* Sometime after Creator/ArthurConanDoyle had publicly announced that no more ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' tales would be forthcoming, a young Creator/AugustDerleth wrote to Doyle for permission to carry on using a pastiche; Doyle approved the idea, and Derleth began a series of tales, eventually to run over 40 years, about Literature/SolarPons, often reckoned the best of the many Holmes pastiches.
* Similarly, before Sherlock Holmes lapsed into the public domain, several novels pitted ''Literature/ArseneLupin'' against "Herlock Sholmes". And actually continue to do so, in the French-speaking world at least.
* Buratino is an expy of [[Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio Pinocchio]], in Aleksey Tolstoy's ''The Golden Key, or the Adventures of Buratino'', if much nicer and [[SpiritualAntithesis with a different resolution]].
* In 1945, Walter Gibson (main writer of ''Literature/TheShadow'') created ''Literature/TheAvenger'', a show about a man with the power to read minds and become invisible, who uses those powers to fight crime. Rather than using pseudo-mystical abilities and hypnosis, Jim Brandon is a biochemist who uses a machine (the Telepathic Indicator) to read minds and a Special Diffusion Capsule to bend light around him to become invisible. His supporting cast of Fern Collier and Inspector White are more or less exact copies of Margo Lane and Commissioner Weston. It even has its own awkward version of the Shadow's "The weed of crime bears bitter fruit" motto: "The road to crime ends in a trap that Justice sets! Crime does not pay!"
* Creator/DouglasAdams's book ''Literature/DirkGentlysHolisticDetectiveAgency'' was based on a script he'd written for ''Series/DoctorWho'' ("''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E6Shada Shada]]''") that had never been completed due to a studio workers' strike. The character of Dirk Gently was created to replace the Doctor in the book, and the character of Richard [=MacDuff=] created as a Companion figure. Dirk Gently proved such an engaging character that Adams wrote a sequel, ''Literature/TheLongDarkTeaTimeOfTheSoul'', and was working on a third book [[DiedDuringProduction when he died]]. ''Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency'' actually borrows from both the above mentioned ''Shada'' and another Doctor Who serial, ''City of Death'', which Adams co-wrote. Compare the BigBad's plan in both.
** The character of Professor Chronotis is lifted straight from ''Shada'', in which he is a Time Lord who uses his room as a TARDIS. The version in ''Dirk Gently'' uses the first name "Urban" (but usually the nickname 'Reg'), gains a fondness for magic tricks, and is never specifically ''acknowledged'' to be a Time Lord, but makes a few implications that he has been alive for hundreds of years and possibly used to have multiple faces...
* Similarly, ''Literature/LifeTheUniverseAndEverything'' was largely based on his proposed script for a ''Series/DoctorWho'' story, "Doctor Who versus the Krikkitmen". The role of the Doctor was taken by Slartibartfast (and towards the end by Trillian), largely because none of the other shiftless main characters of the ''Guide'' universe fit the bill.
* In ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' novel ''Literature/ProvenGuilty'', spirits that feed on fear manifest at a horror movie convention and thus take the forms of Totally-Not-[[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy]], [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason]], and other slashers to attack people.
* Creator/KimNewman:
** In ''Literature/TheQuorum'', several of the characters are fans of CaptainErsatz comics characters Amazon Queen (Franchise/WonderWoman) and The Streak (Franchise/TheFlash), with shades of Franchise/{{Superman}}), and one is a comics writer creating ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths''-style series about them for comics company "ZC".
** ''The Quorum'' also mentions Dr. Shade, a British comics character who resembles Radio/TheShadow, whose first appearance was in Newman's story "The Original Dr. Shade", which in the course of describing the character's fictional publishing history performs a LampshadeHanging by mentioning that ''The Shadow'''s publishers once sued over the resemblance.
** Amazon Queen and The Streak also appear in "[[http://johnnyalucard.com/fiction/online-fiction/coastal-city/ Coastal City]]", along with Green Masque (ComicBook/BlackCanary), the Darkangel (ComicBook/{{Batman}}), Gecko-Man (ComicBook/SpiderMan), the Outcasts (ComicBook/XMen), Teensy Teen (ComicBook/TheWasp) and Blubber Boy (sort-of Gi{{ComicBook/ant Man}}), Vindicator (a cyborg version of ComicBook/ThePunisher) and Nightgaunt (probably ''ComicBook/{{Spawn}}'').
