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The paragragh about Racer X that Nerd added reeks of "why isn't this trope named after him but named after Char?"
That being said, I don't think the long paragraph about the history of Char is necesssary either.
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A] There seems to be a general consensus that the story is not really necessary part of the trope, which makes this one point less to discuss.
As pointed out in the edit page, people who want to know about Char can go to Characters/Gundam and read about him.
B] The problem I'm having with this trope is that the combination of ALL the attribute's of a Expy of Char is a trope of its own, even without Char.
It's like creating a page were every Idiot Hero with Anime Hair is a Son Goku Expy. (Yusuke, Luffy ,Naruto, Ichigo, Ben 10, Ash Ketchum... I could go on)
The fact that a popular character makes a trope popular, and that some Expy of him exist, doesn't mean that every character who has those traits is an expy of him.
Edited by NerdAtComputer Just call me Nac.Nerd At Computer, I'd really start a trs for Char Clone before making the changes you're making. The point of this trope is that these are characters unambiguously and deliberately based off of Char, not Racer X. What you're doing is changing the definition of the trope. Also, here's the previous trs thread
and there's a comment on the page
"only list an example if the character is a deliberate expy! A character with one or two vague similarities doesn't count.".
@Captain: Yup, you are probably right about the trs. Sorry. u__u
In my opinion, the best solution would be doing it two ways: creating a separeted trope for characters like this (Cool-Masked Racer Villan? IDK, I'm not good at names) and deleting ALL the ambiguos examples that are there. (like protoman, who was actually based on Racer X).
Then move most of the description (cool mask, fast pilot) to the new trope, and adding more Char specific data. (like the "3 times faster").
Just call me Nac.Yea, a separate trope for characters like Racer x seems appropriate. In the mean while it's best to revert the page back to the way it was before and cutlist the Racer X Clone redirect.
Edited by captainpat

There seems to be a disagreement between myself and Nerd At Computer about Char Clone. He deleted a paragraph in the description about Char (claiming it was "kind of irrelevant to this trope") and replaced it with one about Racer X. I reverted the changes, under the logic that Racer X (who predates Char), obviously couldn't be a Char Clone. Nerd At Computer responded by putting the changes back in and removing the note to editors that characters predating Char shouldn't be listed on the page.
Rather than start an edit war, I figured it would be better to check with the hivemind about what should be done.