15 Marvel Characters Based on Real People

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@@BlueMarsalis Haha! I actually defend a lot of the X-Men films, I just don't like First Class.

[@srstriker6420]

Wow who knew

[@isinganddootherthings4616]

@@PanelstoPixels why don't you like x-men first class I love that movie along with x-men days of future past

[@antoinebeasley8384]

@@srstriker6420 a

[@srstriker6420]

@@antoinebeasley8384 a for what?

[@MT-tu8dt]

The hockey player actor that inspired making Wolverine is spot on. The hair, the attitude, everything.

[@paulolelewe2330]

Is Jimmy Olsen inspired by anybody. What if Cyclops from the 2000s got his inspiration from my neighbor.

[@hatednyc]

⁠@@paulolelewe2330what if Cyclops from the 2000s movie got his inspiration from your neighbor? Was a FICTIONAL COMIC BOOK CHARACTER inspired by your neighbor? I’m guessing you meant was the film character inspired by your neighbor - NO. The 2000s cyclops is a direct copy of the 1968 cyclops from the comics. They didn’t change him.

[@Strat642001]

That's Steve "Dr. Hook" McCracken from the movie Slapshot. Probably the greatest hockey movie, ever made.

[@zachcunningham9054]

@@Strat642001hell yeah it is!

[@ferd617]

@@paulolelewe2330 If Jimmy Olsen is inspired by anyone, it's probably Howdy Doody. (Actually, that is kind of uncanny, now that I think about it.) ...Huh. Except, Jimmy predates the creation of Howdy Doody by about three years, so nope!

[@chrisscott6211]

I always wanted to see Wolverine be portrayed more comic book accurate. Short. Stocky. Hairy.

[@brandoncruise6398]

James Cameron was set to direct an X-Men movie in the 1990s and wanted Bob Hoskins to play the part.

[@chrisscott6211]

@@brandoncruise6398 As much as I liked 1990s Bob Hoskins, I am so glad that didn't happen....although, he certainly fit the short, stocky, hairy recipe.

[@dariopedro8961]

Would love to see zac effron playing the character

[@chrisscott6211]

@@dariopedro8961 😵

[@HiddenHandMedia]

Younger Jack Nicholson would have been a perfect Wolverine

[@guyzero32k4]

The guy Wolverine modeled after, actually got to meet John Bryne at his studio years later. Ultimate irony, all those years later and he looked like Logan from days of future past with the white streak in his hair. Bryne posted the pics at his forum. Btw, Slap shot is worth watching.

[@LukeLenn0n]

Can you find a link to this? I'm searching like crazy!

[@youknowthefunnythingis6869]

Slapshot is the best

[@guyzero32k4]

@@LukeLenn0n The pics were posted at the John Bryne forum years ago. Don't remember what the thread name was.

[@comicblueswithjonygitar36]

Ever one should re-watch Slapshot, that movie got funnier over the years, it's brilliant. Character is named Tim McCracken, he's Paul Newman's antagonist throughout the film. Newman places a bounty on McCracken's head in 3rd act. And Wolverine does bear a striking resemblance. Watch it for Hanson Brothers! Those are mid seventies sideburns, very common in those days.

[@KenMasters.]

Marvel missed out on a great opportunity to make a retro live-action Wolverine by casting Paul D'Amato as Logan, alongside Lou Ferrigno's Hulk, Nicholas Hammond's Spider-Man, and Reb Brown's Captain America.

[@RetroRobotRadio]

In the 1953 Vincent Price movie House of Wax he plays an artist who loses use of his hands in an accident... I'm surprised you didn't mention this for Doctor Strange, who also has an origin tied to hand injuries.

[@PrinceSaschaVykos]

Baron Mordo originally looked A LOT like Boris Karloff. The Raven had just come out that year, it's blatantly obvious Ditko was inspired.

[@Chuck_EL]

​​@@PrinceSaschaVykos Also Farrah Fawcett was the inspiration for Allison Blaire/Dazzler Even her Short hair version

[@jspatino9808]

Wow, the wolverine dude was awesome! Great video as usual Josh. Great job

[@jamesgomez9151]

IKR gotta watch Slap Shot now

[@Dmarcoot]

@@jamesgomez9151 it’s a hilariously great film

[@AJEDDY97]

​@@jamesgomez9151its so good. 😂😂

[@Chuck_EL]

​@@Dmarcoot I showed my son the clips and he said "I definitely see him as the inspiration for wolverine" Good film indeed

[@ELFanatic]

If only we could get from movie to page to transcribe as well as page to movie.

[@benjaminolson7206]

I'd just like to note that when Dr. Strange was mentioned in this video I, knowing virtually nothing about the character or his history beyond having seen him in the various Marvel MCU films, immediately thought "oh, he was probably based on Vincent Price."

[@zsoltbartus169]

not Price himself, but his character in The Raven, where he was a well, wizard. (the other great inspiration of Strange was Bela Lugosi in the title role of Chandu the Magician). I know some Dr. Strange arts that were definitely based on Vincent Price, I think one of them is an Alex Ross painting.

[@TheMuseSway]

As soon as the Hockey guy started talking. I got Wolverine chills.

[@theprolificnetwork4670]

Thats the sweetest inside info nugget Ive heard in a long time! Amazing!

[@gokugoma3258]

Really...

[@Onefromthedarkness]

As soon as I saw him come on the ice with messy hair I thought "Thats just Wolverine playing hockey!"

[@cyrustvirus1224]

Dr Hook!! Can take a man's eye out with the flick of his wrist fully Wolverine snikty snikty slash

[@jeffreycherep8264]

I didn't hear Shannon at all...

[@plastique45]

"An obscure little movie called Slapshot" Dude, in Canada, that movie is famous like Star Wars!

[@esteban9115]

Seriously, parts of that movie were shot in my hometown. We watch it all the time.

[@isinganddootherthings4616]

In an alternate universe it would be awesome to see both Errol Flynn and Timothy Dalton play their versions of Tony Stark Iron Man

[@TJ52359]

you can easily see either/Both having been cast had "Comic book Movies" been nearly as big of a thing in their respective eras; or in Flynn's case had Iron Man existed in his heyday)

[@defaultusername123]

T Dalt could still pull off a future old-Tony or a Howard Stark. He would have made an awesome Tony Stark

[@davidjames579]

There was a rumour around that Orson Welles had directed the first ever Batman film, in the 40's and in noir Black And White, with hardboiled dialogue. But sadly it turned out to be an urban myth.

