Batman Copycats: The Biggest Dark Knight Rip-offs
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- Опубликовано: 20 май 2024
- Have you ever noticed how Batman seems to have a fan club of vigilantes who took 'be like Batman' a bit too literally? Today, we're diving into the wild world of Batman copycats. Some are cool, some are, well... you’ll see.
Yes, we're talking about the Green Arrow and his ‘Arrowcave’ (yes, that's a thing), and even Darkwing Duck, because who doesn't love a duck in a cape? So, let's get into this bizarre bat-world of imitators, inspirations, and outright rip-offs.
And hey, don't forget to hit us up in the comments with your thoughts, or any bat-wannabes we might have missed!
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Who is your favorite Batman Copycat?
Wow!
Nice.
Midnighter!
Moon Knight, Midnighter, Nemesis, Nighthawk
Moon Knight 🌙
In all fairness, Darkwing Duck is more of a rip off of The Shadow.
Yep. Even his design was based on him.
I was going to say thay too.
Technically Batman is a ripoff of The Shadow
Umm... No...
I don't know if I agree. Originally Darkwing was supposed to be Double 0 Duck, but because of the success of the Batman movie he became what we know today.
I really like how in the Arrow CW series they call the Arrow Cave "Bunker" which sounds way better and original
The quiver would be more fun
@@asdasasdas3476 Yeah Harley was incredibly correct on that one!
Yeah
Batman: Let's get nuts!
Darkwing Duck: Let's get dangerous!
I was about to say the same thing.
The thing I love about the Green Arrow/Batman similarities is how a lot of of modern depictions will straight-up acknowledge the connections. For example, when the Arrowverse first mentioned Batman's existence in that universe, Ollie got super pissed off and defensive, being like "Hey, I did the whole dark vigilante thing first!"
I mean in the arrowverse he kinda did
@@KadeStringer2.0Not really, CW Oliver Queen began his career in 2012 as the Hood while Bats was already a known vigilante a decade earlier.
The show, “Gotham” shows Bruce being a crime fighter at 15 but doesnt yet have the Batsuit. Oliver was still in the city before being stranded.
@@InvokedAlbaz That's a different continuity though
you forgot darkwing from invincible.
And somehow tek knight from the boys.
Daredevil is more of a Batman than Batman. He has no vision and relies on echolocation (almost like a real bat)
Dorkly has a video about heroes with wrong names: Ghost Rider should be Daredevil, Daredevil should be Batman.
And he's one of my top personal favorite Marvel characters.
Bats can see as good as us... They just fly at night so it's dark
@jonathanchila6414 Until they can't.
And DD, as bilnd as he is, he is capable of achieving even greater feats than the average human being with his own super human powers and senses.
And like Batman, he was also trained as a ninja, and he's considered to be one of the best and greatest martial artists and hand-to-hand combatants in comic book history.
And he's a really good lawyer.
So, the similaries end cause DD' actually a working stiff. Imagine, fighting crime all nite then having to do court cases😮
You should do a list of Superman copycats and ripoffs if you haven't already
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Superman is also my favorite superhero !!!
Superman sucks
@@FlexStyleZ everyone has their own opinion but I know he would beat your favorite hero or villain
@@Bdot773 idc. wouldn’t make that outdated old relic interesting
Superman was copied directly off of Doc Savage and a number of other pulp characters .
I gotta respect how Black Noir swiftly dodged this list lol
It's pretty clear cut that the Shadow is the direct inspiration for Batman. In fact the very first Batman story is taken whole cloth from the Shadow story "Partners of Peril", artwork from that story was even used for the first Batman comic. Also notable is that the Shadow is described as appearing bat-like several times in the story. More fun facts, the Shadow was referred to as The Knight of Darkness long before Batman was the Dark Knight.
Special mention for Doc Savage and his utility vest. More can be said about the Man if Bronze and his Fortress of Solitude later.
Special mention for the Phantom, general costume inspiration as well as tragic backstory inspiration.
Street & Smith, the publishers of the Shadow, did not mind creating their own copycats. One such character was the Whisperer aka Police Commisioner James "Wildcat" Gordon. The Whisperer's solo magazine did not last long but stories continued in the back up pages of THE SHADOW MAGAZINE.
Even more fun facts -- the same month Batman debuted in comics a pulp magazine publisher debuted their own bat-themed copycat of the Shadow called the Black Bat.
One more thing, the whole rich guy secretly being a hero thing is the creation of Baroness Orczy, I like to think of her as the godmother of super hero stories, Baroness Orczy created the Scarlet Pimpernel
That’s really cool
AWA Comics has one. The Knight from a book called Knighted. They didn't even hide it, it was part of the fun of the book.
