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14[[caption-width-right:350:"Roger Meyers Sr., the beloved genius behind ''[[JustForFun/TheItchyAndScratchyShow Itchy & Scratchy]]'', loved and cared about [[VillainWithGoodPublicity almost]] all the peoples of the world."]]
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16->''"From all of us at Stark Industries, I would like to personally introduce you to the city of the future!"''
17-->-- '''Howard Stark''', ''Film/IronMan2''
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19A NoCelebritiesWereHarmed version of Creator/WaltDisney; expect him to be the animator of a world-famous cartoon character (frequently a MockyMouse) and/or the founder of SouvenirLand. Also expect an [[{{Egopolis}} exaggerated interest]] in planned communities and/or creating a utopia, [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans possibly with sinister undertones]]. He'll present said utopia in the form of a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_fair World's Fair]]-like exhibition, usually in his parks. Oh, and, expect HumanPopsicle or BrainInAJar jokes, many of them.
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21Many of these characters go beyond parodying ''just'' Disney and fuse him with Creator/HowardHughes, another mustachio'd early/Golden Age of Hollywood impresario and futurist. Hughes gradually became debilitated by severe mental illness (OCD and agoraphobia) and eventually was reduced to living in seclusion, obsessively carrying out odd habits such as urinating in jars, wearing tissue boxes on his feet, and refusing to cut his nails. While Disney endured a fairly normal, if still ultimately fatal, bout with cancer, Hughes' eccentricities dovetail well enough with the prevailing UrbanLegend about Disney going into hiding in order to cheat death that perhaps it's not surprising that many writers can't resist the conflation when writing this type of character.
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23See also: FountainOfExpies, HowardHughesHomage. Overlaps with ExpyCoexistence if Disney is also acknowledged as existing InUniverse as well.
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31* [[spoiler:The fake]] Chuck Culkin in ''Manga/BillyBat'', who took over the titular [[ShowWithinAShow comic]] and gave him some major BadAssDecay after original author/artist Kevin Yamagata disappears. He rapidly built such a large empire around the character that he easily gets away with pretending he started it.
32* A truly heartbreaking version of this appears in ''Anime/ErgoProxy''. He just wants to be left alone, [[spoiler:and not killed like all the other Proxies]].
33%%* William Borise in the second volume of ''Manga/GenkakuPicasso''.
34* An episode of ''Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa'' has King Dedede start his own animation company, hiring a famous animator named "Dis Walney" ("[[Creator/OsamuTezuka Owalt Dezney]]" in the original Japanese version) [[spoiler:who turns out to be a monster in disguise]] to help him.
35* Mi-chan and Fancy Yankeeland in the ''Manga/{{Papuwa}}'' anime. The author skates a lot closer visually in the manga but censors any actual names in dialog bubbles.
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39* The ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' audio drama ''Zagreus'', featuring the Eighth Doctor, has several characters played by the actors who play earlier incarnations of the Doctor. Sylvester [=McCoy=]'s character is a futuristic Walt Disney analogue named Uncle Winky.
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43* ''Cyberella'', a lesser-known comic written by Creator/HowardChaykin, is built around the titular character starting off as a hybrid of WesternAnimation/BettyBoop and WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse created by blatant Disney parody Kelton Mosby. The first two issues explore the development of Cyberella, starting when she was Li'l Ella and before that her inspiration, child actress Ella Fiscus. There's a sanitized version that makes Mosby seem like an adoring father figure and man ahead of his time, and the more cynical, actual version revealing Mosby was just an extremely lucky opportunist who strong-armed unions, among other sordid details. It's also implied that the real Ella was actually an adult midget (based on the infamous untrue urban legend about Creator/ShirleyTemple) he was having an affair with before she died. They found Mosby's dead body in a hotel room with several underage prostitutes dressed like Li'l Ella.
44* ''Franchise/TheDCU'':
45** Winston Keever Sr., creator of ''Winky Blink and Friends'' and founder of the Winkyworld theme park chain in Chuck Dixon's ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' and ''ComicBook/GreenArrow'' comics. He briefly appears in ''Green Arrow'' as a dying old man, horrified by how ruthlessly his son runs the company.
