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Wrestler Booker T. Huffman sues Activision for allegedly using his comic book character in Black Ops 4

Wrestler Booker T. Huffman sues Activision for allegedly using his comic book character in Black Ops 4

Professional wrestler Booker T. Huffman is suing games publisher Activision for allegedly putting his comic book character “G.I. Bro” in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4.

Huffman filed a copyright complaint today based on similarities between G.I. Bro and the Black Ops character David “Prophet” Wilkes. “They could have drawn him any way they wanted. But they chose to steal Booker T’s ‘G. I. Bro,’” the complaint reads.

Huffman isn’t the first celebrity to sue over having their alleged likeness in a video game.

Lindsay Lohan famously sued Rockstar Games over a Grand Theft Auto character she claimed had been, but a court shot down the complaint.

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Actor Alfonso Ribiero, among other internet celebrities and musicians, has sued Epic Games over Fortnite — in Ribiero’s case, for basing a Fortnite emote on a dance he’d invented for Carlton Banks, his character on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

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