Thread:Mikex20/@comment-24652145-20160626011834

I've been tinkering around with some of the Character Pages and suddenly realized that we might have a bit of a problem with some of ones listing the Flash. It's probably going to be a problem in the future when we're dealing with more DC Characters with MULTIPLE people with the same alias. For things like the Green Lantern identity, I don't think we have to worry too much; they seem to identify more with their civilian ID; Hal Jordan, Guy Gardner, John Stewart, etc.

The problem is the Flash as DC has had something like FOUR different ones. For the most part, we have Barry Allen (the second Flash) as the Flash for most of the TV series and movies. However, we also have Wally West (the third Flash) popping up as the Flash of the DCAU Franchise. And it gets worse cause Wally also appears in Teen Titans Franchise and the Young Justice Franchise as "Kid Flash". Bart Allen (the fourth Flash) pops up in the Smallville Franchise and later still as Impulse in the Young Justice Franchise again and he also takes up the mantle of Kid Flash at the very end of the series. And the first Flash, Jay Garrick also pops up here and there too.

Dick Grayson is another concern as he pops up as both Robin and Nightwing, depending on the continuity or depending on the particular timeline of some shows. I know in both Teen Titans and Young Justice TV shows, he appears Robin but in the future, he does show up as Nightwing.

We already have the "Other Versions" section in the Character Pages for multiple incarnations of the characters but maybe we should add in another part to that? I know that strictly speaking, they're different characters but a casual viewer might not be aware of that and I'm constantly trying to keep that in mind for their sake.

My idea is this: We keep the Other Versions and strictly adhere to the different versions of each character in other series--even if they happen to have a different alias/name or whatever.

However, we add in a subsection where we have the other notable people who have used the alias or are strongly tied to it. I got a rough draft of my idea on the Flash (DCAU) Page. Take a look and see what you think and if you want to do some changes or cosmetic ones or whatever.

I'm thinking that for even characters like Hal Jordan; we can also stick in the Alan Scott, Guy Gardner, John Stewart, and Kyle Rayner pages under that See Also: Section as most people may simply know them as Green Lantern and won't recall who they are exactly or their exact name. That way, we're covered on both fronts. Let me know what you think. 