I love how this person compared 2 people who are kinda similar and calls them copycats, like goddamn you try and make a superhero universe without reusing powers. The only ones I’d agree with is similar backstory, suit/imagery or name.
There are so many that are undeserving, but I think I’m most offended by the Black Canary/ Black Widow comparison, bc asside from being “woman who fight good” they have literally nothing in common. The photo they used wasn’t even of black canary in costume, it was just some video game frame out of context to make them look more similar.
@@BeeruzChryslerMHA isn’t really a good comparison. Anime’s pay their animators slave labor costs, but comics from the 40’s - 70’s were limited by both what they could affordable pay an artist to re-draw hundreds of times and what colour inks they could get, so designs had to be really simplified.
Some of these aren’t even rip offs, like how is Zatanna a rip off of Scarlett witch when Zatanna’s character is literally being the daughter of the magician superhero Zatara who debuted in 1938.
Yeah most of this video is misconceptions.... There are some that are totally validated ones though. I'd say half of this list is wrong though and is just "popular" opinion/ perception. I.m.o.
Some of these were within months, and I would feel better to say that given times to produce and then publish, a lot of these ideals were being thought up around the same time as each other rather than a blatant copy cat scenario. At least that is the way I see some of these. It is also interesting that in a ton of these cases that Marvel or DC both seem to take the un popular ideas of the other and make then a more popular character in their universe. So honestly whether or not the ideas are being copied or just similar, it is nice to see that all ideas are getting limelight time regardless who it is from. Which in the end means the Artist and Writers win the day overall, and I can get behind that anytime!
If it were a MONTH apart...i might agree with you. But, it's more than obvious these copies were fast tracked in reaction to the original...like a knee jerk reaction of "we gotta have ONE OF THOSE!" 😊
Wanda literally uses magic like powers. So, not sure what the point is. That would be saying EVERY mutant can't have a copy that's not a mutant. And Wanda is a much better character...that is...till recently
Some of these don't really make much sense. Red Skull is a Nazi who was part of a super soldier experiment gone wrong. Black Mask is an American crime boss who wears a black skull mask. The only similarity they have is the whole skull head deal. That's it. Moon Knight and Batman. Moon Knight is a dude with multiple personalities and is the Avatar of an Egyptian God. Sometimes he's the Mercenary Marc Spectre. Other times he's the gentleman Steven Grant, and sometimes the sadistic cab driver Jack Lockley. Batman is a millionaire playboy who dresses up as a bat every night to beat the crap out of criminals because he saw his parents get killed right in front of him when he was 8. Black Widow and Black Canary. One's a Russian spy with no powers. The other is a meta human who can scream really loud. Not much in common.
Actually your half right about Black Widow, she is a Russian spy trained in the Red Room since she was a child and like Captain America she took the Super Soldier Serum but just in a lesser form of it. She was born in 1928 and took the serum in 1958 making her life span longer, she's also much stronger than the average person. This in no way however is a comparison to Black Canary.
Just because two characters look alike and have similarities doesn't mean they copy each other they are just coincidences due to the nature of superhero story making
It’s amazing how DC has a lot of its main characters in the 1940s and marvel started to really get going in the 1960s . So that’s a two decade gap the nostalgia belongs to both but DC goes deeper in nostalgia to me
DC is the main reason Marvel exists, and the only reason MArvel is that big now is because they started making different things with Spider-Man, X-Men and F4
@@leonardoabrantes9599 I haven't seen more illiterate person than you. Go read the interviews of Marvel associates. Phantom & Zorro are the only reason that DC & Marvel exist. Lol
@@leonardoabrantes9599 I haven't seen dumber person than you. Go read the interviews of Marvel associates. Phantom & Zorro are the only reason that DC & Marvel exist. Lol
@@leonardoabrantes9599 I haven't seen more braindead person than you. Go read the interviews of Marvel associates. Phantom & Zorro are the only reason that DC & Marvel exist. Lol
@@leonardoabrantes9599 I haven't seen more deluded person than you. Go read the interviews of Marvel associates. Phantom & Zorro are the only reason that DC & Marvel exist. Use your brain. Lol
@@harshjain9615 hyperion and gladiator have same to same power like superman but sentry is different because every superhero have Superstrengh and flying ability and even sentry not having lesser beam
Knew Thanos was a copy of Darkseid way back when he first showed up. More than a few comic fans thought so too. Between the two, Darkseid is my favorite because he isn’t insane, and has a good idea of what to do and how to do it. Just my meager observation…..
Runner and Godspeed is a huuuuge stretch. They're speedsters who both have gold in their color scheme. Except Runner has ONLY gold in his color scheme, whereas Godspeed's suit is mostly white. And they share exactly zero design similarities, their origins are nowhere close to the same, their motives and end goals are nothing alike. You'd be better off pairing Runner with The Flash, and even then their only similarities are that both of their designs kinda make nods to the god Hermes/Mercury (and not even the same nods; Flash has the winged boots/helm, with later versions having the wings eventually reshaped to lightning bolts and a mask instead of a Hermes/like cap, while Runner has a statue-like body and a loincloth).
@@kl9686 it may look like that now. But back then when the fictional world was almost nothing compared to 2022. Today you introduce an original comicbook character, tommorow the competeing company releases a similar character with similar looks, abilities, fighting style, persona, etc. Its not that difficult to figure out the obvious unless you have a stick stuck in your muffins.
@@docholliday2571 Please. The handful of original characters introduced in the past 10 years have been demonstrable failures. Today's DC and Marvel are creatively impotent, relying instead on the lazy practice of gender/race swaps and retcons of truly original characters created by real visionaries. Which is why the comic book industry continues to collapse. Swallow THOSE muffins, cowboy, then find yourself a sunset to disappear into. Cheeky prick.
@@betweentheripples8847 Gender/race swaps??? Marvel's Captain Marvel was a male character when it first appeared. B* Please... Both Marvel and DC are on a equal level when it comes to gender/politics slander house. The topic here is Character originality, do not divert the main topic. I see you've deleted your comment😴😴😴
@Blaze i did learn the material, clearly unlike you. I started out with DC as a child, before realising that Marvel was just so much more powerful, and Doctor Strange managed to become black priest strange in the last days of magic, literally saving magic, the best thing dr fate could do was rescue spectre. Go read a comic my guy dr fate is limited and his magic follows rules, dr strange transcends those rules, allowing him to do and become many things such as completely immortal.
