No Celebrities Were Harmed / Animated Films

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• Barbie movies:
  • Barbie in a Mermaid Tale: A fish wearing lipstick clearly based on Zsa Zsa Gabor, what with that Hungarian accent and even saying "dahlink".
  • Barbie In Rock N Royals: The three (former) Camp Pop mean girls: Sloane resembles Skye Sweetnam, and her sidekicks resemble Chloe x Halle and Dua Lipa.
• Lampshaded in Bee Movie when the protagonist notices the "Bee Larry King" looks exactly like the human Larry King. Made even funnier by the fact that "Bee Larry King" is voiced by the real Larry King.
• The Brave Little Toaster
  • The hanging lamp is yet another animated Peter Lorre clone. The air conditioner is Jack Nicholson. Both were voiced by Phil Hartman. Both haunted the nightmares of children for decades.
  • Radio is Jon Lovitz doing Walter Winchell, down to his Catchphrase sign-off.
• Cats Don't Dance: Darla Dimple◊. Compare with Shirley Temple.
• Coco: Ernesto de la Cruz bears more than a passing resemblance to Pedro Infante. However, Pedro is shown as another skeleton (and named by Ernesto himself) in a brief cameo along with his partner Jorge Negrete.
• The maggot companion of the Corpse Bride is a dead ringer for Peter Lorre.
• Disney Animated Canon:
  • Beauty and the Beast
    • Lumiere is based on Maurice Chevalier.
    • Gaston has a Bruce Campbell vibe to him.
  • Aladdin:
    • Jafar was based on actor Conrad Veidt, who played the villain from The Thief of Bagdad (1940) (who, fittingly enough, was named Jaffar). Aladdin himself was drawn to resemble Tom Cruise.^note  He was originally drawn to resemble Michael J. Fox, but they eventually changed his design when it was decided that they wanted to make the character older (Aladdin was originally supposed to be about twelve years old).
    • While doing many straight-up parodies throughout the movie, the shape-shifting Genie explains the rules of bringing people back to life as a zombie Peter Lorre.
  • The vultures in The Jungle Book (1967) are patterned after The Beatles. Oddly, while they do have a musical number, it's a barbershop quartet song as opposed to something sounding similar to the Beatles rock tunes. Supposedly it's because Walt didn't think the Beatles actual music had much staying power.
  • King Candy from Wreck-It Ralph included both the voice and the caricature of Ed Wynn's "Perfect Fool" character—both taken from Wynn's Mad Hatter from Disney's production of Alice in Wonderland.
  • Hades from Hercules was modeled after Jeffrey Katzenberg, who was one of the head honchos at Disney who left the company shortly before the film got made.
  • Cruella de Vil of 101 Dalmatians is more-or-less a parody of flamboyant actress Tallulah Bankhead. They even share the Verbal Tic of addressing other people as "darling" (which they pronounce as "dahling").
  • Jane in Tarzan is very different from her version in the book. She's British instead of American and has a genuine interest in learning about gorillas. She's essentially Jane Goodall but with gorillas instead of chimps.
  • In Moana, Tamatoa the crab was re-written at the last minute (mainly just his song) as an homage to David Bowie, due to his recent passing.
• The Prime Minister of Australia ^note Whom we can infer is John Howard by process of elimination makes a cameo as one of the dentist's patients in Finding Nemo.
• The Incredibles:
  • Edna Mode, who is heavily based on acclaimed costume designer, Edith Head.
  • Incredibles 2 has Evelyn Deavor, who is heavily based on avant-garde performance artist, Laurie Anderson, to near exact facial feature arrangement, hair-style, and clothing style — with a heavy dash of Patti Smith also thrown into the mix of the latter.
• Inside Out: Joy is specifically designed to resemble Audrey Hepburn, down to her signature "pixie" haircut.
• Beetle in Kubo and the Two Strings was modeled off of Toshiro Mifune. It's even more apparent at the end when his human form is revealed.
• Mr. Peabody & Sherman: Penny Peterson looks suspiciously like Taylor Swift.
• In Next Gen the trope goes for a hat trick, with IQ Robotics being an expy for Apple, and Justin Pin and Dr Tanner Rice being obvious stand-ins for Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak respectively.
• Ratatouille:
  • Auguste Gusteau's life story is modeled after that of Bernard Loiseau, an acclaimed chef who committed suicide in 2003 after a negative review by food critic François Simon knocked his restaurant, La Côte d'Or, down three points in Gault Millau. Director Brad Bird had previously visited the restaurant while in France.
  • Anton Ego's appearance was inspired by French actor and director Louis Jouvet. It's also been claimed (though not confirmed) that Ego was based on theater critic Kenneth Tynan, who was close friends with Peter O'Toole in real life. Furthermore, his scathing judgment of dishes and intimidating personality bring to mind Gordon Ramsay.
• Gum from Sausage Party is based on Stephen Hawking, down to the electric wheelchair and computerized voice.
• Scooby-Doo:
  • In Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon , Owen Garrison is clearly made to be Adam West, complete with Jeff Bennett doing an impersonation of him. Also, his characterization echoes Simon "The Gray Ghost" Trent from the Batman: The Animated Series episode "Beware the Gray Ghost". Even the part about him being banned from wearing the Blue Falcon costume by the producers of a new movie about the character is taken from real life, based on an incident where Clayton Moore was sued by the producers of Legend of The Lone Ranger over his continued appearances as the character taking attention away from their movie.
  • In Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School, Frankenteen Senior's voice sounds vaguely like Boris Karloff, while Phantom Father's is an obvious impersonation of Peter Lorre.
• Sykes from Shark Tale almost sounds like Gilbert Gottfried. He actually sounds (and looks) exactly like Martin Scorsese, who provided the voice of the character.
  • Heck, almost every character in Shark Tale is modeled after a celebrity.
• Shrek has Lord Farquaad, widely rumoured to be modelled on Disney's then-CEO Michael Eisner, as a Take That! on the part of the film's executive producer (and former Disney executive) Jeffrey Katzenberg. His kingdom is a parody of the Disney Theme Parks. And Shrek bears a very strong resemblance to "The French Angel", Maurice Tillet◊
  • Puss in Boots: The Last Wish: The voice of the cricket conscience is meant to resemble that of Jimmy Stewart.
• In Turning Red, Ping bears a strong resemblance to the late comedian Lydia Shum Din-Han.
• Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats: When Top Cat is playing pool and sinks all of the balls blindfolded, the gang asks him how he did it. Top Cat then pulls out a picture of someone he claims to be his "teacher", whom the gang recognizes as "Minnesota Cats".^note In this case, he's likely a reference to the real-life pool player who started using "Minnesota Fats" as a nickname, and not the original character from The Hustler.

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