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Fictional Counterpart
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When a real-life institution is to be featured prominently in a series, it will be replaced by a fictional stand-in. This is done in part to avoid licensing issues, but also to avoid the problems inherent in twisting the institution to fit the specific needs of the show. While this gives the writers the liberty to make necessary changes to the real-life institution, it does run the risk of giving the viewers an unintentional laugh. (Or occasionally an intentional one, as when the fictional version is used to provide a Take That! to the real-world counterpart). Also, the authors can easily forget that they already introduced a fictional counterpart to something, and end up creating another one, or even including the real one. A subtrope of Brand X. For fake products that are transparent copies of real ones, but with a letter or two switched around, it's Bland-Name Product. When this is done with a person, it's No Celebrities Were Harmed or No Historical Figures Were Harmed. When this is done with a city, it's No Communities Were Harmed. When this is done to entire countries or cultures, it's Fantasy Counterpart Culture. See Oceanic Airlines for a fictional airline often used whenever something bad is about to happen. |
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inFAMOUS brings us Cafe Con Quistador, whose signs bear an amazing resemblance to Starbucks's, only in blue, not green. | |
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Shin Megami Tensei IV lets you loot the ruins of several familiarly named stores, such as Shanel, Luis Witon, or the laptop-focused Appolo store. | |
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On We're Alive, Saul and Victor discuss watching [DVDs] of the TV show, "Found," and complain that they'll never find out how it ended.note Since the Zombie Apocalypse began in May 2009, they never got to see how the show ended. Saul does say "They'd probably just screw it up, anyway." | |
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Zoey 101: The jPhone instead of the iPhone, as well as more of those Pear computers common to all Dan Schneider Nickelodeon shows. | |
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A scene in Rayearth OVA takes place in a Sabway (Subway) restaurant. | |
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Sleepless Domain: Stand-ins for real life brands are referenced on occasion — for example, Team Melty star in a commercial for the appliance company Junetag (a pun on Maytag), and Kokoro mentions her father having worked at Sunbucks (a pun on Starbucks). | |
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For a time in Wonder Woman (1987) Diana worked at DC's equivalent of Taco Bell, Taco Whiz. | |
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Most espionage series feature fictionalized counterparts of the CIA and KGB: U.N.C.L.E. in The Man from U.N.C.L.E.; CONTROL in Get Smart; KAOS in the same series is probably a Fictional Counterpart to SMERSH, itself a real-life spy organization that appeared in the early James Bond novels; Bond himself eventually faced SPECTRE (a terrorist organization with a similar modus operandi), which replaced SMERSH's appearances in the movies. In the movie The President's Analyst, government agencies denied permission to use their names after filming had started, so references to the "FBR" and "CEA" are obviously dubbed in. | |
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Greg Bear's book Blood Music had the main character driving into Livermore, California and passing a Guinevere's Pizza. From the local description, this fictional pizza place is exactly where a Round Table Pizza existed at the time. | |
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Disgaea: Disgaea: Hour of Darkness has Captain Gordon asking for a Teriyaki Pizza from "Pizza Shack" to be waiting for him when he returns. Disgaea Infinite has Amazombie, Faildows, and DefacedBook. |
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Sluggy Freelance has plenty, usually based on puns (especially the names of game consoles). A less obvious one is "Burger Meister" for a fast food restaurant that basically embodies all the major chains. | |
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Solatorobo has "Stardogs Coffee" shops. | |
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Arrow borrows the name Blackhawk from the comics for its corrupt Private Military Contractors, and in that context, it does sound a lot like Blackwater. | |
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Bones: The Jeffersonian Institute is a stand-in for the Smithsonian Institution. | |
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CSI: NY: In "Some Buried Bones," a Students' Secret Society at Chelsea University called "Kings and Shadows," in which membership is passed down from powerful alumni to their sons, stands in for Yale's real-life counterpart "Skull and Bones." | |
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Chuck: "Buy More" is Best Buy (though they actually originally filmed at a CompUSA), and "Orange Orange" is Red Mago or Pinkberry. "Large Mart" is Costco, despite the latter having its name dropped in at least one episode. | |
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In Runaways, there is a chain of convenience stores called "Circle A" in place of the real life Circle K chain. In Ms. Marvel (2014) it's Circle Q. (Her good friend Bruno works there.) |
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In Deus Ex: Invisible War, there are two coffee shops, Queequeg's and Pequod's. Starbuck is the first mate in Herman Melville's Moby Dick, Queequeg is the harpoonist, and the Pequod is the ship. Which is actually rather a subtle Shout-Out, as Queequeg's and Pequod's seem to engage in fierce competition even though they are just two brands owned by the same corporation. | |
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The Simpsons also has Krusty Burger, which is a fictional equivalent of just about every fast food restaurant chain in the world — but specifically McDonald's. Lou mentions a time he'd visited neighbouring Shelbyville, and visited a place called McDonald's, which looked just like Krusty Burger but with different names for all the exact same burgers. | |
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In The Battle Cats, Package Doge has "Wamazon" for "Amazon", and in Dogumaru's description, it has "cBay" for "eBay". | |
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In García!, right-wing party New Democracy appears as an obvious stand-in for Spain's real-life leading right-wing party, the People's Party. | |
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Slings & Arrows is set around the New Burbage Festival, a William Shakespeare-oriented theater festival which is a thinly-veiled version of the Stratford Festival of Canada. | |
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Peter MacDonald in Metal Wolf Chaos ("Because, yes! The pen is still mightier than the sword!") is a reporter for the "DNN" news channel. | |
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Dreddit (Reddit). | |
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iCarly: The numerous Pear computers, pearpods, etc. as a stand-in for Apple. | |
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In The Good Wife, ChumHum appears to be one for Google. "Whack-a-Mole" adds Scabbit for Reddit. | |
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Toradora!! has such an obvious Fictional Counterpart of Starbucks that the main character wonders out loud why the shop hasn't been sued. | |
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Bumblr (Tumblr). | |
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Cucumber Quest: A bonus strip mentions a restaurant called Burg-N-Out, a punny reference to In-N-Out Burger. | |
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Michael Clayton: U-North clearly resembles Monsanto, who obviously wouldn't have given permission to be portrayed so unambiguously evilly. | |
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The Outer Limits (1995): In "Trial by Fire", there is a news channel called NNN. | |
