Talk:Epic Rap Battles of History 58/@comment-50.110.41.106-20151024113351/@comment-5482968-20151024164847

The thing about Wukong is, while he's huge in his particular area, he's incredibly niche outside of it. If you look at Google Trends (or at the very least when I did a month or so ago on a whim), he has a 100 on searches, which is the highest level IIRC. But then you look at the division by country. It's all from Vietnam. All of it. Divided by country, he's got a low 20 or something close to that in America.

I think a far more apt anime counterpart would be Light: if you're knowledgeable about anime, Death Note is huge. But outside of anime circles there's almost entirely no recognition of DN or its characters. Except I think Sun's area is smaller than "anime" as a circle.

However, it's not necessarily the fans' knowledge that is the end all be all of suggestions. While it does play a very very large part that shouldn't be ignored, ERB gets the final decision. If they happen to know him and really want to use him, they will. Still, it's probably far more likely that that's not the case, and the creator argument isn't really a strong one to grip onto.