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Glass Rose (2003)

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Masahiro Matsuoka, a Japanese actor and drummer for the band Tokio, lent his likeness for the main protagonist Takashi Kagetani, as well as doing the motion capture and voice acting for the character.

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Tekken (1994)

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In an interview with Polygon, the series lead Director, Katsuhiro Harada, confirmed that King's motion capture was performed by Japanese pro-wrestling star and MMA pioneer, Minoru Suzuki. The wrestling star made King's fighting style with a mix of Mexican lucha libre and Japanese puroresu. Harada also said that Suzuki also invented original moves for King and Michelle (as well as Julia in future games). Harada also says that Suzuki also offered to choke him out, to which he said "Yeah, of course dude, I want you to choke me out" and that "it felt like taking a refreshing nap."

King's backstory was inspired by Sergio Gutiérrez Benítez, a catholic priest who moonlit as the masked wrestler Fray Tormenta to raise funds for his orphanage, while the character's jaguar mask design was inspired by Tiger Mask, a recurring masked persona first portrayed in real-life by mixed martial artist Satoru Sayama, and a character licensed out to Japanese professional wrestling companies from the 1968 manga of the same name by Ikki Kajiwara.

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Polygon video about Katsuhiro Harada interview snippet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibweoMXd5RI

Kotaku article featuring Tiger Mask:
https://kotaku.com/in-japan-wrestling-masks-arent-just-for-half-naked-dud-5845062

"Cheating Death, Stealing Life: The Eddie Guerrero Story" by Eddie Guerrero (page 91):
https://archive.org/details/cheatingdeathste00guer/page/91

The Last of Us Part II (2020)

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In a 2021 interview with The Washington Post, the game's director Neil Druckmann revealed that the scene where Abby murders Joel using a golf club was inspired by a real-life incident. When Druckmann was 16, he was accidentally hit in the head with a golf club by a friend at a driving range, which resulted in him needing 30 stitches and left him with a permanent dent in his skull. Druckmann initially planned for Abby to paralyze Joel with a knife, but feeling that this attack was more suited for Ellie than Abby, he decided to use a golf club instead, as he wanted something different and personal.

After the scene was discovered when hours of content from the game leaked online months before release, it became the subject of much controversy and criticism, with some fans of the game feeling that it was gratuitous and unnecessary, especially when the next gameplay segments after watching the "fan-favorite" main protagonist of the first game get murdered force the player to control the murderer as a new protagonist. Players also criticized the game's overall anti-violence and pro-forgiveness message as being "too on the nose". Druckmann responded to the controversy on Twitter by replying with various golf-related GIFs to specific tweets or by "making offhand golf club jokes". Later on when the golf club's real-life origin was revealed, he joked that the game's detractors were correct about him having "brain damage" from the incident.

He went into more detail about the character and players' reactions to her scenes in a 2020 interview with Eurogamer prior to release, stating that he wanted players to hate Abby and eventually empathize with and forgive her upon learning the rest of her backstory. He called the "dehumanis[ing]" and "horrifying" player reactions to Abby "completely human. It's what we do", and that his goal was to make players reflect on "the other perspective" when feeling intense emotions like wanting to take vengeance in real-life incidents. During development, Naughty Dog staff were similarly divided about the scene, with Druckmann commenting in 2024 that there were people who "got it" and a that there was a "minority" of people who were "stuck on how violent it is, and how dark and quite cynical it is about mankind."

Abby's actress, Laura Bailey, initially defended the character's choices before release, claiming she knew the scene would receive backlash and that the leak had caused players to form "barriers" without fully understanding the character. However, upon playing the game at release, she expressed more empathy towards players that hated Abby, questioning the way she portrayed the character and "why she was cast", before eventually going on to "acclimatize" to her. She also commented on negative emotions while filming Abby's scenes that were "very heavy on loss and grief", and how they were difficult to leave behind after filming. On the other hand, her favorite scenes to film as the character were more "joyful" moments including flashback scenes with Owen, or those that developed Abby’s relationship with Lev and Yara.

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Here’s why Abby uses a golf club in ‘The Last of Us Part II’:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2021/03/03/golf-club-the-last-of-us/

The Last Of Us 2: Abby & Joel's Golf Club Scene Inspired By Real Story:
https://screenrant.com/last-us-2-abby-joels-golf-club-scene/

TLOU2 Abby Voice Actress Breaks Down Divisive Role:
https://screenrant.com/last-of-us-2-abby-laura-bailey-role/

A spoiler-heavy interview with The Last of Us Part 2 director Neil Druckmann:
https://www.eurogamer.net/a-spoiler-heavy-interview-with-the-last-of-us-part-2-director-neil-druckmann

Director For The Last Of Us Part 2 Says Abby Using A Golf Club Was Inspired By A Real-Life Accident:
https://www.thegamer.com/the-last-of-us-part-2-abby-golf-club-why/

Inside The Last of Us Part II's devastating plot twist: ‘People were stuck on how violent it is’:
https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/the-last-of-us-part-2-remastered-joel-death

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