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Scott Pilgrim has a store named "Toys B Us". | |
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Community averts this completely by casting Subway (the sandwich company) as a major villain in season five. | |
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Shrek is packed with Fictional Counterparts, with most of the parodies being a twist on the name to match the medieval feel. Examples include Friar's Fat Boy (Bob's Big Boy aka Frisch's Big Boy in some parts of the country) and Farbucks (Starbucks). | |
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Double Homework gives "Gather: The Magicking" to Magic: The Gathering. | |
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Idiocracy is an interesting example, because all the water, drinks and basically all liquids in America, except for toilet water, have been replaced by Brawndo, a Fictional Counterpart of Gatorade. What makes it interesting is that they specifically mention this by saying that it "tastes like Gatorade". Brawndo was created because they couldn't get permission to use the Gatorade brand. Fortunately for us, it's now a real product. It's an energy drink now, but it's still got what plants crave. This was basically a recasting of the "Powerthirst" commercials on YouTube (with that group's permission) which themselves were parodies of energy drinks (most closely resembling Monster in their packaging.) |
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The Genesis Code has Umbra Domini ("The Shadow of the Lord") as a fictionalized version of the actual Catholic group Opus Dei ("The Work of God"). | |
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The player can collect, and in the second game battle with, Monstermon cards, which are a reference to collectible card games like Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh!. | |
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The Guild in Jam and Jerusalem is very clearly based on the Women's Institute. | |
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Modern Warfare: In Modern Warfare 2, one of the levels takes place in and around a "Burger Town" joint based on Burger King. There's also a "Taco To Go" with a logo rather similar to Taco Bell. The first level of Modern Warfare 3 involves taking out a radio jammer on top of the "Manhattan Stock Exchange". The final level, similarly, involves invading the "Oasis Hotel" in an attempt to finally kill the Big Bad. |
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Reaper: "Work Bench" is Home Depot, or maybe Lowes. | |
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Uncle Grandpa has Mart Mart. As the greeter puts it, "Welcome to Mart Mart, the place to go when you need things for stuff." | |
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BlazBlue Alternative: Remnant: The world of Remnant has many analogues to real world products. For example, in Chapter 52, it's mentioned that Makoto and Nora played Iron Cog, based off Metal Gear, while Ruby and Penny play Alleyway Champions (aka Remnant's version of Street Fighter) in Chapter 59. | |
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Spooks does this a lot. One episode featured Not Robert Kilroy Silk joining Not The BNP. | |
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One of the restaurants where you can buy food in the Saints Row series is Freckle Bitch's, an obvious parody of Wendy's. | |
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Aberrant has the N! network, which is for Novas what E! is for celebrities in entertainment. | |
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In the Air Gear manga, at one point there is a coffee shop called "Star in a Box", with a logo very similar to Starbucks...except that in place of the mermaid, it naturally depicted a box of stars. | |
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The World God Only Knows uses "Starbox". | |
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In the Supernatural episode "Devil May Care" (S09, Ep02), Sea Exhibitions stands in for Sea World. | |
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Angel Grove, the setting of the first five seasons of Power Rangers, is generally considered to be the fictional counterpart of Los Angeles. More elaborate theories speculate that the name shift is the result of the show being set in an alternate history where England, rather than Spain, colonized California. | |
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King of the Hill has Megalo-Mart, a stand in for Wal-Mart. Characters also are seen eating at Luly's, which Texans recognize as a parody of the statewide Luby's cafeteria chain. Luby's signature Lu Ann Platter, consisting of half-portion entrees with two vegetables and a roll, is the source of one character's name. Earlier episodes, however, did mention Whataburger, a real-life restaurant whose headquarters are in San Antonio. |
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CTU in 24 is either a stand-in for the CIA, the NSA, the DIA, or the DEA, depending on which season you're watching. Not to mention Starkwood, which is a shameless copy of Blackwater (the private military company). |
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Elementary: The episode "We Are Everyone" features Not Anonymous (the titular Everyone) and Not Pirate Bay (Jamaica Quay). Everyone reappear towards the end of the season. In "The Man With The Twisted Lip", a character is involved in smuggling Barnen Delight, an Italian candy egg which was banned in the US at the time because the toy inside was ruled a choking hazard; an obvious stand-in for Kinder Surprise, using the Swedish word for "children" instead of the German. "The Games Underfoot" involves searching for a bunch of buried copies of an old, infamous game called "Nottingham Knights" for the Emeryvision. A character refers to Playstation, Xbox, and the Nintendo Wii by name however they use a fictional counterpart for the Atari 2600 and E.T. licensed game. "The View From Olympus" is set around a fictionalised Uber called Zooss. |
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Kid Icarus: Uprising has "Divinipedia". | |
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Code Black takes place at Angels Memorial Hospital in Los Angeles, which for all intents and purposes is Los Angeles County Hospital, right down to using the iconic edifice of the latter for landmark exterior shots. L.A. County really did open in 1930, its trauma room really was the birthplace of modern emergency medicine, C-Booth (called Center Stage in the show) was very real, and it really is the busiest emergency room in the nation. This is, of course, because the show was inspired by a documentary of the same name — a documentary filmed at L.A. County Hospital. | |
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Hayate the Combat Butler: Hayate was part of a hostage situation with Yukiji, Himuro, and Sonia (they terrorized the poor submachine-gun-wielding thug) in a "Deathny's" restaurant. | |
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"Wall Market" from Final Fantasy VII is supposed to be a play on "Wal-Mart". | |
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Ace Combat: Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War and Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War have "OBC", which stands for Osean Broadcasting Channel. OSEA is the country you fight for in 5. Ace Combat: Joint Assault, similarly, at one point has "BNN". |
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UNIT, the British paramilitary division that investigated alien phenomena, was indisputably stated to be a branch of the United Nations (the acronym standing for United Nations Intelligence Taskforce). The UN, however, complained about having its name associated with the 2005 series, when the Ninth Doctor referred it by the former acronym in "Aliens of London". By series 4 of Doctor Who and series 2 of the spinoff Torchwood UNIT showed a darker side to itself, by this point called the Unified Intelligence Taskforce. This incarnation of UNIT is shown to run secret prisons where suspects are detained indefinitely without trial, possesses a Self-Destruct Mechanism for the entire planet, and generally engages in other activities that the United Nations tends to frown upon. | |
