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They Copied It, So It Sucks!

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They Copied It, So It Sucks!	comment	There's a high demand for innovation and new ideas, so if a new work has similarities to an older or more popular one, expect those similarities to be the dominant subject in discussion about the work, even if they're entirely superficial. Some people go on to say that if you can't come up with an original idea, don't even bother trying to make the work, despite the fact that most original works get ignored because of lack of advertising or that it's just not something publishers recognize and they're afraid to give it a chance. It's often a Catch-22 when genuine attempts to shake up the market are ignored, whereas Strictly Formula works fly off the shelves because of the familiarity, despite the criticisms of lack of originality. Of course, many times creators do borrow ideas from another work as inspiration to create new stories and concepts. Considering that just about everything has been done, it's difficult to properly think of something new and fresh. This is not always the case, however, as sometimes creators deliberately try to copy a particular franchise as soon as its success becomes evident. They will immediately try to make something to compete — and most of the time it will fail miserably because it was rushed or just implemented poorly. Other times it might come up with a really cool and ingenious new spin on the idea, and still never reach the same kind of popularity as its competition because somehow being too much like the original is deplorable. The error here is the automatic assumption that just because something is similar, it can't have any value on its own merits. If everything that was derivative was that bad, it wouldn't be done so much. Some can actually be quite good on their own. This assumption can be infuriating to creators of products that are similar to products being designed simultaneously. Their options are to either reduce the quality of your work in order to get it out first or be written off as a cheap imitation of the competitor's product (which they probably watered down to be first out of the gate). Many "ripoffs" were in fact in development at the same time, but due to the development window for most modern media, could be released months or even years apart. This can also make the fans of the more "popular" feature look really hypocritical if the alleged victim of ripoffs wasn't all that original to begin with. In extreme cases, an older, lesser-known work is accused of copying the more popular work that borrowed from it. This is often a huge Berserk Button for fans of the original and the original creator. Has also been known as "The Hydrox Effect" because people assumed that Hydrox was a knock-off of Oreo, even though Hydrox came out in 1908 and Oreo, which came out in 1912, was inspired by Hydrox. The absurd extreme of this is when old-timers show off their long memories by dismissing new shows as rehashes of older productions which a lot of the times undermine the vast history of things that came before it outside of Small Reference Pools. The idea this trope exists as much in the modern era is a little sad. Putting it bluntly, if you have the time to be reading this page and having a bad reaction to it, perhaps it's time to learn a little more. The examples below could very well be a nice place to start. You'll notice that sometimes this trope is invoked not only by rival fans and trolly haters, but people who actually aren't fans of the genre, even so much as hating it in its entirety. You'll notice that when people are typically not fans of a genre or series, similar to its cousin It's the Same, Now It Sucks!. The two almost go hand-in-hand, this way, since a non-fan would not really notice how many subtle differences since, after all, they see it and aren't looking for that stuff, that is, if they actually see the work they're invoking this trope, on. Sometimes people are actually calling out things based upon meta-concepts of the genre. Expect to see criticisms of this type in the form of a list comparing the two works using broad generalizations. Compare Older Than They Think. Compare and sometimes contrast with Once Original, Now Common when the original suffers due to the amount (and sometimes the quality) of similar works released later. Contrast Not-So-Cheap Imitation, when the "copying" work ends up being regarded as superior to its inspiration. Not to be confused with They Changed It, Now It Sucks!, where a sequel or an official adaptation changes an aspect of an original work for better or worse. Also not to be confused with It's the Same, Now It Sucks!, the polar opposite. See also It's Been Done and Better by a Different Name. Related to Plagiarism, which takes this trope to its logical extreme by directly ripping off entire unchanged portions of another work. And that's a sucky thing to do. Not to be confused with Shoddy Knockoff Product and The Mockbuster, which is for works which do copy other works and do suck. Examples
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_107a6c0c	comment	Rainbow Butterfly Unicorn Kitty is frequently accused of being a Unikitty! knockoff, due to them both being vaguely Merchandise-Driven comedies where the main character is part unicorn and part cat.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_117edb52	comment	One of the biggest complaints surrounding the original Robopon is that most of its assets were copied and pasted from the Game Boy PokÃ©mon games, with many of the sprites being noticeable edit jobs of existing PokÃ©mon sprites, and the gameplay format being hardly any different. Thankfully, Robopon 2 would go against these notions by not only polishing the gameplay to be something new and unique, but also making its own art style completely distinct from PokÃ©mon.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_121dcc1d	comment	Herman and Katnip gets a lot of vitriol for being a clone of Tom and Jerry, only with more Family-Unfriendly Violence and sadism heaped on.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_126fd213	comment	For most late '50s-early '60s private eye shows, expect complaints that they seemed too similar to Peter Gunn.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_12e3da65	comment	Castlevania: Lords of Shadow is declared God of War's ripoff due to their similarities in combat mechanisms. To the lesser extent, Castlevania games on PS2 are compared with Devil May Cry because of their battle systems and white-haired protagonists.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_1452d0c4	comment	Control Z: After the trailer was made available, some fans complained that the upcoming third season was a Latin rehash to I Know What You Did Last Summer.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_147dfd83	comment	PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale frequently gets accused of being a ripoff of Super Smash Bros., even though the gameplay really isn't all that similar. (The offense has much more in common with Marvel vs. Capcom than Smash, the maneuverability options are different, there's no directional influence, and the killing method is completely different) Not helping is Sony's infamous decision to put Super Smash Bros. onto the tags of the YouTube trailers, showing that either the ripoff was intentional or Sony is just pimping out the video with tags that they know will generate more traffic.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_14effc04	comment	Ultraman Tiga and Ultraseven would be dub examples. However, Ultra Series English dubs had been around before Power Rangers, as Peter Fernandez's Ultraman dub had aired on syndicated TV in the US for years until the rise of cable.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_17293dfa	comment	Danganronpa V3 follows along with the same structure for murder cases as the first two games, with an important or easily dislikable character getting killed, someone killing another due to an important connection to a past life, two victims on opposite ends of the sliding scale of silly and serious, a sacrifice pact to save the remainder of the students, and a murder that establishes how violently the mastermind wants to battle against the remainder of the participants with main characters becoming the blackened and the victim. V3's final battle is also the same, as the protagonist works with everyone else to defy the mastermind and survive as a remainder in spite of the circumstances the mastermind has positioned them in; the reveal of the environment being a Truman Show copy having confusing execution enforced those who were already disappointed by the repeated formula and never wanted to associate themselves with Danganronpa ever again. Reception from the formula being done a third time included people calling the story "dull" and the formula "generic," despite it actually being completely unique to Danganronpa's forte.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_1786bd6d	comment	Hampton The Hamster, originally known for being the name behind â€œThe Hansterdance Songâ€� was turned into a group featuring him and new characters. Many have noticed this being too similar to Alvin and the Chipmunks and it did not preform well commercially as opposed to the original song it was intended to be based around.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_188d2347	comment	Cold Fear plays with this trope. Most people quickly wrote it off as a carbon-copy of Resident Evil 4 and forgot about it. However, anyone who's actually played it, while admitting it basically is a complete rip-off, views it as an underrated masterpiece and one of the greatest horror games ever made.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_18d2fbe8	comment	Or Hawkeye and Green Arrow.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_1a4b3ea2	comment	Sometimes, Digimon has the issue of being compared to PokÃ©mon, though there aren't that many similarities. PokÃ©mon itself ended up being accused of ripping off Digimon with post-Ruby and Sapphire games allegedly having "Digimon-like" designs for new PokÃ©mon and the Mega Evolutions from PokÃ©mon X and Y supposedly being taken from Mega-level Digimon.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_1bdeba5a	comment	The X-Men are sometimes called a rip-off of Doom Patrol, as both series feature a group of superpowered "freaks" put together by a man in a wheelchair. However, the X-Men debuted only three months after the Doom Patrol. Some like to argue that the long publishing lead times comics had during that era makes any similarities coincidental but considering the Doom Patrol had obvious similarities to the older Fantastic Four, it's just as likely DC decided to crib from Marvel and Marvel cribbed right back.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_1c73626	comment	Several PAW Patrol fans have accused the Disney Junior show SuperKitties of being a shameless ripoff the minute it was announced, since both shows involve a group of animals (puppies in PAW Patrol and kittens in SuperKitties) helping and/or rescuing the residents of the city they live in. It doesn't help that the announcement was made around the same time PAW Patrol itself introduced a heroic team of cats called the Cat Pack.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_1c8faa15	comment	Around Fall 2023, The Daily Wire announced the release of their new animated children's cartoon, Chip Chilla. Ever since they posted the preview, the show received flack for being near-identical to the popular Australian children's cartoon Bluey, down to the similar character designs and premises (both are about a family of anthropomorphic, blue animals). Chip Chilla itself has been described as boring and lackluster in comparision to it's Aussie counterpart.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_1dd6d08b	comment	Many people have compared both the show and the toys to the Care Bears franchise due to their surprisingly similar concepts, and a few have even accused the former of being outright taking/reworking ideas from the latter. note while a large amount of My Little Pony fans might not be happy about it, the accusations aren't entirely unfounded.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_1f7a7d89	comment	A rare example of this getting actual legal backing involved the 2012 SF action movie Lockout, which was widely criticised for its Recycled In Space similarity to Escape from New York. John Carpenter, the writer-director of the earlier film, successfully sued the Lockout producers in France for copyright infringement.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_1fc3ec4d	comment	Rock Band fans often claim Guitar Hero stole any number of ideas, the most notable one being full band play. The less-informed will argue the opposite, not realizing (or ignoring) that Guitar Hero 1 & 2 were made by Harmonix (Forbes gets it wrong in this article). Meanwhile, Guitar Hero is inspired from Guitar Freaks in Japan, but that game only had three frets, no hammer-ons, and Konami seemed pretty determined to deprive non-Japanese gamers of it.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_20098ea4	comment	Coupling is considered a Friends ripoff, because it has six leads (and one girl is weird, and one guy is a Handsome Lech who is also dumb), divided perfectly by gender. And a Local Hangout where they sit on the only sofa. And the general humour comes from sexual situations and observations. So obviously there are some similarities, but the tone, style, and types of jokes told are often completely different. And The Drew Carey Show, mainly as the show focused on, well, a bunch of friends. Inverted in E4 trailers for How I Met Your Mother, which uses this as a selling point: "It's basically new episodes of Friends without boring ruddy Ross."
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_20336460	comment	2005 Russian game Brigade E5: New Jagged Union is an exceptionally bad rip-off of the 1999 cult classic Jagged Alliance 2.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_22e860f4	comment	In Psych, Shawn walks up to a police department desk and identifies himself as a psychic. "Like The Mentalist only not fake."
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_23185588	comment	Nickelodeon series Taina is very similar to the later Nick series Victorious. Bringing up the latter to a huge fan of the former can be a problem because Taina was cancelled quite early while Victorious was Adored by the Network for several years.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_23a1b10e	comment	Robotboy is rather controversial in some circles for being very similar to My Life as a Teenage Robot. They ran around the same time and both featured robot youth who spent time amongst humans while fighting evil.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_2407cefe	comment	Several people outside of Japan compare MAD Videos and other similar videos mostly found on Nico Nico Douga (NND) to YouTube Poop, though Know Your Meme researchers found that MADs were created as far back as 1978, 28 years before YouTube Poop was created. Some people outside of Japan refer to MADs as YouTube Poop Music Videos (YTPMVs).
