History CowboyBebopAtHisComputer / AnimatedFilms

* A lot of news stories about ''WesternAnimation/ThePeanutsMovie'' either implied or claimed outright that it would be the first time the ''Peanuts'' characters would appear on the big screen. There were four theatrical ''Peanuts'' films made between 1969 and 1980: ''WesternAnimation/ABoyNamedCharlieBrown'', ''WesternAnimation/SnoopyComeHome'', ''WesternAnimation/RaceForYourLifeCharlieBrown'', and ''WesternAnimation/BonVoyageCharlieBrown''.

* [[http://www.agonybooth.com/movies/The_Return_of_the_King_1980.aspx This review]] of the 1980 Rankin/Bass version of ''WesternAnimation/ReturnOfTheKing'' starts with the reviewer stating that they haven't read the original books. They nevertheless go on to complain about how the cartoon deviates from the original text such as having Sam tempted by the ring with visions of turning Middle-earth into a giant garden, Denethor possessing a Palantir and the presence of the Watchers (semi-alive giant vulture statues). All of these scenes are in the original book.

* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'': To quote Armond White's review: "The toys wage battle with the daycare center's cynical veteran cast-offs: Hamm the Piggy Bank pig, Lotsa Hugs and Big Baby." Hamm is not from the daycare center - he's one of Andy's toys, and he appeared in the previous two films. The biggest error here, however, is that Hamm is not, nor has he ever been, a villain; he can be a bit of a {{jerkass}} when upset, but is usually rather mellow. Possibly, he saw Hamm being portrayed as the Evil Doctor Porkchop in young Andy's FantasySequence in the beginning, and somehow conflated this with the rest of the movie. Also, the villain's name is Lots'''o''' Hugg'''in''' Bear, not Lotsa Hugs.
* When an ice sculpture company developed a Disney themed exhibit for [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Disneyland Paris]] featuring the Disney Princesses and their matching Princes, they ended up stumbling upon FanFic/RiseOfTheBraveTangledDragons CrossoverShip fanart of [[WesternAnimation/{{Brave}} Merida]] and [[WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon Hiccup]] and turned it into [[https://lifelongdisneyfan.tumblr.com/post/68578498293/ive-seen-many-disney-crossovers-before-and one of the ice sculptures]], not knowing that Merida ended her movie single, or that Hiccup was from Creator/DreamWorksSKG and not Disney (or Pixar, as the case may be).
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}'': At the time of release, there was an assumption on the part of some of the reviewing public that ''Coraline'' was a Creator/TimBurton film, due to the off-kilter art style, stop-motion animation, and the fact that the trailers hyped it as being by "the director of ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas''". This is referring to Henry Selick; Burton had nothing to do with ''Coraline''. The blame here can be pinned on the InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt for ''Nightmare'' -- while its full title is ''Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas'', Burton was only responsible for the ''concept'' as he was busy directing ''Film/BatmanReturns'' at the time. Creator/NeilGaiman, author of the original book, [[http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2009/02/by-way-of-preamble.html has expressed his annoyance with this]], and it was [[http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp02092009.shtml mocked]] by several webcomics.
--->"'Neil Gaiman:''' ''It was irritating when people started asking me ''why'' the advertising said "From the director of ''The Nightmare Before Christmas''", and wasn't it some kind of a sneaky attempt to make people think that it was by Tim Burton?, and I would sigh, and say no, it was a sneaky attempt to make people think it was directed by the person who directed ''The Nightmare Before Christmas''. (And given that people were saying this about trailers that made a point of saying Henry's name, I had little patience with it.)"
* ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'':
** The Rotten Tomatoes website and a few movie theatres that gave away free film pamphlets, made this summary of the movie: "Hiccup goes on a mission to pass their village's initiation into manhood by capturing and training a dragon. If he succeeds, he will become a warrior. If he fails, he will be forever banished". This would be true had the film been more faithful to Cressida Cowel's book series. Too bad the movie is an adaptation InNameOnly: instead of a young boy going going through a rite of passage by capturing and training dragons, it's a teenager whose village is dedicated to killing dragons befriending an injured dragon and finding that everything he and his village knows about them is wrong.
** An advertisement for toy dragons based on [[WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon2 the second movie]] showed and described someone making toy Toothless fight a [[{{Kaiju}} Bewilderbeast]]...specifically, the white one that is actually ''[[GentleGiant good]]'' in the movie, [[spoiler: not the black one that's under [[BigBad Drago]]'s control]].
* The [=MovieGuide.org=] review of ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut'' refers to Big Gay Al as being Black. It also claims that "the whole point of ''South Park'' is that the children in the movie should have been allowed to see the Terrance & Phillip movie, just as the world's children should be allowed to see ''South Park'', even though it is rated R. Furthermore, the message of the movie is clear: that adults should let children engage in depraved actions and foul language, and that all this is just part of growing up." This is just about the opposite of what the film shows; in fact, the primary conflict of the movie is ''set up'' by the kids sneaking into ''Asses of Fire'' and copying its lowbrow VulgarHumor in real life, upsetting [[MoralGuardians their parents]] so much they declare war on Canada. (Interestingly, at least one earlier draft of the movie actually ''did'' have a message like that.)
* A 2012 [[http://web.archive.org/web/20120721213708/http://www.france24.com/en/20120714-lemurs-worlds-most-threatened-mammal-study AFP article]] on the endangered status of lemurs refers to ''WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}}'' as a Creator/{{Disney}} [[AllAnimationIsDisney movie]].
* When ''[[WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTimeIXJourneyToBigWater The Land Before Time IX]]'' was first released, there was a very bizarre review on Amazon, which somehow referred to the previous film, ''[[WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTimeVIIITheBigFreeze The Big Freeze]]'', as "Time of Much Snow". Also, even more strange, the review talked about the death of Littlefoot's '''grandmother''' instead of his mother, suggesting that this user didn't do any research.

* ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2'':
** The ''Christian Review'' website complained in their review that Donkey having children with Dragon implied that he was a "Freewheeling playboy" despite the fact that Dragon is the only romantic partner he has and that two people who love each other having children is [[OlderThanDirt something that's gone on for ages untold]].
** There was a tie-in board game that adapts the climax of the movie -- players must travel around Far Far Away while collecting enough Gingerbread Man-themed tokens to let them storm the castle and win the game. While this much is accurate to the movie, the game refers to these pieces as "Gingy Tokens." Gingy is the nickname of the normal-sized Gingerbread Man; the giant one that Shrek and company use to break into the castle is named Mongo.
* The book ''Creator/{{Disney}} Dossiers: Files of Characters From the Walt Disney Studios'' is [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons chock-full of glaring omissions]] and mistakes. For example:
** WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'s fact sheet says "Parents: None (orphan)", completely neglecting the fact that him finding out his father is alive is '''the main plot of ''WesternAnimation/AladdinAndTheKingOfThieves'''''[[note]]which the book also claims came out a year earlier than it actually did[[/note]].
** WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck's filmography highlights are listed as including ''WesternAnimation/DuckTalesTheMovieTreasureOfTheLostLamp'' (which he isn't even mentioned in).
** Timon's last name (Berkowitz) isn't mentioned.
** Some of the voice actors for the characters are glaringly omitted, e.g. Cam Clarke for [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 Simba]] and April Winchell for [[WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians Cruella De Vil]].
** The [[https://disneyinsideblog.wordpress.com/tag/brad-kane/ Disney Inside Blog]] falsely states that the Genie's NonSingingVoice in ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' was Bruce Adler. Creator/RobinWilliams actually did his own singing as the Genie. Bruce Adler filled in for Williams in his other role, the Peddler.
* The ''Disney Song Encyclopedia'' features plenty of mistakes. The description for the ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'' theme claims that the show is "about the colorful Kit Cloudkicker, who flies his plane through various adventures in the tropics." The pilot is actually Baloo - Kit is just his navigator. The book also claims that ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'' retained its theme song from the original Nickelodeon series, when the Disney seasons use an entirely different theme.
* In the book ''Disney: The First 100 Years'', a screenshot from the opening scene of ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'' is captioned as "Rafiki holds baby Simba while Mufasa and '''Nala''' smile proudly." Simba's mother is named Sarabi; Nala is Simba's childhood friend and [[ChildhoodFriendRomance love interest]].
* An [[http://smokescreeners.org/downloads/animated_smoking.pdf article]] on depictions of tobacco and alcohol use in movies for children identifies [[WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}} Lampwick]] as Lamp''wit''.
* John Grant's ''The Encyclopedia of Disney Characters'' is a well-researched book, but does have one notable error; the article on ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheReturnOfJafar'' misspells Abis Mal as "Abi Smal." Ordinarily, this would be just a normal typo, except the article on the ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'' not only spells his name correctly, but both names are listed in the index, as if they were two separate characters.
* Movie critic Eleanor Ringel claimed in her review of ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryTheMovie'' that the Tom and Jerry series won fifteen Academy Awards for Outstanding Animated Short Subjects. They were ''nominated'' for fifteen awards, but only won seven.
* Dr. Ted Baehr's [=MovieGuide=] put out a review of the 2007 ''WesternAnimation/{{TMNT}}'' film that is riddled with errors and bizarre extrapolations, alongside a healthy dose of EveryoneIsSatanInHell. For starters:
** Leonardo and Raphael's fight, two thirds ''midway'' through the movie is described as a battle between Leo and Michaelangelo -- at the film's beginning.
** "Stories went nowhere..." This implies that nobody at [=MovieGuide=] had ever heard of the 2003 animated series or the original comics. The intro was a minimal effort to give newcomers [[AllThereInTheManual an insight into the film's world]], just on the bleak chance that someone going to see it [[SmallReferencePools had never been exposed to previous Turtles-related material]].
** The thing with those stars aligning to unleash a beam of energy on Earth that [[SealedEvilInACan unlocks monsters from another world]] is merely modification of a common plot device seen in many other movies. But somehow, this is an ''evil'' tactic by ''Satan'' to get us addicted to looking for answers in... astrology. Not one single constellation in the Zodiac ([[EasternZodiac Eastern]] or [[WesternZodiac Western]]) is ever mentioned on-screen.
** Contrary to Baher's assessment of "a confused view," the movie actually has no problem with vigilantism ''per se''. What it does have a problem with is [[IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim Punisher-style vigilantism]]. The Foot Clan and monsters [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman are what they are]] and are deemed as "[[WhatMeasureIsAMook worthy to die]]." Yet, ordinary criminals [[HumansAreSpecial are not to be killed]]. They are to only be subdued and left for the police. That is the code of battle honor the Turtles fight with, and is very similar to Franchise/{{Batman}}'s. The problem Leonardo has with the "Night Watcher" is because the media has led him to believe that this vigilante actually kills the criminals. Those who know the {{backstory}} will know that the Turtles once believed this about Casey before befriending him. They know of Splinter's code of honor, similar in some ways to Bushido, and they don't trust vigilantes who are not trained in any known code of honor.
* A November 2009 issue of the Seattle Times had a picture of Simon from ''Film/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'' labeled as Theodore in the picture for an article promoting the new December movies. This must have been especially annoying for the article writer, who was apparently a fan of the movies; pictures and captions thereof are usually not the domain of the journalists in newspapers, so the mistake was not the author's fault.
* [[http://web.archive.org/web/20120509211245/http://cinemovie.tv/cinemovie_new/component/content/article/55-interviews/1280-guillermo-del-toro-interview-pinocchio-dreamworks This article]] about Guillermo Del Toro joining Creator/DreamWorksAnimation claims that the studio's 2012 movie ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians'' is a sequel to Zack Snyder's ''[[WesternAnimation/LegendOfTheGuardiansTheOwlsOfGaHoole Legend of the Guardians]]'', which is a completely unrelated movie made by ''Warner Bros.''
* Website/{{Cracked}}:
** In [[http://www.cracked.com/funny-2864-5-endangered-species-that-should-be-put-down/ "5 Endangered Species That Should Be Put Down"]], the author claims that an angler fish almost ate Nemo in the movie ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo.'' However, it was ''Marlin,'' not Nemo, who faced the angler fish.
** The writer of [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-disney-kids-who-should-have-been-traumatized-life/ "4 Disney Kids Who Should Have Been Traumatized for Life"]] must not have watched ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'', because, well, he seems to think Elsa was locked away and completely isolated from human contact from birth: "Being without human contact until the age of 21, she should have been making grunting noises and building human-shaped statues out of her own poop." Elsa wasn't without human contact until she was 21; she didn't self-isolate until she was eight years old, and had a lot of social interaction in her early childhood. And she wasn't totally deprived of human contact either, as she is seen speaking with her parents and Anna, and presumably talked with a few trusted servants off-screen. That's not saying she wouldn't have had psychological problems (the movie makes it very clear that Elsa is not a happy or healthy person), but she wouldn't have been a feral child.
** According to "[[http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-childhood-favorites-that-did-not-age-well/ 5 Childhood Favorites That Did Not Age Well]]" by Erik Germ, "You might not have realized this while you were caught in the throes of sharing "WHAT 90S' DISNEY PRINCE ARE YOU?", but Disney hasn't had a hand-animated film since 2009's ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog''." Actually, Disney ''did'' produce one more traditionally animated film: 2011's ''WesternAnimation/{{Winnie the Pooh|2011}}''.
%% Which news source? * One news source for ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'' actually calls [[BrattyHalfPint Vanellope Von Schweetz]] Ralph's [[NoYay love interest]].
* A lot of news stories about ''WesternAnimation/ThePeanutsMovie'' either implied or claimed outright that it would be the first time the ''Peanuts'' characters would appear on the big screen. There were four theatrical ''Peanuts'' films made between 1969 and 1980: ''WesternAnimation/ABoyNamedCharlieBrown'', ''WesternAnimation/SnoopyComeHome'', ''WesternAnimation/RaceForYourLifeCharlieBrown'', and ''WesternAnimation/BonVoyageCharlieBrown''.
* Some articles about ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie'' assert that the "a bunch of others we don't need to mention" joke, during which images from various canceled or somewhat controversial ''Franchise/{{LEGO}}'' lines [[{{Blipvert}} flash on screen]], was a show of SelfDeprecation on LEGO's part, and that the lines in question (for example ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'', ''Toys/{{Fabuland}}'' and ''Toys/LEGOFriends'') were some of their biggest failures. While it is true that the LEGO fandom is [[BrokenBase seriously divided]] over these lines, most of them were ''far'' from failures. ''Fabuland'' and ''BIONICLE'' have devoted followings despite the former having been canceled since the '80s, and the latter was one of the company's most successful and top-selling non-licensed properties and a LongRunner among the action-oriented themes, having played a huge part in saving LEGO from going out of business during the early 2000s, the exact opposite of a failure -- the series' [[Toys/{{Bionicle 2015}} reboot]] ''did'' fail, but that happened after ''The LEGO Movie'' had come out. The joke was really either the creators' way of acknowledging the franchises they didn't have time to cover in the movie, or [[spoiler: a reference to how Finn can't play with them since he might not own any of the toys]].

