25 Celebrities Who Should Be Featured In Video Games

Whether because of the rising aspirations on the part of talent or the deflating costs of technology, the line between our pop stars, cultural icons and video game characters has grown increasingly blurred. Celebrities portray carefully calculated personas at all times, and it's never clear when they're playing a character and when they're being themselves, if ever. What's real and what isn't is continually called into question.

As if the dissolution of reality itself weren't enough, the lines between entertainment mediums—movies, video games, television—are dissolving as well. Celebrities can hop between them at will, and why wouldn't they? The money's good, and that's really all that matters at this point. So keep reading for 25 celebrities we'd like to see in games.

As every black hipster’s favorite drummer, he's the perfect musician to base a music game around. An action game would suit him fine as well, though, since we have a sneaking suspicion he can throw his ubiquitous pick with ninja-like precision. Hope he’s for you, not against you.

For a guy who can sing, act, and make clothes, JT is surprisingly good at bringing sexy back. That's why he'll be hired at the end of the Mass Effect trilogy—after the Reavers inevitably destroy everything—to bring sexy back into the galaxy.

The big-boned Brit with the beautiful voice has arrived. From mothers to daughters to SNL parodies, her music is everywhere. Video games need more strong women, like Adele, who don't need to be constantly rescued. In the next Elder Scrolls title, the power of her Voice would turn dragons into dust in like, one second flat.

Adam Levin is prettier than you and your girl put together. There hasn't been a guy who takes himself this seriously since that time John Wayne was constipated for three days straight. Halo 5 will be less Master Chief and more constipated John Wayne; you'll move slowly, but you'll eventually get the job done. Oh, and the last half of the game is just simulated sex with Anne V., Levin's supermodel girlfriend. Why hasn't this been made already?

Talking to John Wayne about constipation was a skip through daisies compared with talking to R. Kelly about anything. Still, we can't wait to play the prototype urinal game with a screen on the bottom where you pee on 14-year-olds' faces at the club.

Despite his well-known love of sticky icky, Phelps remains an iconic athlete. Who better to join Mario and Sonic at the virtual Olympics? They'll add buying dope from that guy you knew in high school as a special event in honor of Phelps's participation.

Few people manage to walk the line between famous and just crazy better than Tom Cruise. The Dead Space series has managed to somewhat subtly mock scientology (Cruise's cult) through two games now, so we figure why not go full-blown for the third? Cruise would play the secret agent who has to infiltrate the cult from the bottom up, eventually facing a decision between taking control of the cult and destroying it from the inside. Wow, we just got way too into this one.

Shoehorning Charlie Sheen in would pretty much make any game better, but for this entry we'll go with a unique take on his former show, Two and a Half Men. Instead of two grown idiots living with a younger idiot, it's about a single dwarf wandering Game of Throne's Westeros with his adopted two-year-old Wildling son. Get it? Two and a Half-Man? Hehe.

Octomom's recent foray into weird porn is begging to be adapted into a video game. Check out TMZ for a video (NSFW if your employer considers a strange woman in a corset whipping a grown man in a diaper while he stands in a kids' ball pit unfit for workplace viewing). The game would be more of the same, but like the original Babysitting Mama, would feature a real-life doll for you to spank.

When Alec Baldwin got kicked off that American Airlines flight for refusing to quit playing Words with Friends, he wasn't just being obnoxious because he's rich and famous; he was standing up for the right of every American to never have to be not entertained, ever. In Air Marshalls, Baldwin would use karate to take out nagging flight attendants and give every passenger an iPad to use during take-off and landing.

In Angry Bitches, players use a giant thong tied between two trees to launch a very drunk, very angry Snooki at unsuspecting guidos arranged in unlikely formations. The more she knocks down, the more smushing she gets to do. Extra points if she can get all the guidos to admit they're DTF before the time runs out.

Everyone who assumed that Amy Winehouse died of a drug overdose earlier this year probably felt like huge assholes when they learned that it was actually probably her drinking that did her in. In Left 4 Dead 3, Winehouse guzzles beers like power-ups as she swings a microphone around her head, laying waste to any zombies or people that happen across her path.

