10 Sci-Fi Movie Rip-Offs You Won't Believe Exist
8. Metal Man
You might take one look at Metal Man and assume that it's a "mockbuster" produced by famous knock-off studio The Asylum, and though it was indeed released mere months after 2008's Iron Man, it was actually produced by a lesser-known outfit called TomCat Films (also responsible for 2012's Hulk rip-off, The Amazing Bulk).
Metal Man follows a college student (Samuel Nathan Hoffmire) who dons a lawsuit-worthy Iron Man-esque suit to battle crime - namely an evil megalomaniac and his... ninja henchmen. Yup.
Clearly the name of the game here was tossing off a no-budget Iron Man clone with similar-looking box art to trick a couple of grandmas looking to buy Iron Man on DVD for their grandkids.
It's charmless slop-bucket filmmaking - if you can even call it that - and, to top the cynicism off, was subsequently re-released under the title Iron Hero in a craven attempt to wring a little more cash out of the enterprise.