I'm talking about the old tv show bowser in the first paragraph.
Who cares if they look alike! That still doesn't mean that K. Rool is a clone of bowser! Hell, they do resemble each other, but... We're talking about the video game. Not the TV show. I dont' think any TV shows should be tooken into account in any discussion. Why? Because they are warped and manipulated away from any story line the games have. And that is what Brawl will be, a game, not a Tv series.
Anyways... K. Rool isn't a clone of Bowser, no way no how! They have completely different personalities. Well actually, you can't tell, because you don't get to see much of EITHER of their personalities. I favor K. Rool over Bowser, he just SEEMS more villaneous, to me. You can see more of K. Rool's personality in DK64, the way he always recites how much he dispises the Kong's and that he is sick of failure, and wants revenge. You don't see that with Bowser.