Je kent het wel, je zit een film te kijken en denkt dan: hmmmmm dit komt me erg bekend voor. Dat klopt zo nu en dan ook, want vaak worden film karakters gewoon gejat uit comics en daar wordt overigens geen stukje erkenning nog royalty's voor opgehoest. Daarom heeft de website Topless Robot nu deze top 11 gemaakt en daar van kan je de nummer 7 hier onder lezen.

7) The Incredibles = Fantastic Four +Watchmen

It's immediately apparent that Brad Bird's The Incredibles is a movie inspired by comic books. It was definitely sold as a costumed superhero film. What's less apparent is how much Pixar's original superhero movie relies upon well known properties for its characters and plot. The superhero family quartet is patterned after Fantastic Four and hit theaters a year ahead of Fox's inferior official version. Patriarch Mr. Incredible is a blue collar tank just like the Thing. He's married to Elastigirl who has Mr. Fantastic's stretchy powers. (If you ship Mr. Fantastic and the Thing, this is probably the most mainstream your preferred slashfic will be.) Bird threw in some Doom Patrol by removing a hyphen to their Elasti-Girl and changing her surname by one letter from Farr to Parr. (WB/DC was actually fine with their top competitor shamelessly stealing from them so long as she was called Mrs. Incredible on merchandise, which isn't that surprising when you consider how long it took them to realize they could make movies about superheroes that aren't Batman or Superman.)

Their daughter Violet has the invisibility and forcefield powers of the Invisible Woman, whereas Dash is a speedster so the FF comparisons aren't completely on the nose. It does feature a showboating elemental in Frozone, but he's on the opposite end of the thermometer from the Human Torch. Baby Jack-Jack can transform into anything, similar to young Franklin Richards' power to reshape reality. Edna Mode makes the family matching uniforms with the same properties as Unstable Molecules. The Underminer is who Mole Man would be if Stan Lee were punnier.

Then there's Syndrome, who will likely remain the second best cinematic version of Dr. Doom next to Roger Corman's. Both he and Doom are arrogant technological geniuses who loathe the heroes because they had the effrontery to warn them about unsafe life choices (being a child sidekick and building a machine to rescue his mom's soul from Hell). Syndrome takes a page out of Watchmen villain Ozymandias' handbook by building a superweapon on his private island and killing all the superheroes that find out. Instead of an exploding telepathic squid that unites the world against a fictitious alien threat, he has an adaptive robot similar to a Nimrod Sentinel that he'll defeat to gain public adulation.

The movie essentially borrows all its worldbuilding from Watchmen as well. The Parrs struggle with adjusting to mundane civilian life after superhumans are legally forced to retire from crimefighting, just like the New Minute Men after the Keane Act. Both have grisly cautionary tales against wearing capes. there are even behind-the-scenes interviews with superheroes that could've easily been excised. Curmudgeonly contrarian Alan Moore is apparently okay with this blatant copyright infringement - unlike Zack Snyder's lavish official adaptation - because Pixar have no contract with him, haven't offered to compensate him, and refuse to credit him for his ideas.