Thread:Original TMNT Cartoon Fan/@comment-93957-20190121184656/@comment-995426-20190422150242

I suppose "Versions of" would be okay, too. Maybe even change Category:Shredders to Category:Versions of the Shredder.

We should also be careful not to lump highly similar characters that actually have no common origin, such as Category:Versions of Old Hob vs. Category:Versions of Tiger Claw, or Category:Versions of Leatherhead vs. Category:Versions of Usub Gerstalk.

But perhaps it would be all right to lump characters that were directly based on other characters but renamed for other reasons, such as Natsu in Category:Versions of Tatsu, or both Victor Falco and Farrell in Category:Versions of Victor Feral, or the Dream Beavers in Category:Versions of the Terror Bears, or Zeno in Category:Versions of Traximus. Most of these examples apply to versions in the 2012 TV series, which was far more prone to rename characters for nebulous lawyer-friendly reasons.

In further comment on the previous paragraph:  from Zanramon takes the cake among examples, as he was obviously a rebooted Zanramon character and they absolutely had the rights to use the name "Zanramon" as it came from Mirage Volume 1 itself, but I can imagine a corporate legal department cautioning that it might provoke any remotely possible legal action from the makers of Pokemon or Digimon, and "Zanramon" certainly does sound like it would be the name of a Digimon. It's the same kind of logic why the film The Secret of NIMH both declined to use the book's title Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH or even the name of Mrs. Frisby herself (whom they renamed Mrs. Brisby), because they wanted to avoid any remotely possible legal action from the makers of the Frisbee toy. Sigh.