Filmmakers
- Barry Sonnenfeld is The Coen Brothers meets Ivan Reitman.
- Brian De Palma is Alfred Hitchcock meets Francis Ford Coppola, with a bit of his early idol Jean-Luc Godard in there as well.
- Neil Breen is Terrence Malick meets Tommy Wiseau.
- Gore Verbinski is Peter Jackson meets Terry Gilliam.
- Cathy Yan is James Gunn meets Diablo Cody.
- Christopher Nolan is M.C. Escher meets Hideo Kojima meets Satoshi Kon meets James Cameron meets Ridley Scott meets Stanley Kubrick meets Michael Mann meets Terrence Malick meets Nicolas Roeg meets Fritz Lang meets David Lean meets Sidney Lumet meets John Frankenheimer meets Terry Gilliam meets Orson Welles meets Andrei Tarkovsky.
- Clint Eastwood is Sergio Leone meets Akira Kurosawa meets Fritz Lang.
- The Coen Brothers are Woody Allen meets Martin Scorsese meets David Lynch.
- David Cronenberg is Franz Kafka meets H. P. Lovecraft.
- David Lynch is Alejandro Jodorowsky meets Martin Scorsese.
- Denis Villeneuve is Christopher Nolan meets Stanley Kubrick meets Andrei Tarkovsky.
- Darren Aronofsky is David Lynch meets David Cronenberg meets Satoshi Kon meets Alejandro Jodorowsky meets David Fincher meets Stanley Kubrick meets Terrence Malick.
- Gore Verbinski is Terry Gilliam meets Peter Jackson.
- Guillermo del Toro is Peter Jackson meets H. P. Lovecraft. Or Neil Gaiman meets Mike Mignola.
- James Cameron is Ridley Scott meets Stanley Kubrick meets Harlan Ellison meets Ray Harryhausen meets Jules Verne.
- James Gunn is Charlie Chaplin meets Woody Allen meets George A. Romero meets Stephen King meets Gore Verbinski meets The Coen Brothers, with a side dash of Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
- James Nguyen is Tommy Wiseau meets Alfred Hitchcock meets Ed Wood meets Lewis Schoenbrun.
- Jared Hess is Wes Anderson meets John Hughes.
- John Carpenter is Nigel Kneale meets George A. Romero meets H. P. Lovecraft.
- Jordan Peele is John Carpenter meets Rod Serling meets Spike Lee.
- Lloyd Kaufman is Roger Corman meets Mel Brooks.
- Martin Scorsese is Roger Corman meets John Cassavetes meets Samuel Fuller meets Jean-Luc Godard.
- Matt Reeves is Denis Villeneuve meets Zack Snyder meets Tim Burton.
- Neil Breen is Terrence Malick meets Tommy Wiseau.
- Neill Blomkamp is Peter Jackson meets James Cameron meets Michael Bay meets David Cronenberg.
- Paul Thomas Anderson is Stanley Kubrick meets Martin Scorsese meets Robert Altman meets The Coen Brothers, except far more cynical than even they can muster up.
- Quentin Tarantino is Sergio Leone meets John Woo meets Jean-Luc Godard meets Sam Peckinpah meets William Shakespeare.
- Ralph Bakshi is Walt Disney meets Tex Avery meets Robert Crumb.
- Robert Rodriguez is Quentin Tarantino meets Guillermo del Toro.
- Spike Lee is Martin Scorsese meets Martin Luther King Jr. meets Malcolm X meets Michael Moore with a side dash of Woody Allen.
- Stanley Kubrick is Orson Welles meets Fritz Lang meets Akira Kurosawa meets Alfred Hitchcock.
- Steven Spielberg is Frank Capra meets Akira Kurosawa meets Cecil B. DeMille.
- Taika Waititi is Mel Brooks meets Steven Spielberg meets James Gunn.
- Tim Burton is Sam Raimi meets Danny Elfman meets Humphrey Bogart.
- Tommy Wiseau is Tennessee Williams meets Ed Wood.
- Trey Parker and Matt Stone are Stanley Kubrick meets Paul Thomas Anderson meets Rod Serling meets Terry Gilliam meets Ralph Bakshi meets the early filmography of Peter Jackson.
- Uwe Boll is Michael Bay meets Ed Wood.
- Whit Stillman is Woody Allen meets Éric Rohmer.
- Zack Snyder is Fritz Lang meets John Woo meets Frank Miller meets Rob Liefeld meets Christopher Nolan meets Michael Bay meets James Gunn meets Genndy Tartakovsky meets The Wachowskis meets The Russo Brothers.
Actors and Comedians
- Richard Burton's obituary described his life as Dylan Thomas as played by Giacomo Casanova as directed by Mel Brooks.
