15 Creators Who Ripped Off Their Own Works
![15 Creators Who Ripped Off Their Own Works](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/9/8/7/757987_320x180.jpg?v=2)
Being creative is difficult, okay? It's not something you can just turn on and off, and it's even more difficult if you're expected to perform on demand. In sum, creativity is a lot like sex — and much like sex, sometimes everything goes well, and other times all you can think about is the good old days. These innovators didn't only reflect on the past; they recreated it in the present by copying themselves. After all, if they worked once, they're bound to work again, right? If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then the folks we cover must really love themselves.
Being inside the limelight means that just about everything you do will be scrutinized under a microscope - and besides, fame comes with a cost. The lifestyle of a celebrity is constantly inspected, hence why they experience such soaring highs as well as equally damaging lows. Famous superstars all across the world have pulled it out on their work and wrecked their overall work.
Keep on scrolling down, and check out the following wild examples…
![Aaron Sorkin constantly reuses his own dialogue. I could buy his house four times and turn it into my ping-por room. -Tom Jeter, Studio 60 I could](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/9/3/7/757937.jpg?v=2)
![Chuck Berry used the same music for two different songs. Berry composed No Particular Place To Go while he was doing time in the early '60s. Just th](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/9/8/4/757984.jpg?v=2)
![J.J. Abrams told the same story twice in different franchises. An orphan with her bike. A different orphan with his bike. The Force Awakens retells A](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/9/4/7/757947.jpg?v=2)
![Ryan Tedder denies that two songs he wrote are the same. Already Gone Kelly Clarkson Halo Beyonce Kelly Clarkson was upset when she learned how mu](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/9/4/4/757944.jpg?v=2)
![A Mega Man creator made a game identical to Mega Man. In 2013, a crowdfunding campaign was started to create a video game titled Mighty No. 9. The dev](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/9/4/3/757943.jpg?v=2)
![Avengers: Age of Ultron was an episode of Buffy, The Vampire Slayer.
The characters wake up an evil entity that takes over the Internet, gets a roboti](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/9/4/1/757941.jpg?v=2)
![James Horner kept reusing his film scores.
Why write new music for each new movie, when you can just introduce little changes to music you already wro](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/9/4/0/757940.jpg?v=2)
![Marvel ripped off X-Men to bypass their own copyright deals. With 20th Century Fox having exclusive film and TV rights for X-Men, in 2001 Marvel produ](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/9/3/9/757939.jpg?v=2)
![Alfred Hitchcock's North By Northwest is a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps. Not only do both films have the same general plot - the iconic s](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/9/3/8/757938.jpg?v=2)
![Bewitched kept repeating itself. Episode #147 Uncle Arthur summons Napoleon while trying to make French pastries. Episode #172 Esmeralda summons Juliu](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/9/3/6/757936.jpg?v=2)
![Alan Menken and Howard Ashman wrote pretty much the same song for two movies. Somewhere That's Green --from Little Shop of Horrors Part of Your Wor](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/9/3/5/757935.jpg?v=2)
![Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park is Michael Crichton's Westworld with dinosaurs instead of robots. In Crichton's Westworld, the irresponsible use of s](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/9/3/3/757933.jpg?v=2)
![Rod Serling recycled the twist ending of Planet of the Apes. Astronauts crash-land on a desert planet, and the last survivor finds a landmark revealin](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/9/3/2/757932.jpg?v=2)
![Hanna-Barbera kept ripping off Scooby Doo. As Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! was one of their biggest hits, they went and made it again. And again. And ag](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/9/3/1/757931.jpg?v=2)
![Alien is based on a comedy by the same writer. In 1974's Dark Star, written by Dan O'Bannon, a blue- collar space crew picks up a monster which looks](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/9/3/4/757934.jpg?v=2)