* [[https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/jimmy-neutron-boy-genius The Common Sense Media article]] for ''WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutronBoyGenius'' claims that one of Jimmy's friends is "Shane (a passionate fan of some action heroes called Ultra Lords)". The character's name is Sheen, and Ultra Lord is one character, not a group (though a case could be made for the latter referring to the action figures instead of any characters).
* Many people are confused as to what animals Bing Bong from ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'' is supposed to be a combination of. For example, [[http://ttpm.com/p/14512/the-disney-store/inside-out-bing-bong-stuffed-animal/ Time To Play Magazine's]] review of a stuffed animal of his says he is part dog due to his ears looking like those of a dog. Other people claim he is part cow and/or horse, due to his line "You gotta remember when Riley was three, animals were all the rage. The cow goes moo, the horse goes neigh. That's all people talked about." He's actually part cat, elephant and dolphin, but is mostly made of cotton candy. However, according to ''The Art of Inside Out'', Bing Bong was originally supposed to be part-dog, which explains his floppy ears.
** One review of the movie claimed that [[spoiler: the collapse of Goofball Island]] led to [[spoiler: the Train of Thought's derailment.]] It's actually [[spoiler: Honesty Island's collapse]] that leads to this event. The reviewer might have been confused due to both scenes involving characters [[spoiler: trying to escape from the catastrophic scene that's unfolding]].
** One [=CartoonBrew=] article called Bing Bong a girl in reference to the scene where he stubs his toe. This could be because he is pink and likes girly things like princesses and ponies, due to being a young girl's imaginary friend.
** IMDB claims that the song "Take My Breath Away" played in this movie. It did not; it played in the ''WesternAnimation/RileysFirstDate'' short that is a bonus feature on the Blu-ray and DVD of the film, and was probably added because at the time, the short had no listing on the site yet.
* Sometimes extremist Christian parties pick on cartoons that, according to them, [[EveryoneIsSatanInHell send subliminal messages to children that are watching them]]. This is the case with Italian politician and activist Mario Adinolfi, leader of the "People of the Family"[[note]] a political party notorious for propagating fake news and libel about homosexuality, atheism and adoptive families[[/note]] who strongly bashed ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda3'' for its alleged "gender ideology propaganda" and "brainwashing children into homosexuality", based on the fact that Po - or rather [[IAmNotShazam "Kung Fu Panda"]] - has two fathers. This ignores the fact that Mr. Ping, Po's adoptive father, raises him by himself at the start of the series, with Po only finding his true father in the third film.

* A common error is to [[AllAnimationIsDisney conflate Disney with Pixar]]. They are not at all the same; although Pixar is owned by Disney, they are an autonomous company within Disney, not a division thereof. This is particularly bad in the Website/YouTube video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSQNZ_Nblrs Pixar Trivia]], supposedly a compilation of "music clips from Pixar movies" -- but one of them is from ''Planes''. While ''Planes'' is a spinoff of the Pixar franchise ''Franchise/{{Cars}}'', it was made by Disney.[[note]]In any case, a lot of the clips used are actually from trailers, and weren't used in the movies themselves.[[/note]]
* To this day, some people insist that the [[RunningGag Pizza Planet Truck]] appears in ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1'' -- thereby asserting that they know better than Lee Unkrich and Brad Bird (a senior Pixar staffer, and the Pixar staffer who ''actually directed the movie'').

* A book adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/BarbieInTheTwelveDancingPrincesses'' mistakenly called Fallon "Finna," Janessa "Jocelyn," and Kathleen "Kate."
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}}'':
** [=Zap2it's=] listing reads: "Thinking he has real superpowers, the canine star of a hit TV show travels cross-country from Hollywood to New York to rescue his owner and co-star." While accurate to the plot, it flips the origin and destination of Bolt's journey; he ''starts'' in New York after accidentally getting stuck in a mail delivery truck, and has to travel back to Hollywood from there.
** DVD Verdict's review calls it the first computer animated movie in the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon, even though ''two'' CGI movies immediately preceded it, and Disney produced a [[WesternAnimation/{{Dinosaur}} CG/live-action hybrid]] even earlier. Becomes and even bigger fail due to the body of the review including a link to an article about Disney's ''actual'' first all-CGI movie, ''WesternAnimation/ChickenLittle''.
** [[https://www.impulsegamer.com/bluraybolt.html Impulse Gamer]]'s review claims that Music/MileyCyrus was the voice of Mittens. Her voice was provided by Creator/SusieEssman, and the credits clearly state that Cyrus actually voiced Penny, a young girl who is the humanoid lead of Bolt's TV show.
* [[https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/teen-titans-go-to-the-movies Common Sense Media's]] review of ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGoToTheMovies'' uses a screenshot from an episode of [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo the series it adapts]], "The Fourth Wall".
* During ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheReturnOfJafar'''s initial release, a package of Trix yogurt offered quiz questions about [[WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} the first film]]. One question asked to list off all three of Jafar's wishes, but listed the answers as becoming sultan, then a sorcerer, "and, finally, a snake." Jafar uses his sorcerer powers to become the giant snake; his actual third wish is to become a genie himself.
* A video game version of ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}'' for the NES asked which Disney princess fell under the spell of "Queen Malificent". Maleficent was the villain in ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty'', but the game claims the answer is ''WesternAnimation/{{Snow White|AndTheSevenDwarfs}}'' (whose villain is usually just called "The Evil Queen", but was named Grimhilde in concept).
* IGN's review of the ''WesternAnimation/LadyAndTheTramp'' Platinum Edition DVD lists that the DVD contains two versions of the film: one animated in [=CinemaScope=], and one with characters and details re-arranged for Academy screens (which are shaped more like squares), offering "a sort of unofficial history lesson for folks who are interested in cinema's technological history." However, if the reviewer read the back cover more carefully, they would have noticed the DVD actually contains ''Lady and the Tramp'' in [=CinemaScope=] -- its original, unedited format -- and Pan and Scan. Instead of including the specially modified version (which would have had to be restored separately), Disney simply cropped the picture for 4:3 TV sets.
* The official Hungarian description of ''Toys/{{Bionicle}} 3: Web of Shadows'' claimed that the villainous pair, Roodaka and Sidorak, are Makuta. While the name Makuta ''does'' refer to a whole race of beings, there is only one Makuta in the context of the movie, with Roodaka and Sidorak being his servants.
* One of the cards in the Disney version of ''TabletopGame/TrivialPursuit'' shows a picture of WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}} losing her slipper shortly after marrying PrinceCharming, and asks what time it was when the scene occurred. The card says the scene occurred at midnight, even though Cinderella actually gets married at noon. Apparently, someone mistook this for a picture of the ball.
* [[http://www.agonybooth.com/movies/The_Return_of_the_King_1980.aspx This review]] of the 1980 Rankin/Bass version of Tolkien's ''Return of the King'' starts with the reviewer stating that they haven't read the original books. They nevertheless go on to complain about how the cartoon deviates from the original text such as having Sam tempted by the ring with visions of turning Middle-earth into a giant garden, Denethor possessing a Palantir and the presence of the Watchers (semi-alive giant vulture statues). All of these scenes are in the original book.
* A lot of summaries of ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooInArabianNights'' make it seem like a regular ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' episode, only set in the Middle East, when it is actually a straightforward adaptation of the original story with Scooby and a DisguisedInDrag Shaggy taking the place of Scheherazade.
* The Facebook page for ''WesternAnimation/AlphaAndOmega'' posted a photo captioned: "Happy #[=WolfWednesday=]! Could we interest you in this beautiful white wolf pup?" [[https://web.archive.org/web/20210408181937/http://cdn.attackofthecute.com/June-10-2012-08-05-32-3657009529e65126c316b.jpg The image they posted]] showed an arctic fox.
* The infamous argument that ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'' ripped off ''Manga/KimbaTheWhiteLion'' is flawed on several levels, and most videos on the subject come from people who have never seen the show themselves. Many, if not most, comparisons [[ManipulativeEditing involve footage taken out of context]], sometimes from material released ''after'' ''The Lion King'' came out, and many "similarities" are either entirely superficial, [[OlderThanTheyThink predate them both]], or are just made up. For those interested, ''WebVideo/YourMovieSucksDotOrg'' did some research on the controversy and ended up making a [[https://youtu.be/G5B1mIfQuo4 a two-hour in-depth analysis]] that debunks most of the arguments made by the "Kimba Crowd". In a delicious bit of irony, a fan of Adam even discovered a pre-Kimba comic about a lion named Simba, and Adam then added a parody of the "Kimba crowd" videos by [[SpoofedWithTheirOwnWords using the exact same arguments used in them]].
* [[https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.comicsbeat.com/playstation-promotional-video-stolen-animation/ This article]] falsely lists that the ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseTheMovie'' came out in 2001, when it actually came out in 2019. ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' itself didn't start until 2013.
* Many early articles announcing the voice cast for ''WesternAnimation/{{SCOOB}}'' mention Creator/FrankWelker voicing Scooby since the franchise's inception in 1969. While he's been voicing ''Fred'' since then, he only became Scooby's regular voice in 2002 with ''WesternAnimation/WhatsNewScoobyDoo'' (following the death of original Scooby voice Creator/DonMessick).
* Some online sources, when reporting on the cast for [[Creator/IlluminationEntertainment Illumination Entertainment's]] (then) upcoming ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'' and showing the actors next to pictures of their characters, mistakenly believed Sebastian Maniscalco was voicing a Spike, the green, spike ball-throwing enemy {{Mook}} introduced in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3'', instead of Foreman Spike from ''VideoGame/WreckingCrew.'' This is understandable since the reveal refers to him simply as "Spike" and the latter character is quite obscure, but the official reveal had each actor shown next to a small icon of their character, with Spike represented by his sprite from ''Wrecking Crew''

