Talk:Jason Bourne

message: I deleted the date of birth for David Webb and his place of birth. The DOB was absolutely wrong, unless that was written for the movie version of Jason Bourne (Matt Damon born in 1970). Since Bourne had a part in the Vietnam war in Medusa there was no way he could have been born in 1971. K1Bond007 20:45, Sep 17, 2004 (UTC)
:Webb was born 9/13/70. The birthday 4/15/71 was the "code" birthday to identify the address of the training facility in the movie. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Deersrocks (talk) 21:45, 13 October 2007‎ (UTC)
::Vietnam war ended in 1975. If he was born in 1970 (or 1971), he'd be only 5 years old by that time. How could he possibly work as a FSO and had a wife and two children. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dhanakorn (talk) 18:02, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The character from the books seems to be distinct from the character in the movies.  Obviously, according to the book, he was born much before the 1970s.  However, I just watched the Bourne Supremacy, and they list his DoB as 4/15/1971.  Brent (talk) 13:22, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The movie and the book's are totally two different stories. To merge the whole page it had to be done like this, at least this is my vision in this. And not only that, also Mr. Greengrass has explained this more or less in this trilogy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.211.119.83 (talk) 21:03, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

text: It doesn't make sense for him to be born in '69, '70, or '71, and have a wife and children who are killed by a stray bomb loosed in the Vietnam war.  I haven't read the novels, but clearly some has confused either the time line or the cause of death.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.107.77.6 (talk) 16:18, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The Bourne in the books was born somewhere around 1945, give or take a few years. The plot of the film and relevant character details deviate drastically from the novels. Manning (talk) 18:10, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: His birth date is different depending on which source it happens to be, his CIA profile says it is September 13, 1970.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 114.76.18.100 (talk) 03:15, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong Birth Information 

message: My copy of The Bourne Identity says copyright 1975, not 1980. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.49.242.3 (talk) 19:48, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It was 1980. I don't know what to tell you. See Ludlum's official website: . K1Bond007 21:16, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I had just glanced at the inside front page and saw 1975, but that's just the two newspaper articles quoted from in the book, which does say 1980. 70.49.242.3 (talk) 21:49, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Publication dates 

message: I believe that having a separate article for the Cain identity would be more useful than burying information about it exclusively in this article. If one were searching for information on Cain, it would be difficult to find in the middle of the entire Jason Bourne article. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Whamilton (talk) 06:38, 2 August 2006
I think it should be merged.  Who is likely to be looking for information on a false identity of Jason Bourne, who wouldn't come to the parts on Bourne and the novels first ?  -- Beardo 13:31, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merging Cain (fictional character) 

message: Some idiot decided to make The Bourne Ultimatum redirect to The Bourne Ultimatum (film) and I can't find a record of the original anywhere.
If someone's got a copy please add it back. Scaper8 20:51, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fix Ultimatum Book Page 

message: Medusa and Treadstone 71 are not novels (afaik), but the Novels section makes it seem that way. Also, The Bourne Betrayal is coming out in June 2007 and needs to be added. BartonM 14:45, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Medusa and Treadstone 71 are not novels 

message: This article currently does not demonstrate the required notability of the subject (see WP:FICT).  It could do so by citing coverage of the Jason Bourne character (not the movies) in reliable sources; for instance, a quick Google search turns up .  The article should really talk about these kinds of things (impact and reception in media), not so much the plot.  Right now, the article is almost completely plot summary with no assertion of notability, which would basically qualify it for deletion.  If someone could try to turn this into an encyclopedic article, that would be awesome! -- Lea (talk) 06:11, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Also, since the books and the movies are really different universes, it might make sense to make this article only about the movie character (which has probably gotten much more coverage than the book character).  Or if there's enough material about the book character (which I kindof doubt), split it up into two articles. -- Lea (talk) 07:26, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notability problems, too much plot summary 

message: I suggest merging this page with Jason Bourne (character). // Fulkkari (talk) 10:52, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree.--Sugarcubez (talk) 10:01, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Another vote for merging Tassedethe (talk) 17:08, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

text: Agree. I also believe there is no need for a disambiguation page for a list of media when it's already in the character page.--RealTNAFan (talk)
2:20, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

text: Add: Apparently the whole concept of creating this disambig came out of an earlier move to Jason Bourne (character).  So I left word on that section, discussing the original move back in January.  I'll let discussion there sit for a bit before doing anything myself.   LaughingVulcan  19:40, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

text: Add:  There is nothing in this disambig page that isn't already in the Jason Bourne template.  No discussion about it on either page.  It's been long enough.  So, here we go...   LaughingVulcan  23:54, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal 

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thread_title: Image copyright problem with Image:BournePoster.jpg

message: One fact should be noted.  While in the Bourne Ultimatum they mention the name Gilberto do Piento as an alias of Jason Bourne, in the Bourne Identity, when he opens the Brazilian passport, this is the name of the Consular Office who issued the passport, not that of it's holder. 190.141.251.149 (talk) 18:56, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Portuguese name 

message: According to the profiles that appear on the screens just after Noah Vosen gives the kill order for both Nicky and Bourne in Tangier for the Bourne Ultimatum, he speaks fluent: French, Spanish, Russian, German, Italian, Czech and Polish.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 114.76.18.100 (talk) 03:13, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Languages spoken 

message: I noticed how the only picture on this page is of Pamela Landy. Shouldn't we at least have a picture of Matt Damon as Jason Bourne? If not, why have the picture of Landy?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.54.115.185 (talk) 03:25, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture from movies? 

message: Is it accurate to state, in the novel backstory section, that Bourne "ran Medusa?" As I recall, he lead individual teams or units into the field, but was not the overall head of Medusa. Indeed, the novels imply that Medusa fielded multiple units. Overall lead of Medusa fell to someone else, perhaps Abott (who conceived of Medusa "...before Medusa was even a gleam in the Monk's eye" The Bourne Identity) or Conklin. Tom Hopper (talk) 11:23, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Medusa 

message: Although it is easy to speculate that he was a former Delta operator, it is unlikely that an officer would be operating in its operational arm. As he identifies himself as 'Captain (David) Webb' in 'The Bourne Ultimatum' (flashbacks), it is more likely to assume that he was an ODA ("A-Team") commander (Captain, OF-2) in a Special Forces group, before volunteering for the CIA in Operation Treadstone. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Loganugov (talk) 20:58, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, whoopee-ding.  Ain't that just wonderful?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.127.77.172 (talk) 21:41, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Military background 

message: Is there any indication of whether Jason Bourne's name is an allusion to James Bond (first two letters of first and last name)? 93.173.236.149 (talk) 15:44, 5 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name allusion 

message: And on what is this based exactly? 176.119.53.140 (talk) 20:18, 3 August 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Dunno.  Why don't you revert it until the justification is placed here or in the article (with sources.)  I'd wondered about it myself, but was willing to give the benefit of the doubt as I'm only a fan of the movies and haven't done any of the novels yet.  (Poser, ain't I? ;) )  LaughingVulcan  01:35, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bourne of Finnish descent?