I just saw art of a sorta chibi-ish Naruto and for a second my recognition just went “small boy with big round head and spiky yellow hair? Calvin.”
And then I was like no this is not Calvin and Hobbes fanart this is Naruto fanart
But then my recognition went “Hobbes is the Ninetails” and I had to go close my eyes for a while
“dad I keep seeing my stuffed toy tiger as a real tiger that walks around and talks to me and stuff”
“oh that’s normal. you’re just having visions of the spirit of that monster we sealed inside your navel after it terrorized the whole town the year you were born”
“you mean, the year i was assembled from a kit you bought at kmart.”
“that’s right.”
“starting to suspect nothing you say is ever true”