@Blaze order vs chaos as many times have proven they are both limited, dr fate saved spectre in an early comic, and yes that isn’t just any old feat, but saving all of magic, and commanding a race that beat the true darkhold scarlet witch is something far more impressive, especially since Wanda could easily wipe spectre and fate, but when she got ganged up against the black priests she wasn’t able to win. Also u bringing up artefacts that fate used which are nothing compared to things like the infinity gauntlet and the agamotto equipment. The thing is Dr fate hasn’t got as many amazing feats as dr strange, even if his helmet is thousands of years old, when you actually take a look at things like their powers, Dr Fate has mastered the mystic arts (apart from chaos magic but that’s bc he didn’t think it existed), whereas every time Fate tries to do something with his magic, it imbalances the universe with the whole order and chaos thing, which limits him
@Blaze it literally is a debate, just bc you seen a few "marvel fanboys" doesnt mean that they are right. As a kid I grew up with both, and the characters from the marvel universe are just much more powerful for 3 reasons. 1. the writers arent afraid to make their characters do crazy powerful things 2. the marvel and dc universes alr had crossovers and marvel just showed to be much more powerful 3. DC comics is just so limited and restrained, even down to the presence himself, being a judo-christian god, which gives him limits, compared to TOAA who is completely fictional
What is interesting about this video is that a lot of times the "copycat" character tends to be the most recognizable or sucesfull one. It seems like the creators really improve on the flaws of the original idea
@@camdakill6007 Yeah, but it's a shame that aquaman is more popular, he even has a movie. But I prefer Namor and can't wait to see it in black panther wakanda forever
I'd have said Silver Surfer was the Marvel version of Martian Manhunter, they're both super powerful aliens who originally started off as enemies to their respective teams but would eventually become heroes.
Their suit design, them being male or female, their powers all is considered before Marvel or DC create the copy character. It's not just a pure coincidence.
@@SignalFlowers some characters aren't even the same like moon knight and batman the story is way different and the powers aren't even look alike. Black widow and black canary aren't even the same black canary like a scream character while black widow isn't
@@eudboy2727 “Powers aren’t even look alike” you definitely don’t know anything about moon knight. Back then he was a millionaire who fought crime as moon knight with boomerangs and other stuff just like batman.
I love how both creators of swamp thing and man thing were roommates and just decided to create the same character but with the specific formula of Marvel and Dc for each creation... lmao
@@leonardgould4760 so sorry. The point remains same. The creator stated that he took the inspiration from Darkseid and went as far as saying that he originally wanted to copy metron
Also anything i read on The Vision says hes based on the Timely Comic character of the same name and they were published by Marvel in 1940. And he looks like a cross between The Vision, Watcher and Martian Manhunter
Actually I disagree with Doom Patrol and X-Men. They were launched almost at the same time, and is not possible know who was the one with the original idea, because a lot of people that worked in marvel worked in DC at the same time
Maybe you are right. But If you looking of the characters name from the villans and the similarities of the two leaders how is on the wheelchair are exactly the same
I thought so too but if you look at the stories and taglines marvel clearly copied. doom patrol had the tag "the worlds strangest superheroes" and the xmen had "the strangest superheroes of all". then there's the obvious leader in the wheelchair. and the villains they come up against, doom patrol has the legion of evil and xmen have the legion of evil mutants. No hate, its just its more than just an idea that was copied from dc
And like you need some time like a few months to make a comic you can't create the same guys if you became with comic when the other didn't even drop ywt
The Captain Marvel of '67 was Mar-vell, a man, Sif, in no way shape or form is a counter to wonder Woman, the original Vision is older than you've listed..........................dude you're not very good at this. The falcon and Hawkman?
I think it should have been like… Wanda vs Raven Vision vs Martian manhunter Their abilities seem more similar than the ones here. Anyway, I love them all.
I agree, especially with Vision and Martian Manhunter though one is not a robot they are similar in appearance most of the time, they also have similar powers, and they are both a part of their respective universe's premier superhero teams. On another note Wanda and Raven are much better camparison than Wanda and Zatanna especially when it comes to their power sets, I wouldn't of actually thought of that if it weren't for this comment so thanks. 🙂
I seen a video here on RUclips a few years back(it’s probably still on here I bet🤔). But the video said that there were some writers, and artist that were working with DC were roommates with some Marvel writers and artists and that they would discuss their newest characters with each other and that’s how a lot of characters were so much alike. Well, I mean that explains the ones that were introduced at or around the same time. But the ones that came decades later are just blatant rip-offs! I mean they all are blatantly ripped off from other characters but some are more so than others! But as long as it’s not too dead on and they have a good story I’m ok with it and it doesn’t bother me so much.
bruh hes inspired and here's a list of moon knight copy of Batman 1 Steven Grant is rich in Comics 2 Moon knight has a flying weapon 3 there both a caped crusader 4 and they fight at night 5 and use almost 1 theme color
@@thelg8064 response why there different 1. MPD vs Orphan 2. Has a literal God inside of him 3. Will openly kill people 4. Moon knight has a life besides muh rich
@@candrealxentertainment lol... moon night is exactly copycat batman... mr night (staven) use his brain to solve crime. and moon night (marc) fight crime with his own barehand... you the one who need to see the comic bro
Interesting comparisons. I think the "copycat" discussion is pulling teeth, but I like that there are origin times for characters that obviously are inspired by similar aesthetic. Gotta say would've compared Black Panther to Wildcat, Red Lion is the African version of Deathstroke. Although they look similar the characters are quite different.
There is a DC version of Spider-Man named Black Spider. He’s a super villain and a member of the Secret Society of Super Villains and sometimes is a part of the Suicide Squad. He’s often paired off against Batman.
Your image captioned as Commander Steel was actually of the Shield, of MLJ Comics, created in 1939, copied by Marvel in making Captain America (plus his association with S.H.I.E.L.D.). You should compare the Shield's sidekick and Bucky as well. Did Jack Kirby invent both Silver Surfer and Black Racer? Of course, Doll Man came before both the Atom and Antman.
