Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25491743-20161231205745/@comment-1916997-20170103051513

Joeymb77 wrote: I agree with all your suggestions, except for Dracula. Adding non-fictional characters to the story makes for great plotholes, which is why I think using Mulan and Blackbeard was a big mistake. Things like Mulan and Blackbeard (even though at one time they may have been based on a real person) become folk heroes (or folk villians) that I would argue are fictional enough that the fictional version takes on a life of its own. Dracula (while slightly based on a real person), is even more fictional than someone like Blackbeard, however, as he has a totally different name and also supernatural powers, so that wouldn't be a problem in the slightest. For more about Folk heroes, here's a link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_hero