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"Lump multiple examples across a series" is how Complete Monster has always been done. Like, since the trope's beginning on this wiki. It's still done that way on TV Tropes and is a far more sensible way of grouping together examples of characters who qualify for the trope as defined by the trope's criteria than making a whole bunch of different subpages based on single installments of the larger series or category, especially if that single installment contains only a single character who matches the criteria for qualifying as a Complete Monster.

For example, say we were to make a subpage for every single game in the Final Fantasy series that has an example. In some of those games, there is only one character who matches the criteria needed to qualify as a Complete Monster. But now that the single games have their own pages, what's to stop someone from either adding new elaboration on the character so that the page becomes nothing but rambling about how evil that character is, or possibly adding a character who doesn't qualify? It opens a can of worm that I'd prefer we not open.

Series examples would be better served on a communal page for CMs that span multiple works in a series, since they can't be pigeonholed to just one specific work.

But isn't that how it's already been done? This whole mess started because someone that because a game's YMMV page only contained a Complete Monster entry, then the page should be turned into a Complete Monster page just for that one entry, even though we already had a Tales series Complete Monster page and it already contains not only that example, but that exact entry, word-for-word. In no logical universe should we have both a Complete Monster subpage for the Tales series AND a Complete Monster subpage dedicated to just one character from one of the Tales games. It just makes no sense. In any event, the YMMV page for Tales of Berseria now includes another trope entry aside from Complete Monster, so that should be cause for this matter to be deemed irrelevant and dropped.

I apologize for my inappropriate decision making and again apologize for missing out on when I was expected to Yay or Nay the creation of that page. Sometimes real life will be in the way and I won't have time to tend to a matter on this Wiki until later. But had I tended to the matter sooner, I would veto the notion to make that page, so I feel my veto, while belated, should still be valid. I say Nay to the existence of Complete Monster/Tales of Berseria under the reasoning of Complete Monster/Tales (series) already exists for the purpose of housing examples of the trope that come from all games in the Tales series.