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* ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}'': Cornell Bertram "Cottonmouth" Stokes 's character may be partially based on Willie "Flukie" Stokes, a Chicago pool hall owner, self-named gambler, and also a notorious gangster and drug dealer who simultaneously terrorized and befriended the South Side of Chicago, and adored by the public even though he was the primary source of much of their misery.
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* ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}'': Cornell Bertram "Cottonmouth" Stokes 's character may be partially based on Willie "Flukie" Stokes, a Chicago pool hall owner, self-named gambler, and also a notorious gangster and drug dealer who simultaneously terrorized and befriended the South Side of Chicago, and adored by the public even though he was the primary source of much of their misery.misery.
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* Colossus' voice in ''Film/X2XMenUnited'' was dubbed, apparently to add to his Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger resemblance.
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* Creator/MattFraction has said in interviews that Darla Deering[=/=]Miss Thing from ''Comicbook/{{FF}}'' is supposed to be Music/KatyPerry if she were a superhero.
* Talk show host Iprah appears in ''Comicbook/HowardTheDuck'' Volume 3.
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* Creator/MattFraction has said in interviews that Darla Deering[=/=]Miss Thing from ''Comicbook/{{FF}}'' ''ComicBook/{{FF}}'' is supposed to be Music/KatyPerry if she were a superhero.
* Talk show host Iprah appears in''Comicbook/HowardTheDuck'' ''ComicBook/HowardTheDuck'' Volume 3.
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** In a much later story Creator/KieronGillen introduces another left-wing journalist; an internet activist named Abigail Beryl Burns (with the online identity Red Peril) who is a CompositeCharacter of Abigail Brady and Laurie Penny/Penny Red.
* The Warriors Three from ''Comicbook/TheMightyThor'' are Errol Flynn, Charles Bronson, and, uh, [[FamousFamousFictional Falstaff]], except reimagined as Norse gods.
* The Warriors Three from ''Comicbook/TheMightyThor'' are Errol Flynn, Charles Bronson, and, uh, [[FamousFamousFictional Falstaff]], except reimagined as Norse gods.
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** In a much later story ''ComicBook/IronMan2012'', Creator/KieronGillen introduces another left-wing journalist; an internet activist named Abigail Beryl Burns (with the online identity Red Peril) who is a CompositeCharacter of Abigail Brady and Laurie Penny/Penny Red.
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* The Warriors Three from''Comicbook/TheMightyThor'' ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'' are Errol Flynn, Charles Bronson, and, uh, [[FamousFamousFictional Falstaff]], except reimagined as Norse gods.
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* ''Comicbook/SpiderManDeadpool'' #6 is set during the making of a ''Deadpool'' movie starring a "Hollywood pretty-boy" named "Donald Dryans". Subverted when the story ends with Spidey declaring Deadpool should be played by a ''real'' actor, like Creator/RyanReynolds.
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* ''Comicbook/SpiderManDeadpool'' ''ComicBook/SpiderManDeadpool'' #6 is set during the making of a ''Deadpool'' movie starring a "Hollywood pretty-boy" named "Donald Dryans". Subverted when the story ends with Spidey declaring Deadpool should be played by a ''real'' actor, like Creator/RyanReynolds.
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* ''{{West Coast|Team}} [[Comicbook/TheAvengers Avengers]]'' had Arnold Schwarzburger, a brainless body builder-turned-actor who worked on a movie with ComicBook/WonderMan. [[Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger Three guesses as to who he was supposed to be]].
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* ''{{West Coast|Team}} [[Comicbook/TheAvengers [[ComicBook/TheAvengers Avengers]]'' had Arnold Schwarzburger, a brainless body builder-turned-actor who worked on a movie with ComicBook/WonderMan. [[Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger Three guesses as to who he was supposed to be]].
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* ''{{Series/Daredevil|2015}}'': [[Characters/MCUBenjaminPoindexter Benjamin Poindexter]] backstory (working at a suicide hotline and shadowing Julie) gives him shades of serial killer Ted Bundy.
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* ''{{Series/Daredevil|2015}}'': [[Characters/MCUBenjaminPoindexter Benjamin Poindexter]] backstory (working at a suicide hotline and shadowing Julie) gives him shades of serial killer Ted Bundy.Bundy.
* ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}'': Cornell Bertram "Cottonmouth" Stokes 's character may be partially based on Willie "Flukie" Stokes, a Chicago pool hall owner, self-named gambler, and also a notorious gangster and drug dealer who simultaneously terrorized and befriended the South Side of Chicago, and adored by the public even though he was the primary source of much of their misery.
* ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}'': Cornell Bertram "Cottonmouth" Stokes 's character may be partially based on Willie "Flukie" Stokes, a Chicago pool hall owner, self-named gambler, and also a notorious gangster and drug dealer who simultaneously terrorized and befriended the South Side of Chicago, and adored by the public even though he was the primary source of much of their misery.
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** ''Film/IronMan3'': Trevor Slattery / "The Mandarin" (Usurper)
*** [[UsefulNotes/OsamaBinLaden A Middle Eastern anti-American terrorist who was formerly under the US's employ, leads an extremist rebel band, sends video broadcasts, and views himself as a cleanser of evil.]] In-universe, in fact; Trevor's Mandarin is supposedly Killian's attempt to directly draw on his influence.
*** Trevor Slattery himself seems an awful lot like an older Creator/RussellBrand.
*** [[UsefulNotes/OsamaBinLaden A Middle Eastern anti-American terrorist who was formerly under the US's employ, leads an extremist rebel band, sends video broadcasts, and views himself as a cleanser of evil.]] In-universe, in fact; Trevor's Mandarin is supposedly Killian's attempt to directly draw on his influence.
*** Trevor Slattery himself seems an awful lot like an older Creator/RussellBrand.
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** Henrietta Hunter was Princess Diana rewritten to be completely not Princess Diana because Marvel got cold feet. [[WriterRevolt Perhaps intentionally]], the story she appears in works a lot better knowing this than it does if you read it the way it was written.
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** Henrietta Hunter was Princess Diana rewritten to be completely not Princess Diana because Marvel got cold feet. [[WriterRevolt Perhaps intentionally]], the story she appears in works a lot better knowing this than it does if you read it the way it was written.written.
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* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse
** ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'': J. Jonah Jameson and his show are clearly modeled after small-time hard-right talk show hosts, complete with a specific presentation style similar to ''Info Wars'', right down to peddling pharmaceutical nutrients of dubious quality.
*** In ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'', Jameson has upgraded his operation significantly resembling outlets such as Newsmax or ''The Blaze''.
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* ''{{Series/Daredevil|2015}}'': [[Characters/MCUBenjaminPoindexter Benjamin Poindexter]] backstory (working at a suicide hotline and shadowing Julie) gives him shades of serial killer Ted Bundy.
!!Films
* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse
** ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'': J. Jonah Jameson and his show are clearly modeled after small-time hard-right talk show hosts, complete with a specific presentation style similar to ''Info Wars'', right down to peddling pharmaceutical nutrients of dubious quality.
*** In ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'', Jameson has upgraded his operation significantly resembling outlets such as Newsmax or ''The Blaze''.
!!Live-Action TV
* ''{{Series/Daredevil|2015}}'': [[Characters/MCUBenjaminPoindexter Benjamin Poindexter]] backstory (working at a suicide hotline and shadowing Julie) gives him shades of serial killer Ted Bundy.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}'': Without the makeup, Clown (Kazimierz Kazimierczak) looks like a young Creator/MichaelCaine, even wearing Film/HarryPalmer's signature NHS glasses in a meeting with corporate bigwigs.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'': Supervillain Tribune (Buck Ralston) greatly resembles Creator/JohnWayne, whose anti-communist, pro-war stance was making the news at the time.
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!!Comic Books
[[quoteright:350:[[ComicBook/TheUltimates https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rco022_1461989426.jpg]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Don't worry for Creator/FreddiePrinzeJr, ComicBook/TheUltimates will save him!]]
* Marvel loved this trope in its earlier years. One of ComicBook/NickFury's Howling Commandoes was Dino Manelli, an Italian-American film star who was clearly not Dean Martin. And when Marvel briefly had the rights to Godzilla, SHIELD got a new special agent responsible for fixing the Helicarrier whose name was "Hugh Howards" (though nowadays it's usually Iron Man's father who plays the part of the Howard Hughes stand-in).
* Doug Moench slipped [[http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/hackstabber.htm Rufus T. Hackstabber]] and [[http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/warmflash.htm Quigley J. Warmflash]] into ''Master of Kung Fu''; you may know them better as Groucho Marx and W.C. Fields.
