Warner Bros. Animation Accused of Plagiarizing BATMAN VS. ROBIN Fight Sequence From YouTube Series

YouTuber Micah Brock, a.k.a. KnownKicker, created a martial arts web-series in 2012 called Slug Street Scrappers. He recently noticed that some of the fight sequences used in the DC animated film Batman vs. Robin looked very familiar.

After going back and looking at some of his old footage he found some compelling proof that that Warner Bros. animation lifted the fight choreography from one of his shorts. Not only that, but the edits and camera angles used are spot on as well.

To prove his point that WB animation may have plagiarized his work, Brock made a video that compares the two fight scenes. As you’ll see, they the footage is pretty spot on. Brock says in the video:

"You can't really copyright a martial arts move or a sequence of martial arts moves, but this seems to be like a little bit more than just coincidence because it seems almost like they used the footage from Slug Street Scrappers... as reference for the film, and not just for the art but also the camera angles, the tempo, even the sound overlays, which is pretty crazy.

"You can't do that by accident, it has to be intentional. I was never asked if they could use the footage as reference or given any sort of notification whatsoever."

Here’s the video:

It looks like an action sequence may have been lifted from my web series "Slug Street Scrappers," and then inserted into the Warner Bros/DC animated film, "Batman vs Robin." Watch the video through and decide for yourself. The original version of this sequence was uploaded to youtube.com/whirlwindaction in 2012.

I believe that the actual animation work that is done for these DC films is completed overseas in Japan or Korea. So if the fight sequence was lifted from this YouTube series, it most likely happened at one of the overseas animation houses that the studio uses by someone who was feeling a little lazy that day.

What do you think about this?