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Sometimes in comics or animated shows, a character is made to look like a particular actor or other celebrity whom the artist imagines playing the character. This might be out of fandom for the actor, because the character fits with the actor's well-known roles, or in the hope that the actor would be flattered and try to get the comic adapted as a movie.
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For when the character is a direct impression or parody of a celebrity's public persona, see [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]. For when an animated character is designed to resemble the real-world voice actor, see [[Ink Suit Actor]]. Not the same thing as when a comic book or animation is spun-off from an earlier live-action film or TV show and the characters inevitably are drawn to look like the live-action actors, which would be [[Reality Casting]]. However, sometimes there are borderline cases where a comic or animation is adapted into a live-action medium and artists start drawing a character to look like the actor in the adaptation.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Doctor Reichwein in ''[[Monster (
* Freddy from ''[[Cromartie High School]]'' bears an obvious resemblance to Freddie Mercury from [[Queen]]. It's never explicitly stated whether or not he actually ''is'' Freddie Mercury, but most signs point to no. Just avoids [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]] since his characterization has no resemblance at all to Freddy's public persona.
* All three of the admirals in ''[[
* Great Brother Chang in ''[[Black Lagoon]]'' looks a lot like Chow Yun-Fat.
* ''[[
* ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'''s Spike Spiegel was modeled after famous 1970s Japanese action film star [[Yusaka Matsuda]], but due to the [[Mukokuseki]] artstyle, most American fans think he looks Jewish (the last name also helps).
** Spike also bears quite a resemblence to a young [[Bob Dylan]], who was Jewish.
** The couple in the first episode were based on Antonio Banderas and Selma Hayek. The doctor {{spoiler|also known as a conman}} who revives Faye is based on George Clooney. The bounty hunter in "[[Mushroom Samba]]" is based on Pam Grier. ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'' liked this trope.
* It's hard to tell, given the [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|blue hair]] and [[Eyes of Gold]], but April of ''[[Darker
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100722013448/http://totallylookslike.com/2009/12/03/ergo-proxy-totally-looks-like-amy-lee/ It's been noted] that Re-l of ''[[Ergo Proxy]]'' has an uncanny resemblance to [[Evanescence]] [[The Face of the Band|singer]] Amy Lee.
* In ''[[Moldiver]]'', [[Mad Scientist]] Doctor Machinegal's {{spoiler|robot}} female minions are all named after (and {{spoiler|are designed to}} resemble) various female movie stars.
* Kenshiro of ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'' fame infamously resembles Mel Gibson's character from ''The Road Warrior'' with a bit of [[Bruce Lee]] to round him out.
* ''[[Eyeshield 21]]'' has some really strange ones considering all the characters are high school football players. Shin (especially in the early days) was pretty much Bruce Lee in football gear, Aoyanagi is Weird Al on steroids, Bud Walker is Johnny Depp, and Shinryuuji has players that resemble Gandhi, Richard Nixon, and the Dalai Lama.
* ''[[Doctor Slump]]'' had Dr Mashiritko as a recurring [[Big Bad]] (as far as that goes in the comedy/satire genre), with facial features based on Akira Toriyama's editor. It's even lampshaded by a few panels where said editor calls up Toriyama to tell him not to draw Mashiritko to look like him - for this scene, he is drawn with exactly the same face as Mashiritko.
* ''[[Yami no Aegis]]'''s Zero ''really'' looks like Leon from [[Léon: The Professional]]. They're also both assassins, and aside from the hats (Zero wears a baseball hat) they dress identically.
* Masayuki Ozaki has confirmed that several characters in ''[[Tiger and Bunny]]'' are supposed to resemble certain famous individuals. So far, the fandom's located [[Robert Downey, Jr.]], [[Steven Spielberg]], Forest Whitaker, Macaulay Culkin, and Barack Obama.
== [[Comic Books]] ==▼
* In ''[[Asterix|Asterix and the Falling Sky]]'', the Superclones (an army of [[Captain Ersatz
▲== Comic Books ==
▲* In ''[[Asterix|Asterix and the Falling Sky]]'', the Superclones (an army of [[Captain Ersatz|Captain Ersatzes]] of [[Superman]], with a bit of [[Green Lantern]] thrown in) bear an uncanny resemblance to [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]].
* Jenny Sparks in ''[[Stormwatch]]'' and ''[[The Authority]]'' is a double for the model Kate Moss.
* ''[[Captain Marvel]]'' was said to be based on Fred MacMurray.
