Most blatant rip offs you've ever seen.

[DefunctTheory]

But then, put Gandalf, Obi Wan Kenobi and Dumbledore together and try and tell them apart.

Gandalf has a WAY cooler hat.

 

[Fightgarr]

Uh... it took you this long to realize that fantasy recycles ideas? The farm-boy turned hero isn't just a trope of fantasy it basically is fantasy. Star Wars was FAR from from the first to do this story, and it definitely won't be the last. There are so few original fantasy writers out there, that sifting through the shit becomes trudging through a fucking bog. Yeah, Eragon was written by some 15 year-old who had just red The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter and decided to throw something together. But that's what a fucking 15 year-old does. Congrats on figuring out fantasy is generally full of shit[footnote]Disclaimer: I actually love some fantasy, it's just that it's very rare for me to find authors I enjoy.[/footnote].

 

[stinkyrobot]

Thats pretty shameless

 

[RedRussian]

The Lion King

Yeah the lion king in Hamlet with cute animals.Almost scene for scene in some spots.

Actually not just hamlet that was a meh adaptation.

look up a movie called 'kimba' the white lion. the story is EXACTLY THE SAME, the lion is even called KIMBA

you mean the japanese kimba? Yeah Disney should be ashamed.

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

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Eragon wasn't intentionally ripping off Star Wars, it simply was using the same fantacy archtypes that have existed since the dawn of myth, the "hero with the thousand faces" story type (google that phrase to learn about it). Lucas was a big fan of this type and intentionally put it into Star Wars.

Now, for rip-off's, I can't decide. Their is an entire part of the film industry devoted to making straight to DVD crap makes of famous films, changing the title slightly to not get sued, examples including "The Day the Earth Stopped," "Troll 2," "The Attack of the Olyimpians," and "Snakes on a Train."

You may want to note that three of those four come from the infamous Alsylum studios, who have moved on to make horrible giant monster movies for the Syfy channel.

 

[demoman_chaos]

Kinect is a rip-off of the PS Eye. The technology behind it is different, but in function it is exactly the same.
Kinectimals is a blatant rip-off of Eyepets.
Crash Bash and Crash Team Racing were rip-offs of Mario Party and Mario Kart.
Sonic Shuffle was a rip of Mario Party.
Nintendo stole Tetris (I believe Atari was the first to make Tetris on the NES, but somehow they lost the rights to Nintendo)

Not to mention the VAST array of old Pong rip-offs, everything from Atari, to the Odyssey, to the Intellivision, and hundreds more all ripped off Pong.

 

[Sub_par]

i hope you realize that star wars is just a rip off of samurai movies and westerns with no innovation other then the setting, it has nothing but classic story archetypes that have been used for hundreds if not thousands of years, so it will be very similar to other books and movies that use the same archetypes.

 

[ramboondiea]

well nier makes quite a few references to the legend of zelda games, with a compleatly blatant boss battle, but doesnt try to hide it and even plays the item music in quite a comical fashion so its okay.
but the worst one was probly snakes on a train, its a shame as usually those mockbusters are hilarious

 

[SailorShale]

Manic Digger.

Seriously. How lame, just buy Minecraft.

 

[ABLb0y]

Dead Space is basically Resident Evil in Space.

 

[DracheX]

I agree they had the same plot and everything!

 

[linkvegeta]

3D dot game heroes rips of zelda big time.

 

[thahat]

Ever look at W40K Space Marines beside... well... space marines?

What was actually 1st? Cause Starcraft was released in 1998 dunno about 40k though.

40k was first, by MILES ( 1987 )

 

[Soviet Heavy]

To be fair, Starcraft made Protoss first, I think WH40K stole that one back as Tau to make a point (and have an excuse for RAILGUN TANKS!)

Not quite the Protoss.

Spoiler

 

[Joepow]

Though, technically, everything is a rip off of something. There's only so many ideas and we've used up all of them.

For instance I was watching this movie and my friend said this one character is such a batman rip off. Now, I was really enjoying this movie. So this pissed me off.

So I responded. "And Batman is a rip off of Dirty Harry and Dirty Harry was a rip off of every character John Wayne played who were all rip offs of every bad ass on the side of the angels before them. What's your point!?"

Batman as been around since the 1930's and he was influenced by Zorro. Dirty Harry as nothing to do with Batman in any way, shape or form. Not even the modern Batman as anything to do with Dirty Harry.

Oh my bad, ancient batman is a rip off of Zorro. Modern batman is a rip off of all former bad ass law enforcers. My bad. lolz

Actually... No, the modern Batman is arguably a rip off of Rorschach from the Watchmen. Its arguable as TDKR and Watchmen came out around the same year and Watchmen accidentally kicked off the whole darker and edgier hero wave of the late 80's to 90's where Batman also became more darker and edgier. Its sort of ironic though given that Rorschach was a Batman expy (along with another character from the D.C universe Alan Moore wasn't aloud to kill off).

Again, its arguable. He's certainly not a rip off of all bad ass law enforcers. I could point to a good few comic heroes that are, just not Batman.

Although my knowledge of batman comes only from the two last movies and some cartoons, I really don't see that much similarities between them, other than the "dark and gritty" thing and their stupidly stubborn adherence to their ideals ("never kill" and "never compromise"). Also according to tvtropes and Wikipedia, the characters from watchmen are expys of Charlton Comics? heroes that DC had just gotten the rights of.

 

[MoNKeyYy]

Uncharted. That is all

 

[pendragon177]

I love Star Wars, a lot, but I also love fantasy book as well so a few years ago I picked up a certain fantasy book that people had been saying was super duper good and was the best thing ever (this was back in middle school I think). This book as Eragon. So I read it, and I somewhat enjoyed it although I couldn't shake the feeling that I had already read this story before, that's when I realized that I had, it was Star Wars... with dragons.

It had everything, princess is attacked by bad guy, send away something for old wise master to retrieve, fresh faced farmboy finds it, finds old wise master, gets his family killed as a result, runs away to train with old master, finds rougeish man who helps them...

I could go on and on but I'd rather know your thoughts on the matter of not just how crappy the Inheritance books are but also what other things have you seen or read that was an obvious rip off of another, better book/movie/anything else you can think of.

Holy fuck, as if I never noticed that. That's hilarious. Lol, Star Wars with dragons. And now in the latest book he even has his own blue light saber.

 

[Jason Danger Keyes]

How about this?

Both shitty teenage 'romance' novels with immortals, psychic powers, and extreme amounts of wangst.

 

[Ice Car]

OH NOEZ THEY RIPPED OFF CALL OF DUTY.

Oh, wait, sorry, wrong video. This is just leaked footage of Modern Warfare 3...

 

[Fwee]

That movie The Island ripped off one plot point from the book Spares, by Michael Marshall Smith.
Not exactly ripped off , since Dreamworks bought the rights to Spares and were planning on making it a movie. But then the production got stopped for several reasons, probably most involving the execs not being able to understand what the movie was about. So they decided to take bits and pieces of the story and pepper it into several other scifi movies that were being made at the time, the biggest borrower being The Island.
Read the book, it's a great story and I still hope for an adaptation some day.