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OUAT: The Darkness wrote: Okay. So, I feel like making a point. A few weeks ago, I was telling my friends about a novel I was working on in my spare time. I explained the plot, and their immediate reaction was "Like X-Men." They began to point out all the similarities between the two, and I got annoyed. I had not intended to use X-Men as a beginning nor had intended to allude to it. This brings me to my poin. Can you really say I based my novel on X-Men or alluded to it. The same thing goes for Tisbe and Clorinda. Can you really say that the writers based the two characters on the Disney characters or alluded it?

Of course, we can. You're actually making a point for the other side of the argument.

Maybe you did not do a reference, but the simple fact that a lot of people are seeing the same similarities between the two works clearly prove that an allusion is there. Wether you wanted it or not. You don't have to do it purposely, a lot of times we can allude at stuff we don't realize. And that's not like one or two persons are saying it, multiple people are seeing the same similarities and are saying it. Clearly proving that the allusion is there.

And I don't know what your novel is about, but between OUAT and Disney, it is a waaaaay easier to make this kind of allusions. Are we saying they purposely make an allusion of Aladdin with Leopold? Not necessarily; but the allusion is still there.