The Real People That Your Favorite Superheroes are Based On



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43 thoughts on “The Real People That Your Favorite Superheroes are Based On”

  1. VPN's don't protect you from investigators, hackers or anyone serious about manually finding your IP.
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  2. Talking about John Constantine. I had my son convinced that Matt Ryan that played the character John was also the starting Quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons. I don't know if he's realized I was messing with him. Lol. He's 22 years old and is a big DC fan. Lmao

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  3. This one's just a name, less actually based on, but the Maximoff twins are named after Matéo Maximoff, a Romani writer. Their adoptive father, Django, was named after Django Reinhardt, a Romani musician.

    Harley Quinn isn't a superhero, but she was inspired by her original voice actress, Arleen Sorkin.

    Professor X was physically based on Yul Brynner.

    Monica Rambeau was physically based on Pam Grier.

    Bucky Barnes was physically based on, and named after, Bucky Pierson, a school friend of Joe Simon's.

    Conrad Veidt in The Man Who Laughs served as inspiration for the Joker.

    I'm not totally sure, but Batman might be based on Zorro – hence why it's often Zorro his parents take him to see the night they're killed.

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  4. Mr Miracle is based on comic artist, Jim Steranko. He is also an accomplished escape artist. His wife, Big Barda is physical based on Laine Kazan. Their relationship was based on Kirby's and his wife's.

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  5. Stan Lee would never have used the Sentinels as a comment on police brutality Lee held extreme right wing views and regarded the Civil Rights movement as a Communist front, and Martin Luther King as a Soviet agent.

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  6. Everyone's main question on the tip of tounges is, then who is "DEADPOOL" based on?
    That would have to probably be a "bloodthirsty" Infantryman from WWII or VIETNAM I would assume…
    Is there a "potential" Insperational Individual for this Character?

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  7. Now we have Superman making out with guys, Batman on the CW is an ugly butch white lesbian!? And specifically says in the show when asked : "why do you think you can do the job as Batman better?"
    Answer : "Because I'm a WOMAN."
    Then Marvel made X-man Iceman gay even though he has been a womanizer since the beginning of the X-Men. And don't get me started on the New "New Mutants" comic book that never actually came out because Marvel knew it was S**T!!!
    Groomer Disney has ruined Marvel the comics, tv shows, and movies and Warner Brothers has ruined DC. Have you seen the DC movies they're also really S**t. Thanks SJW WOKE corporations s**tting all over my childhood heros. If you too are tired of the complete S**T Marvel and DC are putting out. Look into the Rizzoverse. anti-Woke comic books that care more about the story and characters than seeing who can be more gay, SJW, WOKE, Trans bulls**t!!!

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  8. Most people don't know that Ben Grimm/The Thing was literally based in large part around famous Comic Book Artist Jack Kirby. The way that The Thing talked, the tough way he acted, and even a supposed case of poor body image; Kirby being short and stocky, and The Thing looking like a 'Rock Monster'. One of the reasons that have been put forth for that was an infamous story where Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in the early days of Marvel Comics were being shaken down by the Mafia. They had made a front of services that they "sold" to businesses in the building they were in. After dragging his feet, they sent two large well dressed goons to collect from Lee and others in the building. Kirby allegedly walked in on this and looked at Lee and said "You want me to take care of them, Boss" and without waiting for an answer he beat the thugs out of the office, down the several flights of stairs to the ground floor, and one ran for their car and started it and then when Kirby came for him in the car, the other thug finally made it to the car, jumped in a partially open rear window and they sped off as Kirby was punching and kicking their car. The supposedly never came back to their office."

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  9. Isn't Musk based on Justin Hammer.. Or, do I have that backwards? lol Also, not sure if the character is in the original comics, so, if so.. I would like to throw in a time travel conspiracy to make it real. lol

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  10. The Professor X origin has the usual flaw: The X-Men weren't originally a Civil Rights allegory; Stan Lee was tired of creating a new origin for every character, and so introduced mutants as a way to have super-powered individuals with a common origin (a genetic disposition to powers that expressed themselves around puberty) so as to skip that stage of the story. In that regard, it's not surprising that Lee used an Israeli politician as a model, especially given Lee's (short for "Leiber") ethnicity.

    It wasn't until Claremont brought the X-Men back (as the series had been cancelled) that the group became the allegory for Civil Rights, including the international background of his group.

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  11. Thanks for this one, Mr. Whistler. Appreciate it.
    Thanks also for citing Bob Kane as ‘co creator’, and Not the sole creator of Batman as Bill Finger was the one who really developed Batman from Mr. Kane’s initial drawings and also gave him the secret identity of Bruce Wayne, as well as writing his origin in Batman #47.
    Regarding Prof. X, its said as well that visually he was based after actor Yul Brynner of The Magnificent Seven and The Ten Commandments.
    Jack “King” Kirby himself was said to have been the inspiration for the look of Marvel’s Nick Fury and General “Thunderbolt” Ross (as well as Benjamin J. Grimm, the Thing of the Fantastic Four) given all three characters smoke cigars, have prominent eyebrows and a ‘go get ‘em!’ attitude.

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  12. Speaking of Superman and the Nazis, Saturday Night Live did a hilarious look at what would happen if baby Kal-El landed in Germany instead of Kansas. Poor Jimmy Olson.

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  13. When it was mentioned about the Hulk being based upon a woman, I had thoughts of whether she had underclothes that, like the hulk, conveniently did not tear apart to maintain her dignity…….. 😛

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  14. re: hulk – my sister (3) was trapped under the front wheel of a late model 1950s Chevy and a man lifted the whole front end enough that my mom could remove my sister and take her to the hospital. Thing was, he had a bad back. Did not more damage than he had before. My sister was bruised but nothing broken.

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