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Lightyear}}'': After actress Creator/PatriciaHeaton criticized Pixar for [[TheOtherDarrin recasting Buzz]] with Creator/ChrisEvans instead of Creator/TimAllen, several right-wing news outlets claimed that Allen had been fired from the role due to his conservative beliefs, and that Buzz would be played by Evans in all future projects. Not only was Allen working on a ''Series/TheSantaClauses'' with Disney at the time of ''Lightyear'''s premier, but director Angus [=MacLane=] had stated much earlier that Evans was chosen as Buzz because it would further differentiate the human Buzz from the toy Buzz. Plus, Allen himself was [[ApprovalOfGod fine with the recasting]], and even encouraged his followers on social media to give Evans (who himself gave heavy praise to Allen's original performance) a chance in the role.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioQk6nhW0wI A video of a virtual interview]] about a then-recent ''Ice Age'' film has the phrase ''[[AllAnimationIsDisney Disney's Ice Age]]'' in the title. The movie was produced by Blue Sky Studios, not Disney. Ironically, Disney would acquire Blue Sky Studios years later with their purchase of 20th Century Fox. Maybe the article was onto something after all.
%%* [[https://preview.redd.it/3dxe10240lha1.png?width=850&format=png&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=7b679d89f83c5c87f67e6e0a45f6a7f7d759a1e7 The description]] for WesternAnimation/AquaTeenForeverPlantasm on Creator/HBOMax Poland is innacurate.
* An article about (then) upcoming movies in an issue of Disney Adventures magazine mentions a character named Johnson the lemur in the blurb about ''WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}}''. No such character is in the film. It's possible he was in an early draft of the movie and the people who wrote the article got their information from that.
* [[https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zb3VuZGNsb3VkLmNvbS91c2Vycy9zb3VuZGNsb3VkOnVzZXJzOjMwODg2MDY4My9zb3VuZHMucnNz/episode/dGFnOnNvdW5kY2xvdWQsMjAxMDp0cmF A description from The Rock Podcast]] claims that ''WesternAnimation/Planet51'' is a Spanish animated film. It's actually an American-Spanish co-production that was animated in Spain.

* DVD Verdict's review calls it the first computer animated movie in the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon, even though ''two'' CGI movies immediately preceded it, and Disney produced a [[WesternAnimation/{{Dinosaur}} CG/live-action hybrid]] even earlier. Becomes and even bigger fail due to the body of the review including a link to an article about Disney's ''actual'' first all-CGI movie, ''WesternAnimation/ChickenLittle''.

* [=Zap2it's=] listing for ''WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}}'' reads: "Thinking he has real superpowers, the canine star of a hit TV show travels cross-country from Hollywood to New York to rescue his owner and co-star." While accurate to the plot, it flips the origin and destination of Bolt's journey; he ''starts'' in New York after accidentally getting stuck in a mail delivery truck, and has to travel back to Hollywood from there.

* DVD Verdict's review of ''WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}}'' calls it the first computer animated movie in the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon, even though ''two'' CGI movies immediately preceded it, and Disney produced a [[WesternAnimation/{{Dinosaur}} CG/live-action hybrid]] even earlier. Becomes and even bigger fail due to the body of the review including a link to an article about Disney's ''actual'' first all-CGI movie, ''WesternAnimation/ChickenLittle''.

* Sometimes extremist Christian parties pick on cartoons that, according to them, [[EveryoneIsSatanInHell send subliminal messages to children that are watching them]]. This is the case with Italian politician and activist Mario Adinolfi, leader of the "People of the Family"[[note]] a political party notorious for propagating fake news and libel about homosexuality, atheism and adoptive families[[/note]] who strongly bashed ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda3'' for its alleged "gender ideology propaganda" and "brainwashing children into homosexuality", based on the fact that Po - or rather [[IAmNotShazam "Kung Fu Panda"]] - has two fathers. This ignores the fact that Mr. Ping is Po's ''adoptive'' father and raises him by himself at the start of the series, with Po only finding his true father in the third film.

* Sometimes extremist Christian parties pick on cartoons that, according to them, [[EveryoneIsSatanInHell send subliminal messages to children that are watching them]]. This is the case with Italian politician and activist Mario Adinolfi, leader of the "People of the Family"[[note]] a political party notorious for propagating fake news and libel about homosexuality, atheism and adoptive families[[/note]] who strongly bashed ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda3'' for its alleged "gender ideology propaganda" and "brainwashing children into homosexuality", based on the fact that Po - or rather [[IAmNotShazam "Kung Fu Panda"]] - has two fathers. This ignores the fact that Mr. Ping is Po's ''adoptive'' father and raises him by himself, with Po only finding his true father in the third film.

* A lot of news stories about , ''WesternAnimation/ThePeanutsMovie'' either implied or claimed outright that it would be the first time the ''Peanuts'' characters would appear on the big screen. There were four theatrical ''Peanuts'' films made between 1969 and 1980: ''WesternAnimation/ABoyNamedCharlieBrown'', ''WesternAnimation/SnoopyComeHome'', ''WesternAnimation/RaceForYourLifeCharlieBrown'', and ''WesternAnimation/BonVoyageCharlieBrown''.