While there are certainly some copycats, and both sides are guilty of it…most of these are just heavily inspired. Which I still don’t think is right, the level of inspiration they take from it. But…whatever.
@C p um the flash save the entire universe from the motherbox and from darkseid getting the anti life equation that would control every life on the universe
2:50 Wouldn't Black Canary's Marvel counterpart be Mockingbird &/or Songbird rather than Black Widow? I suppose in that case Black Window's DC counterpart would probably be Batwoman.
Zatanna and Scarlet Witch are so different, so no one copied. P.S it's not too easy to make a comics so they couldn't copy each other in span of just 5-6 months.
What happened to the names and year of the characters in the first half of the video? No mention of Captain Marvel because the name straddles both Marvel Comics and DC Comics.
After discussing this stuff with my son this really brings home the comic competition that happened way before the films. Truth is would either have been as good without competition from the other. Look at Messi/ ronaldo blur/ oasis Churchill / Johnson 🤣
I disagree that most of these are copycats. Have you ever read a comic book, or did you just go online and find a bunch of characters with similar sounding names, powers, and appearances?
Flash was the original one, and all the Speedster of dc like black racer godspeed and all carry the idea of flash and not the characters of Marvel, if anything resembles then Marvel took inspiration from flash not vice-versa
I don't agree with any of these comparisons cuz if a company is designing a character with similar looking from other superheroes, they have to take permission from the og. That's why I find it illogical.
Actually, Captain Marvel was Shazam earlier in DC but the right to that name somehow went to Marvel and they made the Character with that name, to retain the rights.......So, technically Captain Marvel was a DC character first which is now known as Shazam.
I gotta wonder what the criteria for "copycat" is here. Black Racer and Silver Surfer for example have very little in common aside from their name. Also, some of these characters weren't owned by DC when they were created, but were acquired later and incorporated into DC after the Crisis on Infinite Earths.
Excepting Superman & Batman, it would be better if the characters' creators' names were displayed, as well. How many times would a name appear on each "side"?
Who wants to see a football game, boxing match, or ufc fight where the opposing forces aren't trying to kill each other? I don't. Copy on and keep up the competition. The amlaglam universe was a great read for me.
this isn't making any sense....how can you compare Moonknight and Batman...one is human [Batman] and the other [MoonKnight] is an avatar for an Egyptian god
In my opinion, it is not appropriate to compare the Falcon with a hawkman, they are nothing alike, the Falcon must be compared with Batwing, here there is a similarity in both mechanical wings, and a hawkman with an angel (archangel)
Okay Banshee and Silver Banshee are nothing alike. You should have mentioned that the original Human Torch was created in the 1940's predating Red Tornado. And you should have used Black Racer's original look (a guy on skies) when comparing him to the Surfer.
Falcon is at least a person who uses tech to fly, which is similar to Hawkman: but yeah, Marvel's copycat of Black Canary was actually Mockingbird, excusing the Banshee-like superpowers.
Black Widow, is a Russian spy trained in the Red Room since she was a child and like Captain America she took the Super Soldier Serum but just in a lesser form of it. She was born in 1928 and took the serum in 1958 making her life span longer, she's also much, much stronger than the average person. This in no way however is a comparison to Black Canary.
@@bsimester2010 I knew all that, which is why I knew she wasn't a Canary rip off. But even without all you said, you can look at them and see nothing similar. They are both females with the with "Black" in their names. It all ends there.
Vision seem more like a copy of Martian Manhunter. Both Fly, Change form, Phase through matter and can be insecure about who he is. Only difference is MM can do psychic stuff and Vision can shoot laser beams from his head.
Good video but how do you know that DC/Marvel or copycats when they just could have released the character a little late when they had the idea for maybe a year
It's not about copying bro , It's about executing the movies and gaining the popularity from audiance , And sadly DC does not have an idea about that till now , Doesn't know how will be the future for DC😁
You know technically speaking these copycat characters are actually replacement characters or at least some of them some of the writers used to work for the other companies and I have heard that at one point the two companies were one but I'm not sure about that regardless whenever these writers were working with one another creating stories it's very much possible that many of these characters were taken away from the stories that they're originally in a good example might be Catwoman and black cat both are which are very similar and at one point they have been one character but whenever the writers split apart and took their characters with them many of them had to be replaced with copycat characters I'm not saying this is the case for every single copycat cares about I am saying that there are quite a couple copies of characters that are probably like this
That vision and red tornado thumbnail is the furthest from true. They look similar but share very different powers and backstories. Most of the others are pretty spot on though.
Or maybe they just wrote characters with similar abilities into their comics. A lot of characters have the same powers and/or look alike. I doesn't mean they copied one another.
Gawd, Man-Thing and Swamp Thing both came out in 1971. If you want to be picky, you could say, "Groot" (and yes I know the Heap, which itself is from Sturgeon's story, "It".
To be fair I dont consider some of these as copycats.. Like for example the catwoman, so nobody can make a cat lady superhero because somebody already came up with it?? Im surprised theres no wolverine, whos like one of the most famous marvel characters
this guy loves starting fan wars on a whole diff level
Fuck it
Marvel all the way😬
@@rhurtadorh32 Marvel is the copycat
@@rhurtadorh32 exactly
@@rhurtadorh32 fuck marvel!
Lol this is how you start a great war like a Helen of Troy war lol
I love how this person compared 2 people who are kinda similar and calls them copycats, like goddamn you try and make a superhero universe without reusing powers. The only ones I’d agree with is similar backstory, suit/imagery or name.
There are so many that are undeserving, but I think I’m most offended by the Black Canary/ Black Widow comparison, bc asside from being “woman who fight good” they have literally nothing in common. The photo they used wasn’t even of black canary in costume, it was just some video game frame out of context to make them look more similar.
@@BeeruzChryslerMHA isn’t really a good comparison. Anime’s pay their animators slave labor costs, but comics from the 40’s - 70’s were limited by both what they could affordable pay an artist to re-draw hundreds of times and what colour inks they could get, so designs had to be really simplified.
Sif is not a copycat of Wonder Woman because she is actually from Norse mythology like Thor, Odin, and Loki
neither is satan lol
That's not an excuse bro 😂
@@_Bunny444_ Ok, then, Lucifer from DC is a copycat from the Marvel Lucifer
Still a copy because they just copied from Norse mythology.
