First off read this article - it's seems like the best one to explain the why. There are more articles here, and here.

Basically, the two Icelandic producers of a 2007 hit movie in their country called Astropia claim that Heroes ripped off their storyline in the episode 3.19 "Shades of Gray."

The storyline in question is the one where Claire goes to get a job in Sam's Comic store. In the movie, a girl who's had it all finds herself in need of a job and decides to work in a comic book store. That's the only similarity I see in it, but the articles are saying the producers are trying to file an injunction.

What does that mean and do you think it's worth it? After all, looking at the bigger picture, the overall storylines are quite different, though that aspect may be similar.

Translation: The guys who did the Astropia story are a bunch of *unprintable* morons who want attention.

So...Astropia is about a teenage girl who can heal and after revealing that her father is a lying bad creep decides to take a job in a comic book store to keep her family safe from the government trying to take her and her kind out?

Damn it Heroes, how can you possibly be ripping off this Icelandic movie. Why couldn't you just make it a psuedo comic book nerd inside joke about no hot girls read comics. DAMN YOU ALL!

Um...no. I'm sorry, but those guys are idiots. There's nothing remotely similar between the two storylines other than a pretty blonde going to a comic book store for a job and the geeks' reaction.

Well, the story concept of an attractive girl being around a group of stereotypical geeks is completely original, so these Icelandic producers are obviously the first to put such an idea to paper...

This. So much this.

This thread reminds me of the thread posted a while ago during S2, I think, where someone on here said that Heroes was ripping off of their online comic. I was like, LOLno.

i just don't think it is an unusual enough theme to be considered an owned idea,it is too bad though for both creative teams that one is wound up about it instead of looking at it as two different takes on a similar theme.it happens a lot in media of all kinds that creative people take a crack at very similar themes.

So...

Where does The Big Bang Theory fit into this...

Ya know, hot girl, bunch of nerds... holy hell, its a CONSPIRACY...

ROSWELL STYLE!

It seriously needs to be thrown out. Sooner or later there will be no original ideas left and everything will have been done ten thousand times over. That reality has already hit Hollywood considering there are mostly remakes popping up every couple of weeks. The same thing happens to television. Look at the new Stargate show coming out. I thought up a similar idea a couple of years ago involving life on a spaceship built by the Ancients and Stargate travel within a whole new galaxy but you wouldn't see me trying to sue MGM over the idea. (in my case the only evidence I have are my own words, and I only think of such ideas since I daydream quite a lot) The Icelandic guys are seriously wasting their time. Give it a few generations or centuries and every idea that has existed, already exists and will exist will all have been done before. Suing over such trivial things is wasted time that could be spent living.

Seriously.


It's irony isn't it? A hot blonde woman going into a comic book store. You don't expect it to happen, even nowadays. So when it does happen, there's not many variations on how it goes down.

It's a bit of a Mary Sue idea, but not stolen.

Dang, going to have to go watch that movie! It sounds good! Wonder if her father worked for an organization with initials or not?