Where do you personally draw the line between homage, reference, and stealing?

Where do you personally draw the line between homage, reference, and stealing?

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homage is when it's copied but it looks like shit in comparison so you go "aww that's cute"

>something I like plagiarizes something else
Homage.
>something I dislike plagiarizes something else
Plagiarism.

>Homage
When something is put in for fans but it isn't egregiously ripped off.
>reference
"Holy crap Lois it's freakin' He-Man!"
>stealing
Diesel.

homage is when you make it clear, and above all it has no real relevance in your story. Stealing is when you are using something but you are trying to hide it. In the case of animated sequences, combat or pic related (far too iconic) the question is a bit more delicate.
Because even if you're doing an homage, you're still exploiting someone else's directorial scene to enhance your work.

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When it's a one off it's fine, but if your "homages" keep popping up it's just because you can't choreograph

I.E. Every reference in Steven Universe
>OP's example
Just Pearl swordfighting.
>That one person who Lapis's design obviously came from
Not the same character, not the same motivations
>Lars' as a space Captain Harlock
Looks like him, not actually like him
>End of Evangalion reference with pizza slices
Just nice imagery.

And so on.

>homage is when you make it clear, and above all it has no real relevance in your story
What about stuff like Django Unchained which started out as an idea to pay homage to Spaghetti Westerns?

Tarantino is probably a borderline case. He takes inspiration from a certain type of cinema, and then tries to reelaborate these thing with a completely different story. It seems to me that he has always been a bit at the center of the controversy, deliberately.

homage is when anime and manga does it. stealing is when westerners do it.

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