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I don't think it needs to be split. If a trope applies only to the film version of the character, it can be mentioned as film-only within the example.
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So the pages should be merged?
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While i never read the books or watched movies, i think most characterization wont be the same between the medium.
^ It won't be exactly the same, but in most cases the characterizations are similar enough not to warrant separate pages. Unless it's only a loose adaptation, where the characters' roles, names and relationship with one another have been changed. Case in point, And Then There Were None has only one character page, despite the fact that it has at least five different film adaptations (and that's not counting adaptations from other media), each having different degrees of Alternate Character Interpretation
Edited by Adept
It's better to be discussed with the fans of The Hunger Games. I haven't read the books or watched the movies either, but sometimes adapted characters are very dissimilar from the original versions or are even In Name Only. I don't think there is a universal answer in this case, and judgement is needed to decide. Preferably from those who've both read and watched those.
Edited by Asherinka
In this case, I'd go with "it didn't need to be split, but it seems the epitome of foolishness to put more work into merging them."
Even if they're mostly redundant, even the most faithful adaptation is going to have a fairly significant amount of divergence (if only for time constraints).
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^ I agree. Since the split is already done, I'm inclined to leave it be.
Having read the books and seen the movies, I don't feel the split was ever necessary, and in fact I felt that way even before this was brought up in ATT. The films are a pretty faithful adaptation overall, and most of the film characters don't deviate that heavily from their portrayal in the books. And in the cases where there is deviation, it could be mentioned as film-only within the example, as bwburke94 pointed out. Especially because the Harry Potter films deviate more from their novels than the Hunger Games, and the character pages were not split for Harry Potter.
Granted, it would be a fair bit of work to merge the HG character pages back together, but I actually think it'd be more convenient and beneficial that way in the long run. It's not something I feel like working on right now though... unless someone wanted to help me?
Either way, it is a project I would like to get the ball rolling on eventually. Once I've cleared off some of the other items on my TV tropes to-do list, I might take this to the Short Term Projects forum.
Edited by StardustSoldier
Does Characters.The Hunger Games really need to be split into the book and movie versions of the characters? Most of the movie characters are similar enough to their book counterparts.