Comments on: Arnold Schwarzenegger Totally Looks Like Bill Rizer

By: really?

really? — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 02:14:48 +0000

so really you were scanning from the bottom thinking looking good, looking good, oh wait, wheres the sweatband!

By: KONAMI CODE

KONAMI CODE — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:39:49 +0000

up,up,down,down,left,right,left,right,B,A,start

By: Nato

Nato — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 09:18:55 +0000

lol

By: Boo

Boo — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 03:44:08 +0000

Coooll

By: Stupid Fuckwads

Stupid Fuckwads — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:08:43 +0000

Arnold Schwarzenegger was in Contra..

By: Operator

Operator — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 10:04:45 +0000

also, notice the alien on the Contra box, Aliens much? (AVP)

By: Erik

Erik — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:45:59 +0000

Not so hard if you used “the code”

By: LilRoxy

LilRoxy — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 03:13:34 +0000

yo peple! its NEVER gonna b exact! learn 2 deal!!! its the pic in GENERAL!!!!

By: bobsyouruncle

bobsyouruncle — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:53:06 +0000

It’s called scrap art. Anytime an ad agency or graphic design firm farms out an illustration to a commercial artist, they provide “scap art” to the artist in order to provide a reference point for the artist to work with. Sometimes the artist has less imagination and creativity than he or she should have, or he or she wants to be sure that the client gets exactly what they want, so they follow the scrap art to a T. This is what happens then.

By: hameltoe

hameltoe — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:54:04 +0000

Reply Fail

By: JAR

JAR — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:44:52 +0000

the Rizer pic was drawn specifically from the predator poster. it’s been stated. for crying out loud, look at the vein on Arnie’s right arm and the vein on Rizer. You’d have to be simple to think these were independant.

By: Ham

Ham — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:11:29 +0000

If you take the headband off the Contra guy, and just move the forehead down to connect with the rest of the face, the dimensions match Arnie’s noggin exactly. The Contra image was a ripoff.

By: exhoicat

exhoicat — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:16:55 +0000

These days, when Der Governator takes his custom made, ultra tailored shirts off, he looks more like a shar pei.

By: Davey Jay

Davey Jay — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:39:34 +0000

They’re definitely not independent. The company even admitted it sometime in the 90s. It’s pretty much traced, till you get to the heads. But you knew that.

And yes, the other is based off of Stallone, too.

By: Omnomnomymous.

Omnomnomymous. — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:19:05 +0000

That’s likely. On a website called Encyclopedia Dramatica (nsfw) I saw an article about tracing and it showed a gif where a bunch of the Contra characters morphed into action stars, Arnold and Rambo being two of them.

By: Omnomnomymous.

Omnomnomymous. — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:17:00 +0000

I do believe that Bill Rizer was based off of the Governator. I really do.

By: Pete

Pete — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 04:10:38 +0000

They’re not independent Konami used tahat image on the North American market jacket and promotional material when they re-leased in 1988 the year after Predator used that for it’s promotional art and was just comming to home video… Do you really think they didn’t see the movie and know exactly what was going on? Yeah right, they were capitalizing on the movie about American commandos fighting an alien in the jungle…

By: Keith

Keith — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 03:43:51 +0000

Hmmm…

A bit like “this drawing looks a lot like the photograph it was copied directly from…”

By: fawkes

fawkes — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 01:30:35 +0000

heavily referenced

By: smashpro1

smashpro1 — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 01:09:23 +0000

maybe if Ahnuld had a headband, it would be more “exactly”, but Contra was a bitch hard game

By: Wait...what?

Wait...what? — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:01:44 +0000

wow, it doesn’t get much more “exactly the same” as this

By: Chuck

Chuck — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 22:00:46 +0000

Sarcasm Fail!

By: Ham

Ham — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 20:04:26 +0000

Wow. A movie publicity shot looks just like the video game publicity drawing that was ripped-off of the movie publicity shot. Thanks, Captain Obvious. Next you can start pointing out that actors look like the characters they portray, or that portraits look like the people the portraits were drawn or. Or maybe that people look like the pictures taken of them.

By: SilverFire85

SilverFire85 — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 19:09:25 +0000

Contra and its successors were heavily influenced by the action movies of the time, in particular Predator, Rambo and Aliens. The characters depicted on the cover for the North American version of Contra resemble Arnold Schwarzenegger as Alan “Dutch” Schaefer from Predator, and Sylvester Stallone in First Blood

By: no iq

no iq — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:46:44 +0000

those contra dudes had names? ’cause rambo looks like the other contra guy

By: Divided by zero

Divided by zero — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 17:10:28 +0000

And that thing behind Bill Rizer totally looks like a xenomorph.

By: deedle

deedle — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 16:08:55 +0000

I don’t see ANY similarity. Arnold isn’t even wearing a sweatband…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 15:45:41 +0000

I can’t imagine they were drawn indenpendantly. Given the drawings practically overlap I have to believe that the Bill Rizer artwork was just a takeoff on the most famous action star of the day. Given that this picture which is from Predator (1987) which came out the same year as the first Contra it is easy to assume the Bill pic was practically sketched over the Arnie still.

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 15:43:35 +0000

Heh, awesome.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 14:54:44 +0000

The vest and shadows are like identical… It’s hard to believe these two images were created independent of each other.

By: MEH

MEH — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 14:37:29 +0000

looks realy good
even have the same gun

By: oh ffs

oh ffs — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 14:08:14 +0000

gigiedy