Talk:Top (comics)

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[edit] Moving to The Top (comics)

I'd like to move this to The Top (Comics), reversing the redirect currently in place. Any objections to putting the main article at the proper page for his moniker?ThuranX 01:08, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

I would disagree per naming conventions. The Top may be the proper name, but he's almost always referred to as "Top" when in speech.--Toffile 01:38, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

I'd normally concede the point, but whereas the convention among writers in Batman comic books is to refer to the villian as 'Joker' not 'The Joker', as per the naming conventions page, Roscoe Dillon is regularly called by characters either 'The Top', or 'Dillon', but not 'Top'. Multiple Flashes have stated they need to stop 'The Top', while Batman calls The Joker 'Joker'. Even in Flash comics, Trickster is officially 'The Trickster', but is called 'Trickster'. I submit that this is a significant case of use of 'The' as a major part of the character's name, not a lacking indefinite article situation, more akin to 'The Band', wherein the noun is so generic without the 'The' that it loses all identity.ThuranX 18:20, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

I can think of a few cases off the top of my head where Dillon has been called "Top" in speech. The special where Superman raced Jay Garrick, Abra Kadabra addresses him as it, as well as Captain Cold talking to him during Rogue's War. I'd go see if I could find some more, but he's had only a handful of appearances in the Modern Age. --Toffile 14:40, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Snart uses it derisively, as for a Superman special racing Garrick, I'm not sure how to weight non-Flash writing against Flash writing, or if weighting it's reasonable. Anyways, this is, ultimately, a minor thing, so I'm not going to push this further. I'm good with it staying here. Now on to other Flash related things... <goes off looking for that obnoxious bit with the speedsters of every century, looking to make Wiki's most geek-oriented Flash page ever...> Thanks for the talk about it. ThuranX 01:21, 3 March 2006 (UTC)