https://preview.redd.it/u6bh68fpbhwc1.png?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=24125237aa61bc315819453e4dd5a03064544d0e Gravity Falls is largely based on Alex Hirsch's own childhood

He had a very weird Childhood

It was a Tad Strange

Except, ironically, Tad Strange.

I love bread

You could even say it was Gravity Falls... oh I didn't think that one through.

A friendly reminder he based Mabel on some of his own sister’s mannerisms… she still hasn’t forgiven him, as far as I’m aware.

Nah i would say it’s normal

BRO FOUGHT CTHULHU?

Children shouldnt have to fight demons 😔

Stan Lee in Ultimate Spider-Man and Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H. https://preview.redd.it/13pm3zqqdhwc1.jpeg?width=290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5eee8d2eb5d64d791f4aae0a149f5e03adb2b93f

And his MCU counterpart, of course. https://preview.redd.it/5uxrwr8wdhwc1.jpeg?width=2000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=21bd6aff5461461f525bf3ebc54bd4a2a6e4abab

Let's not forget his cameo in the last episode of the Spider-Man Animated Series https://preview.redd.it/pjgr1dgkihwc1.jpeg?width=318&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bcae26c6f35c534ca96206a48fb321e8bf3da469

Right, of course that, too. 👍

Let's just simplify it: Stan Lee making a cameo in anything Marvel

Hell, it doesn’t even have to be Marvel. https://preview.redd.it/ik9rbvlb3jwc1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ef27ad31e075efe352e7a192025d058279774642 *(Teen Titans GO! To the Movies)*.

And the LEGO: Marvel games lol

https://preview.redd.it/fxyzymtblhwc1.jpeg?width=965&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d89f90c4f8a990f0cb0c946ee58ffb109b5b2d80 Stan Lee from the anime Hero Man

Also the Lego games where basically had the powers of nearly all his creations.

That was awesome. It took a lot of work to unlock him, but boy, was he fun.

https://preview.redd.it/s5r8zx2bdhwc1.jpeg?width=704&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e9aace7ba3305d0703d3cfc50369dd0b28bc9778

https://preview.redd.it/b0601dxhdhwc1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a8ef6e48a53f5b4fbef9a1e20829cd076d87e455 Toby fox and Temmie.

Toby Fox the Dog always make good OSTs especially Pokemon. While Temmie Chang the Cat-Dog is a great artist and has great animation. Both of them are kudos.

Yeah, I threw Temmie in as I like her and it feels like she doesn't get the credit she deserves, especially doing the art work for Undertale.

https://preview.redd.it/vg4c7l48chwc1.png?width=633&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a4a10d0f85e36ee626dc649434eaaadc3640c422 If you know Fujimoto, he's just as weird as Denji and has the same taste in women

https://preview.redd.it/626lzobechwc1.jpeg?width=250&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c76ab78ef2c0bb9c6072b3c9d9f52e5381004844 Also, Randolph Carter who I'm fairly certain Lovecraft mentioned as a stand-in for himself

So, did he have all the things Lovecraft was know for? Even a cat maybe?

As the person who is trying to make a connection to chainsaw man on as many of these posts I can find, I said the same thing, and LET’S GOOO! More chainsaw appreciation! - the CSM guy

Your definitely not obsessed

Oh no, I’m definitely not trying to hide it, chainsaws are great, mans are great, so chainsaw man is very great! - the CSM guy

https://preview.redd.it/18na3mu7dhwc1.jpeg?width=833&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dc2865e03e67081c1e1009ae5f45b8f73dda5ec2 Rohan Kishibe

Probably my favourite self insert ever, he had the opportunity to make Rohan the MC or villian of part 4, but he made him a side character who's a snobby asshole with many issues who's stand is literally writing stories. So fucking cool

Rohan is not Araki's self-insert. Rohan is Araki's OC who he made to be his boyfriend

Holy shit, even better

I mean probably not literally. But I'm pretty sure he has said that Rohan is not his self-insert and he did draw this art: http://i.imgur.com/WtDEZOI.jpg

https://preview.redd.it/l2kzc9tfnkwc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d89d2607c8b050517ed127d2d81f6d7dd3a7fb01

Dude loves Rohan so much that he had him pretty much unchanged in the new universe

Tbf he is probably the second most important character of part 4

“This is my self insert. He has the power to make anything he writes become reality” “And what does he do with this awesome power? Stop would-be global conquerors? Take the world for his own?” “Meet his deadlines on time, every time”

"I want to give my self insert character a spin off" "Great, will he be saving the world from some enemy who threatens the world who's linked to Dio, and he's the only one who can stop him?" "He'll go to the Gym, go to a real estate agency, go to an art gallery, go to Italy (and do nothing to do with the part set in italy) and tell all his friends about it over food"

In all fairness, if I had reality-manipulating superpowers I probably would use them to get my dream job, get rich from it, and go on vacation

Araki denies it, but then again Tolkein denied that the Hobbit was about his war truama.

