History NoCelebritiesWereHarmed / LiveActionFilms

** And fictional leaders: ''Film/LiveAndLetDie'' stars a Caribbean dictator who dabbles heavily in voodoo, similar to then-President of Haiti François Duvalier, ''Film/LicenceToKill'' features a "Republic of Isthmus" (Panama) ruled through a puppet president by a major drug dealer (Manuel Noriega), while the unnamed female British Prime Minister who appears in 1981's ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'' shows every sign of being UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher.

* Creator/KurtRussell admittedly based his performance as Jack Burton in ''Film/BigTroubleInLittleChina'' more or less entirely on Creator/JohnWayne, and his performance as Snake Plissken in ''Film/EscapeFromNewYork'' more or less entirely on Creator/ClintEastwood.

* ''Film/TheBroadwayMelody'' features a famous producer of Broadway revues named [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florenz_Ziegfeld Francis Zanfield]]. Also, the Mahoney sisters are based on the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Sisters Duncan Sisters]], who were actually offered the parts but chose instead to appear in a different MGM musical, ''It's a Great Life''.

** And fictional leaders: ''Film/LiveAndLetDie'' stars a Caribbean dictator who dabbles heavily in voodoo, similar to then-President of Haiti François Duvalier, ''Film/LicenceToKill'' features a "Republic of Isthmus" (Panama) ruled through a puppet president by a major drug dealer (Manuel Noriega), while the unnamed female British Prime Minister who appears in 1981's ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'' shows every sign of being Margaret Thatcher.

* In ''Film/MyFavoriteYear'', Peter O'Toole plays washed-up film idol Alan Swann, who is not in any way related to Creator/ErrolFlynn. He is appearing on the live variety show of King Kaiser, who is totally not Creator/SidCaesar. And Kaiser is being stalked by the goons of a crooked labor leader who is certainly anyone but Jimmy Hoffa. Given that the viewpoint character is partly based on the movie's producer, Mel Brooks, who was a writer for Sid Caesar and who probably witnessed the real-life events that inspired the film, it may not be this so much as OurLawyersAdvisedThisTrope.

* In ''Film/RocknRolla'', there is a Russian millionaire mobster and businessman that is trying to make a huge [[UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball football]] stadium. It's a surprise that Roman Abramovich didn't sue them.

* Zandow the German strong man from ''Film/TheStrongMan'' surely is not meant in any way to be inspired by RealLife German bodybuilder [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugen_Sandow Eugen Sandow]].
* In ''Film/{{Sunset}}'', the character of Alfie Alperin is very strongly based on Creator/CharlieChaplin. Of course, lawyers for the Chaplin estate probably would have something to say if the movie had Creator/CharlieChaplin commit the acts that Alfie does.

* The 2007 ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' film combined this with InvisiblePresident. All we see are a pair of patriotic socks. Based on the Texas accent we hear requesting ding-dongs, it's clearly a joke at the expense of then-President UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush. Interestingly, the sequels name-drop and feature President Obama explicitly and make his administration's poor decision-making in regards to the robot threat a plot point.

** Bryan Callen as a ringside color commentator is an obvious Joe Rogan impersonation. Both are brash comedians with a casual commentating style.
** The sponsor of the Sparta tournament is a bald businessman who is always hanging around the press and got rich before getting into the fight game. He's a combination of the billionaire Feritta brothers who bought the UFC and the bald UFC president Dana White, an infamous media hound.

* In ''Film/TheRightStuff'', the lead engineer for NASA and the Soviet "Chief Designer" were both unnamed. These characters represented, respectively, Wernher von Braun and Sergei Korolev. In Korolev's case, this was TruthInTelevision: his identity was a state secret until his death in 1966. As for Von Braun, he was made a celebrity by Creator/WaltDisney and his ''[[Series/WaltDisneyPresents Disneyland]]'' series, becoming [[TheSmartGuy his go-to guy for anything space-related]].

* In ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'', WordOfGod said the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Biff Tannen]] of 1985-A was inspired by Creator/DonaldTrump. The portrait in Biff's office was even modeled on a Trump portrait. Similarly, the [[BrokenBird Lorraine Baines-McFly]] of 1985-A was modeled after various female televangelists of the 80s, particularly Tammy Faye Meissner (aka Tammy Faye Bakker).

