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- 8-Bit Zombie is Wreck-It Ralph meets Marvel Zombies.
- Twentieth Century Men "splices Watchmen’s superhero commentary with the outrageous bombast of 2000 AD", according to Comics Beat.
- 100 Bullets is The Wire meets The Da Vinci Code meets Reservoir Dogs. Depending on the story arc, it may have a bit of Boyz n the Hood, The Sopranos or The Maltese Falcon thrown in as well.
- Afterlife with Archie: Archie meets The Walking Dead.
- Agent of the Empire is James Bond transplanted into Star Wars. Not to be confused with Star Wars being implanted into James Bond, of course- that's something else.
- Albedo: Erma Felna EDF, due to the Genre-Busting nature of the plot, has many comparations:
- By Word of Godnote , is Kimba the White Lion meets Blade Runner meets Space Battleship Yamato meets A Very British Coup meets Frankensteinnote meets Watership Down.
- Neon Genesis Evangelionnote meets Legend of the Galactic Heroes meets Appleseed meets Zootopia. note
- Mass Effect meets The Lion King meets Armored Trooper VOTOMSnote meets The Island of Doctor Moreau meets Cat Shit One meets Metal Gear.
- Animal Farm meets Policenauts meets Star Trek after taking some notes from Attack on Titan, Lord of the Flies, Oshin, and Bagi, the Monster of Mighty Nature at galactic scale.
- Redwall meets Crest of the Stars meets World War II, after taking some points from Game of Thrones.
- Star Fox meets Xenogearsnote meets Starship Troopers by the way of Toward the Terra.
- Zootopia meets Children of a Dead Earth.
- The sequel, Albedo: Birthright is Albedo: Erma Felna EDF meets After War Gundam Xnote meets Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light meets Firefly meets Red Dawn (1984).
- Or, Albedo: Erma Felna EDF meets The Heroic Legend of Arslan meets Seven Samurai meets Mad Max.
- Basically, both the prequel and the sequel could be a Space Opera with characters designs of Walt Disney, scripted by Hideaki Anno, Yoshiki Tanaka, Hideo Kojima and Shirow Masamune, mechanical designs from Leiji Matsumoto and directed by both Gen Urobuchi and George R. R. Martin.
- Being in Arkham Asylum is likened to The Rocky Horror Picture Show meets The Silence of the Lambs.
- With some of Todd Browning's Freaks thrown in, too.
- Annihilation is the Marvel Universe meets Warhammer 40,000 where the C-List Fodder are the heroes for once.
- Antarctica describes itself as "Stargate meets His Dark Materials".
- Ant-Man's Big Christmas is The Ref meets Home Alone with Ant-Man's powers.
- Atomic Robo: Indiana Jones meets Iron Man.
- The Authority is Justice League meets Akumetsu.
- The Autumnlands: Tooth & Claw is The Familiar of Zero meets Conan the Barbarian, replacing the human characters with furries and the expy of Saito being a soldier rather than a student.
- Barb The Last Berzerker describes itself as "The action of Moana meets the humor of books like Dog Man".
- Beautiful Darkness is The Borrowers meets The Moomins, by way of Lord of the Flies.
- Bianca: Little Lost Lamb is Beastars meets Ringing Bell.
- Bikini Cowboy is The Legend of Calamity Jane meets Grenadier.
- Bitch Planet is The Handmaid's Tale meets Orange Is the New Black meets Black Mirror meets Hogan's Heroes meets Mad Max: Fury Road meets V for Vendetta meets JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.
- Black Cherry: Sin City meets E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial meets Reservoir Dogs meets The Exorcist.
- Black Science is Lost in Space meets The Elric Saga and/or Rick and Morty, by way of The Walking Dead.
- Bone draws its fame for being Pogo meets The Lord of the Rings. And people love it.
- Alternately, it's Carl Barks meets J. R. R. Tolkien.
- Or DuckTales (1987) meets The Hobbit.
- The Boys is Inglourious Basterds vs. the DC Universe.
- Or Marshal Law meets The Authority, The Venture Bros., and Drawn Together.
- Or The Punisher Kills the Marvel Universe meets Watchmen.
- In Brian Michael Bendis' semi-autobiographical Fortune and Glory, Torso co-writer Marc Andreyko realizes the only way Hollywood studio executives will consider adapting it is if it sounds like what they've seen before. Enter "The Silence of the Lambs meets The Untouchables".
- Despite drawing from a lot of different sources, the main storyline of Cerebus the Aardvark ultimately ended up being Citizen Kane meets King Lear.
- The "early, funnier" books are Conan the Barbarian meets Howard the Duck
- Chew: Heroes meets Iron Chef.
- Chick Tracts: Robert Crumb meets The 700 Club.
- Or, The Twilight Zone meets Unshackled!
, as written by Church Lady and illustrated by MAD's Usual Gang of Idiots.
- Or, The Twilight Zone meets Unshackled!
- Code Monkey Save World is Office Space meets Axe Cop.
- Cossacks is Dances with Wolves meets the Sienkiewicz Trilogy.
- Crossed is The Walking Dead meets BrainDead meets The Crazies (1973) meets World War Z meets Slither meets 28 Days Later meets Firefly meets Deliverance meets The 120 Days of Sodom.
- Danger Girl is Charlie's Angels meets James Bond.
