Talk:Karla Sofen

Rejected merge

 * Merging with original "Moonstone" file

Obviously as stated on the article page, it has been sugested that this article be merged with Nefarius,the first Moonstone.

The Nefarius article is quite short, perhaps that article can be put at the bottom of the current Moonstone article. It makes sense but are there any other suggestions?

--Mr Smashnbash 13:26, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

I would vote strongly against that. Nefarius and Moonstone are very different characters. I cannot see the basis for a merge - they may share some history but there is no crossover in their names or anything like that. If Nefarius is to be merged with another article, it seems to me that there would be a much stronger case for doing so with the Count Nefaria article. Hueysheridan 03:32, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

I would vote strongly against also. They're conceptually separate entities --El benito 20:26, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Strongly Against too (indeed, it was me who originally split them) - SoM 21:31, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

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Requested move 25 May 2018

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: moved as requested, unopposed for ten days. Dekimasu よ! 19:15, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

Moonstone (comics) → Karla Sofen – This name was also notably used by Lloyd Bloch, which deserves more than a disambiguation header even if he changed his alias to Nefarius. Karla Sofen was the only name of the character for years, and she also ditched 'Moonstone' to use Meteorite / Ms. Marvel, so it makes sense to use her original name WITHOUT parenthesis, rather than to need to list Moonstone with (comics) parenthesized. ScratchMarshall (talk) 04:10, 25 May 2018 (UTC) --Relisting. Dekimasu よ! 09:55, 1 June 2018 (UTC)


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Creator?
So in Captain America #192 by Wolfman and Robbins, "Karla" appears in a few panels as a blond henchwoman of Doctor Faustus. She has maybe three lines, is referred to by name exactly once, and that's it. Shouldn't Stern, Gillis, and Sal Buscema, who wrote and drew her second appearance and created literally everything distinctive about the character, be listed as at least co-creators? Like, Robbins drew a blonde woman, and Buscema came up with the actual costume and Stern and Gillis came up with almost all her backstory, powers, etc. john k (talk) 15:56, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

Not exactly a unique situation with comic book characters. Several villains and supporting characters started out as fairly generic characters, with most of their unique or distinctive traits, backstories, or memorable relationships added by someone else. On the hero/protagonist side, characters like the Scarlet Witch, Hellcat, and Mockingbird were essentially reinvented by Steve Englehart, who added to them new powers, skills, and personality traits. Dimadick (talk) 13:44, 25 December 2021 (UTC)