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_24168147	comment	Many viewers accuse Balala the Fairies of being a ripoff of Pretty Cure. Seeing as some parts of the Transformation Sequences are copied frame-by-frame from several Precure seasons' own transformation sequences, the accusation is not exactly baseless.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_25259286	comment	Many people compare Raya and the Last Dragon to Avatar: The Last Airbender simply by virtue of it being an Asian-inspired fantasy work, as if that alone were enough to make it a ripoff. But even if one ignores the shared cultural aspects of the two works, there are a number of uncanny similarities between themâ€”the world being divided into multiple nations that once lived in harmony, the wildlife consisting of Mix-and-Match Critters, one of which is the main character's mount, plus a comic-relief creature resembling a monkey, a magical being who once kept the balance between the nations and is the Last of Their Kind, a villain who seeks said magical being but does a Heelâ€“Face Turn, and a little girl who is secretly a Pint-Sized Powerhouse. Many Avatar fans therefore consider Raya to be a second-rate imitation of the series, held back by its adherence to Disney's formula and missing the maturity and nuance that made Avatar good.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_254af7ac	comment	Don't get anyone started on Namor and Aquaman.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_25818ae2	comment	Sting's Crow inspired gimmick gets hate from some fans for this reason. His angle with the new World order was also seen as too similar to The Undertaker's (then)old MO.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_26025718	comment	PokÃ©mon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea is probably more well known nowadays as rehash of the Misty and Togepi arc from PokÃ©mon: The Original Series, with Manaphy regarding May as its mother throughout the movie.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_261c8d3f	comment	Every adult animated series after 1990 copied The Simpsons. Some, like Capitol Critters, Family Dog, The Oblongs, and Fish Police, were canceled just as quickly as they premiered; others, like South Park, Family Guy, and American Dad! are still around, while others, like Daria, King of the Hill, and Futurama were Long-Runners that suffered ups and downs in quality thanks to Characterization Marches On, Flanderization, and/or Executive Meddling, but managed to be entertaining from beginning to end. In fact, The Honeymooners, The Flintstones, and Wait Till Your Father Gets Home (an obscure late 1960s animated Dom Com set up as a cartoon version of All in the Family) are the real inspirations behind The Simpsons, a fact lampshaded on The Simpsons itself when in court deciding who owned the rights to Itchy and Scratchy. Roger Meyers pointed out shows that owed their existence to earlier shows, naming The Flintstones and The Honeymooners, then asking the judge, "If you take away our right to steal ideas, where are they going to come from?" He then points to Marge, whose best "original" idea for a cartoon is "Ghost Mutt." In return for Family Guy being compared to The Simpsons, Daniel Tosh's cartoons are frequently accused of copying not only Family Guy, but also South Park due to their overuse of Vulgar Humor and Black Comedy (the two shows even have a very similar artstyle to Family Guy). Ever since Family Guy became popular, there have been people accusing The Simpsons of taking pages from that show. One example is when "Homer the Moe" reused the same jukebox gag from "Let's Go to the Hop", only with more blood. When American Dad! first came out, many people wrote it off as a more politically hamfisted Family Guy (to the point that The Simpsons had a gag about it in "The Italian Bob"). Though American Dad! has found its own identity since then (as well as becoming far less Anvilicious), it still occasionally gets this accusation.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_27b0262b	comment	Make any kind of science (or destruction) channel in the veins of MythBusters or Brainiac and you get this. Do any kind of chemistry experiment? You're just copying Nurd Rage. Even if your channel is tied to that of a university. Do any kind of philosophy/science videos and you're copying V Sauce, even though they started out doing video game humour. Make a microwave show? You're just copying Is It a Good Idea to Microwave This?, even if you've been microwaving things on YouTube since before "the original and best" got their start in May of 2007. Do anything with "will it" in the title? You're just ripping off Will It Blend?, or if you're Will It Blend?, then you're just ripping off David Letterman's "Will It Float?" Do any kind of smashing video and you're a copycat of The Smash Doctor or Garret Claridge.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_283badac	comment	The original Dark Cloud game was compared to Zelda. Its sequel was, however, much more well-receivedâ€”although this actually wasn't thought of as a bad thing by some magazines.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_2a77a546	comment	Inside Out did not do as well in Japan as it did in other countries because many Japanese netizens thought that it was a rip-off of Poison Berry in My Brain, which had a movie adaptation come out two months earlier.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_2a77d7bc	comment	The Secret Life of Pets was ridiculed during its advertising phase as a bland Toy Story clone. While they do share certain plot and premise similarities, the overall tone of the films are actually rather different. Secret Life of Pets, for example, uses a lot of Black Comedy, where Toy Story has hardly any.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_2ba1d958	comment	When The Matrix was new, there was a small but vocal minority that dismissed it due to some thematic and aesthetic similarities with Dark City.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_2bbcacd9	comment	The earliest Looney Tunes cartoons had an odd relationship with this trope. On the one hand, Foxy is such a blatant copy of Mickey Mouse that not only is he the page image for Captain Ersatz, but Disney himself sued Harman and Ising over it. On the other hand, the Merrie Melodies just happened to have a tall dog character called Goopy Geer, who is often accused of copying Goofy, but actually predates him by about a month (even then, Goofy was called Dippy Dawg in his first appearance).
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_2cf05c8e	comment	Just a Thought, a short made for Disney's Short Circuit program, has been criticized for plagiarizing In a Heartbeat using a straight couple instead of a gay couple.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_2e50826c	comment	A common criticism of Bullet Train is that it's too reminiscent of the styles of Quentin Tarantino and Guy Ritchie (Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, and Snatch. are the most common films used for comparison), with several critics comparing it to the movies made by the many Tarantino wannabes and imitators that dominated the film festival circuit in the late 90s.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_2e97446c	comment	Ib has received some flak as an apparent rip-off of Yume Nikki, when, in truth, the games differ on several points (the biggest being that Ib has a more linear plot and Multiple Endings, while Yume Nikki is extremely open-ended), and are only similar in that both games star a young, brunette girl as their protagonist, and both rely on Surreal Horror over Gorn to unsettle the audience.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_2f203125	comment	The Shin Megami Tensei series gets dismissed as "PokÃ©mon with demons" quite a bit overseas. Particularly interesting, considering MegaTen created Mons gameplay nearly a decade before the first Pokemon game was even out.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_30c1ffd0	comment	Stardew Valley has had this issue amongst Story of Seasons (and Rune Factory) fans. While many like the game as a fun alternative, others see it as too close for comfort and essentially just being an indie knockoff with not much original. It doesn't help that Stardew Valley was originally a Story of Seasons Fan Game.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_32e7b181	comment	Unhappily Ever After was so strikingly similar to Married... with Children because both were co-created by Ron Leavitt. Word of God says it wasn't their intention to be so similar to Children, but it simply turned out that way.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_341c02e9	comment	Name a movie, and the odds are that someone has derided it for elements it shares with another film (even if both were being shot concurrently and thus couldn't copy each other). For example, the train fight in Batman Begins is accused of being a rip-off of the one in Spider-Man 2, and many Disney films are accused of plagiarizing from anime, the latter of which is ironic because Walt Disney's style inspired early anime and manga and that Disney has "plagiarized" from many other sources that hardly get fussed over.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_350904b0	comment	It's been pointed out that some parts of Throne of Glass, though especially the final book Kingdom of Ash, appear to be lifted straight from The Lord of the Rings (in particular the films) with only minimal changes. Some of this ranges from similar-sounding names and lines, all the way to scenes and plot points that appear near-identical to The Lord of the Rings (Manon summons allies to war by starting a beacon-lighting chain across mountains much like Pippin in Return of the King, the siege of Anielle is similar to Helm's Deep, the dam scene resembles the Ents' attack on Isengard and so on). Even people who otherwise enjoyed the books picked up on the similarities, while detractors criticize it as yet another high fantasy story trying to ride on the coattails of The Lord of the Rings and barely even trying to disguise this.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_35a1757e	comment	This viewpoint is discussed and criticized by Adam of YourMovieSucks.org in the video about the "Kimba Crowd" that bashes The Lion King (1994) for supposedly copying elements from Kimba the White Lion. It argues that the comparisons between the two works are misleading (and in several cases poorly researched)â€”the "plagiarized" elements are just superficial similarities and common tropes that both of the works happen to use. He also argues that the accusations of plagiarism are not just an insult to the talented people who worked on TLK, but also a disservice to Kimbaâ€”they give the impression that Kimba is so much like TLK that it's not worth checking out if you've already watched TLK. Of course, this didn't stop people from accusing TLK to be a rip-off of Kimba anyway.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_36065097	comment	With the release of The Hunger Games movie comes the inevitable comparisons to Battle Royale. It's relatively rare to find Battle Royale compared to the earlier The Running Man because then we'd have to acknowledge that it's possible for a work to be good without being especially original. And somehow, practically nobody notices the plot elements borrowed from Soylent Green (the starvation and overpopulation thing, not the "it's made from people!" thing, which wasn't the main point of the film and wasn't a plot point at all in the original novel). This went the other way around when other YA Dystopia novels started getting adaptations. The Maze Runner and Divergent got a large amount of hate for similarities to The Hunger Games.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_367bed3c	comment	From the pilot alone, Victor and Valentino received accusations of copying Gravity Falls due to their similar premises that involve a pair of siblings (or half-siblings in the case of Victor and Valentino) spending the summer with an elderly relative in a town that has more than meets the eye.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_3960bfce	comment	LayCool got some hate in their early days for being a rip-off of TNA's The Beautiful People. Possibly in response to this, LayCool began to move past the Mean Girls-esque character traits and played up the Les Yay between Layla and Michelle, plus their backstage pull with Vickie Guerrero. Showing how this trope can really change, TNA later got this when they had Gail Kim and Madison Rayne as a Les Yay duo who had backstage pull in the form of Karen Jarrett. What makes this hilarious is that they feuded with one of the former members of the Beautiful People (Velvet Sky)â€”and Madison had been part of the group for a while too.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_3967984f	comment	Dead Space was accused of being a ripoff from Resident Evil 4 just because it used the "same" shoulder camera.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_39cb5e47	comment	The most common criticism leveled against Donkey Kong Country is that it is a Mario clone, though both were created for Nintendo.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_3c08531b	comment	Some Marvel fans feel the efforts to make Avengers Assemble closer to the Marvel Cinematic Universe are excessive (such as quoting it), to the point the show feels more like a promotion of the movies rather than its own thing.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_3d6f1647	comment	Squirrel Boy gets this, as the haters blame Rodney and Andy for copying Mac and Bloo. This also happens with My Gym Partner's a Monkey. The centerpiece of the controversy is that all three shows revolve around an Only Sane Man boy who has a Jerkass non-human for a best friend.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_3e990618	comment	Too Loud!, a web cartoon on YouTube made by Dreamworks TV of all people, has been accused of being a ripoff of The Loud House... even though the only things they have in common are that one of Too Loud's main characters bears a striking resemblance to Lincoln Loud, and that of course the web cartoon has "loud" in its name.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_3f633fb4	comment	Cracked listed this among the 6 Common Movie Arguments That Are Always Wrong (#4).
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_3fe418f	comment	Artery Gear: Fusion has received frequent comparisons with Epic Seven due to extremely similar turn-based gameplay, presentation and character kits.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_42c05590	comment	Rocko's Modern Life occasionally had the issue of being compared to The Ren & Stimpy Show due to the former premiering two years after the latter on the same network and having generally mild similarities (mostly gross-out humor and demographically inappropriate humour), even though the two were otherwise pretty different (for example, Rocko did a better job at being subtle in its adult humor and featured much more satire).
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_44fe781e	comment	It received a lot of flack from anime fans due to similarities to the plot of Neon Genesis Evangelion (both are about emotionally-damaged pilots using giant robots to fight off invading aliens). These criticisms tend to ignore that Eva was not the first anime to have that basic premise (and was explicitly inspired by works like Mazinger Z and Space Runaway Ideon), and that Guillermo del Toro has stated that he's never even watched Evangelion.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_47a6a4d6	comment	In their memoirs, Silent Movies actresses Lillian Gish and Miriam Cooper both mentioned their distaste for Carol Dempster, who became D.W. Griffith's leading lady in the 1920s after Gish and Cooper had moved on. They both claimed that Dempster was not a true actress becauseâ€”according to themâ€”she imitated their acting styles and the acting styles of other actresses, including Gish's sister Dorothy. (They did not consider this to be the Sincerest Form of Flattery.) While Dempster was no shining light of the silent screenâ€”partly because Griffith's creativity seemed to run out of steam after his A-list stars left himâ€”her films were somewhat popular at the time. This also shows a rather different attitude to acting to today'sâ€”seeing as now, being able to mimic and change one's acting style radically would usually be considered artistically superior to having an 'acting style' that someone could replicate obviously enough to be recognised!
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_49a88442	comment	Final Fantasy XIV tends to be dubbed as the Final Fantasy version of World of Warcraft due to the game having similar interfaces, pacing, and mechanics. The producer behind Final Fantasy XIV admitted to being a big fan of World of Warcraft and had his team play it and other MMORPG games to fully understand how the genre works before they were allowed to develop the game.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_49ad83ee	comment	"Like World of Warcraft but..." syndrome has begun to really invade MMORPGs, due to said game's amazing economic success. In particular, user interfaces and tutorial zones tend to be described as World of Warcraft in SPACE or transplanted to other fantasy series (occasionally even other games that came out first). This isn't always a bad thingâ€”World of Warcraft wouldn't have been successful if it had a bad UI or especially boring early questsâ€”but a lot of reviewers spend two or three days in a new game and advocate sticking with the precursor.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_49fe4440	comment	In his review of Drake of the 99 Dragons, ProJared had this to say:
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_4a11fc06	comment	A common complaint against The Lone Ranger is just that it's simply Pirates of the Caribbean in The Wild West. Tonto is Jack, The Lone Ranger is Will Turner, The Royal Navy replaced by the U.S Cavalry, etc. As in "Johnny Depp is Johnny Depp" and "Virtually every movie with Depp becomes a comedy about him".
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_4a2b34ad	comment	Many people accused Star Fox Adventures of trying to be too much like a Zelda game.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_4ac1fa6f	comment	The Island (2005) is frequently accused of ripping-off the extremely obscure TV movie Clonus, mostly known for being featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000. After MST3K fans compiled a list of a hundred similarities between the movie, Clonus producer Robert S. Fiveson would sue Dreamworks and a court would rule that he had a prima facie case of infringement. Before the case went to trial, Dreamworks would settle privately out of court.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_4c65895d	comment	Dinosaur bears glaring similarity to The Land Before Time with Dinosaur's gorgeous GGI animation being one of the only characteristics that distinguishes it from the latter. The main characters of the film include a sauropod, a ceratopsian, and a mute armored dinosaur who decide to stay with one another (and avoid predators) while migrating to a greener place following the destruction of their home. Critic Desson Howe of The Washngton Post had the following to say in his review of the film:
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_4cc85667	comment	The Chinese cartoon Miracle Star has been accused of copying The Amazing World of Gumball due to its use of an identical art style and even recreating scenes from actual Gumball episodes. When the original creators found out, they got their own back by making the episode "The Copycats", where Gumball and his family encounter their Miracle Star counterparts.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_4dfdac4a	comment	The Wayans brothers' Little Man, a movie about a pint-sized criminal who masquerades as a baby to retrieve a diamond he had stolen that ended up in the hands of an unsuspecting couple, has been accused of ripping off the plot of a Bugs Bunny cartoon, "Baby Buggy Bunny". As a result, the movie ended up winning a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Remake/Rip-Off.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_4e2c6d59	comment	The direct-to-video Joseph: King of Dreams was often disregarded as a cheap foreign knock-off of The Prince of Egypt, until audiences realized that it was made by the same production company, and moreover received good reviews. The Ben Affleck vehicle was simply a result of DreamWorks' success with Prince of Egypt giving them the ability to run a much lower-budget, higher-margin sequel in Joseph.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_4ef09c41	comment	There's actually some logical basis in thisâ€”Clare copied large amounts of texts from other sources without citing them in The Draco Trilogy: a Harry Potter fan fiction she wrote before City of Bones was published. In fact, the fics were taken down and the trilogy is largely a reworked and renamed version of the fic. Her fans argue that Clare learned her lesson from that and that the elements Clare is accused of copying weren't invented by the people she 'copied' them from.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_4f73ef26	comment	Welcome to the Wayne has already gathered heat from people who see it as a Gravity Falls ripoff, given that two of the main characters (Olly and Saraline Timbers) have a fairly lot in common with Dipper and Mabel Pines. Many people point to this as a contributing factor as to why the show died an early death.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_5084d29e	comment	Captain Marvel from Marvel is somehow accused of ripping off Captain Marvel from DC because they have the same name. Don't get anyone started on Namor and Aquaman. Or Hawkeye and Green Arrow. Or Ghost Rider and Spawn (who is more a composite of the rider and Spider-Man villain Venom). The Captain Marvel thing has led to several lawsuits back and forth between DC and Marvel. This is part of the reason that DC's Captain Marvel's comic is called SHAZAM! with the well known unfortunate consequences. Before DC owned the "Shazam!" Captain Marvel, they successfully sued Fawcett Comics on the grounds that they invented the caped Flying Brick. That Cap was a very different character beyond that didn't occur to them until they owned him, and suddenly realised there was room for both Big Blue and Big Red in the same universe.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_510974b4	comment	Johnny Test has its haters for being a rip-off of Dexter's Laboratory. Think about it: It's about two ingenious sisters that make experiments for their brother Johnny. His sisters are redheads with horn-rimmed glasses, and Johnny is blonde. The only difference between the two shows is that the lab rat is the star instead of the genius. It's also accused of being a knock-off of The Fairly OddParents! due to similar plots and character designs, and it doesn't help much that Scott Fellows (creator of Johnny Test) used to work on The Fairly OddParents! as a writer.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_52aa4497	comment	Make a microwave show? You're just copying Is It a Good Idea to Microwave This?, even if you've been microwaving things on YouTube since before "the original and best" got their start in May of 2007.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_5307b01d	comment	Every gaming webcomic that isn't Penny Arcade has been accused of ripping off the same. Penny Arcade itself summed the trope up: the difference between "derivative" and "Homage" is "Whether or not I liked it."
