Thread:Nobrainer56/@comment-93957-20160503014939/@comment-995426-20160503032702

I've often wondered if there can be reasonable exceptions, though. (Though I haven't tried to push them myself&mdash;I'm just raising this now.)

For instance, Spike (2012 TV series) was named by Raphael, but Slash ditched the name as soon as he could, having never accepted the name. So, to Slash, it was retroactively never his name.

And what if someday there's a transgender character? (Maybe not this year, but 20 years from now, perhaps?) It's generally considered disrespectful to keep referring to transgender people by their previous name, even retroactively.

I think a good criteria is using a character's most fundamental name, whether or not it's the first one they were given. For most characters, this does mean the first name they were given, hence Hamato Yoshi, Oroku Saki, Chris Bradford, Xever Montes, Anton Zeck, Ivan Steranko, Timothy.

Hamato Miwa still serves Karai well, because even though she's generally called Karai, she never rejected this name when she learnt the truth, and it really is her more personal name used out of familial love.

I'm not entirely sure about Jason, because it's not exactly like he hated his original name to begin with, but a moment came when he refused to be called by that name and preferred to be called Mondo Gecko, as the name given to him by friends who actually respected him.

But, of course, when it comes to Slash, there is only Slash, and he's emphatic about this.

Lots of things to think about, I suppose.