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* Sir Iknik Blackstone Varrick in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra''. Varrick is a brilliant inventor and a wealthy businessman who is effectively the creator of his setting's movie industry. And calling him "eccentric" would be [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} putting it mildly]]. Varrick also has an exceedingly stylish 'stache.

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* Sir Iknik Blackstone Varrick in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra''. Varrick is a brilliant inventor and a wealthy businessman who is effectively the creator of his setting's movie industry.industry ([[OneManIndustrialRevolution among other things). And calling him "eccentric" would be [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} putting it mildly]]. Varrick also has an exceedingly stylish 'stache.
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* Marvel's ''ComicBook/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters1977'' featured an aeronautical engineer named Hugh Howards, who looked just like Howard Hughes. Though he is also portrayed as a MrAltDisney in ''Film/IronMan2''.

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* Marvel's ''ComicBook/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters1977'' featured an aeronautical engineer named Hugh Howards, who looked just like Howard Hughes. Though he is also portrayed as a MrAltDisney in ''Film/IronMan2''.



** His [[GenerationXerox father]] Howard in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger,'' an inventor/pilot/engineer/millionaire playboy. Even more so in ''Series/AgentCarter''. He even gets into film-making in Season 2.

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** His [[GenerationXerox father]] Howard in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger,'' an inventor/pilot/engineer/millionaire playboy. Even more so in ''Series/AgentCarter''. He even gets into film-making in Season 2. Though he is also portrayed as a MrAltDisney in ''Film/IronMan2''.
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* Marvel's ''ComicBook/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters1977'' featured an aeronautical engineer named Hugh Howards, who looked just like Howard Hughes. Though he is also portrayed as an AltDisney in ''Film/IronMan2''.

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* Marvel's ''ComicBook/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters1977'' featured an aeronautical engineer named Hugh Howards, who looked just like Howard Hughes. Though he is also portrayed as an AltDisney a MrAltDisney in ''Film/IronMan2''.
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* Marvel's ''ComicBook/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters1977'' featured an aeronautical engineer named Hugh Howards, who looked just like Howard Hughes.

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* Marvel's ''ComicBook/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters1977'' featured an aeronautical engineer named Hugh Howards, who looked just like Howard Hughes. Though he is also portrayed as an AltDisney in ''Film/IronMan2''.
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* Another 1970s Marvel Comics example is Mal Donalbain, in the relatively obscure comic ComicBook/TheCat. He is a wealthy, eccentric and reclusive businessman, and even has Hughes's phobia of germs. In keeping with the comic's theme of feminism, Donalbain is also a HeManWomanHater, obsessed with mind controlling the women his phobia stops him from touching.

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* Another 1970s Marvel Comics example is Mal Donalbain, in the relatively obscure comic ComicBook/TheCat.''ComicBook/TheCat''. He is a wealthy, eccentric and reclusive businessman, and even has Hughes's phobia of germs. In keeping with the comic's theme of feminism, Donalbain is also a HeManWomanHater, obsessed with mind controlling the women his phobia stops him from touching.
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* Another 1970s Marvel Comics example is Mal Donalbain, in the relatively obscure comic ComicBook/TheCat. He is a wealthy, eccentric and reclusive businessman, and even has Hughes's phobia of germs. In keeping with the comic's theme of feminism, Donalbain is also a HeManWomanHater, obsessed with mind controlling the women his phobia stops him from touching.
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* ''ComicBook/AstroCity'': Roy Virgil, ''a.k.a.'' the Astro-Naut, is an overt copy of Howard Hughes, being the BadassBookworm [[RichGenius millionaire owner]] of an aerospace company who goes on [[TwoFistedTales epic adventures]]. The only reason he won't share [[GadgeteerGenius his inventions]] with the US military is the fear that TheWorldIsNotReady.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tailspin}}'' had Howard Huge in the episode "Bearly Alive", an eccentric billionaire hippo obsessed with building the world's largest airplane, the Titanium Turkey.

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tailspin}}'' ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'' had Howard Huge in the episode "Bearly Alive", an eccentric billionaire hippo obsessed with building the world's largest airplane, the Titanium Turkey.

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