The rip off thread

name stuff that ripped off other stuff.

good and bad.

Original - Superman

Rip-offs - Martian Manhunter, Captain Marvel (Shazam), Sentry, etc, etc.

original - Hugo Danner

rip-off - Superman

@betatesthighlander1: No idea who Hugo Danner is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladiator_(novel)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Danner

The Asylum, one of their rare original projects was Megashark vs Giant Octopus. Take note of what they have ripped off since 2005...

1. H.G. Well's The War of the Worlds
2. King of the Lost World
3. Snakes on a Train
4. The Da Vinci Treasure
5. When A Killer Calls
6. 666: The Child
7. Pirates of Treasure Island
8. Hillside Canibals
9. The 9/11 Comission Report
10. Dragon
11. Transmorphers
12. The Hitchhiker
13. AVH: Alien vs Hunter
14. Invasion of the Pod People
15. I Am Omega
16. 100 Million BC
17. Allan Quartermain and the Temple of Skulls
18. Death Racers
19. Journey to the Center of the Earth
20. Monster
21. Street Racer
22. Sunday School Musical
23. The Day The Earth Stopped
24. War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave
25. The Land That Time Forgot
26. Princess of Mars
27. Haunting of Windchester Castle
28. The Terminators
29. Transformers 2: Fall of Man
30. 2012: Supanova
31. Paranormal Entity
32. 6 Guns
33. Titanic II
34. The 7 Adventures of Sinbad
35. 8213: Gacy House
36. Mega Piranha
37. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes
38. Almighty Thor
39. Annelise: The Exorcist Tapes
40. Battle of Los Angeles
41. 3 Muskateers
42. 200 mph
43. 11/11/11
44. The Amityville Haunting
45. Grimm's Snow White
46. Bikini Spring Break
47. Abraham Lincoln vs Zombies
48. Alien Origins
49. 100 Ghost Street: The Return of Richard Speck
50. American Warships
51. Age of Hobbits
52. Nazis at the Center of the Earth
53. Atlantic Rim
54. Hansel & Gretel
55. Jack the Giant Killer
56. AE Apocolypes Earth

Superman = rip off of Gladiator aka Hugo Danner

Batman = rip off of Zorro/The Shadow

Captain America = rip off The Shield

@betatesthighlander1: They're really not that similar.

Sweet. Seems like his abilities were ripped off by Spider-Man somewhat as well. Might have to read Gladiator. Looks awesome.

the original Superman was pretty much exactly Hugo Danning in tights

@betatesthighlander1
But the current version of Supeman has rip offs of him so I think his point stands.

just because something is ripped off, it doesn't mean that it isn't itself a rip-off

@betatesthighlander1: Hugo Danning is an alien?

Captain Marvel is?

@betatesthighlander1: Martian Manhunter and Mr. Majestic are.

This thread

Original- the term "influenced"

Rip off- " the term "ripoff"

This. Its like people don't comprehend homages and parodies.

@betatesthighlander1: bro every superhero has super strength speed and endurance.

thats like saying thor ripped off superman.

original-jerry seigel

rip off-akira toriyama

It's fairly obvious that Superman was greatly influenced by Hugo Danner.

and Hugo Danning started that trend

@betatesthighlander1:

those concepts have always been in ancient mythology it cannot be contributed to one character.

yeah, but the idea of getting it from science and then becoming a hero is from that book

Original: Deathsroke

Rip-off: Deadpool.

@betatesthighlander1:

how is an amped up human like an alien given power by the yellow sun?

Captain Marvel (Yes thats his name not Shazam) is not really a complete rip off of Superman, in fact Superman ripped off the ability to fly from him. Yes they are both super strong, super fast and super durable and look similar outside of those superficial similarities they are completely different. Superman is an Alien, Cap is human, Superman gets his power from the sun,Cap is powered by ancient Gods, Superman has Heat Vision, Ice Breath, X-Ray Vision, Telescopic vision, Microscopic vision, Cap has none of those. They have far more differences than similarities.

in terms of powers

Phillip Wylie would like a word with siegel and shuster

@nerx: @joshmightbe:

Goku a ripoff of superman & Monkey King.

Captain Marvel ripoff first 5 issues of superman.The creator admitted he ripoff superman.

Spiderman ripoff hugo danner plot.Spiderman ripoff clark kent,batman,the spider.

Hulk ripoff of Hugo Danner,& Mr. Hyde. Hulk has exact same powers as Hugo Danner especially he can't fit in.

@misterjj: Superman is a ripoff of hugo danner by your logic.