User blog comment:Devil fruit user/Crocodile and Alabasta/@comment-5962458-20130918120746

We still don't know if Dresrossa's love for DD is genuine or enforced by threat. So the similarities are not clear enough. Whether DD inspired Croc I can't tell but I would say no cause

a.) Croc is older than DD and his scheme to get Pluton could be previously conceived

b.) Croc is not the guy who would relly on another man's idea to achieve his dream.