The fact of the matter is that all art in some way imitates or inspires another. It's not unoriginal to add some of your favorite features to new characters, whether it be intentional or unintentional. Some of the best characters are created that way.
Sonic and Shadow resemble Goku and Vegeta, and they transform to what looks like a super saiyan.
Look at all the Bruce Lee fighter clones, they all resemble the same person, but also have their distinctive characteristics.
Even Kasumi, the main character of DOA was inspired by Mai from KOF.
It's everywhere, and the newer look becomes an inspiration for another look.
It doesn't matter that Argentus's picture looks like Iron Fist. It matters what she's turning it into.
Edit: Life imitates art.
Edit 2: I remember reading this comic series called Irredeemable a few years ago, and it was based on Superman-like superhero that one day snapped and become this really dark villian. Anyways, at the end of the series, the good guys had to kill him and found out a way of interdimentionally phasing him out of existence.
In the story, this scattered the essence of the Irredeemable character in our dimension and made it's way into the minds of Superman's creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, and became the "spontaneous" realization to create Superman.
It's a paradoxical way of saying: "Even though you may think you're original, you are actually unintentionally ripping off ideas."
Sonic and Shadow resemble Goku and Vegeta, and they transform to what looks like a super saiyan.
Look at all the Bruce Lee fighter clones, they all resemble the same person, but also have their distinctive characteristics.
Even Kasumi, the main character of DOA was inspired by Mai from KOF.
It's everywhere, and the newer look becomes an inspiration for another look.
It doesn't matter that Argentus's picture looks like Iron Fist. It matters what she's turning it into.
Edit: Life imitates art.
Edit 2: I remember reading this comic series called Irredeemable a few years ago, and it was based on Superman-like superhero that one day snapped and become this really dark villian. Anyways, at the end of the series, the good guys had to kill him and found out a way of interdimentionally phasing him out of existence.
In the story, this scattered the essence of the Irredeemable character in our dimension and made it's way into the minds of Superman's creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, and became the "spontaneous" realization to create Superman.
It's a paradoxical way of saying: "Even though you may think you're original, you are actually unintentionally ripping off ideas."
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