** His sister Mary Marvel was initially modeled after [[Judy Garland]].
** Inverted with Captain Marvel Junior, as Elvis Presley modeled his signature hairdo and costumes after him.
* Hal Jordan and Sinestro in ''[[
** The male Guardians of the Universe from ''Green Lantern'' were initially based on David Ben-Gurion, the first prime minister of Israel.
* Wesley and the Fox in ''[[Wanted (Comic Book)|Wanted]]'' are overtly based on Eminem and Halle Berry, in what was seen as a deliberate attempt to angle for a film adaptation. In the eventual film the roles ended up being played by James McAvoy and Angelina Jolie.
** Wesley's father bears a resemblance to [[Tommy Lee Jones]].
* [[The Ultimates|Ultimate]] [[Nick Fury]] was drawn to look like [[Samuel L. Jackson]]. In the ''[[Iron Man (
** This was an explicit arrangement; Jackson gave Marvel free rein to do it as long as he could have the part in the movies.
** NYPD Detective Paul Budiansky, a one-arc character from ''[[The Punisher]] MAX'' is also modeled after Sam Jackson.
** In Ultimate Namor's first appearance, he is very clearly Jonathan Rhys Meyers.
* The original ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' Hellfire Club line-up were all based by John Byrne on actors he admired. Sebastian Shaw was based on Robert Shaw, the Black Queen (Jean Grey) on Diana Rigg ([[The Avengers (TV series)|Emma Peel]]), Mastermind/Jason Wyngarde on Peter Wyngarde (Jason King in ''Department S''), Harry Leland on Orson Welles ([[The Third Man|Harry Lime]]), and Donald Pierce on Donald Sutherland ([[
** A later writer introduced Emma Steed of the London Hellfire Club, who was even ''more'' Diana Rigg.
** The Diana Rigg and Peter Wyngarde parallels specifically were part of a [[Whole
* During the Claremont/Byrne run on ''Uncanny X-Men'', Cyclops was based on a young Henry Fonda, Jean Grey on a young Raquel Welch, Wolverine on Paul D'Amato in ''Slap Shot'', Colossus on Max Baer Jr, Beast on Al Franken, Charles Xavier on Keane Curtis, Moira McTaggert on Hannah Gordon, Arcade on Malcom McDowell and Emma Frost on a young Faye Dunaway. Kitty Pryde was based on what Byrne thought a young Sigourney Weaver would look like.
** Later, when handling art honors for ''[[Excalibur (Comic Book)|Excalibur]]'', Alan Davis once stated that he modeled his Kitty Pryde after a young [[Katherine Hepburn]].
* In John Byrne comics, [[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Mr Fantastic]] is based on Jeffrey Hunter, [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|Wonder Man]] on David Prowse, Dr Strange on Richard Boone, the Scarlet Witch on Playmate Julia Lyndon, Desmond Marrs on Rocco Siffredi, Polaris (in ''X-Men: The Hidden Years'') on Jennifer Aniston.
* John Romita (Sr.) modeled Mary Jane Watson on Ann-Margret, specifically the way she looked in ''[[Bye Bye Birdie]]''.
** More recently, Mike Deodato has drawn her as a red-haired Liv Tyler, and Paolo Rivera's take on her is a blend between Leighton Meester and Miranda Kerr, inspired by her dimples.
* The Saint of Killers in ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)]]'' had a powerful and deliberate resemblance to Lee Marvin, stated as deliberate by [[Garth Ennis]] in his introduction to the ''Ancient History'' collection that contained his origin story.
* ''[[The Boys]]'' features Simon Pegg as Wee Hughie.
* The eponymous hero of the Italian comic ''[[Dylan Dog]]'' is based on Rupert Everett. Among the other characters, Kim is based on Kim Novak, and Professor Adam on Sean Connery. Groucho is a in-universe sosia of Groucho Marx, complete with fake mustaches.
** That's standard procedure at Bonelly Comics. Mystic shaman Magico Vento is [[Daniel Day
* Betty from ''[[The Rocketeer (
* Delirium from ''[[
** Dream is also pretty clearly [[Author Avatar|Neil Gaiman]] at times. And there's [[Looks Like Cesare|a fair amount of]] Conrad Veidt.
* John Constantine, ''[[
* Rachel Summers in her first appearances in ''[[New Mutants]]'' was intentionally designed to look like Annie Lennox.
* Likewise, Illyana Rasputin in the same title was designed to look like Heather O'Rourke, the child actress who played Carol-Ann in ''[[Poltergeist]]''.
