Category talk:Comic-only characters

Whats Stella doing here? She exists in show contuity.

Dude. What the fuck do you think Linkage IS? A goddamn video game? -hx 00:39, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Medium is irrelevent

You may think the medium is irrelevant, but I would argue otherwise. Apparently, so would others.--G.B. Blackrock 18:43, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Explain? Why does stella reside in a different contuity than the show-Microns she encounters? X-BoB58 19:56, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

The problem is that the term "comic-only" is itself unclear. It was originally used among fans at a time when there was only one comic, and that comic was its own continuity. Linkage is a comic, but it is not set in a "comic" continuity -- it's set in the Armada cartoon continuity.

So, the question becomes whether "comic only" is supposed to refer to the media or to the continuity. In the past, the two were interchangeable. I would tend to think that the continuity is more "important" than the media, but that doesn't solve the issue that the term itself is broken these days. Without making it more specific, I don't think it is useful anymore.

--Steve-o 20:36, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

I... really don't see what the big godsdamned deal is. Stella is a character who... drum roll... appeared only in a COMIC. Classifying her otherwise would just lead to a string of clarifications that ultimately boil down to "she was only in a comic" anyway. I think the simple clarification of "cartoon-only" and "comic-only" in regards to media is fine, because EVEN WITHIN THOSE DEFINITIONS you have all these different continuties. We've got what, four (debatably five) different cartoon continuities... and HOW many comic continuities? "Cartoon-only" and "comic-only" are perfectly fine base-level categories for non-toy characters. You can sort out what damn continuity they belong to after that.

--M "Why Make This Shit More Complicated Than It Needs To Be?" Sipher

Becuse if we say that Stella is comic only peaple might think that she's exclusive to the Dreamwave comic X-BoB58 00:01, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

No, 'cuz the art's too good. --ItsWalky 00:17, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

The suggestion that if Stella is labeled "comic-only," people might think she was in Dreamwave, is patently absurd.--G.B. Blackrock 01:11, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Especially if these people, you know, READ. Last I checked, Dreamwave never made anything under the banner "Micron Legend", which is in nice big letters in her entry. Even a cursory glance at the page for Stella whould dispell any ideas that she's somehow DW-related. --M "As I Keep Telling Ant, You Can't Sub-Divide And Cater To The Dumbest Possible Bottom-Feeders Out There In These Things" Sipher 14:23, 22 March 2006

Whatever Armada-era comic has the leymen heard of? X-BoB58 02:23, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Panini UK? Hasbro pack-in mini-comics? --ItsWalky 02:34, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Template?

Do we have a "template" entry from which other human entries should be based, such as we do for Sunstreaker (G1)? (Also, do I have permission to delete this old argument above re: Stella?)--G.B. Blackrock 17:10, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

I would refrain from deleting anything on a talk page unless it's really needed, since it might be useful for any future editors. A lot of the precedents on a wiki are established on talk pages, and I wouldn't disregard the usefulness of having debates like that kept for reference, especially since there isn't really much need to delete stuff. I'd just suggest that if there's a lot of back and forth that's dead now, that it just be moved to the bottom of the page, or to a sub-page (with an appropriate link on the main talk page) if really needed. --Suki Brits 20:56, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Fair enough. But some of these pages do desperately need house keeping, as the conversations can get pretty unwieldy.

By the way, how about the main question? (re: template for non-TFs)--G.B. Blackrock 23:12, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Clarification?

Within the context of the category parameter (characters who have only made appearances in various Transformers comics and have not had toys or other mechandise made of them), do GIJoes really fit here? Or Spider-Man? Granted, they've never had TRANSFORMERS toys or merchandise of them, but I think some clarification is in order... or maybe we just remove the category from those specific guys. Either way.--Monzo 02:39, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Comic-only humans?

This is getting a bit unwieldy, maybe it's time to sub-categorise? --Emvee 07:16, 26 October 2013 (EDT)

Seems reasonable, we already have Comic-only Transformers. --abates 16:55, 26 October 2013 (EDT)