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The "Imagine, if you can ..." bit was added in February
by dudeu. I sent a plagiarism notifier.
So, looking into dudeu, in this recap for Empire Strikes Back
they basically plagiarized the opening crawl (no citation).
Yeah, that Death Battle thing is definitely plagiarism, of the kind that software should flag correctly. Without a suspicion of plagiarism, would have checked? That to me suggests he meant to deceive, and would have gotten away with it if no one checked.
The Star Wars thing, not so much, in my opinion. It doesn't seem to me that he had the intent to deceive on that one, just forgot to place some quotation marks...
Good news, Dudeu changed the text so they aren't identical anymore.
Bad news, some part are still similar but with some words altered (their edit reason "Now, is this plagiarism?" doesn't help). For example, this is from the first paragraph from DEATH BATTLE! S08E12 - DIO VS Alucard.
And here's transcript from Death Battle Wiki
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Boomstick: Alucard, undying enforcer of the Hellsing Organization.
This might be too much of nitpicking though. However, it's worth to note that the copy/paste descriptuin isn't confined to just one Recap. See the intro part from is from DEATH BATTLE! S08E13 - Akuma VS Shao Kahn.
And here's transcript from Death Battle Wiki
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Boomstick: Shao Kahn, Konqueror of Mortal Kombat.
Wiz: Today, we'll find out which final boss reigns supreme.
Picking one random Recap, here's from DEATH BATTLE! S07E06 - Goro VS Machamp.
Goro, the half-dragon prince of Mortal Kombat. And Machamp, the Fighting-type Pokémon from the Kanto region.
Now compare it to transcript from Death Battle Wiki
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Boomstick: Clearly, he never met these four-armed fighters with four forearms.
Wiz: Goro, the half-dragon prince of Mortal Kombat.
Boomstick: And Machamp, the Fighting-type Pokémon from the Kanto region. He's Wiz and I'm Boomstick.
There's re more. I don't know how many of Death Battle Recap pages has this problem, but so far every random page I picked use copy/paste intro.
Edited by KuruniPlagiarism, but by different editors. Please send notifiers.
Link to TRS threads in project mode here.No, they're linking that wiki to cite the episode. Easier to link to a page with a text transcript than to link to a video without captions to compare text versus text. Our recap pages are being compared to the original work, the transcript is linked to make it easier to make the comparison.
Link to TRS threads in project mode here.I think I found a part of the problem. Recap.Death Battle state that...
Basically, it tell tropers to quote but without make it clear that it's quote. I sent PM to invite the troper who added this part.
Edited by KuruniAlthough Zeh Monsieur replied, they've done nothing to fix it. So I removed the problematic part from Recap.Death Battle.

The first paragrapgh of DEATH BATTLE! S08E12 - DIO VS Alucard is identical to the intro part of the show (see transcript
from Death Battle Wiki). The rest of the article doesn't match perfectly, but still too close IMO. For example, this is on our Recap page.
"Imagine, if you can, someone so wicked, so vile, so monstrous that the sheer magnitude of their villainy literally destroys the universe. You would think it would be the big D himself, but it was him, Dio. Born a penniless street rat in the slums of the mean streets of Victorian London, Dio Brando was weighed down by poverty and his abusive alcoholic father."
And here's on Death Battle Wiki.
"Wiz: Imagine, if you can, someone so wicked that the sheer magnitude of their unholy dickishness literally destroyed the universe.
Boomstick: You might think they'd have to be no less than the devil himself. But it was him, Dio.
Wiz: Born a penniless street rat with a cunning mind in the slums of Victorian London, Dio was humiliated by his poverty and abused by his alcoholic father."