History Main / MrAltDisney

* ''WesternAnimation/Wish2023'': Some viewers see King Magnifico as this. He's a charismatic man who single-handedly created a "Magic Kingdom" and has built a reputation as a man who brings people's fantasies to life in spite of grim reality. Like many other takes on this trope, he is a villainous version of the archetype, whose power and acclaim go hand-in-hand with his greed and ambition -- but complicating the trope is that this is a '''Disney-produced''' film, specifically their centennial animated feature. In fact [[WordOfGod the filmmakers claim]] that the heroine Asha is the analogue to Walt Disney: An artist/would-be animator (whose flipbook Magnifico dismisses) who comes from a humble family; that she dresses up her pet goat Valentino in a onesie is even inspired by Walt's farm childhood!

* ''WesternAnimation/Wish2023'': Magnifico is a charismatic man who single-handedly created a "Magic Kingdom" and has built a reputation as a man who brings people's fantasies to life in spite of grim reality. Considering Wish was made in celebration of the company's 100 year anniversary, this could have been the intent. Like many other takes on this trope, he is a villainous version of the archetype, whose power and acclaim go hand-in-hand with his greed and ambition.

* Roy Brisby from ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'', creator of [[MockyMouse Bizzy Bee]] and Brisbyland.

* In HappyFunland, the titular (long abandoned) theme park was created by a man named Mort Grisly, who was a jovial man to the public, but in private was an egomaniac who only cared about fame and fortune.

* ''WesternAnimation/Wish2013'': Mr. Alt Disney: He's a charismatic man who single-handedly created a "Magic Kingdom" and has built a reputation as a man who brings people's fantasies to life in spite of grim reality. Considering Wish was made in celebration of the company's 100 year anniversary, this could have been the intent. Like many other takes on this trope, he is a villainous version of the archetype, whose power and acclaim go hand-in-hand with his greed and ambition.

* ''Film/JurassicPark1993'': John Hammond, the creator of Jurassic Park. In [[Literature/JurassicPark the book]], he's a greedy and uncaring executive who author Creator/MichaelCrichton described as "the dark version of Walt Disney". However, the film makes him a more sympathetic CoolOldGuy (i.e., Disney played straighter), since Creator/StevenSpielberg identified with his like for showmanship.

%%** Mitch Wacky.

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'':

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* Roger Meyers Sr. from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', [[PlagiarismInFiction thief]] of [[JustForFun/TheItchyAndScratchyShow Itchy and Scratchy]],[[note]]Most likely based on the fact that Disney's first commercial character, Julius the Cat, was practically a carbon copy of Franchise/FelixTheCat[[/note]] which eventually spawned Itchy and Scratchy Land (albeit after his death). While the cartoon is generally a parody of ''Franchise/TomAndJerry'' and ''WesternAnimation/HermanAndKatnip'', the historical installments of the series produced under Meyers Sr. depicted in various episodes include parodies of ''WesternAnimation/SteamboatWillie'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}''. Myers was also known for his "controversial" 1938 film ''Nazi Supermen Are Our Superiors'', referencing the urban legend of Disney's anti-semitism. The episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E18TheDayTheViolenceDied The Day the Violence Died]]" also references the urban legend about Walt Disney being cryogenically frozen, when Roger Meyers Jr. goes bankrupt and shows that he can no longer afford to preserve his father's head in cryo-conservation... cue leaking icebox.

* Roy Brisby from ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', creator of [[MockyMouse Bizzy Bee]] and Brisbyland.

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* A truly heartbreaking version of this appears in ''Anime/ErgoProxy.'' He just wants to be left alone,[[spoiler: and not killed like all the other Proxies.]]
* [[spoiler:The fake]] Chuck Culkin in ''Manga/BillyBat'', who took over the titular [[ShowWithinAShow comic]] and gave him some major BadAssDecay after original author/artist Kevin Yamagata disappears. He rapidly built such a large empire around the character that he easily gets away with pretending he started it.
* William Borise in the second volume of ''Manga/GenkakuPicasso''.

