The Young-Known•Deer•Teenage-Prince Bambi

Bambi is the titular protagonist of Disney's 1942 animated feature film of the same name. A deer living in a forest, he is best friends with Thumper (a rabbit) and Flower (a skunk). However, he was closest to his mother, who was shot and killed by a hunter during his first winter. Raised into a buck by his father.
==Background==
===Personality===
Bambi ― as with most of his friends ― is similar to any deer in any forest. In his early youth, Bambi has the full measure of charm that many young mammals display, with his wide eyes, spindly legs, curious nature, and a good cute voice. As he grows he gradually becomes more mature, but even in young adulthood he always seems a very young buck, with a graceful build and a fairly naïve, shy nature. He was nicer than his mean rival, Ronno, who was jealous of Bambi. When he had two fawns, Geno and Gurri, he was a carefree father, happy and sweet to his children.
===Physical appearance===
When he is a teenager, Bambi remains the same except he no longer has spots or the grey stripes, his fur is a little darker, and has budding antlers.
==Biography==
After The Days of His Fawn Years which An While Later, Bambi arrives, now with a pair of antlers starting to grow in and without his spots. Faline reports that Thumper was telling quite a story, and Friend Owl chimes in about the part of 'thousands of dogs', earning Thumper a small scowl from Bambi, and the kitten admits he is not a good story teller. The porcupine pricks Bambi's legs with his quills, causing Bambi to leap forward and accidentally engage Faline in a kiss, which dismays Friend Owl. When asked by Flower what 'twitterpated' means, the old owl states he will tell him when he is older. Ronno arrives and swears revenge against Bambi, but he steps on a turtle shell and falls rear first into a run, sending the turtle flying out of the water. The turtle lands on his muzzle and bites him on the nose, making him run away from the run and screaming for his mother. Flower says that turtles are scary, which makes everyone laugh until Bambi leaves as his father is calling him. Everyone - even the porcupine - waves farewell, although Thumper laments that Bambi does not have time for them anymore, to which Faline asks if it is wonderful. The Great Prince takes Bambi to a forest glade, saying that this was the place where he first met Bambi's mother. Bambi asks what the Great Prince was like when he was Bambi's age, and the Great Prince says that he was a lot like Bambi.
The final scene shows a yellow butterfly landing on the Great Prince's den flapping its wings.
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==Trivia==
* Bambi is similar to Simba in The Lion King in the sense that they learn the lessons of life and fall in love with their female best friends, as well as losing one of their parents to death at a young age. These similarities were noted by the filmmakers of The Lion King when the film was in development.
* Bambi is mentioned in the song Malachis by the Malachi Brothers saying that their "favorite part of Bambi was the forest fire".
* The name "Bambi" was derived from the word "bambino" which is the Italian word for "child/little child" or "baby". The Italian translation for "little girl" or "baby girl" is "bambina". Ironically in a scene in Bambi II, Ronno sneers at Bambi's name criticizing it as a girl's name.
* While Bambi regularly appears as both fawn and an adult, his more iconic age is as a fawn. Both films go more into depth with his fawn personality. However, his adolescent appearance only lasted five minutes at the end of the sequel, as the adult-only appeared about less than a half.
* A species of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur was named Bambiraptor after him.
* During World War II, Bambi appeared on a few aircraft artwork, planes, and tanks both in his fawn and adult form.
* Bambi is the all-time favorite Disney Character of legendary mangaka Osamu Tezuka (creator of Astro Boy, Kimba, and Unico). Not only did he frequently drew sketches and artwork of Bambi during his lifetime. But was given permission by Disney to create a manga adaptation of the film in 1951 before the movie was given an official Japanese dub. Bambi's character design and eyes was a big inspiration for his own art style especially for his animal characters.