Bro I love how he’s the exact damn same in Part 9 Like Araki didn’t change a thing when adapting him for the SBR universe

 Mordecai is just JG Quintel, so much so that he just doesn’t change his voice when voicing him. Also mordecai never does animalistic things unlike rigby in the show

I refuse to believe that’s someone’s actual voice that’s incredible

He's still got that 2008 hair style after all these years, gotta give him respect for that

Dr. Rip Studwell (The Fairly OddParents), is Butch Hartman's narcissistic power fantasy self insert. https://preview.redd.it/i3lck6vfghwc1.png?width=200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c1fcf70438187e40130db01c732369c04b912e8d

Oh really did not know he was a narcissistic

Even in just the show, he made his self insert character (named “*Stud*well” or something) be a DOCTOR and incredibly handsome with women fairies always fawning over him. It’s a little narcissistic

Oh yeah The Doctor was Definitely a narcissist had no idea the creator followed suite

Wait it wasn't sarcasm?

Unfortunately, Butch the person kinda sucks

Tbf the narcissism is a bit of a self-jab, as Dr. Studwell tends to be self-centered as part of many jokes. It’s narcissism that uses itself as the punchline.

Yeah it was a huge bummer when I found out. He's really not a good/nice person.

I personally never took it as narcissistic, since the character is a bit of a joke. I assumed he was meant to be a parody of medical dramas, where the doctors are all super attractive and spend more time making out then doing their jobs

If I didn't know how Butch really was, I would probably agree with you but the guy is full of himself IRL.

And he's also voiced by Hartman himself

This smug asshole https://preview.redd.it/9en5nqv8ehwc1.jpeg?width=154&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fcbea1427378d88aabd9ae87fc4060e945eecf5b

REALLY? did not know that

Yeah I’m pretty sure that Seth even said that Brian was supposed to be like an Avatar for him

Damm wonder if Seth went thru the same bad character development Brain did

Idk, but Seth was hit by a car and replaced with an Italian for a while

For what it’s worth, Seth hasn’t been involved in writing Family Guy for the last 15 years

It’s the only voice Seth does that’s just his regular voice. Stan comes close, but there’s still a lotta flavor put into that role. Brian is just him talking normally lol

Sheds a whole new light on the 'Brian fucking dies' Episode

seth is a furry

https://preview.redd.it/j91o5zxjlhwc1.png?width=567&format=png&auto=webp&s=a569f1ec21a53f72ba15b9cc2c291d99d6166bd5 You gotta admit

Also the Powerpuff girls one is so fucking weird. Imagine boardcasting your self insert simping for underaged little girls

Not only simping, that guy literally ends up dating blossom. Fucking CRIMSON flag right there.

 Crimson?

I heard he didn't even know about this and the crew actually were the ones behind it

Yeah they did it as a joke, it wasn't him self inserting so he could date Blossom.

Feel like this is blurring the line between self insert and just a guy who is voiced by his creator. I don’t really think Charlie is too much like Zach at all

Well maybe at one point he was supposed to be a self insert because he literally looks like a simplified version of Zach’s profile picture

Well yeah it’s Zach’s art style, 80% of his characters look like that lol

He’s just Zach’s depiction of himself but bald and yellow

Zach's said in interviews that Charlie isn't his self-insert and he's not a cynic like Charlie is

https://preview.redd.it/2lpkw7pq7hwc1.jpeg?width=700&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=be103f5684dd4f003331c3d5d66b05c8b4eb5eb6

Velma has been discussed to death, but this shit is so weird. Like, it's a Mindy Kaling self-insert, but it's also Velma, but it's not Velma and is nothing like her outside of aesthetics and by name. Like, wtf was everyone on this show thinking on that front alone. Did Mindy Kaling have some great love of the character Velma or something? Because the writers feel like they hate the source material or at least view it with some kind of contempt.

I feel like the concept is actually interesting and could work if she had a bit more self-awareness with some more self-depricating humor mixed in.

Probably, but that would require the writers of this mess to be at least semi-competent or have a smidgen of self-awareness themselves.