@@_Bunny444_ so your saying dc created sif?
Sif is not a copy of Wonder Woman, she exists in Norse mythology and has only been adapted for comics and movies.
Yes, I agree but Sif's costume is inspired from Wonder Woman
Not to mention that Marvel HAS a ripoff of Wonder woman - The Amazonian
Actually this "copy" thing doesn't make sense. Sif is literally a Norse god. And there's many characters incomparable.
Can't compare Black widow with Black Canary because of the word 'Black'. They have totally different abilities.
@@akhilantony8854 yep.
@@sourin.spider-god3970 okay don't u think cyborg should be compared by same tin guy....
@@renusharma4256 who's the same Tin guy?
@@sourin.spider-god3970 sorry man it's like I've started hating marvel after the mess they've made...
DcAmu is kind of a painkiller for that
"Captain marvel -1967 powergirl - 1976
Copycat marvel"
Wtf
Lady sif is from norse mythology how is it a copycat?
Mary Marvel 1942>Supergirl 1959>Captain Marvel 1967> Power Girl 1976. Mary Batson>Kara Danvers(Kara Zor el and Linda Lee)>Carol Danvers>Kara Zor-L,
That's what I said
lady sif. this is just between marvel and DC., not Norse myths.
by name, maybe. But the real copy is DC's Captain Marvel not Supergirl.
Captain Marvel copiied from DC captain Marvel or shazam..
Some of these aren’t even rip offs, like how is Zatanna a rip off of Scarlett witch when Zatanna’s character is literally being the daughter of the magician superhero Zatara who debuted in 1938.
And one is a witch and the other is a magician...
You speak the truth
Yeah most of this video is misconceptions.... There are some that are totally validated ones though. I'd say half of this list is wrong though and is just "popular" opinion/ perception. I.m.o.
Zatara...who appeared in a very obscure 1938 comic book 😂
@bobabooey5853 and I have a Scarlet Witch vs the Planet of the Apes which is obscure as well.
I don't think obscurity really matters.
Some of these were within months, and I would feel better to say that given times to produce and then publish, a lot of these ideals were being thought up around the same time as each other rather than a blatant copy cat scenario. At least that is the way I see some of these. It is also interesting that in a ton of these cases that Marvel or DC both seem to take the un popular ideas of the other and make then a more popular character in their universe. So honestly whether or not the ideas are being copied or just similar, it is nice to see that all ideas are getting limelight time regardless who it is from. Which in the end means the Artist and Writers win the day overall, and I can get behind that anytime!
If it were a MONTH apart...i might agree with you.
But, it's more than obvious these copies were fast tracked in reaction to the original...like a knee jerk reaction of "we gotta have ONE OF THOSE!" 😊
This dude outchea justifying
Bro wrote a whole essay
I still dont get how Batmana and moonnight are said to be copycats ...they are nothing alike
FOR FUXK SAKE : moon knight still stronger than batman, people just too stupid because always say that moon knight are copycats, they are different.
Maybe not a copy cat but highly "inspired"
@@lostabu7215 moonnknight has different origin and powers eventhough the only similarity is both being rich and owning gadgets...
because batman is also dark knight. moon knight. get it?
@@wakdoj similar at name but all difference.
Seeing as Wanda is a Mutant whose power is probability manipulation, she quite literally has nothing to do with inspiring Zatana, who is a magic user.
Yhea, Plus Zatana is based on Zatano, a golden age DC character
Wanda literally uses magic like powers.
So, not sure what the point is. That would be saying EVERY mutant can't have a copy that's not a mutant.
And Wanda is a much better character...that is...till recently
Right. A much closer comparison would be Raven.
captain was in 1967 and power girl was in 1976 and they STILL say marvel copy...
Captain Marvel is the copy of Shazam and yeah you're right that time dc do that copy for stargirl 😅
Hawkman is based on the hawkmen from flash Gordon comic strip.
Some of these don't really make much sense.
Red Skull is a Nazi who was part of a super soldier experiment gone wrong. Black Mask is an American crime boss who wears a black skull mask. The only similarity they have is the whole skull head deal. That's it.
Moon Knight and Batman. Moon Knight is a dude with multiple personalities and is the Avatar of an Egyptian God. Sometimes he's the Mercenary Marc Spectre. Other times he's the gentleman Steven Grant, and sometimes the sadistic cab driver Jack Lockley. Batman is a millionaire playboy who dresses up as a bat every night to beat the crap out of criminals because he saw his parents get killed right in front of him when he was 8.
Black Widow and Black Canary. One's a Russian spy with no powers. The other is a meta human who can scream really loud. Not much in common.
Look at Ghost Rider vs Atomic Skull! Only similarity is their heads are on fire!
they take every thing off of design
Actually your half right about Black Widow, she is a Russian spy trained in the Red Room since she was a child and like Captain America she took the Super Soldier Serum but just in a lesser form of it. She was born in 1928 and took the serum in 1958 making her life span longer, she's also much stronger than the average person. This in no way however is a comparison to Black Canary.
Catman’s a millionaire, Batman’s a billionaire
I think the copy thing is all about designs...
Ofcourse creater come up with different powers and origin.
I think most of them are just highly inspired not "copycat".
Yeah, I highly doubt that some of these were copycat’s. I mean some of them might be but…
@@grahamodom2819 “atomic skull” is a shameless copy of ghost rider lol
And sentry is a shameless copy of superma
@@Hwsthird Deadpool is a shameless copy of deathstroke lol
lol
Just because two characters look alike and have similarities doesn't mean they copy each other they are just coincidences due to the nature of superhero story making
It’s amazing how DC has a lot of its main characters in the 1940s and marvel started to really get going in the 1960s . So that’s a two decade gap the nostalgia belongs to both but DC goes deeper in nostalgia to me
DC is the main reason Marvel exists, and the only reason MArvel is that big now is because they started making different things with Spider-Man, X-Men and F4
@@leonardoabrantes9599 I haven't seen more illiterate person than you. Go read the interviews of Marvel associates. Phantom & Zorro are the only reason that DC & Marvel exist. Lol
@@leonardoabrantes9599 I haven't seen dumber person than you. Go read the interviews of Marvel associates. Phantom & Zorro are the only reason that DC & Marvel exist. Lol
@@leonardoabrantes9599 I haven't seen more braindead person than you. Go read the interviews of Marvel associates. Phantom & Zorro are the only reason that DC & Marvel exist. Lol
@@leonardoabrantes9599 I haven't seen more deluded person than you. Go read the interviews of Marvel associates. Phantom & Zorro are the only reason that DC & Marvel exist. Use your brain. Lol
Hyperion is more of a Superman copy than sentry
That and sentry’s powers literally give him a dark side, the Void, which is why sentry tries to avoid using his powers
Agreed
Gladiator is more of a copy of superman than Sentry too.
