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With each of these being only if we can find somewhere in the scripts or journals where they are referred to with these names.}} | With each of these being only if we can find somewhere in the scripts or journals where they are referred to with these names.}} | ||
{{EO|time=23:27, 25 May 2012 (UTC)|annoyed=I really can't stand it when our "logic", so-called, contradicts what the GAMES tell us. It is my personal opinion that we go with what the journal entries call the respective characters and just leave the bloody articles ALONE for once instead of drastically overthinking things: | |||
Games > Nomura referring to "Master Xehanort" as "Xehanort" 20 times in a ''KH3D'' interview because he knows we know who he's talking about in context of the interview > fan-logic. | |||
Honestly, if I were just someone browsing around the KH Wiki, I would type "Master Eraqus" in the search bar if I wanted to read about Master Eraqus, not "Eraqus". I would type "Aqua" to read about Aqua rather than "Master Aqua". I would search "Captain Hook" to read about Captain Hook rather than "Hook" simply because that's not what the character's called (at least the incarnation of him present in ''Kingdom Hearts''). There is no such character as "Triton", only '''KING''' Triton. | |||
Short and sweet, informally dropping a title or using nicknames is simply part of natural conversation. I don't go around calling you "KrytenKoro" all the time; I call you "Kryten". You don't call me "Eternal Nothingness XIII" all the time; you call me "ENX". Same goes for last names: I don't call Tom Sanderson "Tom Sanderson" whenever I refer to him; I call him "Tom". Unless there are numerous characters running around with the same name (*cough* Xehanort incarnations *cough*), it is implied that when I say "Tom", I mean "Tom Sanderson". We keep both Jack Sparrow AND Jack Skellington so we know who we're talking about when. If the name appears again in context and it's obvious we know who we're talking about, THAT's when we shift to "Jack". | |||
Furthermore, a character like Jack Sparrow referring to Captain Barbossa as "Barbossa" is simply so we don't have to hear "Captain Barbossa, Captain Barbossa, Captain Barbossa" over and over again. As I said above, it's just not how people talk. You also need to look at how the character him/herself and his/her relationship and mannerisms with the person to whom he/she refers. Master Xehanort doesn't respect Master Eraqus, so why use the title? Thus "Eraqus" is used by Master Xehanort to refer to that particular character. When "Xehanort" is referred to as such, it's very confusing in the case of ''KH3D'', and Master Xehanort or Young Xehanort usually has to be on the screen for us to know who the characters are talking about. Obviously the only Xehanort in ''BBS'' was "Master Xehanort", so we know who Terra's referring to when he says, "But I was tricked. Xehanort set the whole thing up." | |||
Your suggestions are just no-brainers or common sense (note I do not list all of your suggestions, only a few that get the point across for all related characters; I apologize for any redundancy to above sections): | |||
*Master Xehanort -> Xehanort...Really? And YOU hate confusing titles/links on the Wiki? The article could be about anyone called "Xehanort" if we did something like this... I saw your draft of the "Xehanort" article, and while the arguement about merging Young Xehanort and Master Xehanort is another arguement for another day, I honestly thought someone finally changed "Terra-Xehanort" back to "Xehanort" (apprentice) like I had asked at forst. It wasn't until I bothered to actually click the link on the Recent Changes that I saw the subject matter... | |||
*Belle -> Princess Belle....Um, no. As long as you've been alive and ''Beauty and the Beast'' has been out, how many times have you actually seen/heard her referred to this way? | |||
*Lady Tremaine -> Tremaine...Who the hell is "Tremaine"? No character has ever existed with this name. | |||
*Leon -> Squall Leonhart...As far as I know, no character called "Squall Leonhart" exists within ''Kingdom Hearts''. Yeah, it's included in Leon's backstory, but that's like changing your last name and having some stubborn idiot continue to use your original one. | |||
*Cloud -> Cloud Strife...The last name is never used; we're not the FF Wiki, where it IS. While we as fans know him to be Cloud Strife, the characters in ''Kingdom Hearts'' know him as Cloud. | |||
*Captain Hook -> James Hook...The character is never reffered to as "James Hook" in Disney media, which is the farthest we can go for evidence in terms of the character in ''Kingdom Hearts''. He's only called "Hook" when it's obvious the viewer knows we're talking about CAPTAIN Hook. | |||
*Captain Barbossa -> Hector Barbossa...We're not the Disney Wiki. Our perspective is limited to ''Kingdom Hearts''. The name "Hector" is never used in the game. | |||
We make policies for a reason...to stick to them; we all make a pact to do so. Yeah, policies change, but only to be improved...not to be completely eliminated and replaced with something purely nonsensical. We agreed long ago to only refer to the characters as the games do (yes I know these exact words are not in the MoS...), and that's how I feel it should stay!}} |
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