* Armond White's review of ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'': "The toys wage battle with the daycare center's cynical veteran cast-offs: Hamm the Piggy Bank pig, Lotsa Hugs and Big Baby." Hamm is not from the daycare center, he's one of Andy's toys, and he appeared in the previous two films. The biggest error here, however, is that Hamm's not, nor has he ever been, a villain.[[note]]A bit of a {{Jerkass}}, yes, but not a villain.[[/note]] Possibly, he saw Hamm being portrayed as a villain in young Andy's playful imagination at the start of the movie and somehow confused this with the rest of the movie. Also, the villain's name is Lots'''o''' Hugg'''in''' Bear, not Lotsa Hugs.
** The [[WebVideo/BumReviews Bum Review]] has Chester A. Bum saying that Mr. Potato Head gets turned into Mr. Taco Head. He actually is turned into Mr. '''''Tortilla''''' Head. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] slightly in that tortillas are used in the making of soft tacos, and it's likely Creator/DougWalker got the two mixed up (FridgeLogic suggests that Chester was probably high as usual, meaning he couldn't think straight).
* When an ice sculpture company developed a Disney themed exhibit for [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Disneyland Paris]] featuring the Disney Princesses and their matching Princes, they ended up stumbling upon FanFic/RiseOfTheBraveTangledDragons CrossoverShip fanart of [[WesternAnimation/{{Brave}} Merida]] and [[WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon Hiccup]] and turned it into [[https://lifelongdisneyfan.tumblr.com/post/68578498293/ive-seen-many-disney-crossovers-before-and one of the ice sculptures]], not knowing Merida ended her movie single or that Hiccup was from an entirely separate studio.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}'':
** There's been an assumption on the part of some of the reviewing public that this is a Creator/TimBurton film, due to both the animation style and the fact that the trailers hype it as being by "the director of ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas''". The director, for ''both'' films, is in fact Henry Selick, and Burton has nothing to do with ''Coraline''. Neil Gaiman, author of the original book, [[http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2009/02/by-way-of-preamble.html has expressed his annoyance with this]], and it's been [[http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp02092009.shtml mocked]] in webcomics. Neil Gaiman, from the above blog entry:
--->"It was irritating when people started asking me ''why'' the advertising said "From the director of ''The Nightmare Before Christmas''", and wasn't it some kind of a sneaky attempt to make people think that it was by Tim Burton?, and I would sigh, and say no, it was a sneaky attempt to make people think it was directed by the person who directed ''The Nightmare Before Christmas''. (And given that people were saying this about trailers that made a point of saying Henry's name, I had little patience with it.)"
** Another blame for this is the InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt for ''Nightmare''. (In other words, its full title is ''Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas''. Mind you, Burton was only responsible for the ''concept'' of that movie as he was busy directing ''Film/BatmanReturns'' at the same time.)
* The Rotten Tomatoes website and a few movie theatres that gave away free film pamphlets, made this summary of ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'': "Hiccup goes on a mission to pass their village's initiation into manhood by capturing and training a dragon. If he succeeds, he will become a warrior. If he fails, he will be forever banished". This would techically be true had the film been more faithful to Cressida Cowel's book, but so much liberties were taken to change the plot that instead of a boy going through a rite of passage capturing and training dragons, it's a teenager whose village is dedicated to killing dragons befriending an injured dragon and finding that everything he and his village knows about them to be wrong.
** An advertisement for toy dragons based on [[WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon2 the second movie]] showed and described someone making toy Toothless fight the [[{{Kaiju}} Bewilderbeast]] toy...specifically, the white one that was actually ''[[GentleGiant good]]'' in the movie [[spoiler: and not the black one that was under the BigBad's control]].
* The [=MovieGuide.org=] review of ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut'' refers to Big Gay Al as being black. It also claims that "the whole point of ''South Park'' is that the children in the movie should have been allowed to see the Terrance & Phillip movie, just as the world's children should be allowed to see ''South Park'', even though it is rated R. Furthermore, the message of the movie is clear: that adults should let children engage in depraved actions and foul language, and that all this is just part of growing up." (Interestingly, at least one earlier draft of the movie actually ''did'' have a message like that.)
* In mid-2012, when lemurs are considered to be threatened even more, this [[http://web.archive.org/web/20120721213708/http://www.france24.com/en/20120714-lemurs-worlds-most-threatened-mammal-study AFP article]] believes that Creator/{{Disney}} [[AllAnimationIsDisney made]] ''WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}}''.

* Whoever wrote the official website for ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'' probably never watched any of the movies. They describe Tanya as "always getting her brother into some kind of trouble" (which he does just fine on his own), and when they describe Tony Toponi they imply that he's in love with Tanya, which of course is never even hinted at in the movies. Now granted, the site was probably created with the idea that the ViewersAreMorons, which is also sadly reflected in Universal's more recent DVD releases of the movies.

* The book ''Creator/{{Disney}} Dossiers: Files of Characters From the Walt Disney Studios'' is [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons chock-full of glaring omissions]] and mistakes. For example, WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'s fact sheet says "Parents: None (orphan)", completely neglecting the fact that him finding out his father was alive was '''the main plot of ''WesternAnimation/AladdinAndTheKingOfThieves'''''[[note]]which the book also claims came out a year earlier than it actually did[[/note]]. Also, for some reason, WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck's filmography highlights includes ''WesternAnimation/DuckTalesTheMovieTreasureOfTheLostLamp'' (which he wasn't even mentioned in), Timon's last name (Berkowitz) and Scar's birth name (Taka) are forgotten, and some of the voice actors for the characters are glaringly omitted (''e.g.'', Cam Clarke for [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 Simba]], April Winchell for [[WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians Cruella de Vil]]).
** Speaking of ''Aladdin'', the [[https://disneyinsideblog.wordpress.com/tag/brad-kane/ Disney Inside Blog]] falsely states that: "Similarly with Jasmine and Aladdin, the Genie had a different singing voice actor and he was Bruce Adler." Creator/RobinWilliams actually did his own singing as Genie. Bruce Adler filled in for Williams in his other role, the Peddler.
** Plenty of mistakes are abound in the ''Disney Song Encyclopedia'' as well. The description for the ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'' theme claims that the show is "about the colorful Kit Cloudkicker, who flies his plane through various adventures in the tropics." The error is, obviously, that Baloo was the pilot; Kit was his navigator. The book also claims that ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'' retained its theme song from the original Nickelodeon series, but anyone who has seen both versions of the show can tell you that the theme songs sound nothing alike.
** Another Disney book mistake: In ''Disney: The First 100 Years'', a picture from the opening scene of ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'' is given this caption: "Rafiki holds baby Simba while Mufasa and '''Nala''' smile proudly." Simba's mother is named Sarabi; Nala was Simba's love interest.
** An [[http://smokescreeners.org/downloads/animated_smoking.pdf article]] on depictions of tobacco and alcohol use in movies for children identifies [[WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}} Lampwick]] as [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Lamp]]''[[SpellMyNameWithAnS wit]]''.
** ''The Encyclopedia of Disney Characters'' written by John Grant, is a well researched book but does have one notable error; the article on ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheReturnOfJafar'' lists Abis Mal as "Abi Smal." Ordinarily, this would be just a normal typo, except the article on the ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'' not only spells his name correctly, but both names are listed in the index, as if they were two separate characters.
* Movie critic Eleanor Ringel claimed in her review of ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry, The Movie'' that the Tom and Jerry series won fifteen Academy Awards for Outstanding Animated Short Subjects. They were ''nominated'' fifteen times and won seven Academy Awards.
* And here's a kicker: Dr. Ted Baehr's [=MovieGuide=] did its review of the 2007 ''WesternAnimation/{{TMNT}}'' film shortly after its release, and did an utterly atrocious job explaining the film's content factually. For starters:

** There can ''only'' be a [[SexIsEvil bad explanation]] for Casey crashing at April's place so often. How could the two of them ''possibly'' be chaste?
** "Stories went nowhere..." This implies that nobody at [=MovieGuide=] had ever heard of the 2003 animated series or the original comics. The intro was a minimal effort to give newcomers [[AllThereInTheManual an insight into the film's world]], just in the bleak chance that someone going to see it [[SmallReferencePools had never been exposed to previous Turtles-related material]].
** The thing with those stars aligning to unleash a beam of energy on Earth that [[SealedEvilInACan unlocks monsters from another world]] is merely modification of a common plot device seen in many other movies. But somehow, this is an ''evil'' tactic by ''Satan'' to get us addicted to looking for answers in -'astrology''! Never mind that not one single constellation in the Zodiac ([[EasternZodiac Eastern]] or [[WesternZodiac Western]]) was even once mentioned on screen.
** "Calm yourself" is not simple advice, according to Baher. It's an "evil and false Buddhist doctrine." What?
** Contrary to Baher's assessment of "a confused view," the movie actually has no problem with vigilantism ''per se''. What it does have a problem with is [[IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim Punisher-style vigilantism]]. The Foot Clan and monsters [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman are what they are]] and are deemed as "[[WhatMeasureIsAMook worthy to die]]." Yet, ordinary criminals [[HumansAreSpecial are not to be killed]]. They are to only be subdued and left for the police. That is the code of battle honor the Turtles fight with, and is very similar to Franchise/{{Batman}}'s.
*** The problem Leonardo has with the "Night Watcher" is because the news has led him to believe that this vigilante actually kills the criminals, making this an '''in-universe''' example of CowboyBebopAtHisComputer. Those who know the {{backstory}} will know that the Turtles once believed this about Casey, before befriending him. They know of Splinter's code of honor, similar in some ways to Bushido, and they don't trust vigilantes who are not trained in any known code of honor. Not that this matters to [=MovieGuide=], which believes that "bushido" is just a buzzword for "[[EveryoneIsSatanInHell a lie from Satan designed to drag you to Hell]]."
** The movie goes to great lengths to explain that without a strong family dynamic, one may never feel at home anywhere, even if they do get everything they originally thought they wanted. '''Since when''' does this [[AnAesop Aesop]] constitute a "Romantic Pagan" view?