I started reading comics in the 60s (so yeah, old,) and I remember when Green Arrow went from rich playboy to broke champion of the people, and I thought (think) it was brilliant. And I remember a later story where-in a rich guy had bought the Queen mansion, and discovered the cave. He threatened to tell Oliver Queen's, I'll tell people you're... BATMAN! (he saw the cave, and came to the wrong conclusion) It was a great story.
As always thank you so very much for the videos.
Personally I enjoy the rich Green Arrow. I like the fantasy escape of imagining what life would be like if you got to be super rich and a cool superhero
So was the Green Arrow stuff still in the cave when the guy bought the mansion or was it just a big blank cave that the guy discovered? Because if Oliver forgot to clean the place out first, what an idiot 😂
@@akilbrazier1421No, the GA stuff was "cleaned-out", which was why the guy thought it was the Batcave, and Queen had been going from there to nearby city Gotham to be Batman. (As near as I recall from over fifty years ago (never trust memory).)
I'm surprised you didn't mention the CW Green Arrow. Everything to do with the League of Shadows and Ra's Al Ghul, it was so painfully obvious they wanted to do Batman, but didn't have the rights. Also the tone of the show was very much Batman.
They even create a whole Batfamily, I mean, Arrowfamily for Oliver. It is indeed painfully obvious.
Yea and Oliver was even dark and brooding behind closed doors but put on a playboy act for the public to divert people away from learning his identity….. just like Batman lol
It’s like you guys don’t know anything abt green arrow lmfao
@@zzirfamo24What makes you say that?
The way you slowed down to put emphasis the first time you said DARK... WING... DUCK... perfect. Just perfect.
And dont forget BLUE FALCON & DINOMUTT! Who actually did a lot of detective work.
He got updated in a Scooby-Doo animated film
Yeah. Pretty good too.
@@johnlawful2272it’s not canon
@@KadeStringer2.0 yeah I thought it was cool it was just a movie about the getting modernized
No, he’s probably more inspiring than Batman like the dark wing duck is actually basically just a parody of Batman
Dark wing is The Shadow parody.
All copy cats of the original which is ZORRO where Batman got his inspiration
THANK YOU!!!! EXACTLY! A ONE TO ONE RIP OFF!
Nice point.
But who came first, Zorro or the Shadow?
@@lanrek.odunlami9470 zorro he was created and I inspired by juaquim mureita a Mexican American who took revenge on the men that raped and killed his wife and family they called him a fox because he got away and rode black horse and black poncho history doesn’t tell you that
@@lanrek.odunlami9470 Zorro came first. Batman is essentially a combination of both of them
@@localhobo5362 Yeah.
Well Knuckle duster is apparently the Batman of My Hero Academia According to the Vigilante Manga of course the only similarities that I saw between Batman and Knuckle Duster is there both Vigilantes without superpowers
I think he's based off frank Miller batman
Brother went from being The Flash to Batman, very cool
Great summary. You nailed all points. I knw there still more out there. Id like to mention two. The obscure Fox, from Dark Horse comics, i think, and the Green Hornet. That was so obvious, they even squared off in the campy Batman tv show.
Don't forget Catman, He's an Old school rip off of Batman 😸😸😸
@Horopter catman is dc comic character
What about Marvel's Shroud?
@@quentinfogger5755Shroud is basically "dark Moon Knight" minus the different personalities.
so ripoff batman @@alessandrobaggi6129
On the fairly oddparents he was played by adam west
Great mention of Nemesis! Would love to hear you guys talk about Millarworld more often. Their recent Big Game crossover event was amazing!
How about the Confessor-Astro City?
Waiting for the edit from Dar Knight to Dark Knight
Batman is arguably the greatest character in DC Comics.
Batman is the GOAT 🐐 of DC comics. With only Superman being a close second.
Correction all of comics
Batman and Superman
Very arguably. Has fake feelings, won't kill those who deserve it, somehow can beat one of the strongest people.
In all of comics id say
Other honourable mentions would be Black Noir from The Boys & Darkwing from Invincible, and I guess you could also jokingly say Bartman & Fruit-Batman from the Simpsons
Ted Kord's Blue Beetle not being on the list is a big miss. You mentioned him when talking about Night Owl, but Kord's Blue Beetle has a lot in common with Batman. There's also Hanna Barbera's Blue Falcon.
You failed to mention that DWD got a sort of a power from a genie in a back story episode where he wished for the power to appear anywhere at anytime in a dramatic fashion. Its why smoke/fog would appear first and then reveal him. Cant believe I remember that. So in this way a little more like The Shadow.
I know that you mentioned Darkwing Duck, but what about Darkwing from the Invincible universe?
Wait i assumed lets get dangerous was a riff on lets get nuts from Batman 89
Shadow hawk
How about Night Thrasher?
