Talk:Karma (character)

Lead Image
We really should get a pic of Karma w/a costume. She's a hero, not a file clerk!

The lead image is about 10 years outdated. The character doesn't look like this any more. (2016.9.26)

Comments and such
1) I'm wonderinf if the pictures of obese Karma and thin Karma should be put to the right of the article, on on top of the other. I think it'd flow better that way. I might do it myself but I have no clue.

2) And sure, Karma has been in costume before but I think it's more in her character to show her out of it. Yes, she's a hero but not a big crime-fighter like say Spiderman. She's an employee, a librarian and is raising two kids on her own.

I hope that made sense. Lots42 08:35, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Ultimate-karma.jpg
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Fair use rationale for Image:Karma Fat.jpg
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BetacommandBot (talk) 22:50, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Karma in uniform.jpg
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Fair use rationale for Image:Karma thin.jpg
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Recently added source
I have no problem with the following source:

"On April 10, Zeb Wells went into an in-depth interview about Karma and her role in the New Mutants series. "

However, adding it is questionable, since the statement says nothing about what her role is, nor does it give any information beyond the fact that some interview happened. So Zeb Wells gave an interview? What did he talk about? What did he say that would meet notability for this character's page? Please add that, otherwise the statement is pointless.

Also, discussion about a character's role in the series and what the writer's thoughts are about the character are probably more appropriate for the "Publication history" section rather than the "Fictional biography" section. The latter is reserved for notable character participation/events. So for a made up example, if Wells says something like, "We're going to see Karma take a greater role as a leader since she's been rather backburner in other series," you might add in her Publication history that, "Writer Zebb Wells chose Karma as the leader of the reformed New Mutants team in the series' relaunch in 2009, stating that previous to this, he felt Karma did not have as prominent a role in other series." (add the source).Luminum (talk) 17:47, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

New Power Logic Problem
Logic problem: If her seeing through a possessed person's eyes was new, then how did she make them walk before, given that she therefore couldn't see where she was walking them? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.220.90.2 (talk) 17:05, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

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New Name Source
The most recent "Love Unlimited Infinity Comic" #31 gave Karma a new, accurate Vietnamese name: Xuân. I see that the edits have been reverting changing that back to "Xi'an," even though it's in the comic itself. If you need a source other than the comic, here you go:

"First off, you clarify that we’ve been pronouncing Xuân’s (formerly “Xi’an”) name wrong! Can you speak a bit about her name change?

TRUNG LE NGUYEN: For sure! I’ve had quite a journey around Karma’s civilian name. As a reader who spoke Vietnamese as a child, it was really difficult for me to connect with Karma because I knew her name was gibberish. For example, the “sh” sound in “Xi’an” doesn’t exist in the Vietnamese language. Vietnamese written language uses a Latin alphabet. You don’t have to phonetically approximate the sounds because we already use letters you know. For a long time, I was very put off by it. Then, as I delved through the character’s history, I learned that she was created in 1980. The effective end of the Vietnam War was only five years earlier, in 1975. Before then, most English-speakers had never even heard of Vietnam. I’m sure, for English speakers, doing the research of simply naming her was difficult at the time, and once deadlines are thrown into the mix it becomes prohibitively difficult! It became clear to me that she was made from a place of consideration; that her creators were trying to bring a character into the fold who weathered a specific humanitarian crisis. Karma, like my parents, is a Vietnamese boat person. She’s a refugee. Karma is part of the Vietnamese diaspora, a việt kiều on Krakoa. In clarifying her name—or renaming her—I wanted to nod to her comic book origins by keeping her name as close to its original as possible while making it legible to readers familiar with Vietnamese. I changed very few letters, but I think it helps give her a fresh start. That’s why I named her “Xuân” [pronounced “Swun”]. It means “Spring.”"

And then Trung clarified on their Twitter page that her name would be written "Mạnh Cao Xuân." 23.241.9.186 (talk) 00:09, 6 January 2023 (UTC) alliterator