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The easiest character to write is one who comes premade. For various reasons, an author writes themselves or their friends into the story, often as themselves. Maybe it's an in-joke. Maybe it's a message. Maybe they're just seizing the nearest source of inspiration. Although this is more common in fiction than some authors would dare admit, it really broke out in Webcomics due to their less formal standards. The Ur-Example was probably Penny Arcade. A popular variation is to name the character after the person's online handle instead. The furthest extent of this is an author writing a story or script about an author having writer's block. The longer a Schedule Slip, the closer the chance of this appearing gets to 1. This has occasionally been known to create embarrassing situations when the character's inspiration recognizes themselves but objects to the way they're portrayed in the story. On the other hand, interpreters who subscribe to the idea that Everyone is Jesus in Purgatory tend to see this in every story, regardless of whether the author really intended it. This also creates opportunities for people to try armchair psychoanalysis of the author, rather than critiquing the story on its own merits. ("This character was based on the author's father, so why did he get brutally murdered in the second act? Hmmm...") See also Life Embellished (when this gets out of hand, which can unfortunately degenerate into a bland self-insert), Journal Comic (an entire comic that's taken straight from life) and Self-Insert Fic. Compare Her Code Name Was "Mary Sue", No Celebrities Were Harmed, Write What You Know, Tuckerization, and Roman à Clef. |
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Tree Trunks in Adventure Time was based on and voiced by Polly Lou Livingston, a longtime key figure in the local arts scene in San Antonio, TX and old friend of Pendleton Ward's family. | |
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The Last Five Years Jason Robert Brown loosely based the show off his first failed marriage, and the character, Cathy, is based off his first wife. | |
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From (500) Days of Summer: "The following is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental. Especially you Jenny Beckman. Bitch." | |
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In Distorted Travesty, the main characters Jerry and Jeremy are based on (and named for) the developer's friends and roommates. | |
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Richard F. Outcault named Buster Brown's sweetheart Mary Jane after his daughter. She would also eventually lend her name to a style of children's shoes worn by both her namesake character as well as Buster. Buster's mother was also modeled after Outcault's wife as well. | |
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Leo Richter in the novel Fame tends to do this. In fact, in the last chapter, his girlfriend finds out that the events she is witnessing at that moment are written by him. And even discusses it with him, while still inside his story. | |
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In the Gone series, author Michael Grant based supporting characters Jack and Brianna off of his son and daughter. | |
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The main cast of Real Life Comics consists of the author and his friends. | |
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In the Rogue Warrior series if the people are not named after real-life individuals then Richard Marcinko gives code names, aliases and the like. His main foe, Pickney Prescott, is actually the real admiral who hounded and tried to do him in. Doc Trembly's real name is Albert. The Minkster from his real-life story is never named. Even with fictional constructs, Marcinko bases them on real life. Trace Dahlgren for example, a indian commando who tortures terrorists to death, is based on his ex-wife. | |
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Trading Places: The Duke Brothers were inspired by two brothers whom screenwriter Timothy Harris would play tennis with, being very wealthy and cheap and engaged in rivalry. | |
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The Space Gypsy Adventures creator Terry Askew has admitted that the character of Rekki G, the raccoon radio DJ (Originally a marmot by the name of Randy in the 1986 series), is largely based on himself, although Rekki's style of presentation owes a lot more to Smashie & Nicey than Askew himself. | |
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Most of the characters in Wasted Talent by Angela Melick are her friends or family members, usually with a nickname in place of their real name (mostly in early strips though, Red and Lucky still have their nicknames, but other characters have real names). Of note are her colleagues, identified by workplace, who were invented as fake people so Angela could avoid accidentally writing a comic about someone who wouldn't appreciate it. | |
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This led to a rather humorous story arc in which Pastis accidentally delivers his week's worth of Pearls Before Swine comics to Darby Conley, artist of Get Fuzzy, who appeared as a cartoon version of himself. Pastis asks Conley to not look at the comics, but he proceeds to steal them and replace the main characters with the Get Fuzzy cast. The story concludes with Pastis calling to confront Darby on this and Darby blocking his number. | |
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Many of the '60s and '70s scenes in 20th Century Boys are based on incidents from author Naoki Urasawa's childhood, though he denies that the main protagonist Kenji is actually based on him. He's claimed in an interview that he sees himself as more like Otcho. | |
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Varric Tethras from the Dragon Age series makes a living by writing adventure novels about characters based on his friends—i.e. the fellow companions of Hawke and members of the Inquisition. His only non-fiction book, Tale of the Champion, is an autobiographic account of his travels with Hawke, as well. He considers doing the same for the Inquisitor but is concerned that the things that happened to the Inquisitor are too crazy for anyone to believe (he ultimately does publish the book... under the title All This Shit Is Weird). Party Banter between him and Vivienne has him admitting that he plans to write a political thriller based on his time in Orlais and that the Big Bad will be based on Vivienne. Vivienne is flattered. | |
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RENT is very loosely based on the Puccini Opera La Bohème, in large part because the opera paralleled Jonathan Larson's own experience and those of people he knew living in New York. Many of the details that differ from the opera are drawn from Larson's own life. La Bohème itself also reflects this trope - its source novel, ''Scenes de la vie de boheme," was based on its author Henri Murger's life as a penniless writer in Paris, while Puccini was allegedly drawn to that source because it reminded him of his own days as a penniless music student in Milan. | |
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365 Days: Blanka Lipińska has stated that the character of Martin, Laura's self-absorbed Disposable Fiancé, was based on an ex-boyfriend of hers. Laura herself is an Author Avatar for Lipińska. | |
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Riff from Sluggy Freelance is based on an old friend of Pete Abrams's. | |
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A Deadly Secret, the novel is inspired by the tragic life story of Jin Yong's elderly servant when the author was a child. | |
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Lucas based John Milner in American Graffiti on his friend John Milius. | |
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In the Hellboy story "The Hydra and the Lion", Hellboy encounters a young girl pulling the Hydra's teeth with pliers. She claims to be half-lion and roars at him to prove it (waking the Hydra up). In the prologue to the story in the collection The Troll-Witch and Other Stories, Mike Mignola writes that the girl is heavily based on his daughter Kate, down to claiming to be half-lion. | |
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Steve and Susan in Coupling were based on Moffat and his wife Sue (who was also the producer). In a Where Are They Now discussion group post, Moffat said they had made a sitcom about how they got together, and Steve was now writing for "some old kids show they recently took out of mothballs". | |
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T.A. Waters was also the inspiration for Thomas Leseaux in the Lord Darcy novels. | |
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The characters on Bones often debate who they are in Brennan's novels. Brennan insists that none of them appear and all her characters are original. One episode takes place entirely within the universe of a novel she's working on. While she pictures the characters as her real-life friends, their personalities are often completely different. | |
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Brian Jacques, author of the Redwall series, has stated that Gonff the Mousethief's personality was based on himself as a child. | |
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Chapter 94 of A Simple Thinking About Blood Type discusses the real-life inspirations of the comic's characters. Type O is basically an Author Avatar of Park Dong-Sun himself, Type A is based on his dad, Type B is based on his mom and several other friends, while Type AB is based on an extra-curricular friend | |
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Radio Enfer: Vincent once wrote a book about five rats at odds with two ferrets. The rats were based on the radio crew, while the ferrets were based on Vincent himself and Dominique. There's also a character named Cruncher Paquette, based on Killer Barrette. Once the latter learns how he was portrayed in that book, Camille then tells Vincent that he would likely spend more than just one week at the hospital if the bully crossed his path. | |
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Donkey Kong Country has an interesting example. Funky Kong writes a movie script that is clearly based on the lives of the characters. However, when Bluster Kong becomes director, he casts King K. Rool as the hero and Donkey Kong as the villain. Though it's more in what Bluster thinks a hero and villain should be as K. Rool is Affably Evil and so fits the standard hero archetype more than Donkey Kong. Whom Bluster has a very low opinion of. | |
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When Chris Onstad of Achewood speaks with his characters, all you can see are his legs (and once, hands). Onstad's infant daughter even showed up in a couple of strips, albeit from behind. | |
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In A Beautiful Friendship, the Harringtons have a meeting at a restaurant called "The Red Letter", owned by a person by the name of Eric Flint. The fictional Flint is said to hail from the world of New Chicago, described as "a dumping ground for radical anarchists, socialists, and - especially - every member of the Levelers’ Association the government could round up after Old Earth’s Final War". The Real Life Flint, an occasional co-author with Weber in the Honor Harrington and 1632 series, was a self-admitted socialist who lived near Chicago. | |
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The Shining, The Dark Half, and The Tommyknockers all have main characters who are writers with substance abuse problems. | |
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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Rob McElhenney, Charlie Day, and Glenn Howerton embellished a lot of their own quirks and experiences when writing their respective characters. The name "Sweet Dee" was subconsciously taken from a past acquaintance of Rob's (which he regretted after learning secondhand that she didn't appreciate having something so personal coopted by the show). Other characters have been named after people they know, including the McPoyles and the occasionally mentioned Nikki Potnick. | |
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Dungeons & Doodles: Tales from the Tables: Angela's height, weight and build is stated on her character sheet to be 5'6" tall, 135 lbs and of fit build — parameters that the author admits he took straight from his wife. The Forever DM is based on the actual dungeon master with whom DoodlePoodle plays as one of his players in some of his campaigns. He is also voiced by him in the comic dubs by Solus Astorias, and in The Best Available D&D Actual Play. |
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Asked to describe the show, Alex once said "Gravity Falls = The Simpsons + Twin Peaks + Making Fun Of My Sister." | |
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The Buddenbrooks in Thomas Mann's homonymous novel are basically all expies for Mann's own relatives. | |
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Steve Moncuse, creator of Fish Police, has said that lead character Inspector Gill was based heavily on him. | |
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Are You Being Served?: Jeremy Lloyd based the characters on employees he encountered while a department store worker. He's not the only one; one day, Mollie Sugden, who played Mrs. Slocombe, was at a department store when one of the employees told her that he had previously worked with John Inman, and asked for Sugden to give Inman his regards. When Sugden asked Inman if he remembered that particular employee, his response was, "Remember him? I got the walk from him!" |
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Terra in 1/0 is told that she is based on a friend of the author. | |
