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[[X Meets Y|Storytelling meets Illustration:]]
 
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== [[:Category:Comedian|Comedians]] ==
== Works ==
''X Meets Y from people who are funny for a living.''
 
== [[Comic Books]] ==
''X Meets Y from sequential art stories published in dedicated magazine or bound-book form.''
 
* ''[[Bone]]'' draws its fame for being ''[[Pogo (comic strip)|Pogo]]'' meets ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''. And people love it.
* Despite drawing from a lot of different sources, the [[Myth Arc|main storyline]] of ''[[Cerebus]]'' ultimately ended up being ''[[Citizen Kane]]'' meets ''[[King Lear]]''
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* ''Marvel Divas'' was pitched as "[[Marvel Universe|Marvel]] meets ''[[Sex and the City]]''".
* [[Warren Ellis]]' ''[[Ignition City]]'' is ''[[Firefly]]'' meets ''Ministry of Space'' written by the writers of ''[[Deadwood]]''.
 
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
''X Meets Y from sequential art stories published in hardcopy media that also run other articles.''
 
== [[Web Comics]] ==
''X Meets Y from sequential art stories published online.''
 
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''X Meets Y from sources that need to be identified.''
=== Works ===
* ''Scalped'' is ''[[The Sopranos]]'' meets ''[[Donnie Brasco]]'' [[Recycled in Space|on a Native American reservation]].
* ''[[The Walking Dead]]'' is ''[[Night of the Living Dead]]'' meets ''[[Lost]]''.
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* The Furry comic ''[[Albedo: Erma Felna EDF]]'' is ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' (which it predates), ''[[Legend of Galactic Heroes]]'' and ''[[Appleseed]]'' meets ''[[The Lion King]]'' (which it also predates) and ''[[Watership Down]]''.
* ''[[Black Cherry]]'': ''[[Sin City]]'' meets ''[[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial|ET the Extraterrestrial]]'' meets ''[[Reservoir Dogs]]'' meets ''[[The Exorcist]]''.
* [[Paul Cornell]]'s ''Deathwatch'' in ''[[2000 AD]]'' is ''[[Judge Dredd]]'' meets ''[[Blackadder]] II'' (possibly{{verify}} meets ''[[Discworld/Guards! Guards!|Guards Guards]]'').
* ''[[Demon Knights]]'' is [[DC Universe]] mees [[Heroic Fantasy]]
* [[Warren Ellis]] run on ''[[The Avengers (Comic Book)|Secret Avengers]]'' is ''[[Planetary]]'' meets ''[[G.I. Joe]]''
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=== Characters ===
* [[Superman|Supergirl]] is [[Doc Savage|Pat Savage]] meets [[Shazam|Mary Marvel]].
* [[Kick-Ass|Hit Girl]]: "She was like [[Rambo|John Rambo]] meets Polly Pocket."
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* Skaar, The Son of [[The Incredible Hulk|Hulk]] is his dad + [[Conan the Barbarian]].
* [[Adam Strange]] is [[John Carter of Mars]] meets [[Flash Gordon (comic strip)|Flash Gordon]].
* [[Amanda Waller]] is [[Marvel Universe|Henry Peter Gyrich]] meets [[Gimme a Break!| Nell Carter]]
 
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