The Movies
- Iron Man: Jon Favreau cited the film as a mixture of Tom Clancy, James Bond and RoboCop (1987). He also described his approach to the film "as if Robert Altman directed Superman".
- Thor is The Lion King (1994) meets Norse Mythology.
- Thor: The Dark World is Thor meets Star Trek Into Darkness.
- Thor: Ragnarok is Thor meets Planet Hulk meets Flash Gordon meets Planes, Trains and Automobiles meets Big Trouble in Little China.
- Thor: Love and Thunder is Thor: Ragnarok meets Austin Powers meets Devil May Cry 5 meets Mad Max: Fury Road with elements of Wonder Woman 1984.
- Captain America: The First Avenger is The Rocketeer meets Rudy meets Indiana Jones meets Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow meets Band of Brothers.
- Guardians of the Galaxy is The Avengers meets Farscape meets Firefly meets Star Wars.
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is Guardians of the Galaxy meets The Empire Strikes Back meets The Matrix.
- The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special is Guardians of the Galaxy meets The Star Wars Holiday Special.
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 meets Logan meets The Suicide Squad meets No Time to Die meets The Boys meets Final Fantasy VII meets Resident Evil 2 meets Primal meets Kamen Rider BLACK SUN meets Return of the Jedi.
- Avengers: Age of Ultron is The Avengers meets Transformers: Dark of the Moon meets Terminator meets Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number, all seasoned with slight dashes of A Nightmare on Elm Street, Injustice: Gods Among Us, Devilman and Armageddon (1998).
- Ant-Man is Iron Man meets Mission Impossible meets Ocean's Eleven meets Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.
- Doctor Strange (2016) is House, M.D. meets Harry Potter meets Sherlock meets Game of Death meets Batman Begins meets Seven Years in Tibet meets Sliders meets Inception.
- Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is Doctor Strange meets WandaVision meets Spider-Man: No Way Home meets Loki meets Dark Nights: Death Metal meets Evil Dead (2013) meets Everything Everywhere All at Once meets Drag Me to Hell.
- Spider-Man: Homecoming is, quite consciously Spider-Man meets The Breakfast Club.
- Spider-Man: Far From Home is Spider-Man: Homecoming meets Spider-Man 2 meets Incredibles 2.
- Spider-Man: No Way Home is Spider-Man: Far From Home meets Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse meets Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions meets Marvel’s Spider-Man meets Venom: Let There Be Carnage meets Spider-Man 3 meets Superman II meets Invincible meets Flashpoint meets Dark Nights: Metal meets The Dark Knight Rises meets Call of Duty: Black Ops II meets Jujutsu Kaisen meets Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V meets The Rising of the Shield Hero meets Kamen Rider Decade meets Kamen Rider Zi-O meets Ultraman Tiga, Ultraman Dyna, & Ultraman Gaia: The Decisive Battle in Hyperspace.
- Black Panther (2018) is Thor meets The Lion King (1994) meets James Bond.
- It can also be El Tigre meets The Phantom (1996) meets Atlantis: The Lost Empire with T'Challa opting to reveal the true Wakanda to the world resembling the end of Atlantis: Milo's Return.
- Honest Trailers described Wakanda as "a combination of The Jetsons and a 1990s Jet magazine
".
- Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is Black Panther meets Elden Ring meets Avatar meets The Last of Us Part II.
- Avengers: Infinity War is Avengers: Age of Ultron meets Captain America: Civil War meets Doctor Strange meets Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 meets Spider-Man: Homecoming meets Thor: Ragnarok meets Black Panther meets The Infinity Gauntlet meets Berserk meets Mobile Suit Victory Gundam meets Warhammer: The End Times meets The Ideon: Be Invoked meets Amon: The Darkside of the Devilman meets The Empire Strikes Back meets End of Days meets The Leftovers meets Crisis on Infinite Earths meets Mortal Kombat: Armageddon.
- Captain Marvel (2019) is sort of Top Gun crossed with equal parts The Last Starfighter, Enemy Mine, Green Lantern and Dragon Ball Z.
- The Marvels (2023) is Captain Marvel meets Ms. Marvel meets Ratchet & Clank (2002).
- Avengers: Endgame is Avengers: Infinity War meets Logan meets Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann meets Left Behind meets Back to the Future Part II meets Return of the Jedi meets The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King meets The Matrix Revolutions.
- Black Widow (2021) is The Americans meets Red Sparrow meets Mission: Impossible – Fallout meets Captain America: The Winter Soldier meets James Bond.
- Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is Game of Death meets Big Trouble in Little China meets Crazy Rich Asians.
- Eternals is Dune (2021) meets Zack Snyder's Justice League as set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
- Or Guardians of the Galaxy meets The Inhumans meets Ancient Aliens.
- In Bob Chipman's review of the film, he favorably described it as "Wings of Desire meets Until the End of the World as filmed by Terrence Malick."
- 2001: A Space Odyssey meets Interview with the Vampire.
- Deadpool & Wolverine is Deadpool 2 meets Loki (2021) meets Furiosa A Mad Max Story meets Kamen Rider Outsiders.
The Shows
- Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is NCIS as set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
- Alternatively, it's Torchwood as set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
- Or it's The Avengers (the American superhero film) meets The Avengers (the unrelated British spy drama).
- According to Joss Whedon, it's the Marvel Cinematic Universe meets the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "The Zeppo" to a degree.