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Several of the characters in Jaroslav Hašek's novel The Good Soldier Švejk are based on people whom the author met during his war service - in some cases, he didn't even change their names. There's also a character who tells a story about how he was fired from a natural history magazine after writing articles about imaginary animals, which had happened to Hašek. | |
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Black Widowers: The club itself was based on the real-life club he attended, the Trap-Door Spiders, and the members were similarly inspired. Geoffrey Avalon is based on L. Sprague de Camp. James Drake is based on Dr. John D Clark. Mario Gonzalo is based on Lin Carter. Roger Halsted is based on DR Bensen. Emmanuel Rubin is based on Lester del Rey. Thomas Trumbull is based on Gilbert Cant. Henry, the waiter, is not based on any real person, Asimov instead drew upon Jeeves of Jeeves and Wooster. The Great Larri was a guest in "Cross Of Lorraine", and Dr. Asimov based him on James Randi. Mortimer Stellar was a guest in "When No Man Persueth", and Dr. A Simov based him on himself. |
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Castle: Richard Castle openly based his character Nikki Heat on Detective Beckett. He also wrote in a character based on himself, as well as thinly veiled counterparts of the rest of the cops Beckett works with. He seems to have done it before, too, such as when he based a character on Powell the jewel thief. The also introduce a previous character of his (Clara Sryker) specifically when they introduce the ex-girlfriend she's based on. Really, the only character mentioned on the show who isn't specifically based on someone from Castle's life is his main protagonist between Clara Stryker and Nikki Heat, also the only male protagonist, Derek Storm. Which, considering the two protagonists we know of were explicitly based on Love Interests raises some... interesting questions about Castle's orientation. It also transcends media. In the De Fictionalized Heat Wave book, Jameson Rook (Castle's Author Avatar)'s mother is clearly based on Castle's in-show mother Martha. |
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The design of Luna Noa from Lunar: The Silver Star, particularly her scarf, was inspired by a girl character designer Toshiyuki Kubooka knew in real life. | |
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John "Bradshaw" Layfield being a millionaire stock broker persona in the ring reflects his real-life investment savvy and the wealth he built for himself (enough to write a book on financial investing advice). | |
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Bill in F is for Family was based on the childhood of Bill Burr and his own relationship with his father. | |
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In I Remember Mama, the famous writer Florence Dana Moorhead advises aspiring writer Katrin to write about things she knows. And she does. | |
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The Flash: Mark Waid has admitted he based much of his characterisation of Linda Park in The Flash (1987) off of his partner at the time, and to some extent Wally West off of himself. Apparently, several of Wally and Linda's conversations were taken directly from real conversations they'd had. | |
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Steven Brust's Dragaera books contain several shout outs to his friends. A hippy drummer is his former drum teacher, who really is that obsessed with the spirituality of drumming. A grizzled old Dragaeran soldier is a late poker buddy of Brust's. A heroic artist character in the Khaavren Romances series is an editor friend of his. | |
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Scott Pilgrim is also inspired by the lives of its creator Brian Lee O'Malley, his wife Hope Larson, and their circle of friends from their early 20s. | |
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Sunstone: Lisa's characters in her online erotic BDSM writings are clearly based on her and Ally. This causes problems when Lisa decides the logical way to introduce her new friend to the ideas of the scene is to link her to her bibliography. Love Triangle tropes ensue. It gets even worse when Lisa explicitly writes Anne into the story. | |
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One memorable Doonesbury Sunday strip begins with Zonker chatting with a man who we've never seen before, who is drawn more realistically than the strip's usual style. In the final panel, Zonker introduces the man to Mike, saying "Mike! Meet the guy I'm modeled after!" | |
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Harima Kenji from School Rumble is practically based on the mangaka, both in design and story. | |
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Dante Alighieri's famous poem The Divine Comedy features himself as the main character. A few people he knew turn up in Hell. | |
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The Patterson clan from For Better or for Worse is essentially a straight out copy of Lynn Johnston's family: a son, a daughter, a husband who was a dentist, a writer mother, a grandfather who fought in WWII... April was the first real deviation. The characters Michael, Elizabeth, and John were all named after the middle names of their real-life counterparts. | |
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The Darjeeling Limited: Jason Schwartzman's character is a writer who doesn't seem to be aware that he follows this trope. His brothers recognize people and events from Schwartzman's life in his stories, but he keeps protesting that they're original works of fiction. | |
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We Bare Bears: Creator Daniel Chong has stated that Grizzly, Panda, and Ice Bear are each different variations of his own personality, depending on the given circumstance. | |
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A Mother's Touch: Green Phantom Queen based many of the frustrations and stress Yoko had with her mother when the two were living in Myanmar during the COVID pandemic and 2021 military coup. | |
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Comedian Brent Butt based his character on Corner Gas, Brent Leroy, on himself, saying he didn't trust his ability to act. | |
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Dilbert: Scott Adams based many of the characters on his real-life coworkers. A vegetarian that appears in one strip who insists that he may be weedy but is "deceptively healthy" bears a striking resemblance to Adams himself (who is a vegetarian in real life). |
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The Batman Adventures featured a group of comedy villains called the Threatening Three, who were based on real-world superhero comics creators Denny O'Neill, Archie Goodwin, and Mike Carlin, all of whom had edited the main-canon Batman comics at different times. | |
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Calvin's dad in Calvin and Hobbes has many personality quirks that Bill Watterson has stated are exaggerations of his own father. He also gave the character the same occupation as his dad, a patent attorney. Commenting on one strip, involving Calvin's dad exclaiming about the joys of long runs in horrible weather and coming home to a bowl of plain oatmeal, Watterson said simply: "This is my dad. No exaggeration." | |
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Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: Frankie was intentionally based on Craig McCracken's wife and series writer Lauren Faust. Meanwhile, Mac was unintentionally based on himself; McCracken's mother pointed out the similarities between Mac and Craig himself as a child when he was talking about how things were going with developing the show, and he decided to roll with it. The concept for the series as a whole came to him when he and Lauren adopted a puppy and Craig made up a story about what the puppy's life was like before they got him. | |
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The Traveler's Gate: Of Simon's many helpful dolls, fan-favorite Rebekah is known for constantly telling him to punch people in the face (including telling him to punch himself in the face) and then threating to punch him herself when he doesn't immediately obey. She was apparently based on the author's sister Rebecca, who would constantly yell "I'm going to punch you in the face" when they were children. | |
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The Excel♡Saga anime is notorious for having the author of the manga, Koshi Rikudo, appear at the beginning of every episode as himself giving permission for his manga to be turned into something completely different. Furthermore, Nabeshin is an anime-only character and is a self-insert of the series director Shinichi Watanabe, who also parodies this trope to the extreme and even has Nabeshin and Rikudo doing battle in a metaphor for the artistic battles that take place when a work is adapted from manga to anime. | |
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In The Pet Girl of Sakurasou, while Mashiro's manga art is impeccable, her storytelling is below par due to her inability to understand emotions. Her editor Ayano recommended she describe the daily happenings in Sakura Hall. Eventually, her serialized manga Nanohana-sou is practically what happened in the Sakura Hall at the moment, except that she and her Cloudcuckoolander's Minder Sorata switched bodies. | |
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In Kill la Kill AU, Amoridere stated that she tends to think of Nui being more or less like a benign version of her youngest sister and Ryuuko and Satsuki being more akin to herself (Ryuuko being the hotheaded and cynical half, while Satsuki being the Voice of Reason half) and Ragyo and Soichiro being loosely based off her father and his mother. | |
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Roger Leloup said that Yoko Tsuno is a stand-in for him, as she gets to do stuff he always wanted to do, especially flying various aircrafts. | |
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Candorville parodies this. Lemont wrote a story about his own Unresolved Sexual Tension with Susan, but when she noticed and asked about it, he told her that "all my stories are completely fictional." Clyde appeared and informed Lemont that he'd read, and found hilarious, Lemont's story about a guy named Clive who's too stupid to realize when other people are talking about him. | |
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The writers of Animaniacs based several characters on people they encountered, like the surveyors in "Survey Ladies" and Candy Chipmunk from "I Got Yer Can". Nicholas Hollander based Katie Kaboom on his teenage daughter. | |
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Rocko's Modern Life: Joe Murray wrote the recurring character of Ralph Bighead as a less stable version of himself. The show's staff caught on and convinced him to do the voice himself - because they wanted an excuse to hear the normally monotone Murray yell. Mr. and Mrs. Bighead were based on a real-life pair of neighbours who lived next door to him while he was growing up. Like Mrs. Bighead, the wife had a raspy voice and frequently flirted with younger men, and like Mr. Bighead, the husband had a reputation for confiscating any toys that ended up on his yard. |
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Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san is a Work Com about the author and her quirky book store coworkers. | |
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Riverdale: The novel Jughead writes during the seven-year time skip is revealed to be a thinly veiled retelling of the events of the previous seasons, complete with Expys of him and his friends (with their names changed to things like "Jarhead") | |
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In Yu-Gi-Oh!, Seto Kaiba was based on a rude "Stop Having Fun" Guys person Kazuki Takahashi met. | |
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Garfield is loosely based on Jim Davis' grandfather, James Garfield Davis. Also, Odie is loosely based on a guy he knew back home in Indiana. | |
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In Irreconcilable Differences, Lucy's bestselling novel He Said It Was Going To Be Forever is a barely-fictionalized account of her and Albert's relationship and divorce. | |
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King of the Hill: Mike Judge wrote and voiced Tom Anderson and later Hank Hill as caricatures of the adult male authority figures he knew growing up in New Mexico. Boomhauer's fast-talking, slurred and heavily-accented speech was based on an angry hillbilly who called Mike Judge to complain about Beavis and Butt-Head (which he called "Porky's Butthole"). |
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The Catherine Tate Show: Catherine Tate admits to doing this for her self-titled comedy show. Margaret is based on her mother, the "tactless woman" on Tate herself, and Paul and Sam on a couple she knows. She has also claimed that the Aga Saga Woman is based on a woman she met on the King's Road in London and Geordie Georgie on someone who wrote to her asking for charity donations. | |
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The Discworld spin-off The World of Poo is an In-Universe work of fiction, but features many characters from other Discworld novels, most notably Sir Harry King, whom Miss Felicity Beedle notes in the introduction was a great help in her research. | |
