What comic books, movies, and TV shows are blatantly copycats or rip-offs of previous comics, movies, or shows, but despite being a copycat or rip-off, are still pretty good?
The Lion King is basically Hamlet with animals.
Are there any story ripoffs that are actually good?
Submitted 7 hours ago by PixelNomad@sopuli.xyz to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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StillAlive@piefed.world 7 hours ago
slazer2au@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
The Orville is clearly a copy cat of Star Trek and is too tier.
neidu3@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
Jaws is basically “An Enemy of the People” (by Henrik Ibsen) in a modern wrapping
Nemo@slrpnk.net 2 hours ago
Romeo & Juliet was based on Tristan & Isolde
10 Things I Hate About You was based on The Taming of the Shrew
Clueless was based on Emma
“Immature artists imitate, mature artists steal.”
Pronell@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a Daredevil parody/love letter.
They get their powers from the same accident that gives Matt his.
Mentor? Splinter / Stick. Enemy? The Foot / The Hand.
jqubed@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
We talking, like, O Brother, Where Art Thou? being based on Homer’s Odyssey?
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 hour ago
Bored of the Rings
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 3 hours ago
Bayyle Beyond the Stars is just Yhe Magnificent Seven in space, which was The Seven Samurai in the west.
MurrayL@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine being strongly influenced by the original pitch for Babylon 5 is a pretty famous, if variously disputed, example.
RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Ad Astra (2019) is Apocalypse Now (1979) but in space.
Avatar (2009) is Dances with Wolves (1990) but in space.
tuckerm@feddit.online 26 minutes ago
Back when Avatar came out, I heard someone call it “Fern Gully with better graphics.”
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 hours ago
Apocalypse Now is basically Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
Steve@communick.news 6 hours ago
All of them.
There are only a couple dozen or so quality stories.
Everything is a ripoff or mashup of those.Montagge@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
Warcraft 1-3
tuckerm@feddit.online 20 minutes ago
For more details on this: https://kotaku.com/how-warcraft-was-almost-a-warhammer-game-and-how-that-5929161
Warcraft was originally supposed to be a Warhammer 40K game, but Blizzard ended up not getting the license, so they created their own universe instead.
actionjbone@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
Watchmen
StillAlive@piefed.world 7 hours ago
That’s an adaptation.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 hours ago
The TV show on HBO wasn’t, ehich may be what they’re referring to here.
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
I think early Disney movies are pretty good. They usually just took an archaic horror story intended for adults, got rid of all the gore and murder, rewrote the rest, and somehow ended up with a children’s movie. Those ripoff versions became so famous and influential that people no longer think of the originals.
Maybe in two hundred years someone will start ripping off Saw movies to make kindergarten holo-ventures. Oh no! Gus Colyard, the ice cream merchant, got stuck in the freezer. Can you find the key to the door?