History Main / NoCelebritiesWereharmed

* FormerChildStar(Music/BritneySpears)

** A few years later, Putin would follow much the same course as that arc villain, in Ukraine, for many of the same reasons. Whether, as some suspect, he shares the SanitySlippage is up for debate. WordOfGod, meanwhile, has mused on the irony.

The most common impressions to hear in cartoons are Creator/JackNicholson, Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger or Creator/SylvesterStallone for tough-guy characters, Creator/PeterLorre or Creator/VincentPrice for creepy characters, Creator/RLeeErmey for {{Drill Sergeant Nast|y}}ies, Creator/MauriceChevalier for a song and dance man or a French FunnyForeigner character, Creator/PaulLynde for CampGay characters, Creator/BelaLugosi or Creator/ChristopherLee for vampires, Creator/BorisKarloff for Frankenstein's monster, Creator/SeanConnery or [[Series/{{GetSmart}} Don Adams]] for secret agents, Creator/DonaldPleasence or Creator/AlanRickman for an action villain, Ed Wynn for assorted silly characters, John Wayne or Clint Eastwood for cowboys, Paul Hogan for Australians, Howard Cosell or John Madden for sports announcers, Creator/JoePesci or Creator/RayLiotta for mobsters, and Creator/MaeWest for [[TheVamp vamps]]. As for more general examples, heavy-metal rocker characters will be given a MetalScream of the sort perfected by the likes of [[Music/LedZeppelin Robert Plant]], [[Music/{{Aerosmith}} Steven Tyler]], and [[Music/JudasPriest Rob Halford]]. [[TheStoner "Stoner"]] characters will be based on either the Creator/SeanPenn character ("Spicoli") in ''Film/FastTimesAtRidgemontHigh'' or the Creator/DennisHopper character in ''Film/ApocalypseNow''. Anyone doing a pirate character [[TalkLikeAPirate ("Ahrrr, matey!")]] is paying tribute to Robert Newton's performance as Long John Silver in Disney's ''Film/TreasureIsland1950''. The [[WickedWitch witch]] stereotype is based on [[Film/TheWizardOfOz The Wicked Witch of the West]].

Note that some character voices, most notably those reminiscent of Creator/PeterLorre and of Creator/JohnWayne, are by now fourth-generation copies that have more to do with earlier impressions than with the original actors' voices. There may also be some overlap with the WeirdAlEffect if the caricature is more familiar to younger audiences than the actual celebrity.

The most common impressions to hear in cartoons are Creator/JackNicholson, Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger or Creator/SylvesterStallone for tough-guy characters, Creator/PeterLorre or Creator/VincentPrice for creepy characters, Creator/RLeeErmey for {{Drill Sergeant Nast|y}}ies, Creator/MauriceChevalier for a song and dance man or stock French FunnyForeigner character, Creator/PaulLynde for CampGay characters, Creator/BelaLugosi or Creator/ChristopherLee for vampires, Creator/BorisKarloff for Frankenstein's monster, Creator/SeanConnery or Don Adams for secret agents, Donald Pleasance or Alan Rickman for an action villain, Ed Wynn for assorted silly characters, John Wayne or Clint Eastwood for cowboys, Paul Hogan for Australians, Howard Cosell or John Madden for sports announcers, Creator/JoePesci or Creator/RayLiotta for mobsters, and Creator/MaeWest for [[TheVamp vamps]]. As for more general examples, heavy-metal rocker characters will be given a MetalScream of the sort perfected by the likes of [[Music/LedZeppelin Robert Plant]], [[Music/{{Aerosmith}} Steven Tyler]], and [[Music/JudasPriest Rob Halford]]. [[TheStoner "Stoner"]] characters will tend to be based on either the Creator/SeanPenn character ("Spicoli") in ''Film/FastTimesAtRidgemontHigh'' or the Creator/DennisHopper character in ''Film/ApocalypseNow''. Anyone doing a stock pirate character [[TalkLikeAPirate ("Ahrrr, matey!")]] is paying tribute to Robert Newton's performance as Long John Silver in Disney's ''Film/TreasureIsland1950''. The [[WickedWitch witch]] stereotype is based on [[Film/TheWizardOfOz The Wicked Witch of the West]].

