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Why was Ann Coulter in the "see also" section? If there is a known connection between the two, i.e. Marisa is based on Ann, then say so in the main text, if not this is irrelevant family name trivia. Joe D (t) 02:51, 8 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The books describes Mrs Coulter as an extremely attractive and enchanting woman, as well as being completely evil and powerful. Nicole Kidman constantly wins "most attractive" awards and is famed for her beauty. I thought it was very apt the she got the role, but is there some way that connection could be added to this page? I do feel it is very important, even if it does seem trivial JayKeaton 20:49, 14 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

What, that Nicole Kidman is completely evil and powerful?

Anon

I know that this is almost a trivial, inconsequential detail, but I wish it could be noted somewhere in the article that unlike Ms Kidman's flaxen-haired appearance in the film, Marisa Coulter is canonically a brunette (and incidentally, far more of a femme fatale than an ice-queen). Deerlike (talk) 22:32, 24 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, Mrs Coulter has black hair in the book. I think that does deserve to be mentioned, but I couldn't think of a way to shoe-horn it into the current fairly short article. 86.149.131.137 (talk) 00:46, 6 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You can be a femme fatale and an ice-queen you know. Just look at Miranda Frost, the White Witch and Miranda Priestly. --Illustrious One (talk) 13:47, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Dæmon

Her dæmon has no name in the books. The name 'Ozymandias' was used in a radio adaptation and is, thus, not canonical. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.112.153.103 (talk) 03:56, 12 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Spoiler

Why does it mention in Mrs. Coulter's little info-card that Lyra is her daughter? That's a big (if predictable) plot twist! 68.114.58.133 (talk) 05:47, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

In the books it is revealed in the first chapters Everybody got to be somewhere! (talk) 17:07, 25 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Name change?

Shouldn't this article be titled "Mrs. Coulter", since that is how she is referred to 99% of the time in the books?Rglong 03:45, 27 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Marisa Coulter sounds nicer. --Illustrious One (talk) 13:47, 31 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I tend to agree with Rglong Everybody got to be somewhere! (talk) 17:06, 25 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Name Significance

A "coulter" is a small wheel or blade on a plough that starts the cut of the furrow. Coulter could be understand as "cutter". Everybody got to be somewhere! (talk) 17:11, 25 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Movie pictures

I think that pictures of the actors from the films should be in the adaptations section of the article, not the infobox, in the manner of Lord of the Rings characters (Elrond, Frodo, etc.) I know that the Harry Potter characters have the film actors in the infoboxes, and while I don't agree with that either, I'm more interested in HDM. Besides, while Rowling has been fairly involved with the HP movies, some of which were made while her books were being written, Pullman (though he did advise the TGC crew) has been much more explicit about not confusing the movie with the books. Viz:

I think the story will survive. I would be sorry if there was a law which said every time a film comes out the book or books on which it was based had to be withdrawn. As James M Cain replied when asked if he minded what had been done to one of his books: 'They've done nothing to my book, it's there on the shelf.'[1]

[Pullman] was keen never to be officially employed by the film company: "It means I can tell them to bugger off."[2]

Not to mention the fact that it looks as though we won't have any Will Parry performance to match with the other principal characters.

HP aside, HDM, like LotR is first and foremost a literary work. Putting one adaptation's pictures in infoboxes is therefore, IMO, inappropriate.Mdiamante (talk) 13:08, 19 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

All articles are required to have an infobox image in order to make FA status which is the ambition of every article and as the picture of Nicole is the only professional image of Mrs Coulter that we have, it should be in the infobox. The images of the LOTR and Narnia characters from the films should be in the infoboxes for their respective articles but the purists seem to have a thing against film adaptations of books which is hardly encyclopedic. --Jupiter Optimus Maximus (talk) 14:16, 19 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Curious... Where's that requirement? Wikipedia:Featured article criteria says there should be images where appropriate, but says nothing about infoboxes. Faramir seems to be the highest-ranked LotR character (good-class), and has no picture in the infobox. Cheers, Mdiamante (talk) 15:09, 19 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that there is no reason to use a film pic at the head of a book article. Pincrete (talk) 22:23, 7 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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