* Bruce Wayne in ''[[Batman: Year One]]'' was unashamedly drawn a ''lot'' like Cary Grant, and intentionally so, although David Mazuchelli has also claimed an influence from Gregory Peck.
* After the success of ''[[Batman Begins]]'', there was at least one issue of a Batman comic ([http://www.comics.org/issue/290878/ this one]) in which Bruce Wayne bore an unmistakable resemblance to Christian Bale, and the Joker got plastic surgery to look like Heath Ledger.
** The Batman manga ''Child of Dreams'' has Bruce Wayne with an uncanny resemblance to Bale. And the story was published around 2000, a few years before ''[[The Dark Knight Trilogy|Batman Begins]]''.
* Similarly, Gary Frank draws [[Superman]] to look like Christopher Reeve.
* ''[[Astro City]]'''s Steeljack's appearance was modeled on Robert Mitchum.
* Anything drawn by Greg Land will resemble a random assortment of celebrities and porn stars due to his tendency to trace. Unfortunately, there's little rhyme or reason to his choices. Emma Frost may look like Natalie Portman in one panel and Kim Kardashian in the next.
* Whenever Mike Deodato draws Norman Osborn (see ''[[Thunderbolts]]'', ''[[Dark Avengers]]'', etc.), he ends up looking like [[Tommy Lee Jones]]. Deodato has admitted that this is deliberate.
** In his more recent appearances, Norman appears to have been modelled on Julian McMahon. Which is kind of ironic [[Fantastic Four (
* Since the success of the ''[[Blade]]'' movies, there hasn't been an instance where the character ''wasn't'' drawn to look like Wesley Snipes.
* ''[[Cerebus]]'' has too many of these to count, though the most notable one has to be Lord Julius, who for all intents and purposes ''is'' Groucho Marx. Groucho's actual first name, for the record, was Julius.
* Before the movies, [[X-Men (Comic Book)|Charles Xavier's]] only distinguishing characteristics were baldness and long, thin, arching eyebrows that looked like Kirby-esque thought rays attached permanently to his head. In several [[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]] books since the movies, though, Professor Xavier has noticeably been drawn more like [[Patrick Stewart]].
** Alex Ross modeled Professor Xavier after Patrick Stewart as the artist for ''[[Marvels]]''. He also used Timothy Dalton as a model for Tony Stark.
** In the ''[[Star Trek:
** This has also been reflected in other media has well, as [[David Kaye]] in ''[[X
* In [[Joss Whedon]]'s ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' season 8, there's a Tibetan character called Bayarmaa. The artist, Georges Jeanty, made her look like the exact portrait of [[Dichen Lachman]], a half Tibetan actress who stars in another of Whedon's shows (she's Sierra in ''[[Dollhouse]]'').
** In the "season 9" comics, Severin is based on James McAvoy, Nash on [[David Bowie]], and Pearl on Karen O of [[Yeah Yeah Yeahs]].
* Jeremy Johns, a character in ''Spike: After the Fall'', is based on Jim Halpert from ''[[The Office]]'', played by John Krasinski.
* When Walt Simonson was the writer/artist on ''[[The Mighty Thor|Thor]]'', he based Sif's look on actress Sigourney Weaver and the Enchantress' sister Lorelei on Debbie Harry of the punk band Blondie.
* ''Superman'' #355 (Jan. 1981) presented Dr. Asa Ezaak, a dead ringer for [[Isaac Asimov]], sideburns and all, as an insane moon-powered evil writer. Those were happier times.
* [http://www.marveldirectory.com/individuals/n/numinus.htm Numinus], an obscure ''[[Power Pack]]'' character who looks like a bright-red Whoopi Goldberg in [[Jack Kirby|Kirbyesque]] "cosmic" armor.
* In the [[
* Lieutenant ''[[Blueberry]]'' was originally based on Jean-Paul Belmondo. His face later [[Art Evolution|evolved]] into what now looks like a Belmondo/Banderas cross-over.
* [[Superman]] is [[Clark Gable]].
* Dirty Frank in ''[[Judge Dredd]]'' was intentionally drawn to resemble [[Alan Moore]].
* Before ''[[Iron Man 2]]'' came out, Justin Hammer was modeled on [[Peter Cushing]].
* [[Iron Man|Tony Stark]], as drawn by Salvador Larocca in the current series by Matt Fraction, looks [http://joevince3.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/iron-sawyer-3.jpg A LOT]{{Dead link}} like [[Lost|Josh Holloway]].