[@photonboy999]

@@defaultusername123 , Could see a future Stark involving time travel. Perhaps similar to X-Men's "Days of Future Past" involving Kang the Conquerer and the Young Avengers?

[@slimjimnyc270]

Timothy Dalton based parts of his villain after Errol Flynn in the movie "The Rocketeer".

[@greggvanvranken6482]

According to artist Gene Colon, Jack Palance was also the inspiration for Dracula in The Tomb of Dracula, which was also produced before Palance played the character in Dan Curtis's TV movie Bram Stoker's Dracula.

[@Chuck_EL]

Yup him and Christopher Lee And Mephisto was inspired by Christopher Lee

[@MrRamo300]

That Wolverine one was amazing. Hoping somebody at Marvel will see this and take note.

[@oscarjimenezgarrido7591]

Unless they have a time machine, a cloning station or a de-aging device at Disney, taking note would be useless... Paul D'Amato is 73 years old by now and, although he is a cool guy and a great character actor, he looks his age.

[@MrRamo300]

@@oscarjimenezgarrido7591 -Lol! No my friend. When I wrote that, I was implying that when MCU looks for their next Wolverine that they try and find someone who resembles the comic book character(or at the least Mr. D'Amato) as much as possible. I don't mean for them to go out and hire Mr. D'Amato.

[@oscarjimenezgarrido7591]

@@MrRamo300 Agreed. I loved Jackman's charisma and commitment to the character from the start, but the truth is that he's always been too tall, slim and handsome to fit Logan's portrayal in the comics.

[@TheWuCepticon1981]

But later, when Jim Lee started drawing him, he clearly looked and seemed more inspired by Clint Eastwood, which Hugh Jackman fit perfectly.

[@MrPoster42]

@@MrRamo300 I'm pretty sure Fiege will do just that. In a way it was fortunate that Jackman wasn't much like the comic Wolverine because the next one needs to be different to avoid comparisons. So going comic accurate will both please the comic fans and avoid people saying the new guy is just a Jackman ripoff.

[@daniescott3000]

Storm was based on actress Nichelle Nichols(Uhura from the original Star Trek)

[@abacarter4952]

Thank you that’s literally the only reason why I’m here.

[@ianforbes7286]

Now that's a live action portrayal I would have paid good money to see.

[@angeluvsvid]

@@abacarter4952 lol me too

[@shanemontgomery1358]

I thought I’ve read every interview w Dave Cockrum yet I’ve never read that...

[@daniescott3000]

@@shanemontgomery1358 Yeah Dave Cockrum has said when he was designing the character, the original Star Trek was popular and Nichelle Nichols was the most prominent black actress with exotic features he'd seen.

[@chrisc.5374]

That's amazing. I worked with Paul years ago, and I'm amazed that none of us coworkers (comics readers, if not devotees) never saw the obvious Wolverine in him.

[@davids9520]

The character who they modeled Wolverine upon, looked so familiar, but i couldn't remember where I'd seen him. But now, I'll never forget him. Any one who hasn't watch "Slap Shot" needs to watch it. It's raunchy, crude and vulgar. But it is so much fun to watch the craziest story about a hockey team

[@kamuelalee]

Slap Shot, great flick.

[@thequietrevolution3404]

...And here I was thinking some Wolverine characteristics resembled those of Bruce Lee. The "Berserker Rages" and perpetual body cuts and bruises were in every one of his films.

[@davids9520]

@@thequietrevolution3404 Maybe the fact, at that time, most professional hockey players were from Canada. And Wolverine is from Canada, they made a connection to that hockey player from the movie. Wolverine was built like a hockey player, acts like a hockey player who enjoys a good fight.

[@ericsteel173]

Love that movie. The movie was filmed in Johnstown, PA where my grand parents lived. My grandfather was one of those guys would have made up an episode of American Pickers, he had buildings full of stuff. He passed away just before the filming of Slap Shot. The production company bought a bunch of stuff from the estate to use as props in the movie.

[@krane15]

Why on earth would I want to watch something like that?

[@GothicXlightning]

may Stan Lee's Soul live forever and thank you for X-MEN

[@lunarmodule6419]

"Slapshot" an obscure movie?! It's a classic!

[@thedeesus4249]

seriously. stop everything and go watch slapshot. Its a lil slow until the Hansons show up.

[@Excalibur2112]

Best Hockey movie ever! Better than Goon or Youngblood, too.

[@beentwolong11]

GORDY !!!!

[@xxxxxenonnnnn]

Tim "Dr. Hook" McCracken!!

[@benrichards35]

I quote it just about every day!! It's immense!

[@DC8091]

How has anyone not seen Slapshot at least 50 times? One of the funniest movies ever

[@deathproofpony]

Right? I sure as hell wouldn't consider it "obscure".

[@georgetrapp6666]

I own it on DVD, was intrigued that it got past me in my youth, a Paul Newman movie where he isn't the main character! The Hanson brothers (from Slap Shot, who predate the 90's music act by maybe 35 or more years?) were given the action figure treatment by Todd McFarlane, and I did my homework. Without regret.

[@scottnelson8037]

Indeed - just the one scene at the faceoff had me giggling and wanting to watch it again.

[@justrob1515]

Maybe it's just me, but if I were positioning myself as someone whose views on genre films were worth sharing, I might go out of my way to know what the greatest genre films are.

[@mdolinski4926]

If you are born in Canada you are issued a copy of "Slap Shot" along with your birth certificate.

[@Cytron1515]

I always envisioned Patrick Stewart as Charles Xavier way before 2000's X-Men film.

[@molochsorcery4357]

Nope, I didn't until STNG came out because I had always thought Yul Brynner was Prof X in human form.

[@reikonr7173]

i did not like him as the professor , but his acting was excelent

[@anthonygordon9483]

People knew he was going to play professor X years before they even made the movie cause the movie was held off production for almost 4 or 5 years but Patrick Stewart was always cast for the role.

[@WakenerOne]

I always wanted to see Patrick Stewart as Baron Karza in a Micronauts movie before X-Men was cast.

[@TrumbullComic]

Ha! I watched this video because I always find it interesting to hear who comics artists model their characters after. Imagine my surprise when I see that you used a quote from an interview I did with Gerry Conway in BACK ISSUE #91 at 9:44.