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_536a5cc9	comment	When Sonic Colors was initially revealed, some people, going by just a couple short CG trailers, compared it to Super Mario Galaxy. As more information was revealed, the comparison was further extended by the presence of the Luma-like Wisps, Sweet Mountain Zone and the drill power. Ironically, when Super Mario 3D World came around, it got some flak for World Bowser being a theme park late in the game, specifically for looking a lot like the first world in Sonic Colors.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_5425ce75	comment	Ironically, the later Driver games tried to be more like Grand Theft Auto, however they languished in the marketplace. Driver: San Francisco, the fifth entry in the series, ditched the GTA elements for a new framing device (you switch between cars by "possessing" their driversâ€”it's a long story) and has, as a result, gotten at the very least critical acclaim for it.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_54291151	comment	Littlest Pet Shop (2012) was perceived by some bronies as an attempt by Hasbro to replicate their earlier Periphery Demographic-drawing traits of Friendship is Magic.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_562e8a6e	comment	When the original Max Payne was released, it was accused of only having Bullet Time as a gameplay mechanic in order to capitalize on the popularity of The Matrix. In fact, the game had gone into development well in advance of The Matrix being released.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_563d9c1a	comment	Killer Instinct was accused of this for trying to be like Mortal Kombat.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_57b484bc	comment	Thanks to the epic remixes of the song "O Fortuna" (despite that it's not actually a video game song outside of Dracula Unleashed) as well as the song "One-Winged Angel" and its various remixes, you'll have to try very hard to use a song with Latin lyrics (especially if they mean something) without someone saying it's a ripoff of these two. This fate seems to have fallen "Born Anew" in Final Fantasy XIII, which would have gotten a free pass if it was composed by Nobuo Uematsu. The lyrics for "One-Winged Angel" were all ripped from "O Fortuna" anyway.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_57dfef54	comment	Pinky Malinky has already gained the vitriol of fans of The Amazing World of Gumball for being suspiciously close to the latter's concept (a mischievous kid in middle school and his quirky sidekick [he even wears an orange jacket] have weird adventures) and using a similar mixed media look with the only truly noticeable difference being the humor which goes for something that is obviously not satire. Only time will tell if Pinky Malinky ends up decent since it's staff previously worked on Gumball.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_57f80079	comment	The Mortal Instruments: A not-insignificant number of people accuse Cassandra Clare of plagiarizing several other works, most notably Harry Potter and Star Wars. There's actually some logical basis in thisâ€”Clare copied large amounts of texts from other sources without citing them in The Draco Trilogy: a Harry Potter fan fiction she wrote before City of Bones was published. In fact, the fics were taken down and the trilogy is largely a reworked and renamed version of the fic. Her fans argue that Clare learned her lesson from that and that the elements Clare is accused of copying weren't invented by the people she 'copied' them from.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_598cb8d4	comment	The Riott Squad (Ruby Riott, Sarah Logan and Liv Morgan) being made up of a punk, a generic brunette, and a pretty blonde led to accusations that the group was simply a copy of Paige's team Absolution, with Sarah and Liv serving as the clones, respectively, of Sonya Deville and Mandy Rose.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_5a2333ef	comment	LittleBigPlanet: People who are too lazy to create levels will just go to the Cool Levels page and look for any copyable levels. This is why the community has been flooded with multiple copies of the same level by different people, and sometimes even the SAME people will take a level and publish it 20 times. Case in point, here's what you get if you search "The Best Mortal Kombat Level Ever" on lbp.me. The arrows at the bottom of the screen will be there for a while.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_5ad5aa05	comment	Leviathan (1989): The chief criticisms of the film is the fact the basic plot is Alien meets The Thing (1982), except underwater, with little originality beyond that. The fact it came out very close to two other underwater sci-fi movies, The Abyss and DeepStar Six, definitely did not help, leading it to be critically thrashed and become a Box Office Bomb.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_5ada53ed	comment	Do not ever start drawing comparisons between the new James Bond series (starting with Casino Royale) and the Jason Bourne films in front of a large group of Bond fans. Half will agree with you and the other half will unleash the fury. Quantum of Solace is a particular sore point, as those who don't like the movie will point out it feels like a Bourne masquerading as a 007 movie. Then there's Frank Martin, described by one reviewer as "a sort of third-party international man of mystery for those who think James Bond is too effete and Jason Bourne just doesn't have enough chest hair." While on Bond, the unofficial Never Say Never Again, which as The Agony Booth's Mr. Mendo put:
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_5b6175ca	comment	Fortnite gets a lot of hate for copying mechanics from its competitors, though this has since cooled off. PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds fans and the developers accused the game of being a rip-off since it too is a 100 player Battle Royale game, though even Epic Games themselves fully admitted that the "Battle Royale" mode was wholly inspired by that game. Likewise, Apex Legends fans weren't too pleased when the game added a ping system and a teammate respawn mechanic just a month after the release of their game (the former Ping system would also be integrated in games like CS:GO not long after either). It's also compared to Team Fortress 2, due to both being free-to-play multiplayer shooters with goofy humor and more colorful graphics.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_5bf7a0b1	comment	The fifth season of Masterchef Australia was considered to be the Audience-Alienating Era of the series because they changed their usual tone and style to put a greater emphasis on the contestants' loud personality to copy its rival cooking reality show series, My Kitchen Rules. MKR had a greater viewership than Masterchef, though most of the same viewers admits to only "hate-watch" the former out of Bile Fascination, and the latter is generally agreed to be the more superior cooking show. Suffice to say, the change caused ratings tanked for Masterchef that year.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_5c81b025	comment	This is Yo-kai Watch's number 1 issue. It's a Cash-Cow Franchise in Japan but outside of its home country it can't escape the stigma of being a "PokÃ©mon ripoff". A large number of Nintendo-focused fans and reviewers scoff at it purely for being a kid-friendly mon JRPG that isn't PokÃ©mon.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_5ccd92c0	comment	One of the criticisms against Sonic Shuffle was the game taking after Mario Party, never mind that the game was co-developed by the same developer.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_5db85d4	comment	Limbo of the Lost gets most of its flak for stealing copyrighted assets from games like Thief, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Painkiller, Return to Castle Wolfenstein and Unreal Tournament, among others. Incredibly, this is largely averted by many reviews: despite the literal copying, this is often only one of many criticisms of the game's overall perceived quality.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_5ed31637	comment	Angel's Friends was accused of being a rip-off of Winx Club, which was accused of being a rip-off of W.I.T.C.H., which was accused of being a rip-off of Sailor Moon, which was accused of being a rip-off of Wonder Woman. God, that's alot of rip-offs...
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_5fc0e68d	comment	Show the trailer for Last Exile to any random stranger, and they'll likely respond with either "Looks like a steampunk Final Fantasy." or "Looks a lot like Star Wars in steampunk flavor."
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_60804f39	comment	GUNÃ—SWORD is often dismissed as being a ripoff of Trigun, since they're both Space Western with a loner protagonist Walking the Earth, only there's also Humongous Mecha in the latter. Of course, after the first episode, the show leaves the desert and never comes back, quickly distancing itself from any similarities to Trigun.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_60a9e4fb	comment	The Mysterious Mr. Enter was accused by a few of his critics for stealing the term "Animated Atrocities" from another reviewer, "BigManX" since the latter brought the term up back in 2012.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_60f02ddb	comment	When American Dad! first came out, many people wrote it off as a more politically hamfisted Family Guy (to the point that The Simpsons had a gag about it in "The Italian Bob"). Though American Dad! has found its own identity since then (as well as becoming far less Anvilicious), it still occasionally gets this accusation.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_6272adf3	comment	The Shield and The Wire endure this, as far as the showrunners unknowingly aping the other show as they progressed. The Wire gave us Marlo Stanfield, a decidedly Shield-like villain, Carcetti (whose political ambitions mirrored Shield character Acaveda's political ambitions), a convoluted fake serial killer storyline that came across like something Vic Mackey would have thought up as part of a crazy scheme. The Shield meanwhile, in it's final seasons, began aping The Wire-themed issues about police work such as crime stats (something the show had largely downplayed) hanging over the head of the Farmington District, the elimination of beloved character Lem (which paralleled the death of Stringer Bell, who was killed off in spite of his popularity for the sake of the story being told), and an ending that had MAJOR elements from the final fate of Marlo Stanfield. as far as what happened to the Strike Team.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_637e942e	comment	One of the criticisms of Avengers Arena is it's pretty blatantly trying to cash in on The Hunger Games. Not that it's the only criticism. The covers of the early issues were homages to works like Battle Royale, Hunger Games, and Lord of the Flies, and Arcade even flat-out states in-universe that he stole the idea from a book.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_641203c1	comment	Schitt's Creek was dismissed by a lot of critics as an Arrested Development knockoff, since both shows are satirical single-camera comedies about an Ambiguously Jewish family that loses its fortune and has a Lady Drunk matriarch. However, after a few episodes Schitt's Creek differentiated itself by having a much more sentimental and kind tone and ongoing Romantic Comedy stories for the two adult children. Both shows have strong, passionate cult followings, and they even share a lot of fans who can respect both approaches to comedy.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_64148b22	comment	The Mystic Knights of Tir Na NÃ³g would be an original show example.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_64235ff	comment	La Seine No Hoshi is often derided as a The Rose of Versailles rip-off amongst English-speaking anime fans. Not helping matters is that the anime also blatantly copies Zorro, and the creators have outright admitted it's also based on the 1963 French movie La Tulipe Noir, to the point one of the main characters is also named "The Black Tulip".
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_6505f7f3	comment	When Molly of Denali was new, it was accused of being a ripoff of Dora the Explorer. Apart from Molly and Dora looking somewhat similar, the two shows have absolutely nothing in common. It was even accused of ripping off Wild Kratts at one point, which is ironic because the two shows eventually had a crossover episode.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_656e8d31	comment	RahXephon often gets treated as a cheap knockoff of Neon Genesis Evangelion, forgetting that RahXephon does it on purpose to reconstruct. Many of the Genre Deconstruction elements present in both shows are tools that have been used as long as the Humongous Mecha genre has existed in Japan; the same shows that influenced Evangelion. It also helps to keep in mind that the two shows shared staff (including at least one writer) and that the two directors of the respective shows are friends.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_67e2b61e	comment	The Gun Kata fighting style, the themes of anti-conformity, and the Neo-like wardrobe of Christian Bale's character in Equilibrium made many reviewers draw comparisons to The Matrix.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_69a51847	comment	Or Ghost Rider and Spawn (who is more a composite of the rider and Spider-Man villain Venom).
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_6ad790d3	comment	When the third-generation Hyundai Coupe was released it was criticised for looking like a Ferrari. As Jeremy Clarkson said, "Some criticise it for looking too like the Ferrari 456 but isn't that like being criticised for painting like Turner?"
