Monday, February 8, 2010

Another Mega Man Imposter Spotted

It appears the likeness of Powered Up's Mega Man had the dubious honor of recently being ripped off for use on a foreign mobile service advertisement:


Ah the beauties of living in a country where intellectual property is so rarely enforced. I spotted this little treasure in a mall’s cell phone kiosk earlier this week, this cute little rip-off is calling himself kit-boy and would like to tell you about unlimited data cell phone plans."

I love the addition of the pinstripes and the "call button" to help solidify this character's "originality." Amusing, no?

[via Dark Diamond]

15 comments:

  1. Can you say...lawsuit?

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  2. Wow just... Wow. o_o At least with some other rip-offs, it's not as noticeable, and they change it around a bit more, but this one is basically just a recolor with one or two itty-bitty things added on. -_-

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  3. Wow, that is just ridiculous. They could have at least been a bit more creative with this.

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  4. I hope megaman can rip that little mitchet with a sword or something.

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  5. Report to capcom of usa ? :P

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  6. Alcatel....fuck you, its products suck as its creativity

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  7. Ah, and Telcel service sucks as well

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  8. Geez, how is it Mega Man keeps getting mimicked and yet the games are somehow less popular than mainstream?

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  9. Someone should report this to Seth Killian perhaps. I mean, maybe if they win this lawsuit they can have more money to create some MegaMan games?...lol

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  10. to MegaMac:

    Oh yeah, someone has to report these bastards fuckers!

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  11. First, we had "DentistMan.EXE" http://protodudesrockmancorner.blogspot.com/2010/01/phoney-mega-man-promotes-antibiotics.html#more

    Now we have this

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  12. Hey look, it's deviantART members in real life! :D

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  13. If Kit Boy here were offering a decent deal, maybe this wouldn't be so bad. Instead, if my understanding of the advertisement is correct, this is a pretty nasty rip-off.
    60 conversation minutes
    5 text messages
    Long Distance to 4 other countries
    Unlimimted Internet
    For a grand total of over $500 a month.
    ...something in there seems screwy. My Spanish isn't the best, but I'm fairly sure it's something along those lines.
    If I'm wrong, please feel free to correct me. ^^;

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  14. Anyone else notice the really small Blockbuster Video logo ripoff to the right?

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  15. I saw that too! It;s all over my city with TELCEL propaganda.. But Telcel belongs to the richiest man on earth so i guess Magaman gets a better paycheck..

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