you'd be hardpressed to show which has taken more from the other.
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sure, but the issue isnt how characters based on a superman (or any character's) template there are flying around altogether, DC creates hosts of teenaged, opposite gender, infant and even animal versions of their own characters in a scale unparalleled by marvel. almost all their big characters have like 4-5 different demography versions of themselves - superman, WW, Flash, MMH, aquaman, etc.
marvel has taken this up by making everyone who's ever been in the same room as the hulk some kindof hulk-like creature for retarded non-sensical reasons. wolverine is getting his clan too in the form of daken/x-23.
yeah, spidey's clone drama itself can be seen an extremely degenerate form of the trope.
Of course, how legitimate these derived characters are depends on a lot of facors. robin's stand on their own and aren't minibatmans, batgirl, while an obivous teenage girl bataman, has likewise been developed beyond batman's shadow, but batwoman is an iredeemable garbage concept IMO.
Firstly Superman was FAR from original. The creators of Superman Siegal and Shuster did a review in 1931 for a sci fi fanzine on the novel Gladiator . The lead character of Gladiator ( Hugo Danner) was a guy who had super strength, impervious skin, was fast and could leap a city block. It was because of these glaring similarities that the first few dozen times they pitched their concept of Superman to publishers it was rejected because said publishers were afraid of being sued for plagiarism.
Hell even Batman wasn't original ( though it did draw it's influences from many sources). Supposedly influenced by the combination of Zorro, Sherlock Holmes, Doc Savage and the Shadow.
Spiderman is also hardly original. There was a Golden Age character called Tarrantula who used suction cups to walk on walls and who carried a "web gun". Several Golden age characters also had a "radar sense". As for Wolverine he's a feral, the ideas of werewolves and vampires ( also "ferals" ) is quite old, so what if they don't grow bones, they grow teeth and claws. In all honesty I think you would be very hard pressed to find a truly "original" concept in any fictional medium over the last few hundred years.
Danny the Street is hardly original either. There are a plethora of mythical /mystical places that have a presence and sentience of their own that can appear to be anywhere throughout fiction in history. the only difference it this one's a street and not a Forrest or a nook, or some other such.
Not familiar with Axe cop so I can't talk to that one.
It's still rather unusual for a comic book hero, and a fairly new twist on the 'intelligent place' thing.
(And, come to think of it, mystic places that are in themselves smart rather than being controlled by some magic being or person are fairly rare too...)
So, yea, while 'there's nothing new under the sun,' applies to Danny, I'd still call him fairly original.
It's interesting, a story written by a five year old (now 8) and drawn by his 29-year old brother. So, it's got a lot of stuff mish-mashed together, the plot is weird and semi-stream of consciousness-esque, and so on.
the animating mystical force is often imanent to the place or it's impossible to determine whether it's imanent or external to it like the hotel from the shining.
anyways, iirc Wiki had a link to Wood talking about this, but it isn't on Wiki anymore, so fine. It does talk about Wood having issues with the character because the editor thought the costume was sexist, so its hardly a stretch.
Anyways, my point was more about how little difference there is in the approach to women and minorities between companies rather than anything about Power Girl specifically.