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_6ad790db	comment	Top Gear on the American History Channel is a direct spin-off from the successful British Top Gear, copying the latter series' use of three presenters, The Stig, silly themed segments, style of cinematography and auto reviews, and cramming celebrities into a small car.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_6ae6b4c7	comment	Pacific Rim: It received a lot of flack from anime fans due to similarities to the plot of Neon Genesis Evangelion (both are about emotionally-damaged pilots using giant robots to fight off invading aliens). These criticisms tend to ignore that Eva was not the first anime to have that basic premise (and was explicitly inspired by works like Mazinger Z and Space Runaway Ideon), and that Guillermo del Toro has stated that he's never even watched Evangelion. Many mainstream audience members also called the movie a rip-off of the Transformers franchise, despite having literally nothing in common with those movies other than having robots in some capacity. This collage of print screens of online comments◊ shows newer casual audiences comparing it to Transformers, newer anime audiences comparing it to Attack on Titan, older anime audiences comparing it to Evangelion, older casual audiences comparing it to Robot Jox and Hispanic audiences comparing it to the anime Mazinger Z (it is hugely popular there). Talk about The Generation Gap. At the bottom right, surrounded by anime screenshots as reaction to the ignorance of the other comments shows Guillermo del Toro's answer to an online Q&A about Pacific Rim stating he cites many works as his influences but Evangelion is not one of them.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_6b85085e	comment	Any fighting game where you can kill your opponent at the end of a match will have a splendid time beating the "Mortal Kombat ripoff" allegations.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_6bafb84d	comment	While on Bond, the unofficial Never Say Never Again, which as The Agony Booth's Mr. Mendo put:
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_6bbde1c8	comment	The popularity of Overwatch means that any Hero Shooter released in its wake will draw immediate comparisons to Blizzard's game regardless of merit. Both Battleborn and LawBreakers flopped because general audiences dismissed them at face-value as Overwatch knock-offs, especially with Battleborn since it too has a cartoony art style and was released in the same month as Overwatch. Likewise, Paladins was seen as Overwatch with a High Fantasy setting despite the fact that Paladins was in development first. Even Apex Legends (a gritty battle royale game) and Valorant (a hardcore tactical shooter) received flak from some hardcore Overwatch fans just because they too have a colorful cast of heroes with unique abilities.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_6c1234ed	comment	In turn, Minecraft is frequently accused of "ripping off" other games like Dwarf Fortress and Infiniminer (though the creator of Infiniminer, Zachary Barth, doesn't like being asked if he feels ripped off and that inspiration is all part of the creative process) , as shown in this video.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_6c1d09b3	comment	When it was announced that Bethesda would be making Fallout 3, many long-term Fallout fans decried the new game as merely "Oblivion with guns". They must have hit on a good formula, though, as despite (or maybe because of) the similarities, the Elder Scrolls and Fallout series have both become flagships for Bethesda.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_6c531429	comment	Filly Funtasia and the toyline it was based on, was often accused by bronies of ripping off Friendship is Magic, as both franchises were about magical horses and since Filly toys outsold My Little Pony toys in Germany considerably from its introduction in 2007 to circa 2016.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_6dcc61c2	comment	Enchanted Portals got a ton of hate when it was announced, due to its artstyle and gameplay being extremely similar to Cuphead. The design of the bosses was specifically noted to be so close that it could count as plagiarism.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_6efd4fd4	comment	And the Duel Masters card game (yes, there really is such a thing) is in turn produced by Wizards of the Coast, the makers of Magic: The Gathering...which makes a kind of sense since the game really does have more in common with Magic than with Yu-Gi-Oh!. And, of course, the Duel Masters manga is actually about Magic...which is what got Wizards interested in the property in the first place.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_6f22f406	comment	As soon as Seraph of the End aired, hardcore fans of Attack on Titan immediately took to bashing the former on social media, calling it an inferior copy. In all fairness, it is very easy to make that comparison, especially when the same studio and OST composer are working on the show, and when official promotional materials for Seraph stated Wit's desire to make it into another SnK.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_6f940f8f	comment	Cool World by Ralph Bakshi, had been riddled with bad reviews for mainly trying to copy Who Framed Roger Rabbit because it used the same real-world/cartoon integration special effects.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_71495571	comment	The secondary villain of Wonder Woman 1984, Barbara Minerva/Cheetah, is a nerd who becomes fixated on the hero, only to be consumed by jealousy and become their enemy once they gain powersâ€”just like Catwoman in Batman Returns, the Riddler in Batman Forever, Syndrome in The Incredibles, Electro in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and Killian in Iron Man 3. Even the Playing Against Type casting of Kristen Wiig (a comic actor) is similar to Jim Carrey playing the Riddler or Jason Lee playing Syndrome.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_71b83d	comment	By far the biggest criticism of The Iron Tower trilogy is that it's clearly The Lord of the Rings with the Serial Numbers Filed Off, with some arguing it's even more blatant about this than the original Shannara books. It's hard not to notice the similarities (Warrows are basically Hobbits, the Evil Overlord's standard is a burning red ring on a black background, the protagonists' journey through Kraggen-Cor is very similar to the trek through the Mines of Moria, and the battle of Challerain Keep is almost beat-for-beat the same as the Siege of Minas Tirith, to name just a few). To be fair, it's been said that the author originally planned for the The Silver Call duology to be a sequel to The Lord of the Rings, only to realize how messy it would be to get the legal rights and so had to come up with a (mostly) new backstory for the duology that was different enough from The Lord of the Rings that he wouldn't get in trouble for plagiarism, which ended up being expanded into The Iron Tower trilogy. Some still enjoy the books in spite of the obvious influence of The Lord of the Rings, while others dismiss it as an inferior knock-off.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_7385bc4d	comment	Doraemon has been compared with PokÃ©mon just because Doraemon has "mon" at the end of its name.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_73e1e827	comment	Even before it hit the airwaves, cartoon fans were accusing Sanjay and Craig of copying the humor and art style of Regular Show and/or Adventure Time. It's also been criticized for copying Bob's Burgers, although that one is at least justifiable as Jay Howell is the character designer of both shows. Other shows feel Sanjay and Craig's pain, as well. Almost any show with two usually male main characters having crazy misadventures made since Regular Show, including Breadwinners, Clarence, Welcome to the Wayne, and, at least before it aired, even Gravity Falls has been accused of copying Regular Show's style at some point.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_747dc664	comment	Fangbone! is frequently accused of copying Star vs. the Forces of Evil, but with the Magical Girl replaced with a Barbarian Hero. This isn't helped by the fact that both aired on Disney XD in the United States. However, this is not trueâ€”Fangbone! was originally a book series from 2012, and the Animated Adaptation was set to premiere in 2014, a year before Star vs. the Forces of Evil came out. However, the show was held back until 2016 after DHX Media got ahold of the distribution rights. Taylor Abrahamse, Fangbone's voice actor, has stated that aside from the similar premise, the two shows have little in common.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_76e1ae72	comment	CatDog has its detractors claiming the show is Ren & Stimpy, except Ren is the cat, Stimpy is the dog, and the characters are attached to each other. While the show did have a few gross-out gags, it was predominantly a Sadist Show and put a heavier emphasis on Black Comedy and Kafka Komedy. It didn't rely on Demographically Inappropriate Humour as much, either.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_76f74909	comment	Even Harvey Beaks has been accused of being a ripoff of The Amazing World of Gumball before it even aired, due to the fact that Harvey, Fee, and Foo have the same color scheme as Gumball, Anais, and Darwin. Of course, anyone who has ever seen either show will tell you they have absolutely nothing in common.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_7743ead	comment	Duel Masters: It had this issue in being compared to Yu-Gi-Oh! for a good while, and Yu-Gi-Oh! itself is scoffed at by fans of Magic: The Gathering. Which is interesting, because the author of Yu-Gi-Oh! stated on a website that he based the card game in his series on Magic the Gathering. And the Duel Masters card game (yes, there really is such a thing) is in turn produced by Wizards of the Coast, the makers of Magic: The Gathering...which makes a kind of sense since the game really does have more in common with Magic than with Yu-Gi-Oh!. And, of course, the Duel Masters manga is actually about Magic...which is what got Wizards interested in the property in the first place.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_7779051d	comment	The 2007 movie Disturbia was criticized by some as being a rip-off of the Alfred Hitchcock classic Rear Window, even leading to a copyright infringement lawsuit by the copyright holders of the original source material for Rear Window. While the film was never expressly marketed as a direct remake of Rear Window, in interviews executive producer Steven Spielberg and lead actor Shia LaBeouf admitted they both studied Rear Window extensively in preparation for the film.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_7b039953	comment	Avatar, so much so that they once had an entire section dedicated to this trope on the Trivia page.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_7b429ebc	comment	The original Saints Row, while not terribly received, was considered by-and-large to be a copy of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. The series grew its beard with Saints Row 2, which helped distinguish it from GTA as being a more comedic game than its more serious contemporary, with each game subsequent going further and further off the rails.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_7b83c0ea	comment	It didn't take too long for Palworld to receive flak for its creatures being too similar to PokÃ©mon. Furthermore, a number of players and reviewers have criticized it for being too derivative of other open-world survival games or Mons Series, creating a game that's soulless, uncoordinated, uninspired and lacking a proper identity in their eyes.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_7c6649d2	comment	Mentioning The Host (2008) in Animorphs or Stargate fan circles is generally a bad idea.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_7d20ef2c	comment	Bloom County took a lot of flak for its many similarities to Doonesbury early on, before Berke Breathed established his own unique style.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_7ea744c2	comment	When Password became a hit on CBS, NBC countered with You Don't Say!, using names instead of regular words. It was identical to the set up which had host Tom Kennedy's lectern in the middle of the panel. Threatened with a lawsuit from Goodson-Todman, the company moved the lectern to the left. Regardless, it had a nice six-year run.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_7fbd159a	comment	ThunderCats (1985) fans have accused Legends of Chima of being a shamelessly blatant rip-off. Promos of it airing shortly after The remake's cancellation certainly didn't help.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_8017eca0	comment	Snow White & the Huntsman got some criticism for allegedly copying Princess Mononoke, although the only real similarity is that a white stag appears as a representation of the forest spirit. The director is actually a fan of the anime, which served as a visual reference for the film, and the stag scene is a direct Shout-Out to it.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_816ca16a	comment	For that matter, Enough has received criticism for the same reason regarding its similarities to the latter film (wealthy, abusive Control Freak husband, housewife going on the run, she changes identity, she falls for someone else who helps her, an ultimate showdown with the husband where he ends up dead, etc.) Not helping anything is the fact that both films air routinely on Lifetime.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_81dc9819	comment	Foamstars saw its reveal trailer get hit with the universally observation that it was clearly an Alternate Company Equivalent to Nintendo's Splatoon series. Almost shamefully so, as fans of the latter quickly poked fun at how all of the specials showcased in the trailer have direct counterparts in Splatoon. While this sentiment would lessen somewhat once more details emerged and it became clear how Foamstars would differentiate itself — with many also coming to like the idea of "Splatoon-likes" becoming a thing — there are still plenty who dismiss it as being little more than a ripoff.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_85a9b36f	comment	The Emoji Movie has actually become infamous for this. It's been criticized for blatantly ripping off Inside Out, Wreck-It Ralph note both for the same reason: the film centers around exploring the inside of a smartphone and how the characters (being emojis and other phone-related stuff) function in it, which is pretty much what IO and WiR did only with emotions and video games respectively, The LEGO Movie note due to the similar-sounding title and the fact that one of the characters, Jailbreak, strongly resembles Wyldstyle and even Life Is Strange note Jailbreak, again, also resembles the character Chloe Price.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_86fa025f	comment	Then there's Frank Martin, described by one reviewer as "a sort of third-party international man of mystery for those who think James Bond is too effete and Jason Bourne just doesn't have enough chest hair."
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_88043b11	comment	There have been accusations of Tiki Towers being a ripoff of World of Goo, despite using slightly different gameplay mechanics.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_88fce462	comment	The King of Fighters XII came out right after Street Fighter IV. Claims of Follow the Leader were made even though King of Fighters XII was in development as early as 2006, far before Street Fighter IV was revealed to the public.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_8966a34	comment	Medabots is an Affectionate Parody of the Mons genre. You would be amazed at how many negative reviews just don't get that.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_89c084b2	comment	Especially in the early to mid-1960s a lot of rock groups looked and sounded like Beatle clones: The Rolling Stones, The Monkees, Herman's Hermits, The Dave Clark Five,... Some bands eventually created their own sound, but others have been forgotten as being nothing more than pathetic attempts to cash in on the Beatles' success.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_8a95e28c	comment	Reservoir Dogs has been accused of being rather similar in terms of plot, dialogue, and characters to the film City On Fire. However, this is rather debatable if you compare scenes from both movies back to back.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_8cb09143	comment	Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions was accused of being a shameless rip-off of Batman: Arkham Asylum due to some similarities in Noir's gameplay and his final boss segment.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_8d065a05	comment	Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl and Multi Versus got a mix of both this trope and "They copied it, therefore it's meant to kill Super Smash Bros.", due to features these games have that Super Smash Bros. Ultimate doesn't like NASB's more Melee-esque gameplay that Sakurai is known for being hesitant to go back to, and MVS having an increased focus on team battles and being Free-to-Play. The fact that they didn't kill Smash (to be fair they weren't meant to in the first place) makes people not into these games lean more into thinking they're just this trope.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_8eda89ef	comment	Darker than Black also gets a lot of this. Though in this case, the show seems to own up to it. For instance, many fans have noted that April looks a lot like Halle Berry's portrayal of Storm.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_8ee278fb	comment	ChalkZone has been accused by some of being a copycat of an older cartoon from Britain called Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings, which has an almost identical premise. However, Word of God is that ChalkZone creators Bill Burnett and Larry Huber were not even aware of the latter cartoon until years after their show ended.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_8f8df73b	comment	There's a rather large controversy on the (Internet regarding whether or not The Lion King (1994) is a rip-off of the classic anime series Kimba the White Lion. This was even referenced in The Simpsons in which Mufasa appears in the clouds to Lisa and says, "You must avenge my death, Kimba...I meanâ€”Simba." (It Makes Sense in Context) One of the arguments against this being that it's more Hamlet with lions. This viewpoint is discussed and criticized by Adam of YourMovieSucks.org in the video about the "Kimba Crowd" that bashes The Lion King (1994) for supposedly copying elements from Kimba the White Lion. It argues that the comparisons between the two works are misleading (and in several cases poorly researched)â€”the "plagiarized" elements are just superficial similarities and common tropes that both of the works happen to use. He also argues that the accusations of plagiarism are not just an insult to the talented people who worked on TLK, but also a disservice to Kimbaâ€”they give the impression that Kimba is so much like TLK that it's not worth checking out if you've already watched TLK. Of course, this didn't stop people from accusing TLK to be a rip-off of Kimba anyway.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_8f99cb4c	comment	American Dragon: Jake Long sometimes gets called a Danny Phantom rip-off, even though all they had in common was that they are about a Half-Human Hybrid with supernatural powers. If that wasn't crazy enough, the American Dragon: Jake Long fans then began to accuse The Life and Times of Juniper Lee of being a rip-off, though at least that had the excuse that the two shows actually shared a premise and aired roughly the same time. For the record though, it's purely a coincidenceâ€”those who worked on The Life and Times of Juniper Lee had never even heard of American Dragon: Jake Long until the rip-off complaints came in.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_9098c901	comment	Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island was hated by many for being a ripoff of SpongeBob SquarePants. It doesn't help that the main character's voice actor felt this way as well.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_90aa1b05	comment	Hyperdrive is a sitcom about a bunch of incompetents on a spaceship. Although that's as far as the similarities with Red Dwarf go, a few insist it's a blatant rip-off.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_92844ddb	comment	Dinosaurs was thought by many to be a ripoff of The Simpsons (only with animatronic puppets on a live-action set rather than an animated series). Seeing as how the former takes place in prehistoric times, this could even be in the same vein as The Honeymooners and The Flintstones. One episode of The Simpsons was a not-so-subtle Take That! featuring the characters watching the show with Bart saying, "It's like they saw our lives and put it up on screen". A Dinosaurs episode also had Earl complain that the reason there's no originality on TV is that once an original show becomes popular, every network decides to play Follow the Leader and create rip-offs of said original show, with Baby saying, "Don't have a cow, man".
