# Things I just found out about The Lion King **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 6, 2015, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-just-found-out-about-the-lion-king/709171 "2015-01-06T23:25:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2015, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-just-found-out-about-the-lion-king/709171/61 "2015-01-14T12:35:02Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > Say you want to argue that “Forbidden Planet” is similar to “The Tempest.” It doesn’t help to look at all the ways in which they are different – a spaceship, a planet, an invisible monster that leaves deep footprints, a giant underground power station, Krell steel, and so on. Instead, you look at the similarities: the lonely guy with his daughter, his secret power, the menace, the people exiled, the love interest, etc. Are the similarities enough to overcome the null hypothesis? Most people say so. Could you take another animated movie and compare it to a long running TV animation with a similar main character and setting and come up with a similar set of matches? If so, I think it would put into question whether the similarities found between Lion King and Simba are significant. I agree that there are similarities, and they are striking. But given enough source material, you might be able to come up with a similar set of matching images for any set of movies and long running series. I could be completely wrong, but I think that’s the data that would be convincing to me. However, I have no desire nor the ability to do that comparison, so I guess I’ll just have to drop it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-just-found-out-about-the-lion-king/709171.md?page=3)