46** The {{Elseworld}} ''ComicBook/BatmanDarkAllegiances'' reinvents the Dark Knight's villains as parodies of real people from the 1930s suspected of Nazi sympathies. So Oswald Cobblepot becomes [[AdaptationNameChange Milt Biggsley]], the creator of Peter Penguin, and founder of the Biggstown amusement park (allowing a MythologyGag with a giant prop typewriter). His inviting UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler to Hollywood is likely an allusion to Walt Disney infamously providing a tour of the production of ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'' to Nazi actress Leni Riefenstahl.
47** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'' has Wade Dazzle, a billionaire cartoon and amusement park mogul who seeks the secret of Amazon immortality.
48** ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueInternational'' revealed that [[ItMakesAsMuchSenseInContext somehow]] the first version of the Extremists the team face are animatronics created by "legendary theme park creator" Mitch Wacky for his "Wackyworld" park.
49* The ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' comic strip "Welcome to Tickle Town" features eccentric animator Tobias Tickle, who artificially prolongs his life into the 24th century and then builds Tickle Town theme park, trapping its visitors to protect them from the horrors of the AfterTheEnd world outside [[spoiler:which exists entirely in his head]].
50* The ''ComicBook/DylanDog'' story "Pink Rabbits Kill" (#24) has animation studios CEO Sandy Sidney, whose surname is a straight up [[SignificantAnagram anagram]] of "Disney" in case you were wondering who he might be the CaptainErsatz of. Also happens to be an ExpyCoexistence since Groucho brings up [[WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs Snow White]] in one of his jokes and other ''Dylan Dog'' stories verbally and visually reference Disney movies.
51%%* Elias [=McFadden=] in the middle story of ''ComicBook/TheEternalSmile''.
52* ''ComicBook/FissionChicken'' once had to beat the cryogenically preserved brain of "Walt Ditsey".
53* An unpublished ''WesternAnimation/HiHiPuffyAmiYumi'' story has the girls trying to take a vacation at Dizzyland ("the sickest place on earth") but being chased persistently by their fans.
54* The Golden Age ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'' parody "Mickey Rodent!" has Walt Dizzy, an UnknownCharacter whose rules everyone has to live by, including wearing WhiteGloves at all times. His Disney-like signature appears on every page until a conspicuous ArtShift (all of this being [[MediumAwareness pointed out by the characters]]). His name is always printed like his signature when it appears in dialogue bubbles.
55* ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'':
56** One ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' story (volume 1, issues #263-264) has a crazy Disney-alike who tries to use the Human Torch's powers to 'reignite the Earth's core'. The reason his employees went along with such a blatantly insane plan ({{lampshade|Hanging}}d as such, even by comic-book science standards) is that [[spoiler:they're ''all'' RidiculouslyHumanRobots he'd built]].
57** In the black-and-white ''Comicbook/HowardTheDuck'' magazine, Wally Sidney is a failed animator turned wealthy haberdasher. He imposes a new code of decency on the title character, forcing him to wear pants. This was because Disney had sued Marvel over the character, claiming similarity to WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck. Marvel's lawyers instantly caved, and as a part of the settlement, Disney was allowed to redesign Howard's look any way they saw fit, which included making him wear pants -- [[HilariousInHindsight and now Disney owns Marvel]].
58** ''ComicBook/XMen'' villain Bolivar Trask, creator of the Sentinels, was visually based on Walt Disney, and inherited his interest in futuristic technology and his purported bigotry.
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62* ''[[WebAnimation/QueerDuck Queer Duck: The Movie]]'' has an unflattering example in theme park Happyland's founder Fritz Happy. His son claims that their real surname is [[GodwinsLaw Hitler]] (spelled with two Ts), and he is shown to be cryogenically frozen and set to thaw out in the year 3066, referencing the famous urban legend that Walt Disney was frozen.