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For that matter, Nabeshin or variations thereof also appear in most of Watanabe's works. Puni Puni☆Poemi has the same Nabeshin as Excel♡Saga and Tenchi Muyo! GXP features a Dirty Old Robot Buddy named NB. In Nerima Daikon Brothers, Watanabe voices the character — never referred to by name (or seen clearly), but in the same costume — as the owner of a rental shop that serves as a Deus ex Machina outlet. Furthermore, the Nabeshin likeness has appeared as a guest-star in several anime that Watanabe is not involved with. In one interview, Watanabe said that he'd like to get rid of the hairdo, but he's become so closely associated with the character, that he's afraid of what the fan reaction would be if he did. | |
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Mortadelo y Filemón: One of the companies that has employed the TIA the most (and by extension, M&F) in several books and short stories is Ibáñez's publisher, Editorial Brugera (later known as Ediciones B). Some of Brugera's personnel became recurring characters with defined personalities in those stories; the head editor, for example, is a mischievous, millionaire Femme Fatale with a penchant for long walks atop her pet elephant. | |
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Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail: When challenged to write a story, Chloe is stuck until she draws inspiration from her own life. And frustrations. The tale translates Goh's pursuit of Mew into a young man obsessively chasing after a creature that can grant wishes, something which ultimately costs him his Childhood Friend in a Karmic Twist Ending. | |
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Guns N' Roses' Appetite for Destruction has three songs based on women Axl Rose knew, "My Michelle" (a friend of his who after hearing "Your Song" wanted a song about her — and given her life was quite fucked up, he wrote an Anti-Love Song), "Sweet Child O'Mine" (his then-girlfriend) and "Rocket Queen" (a girl who wanted to have a band with this name). | |
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The Transformers: The iconic voice and mannerisms of Optimus Prime as played by Peter Cullen are based on Peter's brother, who served in the US Marine Corps and the Vietnam War. | |
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Sam from A Boy Made of Blocks is based on the author's autistic son Zac, who has a similar diagnosis history and also loves Minecraft. | |
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A few characters from School Bites are based off people the author knows, heck the main character is pretty much the author herself. | |
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Petscop deals with several horrific events that went unpunished being recreated in the titular game by Rainer to expose Marvin and The Family. While several of these people can be found in some metaphorical way, Marvin is the most prominent as the green-headed Guardian. For some however, whether it’s this or a Soul Jar situation is unclear. | |
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Eternals: Sersi, Ikaris, and Sprite find Kingo in Mumbai filming Legend of Ikaris, the third film in a trilogy, starring Kingo as Ikaris. | |
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The Story Between a Dumb Prefect and a High School Girl with an Inappropriate Skirt Length: Tasaki's BL manga stars superpowered versions of Izubuchi and Sakuradaimon fighting their evil doppelgangers. Overlaps with Tuckerization, since they're the same characters In Name Only. | |
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Popeye: Would you believe that Popeye the Sailor was based on a real-life person that E.C. Segar knew in his younger days, a local vagrant named Rocky Fiegel? Olive Oyl was based on Segar's schoolteacher (with her cartoon voice taking inspiration from actress Zazu Pitts), and Wimpy was based on William Schuchert, the manager of the Chester Opera House where Segar worked, and a nice man who shared Wimpy's fondness for hamburgers. Wimpy's full name was inspired by Wellington J. Reynolds, one of Segar's art instructors. In the cartoons, Dave Fleischer wanted Bluto's voice to resemble that of the character Red Flack in the 1930 film The Big Trail, played by Tyrone Power Sr. |
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Ready Jet Go!: Jet was based on the series creator Craig Bartlett: | |
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David Morgan-Mar of Irregular Webcomic! appears both as himself in the "Me" theme, and as the Dungeon Master in the Fantasy and Space themes. Also, in those later two themes, the characters are based directly on characters in his real life role-playing games. They're the same group, which is why Alvissa and Kyros are nearly identical in personality to Paris and Serron. | |
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In Penny Arcade, the characters of Tycho and Gabe look nothing like their real-life counterparts, either in looks or (broadly speaking) personality. This is because they hadn't originally been intended to represent the authors, though they've since joyfully dived into Life Embellished. (Parodied with "WHY I AM SO BALD", a redrawn - and intentionally Macekre'd with MS Paint - Penny Arcade strip featuring versions of Tycho and Gabe that look like their real-life counterparts, only more unflattering.) | |
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Horton Hears a Who! was Seuss literally embodying the regret he had for demonizing the Japanese in the pro-war effort before Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuked, in this instance Seuss is Horton empathizing with a race his fellow people at the time do not care for. shdr | |
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Every main character in Curb Your Enthusiasm who isn't already supposed to be the real thing. In fact, Larry said that he'd considered getting someone else to play him in Curb, but thought "ah, who am I fooling?". He also notes that in both Curb and Seinfeld that he wrote things in the plot that happened to him in real life and how he reacted to them. Larry has noted that his Curb persona is slightly more antisocial than he is in real life for the sake of comedy. | |
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Sketch Comedy: Parodied when a friend of the cartoonist insists on being drawn into the strip. | |
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Freya from Coffee Talk, after getting around her initial Writer's Block, decides that she wants to base her next novel on the customers of the coffee shop. | |
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Lyn Miller Lachmann, author of Rogue, has Asperger's and was lonely and miserable as an adolescent, like Kiara, although she never fought back against the bullies. She also became an unwitting drug mule after she got her driver's license. | |
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In VALIS, all the main characters are based on Philip K. Dick and friends. In addition to Dick's Self-Insert Horselover Fat, there are thinly-fictionalized versions of Tim Powers, K. W. Jeter, Brian Eno, David Bowie, Robert Anton Wilson (so thinly fictionalized that he's not even renamed) and Philip K. Dick. | |
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Brendon Small, the main character of Home Movies, created by Brendon Small, should really need no further explanation. | |
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Turning Red: Much like how Enrico Casarosa based Luca on his childhood in Italy, Domee Shi based this on her own childhood growing up in Canada, and Ming was based on her own mother. Even the scene where Mei catches Ming spying on her at school is based on a personal experience. | |
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Howard Tayler occasionally turns up in Schlock Mercenary, in strips which make it clear that he and the "narrator", Dr. Awoh, are completely separate entities. Tayler won the only ever Web Cartoonist Choice Award for Best Guest Appearance. | |
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The recurring character of bike enthusiast Jeff is based on Frazz creator Jeff Mallett. Pastis and Mallett are friends but Pastis made Jeff obnoxious because that's just the kind of strip it is. | |
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New Gods: Probably the most famous examples in all of comics are the characters Mr. Miracle aka Scott Free and his wife Big Barda. She is directly based on their creator Jack Kirby’s wife Roz which makes him the Scott by extension. The Kirbys were Happily Married for over fifty years until his death in 1994. The character Funky Flashman was first introduced as a minor antagonist in the pages of Mister Miracle, based on both Stan Lee and the sleazy, lying head of the Marvelmania mail-order service, who never paid Kirby for his painstakingly-crafted posters he made for it despite them selling well. The latter association waned with time and Funky is now solely a Stan Lee expy (which has grown more affectionate in intent as a result). |
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Nearly every main character in Weenie Licked is someone who frequents the site hosting it. | |
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Rocky is based on creator Martin Kellerman's own life and friends. | |
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I Can't Understand What My Husband Is Saying: When Kaoru and Hajime first met, they were in a Love Triangle with another woman who worked with them. The third party took the I Want My Beloved to Be Happy route and later decided to submit the story to a publisher (after showing the rough draft to Kaoru). Hajime's brother Youta also tried to use the story of Hajime and Kaoru's first date in his manga, but he ultimately decided against doing so. In general, Youta's yaoi doujinshi are based on fantasies that he's had of Hajime. |
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Peter Milligan, writer of aforementioned Shade, the Changing Man, confessed to doing this often, which his editor corroborated in the letters column. The character Miles Laimling is an anagram of his own name, and Shade's initial Fish out of Water perspectives and critiques of America were based on his own as a UK expatriate. | |
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In the Marvel Universe, it has been established that the teen humour comic Patsy Walker was written by Patsy's mother, using her teenage daughter and her friends as inspiration for the characters. The real Patsy Walker grew up to become the superhero Hellcat. | |
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For Super Mario Bros. 3, Shigeru Miyamoto based the Boos' famous "shy when you're looking, mean when you're not" quirk on the wife of fellow developer Takashi Tezuka—specifically, her frustration at him working long hours. | |
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This is practically every character in Sonichu, due to Chris-chan writing himself into the story as some kind of hero beating up his real-life enemies. And thus naturally most of the stuff written by other people to wind Chris-chan up also applies. Whose characterizations have more basis in reality is up for debate, though. If by "debate" you mean "Chris portrays himself as some manner of God-figure, and everything goes downhill from there." | |
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The protagonist of The Space Trilogy, philologist Elwin Ransom, is loosely based on C. S. Lewis' good friend, the philologist J. R. R. Tolkien. The narrator of the first two novels is implied to be Lewis himself, which ties in with those novels' Direct Line to the Author. | |
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In the Catalan series The Triplets, the titular triplets were based on Roser Capdevila's own triplet daughters. | |
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Fleming was also reportedly at Eton College with a classmate called Scaramanga. | |
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Blossom's crush Jared Shapiro from The Powerpuff Girls (2016) is based on writer Jake Goldman. The character was actually created as a good-natured joke by the artists at Shaprio's expense. The writer decided to go along with it and voice the character as well, in addition to putting him in episodes he writes. | |
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The foreword to Under a Graveyard Sky explicitly notes that the characters Sofia and Faith were based on Ringo's Real Life daughters. | |
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Bakuman。 is a story about manga collaborators for Shonen Jump, by manga collaborators for Shonen Jump. The self-insertion becomes especially apparent when they start working on mystery... And even more evident later on in the manga when they begin working on Reversi, a series in which two characters with differing opinions on justice have intense battles of wits featuring powers gained from supernatural beings. Sounds slightly familiar... | |
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In one book, The Emerald Sea, he even used the entire crew of a Caribbean tour cruise company as mer-people, keeping their names and personalities. | |
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Dave Anez of Bob and George not only shows up for commentary but actively directs the plot as the Author (a recolor of a helmetless Mega Man sprite). Authors from the other comics featured on the site frequently make guest appearances as well (Rick O' Shay being the most prominent). On two separate occasions, the characters have tried to end the comic by killing him. | |
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The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy: Douglas Adams said that there's a rumour Marvin the Paranoid Android was based on comedy writer Andrew Marshall, but it was only a rumour, and he should know because he started it. He also said that later Ford Prefect became increasingly based on "Geoffrey McGivern's [the actor who played him on radio] more extreme behaviour in pubs". He denied that Arthur Dent was based either on Simon Jones or himself, although Arthur was close enough to himself that he could put his own experiences into Arthur's life without too much difficulty. | |
