Anubis does not look like Lucario

[The Former]

I'm kinda tired of seeing this when they look so dissimilar, so I decided to repeat a comment I recently made as a proper post. What follows are the many differences between Lucario and Anubis, taken pretty much word-for-word from my comment elsewhere.

• Anubis lacks Lucario's dangly things.
  
  
• Anubis is wearing actual Egyptian clothing. Lucario appears to be wearing shorts, but it's an implied illusion.
  
  
• Anubis has hands with five fingers and opposable thumbs (Interestingly, this is something he shares in common with the god Anubis); Lucario, three-fingered paws with huge spikes coming out the back.
  
  
• Anubis has a fluffy doglike tail. Lucario has a thin tail with a spiky offshoot.
  
  
• Anubis has rather human legs. Lucario has canine leg joints. Interestingly, this is also something he shares in common with the god Anubis.
  
  
• Anubis has a somewhat broad snout. Lucario's snout is thin and pointy.
  
  
• Anubis has very sharp ears that point straight up. Lucario's ears are more convex at the tips.
  
  
• Anubis has a fairly uniform torso-to-waist ratio with broad shoulders. Lucario is incredibly skinny at the top and broadens widely at the hips; shoulders are basically nonexistant, with arms coming right out of the torso.

Basically, the only true similarity between them is that they're both vaguely canine bipedals. I'd say Anubis has more visually in common with League of Legends' Nasus.

[Magic Toast]

Similar arguments can be made for other comparisons, like flaafy and melpaca just because they're both pink. The one that confuses me the most is grintale being a clone of galarian meowth. They have a similar grin but that's it. Plus, Grintale's more akin to the cat bus from Totoro or the cheshire cat from Alice In Wonderland. The only one I'm willing to really accept is eevee/cremis, since that's just dynamaxed shiny eevee.

[The Former]

Originally posted by Magic Toast:

Similar arguments can be made for other comparisons, like flaafy and melpaca just because they're both pink. The one that confuses me the most is grintale being a clone of galarian meowth. They have a similar grin but that's it. Plus, Grintale's more akin to the cat bus from Totoro or the cheshire cat from Alice In Wonderland. The only one I'm willing to really accept is eevee/cremis, since that's just dynamaxed shiny eevee.

Cheshire cat was 100% where my brain went too. But yeah, I can agree on Cremis, that is a very fluffy Eevee.

[Khergit Horse Archer]

from an abstract, the easiest way to explain why they are similar

1) body shape, if you silhouette a character, and they look identical then it's probably safe to assume people are going to just use whichever's names that is popular/well known.

2) colors palette

3) characteristics, like pointy ears, fist, stance, bipedal etc

also jormun = gyarados

[The Former]

Originally posted by Khergit Horse Archer:

from an the abstract, the easiest way to explain why they are similar

body shape, if you silhouette a character, and they look identical then it's probably safe to assume people are going to just use whichever's names that is popular/well known.

Fair enough. Actually that's a good point, brb to test something.

Edit: Silhouettes done.[i.imgur.com] Anubis' is a bit tricky due to that capelike cowl, maybe someone will do one at a better angle. Maybe I will, who knows?

[fluffy buny]

they all look like existing Pokemon tbh because they're all steeped in the same design ethos

that's not necessarily a bad thing, but it does have a tendency to look more lazy and unoriginal than it actually is

Anubis isn't even the most egregious, i'd give that honor to Verdash who looks painfully familiar right down to the "shorts" and just everything about it leaves a bad taste in my mouth

[The Former]

Originally posted by fluffy buny:

they all look like existing Pokemon tbh because they're all steeped in the same design ethos

that's not necessarily a bad thing, but it does have a tendency to look more lazy and unoriginal than it actually is

Anubis isn't even the most egregious, i'd give that honor to Verdash who looks painfully familiar right down to the "shorts" and just everything about it leaves a bad taste in my mouth

They do look alike for the reason of design ethos, yeah. That I can agree with. Stated differently, I'd be willing to say that I see a Pokemon when I look at a Pal, but I don't see any specific Pokemon in the vast majority of cases.

[BEEP!]

Straight up even the most similar Pals look entirely different there close but there different enough that they could be entirely different evolutions or entirely different breeds of pokemon.

[Maximum_Darkness]

Originally posted by fluffy buny:

they all look like existing Pokemon tbh because they're all steeped in the same design ethos

that's not necessarily a bad thing, but it does have a tendency to look more lazy and unoriginal than it actually is

Anubis isn't even the most egregious, i'd give that honor to Verdash who looks painfully familiar right down to the "shorts" and just everything about it leaves a bad taste in my mouth

Design Ethos you mean the artistic design which is something standard with a lot of Japanese animation. It is part of their culture if this game was made in another country then yeah the pals would have more distinct difference because of that countries style of animation but because both companies are in Japan then things like this should be expected.

[WuffWabbit]

When nobody looks at this game without immediately thinking 'Pokemon' and can name every pokemon each 'pal' resembles, there is a problem. To deny that is the epitome of denial.

next.

[BEEP!]

Originally posted by WuffWabbit:

When nobody looks at this game without immediately thinking 'Pokemon' and can name every pokemon each 'pal' resembles, there is a problem. To deny that is the epitome of denial.

next.

You can say the same thing about a lot of pokemon as well lol

[Shizmoo]

If someone made a blue thanos and named him panos, you people would defend that. There have been people sued for far less copyright rip offs while a good bit of pals are close to a 1:1 ratio

[The Former]

Originally posted by WuffWabbit:

When nobody looks at this game without immediately thinking 'Pokemon' and can name every pokemon each 'pal' resembles, there is a problem. To deny that is the epitome of denial.

Oh I don't deny that. As I said elsewhere, Fluffy Eevee. The issue is that a lot of people are just parroting what they saw in a circulated article and now it's in their head, when in reality the resemblances aren't close to canny. There are a rare few cases where the resemblances are undeniable, but the majority are really stretching reality.

[The Former]

Originally posted by Shizmoo:

If someone made a blue thanos and named him panos, you people would defend that. There have been people sued for far less copyright rip offs while a good bit of pals are close to a 1:1 ratio

Not at all. For instance, when you see PokeZoo with its Totally Not Gengar...[images.nintendolife.com] That's indefensible, and it got hit with a copyright claim as it well should have.

[zhero]

Originally posted by WuffWabbit:

When nobody looks at this game without immediately thinking 'Pokemon' and can name every pokemon each 'pal' resembles, there is a problem. To deny that is the epitome of denial.

next.

there are over a thousand pokemon. pokemon are based on real animals. of course there is going to be a little resemblance. there are people out there that can't tell the difference between goats and sheeps, doesn't mean they are 1:1 rip offs of each other.

[Maximum_Darkness]

Originally posted by Shizmoo:

If someone made a blue thanos and named him panos, you people would defend that. There have been people sued for far less copyright rip offs while a good bit of pals are close to a 1:1 ratio

Kinda funny considering that Thanos is copied from Darkseid but Marvel and D.C. did that with a few of each others characters in the early days of comics.