** ''Literature/AnnoDracula''
*** Secret agent [[Film/JamesBond Hamish Bond]] in ''Literature/DraculaChaChaCha''.
*** "The Other Side of Midnight" includes a vampire slayer by the name of [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Barbie Winters]].
*** The unnamed detective who narrates the ''Literature/AnnoDracula'' story "Castle in the Desert" and the ''Literature/DiogenesClub'' stories "The Big Fish" and "Literature/SevenStars: The Trouble With Barrymore". The Who's Who at the back of ''The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club'' (which calls him "the Gumshoe") comments that if he's ''not'' Literature/PhilipMarlowe then it's a very big coincidence. (In the case of the ''Anno Dracula'' version, this coincidence extends to retiring to Poodle Springs.)
* Michael Shea's novel ''Nift the Lean'' was written as a sequel to Creator/JackVance's first Cugel the Clever novel before Vance himself wrote an official sequel. Thus, Nift is a CaptainErsatz of Cugel. However, since Nift is paired with a BarbarianHero named Barnar, there's another level of ersatzes, as Barnar and Nift are respectively based off of Literature/FafhrdAndTheGrayMouser.
* Minister Faust's ''From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain'' features several of these: Omnipotent Man (Superman), Flying Squirrel (Batman), Iron Maiden (Wonder Woman/Thor) and Fly Brother (Spider-Man).
* In a rather bizarre example, where CaptainErsatz meets AscendedFanon or who-knows-what, an erotic romance novel called ''The Stranger'' by Portia da Costa features an expy of [[Series/DoctorWho the Eighth Doctor]]. He has the same name as the actor who played Eight (Paul), and is almost exactly the same other than the name [[labelnote:1]]and being described as taller and younger than I personally would describe him[[/labelnote]], including the [[TraumaInducedAmnesia amnesia]]. And the heroine's surname, as some who've watched [[Film/WithnailAndI Withnail & I]] may know, was the surname of another character Paul [=McGann=] played. Oddly enough, this all merits a sort of ContinuityNod in a TieInNovel - the heroine is mentioned as someone the Doctor knew [[labelnote:2]]not, mind you, mentioned as someone he ''knew''[[/labelnote]]. {{Fandom}} has speculated about which TieInNovel writer is "Portia da Costa". So this means ''the Doctor'' has a ''published'' and ''semi-canon'' masturbation full of {{Narm}}[[labelnote:3]]"Claudia realised that caressing himself was as much a comfort to the young man as it was an act of sex. He seemed reassured by his body's own responses. But that took nothing away from the eroticism of his performance."[[/labelnote]], among other things, out there.
* Most of the superheroes in Creator/PerryMoore's young adult novel ''Literature/{{Hero}}'' are blatant parodies of DC characters, [[Franchise/WonderWoman Warrior Woman]] being the most obvious. The Man in Black is Batman, The Spectrum is Franchise/GreenLantern, King of the Sea is Aquaman, and Uberman and Justice are Superman.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'' again: In the ''Literature/FactionParadox'' series the Time Lords become the Great Houses, who travel in Timeships ([=TARDISes=]) and are led by a War King who is clearly the Master. The Homeworld of the Great Houses was formerly defended by artificial beings called "casts" (Shaydes from the ''[[Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine DWM]]'' comic strip), and an attempt to produce semi-sentient casts created homicidal maniacs called "babels" (N-Forms from the Eighth Doctor novels). The Doctor himself is only referred to as "[[PerspectiveFlip the Evil Renegade]]".
** The short story "Now or Thereabouts" features a Faction recruit called Ceol, who is Kelsey from the pilot of ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'', complete with references to her pink tracksuit and a friend called Maria who went to America.
** When Telos Publishing lost its rights to publish ''Doctor Who'' ExpandedUniverse material with the new series, they started making their own series, "Time Hunter", about a gentleman time traveller named Honoré Lechasseur and his travelling companion Emily.
** The ''Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures'' companion Chris Cwej was stated to now be working for the Time Lords just before the licence ran out. He then appeared in the ''Literature/BerniceSummerfield New Adventures'', referring only to his "employers", and in ''Faction Paradox'', where they were, of course, the Great Houses. In the anthology ''Cwej: Down the Middle'', his superiors are officially known as, well, the Superiors. They are also referred to as "the House-Dwellers" and "the Lords of Jewel". (The former suggesting the Great Houses, and the latter a MythologyGag to a name ''TV Comic'' gave to the Time Lords' home planet, before the series went with Gallifrey.)
