big Bang Beat: 1st Impression]]''. He wears a (blue and white) tracksuit and has nearly the same hair (barring the two devil-horn style cowlicks, and the fact that his hair's red). One of his alternate color schemes has more... appropriate colors for both. And his fighting style, down to the yelling, is a 1:1 match, as well.
* Ryu from ''VideoGame/BurningFight'' wears an orange jumpsuit, has a fighting style based on roundhouse kicks, flying kicks and RapidFireFisticuffs, and [[MeaningfulName is named after the Japanese word for "dragon."]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'': Jon Talbain busts out nunchaku and similar Lee-ish poses for his taunt and win poses, shares a few flying kicks with Lee, and has howls that sound an awful lot like Lee's famous yells, although he bears no physical resemblance to him in either form. Although in human form, Talbain rocks a Kung Fu outfit complete with pajamas and slippers, and in both forms has a relatively lean-but-skinny body. He's definitely one of the less obvious Bruce Lee references and perhaps the most unique.
%% * The shirtless Stage 2 boss from the Creator/{{Sega}} BeatEmUp ''D.D. Crew''.
* ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive'' has Jann Lee, a shouting Jeet Kune Do practitioner who wields a pair of nunchaku and can even wear Bruce's ''Game of Death'' tracksuit as an alternate costume. 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.
* 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.
%%* The star of the Astro Fight MV in the ''VideoGame/{{DJMAX}}'' series.
* ''VideoGame/DoubleDragon'' :
** Billy and Jimmy Lee are a more subtle example. They don't look much Bruce at first, but they share his surname and their fighting style is called "Sou-Setsu-Ken" or the Fist of Twin Interception, a nod to Bruce's style, the "Way of the Intercepting Fist". Also, Billy's name comes from Billy Lo, Bruce Lee's character in ''Game of Death'' and on the cover artwork of ''Double Dragon Advance'', Billy and Jimmy mimic Bruce Lee's promotional still with Creator/ChuckNorris from ''Return of the Dragon''.
** The arcade version of ''Double Dragon 3'' has a more blatant clone named "Li Cheng-Long", whose name is a reference to both, Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan.
** Billy and Jimmy's fighting stance in the SNES and GBA versions is actually the JKD stance.
** ''Super/Return of Double Dragon'' has the DualBoss Chen Long-Fu & Chen Long-Biao, named after Jackie Chan's Cantonese screen name.
* The Platform/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.
* Chin Wo from ''VideoGame/EternalChampions: Challenge from the Dark Side'' is one in appearance, but not in playstyle, making use of monkey kung fu, acupuncture needles and elemental special moves.
* Jet Chan from ''VideoGame/EvilGenius'' is clearly Bruce Lee by appearance, though obviously his name is a reference to Jet Li and Jackie Chan. He is also ThatOneBoss.
* Kim Kaphwan from ''VideoGame/FatalFury'' and ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'' performs a Bruce Lee-esque {{Kiai}} when performing any variation of his [[LimitBreak Hou'ou Kyaku]] ("[[CallingYourAttacks Hou'ou Kyaku!]] '''[[SpamAttack ATATATATATATA!!]]''' '''[[Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar WATAAAAA!!!]]'''"). His [[VitriolicBestBuds snarky, friendly rival]] Jhun Hoon and disciples May Lee and Chae Lim belt out a similar war cry as well. The subversion here is that all of the aforementioned characters are Korean Taekwondokas [[JusticeWillPrevail who are arbiters of]] '''[[MemeticMutation JUSTICE!]]'''
* Hon Fu from the ''VideoGame/FatalFury'' series is partially based on Lee (with the nunchaku and all), but mostly on Jackie Chan, to whom he bears an uncanny likeness for a reason (also due to him being more of a LethalJokeCharacter). Cheng Sinzan might be partially based on Sammo Hung.
* The ''VideoGame/FireProWrestling'' game series is rather notorious for using very blatant {{Captain Ersatz}}es of existing professional wrestlers and mixed martial artists, however the second Game Boy Advance game, Final Fire Pro Wrestling (aka "Fire Pro Wrestling 2") went one step further and included more famous martial artists and film characters including Franchise/{{Rocky}}, Creator/ChuckNorris and of course Bruce Lee himself, under the name "Kung-Fu Liu".
