15 Fictional Characters You Might Not Know Are Based on Real People
Why make up an entire person, when you can just use a ready-made model?
Is reality truly stranger than fiction? We don’t know for sure -- but it’s certain that a lot of the time, it doesn’t charge royalties. It happens more often than you think that writers just take real, living people, change them barely enough to claim copyright (or, you know, avoid a defamation lawsuit), and call it a day. Yes, writing is still a lot of work, but it really helps to have a library of several billion ready-made models, doesn’t it?
Hannibal Lecter
Source: Latin Times
Source: Outsider
Abed
Source: Comedy Central (via archive.org)
Source: Smithsonian Magazine
Source: BaltimoreBrew
Scrooge
Source: PopMatters
Rocky
Sherlock Holmes
The Godfather
Source: Den of Geek
Source: All Engelhard
Source: The Washington Post
Source: Complex, The Philadelphia Inquirer
Source: IGN
Source: Bibliology
