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* The incarnation of the Riddler seen in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'' is based, most notably in his file picture, on Creator/NeilPatrickHarris.
* The incarnation of the Riddler seen in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'' is based, most notably in his file picture, on Creator/NeilPatrickHarris.
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* ''Series/{{Pennyworth}}'':
** The show, which is set in an {{alternate|History}} [[The60s '60s]] UsefulNotes/{{England}} where the UsefulNotes/UnitedKingdom is [[BalkanizeMe apparently no more]], has a Queen (played by Creator/JessicaEllerby) who physically does resemble a younger UsefulNotes/ElizabethII, but it's left ambiguous whether she's meant to be her or not. She seemingly has no children while Elizabeth already had three of them (UsefulNotes/{{Charles|III}}, Andrew and Anne) by 1960.
** One man being subjected to a PublicExecution is a white-haired rapist and murderer called [[Creator/JimmySavile James Savile]].
* ''Series/{{Pennyworth}}'':
** The show, which is set in an {{alternate|History}} [[The60s '60s]] UsefulNotes/{{England}} where the UsefulNotes/UnitedKingdom is [[BalkanizeMe apparently no more]], has a Queen (played by Creator/JessicaEllerby) who physically does resemble a younger UsefulNotes/ElizabethII, but it's left ambiguous whether she's meant to be her or not. She seemingly has no children while Elizabeth already had three of them (UsefulNotes/{{Charles|III}}, Andrew and Anne) by 1960.
** One man being subjected to a PublicExecution is a white-haired rapist and murderer called [[Creator/JimmySavile James Savile]].
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* Death Mayhew from the 1988 ''Comicbook/{{Blackhawk}}'' mini-series was very strongly based on Creator/ErrolFlynn: a swashbuckling, Australian actor in Hollywood in the 1930s and 40s. However, Flynn's (falsely) suspected Nazi sympathies are exchanged for Mayhew being an out-and-out Nazi.
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* Death Mayhew from the 1988 ''Comicbook/{{Blackhawk}}'' ''ComicBook/{{Blackhawk}}'' mini-series was very strongly based on Creator/ErrolFlynn: a swashbuckling, Australian actor in Hollywood in the 1930s and 40s. However, Flynn's (falsely) suspected Nazi sympathies are exchanged for Mayhew being an out-and-out Nazi.
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* Mike Grell has stated that Tyroc from the ''Comicbook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' was inspired by actor and football player Fred "The Hammer" Williamson.
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* ''ComicBook/Rorschach2020'' has a really strange and [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall fourth wall-glancing]] play on this with the [[ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} Rorschach]] copycat: a former comic creator named Wil Myerson, who is effectively Creator/SteveDitko in all but name. The [[MetaFiction metatextual]] significance of this is that Ditko was the creator of the infamously {{anvilicious}} pro-[[UsefulNotes/{{Objectivism}} Objectivist]] work ''ComicBook/MrA'', which Creator/AlanMoore [[DeconstructiveParody deconstructively lampooned]] with the character of Rorschach for ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}''. The fictional Myerson also created his own ''Mr. A'' (in this story called [[{{Expy}} "The Citizen"]]) before [[LegacyCharacter adopting the Rorschach mantle]], metaphorically representing the real-world man behind the fictional character succumbing to his worst moral vices.
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* ''ComicBook/Rorschach2020'' has a really strange and [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall fourth wall-glancing]] play on this with the [[ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} Rorschach]] Rorschach copycat: a former comic creator named Wil Myerson, who is effectively Creator/SteveDitko in all but name. The [[MetaFiction metatextual]] significance of this is that Ditko was the creator of the infamously {{anvilicious}} pro-[[UsefulNotes/{{Objectivism}} Objectivist]] work ''ComicBook/MrA'', which Creator/AlanMoore [[DeconstructiveParody deconstructively lampooned]] lampooned with the character of Rorschach for ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}''. The fictional Myerson also created his own ''Mr. A'' (in this story called [[{{Expy}} "The Citizen"]]) Citizen") before [[LegacyCharacter adopting the Rorschach mantle]], metaphorically representing the real-world man behind the fictional character succumbing to becoming like his worst moral vices.creation.
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** Daily Planet reporter, and Clark Kent's primo thorn-in-the-side, Steve Lombard originally was a takeoff of Joe Namath.
