Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-34924658-20171024194401/@comment-25926288-20180222191748

Tysonjackson wrote: For any newcomers who are confused, this isn't a theory thread. They have confirmed that Red Queen/Anastasia is based on the Evil Stepsisters. The fandom is split, because they didn't explicitly mention the movie. Half of us think that's an obvious, given her name, the fact that she wears a pink dress in her flashbacks at home and portions of her storyline like falling in love with a lower class man, whom her mother disapproves. While the other side think that because it wasn't explicitly mentioned, we can't use it. And because there’s enough to differentiate it/ not enough to say it’s based on.

Based on is a stronger wording than allusion and since there’s discrepancies and weak parts to the based on argument, we should use allusion of as we have done elsewhere.