Talk:Mini

While I was always of the impression that mini-Wyrsa would be the perfect Valdemar mini, I believe that the OFCoV writer put in mini-Companions. Do we need to worry about that? Glass  Farseer Lolotea ● ( talk) ● ( contribs) 09:03, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
 * IMO, wyrsa (or maybe makaar) would be more appropriate. Companions, although formidable, are good-natured beings.

So, how does defining Minis for OFU-less Continua work? Can they just randomly be added? Also, under whose jurisdiction are the OFU-less minis? And for Elder Scrolls, I expected something a bit... bigger. Buta 16:42, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

I'd like to know that myself, Buta. The Warcraft Universe, for example, spawns a lot of minis...but they haven't been identified yet. Thus far, my ideas are: So...should we wait for feedback on this, or should I just toss Void Scares (my personal favorite so far) up on the list?  Farseer Lolotea ● ( talk) ● ( contribs) 09:03, 3 March 2009 (UTC)  Farseer Lolotea ● ( talk) ● ( contribs) 22:53, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Void Scares
 * Mini-Felguards
 * Mini-Annihilan
 * Wrath Cadets
 * Mini-KJs, although those might be a bit too much like mini-Balrogs.
 * Felpups
 * I think we should wait; I'm not too sure about the general policy for minis. It's always best to be safe. Buta 09:11, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I asked on the board. It's "first-come, first-served."  If your mission's continuum has no official mini, you get to identify it.

Just a quick note on the Avatar minis: I know the Unagi is technically an Earth Kingdom monster given that Kyoshi Island is part of the EK, but the Water Tribes are kind of low on monsters to make into minis since they learned their bending from the moon instead of a species (that, and we're never in their territory for any length of time). The Unagi is distinctly Avatar. Plus, it spits water anyhow. --DirtyCommie 05:45, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Citing sources
Would it be possible to include links to the first place a mini is identified? Formatted like this:

Continuum - mini-Creature - link to OFU or mission

I think it would be nice for people who are curious about these things to be able to find out who made the call, when, where, etc. ~Neshomeh 02:31, February 17, 2010 (UTC)

Suggested mini change
Stargate SG-1's mini is listed as a mini-mastage (which according to the Stargate wiki is itself a mini as the creature is correctly spelled mastadge). This creature never made an appearance in the entire 10 year run of the TV show. For the Stargate movie, although the creature is not evil in any way, I can see it being a good mini. It is featured quite a bit. I think it would be a good idea to list the mini-mastadge as the Stargate movie mini, and choose a different SG-1 mini. The movie and TV show really don't have a lot in common.

My suggestions for SG-1 minis would be mini-Apophis (featured as bad guy seasons 1-5, plus some later AU appearances), mini-Baal (featured as a bad guy in seasons 5 - after cancellation movies), mini-replicator (Seasons 3-after cancellation movies. These things are potentially way too dangerous even to be minis), mini-Hathor (not that many appearances-but made a big impression), mini-Jaffa (not all Jaffa are evil and many that work for the Goa'ulds are little more than slaves, so maybe not the best choice in regards to inherent evil, but would be the best generic choice, and some of them can be quite fanatical in their devotion)Miah 79 17:13, June 18, 2010 (UTC)


 * I don't know who made the call for the mini-mastage, but if that's a misspelling, that's for a start a bad thing. I can accept that movie canon and TV canon have different minis. After all, at the moment SG-1 and SGA have different minis, and they can be said to have the same canon. I like mini-Apophis, but that's because I like the word Apophis. I have hardly any knowledge of SG-1. If you're the first to encounter a mini in SG-1, you get to name it. (Which reminds me that I still haven't named the NCIS minis. Suggestions?) Indemaat 21:45, June 18, 2010 (UTC)


 * Apophis is a cool bad guy. He is in the first episode. Overall he is pretty overt--loud, showy, blatantly evil in his attempts to take over the galaxy. He's also not bad looking. Baal is a much scarier bad guy. He likes torture, is sneaky and thinks long term. He realizes that the Tau'ri are going to catch him, so he creates a bunch of clones, and it takes them about 5 years to track them all down, while all of them are trying to take over the galaxy the whole time. Minis don't seem to be all that subtle, so the gaudy, showy bad guy may be the better choice.


 * I don't know what to call the NCIS minis. I have actually been thinking about that for a while now. They could be mini-characters, maybe? Mini-special agents? Walking bad attitudes? ;) But what is going to happen when someone manages to misspell Washington? I'm sure they will at some point.Miah 79 23:58, June 18, 2010 (UTC)
 * Mini-characters, I think, for NCIS, though what they'd use for a place name that's been misspelled, I'm not sure. Maybe a mini-whatever the place was? Though for Washington, perhaps a mini-White House or mini-President Washington?. As for SG-1 minis, I'm not sure. I guess we'll have to see when someone does an SG-1 mission that has a mini. Pretzel 18:47, June 20, 2010 (UTC)

In a Gorillaz fic I'm currently looking at, they managed to spell the name of the real-life rapper Tupac as "topock". Would that be a Gorillaz Mini or a Real Life Mini, and whichever one it is, what would it be? Or would it create something other than a Mini (a la the Long Table Elrond or Minute Legolas), given that it's mutilated so badly it took me several readthroughs to figure out they were actually talking about a person, never mind who that person was? Laburnum 01:16, June 19, 2010 (UTC)