** Columnist Dirk Armstrong is based on Rush Limbaugh.
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** Daily Planet reporter, and Clark Kent'sprimo thorn-in-the-side, bully, Steve Lombard originally was a takeoff of Joe Namath.
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** Issue #355, "Momentus, Master of the Moon!": This issue came out in 1980, with a villain whose private identity is Dr Asa Ezaak. The villain has glasses, thick sideburns, and has published two hundred books on topics ranging from Astronomy to Zoology. The issue came out the year after noted [[NonFiction science fact]] and ScienceFiction author, Dr Creator/IsaacAsimov published ''Literature/Opus200''. He's also known for the muttonchop sideburns that "good doctor" Ezaak is drawn with.
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** Issue ''ComicBook/Superman1939'' #355, "Momentus, Master of the Moon!": This issue came out in 1980, with a villain whose private identity is Dr Asa Ezaak. The villain has glasses, thick sideburns, and has published two hundred books on topics ranging from Astronomy to Zoology. The issue came out the year after noted [[NonFiction science fact]] and ScienceFiction author, Dr Creator/IsaacAsimov published ''Literature/Opus200''. He's also known for the muttonchop sideburns that "good doctor" Ezaak is drawn with.
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* A 1970s ''Comicbook/WorldsFinestComics'' story revealed that Bruce Wayne's old girlfriend Julie Madison, last seen as an actress under the name Portia Storm, had married the prince of a Medeterranian microstate and was now Princess Portia of Moldacia, obviously inspired by Creator/GraceKelly becoming Princess Grace of Monaco.
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* A 1970s ''Comicbook/WorldsFinestComics'' story ''ComicBook/WorldsFinest1941'' #248 (January, 1978) revealed that Bruce Wayne's old girlfriend Julie Madison, last seen as an actress under the name Portia Storm, had married the prince of a Medeterranian microstate and was now Princess Portia of Moldacia, obviously inspired by Creator/GraceKelly becoming Princess Grace of Monaco.
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** The ''Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse'' is somewhat peppered with this, particularly for ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' and ''Justice League Unlimited''. Because of the number of voices required with a limited cast, voice actors would break out voice imitations to make a more significant variety. Notably, Michael Rosenbaum's Deadshot was an imitation of Creator/KevinSpacey, and Creator/{{Phil LaMarr}}'s version of Steel was somewhat based on Creator/MorganFreeman. Rosenbaum also gave Ghoul, one of the Jokerz in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'' and an episode of ''Justice League Unlimited'', the voice of Creator/ChristopherWalken.
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** The ''Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse'' is somewhat peppered with this, particularly for ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' and ''Justice League Unlimited''. Because of the number of voices required with a limited cast, voice actors would break out voice imitations to make a more significant variety. Notably, Michael Rosenbaum's Deadshot was an imitation of Creator/KevinSpacey, and Creator/{{Phil LaMarr}}'s version of Steel was somewhat based on Creator/MorganFreeman. Rosenbaum also gave Ghoul, one of the Jokerz in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'' and an episode of ''Justice League Unlimited'', the voice of Creator/ChristopherWalken.
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** At [[UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks around the time]] Steve Lombard was introduced, the Planet's gossip columnist was Lola Barnett, who was based on real gosspip columnist Rona Barrett (as was Rova Barkitt of ''ComicBook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew'').
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** At [[UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks [[MediaNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks around the time]] Steve Lombard was introduced, the Planet's gossip columnist was Lola Barnett, who was based on real gosspip columnist Rona Barrett (as was Rova Barkitt of ''ComicBook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew'').
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** While on the subject of Creator/JackKirby, ''Mister Miracle'' villain Funky Flashman was a publicity hogging sleazy businessman based partially on Creator/StanLee. Many fans believe this was a TakeThat by Kirby after he left Marvel due to creative differences with Lee. His hapless sidekick Houseroy is probably then Marvel editor Roy Thomas.
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** While on the subject of Creator/JackKirby, ''Mister Miracle'' villain Funky Flashman was a publicity hogging sleazy businessman based partially on Creator/StanLee. Many fans believe this was a TakeThat by Kirby after he left Marvel due to creative differences with Lee. His hapless sidekick Houseroy is probably then Marvel editor Roy Thomas. Flashman's other inspiration is a man who scammed Kirby into drawing several promotional illustrations and then never paid him back for it.