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Iron Man: Stark Industries could easily be a stand-in for the real-life Lockheed Martin. They're both major suppliers of the U.S. military (and others), and even their logos are nearly identical. The real Lockheed hasn't yet invented a flying powered armor, though. That we know of. | |
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If Shoji is befriended, he will lend Melissa a copy of Motel Dawn 2, a game notorious for having made it to Europe, but not the Americas. Such a thing is known to have happened with the sequel to Hotel Dusk: Room 215. | |
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The Test Drive reboot has a Safeway lookalike store (Fastlane? Fastway?) in San Francisco, in the same location as the Safeway featured in Bullitt. | |
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EarthBound (1994): The Runaway Five, which may not seem to be a Fictional Counterpart; however, in Mother 2, they were known as the Tonzura Brothers. They dressed in black suits, hats and sunglasses. Just like these guys. The Japanese version had res "Come" trucks with a familiar-looking swirl logo. During localization, these became running stick figure logos. |
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Ready Jet Go! has the In-Universe Cash-Cow Franchise Commander Cressida, which is supposed to be similar to Doctor Who in that there are many Commander Cressidas. The Deep Space Array, where all the kids' parents work, is an Expy of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. |
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A (worksafe so far) Homestuck Kink Meme fill involving asexuality in troll society features a parody of the Asexuality Visibility and Education Network. Since Alternian trolls are required to reproduce or be murdered, their version of AVEN is a highly illegal underground society. Thus, it becomes the Aconcupiscent Invisibility and Education Network. | |
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The Fault in Our Stars: "The Genie Foundation" standing in for Make-A-Wish, perhaps because the (older teenage) characters describe going to Disney World as wasting your Wish and proceed to lose their virginity with one another on their trip. Also, Free Catch All for Craigslist. |
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The Twilight Zone (1985): In "Wish Bank", the Department of Magical Venues, an infuriating Vast Bureaucracy, is a Parody of the Department of Motor Vehicles. In "Cold Reading", Dick Noble, African Explorer is broadcast on the radio network Unified Broadcasting System (UBS), a reference to Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) which broadcast The Twilight Zone. |
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Almost everything in Grand Theft Auto is a fictional counterpart of a real thing, including cars, products, cities, and even the occasional real person. "Cluckin' Bell", a pastiche of Taco Bell and KFC. Tarbrush Coffee, parody of Starbucks. One of the most hilarious in IV is Krapea, a brand of Swedish pre-assembled furniture... Much like IKEA. |
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In Sonic Boom, the Tomatopotamus series is one for...the Sonic franchise itself. The way the gang talks of it even echoes common fan topics, such as debates on the protagonist's redesign, and why the latest game is never as good as the earlier ones. | |
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Melody gives the Music Rocks Cafe, an obvious stand-in for the Hard Rock Cafe. | |
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Koromaru from Persona 3 is a Fictional Counterpart of Hachikō. Even a year after his owner was killed, Koromaru would still go on the same walk that his owner used to take him on every day. Koromaru is eventually revealed have a human-like intelligence and joins the party as a Team Pet to avenge his master, who turns out to have been killed by Shadows. | |
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Persona 5: Triple Seven, being a convenience store chain with a pronounced 7 in its logo, is a very blatant homage to 7-Eleven, which, while being founded in America, is owned by a Japanese parent company. | |
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In Sons of Anarchy, the Sons are the fictional counterpart to the Hells Angels, the Mayans are counterparts to the Bandidos, the Niners are combined counterparts to both the Crips and the Bloods, and the League of American Nationalists are counterparts to the Aryan Brotherhood. | |
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Undertale has "Mew Mew Kissy Cutie", Alphys's favorite anime, and its disappointing sequel, based on Tokyo Mew Mew and its disappointing sequel Tokyo Mew Mew a la mode. | |
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In Turning Red, a Fictional Counterpart version of the MuchMusic logo appears with "Much" replaced with "View" and the globe replaced with a maple leaf. | |
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Ring for Jeeves: Sir Roderick works at "Harrige's", which is a portmanteau of two actual high-end London department stores, Harrods and Selfridges. | |
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Yo-Kai Watch features the mogmog Burgers restaurant in the video games and anime. While it looks just like a McDonald's (in fact, several Japanese McDonald's restaurants were temporarily re-designed as mogmog Burgers to promote the anime movie), its name comes from Japanese fast food chain Mos Burger. | |
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Phoebe and Her Unicorn: Phoebe plays with "Pastel Unicorn" toys, a substitute for My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. Most directly in this strip, which references events from the TV show. Doubly so in this strip, which takes a so-thinly-veiled-it-doesn't-count-at-all jab at the Merchandise-Driven spinoff movie. | |
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Resident Evil 2 has, for example, a fast food wrapper from "Burger Kong" and a "Taxago" gas station. | |
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In Fortitude, characters drink Blue Swan vodka instead of Grey Goose. | |
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Silent Hill is loaded with these all over the titular town, including a Queen Burger (later Happy Burger) restaurant (complete with the "bun halves" framing the logo), Vestal Gigastore (Virgin Megastore), and cardboard boxes stamped with "Fedy-X". Then there's Poston Market, Texxon gas, the (S)Hell station with the nautilus shell, the Circle 8 convenience store with the logo that looks a suspicious lot like that of 7-Eleven, and the AEC restaurant with the A&W motif. Oh, and buried somewhere in there is a legitimate Jack Daniels logo painted on a cargo door. | |
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The PC game Inspector Gadget: Global Terror has a tofu restaurant called O'Ronald's (read: McDonald's) as a major plot point. | |
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Ace Combat: Joint Assault, similarly, at one point has "BNN". | |
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"Hannah Miller's" restaurant in Advanced Variable Geo is a fictionalized version of Hawaiian chain "Anna Miller's", Amish (yes, Amish) casual restaurants popular in Japan and Hawaii. | |
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Alien Night on Union Station has Trader/Raider, a virtual reality MMORPG that seems to be an amalgamation of Elite Dangerous and Star Citizen (MMO space sim funded by microtransactions and with new features frequently added) and Second Life (money earned in-game can be turned into real-life cash), with the addition of using actual ship cockpits as flight simulators (usually salvaged, but some rich teams use actual ships). | |
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Pretty much everything gets renamed in PAYDAY: The Heist and its sequel, from organizations to gun manufacturers. The Federal Bureau of Intervention has much broader authority than the real-life FBI. The Murkywater PMC is known (to Bain, at least) to commit war crimes. | |