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_92b5b882	comment	Thousands of people wrote off the 2009 horror film Orphan for ripping off The Good Son, acting as if a beloved, many decades-old classic had been violated. This hilariously overlooked the fact that The Good Son was an obscure, poorly received film except for those who made joking Home Alone references to it because Macaulay Culkin played that film's villain. But when Orphan came out, suddenly people began acting as if The Good Son was one of the most popular and beloved films of all time, and that Orphan was some kind of abomination. What these people overlooked was that both films are predated by The Bad Seed (1956), which came out literally decades prior, and that all subsequent "Evil Child" films are derivative of that film, and that Orphan, in fact, is probably the most original of them, and that the similarities between the films are completely undone by Orphan's twist ending. The likely explanation is that the trolls responsible had little knowledge of cinema predating the late '80s-'90s, and thus, remembering The Good Son, thought they were making a brilliant discovery and were eager to become "famous" for pointing it out.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_95f7f987	comment	Devin Grayson's Nightwing arc known as "Nightwing: Alone". Orâ€”as its detractors call itâ€”Born Again 2: Electric Boogaloo. Not that lifting Born Again wholesale in and of itself was the problem. It was that, possibly save Superman himself, Nightwing was the least-suited A-list character in the DCU to do that kind of storyline, and Grayson did not adjust the story at all to account for that. For instance, Kingpin expy Blockbuster threatened to destroy all of Dick's loved ones. Those loved ones included Starfire, a Flying Brick who cold turn Blockbuster into dog food and Batman himself.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_961b37e0	comment	DC Extended Universe Some viewers noticed that Man of Steel followed Batman Begins's steps way too closely, as it not only imitated said films path for its hero (such as traveling the world to find one's self) but also elements such as the anachronistic order, the Well-Intentioned Extremist villain who attacks the hero's home (Gotham/Earth) with a device that alters the environment, the function of Lois Lane and Rachel Dawes and the relationship between the hero and the Government (specially between the trustworthy Gordon/Hardy and the skeptical Loeb/Swanwick). It doesn't help that both films share a screenwriter (David Goyer) and a producer (Christopher Nolan). The secondary villain of Wonder Woman 1984, Barbara Minerva/Cheetah, is a nerd who becomes fixated on the hero, only to be consumed by jealousy and become their enemy once they gain powersâ€”just like Catwoman in Batman Returns, the Riddler in Batman Forever, Syndrome in The Incredibles, Electro in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and Killian in Iron Man 3. Even the Playing Against Type casting of Kristen Wiig (a comic actor) is similar to Jim Carrey playing the Riddler or Jason Lee playing Syndrome.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_974f7efb	comment	And The Drew Carey Show, mainly as the show focused on, well, a bunch of friends.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_9851875c	comment	Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea is called an anime The Little Mermaid. In the sense that both involve a daughter of a sea deity going onto land. Certain other aspects, such as the girl turning to sea foam if her love is unrequited, are carried over as well. That said, many of Studio Ghibli's films are adaptations of Western books.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_987ae286	comment	Cars received some mild bashing for being Doc Hollywood with automobilesâ€”not enough to dent Pixar's track record, though. Probably because it wasn't original when Doc Hollywood did it. It's a standard Hollywood formula.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_996edf24	comment	Then there's Glory: Wonder Woman with white hair.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_9994a14f	comment	WALLâ€¢E has been accused of copying the premise of the film Idiocracy, while portraying a future where mankind has become obese and indolent. In addition, for some people, the design of the protagonist would have been copied from the robot Johnny 5 of the movie Short Circuit.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_9a152d5d	comment	Cow and Chicken is sometimes accused of being a ripoff of The Ren & Stimpy Show due to its similar humour, art style, and the personalities of the titular duo (with Cow being perceived as too much like Stimpy and Chicken being too much like Ren). This is rather ironic, seeing as how Cow And Chicken is actually John Kricfalusi's favorite cartoon from the 1990s.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_9aabac2f	comment	A lot of people figured The One was just a rip off of The Matrix, only with Jet Li and more bullet time sequences. Considering that it came out practically soon after the first Matrix film and uses many of the same conventions, it was bound to be met with a little negativity, regardless of the fact that the two movies could not be more different.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_9d43dd37	comment	A massive backlash against Greta Van Fleet was formed due to them being perceived as copying Led Zeppelin without having any unique spin on the older band's sound. The band consistently dismisses these claims.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_9dd6b535	comment	Many people on DeviantArt are just eager to pounce on people that copied (just short of actually taking the person's work) artwork off someone else or made a similar picture, whether by accident or on purpose. Even putting characters in similar poses will get many people flamed because "true art" is original. The mentality can get so bad that all it takes is one artist making a journal crying that someone ripped off his or her work and the people responding go and flame the hell out of the target. One art thief actually tried to use this to her advantage. Jen "Spunkywulf" Seng is a very popular artist and animator, especially in the Furry Fandom. An artist named "Mochi" may have traced her art and that of others. After Jen and her friend tried to discuss it privately, Mochi wrote a journal entry making Jen out to be some sort of elitist who was begrudging Mochi being "inspired" by her work, presumably expecting Jen to be cowed by the flames of Mochi's few hundred fans. Unfortunately, Jen herself has thousands of fans, and she was perfectly willing to call Mochi out. One of the more hilarious aspects of DA is how the Whiteknighting sometimes backfires against the artists themselves. Let's say you want to draw things your parents/relations wouldn't agree with too much. Perhaps you're even a squeaky clean artist who wants to throw a couple boobies into your work to avoid people FROM work from finding out and getting you canned. So you make a new name, and upload new works to that, and gain fans. Eventually, one of your thousands of old fans finds the new account and starts watching...And then they notice minor similarities like how you draw hands and how the new account has no signature on pictures. Cue mass reporting spree for art theft. Despite the fact that many people do not like copying of styles, some artists actually encourage other artists to mimic their style. One mention should go to Razzek, a woman who pressingly tells people to draw characters (whether original or Fan Art) in her style. Being how she is both on DA and on other sites, some people have actually given in to her demands and it has resulted in a lot of various characters being nearly "rip-offs" of the artist's style.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_9e28587f	comment	The Shnookums & Meat Funny Cartoon Show was often compared unfavorably with Ren & Stimpy, not helped by the use of a cat and dog as its main characters. However, it also had some key differences: not only did the series have supporting segments in the form of Pith Possum and Tex Tinstar (by contrast, the most Ren and Stimpy had were a few shorts starring side characters, most prominently Powdered Toast Man), it also had a largely different sense of humor. Ren and Stimpy relied on gross-out gags, Black Comedy, and even some psychological elements, while Shnookums and Meat, gross-out jokes aside, was more of a traditional slapstick gag comedy.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_9f0dae2a	comment	One complaint that some readers of The Cold Moons have is that it's too close to Watership Down. They're both about British wildlife running from human danger, but one is about badgers and the other is about rabbits.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_a0cb7e98	comment	5 Seconds of Summer detractors bring up the fact that they keep ripping off their inspirations, mostly All Time Low, rather than trying to form an effective identity for themselves. It's one of the reasons they've garnered as big a hatedom as they have so fast.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_a4274674	comment	Some viewers noticed that Man of Steel followed Batman Begins's steps way too closely, as it not only imitated said films path for its hero (such as traveling the world to find one's self) but also elements such as the anachronistic order, the Well-Intentioned Extremist villain who attacks the hero's home (Gotham/Earth) with a device that alters the environment, the function of Lois Lane and Rachel Dawes and the relationship between the hero and the Government (specially between the trustworthy Gordon/Hardy and the skeptical Loeb/Swanwick). It doesn't help that both films share a screenwriter (David Goyer) and a producer (Christopher Nolan).
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_a4e17d04	comment	Any gothic metal band with a female singer will be compared to Lacuna Coil, Within Temptation, or Evanescence. If the vocalist occasionally screams they'll get compared to Arch Enemy.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_a6543322	comment	Touhou Project: There are Touhou fans who, not aware of the Shoot 'Em Up genre's history, complain that other Bullet Hell games are Touhou ripoffs. Mrs. Estacion is heavily inspired by Touhou, being a Bullet Hell game with a similar style, a female cast and (most controversially) some bullet patterns that arguably look a little too similar to patterns found in Touhou. These factors contributed to its negative reception in Japan, where it was dismissed as a Touhou rip-off. Some Touhou fans dislike the Len'en series and accuse it of being a Touhou rip-off because of its similar genre, style and setting. Even the developer's blog has described it as "similar to a certain shrine maiden danmaku shooting game, but if you try it you may think it's pretty different... but it's really nothing more than a rip-off of Touhou"-type danmaku shooting game.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_a75bd1cc	comment	Smile (2022) was noted for its plot regarding a fatal curse being heavily reminiscent of It Follows and The Ring. Even the "entity makes its presence known with creepy smiles" had appeared a few years prior in Truth or Dare (2018).
