[Crazy Jetty]

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Originally Posted by Nexodusrex

I think Coincidence. I highly doubt men of action got together and said "Hey, lets rip off Shazam". Sometimes things just....happen and similarities naturally come due to the natural progression of the story.

I am a would be novelist, and I cant count the times I've been working on plot ideas and the natural progression of the story ends up slightly mimicing somthing else. The best thing you can do in this situation is try to make it yours as much as possible, and disregard any real connection the two have unless youre making a specific nod to somthing else.

I could be working on a story, and reach a point where somehow the villain ends up being the protagonists father naturally, but I cant think "Oh crap, I just did Star Wars" and do a complete 1/80 that dosent make no sence what so ever and will turn off the audience. Same can be said for making it so blatently obvious that that is where you are heading. Suprises, but natural suprises

But I digress, I'm sure those are just unintended similarities.

Oh yeah. I'm always struggling to come up with original ideas, or new takes on things I haven't seen done before. So I believe in coincidence. (I've been trying to develope my own archer hero... and every damned costume I design for him, some version of Green Arrow comes along with almost the exact same design.

But my original question and theory wasn't that it MoA sat down and said "Let's rip off Shazam!" But more that they developed, and pitched a Shazam cartoon which was shot down, and instead of giving up, they reworked things they liked into something different, becoming Ben 10.

As someone already said earlier in the thread, I was half right. Just got the wrong property. Turns out it was intended to be Dial H for Hero (Which makes a world of sense)