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* ''ComicBook/TheSpectre'': The 24th issue of his third run starts with the Spectre dissuading some teenagers from committing suicide by showing them the image of their idol, Karl Colter, burning in hell after his own suicide. With the initials and being in a rock band before killing himself, Karl Colter is clearly Music/KurtCobain (say that five times fast). There's also a bit of GeniusBonus in that Colter's band is named Oblivion, which ties into what Music/{{Nirvana}} means (the CessationOfExistence, more or less).
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** The Oliver Twists in the 1970 story "Dead Til Proven Alive!" are Music/TheBeatles, complete with "Paul is Dead" conspiracy theory, with the [[JustForPun twist]] that [[Music/PaulMcCartney Paul's]] Expy turns out to be [[spoiler: the only one who ''isn't'' dead]].
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** The Oliver Twists in the 1970 story "Dead Til Proven Alive!" are Music/TheBeatles, complete with "Paul is Dead" conspiracy theory, with the [[JustForPun twist]] twist that [[Music/PaulMcCartney Paul's]] Expy turns out to be [[spoiler: the only one who ''isn't'' dead]].
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* During their run on ''JLA1997'', Creator/GrantMorrison made ComicBook/PlasticMan into a superpowered Creator/JimCarrey.
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** ''Film/BatmanForever'' and ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' had tabloid reporter Gossip Gerty (Elizabeth Sanders, wife of ''Batman'' creator Creator/BobKane) as a send-up of legendary Hollywood gossip columnist Hedda Hopper (although, frankly, she looked more like Dame Edna).
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** ''Film/BatmanForever'' and ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' had tabloid reporter Gossip Gerty (Elizabeth Sanders, wife of ''Batman'' creator Creator/BobKane) as a send-up of legendary Hollywood gossip columnist Hedda Hopper (although, frankly, she looked more like Dame Edna).Creator/DameEdna).
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** Speaking of the 2016 election, as has become customary for Lex Luthor, there's a UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump reference as he stands in front of a "Make Metropolis Safe Again" banner.
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!!Western Animation
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': Creator/MarkHamill has said that his performance of The Joker was a mixture of Hannibal Lector and Jerry Lewis.
** The ''Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse'' is somewhat peppered with this, particularly for ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' and ''Justice League Unlimited''. Because of the number of voices required with a limited cast, voice actors would break out voice imitations to make a more significant variety. Notably, Michael Rosenbaum's Deadshot was an imitation of Creator/KevinSpacey, and Creator/{{Phil LaMarr}}'s version of Steel was somewhat based on Creator/MorganFreeman. Rosenbaum also gave Ghoul, one of the Jokerz in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'' and an episode of ''Justice League Unlimited'', the voice of Creator/ChristopherWalken.
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'': In "Sentries of the Last Cosmos", Eldon Michaels, the creator of "Sentries" was an amalgamation of Creator/GeorgeLucas, Creator/GaryGygax, and Bruce Vilanch.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'''s version of the Riddler is best described, visually speaking, as Music/MarilynManson wearing a ton of green.
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'''s incarnation of the [[Creator/NeilPatrickHarris Music Meister]] seems to be a thinly veiled parody of famous pianists Music/EltonJohn and Liberace.
* In the first two seasons of ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'', G. Gordon Godfrey is basically Bill O’Reilly. In Season 3, he’s Tucker Carlson right down to the cadence.
!!Western Animation
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': Creator/MarkHamill has said that his performance of The Joker was a mixture of Hannibal Lector and Jerry Lewis.
** The ''Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse'' is somewhat peppered with this, particularly for ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' and ''Justice League Unlimited''. Because of the number of voices required with a limited cast, voice actors would break out voice imitations to make a more significant variety. Notably, Michael Rosenbaum's Deadshot was an imitation of Creator/KevinSpacey, and Creator/{{Phil LaMarr}}'s version of Steel was somewhat based on Creator/MorganFreeman. Rosenbaum also gave Ghoul, one of the Jokerz in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'' and an episode of ''Justice League Unlimited'', the voice of Creator/ChristopherWalken.
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'': In "Sentries of the Last Cosmos", Eldon Michaels, the creator of "Sentries" was an amalgamation of Creator/GeorgeLucas, Creator/GaryGygax, and Bruce Vilanch.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'''s version of the Riddler is best described, visually speaking, as Music/MarilynManson wearing a ton of green.
