Sankaku Channel/Implicating "Name_of_character"_ (fire_emblem_if) -> "Name_of_character"_ (fire_emblem)

Reason: Most of the Fire Emblem characters are tagged like this, without specifying the game they come from. It's easy to look for them in this way since almost all of them don't share the same name. Not to mention that this could serve to mantain the coherence and order between the tags among the series.

I don’t know about this. You say there are some characters who share the same name from different FE games?

To my knowledge there's only one, and it was an alias anyways (Lucina)

The issue is that multiple-instance characters do need to be tagged in regards to their individual appearances--you would not have Marth_(Fire_Emblem_Awakening) and Marth_(Fire_Emblem_SD) as the same Marth--one is an illusionary clone in canon, the other is marked duplicate made using 'out of canon' logic in a different game. Marth is, however, his own tag as a unique and symbolic character, so one can easily forgo the two additional tags in this case.

Other cases, it would not be so simple--any character remade for Awakening, in my opinion, shouldn't be counted separate unless they are specifically edited to take on their own form, such as the Shadow Dragon (main antagonist of basically the entire series as I've seen). The Shadow Dragon goes by different names at times, and different incarnations and appearances--these should be marked as different tags. Sacred Stones, for what little I remember, had the Shadow Dragon differently from Awakening as an example.

It's entirely dependent on character-by-character stipulation from what I can tell.

Vitali said:
The issue is that multiple-instance characters do need to be tagged in regards to their individual appearances--you would not have Marth_(Fire_Emblem_Awakening) and Marth_(Fire_Emblem_SD) as the same Marth--one is an illusionary clone in canon, the other is marked duplicate made using 'out of canon' logic in a different game. Marth is, however, his own tag as a unique and symbolic character, so one can easily forgo the two additional tags in this case.

Other cases, it would not be so simple--any character remade for Awakening, in my opinion, shouldn't be counted separate unless they are specifically edited to take on their own form, such as the Shadow Dragon (main antagonist of basically the entire series as I've seen). The Shadow Dragon goes by different names at times, and different incarnations and appearances--these should be marked as different tags. Sacred Stones, for what little I remember, had the Shadow Dragon differently from Awakening as an example.

It's entirely dependent on character-by-character stipulation from what I can tell.

So you're saying they're basically like LoZ characters?

just_juan said:
So you're saying they're basically like LoZ characters?

Not really. Marth (not Lucy) in FE:A was the real Marth. As with the other DLC characters from the previous games. Whether they're a magic clone or whatever dumb reason they had to exist, they weren't a unique incarnation of the character. They were literally the same person with a new design from kozaki_yusuke

Tallcat said:
Not really. Marth (not Lucy) in FE:A was the real Marth. As with the other DLC characters from the previous games. Whether they're a magic clone or whatever dumb reason they had to exist, they weren't a unique incarnation of the character. They were literally the same person with a new design from kozaki_yusuke

...I pretty much already said that, in my opinion, characters who were made specifically for a version regardless of their previous incarnations should be treated as separate characters. Most consider the separate Zeldas as different princesses--as one ought to, given their individual personalities in addition to their appearances--and it remains that there isn't a universal tag for this case. However, there are no Sonic tags for his separate incarnations because of universal association, even when comparing the classic to the modern.

Once again, it is a instance-based decision when judging both repeated presence and incarnation as can be seen. If the original poster gave the name of the exact character, perhaps it can be whittled down further--most Fire Emblem characters go without proper tagging because many of the games do not have names bearing a English-counterpart... And because some taggers are rather lazy.