When a character is impersonating another character or taking their place somehow, should we tag with both character names? Very applicable to crossovers or parodies.

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For this, the pink one is tagged pinkie pie (mlp) and pink panther despite only being the former (though you very loosely "see" the latter through it being a cute little piss-rip of the 60s series, little Freleng dude and all). To me, that's intuitively right because overt references should be tagged; but I'll fully admit it's lacking something about the role-filling aspect. Suggestions on the back of a forum thread please!

It gets the pink_panther_(series), the_little_man the pinkie_pie_(mlp), my_little_pony, and friendship_is_magic tags.

It wouldn't get the pink_panther_(character) tag because it doesn't explicitly feature him, but the series tag is there because the little man is a character from the cartoon.

More general question actually: see the initial question :)

I'd say no. If the character isn't actually in the picture, don't tag it.

I guess it would be different if Pinkie Pie had somehow dressed up as the panther (how would that even work?) or was altered in some way to closer represent him. In that case it would get tagged with pink_panther_(character). See the entire cosplay post listing for reference.

This makes me think. The cosplay tag covers both one character dressing up as another character, and real people dressing up as characters. Wouldn't it be more convenient to separate these?

Granted, I wouldn't know of any intuitive tags to differentiate between the two. Maybe someone else could think of something (or just use a disambiguation page).

cosplay real
cosplay -real

Done.

Not every character needs a "_(character)" suffix. Might as well be succinct (yeah, I know. Ambiguity. But favour the characters maybe.)

Righto. Taking "[playing dress-up as]" or "[being] altered in some way to closer represent" as a yardstick for this sort of thing getting the target character tag. Humming the theme tune probably doesn't count.

Anomynous said:
Humming the theme tune probably doesn't count.

I guess if you really wanted to, you could tag it the_pink_panther_theme. But unless humming the theme song to his own series is one of the Pink Panther's major character elements, it still doesn't get the character tag.

...if you did tag the theme song, it might start some stupid argument about how the musical notation in the picture don't explicitly match that of the actual score and therefore can't be tagged as such.