* In ''What They Did To Princess Paragon'' by Robert Rodi, the eponymous Princess Paragon is very obviously Franchise/WonderWoman. Other characters created by Bang Comics include Acme-Man (Franchise/{{Superman}}), the urban vigilante Moonman (Franchise/{{Batman}}, complete with campy 60s TV series), and other members of the Freedom Front (Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica). Bang's rivals Electric Comics, meanwhile, created the explorer-team The Quasar Quintet (ComicBook/FantasticFour), the irradiated monster Sherman Tank (ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk), and the superhero team The Offenders (ComicBook/TheAvengers).
* [[HordeOfAlienLocusts The Vord]] in the ''Literature/CodexAlera'' are straight out of ''VideoGame/StarCraft''. If you're not thinking "ZergRush ''kekekekeke''" by halfway through ''Academ's Fury'', you're doing something wrong.
** The Zerg in turn are based on the aliens from, well, Aliens, just like the Protoss are based on the Predator race from guess-which-film.
** In addition, according to [[WordOfGod Jim]], High Lord and Lady Placida are based on [[Literature/VorkosiganSaga Count and Countess Aral and Cordelia Vorkosigan]].
* Before creating the Wold Newton Family, Creator/PhilipJoseFarmer wrote a series of novels about John Cloamby, Lord Grandrith, who was raised by apes, and his half-brother Doc Caliban, a two-fisted adventurer. As well as serving as a {{Deconstruction}} of the pulps, these books advanced Farmer's early theories about the relationship between Literature/{{Tarzan}} and Literature/DocSavage, without actually naming names.
* Reading the ''Literature/CiaphasCain'' novel ''Cain's Last Stand'', it becomes obvious that Varan the Undefeatable is this to UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, down to being described as looking exactly like him down to the moustasche and flashy uniforms, along with a similar personality. If it weren't for the mutations he has in the book, one would think Hitler himself paid visit to the ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' universe.
** And it's pretty much open knowledge that the entire Ciaphas Cain series is a 40k version of ''{{Literature/Flashman}}''.
*** Although with the caveat that Cain is a much more likable character than Flashy himself.
* In Mary Gaitskill's novel ''Two Girls, Fat and Thin'', Dorothy, the "fat girl" of the title, is a devotee (and at one point, employee) of novelist "[[Creator/AynRand Anna Granite]]" and her philosophy of "[[UsefulNotes/{{Objectivism}} Definitism]]."
* Aslan from ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'' series, start out as an {{Expy}} of Jesus until the third book, where he become clearly a Captain Ersatz of Jesus... until the Last Battle, where Lewis hinted, before commented out right Aslan's real world identity explicitly.
* This is a repeating theme in Creator/JonathanLethem's ''Chronic City'', which contains numerous [[CaptainErsatz Captains Ersatz]] of various culture references large and small. Interestingly, just as many and varied cultural touchstones are included as themselves, helping create a pervasive feeling of a pop cultural zeitgeist almost but not entirely our own. A few examples:
** One major character was the ghostwriter for eccentric playboy physicist Emil Junrow's witty memoir ''I Can't Quite Believe You Said That, Dr. Junrow'', who as described bears no small resemblance to UsefulNotes/RichardFeynman, eccentric playboy physicist and writer of the witty memoir ''"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"''
** Franchise/TheMuppets are replaced in the pop culture of this world by "Gnuppets"
** Russ Grinspoon, described as "the lamer half of [the] well-forgotten seventies smooth-rock duo Grinspoon and Hale" is likely meant as an AlternateUniverse [[Music/SimonAndGarfunkel Art Garfunkel]].
* The main character of the superhero satire ''Literature/SuperFolks'' by Robert Mayer has powers more-or-less identical to Superman (who's specified as missing and presumed dead at the beginning of the book). His secret identity is named David Brinkley, and because he comes from the planet Cronk, he's vulnerable to Cronkite. The book also includes ersatzen of Plastic Man and Mr. Mxyzptlk, among loads of others.
* ''Literature/TheSundering'' deliberately echoes ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' ([[PerspectiveFlip but written from the villains' point of view]]), so the vast majority of characters directly correspond to someone from Tolkien's legendarium.
* ''Literature/CliffordTheBigRedDog'' featured a parody of ''Literature/HarryPotter'' called ''Peter Poundstone''.