- Days Of Hate is DMZ meets It Can't Happen Here and Madame Butterfly.
- Paul Cornell's Deathwatch in 2000 AD is Judge Dredd meets Blackadder II (possibly meets Guards! Guards!).
- Demon Knights is DC Universe meets Heroic Fantasy.
- The Department of Truth is American Gods meets Control.
- Or The X-Files meets the horrors of The Magnus Archives.
- Desolation Jones is The Big Sleep meets Burn Notice, Jones himself being something in the range of David Callan meets Drizzt.
- Die is the Dungeons & Dragons (1983) cartoon meets It.
- Chuck describes it in-universe as "those movies where a serial killer locks people in a room with a trap that's about to grind them into pâté" and Narnia.
- It can also be seen as Re:Zero meets 20th Century Boys, Alan Moore's Miracleman and Animorphs, in the world of Planescape: Torment.
- Elseworlds:
- Batman: In Darkest Knight is literally Batman as a Green Lantern.
- Gotham by Gaslight is Batman meets Victorian Britain, including Jack the Ripper.
- JLA: Shogun of Steel is the Justice League meets Seven Samurai. It's a deliberate Shout-Out, as some of the main characters share their names with the ones from the Japanese film (Manzo, Rikichi, Gorobei, Yohei and Kikuchiyo).
- The Exiled describes itself as “Se7en meets Blade Runner”.
- Ex Machina is The West Wing meets The X-Files meets Iron Man.
- Extinctioners is Albedo: Erma Felna EDF meets X-Men meets NieR: Automata with furries rather than androids meets Dragon Ball Z.
- Alternatively: Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew! meets My Hero Academia with lots of drama meets Terminator.
- The Eye of Mongombo is Indiana Jones Meets Looney Tunes.
- Fables is Shrek meets Who Framed Roger Rabbit? meets Darker and Edgier.
- Fatale: Raymond Chandler meets H. P. Lovecraft, although the in-series Chandler and Lovecraft expies never actually meet.
- Feral 2024 is The Aristocats meets 28 Days Later.
- Flashpoint is Justice League of America meets Back to the Future Part II meets Warhammer 40,000.
- Frankin Richards: Son of a Genius is Fantastic Four meets Calvin and Hobbes.
- Gold Digger is what happens when Indiana Jones meets a whole slew of anime, manga, video games, 1970s, '80s, and '90s American cartoons and hits a blender to puree.
- Gotham Academy was described on Al Kennedy's Twitterfeed as "Gotham Central meets Gunnerkrigg Court".
- Gotham Central is Police Procedural meets Batman, while Top 10 mixes it with super-heroes in general.
- Gotham City Garage is The DCU meets Mad Max or Fist of the North Star.
- Green Lantern: Lensman meets The Lord of the Rings meets Avatar: The Last Airbender (with emotions instead of the elements).
- Guardians of the Galaxy is The Avengers meets Farscape.
- Star Wars meets The A-Team.
- The original series was Blake's 7 meets The Avengers.
- Hack/Slash is Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Splatterhouse and Cutey Honey.
- Heroes Reborn (2021) is basically the Marvel Universe version of Flashpoint crossed with Civil War, The Boys and Supreme Power (albeit Lighter and Softer).
- Hilda: Described by Guillermo del Toro as Little Lulu meets Hayao Miyazaki.
- Hilo describes itself as "Dog Man meets Big Nate".
- Ignition City is Firefly meets Ministry of Space written by the writers of Deadwood.
- I Hate Fairyland is Alice's Adventures in Wonderland meets Shrek and Happy Tree Friends, with a bit of Drakengard 3 and arguably The Good Place.
- The Incredible Hulk is The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde meets Frankenstein (1931).
- The Immortal Hulk is The Incredible Hulk (1962) meets Alan Moore's Miracleman and Swamp Thing runs meets Batman: The Dark Knight Returns meets Devilman meets Spawn.
- Invincible:
- As a whole, it's a graphically violent Genre Deconstruction of numerous Superhero Stories; especially the DC Universe (Superman, Superboy, Justice League) and the Marvel Universe (Spider-Man, The Avengers).
- It can also be compared to The Boys, Irredeemable, Kick-Ass, Dragon Ball, and Berserk.
- Irredeemable is Superman meets Monster.
- Jem and the Holograms (IDW) is the original show meets Steven Universe.
- Johnny the Homicidal Maniac is the bone people meets A Clockwork Orange with a dash of the visuals of H. P. Lovecraft.
- Or Man Bites Dog meets Panorama of Hell and Sweeney Todd, by way of Duckman.
- Jon Sable, Freelance is Ian Fleming's James Bond novels combined with The Punisher.
- Judge Dredd is Dirty Harry meets Blade Runner meets Mad Max and alot of satire and Dark Comedy.
- Kamandi is Planet of the Apes meets the species diversity of Zootopia.
- Katmandu is Redwall meets Dune meets Memoirs of a Geisha with Native American-looking felines rather than Asians meets Dances with Wolves.
- Alternatively, it's Millennium Actress meets Avatar: The Last Airbender, again, with Native American-looking felines, mixed with some elements from the Arabian Nights, Conan the Barbarian, the Warriors/Musou series and the Kama Sutra.
- Or Warrior Cats meets Utawarerumono, without the sci-fi, meets Jyu-Oh-Sei, again, without sci-fi, meets Monster Hunter meets Turok meets A Man Called Horse.
