The "Original Story" - The Kimba VS Simba Controversy, Disney The Lying King

[chakkra]

NightlyPoe said:

chakkra said:

Ok, let me see if I understand this: We have two differet shows, both of them feature male lions as main characters, one called (S)imba and the other called (K)imba, both have a talking bird as sidekicks, both had their father killed when they were cubs, both of them talked to their dead father in a vision on the clouds.
Both shows feature a black haired lion with a scar in its left eye as a villain (with a group of hyenas as henchmen).

How you can call all of those similarities "superficial" is beyond me.

I call it superficial because it is.  Maybe they did lift talking to the father in the clouds and/or Scar's look.  Maybe they didn't.  It's not like Bubu is the first time a villain has worn black and had an eye scar.  And talking bird sidekicks and dead parents aren't exactly new to Disney.  They're both in the true prototype, which is Bambi.

But if you actually watch the two, The Lion King and Kimba are just completely different to the point of it being almost laughable that it's a controversy.

Ehhh...  okay then.