* Al Ewing's contributions to the ''Pax Britannia'' SharedUniverse (set in a SteamPunk {{Dystopia}} 20th century) feature El Sombra, a masked swordsman named Djego, whose main difference from Franchise/{{Zorro}} is that he's decidedly not a nobleman. ''Gods Of Manhattan'' is a TwoFistedTales pastiche which also includes Doc Thunder (Literature/DocSavage with a dash of [[Literature/{{Gladiator}} Hugo Danner]]), the Blood Spider (Radio/TheShadow with elements of Literature/TheSpider), the Blue Ghost (ComicBook/TheSpirit) and Jack Scorpio, Agent of S.T.E.A.M. (ComicBook/NickFury). The follow-up ''Pax Omega'' has Doc Thunder's powers develop until he's ComicBook/{{Superman}}, and Jack Scorpio's Yodelling Bastards (ComicBook/SgtFuryAndHisHowlingCommandos) who include El Sombra, Blood Widow (Blood Spider's ex; ComicBook/BlackWidow with [[ComicBook/SpiderMan Mary Jane Watson]] elements), Richard Reed ([[ComicBook/FantasticFour Reed Richards]]; his ancestor Franklin Reed is a play on Mr Fantastic's son, but is also a CaptainErsatz of Frank Reade and similar DimeNovel {{Teen Genius}}es) and Mike Moses ([[Series/TheATeam B.A. Baracus]]).
* In Austin Grossman's ''Literature/SoonIWillBeInvincible'', [=CoreFire=], Elphin, and Blackwolf are easily recognizable pastiches of Franchise/{{Superman}}, Franchise/WonderWoman, and Franchise/{{Batman}}, respectively. Other characters are also less-obviously drawn from other Marvel and DC characters. The central superhero group is sort of like a cross between the Avengers and the JLA, Doctor Impossible is a bit ComicBook/LexLuthor plus superpowers (and sympathy), Damsel is a bit Donna Troy + Ms. Marvel with some Storm thrown in, Rainbow Triumph is obviously Robin, Mister Magic is mostly ComicBook/DoctorStrange, and so on.
* The ''[[Literature/{{Temps}} EuroTemps]]'' short story "If Looks Could Kill", by Creator/DavidLangford, stars the overweight detective Caligula Foxe (Literature/NeroWolfe), along with his legman Charlie Goodman (Archie Goodwin), his chef Franz (Fritz), and his associates Paul Sanza (Saul Panzer) and Terry Carver (Orrie Cather). Also mentioned are Charlie's lady friend Lila (Lily Rowan), paranorm detective Sally Cole (Sally Colt), and journalist Ron Cohen (Lon Cohen). DPR official Mr Cream ''might'' be intended as Inspector Cramer.
* The Clive Cussler Literature/DirkPittAdventures novel ''Night Probe!'' includes a British agent, Brian Shaw, who is hinted - ''strongly'' hinted - to be Franchise/JamesBond.
* Among the background weirdos who wander through the {{Literature/Nightside}}, there've been numerous references to "the [[Series/DoctorWho Travelling Doctor]]".
* ''Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse'':
** The ''Literature/PastDoctorAdventures'' novel ''The Indestructable Man'' is basically a long homage to/deconstruction of various Creator/GerryAnderson series:
*** The Sharon family and their Global Response organisation are [[Series/{{Thunderbirds}} the Tracys and International Rescue]]. ("Sharon" = "Tracy" is a reference to ''Series/BirdsOfAFeather''.)
*** Dwight "Boffin" Graham is "Brains" Hackenbacker. (Named after voice actor David Graham.)
*** The LIGHTNING vehicles are the Thunderbirds.
*** The eponymous Indestructable Man, Captain Grant Matthews, is Series/{{Captain Scarlet|AndTheMysterons}}. (Names after Cary Grant, whom the puppet was modeled on, and voice actor Francis Matthews.)
