nemesis wrote:
> 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?

The fun never stops:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:The_Incredibles&action=history

Not even in the talk page is permitted the mention to the similarity of 
the two works plots.

bunch of nazis...

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