17 'Original' Products That Are Actually Total Ripoffs
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There is nothing new under the sun. For many, there is no original take. Everything has, was, and will be derived from something that came before it. That's how influence works. Yet sometimes things go beyond “influenced” or “based on” or “inspired by” and go straight to “completely ripping off.”
So many different products have been subjected to being ripped off by something else, with that something else getting the popularity, acclaim, and money that they should rightfully have. Board games, video games, anime, and even catchphrases have been pilfered, intentionally or not, by other products to their benefit. There are even cartoon characters with dolls, t-shirts, and other merchandise that are just lifting the personalities of actual people.
There may be nothing new under the sun, but we should let the results of the copyright lawsuit decide. Here are some so called “original” products and intellectual properties that are actually ripoffs.
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![Disney's Frozen trailer ripped off The Snowman. The similarities between the two nose-losing snowmen forced Disney to settle a lawsuit with the short](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/4/5/643545.jpg?v=2)
![George Lucas based Princess Leia's iconic hairdo on Mexican revolutionary female fighters' hairstyle... ...or more specifically, on Clara De La Rocha,](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/2/0/643520.jpg?v=2)
![The design of Marvel's Deadpool is a ripoff of the DC Comics character. Deathstroke. The artist who co-created Deadpool, Rob Liefeld, is a lifelong fa](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/5/1/643551.jpg?v=2)
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![Angry Birds became popular during its 2009 debut because of its unique gameplay mechanic, where you launch ammunition to take down the enemy's fortres](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/4/3/643543.jpg?v=2)
![Energizer ripped off its rival Duracell. The pink bunny in Duracell commercials was becoming popular Energ SO Energizer decided to introduce their own](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/3/3/643533.jpg?v=2)
![THE INVENTOR OF MONOPOLY TOTALLY STOLE THE IDEA. In 1904, The Landlord's Game was invented by Quaker Lizzie Magie. es POORHOUSE E CMA ROADWAY 31Y SOHO](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/2/1/643521.jpg?v=2)
![OH Homer Simpson's trademark grunt is a shortened version of the d'ooooooh uttered by Scottish comedian James Finlayson in Laurel and Hardy movies D](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/3/6/643536.jpg?v=2)
![Think that the eccentric genius detective Sherlock Holmes is unique? His creator, Arthur Conan Doyle, actually ripped-off Edgar Allan Poe. Sherlock Ho](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/2/3/643523.jpg?v=2)
![Roger CRACKEDCO the alien AMEe on DADY ADL is a thinly veiled rip-off of bawdy 1970s comedian and Hollywood Squares mainstay Paul Lynde.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/4/1/643541.jpg?v=2)
![MINECRAFT-Stared as a clone of Inf iniminer. A leak of Infiniminer's source code enabled the creation of many incompatible spinoffs and prevented the](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/4/2/643542.jpg?v=2)
![THE MUSIC TO HAPPY BIRTHDAY IS FROM A DIFFERENT SONG. Sisters Mildred and Patty Hill composed the tune in 1893 to sing good morning to their student](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/2/7/643527.jpg?v=2)
![For Star Wars, George Lucas took a lot from the John Carter franchise. MARS OF ALISSUE! ORIGINOF HTHORIS! When Lucas couldn't get the rights to Flash](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/2/4/643524.jpg?v=2)
![The idea behind Facebook came from a feature of a web portal Mark Zuckerberg's classmate made when they were still at Harvard! Aaron Greenspan Mark Zu](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/1/5/643515.jpg?v=2)
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![The T-800's inhuman presence and mannerisms came straight from 1976's Westworld. Schwarzenegger thought Yul Brynner's acting as the Gunslinger in that](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/1/7/643517.jpg?v=2)