*** PRISM, the organisation Matthews works for, is SPECTRUM.
*** Carl Taylor/Captain Death is Conrad Turner/Captain Black.
*** SKYHOME is Cloudbase.
*** Capt Adam Nelson is Adam Svenson/Captain Blue
*** Lt Neville ''Verd''ana is Lieutenent Green.
*** Colonel [=Le=]''Blanc'' is Colonel White.
*** The CHERUBS are the Angels.
*** SILOET, the successor to PRISM, is [[Series/UFO1970 SHADO]].
*** Hal Bishop is Ed Straker. (Named after actor Ed Bishop.)
*** Alex Storm is Alec Freeman
*** Dr Ventham is Colonel Lake. (Named after actress Creator/WandaVentham)
*** Dr Kolvoski is Dr Jackson.
*** Lt Gabrielle is Lt Ellis. (Named after actress Gabrielle Drake)
*** Captain Drake is Captain Carlin.
*** The SILOET Movers are SHADO Mobiles.
*** SKYDIVER is [=KingFisher=]
*** Lunar Base is the Moonbase. It's also the Moonbase from ''Series/Space1999''.
*** The BLOCKER spacecraft are the Interceptors.
*** The Myloki are the Mysterons, and the unnamed aliens from ''Series/UFO1970''.
** In the Literature/DoctorWhoMissingAdventures novel ''Burning Heart'' by Dave Stone, the Habitat is Mega-City One and Adjudicator Craator is Judge Dredd. Virgin Publishing actually had the rights to publish ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' novels at the time, some of which were by Stone, and apparently he was already writing the book before they decided it wasn't going to be a crossover.
** In the ''Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures'' novel ''The Crooked World'' the TARDIS lands in an AlternateTooniverse. Most of the characters the Doctor encounters are Captain Ersatzes:
*** The Skeleton Crew are [[Franchise/ScoobyDoo Mystery Inc]]. (Mike Leader, Harmony Looker, Thelma Brains, Tim Coward and Fearless the dog,)
*** Angel Falls is [[WesternAnimation/ThePerilsOfPenelopePitstop Penelope Pitstop]] (with Mr Weasely/the Masked Weasel as Sylvester Sneekly/the Hooded Claw).
*** Jasper and Squeak are WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry,[[note]]In their very first appearance the mouse was not named but the cat later to become Tom was called... Jasper[[/note]]
*** Streaky Bacon is a combination of WesternAnimation/PorkyPig and WesternAnimation/ElmerFudd, although his carrot-stealing nemesis is...
*** ...The Whatchimacallit, based on [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadrunner the Roadrunner]].
** The Missing Adventures novel ''The Sorcerer's Apprentice'' features a no-nonsense witch named Anni Glassfeather, a name which is more than slightly reminiscent of [[Literature/{{Discworld}} Granny Weatherwax]].
** In the short story "Fallen Angel" by Andy Lane, Lucas Seyton/the Fallen Angel is a GentlemanThief who [[JustLikeRobinHood only steals from the corrupt rich]], has a flippant manner, and leaves a CallingCard with a horned angel behind. In case anyone misses the reference, the Doctor even compares him to "that chap in the stories, what was his name, Literature/TheSaint?"
** Seyton later makes a cameo in the ''Literature/DoctorWhoMissingAdventures'' novel ''The Shadow of Weng-Chiang'' by David [=McIntee=], which features more prominently a character based on Radio/TheShadow, except that instead of being a MightyWhitey who learned Eastern mysticism, Mr Woo/Yan Cheh is actually Chinese. Hsien-Ko, the immortal daughter of Li H'sen Chang from "The Talons of Weng-Chiang", is somewhat reminiscent of Literature/FuManchu's daughter Fah Lo Suee, although that might just be because she's a DragonLady.
** The short story "Doctor vs Doctor" by Gareth Roberts in the ''Doctor Who Annual 2006'' features the renowned detective and LockedRoomMystery expert Dr Merrivale Carr, who is Literature/DrGideonFell renamed after his creator and Creator/JohnDicksonCarr's ''other'' detective, Sir Henry Merrivale.
* The writings of Creator/MichaelMoorcock contain many examples, but most blatantly his more {{Steampunk}}/{{Dieselpunk}} flavoured works often feature Sir Seaton Begg and Count Zodiac, who are Captains Ersatz of Sexton Blake and his recurring enemy Zenith The Albino. This is partly a {{Homage}} on Moorcock's part, as he's made no secret of the fact that his original decision to make Elric an albino was out of fandom for Zenith.
* Artur Balder's ''Literature/{{Curdy}}'' series is filled with characters a bit too much inspired in some others, the most egregious being one to ComicBook/TheJoker.
