Should characters based on entities also get tagged as their entities? Or is it judged case by case?
Examples:
cthulhu (smite) -> cthulhu
nasus (lol) -> anubis
skyrim werewolf -> werewolf
Topic: Characters based on entities
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romanicyte2 said:
Should characters based on entities also get tagged as their entities? Or is it judged case by case?Examples:
cthulhu (smite) -> cthulhu
nasus (lol) -> anubis
skyrim werewolf -> werewolf
No, that should only happen with species tags, not character tags.
Out of these, only the skyrim werewolf should be implicated to werewolf because a werewolf is a species. Everything else is bad.
If smite’s Cthulhu is literally the same character as lovecraft’s Cthulhu: Maybe.
Nasus is only based on Anubis, not literally him.
insulindianphasmid said:
If smite’s Cthulhu is literally the same character as lovecraft’s Cthulhu: Maybe.Nasus is only based on Anubis, not literally him.
Cthulhu is Cthulhu. The only case I could see for the tag being valid at all is if the game version is substantially different, visually, from his description by Lovecraft so as to, theoretically with a name change, not run a copyright risk. Given the Smite team jumped on it the moment said works went public domain, of course, there was no reason for differentiation. Smite's characters are the mythological/fictional characters, bear in mind.
romanicyte2 said:
Does the same apply to different form of the same character, like meowser -> bowser? For that example, lots of them are tagged as both.
Different forms of a character are supposed to be tagged separately. Link (wolf form) is not tagged as Link, Gigantamax Charizard is not tagged as Charizard, etc. Unless the tag is a base name instead of a specific form, like lycanroc is not a particular form itself but is the base name for midday lycanroc, midnight lycanroc, and dusk lycanroc all together. A number of people mistag the normal form of a character for alternate forms, though. Mistagged posts should be fixed when seen.