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The 1994 remake of Miracle on 34th Street is set at fictional department store "Cole's", rather than real-life Macy's as in the original movie. Which just leads right back into real life as Coles is a mega chain of supermarkets around Australia. | |
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In "The Mall," Penny looks at pictures posted at the Farcebook (Facebook) website. Also, several of the mall's stores have names that parody real life equivalents: Bored and Failer (Lord & Taylor). Frodell's Sporting Goods (Modells Sporting Goods). Gloomingdale's (Bloomingdale's). J.C. Funny's (J.C. Penny's). Moronica's Secret (Victoria's Secret). Office Despot (Office Depot). Spender's Gifts (Spencer's Gifts). T.J. Snaxx (T.J. Maxx). |
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Cancer Man/CSM from The X-Files smoked Morley cigarettes, a stand-in for Marlboro. | |
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Ratchet: Deadlocked (part of the Ratchet & Clank series) has the "Vox" network (founded by Gleeman Vox, the game's Big Bad). Originally an illegal TV networknote It was originally broadcast from the Shadow Sector, where Deadlocked takes place., Vox has apparently become a legal network by the time the events of Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time take place.note It's referenced on one of the commercials played by one of the radio stations that the player can play while traveling through space. | |
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Gitaroo Man shows a "Burger Queen" restaurant in the background of the second level. | |
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Ben Browder's character in Farscape was an astronaut for IASA — the replacement for NASA. (NASA was happy to let the show use their name, but wanted to review the scripts; ridiculous, as they were only relevant for the first ten minutes of the entire series. Hence, IASA was born. As Browder says, "IASA, You-asa, My Ass-a." | |
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Smallville has occasionally featured the Department of Domestic Security (or DDS, which makes it sound like it consists of dentists). | |
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The game's fandom has widely adopted the term "Cims" to describe the game's inhabitants, obviously echoing the "Sims" in The Sims. It also connects to the Cities: Skylines developers' previous game, Cities In Motion. | |
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Ninth Rock has both MASA and Spacebook. | |
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Think Before You Think shows Barn & Stable as a book store in the background of this comic. | |
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CSI-verse: CSI: "A Space Oddity": Star Trek has been replaced by a fictional show called Astro Quest. Aside from being a bit over the top, the show is exactly Star Trek with the serial numbers filed off — we're even treated to plot synopses for episodes, which mimic the plots of Trek episodes, down to the dialogue. Reenacted by the Lab Rats. CSI: NY: In "Some Buried Bones," a Students' Secret Society at Chelsea University called "Kings and Shadows," in which membership is passed down from powerful alumni to their sons, stands in for Yale's real-life counterpart "Skull and Bones." CSI: Cyber: When a sicko tried to crash a subway train in Boston, the endangered train was from the Yellow Line. Boston's MBTA system has Red, Orange, Green, Blue, and Silver train lines, but yellow is the color it uses for buses. |
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Some of the civilians in [PROTOTYPE] wear New York Bets sportswear. At least one player for the Bets appears to be #5 Trillo. | |
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Chronicles of Celida is clearly meant to be The Legend of Zelda. The specific installment that Shoji's hoodie is based on, Twenty Masks, can easily be narrowed down to being Majora's Mask by someone who played it: the installment is remembered for needing to collect many masks, a quest involving lovers and the inhabitants of the main town having their own schedules. A comment made about the "Lovers' Quest" hints at the game's "Groundhog Day" Loop. | |
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Annyseed Winston’s phone on page 56 appears to be an Okina. | |
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Sam & Max Hit the Road features the roadside convenience store chain Snuckey's, based on the real world Stuckey's chain. Oddly enough, Steve Purcell got away with a reference to the real-world Stuckey's in Sam and Max: On the Road. | |
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In contrast to the V for Vendetta example above, the RPG Fireborn averts this by featuring the BNP by name, but with the reincarnated dragons kung-fuing their way through London you'd be forgiven for not noticing. | |
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The PriceCo Supermart in Banana-nana-Ninja! is an obvious spoof of Walmart etc. with departments like Black Market Organs, Mortuary, and Casino. | |
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Power Pack had a Baseball Issue that took place at Shea Stadium. The teams were the "Mecs" and the "Clubs", fictional counterparts of the Mets and the Cubs, respectively. Mention was made of another team called the Redhawks, likely a counterpart for another team. Which is quite odd given that Marvel normally uses real sports teams' names when such a thing comes up. | |
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Quentin Tarantino is quite fond of stand-ins, such as Big Kahuna Burger and Apple brand cigarettes in Pulp Fiction. | |
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Zootopia has many of these which overlap with Punny Name as they all play off animal puns. Some examples include Mousey's, Targoat, Preyda, Lululemmings, Bearberry and DNKY (whose mascot is a donkey). The animators seem to be competing with how many real-life brands they can get past using animal puns, and the wiki lists at least 75 directly based on other brands. | |
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Escape from Monkey Island features "piratised" versions of some well-known chains, like "Starbuccaneers" and "Planet Threepwood". | |
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ATOM GRRRL!! has mentions of "MickDee's", "Wanda's", and "Subwich". | |
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Drake & Josh, Zoey 101, iCarly, and any other Dan Schneider comedy uses a whole lot of fictional counterparts to brand names, bands, TV Shows, just look at this list. | |
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Gintama has fun with this. When discussing the In-Universe version of Shonen Jump, of which Gintoki is a fan, they will use fictional counterparts of famous Jump manga like Dragon Bozu, Beruto, One Park or even Gintaman...but since the series has No Fourth Wall anyway, they will often talk about or make references to the real-life versions of those manga, which either exist alongside them or are swapped out with thinly veiled censoring depending on what's funnier. And yes, this includes Gintama. | |
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Fallout: Adams Air Force Base in Fallout: Broken Steel is based on Joint Base Andrews (formerly Andrews Air Force Base). The museum in Washington, D.C. is probably supposed to be the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum, given that it has the Wright Brothers' 1903 Flyer. Other craft in the museum are said to have been built and flown by the United States Space Administration rather than NASA. The Virgo II lunar lander is strikingly similar to a real-life Soviet prototype that never flew. |
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In Ultimate Marvel, there are occasional references to "Camp X-Factor," which seems to be a mutant version of Guantanamo Bay (which itself, of course, is also known as Camp X-Ray); this is also a Mythology Gag. | |
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Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War and Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War have "OBC", which stands for Osean Broadcasting Channel. OSEA is the country you fight for in 5. | |
