Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Deset Gled]

That's kinda a thing in a lot of genres, though, innit? An idea bounces around and collects a bunch of different spins?

(And drug-naming is something of an art.)

I would say that the superhero genre is extremely blatant with the knock-offs copying one specific original. It is often very easy to directly identify who is a generic form of someone else.

Contrast this to sci-fi. A lot of stuff is a rip-off of Star Wars, but there's also a good amount of Star Trek and a few others (Dune, etc). Most knock-offs are at least a little bit of a blend. Ditto with horror, where the knock-offs often intentionally blend more than one source together. A lot of broader genres, like action blockbusters or (going old-school) westerns are much more decentralized, so the knock-offs tend to resemble a lot of big names at once rather than being a direct copy from one specific source.

The only other genre I can think of where it's so blatant who's the original that's being copied is kids stuff. The low budget Disney and Dreamworks knock off videos make zero attempt to hide what their ripping off.

 

[prabe]

I would say that the superhero genre is extremely blatant with the knock-offs copying one specific original. It is often very easy to directly identify who is a generic form of someone else.

Contrast this to sci-fi. A lot of stuff is a rip-off of Star Wars, but there's also a good amount of Star Trek and a few others (Dune, etc). Most knock-offs are at least a little bit of a blend. Ditto with horror, where the knock-offs often intentionally blend more than one source together. A lot of broader genres, like action blockbusters or (going old-school) westerns are much more decentralized, so the knock-offs tend to resemble a lot of big names at once rather than being a direct copy from one specific source.

The only other genre I can think of where it's so blatant who's the original that's being copied is kids stuff. The low budget Disney and Dreamworks knock off videos make zero attempt to hide what their ripping off.

I was making the (probable) mistake of thinking books, where Firestarter bounces off The Fury which bounces off Carrie, though you do get books like Morgenstern's The Starless Sea, which bounces off of Barker and Borges--and Barker, at least in the relevant novels, was probably himself bouncing off Borges.

 

[Thomas Shey]

We lived on one of Stapleton Airport’s busier flight paths. Unconsciously, we’d simply stop talking until a flyover finished.

For reasons I won't go into, I learned at an early age to screen background sound between relevant and irrelevant, even when sleeping; I'll utterly ignore even relatively loud sounds (such as music or construction) without paying it any conscious attention, but even fairly soft sounds my mind doesn't recognize will catch my attenion.

(This is why I often have a problem sleeping in strange places for the first night or two; my mind hasn't sorted what sounds it should pay attention to and which not yet, so it tends to pay attention to everything.)

 

[Thomas Shey]

Absolutely, though I think it's most apparent right now in superheroes. Or it seems to be tolerated the most there?

It and the drugs are kind of the same problem; there have been enough of them over the years that some duplication has become virtually inevitable. Difference is, it actually matters with the drugs, where with the superheroes it only really matters with duplication of really well known ones.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Well, in the comic book market, that’s pretty much true. The last time I looked, there were nearly 200 different versions of Superman, and DC Comics owns more than half of them.

I know of a few Batman & Flash knockoffs, too.

What would be hilarious- and I think it’s what you’re getting at- is having a bunch of them in the same setting. Some of them could be quite similar to the original, while others would be pale imitations.

El Murciélago- a luchador inspired Batman copy

Bat-Bro- a crime fighter who DIY builds his “wonderful toys” with supplies from a major hardware chain.

Batorang- a guy in a homemade orange Batman costume

Bat-Slugger- a vigilante who wears Batman merch themed streetwear and uses a baseball bat sporting Batman-symbol metal studs.

Take a look at how many Green Arrow offshoots there've been some time...

 

[CleverNickName]

Well, it didn't involve a detective agency, or a private security company, or a law enforcement agency. It didn't involve a presidential assassination plot, or labor unions, or riots, and nobody died. It had nothing to do with railroads, or factories, or strikebreaking, and it didn't even happen in the nineteenth century.

But sure, let's talk about the Pinkertons anyway.

 

[Staffan]

Henry Gyrich?

 

[Scribe]

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Holy Christ lol

 

[Velderan]

Today feels like the third Monday of this week.

 

[payn]

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Holy Christ lol

Liquidation day.