Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-226878-20140729050544/@comment-226878-20140730045918

Also, I've forgotten to mention the Malachite twins whom (as the original designs for Snow and Lil Red) now stand officially as allusions to the siblings Rose Red and Snow White. Secondarily, they may be considered shoutouts to "Big/Papa Bear" (whose porridge is too hot and bed is too hard) and "Middle/Mama Bear" (whose porridge is too cold and bed is too soft). Since in most versions of Goldilocks, there is no established pecking order within the bear household, it can be assumed that Junior (aka "little/baby bear") is equal to or superior to the twins despite his name.

Tukson, whom (as a "puma") is an obvious shoutout to Sabretooth (particularly Liev Schreiber's iteration) although, if he is an allusion to some other character, I've got no clue who that could be. Then there are the as-of-yet-only-once-mentioned "Professor Peach" (whom I think is based on James of "and the Giant Peach") and the as-of-yet-unconfirmed Ironwood (as in "is he the guy with the robots?" We don't know) whom I think is based on the Tin Woodsman. The name fits and if Ironwood is the guy with the robots, that would make his role identical to Tin Man's post-Wizard stories. Some have speculated that "robot-guy" is based on Gepetto due to his connection to Penny. It's possible he's an allusion to both characters simultaneously if only due to his connection to Penny. Maybe his full name will be Joseph Ironwood (Gepetto is thought to be an Italian variant of Joseph, similar to Giuseppe).

Bigger questions come in the form of the speculated "Nea Politan" girl. If that is her name. She's only glimpsed once during the Volume 2 Trailer and if you're not attentive, you've most likely missed her. As such, she doesn't really come across as particularly important at this point. The same could be said of the four additional figures beside "Ironwood" and Penny during the opening. Who are the two humans? Who are the two cyborgs? Why are they red and blue? They're by the most blatant shoutout to RT's Red vs Blue, but are they based on other characters? Perhaps Megaman and Protoman?

For the most part, it seems to be an established argument that any character with a name and a face is an allusion to another character. But of course, no one has made speculation on Lisa Lavender as far as I know. What about the other news anchor, Cyril Ian?