I think we're using slightly different definitions of minor characters. When I say I tagged for a 'minor character' I mean that they were in one scene and didn't say anything or said two or three lines and then vanished. They're in the sort of roles that, if they weren't named canonical characters, would just be Spearcarrier 1 and Spearcarrier 2.
I think the only times I've written in big fandoms has been for Remix, and those have been fairly tight little stories where it was clear who I needed to tag.
There are borderline cases-- I have a Problem of Susan Narnia fic that's a four things story, and her aunt and uncle appear in one section, fairly pivotally. I didn't tag for them, and I keep wondering if I should have.
I think I get what you mean about Lois and Clark. I didn't find it that far off from main canon when I watched it, but my formative Superman experience was the first two Christopher Reeve movies (I'm not sure I ever saw either of the other two). That gives me a different angle on the characters, I think, than if I'd come from comics or Smallville or anything else. Well, I did watch Superfriends in the 1970s, too, but I don't remember anything from that, so I'm not sure what impact it had. I'm not actually convinced that most of the superheroes in Superfriends had distinct personalities.
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I think the only times I've written in big fandoms has been for Remix, and those have been fairly tight little stories where it was clear who I needed to tag.
There are borderline cases-- I have a Problem of Susan Narnia fic that's a four things story, and her aunt and uncle appear in one section, fairly pivotally. I didn't tag for them, and I keep wondering if I should have.
I think I get what you mean about Lois and Clark. I didn't find it that far off from main canon when I watched it, but my formative Superman experience was the first two Christopher Reeve movies (I'm not sure I ever saw either of the other two). That gives me a different angle on the characters, I think, than if I'd come from comics or Smallville or anything else. Well, I did watch Superfriends in the 1970s, too, but I don't remember anything from that, so I'm not sure what impact it had. I'm not actually convinced that most of the superheroes in Superfriends had distinct personalities.