- The Alternative Continuity "The Tomorrow Breed" is Katmandu meets Battlestar Galactica meets Star Wars meets John Carter of Mars meets Mobile Suit Gundam and, had the original author allowed it, meets Albedo: Erma Felna EDF literally.
- Kingdom Come is Justice League of America meets Watchmen.
- Or Justice League of America meets the Book of Revelation meets the 1980s Squadron Supreme mini-series.
- Klaus (Grant Morrison) is Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town meets She-Ra and the Princesses of Power.
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen has Victorian Literature on a Crisis Crossover.
- Or, crossovers aside, Justice Society of America meets The Avengers (1960s), Doctor Who, and Watchmen.
- Liquid Kill describes itself as "Ghost in the Shell meets John Wick".
- Local Man is Youngblood (Image Comics) meets Watchmen and Man on Fire (2004).
- Lost Falls is described as "Twin Peaks meets Lovecraft Country".
- Lost Squad Is The Dirty Dozen, or Band of Brothers, meets The X-Files.
- Lumberjanes is Gravity Falls meets Azumanga Daioh (or any Schoolgirl Series) at an American summer camp for girls.
- Lucifer is Serial Experiments Lain meets The Bible and All Myths Are True with Villain Protagonist
- Andrekyo's Manhunter is Daredevil meets Huntress meets Law & Order with a generous helping of The Silence of the Lambs.
- Marvel Divas was pitched as "Marvel meets Sex and the City".
- Massive-Verse:
- Cowl is Watchmen meets Mad Men and Sandman Mystery Theatre.
- Radiant Black is Kamen Rider BLACK meets Invincible meets Green Lantern meets Power Rangers (2017).
- Marvel Zombies is... well... Marvel Universe + Zombie Apocalypse
- The Maxx is what you'd get if Jeff Smith and Frank Miller had a baby, and David Lynch decided to adopt it.
- Alternatively it's Frank Miller's version of Batman, written by Thomas Pynchon.
- Megg, Mogg and Owl is Meg and Mog corrupted into Squidbillies meets Trainspotting and Bojack Horseman (plus South Park and Doonesbury during the non-canonical Crisis Zone spinoff).
- The Metabarons is Dune meets Greek myth meets Gurren Lagann, on several kinds of acid.
- Mercury Heat is, according to Word of God, consciously Judge Dredd meets Tank Girl.
- The Mice Templar is Mouse Guard combined with Redwall.
- Miracleman:
- The original series was mostly just Shazam!, with light dustings of The Hardy Boys and arguably James Bond.
- Alan Moore's 1980s Retool, on the other hand, corrupts it into Devilman meets Children of Dune meets Childhood's End.
- Money Shot is Interspecies Reviewers meets Star Trek meets OnlyFans.
- Monsters is Immortal Hulk meets The Shining and The Elephant Man.
- Monstress is The Legend of Korra meets Dishonored meets Berserk.
- Morning Glories is Gossip Girl meets The Prisoner.
- Ms. Marvel (2014) is Spider-Man combined with an American version of Bend It Like Beckham.
- Nemesis the Warlock is Star Wars meets Dune, Devilman and The Stars My Destination.
- New Gods is Superman meets The Silmarillion, with a dash of Flash Gordon and Greek Mythology.
- Nextwave is Guardians of the Galaxy meets The Venture Bros..
- The Nice House On The Lake is Clue and Zardoz as a Cosmic Horror Story
- The first few years of Ninja High School was Urusei Yatsura meets Archie Comics.
- Nocterra is SCP-001 "When Day Breaks" inverted.
- Paperinik New Adventures is Donald Duck meets Batman meets Doctor Who with some Fantastic Four thrown in it.
- Rat Queens is "Buffy meets Tank Girl in a The Lord of the Rings world on crack!", or for people with more fantasy genre background Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser meets Tank Girl.
- Savage Dragon is Youngblood (Image Comics) meets Mad Bull 34 and Fritz the Cat.
- Scalped is The Sopranos meets Donnie Brasco on a Native American reservation.
- Scott Pilgrim is like No More Heroes meets Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist.
- Or like a Nintendo version of Roger Rabbit. All that's missing is wildly out of place video game character cameos.
- Or No More Heroes meets Manhattan, but set in Toronto.
- Or Mission Hill if it ran on video game physics.
- Scud the Disposable Assassin is RoboCop meets Deadpool and a non-bigoted Cerebus the Aardvark.
- Seconds:
- A song by the Airborne Toxic Event meets the latter half of Puella Magi Madoka Magica.
- About Time meets Bioshock Infinite; meets Kitchen Confidential (the memoir not the TV show).
- Warren Ellis' run on Secret Avengers is Planetary meets G.I. Joe.
- Joe Casey's Sex is Batman meets Eyes Wide Shut.
- SFSX (Safe Sex) is Sex Criminals, Hustlers and Sunstone set in Gilead.
- Something is Killing the Children is Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Hellblazer and Alias.
- Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics) is the Sonic games meets the general scope, melodrama, and labyrinthine continuity of X-Men comics.
- Or Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog meets Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM) meets Bone meets Nemesis the Warlock meets Teen Titans.
- Spencer And Locke is Calvin and Hobbes meets Sin City.
- Spider-Man: Life Story is The Amazing Spider-Man meets Superman & Batman: Generations meets X-Men: Grand Design meets Watchmen.
