Biggest rip off characters?

[KevanG]

Catwoman has been around since the beginning of Batman first as The Cat.

 

[Anubis]

Yeah, Black Cat didn't show up until, what? The 80's?

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Some people can tell you interesting -or perhaps entertaining- reasons how each is a rip off the other in one way or another

A little before the 80s
She made her debut in 1979

 

[BLACKVULCAN]

i am cool with rips if you take something and put a new spin on it never seen before.obviously both DC and Marvel have strict guidelines about how their character are to appear (thats why Spidey will never get a house and mortgage!) so it makes sense that someone would try to come along and do something that might be outta character and introduce a new one!... but we can all see who they really are!for instance while i dug Maul

an obvious hulk rip.i dug how stupider he got the bigger he got

shaft sucked eggs!! a hawkeye/ green arrow rip!

(that dude has beyonce's thighs! hehe)
and
the FF is a rip of Challengers of the Unknown(with powers!)
and The Eternals is a rip of New Gods!
Man!did Kirby use to rip his own self off alot! i guess when you are good! you are good twice!

 

[KevanG]

When Kirby copied himself usually they were distinct enough from each other that you could tell but you wouldn't confuse the two.

 

[BLACKVULCAN]

and that is why Kirby is the MAN!!
its only a "rip- off" when it SUCKS!like most of Leifield creations!
That dude "ripped me" off! alright! freaking Mr. %^&* 501 jeans!

 

[hippie_hunter]

- Fighting American: Joe Simon and Jack Kirby deliberately ripped off Captain America to tell stories that they wanted to tell with the Captain America character in the 1950's.

- Deadpool: If it weren't for Joe Kelly, Deadpool would have sunk into obscurity as a Deathstroke rip-off by Rob Liefeld, who was a huge New Teen Titans fan. Liefeld even named him Wade Wilson for crying out loud.

- The Sentry: The character pretty much takes everything from the Miracleman mythos. No wonder no one liked him.

- Batman Beyond: Not so much a rip off of Batman, but Terry McGuiness is more like what if Peter Parker were Batman instead of Spider-Man.

- Marvelman - was created because the publisher lost the rights to reprint Captain Marvel stories and needed to essentially replace the character with something similar. Then Alan Moore came along and turned the mythos completely upside down.

 

[KevanG]

and that is why Kirby is the MAN!!
its only a "rip- off" when it SUCKS!like most of Leifield creations!
That dude "ripped me" off! alright! freaking Mr. %^&* 501 jeans!

He's not 'the MAN'.

He's THE KING!

 

[pr0xyt0xin]

Worth mentioning:

Spoiler

Surprisingly Marvel wins this round.

 

[Anubis]

Disagree. Aquaman is far better than Namor. A more 3 dimensional character. Also, Namor came first.

 

[pr0xyt0xin]

Disagree. Aquaman is far better than Namor. A more 3 dimensional character. Also, Namor came first.

Marvel wins this round because Aquaman is the ripoff.

 

[SuperFerret]

And "rip-offs" are always inferior?

 

[Anubis]

Nope. I dig Dr Midnite, But Daredevil is an infinitely superior character, much like Aquaman.

 

[pr0xyt0xin]

And "rip-offs" are always inferior?

And "winners" are always superior?

Academy Awards for best picture are always your favorite film of the year?

Titanic is the #1 box office film of all time so its the best film of all time?

Batman beat Superman in TDKR so he's the better superhero?

 

[KevanG]

Academy Awards for best picture are always your favorite film of the year?

Titanic is the #1 box office film of all time so its the best film of all time?

Batman beat Superman in TDKR so he's the better superhero?

The Awards are Bull****.

Titanic is overrated.

Yes. Superman is boring.

t:

 

[pr0xyt0xin]

I think "rip-offs" by definition are of worse quality than the original. That's where the term comes from.

If it's better than the original I'd say it would be considered a "creative re-imagining" or an "improvement."

 

[BLACKVULCAN]

Yes. Superman is boring.
t:

OH NO! you didntitt!!!( well technically you did.. but you shouldntit!

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

KevanG is dead to me now.

Luckily Superman will turn the time stream back to bring him back to life. See Kev... You may not believe in Superman, but he believes in you.

 

[KevanG]

Superman can go suck a Kryptonite lollypop. I refuse to follow the all powerful alien who's biggest story problem is that he's too powerful and they keep having to have him either hit bigger things or bring down his powers for a challenge.

Excluding All-Star Superman because that was just great writing.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Superman can go suck a Kryptonite lollypop. I refuse to follow the all powerful alien who's biggest story problem is that he's too powerful and they keep having to have him either hit bigger things or bring down his powers for a challenge.

Excluding All-Star Superman because that was just great writing.

As one of the other greats in the world once wrote: It takes Diff'rent Strokes to move the world!! (Much love Mr. Thicke. )

And Superman forgives you Kev. He'll still stop that asteroid from hitting Canada or that herd of rampaging radioactive moose under the control of a mad scientist, even if you don't have any regard for him. He's good like that. t:

 

[KevanG]

Hey I liked All-Star Superman.

 

[BLACKVULCAN]

..... welllllllll i look at it like this Kevan when you got these many imposters

just to name a few..
than you must be doing something right!
all of them need to bow down to the originator cause the rest are nothing but perpetrators!

 

[Anubis]

Well, Prime and Sentry are really Captain Marvel rips.

Some people say that Captain Marvel is a Superman rip, but those people are stupid.

 

[BLACKVULCAN]

yeah but isnt Captain marvel really a Superman rip anyway!! which is why as soon as they see each other they start tussling!! you think by now those dudes would be pass that " oh i see you are holding the bag of money! so you must have stole it " mistaken identity thing!

 

[Anubis]

But that's not true cuz that would be stupid. They fight because there was a point in time that Captain Marvel was more popular than Superman, so DC went out of it's way to destroy the character and the company that spawned him....then they took the remains and have proceeded to take steaming dumps on him for the past 30 or so years. Hence the fights that almost always end with Superman beating him.

There are a number of things that separate The Big Blue Boyscout from The Big Red Cheese. Chief among them is that Billy is a 10 year old boy who says a Wizard's name to get the power of Gods, and Superman is a 30 something alien who pretends to be a regular dude but is all the time super.....man.

That's a pretty big f**kin' difference.