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* ''[[Cracked.com]]'' lists this as #4 of [http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-common-movie-arguments-that-are-always-wrong/ 6 Common Movie Arguments That Are Always Wrong].
* For a time, anything that was in the Sci-fi genre was automatically considered to be a rip-off of [[Star Wars]]. (Regardless of whether if it was the least bit deserving or not.)
** Amusingly, Star Wars itself is explicitly based on the [[
** Not to mention the fact that Star Wars isn't really even sci-fi at all. It's fantasy with some sci-fi trappings.
* Name a movie, and the odds are that someone has derided it for elements it shares with another film. For example, the train fight in ''[[Batman Begins]]'' is accused of being a rip-off of the one in ''[[Spider-Man (film)|Spider Man]] 2'', and many Disney films are accused of plagiarizing from anime, the latter of which is ironic because Walt Disney's style inspired early anime and manga and that Disney has "plagiarized" from many other sources that hardly get fussed over.
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*** The creators have admitted to taking a good deal from [[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea]].
** Atlantis is also an awful lot like James Gurney's Dinotopia: The World Beneath. While to be fair they're based off the same legends, those legends don't involve animal-style mechs and stuff, so...
* The more [[Serious Business|rabid fans]] of ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' accused the series ''[[American Dragon: Jake Long]]'' of being a rip-off of the former...even though all they had in common was that they are about a [[Half-Human Hybrid]] with supernatural powers. If that wasn't crazy enough, the ''[[American Dragon: Jake Long]]'' fans then began to accuse ''[[The Life and Times of Juniper Lee]]'' of being a rip-off. Ironic, considering that [[Older Than They Think|shows/cartoons starring a teen with supernatural powers have been around since at least the 1960s.]]
** The resemblance between ''[[The Life and Times of Juniper Lee]]'' and ''[[American Dragon: Jake Long]]'' are a lot more uncanny mind, between hidden fantasy creatures living unknown to the wider world, an ethnic main character who must learn to live up to an important title thrusted upon them, a Chinese grandparent mentor and a [[Talking Animal|talking bulldog protagonist]].
** [[Irony]]: the two shows are basically products of the same bunch (there's even jokes thrown in about [[Actor Allusion|the VAs they have in common]]). Yes, they're ripping off ''themselves'', somehow.
* ''[[Squirrel Boy]]'' gets this, as the haters blame Rodney and Andy for copying... [[Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends|Mac and Bloo]].
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