Board Thread:Wiki Management/@comment-34634523-20180313212625/@comment-3463132-20180318213907

RenamaticFury wrote: >People keep comparing Werehog Sonic to characters like Link

Do people not understand the point that timeline variations and such like Link are said not to pertain to the rule? People are legitimately just using examples that the rules guarantee already to compare to Werehog or Excalibur Sonic. To be fair, if you built an exception into the rule, that doesn't entirely make the premise wrong that the rules is vague. Multiple incarnations of Link are allowed because the rule specifically has that exception written in.

What the rule needs to do is state transformations, not "alternate forms" as the former is specific while the latter is vague. Alternate form is, by definition, not defined in any useful way.

Alternative - (of one or more things) available as another possibility.

Form - the visible shape or configuration of something.

Whereas transformation is.

Transform - make a thorough or dramatic change in the form, appearance, or character of.

Anakin and Vader are indeed alternate forms, the abilities, personality, and fighting style change despite being the same character. However they are not transformations as it's the same character simply at different points in the timeline. He transformed over time but it's not a transformation.