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constellaj · 3 years ago

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have you ever read/watched Superman/Batman: Public Enemies (comic from 2004, adapted into an animated film in 2009) and if you have which part do you think was most blatantly copied into Phantom Planet?

no but im going to guess all of it

long ramble in the tags might screenshot later idk

#on paper i dont have any problems with dp borrowing/riffing on big comic arcs!#reality trip is a cringe episode but not because it steals the infinity gauntlet #i think its a neat reflection of the superhero genre as a whole as DP is meant to be a sort of exaggerated superhero story #and what better way to pay homage to the art form than referencing arcs and whatnot?#the issue comes up when people want to pretend that it was generated wholesale instead of playing off of the comic superhero genre #stealing tropes/mcguffins/etc isnt plagiarism its paying homage (re: reality gauntlet/infinity gauntlet)#(just because the item is the same and works the same doesn't mean the overall story is damaged)#(it builds on an expanding mythos of the superhero genre! like the head of medusa or the christian cross #it takes a more well-known piece of media and pays tribute to it in a similar one)#but stealing PLOTLINES *is* plagiarism #(ofc err on the side of caution. the hero's journey and all that. all plotlines are similar)#the exact same beats in the exact same order #alongside the exact same mcguffins #are a good indicator of when plagiarism has cropped up #and then of course in similar media types you can always compare dialogue/shots/art or writing style/music cues etc #long story short; if superbat public enemies just has a few things/mcguffins in common w pp then i dont really take issue for THAT reason #bc that would be homage! and pp is horrible for so many OTHER reasons :)#however ofc if its like #beat 1 beat 2 beat 3 shot 1 dialogue 1 beat 4 thats ALL in common #then yeah #i just think its important to remember that genres exist in a bit of a loop of information #and a superhero story cannot avoid copying another one now that its a mainstream genre #ask

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