Talk:Mr. Damocles/@comment-32340720-20171116201050/@comment-7117024-20171119000137

It's a strongly obvious case. We do assume sometimes, but it's in cases where this is a lot of strong back-up. The owl villain design is very close to Mr. Damocles, and it connects to his owl-like appearance and interests.

With new characters or with designs less easy to connect to characters, we are a lot more careful because assumptions have little backup in those cases. People were already connecting Kagami was Riposte, but the wiki consensus was that we didn't know this character well enough or the villain well enough to make strong enough assumptions. The same was the case with Befana and Robustus until we learned more. However, designs and connections of characters can make is safer to assume. For example, it's clear that the ape-like villain will be the Gorilla because of thes similarities in design and actions.

You're right that we need to be careful, but there are times where there is strong enough details and facts to support of jump in faith. Assumptions aren't safe to go off of alone, but if there is enough straightforward information to support it, it becomes less enough of one to justify connecting characters, names, and/or designs together.