[@winnerwatson1883]

Speaking of Prof. Xavier being based on Yul Brynner, there is a document of Stan Lee where he lists the voices of the X-Men. Prof. Xavier was English actor Leslie Howard “without the English accent”, Cyclops/Scott “Slim” Summers was Anthony Perkins, Tony Randall was Beast/Henry “Hank” McCoy and Angel/Warren Worthington III was “a young Gene Barry”. Bobby Drake and Jean Grey were listed as “generic 16-year-old boy” and “cheery 17-and-a-half-year-old girl” respectively.

[@stevetheduck1425]

By the time of Dave Cockrum and John Byrne, Jean Grey was based upon Raquel Welch. Her proportions, short in the body, long in the leg are spot on.

[@delmarfrazier2727]

Based on looks everybody knows his base of ideas of Martin Luther King Jr. 🤦🏾‍♂️

[@winnerwatson1883]

@@delmarfrazier2727 Well… The MLK/MX idea didn’t come around until Chris Clairemont taken on writing duties.

[@trevormillar1576]

Cyclops wad Anthony.Perkins? "It wasn't me, Professor, it was, it was, it was......MOTHER!"

[@mightybaloo1880]

@@delmarfrazier2727 Dude is talking about how he looks. Not his ideals,

[@marclacey2263]

Slapshot is a truly great comedy that you should definitely watch. I'm not even particularly into ice hockey and I've watched it several times and I'm not tired of it. It deserves to be considered a classic.

[@michaelstirling1384]

UNREAL. YOU MENTIONED SLAPSHOT! Fantastic sports comedy, an all time classic here in hockey crazed Canada! Had no idea Wolverine was based on that character but I definitely see it now!

[@LATVERIAN1]

Flynn, in his prime, would have made an awesome live-action Doctor Strange.

[@johnnyskinwalker4095]

not weird enough

[@seannborba8416]

Not a marvel character but John Constantine was based off sting from the police

[@johnnyruttley1598]

Don't ferget also in that Vertigo line Lucifer's fashioned after David Bowie

[@meep9231]

No wonder they looked so alike

[@ladykoiwolfe]

@@johnnyruttley1598 fashioned after? Aside from being a woman instead of a man Luci in The Wicked and the Divine is a dead ringer for Bowie.

[@Vino.Patell]

Hal Jordan was based off Paul Newman and Sinestro in David Niven

[@molochsorcery4357]

@@Vino.Patell Really? SNILT! I collected GL as a kid and never knew.

[@trihops]

Stan Lee was a treasure. I love every clip of him talking about comics, and/or comic book movies!

[@Chuck_EL]

Peter Parker was also inspired by Stan Lee as a teenager

[@ernestoribeiro2226]

@@Chuck_EL WRONG. PETER PARKER IS STEVE DITKO.

[@Chuck_EL]

@@ernestoribeiro2226 don't yell boy

[@Eleven17Studios]

Well, I'm never going to unsee Yul Brynner as Professor X, huh? It's something to do with the eyebrows for sure

[@tomboughan2718]

He also looked like FF's foe The Puppetmaster.

[@AnthonyOldhandGarcia]

@@tomboughan2718 Puppet Master, that's a good one especially his villainous scheming Egyptian Pharaoh voice like he sounded in the film the 10 Commandments. Or as Professor Xavier, either way he was a well rounded actor who i think can pull off any character in films.

[@hermescybergistus1329]

@@tomboughan2718 Speaking of Yul, it bugs me to this day that he wasn't even considered for the role of Luthor in Superman: The Movie. Likewise Ron Howard for Jimmy Olsen.

[@victorkenarsy3024]

@@hermescybergistus1329 I think he was old and really sick by the the time the movie went into production. Plus he looked kinda doughy in the Ultimate Warrior and that was in the late 1970s I think

[@hermescybergistus1329]

@@victorkenarsy3024 Incorrect. Superman The Movie & it's sequel were released in 78' & 80': Brynner didn't take ill until 83'.

[@UndercoverDigital]

When I was a bike messenger I actually met the real Kitty Pryde; She worked at Merrell Lynch in Calgary at the time & signed for their packages. I had to ask around and yep a fellow nerd told me that she was THAT Kitty Pryde, she went to school with John Byrne and was the inspiration for the character. Pretty cool lady, she got a kick out of people recognizing her name, so it obviously happened more than once.

[@STEPHANTODD]

And Elektra's appearance is based on former fitness model and bodybuilder Lisa Lyon.

[@Metanaut1]

Vincent price was also a huge art collector, and got Sears in the sixties to sell original art

[@RealRoknRollr3108]

This is always a fun subject. Frank Miller's Matt Murdoch was based on Robert Redford and I'd say the gangster Tombstone was also based on Jack Palance. I've always thought Timothy Dalton would have been the perfect Dr Strange and it will forever be a true shame we'll never see him in the role, as a younger man he'd have brought just the right amount of gravitas and personality to the role.

[@wazza9959]

And I always thought matt Murdoch was based on James franciscus from the show longstreet, but it kind of makes sense now.

[@BrianandSnoopy1]

I always thought or imagined that Lee Marvin was the inspiration for Tombstone.

[@georgetrapp6666]

Tombstone looks more like the classic monster The Phantom of the Opera.

[@RealRoknRollr3108]

I only say Jack Palance cause if you look at the original version by Gerry Conway and Sal Buscema he's more of a cowboy who 'whispers' when he speaks. If you ever watch the film Last Man Standing Christopher Walken plays a kind of softly spoken whispering gangster psychopath and in Sleepy Hollow he's a demonic looking creature and I always thought he'd be perfect as Tombstone. We need Tombstone in the MCU he's awesome.

[@BrianandSnoopy1]

@@RealRoknRollr3108 I only say he looks like Lee Marvin because he kinda looked like him when he fought Spider-man. :)

[@bryanboatwright1671]

I was not a Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, but his portrayal during X-Men changed my mind. Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, a stroke of genius.

[@KenMasters.]

Jonathan Carroll is my live-action Wolverine. Also, I always wanted to see George Clooney play Nick Fury, it fits him better than Batman.

[@MousePotato]

@@KenMasters. David Hasselhoff played Nick Fury in 1998.

[@DH-.]

Too bad Samuel turned into a soyboy

[@theunknownsamurai7426]

​@presidentvaxxxbooster5843Disney ruined the character

[@KenMasters.]

