It might be unusual to feature "Hangover II" and Mike Tyson on these pages, but it seems impossible to omit the copyright controversy that blew up around the film and the figure.
In 2003, S. Victor Whitmill designed and tattooed Mike Tyson's face. The creators of "Hangover II" thought it would be funny if one of their characters woke up in Bangkok with Tyson's tattoo on his face. In April of this year, Whitmill filed a lawsuit against Warner Brothers at the federal court in St. Louis, alleging that the tattoo in the movie was "virtually exact reproduction" of the tattoo he created on Tyson, and that this reproduction violated his copyright. Accordingly, Whitmill sought an injunction against the release of the film.
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