@@harshjain9615 hyperion and gladiator have same to same power like superman but sentry is different because every superhero have Superstrengh and flying ability and even sentry not having lesser beam
@@ks-gamer4694 Yeah thus I said Gladiator is more of a copy than Sentry like these people are saying.
Zatanna and Wanda aren't similar😭 They are just girls who use magic
Yeah and Wanda didn't even use magic at the time
Exactly
I was going to say the same thing until i saw your comment
Wanda is a mutant whose power is jinx.
Can’t both of them do literally anything with their magic? Like bend reality if they really wanted to?
Knew Thanos was a copy of Darkseid way back when he first showed up. More than a few comic fans thought so too. Between the two, Darkseid is my favorite because he isn’t insane, and has a good idea of what to do and how to do it. Just my meager observation…..
And also Darkseid ain't no simp.
Darkseid is a generi villain
if only Darkseid really had a chance to shine as a main villain on the big screen. Yeah we got the Snyder Cut but I wanna see more
Phoenix and raven r also similar they r both birds, extremely almost infinite power and in need of a therapy
I literally made it two minutes in before I realized just how many of these pairs aren’t even related 🤡
Runner and Godspeed is a huuuuge stretch. They're speedsters who both have gold in their color scheme. Except Runner has ONLY gold in his color scheme, whereas Godspeed's suit is mostly white.
And they share exactly zero design similarities, their origins are nowhere close to the same, their motives and end goals are nothing alike. You'd be better off pairing Runner with The Flash, and even then their only similarities are that both of their designs kinda make nods to the god Hermes/Mercury (and not even the same nods; Flash has the winged boots/helm, with later versions having the wings eventually reshaped to lightning bolts and a mask instead of a Hermes/like cap, while Runner has a statue-like body and a loincloth).
This is what happens when you know little about the subject you're writing about.
enlighten us!
@@docholliday2571I mean, you cannot just comparing Black Canary and Black Widow together just because “Black” 😂
@@kl9686 it may look like that now. But back then when the fictional world was almost nothing compared to 2022. Today you introduce an original comicbook character, tommorow the competeing company releases a similar character with similar looks, abilities, fighting style, persona, etc.
Its not that difficult to figure out the obvious unless you have a stick stuck in your muffins.
@@docholliday2571 Please. The handful of original characters introduced in the past 10 years have been demonstrable failures. Today's DC and Marvel are creatively impotent, relying instead on the lazy practice of gender/race swaps and retcons of truly original characters created by real visionaries. Which is why the comic book industry continues to collapse. Swallow THOSE muffins, cowboy, then find yourself a sunset to disappear into. Cheeky prick.
@@betweentheripples8847 Gender/race swaps???
Marvel's Captain Marvel was a male character when it first appeared. B* Please... Both Marvel and DC are on a equal level when it comes to gender/politics slander house. The topic here is Character originality, do not divert the main topic. I see you've deleted your comment😴😴😴
Just because strange and fate uses magic doesn't make strange a copycat.There origins are entirely different.
Both are doctors but fate is more powerful, maybe its the difference
@@CarbonizedSoda strange is more powerful in base and has a more powerful form
@Blaze i did learn the material, clearly unlike you. I started out with DC as a child, before realising that Marvel was just so much more powerful, and Doctor Strange managed to become black priest strange in the last days of magic, literally saving magic, the best thing dr fate could do was rescue spectre. Go read a comic my guy dr fate is limited and his magic follows rules, dr strange transcends those rules, allowing him to do and become many things such as completely immortal.
@Blaze order vs chaos as many times have proven they are both limited, dr fate saved spectre in an early comic, and yes that isn’t just any old feat, but saving all of magic, and commanding a race that beat the true darkhold scarlet witch is something far more impressive, especially since Wanda could easily wipe spectre and fate, but when she got ganged up against the black priests she wasn’t able to win. Also u bringing up artefacts that fate used which are nothing compared to things like the infinity gauntlet and the agamotto equipment. The thing is Dr fate hasn’t got as many amazing feats as dr strange, even if his helmet is thousands of years old, when you actually take a look at things like their powers, Dr Fate has mastered the mystic arts (apart from chaos magic but that’s bc he didn’t think it existed), whereas every time Fate tries to do something with his magic, it imbalances the universe with the whole order and chaos thing, which limits him
@Blaze it literally is a debate, just bc you seen a few "marvel fanboys" doesnt mean that they are right. As a kid I grew up with both, and the characters from the marvel universe are just much more powerful for 3 reasons.
1. the writers arent afraid to make their characters do crazy powerful things
2. the marvel and dc universes alr had crossovers and marvel just showed to be much more powerful
3. DC comics is just so limited and restrained, even down to the presence himself, being a judo-christian god, which gives him limits, compared to TOAA who is completely fictional
Im wondering if X Men were a copycat, how they created the whole concept for just about 3 months? 🤔
3:01 but Sif was in Norse mythology which was before 1941
Yes but she is not a warrior in norse mythology
But WW is an Amazon and Greek mythology was created a long centuries before Christ.
@@personasilenciosa8205 but was she? No
Being an avatar for an Egyptian god is incomparable to an orphan boy who dresses up as he’s fear and fights crime. You cannot change my mind.
I was thinking the same thing. I’d say moon knight is one of the more unique characters in comic books.
and a person who suffered identity disorder
Have u ever read comic?
Yeah after watching moon knight they’re are not same to me anymore.