Oh yeah, forgot about him
Darkwing duck: let's get dangerous
Batman: let's get nuts
Prince: let's go crazy
Killcat from Erik Larsen's savage dragon deserves an honorable mention
Do love that Green Arrow has a sense of humor. And accepts Harleys name suggestion for the Arrow Cave. Yes, Injustice Universe but still..
Dont forget the batman copycats within dc
watch the vid goofball
"I am the jailer that throws aways the key" goes so god damn hard
Batman appeared in one of the Spider’s pulp novels years earlier (as a villain) and shares many similarities to the Spider both in and out of costume (the Shadow comparisons always annoy me).
Green Arrow is more a modern day Robin Hood. Darkwing Duck more The Shadow
And Batman is basically a rip-off of Zorro. Both rich dudes with no powers. Zorro even has a cave HQ under his hacienda
2:37 He also has an Arrowplane as well similar to the Batwing
Darkwing Duck
Dark wing duck! 🤩
Maybe Green Arrow should change him main vehicle to something like an advance, hight tech plane.
He could even call it the "Arrow-plane"
He already had that.
Happy spring VC!
I would mention Daredevil. He has a lot elements that came from Batman. His motivarion came from the death of his father; the uniform in order to input fear in the heart of the criminals; more a vigilant than a heroe...never laugh...
Nice vids
It would be nice if you have listed the traits on which you based your self at the beginning for a "plus value" and be more engaging with the comment's peoples.
Keep on the good work guys!
Moon Knight is actually more from The Shadow than Batman (at least until Dixon’s Marc Spector: Moon Knight series).
Former merc, believed dead, only to return with new ‘powers,’ uses a cover ID as a wealthy socialite as his primary identity, uses a pilot (instead of a taxi driver), uses cover IDs to stay informed at different levels of society, etc.
4:55 Another one I remember was I am the rat that runs up your trouser leg
WAAAAAAAAAY too short. Shadow Hawk, Prometheus.... The list goes ON!
Next Moon Knight is gonna end up having a moon cave
forgot owlman, ironman, even blue beetle and he was mentioned in the video!
People be like Iron man ain't a Batman copy!💀🚮
Ah yes, Iron man is my favourite copy cat
Mr. Scarlet, Firebrand, The Owl, Black Owl, Daredevil (WW2 version), The Clock, Knight Watchman, The Sandman, The Hangman, The Shroud, The Fox, The Black Hood, The Web, The Badger, The Angel (WW2)
I would've added Rorschach from Watchmen too.
Also, aren't the Watchmen now known to be the heroes a universe builds for itself when it doesn't have a Superman? Isn't that why Dr Manhattan created the New 52? Something about how the universe requires Superman to exist in order to exist?
Dc has always owned the midnighter. The OG midnighter was a lot better than the current version for me
Night Hawk isn't just an honorable mansion. He's a litteral copy.
Can you do history of Cyclone, Rhino, Sandman, Chameleon, Scorpion and the Human Fly along with Kurt Connors the Lizard. Also can you do the history of the Flash Villains like Turtle, Magenta, Cobalt Blue, Mirror Master and Top?
Y'all forget Good Knight
Lee Falk's 1936 Phantom predates Batman by three years. The original Phantom s parents are killed by pirates, and he swears an oath to combat piracy and evildoers in general. His costume is similar, and he has his Skull cave. More than a few people think that Batman is a Phantom knockoff. Also, the Watchmen are based on the Charleton comic book characters which DC acquired when they went out of business. In that universe Blue Beetle was the Batman knockoff and Captain Atom was the Superman knockoff.
There are so many others. Wrath and Killer Moth for example. Speaking of Killer Moth, I could really see him getting the Peacemaker treatment in the DCU
as much as i adored arrow , i couldn’t stand how they made him act just like batman instead of the smart ass lighthearted oliver queen from the comics /DCAU . You also forgot Darkwing from invincible
One is UBER popular and the other isn't that's why.😊
Dude the entire Batman mythos originated and blatantly stolen from 2 movies the BAT 1926 and the MAN WHO LAUGHS 1928.
5:26 wasn’t Niteowl a replacement for Ted Lord’s Blue Beetle when DC wouldn’t allow Alan Moore to use the recently acquired Charlton Comics characters for Watchmen?
Edit: nvm… you just covered that😅
What about the new cyborg guy from your variant comic?!
The original Blue Beetle is a Batman ripoff, and in turn Moon Knight was influenced by both.
The original Black Panther also was influenced by Bat Man.
Please do a video of the characters inspired by the Batman: Characters from classic literature to pulp magazines.
What about Darkwing from Invincible? Does he count as a Batman copycat?
