Change the Boku no Hero Academia characters to their Hero Names

BUR #6410 has been rejected.

We keep on doing minor changes to these characters and it's always the question, if they should keep their real or their hero name for danboorus tagging purpose. I just thought about it and I do really think, that the average user will remember their hero names better than their real names. Take Shuuzenji_chiyo for example. I didn't even know that this is supposed to be Recovery Girl, but we rather had a tag for her, for some reason? She never gets called like that.
I do also think, that it's better to give them a qualifier. I guess some of those don't really need them, like eraserhead, but then again, there already is a eraserhead tag on danbooru etc.

I will create a second BUR for all the characters with already existing hero name tags on danbooru, that have no qualifier right now, so we can discuss if they should keep it like now or not. I'm also creating a BUR for all of them this way, because I do believe that some people maybe would want to argue every single character with an extra BUR for every of those characters and I'm just not gonna do this. I rather take some of them out, than create special BURs for specific characters like mount lady and such.
I do know, that some people really dislike qualifiers, but MHA has so many characters, where a fan maybe would get where they do come from, but no one can, for example, seriously argue that characters like bubble girl or mount lady couldn't come from Yu-Gi-Oh or something. So, I'm in favor of adding qualifiers to all of them.

Another thing is: Some users said it could be more usefull to let every characer keep their real and hero name and tag them if they wear their hero outfit. In theory, that would be really nice, but I really doubt that the average user really wants to do that. Characters appearing in casual outfit can be tagged as casual and/or alternate costume anyway, as a lot of those heroes do appear mostly in their hero outfit anyway.

I'm leaving out the pupils, because I do believe we should keep them like they already are with their real name. But I can create a BUR to alias their hero names to their real names.

Please correct any mistakes I made.

BUR #6412 has been rejected.

Second BUR for qualifying reasons.

Please look at forum #192480 !

BUR #6413 has been rejected.

create alias mirko -> mirko_(boku_no_hero_academia)

Extra BUR, because it already exists....
If this BUR is not approved, an extra BUR won't be needed as the real name of Mirko is already aliased to the (unqualified) hero name.

BUR #6414 has been rejected.

Extra BUR for Villains, leaving out dabi_(boku_no_hero_academia) for obvious reasons.
Removed Shigaraki for spoiler reasons.

I'm supportive of changing the characters to their Hero names which are for the most part largely more recognisable (outside of the students like you said), I'm however not supportive of qualifiers where unnecessary.

BUR #6415 has been rejected.

create alias the_rapper_(boku_no_hero_academia) -> rappa_kendo

Extra BUR for Villain Rappa_kendo.
Rappa_kendo is his real name, and as his villain name isn't really known, I guess, I would choose this way. It's debatable, because it's not consistent.

Astolfo said:

I'm supportive of changing the characters to their Hero names which are for the most part largely more recognisable (outside of the students like you said), I'm however not supportive of qualifiers where unnecessary.

I took all of them in the BUR right now, because I think it's easier to take them out one by one. Can you give an example of those, you wouldn't qualify?

I keep track of those characters you guys say shouldn't get a qualifier and will make an extra BUR for those, if it turns out, they shouldn't get one. You only have to tell me which one shouldn't get one.

I've been meaning to do this myself for a while now, but didn't have the time to look up everyone's names. Most civilian names get used once, rarely more than a handful of times. I don't think keeping civilian names and hero names as separate tags would be all that useful, with how difficult it is to even remember the civilian names.

As always, I'm against adding qualifiers to characters that don't need it. This isn't a gacha game.

Edit: Also we can't do aliases for nonexistent tags, those have to be removed.

Most of the ones with composed names (Mount Lady, Recovery Girl, Gang Orca, Kamui Woods, Best Jeanist, etc) I see no reason to qualify. Some of the single names one are also unambiguous (like Mirko, Ingenium, Mandalay etc) but I could let qualifiers slide on those because they're single word I guess.
Overall many of these are unambiguous and don't conflict with another similarly or identically named character, so like blindVigil said, I don't think qualifiers are needed.

Astolfo said:

Most of the ones with composed names (Mount Lady, Recovery Girl, Gang Orca, Kamui Woods, Best Jeanist, etc) I see no reason to qualify. Some of the single names one are also unambiguous (like Mirko, Ingenium, Mandalay etc) but I could let qualifiers slide on those because they're single word I guess.

I'm more of the opposite opinion, the first bunch is mostly two English words together so it's not unlikely they could show up again while the single name ones sounds more unique.

But otherwise it looks good.