** The sequel to ''O Candidato Honesto'' pulls it one step further with straight-up parodies of politicians: the former President is [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilma_Rouseff a woman]] who prefers the term "Presidenta" and is prone to [[MeaninglessMeaningfulWords confusing rambling]], the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Temer vice-president]] is a power-hungry career politician married to [[https://conteudo.imguol.com.br/c/bol/fotos/50/2016/05/16/15mai2016---em-entrevista-ao-fantastico-da-tv-globo-o-presidente-interino-michel-temer-afirmou-que-sua-mulher-marcela-temer-assumira-funcoes-na-area-social-se-ele-assumir-a-presidencia-1463398603696_956x637.jpg a much younger woman]] who looks\behaves like a vampire (to the point his ParodyName is [[PunnyName Ivan Pires]]), and the pre-election polls were being led by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jair_Bolsonaro a radical right-winger deputy]] who is against minorities and advocates for everyone to bear guns. There's also a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiririca Northeasterner deputy who was\is a clown]].

** Nigel Tufnell is a loose parody of Music/EricClapton, right down to his name. The writers arrived at the name "Nigel Tufnell" by combining a generic British first name ("Nigel" instead of "Eric") with the name of a posh London neighborhood ("Tufnell Park" instead of "Clapton Pond"), thus keeping the parallels relatively subtle.
** Guest and [=McKean=] note in the Criterion DVD commentary that the archetype of the long-lived British band whose star power has faded, but yet continued to ride their fame and grind out tours year after year, calling out Status Quo in particular, formed much of the inspiration for Spinal Tap.

* The ''Film/{{Tremors}}'' series features the return of the Assblaster which had been sold to Siegfried and Roy in the third film. Rather embarrassingly, the creators no longer had the rights to use the names and they were referred to as "Sigmund and Ray."

* Brazilian actor Leandro Hassum had two movies featuring a veiled parody of notable people from the country. ''O Candidato Honesto'' (''The Honest Candidate'') had Hassum playing a CorruptPolitician running for president [[WillNotTellALie who's forced to be honest]], and the character has various references to past presidents: his middle name was [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Sarney Ribamar, he hailed from a Northeastern state]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luiz_In%C3%A1cio_Lula_da_Silva had a work accident that brought him into the labour movement and subsequently politics]], and appears in a [[https://s3.amazonaws.com/filepicker-images-rapgenius/Fo7NIHNvTOySNn4v48fd_CandidatoCollor.png magazine cover as a "hunter of the corrupt"]]. ''Até Que A Sorte Nos Separe 3'' had Hassum's daughter marrying the son of billionaire "Rique Barelli", whose nome is only the start of an extended [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eike_Batista Eike Batista]] joke: the name of his company has three letters ending in "X", his wife is a former ''Playboy'' cover [[https://www.foliatropical.com.br/img/posts/337.jpg who wore a necklace with his name]], and [[http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-10-03/eike-batista-how-brazils-richest-man-lost-34-dot-5-billion bad business decisions sap his fortune]].

* In ''Film/{{Antitrust}},'' Tim Robbins' "Gary Winston" is Bill Gates, right down to the haircut... Except he can't be, because he remarks that Gates' TV is much smaller than his. If Winston isn't Gates, perhaps the TV also signifies something else of Winston's...

[[caption-width-right:350:Above: Richard Simmons. Below: Creator/EddieMurphy as not-quite-Richard Simmons.]]

* ''All Good Things'' is a fictionalization of the story of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Durst Durst case]] in which every name was changed except, for some reason, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Patrick_Moynihan Pat Moynihan's]].

* In ''Film/MyFavoriteYear'', Peter O'Toole plays washed-up film idol Alan Swann, who is not in any way related to Creator/ErrolFlynn. He is appearing on the live variety show of King Kaiser, who is totally not Creator/SidCaesar. And Kaiser is being stalked by the goons of a crooked labor leader who is certainly anyone but Jimmy Hoffa.
** Given that the viewpoint character is partly based on the movie's producer, Mel Brooks, who was a writer for Sid Caesar and who probably witnessed the real-life events that inspired the film, it may not be this so much as OurLawyersAdvisedThisTrope.

