Songs about fictional people

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Inspired by the thread Songs about famous people - as I went through my MP3s for that thread, I found a few songs about fictional characters too, so how about a list of songs that are about, named after, or mention fictional characters?

Rules:
By “fictional” I mean established ones from books (but let’s leave Santa Claus/Christmas and characters from the Bible to another thread for the sake of thread scale), plays, movies,TV shows, comics, or video games rather than characters created for the narritive of the song. And these songs should be about specific characters: Dracula or Casper, yes, vampires or ghosts in general, no.

Here are a few to get started:

Forget Cassettes “Bruce Wayne”
Feeder “Buck Rogers”
Cursive “Driftwood” = Pinocchio
Belly “Gepetto”
Psapp “King Kong”
3 Doors Down “Kryptonite” = Superman
Sam the Sham & The Pharaohs “Lil’ Red Riding Hood”
Dishwalla “Miss Emma Peel”
Catatonia “Mulder And Scully”
Marry Me Jane “Superman”
Our Lady Peace “Superman Is Dead”
Emprise (Canada) “The Tin Man (Silk and Sawdust)”
Jefferson Airplane “White Rabbit (Go Ask Alice)” = Alice in Wonderland

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Jimmy Olsen’s Blues - Spin Doctors

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Gordon Lightfoot’s Don Quixote is a favorite of mine.

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Bob Dylan’s “Desolation Row” mentions Cinderella, Romeo, the Hunchback of Notre Dame, Ophelia, and the Phantom of the Opera.

The Kink’s “Apeman” refers to Tarzan and Jane. There’s also their “Want to Fly Like Superman.”

REM’s “I Am Superman”

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10 CC - Life is a minestrone (Minnie Mouse)

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“Sirens of Titan” by Al Stewart (Album: Modern Times), about Malachi Constant

I’d heard that Jessi Colter’s “I’m Not Lisa” was based on the book/play/movie David and Lisa, but I have no cite for this.

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Daria - Cake
Conehead - Frank Zappa
Blue Oyster Cult - Godzilla

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Tom Lehrer-Oedipus Rex

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The Kingsmen: The Jolly Green Giant.
The Royal Guardsmen: Snoopy vs. The Red Baron.

(Note the similar meaning of the band names. That’s gotta mean something.)

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The Firm - ‘Star Trekkin’’ (Captain Kirk, among others)

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The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins.

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Nerf Herder - “Mr. Spock”

Jim Croce - “You Don’t Mess Around With Jim”

You don’t tug on Superman’s cape
You don’t spit into the wind
You don’t pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger…

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Crash Test Dummies – Superman’s Song (Superman, Tarzan, and Solomon Grundy).
Donovan – Sunshine Superman (Superman and Green Lantern).

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Kate Bush – Wuthering Heights

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America - “Tin Man” (The Tin Woodsman, the Wizard of Oz, Sir Galahad)

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The Saga Begins - Weird Al Yankovic
Yoda - Weird Al Yankovic

others aplenty I’m just not thinking of at the moment

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Does a huge radioactive lizard count as “people” for the purpose of this thread?

Cool.

I nominate Godzilla by Blue Oyster Cult.

Edit: Bah…I see Mudshark already listed it.

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Two American groups, one from Oregon and one from Florida, trying to cash in on the British Invasion. Also, the latter covered “The Jolly Green Giant”.

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It seems to me there has to be a lot of these on movie soundtracks. Off the top of my head:

The Cure - Charlotte Sometimes
Alice Cooper - The man behind the mask (Jason Vorhees, Friday the 13th)
Sisters of Mercy - Ozymandias
Simon & Garfunkel - Mrs. Robinson
Gorillaz - Dirty Harry
Queen - Flash (Gordon)
Nightwish - Phantom of the Opera

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Romeo and Juliet - Dire Straits
(Just Like) Romeo and Juliet - The Reflections