* For some inexplicable reason, one of the bosses of ''VideoGame/PilotKids'' (a HorizontalScrollingShooter where the players are LivingToys in RC planes) is a Bruce Lee-esque action figure who makes plenty of FunnyBruceLeeNoises and attack the players by kicking and punching.
* 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.
* Li in ''VideoGame/FrontMission3''.
* ''VideoGame/HeroesEvolved'' used to have the literal Bruce Lee himself as a playable hero. However, it doesn't fly well with the copyrights, so he's replaced by Dragon Warrior. While Dragon Warrior lacks [[FunnyBruceLeeNoises the funny noises]], he carries Bruce's philosophies in combat.
* Long, the player 1 character from ''VideoGame/HongKongNinja'' is directly modelled after Bruce Lee, wearing a yellow jacket in all his fight scenes (a reference to the iconic yellow tracksuit) which exposes his abs, making Bruce's iconic "whaaa-cha" shouts in between fights and striking a pose by rubbing his nose after defeating each boss.
* ''VideoGame/KillerInstinct2013'' gives us Kim Wu, a San Franciscan Jeet Kune Do practitioner who wields nunchucks, has a dragon motif going, and makes some high-pitched shouts in the middle of her attacks.
* In ''Kung Fu Chivalry'', a {{Wuxia}}-themed beat-em-up for Macintosh, the first player character is obviously modeled after Bruce Lee, with hints of TheAhnold, while the second resembles Jackie Chan in his younger years.
* Thomas in ''VideoGame/KungFuMaster'' is supposed to be Creator/JackieChan's character from ''Wheels on Meals'', but plays more like a Bruce Lee clone. The game's story is practically lifted from ''Film/GameOfDeath''.
* ''Dragon Wang'', a ''VideoGame/KungFuMaster''-like game for the Sega SG-1000, had no shirt on its protagonist. The Taiwanese distributors gave the game the same title as the Bruce Lee movie ''Fist of Fury''.
* ''China Warrior'', a ''VideoGame/KungFuMaster'' clone for the Platform/TurboGrafx16, starred another shirtless Bruce Lee clone named Wang, and had a recurring boss clearly modeled on Creator/JackieChan.
* Lee Sin from ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'', especially his Dragon Fist skin. But if he's not wearing the skin, he's actually an aversion, since his martial arts aren't heavily based on Bruce. And his {{Kiai}} ("Hi-kuu!") is different.
* Chou from ''VideoGame/MobileLegendsBangBang'', who already exhibits [[FunnyBruceLeeNoises Bruce Lee-style kiai]] right from his original form. His fighting style is inspired by Bruce's Jeet Kune Do and the martial arts name is also the name of one of his skills. His opening animation involves him swinging around a nunchaku (that he never gets to use in his actual gameplay). And before he got his current look, he was designed to look a lot like Bruce with the yellow jumpsuit, but then Moonton decided to revamp him to try to get away from their stigma of "copycatting others too much".
* Liu Kang from ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' was a fighter of this type until midway through the first continuity, when he was killed by Shang Tsung in ''Deadly Alliance'' and then brought back as a zombie. He still uses Jun Fan (basically JKD with Bruce Lee's baptism name, as JKD had already been taken by Johnny Cage) and nunchaku, though. The physical resemblance also decreased later in the series.
** Said fighting style and weapon had both been used by Johnny Cage before in ''Deadly Alliance'', despite him being a Jean-Claude Van Damme clone instead.
** The comparisons to Bruce Lee ratchet right back up with the release of ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'', most notably with his Brutalities, which are pose-for-pose references to famous moves performed by Bruce Lee in real life.
** This was toned down considerably in [[Film/MortalKombatTheMovie the movie]], which made him a shaggy-haired snarker and reluctant hero, more of a Jackie Chan that the universe was pushing into a Bruce Lee role.
* 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.
* ''VideoGame/PrayForDeath'': Jan Fun - bowl cut, kung fu expertise, lack of shirt, and mysterious death in 1973 all included!
* ''Super VideoGame/PunchOut'' has Dragon Chan, who, as his name suggests, is a mix of the Dragon and Jackie Chan. His signature move is a jump kick, something [[ArtisticLicenseSports you definitely can't do in real-life boxing]].
* ''VideoGame/Ready2RumbleBoxing'''s Jet "Iron" Chin has the look, physique, and mannerisms down pat. His even has a Bruce Lee-esque rapid-fire punch barrage for his Rumble Flurry, although it was toned down a lot in the sequel.
