Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-1713281-20121209010037/@comment-61022-20121209163457

That's not what I'm saying at all. I see no point because (a) they're not Marvel owned characters and (b) there is already a Wiki covering the material. For example, John Carter and Dr. Who have their own Wikis and they cover all the Marvel stories there.

If I were to take your suggestion that if they were to do a story where Conan encounters John Carter (or how about something even closer: Spider-Man meets John Carter), I still would not create a John Carter profile. He's still not a Marvel owned character and immersed in the mainstream Marvel Universe.

Here's a better scenario: JLA/Avengers mini-series. Here is an entire team of characters that (a) Marvel does not own and (b) interact with Earth-616 characters. I would not create profiles for these characters because there are already profiles for Batman and Superman and the like over at the DC Wiki.

The John Carter character has never interacted with the Marvel Universe proper. The stories from that universe are self contained and separate from the rest. Unlike Conan who is part of Earth-616 history.

While Dr. Who has in a few cases in the past, I'd still consider him as removed from Marvel Comics as my JLA/Avengers example. It's the same reason why we are not creating Transformers profiles because they met Spider-Man, or Star Trek characters because they met the X-Men.

These are all good examples of characters who have interacted with Earth-616 characters that I would not create profiles for, because they are not Marvel properties.

Although it is an argument in semantics, I would say that if the John Carter character was part of Earth-616, and an integral part of it's history, then yes I would suggest a profile for him provided there are still links or references (even dodgy ones to avoid legal issues) still to this day. For example, Conan and Kull are still referenced in the Marvel Handbooks, Rom, Fu Manchu, Micronauts and Godzilla have all appeared in the Marvel Universe (all be it in different forms to avoid legal issues after the rights ran out) while the giant robots from Shogun Warriors have not appeared in Marvel books, the pilots of said robots have.