* [[http://web.archive.org/web/20120509211245/http://cinemovie.tv/cinemovie_new/component/content/article/55-interviews/1280-guillermo-del-toro-interview-pinocchio-dreamworks This article]] about Guillermo Del Toro joining Creator/DreamWorksAnimation claims that the studio's 2012 movie ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians'' is a sequel to Zack Snyder's ''[[WesternAnimation/LegendOfTheGuardiansTheOwlsOfGaHoole Legend of the Guardians]]'', which is a completely unrelated movie made by ''Warner Bros.''.
* In [[http://www.cracked.com/funny-2864-5-endangered-species-that-should-be-put-down/ this Cracked article]], the author claims that an angler fish almost ate Nemo in the movie ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo.'' However, it was ''Marlin,'' not Nemo, who faced the angler fish.
** The writer of [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-disney-kids-who-should-have-been-traumatized-life/ this article]] must not have watched ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'', because, well, he seems to think Elsa was locked away and completely isolated from human contact from birth, saying "Being without human contact until the age of 21, she should have been making grunting noises and building human-shaped statues out of her own poop." That isn't even remotely true, because Elsa wasn't without human contact until she was 21. She wasn't isolated from Anna until she was eight years old, and that early childhood had a lot of social interaction. And she was not totally deprived of human contact, as she is seen speaking with her parents, with Anna, and presumably talked with a few trusted servants. Her isolation was more like self-imposed solitary confinement. That's not saying she wouldn't have had psychological problems (the movie makes clear Elsa is mentally damaged by hurting Anna), but she wouldn't have been a feral child.
** According to "[[http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-childhood-favorites-that-did-not-age-well/ 5 Childhood Favorites That Did Not Age Well]]" by Erik Germ, "You might not have realized this while you were caught in the throes of sharing "WHAT 90S' DISNEY PRINCE ARE YOU?", but Disney hasn't had a hand-animated film since 2009's ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog''." Actually, Disney ''did'' produce one more traditional film: 2011's ''WesternAnimation/{{Winnie the Pooh|2011}}''.

* A lot of the news stories about the Creator/BlueSkyStudios ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' film, ''WesternAnimation/ThePeanutsMovie'', either implied or claimed outright that it would be the first time the ''Peanuts'' characters would appear on the big screen. There were 4 animated ''Peanuts'' films made between 1969 and 1980.
* Some articles about ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie'' assert that the "a bunch of others we don't need to mention" joke, during which images from various canceled or somewhat controversial ''Franchise/{{LEGO}}'' lines [[{{Blipvert}} flash on screen]], was a show of SelfDeprecation on LEGO's part, and that the lines in question (for example ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'', ''Toys/{{Fabuland}}'' and ''Toys/LEGOFriends'') were some of their biggest failures. While it is true that the LEGO fandom is [[BrokenBase seriously divided]] over these lines, most of them were ''far'' from failures. ''Fabuland'' and ''BIONICLE'' have devoted followings despite the former having been canceled since the '80s, and the latter was one of the company's most successful and top-selling non-licensed properties and a LongRunner among the action-oriented themes, having played a huge part in saving LEGO from going out of business during the early 2000s, the exact opposite of a failure -- the series' [[Toys/{{Bionicle 2015}} reboot]] ''did'' fail but that happened after ''The LEGO Movie'' had come out. The joke was really either the creators poking fun at them or [[spoiler: a reference to how Finn can't play with them since he might not own any of the toys]].
* Build-a-Bear Workshop's description for their plush toy of Fluffy from ''Franchise/DespicableMe'' starts with "Agnes, Gru's favorite unicorn, is totally adorable in furry friend form!" Fluffy is the name of the unicorn, and Agnes is the name of one of Gru's adopted daughters and the person who actually owns said unicorn, not Gru.
* [[https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/jimmy-neutron-boy-genius The Common Sense Media article]] for ''WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutronBoyGenius'' claims that one of Jimmy's friends is "Shane (a passionate fan of some action heroes called Ultra Lords)". First of all, the character's name is Sheen. Second, Ultra Lord is one character. A case could be made for the latter referring to the action figures instead of any characters, but even so...
* Many people are confused as to what animals Bing Bong from ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'' is supposed to be a combination of. For example, [[http://ttpm.com/p/14512/the-disney-store/inside-out-bing-bong-stuffed-animal/ Time To Play Magazine's]] review of a stuffed animal of his says he is part dog due to his ears looking like those of a dog. Other people claim he is part cow and/or horse, due to his line "You gotta remember when Riley was three, animals were all the rage. The cow goes moo, the horse goes neigh. That's all people talked about." He's actually part cat, elephant and dolphin, but is mostly made of cotton candy. However, according to "The Art Of Inside Out", Bing Bong was originally supposed to be part dog, which explains the ears.

** One [=CartoonBrew=] article called Bing Bong a girl in reference to the scene where he stubs his toe. This could be because he is pink and likes girly things like princesses and ponies.

* Sometimes extremist Christian parties pick on cartoons that, according to them, send subliminal messages to children that are watching them. This is the case with Italian politician and activist Mario Adinolfi, leader of the "People of the Family"[[note]] a political party notorious for propagating fake news and libel about homosexuality, atheism and adoptive families[[/note]] who strongly bashed ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda3'' for its alleged "Gender Ideology propaganda" and "brainwashing children into homosexuality", based on the fact that Po, or rather [[IAmNotShazam "Kung Fu Panda"]], has two fathers. He blatantly ignored the fact that Mr. Ping was Po's adoptive father ''since the beginning of the series'', and Po has found his true father in the third film. Adinolfi did not even apologize to angered fans of the film, insisting that he found the film's message to be deviating.
* The ''WesternAnimation/FindingDory'' tie-in book "Fish Talk" claims that Hank turned pink when [[spoiler: inking himself in the touch pond]]. He didn't change color at all during this incident.
** [[https://www.ispot.tv/ad/Ag6o/coppertone-kids-finding-dory-sunburn The description of this Coppertone ad]] based on the movie calls Hank "Frank".
* A common error is to conflate Disney with Pixar. They are not at all the same; although Pixar is owned by Disney, they are an autonomous company within Disney, not a division thereof. This is particularly bad in the Website/YouTube video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSQNZ_Nblrs Pixar Trivia]], supposedly a compilation of "music clips from Pixar movies" -- but one of them was from ''Planes'', which although set in the ''Franchise/{{Cars}}'' universe, was made by Disney, not Pixar.[[note]]And in any case, a lot of them are actually from trailers, and weren't used in the movie.[[/note]] Even worse, many of the more ignorant commenters complained of the "absence" of ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'' -- which has nothing to do with Pixar.

* Elsa from ''Franchise/{{Frozen}}'' is often referred to as "Princess Elsa", especially in Brazil, even though her coronation and status as ''queen'' of Arendelle are major plot points. Even then, it's not as bad as when she's called "[[IAmNotShazam Princess Frozen]]"...
** A review of the film in a French newspaper managed to get the names of the sisters wrong, presenting Anna as having uncontrollable ice powers and Elsa the plucky sister who punched princes in the face.

* [=Zap2it's=] listing for ''WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}}'' reads: "Thinking he has real superpowers, the canine star of a hit TV show travels cross-country from Hollywood to New York to rescue his owner and co-star." They get the general idea of the plot right, but get the origin and destination of Bolt's journey backwards; Bolt ''starts'' in New York (after accidentally getting stuck in a mail delivery truck heading there) and journeys to Hollywood from there.

* During ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheReturnOfJafar'''s initial release, a package of Trix yogurt offered quiz questions about [[WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} the first film]]. One question asked to list off all three of Jafar's wishes, but listed the answers as becoming sultan, then a sorcerer, "and, finally, a snake." Jafar became the gigantic snake as a result of his sorcerer powers, and actually used his third wish to become a genie himself.