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_a81325d3	comment	Final Fantasy: Lightning, of Final Fantasy XIII, is often accused of being a gender-swap of Cloud from Final Fantasy VII. It doesn't help that the director of FFXIII specifically asked for Lightning to be designed to be "like a female version of Cloud," and that the opening of FFXIII is similar to FFVII's. Final Fantasy XIV tends to be dubbed as the Final Fantasy version of World of Warcraft due to the game having similar interfaces, pacing, and mechanics. The producer behind Final Fantasy XIV admitted to being a big fan of World of Warcraft and had his team play it and other MMORPG games to fully understand how the genre works before they were allowed to develop the game. Thanks to the epic remixes of the song "O Fortuna" (despite that it's not actually a video game song outside of Dracula Unleashed) as well as the song "One-Winged Angel" and its various remixes, you'll have to try very hard to use a song with Latin lyrics (especially if they mean something) without someone saying it's a ripoff of these two. This fate seems to have fallen "Born Anew" in Final Fantasy XIII, which would have gotten a free pass if it was composed by Nobuo Uematsu. The lyrics for "One-Winged Angel" were all ripped from "O Fortuna" anyway.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_a9fdd959	comment	New Japan Pro-Wrestling bringing in Brock Lesnar got complaints that they were simply copying All Japan Pro Wrestling, who had brought Goldberg out of his self-induced obscurity earlier.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_aacd24cb	comment	StarCraft gets a crapton of hate from Warhammer 40,000 fans for perceived similarities. The two fans often argue that the other game practically stole everything from them, and the similarities between the Tyranids and Zerg especially remain a huge point of contention between the two note nevermind that back in the old Space Hulk days, the Genestealers, the progenitors to the eventually developed Tyranid faction, were blatant Xenomorph knock-offs, down to the sneaking through air vents and dishing out a Face Full of Alien Wing-Wong. Hell, it's taken to such an extent that the 40K side promotes an Urban Legend of Zelda that says StarCraft was born from a botched game development deal between Blizzard and Games Workshop to produce a 40k RTS game. Similar sentiments exist between Warcraft and Warhammer fans as well.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_ab122bec	comment	Thrill Drive, a popular game that ran contrary to Burnout concept of taking out other cars in a violent matter had a 4th installation that ran contrary to everything that made Thrill Drive the game it was with Power-Up items, a system that encourage maximum carnage as well as Boost Pad, Japanese fans were not too amused
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_abb11fc7	comment	And Time Killers is the Fatal Fury of Mortal Kombat; both it and MK were in development at the same time.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_ac226b96	comment	Lady!! is frequently called a Candyâ™¡Candy ripoff.note Candy Candy is set in the US before the First World War. Lady!! is set in contemporary Britain during the 1920s. Lynn and Candy are kind-hearted girls that draw in people with their selflessness, no matter how much they suffer. Lynn and Candy both live ordinary lives, until one day, they're suddenly thrusted into wealthy families and have to adapt to a Proper Lady lifestyle. Both Lynn and Candy have two Hate Sink step-siblings that frequently abuse them, play tricks on them and try to ruin their lives. They never get punished because they're protected by their Wicked Stepmother. Both have step-sisters with pink hair who are also Alpha Bitches. Said stepsisters also like the same boy they like, and behave as Green Eyed Monsters towards them. Eliza also has a grey Right-Hand Cat, while Mary has a white one named Prince. Lynn and Candy both fall for a handsome blonde man who rides a white horse, but both times he was The Not-Love Interest. Arthur Brighton already had feelings for Sarah, whereas Candy's first love Anthony died at a young age. Even the author admits to being a huge fan of Candyâ™¡Candy and stated it inspired her to write the manga.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_adc0da37	comment	The Roommate was criticised for copying Single White Female. The director denied this was the case, but it's hard to take this seriously when at least one scene is lifted frame for frame from the latter.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_ae6bb4b4	comment	Dinosaur King has a stigma of being a blatant PokÃ©mon: The Series knockoff because they're both mon anime. Much of this belief also stems from the fact it shares several voice English actors with PokÃ©mon in similar roles, including the protagonist Max sounding like a slightly deeper voiced Ash.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_afecd0bd	comment	Beowulf was wrongfully accused of trying to rip off 300 because of the main character's signature phrase "I AM BEOWULF!" is somehow similar to "THIS IS SPARTAA!!!" How that becomes ripoff material is beyond some people. Let's also recall that we have an entire page full of examples of people yelling that way, and that Beowulf was filmed first, anyway.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_b075a451	comment	Some may say that Fate/EXTRA is just Persona 3 with Fate/stay night characters and concepts. The fact that two ex-Atlus employees worked on the developing team doesn't help.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_b0fc9724	comment	There are people who watch Saturday Night Live who seem completely incapable of enjoying any sketch that has a premise that's even remotely similar to another sketch from a previous season. Since the show has been on for more than 30 years, this means there aren't very many sketches they can enjoy.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_b1072514	comment	The Forrest Gump vs. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button debate. Both are written by the same screenwriter and detail the life of men with some sort of handicap that have similar story elements (chasing after the woman of their dreams, encountering various people, the possibility of having a child with a similar handicap and feature innovative Special Effects. Both have their individual merits.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_b11e29d2	comment	Outlaw Star got flack as a supposed rip-off of Cowboy Bebop, mostly due to both being Sunrise-produced Space Westerns with a relatively similar naming convention. Of course, not only do the similarities stop there but Outlaw Star technically predates Bebop as a manga series, to say nothing of the fact that Outlaw Star the anime began production several months before Cowboy Bebop.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_b2165525	comment	In the DVD commentary for Blade it's pointed out (tongue-in-cheek) that they used a Bullet Time scene first, so these should be regarded as Blade rip-offs.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_b31b332f	comment	Many mainstream audience members also called the movie a rip-off of the Transformers franchise, despite having literally nothing in common with those movies other than having robots in some capacity.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_b327efbb	comment	Some viewers have accused Bloodthirsty of being a ripoff of Raw, with the premise of a vegan/vegetarian developing a thirst for blood and flesh and a reveal that It Runs in the Family (though Bloodthirsty protagonist Grey's is more supernatural), all the way down to identical◊ posters◊.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_b36f3d94	comment	Push gets similar treatment, despite having far fewer similarities. Most people seem to ignore the fact that superpowers were around before X-Men.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_b4967d43	comment	Make a game that looks and plays too much like Sonic the Hedgehog, and Sonic fans will soon mercilessly tear into it for their similarities. This happened to both Freedom Planet and Spark the Electric Jester for "playing too much like Sonic", and it's created a Fandom Rivalry between fans of Sonic games and fans of Sonic-inspired games with very little overlap.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_b54df0a6	comment	Scaredy Squirrel has a number of haters who accuse it of copying SpongeBob SquarePants. The reality is that the show is based on a book series of the same name (albeit In Name Only), and the two shows don't really have much in common anyway aside from the characters having vaguely similar personalities.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_b5e3fd5f	comment	Madlax was often accused of being secondary to Noir in that it reused the story premise, the two heroines' appearance, and the musical style. This may have resulted in the mediocre popularity of the show; however, some praised Madlax for being more monolithic and consequent than Noir, owing to all its episodes and subplots being tightly intertwined and held together by the primary plot.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_b6381cae	comment	Five Nights at Freddy's: The Dark Fate has been accused of copying Five Nights at Freddy's: The Stories and to some extent Five Nights at Freddy's: Forgotten Events due to its identical premise and its characters, especially Toy Bonnie who in this series is essentially a Spear Counterpart of Toy Chica from The Stories.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_b6886bfd	comment	Star Trek Into Darkness's first movie poster was accused of being a rip-off of posters for The Dark Knight Trilogy. After the film came out many Star Trek fans were upset with how much this film tried to replicate previous Star Trek stories "Homefront", "Paradise Lost" and the beloved Wrath of Khan.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_b7903143	comment	Go to any Slipknot or Mushroomhead music video on YouTube and you'll often see Flame Wars between fans about which band is better, and about which band ripped the other one off.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_b7c0a3e5	comment	Super Smash Bros: The Animated Series very obviously rips off SMG4, except without any of the humor value.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_b7f8a84e	comment	Little Britain is frequently accused of ripping off The League of Gentlemen and The Fast Show. In turn, The Catherine Tate Show gets flak for copying Little Britain.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_ba0aa66a	comment	Flower Angel gets some flak since, at least in its first season, it exhibits a number of similarities to Cardcaptor Sakura in its episode formula (a magical girl protagonist and her cute non-human sidekick go around capturing cards/fairies).
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_ba3d2748	comment	Despite good critical reception, The Incredibles was scoffed at for being a ripoff of the Fantastic Four (rather than as it was clearly intended, an affectionate pastiche), considering three of the family members have the same powers save for Dash. The costumes in the film have also been noted for looking similar to Freakazoid!. In fact, Syndrome himself is said to bear some resemblance to the title character (mostly with the hairstyle). On the other hand, given the negative reception of the Fantastic Four movies, it is often joked as the best Fantastic Four movie ever made.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_ba710eb6	comment	The 2011 movie The Tall Man is about a tall, humanoid figure that kidnaps children. There's (perfectly plausible) rumors going around that this movie's concept actually came before Slender Man, but don't expect any of his fans from /x/ to hear a word of it.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_bbc5a52c	comment	When Glitter Force was licensed by Netflix, many people saw it as a Sailor Moon clone because they're both Magical Girl anime. Glitter Force is the English version of Smile! Pretty Cure, the ninth installment of Pretty Cure franchise.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_bd49e2cf	comment	Shakespeare in Love was accused of being an unacknowledged adaptation of the mid-20th-century novel No Bed For Bacon by Caryl Brahms and S J Simon.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_be80da82	comment	s-CRY-ed is compared to X-Men a lot. Sometimes considered a rip-off entirely and dismissed because of that and more. There was also that TV show called Mutant X, where Mutant X was the name of a team of young adult mutant with superpowers (such as cat-like agility, Super-Strength, telepathy, density shifting, the ability to throw lightning), formed by a scientist to defend the mutants and work for their integration in human society while an evil government conspiracy tried to capture or eliminate them and study them. Sound familiar? Push gets similar treatment, despite having far fewer similarities. Most people seem to ignore the fact that superpowers were around before X-Men. Darker than Black also gets a lot of this. Though in this case, the show seems to own up to it. For instance, many fans have noted that April looks a lot like Halle Berry's portrayal of Storm.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_bfa193d4	comment	Supertrain easily fell victim to thisâ€”and for good reason, too, because almost everybody who saw it quickly realized that it was a big rip-off of The Love Boat.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_bfd0feb	comment	The Data East fighting game Fighter's History plays with this trope a bit. Sure there might be someone thinking "Okay not all 2-D fighters were rip-offs of Street Fighter II but if anything deserved to be a called a rip-off then this game was it!" and Capcom agreed to that. While Capcom called Fighters History "overly inspired from Street Fighter II", one of the reasons why Capcom lost that case is because Data East called the original Street Fighter a rip-off of the original arcade version of their 1984 fighter Karate Champ. Even though Kunio-kun and Double Dragon creator Technos Japan actually developed it while Data East only released it, Technos Japan was founded by three former Data East employees. A little-known Japanese website in English known as Jap-Sai considers it to actually be a tribute and not a 'direct copy'.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_c0aa8ea9	comment	Inverted with Stargate Universe, which from the moment it was announced was mockingly referred to as Stargate: Voyager.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_c16d4aca	comment	Do any kind of philosophy/science videos and you're copying V Sauce, even though they started out doing video game humour.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_c19c6efa	comment	Some people would think that Roblox is a ripoff of Minecraft, but Roblox came before MC. In fact, almost any game that involves mining blocks and moving them around, Item Crafting, and/or some form of Survival Sandbox feature is going to get slammed with this, the most blatant being Fortress Craft.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_c380b436	comment	Penguins of Madagascar was accused of copying the plot of Despicable Me 2: In both films there was a villain whose plot involved turning friendly characters into monsters, using a potion for that. Still, the North Wind Organization was seen as a rip-off of the Anti-Villain League.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_c3a5fa9	comment	A possible case is Robin of Sherwood and the later Robin Hood. The second series of Robin of Sherwood ended with Robin's death, and there is speculation that the second season finale of Robin Hood chose to kill off Maid Marian in the attempt to emulate what the creators' believed was the "shock value" of the preceding series, except of course that they killed Marian instead of Robin. The key difference was that the former series had to write around Michael Praed's decision to leave the show, whereas Marian's death in the later series was a creative decision and had nothing to do with actress Lucy Griffith (despite later attempts to blame the decision on her). Although Robin of Sherwood brought in a "new" Robin Hood, neither series survived more than one more season without their leads.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_c4282b71	comment	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Filly Funtasia and the toyline it was based on, was often accused by bronies of ripping off Friendship is Magic, as both franchises were about magical horses and since Filly toys outsold My Little Pony toys in Germany considerably from its introduction in 2007 to circa 2016. Many people have compared both the show and the toys to the Care Bears franchise due to their surprisingly similar concepts, and a few have even accused the former of being outright taking/reworking ideas from the latter. note while a large amount of My Little Pony fans might not be happy about it, the accusations aren't entirely unfounded. Littlest Pet Shop (2012) was perceived by some bronies as an attempt by Hasbro to replicate their earlier Periphery Demographic-drawing traits of Friendship is Magic. Combined with They Changed It, Now It Sucks!, when the trailer for My Little Pony: Pony Life appeared it did not get a warm reception from fans who felt it was ripping its tone and art style straight from Denser and Wackier reboots like Teen Titans Go! and Thundercats Roar and, given how utterly divisive such works have been, feared the absolute worst. Ironically when it came out it got an okay reception and has actually been described as "Teen Titans GO done right".
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_c7912cea	comment	Jimmy Two-Shoes gets a lot of flak by some who feel that it's nothing more than a cheap ripoff of SpongeBob SquarePants due to similarities between the main characters (a Wide-Eyed Idealist and Pollyanna with a Fat Idiot Best Friend and genius female friend while annoying a Jerkass who hates him).
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_c7b982f8	comment	One reason a lot of critics weren't initially too fond of Blue Cheer was because they sounded like a cruder version of The Jimi Hendrix Experience.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_c7d1edfb	comment	And yet GTA 3 is itself an aversion of this trope; the Leader it ripped off, Driver, is sadly forgotten. In fact, GTA threw out everything unique to its franchise in order to emulate a game that is now as mired in obscurity as GTA 1&2.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_c8b5a431	comment	Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress has a bad reputation for being an obvious rip-off of Attack on Titan since both were produced by the same studio (at least the first 3 seasons), and director, and producer, with the plot being extremely similar (terrifying man-eating creatures have led humanity to create massive walls to protect themselves, a Hot-Blooded protagonist who loses his family because of these monsters and later becomes partially a monster himself, a very strong female character fighting beside him, etc.). The fact that both shows have a character voiced by Yūki Kaji doesn't help, as well.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_cac20c94	comment	HEX was called by critics "British Buffy".
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_cb6abea3	comment	It had this issue in being compared to Yu-Gi-Oh! for a good while, and Yu-Gi-Oh! itself is scoffed at by fans of Magic: The Gathering. Which is interesting, because the author of Yu-Gi-Oh! stated on a website that he based the card game in his series on Magic the Gathering.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_cc313fca	comment	13 Going on 30 has often been criticized for ripping off Bigâ€”completely disregarding the fact that the former has Time Travel in it, while the latter didn't. It'd be overly generous to say this means the two are nothing alike, but several other movies have also used the Overnight Age-Up plot (obviously, seeing how it's a trope), and one of them even came out the same year as Big. Its title, incidentally, was 14 Going on 30.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_cc4c3b88	comment	They also hire many former WWE talents, such as Kurt Angle, Kevin Nash, Mick Foley, Tazz, Booker T, Scott Steiner, Tara (Victoria), Team 3D (The Dudley Boys), Bobby Lashley, Elijah Burke, Stevie Richards, Matt Morgan, Rhino, and Shiek Abdul Bashir (Daivari), most of whom get booked stronger than "homegrown" talent or wrestlers who otherwise did not make a name for themselves in WWE (or ECW, or WCW).
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_ccdddca4	comment	Detention was often panned for being a rip-off of Recess. This was during a time when One Saturday Morning was beating Kids' WB! in the ratings, so WB had to make their own series. It lasted 13 episodes.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_ce4d28	comment	Masked Rider, VR Troopers, Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad, Big Bad Beetleborgs and Kamen Rider Dragon Knight are just a few examples of adaptations.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_cf34b558	comment	The series premiered in the same year as the Upstairs Downstairs reboot. "Upstairs, Downstairs" co-creator Jean Marsh was quoted as saying, "Maybe it's coincidence, and maybe I'm the Queen of Persia".