Sometimes a character's entire shtick will be that he or she is a thinly disguised imitation of some celebrity somewhere. The more blatant examples will often have a parody of that celebrity's name. This can be done for various reasons, such as to serve as a {{homage}} and/or {{parody}}, to make a point using the character, or simply because the writers think that [[RuleOfCool it would be cool]]. Though some consider it done because the writers are out of ideas. Many creators and viewers alike do not like it because it tends to smack of unoriginality and destroys the conceit that the work's universe is entirely fictional (though, of course, if the work is [[RippedFromTheHeadlines outright going for realism]], it's quite appropriate). However, this does have the side effect of making the work an UnintentionalPeriodPiece for the period of the work's creation, as later audiences, to varying degrees of success, can see through the "thinly disguised" part of the parody and clearly determine that the work was made during the height of the target's popularity —- or infamy.

Sometimes a character's entire shtick will be that he or she is a thinly disguised imitation of some celebrity somewhere. The more blatant examples will often have a parody of that celebrity's name. This can be done for various reasons, such as to serve as a {{homage}} and/or {{parody}}, to make a point using the character, or simply because the writers think that [[RuleOfCool it would be cool]]. Though some consider it done because the writers are out of ideas. Many creators and viewers alike do not like it because it tends to smack of unoriginality and destroys the conceit that the work's universe is entirely fictional (though, of course, if the work is [[RippedFromTheHeadlines outright going for realism]], it's quite appropriate). However, this does have the side effect of making the work an UnintentionalPeriodPiece for the period of the work's creation, as later audiences, to varying degrees of success, can see through the "thinly disguised" part of the parody and clearly determine that the work was made during the height of the target's popularity.

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* ''TabletopGame/PsionicsTheNextStageInHumanEvolution'' features a character named Lucky Wacker. If you are a fan of The World/Inferno Friendship Society, you'll probably notice that Lucky Wacker is basically psionic Jack Terricloth. He even looks like him.
* The ''Banishers'' sourcebook for ''TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening'' includes John Maverick, an obscenely wealthy, boyishly handsome, self-loathingly closeted bisexual actor who has become an earnest spokesperson of a cult. Any resemblance to Tom Cruise and the ChurchOfHappyology is, of course, coincidental.
* Duke Rollo of ''TabletopGame/{{Aberrant}}'' is basically Hunter S. Thompson, with his name being a riff on Thompson's alter-ego Raoul Duke.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' has Sly Marbo, a OneManArmy for the Catachan Devils, who is at his best fighting in jungles and is of course [[http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/File:Sly_Marbo_Art.jpg in no way shape or form related to John Rambo or Sylvester Stallone]]. His "feats" also come from the list of Chuck Norris facts.
* If they were notable figures of the mid-Seventies, odds are they appear in ''TabletopGame/DamnationDecade'' under an outrageous name and with an equally outrageous twist on their role in history.

** Spiraling Yarn is based on Creator/JunjiIto, a horror mangaka who is one of HideoKojima's close friends. Like Junji Ito, he is a horror manegaka who is friends with Heroic Island, and once collaborated with him on the creation of ''VideoGame/SilentHills'' before it was cancelled. Spiraling Yarn's name is also an onomatopoeia - 'Spiraling' was taken from Junji Ito's manga, Manga/{{Uzumaki}} (whose title translates to 'swirl'), and 'Yarn' is a transliteration of Ito.