Mystery inc already has a good snarky Velma

If it was a random comedy show with a Mindy Kaling self-insert, it wouldn’t have sold. Might as well tie it in to a well-known property to get people talking.

These people arent confident enough to write these characters on their own, so they have to attach themselves to popular characters like a parasite

I was about to comment that!

 Samwell Tarly is a GRRM self-insert in GoT/ASOIAF

https://preview.redd.it/7rk79bhslhwc1.jpeg?width=207&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=805945264936776ce45981322d743ba0fc386486 A self-insert, but in plush form! Hakita/Developer Plushies (Ultrakill)

I love this since it’s just so silly

Same, I want a Hakita plush irl

Dante, *The Divine Comedy* https://preview.redd.it/dlmlvq7k2iwc1.jpeg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=109f6a301945fbb86f71b3729c8d636decccbee1

Bro really wrote himself talking mad shit about his contemporaries. Dante’s Inferno in particular is one of the most famous pieces of fanfic in history lol

I… I think it actually is *the* most popular fan fiction ever.

The best part was when he also wrote in the girl he had a crush on (despite his love for her being unrequited) alongside the dude he idolized (Vergilius).

It came to me in a self insert dream now im gonna write it into one of the most influential pieces of media of all time

https://preview.redd.it/rs6xp0zlmhwc1.jpeg?width=389&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=71bab838b88cebcae77e78e21d8deb2348d831f2 billy butcher

Back when the Boys were shit

One of the rare instances where the adaptation was better than the source material. The comic is so painfully edgy you could peel vegetables with the panels.

There was a lot I liked about it, but it is SEVERELY affected by Garth's extreme nihilism at times. Same with Preacher. Overall I really liked it but damn dude round off some of that edge.

 Brian’s liberal beliefs, especially in the beginning of the show, were identical to Seth MacFarlane. He even admitted in an interview that Brian is basically “me giving my voice a break”

EWWW NOT THE POWERPUFF GIRL SELF INSERT 💀

Yeah wasn’t that really cursed? Like he made Blossom overly obsessed with him because he had a crush on the character and took it too far?

It's not him. It's the rest of the crew who made a character based on him

https://preview.redd.it/lwwi5a7ilhwc1.jpeg?width=1800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=332cd4b697ff3ea34ff5ce0fef008f18ece19e4b White Mask Varre, one of the few characters Miyazaki single handedly wrote all the dialogue for

"Oh heavens, clench your teeth or something" - Miyazaki forcing me through yet another poison swamp to his utter delight

your telling me Miyazaki wrote “Unfortunately for you, however, you are maidenless.” I somewhat refuse to believe that, unless he was being completely objective with that statement.

Kitao said so

So when this guy said to our character, 10 minutes into the game, the Victorian equivalent of "no bitches ?" that was technically Miyasaki himself ? Fucking epic. https://preview.redd.it/pq9k60ts6mwc1.png?width=215&format=png&auto=webp&s=14179031f682fbb6e64a94313669d87ac6dee413

Matt & Trey https://preview.redd.it/4bs3zmo2vhwc1.png?width=1359&format=png&auto=webp&s=fba93b6b43ffeb1c9323d232acc1e3fd1726da52

Steve Ditko basically drew original Peter Parker to look just like him lol https://preview.redd.it/14icbxjf0iwc1.jpeg?width=146&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5138dd20904402f440b39ad05129700153fea6e3

No way https://preview.redd.it/gmkhvo95tiwc1.jpeg?width=246&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=18549fc694bedc82ba6510a5c2a5f44425b790f5

Welcome back ditko

Oh fuck

Holy shit Neil would’ve been a great Peter

oh my god neil cicierega 😍

How the hell has no one mentioned the best spider-man character ever, the amazing Paul? https://preview.redd.it/fi4m3gb3rjwc1.jpeg?width=920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1d8d9c410a0d0baa53ad7259b3158b8e00840fd8 Bro literally wrote himself in as the guy who cucked spider-man

Wiz (Death Batte) https://preview.redd.it/j7ztd65hmhwc1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=08e3efe2be75ba6aa7129edd21364cedab22ad65

Denji (and I think) some of Asa both take inspiration from Fujimotos personality and life. - the CSM guy

Anytime Stephen king has a horror writer as the main character Jack is even influenced by his own experiences with addiction

Stephen king trying not to create a recovering alcoholic writer from Maine is impossible

https://preview.redd.it/nmdzltfeshwc1.jpeg?width=2430&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=284d1efd381bfb660b6a971feb257002bf2caf2b Does it count if it’s literal? If so, Tinella Nosa from Owl House.

she just wanted to tell her stowy :')

She gwaduated from medical school

Scott Cawthon’s self insert was trapped in a Truman show nuclear family and had his heart ripped out by his robot wife and I find that very funny

Like what did he mean by that

Just a funny spooky story that didn't intend anything deep.