- Robin Williams described
Al Pacino as if you put Robert De Niro in a dryer. - Marlon Brando + James Caan = Robert De Niro
- Robert De Niro + Tom Hanks = Leonardo DiCaprio
- Leonardo DiCaprio + Brad Pitt = Johnny Depp
- Bill Murray + Johnny Depp = Robert Downey Jr.
- Many describe David Proval as looking like a cross between Al Pacino and Christopher Walken.
- Charlie Chaplin + Groucho Marx + Bugs Bunny = Eddie Murphy
- Christina Hendricks + Fran Drescher = Kat Dennings.
- Albert Brooks was Woody Allen meets Steve Martin in his younger days.
- Steven Wright + Tiny Tim = Emo Phillips
- Roger Corman + Mel Brooks = Lloyd Kaufman
- Andy Kaufman + Christopher Walken = Norm Macdonald
- Bruce Lee + Buster Keaton = Jackie Chan
- Emily Blunt + Ida Lupino = Jodie Comer
- Al Pacino + Joaquin Phoenix = Jeremy Strong
- Lauren Bacall + Christina Ricci = Natalie Portman
- Marilyn Monroe + Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen = Scarlett Johansson
- Danny Kaye + Vincent Price = Jeff Goldblum
- Or Allen Ginsberg + Adam West
- Dennis Hopper once summed up James Dean's appeal as being a cross between Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift. On the one hand he was saying "fuck you", while also saying "help me".
- John Belushi + Keith Richards = Artie Lange
- Jimmy Fallon + Christopher Titus + Richard Pryor = Pete Davidson
- Julia Roberts + Audrey Hepburn = Anne Hathaway
- James Dean + Daniel Day-Lewis = Heath Ledger
- Marlon Brando + William Shatner = Christopher Walken
- June Foray + Zooey Deschanel + Aubrey Plaza = Melissa Villaseñor
- Anna Faris + Kristin Chenoweth + Madeline Kahn = Annaleigh Ashford
- Madeline Kahn + June Foray = Mary Kay Bergman
- Leonardo DiCaprio + Tobey Maguire = Ryan Gosling
- Ryan Gosling + Keanu Reeves = Adam Driver
- Margaret Qualley + Emma Stone = Anya Taylor-Joy
- Jimmy Stewart + Jack Lemmon + Jerry Lewis = Jim Carrey
- Jessica Walter + Miss Frizzle = Wendie Malick
- Reese Witherspoon + Barbara Stanwyck = Rachel Brosnahan
- Ingrid Bergman + Katharine Hepburn + Lauren Bacall = Rebecca Ferguson
- Jackie Chan + Sylvester Stallone = Tom Cruise
- Sylvester Stallone + Bram Stoker = Keanu Reeves
- John Belushi + David Ogden Stiers = Chevy Chase
- Harrison Ford + Jim Carrey = Ben Affleck
- Johnny Carson + Lenny Bruce = John Mulaney
- Abbott and Costello + Dave Chappelle = Key & Peele.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger + Sylvester Stallone + Denzel Washington + The Undertaker = Dwayne Johnson
- Dave Chappelle + Danny Devito + Chris Rock = Kevin Hart
- George Carlin + Danny Devito = Curtis Armstrong
- Jennifer Lawrence + Pamela Anderson + Kim Novak = Sydney Sweeney
- Selena Gomez + Aubrey Plaza = Jenna Ortega
Animators
- Walt Disney + Bob Clampett + Chuck Jones + Tex Avery + Max and Dave Fleischer = Richard Williams
- Charlie Chaplin + Winsor McCay = Walt Disney
- Osamu Tezuka + Ursula K. Le Guin + Antoine de Saint-Exupéry = Hayao Miyazaki
- Walt Disney + Hideaki Anno + Yoshiki Tanaka + Hideo Kojima + Masamune Shirow + Leiji Matsumoto + Gen Urobuchi + George R. R. Martin = Pendleton Ward
- John Kricfalusi is Ralph Bakshi meets Bob Clampett.
- Tex Avery + child art + Bob Clampett + John Kricfalusi + Vince Collins + Fleischer Studios + Hanna-Barbera + Tom Ruegger + The Simpsons + The Itchy & Scratchy Show + Looney Tunes + MAD + Jay Ward + Joe Murray + Aaahh!!! Real Monsters + Walt Disney + Robert Crumb + Mike Diana + Ralph Bakshi + Sesame Street + The Muppets + Yellow Submarine + outsider art + Gary Panter + Pee-wee's Playhouse + Schoolhouse Rock! + Beavis and Butt-Head + Earthworm Jim + Dr. Seuss + The Three Stooges + anime + underground comix = Christy Karacas
- Yoshiyuki Tomino + Hayao Miyazaki + David Lynch + Stanley Kubrick = Hideaki Anno
- Alan Moore + Matt Groening + Robert Smith + Ben Edlund + Garth Ennis + Adam Reed = Doc Hammer and Jackson Publick
Comic Creators
- Jack Kirby + Dan DeCarlo= Bruce Timm
- Alan Moore was once described as a cross between Rubeus Hagrid and Danny the Dealer.
