Talk:Darkling

So, um...this means Ansem's not the first, right? This is huge. 17:44, 4 March 2016 (UTC)
 * For all we know at least parts of KHX could play after KH3D, it's still huge regardless. Goldpanner translates the name with "Black Garment", do you think that's better? Curiously the name uses Kanji so I don't think it refers to the Heartless but to the group they are part of (like a sixth secret enemy Union). -- 18:24, 4 March 2016 (UTC)
 * WWWJDIC just renders it as "black clothes". I feel like it miiiiiiiight be a reference to the, but that's a bit of a stretch, especially since the Japanese name for that is 黒シャツ隊. "The Black-clad" might sound nice and ominous. 21:48, 4 March 2016 (UTC)
 * "Heartless created by Player " -- wait, wut. 00:46, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Based on dub name (Darkling), Black-clad might be a good translation? 04:58, 14 January 2017 (UTC)

Shouldn't the name of this article be Darkling? Diamonddeath (talk) 10:32, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Nobody's gotten around to moving it yet. Rex Ronald Rilander (talk) 03:29, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

Possible split
For enemies that are simply a group of other existing enemies, should we separate the pages or have them merged? The enemies in question are:
 * Darkling/Darklings
 * Fluttering/Flutterings
 * Gummi Copter/Copter Fleet
 * Possessor/Possessors
 * Ratty Rat/Ratty Rat Trio
 * Flappy Bug/Flappy Bug Swarm,
 * Maleficent's goons & Maleficent's Raven/Maleficents Goons

Personally, I'm in favor of keeping them separate, while having the swarm version be a secondary tab in a suite, like with Playing Cards. Given that Omega raid bosses have their own articles, it feels more consistent to keep these variants distinct as well. (For Darklings in particular, this would probably mean another split for the story section, i.e. Darkling + Game:Darkling + Darklings.) Thoughts? —Aid1043 (talk) 04:21, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
 * I agree that keeping them separate is the best option. I think the reason the Darklings group is merged with the single Darkling, is because they have the same Japanese name (for example, Possessors is Possessor Herd, Flutterings is Fluttering Squad, etc.). If we're going to split the Darkling page in main and Game:, maybe we can keep the Darklings on the same Game: page. 17:07, 5 June 2023 (UTC)