Thread:Mikex20/@comment-24652145-20160626011834/@comment-24652145-20160630053648

Basically, we decided that there was no way for us to keep certain characters consistent with dozens of iteriations or versions of them over the decades with different backstories and stuff. Sometimes they were subtly different and othertimes, they bore little to no resembelance to each other.

It means that as difficult and time consuming as it is; each unique or distinct version of a character gets their own separate page. None of the pages are done yet; but I think Batman (DCAU) has a basic stuff filled out if you want to take a look.

OVERVIEW is a brief blurb/description about the specific character;

BACKGROUND is a more detailed bio about the character's background and history;

MAJOR PLOTS will cover major events in the TV series/films that this version of the character appeared in;

PERSONALITY AND TRAITS is the character's personality and any defining powers/abilities;

TRIVIA is interesting facts;

APPEARANCES covers all of the character's appearances in any films or TV series including episodes even flashbacks (we don't consider a casual spoken reference to count as an appearance);

QUOTES is any monologues or fun comments made by or about the character accompanied by who said it and where it came from;

OTHER VERSIONS is a section we created to keep track of all of the different incarnations or versions that we got out there. The Adam West Batman, the Tim Burton Batman, the one from the DCAU, the Ben Affleck version from the latest movie, etc.

Finally the RELATED PAGES covers Affiliations such as his partners/groups that he belonged to and finally the Legacy Pages is referenced from the top of this thread.

Basically I thought it was just too confusing to keep track of certain characters. Dick Grayson for example was originally Robin and later became known as Nightwing and has appeared as both in different films/TV series. Bruce Wayne is the Batman that most people are familiar with but we had a Terry McGinnis taking on the cowl in the "Batman Beyond" series so I felt he deserved a nod.

The Flash is a prime example with FOUR different characters carrying on the namesake and over the decades, all four of them have popped up. Basically, the OTHER VERSIONS is strictly for the specific character themself with the LEGACY PAGES is for the others. So if you look at the Flash (DCAU) Page, you will note that only the other versions of Wally West appears under OTHER VERSIONS while every other Flash falls under the LEGACY PAGES.

Does that help?