Ever generated a character, that you created, years before Marvel, DC or some other comic book company created and put into publishing? It just weird that some of the character they did, resembles one you made in the game?
Like someone looked into your mind and stole the concept?

The inevitable conclusion that someone else would create the same ideology you envision.
Just weird.

There are no new ideas under the sun. What you created years ago may have also been created in a very similar way before you by someone else, in private, and they just had no medium to make others aware of it when it was still relevant. There are only so many ideas to be had, in the broad sense, so what matters is the personal touches you add to make something your own.

That the cruxs of it, isn't it?
True that only so much can be created till it crosses over with others and so forth.
If only one had the revenue to get them published before others

It takes more than an idea and revenue to make it a success, though.

Why i said revenue, art, inker as you created the hero, or even unique villain you can pay for the skills.
Story you can really do. But it does take money.

It wasn't so much a character type as a premise for a setting. Background: I had had for some time a concept for a 25th century world, with Earth as the center of an interplanetary empire, in which superheroes, including human mutants, existed. (The closest comic book analogue I can offhand think of would be the world of DC s Legion of Super Heroes, at least the way it was before Crisis) Sometime in -- I think -- late 1987 or maybe early 1988, I chanced to see this movie on TV "Turkey Shoot" [www.imdb.com] . After seeing how the dystopian society portrayed in this film dealt with prison inmates (there called "deviants") I got the idea, what if one of the planets in my universe is doing this to their mutant population? Ok. So what happens? Come October 1988 and Uncanny X Men 235 comes out. And what was in that issue? The first appearance of Genosha! A country that enslaved mutants!