Who has more rip-offs ? DC or Marvel ?

Obviously one with more rip-offs deserves less respect

From what I've seen Marvel but I don't think anyone's ever counted and it's up to interpretation for some of them.

I'm pretty sure it's Marvel as well. DC has some, but its significantly fewer.

*sigh*

Dunno. There are some characters in both of 'em I dunno 'bout, soooo….

Seriously this....

Flagged.

A topic like this gets created every f*cking Tuesday,and I'm done explaning why "rip-off" is an idiotic term. I'm done explaining why it doesn't matter who did what,I'm seriously done.

Definitely Marvel. However, both of these companies have 100's of characters. And just because a couple of "rip-offs" happened they both deserve the same respect.

And I would probably say DC,but again,no one is counting.

I don't really like the term "rip-off"

Maybe one has "inspired" the other a bit more but "rip-off" is not a very good word to describe it

Fail. Damn though. You ripped off them Trolls bro.

someone with sense

Nobody cares, everything is a rip off of something else. The last 100% truly original story was written long before anyone currently alive was born unless they happen to be a Highlander.

DC has "inspired" Marvel more often than Marvel has "Inspired" DC..this is ONLY because DC is older. Very few creations from either company are "rip-offs." To me a rip-off is when Kellog's came out with "Sugar Smacks"..which was the same exact cereal as Post Super-Sugar Crisp, which pre-dates it by ten years. Even Marvel and DC character's that are similar, aren't exactly alike.

Marvel but who cares.

Marvel has gotten alot more ideas from dc, there is a laundry list of characters, storylines, and ideas that seem similar to ideas that dc did in the past

but are they all ripoffs, no-not even close

@i3io_hazard: And DC ripped off literally all of their Golden Age Stories from Pulp and Sci-Fi novels of the era, which in turn ripped off classic literature, which ripped off folk tales, which ripped off mythology, which ripped off older mythology which probably ripped off some stories some cave people made up while sitting around the fire and hoping not to be eaten.

90's Image comics. Mostly Rob 's creations.

@joshmightbe: Cool story

I can prove this whole thing is BS easily, people claim Hawkeye is a rip off of Green Arrow, despite the fact that GA is pretty much Robin Hood with gadgets. If you really think about it for more than half a second, outside of both having a bow and arrow and no super powers the 2 have very little in common. GA is a billionaire turned vigilante, Hawkeye is a former criminal turned Avenger who came from nothing. GA gained his skills after being stranded on an island for several years, Hawkeye gained his skills from working at the circus. GA was once the mayor of his city, no one would ever trust Hawkeye to run a whole city not even Hawkeye.

@i3io_hazard: Its the rip off food chain, there's even a lot of evidence pointing to most of the stories of the Catholic Saints that were clear rip offs of old myths.

Marvel

@joshmightbe: Not to mention when Green Arrow came out he was heavily influenced on Batman. Which is another thing people like to look at other companies but the companies them selves inspire themselves for new characters with existing characters.

@joshmightbe: Even still, hawkeye is based off of green arrow not robin hood. Hence why stupid people say hawkeye is a ripoff

@feartheliving: That's true, which is why DC has more Superman rip offs than any other company, or why Marvel has hundreds of characters that are a result of a Super Soldier program like Cap.

Well, "rip-offs" is a bit of a general term, and not something I would judge the quality of an entire company for.

Two example sets of characters that come to mind are Aquaman and Namor, and Deathstroke and Deadpool.

If I am correct, Narmor was created before Aquaman and Deathstroke was created before Deadpool. The latter in each pair is generally considered to have been inspired by the former in each pair. Yet that doesn't necessarily comment on the validity of the character. Aquaman and Deadpool are basically more popular (or at least, very close in popularity levels) to the characters who inspired them. It's not really about the inspiration, but the way the characters develop that determines their validity.

@supbatz: Actually Deadpool was originally intended as a satirical version of Deathstroke, according to his creator. Tho since he was created by Liefeld, that's probably just what he said for getting busted on it.

@joshmightbe: Fair enough. But there's no denying that he has evolved past that original intention since he was created. I definitely think it's appropriate to say that Deathstroke may have inspired Deadpool, but he is his own unique character.

@supbatz: True but that's mostly due to the people that took over after Leifeld.

They're probably about equal at this point. While Marvel has more DC inspired characters then DC has Marvel, DC has characters based on smaller companies characters. In all honesty no one should really care at this point anymore.

Oh damn....

Doomsday is inspired by Hulk

Deathstroke is inspired by Captain America

DC relaunched Batman comics to be more like the Spider-Man comics

Namor came before Aquaman

Dr Fate played off Doctor Strange's popularity when he was just a random background character.

Steel came from Iron Man

Bane came from Nuke

DC has multiple characters that have tried to take from Captain America, including Guardian and someone else new that apparently used the American flag to kill aliens,

Jason Todd came from Bucky-at least their comebacks

Lobo is meant to be a parody of Wolverine.

Imperiex came from Galactus

Bumblebee came from Wasp

Swamp-Thing came from Man-Thing

Ripclaw came from Wolverine

Fighting American came from Captain America

I don't even want to call half these characters ripoffs, but people always start this argument and I'm tired of people acting like Marvel creates so many ripoffs, just because their characters are kinda similar, especialy when DC has so many counterparts themselves, theirs just aren't as popular.

I have a better question:

Who cares who has more "rip-offs"?

Answer: Nobody.

@twix_right_side: calm down it's not about you. Just ignore it if you've seen it before. I thinks it's pretty pretentious, douchy and egotistical that you flag this.

@justthatkid: Hulk was actually inspired by Frankenstein and Jackal and Hyde.

Why the random question mark?

Namor was still first and he was actually around.

Iron Man was made after a bet with Stan Lee that he couldn't create a hero everyone should hate, and make everyone love him. Both of them having metal doesn't make them ripoffs.

Dr Fate was barely around, he was like Spectre in all regards, origin story aside, he still played off of Doctor Strange's popularity.

Man-Thing May 1971

Swamp Thing July 1971

No, the point is, both rip off of each other, and people act like all the character tropes in the known universe belong to DC, they don't character tropes can be used by anyone, doesn't mean the character's a ripoff.

*edit: Sorry, Lobo was Wolverine and Punisher, Deathstroke was Wolverine and Captain America

This won't end well.

Can we just enjoy the comics, for what they are. I doesn't matter who ripped who off, because both companies do it.

@justthatkid: Namor came first back in 1939 or something...

Didn't Aquaman come is the 50s or 60s

Marvel apparently

......Here we go

Yeah they both rip each other off,, I think OP is a dc guy so naturally he was trying to create controversy where there really is none...People always forget that deathstroke was inspired by cap

Haven't seen so many jimmies rustled in a while

Marvel rip off DComics and DComics rip off Fawcett Comics.