User blog comment:Orange Diamond/Plagiarism/@comment-26944982-20160628224546/@comment-31232700-20160628234025

I think that they're talking more about copying than plagarism when it comes to this issue in particular. The two terms get mixed up sometimes.

As someone who has had plagarism happen to them on multiple occasions I have to agree with SW here, even if it's not directly "plagarism" it definitely is copying. There's a line between basing characters off of other things and straight-up copying their abilities.