Board Thread:Wiki-Related Discussion/@comment-1894786-20151119234514/@comment-1916997-20151126184943

Eskaver wrote: Well, I'll offfer a counterpart using the same conditions you have used.

-in love with Robin

-conflicts involving the Sheriff of Nottingham who flirts with them

Well, then by that case, Regina is an allusion to Maid Marian and I would beg to differ.

If that's too far, then Regina has a weak, submissive father, Regina wants a life, not of royalty and falls in love with a thief. Is she an allusion to Jasmine? Is then Rumple an allusion to Jafar? Or is it Leopold? Is then Leopold Jafar while also being Aladdin because he had a genie? But what if Snow is Jasmine and she fell in love with a commoner who pretended to be a prince? Is Leopold the sweet-hearted Sultan? Is then the Genie then Jafar? Or is Regina Jafar and the Genie Iago?

If you follow my train of thought, then you see with lax conditions, then everyone I listed is an allusion to Jasmine, Jafar, Aladdin. Well, I think Leopold being an allusion to Aladdin is a bit of a stretch actually. All he did was find a genie lamp that washed up on shore. I think the difference with the Wonderland Four (I'm going to call them that to save time, lol), and the other stuff mentioned, is that we have them in direct conflict with a character named Jafar, and we also don't have any characters that are named Aladdin or Jasmine. That is especially what pushes it over the edge for me. I do think that once we get characters named Aladdin and Jasmine, we should probably take off all the allusions to them, although we can decide that at the time that they actually show up.