Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27447621-20160428221352/@comment-25936766-20170118042428

SpiritedDreaming wrote:

It doesn't have to be a successful branch, but it does need an identifiable player character who is canon across the various branches. .....Cloud Strife from FF7? There's Advent Children....and there's no way you can say Cloud is not iconic (in general) nor canon (in Advent Children).

As for Pokemon, there's Gary Oak. Or "Blue", as no-one called him in the original games nor remakes (to be fair, it was hard to resist not naming him something like "Asshole" or "Buttface").