- Voice-wise, Grandpa Lemon from The Annoying Orange appears to be based on Jimmy Stewart.
- The series itself loves to parody real life people (and recent events such as E3) which works with a combination with Punny Names and Animate Inanimate Objects.
- The Assassin series on Newgrounds averts this. Many games have you kill, beat up, or humiliate different celebrities.
- In The Autobiography of Jane Eyre, a setting update of Jane Eyre, Blanche Ingram was based on a real life personality, model and successful businesswoman Xenia Tchoumitcheva. Vlog Blanche Ingram is actually very sophisticated and quite nice. She's nothing like the unpleasant Alpha Bitch that was Miss Ingram from the original novel. Here's a link to Ms Ingram's in-universe website.
- "Borderlands is for Real Gamers" by IGN, about Borderlands, features a guy playing as a developer of the game, Randy Pitchford. While he does get the hairstyle, he otherwise doesn't look like Randy Pitchford at all. He also technically doesn't act like him either — the man is more being used to a way of parodying the game's marketing campaign.
- Britsune Garden Series: Queen Lilie bears a striking resemblance to Queen Elizabeth II. It doesn't help that she's also a Queen of the United Kingdom.
- Bowser's Kingdom: The Shy Guys are imitations of Christopher Walken.
- Dream Machine: A lot of Ryan Dresden’s backstory is inspired by the life of Robert Downey, Jr. They even have the same initials, RD.
- El Bananero, a very famous Uruguayan youtuber in Latin America, made a mockumentary about a music band called MegaPanza, which is basically a mixture between Metallica and Guns N' Roses. The joke went so far that actually the "band" has their own website (in Spanish.)
- Halloweenie:
- Halloweenie's voice sounds a lot like Peter Lorre.
- Pumpkinweenie to Gilbert Gottfried.
- Homestar Runner:
- Crack Stuntman, the in-universe voice of Gunhaver on Cheat Commandos, is physically based on veteran voice actor Frank Welker.
- A minor character who appears as The Voice in some latter-day cartoons is Tucker Donaldson, a stuffy spokesman for fake websites about Halloween safety and campus safety who accuses the Brothers Chaps of making fun of the former organization and Marzipan's band Cool Tapes of starting a riot at a student union. His stuttering vocal cadence seems to be a parody of conservative pundit Tucker Carlson.
- Several gags in LoadingReadyRun's recurrent Rapidfire segment Elect Andrew Shepard cast Shepard as a depraved version of Bill Clinton, such as his claim that "I did not have sexual relations with that woman. I did, however, have sex with that woman, that woman, those two women, and possibly that guy.", or "I did not inhale. I took it rectally, and I did not enjoy it as much as I had hoped."
- Noob: Le Conseil des Trois Factions introduces a young tennis player named Nadir Rafale who is Spanish and implied to be one of the prodigies in his field.
- The Nostalgia Chick: The Chick does a dead-on parody of Sarah Palin when she is the vice president to The Nostalgia Critic's president of Kickassia. She also tries to kill him to get his job.
- Squeaks from Scrub Club likes a celebrity named Dan Lather, a pun on Dan Rather.
- Shaggy Dog Stories: A "Justinian Beaver" is featured in one episode, and mention is made to a cheesy romance TV series called "Breaking Wind".
- Uncle Al: In "Donkey Kong Country Abridged", Cranky's voice is modeled after Gilbert Gottfried's.
- Voice-wise, Cameo/Judgement from Vaguely Recalling JoJo appears to be a parody of Norio Wakamoto. He's even a Large Ham villain.
- Welcome Back, Potter: While being an alternate version of Harry Potter, Jarry Potter has more in common with Hunter S. Thompson, his look based off of his Raoul Duke persona in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
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