A Real American Ripoff?
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- ibye
Did the creative team on the new GIJOE film do a bit of web surfing for inspiration. Or did this symbol always look like this on Snake Eyes.
Discuss?
- ibye0
Sorry the image is broken, just give it a click and you will see what I mean
- identity0
wow - nice find
- Mau0
Superzoom
- lowimpakt0
ha. nice
- baseline_shift0
so, first of all, its a little different.
second of all, that symbol comes from the korean flag.
- marychain0
it always looked like this
- brandelec0
snake eyes was always like that
- detritus0
Oh dear.
I mean.
Oh dear.
- shitehawke0
Comes from this doesn't it?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_C…- Fuck that, clearly the Chinese preëmptively RIPped Mansion a couple of thousand years ago. Wily bastards.detritus
- Those fucking wily Chinese, is their no end to their reach!shitehawke
- ibye0
Its interesting. It was definitely in the original comics.
I'm sure Folkert had no idea when he create it. (no sarcasm intended)
- MikeColdFusion0
that's an i ching symbol. #63
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_C…
- xcreonx0
Good call. I don't remember him having that. He did have a red symbol at one point but early Snake (mid 80s) was all black if I remember. They had so many variants over the years tho, it could've come from one of those.
But yes, that either a total rip or an amazing coincidence.....
- detritus0
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- pango0
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- Knuckleberry0
seems the original never had a logo on his shoulder. and really wasnt a samurai at first either.
- kingsteven0
Haha, that table on Wikipedia clears it all up:
☱ the Joyous, Open swamp, marsh west third daughter mouth pleasure tranquil (complete devotion) sheep
☲ the Clinging, Radiance fire south second daughter eye
☳ the Arousing, Shake thunder east first son foot inciting movement initiative horse
☴ the Gentle, Ground wind southeast first daughter thigh penetrating gentle entrance fowl
☵ the Abysmal, Gorge water north second son ear dangerous in-motion pig
☶ Keeping Still, Bound mountain northeast third son hand resting, stand-still completion wolf, dog
☷ kūn the Receptive, Field earth southwest mother belly devoted, yielding receptive cow
- thompson0
so the mansion logo "reads" wind and water... based on the iching translation? i would have used fire... to be a bastard.
- dbloc0
that's not a rip....the sequence is different and it's such a basic concept.