Is Iron Man Ripping Off the Prince of Persia?

[are.you.the.god.its.me.vader]

Whiplash is totaly badass.

 

[Schlorgan]

Looks EXACTLY like the cover of Warrior Within

 

[molester jester]

Yes because iron man a character that has been around for 30+ years, with one of the most successful comic films in fact the third highest-grossing film of 2008 on opening weekend really needs to rip of prince of Persia to get publicity. There are only so many poses a character can take while dual wielding that look cool and this is one of them, I highly doubt they chose to rip of prince of Persia.

 

[Amnestic]

Whiplash uses whips, which limits his posters to 3 things, no weapons at all, arms out with whips down(as seen) and an action shot considering you can't wrap an energy whip around yourself like a real whip. And considering no weapons would leave most people clueless as to who the hell that is,

Haruhi forbid we leave a bit of ambiguity in our adverts to entice people in!

 

[AceDiamond]

Looks EXACTLY like the cover of Warrior Within

Yeah I remembered seeing all those newspaper clippings in the background of the Warrior Within cover...wait what?

 

[ayahtzeefan]

wow all the people that were unhappy with godsmack being in the warrior within can go fuck themselves. godsmack kicks ass. but anyways i don't think they look too alike but theres definitely some similarities

 

[cleverlymadeup]

Comic Book Fail. That's not Iron Man.

That's Mickey Rourke, playing Whiplash. And looking very awesome.

yeah i think maybe you should limit Funk's network access for a bit, redirect his youtube videos to Marvel stuff or something

i knew it was Whiplash when i first saw it. so this one should be kinda cool, tho i was hoping for the Mandarin to show up but maybe he will since they've hinted at him in the last one

 

[BonerMacTittyPants]

News post fail.

He has two whips, how else could they portray him? Both in the same hand?

Man is The Escapist sucking recently.

 

[BenFace]

Its the fact that Mickey Rourke has been publicised as Whiplash for several months now, and theres plenty of info out there about it, thats bad journalism, not researching what the hell your talking about.

 

[CivilWar]

Who gives a damn?

Iron Man 2 > Prince of Persia.

 

[foamfollower]

wouldn't be a first, I always thought there was a scene in the first iron man that was way too close to that star craft 2 trailer to be coincidence.

i still enjoyed the movie tho

 

[Tanfastic]

Its a coincidence. Iron is far greater than Prince of Persia (Also great but not as) and has no need to steal ideas from other people.

 

[deadaim6]

It's not just the pose that's similar, but the look of the hair and costume, as well. No-one is suggesting that the character himself was ripping off PoP, just the styling of the poster.

But...you can't exactly say that the style is being ripped off when it's been done so many times before. To be quite honest, I don't understand why this is being made such a big problem. If I stood next to you doing the exact same pose as you were, would I really be copying you, or just sharing a style that I like and think would be well liked by others?

Depends -- did you do your hair the same way and are you wearing clothes like mine?

Nobody's making a big deal out of it. We thought it was interesting, we decided to share.

I'm not going to lie. There ARE similarities but they're not GLARINGLY so. I wouldn't go so far as to saying as it's a "rip off".

 

[Schlorgan]

Looks EXACTLY like the cover of Warrior Within

Yeah I remembered seeing all those newspaper clippings in the background of the Warrior Within cover...wait what?

I mean his posture and his haircut lol

 

[Dommyboy]

Eh, the pose seems somewhat generic. I've seen it done before in other things too, like art work. What do you expect with every original idea being dwindled down.

 

[Susan Arendt]

It's not just the pose that's similar, but the look of the hair and costume, as well. No-one is suggesting that the character himself was ripping off PoP, just the styling of the poster.

But...you can't exactly say that the style is being ripped off when it's been done so many times before. To be quite honest, I don't understand why this is being made such a big problem. If I stood next to you doing the exact same pose as you were, would I really be copying you, or just sharing a style that I like and think would be well liked by others?

Depends -- did you do your hair the same way and are you wearing clothes like mine?

Nobody's making a big deal out of it. We thought it was interesting, we decided to share.

I'm not going to lie. There ARE similarities but they're not GLARINGLY so. I wouldn't go so far as to saying as it's a "rip off".

And that's the whole point of the discussion. Funk's suggestion of "conspiracy" is nothing more than a lighthearted joke. We really just wanted to see if anyone else saw a resemblance.

 

[Ultra_Caboose]

It's hard to imagine that this is coincidental, seeing how the two images look so very alike. Does this mean that Iron Man 2 will have improved combat, but a overall darker and grittier atmosphere and out-of-place heavy metal soundtrack featuring Godsmack that ultimately isn't very well-received by the fanbase resulting in a third installment that gets back to the more fantastic, lighthearted tone of the first game? Er, movie?

I certainly hope so as far as the inevitable game tie-in is concerned. The game for Iron Man was a pile of crap on top of a pile of vomit.

 

[Critical92]

Is superman ripping off Pee-Wee?

 

[Patroclus]

Iron Man or Whiplash, doesn't change the image itself being a pretty clear copy

Of course, because Prince of Persia was the only thing in the history of cover design to have a protaganist/antagonist facing the camera with heavy shading and an intimidating look.

Other examples being:

The cover from the Xbox 360 version of Age of Conan, one of the Underworld films did it, many comics from Marvel and DC have done this (along with a fair number of the AVP comics), Batman: Arkham Asylem, Terminator 1 and 2 did this (although in both they were more centred towards medium close up shots that entire body shots), The Thing, Evil Dead: Fistfull of Boomstick and Evil Dead Armies of Darkness along with many more.

agreed.
also Dual-wielding any kind of weapon just because it looks badass and seems like a good idea isn't anything new(see Drizzt Do'urden or just google-image-search "dual wielding"). So as far as posture and stance go, I'd say that's a coincidence. But I have to admit the similarity between hairstyles is rather uncanny. Although, you could argue that the hairstyle was derived from the punk/emo subculture--I certainly feel like I've seen it somewhere before Warrior Within.

so yeah, there's a resemblance but, in my opinion, it's coincidental