* Wade Dazzle, a billionaire cartoon and amusement park mogul who sought the secret of Amazon immortality in ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Volume 1]].
%%* Mitch Wacky in Franchise/TheDCU.
* Franchise/TheDCU:
** Winston Keever Sr., creator of ''Winky Blink and Friends'' and founder of the Winkyworld theme park chain in Chuck Dixon's ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' and ''ComicBook/GreenArrow'' comics. He briefly appears in ''Green Arrow'' as a dying old man, horrified by how ruthlessly his son runs the company.

* Elias [=McFadden=] in the middle story of the comic anthology ''ComicBook/TheEternalSmile''.
* One story in the ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' had a crazy Disney-alike try to use the Human Torch's powers to 'reignite the Earth's core'. The reason his employees went along with such a blatantly insane plan ({{Lampshaded}} as such, even by comic-book science standards,) was that [[spoiler:they were ''all'' RidiculouslyHumanRobots he'd built.]]
* ''FissionChicken'' once had to beat the cryogenically-preserved brain of "Walt Ditsey".
* In the black-and-white ''Comicbook/HowardTheDuck'' magazine, Wally Sidney was a failed animator turned wealthy haberdasher. He imposed a new code of decency on the title character, forcing him to wear pants. This was because Disney had sued Marvel over the character, claiming similarity to Donald Duck. Marvel's lawyers instantly caved and as a part of the settlement Disney was allowed to redesign Howard's look any way they saw fit, which included making him wear pants. [[HilariousInHindsight And now Disney owns Marvel.]]
* The ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' comic strip "Welcome To Tickle Town" featured eccentric animator Tobias Tickle, who artificially prolonged his life into the 24th century and then built Tickle Town theme park, and trapped its visitors to protect them from the horrors of the AfterTheEnd world outside [[spoiler: which existed entirely in his head]].

* An unpublished ''WesternAnimation/HiHiPuffyAmiYumi'' story had the girls trying to take a vacation at Dizzyland ("the sickest place on earth") but are chased persistently by their fans.
* The Golden Age ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'' parody "Mickey Rodent!" had Walt Dizzy, an UnknownCharacter whose rules everyone had to live by, including wearing WhiteGloves at all times. His Disney-like signature appeared on every page until a conspicuous ArtShift (all of this being [[MediumAwareness pointed out by the characters]]). His name was always printed like his signature when it appeared in dialogue bubbles.
* ''ComicBook/XMen'' villain Bolivar Trask, creator of the Sentinels, was visually based on Walt Disney, and inherited his interest in futuristic technology and his purported bigotry.
* ''Cyberella'', a lesser known comic written by Creator/HowardChaykin, was built around the titular character starting off as a hybrid of WesternAnimation/BettyBoop and WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse created by blatant Disney parody Kelton Mosby. The first two issues explore the development of Cyberella, starting when she was Li'l Ella and before that her inspiration, child actress Ella Fiscus. There's a sanitized version that makes Mosby seem like an adoring father figure and man ahead of his time, and the more cynical, actual version revealing Mosby was just an extremely lucky opportunist who strong-armed unions among other sordid details. It's also implied the real Ella was actually an adult midget (based on the infamous untrue urban legend about Creator/ShirleyTemple) he was having an affair with before she died. They found Mosby's dead body in a hotel room with several underage prostitutes dressed like Li'l Ella.

* ''[[WebAnimation/QueerDuck Queer Duck: The Movie]]'' has an unflattering example in theme park Happyland's founder Fritz Happy. His son claims that their real surname is [[GodwinsLaw Hitler]] (spelled with two T's) and he is shown to be cryogenically frozen and set to thaw out in the year 3066, referencing the famous urban legend that Walt Disney was frozen.

* Roy Walley[[note]]Walt's brother and nephew, both of whom were high executives in the Disney corporation, were named Roy[[/note]] on ''Film/NationalLampoonsVacation'', with Marty Moose and Walley World. In the original magazine story it really was Walt Disney, who was (non-fatally) shot by a pushed-over-the-edge Pop.
* Howard Stark in ''Film/IronMan2'' is very much based on the futurist side of Walt, with his Stark Expo film being very similar to Disney's promotional film for EPCOT, though it's shown in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'' and ''Series/AgentCarter'' that in his earlier days he was more of a pre-breakdown HowardHughesHomage. Funnily enough, ''Iron Man 2'' just so happened to be the first MCU film released after Disney bought Marvel.

