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An Affectionate Parody of 1980s action stars. It could be an actor, or a character based on one of them. The most common star used for this trope is Arnold Schwarzenegger, particularly exaggerating his accent, hence the trope name. But other stars, like Sylvester Stallone, happen as well.
If the character is animated, this overlaps with No Celebrities Were Harmed.
Examples
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Anime & Manga
- Luna's dad in Seto no Hanayome, is the Terminator. And a yakuza. And a merman.
- When SD Gundam Force was dubbed in America, weapons expert Destroyer Dom is given an Ahnold flavor.
- In the Yu-Gi-Oh! GX dub, Gem Beast Amber Mammoth is given an Ahnold accent.
- Bando in Elfen Lied is a walking Shout Out to The Terminator, up to and including having a bionic prosthetic arm and special eyes, despite not having the accent. His name sounds awfully familiar to Rambo.
- Mr. Lucky Strike, the PE teacher from Futaba-kun Change!, looks and acts quite a lot like Dutch from Predator.
- Guts' voice actor from the American dub of Berserk played this up at certain points during the outtakes.
- Yu Yu Hakusho: Possibly Younger Toguro. He bears an uncanny resemblance to the Terminator, as well as having Arnold's Japanese dub voice...
- Goku, in Dragon Ball, encounters a killer android called Sargent Metallic (Major Metallotron in the Funimation English dub), who is clearly an expy of the Terminator. He is one of the bad guys that Goku defeats fighting his way up through the Red Ribbon Army's Muscle Tower.
Comic Books
- Randy Violent in The DCU.
- Arnie from Ninja High School doesn't even try to be subtle about it. Also Kenterminator, a mix of Kenshiro and the Terminator. Maybe others as well — the whole series runs on shout outs.
- Hulk 2099 features a brief appearance by an action movie star called Albert Studebaker.
Films — Animation
Films — Live-Action
- Last Action Hero: Arnold Schwarzenegger plays Jack Slater, an Affectionate Parody of himself.
Danny Madigan: You think you are funny, don't you? Jack Slater: I know I am. I'm the famous comedian Arnold Braunschweiger. Danny Madigan: Schwarzenegger! Jack Slater: Gesundheit.
- Conan the Barbarian. The DVD commentary starts with director John Milius saying in an "Arnie" accent: "My name is Arnold Schwarzenegger." The real Schwarzenegger then goes: "And I'm John Milius the Great!"
- The scriptwriter for End of Days pitched his script on how great it would be to hear Arnold Schwarzenegger say "I'm sending you back to Hell!" to the Devil (this indeed is the best part of the movie). But when pitching End of Days to the man himself, he suddenly realised that "I can't do 'Arnie' to Arnie!" Fortunately Schwarzenegger said the line himself, thus avoiding any embarrassment.
- Lampshaded, like much of the stuff going on in Super Capers, of the Gadgeteer Genius' Robot Buddy Robo, who bases all his inventions off movies.
Live-Action TV
Music
- The song "I'll be back" by Arnie and the Terminators is sung in this manner, naturally.
- Three words: Austrian, Death, Machine! All of their songs not only have Ahnold style vocals, but they all pay tribute to various films starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. "Get to the Choppa!"
 They even have their lead singer in a giant rubber Schwarzenegger mask and call him "Ahnold", just to score the extra point.
Puppet Shows
- Les Guignols de l'info
- In this French Spitting Image-style satirical show, Monsieur Sylvestre, a highly cynical and brutal man with a dark sense of humour who occupies many different functions (White House adviser, Cardinal, CEO, etc.), is one of the few characters who does not correspond directly to any real-life person... but he does look an awful lot like Sylvester Stallone, though.
- His voice has grown different from the one of the puppet standing in for Sylvester Stallone himself, however. The latter is closer to the French dubbing voice in Stallone's movies (mainly Rambo or Rocky).
- Also, the puppet for Arnold Schwarzenegger always speaks with the Terminator's voice.
Video Games
Web Comics
- Frans Rayner, "The Great Dane", from The Adventures of Dr. McNinja. Action star turned evil mastermind — and a clear homage to Jean-Claude Van Damme. The author even said in an interview that if the webcomic was made into a movie, he would insist on Jean-Claude playing Frans.
Web Original
Western Animation
- The Simpsons
- Rainier Wolfcastle is one of the best-known parodies.
- The movie also has "President" Arnold Schwarzenegger who, while not exactly an example of this trope since it was the actual character it was based on, was quite literally Rainier Wolfcastle with brown hair.
- The Fairly Oddparents
- Arnold Shwartzengerman
- Jorgen von Strangle from the same show.
- The show also has Sylvester Calzone, based on Stallone of course.
- Arnold Mousenegger, a minor character from Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers.
- Batman The Animated Series makes reference to action star Donald Saltandpepper.
- Arnold the security guard dog from Tiny Toon Adventures. He's got a little bit of the Totally Radical 80s icon Spuds Mackenzie mixed in for more laffs.
- Ronald Weisenheimer from Doug.
- Blitzwing's Hothead face in Transformers Animated seems to be based on an angry Arnold Schwartzenegger parody in terms of voice and demeanor.
- A variation occurred in Johnny Bravo with the character of Squint Ringo, an obvious parody of 90's action "star", Steven Seagal.
- One called Sly Eastenegger appears in an episode of The Mask, a parody of both Arnie and Stallone.
- The Grim Adventures Of Billy And Mandy has Hoss Delgado, who seems based on Kurt Russell, particularly Snake Plissken in Escape from New York, and Bruce Campbell (as Ash Williams in Evil Dead).
- The animated adaptation of Beetlejuice has Armhold Musselhugger.
- In the Adventures Of Sonic The Hedgehog episode "Robolympics", Dr. Robotnik had a muscular Badnik called Arnold Robonegger doing his team's weight-lifting.
- This was how Histeria portrayed Leif Ericson.
- From Popetown, Richter the Swiss Guard is another Arnold parody.
- In Biker Mice From Mars, the title heroes face the Exterminator in their first episode debut. "I'll be back," indeed, as he sinks away in acid....
- A fictional TV hero called The Abdicator in Hey Arnold
- The Critic, usually unafraid to hit celebrities with their real names, had a fictional version of Jean-Claude Van Damme named Jean-Paul LePope.
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