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'''s incarnation of the [[Creator/NeilPatrickHarris Music Meister]] seems to be a thinly veiled parody of famous pianists Music/EltonJohn and Liberace.
* In the first two seasons of ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'', G. Gordon Godfrey is basically Bill O’Reilly. In Season 3, he’s Tucker Carlson right down to the cadence.
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* The members of ''ComicBook/YoungJustice'' used to watch ''[[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Wendy The Werewolf Stalker]]'', a show created by "[[Creator/JossWhedon Joe Westin]]".
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* The members of ''ComicBook/YoungJustice'' used to watch ''[[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Wendy The Werewolf Stalker]]'', a show created by "[[Creator/JossWhedon Joe Westin]]".Westin]]".
!!Films
* The ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' film series (1989-1997):
** Mayor Borg from [[Film/Batman1989 the first movie]] was clearly a fictional version of then New York City mayor Ed Koch. There's also murdered swimsuit model [[Creator/CindyCrawford "Candy Walker."]]
** In ''Film/BatmanReturns'', Creator/ChristopherWalken played Max Shreck [[{{Trumplica}} a lot like Donald Trump]]. (He also claimed to have based his characterization on Meyer Wolfsheim, a minor character from ''Literature/TheGreatGatsby'' that was itself a No Celebrities Were Harmed version of organized crime figure Arnold Rothstein.)
** ''Film/BatmanForever'' and ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' had tabloid reporter Gossip Gerty (Elizabeth Sanders, wife of ''Batman'' creator Creator/BobKane) as a send-up of legendary Hollywood gossip columnist Hedda Hopper (although, frankly, she looked more like Dame Edna).
* ''WesternAnimation/ReignOfTheSupermen''
** The film applies AdaptationalJobChange to the alter ego of Ms. America, Joan Dale, as instead of a reporter, she's basically "What if UsefulNotes/HillaryClinton the 2016 Presidental election?" and is a reference to [[ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman the original story]], seeing as Hillary and her husband UsefulNotes/BillClinton are depicted in attendance at Superman's funeral (as it was during the start of Bill's tenure as President).
** Speaking of the 2016 election, as has become customary for Lex Luthor, there's a UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump reference as he stands in front of a "Make Metropolis Safe Again" banner.
!!Films
* The ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' film series (1989-1997):
** Mayor Borg from [[Film/Batman1989 the first movie]] was clearly a fictional version of then New York City mayor Ed Koch. There's also murdered swimsuit model [[Creator/CindyCrawford "Candy Walker."]]
** In ''Film/BatmanReturns'', Creator/ChristopherWalken played Max Shreck [[{{Trumplica}} a lot like Donald Trump]]. (He also claimed to have based his characterization on Meyer Wolfsheim, a minor character from ''Literature/TheGreatGatsby'' that was itself a No Celebrities Were Harmed version of organized crime figure Arnold Rothstein.)
** ''Film/BatmanForever'' and ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' had tabloid reporter Gossip Gerty (Elizabeth Sanders, wife of ''Batman'' creator Creator/BobKane) as a send-up of legendary Hollywood gossip columnist Hedda Hopper (although, frankly, she looked more like Dame Edna).
* ''WesternAnimation/ReignOfTheSupermen''
** The film applies AdaptationalJobChange to the alter ego of Ms. America, Joan Dale, as instead of a reporter, she's basically "What if UsefulNotes/HillaryClinton the 2016 Presidental election?" and is a reference to [[ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman the original story]], seeing as Hillary and her husband UsefulNotes/BillClinton are depicted in attendance at Superman's funeral (as it was during the start of Bill's tenure as President).
** Speaking of the 2016 election, as has become customary for Lex Luthor, there's a UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump reference as he stands in front of a "Make Metropolis Safe Again" banner.
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* Amazing-Man from the ''ComicBook/AllStarSquadron'' is heavily based off Olympic athlete Jesse Owens.
* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'':
** ''Batman'' #252 featured a back up Robin solo adventure where the Boy Wonder saved the life of an entertainer identical to Creator/DannyKaye.
** The BatFamilyCrossover ''Comicbook/{{Knightfall}}'' had a few.
*** A psychologist shills his book on shows hosted by Harry Mann and Link Rambeau, parody versions of Larry King and Radio/RushLimbaugh.
