How come an abortion of a writer, artist, and creator of a very obscure YouTube fishing show from Norcross, an Atlanta suburb of under 20,000 in Georgia, USA blames Mark Millar, MBE for allegedly stealing bits and pieces of his works for several live-action movies, of which most of them are capeshit, and a very few TV series? For me they are comparable to a series of "plagiarism" scandals involving a popular gaypop group.
Here's an incomplete guide to Michael "mosaic317" Bennett's unprofessionalism: >he does not know the inner workings of the comic book industry >he has a little understanding of the Hollywood filmmaking process >he apparently has no idea what a "screenshot" is, or its mechanism, or the Print Screen key >he apparently prefers to take photos for screencaps >he colored his artworks using crayons and MS Paint >he uses scissors, glue, and word processing software for his "Willful Criminal Infringing Plagiarism" compilations
Alright, look, I know folks have been looking for another Chris Chan for years, but seriously, nobody genuinely gives a shit about random autists. Give it a rest.
Aiden Miller
But this suspect is apparently more serious than Chris-Chan.
Here's the timeline concerning Mark Millar's Superman movie attempts and the genesis of the Kick-Ass franchise: >October 2007: Mark Millar first revealed to the world that he's attempting to pitch a Superman movie; he's writing Kick-Ass at that point >November 2007: DC passed on him because of his then-association with Marvel; later on the first-ever issue of Kick-Ass was solicited >February 2008: The first issue of Kick-Ass was released >March 2008: Feature film adaptation was in development stage >May 2008: Kick-Ass movie entered pre-production >mid-2008: He was in talks with a then-unnamed director/producer about a Superman reboot movie >>>September 10, 2008: Michael Bennett submitted his [UNSOLICITED] "Owl Unlikely Crusader" pitch to Marvel as a "Writing Inquiry" (The Big Two do not allow unsolicited submissions from outsiders) >September 28, 2008: Kick-Ass movie began principal photography >March 2009: "As far as I understand, nothing is happening with Superman at the moment" — Mark Millar >April 2009: Kick-Ass movie production wrapped and in the process of wooing distributors >August 2009: "Lionsgate to Distribute Kick-Ass [for a Wide Release in 2010]" — /Film via Variety >September 2009: Millar named the director/producer as Matthew Vaughn (who produced, co-wrote, and directed the aforementioned Kick-Ass movie), and they "never pitched" a movie
archive.fo/laaK6 archive.fo/qGcSV >A hijacker (script kiddie?) using an IP address from Setif, Algeria attempted to hack Michael Bennett's YouTube account Why you didn't admit instead that your password handling was poor?
>"I think he also stole my idea I had with my friend and proofreader about a flying aircraft carrier powered by giant fans that was protected by Fan-jets and one computer controlled all the Fan-jets." How about asking this question to them: "Do you read comic books?"
>"Mark Millar puts this flying aircraft carrier and fan-jets in the movie The Avengers" Pure, unadulterated bullshit.
>"For the record Councilman, he's Algerian." Did you think "Mark Millar" inspire this above line to do the hack attempt?
>"2012, when I think Captain America [The Winter Soldier] was being written, Mark Millar would have seen The Mike and Andy Fishing Show episode 2 Victory Pond part 1 published on 3/6/12. In this episode you can see me driving my truck. You can also see what I am wearing a Green V-neck t-shirt, a pair of blue jeans with dark sneakers and sunglasses" TWS was in development around the time that video (belongs to a series with less than 100 views per video) was published, yet you blame the above and the following on a boogeyman: >"The same thing Falcon is wearing when he first puts on his wings in the Captain America [The Winter Soldier] Movie."
archive.fo/Bx1RQ Do you seriously think that "Mark Millar" is/was behind MCU Phase Two?
>another hacking attempt, this time from the vicinity of Atlanta, Georgia Are you automatically assuming that "Mark Millar" was behind those hacking attempts (because your passwords were weak all along)?
archive.fo/ONTWv Comparing your "Monkey People" to the fast-moving hordes of zombies? "Most people" in the World War Z movie as shown != "Monkey People" in your work.
Here's the main documents that display Michael Bennett's hateboner for Mark Millar through bogus plagiarism accusations. Feel free to analyze these. (All in all it may take over one hour for them to be fully posted.)
During pre-production of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, concept art and character designs for the Falcon (based on the version first seen in the 2004 Marvel miniseries Ultimate Nightmare) were made. Even the wing designs are different though. Just another proof that Michael Bennett's knowledge of comic books is at the casual level. >hurr durr Are you fearful of Marvel Studios' legal department so that you continue your Mark Millar hateboner?
