User talk:Arkhound

Hi, welcome to SNK Wiki! Thanks for your edit to the Aya and Hermione page.

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Unofficial names
Hello, I see that you've been removing unofficial and/or questionable names, like "Bonne" Jenet and Alfred "Airhawk". I just wanted to let you know that "Leopold" Goenitz is also questionable as I haven't found any source to back it up. --EterTC (Talk to Me) 18:07, September 18, 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for bringing that to my attention. I heard about "Leopold Goenitz" before, but it slipped my mind for some reason. I searched for "レオポルド・ゲーニッツ" online and a lot of Japanese users have no idea where the "Leopold" originated from. The official KOF website doesn't even mention any other name for Goenitz. It could have originated from a manhua or some other adaptation (which wouldn't necessarily make it canon), but it's more likely it's just a hoax name someone completely made up and everyone treated as fact without knowing better. Arkhound (talk) 07:31, September 19, 2016 (UTC)


 * Its a canon name according to the Orochi story. Ask the storyboard writers and directors behind the game and you'll know where the "Leopold" name originated. Also there is no need for a primary source as to where the "Leopold name" originated, secondary sources are fine as long as it doesn't come from a forum. And about B. Jenet, the "B" in her name actually stands for "Bonne", which is a play on her real surname Behrn. The full names for SNK mononyms are not hoax, they're official. The only exception to this rule is Kim Kaphwan, who is now mononymously referred to as just "Kim" due to the downfall of the first online KOF game. Go check Wikipedia if you don't believe me. DecadeHansen (talk) 18:22, September 20, 2016 (UTC)


 * Pardon my ignorance, but what exactly do you mean by "Orochi story"? Is it a backstory for the series that they published in a printed source or online? Where can I look it up? At any rate, it seems the kind of thing a fighting game developer would do (especially considering a lot of the old Capcom and SNK backstories were mostly revealed via JP publications like Gamest). At any rate, it's strange that they never used the name "Leopold" in any official promotional material for the KOF series and I've never even seen the name used in Japanese sources before. Same thing with B. Jenet, since some Japanese fansites insists that the "B" stands for "Beauty" and not "Bonne", but I've never seen any official source using either one.


 * It wouldn't be the first time a character had their full names used only outside the games though. Ralf Jones and Clark Still were mostly known only by their first names in the early KOF games, even though had last names "Jones" and "Still" way before KOF'94 since the first Ikari (even longer for Ralf, since he was from an even earlier game titled T.N.K. III). And I recently posted some evidence that Mr. Big's real name is James in a recent series of edit I made to his article.


 * I read about the legal issues surrounding Kim Kaphwan's full name thing before. He was named after a Korean businessman who was responsible for distributing Neo-Geo games (his company was responsible for Fight Fever if I remember it right). When the original SNK went under, they lost their ties to the real life Kim Kaphwan's and were no longer able to legally use his name. Arkhound (talk) 18:56, September 20, 2016 (UTC)

Hey you, newbie!
In case you didn't bothered to notice, DecadeHansen just proved you wrong, because he said that Goenitz's first name, Leopold, is a given name, so it's officially canon. Too bad, newbie, it looks like you lack your intelligence of SNK history. Consider yourself "outsmarted", kid. DevilX90 (talk) 19:09, September 20, 2016 (UTC)