* "Bruce Meow" in ''VideoGame/ShadowHeartsFromTheNewWorld'' is a blatant parody; then again, they also include [[Film/TheKarateKid Cat Morita]], among others...
* ''VideoGame/SoulSeries'':
** Maxi in ''Soulcalibur'' combines Bruce Lee's yells, fighting style... and an [[Music/ElvisPresley Elvis]] haircut. Now if only we could hear him sing. He's also a student/substitute to Li Long, who has a more obvious name shout-out.
** ''VideoGame/SoulcaliburV'' allows you to edit and create costumes for playable characters. Some creative sticker editing and placement, as well as the right outfit and hair selections, can actually make him look like a dead ringer for Lee's ''Game of Death'' appearance.
* 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/{{Tekken}}'' has two of these, Marshall Law and his son Forrest, though Forrest strangely resembles another well-known Bruce Lee imitator Dragon Lee of South Korea.
** Lee Chaolan, who started as a {{palette swap}} of Law, derives his name from Li Xiaolong, Bruce Lee's Chinese screen name.
** Also has a Jackie Chan clone, Lei Wulong.
*** And to top it off, what's Lei's nickname? Film/SuperCop.
*** It's actually safe to say any drunken master style fighter, including but not limited to Brad Wong from ''Dead or Alive'', is based wholesale off Chan's performance in the movie ''Drunken Master''.
** ''Tekken'' seems to have a Creator/WesleySnipes clone too: Raven. Really, ''Tekken'' often bases its characters on existing culture. And who can blame 'em?
* ''VideoGame/VirtuaFighter'' subverted the trend while it was still young; rather than a Bruce Lee clone who imitates Lee's moves from the movies, there's Jacky, a blond American who practices ''actual'' Jeet Kune Do with Wing Chun influence, or at least as close an approximation as it can get in a fighting game. He still has some flashy moves, such as a somersault kick, but the flair Jacky adds is all his own.
* Kim Dragon from ''VideoGame/WorldHeroes'' is a transparent rip-off of Lee complete without a shirt, as per the game's NoCelebritiesWereHarmed casting rules. Oddly enough, despite the rest of the game stealing heavily from ''Street Fighter'' and ''VideoGame/FatalFury'', he ''[[OlderThanTheyThink predated]]'' the aforementioned Fei Long. He's also one of the few ones to not be ethnically Chinese; he is instead South Korean.
%% * ''VideoGame/XuanDouZhiWang'': Long. [[spoiler:Literally.]]
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* [[WebAnimation/DeathBattle DBX]] has the episode "Bruce Lee vs The World" which has the original fighting against different expies of himself: [[Franchise/StreetFighter Fei Long]], [[Franchise/MortalKombat Liu Kang]], [[VideoGame/{{Tekken}} Marshall Law]], [[Anime/{{Naruto}} Rock Lee]] and [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Hitmonlee]] for good measure. [[spoiler: The original wins.]]
* Abyo from ''Animation/{{Pucca}}'' is fairly obviously based on Bruce Lee. In the original Flash shorts he even does the Bruce Lee sound effects.
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* The [="Bruceploitation"=] subgenre that followed Creator/BruceLee's death is discussed in Episode 6, "Hong Kong Action," of ''WebVideo/MissingReel''.
* Creator/PatrickGill discusses both the [="Bruceploitation"=] trope and this as the inspiration for fighting games and their structure, in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpwVYXRi4SY this video essay]] for Website/{{Polygon}}.
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* The {{Music/Gorillaz}} G-Bite "Game of Death" shows ten-year-old Noodle and Russel having a mock fight, with Noodle wearing a yellow jumpsuit and [[CallingYourAttacks yelling out her punches and kicks]] (she also yells "ACHOOOO!" at one point). Noodle, [[ActionGirl being]] [[PintSizedPowerhouse Noodle]], [[CurbStompBattle mops the floor]] with Russel pretty quickly. Then, it's revealed that 2D and Murdoc are pretending to play a fighting game, and Murdoc (who's "playing" Russel) starts loudly complaining that his controller's broken.
* 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 ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003''; his 2012 version resembles Bruce Lee in appearance and his name sounds like the Chinese surname Han.
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* Afghan martial artist and actor Abbas Alizada gained [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KprhIkDQ38M international fame]] for his striking resemblance to Bruce Lee, though the resurgence of the Taliban in his native country forced Alizada to flee the country with his family.
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