Plagiarism in Fiction: Difference between revisions

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** In another episode, police officer Reese arrives at the scene of an accident, where the two barely-alive victims mention that one's peanut butter got in another's chocolate, and vice versa. After Reese tastes the chocolate/PB mixture, he promptly shoots them both so he can steal the recipe.
* In ''[[Gargoyles|Cloud Fathers]]'', Xanatos captures Coyote the Native American [[Trickster Archetype]] with [[One Steve Limit|Coyote]], a robot minion that [[Once an Episode|gets destroyed every episode he appears in]]. Coyote says that he should sue Xanatos "for trademark infringement." Subverted in that Xanatos himself considers the robot a tribute.
* In ''[[DuckTales (1987)|DuckTales]]'', Scrooge's rival Flintheart Glomgold admits - in his seminar for new employees, no less - that his success hinges on taking existing ideas and passing them off as his own.
 
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