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==Personality / appearance== In the original two games Duke Nukem barely spoke and was portrayed as a self-proclaimed hero initially hired by the CIA Dr. Proton. However Duke's personality in all his games since the third game in the series, ''[[Duke Nukem 3D]]'', has been that of a wise-cracking, [[masculinity|hyper-masculine]], [[egotistical]], [[chauvinist]], [[machismo]]-filled, [[womanizer|womanizing]] tough guy. It should be noted that in ''Duke Nukem II'' he starts to move more into the direction of a traditional action hero. His missions generally involved killing [[extraterrestrial life|aliens]] that had invaded [[Earth]]. He is apparently sexually adept and irresistible to women, and circumstances generally find him surrounded by many buxom women. He does however frequently mention an estranged love named "Lani" in numerous games, although she is never elaborated on and seems to be the butt of many of his jokes. (Indeed, in [[Duke Nukem 3D]], it is shown that he has a tattoo of her name on one of his buttocks.) This is widely believed to be a reference Lani Minella a voice actress that has done several voices for Duke Nukem 3D. Duke Nukem's character is a pastiche of a number of Hollywood-action heroes, such as those played by John Wayne, [[Charles Bronson]] in ''[[Death Wish (film)|Death Wish]]'', [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] in ''[[Commando (film)|Commando]]'', [[Sylvester Stallone]] as [[John Rambo|Rambo]], [[Bruce Willis]] as [[John McClane]] in ''[[Die Hard]]'', [[Kurt Russell]]'s character from ''[[Big Trouble In Little China]]'', [[Roddy Piper]]'s character from ''[[They Live]]'', and [[Bruce Campbell]] as [[Ash Williams]] from the ''[[Evil Dead]]'' series. His appearance resembles characters played by [[Dolph Lundgren]] and [[Jean Claude Van Damme]]. Voiced by [[Jon St. John]] in all incarnations in which the character speaks (with the exception of ''[[Duke Nukem II]]''), Duke's voice is based on that of [[Clint Eastwood]] as [[Dirty Harry]].<ref>[http://www.zergwatch.com/News-958/An-Interview-with-Duke-Nukem-Balls-of-Steel.html An Interview with Duke Nukem - Balls of Steel]</ref> Like the characters often played by Schwarzenegger and Stallone, Duke is a confident, aggressive, and frequently [[political correctness|politically incorrect]] muscle-man, who, although not [[superhuman]], nonetheless manages to achieve incredible physical feats of violence and conquest through sheer machismo and expertise with automatic weapons. (However, there is evidence in Duke Nukem 3D that he may have been genetically engineered.) Other than a wide array of automatic firearms, explosives, and energy weapons, Duke is best known for his trademark [[jet pack]], which gives him the ability to fly short distances in quick bursts. He is also known for his golden [[Desert Eagle]] pistol and [[sunglasses]], which completely conceal his eyes and which he has not been seen without (even at night) since ''Duke Nukem 3D'', his leathers, his motorbikes and his platinum blonde, military-style haircut, which is existent since the first game. In every game, he traditionally wears a red tank top and blue jeans. In all of the games, Duke has a melee attack known as the "Mighty Boot", which is basically a strong kick to the face. In ''[[Duke Nukem II]]'', it is shown that Duke wrote an autobiography entitled ''Why I'm So Great''. Like the character played by [[Bruce Campbell]], Nukem is also a smart-mouth (although Duke's humor is somewhat less sarcastic and more straightforwardly aggressive, a few of ''Duke Nukem 3D'''s phrases are taken directly from the Campbell vehicle ''[[Army of Darkness]]''; Campbell has expressed anger at not being consulted or paid for the use of these phrases<ref>[http://verbosity.wiw.org/issue7/bruce.html One on One with Bruce Campbell] verbosity.wiw.org</ref><ref>November 5, 1999 [http://web.archive.org/web/20010810105955/http://formen.ign.com/news/11886.html IGN For Men Interview: Bruce Campbell]</ref>), and his sneering visage is often found speaking [[one-liner joke|one-liners]] while slaughtering his enemies.
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