* The 2007 ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' film combined this with InvisiblePresident. No name was mentioned and no face was seen, but it was clearly a none-too-flattering parody of UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush. Other viewers though are convinced the unseen president is UsefulNotes/BillClinton. Or it might just be [[CompositeCharacter G. B. Clintbush]].
** The 2009 sequel explicitly confirms the president as being UsefulNotes/BarackObama (and in the third movie, Obama actually appears AsHimself). This all but confirms the president two years earlier in the first film was, in fact, UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush.

* The 2011 film ''Film/{{Warrior}}'': The film often skirts amusingly close to actual [[UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts MMA]] figures without ''quite'' hitting them on the nose.

** The sponsor of the Sparta tournament is a bald businessman who is always hanging around the press and got rich before getting into the fight game. He's a combination of the billionaire Feritta brothers who bought the UFC and the bald UFC president Dana White, an infamous media hound. %% This entry was added automatically by FELH2. In case the wording doesn't make sense, rewrite it as you like, remove this comment and tell this troper.

** Princess Tilde, as she is listed in the credits, is clearly a fictionalised version of Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden (in status) and her younger sister Princess Madeleine (in looks and age). The unnamed American president strongly resembles UsefulNotes/BarackObama in looks (at least from behind -- we never see his face) and voice.

* The ''Film/{{Tremors}}'' series features the return of the Assblaster which had been sold to Sigried and Roy in the third film. Rather embarrassingly, the creators no longer had the rights to use the names and they were referred to as "Sigmund and Ray."

* ''Film/CitizenKane'' is infamously a not-quite-thickly-veiled-enough version of media titan William Randolph Hearst. Hearst came down upon the movie and everyone associated with it like a sledgehammer. Creator/OrsonWelles' career never quite recovered.
** Later, both Welles and Herman Mankiewicz would independently apologize for the version of Marion Davies depicted in the character "Susan Alexander" -- a hopelessly incompetent hack who was a raging alcoholic and whose career was pretty much bought "off the rack" by the powerful Kane. The real-life Davies was a consummate professional, liked and respected by her peers, who specialized in light comedies and musicals. Her success was independent of her relationship with Hearst, though he did try to use his clout to gain Davies leading-lady roles -- a career path that Davies herself knew she was not suited for.

* ''Film/AmericanDreamz'' had Dennis Quaid as a barely functional Texan president whose dad had been president, who "decided" to run because people told him to, etc. With Creator/MarciaGayHarden as his beatifically gentle, tolerant wife and Willem Dafoe as his scheming bald puppetmaster.
** As well as Hugh Grant as [[Series/AmericanIdol a boorish British showrunner/judge of the titular singing competition.]]

** Just about everything in that movie was a case of this trope. The Miami Dolphins versus the Dallas Cowboys? No, instead we have the Miami ''Sharks'' versus the Dallas ''Knights''. The dialogue makes clear that the real-life teams ''do'' exist in the movie's universe, however, so the Sharks and the Knights must be in either a competing league (a la the AFL in the 1960s) or a semi-pro league.

-->''"Son of a son of a bitch! Mother mother fucker!"''

* ''Film/WarGames'': Professor Stephen Falken, the programmer of JOSHUA, is similar to StephenHawking, complete with having the same first name and bird-related last names, according to WordOfGod. Hawking is most famous for his disability, as was Falken in an earlier draft until they realized how unfeasible it would be in the massive NORAD set.

* ''Film/CitizenKane'' is infamously a not-quite-thickly-veiled-enough version of media titan William Randolph Hearst. Hearst came down upon the movie and everyone associated with it like a sledgehammer. Creator/OrsonWelles' career never quite recovered.
** Later, both Welles and Herman Mankiewicz would independently apologize for the version of Marion Davies depicted in the character "Susan Alexander" -- a hopelessly incompetent hack who was a raging alcoholic and whose career was pretty much bought "off the rack" by the powerful Kane. The real-life Davies was a consummate professional, liked and respected by her peers, who specialized in light comedies and musicals. Her success was independent of her relationship with Hearst, though he did try to use his clout to gain Davies leading-lady roles -- a career path that Davies herself knew she was not suited for.
* Green ghost Slimer from ''Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}}'' is obviously based on Creator/JohnBelushi -- in particular, his character from ''Film/AnimalHouse.'' Creator/DanAykroyd has even joked that Slimer was the ghost of John Belushi.
* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean:'' Jack Sparrow is based on both Music/KeithRichards and Creator/ErrolFlynn. Richards even makes a cameo in the [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd third movie]] as Jack Sparrow's father. He's also part WesternAnimation/PepeLePew, with his relentless stupid optimism.
* Creator/JimCarrey's portrayal of "Count Olaf" in ''Lemony Snicket's Film/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'' is pretty much entirely based on Creator/OrsonWelles, even the voice.