- Squad is Heathers meets The Lost Boys meets Teen Wolf.
- Squadron Supreme is Justice League of America meets Citizen Kane, as told by James Joyce.
- Supreme Power is Squadron Supreme meets The Boys meets Superman: Red Son meets Watchmen - AKA "What If? instead of Superman's rocket landing in the Ukraine, it landed in Kansas?" ... Wait a minute.
- Squee is The 400 Blows meets South Park.
- Strange Academy is Harry Potter meets X-Men.
- The Strange Talent of Luther Strode is a teen superhero genre, mostly leaning towards Kick-Ass meets Slasher Movie. The sequel adds a lot of Summer Blockbuster to the mix.
- Stray Dogs actually has a quote from Brian Michael Bendis on the back cover of the first issue calling it "The Secret Life of Pets meets Se7en".
- Suicide Squad is The Dirty Dozen meets Mission: Impossible with Supervillains.
- Thunderbolts is Suicide Squad meets The Masters of Evil
- Warren Ellis' run: Now with even more Suicide Squad!
- Supercrooks is X-Men meets Ocean's Eleven.
- The all-ages comic Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures in the 8th Grade, is Supergirl meets Invader Zim.
- More like Supergirl meets Sabrina: The Animated Series.
- The Superior Foes of Spider-Man is Spider-Man meets Mystery Men meets The Venture Bros..
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (IDW) meets Batman: The Dark Knight Returns meets Old Man Logan.
- Teen Titans
- The 1966 original is Legion of Super-Heroes meets Archie Comics.
- New Teen Titans darkens the original into resembling Uncanny X-Men meets Zambot 3.
- Teen Titans: Earth One is New Teen Titans meets Gen¹³ meets Runaways.
- Teen Titans (Kami Garcia) is X-Men: Evolution meets Teen Titans (2003) and a bit of Titans.
- The Thanos Imperative - Space Opera meets Cosmic Horror Story in Marvel Universe.
- Tom Strong is Superman meets Doc Savage.
- Tomboy (2015) is Sailor Moon meets The Punisher.
- Or Magical Girl Site meets Faust (1987).
- Top 10 is superhero comics in general meets Law & Order
- Transformers comics:
- The Hasbro Comic Universe Trasformers is The Transformers meets Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin meets Uncanny X-Men.
- The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye is Transformers meets Star Trek, particularly Star Trek: The Original Series and Star Trek: The Next Generation, with a touch of Red Dwarf.
- The Transformers: Robots in Disguise is Transformers meets Babylon 5.
- The Hasbro Comic Universe Trasformers is The Transformers meets Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin meets Uncanny X-Men.
- 20 Fists is described by the writer as "a queer Romeo & Juliet meets The Warriors," and one reviewer called it "John Hughes meets The Outsiders."
- The Ultimates is The Avengers meets The Authority.
- Or The Avengers as written by Garth Ennis.
- Unnatural is Zootopia meets Nineteen Eighty-Four.
- V for Vendetta is Nineteen Eighty-Four meets Brave New World meets The Prisoner (1967) meets Judge Dredd meets Fahrenheit 451 meets Batman meets The Shadow meets The Abominable Dr. Phibes and Theatre of Blood meets Robin Hood.
- Wacky Raceland is Wacky Races reinvented in a Mad Max setting, as described in the work's page.
- Joshua Dysart's "Violent Messiahs" was originally pitched as "Batman meets Se7en."
- The Walking Dead is Living Dead Series meets The Stand.
- And Oni Press' Resurrection is The Walking Dead meets Independence Day
- War of Kings: Star Wars meets I, Claudius.
- Watchmen is Squadron Supreme meets The New Teen Titans meets Alan Moore's Miracleman, with the bleakness of Devilman and Chinatown.
- Whistles: The Starlight Calliope, by Andrew Hussie of MS Paint Adventures fame, was described by one reviewer as "Pinocchio meets Candide meets Kubrick doing funny".
- The Woods is Drifting Classroom meets Lost.
- X-Men is Doom Patrol meets Slan.
- Kitty Pryde solo adventure in Uncanny X-Men vol. 1 #143 is Alien meets Home Alone.
- Excalibur is Chris Claremont's X-Men mixed with the more comedic bits of Doctor Who. At its' lightest, you could make a case for a pinch of Monty Python.
- The Exiles comic series is best summed up as X-Men meets Sliders.
- The original concept (and apparently their pitch) was Quantum Leap meets X-Men.
- Craig Kyle and Christopher Yost's run on New X-Men was both a sequel to Nunzio DeFilippis and Christina Weir's run on the series and their own prior work on X-23 as well as what thematically came from brutally smashing very different themes of the two.
- Old Man Logan is Wolverine meets The Dark Knight Returns meets The Punisher: The End meets Violence Jack.
- House and Powers of X is Days of Future Past meets Squadron Supreme meets Elfquest meets Watchmen.
- Young Avengers vol. 2, similarly to the New X-Men example above, is both sequel to Young Avengers vol. 1 and Journey into Mystery, but also, on a different level, what came from mixing their very different themes.
- Youngblood (Image Comics) is Teen Titans meets Michael Bay movies.
- Or New Mutants meets The A-Team.
Characters
- Adam Strange is John Carter of Mars meets Flash Gordon.
