I think I seriously came across the saddest thing today. A person calling another person's character "an exact clone" and "unoriginal" just based on appearance. To clear it up, a deviant had mistaken the character in a piece of fanart for another character (no information was given about who it was, etc.) and this deviant "browsed" the page of the person whose character it was mistaken for and suddenly BASHES the person saying their character is "unoriginal" and an "exact copy".
So...
Two characters can't look similar these days? Doesn't story have something to do with it? Especially when from the looks of it, the creator of the one story has NO KNOWLEDGE of this other story/character? Really? Looks aren't copyrighted. Sorry to burst your bubble. This really just upset me today.
If you don't know the character/story, HOW can you say it's a rip off/clone/unoriginal? HOW? Looks aren't everything...