'Star Wars' and ‘The Emperor's New Groove’ have more in common than you'd think
Is groove just another term for force? And is Kylo Ren just a darker, more sexualised version of the bratty cartoon character Kuzco from the 2000 Disney masterpiece The Emperor's New Groove?
The artist @bb_kate_art took to twitter to make the case for why the next instalment of the Star Wars franchise should look to Disney’s classic Inca drama for inspiration. There are, as @bb_kate_art points out, already many parallels between the two:
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Just look how similar Pacha and Rey look in these shots:
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Most obvious are the similarities between villain Kylo Ren, and the emperor-turned-llama Kuzco. Both are entitled, vain bad boys with luscious, dark hair and a soft core. And if Kylo Ren was a cartoon character, couldn’t he also be convincingly voiced by actor David Spade?
These side-by-side shots of Kylo and Kuzco deserve an award.
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The resemblance between Hux and Yzma is frankly uncanny.
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Pinging J. J. Abrams for his thoughts.
Topics Star Wars
Rachel Thompson is the Features Editor at Mashable. Rachel's second non-fiction book The Love Fix: Reclaiming Intimacy in a Disconnected World is out now, published by Penguin Random House in Jan. 2025. The Love Fix explores why dating feels so hard right now, why we experience difficult emotions in the realm of love, and how we can change our dating culture for the better.
A leading sex and dating writer in the UK, Rachel has written for GQ, The Guardian, The Sunday Times Style, The Telegraph, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Stylist, ELLE, The i Paper, Refinery29, and many more.
Rachel's first book Rough: How Violence Has Found Its Way Into the Bedroom And What We Can Do About It, a non-fiction investigation into sexual violence was published by Penguin Random House in 2021.
