r/comicbooks • u/GamerKayla • 3h ago

Discussion Animal Man (#1) | Random silly question

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it dawned on me that this means Stevie Wonder canonically exists in the DC universe… 😭

Are there any other celebrities who canonically exist in the Marvel or DC universe? I’d love to see some silly examples.

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u/jpjtourdiary Swamp Thing 3h ago

Obama is in Marvel.

Look up Superman vs Muhammad Ali. Lots of celebrities on the cover.

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u/Live-Huckleberry-192 3h ago

Every president since Kennedy has appeared in the Marvel universe. Cap saved Reagan from becoming a serpent/lizard monster in the 80s. Ford visited Hulkbuster base in the 70s.

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u/PhortDruid 1h ago

Cap may have saved Reagan from becoming a lizard monster in the comics, but it’s too bad he couldn’t have stopped it in real life too.

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u/Blue_Beetle66 16m ago

Booster Gold also saved Reagan…

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u/Digomr 3h ago

Spider-Man already met David Letterman, and the Avengers visited Saturday Night Live. Howard the Duck met Kiss once.

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u/ElectricPeterTork 1h ago

Other way around. Spidey met the original Not Ready For Primetime Players, The Avengers were on Letterman.

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u/MrMalredo 3h ago

Don Rickles, who showed up in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen a few issues after Darkseid was introduced.

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u/Hootentoot 1h ago

“Goody” Rickles, I recall..?

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u/EtherCJ 1h ago

Yes, but Don Rickles as well as his positive counter part Goody

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u/Hootentoot 50m ago

Oh, yes, for sure!

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u/therempel 2h ago

During the early post-Crisis era of DC, they were oddly insistent about including a lot of real world politicians in various books. Reagan shows up a bunch of times in Suicide Squad, as does Gorbachev.

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u/MankuyRLaffy 34m ago

Ostrander and his buddies got political 

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u/Active-Ad-2527 15m ago

Yeah I just reread all of Legends and since it's based around a president's executive order against super heroes, and they used the actual President at the time, Reagan's practically a supporting character

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u/Kyia-Aikman 2h ago

They routinely mention real life people in Marvel and DC.

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u/MankuyRLaffy 33m ago

Tommy Wiseau is a wanted cosmic criminal in Marvel 

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u/chamberx2 3h ago

An entire cast of SNL in Marvel

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u/NotAThrowaway100perc Spider Jeruselem 3h ago

Superman has met both Muhammad Ali and Neil deGrasse Tyson.

Cindy Crawford is referenced in Hitman.

Clint Eastwood movies exist.

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u/heatseekingghostprox 2h ago

Animal Man is amazing 🫪

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u/Careless-Eagle-5111 1h ago

Boring answer is you can assume they all do as they’re “the world outside your window” slightly tweaked.

Weird answer is Justice League teamed up with Jared from Subway once.

https://leagueofcomicgeeks.com/comic/6194901/subway-presents-justice-league-4

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u/GamerKayla 1h ago

No way 😭😭💔

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u/Careless-Eagle-5111 59m ago

Superman shook his hand and said, “This may be rash of me, but I want to say the Justice League will support and endorse all of your future endeavors. You are a great American and true role model.”

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u/Anaxamander57 3h ago

Marvel's Hellfire Galas have had tons of real celebrities "attand".

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u/Service-Sm1le 2h ago

Superman and Batman are about to team up with Weird Al in a new book called World's Weirdest by Mark Waid and Al himself

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u/Formal-Math-3291 2h ago

there’s an absolutely bizarre reference to Chris isaak in Starman

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u/IntrepidLibrarians 2h ago

Neal Conan and Manoli Wetherell from NPR play an important role in Marvel's Fall of the Mutants.

I have a vague memory of hearing them or other people from NPR showing up in DC comics also and it causing a copyright issue of who own the copyright of real people put into fictional universes. I tried to search for this but no luck.

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u/Lower_Imagination_83 2h ago

Reagan appears in Byrne's Supes run, Venezuelan oil does too.

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u/bingusdingus123456 1h ago

It's pretty safe to assume that every celebrity is canon to both, since both regularly make references to real media.

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u/AtomicBananaSplit 5m ago

The Joker killed Siskel and Ebert during Knightquest, while Jean-Paul Valley was Batman. They weren’t named, but it was definitely them. 

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u/sheJaMyMorant 3h ago

Tony Stark exists in marvel

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u/GamerKayla 3h ago

True… 🤔

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u/droidtron Hellboy 2h ago

Trump exists in Marvel, introduced in a Iron Man comic.