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→To be or not to be that's the question. (Or why is that even a question in the first place?): The figures do use the correct names of Red and Green (Blue in the West)
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::I hate to continue to add on but this has been on my mind for the past couple of days... If Kotobukiya or Bandai or whoever were to release figures that said "Fire, the male player character from FRLG" or "Terry, the rival from FRLG," would we change those names on those pages for those games? --[[User:Celadonkey|<span style="color:#00A1E9">cela</span><span style="color:#BF004F">donk</span>]] ([[User talk:Celadonkey|talk]]) 22:03, 10 July 2019 (UTC) | ::I hate to continue to add on but this has been on my mind for the past couple of days... If Kotobukiya or Bandai or whoever were to release figures that said "Fire, the male player character from FRLG" or "Terry, the rival from FRLG," would we change those names on those pages for those games? --[[User:Celadonkey|<span style="color:#00A1E9">cela</span><span style="color:#BF004F">donk</span>]] ([[User talk:Celadonkey|talk]]) 22:03, 10 July 2019 (UTC) | ||
:::Your specific mention of "Fire" is interesting because, in addition to being the obvious game-name counterpart to "Leaf", it was a common Japanese fan name for remake Red. If a figure were to actually use "Fire" for remake Red, it would ''completely destroy'' my argument. [[User:Bwburke94|bwburke94]] ([[User talk:Bwburke94|talk]]) 08:38, 11 July 2019 (UTC) | :::Your specific mention of "Fire" is interesting because, in addition to being the obvious game-name counterpart to "Leaf", it was a common Japanese fan name for remake Red. If a figure were to actually use "Fire" for remake Red, it would ''completely destroy'' my argument. [[User:Bwburke94|bwburke94]] ([[User talk:Bwburke94|talk]]) 08:38, 11 July 2019 (UTC) | ||
::::Needless to say, the Bandai figures [https://www.bandai.co.jp/candy/products/2019/45496604549660000.html use ''Red'' as name of Red] and [https://www.bandai.co.jp/candy/products/2019/1000136260.html ''Green'' as name of Green] (Blue in the West). Incidentally, both the Green and Prof. Oak's figures reconfirm that these Bandai figures are themed after ''Pokémon Fire Red and Leaf Green'', again limiting the scope of what they are portraying. After all, this kind of licensed material needs approval from the owners of the Pokémon IP (typically, [[The Pokémon Company]]), it can be expected that they perform some checks on relevant details of IP such as name, basic bio and appearance. It's an official figure, not a fan-made one. In any case, the name ''Leaf'' being used in internal data to refer to the female protagonist of ''Fire Red and Leaf Green'' means that Game Freak named her ''Leaf'' internally, it has never been just a fan name or an arbitrary name to begin with. | |||
::::Furthermore, we still don't know the full details of the connection between Green and Leaf. Considering how ''Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee'' are explicitly a remake of ''Yellow'', they are not forced to connect with ''Fire Red and Leaf Green'', not to say that they feature an alternate timeline, where especially Red has a different role. The design of Green is not just influenced by that of Leaf, she also resembles the female character on the cover of the Nintendo Official Guidebook of ''Red, Green and Blue''. Regarding the latter character, Sugimori said that [https://twitter.com/super_32x/status/269847118754217986 he was a little conscious of her when designing the female protagonist of ''Fire Red and Leaf Green''], which again points out how the relationship between Green from ''Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee'' and Leaf from ''Fire Red and Leaf Green'' might be more complex than we think. | |||
::::In any case, the descriptions of both the figures of Leaf explicitly mention how the character portrayed is the female protagonist of ''Fire Red and Leaf Green'', Blue/Green from ''Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee'' is never called into question, therefore these figures strictly aren't against the games they are explicitly referring to.--[[User:Mister Wu|Mister Wu]] ([[User talk:Mister Wu|talk]]) 22:39, 11 July 2019 (UTC) | |||
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