* Charles Stross's [[Literature/TheLaundryFiles Laundry]] novel ''The Apocalypse Codex'' features cultured female superspy Penelope Hazard and her rough-diamond minion Johnny [=MacTavish=], who are barely disguised versions of Literature/ModestyBlaise and her sidekick Willie Garvin as magicians. It's even lampshaded with Hazard's codename within the Laundry, which is [[PunnyName BASHFUL INCENDIARY]].
* ''Harry Potter and Bào Zǒulóng'', often mistranslated as ''Harry Potter and Leopard-Walk-Up-to-Dragon'', includes a dedication to Creator/JKRowling, an original first chapter, an introduction to the second chapter introducing Harry the Hobbit, followed by almost the entire text of ''Literature/TheHobbit'' with chapter names like "Flying Broom 2000" and most of the character names changed to those from ''Literature/HarryPotter''. The cover features an ersatz Maleficent from ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty''.
* ''Harry Potter in Calcutta'', by Uttam Ghosh, is about Harry Potter meeting several characters from Bengali literature.
* ''Tanya Grotter'' is a series of Russian fantasy novels by Dmitri Yemets. The first book has a similar plot to ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone The Philosopher's Stone]]'', until the series goes OffTheRails.
* ''Literature/JohnGolden'' has ''Heroes of Mazaroth'' as the focus of the second novella. It is ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' in all but name with a tremendous amount of in-jokes regarding the game.
* ''Literature/TitusCrow'' is a intelligent, caring investigator who acquires a time machine clock about the size of a coffin, regenerates into a new body after crashing, and fights evil gods and aliens. Series/DoctorWho had come out a decade earlier.
* In ''[[Literature/TheInfernalDevice Moriarty: The Great Game]]'' by Creator/MichaelKurland, amongst the sinister figures following Benjamin is a fat man named Gottfried Kasper and his obsequious sidekick Ugarti, clearly intended as versions of [[Film/TheMalteseFalcon1941 Casper Gutman and Joel Cairo]] (with the Cairo character named after Creator/PeterLorre's character in ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'', Ugarte).
* In ''Captain Cut-Throat'' by Creator/JohnDicksonCarr, the English spy Alan Hepburn and his wife Madeleine are very reminiscent of Sir Percy Blakeney and his wife Marguerite in ''Literature/TheScarletPimpernel''. The role of [[TheSpymaster Chauvelin]] is taken by HistoricalDomainCharacter Joseph Fouché, the head of Napoleon's secret police.
* ''Literature/TheRefrigeratorMonologues'' by Creator/CatherynneMValente is a satire on sexist tropes in superhero comics. As such, all six of the main characters are extremely transparent Ersatzes of dead or otherwise maltreated female characters from DC or Marvel:
** Paige Embry is [[ILetGwenStacyDie Gwen Stacy]] from ''ComicBook/SpiderMan''.
** Julia Ash is [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity Jean Grey]] from ''ComicBook/XMen''.
** Pauline Ketch is [[MadLove Harley Quinn]] from ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}''.
** Bayou is [[OutlivingOnesOffspring Mera]] from ''ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}''.
** Daisy Green is [[MadonnaWhoreComplex Karen Page]] from ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}''.
** Samantha Dane is [[StuffedIntoTheFridge Alexandra DeWitt]] from ''ComicBook/GreenLantern''.
* ''Literature/PsychohistoricalCrisis'' by Creator/DonaldKingsbury is closely based on the ''Literature/FoundationSeries''. The unnamed Founder is Hari Seldon; the Overt Arm and Covert Arm of the Plan are the Foundation and the Second Foundation; and the warlord Cloun the Stubborn is the Mule. There's also an ancient robot called Danny-Boy who's a bit of a TakeThat to R. Daneel Olivaw and the CanonWelding of ''Literature/RobotsAndEmpire''.
* ''Literature/ThePriceOfTheStars'' by Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald is set a generation after a major [[Franchise/StarWars interstellar conflict]]. The heroes of the previous generation include a princess whose entire planet was destroyed by the enemy as an example to those who would resist; her husband, who before he joined the fight was a smuggler who famously did a notoriously difficult bit of navigation with record efficiency; his friend, a tall alien whose species tend to communicate via BilingualDialogue; and an adept of an order of psychic {{Warrior Monk}}s with a signature weapon.
* In ''The Athenian Murders'' by Jose Carlos Somoza, the 5th century BC Athenian "decipherer of enigmas" Heracles Pontor bears a striking resemblence to the later detective Literature/HerculePoirot
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