Marvel/DC's similar events

Invasion-secret invasion

flashpoint-rise of apocalypse

act of vengeance-villians unite

avengers forever- infinite crisis

marvel zombies-blackest knight

war of the gods-etenals saga

chaos war- death of the new gods

Are we counting the movies like the Avengers big bad villian and the upcoming JLA movie big bad villian being similar?

I'm gonna guess you meant Age of Apocalypse, since Rise of Apocalypse is just Apocalypse's origin story.

Civil War is in many ways a copy of Kingdom Come.

@ouroborik: How so? I know they're similar but I wouldn't go as a far as to say Civil War's a copy.

@ouroborik: hmmph ?…I see it, never once even thought about that before or connected the similarities

Necrosha and Blackest Night ...only one was actually good. 

damn, I beat myself to the punch by four years....

@cr500: Civil War isn't exactly a copy but it was clearly inspired by Kingdom Come: both start off with a nuclear disaster happening in a fight between reckless superheroes and a supervillain and then deal with the conflict between two different mindsets regarding heroism; then both have the bulding of a prison to lock a side of the heroes in and then both end with a major battle when the prisioners escape.

To be honest I don't really mind the similarities, I think both did their own thing and deserve attention for different reasons.