63* Bigweld from ''WesternAnimation/{{Robots}}'', according to the filmmakers. Even though he's in a completely different industry -- his company sells robotic gadgets as well as spare parts for the robotic inhabitants of his world -- he has the friendly demeanor, the big-dreamer mentality, and his own TV show. By the time the protagonist arrives at Bigweld HQ, where he'd dreamed of working someday, the company has been taken over by a sleazy executive who's only interested in making money and has no interest in offering jobs to small-timers like him. (As this was an animated film made by [[Creator/BlueSkyStudios a studio that is not Disney]], it's probably a bit autobiographical as well.)
64* ''WesternAnimation/Wish2023'': Magnifico is a charismatic man who single-handedly created a "Magic Kingdom" and has built a reputation as a man who brings people's fantasies to life in spite of grim reality. Considering Wish was made in celebration of the company's 100 year anniversary, this could have been the intent. Like many other takes on this trope, he is a villainous version of the archetype, whose power and acclaim go hand-in-hand with his greed and ambition.
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69* Abel Edwards from the sci-fi movie ''Film/AbleEdwards'', with the twist that Abel is cloned in the future to help to bring the joy from his old cartoons.
70* Uncle Dave from ''Film/BeverlyHillsCopIII'' is Series/{{Mister Rogers|Neighborhood}} as Creator/WaltDisney.
71* V. A. Vandemere, the villain in ''Film/Dumbo2019'' who runs an Art Deco-inspired theme park called Dreamland, is based in equal parts on Disney, [[TheBarnum P. T. Barnum]], and UsefulNotes/ThomasEdison. Given that the film was made by Creator/{{Disney}} as it was in the process of buying out Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox, and that the plot of the film revolved around Vandemere buying out the protagonists' smaller circus, many critics read it as BitingTheHandHumor.
72* Creator/BillPlympton's {{Mockumentary}} ''Hitler's Folly'' makes UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler himself into one, expanding on Hitler's art career and love of ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'' (which led to the real-life production of ''WesternAnimation/ArmerHansi'') by [[AdolfHitlarious reimagining him]] as having unfulfilled dreams of creating an animation empire and wanting to build the Disneyland-esque park "Nazi-land".
73* In ''Film/IronMan2'', Howard Stark is very much based on the futurist side of Walt, with his Stark Expo film being very similar to Disney's promotional film for EPCOT, though it's shown in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'' and ''Series/AgentCarter'' that in his earlier days, he was more of a pre-breakdown HowardHughesHomage. Funnily enough, ''Iron Man 2'' just so happened to be the first Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse film released after Disney bought Marvel.
74* ''Franchise/JurassicPark'': John Hammond, the creator of Jurassic Park. In [[Literature/JurassicPark1990 the book]], he's a greedy and uncaring executive who author Creator/MichaelCrichton described as "the dark version of Walt Disney". However, [[Film/JurassicPark1993 the film]] makes him a more sympathetic CoolOldGuy (i.e., Disney played straighter), since Creator/StevenSpielberg identified with his like for showmanship.
75* Roy Walley[[note]]Walt's brother and nephew, both of whom were high executives in the Disney corporation, were named Roy[[/note]] in ''Film/NationalLampoonsVacation'', with Marty Moose and Walley World. In the original magazine story it really was Walt Disney, who was (non-fatally) shot by a pushed-over-the-edge Pop.
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80* Ralph Mimsey in several novels by Dave Stone, including the ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' tie-in novel ''Wetworks'' and the ''Literature/DoctorWhoMissingAdventures'' novel ''Burning Heart''; the latter has Mimsey's cryogenically preserved head as a minor character. His creations include Barnabas the Magic Ocelot and Mickey Monkey.
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82* The Saruman counterpart in ''Literature/BoredOfTheRings'', Serutan. He was running a half-abandoned theme park centered around a character called Dicky Dragon. At one point in the past, Goodgulf (the Gandalf equivalent) was his business partner, but their relationship soured due to Serutan becoming greedier (at least, [[UnreliableExpositor according to Goodgulf]]).
83* Uncle Sam Beasley from a few ''Literature/TheDestroyer'' books tries to conquer Cuba and turn it into an amusement park. His first book features the song "It's a Short Life After All".
84* "Literature/TheGypsiesInTheWood" features "Uncle Satt", a Victorian-era entrepreneur who has made a pile on a fairy-tale cartoon-character franchise and is about to open his first SouvenirLand. There's a conversation about what exactly Uncle Satt actually ''does'', given that all the words and illustrations that appear under his name were created by underlings, which echoes a story told about Uncle Walt.