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_cffa1bda	comment	As an operatic composer, BedÅ™ich Smetana was accused of following Richard Wagner too closely, a fact that persuaded him to initially write his most famous stage work, ProdanÃ¡ nevÄ›sta, with spoken dialogue. Richard Strauss was also accused in his early career of following Wagner.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_d02cde59	comment	Oddly enough, some people still believe to this day that Art of Fighting ripped off Street Fighter despite the fact that the gameplay is significantly different in every aspect. Of course, a main character named Ryo and a Guile-like army dude probably didn't remotely help.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_d063ec3b	comment	All three have the misfortune of being released nine years after box-office hit The Blair Witch Project, the film which against nearly all point-of-view and "found footage" movies are judged.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_d0c5d84	comment	Some people hate Pakdam Pakdai due to it basically being a cheaper version of Oggy and the Cockroaches. On that note, Pakdam Pakdai takes major inspiration from Oggy due to the latter being popular in India, the country Pakdam Pakdai comes from.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_d0da5095	comment	This trope holds true for even individual aspects of monster-collecting games. See Dragon Quest Monsters — with its in-depth breeding system — which released in Japan in 1998, more than a full year prior to PokÃ©mon Gold and Silver... yet it still catches a lot of flak for copying breeding from PokÃ©mon. The Dragon Quest series had already dabbled in the monster recruiting arts in its fifth and sixth installments, though the Nintendo DS remake of the latter replaced that feature with the ability to learn moves typically used by monsters (the remake of the former on the same system still has the monster recruitment feature, though).
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_d1515d27	comment	Aerosmith got a lot of bad press for (allegedly) copying The Rolling Stones. They got over it, though. They have also been frequently compared to Led Zeppelin and The Yardbirds, with the latter comparison making a lot of sense since Aerosmith are big fans of The Yardbirds.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_d154285c	comment	TNA has been mocked as "WWE Lite" due to its occasional gimmicks and storylines similar to those used by "that promotion up north." At its core, it is a Replacement Scrappy for WCW. They also hire many former WWE talents, such as Kurt Angle, Kevin Nash, Mick Foley, Tazz, Booker T, Scott Steiner, Tara (Victoria), Team 3D (The Dudley Boys), Bobby Lashley, Elijah Burke, Stevie Richards, Matt Morgan, Rhino, and Shiek Abdul Bashir (Daivari), most of whom get booked stronger than "homegrown" talent or wrestlers who otherwise did not make a name for themselves in WWE (or ECW, or WCW). Current Roster, add in what they've siphoned from the WWE development, previous referees/commentators, copied gimmicks...if TNA even signs a guy who's been looked at by a WWE employee wrestling fans will complain. From the wrestler's point of view, it makes sense to go to TNA after the WWE sent you walking. It's the next biggest wrestling promotion after all. Still, it seems that every time the WWE fires or releases a wrestler it takes less than a month for them to resurface in TNA. It also doesn't help that some of the time TNA has the wrestlers do their same WWE gimmicks but under another name (Team 3D being the biggest). "Less than a month" is generally an exaggeration, given that the typical No-Compete clause (which prevents a released performer from appearing with another company) in a WWE contract has a 90-day window. Additionally, Team 3D legally can't call themselves the Dudley Boyz anymore due to WWE just as they own the rights/names/gimmicks to previous wrestlers (i.e. "Fake Diesel," "The Real Double-J.") Others mockingly refer to TNA as WCW 2: Electric Boogaloo, since they took on a lot of former WCW staff (both performers and creative staff) and generally see it as heading down the same road WCW did.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_d22a9a66	comment	Similar to Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf, Oggy and the Cockroaches got panned on the Internet due to some people seeing it as a Tom and Jerry rip-off, due to many similarities — both use the Road Runner vs. Coyote formula even though they're still fundamentally different, and The Ren & Stimpy Show due to sharing similar artstyles and slapstick humor. Not that it stops people from becoming fans of the show anyway.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_d2fca893	comment	Early in their career, they were referred to as a shitty knockoff of Nirvana, or Pearl Jam. "Nirvana in Pyjamas" was occasionally used as an epithet (also referencing their youth and Australian background). With every preceding album, the band began experimenting with softer, more progressive sounds, which tended to stop these comparisons.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_d31cdea	comment	You're bound to see The Hunger Games compared to Battle Royale all the time. Many hipsters claim the whole thing is a ripoff that tries and fails to copy Battle Royale. Of course, by this logic, Battle Royale is just a rip-off of The Running Man, which rips off the Roman Coliseum, which rips off the Labyrinth at Knossos. Stephen King himself acknowledged that the Deadly Game plot of The Hunger Games isn't original (citing Royale, Running Man, and another of his books, The Long Walk), but that isn't a bad thing.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_d461a59f	comment	The original Battlestar Galactica still gets much criticism today for ripping off A New Hope. No wonder the Darker and Edgier remake received rave reviews as it strayed from being a typical show about a space colony as far as possible.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_d4d658fc	comment	Conan was also widely accused of ripping off God of War, which among other things, was a major factor in the lukewarm critical reception it received.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_d4f6f3fb	comment	F-Zero fans occasionally consider WipEout a rip-off.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_d4f9ccf	comment	Aladdin and The Thief and the Cobbler are both accused of ripping off the other one. The latter went through Development Hell (and Aladdin itself wasn't exactly sitting in Development Heaven, so that's saying something), so it was only released after Aladdin, and in a heavily meddled-with cut at that, making it look like the rip-off to people who didn't know that it was in production long before Aladdin was.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_d5509d6b	comment	Some Touhou fans dislike the Len'en series and accuse it of being a Touhou rip-off because of its similar genre, style and setting. Even the developer's blog has described it as "similar to a certain shrine maiden danmaku shooting game, but if you try it you may think it's pretty different... but it's really nothing more than a rip-off of Touhou"-type danmaku shooting game.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_d556dc75	comment	M.U.G.E.N has what we call "spriteswapped" characters. These are basically what you get when somebody takes a character and swaps all the sprites with their own, leading to a "new" character that plays almost exactly like the old one. Among the community, this is very much frowned upon as it not only shows laziness but also shows a lack of respect for the original character's author.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_d57d722e	comment	In a reversal, Ōkami was released a couple of months before The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, as Link turned into a wolf and the similarities between the games many said Nintendo had stolen the idea despite the fact that both games were developed in the same time frame (from 2004 to 2006), making any deliberate plagiarism impossible.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_d58a258b	comment	Some people have noticed that MÃšSECA's controller bears a striking resemblance to that of another rhythm game, Neon FM, and have accused Konami of copying it while happily shutting down clones of the eAMUSEMENT network and DanceDanceRevolution look-a-like In the Groove.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_d642b0d5	comment	Sonic Lost World got even more flak for looking even more like Super Mario Galaxy, as its stage design seems to borrow a lot of the gravity gimmicks that Galaxy had. Even though it's equally likely, if not more so, that the design takes ideas from the Sega Saturn Vaporware game Sonic X-Treme.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_d66ef045	comment	Atlantis: The Lost Empire would also have produced less ranting if Disney had simply admitted (with no shame required really) that their character concepts were based from Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water. There was a counter-argument that Nadia itself had characters and concepts copied from other shows, including western shows. Atlantis, from start to finish, was also like the Stargate movie. The creators have admitted to taking a good deal from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_d863050f	comment	Some westerners deride Nu, Pogodi! for being a Soviet knockoff of Tom and Jerry, due to following a similar chase formula. The creators of Nu, Pogodi! deny this, noting that none of them could see Tom & Jerry behind the Iron Curtain.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_d91c3455	comment	Same for Super Fighter who was also accused of copying Street Fighter II, although it's an MS-DOS exclusive.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_da82c908	comment	Adult series Ugly Americans has sometimes been accused of being Futurama but with demons and monsters instead of aliens and robots. Both are set in an alternative version of New York and star a fish-out-of-water human main character who adapts soon enough to the bizarre new world, and who also has a non-human girlfriend and best buddy. Though Mark Lilly is a white collar worker instead of a delivery boy like Fry, and is smarter, more driven and cynical than him.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_db30cf92	comment	Warrior Cats has gotten some flak from Tailchaser's Song for its similarities, including an orange tabby protagonist, similar naming scheme, and usage of cats living in "clans".
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_de48ce05	comment	For Happy Tree Friends fans: There's London Mobile Buddies. Both feature colorful cartoon characters who mostly have pie-shaped eyes and buck teeth and can suffer from bloody and gory injuries and deaths, with the latter show's cast being what can be described as "living mutant phones" according to the creator. If that's not enough, LMB has characters that are pretty much blatant rip-offs from not only HTF itself, but also other shows/franchises like Family Guy, PokÃ©mon (he even made up an evolutionary line of few of his characters, whose mid-form and final form usually end up being blatant rip-offs on their own), and a few others. Even several of its shorts are plagiarized from other sources. A notable one is "Wikky's Restaurant", which is "Flippin' Burgers". What makes this worse is that the creator managed to press the Berserk Button of various fans due to his recent tendency of drawing his characters beating up/killing the characters that are they're based on (for example, Bulkey vs. Cuddles) in an attempt to make them more hardcore. He has, so far, managed to piss off not only HTF fans but also MLP fans and possibly South Park fans (this one has only a single artwork, which depicts Kenny being killed by Merio). He probably also angered FNAF fans by featuring an artwork of Bulkey beheading Freddy by kicking the latter's head off, especially with the artwork having part of title like "What a piece of Animal Junk".
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_de6659ec	comment	Once Upon a Time takes much of its basic premise from Vertigo Comics' Fables, although the series is much more action-oriented and campy soap-opera than the book it copied from.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_de8f6b17	comment	One of the most common criticisms regarding the first American remake of Godzilla was that the plot was essentially a rip-off of The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (IE: Giant reptile goes to New York to breed) with hints of King Kong, Jurassic Park and Aliens thrown in for good measure rather than, well, a Godzilla movie. The biggest source of criticisms in this regard are Godzilla's offspring, which look and act extremely similar to the raptors in Jurassic Park.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_df491a0c	comment	Any conversation amongst enthusiasts involving Angry Birds that doesn't include some offhand remark about the game being a Crush the Castle knockoff will inevitably include one about Boom Blox instead.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_df64a221	comment	The first Mercenaries is probably one of the best examples of this. Despite the obvious differences that Mercenaries takes place in a warzone with little in the way of law enforcement to speak of, and with a heavier emphasis on blowing stuff up as opposed to car chases. It didn't help matters that the game was released roughly the same time as Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. So several reviewers dismissed Mercenaries while giving glowing reviews to San Andreas.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_e13d7546	comment	The obscure Genesis platformer Socket received mixed reviews at the time of release due to taking so much from the Sonic the Hedgehog series. The UK-based Sega Zone magazine gave the game a score of zero on the very basis of this trope.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_e144ba19	comment	Some fans dislike the fact Dragon Age II copied Mass Effect's dialogue wheel wholesale. Yep, BioWare plagiarized themselves.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_e199d649	comment	A common criticism of the Inheritance Cycle is that the series, though especially the first book, is very similar in terms of plot, characters and setting to other fantasy or speculative fiction series, in particular The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars and Dragonriders of Pern, while doing little to add original ideas to these elements. The later books arguably get better about this, but some people still see the Cycle as a blatant rip-off of these other series.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_e19d973b	comment	Initial D Arcade Stage fans like to do this to Wangan Midnight. Which is particularly ludicrous, given that Initial D's type of racing (mountain pass) and Wangan Midnight's type of racing (highway) aren't even remotely comparable. Wangan Midnight has more in common with OutRun or Super Bikes than Initial D.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_e1f5ce65	comment	Some people think that Our Little Adventure is a knockoff of The Order of the Stick, despite the former's plot, characters, world and deities being completely different. The only trait they share is the same genre and some visual similarities in character design. Our Little Adventure isn't even a stick figure comic. This is lampshaded back in the prologue strip.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_e40d0ab2	comment	Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!â€”The one review online accuses it of being a ripoff of The Powerpuff Girls, despite the fact there was barely anything similar.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_e548c08a	comment	American Tokusatsu: Basically every Henshin Hero show in this genre to come out since Power Rangers (be they original American shows, American adaptations of Japanese tokusatsu or American dubbed Japanese tokusatsu). Masked Rider, VR Troopers, Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad, Big Bad Beetleborgs and Kamen Rider Dragon Knight are just a few examples of adaptations. The Mystic Knights of Tir Na NÃ³g would be an original show example. Ultraman Tiga and Ultraseven would be dub examples. However, Ultra Series English dubs had been around before Power Rangers, as Peter Fernandez's Ultraman dub had aired on syndicated TV in the US for years until the rise of cable. It should be noted that Masked Rider, VR Troopers, Beetleborgs, and Mystic Knights were all produced by Saban, the creators of Power Rangers itself, trying to replicate their own success. And that's not even counting the whining that fans of the American adaptations get from the fans of the Japanese originals, some of whom don't seem to understand that American companies actually licensed the footage from Japan to make their shows and didn't just plagiarize it behind their backs. There's an important thing to remember here, in many ways, Japan likes Power Rangers. From a business standpoint, licensing fees bring a good stream of revenue to Toei (it's actually believed that the increasing prevalence of Gotta Catch 'Em All in Super Sentai was being caused by trying to replace the diminishing revenue from the Disney Era with more merchandising.) Furthermore, Power Rangers is dubbed and broadcast in Japan, and is still watched (In fact, when Lost Galaxy was brought to Japan, it outperformed its source material Gingaman.)
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_e5db3b6b	comment	Discussed by the Pickford Brothers, creators of Plok. One of the reasons why they don't plan on reintroducing Plok is that they imagine it would be hard for them to convince people that their limb-throwing hero isn't a ripoff of Rayman, despite Plok preceding Rayman by two years.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_e6c59cc4	comment	A meta-example. During the development of Quake II and Unreal, members of id Software and Epic Games's teams would often sling mud at each other in their public .plan files, which reached the point of one of Unreal's staff members openly accusing the team at id of stealing ideas from Unreal. His justification? "Unreal has a bald guy and a girl with a ponytail. Quake II has a bald guy and a girl with a ponytail."