* IGN's review of the ''WesternAnimation/LadyAndTheTramp'' Platinum Edition DVD lists that the DVD contains two versions of the film: one animated in [=CinemaScope=], and one with characters and details re-arranged for Academy screens (which are shaped more like squares), offering "a sort of unofficial history lesson for folks who are interested in cinema's technological history." However, if he read the back cover more carefully, he would have noticed the DVD actually contains ''Lady and the Tramp'' in [=CinemaScope=] -- its original, unedited format -- and Pan and Scan. Instead of including the specially-modified version (which would have had to be restored too), Disney simply cropped the picture for people who can't tolerate black bars on 4:3 TV sets. So much for learning about technological history.
* The official Hungarian description to ''Toys/{{Bionicle}} 3: Web of Shadows'' claimed that the villainous pair, Roodaka and Sidorak, are Makuta. While the name Makuta ''does'' refer to a whole race of beings, within the context of the movie, there was only one Makuta, with Roodaka and Sidorak being his servants. In the defense of whoever wrote or mistranslated the description, though, the movie leaves a ''lot'' of story-points horribly vague, so watching it wouldn't have helped much.
* One of the cards in the Disney version of ''TabletopGame/TrivialPursuit'' shows a picture of WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}} losing her slipper shortly after marrying PrinceCharming, and asks what time it was when the scene occurred. The card says the scene occurred at midnight, even though Cinderella actually got married at noon. Apparently, someone mistook this for a picture of the ball.
* [[http://www.agonybooth.com/movies/The_Return_of_the_King_1980.aspx This review]] of the 1980 Rankin/Bass version of Tolkien's ''Return of the King'' starts with the reviewer stating that they haven't read the original books. They nevertheless go on to complain about how the cartoon deviates from the original text such as having Sam tempted by the ring with visions of turning Middle Earth into a giant garden, Denethor possessing a Palantir and the presence of The Watchers (semi-alive giant vulture statues). ALL of these are in the original book.
* A lot of summaries of ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooInArabianNights'' make it seem like a regular ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' episode, only set in the Middle East, when it is actually more or less an adaptation of the original book with Scooby and a DisguisedInDrag Shaggy taking the place of Scheherazade.
* There used to be a very vocal group on the Website/IMDb discussion boards who claimed that "Creator/DreamWorksAnimation rips off {{Creator/Pixar}}" when in fact all the "examples" they quoted were of pairs of movies (e.g. ''{{WesternAnimation/Antz}}'' vs. ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'') which had almost nothing in common other than that they (1) were CGI animations, (2) had similar protagonists and (3) came out at around the same time (which can be accounted for entirely by the fact that there are fashions in movie scriptwriting as in everything else, hence also the rash of disaster movies in the early [[TheSeventies 1970s]]). One thing those commentors evidently failed to grasp was ProductionLeadTime; it just isn't possible to crank out a high-quality, feature length animation in short order. One particularly dumb example was that ''WesternAnimation/FlushedAway'' was supposedly "ripped off" from ''{{WesternAnimation/Ratatouille}}'' despite the fact that the former is actually an Creator/AardmanAnimations film ([=DreamWorks=] only distributed it) hence is a poor choice for anyone wanting to prove anything about [=DreamWorks=]; and (2) the ''only'' thing the two have in common is that both have rodent protagonists -- hardly a unique selling point in animation (one could just as logically claim that "''Ratatouille'' ripped off (insert title of random Mickey Mouse cartoon here)").
** Speaking of ''WesternAnimation/FlushedAway'', one member of the above group claimed it to be "inferior" to ''{{WesternAnimation/Ratatouille}}'' because "the fur detail isn't realistic". Never mind that the house style of Creator/AardmanAnimations is {{claymation}}, so ''Flushed Away'' was done in simulated claymation; so of course the fur detail wasn't realistic -- it wasn't meant to be.
** Hell, the "[=DreamWorks=] rips off Pixar" issue affected the obscure British-Canadian series ''Anthony Ant'', a negative review written by one of the members of this group (bashing it for supposedly being a cash-in on ''Antz'' and ''A Bugs' Life'' even though the show not only premiered in 1999, almost a year after both came out in theaters, but was based off a book written in ''1993'') is literally the description for the show's IMDB page when you look it up on Google, and likely helped give it a (rather unfair) ''3-star rating''.

* The infamous argument that ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'' ripped off ''Manga/KimbaTheWhiteLion'' is flawed on several levels, and most videos on the subject come from people who have never seen the show themselves. Many if not most comparisions [[ManipulativeEditing involve footage taken out of context]], sometimes from material released ''after'' [=TLK=] came out, and many "similarities" are either entirely superficial, [[OlderThanTheyThink pre-date them both]], and sometimes are just made up. For those interested, ''WebVideo/YourMovieSucksDotOrg'' did some research on the controversy and ended up making a [[https://youtu.be/G5B1mIfQuo4 a 2-hour in-depth analysis]] that debunks most of the arguments made by the "Kimba Crowd". In a delicious bit of irony, a fan of Adam even discovered a pre-Kimba comic about a lion named Simba, and Adam then added a [[HoistByTheirOwnPetard parody of the Kimba crowd videos by using the exact same arguments used in them]].

* Many early articles announcing the voice cast for ''WesternAnimation/{{SCOOB}}'' mention Creator/FrankWelker voicing Scooby since the franchise's inception in 1969. While he's been voicing Fred since then, he only started voicing Scooby in 2002 with ''WesternAnimation/WhatsNewScoobyDoo''.
* Some online sources, when reporting on the cast for [[Creator/IlluminationEntertainment Illumination Entertainment's]] (then) upcoming ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'' and showing the actors next to pictures of their characters, mistakenly believed Sebastian Maniscalco is voicing Spike, the green, spiked ball-throwing enemy {{Mook}} introduced in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3'', instead of Foreman Spike from ''VideoGame/WreckingCrew.'' This is understandable since the reveal refers to him simply as "Spike" and the latter character is rather obscure, but the official reveal had each actor shown next to a small icon of their character, and Spike's looked nothing like the green guy.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Lightyear}}'': After actress Creator/PatriciaHeaton criticized Pixar for recasting Buzz with Creator/ChrisEvans instead of Creator/TimAllen, several right-wing news outlets claimed that Allen was let go from Disney due to the actor's conservative beliefs, and that Evans would permanently voice Buzz in all future projects. Not only was Allen working on a [[Series/TheSantaClauses sequel series]] to ''Film/TheSantaClause'' with Disney at the time of ''Lightyear'''s premier, but director Angus [=MacLane=] had stated much earlier that Evans was chosen as Buzz because he wanted the human Buzz to differentiate himself from the toy Buzz. Plus, Allen himself was [[ApprovalOfGod fine with the recasting]], and even encouraged his followers on social media to give Evans (who himself gave heavy praise to Allen's original performance) a chance in the role.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioQk6nhW0wI A video of a virtual interview about the recent Ice Age film]] with the video title that says ''Disney's Ice Age'', when the movie isn't made by Disney, but Blue Sky Studios and 20th Century Fox. Although, considering that Disney DID eventually buy 20th Century Fox (and by an extent, Blue Sky Studios) years later, maybe this interview had something going for it.

* [[https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zb3VuZGNsb3VkLmNvbS91c2Vycy9zb3VuZGNsb3VkOnVzZXJzOjMwODg2MDY4My9zb3VuZHMucnNz/episode/dGFnOnNvdW5kY2xvdWQsMjAxMDp0cmF A description from The Rock Podcast about Planet 51]] claims that Planet 51 is a Spanish animated film when it's an American-Spanish co-production that was animated by an animation studio in Spain. The writers in the description says ''blonde'' even though the word is used for females and the male version is ''blond''.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioQk6nhW0wI An video of a virtual interview about the recent Ice Age film]] with the video title that says ''Disney's Ice Age'', when the movie isn't made by Disney, but Blue Sky Studios and 20th Century Fox. Although, considering that Disney DID eventually buy 20th Century Fox (and by an extent, Blue Sky Studios) years later, maybe this interview had something going for it.

