User blog comment:David Bear/Sonic/MarioFanboys are annoying, this is why I will never call myself a fanboy./@comment-3359241-20121204202810/@comment-1669199-20121205002937

The similarities could've been coincidental, though. I personally can't fault anyone for making something similar to another thing without even being conciously aware of it. That's happened to me a couple times with some OCs I made.