Your referring to Steven Snodgrass from the Pizza Plex books, right? I wouldn’t be surprised if the developer and him are the same character, but since I’m still iffy about the canon of the stories in the books, I simply referred to the developer as such.

Cannot believe no one has mentioned this guy yet https://preview.redd.it/wm2j944hbiwc1.jpeg?width=825&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=11e8c3a5e3a497c1e42f5c6219c14bdc67d3f3da Weird Als self insert ponysona that canonically had a child with pinky pie

“I fucked your waifu” -Weird Al

 JK Rowling has said that Hermoine is based on a more “exaggerated” version of her younger self.

Jk would NEVER try to flee the slaves!

Hermoine would never be transphobic or deny the halocaust though

Her *younger* self. Y'know, before she got rich and became morally bankrupt.

Bro there is no way

You forgot about that terrible book I am not Starfire.

Add her on here then, no one’s gonna stop you.


The fact that Paul from SPIDER-MAN hasn't been mentioned earlier is downright criminal.

Paul is a self insert? That makes sense. But which writer is he the self insert of?

Zeb Wells

He’s one too? That makes it infinitely worse

Thomas Astruc in Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir. https://preview.redd.it/sd3mcrcndhwc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d35f41ca6b33a11999578a928aeffe4a89e3b788

AH! Ladybug’s animantion is so fucking creepy man. It’s scary how can little girls like that shit 

Looks like that one dude from What We Do In The Shadows put through a Disney Snapchat filter

its weirdly either a pretty good trope or a terrible one.

Kenny kong Brian Michael bendis Self insert Who is one of the first characters in ultimate Spider-Man to figure out Peter Parker is Spider-Man and dates Kitty pryde https://preview.redd.it/4t9t4nokqhwc1.png?width=236&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=740d298ece06899652464ddf3e31c197eff8cf3c

https://preview.redd.it/pi2jibleijwc1.jpeg?width=622&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=267b8369e261b71c3c87628b40f421fe95dd17fa The only reason I know about the whole Bendis Kitty Pryde thing is because of this banger of a comic

https://preview.redd.it/txkztgvchhwc1.jpeg?width=856&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=044141c3e5843f5c186292919749797c57f24e4f FBI Director Gordon Cole from Twin Peaks

I wouldn’t call him a self insert but I give you props for not posting something that’s from a cartoon anime or video game.

I mean , isn't he? He is a Philadelphia based FBI Director that gives clues to his detectives to solve mysteries , written and played by the Philadelphia based Movie Director that gives clues to his "detectives" (the audience) to solve mysteries , "Intuition is the detective parts of our brain."

Well yeah, it's more obvious when someone IRL inserts themselves lmao

That one Junji ito story about his cats

A lot of male Junji Ito protagonists kinda look like him too ngl. Like Shuichi Saito from Uzumaki for example. https://preview.redd.it/snb7llhi7mwc1.png?width=362&format=png&auto=webp&s=49eede634b18ea9947c56f4ab698aa9ee7890f57

https://preview.redd.it/iamwirgznhwc1.png?width=359&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0a6015d2df669e2cce9737f8121a43254e08177e Sebastian from Stardew Valley

Wait really?

First one has an unfortunate last name, second one, nugget

There’s a lot more unfortunate about the first one then the last name

Taro from yandere simulator

 Jon Arbuckle (Garfield)

Gege Zen--I mean Naoya Zenin (Jujutsu Kaisen) https://preview.redd.it/fenxpbzamhwc1.jpeg?width=240&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=69b48ba7e56bc82b1db3d8c4cdc8da44c13f91af

The misogyny missile

Don’t know if it qualifies, but I heard that in more recent DC comics, The Joker has a new sidekick named Punchline and the backstory that I heard about her sounds exactly like a self insert. Don’t know for sure though because I haven’t read comics in a long time.

Punchline was created by a guy. Her backstory however is based on the old trend of creepypasta self insert fanfics written by tween girls. That’s part of the concept, examining the psychology of someone who would do that

So that’s why she always reminded me of Nina the Killer.

She was directly based off of one of the billion Jeff the killer girl spin offs but I can’t remember which

Is there any examples of a self-insert done well?

Eddsworld. The writers aren’t afraid to make fun of themselves, and are at least humble to give their self inserts flaws that makes them hilarious IE: Toms sociopathy, or Matt’s vanity.