* Salvador LaRocca does this with many characters in [[The New Universe]] reimagining ''newuniversal''. He casts [[Lost|Josh Holloway]] as Kenneth Connell (Star Brand); [[The Sopranos|James Gandolfini]] as the father of Connell's girlfriend; [[The Sopranos|Vincent Pastore, Steven Van Zandt, Michael Imperioli, and Tony Sirico]] as sheriff's deputies; [[Star Trek:
* In [[Paul Cornell]]'s run on ''[[Action Comics]]'', [[Lex Luthor]]'s assistant Spalding is modelled on [[David Tennant]], complete with the Tenth Doctor's "clever specs". [[Lampshade Hanging]] is provided by [[The Joker]] who, when taking credit for killing him, claims "He reminded me so much of that actor, [[The Nth Doctor|I wanted to see if he'd turn into someone else]]!"
* George Pérez based his Pre-[[Crisis
* On at least one occasion (the moment when [[Spider-Man]] revealed his secret identity), Peter Parker and J. Jonah Jameson look very much like [[Spider-Man (
* [[Darwyn Cooke]] admits to doing this a lot in his ''[[Catwoman (
* There are a number of examples in ''[[Global Frequency]]'', [[Depending
* In [[Neil Gaiman]] and [[Dave McKean]]'s ''[[
* Rasputin in ''[[Corto Maltese]]'' is quite obviously modeled after the famous Russian monk of the same name. This is [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in one story, where someone asks the name of the "guy who looks like Rasputin".
* Jack Kirby was said to have based Big Barda of [[New Gods]] on actress and singer model Lainie Kazan.
* Early [[Doctor Strange]] more or less ''is'' [[Vincent Price]].
* Early Professor X is reminiscent of Yul Brynner.
* Alex Ross based Mr. Fantastic's appearance in ''[[Marvels]]'' off of Russell Johnson aka [[The Professor]] from ''[[
* The main character of ''[[Switchblade Honey]]'', Captain John Ryder, is based on [[Ray Winstone]]. The story started out with the idea "What if the [[London Gangster|kind of character]] who [[Ray Winstone]] usually plays somehow got to be a ''[[
* There's a list of these in the back of ''[[Identity Crisis]]''; among others, Captain Boomerang is based on Ron Jeremy and his son is based on Justin Timberlake.
* [[Archie|Archie Andrews]] was based on actor [[Mickey Rooney]] as he appeared in the ''[[Andy Hardy]]'' films.
== [[Film]] ==▼
▲== Film ==
* [[The Captain]] in ''[[Final Fantasy]]: The Spirits Within'' looks like a young [[George Clooney]].
== [[Literature]] ==▼
* Paul Kidby's illustrations of Sam Vimes in ''[[Discworld]]'' cover designs and other art deliberately depict him as Clint Eastwood. By contrast, Melvyn Grant, the artist of ''Where's My Cow?'', drew Vimes like Pete Postlethwaite, who is said to be Terry Pratchett's own fantasy casting for the role.
▲== Literature ==
▲* Paul Kidby's illustrations of Sam Vimes in ''[[Discworld]]'' cover designs and other art deliberately depict him as Clint Eastwood. By contrast, Melvyn Grant, the artist of ''Where's My Cow?'', drew Vimes like Pete Postlethwaite, who is said to be Terry Pratchett's own fantasy casting for the role.
** Similiarly, Kidby has based his drawings of Carrot Ironfoundersson on a young Liam Neeson.
* Cornelia Funke based Mo in ''[[
* [[Doctor Who Expanded Universe]] examples:
** Lance Parkin has an acknowledged tendency toward fantasy-casting his characters; in particular, Ian Richardson gets a lot of "roles" in Parkin novels, most obviously in the [[Virgin New Adventures|New Adventures]] novel ''The Dying Days'', where Lord Greyhaven is quite close to his iconic role in ''[[House of Cards (British series)]]''.
** The {{spoiler|evil}} third incarnation of Romana who appears in the [[Eighth Doctor Adventures]] was based by her initial creator, Paul Cornell, on Louise Brooks.
* [[
** Antryg Windrose of ''[[Literature/The Windrose Chronicles|The Windrose Chronicles]]'' is basically [[Doctor Who
** Ingold Inglorion of ''[[Literature/The Darwath Trilogy|The Darwath Trilogy]]'' is very obviously the late Sir Alec Guiness as [[Star Wars|Obi-Wan Kenobi]], brown robes, beautiful voice and all.
