Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-2240864-20140401232334/@comment-5306249-20140404230524

The Damn Batman wrote: William See wrote: I'm sorry, but one cannot simply revamp a character into something scarier when it's already been cemented as /this/ or /that/.

Let's face it, a troubled preteen (@Noothgrush, fair enough idea) who has special eyes and who's catchphrase is 'GO TO SLEEP' is cliched enough. Is it really a good idea to mold him into something more, for lack of a better term, badass in a creepy way? Plus, civilian names like 'Jeff' the killer seem too OC wannabe-artist: it's like slapping my name onto a knife-wielding character and calling him 'William the Killer'.

Maybe I'm blowing this all out of proportion, but you find me a writer who is willing to make Jeffy into something actually scary (and not to mention put up with enraged fangirls), and then I can say I support this idea. It's really just polishing a turd to make it sparkle. I thought of it more as 'what if we made [Insert kid show] for ADULTS?'

It's like we're taking something (no offense to the original)  an   amateur writer made and making it an ace-in-the-hole, for the sake of consistency. I'd say it's appeasement, but that may be taking it too far.