Thread:The S/@comment-995426-20190930084220

I've been thinking that perhaps the article Mezmer-Ron should be renamed according to his current name, Hypno-Potamus. Even though it is usually the practice that articles are named according to a character's canonical personal name (Jack Finney, Jess Harley, Jason (2012 TV series), etc.), there have been some notable exceptions to this. Where Hypno-Potamus is concerned, my reasoning is that neither this name nor Mezmer-Ron can reasonably be considered his original name&mdash;they're stage names which has also has become known by casually. It's not that Hypno doesn't have a real name, but that we don't know what it is, so we're only left with his stage names, which has a similar effect as not having a known real name. Mezmer-Ron was an old stage name, and Hypno-Potamus is a new stage name. In the absence of his real name, it seems more reasonable to primarily refer to him by his current stage name rather than his previously known stage name, considering that his professional, social and romantic lives all now seem to revolve around the name Hypno-Potamus. But as soon as we learn his original real name not used on stage, his article should be renamed to that. I know my reasoning involves a certain degree of conjecture ("what's to say Mezmer-Ron wasn't his birth name or previous legal name?"), there's also certain amount of conventional wisdom involved ("what kind of person is born with the name Mezmer-Ron?").
 * Slash (IDW) was originally called Specimen 6. But that was a name he was given as a laboratory animal.  Slash is a name he later accepted and was called by people he knew and loved.  This is because Specimen 6 was not a name&mdash;it was a designation.  Before being called Slash, he effectively had no name.
 * Seymour Gutz (IDW) was originally called Mutagen Man. But, like Slash, Seymour was born in captivity, with Mutagen Man being more of a project name than a personal name.  Also as with Slash, this meant Seymour had no real name before Mondo gave him one.  It was an important moment in recognizing Seymour's dignity as a person.

What do you think? 