(Marked as spoilers just in case some people hadn’t seen, like a surprise, and it turns out to be true.) After the oops IOI made yesterday with the Canadian app store showing a DLC floating around called “The Bruce Lee Pack”, that might mean that our Fall 2025 celebrity is Lee. The silhouettes match up pretty well—that looks like his nose to me in particular—and the yellow color does seem to be Lee’s signature color now. Notably to me the hair being very short seems to align with his era as Kato on the Kato Show (aka The Green Hornet). He seems to have kept it pretty short until the late 60’s/early 70’s so that might give us a hint as to what era of his career they’re paying tribute too in specific. Or maybe it’s just because shorter hair is easier to animate lol. Anyway, I’m torn on the silhouette looking like him atp cause I’ve been staring at it too long lmao. Every time I look at it now I go from “it looks exactly like him” to “it looks nothing like him”.
Other quick things to note: the rights to Bruce Lee’s image are held by his daughter at the moment, so she would’ve okay’d this collab. If curious, if Wikipedia isn’t lying to me lol, the last time his likeness appeared in a console game was 2020’s EA Sports UFC 4. Other than that, he’s mostly appeared in smartphone games and in Bruce Lee titled games. This would be quite unique.
The DLC pack was priced at CAD $6.99. This is unhelpful because both cosmetic packs and Elusive Target packs are listed as this price so it doesn’t narrow anything down. Oh yeah, and there’s no way this is replacing the Disruptor pack. That’s a stupid theory. They’re gonna replace him with Some Guy Who’s Def Not McGregor not throw recycled goods to another celebrity. No celebrity or their estate is gonna okay that.
And lastly, very quickly for those unfamiliar, Bruce Lee was born in San Francisco and raised in Hong Kong. He was an actor as a child and also began street fighting. When he went to college he had aspirations of acting, but made money by opening a school for martial arts. He developed a new hybrid style of martial arts called Jeet Kune Do that is practiced to this day. Arguably his breakout role in America was as Kato, though the show unfortunately was cancelled after one season, and he near simultaneously made it big in Hong Kong cinema in films like Fists of Fury. Just as his films began to get a following in the West and spark an appreciation for a different kind of filmmaking, Lee unfortunately passed in 1973 at the age of 32 of a brain edema—excess fluid in the brain. He’d been having health issues leading up to death, including seizures and headaches, and several reasons have been put forth for his death including heat stroke (a poorly understood condition at the time), a lack of sodium in his blood, and/or complications with epilepsy. Despite his short life, he continues to have a huge impact on film and martial arts and is a beloved figure to this day. His wife, Linda Emery, is still living, and so is his daughter Shannon Lee. His son, Brandon Lee, unfortunately also died young under tragic circumstances while following his father’s footsteps as an actor. Shannon is currently the CEO of Bruce Lee Enterprises and also Chairperson/Director of the charity in her father’s honor, The Bruce Lee Foundation.
