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Fig. 15. Sonic the Hedgehog: cat and mouse (from Sonic
Adventure, Sega 1999)
More proportionally humanoid “good
characters”—such as Lara Croft, Jin Kazama from
Tekken 3, or Solid Snake from Metal Gear Solid—
work (on this purely static, visual dimension) in a
slightly different way, in that they borrow from
cinematic conventions of costume and coolness. It is
almost certainly no coincidence that Metal Gear
Solid’s cigarette-loving, husky-voiced hero shares one
of his names with Kurt Russell’s character in Escape
from New York, Snake Pliskin. Jin Kazama in Tekken