6 Famous Characters You Didn't Know Were Shameless Rip Offs

You've heard of X-men, but do you remember Doom Patrol?

Unlike the X-Men, the Doom Patrollers were once normal people who suffered an accident that disfigured them but also gave them superpowers. Shunned by the world for just being plain ugly, the freaks were gathered by Doctor Caulder, a paraplegic, who thought that maybe the world wouldn't dislike them so much if they used their powers to save the normal people's asses from giant robots once in a while.

If this sounds somewhat familiar to you, it's because the same thing as X-Men with the only difference that the smart guy in the wheelchair was bald in one and X-Men uses mutants as an allegory for minorities instead of people with elephantiasis or whatever the heck Doom Patrol was going for.

Cracked looks at six famous characters and their lesser-known precursors. I knew about The Lion King, but I was unfamiliar with the rest. Oh, I knew the last one, too, but I didn't know how much they had in common. Link

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I kind of thought Captain America was a rip of Gladiator. Well the premise is. A secret formula.

Meh - ideas repeat themselves ever couple of years.
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And now that I've actually read the article, how can they compare Green Lantern to the Lensmen?
That's like pointing out similarities between Dick and Jane and Canterbury Tales!
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