Topic: Do you use "Ralph" or "Trevor"?

[Shiroi Koumori]

Most of the time I refer to that character as Trevor, but occasionally, Ralph would slip. So a 70-30 split, maybe.

[JR]

I was introduced to him as Trevor so to me, he'll always be Trevor.  I think the translation team made a good choice here.  Ralph really isn't that cool a name for a hero, historically accurate or not.

Couldn't have said it better. Trevor is a cool name, but Ralph makes me think of King Ralph. I didn't even know his name was supposed to be Ralph until 10 years ago maybe.

Usually I'm all for correct translations and all, but hey, at least they didn't name him Hercule.

[chainsawmidget]

Usually I'm all for correct translations and all, but hey, at least they didn't name him Hercule.

Usually correct translations are a good thing, but sometimes you just have to say "hey, you're from another culture so you might not understand how things work over here.  Let's change this to something that works for us."

[zangetsu468]

Usually I'm all for correct translations and all, but hey, at least they didn't name him Hercule.

But isn't his name actually "Hercule Satan"?

It's about westerners being conservative and a large number being Christians. I would have thought this was why they changed to calling him by his first name.

[Lumi Kløvstad]

But isn't his name actually "Hercule Satan"?

It's about westerners being conservative and a large number being Christians. I would have thought this was why they changed to calling him by his first name.

His stage name is Hercule Satan, as an homage to the Satan Gym where he first trained. iirc his real name is something really mundane like "Steve".

[JR]

Well, there goes my attempt at humor 

[TheouAegis]

I just use "Belmont"...

At least Castlevania's naming was nowhere near as jacked up as Front Mission's. I mean, I'm not 100% sure the mistransliterations were accidental even. Looking into Front Mission's code, it seemed like there were some typos that caused the in-game names of the Wanzers to be nonsensical. For example, Tiran was written in-game in Cyrillic, but the Cyrillic spelling was wrong. But the World Historica propagated the issue. And then you get into the later games and some of the newest Wanzers had just plain weird names, like Numsekar. I was like, wtf is that even supposed to mean? Then I read the Japanese name ナムスカル - Numbskull. I was like, "hahah wtf?!?" then I looked at the other parts in the class and there was Mungoss. Again, a wtf moment. Then it occurred to me it was Mongoose. It was a subtle joke, but I just wrote it off as a bad translation by those silly Japanese. ... Except Japan loves twisting spellings of words intentionally to hide questionable copyright issues, so I dunno.

[Aceearly1993]

When heard Ralph I always think that if a Ralph or Ralf appears there must be someone else named Clark came to help him 

*Super Vampire Killer Phantom Punch*


For me the name Trevor made more sense