Meanwhile, the Target Falcon action figure shown is Disney's PLAYMATION one.
>"I didn't have any tile work today so I thought I would try to draw a superhero I have been tossing around in my head for a few weeks now. " >"But I am afraid she might be a little too sexist. I don't want to be accused of being a misogynist." >"Well I guess its the chance I will have to take while fighting for the happiness inside you're brains." — Michael Bennett
A new OC Michael Bennett created partly for his nine (as of mid-July 2016) Twitter followers.
OP is confirmed even more creepy and autistic than the chris-chan shitters. Christ, dude. How much time have you spent on this? Go outside or something.
op this is just the ramblings of a crazy person. fascinating, but not something to crusade or outrage! over
Caleb Morris
Michael Bennett, name one case of murder that was livestreamed on the Internet before 2008.
Do you really think that Mark Millar started holding a grunge against DC because you said "no Millar-written Superman movie for now" in November 2007? Do you really think that Mark Millar submitted "rip-offs" of Batman characters to Marvel Comics (but not the ICON imprint)? Do you really think that Mark Millar contributed for Plan B Entertainment at that time? Protip: You can't.
>Robin's Revenge Do you really think that it's not a fucking reference to an actual comic book? >Big Daddy's line, "Now go to Robin's revenge!" is a reference to a Robin comic [name, issue number, and year needed] where Robin [who at that time?] was fighting a blind master martial artist. Source: IMDb
mark Millar is a shitty comic creator who steals and doesn't respect other people's work. he's also a cry baby and a drama queen and i hope none of his projects are successful.
Gabriel Ward
archive.fo/S13bE Do you really have no idea how the contests for the Millarworld Annuals are held and done?
>original ideas ...for existing Millarworld properties as described in the contest rules. Now tell how "fake" those contests are to the winning creative teams.
>"Mark Millar [was] working as a creative consultant for Fox from 2011-2015 [...] in many different movie and TV projects." False: >late September 2012: "Marking an expanded commitment to some of its most important franchises, Twentieth Century Fox has brought on comics superstar Mark Millar to serve as a creative consultant on the studio’s upcoming projects based on Marvel Comics properties." — 20th Century Fox Press Release >c. 2016: Mark Millar quietly left the creative consultant job at 20th Century Fox During that period did Mark Millar hone his skills of making his comics more suitable for mainstream live-action adaptations? DID YOU WATCH FOX'S MARVEL MOVIES RELEASED BETWEEN 2014 AND 2017?
>>"Mark Millar puts this flying aircraft carrier and fan-jets in the movie The Avengers" Millar didn't write Avengers... and Helicarrier was created by Kirby in 1965. I love the raw insanity at display. Holy shit. >>"2012, when I think Captain America [The Winter Soldier] was being written, Mark Millar would have seen The Mike and Andy Fishing Show episode 2 Victory Pond part 1 published on 3/6/12. In this episode you can see me driving my truck. You can also see what I am wearing a Green V-neck t-shirt, a pair of blue jeans with dark sneakers and sunglasses" Holy FUCK. This isn't even funny, dude is a paranoid schizofrenic. This guys should be an argument for free public healthcare, this guy needs to go into a psych ward before he does something stupid and a cop kills him.
Daniel Sullivan
Regarding "Kick his ass man, kick his ass" and more shit from the Kick-Ass movie, see the 2007-2009 timeline above.
Marvel's response: >what Plaintiff has never addressed – for this or any other of the dozens of alleged similarities – is that even if the wounds were similar (and they are not), they are not protectable by copyright.
>Plaintiff also revisits the issue of the grappling gun… a grappling gun is a common tool for action heroes, as it allows for the scaling of and swinging between buildings. Batman, Lara Croft, James Bond, Van Helsing, and Luke Skywalker have each used a grappling gun in films released well prior to Plaintiff’s books. That a grappling gun is used by two different characters within Captain America: Winter Soldier (one a hero, and one a villain) and by a character in The Avengers underscores the commonality of the tool. Again, Owl’s use of a grappling gun is not a protectable element of Plaintiff’s works, and Plaintiff makes no credible argument that it is – nor could he.