* On at least two occasions in [[Ian Fleming]]'s books, [[James Bond]] was said to resemble Hoagy Carmichael.
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* [[Dave Barry]] made fun of this in one of his columns in which he tried to write a techno-thriller that would be turned into a [[Summer Blockbuster]]. He wrote "[the main character] looked like [[Tom Cruise]] or, if he is available, [[Al Pacino]]."
* Spoofed in [[Robert Rankin]]'s ''Armageddon: The Musical'' series: The main character resembles [[Harrison Ford]] to such an extent that [[Celebrity Paradox|people ask him for his autograph]] and think he's being a jerk when he signs his own name. One of the books has a subplot where a group of minor characters gain [[Medium Awareness]] and try to get the narrator to describe them as resembling various Hollywood stars;<ref>Well, two, really, which led to confusion about which Julia Roberts was which character.</ref> the [[Butt Monkey]] wants to be played by [[Tom Cruise]] but ends up as Danny DeVito instead. There's a full cast list at the end.<ref>Which reveals that the [[Butt Monkey]] was somehow able to recast himself with [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]].</ref>
* [[
* ''[[Left Behind]]'' makes frequent references to [[The Antichrist|Nicolae Carpathia]]'s resemblance to Robert Redford (probably a [[Take That]] at Redford's real-world left-wing political activism). Vernon Billings is briefly described as having a "Henry Fonda" quality to him.
* Supposedly, [[
* [[Lovable Rogue|Rosto the Piper]] in Tamora Pierce's ''[[Tortall Universe|Beka Cooper]]'' books is played by [[James Marsters]]. She's acknowledged this on her blog, but it's still very obvious if one reads the description of him in ''Terrier'' and looks at a picture of, say, [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Spike]].
* Played with in ''[[
* Christopher Fowler's novel ''Hell Train'' is conceived as the novelisation of a fictional "lost" [[Hammer Horror]] film, with a framing narrative around the planning of the film. This includes an in-canon casting chapter where it's discussed which of the Hammer regulars and other well-known English character actors would play the major characters.
== [[Video Games]] ==▼
* ''[[Wing Commander (
▲== Video Games ==
▲* ''[[Wing Commander (Video Game)|Wing Commander]]'': The Tiger's Claw ace pilot Iceman appears magnificently similar in both grizzly features and gritty demeanour to that ace shooter himself of another time, ''[[Clint Eastwood]]''. One of the good guys and firmly focused on vengeance against the Kilrathi. Not someone who one can imagine cracking a joke with too often. According to his fellow pilots, he don't say much.
* ''[[Metal Gear]]'': Big Boss was originally based off Sean Connery in appearance, while the box art of Snake was based on Michael Biehn. Snake's codec image for ''Metal Gear 2'' was based on Mel Gibson. The other characters had obvious casting as well — most hilariously, Bond Girl-type Holly White was modeled after Christina Applegate.
** After redesign in ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'', Snake (according to [[Word of God]]) now has the face of [[Christopher Walken]]'s character in ''[[The Deer Hunter]]'', with the body of [[Jean
* Somewhat weird video game example: Eddie Riggs from ''[[Brutal Legend]]'' was based on [[Jack Black]] from the start, but then Double Fine persuaded him to play the role, which turned it into an example of an [[Ink Suit Actor]].
* In ''[[Condemned]]'', [[The Obi
* ''Sentinel Worlds I: Future Magic'' (a sort of 1988 proto-[[Mass Effect]] RPG) used particularly shameless photo swipes as the basis for several crew pictures, including [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] from [[The Terminator]], [[Sigourney Weaver]] from [[Aliens]], and, apparently, [http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/3235/futuremagic03.png a young Donald Rumsfeld].
* ''[[Laser Squad]]'' is guilty of this in the IBM PC version. The cutscenes exclusive to this version use trace-overs of various scenes and/or characters from ''[[The Empire Strikes Back]]'' for the Rebel Star team in the first level and the cyborgs in the second, while the team member portraits use various 1980s movie actors as facial sources - Lorenzo Lamas, Michael Biehn, Alec Baldwin, Rutger Hauer, Michael Ironside, John Hollis (who makes up the entire enemy squad in the second mission) and, surprisingly standing out from the rest of the list, [[Errol Flynn]]. In a bit of [[Hilarious in Hindsight]], there are also people looking like [[Adam Baldwin]] and [[Vin Diesel]] as Riddick as he appears in the [[Batman Cold Open]] of ''[[Chronicles of Riddick]]''.