*** ComicBook/TheRiddler takes talk show host Cassie Josie Rudolpho, basically a blonde Sally Jessy Raphael, and her audience hostage.
*** ComicBook/TheJoker was shown killing two movie critics after they criticized the movie he was trying to make, but unlike the others ''no one'' bothered trying to hide the fact that the unnamed movie critics were basically Creator/GeneSiskel and Creator/RogerEbert.
** In one Creator/ChuckDixon ''ComicBook/{{Robin|1993}}'' story, the Teen Wonder finds himself rescuing pop star Normandy Shields from a crazy stalker. It turns out she encouraged him in order to get more publicity.
** ''Comicbook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'' was rife with these, containing caricatures of Creator/DavidLetterman ("David Endochrine"), Connie Chung ("Lola Chong"), Dr. Ruth Westheimer, and a nameless President that was obviously supposed to be Reagan. [[spoiler: The Joker killed Letterman and Dr. Ruth.]]
** The original Clayface is an actor named Basil Karlo (Creator/BorisKarloff).
** In ''Batman Family'' #6, the first appearance of Duela Dent, the McGuffin is the final manuscript of mystery writer Christine Ariadne, creator of the detective Ulysses Pylate, an obvious reference to Creator/AgathaChristie, with a nod to her own AuthorAvatar, Ariadne Oliver.
** The Oliver Twists in the 1970 story "Dead Til Proven Alive!" are Music/TheBeatles, complete with "Paul is Dead" conspiracy theory, with the [[JustForPun twist]] that [[Music/PaulMcCartney Paul's]] Expy turns out to be [[spoiler: the only one who ''isn't'' dead]].
** ''Batman 80-Page Giant 2011'' has one story in which the Riddler takes over a quiz show "in which the questions are answers and the answers are questions" called ''[[Series/{{Jeopardy}} Imperilled!]]'', hosted by [[Creator/AlexTrebek Trey Alexander]]. Mixing things up a little, he also has a LovelyAssistant named Hannah Black.
* Death Mayhew from the 1988 ''Comicbook/{{Blackhawk}}'' mini-series was very strongly based on Creator/ErrolFlynn: a swashbuckling, Australian actor in Hollywood in the 1930s and 40s. However, Flynn's (falsely) suspected Nazi sympathies are exchanged for Mayhew being an out-and-out Nazi.
* In the 1998 "[[Comicbook/TheFlash Flash]] Family" one-shot ''Speed Force'', the Jesse Quick story involves her trying to meet three billionaires in her role as CEO of Quickstart Enterprises. They are J. Wilmer Tarott, a Texan computer salesman with a line in colorful similes (H. Ross Perot); Ken Cordler, a cable news network owner who has the rights to "every movie on Earth" and uses the latest technology to alter them as he sees fit (UsefulNotes/TedTurner); and Jeeko Norlock, a New Zealand media mogul who bought all the newspapers in New York and California to fight "socialist bias" in the media (UsefulNotes/RupertMurdoch).
* In the comic book adaptation of ''ComicBook/TheFlintstones'', Bedrock's resident all-purpose outer space expert Professor Sargon is clearly modeled after Creator/CarlSagan. There's also a director named [[Creator/WernerHerzog Werner Herzrock]].
* ''Franchise/GreenLantern'':
** During Denny O'Neil and Neal Adams' run the one-shot villains, Joshua and Senator Jeremiah Clutcher, were based on Charles Manson and Alabama Governor George C. Wallace, respectively.
** In one GL story in ''Action Comics Weekly'', it's [[https://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/7254700.html revealed]] that Hal Jordan was one of ten people who Abin Sur considered for the ring. Two of the others were Guy Gardner and John Stewart, of course. There was also [[Comicbook/{{Superman}} Clark Kent]] (rejected for not being an Earth native) and [[Comicbook/{{Nightwing}} Dick Grayson]]. The rest weren't named, but clearly included Archbishop Desmond Tutu, hostage negotiator Terry Waite, Polish activist (later President) Lech Wałęsa, Pope Jean Paul I and someone who is ''probably'' meant to be Secret Service agent Rufus Youngblood[[note]]While the others all looked very much like their inspiration, "Grandpa Rufus" was drawn as a stereotyped Native American, presumably because he had a Native-sounding surname.[[/note]]
* Mike Grell has stated that Tyroc from the ''Comicbook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' was inspired by actor and football player Fred "The Hammer" Williamson.
