Board Thread:Wiki-Related Discussion/@comment-25926288-20171222172845/@comment-25375217-20171223035731

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.