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The girls of Neptunia do their shopping on Amazoo.nep, and Compa mentions that she found the location of the tutorial dungeon through DungleMaps. The reboot, mk2, gives us the Chirper social networking site. | |
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The people in the Champions Universe drink a lot of Nar-Cola, which (if you look at its logo) is a clear substitute for Pepsi. | |
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In Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun, such video games as "Devil Dance Revolution" and "Tokimaki Memorial" are popular. | |
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An early issue of Invincible has a toy store named "Toys B We". | |
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C14 Dating: The video games discussed with Shoji: Chronicles of Celida is clearly meant to be The Legend of Zelda. The specific installment that Shoji's hoodie is based on, Twenty Masks, can easily be narrowed down to being Majora's Mask by someone who played it: the installment is remembered for needing to collect many masks, a quest involving lovers and the inhabitants of the main town having their own schedules. A comment made about the "Lovers' Quest" hints at the game's "Groundhog Day" Loop. Mockets, a Long Runner Role-Playing Game with many Mons, with a subset of the latter referred to as "first generation", to Pokémon. If Melissa chooses the cave on the day she uses the shortcut to make up for getting lost while jogging, Shoji will see her arriving and ask what happened, prompting Melissa to make a joke about having failed a Weight and Switch. Shoji jokingly calls her by the name of fictional character whose first name is Laura in response, which implies the existence of a counterpart to Tomb Raider. If Shoji is befriended, he will lend Melissa a copy of Motel Dawn 2, a game notorious for having made it to Europe, but not the Americas. Such a thing is known to have happened with the sequel to Hotel Dusk: Room 215. |
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In Space Quest IV, stores include Sacks, WallMart, and Radio Shock — A Dandy Company. The last one got into legal trouble for parodying Radio Shack, a division of the Tandy Corporation (probably because all of their products were outrageously expensive, with virtually all of them out of stock). Later releases of the game changed the name of the store to Hertz So Good. | |
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Fresh Meat features Manchester Medlock University as a stand in for the real life University of Manchester. | |
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NCIS features coffee from DC Blend (with a suspiciously Starbucks-like logo and cup), and Caf-Pow, a brand of caffeinated energy drinks frequently consumed by Abby (also available in caffeine-free "No-Caf-Pow"). | |
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A recurring location in the Monk novels is the Belmont Hotel, described as being on Powell Street in Union Square. Based on descriptions of it, the hotel is basically the real life Westin St. Francis Hotel in all but name, the name change of course being because Westin probably wouldn't want one of their signature hotels to be tied to so many murder cases (at least four or five murder cases pass through this hotel during the book, and at least one murder is committed there). | |
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The Sailor Moon manga had many embassies, restaurants, and just about anything else you could think of actually based on buildings in Tokyo. Two recurring locations, Crown Game Center and Hikawa Shrine are among them. The real Crown has since been replaced by a McDonald's. | |
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Eiyuu Senki: The World Conquest has Oda Nobunaga constantly ordering supplies from Amasson, though in that universe it's based in South America and not the USA. | |
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In Muppets Most Wanted, the trail of Thomas Blood involves finding artefacts at the National Treasure Museum, Berlin (for Berlin State Museums), the Irish National Bank, Dublin (for the Bank of Irelandnote The bank originally called the Northern Bank and now Danske Bank was called the National Irish Bank between 1987 and 2012, but Dublin's oldest extant bank and former government bank fits the story better), but for some reason the actual Prado Museum, Madrid. | |
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Persona: Koromaru from Persona 3 is a Fictional Counterpart of Hachikō. Even a year after his owner was killed, Koromaru would still go on the same walk that his owner used to take him on every day. Koromaru is eventually revealed have a human-like intelligence and joins the party as a Team Pet to avenge his master, who turns out to have been killed by Shadows. Persona 5: Triple Seven, being a convenience store chain with a pronounced 7 in its logo, is a very blatant homage to 7-Eleven, which, while being founded in America, is owned by a Japanese parent company. |
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Kim Possible has the very often seen Bueno Nacho. Taco Bell has even introduced a food surprisingly similar to the Naco! | |
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Animorphs has Zone 91 standing in for Area 51. WAA (Web Access America) = AOL, Jeremy Jason McCole = Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Power House = Home Improvement. John Berryman (Visser Four) isn't quite a Fictional Counterpart of John Barrymore, but he was a Shakespearean actor, though not a very good one. |
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Sleeping Dogs has the Sun On Yee and 18K triads, standing in for Real Life Hong Kong triads Sun Yee On and 14K. | |
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CSI: Cyber: When a sicko tried to crash a subway train in Boston, the endangered train was from the Yellow Line. Boston's MBTA system has Red, Orange, Green, Blue, and Silver train lines, but yellow is the color it uses for buses. | |
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1928 film The Mating Call has as bad guys The Klan, but they're not the Klan, they're "The Order" and they wear black robes. (They do burn crosses.) The Klan was horrifyingly powerful in 1928. | |
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Disgaea Infinite has Amazombie, Faildows, and DefacedBook. | |
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Dan Vs. "The Salvation Armed Forces" has both the eponymous organization and Greatwill. There's also Gigundo-Mart, which lampoones Walmart and Sam's Club. | |
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The theme park Loo Loo Land in Helluva Boss can best be described as "Disneyland in Hell". | |
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In the Top 10 Spin-Off Smax, the dwarfs pass the time on their quest by playing "Malls & Muggers" | |
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"Bif Standard" and his "Standard OS" in Magical Girl Pretty Sammy. | |
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Disgaea: Hour of Darkness has Captain Gordon asking for a Teriyaki Pizza from "Pizza Shack" to be waiting for him when he returns. | |
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In Raven's Home, Chelsea ended up rich (until her ex stole most of her money) due to inventing the "Schmop", a parody of infomercial products such as the ShamWOW. It was essentially just a strong mop and bears a strong resemblance to the Smart Mop. | |
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Good Omens features a fast food chain called "Burger Lord," founded by Dr. Raven Sable's (aka Famine) company Holdings (Holdings) LLC, in which all of the food served featured no nutritional value whatsoever. Lest the reader think one particular company is being targeted, mention is also made of the company's mascot, McLordy the Clown. | |
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Of course, "Chinpokomon", an episode primarily about a popular, fictional Japanese franchise which is an obvious parody of Pokémon. Having its own anime, toys, video games, and other related products, clearly parodying the popularity hype the actual franchise itself had during the time with kids especially. It even parodied the real-life December 16, 1997 incident when Kenny suffers from epilepsy while playing a video game and becomes tranced. | |
