6 Movies and Shows That Clearly Ripped Off Video Games

And here it is in the 1965 show. Can you spot the subtle differences?

Now compare that shiny (well, shining) updated face with that of the Geth, the robo-baddies from the Mass Effect games:

Astoundingly similar, right? And it's not just its flashlight face, either. Even their bodies have that same creepy metallic stringiness to them:

The show even updated Robot's backstory to make it the only good droid who escaped a race of evil robots to side with the humans, which is exactly what happens with your Geth party member in Mass Effect!

And when you're already stealing a game's animate objects, why not go for the inanimate ones as well? When PC Gamer's Tyler Wilde saw the show, he quickly spotted a lot of weirdly specific interior design choices that he recognized from Mass Effect, like the hangar bay ...

... the graphical user interface ...

... even its conference rooms, down to the weird circular lamps:

But not even the spacey special effects are safe. Remember this epic 3D galaxy map from Mass Effect: Andromeda?

Guess who ordered the same one from Space Amazon?

And Lost In Space is by no means the only modern sci-fi property shamelessly lifting things from Mass Effect like they forgot to turn on the gravity. When the first images of Luc Besson's weird sci-fi epic Valerian came out, a lot of people figured its heroes must've raided Commander Shepard's locker, because their armor looked very similar.

But that could be a coincidence. Heck, it's not like the movie stole the game's title design, iconic slash through the middle and all-

Never mind. It's become so trendy to rip from Mass Effect that even the franchise that inspired that game in first place is doing it. This is Yorktown from Star Trek Beyond.

And Yorktown must've been very pleased that they managed to snag the same city planner who made Mass Effect's iconic citadel.

For a future with endless possibilities, a lot of those look pretty samey to us.

Another totally unique character in Dark Forces is the death trooper, the new 'roided-up version of the stormtrooper dressed snazzily in black armor.

And hey, look who shows up in Rogue One? Death troopers, cool stormtroopers wearing black armor.

The plot of Rogue One, about stealing the Death Star plans, also comes straight from Dark Forces. The biggest difference is that in the game, our heroes get the job done and move on instead of turning the whole thing into a gigantic suicide mission.

That Star Wars decided to self-plagiarize like this is baffling, given that the first thing Disney did after buying Lucasfilm was declare the old Expanded Universe non-canon. So they threw out all those novels and games, only to keep going dumpster diving to dig out whatever parts they think they can make money off of.

Not very different, then, from the ghoulies in A Quiet Place, 2018's indie horror darling about a world destroyed by evil blind monsters that make clicking noises and have an acute sense of hearing.

And for good measure, they didn't merely throw in another weary-eyed brunet dude as the protagonist, but the weary-eyed brunet dude, Jim from The Office.

But the best part of the The Last Of Us isn't the zombies; it's the tale of a broken man protecting his young female ward while trekking through a horrific wasteland. And plenty of movies ripped that off too. Like Maggie, a movie about daddy Arnold Schwarzenegger who needs to take special care of his slowly zombifying daughter. The only original thing this movie did was inadvertently give us the only picture to ever feature a bearded Schwarzenegger.

But the most striking resemblance goes to Logan, the story of, you guessed it, a broken bearded man roaming a broken America protecting his daughter figure.

But at least Logan had a bunch of new things to say (and was, like, about Wolverine). So if The Last Of Us should be kind of flattered by sharing so much of its essence with one of the best movies of 2017, it should feel the opposite for What Still Remains.

That movie has very little to do with the game, but they decided to draw in a few curious gamers by shamelessly marketing itself as it was a low-budget adaptation. Hell, even the title is another way of saying "the last of us."

It's clear that the writers figured it would be more visually interesting to have Lara fight zombies than the weather in their Hollywood movie, but the ripoff from Uncharted is so blatant that they deserve some kind of tit for tat. So when that Uncharted movie is finally made, we look forward to seeing whoever plays Drake run around ruins with two parking cones stuffed in his shirt for that extra '90s throwback.

Then there's Captain Nawab, the story of a rogue badass soldier ...

... whose poster has the titular hero sitting in the same "psychopath boy scout" pose as the iconic Call Of Duty: Black Ops cover.

Even snobby books sometimes deign to stoop so low and pilfer from games, as evidenced by what looks like a bootleg Assassin's Creed novelization.

Unlike most Hollywood writers and directors, who love ripping off video games but are then embarrassed to admit they know video games, the showrunners of Westworld are very open about drawing inspiration from the greatest Western game to date, Red Dead Redemption.

In fact, the way guests arrive in Westworld is almost a beat-for-beat copy of the opening scene of RDR, in which our cowboy protagonist broods into the middle distance on a locomotive while the other passengers cryptically talk about the true nature of where they're headed.

Of course, Westworld's video game similarities go deeper than the digital cowboy aesthetic. For the show's mood and social commentary, producers Lisa Joy Nolan and Jonathan Nolan have said in interviews that they've drawn a lot from games like Bioshock and, of course, another Rockstar Games franchise, the Grand Theft Auto series. To further pay homage to their favorite virtual killing fields, they even brought in the actor who played the most violently sociopathic protagonist in GTA, Trevor.

It's just a shame that Warner Bros. can't be as honest as its employees about borrowing heavily from video games. When it released the Westworld mobile game, people were quick to notice how it looked almost exactly like another wildly popular mobile game, Fallout Shelter.

Besides the two games having almost the exact same premise, WB even hired the same developers (Behaviour Interactive) who made Fallout Shelter to make this "blatant rip-off." Those are the words of Fallout daddy Bethesda Softworks, which sued WB and Behaviour for stealing their intellectual property, down to recycling the graphics.

WB contested these claims, of course, but was hard to keep pretending they didn't lazily copy/paste another game when people started pointing out that Westworld even has the exact same bugs as Fallout Shelter. And if anyone should know the dangers of unchecked computer bugs, it's the people who work on Westworld.

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