* In ''Film/{{Antitrust}},'' Tim Robbins' "Gary Winston" is Bill Gates, right down to the haircut... Except he can't be, because he remarks that Gates' TV is much smaller than his. If Winston isn't Gates, perhaps the TV also signifies something else of Winston's...
* The two {{Musical Assassin}}s in ''Film/KungFuHustle'' bear more than a passing resemblance to Film/TheBluesBrothers. When told that they are the greatest assassins around, they reply, "Technically, we're just musicians."
* In Disney's MadeForTVMovie ''Film/TowerOfTerror,'' one of the elevator passengers trapped is a 1930s child movie star named Sally Shine, an obvious Creator/ShirleyTemple analogue.
* The vampire movie ''Film/FrightNight1985'' has a character who is an actor/horror show host (played by Roddy [=McDowell=]). His character's name on the horror show ''Fright Night'' is Peter Vincent -- a homage to Creator/PeterCushing and Creator/VincentPrice.
* Most of the humor if not the entire premise of ''Film/GalaxyQuest'' is lost if you don't realize that Tim Allen is Creator/WilliamShatner (although really, the entire cast qualifies).
* The 2007 ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' film combined this with InvisiblePresident. No name was mentioned and no face was seen, but it was clearly a none-too-flattering parody of UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush. Other viewers though are convinced the unseen president is UsefulNotes/BillClinton. Or it might just be [[CompositeCharacter G. B. Clintbush]].
** The 2009 sequel explicitly confirms the president as being UsefulNotes/BarackObama (and in the third movie, Obama actually appears AsHimself). This all but confirms the president two years earlier in the first film was, in fact, UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush.
* ''Film/VelvetGoldmine''. Music/DavidBowie was [[MemeticMutation very disappointed in them]]. And sued.
* Edie Sedgwick's love interest in ''Film/FactoryGirl'' was obviously Music/BobDylan, portrayed as an unnamed character by Hayden Christensen. Music/BobDylan himself threatened legal action over his initial portrayal during production, resulting in the removal of all references to Dylan in the script.
* In ''Film/ColdTurkey'', Radio/BobAndRay portray a series of parody newscasters:
** Walter Chronic = Creator/WalterCronkite
** David Chetley = Chet Huntley/David Brinkley
** Hugh Upson = Hugh Downs
** Paul Hardly = Paul Harvey
** Sandy Van Andy = Sander Vanocur
** Arthur Lordly = Arthur Godfrey
* ''Film/AmericanDreamz'' had Dennis Quaid as a barely functional Texan president whose dad had been president, who "decided" to run because people told him to, etc. With Creator/MarciaGayHarden as his beatifically gentle, tolerant wife and Willem Dafoe as his scheming bald puppetmaster.
** As well as Hugh Grant as [[Series/AmericanIdol a boorish British showrunner/judge of the titular singing competition.]]
* ''All Good Things'' is a fictionalization of the story of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Durst Durst case]] in which every name was changed except, for some reason, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Patrick_Moynihan Pat Moynihan's]]
* In ''Film/RocknRolla'', there is a Russian millionaire mobster and businessman that is trying to make a huge [[UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball football]] stadium. It's a surprise that Roman Abramovich didn't sue them.