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Mother 3: The band DCMC is the Fictional Counterpart of AC/DC. | |
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In So Weird, the "Star Dot Star" company is a fictionalized version of Microsoft. | |
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The "McDowells" restaurant in Coming to America is essentially McDonald's with a few minor cosmetic changes. This is hilariously parodied and lampshaded, in that the owner, Mr. McDowell, is very defensive about these cosmetic changes and lives in perpetual terror of McLawyers calling him out about this. For example, his Big Mick is most definitely different from the Big Mac: "They both contain two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles and onions. But they use a sesame seed bun. My buns have no seeds." As for the similar logos, "They got the Golden Arches, mine the Golden Arcs." Later in the film, when McDowell is first confronted by King Jaffe Joffer, he is seen reading a McDonald's operation manual. | |
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Notably, the Martian Manhunter has a crippling addiction to "Chocos" cookies. He used to have an addiction to Oreos, but the name was changed at some point without explanation. | |
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Tomb Raider III: The Lost Artifact has transport company "Eurochunnel" and a newspaper called "UK Today". | |
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Hannah Montana has quite a few of these, as do many other Disney shows. | |
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"Calsci", the fictional university in NUMB3RS, is basically Caltech in everything but name — right down to the full names (California Institute of Science vs. California Institute of Technology), and the location (somewhere in Pasadena.) Not surprising, considering several of the show's consultants are Caltech faculty, and some of the show has been filmed there. | |
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In Fate/Grand Order, the doujin event ServaFes serves the same function as the real-life event Comiket, despite having major differences otherwise (it's located in Hawaii and is essentially a Fate Series-only event in universe). | |
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In the Wayne's World films, ubiquitous Canadian restaurant Tim Horton's Donuts becomes the film's fictional Stan Mikita's Donuts. Horton and Mikita are both Hockey Hall-of-famers. Actor-writer Mike Myers grew up in Toronto, where Horton played; character Wayne Campbell lived in Aurora, outside Chicago, where Mikita played his entire NHL career. | |
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Hetalia: Axis Powers has HetaTube, a blatant stand-in for YouTube. | |
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The Simpsons: Team L.A.S.H.: The Historical Cuties doll line that Anastasia is a huge fan of is an obvious parody of the American Girls Collection, as it's a line of expensive dolls depicting young girls from various eras of history that come with accompanying books. | |
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In The Confidence-Man, Herman Melville satirizes writers of the time by giving them expies in the story; Charlie Noble is based on Nathaniel Hawthorne; Mark Winsome is Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the beggar is Edgar Allan Poe. | |
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Wellington Paranormal: Although the NZ Police is being depicted in the series, the uniforms worn are deliberately almost but not quite NZ Police uniforms. The most obvious difference is in the coat of arms appearing on the shoulder flash. | |
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Candi has "Moonbucks" where some characters work. | |
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Melody of Oblivion, meanwhile, features "Starducks". | |
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In The Amazing World of Gumball, most of the parody websites have the city the show takes place in the name, Elmore: There's Elmore Plus, whose name is a parody on Google Plus, but the site is more similar to Facebook; Elmore Stream-It, a parody of YouTube; Elmoreflix, a parody of Netflix; Elmore Buzz, a parody of Buzzfeed, and Elmopedia, a parody of Wikipedia. Some websites that don't have "Elmore" in it are Gway and Junk, parodies of eBay; Ramblr, a parody of Tumblr, and Fessebook, a more direct parody of Facebook. As for companies, there's Joyful Burger, a parody of Burger King. Since the show uses real-life backgrounds, technically all locations are fictional counterparts. | |
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Out & About Burger in Backyard Baseball is the fictional counterpart of In-N-Out Burger. | |
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In Batwoman, the United States Military Academy is replaced by Point Rock Academy.note A play on West Point, the USMA's informal name. | |
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The Partridge Family has several. Primary is the Partridge Family itself, which was loosely based on The Cowsills. In fact, according to some sources, the series was originally pitched to the Cowsills. Others, like a NOW clone called POW, made one-shot appearances in various episodes. | |
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Okja features a multinational corporation named Mirando, which sounds suspiciously similar to Monsanto, another highly controversial agrochemical and agricultural corporation which also produces GMOs. | |
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Johnny the Homicidal Maniac uses both Taco Hell and Taco Smell. Oddly enough, the series also averts this with the same example: when Nny is in heaven reference is made to a Taco Bell (along with a note not to sue the author because he is funny). | |
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The equivalent of NASA in Invader Zim is NASAPLACE. | |
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When Zack Snyder started his screenplay for the 2004 Dawn of the Dead remake, he assumed he would get permission to use real-life companies in his movie (as the majority of the movie takes place in the mall, he wanted real-life stores), but unfortunately every store turned him down, so he was forced to create an entirely fictional mall. It's funny because the majority of the film's exposition takes place in a coffee shop, which could have made Starbucks a lot of money. | |
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Citizens of Earth has Moonbucks Coffee and FedUPs postal service. | |
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Mooby's in Dogma is a stand-in for both Mc Donald's (Egg-a-Mooby-Muffin) and Disney (bi-coastal theme parks). | |
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Based on the similarity of the logos, Lobster Shack in Easy A is clearly a parody of Red Lobster and Joe's Crab Shack. | |
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Danny Phantom had an operating system called Portals, a parody of Windows. | |
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Peter T. Garratt's short story "The Next Big Thing" is set around the death of a writer working on tie-in novels to the fantasy-races-in-space wargame BattleSpear 20K, obviously based on Warhammer 40,000. | |
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In the Transformers: Animated episode "A Fistful Of Energon", Sari and Bumblebee are said to be off visiting — sorry, on a "fact-finding mission" at "Five Banners Roller Coaster Kingdom". | |
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El Goonish Shive raises this to the level of an Affectionate Parody: | |
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Cloud 9, the store featured in Super Store is clearly a riff on Wal-Mart. | |
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The Compleat Al has Ronzoni Records, a substitute for the real-life Scotti Bros. record company. | |
