Timeline for answer to Why might the government keep the gold at Fort Knox, even though super-villains steal it all the time? by Carcer

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Jul 11, 2018 at 11:20	comment	added	Carcer		@Benubird the general trope is common enough in superhero fiction, since functionally lots of characters behave this way regardless of whether the existence of the unwritten rules is explicit or not, and comic stories are full of examples where heroes and villains normally bitter enemies team up to face greater threats, etc. Worm just happens to be a very popular work which is in large part a deconstruction of the superhero genre and so it confronts these themes explicitly, but it's hardly the direct source of the concept.
Jul 11, 2018 at 11:13	history	edited	Carcer	CC BY-SA 4.0	added 259 characters in body
Jul 11, 2018 at 9:35	comment	added	Benubird		It's good to know where ideas come from. If someone gave me a cool idea, and I wrote a book based on, then discovered that the great idea was actually from someone else's story I'd be pretty annoyed. Maybe it's just me, but if I was going to build a world based on someone else's, I would want to be conscious of the original so as to avoid unintentionally plagiarising them.
Jul 11, 2018 at 9:24	comment	added	Carcer		@Benubird I did very much have Worm in mind when writing this answer, though I stopped short of explicitly referencing it.
Jul 11, 2018 at 9:00	comment	added	Benubird		You are describing worm
Jul 11, 2018 at 8:39	history	answered	Carcer	CC BY-SA 4.0