* ''Film/JurassicPark1993'': John Hammond, the creator of Jurassic Park. In [[Literature/JurassicPark the book]], he's a greedy and uncaring executive who author Creator/MichaelCrichton described as "the dark version of Walt Disney". However, the film makes him a more sympathetic CoolOldGuy (i.e., Disney played straighter), since Creator/StevenSpielberg identified with his like for showmanship.
* Creator/BillPlympton's {{Mockumentary}} ''Hitler's Folly'' makes UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler himself into one, expanding on Hitler's art career and love of ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'' (which led to the real-life production of ''WesternAnimation/ArmerHansi'') by [[AdolfHitlarious reimagining him]] as having unfulfilled dreams of creating an animation empire and wanting to build the Disneyland-esque park "Nazi-land".

* Raymond Dieterling, founder of Dream-a-Dream Land, in the James Ellroy novel ''Literature/LAConfidential''. (This character doesn't appear in the film version).
* Ralph Mimsey in several novels by Dave Stone, including the ComicBook/JudgeDredd tie-in novel ''Wetworks'' and the Literature/DoctorWhoMissingAdventures novel ''Burning Heart''; the latter has Mimsey's cryogenically-preserved head as a minor character. His creations include Barnabas the Magic Ocelot and Mickey Monkey.
* Uncle Sam Beasley from a few of the ''[[Literature/TheDestroyer Destroyer]]'' books tried to conquer Cuba and turn it into an amusement park. His first book features the song, "It's a Short Life After All."

* The Saruman counterpart in ''Literature/BoredOfTheRings'', Serutan. He was running an half-abandoned theme park centered around a character called Dicky Dragon. At one point in the past, Goodgulf (the Gandalf equivalent) was his business partner, but their relationship soured due to Serutan becoming more greedy (at least, [[UnreliableExpositor according to Goodgulf]]).

* "Literature/TheGypsiesInTheWood" features "Uncle Satt", a Victorian-era entrepreneur who has made a pile on a fairy-tale cartoon-character franchise and is about to open his first SouvenirLand. There's a conversation about what exactly Uncle Satt actually ''does'', given that all the words and illustrations that appear under his name were created by underlings, which echoes a story told about Uncle Walt.
* ''Literature/InCryptid'' has Michael Lowry, the founder of the Disneyland [[ExpyCoexistence coexisting expy]] Lowryland, though he's long dead by the time the series takes place, and most of the focus is on the theme park.

* Charles Dingo in ''Series/ICarly'', with its theme park, the dingo as the beloved cartoon animal and even its own version of Creator/DisneyChannel. [[HumanPopsicle And his frozen head in the bowels of the Dingo Studios.]]
* Milt Appleday from ''Series/OutOfJimmysHead'', creator of Golly Gopher and the Gollywood Theme Park

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* The AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho audio drama ''Zagreus'', featuring the Eighth Doctor, has several characters played by the actors who play earlier incarnations of the Doctor. Sylvester [=McCoy=]'s character is a futuristic Walt Disney analogue named Uncle Winky.
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* [[http://www.atomicthinktank.com/viewtopic.php?p=827769#p827769 Walter Rand]] in the ''TabletopGame/HaltEvilDoer'' setting for ''TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds''. His "Rand Utopias" are parodies of Disney's "planned community" Celebration combined with the comic book concept of the MadScientist having a hidden community as his own sociology experiment. (The real Disney also existed in the HED! setting, and got irritated at Rand constantly stealing his ideas. The last straw was when he started "poaching" Mouseketeers to join Sneckles the Snake's Young Pioneers.)

* Cave Johnson from ''VideoGame/Portal2'' seems to have a lot of this to his character; [[spoiler:especially with regards to his plans to cheat death]].

