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Reference-A-Go-Go: Quarter Circle Forward + ORA!
13 years ago
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Welcome to the first installment of "Reference-A-Go-Go, what we hope will be a periodic ongoing series of articles for fun. As was mentioned in the Group profile page, many franchises in all forms of media have made reference to JoJo in some manner or another and in this series we hope to share some of these little tributes and "wink nudge" moments.
Tonight we start with fighting games. JoJo is no stranger to fighters what with Capcom having made a 2D game based on Part 3, but JoJo's influence is much farther reaching than that. There are many installments here but we'll try to offer visual examples when possible, linked in bold. Some references are quite blatant. Others are a bit more suppositional but we won't list them unless we feel there's a strong enough possibility of it being a reference.
Let's begin!
Street Fighter Series
-Guile is likely based on Rudolf von Stroheim. They share similar hairstyles as well as a military background and blatant patriotism. Ironically Guile is American whereas Stroheim is a German Nazi.
-Rose is based on Lisa Lisa. Their appearances are remarkably similar and both fight using a scarf, animated by their respective power.
-Juri is based on Jolyne Kujo. The hair is the most obvious indicator. Another is Juri's outfit has a spider motif that was also present in many of Jolyne's outfits.
Other Capcom Fighters
-Santana from Cyberbots bears a very strong resemblance to Mohammed Adbul. He also of course shares the name of the first Pillar Man in Part 2.
-In Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter, Omega Red's Ending mirrors a conversation in Part 1. Will Zeppeli asks Dio how many lives he's takes to which Dio retorts by asking if Will remembers every piece of bread he's eaten.
SNK
-Common knowledge really but Benimaru from King of Fighters is based on Polnareff. SNK staff have flat out stated this and to this day refer to Benimaru as Polnareff.
-Dio from World Heroes References a couple things in JoJo. Physically he can do ridiculous things with his body and bears similarities to the Pillar men, especially Kars. Obviously Dio Brando is his namesake and he even shares the habit of shouting "Muda" in combat.
Sega
-Bahn from Fighting Vipers is obviously based on Jotaro Kujo
Guilty Gear
-Robo-Ky has an Overdrive where he punches the opponent rapidly while text bubbles appear around his with the Japanese word "Dame". In the right context "Dame" can mean "useless/futile/pointless" just the as "Muda". Yup. A roundabout Dio reference.
-Zappa's outfit bears a slightly more than passing resemblance to Dio Brando's. In their respective fighting games their walk animations are nearly identical. Zappa's idle standing animation is basically a comical, perpetual WRYYYYY pose. Finally, Zappa is posessed by ghosts that are summoned and hover around him in combat, conceptually similar to Stands though in the case of Zappa used more for comic effect.
Blazblue
-Hazama seems to have some nods to Dio. He fights with knives and is prone to doing the WRYYYYY pose during some of his moves.
-Relius Clover's use of Ignis in combat is very similar to Stands both conceptually and in actual in game implementation when compared to the 2D JoJo fighter made by Capcom. She comes and goes at his whim and hovers just behind him when idle.
-The new character Amane Nishiki fights using his shawl, another potential reference to Lisa Lisa.
Skullgirls
-Peacock has a super move where she drops a random large object on the opponent. It's a random item whatever it is. Apparently an extremely rare drop is a full blown Road Roller. Audio was added to that video by the way. Obviously a reference to the now infamous Za Waruudo/Road Roller Da meme.
-Valentine has a super move where she throws scalpels the same Dio throws knives.
-Not strictly in-game related but there was definitely a JoJo fan at Reverge Labs when Skullgirls was in production.
That's a whole lot of references just for one genre in one medium! Ever so we wouldn't be surprised if there were more that weren't listed here. If you can think of any others, mention them in the comments below!
Tonight we start with fighting games. JoJo is no stranger to fighters what with Capcom having made a 2D game based on Part 3, but JoJo's influence is much farther reaching than that. There are many installments here but we'll try to offer visual examples when possible, linked in bold. Some references are quite blatant. Others are a bit more suppositional but we won't list them unless we feel there's a strong enough possibility of it being a reference.
Let's begin!
Street Fighter Series
-Guile is likely based on Rudolf von Stroheim. They share similar hairstyles as well as a military background and blatant patriotism. Ironically Guile is American whereas Stroheim is a German Nazi.
-Rose is based on Lisa Lisa. Their appearances are remarkably similar and both fight using a scarf, animated by their respective power.
-Juri is based on Jolyne Kujo. The hair is the most obvious indicator. Another is Juri's outfit has a spider motif that was also present in many of Jolyne's outfits.
Other Capcom Fighters
-Santana from Cyberbots bears a very strong resemblance to Mohammed Adbul. He also of course shares the name of the first Pillar Man in Part 2.
-In Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter, Omega Red's Ending mirrors a conversation in Part 1. Will Zeppeli asks Dio how many lives he's takes to which Dio retorts by asking if Will remembers every piece of bread he's eaten.
SNK
-Common knowledge really but Benimaru from King of Fighters is based on Polnareff. SNK staff have flat out stated this and to this day refer to Benimaru as Polnareff.
-Dio from World Heroes References a couple things in JoJo. Physically he can do ridiculous things with his body and bears similarities to the Pillar men, especially Kars. Obviously Dio Brando is his namesake and he even shares the habit of shouting "Muda" in combat.
Sega
-Bahn from Fighting Vipers is obviously based on Jotaro Kujo
Guilty Gear
-Robo-Ky has an Overdrive where he punches the opponent rapidly while text bubbles appear around his with the Japanese word "Dame". In the right context "Dame" can mean "useless/futile/pointless" just the as "Muda". Yup. A roundabout Dio reference.
-Zappa's outfit bears a slightly more than passing resemblance to Dio Brando's. In their respective fighting games their walk animations are nearly identical. Zappa's idle standing animation is basically a comical, perpetual WRYYYYY pose. Finally, Zappa is posessed by ghosts that are summoned and hover around him in combat, conceptually similar to Stands though in the case of Zappa used more for comic effect.
Blazblue
-Hazama seems to have some nods to Dio. He fights with knives and is prone to doing the WRYYYYY pose during some of his moves.
-Relius Clover's use of Ignis in combat is very similar to Stands both conceptually and in actual in game implementation when compared to the 2D JoJo fighter made by Capcom. She comes and goes at his whim and hovers just behind him when idle.
-The new character Amane Nishiki fights using his shawl, another potential reference to Lisa Lisa.
Skullgirls
-Peacock has a super move where she drops a random large object on the opponent. It's a random item whatever it is. Apparently an extremely rare drop is a full blown Road Roller. Audio was added to that video by the way. Obviously a reference to the now infamous Za Waruudo/Road Roller Da meme.
-Valentine has a super move where she throws scalpels the same Dio throws knives.
-Not strictly in-game related but there was definitely a JoJo fan at Reverge Labs when Skullgirls was in production.
That's a whole lot of references just for one genre in one medium! Ever so we wouldn't be surprised if there were more that weren't listed here. If you can think of any others, mention them in the comments below!
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