>Plaintiff continues to make unsubstantiated and ludicrously offensive claims against Marvel. For example, Plaintiff maintains that Marvel threatened his life via a scene in Captain America: Winter Soldier and hacked his phone to gather ideas. Yet he unsurprisingly provides no evidence to support his accusations. A character wearing blue jeans and a green shirt and crashing into a Dodge truck in an action sequence cannot reasonably be construed to symbolize a threat on Plaintiff’s life, and Plaintiff’s accusations of phone hacking appear to be alleged against Mark Millar, who is not, and has never been, a Marvel employee.
Where's the printout, Michael Bennett: >I believe Mark Millar by using his illegal phone hack on my phone found out about the Owl Knight’s Quickening book and must have purchased it or had someone purchase it for him. I have enclosed a printout from Amazon Digital Services of my book sales. There is one book sale that has a GB in front of it which might stand for Great Britain and Mark Millar is from the UK.
Marvel strikes back: >‘Plaintiff has wasted enough of the Court’s time and resources, and forced Marvel Entertainment, LLC (“Marvel”) to incur tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees to refute his baseless arguments. Despite numerous opportunities to submit a valid claim, Plaintiff’s latest scattershot pleading fails to identify any protectable elements copied by Marvel. For the reasons set forth below, and those in the Memorandum of Law in Support of Marvel’s Motion to Dismiss, with Prejudice, Plaintiff’s Second Amended Complaint… Marvel requests that the Court dismiss Plaintiff’s lawsuit with prejudice.’
>Finally, Plaintiff’s assertion that Marvel was somehow connected to an article published by Bleeding Cool News in 2016 is absurd.
>In fact, the author of the article states his source as Plaintiff’s public statements on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. See archive.fo/2nz8T [link changed for reasons]
>Furthermore, the undersigned explained that Plaintiffs extensive “comparisons” of the purportedly infringing Marvel works were insufficient to establish a valid copyright infringement claim that demonstrated that the works at issue were “substantially similar” such that “an average lay observer would recognize the alleged copy as having been appropriated from the copyrighted work.”
The (partial) response to the resubmitted lawsuit: >It appears that Plaintiff again claims that Defendants, in creating the productions Captain America: Winter Soldier, Ant-Man, Captain America: Civil War, Guardians of the Galaxy, Avengers: Age of Ultron, and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., copied Plaintiff's self-published Owl books. In his Second Amended Complaint, Plaintiff added additional Marvel works that he alleges Defendant copied from his Owl books: Captain America: The First Avenger; The Avengers; Iron Man 3; Spider-Man: Homecoming; Thor: Ragnarok; Black Panther; Avengers: Infinity War; and Ant-Man and the Wasp.
>For example, like his First Amended Complaint, Plaintiff compares his character Owl’s mechanized wings with Marvel’s character Falcon’s mechanized wings, and states that his character "Owl’s use of a parachute is like Falcon’s use of a parachute." Just as the Court explained in regarding the purported similarities its July 17, 2018 Order, these blanket assertions between Plaintiff's Owl books and the Marvel productions appear to be broad ideas found in most action movies and comic books and scene a faire, rather than copyright infringement. More specifically, Plaintiff's numerous attempts to compare his Owl books with the Marvel productions, while wide-ranging, are generalized rather than “substantially similar” or “strikingly similar.”
>Furthermore, as previously explained by the Court, Plaintiff's Second Amended complaint is more of a diary-like comparison than a complaint… Rather than using short and plain statements as required by the Federal Rules, the third amended complaint included an 85-paragraph fact section spanning 31 pages, much of it written in narrative, diary-like form.
>As a result, the court granted Marvel the motion to dismiss this Second Amended Complaint, with prejudice, the case being closed on January 11th.
*TONAMELT was some superhero ripoff project by some beaner with a generic name several years ago
Here's the latest three images of shit Michael Bennett provided in response to the most recent Bleeding Cool article about his "crusade." He now claims that Marvel Entertainment instead of "Mark Millar" "stole" his Owl artworks for the Marvel Cinematic Universe versions of Captain America and the Falcon.
But more insane are ladderbros, CWC, Jude Terror, Alex Cruz, and the casualgaters.
Time will tell whether Michael Bennett admit to all the mistakes he made in his life or not. Time will tell whether Michael Bennett write a tell-all book about himself or not. Time will tell whether Michael Bennett continue being a YouTuber or not. Time will tell whether Michael Bennett will be admitted to the list of lolcows or not. Time will tell whether will be taken by a mental institution or not. Time will tell whether his book "Owl Knight's Quickening" be uploaded to Library Genesis or not.
Even mainstream media won't touch this case for a proper reason!
Thank you for enjoying such a display of turboautism.
