Board Thread:Wiki-Related Discussion/@comment-25926288-20171222172845/@comment-2153169-20171223044714

CoolDudeAl wrote: DatNuttyKid wrote: CoolDudeAl wrote: I think that if you don't have the same name, the best you can be is an allusion. That doesn't mean it is a bad thing, but Rumple and Belle are Rumple and Belle, not Carl and Ellie.

Regarding Perseus, Lady, you are right, but I would say that is because we made a mistake there. Snow should also allude to Perseus, not be him, for the same reasons I just stated. That messes a bunch of things up, though. The original Captain Hook was James Hook, not Killian Jones. If we go with "if they don't have the same name", then we can't say Captain Hook is based on Captain Hook. ???

Or Regina is Ursula, Wish Hook is Flynn Rider/Rapunzel's prince, Violet is Hello-Central, Rumple is the Crocodile, Jefferson is the Mad Hatter... heck, technically it's Rumpelstiltskin, not Rumplestiltskin, so Rumple can't even be Rumpel. Belle would only be based on the Disney movie, not the original fairytale -- she's just an allusion to that. Same with Ariel, Jasmine, and Aurora.

What makes a character based on another character is... wait for it... if they're based on another character. Shocking, I know. Saying they can't be Carl and Ellie because they don't have their names, haven't always been, etc. is really just over-complicating matters. They filled the role of Carl and Ellie. That makes them Carl and Ellie. Well, then I suggest getting rid of allusion all together. If a character is based on another character, who cares how much they are based on them, we can just say they are all based on the character they are based on. Would actually save this wiki a lot of time. We're not getting rid of allusion ^^

The show clearly proves the name is not the most important element to say that a character is based on another one. DNK just gave a loooot of examples.

The naming was the only problem so far for this case, and we just proved that it is not a real problem. Meaning that now, we just have to follow our format.

As I listed it, we have definitely enough of elements to say they're based on them. Just not the name, which does not matter. Again, unless someone really want to put in discussion all characters based on another one without the name... We just have to follow our format ^^