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The subject of the art of most items made by the dwarves from Dwarf Fortress depicts events that have transpired within the fortress, which explains, for example, the obsession the inhabitants of Boatmurdered had with elephants and screaming. | |
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Princess Tales: gelefant used the actual names of people who used to bully him for "Bully Hunter." | |
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Harry Potter: Gilderoy Lockhart from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is directly based on a real person. J. K. Rowling claims the real guy is too self-deluded for the connection to ever occur to him, saying, "He's probably out there now telling everybody that he inspired the character of Albus Dumbledore. Or that he wrote the books and lets me take the credit out of kindness." She has clarified that it's not her ex-husband. Rowling has also stated that the character of Severus Snape, Potions Master of Hogwarts, was based (at least partially) on her old chemistry teacher, John Nettleship. Nettleship wasn't too happy when he found out, but changed his stance after Snape was revealed not to have been a villain after all, and was even proud of having been an inspiration. Pansy Parkinson is based on girls who used to bully Rowling when she was a schoolgirl. Rowling has said that Hermione is based on herself in school, whereas Ginny is who she wanted to be. Uncle Vernon's unpleasant dog-breeding sister Aunt Marge was based on J.K. Rowling's maternal grandmother Frieda, who "preferred her dogs to human relatives". The Weasleys' Ford Anglia in the second book is based on a car once owned by Sean Harris, to whom the second book is dedicated and who is more-or-less the inspiration for Ron. Rowling and Harris have been friends since they were teenagers, and they often went for long rides in that car. Rowling says that "I never set out to describe Sean in Ron, but Ron has a Sean-ish turn of phrase." She has, however, denied all claims (and there have been plenty) of Harry himself being based off a real person. |
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Something*Positive: Davan, the central character, is based on comic creator R. K. Milholland as he was several years before starting the strip, and most of the rest of the cast are Milholland's friends and family. Originally, "80-90%" of the story was based on reality, but it has diverged significantly since. In-universe, Davan based the villain of a play that he re-wrote off of his father, Fred, justifying it as needing the villain to be the most interesting person in the play. And Monette plays a television character based on Davan. |
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Jackie Chan Adventures: According to Jackie Chan, the characters of the show are based on certain people in his life: Jade is based on an assortment of Jackie's nieces. Uncle is based on both Jackie's father and his agent. Tohru is based on one of Jackie's stunt team members and himself. |
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In Please Turn Over, the characters in Naked Revolt are based on people Jo (the author) knows - Roger Gaunt is based on her father, Edward; Rita Gaunt is based on her mother, Janet; Aunt Una is based on her aunt, Gladys; Uncle Willie is based on her mother's driving intructor, Ian; Stella Hopkins is based on her father's secretary, Miss Jones; Dr. Adam Gay is based on her aunt's boss, Dr. Manners; Madeline is based on her cleaning lady, Beryl; and Pierre is based on her boss, Maurice: | |
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In Not Love But Delicious Foods Make Me So Happy, the characters are based on the author and her friends and coworkers, with their names slightly changed. | |
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Kentarou Miura of Berserk fame partly based the characters in the Band of the Hawk on his friends in college, and feels like he has a bit of both Guts and Griffith inside himself. | |
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The main characters in Max and Ruby were both based on Rosemary Wells's own young daughters which she mentioned during her interview with Japan Times. | |
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In the Kaguya-sama: Love Is War spin-off "We Want to Talk About Kaguya", Karen specifically asks Ishigami to tell her if he ever falls in love so she can write a manga about it. This is her idea of repaying him for acting as the editor of her KaguyaXShirogane doujinshi. | |
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Fear of Flying and its sequels are based on the life of author Erica Jong. Her protagonist is also a writer and also experiences broad success with her first novel, and a number of other details are similar to Jong's own life. With Jong now a senior citizen, the latest book predictably addresses aging and death. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender: One of the random waterbenders Katara trains with is based on a relative of one of the artists and the swordmaster Piandao is based on the show's martial arts coordinator/consultant, and the instructor of one of the creators, Sifu Kisu. See those two buff guys?◊ They're creators Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino. (Author Avatars: The Last Airbenders?) Aang was designed by Bryan to have his philosophical outlook on life, while having the appearance of Mike. This is especially true for the character as an adult in Legend Of Korra. This is lampshaded in one Q&A segment when Mike has an Aang-style arrow painted on his head. |
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Marc Brown has admitted that several characters in Arthur are based on people from his life. Arthur is, of course, him as a kid, Grandma Thora is based on his grandmother, who encouraged his writing/drawing, Francine is based on his sister, Sue Ellen is based on his childhood girlfriend, etc. | |
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Service with a Smile: After Jaune moves to Vale and opens a coffee shop, his father mentions that his sister Coral has written a new book. Jaune immediately asks if it's about a guy who moved to Vale and opened a coffee shop; his father awkwardly says yes. Then Jaune asks if it's smut, and his father refuses to answer. | |
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Steven Universe has the titular character based on Rebecca Sugar's younger brother Steven, and the main three Crystal Gems based on facets of her personality, with Pearl being most representative of her usual demeanor. | |
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Seinfeld: The main characters are based on the real Jerry Seinfeld and his friends Larry David and Elaine Boosler, plus Larry David's former neighbor Kenny Kramer. (Larry David provided the model for George Costanza, which may explain why David was going to play George in the Seinfeld Reunion Show on Curb Your Enthusiasm.) The main reason why George got better as a character was because Jason Alexander found out Larry based him on himself and started playing the character as an exaggerated version of Larry. | |
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Adrian Mole's former school bully writes a bestseller - Dork's Diary, starring "Aiden Vole". This is triply galling to Adrian, as he is a struggling writer himself, who pushed the bully into writing. | |
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In an episode of Zatch Bell!, Victoream gets a magical melon which summons a god to grant him one wish. And who is god? Manga author Makoto Raiku, of course, who denies Victoream's wish for another melon on the grounds that he already ate it himself. | |
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Yattaran, Captain Harlock's first mate, is based on Kaoru Shintani, the creator of Area 88 and good friend of Leiji Matsumoto. This includes the character's love of plastic models. | |
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The entire main cast of Voodoo Walrus follows this. Along with some secondary characters too. | |
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In Before Sunset, lead actors Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy both worked on the film's screenplay and incorporated elements from their own lives to the film. | |
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For Super Mario Bros. (1993), Mojo Nixon, who played Toad, has stated in interviews that "...I'm not really an actor. I was a drunk musician playing a drunk musician." | |
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Sket Dance: The Sket Dan club found itself in a situation where they had to perform a "Snow White" play for the children, but all their costumes and props have been sabotaged. Only the little puppets which were supposed to represent the seven dwarfs have been spared. What shall they do? Shall they cancel the show? No! They decide to improvise a puppet play based on a true story (which happened to them in an earlier episode), masking it as a typical Japanese demon tale. | |
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On a similar note, Steve Dallas of Bloom County was based heavily, in both appearance and personality, on a guy Berkeley Breathed knew in college. He notes in the commentary for the first Complete Library volume that he "suspect[s] he was shot by an annoyed girlfriend, which saved [Breathed] many legal fees." | |
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Most, if not all, of the characters in Clerks were based on Kevin Smith's friends, many of whom show up in the movie. Randal was based on his friend Bryan Johnson, whom claimed was one of the funniest, most clever people he'd ever met, hence why he has all the best lines. Jason Mewes is more or less playing himself, as Jay was Kevin Smith's interpretation of Mewes when he was a teenager, with a little of Smith's talkative mother thrown in. Silent Bob, in turn, was loosely based on Smith's late father, who only ever spoke up when he had something particularly witty to say. |
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This has happened several times in General Protection Fault, most notably in early December 1999, when lead character Nick spends several strips arguing with cartoonist Jeffrey Darlington about having a Y2K storyline (Nick was strongly opposed to the whole idea, but lost the argument). Nick is also heavily based on Darlington, and Ki is based on his wife. | |
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In the Warehouse 13 / Eureka crossover Don't Hate The Player, Fargo has written a computer RPG with the location and all the characters being fantasy equivalents of the location and staff of Warehouse 13. Except, of course, that all the women have large breasts. | |
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Ma Hunkell, the original Red Tornado, was apparently based on a real woman who lived near creator Sheldon Mayer. According to Mayer, while she didn't actually become a costumed superhero, she would have if she'd thought of it. (The title character of the strip Ma appeared in was Scribbly, the Boy Cartoonist — who was, of course, based on Mayer himself.) | |
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RuneScape: Romily Weaklax the pie baker and the sandwich lady are both based on real food sellers at the game developer's office. | |
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A Bronx Tale: Most of the movie is based on Chazz Palminteri's own childhood in the Bronx and experiences growing up. Also, Palminteri's full name is Calogero Lorenzo Palminteri, his first name being repurposed for the main character. | |
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In My Family and Other Animals, Gerald Durrell mentioned that he made a storybook when he was a child which consisted of adventures of him and his family dealing with animals. | |
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Multiplex: The cast are making a zombie film in which they all play themselves. | |
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In the foreword of Let Me Call You Sweetheart, Mary Higgins Clark stated she partly modelled Robin on her own granddaughter Liz, who was ten years old during the writing of the novel; she would sometimes ask Liz how she might react to certain situation and used that as a basis for Robin's character. | |
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Most of the cast of 30 Rock is directly based on real people in Tina Fey's life with Liz being her Author Avatar. In some cases, the real person actually plays the character they inspired, including Liz (obviously), Tracy Morgan as Tracy Jordan, and Jack McBrayer as Kenneth Parcell. Some people, including Alec Baldwin himself, see Jack Donaghy as a Lorne Michaels equivalent. It's also commonly assumed that Josh is based on Jimmy Fallon. To finish with the main cast, we must assume Jenna was originally intended to be a Composite Character of Rachel Dratch (who was originally slated to play the character) and Amy Poehler —although that character quickly developed into someone else entirely... According to Tina Fey, Liz is "a Sliding Doors version of me, if I had never met my husband." | |
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In The Haunting of Drearcliff Grange School, the detective novelist Carleton Knowles has two frequently recurring types of female character, with every one of his novels containing one or the other. There's a mature, attractive, amusing woman, who is based on his wife, and a clever, pretty, infuriating schoolgirl, who is based on his daughter. His daughter tells the protagonist that he did a wonderful job of capturing her mother in print, but didn't do such a good job with her; the protagonist reflects that actually he's got her down pretty well too, she just can't see it from the inside. (They are also always the murder victim [and the murderer is always similar to Knowles himself]. The daughter is surprised that others might find this disturbing.) | |
