Lunch spotted in a Marvel comic

[DragonBallFoodie]

This is from the Marvel comic "Civil War II: Kingpin."

I enjoy seeing homages to my favourite works in other works.

[DrBriefsCat]

Nice! I wish she'd reappear in the source material again.

[Lord Beerus]

At least someone remembers Lunch.

[shinmaru]

I think this is the first time a Dragon Ball character is seen in Marvel.

[UltimateHammerBro]

I think this is the first time a Dragon Ball character is seen in Marvel.

I think someone dressed as Vegeta appeared in an issue of Fantastic Four. I'm not sure though.

[Black Hawk]

I've never been into any of the Marvel franchises, but I might give Marvel in general another shot now, since they included my all-time favorite Dragon Ball character. They clearly know how to get on my good side.

[Avery]

I think this is the first time a Dragon Ball character is seen in Marvel.

I think someone dressed as Vegeta appeared in an issue of Fantastic Four. I'm not sure though.

That's right. Here's the comic page from Fantastic Four
[spoiler][/spoiler]

[Hellspawn28]

How do people get away with using other copyright characters?

[Grimlock]

I thought Axel Asher was responsible for keeping Marvel and DC separated, but it seems he can't separate Marvel from other franchises.

[Kamiccolo9]

How do people get away with using other copyright characters?

Because copyright doesn't work like that. That's not Lunch or Vegeta, that's a background character that looks kinda like them.

[Nejishiki]

In fact, those characters are called Dinner and Plant.

[shinmaru]

I think this is the first time a Dragon Ball character is seen in Marvel.

I think someone dressed as Vegeta appeared in an issue of Fantastic Four. I'm not sure though.

That's right. Here's the comic page from Fantastic Four
[spoiler][/spoiler]

Ah, cool. Which issue and page did that come from?

[huzaifa_ahmed]

How do people get away with using other copyright characters?

Because copyright doesn't work like that. That's not Lunch or Vegeta, that's a background character that looks kinda like them.

You know, I keep point out that it's kinda shitty how regularly Japan will license & pay for our stuff, yet we have the gall to rip off everyone else without much fanfare.

[SaiyamanMS]

You know, I keep point out that it's kinda shitty how regularly Japan will license & pay for our stuff, yet we have the gall to rip off everyone else without much fanfare.

Just like how Toriyama paid George Lucas to have a Stormtrooper as a member of the Penguin Village police force and DC comics to feature Suppaman, right? Oh wait, he didn't.

[ekrolo2]

I thought Axel Asher was responsible for keeping Marvel and DC separated, but it seems he can't separate Marvel from other franchises.

That was Joe Quesada, the poster boy for why the "YOU'RE EITHER A FAN OF X OR Y!" needs to fuck off to another galaxy then promptly die from a thousand exploding suns going simultaneously supernova.

[floofychan333]

At least someone remembers Lunch.

I'm with you, dude. What a completely awesome character forgotten entirely because the series creator forgets everything and doesn't try to bring back what he's forgotten.

[Polyphase Avatron]

How do people get away with using other copyright characters?

As long as they don't make it explicit it's fine. Marvel and DC also have bonus cameos of each others' characters as well sometimes. For example, this is from a Thor comic:

[Nejishiki]

At least someone remembers Lunch.

I'm with you, dude. What a completely awesome character forgotten entirely because the series creator forgets everything and doesn't try to bring back what he's forgotten.

That's not particularly true. He "thought" that he forgot about her and when he remembered her, he explained her away as running off somewhere. (In real time, two chapters had passed since her last appearance.) This was probably due to him having no idea how to reasonably reintroduce her. (The anime managed to do this just fine, so it's a matter of creativity he lacked at the time.) As referenced before, he remembered her enough to draw her in the rough draft during the scene where everyone is sharing genki before she was replaced with No. 17.