@@quin7440 that doesn't change he was copied from Batman
Where do you all read the comics? I can never run into a comic store where I am
Now this is exactly what I was looking for, who copied whom?
What is interesting about this video is that a lot of times the "copycat" character tends to be the most recognizable or sucesfull one. It seems like the creators really improve on the flaws of the original idea
Example Namor and Aquaman
Visión and red tornado
@@gr3s473 the Namor one is kinda true, a lot more people know Aquaman but there’s a lot that knows Namor too but not as much
@@gr3s473 hell people even think Aquaman was first
@@camdakill6007 Yeah, but it's a shame that aquaman is more popular, he even has a movie. But I prefer Namor and can't wait to see it in black panther wakanda forever
@@gr3s473 yea but they’re changing his story, they’re gonna make it like Aquamans origin now then his original I think
I thought Vision was the Marvel version of Martian Man Hunter.
yeah, because Martian man hunter was created in 1955, vision was created in 1968
Martian Manhunter is a green-skinned person from another planet. Both Red Tornado and the Vision are red-skinned androids created on Earth.
@@tedcoop4392 Yes I know, but I was referring to they have similar powers.
I'd have said Silver Surfer was the Marvel version of Martian Manhunter, they're both super powerful aliens who originally started off as enemies to their respective teams but would eventually become heroes.
Same
Literally can nobody take inspiration from each other without being called a copycat???
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Worthless Clickbait.
That wasn't a picture of Commander Steel, that was the Shield (1940), who beat Capt. America by a year.
i love how most of these are just common ideas like a guy with electricity powers or a cyborg, like bro theyre common things how are they copycats?
Their suit design, them being male or female, their powers all is considered before Marvel or DC create the copy character. It's not just a pure coincidence.
@@SignalFlowers some characters aren't even the same like moon knight and batman the story is way different and the powers aren't even look alike. Black widow and black canary aren't even the same black canary like a scream character while black widow isn't
They were new ideas back then.
@@eudboy2727 “Powers aren’t even look alike” you definitely don’t know anything about moon knight. Back then he was a millionaire who fought crime as moon knight with boomerangs and other stuff just like batman.
I love how both creators of swamp thing and man thing were roommates and just decided to create the same character but with the specific formula of Marvel and Dc for each creation... lmao
@C p yes... both of them were fans of the monster "the heap" and made both man thing and swamp thing based on it's "swamp monster" structure...
Darkseid and Thanos were the same. the dude who created Darkseid went over to Marvel and made Thanos for them
Yo.. Never knew that lol
@@marwanali4878 sorry to said Thanos was created by Jim Starlin and Darkseid creator was Jack Kirby not the same guy.
@@leonardgould4760 so sorry. The point remains same. The creator stated that he took the inspiration from Darkseid and went as far as saying that he originally wanted to copy metron
Also anything i read on The Vision says hes based on the Timely Comic character of the same name and they were published by Marvel in 1940. And he looks like a cross between The Vision, Watcher and Martian Manhunter
The Flash (1940) was not Barry Allen (1956), It was Jay Garrick (1940).
Man-Thing first appeared in May 1971.
Swamp Thing first appeared in July 1971.
Actually I disagree with Doom Patrol and X-Men. They were launched almost at the same time, and is not possible know who was the one with the original idea, because a lot of people that worked in marvel worked in DC at the same time
Maybe you are right. But If you looking of the characters name from the villans and the similarities of the two leaders how is on the wheelchair are exactly the same
I thought so too but if you look at the stories and taglines marvel clearly copied. doom patrol had the tag "the worlds strangest superheroes" and the xmen had "the strangest superheroes of all". then there's the obvious leader in the wheelchair. and the villains they come up against, doom patrol has the legion of evil and xmen have the legion of evil mutants. No hate, its just its more than just an idea that was copied from dc
And like you need some time like a few months to make a comic you can't create the same guys if you became with comic when the other didn't even drop ywt
X men look identical to Legion of Superheroes
@@nathanmorrison8117 copied and made 10 times better and 200 times more loved around the world by marvel
Marvel has more copycats than DC right
Yeah
So what
Meh, I'm on DC side here.
@@dragonrider1736 bro Marvel has 4 superman and Has A lot of inspired Batman character
@@thelg8064 Name them please
For the record, Power Girl isn’t as close to Captain Marvel as THE LITERAL OG CAPTAIN MARVEL IS (Shazam was originally known as Captain Marvel)
The memories, and the nostalgia that these characters remind us off are most important... love the comics!!🎉
The Captain Marvel of '67 was Mar-vell, a man, Sif, in no way shape or form is a counter to wonder Woman, the original Vision is older than you've listed..........................dude you're not very good at this. The falcon and Hawkman?
but he came out in 1968...
Yeah, Black Cat did not come out in 1970. I believe it was 1982 but don’t quote me on that.
Nah vision's first appearance is in 1968
@@BilalKhan-sv5qi he is talking about Aarkus, the original vision, who may also be the inspiration for martian manhunter
I think it should have been like…
Wanda vs Raven
Vision vs Martian manhunter
Their abilities seem more similar than the ones here.
Anyway, I love them all.
Vision is, like Red Tornado, a red-skinned android created on Earth, really nothing like Martian Manhunter
Hyperion vs superman
I agree, especially with Vision and Martian Manhunter though one is not a robot they are similar in appearance most of the time, they also have similar powers, and they are both a part of their respective universe's premier superhero teams.
On another note Wanda and Raven are much better camparison than Wanda and Zatanna especially when it comes to their power sets, I wouldn't of actually thought of that if it weren't for this comment so thanks. 🙂
@@tedcoop4392 mmh is similar to Aarkus, the original Vision
@@xoradivided7950 Marvel's Vision was at most loosely based on Timely's Aarkus, and still has way, way more in common with Red Tornado.
I seen a video here on RUclips a few years back(it’s probably still on here I bet🤔). But the video said that there were some writers, and artist that were working with DC were roommates with some Marvel writers and artists and that they would discuss their newest characters with each other and that’s how a lot of characters were so much alike. Well, I mean that explains the ones that were introduced at or around the same time. But the ones that came decades later are just blatant rip-offs! I mean they all are blatantly ripped off from other characters but some are more so than others! But as long as it’s not too dead on and they have a good story I’m ok with it and it doesn’t bother me so much.