85* ''Literature/InCryptid'' has Michael Lowry, the founder of the Disneyland [[ExpyCoexistence coexisting expy]] Lowryland, though he's long dead by the time the series takes place, and most of the focus is on the theme park.
86* Raymond Dieterling, founder of Dream-a-Dream Land, in ''Literature/LAConfidential''. (This character [[AdaptedOut doesn't appear]] in [[Film/LAConfidential the film version]].)
87* The unnamed creator of the Happy Mouse Kingdom theme park in Orlando, Florida, as featured in ''Literature/TheTrueMeaningOfSmekday''.
88* President Toydream of ''Literature/TheUnexploredSummonBloodSign'' is the eccentric, mega-rich founder of the Toydream franchise and cities-slash-theme parks (yes, they're ''that'' big). The setting [[AllMythsAreTrue being what it is]], he is also a peerless occultist who has collected stories and relics from around the world so he could adapt them into blockbusters someday.
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92* Charles Dingo in ''Series/ICarly'', with its theme park, the dingo as the beloved cartoon animal and even its own version of Creator/DisneyChannel. His [[HumanPopsicle frozen head]] is in the bowels of the Dingo Studios.
93* Milt Appleday from ''Series/OutOfJimmysHead'', creator of Golly Gopher and the Gollywood Theme Park.
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97* [[http://www.atomicthinktank.com/viewtopic.php?p=827769#p827769 Walter Rand]] in the ''TabletopGame/HaltEvilDoer'' setting for ''TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds''. His "Rand Utopias" are parodies of Disney's "planned community" Celebration combined with the comic book concept of the MadScientist having a hidden community as his own sociology experiment. ([[ExpyCoexistence The real Disney also existed]] in the ''HED!'' setting, and got irritated at Rand constantly stealing his ideas. The last straw was when he started "poaching" Mouseketeers to join Sneckles the Snake's Young Pioneers.)
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101* Elijah Walton of ''VideoGame/AmericanArcadia'' is a blatant Walt Disney expy, if his last name didn't give an indication. His ideal utopian city, the titular Arcadia, is EPCOT in all but name and form, and similarly to the real EPCOT, once Elijah passed away and his company, Walton Media, fell into the hands of his brother Donald, Arcadia was turned into a tourist attraction... with the additional caveat that it plays host to the game's namesake reality show, with the city's residents all part of a large TrumanShowPlot.
102* Joey Drew from ''VideoGame/BendyAndTheInkMachine'' is at least partly based on Walt Disney. His most famous character appears to be the titular Bendy, a demon reminiscent of Mickey Mouse. Joey also has his own animation studio where he encourages people to follow their dreams. [[spoiler:This being a horror game, Joey is also an AllTakeAndNoGive kind of boss who took credit for all of his worker's accomplishments. He seems to have made as much of an effort to go straight as he can after realizing it hasn't done anything but leave him almost entirely alone: aside from trying to mend bridges with his co-workers, like Wally and Allison, Joey also asks for Henry's help to destroy Bendy once and for all once it's clear that he's done nothing but cause everyone misery.]]
103* Andrew Ryan from ''VideoGame/BioShock'' is basically a Libertarian Walt Disney bent on building a utopia, much like Disney's original vision of the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (EPCOT). He also has a mustache that is similar to Disney's. Like Robert House below, he is [[HowardHughesHomage also based on Howard Hughes]].
104* ''Franchise/{{Fallout}}'':
105** Mr. Robert House from ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' is this mixed with a [[HowardHughesHomage Howard Hughes-type]] paranoiac. His goal is to run New Vegas as TheThemeParkVersion: safe, clean, secure, and under his totalitarian control, aided by an army of robots. His portrait bears more than a little resemblance to Disney, [[spoiler:and his actual body is effectively somewhere between HumanPopsicle and BrainInAJar]].
