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[Yourmaster]

Insane grunts who go on murdering sprees and Use the military as an excuse
Bear unicorns

[kahn1234]

Someone was tripping on acid.

Master Chief, of Halo fame.

[IamanElfCollaborator]

New, advanced armor made of tough polymer matrix and with advanced AI, combined with drugs, good diet and training, and just a little bit of insanity/painkillers.

Nyarlothep.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Nyarlothotep is evidently a shape-shifting deity who manifests in a variety of forms, sometimes monstrous, sometimes a person, often an Egyptian pharaoh. (Wait, there's another kind?) In his first appearance, he demonstrates a variety of "strange and seemingly magical instruments" and cause those observing him to lose connection with reality, seeing the world collapse.

First off, one can clearly tell that historical Nyarlothotep was a master of disguise, who likely masqueraded as a pharaoh or a candidate for the throne at some point. Quite possibly, he came from the Middle East, bringing technologies and devices from those distant lands that the then-backwards Mediterranean people would find magical. Obviously, he also brought some variety of narcotic or hallucinogenic drug, which he shared with his followers. Perhaps due to these drugs, perhaps due to the deceptions, he was driven out and demonized.
It is also possible that Nyarlothotep brought with him from those distant lands strange foreign creatures thought monstrous by the Egyptians and such, and the monsters were not only corrupted by the generations of retelling but also conflated with Nyarlothotep himself. This is a quite shaky hypothesis, however.


Dr. Doom

[Sheb]

Dr. Doom is a gipsy inventor/sorcerer that lead the fictional land of Latveria and fight super-heroes.

It is clear that Latveria is nothing the bastardization of the name of Latvia. Dr Doom (Probably derived from the roma name
Danior) was the son of gypsies travelers that arrived in Livonia (Modern-day Latvia) shortly before the Northern Crusades. With the help of a knowledge of medicine and tricks from the Middle East, he impressed a local Bishop that sent him to study in a seminary, known in the myth as Empire State University (Probably in Rome, hence the Imperial connotation). Expelled from there after causing an accident (Maybe linked to the sudden death of Innocent III?), Dr Doom returned to his native Livonia, where he promptly took over the local tribes and fought the Knights of Europe that the myth left us as super-heroes.

Certains events, like his capturing of invisible girl, probably are inspired by real facts (in this case the capture of a German princess), but at this point it become really hard to separate fact from fiction.

GLaDOS

[IamanElfCollaborator]

OS designed by a Jerkass programmer. Everything else is a lie or a complex hoax.

Kirby.

[My Name is Immaterial]

A very jolly and fat warrior, who was famed for his pink skin and tendency to use his teeth as weapons. This was later exaggerated into him eating people whole. From there, it isn't hard to believe that he could absorb their powers.

Iron Man.

[Sheb]

Cames from rumor of Germans having developed a secret weapons during WWI after a British spy observed trench armor trial.

God

[GreatWyrmGold]

Which one?
Most were probably covered by real-world Euhemerists, but I'll take a crack at Euhemerising the Judeo-Christian* God, focusing on the earlier parts of the Old Testament for reasons I will cover.
*Why is he called "the Judeo-Christian God"? Muslims must feel so left out.

This individual would have likely built an empire from a number of slaves he freed. After that, he would have built up a cult around himself, demanding that the former slaves abandon their other gods and devote themselves to him. He made a number of parables about people who displeased him, ranging from two orphans he let live in his garden until they stole fruit from one of the trees^[1], to how he flooded an entire province for failing to adhere to his laws, as well as those who followed them. He ruled for a while and then died. Genesis is a collection of these parables, corrupted and expanded through the generations, as the emperor's claims of godhood became accepted as fact; later books of the Bible were either histories, sermons of further preachers, or more parables that became accepted as fact.

Then the Christians came along...


Khan Noonien Singh (From Star Trek "Space Seed," The Wrath of Khan, and/or Into Darkness)

[Yourmaster]

Living in space can do that...
Black knight

[scapheap]

Limbs that fall off with ease and no pain felt? Sound like advanced leprosy to me.

Crash Bandicoot.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Limbs that fall off with ease and no pain felt? Sound like advanced leprosy to me.

And suddenly that scene got a lot creepier. It seems likely that at least some of the knights would get leprosy from that.

Crash Bandicoot.

Due to the limited to nonexistent characterization of Crash Bandicoot, a detailed analysis of who he could have been is difficult. However, the fact that he is typically shown as an anthropomorphic "bandicoot" with less resemblance to an actual bandicoot than characterization suggests that he was an Australian individual, pictured by a non-Australian, and presumably hairy and seen as barbaric or otherwise less than human. Given Crash's speed and recklessness, being some form of athlete or similar individual, possibly a racecar driver, is likely.

Pac-Man

[My Name is Immaterial]

A bastardization of Kirby.

Smaug from the Hobbit.