Talk:Upcoming ERB suggestions/@comment-68.103.214.50-20150809194305/@comment-5264252-20150809200240

I like name battles when they're very unique, like Napoleon vs Napoleon, the Artists and the Turtles, and Conan vs Conan. Marx vs Marx works because Marx is a unique name only associated with Karl Marx and the Marx Brothers, but both have potentially better match-ups.

Usher and Escher's names are only half-similar, so the idea doesn't work as well.

John Wayne Gacy killed people very recently, almost too recently. Stalin and Hitler are from almost a hundred years ago, plus they are massively historical and influential on the world. And Jack the Ripper was from over a hundred years ago. It's the same reason why they don't want to use Osama.