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In Hope for the Heartless, the language of Mrenagy is the world of Prydain's version of German. Also doubles as a Significant Anagram, since "Mrenagy" is the word "Germany" rearranged. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic seemingly based Equestria's three historic pony tribes on the militarist ancient Spartan State (pegasi), the inept Rennaissance-age Central European medieval mercantile republics (earth ponies), and decadent Dark Age Western-European feudal monarchies (unicorns). | |
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In the original Doctor Who series: UNIT, the British paramilitary division that investigated alien phenomena, was indisputably stated to be a branch of the United Nations (the acronym standing for United Nations Intelligence Taskforce). The UN, however, complained about having its name associated with the 2005 series, when the Ninth Doctor referred it by the former acronym in "Aliens of London". By series 4 of Doctor Who and series 2 of the spinoff Torchwood UNIT showed a darker side to itself, by this point called the Unified Intelligence Taskforce. This incarnation of UNIT is shown to run secret prisons where suspects are detained indefinitely without trial, possesses a Self-Destruct Mechanism for the entire planet, and generally engages in other activities that the United Nations tends to frown upon. In series 1 of the 2005 revival, Rose Tyler is shown as working in a department store called Henriks (alternately spelled Hendriks in other shots), another fictionalised variant of Harrods. The logos for the two companies are extremely similar. |
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The Green Star from A Canticle for Leibowitz is very clearly a counterpart to The Red Cross, since they're both international non-profits dedicated to medical care named after a simple symbol in a specific color. | |
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This was basically a recasting of the "Powerthirst" commercials on YouTube (with that group's permission) which themselves were parodies of energy drinks (most closely resembling Monster in their packaging.) | |
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The Thompsons in the otherwise more or less historically accurate Boardwalk Empire belong to the "Ancient Order of Celts", most likely since the real-life counterpart, the Ancient Order of Hibernians, is very much still extant and wouldn't want to let their name be associated with the activities therein depicted. | |
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Person of Interest has a lot of these, many of which make make repeat appearances throughout the series: Newspapers New York Ledger and New York Journal standing in for the New York Post and New York Times. respectively. Social networking site FriendCzar standing in for Facebook. A Private Military Contractor named "Silverpool." Allied Parcel Service, which uses distinctive brown delivery vans. |
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Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 has "McBurger Kong" restaurants. They feature a giant gorilla statue on the roof, which gets a team-colored headband when garrisoned, and change into a cowering pose if the building is damaged to unusability. The expansion also adds "McRoo Burger" for a level set in Australia, and "Massivesoft". | |
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The Interchange map for Escape from Tarkov features a familiar blue-and-yellow-themed furniture megastore named "IDEA" (IKEA). | |
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The Unit: Blackthorne is also an obvious stand-in for Blackwater. In "Report by Exception" in the same show, a fictional (unnamed) Latin American country is probably a stand-in for Venezuela. |
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CSI: "A Space Oddity": Star Trek has been replaced by a fictional show called Astro Quest. Aside from being a bit over the top, the show is exactly Star Trek with the serial numbers filed off — we're even treated to plot synopses for episodes, which mimic the plots of Trek episodes, down to the dialogue. Reenacted by the Lab Rats. | |
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Twiddler (Twitter). | |
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In Marvel Ultimate Alliance, in Spider-Man's first conversation with Hank Pym, he mentions having had lunch at "Taco Hut". | |
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In the Call-Back scene from Telltale's Back to the Future: The Game, the label on the mall is JPPinney. | |
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Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew!, as part of its World of Funny Animals setting, features various media and products that're animal-pun-named variants on real-world items. For example, a popular soft drink brand is called "Koala Cola." An early issue bills the soft drink as "the taste from down under," but a later issue makes clear it's the Earth-C version of Coca-Cola. Fenimore Frog refers to it as "the real thing," Coke's classic slogan. | |
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In Every Button Hurts the Other Guy Mao-Yin works for the Interpol stand-in Intercops. | |
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Cities: Skylines: The game features the infamous "Chirper", an in-game social network that residents use to voice compliments or complaints about how the player is running the city. The Chirper logo is a blue bird. The game's fandom has widely adopted the term "Cims" to describe the game's inhabitants, obviously echoing the "Sims" in The Sims. It also connects to the Cities: Skylines developers' previous game, Cities In Motion. |
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Some tracks in Forza Motorsport. For example, Sunset Peninsula Raceway is a venue on the Florida coastline that includes a tri-oval approximately 2.5 miles in length and infield road course, similar to Daytona International Speedway. (Forza is not immune, as several older NASCAR video games also lacked Daytona due to licensing issues.) The series finally got the official Daytona track in the sixth game, along with a licensed NASCAR expansion pack that includes Homestead Miami Speedway, whose infield course is even more similar to Sunset's. | |
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Mother: EarthBound (1994): The Runaway Five, which may not seem to be a Fictional Counterpart; however, in Mother 2, they were known as the Tonzura Brothers. They dressed in black suits, hats and sunglasses. Just like these guys. The Japanese version had res "Come" trucks with a familiar-looking swirl logo. During localization, these became running stick figure logos. Mother 3: The band DCMC is the Fictional Counterpart of AC/DC. |
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Pokémon the Series: XY features Poke-Vision, which is essentially an equivalent of Nico Nico Douga. | |
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In Little Busters!, Kud's grandpa sends things to her with "Fodex". | |
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Similarly, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex features a "Starchild Coffee". Its logo and physical layout are very obvious stand-ins for Starbucks. | |
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The Bolt Chronicles : In "The Mall," Penny looks at pictures posted at the Farcebook (Facebook) website. Also, several of the mall's stores have names that parody real life equivalents: Bored and Failer (Lord & Taylor). Frodell's Sporting Goods (Modells Sporting Goods). Gloomingdale's (Bloomingdale's). J.C. Funny's (J.C. Penny's). Moronica's Secret (Victoria's Secret). Office Despot (Office Depot). Spender's Gifts (Spencer's Gifts). T.J. Snaxx (T.J. Maxx). The social media website company names appearing in "The Car" are parodies of real examples: Bumblr (Tumblr). Dreddit (Reddit). Twiddler (Twitter). |
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Used repeatedly on South Park, including an episode about Harbucks Coffee and another on Wall Mart. Of course, "Chinpokomon", an episode primarily about a popular, fictional Japanese franchise which is an obvious parody of Pokémon. Having its own anime, toys, video games, and other related products, clearly parodying the popularity hype the actual franchise itself had during the time with kids especially. It even parodied the real-life December 16, 1997 incident when Kenny suffers from epilepsy while playing a video game and becomes tranced. |
