How did Marvel get away with this blatant xeno ripoff?

Well better than with Fox at least, since the MCU seems to be going the approach of having the heroes they reacquired face some new/different villains instead of rehashing the famous ones again and again like Green Goblin, Dr. Doom and Dark Phoenix.

Lots of Claremont stuff was inspired(to the point of being a ripoff) by other shows, see Hellfire Club for example. Anyway, have his first Alien ripoff

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Well, that gives me something to look for. I get they're xenomorph expy's, but I liked them when they showed up in the comic books.

What was the Hellfire Club stolen from?

There was a Hellfire Club in one episode of the Avengers tv show. I think it also inspired Black Widow costume

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Well, the Hellfire Club IS a real thing.

Honestly, most of Marvel's best stuff came from adapting pop culture into their universe. They should do it more often.

I loved this issueso much, so a simple horror concept done right. Has that thing ever been explained or come back?

Whoa momma gib to me

>How did Marvel get away with this blatant xeno ripoff?

it was ..... 25% different .

There is a 5 year period so when marvel made them fox might have not cared. Becuase the look similar but they are different.

Imagine if that was the Black Widow costume in the MCU...

N'garai should look more like demons not aliens.

But the N'garai came way before (1975) Alien (1979).

There'd be so much art on tumblr giving her awkward pants as a means of "improving" the design.

Here's the Black Widow inspiration

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The "Brood" first appeared in 1982, "Alien" is from 1986... so how it could be a alien ripoff?

Correction, just saw, Alien is from 79, Aliens is from 86, so yes, Brood is a ripoff.

She made them 1 billion in the box office.

The brood wouldn't be a problem to MCU carol, so the last of her stories (at least the ones shes completely relient of the x-men for and not the avengers) wouldn't work with this interpretation of the character

you guys know insects are real, right?

anyway real talk: because the rightsholders didn't bother to defend the design at the time for whatever reason, and now it's too late for them to argue they've only just discovered this similarity (which is not at all similar in the case of GW's overall toyline anyway, and immaterial to FOX since Disney now owns the Alien rights anyway)

probably because the Brood debuted in 1982, after Alien but well before any sequel was in the works, FOX at that time would have felt it was free advertising, and once they've made that decision for one homage/rip off/similar product, it's that much harder to go to court and argue against another one in general terms

also, going to court over similarities isn't really as easy as you'd think - you don't just have to demonstrate the similarities but that basically it's hitting your income somehow, or that people are confusing the two products

a lot harder than you'd think to prove

"The Hellfire Club" is a 1960 film based on... the real Hellfire Club.

That's a catsuit. They're from the 1940s.

Literature. There were several depictions of hellfire clubs. Mostly they were rich people with too much money who dabled in the occult or got together for sex orgies.

>How did Marvel get away with this blatant xeno ripoff?

The same way they got away with all the DC ripoffs.

They look different and they act different.
All they have in common is being alien monsters with long heads.

Same way that DC got away with ripping off Flash Gordon's hawkmen.

And they use humans to reproduce, and they have a queen,and they inherit dna from their host...

Disney owns fox
Alien is fox
Disney owns Marvel
Cross pollination

>Here's the Black Widow inspiration
That's one tiny handgun.

>Literature. There were several depictions of hellfire clubs. Mostly they were rich people with too much money who dabled in the occult or got together for sex orgies.

Yep: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellfire_Club

Except Alien came out in 79. The brood didn't show up in comics until 82. Marvel didn't own fox until resently.

Line I was told is "an idoit in a hurry". If an idoit in a hurry could confuse your product for another then there is a case.

Carp meant Disney didn't own fox until resently

I bet they got aliens mixed up with alien

>Whoa momma gib to me
Millennials don't know about Diana Rigg lol.

>They're from the 1940s.

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The same way every two-bit movie studio got away with it at the time. You made the design and plot different enough and they can't touch you. Besides which, Fox was in no position to complain since they got sued for O'Bannon using an AE Van Vogt story among one of the several sources he ripped off for Alien itself.

They brought them back as associates of Balasco but it would've been better if they hadn't kept the same design and made them more varied. The original N'garai mentioned here was completely different.

I don't care about it, but tell me there's porn of this scene somewhere

spies don't walk around with desert eagles, senpai
what if she has to hide it in a bikini or something?

>spies don't walk around with desert eagles, senpai
what if she has to hide it in a bikini or something.

There are sizes of sidearms somewhere between 'Desert Eagle' and 'Starting Pistol'.

And Diana Rigg in a bikini had a tremendous array of weapons that could incapacitate almost any man.

what if they ARE pop culture now?

the starting pistol is more than enough to kill someone, and it also makes much less noise than anything above it
it's easier to conceal and light, literally the perfect spy weapon

and not anymore no, especially in the US, fags are everywhere

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