Parodies
Nick Carter stories features a great number of parodies of famous themes and characters of literature, film, TV and history. An incomplete list includes:
- Marlon Brando, satirized two times: as the mafioso Babbino ("Little Daddy"), after the main character of The Godfather (Padrino, "little father", in Italian) film; and as Merlon, a trade union leader in a story inspired to the film On the Waterfront. Note that in Italian "Merlon" is something such as "Big blackbird", where "blackbird" is colloquial for foolish.
- Mandrake the Magician, featured as the Great Mephisto, a criminal hypnotizer.
- The famous adventure comics character Corto Maltese, as himself. He maintains, in pure Hugo Pratt's style: "I don't live for vile money. I live for adventure."
- King Kong, as a giant gorilla of the "Barzum Circus", who falls in love with Patsy.
- Lenin, as himself, in the prison wagon carrying him back to Russia.
- Adolf Hitler, whose face is that of an unnamed, fanatic character attempting to bring panic in New York with a series of terroristic acts.
- Jack London, portrayed with Bonvi's face.
- Orson Welles, as "Borson Willis", facing a false invasion from Mars, of course played by the ubiquitous Moulinsky.
- Former Italian premier Giulio Andreotti, as the "prime minister", in a late story of 1993.
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“The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)