Thread:Alex2424121/@comment-26864513-20160112203955/@comment-26864513-20160205131028

RRabbit42 wrote: It's nice that Byron took the time to reveal a bit about the development of that character. But that is a different situation than you originally started with where you took a small bit of trivia about what type of world would be shown in Zootopia and used that to definitively say "the inspiration for Mayor Lionheart is King Richard from Robin Hood". And then when you were asked to provide proof, you backtracked and said, well, he could be inspired by King Richard from Robin Hood.

I've seen a lot of this recently. People are determined to blow things up out of proportion to fit whatever wild theories they want to present. They'll take five seconds from a movie trailer and suddenly, they know the entire history and all of the motivations of that character, and exactly what they will do and be in the movie, but the movie won't be released for months yet.

Speculation's fine when it's in a personal area like this and not in the article, but say it's speculation right up front. "I think that Mayor Lionheart was inspired by King Richard from Robin Hood because Clark Spencer talked about he was making a movie that reminded him of Robin Hood" is a lot different than "Just to let you know, the inspiration for Mayor Lionheart is King Richard from Robin Hood." The first is an opinion. The second is said as if it's a fact. Facts need to be backed up with proof.

I already know that I was reading through the lines and being speculative with Mayor Lionheart's association. If I was really adamant in believe that Lionheart was inspired by King Richard then I would have made more points. I just stated a new (albeit unrelated point).