* Secretary of State Dondi Reese appears in ''ComicBook/BlackPanther'' Volume 4.
* ''ComicBook/DoctorStrange'': Strange is Creator/VincentPrice. There's really no other way to say it. He only usually looks like Price (Strange began with a slight resemblance to [[ComicStrip/FlashGordon Ming the Merciless]], and his face is sometimes modeled on other actors), but his combination of portentous [[LargeHam hamminess]], erudition, and good humour is dead on for Price's persona.
* Creator/MattFraction has said in interviews that Darla Deering[=/=]Miss Thing from ''Comicbook/{{FF}}'' is supposed to be Music/KatyPerry if she were a superhero.
* Talk show host Iprah appears in ''Comicbook/HowardTheDuck'' Volume 3.
* ''Comicbook/IronMan'':
** Creator/WarrenEllis's first issue has Tony interviewed by left-wing documentary-maker John Pillinger, who bears more than a passing resemblance to left-wing documentary maker John Pilger.
** In a much later story Creator/KieronGillen introduces another left-wing journalist; an internet activist named Abigail Beryl Burns (with the online identity Red Peril) who is a CompositeCharacter of Abigail Brady and Laurie Penny/Penny Red.
* The Warriors Three from ''Comicbook/TheMightyThor'' are Errol Flynn, Charles Bronson, and, uh, [[FamousFamousFictional Falstaff]], except reimagined as Norse gods.
* In ''ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX'''s spin-off miniseries about The Barracuda, mobster 'Big Chris' Angelone has both the appearance and speech patterns of Creator/ChristopherWalken.
* In the fourth-wall-averse series ''ComicBook/TheSensationalSheHulk'', Issue #12 revolves around a movie being made of She-Hulk's life:
** Jen learns of the movie when she is ambushed by an ''Series/EntertainmentTonight'' film crew led by Mary Hart.
--->'''She-Hulk:''' Shouldn't we be giving you a parody name or something? Like Mary Spleen?\\
'''Mary Hart:''' Get real. Like we ''care'' if we're in a comic book.
** Later in the same issue, it's revealed that Jen is going to be played in the biopic by the petite starlet "[[Creator/PiaZadora P. Isadora]]". Jen immediately lampshades the fact that ''her'' name got changed.
* ''Comicbook/SpiderManDeadpool'' #6 is set during the making of a ''Deadpool'' movie starring a "Hollywood pretty-boy" named "Donald Dryans". Subverted when the story ends with Spidey declaring Deadpool should be played by a ''real'' actor, like Creator/RyanReynolds.
* ComicBook/UltimateMarvel
** ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'' initially reimagined Kraven the Hunter as a parody of the late Creator/SteveIrwin, [[AdaptationalNationality complete with Kraven being Australian instead of Russian]].
* ''{{West Coast|Team}} [[Comicbook/TheAvengers Avengers]]'' had Arnold Schwarzburger, a brainless body builder-turned-actor who worked on a movie with ComicBook/WonderMan. [[Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger Three guesses as to who he was supposed to be]].
* Many members of the Hellfire Club from ''ComicBook/XMen'' visibly resemble and are named after celebrities who were famous at the time of their creation (which is rather fitting, given that historical hellfire clubs were supposedly where the influential and powerful went to debauch themselves). Just to use the obvious examples, ComicBook/EmmaFrost is Creator/DianaRigg, Sebastian Shaw is Creator/RobertShaw, and recurring villain Mastermind became Creator/PeterWyngarde just in time to join up.
* ''[[Comicbook/XForce X-Statix]]''
** Phat was Music/{{Eminem}} with superpowers, a secret upper class upbringing, and gay.
** Henrietta Hunter was Princess Diana rewritten to be completely not Princess Diana because Marvel got cold feet. [[WriterRevolt Perhaps intentionally]], the story she appears in works a lot better knowing this than it does if you read it the way it was written.
!!Comic Books
[[quoteright:350:[[ComicBook/TheUltimates https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rco022_1461989426.jpg]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Don't worry for Creator/FreddiePrinzeJr, ComicBook/TheUltimates will save him!]]