Amy Poehler's role as Leslie on Parks and Rec started as a ripoff of Steve Carrel's Michael Scott, but she's transformed by now into something much, much more lovable. Like Street Cleaning Simulator before it, Small Government Simulator would allow players to undertake all the excitement of managing a trivial sector of small city government through the eyes of Leslie Knope. Lil' Sebastian races would be sold as DLC, of course.

A Firefly game would combine space flight with exploration of new planets and some slick gunslinging action. This may be the only serious entry on this list, as we would actually buy this as long as it was well made.

At this point, we can probably assume that the dude is dead, or that he's certainly never going to make a comeback. But for a time there was no better rapper on the west coast. Still, deniers will be looking for him at every Fatburger they see until the time frame for his plausible natural life has literally run out, so Dead or Alive: Where Are You Tupac will easily sell a cool million.

Everyone knows Gosling should have won sexiest man of the year, but his victory is in the hearts of the people (read: women), so it's all good. He's also obsessed with Disneyland, so he'll be great in the next Kinect Disneyland Adventures title. Except instead of being for kids, it's for your girlfriend, and instead of swashbuckling pirates, it's just Ryan Gosling with his shirt off walking around the theme park.

He’d be the Wizard at the end of the game who’d been pulling the strings the whole time and somehow convinced his minions they were doing it for charity, like that skit where Mitchell and Webb realize they're the bad guys. His game is like GTA but instead of cars you just walk into people's houses and steal everything. It's a metaphor.

Ashton is totally still relevant enough to carry forward a Harold and Maude video game adaptation for the modern day. In it, he wears trucker hats and becomes involved with older women. The gameplay would involve mostly driving around to doctors' appointments and early-bird special dinners at 4pm.

No one's bigger than Kanye these days, but you know what they say about how the big fall. That's why we're staying conservative for this one: a text adventure is the perfectly retro way to explore Kanye's lyrics (they're made of words, after all).

The Saints Row games are all about getting money and acting irresponsible, and no one does both those things better than Miss K. She's made a career out of tricking the American public into giving a damn about her stupidity—it's a never-ending cycle of fame-from-fame, much like the Third Street Saints experience in Saints Row 3. The sequel will revolve around her marrying and then quickly divorcing as many pro athletes as possible.

She’s been called a librarian’s GaGa (by us), and at any given time she's guaranteed to have a kazoo on her person. She's also got a knee-knocking dance waiting in her reserves, in case anything becomes uncomfortable. Between her relationship with Death Cab's frontman and her partnership with M. Ward for She and Him, she's obviously the most indie person you've ever heard of. On the other hand, acoustic strumming doesn't make for great Guitar Hero gameplay.

We always knew there was a reason Lady Gaga wore that seemingly idiotic meat dress—all along she was drawing life force from the raw flesh. That's how she stays so young and strong, and her songwriting powers are derived directly from the meat. In Blood Omen 2, Kain did the same by devouring the blood of innocents, so Gaga would continue that trend in Blood Omen 3. It's the next logical step for her.

With multiple personalities, Nicki's a perfect fit for yet another Final Fantasy VII spin-off. Her psychological disorder bears a striking resemblance to Cloud's; she's not sure who she is, and her identity crisis manifests in her actions. Plus we're pretty sure they both have special powers.

The "Godfather of pizza" had a big year despite ending his presidential campaign. During the brief time he was actually in the running, his most notable achievement was getting people to actually recall the second Pokemon movie. Who better to star in the next iteration of Pokemon? Of course, he'll probably find the dialogue in the games slightly less verbose than the line he quoted from the movie: "Life can be a challenge, life can seem impossible, it’s never easy when there is so much on the line. But you and I can make a difference." Inspiring stuff.

Besides gingers' well-known ability to start fires with their minds, Lindsay Lohan possesses plenty of unique assets. South Park even proved that gingers have no souls, so endless game overs won't affect her too much. Unfortunately, her Thief games would always end with her stealing your car (with you in it), getting you blamed for her coke, and dragging you into doing community service with her.