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Rai_Muffin
Jan '24

I recently watched Code Geass for the first time,
which features an Empire who have Knights as their greatest warriors,
and an exiled prince trying to take them down and creating his own black knights to oppose them.
Couldn't help but think of my own series, which features an Empire who have Knights as their greatest warriors
and an exiled prince trying to take them down and taking the identity of a white knight.
Then I thought,
"Shit! I ripped off a show I've never seen!"

It's happened a few times; not a homage but having the same idea as another series unknowingly.
This happened to you?
Ever had a great idea and then saw it show up in a show or movie?

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NickRowler
Jan '24

I have never watched Jujutsu Kaisen

but.... these look like someone make an anime version of my characters

These characters were made long before Jujutsu Kaisen ever existed. Ken is supposed to sort of look like Momotaro. Bertie was made white to balance a Yin Yang. I was weirdly into the concept of yin yangs as a teenager and it's not really much deeper than that.

KevinReijnders
Jan '24

Honestly I wouldn't call that a rip-off. Empires, knights, rebel princes. These are, imo, pretty basic story building blocks that wou'll find in a lot of works. Hell, half of history can be summed up like that haha.

abigaillmartin
Jan '24

This is amaziIthim uibheacha i mo arbhair don bhricfeasstrong text**

This is amazing

MarvinDziamski
Jan '24

i invented magnetic levitation trains: china already had those :frowning:
i also invented screw-driven vehicles: already exists. :frowning:

now in my story there was a island made out of gold, thrown to the moon..

then i finaly watched one piece...
ME AT SKYPEA ARC

Island full of gold shot into the sky.

and kaido, a dragon lifting onigashima

GodbreakerComic
Jan '24

I wrote my script in 2020 (with small updates since)

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off had some stuff SO SIMILAR that I for awhile actually thought about doing major rewrites. Decided not to.

I've never enjoyed a show AND been so mad at a show at the same time.

ArtGremlin
Jan '24

I’ve found that my comic plot is just a little bit like Steven Universe… I made it before I had watched SU, although I knew the general plot of it beforehand.
There’s a donut shop and August’s dad is named Greg- (technically he goes by Gregor but it’s close)(fun fact my sister named him)
There’s more similarities but

ThunderChicken
Jan '24

I don’t know if you could call it accidentally ripping somebody off - it’s more like both of us having the same idea at the same time. You’ve probably heard of the comic strip, Sherman’s Lagoon, featuring a bunch of anthropomorphic talking sea life (sharks, crabs, turtles, fish, etc) living life pretty much like humans do.

Well, way back in 1988 I came up with an idea for a bunch of anthropomorphic talking sea life, including sharks, crabs, turtles, fish, etc. living much like humans do. The series was called Sam the Shark, and to this day I still call my little operation Sam Studios. I had Sam comics published regularly in my high school paper and even copyrighted the characters (I still have the copyright notice, dated 18 November 1989).

Then our local newspaper started carrying Sherman’s Lagoon. I was pissed off, convinced that the creator had somehow stolen my idea. This was a crazy thought, of course: the chances of the creator reading a comic strip in a Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia school newspaper and then copying it are slim to none. Anyway, it didn’t matter. I was a teenager. What the hell could I do about it?

I ended up abandoning the characters.

Sam the Shark was also my first foray into digital drawing back in 1990. This was no easy task on a 12MHz 286 computer with a 20Mb hard drive, a megabyte of RAM, and a 640kb VGA video card capable of showing 640x480 graphics with sixteen colours. All drawing was done with a mouse because drawing tablets were wishful thinking. I actually had to make my own boot disk that loaded only the VGA and mouse drivers, because if I loaded everything the poor computer didn’t have enough RAM and I couldn’t do anything with my art program (ZSoft Paintbrush). I would get a “You don’t have enough memory to perform that operation” error.

theyrebothakilogram
Jan '24

There's been a few times where I've been reading other people's webcomics and I've seen characters that have the same exact look and personality of my characters and everytime it reminds me that there is no such thing as an original story :sob:

ButterflyEmpress
Jan '24

In high school I wrote a story about an angel and demon hiding out in the real world as regular people, then The Devil is a Part-Timer came out. It bummed me out a bit, especially since I couldn't draw wings as well as a professional animator. Or design cool characters. But the only similarities were the angel and devil living on earth. Their goals weren't the same.

My last comic featured a pink goddess and I planned on remaking it sometime. I'm sure everyone is aware that the most popular webtoon at the moment also features a pink goddess. I was unaware of this when I designed the character several years ago, but it's not like Smythe owns a trademark on pink goddesses. Although I'm not sure how crazy her fanbase is.

FafasMcMelt
Jan '24

I mean, doesn't every empire have knights as their greatest warriors though?

Lensing
Jan '24

I did in the 80s.
I was reading that stoneage cartoon and later I drew a main character
for my comics that I used in most of my comics as a kid.
I forgot about the cartoon but I realised later that I ripped
most of it off from it. The missing chin and missing eyebrows
, a similar haircut, the tired eyebrows. The ears were influenced
by the Smurfs or a different comic, I don´t remember. The nose
was ripped off of Asterix probably.
I try to draw the old character, it´s 30 years ago, I wasn´t aware that
people have a chin at that time :smiley:

2DLenzy
Jan '24

I swear I had seen this exact scene somewhere, but I cannot for the life of me find it or remember what comic/funny/collection it was in (the Far Side? iFunny?) It was years ago when I came up with the concept (2020?)

Here's my first ever concept drawing of Friar, back when I wanted to do a comedy:




The reason I didn't go through with the gag-comedy was that I was 100% sure this was done before and I was paranoid of plagarism, so I reworked everything and tried to make something unique...








...
Oh....
...
...Well, we're all human...
...
Here's another original as a bonus:

XD

Leyelle
Jan '24

I have a novel, haven't made it yet, but it's about a girl who's deaf, and named Echo, only for me to find out recently that there is a superhero, who is hearing-impared, named Echo.

Similarly, but not exactly the same, in my novel, "Damsel in the Red Dress," there's one line, in one scene, that's rather similar to a line in a book called "The Bronze Bow," which I don't really care for, but I couldn't help but notice, that that line specifically, is uncomfortably similar to one that appeared in the book.

In the story, there's a boy who's set on vengeance, but he finds himself falling in love with his bffs sister, though he's cruel to her. He once told her she was just a 'pretty child.' then some time later, he witnesses her dancing at a festival, and is enraptured by her beauty, when she asks if he still just sees a pretty child, he admits that he doesn't, and that makes her so happy, it scares him and disconcerts him, he feels the need to keep talking, excusing himself, and ends up hurting her further. Then in my story, there's this:

“Do you remember the night I asked you if you’d like your mother to adopt me?”

He looks at me vacantly, but nods, “Yeah.”

“Have you changed your mind?”

He seems to come to a little bit, propping himself more upright in the chair, he looks at me quizzically.

“Do you still wish my mother had adopted you?”

“No.”

I say it quickly - before I can stop myself- and I see such a brilliant light come into his eyes at that one word - such a cross between paleness and heart-racing - flushing and hope - that I scare myself-

Change the subject.

“I shouldn’t have tried to butt in between you and your mom. It wasn’t my place.”

The light seems to fade out, “Oh,” he says glumly.

*

So yeah, maybe a little too similar.