10 Ripped Off Characters Movies Didn't Even Try To Hide

10. King Frat Ripped Off Animal House

There are few comedy characters that are as iconic as the late John Belushi’s Bluto Blutarsky. Taking inspiration from the SNL stalwart’s own larger than life persona, Bluto was Id personified for a generation who grew up with John Landis’s Animal House as the touchstone of anarchic comedy.

The rambunctious, rowdy, but ultimately (mostly) well-intentioned Bluto soon went on to become the victim of more plagiarism than Ralph Bashki and Robert Williams combined, as the winning combination of sweet and chaotic fuelled countless Animal House knock-offs.

None however were quite as egregious as King Frat, which went as far as commissioning a soundalike theme song that ripped off Animal House’s. The most shameless rip off in the flick came in the form of the familiar figure, the titular King Frat, who’s a hard partying loveable scamp who fears his endless drinking and goofing-off may be ended by a mean dean who finds his Frat antics insufferab - say, this is starting to sound familiar…