Nothing's Original: TMNT Beat Avengers to the Punch with Battle Montage

I happened to catch the woefully underrated 2007 animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie, TMNT, this morning on cable.There is a scene near the end where the Turtles, April, Casey Jones, and Splinter are storming the gates of pseudo-evil corporate warrior, Winters (voiced regally by Professor X himself, Patrick Stewart), Stark-tower-esque headquarters. Along the way, they encounter an army of Foot ninjas and engage in a harrowing battle that looks very familiar:

Now, where has this scene popped up recently? Only one of the biggest movies of all time (pardon the hyperbole, it's Marvel; it's expected. Excelsior and all that good stuff).

Both scenes are solid feats of computer wizardry that move audiences away from viewing battles as chaotic car crashes and more as fluidly choreography scenes where an army of highly trained soldiers are utterly decimated by a unit that is a fraction of its size. Ultimately, these two scenes  prove two things: superheroes are insanely skilled at navigating chaos, and if Whedon is cribbing from the Turtles, then nothing is truly original, as if anything ever was.

(credit to Yahoo, Marvel and Youtube user Lovely Bones for the clip)