@@DH-. He what?! Shame... I always thought Jackson was based.

[@hanknorris5642]

Yep, I always saw Wolvie as a much shorter Clint in those late 70s/early 80s Xmen comics. The actor in the hockey movie, though. I totally see that!

[@roncolem4558]

I always thought Hugh Jackman when he plays Wolverine kind of looks like Clint Eastwood. Even the whispery voice. Coincidence?

[@BrianandSnoopy1]

I always wondered if Hugh Jackman based how he played Wolverine on Clint Eastwood.

[@anonfslkf190]

Dude; EVERYONE who is a fan of hockey knows all the funny quotes from Slapshot by heart. Any French-Canadian between 30-70 years old considers that movie a cult classic, as a famous Québecois actor (Yvan Ponton) had a role in it. The voices were dubbed by french-canadians, as opposed to the totality of movies at that time, who were dubbed in international french, so we had so much fun hearing our own accent in an american movie.

[@CT68]

I seem to remember some artist in the 90s using Harvey Keitel as a reference for Wolverine. It makes sense if you see "The bad Lieutenant."

[@zandorvorkov986]

You said that actor Jack Palance inspired 2 comic book characters and you even mentioned that he played Dracula, but you failed to mention that the character of Dracula from Marvel's "Tomb of Dracula" was made to look like Jack Palance.

[@MoesTube1]

"Head like a big boiled egg and comically bushy eyebrows" Hey watch it fella! 👨🏾‍🦲🤳🏾🤣😂

[@dianasayson2846]

🤣🤣

[@choconado]

Over at the Distinguished Competition, Stan Lee served as the inspiration even more for Funky Flashman, the showbiz huckster that serves as Mister Miracle's agent. It's really easy to forget that prior to the 80s or so Lee didn't have the trademark mustache and dimmed aviator glasses as his trademark look, and was pretty much spot on to how Flashman appears with a full beard, and was definitely himself a consummate huckster as well, doing anything to sell his "stars".

[@yalbad5160]

Well, Funky Flashman was Kirby's swipe at Stan.

[@johnpjones182]

And in the '60's DC series Angel & the Ape, Sam Simian (the ape) was a comic book artist who worked for an eccentric egotist editor named Stan Bragg, based on Stan the Man.

[@bigneon_glitter]

Great video. Underrated but not obscure, _Slap Shot_ is one of the best sports movies/hangout comedies ever made. Drop everything & watch it.

[@MichaelRBrown-lh6kn]

agree. calling it obscure isn't correct.

[@garyhall7867]

Hell yeah, love that movie

[@kevinlecointe4224]

Yeah, Slap Shot was an awesome movie. I loved the three brothers.

[@jeffreycherep8264]

"Puttin' on the foil,coach..."

[@garyhall7867]

@@jeffreycherep8264 they brought their goddam toys

[@skorpione10]

Yooo!!! 😆The Wolverine was spot on. None of the other characters looked as much the same as John Byrne's Wolverine.

[@johnrunion5357]

marvel's take on dracula in their tomb of dracula was also based on actor jack palance who a few years later would actually portray dracula in the dan curtis television production of dracula.

[@Loafmeister]

Came here to say the exact same thing. There is a stretch when the artist (Gene Colan) drew him pretty much exactly like Jack Palance. It was by far my fav take, both visually and writing wise, of Marvel’s version of Vlad Dracula

[@sonpanchan]

The Warriors Three from Thor were also based on actors, Fandral was modeled after Erron Flynn, and Hogun was based on Charles Bronson. Volstagg was modeled after a Shakespeare character called Falstaff. During the 70's a popular fancast for Steve Rogers was Robert Redford, in Captain America No. 180, 1974 a civilian even confuses Steve for Robert Redford.

[@Chuck_EL]

I wanted to add there's another actor that a marvel character is inspired by Ryan Reynolds was the inspiration for Deadpool/Wade Wilson Wade even made Meta jokes about him looking like Ryan prior to Ryan getting the part

[@danobirch]

Not a Marvel character, but the original Fawcett Comics/DC Captain Marvel ("Shazam") was modeled after actor Fred MacMurray back in 1939.

[@Lunacyk]

My Three Sons! 😆

[@c.j.thedude]

@@Lunacyk Well Gaaah-lly! Shazam!

[@ColorMeConfused29]

@@c.j.thedude That's Jim Neighbors as Gomer Pyle, not Fred MacMurray.

[@c.j.thedude]

@@ColorMeConfused29 Yes. I know. And...

[@FanboyFilms]

If he does one for DC, Green Lantern Guy Gardner was based on Martin Milner (Route 66, Adam-12).

[@GothicXlightning]

saw WOLVIE in the cover so of course a Belmont X-MEN lover had to click the video honestly always thought that comic book version of XAVIER looked a lot cooler than patrick stewart but on another note, 90s version of Wolverine always made me think that was inspired on the look of Road Warrior younger Mel Gibson like how he looked on Lethal weapon 1,2 for instance or Brave Heart even but hey really nice video man huge and HUGE X-men lover here

[@davidano1]

S.H.E.I.L.D Agent Daisy Johnson was originally based on Angelina Jolie's character in the movie "Hackers".

[@johnnyskinwalker4095]

only in the comics, though

[@DirtCheapFU]

12:58 I always loved that drawing of Wolverine. I remember as a kid drawing that over and over alongside A few Joe Madueira Wolverine drawings.

[@nweditor875]

I think Misty Knight is also based on Pam Grier as well. and Collen Wing is based on the actress that played Lady Snowblood.

[@blkluv100]

She could also be based on the actress Teresa Graves, who played a detective in the TV movie "Get Christie Love", who would say things like "your under arrest sugah".

[@nweditor875]

@@blkluv100 omg thanks for that tip I will look that up.

[@RealRoknRollr3108]

Lady Bullseye is quite obviously also based on Lady Snowblood I would say

[@Chuck_EL]

​@@blkluv100 Amanda Waller was also based on Pam Grier's look she was skinny originally Which is really ironic seeing how Pam eventually played her on Smallville

[@claytonjacobs4098]

Waller was fat in her first appearance. they made her skinny during that new 52 crap.

[@draegur]

The actor inspiring Wolverine is Paul D'Amato. Even now his face looks like Old Man Logan.