- Adam Warlock is Ziggy Stardust meets Jesus Christ Super Star meets Carlos Castaneda.
- Annihilus: Davros meets Firebrand.
- Every single Amalgam Comics character is literally a "X meets Y" character. Example: Super-Soldier is Superman meets Captain America. It most cases, it's strictly "One Marvel character meets one DC character", but sometimes an amalgamated character can be a combination of three or more characters:
- One Marvel meets two DC: Speed Demon is Johnny Blaze meets Barry Allen and Etrigan.
- One DC meets two Marvel: Doctor Strangefate is Doctor Fate meets Doctor Strange and Charles Xavier.
- Two Marvel and two DC: Bismuth a.k.a. Snapper Jones is Toad and Rick Jones meet Tin and Snapper Carr.
- Apocalypse is Davros meets Vandal Savage in a Lex Luthor-style mech-suit, played by Tony Todd.
- Or Makoto Shishio meets Vandal Savage in Darkseid's body.
- Marvel Comics' Ares has been called "Thor meets Wolverine" in-story.
- And he came up with the "Captain America meets Iron Man" idea that Norman Osborn turned into his Iron Patriot persona.
- Astro City:
- Black Rapier is Batman meets Zorro.
- Cleopatra II is Isis meets Nubia.
- The original Confessor is Batman meets Blade.
- Crackerjack is Nightwing (Badass Normal with acrobatic skills) meets Booster Gold (a wise-cracking Glory Hound).
- The First Family is the Fantastic Four with some elements of the Doom Patrol.
- Natalie is Susan Storm Richards meets Elasti-Girl.
- Astra is Valeria Richards meets Human Torch meets Negative Man.
- Leaving the Doom Patrol outside, Rex is The Thing meets the Asset.
- Green Man is Swamp Thing meets Alan Moore (in this case, an intentional homage, as Moore's run on the Swamp Thing title became iconic).
- Jack-in-the-Box is Spider-Man meets The Joker.
- Leopardman & Kitkat are Batman & Robin meet Catman (The '40s Frank Z. Temerson publishing character, not the DC one) & Kitten.
- Kitkat has also Catwoman added to the mix. Her current older version, Greymalkin, also has elements of Agatha Harkness.
- Starfighter is Green Lantern meets Starman.
- Winged Victory is Wonder Woman meets Hawkgirl.
- Wolfspider is Spider-Man meets Ant-Man.
- Wilson Fisk + Doc Savage + Khan Noonien Singh + Venom = Bane.
- Timely Comics' Angel's backstory + DC Comics' Hourman's Super Serum + Evil = Bane.
- Imagine a character who takes all the coolest aspects of Superman, Zorro, The Shadow and Dracula. Yeah, that would be awesome.
- Alternately, Spider-Man + Iron Man + Wolverine + Daredevil = Batman.
- Sherlock Holmes meets a ninja
- For anime fans: Zero meets Case Closed
- Black Adam is Captain Marvel/Shazam meets Namor.
- John Shaft + Abraham Van Helsing = Blade.
- Blue Beetle: Both Ted Kord and Jaime Reyes are Spider-Man meets Iron Man, but in completely different ways.
- The Bone cousins are Ed, Edd n Eddy as The Smurfs. Or Mickey, Donald, and Goofy as The Smurfs.
- The Boys:
- Billy Butcher = Marshal Law + The Punisher + Jack Hawksmoor + Jesse Custer + Brock Samson + Sick Boy.
- "Wee" Hughie Campbell = Shaun + Rent Boy + Dean Venture + Adult!Mike Moran.
- Homelander = The Plutonian + Captain Hero + Jonas Venture.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger + Future Trunks + Doomguy = Cable
- The Crossed infected are all the worst parts of 28 Days Later, TheScrewflySolution, The Reavers and Deliverance.
- Damian Wayne is Robin meets Killua.
- Alternatively Hit-Girl meets Artemis Fowl.
- As Batman in Batman #666, Damian is Batman Beyond meets Guts meets Spawn meets Ghost Rider.
- Zatoichi + Batman = Daredevil.
- Darkhawk: Spider-Man meets Tekkaman Blade.
- Darkseid is Morgoth meets Big Brother meets Jack Palance.
- In the page about Darna, this very wiki describes her as Wonder Woman meets Captain Marvel (renamed as Shazam in the New 52 reboot).
- Deadpool is Deathstroke meets The Mask.
- Or Deadshot meets Robin Williams.
- Han Solo + Boba Fett = Deadshot.
- Deathstroke is Taskmaster (profession, morality, clothing style,color scheme and character designer) meets Batman (being Crazy-Prepared and having a Battle Butler) meets Captain America (having a military background and being enhanced by a Super Serum).
- Silver Age Lex Luthor's personality and backstory + Fu Manchu's Chessmaster Noble Demon qualities (and backstory) = Doctor Doom.
- Albedo: Erma Felna EDF
- Erma Felna is Deunan Knute meets Nala meets Amuro Ray meets Yang Wenli + Reinhard von Lohengramm meets Kaguya Shinomiya.
- Alternatively, Susan Ivanova meets Helena Bonham Carternote meets Lt. M'Ress meets Misato Katsuragi + Shinji Ikari meets Honor Harrington, after taking some notes from both Katsumi Liqueur and Shigeo "Mob" Kageyama .
- Toki is Panty meets Lando meets Miss Kitty meets Hitomi meets Makoto Nanaya.
- Her descendant from Albedo: Birthright is her ancestor meets Queen Emeraldas.
- Lt. Ipcha Tankannahai is Oliver May meets Blackberry.
- Alternatively, Judy Hopps meets Akito Tenkawa meets Roger Wilco.
- Itzak Arrat is a younger Juzo Okita meets Bright Noa meets Thirty-Thirty meets a much heroic BoJack Horseman.
- Tavas Ikalik: Scar meets Captain Hades, after taking some points from both Oskar von Reuenthal and Paul von Oberstein.
- Alfon Voga: Mr. Bergstrom meets Miyuki Shirogane meets Robert DeVice.
- Dr. Elaki Kalahahaii: Ritsuko Akagi meets Hange Zoë meets Fox Mulder meets Miyu.
- Laslow Kosak: Hitoshi Demegawa meets Wikileaks.
- Teka Ardehad: Erma Felna meets a Not So Stoic Rei Ayanami meets Estellise "Estelle" Sidos Heurassein.
- The Net: HAL 9000 meets MAGI meets the Internet.
- Charles Ambrose Komatsu III (from the side-story Exo-Genesis): Gendo Ikari meets Dr. Moreau meets Syam Vist meets an anti-villanous Embryo.
- The Extraplanetary Defense Force (EDF) is The Earth Federation meets The Warsaw Pact + NATO meets the Soviet Union.
- The Independent Lepine Republic (ILR) is ZAFT meets The Principality of Zeon meets the Gamilas Empire meets Nazi Germany meets Apartheid-era South Africa meets the Donald Trump-era United States.
- The Creators are The Precursors meets NERV + SEELE.
- Enchawah Corporation is the Dominion of Fezzan meets Anaheim Electronics.
- Erma Felna is Deunan Knute meets Nala meets Amuro Ray meets Yang Wenli + Reinhard von Lohengramm meets Kaguya Shinomiya.
- Captain Marvel is Captain Space, Defender of Earth! meets Worf.
- Extinctioners:
- Katherine Fela/Alleycat is Erma Felna meets Susan Storm/The Invisible Woman.
- Umnus Nightcreeper/Nightcreeper is Nightcrawler meets The Martian Manhunter.
- Ethan Stalworth/Stalker is Jan Valentine meets Kurt Cobain.
- Gertrude is Darla Dimple meets Kratos
- Reb Brown + Denis Leary + Duke Nukem with a Green Lantern ring = Guy Gardner.
- Maverick meets Luke Skywalker: Hal Jordan.
- Alternately, Captain James Tiberius Kirk meets Han Solo.
- Peter Parker meets Kamille Bidan= Kyle Rayner.
- Ultimate Nick Fury plus Cyclops = John Stewart.
- Gollum plus Shang Tsung plus Daffy Duck equals Larfleeze.
- Maverick meets Luke Skywalker: Hal Jordan.
- Gwenpool is Spider-Gwen meets Deadpool meets Harley Quinn meets Superboy-Prime.
- Harley Quinn is Lucy Ricardo meets Deadpool. Or Duela Dent meets Tank Girl.
- Hawkman- in most appearances, at least- is what would happen if Indiana Jones suddenly got past life memories of being Conan the Barbarian.
- Hazmat of Avengers Academy: Captain Atom meets Rogue.
- Hellboy is Ben Grimm meets John Constantine.
- Hit Girl: "She was like John Rambo meets Polly Pocket."
- Huck: Superman meets Forrest Gump.
- The Hulk is Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde meets Frankenstein as a seven foot tall humanoid Godzilla.
- Huntressnote : Batman meets Michael Corleone.
- Per Word of God, the Hulk is Dr. Jekyll and Mister Hyde meets Frankenstein's Monster.
- Invincible:
- Mark Grayson is Peter Parker meets Connor Kent meets Cloud Strife.
- Atom Eve is Mary-Jane Watson meets Tifa Lockhart meets Star Sapphire meets Starfire.
- Nolan Grayson/Omni-Man is Superman meets Vegeta meets Connor MacLeod meets Mufasa.
- Thragg is General Zod meets Frieza meets Freddie Mercury meets Emperor Palpatine.
- Or, General Zod meets Scar.
- The Viltrumites are Kryptonians meet Saiyans.
- Iron Man is Batman meets Howard Hughes.
- John "Grimjack" Gaunt is the Doctor meets The Man with No Name as a mercenary.
- John Constantine = Carl Kolchak + Lt. Frank Columbo.
- Just Imagine... Stan Lee Creating the DC Universe:
- Superman/Salden is the 1938's version of Superman meets the Thanagarian version of Hawkman.
- Wonder Woman/ Maria Mendoza is the original character meets The Mighty Thor (especially the initial version having Don Blake transforming into Thor) meets the Inca Mythology.
- Batman/ Wayne Williams is the Bruce Wayne version meets Luke Cage.
- Flash/Mary Maxwell is Wally West meets his daughter from Kingdom Come with elements of Fanotmex's costume.
- Green Lantern/ Leonard Lewis is Alan Scott (whose powers are based in mysticism) and Hal Jordan (strength of character and enormous courage) meet the personality and the academic profession of Ray Palmer meets the Green Thumb of Swamp Thing and the looks of Doctor Manhattan, just green instead of bluenote .
- Catwoman is the original character meets her Batman Returns version meets Klarion the Witch Boy meets Lady Deathstrike meets Black Widow (especially in her classic catsuit) meets Power Girl's Cleavage Window.
- Katmandu:
- Liska is Erma Felna meets Sitting Bull meets Sacagawea meets John Morgan meets Firestar meets Kobayashi meets Zhuge Liang + Liu Bei meets Morgiana meets Leina Vance meets Artoria Pendragon/Saber + Shirou Emiya meets Sayuri meets Yoko Littner meets Hibiki Tachibana meets Fate Testarossa-Harlaown meets Erza Scarlet meets Tomoe Gozen meets Sanada Yukimura.
- Leatrah is her ancestor Liska meets Eda Felna.
- Thorin is Simba meets Charles Ingalls.
- Rial is Nobu meets Sasuke Uchiha + Neji Hyuga meets Crazy Horse meets Alfon Voga.
- Alternatively, he is Vegeta meets Kamille Bidan meets Kamina.
- Pyndan is Yukito Tsukishiro meets Mameha, gender-bent.
- Shaygin is Kuroko Shirai meets a lesbian Iga-no-Oboro meets Iroha meets Sakura Matou.
- Patches is Shanda the Panda's Shanda Bruin meets Hinata Hyuga.
- Thea is her mother Liska meets Claudia Grant meets Ino Yamanaka meets Pumpkin.
- Mother Sanna is The Shaman meets Granny meets The other Granny meets a less excentric Jiraiya.
- Quiet Bird is his mother Liska meets Rock Addams.
- Markree is Jin Kisaragi meets Tasak Felna meets a gender-bent Satsu.
- Kebec is Hatsumomo meets Nellie Oleson meets Eliza Legan.
- Hesta is Risty meets Guan Yu meets Dogi meets Waai Fu.
- Wind Flower is Jun Watarase meets Black Elk.
- Rakon is Yujiro Hanma meets a Native American-like Adolf Hitler meets Dio Brando meets Lü Bu meets Gregor Clegane meets Tigerstar.
- Kress is Karen Kasumi meets meets a very amoral Pocahontas.
- Indigo Weechai is Dr. Daisuke Serizawa meets John Smith.
- Matoo Anzasi (side-stories only) is Roy Focker meets John Carter of Mars.
- Kingdom Come:
- 666 is the Mutant Leader meets a Metabaron meets Brian Azzarello.
- Batman is the mainstream Bruce Wayne meets his Batman Beyond and Batman: The Dark Knight Returns versions with visual elements of Darth Vader.
- Superman is his mainstream self meets Ozymandias.
- Kid Flash is Wally West meets the 90's look of Conner Kent through the lens of Gender Flip.
- Joker's Daughter is Duela Dent meets Jack-in-the-Box (or his deranged sons) meets comics author Jill Thompson.
- Pastor Norman McKay is Phil Sheldon meets real-life pastor Clark Ross (the father of Alex Ross).
- Red Robin is Nightwing meets Doctor Mid-Nite.
- Wonder Woman, in her winged armor, is the original character meets her Ersatz Winged Victory.
- The Kingpin is Lex Luthor meets The Penguin
- Lobo is Deadpool meets Wolverine meets Ghost Rider.
- Lono from 100 Bullets can be described as either Mr. Blonde meets a Viking or Brock Samson meets Kahl Drogo
- Manchester Black from What's so Funny About Truth, Justice, and The American Way? is Devil Boner crossed with John Lydon.
- Martian Manhunter is Professor X meets Mystique meets The Vision. And all of them meet Superman.
- Marv from Sin City was described by Frank Miller as Conan in a trenchcoat.
- The Mask is James Bond meets Bugs Bunny meets The Joker.
- Melanie "Magic Boots Mel" Kapoor in Avengers Assemble #15AU is Jess Bharma meets Billy Dane.
- Michael O'Sullivan Sr.: Superman meets Marv.
- Midnighter is what happens when you try to get Batman by putting Dexter Morgan through the Weapon X program
- Warren Ellis described him as The Shadow directed by John Woo
- Alan Moore's Miracleman:
- Mike Moran/Miracleman is Superman meets Professor X meets Friedrich Nietzsche.
- Dicky Dauntless/Young Miracleman is Dick Grayson meets Akira Fudo meets Martian Manhunter.
- Johnny Bates/Kid Miracleman is Billy Batson meets Norman Bates meets The Joker meets Magneto meets Tetsuo Shima.
- Ms. Marvel is Wonder Woman meets Captain Marvel
- Monstress: Maika is Avatar Korra meets Corvo Attano meets Guts.
- Moon Knight is The Shadow meets Batman meets Mr. A, if all of them suffered from dissociative identity disorder and worshipped an Ancient Egyptian moon god.
- Nemesis the Warlock
- Nemesis is Lelouch vi Britannia meets Elric of Melnibone meets a demon.
- Or Devilman meets Gully Foyle and Magneto.
- Tomás de Torquemada is Sheev Palpatine meets Red Skull and Doctor Doom.
- Nemesis is Lelouch vi Britannia meets Elric of Melnibone meets a demon.
- 616 Colonel Nick Fury is James Bond meets Colonel John "Hannibal" Smith
- The Ultimates' Nick Fury is the 616 version meets Samuel L. Jackson.
- Norman Osborn is Lex Luthor meets The Joker.
- Nova (especially the original): Green Lantern meets Spider-Man.
- Professor Pyg is Hannibal Lecter meets Leatherface.
- Rick Jones is Marty Mcfly meets Arthur Dent.
- Robbie Reyes is Johnny Blaze meets Speed Racer.
- Artist Tradd Moore used several such comparisons when talking what he had in mind designing Robbie. They include things like Speed Racer as a Slasher Movie villain, Satan as a member of Power Rangers and The Grim Reaper as a member of Daft Punk.
- Robotman is Ben Grimm meets Alphonse Elric.
- Ronan the Accuser is Judge Dredd meets the Warhammer 40,000: Inquisition meets the Blue Man Group.
- Roy Harper is Hawkeye meets Bucky Barnes (especially in the continuities Roy loses an arm and get a cybernetic prosthesis).
- Skaar, The Son of the Hulk is his dad + Conan the Barbarian.
- Grant Morrison's Shilo Norman is Harry Houdini meets Kanye West.
- Shazam! is Superman meets Harry Potter
- Sodam Yat is often said to be Superman as a Green Lantern, but it's probably more accurate to describe him as Mon-El as a Green Lanternnote .
- Spider-Man is a spider-themed Superman meets the 10th or 11th Doctor meets Marty McFly.
- Or Charlie Brown meets Superman meets Groucho Marx.
- Alternatively, Spider-Man is just Superman meets Batman: he has the red and blue costume, like Superman, but an animal totem—and one that is often regarded as scary—like Batman. He he has superpowers, including super-strength, like Superman, but also uses gadgets, like webshooters and spider-tracers—and even at one time a Spidermobile—like Batman. He is devoted to the public good, like Superman, but is also motivated by a desire to avenge a parental figure who was murdered by a criminal, like Batman. He works as a journalist, like Superman, but is also a brilliant scientist and technologist, like Batman.
- Spawn is Batman meets Devilman meets Skull Man.
- Or Ghost Rider meets Venom.
- Or The Punisher meets Faust (1987), with a bit of Doctor Strange.
- The Spirit: Sam Spade meets The Lone Ranger.
- Static is Black Lightning meets Spider-Man.
- Steve Rogers is Stephen Colbert meets Fred Rogers meets Superman.
- Or Superman meets Audie Murphy.
- Supergirl is Pat Savage meets Mary Marvel.
- Silver Age Supergirl: Superman meets Nancy Drew.
- Modern Age Supergirl: Superman meets Buffy Summers.
- Superman:
- Doc Savage meets Hugo Danner.
- Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster created him as a mixture of Douglas Fairbanks and Clark Gable.
- Or as the Nostalgia Critic puts it, "Moses with aliens".
- The Supreme Intelligence is Zordon meets Super Kami Guru.
- The original Squadron Supreme is what happens when you cross the Justice League with the main cast of Watchmen. The Supreme Power and Heroes Reborn (2021) incarnations of the Squadron Supreme are basically the team itself meets The Seven.
- Star-Lord is Adam Strange meets Han Solo.
- After the film, he was reinvented as John Crichton meets Otto Mann.
- Thaal Sinestro is The Master with a green, then later yellow, power ring.
- Thanos is Darkseid meets the 7th Doctor meets Schopenhauer and Bazarov.
- Alternatively, he's Darkseid meets Metron, the latter's contributions being the helmet design and the multi-powered hover chair note .
- When he's not written by Jim Starlin, he's a more brutish Mongul meets Jeffrey Dahmer.
- Ultimate Red Skull: A Clockwork Orange's Alex meets The Dark Knight's Joker (with a buttload of daddy issues).
- Ultron is AM meets Brainiac meets Oedipus.
- Val-Zod is Superman with the pacifism of Vash the Stampede
- Kamala Khan is Usagi meets Jasmine.
- One of her villains, Hijinx is a Naruto mook done in style of Dudley Do-Right
- Watchmen
- Doctor Manhattan is Superman meets the Origin Story of the Hulk meets Leto II Atreides
- Alternatively, he's Captain Atom meets Albert Camus.
- Or Grown-up Miracleman meets Silver Surfer, Akira Fudo, Martian Manhunter, and Raven.
- Nite Owl II is Ted Kord meets Cyril Figgis.
- Or Spiderman meets Nightwing, by way of the grown-up Mike Moran.
- Rorschach is Batman meets Alex Jones.
- Or The Question meets Mr. A and J.J. "Jake" Gittes... with the personality of Travis Bickle.
- Ozymandias is Thunderbolt meets Iron Man... By way of Lex Luthor, the adult Kid Miracleman, Noah Cross, Paul Atreides and Ryo Asuka.
- Silk Spectre II is Donna Troy meets Liz Moran.
- Doctor Manhattan is Superman meets the Origin Story of the Hulk meets Leto II Atreides
- Youngblood (Image Comics):
- Badrock is the Hulk meets The Thing.
- Cougar is Wolverine meets Timberwolf with an outfit similar to Kraven's and the origin of Aquaman (being a Half-Human Hybrid involved in a Succession Crisis).
- Photon is a originally male version (later turned female in-universe) of Starfire meets Beatriz da Costa/Fire, with the Chrome Champion status of Captain Atom.
- Troll is Wolverine meets his Canadian fellow Eugene Judd a.k.a. Puck.