* In her original Fawcett Comics incarnation ComicBook/MaryMarvel was visually based on Creator/JudyGarland.
* During [[ComicBook/JLA1997 their run]] on ''JLA'', Creator/GrantMorrison made ComicBook/PlasticMan into a superpowered Creator/JimCarrey.
* ''ComicBook/NewGods'':
** While on the subject of Creator/JackKirby, ''Mister Miracle'' villain Funky Flashman was a publicity hogging sleazy businessman based partially on Creator/StanLee. Many fans believe this was a TakeThat by Kirby after he left Marvel due to creative differences with Lee. His hapless sidekick Houseroy is probably then Marvel editor Roy Thomas.
** Kirby also created Glorious Godfrey as a jab at Billy Graham and the fire-and-brimstone rhetoric he used. he was also used as a middle finger to G. Gordon Liddy and ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'' used him as parody of Al Sharpton (and had him resemble Don King, complete with spiky hairdo).
* ''ComicBook/{{Prez|2015}}'':
** Franklin Holyfield, the science adviser to President Ross, is an expy of UsefulNotes/NeilDeGrasseTyson.
** CorruptCorporateExecutive Smiley heads a cabal called the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilderberg_Group Build-a-Burger Group]].
* ''ComicBook/Rorschach2020'' has a really strange and [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall fourth wall-glancing]] play on this with the [[ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} Rorschach]] copycat: a former comic creator named Wil Myerson, who is effectively Creator/SteveDitko in all but name. The [[MetaFiction metatextual]] significance of this is that Ditko was the creator of the infamously {{anvilicious}} pro-[[UsefulNotes/{{Objectivism}} Objectivist]] work ''ComicBook/MrA'', which Creator/AlanMoore [[DeconstructiveParody deconstructively lampooned]] with the character of Rorschach for ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}''. The fictional Myerson also created his own ''Mr. A'' (in this story called [[{{Expy}} "The Citizen"]]) before [[LegacyCharacter adopting the Rorschach mantle]], metaphorically representing the real-world man behind the fictional character succumbing to his worst moral vices.
* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':
** Daily Planet reporter, and Clark Kent's primo thorn-in-the-side, Steve Lombard originally was a takeoff of Joe Namath.
** Columnist Dirk Armstrong is based on Rush Limbaugh.
** A story featured various talk shows discussing ComicBook/LexLuthor's apparent death. These included the sensationalist ''Ronaldo'' and the mawkish ''Susie Jamie Donatello''.
** In In ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' Annual #3, one of the annuals that was part of the ''Comicbook/Armageddon2001'' crossover event, President Herbert Forrest in a future timeline where Superman becomes a crusader against nuclear weapons bears a resemblance to President UsefulNotes/GeorgeHWBush with white streaked hair. Furthermore, Herbert was President Bush's middle name and Forrest is a {{Pun}} on Bush. A version of him from another timeline in which he lost the 2000 presidential election to Superman is seen in ''ComicBook/ActionComics'' Annual #3.
** At [[UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks around the time]] Steve Lombard was introduced, the Planet's gossip columnist was Lola Barnett, who was based on real gosspip columnist Rona Barrett (as was Rova Barkitt of ''ComicBook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew'').
** Issue #355, "Momentus, Master of the Moon!": This issue came out in 1980, with a villain whose private identity is Dr Asa Ezaak. The villain has glasses, thick sideburns, and has published two hundred books on topics ranging from Astronomy to Zoology. The issue came out the year after noted [[NonFiction science fact]] and ScienceFiction author, Dr Creator/IsaacAsimov published ''Literature/Opus200''. He's also known for the muttonchop sideburns that "good doctor" Ezaak is drawn with.
* ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' had the Citadel leader Lord Damyn supposedly inspired by real-life dictator UsefulNotes/IdiAmin.
* The members of ''ComicBook/YoungJustice'' used to watch ''[[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Wendy The Werewolf Stalker]]'', a show created by "[[Creator/JossWhedon Joe Westin]]".
!!Comic Books
* Amazing-Man from the ''ComicBook/AllStarSquadron'' is heavily based off Olympic athlete Jesse Owens.
* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'':
** ''Batman'' #252 featured a back up Robin solo adventure where the Boy Wonder saved the life of an entertainer identical to Creator/DannyKaye.
