Talk:Slammer (character)

Merge with Sam Shalam

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Merge with Sam Shalam 7-0
As much as it pains me to say this, I think this article should probably be merged with the page on Sam Shalam, per the wiki's policy regarding repeated content. Slammer is an extremely minor character with only three lines of dialogue (only two if you don't count "Ow!"), and basically only exists as an accessory to Sam. Given character duos like Kat & Ana and Dribble & Spitz share pages, I feel like there's nothing about Slammer that warrants an article separate from Sam Shalam.

If anything, this leaves me curious of how many cases like Slammer exist in the DiC cartoons, and if there should be a larger scale re-evaluation of which characters from these shows actually warrant their own articles. (I can't really speak on anyone other than Sam Shalam and Slammer though, since Slammer has kind of become an in-joke with me and my friends. If someone more familiar with these cartoons could speak on this, I would appreciate to hear more perspectives!)

Proposer: WayslideCool (talk)
Deadline: September 5, 2025, 23:59 GMT

Support

1. WayslideCool (talk) Per proposal. 🙁
2. Rykitu (talk) Per characters like Kat & Ana, MC Ballyhoo & Big Top, and most of the Saturday Supercade villains.
3. EvieMaybe (talk) per proposlam
4. janMisali (talk) Per the conditions of Stop Watch's contract. Per proposal.
5. Technetium (talk) Per proposal.
6. Colin's world 3 YT (talk) I've never really agreed with this rule, but it's wiki policy and these pages should be merged until it changes.
7. Camwoodstock (talk) displeased to seeya... ;_; (Per all.)

Comments

What would you call the resultant page? Articles like Kat & Ana and MC Ballyhoo & Big Top get their titles from character profiles or user interfaces grouping them together. I've never watched the The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say we don't have an official profile for the combined "Sam Shalam and Slammer", which puts naming policy in a pickle. As it happens, solving this problem by making guidelines for what to name the article for a group of characters that does not have an official name for that group is harder than just sticking with having an article for each character. Salmancer (talk) 17:28, August 22, 2025 (EDT)

I believe the standard in such a case is to just put "and" between character names, like Yellow Toad and Blue Toad. We used to do that for WarioWare duos before realising that ampersands are usually used instead in the games. (To be honest, I do personally find names like "Sam Shalam and Slammer" a little awkward, but we don't really have any other choice besides just not including both members of the duo in the title.) Hewer (talk · contributions · edit count) 18:18, August 22, 2025 (EDT)