Elric of Melniboné vs The Witcher - Inspiration vs. Plagiarism

[Buttz McSmellington]

This thread is about Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melniboné vs. Andrzej Sapkowski's Geralt of Rivia. Are they the same thing? Was Sapkowski just inspired by Moorcock?

I'm only creating this thread because of spergs shitting up Danny the Razorfister's Thread arguing about this.

 

[Wormy]

No. Geralt did take a hell of a lot of from Elric, but hardily a rip off and a long way from the "same thing", if only for the two having greatly different personalities and morals, not to mention the scale and stakes of the two's adventures are world's apart, literally.

 

[Dang Woodchucks!]

As I believe I said before, someone as retarded as Razorfist and his viewers claiming Geralt is a "rip-off" of Elric is like saying Link is a rip-off of Drizzt Do'Urden. Geralt and Elric share a nickname and white hair, Drizzt and Link have pointy ears and wear tunics.

All four use swords as weapons of choice, I guess they're all the same. :^)

 

[Iron Jaguar]

Moorcock's work is typical Gamma-fantasy-fulfilment. Just terrible.

 

[Oddjob OTP]

Moorcock's work is typical Gamma-fantasy-fulfilment. Just terrible.

It's only fantasy fulfillment if you are incredibly honest about hating yourself for being a prick. Elric is the fantasy equivalent of Holden Caulfield, he has some good aspects to his character that are completely drowned in his being up his own ass and having a mostly undeserved sense of moral and intellectual superiority and being doomed because of them.

 

[Wormy]

having a mostly undeserved sense of moral and intellectual superiority and being doomed because of them.

Compared to most of his empire, he was morally superior, it just wasn't a very high bar to leap. Just having a semblance of a conscience was weird in Melnibone at the time he was Emperor.

 

[Ged!]

Literally the only good thing about Elric are the book covers