I've noticed a pattern in DC's characters, whenever they copy Marvel, they always start their characters name with "Black"
Moon Night is not a copied character of batman.His stories are way different from batman.
bruh hes inspired and here's a list of moon knight copy of Batman
1 Steven Grant is rich in Comics
2 Moon knight has a flying weapon
3 there both a caped crusader
4 and they fight at night
5 and use almost 1 theme color
@@thelg8064 response why there different
1. MPD vs Orphan
2. Has a literal God inside of him
3. Will openly kill people
4. Moon knight has a life besides muh rich
@@thelg8064 watch the series....
Moon Knight is the exact opposite of Batman
I love both tbh, no need to start fanwars :)
Thats true who say moon night Like Batman 🖕🖕🖕
@@candrealxentertainment lol... moon night is exactly copycat batman... mr night (staven) use his brain to solve crime. and moon night (marc) fight crime with his own barehand... you the one who need to see the comic bro
This takes the Pepsi and Coke wars to a new level.
Most of them aren’t even copycats, they just look alike or share some sort of related name
And also DC copycat Marvel’s Beetle. A Spider-Man villain.
Interesting comparisons. I think the "copycat" discussion is pulling teeth, but I like that there are origin times for characters that obviously are inspired by similar aesthetic. Gotta say would've compared Black Panther to Wildcat, Red Lion is the African version of Deathstroke. Although they look similar the characters are quite different.
I know what you mean but when their names are (color) (big cat) and their costume could be easily mistaken with a paint job...
Yup that's not being ramen into consideration.
I'm surprised Spider-Man doesn't have anyone copying him.
There is a DC version of Spider-Man named Black Spider. He’s a super villain and a member of the Secret Society of Super Villains and sometimes is a part of the Suicide Squad. He’s often paired off against Batman.
@@endorbr and sideways
Black Spider is said to be DC's snarky response to Spiderman, they accomplished this by having him be a drug addict and a weakling.
@@Do31999 sideways was obviously intentionally a rip off tbf
@@endorbr black spider is actually a pretty cool character
Your image captioned as Commander Steel was actually of the Shield, of MLJ Comics, created in 1939, copied by Marvel in making Captain America (plus his association with S.H.I.E.L.D.).
You should compare the Shield's sidekick and Bucky as well.
Did Jack Kirby invent both Silver Surfer and Black Racer?
Of course, Doll Man came before both the Atom and Antman.
While there are certainly some copycats, and both sides are guilty of it…most of these are just heavily inspired. Which I still don’t think is right, the level of inspiration they take from it. But…whatever.
Quick silver: I saved the mansion
Flash: I save the entire multiverse
Godspeed: Hold mah beer
Exactly
@C p um the flash save the entire universe from the motherbox and from darkseid getting the anti life equation that would control every life on the universe
There are times I feel bad for the Flash when try to change the timeline and save it, like he's the only one remembered what happened.
shinra kusakabe: I saved
and recreated heaven and hell and the earth And every universe😂
I feel shinra kusakabe and sho kusakabe are the fastest characters in fiction
or golden Sonic
argos universal versions
1:17 DC Red Lion is probably the most exact copycat I have ever seen lol they literally put black Panther suit on him and changed it red lol 😂
and ghost rider and atomic skull 1:56
Wtf is with red lion 🤣
@@730KCool I can see the skull of his looks like Robbie, who Johnny given power to.
cry
Marvel fans were dissapointed when they found out deadpool is an inspired character from deathstroke dc
2:50 Wouldn't Black Canary's Marvel counterpart be Mockingbird &/or Songbird rather than Black Widow?
I suppose in that case Black Window's DC counterpart would probably be Batwoman.
Zatanna and Scarlet Witch are so different, so no one copied. P.S it's not too easy to make a comics so they couldn't copy each other in span of just 5-6 months.
DCs version of Scarlet Witch was a character called Silver Sorceress, a member of the superhero team, The Champions of Angor.
the banshee too they are very not common
+ vision and red tornado
They should have used maybe raven instead is zatana also black racer and silver surfer are nothing alike so that’s not even copy cat
The Scarlet Witch is way more powerful & complicated than Zatanna.
Sometimes DC stoles from Marvel, sometimes Marvel stoles from DC this is naturale
But mcu has more copycat versions
Rather than dceu
@@spidey017 u sound like a 5 yr old
@@spidey017 But MCU is better then DCEU
Marvel vs dc is debatable but in cinema Marvel winning
@@llokator41 yes dude.
@@llokator41 I know I'm a bit late but the DCAU is better than the Marvel animated universe and both are equal in comics.
What happened to the names and year of the characters in the first half of the video? No mention of Captain Marvel because the name straddles both Marvel Comics and DC Comics.
Wow, I didn't know Namor pre-dated Aquaman!
After discussing this stuff with my son this really brings home the comic competition that happened way before the films. Truth is would either have been as good without competition from the other. Look at Messi/ ronaldo blur/ oasis Churchill / Johnson 🤣
I don't consider Lady Sif as a copy of Wonder Woman, she's an actually god of Norse. But Big Barda looks a copy of Lady Sif.
I disagree that most of these are copycats. Have you ever read a comic book, or did you just go online and find a bunch of characters with similar sounding names, powers, and appearances?
Nothing creates itself, everything transforms… or rather, copies from one another.
Flash was the original one, and all the Speedster of dc like black racer godspeed and all carry the idea of flash and not the characters of Marvel, if anything resembles then Marvel took inspiration from flash not vice-versa
Isn't the runner like hermes
God speed are carrying flash
Y,know fast people has always been a fascination with humans flash isn't the first fiction charater to be fast take that buster
I don't agree with any of these comparisons cuz if a company is designing a character with similar looking from other superheroes, they have to take permission from the og. That's why I find it illogical.
I think Vision and Martian ManHunter more legit comparison
The creators of Marvel & DC comics had been friends and business partners they split up into two businesses to get more money and it worked . The end
They got one wrong, Cap Marvel was made before, how is Marvel the copycat?
to be fair he put PowerGirl even though Captain Marvel was a clone of Supergirl. his error is technically correct
I know right
Task failed succesfully
It's a typo. Carol didn't become a super hero until 1977
Actually, Captain Marvel was Shazam earlier in DC but the right to that name somehow went to Marvel and they made the Character with that name, to retain the rights.......So, technically Captain Marvel was a DC character first which is now known as Shazam.