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_e7e37776	comment	When Firefly first showed up, word among anime fans was that it was a Live-Action Rip-Off of Outlaw Star, primarily due to the 'naked girl in the box in the first episode' and the Cool Ship. The two shows turned out to be very different, not in the least because Outlaw Star had 26 episodes and Firefly had 13 (and a movie). Then, as seen above, Outlaw Star got this too.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_e97d1dbe	comment	Buckles has gotten this reaction from most comic strip readers, who believe it copied Calvin and Hobbes.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_ea4f62db	comment	Ever since Family Guy became popular, there have been people accusing The Simpsons of taking pages from that show. One example is when "Homer the Moe" reused the same jukebox gag from "Let's Go to the Hop", only with more blood.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_eabd377f	comment	Harukanaru Toki no Naka de constantly gets bashed by reviewers for being Fushigi Yuugi with Serial Numbers Filed Off, on the grounds of having exactly the same combination of plot devicesnote Trapped in Another World + Fantasy Counterpart Culture + Miko + The Four Gods + Cast Full of Pretty Boys + Gotta Catch Them All + Debut Queue + Elemental Powers + Personality Powers + Bodyguard Crush as the basis. Note that Haruka is originally a female-oriented Dating Sim, for which a premise of a girl getting stuck in a fantasy world with loads of pretty guys as her guardians wouldn't exactly be a bad idea.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_eb6802b4	comment	Lightning, of Final Fantasy XIII, is often accused of being a gender-swap of Cloud from Final Fantasy VII. It doesn't help that the director of FFXIII specifically asked for Lightning to be designed to be "like a female version of Cloud," and that the opening of FFXIII is similar to FFVII's.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_ebfeca51	comment	The King's Avatar features a male Experienced Protagonist, an expert at a Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game with vast knowledge and incredible skills about the In-Universe title, while alienating himself from his peers. Unfortunately, this description also fits Sword Art Online protagonist "Kirito" just as well, thus its fans will label The King's Avatar as another Chinese knockoff, not knowing that whereas Sword Art Online dabbles into Science Fantasy with Deadly Game elements, The King's Avatar focuses its narrative on Professional Gaming with no Science Fiction subject matter at all. However, because The King's Avatar began releasing as a web novel in 2011, a year before Sword Art Online started airing its Animated Adaptation, to some fans of the latter, this would have been long and popular enough to rip off.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_ec2531c4	comment	Coco has received some rather unfair hatred from a lot of people who accuse it of being a ripoff of The Book of Life solely because both films are set during DÃa de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) and feature music-loving protagonists. Nevermind the fact that Coco was already in production when The Book of Life came out and that director Jorge Gutierrez has stated to be excited for the film.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_ec28245c	comment	While not as extreme as other examples of "Anything within the same genre as this is a rip-off" but for a while, in the US a known complaint in Shounen anime is that "if you've seen Dragon Ball Z you have seen any given Shounen anime nowadays".
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_ec2c627b	comment	Sing was in some circles accused of being a ripoff of Zootopia as the films were released mere months apart from each other, even though the only true similarity between the two is that they both take place in a World of Funny Animals. And Sing's production was far more consistent compared to Zootopia's, which had a tendency to change its premise and character focus repeatedly, so the possibility of the former taking ideas from the latter seems pretty slim.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_ed1c2aef	comment	Zathura had been scoffed at largely as a Jumanji ripoff. Presumably then, the people who think this didn't know both films were based on books written by the same person, and then in the Zathura novel the Zathura game was found in the same box as the Jumanji game. Of course, even if not a rip-off, it is still Recycled In Space.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_ed2a7866	comment	Sword Art Online is often called a ripoff of .hack, though the only real similarity is being trapped in a virtual reality MMO. For the former, it's the premise of the series. For the latter, it's only a handful of characters, and the majority of the plot is barely a blip in the overall game world. In addition, the original web novel of the former was released around the same time the first game of the latter was released, which leads to people on both sides of the debate either saying the timing proves the ripoff, or shows that the premises were simply coincidental.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_ee3b86d0	comment	Mister Ed was quite similar to a few films with Donald O'Connor and " Francis the Talking Mule."
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_ee7e0cca	comment	The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Golden Films) has been widely panned for many reasons. One of them is that the villain is a carbon copy of Gaston from Beauty and the Beast.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_ef076a36	comment	Star Trek: Voyager was released around the time when Red Dwarf was becoming very popular and received accusation of copying it... Being lost in space, a holographic character... (They even had "Blue Alert") Inverted with Stargate Universe, which from the moment it was announced was mockingly referred to as Stargate: Voyager.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_ef215943	comment	PAYDAY: The Heist gets some flak for being similar to Left 4 Dead because it's cops VS robbers to survivors VS zombies and that's where the similarities end.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_ef661e97	comment	When the Street Fighter series got popular with the second installment any 2-D fighter that anyone ever heard of during the early to mid-'90s was automatically deemed a rip-off to Street Fighter II regardless of whether it was actually deserving or not. The only ones who remotely escaped this were Mortal Kombat (due to digitized actors and the Graphic Violence, though not the first) and Samurai Shodown (Weapons based fighter, though not the first). While this attitude was starting to fade during the late 90s and the 2000s it was a rather popular sentiment for the genre back then. The Data East fighting game Fighter's History plays with this trope a bit. Sure there might be someone thinking "Okay not all 2-D fighters were rip-offs of Street Fighter II but if anything deserved to be a called a rip-off then this game was it!" and Capcom agreed to that. While Capcom called Fighters History "overly inspired from Street Fighter II", one of the reasons why Capcom lost that case is because Data East called the original Street Fighter a rip-off of the original arcade version of their 1984 fighter Karate Champ. Even though Kunio-kun and Double Dragon creator Technos Japan actually developed it while Data East only released it, Technos Japan was founded by three former Data East employees. A little-known Japanese website in English known as Jap-Sai considers it to actually be a tribute and not a 'direct copy'. Oddly enough, some people still believe to this day that Art of Fighting ripped off Street Fighter despite the fact that the gameplay is significantly different in every aspect. Of course, a main character named Ryo and a Guile-like army dude probably didn't remotely help. Ryu is to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit what Ryo is to Mickey Mouse; same creators, but for different companies. Fatal Fury, even though both it and SFII were in development at the same time. Fatal Fury 2 is "Street Fighter 2 with some Fatal Fury 1 elements tossed in", as well as four-button layout instead of SFII's six-button layout, though. And Time Killers is the Fatal Fury of Mortal Kombat; both it and MK were in development at the same time. The King of Fighters XII came out right after Street Fighter IV. Claims of Follow the Leader were made even though King of Fighters XII was in development as early as 2006, far before Street Fighter IV was revealed to the public. Same for Super Fighter who was also accused of copying Street Fighter II, although it's an MS-DOS exclusive.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_efccb9da	comment	Voltron: Legendary Defender has an episode suspiciously similar in premise and execution to an episode of Ergo Proxy: In both instances, the episode opens with the main protagonists of the show inexplicably on a game show, and it's quickly evident that they are as confused as you, the viewer, as to what they are doing there or how they got there; the entire concept of being on such a show is completely out of context for the setting and tone of the series and continuity with where the previous episode left off. Yet one thing is clear: the host of the show seems to have godlike power over his own tacky little gameshow universe and the protagonists are his complete playthings in his surreal gameâ€”and severe consequences are promised for failure to play the game well, or refusal to play it at all. But while at first the premise seems nightmarish, as the episode wears on, it becomes obvious that there is more to the host and the game: increasingly, the way he poses his questions begins to take the form of Exposition Dumps that contain very interesting informationâ€”information that is incredibly valuable to our protagonists, who have been struggling to understand a mystery for ages that this bizarre omnipotent game show host is now just busting openâ€”in a way that bends, but doesn't quite break, the Fourth Wall. The episode plays out with some tension, with it never quite being clear whether the host is sadistic and insane or some kind of benign benefactor, but ultimately the heroes all survive the ordeal and are returned to their regular world/continuityâ€”shaken, but with a better understanding of the threats they face next. So...not exactly an episode premise that is likely to have repeated too closely without the second case occurring with some "inspiration" from the first.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_f168045c	comment	Kakegurui has received many accusations from fans of Kaiji because of the alleged rip-off only on the grounds that both works have The Gambling Addict as the main setting and studying of human psychology with its help.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_f2041376	comment	Charmed got vilified by a few Buffy the Vampire Slayer fans for being a Feminist Fantasy about young women who fight demons. Hilariously enough, the two shows shared a few cast members, the most notable of whom was Charisma Carpenterâ€”regular on Buffy and recurring part on Charmed. But then again there were plenty who were fans of both.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_f31dbe1b	comment	Luck (2022): One of the biggest criticisms aimed at the film from critics and viewers was how it tried a bit too hard at replicating Pixar and their films in terms of its themes and setting, right down to having an identical art style. It didn't help that the film came out at a point in which animation studios were starting to divert away from replicating Pixar's style in favor of more unique and experimental styles that have been very well-received across the board, making Luck's attempts at channeling Pixar all the more egregious. Of course, much of this can be boiled down to the film being done by several former staff members at Disney/Pixar, on top of Skydance Animation being headed by former Pixar head honcho John Lasseter.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_f4a728d6	comment	Afro Samurai is often accused of stealing the whole "hip-hop meets samurai action" concept also found in Samurai Champloo. That is, until you tell them about the original 1999 doujinshi of the same name that served as the framework for the series. Furthermore, the "hip-hop meets Asian folklore" concept was around before either series existed.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_f5dc7ca	comment	The 2000s Fantastic Four movies have been accused of ripping off Sam Raimi's Spider-Man Trilogy, notably for copying the grounded yet campy tone of Raimi's films and changing the character Doctor Doom into a Norman Osborn knock-off.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_f6c05e8e	comment	Friends is considered a Living Single ripoff. To wit, the latter show was brought to NBC in 1993, one year before the former show was conceived, but was rejected. Many believe that they stole the idea to create it and it became a source of much controversy due to it outlasting the first show and having much more advertising and awards while Living Single is erroneously accused of being a ripoff of it. This was made even worse when Friends star David Schwimmer said in a 2003 interview that their should be a Black Friends only for fans to justifiably get angry about how Living Single was a preexisting Black Friends and for claiming ignorance about the show.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_f74b5f80	comment	In the early years, Babylon 5 was widely accused of copying Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, as DS 9 premiered a month earlier than the B5 pilot film, and a whole year earlier than the B5 series. But J. Michael Straczynski then publicly stated that he'd pitched an early version of Babylon 5 to Paramount before DS 9 was in development, which meant B5 fans started to publicy accuse DS 9 of actually copying B5. Though the invective can get heated between two camps of fandom, there are plenty who enjoy both shows. As well, numerous Trek creative personnel have encouraged Trek fans to check out Babylon 5, while numerous B5 writers and crew have professed their love for Star Trek in general, and even DS 9 specifically.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_f8705c18	comment	Funnily enough, Hellsing's own main character has been criticized for "stealing Vash The Stampede's outfit". While the author has admitted to borrowing the color scheme and glasses, he otherwise looks much different from Vash.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_f891a20d	comment	Terraria also gets accused of being a Minecraft clone, though the games have nothing in common besides having pixelated graphics and having mining and crafting as core mechanics.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_f91f25d8	comment	Gungrave's anime adaptation is often derided as a "poor man's Hellsing" by those who have only seen the first episode. Many of them don't realize that the supernatural gunslinging/monster-slaying elements that are introduced in that episode aren't the main focus of the series, nor do they stick around to see the crime drama storytelling direction that the series takes.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_fbcf21d5	comment	Youngblood (Image Comics) is the remnant of a Teen Titans spin-off Liefeld had created. The character of Shaft is clearly a Captain Ersatz of Green Arrow's sidekick Speedy. That said, Marvel properties also found themselves duplicated in the pages of Youngblood and it doesn't take much that Cougar is essentially a repaint of Wolverine or that Sentinel is either Iron Man or War Machine without the helmet.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_fd49a48d	comment	Final Fight: Streetwise was accused of trying to cash in on the Grand Theft Auto franchise.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_fd4c848a	comment	I Dream of Jeannie obtained suspicious similarities to Bewitched that led to this. Notably one writer crossed over from Bewitched to work on Jeannie and pulled a few Retcons to matchâ€”such as Jeannie suddenly being from a family of genies instead of a cursed human, her and Tony getting married like Darrin and Samantha, Jeannie having an Evil Brunette Twin, etc.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_fda9c8b	comment	Downton Abbey: The series premiered in the same year as the Upstairs Downstairs reboot. "Upstairs, Downstairs" co-creator Jean Marsh was quoted as saying, "Maybe it's coincidence, and maybe I'm the Queen of Persia". The original "Upstairs, Downstairs" had a Scottish butler named Hudson. "Downton Abbey" had an English butler named Carson alongside a Scottish housekeeper named Mrs. Hughes. â€œUpstairs, Downstairsâ€� had a nasty, scheming chauffeur named Thomas. â€œDownton Abbeyâ€� had a nice chauffeur named Tom, and a nasty, scheming under-butler named Thomas.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_fdbace96	comment	Some have accused Gravity Falls of being like The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy or Scooby-Doo due to the idea of kids meeting supernatural for the former and the kid's mystery show of the latter. Gravity Falls is generally more serious than Billy And Mandy while also darker than Scooby-Doo (though Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated comes close).
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_fe6b8047	comment	Rhyme and Reason was ABC's answer to Match Game '75 on CBS.
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They Copied It, So It Sucks! / int_fe724d7f	comment	The German band Rammstein is often (and probably justified) accused of copying being inspired by Slovenian band Laibach's style. Laibach's reaction? That's alright, because art is inherently unoriginal. Along with a little bit of a Take That! when they said "Rammstein is Laibach for kids, and Laibach is Rammstein for grown-ups."
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