106** ''Videogame/Fallout4'' has John-Caleb Bradberton, the creator of Nuka-Cola, who built a theme park dedicated to his drink. [[spoiler:Unsurprisingly, his head is found frozen and kept alive by pre-war technology underneath the park.]] For bonus points, his name is a [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed mashup]] of John Pemberton and Caleb Bradham, inventors of Coca-Cola and Pepsi Cola, respectively.
107* April 2015's Item-Of-The-Month in ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'' was an airplane charter to Dinseylandfill, the world's most popular amusement park that, due to a city planning mistake, was also zoned as a landfill. Deep within the maintenance tunnels of the park, armed with the four keycards to unlock his cryo-stasis chamber, one can discover Wart Dinsey himself, complete with numerous Walt Disney quotes, slightly altered with sinister intent...
108-->''"That's the trouble with the world:" says a monotone voice, "too many people grow up. I'll make sure you don't make that mistake."''
109* Cave Johnson from ''VideoGame/Portal2'' seems to have a lot of this to his character; [[spoiler:especially in regard to his plans to cheat death]].
110* Nathaniel Winter of ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld'' and ''VideoGame/ThePark'' is portrayed as a mad cross between Walt Disney and Howard Hughes during both games. A millionaire construction mogul, he set out to build a spectacular amusement park on a relatively obscure island off the coast of Maine, and was careful to portray himself as benevolently as possible in the advertising; he even has a small cuddly mammal as the park's mascot -- namely Chad the Chipmunk. For good measure, he's revealed to be secretly contemptuous of the locals, knowingly exposing workers and guests to dangerous conditions, and bribing the government to keep the park open. Then, when the park is finally shut down, he abandons his family and retreats into the abandoned property to spend the rest of his life in seclusion. [[spoiler:It turns out that Atlantic Island Park was secretly his means of securing immortality, and has ultimately transformed him into the Bogeyman that still haunts the property.]]
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114* Waldo Frizzy from ''Webcomic/SeventySeas'', creator of Toby Terrier and Toby Town.
115* ''Webcomic/BrunoTheBandit'' briefly gives us the fame vampire [[http://www.brunothebandit.com/d/20031119.html Valdzny]], brother of Nosferatinx and "father of all fame vampire animals". He perfected a serum of distilled fame vampire blood that when injected, redesigns the animal to be more pleasing to children and gives them BarbieDollAnatomy. According to Ella, his first test was on a lab mouse who's suspiciously familiar ears barely poke into the bottom of the frame [[http://www.brunothebandit.com/d/20030926.html here]]. He even creates "Valdzny-Ville" from [[spoiler:a rancid mountain of half-digested Rothland villages puked up by an injected Leviathan]].
116* Linnie Bygone from ''Webcomic/{{Klunscomic}}'' is essentially a GenderFlip version of Walt Disney. She created Toona, a MockyMouse, and she even has her own theme park named "Bygoneland".
117* An early ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' arc features Newt Sidney, owner of Sidneyland. Very obvious -- it's even mentioned that he started his career with a talking mouse. He's the villain of the piece, enforcing "a near-monopoly" through underhanded dealings, threats, criminal connections, and similar -- all of it impossible to trace back to him, meaning that he winds up as a KarmaHoudini. The arc is started when one of his competitors hires the titular mercenaries to safeguard the opening of his new 'Magic Dream-Land' (next door to Sidneyland), after Sidney threatened to prevent the opening even if he had to commandeer a KillSat and nuke them from orbit.
118* Dr Collodi in ''Webcomic/SkinHorse'', the founder of [=WhimsyCorp=] and the Little House of Wonders theme park.
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122* Lemuel Stewartson in the Atom.com cartoons about UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation; his creation was a raccoon called Mortimer Koon (in a universe of AnimatedActors). Alas, the ill-fated theme park Koonland was [[MistakenForRacist ruined by its name]].
123* The [[https://twitter.com/epcotcentre @EpcotCentre]] Twitter spoof account imagines [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Epcot]] as a standalone theme park built by one [[https://twitter.com/epcotcentre/status/442077875739451392?lang=en Robert Alan Epcot]] -- with a Twitter account run as a hobby by a staffer in her spare time.