[@DiegoReviews]

Super interesting video, J! Man I wish that dude from the hockey movie got to play Wolverine.

[@archangel5627]

I always thought that if Marvel ever had the opportunity to make a live action Xmen movie back in the 70s that Clint Eastwood would’ve been the perfect choice to play Wolverine. It all makes sense now knowing that Frank Miller used Clint Eastwood’s likeness for Wolverine. I found this video to be super informative and super interesting.

[@feralart]

And Hugh Jackman looks enough like Clint that people automatically took to him as Wolverine.

[@thehurtfam]

A lot of people want his son Scott to play Wolverine now if/when they recast the role

[@avrilfan0521]

​@@thehurtfamthe ending of the movie Dangerous sees Scott Eastwood break out in a Wolverine-esque grin when he finally cuts loose

[@slimjimnyc270]

Kitty Pryde of the X-men was based on a young Sigourney Weaver. Kitty also went up against a creature that resembled a xenomorph in the X-men mansion.

[@Katzztar]

And her name came from an old classmate of Bryne. The real Kitty Pryde had first given the okay to use her name but years later regretted it as she was always recognized and bothered over the name's comic likeness. She eventually changed her name, I believe.

[@oscarjimenezgarrido7591]

That'd be the Brood.

[@oscarjimenezgarrido7591]

@@Katzztar The changing name part is just a legend. It's not like Kitty Pride is such a hugely known character outside of the nerdom anyway - not even after the movies - as to make that story sound even remotely credible.

[@Katzztar]

@@oscarjimenezgarrido7591 I should have said Alien-like setting instead of mentioning xenomorphs as a race. I was meaning that she was a plucky female having to fight by herself with her greatest weapon being her mind while being up against a monster of great horror

[@oscarjimenezgarrido7591]

@@Katzztar Eeehr... unless I'm talking to the very same person using multiple accounts, the Brood answer to the xenomorph reference was directed to the OP. My second reply, the one I addressed to you, was related to the story about Kitty Pryde's name.

[@cajunboy67]

Something else I realized when I was a kid in the 70's and early 80's and reading comics. Writers were also lifting movie plots and adapting them to superhero comics.

[@tomboughan2718]

Roy Thomas lifted classics as plots into Marvel stories.

[@gnewt75]

No disrespect to Hugh Jackman but THAT'S Wolverine!!!

[@gnewt75]

@Budgie Cat of course but how would this actor from Slapshot be responsible for a voice. In the face and demeanor, he is Wolverine tho.

[@gnewt75]

@Budgie Cat I want a relative unknown that resembles this actor from Slapshot or Taron Egerton who's been suggested in the past. But no one with a super ego who can't play ensemble.

[@gnewt75]

@Budgie Cat I did. Taron Egerton.

[@johnnyskinwalker4095]

@@gnewt75 Egerton is a sweet boy, not badass like Wolvie

[@gnewt75]

@@johnnyskinwalker4095 people said similar things about Heath Ledger.

[@Aduder999]

Absolutely loved this video. The Wolverine actor was so spot on.

[@NickolasNameolas]

Wait am I wrong or did Diana Rigg's black catsuit also inspire Black Widow's 70s redesign? Great vid.

[@blkluv100]

More like Marianne Faithfull in the movie "The Girl On A Motorcycle", right down to the hairstyle. Google the pictures.

[@NickolasNameolas]

@@blkluv100 that false neckline is waaaay groovier than Black Widow’s costume but the red accents are cool

[@BurnTilDeath]

That's what I was thinking too.

[@bintamirfreeland4159]

Benjamin Franklin was a real life member of the Hell's Fire Club!!!

[@sergioandrade8735]

In a 1960's interview Stan Lee said that Professoser X had a voice like the actor Leslie Howard but without hte British accent.

[@krane15]

How does that work? The comic book characters had no voice.

[@georgetrapp6666]

@@krane15 that's funny, Moira MacTaggart is always written, phonetically, as though she has a thick Scottish brogue, words like "yiur" and "dinnae" and stuff. Come to think if it, so does Wolfsbane aka Rahne Sinclair.

[@WakenerOne]

Soooo . . . like Ashley Wilkes???

[@WakenerOne]

@@krane15 Not a writer, are you? ALL of my characters have distinct voices.

[@jeffnettleton3858]

To clarify about Wolverine. the character premiered in 1974, in The Incredible Hulk, but was only seen masked. His costume was modified, when he next appeared in Giant Size X-Men #1, drawn by Dave Cockrum. He finally appeared unmasked, in X-Men #98, 4 issues into the revived series (then called The New X-Men, in the cover copy), with the wolf-like hair and muttonchops. This was because Cockrum was largely using the look of Timber Wolf, from DC's Legion of Super Heroes. Cockrum made his name on that cult feature, which directly led to his working on the new X-Men revival. In fact, Storm and Nightcrawler were based on characters he created for a proposed Legion spin-off, The Outsiders, for which he had produced some artwork. Cockrum re-purposed that art and those characters, for X-Men. Eventually, he created a Legion pastiche, with the Shi'ar Imperial Guard, who were all analogues of the Legion members, including the character, Fang, who was the doppleganger of timber Wolf. In the finale to the Shi'ar storyline, where Cockrum left the series and John Byrne took over, Wolverine has replaced Fang, in his costume.. Byrne then began drawing Wolverine, out of costume, more and more like Paul D'Amato. It is not a direct inspiration, but an evolution. The Vincent Price idea doesn't hold water, for Doctor Strange, until after Ditko. Ditko was the creator of the character and plotted all of his stories that he also drew, with little or no input from Stan, until he got the finished art and dialogued it. Spider-Man was more of a collaboration, initially, but grew into Ditko plotting on his own and Stan dialoguing, as Ditko grew more and more disatisfied with Stan's taking credit in interviews, and martin Goodman reneging on promises in relation to Spider-Man merchandise royalties. Ditko also had conflict with Stan over him altering stories, such as a Spider-Man issue that featured a campus protest, where Ditko was clearly criticizing the protesters, but Stan altered the dialogue to be more sympathetic. It has been said, in hindsight, by those who were there, that Stan was too liberal for Steve Ditko and too conservative for Jack Kirby. In other words, he probably fell somewhere in the middle, depending on the issue, while Ditko was a devotee to Conservative idealogue Ayn Rand and Kirby was a devout Roosevelt New Deal Liberal, who had fought Fascism and warned against its trappings, within post-War America (check out Glorious Godfrey, in the Forever People, who was based on Billy Graham).

