#2: Oct 15th 2011 at 11:10:09 AM
We already have an active thread for
Inspector Zenigata. Perhaps you can make your suggestions there.
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My problem with the name is pretty simple. The name Inspector Zenigata is from a derivative work. Why not take the name from the original work instead? Inspector Ganimard.
That is if we should have a the trope named for the character at all.
From the renaming guidelines:
"Character-Named Tropes used to be standard, but are now deprecated and considered a form of Fan Myopia. Very few characters are iconic enough to truly personify a trope, and nearly all of them can be found in the dictionary (e.g. Pollyanna, Quisling). Using anyone else risks Popcultural Osmosis Failure and people thinking the trope is about some other aspect of that character."
Zenigata is definitely not iconic enough to be the trope name. My suggestion is Good Cop Antagonist which is descriptive and easy to understand. In a similar vein Inspector Javert could be renamed Bad Cop Antagonist.