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On March 5th, Scrooge Mac Duck added an example (valid) on Shoddy Knockoff Product but also uncommented a bunch of ZC Es without adding any context. I thought they might have been confused, so I sent a ZCE notifier and recommented out the ZC Es on March 7th. Today (March 8th), Scrooge Mac Duck replied to my notifier (I sent a reply clarifying what the notifier was for). They also re-uncommented the ZC Es without adding any context. While the Star Wars entry and the entry added by Scrooge Mac Duck are both fine, there are 2 other entries that are very much ZCE. I'd like to recomment them out.

For reference, here are the 4 entries that I'm referring to:

• A Russian comic featured Batman, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Predator, and a T-rex.
• In Disney comics, the Horde of the Violet Hare may have a silly name, but they're surprisingly dangerous and dark. Not so for their knockoffs-slash-"rivals", the Legion of the Chartreuse Tortoise, whose only goal is to get whatever Macguffin the Horde is looking for at the time, have members who are ridiculously bad at keeping their membership a secret, and have so little funding that they have to borrow a friend's phone to contact the heroes.
• The Hungarian Star Wars comic, by Attila Fazekas, adapts A New Hope, and The Empire Strikes Back, though the Return of the Jedi adaptation was Screwed by the Lawyers.
• The Star Wars trilogy lianhuanhua summarizes A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi from a different persective. Chewbacca is a chimpanzee, Darth Vader wears a Skeletor outfit and rides a Triceratops, the Kennedy Space Center is a potential target for the Death Star, Luke wears a Boba Fett outfit and an astronaut uniform, Obi-Wan wears knight armor and rides a motorcycle firing a rocket, Stormtroopers wear Boba Fett outfits, the Tusken Raiders ride mammoths, Uncle Owen wears a cowboy outfit, and there are modern kitchen appliances, J&B whiskey, and an aesthetic combining Raygun Gothic, old fashion magazines, and who knows what ever else was traced over.

The first and third are clearly ZCE. The fourth is probably ok, and the second is Scrooge Mac Duck's valid addition.

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