Frankenstein's Army director accuses Capcom of plagiarizing

Frankenstein's Army director accuses Capcom of plagiarizing the design of one of his creatures for Resident Evil Village without authorization.
It is not always easy to find inspiration, especially in a genre as crushed as horror. Getting out of the hat a creature that is original or charismatic is not something that comes out just like that, hence it is usual to be inspired by the classics, contributing other ideas or pulling lesser-known films. And now Capcom has a problem with Resident Evil Village.

[scofios]

To be honest Frankenstein army was the first thing that came tot my minds when i was in the Heisenberg factory

[Sonic-and-Crash]

when i say that RE8 is just a freak show made form stolen ideas (PT, Franken Army, Boodborne) ..they say icant accept the new thing ...this not a new thing this sloppy made FPS not releavent with RE

[Redrex7000]

why what wrong with the game?

[PLASTICA-MAN]

Exactly. Since RE7, many copied materaisl, deisgns puzzles, gameplay story from P.T. and Silent Hill games and this continues in RE8.

[XbladeTeddy]

Sonic-and-Crash: Will you ever accept that Resident Evil as a series has moved on? Anything posted about Resident Evil you have real issues with. If you don't like it DON'T play it, it's so simple.

[MadLad]

@redrex

It's because it's not any release prior to 4, so it's an imposter, and he'll make sure to let you know that every chance he gets.

@plastica

Weird. Didn't people really want P.T, and found it a crime that it was never released (Silent Hills)? Now it's a bad thing that inspiration was taken from it and actually made it to market?

[neomahi]

I would agree. Is it a ripoff of P.T., yeah, Id agree with that. Was RE VII a good change of pace from what RE4 had done to the series? Absolutely, Resident Evil needed a reboot. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre style, while again is a ripoff (the Japanese arent too innovative, theyre just good at ripping off ideas and making them better, much of the time) I do feel Resident Evil Village is Resident Evil 4 all over again meaning the series had a good start and is plummeting downhill again. Werewolves and vampires ARENT Resident Evil, Zombies are. The games also rediculously difficult for its own good and drops you into a really unrealistic situation without a good explanation as to why, its poorly written and mustve been written quickly. But its pretty dissapointing, which so far means Ive been pretty dissapointed with the PS5. The PS4 wasnt nearly as impressive as the amazing PS3 with so much great software. But PS5: The Show 21 was really dissapointing with no traditional Season Mode. Returnal makes no sense. Now, Resident Evil Village isnt too impressive. I do have much more faith in Ratchet & Clank, Im sick of waiting for, and Kena: Bridge of Spirits is gonna hit the spot. My two most anticipated games, The Show, Returnal, and Village are just to tide gamers over (poor attempts) though. Ratchet & Clank and Kena will be well worth the wait and the start of a good gaming library of PS5 games and then we can forget everything thus far. Astrobot was a lot of fun though, PlayStation's Mario if you ask me.

[AnotherGamer]

@PLASTICA-MAN you realize RE7 was in development before PT right?

[AnotherGamer]

Just move on dude, some things have to change for the better.

[Fluttershy77]

Well you can accuse Capcom all you want, but I think this thing won't fly in a court of law

[OG_TK_Cole]

Thats all good, but its a blatant ripoff of Frankenstein Army, which is sad to say the least.

[poppatron]

Well done sir, well done 👏🏽

[MIDGETonSTILTS17]

I guess I can’t buy Village now until they pay this other dev what they deserve...

[MasterChief3624]

How noble.

[Teflon02]

Apparently what someone said is that in the games gallery they actually credit the movie for that thing

[Duke19]

Lol they 100% just pulled that character from Frankenstein’s Army. No wonder the original director is upset - I would be too haha

[aaronaton]

As plagiarisation goes, this could be one of the worse ones for a while. My blame would be on the concept artist/Art Director at Capcom, sometimes plagiarisation just slips through the net...

[oldenjon]

Unforgivable for such a huge/influential franchise. Guess it's just tired and has to steal ideas to stay fresh.

[AnotherGamer]

The concept art have a comment saying that the monsters design were inspired by the movie apperantly.

[RabbitFly]

This is not plagiarism though. It's a reference. Something which we find in almost all popular media.

Hell the whole genre is derivative.

[EesherMcsqueesher]

It's because RE has lost it's way. Now it's about throwing every "spooky" trope into a pot.

