Board Thread:Suggestions & Comments/@comment-24652145-20150719224806/@comment-24652145-20150724213446

Oh I absolutely agree that different pages for the different versions of characters are a good thing. There is simply no way to keep certain character pages comprehensible for those individuals who have such wild and varied incarnations.

There are exceptions, like certain characters who people have made a concerted effort to keep them consistent throughout their different versions like Buffy Summers. I know that Josh Whedon made an effort to occassionally reference the Kristy Swanson movie in Sarah Michelle Gellar's TV version of the character. So that even though two different actresses portrayed Buffy in the movie and the TV show, they were essentially the same character.

For Captain Kirk and the Joker however, I do think that we should consider links to the different incarnations, perhaps not at the top of each character page but at least somewhere on it? I'm not sure how well that tab switching thing would work. And like you said, there are MANY more versions of the Clown Prince of Crime; I'm thinking we might need a separate disambigation page or something just to hold all of his many varied appearances.

Oh, after thinking about it; yeah I think we should create a separate page for the animated version of Kirk. I'm not sure if that was considered canon either as it was geared for more kids even though it was based and Will Shatner did voice the character.