* To this day, some people insist that the [[RunningGag Pizza Planet Truck]] appears in ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'' -- thereby asserting that they know better than Lee Unkrich and Brad Bird (a senior Pixar staffer, and the Pixar staffer who ''actually directed the movie'').

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Lightyear}}'': After actress Creator/PatriciaHeaton criticized Pixar for recasting Buzz with Creator/ChrisEvans instead of Creator/TimAllen, several right-wing news outlets claimed that Allen was let go from Disney due to the actor's conservative beliefs, and that Evans would permanently voice Buzz in all future projects. Not only was Allen working on a sequel series to ''Film/TheSantaClause'' with Disney at the time of ''Lightyear'''s premier, but director Angus [=MacLane=] had stated much earlier that Evans was chosen as Buzz because he wanted the human Buzz to differentiate himself from the toy Buzz. Plus, Allen himself was fine with the recasting, and even encouraged his followers on social media to give Evans (who himself gave heavy praise to Allen's original performance) a chance in the role.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioQk6nhW0wI An video of a virtual interview about the recent Ice Age film]] with the video title that says ''Disney's Ice Age'', when the movie isn't made by Disney, but Blue Sky Studios and 20th Century Fox. Although, considering that Disney DID eventually buy 20th Century Fox (and by a extent, Blue Sky Studios) years later, maybe this interview had something going for it.

* The ''Christian Review'' website complained in their review of ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2'' that Donkey having children with Dragon implied that he was a "Freewheeling playboy" despite the fact that Dragon is the only romantic partner he has and that two people who love each other having children is [[OlderThanDirt something that's gone on for ages untold]]. They didn't seem to have a problem with the end of ''WesternAnimation/ChickenRun'' though, in which the island the chickens land on is swarming with chicks, despite the fact that Rocky is the only fertile rooster in the bunch...

* Some online sources, when reporting on the cast for [[Creator/IlluminationEntertainment Illumination Entertainment's]] (then) upcoming ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'' and showing the actors next to pictures of their characters, mistakenly believed Sebastian Maniscalco is voicing Spike, the green, spiny throwing enemy {{Mook}} introduced in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3'', instead of Foreman Spike from ''VideoGame/WreckingCrew.'' This is understandable since the reveal refers to him simply as "Spike" and the latter character is rather obscure, but the official reveal had each actor shown next to a small icon of their character, and Spike's looked nothing like the green guy.

* [[https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.comicsbeat.com/playstation-promotional-video-stolen-animation/ This article]] falsely lists that the ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseTheMovie'' came out in 2001, when it actually came out in 2019.

* And here's a kicker: Ted Baehr's [=MovieGuide=] did its review of the 2007 ''WesternAnimation/{{TMNT}}'' film shortly after its release, and did an utterly atrocious job explaining the film's content factually. For starters:

* [[https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zb3VuZGNsb3VkLmNvbS91c2Vycy9zb3VuZGNsb3VkOnVzZXJzOjMwODg2MDY4My9zb3VuZHMucnNz/episode/dGFnOnNvdW5kY2xvdWQsMjAxMDp0cmF a description from The Rock Podcast about Planet 51]] claims that Planet 51 is a Spanish animated film when it's an American-Spanish co-production that was animated by an animation studio in Spain. The writers in the description says ''blonde'' even though the word is used for females and the male version is ''blond''.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioQk6nhW0wI An video of a virtual interview about the recent Ice Age film]] with the video title that says ''Disney's Ice Age'', when the movie isn't made by Disney, but Blue Sky Studios and 20th Century Fox. Although, considering that Disney DID eventually buy 20th Century Fox (and by extent, Blue Sky Studios) years later, maybe this interview had something going for it.

** The [[WebVideo/BumReviews Bum Review]] has Chester A. Bum saying that Mr. Potato Head gets turned into Mr. Taco Head. He actually is turned into Mr. '''''Tortilla''''' Head. {{Justified}} slightly in that tortillas are used in the making of soft tacos, and it's likely Creator/DougWalker got the two mixed up (FridgeLogic suggests that Chester was probably high as usual, meaning he couldn't think straight).

* Some online sources, when reporting on the cast for [[Creator/IlluminationEntertainment Illumination Entertainment's]] upcoming ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'' & showing the actors next to pictures of their characters, mistakenly believe Sebastian Maniscalco is voicing Spike, the green, spiny throwing enemy {{Mook}} introduced in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3'', instead of Foreman Spike from ''VideoGame/WreckingCrew.'' This is understandable since the reveal refers to him simply as "Spike" and the latter character is rather obscure, but the official reveal had each actor shown next to a small icon of their character, and Spike's looked nothing like the green guy.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioQk6nhW0wI An video of a virtual interview about the recent Ice Age film]] with the video title that says ''Disney's Ice Age'' When the movie isn't made by Disney, but Blue Sky Studios and 20th Century Fox. Although, considering that Disney DID eventually bought 20th Century Fox (and by extent, Blue Sky Studios) years later, maybe this interview had something going for it.

* An article about (then) upcoming movies in an issue of Disney Adventures magazine mentions a character named Johnson the lemur in the blurb about ''WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}}'' No such character is in the film. It's possible he was in an early draft of the movie and the people who wrote the article got their information from that.

* Build-a-Bear Workshop's description for their plush toy of Fluffy from ''Franchise/DespicableMe'' starts with "Agnes, Gru's favourite unicorn, is totally adorable in furry friend form!" Fluffy is the name of the unicorn, and Agnes is the name of one of Gru's stepdaughters and the person who actually owns said unicorn, not Gru.

* The Facebook page for ''WesternAnimation/AlphaAndOmega'' posted a photo captioned: "Happy #[=WolfWednesday=]! Could we interest you in this beautiful white wolf pup?" [[http://cdn.attackofthecute.com/June-10-2012-08-05-32-3657009529e65126c316b.jpg The image they posted]] showed an arctic fox.

* [[http://www.agonybooth.com/movies/The_Return_of_the_King_1980.aspx This review]] of the 1980 cartoon version of Tolkien's ''Return of the King'' (an unofficial attempt to complete Ralph Bakshi's aborted version) starts with the reviewer stating that they haven't read the original books. They nevertheless go on to complain about how the cartoon deviates from the original text such as having Sam tempted by the ring with visions of turning Middle Earth into a giant garden, Denethor possessing a Palantir and the presence of The Watchers (semi-alive giant vulture statues). ALL of these are in the original book.

* A common error is to conflate Disney with Pixar. They are not at all the same; although Pixar is owned by Disney, they are an autonomous company within Disney, not a division thereof. This is particularly bad in the Website/YouTube video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSQNZ_Nblrs Pixar Trivia]], supposedly a compilation of "music clips from Pixar movies" -- but one of them was from ''Planes'', which although set in the ''{{WesternAnimation/Cars}}'' universe, was made by Disney, not Pixar.[[note]]And in any case, a lot of them are actually from trailers, and weren't used in the movie.[[/note]] Even worse, many of the more ignorant commenters complained of the "absence" of ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'' -- which has nothing to do with Pixar.

* Elsa from ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'' is often referred to as "Princess Elsa", especially in Brazil, even though her coronation and status as ''queen'' of Arendelle are major plot points. Even then, it's not as bad as when she's called "[[IAmNotShazam Princess Frozen]]"...

* [[https://preview.redd.it/3dxe10240lha1.png?width=850&format=png&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=7b679d89f83c5c87f67e6e0a45f6a7f7d759a1e7 The description]] for WesternAnimation/AquaTeenForeverPlantasm on Creator/HBOMax Poland is innacurate.

* An article about (then) upcoming movies in an issue of Disney Adventures magazine mentions a character named Johnson the lemur in the blurb about ''WesternAnimation/Madagascar'' No such character is in the film. It's possible he was in an early draft of the movie and the people who wrote the article got their information from that.