Jump to content

Topic on User talk:Les

Incarnation Articles

2
The Real Skronk (talkcontribs)

Considering that a lot of articles are being made for the Big 5 (plus Anguirus) for their comic incarnations, do you think it's valid for some other monsters to have separate articles in that same fashion? E.g. Gigan, Hedorah, Manda, Battra, Kumonga, etc. They may not have a decent number in their film / television appearances, but adding the print material versions should result in a decently large number too.

Les (talkcontribs)

We built into the Scope that only Godzilla, King Kong, Gamera, Mothra, King Ghidorah, Mechagodzilla, Rodan, Anguirus, and Gyaos qualify for incarnation pages. Maybe it would be better to come up with criteria that future monsters can satisfy instead of just declaring the ones we decide, but I do think it could easily get excessive very quick. A page like Kumonga does not strike me as being so lengthy it needs to be split up. Generally comic incarnations do not differ significantly from their movie versions in terms of powers and behavior, and though different artists may reinterpret their designs, they're always recognizable enough that differences need not take more than a few sentences to explain. At the end of the day the pages we make should have some kind of utility, and I feel like having half the Toho pantheon split across a dozen+ pages apiece crosses into being less useful than more.