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Hogfather / ROTG comparisons

Before anyone says anything, I want to make one thing clear: I am not accusing ROTG of plagiarism, I wouldn't even think about it.

I just thought about some similarities between ROTG and Hogfather, but aside from that the stories are very different and both are among my favorite (as film adaptation and book for Hogfather and movie for ROTG, I've heard it ws based on books but haven't read them).

It's also an old project (I had the idea rigth after seeing ROTG in theater!) that took a lot of time to realize but here it is. I'm especially happy with Jack and Pitch, Susan has been more tricky and so were the kids since I'm not used to draw them.

Careful, do not read further if you haven't read Hogfather, there will be some spoilers.

Let's see:

1) Both stories have a white-haired hero (well, mostly white-haired for one).

Jack Frost and Susan Sto Helit, I know she has some black hair but she still has mostly white hair.

I also put a sketch of my first version of the encounter, a more agressive one as you can see.

2) Both of them love children.

Though in very different ways, Jack has fun with them while Susan teaches them.

3) And both figth the boogeyman.

Though they are not exacty the same threat on Discworld, here Pitch is defeated like them with a poker and a blanket, if that was the case I guess Jack (and the others) would be pretty pissed off at the Man in the Moon (that's supposed to be him) for not telling them about it.

4) Both stories have very unusual and badass Santas...

Let's see, in ROTG Santa Claus AKA Nicholas Saint North is badass tatooed russian santa with two swords, on Discworld the equivalent of Santa Claus is Hogfather (who's represented with pig-like features in the movie adaptation, hence his weird look here) who's been replaced by Death himself when he disappeared, so Death still counts as a very unusual Santa.

5) ... who have grumpy elves.

Albert, servant of Death, played an elf.

6) Both stories include the tooth fairy and the boogeyman.

I think Pitch and Toothiana (the tooth fairy) would be quite shocked to see who is their counterpart on discworld.

SPOILER FOR HOGFATHER:

On Discworld, there are many boogeymen and toothfairies but the original boogeyman and tooth fairy are the same person. The boogeyman realized that children had worse than him to fear and decided to protect them by taking away their milk teeth to keep them safe. They could be indeed used to control the children (read: their beliefs) by magic, which is exactly what Teatime tries to do.

7) In both stories, many tooth fairies are working for the original one.

The Tooth Fairy in ROTG uses little fairies who look like a cross between a hummingbird and a human (with a beak-nose) while the Tooth Fairy from Discworld employs young women to do the job, here's one of them,Violet, who's about to put a coin in exchange for a tooth that has already been taken by a ROTG fairy.

8) Finally, both stories have a villain entirely dressed in black with creepy eyes...

Teatime is an assassin who spends his freetime trying to think of ways to kill anthropomorphic personifications so I don't think Pitch would feel good about having him near.

About the eyes, you can't see it here but Pitch has yellow eyes and Teatime has one normal eye while the other is entirely black.

9)... who steal children's milk teeth as part of their evil plan.

SPOILER FOR ROTG

For Teatime it's explained above, as for Pitch he stole the teeth from the Tooth Fairy in order to control the children's beliefs.

Disclaimer: I don't own ROTG or Discworld, they belong to Dreamwork, James Joyce and Terry Pratchett and I'm not paid fort this.

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Hogfather / ROTG comparisons

Before anyone says anything, I want to make one thing clear: I am not accusing ROTG of plagiarism, I wouldn't even think about it.

I just thought about some similarities between ROTG and Hogfather, but aside from that the stories are very different and both are among my favorite (as film adaptation and book for Hogfather and movie for ROTG, I've heard it ws based on books but haven't read them).

It's also an old project (I had the idea rigth after seeing ROTG in theater!) that took a lot of time to realize but here it is. I'm especially happy with Jack and Pitch, Susan has been more tricky and so were the kids since I'm not used to draw them.

Careful, do not read further if you haven't read Hogfather, there will be some spoilers.

Let's see:

1) Both stories have a white-haired hero (well, mostly white-haired for one).

Jack Frost and Susan Sto Helit, I know she has some black hair but she still has mostly white hair.

I also put a sketch of my first version of the encounter, a more agressive one as you can see.

2) Both of them love children.

Though in very different ways, Jack has fun with them while Susan teaches them.

3) And both figth the boogeyman.

Though they are not exacty the same threat on Discworld, here Pitch is defeated like them with a poker and a blanket, if that was the case I guess Jack (and the others) would be pretty pissed off at the Man in the Moon (that's supposed to be him) for not telling them about it.

4) Both stories have very unusual and badass Santas...

Let's see, in ROTG Santa Claus AKA Nicholas Saint North is badass tatooed russian santa with two swords, on Discworld the equivalent of Santa Claus is Hogfather (who's represented with pig-like features in the movie adaptation, hence his weird look here) who's been replaced by Death himself when he disappeared, so Death still counts as a very unusual Santa.

5) ... who have grumpy elves.

Albert, servant of Death, played an elf.

6) Both stories include the tooth fairy and the boogeyman.

I think Pitch and Toothiana (the tooth fairy) would be quite shocked to see who is their counterpart on discworld.

SPOILER FOR HOGFATHER:

On Discworld, there are many boogeymen and toothfairies but the original boogeyman and tooth fairy are the same person. The boogeyman realized that children had worse than him to fear and decided to protect them by taking away their milk teeth to keep them safe. They could be indeed used to control the children (read: their beliefs) by magic, which is exactly what Teatime tries to do.

7) In both stories, many tooth fairies are working for the original one.

The Tooth Fairy in ROTG uses little fairies who look like a cross between a hummingbird and a human (with a beak-nose) while the Tooth Fairy from Discworld employs young women to do the job, here's one of them,Violet, who's about to put a coin in exchange for a tooth that has already been taken by a ROTG fairy.

8) Finally, both stories have a villain entirely dressed in black with creepy eyes...

Teatime is an assassin who spends his freetime trying to think of ways to kill anthropomorphic personifications so I don't think Pitch would feel good about having him near.

About the eyes, you can't see it here but Pitch has yellow eyes and Teatime has one normal eye while the other is entirely black.

9)... who steal children's milk teeth as part of their evil plan.

SPOILER FOR ROTG

For Teatime it's explained above, as for Pitch he stole the teeth from the Tooth Fairy in order to control the children's beliefs.

Disclaimer: I don't own ROTG or Discworld, they belong to Dreamwork, James Joyce and Terry Pratchett and I'm not paid fort this.