** The BatFamilyCrossover ''Comicbook/{{Knightfall}}'' had a few.
*** A psychologist shills his book on shows hosted by Harry Mann and Link Rambeau, parody versions of Larry King and Radio/RushLimbaugh.
*** ComicBook/TheRiddler takes talk show host Cassie Josie Rudolpho, basically a blonde Sally Jessy Raphael, and her audience hostage.
*** ComicBook/TheJoker was shown killing two movie critics after they criticized the movie he was trying to make, but unlike the others ''no one'' bothered trying to hide the fact that the unnamed movie critics were basically Creator/GeneSiskel and Creator/RogerEbert.
** In one Creator/ChuckDixon ''ComicBook/{{Robin|1993}}'' story, the Teen Wonder finds himself rescuing pop star Normandy Shields from a crazy stalker. It turns out she encouraged him in order to get more publicity.
** ''Comicbook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'' was rife with these, containing caricatures of Creator/DavidLetterman ("David Endochrine"), Connie Chung ("Lola Chong"), Dr. Ruth Westheimer, and a nameless President that was obviously supposed to be Reagan. [[spoiler: The Joker killed Letterman and Dr. Ruth.]]
** The original Clayface is an actor named Basil Karlo (Creator/BorisKarloff).
** In ''Batman Family'' #6, the first appearance of Duela Dent, the McGuffin is the final manuscript of mystery writer Christine Ariadne, creator of the detective Ulysses Pylate, an obvious reference to Creator/AgathaChristie, with a nod to her own AuthorAvatar, Ariadne Oliver.
** The Oliver Twists in the 1970 story "Dead Til Proven Alive!" are Music/TheBeatles, complete with "Paul is Dead" conspiracy theory, with the [[JustForPun twist]] that [[Music/PaulMcCartney Paul's]] Expy turns out to be [[spoiler: the only one who ''isn't'' dead]].
** ''Batman 80-Page Giant 2011'' has one story in which the Riddler takes over a quiz show "in which the questions are answers and the answers are questions" called ''[[Series/{{Jeopardy}} Imperilled!]]'', hosted by [[Creator/AlexTrebek Trey Alexander]]. Mixing things up a little, he also has a LovelyAssistant named Hannah Black.
* Death Mayhew from the 1988 ''Comicbook/{{Blackhawk}}'' mini-series was very strongly based on Creator/ErrolFlynn: a swashbuckling, Australian actor in Hollywood in the 1930s and 40s. However, Flynn's (falsely) suspected Nazi sympathies are exchanged for Mayhew being an out-and-out Nazi.
* In the 1998 "[[Comicbook/TheFlash Flash]] Family" one-shot ''Speed Force'', the Jesse Quick story involves her trying to meet three billionaires in her role as CEO of Quickstart Enterprises. They are J. Wilmer Tarott, a Texan computer salesman with a line in colorful similes (H. Ross Perot); Ken Cordler, a cable news network owner who has the rights to "every movie on Earth" and uses the latest technology to alter them as he sees fit (UsefulNotes/TedTurner); and Jeeko Norlock, a New Zealand media mogul who bought all the newspapers in New York and California to fight "socialist bias" in the media (UsefulNotes/RupertMurdoch).
* In the comic book adaptation of ''ComicBook/TheFlintstones'', Bedrock's resident all-purpose outer space expert Professor Sargon is clearly modeled after Creator/CarlSagan. There's also a director named [[Creator/WernerHerzog Werner Herzrock]].
* ''Franchise/GreenLantern'':
** During Denny O'Neil and Neal Adams' run the one-shot villains, Joshua and Senator Jeremiah Clutcher, were based on Charles Manson and Alabama Governor George C. Wallace, respectively.
** In one GL story in ''Action Comics Weekly'', it's [[https://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/7254700.html revealed]] that Hal Jordan was one of ten people who Abin Sur considered for the ring. Two of the others were Guy Gardner and John Stewart, of course. There was also [[Comicbook/{{Superman}} Clark Kent]] (rejected for not being an Earth native) and [[Comicbook/{{Nightwing}} Dick Grayson]]. The rest weren't named, but clearly included Archbishop Desmond Tutu, hostage negotiator Terry Waite, Polish activist (later President) Lech Wałęsa, Pope Jean Paul I and someone who is ''probably'' meant to be Secret Service agent Rufus Youngblood[[note]]While the others all looked very much like their inspiration, "Grandpa Rufus" was drawn as a stereotyped Native American, presumably because he had a Native-sounding surname.[[/note]]
* Mike Grell has stated that Tyroc from the ''Comicbook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' was inspired by actor and football player Fred "The Hammer" Williamson.