[@56postoffice]

The way Don Heck drew Tony Stark in the 60s, you can see the resemblence to Errol Flynn straightaway. Unfortunately, Flynn passed away in 1959 aged 50, a few years before Iron Man was concieved.

[@claytonjacobs4098]

maybe that was why they felt it was safe to use his likeness.

[@Resvrgam]

The Kingpin was based off of real-life “Robber Baron” of New York, “Big Jim” Fisk.

[@ivane5110]

Just like everyone else, as a kid me and my friends had a very ever-changing wish-list for live-action heroes. But in the mid-70's it was: Errol Flynn (Iron Man-yeah he was dead, but so was TV's Superman and we still wanted him to meet Adam West) Yul Brynner (Prof. X) A bulked up Lurch/Cassedy & Russell Jonhson (Hulk & Banner, until Bixby & Ferirgno OWNED that role), Johnson back again as Reed Richards, Ron Ely (Captain America though sometimes as Ka-Zar when Redford was Cap), Vincent Price (Dr. Strange) w/Malachi Throne as Mordo, Steve McQueen (Hawkeye and ironically as G.A.), Sidney Poitier (Black Panther), Sophia Loren (Scarlet Witch), Patrick McGoohan (Vision) and movie's Hercules as "himself". I seemed to be the only one who saw Nick Fury potential in Clint Eastwood (called "too young" at that time). What a fun trip down memory lane.

[@tomboughan2718]

Yes, Steranko's Fury does look like Eastwood. I am glad I am not the only one to see that. I don't see Steve McQueen as Hawkeye, more like Ben Grimm before he became the Thing.

[@ColorMeConfused29]

Sophia Loren as Scarlet Witch? Big yikes. I don't see her pulling that off at ALL.

[@panthervoodoo]

This video gave a joy that’s hard to describe. I knew, growing up in the 70s, that I was actually seeing some of the inspirational actors attributes. Your video was entertaining, considerate and very well done. Thank you so much for touching the heart of a die-hard Marvel comics fan.❤

[@paulnolan4971]

Ditto except not a big comics guy but appreciate the artform and its immense value :)

[@omniframe8612]

Great Video. You didnt mention that Ben Grimm is supposedly based on Jack Kirby

[@Frogman1212]

All of jack's guys are angry, ugly, dumb and based off himself. It would be redundant.

[@omniframe8612]

@@Frogman1212 Whaaaa no they aren't.

[@Frogman1212]

@@omn8612 Basically though. Sgt Fury was like his ideal self I figure.

[@PanelstoPixels]

Thanks! Got a whole video planned about Kirby's characters. That's more of an artist putting his own personality into his work rather than "casting" an actor though.

[@RayfieldA]

​@@Frogman1212 🤣🤣🤣

[@andrewjohnson6716]

0:40 Jack Kirby was also the visual and personality model for The Thing, one of Marvl's first characters.

[@Chuck_EL]

You're right and Peter Parker was inspired by Stan Lee as a teenager

[@brianlewis6229]

Vincent Price was one of those actors who who can practically play any part if anybody has not seen the last man on Earth you've got to watch it

[@Cheepchipsable]

Yes, his acting style was "of the day"

[@WakenerOne]

And listen to his starring role as Simon "The Saint" Templar on the old radio dramas. He set the standard for the quick-witted snappy patter which later characterized action heroes like James Bond, John Matrix, John McClane, and countless others.

[@chrisshockey8883]

​@@WakenerOneI have all the existing episodes in my old time radio collection

[@pip7967]

I was watching The Terminator and I couldn't help but notice that guy Michael Biehn resembled Peter Parker in the 80s and 90s (:

[@tomboughan2718]

John Romita's Spiderman, Peter Parker looked like Clint Eastwood in late 1950s.

[@johnnyskinwalker4095]

that's a strange comparison lol A badass manly blond guy looks like Peter Parker? Peter looked more like Donnie Osmand

[@FanboyFilms]

I don't remember comic Pete looking like Biehn but you probably know that when James Cameron was attached to make the Spider-Man movie for Cannon Films in the late 80s he was talking about Biehn for the part. But it never happened.

[@johnnyskinwalker4095]

@@FanboyFilms Someone from the 80s that would have been the perfect Peter Parker is Michael J Fox. Marty McFly is basically Spider-Man without the costume

[@ShawnJonesHellion]

"the kind of guy that tells you he's going hunting but doesn't bring a gun" lol an I thought i felt a little like wolverine before that.

[@stevenlastnik7461]

Jim Steranko, who did 'Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.', used actor Sydney Greenstreet ('The Maltese Falcon') as his model for "Pickman" a contact of Nick Fury.

[@Nobodylovvvvvvv]

On a side note about slap shot, the Hanson brothers (the goons on Paul Newman's team "the chiefs") were part inspiration for the original ECW version of the Dudley Boyz

[@boykinsboy]

how could you not mention Bruce Lee being the inspiration for Paul Gulacy's Shang Chi?

[@thomashenderson9004]

Michaels Jackson?? U get a 🎼 heh, heh, heh,🎼🎤 ! Referring to your legendary name😉! Mike? When Enter the Dragon came out , it a band from England 🇬🇧 because Bruce Lee's nunchucks was considered ( brace yourself ) TOO VIOLENT for the audience to see 👀!! With centuries of guns , knives & tanks shown ALL around London & so forth, a pair of sticks with a chain in-between them.....is as dangerous as A GAMMA BOMB 💣 😳!! yeah..The poor sap probably don't even know who Bruce Lee is let alone Marvel's King of Kung-fu despite All Bruce Lee's films can be seen All over Europe including England 🇬🇧!! "Gosh! guess nunchucks as dangerous as a gamma bomb " of course not ,duhh🙄!!

