User blog comment:Jiskran/Importing chars/@comment-5879271-20160214031122

This is meant to be a preemptive strike--to get to this before it becomes plagiarism. Personally, I think this is just going to be ~thing~ that's popular for a while and then no one ever talks about it again except in nostalgia posts. Inspiration is fine--everything is inspired by something else, and some things a little more directly than others. As has been said, the occasional bit of obviously direct inspiration is fine, but when it gets to the point where groups are being made (I get it, some preexisting characters are in the group, that isn't the point) and people are specifically making characters for those groups--that's when things get out of hand and you start having characters that have just been transplanted under a new face and a new name.

(In the beginning of humanity, there were no rules--the only reason murder is illegal is because someone forced their idea down everyone else's throats.)