Disguise

@jackal While I agree to the general statement that 40K has influences from other franchises, 40K never takes too much from one source. For example, the Space Marines might be influenced by Starship Troopers while Tyranids are influenced by Aliens and the Tau are influenced by Animes like Gundam and the Imperial Guard take after units in real life military history. 40K Borrows liberally but combines elements in a unique and novel way.

Starcraft wholesale borrows from 40K in all three factions. Not only that, but several units in SC2 have concepts almost entirely lifted from 40K. Look at the Reaper. A unit that is encased in power armour, uses a jump pack and has dual pistols. That's just a Sisters of Battle Seraphim with a sex change. The Protoss Motherships are massive space arks which serve as homes for an entire population of Protoss. Sounds like a Craft World to me. The Protoss Colossus is a massive, bipedal, autonomous war machine. Sounds like a Wraith Lord to me. So on and so forth. IMO, there's a pretty significant difference between taking inspiration from multiple sources and combining them and simply taking everything from one source and changing the artwork and voices.

To draw an analogy, I'll put it this way. Knights who wield both swords and magic are pretty common in our pop culture. So are space fighters that engage in dog-fight style combat. Also common are huge planet destroying super weapons. Using any of those elements alone doesn't make mean that you're ripping anything off. Writing a story about a mystical knight who pilots a star fighter to blow up a massive planet destroying super weapon is a pretty clear rip off of Star Wars...

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