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Has any one noticed that harlequins is similar to the name harley quin (the joker's girlfriend form batman) and the fact that harlequins and harley quin both dress up as clowns. Is it me or did games workshop rip off Batman?

It's just you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlequin

Yep, I'm pretty sure that it's from 16th Century Italian theatre. And I think that came before GW....

And Batman....

The batman character was made up in the 90s for the animated series..... well after the eldar fluff was written, Not to mention the 500+ years of historical facts. So that make to wrong on all accounts....

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Grrr..... duplicate post. (anyone else getting HTML errors on Dakka today?)

General Stubbs wrote:Has any one noticed that harlequins is similar to the name harley quin (the joker's girlfriend form batman) and the fact that harlequins and harley quin both dress up as clowns. Is it me or did games workshop rip off Batman?

Thanks mate that made my day!

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Harlequin_Centre,_Watford.jpg

I work here. Unfortunately, it is not a meeting place for Death Jesters and their respective troupes.

That's probably a good thing. They're right gits in my opinion.

Ah... Thorpe's harledex. That was... interesting.

I have been proven wrong.

And what's up with the Black Templars? They're just rip offs of the Templars from Warzone and the Black Panthers!

Anyone ever notice that the Eldar have a unit called striking "scorpions?"

There was a guy in Mortal Kombat with the same name!

yea there was! and his enemy was subzero! which means BELOW 0 degrees Fahrenheit, which is obviously a blatant rip off of stephen hawkings book about black holes, which mentioned SPACE! IE space marines. sheesh this company is corrupt on so many levels

So is this art imitating life, or is it art imitating art ? Or perhaps even art imitating art imitating art ?

Who could forget McDeath, with Arka Zhargil ? Aah, the days of my yoof....

And what about those Plaguebearers? There are enemies of the same name in Diablo 2!!

TOTAL RIP OFF SUE GW

And what's the deal with Chaos? Isn't that a word in the dictionary?

HOLY JESUS GW RIPPING EVERYONE

Actually, GW's brand of Chaos is pretty much a complete rip-off of Micheal Moorcock.

Amazing thread.

Better than the OT would have suggested.

... It's-The Gee-Dub Rip-Off Thr-Ead!

Looks like no one noticed that I accidently accredited the old Harlequin rules to Jes Goodwin instead of Old Thorpey up there.

Before he left he was threatening to rip off Paul Sawyer. First losing the hair, then starting to get fat... oh yeah, and then _leaving_.

White Dwarf is ripping off most every other magazine by being rubbish.

Back to being serious, though. Obviously the Emperor himself is the biggest rip-off of Stephen Hawkings ever. And they didn't even do it properly. Stephen Hawkings never went to other planets to meet his 'Primarch' sons.

Idiots.

And aren't Orcs/Orks a rip off of Tolkein, who was born in South Africa, which is in the continent of Africa, like Egypt is, where they had Mummies? Has Games Workshop ripped off my Mum?

If you started this hobby under the age of fifteen, it's very likely that GW has ripped off your mum.

You're probably right.
You know who else was right? Einstein. And he's got 'stein' in his name. Like 'Frankenstein', which was written by Mary Shelley. And she's a woman. Like Macy Gray. And although she spells it differently, her name is like 'Grey'. As in the Grey Knights. Did you rip GW off?

John McCain's name is a rip from the Canadian food company by the name of McCain.

Stephen Harper's name is a rip from the Harpers in Dungeons and Dragons.

The Grey Knights are actually a rip-off from the band of villains of the same name in the TV show "Where's Waldo?" (yes, there was a TV show). They liked to cut down trees and push precariously-perched boulders down cliffs.

Nofasse 'Eadhunta wrote:John McCain's name is a rip from the Canadian food company by the name of McCain.

Stephen Harper's name is a rip from the Harpers in Dungeons and Dragons.

The Grey Knights are actually a rip-off from the band of villains of the same name in the TV show "Where's Waldo?" (yes, there was a TV show). They liked to cut down trees and push precariously-perched boulders down cliffs.

Is that the McCain that makes oven chips?

Tyranids are totally copied from the Zerg.

'Nuff said.

Mekniakal wrote:Tyranids are totally copied from the Zerg.

'Nuff said.

Well, considering that the Tyranids were around before Starcraft, I would say that the Zerg were a total rip off of the Tyranids.

drop pods from starship troopers, the book not the movie.

all said and done, then the scientology star is a ripoff of the chaos star.

http://lh6.ggpht.com/eomolina/R8skLSuV1SI/AAAAAAAACfQ/89mAyt_IBDs/40k%20Scientology%20-%20Chaos.jpg

ixlar wrote:

Mekniakal wrote:Tyranids are totally copied from the Zerg.

'Nuff said.

Well, considering that the Tyranids were around before Starcraft, I would say that the Zerg were a total rip off of the Tyranids.

I'm pretty sure starcraft was made in the 80's.

what were we talking about again i lost my train of thought reading all this weirdness coming from all us and our rip off ideas.... i guess I RIPPED ALL YOU OFF FROM YOUR RIPPOFFS! gwa hahahahahahaaa