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Star vs. the Forces of Evil: Star Butterfly and Marco Diaz are based on Daron Nefcy and her husband, Bobby Miller. The two of them even cosplayed as their respective counterparts once. | |
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Death Note's Light Yagami isn't exactly top of the list of characters you'd pick for this, but if you dig a little deeper some startling coincidences arise. Author Tsugumi Ohba's Word of God is that the character he most resembles is Light, "because I did well at school". He also says that he chose the kanji "moon" to represent Light's unusual name because he wanted the meaning to be "moonlight". This all falls into focus when you find out that Ohba's given name Tsugumi, usually rendered in phonetic hiragana, translates in kanji as "beautiful moonlight" (美月光)! It's a penname, of course, but still an amusing backstory. | |
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The Chosen: In many interviews and author commentaries, director Dallas Jenkins has confirmed that some story arcs were based off his own personal experiences. The character dynamics between Simon and Eden were inspired by Dallas' own relationship with his wife, while Nathanael dealing with the loss of the job he'd worked towards his whole life mirrors Dallas when he came to terms with his Hollywood career prospects after the failure of his previous film, The Resurrection of Gavin Stone. | |
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Sabrina Online: Sabrina uses expies of her own friends and co-workers in her webcomic modeled after her life. Their reactions range from mildly amused to rather peeved. | |
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Glee's Kurt Hummel is reportedly largely based on creator Ryan Murphy as a youth, particularly his interactions with his father | |
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NCIS: Agent McGee has a series of books with characters based on his co-workers. A few episodes center on the book or mention it, usually with the rest of the main characters pissed at McGee. | |
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"TVC-15" was inspired by a drug trip experienced by personal friend Iggy Pop, who had hallucinated the sight of his TV swallowing his girlfriend. | |
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Kissy the Kissing Fish from Romeo & Juliet: Sealed with a Kiss was a stand-in for Phil Nibbelink own ~4 year old daughter. Who he test screened the movie to more than once and whose reactions he wanted to include in the movie. | |
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The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love: Maria Maggenti, the film's director, based one of the film's main characters, Evie Roy, off of her first girlfriend. There's even a dedication at the end of the film saying "For my first girlfriend... may our relationship finally rest in peace". | |
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The Loud House: The show is based on creator Chris Savino's own experiences growing up in a large family. That said, the five Loud girls who were given the names of Savino's sisters (Lori, Luan, Lynn, Lana, and Lisa) don't share personalities with their namesakes. It's been revealed that a common way for stories to get made into scripts is for someone in the writer's room to say "X happened to me as a kid." |
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Red vs. Blue has V.I.C., an unhelpful and quirky Mission Control who Burnie Burns based on a former roommate, Vic, who spoke in the same weird way. | |
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The Recess Gang were based on people the creators knew: T.J. was based on various childhood friends they both had, Vince was based on Paul Germain's friend of the same name from college, while Spinelli was based on a mutual female friend from the same college. Gretchen was based on co-creator Paul Germain's wife in elementary school, Mikey was based on two friends the creators had in middle school, and finally, Gus wasn't based on anyone in particular but rather the fact they both moved around a lot as kids. | |
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The authors of Animorphs, K. A. Applegate and Michael Grant, based most of the characters on people they knew. Applegate has said that the characters Loren and Cassie is based on herself. Grant is described as a lot like Marco but it's unknown if this was intentional (probably more of an author projection thing seeing as Marco got an Expy in Grant's series). | |
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The three main characters of Banzai Girl are creator Jinky Coronado and her best friends Katie and Michelle. Presumably, their real life has fewer aliens in it. | |
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The Jesus Lizard's "Mouth Breather" is based on a time when Record Producer Steve Albini let Slint / The Breeders drummer Britt Walford housesit for him, with disastrous results. The refrain ("Don't get me wrong, he's a nice guy, I like him just fine / but he's a mouth breather") is a direct quote from Albini concerning Walford. | |
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The English Dragon: Like Bragg, Oliver is an English nationalist, a musician, and involved with small political parties. | |
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Many of the characters in To Kill a Mockingbird were based on Harper Lee's childhood friends and family. Scout herself is based on Harper Lee, and Dill Harris is based on Truman Capote. Harper Lee, in turn, was the inspiration for the character of Idabel Tompkins in Capote's first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms. | |
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Alice in Wonderland: Alice was actually a friend of the author, Lewis Carroll. Each of the birds she meets early on in the book are based on her sisters and their nicknames and other things, while Mr. Dodo is Carroll himself. Alice's two other, lesser-known sisters make appearances in the second book, as the rose and the violet in the talking flower garden. The mouse who gives the "dry lecture" and the Red Queen were seemingly based off of Alice's governess. The Queen of Hearts and the Duchess were seemingly caricatures of Queen Victoria and her mother respectively. |
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Dan Vs.: Dan and Chris are both Author Avatars based on the flaws of creators Dan Mandel and Chris Pearson, while Chris's wife Elise is loosely based on Chris Pearson's wife... also named Elise. | |
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The Daria episode "Write Where It Hurts" follows Daria's attempts to put people she knows in a fictional story with moral dimensions. | |
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Family Matters: In an episode, Rachel writes a story about a family suspiciously similar to the Winslows. Almost all family members are portrayed rather negatively. Quarreling ensues. In another episode, Steve writes his own story which ends with his character asking Laura's character to marry him, but she rejects his offer. When asked why he didn't write a happy ending, he replies that he's "saving that ending for real life!" |
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Gilderoy Lockhart from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is directly based on a real person. J. K. Rowling claims the real guy is too self-deluded for the connection to ever occur to him, saying, "He's probably out there now telling everybody that he inspired the character of Albus Dumbledore. Or that he wrote the books and lets me take the credit out of kindness." She has clarified that it's not her ex-husband. | |
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Lola from Charlie and Lola is based off an inquisitive young girl that author Lauren Child met on a train. | |
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In "The One That Could Have Been", Chandler publishes a story to Archie Comics based on his experiences working as Joey's assistant. | |
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Jo March of Little Women is based very much on the author Louisa May Alcott; her parents, sisters, and (in later books) nieces and nephews were also based on Alcott's own family. Unlike Jo, however, Alcott never married. | |
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Some Dawson's Creek fans speculated that Kevin Williamson based the gay character Jack on himself. It's true insofar as the main characters are all based on different aspects of Williamson's personality. He has also said that his own coming out, unlike Jack's, was pretty uneventful. Williamson also stated that film-lover Dawson and Joey were originally based on himself and a childhood friend. Though in real-life their relationship was platonic (obviously). | |
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A Song of Ice and Fire author George R. R. Martin was interviewed on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, where he admitted that the minor character Ser Patrek of King's Mountain was based on Patrick St. Denis, owner of the website Pat's Fantasy Hotlist. They're both football fans and had a friendly bet over the Dallas Cowboys and the New York Giants. When the Cowboys finished ahead of the Giants, under the terms of the bet, Martin had to kill Patrick in a horrible fashion in the novels. So, Martin gave Ser Patrick the sigil of a blue star on a silver backdrop (the logo of the Cowboys) and had him ripped to shreds... by a giant. | |
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Regular Show: Mordecai is basically just J.G. Quintel as a bluejay, being based on his personality and often mirroring what he'd do in any given situation. He even voices the character himself using his normal speaking voice. Similarly, an animated caricature of Quintel also appears in some episodes, as well as the short 2 in the AMPM, which has him turn into Mordecai at one point. Eileen is basically storyboard artist Minty Lewis in mole form, with her biggest roles generally being episodes she works on. In some interviews, Sam Marin revealed that not only Benson is his favorite character to voice, he has the most similarities to him. In real life, Sam actually does get angry like Benson and is basically him in a gumball machine form. |
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William Miller's mother in Almost Famous was based on Cameron Crowe's own mother, who even showed up on the set to keep an eye on him while he worked. Though he asked his mother not to bother Frances McDormand, the two women ended up getting along well. | |
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In the German comic Werner: Many characters in the first few books are real-life acquaintances of Brösel or his brother Andi. Most of them haven't even been renamed. In the early books, Meister Röhrich had the name of his real-life counterpart, but he sued against it, so the name was changed to Röhrich. | |
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Murder, She Wrote: The plot of the episode "The Sins of Castle Cove" was that a girl who worked in the Cabot Cove hairdressers had written a steamy novel about scandals in a small town, in which all the regular customers of the hairdresser recognised themselves. In the episode "Angel of Death", Jessica reads a playscript written by an old friend, and tells him it's brilliantly written but she was shocked by how bleak it was, with the main character not just wracked with guilt but unable to see even a glimmer of hope. And she's known him long enough to recognise the character, which is is why she's worried about him personally. Jessica herself often bases characters on people she knows (given how many actual murder mysteries she's been involved in, it's no surprise that many of her whodunnits are based on true events). The title character of Yours Truly, Damian Sinclair is recurring character Dennis Stanton (which is why it's mentioned in the Framing Story for Stanton's solo episodes). In the episode "Murder, According to Maggie", Maggie is the creator of a rather cheesy TV show called Beat Cop, with a title character based on her Friend on the Force. He gets teased by other cops about this, and is somewhat resentful of the show as a result. |
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I Love Yuri and I got Bodyswapped with a Fujoshi!: Kashiwa writes BL doujinshi about a fictionalized version of Yoshida. | |
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Berrybrook Middle School: Chmakova states that Peppi was mostly based on herself, particularly her drawing habits. Like Jensen, she always had a fascination with going into space and exploring other worlds. Mr. Ramirez and Ms. Tobins are (very loosely) based on teachers she used to have. Jensen's irrational fear of sunspots comes from a time in her youth where there was a large maintenance well near the edge of town, and the rushing water in it made her terrified of it one day flooding the place (which also happened to be located near a dam). |
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Much of the cast in Jack consists of friends, relatives and most of the time, online acquaintances (which sometimes explains the AOL-inspired names some of the characters have). Even the author himself has a role in the comic as the Devil, who literally controls Hell via comics he draws.. | |
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The main characters of Hijinks Ensue are openly based on the author (Joel) and his two best friends (Josh and Eli). It sometimes devolves into photo comics, which often include other cartoonists at conventions with silly speech bubbles and, in one memorable instance, photos of the real people from Eli's bachelor party | |