Edits to the BURs:
Removed non existent tags:
create alias irinaka_joi -> mimic_(boku_no_hero_academia)
create alias yotsubashi_chikara -> destro_(boku_no_hero_academia)
create alias kizuki_chitose -> curious_(boku_no_hero_academia)
from the villain list

create alias sensoji_(boku_no_hero_academia) -> mister_blaster_(boku_no_hero_academia)
create alias tatsuma_ryuko -> Ryukyu_(boku_no_hero_academia)
create alias tokoname_tatsuyuki -> slidin_go_(boku_no_hero_academia)
create alias kannagi_enma -> majestic_(boku_no_hero_academia)
from the hero list

Added:
gang orca to the list with existing tags.

Like blindVigil and Astolfo, I don't think we should name characters like gacha games and give a qualifier for every single being in that copyright even when it's clearly not needed. This is also not in accordance to howto:character.

Astolfo said:

Most of the ones with composed names (Mount Lady, Recovery Girl, Gang Orca, Kamui Woods, Best Jeanist, etc) I see no reason to qualify. Some of the single names one are also unambiguous (like Mirko, Ingenium, Mandalay etc) but I could let qualifiers slide on those because they're single word I guess.
Overall many of these are unambiguous and don't conflict with another similarly or identically named character, so like blindVigil said, I don't think qualifiers are needed.

Unbreakable said:

I'm more of the opposite opinion, the first bunch is mostly two English words together so it's not unlikely they could show up again while the single name ones sounds more unique.

But otherwise it looks good.

Mirko is also a Slavic personal name. Ingenium is also a common (i.e. non-proper) noun a Latin common noun and the root word of ingenuity and engineer. Mandalay is the name of several real-life places and even has a poem named after it.

Edit: Whoops. Seen ingenium used that way in fiction a few times meaning "ingenuity", "natural talent/trait" or "clever contraption", but apparently it's not listed in most English dictionaries yet.

NNescio said:

Mirko is also a Slavic personal name. Ingenium is also a common (i.e. non-proper) noun. Mandalay is the name of several places and even has a poem named after it.

Just add to that, that Mirko is a pretty normal and common name where I come from.

Then I think they should all have qualifiers, thanks for clarifying!

NNescio said:

Mirko is also a Slavic personal name. Ingenium is also a common (i.e. non-proper) noun a Latin common noun and the root word of ingenuity and engineer. Mandalay is the name of several real-life places and even has a poem named after it.

Edit: Whoops. Seen ingenium used that way in fiction a few times meaning "ingenuity", "natural talent/trait" or "clever contraption", but apparently it's not listed in most English dictionaries yet.

They don't conflict with absolutely anything on the site currently however, which is what I was saying by unambiguous. None of these names are even remotely close to any existing character in a franchise that has fanart on the site, and probably won't ever conflict with anything.

I just noticed that Iida Tensei should maybe stay with his real name, because the hero name of his little brother Iida Tenya is "Ingenium" too.

Guaro said:

I just noticed that Iida Tensei should maybe stay with his real name, because the hero name of his little brother Iida Tenya is "Ingenium" too.

We could honestly forgo hero name aliases for the kids altogether, it's only in recent chapters that they've started seeing actual use in-universe. It's extremely unlikely that, aside from Deku, anyone would be searching for them by their very new hero names over the civilian names they've been using since the start.

If people are searching for "Ingenium" 10 to 1 odds they're looking for the professional hero, not his little brother who only recently adopted the pre-established name. Also, Tenya adopting his brother's hero name is effectively a spoiler, so it may not he a good idea to alias it in the first place.

Although some of them you could certainly get away with not qualifying, saying that we don't need to qualify Tiger, Bubble Girl, Snatch, Manual, Spinner, and several others is silly.

This is a BUR that's been needing to get done for ages. You can even see an instance where there are two characters tags for one character. I'd hate for it to get shoved to the wayside for several months because we couldn't agree on qualifiers again.

I agree that the pro heroes should have their hero name and that students should keep their real names. And that there will be a handful of exceptions. An umbrella guideline does not need to be ironclad, after all.

Veradux said:

This is a BUR that's been needing to get done for ages. You can even see an instance where there are two characters tags for one character. I'd hate for it to get shoved to the wayside for several months because we couldn't agree on qualifiers again.

I agree with the sentiment, but it's annoying that the BUR is being used twofold not just to change the names, but also to staple qualifiers to a bunch of characters that don't need it at all, under the guise of "maybe it sounds like it could be from yugioh..." (but it isn't so why does it matter?) and "maybe it sounds like it could become ambiguous..." (okay but they aren't and probably will never be, so?)
It was said that this kind of "qualify everything lol" logic would be kept to gachas before, which was already not necessary in many cases in the first place, and now here we are where it's making its way into other media too. A majority of these are unambiguous (=don't conflict with anything else) and don't need a qualifier. Sure, stuff like Tiger or Trumpet needs one obviously. A lot of these don't, though.