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen universe does this with damn near everything, not just places but people and events as well. | |
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In the original miniseries of The 4400, the lead characters worked for an organization that was called the Department of Homeland Security, but which functioned more like the FBI with its own agents and field offices (the real DHS is a cabinet department that coordinates the efforts of such domestic security agencies as the Customs Service, Coast Guard, Border Patrol, Secret Service, Transportation Security, etc.). Essentially this DHS was itself a Fictional Counterpart of the FBI, and a case of research failure. In subsequent seasons, it was renamed NTAC (National Threat Assessment Command) to correct this. | |
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Jaune Arc, Lord of Hunger: While shopping for new clothes, Jaune mentions that he normally purchases his clothing from Gold Navy, a thinly-veiled expy of the Old Navy clothing brand. It's mentioned that the Atlesian military has its own fictional counterpart to the U.S. Navy SEALs called the Atlesian Naval Commandos. They even have the same "slow is smooth and smooth is fast" saying that the real-life SEALs use. |
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Madam Secretary: The second episode "Another Benghazi" introduces "Al-Harun" as a stand-in for Qatari Arabic-language news service Al-Jazeera. Season 3 introduces the Africa-based Islamic terrorist group Hizb al-Shahid, seemingly a stand-in for Daesh.a.k.a. the Arabic acronym for the self-described Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, a name which the group hates because it sounds like the word "to trample underfoot" They pointedly have a hard-on for pre-Islamic antiquities and infidel religious sites, vandalizing a museum and blowing up a historic monastery in Algeria in their first appearance. Oddly, though, Daesh itself explicitly also exists, featuring in one-episode plots in the first two seasons. |
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Shark Tale: There are billboards for Coral Cola and Gup, among others. Some are so close that they actually required permission from the real companies, turning parody into product placement. | |
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Brother Bear gets in on the act with Space Grizzlies, a bear-themed version of Masters of the Universe. The "mountain castle" playset is obviously Castle Grayskull; "Heero the Magnificent" is He-Man. The toyline got its own, in-universe big-screen adaptation! | |
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In Homestar Runner, distinctly Apple-inspired computers are branded as Tandy, which, ironically, was an actual real-world computer brand. | |
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In Ms. Marvel (2014) it's Circle Q. (Her good friend Bruno works there.) | |
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Project CARS, due to being unable to license the official Suzuka circuit, instead has Sakitto, a slightly shorter and hillier Suzuka knockoff that lacks the central hairpin. Likewise, Azure Circuit is a stand-in for Monaco. | |
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Guys Being Dudes: While some things, like online services and bands, exist in their forms on Earth, companies appear to be replaced with counterparts. Subject Debate and the Sleepless Bakery serve as counterparts to Hot Topic and Insomnia Cookies, respectively. | |
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Negima! Magister Negi Magi uses "Starbooks". | |
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Empowered does this with numerous stores, foods, TV shows and websites. | |
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Genshiken also occasionally makes thinly veiled references to real anime series: "Gungal" for Mobile Suit Gundam, for example. Most of the time, however, when they want to talk about an anime they'll just use Kujibiki♡Unbalance, the Show Within a Show. | |
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In the Family Guy episode "Cool Hand Peter", Joe and Peter discuss lawyer-friendly versions of known franchises, and Quagmire gets annoyed about having to use the poorly-disguised counterparts instead of the real deal since they're on syndicated television. And then later, we get another exchange: | |
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In France, considering its prominence and the way they cover news, the "i" channel for which the protagonist (played by Léa Seydoux) works is one for the real life French news channel BFM TV. | |
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John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme: One sketch revolves around a company whose job it is to provide examples of these for TV shows, with the department head admitting that 95% of the time they just do search engines. The rest of the sketch is them brainstorming ideas that aren't just knock-offs of Google. | |
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Kindergarten: The player can collect, and in the second game battle with, Monstermon cards, which are a reference to collectible card games like Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh!. In Kindergarten 2, the Huxley twins' family owns the company Applesoft, a blend of technology giants Apple Inc. and Microsoft. |
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Gran Turismo: Throughout the series, due to lack of an FIA license, the Monaco GP course is renamed Côte d'Azur. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh!: Shien is based on Oda Nobunaga. Irou is based on Sasaki Kojiro. In fact, Irou appears in Swallow flip, which refers to a mythical sword technique from Japanese legend, the Tsubame Gaeshi (or the Turning Swallow Cut). The technique was created by Sasaki Kojiro, legendary rival of Miyamoto Musashi. Nisashi might be a reference to Miyamoto Musashi; a master swordsman well known for his Niten Style (2 sword combat style). Both the name and two swords are reminiscent of Musashi, and his appearance in Six Style — Dual Wield reinforces this reference. Yariza is based on Maeda Toshiie. |
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Mac's workplace in Neighbors, may be one of accounting firm Price Waterhouse Coopers. The wall logo looks suspiciously similar to that of PWC. | |
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The Fire Pro Wrestling video game series is populated with Fictional Counterparts of real Professional Wrestling federations from around the world, the rosters of which are composed of No Celebrities Were Harmed versions of real wrestlers. | |
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Across the Universe (2007): The Students for a Democratic Republic (or SDR) is an obvious stand-in for the real Students for a Democratic Society, including some factions turning violent by the late 60's. They broke apart during their 1969 Convention, as one group explicitly became urban guerrillas/terrorists the Weathermen or Weather Underground, with Paco and his friends blowing themselves up accidentally being what one cell did. | |
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Japan, Inc. had several — the car firms Toyosan, Mitsutomo, Chrysky; the US TV station CBN... | |
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In the Canadian cop drama Cracked the fictional Metropolitan Police stand in for the Toronto Police Service. | |
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Shift 2: Unleashed ran into a licensing problem with Monaco. Because Codemasters (Formula 1 2010) holds the F1 license and all the related tracks, Slightly Mad Studios was forced to call the track "Riviera". They even tell players to guess which circuit the track is based off of on the website. | |
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Left 4 Dead gives us Burger Tank, which looks to operate a lot like most burger places. | |
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Haré+Guu has "Pachimon", a game that seems to be similar to Pokémon. | |
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