History Main / NoCelebritiesWereharmed

Compare InkSuitActor, where a celebrity voices an animated caricature of themself. ComicBookFantasyCasting is a much milder version of this, where a real actor or other celebrity is used as a guide for a character's appearance but with no attempt to caricature their persona. WriteWhoYouKnow is for where a character is based on somebody who the creator personally knows, but not necessarily a celebrity. If the famous personality is an historical character that is already dead, especially it's from centuries ago, then it's NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed.

->''"You know Lucius Sweet?! He's one of the biggest names in boxing! He's exactly as rich and as famous as Don King, and he looks just like him, too!"''
-->-- '''Homer Simpson''', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''

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 or Steve Irwin 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]].

** 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 [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement up for debate]]. WordOfGod, meanwhile, has mused on the irony.

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* Just Play's ''Toys/PuppyInMyPocket'' spinoff line ''Kitty in My Pocket'' has Elizabeth, a cat who has white fur, light blue eyes, and a pearl collar. She resembles [[UsefulNotes/HMTheQueen Queen Elizabeth II]], as the latter has silver-to-white hair, blue eyes, and often wears a pearl necklace. It doesn't help that she's a ''British'' shorthair cat.

See also LawyerFriendlyCameo, NoCommunitiesWereHarmed, and AdamWesting. See BlandNameProduct for the equivalent treatment of a product (or possibly a business entity) rather than a person, potentially applying just as much detail to the parody.

* FormerChildStar (Music/BritneySpears)

* Numerous examples in Podcast/RoleplayRetcon, such as "Ethan Hawkman," a bird-person version of Creator/EthanHawke in Film/ValerianAndTheCityOfAThousandPlanets and "Grrrth Brooks/Grrris Gaines," a country-music-singing bear version of Music/GarthBrooks and his AlterEgo Chris Gaines.

* Numerous examples in Podcast/RoleplayRetcon, such as "Ethan Hawkman," a bird-person version of Creator/EthanHawke in Film/ValerianAndTheCityOfAThousandPlanets and "Grrrth Brooks/Grrris Gaines," a country-music-singing bear version of Creator/GarthBrooks and his alter-ego Creator/ChrisGaines.

* Numerous examples in Podcast/RoleplayRetcon, such as "Ethan Hawkman," a bird-person version of Actor/EthanHawk in Film/ValerianAndTheCityOfAThousandPlanets and "Grrrth Brooks/Grrris Gaines," a country-music-singing bear version of Creator/GarthBrooks and his alter-ego Creator/ChrisGaines.

* Numerous examples in podcast/RoleplayRetcon, such as "Ethan Hawkman," a bird-person version of actor/EthanHawk in film/ValerianAndTheCityOfAThousandPlanets and "Grrrth Brooks/Grrris Gaines," a country-music-singing bear version of creator/GarthBrooks and his alter-ego creator/ChrisGaines.

* Numerous examples in RoleplayRetcon, such as "Ethan Hawkman," a bird-person version of EthanHawk in ValerianAndTheCityOfAThousandPlanets and "Grrrth Brooks/Grrris Gaines," a country-music-singing bear version of GarthBrooks and his alter-ego ChrisGaines.

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[[caption-width-right:230:[[Creator/ParisHilton Subtle]], Blizz.]]

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 ParodyDisplacement if the caricature is more familiar to younger audiences than the actual celebrity.

** Prince Healing Song's entry mentions a Hoofstep Sways, whom he filmed with for a movie called ''Film/RoadHouse''. Hoofstep Sways is based on Creator/PatrickSwayze, who filmed ''Road House'' together with the [[Music/JeffHealey Jeff Healey Band]], whose members provided a huge portion of the movie's soundtrack.

->''"Wow, you know Lucius Sweet? He's exactly as rich and as famous as Don King, and he looks just like him too!"''

->''Wow, you know Lucius Sweet? He's exactly as rich and as famous as Don King, and he looks just like him too!''

->''"Animation is built on plagiarism! If it weren't for someone plagiarizing Series/TheHoneymooners, we wouldn't have WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones. If someone hadn't ripped off [[Series/ThePhilSilversShow Sergeant Bilko]], there'd be no WesternAnimation/TopCat. [[WesternAnimation/TheHuckleberryHoundShow Huckleberry Hound]], [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Chief Wiggum]], WesternAnimation/YogiBear? Hah! [[Series/TheAndyGriffithShow Andy Griffith]], Creator/EdwardGRobinson, [[Series/TheHoneymooners Art Carney]]."''
-->-- '''Roger Myers''', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''