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20 Characters You Never Realized Are Based On Real People

By:: Cracked Writers; Ryan Menezes

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20 Characters You Never Realized Are Based On Real People

We can all take a moment and immediately think of a fictional character we consider iconic. And chances are, that character was heavily influenced by someone who really lived (or currently lives). And it makes sense. After all, someone who seems larger than life will likely translate well into a fictional setting. With that in mind, we bring you some of pop culture's most famous characters -- and their real influences.

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20 Characters You Never Realized Are Based On Real People - Sydney Greenstreet was a film noir actor famous for playing greedy gangsters. George Lucas — Read More: 5 Characters Amazingly Based on Real People

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20 Characters You Never Realized Are Based On Real People - John Nettleship described himself as “a short-tempered chemistry teacher with long hair .. — Read More: 5 Villains That Were Thinly-Veiled Versions of Real People

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20 Characters You Never Realized Are Based On Real People - Travis Bickle, the nutjob played by Robert DeNiro in Taxi Driver, was based on actual nutj — Read More: 5 Badass Movie Characters You Didn't Know Were Real People

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20 Characters You Never Realized Are Based On Real People - The Seinfeld Soup Nazi was based on Al Yeganeh, an actual New York soup vendor. Just like — Read More: 5 Villains That Were Thinly-Veiled Versions of Real People

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20 Characters You Never Realized Are Based On Real People - When designing Kratos, the God Of War team looked to Edward Norton's character in American — Read More: 5 Characters Amazingly Based on Real People

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20 Characters You Never Realized Are Based On Real People - Animation director Eric Stough got on the South Park creators’ nerves with his mild- manne — Read More: 5 Plotlines Where The Creators Secretly Trolled People

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20 Characters You Never Realized Are Based On Real People - Rocky was based on Chuck Wepner, liquor salesman by day and boxer by night. He got the sam — Read More: 9 Absurd Movie Premises That Actually Happened

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20 Characters You Never Realized Are Based On Real People - Shrek is rumored to have been based on Maurice Tillet, a professional wrestler from the mi — Read More: 15 Mind-Blowing Old-Timey Photos You Won't Believe Are Real

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20 Characters You Never Realized Are Based On Real People - Rocko from Rocko’s Modern Life was based on Woody Allen. When producers pitched the show t — Source: A Celebration of Animation

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20 Characters You Never Realized Are Based On Real People - Norman Bates was much tamer than inspiration d Gein. Gein liked to visit cemeteries and ex — Read More: 5 Badass Movie Characters You Didn't Know Were Real People

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20 Characters You Never Realized Are Based On Real People - Popeye was based on Frank “Rocky” Fiegel, and he was a tough guy from Popeye creator E.C. — Read More: 8 Characters You Won't Believe Are Based on Real People

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20 Characters You Never Realized Are Based On Real People - Sergio Gutierrez Benitez was a Mexican priest who fought as mysterious masked wrestler Fra — Read More: 6 Real People With Secret Identities Nobody Saw Coming

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20 Characters You Never Realized Are Based On Real People - Louis “Red” Deutsch was a New Jersey bartender and ex-boxer. In the ’70s, professional pra — Read More: 5 Villains That Were Thinly-Veiled Versions of Real People

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20 Characters You Never Realized Are Based On Real People - Draper “Dan” Daniels was head of the Leo Burnett Agency in the ’60s. He was the creator of — Source: Chicago Mag

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20 Characters You Never Realized Are Based On Real People - The real Dirty Harry was named Dave. Dave Toschi was a San Francisco cop who caught Hollyw — Read More: 5 Badass Movie Characters You Didn't Know Were Real People

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20 Characters You Never Realized Are Based On Real People - In 50 First Dates, Lucy suffers from anterograde amnesia, unable to remember anything afte — Read More: 6 Movies You Won't Believe Are Based on Insane True Stories

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20 Characters You Never Realized Are Based On Real People - Betty Boop was created as a parody of Helen Kane, a popular actress and singer from the ’2 — Read More: 8 Characters You Won't Believe Are Based on Real People

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20 Characters You Never Realized Are Based On Real People - Jack Nicholson’s Departed villain was directly based on James “Whitey” Bulger, right down — Read More: 5 Badass Movie Characters You Didn't Know Were Real People

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20 Characters You Never Realized Are Based On Real People - The Dude from The Big Lebowski was inspired by the Coen Brothers’ friend Jeff Dowd. The Du — Read More: 8 Characters You Won't Believe Are Based on Real People

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