Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-226878-20150710200046/@comment-226878-20151115080050

Let's see: Mulan - leader... Lie Ren - not the leader Thor - leader... Nora - not the leader Achilles - leader... Pyrrha - not the leader If I'm correct about Dove, he alludes to Hector, who was also a leader.

I already said the association of robins with red likely comes from the superhero sidekick Robin.

This isn't fanon. You're not actually going to get the allusions you want. Will Scarlet if alluded to in the show would not be named Scarlet for the same reason Russel wasn't named Russel Crow. There are already two characters with similar sounding names either as given or surnames. If their excuse for not naming Him Russel Crow is that it sounded too similar to Qrow, then you're not getting "Will Scarlet" either no matter what logic you use.

Friar Tuck wouldn't be named Tuck Friar either. The T in your suggested JSTR can come from his second name. But it's not CNR anyway, so it would be changed completely.

Admittedly, I'm not as keen on differentiating blade types (one man's dagger is another man's shortsword) but, whatever. It doesn't matter. I'll remind you that ALLUSIONS are little more than referential reminds that hint at a character's inspiration. What you're looking for are called Exported Characters or Expies. Exactly the same character with minimum change just to get past legal issues. I'll also remind you the original Red Riding Hood was neither a leader nor a fighter, wasn't versed in any weapon much less a scythe, had no parents to speak of and was gobbled up by a wolf disguised as her grandmother before (some stories say) being cut out of its stomach by a passing woodsman... Miraculously alive. The only thing to her allusion is a red cape.

Basically, what I'm saying is that there's very little purpose to your suggestion given how picky you are about it. Character allusions have already proven repeatedly to be... not always obvious. Red and Snow White were obvious, Ozpin and Glynda were obvious. Everyone else took a bit of sleuthing to figure out.