Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-26397825-20160518062840/@comment-24534644-20160524015616

JayHart wrote: @Kirito: I do not share most of Ray's issues - I think it's fine to base a character strongly off another character to the point of being obvious. Hell, the ENTIRE main cast of RWBY is based off of fairy tails or other popular culture elements. What many people seemt o fail to realize is the difference between ALLUDING to something, and being BASED on it.

Ruby and her team ALLUDE to fairy tale characters, but they are not BASED on them. And even characters that ARE based on other actual characters in culture, such as Team SSSN, are not so horridly excessive with it. Take Neptune for example. Clearly based on the Roman god of the same name. But Neptune (the god) was not a suave lady's man. He was not a sucker for public opinion. He didn't dress like a K-Pop star. And he most certainly was not afraid of water. Neptune in RWBY is clearly his own character, just with a name, a weapon, and a couple other elements that make it clear what his real world inspiration is.

Things like THIS have no such creativity. They are not "based" on other characters so much as they are just rips, plain and simple.