Thread 149521540

Howard Hughes is a big one, He was an eccentric, genius playboy billionaire Inventor, Tony Stark is a pretty direct inspiration, some aspects of Bruce Wayne are also taken from Hughes

>>149521540 (OP)
There's a whole TV Tropes about the characters he's inspired
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HowardHughesHomage

>>149522431
>tvtropes

William Marston’s mistress /second partner was the visual inspiration for Wonder Woman, down to owning bracelets she would wear.
Interestingly because marston’s wife was fine with the arrangement, both women had children by him and the families remain well connected despite the very unorthodox circumstances

>>149521540 (OP)
Peter Lorre.

Spider Jerusalem and Uncle Duke from Doonesbury.

>said he had no desire to meet Trudeau "because I might set the little bastard on fire."

>>149522856
Hunter from Venture Bros too

Tanner Clark from Amelia Rules was inspired by Liz Phair

The Regency Elf from Cerebus was inspired by Debbie Harry

>>149523073
If we're including Cerebus in this we'll be here all week.

>>149523053
Speaking of Venture Bros, Force Majeure appears to be modeled after Anton Lavey, and that's not an inquisitional decision, if you know what Lavey's schtick was. it might point to what Doc and Jackson planned to do with his character.

>>149521540 (OP)
All sorts of comedians inspired Looney Tunes

>>149522431
>characters inspired by [historical figure]
>erm these are homages
every time a dumb nogger like you brings up that website the people there sound stupider.

>>149521540 (OP)
>Tony Stark is a pretty direct inspiration
But Howard was neither a manlet nor an alcoholic drunk

>>149524141
It’s for homophony

>>149521540 (OP)
Sting being one for Constantine is a pretty common knowledge, another one is one of the British Transformers writers used quotes and ideology of British MP Tony Ben when writing Magneto of all characters.

>>149524696
>British MP Tony Ben when writing Magneto of all characters
What were they?

>>149521540 (OP)
>Injuries from numerous aircraft crashes caused Hughes to spend much of his later life in pain, and he eventually became addicted to codeine, which he injected intramuscularly.[70] He had his hair cut and nails trimmed only once a year, likely due to the pain caused by the RSD/CRPS, which was caused by the plane crashes.[70]
>Eventually, the brain trauma from Hughes' previous accidents, the effects of neurosyphilis diagnosed in 1932[161] and undiagnosed obsessive-compulsive disorder[162] considerably affected his decision-making. A small panel, unofficially dubbed the "Mormon Mafia" for the many Latter-day Saints on the committee, was led by Frank William Gay and originally served as Hughes' "secret police" headquartered at 7000 Romaine, Hollywood. Over the next two decades, this group oversaw and controlled considerable business holdings,[163][164] with the CIA anointing Gay while awarding a contract to the Hughes corporation to acquire sensitive information on a sunken Russian submarine.[165][166] In addition to supervising day-to-day business operations and Hughes' health, they also went to great pains to satisfy Hughes' every whim. For example, Hughes once became fond of Baskin-Robbins's banana nut ice cream, so his aides sought to secure a bulk shipment for him, only to discover that Baskin-Robbins had discontinued the flavor. They put in a request for the smallest amount the company could provide for a special order, 350 gallons (1,300 L), and had it shipped from Los Angeles. A few days after the order arrived, Hughes announced he was tired of banana nut and wanted only French vanilla ice cream. The Desert Inn ended up distributing free banana nut ice cream to casino customers for a year.[167] In a 1996 interview, former Howard Hughes Chief of Nevada Operations Robert Maheu said, "There is a rumor that there is still some banana nut ice cream left in the freezer. It is most likely true."

Make way for the GOAT

>>149525717
>Hughes was widely considered eccentric[141] and suffered from severe obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).[142][143]
>Dietrich wrote that Hughes ate the same dinner daily: a New York strip steak cooked medium rare, dinner salad, and peas; but only the smaller peas, pushing the larger ones aside. For breakfast, his eggs had to be cooked the way Lily, his family cook, made them. Hughes had a "phobia about germs", and "his passion for secrecy became a mania."[6]:58–62,182–183
>In 1957, Hughes told his aides that he wanted to screen some movies at a film studio near his home. He stayed in the studio's darkened screening room for more than four months, never leaving. He ate only chocolate bars and chicken and drank only milk and was surrounded by dozens of boxes of Kleenex that he continuously stacked and re-arranged.[144] He wrote detailed memos to his aides giving them explicit instructions neither to look at him nor speak to him unless spoken to. Throughout this period, Hughes sat fixated in his chair, often naked, continuously watching movies. When he finally emerged in the spring of 1958, his hygiene was terrible. He had neither bathed nor cut his hair and nails for weeks; this may have been due to allodynia, which results in a pain response to stimuli that would normally not cause pain.[70]
>He became obsessed with the 1968 film Ice Station Zebra, and had it run on a continuous loop in his home. According to his aides, he watched it 150 times.[147][148]
>Hughes insisted on using tissues to pick up objects to insulate himself from germs. He would also notice dust, stains, or other imperfections on people's clothes and demand that they take care of them. Once one of the most visible men in America, Hughes ultimately vanished from public view, although tabloids continued to follow rumors of his behavior and whereabouts. He was reported to be terminally ill, mentally unstable, or even dead.[150]

>>149523353
The resemble is uncanny

>>149521540 (OP)
Joe Quesada inspired the Governor from The Walking Dead

>>149522784
>>149525822
This son of a bitch was fucking incredible in "M".

>>149525822
Peter Lorre was pretty much a RL toon.

ozimandias

>>149525717
>>149525851
Based
Howard Hughes was right about Ice Station Zebra

>>149523353
>Lavey's schtick was
What was it?

>>149521540 (OP)
Buck Strickland in King of the Hill was based on LBJ.

>>149528297
LaVey's story fits perfectly with in Venture Bros. He was a failed musician turned paranormal investigator who realized how easy it was to fool wealthy new age hippies. So he started charging for secret occult rituals and then went all out, announcing the Church of Satan. This was designed to gain maximum media attention and it paid off. The press reported on him in major newspapers and thousands of people signed up to join the Church of Satan. The main problem with him and his followers was that he didn't really believe in magic or anything like that. He tried to present Satanism as a philosophy of self-realization, but it didn't work. His members were angry that magic didn't exist, so they split off and formed their own Satanic churches. The largest, the Temple of Set, condemned LaVey for sacrilege in the name of Lucifer. LaVey never took this seriously. He always saw it as a joke and a way to get to him Money. It's possible that this is the direction Doc and Jackson wanted to go in, was that namely that Force Majeure, like Jonas, doesn't care so much about the "game" but will use it for his own purposes.

>>149525822
the dick on this guy tho
enorm
>>149528620
>LBJ
bro said bunghole thirty years before Beavis did

For me, it's Red Mantle and Dragoon

>>149529987
kek
>>149524275
that was added later.