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Possibly happens a lot in The Bible, although in many cases the true author of a section of text is unknown. Most notable is the Gospel of John's references to "the disciple whom Jesus loved" who is usually interpreted to be John himself. | |
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The eponymous character of The Lorax was based on the views of Seuss. While on vacation in Africa, Seuss was charmed by some strange trees that he, being Dr Seuss, decided to call "Truffula trees". He was later shocked to see them being cut down and ran back to his hotel to start sketching out ideas on a notepad, leading to the book's creation. | |
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Johnny Sasaki, in Metal Gear Solid and its sequels, is supposed to be Hideki Sasaki, the character model designer on the first game, who is apparently known around the office for his habit of spending forever in the toilet and "rearranging the things on his desk to look busy". While he's a Butt-Monkey in the original game, his final appearance in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots is rather a lot more sympathetic. | |
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Enjuhneer's artist bases almost all of her characters on people she actually knows. | |
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Exterminatus Now has four main characters, based on four authors (and occasional non-canon cameos of other people). There's a bit of Self-Deprecation involved; the admittedly self-loathing Eastwood is a Small Name, Big Ego Jerkass in the comic, ill-tempered Lothar is Ax-Crazy, easygoing Virus is Too Dumb to Live, and Silversword... is actually a subversion, his character Rogue (not Rouge) isn't really based on him at all, which the strip points out. | |
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Cinders and Ashes: the Chronicles of Kamen Rider Dante deconstructs this trope, as Hoshi writes a story about a Kamen Rider fighting to avenge his girlfriend's death, basing the story off himself and Setsuna, a friend of his who committed suicide, with the villains being her bullies along with a third friend, Souta, who turned her down in her time of need. When Hoshi realizes what he's writing about, he's horrified with it and promptly cancels the story. | |
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Arcanum Archives: Descendant's Shadow: Gunning is based off of the surname of a school-yard bully who picked on the author. | |
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See also the Ringo/Taylor Into the Looking Glass series. The protagonist, William Weaver, is pretty much a fictional version of later series co-author Travis Taylor (the first book was written solely by Ringo), who does or has done everything that Weaver does, save the Alien Invasion and First Contact stuff. | |
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Tommy Ten-Tons, Andy Anvil, and George and Lennie in Skullgirls are based on Peacock's own caricatures of the scientists of Lab 8, where she and other ASG units live: Tommy is based on a rather large, fat scientist, Andy is based on the shark scientist Stanley, and the bombs are based on a shorter scientist with a topknot, all of whom can be found as background characters. | |
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Manga-ka Rohan Kishibe of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure fame uses his Stand, Heaven's Door, when he needs inspiration for new characters to add to his manga, Pink Dark Boy. Heaven's Door is capable of reading minds literally like a book, which makes it easy for Rohan to get new "material" so to speak. Unfortunately for Koichi and Hazamada, though, he isn't too bothered about whether or not his participant is willing. | |
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Saturday Night Live: This may be hard to believe for some, but Bill Hader's Stefon character is actually based on two people that Hader and SNL writer John Mulaney have met: one was a barista who looked, dressed and talked like Stefon, the other was a club promoter that John Mulaney met who also talked like Stefon, and had a vast knowledge of every weird party going on in New York City. Another recurring character based on a real person is Jay Pharoah's Principal Frye, who is actually based on Jay Pharoah's high school principal from Chesapeake, Virginia. The only difference is in the name: on the show, the principal's name is Daniel; in real life, the principal is named James. The nerd character Todd Delamuca (or Todd Buttafuco) played by Bill Murray in some of the '70s episodes was originally named Todd Labounta, which was the real name of a guy a couple of the SNL writers had gone to high school with. They had to change the character's name because he threatened to sue them if they didn't. Chris Farley based several of his Matt Foley character's mannerisms upon his high school football coach and named the character after one of his college friends.note When he initially did the character as a member of Second City, he continually changed the name to match that of someone who came to watch him perform that night. Mike Myers based "Coffee Talk" host Linda Richman on Myers's mother-in-law, Linda Richman, and Linda Richman the character is apparently toned-down from the real-life Linda Richman. |
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Dog City had Ace Hart based on his creator, Elliot Shag, and the supporting cast based on those in Elliot's life. | |
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Most of the Peanuts characters were named after acquaintances of Charles M. Schulz: Shermy and Schroeder were childhood friends; Charlie Brown, Linus, and Frieda were former co-workers; Van Pelt was the surname of a former neighbor. Spike was his childhood dog (whose personality served as the basis for Snoopy). Despite the widespread belief that Charlie Brown was Schulz's Author Avatar, most of the characters seem to have inherited various real-life Schulz traits. One of the more frustrating things about David Michaelis' Schulz bio was that he seemed to think that Lucy was exclusively a stand-in for Schulz's first wife when there was plenty of evidence within his own book that Lucy inherited Schulz's more irascible side. And the Little Red-Haired Girl was famously inspired by a red-haired woman who broke Schulz's heart. | |
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Live Free or Die, has a very thinly disguised fictional counterpart of Schlock Mercenary's Howard Tayler as the lead character, and features several long-time Ringo fans as crew members aboard the battle station Troy. Justified because the series was originally intended to be an origin story for the Schlockiverse, though it has since drifted away from being strictly canonical. | |
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In one chapter of Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid, Fafnir writes a doujinshi whose main characters are based on Lucoa and Shouta (though they look absolutely nothing like them in the finished product due to his abysmal drawing skills). | |
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Bits of the cast's quirks in Fairy Tail come from friends of Mashima's. Supposedly, Gray's stripping came from Mashima himself. In addition, Joy Fullbun, Chico=c=Hammit, and Wang Chamji appearances are based on his assistants. | |
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Fawlty Towers: John Cleese based Basil Fawlty on Donald Sinclair, an eccentric and irascible Torquay hotelier whom he had observed during a stay in his hotel during a Monty Python's Flying Circus shoot. Among the things Sinclair did to the Monty Python troupe was loudly berating Terry Gilliam's table etiquette, throwing Eric Idle's briefcase out of a window because he believed it contained a bomb, expressing disbelief that Michael Palin had pre-booked the TV to catch a show, and starting a loud argument in the reception with Cleese when he requested a taxi. Years after the success of the show, Sinclair's widow contacted the newspapers to complain about the depiction of the character based on her husband, claiming that Cleese had unfairly exaggerated Sinclair's eccentricity, incompetence, and foul temper. Far from salvaging her husband's reputation, all it did was provoke a lot of independent witnesses (including Sinclair's own children) to also contact the papers with a lot of anecdotes about Sinclair. All of these accounts suggested that, if anything, Cleese had actually downplayed how irritable Sinclair was. His widow kept silent after that. Sybil's distinctive laugh was based on Connie Booth's. |
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Writer Michael Nankin did this for the script of the original The Gate. | |
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Peter Pays Tribute has Matt writing a novel featuring a spiteful god with a striking resemblance to his father. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: During a Q&A session at Florida Supercon 2015, note skip to 24:53 Tom Kenny revealed that he based SpongeBob's iconic voice on a foul-mouthed little person he met during a commercial audition. | |
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Transformers: Animated: The human supervillains Angry Archer and Slo-Mo are based on Aaron Archer and Samantha Lomow, two of the Transformers franchise executives at Hasbro. | |
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It Ain't Half Hot, Mum: The character of Rangi was based on similar Boomerang Bigot Indians Michael Bates had encountered while growing up in British India. Jimmy Perry was inspired to create the series by his own experience in a concert party during World War II, and most of the characters in the series were based on people with whom he had performed (Bombardier Solomons was based on a real Jewish Bombardier). He even named Rangi Ram after the man who had been bearer to the real Concert Party. |
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The two male well, most of the time characters in El Goonish Shive are based on aspects of the author's personality. His avatar also drops in for the Q&A sessions. | |
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Basic Instructions: Scott Meyer has made no secret of the fact that Scott, Missy and Rick are fictionalised versions of himself, his wife Missy, and his friend Ric. Most of the other characters are drawn from photos of people Scott Meyer knows, although any correspondences are more coincidental; in particular, apparently the guy who provided the images for Jenkins is apparently quite a nice guy. | |
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In the 2003 film Something's Gotta Give, Erica Barry (Diane Keaton) writes a play based on her ex-boyfriend Harry Sanborn (Jack Nicholson). | |
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Some digging into the contents of Depression Quest revealed at least three instances of this. The therapist's phone number that the main character is given is an actual phone number to a therapist's office in Toronto (don't bother calling it, though, because you'll just get an automated message asking for an extension number,) the therapist is similarly named after an actual therapist working in said office, and the name of the person on Steam that the main character talks to also exists in real life (you can even visit their Steam page.) | |
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A majority of Freaks and Geeks was based on creator Paul Feig's life in Michigan - especially the character of Sam Weir. | |
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Charlie Harper, the (former) star of Two and a Half Men, is basically the exact same character as his actor, Charlie Sheen, having the same personality traits, the same hedonistic habits, and the same characteristics. | |
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The main character (Josh) and his family in Quintel's following series, Close Enough, is directly based on him, his wife, and their daughter; to the point that the Real-World Episode segment of the show's season three Halloween Episode reuses Josh's character design to represent him. | |
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In Digimon Adventure 02, Yolei's mannerisms were based on an assistant producer for the series. Even her blood type and birthday were the same! | |
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The entire cast of Undergrads was based on the creator's real friends and experiences he had in college, which he ironically dropped out of to make the show. The voice acting is almost entirely himself performing impersonations of his friends, and he even managed to get one of them to voice the character she's based on. | |
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Survival of the Fittest has a ridiculous number of self-insert characters or characters that are fictional versions of people the handler knows in real life. | |
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A few of the characters on The League of Gentlemen are a bit of this: Pauline is based on a restart officer that Reece Shearsmith once had, while Papa Lazarou is based on an eccentric Greek landlord he and Steve Pemberton once shared (there's a good chance that Pemberton's character Pop is based on him as well). Ollie Plimsoles is based on someone Mark Gatiss met in community theatre, with Phil as an Author Avatar of Gatiss himself. | |