** Mr. Robert House in ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' is this mixed with a Howard Hughes-type paranoiac. His goal is to run New Vegas as TheThemeParkVersion: safe, clean, secure, and under his totalitarian control, aided by an army of robots. His portrait bears more than a little resemblance to Disney, [[spoiler: and his actual body is effectively somewhere between HumanPopsicle and BrainInAJar.]]
** ''Videogame/{{Fallout 4}}'' has John-Caleb Bradberton, the creator of Nuka-Cola who built a theme park dedicated to his drink. [[spoiler:Unsurprisingly, his head is found frozen and kept alive by pre-war technology underneath the park.]] For bonus points, his name is a [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed mashup]] of John Pemberton and Caleb Bradham, inventors of Coca-Cola and Pepsi Cola respectively.
* Andrew Ryan from ''VideoGame/BioShock'' is basically a Libertarian Walt Disney bent on building a utopia, much like Disney's original vision of the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (EPCOT). He also has a mustache that is similar to Disney's. Like Robert House, he is also based on Howard Hughes.
* April 2015's Item-Of-The-Month in the ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'' was an airplane charter to Dinseylandfill, the world's most popular amusement park that, due to a city planning mistake, was also zoned as a landfill. Deep within the maintenance tunnels of the park, armed with the four keycards to unlock his cryo-stasis chamber, one can discover Wart Dinsey himself, complete with numerous Walt Disney quotes, slightly altered with sinister intent...
--> ''"That's the trouble with the world:" says a monotone voice, "too many people grow up. I'll make sure you don't make that mistake."''
* Joey Drew from ''VideoGame/BendyAndTheInkMachine'' is at least partly based on Walt Disney. His most famous character appears to be the titular Bendy, a demon reminiscent of Mickey Mouse. Joey also has his own animation studio where he encourages people to follow their dreams. [[spoiler:This being a horror game, Joey is also an AllTakeAndNoGive kind of boss who took credit for all of his worker's accomplishments. He seems to have made as much of an effort to go straight as he can after realizing it hasn't done anything but leave him almost entirely alone: aside from trying to mend bridges with his co-workers, like Wally and Allison, Joey also asks for Henry's help to destroy Bendy once and for all once it's clear that he's done nothing but cause everyone misery.]]
* Nathaniel Winter of ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld'' and ''VideoGame/ThePark'' is portrayed as a mad cross between Walt Disney and Howard Hughes during both games. A millionaire construction mogul, he set out to build a spectacular amusement park on a relatively obscure island off the coast of Maine, and was careful to portray himself as benevolently as possible in the advertising; he even has a small cuddly mammal as the park's mascot - namely Chad the Chipmunk. For good measure, he's revealed to be secretly contemptuous of the locals, knowingly exposing workers and guests to dangerous conditions, and bribing the government to keep the park open. Then, when the park is finally shut down, he abandons his family and retreats into the abandoned property to spend the rest of his life in seclusion. [[spoiler: It turns out that Atlantic Island Park was secretly his means of securing immortality, and has ultimately transformed him into the Bogeyman that still haunts the property.]]

* An early ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' arc featured Newt Sidney, owner of Sidneyland. Very obvious - they even mentioned that he started his career with a talking mouse. Interestingly enough, he's the ''villain'' of the piece, enforcing "a near-monopoly" through underhanded dealings, threats, criminal connections, and similar - all of it impossible to trace back to him, meaning that he winds up as a KarmaHoudini. The arc is started when one of his competitors hires the titular mercenaries to safeguard the opening of his new 'Magic Dream-Land' (next door to Sidneyland), after Sidney threatened to prevent the opening even if he had to commandeer a KillSat and nuke them from orbit.
* Waldo Frizzy from ''WebComic/SeventySeas'', creator of Toby Terrier and Toby Town.

* The [[https://twitter.com/epcotcentre @EpcotCentre]] Twitter spoof account imagines [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Epcot]] as a standalone theme park built by one [[https://twitter.com/epcotcentre/status/442077875739451392?lang=en Robert Alan Epcot]] -- with a Twitter account run as a hobby by a staffer in her spare time.

