10 Comics Characters You Didn’t Know Were Rip-Offs

2. The Incredible Hulk (Solomon Grundy)

The Incredible Hulk is popular. Solomon Grundy isn't. Even among comic book nerds, Solomon Grundy isn't the most beloved. But, despite that, he influenced the Big Green Giant.

When Hulk first came about, he wasn't green. He was grey - the same color as the hulking beast Solomon Grundy. Both of them did nothing but get angry and punch things, and both could say rudimentary sentences and had below average intelligence. Oh, and the fact that the Hulk turned green? Well, it’s probably just a coincidence that Solomon Grundy's villain was the Green Lantern.

Over time, as the Hulk proved more and more popular, and Solomon Grundy fell even farther into the margins, Grundy adopted more and more of Hulk's personality traits, to the point where now he seems like a zombie knock-off of Hulk. But the truth is, he's actually the zombie dad of Hulk. And... when is that comic coming out?

Later, DC would rip off the Hulk with Doomsday, an unstoppable rage monster from space. And then again with Doomsday, another unstoppable rage monster, but this one from Earth, attached to a human host. And also with Damage, an unstoppable rage monster who - look, DC made the first unstoppable rage monster, give them some leeway.