** Moon Ray Vaughoof of the Trimortidae is based on Music/StevieRayVaughan, one of the most iconic and influential blues musicians who revived the blues rock genre, and paved the way for many other blues musicians. Much of Moon Ray's life is more or less a parallel to Stevie Ray's, including growing up with [[AbusiveParents an abusive father]], the formation of the band Double Trouble, his [[SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll period of alcohol/drug addiction]], his friendship with a then-mortal Prince Healing Song (which echoes Stevie's relationship with Music/JeffHealey, as he was responsible for discovering the latter), and his sudden death in a fatal helicopter crash. For bonus points, Moon Ray's name is a ponified version of Stevie Ray's name, and they both have musically-inclined older brothers who inspired them to become musicians themselves. Unlike Stevie Ray, however, he became an [[TheGrimReaper Angel of Death]] post-mortem, then later Ascended to godhood as the Alicorn god of Death, Temperance, Water, and Forgiveness after forgiving everyone who harmed him in life. Furthering the connection is a lyrical [[https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/837257806/4835351418 Codexverse quote]] that contains the first two verses of "Look at Little Sister", a Hank Ballard song that was [[CoveredUp covered years later by Stevie Ray]].

** Rhiannon's entry mentions a Fourth-Age Grittish band named "[[Music/FleetwoodMac Fleethoof Mac]]". For bonus points, one of their songs is named "Rhiannon", which in the Codexverse is an InUniverse AlternativeCharacterInterpretation of Rhiannon as a mysterious, seductive, elusive, and mystical female figure. Rhiannon herself found it "[[ActuallyPrettyFunny pretty amusing]]".

* Just Play's ''Toys/PuppyInMyPocket'' spinoff line ''Kitty in My Pocket'' has Elizabeth, a British Shorthair cat who has white fur, light blue eyes, and a pearl collar. [[UsefulNotes/HMTheQueen Guess who she bears a resemblance to]].

* TheAhnold
* BobRossRib
* BorrowingTheBeatles
* BruceLeeClone
* ElvisImpersonator
* FreddieMercopy
* HoaxHogan
* HowardHughesHomage
* MockCousteau
* MumblingBrando
* MrAltDisney
* {{Trumplica}}

The most common impressions to hear in cartoons are Creator/JackNicholson, Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger or Creator/SylvesterStallone for tough-guy characters, Creator/PeterLorre or Creator/VincentPrice for creepy characters, Creator/RLeeErmey for {{Drill Sergeant Nast|y}}ies, Creator/MauriceChevalier for a song and dance man or stock French FunnyForeigner character, Creator/PaulLynde for CampGay characters, Creator/BelaLugosi for vampires, Creator/BorisKarloff for Frankenstein's monster, Creator/SeanConnery or Don Adams for secret agents, Donald Pleasance for an action villain, Ed Wynn for assorted silly characters, John Wayne or Clint Eastwood for cowboys, Paul Hogan for Australians, Howard Cosell or John Madden for sports announcers, Creator/JoePesci or Creator/RayLiotta for mobsters, and Creator/MaeWest for [[TheVamp vamps]]. As for more general examples, heavy-metal rocker characters will be given a MetalScream of the sort perfected by the likes of [[Music/LedZeppelin Robert Plant]], [[Music/{{Aerosmith}} Steven Tyler]], and [[Music/JudasPriest Rob Halford]]. [[TheStoner "Stoner"]] characters will tend to be based on either the Creator/SeanPenn character ("Spicoli") in ''Film/FastTimesAtRidgemontHigh'' or the Creator/DennisHopper character in ''Film/ApocalypseNow''. Anyone doing a stock pirate character [[TalkLikeAPirate ("Ahrrr, matey!")]] is paying tribute to Robert Newton's performance as Long John Silver in Disney's ''Film/TreasureIsland1950''. The [[WickedWitch witch]] stereotype is based on [[Film/TheWizardOfOz The Wicked Witch of the West]].

* In ''FanFic/ThreeFilliesAndAGriffon'', Sweetie Belle and Gabriel meet Starling Hoofway, who is a ponified Sterling Holloway, all the way down to having a similar voice.