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With the specific cases of "Wells"/Thawne and "Jay"/Zoom, scare quotes are regrettably the best option. The real Harrison Wells and the real Jay Garrick are both significant characters, so using the names for the impersonators (without a qualifier) is a bad idea.
The troper responsible for this mess is goldenroad, by the way.
2025: the year it all ends?Except these entries are long before the reveal. The fake names were causing no issues on the funny page (on the character pages, I agree with you), and just come off as pedantic overzealous "fixing." Not to mention spoiler issues.
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.Eobard-as-Thawn is also a pretty different character from Eobard-as-Eobard, and impersonating Jay Garrick provides a dramatic distinction to Zoom's statements.
Edited by crazysamaritan Link to TRS threads in project mode here.I still don't see the need to hint at it at all.
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff."Harrison" doesn't work, because we've got at least 3 recurring "Harrison Wells" characters, not to mention Season Zero Harrision (the timeline before Eobard went back to kill Barry's mother). Putting [Thawne: [exasperated] Yeah, keep the sweatshirt.] isn't accurate to the story at all, because it implies Thawne-as-Thawne or Eddie Thawn told Barry that.
Link to TRS threads in project mode here.The Wellses can mostly be kept straight if we keep to a specific house style. Here's my idea.
- The fake Earth-1 Wells, aka Eobard Thawne, is "Wells" when played by Tom Cavanagh and "Thawne" otherwise.
- The real Earth-1 Wells is "Real Wells".
- Earth-2 Wells is "Harry".
- Earth-19 Wells is "HR".
- The redneck Wells from an unnumbered Earth is "Hells Wells".
- The French-speaking Wells from an unnumbered Earth is "Mime Wells".
This leaves Earth-17 Wells as the only one needing to be disambiguated by his Earth, and he's a oneshot character anyway.
2025: the year it all ends?I can get behind all that. Any other thoughts, or should I start doing it?
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.

Got an odd problem that needs a bit of backstory. In Series.The Flash 2014, Eobard Thawne spent the entire first season pretending to be Harrison Wells. Therefore, understandably, all references to him from before The Reveal called him Harrison Wells. But recently, someone went in and edited every single entry from Harrison Wells to Eobard Thawne, depending on exact context (ex; if the original line was just Wells, it got changed to just Thawne). They did something similar with a character in the same situation in the second season. There is no discussion on this anywhere I can find.
Now, I understand that spoiler tags are depreciated on subpages. But there's a difference between "don't hide spoilers" and "plaster spoilers everywhere, even where it doesn't make sense." It feels like a Sinkhole without a link; it's an unnecessary correction that distracts you from what you're reading.
Does anyone else have any thoughts on this? I think it will have to be fixed manually, but we'll see. Maybe we can back up some of the recent changes and then just roll it back.