One Mario Limit cleanup

One Mario Limit is a YMMV trope about names that are strongly associated with a specific person/character. It has a tendency to attract Fan Myopia, i.e. "There will never be another character named X" without further justification or explanation. There is also a tendency to attract natter.

To start off, this example regarding "Kirby" is likely valid, but there is a heck of a natter problem.

• There are no other video game characters called Kirby^note except for minor NPCs from Bully and Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, the latter of which uses a Pokémon that resembles the pink sphere and is highly associated with stars, but they get away with it exactly for being minor NPCs. The only other relatively notable fictional characters who share the same name are Kirby Buckets, a vacuum cleaner from The Brave Little Toaster^note He was simply named for the "Kirby" brand of vacuum cleaners. and a private detective, but the latter two predate the pink puffball and none of them really reach the same level of popularity.
  • And in real life, Kirby shares name recognition with Jack Kirby. And yes, jokes have been made, which is natural when two recognizable figures share the same name.
  • For added hilarity, Kirby, a character known for sucking up his enemies, shares his name with the Kirby vaccuum cleaner company.
  • There has also been jokes made with baseball relief pitcher Kirby Yates. One had Yates photoshopped as the pink puffball himself◊. Another had Yates physically sign his autograph on a baseball fan's Kirby plushie, with Yates personally approving the comparison made between himself and the pink puffball.
  • Quite a few Kirby and Super Smash Bros. fans associate the name "Hal" with HAL Laboratory, the company responsible for the Kirby and first three Smash Bros. games. Green Lantern fans associate the name with the title character's alter ego, while the literary-minded might first think of Prince Hal, and sci-fi film fans will likely think of HAL 9000.

You may wanna slow down a little. This still needs TRS.

I have added the Kirby Yates example to the Kirby example, especially given that Yates himself acknowledged and approves this connection. He even signed a baseball fan's Kirby plushie to confirm this. To be fair, Yates was five years old when the first Kirby game, Kirby's Dream Land, was released.

I did not add another baseball player, Kirby Puckett, to the Kirby example given that Puckett was very unlikely to be familiar with the video game character.

Edited by Nen_desharu on Oct 25th 2020 at 10:56:24 AM

Hollering to withdraw; it can be reopened if a cleanup thread is deemed necessary after the TRS.