Timeline for Why is 'the' added before Wasp but not before Antman?
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| Aug 9, 2018 at 20:27 | comment | added | Jason Bassford | @AmirhoseinRiazi First, you need to know what the names of the characters actually are. Then, you need to make a stylistic decision whether or not you capitalize all parts of their name or only those you feel like capitalizing at any given time. My preference is that all parts of a proper name should be capitalized—unless the person specifically wants to style their name differently.. The Marvel site is inconsistent—so, we don't really know what this character's name is, let alone how Marvel believes it should be capitalized. | |
| Aug 9, 2018 at 17:55 | comment | added | Darael | @AmirhoseinRiazi No, because Ant-Man isn't "the Ant-Man"; his masked identity is simply named "Ant-Man". The Wasp, on the other hand, has named her masked identity "the Wasp", but owing to the thing I mentioned about pseudonyms starting with "the", if you were talking to her you'd just say "Wasp" without the "the". If she were the main character in such a way that she got top billing, the film would have been called "The Wasp and Ant-Man". | |
| Aug 9, 2018 at 14:31 | comment | added | a.RR | If "Wasp" had chosen as the main character of the film, the name of the film might have changed to "Wasp and the Ant-man"? | |
| Aug 9, 2018 at 12:40 | history | edited | Jason Bassford | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 7, 2018 at 2:49 | comment | added | Darael | @fixer1234 as you wish. It has been done (with minor edits for the more flexible format of an answer). | |
| Aug 6, 2018 at 19:04 | comment | added | fixer1234 | @Darael, this is good explanation. Add it to your answer. | |
| Jul 6, 2018 at 14:13 | history | edited | Jason Bassford | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 6, 2018 at 14:13 | comment | added | Darael | There's a convention for personal pseudonyms containing "the" where the article is dropped in the vocative, and sometimes in other informal contexts (so she'd be addressed as "Wasp" but referred to formally as "the Wasp"; for capitalisation quibbles see next sentence). It's also worth noting that such names can be treated like titles (in the sense of titles of artworks or literature), for which the convention is that some short words, notably including "the", are not capitalised despite being considered part of a proper noun. | |
| Jul 6, 2018 at 14:08 | history | answered | Jason Bassford | CC BY-SA 4.0 |