Honestly, the problem goes all the way to Atlus deciding to use a "canon name" for Joker in the dancing game spinoff that has no plot. It's a lot more understandable for the P3 MC and Yu, because they don't really have anything they can be called in the cheerleading that isn't super stilted (nobody calls people "Leader", atlus), but Joker should have been spared.
(Also, the dancing game's not even out in English yet! DUBIOUS canonicity.)
OK yeah this sounds bad
squexa posted...
Nanis23 posted...
As someone that never played Persona 5, I don't understand how something like this can happen Is there anything similar in another media franchise that maybe can help me understand?
Let's take Skyrim. The default protagonist can have any name but is simply referred to as Dragonborn by most people. Now imagine 2 years after the game's out, it randomly got a live action TV series where he's actually given a fixed name: James Russell. Now imagine if "James Russell" appears as the default name in a gameFAQs contest. A large number of Skyrim fanbase who never watched the TV series will have no clue who James Russell is.
This is made worse by the fact that Dragonborn has an iconic look with the whole horned helmet and all but SB completely ditches the look and goes with a more casual more generic look. The equivalent of using a picture of Clark Kent for Superman
So in the end, you end up with this character that Skyrim fans will have difficulty recognizing.