Plagiarism in Fiction: Difference between revisions

 

Plagiarism is essentially taking the work of others and attempting to pass it off as one's own. There is a lot more to it than that. If you care about that, look it up on [[wikipedia:Plagiarism|Wikipedia]], WestLaw, or [[Plagiarism|this page]]. Around here, we're more concerned with plagiarism showing up as the topic of a story. The more complicated plots may involve [[Time Travel]], with somebody discovering that [[Shakespeare]] has been earning acclaim for years [[Stable Time Loop|for the play he accidentally left in the past]]. A more common plot involves a [[Ridiculous Procrastinator]] trying to pass off a straight-A older sibling's report or assignment as their own, eventually getting busted because the teacher recognizes it.

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== Anime and Manga ==

* ''[[Billy Bat]]'' first starts off when the maker of the titular character (an anthropomorphic bat detective in an American comic) realizes he may have accidentally plagiarized it from a character he saw while in Japan. The origin of the character turns out to be [[Ancient Conspiracy|far more complicated than he'd ever imagined.]] Notably, there's also one scene where {{spoiler|[[Mind Screw|the cartoon character come to life or a hallucination thereof]]}} actually questions the concept of plagiarism, stating most of what humans regularly do had to have been copied from someone at some point.

* ''[[Space Thunder Kids]]'' is another example for plagiarizing a tonload of [[Super Robot]] and [[Real Robot]] animes. Heck! Even [[Marvel Comics|Marvel's]] villains are present.