* Zoey in ''[[Left 4 Dead]]'' is modeled after Natassja Kinski, according to the series's wiki.
** Something worth noting would be the fact that the face model of Zoey happened to be Sonja Kinski, the daughter of Natassja.
* All eight playable main characters in the ''[[Resident Evil Outbreak]]'' games resemble celebrities to some extent. The most blatant is Jim Chapman, who is basically Chris Tucker in ''The Fifth Element''.
* [[Uncharted|Nathan Drake]]'s appearance is based on [[Jackass
* Speaking of Naughty Dog: Ellie from ''[[The Last of Us]]'' looks a ''lot'' like [[
** The character design has since been modified to look a little younger and better resemble voice actress [[Ashley Johnson]].
* Like [[Uncharted|Nathan Drake]] above, [[No More Heroes|Travis Touchdown]] is modeled on Johnny Knoxville. Some of his opponents also resemble real people; Dr. Peace is [[Charles Bronson]], Volodarski is magician Criss Angel and Destroyman's secret identity, John Harnet, is [[UFC]] fighter Josh Barnett.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* The creator of ''[[The Challenges of Zona]]'' once said that he designed Zona to resemble Valerie Perrine.▼
== [[Web Original]] ==
* Used literally by the ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]''. [[Real Life]] celebrities Leland Orser, Mick Jagger, Avery Brooks, and Miley Cyrus are all super-powered, among others, and two (Leland Orser and Miley Cyrus) are a villain and hero, respectively.
* In the webcomic ''[[The Dreamer]]'', Beatrice Whaley was based on Emmy Rossum, Alan Warren was based on Jude Law, Elizabeth Winters is based on Jill Richie, Nathan Hale is based on Jamie Bamber, Yvette Howe is based on Dawn Richard, Thomas Knowlton is based on Thorston Kaye, Benjamin Cato is based on Usher, Gen. Howe is based on Jeremy Irons, and John Mulligan is based on Aaron Ashmore.
== [[Western Animation]] ==▼
* In ''[[Superman:
* In ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'', Aladdin was based on [[Tom Cruise]].▼
▲* The creator of ''[[The Challenges of Zona]]'' once said that he designed Zona to resemble Valerie Perrine.
▲== Western Animation ==
▲* In ''[[Superman the Animated Series]]'', Lex Luthor was based on Telly Savalas and Metallo seems to have been based on James Coburn, while Dan "Terrible" Turpin is modeled after his creator, [[Jack Kirby]].
▲* In ''[[Aladdin (Disney)|Aladdin]]'', Aladdin was based on [[Tom Cruise]].
** Earlier designs took inspiration from Michael J. Fox, but test audiences weren't so keen on that.
* Carl Fredrickson from ''[[Up]]'' is inspired by [[Spencer Tracy]], with a bit of [[Walter Matthau]] thrown in. His childhood hero {{spoiler|turned nemesis}}, Charles Muntz, resembles [[Kirk Douglas]].
* In ''[[
* ''[[Anastasia]]'' is a combination of [[Audrey Hepburn]] and her voice actress, [[Meg Ryan]], making her both this trope and [[Ink Suit Actor]].
* The wicked queen in ''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)|Snow White]]'' was based on [[Katharine Hepburn]].
* ''[[Beauty and
* Trevor Goodchild in ''[[Aeon Flux]]'' has a distinct resemblance to [[David Bowie]], especially at the climax of "The Purge" when he's dressed up like a music-hall act.
* ''[[The Boondocks]]''' Hateocracy consists of Lord Rufus Crabmiser, Lady Esmerelda Gripenasty and Mister George Pistofferson. Their designs are based on [[Sanford and Son|Redd Foxx]], [[Sanford and Son|Lawanda Page]] and [[Good Times|Jimmy Walker]], respectively.
* [[Iron Man|Tony Stark]] is not only drawn to look like [[Robert Downey, Jr.]] in ''[[The Avengers:
* [[Word of God]] has confirmed that Randa Duane, the sexy [[Femme Fatale]] who appeared in "Heart of Steel" in ''[[Batman:
* If you know who Cab Calloway is, then you'll pick up on [[The Nightmare Before Christmas|Oogie Boogie]]'s similarities to him.
* Mr. DeMartino from ''[[Daria]]'' is based on [[Christopher Walken]].
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