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* ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' was originally an underground comic strip parody of [[Daredevil]]; the most obvious aspects being the Turtles' master, Splinter (as opposed to Daredevil's "Stick") and their enemies, the Foot Clan (Daredevil's were the Hand). I don't even need to say which one is better known.
** Matt Murdock was hit in the eyes with chemicals in his origin story, while rescuing a blind man from an oncoming truck. In the Ninja Turtles version, the chemical canister bounced off his head, ''specifically'' "near his eyes", and a nearby boy's pet turtles took the hit instead. In some versions the second boy resembles Matt Murdock more, but originally it was a boy named Chester.
** Also, the Turtles names. Most modern junior high students know enough about art to recognize the artists whom [[Leonardo da Vinci|Leonardo]] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelangelo Michelangelo] are named after, but most need a search engine to find out who the historic [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donatello Donatello] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael Raphael] were.
* Even with proper annotation you'll be hard pressed to identify most of the references to Victorian literature in ''[[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]]'', with bonus points if you're even aware of the original work.
** To understand how far Alan Moore goes, there are references to ''Victorian porn novels that have been out of print for decades'', and visual reference gags can number in the triple figures ''on one page''. It gets even worse once he gets into the twentieth century.
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** The prototype of the [[Bat Signal]] in ''[[The Bat]]'' was not used to strike fear into the hearts of criminals, but was a notorious criminal's [[Calling Card]] striking fear into the hearts of people staying in an [[Old Dark House]].
* Seeing as ''[[Viz]]'' started as a parody of British children's comics and now the genre it parodies is all but dead with the exception of [[The Beano]] and [[The Dandy (comics)|The Dandy]] and Viz even outsells those two now.
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