You've heard of X-men, but do you remember Doom Patrol?
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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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Also, Superman rips off Doc Savage, too. Savage was the Man of Bronze before the Man of Steel. He also had a Fortress of Solitude in the Arctic.
Robotman's wiseass comments, Negative man's see-through skeleton under those bandages, and the adolescent voyeur waiting to maybe see up Elasti-girl's skirt when she grew really tall...
And yes, that's a FRENCH gorilla with a machine gun.
A GAY french Gorilla, no less.
Though since he was love with the brain of a human, would that make him a gay, French, beastialitist?
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(The brain was implanted into one of Robotman's bodies. God, I love GRant Morrison... )
I love Grant's run, too, but one issue doesn't make you gay, in my opinion.
Danny the Street, however, is another story.
That's like pointing out similarities between Dick and Jane and Canterbury Tales!
Meh - ideas repeat themselves ever couple of years.