[@thomashenderson9004]

These KZbinrs from other countries boost their opinions on KZbin videos & make some of the most goofy minded 🤯 statements in KZbin land. Just today this fellow ( from England 🇬🇧) makes comments on MCU videos games Thor , Ironman 1&2 ,Hulk & Captain America 🇺🇸 👏. The Cap game is the best of & the worst was Thor's 🎮. The guy couldn't realize why the Jim Rhodes in the 1st Ironman game didn't look like Don Cheadle's Jim Rhodes. Publicly admitting his witless knowledge that Terrance Howard was 1st Jim Rhodes & what he saw in the game was Terrance's Rhodes!! More lack of knowledge proved further when he thought he that the MCU stop producing videos game...no they didn't...The Guardians of the Galaxy WAS the last until The MCU'S Avengers game came to the market. If these can't do their homework right...they should stick to English based characters in Marvel Comics like Capt. Britain & Excalibur...it's obvious they haven't a clue of what they're talking about 👎

[@molochsorcery4357]

@@thomashenderson9004 Tell us how you really feel. Don't hold back.

[@thomashenderson9004]

@@molochsorcery4357 What I mean is this...if you're going to make a show on KZbin, THOROUGHLY do your homework before you publicize & share your " knowledge " on subjects many viewers ( such as myself) may have a contradiction to what you are saying! The fellow who host this show didn't know who Bruce Lee was until in recent years. In 1973 & so on the man who prohibits films 🎥 from other countries to be shown in England 🇬🇧 banded Enter the Dragon 🐉!! Because he couldn't understand how a of pair nuchaku can be used as effective weapons. Due to he ignorance & eventual demise English movie fans had no ideal who Bruce Lee was for YEARS unless they stepped out of England & discovered him from international sources as Hollywood, California or Hung Kong, China! Only in recent years has ALL of Bruce Lee's films can be seen at places one can to watch his 🎥! Other than Samuel Jackson as Nick Fury , Shang-Chi was created from the image of Bruce Lee & if my man knew that he'd mentioned Shang Chi's comparison to Bruce Lee because he's a famous & most well known martial artist in the world 🌎 👍! That's what me & Michael Jackson meant

[@gabrielp9646]

@Michael Jackson Bruce Lee wasn´t the inspiration for Shang Chi. The character had a 10 year comicbook run until they started to make him look like Bruce Lee.

[@jamesoblivion]

Jackman's look in the early part of the first X-Men movie is a pretty good match for Paul D'Amato in Slap Shot...especially if it was unintentional. When he's cage fighting, or when he first wakes up in the mansion (before he puts a ton of product in his hair 😆), he looks a lot like Doctor Hook.

[@christopheouvrard8548]

I prefer Jackman's look in the first X-Men movie. He is less muscular, (and visually less tall) but I thought it fits Wolverine better : with his claws in his arms, Wolverine should look like a normal person, not a ripped giant.

[@ThornOfSociety]

I knew it that The Avengers inspired Marvel in things like the Hellfire Club, the Black Queen and Kate's outfit, just too many similarities.

[@stevenlastnik7461]

Murderworld is rumored to be based on the episode 'The House That Jack Built'. I asked Chris Claremont about this at a con, he said he didn't remember, but would have to rewatch the episode to jog his memory.

[@simbologiaoculta2126]

I always thought that the younger Clint eastwood really looked like Hugh Jackman.

[@opiumdennis7249]

I met Kitty Pryde years ago. She went to school with the mighty Mr. Byrne.. She carries an article around for anyone who tries to call bullshit. She was really nice...

[@Katzztar]

Bryne! That's who I was trying to think of... (need to go edit my comment now lol). Not only did the character's name came from a real person, but her looks was intended to be based on Sigourney Weaver originally. Fitting considering Kitty's first solo fight was against the demonic N'gari which gave some xenomorph vibes.... though the Brood were the real Marvel versions of those nasty body-snacthing aliens.

[@pbibbles]

I never knew 'Slap Shot' was an obscure movie. As far as I knew, it was to Hockey as 'Caddyshack' is to Golf, and 'Major League' is to Baseball. If you still haven't seen it, you really should. It's not just a great sports movie, it's a great movie in general. Think 'Might Ducks', but very much for adults.

[@ladykoiwolfe]

Look at Paul D'Amato these days....he still looks perfect for Wolverine, or rather Old Man Logan. But he's still too tall.

[@ladykoiwolfe]

@ROR Machine he looks better now than he did back then.

[@jeanettewu2537]

Stan Lee once did an interview saying who he based Prof X and three of the OG X-men on. Prof X was Leslie Howard (Ashley from Gone With the Wind), Cyclops was Anthony Perkins (Norman Bates from Psycho), Beast was Tony Randall (Unger from the Odd Couple), and Angel was Gene Barry (Bat Masterson).

[@jasonsmith7473]

Morbius looks like late stage Michael Jackson more than jack palance

[@ianforbes7286]

Now you mention it, Jacko as Morbius would have been near perfect. Someone else would have to have done the voice acting, though.

[@BurnTilDeath]

Seeing as they only showed pictures of Morbius after he transformed, part of me thought the inspiration was going to be Michael Jackson.

[@Katzztar]

The only X-Man I knew was based/influenced on/by a real person was Kitty Pryde. Her name came from an old classmate of Bryne but one note on sketch art implied her looks was based on Sigourney Weaver

[@WakenerOne]

Byrne has said flat out that she was supposed to be a young Sigourney Weaver.

[@stevetheduck1425]

Her first solo story has her fighting an 'Alien' like demon, and destroying it with the jet exhausts of the X-Men's 'Blackbird'. Pretty clear.

[@nick6var]

As the creator of Kitty Pryde, he never wanted her to be a genius but just a brave kid.

[@Katzztar]

@@nick6var - Kitty Pryde was crated by 2 men, Chris Claremont & John Bryne, and yes she was intended to be a genius. At least when written by Claremont. This was proven very shortly after she joins, in the same issue that introduced Stevie Hunter her dance instructor, Kitty tells Ororo that she already graduated high school and is taking college courses. Clairmont had her be a hacking& computer genius and be able create machines such as adapt Cerebro so non-telepaths could use it. Bryne didn't write her as often as Claremont did. I could see him having that idea though, because despite her genius, her behavior was that of a "girl next door".

[@Chuck_EL]

​@@WakenerOne I can definitely see it

[@markherron1407]

I like Vincent Price portrayed Dr Stephen Strange! Blessings and Hugs 💖🤗🙏🤗🙏🤗🙏🤗🙏🤗🙏🤗🙏🤗!

[@tomboughan2718]

Yeah, especially the part where he and Boris Karloff goes on a sorcerer's match. That was cool.

[@molochsorcery4357]

@@tomboughan2718 You mean the fireball duel in The Raven?

