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Yeah, we know Michael Biehn isn't a reality star, but he is the perfect example of a celebrity with a video game (box-art) look-a-like.
Reality TV stars, on the other woefully under-employed hand, seem to simply flood over with video game look-a-likes. When reality TV personalities aren't being arrested for assault with a deadly weapon, being hired to officiate the ribbon-cutting ceremonies at their local White Castle, or attempting to convince viewers of their relevance, they can be found looking dangerously similar to some of video game most famous faces.
Read on for Reality TV Stars and Their Video Game Doppelgängers
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19. The two most dangerous gingers on the planet.
Reality TV Star: Carrot Top
Video Game Doppelgänger: Blanka
Carrot Top and Blanka have both managed to preserve themselves perfectly in a state of suspended animation. While Blanka has the benefit of being a bunch of polygons, we think Carrot Top has struck a deal with the dark priests of L.A. plastic surgeons to maintain whatever his face is doing these days.
Carrot Top has also been hitting the gym pretty hard after his stint on Don't Forget the Lyrics, maybe he could find a spot on the Street Fighter roster to help with some of that ginger rage.
18. Buddy Holly frames and a crippling hair care product addiction unite the two.
Reality TV Star: Brad Goreski
Video Game Doppelgänger: Travis Touchdown
We know a knock off when we see one. Both Goreksi and Touchdown look like they were cobbled together from equal parts leftover Rivers Cuomo and Johnny Knoxville DNA, but Goreksi has a hit TV show and Travis Touchdown has two video games to his credit.
We, on the other hand, just upgraded to an iPhone 3. No big deal. No More Heroes was one of the better Wii games to get released and we would kill for 10 minutes in Goreski's closet. The stylist's show It's a Brad, Brad World is still doing gangbusters on Bravo.
17. This is a perfect example of what Japanese game designers think of our culture as a whole.
Reality TV Star: Hulk Hogan
Video Game Doppelgänger: Bass
While Hogan has appeared as himself in more wrestling games than anyone has bothered to play, it was Hogan Knows Best that made him a pop-culture mainstay.
Lumbering around the well oiled confines of his Clearwater, FL. compound, it was nearly impossible to miss the resemblance between Hogan and Dead or Alive's retired wrestler, Bass.
Bass got to show off his extensive collection of American flag hot pants and formal bandanna looks. Hogan and Bass could pull a life-swap and nobody would miss a beat.
16. They both have the same IQ.
Reality TV Star: The Situtation
Video Game Doppelgänger: Pimple
Why Battletoads hasn't been revived for current consoles is beyond us in an almost painful capacity. The game was one of the most challenging titles to be released in the early 90s.
Pimple, one of the titular frogs who do battle, could've just as easily taken over hard body duties for The Situation on Jersey Shore. Funny story: in Japan, Jersey Shore is known as Macaroni Rascals.
15. We're going to need a zombie-pocalypse to see how this shakes out.
Reality TV Star: Momma Dee
Video Game Doppelgänger: Rochelle
When your resume lists former occupations as singer, model, nurse, caterer, and, um, female pimp, we hardly think a few zombies would prove much of a challenge.
We all know that Momma Dee from Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta is a self described 'resilient woman' and 'over doting' mother, we should also add that she is not one that we would fuck with. Who better to be her video game double than Rochelle from Left 4 Dead 2 ?
Surviving a Biblical end of days type scenario couldn't be much harder than being a reality TV star. Could it?
14. Most people don't know that Tyler also slumbers on the ocean floor.
Reality Tv Star: Steven Tyler
Video Game Doppelgänger: Gyarados
It's common knowledge that Steven Tyler is actually %100 insane, right? The American Idol host has been spotted in the wild serenading everyone from Home Depot customers to Jack in the Box drive-thru employees.
He's also been known to do his best Pokemon impressions after eating a fistful of Vicodin. Gyarados and Steven Tyler actually went to college together in Boston. The two are no longer on speaking terms after Tyler beat out Gyarados for the Aerosmith front man post.
13. Just need to head back to '99 for a Sisqó hair dye and it's perfect.
Reality TV Star: Ray J
Video Game Doppelgänger: Drebin 893
Ray J is famous for two things that have nothing to do with his ability as a singer. The first is that he's Brandy's younger brother and the second is well..that other thing.
He came into his own after starring in VH1's For the Love of Ray J and we think that if he ever needed to, he could totally pass for Drebin 893 from Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. He'd just need a little Demolition Man era Wesley Snipes blond in his hair and he'd be good to go.
12. Seems like low hanging fruit, but still.
Reality TV Star: Honey Boo Boo/June Shannon
Video Game Doppelgänger: Fat Princess
It's bad form to pick on a seven year old. It is, conversely, well within the confines of class to let her mother have it with both barrels.
Here Comes Honey Boo Boo has been both championed and derided by critics. Charged as either a perfectly apt reflection of the American condition, or televised child exploitation, we do know that it's next to impossible to not immediately compare Mama June Shannon to Fat Princess. Because, ya know, fat.
11. Both are known to be quick on their feet in a fight.
Reality TV Star: Snooki
Video Game Doppelgänger: Tepig
Taking the piss out of anyone from the cast of Jersey Shore was tiresome three years ago. That's because most of the cast has quietly disappeared into irrelevance. They can now be found endorsing local auto dealerships and frozen yogurt franchises.
