Talk:Nebula Violette/@comment-26119307-20151101204131/@comment-26119307-20151102114240

Anyone else notice that I've only asked this on the new characters who actually resemble characters from the game? And that you're imposing your own language of "ripoff" instead of what I actually said: "based off of"? There's a difference. The NDGO creators could have had the game characters in mind while designing the show characters. If you want a more connotation-neutral (though less accurate) term, "tribute to" might work.

From what I've seen elsewhere, the NDGO creators have already responded with the answer of "No, we weren't basing them on League champions." Dew Gale is apparently more a tribute to Wizard of Oz (thereby joining Headmaster Ozpin and Glynda Goodwytch). The others I haven't heard any clear descriptions of yet.

In addition to which, maybe if you all would realize that almost every character in RWBY so far has been "based off of" (or "is a ripoff of", since you were so swift to make that accusation for me) historical, mythological, or fairy-tale characters (Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White, Beauty & The Beast, Goldilocks, Jeanne d'Arc, Achilles, Thor, Mulan, Sun Wukong, Poseidon, etc.), you'd understand that I'm not complaining about the new characters being "ripoffs." I actually would have found it rather cool that the four new characters were based off of League.