Board Thread:Clean up Concerns/@comment-2175012-20170930031645

So, with the "Symbolic" category. My main issue with the category is that some of the articles listed clearly don't fit. For some, I can see the argument there. For example, Napoleon of Animal Farm is an allegorical take on Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union, or IT could be seen as a metaphor for the loss of innocence as well as the end of childhood. The Beast from OtGW has many different symbolic traits: he can be seen as Satan, or as the embodiment of despair (before you ask, no, he isn't despair in a physical form; he has moral agency and takes sheer glee at being evil). With some, I think they're more...stretches to say the least. Okay, so Bill Cipher can be seen as a metaphor for secret societies such as the Illuminati (even though Hirsch himself said that he wasn't), I can buy that. But what does someone like Sideshow Bob represent?

Overall, another heavily abused category that I suggests needs some cleanup. 