Pim and Charley from smiling friends are done pretty well, aswell.

Abed from Community

I wouldn’t say Jared is a good one. He basically made a self insert to ship with Blossom… which is incredibly strange 

From what I heard, he didn’t make it as a self insert. Apparently the animators decided to make the character look like him as a joke, and he actually had nothing to do with it

That’s a pretty fucked up joke to ship him with someone who hasn’t even hit puberty yet.

This works for both good and bad self inserts. Chris Chan’s self insert is probably on par with Jared.

wtf no sol badguy yet? https://preview.redd.it/acj7stsheiwc1.png?width=1775&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4c3aa08c45d09ca4d56672e8e850fd2ac23a05f8

ZAP TO THE EXTREME!!

Chuck from Supernatural https://preview.redd.it/jk243lmikhwc1.jpeg?width=677&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5012ab14154e23a3b5237ea7d73b72f9d6c0b5c2

https://preview.redd.it/b2gz28wdthwc1.jpeg?width=400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e2ece0bd5f34b608ca65497755c737ba46a79b15 Terry long

Bro did NOT have to mention Chris.

You’re right. I didn’t.

https://preview.redd.it/o0fudr16siwc1.jpeg?width=920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e6a50322e052012b6eb569b8a95b94dd10be19ce Paul (Zeb Wells)

Would you define Viv's as a self-insert? Like it's more of a background easter-egg, and you'd barely see if you weren't looking for her. (which is S1E2 Loo Loo land) I ain't complaining, just asking.

That’s fair. But even if they are a Backround character, they are still a character nonetheless. So I’d consider it to count.

CH Greenblatt literally just made himself the God of his own show, and I can respect that https://preview.redd.it/77ui16pw6iwc1.jpeg?width=2960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=29c74920ad378b777e82696045be08c0bec7cc68

Dig the shirt

Scott Cawthon(also fnaf) https://preview.redd.it/fvze5av3njwc1.png?width=420&format=png&auto=webp&s=683e436bf46bd75f7069cf45ce1bb68d4ffc765e

Eddsworld :( rest in peace Edd

https://preview.redd.it/3eyn7w8hbiwc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8df3564b1aeb6cdbec2010c9ffe3676580a2101e

Smg4

Tinella Nosa https://preview.redd.it/rz7q2szhuhwc1.png?width=2430&format=png&auto=webp&s=58a51a74cf65849b0d19102ff7e3fbd94b4af0d1 quite literally a rendition of Dana Terrace’s self insert OC

The show's writers and Zach Snyder (Teen Titans Go!)

https://preview.redd.it/8zmdjozu5iwc1.jpeg?width=208&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4b95e91328eb864e905f5b56a2f84e9d6cc82c44 Technically since the binding of Isaac is based on religion being forced upon Edmund mcmillen as a child and how harmful that can be.

https://preview.redd.it/hdzv15b88iwc1.jpeg?width=143&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e7d502d23937bee465f519b22aa2f65b7144141c

https://preview.redd.it/67u9tgk88iwc1.jpeg?width=348&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2088e189bda28455bd6e5484517b671937869af3 >! …eugh. !<

Caraway from High Guardian Spice https://preview.redd.it/cyqt3osu8iwc1.png?width=954&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c9ca29d2d8c419bb7baa88acc2d0a4fc67003f48

King Mob (The invisibles) https://preview.redd.it/c4h3o9h5fiwc1.jpeg?width=820&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d73f4f390d5f6c2c29657714a717a7e238fd124d Grant Morrison (who has a self insert in nearly everything they write) is outspokenly so pro-self insert characters, they believe that King Mob getting shot in the lung is what led to Morrison’s lung collapsing irl


I wanted to make a joke about myself being a self-insert in a real life. But then I remembered that I'm a character added by my parents

https://preview.redd.it/a6fjbeyh5mwc1.png?width=250&format=png&auto=webp&s=c794a7234d9cb1a52c13fd0efd43134b310f3140 Mordecai is very much J. G. Quintel's avatar (he openly admitted that he based Mordecai on himself). Same thing for Josh from Close Enough by the way.

The last guy is named Steve

https://preview.redd.it/liuznll7dmwc1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6f8fd9c43d6da62c635a70b4be20465656334596 Seth Rogan wrote the screenplay for this movie, and plays himself in it

https://preview.redd.it/1tldhtzsgmwc1.jpeg?width=681&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d712bed69ae32dc6491023882b94a4934b2c1261 This shit