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Venezuelan author Romulo Gallegos, when writing Doña Barbara, wrote most of the characters based on people he knew or heard about during his travels through the Venezuelan flatlands. The titular character of Doña Barbara was inspired by a woman named Pancha Vásquez, who Gallegos never met personally. He heard about her from his friend Juancho Rodriguez, who told him about a woman, "who rode like a man. Greedy, superstitious, without fear of taking out anyone who annoyed her". While Doña Barbara is described as beautiful, Andres Eloy Blanco, a politician and poet who met Doña Pancha personally in 1920, said "she was pretty ugly, dark, almost black. Maybe she was beautiful when young, but now is not the case", and said she was prone to obtaining lovers. Lorenzo Barquero, according to a prologue to the 25ª anniversary edition of the book was inspired by a doctor in law that became rich in the flatlands, but became an alcoholic. While Gallegos never said the name of the doctor, some scholars believe the character was inspired by two men: Dr. Galo Segundo Bramón, a medic Gallegos knew when very young, and that his family always spoke very well; and Dr, Francisco Mier y Terán, who was a victim of alcoholism as is very likely the man Gallegos was referring to in the prologue. MarÃa Nieves was inspired by a worker from the flatlands Gallegos met, and he put him all and name, and the guy was flattered by this, and sometimes, when someone disrespected him, he would jokingly say "respect pal, that I'm in Doña Barbara". |
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He at one point appeared as himself in one of The Dark Tower books... | |
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Mac Hall started out when Ian McConville drew some intended Penny Arcade guest strips, based on himself and his dormmates. He posted them on his door, and people liked them, so he started doing more. Matt Boyd (whom Ian knew from the popular fansite Bungie.Org) joined the cast and took over writing duties. Notable is the fact that the two didn't meet in person until a year or so into the strip's run. | |
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Workaholics is a clear example of this, with four of the creators (Kyle, Adam, Blake, and Ders), playing characters similar to themselves named Karl, Adam, Blake, and Ders. The main actors are also writers for the show and have stated that the characters are based on them, but then dumbed down, exaggerated, and thrown into crazy situations. | |
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Pearls Before Swine: Stephan Pastis, the author, has on occasion inserted a cartoon version of himself, IN THE ROLE OF HIMSELF, into the comic. He even got killed in one story arc. The characters openly mock him. Strangely, the comic version of Pastis smokes, while the real one does not. One Sunday comic was featured from the (comically exaggerated) viewpoint of a neighbor. Pastis also frequently uses names of relatives, friends, coworkers, and sometimes real-life businesses. This led to a rather humorous story arc in which Pastis accidentally delivers his week's worth of Pearls Before Swine comics to Darby Conley, artist of Get Fuzzy, who appeared as a cartoon version of himself. Pastis asks Conley to not look at the comics, but he proceeds to steal them and replace the main characters with the Get Fuzzy cast. The story concludes with Pastis calling to confront Darby on this and Darby blocking his number. The recurring character of bike enthusiast Jeff is based on Frazz creator Jeff Mallett. Pastis and Mallett are friends but Pastis made Jeff obnoxious because that's just the kind of strip it is. |
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In Deconstructing Harry the vast majority of Harry Block's characters are very, very thinly veiled versions of his assorted friends, wives, relatives. Every time a new novel hits the market, someone's going to cut all ties with him. | |
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The four main characters of Eddsworld are named and modeled after creator Edd Gould and his friends who also work/worked on the show and comic. | |
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Otoya Kurenai from Kamen Rider Kiva and his antics as The Casanova were based on Kiva head writer Toshiki Inoue’s father Masaru Igami (who was notably the head writer for many Kamen Rider seasons of the Sh�wa era) being a complicated Mr. Vice Guy as he states in his father’s biography, and Otoya’s depiction as a Chivalrous Pervert is reflective of Igami’s redeeming qualities that earned him the admiration of his peers and son despite those flaws. | |
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The Twilight Saga is notorious for this, especially considering that the description of Bella from Stephenie Meyer's own website sounds like a description of... yep, Stephenie Meyer. Even actor Robert Pattinson, who played Edward Cullen, said he felt like he was reading Self-Insert Fic. Many of the werewolves are named for her siblings. Including Jacob. Heidi (a vampire who dresses as a prostitute to attract humans for the Volturi to eat) was named after one of Meyer's sisters. Um, yeah... In an FAQ, she mentioned that she gave several characters the names of some of her ex-boyfriends from college. She doesn't say which ones. |
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Sting wrote his Rock Opera The Soul Cages as a reflection on the passing of his father, and as such used him as the basis for Benny's father in the album's story (Benny in turn being allegorical for Sting himself). | |
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Apur Sansar: Struggling young would-be author Apu hits on the idea of writing a novel about his own life. | |
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The Animorphs fanfic Akira mentions a teenage boy with a nosebleed coughing into a paper cup; the author said on Tumblr that this was a cameo of her brother. | |
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All the characters in Ed, Edd n Eddy are based on Danny Antonucci himself, his family, and people he knew growing up. The Eds were all aspects of his personality (with their names being based on his own middle name of Edward), Jimmy was based on a cousin, Jonny was based on a loner friend who spent time with a blanket, Rolf was based on his experiences as the son of Italian immigrants, and the Kankers were based on a group of girls he knew during his 7th Grade school year. | |
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Later, Aladdin had Jasmine animator Mark Henn drawing her based on his sister. She even retributed by going to Halloween dressed as Jasmine. | |
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In the ER episode "Random Acts", Randy finds the author-less manuscript of a very steamy romance novel set in a hospital and with a cast of characters who are all thinly-veiled, overblown, romanticized stand-ins for the various members of the ER staff. The employees spend most of the episode trying to figure out who could have written it and mocking the story's medical shortcomings, soap-opera plots, and Purple Prose. | |
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On SPRINGIETTE, all characters are based on real people. But there's a reason for that. | |
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In Eromanga Sensei, Masamune ends up writing a novel about "the cutest little sister in the world", which in the first draft is so blatantly about his stepsister Sagiri that Yamada amounts it to a super-long love letter. As he rewrites and extends it, he adds characters to match Sagiri's drawings of various girls, not even bothering to change things like the way they meet. | |
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Walkyverse: David Willis appears frequently in Shortpacked! as a parody of his own obsessions; he is arguably the most entertaining character in the whole strip. At one point he actually got in a fight with Ethan after an edit war on the Transformers Wiki. As well as him appearing in a cameo, both Danny and Joyce in the original Roomies! were based on Willis himself. The character Mike in It's Walky! was based on a friend, and later a SEMME squad was made up entirely of people from the It's Walky! forum. |
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Many of the characters from South Park are supposedly based on people that Trey Parker and Matt Stone met in their hometown of Fairplay, Colorado or at school in Boulder. Trying to figure out who they might be is a favorite pastime of CU undergrads. The most commonly accepted one is that Chef's visual appearance is modeled on Chef Willie from Sewall Hall. Stan and Kyle's respective parents are named after Parker and Stone's, and Stan's father Randy and sister Shelley are both heavily based on their real-life inspirations — particularly Shelley, who actually was abusive to Trey when they were kids (while the violence was nowhere near as bad as it was on the show, the real-life Shelley did punch Trey, push him down the stairs, and lock him out of the house on occasion). Parker and Stone have said in interviews that Stan and Kyle were originally based on each of them respectively, but in retrospect, they realize that they're both really more like Cartman. Cartman's self-deluding attempts at Stealing the Credit in "Fishsticks" was based on people the creators know in the entertainment industry, where they honestly believe they came up with ideas despite putting little to no effort into them. Kenny is based on a friend of Parker's who was also poor and wore a parka that muffled his speech. He would often be absent from school, and the two would joke that it was because he was dead, which is where the "They Killed Kenny" joke came from. Butters was based on animator Eric Stough, whom Trey and Matt would make fun of for being too nice. |
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In Barney Miller, Det. Harris starts out writing a nonfiction book, then makes it into a novel with the whole cast and a few of the extras. He calls it Precinct Diary, but the publisher renames it Blood on the Badge. His depiction of sleazebag lawyer Arnold Ripner provokes a civil action, and he loses everything he owns. | |
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The Chronicles of Narnia: Lewis based the character of Lucy Pevensie on June Flewett, a girl who (like the Pevensies) was evacuated during World War II and came to live in his home. Lucy is named after Lewis' goddaughter, to whom several of the books were dedicated. | |
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A significant portion of the cast of The Wotch is based on friends of the authors. | |
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In Battle Princess Madelyn, the main character is the creator's daughter Madelyn, and the character's family is based on their real-life family. | |
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Casey and Andy are, unsurprisingly, Andy Weir and his long-time friend Casey. Down to the crazy inventions and the dangerous pastimes. Although I pretty much doubt Andy really dates Satan. | |
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The Little House books are autobiographical, with only a few changes from real life. Not only did Laura Ingalls Wilder base her stories on the lives of herself and her family, but her daughter Rose also wrote two books based on the same stories for adults. The protagonists of Let The Hurricane Roar are even named Charles and Caroline, after Laura's parents. And then, books were written about Rose Wilder Lane, by her lawyer and adopted grandson. | |
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Gossip Girl: Dan writes a story based around the Upper East Side life he acquired in his last few years of high school. Every character ends up despising him for his Alternative Character Interpretations. Serena because she thought she was going to be the love interest. Blair because she was the love interest. Nate because himself and Eric were turned into a single character in the book. Dan's father is called a washed-up has-been turned trophy husband. Only Chuck accepts the portrayal of the book version of his character, even though the character dies by suicide at the end. And of course Dan again when it's revealed that he was Gossip Girl all along | |
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Several in-universe examples in Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun, a series that pokes fun at how shoujo manga is made: Nozaki has a fair amount of imaginative flair, but he tends to draw inspiration from the people and situations that surround him. For example, Mamiko has Mikoshiba's personality and Sakura's freshman ribbon look, a minor male character with a horribly oblivious and brash personality is based on Seo and a minor female character who hates him but loves his alter ego is based on Wakamatsu. Played with in chapter 20/episode 6 where Nozaki is sick and Hori, Sakura, and Wakamatsu have to make up the story themselves. When Hori asks Sakura and Wakamatsu to think of a girl they know as a model for Mamiko, they both think of Seo... who being the local Lad-ette is anything but shoujo heroine material, which is evident when they think of dialogue based on what she would say and said dialogue doesn't at all match the scenes. Hori flat-out remarks, "You guys have no decent women around you, do you?" Then when Hori has to think of someone to match Suzuki's good-looking popular guy traits, he thinks of Kashima and insists on using a sparkly screentone for all his scenes because "if it were Kashima, she would shine in every scene". On a meta level, Nozaki is an example of author Izumi Tsubaki's Creator Career Self-Deprecation and his career reflects her own in certain aspects, such as a self-acknowledged problem with Only Six Faces and a mangaka career that began in high school. |
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Red Dead Redemption 2: According to Gabriel Sloyer, Javier Escuella's plight in his hometown of Mexico up to the time that he immigrated to America before Dutch van der Linde found him echoes the life and ordeal that Sloyer's immigrant father (also named Javier) experienced at the time he came to the United States. | |
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El Tigre: Series creator Jorge Gutiérrez based the series' fundamental conflict of Manny having to choose between following in the footsteps of his superhero father and supervillain grandfather on his own childhood in Mexico City as the son of an artist and the grandson of a military man. Also, Manny and Frida's personalities are based on those of himself and his wife Sandra. | |
