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[[File:200px-WaltKidney_5632WaltKidney 5632.png|link=The Fairly Odd ParentsOddParents|rightframe|Meet Walt [[Punny Name|Kidney]] -- [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|absolutely no relation to that other Walt guy.]]]]

A [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]] version of [[Walt Disney]]; expect him to be the animator of a world-famous cartoon character and/or the founder of [[Souvenir Land]]. Also expect an exaggerated interest in planned communities and/or creating a utopia, possibly with sinister undertones. Oh, and [[Human Popsicle]] or [[BraininaBrain In a Jar]] jokes, many of them.

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* Yet another [[DCU]] version; Winston Keever Sr., creator of ''Winky Blink And Friends'' and founder of the Winkyworld theme park chain in Chuck Dixon's ''[[Batman]]'' and ''[[Green Arrow]]'' comics. He briefly appears in ''[[Green Arrow]]'' as a dying old man, horrified by how ruthlessly his son runs the company.

* One story in the ''[[Fantastic Four]]'' had a crazy Disney-alike try to use the Human Torch's powers to 'reignite the Earth's core'. The reason his employees went along with such a blatantly insane plan ([[Lampshaded]] as such, even by comic-book science standards,) was that {{spoiler|they were ''all'' [[Ridiculously -Human Robots]] he'd built.}}

* In the black-and-white ''[[Howard the Duck (Comic Bookcomics)|Howard the Duck]]'' magazine, Wally Sidney was a failed animator turned wealthy haberdasher. He imposed a new code of decency on the title character, forcing him to wear pants. [[Hilarious in Hindsight|Hilariously]], this story saw print decades before the real Disney Corp took over [[Marvel Comics]].

* Roy Walley on ''[[National Lampoon's Vacation]]'', with Marty Moose and Walley World.

** In the original magazine story it really ''was'' Walt Disney, who was (nonfatally) shot by a pushed-over-the-edge Pop.

* Howard Stark in ''[[Iron Man (Filmfilm)|Iron Man]] 2'' is very much based on the futurist side of Walt. The film of Stark showing off the model of the park very deliberately copies Disney's "EPCOT" presentation film.

* Mooby the Golden Calf from the [[View Askewniverse]] (Primarily ''[[Dogma]]'' and ''[[Clerks II]]'') is this combined with a biblicalBiblical allusion.

* Raymond Dieterling, founder of Dream-a-Dream Land, in the James Ellroy novel ''[[LAL.A. Confidential]]''. (This character doesn't appear in the film version).

* Ralph Mimsey in several novels by Dave Stone, including the [[Judge Dredd]] tie-in novel ''Wetworks'' and the ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' [[Virgin Missing Adventures]] novel ''Burning Heart''. ''Burning Heart'' has Mimsey's cryogenically-preserved head as a minor character.

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120810145134/http://www.atomicthinktank.com/viewtopic.php?p=827769#p827769 Walter Rand] in the ''[[Halt Evil Doer]]'' setting for ''[[Mutants and Masterminds]]''. His "Rand Utopias" are parodies of Disney's "planned community" Celebration combined with the comicbook concept of the [[Mad Scientist]] having a hidden community as his own sociology experiment. (The real Disney also existed in the HED! setting, and got irritated at Rand constantly stealing his ideas. The last straw was when he started "poaching" Mouseketeers to join Sneckles the Snake's Young Pioneers.)

* Cave Johnson from [[Portal 2 (Video Game)|Portal 2]] seems to have a lot of this to his character; {{spoiler|especially with regards to his plans to cheat death}}.

* Mr. House in ''[[Fallout New Vegas (Video Game)|Fallout: New Vegas]]'' is this mixed with a Howard Hughes-type paranoiac. His goal is to run New Vegas as [[The Theme Park Version]]: safe, clean, secure, and under his totalitarian control, aided by an army of robots. His portrait bears more than a little resemblance to Disney, {{spoiler|and his actual body is effectively somewhere between [[Human Popsicle]] and [[BraininaBrain In a Jar]].}}

* An early ''[[Schlock Mercenary (Webcomic)|Schlock Mercenary]]'' arc featured Newt Sidney, owner of Sidneyland. Very obvious - they even mentioned that he started his career with a talking mouse. Interestingly enough, he's the ''villain'' of the piece, enforcing "a near-monopoly" through underhanded dealings, threats, criminal connections, and similar - all of it impossible to trace back to him, meaning that he winds up as a [[Karma Houdini]]. The arc is started when one of his competitors hires the titular mercenaries to safeguard the opening of his new 'Magic Dream-Land' (next door to Sidneyland), after Sidney threatened to prevent the opening even if he had to commandeer a [[Kill Sat]] and nuke them from orbit.

* Roger Meyers Sr. from ''[[The Simpsons (Animationanimation)|The Simpsons]]'', <s>creator</s> [[Plagiarism in Fiction|thief]] of Itchy and Scratchy that spawned Itchy and Scratchy Land

* ''[[The Fairly Odd ParentsOddParents]]'' provides the above image, from a [[Fantastic Voyage]] episode. The mogul pictured above is Mr. Walt Kidney, whose theme park, Kidneyland happens to reside within the Kidney of Vicky.

{{quote| "Hey, look Wanda! It's Walt Kidney! And his guide, Tinklebell!"}}

* Grant Walker from ''[[Batman: the Animated Series (Animation)|Batman theThe Animated Series]]'': The focus is less on him as a cartoon mogul and more on the animatronics part and his design of an underwater utopia with no crime ([[BioBioShock Shock(series)|wa]][[The Spy Who Loved Me (Film)|it ...]]). His attempt to work with Mr. Freeze to gain immortality results in a [[Human Popsicle]] combined with [[And I Must Scream]].

* Uncle Wizzly of ''[[My Life Asas a Teenage Robot]]'' has an animatronic theme park that runs amok.

** At around the same time, ''[[Beany and Cecil]]'' had an episode "Beanyland", where they build a theme park on the moon - Dishonestmoon—Dishonest John, mining green cheese at the time, sabotages their work and christens it "Meanyland". Standards and Practices suits raised objections to the 'unflattering caricature of Disney', apparently unaware that was Dishonest John, as he usually looked.

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