Not so for her orange-ness. She, like her video game look-a-like, has shown a remarkable ability for longevity. Tepig, another Pokemon (last one, we swear) is a bright orange wild animal that is known for shooting gouts of flame from its snout when cornered. It was hard to find a photo that showed enough of a difference between the two.
10. Raff could pass for a native Pandoran with almost no additional effort.
Reality TV Star: Riff Raff
Video Game Doppelgänger: A Na'vi
We don't know what space exploration has in store for us as a species, but as long as our species counts Riff Raff among its numbers we can guarantee that it will include amazing Vine posts of him in outer space.
For the closest approximation to the cornrowed 'rapper' we had to look to the planet Pandora. From G's to Gents may have showcased Raff's 'talents' but any Na'vi from James Cameron's Avatar could roll up as part of Raff's entourage and take his place as a double no questions asked.
9. Both are tyrranical patrirachs with no sense of strategy or sense of self-preservation.
Reality TV Star: Everyone on Flavor of Love
Video Game Doppelgänger: Bowser and his whole family
Flavor of Love accomplished much while it graced the airwaves. Highlighting what years of alcohol and sherm abuse can do to a person, Flavor Flav lorded over his corporate funded harem like a Bedouin warlord.
The only individual that knows what it must be like to feed so many mouths is Bowser. His family of Koopalings first appeared in Super Mario Bros. 3 and if you look at these pictures, it just seems like a family reunion that's waiting on a final date.
8. They both already own overalls.
Reality TV Star: Bruce Mitchell
Video Game Doppelgänger: Mario
Swamp People is an amazing show. Nothing snakry to say here. If Nintendo ever lets Mario retire, we hope he'll spend his days going shirtless and canoeing up and down the rivers of the Atchafalaya River Basin. Realistically, how many more Super Mario Bros. can they possibly make?
What's that? Infinity is the answer? Infinity more Super Mario titles. Great.
7. They were all switched at birth.
Reality TV Star: Duck Dynasty Family
Video Game Doppelgänger: Mitch Baker and the Vice City Bikers
We respect the Robertson family. The stars of Duck Dynasty are living the American dream. They've got a successful business and are on television.
If they ever get mistaken for video game characters it would be Grand Theft Auto: Vice City's Mitch Baker and the Vice City Bikers. Sure, it's mostly the beards, but we know if we sat down and talked to the Robertsons they'd probably share much of Mitch's political leanings as well.
6. Check your moustache envy at the door.
Reality TV Star: Reza Farahan
Video Game Doppelgänger: Luigi
Look, it's the year of Luigi. This is known. He's starring in Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon and if he ever had to seek out a second line of work Shahs of Sunset would welcome his mustachioed ass in a heartbeat. Just look at Reza Farahan, it's like the two were separated by a very hirsute, forgetful mother.
5. Square jaws and a taste for snake meat.
Reality TV Star: Bear Grylls
Video Game Doppelgänger: Nathan Drake
Generically handsome male leads are a dime a dozen. The main reason Man vs. Wild was so good was mostly because of the urine drinking and the bug eating.
If an Uncharted movie ever gets green-lit (and Nathan Fillion has said no), Bear Grylls is one of the few people that could take Nathan Drake's place. Think about how good Uncharted could have been if you needed to stop and eat a snake to regain health.
4. Super tight Jew-fros ahead.
Reality TV Star: Dustin Diamond
Video Game Doppelgänger: Ken Rosenberg
The years have not been kind to Diamond. Typecast at an early age as the tragically dorky Screech on Saved by the Bell, his whole life has been an uphill slog to prove his coolness.
Releasing a sex tape is usually employed by a celebrity when it's time to release a record or drop a celebrity fragrance. In Diamond's case it just sort of cemented how rough his post Bell years have been. After seeing him with his shirt off in both Screeched – Saved by the Smell and Celebrity Fit Club the only man Diamond might ever get mistaken for would be Grand Theft Auto: Vice City's Ken Rosenberg.
3. Demon eyes and pure, uncut paranoia aren't the only two things they have in common.
Reality TV Star: Gary Busey
Video Game Doppelgänger: Seth
Red Dead Redemption's Seth bears more than a passing resemblance to the surprisingly still alive Gary Busey.
Busey's most recent stint on Celebrity Apprentice 6 only proved that he's barely keeping it together and that the two probably spend the majority of their days chasing away imaginary bats that haunt their eyelids.
2. We love our leather vests almost as much as these two.
Reality TV Star: Dog the Bounty Hunter
Video Game Doppelgänger: Duke Nukem
Shirtless? Check. Sunglasses indoors? Check. Bleach blond hair we all know is fake? Check. Dog the Bounty Hunter and Duke Nukem are the same person and they both hate sleeves.
Their careers might not be what they once were, but there will always be a high water mark where both men can point and quietly whisper to their arthritis pills, 'There was a time when I was on top of the world.'
Then accidentally fall asleep while reading an issue of Hustler they found in the bushes while walking their dog.
1. There is no such a thing as too much plastic surgery.
Reality Tv Star: Big Ang
Video Game Doppelgänger: Boss Nass
One of these two lives in a perpetual haze of grandiose self-delusion and prefers life by the beach.
The other was in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace.