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The Furry comic Albedo Erma Felna EDF is Neon Genesis Evangelion (which it predates), Legend of Galactic Heroes and Appleseed meets The Lion King (which it also predates) and Watership Down.
Being in Arkham Asylum is likened to The Rocky Horror Picture Show meets Silence of the Lambs.
- With Some Todd Browning's freaks thrown in, too.
Black Cherry: Sin City meets E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial meets Reservoir Dogs meets The Exorcist.
Bone draws its fame for being Pogo meets The Lord of the Rings. And people love it.
The Boys is Inglourious Basterds Vs. the DC Universe.
In Brian Michael Bendis's 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 "Silence of the Lambs meets The Untouchables."
Chew: Heroes meets Iron Chef.
Despite drawing from a lot of different sources, the main storyline of Cerebus ultimately ended up being Citizen Kane meets King Lear
- The "early, funnier" books are Conan the Barbarian meets Howard The Duck
Danger Girl is Charlie's Angels meets James Bond.
Demon Knights is DC Universe mees Heroic Fantasy
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.
Ex Machina is The West Wing meets The X-Files meets Iron Man.
Gold Digger is what happens when Indiana Jones meets a whole slew of anime, manga, video games, 70s, 80s, and 90s American cartoons and hits a blender to puree.
Gotham Central is Police Procedural meets Batman, while Top 10 mixes it with super-heroes in general, and turns the dial Up to Eleven
Jon Sable Freelance is Ian Flemming's James Bond novels combined with The Punisher.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen has the late 1800s literature on a Crisis Crossover.
Lost Squad Is The Dirty Dozen, or Band of Brothers meets The X-Files
Andrekyo's Manhunter is Daredevil meets Huntress meets Law & Order with a generous helping of Silence of the Lambs.
Marvel Divas was pitched as "Marvel meets Sex and the City".
Marvel Zombies is...well...Marvel Universe + Zombie Apocalypse
Morning Glories is Gossip Girl meets The Prisoner.
New Gods is Superman meets Star Wars, with a dash of Flash Gordon and Greek Mythology.
Nextwave is Warren Ellis meeting superhero comics and challenging them to a duel with custard pies.
The first few years of Ninja High School was Urusei Yatsura meets Archie Comics.
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.
Paul Cornell's Deathwatch in 2000 AD is Judge Dredd meets Blackadder II (possibly meets Guards! Guards!).
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.
- The Game is River City Ransom and... Stop right there.
- Naw, it's FLCL meets Final Fight: With it's fast pace, mile-a-minute pop culture references, and how Ramona Flowers resembles Haruko in her appearance, fighting skills, and nasty disposition.
Warren Ellis run on Secret Avengers is Planetary meets G.I. Joe
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
The for-all-ages comic Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures in the 8th Grade, is Supergirl meets Invader Zim.
- More like Supergirl meets Sabrina The Animated Series.
The Thanos Imperative - Space Opera meets Cosmic Horror Story in Marvel Universe.
Tom Strong is Superman meets Doc Savage.
Joshua Dysart's "Violent Messiahs" was originally pitched as "Batman meets Se7en."
The Walking Dead is Night of the Living Dead meets LOST.
- And Oni Press' Resurrection is The Walking Dead meets Independence Day
Warren Ellis' Ignition City is Firefly meets Ministry of Space written by the writers of Deadwood.
Watchmen is the Justice League meets Citizen Kane as told by James Joyce.
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".

Characters

Adam Strange is John Carter of Mars meets Flash Gordon.
Every single Amalgam Comics character is literally a "X meets Y" character. Example: Super-Soldier is Superman meets Captain America.
Marvel Comics' Ares has been called "Thor meets Wolverine" in-story.
- And he come up with "Captain America meets Iron Man" idea that Norman Osborn turned into his Iron Patriot persona.
Hazmat of Avengers Academy: Captain Atom meets Rogue.
Imagine a character who takes all the coolest aspects of Superman, Zorro, The Shadow and Dracula. Yeah, that would be awesome.
Deadpool: Murdock meets The Joker and a million other psychopaths...
- Or perhaps Wolverine meets The Punisher meets Freakazoid!
- I would say Wolverine meets Spider Jerusalem.
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 Lantern^note.
Skaar, The Son of Hulk is his dad + Conan the Barbarian.
Hit Girl: "She was like John Rambo meets Polly Pocket."
Michael O'Sullivan Sr.: Superman meets Marv.
Grant Morrison's Shilo Norman is Harry Houdini meets Kanye West.
Spider-Man is a spider-themed Superman meets the 10th or 11th Doctor meets Marty McFly.
Supergirl is Pat Savage meets Mary Marvel.
- Silver Age Supergirl: Superman meets Nancy Drew.
Superman: Doc Savage meets Hugo Danner.
Utimate Red Skull: A Clockwork Orange's Alex meets The Dark Knight's Joker (with a buttload of daddy issues).

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