God Confirm
We're all from Earthrealm. If not, cool pic brah.
Deadpool is a deliberate nod to Slade Wilson. He might have similar abilities and career choice, but he is a completely different character in personality, vastly different character traits and story arc, the only similarities. You naming him Wade Wilson was an accident? "Oh we were hoping you wouldn't notice". The characters are very different, you genuinely think a Deathstroke movie would have the tiniest thing in common with the Deadpool movie?
This is literally a deliberate, obvious, and completely intentional and unconcealed reference character that his entire concept is built on, and the similarities stop there. He's a rip off in the same way Scary Movie is a rip off of Scream - which is to say not at all, as it's a deliberate parody.
The actual Marvel/DC equivalents for the Avengers are very deliberate.
DC tried to make their own Iron Man in Rocket Red, who is just an inverted Tony Stark with indentical powers and a similar origin story. It came years after Iron Man, and they simply couldn't match Stark's staying power.
They also tried to make their own Captain America. Just ONE YEAR after Cap's first appearance and success, DC released The Guardian, literally based off preliminary drawings of Cap, and equipped with an identical skillset, down the shield and motorbike.
Is it really fair to say that Marvel "ripped off" Superman/Batman to create a pair of character who each shares absolutely nothing with them ability wise, just because they each ended up being patriotic/tech based franchise headers, while ignoring DC's attempt to literally and openly CLONE both characters just because they failed hard and had no staying power? I think that is a deliberately one sided perspective.
Both company share a shitload of writers. A shitload of ideas. A shitload of plotlines. Both company have tried to copy characters from each other and also copy plotlines. In absolutely no way is Marvel the only one, and neither is DC. I don't know if anyone had ever counted but I imagine it would be a pretty close tally. A lot of the ones you listed are incorrect. Gwenpool is a Harley ripoff?! This one is hilarious! Gwenpool is a female Deadpool, released to deliberately capitalise on the franchise at the peak of Deadpool hype along with two other Deadpool series at the same time, it's blatantly obvious who she is trying to build off and why, and Harley in the first place came after Deadpool and is known as "DC's answer to Deadpool" to begin with! This one actually made me laugh, that you are saying the alternate universe take on Deadpool is ripping off a DC character, who took cues from the Marvel character to begin with - any shared traits are due to DC's copying in the first place lol.
It's ridiculous to say that every Marvel character is a DC copy (or vice versa), there is so many examples even beyond both the ones you just gave AND the ones I just gave, of DC building off Marvel. Who is the DC equivalent of Wolverine? Wouldn't be Timberwolf right, who came years afterwards in misguided attempt to clone Wolverine and fail badly? What about Lobo, who the creator had this to say about "I have no idea why Lobo took off... I came up with him as an indictment of the Punisher, Wolverine hero prototype, and somehow he caught on as the high violence poster boy. Go figure.?"
My favorite one is Black Alice, who is just a carbon copy of Rogue in backstory and plotlines, even down to copying the storyline where Rogue consume's Captain Marvel's powers, they even had Black Alice actually go and do the same to DC's Captain Marvel - lol.
It's silly to make generalised statements like "every Marvel character is a direct rip off from DC". I've seen the same thing said about DC from Marvel fanboys. And in both cases, it's just pure fanboyism. Both companies have their inevitable similarities by sharing writers, and for every similaritie have something unique about the line. It's pure personal choice.
And I am in no way a Marvel fanboy. I prefer it to DC, but honestly Valiant >>>>
This is literally a deliberate, obvious, and completely intentional and unconcealed reference character that his entire concept is built on, and the similarities stop there. He's a rip off in the same way Scary Movie is a rip off of Scream - which is to say not at all, as it's a deliberate parody.
So you are saying the similarities is personality traits? That's completely inconsistent with the rest of your argument, such as the Deadpool / Deathstroke comparison due to powers.In fact take a look at The Justice League and The Avengers. Capitan America is the all round nice guy and all American symbol who is the guy that always dose what is morally correct and right, Iron Man is an ultra rich philanthropist, genius that uses cool gadgets and Thor is a mythic godlike warrior wielding a magical weapon and those three make up the main leadership of the team... Yeah, Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman.
The actual Marvel/DC equivalents for the Avengers are very deliberate.
DC tried to make their own Iron Man in Rocket Red, who is just an inverted Tony Stark with indentical powers and a similar origin story. It came years after Iron Man, and they simply couldn't match Stark's staying power.
They also tried to make their own Captain America. Just ONE YEAR after Cap's first appearance and success, DC released The Guardian, literally based off preliminary drawings of Cap, and equipped with an identical skillset, down the shield and motorbike.
Is it really fair to say that Marvel "ripped off" Superman/Batman to create a pair of character who each shares absolutely nothing with them ability wise, just because they each ended up being patriotic/tech based franchise headers, while ignoring DC's attempt to literally and openly CLONE both characters just because they failed hard and had no staying power? I think that is a deliberately one sided perspective.
Both company share a shitload of writers. A shitload of ideas. A shitload of plotlines. Both company have tried to copy characters from each other and also copy plotlines. In absolutely no way is Marvel the only one, and neither is DC. I don't know if anyone had ever counted but I imagine it would be a pretty close tally. A lot of the ones you listed are incorrect. Gwenpool is a Harley ripoff?! This one is hilarious! Gwenpool is a female Deadpool, released to deliberately capitalise on the franchise at the peak of Deadpool hype along with two other Deadpool series at the same time, it's blatantly obvious who she is trying to build off and why, and Harley in the first place came after Deadpool and is known as "DC's answer to Deadpool" to begin with! This one actually made me laugh, that you are saying the alternate universe take on Deadpool is ripping off a DC character, who took cues from the Marvel character to begin with - any shared traits are due to DC's copying in the first place lol.
It's ridiculous to say that every Marvel character is a DC copy (or vice versa), there is so many examples even beyond both the ones you just gave AND the ones I just gave, of DC building off Marvel. Who is the DC equivalent of Wolverine? Wouldn't be Timberwolf right, who came years afterwards in misguided attempt to clone Wolverine and fail badly? What about Lobo, who the creator had this to say about "I have no idea why Lobo took off... I came up with him as an indictment of the Punisher, Wolverine hero prototype, and somehow he caught on as the high violence poster boy. Go figure.?"
My favorite one is Black Alice, who is just a carbon copy of Rogue in backstory and plotlines, even down to copying the storyline where Rogue consume's Captain Marvel's powers, they even had Black Alice actually go and do the same to DC's Captain Marvel - lol.
It's silly to make generalised statements like "every Marvel character is a direct rip off from DC". I've seen the same thing said about DC from Marvel fanboys. And in both cases, it's just pure fanboyism. Both companies have their inevitable similarities by sharing writers, and for every similaritie have something unique about the line. It's pure personal choice.
And I am in no way a Marvel fanboy. I prefer it to DC, but honestly Valiant >>>>
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