DC has so much not creative names like "Red Tornado" "Power Girl" and etc.
Iron man and spider man, ant man wasp and many others are creative?
Marvel has grey hulk red hulk she hulk
I mean Jack Kirby did work and create characters on both sides.
I gotta wonder what the criteria for "copycat" is here. Black Racer and Silver Surfer for example have very little in common aside from their name.
Also, some of these characters weren't owned by DC when they were created, but were acquired later and incorporated into DC after the Crisis on Infinite Earths.
They both are not copying they are taking inspiration from each other
Yeah a lot of the ones who ‘copied’ are better than the original so it is more like taking inspiration
I am so going to use that I was just taking inspiration from my seatmates quiz
Black cat and Cat woman....Black Panther and Red Lion....it"s copy,not inspiration😎👋❤
Excepting Superman & Batman, it would be better if the characters' creators' names were displayed, as well. How many times would a name appear on each "side"?
Who wants to see a football game, boxing match, or ufc fight where the opposing forces aren't trying to kill each other? I don't. Copy on and keep up the competition. The amlaglam universe was a great read for me.
Love the comments. "Its not a copy, they are inspired". In reality: "Oh look our rivals made a Heroman. Lets create "Captain Heroman"
It’s not copycats. They are just similar characters
Yes
Carol Danvers copy Kara Danvers. Deathlock copy Steven Austin.Runner copy Flash. Flash copy God Mercury.
Some of them are but most of them arent
Currect
No
This list is a real stretch in most cases.
um, that was not Commander Steel (created in 1978 by the way); it was SHield from Archie comics who I believe debuted before Cap!
this isn't making any sense....how can you compare Moonknight and Batman...one is human [Batman] and the other [MoonKnight] is an avatar for an Egyptian god
In my opinion, it is not appropriate to compare the Falcon with a hawkman, they are nothing alike, the Falcon must be compared with Batwing, here there is a similarity in both mechanical wings, and a hawkman with an angel (archangel)
most of these characters are nothing like eachother.
Marvels like, "You made it a hot line/ I made it a hot song"
Okay Banshee and Silver Banshee are nothing alike. You should have mentioned that the original Human Torch was created in the 1940's predating Red Tornado. And you should have used Black Racer's original look (a guy on skies) when comparing him to the Surfer.
Sif and Wonder Woman are nothing alike. Neither are Black Widow and Black Canary, Falcon and Hawkman, and Cross Bones and Bane.
yes
Falcon is at least a person who uses tech to fly, which is similar to Hawkman: but yeah, Marvel's copycat of Black Canary was actually Mockingbird, excusing the Banshee-like superpowers.
Black Widow, is a Russian spy trained in the Red Room since she was a child and like Captain America she took the Super Soldier Serum but just in a lesser form of it. She was born in 1928 and took the serum in 1958 making her life span longer, she's also much, much stronger than the average person. This in no way however is a comparison to Black Canary.
@@bsimester2010 I knew all that, which is why I knew she wasn't a Canary rip off. But even without all you said, you can look at them and see nothing similar. They are both females with the with "Black" in their names. It all ends there.
@@tedcoop4392Falcon isn't copy of Hawkman. He's regular partner of Captain America
Also funny is how they were clearly just throwing names at a wall like bologna and seeing which stuck. Lmaoo
Vision seem more like a copy of Martian Manhunter.
Both Fly, Change form, Phase through matter and can be insecure about who he is.
Only difference is MM can do psychic stuff and Vision can shoot laser beams from his head.
Good video but how do you know that DC/Marvel or copycats when they just could have released the character a little late when they had the idea for maybe a year
Turning the volume down made this video much more enjoyable. 🙂
This music is repulsive 😾
Yes
Squadron Supreme had a Superman rip off, but I think Gladiator was the most obvious
It's not about copying bro , It's about executing the movies and gaining the popularity from audiance , And sadly DC does not have an idea about that till now , Doesn't know how will be the future for DC😁
"Tiagra" ...That's what you get, when you mix Tigra with Viagra.😁
You know technically speaking these copycat characters are actually replacement characters or at least some of them some of the writers used to work for the other companies and I have heard that at one point the two companies were one but I'm not sure about that regardless whenever these writers were working with one another creating stories it's very much possible that many of these characters were taken away from the stories that they're originally in a good example might be Catwoman and black cat both are which are very similar and at one point they have been one character but whenever the writers split apart and took their characters with them many of them had to be replaced with copycat characters I'm not saying this is the case for every single copycat cares about I am saying that there are quite a couple copies of characters that are probably like this
I’m confuse it say captain marvel appeared in 1967 while powergirl appeared in 1976 so why it saying marvel copy dc insteads of others way around?
isnt powergirl another versiom of supergirl？supergirl was created in 1959 i think powergirl is just supergirl from a diff universe
The original captain marvel is Shazam now. The name was changed due to legal issues.
Plus how is Captain Marvel is similar to Power girl. Captain Marvel wasn't born with her powers compared to Power Girl
That vision and red tornado thumbnail is the furthest from true. They look similar but share very different powers and backstories. Most of the others are pretty spot on though.
Or maybe they just wrote characters with similar abilities into their comics. A lot of characters have the same powers and/or look alike. I doesn't mean they copied one another.
Gawd, Man-Thing and Swamp Thing both came out in 1971.
If you want to be picky, you could say, "Groot" (and yes I know the Heap, which itself is from Sturgeon's story, "It".
Capt. Marvel 1967 vs Power Girl 1976, and Marvel is the copycat??
I know right...nonsense
DC captain marvel (aka Shazam)
Marvel copy him
🤦
Captain Marvel was a dude before Power Girl existed.
Marvel has around 7 Superman copies, Hyperion being the most blatant, DC has a parody version of Deadpool called Redtool
To be fair I dont consider some of these as copycats.. Like for example the catwoman, so nobody can make a cat lady superhero because somebody already came up with it?? Im surprised theres no wolverine, whos like one of the most famous marvel characters