Has Marvel or DC ever get any character ideas from Hollywood?

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Its something I noticed some of the comic book creations seem like they have been inspired by movies

 
For example the Brood seem similar to the aliens from the movie Aliens

 
 

                                                              

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Movie monsters like Dracula, Godzilla, the Wolfman, vampires, werewolves, and Frankenstein's monster have made it into comics as well. 
 
So here's the question have Marel and DC ever really made any characters inspired by anything made by Hollywood per say movies t.v. series etc.

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I doubt it.

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Hal Jordan's original appearance and personality are based on Paul Newman.
Tony Stark is based on Howard Hughes, who was an aviator, inventor, and film director.
 
I wouldn't be surprised if Cyborg Superman were based on the terminator.

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@Captain13:  Cyborg Supes was more of a Reed Richards-type at first. (Hence "Hank Henshaw", and the rocket to somewhere with 3 friends who all gain powers...)
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Wolverine was loosely based off of Clint Eastwood

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@Gambit1024 said:
" Wolverine was loosely based off of Clint Eastwood "
Really?
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@CaptainUseless said:
" @Gambit1024 said:
" Wolverine was loosely based off of Clint Eastwood "
Really? "
I remember hearing that from somewhere. It honestly wouldn't surprise me though. 
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Can't find the image to cement the point, but the X-character Cable owes much to the Terminator series (the image being Cable having half his face peeled away just like the Terminator cyborg)... a cyborg soldier from a post-apocalyptic future sent back in time to save mankind?

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Ultimate Nick Fury.

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@The Mango said:
" Ultimate Nick Fury. "
Oh yeah, forgot about him.
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I know that when Bryan Hitch was drawing the characters for The Ultimates, he used a bunch of actors as a template for the characters. Millar even referred to it in one of the earlier issues.  It was: 
 
Brad Pitt- Captain America 
Johnny Depp- Iron Man 
Matthew McConoughey (or however you spell it) 
Lucy Liu- Wasp 
Steve Buscemi- Bruce Banner 
Samuel L. Jackson- Nick Fury  
 
Here's the conversation: 
 

Nick Fury: Hey, did you hear you’ve been optioned as a movie? Betty Ross was telling me they’re already in discussions with Brad Pitt about a three picture deal to play Captain America.

Captain America (Steve Rogers): Who’s Brad Pitt?

Giant-Man (Henry Pym): What, are you serious? My God. This might not be such a disaster after all, huh? Who do you think they could get to play you, Nick?

Nick Fury: Why, Mister Samuel L. Jackson, of course. That’s not even open to debate, Doctor Pym. And I’ll tell you the one guy who could do a convincing Tony Stark — From Hell’s Johnny Depp.

Wasp (Janet Pym): What? Depp’s too much of a pretty-boy. Stark’s a crazy kind of Howard Hughes character. I’d rather see someone with more of an eccentric range.

Nick Fury: Don’t underestimate Depp, Mrs. Pym. A lot of people tag him with that pretty-boy label, but he’s actually one of the most accomplished actors in Hollywood at the moment. Picture him doing Ed Wood in an Iron Man suit and you’ve got Tony Stark up there in celluloid, baby.

Giant-Man (Henry Pym): Yeah, I could see that. You know, you’ve actually got a real knack for this casting thing, Nick. Who do you think they could get to play me?

Nick Fury: Oh, that’s easy. Lantern-jawed Matthew McConoughey, of course.

Wasp (Janet Pym): What about me?

Nick Fury: Heck, who else but Miss Lucy Liu?

Wasp (Janet Pym): Oh, naturally. Even though she looks absolutely nothing like me, she’d be great because all Asian people are basically identical, right? Who’d be your back-up choice, General? Bruce Lee?

Captain America (Steve Rogers): Who’s Bruce Lee?

The characters then go on to make fun of Bruce Banner (the Hulk), claiming he could be played by “Woody Allen”, “the creepy, little kid from the Sixth Sense”, “Stuart Little” and “Steve Buscemi”.

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#12  Edited By The Mango

I don't know if I would take that single conversation to mean they were all based off those people.
 
Janet is right that she doesn't look anything like Lucy Liu.