[@ianforbes7286]

Apparently fellow Horror Actor Peter Cushion was the inspiration for DC's Ras Al Ghull.

[@rikk319]

@@ianforbes7286 That's Peter Cushing...the same who played Van Helsing opposite his real-life friend Christopher Lee as Dracula...and played Grand Moff Tarkin in Star Wars.

[@ianforbes7286]

@@rikk319 Yep, that's the chap. Sorry, I miss spelt the Surname.

[@calebwitts1232]

“The kind of guy you wouldn’t want to piss off at a bar. The kind of guy that goes hunting, but doesn’t carry a gun.” MARVEL WRITE THAT DOWN

[@pulsarstargrave256]

Even more ironic, artist GENE COLAN also modelled his versionn of Dracula after Jack Palance, several months before Palance played the character!

[@SuperSaiyanGuyver]

Great stuff! I actually read that 2004 Byrne interview on Wolverine. I found a copy of Slap Shot and watched it. It was kinda hard since Byrne didnt leave much to go on, but the second I saw Dr. Hook I was like "Yup. That's him". Good times.

[@CarlosFontes]

Great video! I had no idea how many great actors served as inspiration! 🤯

[@stevetheduck1425]

It's been said by people who knew him that Stan Lee is also 'Mister Fantastic' of the fantastic four, as well as Funky Flashman from DC. Jack Kirby is the thing, his childhood friends are the Yancy Street Gang, in DC he's Dan Turpin, and Dave Cockrum drew the original Storm to resemble the Black Emannuelle star, Laura Gemser of Italian and Indonesian descent.

[@lexiyesitslexitexi3573]

Sooo.... wolverine was based off junior grimes?? is what i learned from this video

[@MaxieMeat]

Dude that Wolverine comparison is perfect.

[@craigjomaia]

Morbius to me always resembled actor Richard Lynch far more than Palance.

[@chadfalardeau5396]

The version in the early 90's animated series reminded me of Keanu Reeves

[@originalsuki]

Well, that was fun AF. Really nice work, man!

[@tomemyscoobies]

Fantastic video! I'm surprised though that, since you mentioned Diana Rigg, you didn't include that Emma Peel's look was a direct inspiration for the redesign of Black Widow.

[@blkluv100]

Her costume and hairstyle resemble Marianne Faithfull from the movie "The Girl On The Motorcycle" more than they do Emma Peel.

[@tomemyscoobies]

@@blkluv100 I've never come across her before, and you're absolutely right! She looks exactly the same!

[@kaustuvtube]

Monika Rambeau is now actually going to be screened with her original captain marvel suit in the "marvels" movie which is very similar to her comics suit!

[@thepeanutgallery6100]

Man it would have been pretty cool to see Stan Lee play J. Jonah Jameson.

[@molochsorcery4357]

Oh yeah!

[@r0bw00d]

Lee already admitted in an interview that Simmons' job was much better than he ever could pull off. I think Lee could've done a cheesy '60s or '70s Jameson, though.

[@thepeanutgallery6100]

@@r0bw00d Oh yes JK Simmons was still a great choice for Jameson.

[@snowdenwyatt6276]

@@thepeanutgallery6100 Simmons was great, R Lee Ermey would have been great as well.

[@Rowebot15]

Excelsior!!

[@dagoelius]

I always pictured Jack Nicholson as the perfect Wolverine.

[@bserum]

Dazzler was originally going to be based on Grace Jones, then later Bo Derek.

[@CT68]

Yeah, Marvel had a big hit with the Kiss comic book, so they were originally going to have an actress/singer perform as "Dazzler" on albums put out on Casablanca Records (that's why the early versions of the character are so disco.) The deal with Casablanca fell through, but they came out with the comic book.

[@tomboughan2718]

@@CT68 Dazzler first appeared in movies briefly in the movie X-Men:First Class.

[@ultra80sretrokid70]

Nah! Olivia Newton-John from the 80s!Dazzler was part of Olivia and Kiss rock band back in the 70s and 80s

[@WakenerOne]

Dazzler wasn't based on Bo Derek. Bo Derek was set to play Dazzler in a movie. The problem was that John Derek insisted on directing. And (and this came directly from the mouth of Stan Lee himself) "Nobody in Hollywood wanted to work with John Derek."

[@UnpleasantAlex]

I always thought the original depictions of Nick Fury looked a lot like Jim Byrnes who played Joe Dawson on the Highlander series. Apparently he actually voiced Nick Fury in some of the cartoons!

[@sage4all2000]

I always felt Steve Forrest was perfect for the original Nick Fury🤔

[@UnpleasantAlex]

@@sage4all2000 I can definitely see that.

[@mileslowry6669]

Everyone seems to forget that originally David Hasselhoff played Nick Fury in a TV movie called Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. after which the character resembled The Hoff in the comics.

[@GrandPoobahRoc]

He looked pretty different in the 60s/70s. Not to mention when they de-aged just his hair to put him in WW2 comics.

[@ColorMeConfused29]

How was Benedict Cumberbatch as Dr. Strange "boring"? I thought it was perfect casting.

[@mudejartrainingnaturalscie6938]

"Pam Grier wasn't as good looking".... 😂😂😂😂😂😂 Hilarious.

[@TheRealReVeLaTioN]

Ya, like what kind of man would say Pam Grier wasn’t as good looking?! Oh ya, the type that don’t find women attractive... or the type that don’t find certain skin tones attractive.

[@seanmoore3447]

😆😆😆😆

[@schmule460]

Pam grier is hawwwwt... He's straight trippin

[@thomaschristopherwhite9043]

Whoever said that had shit taste in everything

[@ferdinandocampbelljr8945]

Blasphemy

[@DrFroyd123]

Cumberbach looks the part of Dr. Strange, but he definately doesn't talk the part, that's a good point

[@eddietowers5595]

So in all of history of Wolverine’s basis, there are only two actors on the planet that could’ve played/portrayed live action wolverine is Paul Damato and Sonny Landham, of 1987 “Predator” fame, as Billy. That character portrayed the living embodiment of of Wolverine.

[@eddietowers5595]

@Budgie Cat Oh, wow...you're right. That's a good one. Ol" Jackie would've still made a definitive joker, afterwards, too.

[@johnnyskinwalker4095]

holly crap yea Scott Landham would have been great. You should watch the show "Black Sails" there's a character in that called Charles Vane and that guy would make a good Wolvie as well