Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-226878-20150710200046/@comment-226878-20150716023320

Lol

Anyway, I only mean to say that they don't want fans to be able to draw links between different iterations of characters. Penny can be linked to Nu13 from BlazBlue due to her fighting style (semblance?), but I don't think Nu was ever intended to be a Pinocchio archetype so it doesn't matter.

So then they wouldn't want to use the Hatter Madigan version of the character because it would be too recognizable as a standalone character and RT would be called out for ripping off the character. If they make a Mad Hatter character whose only resemblance to Hatter Madigan is that he uses his hat a weapon, then there would be no correlation for fans to make except for their own wish-fulfillment. Also, RT would likely avoid using Madigan's physical form for their character design because that would be too blatant. They could base his physical design on some other recent character who wears a distinguishable hat (like Jiro from Black Blood Brothers or Undertaker or Ciel from Black Butler).