* In her original Fawcett Comics incarnation ComicBook/MaryMarvel was visually based on Creator/JudyGarland.
* During [[ComicBook/JLA1997 their run]] on ''JLA'', Creator/GrantMorrison made ComicBook/PlasticMan into a superpowered Creator/JimCarrey.
* ''ComicBook/NewGods'':
** While on the subject of Creator/JackKirby, ''Mister Miracle'' villain Funky Flashman was a publicity hogging sleazy businessman based partially on Creator/StanLee. Many fans believe this was a TakeThat by Kirby after he left Marvel due to creative differences with Lee. His hapless sidekick Houseroy is probably then Marvel editor Roy Thomas.
** Kirby also created Glorious Godfrey as a jab at Billy Graham and the fire-and-brimstone rhetoric he used. he was also used as a middle finger to G. Gordon Liddy and ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'' used him as parody of Al Sharpton (and had him resemble Don King, complete with spiky hairdo).
* ''ComicBook/{{Prez|2015}}'':
** Franklin Holyfield, the science adviser to President Ross, is an expy of UsefulNotes/NeilDeGrasseTyson.
** CorruptCorporateExecutive Smiley heads a cabal called the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilderberg_Group Build-a-Burger Group]].
* ''ComicBook/Rorschach2020'' has a really strange and [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall fourth wall-glancing]] play on this with the [[ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} Rorschach]] copycat: a former comic creator named Wil Myerson, who is effectively Creator/SteveDitko in all but name. The [[MetaFiction metatextual]] significance of this is that Ditko was the creator of the infamously {{anvilicious}} pro-[[UsefulNotes/{{Objectivism}} Objectivist]] work ''ComicBook/MrA'', which Creator/AlanMoore [[DeconstructiveParody deconstructively lampooned]] with the character of Rorschach for ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}''. The fictional Myerson also created his own ''Mr. A'' (in this story called [[{{Expy}} "The Citizen"]]) before [[LegacyCharacter adopting the Rorschach mantle]], metaphorically representing the real-world man behind the fictional character succumbing to his worst moral vices.
* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':
** Daily Planet reporter, and Clark Kent's primo thorn-in-the-side, Steve Lombard originally was a takeoff of Joe Namath.
** Columnist Dirk Armstrong is based on Rush Limbaugh.
** A story featured various talk shows discussing ComicBook/LexLuthor's apparent death. These included the sensationalist ''Ronaldo'' and the mawkish ''Susie Jamie Donatello''.
** In In ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' Annual #3, one of the annuals that was part of the ''Comicbook/Armageddon2001'' crossover event, President Herbert Forrest in a future timeline where Superman becomes a crusader against nuclear weapons bears a resemblance to President UsefulNotes/GeorgeHWBush with white streaked hair. Furthermore, Herbert was President Bush's middle name and Forrest is a {{Pun}} on Bush. A version of him from another timeline in which he lost the 2000 presidential election to Superman is seen in ''ComicBook/ActionComics'' Annual #3.
** At [[UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks around the time]] Steve Lombard was introduced, the Planet's gossip columnist was Lola Barnett, who was based on real gosspip columnist Rona Barrett (as was Rova Barkitt of ''ComicBook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew'').
** Issue #355, "Momentus, Master of the Moon!": This issue came out in 1980, with a villain whose private identity is Dr Asa Ezaak. The villain has glasses, thick sideburns, and has published two hundred books on topics ranging from Astronomy to Zoology. The issue came out the year after noted [[NonFiction science fact]] and ScienceFiction author, Dr Creator/IsaacAsimov published ''Literature/Opus200''. He's also known for the muttonchop sideburns that "good doctor" Ezaak is drawn with.
* ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' had the Citadel leader Lord Damyn supposedly inspired by real-life dictator UsefulNotes/IdiAmin.
* The members of ''ComicBook/YoungJustice'' used to watch ''[[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Wendy The Werewolf Stalker]]'', a show created by "[[Creator/JossWhedon Joe Westin]]".