* Benicio Del Toro said he gets a lot of inspiration from the style of Creator/DustinHoffman and based his performance as Fenster in ''Film/TheUsualSuspects'' outright on Hoffman as Mumbles in ''Film/DickTracy''.
* The 1998 American version of ''Film/{{Godzilla|1998}}'' had the New York City mayor as a Creator/RogerEbert lookalike. Used as a TakeThat by the end of the film when his aide (an {{Expy}} of Siskel) gives his job performance a thumbs down. This was because Siskel and Ebert had criticized Emerich's earlier productions. Ebert was offended not by the portrayal, but that if Emerich hated them so much he [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome didn't have the balls]] [[CrowningMomentOfFunny to let Godzilla eat them.]]

* Zandow the German strong man from ''Film/TheStrongMan'' surely is not meant in any way to be inspired by RealLife German bodybuilder [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugen_Sandow Eugen Sandow]].
* In ''Film/MyFavoriteYear'', Peter O'Toole plays washed-up film idol Alan Swann, who is not in any way related to Creator/ErrolFlynn. He is appearing on the live variety show of King Kaiser, who is totally not Creator/SidCaesar. And Kaiser is being stalked by the goons of a crooked labor leader who is certainly anyone but Jimmy Hoffa.
** Given that the viewpoint character is partly based on the movie's producer, Mel Brooks, who was a writer for Sid Caesar and who probably witnessed the real-life events that inspired the film, it may not be this so much as OurLawyersAdvisedThisTrope.
* ''Film/TheBroadwayMelody'' features a famous producer of Broadway revues named [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florenz_Ziegfeld Francis Zanfield]]. Also, the Mahoney sisters are based on the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Sisters Duncan Sisters]], who were actually offered the parts but chose instead to appear in a different MGM musical, ''It's a Great Life''.
* In ''Film/TheLifeAquaticWithSteveZissou'', Zissou is a clear [[MockCousteau parody of Jacques Cousteau]], right down to the uniforms...yet at one point he makes an offhand reference to "Cousteau and his cronies." No one comments on the resemblance between the two crews.
* It is generally accepted that Creator/DustinHoffman's character in ''Film/WagTheDog'' is based on film producer Robert Evans. Hoffman, however, claims that he actually based the portrayal on his own father.

* The government official-bribing company Hariburton in ''Banlieue 13: Ultimatum'' is most definitely not Halliburton.
* In ''Film/{{Sunset}}'', the character of Alfie Alperin is very strongly based on Creator/CharlieChaplin. Of course, lawyers for the Chaplin estate probably would have something to say if the movie had Creator/CharlieChaplin commit the acts that Alfie does.

* ''Film/WarGames'': Professor Stephen Falken, the programmer of JOSHUA, is similar to StephenHawking, complete with having the same first name and bird-related last names, according to WordOfGod. Hawking is most famous for his disability, as was Falken in an earlier draft until they realized how unfeasible it would be in the massive NORAD set.
* The 2011 film ''Film/{{Warrior}}'': The film often skirts amusingly close to actual [[UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts MMA]] figures without ''quite'' hitting them on the nose.
** Koba is obviously Fedor Emelianenko with the serial numbers filed off. They are both bald, stoic, tattoo-free, dominant Russian champs who never fought on American soil. Some reviewers mistook the reference for a take on ''Film/RockyIV'''s Ivan Drago.
** Brendan's trainer Frank Campana resembles Greg Jackson, both presented as personable top-level trainers with an intellectual approach.
** Bryan Callen as a ringside color commentator is an obvious Joe Rogan impersonation. Both are brash comedians with a casual commentating style.
** The sponsor of the Sparta tournament is a bald businessman who is always hanging around the press and got rich before getting into the fight game. He's a combination of the billionaire Feritta brothers who bought the UFC and the bald UFC president Dana White, an infamous media hound. %% This entry was added automatically by FELH2. In case the wording doesn't make sense, rewrite it as you like, remove this comment and tell this troper.
* In ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'', there are more than a few similarities between the character of Zefram Cochrane and ''Franchise/StarTrek'' creator Creator/GeneRoddenberry. Both were men who were elevated to near-mythic status posthumously, seen as legends and visionaries with "a dream" -- and both were lecherous, with substance abuse problems, and primarily motivated by money (not to mention extremely tall). The filmmakers ''claim'' they didn't base Cochrane on Roddenberry, but the similarities are there. One commentary noted that the scene where a star-struck Reg Barclay meets Cochrane was like a star-struck ''Trek'' fan meeting Roddenberry. And both, in different senses, created the world of ''Franchise/StarTrek''.
* Nick Hostetler (Creator/RussellCrowe) in ''Film/BrokenCity'' is obviously intended to be a more antagonistic version of New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg.

