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{{quote|''"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."''|{{color|white|-- Einstein}}}}
{{quote|''"Your theory of a donut-shaped universe is intriguing, Homer. I may have to steal it."''|'''Stephen Hawking''', ''[[The Simpsons (
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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* ''[[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.
* An episode of ''[[Pokémon (
* In ''[[Puella Magi Kazumi Magica]]'', one of the main characters, Umika Misaki, had her first novel stolen by her editor, who published it under another author's name. Because of this, she made a contract to become a magical girl and used her wish to meet an editor who would recognize her writing talent.
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* The ''[[Nero Wolfe]]'' novella ''Plot It Yourself'' revolves around plagiarism accusations.
* In [[Kurt Vonnegut]]'s short story, "[[EPICAC]]", [[No Name Given|the narrator]] steals poems written by the computer EPICAC and passes them off as his own, in order to get Pat Kilgallen to marry him.
* [[Stephen Fry]]'s ''[[
* ''[[
* The protagonist of [[Robert Silverberg]]'s ''Dying Inside'' makes his (not very good) living by selling plagiarized papers to college students.
== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[
{{quote| '''Sam Seaborn:''' Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.}}
** Which itself is a pre-existing saying.
* In ''[[Murphy Brown]]'', Corky's husband was accused of plagiarism of the childrens' book he was writing. The issue is eventually resolved in his favor when Corky's diary is read in court and expresses her [[This Trope Is Bleep|bleeping]] frustration with her husband's work as it was going on.
* In the ''[[
{{quote| '''Crow:''' A Centron production. Although we got the idea from a different company. 'Cuz we're ''cheating''.}}
** Afterwards, Joel assigns the robots to write essays on cheating. Gypsy's essay is: "Cheating is bad. Richard Baseheart is good." Crow T. Robot's essay is copied from Gypsy's.
* A major plot arc in ''[[Californication]]'' is when the young woman Hank slept with in the first episode is revealed to be Mia, the sixteen-year-old daughter of Hank's ex-wife's new fiancé, who goes on to steal the manuscript for his new book and threaten to reveal that they had sex (which would get him charged with statutory rape) if he tells.
* ''[[The Facts of Life]]'': When she has to hurry to write a poem for an English composition class, Blair hastily plagiarizes an Emily Dickinson poem about beauty. After the headmaster submits it to a competition and it wins, Blair is forced to admit the truth.
* Similarly, when Erica Strange had to hurry to write a poem for an English composition class in ''[[
* ''[[
== Music ==
* [[
{{quote| I am never forget the day I first meet the great Lobachevsky.<br />
In one word he told me secret of success in mathematics:<br />
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* A sample character in the ''[[
== Video Games ==
* In ''[[Hotel Dusk: Room 215]]'', one of the supporting characters is {{spoiler|a novelist named Martin Summer, who is unable to write another successful novel, despite having a strong debut work. It turns out his first novel was actually plagiarized from a former friend's manuscript}}.
== Western Animation ==
* In ''[[
{{quote| '''Fry:''' So what do you nerds want?<br />
'''Nichelle Nichols:''' It's about that rip in space-time that you saw.<br />
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'''Fry:''' No fair! I saw it first!<br />
'''Stephen Hawking:''' Who is ''The Journal of Quantum Physics'' going to believe? }}
* ''[[The Simpsons (
** "The Day the Violence Died":
{{quote| Animation is built on plagiarism! If it weren't for someone plagiarizing ''[[The Honeymooners]]'', we wouldn't have ''[[The Flintstones]]''. If someone hadn't ripped off ''[[The Phil Silvers Show|Sergeant Bilko]]'', there'd be no ''[[Top Cat]]''. <br />
Huckleberry Hound, [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|Chief Wiggum]], [[
Hah! Andy Griffith, Edward G. Robinson, Art Carney. }}
** "Fraudcast News": Millhouse, who has joined the staff of Lisa's newspaper, ''The Red Dress Press'', admits he fabricated and copied content from other newspapers.
* In ''[[
* In an episode of ''[[
* In the ''[[
{{quote| '''Wendy''': I bet if ''Walden'' was a sitcom you'd all know what it was! }}
* In an episode of ''[[
** He's later shown doing the same thing to [[God]], after he invented shrinky dinks.
** 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
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