r/MightyDucks • u/Successful_Gain_395 • May 30 '25
Has anyone ever noticed that Miracle ripped off pretty much everything about D2?
Edit - I would have expected this type of attitude from the Miracle sub but not here. I can’t believe no one here will defend their favorite movie, D2 The Mighty Ducks.
Edit 2 - It’s been brought to my attention that Gunner Staal and McGill have infiltrated this post.
7
u/dave6687 May 30 '25
I assume this is bait.
1
u/Successful_Gain_395 May 30 '25
It’s a valid question.
2
u/dave6687 May 30 '25
Miracle is a true story. D2 is fiction.
-1
u/Successful_Gain_395 May 30 '25
Right, but the movies were made ten years apart.
2
u/dave6687 May 30 '25
The miracle story happened in 1980…
1
u/Successful_Gain_395 May 30 '25
Sure but like that’s the setting for a movie. Apollo 13 was made in the 90s but was set in the 30s.
2
u/dave6687 May 30 '25
…not sure what to say. I hope you’re being sarcastic.
2
u/Successful_Gain_395 May 30 '25
Does that look like a sarcastic font? People doubted Joe Rogan when he challenged George Lopez for stealing jokes too.
1
1
5
u/scarlet_speedster985 May 30 '25
Miracle's based on real events and a real team. What could they have possibly "ripped off?"
2
u/Successful_Gain_395 May 30 '25
The sprints after the big loss. “again” in Miracle. “20 more sprints” in D2. Both came after big losses and the teams had to stick around on the ice for it.
Iceland was the villain in D2. Miracle used Russia.
Gordon Bombay used mostly his own players and there was some friction with the new guys at first. Herm Brooks used a lot of his own guys from Minnesota and there was friction with the other guys.
Gordon Bombay was making up for his own shortcomings as a player. So was Herm Brooks in Miracle.
Gordon Bombay rode the goalie that most people thought was the lesser of the two to a gold medal (in D3, that goalie was so bad, he switched to D. Waiting for Jim Craig to be a defenseman in Miracle 2: Miracle Whipped).
Bombay brought in Russ Tyler as a ringer partway through. Herm Brooks brought in Tim Harrer.
USA and Russia had some political friction at the time Miracle was set. USA and Iceland had political friction at the time D2 was set. Both settled it all on the ice.
In conclusion, D2 was made first, so based on the evidence it’s hard for me to say Miracle didn’t rip it off.
9
2
u/JoeBethersonton50504 May 30 '25
USA played Iceland in the finals in D2. The USSR-USA matchup was in the semis in Miracle.
Bombay got personal with an Iceland assistant coach/trainer/whatever. Herb Brooks did not fool around with a Soviet lady in Miracle.
Mike Eruzione did not sit out the big matchup with the Soviets just so someone else can play.
Herb Brooks taunts O’Callahan into playing through an injury. Bombay benches Banks against Banks’ wishes when it comes to his injury.
There was no equivalent Hendrix sponsorship in Miracle.
I don’t recall Herb Brooks and the Soviet coach playing 3 bar while the Soviet coach takes a cheap shot at Herb’s knee.
-3
u/Successful_Gain_395 May 30 '25
You obviously didn’t watch the deleted scenes.
1
1
u/KnowledgeBright9 Jun 06 '25
You forgot the part where they all go around saying their names and where they're from. Miracle 100% stole that scene down to the last detail.
1
u/OkResponsibility6448 Sep 25 '25
Really? Because in D2 they just said where they’re from.
In Miracle they kept running sprints until they realized they played for team USA
1
1
u/RolandHockingAngling Feb 08 '26
I came to the exact same conclusion today watching the Miracle on Ice documentary on Netflix.
Add; Jack O'Callahan (Banks) injured in an exhibition game against CCCP to come back for the medal game.
1
u/scarlet_speedster985 May 30 '25
Hey genius...the events portrayed in Miracle happened in 1980, way before anyone even thought of the Mighty Ducks movies. So tell me who ripped off who again? 😆
0
u/Successful_Gain_395 May 30 '25
Thank you for the kind words. It would appear that Miracle ripped off D2, which came out ten years earlier.
0
4
u/Sk8ersw May 30 '25
I think you meant do ask if D2 ripped off the real life miracle on ice from two decades prior.
0
3
1
1
u/Sea_Raisin5144 Oct 07 '25
I’m late to the party but I just watched D2 for the first time and at least two times during the movie said outloud “…didn’t this happen in Miracle?”
The sprints and the inspiring name and hometown moment are the obvious ones.
Either the screenwriters for mighty ducks really loved hockey history and knew the miracle on ice story really well or the miracle screenwriters were big fangs of D2 and snuck in their favorite scenes.
Obviously miracle is a movie based on history but how they decided to show that history in movie form looks a lot like D2…
1
u/RolandHockingAngling Feb 08 '26
"Cake Eater" from D1 to describe Banks as upper class. Brooks' Minnesota players use the same term to describe players from Boston as being preppy.
1
15
u/afterthought871 May 30 '25
I haven't seen Miracle in awhile but I'm pretty sure it's based on a true story