* The Canadian [[BuddyCopShow buddy cop]] film ''Film/BonCopBadCop'' features several characters obviously based on real-life [[UsefulNotes/NationalHockeyLeague NHL]] figures:
** Harry Buttman is a blatant play on NHL commissioner Gary Bettman.
** Comedian Rick Mercer plays Tom Berry, a bigoted and loudmouthed hockey commentator, essentially [[Series/HockeyNightInCanada Don Cherry]] with the serial numbers filed off.
** Several victims of the Tattoo Killer are parodies of real NHL team owners and officials.
* Captain Fuller from ''Film/TheLoneRanger'' is blatantly General George Armstrong Custer in all but rank.
* Gordon Gekko from ''Film/WallStreet'' is modeled on Ivan Boesky, the corporate takeover artist who, before being convicted of insider trading, gave a commencement speech at the University of California, Berkeley telling business school students, "You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself."

* Brazilian actor Leandro Hassum had two movies featuring a veiled parody of notable people from the country. ''O Candidato Honesto'' (''The Honest Candidate'') had Hassum playing a CorruptPolitician running for president [[WillNotTellALie who's forced to be honest]], and the character has various references to past presidents: his middle name was [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Sarney Ribamar, he hailed from a Northeastern state]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luiz_In%C3%A1cio_Lula_da_Silva had a work accident that brought him into the labour movement and subsequently politics]], and appears in a [[http://www.pragmatismopolitico.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Collor_de_Mello_Cacador_de_Marajas.jpg magazine cover as a "hunter of the corrupt"]]. ''Até Que A Sorte Nos Separe 3'' had Hassum's daughter marrying the son of billionaire "Rique Barelli", whose nome is only the start of an extended [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eike_Batista Eike Batista]] joke: the name of his company has three letters ending in "X", his wife is a former ''Playboy'' cover [[https://www.foliatropical.com.br/img/posts/337.jpg who wears a necklace with his name]], and [[http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-10-03/eike-batista-how-brazils-richest-man-lost-34-dot-5-billion bad business decisions sap his fortune]].

* Ruby Rod in ''Film/TheFifthElement'' is Chris Tucker's impression of Music/Prince.

* Edie Sedgwick's love interest in ''Factory Girl'' was obviously Music/BobDylan, portrayed as an unnamed character by Hayden Christensen. Music/BobDylan himself threatened legal action over his initial portrayal during production, resulting in the removal of all references to Dylan in the script.

* ''Film/AmericanDreamz'' had Dennis Quaid as a barely functional Texan president whose dad had been president, who "decided" to run because people told him to, etc. With Marcia Gay Harden as his beatifically gentle, tolerant wife and Willem Dafoe as his scheming bald puppetmaster.

** Koba is obviously Fedor Emelianenko with the serial numbers filed off. They are both bald, stoic, tattoo-free, dominant Russian champs who never fought on American soil. Some reviewers mistook the reference for a take on ''RockyIV'''s Ivan Drago.

** Apparently Reiner's [=DiBergi=] character is a goof on Creator/MartinScorsese, who was a rather clueless interviewer in his 1978 {{Rockumentary}} about Music/TheBand, ''The Last Waltz''.

* The 2007 ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' film combined this with InvisiblePresident. No name was mentioned and no face was seen, but it was clearly a none-too-flattering parody of UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush.
** Other viewers are convinced the unseen president is UsefulNotes/BillClinton.
*** It might just be [[CompositeCharacter G. B. Clintbush]].

* ''American Dreamz'' had Dennis Quaid as a barely functional Texan president whose dad had been president, who "decided" to run because people told him to, etc. With Marcia Gay Harden as his beatifically gentle, tolerant wife and Willem Dafoe as his scheming bald puppetmaster.

* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean:'' Jack Sparrow is based on both Music/KeithRichards and Creator/ErrolFlynn. Richards even makes a cameo in the third movie as Jack Sparrow's father. He's also part WesternAnimation/PepeLePew, with his relentless stupid optimism.