Chip 'n Dale Movie Accused of Copying Kingdom Hearts Fan Art

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Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers, an adult-humor film follow-up to the classic Chip 'n Dale animated cartoons of the 90s, is now available to watch on Disney Plus. Like Ready Player One, Detective Pikachu, and other recent films, Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers leans heavily into referencing nerd culture. However, it seems that at least one such reference may have deserved some additional vetting. A Kingdom Hearts reference shown in Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers appears to have been cropped from a fan's drawing.

During a specific scene in Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers, a wall of evidence is shown. Dozens of plastic bags are attached to the wall, each holding an item related to various cartoon characters. For example,Detective Pikachu's tail, Jimmy Neutron's hair, Yosemite Sam's mustache, and the Pink Panther's snoot are shown. Viewers have spent a good amount of time sorting through this evidence wall figuring out each reference, but one set of hair labeled «192 C» had fans stumped.

Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers Movie Has a Kingdom Hearts Keyblade

To be clear, many fans did make a connection between the hair and Sora from Kingdom Hearts fairly quickly. However, the hair didn't look exactly like any official art from Kingdom Hearts. It was 2D, after all, and not as large as Sora's aggressively anime hairdo. The connection has now been made, however. Twitter user CableTown art was able to connect the Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers reference to a piece ofKingdom Arts fan art done by Dutch artist Kimbolie12.

Further, the art shown in Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers looks nearly identical to Kimbolie12's art, potentially cropped from the art itself before being digitally touched over for the scene's lighting. And to be clear, there's no apparent