124%%* Walt Wonderful in the ''Roleplay/LeagueOfIntergalacticCosmicChampions''
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128* The ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episode "[[Recap/AmericanDadS10E10Familyland Familyland]]" has the titular theme park's evil founder Roy Family, who was [[UrbanLegends cryogenically frozen and anti-Semitic]]. [[ExpyCoexistence Klaus mentions Walt Disney by name]], but Steve doesn't know who he is.
129* Grant Walker from the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "[[Recap/TheAdventuresOfBatmanAndRobinE19DeepFreeze Deep Freeze]]". The focus is less on him as a cartoon mogul and more on the animatronics part, and his design of an [[UnderwaterCity underwater utopia]] with no crime ([[Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe wait...]]). His attempt to work with Mr. Freeze to gain immortality does succeed, but ultimately results in him becoming a HumanPopsicle (combined with AndIMustScream, since he's still conscious) when his city is brought down around him.
130* ''WesternAnimation/BeanyAndCecil'' has the episode "Beanyland", in which Beany and Cecil build a theme park on the moon -- Dishonest John, mining green cheese at the time, sabotages their work and christens it "Meanyland". Standards and Practices suits raised objections to the 'unflattering caricature of Disney', apparently unaware that Dishonest John is a recurring character usually not portrayed as a Disney stand-in.
131* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' provides an example from a FantasticVoyagePlot episode. The mogul is Mr. Walt Kidney, whose theme park, Kidneyland, happens to reside within the kidney of Vicky.
132* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'', Garfield goes to an amusement park called Wonderful World and meets its founder Wilson Wonder, who lives behind a Fun House mirror. Serial con artist Al Swindler took over the park and had Wonder locked away inside one of his own attractions so he wouldn't cause trouble.
133%%* Dalt Wisney in ''Henry's Cat''.
134* Uncle Wizzly of ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'' has an animatronic theme park that runs amok.
135* ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'': Walt Fleishman from the episode "[[Recap/TheRealGhostbustersS2E12WhoreYouCallingTwoDimensional Who're You Calling Two-Dimensional?]]" is probably an amalgam of Disney and [[Creator/FleischerStudios one or two of his contemporaries]].
136* The "Literature/SleepingBeauty" parody in ''The WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle Show'' (one of the "{{Fractured Fairy Tale}}s" segments) portrays [[PrinceCharmless the prince]] as an obvious parody of Walt Disney who, rather than wake Sleeping Beauty with a kiss, builds a theme park ("Sleeping Beauty Land") around her. Walt was reportedly not amused. (Possibly explaining a reference during one of a handful of shows where NBC experimentally had a live-action Bullwinkle puppet, also voiced by Bill Scott, hosting. At the end of one show, the puppet explains that they have to go because "Mr. Disney just came into the studio with a baseball bat.")
137* Roger Meyers Sr. from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', [[PlagiarismInFiction thief]] of [[JustForFun/TheItchyAndScratchyShow Itchy and Scratchy]],[[note]]Most likely based on the fact that Disney's first commercial character, Julius the Cat, was practically a carbon copy of Franchise/FelixTheCat[[/note]] which eventually spawned Itchy and Scratchy Land (albeit after his death). While the cartoon is generally a parody of ''Franchise/TomAndJerry'' and ''WesternAnimation/HermanAndKatnip'', the historical installments of the series produced under Meyers Sr. depicted in various episodes include parodies of ''WesternAnimation/SteamboatWillie'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}''. Meyers was also known for his "controversial" 1938 film ''Nazi Supermen Are Our Superiors'', referencing the urban legend of Disney's anti-semitism. The episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E18TheDayTheViolenceDied The Day the Violence Died]]" also references the urban legend about Walt Disney being cryogenically frozen, when Roger Meyers Jr. goes bankrupt and shows that he can no longer afford to preserve his father's head in cryo-conservation... cue leaking icebox.
138* Hieronymus Glove from ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', an anthropomorphic shark with a fondness for gloves to the point he founded the glove-themed amusement park "Glove World", and still runs it despite [[HarmlessFreezing being frozen in a block of ice]].
139* Roy Brisby from ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'', creator of [[MockyMouse Bizzy Bee]] and Brisbyland.
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