I would say Rorschach and Green Hornet also fit the list (although I'm not sure if the hornet is older than the bat). Favorite copycat though? I'll definitely have to go backwards, as El Zorro, El Fantasma (the Ghost), and The Scarlet Pimpernel were my first introduction to "superheroes"
I would like to add No/One from Image comics and part of the Massive-verse. He is the most mysterious character in the series, using high tech and equipment to solve and stop crime while sticking to the shadows just like Batman. He isn't as prominent as the other copycats but I personally love him and how he is just a badass and probably the Batman of the new comic book universe from Image Comics.
Damn, Arris... you DO NOT age... your beard just gets better!
Doesn’t that sort of make Nemesis a copycat/homage of a Prometheus too?
There is a comic superhero from India call BAAZ ( literally means Falcon in Hindi language). He look exactly like Batman but without pointy horn or bat insignia. BAAZ is from 1990s era and at present he is no more in the comic Scene of India.
He is MIA.
Also back in the days when I was kid, I used to think that he was Batman of India.
Good old innocent days before the internet. 😁
I was actually expecting you to list Blue Falcon from Hanna Barbera
Moonknight also has alter egos like Bruce. And one of them is being a taxi driver civilian so Moonknight can work undercover as regular person n scout for criminals. And matches Malone is batmans disguise as a regular person in the criminal world to find info
Space Ghost comes to mind.
Dark wing from invincible?
Literally, the whole Justice League is copied in Invincible.
What other character from that show is similar to him?
Of all Batman-like characters, Spawn is the best one.
They both wear dark suits.
Glide in the air with their capes.
Deal with cops that are against them from time to time.
Even have clowns as enemies/villains.
Can you do history of DC Despero since he is one of the biggest Justice League Villians from the Comics?
What about the Blue falcon?
Ain't no way Harley just drops a banger name for Ollie's lair. The Quiver
You're right about Green arrow he's also one of my favorite characters to but especially the Golden age era of Green arrow he was basically Batman with a bow and arrow I've often said about Green arrow is basically what if Batman and Robin Hood had a love child you would have green arrow
To me Darkwing Duck doesn’t count as a rip-off. His character is meant to parody Batman. This is shown in many different ways, including the comic book “The Duck Knight Returns” (reference to “The Dark Knight Returns”). It’s kind of like how Space Balls is a parody of Star Wars.
2:55 Who's Star Girl? And I didn't know Green Arrow had a sister! 😮
Interesting list. You do realise however that you left Moon Knight off, at least in part, for having powers. Next on your list after explaining that was Midnighter who has superstrength, a tactical computer thing in his head, and other enhancements that make him superhuman.
Moonknight is not a copycat lmfao. Moonknight has actually powers, they don’t fight the same & there morally is not the same at all
Zorro:
Batman even stole the Bat Cave from him.
What about the Wolverine and Batman fusion of dark claw.
5:25 Night Owel is a Blue Beatle ripoff.
Ooo I'll like to do a flip/rip-off of Nemesis for a character.
personally I always thought roarshach was the Batman spin-off in watchmen
Sad no mention of Knuckleduster and Captain Celebrity from MHA Vigilantes, two heroes who mentor the protagonist and are representation of Batman and Superman.
Another Batman copycat that wasn’t mentioned is Darkwing from Invincible
Despite being more of a Dark Version, I have to mention Owlman but I guess that *It doesn't matter*
What about that Character off of the Invincible Series I think Dark Wing is his name without the Duck lol
Hanna Barbera made several copycats of Batman. The most famous was Space Ghost and one of the Herculoids.
Can you do history of the characters mentioned in this video?
You can't say that having a tragic backstory leads to being a Batman copycat. That applies to more than half of the entire superhero genre. You can say that Batman popularized the trope, but you can't compare his origin story to someone like Green Arrow
Can you please do history of DC OMAC along with the Reach who are the aliens who created the Scarabs in honor of the release of the Blue_Beetle movie?
One person forgot was Tim Vigil comicbook Faust only character like batman but more violent makes carnage like barney very graphic plus Faust cape is how Todd McFarland gotten idea for Spawn cape
2:43 isn’t it called the quiver 😂
There is also a dc character called " catman , he is 80% copy of batman , altho he lack some skills like detective and martial arts, he appeared in " batman: the Brave and bold
Moon Knight didn't always have superpowers. In his first solo series he more Batman like. A non-powered, cape wearing vigilante. His origin isn't like Batman's in that series, but any mystic connection to the moon god is very ambiguous and not played up.
Since you did history of Marvel's Black Knight, Can you do history of Marvel's Dreadknight?
If you seen the episodes of season 7 of the Flash, can you do history of Impulse, XS, Psych, Fuerza, Steadfast, Chillblaine, Abracadabra, Rainbow Raider, Mirror Master and Top in your next video?