I tried updating the wikipedia entry on The Incredibles with the 
following update:

A more direct inspiration is the comic book masterpiece Watchmen, by 
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. In it, super-heroes are banned and living 
common life, a plot to secretly kill heroes is going on, there's a 
mysterious Island where a threatening menace is being created (not in 
the Watchmen movie though), the plan of the "villain" itself being to 
lie to people that they are under attack so that he can secretly realize 
his fantasy of being hero of the world. The main differences being that 
Watchmen's "villain" truly turns out to save the world by way of his 
machiavelic plan and that no hero is truly super: the only one with true 
superpower couldn't care less for mankind or living organisms. Even the 
"no cape" is from Watchmen, as one of the hooded crime busters of the 
past is shot to death as his cape gets entangled in a bank's revolving 
door. The Omnidroid closely resembles the organic life-form the 
Watchmen's "villain" has built, tentacles, monocular vision and size 
matching.

I tried inserting the above paragraph at wikipedia's entry for The 
Incredible's, section "Brad Bird's inspiration" but I was faced with 
heavy monitoring from wikipedia bastard moderators.  I am under the 
assumption they work for Disney, as they don't care to verify the 
sources themselves.  Really, that's not original, non-verifiable 
research:  it's simply the description of the plot of both works, except 
that the one from Watchmen is from 1987, from an acclaimed comic book.

You can see it in this revision:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Incredibles&oldid=290153780#Brad_Bird.27s_inspiration

here's the wikipedia entry for Watchmen:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchmen

and here's the bastard wikipedia minion exerting its lame act on behalf 
of Disney integrity:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:201.47.188.2

Would some of you join me in trying to bring this issue to light and 
overcome wikipedia's moderating lameness?

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