Season 3 Surprise: Say Goodbye to Monica!

That’s kinda rough on Monica don’t you think? What did ever do to you. She’s just like all the other Heroes, confused about their powers…

Oh well, maybe she’ll be back.

I totally agree but no one stole anything there is no copyright on powers or abilities if there was heroes wouldn’t exist

A copycat power is such an OBVIOUS ability to come up with. How many little kids watch superheroes and imagine themselves with those powers? Of course other past characters have had similar abilities. Naruto is not exactly the origin of all ideas, you know.
A few examples:
DC Comics’ Parasite (first appearance 1966)-gains physical and mental upon touch,
Marvel Comics’ Mimic (1966)- gains powers and skills of anyone within 10 ft and retains them until 1 mile away,
Final Fantasy 6 (III in US) (1994) – Gogo copies teammates’ abilities and Gau copies monster abilities,
and Kirby’s Adventure (1993)- Kirby’s swallow-and-copy ability.

Hey, my comment that Monica’s power is very similar to the visual copy powers of Marvel’s Taskmaster (1980) and DC Comics’ 2nd Green Arrow (1994) was erased!

No offense, and I’ve never seen an episode of Naruto, but I highly doubt it has added very much to the canon of superhuman abilities.. Because the idea of powered people has been around since the 40s.. There are very few that have been original in a while. There are power “archetypes” like there are character archetypes… So you have your flyer, your super human strength, your invincibility, teleporter, psychic, time traveler, healer, mimic.. etc. Peter, Sylar, and Monica all fall into a mimic archetype, even if how they do it is different. But regardless they all follow other mimics of the past like those mentioned above (Mimic, Parasite, etc.) and even Rogue of the X-Men. For Monica, she most follows suite with Taskmaster (mentioned above) and Echo (from Daredevil/Avengers), all of which precedes Naruto.

So really it’s silly to say one copied another, because “new” powers are few and far between, and often are derivations or different applications of an archetype. And of course you then look beyond comics and such and get into mythology and religion for even further origins of “power archetypes”, or ideas of an ability… Invincibility with Achilles, magic with Merlin, resurrection with Christ and Buddha (talking about the concept not that Christ or Buddha was or was not super powered or came back to life.. so don’t think about an religion fight here..).

Basically what I’m trying to say is whether Heroes copied Naruto or not is a moot point.
And yes, Taskmaster and Echo both needed to see someone’s moves in order to imitate them.

‘aly’ — ‘copycat power is so OBVIOUS’ oh come on! ur telling me super strength (niki) and flying (nathan) arent obvious powers to come up with, out of most of the powers weve seen in the show, hers was probably one of the more unique and thought of ones and not so obvious. Everyone is moaning about her character who copies things and i ADMITT her storyline didnt link with what was going on perhaps BUT i really liked her charActer and her storyline and the events that took place during it, it gave the show a more fresh thing to focus on and took a break slighty cause sometimes thats what it needs when the shows main storyline may drag abit so its good gettin something fresh in so were shown new things to be interested in, wow thats enough to write, HEROES ROCKS!!!!

I totally agree but no one stole anything there is no copyright on powers or abilities if there was heroes wouldn’t exist

A copycat power is such an OBVIOUS ability to come up with. How many little kids watch superheroes and imagine themselves with those powers? Of course other past characters have had similar abilities. Naruto is not exactly the origin of all ideas, you know.
A few examples:
DC Comics’ Parasite (first appearance 1966)-gains physical and mental upon touch,
Marvel Comics’ Mimic (1966)- gains powers and skills of anyone within 10 ft and retains them until 1 mile away,
Final Fantasy 6 (III in US) (1994) – Gogo copies teammates’ abilities and Gau copies monster abilities,
and Kirby’s Adventure (1993)- Kirby’s swallow-and-copy ability.

Hey, my comment that Monica’s power is very similar to the visual copy powers of Marvel’s Taskmaster (1980) and DC Comics’ 2nd Green Arrow (1994) was erased!

No offense, and I’ve never seen an episode of Naruto, but I highly doubt it has added very much to the canon of superhuman abilities.. Because the idea of powered people has been around since the 40s.. There are very few that have been original in a while. There are power “archetypes” like there are character archetypes… So you have your flyer, your super human strength, your invincibility, teleporter, psychic, time traveler, healer, mimic.. etc. Peter, Sylar, and Monica all fall into a mimic archetype, even if how they do it is different. But regardless they all follow other mimics of the past like those mentioned above (Mimic, Parasite, etc.) and even Rogue of the X-Men. For Monica, she most follows suite with Taskmaster (mentioned above) and Echo (from Daredevil/Avengers), all of which precedes Naruto.

So really it’s silly to say one copied another, because “new” powers are few and far between, and often are derivations or different applications of an archetype. And of course you then look beyond comics and such and get into mythology and religion for even further origins of “power archetypes”, or ideas of an ability… Invincibility with Achilles, magic with Merlin, resurrection with Christ and Buddha (talking about the concept not that Christ or Buddha was or was not super powered or came back to life.. so don’t think about an religion fight here..).

Basically what I’m trying to say is whether Heroes copied Naruto or not is a moot point.
And yes, Taskmaster and Echo both needed to see someone’s moves in order to imitate them.

‘aly’ — ‘copycat power is so OBVIOUS’ oh come on! ur telling me super strength (niki) and flying (nathan) arent obvious powers to come up with, out of most of the powers weve seen in the show, hers was probably one of the more unique and thought of ones and not so obvious. Everyone is moaning about her character who copies things and i ADMITT her storyline didnt link with what was going on perhaps BUT i really liked her charActer and her storyline and the events that took place during it, it gave the show a more fresh thing to focus on and took a break slighty cause sometimes thats what it needs when the shows main storyline may drag abit so its good gettin something fresh in so were shown new things to be interested in, wow thats enough to write, HEROES ROCKS!!!!