- Alternately and more accurately, he's Jack Kirby meets Aleister Crowley.
- Mark Millar + Warren Ellis + Trey Parker and Matt Stone + Alan Moore = Garth Ennis
- Neil Gaiman + Aleister Crowley = Grant Morrison
- Todd Mc Farlane + Yoshiyuki Tomino + Alan Moore = Mark Millar
- Garth Ennis + Joss Whedon = Robert Kirkman
Mangaka
- Walt Disney + Will Eisner = Osamu Tezuka
- Kazuo Omezu + Hideshi Hino + Go Nagai + David Cronenberg + David Lynch + H. P. Lovecraft = Junji Ito.
- Osamu Tezuka + Roger Corman = Go Nagai.
- Osamu Tezuka + Alan Moore + Fyodor Dostoevsky = Naoki Urasawa
- Go Nagai + J. R. R. Tolkien + William Shakespeare + Gustave Doré + M.C. Escher + Hieronymus Bosch = Kentaro Miura
- Ryoichi Ikegami + Shigeru Mizuki + Hikaru Yuzuki + Go Nagai + Akira Toriyama + Ken Akamatsu + Hayao Miyazaki + Virginia Woolf + Judith Butler = Rumiko Takahashi
- Osamu Tezuka + Stan Lee = Shotaro Ishinomori
- Akira Toriyama + Kentaro Miura + Nobuhiro Watsuki + Steven Spielberg + Robert Louis Stevenson + Hayao Miyazaki + Michael Jackson = Eiichiro Oda
- Kunihiko Ikuhara + Tetsuo Hara and Buronson = Hirohiko Araki
- Akira Toriyama + Hideaki Anno + Hirohiko Araki + H. R. Giger + Junji Ito + Kentaro Miura = Yoshihiro Togashi
- Yoshihiro Togashi + Katsuhiro Otomo + John Woo + Michael Bay + J. R. R. Tolkien = Masashi Kishimoto
- Masashi Kishimoto + Stan Lee = Kōhei Horikoshi
- Eiichiro Oda + Chuck Austen = Hiro Mashima
- Masashi Kishimoto + Tite Kubo = Gege Akutami
- Go Nagai + Inio Asano + Quentin Tarantino = Tatsuki Fujimoto
Authors
- H. P. Lovecraft is Edgar Allan Poe meets Lord Dunsany meets Robert W. Chambers meets Arthur Machen meets Algernon Blackwood.
- Harlan Ellison once described himself as a cross between Zorro and Jiminy Cricket.
- In all actually, Ellison was more like Richard Matheson meets Robert Crumb.
- The Brothers Grimm + Carl Jung = Neil Gaiman
- Stephen King is H. P. Lovecraft meets Rod Serling meets Robert E. Howard meets Alfred Hitchcock.
- Stephen King + H. P. Lovecraft + John Carpenter = Clive Barker
- J. R. R. Tolkien + Robert E. Howard + William Shakespeare = Michael Moorcock
- Michael Moorcock + Yoshiyuki Tomino + T. H. White = George R. R. Martin
- Hideaki Anno + H. P. Lovecraft = Gen Urobuchi
Video Game Designers
- Hideo Kojima + Kentaro Miura = Yoko Taro
- Yoko Taro + George R. R. Martin = Hidetaka Miyazaki
- Yoko Taro + Shigesato Itoi = Toby Fox
- Hideaki Anno + Shigeru Miyamoto + Katsuhiro Otomo + John Carpenter + Friedrich Nietzsche = Hideo Kojima
Other people (unsorted, please recategorize as necessary)
- Freddie Mercury + David Tennant + Grant Morrison = Tobias Sammet
- Adam West's voice was once described by I'm a Marvel... And I'm a DC as a cross between William Shatner and a smooth jazz DJ.
- Friedrich Nietzsche + Aleister Crowley + H. P. Lovecraft = Anton LaVey
- Friedrich Nietzsche is Socrates meets Zoroaster meets Arthur Schopenhauer meets Ralph Waldo Emerson meets Richard Wagner meets Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
- Yoshiyuki Tomino is Leiji Matsumoto meets William Shakespeare.
- Thomas Aquinas is very roughly described as Aristotle meets Jesus Christ, converts, and revises some of his philosophical ideas.
- Augustine of Hippo can be described as Plato meets Jesus Christ, converts, and revises some of his philosophical ideas.
- Masaru Igami + Akio Jissoji = Toshiki Inoue
- Koichi Sakamoto + Kiyotaka Taguchi + Katsuhiro Harada + Yoshinori Ono = Motohiro Okubo