* Marvel loved this trope in its earlier years. One of ComicBook/NickFury's Howling Commandoes was Dino Manelli, an Italian-American film star who was clearly not Dean Martin. And when Marvel briefly had the rights to Godzilla, SHIELD got a new special agent responsible for fixing the Helicarrier whose name was "Hugh Howards" (though nowadays it's usually Iron Man's father who plays the part of the Howard Hughes stand-in).
* Doug Moench slipped [[http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/hackstabber.htm Rufus T. Hackstabber]] and [[http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/warmflash.htm Quigley J. Warmflash]] into ''Master of Kung Fu''; you may know them better as Groucho Marx and W.C. Fields.
* Secretary of State Dondi Reese appears in ''ComicBook/BlackPanther'' Volume 4.
* ''ComicBook/DoctorStrange'': Strange is Creator/VincentPrice. There's really no other way to say it. He only usually looks like Price (Strange began with a slight resemblance to [[ComicStrip/FlashGordon Ming the Merciless]], and his face is sometimes modeled on other actors), but his combination of portentous [[LargeHam hamminess]], erudition, and good humour is dead on for Price's persona.
* Creator/MattFraction has said in interviews that Darla Deering[=/=]Miss Thing from ''Comicbook/{{FF}}'' is supposed to be Music/KatyPerry if she were a superhero.
* Talk show host Iprah appears in ''Comicbook/HowardTheDuck'' Volume 3.
* ''Comicbook/IronMan'':
** Creator/WarrenEllis's first issue has Tony interviewed by left-wing documentary-maker John Pillinger, who bears more than a passing resemblance to left-wing documentary maker John Pilger.
** In a much later story Creator/KieronGillen introduces another left-wing journalist; an internet activist named Abigail Beryl Burns (with the online identity Red Peril) who is a CompositeCharacter of Abigail Brady and Laurie Penny/Penny Red.
* The Warriors Three from ''Comicbook/TheMightyThor'' are Errol Flynn, Charles Bronson, and, uh, [[FamousFamousFictional Falstaff]], except reimagined as Norse gods.
* In ''ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX'''s spin-off miniseries about The Barracuda, mobster 'Big Chris' Angelone has both the appearance and speech patterns of Creator/ChristopherWalken.
* In the fourth-wall-averse series ''ComicBook/TheSensationalSheHulk'', Issue #12 revolves around a movie being made of She-Hulk's life:
** Jen learns of the movie when she is ambushed by an ''Series/EntertainmentTonight'' film crew led by Mary Hart.
--->'''She-Hulk:''' Shouldn't we be giving you a parody name or something? Like Mary Spleen?\\
'''Mary Hart:''' Get real. Like we ''care'' if we're in a comic book.
** Later in the same issue, it's revealed that Jen is going to be played in the biopic by the petite starlet "[[Creator/PiaZadora P. Isadora]]". Jen immediately lampshades the fact that ''her'' name got changed.
* ''Comicbook/SpiderManDeadpool'' #6 is set during the making of a ''Deadpool'' movie starring a "Hollywood pretty-boy" named "Donald Dryans". Subverted when the story ends with Spidey declaring Deadpool should be played by a ''real'' actor, like Creator/RyanReynolds.
* ComicBook/UltimateMarvel
** ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'' initially reimagined Kraven the Hunter as a parody of the late Creator/SteveIrwin, [[AdaptationalNationality complete with Kraven being Australian instead of Russian]].
* ''{{West Coast|Team}} [[Comicbook/TheAvengers Avengers]]'' had Arnold Schwarzburger, a brainless body builder-turned-actor who worked on a movie with ComicBook/WonderMan. [[Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger Three guesses as to who he was supposed to be]].
* Many members of the Hellfire Club from ''ComicBook/XMen'' visibly resemble and are named after celebrities who were famous at the time of their creation (which is rather fitting, given that historical hellfire clubs were supposedly where the influential and powerful went to debauch themselves). Just to use the obvious examples, ComicBook/EmmaFrost is Creator/DianaRigg, Sebastian Shaw is Creator/RobertShaw, and recurring villain Mastermind became Creator/PeterWyngarde just in time to join up.
* ''[[Comicbook/XForce X-Statix]]''
** Phat was Music/{{Eminem}} with superpowers, a secret upper class upbringing, and gay.
** Henrietta Hunter was Princess Diana rewritten to be completely not Princess Diana because Marvel got cold feet. [[WriterRevolt Perhaps intentionally]], the story she appears in works a lot better knowing this than it does if you read it the way it was written.