- The pre-Winter Soldier episodes were Marvel meets Warehouse 13. "Pilot" in particular feels very reminiscent of "Second Chances."
- The Defenders (2017) is almost literally Season 1 of Iron Fist meets the second half of Daredevil Season 2 (guest starring Luke Cage and Jessica Jones) meets The Avengers meets Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
- The Punisher (2017) is Punisher: War Zone meets The Punisher MAX meets Daredevil meets 24 meets Dexter meets John Wick meets Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned meets The Boys meets Falling Down meets Full Metal Jacket meets The Manchurian Candidate meets Captain America: Civil War.
- Inhumans is Jack Kirby's original comic meets Game of Thrones meets Gormenghast meets Thor, if they were all low-budget mockbusters or Direct to Video movies.
- Jessica Jones (2015) is Alias meets Veronica Mars meets The Silence of the Lambs meets Cybersix.
- Runaways (2017) is The O.C. meets Gossip Girl meets The Defenders.
- WandaVision is a dozen classic sitcoms meets Too Many Cooks meets Pleasantville meets Blue Velvet as set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
- Loki is the Marvel Cinematic Universe's take on Doctor Who meets Rick and Morty meets Timeline meets Timecop with the retro aesthetic of Fallout (particularly for the animated segments and the character of Miss Minutes).
- What If...? is the original comic series meets The Twilight Zone by way of Invincible.
- Hawkeye (2021) is Planes, Trains and Automobiles meets Die Hard meets The Last of Us.
- Moon Knight (2022) is Xenoblade Chronicles 2 meets Perfect Blue meets Indiana Jones, with elements of The Darkness II, Yu-Gi-Oh! (though without the card games) and Mr. Robot all while being centered around Egyptian Mythology.
- Ms. Marvel is Sixteen Candles meets Turning Red as directed by Edgar Wright and with some of the visual trappings of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
- She-Hulk: Attorney at Law is The Incredible Hulk meets High Fidelity meets The Flight Attendant meets Legally Blonde.
- Secret Invasion is Half-Life meets The Thing (1982) meets Animorphs meets The Bourne Identity.
The Characters
- Loki is Scar meets Po.
- Rocket Raccoon is Rigby meets John Rambo as a tech genius.
- Star-Lord is Han Solo meets Andy Dwyer meets Marty McFly meets Monkey D. Luffy meets Phillip J. Fry.
- Groot is The Iron Giant meets Chewbacca or any pure Grass-type Pokémon.
- The Guardians of the Galaxy as a whole are The Avengers meets The Strawhat Pirates.
- Ultron is Cell meets Sigma.
- James Gunn described Nebula's voice as a cross between Marilyn Monroe and Clint Eastwood.
- Kurt Russell's version of Ego the Living Planet is his comic book counterpart meets J'son of Spartax meets Alcazar meets The Thing.
- Benedict Cumberbatch's Doctor Strange is Sherlock Holmes meets Dr. House meets Dominic "Dom" Cobb meets Christian Bale's Batman.
- Tom Holland's Spider-Man is the original character meets Robin meets Daniel LaRusso. Part of his Character Development has him (perhaps naturally) taking on elements of Nightwing in lieu of Robin with Yuya Sakaki, Edward Elric, Naofumi Iwatani. Frank Woods, David Mason and Sougo Tokiwa thrown to the mix.
- Michelle "MJ" Jones-Watson is Allison Reynolds meets Lindsay Weir meets Yuzu Hiragi.
- Quentin Beck/Mysterio from Spider-Man: Far From Home is Terry Silver meets Frank Fontaine meets Syndrome.
- Norman Osborn is the original meets Redyue meets Swartz meets Heath Ledger's Joker meets Raul Menendez meets Vassago Cassals meets Yuri meets Mahito meets Yuuki Terumi.
- Josh Brolin's Thanos is his comic book counterpart meets Emperor Palpatine meets Griffith meets Gendo Ikari.
- Wanda Maximoff is Schala meets Anakin Skywalker.
- Black Panther (2018):
- T'Challa is Simba meets Prince Akeem meets Luke Skywalker.
- Eric "Killmonger" Stevens is Magneto meets Kylo Ren meets Scar meets Syndrome meets Heath Ledger's Joker meets Vegeta.
- Everett K. Ross is Agent Coulson meets Felix Leiter.
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3: The High Evolutionary is Zander Rice and Donald Pierce meets Homelander meets Sayer meets Tenjuro Banno meets The High Priestess.
- Daredevil (2015):
- Matt Murdock is basically a blind and poorer Batman... if he went to both Mass and law school.
- Frank Castle is Captain Martin Walker meets Judge Dredd.
- Jessica Jones (2015): Jeri Hogarth is basically Aria T'Loak meets Annalise Keating (and not just because Carrie-Anne Moss played the former).
- Loki (2021): The Time Variance Authority is Section 31 meets the Division.
- Moon Knight (2022):
- Arthur Harrow is the Sun King meets David Koresh meets Lancaster Dodd.
- After becoming the Scarlet Scarab as Tawaret's Avatar, Layla El-Faouly is Marion Ravenwood meets Wonder Woman meets The Falcon.
- Arthur Harrow is the Sun King meets David Koresh
- Ikaris is Robb Stark meets Superman meets Omni-Man.
- Ouroboros is Waymond Wang meets Data.