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Piro and Largo of MegaTokyo are both based on of the original authors, Fred Gallagher and Rodney Castor. Ed, Dom, and Tsubasa are based on their friends, and Seraphim is Sarah, Fred's wife (then girlfriend.) | |
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The character Angela in Inheritance Cycle is named after, and loosely based on, Christopher Paolini's sister. | |
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Homestar Runner has this with some of its main characters. Bubs is based on a concession stand owner the Brothers Chaps grew up seeing who had a similar voice. Matt once said in an interview, Strong Bad and Strong Sad's relationship is based on his relationship with Mike when they were younger, albeit exaggerated. |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Joss Whedon based Cordelia Chase in on a girl with whom his wife attended high school, and Xander Harris on himself. According to Nicholas Brendon, this is why Xander "gets all the good lines". Whedon said of Oz: |
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DSBT InsaniT: Koden and many of the other characters come from Vexusdylan and his friends, as the Special Info Episode explains. | |
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Ric Flair is the "stylin', profilin', limousine ridin', Rolex wearin', kiss stealin', wheelin', dealin', son of a gun" as a wrestler but it's not a far cry from the real life he led outside of the ring in his prime, which really put him in some unfortunate situations later in life with mounting debt forcing him to continue as a performer well into his 50s and even early 60s. | |
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Ultima contains a great many characters that are basically Expies of Richard Garriot and his friends, most notably Lord British and The Companions of The Avatar. As a matter of fact, much of the series was a winking fictionalization of the Society For Creative Anachronism's activities. | |
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Most of the main characters of Least I Could Do are either based on the author himself or his friends. | |
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IT, 'Salem's Lot, 1408, Misery, The Body (later adapted into the movie Stand by Me), and many other works by King also have writer protagonists. | |
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Basis of Deadly Games, where The Game Come to Life that the main character programmed had all the characters being based on people he knew. | |
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The director and narrator of Books Don't Work Here is also the author. Since the comic has no Fourth Wall he goes beyond being a simple narrator and is arguably the character with the most screen time if you don't disqualify him for being a disembodied voice. Many of the fans of the comic who donated to the Kickstarter campaign also have avatars. | |
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Powerup Comics uses this as a running joke where the (fictional) authors use idealized versions of themselves as characters. | |
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In Winnie the Pooh, Christopher Robin was A.A. Milne's son. | |
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Brazilian artist Mauricio de Sousa created most characters from Monica's Gang based on his family (all his sons and daughters, two based on his brother) or childhood friends - many times with Tuckerization. | |
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Several of the characters in the Mediochre Q Seth Series are admitted in the acknowledgments to be inspired by friends of the author to some degree (we can probably presume that the magical powers, at least, are an entirely original addition). Mediochre himself physically resembles the author (and shares a few other traits too), and Charlotte Johnson was based off of a friend who once complained that every fictional Charlotte she'd ever encountered was either an old woman or a villain (Charlotte Johnson is one of the youngest and probably nicest characters in the book). | |
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Horse of Footrot Flats is based on a cat that hung around the writer's house. It is noteworthy because Horse is badass, mean and borderline indestructible. | |
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More of a case of draw who you know, but, in New Game! when working on Fairy Story 4, Aoba uses her coworkers (with their permission) to model the party characters. | |
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The Kid & I, written by Tom Arnold, unabashedly bases its stars on Arnold himself and his neighbor's son Eric Gores. | |
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On Doug, Doug bases his comic book Quailman on himself, Quaildog on Porkchop, various villains on Roger or Mr. Bones, and includes his friends in other roles. | |
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John Ostrander has been known for this himself. A number of people have had characters named for them in Starslayer, Grim Jack and Suicide Squad... including one troper's mother. | |
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The title character of How the Grinch Stole Christmas! was also this, not only because he was also a recluse. Seuss's house and studio were on a hill in California and, every Christmas, would look down with disdain upon the houses covered in cheesy lights and decorations below him. Even more significantly, the Grinch mentions that "for fifty-three years I've put up with it now"; Seuss was 53 when he wrote the book. | |
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Sherlock Holmes was partly based (in both physical appearance and deductive ability) on Doyle's old teacher Dr. Joseph Bell. The likeness was close enough that Robert Louis Stevenson, another student of Bell's, recognised the model from reading A Study in Scarlet in Tahiti. Also, Watson was based on Arthur Conan Doyle himself (example: both were doctors). | |
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Broken Saints: When series writer/director Brooke Burgess lived on a Fijian island for six months prior to the creation of the series, the local chief was named Tui and his son was named Tui Jr. Sure enough, in the series, the chief of the Lomalagi islanders is named Tui, and his son is Tui Jr. How much they are based on the real people is uncertain, but considering Burgess' experiences were the inspiration for the islanders being in the series at all, it wouldn't be surprising if there were some resemblance. | |
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Star Trek: Voyager: In "Photons Be Free", The Doctor decides to write a holographic novel based on his experiences on the crew of the USS Voyager. He turns every other crew member into a No Celebrities Were Harmed version of themselves, and the ship into the "USS Vortex". The crew are not flattered by their portrayal, and turn it back on him by creating a holo-novel that portrays The Doctor negatively. | |
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How I Met Your Mother is partially based on creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas' younger days: Ted is based on Bays, Marshall on Thomas, and Lily on Thomas's wife. | |
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The first story in Metamor Keep drops an Original Character into a setting packed with medieval-themed inserts of members of a Transformation Fiction mailing list. Most then used themselves as an Author Avatar and other members as inserts, though in a couple of cases, some were uncomfortable with being used in stories they weren't following, and asked to stop appearing. | |
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One Key & Peele skit has Stan Lee attempt to pitch some new character concepts at Marvel Comics based on his experience as an out-of-touch geriatric such as "Heyday" the hero who's always living in his prime, "The Grey Chaser" a middle-aged woman with a thing for old men and the "Overweight Jamaican Maid Jamila". When told by the writers that none of his concepts are useable, Stan then comes up with a new concept: The Fired Bunch, a group of ungrateful youngsters wandering the Earth after being permanently blacklisted. Quickly picking up on the threat, the writers give him raucous applause. | |
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Breaking Cat News started when the creator's cats made a noise in the middle of the night. The cats gathered around to watch her clean up the mess, and started meowing. She started "translating" their meows as if they were news reporters. Her husband thought it was funny, and so she created a webcomic about "Cats reporting on the news that matters to cats," starring her real cats. Most of the characters are (or are based on) RL people and animals she has known, and real situations from her life. | |
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In I Love Lucy, Ricky and the Mertzes are featured as characters in a book Lucy is writing (supposedly a novel but more of a thinly-veiled, exaggerated autobiography than anything else). When they read a copy of her manuscript, they are outraged at the insulting ways they have been portrayed. | |
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The Moomins: This is most evident with Moominmamma, who had a single line of description in Tove Jansson's notes: "Moominmamma=Ham", Ham being her own mother. Too-Ticky in Moominland Midwinter is based on Jansson's life partner Tuulikki Pietilä. Other characters have less obvious or direct influences. Moominpappa shares Jansson's father's love for sea and adventure, as well as his distant nature. Snufkin was based largely on Jansson's once-fiance who also wore a hat like that, with the relationship between Snufkin and Moomintroll actually resembling the relationship between the two. Moomintroll is one of the author avatars for Jansson herself. Others include Little My and Toft from "Moominvalley in November". |
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Frasier: Frasier's ex-fiancee Diane Chambers comes to town with a one-woman play she's written where she is obviously a perfected version of herself. | |
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Friends: In "The One That Could Have Been", Chandler publishes a story to Archie Comics based on his experiences working as Joey's assistant. In "The One With The Inappropriate Sister", the B-plot is that Ross is encouraging Joey to write his own play, and this has created friction between Ross and Chandler. So Joey writes a scene where the main characters are clearly Ross and Chandler discussing their differences and making up. And then makes them act it out. In "The One Where Ross Meets Elizabeth's Dad", Phoebe starts writing a book about "Marcia and Chester" and barely hides that it's actually about Monica and Chandler and their relationship. |
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The Sopranos: David Chase claims the relationship between Tony and his mother Livia was based on his relationship with his own mother, Norma. Chase's inspiration for Dr. Melfi came from his own psychiatrist at the time, Dr. Lorraine Kaufman, and eventually contributed to the psychological development of some of the characters. |
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The Little Mermaid (1989): Andreas Deja, the lead animator for King Triton, described the character as being strict and by-the-book and would often get mad at Ariel, then feel guilty afterwards, which reminded him of his own father. | |
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In Missions of Love, Yukina bases her phone novel characters on herself and her two love interests. | |
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Superbad: Seth Rogen based Seth on himself while Evan is based on co-writer Evan Goldberg. | |
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Many Harry Enfield and Chums characters were based on real people Harry encountered; for example, the Lovely Wobbly Randy Old Ladies are based on women he encountered as an easily-embarrassed teenaged delivery boy, and Tim Nice-But-Dim on a period when he had a girlfriend who got invited to posh parties, where he'd have to make conversation with old public schoolboys who were friendly, but had no idea how to talk to anyone who wasn't "something in the City". | |
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Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts features a character called Trophy Thomas, an overly-competitive, cheetah-like braggart with blue hair, designed after James Thomas, an employee at the developing company Rare. "Trophy Thomas" is a nickname which he earned around the offices, explained by a post on his personal blog. His hair is also actually dyed blue. | |
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The Judge Dredd stories featuring Cal-Hab "trashzine" artist Kenny Who? and his misadventures with Mega-City One's A1 Comics were based on Scottish artist Cam Kennedy, who drew the strips, and his experiences with American comic companies. (The name comes from a conversation with an executive at DC Comics, which went something like "Hello, I'm Cam Kennedy." "Kenny who?") | |
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Gravity Falls: The protagonists are a pair of twins loosely based on creator Alex Hirsch and his twin sister Ariel. The voice of Grunkle Stan originates from a grandfather whom Alex faintly remembers and Soos is based on a friend from college. The idea of the show taking place during summer vacation came from the Hirsch siblings staying with a great-aunt of theirs during one summer. Asked to describe the show, Alex once said "Gravity Falls = The Simpsons + Twin Peaks + Making Fun Of My Sister." |
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