History WMG / Bambi

[[WMG: Meanwhile, in faraway Africa, ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'' is taking place]]
* The two movies share a lot of thematic similarities, so why not?

** A major wedge in the theory is that ''Beauty and the Beast'' takes place in France, whereas the animals seen in Bambi are all based on North American species. But then, ''Snow White'' also takes place in a Medieval European kingdom (possibly in Germany, considering it's based on a Brothers Grimm fairly tale), and yet has raccoons and chipmunks, so maybe in the Disneyverse, Europe is simply inhabited by North American species...

* Bambi is a white-tailed deer while the Great Prince looks more like an elk, the shape of his antlers and the darker fur around his neck are more in line with the appearance of an elk. If the Great Prince was his biological father then Bambi would have to be an elk/whitetail hybrid, which wouldn't be possible because the elk and the white-tailed deer belong to different genera, Cervus Canadensis and Odocoileus Virginianus respectively. The reason we don't we Bambi's biological father at all during the film is because he could have been killed by human hunters before Bambi's birth. The moment the Great Prince finds Bambi right after Bambi's mother is killed is him taking the fawn under his wing and raising him as his own despite Bambi being of a different deer species.

* The first hunter in the film attacks the stags when Bambi and his mother visit the forest for the first time. Stags are generally more legal to hunt than does since they don't have children with them. They were probably looking to kill Bambi's father since he's by far the most valuable deer in the forest. Then the hunter who kills Bambi's mom is a poacher, since they must have seen that Bambi's mother had a fawn and still killed her anyways. The final group of hunters are surely poachers since not only do they shoot at everything indiscriminately, they let a group of dangerous dogs run wild in the forest, and finally, set it all on fire. Though that last part was probably accidental.

[[WMG: The Man who killed Bambi's mother is Gaston from ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast''.]]

''Bambi II'' had much more time, budget and elaboration put into it than a standard ''Disneytoon Studios'' sequel, with even some of Disney's mainstream staff brought in to supervise. Europe in fact released it theatrically and publicised it as much as a standard main Disney film. Upon realising the US had decided to give it a more humble DirectToVideo release however, they quickly aborted, with ''Disney/TheWild'' of the same year (a rather loose creation of Disney) ending up Europe's divergent entry in it's place.

[[WMG: Alternatively, the midquel is the same universe from a character perspective.]]]]

[[WMG: Man is The End from VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater or Sniper Wolf from the Original {{Metal Gear Solid}}.]]

[[WMG: Thumper's Sister died/went missing during the winter.]]

** Very funny. Jossed. Disney may have questionable subliminal messages but they do not portray incest, gays or lesbians. At least they try not to because Disney is meant to be kid friendly and the rest of the family members are watching and even critics will be against such portrayals.

* ''Sort of'' supported. The Interquel is not part of DisneyAnimatedCanon, with all supporting material of it's films excluded from it of debatable relation.

[[WMG: The Interquel was intended to be Entry 46 of DisneyAnimatedCanon]]