Talk:Sophie Bergmann

She's a character from Fullmetal Alchemist 3: The Girl Who Surpasses God.Hikaruyami-having fun* 20:35, April 25, 2011 (UTC)

So, someone changed this to "Sofy"? Is that the official spelling? Honestly it looks on par with Viz's "Foo" (rather than "Fuu") to me; meaning, not good. At least "Sofi" is an actual name; I've never seen anything like "Sofy"; that looks like what someone who doesn't know how to spell's guess on how to spell either "Sophie" or "Sofi" Tommy-Vercetti (talk) 23:09, March 4, 2013 (UTC)


 * I was skeptical as well, but that's how it's stored in the game's data. (Screenshot from the game data.) 00:27, March 5, 2013 (UTC)

How's it spelled in the actual game though? There's got to be subtitles and text bubbles, all that. How something's spelled in game data's not really the best way to go by it in my opinion. I've seen countless data things that are just abbreviations and/or misspellings, because no one past who designed them is supposed to see them. I think we should go on how it's spelled in the actual game. Tommy-Vercetti (talk) 01:23, March 5, 2013 (UTC)


 * The game was only published in Japanese, so all we have are the katakana/kanji to go by: ソフィ・ベルクマン. There's no canon English translation, only the Japanese romanization (Sofi Berukuman). 16:35, March 5, 2013 (UTC)

Still, even with that being said, that's just the romaji of it. Like with this character: http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Heathcliff_Erbe

The romaji of this (before we knew better) was Heiss Cliff Arbor, but it's "Heathcliff". It may be "Sofi" or "Sophie", but I can safely say it's definitely not "Sofy". I liked "Sophie" the best, personally. Tommy-Vercetti (talk) 16:27, March 6, 2013 (UTC)

It makes absolutely no sense to make up names just for the sake of "staying true" to spelling of Oriental alphabets when the name was clearly made to be ocidental. ¬¬' That's "anime puritanism" and just plain dumb. Sorry to state it like that, but I've gotten really tired of these silliness over the years. Turdaewen (talk) 18:26, March 6, 2013 (UTC)


 * I personally prefer "Sophie" as well. It just makes sense to use the closest thing to an official source we have. I'd be okay "voting" on this, though, or whatever. "Sophie Bergmann" sounds like the intended name to me; Wikipedia and online translators seem to agree. 03:40, March 7, 2013 (UTC)

...I didn't think something as simple as a name spelling change would get such backlash... I don't think Sofy's name was a misspelling like Tommy-Vercetti suggests, since Elma and Havoc's names in the same data file are spelled the same way as they were supposed to be. But I suppose nobody can be sure how it was truly meant to be spelled until some English dub of the game is released. The Aracuan Bird (talk) 10:18, March 7, 2013 (UTC)