[Redrex7000]

lol what about re6

[Shinox]

Stop using RE6 as a scapegoat for Capcom modern excuses , i swear you idiots give them free passes ever since they tried copying others

[AnotherGamer]

Did you forget about RE6 and Umbrella Corps? Hell even operation Raccoon City?!

[oldenjon]

It plagiarized the old hunter / boom hammer enemy from bloodborne too, and sort of the whole aesthetic. Bunch of hacks if you ask me

[sourOG]

Meh. I can see why he would speak up and I don’t think it’s that big of a deal. It’s a propeller not a book taken word for word. I don’t see this being “trouble” for capcom.

[sourOG]

Capcom did it first

https://giantbomb1.cbsistat...

[GenWorld]

FACTS

[DoomsdayMayBeOkay]

Case closed lmao

[MasterChief3624]

I thought it was going to be about the werewolves, and I was ready to say "well there are only so many ways to make a werewolf..." But this is BLATANT. Wow. Usually when I see stuff about "plagiarism" it is kind of hard to agree with the claims. But this one, 100%. That is such a specific idea. There's no way this isn't plagiarism. I hope the original creator gets the credit / compensation he deserves.

[BlackTar187]

wow, that is worse than I was expecting.

[Phoenixryu]

They must have had Joe Biden as monster creator, he's good at taking things that don't belong to him.

[Angyobangyo]

Don't bring your silly tinfoil hat into this matter. There is a subreddit for people who want to shove their political messages into game videos, r/mentalillness

[AnotherGamer]

.... where the hell did that come from? That has nothing to do with this!

[TheEnigma313]

We dgaf about politics here

[masterfox]

Lol Capcom don't be so obvious 😅

[DaleCooper]

Oh boy, not good Capcom.

[stanr]

It's always adorable when the director of a failed movie tries to get some free attention by claiming a superior work copied them. Last time I check nobody plagiarizes off the F student in the class. Instead of playing the victim card, he should have put some effort into making a better movie.

[djl3485]

You're an idiot.

[MadLad]

"We're more popular, so we're going to lift your ideas"

I agree with djl3485.

[Angyobangyo]

You didn't even click the link to see what was plagiarized. My guess is Capcom can do no wrong in your book, so it must be the other party's fault. If you have eyes even one will do, you can easily see the design isn't of Capcom's own design.

[Teflon02]

I mean, if capcom truly credited the movie for that thing in the games gallery, Stanr doesn't seem too crazy. If they didn't then I'm with ya

[OG_TK_Cole]

I thought I was going crazy, because as @Scofios said below me The Heisenberg Factory is a dead give away that Capcom stole a lot of ideas from Frankenstein Army. And its a blatant ripoff.

[Shinox]

I really hope this guy sues them so this can light a fire for others to sue them too for shamelessly copying things instead of relying in creative minds , modern Capcom is disastrous and they completely lack creativity or touch to their past

[AnotherGamer]

I agree that need to resolve this matter with the director, but where the hell did you get that they're out of touch with their past? RE8 village and Monster Hunter Rise are already successes, hell even the recent collections and remakes have done extremely well by going to the past.

[neomahi]

Thats good publicity. Just means people will watch his film to see if its true, its free to watch on most services.

[Knightofelemia]

So plane guy has a brother copied from someone else everybody copies off of someone else like DC and Marvel Like Black Spider looks like Spiderman or Mr Fantastic stretches like Plastic Man. Or GM gets an idea then a few years Ford uses the idea later on down the road. Companies have been doing it for a long time whether its a product, a person, a character, a song, a book. RE8 fixed the blemish which we shall call RE3 Remake it got me back into RE as a franchise all Capcom has to do is work something out with Frankenstein's Army to make them happy so we can keep plane guy. Some people don't give a shit if a character is copied and treat it as an homage I never even knew plane guy had a twin brother and what Frankenstein's Army was until this article. Capcom will work something out to make this Frankenstein's Army people happy. Nintendo never got pissy when Sony made Playstation All Stars look at the kart games that copied Mario Kart. I think Plane Guy looks cool now I am tempted to check out this Frankenstein's Army all thanks to Capcom they will work something out.

[KINGS47]

This is not plagiarism , the creature in RE8 looks nothing like that stupid helicopter creature. Such a reach smh. Nowadays people just wanna cash in on sum stupid claims.