* Roy Brisby from ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', creator of [[MockyMouse Bizzy Bee]] and Brisbyland.
* Roger Meyers Sr. from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', [[PlagiarismInFiction thief]] of [[JustForFun/TheItchyAndScratchyShow Itchy and Scratchy]] [[note]]Most likely based on the fact that Disney's first commercial character, Julius the Cat, was practically a carbon copy of ''Franchise/FelixTheCat''[[/note]], which eventually spawned Itchy and Scratchy Land (albeit after his death). While the cartoon is generally a parody of ''Franchise/TomAndJerry'' and ''WesternAnimation/HermanAndKatnip'', the historical installments of the series produced under Meyers Sr. depicted in various episodes include parodies of ''WesternAnimation/SteamboatWillie'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}''. Myers was also known for his "controversial" 1938 film ''Nazi Supermen Are Our Superiors'', referencing the urban legend of Disney's anti-semitism. The episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E18TheDayTheViolenceDied The Day The Violence Died]]" also references the urban legend about Walt Disney being cryogenically frozen, when Roger Meyers Jr. goes bankrupt and shows that he can no longer afford to preserve his father's head in cryo-conservation... cue leaking icebox.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' provides an example from a FantasticVoyagePlot episode. The mogul is Mr. Walt Kidney, whose theme park, Kidneyland, happens to reside within the kidney of Vicky.

* Lemuel Stewartson on the Atom.com cartoons about UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation; his creation was a raccoon called Mortimer Koon (in a universe of AnimatedActors). Alas, the ill-fated theme park Koonland was [[MistakenForRacist ruined by its name]].
* Walt Fleishman in ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'' (the episode "Who're You Calling Two-Dimensional?") is probably an amalgam of Disney and [[Creator/FleischerStudios one or two of his contemporaries.]]

* The "Literature/SleepingBeauty" parody on ''The WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle Show'' (one of the "Fractured Fairy Tales" segments) portrayed the prince as an obvious parody of Walt Disney who, rather than wake her with a kiss, builds a theme park ("Sleeping Beauty Land") around her. Walt was reportedly not amused. (Possibly explaining a reference during one of a handful of shows where NBC experimentally had a live-action Bullwinkle puppet, also voiced by Bill Scott, hosting. At the end of one show, the puppet explains that they have to go because "Mr. Disney just came into the studio with a baseball bat.")
* At around the same time, ''WesternAnimation/BeanyAndCecil'' had an episode "Beanyland", where they build a theme park on the moon - Dishonest John, mining green cheese at the time, sabotages their work and christens it "Meanyland". Standards and Practices suits raised objections to the 'unflattering caricature of Disney', apparently unaware that was Dishonest John, as he usually looked.
* Dalt Wisney in ''Henry's Cat''.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'', Garfield goes to an amusement park called Wonderful World and meets its founder Wilson Wonder, who lives behind a Fun House mirror. Serial con artist Al Swindler took over the park and had Wonder locked away inside one of his own attractions so he wouldn't cause trouble.
* The ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episode "Familyland" has the titular theme park's evil founder Roy Family, who was [[UrbanLegends cryogenically frozen and anti-Semitic]]. [[ExpyCoexistence Klaus mentions Walt Disney by name]], but Steve doesn't know who he is.

** The {{Elseworld}} ''Franchise/{{Batman}}: Dark Allegiances'' reinvents the Dark Knight's villains as parodies of real people from the 1930s suspected of Nazi sympathies. So Oswald Cobblepot becomes Milt Biggsley, the creator of Peter Penguin, and founder of the Biggstown amusement park (allowing a MythologyGag with a giant prop typewriter).

* Howard Stark in ''Film/IronMan2'' is very much based on the futurist side of Walt, with his Stark Expo film being very similar to Disney's promotional film for EPCOT, though it's shown in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'' and ''Series/AgentCarter'' that in his earlier days he was more of a pre-breakdown Creator/HowardHughes type. Funnily enough, ''Iron Man 2'' just so happened to be the first MCU film released after Disney bought Marvel.

* Grant Walker from ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': The focus is less on him as a cartoon mogul and more on the animatronics part, and his design of an [[UnderwaterCity underwater utopia]] with no crime ([[Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe wait ...]]). His attempt to work with Mr. Freeze to gain immortality does succeed, but ultimately results in him becoming a HumanPopsicle (combined with AndIMustScream, since he's still conscious) when his city is brought down around him.