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Even if it isn't meaningful, I do enjoy the cross-media subpages. If the trope gets cleaned up, I'd still like the cross-media part to be on JFF, since that's what it seems to be- a fun page.
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The page says it's only supposed to be for people who share the same full name, though I'm not sure if it could apply to characters with Only One Name.
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^ The page states that the entire name must be the same.
- If it's a legitimate Only One Name situation, then their entire name is the same, so they can qualify.
- If it's a No Name Given situation, then only half their name is known, so they can't qualify.
So two people named Mike Johnson can qualify, as can two people named Mike who have no last name. But two Mikes with unknown last names, or two Mr. Johnsons with unknown first names, can't qualify.
I had a dog-themed avatar before it was cool.
Another reason why a move to JFF would be appropriate; it's so badly misused that it just looks like a place to goof around and compare characters based solely on their names. It isn't doing anything constructive as a trope, but cutting it outright seems silly, too.
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I'd be up for a cut tbh. It provides nothing to the wiki.
^ It provides something in the "two people named Mike Johnson" case. Whether that's JFF or not has yet to be determined.
I had a dog-themed avatar before it was cool.
I thought that the trope was intended to be more than just having the same name but more, two characters with the same specific name from different series active at the same time with no connection between them. Instances such as Dennis the Menace (to quote from the page's example):
- There are two popular comic strip characters known as Dennis the Menace: the American one created by Hank Ketcham, and the UK one featured in the anthology comic The Beano. Both are young grade-school boys who own dogs and get into mischief, but they're otherwise quite different. To make the coincidence even more astounding, the characters first appeared (in different publications, on opposite sides of the Atlantic) within three days of each other in March 1951.
^and that's a good example. pending wick check i think the majority of them are just "character X has the same name as character Y" or even "character Z has the same name as [real life famous person]", which is borderline troping real people.
i can see allowing an exemption for characters that violate the One Mario Limit, but in general i think it needs some tighter guidelines.
Migrated to Chloe Jessica!
I don't suggest cutting. Is very trivial yes, but it helps to give some insight into other shows and the author. For example, a light novel naming the enemy team Akatsuki brings to mind Naruto, but the fact the protagonist big brother is a villain can help give evidence that the author is aware of the other show.
To win, you need to adapt, and to adapt, you need to be able to laugh away all the restraints. Everything holding you back.
No matter what happens, we're cutting a shitload of examples here for not actually being examples.
(And the One Mario Limit is its own thing; examples of other Marios go on that page, not this one.)
I had a dog-themed avatar before it was cool.
Names The Same seems to be massively overused to mean "any time two characters have the same name", even for very common names like Alice, Mike, or Steve. (All of which have examples on the Cross-Media subpages.)
I don't want to have to go through TRS for this, but two characters from different works sharing the same common first name is so blatantly People Sit on Chairs that I might have no choice.